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  • Barna Research Group The Barna Group provides primary research, communications tools, printed resources, leadership development for young people, and church facilitation and enhancement in order to “partner with Christian ministries and individuals to be a catalyst in moral and spiritual transformation in the United States.”
  • Faith Communities Today (Hartford Seminary) Calls itself the largest survey of congregations ever conducted in the United States.
  • The Louisville Institute Lilly Endowment Program for the study of American religion based at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary.
  • Harvard Pluralism Project The Pluralism Project: World Religions in America is a research project aimed at engaging students in studying the new religious diversity in the United States.
  • Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture research and public outreach institute devoted to the promotion of the understanding of the relation between religion and other features of American culture. Based in the IU School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
  • Research on Youth and Religion The National Study of Youth and Religion offers a variety of reports and statistics on young people and religion
  • SocioWeb: The Sociological Resource Center SocioWeb is an independent guide to sociological resources available on the Internet

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  • presscouncils.org A website entirely devoted to media ethics and accountability systems – with now a record 320 media codes, data on all world press councils, a list of 80 (non-governmental) media accountability systems (MAS) plus 175 links and 315 book titles on ethics and MAS.

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Religion in the Workplace: The growing presence of spirituality in Corporate America (BusinessWeek)

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