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Roger Baumann joined the 换妻社区 Department of Sociology and Social Work in 2020.

His research and teaching focus on questions about collective identity and social action. He is especially interested in how overlapping racial, religious and national identities contribute to how members of religious groups collectively understand who they are, where they come from and what they should be doing in the world.

His book 鈥� 鈥� analyzes African American Christian engagement with the global issue of Israel and Palestine. It examines how different groups of Black Christians invoke and contest the identity, history and mission of 鈥渢he Black Church鈥� as they approach that issue.

Another current project 鈥� American Evangelicals, Islam & the Competition for Religious Authority 鈥� analyzes hundreds of books written by and for evangelical Christians about Islam and Muslims in the last half century. It asks: What is the religious, political and social significance of American evangelical struggles over the authority to define Islam and Muslims? And what are the implications of this particular struggle for how evangelicals draw boundaries of inclusion and exclusion in the American public sphere?

Dr. Baumann is also the director of Hope鈥檚 interdisciplinary Peace and Justice Minor.

Areas of Expertise

• Race and Ethnicity
• Religion
• Collective Identity
• Social Movements
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Social Theory
• Cultural Sociology
• Global and Transnational Sociology
• Peace and Justice Studies

Education

• Ph.D., sociology, Yale University, 2020
• MTS, religion, ethics and politics, Harvard University, 2009
• B.A. (Hons.), religious studies, University of Waterloo, 2007

Selected Publications

Book

• Columbia University Press, 2024

Articles and Essays

• 鈥�,鈥� with Sara A. Williams,Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Online First, 2024
• 鈥�,鈥� Columbia University Press Blog, 2024
• 鈥溾�� The Immanent Frame, 2023
• 鈥�,鈥�Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 62 (S1), 2023
• 鈥�,鈥�Religions 13 (10), 2022
• 鈥�,鈥�Sociological Forum, 34 (3), 2019
• 鈥溾�� Oxford University Press Blog, 2017
• 鈥�,鈥�Sociology of Religion, 77 (4), 2016