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Why Join?
With more than 10,000 members, the American Academy of Religion (AAR) is the world’s largest organization serving teachers, scholars, and other professionals in the field of religion. AAR members are affiliated with institutions of higher education, and are also media and publishing professionals, clergy, independent scholars, high school teachers, and non-profit community workers. The professional diversity of the AAR’s membership reflects the substantial and growing role religion plays in the lives of individuals and communities as well as social, political, and economic events worldwide.
Membership in the AAR provides you with a spectrum of opportunities to both enrich your professional life and contribute to the field.
- Connect with scholars in the field by attending the Annual and Regional Meetings at deep discounts.
- Search for fellow members using the Membership Database online.
- Attend professional development workshops specially designed to assist you at every level of your career.
- Help to shape the AAR by volunteering to serve on committees, task forces, and other leadership groups.
- Answer the urgent call from journalists, public policy makers, and your fellow citizens who rely on our community to foster the public understanding of religion.
- Gain access to AAR print and online publications like the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR), Religious Studies News (RSN), and the monthly e-bulletins for the latest scholarship and news.
Special Member Benefits
ACLS Humanities E-Book
The American Academy of Religion is a member of the American Council of Learned Societies. The ACLS offers individual annual subscriptions to ACLS Humanities E-Book to current AAR members. By early 2010 HEB will be offering unlimited access to nearly 3,000 full-text, cross-searchable titles across the humanities and social sciences, from the 1880s through the present.
Individual subscriptions are an attractive option for those whose institutions don't already have a subscription to HEB or for AAR members who might not be affiliated with a subscribing institution. Individual annual subscriptions are $35.00. Please click here to see if your institution subscribes.
Click here to purchase an individual subscription to HEB. Please choose American Academy of Religion from the "Society Affiliation" pull-down menu and, in the space that says "Society Membership Number," provide your AAR membership number. If you do not know this information, you may request it from the AAR. For inquiries about HEB, please e-mail subscriptions@hebook.org.
University of California Press Religion Titles
www.ucpress.edu/go/religion
UC Press offers AAR members a discount on religion titles. To save 20% add the books you would like to the shopping cart, enter 10W2169 in the source code field in the shopping cart and click update. Your savings will then be calculated. Discount available for orders shipped in North America.
