Nancy T. Ammerman

Professor, Sociology of Religion

Dr. Nancy Ammerman has spent more than a decade studying American religious organizations and the people who participate in them. Her 2005 book, Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners (University of California Press), describes the common organizational patterns that shape the work of America’s diverse communities of faith. She has also written extensively on conservative religious movements, including Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World, a study of an independent Baptist church in New England, and Baptist Battle: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention. Currently, with funding from the Templeton Foundation, she is exploring “Spiritual Narratives in Everyday Life,” a research project that will analyze how and when religion is present in the everyday worlds of ordinary Americans. Dr. Ammerman earned a PhD from Yale University and is currently professor of sociology of religion, with appointments in the School of Theology and the Department of Sociology, where she serves as the department’s chair ad interim.