CALL FOR PAPERS
ASSOCIATION FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
2006 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency Montréal – August 10-12
INTERSECTIONS: HISTORY MEETS THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION . . . AGAIN
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All social action, including religious behavior, unfolds in and over time, and thus features an inevitable historical dimension. But this aspect of religion has not always been acknowledged, much less given its due, in social scientific analyses. Rather, sociologists of religion too often have seemed satisfied to leave questions of precedence, sequence, and past impact to scholars who are specially trained in history. More recent scholarship in religion has departed from this pattern, however, and our 2006 program is intended to stimulate reflection and writing that will contribute to this trend. |
President Kevin Christiano and Program Chair Peter Kivisto are looking for YOU!
Papers are invited on a broad range of issues in the sociological study of religion relating to the meeting theme, including but not limited to the following:
Renewed examinations of American religious history
Historical perspectives on church and sect development
"New" religious movements, past and present
History among methods for the sociology of religion
Great controversies in the historical study of religions
Religious movements as agents of historical change
Immigrant "waves" and their faiths, then and now
Changes in gendered religious life over time
Evangelicalism and fundamentalism: "Old-time" religion?
The uses of history in social theory on religion
New sources of data on the religions of yesterday
Lessons from history for the sociology of religion
Religion in Western Europe: Purely of "historical" interest?
The religious mainline as a historiographical touchpoint
Secularization: A problem of historical interpretation?
And, as always, the program seeks to include papers that address substantive, theoretical, methodological, and normative issues in the sociology of religion, even those that fall outside the formal theme.
DEADLINES: Session Proposals are due by 15 January 2006
Paper Abstracts are due by 15 February 2006
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: (1) Submit your proposal by email as a Word attachment. Include the names, affiliations, and email addresses of all authors on the same sheet as your abstract/proposal. (2) Limit paper abstracts to 150 words. (3) Membership in the ASR is required for program consideration. Return to main page for membership application.
PROGRAM CHAIR:
Peter Kivisto, Richard Swanson Professor of Social Thought and Professor and Chair of Sociology, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL 61201. E-mail: ASR2006@augustana.edu.