Avery "Pete" Guest is a retired professor of sociology, University of Washington, with primary expertise in demographic/population studies, especially with a community focus. For many years, he has been interested in the 19th-century history of the Universalists. Before retirement, he published a few research papers on the sociology of religion. Recently he has presented several papers on Universalist demographics at Unitarian Universalist History and Heritage Convocations and at Association for Liberal Religius Studies (UU Collegium) conferences.
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Lon Ray Call
Stephen Rensselaer Smith