Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University

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Professor Princeton, New Jersey wuthnow@princeton.edu Office: (609) 258-4742

Bio/Research

Robert Wuthnow is Gerhard R. Andlinger `52 Professor of Sociology and Director of Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion. He has published widely in the sociology of religion, culture, and civil society. His publications include The Restructuring of American Religion: Society an...

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Bio/Research

Robert Wuthnow is Gerhard R. Andlinger `52 Professor of Sociology and Director of Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion. He has published widely in the sociology of religion, culture, and civil society. His publications include The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II; After Heaven: Spirituality in America since the 1950s; Loose Connections: Joining Together in America’s Fragmented Communities; and Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism. His recent books include Small-Town America: Finding Community, Shaping the Future and Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation’s Faith. He is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a recipient of the Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research, the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Martin E. Marty Award for Public Understanding of Religion. His current research focuses on religion and politics, religion and race, social change, rural America, and sociological theory.

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