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Philip Gorski

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PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Philip Stephen Gorski is an American sociologist, interested in both the sociology of religion and historical sociology. Biography Gorski gained an A.A. from Deep Springs College in 1983, his B.A. from Harvard in 1986. and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1996. His advisor was sociologist of religion Robert Neelly Bellah. He worked at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1996 until joining Yale University in 2007, where he became co-director of the Center for Comparative Research alongside Julia Adams.

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Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1998) (612)
The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe (2003) (366)
Religious Pluralism and Religious Participation (2001) (355)
Historicizing the secularization debate : Church, state, and society in late medieval and early modern Europe, ca. 1300 to 1700 (2000) (297)
After Secularization ? (2009) (237)
“What is Critical Realism? And Why Should You Care?” (2013) (194)
The Mosaic Moment: An Early Modernist Critique of Modernist Theories of Nationalism (2000) (176)
The Protestant Ethic Revisited: Disciplinary Revolution and State Formation in Holland and Prussia (1993) (141)
The Post-Secular in Question: Religion in Contemporary Society (2012) (133)
The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond (1994) (109)
Why evangelicals voted for Trump: A critical cultural sociology (2017) (103)
1. The Poverty of Deductivism: A Constructive Realist Model of Sociological Explanation (2004) (81)
The Sources of Social Power: The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1716- 1914, Vol. 2. (1995) (80)
Making the Fascist Self. The Political Culture of Interwar Italy.@@@Fascist Spectacle. The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy. (1999) (79)
American Covenant (2017) (74)
Beyond the Fact/Value Distinction: Ethical Naturalism and the Social Sciences (2013) (68)
Max Weber's Economy and society : a critical companion (2005) (58)
Historicizing the Secularization Debate: An Agenda for Research (2003) (57)
Religion, Nationalism, and Violence: An Integrated Approach (2013) (55)
Roundtable on the Sociology of Religion: Twenty-Three Theses on the Status of Religion in American Sociology—A Mellon Working-Group Reflection (2013) (50)
Bourdieu and Historical Analysis (2012) (48)
Social “Mechanisms” And Comparative-Historical Sociology: A Critical Realist Proposal (2009) (45)
American Babylon (2020) (45)
Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec (2017) (34)
The Life of the Party@@@Value Change in Global Perspective@@@The Transformation of European Social Democracy@@@How Political Parties Work: Perspectives from Within@@@The German Left: Red, Green, and Beyond (1997) (34)
The Post-Secular in Question (2016) (30)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Bureaucracy (1995) (29)
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion: Historicizing the Secularization Debate (2003) (28)
Beyond the Tilly Thesis: “Family Values” and State Formation in Latin Christendom (2017) (24)
The Flag and the Cross (2022) (23)
Barack Obama and Civil Religion (2011) (19)
The Protestant Ethic Revisited (2011) (16)
Conditions of religious belonging: Confessionalization, de-parochialization, and the Euro-American divergence (2014) (15)
Causal Mechanisms: Lessons from the Life Sciences (2015) (14)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, and: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other Writings (review) (2003) (14)
Morality as a Cultural System : On Solidarity Civil and Uncivil (2011) (14)
The Matter of Emergence: Material Artifacts and Social Structure (2016) (14)
Human Flourishing and Human Morphogenesis: A Critical Realist Interpretation and Critique (2017) (13)
An Anatomy of Power: Mann's theory of ideological power: sources, applications and elaborations (2006) (11)
“CONSERVATIVE PROTESTANTISM” IN THE UNITED STATES (2007) (11)
Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory (2012) (11)
SCIENTISM, INTERPRETATION, AND CRITICISM (1990) (10)
Pre-modern Nationalism: An Oxymoron? the Evidence from England (2006) (10)
Recovered Goods: Durkheimian Sociology as Virtue Ethics (2017) (9)
Religion, Nationalism, and International Security: Creation Myths and Social Mechanisms (2012) (8)
Conclusion BOURDIEUSIAN THEORY AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS (2020) (7)
After Positivism: Critical Realism and Historical Sociology (2018) (7)
From Sinks to Webs: Critical Social Science after the Fact-Value Distinction. (2017) (6)
BARACK OBAMA AND AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISMS (2012) (5)
Civil Religion Today (2021) (4)
The Ongoing Plausibility of Peter Berger: Sociological Thoughts on The Sacred Canopy at Fifty (2017) (4)
Introduction BOURDIEU AS A THEORIST OF CHANGE (2020) (4)
Just How Pascalian are the Pascalian Meditations? Critical Reflections on the Theological Unconscious of Bourdieusian Theory (2016) (4)
The Origin and Nature of Religion: A Critical Realist View (2018) (3)
Nation-Ization Struggles: A Bourdieusian Theory of Nationalism (2012) (3)
Reflexive Secularity: Thoughts on the Reflexive Imperative in a Secular Age (2016) (3)
Beyond Marx and Hintze ? Third-Wave Theories of Early Modern State Formation (2001) (2)
COMMENT ON SIGRUN KAHL (2005) (2)
Rejoinder: Why Civil Religion? (2011) (2)
The cultural of the political : towards a cultural sociology of state formation (2018) (2)
Green Politics and the Transformation of the Left in Germany@@@The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond@@@The German Greens: Challenging the Consensus@@@Between Protest and Power: The Green Party in Germany@@@The German Greens (1997) (2)
5. Calvinism and State-Formation in Early Modern Europe (2018) (2)
Is Christianity democratic? (2020) (1)
Onward, Secular Soldiers: The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life by Christian Smith, ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, 484 Pages (2004) (1)
Deweyan moral sociology: descriptive cultural history or critical Social Ethics? (2022) (1)
Product Review: An Archaeology of Sociology: Ancient Roots of a Modern Discipline (2007) (1)
The Three Axial Ages (2018) (1)
Religious Pluralism and Democratic Inclusion: The American Recipe for Peace (2014) (1)
Historical Fundamentalism? Christian Nationalism and Ignorance About Religion in American Political History (2021) (1)
Where Do Morals Come From? (2019) (1)
As Critical Realism Meets Social Constructionism (2013) (1)
Reviving the Civil Religious Tradition (2018) (1)
Antidemocracy in America (2019) (1)
Christianity and Democracy after Trump (2018) (1)
Why Politics Can't Be Freed From Religion (2010) (1)
The Protestant Reformation and Economic Hegemony: Religion and the Rise of Holland and England (2004) (1)
The American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Volume 1 (2023) (1)
The second great transformation and the future of the American left (2019) (1)
The cultural of the political (2018) (0)
White Christian nationalism (2020) (0)
7. From Reagan to Obama: Tradition Corrupted and (Almost) Recovered (2017) (0)
Critical Realism: A Philosophical Movement in Social Theory (2018) (0)
An Intellectual Life Well-Lived (2013) (0)
Religious Pluralism and Democratic Inclusion: The American Recipe for Peace (2014) (0)
Right-Wing Populism and Religious Conservatism: What’s the Connection? (2020) (0)
Conclusion: The Righteous Republic (2017) (0)
8. The Civil Religion: Critics and Allies (2017) (0)
3. Hebraic Republicanism: The American Revolution (2017) (0)
CAN THERE BE A BOURDIEUSIAN THEORY OF CRISIS? ON HISTORICAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THEORY1 BOURDIEU (2017) (0)
Goodbye Tocqueville? (2020) (0)
Book reviews (2010) (0)
The Promise of Salvation: A Theory of Religion. By Martin Riesebrodt. Translated by Steven Rendall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xiv+228. $37.50. (2011) (0)
BROKEN COVENANT REDUX? (2019) (0)
Barack Obama and American Except1onal1sms (2020) (0)
The Making of English National Identity. By Krishan Kumar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv+367. $24.99. (2005) (0)
The Spirit of Nationalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth.By Liah Greenfeld. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xi+541. $45.00. (2004) (0)
1. The Civil Religious Tradition and Its Rivals (2017) (0)
The Military Factor in Social Change.Vol. 1,From Provincial to Political Society(x+246); vol. 2,The State as Revolution(x+338). By Henry Barbera. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1998. $39.95, $49.95. (2000) (0)
10. NATION-IZATION STRUGGLES (2020) (0)
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS (2007) (0)
MODERN EUROPE State Formation in Early Modern England, c. 1550–1700 . By Michael J. Braddick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 448. $74.95, cloth; $27.95, paper. (2002) (0)
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS (2007) (0)
4. Democratic Republicanism: The Civil War (2017) (0)
A Brief Rejoinder to Goldstone: The Varieties of Deductivism (2004) (0)
Introduction: Prophetic Republicanism as Vital Center (2017) (0)
Lawrence A. Scaff. Max Weber in America. (2012) (0)
Introduction : American Babylon? (2020) (0)
Rethinking the sacred in religion and nationalism (2022) (0)
Big money, big data, big theory (2020) (0)
The Return of the Repressed: Religion and the Political Unconscious of Historical Sociology (2020) (0)
City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right (2019) (0)
Ontic Webs: A New Framework for Public Sociology (2019) (0)
Preface: Three Trips to Philadelphia (2017) (0)
Sinks and Webs: From Axiological Neutrality to CriticalEngagement (2018) (0)
Religious Violence and Peace-Making: A Meso-Level Theory (2012) (0)
The Politics of Religion and Language: Similar or Different? (2019) (0)
Religion and the Republic (2019) (0)
Secularisation as the fragmentation of the sacred and of sacred space (2022) (0)
The Matter of Emergence: Material Artifacts and Social Structure (2016) (0)
5. The Progressive Era: Empire and the Republic (2017) (0)
Is democracy Christian? (2020) (0)
The Republican captivity (2020) (0)
2. The Hebraic Moment: The New England Puritans (2017) (0)
Why evangelicals voted for Trump: A critical cultural sociology (2017) (0)
6. The Post–World War II Period: Jew, Protestant, Catholic (2017) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Civil Religion: A Dialogue in the History of Political Philosophy . By Ronald Beiner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiv + 432 pp. $34.99 paper (2012) (0)
Beyond the Fact/Value Distinction: Ethical Naturalism and the Social Sciences (2013) (0)
L'etica protestante e lo spirito del capitalismo di Max Weber (2006) (0)
Think in Public (2019) (0)
Interview 17 Philip S. Gorski (2020) (0)

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