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Phil Davignon

Chair and Professor of Sociology

Education

  • Ph.D, Baylor University

  • M.A., Baylor University

  • B.A., Hillsdale College

Scholarship

Books

Articles

  • The Ethnic Church Attendance Gap at Christian Colleges (2023)

    International Journal of Christianity and Education

  • Religious Belief in Christian Higher Education: Is Religious and Political Diversity Relativizing? (2017)

    Social Compass

  • The Invisible Thread: The Influence of Liberal Faculty on Student Political Views at Evangelical Colleges (2016)

    Journal of College & Character

  • The influence of religious preferences on choice of church congregation and church attendance (2016)

    Social Compass

  • Factors Influencing College Choice and Satisfaction among Students at Christian Colleges and Universities (2015)

    Religion & Education

  • Christian Colleges and Universities as Moral Communities: The Effects of Institutional Characteristics on Student Religiosity (2015)

    Review of Religious Research

  • Medical Board Complaints against Physicians Due to Communication: Analysis of North Carolina Medical Board Data, 2002-2012 (2014)

    Journal of Medical Regulation

  • The Special Purpose Examination: An Evaluation of Physicians Taking SPEX and their Pass Rates (2014)

    Journal of Medical Regulation

  • Assessing the Denominational Identity of American Evangelical Colleges and Universities, Part I: Denominational Patronage and Institutional Inquiry (2013)

    Christian Higher Education

  • Assessing the Denominational Identity of American Evangelical Colleges and Universities, Part III: The Student Experience (2013)

    Christian Higher Education

  • Religiosity as a Potential Moderator of the Effects of Media on Delinquency (2013)

    Sociological Spectrum

  • State Medical Boards’ Perceptions of a Minimum Data Set and Current Practices for Collecting Physician Information (2013)

    Journal of Medical Regulation

  • The Effects of R-rated Movies on Adolescent and Young Adult Religiosity: Media as Self-Socialization (2013)

    Review of Religious Research

  • Assessing the Denominational Identity of American Evangelical Colleges and Universities, Part II: Faculty Perspectives and Practices (2013)

    Christian Higher Education

  • Physician Survey Examining the Impact of an Educational Tool for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (2012)

    Journal of Opioid Management

Presentations

  • Religious But Still Secular: How Treating Religion as a Virtue Changes the Debate Over Secularization (2021)

    Society of Catholic Social Scientists annual meeting

  • The Logos of Social Structure: Communio Theology and Sociology (2018)

    Society of Catholic Social Scientists annual meeting

  • Joy in Intentional Community (2018)

    Yale Center for Faith and Culture's Future of Joy and the Good Life conference

  • Re-thinking Causation: Challenging the Positivist Paradigm in Sociology (2017)

    Mid-South Sociological Association's annual meeting

  • Predictors of Moral and Religious Pluralism Among American Adolescents (2017)

    Southern Sociological Society's annual meeting

  • Critical Realism and Adolescent and Young Adult Religiosity (2016)

    Christian Sociological Association's annual meeting

  • Religious Identity and Moral Worldviews Among American Adolescents (2015)

    Association of Christians Teaching Sociology's annual meeting

  • Statistics on Medical Discipline (2014)

    American Association for the History of Medicine's annual meeting

  • Liturgical Music Preferences and Theological Habitus (2013)

    Southwest Social Science Association's annual meeting

  • The Challenges of Collecting Data on Freshman Retention (2011)

    Association of Applied and Clinical Sociology annual meeting

  • Cultural Broadening Theory Revisited: The Effects of Peers and Media on Adolescent Religiosity (2011)

    Southwest Social Science Association's annual meeting