Peter Berger
Dr. Peter Berger is Professor Emeritus of Religion, Sociology and Theology and Director, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University. He previously taught at the New School for Social Research, at Rutgers University, and at Boston College. He has written numerous books on sociological theory, the sociology of religion, and Third World development, which have been translated into dozens of foreign languages. Among his more recent books are Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience (1997); Modernity, Pluralism and the Crisis of Meaning (with Thomas Luckmann, 1995); The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions About Prosperity, Equality and Liberty (1988); and The War Over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground (with Brigitte Berger, 1983).
Dr. Berger received his B.A. from Wagner College and his M.A. and Ph.D., from the New School for Social Research. In 1992, he was awarded the Manes Sperber Prize, presented by the Austrian government for significant contributions to culture. Since 1985, he has been Director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture (now the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs). The institute is a research center committed to systematic study of relationships between economic development and sociocultural change in different parts of the world.