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In order to understand innovation, we first need to define it. My center, the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at USC, undertook a multi-year project to explore how religions are changing and where there is creativity in religious environments across Greater Los Angeles and Seoul, South Korea.

In our 2017 religion trends to watch, one of our snarky headlines read: "New Species of Evangelicals Discovered." As we pointed out under the headline, the divisions in Evangelicalism have long existed. We also predicted, quite correctly, that journalists and pundits would finally realize that not all "evangelicals" are the same.

I was not a real prisoner during the fieldwork. I had not been convicted of a crime and I knew I could leave. Still, the time I spent behind bars at least gave me a taste of what it feels like to be imprisoned. By living in the prison, I learned things about prison life that I could not have by administering a questionnaire or through formal interviews.

Christianity Today reviewed Andrew Johnson's book, If I Give My Soul: Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro, giving the book five stars. Johnson's research for the book was supported by  CRCC's Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative.

By Andrew Johnson (Oxford University Press, 2017)

In the era of Trump's presidency, multi-racial churches are growing in prominence. Their organizing is a response to and departure from the racism embedded in predominantly white evangelical Christianity, ThinkProgress reported an article that features CRCC research associate Andrew Johnson.

Is religion disappearing, or is it re-forming into new practices and beliefs? See the schedule and watch a preview of CRCC's 2017 Reimagining Religion conference.

Professional athletes and commentators have increasingly used their visibility and cultural capital to make statements and symbolic gestures on social issues during pre-game rituals, post-game interviews and in the interstitial moments in television broadcasts.

This handbook or “how to” guide helps students study religious groups from the perspective of a social scientist using qualitative research methodologies.