What inspired you to write Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought? I was invited to participate in an international conference on “Antisemitism and the Emergence of Sociological Theory” at ...

Society and religion were born, the author argues, as “twins.” Though religion as we understand it today arrived late.

Modernity is a central concept within the social sciences. It demarcates the world in terms of time and space, separating out the modern from the non-modern, and points to associated disciplinary ...

Just to set the record straight — and who doesn’t want to hike deep into the tall weeds of literary origin? — the sociologist Max Weber didn’t coin the term “elective affinities.” He borrowed it from ...

Yeshiva University’s opposition to a pride club is out of touch with the times. So what? Are Orthodoxy and modernity incompatible in the 21st century? There are many aspects of Judaism and Orthodoxy ...

According to Esref Altas, an associate professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Khaldun was a good observer who saw the outer face of historical social events. Science historians argue that the ...

This essay deals with the transformation of modern partner relationships in the age of late modernity. The first part characterises modern partner relationships, showing that they are based on a ...