research. Her particular focus has been on the work of Durkheim and Marx, among
the classics, and Goffman and Garfinkel among contemporary sociologists. Her pub-
lications include Epistemology and Practice: Durkheim’s Elementary Forms,(2005) Cambridge
University Press, “Orders of Interaction and Intelligibility” in Javier Trevino 2002
Goffman’s Legacy, Rowman and Littlefield. She also edited and introduced Harold
Garfinkel’s Ethnomethodology’s Program: Working Out Durkheim’s Aphorism, 2002 Rowman
and Littlefield andSeeing Sociologically, Paradigm Publishers 2006. Published articles
include“Interaction Orders of Race,” 2000,SociologicalTheory, “The Interaction Order
Sui Generis” 1987, Sociological Theory, and “Durkheim’s Epistemology: the Neglected
Argument”, 1996, American Journal of Sociology. Translations of her work on Garfinkel
and Durkheim have appeared in Russian, French, Italian, and Czech.
WILLIAMCLAREROBERTSis Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Washington and Jefferson
College, in western Pennsylvania. His primary research interests include Marx and
Nietzsche, Ancient Greek philosophy, and the relationship between philosophy and
literature.
RUDOLFJ. SIEBERTwas born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1927. He studied his-
tory, philology, philosophy, sociology, psychology, social work and theology at the
Universities of Frankfurt am Main, Mainz and Münster, and at the Catholic University
of America, Washington D.C. He is Professor of Religion and Society, Director of the
Center for Humanistic Future Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
Michigan, and, since 1975, Director of the international course on the “Future of
Religion: Jerusalem, Athens and Rome – Seedbed Societies of the Modern West” in
the Inter University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia, and he is director of the international
course on “Religion and Civil Society: Toward a Global Ethos” in Yalta, Crimea,
Ukraine. Siebert has taught and lectured at many universities in Western and Eastern
Europe, the United States and Canada. His mayor works are: From Critical Theory of
Society to Theology of Communicative Praxis; Hegel’s Philosophy of History: Theological,
Humanistic and Scientific Elements; Horkheimer’s Critical Sociology of Religion: The Relative
and the Transcendent; Hegel’s Concept of Marriage and Family: The Principle of Free Subjectivity;
The Critical Theory of Religion: Frankfurt School; Recht Macht und Liebe: Georg W. Rudolphi’s
Prophetische Politische Theologie; From Critical Theory to Critical Political Theology: Personal
Autonomy and Universal Solidarity; The Longing for the Entirely Other: The Rescue of the
Hopeless; Hitler’s Theodicy: Merciless Fate and Human Defiance. Siebert and his late wife
Margareth had 8 children.
BONNIEWRIGHTteaches at Ferris State University. She completed her graduate work
at Wayne State University in 2003 with a doctoral dissertation that examined the role
of practices in various dimensions of religious worship. Her perspective blends a deep
commitment to problems of class, gender and racial inequality with a detailed study
of practice that is ethnomethodological in orientation. In addition to presenting a
detailed analysis of the importance of practice in constructing the essence of religious
experience, working through the idea of praxis as an interaction order, her paper
“Discerning the Spirit in the Context of Racial Integration and Conflict at Two Assemblies
of God Churches,” in The Journal for Theory of Social Behavior, explores ways in which
issues of race and class manifest themselves in the details of religious practices.
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