External links
- Interview with Robert Wuthnow
- "The Moral Minority", article by Wuthnow
- 2003 Lake Lecture:Faith and Giving: From Christian Charity to Spiritual Practice
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| Born | Robert John Wuthnow 1946 (age 78–79) Kansas, US |
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| Thesis | Consciousness and the Transformation of Society (1975) |
| Influences | Robert N. Bellah [1] [2] |
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| Discipline | Sociology |
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| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Doctoral students | W. Bradford Wilcox [3] |
Robert Wuthnow (born 1946) is an American sociologist who is widely known for his work in the sociology of culture and sociology of religion. He is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Princeton University, where he is also the former chair of the Department of Sociology and former director of the Princeton University Center for the Study of Religion. [4]
Wuthnow was born in Kansas [5] in 1946. His father was a farmer and his mother was a teacher. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Kansas in 1968 and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in sociology at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. His dissertation was Consciousness and the Transformation of Society. While at Berkeley, Wuthnow worked closely with Charles Glock, Neil Smelser, Robert Bellah, Guy Swanson, and Gertrude Selznick. Wuthnow's first years at Berkeley were during the widespread protests on campus around the US, which ultimately inspired his dissertation. Glock and Bellah received a grant to study the symbolic—especially the religious—dimensions of the counter-culture movement from the Institute for Religion and Social Change. This four-year project resulted in the edited volume The New Religious Consciousness in 1976. Wuthnow realized that the counter-culture movements were just the most prominent evidence of deeper changes in American culture and used data from the project to argue this in his dissertation, eventually published as The Consciousness Reformation in 1976.
After teaching at the University of Arizona from 1974 to 1976, he took a position in sociology at Princeton University where he continued until his retirement in 2021.
Wuthnow has published widely in the sociology of religion, culture, and civil society. [6] His research and teaching has included work in the areas of social change, the sociology of belonging, community, rural sociology, religion and politics, and sociological theory. [7]
At Princeton, Wuthnow supervised numerous graduate students' dissertations, directed numerous foundation grants on various aspects of American religion and philanthropy, was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship for his research on religion and diversity, served as president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Eastern Sociological Society, and was general editor of The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. The recipient of numerous awards for his research and publications, he received the Tufts University Civic Engagement Prize, [8] the Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research from the board of directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, [9] the Martin E. Marty Award for Public Understanding of Religion from the American Academy of Religion, the Mirra Komarovaky Best Book Award from the Eastern Sociological Society, the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize from the Texas State Historical Association, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for the Sociology of Religion. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. [10]
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