Amy Reynolds
Amy Reynolds (PhD, Princeton University) explores the intersection of religion and the global market in Central America in her Kellogg project “Challenging Corporations: Religious Development Organizations and Market Opportunities for Coffee Farmers”
With research interests that include the sociology of religion, gender, economic globalization, and inequality and development, Reynolds studies how the values of religious organizations shape analysis of economic policy, with special attention to the debates over free trade in the Americas. Additionally, she will investigate religious development organizations contending with the dominance of multinational corporations in the Central American coffee market. Employing economic data and first-person interviews in El Salvador and Nicaragua, she aims to discover how religious organizations use their economic resources to alter the coffee commodity chain.
Reynolds coauthored “Estimating the Religious Composition of All Nations: An Empirical Assessment of the World Christian Database” in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47, 4 (2008) and a chapter (with Christopher Winship) in Taking Faith Seriously: Engaging and Evaluating Religion in American Democracy, Mary Jo Bane and Brent Coffin, eds. (Harvard University Press, 2005).
Kellogg themes: Religion and Society, Social Movements and Organized Civil Society
