What does popular culture teach us about ourselves -- our values, our interests, and our hopes for the future? In Acculturated, an all-star line up of contributors examines everything from television shows like Toddlers in Tiaras, Modern Family, and The Biggest Loser to online dating to Lady Gaga to trashy tabloid magazines, in order to assess the state of core virtues like thrift, honesty, perseverance, and generosity in our modern age.
What does popular culture teach us about ourselves -- our values, our interests, and our hopes for the future? In Acculturated, an all-star line up of...
In the last decade, 45% of all marriages in the U.S. were between people of different faiths. The rapidly growing number of mixed-faith families has become a source of hope, encouraging openness and tolerance among religious communities that historically have been insular and suspicious of other faiths. Yet as Naomi Schaefer Riley demonstrates in 'Til Faith Do Us Part, what is good for society as a whole often proves difficult for individual families: interfaith couples, Riley shows, are less happy than others and certain combinations of religions are more likely to lead to divorce....
In the last decade, 45% of all marriages in the U.S. were between people of different faiths. The rapidly growing number of mixed-faith families has b...
If you want to know why American Indians have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian men, why native women are two and a half times more likely to be raped than the national average and why gang violence affects American Indian youth more than any other group, do not look to history. There is no doubt that white settlers devastated Indian communities in the 19th, and early 20th centuries. But it is our policies today--denying Indians ownership of their land, refusing them access to the free market and failing to provide the...
If you want to know why American Indians have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian...
Why are young people dropping out of religious institutions? Can anything be done to reverse the trend? In Got Religion?, Naomi Schaefer Riley examines the reasons for the defection, why we should care, and how some communities are successfully addressing the problem. The traditional markers of growing up are getting married and becoming financially independent. But young adults are delaying these milestones, sometimes for a full decade longer than their parents and grandparents. This new phase of emerging adulthood is diminishing the involvement of young people in religious...
Why are young people dropping out of religious institutions? Can anything be done to reverse the trend? In Got Religion?, Naomi Schaefer Riley...
Toddlers on tablets. Pre-teens on Tumblr. Thanks to a variety of factors--from tech companies hungry for new audiences, to school administrations bent on making education digital, to a culture that promotes everyone as the star of their own reality shows--technology is irrevocably a part of childhood, and parents are struggling to keep up. What should be allowed? What should be denied? And, given the ubiquity of technology and its inherent usefulness, what do sensible boundaries even look like? A noted columnist and mother of three, Naomi Schaefer Riley fully understands the seductive...
Toddlers on tablets. Pre-teens on Tumblr. Thanks to a variety of factors--from tech companies hungry for new audiences, to school administrations b...
