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
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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