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Released: 1-Sep-2021 1:35 PM EDT
FSU experts available to comment on 20-year anniversary of 9/11 attacks
Florida State University

By: Bill Wellock | Published: September 1, 2021 | 1:15 pm | SHARE: Twenty years ago, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks shocked the world. The attacks led to profound changes in American society, two decades of war in Afghanistan and ramifications that continue to be felt today.Florida State University’s nationally regarded experts in emergency management, homeland security, grief, trauma and religion are available to speak to media about the lingering consequences of 9/11: Audrey Casserleigh, professor, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Program and Senior Fellow at the Center for Disaster Risk Policy aheffron@fsu.

Released: 26-Aug-2021 3:05 PM EDT
Cultural backlash: Is LGBTQ progress an attack on Christianity?
Washington University in St. Louis

New research from Washington University in St. Louis explains why some Christians view recent LGBTQ progress as a threat and offers possible interventions to reduce such all-or-nothing beliefs.

Released: 26-Aug-2021 2:50 PM EDT
Experts available to discuss 20th anniversary of 9/11
DePaul University

As the United States approaches the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in 2001, DePaul University faculty and experts are available to give commentary and insight. Their expertise is wide-ranging, including foreign relations, diplomacy, history and religion.

Released: 19-Aug-2021 3:00 PM EDT
VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE: Breakthrough Cases and COVID Boosters: Live Expert Panel for August 18, 2021
Newswise

Expert Q&A: Do breakthrough cases mean we will soon need COVID boosters? The extremely contagious Delta variant continues to spread, prompting mask mandates, proof of vaccination, and other measures. Media invited to ask the experts about these and related topics.

Released: 17-Aug-2021 4:30 PM EDT
University of Miami Pediatrics Chair Promotes Faith-Based Initiative to Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations among Blacks and Latinos
University of Miami Health System, Miller School of Medicine

Concerned about relatively low COVID-19 vaccination rates among U.S. Blacks and Latinos, Glenn Flores, M.D., chair of pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is helping to guide a faith-based initiative addressing one of the nation’s most pressing healthcare challenges.

Released: 6-Aug-2021 2:35 PM EDT
Partnering with Clergy to Prevent Domestic Violence
University of Georgia

Online simulations are helping Korean American clergy learn how to better support victims of intimate partner violence in their communities

Released: 28-Jul-2021 12:25 PM EDT
A Group’s Moral Values May Help Determine the Likelihood of Hate-Motivated Harmful Acts
University of Southern California (USC)

From attacks on synagogues and mosques to the COVID-era spike in anti-Asian sentiment, the past couple of years, unfortunately, have seen no shortage of acts of hatred.

Released: 9-Jul-2021 4:40 PM EDT
Hoklotubbe receives international award for first book
Cornell College

Cornell College Assistant Professor of Religion Chris Hoklotubbe has received a prestigious award for his book, “Civilized Piety: The Rhetoric of Pietas in the Pastoral Epistles and the Roman Empire.”

Released: 2-Jul-2021 6:05 PM EDT
Study Examines Relationship Between Concern About COVID-19 and Belief in Science and Faith
Arizona State University (ASU)

A new study from Arizona State University has shown that people in the U.S. relied more on science than religion to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. The research team assessed faith and science mindsets – how people perceived faith in God or scientific information – as the pandemic progressed. People who had a stronger science mindset were more concerned about COVID-19 in the early months of the pandemic. Faith mindsets were not directly related to concern about the pandemic.

Released: 2-Jul-2021 3:15 PM EDT
"El Futuro is Here" Explores Ways of Creating Culturally Responsive Campus Ministries
Dominican University

Dominican University presents "El Futuro is Here!," a national virtual conference exploring ways of creating more culturally responsive campus ministries for Latinx students.

Released: 2-Jul-2021 2:35 PM EDT
Researchers identify brain circuit for spirituality
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

More than 80 percent of people around the world consider themselves to be religious or spiritual. But research on the neuroscience of spirituality and religiosity has been sparse.

Released: 29-Jun-2021 12:20 PM EDT
DeKay Examines Factors That Affect How Little Rock Congregation Members Prioritize Community Issues
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

UA Little Rock is investigating the influence of income, politics, and religion on how people prioritize important community issues.

Released: 29-Jun-2021 12:05 PM EDT
Little Rock Congregations Study Dialogue Reveals How Congregations, Nonprofits Can Work Together to Address Community Issues
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

The Little Rock Congregations Study (LRCS) research team at UA Little Rock worked with a team of students from the UA-Clinton School of Public Service to host a series of community dialogue discussions during the spring semester to explore how congregations and nonprofits in Little Rock can come together to make an impact on important community issues.

Released: 16-Jun-2021 11:00 AM EDT
Story Tips from Johns Hopkins Experts on COVID-19
Johns Hopkins Medicine

NEWS STORIES IN THIS ISSUE: - Stressed About “Returning to Normal”? Here Are Tips to Ease Into the Transition - Be Your Brother’s Keeper: Steps for Faith-Based Communities to Reopen Safely

Released: 13-May-2021 10:30 AM EDT
Pandemic stigma: Foreigners, doctors wrongly targeted for COVID-19 spread in India
Monash University

The Indian public blamed foreigners, minority groups and doctors for the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the country during the first wave, due to misinformation, rumour and long-held discriminatory beliefs, according to an international study led by Monash University.

   
Released: 13-May-2021 8:55 AM EDT
A Novel Strip Test Kit to Detect 5 Types of Prohibited Meat in Halal Food in One Go
Chulalongkorn University

An all-in-one Strip Test — a fast, easy and accurate test kit to detect the DNA of 5 forbidden meat in a single test is the latest innovation from the Chula Halal Science Center.

Released: 10-May-2021 10:50 AM EDT
UA Little Rock Receives Nearly $325,000 NSF Grant to Shine Light on Muslim Hate Crimes in Arkansas
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Two criminal justice professors at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have been awarded a $324,987 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund a three-year program to study anti-Muslim sentiment and Muslim hate crimes in Arkansas. Dr. Tusty ten Bensel, director of the School of Criminal Justice and Criminology, and Dr.

Released: 6-May-2021 10:25 AM EDT
Queen’s historian releases new book on American evangelicals and the radical right
Queen's University Belfast

An historian from Queen’s University Belfast has launched a new book on one of the most controversial political movements in the American Christian Right.

Released: 7-Apr-2021 1:05 PM EDT
Religion follows patterns of politicization during COVID-19
Cornell University

To find the impact of religion during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Landon Schnabel, the Robert and Ann Rosenthal Assistant Professor of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, analyzed responses from 11,537 Americans surveyed March 19-24, 2020, shortly after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global health pandemic.

Released: 29-Mar-2021 4:05 PM EDT
The truth about Christ lies in contradiction, philosopher finds
University of Notre Dame

In his newest research, “The Contradictory Christ,” Jc Beall argues that instead of trying to get around the apparent contradiction of the incarnation, Christian thinkers should accept what many thinkers have long charged: at the very crux of the Christian theory lies a contradiction.

Released: 29-Mar-2021 6:05 AM EDT
Racial Diversity in a Church Is Associated with Higher Attendance Over Time
Baylor University

United Methodist churches — whether the congregation is white or not — have higher attendance when located within white neighborhoods. But racial diversity within a church is associated with higher average attendance over time, according to a study led by Baylor University.

Released: 23-Mar-2021 2:05 PM EDT
Partnership with churches increases COVID-19 vaccine delivery among Black population
Loma Linda University Health

Incorporating Black churches and clergy in COVID-19 vaccination education and distribution has been found to be an effective model in helping to increase vaccination delivery to historically at-risk populations in San Bernardino County, a study says.

Released: 23-Mar-2021 11:20 AM EDT
Study Explores How Sexism Within Religious Congregations Shapes Women’s Health
American Sociological Association (ASA)

A new study has found that sexism in religious institutions can limit the health benefits of religious participation for women.

Released: 15-Mar-2021 1:45 PM EDT
Same-sex marriage exposes ‘cavernous divide’ between Vatican, Catholics
Cornell University

The Vatican’s orthodoxy office has issued a formal response to a question about whether Catholic clergy have the authority to bless same-sex unions, saying the Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.”

Released: 11-Mar-2021 8:05 AM EST
CoVPN’s Faith and Diversity Work Engages Key Communities Impacted by COVID-19
Covid-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN)

The COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN) released today the CoVPN Faith Initiative and Diversity Report, which provides a snapshot of key work to build trust, inform and engage the communities hardest hit by the pandemic in conversations about faith, COVID-19 and CoVPN clinical trials.

   
Released: 24-Feb-2021 2:00 PM EST
Do atheists have a moral compass?
University of Illinois Chicago

University of Illinois Chicago social psychologist examines what values people view as relevant for morality

Released: 23-Feb-2021 11:25 AM EST
Sociologists study high-risk populations in low-tech communities
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Closed religious communities such as the Amish are high-risk populations for the spread of both infectious diseases and public health misinformation, according to sociologists who are working with data from Amish and Mennonite settlements to understand the COVID-19-related beliefs and behaviors.

Released: 10-Feb-2021 2:05 PM EST
Little Rock Congregations Study shows impact of COVID-19 on religious institutions
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

The results of the 2020 Little Rock Congregations Study (LRCS), a research project based at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, shows that COVID-19 had a major impact on religious institutions in Little Rock. 

Released: 27-Jan-2021 1:50 PM EST
COVID-19 Crisis: Chaplains Care for Staff Through Surge
Cedars-Sinai

Cedars-Sinai chaplains usually spend their days rounding on patients, tending to the sick and their families by offering a listening ear, a guiding word or a hopeful prayer. But the COVID-19 pandemic has altered their workload, with chaplains increasingly tending to the needs of tired, frustrated and burnt-out frontline healthcare workers.

   
Released: 26-Jan-2021 1:30 PM EST
A new secular left is emerging and could present challenges for Biden administration
University of Notre Dame

The challenge for President Joe Biden’s administration is finding ways to emphasize the common values of religious and secular voters, Notre Dame researchers said. 

Released: 26-Jan-2021 11:50 AM EST
Queen’s research finds that ‘church is something other than a building’ during the Covid-19 pandemic
Queen's University Belfast

A research study from Queen’s University Belfast and the Irish Council of Churches/ The Irish Inter Church Meeting sheds light on how churches on the island of Ireland are navigating the Covid-19 pandemic including changes in pastoral care, moving religion online, social services and the wider community, and stress and ministry.

Released: 11-Dec-2020 1:35 PM EST
CEO Receives Humanitarian Award From Yad Vashem
Cedars-Sinai

For Cedars-Sinai's longstanding commitment to providing medical care and other support to survivors of the Holocaust, President and CEO Thomas M. Priselac has received the Outstanding Humanitarian Award from the American Society for Yad Vashem-Western Region.

Released: 10-Dec-2020 2:50 PM EST
Religious discrimination particularly high for Jews and Muslims, study shows
Rice University

Although people of all faiths report growing religious discrimination during the past few years, the phenomenon is most common among Jews and Muslims, according to a new study from researchers at Rice University and West Virginia University (WVU). In addition, Jews and Muslims are much more likely to become victims of violence because of their religious beliefs.

Released: 10-Dec-2020 2:35 PM EST
Black churches are trusted messengers of COVID-19 information to their communities, Mayo study finds
Mayo Clinic

U.S. public health officials have reported that Black communities are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with higher infection and mortality rates than the general population. Now as the number of COVID-19 cases across the U.S. surge, Mayo Clinic researchers are working closely with Black churches on disparities in emergency preparedness and providing access to culturally relevant, evidence-based health information.

   
Released: 8-Dec-2020 10:35 AM EST
Building the Resilience of Citizens, Communities, and Countries
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Ahead of the holiday season, Rutgers’ Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience released a new report to provide vulnerable communities and houses of worship policies and practices to enhance the security and safety of their communities.

Released: 2-Dec-2020 12:45 PM EST
Xenophobic and racist policies in the US may have harmful effect on birth outcomes
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health

The first U.S. Executive Order of the 2017 travel ban targeting individuals from Muslim majority countries may be associated with preterm births for women from those countries residing in the U.S., according to a new study conducted at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

   
Released: 24-Nov-2020 4:35 PM EST
MTSU researcher-led study: Instructors need to address compatibility of religion, science while teaching evolution
Middle Tennessee State University

Study suggests that a difference in culture and beliefs between science instructors and students may inadvertently lead to low acceptance of evolution among minority students — particularly Black students — in biology.

   
Released: 13-Nov-2020 11:10 AM EST
How religion can hamper economic progress
Bocconi University

Religion hampered the diffusion of knowledge and economic development in France during the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914), according to research by Mara Squicciarini of Bocconi University recently published in the American Economic Review.

Released: 11-Nov-2020 2:25 PM EST
Explaining the religious vote for Trump
Louisiana State University

New research by LSU sociologists indicate it wasn't Christian nationalism that drove churchgoers' Trump vote in 2016. Rather, surprisingly, Christian nationalism was important among non-churchgoers.

Released: 11-Nov-2020 12:40 PM EST
Racially Diverse Congregations in U.S. Have Nearly Tripled in the Past 20 Years, Baylor University Study Finds
Baylor University

Racially diverse congregations have nearly tripled in the United States over the past 20 years, according to a Baylor University study. But racial desegregation in American religion still faces difficulties.

Released: 10-Nov-2020 9:50 AM EST
Filling in the blanks
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

The West Virginia Social Survey focuses on the most pressing challenges faced by West Virginia residents. It will produce state-specific reports on issues like internet access, the economy, health, crime, volunteering, religion and more, which can help inform policymakers.

Released: 29-Oct-2020 2:20 PM EDT
Book examines Black Jewish indigeneity in South Africa
Cornell University

In “Genetic Afterlives,” Noah Tamarkin, assistant professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences, writes about the Lemba with an ethnographic approach, opening larger questions about the relationship between genetics, citizenship, race, and origins.

Released: 22-Oct-2020 2:45 PM EDT
Shared religious experiences bring couples together
University of Georgia

Couples that pray together stay together. It’s a common religious saying, but a new study from the University of Georgia is giving the proverb some scientific credence.



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