Organization:Public Religion Research Institute
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| Established | 2009 |
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| CEO | Robert P. Jones |
| Location | Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Address | 1023 15TH ST NW, 9th Floor Washington, D.C. 20005 |
| Website | prri.org |
The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) is an American nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization that conducts public opinion polls on a variety of different topics, specializing in the quantitative and qualitative study of political issues as they relate to religious values.[1]
Major research
In 2014, PRRI launched the American Values Atlas, an interactive online tool that provides information about religious, political and demographic composition for all 50 states and particular issues.[2][3]
Robert P. Jones
Robert P. Jones is the founder and CEO of PRRI.[4] He previously served as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. Jones holds a Ph.D. in Religion from Emory University and a M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of The End of White Christian America (2016),[5] which won the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Jones is also the author of the 2020 book White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, in which he reveals that his distant relative who died in 1818 owned three enslaved people.[6]
References
- ↑ Rubin, Jennifer (August 3, 2020). "How White Supremacy Infected Christianity and the Republican Party". The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/03/how-white-supremacy-infected-christianity-republican-party/.
- ↑ Robert P. Jones (February 18, 2019). "America's Changing Religious Landscape". The Religious Studies Project (Interview). Interviewed by Benjamin P. Marcus. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
... findings from PRRI’s national surveys on religion and public life, many of which are represented in the American Values Atlas.
- ↑ "About the American Values Atlas". http://ava.prri.org/about.
- ↑ Jones, Robert P. (July 28, 2020). "White Christian America Needs a Moral Awakening". The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/white-christian-america-needs-moral-awakening/614641/. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- ↑ Jones, Robert P. (July 12, 2016). The End of White Christian America. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781501122293. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_End_of_White_Christian_America/2vegDAAAQBAJ?gbpv=1.
- ↑ Jones, Robert P. (July 28, 2020). White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781982122881. https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/Uw22DwAAQBAJ?gbpv=1. pp. 217-218.
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