We are working to make the CSSR/SCÉR more accessible. We invite your inquiries for this F.A.Q. section.
The fees are due annually based on the sign up date.
We encourage members to renew membership before each calendar year (December), but early in the year (i.e. January or February) is acceptable.
Click on this link to create your own profile: http://www.cssrscer.ca/?q=user/register
To edit your online member profile, log in to the website, then click on the “My Account” menu item on the left. Once you are on your own profile page, click on the “edit” tab at the top of your page. Once you are done editing, click on “Save” at the bottom of the page.
Here (via paypal or mail): http://www.cssrscer.ca/?q=node/67 | http://www.cssrscer.ca/?q=node/69
No. We now have a new Friends of the CSSR/SCÉR initiative. Read more about it here: http://www.cssrscer.ca/?q=node/384 | http://www.cssrscer.ca/?q=node/385
Read more about it here: http://www.cssrscer.ca/?q=node/384 | http://www.cssrscer.ca/?q=node/385
By creating a profile on our website. We used to contact people through an email listserv but it was difficult to maintain with our growing numbers. Now we use the website database itself to email all of our current members (whether paid members or “friends”). That’s why it’s important to post your correct email address on your own online profile page.
If you have a profile created on the website, then you can access your own profile page when you log in. At the very bottom of your own page is a window indicating your status for the year (i.e. “paid member” or “Friend of the CSSR”). If you are a “Friend” then you are not a paid member for this year.
Please contact our Membership Secretary. Contact information can be found in our list of current Executive members on the website (under the “About” menu).
ACCESSING THE SAGE STUDIES IN RELIGION JOURNAL ONLINE
Here are the details about how to digitally access the journal in 2021 for those of you who pay for the journal as members of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion (CSSR).
If you were paid members of the CSSR for the calendar year 2020, then you should already have digital access to the complete journal via the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion’s new website: https://ccsr.ca/en/
On this webpage, first click on the green ‘Log in’ button.
Then, when prompted, enter your e-mail address (your same e-mail used with the CSSR).
If it is your first time logging on, then you will also have to set your password using the ‘Reset password’ option.
If you were not a paid member of the CSSR for 2020, but are for 2021 and pay before the 15th of April 2021, then you will have digital access to Studies in Religion as of May 15th, 2021 for one complete year (until May 2022). As of the 15th of May 2021, you can access the journal the same way as described above.
Those CSSR members who pay for 2021 membership after the 15th of April 2021 will not have access to Studies in Religion for the calendar year. Consequently, if you are paying for CSSR associate or student membership after the 15th of April 2021, do not select the ‘receive Studies in Religion through the CSSR’ payment options.
If you have any questions, please e-mail the CSSR membership secretary.
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Yes. Everyone who wishes to present at Congress (individual and roundtable presentations) must be a paid member by March 1.
The CSSR Executive meets to discuss a variety of business issues, which are then brought forth to the CSSR Annual General Meeting (usually scheduled on the afternoon after the Executive meeting). The business issues concern executive member elections, the graduate student essay competition, book prizes, and the budget. Minutes from the Annual General Meeting are available on the CSSR website.
No. We do have one or two copies printed out (usually in the areas of socializing at the conference), but we encourage you to print out your own program before heading over.
You can browse our Annual Meeting link, here: http://www.cssrscer.ca/?q=node/22
Certainly! We have included french language presentations in the past, and will continue to do so.
Yes! You may register for the annual Congress here: http://www.ideas-idees.ca/events/congress
Yes. Please contact our CSSR Treasurer for more details.
This annual award recognizes an outstanding monograph in Religious Studies written by a member in good standing of the CSSR and published during the previous three years (currently those with a copyright date of the current year, previous year or two years ago). In every third year of the award, commencing in 2015, the book prize will be awarded to a first book in Religious Studies written by a member in good standing and published during the previous three years. Collections of essays, whether by a single author or by multiple authors, are not eligible for the award. More information here: http://www.cssrscer.ca/?q=node/28
Yes! More details here: http://www.cssrscer.ca/?q=node/19
First you must log in to the website using your login information. Then click on the “Our Members” menu on the left side of the website. Once there, click on the “Member Database Search link.”
Yes we have a Facebook group, specifically geared toward student members of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion. Access and join the Facebook group here: http://www.cssrscer.ca/?q=node/50
Please email our web administrator so that your work can be added to either our Members’ Corner or our Member Bookshelf.
We are in the process of writing formal job descriptions for each Executive member. These will be posted on the website in the future. In the meanwhile, you may ask Executive members for details.
Find out more here: http://www.cssrscer.ca/?q=node/7
Contact one of our current Executive members for inquiries.