Penny Edgell

Publications

• Congregations in Conflict: Cultural Models of Local Religious Life. 1999. UK: Cambridge University Press.
• "Profiles of Anticipated Support: Religion’s Place in the Composition of Americans’ Emotional Support Networks," with Darin Mather and Eric Tranby. 2013. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 52(2):293-308.
• Religion and Family in a Changing Society. 2005. NJ: Princeton University Press.
• "Atheists and Other Cultural Outsiders: Moral Boundaries and the Non-Religious in the United States," with Douglas Hartmann, Evan Stewart, and Joseph Gerteis. 2016. Social Forces 95(2):607-638.
• "From Existential to Social Understandings of Risk: Examining Gender Differences in Nonreligion," with Jacqueline Frost and Evan Stewart. Social Currents, 6(4):556-74, 2017.
• "Atheists as ‘Other’: Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in American Society".with Joseph Gerteis and Douglas Hartmann. 2016. American Sociological Review 72(2):211-234.
• "Distinctiveness Reconsidered: Religiosity, Structural Location, and Understandings of Racial Inequality," with Jacqueline Frost. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 56(2):277-301, 2017.
• "Loose Connections and Liberal Theology: Blurring the Boundaries in Two Church-Based Communities of Spiritual Practice," with Derek Robey. 2015. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 54(4):649-67.
• "A Cultural Sociology of Religion – New Directions ." 2012. Annual Review of Sociology (38):247-265.
• "Christian America? Secularized Evangelical Discourse and the Boundaries of National Belonging," with Jack Delehanty and Evan Stewart. 2019. Social Forces 97(3):1283-1306.
• “Reasoning Together Through Telling Stories: How People Talk About Social Controversies,’” with Kathleen Hull, Kyle Green, and Daniel Winchester. 2016. Qualitative Sociology 39(1):1-26.
• Religion is Raced. 2020. Edited with Grace Yukich. NY: New York University Press.
• "The Politics of Religious Prejudice and Tolerance for Cultural Others" with Evan Stewart and Jack Delehanty. The Sociological Quarterly 59(1):17-39, 2018.

Activities

Awards

• Best Book Award, American Sociological Association Religion Section, 2000
• Visiting Faculty Fellow, Princeton University
• American Sociological Association Sociology of Religion section Book Award, 2006

Courses Taught

• Soc 3701 - Social Theory
• Soc 3309: Atheists and Others in the U.S.
• Soc 4309/4309H - Religion in American Public Life: Culture, Politics, & Communities
• Soc 8735 - Sociology of Culture
• FSEM 1905 - Religion in America
• Soc 8790 - Adv. Topics in Social Theory: Religion and Public Life
• Soc 8801: Research Methods
• Soc 8890 - Advanced Research Methods: Qual Methods