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RELIGIONS & FAITH GROUPS
Reporting on the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey
IN
THE NORTHEAST
• Michele Dillon is a professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. She
contributed a chapter on New England Catholics to Religion and Public Life
in New England: Steady Habits Changing Slowly. Contact 603-862-2925, Michele.dillon@unh.edu.
• David Machacek is an independent scholar who wrote a chapter
on newcomers – Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus – to the Pacific Northwest region
for the book Religion and Public life in the Pacific Region: Fluid
Identities. He lives in Greenwich, Conn. Contact david@davidmachacek.com.
• Stephen Prothero is a professor of religion at Boston
University in Boston. He contributed a chapter on the religious demographics of
the New England states to the book Religion and Public Life in New England:
Steady Habits Changing Slowly. He is also co-author of Asian Religions
in America: A Documentary History. Contact 617-353-4426, prothero@bu.edu.
• Daniel Terris is director of the International Center for
Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. He contributed a chapter on Jews and
African-Americans in the New England states to Religion and Public Life in
New England: Steady Habits Changing Slowly. Contact terris@brandeis.edu.
• Benjamin Valentin is director of Latino/a studies at Andover Newton Theological School in Newton
Centre, Mass. He co-chairs the AAR Latina/o Religion, Culture and Society
Group. Contact 617-964-1100 ext. 245, bvalentin@ants.edu.
IN
THE EAST
• Courtney Bender is an associate professor at Columbia University, where she specializes in
contemporary American religion. Contact 212-851-4134, cb337@columbia.edu.
• Stephen J. Ellingson is assistant professor of sociology at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., and author of The Megachurch and the Mainline: Remaking Religious Tradition in the Twenty-First Century (2007). Contact 315-859-4876, sellings@hamilton.edu.
• The Rev. Maria Erling is a Lutheran pastor and an associate professor of the history of Christianity
and global missions at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg in
Gettysburg, Pa. She contributed a chapter on mainline Protestants in New
England to Religion and Public Life in New England: Steady Habits Changing
Slowly. Contact 717-334-6286 ext. 2107, merling@ltsg.edu.
• Prema Kurien is an associate professor of sociology at
Syracuse University. She is the author of A Place at the Multicultural
Table: The Development of an American Hinduism (2007) and is researching
Indian-American Christians. Contact 315-443-1152, pkurien@maxwell.syr.edu.
• Otto Maduro teaches Latin American Christianity and world Christianity at Drew University
in Madison, N.J. He is directing a research project on U.S. Latina/o
Pentecostal churches in Newark, N.J. He also can discuss U.S. Latina/o religion.
Contact 973-408-3041, omaduro@drew.edu.
• Melani McAlister is an associate professor of American studies and international affairs at George
Washington University in Washington, D.C. She participated in a February 2008
roundtable discussion about American evangelicals and the 2008 primaries at
Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion.
She is also at work on a book about American evangelicals and global vision.
Contact 202-994-6073, mmc@gwu.edu.
• The Rev. John Anthony McGuckin is a professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He is at work on
a book titled The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Its History, Doctrine
and Spiritual Culture (2008). Contact 212-280-1391, jmcguckin@uts.columbia.edu.
• Carolyn Rouse is an associate professor of anthropology at Princeton University in Princeton,
N.J. She is an expert in African-American converts to Islam and is the author
of Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam. Contact crouse@princeton.edu.
• Jack Wertheimer is a professor of American Jewish history at New York’s Jewish Theological
Seminary, a seminary of Conservative Judaism. He is the author of A People
Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America, and he wrote an April 2005
monograph for the American Jewish Committee titled “All Quiet on the Religious
Front? Jewish Unity, Denominationalism and Postdenominationalism in the United
States.” Contact 212-678-8869, jawertheimer@jtsa.edu.
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THE SOUTHEAST
• David Bromley is in the sociology department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
He teaches a course in the world religions represented in the Richmond area. Contact 804-828-6286, dbromley@mail1.vcu.edu.
• Donald Fairbairn is a professor of historical theology at Erskine Theological Seminary in Due
West, S.C. He is the author of Eastern Orthodoxy Through Western Eyes.
Contact 864-379-8885, fairbairn@erskine.edu.
• David Hackett is an associate professor of religion at the University of Florida in
Gainesville. He is an expert on American religious history and the sociology of
religion. Contact 352-392-1625, dhackett@religion.ufl.edu.
• James Davison Hunter is a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
He is an expert on American evangelicals and religion in the culture wars.
Contact 434-924-6524, jdh6c@virginia.edu.
• Jamillah Karim is an assistant professor in the department of philosophy and religious studies
at Spelman College in Atlanta. Her expertise includes younger Muslims and immigrant
Muslims in the U.S. Contact 404-270-5524, JKarim@spelman.edu.
• Ira Sheskin is a specialist in Jewish demographics at the University of Miami, where he is
a fellow at the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies. Sheskin
was a consultant on the NJPS study. Contact 305-284-6693, isheskin@miami.edu.
• Thomas Tweed teaches religious studies at the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and has written extensively on Buddhism in
America. Contact 919-843-7773, tatweed@email.unc.edu.
• Manuel Vásquez is an associate professor in the religion department at the University of
Florida in Gainesville. He is an expert on religion among U.S. Latinos and can
discuss immigration’s effect on religion demographics. Contact 352-392-1625, mvasquez@religion.ufl.edu.
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THE SOUTH
• John Bartkowski is a professor of sociology who specializes in religion at Mississippi State
University in Starkville. Contact 662-325-8621, bartkowski@soc.msstate.edu.
• Jay Geller is an assistant professor of modern Jewish culture at Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tenn. Contact 615-353-3968, jay.geller@vanderbilt.edu.
• William Lindsey is an assistant professor of religious
studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. While a professor at Philander
Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., he co-edited Religion and Public Life in
the Southern Crossroads: Showdown States. Contact 785-864-7364, brl@ku.edu.
• Charles Lippy teaches philosophy and religion at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and
specializes in American religious history. He is the author of Being
Religious, American-Style: A History of Popular Religiosity in the United
States, and has written that American religion has often been experienced
as personal and noninstitutional. He has also written about religious
minorities in the South for the Religion and Public Life series of
books. Contact 423-425-4340, charles-lippy@utc.edu.
• Penny Long Marler is a religion sociologist at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., who has
researched and written about people who are “spiritual but not religious.” She
says that research methods have artificially forced people to choose between
being either “spiritual” or “religious.” Contact 205-726-2869, plmarler@samford.edu.
• Charles Reagan Wilson is director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi and co-editor of Religion and Public Life
in the South: In the Evangelical Mode. Contact 662-915-7148, crwilson@olemiss.edu.
IN
THE MIDWEST
• Douglas Firth Anderson teaches history at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, and contributed a
chapter on mainline and evangelical Protestants and Mormons living in the
Pacific region of the U.S. for Religion and Public Life in the Pacific
Region: Fluid Identities (2005). Contact 712-707-7054, firth@nwciowa.edu.
• Kevin J. Christiano is an associate professor of sociology who specializes in religion at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. He is the author of Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments and has written and taught extensively on the sociology of religion. Contact 574-631-7371, Kevin.J.Christiano.1@nd.edu.
• Edward E. Curtis IV is an associate professor of religious
studies and American studies at Indiana University-Purdue University in
Indianapolis. He is editor of the Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the
United States (2008) and is also an expert on African-American Muslims. Contact
317-278-1683, ecurtis4@iupui.edu.
• Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández is assistant professor of pastoral ministry and director of field education at
Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. She co-chairs the American Academy of
Religion’s Latina/o Religion, Culture and Society Group. Contact 773-371-5533, cnanko@ctu.edu.
• Anantanand Rambachan is a professor of religion at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. His areas
of expertise include modern Hinduism and Hindus in the diaspora. Contact
507-646-3081, rambacha@stolaf.edu.
• The Rev. Gary Riebe-Estrella is an associate professor of practical theology and Hispanic ministry at
Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He can discuss education and placement
of clergy, congregational issues, U.S. Latino Catholics and Mexican popular
religion. He co-edited Horizons of the Sacred: Mexican Traditions in U.S.
Catholicism. Contact 773-753-5306, griebe@ctu.edu.
• Darren Sherkat is a sociologist at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale who has studied
survey data for trends about religiously unaffiliated people. Contact 618-453-7614, sherkat@siu.edu.
• Christian Smith is a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Ind.
He is the director and principal investigator of the National Study of Youth
and Religion,
a study of the religious and spiritual practices of American youth. Contact
574-631-4531, chris.smith@nd.edu.
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THE SOUTHWEST
• Christopher Bader is an assistant professor of sociology at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He
specializes in the sociology of religion and criminology. He is a consultant
with the Association of Religion Data Archives and has also consulted with the
Religious Congregations & Membership study of 2000. Contact 254-710-6238, Christopher_bader@baylor.edu.
• The Rev. Paul Barton teaches Hispanic church studies at Episcopal Theological Seminary of the
Southwest in Austin, Texas. His expertise includes U.S. Hispanic Christianity,
especially U.S. Hispanic Protestantism. His books include Hispanic
Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists in Texas (2006). Contact
512-439-0338, pbarton@etss.edu.
• Frederick M. Denny is professor emeritus of religious studies at the University of Colorado at
Boulder. His expertise is in Islam in the contemporary world, including demographics
of Muslim communities in North America. Contact 303-530-4066, frederick.denny@colorado.edu.
• Michael Emerson is a professor of sociology at Rice University in Houston and is at work on a
book titled The Changing Face of American Evangelicalism. Contact 713-348-4448, moe@rice.edu.
• Ferenc Szasz is an associate professor of history at the University of New Mexico and author
of Religion in the Modern American West. Contact 505-277-5344, fszasz@unm.edu.
• D. Michael Lindsay is a sociologist at Rice University in Houston and author of Faith in the
Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite (2007). Contact
713-348-5511, mlindsay@rice.edu.
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THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• The Rev. Allan Figueroa Deck, a Jesuit priest, is president and executive director of the Loyola Institute
for Spirituality in Orange, Calif. He can discuss Hispanic ministry issues and religion, culture
and spirituality. Contact 714-997-9587, afdecksj@loyolainstitute.org.
• Michael Hout is a sociology professor at the University of California-Berkeley and co-author of Century of Difference: How America Changed Over the Last One Hundred Years (2006), about social, religious and political trends. Contact 510-643-6874, mikehout@berkeley.edu.
• Patricia O’Connell Killen teaches American religious history
at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash. She is the co-editor of Religion
and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone. She is an expert
on people in that region who claim no religious affiliation. Contact
253-535-7776, killenpo@plu.edu.
• Bill McKinney is president of the Pacific School of Religion at the Graduate Theological Union
in Berkeley, Calif. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and
a religion sociologist who is an expert on American Protestantism. Contact 510-849-8223, wmckinney@psr.edu.
• Norris W. Palmer is an associate professor of religious
studies at St. Mary’s College of California in Moraga. He contributed an article in 2006 to Nova Religio on how Hindus use their temples to negotiate their identity in America. Contact
925-631-4799, rpalmer@stmarys-ca.edu.
• Mark Shibley is a sociologist at Southern Oregon University
in Ashland, Ore. He has studied spirituality in the Pacific Northwest,
historically the region with the greatest number of religiously unaffiliated
people in the United States, and contributed a chapter on the subject to Religion
and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone. Contact
541-552-6761, shibleym@sou.edu.
• Dale Soden is a history professor at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash. He contributed
a chapter on mainline Protestants, Catholics and Jews in the Pacific Northwest
to Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone.
Contact 509-777-4433, dsoden@whitworth.edu.
• Ron Wolfson is president of Synagogue 3000, a group that works to revitalize Jewish
congregations, and a professor of education at American Jewish University in
Los Angeles. Contact 310-553-7930, ron@synagogue3000.org.
• Phil Zuckerman is associate professor of sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif. He specializes in the sociology of religion and his expertise includes atheism. Contact 909-607-4495, phil_zuckerman@pitzer.edu.
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