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Jesse M. Smith is Associate Professor of Sociology at Â鶹´«Ã½. His research and teaching are centered on secularity and religion, social deviance, self and identity, and qualitative methods. Primarily a qualitative researcher, much of his work employs a social psychological lens, and focuses on the nature of collective behavior, identity, and worldview formation. He has published original research articles and other works in a variety of journals including the Sociology of Religion, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Religion and Health, and Qualitative Sociology. He is co-author of Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization (NYU Press) and co-editor of the book Secularity and Nonreligion in North America (Bloomsbury). He has presented his research at national and international conferences and is active in advising and mentoring graduate Â鶹´«Ã½s in the sociology program at Western.

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