It is a testament to the power of the “strong program” image that most commentators on our working paper read…
David Smilde
David Smilde is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia. The author of Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism (University of California, 2007), he is currently at work on a project on religion and political conflict in Venezuela during the era of Hugo Chavez.
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Institutions, discourses, practices… and life-in-the-world
July 1, 2010
The portraits social scientists create get appropriated by their subjects, used, and fed back to social scientists. Like a Cherokee…
Toward a new sociology of religion
February 15, 2010
Many sociologists of religion have voiced the concern that the sub-discipline is "in crisis." Others bemoan what they view as…
The emerging strong program in the sociology of religion
February 8, 2010
Most sociologists of religion seem to agree on two things. First, that the growth of interest in religion---in academia, the…
Evangelicals and the relational self in Venezuela
August 4, 2008
Anglophone scholars have long struggled to find a terminology with which to study non-Catholic Christianity in Latin America. We are…