Religion, Spirituality and Everyday Practice

Giuseppe Giordan
is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Padua. From 2007 he has served as Secretary of the Sociology of Religion Section of the Italian Sociological Association, and from 2009 as General Secretary of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR/SISR). With Enzo Pace and Luigi Berzano he also edits the
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
. He completed all his social science degrees at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the
Angelicum
) in Rome, receiving his doctorate
summa cum laude
in 2010. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in theology from the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy. His books in English include
Identity and Pluralism:
The Values of the Post-Modern Time
(2004) and the edited volumes
Vocation and Social Context
(2007),
Conversion in the Age of Pluralism

(2009)

and
Youth and Religion

(2010), in addition to articles in
Implicit Religion, Social Compass,
and the
Review of Religious Research.

William H. Swatos, Jr
. received his doctorate with examination honors in social theory from the University of Kentucky. He has served for over a decade as Executive Officer of both the Association for the Sociology of Religion and the Religious Research Association. He is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University, editing the
Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion,
 and teaches in the sociology faculty at Augustana College (Illinois). He is also Canon Theologian of the Anglican Diocese of Quincy, Illinois. With Kevin Christiano and Peter Kivisto, he is co-author of the text
Sociology of Religion
, currently in its second edition. In addition he is co-author of a text in Social Problems as well as
For Democracy: The Noble Character and Tragic Flaws of the Middle Class
(with Peter Kivisto and Ronald Glassman) and
Icelandic Spiritualism: Mediumship and Modernity
(with Loftur R. Gissurarson), as well as fourteen edited volumes, including the
Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
. In 2004 he assumed the general editorship of the “Religion and the Social Order” series sponsored by the ASR, with a total of ten volumes completing publication between then and 2011.