Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Associate Professor of Religion and Society
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 2000

S.T.L., Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union
M.T.S., Weston School of Theology
A.B., Boston College

Phone: 510/549-5060
E-mail: jbaggett@jstb.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Religion, Democracy and Civil Society
• Spirituality and the Religious Quest in Modern America
• Catholic Parishes and Civic Participation; Sociology of American Catholicism
• Religion and Social Theory; Sociology of Religion; Religion and Cultural Analysis
• Volunteering, Charitable Giving and Religion
• Religion and Politics in the U.S.

Selected Publications

• "The Poor Will Always Be With Us? Poverty in the Biblical Tradition and in Modern Society," in Ronald Y. Nakasone, ed., The Transforming Spiritual Landscape: Buddhist-Christian Encounters (Dharma Cloud Publishers, 2005), 123-33.
• "The Catholic Citizen: Perennial Puzzle or Emergent Oxymoron?" Social Compass, 53(2), 2006, 291-309.
  
• "Congregations and Civil Society: A Double-Edged Connection," Journal of Church and State 44 (Fall 2002): 425-54.
• Habitat for Humanity: Building Private Homes, Building Public Religion (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001)
• Sense of the Faithful: An End and Beginning of American Catholicism (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)