Empty Churches: Non-Affiliation in America

James L. Heft is the founder and president emeritus of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of fourteen books, including Catholicism and Interreligious Dialogue and Catholic High Schools: Facing the New Realities.

Jan E. Stets is professor and director of the Social Psychology Research Laboratory at the University of California, Riverside. She is the former director of the Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation, and a former coeditor of Social Psychology Quarterly.

Peter Lerman is a narrator from the heart of New York City: Brooklyn born and raised. He has appeared onstage as Horace Vandergelder in Hello Dolly, Bobby Gould in Speed-the-Plow, the Governor of Texas in Best Little Whorehouse..., Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace, and Lenny in Rumors.