Sociologists of Religion

This alphabetic list of sociologists of religion also includes people from other academic disciplines who engage in social scientific research of religious phenomena. The list was first compiled 16 years ago and continues to be added to or deleted as individual sociologists of religion request it.

At the bottom of this list are links to several excellent sites about well known sociologists both dead and living.

Click on the names below to visit personal homepages or for contact information.  This list appears in alphabetical order by last name

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T W Y Z  

Amy Adamczyk
Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Dwayne Alwin
Department of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University

Nancy Ammerman
Boston University

Christopher Bader
Chapman University

Jerome P. Baggett
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley / GTU

Howard Bahr
Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University

William Bainbridge
The National Science Foundation

Eileen Barker
Department of Sociology Emeritus, London School of Economics and Political Science

Sandra Barnes
Vanderbilt University Divinity School

John Bartkowski
Department of Sociology,  University of Texas, San Antonio

Jim Beckford
Department of Sociology, University of Warwick

Courtney Bender
Department of Sociology, Columbia University

Peter Berger
School of Theology, Boston University

Peter Beyer
Department of Religious Studies, University of Ottawa

Kraig Beyerlein
Department of Sociology, The University of Notre Dame

Reginald Bibby
Department of Sociology, University of Lethbridge

Anthony Blasi
Department of Sociology, Tennessee State University, Nashville 

Jon Bloch
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Southern Connecticut State University

Gary Bouma
Sociology Department, Emeritus, Monash University

Don Braxton
Religion Department, Juniata College

David Bromley
Department of Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University

Reginald Bruce
College of Business and Public Administration, University of Louisville

Steve Bruce
Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen

Wendy Cadge
Sociology, Brandeis University

David Campbell
Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame

Heidi Campbell
Department of Communication, Texas A&M University

Jackson Carroll
Professor Emeritus, Duke Divinity School

Jose Casanova
Department of Sociology, Georgetown University

James C. Cavendish
Department of Sociology, University of South Florida 

Perry Chang
Research Office, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Mark Chaves
Duke Divinity School

C. Conrad Cherry
Retired, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University 

Brad Christerson
Department of Sociology, Biola University

Kevin J. Christiano
Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame

Mark S. Cladis
Department of Religion, Brown University

Lynn Schofield Clark
Director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media, University of Denver

William Clark
Institute for the Studies of Religion at Baylor University

Tim Clydesdale
Sociology Department, The College of New Jersey

Ram A. Cnaan
School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania 

Jessica Collett
Department of Sociology, The University of Notre Dame

Marie Cornwall
Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University

Madeleine R. Cousineau
Liberal Studies Department, Mount Ida College

Douglas E. Cowan
Dept. of Sociology, Criminal Justice and Criminology
University of Missouri-Kansas City

William D'Antonio
Department of Sociology, The Catholic University of America

Lynn Davidman
Sociology Department & Director, Program in Jewish Studies, University of Kansas

Katie Day
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

Jay Demerath
Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts
When you get to the page, scroll down

Ana Maria Diaz-Stevens
Union Theological Seminary 

Michele Dillon
Department of Sociology, University of New Hampshire

William Dinges
Department of Religion, Catholic University of America 

Paul A Djupe
Department of Political Science, Denison University

Kevin Dougherty
Dept. of Sociology, Baylor University

Helen Rose Ebaugh
Department of Sociology, Emeritus, University of Houston

Elaine Howard Ecklund
Department of Sociology, Rice University

Penny Edgell
Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota  

Korie Edwards
Department of Sociology, Ohio State University  

Christopher G. Ellison
Department of Sociology, University of Texas, San Antonio

Michael Emerson
Department of Sociology, Rice University

Roger Finke
Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University

Richard Flory
Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California

Paul Froese
Dept. of Sociology, Baylor University

Sally Gallagher
Department of Sociology, Oregon State University

Mary Gauthier
Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
Department of Sociology, Colby College

Anthony Gill
Department of Political Science, University of Washington

Stephen D. Glazier
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, University of Nebraska-Kearney

Marion S. Goldman
Department of Sociology, Emeritus, University of Oregon

John C Green
University of Akron

Arthur Larry Greil
Department of Sociology, Alfred University

Marie Griffith
Director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University

Wendy Griffin
Department of Women's Studies, California State University, Long Beach 

Rosalind Hackett
Department of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Kirk Hadaway
Director of Research, Episcopal Church USA

Stephen Hart
Department of Sociology, SUNY--Buffalo

Samuel Heilman
Sociology Department, City University of New York

Ralph W Hood, Jr
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Stewart Hoover
Department of Journalism, University of Colorado, Boulder

James Davison Hunter
Department of Sociology, University of Virginia

Larry Iannaccone
Department of Economics, Santa Clara University

Janet Jacobs
Department of Women's Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder 

Ted Jelen
Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 

Byron Johnson
Baylor University

James Kelly
Department of Sociology, Fordham University
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Laurel Kearns
The Graduate School, Drew University

Ariela Keysar
Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College

Patricia O’Connell Killen
Academic Vice President, Gonzaga University

Rebecca Kim
Pepperdine University

Fred Kniss
Department of Sociology, Loyola University, Chicago

David Clark Knowlton
Utah Valley State College

Jerome Koch
Department of Sociology, Texas Tech University
When you get to the page, scroll down

Mary Ellen Konieczny
Department of Sociology, The University of Notre Dame

Barry Kosmin
Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College

Susan Kwilecki
Radford University

Kevin Ladd
Indiana University South Bend

Phillip Lamy
Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice, Castleton State College

Ronald Lawson
Department of Urban Studies, Emeritus Queens College

Frank Lechner
Department of Sociology, Emory University

Shayne Lee
Department of Sociology, University of Houston

Jeff Levin
Epidemiologist and author

Peggy Levitt
Sociology Department, Wellesley College

Michael Lindsay
President, Gordon College

Theodore E. Long
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Emeritus Elizabethtown College

Phillip Lucas
Department of Religion, Stetson University

Donald Luidens
Department of Sociology and Social Work, Hope College

Adair Lummis
Hartford Institute for Religion Research, Hartford Seminary

Christel Manning
Department of Religious Studies, Sacred Heart University

Penny Marler
Department of Sociology, Samford University

Gerardo Marti
Department of Sociology, Davidson College

William C. (Bill) McCready
Senior Fellow in Evaluation & Strategic Planning, Ministry Leadership Center

Meredith McGuire
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University

Bill McKinney
Consultant, Center for Progressive Renewal

Jennifer McKinney
Department of Sociology, Seattle Pacific University

Michael McMullen
Department of Sociology, University of Houston, Clear Lake

Omar McRoberts
Department of Sociology, University of Chicago

Don Miller
The Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California

Sharon Miller
Center for the Study of Theological Education, Auburn Seminary

J. Gordon Melton
Institute for the Study of American Religion

Katherine Meyer
Associate Provost Department of Sociology, Emeritus Ohio State University

Dawne Moon
Department of Sociology, University of Marquette

Nancy Nason-Clark
Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick

Mary Jo Neitz
Department of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Missouri

Timothy Nelson
Department of Sociology, John Hopkins University

Michael Nielsen
Department of Psychology, Georgia Southern University

Laurence Nixon
Religion Department, Dawson College

Daniel V A Olson
Department of Sociology, Purdue University

Laura R Olson
Clemson University

Atalia Omer
Department of Sociology, The University of Notre Dame

Jerry G. Pankhurst
Department of Sociology, Wittenberg University

Kenneth Pargament
Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University

Jerry Park
Sociology Department, Baylor University

Lisa Pearce
Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

H. Wesley Perkins
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hobart and William Smith College

Paul Perl
Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate

Richard N. Pitt
Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University

Margaret M. Poloma
Department of Sociology, Emeritus University of Akron

Robert Putnam
Harvard University

Jen'nan Ghazel Read
Department of Sociology, Duke University

Mark Regnerus
Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

James T. Richardson
Department of Sociology, University of Nevada, Reno

Roland Robertson
Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen

Wade Clark Roof
Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Dave Roozen
Hartford Institute for Religion Research, Hartford Seminary

John Schmalzbauer
Department of Sociology, Missouri State University

Jason Shelton
Department of Sociology, University of Texas, Arlington

Darren Sherkat
Department of Sociology, Southern Illinois University

Mark A Shibley
Southern Oregon University

Anson Shupe
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Emeritus Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

David Sikkink
Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame

Mark Silk
Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College

Corwin Smidt
Paul B. Henry Institute, Calvin College

Christian Smith
Department of Sociology, The University of Notre Dame

Jim Spickard
Department of Sociology, University of Redlands

Jason Springs
Department of Sociology, The University of Notre Dame

Rodney Stark
Institute for Studies of Religion Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences, Baylor University

Erika Summers-Effler
Department of Sociology, The University of Notre Dame

David Swartz
Boston University

Ann Swidler
Department of Sociology, Univ. of California, Berkeley 

Farha Ternikar
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Le Moyne College

Scott Thumma
Hartford Institute for Religion Research, Hartford Seminary

Gene Thursby
Department of Religion, Emeritus University of Florida

Steven Michael Tipton
Candler School of Theology, Emory College

Melinda Bollar Wagner
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Radford University 

R. Stephen Warner
Department of Sociology, Emeritus University of Illinois, Chicago

Mark R. Warren
Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts Boston

Ruth Wallace
Department of Sociology, Emeritus George Washington University

Andrew Weigert
Department of Sociology, The University of Notre Dame

Michael Welch
Department of Sociology, The University of Notre Dame

James K Wellman
Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

Catherine Wessinger
Department of Religious Studies, Loyola University, New Orleans

Beau Weston
Department of Sociology, Centre College

Brad Wilcox
Department of Sociology, University of Virginia

Melissa Wilcox
Department of Religion and Gender Studies, Whitman College

Melvin D. Williams
Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

Rhys H. Williams
Department of Sociology, Loyola University Chicago  

Patricia Wittberg
Department of Sociology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Judith Wittner
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Loyola University, Chicago

Richard Wood
Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico

Robert D Woodberry
Department of Sociology, NAtional University of Singapore

Eric Woodrum
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Retired North Carolina State University

Stuart A Wright
Lamar University

Robert Wuthnow
Sociology Department, Princeton University

David Yamane
Department of Sociology, Wake Forest University

Fenggang Yang
Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Purdue University

Andrew Yip  
Department of Sociology, Nottingham Trent University

Charles Zeck
Villanova University

Phil Zuckerman
Pitzer College

Websites about Sociologists of Religion (and other Sociologists)

Robert Bellah
Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus, University of California Berkeley

Dead Sociologists Society
This site, created by Larry Ridener, is a summary of the works of the masters of sociology drawing on excerpts from the classic texts about the seminal  figures in the field.