Ammerman Speaks at CURA Pizza and Politics Workshop

The Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA), an affiliated center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted a February 13, 2019 Pizza and Politics Workshop with Nancy T. Ammerman,  Professor of Sociology of Religion in the Sociology Department of the College of Arts and Sciences and in the School of Theology.

Ammerman gave a talk entitled “Constructing Religion in Context: Contributions From a Lived Religion,” in which she discussed a draft of a paper that attempts to develop a typology for analyzing the relationship between religions and societies in different cultural and governmental situations. Graduate students had the opportunity to read the draft beforehand and discuss it with Professor Ammerman during the workshop.

Pizza and Politics is a space for graduate students from across BU to share pizza and conversation on issues at the intersection of international affairs and religion in an open and relaxed setting. At each meeting, participants read and discuss foundational and recent works in this emergent, interdisciplinary field including scholarship from Religion and Theological Studies, International Relations, Anthropology, Political Science, History, and Sociology. The workshop aims to raise awareness of IR and Religion scholarship at Boston University.

Nancy T. Ammerman is Professor of Sociology of Religion in the Sociology Department of the College of Arts and Sciences and in the School of Theology. Ammerman is at work on a book developing a sociological theory of “lived religion.” It builds on a growing body of research, including her 2013 book, Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday Life, (Oxford University Press), which documents the way religion and spirituality operate across the many domains of daily lived experience, as well as her edited 2006 book Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives (Oxford University Press).

Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) brings together a multi-disciplinary community of scholars to encourage and support research on the role of religion in public affairs. Established in 1985, CURA is the oldest center for the study of religion and world affairs in the United States. Supported by a substantial endowment and grants from funders such as the Henry Luce Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, the Bradley Foundation, the Kroc Institute for International Peace, and the Metanexus Foundation, CURA has sponsored over 140 research projects on five continents that have led to the publication of over 145 books. Learn more about CURA here. 

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