Brandon Vaidyanathan

Brandon Vaidyanathan is a professor of Sociology at The Catholic University of America, where he also directs the Institutional Flourishing Lab. His research examines the role of culture in religious, economic, and scientific institutions around the world. He is the author of Mercenaries and Missionaries: Capitalism and Catholicism in the Global South (Cornell University Press, 2019). He is also a co-author of Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think about Religion (Oxford University Press, 2019).