Announcements

The SSSR Executive Council has adopted a new structure for SSSR committees and their charges, which will take effect following the 2025 Annual Meeting.  The new structure is intended to reduce unnecessary service of our members, clarify the work of the committees, and strengthen the role of Council.

Uruguayan society is an outlier when considering religious intensity among Latin American societies while presenting a paradox to sociologists of religion. Embedded in a continent characterized by relatively high religiosity and religious adherence historically, how do sociologists explain that Uruguay became an intensely secular society since the turn of the twentieth century? Modernity theory has developed into a very particular theoretical model for understanding history such that secularization is believed to be inevitable, linear, and isomorphic in that it produces predictable uniformity–which is Eurocentric. In contrast, this deviant case study offers a counterfactual understanding using Bourdieu’s concepts of field and capital to explain how secularization develops. This project contributes to the scholarly debate by showing that secularization is not an inevitable macro-social mechanical process imputed to impersonal and abstract forces, but is carried out by people and groups who manifestly want to laicize society and its sub-structures.

The Center for Congregations invites applications and nominations for the position of President. This is an exceptional opportunity for a visionary and collaborative leader with a passion for strengthening Christian congregations in Indiana.