{"id":784,"date":"2009-07-24T10:05:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T14:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/?page_id=784"},"modified":"2015-07-08T11:37:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:37:53","slug":"bergercv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/founder\/bergercv\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter L. Berger"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Academic Career<\/h3>\n<p>Ph.D., Sociology, New School for Social Research, 1954<br \/>\n(U.S. Army, 1953-1955)<br \/>\nResearch director, Protestant Academy, Bad Boll (Germany), 1955-1956<br \/>\nAssistant professor, Woman\u2019s College, University of North Carolina, 1956-1958<br \/>\nAssociate professor and director of the Institute on Church and Community, Hartford Theological Seminary, 1958-1963<br \/>\nAssociate professor, then professor, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, 1963-1970<br \/>\nProfessor, Rutgers University, 1970-1979<br \/>\nProfessor, Boston College, 1979-1981<br \/>\nUniversity Professor, now emeritus, Boston University, 1981-<br \/>\nDirector, now senior research fellow, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, 1985-<\/p>\n<h3>Major Books<\/h3>\n<p>Invitation to Sociology, 1963<br \/>\nThe Social Construction of Reality, (with Thomas Luckmann), 1966<br \/>\nThe Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion, 1967<br \/>\nA Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural, 1969<br \/>\nThe Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousness, (with Brigitte Berger and Hansfried Kellner), 1973<br \/>\nPyramids of Sacrifice: Political Ethics and Social Change, 1975<br \/>\nThe Heretical Imperative. 1979<br \/>\nSociology Reinterpreted, (with Hansfried Kellner), 1981<br \/>\nThe War over the Family, (with Brigitte Berger), 1983<br \/>\nThe Capitalist Revolution, 1986<br \/>\nA Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity, 1992<br \/>\nRedeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience, 1997<br \/>\nQuestions of Faith: A Skeptical Reaffirmation of Christianity, 2004<br \/>\nReligious America, Secular Europe ?, (with Grace Davie and Effie Fokas), 2008<br \/>\nIn Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions without Becoming a Fanatic,<br \/>\n(with Anton Zijderveld), 2009<\/p>\n<h3>Honorary Degrees<\/h3>\n<p>Loyola University; University of Notre Dame; University of Geneva; University of Munich; Sofia University; Renmin University of China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Career Ph.D., Sociology, New School for Social Research, 1954 (U.S. Army, 1953-1955) Research director, Protestant Academy, Bad Boll (Germany), 1955-1956 Assistant professor, Woman\u2019s College, University of North Carolina, 1956-1958 Associate professor and director of the Institute on Church and Community, Hartford Theological Seminary, 1958-1963 Associate professor, then professor, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1739,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/784"}],"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\/1739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8179,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/784\/revisions\/8179"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}