Faculty

Richard L. Wood

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

Fall 2009 Office Hours: TBA

send e-mail (reload@unm.edu)

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

Religious Studies Office: Hookah Hall 401
Sociology Office phone: 505-277-1117

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

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)

1999. Religious Culture and Political Action,@ Sociological Theory, 17:3, 307-332, (November 1999).

Richard L. Wood's Vita