Why study Sociology of Religion?
Most sociologists of religion are self-trained, and too often it shows. Students who go off to graduate school hoping to specialize in the sociology of religion usually discover either that no one on their graduate faculty is a sociologist of religion or that there is only one. To make matters worse, students interested in the sociology of religion seldom have classmates who share that interest. No wonder the journals are full of articles that fail to take into account a substantial and relevant research literature or that make quite out-of-date assumptions. Why Baylor? Our faculty consists of six sociologists of religion, and we’re recruiting even more. Our program is exclusively devoted to the social scientific study of religion. Our students will not need to rely on one faculty person to provide their training, and their classmates will share their interests. In this way we shall pursue our mission, which is to provide a new generation of well-trained and productive sociologists of
