American Sociological Association: Sociology of Religion Section Award Recipients

Sociology of Religion Section Award Recipients

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Distinguished Book Award

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	OTHER/TITLE
2012	Susan Crawford Sullivan	College of the Holy Cross	2012. Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty. University of Chicago Press.
2011	Courtney Bender	Columbia University	The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination. U. of Chicago Press.
2010 Co.	Melissa M. Wilcox,	Whitman College	Queer Women and Religious Individualism (Indiana University Press, 2009).
2010 Co.	John R. Hall,	University of California, Davis	Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity (Polity, 2009)
2009	Kelly Chong,	University of Kansas	Deliverance and Submission: Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarchy in South Korea (Harvard University Press, 2008).
2008 Co.	Anthony Gill,	University of Washington,	The Political Origins of Religious Liberty (Cambridge University Press).
2008 Co.	David Smilde,	University of Georgia,	Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism (University of California Press).
2007 Co.	Mansoor Moaddel,	Eastern Michigan University,	Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse (University of Chicago Press)
2007 Co.	Geneviève Zubrzycki,	University of Michigan,	The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland (University of Chicago Press).
2006	Mark Chaves Penny Edgell	University of Arizona University of Minnesota	Congregations in America (Harvard University Press) Religion and Family in a Changing Society(Preceton University Press)
2005	Nancy Tatom Ammerman	Boston University	Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners
2004	Philip S. Gorski		The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003)
2003	Richard Wood	University of New Mexico	Faith in Action
2002	John H. Evans	Univeristy of California, San Diego	Playing God: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate
2001	Rodney Starke Roger Finke	Not given	Acts of Faith: Exploring the Human Side of Religion
2000	Penny Edgell Becker	Cornell University	Congregations in Conflict: Cultural Models of Local Religious Life
1999	Lutz Kaelber	Lyndon State College	Schoolof Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities
1998	Lyn Rapaport	Pomona College	Jews in Germany after the Holocaust: Memory. Identity, and Jewish-German Relations
1997	Paul Numrich	University of Illinois-Chicago	Old Wisdom in the New World: Americanization in Two Immigrant Theravada Buddhist Temples

Distinguished Article Award

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	OTHER/TITLE
2012	Nicholas Vargas, Matthew Loveland	Purdue University and Le Moyne College	2011. "Befriending the 'Other': Patterns of Social Ties between the Religious and Non-religious." Sociological Perspectives. 54(4): 713-731.
2011	Douglas Marshall	University of South Alabama	"Temptation, Tradition, and Taboo: A Theory of Sacralization," in Sociological Theory, 28:1 (March 2010)
2010	Nancy K. Davis, and Robert V. Robinson,	DePauw University and Indiana University,	"Overcoming Movement Obstacles by the Religiously Orthodox: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Shas in Israel , Communione e Liberazione in Italy, and the Salvation Army in the United States" American Journal of Sociology (114: 1302-49, 2009).
2009	Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke,		"Religious Persecution in Cross-National Context: Clashing Civilizations or Regulated Religious Economies?" American Sociological Review (72:633-658, 2007).
2008	Kelly H. Chong,		"Negotiating Patriarchy: South Korean Evangelical Women and the Politics of Gender," Gender and Society (20:697-724, 2006).
2007	Nancy Davis and Robert Robinson,	DePauw University and Indiana University,	"The Egalitarian Face of Islamic Orthodoxy: Support for Islamic Law and Economic Justice in Seven Muslim-Majority Nations," American Sociological Review (71:167-190, 2006).
2006	Fenggang Yang	Purdue University	“The Red, Black, and Grey Markets of Religion in China
2005	Prema Kurien	Syracuse University	“Multiculturalism, Immigrant Religion, and Diasporic Nationalism: The Development of an American Hinduism” Social Problems, 2004, Vol. 51, No. 3, p. 362-385.
2004	David Smilde Robert Wuthnow, Conrad Hackett and Becky Yang Hsu		"Skirting the Instrumental Paradox: Intentional Belief Through Narrative in Latin American Pentecostalism," Qualitative Sociology 26:313-329 (2003) "The Effectiveness and Trustworthiness of Faith-Based and Other Service Organizations: A Study of Recipients' Perceptions." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 43:1-17(2004)
2003	Michael Young	University of Texas-Austin	“Confessional Protest: The Religious Birth of U.S. National Social Movements”
2002	Mansoor Moaddel	Eastern Michigan University	“Conditions for Ideological Production: The Origins of Islamic Modernism in India, Egypt, and Iran”
2001	Brian Steensland Jerry Z. Park Mark D. Tegnerus Lynn D. Robingon W. Bradford Wilcox Robert D. Woodberry	Not given	“Measure of American Religion” Toward Improving the State of Art”
2000	Rhys H. Williams	Southern Illinois University	“Visions of the Good Society and the Religious Roots of American Political Culture”
1999	Mark D. Regnerus and Christian Smith	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	“Selective Deprivation Among American Religious Traditions: The Reversal of the Great Reversal”
1998	Randall Collins	University of Pennsylvania	“An Asian Route to Capitalism”
1997	Paula D. Nesbitt	Iliff School of Theology	“First- and Second-Career Clergy: Influences of Age and Gender on the Career-Stage Paradigm”

Student Paper Award

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	OTHER/TITLE
2012	Nicholas Vargas	Purdue University	2012. "Retrospective Accounts of Religious Disaffiliation in the U.S.: Stressors, Skepticism, and Political Factors." Sociology of Religion (Summer 2012) 73(2): 200-223
2011	Shane Sharp	University of Wisconsin-Madison	How Does Prayer Help Manage Emotions?" in Social Psychological Quarterly 73:4 (December, 2010).
2010	Z. Fareen Parvez,	University of California- Berkely,	"Debating the Burqa in France: The Antipolitics of Islamic Revival."
2009	Phillip Connor,	Princeton University,	“Contexts of Immigrant Receptivity and Immigrant Religious Outcomes: The Case of Muslims in Western Europe.” Presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
2008	J. Shane Sharp,	University of Wisconsin at Madison,	"Escaping Symbolic Entrapment."
2007	Christopher Scheitle,	Pennsylvania State University,	"Organizational Niches and Religious Markets: Uniting Two Literatures"
2006	Christopher P. Scheitle Honorbale Mention: Jenny Trinitapoli	Pennsylvania State University University of Texas-Austin	“The Social and Symbolic Boundaries of Congregations: An Analysis of Website Links” “Religion and HIV Status in Sub-Saharan Africa: Examining Influence and Pathways”
2005	Omar Lizardo and Jessica L. Collett	University of Arizona	“Why Biology is not (Religious) Destiny: A Second Look at Gender Differences in Religiosity”
2004	Melinda Lundquist Denton		"Gender and Marital Decision Making: Negotiating Religious Ideology and Practice," Social Forces 82 (March 2004): 1151-1180
2003	Kwai Hang Ng	University of Chicago	“Seeking the Christian Tutelage: Agency and Culture in Chinese Immigrants’ Conversion to Christianity”
2002	Kelly Besecke	Colorado College	“Religion as a Societal Conversation about Transcendent Meaning”
2001	Rebeccas Culbya	Not given	“Who Can Find A Virtous Woman? Gender Indiology and Culture in a Black Holiness Church”
2000	W. Bradford Wilcox	Princeton University	“Conservative Protestant Childrearing: Authoritarian or Authorotative?”
1999	Jason Schnittker	Indiana University	“When is Faith Enough?: The Effects of Religious Involvement on Depression”
1998	Philip Zukerman	University of Oregon	“The Sociology of Religious Schisms: The Call for Theoretical Innovation”

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