Fr. Patrick Gilger, S.J. is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola University of Chicago and is a priest of the Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus. A graduate of Creighton University, he has been a Jesuit since 2002. Trained in philosophy and theology in addition to sociology (PhD, New School), he now primarily studies social theory, the sociology of religion, and secularity. His current research focuses on how communities of practice cultivate (religious) subjectivities that are difficult to see and hear in a secular age, and how these unique subjectivities cultivate particular “powers of publicity” that can be deployed within an always-already-power-inflected public sphere.