Archived News – April 2016
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April 8, 2016
Religion News Service article about a 2015 Baylor study, published in the journal Sociology of Religion, which found that U.S. counties with nicer weather and prettier natural surroundings see lower rates of religious affiliation. Quoted is Todd Ferguson, a doctoral candidate in sociology in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences, who conducted the research with Jeffrey A. Tamburello, also a doctoral candidate in sociology. “People continually bring up this idea of nature-based spiritual fulfillment – whether it’s people who are hiking, surfing, backpacking. We were trying to see, if this is happening at the individual level, maybe it’s actually affecting large regions like counties.” (Terry Goodrich, assistant director of Baylor Media Communications, pitched this research nationally in August 2015. She covers sociology faculty and research.)
Religion News Service article about a 2015 Baylor study, published in the journal Sociology of Religion, which found that U.S. counties with nicer weather and prettier natural surroundings see lower rates of religious affiliation. Quoted is Todd Ferguson, a doctoral candidate in sociology in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences, who conducted the research with Jeffrey A. Tamburello, also a doctoral candidate in sociology. “People continually bring up this idea of nature-based spiritual fulfillment – whether it’s people who are hiking, surfing, backpacking. We were trying to see, if this is happening at the individual level, maybe it’s actually affecting large regions like counties.” (Terry Goodrich, assistant director of Baylor Media Communications, pitched this research nationally in August 2015. She covers sociology faculty and research.)