Prof. Philip S. Gorski
Vita
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)