Armenian Film Foundation: Documentation & Preservation of Armenian Heritage

Donald E. Miller

Donald E. Miller is Firestone Professor of Religion and executive director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. He received the Ph.D. degree in Religion (Social Ethics) from USC in 1975. He is the author, co-author or editor of nine books, including Finding Faith: The Spiritual Quest of the Post-Boomer Generation, with Richard Flory, (Rutgers University Press, 2008) Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement, with Ted Yamamori (University of California Press, 2007), Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope (University of California Press, 2003), GenX Religion (Routledge, 2000), Reinventing American Protestantism (University of California Press, 1997), Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide (University of California Press, 1993), Homeless Families: The Struggle for Dignity (University of Illinois Press, 1993), Writing and Research in Religious Studies (Prentice Hall, 1992), and The Case for Liberal Christianity (Harper & Row, 1981).

Currently Professor Miller oversees the Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative (PCRI), which is funded by the John Templeton Foundation. PCRI supports 21 research projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union. He is involved in several other research projects, including one in Rwanda dealing with the experience of survivors of the 1994 genocide.

Professor Miller is a sociologist of religion with interest in global religious trends, new patterns of religious practice, and innovative organizational responses to cultural change. In addition, he has done extensive research on genocide, including oral history projects on the Armenian genocide that occurred in 1915 and the Rwandan genocide in 1994.