Rachel Kraus, Executive Officer

In many ways, the Association for the Sociology of Religion is in excellent shape as we enter 2017.  Our 78^th annual meeting in Seattle this year was a great success.  Highlights of this year’s meeting included Lori Beaman’s Presidential Address, “Living Well Together in a (non)Religion Future:  Contributions from the Sociology of Religion” and Linda Woodhead’s Furfey Lecture “Is No Religion the New Religion?”  We offered more sessions than even before, including four ASR/ASA Joint Sessions and fourteen author-meets-critic sessions.  Participation in the annual meeting was at an all-time high with around 250 registrants.  Further details about these and other aspects of the annual meeting are available on the ASR website at www.sociologyofreligion.com.

The results of ASR’s […]

2017 – Call for Papers

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Seattle University’s new Center for Religious Wisdom & World Affairs is seeking to bring together theologians and scholars of religion from a variety of faith traditions and disciplines to explore the ways in which religious wisdom and the resources of faith communities can lend assistance in the analysis, diagnosis and community responses needed to address the problem of homelessness.
A unique opportunity to participate in the interreligious analysis of a pressing social issue
Scholars will meet at Seattle University on April 25 and 26, 2017. During the course of the two days, they will learn about the issue of homelessness from legal experts, policy analysts, and economists; participate in a discussion with local stakeholders, including religious leaders; and prepare paper proposal abstracts […]

For information, gambling please visit the VISOR Project.

Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California will hold this cross-discipline conference October 12-14, 2017. The conference theme is “Reformation Reverberations:  Consequences & Challenges of Change.” The plenary speakers will be Mia M. Mochizuki, Associate Professor of the History of Art (New York University, Abu Dhabi and Institute of Fine Arts) and Brad S. Gregory, Dorothy G. Griffin Professor of Early Modern European History (University of Notre Dame). The conference invites participation from a wide array of disciplines, including but not limited to religious studies, theology, history, literature, philosophy, sociology, psychology, music, and art.  The conference welcomes papers dealing with the socio-historical impact of the Reformation, the intellectual conundrums posed and answered by reformers and their counterparts, the questions of social […]

To Graduate Students interested in studying campus ministry,

A national study of Catholic Campus Ministry has been sponsored by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.  Brian Starks is the PI for the study.  The full research team will meet at the University of Notre Dame in October to design survey instruments, with plans to conduct two national surveys in Spring 2017.

There is an opportunity for one select graduate student to gain a seat at the table in the construction of the survey and its implementation!  Graduate student access to data and ability to use for dissertation research is the major benefit.  Please contact Brian Starks at bstarks3@kennesaw.edu if interested.