Martin Riesebrodt
Professor (Jointly Appointed in the Divinty School)
Ph.D. University of Heidelberg, 1973 (Anthropology)
Ph.D. habil. University of Munich, 1990 (Sociology)
Office: Swift 227
Phone: 773-702-8227
Email: mriesebr@midway.uchicago.edu
Martin Riesebrodt is interested in social theory and in the sociology of religion.
Riesebrodt's central areas of teaching and research focus on theories of religion and on the role religion plays in processes of formation of social groups and their identities, especially with reference to class, gender, and generation.
Riesebrodt is presently working on a theory of religion which understands religion as a cultural resource for the management and prevention of crises.
ClustersSociology of Culture and Social Theory
Selected Publications
The Promise of Salvation. A Theory of Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2010
"Sociology of Religion," (with Mary Ellen Konieczny). In The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religions, ed. John Hinnels. London: Routledge, 2009.
"Dimensions of the Protestant Ethic." In The Protestant Ethic Turns 100, ed. William Swatos & Lutz Kaelber. London: Paradigm, 2006. pp. 23-51.
"Religion in Global Perspective," Global Religions: An Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2003.
"Fundamentalism and the Resurgence of Religion," Numen, 2000.
Max Weber's Religionssystematik. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 2000.
"Religion in Global Perspective," in Global Religions: A Handbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
"Fundamentalisms and Patriarchal Gender Politics," in Journal of Women's History. Vol. 10(4): 55-77, 1999.
Pious Passion: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran. Translated by Don Reneau. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993; paperback edition 1998.
