Professeur Jörg Stolz, directeur de l'ORS

Jörg Stolz, born in 1967, studied general sociology, sociology of religion, economics and philosophy in Zürich (CH) and Bielefeld (D). He received his M.A. in 1994 and his Ph.D. in 1999 at the University in Zurich and continued with post-doc studies in Paris (F), Mannheim (D) and Ann Arbor (USA). Since october 2002, he is a full professor of sociology of religion at the University of Lausanne and director of the Observatory of Religions in Switzerland (ORS).

Jörg Stolz teaches bachelor courses on the sociology of religion in Lausanne and Geneva and a master course on "Religious diversity in modern societies : quantitative and qualitative approaches" in Lausanne.

Concerning research, Jörg Stolz combines a strong theoretical interest with both quantitative and qualitative empirical research. Theoretically, Jörg Stolz defends an explanatory and comprehensive sociology of religion based on methodological individualism. Substantively, he focuses on research on evangelicalism, the explanation of religiosity and secularization and comparative research on "congregations" in different religions. Jörg Stolz currently directs three large empirical research projects combining quantitative and qualitative methodology.

Jörg Stolz is a member of the council of the ZRWP (Zentrum für Religion, Wirtschaft und Politik), member of the council of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR), one of the coordinators of the research committee "Religion and Society", and, alas (!), member of many other committees

- Stolz, Jörg (2005) "Der Erfolg der Spiritualität. Gesellschaftsentwicklung und Transzendenzerfahrung am Beispiel der Schweiz", in Leutwyler, Samuel and Nägeli, Markus (ed.) Spiritualität und Wissenschaft, pp. 121-132. Bern: vdf Hochschulverlag AG.

- Stolz, Jörg and Favre, Oliver (2005) "The Evangelical Milieu. Defining Criteria and Reproduction Across the Generations", Social Compass 52 (2): 169-183.

- Stolz, Jörg (2006) "Explaining Islamophobia. A Test of Four Theories Based on the Case of a Swiss City", Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 31 (3): 547-566. [en savoir plus]

- Stolz, Jörg (2006) "Salvation Goods and Religious Markets: Integrating Rational Choice and Weberian Perspectives", Social Compass 53 (1): 13-32.

- Stolz, Jörg (2006) "Kirchen im Wettbewerb. Religiöse und säkulare Konkurrenz in der modernen Gesellschaft", in (ed.) Kirche und Marketing. Beiträge zu einer Verhältnisbestimmung, pp. 95-116. Zürich: TVZ.

- Stolz, Jörg (2006) "Wiederkehr der Religionen? Die schweizerische Glaubenslandschaft im Wandel", in Lenzburg, Stapferhaus (ed.) Glaubenssache. Ein Buch für Gläubige und Ungläubige, pp. 124-131. Baden: hier + jetzt.

- Baumann, Martin/Stolz, Jörg (Eds.) (2007) Eine Schweiz - viele Religionen. Risiken und Chancen des Zusammenleben. Transcript Verlag.

- Durisch, Nicole, Rossi, Ilario and Stolz, Jörg (ed.) Quêtes de santé. Entre soins médicaux et guérison spirituelle, Genève: Labor et Fides.

- Stolz, Jörg (Ed.) (2008) Salvation Goods and Religious Markets. Theory and Applications, Bern: Peter Lang.

- Stolz, Jörg (2008) "Secularization theory and rational choice. An integration of micro- and macro-theories of secularization using the example of Switzerland", in Pollack, Detlef and Olson, Daniel V.A. (ed.) The Role of Religion in Modern Societies, pp. 249-270. New York: Routledge.

- Stolz, Jörg (2008) "Débats autour de la sécularisation, la "guerre des genres" et le clivage entre qualitatif et quantitatif", Social Compass 55 (2): 197-205.

- Stolz, Jörg (2009) "Explaining Religiosity: Towards a Unified Theoretical Model." British Journal of Sociology 60(2):345-376.
 

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