Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles) ISSN (Print) 1069-4404 - ISSN (Online) 1759-8818 Published by Oxford University Press[425 journals]
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Pages: 249 - 250 Abstract: Preparations for this summer’s 85th Annual Meeting are in full swing. The meeting will be held August 9–11, 2024 at the Monville Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We will begin with a Welcome Reception on the evening of Saturday, August 9th. Our closing reception will be the evening of August 11th. We are planning this reception as a joint reception with the ASA Religion Section. The Presidential Address will be given by Grace Yukich, and the Furfey Lecture will be delivered by Geneviève Zubrzycki from the University of Michigan. The ASA Sociology of Religion Section day is Monday, August 12th. PubDate: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srae014 Issue No:Vol. 85, No. 2 (2024)
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Pages: 123 - 145 Abstract: AbstractThis article proposes to question the sociology of religion’s Western-centrism by taking a sidestep and looking at key religious changes in the non-Western world. It does so by examining religious change in Indonesia and China over the course of the last century. This exercise shows with some clarity that religion in these countries has gone through two radically different historical phases: a first in which religion (as all other social dimensions) was shaped by the nation-state (differentiated and “churched”) and a second in which consumerism and marketization appear as major forces behind bottom-up religious booms. The article argues that this shift in religious regimes can be generalized to global societies, including in the West, thereby significantly refreshing many ongoing debates and diagnoses and enabling a new appraisal of the limits of the “secularization” and “Rational Choice” narratives for understanding religion in the world today. PubDate: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srad004 Issue No:Vol. 85, No. 2 (2023)
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Pages: 146 - 175 Abstract: AbstractIs civic disengagement correlated across institutions' One case of this question is a long-observed “secular voting gap” where religiously unaffiliated Americans are less likely to vote than their affiliated counterparts. This work often uses self-reports or exit polls that cannot measure variation within the unaffiliated. Using an improved measure of validated voter turnout in four presidential election years (2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020), I find estimates of the secular voting gap are attenuated by demographic controls. More importantly, the mechanism that explains this finding is that more frequent church attendance associates with a lower probability of turnout among respondents who are unaffiliated, and results vary by voting method. These results support a theory of civic disengagement as a domain-specific process and demonstrate the substantive value of revisiting classic findings about religion and political behavior amid social change. PubDate: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srad018 Issue No:Vol. 85, No. 2 (2023)
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Pages: 176 - 196 Abstract: AbstractThe existing research on and conceptualization of the public presence of religion usually builds on the Habermasian understanding of the public sphere. This has centered the discussion on the public presence of religion around the question of where such a presence is justified. Discourse theories offer an alternative understanding, stating that the public sphere is an area of struggles where diverse discourses compete to establish a definition of social reality as taken for granted and hegemonic. This shift opens the question of how a given definition of social reality becomes taken for granted, pointing to the role of legitimation. Against this background, our article argues that religion’s ability to serve as a valuable “resource” for building justifications in discursive struggles for hegemony could serve as indicators of its presence in the public sphere. Along these lines, we analyze religion’s legitimizing role in abortion policy-making in Poland. PubDate: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srad019 Issue No:Vol. 85, No. 2 (2023)
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Pages: 197 - 218 Abstract: AbstractSociologists know very little about the religious lives of the current generation of American adolescents. This study provides an updated portrait of adolescent religious commitment and direct tests of religious change across cohorts by comparing data from the 2017–2018 National Survey of Moral Formation to the 2002–2003 National Study of Youth and Religion. There has been a significant growth in the percentage of adolescents who are not at all religious (by multiple measures). There has been a less substantial decline in the percentage of adolescents who are highly religious. Changes in religiosity have occurred across sociodemographic groups, though not always at the same rate, resulting in new patterns across gender, race, regional, and socioeconomic lines on some aspects of religiosity. Despite declines in religiosity, however, parental transmission of religion is similar to what it was in the previous generation. The decline in adolescent religiosity, notably, reflects a decline in parental religiosity. PubDate: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srad025 Issue No:Vol. 85, No. 2 (2023)
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Pages: 219 - 239 Abstract: AbstractDrawing from an ethnographic study and 63 interviews of Protestant professionals in the workplace, this article develops a conceptualization of how a cultural mismatch—defined here as a moral conflict between actors’ beliefs and values and their contextual norms and practices—catalyzes actors to strategically and deliberately shape future lines of action. In this study, a range of Protestant executives, professionals, and workers in China experience a cultural mismatch and respond in a number of ways. This study builds on accounts of culture in action to argue that when actors’ values and beliefs conflict with their organizational context, such cultural mismatches can shape action in not only unconscious, automatic ways or as post hoc justifications, as much of the extant scholarship has emphasized, but can also deliberately shape future lines of irrational, strategic, and creative action. PubDate: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srad028 Issue No:Vol. 85, No. 2 (2023)
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Pages: 240 - 241 Abstract: Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America, by LOGANDANA W.. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press, 2022, 185 pp.; $27.50 (paperback), $97.50 (hardcover). PubDate: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srad031 Issue No:Vol. 85, No. 2 (2023)
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Pages: 241 - 242 Abstract: Young Muslims and Christians in a Secular Europe: Pursing Religious Commitment in the Netherlands, by BeekersDaan. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, 240 pp.; $39.95 (paperback). PubDate: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srad033 Issue No:Vol. 85, No. 2 (2023)
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Pages: 242 - 244 Abstract: Work Pray Code, by CHENCAROLYN. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022, 272 pp.; $27.95. PubDate: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srad036 Issue No:Vol. 85, No. 2 (2023)
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Pages: 244 - 245 Abstract: American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the 21st Century, by DAWDYSHANNON LEE with images by Daniel Zox. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, 246 pp.; $27.95. PubDate: Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srad037 Issue No:Vol. 85, No. 2 (2023)
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Pages: 247 - 248 Abstract: In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States, by RICHLINJOHANNA BARDPrinceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022, 261 pp.; $26.95 (paperback). PubDate: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srad057 Issue No:Vol. 85, No. 2 (2023)