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Barbara Thériault
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
E-mail: barbara.theriault@umontreal.ca
Web site: http://www.socio.umontreal.ca/personnel/TheriaultBarbara.html
Barbara Thériault is professor at the Department of Sociology and at the Canadian Center for German and European Studies, University of Montreal. She holds a Ph.D. from the Max Weber Center for Cultural and Social studies in Erfurt and the Free University of Brussels. Drawing on the sociology of Max Weber, she is currently working on a project called "The carriers of diversity: Religion, toleration, and the police in Germany". Her previous work deals with the impact of radical change in 1989, most notably on religious organizations in East Germany. Her publications related to this topic include Conservative revolutionaries: Protestant and
Catholic churches in Germany after radical political change in the 1990s (New York & Oxford, Berghahn Books 2004) and [q]Lundi à Leipzig: Les acteurs
religieux en Allemagne de l´Est et la nostalgie du politique après 1989[q] published in Sociologie et sociétés (2006).
[Updated: 20. 12. 2008]