Savannah Music Festival…and images and notes from Albania, Denmark, and Sweden

June 29, 2009 at 7:35 am · Filed under Languages, Music, Sociology/Anthropology

Back from hiatus, after traveling for 2 weeks through Europe, including visiting my old stomping grounds in Albania, where Dr. Lori Amy has been teaching and researching on a Fulbright and kindly hosted us in her Tirana home.  If you’re interested in pics from the 3 countries, and detailed notes on Albania from my wife’s perspective as a first-time visitor (here, here, & here), just visit my Facebook page.  (Also keep an eye on the news on Albania’s election results from yesterday, available in any major news sources online.)

Also, the Savannah Music Festival has posted streams online for your listening pleasure, from Schubert to Gershwin with a dose of boogie woogie.

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American Congregations at the Beginning of the 21st Century

June 4, 2009 at 10:12 am · Filed under Sociology/Anthropology

Some of you will be interested in the announcement below…

Dear Friends of the National Congregations Study:

Per your request for updates about the NCS website, I wanted to let you
know that our new report of NCS findings, “American Congregations at the
Beginning of the 21st Century,” has just been posted to the site.  You
can find it here
http://www.soc.duke.edu/natcong/Docs/NCSII_report_final.pdf .

Sincerely,

Mark Chaves
Professor of Sociology, Religion, and Divinity, Duke University
Director, National Congregations Study

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