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This paper explores the current religious mood in the tinned States and reflects upon its manifestations in the mid-1990s. It is argued that the religious mood has shifted -- away from the cognitive and fixed beliefs and toward the experiential arid expressive. It is further argued that given this change it is difficult to assess the current religious situation, especially given sociology-of-religion's reliance upon institutional categories and empirical indicators. Religious capital, like social capital, is not easily gauged without attention to new forms of community allowing individuals opportunity to express themselves as whole persons. A plea is made for a sociology of religion more attuned to body, mind, and self and thus to the dynamic and experiential qualities of religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents information on books relating to sociology. One of the books was "Asian Labor Migration: Pipeline to the Middle East," edited by Fred Arnold and Nasra M. Shah, in which thirteen papers presented at a 1982 conference dealing with the volume and consequences of labor migration to the Middle East from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka. Other books were "The Value of Work for Individual in Industrial Milieu," by Danuta Dobrowoiska, which discusses the results of a study of work in Poland in the 1970s, examining issues such as work values, connections between work and leisure, and occupational differentiation, "New Immigrants in New York," by Nancy Foner, deals with a million new immigrants, most from the Third World, that has arrived in New York City in the last two decades. These original essays examine their influence on New York City and how the city has affected them. The authors approach these issues from disciplines including sociology anthropology and labor economics.

Presents a list of sociologists who reviewed papers for the journal 'Social Forces' from July 1984 through June 1985.

The article focuses on the impact the paper "The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology," written by Judith Stacey and Barrie Thorne in 1985, had on the study and teaching of sociology. The paper argued that sociology, in contrast to other social sciences, had warded off attempts by feminist scholars to transform the field's theoretical and conceptual frameworks. A discussion of a study of the paper, which took place at the 2005 meeting of the American Sociological Association is presented.

This section introduces the articles featured in the June 2004 issue of Social Forces. In the June issue, the editor Richard L. Simpson retires from his position as co-editor. Judith Blau will become editor on July 1, 2004. 2004 was a year of many changes at Social Forces. The editors are extremely sad to lose Paul Mihas as the Managing Editor at the end of June 2004, when the Journal moves completely to the Department of Sociology. The journal is well on its way to implementing electronic management of manuscripts and reviews, anticipating the full transition to online-submission capability sometime in Summer 2004. The first article in the issue is Patricia Yancey Martin's presidential address that she delivered at the 2003 meetings of the Southern Sociological Society: Gender as Social Institution. Following the peer-reviewed articles is a section that includes a paper by Michael Burawoy, Public Sociologies: Contradictions, Dilemmas and Possibilities, along with rejoinders by Francois Nielsen, David Brady, and Charles Tittle. Catherine Zimmer, President of the North Carolina Sociological Association (NCSA), introduces these four papers that are based on a session at the NCSA. Judith will continue to devote a short, bracketed section of each issue of Social Forces devoted to Commentary and Debate.

This paper introduces articles that discuss prayer, poverty-to-work programs, ethnic markers and socio-political environments. From the attitudes of faculty to the attitudes of the unemployed, these studies features ideas, concepts, findings and connections that will enrich the understanding of the role and impact of religion in life.

This article presents information by Nancy Nason-Clark about the September 2004 issue of the journal "Sociology of Religion." September is the time of new beginnings, for students and faculty alike. Some of us make mental notes of things we wish to change, term papers graded more quickly, lectures more engaging, student problems understood more clearly, journals read from cover to cover, and so on. Themes of marginalization and private religious practices weave their way through the various articles presented in the journal. Two of the articles consider the interface of gender or race in contemporary evangelical discussions. Two other articles consider the impact of spiritual experiences: in the workplace or in the construction of privatized religion.