The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. ARDA’s goal is to preserve and provide access to high-quality data on religion in the United States and abroad. Founded as the American Religion Data Archive in 1997 and going online in 1998, the initial archive was targeted at researchers interested in American religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections submitted by the foremost religion scholars and research centers in the world. The ARDA is generously supported by the Lilly Endowment, the John Templeton Foundation, the Templeton Religion Trust, Chapman University, Pennsylvania State University and Indiana University Indianapolis.
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Meet the Executive Co-Director
Andrew Whitehead
Andrew Whitehead is a Professor of Sociology and Executive Co-Director of the Association of Religion Data Archives (theARDA.com) at the Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture at Indiana University Indianapolis. Dr. Whitehead is one of the foremost scholars of Christian nationalism in the United States. He is the author of American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church (Brazos Press, 2023). He is the lead author of Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2020)—along with Samuel Perry—which won the 2021 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.
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