Jörg Stolz est professeur ordinaire de sociologie des religions à l’Université de Lausanne. Il s'intéresse à la théorie des jeux sociaux, à la théorie de la concurrence religieuse/séculière et aux méthodes mixtes. Ses thèmes sont la sécularisation, les groupes religieux locaux, les évangéliques et les représentations sociales du religieux. Jörg Stolz est l'ancien président de la Société internationale de sociologie des religions (SISR). Les résultats de ses recherches sont parus dans le European Sociological Review, le British Journal of Sociology, L'Année sociologique, ou le Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
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