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2nd Issue of Critical Research on Religion

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  Read the second issue of Critical Research on Religion

 Editors:
Roland Boer University of Newcastle, Australia
Jonathan Boyarin Cornell University, USA
Warren Goldstein Center for Critical Research on Religion and Harvard University, USA

Published three times a year: April, August, December
Available online at: http://crr.sagepub.com

SAGE is delighted to announce publication of the second issue of Critical Research on Religion. This Special Issue, guest edited by Rhys Williams and Thomas J. Josephsohn, puts into practice a critical sociology of religion. In addition to contributions from Mary Jo Neitz, Lori G. Beaman, Jim Spickard, and others, the issue features an exchange over Jacques Berlinerblau’s new book How to Be Secular? between him, Kathryn Lofton, and William Arnal.

Critical Research on Religion is a peer-reviewed, international journal focusing on the development of a critical theoretical framework and its application to research on religion. It provides a common venue for those engaging in critical analysis in theology and religious studies, as well as for those who critically study religion in the other social sciences and humanities such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literature.

The journal is composed of an interdisciplinary international editorial board and encourages submissions of theoretically guided articles on current issues as well as those with historical interest using a wide range of methodologies including qualitative, quantitative, and archival. It publishes articles, review essays, book reviews, thematic issues, symposia, and interviews.

If you haven’t already, please make sure to register for free online access to the first volume of Critical Research on Religion.

Articles in issue 2 include:

 Insiders, outsiders, advocates and apostates and the religions they study: Location and the sociology of religion
Mary Jo Neitz – University of Missouri, USA

The will to religion: Obligatory religious citizenship
Lori G. Beaman – University of Ottawa, Canada

Accepting the post-colonial challenge: Theorizing a Khaldûnian approach to the Marian apparition at Medjugorge
Jim Spickard – University of Redlands, USA

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Sociology of Islam Journal (Brill)

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CALL FOR PAPERS:
SOCIOLOGY OF ISLAM JOURNAL (BRILL)
FALL 2012 Volume 1
ISSN: 2213-140x E-ISSN: 2213-1418

The Sociology of Islam Journal (www.brill.nl/soi) invites article submissions for the first issue, which will be published in the Fall of 2012. We are delighted to announce the founding of the peer-reviewed, academic journal, the Sociology of Islam (SOI) to be published by Brill once a year beginning in the Fall of 2012.

Since Max Weber’s groundbreaking research on the sociology of religion, sociologists have grappled with aspects of religion both at the theoretical and empirical levels. While an increasing number of social scientists, particularly in recent decades, have employed innovative sociological frameworks for the study of Islam, this promising sub-discipline has so far lacked its own academic journal. The Sociology of Islam is intended to bridge this gap by functioning as an academic forum for the publication of innovative contributions to the study of Islam and Muslim societies. For the first issue of Sociology of Islam, we welcome article contributions that address theoretical dimensions of the sociology of Islam and Muslim societies. Submissions for this issue are expected to explore the importance of the sociology of Islam and the influential contributions, current trends and future prospects, and the competing sociological frameworks that apply to the study of Islam. Please email your draft article of 7000-10,000 words by no later than Monday September 3rd.

If you need further information, please do not hesitate contact us:

Contact: Tugrul Keskin or Gary Wood
Editor
Email: sociologyofislam@yahoo.com

Our book review editors are: Mustafa Gurbuz (mustafa.gurbuz@uconn.edu) and Joshua D. Hendrick (jdhendrick@loyola.edu)

Best to all,
Gary Wood, Najm al-Din Yousefi and Tugrul Keskin

SOCIOLOGY OF ISLAM JOURNAL (BRILL)
FALL 2012 Volume 1
ISSN: 2213-140x E-ISSN: 2213-1418

Associate Editors
· Armando Salvatore (University of Naples)
· Asef Bayat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
· Bryan S. Turner (CUNY)
· Mohammed A. Bamyeh (The University of Pittsburgh)
· Najm al-Din Yousefi (California State University)
· Tahir Abbas (Fatih University)

Editor-in-Chief
· Gary Wood (Virginia Tech)
· Tugrul Keskin (Portland State University)

Editorial Board
· Babak Rahimi, (UC San Diego)
· Birol Baskan (Georgetown University – Doha, Qatar)
· Carool Kersten (King’s College London)
· Cihan Tugal (UC Berkeley)
· Gary Wood (Virginia Tech)
· Ibrahim Kalin (Georgetown University)
· Jeremy Walton (New York University)
· Mohammad Nafissi (SOAS)
· Mohammedmoin Sadeq (Qatar University)
· Nader Hashemi (University of Denver)
· Nuri Tinaz (Marmara University)
· Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (James Madison University)
· Tahir Abbas (Fatih University)
· Talip Kucukcan (Marmara University and SETA)
· Ted Fuller (Virginia Tech)

Book Review Editors
· Joshua Hendrick (Loyola University of Maryland)
· Mustafa Gurbuz (University of Connecticut)

International Advisory Board:
· Ali Akbar Mahdi (Ohio Wesleyan University)
· Ayesha Jalal (Tufts University)
· Berna Turam (Northeastern University)
· Birol Yesilada (Portland State University)
· Charles Kurzman (UNC Chapel Hill)
· Daromir Rudnyckyj (University of Victoria)
· Ejaz Akram (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
· Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University)
· Husnul Amin (International Islamic University, Islamabad)
· Kemal Silay (Indiana University)
· Jocelyne Cesari (Harvard University)
· Judith Blau (The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
· Mariusz Turowski (The University of Wroclaw)
· Martin van Bruinessen (Utrecht University)
· Mehran Kamrava (Georgetown University – Doha, Qatar)
· Muqtedar Khan, (Universiyt of Delaware)
· Mumtaz Ahmad (International Islamic University, Islamabad)
· Rachel Woodlock (Monash University) · Steven Wright (Qatar University)
· Tim Luke (Virginia Tech)

Tugrul Keskin Assistant Professor of International and Middle Eastern Studies Affiliated Faculty of Black Studies Sociology and Center for Turkish Studies Middle East Studies
Coordinator (INTL) Portland State University

Editor of Sociology of Islam Journal (Brill)

Cell: 202-378-8606 (USA) Cell: 5541-6697 (Qatar) Cell: 533-607-8465 (Turkey) Skype: keskintugrul