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According to Wikipedia, Nancy Tatom Ammerman is an American professor of sociology of religion at Boston University School of Theology. Life In 1984, Ammerman joined the faculty of Emory University. Her book, Baptist Battles, won the 1992 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. In 1995, Ammerman left Emory University to teach at Hartford Seminary. Since 2003, she has been at Boston University. In 2020 she became an honorary doctor at Uppsala University.

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Congregation and Community. (1997) (380)
Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World. (1987) (367)
Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives (2006) (320)
Spiritual but Not Religious?: Beyond Binary Choices in the Study of Religion (2013) (299)
Pillars of faith : American congregations and their partners (2007) (234)
Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History (2010) (171)
Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday Life (2013) (165)
Studying congregations : a new handbook (1998) (160)
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion: Religious Identities and Religious Institutions (2003) (153)
Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention (1990) (138)
American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving. (1999) (136)
Finding Religion in Everyday Life (2014) (113)
Golden Rule Christianity: Lived Religion in the American Mainstream (1997) (111)
Organized Religion in a Voluntaristic Society (1997) (91)
Lived religion as an emerging field: an assessment of its contours and frontiers (2016) (86)
America’s Changing Religious and Cultural Landscape and its Implications for Theological Education (2014) (72)
Operationalizing Evangelicalism: An Amendment (1982) (54)
Roundtable on the Sociology of Religion: Twenty-Three Theses on the Status of Religion in American Sociology—A Mellon Working-Group Reflection (2013) (50)
Studying Everyday Religion: Challenges for the Future (2007) (47)
Introduction: Observing Religious Modern Lives (2007) (47)
Rethinking Religion: Toward a Practice Approach1 (2020) (46)
The Challenges of Pluralism: Locating Religion in a World of Diversity (2010) (43)
Doing Good in American Communities: Congregations and Service Organizations Working Together (2001) (34)
The Meaning of Sunday: The Practice of Belief in a Secular Age. By Joel Thiessen. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2015. Pp. viii+227. $32.95 (paper). (2016) (24)
Telling congregational stories (1994) (18)
The Civil Rights Movement and the Clergy in a Southern Community (1980) (18)
Speaking of Methods: Eliciting Religious Narratives through Interviews, Photos, and Oral Diaries (2012) (17)
SOUTHERN BAPTISTS AND THE NEW CHRISTIAN RIGHT (1991) (14)
Religions and social progress: critical assessments and creative partnerships (2018) (14)
Southern Baptists Observed: Multiple Perspectives on a Changing Denomination, edited by Nancy Tatom Ammerman. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993, 362 pp. $34.95; 19.95 (paper) (1994) (12)
Waco, Federal Law Enforcement & Scholars of Religion (1995) (12)
Religious Identities in Contemporary American Life: Lessons From the NJPS (2006) (12)
Bible Believers: Fundamentalism in the Modern World (1990) (11)
Religious Narratives in the Public Square (2005) (11)
REPORT TO THE JUSTICE AND TREASURY DEPARTMENTS regarding law enforcement interaction with the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas (1993) (10)
2013 Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture Finding Religion in Everyday Life (2014) (9)
Studying Lived Religion (2021) (9)
Jewish Identity and Religious Commitment: The North American Study of Conservative Synagogues and Their Members, 1995-6 (1997) (9)
Foreword: from the USA to Europe and back (2018) (6)
Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary Society : Remaking Our Lives (2014) (6)
Conservative Synagogues and Their Members: Highlights of the North American Study of 1995-96 (1996) (5)
American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism (2019) (5)
Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of American Jewish Orthodoxy. By Samuel C. Heilman. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. 363. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). (2007) (5)
5. Connecting Mainline Protestant Churches with Public Life (2019) (5)
Bowling Together: Congregations and the American Civic Order (2005) (5)
Sociology and the Study of Religion (2002) (5)
American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving. By Christian Smith. University of Chicago Press, 1998. 310 + xiii pp (1999) (3)
Organized Religion in a Voluntaristic Society (1996 Presidential Address) (1997) (3)
RE-AWAKENING A SLEEPING GIANT: Christian fundamentalists in late twentieth-century US society (2003) (3)
Journeys of Faith:: Meeting the Challenges in Twenty-First-Century America (2007) (3)
Denominations, Congregations, and Special Purpose Groups (2016) (3)
Vanishing Boundaries: The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers. By Dean R. Hoge, Benton Johnson, and Donald A. Luidens. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994, viii + 254 pp (1995) (2)
New Life for Denominationalism (2000) (2)
2005 SSSR Presidential Address: On Being a Community of Scholars—Practicing the Study of Religion (2006) (2)
The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination (2011) (2)
One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism, by Rodney Stark. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001, 319 pp. $24.95 (cloth) (2002) (2)
Lost in the Fifties: The Changing Family and the Nostalgic Church (2014) (2)
Work, Family, and Faith: Recent Trends (2014) (2)
Forum: Interpreting Waco (1998) (2)
On things seen and unseen (2017) (2)
The Many Meanings of Non-Affiliation (2021) (2)
Entering the Labor Force: Ideals and Realities among Evangelical Women (2014) (1)
The purposeful graduate: why colleges must talk to students about vocation (2017) (1)
Does religion contribute to or inhibit social progress? (2020) (1)
American Parishes (2019) (1)
The Storm and the Light: Church, Family, Work, and Social Crisis in the African-American Experience (2014) (1)
Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies . Edited by Nancy L. Rosenblum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. vii + 438 pp. $70.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. (2002) (1)
People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States (review) (2007) (1)
None of the Above: Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada. By Joel Thiessen and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme. New York: New York University Press, 2020. Pp. 258. $89.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper). (2021) (1)
Studying denominations : Challenges for a new century (2001) (1)
From canopies to conversations: the continuing significance of "plausibility structures" (2018) (1)
Moloch's Revenge (1999) (1)
Gerontology in the Three Atlanta Seminaries (1989) (1)
Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America, by Colleen McDannell. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995, +x pp. 312. $35.00 (1997) (1)
Couples at Work: A Study of Patterns of Work, Family, and Faith (2014) (0)
Book Review:Praying for Justice: Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town Carol J. Greenhouse (1988) (0)
Spiritual Tribes: Toward a Sociology of Religion in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Keith Hartman. Congregations in Conflict: The Battle over Homosexuality New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996 (1998) (0)
Studying Parishes (2019) (0)
Religion in American Public Life By A. James Reichley Washington, D.C., The Brookings Institution, 1985. 402 pp. $31.95 ($11.95 paper) (1986) (0)
JAMES HUNTER AND THE CHANGING SHAPE OF AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM (2019) (0)
Learning and living the golden rule: religious communities and morality (2017) (0)
2. Studying parishes lessons and new directions from the study of congregations (2020) (0)
Religion in Europe at the End of the Second Millennium: A Sociological Profile. By Andrew M. Greeley. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2003. Pp. xv+252. $34.95. (2004) (0)
Into the Pulpit: Southern Baptist Women and Power since World War II . By Elizabeth H. Flowers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. xii + 263 pp. $47.50 cloth. (2013) (0)
Telling Congregations Stories: The 1993 H. Paul Douglas Lecture (1994) (0)
The role of religion in the longer-range future, April 6, 7, and 8, 2006 (2008) (0)
Journeys of Faith: Meeting the Challenges in Twenty- First-Century America (2020) (0)
Social Practices and Cultural Contexts (2021) (0)
People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States By Michael O. Emerson with Rodney M. Woo Princeton University Press, 2006. 261 pages. $24.95 (cloth) (2007) (0)
Everyday Life at Home (2013) (0)
Everyday Public Life: Circles of Spiritual Presence and Absence (2013) (0)
Spiritual Narratives in Everyday Life: A Description of the Project (2008) (0)
Menshikov A (2007) (0)
Nine to Five: Spiritual Presence at Work (2013) (0)
In Search of Religion in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Book reviews (1997) (0)
Communities of faith and work : Congregations seeking the good of the worlds (2001) (0)
FAITH MAKES US LIVE: SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN THE HAITIAN DIASPORA by Margarita A. Mooney (2009) (0)
The SBC: Retrospect and Prospect (1991) (0)
Becoming Catholic: Finding Rome in the American Religious Landscape. By David Yamane. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv+242. $29.95. (2015) (0)
S3K Report: Fall 2007 (2007) (0)
The Megachurch and the Mainline: Remaking Religious Tradition in the Twenty-First Century. By Stephen Ellingson (2008) (0)
Book Reviews (1997) (0)
Spiritual Practices in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Bodies and Spirits: Health, Illness, and Mortality (2013) (0)
Studying Parishes: (2019) (0)
:One Faith No Longer: The Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America (2022) (0)
Books Received (1999) (0)
Latin American Religion in Motion, by Christian Smith and Joshua Prokopy, (eds.). New York: Routledge, 1999, 303pp. $65.00 (cloth), $18.99 (paper) (2001) (0)
Small Faith Communities in the Roman Catholic Church: New Approaches to Religion, Work, and Family (2014) (0)
PERSPECTIVES: Pew Survey on Religion in the U.S. (2008) (0)
Reviews (2001) (0)
GOLDEN RULE CHRISTIANITY: (2020) (0)
Volume Information (1995) (0)
Mathew Guest, Karen Tusting, and Linda Woodhead, eds. Congregational Studies in the UK: Christianity in a Post-Christian Context . Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology. Hants, England: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. 223+xvii. $29.95 (cloth). (2005) (0)
Religious Innovation in the Mainline Church: House Churches, Home Cells, and Small Groups (2014) (0)
How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others, by T. M. LUHRMANN (2021) (0)
Religion and Family Ethics: A New Strategy for the Church (2014) (0)
“Spirituality” and “Religion”: What Are We Talking About? (2013) (0)
The Spiritual Virtuoso: Personal Faith and Social Transformation. By Marion Goldman and Steven Pfaff. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. Pp. xi+200. $88.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). (2019) (0)
New Wine in Old Wineskins: Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town Church.R. Stephen Warner (1989) (0)
Religious Communities and Spiritual Conversations (2013) (0)
Books in review (1993) (0)
Religion and Civil Society: Comparing the USA and Europe (2014) (0)
3 Building Religious Communities, Building the Common Good: A Skeptical Appreciation (2008) (0)

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