Josetxo Beriain was born in Spain in 1959, from Navarrese parents. B. A. in Sociology and Philosophy in the Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, 1984. M. A. in Sociology in the New School University, New York, 1986, and PH. D. in Sociology in the Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, 1987. Professor of Sociology at the Universidad Pública de Navarra in Pamplona, since 1990. His fields of research are sociological theory, sociology of religion and cultural sociology. He has been Research Assistant at the New School University in New York and Visiting Scholar at the Universität Bielefeld (Germany), at the Freie Universität Berlin, at the Center for European Studies of the Harvard University, at the Colegio de México in México D. F., at the Berkley Center of the Georgetown University and at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University. He is author of the following books: Collective representations and the Project of Modernity, 1990, Barcelona. The Integration in Modern Societies, 1996, Barcelona. The Conflict of Gods in Modernity, 2000, Barcelona. The Clash of Modernities, 2005, Barcelona. Social Acceleration and the Tyranny of the Present, Barcelona, 2008. The Transgressive (and Transgressed) Subject. Modernity, Religion, Utopia and Terror, 2011, Barcelona. With Maya Aguiluz-Ibargüen, A Sociological Genealogy of Culture Wars, London, Routledge, 2024. He is director of the series Social Sciences of the publisher Anthropos- Siglo XXI, and member of the Editorial Boards of the journal Sociologica in México D. F., and of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) in Madrid.
