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Sociedad y Religión es una publicación semestral del Programa Sociedad, Cultura y Religión del Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales (CEIL) dependiente del CONICET, Argentina. Desde la perspectiva de las Ciencias Sociales busca comunicar y difundir estudios sobre la religión en América Latina. Publica artículos sobre investigaciones empíricas, estudios comparativos, reflexiones teóricas; además de comentarios bibliográficos y de tesis de posgrado. La revista fue fundada en 1985 y está auspiciada por la Asociación de Cientistas Sociales de la Religión del Mercosur. Desde 2009 está incluida en el Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas y está indexada en SCIELO, LATINDEX y REDALYC.

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ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
Volume 9: The Changing Faces of Catholicism
Forthcoming 2018
Edited by:
Solange Lefebvre (Université de Montréal, Canada) and
Alfonso Pérez-Agote (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Catholicism represents an important area of research in sociology as well as across a number of disciplines. As literature on Catholicism in certain contexts substantially expands, there still remains the need for recent qualitative and quantitative data in specific national contexts via a comparative perspective. In the discussion on secularism and diversity, there exist open questions on the way culture, heritage, and religion intersect or differentiate (political regulation of diversity). Law, education, religious heritage, chaplaincies, collaborations between state and civil society—these are just a few areas of social life where these dimensions are rapidly changing. The relation between Catholicism and the media poses a number of questions as well.

As a global religion, with the pope being a religious leader as well as a head of state of the Vatican, Catholicism has developed, especially since the 1980s, a new way of conducting diplomatic relations and interfering with national and international policies. Pope Francis’ papacy is revealing a divided Church on many matters, globally and at the Curia, between the centre and the local Churches. Catholic leaders have been involved in many contentious debates on sexuality and gender, with different legal, social, and religious impacts (biopolitics). Transnational networks and religious mobility are creating new forms of popular religion and Catholic movements.
To explore these issues we propose to include articles around the following themes:
1. Catholicism and culture
2. Catholicism and media
3. Catholicism and international relations
4. Transnational practices, movements, and popular religion
5. Catholicism, gender, sexuality, and biopolitics
6. Catholicism, public policies, and institutions
7. Catholicism and other religions
The editors will seek out contributors who can address questions raised in the sociology of religion about Catholicism with authors representing regional and cultural variation.
Please send all proposals (300 words) to solange.lefebvre@umontreal.ca
Deadlines:
Submission of proposals: June 30, 2016
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2016
Completed manuscripts (7,000 words): June 30, 2017

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for the topical issue of Open Theology journal

Alternative Religiosities in the Soviet Union and the Communist East-Central Europe:

Formations, Resistances and Manifestations

Open Theology (http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opth) invites submissions for the topical issue “Alternative Religiosities in the Soviet Union and the Communist East-Central Europe: Formations, Resistances and Manifestations”, under the general editorship of Dr. Rasa Pranskevičiūtė and Dr. Eglė Aleknaitė (Vytautas Magnus University).

DESCRIPTION

After the boom of traditional religions (i. e. prevailing national religions or those that have a relatively long history in a particular country) and alternative religious movements (i. e. religious movements that offer an alternative to the traditional religion(s) in a particular country) in post-communist/post-socialist countries, the religion(s) of this area have gained increasing scholarly attention. Research on the religious situation during the prior communist/socialist period is primarily focused on restrictions placed on traditional religions and their survival strategies, while the corresponding phenomena of the alternative religious of that time still lack proper analysis.

The special issue invites papers that address alternative religiosities in the communist/socialist countries up to 1990. Due to Soviet control, they mostly existed underground and could remain only if expressed clandestinely. Beside the officially-established Soviet culture, connected with the Communist Party’s aim to control all aspects of the public sphere, there was an unofficial cultural field that was very receptive to the arrival, formation, spread and expressions of diverse alternative religiosities and spiritualities. The disappointment with the existing narrowness of the official communist ideology and the loss of the absolute allegiance to it led to the formation and rise of unofficial socio-cultural alternatives within the system. The underground activities, including access to alternative spiritual and esoteric ideas and practices, generally existed in parallel, or even jointly, with the official culture and institutions.

We invite religious scholars, historians, anthropologists, as well as authors representing other disciplines, to submit both empirical and theoretical papers including, but not limited to the following topics:

• Networks and inter-community connections

• Flows of ideas within the Soviet Union and communist East-Central Europe and from the outside

• Centers and peripheries of the milieu of alternative religiosity in the region

• Politics and actions of the regime towards alternative religiosity

• Restrictions, repressions and survival strategies of practitioners of alternative religiosity

• Milieu of alternative religiosity as a space of resistance

• Relationships of communities of alternative religiosity with dominant religious traditions

• Theoretical frameworks and methodological problems in research on alternative religiosities within the Soviet Union and the communist East-Central European region

Authors publishing their articles in the special issue will benefit from:

· transparent, comprehensive and fast peer review

· efficient route to fast-track publication and full advantage of De Gruyter  Open’s e-technology,

· no publication fees,

· free language assistance for authors from non-English speaking regions.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Submissions are due June 30, 2016. To submit an article for the special issue of Open Theology, authors are asked to access the on-line submission system at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/openth/

Please choose as article type: “Special Issue Article: Alternative Religiosities”.

Before submission the authors should carefully read over the Instruction for Authors, available at: http://www.degruyter.com/view/supplement/s23006579_Instruction_for_Authors.pdf

All contributions will undergo critical review before being accepted for publication.

Further questions about this thematic issue can be addressed to Dr. Rasa Pranskevičiūtė at Rasa.Pranskeviciute@degruyteropen.com or Dr. Eglė Aleknaitė at ealeknaite@yahoo.com. In case of technical questions, please contact journal Managing Editor Dr. Katarzyna Tempczyk at katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyteropen.com

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ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

Volume 9: The Changing Faces of Catholicism
Forthcoming 2018
Edited by:
Solange Lefebvre (Université de Montréal, Canada) and
Alfonso Pérez-Agote (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

Catholicism represents an important area of research in sociology as
well as across a number of disciplines. As literature on Catholicism in
certain contexts substantially expands, there still remains the need for
recent qualitative and quantitative data in specific national contexts
via a comparative perspective. In the discussion on secularism and
diversity, there exist open questions on the way culture, heritage, and
religion intersect or differentiate (political regulation of diversity).
Law, education, religious heritage, chaplaincies, collaborations between
state and civil society—these are just a few areas of social life where
these dimensions are rapidly changing. The relation between Catholicism
and the media poses a number of questions as well.

As a global religion, with the pope being a religious leader as well as
a head of state of the Vatican, Catholicism has developed, especially
since the 1980s, a new way of conducting diplomatic relations and
interfering with national and international policies. Pope Francis’
papacy is revealing a divided Church on many matters, globally and at
the Curia, between the centre and the local Churches. Catholic leaders
have been involved in many contentious debates on sexuality and gender,
with different legal, social, and religious impacts (biopolitics).
Transnational networks and religious mobility are creating new forms of
popular religion and Catholic movements.

To explore these issues we propose to include articles around the
following themes:

1. Catholicism and culture
2. Catholicism and media
3. Catholicism and international relations
4. Transnational practices, movements, and popular religion
5. Catholicism, gender, sexuality, and biopolitics
6. Catholicism, public policies, and institutions
7. Catholicism and other religions

The editors will seek out contributors who can address questions raised
in the sociology of religion about Catholicism with authors representing
regional and cultural variation.

Please send all proposals (300 words) to solange.lefebvre@umontreal.ca

Deadlines:

Submission of proposals: June 30, 2016
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2016
Completed manuscripts (7,000 words): June 30, 2017

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS

ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

Volume 9: The Changing Faces of Catholicism
Forthcoming 2018

Edited by:

Solange Lefebvre (Université de Montréal, Canada) and
Alfonso Pérez-Agote (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

Catholicism represents an important area of research in sociology as
well as across a number of disciplines. As literature on Catholicism
in certain contexts substantially expands, there still remains the
need for recent qualitative and quantitative data in specific national
contexts via a comparative perspective. In the discussion on
secularism and diversity, there exist open questions on the way
culture, heritage, and religion intersect or differentiate (political
regulation of diversity). Law, education, religious heritage,
chaplaincies, collaborations between state and civil society—these are
just a few areas of social life where these dimensions are rapidly
changing. The relation between Catholicism and the media poses a
number of questions as well.
As a global religion, with the pope being a religious leader as well
as a head of state of the Vatican, Catholicism has developed,
especially since the 1980s, a new way of conducting diplomatic
relations and interfering with national and international policies.
Pope Francis’ papacy is revealing a divided Church on many matters,
globally and at the Curia, between the centre and the local Churches.
Catholic leaders have been involved in many contentious debates on
sexuality and gender, with different legal, social, and religious
impacts (biopolitics). Transnational networks and religious mobility
are creating new forms of popular religion and Catholic movements.

To explore these issues we propose to include articles around the
following themes:
1. Catholicism and culture
2. Catholicism and media
3. Catholicism and international relations
4. Transnational practices, movements, and popular religion
5. Catholicism, gender, sexuality, and biopolitics
6. Catholicism, public policies, and institutions
7. Catholicism and other religions

The editors will seek out contributors who can address questions
raised in the sociology of religion about Catholicism with authors
representing regional and cultural variation.

Please send all proposals (300 words) to solange.lefebvre@umontreal.ca

Deadlines:
Submission of proposals: June 30, 2016
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2016
Completed manuscripts (7,000 words): June 30, 2017