CTS membership enrolment and renewal

Due to a change in the publisher of Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses,
the CTS membership renewal process has been revised.
All membership enrolments and renewals will now be administered by the CTS.

Membership in the CTS is open to all (students, faculty, researchers, lay, clergy, and members of religious orders). There are a variety of membership categories: regular, student, retired, and unwaged. Each of these categories enjoys the same privileges and responsibilities of membership.

Full membership includes a subscription to Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (SR). To facilitate membership in other CCSR societies for which SR subscriptions are also included, it is possible to be an associate member of CTS. Associate members have all the privileges of full membership, but do not receive a subscription to SR.

Membership in the CTS follows the calendar year, January to December. This corresponds to the publishing year for the journal. CTS members are encouraged to renew their membership sufficiently early so that their subscription does not lapse. New memberships will be entered for the current year, unless otherwise requested.

Please note: CTS membership fees do not include registration fees for Congress or the CTS annual meeting. These are paid directly to the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences through the Congress website.

The new CTS membership system

In order to join the CTS, or renew your membership, simply send your membership data (see below) and a cheque for your membership fees to the CTS secretary.

Step #1: Download the membership form

• in MS-Word format
  This format allows you to type the relevant data into the fields of the form, to save the completed form, and then to email it as an attachment
• in PDF format
  This format preserves the page layout of the form. Unfortunately, this version does not allow you to type your responses or save the file.

Step #2: Send the form by email or standard mail to the address below

Step #3: Please make cheques payable to the “Canadian Theological Society”. Send by regular mail to:

Rob Fennell, CTS Secretary
Atlantic School of Theology
660 Francklyn Street
Halifax, NS  B3H 3B5
CANADA

Journal subscriptions will not be submitted to the publisher until membership fees are received. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the CTS secretary at < email hidden; JavaScript is required >.

Membership fees

Membership fees are for the calendar year. This corresponds to the publishing year of the journal. New memberships will be entered for the current year, unless otherwise requested.

The membership fees are as follows:

* Associate membership is intended for those who receive a journal subscription through full membership of another CCSR society: Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (CSBS), Canadian Society for the Study of Religion (CSSR), Canadian Society of Church History (CSCH), Canadian Society of Patristic Studies (CSPS), Société canadienne de théologie (SCT), and Société québécoise pour l’étude de la religion (SQÉR).

** Honorary members are elected for life by the annual general meeting of the CTS.

Where does your money go?

The fees collected by the CTS consist of membership fees for the CTS and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as your journal subscription. Here is a breakdown of the fees.

The CTS portion of the fees is established by the annual general meeting at Congress each year. The journal subscription fee is established by the Canadian Corporation for the Study of Religion (CCSR). We are hopeful that CCSR will noticeably lower the subscription fee once Sage, the new publisher, settles on a firm subscription rate for CCSR members (in 2011). The CFHSS fee is a membership fee. Congress registration is a separate transaction payable directly to the CFHSS.

Data privacy

Your address and email address will be used by the CTS to communicate with you. It will also be sent to the CCSR and Sage Publications to facilitate your subscription to the journal. The CTS membership list is not public, and will not be shared or sold for advertising purposes. Most communication from the CTS will use the new CTS email list, so an accurate email address is essential.