Dr. Korie L Edwards is Associate Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. She is a leading scholar of race and religion in the United States and current President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Relgion, an international, inte...More
Dr. Korie L Edwards is Associate Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. She is a leading scholar of race and religion in the United States and current President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Relgion, an international, interdisciplinary association (www.sssrweb.org). What drives Dr. Edwards' scholarly agenda is her passion about and commitment to matters of racial and ethnic justice in religious organizations. She has written several books and articles on multiracial religious organizations. These inlcude The Elusive Dream: The Power of Race in Interracial Churches (author, Oxford University Press); Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations (co-author, New York University Press); and "Much Ado About Nothing: Rethinking the Efficacy of Multiracial Churches for Racial Reconciliation," which appears in the edited volume Christians and the Color Line: Race and Religion after Divided by Faith (author, Oxford University Press). Dr. Edwards' current scholarship focuses on matters related to race and religous leadership. She is developing a book on contemporary African American religious leaders and their engagement in civic and political activity. And she is heading a national study of multiracial church pastors called the Religious Leadership and Diversity PRoject (see www.rldp.net). The RLDP is the most in-depth, comprehensive project ever conducted on leaders of multiracial congregations.
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Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations
