1/28/2008
Martin Riesebrodt (Sociology and the Divinity School, Chicago)
Theses on a Theory of Religion
Discussants: Steve Pfaff (Sociology), Katie Corcoran (Sociology)
co-sponsored by the Dept. of Comparative Religion
Martin Riesebrodt is a Professor in Sociology and Divinity at the University of Chicago. His academic interests are in social theory, the historical and comparative sociology of religion, and the relationship between religion, politics, and secular culture. Professor Riesebrodt has published on the theory of religion, its comparative history, and the foundations for a Weberian theory of religion. Presently, he is working on a book about how modernizing states and reforming bureaucracies have imagined and institutionalized religion.
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