Research On Religion | 2018

Archive for July, 2018

#8 Larry Iannaccone on Sacrifice, Stigma, and the Economics of Religion

I owe a great deal professionally to the work of Larry Iannaccone, a professor of economics at Chapman University as he played a pivotal role in my intellectual development, putting me on a research course that landed me where I am today. We recount some of our adventures in this podcast, including how I first […]

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#9 Carmel Chiswick on the Economics of Being Jewish in America

Prof. Carmel Chiswick (George Washington University) is a scholar’s scholar. Dr. Chiswick is an economist to be reckoned with when it comes to what we usually think about when we talk economics (e.g., labor policy), but she also has the intellectual breadth to be able to address topics outside of the narrow confines of academically-defined […]

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#10 Karrie Koesel on Religion and Politics in China

This was the very first podcast episode we aired and the second interview that I conducted. I learned of Prof. Karrie Koesel (of the University of Oregon at the time, now at Notre Dame) when I was asked to review grant proposals for a Templeton Fund Initiative. To discover that there was a young scholar […]

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#11 Matt Boswell on Starting a New Church (Really Fast)

Coming in at #11, we have Pastor Matt Boswell who found himself in the position of having to set up a church, with physical location and tithing baskets, all within one week’s time. Did he do it? Listen and find out.

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#12 Mark David Hall on Religion and the Founding Fathers

When I first started this podcast back in 2010, I was just coming off the publication of my book The Political Origins of Religious Liberty and had a renewed fascination with American colonial history. Given that our podcast was beginning in June of 2010, I thought having a regular series about religion and US history […]

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