Dear <<First Name *>>,
We write again, this time to share some recent updates on our research, programming, and training. We genuinely hope this still finds you well. We write with both some things the RPLP has been doing related to COVID-19 as well as some updates about our fellows. If you have a spare moment in the midst of your day, please see below for some of our recent news. We suspect that each of you is struggling in some way related to COVID-19; our thoughts are with you and we continue to hope that you are well, in the full sense.
Yours,
The Religion and Public Life Program
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ON POINT INTERVIEW - Last Thursday, the RPLP director was interviewed on the "On Point" radio show about the response of faith communities to COVID-19. Also on the show was a pastor, a rabbi, and an imam who each talked about their own congregations and how they were leading them in new practices due to social distancing guidelines. If you missed the interview, you can listen to the entire show online.
Image: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images
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NSF GRANT - RPLP graduate student fellow Esmeralda Sanchez Salazar was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support of her dissertation research. The title of her project is "How Congregational Participation Shapes Higher Education Pathways in a Subpopulation." Congratulations, Esmeralda!
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WHY DO FEWER CHRISTIAN WOMEN WORK IN SCIENCE? - Elaine Howard Ecklund and Bob Thomson try to answer this question in an op ed for Christianity Today, drawing on data collected over the past several years. Read their take here.
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OP ED IN CHRISTIANITY TODAY - "African American clergy respond to pandemic with unique considerations of culture, history, and faith values." Continue reading the op ed by RPLP director Elaine Howard Ecklund and RPLP research project manager Deidra Carroll Coleman, published online by Christianity Today.
Image: Larry Dixon Jr/Lightstock
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ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITY AROUND THE GLOBE - "Alternative Spirituality among Global Scientists," co-authored by four RPLP fellows, has been published in The Sociological Quarterly. The authors explore how non-religious scientists construct spirituality in different national contexts, focusing on academic physicists and biologists.
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SOON TO BE NEW FACULTY - Simranjit Khalsa has been a RPLP graduate student fellow since fall of 2013, when she entered the sociology PhD program at Rice. We are proud to share that Khalsa will start as an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Memphis this fall. She will be missed by our team but we look forward to staying connected through ongoing RPLP projects and following her important scholarship.
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