Faculty Publications | RAAC Indiana University Indianapolis

Books

Brian Steensland and Xiaoyun Wang. Forthcoming. “Philanthropy as Spiritual Practice: Contemporary Patterns and Prospects,” in Religion and Philanthropy in the United States, edited by David King and Philip Goff. Indiana University Press.
King, David P. God’s Internationalists: World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

Haberski, Raymond, Jr., and Andrew Hartman, eds. American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018.

Haberski, Raymond, Jr. Voice of Empathy: A History of Franciscan Media in the United States. Oceanside, CA: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2018.

Goff, Philip, Arthur E. Farnsley, and Peter J. Thuesen, eds. The Bible in American Life. New York, NY: Oxford, 2017.

Steensland, Brian, and Philip Goff, eds. The New Evangelical Social Engagement. New York, NY: Oxford, 2014.

Farnsley, Arthur E., II. Flea Market Jesus. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012.

Davis, Thomas J. John Calvin’s American Legacy. New York, NY: Oxford, 2010.

Public Expressions of Religion in America

The University of Illinois Press has published six volumes written for the Center as part of the Public Expressions of Religion in America project:

Journal Articles

Friesen, A. “Generational Change? The Effects of Family, Age and Time on Moral Foundations.” Forthcoming in The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics.
Lewis, A.R., Blake, W., Mockabee, S.T., Friesen, A. “American Constitutional Faith and the Politics of Hermeneutics.” Forthcoming in Politics & Religion.
Friesen, A. (2019). Personality, politics and religion. In Paul A. Djupe and Mark Rozell (Eds.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics & Religion. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.824.
Steensland, B., Woodberry, R., Park, J.Z., (2018). Structure, placement, and the quest for unidimensional purity in taxonomies of American denominations. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 57, 800-806.
Steensland, B., Wang, X., Schmidt, L., (2018). Spirituality: What does it mean and to whom? Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 57, 450-72.
Tucker Edmonds, J.L. (2018). The canonical black body: Alternative African American religions and the disruptive politics of sacrality. Religions, 9(1), 17.
Djupe, P.A., Friesen, A. (2018). Moralizing to the choir: The moral foundations of American clergy. Social Science Quarterly, 99(2), 665-682. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.12455/full. DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12455.
Friesen, A., Smith, K.B., Hibbing, J.R. (2017). Physiological arousal and self-reported valence for erotic images correlate with sexual policy preferences. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 29(3), 449-470. https://academic.oup.com/ijpor/article/29/3/449/2669465/Physiological-Arousal-and-SelfReported-Valence-for?guestAccessKey=4940cbd4-0ad9-4fb1-a49f-617ecd798add.
Friesen, A., Djupe, P.A. (2017), Conscientious women: The dispositional conditions of institutional treatment on civic involvement. Politics & Gender, 13(1), 57-80. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/9332.
Friesen, A., Hibbing, M.V. (2016). The effect of personal economic values on economic policy preferences. Social Science Quarterly, 97(2), 325-337. doi: 10.1111/ssqu.12236. https://hdl.handle.net/1805/9328.
Lakens, D., Adolfi, F.G., Albers, C.J., Anvari, F., Apps, M.A.J., Argamon, S.E., Friesen, A., Zwaan, R.A. (2018). Justify your alpha. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 168-171. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0311-x. doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0311-x.

Op-Eds

Farnsley II, A.E. (February 28, 2019). Why churches should not measure their growth against the economic boom.” Religion News Service. https://religionnews.com/2019/02/28/why-churches-should-not-measure-their-growth-against-the-economic-boom/.
Djupe, P.A., Soklhey, E., Friesen, A., Lewis, A.R. (November 4, 2016). When evangelical clergy oppose Trump, their flocks listen. But they’re not speaking up. The Washington Post.
Farnsley II, A.E. (December 7, 2016). It’s time we think of politics more like religion. Religion News Service. https://religionnews.com/2016/12/07/its-time-we-think-of-politics-more-like-religion/.
Farnsley II, A.E. (February 23, 2016). Why Religious Identity isn’t the Best Marker of Political Mobilization. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/why-religious-identity-isnt-the-best-marker-of-political-mobilization-commentary/2016/02/23/31f6e4be-da68-11e5-8210-f0bd8de915f6_story.html?utm_term=.6086dc3005cf.
Friesen, A. (February 4, 2016). What Role Does Faith Play at the Polls? Indianapolis Recorder. https://www.indianapolisrecorder.com/religion/article_420e3dcc-c5da-11e5-a00d-3b4afffc6bf7.html?fbclid=IwAR0FdVuhwTpa3vVNEiA7GMb4Gh2qAvcMisvM4FiIWTqjNlwAmckKTzrxLnU.