Patrick Gilger

Hi, I'm 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

Patrick Gilger (Professor at Loyola University Chicago), drawing on his particular commitments as a Catholic priest and a sociologist, describes how Democracy Seminar... Read more.

Global Public Religions in an Age of Crisis

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.