Katie E. Corcoran
Katie E. Corcoran (Ph.D., University of Washington, 2012) is Associate Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. Her research cuts across many subareas including congregational dynamics, religion and health, atheism and the non-religious, religious emotion, and religion and crime. She recently published the book High on God: How Megachurches Won The Heart of America (Oxford University Press, 2020, with James K. Wellman Jr. and Kate Stockly), which explores the emotional dynamics of megachurches in the US. She has also published articles in journals such as Social Forces, Sociology of Religion, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Review of Religious Research, Social Science History, British Journal of Social Psychology, and Sociological Forum. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the International Research Network for the Study of Belief and Science. She currently serves on the editorial boards for Sociology of Religion and Review of Religious Research and is a member of the Religion & Society research group at West Virginia University.
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