Interpreting Religion: Making Sense of Religious Lives

Forthcoming: 
Spring 2022

Volume editors: 
Erin F. Johnston, Duke University
Vikash Singh, Montclair State University 

Brief synopsis:
​This volume will provide a space for scholars whose work draws on different epistemological traditions (e.g., cultural sociology, symbolic interaction/pragmatism, psychoanalytic sociology, etc.) to reflect explicitly on the affordances and blindspots of the approaches they use for our understanding of common themes in the study of religion. 

Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Materiality

Forthcoming: 
Fall/Winter 2022

Volume editors: 
​Anne Marie Champagne, Yale University
Asia Friedman, University of Delaware

Brief synopsis:
This volume will advance the sociological literature on the body by bringing renewed theoretical and methodological attention to the ramifications of interpretation and meaning-production in the patterning of selves, bodies, and social action, as well as by reflecting on how analyses offered by scholars of the body further construct the meanings of bodies in social life. 

Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination

Forthcoming:
​Fall/Winter 2022

Volume editors: 
Andrea Cossu, University of Trento
Jorge Fontdevila, California State University, Fullerton

Brief synopsis: 
This volume will establish both a dialogue among the practitioners of interpretive sociology who work in close connection with the developments and the classical positions of semiotics, and between this loose coalition and other sociologists who approach culture from a totally different perspective. Thus, it will bring a pluralism of voices together to showcase how the semiotic imagination has produced a diverse array of research and provoked its share of debates.

Interpreting Contentious Memory: Countermemories and Conflicts Over the Past

Forthcoming: 
Spring 2023

Volume editors: 
Janet L. Jacobs, University of Colorado, Boulder
Thomas DeGloma, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY 

Brief synopsis:
​This volume will bring together scholars working across cultural, interactionist, and psychosocial traditions to advance understanding of the ways that actors create or experience the past, as well as the ways they use memories to understand their present conditions, construct their identities and self-understandings, establish current affiliations, and justify present actions. 

Interpreting Subcultures: Sense-Making from Insider and Outsider Perspectives

Forthcoming: 
Spring 2023

Volume editor: 
​J. Patrick Williams, Nanyang Technological University

Brief synopsis:
By explicitly focusing on interpretation as a process that underlies the construction, demarcation, and analysis of subcultural phenomena, this volume will bring meaning-making itself to the foreground. Collectively, contributors reflect on the significance of meaning-making in the processes of defining, studying, analyzing, and inscribing subcultural phenomena.

Interpreting the Authoritarian Turn: Cultural, Emotional, and Psychosocial Causes of a Global Phenomenon

Forthcoming:
​Spring 2023

Volume editors: 
Lynn Chancer, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Neil McLaughlin, McMaster University

Brief synopsis: 
This volume will bring together two trends of contemporary significance—the rise of reactionary populism in the U.S. and abroad and the psychosocial dynamics of anxiety and fear related to early 21st century events—in an exploration of the "authoritarian turn" that has threatened democratic institutions and individual freedoms amid massive socio-economic, climate-based, and pandemic-related uncertainties.