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Peter Ludwig Berger [a] (17 March 1929 – 27 June 2017) was an Austrian-born American sociologist and Protestant theologian. Berger became known for his work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, study of modernization, and theoretical contributions to sociological theory.
Jul 11, 2017 · Peter Berger, a sociologist of religion, unlikely culture warrior and founder of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs on Boston University, has died at age 88.
Jun 29, 2017 · Peter L. Berger, an influential, and contrarian, Protestant theologian and sociologist who, in the face of the “God is dead” movement of the 1960s, argued that faith can indeed flourish in ...
Peter L. Berger (1929-2017) was an Austrian-born American sociologist and a theologian. He was affiliated to different renowned universities of the world. He also founded the Institute of Culture, Religion and World Affairs , at the Boston University in 1985 (Berger, 2017).
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966), by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, proposes that social groups and individual persons who interact with each other, within a system of social classes, over time create concepts (mental representations) of the actions of each other, and that ...
Jul 26, 2017 · Peter Berger, influential sociologist and friend of the Berkley Center, died Tuesday, June 27. During the course of Berger’s life, he wrote dozens of books examining the intersections of religion, society, government, and the economy.
Sep 20, 2019 · Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) was one of the most influential sociologists of the last sixty years. In the sociology of religion, his publications are among the key works of the discipline.
Mar 1, 2018 · Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) was one of the most influential sociologists of the last century. In the sociology of religion, his classic status is uncontested. This article examines Berger’s origina...
Peter Berger was one of the foremost scholars in the field of sociology of religion. A senior research fellow and professor emeritus of religion, sociology, and theology at Boston University at the time of his death in June 2017, he previously served as the founding director of...
Professor Emeritus of Religion, Sociology and Theology. Director, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs. B.A. Wagner College; M.A., Ph.D., New School for Social Research. Professor Berger previously taught at the New School for Social Research, at Rutgers University, and at Boston College.
