Review of American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy, Don S. Browning and David A. Clairmont, eds. New York: Columbia University Press. Journal of Marriage and the Family 70:255-256. Review of Remaking the Godly Marriage: Gender Negotiations in Evangelical Families, John Bartkowski, Rutgers University Press. Contemporary Sociology 31(4): 409-410. Media Publications Lisa D. Pearce and Melinda Lundquist Denton. “The Spiritual Life of the American Teenager.” The Public Intellectual, August 4, 2011. Lisa D. Pearce and Melinda Lundquist Denton. “What Being Religious Really Means to Young People.” The Huffington Post, January 14, 2011. Christian and Melinda Lundquist Denton. “Teenagers, Not Aliens.” Chronicle of Higher Education, March 4 2005. Funded Research Adolescent Religiosity and Parental Religious Homogamy, Summer 2012. $6,750 grant to Melinda Lundquist Denton from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Clemson University. National Study of Youth and Religion, Wave 2: The Religious Practices of American Youth. 2004-2008. Co-Principal Investigators: Christian Smith and Lisa Pearce Co-Investigator: Melinda Lundquist Denton NSYR, Wave 2 subcontract to Clemson University, 2006-2008, $60,242 Principal Investigator: Melinda Lundquist Denton Collaborative Research National Study of Youth and Religion, Wave 4: Tracking the Religious Lives of American Youth Through the End of Emerging Adulthood to the Settling-Down Years. 2009-2013. Principal Investigator: Christian Smith Co-Investigators: Lisa Pearce, Melinda L. Denton, Steve Vaisey, Kyle Longest National of Youth and Religion, Wave 3: Tracking the Religious Lives of American Youth into Emerging Adulthood. 2007-2010. Principal Investigator: Christian Co-Investigators: Lisa Pearce, Melinda L. Denton, Steve Vaisey, Kyle Longest
“Does the Shape of Families Shape Faith?” Working Conference, invited scholar participant, Austin, TX, May 2009 and Chicago, IL, May 2010. Soul Searching faculty and student book discussion at Southern Wesleyan University, Central, SC, February 2010. “Balancing Act: The Transition to a Mixed Method Research Agenda” presented to the graduate students of Florida State University Department of Sociology, March 2009. “Understanding the Religious and Spiritual of American Teenagers: Findings from the National Study of Youth and Religion” presented with Christian Smith at the University Day of Common Learning at Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, October 2005. Conference Presentations 2013. “Transitions of Family and Faith: Racial Variation in the Effects of Family Transition on the Religious Lives of Adolescents” to be presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Boston, Massachusetts. 2011. “The Faith of Their Families: Predictors of Generational Religious Stability and Change” at the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2011. “Author Critics: A Faith of Their Own, by Lisa Pearce and Melinda Lundquist Denton” at the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2010. “Family Structure, Family Disruption and Profiles of Adolescent Religiosity” at the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Baltimore, Maryland. 2009. “Religion and What Adults Hope to Accomplish before Marrying” with Lisa D. Pearce and Gretchen Gooding at the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Denver, Colorado. 2009. Relationship Quality: Exploring the Dimensions of Adolescent Religiosity” at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California. 2009. “The Differential Effects of Religion across Black and White Adolescent-Parent Relationships” at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California. 2008. “Comparing Typical Survey Measures of Religious Change with Youth Self Reports of Change” at the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Louisville, Kentucky.