Faculty of Social Sciences

Clayton Alexander Fordahl

Associate Professor

Location

  • A217
  • Sólborg

Specialisation

Sociology Politics Culture Religion Modern studies

General information

Courses

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
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Research

2025
Cyclical Visions of History in Sociological Theory: From Polybius and Pareto to Peter Turchin
2025
Primitive social theory: On the history of the ‘primitive concept’ in sociology and its applications under post-digital modernity
2024
Beyond Animal Charisma: A Sociological Approach to Charismatic Species
2023
A Tale of Two Civil Religions: Ritual, Transcendence, and the Crisis of Meaning in American Politics
2023
From Invasive to Iconic
2023
Pareto
2021
Community and the Critique of Technology: A Revisionist Account of an Essential Concept
2021
Political Performance, Profanation, and Mundane Interaction: a Revised Cultural Sociology of the 2016 American Presidential Election
2021
When the Gods Fall: Varieties of Post-Secularization in a Small, Secularized State
2020
Dealing with dysnomia: Strategies for the cultivation of used concepts in social research
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
2020
Paul Middleton, ed., The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom
2019
For Conscience and Kingdom Martyrs, Monarchs and the Spirit of Modernity in Early Modern England
2018
Suffering and sovereignty: Martyrdom in the late modern West
2017
Sovereignty and martyrdom: A sociological sketch
2017
Authenticity: The Sociological Dimensions of a Politically Consequential Concept
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.
2016
The post-secular: Paradigm shift or provocation?
2016
Europe's New Disenchantments: A Review Essay of Religion and Politics in Europe
2015
The Disclosure of Politics: Struggles Over the Semantics of Secularization
2015
Book Review: Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Facade of American Empire, 1898-2001
2014
Book Review: The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics