ABOUT THE  INSTRUCTOR 

Dr. Bradley Starr, Professor, Dept. of Comparative Religion & Dept. of Liberal Studies, California State University, Fullerton

Campus Office/Phone: UH 310 (714) 278-3917  Email Address: bstarr@fullerton.edu

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I've been teaching at CSUF since 1984, when I was hired to teach part time in the Department of Comparative Religion, my home department.  I became a full time faculty member in 1987. I currently have a joint appointment as a professor in the Department of Comparative Religion and the Department of Liberal Studies.

The main research I've done focuses on the interaction between religious thought and sociological forms of analysis. I'm especially interested in the "classical" period of sociology. My doctoral dissertation (at Claremont Graduate School, 1987) was on Ernst Troeltsch and Max Weber, and I've published a dozen or so articles, essays, reviews, and book chapters on the work of Weber, Troeltsch, and Georg Simmel. I'm currently studying issues related to religion and violence. My wife Susan is a counselor at Chaffey College.