Religion in Global Perspective: SSSR Presidential Panel
Katherine Meyer,
Eileen Barker,
Helen Rose Ebaugh, Mark Juergensmeyer,
Katherine Meyer
President, SSSR; Program Director in Sociology National Science Foundation; Professor Emeritus of Sociology The Ohio State University
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Professor Emeritus of Sociology with Special Reference to the Study of Religion London School of Economics
Search for more papers by this authorMark Juergensmeyer
Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies; Global & International Studies, Sociology, and Religious Studies,University of California-Santa Barbara
Search for more papers by this authorKatherine Meyer,
Eileen Barker,
Helen Rose Ebaugh, Mark Juergensmeyer,
Katherine Meyer
President, SSSR; Program Director in Sociology National Science Foundation; Professor Emeritus of Sociology The Ohio State University
Search for more papers by this authorEileen Barker
Professor Emeritus of Sociology with Special Reference to the Study of Religion London School of Economics
Search for more papers by this authorMark Juergensmeyer
Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies; Global & International Studies, Sociology, and Religious Studies,University of California-Santa Barbara
Search for more papers by this authorKatherine Meyer, National Science Foundation, Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230. E-mail:
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Abstract
Global processes present a challenge for scholarly work on religion, necessitating new concepts, theoretical and analytical models, intellectual sensitivity, and imagination. This calls for focusing on (1) cross-border interpenetration of religious organizations, beliefs, and practices; (2) variations in the potential for religious beliefs and institutions to be transported; and (3) the use of multiple frames of reference to examine the dispersion of religious cultures and communities. A presidential panel presents the need for generating new research questions, improving measurement tools, and updating methodological techniques so that social scientists of religion accurately and authentically portray the nature and expression of religion in the 21st century.
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