Terry Shoemaker

Terry Shoemaker holds the position of Associate Teaching Professor at Arizona State University and is an qualitative research scholar focusing on religious change in contemporary life in the United States . This includes the ways that religion and religious people adapt, convert, deconvert, reform, and abandon aspects of their religiosity or spirituality. He is interested also in studying sports in the United States through the lens of religious studies theories and methods. His work is featured at numerous sites like The Conversation, Zócalo Public Square, and Religion Dispatches.