Call for Papers and Programs Proposals Association for the Sociology of Religion.

The article presents an announcement of the annual meeting of Association for the Sociology of Religion, to be held from August 15-17, 1996 in New York. The theme for the meeting, that is understanding religion and society, invites the public to take stock of the connections between religion and other social institutions--the economy, medicine, education, the family, politics and the state, among others--in the U.S. and around the globe. This program welcomes papers on any topic or issue in sociology of religion including religious values, career choices and economic behavior, economic theories of religious behavior, cultural production and religious change within the world system, postmodernism, deconstuctionism and the sociology of religion and other related topics. The chairperson for the program would be Christopher G. Ellison, sociologist, Department of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin. Deadlines for submission of session proposals, abstract, papers due for McNamara student paper award and papers to conveners and discussants are given.