Jonathan Hill, Assistant Professor, Sociology
616-526-7259
jph27@calvin.edu
Office: Spoelhof Center 217
Weekly Schedule
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Educational Background
- BA Grove City College
- MA Univeristy of Notre Dame
- PhD University of Notre Dame
Teaching Interests
Introduction to Sociology, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Religion, Statistics
Research Interests
Religion, Higher Education, Quantitative Methods
Selected Publications
Peer-reviewed Publications
Hill, Jonathan P. and Kevin den Dulk. Forthcoming. "Religion, Volunteering, and Educational Setting: The Role of Youth Schooling Type on Civic Engagement." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Miller, Brian J., Peter Mundey, and Jonathan P. Hill. Forthcoming. "Faith in the Age of Facebook: Exploring the Links between Religion and Social Network Site Membership and Use." Sociology of Religion.
Hill, Peter C., Keith J. Edwards, and Jonathan P. Hill. 2012. “Religious Pluralism and Higher Education Institutional Contexts: Implications for Research.” In Spirituality Enacted in Higher Education: Translating Research into Practice, edited by Alyssa Bryant Rockenbach & Matthew J. Mayhew. New York: Routledge.
Brandon Vaidyanathan, Jonathan P. Hill, and Christian Smith. 2011. “Religion and Charitable Financial Giving to Religious and Secular Causes: Does Political Ideology Matter?” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 50:450-69.
Hill, Jonathan. P. 2011. “Faith and Understanding: Specifying the Impact of Higher Education on Religious Belief.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 50: 533-51.
Hill, Jonathan P., and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2011. “Substitution or Symbiosis? Assessing the Relationship Between Religious and Secular Giving.” Social Forces 90:157-80.
Edwards, Keith J., Todd W. Hall, Will Slater, and Jonathan P. Hill. 2011. “The Multidimensional Structure of the Quest Construct.” Journal of Psychology and Theology 39:87-110.
Hill, Jonathan P and Daniel V.A. Olson. 2009. “Market Share and Religious Competition: Do Small Market Share Congregations and Their Leaders Try Harder?” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48:629-49.
Hill, Jonathan P. 2009. “Higher Education as Moral Community: Institutional Influences on Religious Participation During College.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48:515-34.
Other Publications
Hill, Jonathan P. 2012. “Making Volunteers: Civic Life After Welfare’s End (Book Review).” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 41:912-15.
Hill, Jonathan P. 2012. “Parsing Santorum’s Statistic on God and College: Looks as if It’s Wrong.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 11.
Smith, Christian, and Jonathan P. Hill. 2009. “Toward the Measurement of Interpersonal Generosity (IG): An IG Scale Conceptualized, Tested, and Validated.” Available at http://generosityresearch.nd.edu/assets/13798/ig_paper_smith_hill_rev.pdf.
Hill, Jonathan P. 2009. “In the Course of a Lifetime: Tracing Religious Belief, Practice, and Change (Book review).” Social Forces 84:2216-19.
Sikkink, David and Jonathan Hill. 2005. "Religion and Education." In Helen Rose Ebaugh (ed.), Handbook on Religion and Social Institutions (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers).
