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Dr. Patricia Sohn, Ph.D.

Dr. Sohn, Göteborg, Sweden, EASR, August 2024

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2564-9722
Joint Appointment, Center for Jewish Studies
Affiliate, Center for Global Islamic Studies
Also published as Patricia J. Woods
Patricia Sohn Long Curriculum Vitae
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Research Interests:
  • Culture, politics, and institutions (including subaltern and micro-level state-society relations & society and institutions, comparative and international)
  • Religion and politics (comparative and international)
  • Judicial institutions (comparative and international judicial institutions; judicial-executive relations; and civil-domestic and human-international rights, freedom of religion, and women’s rights)
  • Qualitative methods, research design, field methods, observations, and political ethnography
  • Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Israel, Arab-Jewish Relations, and Palestinians; and Asian perspectives and popular (e.g., mass market) film
Teaching Achievements:
1000 points total of which 400 Digital Literacy, and 350 Student Focused Learning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Literacy Badge 1/23/2025
Student Focused Teaching Badge, 2/21/2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Four Affordable UF Badges (e.g., affordable texts) for courses, 2023 and 2024
  • Anderson/College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar–Faculty Honoree for outstanding teaching, 2007
  • Anderson/College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar–Faculty Honoree for outstanding teaching, 2002

 

Recent Publications

In Hardcover,  Paperback, and as an e-book!!

Beyond the Death of God

Religion in 21st Century International Politics

Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn, Editors

 

Politics and religion remain entwined

This volume offers a nuanced picture with specific instances of religion and politics in Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu contexts, broadly presenting the phenomenon of religion and politics via country and thematic case studies. Qualitative, quantitative, material, philosophical, and theological analyses draw upon social theory to show how (and why) religion matters deeply in each time and place.

The authors and contributors demonstrate that religion is a significant force that drives societies and polities around the world, and that a radical change in the Western understanding of value-driven global politics is needed. Beyond the Death of God offers new, local voices to Western audiences—through essays that suggest the need for an appreciation of Divinity as a quintessence holding a significant place in the hearts, minds, social orders, and political organization of polities around the world.

Simone Raudino is Visiting Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics.

Patricia Sohn is Associate Professor of Political Science and Jewish Studies at the University of Florida.

Praise

Knowledge Unlatched Libraries funding support makes this book available as a free e-book.  See publisher’s link.  Beautiful hardcover and paperback editions are simultaneously available.  Thank you!

  • “Beyond the Death of God helps us understand a truth that the secularization thesis has long masked: across the world, consciously or unconsciously, we still continue being living symbols of deep religious choices.”  —Husain Haqqani, author and former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States
  • “. . . leads us to reconsider the relevance of the secularization paradigm and to rethink the traditional dichotomy between religion and politics in contemporary societies.”  — Laurent Mayali, University of California, Berkeley
  • “Beyond the Death of God provides a stimulating contribution to scholarship on religion, politics, and society. Raudino and Sohn assemble a strong series of case studies that cross religious traditions, regions, and varied substantive themes, providing a wealth of insights on the enduring importance of religion in global affairs.”  — Tamir Moustafa, author of Constituting Religion
  • “This book is a great effort to discuss the entanglement between religion and politics. It starts with critically interpreting the implication of ‘God is dead’ (Nietzsche), and the empirical section of the book comprehensively covers the major religions. It is a must-read for scholars who are interested in the relationship between religion and politics.”  — Joseph Tsai, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
  • “This book has the merit of going beyond traditional assumptions of modernization, secularization and the ‘West versus non-West’ paradigm. It will appeal to readers who want to have a comprehensive picture of what the place of religion in different geographical areas and religious traditions actually is—and not what it should be in theoretical perspectives.”  — Rossella Bottoni, University of Trento
  • “Irrespective of their ideological leanings, most social and political scientists in the Western world tend to divorce politics and religion, to the detriment of an understanding of both. Beyond the Death of God provides an excellent corrective to this state of affairs by making an important contribution to understanding the fit between the drives of the spirit and tradition, and the more mundane drives of social and political power and organization.”  — Wayne Cristaudo, Charles Darwin University

 

Thank you so much to the editors!  Recent articles:

 Thank you so much to the editors!  Some articles in E-International Relations are used to foster classroom discussion.

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