Recent Publications

  1. Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics, edited by Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn (University of Michigan Press, 2022). 425 pages; Index; 16 chapters; and 17 contributors from the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa, including a Commentary by Professor Mark Tessler.

  2. Patricia Sohn, Guest Editor, Special Issue of Religions: Religion and Politics: Ritual, Performativity, and (Political) Theatre in Comparative-Historical and International Perspective | MDPI (closed January 15, 2026, and still in process). For recent articles by contributors to the special issue, see this link (near the bottom of the page).

  3. Patricia Sohn and Dean Uddhab Pyakurel, “Benedict, Tradition, and the Wilsonian Social Contract” in E-International Relations, Articles, February 3, 2026. 

  4. Patricia J. Sohn, “Asian Perspectives and Ritual Politics in Recent Popular Film and Television” in Religions 16:11 (2025): 1449 (35 pages); https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16111449. 

  5. Dean Uddhab Pyakurel and Patricia Sohn, “Kathmandu: City of Peace, Economies of Scale and Cultural Diversity” in E-International Relations, Articles, October 29, 2025. 

  6. Patricia Sohn, “The Neo-Positive Value of Symbolic Representations and Ritual Politics: Reconsidering the South Korean Allegory in Popular Film, Asura: The City of Madness’” in Religions 14:11 (2023): 1362 (18 pages); https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14111362.

  7. Patricia Sohn, “Inclusiveness, Pedagogy, Identity, Ideology, and the Epistemology of the Professor” in E-International Relations, Articles, May 13, 2023

  8. Patricia Sohn, “United Moderate Religions vs. Secular and Religious Extremes?” in E-International Relations, Articles, April 3, 2023.

  9. Patricia Sohn, “Global Trends in Religion and State: Secular Law and Freedom of Religion in Israel” in Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics, edited by Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2022.

  10. Patricia Sohn and Simone Raudino, “Editors’ Introduction: Religion and Politics” in Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics, edited by Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2022.

  11. Patricia Sohn, “Theatres of Difference: The Film ‘Hair’, Otherness, Alterity, Subjectivity and Lessons for Identity Politics” in E-International Relations, Articles, September 28, 2021.

  12. Patricia Sohn, “J’accuse! The Case for Traditional Capitalism” in E-International Relations, February 9, 2019.

  13. Patricia Sohn, “J’accuse! The Case for Pre-Modernism, or, the Rural-Urban Divide” in  E-International Relations, January 25, 2019.

  14. Patricia Sohn, “What is Nationalism? A Nation?  A Nationalist?” in E-International Relations, November 16, 2018 (14,089 views as of May 6, 2025; E-International Relations is no longer counting views).

  15. Patricia J. Woods, “Fault Lines” in The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law (Cambridge Companions to Religion Series), edited by Christine Hayes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

  16. Patricia J. Woods, “The Women’s Movement: Mobilization and the State” in Contemporary Israel: New Insights and Scholarship (Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century Series), edited by Frederick Greenspahn. New York University Press, 2017. 

  17. Patricia Sohn, “Why Jerusalem Is the Capital of Israel – And Palestine” in E-International Relations, December 8, 2017 (6,458 views as of May 6, 2025; E-International Relations is no longer counting views).

  18. Patricia Sohn, “Times of Tumult: Discussing Islam and Feminism” in E-International Relations, October 20, 2016.

  19. Patricia Sohn, “Inhabiting Orthodoxy: Discussing Islam and Feminism, Continued” in E-International Relations, December 9, 2016.

Ninety-three works, 1991 to present. For more, see “Publications” in Curriculum Vitae.

At home, I keep a medium-small desk, a large table, and a small table for different types of work and writing. The desk and large table are each made from acacia wood (one refined and the other a bit more rustic) in a light natural finish joined by carbon steel. The other is made from polished and refined mango wood in a medium-dark, natural oil finish. They are all hand made from Asia. In the South Pacific, acacia wood is considered Holy, extremely strong, and long-lasting. Mango wood, likewise, means strength, artistry, and invention or innovation for some Asian cultures. They both are considered to help with meditation. Wood is seen as associated with feminine or masculine qualities, depending upon context. Carbon steel work is seen as representing a primal human innovation, technology, and artistry in history (or pre-history); strength and durability; as healthful (e.g., the presence of carbon in a non-edible state); and as grounding.