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.

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
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Wayne State University

Dwayne Alwin
Department of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University

Nancy Ammerman
Boston University

Christopher Bader
Baylor 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, London School of Economics and Political Science

John Bartkowski
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work,  Mississippi State University

Howard Becker
Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Jim Beckford
Department of Sociology, University of Warwick

Ken Bedell
Associate General Secretary, Division of Higher Education, United Methodist Church

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

Courtney Bender
Department of Religion, Columbia University

Peter Berger
School of Theology, Boston University

Peter Beyer
Department of Religious Studies, University of Ottawa

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, Monash University

Brenda Brasher
Department of Sociology University of Aberdeen

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
Duke Divinity School

Jose Casanova
Department of Sociology, New School 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
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, Vassar College

William Clark
Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan

Peter B. Clarke
Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford

Tim Clydesdale
Sociology Department, The College of New Jersey

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

Fr. John A. Coleman, S.J.
Department of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount College 

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

Michael Cuneo
Department of Sociology, Fordham University

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

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

James Davidson
Department of Sociology, Purdue University

Katie Day
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

Jay Demerath
Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts
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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 Doughtery
Dept. of Sociology, Baylor University

Rene Drumm
Social Work and Family Studies Department, Southern Adventist University

Roger Dudley
Andrews University

James Duke
Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University

Helen Rose Ebaugh
Department of Sociology, University of Houston

Elaine Howard Ecklund
Department of Sociology, Rice University

Penny Edgell
Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota  

Christopher G. Ellison
Department of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin

Michael Emerson
Department of Sociology, Rice University

Charles Ess
Philosophy and Religion Department, Drury University

Roger Finke
Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University

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

Bryan T. Froehle
Department of Sociology and Criminology, Dominican University

Paul Froese
Dept. of Sociology, Baylor University

Sally Gallagher
Department of Sociology, Oregon State University

Diana Garland
School of Social Work, Baylor University

William Garrett
Department of Sociology, Saint Michael's College

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, University of Oregon

Eric Gormly
Department of Journalism, University of North Texas

John C Green
University of Akron

Arthur Larry Greil
Department of Sociology, Alfred University

Marie Griffith
Department of Religion, Princeton University

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

Andrew Greeley
Sociologist and author

David Hackett
Department of Religion, Emory University 

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

Kirk Hadaway
Director of Research, Ethnic Congregational Development, Episcopal Church USA

Phillip Hammond
Department of Humanities and Social Science, University of California, Santa Barbara 

Stephen Hart
Department of Sociology, SUNY--Buffalo

Pierre Hegy
Adelphi University

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

Lynne Isaacson
Concordia College

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

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

Benton Johnson
Department of Sociology, University of Oregon
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Byron Johnson
Baylor University

D. Paul Johnson
Department of Sociology, Texas Tech 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
Department of Religion, Pacific Lutheran 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
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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

Shawn Landres
Synagogue 3000

Ronald Lawson
Department of Urban Studies, Queens College

Frank Lechner
Department of Sociology, Emory University

Jeff Levin
Epidemiologist and author

Peggy Levitt
Sociology Department, Wellesley College

Michael Lindsay
Department of Sociology, Rice University

Theodore E. Long
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 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

Otto A. Maduro
The Graduate School, Drew University

Lawrence H. Mamiya
Africana Studies, Vassar College

Christel Manning
Department of Religious Studies, Sacred Heart University

Jack Marcum
Research Services, Presbyterian Churches, USA 

Penny Marler
Department of Sociology, Samford University

Gerardo Marti
Department of Sociology, Davidson College

Meredith McGuire
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University

Bill McKinney
President, Pacific School of Religion

Jennifer McKinney
Department of Sociology, Seattle Pacific University

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

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

Sharon Miller
Auburn Seminary's Center for the Study of Theological Education

J. Gordon Melton
Institute for the Study of American Religion

Katherine Meyer
Department of Sociology, Ohio State University

Robert Montgomery
Retired sociologist of missions

Dawne Moon
Department of Sociology, University of California—Berkeley

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

Mary Jo Neitz
Department of Sociology, University of Missouri, Columbia 

Timothy Nelson
Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

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

Jerry G. Pankhurst
Department of Sociology, Wittenberg University

Keneth Pargament
Department of Sociology, 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, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hobart and William Smith College

Paul Perl
Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate

Margaret M. Poloma, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology, University of Akron

Robert Putnam
Harvard University

Jen'nan Ghazel Read
Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

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

Lynn Schofield
Center for Mass Media Research, Univ. of Colorado

Darren Sherkat
Department of Sociology, Southern Illinois University

Mark A Shibley
Southern Oregon University

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

David Sikkink
Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame

Mark Silk
Center for the Study of Religious Life, Trinity College

Corwin Smidt
Calvin College

Christian Smith
Department of Sociology, Center for the Sociology of Religion, The University of Notre Dame

Ida Williams Smith
Research Services, Presbyterian Churches, USA

Jim Spickard
Department of Sociology, University of Redlands

Rodney Stark
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Baylor University

William H. Swatos, Jr.
Religious Research Association 

David Swartz
Boston University

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

Joseph Tamney
Ball State University

Farha Ternikar
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Le Moyne College

Scott Thumma
Hartford Institute for Religion Research, Hartford Seminary

Gene Thursby
Department of Religion, University of Florida

Steven Michael Tipton
Candler School of Theology, Emory College

Melinda Bollar Wagner
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Radford University 
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R. Stephen Warner
Department of Sociology, University of Illinois, Chicago

Mark R. Warren
School of Education, Harvard University

Ruth Wallace
Department of Sociology, George Washington University

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, Kentucky

Brad Wilcox
Department of Sociology, University of Virginia

Melissa Wilcox
Department of Religion and Gender Studies, Whitman College

Rhys H. Williams
Department of Sociology, University of Cincinnati 

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

Judith Wittner
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Loyola University, Chicago
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James Wood
Department of Sociology, University of Indiana, Bloomington

Richard Wood
Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico

Robert D Woodberry
Department of Sociology, University of Texas-Austin

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

Stuart A Wright
Lamar University

Keith M Wulff
Research office, Presbyterian Church, USA

Robert Wuthnow
Department of Sociology, 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

Larry Young
Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University

Charles Zeck
Villanova University

Phil Zuckerman
Pitzer College

Websites about Sociologists of Religion (and other Sociologists)

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.