Warren S. Goldstein – The Center for Critical Research on Religion

Warren S. Goldstein

Warren S. Goldstein, Executive Director of the Center for Critical Research on Religion, has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the New School for Social Research. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Critical Research on Religion (SAGE Publications) and Book Series Editor of “Studies in Critical Research on Religion” (Brill Academic Publishers and Haymarket Books ). He is broadly interested in the development of a critical theoretical frameworks in the study of religion as a whole.

Selected Publications

For a full list of publications see: http://independent.academia.edu/WarrenGoldstein

Goldstein, Warren S. 2025. “Who Killed Jesus? A Response to Fernando Bermejo-Rubio. Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 23 (2-3 ): 163-177.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2025. “Israel/Palestine: Towards a One-State Solution.” Critical Research on Religion 13(1): 3-16.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2024. “Critical Religion and the Sociology of Religion.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 36(3-4): 316-332.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2024. “On Climate Apocalypse.” Critical Research on Religion 12(1): 3-11.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2023. “On Northern Ireland: Critical Research on Religion in Belfast.” Critical Research on Religion 11(1): 3-12.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2022. “On the Secular State, the Religious State, and the Religion-Neutral State. Critical Research on Religion 10(1): 3-6.

Reed, Jean-Pierre and Warren S. Goldstein. 2022. “An Introduction to Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions and Social Movements.” In Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions and Social Movements, edited by Warren S. Goldstein and Jean Pierre-Reed. 1-27. London: Routledge.

Reed, Jean-Pierre and Warren S. Goldstein. 2022. “Epilogue.” In Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions and Social Movements, edited by Warren S. Goldstein and Jean Pierre-Reed. London, 246-263: Routledge.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2021. “Trump, the Religious Right, and the Spectre of Fascism.” Critical Research on Religion 9(1): 3-7.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2020. “The Racialization of the Jewish Question: The Secularization of Christian anti-Judaism into Racial Anti-Semitism. Religion and Theology 27(3-4): 179-201.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2020. “What Makes Critical Religion Critical? A Response to Russell McCutcheon.” Critical Research on Religion 8(1): 73-86.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2020. “Critical Theory” in SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, edited by Adam Possami and Anthony Blasi. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2020. “Marx and Engels” in SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, edited by Adam Possami and Anthony Blasi. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2019. “Redemptive Criticism or the Critique of Religion.” Routledge Handbook of Post Secularity. Edited by Justin Beaumont. Routledge, pp. 59-72.

Goldstein, Warren S., Rebekka King, and Jonathan Boyarin. 2017. “Editorial: On a Balanced Critique: (or On the Limits of Critique).” Critical Research on Religion 5(1): 3-8.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2017. “The Mandate of Heaven on Earth: Religious and Secular Conflict in China.” Journal of Religious and Political Practice 3(1-2): 25-45.

Goldstein, Warren S., Rebekka King, and Jonathan Boyarin. 2016. “Editorial: Critical Theory of Religion vs. Critical Religion.” Critical Research on Religion 4(1): 3-7.

Goldstein, Warren S., Roland Boer, Rebekka King, and Jonathan Boyarin. 2015. Editorial: “How Can Mainstream Approaches Become More Critical?” Critical Research on Religion 3(1) 3-12.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2014. “Reconstructing the Classics: Weber, Troeltsch and the Historical Materialists. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 26 (4-5): 470-507.

Goldstein, Warren S., Roland Boer and Jonathan Boyarin. 2014. Editorial: “Can a Religious Perspective be Critical?” Critical Research on Religion 2(1): 3-5.

“Critical Research on Religion: An Interview with Warren S. Goldstein.” Religion Bulletin, March 26 and 28, 2014

Goldstein, Warren S., Roland Boer and Jonathan Boyarin. 2013. Editorial. Critical Research on Religion 1(1): 3-8.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2012. “Sociological Theory of Religion.” Religion Compass 6(7):347-353.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2011. “The Dialectics of Religious Conflict: Church-Sect, Denomination, and the Culture Wars.” Culture and Religion 12(1):77-99.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2010. “Secularization and the Iranian Revolution.” Islamic Perspective Journal 3:50-67.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2010. “The Critique of Marxism and the Criticism of Religion.” e-International Relations. October 18.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2009. “Patterns of Secularization and Religious Rationalization in Emile Durkheim and Max Weber.” Implicit Religion 12(2):135-163.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2009. “Secularization Patterns in The Old Paradigm,” Sociology of Religion 70(2):157-178.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2009. “The Case for a Critical Sociology of Religion” Pp. 135-142 in Graham Cassano and Richard Dello Buono eds., Crisis, Politics and Critical Sociology. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2008. “Teaching Sociology of Religion From a Marxist Perspective.” Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meetings. Revised version of 2006 contribution to ASA Teaching Guide.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2006. “Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity: A Critical Dialectical/Conflict Approach to Biblical History.” Pp. 205-222 in Goldstein, Warren S., ed. Marx, Critical Theory and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice Leiden, NL: Brill Academic Publishers.

Gay, David, Warren S. Goldstein, and Anna Buck Campbell. 2006. “Operationalizing the Critical Theory of Religion.” Pp. 343-357 in Goldstein, Warren S., ed. Marx, Critical Theory and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2006. “Dreaming of the Collective Awakening: Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch’s Theory of Dreams.” Humanity and Society 30 (1):50-66

Goldstein, Warren S. 2005. “The Dialectics of Religious Rationalization and Secularization: Max Weber and Ernst Bloch.” Critical Sociology 31 (1-2):115-152.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2002. “Walter Benjamin: A Sociologist?” Pp. 21-42 in Lost Sociologists Rediscovered, edited by Mary Ann Romano. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2001. “Messianism and Marxism: Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch’s Dialectical Theories of Secularization.” Critical Sociology 27:246-281.

Contact Information:

Warren S. Goldstein, Ph.D.
Center for Critical Research on Religion
111 Middlesex Turnpike #1037
Burlington, MA 01803 USA
1(617) 678-2180
goldstein@crreligion.org
www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org

Research Profiles:

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36006486800
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/G-9185-2017
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8710-9468