I am happy to announce the election results for 2014.

ASR’s President-Elect will be Lori Beaman of the University of Ottawa. Lori will begin her role as President-Elect at the end of this year’s Annual Meeting when our current President-Elect, Melissa Wilde, succeeds Christopher Ellison as the President of ASR.

We also have three newly elected Council Members, whose 3-year terms begin at the end of this year’s Annual Meeting and run until 2017.  They are Richard Flory, University of Southern California, Giuseppe Giordan, University of Padua (Italy), and Milagros Pena, University of Florida.  To learn more about the newly elected Council members, visit their profiles on the ASR website.

Congratulations to Lori, Richard, Milly, and Giuseppe, and many […]

Preparations for this summer’s annual ASR Meeting running from August 13^th-15^th in San Francisco are now in full swing.  We will begin with a Welcoming Reception on the evening of Wednesday, August 13^th, during which we will celebrate the publication of the 24^th volume of the Religion and the Social Order series (co-published by ASR and Brill) and announce the winners of our awards and our newly elected officers.  The Presidential Address will be given by Christopher Ellison of the University of Texas at San Antonio on the evening of August 14^th, and the Furfey Lecture will be delivered by Neal Krause of the University of Michigan on the evening of August 15^th.  The ASA Sociology of Religion Section day […]

Greetings of the New Year! This issue of News & Announcements reports some exciting new developments in our Association as we mark our 76th anniversary and the 75th anniversary of our journal. Before I get to those developments, let me share with you the details of this year’s Annual Meeting so you can start making plans now to join us as a presenter, convener, or attendee. As always, we will be delighted to have you with us.

This year’s meeting will be held August 13-15, 2014, at the stunning JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square, located just two blocks from the ASA hotels in the cultural heart of the city. As usual, we will begin our meeting with an Opening Night […]

2013 marks the 75th anniversary of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and we’re planning to use our meeting in Manhattan this year to celebrate.  Our hotel will be the Doubletree Metropolitan, which is part of the Hilton group in New York City, and we were able to get a phenomenal rate — just $179/night for rooms with one queen- or king-sized bed, and just $199/night for rooms with two beds.  In addition to these excellent rates, the hotel threw in free WiFi and assured us that there will be no extra charges for additional occupants of the rooms.  So the Doubletree is definitely the place to be in August!

We will continue the two-day meeting pattern we initiated in […]