Roger Baumann joined the Hope College Department of Sociology and Social Work faculty in 2020. His research and teaching focus on race, religion and global political solidarities.

Areas of Expertise

• Race and Ethnicity
• Religion
• 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

• “A Social Fields Theory of Pilgrimage: African American Christians in Israel and Palestine,”Sociological Forum,34 (3), 2019
• “What Are ‘Political’ Black Churches?” OUPblog, 2017
• “Political Engagement Meets the Prosperity Gospel: African American Christian Zionism and Black Church Politics,”Sociology of Religion, 77 (4), 2016

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