Andrew M. McKinnon, a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, is a social theorist and sociologist of religion.


Publications:

11. (forthcoming) "Sociological Epistemologies: Durkheim's Paradox and Dorothy E. Smith's Actuality" in Sociology (with Randle J. Hart).

10. (forthcoming) "Energy and Society: Herbert Spencer’s ‘Energetic Sociology’ of Social Evolution and Beyond" Journal of Classical Sociology vol. 11 no. 4, 2011.     

9. (2010) "Elective Affinities of the Protestant Ethic: Max Weber's Chemistry of Capitalism" in Sociological Theory vol. 28 no. 1

8. (2010) "Classical Foundations of the Sociology of Religion" in Bryan S. Turner (ed.) The New Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion Oxford: Blackwell.    

7. (2007)  "For an 'Energetic' Sociology, or, Why Coal, Oil and Electricity Matter for Sociological Theory" (Review Essay) in Critical Sociology vol. 33 no. 1.

6. (2006) “Ritual Re-definition as Passport Control: A Rejoinder to Timothy Fitzgerald after Bourdieu” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion vol. 18 no. 2.

5. (2006) “ ‘Opium’ as Dialectical Metaphor: Religion, Expression, and Protest” in Warren S. Goldstein (ed.) Marxism, Critical Theory and Religion Leiden: Brill Academic, 2006 [substantial revision of #4] .

         2009. Chicago: Haymarket Books (paperback).

4. (2005) “Reading ‘Opium of the People’: Expression, Protest and the Dialectics of Religion” in Critical Sociology, vol. 31 no. 1-2

3. (2004) “Ellul, Jacques” in The Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought Christopher John Murray (ed.) London: Routledge.

2. (2003) “The Religious, the Paranormal and Church Attendance: A Response to Orenstein” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion vol 42 no. 2. 

1. (2002) “Sociological Definitions, Language Games and the ‘Essence’ of Religion”, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion vol. 14 pp 61-83.