Faculty of Social Sciences

Clayton Alexander Fordahl

Associate Professor

Location

  • A217
  • Sólborg

Specialisation

Sociology Politics Culture Religion Modern studies
Research portal - Clayton Alexander Fordahl 

General information

Courses 2025 - 2026

ÞJF0276210
Social Theory
VRK0176110
Research Design in Social Sciences
ÞJF0176110
Introduction to social science
ÞJF0276210
Social Theory
ÞJF0176110
Introduction to social science
RHF0176220
Research Methods in Humanities & Social Science

Education

2017
, Ph.D.
2013
, MA
2010
, BA

Career

2018 - 2023
,

Research

2025
Cyclical Visions of History in Sociological Theory: From Polybius and Pareto to Peter Turchin. Journal article
2025
Primitive social theory: On the history of the ‘primitive concept’ in sociology and its applications under post-digital modernity. Journal article
2024
Beyond Animal Charisma: A Sociological Approach to Charismatic Species. Journal article
2023
A Tale of Two Civil Religions: Ritual, Transcendence, and the Crisis of Meaning in American Politics. Journal article
2023
From Invasive to Iconic. Journal article
2023
Pareto. Book chapter
2021
Community and the Critique of Technology: A Revisionist Account of an Essential Concept. Journal article
2021
Political Performance, Profanation, and Mundane Interaction: a Revised Cultural Sociology of the 2016 American Presidential Election. Journal article
2021
When the Gods Fall: Varieties of Post-Secularization in a Small, Secularized State. Journal article
2020
Dealing with dysnomia: Strategies for the cultivation of used concepts in social research. Journal article
2020
A theory of martyrdom.
2020
Introduction.
2020
The Ultimate Sacrifice.
2020
The sacrificial conscience.
2020
The seeds of the church.
2020
The suffering body and the body politic.
2020
To die so that the nation might live.
2020
Western martyrdom in a secularized age.
2020
Lions and foxes: revisiting Pareto’s bestiary for the age of late pluto-democracy. Journal article
2020
Paul Middleton, ed., The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom. Journal article
2019
For Conscience and Kingdom Martyrs, Monarchs and the Spirit of Modernity in Early Modern England. Journal article
2018
Suffering and sovereignty: Martyrdom in the late modern West. Journal article
2017
Sovereignty and martyrdom: A sociological sketch. Journal article
2017
Authenticity: The Sociological Dimensions of a Politically Consequential Concept. Journal article
2017
Book Review: Beyond the band of brothers: The U.S. military and the myth that women can’t fightMcKenzieM. (2015). Beyond the band of brothers: The U.S. military and the myth that women can’t fight. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 218 pp. $98.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781107049765. Journal article
2016
The post-secular: Paradigm shift or provocation? Journal article
2016
Europe's New Disenchantments: A Review Essay of Religion and Politics in Europe. Journal article
2015
The Disclosure of Politics: Struggles Over the Semantics of Secularization. Journal article
2015
Book Review: Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Facade of American Empire, 1898-2001. Journal article
2014
Book Review: The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics. Journal article