Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

| |

SSSR News

Contact Information

Dr. Arthur E Farnsley II

Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis:
Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture

Cavanaugh Hall 417
425 University Blvd
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5140

afarnsle@iupui.edu

Annual Awards and Grants: Past Winners
		Distinguished Book Awards Distinguished Article Awards Student Paper Awards
SSSR Distinguished Book Award Winners
2007	Stephen Ellingson The Megachurch and the Mainline: Remaking Religious Tradition in the Twenty-First Century. 2007. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2006	Paul Lichterman Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America’s Divisions. 2005. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
2005	Omar McRoberts Streets of Glory: Church and Community in Black Urban Neighborhood. 2003. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2004	Rodney Stark For the Glory of God, Princeton University Press.
2003	Doug Underwood From Yahweh to Yahoo: The Religious Roots of the Secular Press. 2002. Champagne, IL: University of Illinois Press. Janet Liebman Jacobs Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews. 2002. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2002	N.J. Demerath III Crossing the Gods: World Religions and Worldly Politics (Rutgers University Press, 2001).
2001	Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America. 2000. New York: Oxford University Press.
2000	Frederick C. Harris Something Within: Religion in African-American Political Activism. 1999. New York: Oxford University Press.
1999	Mark Chaves Ordaining Women: Culture and Conflict in Religious Organizations. 1997. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
1998	Jackson W. Carroll, Barbara G. Wheeler, Daniel O. Aleshire, and Penny Long Marler Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools. 1997. New York: Oxford University Press.
1997	Mark A. Sibley Resurgent Evangelicalism in the United States: Mapping Cultural Change Since 1970. 1996. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
1996	Richard Schoenherr and Lawrence Young Full Pews and Empty Alters: Demographics of the Priest Shortage in the United States. 1993. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
1995	Jose Casanova Public Religion in the Modern World. 1994. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1994	Dean R. Hoge, Benton Johnson, and Donald A. Luidens Vanishing Boundaries: The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers. 1994. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press.
1993	Rodney Stark and Roger Finke The Churching of America, 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in our Religious Economy. 1992. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
1992	Nancy Ammerman Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention. 1990. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
1991	C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence Mamiya The Black Church in the African American Experience. 1990. Durham: Duke University Press.
1990	Robert Wuthnow Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism. 1989. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
1989	R. Stephen Warner New Wine in Old Wineskins: Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town Church. 1988. Berkeley: University of California Press.
1988	James Davison Hunter Evangelicalism: The Coming Generation. 1987 Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1987	Lester Kurtz The Politics of Heresy: The Modernist Crisis in Roman Catholicism. 1986. Berkeley: University of California Press.
1986	Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge The Future of Religion: Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation. 1985. Berkeley: University of California Press.
1985	Eileen Barker The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing. 1984. London: Blackwell.
1984	Meredith B. McGuire Pentecostal Catholics: Power, Charisma, and Order in a Religious Movement. 1983. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
SSSR Distinguished Article Award Winners
2007	Davis, Nancy. and Rob Robinson "The Egalitarian Face of Islamic Orthodoxy: Support of Islamic Law and Economic Justice in Seven Muslim-Majority Nations," American Sociolgoical Review, 2006, 71:167-190.
2006	Young, Michael P. and Stephen M. Cherry "Secularization of Confessional Protests: The Role of Religious Processes of Rationalization and Differentiatio," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2005, Vol 44, pages 373-395.
2005	Prema Kurien "Multiculturalism, Immigrant Religion, and Diasporic Nationalism: the Development of an American Hinduism," Social Problems. 2005, Vol. 51, pages 362-285.
2004	Philpott, Daniel “The Catholic Wave: Christianity and Democracy,” Journal of Democracy Vol. 15, April 2004.
2003	Young, Michael P. “Confessional Protest: The Religious Birth of US National Protest Movements. American Sociological Review, 2002 Vol. 67, pages 660-688 (with comment by Charles Tilly and reply by Young).
2002	F. Yang and Helen Rose Ebaugh, "Transformations in new immigrant religions and their global implications." American Sociological Review 66 (2001): 269-288.
2001	Philip S. Gorski "Historicizing the Secularization Debate: Church, State, and Society in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ca. 1300 to 1700." American Sociological Review, 2000, Vol. 65, pages 138-167.
2000	Matthew Lawson "The Holy Spirit as Conscience Collective" Sociology of Religion, 1999, Vol. 60, pages 341-361.
1999	Mary Patillo-McCoy “Church Culture as a Strategy of Action in the Black Community.” American Sociological Review, 1998, Vol. 63, pages 767-784.
1998	Jeff Manza and Clem Brooks “The Religious Factor in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1960-1992.” American Journal of Sociology, 1998, Vol. 103, pages 1235-1266. Fred Kniss “Ideas and Symbols as Resources in Intrareligious Conflict: The Case of the American Mennonites.” Sociology of Religion, 1996, Vol. 57, pages 7-23.
1997	Brian E. Malley “Explaining Order in Religious Systems.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 1995, Vol. 5, pages 5-22.
1996	Laurence R. Iannaccone “Why Strict Churches are Strong.” American Journal of Sociology, 1994, Vol. 99, pages 1180-1211.
1994	R. Stephen Warner “Work in Progress toward a New Paradigm for the Sociological Study of Religion in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology, 1993, Vol. 98, pages 1044-1093.
1993	Edward B. Reeves and Robert Bylund “Anonymity and the Rise of Universal Occasions for Religious Ritual: An Extension of the Durkheimian Theory.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1992, Vol. 31, pages 113-130. Rhys Williams and N.J. Demerath, III “Religion and the Political Process in an American City.” American Sociological Review, 1991, Vol. 56, pages 417-432.
1991	Stjepan G. Mestrovic “Reappraising Durkheim’s Elementary Forms of the Religious Life in the Context of Schopenhauer’s Philosophy.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1989, Vol. 28, pages 255-272.
SSSR Student Paper Award Winners
2007	Phillip Connor, Princeton University "New Directions for Immigrant Religious Research: The Convergence of Contextual and Micro-Level Theories as Determinants for Variation in Immigrant Religious Participation Surrounding the Migratory Event."
2006	Rebecca Sager "Social Movement or Poverty Politics? Explaining State-Level Variation in the Faith-Based Initiative."
2005	Michael Lindsay "The National Prayer Breakfast and the 'Christian Mafia': Religious Publicity and Secrecy within the Corridors of Power." Jenny Trinitapoli "Religious Response to AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Examination of Religious Congregations in Rural Malawi"
2004	Yunfeng Lu "The Unintended Consequences of Religious Suppression: Understanding the Growth of Suppressed Religions."
2003	Mary Ellen Konieczny, University of Chicago Patriarchy Compromised, Defied and Enduring: An Ethnographic Study of Gender Ideologies and Gendered Practices among American Catholics.
2002	Ron E. Hassner, Stanford University Understanding and Resolving Disputes Over Sacred Space Stephen Krauss, University of Tennessee at Chattnooga “An Introduction to the Commitment-Reflectivity Circumplex Model of Religious Orientation and Its Relationships to Allportian Models.”
2001	Gina Magyar, Bowling Green State University “Desecration: Theoretical Groundwork and Initial Empirical Findings.”
2000	Kevin Dougherty, Purdue University “Participation and Growth in Southern Baptist Congregations.”
1999	Melissa Wilde, University of California at Berkeley “Marketing Marriage to American Catholic Divorcees: Roman Catholic Annulment in International and Historic Perspective.”
1998	Tona Hangen, Brandeis University “Redeeming the Radio Dial: Evangelical Radio and Religious Culture, 1920-1960.”
1997	Rick Phillips, Rutgers University “Religious Market Share and Mormon Church Activity: Testing a Supply-side Theory of Religious Mobilization.”
1996	Ezra Kopelowitz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem “Temporal Dimensions of the 'Liberal Sacred': Exploring the Everyday Maintenance of Moral Contradiction in Israeli Public Interaction.”
1995	Joyce Piper, University of Minnesota “Work Stress among Lutheran Clergy Women in the USA and Norway”
1994	James K. Wellman, University of Chicago Divinity School “The Transformation of a Protestant Establishment Church.”
1993	Alan G. Davidson, University of Connecticut “Functional vs. Non-Functional Questions in the Sociology of Religion: Notes toward a Retheorizing of Denominational Changes.”
1992	Joel Fetzer, Yale University “Evangelicals’ Attitudes on the Morality of War.”
1991	Stephen J. Brewer, University of Connecticut “Parental-Adolescent Relations among Fundamentalist Christians.”
1990	No award given.
1989	Jon R. Stone, University of California at Santa Barbara “The New Voluntarism and Presbyterian Affiliation.”
1988	Mark Chaves, Harvard University “Secularization and Religious Revival: Evidence from U.S. Church Attendance Rates, 1972-1986.”
1986	Anne Hendershott, Kent State University “Religiosity and Marital Satisfaction.” Conrad Kanagy, Wheaton College “The Formation and Development of a Protestant Conversion Movement among the Highland Quicha of Ecuador.”
1983	Caleb Rosado, Northwestern University “Race, Class and Religious Schism: The Case of Puerto-Rican Seventh-day Adventists in Chicago.”