2026 MSSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado
Join us for MSSA panels and other Mormon Studies sessions held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) and the Religious Research Association (RRA). This year’s event is happening at the Denver Marriott Tech Center, from October 30 to November 1, 2026
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Panels and papers
Friday, October 30th
9:00-10:30 am Session
- Negotiating the Threshold: Identity, Interaction, and Institutional Exit in Contemporary Mormonism
10:40 am -12:10 pm Session
- Networks and New Directions in Studies of Latter-day Saints/Mormons
- Leaving Religion: Pathways Out
12:10-1:10 pm MSSA Business Meeting
- All MSSA members welcome; Location of Saturday night group dinner to be announced.
1:10-2:40 pm Session
- Congregational Studies within Mormon Studies
2:50-4:20 pm Session D-14 Platformed Mormonism (Birch Lake room)
- Religion, Giving, and Prosocial Behavior
- Measuring American Religion
8:30 – 10:00 pm
- Mormon Social Science Association Affinity Group and Research Networking Meeting
Saturday, October 31st
10:40 am-12:10 pm
- Book Panel, Unsettling Scripture: Iroquois and the Book of Mormon
- ‘A Calming Warm Sensation in my Heart and Mind’: A Qualitative Analysis of Descriptions of Spiritual Experiences of Latter-day Saints
12:10 -1:10 pm
- MSSA Business meeting (all members invited)
2:20-3:50 pm
- Book Panel, Holiness to the Lord: Latter-day Saint Temple Worship
4:00 – 5:30 pm
- Book Panel: Mormon Garments, Sacred and Secret
6:00 pm
- Group Dinner – All MSSA members are invited. Location: TBD
Sunday, November 1st
10:40 am – 12:10 pm
- Book Panel, Mormon Barrio: Latino Belonging in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Join the MSSA
As an interdisciplinary and international association, the MSSA promotes the social scientific study of Mormonism and facilitates communication and collaboration among researchers, educators and students. Membership is open to all. We sponsor scholarly conferences, publications, panel discussions, paper sessions, and the biennial Glenn M. Vernon Lecture. Join us today.
Give to the MSSA
The Armand Mauss Founders’ Fund supports the costs of the Vernon Lecture, honoraria for other invited speakers, student paper awards, student travel assistance, MSSA sponsored publications and other organizational expenses deemed appropriate by the Board of Directors.