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Richard Flory

Director of Research at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California

Richard Flory (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is director of research at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. He is a sociologist whose research focuses on religious and cultural change, religion and urban life, and the religious and spiritual lives of youth and young adults. He has published several books, most recently, Spirit and Power: The Growth and Global Impact of Pentecostalism (Oxford University Press, 2013), Growing up in America: The Power of Race in the Lives of Teens (Stanford University Press, 2010), and Finding Faith: The Spiritual Quest of the Post-Boomer Generation (Rutgers University Press, 2008)

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