Universität KonstanzExzellenzcluster: Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration

Prof. Philip S. Gorski

Vita

Portrait Philip Gorski

since 2004 Professor, Department of Sociology, Co-Director, Center for Comparative Research, Yale University

2003 - 2004 Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

since 2001 Director, Center for Comparative Social Analysis

2001 - 2003 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

2001  Best Article Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (for “Historicizing the Secularization Debate”)

1996 - 2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

1994 Barrington Moore Prize of the American Sociological Association for Best Article in Comparative-Historical Sociology (for “The Disciplinary Revolution”)

1988 - 1996 University of California, Berkeley: Sociology, PhD.

1983 - 1986 Harvard College: Social Studies, B.A.

1981 - 1983 Deep Springs College: General, A.A.

Function within the Center

Alumnus of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (May 2009 until July 2009)
about the Institute for Advanced Study

Research Project „Religious America, Secular Europe? Un/Churching during the Great Transformation“
Abstract

Selected Publications

Articles

The ECPRES Model: A Critical Realist Approach to Causal Mechanisms in the Social Sciences. In Björn Wittrock and Peter Hedström eds., The Frontiers of Sociology, Leiden: Brill, 2008.

(w. Ates Altinordu), After Secularization?, Annual Review of Sociology, April 2008, Vol. 34, p. 55-85.

Premodern Nationalism: An Oxymoron? The Evidence from England. In Gerard Delanty and Krishan Kumar eds., The Sage Handbook of Nations and Nationalism. New York: Russel Sage, 2006, 143-155.

Books

(co-edited with Charles Camic and David Trubek) Max Weber’s Economy and Society: A Critical Companion. Stanford University Press, 2005.

The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism, Confessionalism and the Growth of State Power in in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Working Papers

Religious America, Secular Europe?

Religious Nationalism: What it is, Why it arises, and When it turns Violent.

Religious Nationalism: A Neo-Weberian Approach.

Beyond the Reproduction of the Reproduction Theorist: Bourdieu as a Theorist of Socio-Historical Change.

Conference Papers and Invited Talks

Formations of the Post-Secular. Conference on “Are We Living in a Post-Secular World?”, SSRC, New York City, June, 2007.

Conservative Protestantism in the United States? A Comparative and Historical Perspective. Conference on “Conservative Christians in the United States”, Russell Sage Foundation, New York City, May, 2007.

Causal Mechanisms in the Social Sciences: The ECPRES Model. Department of Sociology, Brown University, March 2007.

Religious Nationalism. Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Februrary 2007.

Religious Nationalism. Linz Symposium, Yale University, January 2007.

Books-in-Progress

The Return of the Repressed (under contract at Temple UP).

Bourdieusian Theory and Historical Analysis (under contract at Duke University Press).

Liberalism, Nationalism and Civility: Religion and Politics from Winthrop to Obama (under review at Princeton University Press)