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Peter L. Berger

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Born: March 16 1929

Died: 2626 06 20172017

Peter L. Berger is an internationally renowned sociologist, and the founder of Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs. He was born in Vienna and came to the U.S. in his late teens. He has a master's degree and a doctorate from the New School for Social Research in New York. After two years in the United States Army, he taught at the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina before going to the Hartford Seminary Foundation as an Assistant Professor in Social Ethics.

In 1992, Peter Berger was awarded the Manes Sperber Prize, presented by the Austrian government for significant contributions to culture. He is the author of many books, among them The Social Construction of Reality, The Homeless Mind, and Questions of Faith.

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Peter L. Berger

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Books from Peter L. Berger

In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic

The Social Construction Of Reality: A Treatise In The Sociology Of Knowledge

The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics

The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World

The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions About Prosperity, Equality, & Liberty

A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

The Many Altars of Modernity: Toward a Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age

Modernidade, pluralismo e crise de sentido

The New Sociology of Knowledge: The Life and Work of Peter L. Berger

Os múltiplos altares da modernidade: Rumo a um paradigma da religião numa época pluralista

New Migrants in the Marketplace: Boston's Ethnic Entrepreneurs

Kurze Geschichte Österreichs im 20. Jahrhundert

Fundamentalism

Invitation till sociologi - ett humanistiskt perspektiv

Risiko- und Krisenmanagement im Krankenhaus: Alarm- und Einsatzplanung

European Research in Mathematics Education I.III

Perspectivas Sociológicas

Between Relativism and Fundamentalism: Religious Resources for a Middle Position

Dialog Zwischen Religiosen Traditionen in Einem Zeitalter Der Relativitat