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Donald E. Miller

  • 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
Office: (626) 794-2174
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Expertise Summary

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

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