José Casanova

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José Casanova (* 1951 in Saragossa , Spain ) is a Spanish and American religious sociologist , professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University , Washington, DC , and director of the Berkley Center's Program on Globalization, Religion and the Secular .

Life

After studying philosophy in Saragossa , Catholic theology at the Canisianum from 1969 to 1973 in Innsbruck and sociology in New York , Casanova taught sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York from 1987 to 2007 . Since January 2008 he has held the professorship at Georgetown University. He is also a member of the Religion, Secularization, and International Affairs Working Group of the Social Science Research Council and program director of the Globalization, Religion and the Secular program at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs in Washington, DC.

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Casanova's research interests are religion and globalization , migration and religious pluralism , transnational religions and the theory of sociology.

In his book Public Religions in the Modern World , José Casanova confronts the secularization theses of Max Weber and Émile Durkheim , and notes an increasing public importance and renaissance of religions. Contrary to the mainstream of research, he contradicts the postulate of an indissoluble connection between secularization and modernity, and the prognosis of an increasing loss of importance for the churches. To this end, he examines religion in Spain , Poland , Brazil and the USA in individual empirical studies . For the first three countries, he can demonstrate that the Catholic Church had an important influence on the democratization efforts of the 1970s and 1980s. According to Casanova, a loss of importance of religion or its privatization cannot be empirically proven. On the other hand, he predicts a political renaissance for churches and religious communities if they deal more openly and innovatively with modernity .

Awards

Fonts

  • together with Hans Joas (ed.): Religion and the controversial modernity. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2010 (Global Solidarity - Steps to a New World Culture; Vol. 19), ISBN 978-3-17-021234-3 .
  • Europe's fear of religion. Translated from English by Rolf Schieder . Berlin University Press, Berlin 2009, ISBN 3-940-43247-4 .
  • Rethinking Secularization: A Global Comparative Perspective , in: The Hedgehog Review 2006
  • The Long Journey of Turkey into Europe and the Dilemmas of European Civilization , in: Constellations 2006
  • Immigration and the New Religious Pluralism. A comparison between the EU and the USA , in: Leviathan 2006
  • Religion, the New Millennium and Globalization , in: Sociology of Religion 2001
  • together with Michael Walzer : The Europe of Religions , New Criticism Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-8015-0281-2 .
  • Public Religions in the Modern World (1994), translated into five languages, a. a. into Arabic and Indonesian; Google books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait of José Casanova in: Berkley Center
  2. ↑ Samuel Salzborn (Ed.): Classics of the Social Sciences - 100 key works in portrait. Springer VS Fachmedien, Wiesbaden, 2014, pp. 359–362
personal data
SURNAME Casanova, José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish and American sociologist of religion
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Zaragoza , Spain