Professor Philip Gorski

Professor of Sociology and of Religious Studies, Yale University

Philip S. Gorski is a comparative-historical sociologist with strong interests in theory and methods and in modern and early modern Europe. His empirical work focuses on topics such as state-formation, nationalism, revolution, economic development and secularization with particular attention to the interaction of religion and politics. Other current interests include the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences and the nature and role of rationality in social life.

Publications include The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Growth of State Power in Early Modern Europe (Chicago, 2003) and Max Weber’s Economy and Society: A Critical Companion (Stanford, 2004).

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