Nancy Ammerman, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology of Religion at Boston
University. She is the President-elect of the Society for the Scientific Study
of Religion and has written extensively on American congregational life. Her
earlier research on fundamentalist movements contributed to the “Fundamentalism
Project” of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was published in Bible
Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World. In 1993, she served on the
review panel convened by the Departments of Justice and Treasury following the
Branch Davidian disaster.
