Faculty

Richard L. Wood

Associate Professor
& Director of the Southwest Institute on Religion and Civil Society
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley (1995)

Spring 2012 Office Hourse: Research leave, please call/email for appointment

send e-mail (rlwood@unm.edu)

Sociology Office: Social Sciences 1078
Sociology Office phone: 505-277-3945

Southwest Institute on Religion and Civil Society (SIRCS)

Research Areas

Religion and politics; comparative civil societies (United States, Central America, Middle East); culture in social movements; democratic theory.

 

Select Publications

Rich Wood has been named the new co-editor of the Cambridge University Press book series "Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion, and Politics."  In addition, Wood and Jeannette Aguilar (Director of the Instituto de Opinión Pública of the Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador) serve as the principal investigators on a major research project focused on understanding the impact of dynamic new forms of Christianity on political culture, civil society, and politics in Central America. The project is coordinated by IUDOP/UCA, which oversees research teams in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.

2007. Higher Power: Strategic Capacity for State and National Organizing,@ in Transforming the City: Community Organizing and the Challenge of Political Change, Marion Orr (ed.); Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press: 162-192.

2007. “Thinking Culturally about Politics: Habits 20 Years Later and 20 Years Hence, Sociology of Religion 68:2 (Summer 2007).

2003. Religion, Faith-Based Organizing, and the Struggle for Justice,@ in The Cambridge Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, Michele Dillon (ed.). London and New York: Cambridge University Press; 385-399.

2002. Faith in Action: Religion, Race, and Democratic Organizing in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)

Richard L. Wood's Vita