[Csrfac] Religion and Power: SSSR Call for Papers

[Edwards, Korie]

Hello Everyone!

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.

Thanks so much for your time.

Peace and take care,

Korie L. Edwards, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Religious Leadership and Diversity Project (www.rldp.net<http://www.rldp.net>)
President, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
The Ohio State University


 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Call for Papers

2018 Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, NV
Tropicana Hotel
October 26-28

Religion and Power:
The Creation, Reproduction and Deconstruction of Social Orders

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.

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.

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: http://sssreligion.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers<http://sssreligion.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/>/<http://sssreligion.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/>.

  *   Submissions Open: February 01, 2018
  *   Submissions Close: March 31, 2018
  *   Decision Notification: April 30, 2018

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 at utsa.edu.
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