—Roger Friedland—

I am a sociologist who wishes to recuperate Dilthey's project of the human sciences without losing the knowledges gleaned from causal, explanatory, comparative studies. I am interested in the ways in which the religious is being deployed in public life, particularly the case of religious nationalism. I am not a sociologist of religion, wanting rather to explore the position that the religious is always, already a constituent of social life. I am trying to develop an institutional approach to the study of religion, institutions not simply as valued organizational sets and types of practices, but as ontological performance.

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The readings for Roger Friedland's seminar is*:

“Money, Sex and God: The Erotic Logic of Religious Nationalism,” published in Sociological Theory, November, 2002.

You can download the article by clicking on the link below. This is a PDF file.

Money, Sex and God: The Erotic Logic of Religious Nationalism

(Note: if you have any difficulty accessing these files and need some assistance, please email our conference coordinator).

*If you plan on attending the seminar, please be sure and do the readings before the session. There will be no oral presentations in the seminars, participation will be organized around discussion of assigned readings.