Professor of Religious Studies, Sociology

PhD, Duke University, 1971

Email - dbromley@vcu.edu
Phone - 804.828.6286
Fax - 828.827.3479

Office - Lafayette Hall, Rm. 108
            312 N. Shafer St.
            Richmond, VA 23220

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David G. Bromley is Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research interests include sociology of religion, contemporary religious movements, deviance, and political sociology. He has written or edited over a dozen books on religious movements. His most recent books are Defining Religion: Critical Approaches to Drawing Boundaries Between Sacred and Secular (Oxford: Elsevier Science/JAI Press, 2003), Cults, Religion and Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Toward Reflexive Ethnography: Participating, Observing, Narrating (Oxford: JAI Press/Elsevier Science, 2001), and The Politics of Religious Apostasy (Praeger, 1998). He is former president of the Association for the Association of Religion; founding editor of the annual series, Religion and the Social Order, sponsored by the Association for the Sociology of Religion; and former editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, published by the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion