{"id":5248,"date":"2017-07-03T11:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/?page_id=5248"},"modified":"2017-09-07T14:28:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T18:28:05","slug":"peter-l-berger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/peter-l-berger\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter L. Berger"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment5251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment5251\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/cura\/files\/2017\/07\/berger-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cura\/files\/2017\/07\/berger-copy-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"BU Photo\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/files\/2017\/07\/berger-copy-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/files\/2017\/07\/berger-copy-768x1114.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/files\/2017\/07\/berger-copy-706x1024.jpg 706w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/files\/2017\/07\/berger-copy.jpg 1323w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment5251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BU Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week we lost our Founder and former Director, Peter L. Berger. His contribution both to the Boston University community and the study of the sociology of religion and modernization, and the sociology of knowledge is immeasurable. Please click below for some reflections on Peter&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"\/cura\/files\/2017\/07\/berger_hefner.pdf\">From former Director Robert W. Hefner<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/cura\/files\/2017\/07\/Berger-remembrance.Ammerman.pdf\">From Associate Dean of Social Sciences at the College\u00a0of Arts and Sciences, Nancy T. Ammerman<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/449158\/peter-berger-obituary-remembrance-sociologist-religion-society-george-weigel\">From colleague George Weigel for\u00a0the National Review<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-american-interest.com\/2017\/06\/29\/peter-berger-rip\/\">From Adam Garfinkle, editor of The American Interest<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheeljournal.com\/blog\/2017\/7\/2\/michael-plekon-in-memoriam-professor-peter-l-berger-19292017\">From a former student, Michael Plekon<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/29\/us\/obituary-peter-berger-dead-theologian-sociologist.html\">Obituary in The New York Times<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2017\/peter-berger-obituary\/\">Obituary in BU Today<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we lost our Founder and former Director, Peter L. Berger. His contribution both to the Boston University community and the study of the sociology of religion and modernization, and the sociology of knowledge is immeasurable. Please click below for some reflections on Peter&#8217;s life. From former Director Robert W. Hefner From Associate Dean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7692,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5342,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5248\/revisions\/5342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}