Annual Meeting: March 9-11, 2012
Chapman University, Orange, CA

CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for individual paper and session proposals: October 14, 2011

ASREC is coming to Southern California in March 2012! This will be their third stand-alone conference. This year’s conference will be highly selective – featuring 35 papers, all of the highest quality. Preference will be given to top-quality session proposals, though ASREC also encourages quality individual proposals.

Work on ALL topics at the intersection of religion, economics and culture is welcomed, including:

* Economic growth, development, poverty, and inequality
* Economic history and religion
* Experimental methods, simulation studies, and computational methods
* Demography, fertility, family, marriage, and gender
* Education, human capital, health, and happiness
* Extremism, conflict, sectarianism, and religious persecution
* Race, ethnicity, and discrimination
* 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
* Neuroscience and evolutionary theory
* 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: Please submit all proposals to conference@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 11, 2011

For more information, please visit www.asrec.org