VOLUME XIII, NUMBER 3, SPRING 2007, www2.asanet.org/section34/ SociologySociology ofof ReligionReligion ASASASNewsletter of the SociologyAAA of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association Kevin D. Dougherty, Editor From the Chair The 2007 Annual Meeting is just around the corner. Our section’s reception–at which we will present this year’s winners of our book, article, and student paper awards–will be ASA ANNUAL MEETING HIGHLIGHTS on Saturday evening, and we will have sessions all day Sunday and on Saturday, August 11 Monday morning. These paper Joint ASA/ASR Thematic Sessions sessions and roundtables–on Religion Regular Sessions religious practices, Section Reception immigrants, religious Section Council Meeting ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ meanings, and more– Sunday, August 12 promise to be informative and Section Paper Sessions stimulating, and I hope you Section Roundtables will join us for all of Section Business Meeting ○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○ them. (See pages 3- 6 of the newsletter Monday, August 13 Inside for details.) Many thanks to Joint ASA/ASR Thematic Session PAGE 2 Section Paper Session John Evans and Mansoor Religion Regular Session Section Officers Moaddel, who served with 2007-2008 Officers Elected me on the program ASR Meeting Highlights committee, and also to Elaine Ecklund, for organizing an PAGE 3 exciting session on religion and science. ASA Religion Sessions The highlight of every year’s reception is the presentation of our three annual awards. You will have to come to the reception (or peek at the list of winners in your conference PAGE 5 packet) to learn who this year’s winners are, but let me take this opportunity to thank the ASA Religion Roundtables members of our three awards committees. Omar McRoberts chaired the Book Award Committee, joined by Courtney Bender and Penny Edgell. Jen’nan Read chaired the Article PAGE 6 Award Committee, joined by Michael Hout and Brian Steensland. And John Bartkowski Other Conferences chaired the Student Paper Award Committee, joined by Elaine Ecklund and Mark Shibley. Request for Proposals Many thanks to these colleagues for serving the Section in this way. This newsletter is the last that Kevin Dougherty will edit. Kevin has done an PAGE 7 outstanding job during his three years in this position. He has kept us informed, solicited Public Christianity in the and published provocative essays, and oversaw a seamless transition to an electronic Venezuelan Revolution newsletter. We thank him for his service, and we are sorry to see him go. At the same time, I am pleased to announce that Richard Flory, at the University of PAGE 11 Southern California, has been appointed by Council to succeed Kevin for a three-year term 2006 Survey of Section Members as newsletter editor. Richard will take the reins this summer, and we look forward to working with him in this capacity. PAGE 14 Thank you for the opportunity to serve as Section Chair. I look forward to seeing you in Member News and Notes August. Dissertation in the Pipe From the Editor MARK CHAVES, Duke University PAGE 15 Editor’s Note: After nine years at the University of Arizona, Mark joined the faculty of Duke University in Employment Announcements June as Professor of Sociology, Religion, and Divinity. Best wishes, Mark! 2 Spring 2007 ASA Sociology of Religion Section Newsletter 2007-2008 Section Officers Elected Section Officers 2006-2007 Chair Chair-Elect Mark Chaves, [email protected] Michael O. Emerson Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor of Sociology, and Chair-elect Director of the Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life Christian Smith, [email protected] Rice University Past-chair Council Member Christopher Ellison, [email protected] Wendy Cadge Assistant Professor of Sociology Secretary/Treasurer Brandeis University Richard L. Wood, [email protected] Council Member Council James D. Davidson Peggy Levitt, [email protected] Professor of Sociology Omar McRoberts, [email protected] Purdue University Mark D. Regnerus, [email protected] David A. Smilde, [email protected] Jenny A. Trinitapoli, [email protected] Secretary-Treasurer Melissa J. Wilde, [email protected] Kevin Christiano David Yamane, [email protected] Associate Professor of Sociology University of Notre Dame Newsletter Editor Kevin D. Dougherty, [email protected] Student Representative Christopher Scheitle The Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association encourages and enhances research, teaching, and Ph.D. Candidate other professional concerns in the study of religion and society. Pennsylvania State University Association for the Sociology of • Saturday, August 11, 12:15 pm:pm Paul Hanly Furfey Religion Annual Meeting Highlights Lecture: “The Influence of Religion and Politics: Religious Political Action Organizations in State By JAMES D. DAVIDSON (ASR President), Purdue University Legislatures,” by Joseph Micon (Democrat), House of ASA Sociology of Religion Section Chair Mark Chaves Representatives, Indiana General Assembly, followed by and I have tried to make it possible for members of ASA and reception from 1:30 to 2:30 pm the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) to ASR and ASA also have arranged three joint sessions maximize their participation in both annual meetings. We related to the themes of this year’s meetings. Persons think we have succeeded. There are no serious conflicts in registered at either the ASR meeting or the ASA meeting are the scheduling of major events at either meeting. urged to attend. These sessions are held at: The ASR meeting is being held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel from 8:30 am Friday, August 10, through 4:45 pm • Saturday, August 11, 8:30 amam: “Debating Church Sunday, August 12. If you have not yet registered for the and State: Religious-Political Groups Advocating ASR meeting, I invite you to do so at Different Versions of a 'Better World’” www.sociologyofreligion.com. In addition to having access • Saturday, August 11, 10:30 am: “Race, Class, and to a full slate of regular sessions, ASR registrants are entitled Gender: Religion’s Role in Existing Institutional to the following special events: Arrangements” • Friday, August 10, 5:00 pmpm: ASR Presidential • Monday, August 13, 8:30 amam: “Comforting the Address: “Religious Stratification: Its Origins, Persistence, Afflicted and Afflicting the Comfortable: Service and and Consequences,” by James D. Davidson, followed by Advocacy at the Grassroots” a reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm I look forward to seeing you in New York. ASA Sociology of Religion Section Newsletter Spring 2007 3 Religion Sessions at 2007 Annual Meeting The 2007 ASA annual meeting includes a plethora of religion- Joint ASA/ASR Session: Race, Class, and related presentations. Details on religion sessions and Section Gender: Religion’s Role in Existing roundtables follow (in chronological order). For more complete Institutional Arrangements information, please consult the Meeting link on the ASA website Institutional Arrangements at www.asanet.org. (Saturday, August 11, 10:30 am-12:10 pm) OrganizerOrganizer: Darren E. Sherkat, Southern Illinois University Presider and DiscussantDiscussant: Margarita Mooney, University Joint ASA/ASR Session: Debating Church of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and State: Religious-Political Groups • Lessons from the Field: The Intersections of Gender, Advocating Different Versions of a ‘Better Family, and Social Class in American Religious Institutions, World’ (Saturday, August 11, 8:30-10:10 am) Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota Organizer and PresiderPresider: William V. D’Antonio, Catholic • Racial Differences in the Impact of Religious Conservatism University on the Transition to Adulthood, Jennifer Glass, University • Evangelical/Republican: Rhetoric and Organization in the of Iowa Emergence of a Political Identity, Nancy Ammerman, • Faith and Finances: How Religious Belief Affects Boston Univiversity Economic Values, Wealth, and Poverty, Lisa Keister, Duke • Remembering that Politics Shapes Religion: The University Contemporary U.S., Gene Burns, Michigan State University • Doubly Disenfranchised? How Race/Ethnicity and • Religion, Culture Wars, and Polarization in the U.S. Religiosity Shape Muslim American Political Engagement, Congress, 1971-2006, Steven A. Tuch, George Jen’nan Read, University of California Irvine Washington University; William V. D’Antonio, Catholic ASA Sessions, continued to p. 4 University 4 Spring 2007 ASA Sociology of Religion Section Newsletter ASA Sessions, continued from p. 3 Regular Session: Religion and Health • Islam and Ethnic Identity Formation: A Case Study of (Saturday, August 11, 2:30-4:10 pm) Second Generation Iranian Muslims in Southern OrganizerOrganizer: Gene Burns, Michigan State University California, Golnaz Komaie, University of California, Irvine Presider and DiscussantDiscussant: Michele Dillon, University of • Take the Best of Both Worlds: Segmented Assimilation New Hampshire Among Second-Generation Muslim Americans, Christine • Formal Religious Participation and Daily Spiritual Sheikh, University of Arizona Experiences: Separate, but Equal, Linkages with • “There’s the Jewish Culture and Then There’s the Psychological Well-Being? Emily Anne Greenfield, Religion”: Jewish Adolescents Engaging Cultural Identity, University of Wisconsin, Madison; George E Vaillant, Maria Van Ryn, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Harvard University; Nadine F. Marks, University of Wisconsin, Madison Religion Section