Company:The Religious Freedom Page
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Inquiry and investigation of religious freedom in the United States and around the world.
' A Brief Biography of Jeffrey K. Hadden Mr. Hadden was a Professor of Sociology who began teaching at the in 1972. Mr. Hadden earned his PhD in 1963 at the , where he was trained as a demographer and human ecologist. During a post-doctoral year at Wisconsin, Mr. Hadden was invited to participate in a study of campus clergy funded by the Danforth Foundation. This study provided the opportunity to investigate the involvement of clergy in the Civil Rights Movement. For three years he interviewed clergy on the frontlines of the movement, and from this research came his first book on religion entitled The Gathering Storm in the Churches (1969). This book dealt principally with the conflict that was generated within mainline Protestant churches as a result of clergy participation in social action projects. What was intended as a brief career diversion soon became Mr. Hadden's primary research '-The Religious Freedom Page
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