The H. Paul Douglass Lecturers

The H. Paul Douglass Lectures

The H. Paul Douglass Lecture is presented every other year at the annual meeting. These lectures are subsequently published in the Review of Religious Research to provide an original contribution to the literature of religious research.

The H. Paul Douglass lecturer for 2007 is Randall Collins, the Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. The title of his lecture is "The Four M's of Religion: Magic, Membership, Morality, and Mysticism."

Lecturers have included:

Nancy Ammerman	Philip E. Hammond	Marie Augusta Neal
Earl D.C. Brewer	Will Herberg	Talcott Parsons
Jackson W. Carroll	Dean Hoge	Milton Rokeach
James Dittes	Dean M. Kelley	David Roozen
Mary Douglas	Samuel C. Kincheloe	Lyle E. Schaller
Carl Dudley	Samuel Z. Klausner	Guy E. Swanson
Joseph H. Fichter	Otto Maduro	Ruth Wallace
Charles Y. Glock	David Martin	Barbara Wheeler
Andrew M. Greeley	Martin E. Marty	Charles V. Willie
Jeffrey K. Hadden	William McKinney	J. Milton Yinger
	David O. Moberg	Mayer N. Zald

Highlighted names indicate that person's H. Paul Douglass lecture is available on this site. These papers are in Adobe .pdf format. To view these files you will need the Adobe Acrobat reader. If you do not have this software, it is available free to download from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html.

Interested persons might also want to check out the list of RRA presidents and the texts of their Presidential addresses.