Jack Delehanty

Associate Professor, Sociology

Jack Delehanty studies how moral frameworks, especially religion, provide cultural justifications for inequality in the U.S. and fuel movements to contest it. He has published research on religious conservatism’s changing effects on American national identity and belonging, the cultural dynamics of faith-based community organizing, and the ways progressive social movements draw on religious symbols and traditions to support racial and economic justice. At Clark he teaches courses on sociological theory, inequality, activism and social movements, and religion.

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Minnesota, 2018
  • M.A. in Sociology, University of Minnesota, 2014
  • B.A. in Religion, Carleton College, 2009

Affiliated Department

Sociology

Scholarly and creative works

  • Chapters In Books

    Handbook of the Sociology of Morality
    Chapter: Cultural Threat and Market Failure: Moral Decline Narratives on the Religious Right and Left

    Published by Springer
    2024
    Jack Delehanty
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Public Religion and Gendered Attitudes

    Published in Social Problems
    Evan Stewart, Penny Edgell, Jack Delehanty
  • Book

    Making Moral Citizens: How Faith-Based Organizers Use Vocation for Public Action

    Where Religion Lives (University of North Carolina Press)
    2023
    Chapel Hill, NC
    USA
    Jack D. Delehanty
  • Chapters In Books

    Springer Handbook of the Sociology of Morality
    Chapter: Cultural Threat and Market Failure: Moral Decline Narratives on the Religious Right and Left

    Published by Springer
    2022
    Jack D. Delehanty
  • Presentations

    Personal Stories and Public Leadership

    Southern New England Conference of the United Church of Christ Clergy Assembly
    Hartford, CT
    September
    2021
    Sponsored by Southern New England Conference of the United Church of Christ
    Jack D. Delehanty, Roxanne Kymaani
  • Presentations

    Religion in US Party Politics

    Sutton High School Honors Scholars Program
    Sutton, MA
    March
    2021
    Jack Delehanty
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Unchurched Christian Nationalism and the 2016 US Presidential Election

    Published in Sociological Forum
    2021
    Samuel Stroope, Paul Froese, Heather Rackin, Jack Delehanty
  • Presentations

    Overcoming the Risks of Social Justice Organizing

    Southern New England Conference of the United Church of Christ Clergy Retreat
    Hartford, CT
    Sponsored by Southern New England Conference of the United Church of Christ
    Jack Delehanty
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Becoming ‘People of Faith’: Personal Moral Authenticity in the Cultural Practices of a Faith-Based Social Justice Movement

    Published in Sociological Forum
    2020
    Jack D. Delehanty
  • Other Scholarly or Creative Work

    Social Critique as Religious Formation: Relational Practices in Faith-Based Activism

    Vol. 35
    Issue #2
    The Liturgical Conference
    USA
    Jack Delehanty
  • Reviews, Abstracts, Pamphlets

    Redemption through Relationships (Featured Review Essay)

    Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review
    2019
    Vol. 3
    Issue #80
    Jack D. Delehanty
  • Presentations

    Religion and the Management of Intragroup Hierarchies

    Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting
    New York
    August
    2019
    Sponsored by Society for the Study of Social Problems
    Jack D. Delehanty
  • Presentations

    Religious Activism and the Cultural Complexities of Progressive Politics

    CGRAS Brown Bag Lecture Series
    November
    2019
    Sponsored by CGRAS (Clark)
    Jack D. Delehanty
  • Presentations

    Bringing Public Religion Back In

    Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
    St. Louis, MO
    October
    2019
    Jack D. Delehanty

Awards and grants

  • Faith-Based Community Organizing Beyond Religious Congregations

    Clark University Faculty Urban Fellowship