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The Program of the RRA/SSSR 2002 Meeting
Thursday, October 31, 2002
RRA Board meeting
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Meeting Room: Executive Boardroom
SSSR Council meeting
1:30 pm – 5:30 pm Meeting Room: Executive Boardroom
Joint SSSR/RRA Council Dinner
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Registration
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Kickoff Reception and Welcome
8:30 – 10:00 pm Meeting Room: Grand Ballroom A
Friday, November 1, 2002
A1 – SSSR
Friday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Salon I
Religion and Discourse
Organizer / Convener: John Bartkowski, Mississippi State University, Bartkowski@soc.msstate.edu
Tower of Babel. Susan Schept, Stevens Institute of Technology, sschept@stevens-tech.edu
Sacralization and Desacralization of Religion Language, or the New Age Challenge to Traditional Religions. I. V. Bogachevska, Institute of Philosophy, Ukrainian Academy of Science, cerif@alfacom.net
Islamic Activists' Discourse: A Framework of Inquiry. Mazen Hashem, University of California, Riverside, mhashem@citrus.ucr.edu
A2 – SSSR
Friday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Salon II
Religion and Race I
Convener: TBA
Differences among Presbyterians? Rebecca Farnham, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), rfarnham@ctr.pcusa.org
Armenian Evangelicals in American Context: The changing relationship between ethnicity and religion. Tim Fisher, University of Southern California, tnf@usc.edu
The Christian Origins of Black Nationalism. James Taylor, University of San Francisco, taylorj@usfca.edu
A3 – SSSR
Friday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Topaz
Ritual and Religious Experience
Convener: Pierre Hegy
Treading Water: The Inclusion of Women in Church Leadership, Liturgy, and Images God. Adair Lummis, Harford Seminary, alummis@hartsem.edu
Religiously-Interpreted Experience: Communication with the Divine? Jill Witmer Sinha, University of Pennsylvania, jwsinha@ssw.upenn.edu
Ritual Creativity and Sacred Humor. Alberto Groisman, alberto@cfh.ufsc.br
A4 – RRA
Friday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Alpine East
Church Growth and Vitality
Convener: Paula Nesbitt, University of California, Berkeley, pnesbitt@uclink.berkeley.edu
Evangelism, Preaching, Social Justice, and Community Outreach in the Faith Communities Today Seventh-Day Adventist Study. Roger L. Dudley, Andrews University, dudley@andrews.edu
A Dynamical Model of Strictness, Strength and their Effect on Church Growth
John Hayward, University of Glamorgan, jhayward@glam.ac.uk
Sources of Church and Denominational Growth in American Protestantism: An Examination of the Evidence. C. Kirk Hadaway, United Church of Christ, hadawayk@ucc.org; Penny Long Marler, Samford University, plmarler@samford.edu
A5 – SSSR
Friday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Salon III
Religion and Music
Convener: Charles Brown, Albright College, cbrown@alb.edu
The Power of Religious Experience through Music and Miracles in the Lives of Exemplars of Christian Virtue. Paul Kennedy, George Fox University, pkennedy@georgefox.edu
Music Communities, Moral Communities: Narrative in the Production of Moral Communities. Kevin McElmurry, University of Missouri, klm143@mizzou.edu
"Eracing" the Color Line: the Practice of Racial Reconciliation in the Christian Music Industry. Milmon Harrison, University of California, Davis, mfharrison@ucdavis.edu
Producing the Sacred Through the Secular: IX Saves and Christian Contemporary Music. Paul Yunsik Chang, Harvard University, pychang@hds.harvard.edu
A6 – SSSR
Friday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Seminar Theater
Boundaries and Commitments in NRM Research
Organizer / Convener: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, University of Haifa, benny@psy.haifa.ac.il
Douglas E. Cowan, University of Missouri, Kansas City, cowande@umkc.edu
Bryan Rennie, Westminster College, brennie@westminster.edu
Tom Robbins, tomrobbins427@aol.com
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, University of Haifa, benny@psy.haifa.ac.il
A7 – SSSR
Friday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Alpine West
Religious Markets- International Perspectives
Convener: Carolyn Warner, Arizona State University, carolyn.warner@asu.edu
State Welfare Spending and Religiosity: Explaining the Uruguayan Paradox in Cross-National Perspective. Anthony Gill, University of Washington, tgill@u.washington.edu
Religious Freedom and the Unintended Consequences of the Establishment of Religion. Carl R. Gwin, Baylor University, carl_gwin@balor.edu, and Charles North, Baylor University, Charles_North@baylor.edu
The Rationality of Faith: Evidence from the Soviet Union. Paul Froese, University of Washington, pfroese@u.washington.edu
Discussant: Carolyn Warner, Arizona State University, carolyn.warner@asu.edu
A8 – SSSR
Friday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Ballroom
The Compatibility of Social Science and Religion: A Panel Discussion
Organizer / Convener: Charles Glock, cyg@netw.com
John Coleman, Loyola Marymount University, jcoleman@lmu.edu
Charles Glock, cyg@netw.com
Kevin Christiano, University of Notre Dame, kevin.j.christiano.1@nd.edu
Patricia Wittberg, Indiana University Purdue University, pwittber@iupui.edu
Moderator: John Coleman, Loyola Marymount University, jcoleman@lmu.edu
A9 – RRA
Friday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Canyon III
Religion and Social Capital
Organizer / Convener: Robert E. Beckley, West Texas A&M University, rbeckley@mail.wtamu.edu
Presbyterians in Cuba: Providing Religious Social Capital in a Politically Secular Environment. Robert E. Beckley, West Texas A&M University, rbeckley@mail.wtamu.edu; Michael N. Miller, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, mmiller@mail.austinseminary.edu
Religion as a Source of Jewish Social Capital. Bruce Phillips, Hebrew Union College, BPhillips@huc.edu
AIDS/HIV Ministry Marginalized Individuals: Social Capital in a Racially Mixed Faith-Based outreach Program. Robert E. Beckley, West Texas A&M University, rbeckley@mail.wtamu.edu; Jerome R. Koch, Texas Tech University, jerome.koch@ttu.edu
A10 – SSSR
Friday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Suite 324
Qualitative Research and Religion
Convener: Joy Charlton, Swarthmore College, jcharlt1@swarthmore.edu
Eastern Orthodoxy and Modernity in Greece. Frances Kostarelos, Governors State University, f-kostarelos@govst.edu
The Religious Beliefs and Practices of the Homeless: Notes on the Relationship between Religion and Social Class. Laura Stephens, University of Arizona, lsstephe@u.arizona.edu, Rebecca Sager, University of Arizona, resager@hotmail.com
"What I learned back then, carries me now." Patterns of practice and religious observance among older adults. Susan Eisenhandler, University of Connecticut, susan.a.eisenhandler@uconn.edu
A11 – SSSR
Friday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Canyon I
Rational Choice Theory
Convener: Darren Sherkat, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, sherkat@siu.edu
Church Commitment in Western and Central Europe. Karel Dobbelaere, dobbelaere.voye@skynet.be
Beyond Rational Choice. Eric Sartain, University of Notre Dame, sartain.1@nd.edu, Matthew Loveland, University of Notre Dame, loveland.1@nd.edu
Religious Rules in Everyday Life: A Qualitative Study of Strictness in Congregations, Nancy Martin, University of Arizona, nmartin@u.arizona.edu
Higher Tension and Lower Attachment in the Dutch Catholic Church after 1970, Erik Sengers, esengers@compaqnet.nl
B1 – SSSR
Friday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Salon I
Religion and Adolescents
Convener: Darren Sherkat, Southern Illinois University, sherkat@siu.edu
Symbols of youth culture and the development of religious identity: the imaginative and the imaginary. Lynn New, East Texas Baptist University, lnew@etbu.edu
Incoming or Outgoing? The Impact of Religious Trajectories on Adolescent Mental Health. Brad Smith, Western Maryland College, bsmith@wmdc.edu
Adolescent Religious Participation and Sexual Behavior: A Review of Current Research. Mark D. Regnerus, University of Texas, Austin, regnerus@calvin.edu, Christopher Ellison, cellison@mail.la.utexas.edu
B2 – RRA / RRX
Friday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Seminar Theater
Of Mice and Members: Using the Web to Research Religious Phenomena
Organizer / Convener: Scott Thumma, Hartford Seminary, sthumma@hartsem.edu
Panelists:
Scott Thumma, Hartford Seminary, sthumma@hartsem.edu
Melinda Lundquist, National Study of Youth and Religion, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, mlund@email.unc.edu
A Representative from the American Religion Data Archive—ARDA
B3 – SSSR
Friday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Alpine West
How Scholarship and Advocacy Interact in Dealing with NRM and Mind Control Issues
Organizer / Convener: Herbert Rosedale, President, American Family Foundation, affrose@aol.com
Discussants: Stephen Kent; Eileen Barker
B4 – SSSR
Friday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Salon II
Congregational Studies
Convener: Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota, edgell@umn.edu
Mission is Why the Church Exists: Creativity, Community, and Cultural Accommodation in a Los Angeles, Multiethnic Church., Gerardo Marti, amarti@apu.edu
Religion as a Way of Life. Ana Valdes, Roxy6g@aol.com
Synthesis and Change in the Religious Practice of a Pentecostal Assembly, Malcolm Gold, Malone College, mgold@malone.edu
Throw out the Methodist Lifeline: Understanding the links between a rural church and its denomination. Karen Bradley, Central Missouri State University, kbradley@cmsu1.cmsu.edu, Robin Albee, University of Missouri-Columbia
B5 – SSSR
Friday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Alpine East
Locating Secularism in National Surveys of American Religion
Convener/Discussant: TBA
Barry Kosmin, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, kosmin.jpr@jpr.org.uk
Ariela Keysar, Center for Jewish Studies, akeysar@aol.com
Egon Mayer, Center for Jewish Studies, egonmayer@aol.com
Anthony Stevens-Arroyo, Brooklyn College, astevens@brooklyn.cuny.edu
B6 – SSSR
Friday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Topaz
Diversity in the Mormon Homeland: Minority Religion in Utah
Organizer / Convener: David Clark Knowlton, University of Utah, david.knowlton@anthro.utah.edu
Janet Bennion, Utah Valley State College, bennioja@uvsc.edu
Bonnie Lynn Mitchell-Green, Southern Utah University, mitchellgreen@suu.edu
Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Utah State University, glasscob@cc.usu.edu
Richley H. Crapo, Utah State University, rcrapo@cc.usu.edu
B7 – SSSR
Friday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Canyon III
Developments in Catholicism
Organizer / Convener: Mary Gautier, Georgetown University, gautierm@georgetown.edu
Jonathon Wiggins, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), Georgetown University, jlw8@georgetown.edu, Paul Perl, pmp2@georgetown.edu, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), Georgetown University
Religious Virtuosi at the proof of time: Testing survival strategies in Catholic Religious Orders. Lluis Oviedo, Antonianum University, loviedo@ofm.org
Catholic Priests as Sacramental Ministers: "Uncharted Territory". Ruth A. Wallace, George Washington University, rwallace@gwu.edu
B8 – SSSR
Friday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Salon III
Religion and Television
Convener: Charles Brown, Albright College, cbrown@alb.edu
Practicing Oprah. Katie Lofton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, klofton@email.unc.edu
US-Televangelism on German TV Screens – revisited. Gerhard Schmied, Gerhard.Schmied@Uni-Mainz.De
Textual Analysis of the 700 Club Following the 9-11 Attack. Eric Gormly, University of North Texas, gormly@unt.edu
B9 – SSSR
Friday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Ballroom
Charting Religious Trends
Convener/Discussant: Jacques Delacroix, Santa Clara University, sdelacroix@scu.edu
Visual Analysis of Religious Trends: The Case Women’s Ordination, Sean Everton, Stanford University, severton@stanford.edu
Looking Backward: Twentieth Century Religious Trends across Thirty Nations. Laurence Iannaccone, George Mason University, larry@econzone.com
Religious Education, Conversions, and the Growth of Religious Denominations. Alberto Bisin, New York University, alberto.bisin@nyu.edu and Giorgio Topa, New York University, giorgio.topa@nyu.edu
B10 – SSSR
Friday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Suite 324
Religious and Racial Identity
Convener: George Yancey, yancey@scs.cmm.unt.edu
Hymnal as Therapeutic Mareria Meica and Culture Generator "The African American Heritage Humnal as Conjure Book". Hugh R. Page, University of Notre Dame, Bard4@aol.com
Chicken Soup for the Souls of Black Folk: African American Converts to Judaism and the Negotiation of Identity. Nora L. Rubel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill nlrubel@aol.com
Cuban Catholics as Elite Facilitators of a Pan-Latina/o Movement in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Chad Seales, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, seales@email.unc.edu
B11 – SSSR
Friday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Canyon I
The Emergence of Theravada Buddhism in America
Organizer / Convener: Wendy Cadge, Princeton University, gacadge@princeton.edu, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Cornell University/Princeton University, ehoward@princeton.edu
Paul Numbrich, Loyola University, Chicago, pn@parkridgecenter.org
Todd Perreira, University of California, Santa Barbara, perreira@ix.netcom.con
Joseph Cheah, St. Mary's College High School, jpcheah@aol.com
Wendy Cadge, Princeton University, gacadge@princeton.edu
Discussant: Peter Gregory, Smith College, pgregory@email.smith.edu
Friday, 12:00 – 1:00 Meeting Room: Grand Ballroom A
New Members’ Lunch
Friday, 12:00 – 1:00 Meeting Room: Topaz
Mormon Social Science Association Business Meeting
C1 – SSSR
Friday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Alpine East
Author Meets Critic: People of Faith: Religious Conviction in American Journalism and Higher Education, John Schmalzbaur
Organizer / Convener: Robert Wuthnow, Pew Mentoring Group, Princeton University, wuthnow@princeton.edu
Jerry Park, University of Notre Dame, jpark@nd.edu
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Cornell University, emh5@cornell.edu
Matthew Wilson, Southern Methodist University, jmwilson@mail.smu.edu
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University, wuthnow@princeton.edu
Respondent: John Schmalzbauer, College of the Holy Cross, jschmalz@holycross.edu
C2 – SSSR
Friday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Canyon I
Tales from Two Cities: New Immigrants and Religion in Chicago and Winnipeg
Organizer / Convener: Fred Kniss, Loyola University Chicago, fkniss@wpo.it.luc.edu
Social and Religious Meaning-making Practices and the Transformation of Eastern Orthodox Immigrant Institutions in Chicago. Dmitro Volkov, Loyola University Chicago
Religion and Integration in Winnipeg: Comparing Early and Late Twentieth Century Immigrants. Royden Loewen, University of Winnipeg
‘There Can Be Only One Teacher of the Bible Class’: Postwar Sectarian Immigrants and the Recovery of Religious Life in Winnipeg. Hans Werner, University of Winnipeg
New Immigration Congregations and Their Connections to Their Neighborhoods. Fred Kniss, Loyola University Chicago
C3 – SSSR
Friday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Salon I
New Religious Dance: The Somatic Aspects of Spirit
Organizer / Convener: Marilyn Gottschall, Whittier College, mgottschall@whittier.edu
Kahena Viale, Claremont Graduate University, vialed@cgu.edu
Marilyn Gottschall, Whittier College, mgottschall@whittier.edu
Donnalee Dox, Texas A&M University, dox@labs.tamu.edu
Discussant: Donnalee Dox, Texas A&M University, dox@labs.tamu.edu
C4 – SSSR
Friday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Salon III
Networking in Sub-Saharan Africa to transform religious practices
Organizer / Convener: H. Jurgens Hendriks, University of Stellenbosch, hjh@sun.ac.za
Studying congregations in Africa. H. Jurgens Hendriks, University of Stellenbosch, hjh@sun.ac.za
Religious demographic research as a resource in the fight against poverty, AIDS and crime in South Africa. Johannes C. Erasmus, egdn@sun.ac.za
The influence of cultural anthropology and cosmology on the formation of God-images and an African Spirituality. Amon E. Kasambala, Justo Mwale Theological College, amontiba@zamnet.zm
Discussant: H. Jurgens Hendriks, University of Stellenbosch, hjh@sun.ac.za
C5 – SSSR
Friday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Topaz
Religion, Political, and Economic Attitudes
Convener: Ted Jelen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, jelent@nevada.edu
Religion and Political Participation, James Guth, Furman University, jim.guth@furman.edu, Lyman Kellstedt, Furman University
Found: The Elusive Link between US Conservative Protestantism and Economics. Jacob Felson, Pennsylvania State University, jlf360@psu.edu
Religiosity, Denominational Cultures and Perceived Inequalities in Canada: Evidence from the 1999 ISSP Survey. Leslie S. Laczko, University of Ottawa, laczko@uottawa.ca
Political Cohesion in Churches. Paul A. Djupe, Denison University, djupe@denison.edu, Christopher P. Gilbert, Gustavus Adolphus College, cgilbert@gac.edu
C6 – SSSR
Friday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Canyon III
Continuity and Change in the Religious Thought and Practice of Clergy and Parishioners of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) and the Reformed Church in America (RCA)
Organizer / Convener: Corwin Smidt, Calvin College, smid@calvin.edu
Corwin Smidt, Calvin College, smid@calvin.edu
Roger Nemeth, Hope College, nemeth@hope.edu
Donald Luidens, Hope College, luidens@hope.edu
James Penning, Calvin College, penn@calvin.edu
C7 – RRA
Friday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Salon II
Celebrating Catholic Parishes
Organizer / Convener: Mary Beth Celio, Archdiocese of Seattle, marybethc@seattlearch.org
More than shaking hands: Developing Community Through Worship. Ruth Narita Doyle, Fordham University, anyoprp@aol.com
Passing on the Faith in the Contemporary American Parish: Challenges and Models. Mary Beth Celio, Archdiocese of Seattle, marybethc@seattlearch.org
Ecumenical and Interreligious Programs: Patterns and Questions. Jeffrey Gros, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
From Field to City: Commonalities and Differences. Ken Sanchagrin, Glenmary Research Center, ksanchagrin@mhc.edu
C8 – SSSR
Friday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Ballroom
An International Exploration of Spirituality & Unchurched Religion
Organizer: Rodney Stark, University of Washington, socstark@aol.com
Defining Spirituality and Unchurched Religion, with application to America. Rodney Stark, University of Washington, socstark@aol.com
Spirituality and Unchurched Religion in Sweden. Eva Hamberg, Lund University, eva.hamberg@teol.lu.se
Spirituality and Unchurched Religion in Japan. Alan S. Miller, Hokkaido University, amiller@letters.hokudai.ac.jp
Discussant: Laurence R. Iannaccone, George Mason University, larry@econzone.com
C9 – SSSR
Friday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Seminar Theater
God Images I
Convener: Pierre Hegy
Rastafari, Haile Selassie, and the Black Religious Imagination: Imago Dei and Post-Colonial Culture. Leslie James, DePauw University, ljames@depauw.edu
How Race, Gender, and Class Impact our images of God? Jason Minser, University of Cincinnati, satorijm@aol.com
The Co-Evolution of Cultures and Images of God. Michael H. Barnes, University of Dayton, Michael.Barnes@notes.udayton.edu
C10 – SSSR
Friday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Alpine West
Religion and the Family
Convener: Robert Stonebraker, Winthrop University, stonebrakerr@winthrop.edu
Discussant: Doug Allen, Simon Fraser University, allen@sfu.ca
Marriage and Jewish law. Shoshanna Grossbard-Schectman, San Diego State University, sg2130@columbia.edu
The Role of Religion on Entry into Cohabitation and Marriage: An Economic Perspective. Evelyn Lehrer, University of Illinois, Chicago, elehrer@uic.edu
Does Religion Influence the Labor Supply of Women in Sweden? Bengt Haraldsson, Göteborg University, bengt.haraldsson@economics.gu.se and Per-Ola Maneschiold
C11 – SSSR
Friday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Suite 324
Understanding Religion and Violence
Organizer / Convener: Ron E. Hassner
John R. Hall, University California, Davis, jrhall@ucdavis.edu
Richard D. Hecht, University California, Santa Barbara, ariel@religion.ucsb.edu
Ron E. Hassner, Stanford University, rony@stanford.edu
D1 – SSSR
Friday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Salon I
God Images II
Convener: Pierre Hegy
The psychobiology of God: Evolution and Genetics. Bernie Spilka, bspilka@frontier.psy.du.edu
Children's Images of God: A Sociological Study. Loretta Morris, Marymount University, lmorris@lmu.edu
The Re-Invention of Animism. Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, University of Haifa, benny@psy.haifa.ac.il
D2 – SSSR
Friday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Salon III
Religion and Visual Art
Organizer / Convener: Colleen McDannell, University of Utah, colleen.mcd@utah.edu
Photographing the Religious "Other" of the Russian Empire. Nina Schmit, American Theological Library Association, nschmit@atla.com
Painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1652) Sociology of Art and biblical analysis. James McGhee, Saint Anselm College, JMcGhee@Anselm.edu
Seeing the Sacred: Religion, Spirituality and the Aesthetic Dimension. Roger O'Toole, University of Toronto, otoole@utsc.utoronto.ca
In the Image of our lady: La Virgen de Guadalupe. Julie Dowling, University of Texas at Austin, jdowling@prc.utexas.edu
D3 – SSSR
Friday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Topaz
Religious Practices, Young People, and Identity: Ethnographic Approaches
Organizer / Convener: Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado, lynn.clark@colorado.edu
Creating Multiculturalism: Asian American Religious Organizations Negotiate Race and Religion, Pawan Dhingra, Bucknell University, pdhingra@bucknell.edu
The religious and spiritual concerns of Conservative Jewish high school seniors: Qualitative data from the longitudinal panel study, 1995-1999, Ariela Keysar, Center for Jewish Studies, Akeysar@aol.com and Barry Kosmin, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, kosmin.jpr@jpr.org.uk
'They hid Jesus in the Bulrushes': Children's Understandings of Religion in Popular Culture, Diane Alters, University of Colorado, altersdf@hotmail.com
'Not religious, not yet:' 'Secular' teen practices and identity issues at the borders of the secularization debate, Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado, lynn.clark@colorado.edu
Discussant: Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Hartford Seminary, nta@hartsem.edu
D4 – SSSR
Friday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Suite 324
Religion and Secular Values
Organizer / Convener: Amy Adamczyk, ala169@psu.edu
Religious Orientation and Attitudes about Stem Cell Research. Michael Nielsen, Georgia Southern University, mnielsen@gasou.edu, Jennifer Williams, Georgia Southern University
Teleological Evolution and Foundationalist Liberalism: The Political Significance of the Emerging Dialogue between Religion and Science. John Wells, Carson-Newman College, jwells@cn.edu
The Christian Churches' Coming Out of Their Abusive Past: What Can We Expect From Public Apologies? Alain Durocher, Graduate Theological Union, aduroc@aol.com
D5 – SSSR
Friday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Alpine West
Author Meets Critics: Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture Grant Wacker
Organizer / Convener: Jackson W. Carroll, Duke University Divinity School, jcarroll@div.duke.edu
Critics:
David Hackett, University of Florida, Dhackett@religion.ufl.edu
R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois, Chicago, rswarner@uic.edu
Rhys H. Williams, University of Cincinnati, Rhys.Williams@uc.edu
Respondent: Grant Wacker, Duke University Divinity School, gwacker@div.duke.edu
D6 – SSSR
Friday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Canyon III
Parish and Sacramental Life of the Catholic Church
Organizer / Convener: Paul Perl, Georgetown University, pmp2@georgetown.edu
James C. Cavendish, University of South Florida, jcavendi@luna.cas.usf.edu
William Dinges, Catholic University of America, dinges@cua.edu
David Yamane, University of Notre Dame, yamane.1@nd.edu
Sarah MacMillen, University of Notre Dame, MacMillen.1@nd.edu
Charles Zech, Villanova University, charles.zech@villanova.edu
Mary L. Gautier, Georgetown University, gautierm@georgetown.edu
Discussant: Mary E. Bendyna, Georgetown University, bendynam@georgetown.edu
D7 – SSSR
Friday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Alpine East
The Changing Practice of Latin American Religion
Organizer / Convener: Christopher Chiappari, St. Olaf College, chiappar@stolaf.edu; Henri Gooren, Utrecht University, h.gooren@compaqnet.nl
Felipe Vazquez Palacios, CIESAS-Golfo, fevaz@ciesas-golfo.edu.mx
Maria Teresa Rodriguez, CIESAS-Golfo, mtrguez@ciesas-golfo.edu.mx
Pedro Arrieta Fernandez, CIESAS-Golfo, arrietaf@ciesas-golfo.edu.mx
David Clark Knowlton, University of Utah, davidknowlton@yahoo.com
Christopher Chiappari, St. Olaf College, chiappar@stolaf.edu
Henri Gooren, Utrecht University, h.gooren@compaqnet.nl
D8 – RRA
Friday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Canyon I
Profiles of Denominations and Their Worshipers: Key Findings from The U.S. Congregational Life Survey
Organizers/Conveners: Cynthia Woolever and Deborah Bruce, Research Services, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) cwooleve@ctr.pcusa.org and and dbruce@ctr.pcusa.org
Seventh-day Adventist Church. Roger Dudley, Andrews University, dudley@andrews.edu
The Mind Methodist Hank and Peggy. Craig This, The Office of Research, General Council on Ministries, United Methodist Church, cthis@gcom-umc.org
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Martin Smith, Research and Evaluation, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, msmith@elca.org
The Episcopal Church. Matthew Price, Episcopal Church Pension Group, mprice@cpg.org
D9 – SSSR
Friday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Ballroom
MSSA: The Glenn M. Vernon Lecture
Gender and Religion in Comparative Perspective: In search of a paradigm
Organizer / Convener: Daryl White, Spelman College, dwhite@spelman.edu, Dwhite7028@aol.com
Marie Cornwall, Brigham Young University, marie_cornwall@byu.edu
D10 – SSSR
Friday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Salon II
Testing the "New Paradigm"
Convener: Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University, rfinke@psu.edu
Will the Jehovah's Witnesses Continue to Grow? David Voas, University of Sheffield, d.voas@shef.ac.uk
Religious Competition in Multi-Faith Societies: Religious Markets or Cultural Ecologies. Gary D. Bouma, Monash University, Gbouma@smtp.montash.edu.au
Clergy Connections: A Theoretical Model Explaining Clergy Involvement in Renewal Movements. Jennifer McKinney, Seattle Pacific University, mckinj@spu.edu
Expanding the Faith: A model of Congregational Attraction. Kevin D. Dougherty, Purdue University, doughertyk@sri.soc.purdue.edu
D11 – SSSR
Friday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Seminar Theater
Measuring Religion
Organizer / Convener: Matthew Lawson, The College of New Jersey, mlawson@tcnj.edu
An Introduction to the Commitment-Reflectivity Circumplex Model of Religious Orientation and Its Relationships to Existing Allportian Models. Stephen Krauss, stephenkrauss@hotmail.com
Aliens and Angels: Social Norms and Metaphysical Chauvinism. Kevin Ladd, Indiana University, kladd@iusb.edu, Catherine Borshuk, Indiana University, cborshuk@iusb.edu, Peter Ashbaugh, Indiana University, pasbaugh@iusb.edu, Lindie Maddox, Indiana University, lmaddox@iusb.edu
Exploring Religious Bias in the DIT and the WAIS-III. Lora D. Theiss-White, ldwhite@worldnet.att.net
The Intrinsic-Extrinsic Interaction: The Return of the Ostracize. Michael J. Donahue,
Azusa Pacific University, mdonahue@apu.edu
Friday, 5:00 – 6:15 Meeting Room: Grand Ballroom C
RRA Presidential Address
Introduction: Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick, nasoncla@unb.ca
From Religious Markets to Religious Communities: Contrasting Implications for Applied Research.
Presidential Address: D. Paul Johnson, Texas Tech University, D.Paul.Johnson@ttu.edu
Friday, 6:30 Meeting Room: Grand Ballroom A
Reception
Saturday, November 2, 2002
Saturday, 7:30 – 8:30 AM Meeting Room: Canyon I
RRX Breakfast
Saturday, 7:30 – 8:30 AM Meeting Room: Topaz
SSSR Business Meeting
E1 – SSSR
Saturday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Ballroom
Politics and Religious Practice
Organizer / Convener: Rebecca A. Allahyari, School of American Research, allahyari@sarsf.org
Religious Practice in Everyday Life, Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Hartford Seminary, nta@hartsem.edu
A Fertile Meeting Ground?: Environmental Practice and the Greening of Religious Institutions, Rebecca Kneale Gould, Middlebury College, rgould@middlebury.edu
Picturing Religious Practices: Christian Charities and the New Deal, Colleen McDannell, University of Utah, colleen.mcd@utah.edu
Discussant: Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University, wuthnow@princeton.edu
E2 – SSSR
Saturday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Salon I
Syncretism in Contemporary Japanese Religions
Organizer / Convener: Mark Mullins, Sophia University, mmullins@tkm.att.ne.jp
Recent Studies on Eclecticism and Syncretism in Japanese Religions. Morishita Saburo, Tenri University, Smorishi@sta.tenri-u.ac.jp
Finding a Place for the Ancestors in Japanese Christianity. Mark R. Mullins, Sophia University, mmullins@tkm.att.ne.jp
Indications of Japanese Religious Eclecticism and Syncretism in Recent Survey Data. Robert Kisala, Nanzan University, kisala@ic.nanzan-u.ac.jp
Syncretism in Japanese New Religions: The Case of Aum and Aleph. Michiko Lico Maekawa, University of Tokyo, VZQ11114@nifty.ne.jp
Discussant: Eileen Barker, London School of Economics
E3 – RRA
Saturday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Seminar Theater
Religious Congregations Membership Study
Organizer / Convener: Richard Houseal, Church of the Nazarene, Rhouseal@nazarene.org
A Review of RCMS Methods and Data Trends. Dale Jones, Church of the Nazarene, djones@nazarene.org; Richard Houseal, Church of the Nazarene, Rhouseal@nazarene.org
Trends and Changes in Catholic Data. Cliff Grammich, Glenmary Research Center, glenmary2000@aol.com; Ken Sanchagrin, Glenmary Research Center, ksanchagrin@glenmary.org
Trends and Changes in Mainline Denominations. Jack Marcum, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), jmarcum@ctr.pcusa.org
Using RCMS Data on the ARDA Web Site. Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University, rfinke@psu.edu
E4 – SSSR
Saturday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Salon III
Outreach and Caring in Religious Practice
Organizer / Convener: Wendy Cadge, Princeton University, gacadge@princeton.edu
Congregational Sponsorship of Health-Related Programs: Examining patterns and Correlates. Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin, cellison@mail.la.utexas.edu, Jason Boardman, University of Colorado-Boulder, jasonb@mail.la.utexas.edu
Coalition Ministries and the Provision of Social Services: Data from a National Survey. Paula Pipes, University of Houston, ppipes@uh.edu, Helen Rose Ebaugh, University of Houston
Care giving from the Recipients' Perspective: A Comparison of Mainline Protestants and Evangelicals. Joan Walling, Princeton University, jwalling@princeton.edu
Reconstructing the Protestant Work Ethic. William H. Lockhart, Baylor University, William_Lockhart@baylor.edu
E5 – SSSR
Saturday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Alpine East
Sites and Insights: Reports from the Field Research of the NSLLPC
Organizer / Convener: Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, Brooklyn College
Jason Perez, Brooklyn College CUNY, jmperez15@hotmail.com
Sarah Bronwen Horton, University of New Mexico, sbh16@unm.edu
Susan Eichenburger, University of Florida, sueich@ufl.edu
Maria Ponciano, Brooklyn College CUNY, Cubanmaja@aol.com
Discussant: Yolanda Prieto, Ramapo College, yprieto@ramapo.edu
E6 – SSSR / NAASR
Saturday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Suite 324
The Academic Study of Religion during the Cold War
Organizer / Convener: Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama, russell.mccutcheon@ua.edu
Lubos Belka, Masaryk University, belka@phil.muni.cz
Luther H. Martin, The University of Vermont, lhmartin@zoo.uvm.edu
Donald Wiebe, Trinity College, dwiebe@trinity.utoronto.ca
Discussants: Luther H. Martin, The University of Vermont, lhmartin@zoo.uvm.edu; Russell T. McCutcheon
E7 – RRA
Saturday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Alpine West
Theorists Meet Practitioners
Convener: D. Paul Johnson, Texas Tech University, D.Paul.Johnson@ttu.edu
Panel:
William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office, bill4329@hotmail.com
James Wellman, University of Washington, jkwamw@uswest.net
Mike McMullen, University of Houston-Clear Lake, mcmullen@cl.uh.edu
E8 – RRA
Saturday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Canyon III
Research from "Pulpit and Pew" Duke Pastoral Leadership Project
Organizer / Convener: Jackson W. Carroll, Duke Divinity School, jcarroll@div.duke.edu
Changing Views of the Priesthood by Catholic Priests, 1970-2001. Dean R. Hoge, Catholic University, hoge@cua.edu; Jacqueline E. Wenger, Catholic University, 04wenger@cua.edu
Breaking Free of the Market: Clergy Salaries in the 21st Century.
Becky R. McMillan, Duke Divinity School, bmcmillan@div.duke.edu
‘At Ease in Zion?’ Clergy Commitment and Satisfaction. Jackson W. Carroll, Duke Divinity School, jcarroll@div.duke.edu
E9 – SSSR
Saturday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Topaz
Syncretism in World Religions
Organizer / Convener: Jerry Pankhurst, Wittenberg College
Religious Syncretism. Liliane Voye
Religious Practice, Beliefs and Social Identity of Hidden Christians in Japan. Dorothea M. Filus, University of Tokyo, filus@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Calling Rastafari: From Regional Cult to Global Religion? Stephen D. Glazier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, sglaz1234@aol.com
Religious Identification and Practice among "Half-Jewish" Individuals and Families in the 21st Century. Bruce Phillips, Hebrew Union College, Bphillips@huc.edu
E10 – SSSR
Saturday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Canyon I
The Political Economy of Islam
Convener/Discussant: Guity Nashat-Becker, University of Illinois at Chicago, gnashat@uic.edu
The Economic Ascent of the Middle East's Religious Minorities: The Role of Islamic Legal Pluralism. Timur Kuran, University of Southern California, kuran@usc.edu
Hamas, Taliban, and the Jewish Underground: An Economist's View of Radical Religious Militias. Eli Berman, Rice University, eli@rice.edu
Organizing Islam for Politics in Western Europe, Carolyn M. Warner, Arizona State University, carolyn.warner@asu.edu; Manfred Wenner
E11 – SSSR
Saturday, 8:30 – 10:00 Meeting Room: Salon II
Effects of Ritual on Non-Ritual Action
Convener: Adair Lummis, Hartford Seminary, alummis@hartsem.edu
Deep Structures: Relationship Schemas and Ritual Practices. Matthew Lawson, The College of New Jersey, mlawson@tcnj.edu
A Ritual Reproduction of Racial and Economic Tensions. Bonnie Wright, Wayne State University, Bonwan22@aol.com
The Recovery of Ritual: The Religious Quest of the Post-Boomer Generations. Richard Flory, Biola University, richard.flory@biola.edu, Donald Miller, University of Southern California
F1 – SSSR
Saturday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Salon I
Religion and the Work Place
Convener: Marion Goldman, University of Oregon, mgoldman@oregon.uoregon.edu
Corporate Cults- A New Face of Old Phenomenon? A Pilot Study in Poland. Tomasz Ochinowski, Warsaw University, ochinto@mail.wz.uw.edu.pl
Encounters and Dialogue in International Industrial Projects: The Role of Religion and World-View in the Everyday Life on a Site. Ruth Lillhannus, Abo Akademi University, ruth.lillhannus@abo.fi
Raging Within the Machine: Spirituality in the Workplace as Social Protest. Wendy Martin, University of Ottawa, wendymartin@yahoo.com
F2 – SSSR
Saturday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Ballroom
Religious Practice, Lived Experience
Organizer / Convener: Merideth McGuire, Trinity University, mmcguire@trinity.edu
Robert Orsi, Harvard University, rorsi@hds.harvard.edu
Steven Glazier, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Sglaz1234@aol.com
John Bartkowski, Mississippi State University, Bartkowski@soc.msstate.edu
James Spickard, University of Redlands, Jim_Spickard@redlands.edu
Meredith McGuire, Trinity University, mmcguire@trinity.edu
Discussant: Merideth McGuire, Trinity University, mmcguire@trinity.edu
F3 – SSSR
Saturday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Salon III
Risking a Dialogue on Religion and Race
Organizer / Convener: Elfriede Wedam, The Polis Center-IUPUI, ewedam@iupui.edu; Michael Emerson, Rice University, moe@rice.edu
Elfriede Wedam, The Polis Center-IUPUI, ewedam@iupui.edu
Tyrone Simpson, Indiana University, trsimpso@indiana.edu
Discussant: Michael Emerson, Rice University, moe@rice.edu
F4 – RRA
Saturday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Salon II
Religious Identity and Symbol/Ritual
Convener: Katie Day, Lutheran Theological Seminary, kday@ltsp.edu
The Sociology of Religious Experience: Theory and Applied Research. Matthew T. Evans, Brigham Young University, mte3@email.byu.edu
The Spiritual Self: Toward a Theory of Spiritual Identity Development. Justin B. Poll, Brigham Young University, jbp44@email.byu.edu; Timothy B. Smith, Brigham Young University, timsmith@byu.edu
Remembering 9/11: Media, Religion and Meaning-Making in Commemorative Ritual. Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado at Boulder, hoover@colorado.edu; Anna Maria Russo, University of Colorado at Boulder, anamaria.russo@colorado.edu
People Make the Place: Identity and Conflict in Religious Congregations. Reinard Nauta, Tilburg Faculty of Religion, R.Nauta@kub.nl
F5 – SSSR
Saturday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Alpine East
Religious Pluralism
Convener: Kevin Christiano, University of Notre Dame, kevin.j.christiano.1@nd.edu
Pluralism and Globalization Need New Religions. Eileen Barker, e.barker@pse.ac.uk
Results from New Methods of Studying Religious Pluralism. Daniel V. A. Olson, IUSB, dolson@iusb.edu
Competitive Spirits: Latin America's New Free Market Religious Economy. R. Andrew Chesnut, University of Houston, rchesnut@mail.uh.edu
Attitudes toward Religious Pluralism among Exemplars of Christian Virtue. Paul Kennedy, George Fox University, pkennedy@georgefox.edu
F6 – SSSR
Saturday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Seminar Theater
Religion and Politics
Convener: Laura Olson, LOlson8274@aol.com
Something Within or Without? Black Evangelicals Revisited. Daniel D. Stratton, University of Arizona, dstratto@u.arizona.edu
The Six-Day War and Religion and Politics in Israel and Egypt. Daniel Price, Kent State University, dprice0@kent.edu
Activism and Religious Belief- Religion and Politics in the U.S. and Mexico. Matthew Loveland, University of Notre Dame, Loveland.1@nd.edu, David Ortiz, University of Notre Dame, dortiz@nd.edu
F7 – SSSR
Saturday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Topaz
Religion, Political Economy, and Society
Organizer / Convener: Katherine Meyer, Ohio State University, Meyer.23@osu.edu
Religion and Political Economy in an International Panel. Robert Barro, Harvard University, rbarro@harvard.edu
Salvation, Damnation, and Economic Incentives. Rachel McCleary, Harvard University, mccleary@wcfia.harvard.edu
Education and Religion. Edward Glaeser, Harvard University, eglaeser@harvard.edu
Discussant: James Montgomery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, jmontgom@ssc.wisc.edu
F8 – SSSR
Saturday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Canyon I
September 11th
Organizer / Convener: Chris Smith, University of North Carolina, cssmith@email.unc.edu
Responses to September 11th among College Students at a North Carolina Congregation. Chad Seales, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, seales@email.unc.edu
Hero Priest: Fr. Mychal Judge. Joyce Smith, Ryerson University, jlsmith@ryerson.ca
How Islamic People Discuss 9/11 on the Internet. Jon Bloch, Southern Connecticut State University, Bloch@southernct.edu
F9 – RRA
Saturday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Alpine West
Telling "FACTS": Issues of Data Dissemination
Organizer and Convener: Carl Dudley, Hartford Seminary, cdudley@hartsem.edu
Whose views of the Pews? Comparison of Key Informant (FACT) and Member
Survey data (USCLS), Craig This, United Methodist Church, cthis@gcom-umc.org
A Sunday Drive on the Information Superhighway: The Use of Web-based
Research by Religious Groups, Scott Thumma, Hartford Seminary,
Selective Perceptions of FACT: How Denominations Use Data Differently, Carl
Dudley, Hartford Seminary, cdudley@hartsem.edu
F10 – SSSR
Saturday, 10:15 – 11:45 Meeting Room: Canyon III
Author Meets Critic Session: Restless Gods: The Renaissance of Religion in Canada, Reginald Bibby
Convener: Armand L Mauss, almauss@cox.net
Karel Dobbelaere, dobbelaere.voye@skynet.be
Leslie S. Laczko, University of Ottawa, laczko@uottawa.ca
Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University, rfinke@psu.edu
Respondent: Reginald Bibby, University of Lethbridge, bibby@uleth.ca
Saturday, 12:00 – 1:00 Meeting Room: Topaz
RRA Business Meeting
Saturday, 12:00 – 1:00 Meeting Room: Grand Ballroom A
TANSTAAFL Luncheon for Religion and Economics
G1 – SSSR
Saturday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Ballroom
Theory and Method in the Work of Robert Orsi
Organizer / Convener: David G. Hackett, University of Florida, Dhackett@religion.ufl.edu
Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri, Columbia, neitzm@missouri.edu
Janet Jacobs, University of Colorado, jacobsjl@stripe.colorado.edu
Rebecca Kneale Gould, Middlebury College, rgould@jaguar.middlebury.edu
Respondent: Robert A. Orsi, Harvard Divinity School, robert_orsi@harvard.edu
G2 – SSSR
Saturday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Suite 324
Religion and Conflict
Convener: Jon P. Bloch, Southern Connecticut State University, jonpbloch@mac.com
Visions of Dixie: the "Stars and Bars" in Popular Culture. Julie Ingersoll, University of North Florida, jingerso@unf.edu
Fundamentalism, Authoritarianism, and Terror Management. Kevin Ladd, Indiana University, kladd@iusb.edu, Sarah Guthrie, Indiana University, sguthrie@iusb.edu
Religious Visions and Sacred Terror: The Case of Contemporary Islam. Charles Selengut, cselengu@drew.edu
Religion and Two Types of Aggression Attitudes, Steve Johnson, sjohnso5@bsu.edu
Discussant: Jon P. Bloch, Southern Connecticut State University, jonpbloch@mac.com
G3 – SSSR
Saturday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Salon III
Women and Religion
Convener: Georgie Ann Weatherby, weatherb@gonzaga.edu
Discursive Spaces: Christian Women's Performances and Hidden Transcripts. Candice D. Ortbals, Indiana University, cortbals@indiana.edu
Practicing and Performing Catholicism: Three Explorations of Religious Agency. Laura Leming, leming@udayton.edu
Discussant: Georgie Ann Weatherby, weatherb@gonzaga.edu
G4 – SSSR
Saturday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Canyon I
Religion and Race II
Convener: Katie Lofton, University of North Carolina, klofton@email.unc.edu
Race and Religion at an Evangelical College: An In-Depth Case Study. Brad Christerson, Biola University, Brad.Christerson@bubbs.biola.edu, Pete Menjares, Biola University
A Comparison of Religiosity between European-Americans, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Asian-Americans. George Yancey, University of North Texas, yancey@scs.cmm.unt.edu
Congregational Climate. Keith Wulff, Presbyterian Church, kwulff@ctr.pcusa.org
Race and Family in Jonestown: What the Numbers Say. Rebecca Moore, San Diego State University, remoore@mail.sdsu.edu
G5 – SSSR
Saturday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Salon I
Religion and Spirituality
Convener: Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick, nasoncla@unb.ca
Play, Performance, and Sacred Action: Psychoanalytic Sociology and Experiential Religiosity. Andrea Coukos, acoukos@juno.com
Constructing 'Celticity': How Neo-Pagans Define Celtic Spirituality through Popular Discourse on the Internet. Monica Emerich, University of Colorado, monica.emerich@colorado.edu
Shamanistic Methods in the Martial Arts: NINPO. Ronald Holt, Weber State University, RHOLT2@weber.edu
Individual Spiritual Practice and Social Transformation: Everyday Transcendent Communion as a Cultural Resource in Social Change. Gregory C. Stanczak, gstancza@usc.edu, Donald Miller, University of Southern California
G6 – RRA
Saturday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Topaz
Church Authority and Decision-Making
Convener: Bryan T. Froehle, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University, froehleb@georgetown.edu
Comparison of Data Forms and Church Consultants in Measuring Vital Congregations in the UMC. Craig This, United Methodist Church, cthis@gcom-umc.org
Revival or Extinction? An Application of System Dynamics to Church Attendance and Membership Data. John Hayward, University of Glamorgan, jhayward@glam.ac.uk
G7 – SSSR
Saturday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Seminar Theater
Working with News Media: What to do when a reporter calls
Organizer / Convener: Kyle Cole, American Academy of Religion, kcole@aarweb.org
Scott Thumma, Hartford Seminary, sthumma@hartsem.edu
Carrie Moore, Deseret News, carrie@desnews.com
Debra Mason, Religion Newswriters Association, RNA@rna.org
Yonat Shimron, Raleigh News & Observer, yshimron@nando.com
G8 – SSSR
Saturday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Alpine West
Stereotypes and Surveys: Revisiting Religion Among Latinos/as
Organizer / Convener: Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, Brooklyn College CUNY, astevens@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, Brooklyn College CUNY, astevens@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Helen Rose Ebaugh, University of Houston, ebaugh@uh.edu
Cynthia Woolever, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), cwooleve@ctr.pcusa.org
Barry L. Kosmin, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London, kosmin.jpr@jpr.org.uk
Discussant: Anneris Goris, Brooklyn College CUNY, agoris@brookly.cuny.edu
G9 – SSSR
Saturday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Alpine East
Contributions of Armand L. Mauss to Mormon and Other Religious Studies
(Second session MSSA) Mormon Social Science Association
Organizer / Convener: O. Kendall White, Jr., Washington and Lee University, whitek@wlu.edu
Charles Y. Glock, University of California, Berkeley, cyg@netw.com
Gary Shepherd, Oakland University, shepherd@oakland.edu
Thomas Murphy, Edmonds Community College, tmurphy@edcc.edu
Respondent: Armand L Mauss, almauss@cox.net
G10 – SSSR
Saturday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Canyon III
Religion and Social Capital
Convener/Discussant: Jean Ensminger, California Institute of Technology, jensming@hss.caltech.edu
Religious Liberty, Education, and Economic development. Robert Woodberry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, bobwood@email.unc.edu
Social Mobility and Religion: Evidence from Lebanon. Marianne El Khoury, the World Bank, Washington, DC, Ugo Panizza, Inter-American Development Bank, UGOP@iadb.org
Religion as an Intervening Variable. Ekkehart Schlicht, University of Munich, Ekkehart.Schlicht@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Who are the Canters? Economists, Evangelicals, and Other ‘Parasites’. David Levy, George Mason University, DavidMLevy@aol.com, Sandra Peart, Baldwin-Wallace College, speart@bw.edu
G11 – SSSR
Saturday, 1:15 – 2:45 Meeting Room: Salon II
God Images III
Convener: Pierre Hegy
God images and the religious imagination: Theoretical perspective and empirical validation. Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University, hegy@adelphi.edu
God images, personal wellbeing and moral values. Leslie J. Francis, University of Wales, L.J.Francis@Bangor.ac.uk
Nontraditional and Impersonal God Images and Their Correlates with Religious Orientation. Stephen Krauss, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, stephenkrauss@hotmai.com
H1 – SSSR
Saturday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Salon I
Religion in Historical Perspective
Organizer / Convener: Chris Smith, University of North Carolina, cssmith@email.unc.edu
American Mission in the Philippines "for God and for the Nation". Reine Perreault,
Reformation in Germany, Was it only Religion? David Brennan, University of New South Wales, dwbrennan@iprimus.com.au
H2 – RRA
Saturday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Topaz
Religion and Leadership
Convener: William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office, bill4329@hotmail.com
Social Movements, Deviant Religions and Religious Innovation. Veerle Draulans, Tilburg University, Veerle.Draulans@soc.kuleuven.ac.be
Leadership Formation in Ministerial Education: Assessment and Analysis of Leadership Traits in Seventh-Day Adventist Pastors in North America. Roger L. Dudley, Andrews University, dudley@andrews.edu
Moving Individualism/Autonomy to Community/Covenant: A Critical Dilemma for Regional and National Church Leaders. Adair T. Lummis, Hartford Seminary, alummis@hartsem.edu
H3 – SSSR
Saturday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Canyon I
Religion and Health
Convener: Sue Monahan, Montana State University, smonahan@montana.edu
Spiritual Care in Terminal Palliative Care: Quality from Patient Perspective. Johan Bouwer, Theological University of Kampen,
Gender, Marital Status, and Alcohol Behavior: The Neglected Role of Religion? Christopher Ellison, cellison@mail.la.utexas.edu, Jennifer Barrett, Benjamin B. Moulton, University of Texas, Austin
H4 – SSSR
Saturday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Seminar Theater
Alternative Forms of Religion
Convener: Rebecca Moore, San Diego State University, remoore@mail.sdsu.edu
Constructing Secularization: Classification and Religious Decline as a Self-fulfilling Prophecy. Evelyn L. Bush, Cornell University, elb10@cornell.edu
"Welcome to Flabbergast" The Properties of Supernatural Entities in a Constructed Religion. Matti Kamppinen, University of Turku, matti.kamppinen@utu.fi
The Raelian Movement’s Cloning Project: Postmillennial Expectation and the Quest for Social Legitimacy in a UFO Religion, Susan Palmer, Dawson College, spalmer@runt.dawsoncollege.qc.ca
H5 – SSSR
Saturday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Alpine East
Religious Research in the Classroom - Peer Learning Among New Immigrants
Organizer / Convener: Anthony Stevens Arroyo; Andras Tapolcai, Brooklyn College, a_tapolcai@hotmail.com
Andras Tapolcai, Brooklyn College, a_tapolcai@hotmail.com
Donata Blekhster, donata3282@aol.com
Ronald De Suze, trini_mix_breed@hotmail.com
Stella Domenech, sorrowcrys@aol.com
H6 – SSSR
Saturday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Alpine West
Religion, Violence and Discourse
Organizer / Convener: Ron E. Hassner
Daniel O'Connell, Loyola University of Chicago, DOCONN1@wpo.it.luc.edu
Brenda E. Brasher, Mount Union College, brashebe@muc.edu
John Auping, Universidad Iberoamericana, jauping@data.net.mx
Melissa M. Wilcox, University of California, Santa Barbara, wilcox@religion.ucsb.edu
Discussant: Ron E. Hassner
H7 – RRA
Saturday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Salon II
International Religious Comparisons
Convener: Dana Fenton, Lehman College, City University of New York, ddfen@juno.com
Explaining the Revivalist Concept of Secularism in India: Competing Arguments. Santosh C. Saha, Mount Union College, sahasc@muc.edu
A Translation of a Publication by the Chinese Anti-Cult Association. Bryan C. Edelman, University of Nevada-Reno, bryane@unr.nevada.edu; James T. Richardson, University of Nevada-Reno, jtr@unr.edu
Deconstruction of Identity among Catholic Priests. Michael Mason, Australian Catholic University, m.mason@patrick.acu.edu.au
H8 – SSSR
Saturday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Ballroom
Gary Becker and the Economic Approach to the Study of Religion
Organizer / Convener: Laurence Iannaccone, George Mason University, larry@econzone.com
Panelists:
Barry Chiswick, University of Illinois, Chicago, brchis@uic.edu
Laurence Iannaccone, George Mason University, larry@econzone.com
Edward Glaeser, Harvard University, eglaeser@harvard.edu
Respondent: Gary S. Becker, University of Chicago, gbecker@midway.uchicago.edu
H9 – SSSR
Saturday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Salon III
Religion, Power, and Trust
Convener: Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University, Blasi3610@cs.com
Mapping Religion and Subdomains of Heterosexism: Tradition, Religiosity and Religious Orientation. N. Eugene Walls, walls.5@nd.edu, Eric Sartain, University of Notre Dame, sartain.1@nd.edu
Religion and Conflict: From the Celts vs. the Romans to Jerry Falwell vs. Secular America. Melinda Bollar Wagner, Radford University, mwagner@radford.edu
Trust, Religion, and the Social Environment. Alan S. Miller, Hokkaido University, amiller@let.hokudai.ac.jp, John P. Hoffmann, Brigham Young University, John_Hoffmann@byu.edu
Morality and Religiosity: The Link between the Micro and Macro Levels of Religion on Attitudes about Abortion, Homosexuality, and Cohabitation. Amy Adamczyk, ala169@psu.edu
H10 – SSSR
Saturday, 3:00 – 4:30 Meeting Room: Canyon III
Religion and Youth
Convener: Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado, lynn.clark@colorado.edu
Examining Pathways between Adolescent Religiosity and Prosocial Behavior. Sam Hardy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, samhardy_unl@yahoo.com
Community Relations in Northern Ireland: The Attitudes of Children to Contact and Integration. Christopher Alan Lewis, University of Ulster at Magee College, CA.Lewis@Ulst.ac.uk
Religiosity and Denominational Affiliation as Predictors of Childrearing Attitudes. Kathy Ritchie, Indiana University South Bend, Kritchie@iusb.edu
Saturday, 5:00 – 6:15 Meeting Room: Grand Ballroom C
SSSR Special Presidential Plenary
Speaker: Is the Study of Lived Religion Relevant for the World we Live In?, Robert Orsi, Harvard University, rorsi@hds.harvard.edu
Saturday, 6:30 Meeting Room: Grand Ballroom Foyer
Cash Bar
Saturday, 7:00 Meeting Room: Grand Ballroom A and B
Banquet and Awards Ceremony
Sunday, November 2, 2002
I1 – SSSR
Sunday, 8:00 – 9:30 Meeting Room: Topaz
Parents, Children, and Religion
Convener: Mark D. Regnerus, University of Texas, Austin, regnerus@calvin.edu
Parental Religiosity and Behavior Problems in Young Children. Christopher Ellison, University of Texas, Austin, cellison@bertie.la.utexas.edu, Xiaohe Xu, Mississippi State, Xu@soc.Msstate.edu, John Bartkowski, Mississippi State University, Bartkowski@soc.msstate.edu, Robert Woldman, University of Texas, Austin
Is Religion Relevant for Teenagers and What Impact Does it have on
Risk Behavior. Ram A. Cnaan, Richard J. Gelles, Jill W. Sinha
Keeping God in the Classroom: A Study of Christian Home schooling Parents in Canada. Lanette Ruff, ruff@fundy.net, d3df@unb.ca
I2 – SSSR
Sunday, 8:00 – 9:30 Meeting Room: Salon I
Religion, Transcendence, and Humanity
Convener: John W. Traphagan, University of Texas, Austin, jtrap@mail.utexas.edu
Toward Understanding Man: A Comparative Approach. Syed Ali Mehdi, syedmehdi@sancharnet.in
Inward, Outward, and Upward: Affective Aspects of Prayer. Kevin L. Ladd, Indiana University, kladd@iusb.edu
The Relationship between Individualism-Collectivism and Religious Orientation. Stacy A. Hammons, Fresno Pacific University, shammons@fresno.edu
The Critique of Modernity, Life Together and the Experience of Transcendence: The Significance of the thought of Alan Touraine for the Scientific Study of Religion. Peter J. Albano, St. John's Seminary, Palbano@sjs-sc.org
I3 – SSSR / RRA
Sunday, 8:00 – 9:30 Meeting Room: Seminar Theater
Religion, Media Production, and Media Consumption
Convener: Stewart Hoover, University of Colorado, hoover@colorado.edu
Religious Television in the 21st century: the future of PAX TV in an era of media consolidation. Hillary Warren, Denison University, warren@denison.edu
Faithful Evangelist or Cultural Conformer? The Problem of Producing Christian Popular Culture. Charles M. Brown, Albright College, cbrown@alb.edu
Kerry Strayer, Otterbein College, kstrayer@otterbein.edu
Old Time Religion or New Horizons? A Closer Look at How the Internet Affects Religious Beliefs and Practices of Christians, J. D. Keeler, Regent University, johnkee@regent.edu
The Circumscribed Totem: Reflections on the "Monica Affair", Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University, Blasi3610@cs.com
I4 – SSSR
Sunday, 8:00 – 9:30 Meeting Room: Suite 324
Religion, Identity and Worldview
Convener: Dave Sikkink, University of Notre Dame, dsikkink@nd.edu
The Dialectics of Participating in the Sacred Canopy: A Critical Ethnography of Identity and Religion in Australia. Victoria Yew, University of Sydney, v.yew@edfac.usyd.edu.au
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