Draft:Wade Clark Roof

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Wade Clark Roof (July 25, 1939 - August 24, 2019) was an American sociologist.[1][2]

Early life and education[edit]

Roof grew up in the Sandhills region of South Carolina. He graduated with a BA from Wofford College. He received a MA from Yale Divinity School. [1]

Career[edit]

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Books[edit]

  • A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation (1993)[4]
  • Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion[5]
  • with William McKinney American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future[6]
  • with Jackson W. Carroll Bridging Divided Worlds


  • editor The Post-war Generation And The Establishment Of Religion

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Trailblazing sociologist of religion Wade Clark Roof dies at 80". August 26, 2019.
  2. ^ Todd, Michael (August 29, 2019). "Chronicler of a Generation's Spirituality: Wade Clark Roof, 1949-2019".
  3. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/30/weekinreview/conversations-wade-clark-roof-charting-currents-belief-for-generation-that.html
  4. ^ "Religion Book Review: A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation by Wade Clark Roof, Author HarperOne $20 (294p) ISBN 978-0-06-066963-8". PublishersWeekly.com.
  5. ^ "Spiritual Marketplace". July 22, 2001 – via press.princeton.edu.
  6. ^ Neuhaus, Richard J. (January 1, 1988). "American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future by Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1987. 279 Pp. $27.00 ($10.00 Pb)". Theology Today. 44 (4): 520–521. doi:10.1177/004057368804400412 – via SAGE Journals.