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Distinguished Book Award

2007 - Co-Winners - Mansoor Moaddel, Eastern Michigan University, Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse (University of Chicago Press)
Genevičve Zubrzycki, University of Michigan, The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland (University of Chicago Press).

2006 - Mark Chaves, Congregations in America (Harvard University Press).

2006 - Penny Edgell, Religion and Family in a Changing Society (Princeton University Press).

2005 - Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners (University of Chicago Press).

2004 - Phillip S. Gorski, The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe (University of Chicago Press).

2002 - John H. Evans, Playing God: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate (University of Chicago Press).

2001 - Rodney Stark and Roger Finke, Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion (University of California Press).

2000 - Penny Edgell Becker, Congregations in Conflict: Cultural Models of Local Religious Life (Cambridge University Press).

1999 - Lutz Kaelber, Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities (Pennsylvania State University Press).

1998 - Lynn Rapaport, Jews in Germany After the Holocaust: Memory, Identity, and Jewish-German Relations (Cambridge University Press).

1997 - Paul Numrich, Old Wisdom in the New World: Americanization in Two Immigrant Theravada Buddhist Temples (University of Tennessee Press).

Distinguished Article Award

2007 - Nancy Davis and Robert Robinson, "The Egalitarian Face of Islamic Orthodoxy: Support for Islamic Law and Economic Justice in Seven Muslim-Majority Nations," American Sociological Review (71:167-190, 2006).

2006 - Fenggang Yang, "The Red, Black, and Gray Markets of Religion in China," The Sociological Quarterly, (Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 93-122, 2006).

2005 - Prema Kurien, "Multiculturalism, Immigrant Religion, and Diasporic Nationalism: The Development of an American Hinduism," Social Problems, (Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 362-385, 2004).

2004 (co-winners) - David Smilde, "Skirting the Instrumental Paradox: Intentional Belief Through Narrative in Latin American Pentecostalism," Qualitative Sociology, (26: 313-329, Fall 2003).
- Robert Wuthnow, Conrad Hackett and Becky Yang Hsu, "The Effectiveness and Trustworthiness of Faith-based and Other Service Organizations: A Study of Recipients' Perceptions." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, (43: 1-17, March 2004).

2002 - Mansoor Moaddel, "Conditions for ideological production: The origins of Islamic modernism in India, Egypt, and Iran." Theory And Society , (30: 669-731, 2000).

2001 - Brian Steensland, Jerry Z. Park, Mark D. Regnerus, Lynn D. Robinson, W. Bradford Wilcox, and Robert D. Woodberry, "The Measure of American Religion: Toward Improving the State of the Art." Social Forces, (September, 2000).

2000 - Rhys Williams, "Visions of the Good Society and the Religious Roots of American Political Culture." Sociology of Religion, 60 (Spring, 1999):1-34.

1999 - Mark D. Regnerus and Christian Smith, "Selective Deprivatization Among American Religious Traditions: The Reversal of the Great Reversal." Social Forces 76 (June, 1998):1347-1372.

1998 - Randall Collins, "An Asian Route to Capitalism: Religious Economy and the Origins of Self-Transforming Growth in Japan." American Sociological Review 62 (December, 1997):843-865.

1997 - Paula D. Nesbitt, "First- and Second-Career Clergy: Influences of Age and Gender on the Career-Stages Paradigm." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 34 (June, 1995):152-171.

Graduate Student Paper Award

2007 - Christopher Scheitle, (Pennsylvania State University), "Organizational Niches and Religious Markets: Uniting Two Literatures"

2006 - Christopher P. Scheitle (Pennsylvania State University), "The Social and Symbolic Boundaries of Congregations: An Analysis of Website Links"

2005 - Omar Lizardo and Jessica L. Collett (University of Arizona), "Why Biology is Not (Religious) Destiny: A Second Look at Gender Differences in Religiosity"

2004 - Melinda Denton (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), "Gender and Marital Decision Making: Negotiating Religious Ideology and Practice," Social Forces 32 (June, 2004): 1151-1180.

2002 - Kelly Besecke, "Seeing Invisible Religion: Religion as a Societal Conversation about Transcendent Meaning."

2001 - Rebecca Culyba, "Who Can Find a Virtuous Woman? Gender Ideology and Culture in a Black Holiness Church."

2000 - W. Bradford Wilcox, "Conservative Protestant Childrearing: Authoritarian or Authoritative?"

1999 - Jason Schnittker, "When Is Faith Enough? The Effects of Religious Involvement on Depression."

1998 - Philip Zuckerman, "The Sociology of Religious Schisms: The Call for Theoretical Innovation."

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