Carl Bowman

Carl Bowman (born 1957) is an American sociologist, who is widely recognized for his studies of Anabaptist religious groups and is perhaps the foremost expert on the social and cultural history of the Church of the Brethren.

On the broader topic of Anabaptist religious groups, Bowman co-authored "On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren" (2001)[3] Archived 2006-08-13 at the Wayback Machine with Donald Kraybill.

He was a Research Fellow at Elizabethtown College's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies [4] and directed the Brethren Member Profile 2006, the second nationally representative survey of Brethren in the United States.

He has served as Director of Survey Research for the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture [5] since 1995.

Except for short periods in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Spain, he has lived in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains for most of his life.