ASR News & Announcements

Rachel Kraus, Executive Officer

Preparations for this summer’s 80^th Annual Meeting are in full swing.  The meeting will be held August 11-13, 2018 at the Sofitel Hotel in the heart of Philadelphia.  We will begin with a Welcoming Reception on the evening of Saturday, August 11^th, during which we will announce the winners of our awards and introduce our newly elected officers.  The Presidential Address will be given by Daniel V.A. Olson, and the Furfey Lecture will be delivered by Jennifer Glass.  The ASA Sociology of Religion Section day is Saturday, August 11^th.

The hotel reservation link, meeting registration page, and information about Philadelphia are available on Annual Meeting page of the ASR website, www.sociologyofreligion.com.  If you have […]

Call for Papers

Sociology of Religion Unit, 

American Academy of Religion

Denver, Colorado, November 17-20, 2018

https://papers.aarweb.org/content/sociology-religion-unit

Statement of Purpose:

The Sociology of Religion Program Unit of the American Academy of Religion serves as a bridge between religious studies and the subdiscipline of sociology of religion. The group operates as a two-way conduit to bring sociological research into the field of religious studies and to make findings in the broader study of religion available to sociologists. Through cross-fertilization transgressing disciplinary boundaries there can be breakthroughs in research in both fields. The group has a wide conception of sociology of religion. It is open to a multiplicity of approaches utilized in the discipline of sociology. We work to cultivate theoretical contributions founded upon empirical […]

ASR News & Announcements

Rachel Kraus, Executive Officer

The theme for this year’s annual meeting is “Strengthening Weak Ties to other Sociological Subdisciplines.” The meeting will be held August 11-13, 2018 at the Sofitel Philadelphia Hotel, located in the heart of downtown.  Our President, Daniel V. A. Olson, and Program Chair, Jerry Park, have promised to make this year’s meeting unique in terms of both its intellectual content and social gatherings.  We can look forward to series of Presidential Sessions focused on strengthening the intersection of the sociology of religion with other sociological disciplines.  As usual, we will begin our meeting with an Opening Night Reception on Saturday, August 11, which will include an awards ceremony recognizing the winners of the McNamara […]

Social Inclusion – an open access journal indexed in the Web of Science – ESCI and Scopus (CiteScore 0.49) – welcomes abstracts for an issue on the intersections of religion and inequality.

Title: Complex Religion: Intersections of Religion and Inequality

Editor: Melissa J. Wilde (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Deadline for Abstracts: 15 September 2017
Submission of Full Papers: 15 to 31 January 2018
Publication of the Issue: May/June 2018

Information: Although scholars of American religion acknowledge religion’s deep interconnectedness with race, class, and ethnicity in the USA, we nonetheless typically study religion as a factor that is independent from other social structures. Likewise, we rarely systematically examine class, race or gender differences between or within American religious groups. This thematic issue will highlight research that moves beyond these weaknesses by publishing papers […]

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Postdoctoral Fellowship

Rachel Kraus, Executive Officer

Preparations for this summer’s Annual Meeting are in full swing.  The meeting will be held August 12-14, 2017 at the InterContinental Montreal Hotel, located just steps from the main ASA conference hotels.  We will begin with a Welcoming Reception on the evening of Saturday, August 12^th, during which we will announce the winners of our awards and introduce our newly elected officers.  The Presidential Address will be given by Michael Emerson on Sunday evening, August 13^th, and the Furfey Lecture will be delivered by Mark Juergensmeyer on Monday evening, August 14^th.  The ASA Sociology of Religion Section day is Tuesday, August 15^th.

The preliminary meeting program, the hotel reservation link, meeting registration page, and information about Montreal are […]

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Professor Nanlai Cao, from Renmin University of China, Beijing, is the winner of the International Center for the Sociology of Religion Grant. He will study the Chinese Christian presence in Rome.