RESEARCH COMMITTEE 22: SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
The 4th ISA Forum of Sociology has been postponed until
February 23-27, 2021
(The program is set, but participant registration has been extended to December 15, 2020)
Full details of the postponement can be found in the ISA’s announcement: HERE.
These include other details about conference participation and
participants’ opportunity to modify their paper titles and abstracts.
“Challenges of the 21st Century for Sociology of Religion“
Program Coordinators:
Eloísa Martín, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Juan Cruz Esquivel, University of Buenos Aires/ CONICET, Argentina
Roberta Bivar Carneiro, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
The debate on religion, its role, its development, and its future has been intense, extensive and sophisticated during the last few decades. Religion is both a central phenomenon itself and a key variable that can be used to explain economic, social, and political phenomena. Both facets require continuous in-depth research. In recent years, many sociologists have begun to identify limits to the current approach to religious phenomena, and especially to the definitions of religion developed in the West. A number of authors have extended this critique to the ways sociologists currently explain and interpret “religion” in the 21st Century. Though still emerging, such accounts have opened new paths by which sociologists of religion can face both the empirical and theoretical challenges of our era.
RC22 will be hosting the following Sessions: (click the link to read the session description)
- Beyond Western Centrism of Religion: To Study Africa Inspired Religions in the 21st Century
- Civil Society and Religion
- Culture, Religion, and Gender Inequality
- Early Career Sociologists of Religion Session
- Overlapping Trajectories: Religion, Migration and Health Paths.
- Religion and Practical Ethics: Bioethics, Environmental Ethics and Legal Ethics
- Religion, Environment, and Social Movements
- Religion, Spirituality and Morality in a Post-Secular Age
- Religions, Social Movements and Politics Circulation, Production and Politics of Knowledge in the “Christianisms of Liberation” and Its Adversaries
- Religiosity in Transition; Change of Roles Over the Time
- Religious Dynamics in the Public Sphere in Latin America
- Religious, Spiritual and/or Non-Religious Young People
- Revisiting ‘religion’ from a Gender Perspective
- The Public Role of Religion
- The Reciprocal Influence of Religion and Demography
- Where Is Religion in Popular Religion? New Approaches for an Old Debate
- Wtf? (“What the Faith?”) - Peering Anew into the Conceptual Domains of “Religion”, “God”, “Spirituality”, “Faith” and Related Constructs
Please address your questions to any of the Program Coordinators:
- Juan Cruz Esquivel jucesquivel@gmail.com
- Roberta Bivar Carneiro robertabivar@gmail.com
- Eloísa Martín eloisamartin@hotmail.com