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Reimagining Religion USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture Reimagining Religion Reimagining Religion USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture Reimagining Religion USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture February 2017 ! 1 © Copyright Center for Religion and Civic Culture 2017 usc.crcc.edu @usccrcc 2 Contents 8 Introduction How a New Generation Is Changing Evangelical Christianity 10 Religion, Innovation, Change Apocalypse Later: Millennial Evangelicals, Competition, Innovation and the Future Israel-Palestine and the Kingdom of Religion of God Pirates in the White Room Competitive Religious Philanthropy in the 61 Religious Nones Wake of the Nepali Earthquake A Meditation on the Nones The Tidal Wave of Indifference: 17 Experience, Embodiment I Don’t Church, I Brunch Churched Out Mindful Togetherness Good Vibrations: Sonic Rituals and The “Nones” Are Alright Sacred Time U.S. Christianity Is Dead, Long Live Finding, Losing Faith in Foxholes U.S. Christianity—The Implications of Outsiders as Insiders: How Student New Religious Affiliation Data Researchers Joined a Jewish Wedding Marginal Muslims: Questioning Religion The Boxer’s Prayer in Indonesia Pre-Fight and Post-Fight Prayers What’s in a Name? Religious Nones Faith in East Los Angeles, the Vatican and the American Religious Landscape of Boxing How Korea’s “Nones” Differ from Manny Pacquiao, Championship Boxer, Religiously Unaffiliated Americans Has a New Opponent: Philippine The Conversion of Freddie Roach: Poverty Boxing Without Religion The Welterweight Church Usher The Changing Nature of America’s Andre Ward And The Fight For Consistency Irreligious Explained Doing It All for Her: A Lesbian Muslim Hip-Hop Singer on Art and Activism 83 Spirit and Service Finding Love in the Heart of Skid Row Laundry Love 44 Millennials Building the Future of Religion, One Burrito at a Time: Service Groups and Will the Real Evangelical Millennials Religious “Nones” Please Stand Up? Charting the Future of Religion Will a Thriving Singles Scene Renew American Catholicism? Young Catholics Drawn to Pope Francis. Church Life and Dogma? Not So Much An “Everybody Friendly, Artist-Driven, God-Optional” Jewish New Year 3 90 Place Matters 124 Innovation in Context The Jewish Religious Scene in Is American Evangelicalism Really Southern California Disappearing? Finding the Future in Los Feliz The Many Faces of Lord Krishna in the O.C. From Margin to Center: A Queer Meditation and Authenticity: (and Timely) Theological Mix Everything Old Is New Again in Los Feliz Heart of Dharma: Comparing Buddhist In Mellow L.A. and Suave Rio, Religious Practice, East and West Movements are Similar (but Different) The Wild, Wild West of Mindfulness Where They Make Manna Downtown L.A. Captures Pentecostalism’s The Burbs Are Alright: Religion, Sprawl Past, Present and Future and L.A.’s Urban Logic Muslim Women Create a Mosque of Their Iceberg Lettuce vs. Arugula: Religion Own in Los Angeles and Gentrification in Los Feliz First All-female Mosque Opens in Mile of Miracles: A Microcosm of L.A.’s Los Angeles Religious Diversity Mindfulness is as American as Apple Pie With Religious Affiliation on the Decline, Ayaan Hirsi Ali Is Not the Reformer Islam What Should Happen to Hallowed Needs. Here Are the Real Reformers Buildings? What Ireland’s “Yes” Vote for Gay Marriage L.A.’s Congregations Raise New Questions Says About Being Catholic About Multiracial Churches Pope Francis Has Spoken on Climate Made in Los Angeles—How One Church Change—Here’s What Catholic Sisters Changed with its Community Are Doing About It How Will Church Plants Grow Without U2, Justin Bieber and the Future of Becoming Megachurches? Christianity Katy Perry’s Not the Only One Who Wants Mindfulness and Science: Who’s Winning to Live in a Convent the Game of Samsara? What Real Estate Battles Say about Church Why Do Buddhists Give Money in Sri Lanka, In the Age of Megachurches, Sometimes But Not in the U.S.? Less Is More A Saintly Start-Up: Why Some New Mapping the New Landscape of Religion Churches Avoid a Corporate Model in Los Feliz Praying for Rain in the California Drought Religious, Spiritual and “None of the Above”: How Did Mindfulness Get So Big? Traditional and Innovative—How Korean Buddhism Stays Relevant Slimming the Megachurch in Seoul and Los Angeles 4 Pope Francis’ ‘Joy of Love’ Exhortation How Young Muslim Activists in Sweden Won’t Resolve Catholic Tensions on Fight Radicalization Marriage and Sex The Habit and the Hijab: An Exploration What’s an Evangelical These Days? on Sacred Dress Trump’s Advisors Point to Divisions A Time for Moral Reflection—The Silver How to Solve the Difficult Problem of Lining After the Orlando Shooting Adding ‘Muslim’ to ‘American’ Making Evangelical America Great Again: Trump and “Wall” Christians 172 Resistance VP Debate: Tim Kaine and American Evangelicalism: Same as it Ever Was— Religion in Flux Or Is It? Do Government Regulations Get in the 216 Looking Forward: Predictions Way of Doing Good After a Disaster? The Top Five Religion Trends to Watch Could Pope Francis Change Hearts and in 2016 Minds on Immigration on a Global American Christianity Is Changing Fast: Scale? Five Stories to Watch in 2016 What the Fight over Allah Says About the The Top Five Religion Trends to Watch Future of Evangelical Christianity in 2017 A Crisis of Integrity in Seoul, the Megachurch Capital of the World Change Is Happening in the Catholic Church, Just Not on Holy Thursday 186 The Public Sphere The (Next) Fire Next Time The Gay Sex Worker Who Defied Sharia Law in Banda Aceh to Organize How a Pentecostal Law Professor Has Helped Reshape Nigerian Politics The Role of the Spirit in #BlackLivesMatter Movement Is the Pope’s Concern for Immigration Just a “Numbers Game”? Celebrating Christmas in an Age of Religious Extremism Muslims Seek a Delicate Balance in a Secular Europe Why Terrorists Can’t Win in World’s Largest Muslim City 5 About the Center for Religion and Civic Culture ! The idea for the USC Center for Religion and Civic CRCC’s work falls into four activities, with Culture (CRCC) started to germinate in 1992, as research grounding the other three areas: the conflagrations of the Los Angeles riots were just beginning to subside. A number of civic, cor- i Research. CRCC explores religious develop- porate and interreligious coalitions were formed ments locally and globally from an interdisci- to heal the deeply divided city and to address plinary perspective the underlying social problems that had provided i Training. CRCC leads capacity-building tinder for the flames. programs for religious organizations, civic leaders and government agencies CRCC’s founders set out to research the role of i Evaluation. CRCC analyzes and assesses faith groups in the public square following the initiatives and programs focused on faith uprising. They wrote a report called “Politics communities of the Spirit,” documenting and evaluating the i Strategic Consulting. CRCC illuminates activities of congregations. trends in religion for foundations, govern- ment agencies and organizations to help The Center for Religion and Civic Culture came them shape their strategy and maximize their out of this research project and report. CRCC was impact conceived as a way to make creative connec- tions between researchers, policy-makers and Since its inception, CRCC has managed more religious community leaders, in order to produce than $40 million in funding from corporations, new insights into the evolving nature of religion foundations and government agencies for in complex, globalizing societies. research, consulting, evaluation and capaci- ty-building programming. In 2002, CRCC was CRCC’s capacities and reservoirs of knowledge named a Pew Center of Excellence, one of ten are thus a distinctive hybrid. Both locally and university-based research centers to receive that globally, we have deep networks within a variety recognition. CRCC is also involved in the creation of religious, civic and scholarly communities. Our of scholarly resources, including the Interna- connections enable us to undertake cutting-edge tional Mission Photography Archive, the largest research on new developments in religion. Our online repository of missionary photographs understanding of the ways that religious tradi- that document social change in non-Western tions and movements grow and change allows us cultures. Today, our staff includes 15 research, to help faith groups engage with the wider soci- programming, communications and adminis- ety. We also help academics, civic organizations, trative professionals, along with contributing government foundations and businesses engage scholars, university fellows, student workers and with faith groups. consultants. In short, CRCC is uniquely positioned to explore CRCC’s deep roots in Southern California mean how religions change and make change in South- that we remain committed to research in Los ern California and across the globe—and to help Angeles, even as we continue to promote religious and civic leaders understand the shifts scholarship across disciplinary boundaries, of the day. create resources for researchers, policy-makers, communities and thought-leaders, and explore religion’s global reach. 6 Religious Competition Center for Religion and Civic Culture and Creative Innovation USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Project Staff University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0520 Richard Flory Principal Investigator, Sr. Director of Research (213) 743-1624 and Evaluation EMAIL [email protected] Brie Loskota Co-Investigator, Executive Director WEBSITE crcc.usc.edu Donald E. Miller Project Advisor, Director of Strategic Initiatives Hebah Farrag Project Manager, Assistant Director of Research Nalika Gajaweera Research Associate Andrew Johnson Research Associate Nick Street Senior Writer Napah Phyakul Quach Director of Finance Megan Sweas Editor and Director of Communications Sumaya Abubaker Project Manager ! 7 In 2014, the USC Center for Religion and Civic Introduction Culture (CRCC) was awarded a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to explore the proposition that competition between religious groups stimulates creative innovation, contribut- Richard Flory ing to religious change.
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