2022
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Notre Dame
2018
M.A., Sociology, University of Notre Dame
2016
M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary
2013
B.A., Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2009
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Religion, Morality, Politics, Culture, Cognition, Emotion, The Life Course, Families
Pew Research Center. March 28, 2023. "How the Pandemic Has Affected Attendance at U.S. Religious Services."
Pew Research Center. October 27, 2022. "In their own words: How Americans describe ‘Christian nationalism.’"
Pew Research Center. October 27, 2022. "45% of Americans Say U.S. Should Be a ‘Christian Nation.’"
Smith, Christian, Bridget Ritz, and Michael Rotolo. 2020. Religious Parenting: Transmitting Faith and Values in Contemporary America. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (equal authorship)
Rotolo, Michael. 2022. "Fight-or-Flight for America: The Affective Conditioning of Christian Nationalist Ideological Views during the Transition to Adulthood." Sociological Forum 37(3):812-835.
Rotolo, Michael. 2022. "Culture Beneath Discourse: A Conceptual Model for Analyzing Nondeclarative Cultural Knowledge." American Journal of Cultural Sociology 10(3):432-460.
Rotolo, Michael. 2021. "Moral Religiosities: How Morality Structures Religious Understandings during the Transition to Adulthood." Sociology of Religion 82(1):63-84.
Rotolo, Michael. 2020. "Religion Imagined: The Conceptual Substructures of American Religious Understandings." Sociological Forum 35(1):167-188.
May 11, 2023 — “What Does the ‘General Guidance of Christianity’ Look like to Americans Who Support It?,” American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference.
August 8, 2021 — “Author Meets Critic Session for Religious Parenting: Transmitting Faith and Values in Contemporary America,” Virtual Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion.
August 8, 2021 — “Becoming an Extremely Liberal Millennial: Far-Left Ideological Development during the Transition to Adulthood,” American Sociological Association Virtual Annual Meeting.
October 23, 2020 — “Fight-or-Flight for America: Becoming a Christian Nationalist during the Transition to Adulthood,” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting, originally scheduled for Pittsburgh, PA.
August 8, 2020 — "Culture Beneath Discourse: Theorizing the Properties and Relationships of Cognitive Cultural Entities," American Sociological Association Virtual Annual Meeting, originally scheduled for San Francisco, CA.
August 2020 — “Fight-or-Flight for America: Becoming a Christian Nationalist during the Transition to Adulthood,” 82st Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, originally scheduled for San Francisco, CA.
October 25, 2019 — "America’s Four Religiosities: How Moral Orientations Structure Religious Practice During the Transition to Adulthood," Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
August 12, 2019 — "Religion and Ultimate Concerns During the Transition to Adulthood: The Role of Values in Forming Religious Outlooks," 81st Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, New York, NY.
October 28, 2018 — "Imagining Religion: The Unconscious Substructures of American Religious Understandings," Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
August 13, 2018 — “Imagining Religion: An Image Schematic Approach to Cultural Cognition,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
October 27, 2017 — “Preparation for the Journey: The Role of Experience in Parent’s Religious Transmission Approaches,” Harvard Divinity School Ways of Knowing Graduate Conference on Religion, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
October 13, 2017 — “Measuring Religiousness: Conventional Measures vs. Self-Evaluation From Adolescence to Young Adulthood,” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
American Association for Public Opinion Research
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
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