Background
Hadden, Jeffrey Keith was born on August 22, 1936 in Salina, Kansas, United States. Son of Roy Keith and Marjorie (Pike) Hadden.
Sociology and religion educator
Hadden, Jeffrey Keith was born on August 22, 1936 in Salina, Kansas, United States. Son of Roy Keith and Marjorie (Pike) Hadden.
Bachelor, University Kansas, 1959. Master of Arts, University Kansas, 1960. Student, Cornell University, 1961.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1963.
He began his teaching career at Western Reserve University and then at the University of Virginia commencing in 1972. While teaching urban sociology at WRU, he co-authored with Louis H Massotti and Calvin J. Larsen Metropolis in crisis: social and political perspectives (FE Peacock 1967, ISBN B0006D80Y). With Doctor Massotti, he co-edited The Urbanization of the Suburbs (Sage Publications 1973) Hadden published numerous scholarly books and articles and essays on religion approaching the study of religion from the perspective of social movements theory and characterized his primary interest as the comparative study of religion and politics.
During the years of peak civil rights activity in the South, Evangelical clergy consistently criticized the involvement of liberal clergy on the grounds that religion and politics shouldn"t mix.
Hadden"s interest in religious broadcasters was significantly aroused as it became increasingly evident to him that they were themselves making overtures toward involvement and influence in the political process. His first publication on the subject of religious broadcasting entitled "Soul-Saving Via Video" appeared in "Christian Century" in 1980.
In 1998, Hadden planned and oversaw the construction of three websites on religious freedom topics at the University of Virginia: The Religious Freedom Page, Religious Broadcasting, and The Religious Movements Homepage Project. The latter effort involved the contributions of hundreds of undergraduate students who took Hadden"s New Religious Movements sociology course during the period.
In 1993 he edited a two-volume work entitled Handbook of Cults and Sects in America with David Bromley (Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University).
Hadden published 25 books as well as numerous articles throughout his career. He died on January 26, 2003 of pancreatic cancer in Charlottesville, Virginia at age 66.
(Book by Hadden, Jeffrey, Shupe, Anson)
Active in local, state, national, and international environmental groups. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Science Study Religion (president 1983-1985). Member Southern Sociological Society (president 1985-1986), American Sociological Association (chairman publications committee 1977-1979), Association for Sociology Religion (president 1978-1979).
Married Joy Dugan, June 3, 1955 (divorced 1968). Children: Nora, Donna. Married second, Elaine McQueen, March 21, 1969.