Kevin Christiano, associate professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected president of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR). Currently president-elect, Christiano will serve as president from 2005 to 2006.p. The ASR, which seeks to advance theory and research in the sociology of religion, was formed in 1938 as the American Catholic Sociological Society. It is the oldest and largest scholarly society in its field and claims more than 800 members worldwide.p. A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1983, Christiano is president of the American Council for Qu茅bec 91视频 and has served on the executive councils of the Association for the Sociology of Religion and the section on the Sociology of Religion of the American Sociological Association. In addition, he is a director-at-large of the Religious Research Association and member of the boards of the American Review of Canadian 91视频, Mens: Revue dHistoire Intellectuelle de lAm茅rique Fran莽aise, Sociological Focus and The Sociological Quarterly.p. Christiano has served as a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University and in the Canadian 91视频 Center at Duke University. He is the author of 鈥淩eligious Diversity and Social Change: American Cities鈥� and 鈥淧ierre Elliott Trudeau: Reason Before Passion,鈥� and co-author of 鈥淪ociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments.鈥� Christiano earned his doctorate from Princeton.p.
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