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Donald E. Miller

Religion expert focusing on values, faith-based social services and the sociology of religion in America

Holder of the Leonard K. Firestone Professorship in Religion
Executive Director, USC's Center for Religion and Civic Culture
Professor of religion and sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Contact at: (213) 740-0278, (213) 740-8562, (626) 794-2174 or demiller@usc.edu


Expertise:
  • sociology of religion in America
  • American Protestantism
  • Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity
  • religion and social change
  • religion and community organizing/development
  • religion and values
  • social ethics
  • civic role of religion and faith-based organizations in Southern California
  • religion's contributions to the civic life of Los Angeles
  • capacity of faith-based organizations to address social issues
  • faith-based organizations and welfare reform
  • faith-based social services
  • immigrant religious communities in Los Angeles
  • fast-growing churches with active social and community ministries in the developing world
  • transnational religious issues
  • Armenian and Rwandan genocide
Additional Information:
  • Author, Healing, Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda (forthcoming, 2013), Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium (University of California Press, 1997), Homeless Families: The Struggle for Dignity (1993), Writing and Research in Religious Studies (1991)
  • Co-Author, Spirit and Power: The Global Impact of Pentecostalism (Oxford University Press), Finding Faith: The Spiritual Quest of the Post-Boomer Generation (Rutgers University Press, 2008), Global Pentacostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement (University of California Press, 2007), Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope (2003), Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide (1993)
  • Co-Editor, Gen X Religion (2001)
  • Collaborator, Orphans of the Rwanda Genocide (photoessay)
  • Involved in several projects with genocide survivors in Rwanda
  • Director of international research project on Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity

More:
For more information go to:

http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/faculty/faculty_display.html?Person_ID=1003537
http://crcc.usc.edu