Patrick Gilger, S.J., PhD
Assistant Professor
Fr. Patrick Gilger, S.J. is a priest of the Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus. A graduate of Creighton University, he has been a Jesuit since 2002. Trained in philosophy and theology in addition to sociology, he now primarily studies social theory, the sociology of religion, and secularity. His current research focuses on how communities of practice cultivate (religious) subjectivities that are difficult to see and hear in a secular age, and how these unique subjectivities cultivate particular "powers of publicity" that can be deployed within an always-already-power-inflected public sphere.
Education
Ph.D., Sociology
New School for Social Research, 2021
M.A., Sociology
New School for Social Research, 2017
M.Div., Theology
Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University, 2013
M.A., Philosophy
大象传媒, 2007
Specialty Area
Sociology of Religion; Secularism and the Secular; Social Theory; Practice Theory; Religion in the Public Sphere.
Publications/Research Listings
Gilger, Patrick. 2022. 鈥淗abits of Belonging: The Church in a Secular Age鈥�, in Roots: Catholic Youth Evangelization in a Postmodern World. John C. Cavadini and Donald Wallenfang, eds. Book chapter completed and submitted. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2022.
Gilger, Patrick. 2018. 鈥�.