Mervin Verbit
| Mervin F. Verbit | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 24, 1936 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Fields | Sociology, sociology of religion |
| Institutions | Brooklyn College, Touro College |
| Alma mater | |
Mervin Feldman Verbit (born November 24, 1936) is an American sociologist whose work focuses on sociology of religion, American Jews and the American Jewish Community. He is currently the chair of the Sociology Department at Touro College.
Verbit was born in Philadelphia in 1936. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania where he received his B.A. and M.A.. Verbit received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His dissertation studied the religious attitudes of Jewish college students. Verbit was a full-time Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and has been visiting professor at several institutions, among them Bar Ilan University, Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, Yeshiva University, and Jewish Theological Seminary. Verbit was appointed deputy chair of Touro College's Sociology Department in 2006, and was later appointed as the department chair.
Verbit was among the sociologists of religion to explore the theoretical analysis of the sociological dimensions of religiosity. His contribution includes measuring religiosity through six different "components" (similar to Charles Glock's five-dimensional approach (Glock, 1972: 39)), and the individual’s behaviour vis-à-vis each one of these components has a number of "dimensions", making it a twenty four-dimensional measure of religiosity.
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