Warren S. Goldstein, Executive Director of the Center for Critical Research on Religion, is a Visiting Fellow of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. His Ph.D. is from the New School for Social Research. He is the editor of  Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice. His current research is on developing a critical sociology of religion (with a dialectical theory of secularization as its central focus) as a "new paradigm" in the sociology of religion.

Hardcover: Brill Academic Publishers 2006
Paperback: Haymarket Books 2009

Selected Publications:

Goldstein, Warren S. 2010. "Secularization and the Iranian Revolution." Islamic Perspective Journal 3:50-67.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2009. “Patterns of Secularization and Religious Rationalization in Emile Durkheim and Max Weber.” Implicit Religion 12(2):135-163.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2009. “Secularization Patterns in The Old Paradigm,” Sociology of Religion 70(2):157-178.
 
Goldstein, Warren S. 2009. “The Case for a Critical Sociology of Religion” Pp. 135-142 in Graham Cassano and Richard Dello Buono eds., Crisis, Politics and Critical Sociology. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2006. “Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity: A Critical Dialectical/Conflict Approach to Biblical History.” Pp. 205-222 in Goldstein, Warren S., ed. Marx, Critical Theory and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice Leiden, NL: Brill Academic Publishers.

Gay, David, Warren S. Goldstein, and Anna Buck Campbell. 2006. "Operationalizing the Critical Theory of Religion." Pp. 343-357 in Goldstein, Warren S., ed. Marx, Critical Theory and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2006. “Dreaming of the Collective Awakening: Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch’s Theory of Dreams” Humanity and Society 30 (1):50-66

Goldstein, Warren S. 2005. “The Dialectics of Religious Rationalization and Secularization: Max Weber and Ernst Bloch.” Critical Sociology 31 (1-2):115-152.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2002. “Walter Benjamin: A Sociologist?” Pp. 21-42 in Lost Sociologists Rediscovered, edited by Mary Ann Romano. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2001. “Messianism and Marxism: Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch’s Dialectical Theories of Secularization.” Critical Sociology 27:246-281.


Contact Information:

Warren S. Goldstein, Ph.D.
Center for Critical Research on Religion
17 Richfield Rd.
West Newton, MA 02465 USA
1(407) 782-8064

www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org