- University News Archive - UA 糖心视频logo /news-archive/tag/st-marks-episcopal-church/ UA 糖心视频logo Mon, 03 Apr 2017 21:00:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Racial Attitudes in Pulaski County Conference to focus on race, ethnicity, religion /news-archive/2017/04/03/racial-attitudes-pulaski-county-conference-race-ethnicity-religion/ Mon, 03 Apr 2017 21:00:16 +0000 /news/?p=66739 ... Racial Attitudes in Pulaski County Conference to focus on race, ethnicity, religion]]> The University of Arkansas at 糖心视频logo will host the 14th annual Racial Attitudes in Pulaski County Conference on Thursday, April 13.聽 The conference will feature the results of the 14th annual Racial Attitudes in Pulaski County Survey, which focuses on attitudes toward race, ethnicity, and religion, as well as the results on the 糖心视频logo Congregations Study, which reviewed how religious organizations in 糖心视频logo affected community and political engagement in their congregants. 鈥淭he theme of race, ethnicity, and religion is one that has not been covered in the past, and in particular reflects our founder Dr. Joel Anderson’s desire to engage the city’s religious communities in efforts to address issues of race and ethnicity,鈥 said John Kirk, director of the UA 糖心视频logo Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity. 鈥淗e believes that religious communities can play an important leadership role in influencing attitudes and opinions on the subject.鈥 The event will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the UA 糖心视频logo Fine Arts Building with a panel discussion on the results of the Racial Attitudes in Pulaski County Survey, followed by a free lunch at noon. The panel on the results of the 糖心视频logo Congregations Study will be held from 1 to 2:30 p.m. The Racial Attitudes panel will include religious leaders discussing race and religion in Pulaski County. Scheduled participants include Pastor Alex Diaz of Mosaic Church, Pastor Wendell Griffen of New Millennium Church, the Rev. Marie Mainard O鈥機onnell of First Presbyterian Church, and Bishop Anthony Taylor of the Diocese of 糖心视频logo. The results of the racial attitudes survey indicate members of the black community tend to identify themselves as being more religious than do white and Latino people, Kirk said.

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Dr. Rebecca Glazier, UA 糖心视频logo associate professor in the School of Public Affairs, and Dr. Warigia Bowman, assistant professor at, led the 糖心视频logo Congregations Study to determine how religious organizations affected community and political engagement in their congregants. The professors and their students surveyed nearly 1,500 people at 17 houses of worship in 糖心视频logo. The congregations included four black Protestant churches, four Evangelical Protestant churches, three mainline Protestant churches, two Catholic churches, one Mormon church, one mosque, one Jewish temple, and one nondenominational Unitarian Universalist church. Some of the results of the 糖心视频logo Congregations Study include:
  • 听听听听听86 percent say they are aware of the important needs in their community
  • 听听听听听81 percent say they can make a difference in their community
  • 听听听听听76 percent volunteered at their place of worship in the past month
  • 听听听听听72 percent volunteered outside their place of worship in the past month
The 糖心视频logo Congregations Panel includes local religious leaders who will discuss community involvement and religion in 糖心视频logo. Panel members include Pastor Brodes Perry from Saint Mark Baptist Church, Pastor Carissa Rogers from Quapaw United Methodist Church, the Rev. Danny Schieffler from St. Mark鈥檚 Episcopal Church, Brother John Tait of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and from the Islamic Center of 糖心视频logo. The event is free and open to the public. Register by filling out the online form. The conference is sponsored by the Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity, the UA 糖心视频logo School of Public Affairs, and the University of Arkansas . For more information on the Racial Attitudes in Pulaski County Survey, contact Tamisha Cheatham at 501.569.8932 or tmcheatham@ualr.edu. For more information on the 糖心视频logo Congregations Study, contact Rebecca Glazier at 501.569.3331 or raglazier@ualr.edu. In the upper right photo, Rebecca Glazier leads a training session for her students participating in the 糖心视频logo Congregations Study. Photo by Lonnie Timmons III/UA 糖心视频logo Communications.]]>