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Patrick Gilger, S.J., PhD

Assistant Professor

Rev. Patrick Gilger, S.J. is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the McNamara Center for the Social Study of Religion at 女同视频 Chicago. His current book project, The Subject of Public Religion, examines how religious practices shape democratic citizens. A Jesuit priest with graduate degrees in philosophy and theology, in 2021 Fr. Gilger received his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research, where he was awarded the Alfred Schutz Prize in Philosophy and Sociology. His scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of Religion and Society, and the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, with work forthcoming in A Quarter Century of Public Religions: The Sociology of Jose Casanova. Beyond academia, Fr. Gilger is an award-winning author whose writing has appeared in Vox, The Dispatch, La Civiltà Cattolica, and America, where he serves as Contributing Editor for Culture. His essay “Litany for a Pandemic” received the New York Press Club Award in 2021. A frequent media commentator, he has appeared on CNN, Fox, NPR, and many podcasts. In the spring of 2025 Fr. Gilger was appointed a Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. 

Media Appearances and Public Scholarship

    • Interviewed by CNN News Central, April 2025
    • Interviewed by Australian Broadcasting Corporation, April 2025
    • “How to Remember Pope Francis,” The Dispatch, April 2025 
    • Interviewed by Fox 32 Good Day Chicago, April 2025
    • “Review: Tearing down idols, William Cavanaugh’s theology is a must-read for the modern West,” America Magazine, July 2024
    • “The Political Theology of Recognition,” Church Life Journal, June 2024
    • Interviewed by Jesuitical podcast. Published as “A Jesuit Guide to Major Life Choices”, January 2024
    • Interviewed by NPR member station KJZZ Phoenix. Published as “What does gratitude mean in our busy, polarized, technology-seeped world?” November 22, 2023
    • “What’s Religious about Being Woke?” with Fr. Sam Sawyer, S.J., America Magazine, April 2022
    • “Global Public Religions in an Age of Crisis,” Democracy Seminar, March 2022
    • “Litany for a Pandemic,” America Magazine, April 2, 2020
      • This essay was the winner of a New York Press Club’s 2021 Award for Journalism and was translated into Italian and published as “Pandemia Blues” in La Civiltà Cattolica, May 2020, Volume 4077: 256-68
    • “I’m a Catholic priest. I’m ashamed at this abuse crisis,” Vox, August 2018
    • “Navigating the Benedict Option,” America Magazine, April 2017 
    • The Jesuit Post. 2014. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press. 
      • This book was awarded 1st place by the Catholic Press Association 

Education

Ph.D., Sociology
New School for Social Research, 2021

M.A., Sociology
New School for Social Research, 2017

M.Div., Theology
Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University, 2013

M.A., Philosophy
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Specialty Area

Sociology of Religion; Secularism and the Secular; Social Theory; Practice Theory; Religion in the Public Sphere.

Courses Taught

Publications/Research Listings

  • Gilger, S.J., Patrick. Forthcoming 2027. The Subject of Public Religion. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 
  • Gilger, S.J., Patrick. Forthcoming 2027. “Whose Enchantment? Which Disenchantment?” in Disenchantment and Misenchantment in the Contemporary World. Studies in World Catholicism, Vol. 16. William T. Cavanaugh (ed.). Cascade, OR: Cascade Books
  • Gilger, S.J., Patrick and Matthew Dunch, S.J. (eds.). Jesuit Humanism: Renewing an Educational Tradition. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press 
  • Gilger, S.J., Patrick. Forthcoming 2026. “Powers of Publicity: Religious Innovation & Democratic Renovation.” A Quarter Century of Public Religions: The Sociology of Jose Casanova. David Buckley (ed.). Washington DC: Georgetown University Press
  • Gilger, S.J., Patrick, & Kattago, Siobhan. 2024. “Small things, deep resonance.” Introduction to special section of European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 11 (3), 345–355. 
  • Gilger, S.J., Patrick. 2024. “Sociology beyond suspicion: Goldfarb as post-critical critic.” European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 11 (3), 379–390. 
  • Gilger, Patrick. 2022. “Habits of Belonging: The Church in a Secular Age,” pp43-65 in Roots: Catholic Youth Evangelization in a Postmodern World. John C. Cavadini and Donald Wallenfang, eds. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications
  • Gilger, Patrick. 2018. “Performing Secularity: Toward the Construction of a Concept.” Journal of Religion & Society, Supplement 17: 54-69