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ASR News and Announcements 9/1/2023

2023-09-11T10:49:16-04:00

ASR News & Announcements

Rachel Kraus, Executive Officer

In many ways, the Association for the Sociology of Religion has enjoyed much success over the past year and is in excellent shape as we enter 2024. Our 84^th annual meeting was a great success. Highlights of this year’s meeting included Gerardo Martí’s Presidential Address, “Racial Justice and Racialized Religion: Are White Progressive Christians Getting it Right?” and Penny Edgell’s Furfey Lecture, “After Restructuring: Understanding the American Religious Landscape of the Twenty-first Century.” We offered a wide range of sessions, including two symposia on race and religion and the global south, and ASR/ASA Joint Mentoring Sessions. Further […]

CfP: Special Themed Issue “Church.Power.Abuse. Sociological Approaches”

ASREO2023-09-11T18:00:50-04:00

Special Themed Issue of the Journal for Religion, Society and Politics

Edited by Udo Kelle, Andreas Schmitz & André Armbruster

This special issue of the Journal for Religion, Society and Politics will adopt a decidedly sociological perspective as a starting point for understanding religious abuse: because abusive practices occur in huge numbers, in many regions of the world, in almost all forms of institutionalized religion, and show similar dimensions and patterns, abusive practices can be understood as recurring, systematic, if not systemic structural moments of institutional and organized religion. Abuse is not a random accident of religion, but religious structures, church systems and culture(s) are themselves conditions and/or forces that enable abuse and (re-)produce abuse […]

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ASR News and Announcements 9/1/2023

CfP: Special Themed Issue “Church.Power.Abuse. Sociological Approaches”