Description: Why are Americans leaving church? Where have they gone, and how are they filling the gap? A leading sociologist of religion explains the shifting landscape of American denominational life through interviews and congregational case studies.
Brief description: Steven Tipton is a co-author of Habits of the Heart and The Good Society and the author of Public Pulpits and Getting Saved from the Sixties. He is Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Sociology of Religion at Emory University and its Candler School of Theology, and a former Director of Emory's Graduate Division of Religion. A 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, he completed a joint PhD degree in Sociology and the Study of Religion at Harvard University in 1979.