New edited volume!

Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics, edited by Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn (University of Michigan Press, 2022).

Just Published!

Patricia J. Sohn, “Asian Perspectives and Ritual Politics in Recent Popular Film and Television” in Religions 16:11 (2025): 1449 (35 pages). Asian perspectival politics with important potential implications, addressing works from Kazakhstan, Nepal, India, and East to the Pacific. Theories regarding narrative, power, symbolic representations, meaning, and cultural de-coding as defining perspectival politics. Culture, ethnography, and comparative/international politics frameworks (e.g., informal processes and process tracing). Asian film and television, 1999-2023, with English subtitles available in the U.S.; and a survey in brief reference of over 100 canvassed films. Four Appendices offering binary and conceptual coding of genres, themes, and more, regarding two dozen selected film and television works.

Patricia Sohn and Dean Uddhab Pyakurel, “Benedict, Tradition, and the Wilsonian Social Contract” in E-International Relations, Articles, February 3, 2026. E-International Relations' summary: "In order to achieve Hobbes’ security goals, a social contract at the domestic and international levels should include both traditional and modern cultural models."

Dean Uddhab Pyakurel and Patricia Sohn, “Kathmandu: City of Peace, Economies of Scale and Cultural Diversity” in E-International Relations, Articles, October 29, 2025. E-International Relations' summary: "While Nepal has some social tensions across and within religions, it maintains robustly secular principles of governance combined with strong principles of religious freedom."