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.

ASR News & Announcements

Rachel Kraus, Executive Officer

Thank you to everyone who attended our 79^th annual meeting in Montreal and helped make it a great success.  I hope you all found intellectually engaging conversations, met some new people, and enjoyed Montreal sites.  Highlights of this year’s meeting included Michael Emerson’s Presidential Address, “Soul of the City: The Depth of How ‘Urban’ Matters in the Sociology of Religion,” Mark Juergensmeyer’s Furfey Lecture, “Thinking Sociologically about Religion and Violence,” sixteen Author Meets Critics sessions, and four ASR/ASA Joint Sessions.  The annual meeting also featured three professionalization workshops focusing on graduate student experiences, teaching sociology of religion, and Louisville Institute research funding opportunities for social scientific studies of religion.  Along with our McNamara and […]

ASR News & Announcements

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 […]

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Benefits of joining

* Get to read and keep carefully pre-selected works, including cutting-edge research.
* Help fellow scholars develop their work into high-standard, high-impact contributions and be acknowledged for it.
* Get advance notice of exciting publication opportunities, occasional competitions and prize draws.
* First-time reviewers receive a small honorarium ($50) and deep discount on other titles.
* Experienced scholars may propose new series and receive additional benefits for their role as Editors (subject to publisher approval).
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Do you enjoy reading books in economics, social science, humanities? Join our community of book reviewers!

To join you must be an expert in one of the areas we publish ( https://vernonpress.com/ ) and be prepared to review at least one book every two years:

Benefits of joining

* Get to read and keep carefully pre-selected works, including cutting-edge research.

* Help fellow scholars develop their work into high-standard, high-impact contributions and be acknowledged for it.

* Get advance notice of exciting publication opportunities, occasional competitions and prize draws.

* First-time reviewers receive a small honorarium ($50) and deep discount on other titles.

* Experienced scholars may propose new series and receive additional benefits for their role as Editors (subject to publisher approval).

* Young scholars receive support […]