Current Projects
What Matters? Ethnographies of Value
“Invidious Distinctions” is sponsored by the SSRC and the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will attend to the shifting relations between religious, spiritual and secular formations in historical context. The conference will be held in New York in October 2008 and will involve anthropologists, sociologists, historians and religious studies scholars. I will co-edit the resulting volume with Ann Taves, Professor of Religion, UC Santa Barbara.
Worlds of Experience
Worlds of Experience: Contemporary Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination is my forthcoming volume with the University of Chicago Press.
After Pluralism
In 2007 and 2008 Pamela Klassen and I convened three interdisciplinary conferences and workshops on religious pluralism with sponsorship from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Columbia University’s Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life. An edited volume will be published by Columbia University Press in 2010.
Contributors include Benjamin Berger, Amira Mittermaier, Anver Emon, Andrea Most, Rosemary Hicks, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Michael McNally, Janet Jakobsen, Tracy Leavelle, Irene Becci, Genevieve Zubrzycki, and J. Terry Todd.
Opportunities at the Edge
This project seeks to develop a more vigorous future for sociology of religion in the American academy. A first step will commence with a two-day collaborative workshop hosted by the Princeton Center for the Study of Religion in October 2008. Ongoing projects include an edited volume, the development of working papers, an online syllabus collective and future conferences and collaborations.
