Sister Mary Johnson

Department Chair
Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies
B.A., Emmanuel College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst

Office hours:
Tues 10:45-12:15
Wed 1:30-3:30
Th 3:15-4:15
Other times by appointment

Administration Building
Room 224 617-735-9830
johnsmb@emmanuel.edu

Sister Mary Johnson, SND, Ph.D. is a professor of sociology and religious studies at Emmanuel College. She also currently serves as a member of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, founded by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin in 1995, and as a founding member of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management.

Sister Mary is engaged in research and writing about issues related to Catholicism, particularly religious life, young adults, and Catholic Social Teaching. She has been invited to speak in Australia and Western and Central Europe and has spoken extensively in North America. She is involved in professional societies in sociology, particularly the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Sister Mary has received the Future Leader in American Religion Fellowship from the Duke University Divinity School. She received the Emmanuel College Distinguished Alumna Teaching Award in 1997. In 2000, she received the national Harvest Award from the National Religious Vocation Conference.

In 2001, with Dean Hoge, William Dinges and Juan Gonzales, she co-authored the book Young Adult Catholics: Religion in the Culture of Choice, University of Notre Dame Press. The book, a national study of the religious and spiritual beliefs and practices of Catholics between the ages of 20 and 39, has been praised by academic and Church audiences.

Courses
SOC1101 - Introduction to Sociology
SOC2113 - Research Methods
SOC2119 - Age and Generations
SOC2121 - Sociology of Religion
SOC2123 - Sociology of Health Care
SOC2131 - Catholic Social Teaching
SOC3103 - Advanced Research Methods
IDS1101 - Cityscapes

Recent Publications

 2001: "Religious Life in the USA: Community as a Key Bridge to Young Adults" in Social Compass 48, 2.

 2000: "Bowling Alone, Living Alone: Current Social Concerns for Living the Vows" in Review for Religious 59, 2.

1999: "Young Adult Catholics: A Social Science Perspective" (with Hoge, Dinges, Gonzales) in America, March 27.

1998: "A Faith Loosely Held: The Institutional Allegiance of Young Catholics" (with Hoge, Dinges, Gonzales) in Commonweal, July 17.

1998: "The Reweaving of Catholic Spiritual and Institutional Life" in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, July.

1995: "Defense Workers: A Challenge to Family and Faith" in Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary Society, edited by Nancy Tatom Ammerman and Wade Clark Roof. New York: Routledge.