Andrew M. McKinnon
Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen
My university webpage can be found here, my academia.edu webpage is here; with a colleague at Aberdeen, I also run a webpage with resources for the sociology of religion, called ‘Sociology of Religion Resources’.
(with links to final publishers versions (final) and open access drafts (open access) where available.)
(2018) Bernadette C Hayes and Andrew McKinnon. ‘Belonging without believing: religion and attitudes towards gay marriage and abortion rights in Northern Ireland’ Religion, State and Society. final
(2018) ‘Ritual, Narrative and Time: Bridging between Durkheim and Ricoeur’. Journal of Classical Sociology. Vol 18 no 3. final open access
(2017) ‘Religion and Social Class: Theory and Method After Bourdieu’. Sociological Research Online Vol 22 no. 1. final
(2015) ‘Anglicans in a globalizing world: the contradictions of Communion’ (with Chris Brittain) in Abby Day (ed.) Powers and Pieties: Contemporary Issues in the Worldwide Anglican Communion. Ashgate, 2015. open access
(2014) Sociological Theory and the Question of Religion. Farnham: Ashgate. (edited with Marta Trzebiatowska)
Includes a co-authored introduction and my ‘’Religion and the Civilizing Process: The Pax Dei Movement and the Christianization of Violence in the Process of Feudalization’ open access
(2014) ‘Elementary Forms of the Metaphorical Life: Tropes at Work in Durkheim’s Theory of the Religious’. Journal of Classical Sociology, vol 14, no. 2, pp. 203-221. open access final
(2013) ‘Ideology and the Market Metaphor in Rational Choice Theory of Religion: A Rhetorical Critique of “Religious Economies”’. Critical Sociology vol 39, no. 4, pp. 529-543. open access final
(2013) ‘George Herbert Mead on Humans and Other Animals: Social Relations after Human-Animal Studies’. Sociological Research Online, vol 18, no. 4, 19. (with Rhoda Wilkie) open access final
(2012) ‘Metaphors in and for the Sociology of Religion: Towards a Theory after Nietzsche’. Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol 27, no. 2, pp. 203-216. open access final
(2011) ‘Homosexuality and the Construction of ‘Anglican Orthodoxy’: The Symbolic Politics of the Anglican Communion’. Sociology of Religion, vol 72, no. 3, pp. 351-373. (with Chris Brittain). open access final
(2011) ‘Bourdieu, Capital and Conflict in a Religious Field: The Case of the Anglican Communion’. Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol 26, no. 3, pp. 355-370. (with Chris Brittain and Marta Trzebiatowska). Open access final
(2011) “Sociological Epistemologies: Durkheim’s Paradox and Dorothy E. Smith’s Actuality” in Sociology (with Randle J. Hart). open access final
(2011) “Energy and Society: Herbert Spencer’s ‘Energetic Sociology’ of Social Evolution and Beyond” Journal of Classical Sociology vol. 11 no. 4, 2011. open access final
(2010) “Elective Affinities of the Protestant Ethic: Max Weber’s Chemistry of Capitalism” in Sociological Theory vol. 28 no. 1. open access final
(2010) “Classical Foundations of the Sociology of Religion” in Bryan S. Turner (ed.) The New Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion Oxford: Blackwell. draft
(2007) “For an ‘Energetic’ Sociology, or, Why Coal, Oil and Electricity Matter for Sociological Theory” (Review Essay) in Critical Sociology vol. 33 no. 1. open access final
(2006) “Ritual Re-definition as Passport Control: A Rejoinder to Timothy Fitzgerald after Bourdieu” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion vol. 18 no. 2. open access final
(2006) “ ‘Opium’ as Dialectical Metaphor: Religion, Expression, and Protest” in Warren S. Goldstein (ed.) Marxism, Critical Theory and Religion Leiden: Brill Academic, 2006 [substantial revision of 2005].
2009. Reprint Chicago: Haymarket Books (paperback).
(2005) “Reading ‘Opium of the People’: Expression, Protest and the Dialectics of Religion” in Critical Sociology, vol. 31 no. 1-2. open access final
(2004) “Jacques Ellul” in The Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought Christopher John Murray (ed.) London: Routledge. open access
(2003) “The Religious, the Paranormal and Church Attendance: A Response to Orenstein” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion vol 42 no. 2. final
(2002) “Sociological Definitions, Language Games and the ‘Essence’ of Religion”, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion vol. 14 pp 61-83. open access final