Nancy Ammerman

Nancy T. Ammerman is professor emerita of sociology of religion in the Sociology Department of the College of Arts and Sciences and in the School of Theology at Boston University. She is a leading voice in congregational studies and has served as president of the Society of the Scientific Study of Religion and the Association of the Sociology of Religion. Her books include Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2013), Everyday Religion:...See more

Nancy T. Ammerman is professor emerita of sociology of religion in the Sociology Department of the College of Arts and Sciences and in the School of Theology at Boston University. She is a leading voice in congregational studies and has served as president of the Society of the Scientific Study of Religion and the Association of the Sociology of Religion. Her books include Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2013), Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives (Oxford University Press, 2006), Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and their Partners (University of California Press, 2005), and Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World (Rutgers University Press, 1987). See less