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Jim Spickard, PhD (2000*) San Antonio, Texas and Redlands, California PhD Graduate Theological Union, 1984.

Selected Recent Publications:

• Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion, NYU Press, 2002 (senior editor)
• "Narrative vs Theory in the Sociology of Religion", in Beckford & Wallis, Religion and Social Theory, Ashgate, 2005.
• "Ritual, Symbol, and Experience: Understanding Catholic Worker House Masses" Sociology of Religion 2005.
• "Globalization and Religious Organizations" International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 18/1, 2004. 
• "Charting the Inward Journey: Applying Blackmore's Model to Meditative Religious Experience." Archiv für Religionspsychologie 26, 2004.
• "Cultural Context and the Definition of Religion: Seeing with Confucian Eyes"  Religion and the Social Order 10, 2003.
• "Narratives of Commitment: Social Activism and Radical Catholic Identity", Temenos 37-38, 2003.
• "Human Rights through a Religious Lens" Social Compass 49/2 2002.
• "Disciplinary Conflicts in the Study of Religion: Anthropology, Sociology, and 'Lines in the Sand'" Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 14/2 2002.
• "Tribes and Cities: Toward an Islamic Sociology of Religion"  Social Compass 48/1, 2001.
• "Conformando una sociología de la religión postcolonial" Religiones y Sociedad 9, 2000.
• "Human Rights, Religious Conflict, and Globalization: Human Values in a New World Order" MOST/UNESCO Journal on Cultural Pluralism 1/1 1999.
• "Ethnocentrism, Social Theory, and Non-Western Sociologies of Religion" International Sociology 13/2 1998.
• "Rethinking Religious Social Action: What is 'Rational' About Rational-Choice Theory" Sociology of Religion 59/2 1998.

Grants and Awards: Various grants for research on religious social activists
Memberships: International Sociological Association, International Society for the Sociology of Religion, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Religious Research Association, Association for the Sociology of Religion

Special Interests: non-Western sociologies and social theories, sociology and anthropology of religion, ethnography, social change, human rights in the context of globalization, social activism, photography

Related Professional Activities: Professor of Sociology, University of Redlands