FIELDS, Karen E. 1945-

PERSONAL: Born August 12, 1945, in Washington, DC; daughter of Robert Lionel (an architect) and Lillian G. (a physician; maiden name, Wheeler) Fields. Education: Radcliffe College, B.A., 1967; University of Paris, 1968; Brandeis University, Ph.D., 1977.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Simon & Schuster, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.

CAREER: Sociologist, professor, translator, and author. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, associate professor of sociology, 1977-1986; University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, professor of sociology and African American studies.

MEMBER: Society for International Development, American Sociological Association, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Royal African Society, African Studies Association.

WRITINGS:

Charismatic Religion As Popular Protest: The Ordinary and the Extraordinary in Social Movements, Elsevier (St. Louis, MO), 1982.

(Editor and contributor) Mamie Garvin Fields, LemonSwamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir, Free Press (New York,NY), 1983.

Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1985.

(Editor and translator) Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1997.

Also contributor to Canadian Journal of African Studies, Mercy and Society, Southern Exposure, and United Nations Associations Forum.

SIDELIGHTS: Karen E. Fields is a sociologist who takes great interest in African studies. She is especially interested in the correlation between the social scientific study of religion and what impact that has on development, especially in people of African descent.*