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Rhys H. Williams

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#1451

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#488

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

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According to Wikipedia, Rhys H. Williams is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago. He is also Director of the McNamara Center for the Social Study of Religion. Biography He received his undergraduate degree from the University of New Mexico in 1979 and his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Rhys H. Williams 's Published Works

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The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, Peter L. Berger (ed.). Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999, 135 pp. $20.00 (2001) (601)
Constructing the Public Good: Social Movements and Cultural Resources (1995) (253)
The Cultural Contexts of Collective Action: Constraints, Opportunities, and the Symbolic Life of Social Movements (2007) (240)
Product Review: Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements (2004) (184)
Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations (1999) (168)
Hijab and American Muslim Women: Creating the Space for Autonomous Selves (2007) (164)
Religion as Political Resource: Culture or Ideology? (1996) (131)
God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (2006) (96)
Religious rhetoric in american populism: civil religion as movement ideology (1994) (95)
Public Religions in the Modern World. (1995) (91)
Cultural Wars in American Politics: Critical Reviews of a Popular Myth (1997) (77)
Culture and Social Movements (2013) (71)
Stereotypes of U.S. Immigrants from Four Global Regions (2012) (58)
All types are called, but some are more likely to respond: the psychological profile of rural Anglican churchgoers in Wales (2007) (58)
Ideological Language and Social Movement Mobilization: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Segregationists' Ideologies* (2002) (56)
Civil Religion and the Cultural Politics of National Identity in Obama's America (2013) (54)
Visions of the Good Society and the Religious Roots of American Political Culture (1999) (52)
Civil Religion in an Uncivil Society (1985) (51)
The political dimensions of religion (1994) (46)
A Bridging of Faiths: Religion and Politics in a New England City (1993) (45)
Creating an American Islam: Thoughts on Religion, Identity and Place (2011) (39)
Religion, ideology and electoral politics (1988) (35)
Religion and power in the american experience (1989) (27)
Political Ideology and Political Action in the New Christian Right (1986) (27)
The Languages of the Public Sphere: Religious Pluralism, Institutional Logics, and Civil Society (2007) (26)
Church and Organization: A Sociological and Theological Enquiry. (1994) (24)
Religion in Rebellion, Resistance, and Social Movements (2007) (22)
Religion on the Edge: De-Centering and Re-Centering the Sociology of Religion (2014) (22)
Who “They” Are Matters: Immigrant Stereotypes and Assessments of the Impact of Immigration (2015) (22)
“Religion as a Cultural System”: Theoretical and Empirical Developments Since Geertz (2007) (22)
POLITICAL SECULARISM, RELIGION, AND THE STATE: A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF WORLDWIDE DATA. By Jonathan Fox. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ix + 284 pp. $103.00 cloth, $35.99 paper. (2016) (21)
Introduction: Promise Keepers: A Comment on Religion and Social Movements (2000) (20)
Introduction to a Forum on Religion and Place (2005) (19)
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 224 pp.;$25.00 (cloth) $13.95 (paper) (2004) (18)
Faith-Based HIV Prevention and Counseling Programs: Findings from the Cincinnati Census of Religious Congregations (2013) (15)
Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations. (1999) (14)
Review Essay: Religion, Community, and Place: Locating the Transcendent (2002) (14)
Religion and Progressive Activism—Introducing and Mapping the Field (2018) (14)
Promise Keepers and the New Masculinity: Private Lives and Public Morality (2002) (12)
Invitation to Talcott Parsons' Theory. (1988) (11)
“Let's Call Ourselves the Super Elite”: Using the Collective Behavior Tradition to Analyze Trump's America (2019) (10)
Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion. By Rodney Stark and Roger Finke. Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. 343. $48.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). (2001) (9)
Immigration and National Identity in Obama's America: The Expansion of Culture-War Politics (2012) (9)
Cultural Challenges for Mainline Protestant Political Progressives (2018) (9)
Religion and Multiculturalism: A Web of Legal, Institutional, and Cultural Connections (2015) (9)
Civil Religion and National Politics in a Neoliberal Era (2014) (9)
Introduction: Sociology of Culture and Sociology of Religion (1996) (8)
Collective Action, Everyday Protest, and Lived Religion (2006) (8)
The human nature of social discontent : alienation, anomie, ambivalence (1985) (8)
The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social MovementsBy James M. Jasper. University of Chicago Press, 1997. 514 pp (1999) (8)
Organizational Change in Theological Schools: Dilemmas of Ideology and Resources (1994) (8)
“All We Want Is Equality”: Rhetorical Framing in the Fathers’ Rights Movement (2017) (7)
North American sociology of religion: Critique and prospects (2013) (7)
The Rapture of Politics: The Christian Right as the United States Approaches the Year 2000 (1996) (6)
Politics, religion, and the analysis of culture (1996) (6)
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion: Religious Social Movements in the Public Sphere (2003) (6)
Islam in Urban America (2005) (5)
Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories About Faith and Politics (2017) (5)
Civil religious contention in Cairo, Illinois: priestly and prophetic ideologies in a “northern” civil rights struggle (2016) (5)
“Church” in Black and White: The Organizational Lives of Young Adults (2016) (5)
A mythical past and uncertain future (1984) (3)
Becoming Arab in London: Performativity and the Undoing of Identity (2017) (3)
Character, an individualistic theory of politics (1983) (2)
Possibilities in the critical sociology of religion (2013) (2)
Promise Keepers and the New Masculinity: Private Lives and Public Morality, Rhys H. Williams, (ed.). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2001, 114pp.; $70.00 (cloth), $25.00 (paper) (2002) (2)
What Progressive Efforts Tell Us about Faith and Politics (2018) (2)
Rational Choice Theory and Religion: Summary and Assessment, edited by Lawrence A. Young. New York: Routledge, 1997, xv+187pp. $80.00 (hc), $17.99 (pbk) (2000) (2)
Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, Mark Juergensmeyer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000, 331 pp. $27.50 (cloth) (2002) (2)
Forum: Electronic Media and the Study of American Religion (2006) (1)
The Current Landscape of American Religion: Diversity, Individuation, and the Implications for an Aging Population (2018) (1)
The City Imagined (2017) (1)
2. Liberalism, Religion, and the Dilemma of Immigrant Rights in American Political Culture (2020) (1)
Public Islam in the Contemporary World: A View on the American Case (2014) (1)
Readings on Church and State@@@Ecumenical Perspectives on Church and State: Protestant, Catholic and Jewish (1990) (1)
AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to Twitter Share to Facebook 889 Share to Tumblr Share to Email Share to More 1.5K The Urban Church Imagined: Religion, Race, and Authenticity in the City (2017) (1)
America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity By Robert Wuthnow Princeton University Press, 2005. 391 pages. $29.95 (cloth) (2006) (1)
America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity (review) (2006) (1)
“Dare to be Different”: How Religious Groups Frame and Enact Appropriate Sexuality and Gender Norms Among Young Adults (2017) (1)
Preserving the Protestant Nation: Religion and the Socio-Political Dimensions of Immigration until 1920 (2016) (1)
Religion and Immigration Post‐1965 (2016) (1)
The Culture of Religious Pluralism, by Richard E. Wentz. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 130pp. $65.00, $15.00 (pbk.) (1998) (1)
Language and Identification: Activists' Discourses in Constructing Social Movements' Collective Identities" (2016) (0)
Editorial Page (1988) (0)
Loose Connections: Joining Together in America's Fragmented Communities (review) (2001) (0)
Resurgent Evangelicalism in the United States: Mapping Cultural Change since 1970. By Mark A. Shibley. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. 156 pp. $24.95 (1998) (0)
Book Reviews (1998) (0)
Between "Town" and "City" (1993) (0)
What is "American" in American Religion? (2014) (0)
APPENDIX C. STATISTICAL ADDENDA (1992) (0)
Social Movements, Civic Engagement, Religion, Sexuality, Deviance, Identity, Culture/Media, Subcultures, Social Theory, Research Methods (2013) (0)
Sacred Companies: Organizational Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Organizations, edited by N. J. Demerath III, Peter Dobkin Hall, Terry Schmitt, and Rhys H. Williams. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 410 pp. $55.00 (2000) (0)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
Claiming Society for God: Religious Social Movements and Social Welfare . By Nancy J. Davis and Robert V. Robinson. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012. 234 pp. $25.00 Paper. $20.99 eBook (2015) (0)
The YMCA as training providers (1999) (0)
Chapter One. APPROACHING SPRINGFIELD (1992) (0)
Sf Now [Guest editors] (2014) (0)
The Diversity List (2017) (0)
Cultural power : religion and politics in an American city (1988) (0)
VISUALIZING RELIGION IN NATIONAL IDENTITY: BOOK REVIEWS (2017) (0)
Contributors (2006) (0)
Editors' Notes (1994) (0)
SF Now (Paradoxa 26) (2014) (0)
Preserving Ethnicity Through Religion in America: Korean Protestants and Indian Hindus across Generations (review) (2011) (0)
The Current Landscape of American Religion (2018) (0)
APPENDIX A. A METHODOLOGICAL POSTSCRIPT (1992) (0)
Race, Church, City (2017) (0)
Culture and Movements (2017) (0)
Chapter Eight. BRIDGING THE GAPS (1992) (0)
Chapter Two. FROM MEETINGHOUSE TO CATHEDRAL (1992) (0)
Chapter Four. CORNER CHURCH AND CITY-STATE (1992) (0)
Reviews (2001) (0)
APPENDIX B. THE SPRINGFIELD QUESTIONNAIRE AND FOLLOW-UP APPEALS TO SAMPLE RESPONDENTS (1992) (0)
Lake Andes-Wagner Class III Cultural Resources Survey (Two Volumes) (1984) (0)
Sociology of Religion and Religious Studies: Institutional Contexts and Intellectual Concerns (2016) (0)
Chapter Seven. SEXUALITY AND SECTARIANISM (1992) (0)
Towards a national interpreter/translator training plan (1995) (0)
Religion and progressive politics in the United States (2019) (0)
Gay Politics, Urban Politics: Identity and Economics in the Urban Setting.Robert W. BaileyCulture Wars and Local Politics.Elaine B. Sharp (2000) (0)
Introduction - SF Now (2014) (0)
“Mostly Catholic” or Loose Organizational Affiliation and Intergenerational Immigrant Identity: A Case Study of the Philippine-American Ecumenical Church, United Church of Christ (PAECUSA-UCC) in Detroit, Michigan (0)
Civil religious contention in Cairo, Illinois: priestly and prophetic ideologies in a “northern” civil rights struggle (2015) (0)
Book Review:The Rude Hand of Innovation: Religion and Social Order in Albany, New York, 1652-1836. David G. Hackett (1992) (0)
Towards the development of an ICT curriculum to support children's well-being and wisdom (2013) (0)
Effects of Region of Origin on Stereotypes of Immigrants to the United States (2009) (0)
Producing the Sacred: An Essay on Public Religion. By Robert Wuthnow. Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1994. 181 pp. $12.95 paper (1996) (0)
Chapter Three. HIGH ROLLERS AND HIGH RISES (1992) (0)
Chapter Six. A COVENANT IN THE CRUCIBLE OF RACE (1992) (0)
Chapter Five. HOMELESSNESS IN THE CITY OF HOMES (1992) (0)
Cultural Wars in American Politics: Critical Reviews of a Popular Myth. (1999) (0)
Civil Religion and American Christianity. Edited by Liam J. Atchison, Keith Bates, and Darin D. Lenz (2018) (0)
Transnational Religion and the Shaping of Politics, Ethnicity, and Culture (2009) (0)
American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism (2016) (0)
Stereotypes of Immigrants from Four Global Regions (2018) (0)
The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-century Social Movements. By Craig J. Calhoun. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. xii+425. $81.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). (2013) (0)

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