José Casanova
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3600499 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | José Casanova |
| NOMBRES | José |
| APELLIDO | Casanova |
| FIRMA | CASANOVA J |
| AFILIACIONES | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5120-2057 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 225 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Human values
In this work we study values in 13 countries of the EU highlighting the case of Portugal. We use the indicators of “human values” (S. H. Schwartz), “country”, “age”, “education”, and “socio-professional category” from the European Social Survey. Non-responses to the questions on human values exist and are more probable among those individuals in a situation of social exclusion. There is a change at the top of the values’ hierarchy in the EU from …
Sacred Places
This article explores the evolving relationship between the public secular sacred and the religious sacred in the context of contemporary global religious and political dynamics. The study develops a comparative typology of sacred sites, analyzing how post-secular dynamics manifest in four Christian pilgrimage contexts – Sacré-Cœur in Paris, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain, and La Sagrada Fam…
Asian Pacific Catholicism and Globalization
Secolarizzazione
Chapter 13 The Religious Situation in the United States 175 Years After Tocqueville
The Three Kyivan Churches of Ukraine and the Three Romes
Casanova is one of the world's top scholars in the sociology of religion and a senior fellow at the Berkley Center, where his work focuses on globalization, religions, and secularization. His best-known work, Public Religions in the Modern World (U of Chicago P, 1994), has become a modern classic in the field and has been translated into several languages. Since the 1990s, Professor Casanova has been a close observer of the evolution of civil soc…
Crediting God
Tocqueville suggested that "the people reign in the American political world like God over the universe.” This intuition anticipates the crisis in the secularization paradigm that has brought theology back as a fundamental part of sociological and political analysis. It has become more difficult to believe that humanity’s progress necessarily leads to atheism, or that it is possible to translate all that is good about religion into reasonable ter…
Quando a democracia incuba desigualdade e heteronomia
Neste estudo analisamos a base social dos partidos autoritários e nacionalistas (AN) na União Europeia a partir de uma teoria que articula dimensões sociais e culturais. Pretende-se caracterizar e compreender este eleitorado, e explicar o seu crescimento, considerando a sua classe social, escolaridade, rendimento, orientações sociais, valores humanos e atitudes relativamente aos imigrantes, e observando trajetórias de desigualdades. Os dados são …
Global Religious and Secular Dynamics
Global Religious and Secular Dynamics offers a global historical perspective that integrates European theories of modern secularization and competing theories of global religious revival as interrelated dynamics. In the first section Casanova examines the emergence of the modern religious/secular binary system of classification within a critical review of Émile Durkheim’s and Max Weber’s divergent theories of religion. The modern system of classi…
Religion
All attempts to construct a general definition of “religion,” valid for all times and places, have proved unsatisfactory so far. Christian Smith’s Religion offers the best theoretical-analytical definition I know, even if at the end it also proves not fully satisfactory and is certainly not sufficient to ground a general “theory” of religion. The definition forms the core and the most systematic and persuasive contribution of this theoretically a…
Exploring the Postsecular. Three Meanings of «the Secular» and Their Possible Transcendence
The Karel Dobbelaere lecture
This article analyzes the two divergent, though intertwined, roads of European secularization and global religious pluralism. In continental Western Europe, modernization and urbanization were accompanied by drastic secularization with limited religious pluralism. By contrast, in much of the rest of the world, in the Americas, North and South, throughout Asia and the Pacific and in Sub-Saharan Africa, modernization and urbanization have led to re…
Mapping social work across 10 countries
An emerging global consciousness and rising attention given to international social work development has seen the recognition of comparative research within the profession. Understanding the functioning and organisation of social work within various country contexts is critical in order to formulate knowledge around its overall impact, successes and challenges, allowing social workers to learn from one another and build professional consolidation…
Crisis and Cultural Change
After the financial crisis in 2008 significant changes occurred in the European Union, particularly in the countries that had adjustment programmes. According to empirical work by Hofstede, Inglehart and Schwartz it’s predictable that societal changes have a cultural impact. Data from European Social Survey since 2002 show that changes in political orientations are bigger than in Human Values, and deepen after 2008. Changes on countries that had …
Contemporary changes and civil society in Portugal and the Russian Federation
Portugal and the Russian Federation share some aspects of traditional culture and similar experiences in modern history, but they also exhibit significant differences that determine specific modes of civil society’s development.Results of a comparative and diachronic analysis show that the major differences between the two countries reside in civil society’s openness and composition. Organized civil society is not very distinct in relative size w…
Locating Religion and Secularity in East Asia Through Global Processes
The central premise of this paper is that in order to understand the social construction of religion and secularity in East Asia today we need to take a long durée historical approach, which takes into account the colonial encounters between the Christian West and East Asia during three different and distinct phases of globalization. While most of the recent scholarly work on the globalization of the categories of religion and secularity focuses …
Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective
This volume reframes the debate around Islam and women’s rights within a broader comparative literature. It examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part I addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part II localizes the implementation of this nexus b…
Assessing the public willingness to contribute income to mitigate the effects of climate change
While the scientific rationale for climate change mitigation has never been stronger, the Australian public is still hesitant about personally contributing to its costs. This public reticence is often explained as resulting from cost-benefit calculations and a human propensity to prioritize present over future goods. In this article we argue that these assumptions have limited bearing on people's willingness to contribute. Our research supports t…
Secularization
Secular and Sacred?
Topographies of Faith
Based on ethnographic explorations in cities across the globe, Topographies of Faith offers a unique and compelling analysis of contemporary religious dynamics in metropolitan centers. While most scholarship on religion still sidelines questions of spatiality and scale, this book creatively draws on perspectives from urban studies to study the spatiality of religion in modern cities. It shows how globalization, transnational migration and urban e…
Religion, Secularization, and Sacralization
Much of the difficulty in analyzing processes of secularization, religious transformation and sacralization in our global age derives from the tendency to use the dichotomous analytical categories sacred/profane, transcendent/immanent, and religious/secular, as if they would be synonymous and interchangeable, when in fact they correspond to historically distinctive, somewhat overlapping but not synonymous or equivalent social systems of classific…
Religion, the Axial Age, and Secular Modernity in Bellah’s Theory of Religious Evolution
Religion, the Axial Age, and Secular Modernity in Bellah’s Th eory of Religious Evolution
The politics of nativism
The politics of nativism directed at Catholic immigrants in 19th-century America offer a fruitful comparative perspective through which to analyze the discourse and the politics of Islam in contemporary Europe. Anti-Catholic nativism constituted a peculiar North American version of the larger and more generalized phenomenon of anti-immigrant populist xenophobic politics which one finds in many countries and in different historical contexts. What …
The Secular and Secularisms
This paper explores the distinction between secularism as ideology and secularism as statecraft principle. By secularism as statecraft principle, I understand simply some principle of separation between religious and political authority, either for the sake of the neutrality of the state vis-à-vis each and all religions, or for the sake of protecting the freedom of conscience of each individual, or for the sake of facilitating the equal access of…
Religion, the New Millennium, and Globalization
Journal Article Religion, the New Millennium, and Globalization Get access José Casanova José Casanova * New School for Social Research * Direct all correspondence to: Dr. José Casanova, Sociology Department, New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 4, Winter 2001, Pages 415–44…
Cosmopolitanism, the clash of civilizations and multiple modernities
The article examines the three alternative conceptions of the emerging global order with special reference to the place and role of the world religions in that order. (1) Cosmopolitanism builds upon developmental theories of modernization that envision this transformation as a global expansion of western secular modernity, conceived as a universal process of human development. Secularization remains a key analytical as well as normative component…
Classes sociais e estudantes universitários
A importância da dimensão escolar/educacional na constituição das sociedades actuais e, mais especificamente, na configuração das desigualdades sociais contemporâneas, tem sido um dos principais objectos de interesse da sociologia. Situando-se no quadro desta problemática, o presente artigo analisa, com base nos resultados de um inquérito recente a uma amostra representativa dos estudantes universitários portugueses, as probabilidades desiguais d…
The Long, Difficult, and Tortuous Journey of Turkey into Europe and the Dilemmas of European Civilization
Mapping social work across 10 countries
An emerging global consciousness and rising attention given to international social work development has seen the recognition of comparative research within the profession. Understanding the functioning and organisation of social work within various country contexts is critical in order to formulate knowledge around its overall impact, successes and challenges, allowing social workers to learn from one another and build professional consolidation…
The politics of nativism
The politics of nativism directed at Catholic immigrants in 19th-century America offer a fruitful comparative perspective through which to analyze the discourse and the politics of Islam in contemporary Europe. Anti-Catholic nativism constituted a peculiar North American version of the larger and more generalized phenomenon of anti-immigrant populist xenophobic politics which one finds in many countries and in different historical contexts. What …
The Sacralization of the Humanum
Public Religions in the Modern World
Locating Religion and Secularity in East Asia Through Global Processes
The central premise of this paper is that in order to understand the social construction of religion and secularity in East Asia today we need to take a long durée historical approach, which takes into account the colonial encounters between the Christian West and East Asia during three different and distinct phases of globalization. While most of the recent scholarly work on the globalization of the categories of religion and secularity focuses …
Global Catholicism and the Politics of Civil Society
A transformation of the politics of Catholicism worldwide has taken place. The final recognition of the modern principle of religious freedom at Vatican II, together with the assumption by the church of the modern doctrine of human rights, has altered the traditional dynamic of church state relations and the role of the church both nationally and transnationally.National churches no longer aspire to become state compulsory institutions. It is thi…
Crisis and Cultural Change
After the financial crisis in 2008 significant changes occurred in the European Union, particularly in the countries that had adjustment programmes. According to empirical work by Hofstede, Inglehart and Schwartz it’s predictable that societal changes have a cultural impact. Data from European Social Survey since 2002 show that changes in political orientations are bigger than in Human Values, and deepen after 2008. Changes on countries that had …
Assessing the public willingness to contribute income to mitigate the effects of climate change
While the scientific rationale for climate change mitigation has never been stronger, the Australian public is still hesitant about personally contributing to its costs. This public reticence is often explained as resulting from cost-benefit calculations and a human propensity to prioritize present over future goods. In this article we argue that these assumptions have limited bearing on people's willingness to contribute. Our research supports t…
Portrait
José Casanova’s Public Religions in the Modern World (1994) has transformed the study of religion quite considerably. As I recall, the book was received relatively slowly in its first years. Casanova’s thesis gained momentum with the escalating focus on religion after 9/11 and the ensuing publicity for Huntington’s (1996) thesis of an imminent clash of civilizations. While many only then turned to the study of religion, Casanova had already prepa…
The Politics of the Religious Revival
Quando a democracia incuba desigualdade e heteronomia
Neste estudo analisamos a base social dos partidos autoritários e nacionalistas (AN) na União Europeia a partir de uma teoria que articula dimensões sociais e culturais. Pretende-se caracterizar e compreender este eleitorado, e explicar o seu crescimento, considerando a sua classe social, escolaridade, rendimento, orientações sociais, valores humanos e atitudes relativamente aos imigrantes, e observando trajetórias de desigualdades. Os dados são …
Contemporary changes and civil society in Portugal and the Russian Federation
Portugal and the Russian Federation share some aspects of traditional culture and similar experiences in modern history, but they also exhibit significant differences that determine specific modes of civil society’s development.Results of a comparative and diachronic analysis show that the major differences between the two countries reside in civil society’s openness and composition. Organized civil society is not very distinct in relative size w…
Secular Imaginaries
Postmodern Ethics
Fundamentalisms and Society
Conversation with Otto Maduro
CASANOVA: In the “Foreword” to your book Religion and Social Conflicts, Luis Ogade begins with a series of texts from the Latin American Anticommunist Federation, the Rockefeller Report, the Rand Study for the State Department and the like denouncing the Church as “subversive” and “revolutionary. “Hepoints out that the Right has begun to appreciate the revolutionary and subversive potential of religion, while the Left seems to continue the old st…
The Politics of the Religious Revival
Public religions in the modern world
"In a sweeping reconsideration of the relation between religion and modernity, Jose Casanova surveys the roles that religions may play in the public sphere of modern societies. During the 1980s, religious traditions around the world, from Islamic fundamentalism to Catholic liberation theology, began making their way, often forcefully, out of the private sphere and into public life, causing the "deprivatization" of religion in contemporary life. N…
Public Religions in the Modern World
"In a sweeping reconsideration of the relation between religion and modernity, Jose Casanova surveys the roles that religions may play in the public sphere of modern societies. During the 1980s, religious traditions around the world, from Islamic fundamentalism to Catholic liberation theology, began making their way, often forcefully, out of the private sphere and into public life, causing the "deprivatization" of religion in contemporary life. N…
Public Religions in the Modern World
Journal Article Public Religions in the Modern World, by José Casanova. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, $22.95 Get access Adam B. Seligman Adam B. Seligman University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 55, Issue 4, Winter 1994, Pages 488–489, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711986 Published: 01 December 1994
God's Peoples
Postmodern Ethics
Fundamentalisms and Society
Public Religions in the Modern World
Public Religions in the Modern World
Secularization, Rationalism and Sectarianism
Public Religions in the Modern World
In this reconsideration of the relation between religion and modernity, Jose Casanova surveys the roles that religions may play in the public sphere of modern societies. During the 1980s, religious traditions around the world, from Islamic fundamentalism to Catholic liberation theology, began making their way, often forcefully, out of the private sphere and into public life, causing the deprivatization of religion in contemporary life. No longer …
Immigrants and Nationalists
Public Religions in the Modern World
Global Catholicism and the Politics of Civil Society
A transformation of the politics of Catholicism worldwide has taken place. The final recognition of the modern principle of religious freedom at Vatican II, together with the assumption by the church of the modern doctrine of human rights, has altered the traditional dynamic of church state relations and the role of the church both nationally and transnationally.National churches no longer aspire to become state compulsory institutions. It is thi…
The Sacralization of the Humanum
Religion, the New Millennium, and Globalization
Journal Article Religion, the New Millennium, and Globalization Get access José Casanova José Casanova * New School for Social Research * Direct all correspondence to: Dr. José Casanova, Sociology Department, New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 4, Winter 2001, Pages 415–44…
Classes sociais e estudantes universitários
A importância da dimensão escolar/educacional na constituição das sociedades actuais e, mais especificamente, na configuração das desigualdades sociais contemporâneas, tem sido um dos principais objectos de interesse da sociologia. Situando-se no quadro desta problemática, o presente artigo analisa, com base nos resultados de um inquérito recente a uma amostra representativa dos estudantes universitários portugueses, as probabilidades desiguais d…
Religion, European secular identities, and European integration
Since the signing of the Treaty of Rome in 1957 that established the EEC and initiated the ongoing process of European integration, Western European societies have undergone a rapid, drastic, and seemingly irreversible process of secularization. In this respect, one can talk of the emergence of a post-Christian Europe. At the same time, the process of European integration, the eastward expansion of the European Union, and the drafting of a Europe…
Secularization Revisited
Religion in an Expanding Europe
With political controversies raging over issues such as the wearing of headscarves in schools and the mention of Christianity in the European Constitution, religious issues are of growing importance in European politics. In this volume, Byrnes and Katzenstein analyze the effect that enlargement to countries with different and stronger religious traditions may have on the EU as a whole, and in particular on its homogeneity and assumed secular natu…
The Long, Difficult, and Tortuous Journey of Turkey into Europe and the Dilemmas of European Civilization
Rethinking secularization
This chapter suggests that in order to speak meaningfully of ‘secularization’ we needed to distinguish three different connotations: (i) Secularization, as decline of religious beliefs and practices in modern societies, often postulated as a human universal developmental process. (ii) Secularization, as privatization of religion, often understood both as a general modern historical trend and as a normative condition, indeed as a precondition for …
Liberal Modernity , Catholicism , Islam - Armando Salvatore, The Public Sphere. Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
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Secular Imaginaries
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