Richard Flory

Richard Flory "is a research associate in the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. His Ph.D. is in sociology from the University of Chicago, and his primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of religion, culture, and urban life. He is the author of Finding Faith: The Spiritual Quest of the Post-Boomer Generation (Rutgers University Press, 2008) and GenX Religion (Routledge 2000), and he has recently completed a book that examines the lives of Black, White, Hispanic and Asian teenagers in America, to be published in 2009 by Stanford University Press. He has also created three interactive, multi-media art gallery installations: with Donald Miller and Daniel Callis, "Finding Faith: Christianity in a New Generation" (2003), and "Christianity and Culture: Four Emerging Forms"; and with Daniel Callis, "The Postmodern Metropolis: Los Angeles, Tijuana and Las Vegas" (2004). His current research involves several projects that investigate the role of religion and religious institutions in the civic life of Los Angeles. His research has been supported by grants from the University of Southern California, the Louisville Institute, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Lilly Endowment, and the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation."