Yuri Contreras-Vejar - Regimes of Happiness: Comparative and Historical Studies

Regimes of Happiness

Regimes of Happiness

Comparative and Historical Studies

Edited by

Yuri Contreras-Vejar, Joanna Tice Jen and Bryan S. Turner

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CONTENTS

We wish to express our gratitude to Chase Robinson, President of the City University of New York, for his support for the Committee for the Study of Religion. We also wish to thank the Committees members, whose participation and intellectual generosity were the foundation for these chapters.

Joanna extends love and thanksgiving to her family and wishes to convey her gratitude to her mentors and colleagues from the CUNY Graduate Center and Las Positas College for bringing happiness to the study of politics.

Yuri wishes to thank his wife, Sherrie, and his two beautiful boys, Ilan and Ari, for making his life fulfilled.

Anna Akasoy is professor of Islamic intellectual history at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. Her area of expertise is medieval history.

Nguyn Tun Anh is associate professor at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. The emphasis in his work is on kinship relations and social change in Northern Vietnamese villages. He has recently extended his research to community-based adaptation to climate change.

Samantha Birk is a graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Temple University. Broadly, she studies the risk factors that contribute to the development of depression and anxiety across the life span.

Davide Giuseppe Colasanto is a PhD candidate in modern european history at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He studies the history of sexuality, Fascism and violence during the twentieth century.

William J. Connell is professor of history and holds the La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University. His latest book is Machiavelli nel Rinascimento italiano.

Yuri Contreras-Vejar is professor of sociology at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile. Together with Professor Bryan S. Turner, he is the editor of the book series Religion and Society for a reputed publisher.

Samantha Denefrio is a doctoral candidate in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary is professor of psychology and neuroscience at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the codirector of the Hunter College Center for Stress, Anxiety, and Resilience Research and the Center for Health Technology.

Stephanie Grace Petinos is a lecturer of French at Western Carolina University. In 20172018, she was a Kingdon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; she received her PhD in French, with a certificate in Medieval Studies, from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2016.

Megan Hills is currently a PhD candidate in history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, focusing on the Scottish Enlightenment, having spent her previous 20 years as a trial lawyer as an AUSA and partner at a law firm. She received her BA in 1988 and MA (English) in 1989 from Georgetown University; JD in 1992 from Stanford University Law School; and MA (History) in 2014 from CUNY City College.

Marc Katz is the rabbi at Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield, NJ. He is the author of the book The Heart of Loneliness: How Jewish Wisdom Can Help You Cope and Find Comfort.

Bernadette McCauley is professor emerita of history at Hunter College, the City University of New York.

Shehzad Nadeem is associate professor of sociology at Lehman College, the City University of New York. He is the author of Dead Ringers: How Outsourcing Is Changing the Way Indians Understand Themselves.

Jessica Rosenfeld is associate professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry: Love after Aristotle (2011).

Oscar Salemink is a professor of anthropology at the University of Copenhagen and adjunct professor at the Institute of Religion, Politics and Society of the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne).

Colin Samson is a sociologist based at the University of Essex. He has worked with the Innu peoples of the Labrador-Quebec peninsula since 1994. His book A Way of Life That Does Not Exist: Canada and the Extinguishment of the Innu (2003) won the Pierre Savard Award.

Joanna Tice Jen is a member of the political science faculty at Las Positas College in Livermore, California. She received her PhD in political science from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2017 for her dissertation, Thine Is the Kingdom: The Political Thought of 21st Century Evangelicalism.

Bryan S. Turner is professor of sociology at the Australian Catholic University, emeritus professor at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York, USA, and honorary professor, Social Science Faculty, Potsdam University, Germany. He won the Max Planck Award in 2015.