Kristen Tobey
Associate Professor
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Areas of Expertise
American religious history and culture, religion and the social sciences, religious identity construction and maintenance, religious exitAreas of Expertise
- American religious history and culture
- religion and the social sciences
- religious identity construction and maintenance
- religious exit
Research Interests
Dr. Tobey, a sociologist of religion, conducts qualitative research into the dynamics and mechanisms of religious belonging and nonbelonging in the pluralistic context of the United States. The subjects of Dr. Tobey's research, which focuses on how religious identities are formed, maintained, communicated, and sometimes discarded, have included radical Catholic anti-nuclear activists, ambivalent Mormons, and exiters from high-demand religious communities.
