Roger Friedland is a sociologist who wishes to recuperate Dilthey's project of the human sciences without losing the knowledges gleaned from causal, explanatory, comparative studies. He is interested in the ways in which the religious is being deployed in public life, particularly the case of religious nationalism. He develops an institutional approach to the study of religion, institutions not simply as valued organizational sets and types of practices, but as ontological performance.
He is also the co-organizer, with John Mohr, of the Cultural Turn conferences at UCSB, designed to explore the zones shared and contested between the social sciences and the humanities. Visit the Cultural Turn website at .
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