Reading Time: 3 minutes Over 80 million. That’s how many hits a Google search for “crisis of meaning” generates in the past year alone. It makes sense that “crisis of meaning” would be in people’s minds. We are worried, and with good reason. Here in the US, the pandemic saw a surge in anxiety, depression, and other mental health […]
Penny Edgell
Penny Edgell (Ph.D. 1995, University of Chicago) is a cultural sociologist who studies contemporary American religion and nonreligion. She has written Religion and Family in a Changing Society (Princeton University Press 2005), and Congregations in Conflict (Cambridge Univeristy Press 1999), and edited Religion is Raced (co-edited with Grace Yukich, NYU Press 2020), and Contemporary American Religion (co-edited with Nancy Eiesland, AltaMira/Sage 1997). Her work has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Annual Review of Sociology, and other outlets.