Global History and the Sociology of Religion: Casanova’s Contributions

For more on this event, visit: https://bit.ly/3LdFlnn For more on the Berkley Center, visit: https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu April 19, 2022 | The 1994 publication of Public Religions in the Modern World, by Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova, marked a paradigm shift in the study and understanding of religion in the modern world. The book challenged the dominant narratives of secularization and particularly secular liberal theories of democracy that claimed that religion had become and ought to remain a private affair. More than a celebration of the book and its argument, this conference on "A Quarter Century of Public Religions” was an invitation to examine the global transformations of religions in the public sphere in the last twenty-five years. Leading experts in sociology, philosophy, anthropology, religion, history, and political science evaluated these transformations from their own area of expertise and research.