488 - Section on Sociology of Religion Paper Session. Institutional Intersections: Religious Effects in Other Institutional Realms

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Religious figures and religious organizations have always been an influential component of the structural and cultural changes that have shaped multiple eras. Through its interactions with other social institutions (law, education, health, work, etc.), religion has altered patterns of social interaction, re/shaped social structure and organization, and had various effects on social stratification. This session calls for papers that examine these institution-to-institution effects, with an emphasis on ways religion has impacted other institutions or vice versa. We are especially interested in ways sociological insights on religion may help those studying other institutional realms better resolve their research problems.

Sub Unit

• Section on Sociology of Religion / Institutional Intersections: Religious Effects in Other Institutional Realms

Session Organizer

• Richard N. Pitt, Vanderbilt University

Individual Presentations

• Daughters of Christ in the D.O.C.: How Religion Matters in a State Women's Prison - Rachel Ellis, University of Pennsylvania

• Social Clubs or Social Movements? Can Church Plants Help Us Understand Other Non-profit Organizational Foundings? - Richard N. Pitt, Vanderbilt University

• The Universal Life Church and Contemporary Weddings: The Changing Contours of American Rites of Passage - Dusty Hoesly, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Bringing The Study of Religion and Social Movements Together: Toward an Analytically Productive Intersection - David A. Snow, University of California, Irvine

• The Effects of Local Regulations and Public Responses on Proposed Religious Buildings in the Suburbs - Brian J. Miller, Wheaton College