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<div style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Hello Everyone!</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">I am on faculty in the Department of Sociology here at OSU. And I am currently President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR). I want to invite you to
submit a paper or session proposal for our annual meeting, October 26-28.. Submissions are open now and close March 31. You will simply need an abstract, title and contact information for submissions. Below is the Call for Papers. </font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Thanks so much for your time.</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Peace and take care,</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Korie L. Edwards, Ph.D.</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Principal Investigator, Religious Leadership and Diversity Project (<a href="http://www.rldp.net" target="_blank">www.rldp.net</a>)</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma; text-align: center;"><font style="font-size: large;"> </font><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><font size="5">Society for the Scientific Study of Religion</font></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><font size="4">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><font size="3">2018 Annual Meeting<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><font size="3">Las Vegas, NV<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><font size="3">Tropicana Hotel<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><font size="3">October 26-28</font><font size="4"><o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><font size="4">Religion and Power:</font></span></b></p>
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<b style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><font size="4">The Creation, Reproduction and Deconstruction of Social Orders</font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><font size="4">The study of religion, power and social orders is at the core of social scientific inquiry. Social scientists like W.E.B. DuBois, Karl Marx, Max Weber,
Emile Durkheim, Clifford Geertz, Zora Neale Hurston and Gordon Allport, among others, recognized the critical role religion plays in the distribution of power and, consequently, the creation, reproduction and deconstruction of social orders. Historians too
reveal how religion, across time and geographic space, is at the foundation of societies, both great and small, and the impetus behind social change. We repeatedly see religion being used by the already powerful to sustain their power and existing social
orders as well as by the less powerful to disrupt those same social orders and claim or reclaim more power. Upon surveying present-day religious, political, and economic realities, we once again see such processes unfolding. The time appears ripe, then,
for social scientists to reinvest our energies in empirical and theoretical examinations of religion, power and social orders.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><font size="4">These meetings aim to have a methodologically, theoretically and epistemologically diverse program. Thus, the concepts of religion, power and social
orders are broadly understood. Religion includes, for example, religious practices, attitudes, beliefs, values, ideologies, emotions, relationships, organizations, and institutions. Power is any form of control or influence. Social orders exist at the micro
level (e.g., personal, relational) and macro level (e.g., institutional, societal, global) and anywhere in between (e.g., racial, socioeconomic, organizational, communal). Additionally, proposals that draw upon qualitative or quantitative methods will be
considered. Proposals that assume either prevailing (e.g., positivist) or emerging (e.g., intersectional) epistemological approaches are encouraged.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><font size="4">We invite all social scientific paper and session proposals on religion to be considered for our 2018 meetings in Las Vegas, NV. We especially invite
paper and session proposals that address the theme of these meetings. All proposals must be submitted via the on-line submission system that will be available on the SSSR’s web site:
<a href="http://sssreligion.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/">http://sssreligion.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers</a><a href="http://sssreligion.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/">/</a>.</font></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0.5in;"><font size="4">Submissions Open: February 01, 2018</font></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><font size="4">Submissions Close: March 31, 2018</font></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><font size="4">Decision Notification: April 30, 2018</font></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><font size="4">Please direct all inquiries to Melinda Denton (Department of Sociology, University of Texas at San Antonio), the Program Chair for the 2018 Annual
Meeting. Contact information: Melinda.Denton@utsa.edu.</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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