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SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Sociological Association

• Publisher of the American Sociological Review and other leading journals
• Annual meeting held every August
• ASA Homepage
• American Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Section (Section membership is free for student members of the ASA)

Southern Sociological Society (includes North Carolina)

• Publisher of Social Forces
• SSS Homepage

RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATIONS

American Academy of Religion

• Publisher of Journal of the American Academy of Religion
• Annual meeting held every November
• AAR Homepage

Association for the Sociology of Religion

• Publisher of Sociology of Religion
• Joseph Fichter Research Awards (for research on gender issues, women and religion, and feminist perspectives)
• Gallagher Travel Grants (to attend annual meeting)
• Annual meeting begins one day prior to the ASA meetings in August
• ASR Homepage

Religious Research Association

• Publisher of Review of Religious Research
• Constant Jacquet Research Awards
• Annual meeting in late-October/early-November, jointly with SSSR
• RRA Homepage

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

• Publisher of Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
• Research Grants
• Annual meeting in late-October/early-November, jointly with RRA
• SSSR Homepage

DATA SOURCES

Research Links to Social, Religious, and Census Data Sites (Hartford Institute for Religion Research)

American Religion Data Archive
 

FUNDING AGENCIES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Association for the Sociology of Religion

• Joseph Fichter Research Awards
• Gallagher Travel Grants
• ASR Homepage

Religious Research Association

• Constant Jacquet Research Awards
• RRA Homepage

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

• Research Grants
• SSSR Homepage

National Science Foundation

• Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
• Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES)
• Sociology Program

Lilly Endowment

• The Louisville Institute for the Study of American Religion

Metanexus Institute

OTHER RELIGIOUS RESEARCH RESOURCES

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

Hartford Institute for Religion Research

Princeton Center for the Study of Religion

Resources for American Christianity (Lilly Endowment)

Chicago Area Group for the Study of Religious Communities (CAGSRC): Meets semi-annually at Loyola University Chicago for informal networking, chatting, eating, and a presentation.  Fred Kniss, co-ordinator, 773-508-8709; mailto:MCNAMARA@wpo.it.luc.edu (McNamara Center for the Social Study of Religion)
 

MY TWO CENTS WORTH

Conference Presentation Tips

Presentation on the Job Market for Arts and Letters Graduate Students

"Reflections on Doing the Job Market as a Sociologist of Religion," from ASA Religion Section Newsletter, Spring 1998 and "Further Reflections on the Job Market in Sociology," from ASA Religion Section Newsletter, Winter 1999