Jerome P. Baggett
Professor of Religion and Society
Core Doctoral Faculty
At the GTU since
2000Degrees and Certifications
STL, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
PhD, Graduate Theological Union
MTS, Weston School of Theology
AB, Boston College
Research and Teaching Interests
- Secularity
- Sociology of Religion
- Sociology of Culture
- Religion and Social Theory
- Religion and Civic Engagement
Selected Publications
- The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience: Atheism in American Culture, NYU Press, 2019
- Sense of the Faithful: How American Catholics Live Their Faith, Oxford University Press, 2009
- Habitat for Humanity: Building Private Homes, Building Public Religion, Temple University Press, 2000
- “An Atheist Perception of Christianity in the U.S.” in the Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, 2017.
- “Another Legacy of Vatican II: Cultural Dilemmas among American Catholics” in Paul Crowley, ed., From Vatican II to Pope Francis: Charting a Catholic Future, 2014.
- “Protagoras’s Assertion Revisited: American Atheism and Its Accompanying Obscurities,” Implicit Religion, 2012
Courses Taught
- Sociology of Religion Culture
- Context and Lived Religion
- Religion and Social Transformation
- Religion and Social Theory
- The "New Atheism" in American Culture