CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR BOOK CHAPTER DUE 25 MAY-

Call for Articles

2014 Volume of Religion and the Social Order

edited by the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) in cooperation with the ESA RN Sociology of Religion

Religion in Times of Crisis

Editors:

Gladys Ganiel (Dublin-Belfast/Ireland)

Christophe Monnot (Lausanne/ Switzerland)

Heidemarie Winkel (Potsdam/Germany)

ASR Book Series

Religion and the Social Order

series edited by William H. Swatos, Jr.

Particularly papers are welcomed that discuss the following topics:

● Studies dealing with religion in crisis, i.e. the way religious traditions such as Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and the like – re-structure their organizations, beliefs, and practices and adopt, negotiate or resist processes of modernization, secularization and disenchantment.

● Studies dealing with the ways religion provides answers to existential crisis and, particularly, the crisis of modernity – i.e. how and why Islam, Christianity and other religious-spiritual groups formulate a critique of and alternative to modern science, capitalism, mass-consumption and individualism.

● Studies dealing with the way crisis increases the salience of religious identities and cultural polarization, i.e., in what particular ways religion gives meaning in everyday life and if, how and why religious identity-formations induce processes of inclusion and exclusion; social cohesion and religious conflict.

● Studies focusing on the way religion changes the modern world in Europe and beyond, i.e., how rapid social changes motivate the appeal and popularity of religion and if, how and why such religions transform private and public domains in Europe.

Instructions to authors and deadlines:

Please submit an outline abstract of 750-800 words (plus bibliographical indications; in .doc, .rtf or .pdf format) by 25th May 2013 to each editor (gganiel@tcd.ie; christophe.monnot@unil.ch; hwinkel@uni-potsdam.de) outlining the following:

• Title of proposed paper

• Contributing author/s and contact details

• Significance and importance of the research question

• Key concepts, research framework, aim and methodology

If provisionally accepted, full articles are to be submitted by 1st October 2013 for review in line with ASR policy. All contributors to the volume must be members of ASR and ESA’s Sociology of Religion Research Network. Submission of an abstract does not guarantee publication and no payment shall be received upon publication. Each contributor shall receive one copy of the publication.