FW: Call for Papers: ISA Research Committee on the Sociology of Religion (RC22)
Reply-To: Rachael Shillitoe <r.shillitoe@PROTECTED>
Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 6:16 AM
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Subject: Call for Papers: ISA Research Committee on the Sociology of Religion (RC22)
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Dear colleagues,
Please see below for ISA Research Committee on the Sociology of Religion (RC22) call for papers.
Best wishes,
Rachael
Rachael Shillitoe
Research Student – Faith on the Air
SocRel Conference and Events Officer
University of Worcester
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NOW OPEN - Call for Papers/Abstracts:
ISA Research Committee on the Sociology of Religion (RC22)
http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/call-for-abstracts/
XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology
Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities
Toronto, Canada, July 15-21, 2018
RESEARCH COMMITTEE 22: SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
Religion, Power, and Resistance: New Ideas for a Divided World
Program Coordinators:
Anna Halafoff, Deakin University, Australia
Sam Han, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Caroline Starkey, University of Leeds, UK
Current environmental, economic, social, and political challenges indicate that people are losing faith in existing power structures and mechanisms
for coping with crises. This creates increasingly divided societies, riven by ideological battles for the future of the human and the more than human world. Religion has a place in this picture. Not only is it often a source of divisions; it can also be a
source for alternative means of addressing them.
These divisions take new and as yet unclear shapes, which sociologists are only now beginning to comprehend. It is not enough to refer to
the struggle between ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’, terms that dominated sociology through the 1970s. Nor do the tropes ‘colonialism vs. anti-colonialism’ and the ‘clash of civilizations’ adequately explain what is going on. Nor, arguably, does ‘populism vs
neo-liberalism’ fully capture such things as the recent clashes between cosmopolitan and anticosmopolitan actors in the major Western democracies. Each of these has a piece of the picture; none of them captures it all.
What is religion’s role in this situation: as a creator of divisions, as a locus of power, and as a ground of resistance? How does religion
influence our divided societies? How is religion influenced in turn?
We invite paper abstract submissions for the following RC22 sessions:
Dynamics of Gender, Religion and Intersectionality
Gender, Feminism, and Islam and the West
Media and Religious Radicalization: Gatekeeping and the Construction of Extremism
Prejudice, Exclusion and Violence in a Transnational World
Religion and Migration: Contrasting the First and Second Generations
Religion and National Identity
Religion and Secularity
Candlelight Revolution and Religion in South Korea
Religion and Non-Violent Social Movements
Religion, Gender and Family Violence
Religion in the East Asian Public Sphere
Religion in the Public Square
Religious Texts of Diversity Vs Exclusion
Social Theory and Religion
We will also be including the following invited sessions in our RC22 program:
Presidential Address: Whither the Sociology of Religion? (Invited Session)
Session Organizer: James SPICKARD, University of Redlands, USA
Religion and Diversity: An International Study (Invited Session)
Session Organizer: Lori BEAMAN, University of Ottawa, Canada
Diffused Religion. Beyond Secularization – Author Meets Critic Session (Invited Session)
Session Organizer: Roberto CIPRIANI, University Roma Tre, Italy
The Case for an Indeterminate Sociological Theory of Religion (Invited Session)
Session Organizer: Tak-ling WOO, York University, Canada
The ISA CONFEX website site will be
accepting paper abstracts between 25 April and 30 September, 2017 24:00 GMT.
http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/call-for-abstracts/
Please address any questions to the Program Coordinators:
Anna Halafoff: anna.halafoff@PROTECTED
Sam Han: HanSam@PROTECTED
Caroline Starkey: C.Starkey@PROTECTED
Dr Caroline Starkey
Research and Teaching Fellow, Centre for Religion and Public Life
School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science
LG13, Baines Wing, University of Leeds LS2 9JT
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