86th Annual Meeting of the
Association for the Sociology of Religion
August 9 – 11, 2025

Centric Hotel
633 North Saint Clair Street, Chicago, IL 60611

Hotel Website: https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-centric/chimm-hyatt-centric-chicago-mag-mile
Link to Room Reservations: https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/group-booking/CHIMM/G-ASR5

THEME: RELIGION AND RESILIANCE


photo by Petr Kratochvil (https://tinyl.io/BMtJ)

Program Chair: Eman Abdelhadi, University of Chicago

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Association for the Sociology of Religion is pleased to announce a call for papers for its upcoming annual conference, August 9-11, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois, USA, with a theme of “Religion and Resilience.”

Pressing social challenges—from inequality to human rights to environmental crises—prompt explorations of religion and resilience. Religion and religiosity respond adaptively to adversity, innovation, and cultural shifts. Religious identities stage resilience amid discrimination and partisanship; religious ideas activate resilience as a counterforce to social and political change. How can sociology and sociologists attend to the complex and contradictory roles of religion and resilience? Where does resilience show up in religious responses to significant local and global events? In what ways does class, race, or gender shape narratives of resilience for religious people? How do religious organizations sustain or resist social change?

The 2025 conference of the Association for the Sociology of Religion will bring together scholars and scholarship to critically examine religion and resilience alongside a full range of topics in the sociology of religion. We welcome theoretically and methodologically rigorous projects at all stages of development and from persons across the spectrum of careers and affiliations. We invite proposals for individual papers and topical sessions as well as full-day symposiums oriented around specific areas in the sociology of religion. Book discussions, professional development panels, teaching colloquies, and other creative connections designed to support the social scientific study of religion around the globe are also welcome. 

DEADLINES:

ASR Membership is required to organize a session, present a paper, serve as a panelist, or hold another role in the program. Participants are expected to register for the meeting by July 1, 2025.

For questions, please contact members of the Program Committee:

  • Eman Abdelhadi (abdelhadi@uchicago.edu), Chair
  • Tricia Bruce (triciabruce@gmail.com)
  • Rachel Kraus (asreo@sociologyofreligion.org)