JOHN A. SCHMALZBAUER
Department of Religious
Studies
Missouri State University
901 S. National Avenue
Springfield, Missouri 65897
EDUCATION
Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey.
Ph.D., Sociology, 1997.
Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey, M.A.
(with distinction),
Sociology 1992.
Wheaton College, Wheaton,
Illinois, B.A. (cum
laude), Political
Science, 1990.
POSITIONS
Professor and
Blanche Gorman Strong Chair
in Protestant Studies,
Department of Religious
Studies, Missouri State
University
Assistant Professor and
Edward Bennett Williams
Fellow in Catholic Studies,
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, College of the
Holy Cross, 1998-2004.
Post-Doctoral Research
Associate, Project on the
Teaching and Practice of
Religion in American
Colleges and Universities,
Center for the Study of
Religion and American
Culture, Indiana
University/Purdue
University-Indianapolis,
1996-1998.
BOOKS
The Resilience of Religion
in American Higher Education
(with Kathleen A.
Mahoney). Waco, TX:
Baylor University Press,
2018.
People of Faith: Religious
Conviction in American
Journalism and Higher
Education.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 2003.
Single author for this
study.
Conrad Cherry, Betty DeBerg,
and Amanda Porterfield, with
the assistance of William
Durbin and John
Schmalzbauer.
Religion on Campus.
Chapel Hill, NC: University
of North Carolina Press,
2001.
Post-doctoral
research associate for this
study, not a co-author.
JOURNAL ARTICLES/BOOK
CHAPTERS
"Consumerism
and Commercialism." In
The Oxford Handbook of
Christmas, edited by Timothy Larsen. New York: Oxford
University Press,
2020,
549-559.
"Campus
Ministry." In
The
Oxford Handbook of Religion
and American Education, edited by Michael D. Waggoner and Nathan C. Walker. New York: Oxford
University Press,
2018,
453-465.
"Answering Dystopia in the
Baptist South."
Perspectives in Religious
Studies 42(1): 115-122
(2016).
"Marsden and
Secularization." In
American Evangelicalism:
George Marsden and the State
of American Religious
History, edited by
Kurt W. Peterson, Thomas S.
Kidd, and Darren Dochuk.
Notre Dame, IN: University
of Notre Dame Press, 2014,
283-311.
"Whose
Social Justice? Which
Evangelicalism? Social
Engagement in a Campus
Ministry." In
The New Evangelical Social
Engagement, edited
by Brian Steensland and
Philip Goff. New York, NY:
Oxford University Press,
2013, 50-72.
"The
Blessings of an Uneasy
Conscience: Creative
Tensions in Evangelical
Intellectual Life."
In
Christ Across the
Disciplines: Past, Present,
Future, edited by
Roger Lundin.
Grand Rapids, MI:
Eerdmans, 2013, 35-73.
"Campus
Religious Life in America:
Revitalization and Renewal."
Society 50(2): 115-131
(2013).
Symposium: The Changing
Shape of Higher Education
Since the 1960s.
"Religion
and Knowledge in the
Post-Secular Academy"
(with Kathleen A. Mahoney).
In
The Post-Secular in
Question: Religion in
Contemporary Society,
edited by Philip Gorski,
David Kyuman Kim, John
Torpey and Jonathan
VanAntwerpen. New York: New
York University Press, 2012,
215-248.
"Why No Christian Sociology?
The Hidden History of an
Interdisciplinary
Conversation." In
Beyond Integration:
Inter/Disciplinary
Possibilities for the Future
of Christian Higher
Education,
edited by Todd Ream
and Jerry Pattengale.
Abilene, Texas: ACU Press,
2012, 63-84.
"Popular
Culture." In
The Blackwell Companion to
Religion in America,
edited by Philip Goff.
Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell,
2010, 254-275.
"Social
Engagement in an Evangelical
Campus Ministry: The Case of
Urbana 2006."
Journal of College and
Character
11(1): 1-11 (2010).
"Sociological Approaches."
In
Encyclopedia of Religion in
America, edited by
Charles H. Lippy and Peter
W. Williams, Washington, DC:
CQPress, 2010, 2109-2117.
"American
Scholars Return to Studying
Religion" (with Kathleen
A. Mahoney). Contexts,
Winter 2008,
16-21.
"Commentary: Catholic
Sacramentalism as Media
Event: A View from the
Sociology of Religion and
the Sociology of Media." In
Practicing Catholic: Ritual,
Body, and Contestation in
Catholic Faith,
edited by Bruce Morrill,
S.J., Susan Rodgers, and
Joanna E. Ziegler. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006,
223-226.
"Searching
for Protestantism in the
Encyclopedia of
Protestantism."
Religion 35(4): 247-265
(2005).
"Journalism
and the Religious
Imagination." In
Quoting God: How Media Shape Ideas
about Religion and Culture,
edited by Claire H.
Badaracco. Waco: Baylor
University Press, 2005,
21-36.
"Reading
Herberg from Wheaton:
Protestant-Catholic-Jew
and American Evangelicalism."
U.S. Catholic Historian
23(1): 25-39 (2005).
"Between
Objectivity and Moral
Vision: Catholics and
Evangelicals in American
Journalism." In
Practicing Religion in the
Age of the Media:
Explorations in Media,
Religion and Culture,
edited by Stewart Hoover and
Lynn Schofield Clark. New
York: Columbia University
Press, 2002, 165-187.
"Telling
Catholic and Evangelical
Stories in American
Journalism: The Impact of
the Religious Imagination."
U.S. Catholic Historian
20(2): 25-44 (2002).
"Involvement and Detachment
Among French and American
Journalists" (with Cyril
Lemieux). In
Rethinking Comparative
Cultural Sociology:
Repertoires of Evaluation in
France and the United
States,
edited by Michele Lamont and
Laurent Thevenot. New York
and Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000,
148-169. Published jointly
by the Editions de la Maison
des Sciences de l'Homme
(Paris).
Chinese translation
Zhong Hua Book Company.
"Between
Professional and Religious
Worlds: Catholics and
Evangelicals in American
Journalism."
Sociology of Religion
60(4): 363-386 (1999).
"Between
Fundamentalism and
Secularization: Secularizing
and Sacralizing
Currents in the
Evangelical Debate on Campus
Lifestyle Codes" (with
Gray Wheeler).
Sociology of Religion
57(3): 241-257 (1996).
"Cultural
and Moral Boundaries in the
United States: Structural
Position, Geographic
Location, and Lifestyle
Explanations" (with
Michele Lamont, Daniel
Weber, and Maureen Waller).
Poetics 24: 31-56
(1996).
"Evangelicals
in the New Class: Class
Versus Subcultural
Predictors of Ideology."
Journal for the Scientific
Study of Religion
32(4): 330-42
(1993).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
"A
Modern 'Old-Time Religion'"
(review essay on Timothy
Gloege's Guaranteed Pure).
Books and Culture,
September/October 2015.
"An
Evangelical (Millennial) on
the Canterbury Trail"
(review essay on Rachel Held
Evans' Searching for
Sunday). Religion
Dispatches, 7 April 2015.
"Who's
in Charge Here? American
Evangelicalism's 'Crisis of
Authority'"
(review
essay on Molly Worthen's Apostles of Reason). Books and Culture,
January/February 2014.
"Fifty
Years of Non-Sectarian Study
of Religion."
Proceedings:
Third Biennial
Conference on Religion and
American Culture, Center for
the Study of Religion and
American Culture, Indiana
University-Purdue University
at Indianapolis, June 2013,
10-12.
"A
Review: The Look of
Catholics: Portrayals in
Popular Culture from the
Great Depression to the Cold
War"
(review essay).
American Catholic
Studies Newsletter, Spring
2012, 16-18.
"The
Grand Rapids Intellectuals"
(review essay on The Best of
The Reformed Journal).
Comment,
28 March 2012.
"The
Marginalization of
Evangelical Scholarship
(Among Evangelicals)"
(review essay on Randall J.
Stephens' and Karl W.
Giberson's
The Anointed).
Comment, 14
December 2011.
"Route
66 Evangelicals"
(review essay on
From Bible Belt to
Sunbelt).
Evangelical Studies
Bulletin, Summer
2011, 1-5.
"Worshipping
the Values of Journalism"
(review essay on
God and the Editor).
Nieman Reports,
63(2): 80-81 (2009).
"Big
Shots, Born Again: A Look at
the Evangelical Power Elite."
Wall Street Journal,
18 October 2007, D7.
"Searching
for Protestantism in the
Post-Protestant University."
Bulletin of the Council
of Societies for the Study
of Religion 36(1):
23-28 (2007).
"Campus
Ministry: A Statistical
Portrait." Essay Forum
on "The
Religious Engagements of
American Undergraduates."
New York: Social Science
Research Council, 6 February
2007.
"Harvard
Loses Its Edge."
Wall Street Journal,
15 December 2006, W17.
"Against
the Manichaeans" (review
essay of Philip Jenkins's
Decade of Nightmares).
Books and Culture.
March/April 2006, 9.
"Without Jack Chick or
Andrew Greeley: The New
American Religious
Revolution has Begun"
(review essay on William
Shea's
The Lion and the Lamb).
Evangelical Studies
Bulletin, Spring
2004, 5-8.
"Hatfield, Mark Odum."
Biographical Dictionary
of Evangelicals,
ed. Timothy
Larsen (Leicester,
England: Inter-Varsity
Press, 2003).
"Church
as Civics 101" (review
essay of James Guth, John C.
Green, Corwin E. Smidt,
Lyman A. Kellstedt and
Margaret M. Poloma's The
Bully Pulpit).
Books and Culture,
May/June 2003, 40-42.
"Keeping
Faith: A Religious Profile
of Holy Cross Students"
(with Royce Singleton).
Holy Cross Magazine,
Winter 2003, 22-27.
"Rediscovering
My Catholic Family."
Conversations on Jesuit
Higher Education,
Fall 2002, 40-43.
"Religion:
A Comeback on Campus"
(with Kathleen A. Mahoney and
James Youniss).
Liberal Education
(magazine of the Association
of American Colleges and
Universities), Fal1 2001,
36-41.
"The
Religion Beat in American
Journalism."
Religious Studies News
12(2): 18 (1997).
REPORTS AND WORKING
PAPERS
The Evolving Role of the
College and University
Chaplaincy: Findings from a
National Study,
Commissioned by the Council
of Independent Colleges and
NetVUE with support from
Lilly Endowment, 2014.
Betty DeBerg, with John
Schmalzbauer and Sarah
Ehlinger. National Study
of Campus Ministries: A
Report to Lilly Endowment,
Inc.,
2008.
Unpublished 145 page report.
"Religion
and Knowledge in the
Post-Secular Academy"
(with Kathleen A. Mahoney),
SSRC Working Papers, Social Science
Research Council, New York,
New York, 2007.
Revitalizing Religion in the
Academy: Summary of the
Evaluation of
Lilly Endowment's
Initiative on Religion and
Higher Education
(with Kathleen A. Mahoney
and James Youniss), 2000.
Revitalizing Religion in the
Academy: An Evaluation of
Lilly Endowment's Initiative
on Religion and Higher
Education
(with Kathleen A. Mahoney
and James Youniss), 2000.
Unpublished 172 page
report.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Religion
in
the University."
Journal
of Church and State
62(3):
548-550 (2020).
"Gay
on God's Campus."
American Religions 1(2):
148-150 (2020).
"Religion
vs. Science: What Religious
People Really Think."
Journal for the Scientific
Study of Religion
57(3): 647-648 (2018).
"Paranoid Science: The
Christian Right's War on
Reality." Critical
Research on Religion
6(2):
214-218 (2018).
"Union Made: Working People
and the Rise of Social
Christianity." Sociology
of Religion
78(3): 365-367 (2017).
"New Monasticism and the
Transformation of American
Evangelicalism." Journal
of the American Academy of
Religion 84(3): 861-864
(2016).
"A Culture of Faith:
Evangelical Congregations in
Canada." Canadian
Journal of
Pentecostal-Charismatic
Christianity 7(1):
117-119 (2016).
"Red State Religion."
Journal of Religion
93(3): 391-393 (2013).
"Religious Ideas for Secular
Universities."
Theological Studies
72(2): 460-61 (2011).
"To Change the World: The
Irony, Tragedy, &
Possibility of Christianity
in the Late Modern."
Christian Scholar's Review
40(2): 217-220 (2011).
"What Americans Really
Believe: New Findings from
the Baylor Surveys of
Religion." Journal of
Religion 91(3): 435-36
(2011).
"Korean American
Evangelicals: New Models for
Civic Life." Social
Forces 88(2): 980-982
(2009).
"Evangelicals and the
Continental Divide: The
Conservative Protestant
Subculture in Canada and the
United States." Journal
of Religion 87(1):
106-08 (2007).
"Scholarship and Christian
Faith: Enlarging the
Conversation." Journal
for the Scientific Study of
Religion 45(3): 472-73
(2006).
"Protestantism and the
American Founding."
Religious Studies Review
32(2): 135 (2006).
"Making the American
Religious Fringe:
Exotics, Subversives, and
Journalists, 1955-1993."
Journal of American History
92(1): 309 (2005).
"Charitable Choices:
Religion, Race, and Poverty
in the Post Welfare Era."
Contemporary Sociology
33(4): 459-460 (2003).
"The Return of the
Primitive: A New
Sociological Theory of
Religion."
Theological Studies
64(4): 897 (2003).
"The Church on the World's
Turf: An Evangelical
Christian Group at a Secular
University."
Theological Studies
64(1): 189-190 (2002).
"American Evangelicalism:
Embattled and Thriving."
Sociology of Religion
60(3): 336-337 (1999).
"Cultural Wars in American
Politics."
Social Forces 77(3):
1216-1218 (1999).
"War Stories: The Culture of
Foreign Correspondents."
Contemporary Sociology
26(1): 97-98 (1997).
"Modern Christian Revivals."
Journal for the Scientific
Study
of Religion 33(4): 392
(1994).
GRANTS, CONTRACTS, AND
AWARDS
Principal Investigator,
Landscape Study of
Chaplaincy and Campus
Ministry in the United
States, Lilly Endowment Inc. ($981,129),
2019-2022.
Principal Investigator,
Planning Grant for Landscape Study
of Campus Ministry in the
United States, Lilly
Endowment Inc. ($49,999), 2019.
Outstanding Thesis Advisor,
24th Annual Graduate
Interdisciplinary Forum,
Missouri State University,
2017.
"Teaching Religious Studies
to Undergraduate Students in
Health-Related Fields,"
Wabash Center for Teaching
and Learning in Theology and
Religion ($30,000). Assisted
project director Stephen
Berkwitz, 2016.
Subcontract on University of
Northern Iowa Lilly
Endowment Grant ($6,781).
Co-investigator with Betty
DeBerg, National Study of
Campus Ministries, 2007.
Sponsored Projects Special
Recognition Award, Missouri
State University, 2007.
Ozarks Studies Mini-Grant,
Religion in the Ozarks
lecture series, Missouri
State University (with Kathy
Pulley). 2007.
Subcontract on University of
Northern Iowa Lilly
Endowment Grant ($116,007).
Co-investigator with
Betty DeBerg, National Study
of Campus Ministries. Total
amount of University of
Northern Iowa Grant:
$687,189, 2004-2007.
Member, Young Scholars in
American Religion, Center
for the Study of Religion
and American Culture,
Indiana University-Purdue
University-Indianapolis,
2004-2005.
Subcontract on Boston
College Lilly Endowment
Evaluation Grant (with
Kathleen A. Mahoney), Phase
II ($15,299), 2000-2002.
Subcontract on Boston
College Lilly Endowment
Evaluation Grant ($57,529).
Co-Evaluator with Kathleen
A. Mahoney and James Youniss
of $15.6 million Lilly
Religion and Higher
Education Initiative. Total
amount of Boston College
Lilly Evaluation Grant:
$332,572, 1999-2000.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship:
Center for the Study of
Religion and American
Culture, Project on the
Teaching and Practice of
Religion in American
Colleges and Universities.
Honorable Mention, Thompson
Paper Award; American
Sociological Association
section on Organizations,
Occupations, and Work, 1996.
Collaborator on
"Princeton-Paris Project on
Evaluative Models." directed
by Michele Lamont (Princeton
University) and Laurent
Thevenot (Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales).
Funded by the
National Science Foundation
and the Centre National de
Recherche Scientifique,
1994-1996.
Dissertation Fellow,
Louisville Institute (Lilly
Endowment), 1994-1995.
Graduate Fellow, Center for
the Study of American
Religion, Princeton
University, 1991-1994.
University Fellow,
Sociology, Princeton
University, 1990-1994.
First Prize, North Central
Sociological Association,
Student Paper Competition,
1989-1990.
First Prize, Midwest
Sociological Society,
Student Paper Competition,
1989-1990.
First Prize, Illinois
Sociological Association,
Student Paper Competition,
1989-1990.
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
"The Resilience of Religion
in American Higher
Education," New York
University Seminar on
Religion at the American
University—A History,
online. (December 1, 2020).
"The Resilience of Religion
in American Higher
Education" (with co-author
Kathleen Mahoney),"
Institute for Advanced Study
and Religious Studies
Program at the University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Minnesota (Zoom). (November
6, 2020).
"The Resilience of Religion
in American Higher
Education" (with co-author
Kathleen Mahoney),
Executives in Church-Related
Higher Education, Zoom. (May
5, 2020).
"Innovation in Perilous
Times" (co-presented with
Tiffany Steinwert, Stanford
University and Shelly Rambo,
Boston University), National
Association of College and
University Chaplains,
Hartford, CT. (February 12,
2020).
"The Spiritual and Religious
Lives of American College
Students," Spring Hill
College, Mobile, Alabama.
(February 5, 2020).
Discussant, Session on
"Qualitative Study of
Catholic Campus Ministry
Study: Key Findings,"
Society for the Scientific
Study of Religion annual
meeting, St. Louis, Missouri
(October 2019).
"Our
Students: Their Spiritual
and Religious Lives,"
Plenary Address, Lilly
Fellows Program Twentieth
Annual Workshop for Senior
Administrators, Waco, Texas
(October 2019).
"Mapping
Chaplaincy in Higher
Education: Using Data to
Tell Your Story" with Shelly
Rambo, Tiffany Steinwert and
Wendy Cadge. Association for
College and University
Religious Affairs and
National Association of
College and University
Chaplains joint meeting
(February 2019).
"Campus
Prophets, Spiritual Guides,
or Interfaith Traffic
Directors? The Many Lives of
College and University
Chaplains," Luce Lectures on
the Changing Role of
Chaplains in American Higher
Education, New York
University (November 2018).
"Comments on Sam Perry's
God's Family: The Global
Orphan Care Movement and the
Limits of Evangelical
Activism," Society for the
Scientific Study of
Religion, Las Vegas, Nevada.
(October 26, 2018).
"Where
the Millennials Do Their
Seeking: Undergraduate
Spirituality in American
Catholic Colleges and
Universities," Chief
Academic Officers
Conference, Association of
Catholic Colleges and
Universities, Washington, DC
(February 2018).
"Exploring the Ozarks:
Mapping Religious Diversity
in the Buckle of the Bible
Belt," Paine Lecture,
University of Missouri,
Columbia, Missouri (October
2017)
"Comments on Elaine Howard
Ecklund and Christopher
Scheitle's
Religion vs. Science,"
Association for the
Sociology of Religion,
Annual Meeting, Montreal,
Canada (August 2017)
"Religio-cultural and
Ecclesial Contexts," Panel
discussion, Collegium: Pause
at 25 Conference, St. Paul,
Minnesota (June 2017)
"Comments on Heath Carter's
Union Made" (delivered
in absentia), Association
for the Sociology of
Religion, Annual Meeting,
Seattle, Washington (August
2016).
"The Unsecular Campus: The Diversification of
Student Religious Life in
America," Paine Lecture,
University of Missouri,
Columbia, Missouri (March 2016).
"The Evolving Role of the
College and University
Chaplaincy: Findings from a
National Study," NetVUE
Chaplaincy Conference,
Council of Independent
Colleges, Atlanta, Georgia
(September 2014).
"Answering Dystopia in the
Baptist South," Young
Scholars in the Baptist
Academy, Regent's Park
College, Oxford (July 2014).
"Taking Stock of the Role of
Digital Media in Religious
Intellectual Life,"
Religion, Digital Media, and
Possible Futures, Social
Science Research Council,
Brooklyn, New York (June 2014).
"The Evolving Role of the
College and University
Chaplaincy: Findings from a
National Study," NetVUE
Chaplaincy Conference,
Council of Independent
Colleges, Chicago, Illinois (March
2014).
"Campus Ministry in America:
The State of the
Profession," Faith on
Campus: A Conference on the
Religious and Moral Lives of
American Undergraduates,
Calvin College, Grand
Rapids, Michigan (June 2013).
Panel on "Fifty Years of
Non-Sectarian Study of
Religion: Goals,
Limitations, Expectations,"
3rd Biennial Conference on
Religion and American
Culture, Center for the
Study of Religion and
American Culture, Indiana
University-Purdue
University, Indianapolis
(June 2013).
"Campus Religious Life in
America: Revitalization and
Renewal," Danforth
Colloquium on Religion,
Politics, and Culture,
Danforth Center on Religion
and Politics, Washington
University in St. Louis (Februrary
2013).
"Campus Religious Life in
America: Many Places and
Spaces," Seminar on Sacred
Space in a Secular Nation of
Believers, Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced
Study, Harvard University.
(October 2012).
"Campus Religious Life in
America: Revitalization and
Renewal," Conference on
Changes in Higher Education
Since the 1960s,
Society and the
Manhattan Institute for
Policy Research, University
Club, New York City.
(October 2012).
"Whose Social Justice? Which
Evangelicalism? Social
Engagement in a Campus
Ministry," Indiana
University/Purdue
University-Indianapolis,
Center for the Study of
Religion and American
Culture, Conference on the
New Evangelical Social
Engagement (May 2012).
"Campus Religious Life in
America: Past and Present,"
Virginia Wesleyan
University, Center for the
Study of Religious Freedom,
Religion on Campus: A
Semester-Long Conversation
(April 2012).
Books in Public Scholarship
Workshop for The Return
of Religion in American
Higher Education (book
manuscript), Religion and
Public Life Program, Rice
University, Houston, Texas (November 2011).
"A Forum with Houston
Religious Leaders," Rice
University Religion and
Public Life Program,
Pleasant Hill Baptist
Church, Houston, Texas.
(November 2011).
"Visit to Introduction to
Religion (Rice University),"
Rice University Religion and
Public Life Program, Rice
University, Houston, Texas. (November 2011).
"The Blessings of an Uneasy
Conscience: Creative
Tensions in Evangelical
Intellectual Life," Wheaton
College 150th Anniversary
Lecture Series, Wheaton,
Illinois (November 2010).
"Balancing Competing
Obligations" (Panel on This
Academic Life), Society for
the Scientific Study of
Religion, Annual Meeting
(October 2010).
"Christianity in the
Post-Secular University,
Conference on American
Religion in a Post-Secular
Society," Sponsored by the
Institute for the Study of
Christianity and Culture and
Michigan State University,
Lansing, Michigan (October
2009).
"Crossing Over to the
Promised Land in Popular
Culture," Michigan State
University Religion and U.S.
Culture Colloquium (October
2009).
"Media Memorialization of
9/11 and American
Catholicism," Duke
University Seminar on
America's Gods (August
2009).
"Religion and Knowledge in
the Post-Secular Academy,"
Exploring the Post-Secular
Conference, Yale
University/Social Science
Research Council (April
2009).
"Comments on Elaine Howard
Ecklund's Waging Peace
on the Science and
Religion Battleground,"
Center on Race, Religion,
and Urban Life, Rice
University (February 2009).
"The Campus Minister Today:
The State of the Profession"
(with Betty DeBerg), Society
for the Scientific Study of
Religion, Annual Meeting,
Louisville, Kentucky
(October 2008).
"Crossing Over to the
Promise Land in American
Popular Culture," Christian
Scholars
Conference, Lipscomb
University, Nashville,
Tennessee (June 2008).
"Reinventing Ozarks Studies
at Missouri State
University," Appalachian
Studies Association, Annual
Meeting (March 2008).
Panelist, A Contexts
Town Hall Meeting. Midwest
Sociological Society, Annual
Meeting (March 2008).
Organizer and Presider,
Panel on "Christianity,
Politics, and the Press in
the Recent United States."
American Society of Church
History, Winter Meeting,
Washington, D.C. (January
2008).
Panelist, Evening Public
Program, Conference on "The
Opening of the Evangelical
Mind." Institute on Culture,
Religion, and World Affairs,
Boston University (December
2007).
Presenter, "Evangelical
Intellectuals in Sociology"
Panel, Conference on "The
Opening of the Evangelical
Mind." Institute on Culture,
Religion, and World Affairs,
Boston University (December
2007).
Presenter, Author Meets
Critics Session on Michael
Lindsay's Faith in the
Halls of Power.
Society for the Scientific
Study of Religion,
Annual Meeting, Tampa,
Florida (November 2007).
Convener, Session on
Religion and Higher
Education. Society for the
Scientific Study of
Religion, Annual
Meeting Tampa, Florida
(November 2007).
Author Meets Critics Session
on Elaine Howard Ecklund's
Korean American
Evangelicals: New Models for
Civic Life. Association
for the Sociology of
Religion, Annual Meeting,
New York, NY (August 2007).
"The Campus Religious
Marketplace in Contemporary
America," Association for
the Sociology of Religion,
Annual Meeting, New York, NY
(August 2007).
"The Return of Religion to
American Higher Education,"
Christian Scholars
Conference, Rochester
College, Rochester
Hills, Michigan (June 2007).
"Religion and Knowledge in
the Post-Secular Academy"
(with Kathleen A. Mahoney),
Working Paper circulated
prior to "Are We Living in a
Post-Secular World? A
Working Meeting on Social
Science and the 'Return of
Religion.'" Social Science
Research Council, New York,
New York (June 2007).
Presider and Organizer,
Session on Religion and
Popular Culture in the
Ozarks. Midwest American
Academy of Religion, Annual
Meeting, Forest Park,
Illinois (March 2007).
"The Post-Secular Academy:
The Return of Religion
Across the Disciplines,"
Public lecture
presented to the Social
Science and Religion
Network, Boston University,
Boston, Massachusetts (March
2007).
"The Return of Religion in
American Higher Education,"
Public lecture, Center for
Religion, Ethics, and
Culture, College of the
Holy Cross, Worcester,
Massachusetts (March 2007).
"Chaplains and Their
Professional Lives: Survey
Results," Presentation to
the Final Conference of the
Programs for
the Theological
Exploration of Vocation
(with Betty DeBerg and Sarah
Ehlinger), Indianapolis,
Indiana (February 2007).
"The Religious Imagination
in American Journalism and
Popular Culture," Plenary
Speaker, Journalism Through
the Eyes of Faith
Conference, Bethel
University, St. Paul,
Minnesota (September 2006).
"Explaining the Resurgence
of Religion on Campus: A
Social Movements Approach,"
Society for the Scientific
Study of Religion, Annual
Meeting, Rochester, New York
(November 2005).
Convener, Session on
Religion and Education.
Society for the Scientific
Study of Religion, Annual
Meeting, Rochester,
New York (November 2005).
"Religion and Knowledge in
the Post-Secular
University," Association for
the Sociology of Religion,
Annual Meeting, Philadelphia
(August 2005).
Response to Herman De Dijn,
"Cultural Identity,
Religion, Moral Pluralism,
and the Law," Institute of
Philosophy, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven.
The Empty Throne, The
Empty Church?
Fourth Catholic
Intellectual Exchange
Program.
June.
"Religious Vitality in
Post-Protestant Colleges and
Universities," American
Society of Church History,
Annual Meeting, Louisville,
(May 2003).
Respondent, "Author Meets
Critics" session for
People of Faith: Religious
Conviction in American
Journalism and Higher
Education, Society for
the Scientific Study of
Religion, Annual Meeting,
Salt Lake City (November
2002).
Discussant, "Practicing
Catholic: Ritual, Body, and
Contestation in Catholic
Faith" Conference, Holy
Cross College (October
2002).
Panelist, Collegium Panel,
Institute for Administrators
in Catholic Higher
Education.
Boston College, (July
2002).
Convener/Presider/Organizer,
Regular Session on Religion,
American Sociological
Association Annual Meeting,
Anaheim, California (August
2001).
"From Ghetto to Mainstream:
Catholics and Evangelicals
in the 'Knowledge
Professions,'" Presented at
the Boisi Center for
Religion and American Public
Life, Boston College (May
2001).
"Revitalizing Religion in
the Academy: A Report from a
Study on Religion and Higher
Education" (with Kathleen
A. Mahoney and James Youniss).
Presented at the Life Cycle
Institute Brown Bag,
Catholic University of
America (January 2001).
"Telling Catholic and
Evangelical Stories in
American Journalism: The
Impact of the Religious
Imagination," Paper
presented at the American
Catholic Historical
Association/American Society
of Church History meetings,
Boston, MA (January 2001).
"Catholics and Evangelicals
in the Knowledge
Professions: From the
Margins to
Mainstream," Paper
presented at the Association
for the Sociology of
Religion meetings,
Washington, D.C. (August
2000).
"The Campus as Sacred Space:
Interpreting the Material
Culture of American
Higher Education,"
Presented at the Religion on
Campus Conference, Indiana
University/Purdue
University-Indianapolis
(April 2000).
"God and the Newsroom:
Catholics and Evangelicals
in American Journalism,"
Invited lecture, Baylor
University Department of
Journalism (March 2000).
"Catholics and Evangelicals
in the Academy," Invited
lecture, Baylor University
Department of
Sociology/Anthropology
(March 2000).
"Making Room for Religion in
a Culture of Disbelief:
Catholic and Evangelical
Academics as Public
Intellectuals," Presented at
the Society for the
Scientific Study of Religion
meetings, Boston, MA
(November 1999).
"Bach, Rock, and the Rock of
Ages," Presented at the
Association for the
Sociology of Religion
meetings, Chicago (August
1999).
Presider for "Religion,
Health, and Aging" session.
Society for the Scientific
Study of Religion meetings,
Montreal, Quebec (November
1998).
"Telling Catholic and
Evangelical Stories in
American Journalism: The
Intersection of Religious
and Professional
Narratives," Presented at
the American Sociological
Association meetings,
Toronto, Ontario (August
1997).
"Sociology as a Religious
Vocation: Catholics and
Evangelicals in the Social
Sciences," Presented at the
Association for the
Sociology of Religion
meetings, Toronto, Ontario
(August 1997).
Discussant for "Negotiating
Faith Within Pluralistic
Modernity" session.
Association for the
Sociology of Religion
meetings, Toronto, Ontario
(August 1997).
"Between Objectivity and
Moral Vision: How
Evangelical and Catholic
Journalists Manage the
Boundary Between
Professional and Religious
Worlds,"
Presented at
Conference on Religion,
Media, and Culture,
University of
Colorado at Boulder
(January 1996).
"Between Fundamentalism and
Secularization: The
Reshaping of Evangelical
Lifestyle Codes" (with Gray
Wheeler). Presented at the
American Sociological
Association meetings,
Los Angeles, CA (August
1994).
"Problems of Involvement and
Detachment Among French and
American
Journalists" (with
Cyril Lemieux). Presented at
the International Conference
of Europeanists, Chicago, IL
(April 1994).
"Secularization Theory
Versus
the New Sociology of
Religion Paradigm: The Case
of Evangelical College
Campus Rules" (with Gray
Wheeler).
Presented in absentia
at the American Sociological
Association meetings, Miami,
FL (August 1993).
"Evangelicals in the New
Class," Paper presented at
Society for the Scientific
Study of Religion meetings,
Pittsburgh, PA (November
1991)
"The Sociological Function
of the Eucharist:
Lutheranism and the
Anabaptist
Movement," Paper
presented at Association for
the Sociology of Religion
meetings, Washington,
D.C. (August 1990).
COURSES TAUGHT
Religion, Spirituality, and
Health (Missouri State
University)
North American Religions
(Missouri State University)
Congregations on the Ground:
Exploring Local Religious
Worlds (Missouri State
University)
Ozarks
Religion (Missouri State
University)
Religion in Society
(Missouri State University)
Religion in America
(Missouri State University)
Bible Belt Religion:
Conservative Protestants in
America (Missouri State
University)
Religion, Media, and Popular
Culture (Missouri State
University)
The Sociological Perspective
(Holy Cross College)
Sociology of Religion (Holy
Cross College)
Catholicism, Media and
Popular Culture (Holy Cross
College)
Sociology of Media and
Popular Culture (Holy Cross
College)
Sociology of American
Catholicism (Holy Cross
College)
From Ellis Island to Long
Island: Losing Our Religion?
(Holy Cross College)
From the Greatest
Generation to the MTV
Generation (Holy Cross
College)
Religion and the American
Media (at Indiana
University/Purdue
University-Indianapolis)
Introduction to Religion (at
Indiana University/Purdue
University-Indianapolis)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Contributor, Educating
Effective Chaplains,
Brandeis University and
Boston University,
2019-Present.
Board Member, Convergence on
Campus, 2018-Present.
Advisory Group, Chaplaincy
Innovation Lab, Brandeis
University, 2018 - Present.
Member, Book Prize
Committee, Religion Section,
American Sociological
Association
Member, Book Prize
Committee, Society for the
Scientific Study of
Religion, 2016-2017
Chair, Religion and American
Culture, Midwest American
Academy of Religion,
2008-2015
Editorial Board Member,
Contexts, 2009-2012
Chair, Jack Shand Grants
Committee, Society for the
Scientific Study of
Religion, 2009-2010.
Member, Jack Shand Grants
Committee, Society for the
Scientific Study of
Religion, 2008 Manuscript
Reviewer, Routledge
Manuscript Reviewer,
University of Alabama Press
Manuscript Reviewer,
University of California
Press
Manuscript Reviewer, Oxford
University Press
Manuscript Reviewer,
Princeton University Press
Manuscript Reviewer,
Blackwell
Manuscript Reviewer, Baylor
University Press
Manuscript Reviewer,
Sociological Quarterly
Manuscript Reviewer,
Review of Religious Research
Manuscript Reviewer,
Religion and American
Culture: A Journal of
Interpretation
Manuscript Reviewer,
Social Forces
Manuscript Reviewer,
Contexts
Manuscript Reviewer,
Poetics
Manuscript Reviewer,
Sociology of Religion
Manuscript Reviewer,
Social Problems
Manuscript Reviewer,
Journal for the Scientific
Study of Religion
UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE SERVICE
Member, Mask/Face Covering
work Group, June
2020-Present
Ad-hoc Alumni and Community
Outreach Committee,
Religious Studies
Department, 2021-Present.
Ad-hoc
Committee on Careers and
Religious Studies Degrees,
Religious Studies
Department, 2021-Present.
Graduate Scholarship
Committee, University,
2017
Faculty Concerns Committee,
Religious Studies
Department, 2013-2017;
2018-2019
Graduate Program Committee, Religious Studies
Department, 2005-2013;
2017-2019
REL 131 Course Coordinator,
2014-2019
Student Recruitment
Committee, Religious Studies
Department, 2013- 2018
Chair, American Religious History Position Search
Committee, 2015-2016
College Council, College of the Humanities and Public
Affairs, 2014-2016
Scholarships Committee,
Department of Religious
Studies, 2013-2014
Faculty Senate, 2010-2014
Faculty Senate Rules
Committee, 2011-2013
Mission Goals, and Endowed Chairs Committee,
Religious Studies
Department, 2007-2011
College of Humanities and
Public Affairs Dean Search
Committtee, 2008-2009
Judaism Position Search
Committee, Religious Studies
Department, 2007-2008
Ozark Studies Advisory
Board, 2007-2009
Ozarks Studies Endowed
Professorship Search
Committee, 2007-2008
Public Affairs Professorship
Committee, 2008
College of Humanities and
Public Affairs Awards
Committee, 2006
Professional Standards
Committee, Religious Studies
Department, 2005-2006
Assessment Committee,
Religious Studies
Department, Fall 2004-Spring
2005
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Board Member, Convergence on Campus, Spring 2018-Present
Member, Professional Advisory Group, Mercy Hospital Clinical Pastoral
Education Program
Show Me Missouri Speakers Bureau, Missouri Humanities Council,
2014-2018
President, Greene County
Historical Society,
Springfield, Missouri
Council Member,
German-Austrian-Swiss
Society of the Ozarks