José Casanova

Casanova’s most recent research has focused primarily on two areas: globalization and religion, and the dynamics of transnational religion, migration, and increasing ethno-religious and cultural diversity. His research on religion and globalization has adopted an ambitious comparative perspective that includes Catholicism, Pentecostalism and Islam. Some of his recent articles in this area include “Public Religions Revisited” in Hent de Vries, ed., Religion: Beyond the Concept (Fordham University Press, 2008), and “Nativism and the Politics of Gender in Catholicism and Islam” in Hanna Herzog and Ann Braude, ed., Gendered Modernities: Women, Religion, and Politics (Palgrave, 2009).

His work on transnational migration and religion explores the incorporation of minorities and the construction of transnational networks, identities and structures. Some of his work in this area includes “Immigration and the New Religious Pluralism: A EU/US Comparison” in Thomas Banchoff, ed., Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2007). In addition, he has headed several major research projects focused on these topics, including “Religion and Immigrant Incorporation in New York” and “The Religious Lives of Migrant Minorities: London, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur”.