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RC 22 has posted its list of proposed sessions for the July 2014 World Congress of Sociology, to be held in Yokohama, Japan. You can find the list of sessions, abstracts, etc on the ISA website at http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/rc/rc.php?n=RC22 . The site contains information about which sessions are open to papers and which ones have been pre-formed. Paper proposals open through the site on June 3rd, with a deadline for submission of September 30th. We have pasted a list of sessions below and have also attached the session list as a PDF file. We hope that you can participate in the conference.

Program Coordinators: Esmeralda Sanchez (emysanchez2001@yahoo.com) and Jim Spickard (jim_spickard@redlands.edu)

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ISA World Congress - Yokohama 2014: LIST OF RC22 SESSIONS

PART 1: Special Sessions 1. Presidential Address: Facing an Unequal Post-Secular World. Adam Possamai, RC22 President

2. Presidential Invited Session: Religion, Nationalism, and Transnationalism. Organized by Michel Patrick, Adam Possamai, & Bryan Turner.

3. RC22 Business Meeting

PART 2: OPEN SESSIONS: please submit your paper proposals at the ISA website. Links for doing so will be posted after 3 June at http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/rc/rc.php?n=RC22 Deadline: 30 September, 2013.

4. Sociology of Religion in Africa: Challenges and Prospects. Organized by Adogame, Afe

5. Uses of the Past: The Politics of Religion and Collective Memories. Organized by Burchardt, Marian & Koenig, Mattias

6. The Role of Religion in the Public Sphere. Organized by Furseth, Inger

7. Religion as a Factor in the Composition and De-composition of Ethnic Identities. Organized by Jevtik, Miroljub

8. Religious and Spiritual Capital: Reproducing, Overcoming or Going Beyond Inequality? Organized by Lombaard, Christo & Hämmerli. Maria

9. The Best of All Gods: Sites and Politics of Reli-gious Diversity in Southern Europe. Organized by Mapril, José

10. Religion and the Transition to Adulthood. Organized by Niemelä, Kati

11. Religious Diversity and Social Change in Contemporary East Asia. Organized by Okuyama, Michiaki

12. Welfare and Civil Society: The Role of Religion. Organized by Pettersson, Per

13. Religion in the Era of Climate Entropy. Organized by Rivas, Ver

14. Multiculturalism and Religion: Contemporary Challenges and Future Opportunities. Organized by Roose, Joshua

15. (Non)Religion in Question: Ethics, Equality, and Justice. Organized by Schenk, Suzanne & Schuh, Cora

16. Religion, Immigration, & Health (Co-Sponsored by RC 15 (Medical Sociology) and RC 31 (Sociology of Immigration). Organized by Ephraim Shapiro.

17. Roundtables on Religious Organizations (SEE NOTE BELOW)

a. New Forms of Religious Organization. Organized by Kern, Thomas & Pruisken, Insa

b. The Impact of Neoliberal Policies, Practices and Ideas on Religious Organizations. Organized by Martikainen, Tuomas

c. Facing Inequality from the Perspective of Islamic Organizations. Organized by Rosenow-Williams, Kerstin & Kortmann, Mattias

PART 3: INVITED SESSIONS: these sessions are NOT open for papers; their participants have already been invited.

18. Locating Religion in Civilizational Analysis. Organized by Arjomand, Said & Tiryakian, Edward

19. Civil Rights and Religious Freedoms in a Secular World. Organized by Blancarte, Roberto

20. Film: Haifa's Answer plus invited discussion. Organized by Cipriani, Roberto

21. Religion and Countering Gender Inequality. Organized by Halafoff, Anna, Tomalin, Emma & Caroline Starkey

22. Organized Conversations on Religious Research: (SEE NOTE BELOW)

a. Lessons For Studying Religion In The African Diaspora: Charles H. Long & Ruth Simms Hamilton. Organized by Dodson, Jualynn

b. The Sociology of Orthodoxy: Responses of Local Civilizations to the Challenges of a Globalizing World. Organized by Podlesnaya, Maria

NOTE ABOUT "ROUNDTABLES": We are allowed just 22 sessions, including the Business Meet-ing. We have therefore combined five sessions into "roundtable" sessions, which allow more than one session to take place at one time. WE HAVE NOT YET CHOSEN WHICH SESSIONS WILL BE ROUNDTABLES AND WHICH WILL HAVE FULL SESSIONS!! The ISA required us to assign sessions to these slots, and we did so. THESE PRELIMINARY AS-SIGNMENTS ARE NOT FINAL. We shall make the final assignments after all papers have been received. Our assignments will depend on several factors, none of which we can gauge now