Objective Hope: Assessing the Effectiveness of Faith-Based Organizations: A Review of the Literature
This outstanding research report is based on a systematic review of nearly 800 studies, most of them published over the last few years. It deals exhaustively with each of two separate but related types of religious influences in relation to important social and health outcomes. You might want to dive right in. If so, Godspeed! But, especially if you are not a card-carrying social scientist who has visited these literatures before, you might do better to preface your reading with a little thought experiment or two.
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