Beheading the Saint is about the shifting relationship between nationalism, religion, and secularism in a society which was, until the…
Geneviève Zubrzycki
Geneviève Zubrzycki is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan and Director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. She is the author of the award-winningThe Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion and Secularism in Quebec (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and editor of National Matters: Nationalism, Culture and Materiality (forthcoming, Stanford University Press). She is now completing a third monograph on the current revival of Jewish communities in Poland and non-Jewish Poles’ interest in all things Jewish.
Latest posts
Building secularity via religious revival and the “patrimonialization” of religion
October 13, 2016
While crude secularization theories predicting the end of religion have, in response to strong criticism, been refined to be less…
Crossing the sacred secular
May 14, 2010
In her essay on Salazar v. Buono, Winni Sullivan ponders why crosses present such a difficulty for the modern, secular nation-state, and…