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Sara Horsfall, Ph.D.
Associate Professor


	Contact Information Sociology/Criminal Justice Department of Social Science 243 Poly United Methodist Church (corner of Collard and Rosedale) Texas Wesleyan University 1201 Wesleyan Fort Worth, Texas 76105-1536 Office Phone Number: (817)531-4264 EMail:shorsfall@txwes.edu shorsfall99@hotmail.com


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	Courses Current Sociology of Marriage and the Family Internships Other Classes Introduction to Sociology Social Theory Soc Perspectives of Psy Changing Roles of Men and Women The Local Community Sociology of Music Social Problems Applied Research Methods Family Violence

Research Interests

Social Psychology: Dynamics of the Family and Small Communities
Social Theory: Chaos and Complexity Theories
Social Theory: History of Social Thought
Religion: Sociology of Spiritual Experiences
Religion: Forces of Social Change

Publications

2005. "A Portrait of Change in Inner City Fort Worth." in Urban Anthopology, Fall issue.
2005. Book review for Journal of Contemporary Religion: "Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet,"
edited by Lorne L. Dawson and Douglas E. Cowan.
2005. January. Book review for Journal of Contemporary Religion: “Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas and Cyber Islamic Environments,”
by Gary Bunt.
2004. Chapters on Jane Addams, Mahatma Gandhi, and G.I. Gurdjeff for The Modern Age, 1914-2000, an eighth volume in Greenwood Press reference series entitled Interdisciplinary Biographical Dictionaries of the Western World’s Great Cultural Eras.
2004. "Religion, War and the Information Revolution." in Futures Journal: Symposium on Religious Revival and Innovation.
2002. (ed.) ANeighborhood Portrait: Polytechnic Heights of Inner City Fort Worth. Eakin Press, Austin, Tx.
2001. "TheChallenge of Spirituality to Western Science." OatesJournal.
2001. (with Christian Alcocer, C. Temple Duncan and Jonathan Polk) "Views of Euthanasia from an East Texas University."
Social Science Journal, Volume 38, No. 4.
2001. "Use of the Internet in the Unification Movement." Journal of Unification Studies. Volume 3.
March 2000. Book Review "New Spirituality, Self and Belonging: How New Agers and Neo-Pagans talk about themselves" by Jon Bloch.
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 38, No.1,p 121-122.
2000. (with Rebecca Salonen) " FemaleGenital Mutilation and Associated Gender and Political Issues among theSabiny of Uganda."
Rising DaughtersAware.www.fgm.org. Direct link: http://www.fgm.org/HorsfallSalonenPaper.html
2000. "The Experience of Marian Apparitions and the Mary Cult."Social Science Journal, Volume 37, No. 3, p375-384.
2000. "How Religious Organizations Use the Internet: A Preliminary Inquiry." Chapter in Religion on the Internet, edited by Jeffrey K Hadden and
Douglas Cowan. JAI Press: Religion and Social Order Series edited by David Bromley.
1997. Book Review for Transformations: the New Jersey Project, Volume 8, Number 2, Fall, pp 131-136. "Women and the University Curriculum"
by Mary-Louise Kearney and Anne Holden Ronning, "Gender in Popular Education" by Shirley Walters and Linzi Manicom.
1997. (with Elizabeth Maret) "Change in the Household DivisionofLabor: Intimations of Chaos," in
Chaos, Complexity and Sociology: Myths Models and Theories, pp. 182-196.
1997. (ed. with Ray Eve and Mary Lee) Chaos,Complexity and Sociology: Myths, Models and Theories, Sage Publications
1996. Identifying the Spiritual Experience, Texas A&M University Dissertation

Honors and Service

Phi Kappa Phi, Texas A and M University Chapter
Liberal Arts Awards Committee, Texas A and M University (1993)
Liberal Arts Council, Texas A andM University (1991-1993)
Graduate Program Committee, Sociology Department, Texas A and M University (1995-1996)


Education Texas A and M University ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) Montana State University Other Interests Classical Guitar Art and Poetry Travel and Folk Customs

Memberships

Alpha Kappa Delta
American Sociological Association
Association for the Sociology of Religion
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Southwest SociologicalAssociation
Institute of Noetic Sciences

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Sara Horsfall, Ph.D.
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