
Her work focuses on practices of care in diverse contexts including post-conflict areas of Southeast Asia, children in the consumer culture of the US, addictions in family systems, and the religious lives of adolescent girls. She recently co-edited Conundrums in Practical Theology (Brill, 2016). She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church USA.
Mercer edits the international scholarly journal Religious Education and is the current president of the Association of Practical Theology. She has served as co-chair of the steering committee of the Practical Theology Group in the American Academy of Religion, and is on the board of the Religious Education Association. Professor Mercer is a member of the International Academy of Practical Theology.
Books by Joyce Ann Mercer