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Author:

Grim, Brian Jeffrey

Title:

Religious Regulation’s Impact on Religious Persecution: The Effects of De Facto and De Jure Religious Regulation

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Religion
religious regulation
religious freedom
measurement of international religion

File:

Download PhDThesis_Brian_J_Grim.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Kent Finke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Farkas, Committee Member
David R Johnson, Committee Member
John Philip Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Wiernik, Craig S

Title:

Christian Religiosity and Social Trust

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Religion
Trust
Social Trust
Religiosity
Structural Equation Modeling

File:

Download wiernik.dissertation.psu.final.submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffery Todd Ulmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffery Todd Ulmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Duane Francis Alwin, Committee Member
Alan M Sica, Committee Member
Roger Kent Finke, Committee Member
Constance A Flanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Martin, Robert Russell

Title:

Faith in the Balance? An Evaluation of the Outcomes of Religious Free Exercise Claims in the State Appellate Courts, 1997-2011

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Religion
free exercise
state appellate courts
legal test
religious minorities

File:

Download RRMartin_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Kent Finke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mccarthy, Committee Member
Duane Francis Alwin, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member

Author:

Porter, Nathaniel Douglas

Title:

Family, Peers, and Religious Communities in the Formation of Adolescent Religious Identity

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Religion
Identity
Social Networks
Adolescence
Social Psychology
Adolescent Development

File:

Download NDP_MA_Soc_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Kent Finke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Diane Helen Felmlee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Allen Kreager, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jeppsen, Catherine E

Title:

Religion, Gender Equality, and Fertility

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Religion
gender
fertility
demography
sociology
context

File:

Download catherine_jeppsen_dissertation_for_pdf_04172015.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Kent Finke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Hardy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jenny Trinitapoli, Committee Member
Eric Plutzer, Committee Member

Author:

McClure, Jennifer Marie

Title:

Understanding how Congregations Promote Community Involvement and Prosocial Behavior

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Religion
congregations
community
prosocial behavior
social networks
values
theology
organizations
activities
context

File:

Download McClure_dissertation_with_diagrams.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Kent Finke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Diane Helen Felmlee, Committee Member
David R Johnson, Committee Member
Eric Plutzer, Committee Member

Author:

Mataic, Dane Rypel

Title:

Mobilizing the Faithful: Religious Congregations, Opportunities for Activism, and the Mobilization of Attendees

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Mobilization
Religion
Organizations

File:

Download Mataic_Dissertation_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Finke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roger Finke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John McCarthy, Committee Member
Eric P Baumer, Committee Member
Forrest Scott Briscoe, Outside Member

Author:

Smith, Jesse

Title:

Intergenerational Transmission of Religious Conservatism

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Religion
Religious conservatism
Intergenerational transmission
Millennial
Cohort
Moral absolutism
Transcendent authority

File:

Download Smith_Jesse_Thesis_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Valarie Elizabeth King, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roger Finke, Committee Member
Gary J Adler Jr., Committee Member
Eric P Baumer, Program Head/Chair