Dear Colleagues,
I’m writing to remind you to propose papers for next July’s 3rd Forum of Sociology in Vienna. RC-22 will have at least 15 open sessions, which I’ve listed below. Please go to https://www.isa-sociology.org/forum-2016/rc/rc.php?n=RC22 for detailed descriptions and a link to the CONFEX online submission systems.
The deadline is September 30th — just 6 weeks away. All submissions have to go through CONFEX, so I suggest that you get yours in early. The last minute rush for the Yokohama conference created a major traffic jam. Don’t get caught in that! Put your proposal in now!
Vienna is a great place. I was there for a few days this July and enjoyed it tremendously. Program coordinator Vineeta Sinha, her co-coordinator Olga Breskaya, and I have some special things planned around the conference theme: “Religion, Secularity and Post-Secularity: Crafting Meaningful Futures”. We’d love to have you there.
Here are the session topics, with their organizers:
- The Categories of Religion and the Secular in the Post-Secular Discourse (Mitsutoshi Horii)
- Negotiating Religion and Citizenship in Global Context (Olga Breskaya)
- Religion in the Public Sphere (Enzo Pace and Orivaldo Lopes)
- Welfare and Civil Society: The Role of Religion (Per Pettersson)
- The Politics of Religious Heritage: Memory, Identity and Place (Mar Griera)
- From New Age and Spiritualities to Different World Views: Individualized Religious Beliefs, Autonomy Values and Individualized Morality (Tilo Beckers and Pascal Siegers)
- Religion, Gender, and the Internet (Anna Halafoff and Emma Tomalin)
- Topics and Forms of Religious Mobilization in Europe (Sinisa Zrinscak)
- Religious Trends Among Second Generations in Europe (Roberta Ricucci)
- Religious Radicalization (Inger Furseth)
- Religious Engagement and Spiritual Empowerment in Asian Countries: Quest for Human Security and Self-Fulfilment (Yoshihide Sakurai)
- Studying the African Diaspora Significance for Struggles Toward a Better World(Jualynne Dodson)
- World Religions and Axial Civilizations (Steven Kalberg & Said Arjomand)
- Religion, Plus and Minus: Human Rights; Inter-Religious Understanding; Peace and Violence. (NOTE: this will be three sessions, but the CONFEX computer system forces us to treat them as one session for now. Please specify the session in which you wish your paper to appear.)
- Religion and Human Rights (no organizer as yet)
- How to Build Better Understanding among Religions (Miroljub Jevtik)
- Religion, Peace, and Violence (Mohammad Ashphaq)
- A session co-sponsored with RC54: The Body in the Social Sciences: Rhythms and Rituals (Bianca Maria Pirani)
Please pass the word to others who would like to join us.
Best,
Jim
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James V. Spickard, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
University of Redlands
Redlands, California 92373
jim_spickard@redlands.edu
— President of Research Committee 22 (Sociology of Religion) of the International Sociological Association