Andreas E. Buss
Adjunct Professor, Department of Classics and Religious Studies
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Office: ARTS 025
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 1167
E-mail: abuss@uOttawa.ca
University degrees
LL.B., Ottawa
Docteur en sociologie, Sorbonne
Fields of interest
- Max Weber’s comparative sociology of religions
- War and peace in world religions
- Religion in international and constitutional law
- Theravada Buddhism; Russian-Orthodox Christianity
Courses taught
- SOC 3106/ SOC 3506 Weber and Weberian Analysis / Weber et l’analyse wébérenne
- SOC 3148 Comparative Social Structure
- SRS 2191 Sociology of Religion
Selected publications
« Les rationalités du droit et l’économie dans la sociologie du droit de Max Weber » Revue Juridique Thémis vol. 39 (2005) no.1 pp 111-150
“Dual Legal Systems and the Basic Structure Doctrine of Constitutions – the Case of India”Canadian Journal of Law and Society vol. 19 (2004) no.2, pp23-49
The Russian-Orthodox Tradition and Modernity Leiden : Brill 2003 225pp
“The Evolution of Western Individualism” Religion vol. 30 (2000) pp 1-25
Die Wirtschaftsethik des russisch-orthodoxen Christentums Heidelberg: Carl Winter 1989
Max Weber and Asia. Contributions to the Sociology of Development London/Munich: Weltforum 1985, 120pp.
Société, Politique, Individu. Les formes élémentaires de la vie sociale en Inde ancienne Presses de l’Université de Montréal 1978, 121pp