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Patrick Gilger

Rev. Patrick Gilger, S.J. is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the McNamara Center for the Social Study of Religion at Loyola University Chicago. His current book project, The Subject of Public Religion, examines how religious practices shape democratic citizens and how those citizens can help reconstitute democratic norms. A Jesuit priest with graduate degrees in philosophy and theology, Fr. Gilger received his Ph.D. in sociology from the New School for Social Research in 2021, where he was awarded the Alfred Schutz Prize in Philosophy and Sociology.

A Reliable Ally? Catholicism and Democracy Under Pope Leo XIV

March 16, 2026

Patrick Gilger (Loyola University Chicago) describes how Democracy Seminar seeks to understand and help build communities that are united not by pre-existing commonalities... Read more.

Global Public Religions in an Age of Crisis

March 17, 2022

The rising autocrats. The melting ice caps. The widening gyre of economic inequality. The tide of refugees at the Polish-Ukrainian border – or at Ciudad Juarez.... Read more.