ROGER FRIEDLAND
Education
University of California, Berkeley B.A.
Sociology, 1969, with distinction
University of Wisconsin, Madison M.Sc.
Rural Sociology, 1971
University of Wisconsin, Madison Ph.D.
Sociology, 1977
Positions Held
Visiting Professor, Department of Accounting and Control, HEC, Paris, Winter, 2013.
Visiting Professor, NYU Abu Dhabi, Department of Social Research and Public Policy, 2011-2013
Fulbright Research Professor, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Department of Political Science, 2004-2005.
Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Universita di Roma, La Sapienza, December, 2002.
Visiting Professor, Scuola Superiore, Universita di Pavia, Italy, Winter, 2000.
Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998-present
Affiliated Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994-1998
Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Universita di Milano, Spring, 1990
Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, Winter, 1990.
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1987-present
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, UCSB, 1983-1987
Associate Professor, Visiting, Department of Sociology and the Institute for Regional Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1983-1984
Assistant Professor, Visiting, Department of Sociology, UCLA, 1981
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, UCSB 1977-1983
Lecturer, History of Consciousness Board and Sociology Board, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1976-1977.
Awards
Fulbright Professorship, 2004-2005, University of Roma, La Sapienza
Getty Scholar, Getty Research Institute, 1997
Fulbright Professorship, 1983-1984, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
German Marshall Fellow, 1978
Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship, 1978
Books
The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship, with Harold Zellman, (New York: Regan Books, 2006; paperback Harper Perennial, 2007, E-book, 2009).
Matters of Culture: Cultural Sociology in Practice, with John Mohr, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.)
To Rule Jerusalem, with Richard Hecht, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Chosen as one of the ten best non-fiction books for 1996 by the Los Angeles Times.
To Rule Jerusalem, with Richard Hecht, second edition, with a new epilogue, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
Now/Here: Space, Time and Modernity, editor, with Deirdre Boden (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1994)
Beyond the Marketplace: Rethinking Economy and Society, editor, with A.F.Robertson, Aldine de Gruyter, 1990
Powers of Theory: Capitalism, the State and Democracy, with Robert Alford, New York and London, Cambridge University Press, 1985; Los Poderes de la Teoria: Capitalismo, Estado y Democracia, Spanish Edition, Ediciones Manantial, 1991; Indonesian Edition, 1991.
Power and Crisis in the City: Corporations, Unions and Urban Policy, London: Macmillan, 1982; New York: Schocken, 1983
Books in Press
Amore: An American Father’s Roman Holiday, (Harper-Collins, June, 2014)
Books in Progress
The Sex of State: Religious Nationalism and Collective Representation, (Harper-Collins, 2014)
Huffington Post Blogs
“God, Sex and Love on American Campuses,” May 24, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-friedland/hey-god-is-that-you-in-my_b_588161.html.
“Guilty Pleasures: Religion and Sex Among American University Students,” July 20, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-friedland/guilty-pleasures-religion_b_649887.html
“Why Do We Hate Them Now?: Anti-Islamic Feelings Nine Years After 9/11” September 13, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-friedland/why-do-we-hate-them-now-a_b_712351.html
“Sex is Not a Secular State: Love and Politics in Turkey,” November 11, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-friedland/sex-is-not-a-secular-state-love-and-politics-in-turkey_b_2115786.html
“When Enemies Make a Common World: Hamas, Netanyahu and the Israel-Gaza War,” November 11, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-friedland/israel-palestine-gaza_b_2148766.html
“When Women Fear to Tread: Sexual Violence and the Egyptian Revolution,” with Janet Afary, February 13, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-friedland/sexual-violence-and-the-egyptian-revolution_b_2658500.html
Articles
“The Gods of Institutional Life: Weber’s Value Spheres and the Practice of Polytheism,” Critical Research on Religion, Vol. 1 , No. 1, 2013.
“God, Love and Other Good Reasons for Practice: Thinking Through Institutional Logics,” Institutional Logics in Action, edited by Michael Lounsbury and Eva Boxenbaum, Vol. 39A, pp. 25-50, 2013
“Divine Institution: Max Weber’s Value Spheres and Institutional Theory,” Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 2013.
“Hey God, Is That You in My Underpants?: The Religious Contours of Students’ Erotic Lives,” with Paolo Gardinali, in Alan Frank, Patricia Clough and Steven Seidman, eds. Intimacies, (New York: Taylor and Francis, 2013).
Book review: Patricia H. Thornton, William Ocasio & Michael Lounsbury 2012, The Institutional Logics Perspective: A new approach to Culture, Structure, and Process. M@n@gement, 15(5), 582-595. http://www.management-aims.com/PapersMgmt/155Friedland.pdf
“Looking Through the Bushes: The Disappearance of Pubic Hair,” Spirituality, Political Engagement, and Public Life, Social Science Research Council, June, 2011
“The Institutional Logic of Religious Nationalism: Sex, Violence and the Ends of History,” Politics, Religion and Ideology, 2011, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-24
“The Constitution of Religious Political Violence: Institutions, Culture and Power,” in Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ronald Jacobs and Philip Smith, The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology, 2011.
“Nei college Us ail vero tabù è l’amore,” Reset, September/October, 2010, pp. 46-51.
“The Sexuality of Religious Nationalism,” in Richard D. Hecht and Vincent F. Biondo, eds. Religion and Everyday Life and Culture, (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2010), pp. 575-606.
“Institution, Practice and Ontology: Towards A Religious Sociology”, Ideology and Organizational Institutionalism, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 27,2009, eds. Renate Meyer, Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson, Marc Ventresca, Peter Walgenbach, pp. 45-83.
“The Endless Fields of Pierre Bourdieu,” special issue of Organisation, “Bourdieu and Domination Within and Between Organizations,” vol. 16, No. 6, November, 2009, pp. 887-917.
“Constituting Violence” in Carlo Mongardini, ed., Il senso delle Costituzioni, Rome: Bulzone Editore, p. 95-106, 2008.
“Mit Freud Im Guggenheim: Architektur Und Sexualitat—Frank Lloyd Wrights Erotische Energien” Lettre International, vol. 80, pp. 92-99, 2008
“Konstituierende Gewalt,” Lettre International, No. 75, Winter, 2006, pp. 25-28.
“Jewish Communities in Israel,” with Richard Hecht, in Mark Juergensmeyer, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Global Religions, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 187-200.
“The Powers of Place,” with Richard Hecht, in Oren Baruch Stier and J. Shawn Landres, eds., Religion, Violence, Memory, and Place, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), pp. 17-36.
“Drag Kings at the Totem Ball,” in Jeffrey C. Alexander and Philip Smith, The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005),. pp. 239-273.
“Religious Terror and the Erotics of Exceptional Violence,” Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures, Vol. 14, No. 5, 2005, pp.39-71
“When Jesus Votes,” Tikkun, January/February, 2005.
Reprinted: “Il mix pubblico-privato che l’Europa non capisce,” Reset, pp. 51-55, January-February, 2005.
Reprinted: “Ha Jézus választ,” Magyar Lettre, February 2005.
“Un sistema nervosa divino: I centri sacri e gli Stati degli dei,” pp. 307-324, Limes: Rivista Italiano di Geopolitica, 1, 2005.
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“CA Forum on Anthropology in Public,” comment on Shereen Ratnagar, “Archaeology at the Heart of a Political Confrontation: The Case of Ayodhya,” Current Anthropology, Vol. 45, No. 2, April, 2004, pp. 252-253.
“Preface,” to Paul Beekman Taylor, Gurdjieff’s America: Mediating the Miraculous, London: Lighthouse Editions, 2004.
“Religiöser Terror. Der Kampf gegen den Säkularismus und die Erotik der Ausnahmegewalt,” Lettre International, No. 65, Summer, 2004.
“The Cultural Turn and American Sociology,” with John Mohr, in Roger Friedland and John Mohr, Matters of Culture: Cultural Sociology in Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
“Gott gegen Geld,” Lettre International, 55, December, 2001, pp. 106-107.
Reprinted: “Terror es egy szent ter kiepitese,” Magyar Lettre Internationale, 2001-2002, pp. 77-78.
Reprinted: Der Schock des 11. September und das Gheimnis des Anderen, (Berlin: Lettre International, 2002), pp. 33-34.
“Terror and the Construction of a Sacred Space,” Tikkun, November/December, 2001, pp. 13-14.
“Money, Sex and God: The Erotic Logic of Religious Nationalism,” Sociological Theory, Volume 20, No. 3, November, 2002, pp. 381-425.
“Geld, Sex und Gott,” Lettre International, 52, Winter, 2001, pp. 26-31.
“Denaro, Sesso e Dio: La Logica Critica del Nazionalismo Religioso,” Quaderni di Teoria Sociale, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2001, pp. 121-140.
“Religious Nationalism and the Problem of Collective Representation,” Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 27, 2001, pp. 125-152.
“Broadacre in Brentwood: The Politics of Architectural Aesthetics,” with Harold Zellman, in Looking for LA, edited by Michael Roth and Charles Salas, Getty Research Institute, 2001, pp. 167-210.
“War Sex, and God: Religious Terrorism in the Mind of Mark Juergensmeyer,” Tikkun, pp. 23-25, 57, May/June, 2000.
Reprinted in the Encyclopedia Britannica magazine, Britannica.com
“Numinous Lucre: Sign of the Times,” pp. 133-142, Vecchie e nuove elites, (Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2000), ed. Carlo Mongardini.
“Changing Places: Jerusalem’s Holy Places in Comparative Perspective,” with Richard Hecht, pp. 200-225, in David Levi-Fauer, Gabriel Sheffer and David Vogel, eds., Israel: The Dynamics of Change and Continuity, (London: Frank Cass, 1999),
Reprinted in Israel Affairs, Vol. 5, Nos. 2 and 3, Winter-Spring, 1999, pp. 200-225.
“When God Walks in History,” Tikkun, May/June, 1999, pp. 17-22.
Reprinted in the Encyclopedia Britannica electronic magazine, Brittanica.com.
Reprinted: “Quando Dio incede nella storia: le origini del nazionalismo religioso,” Il Mulino, March/April, 1999, pp. 245-255.
Reprinted: “Gott in der Nation. Wenn hochste Wesen durch unsere Geschichte
schreiten” Lettre International, Spring, 1999, pp. 28-31.
“When God Walks in History: The Institutional Politics of Religious Nationalism,” International Sociology, September, 1999, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 301-319.
"Lost in Space: The Geography of Corporate Interlocking Directorates,” with Clifford Kono, Donald Palmer and Matthew Zafonte, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 103, No. 4, January, 1998, pp. 863-911.
“The Bodies of Nations: A Comparative Study of Religious Violence in Jerusalem and Ayodhya,” with Richard Hecht, History of Religions, Spring, 1998.
“The Symbol and the Stone: Jerusalem at the Millenium,” with Richard Hecht, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 558, July, 1998.
“Broadacre in Brentwood,” with Harold Zellman, The Getty Bulletin, Vol. 10, No. 2, Winter, 1997, special Los Angeles Issue for the opening of the new Getty Center, pp. 24-26.
"The Nebi Musa Pilgrimage and the Origins of Palestinian Nationalism," with Richard Hecht, in Bryan F. Le Beau and Meanchem Mor, eds, Pilgrims and Travelers to the Holy Land, Omaha: Creighton University Press, 1996, pp. 89-118.
Revised as: "The Power of Place: The Pilgrimage to Nebi Musa and the Origins of Palestinian Nationalism," Edward Giroux and Sar Denning, eds., The Persistence of Religion: Essays in Honor of Kees W. Bolle, Los Angeles and Philadelphia: Udana Press and the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996).
"Morde im Gelobten Land: Die messianischen Hintergrunde politscher Attentate," with Richard Hecht, Lettre International, 33, June, 1996, pp. 20-24.
Reprinted as: "Le radici religiose dell'estremismo israeliano," with Richard Hecht, Lettera Internazionale, 12 (48), April-June, 1996, pp. 58-63.
"Divisions at the Center: The Organization of Political Violence at Jerusalem's Temple Mount/al-haram al-sharif--1929 and 1990," with Richard Hecht, in Paul R. Brass, ed., Riots and Pogroms, (London and New York: Macmillan and CUNY Press, 1996), pp. 114-153.
"Gerusalemme, capitale dello scontro," with Richard Hecht, Reset, 28 May, 1996, pp.31-37.
Reprinted as: "Auge Aus Stein: Jerusalem-Strategien im Kampft um die Heilige Stadt," Lettre International, 33, September, 1996, pp. 18-20.
"Shalom, shalom, addio alla pace?" with Richard Hecht, Confronti, 7/8, July-August, 1996, pp. 23-25.
“Abbasso le politche razziali!” Limes: Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica, 4, 1996, pp. 117-128.
“Der Islam Im Nahen Osten: Von der Moselm-Bruiderschaft zum Kampf der Hamas,” with Richard Hecht, Lettre International, 50, Winter, 1996, pp. 50-
58.
"The Politics of Time and Space in Jerusalem: Interest, Symbol and Power," with Richard Hecht, in Sabrina Petra Ramet and Donald W. Treadgold, eds., Render unto Caesar: Religious Sphere in World Politics, American University Press, 1995, pp. 373-424.
"The Myths of an Uncivil Society: Commento a "Il 'segreto hegeliano': societa civile ed 'eccezionalismo' americano" di Daniel Bell, pp. 171-180, in Gli annali delle ricerche economiche, politiche e sociale della fondazione Rosselli, 1995.
"Israel, Il Messiah che Gronda Sangue," with Richard Hecht, Reset, May, 1994, pp. 27-31.
"Space, Place, and Modernity: The Geographical Moment," Contemporary Sociology, 21 (1), 1992, pp. 11-15.
"Now/Here: An Introduction to Space, Time and Modernity," with Deirdre Boden, in NowHere: Space, Time and Modernity.
"Space, Corporation and Class: Towards a Grounded Theory," with Donald Palmer, in NowHere: Space, Time and Modernity
"Gerusalemme, Labirinto Insanguinato," with Richard Hecht, pp.99-117, MicroMega, 5/90, December/January, 1991.
"Prisoners of War: The Prospects for Israeli-Palestinian Peace," with Richard Hecht, States and Societies, Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring, 1991.
"Quale Pace In Medio Oriente," with Richard Hecht, pp.165-203,, MicroMega, 3/91, June/September, 1991.
"The Politics of Holy Place: Jerusalem Temple Mount/haram al-sharif," with Richard D. Hecht, in Jamie S. Scott and Paul Simpson-Housley, eds. Sacred Places and Profane Spaces, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991, pp. 21-62.
"Bringing Society Back In: Symbols, Practices and Institutional Contradictions," with Robert Alford, in Walter W. Powell and Paul DiMaggio, eds., The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 1991, pp. 232-263.
Reprinted: "La sociedad regresa al primer plano: símbolos, prácticas y contradicciones institucionales", Zona Abierta, Madrid, núms. 63-64, 1993.
"Beyond the Marketplace: Rethinking Economy and Society," with A.F. Robertson, in Roger Friedland and A.F. Robertson, eds. Beyond the Marketplace: Rethinking Economy and Society, Aldine de Gruyter, 1990.
"Corporations and the Urban Advanced Business Service Sector," with Donald Palmer, Amy Roussel, and Devereaux Jennings, Social Forces, Volume 69, No. 1, pp.115-138, (September) 1990.
"Corporate Headquarters Relocation," with Joseph H. Eisenberg, Real Estate Issues, Fall/Winter, pp.38-41, 1990.
"The Geography of Corporate Production: Urban, Industrial and Organizational Systems," with Donald Palmer and Magnus Stenbeck, Sociological Forum, 5(3):335-359, 1990.
"Private and Social Wage Expansion in the Advanced Market Economies," with Jimy Sanders, Pp. 311-340 in Sharon Zukin and Paul DiMaggio, eds., Structures of Capital: The Social Organization of the Economy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
"Rocks, Roads and Ramot Control: The Other War for Jerusalem," with Richard Hecht, Soundings, 72.2-3, Summer/Fall, pp. 227-273, 1989.
"Capitalism and the Welfare State: The Politics of Wages and Growth" with Jimy Sanders in Michael K. Brown, ed., Remaking the Welfare State, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988, pp.29-56.
"The Economics and Politics of Structure: The Multidivisional Form and the Large U.S. Corporation," with Donald Palmer, P. Devereaux Jennings and Melanie Powers, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 32, 1987, pp.25-48.
"Urban Systems Theory and Urban Policy: A Four Nation Comparison," with Michael Aiken, Kenneth Newton and Guido Martinotti, British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 17, 1987, pp.341-358.
Corporation, Class and the City System," with Donald Palmer, in Mark S. Mizruchi and Michael Schwartz, eds., Structural Analysis of Business, New York and London, Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp.145-187.
"La danza della morte. Terrore e possibilita di pace palestinese-israeliana," (The Dance of Death--Terror and the Possibilities of Palestinian-Israeli Peace), with Richard Hecht, Il Mulino, maggio-giugno, 1986, no. 305, pp. 468-483