Association for the Study of Religion, Economics & Culture

*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

2011 ASREC Annual Meeting

April 7-10, 2011

Hyatt Regency, Crystal City (Washington DC)

After the Crisis: Religion in the Public Square  

Deadline for individual paper proposals: October 16, 2010

Deadline for session proposals: October 30, 2010

Registration for the 2011 Conference is now open! Click here to register.

Conference Fees

• $200: Out-of-town participants not staying at the Hyatt
• $150: Out-of-town participants staying at the Hyatt
• $150: Local participants
• $50: Students

DISCOUNT!!!: All out-of-town participants who stay at the Hyatt will receive a $50 discount on conference registration fees (except for students). Staying at the conference hotel allows ASREC to recoup some ot the non-trivial costs associated with reserving conference space at the Hyatt. ALL local participants (from the greater DC area) also receive a $50 discount.

Note: All out-of-town attendees will receive the $50 discount if the Hyatt is fully booked at the time the hotel reservation is made (if this is the case, indicate that you are staying at the Hyatt on the conference registration page).

Note: Our conference registration website is hosted by Chapman University

Hotel Rates: $145 (single or double occupancy); $175 (triple occupancy); $195 (quadruple occupancy)

To make hotel reservations, click here.

What are the implications of the current economic crisis for religious organizations?  How might the beliefs and behavior of individuals and congregations change?  What faith based initiatives might emerge as governments reduce spending to restore macroeconomic stability?

ASREC returns to Washington DC in April 2011! This will be our second stand-alone conference and our largest ever. We encourage submissions related to the conference theme but also welcome work on ALL topics at the intersection of religion, economics and culture, including:

   Politics, public choice/finance, church-state issues, and the law

   Social networks, and social/spiritual/religious capital

   Beliefs, attitudes, doctrines, norms, and values

   Religious participation, attendance, and commitment

   Religious giving, philanthropy, and church finances

Proposals do NOT have to be related to the conference theme. We welcome proposals for papers and sessions on:

   Economic growth, development, poverty, and inequality

   Economic history and religion

   Religious or social trends, growth, and decline of religiosity and religious participation

   Institutions, organizations, congregations, and denominations

   Religious markets, competition, monopoly, and regulation

   Conversion, switching, proselytizing, and the marketing of religion

   Demography, fertility, family, marriage, and gender

   Education, human capital, health, and happiness

   Extremism, conflict, sectarianism, and religious persecution

   Race, ethnicity, and discrimination

   Experimental methods, simulation studies, and computational methods

   Neuroscience and evolutionary theory

Proposals: Please submit all proposals to conference<at>asrec.org.  For both individual paper and session proposals, please include the title and an abstract of no more than 200 words for each paper, and supply the name, institutional affiliation, e-mail, phone number, and mailing address for all authors.

Decisions on all proposals will be made by November 19, 2010.

2011 Program Chair: Robert I. Mochrie, Heriot-Watt University; R.I.Mochrie <at> hw.ac.uk

2011 ASREC Executive Director: Jared Rubin, California State University, Fullerton; jrubin <at> fullerton.edu