Publications

• “Drag Kings at the Totem Ball: The Erotics of Collective Representation in Emile Durkheim and Sigmund Freud,” forthcoming in Jeffrey Alexander and Phil Smith, eds., Cambridge Companion to Durkheim. Cambridge University Press, June, 2004.
  
  
• Matters of Culture: Cultural Sociology in Practice, with John Mohr, Cambridge University Press, April, 2004.
  See: http://books.cambridge.org/0521791626.htm
  
  
• "Money, Sex and God: The Erotic Logic of Religious Nationalism," Sociological Theory, November, 2002.
  
  
See: http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/ct4/pages/Readings/Friedland/Friedland.pdf
(please note that this file is large - 45 pages).


• "Religious Nationalism and the Problem of Collective Representation," Annual Review of Sociology (2001).
  See: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.27.1.125
  
  
• "Terror and the Construction of Sacred Space," Tikkun, Nov/Dec, 2001. See: http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0111/article/011111c.html
• To Rule Jerusalem, with Richard Hecht, University of California Press, 2000.
  
  
• "The Bodies of Nations: A Comparative Study of Religious Violence in Jerusalem and Ayodhya," with Richard Hecht, History of Religions (1998).

Current Research Projects

• I am working with Richard Hecht on the politics of sacred space in Jerusalem, to eventuate in a book, Jerusalem: The Profane Politics of a Sacred Space.
  
  
• I am writing a book with Harold Zellman, an architect, on the relationship between the two metaphysics of organic architecture and Gurdjieffian mysticism in the organization of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship, founded in 1932.
  
  
• The third book on which I am working is a study of semiotic order of religious nationalism, a study that seeks both to sexualize our understanding of the political authority of the nation-state and to advance an institutional approach to social movements.