Happenings
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Forthcoming Book Cover Reveal!
My latest book releases this summer…and now it has a cover! Introducing Our Lives: What Abortion Attitudes Reveal About Who We Are As Americans, forthcoming with the University of California Press in August 2026. The book is filled with the… Continue reading
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PBS NewsHour in the House
(Literally!) What fun to welcome the crew of PBS NewsHour to my home to film an interview for a forthcoming story on gender, generation, and Americans’ abortion views. I appreciated their journalistic professionalism, savvy furniture rearranging, and willingness to engage… Continue reading
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Seminar and Call for Papers — Conceptions of Authority in Roman Catholicism
The 2021-2024 Synod on Synodality revived an ecclesial focus on collaboration, co-responsibility, and leadership in a Roman Catholic Church shared by men, women, lay people, religious, and ordained ministers, together. Invigorated by such timeless questions in a timely moment, I’m… Continue reading
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Vatican Study Commission on the Female Diaconate
The Vatican has released a summary report, delivered to Pope Leo, regarding the latest study commission on women’s potential access to the diaconate. The report identifies two opposing theological “schools” and “the lack of convergence on fundamental doctrinal and pastoral… Continue reading
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Alive Catholicism
Preparing my keynote address for the third “Lived Catholicism” conference hosted by Durham University’s Centre for Catholic Studies, I found myself pondering the connections, overlaps, or distinctions between what we might call and observe empirically “lived Catholicism” and what writers… Continue reading
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Honored to serve as President-Elect of SSSR
The first meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) I attended was in Rochester, New York in 2005. I was still a graduate student, appearing in the program with my maiden name, Tricia Mein. From the… Continue reading
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AAR Panel on Applied Religious Studies
Great to connect with emerging scholars from the American Academy of Religion for a virtual panel on “Bridging Academy with Community.” Organizer Hans Gustafson brought together a great set of panelists with diverse experiences connecting their work on religion to… Continue reading
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ASR & Synodality in Commonweal
The Symposium on the Future of Catholicism, held alongside the meetings of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR), features centrally in an article written by Catholic journalist Heidi Schlumpf for Commonweal. Schlumpf draws out ways that synodality matters… Continue reading
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ASR 2025 in Chicago!
Wonderful to gather in Chicago with colleagues and new connections for the 2025 meetings of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR). I was honored to serve as ASR’s 2024-2025 President, delivering this year’s Presidential address. The gathering also… Continue reading
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Forum on the Future of Catholicism at ASR 2025
As current President of the Association of the Sociology of Religion (ASR), I’m thrilled to be co-organizing a forum within this year’s ASR conference on “The Future of Catholicism: Roots and Trajectories.” Thanks to the University of Southern California’s Institute… Continue reading
Tricia C. Bruce, PhD 