PRESS RELEASE Hispanic Publications More Than Doubled From 1996-2006 According to the Standard Periodical Directory

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Directory is the largest directory of U. Meanwhile, general interest, men's, and women 's
publications have declined," stated Deborah Striplin, Editorial Director of
The Standard Periodical Directory. Just 100 years ago Max
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"We see tremendous growth in Hispanic periodicals, with an increasing
number of regional publications, such as Tu Ciudad Los Angeles and Ser
Magazine (Laredo , TX), as well as an increase in national publications such
as Siempre Mujer.

Striplin commented that the use of the Internet in publishing continues to
grow with over 24% of the publications offering online or e-mail editions
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The Standard Periodical Directory 2006 Edition includes listings for
15,654 magazines, 11,563 journals, 11,938 newsletters, 9,667
newspapers , 3,449 directories and 997 yearbooks."
Following a call for proposals, 43 finalists were chosen to submit full
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Over the last ten years, these categories also grew in number:

-- Interior design from 125 to 213 publications
-- Wedding from 50 to 130 publications
-- Golf from 102 to 170 publications

Declining categories over the past ten years were college student press
and business and industry publications:

-- College student press from 4507 to 3097
-- Business and industry from 2505 to 1126

The categories with the largest number of publications for 2006 are
Medicine, Law, Religion, Ethnic, Computers, Education , Business, Health &
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Laurence Iannaccone, George Mason University: Creating an "Ecology" for
the Study of Religion, Economics, and Spiritual Capital

Timur Kuran, University of Southern California: The Role of Religion in
the Economic Performance of Civilizations

Robert Woodberry, University of Texas at Austin: Project on Religion and
Economic Change

Each of these three projects began in March 2005 and is 30 months in
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Spiritual Capital grantees, representing disciplines such as economics,
history, political science, and sociology, were selected from these finalists
following a rigorous peer review process. The aim of the program is
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In "The Wealth of Nations," Adam Smith raised key questions for the
economic analysis of religion and looked at the effects of competition among
religions and the dangers of government of religion. Only in recent years have leading scholars, including
Nobel laureate economists Gary Becker and Robert Fogel and political
scientists John DiIulio and Robert Putnam, called renewed attention to the
effects of spiritual and religious practices, beliefs and institutions on
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The Standard Periodical Directory includes the publication's name, phone
number, fax, email, URL, editorial description, personnel, ISSN, year
founded, frequency, circulation, subscription and advertising rates, list
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As with the Spiritual Capital Research Program's initial
grants, awarded in 2005, the results of this new research will be disseminated
through scholarly and lay publications, conferences, speaking engagements and
websites. All 13 grantees will meet annually in 2006 and 2007 to discuss
their projects and begin building the network for this new field of study. Projects include the Local
Societies Initiative , the Templeton Research Lectures, and topical
interdisciplinary research projects such as the Spiritual Transformation
Scientific Research Program, Spiritual Capital Research Program, and the
Templeton Advanced Research Program as well as other endeavors.

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convenient venues; corporate and sales force Internet web sites; and
television shopping. "Although the social
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In spring 2005 , three scholars each received founding grants of $500,000
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"The newly funded studies will
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Hispanic publications led in growth over the
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Striplin added, "The Standard Periodical Directory is a great tool for
librarians, advertisers, marketers , printers and publishers to research
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Since then, social scientists have vigorously debated the concept of
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There are also 238 digital, or virtual,
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. PHILADELPHIA, Ten grants of $150,000 each for
high-level research in the emerging field of "Spiritual Capital" have been
announced by Kimon H. Sargeant, the director of the Spiritual Capital Research
Program based at the Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science.
The Principal Investigators awarded grants and their projects are:

Peter Berger, Boston University: Spiritual Capital in Developing Societies

Wendy Cadge , Bowdoin College: Comparing Spiritual and Other Forms of
Social Capital: Lessons from the Immigrant Experience

Robert Dowd, University of Notre Dame: Religiosity and Political Culture:
Christians , Muslims and Spiritual Capital in Sub-Saharan Africa

Daniel Hungerman, University of Notre Dame: Religious Capital and Public
Policy in the 20th Century

Sriya Iyer, University of Cambridge: Innovation and the Resilience of
Religion

Michael Kremer, Harvard University: The Impact of the Hajj

John Levi Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Structures of Social
and Spiritual Capital in Religious and Nonreligious Groups

Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine: A Pious and Profitable
Mystery: Guilds, Purgatory, Reformation, the Multiplication of Religious
Denominations, and the Evolution of Industrial Society in Late-Medieval and
Early Modern England

David Sikkink, University of Notre Dame: The Dynamics of Spiritual Capital
in US Congregations

Fenggang Yang, Purdue University: Faith and Trust in the Emerging Market
Economy in China

These funded projects were launched in January 2006 and are up to 24
months in duration.