The Institute's work is guided by a disciplined understanding of the interrelationship between the inner life and resources of American religious institutions and the possibilities and limits placed on those institutions by the social and cultural context into which God has called them.

The Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) is an international scholarly association that seeks to advance theory and research in the sociology of religion. Formed in 1938 as the American Catholic Sociological Society, the Association of Sociology of Religion traces its roots to scholars in search of a hospitable place for both empirical study and social criticism animated by the social ...