Philip Gorski | Emory University School of Law | Atlanta, GA

Philip Gorski, Frederick and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Yale University. Gorski is a comparative-historical sociologist whose scholarship centers primarily in modern and early-modern Europen and North America. His work in the area of law and religion focuses on topics such as state-formation, nationalism, and secularization with particular attention to the interaction of religion and politics. Additional research areas include the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences, religious nationalism, and civil religion. He is currently writing a book on “the fragmentation of the sacred”, which critiques neo-Weberian theories of “disenchantment” and advances an alternative narrative of Western modernity.”