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José Casanova
Department of Sociology
José Casanova is one of the world’s top scholars in the sociology of religion. He is a Professor at the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University, and heads the Berkley Center’s Program on Globalization, Religion and the Secular. He has published works in a broad range of subjects, including religion and globalization, migration and religious pluralism, transnational religions, and sociological theory. His best-known work, Public Religions in the Modern World (University of Chicago Press, 1994), has become a modern classic in the field and been translated into five languages, including Arabic and Indonesian.Casanova received his B.A. in Philosophy from the Seminario Metropolitano in Saragossa, Spain, an M.A. in Theology from the University of Innsbruck, and another in Sociology from the New School for Social Research. He completed his Ph.D. in Sociology at the New School for Social Research in 1982. He taught at the New School for Social Research from 1987 to 2007, where he occupied numerous distinguished positions including Chair of the Sociology Department and of the Committee on Historical Studies. In addition to his primary appointments, he has held visiting academic positions at New York University, at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and at the Central European University in Budapest.
Casanova’s most recent research has focused primarily on two areas: globalization and religion, and the dynamics of transnational religion, migration, and increasing ethno-religious and cultural diversity. In studying religion and globalization, his research has adopted an ambitious comparative perspective that includes Catholicism, Pentecostalism and Islam within its scope. Some of his recent articles in this area include “Public Religions Revisited” in Hent de Vries, ed., Religion: Beyond the Concept (Fordham University Press, 2008), and “Religion, Politics and Gender in Catholicism and Islam” in Hanna Herzog and Ann Braude, ed., Gendered Modernities: Women, Religion, and Politics (Palgrave, forthcoming).
His work on transnational migration and religion explores the incorporation of minorities and the construction of transnational networks, identities and structures. Some of his work in this area includes “Immigration and the New Religious Pluralism: A EU/US Comparison” in Thomas Banchoff, ed., Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2007). In addition, he has headed several major research projects focused on these topics, including “Religion and Immigrant Incorporation in New York” and “The Religious Lives of Migrant Minorities: London, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur”.
