Dr. Nancy L. Eiesland, Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion and Disability Studies
Professor Eiesland's research focused on suburbanization and religious change in the United States, gender and religion, global trends in religion, and sociological and theological aspects of illness and disability. She died in March 2009.
Education
- PhD, Emory University, 1995
- MDiv, Emory University, 1991
- BA, Central Bible College, 1986
Publications
- A Particular Place: Urban Restructuring and Religious Ecology in a Southern Exurb (Rutgers University Press 2000)
- Human Disability and the Service of God (Abingdon Press1998), coeditor
- Contemporary American Religion: An Ethnographic Reader (AltaMira Press 1997), coeditor
- The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability (Abingdon Press 1994)