Pacific School of Religion
President and Professor of American Religion

At GTU since 1996

Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1979
M.Div., Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1971
M.A., Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1970
B.A., Colby College, 1968

Phone: 510/ 848-0528
E-mail: wmckinney@psr.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Congregational Studies
• Religion and Public Life
• Contemporary American Religion

Selected Publications

• Studying Congregations, with eds. Nancy T. Ammerman, Jackson W. Carroll and Carl S. Dudley (Nashville: Abingdon, 1998).
• "Bumper Sticker Christians," Congregations: The Alban Journal (Summer 1996).
• "Parish" and biographies of Jackson W. Carroll, Ross Scherer and Wade Clark Roof in Encyclopedia of Religion and Society, ed. William Swatos (Walnut Creek: Alta Mira, 1998).
• "Mainline Protestantism 2000," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1998).
• "Religious Research, Religious Renewal and Religious Leadership," Review of Religious Research (Summer 1998).
• "Resources," in Study Congregations, eds. Nancy T. Ammerman, Jackson W. Carrol, Carl S. Dudley and William McKinney (Nashville: Abingdon, 1998).