2004 SSSR/RRA PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
8:00 – 9:50 a.m.
A – 1 Thematic Session: The Scientific “Study” of Religion?
The Implosion of Religion and the Emergence of Atheism from the Scientific Study of Religions
Jack David Eller, Community College of Denver, david.eller@ccd.edu
A Disappointing Dalliance: Missed Minds and Perceptual Flaws in the Pursuit of Religion by Social Science
Robert J. Mahoney, Rockhurst University, bob.mahoney@rockhurst.edu
Social Sources of Imperialistic Science
Robert L. Montgomery, Ridgewood, New Jersey, rmontgo914@aol.com
Common Cognitive Processes as Barriers to Studying Religion: What Can Social Cognition Research Teach Us?
Mark G. Hartlaub, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, hartlaub@falcon.tamucc.edu
Organizer: Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University, hegy@adelphi.com
Panelists: Jim Spickard, University of Redlands, jim_spickard@redlands.edu
Meredith McGuire, Trinity University, mmcguire@trinity.edu
J. Shawn Landres, University of California, Santa Barbara, shawn@landres.com
Frances Kosstarelos, Governors State University, f-kostarelos@govst.edu
Anthony Stevens-Arroyo, Brooklyn College, astevens@brooklyn.cuny.edu
A – 3 Studies in Mormonism I (cosponsored by MSSA)
Organizer: Lynn Payne, LDS Church, paynelr@ldschurch.org
Peace Psychology and Religion: The Example of Mormonism
Michael Nielsen, Georgia Southern University, mnielsen@georgiasouthern.edu
A Re-examination of Stark’s LDS Church Growth Projections by Individual Countries Ryan Cragun, University of Cincinnati, ryan@genesoc.com
Religious Peer Networks and Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Amy Burdette and Jenny Trinitapoli, University of Texas at Austin, burdamy@prc.utexas.edu
Religiosity and High School Misbehavior
Linda Loury, Tufts University, linda.loury@tufts.edu
The Many “Callings” of American Evangelical Adolescents
Daniel C. Johnson, Gordon College, djohnson@gordon.edu
The Effect of Religious Identity in the Construction of Gender and Ethnic Identities: The Case of Second-Generation Asian Americans
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Cornell University, emh5@cornell.edu, and Jerry Z. Park, Baylor University, jpark@nd.edu
Church or Sect: Exploring the Organizational Type of a Chinese Immigrant Church
Ping Ren, University of California, Irvine, pren@uci.edu
Moral Projects and the Civic Engagement of New Immigrants
Fred Kniss, Loyola University, Chicago, fkniss@luc.edu
“To Be or Not to Be”: ISKCON, African Americans, and the Role of Initiation in the Identity of Gaudiya-Vaishnava Believers in the Southeastern United States
Christopher F. Silver, Wilfrid Laurier University, chris_silver@psychologyofreligion.org
Learning about How Churches Learn about Ministry: Reflections on Research that Explains and Empowers
Heidi Rolland Unruh, Congregations, Community Outreach, and Leadership Development Project, ccldp@sctelcom.net
Religious Institutions and New Ventures: Evidence from the African-American Experience
Marci Bounds Littlefield, Indiana State University, ablittle@isugw.indianastate.edu
More Important than Government Money: Faith-based Providers’ Persistence in Religious Activities
William H. Lockhart, Baylor University, william_lockhart@baylor.edu
FBOs v. NGOs: How Different Are They?
Alethea Abuyuan, University of Southern California, abuyuan@usc.edu
A – 7 The Many Faces of Religion: Comfort, Connection, and Conflict (RRA)
A Mosque Next Door? Attitudes about the Construction of a Religious Complex
T.L. Brink, Crafton Hills College, brink@mexico.com
Psychology, Religion, and “Good” Citizenry
Britt-Mari Sykes, University of Ottawa, bmsykes@rogers.com
Religion, Civic Engagement, and Teen Drug Use: Evidence from Monitoring the Future
John P. Bartkowski and Xiaohe Xu, Mississippi State University
A – 8 Professional Religious Leadership
Lay Catholic Perceptions of the Institutional Church and its Leadership
Dean R. Hoge, Catholic University of America, hoge@cua.edu, and James D. Davidson, Purdue University, davidsonj@sri.soc.purdue.edu
Megachurches: The Complexities of Leadership Transition
Sheila S. Smith, Luther Seminary, s3smith@luthersem.edu
Congregational Relationships, Religious Coping, and Mental Health among Presbyterian Clergy
Lori A. Roalson and Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin, and John P. Marcum, PCUSA Research Services, cellison@mail.la.utexas.edu
Revisiting the Stained Glass Ceiling: Women in Positions of Church Leadership
Jimi Adams, Ohio State University, adams.644@sociology.osu.edu
A – 9 Economic Consequences of Religious Freedom (REC)
Convener: Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University, rfinke@psu.edu
Religion’s Role in the Rule of Law
Charles North and Carl Gwin, Baylor University, charles_north@baylor.edu
The Cost of Bigotry: The Educational and Economic Consequences of Restricting Missions
Robert Woodberry, University of Texas at Austin, bobwood@mail.la.utexas.austin
Religion, Ethnicity, and Social Conflict: An International Assessment
Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University
International Religious Freedom: Coding Expert Analysis
Brian Grim, Pennsylvania State University, bjg213@psu.edu
Religion, Civic Engagement and Support for Democracy: A Cross-National Examination
Daniel Tope, Katherine Meyer, and Cheryl Sowash, Ohio State University, meyer.23@osu.edu
Scriptural Obligations, Holy Wars and Religious Disappointment: The Case of the Continuing Arab-Israeli Conflict
Charles Selengut, Drew University, cselengu@drew.edu
The Impact of Evangelical Networks on Central American Refugee Communities
Stephen Offutt, Boston University, soffutt_1999@yahoo.com
Religious Markets in the Globalization Process: The Case of Turkey
M. Ali Kirman, K.S.U. Ilahiyat Fakultesi, makirman@ksu.edu.tr
A – 11 Personal Religiosity I
Structure and Varieties of Praying
Jacques Janssen and Sarah Bänziger, University of Nijmegen, j.a.janssen@psych.kun.nl
The Foundations of Religious Identities
Paul A. Djupe, Denison University, djupe@denison.edu, and Anand E. Sohkey, Ohio State University, sokhey.2@osu.edu
Dialogue on Sacred Texts: A Possible Model for Creating Changes in Religious Views
James F. Moore, Valparaiso University, james.moore@valpo.edu
Prayers about Traumatic Experiences as Self-disclosure to God
Patrick R. Bennett, University of Nevada, patrickb@unr.nevada.edu
10:00 – 11:50
B – 1 Thematic Session: Implicit Religion and Implicit Irreligion
Organizer: Edward Bailey, Middlesex University, eibailey@csircs.freeserve.co.uk
Time for a “Risorgimento” for Sociology?
Edward Bailey, Middlesex University
Implicit Irreligion in Medical Chaplaincy
Roger Grainger, Horbury, Wakefield, UK
Seeing and Believing: Some Empirical Approaches to Implicit Religion in Sacred Spaces
Graham Howes, University of Cambridge
“The Third Wave,” the Long Boom, and Implicit Religion: The Struggle between the Implicit and the Explicit in Techno-Utopian Sense-Making Visions
Karen Parna, University of Leiden, k.parna@lk.unimaas.nl
B – 2 Neurotheology
Organizer and Convener: Michael Winkelman, Arizona State University,
Productive and Reductive: Andrew Newberg’s Neurotheology and the Theory of Religion
Richard Grigg, Sacred Heart University, griggr@sacredheart.edu
Evolutionary Neurotheology as an Explanatory Framework for Theurgy and Related Spiritual Practices
Bruce MacLennan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, maclennan@cs.utk.edu
The Role of Self-deception in Religious Certainty
Donald Braxton, Juniata College, braxton@juniata.edu
Religion, Culture and the Thermodyanmics of Information
Michael Dean, Los Angeles, California?? , malcolmdean@runbox.com
B – 3 The Glenn M. Vernon Lecture (MSSA)
Presiding: Lynn Payne, LDS Church, paynelr@ldschurch.org
Current Research on the Renewal of External Adverse Opinion Toward the LDS Church
Jan Shipps, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, shipps@iupui.edu
B – 4 Religion and Adolescent/Parent Relationships
Organizer: Christian Smith, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, cssmith@email.unc.edu
Convener and discussant: Phil Schwadel, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, schwadel@email.unc.edu
Religion and the Quality of Relationships between Parents and Adolescents
Melinda Lundquist Denton, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, mlund@email.unc.edu
Religion and the Conflict Resolution Strategies of U.S. Teens and Parents
Sondra Smolek, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, smolek@email.unc.edu
Religious Contexts of Parental Media Monitoring
Dan Dehanas, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, ddehans@unc.edu
B – 5 Issues of Religion, Family, and Gender in International Contexts
The Interdependency of Religion, Family, and Gender over Time
Catherine Meyers and Marie Cornwall, Brigham Young University, cem1@utah.edu
A Comparative Analysis of the “Family Values” of Right-Wing Women’s Organizations in Canada and the United States
Kristin Blakely, Loyola University Chicago, kblakel@luc.edu
Religious Attitudes toward Male-Female Relationships in Northern Turkey: A Case Study
Ihsan Capcioglu, Ankara University, icapci@divinity.edu.tr
Finding the Fault Lines: Woman Consciousness in the South Indian Christian Context
Laura Leming, University of Dayton, leming@udayton.edu
B – 6 Making Moral Claims: Religion as Collective Conscience (RRA)
A Faith-based Approach to Environmental Management
Alethea Abuyuan, University of Southern California, abuyuan@usc.edu
How Research Impacts Social and Cultural Agencies of Change
Noelle D. Anderson, Bronx, New York, 10469
Constructing an Evangelical Left in Northern Ireland: Analysis of the Social Action Organization “Zero 28”
Gladys Ganiel, University College of Dublin, bangorgal@hotmail.com
“Indivisible in the Work of the Kingdom”: Progressive Evangelicals’ Commitment to Evangelism and Social Action
Brantley W. Gasaway, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, bgasaway@email.unc.edu
B – 7 Books on Congregational Life: Authors Meet Critics (RRA)
Organizer and Convener: Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire,
Nancy T. Ammerman, Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and Their Partners
Serving God and Serving the World (University of California Press), nta@bu.edu
Mark Chaves, Congregations in America (Harvard University Press),
Critics: Jackson Carroll, Duke University, jcarroll@div.duke.edu
Daniel V.A. Olson, Indiana University South Bend, dolson@iusb.edu
Richard L. Wood, University of New Mexico, rlwood@unm.edu
B – 8 Faith and Charity, Growth and Decline
The Role of Faith among the Clergy and Other Church Employees in Finland
Kati Niemelä, Church Research Institute (Finland), kati.niemela@evl.fi
Both-And Mission Paradigms: Exploring the Boundaries of Belief
Heidi Rolland Unruh, Congregations and Community Outreach Project, ccldp@sctelcom.net
The Impact of Sects in Religious Charitable Giving
Russell James III, Central Christian College, rjames@cccb.edu
Everything Old is New Again: Unanticipated Findings of Growth and Decline in Mainline and Evangelical/Fundamentalist Denominations and in the Roman Catholic Church
Robert E. Beckley, West Texas A & M University, D. Paul Johnson and Jerome R. Koch, Texas Tech University, d.paul.johnson@ttu.edu
B – 9 Religious Markets in Contemporary Europe (REC)
Willow Creek or Hollow Creek
Eric Sengers, Kampen Theological University, esengers@planet.nl
The Globalized Beginnings of Evangelical Influence on Post-Communist Transitions
Catherine Wanner, Pennsylvania State University, cew10@psu.edu
The Proselytization and Conversion Market Europe: Accounting for the Competitive Strategies of Organized Religions
Carolyn M. Warner, Arizona State University, carolyn.warner@asu.edu
Religion in EuropeL One Theme, Many Variations?
David Voas, University of Manchester, voas@man.ac.uk
B – 10 Religion and Fertility (REC)
Religious Trends and Fertility
Eli Berman, University of California, San Diego, elib@ucsd.edu, and L.R. Iannaccone, George Mason University, larry@econzone.com
Teen Childbearing and Community Religiosity
Linda Loury, Tufts University, linda.loury@tufts.edu
Religion and Fertility in India: The Role of Son Preference and Daughter Aversion
Sriya Iyer, University of Cambridge, sriya.iyer@econ.cam.ac.uk
Marital Fertility and Religion: Recent Changes in Spain
Alicia Adsera, University of Illinois at Chicago, adsera@uic.edu
B – 11 Personal Religiosity II
Cognitive and Emotional Aspects of Prayer as Related to the “Big Five” Model of Personality
Kevin L. Ladd, Julie Harner, Ted Swanson, Kate Haubold, and Danielle Trnka,
Indiana University South Bend, kladd@iusb.edu
Spirituality and Well Being
Peter Kaldor, NCLS Research, Philip Hughes, Christian Research Association, and Keith Castle, NCLS Research (Australia), pk@pnc.com.au
Aspects of Love: An Empirical Investigation of Sorokin’s Model
Margaret M. Poloma, University of Akron, mpoloma@uakron, edu, and Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Praying in a Secularized Society
Sarah Bänziger and Jacques Janssen, University of Nijmegen, s.banziger@psych.kun.nl
12:00 – 12:50 p.m.
MSSA Business Meeting
RRA/SSSR New Attendees Welcoming Luncheon
1:00 – 2:50 p.m.
C – 1 Thematic Session: Between This World and the Next
Convener and discussant: William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office,
Crossing Boundaries in the Study of Near-Death Experiences
Mark Fox, University of Wales, Lampeter, mistermandolin@yahoo.co.uk
Beyond a Boundary: Life, Death, and Cricket in Trinidadian Concepts of the Afterlife
Stephen D. Glazier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, sglaz1234@aol.com
The Ritual Healing Theory: Predictions about Anomalous Experiences
James McClenon, Elizabeth City State University, jmmcclenon@mail.ecsu.edu
C– 2 God Images in Clinical Pastoral Research
Organizers and co-conveners: Stephen Parker, Regent University, and Glen
Moriarty, Regent University
Winnicott, Creativity and the Holy Spirit
Stephen Parker, Regent University, steppar@regent.edu
“Got Grace?”: Cognitive Therapy, Depression and the God Image
Glen Moriarty, Regent University, glenmor@regent.edu
Cultural Constructions of the God Image and God Concept: Implications for Culture, Psychology and Religion
Louis Hoffman, Vanguard University of Southern California, louishoffman72@yahoo.com
Development of Interpretive Guidelines for the Spiritual Assessment Inventory (SAI) in a Seminary Population
Phillip J. Atkinson and Todd W. Hall, Biola University, todd.hall@biola.edu
C – 3 Studies in Mormonism II
Rethinking the International Expansion of Mormonism
Rick Phillips, University of North Florida, rphillip@unf.edu
Assessing Secularization and Religious Market Approaches to Religion: The Case of Mormon Growth in Europe
Henri Gooren, Utrecht University, and Erik Sengers, University of Kampen, hgooren@theo.uu.nl
“Play Ball”: Mormon Church and All-Church Softball
Jessie L. Embry, Brigham Young University, jle3@email.byu.edu
Brazilian Mormons in Japan: A New Success Story?
Marcus H. Martins, Brigham Young Univiersity-Hawaii, martinsm@byuh.edu
C – 4 Youth, Values and Spirituality
Religiosity of the Younger Generation in Russia
Maija Turunen, University of Helsinki, maija.turunen@helsinki.fi
The Development of Religious Life and Spirituality of Conservative Jews Age 13-22
Ariela Keysar and Barry A. Kosmin, Brooklyn College CUNY, akeysar@aol.com
Religious Quest—Journey toward Faith or Never-Ending Story?: Perceptions of the Value of Religious Doubt among College Students
Robert Barr, Patricia Schoenrade, and Sally Holt, William Jewell College, shoenradp@william.jewell.edu
A Case Study on the Religious Comprehension of Theological Faculty Students in Turkey
Niyazi Akyüz, Ankara University, niyazi.akyuz@divinity.ankara.edu.tr
C – 5 Gender, Ethnicity, and Prejudice
Risk and Social Factors: Toward a General Model of Gender Differences in Religiousness
Paul Sullins, Catholic University of America, sullins@cua.edu
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Religious Preference and Involvement in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort of Midlife Women
Patricia E. Murphy, Rush University Medical Center, patricia_murphy@rush.edu
Religion, Prejudice, and the Need for Structure
Kevin L. Ladd, Indiana University South Bend, kladd@iusb.edu
Religion and Tolerance of Suicide: An Analysis of Gender-Distinct Patterns
John P. Hoffmann, Brigham Young University, john_hoffman@byu.edu
C – 6 Salvation and Sinfulness: Religious Visions of Morality in Catholicism and Beyond (RRA)
Ideologies of Religious Virtuosity: The Changing Role of Organized Social Action
Patricia Wittberg, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, pwittber@iupui.edu
Ritual, Symbol, and Experience: Understanding Catholic Worker House Masses
James V. Spickard, University of Redlands, jim_spickard@redlands.edu
Different Worldviews: Tensions between American Catholic Social Movements and the Catholic Hierarchy
Anthony J. Pogorelc, Catholic University of America, apogorelc@theologicalcollege.org
Religious, Biographical, and Social Correlates of Sin
Rein Nauta, University of Tilburg, r.nauta@uvt.nl
C – 7 Well-being: The Subjective and Structural Dimensions of Religion and Spirituality (RRA)
Accountability in Trauma Theraby with Adult Survivors Reared in the Christian Belief System
Sheila A. Redmond, octopi@sympatico.ca
The Impact of Forgiveness on Mental Health
Bagher Ghobari Bonab, University of Tehran, bghobari@chamran.ut.ac.ir
A Case Study of United Methodist Concepts of Health and Well-being
Aaron Ketchell and Edward R. Canda, University of Kansas, aketch@ku.edu
Parish Vibrancy: A Reflection of Pastoral Leadership on Parishioner Support and Parishioner Satisfaction
Terry Brizz, Case Western Reserve University, tbrizz@galaxyballoon.com
C – 8 Congregations and Clergy
Coming Together: The Roots of Clergy Participation in Ministerial Alliances
Paul A. Djupe, Denison University, djupe@denison.edu, and Franklyn C. Niles, John Brown University
Cleavages, Camps, and Parties: Political and Religious Boundaries in Clergy Advocacy
Sue E.S. Crawford, Creighton University, Crawford@creighton.edu, Laura R. Olson, Clemson University, and Melissa M. Deckman, Washington College
Toward a Theory of Congregational Diversification
Gerardo Marti, Davidson College, gmarti@alumni.usc.edu
The Priest’s Dilemma: A Partial Explanation for Doctrinal Certainty within the Context of Ideological Pluralism
Vernon Murray, Marist College, vernon.murray@marist.edu
C – 9 Applying and Expanding Economic Theories to Religions in China (REC)
Convener: Fenggang Yang, Purdue University, yang@soc.purdue.edu
Tourist and Temples: Exploring the Efect of the Tourism Market on the Theravada Monks of Southwest China
Thomas Borchert, University of Chicago, taborche@midway.uchicago.edu
The Marketplace of Conversion: Comparisons in Chinese and Latin American Pentecostalism
Candi K. Cann, Harvard University, cann@fas.harvard.edu
Suppression and Unintended Consequences: A Case Study
Yunfeng Lu, City University of Hong Kong, sspaul@cityu.edu.hk
The Economics of Religious Shortage: Communist China in Transition
Fenggang Yang, Purdue University
C – 10 Economic Consequences of Religious Identity (REC)
How Community Institutions Create Economic Advantage: Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York
Barak Richman, Duke University, richman@law.duke.edu
Economic Growth and Religious Production Efficiency,
Esa Mangeloja, University of Jyvaskyla, eman@econ.jyu.fi
The Entrepreneurial Ethic of the Sikhs: An Analytical Narative
Nathaniel Paxson, George Mason University, npaxson@gmu.edu
An Economic Analysis of Religious Effects
Qingjin Zhang and Keli Feng, Shandong Academy of Social Sciences,
C – 11 Rituals of Spiritual Power
On Spiritual Edgework
David G. Bromley, Virginia Commonwealth University, dbromley@mail1.vcu.edu
Exploring the Religion-Health Connection in Japan: Psychosocial Benefits in Japanese Urban Festivals
Michael K. Roemer, University of Texas at Austin, mroemer@mail.utexas.edu
Old Wine, New Wineskins: The Rise of Healing Rooms in Revival Pentecostalism
Margaret M. Poloma, University of Akron, mpoloma@uakron.edu
3:00 – 4:50 p.m.
D – 1 And They Were First Called Christians: Author Meets Critics
Organizer: Jennifer McKinney, Seattle Pacific University
Magnus Zetterholm’s, The Formation of Christianity in Antioch (London: Routledge),
Lund University, magnus.zetterholm@teol.lund.se
D – 2 The Brain and Spiritual Consciousness
Organizer, convener, and discussant: Michael Winkelman, Arizona State University, michael.winkelman@asu.edu
The Evolutionary Origins of Spiritual Consciousness
Matthew Alper, Brooklyn, New York, godpart@aol.com
The Triune Brain as Neurobehavioral Basis of God Concept
Michele Ernandes, Università di Palermo, ernandes@unipa.it
Spirituality and Religion: The Phenomenon, Psychodynamics and Function
Mortimer Ostow, Jewish Theological Seminary, mostow1234@aol.com
D – 3 Deception in New Religions and in the Study of New Religions (AASNR)
Organizer and convener: Timothy Miller, University of Kansas, tkansas@ku.edu
Destructive Anticultism: Adapting Misinformation and Deception about NRM Violence to a Changing Political Climate
Stuart A. Wright, Lamar University, wrightsa@hal.lamar.edu
Anti-Christ of the Net? Scientology Online
Brenda E. Brasher, University of Aberdeen, brashebe@yahoo.com
Respondents: Eileen Barker, London School of Economics, e.barker@lse.ac.uk
Phillip Lucas, Stetson University, plucas@stetson.edu
Thomas Robbins, Rochester, Minnesota, tomrobbins427@aol.com
D – 4 American Adolescent Moral Reasoning and Behaviors
Organizer: Christian Smith, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill,
Convener: Lisa Pearce, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill,
Moral Individualism and American Teenagers: Sources and Outcomes
Tim Cupery, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, cupery@unc.edu
Predicting Moral Relativism among American Adolescents
Younoki Lee, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, yolee@email.unc.edu
The Racialized Moral Worlds of Youth
Brad Christerson and Richard Flory, Biola University, Richard.flory@biola.edu
Religious Schools and Student Civic Participation
David Sikkink, University of Notre Dame, dsikkink@nd.edu
D – 5 Cultural Diversity in Congregational Context
Organizer and convener: Kevin D. Dougherty, Calvin College, dougherty@calvin.edu
“Decently and in Order”: Worship Style and Practices in Interracial Churches
Korie Edwards, University of Illinois Chicago, kedwar3@uic.edu
Ethnic Transcendence and Spiritual Kinship in Two Multiethnic Churches
Gerardo Marti, Davidson College, gmarti@alumni.usc.edu
Class and Congregations: Intradenominational Variation in SES
Sam Reimer, Atlantic Baptist University, sam.reamer@abu.nb.ca
Theme Bibles and the Promotion of Religious Inclusivity: A Case Study
Hugh Page, Jr., University of Notre Dame, bard4@aol.com
D – 6 Ethical Imperatives: The Intersection of Religion and Social Justice (RRA)
“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall”: The Study of One’s Own Tradition and Progressive Social Change
Brantley W. Gasaway, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill,
From the Mode of Binary Opposition to a Dialogical-Covenantal Ethic
Ali Galestan, University of Toronto, aligalestan@hotmail.com
An Integration of Secular and Reformed Christian Social Justice in the Formulation of a More Comprehensive Argument for Universal Access to Health Care
Greg Manship, St. Louis University, manshipg@slu.edu
D – 7 Good Shepherds? Rating Religious Leadership (RRA)
Happy but Exhausted? Exploring Clergy Stress and Burnout
Leslie Francis and Mandy Robbins, University of Wales, Bangor, l.j.francis@bangor.ac.uk, and Peter Kaldor and Keith Castle, NCLS Research (Australia)
Sustainable Ministry: Contextual Factors Affecting Clergy Well-being
Keith Castle and Peter Kaldor, NCLS Research, pk@pnc.com.au, and Leslie Francis and Mandy Robbins, University of Wales
Effective Leadership in Times of Change
Keith Castle and Peter Kaldor, NCLS Research
D – 8 Money, Religion, and Values
The Religious Affiliations of Ivy League College Presidents 1607-1929: The Protestant Establishment among the American Cultural Elite
Deborah L. Coe and James D. Davidson, Purdue University, coed@soc.purdue.edu
Religion Caught by Culture: An Examination of the Effect of Values on Religion—the Contrast of American and Canadian Culture Evolution
Kevin Shanahan, Toronto, Ontario, klshanahan@rogers.com
The Influence of Religion on Political Campaign Contributions in the United States
Paul A. Carruth, Kimberlee B. Holland, and Jeremy J. Thayne, Brigham Young
University, pac22@email.byu.edu
The 2000 North Carolina Religious Adherence Rate: A Demographic Explanation
Robert A. Wortham, North Carolina Central University, rawcbw@aol.com
D – 9 Beliefs and Attitudes (REC)
Measuring Religious Differences: The Fundamental Importance of God’s Character
Christopher Bader and Paul Froese, Baylor University, paul_froese@baylor.edu
Beyond Belief: Atheism, Agnosticism, and Theistic Certainty in the United States
Darren Sherkat, Southern Illinois University, sherkat@siu.edu
Religious Affiliation and Individual’s Trade and Immigration Policy Preferences
Joseph P. Daniels, Marquette University, joseph.daniels@mu.edu, and Marc von der Ruhr, St. Norbert College
Risk and Religious Choice: Evidence from Panel Data
Brian J. Osoba, West Virginia University, bjosoba@mail.wvu.edu
D – 10 Between East and West: Chechnya, Turkey, and Iran
Conflict and Cohesion in the Caucasus: Russo-Chechen Conflict and Islam as a Predominant Cultural System
Eric Strachan, Arizona State University, strachan@asu.edu
Crossing the East/West Boundary: Islamic Politcs in Turkey
Cihan Z. Tugal, Northwestern University, c-tugal@northwestern.edu
The Relationship between the New Economy and Religious Communities in Turkey
Hüsnü E. Bodur, KSU University, hebodur@ksu.edu.tr
The Study of Religiosity and its Dimensions in Iran: Implications for the Theory of Secularization
Iraj Faizi, Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, iraj_faizi@yahoo.com
D – 11 Religion Online and Onscreen
Personal Religion Online
Stewart M. Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado, hoover@colorado.edu
Online Prayer and Mental Health
Steve Zafirau, University of Southern California, zafirau@usc.edu
Possibilities and Plausibilities: Television as a Site for Constructing and Maintaining Religious Memory, Folk Traditions, and Religious Innovations
Wendy K. Martin, University of Ottawa, wendymartin@yahoo.com
Coming to Terms with the Attacks: Religious, Political and Social Content of The 700 Club after 9/11
Eric Gormly, University of North Texas, gormly@unt.edu
5:00 p.m.
RRA Presidential Address
Presiding: Daniel V.A. Olson, Indiana University South Bend, dolson@iusb.edu
Violence, Religion and the Family: Linking Research and Social Action
Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick, nasoncla@unb.ca
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
General Reception
7:00 – 7:50 a.m. SSSR Business Meeting
Presiding: Rodney Stark, Baylor University, socstark@aol.com
8:00 – 9:50 a.m.
E – 1 Presidential Session: Competition and Conversion in the Latin American Religious Marketplace
Organizer and convener: R. Andrew Chesnut, University of Houston,
Market Logic Influences on Recent Changes in Catholicism in Brazil
Lemuel Guerra, Federal University of Paraiba, lenksguerra@yahoo.com
Toward an Interdisciplinary Approach to Conversion in the Americas
David Smilde, University of Georgia, dsmilde@uga.edu, and Timothy J. Steigenga, Florida Atlantic University
Entrepreneurial Spirits: Religions of the African Diaspora, R. Andrew Chesnut,
University of Houston
Spiritual Warfare: Casting Out Demons in Almolonga, Guatemala
Virginia Garrard Burnett, University of Texas, garrard@mail.utexas.edu
E – 2 Biological Bases of Spiritual Healing
Organizer: Michael Winkelman, Arizona State University, michael.winkelman@asu.edu
The Cognitive Psychological Study of Ayahuasca: Implications for the Study of Spirituality and Religion
Benny Shannon, Hebrew University, msshannon@mscc.huji.ac.il
Entheogens as “Psychointegrators”
Michael Winkelman, Arizona State University
Discussants: Marlene Dobkin de Rios, University of California, Irvine,
Roulette Wm. Smith, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, roulette@csudh.edu
E – 3 NRMs and the New Age
Is New Age Spirituality Better Conceived as Religious Unorthodoxy?: A Comparison between the United States and Romania
Stephen Krauss, University of Illinois at Chicago, stephenkrauss@hotmail.com
New Religious Movement: A Case Study of Falun Gong’s Global Spiritual Movements
Weishan Huang, New School University, weishan_huang@yahoo.com
Message in the Bottle: Voluntary Regulations within Aura-Soma and Reiki
Jenny-Ann Brodin, Umeå University, jenny-ann.brodin@soc.umu.se
Networds, Nuance, and Nw Religions: Human Potential from Gerald Heard to Michael Murphy
Andrea Coukos and Marion S. Goldman, University of Oregon, mgoldman@darkwing.uoregon.edu
E – 4 Marriages, Youth, and Religion
Division of Household Labor among Adolescents in Conservative Protestant Families
Margaret L. Vaaler, University of Texas at Austin, mvaaler@mail.la.utexas.edu
The Effects of Religious Background on the Risk of Premarital Pregnancy: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Christopher G. Ellison and Daniel A. Powers, University of Texas at Austin, cellison@prc.utexas.edu
The Implications of Parental Divorce for the Spiritual Lives of Young Adults
Jexia Elisa Zhai, Christopher G. Ellison, and Norval D. Glenn, University of Texas at Austin, cellison@prc.utexas.edu
Partner Abuse in a Conservative Christian Denomination: How Similar are Congregants in Diverse Regions
René D. Drumm, Southern Adventist University, rdrumm@southern.edu, Marciana Popescu, Jan Wrenn, and Duane C. McBride, Andrews University
E – 5 Ethnic Congregations
Ethnic Churches: A Source of Social Capital for Chinese Immigrants in Toronto
Elic Chan, University of Toronto, elic.chan@utoronto.ca
Helping Immigrants Integrate: Voluneering in Ethnic Congregations
Femida Handy, York University, fhandy@yorku.ca
Mapping Buddhist Austin: A Sociological Analysis of Immigrant Religious Organizations
Yang Liu, University of Texas at Austin, yangliu@mail.utexas.edu
Bridging the Gap between Religious Differences in Organizing for Social Change in the African-American Community in Chicago
Saher Selod, Loyola University Chicago, sselod@luc.edu
E – 6 The Supreme Court and Conscience: Authors Meet Critics (RRA)
Organizer and convener: James T. Richardson, University of Nevada-Reno, jtr@unr.edu
Phillip E. Hammond, David W. Machacek, and Eric Michael Mazur’s Religion on Trial: How Supreme Court Trends Threaten Freedom of Conscience in America (Rowman & Littlefield), hammond@religion.ucsb.edu
Critics: N.J. Demerath III, University of Massachusetts, demerath@soc.umass.edu
Ted G. Jelen, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, jelent@nevada.edu
Barbara McGraw, St. Mary’s College of California, bmgraw9@mac.com
E – 7 Religious Leadership across the Denominational Spectrum (RRA)
Leading Questions: Using Pastoral Case Studies on Leadership in Teaching and Research
Thomas E. Frank, Emory University, tfrank@emory.edu
Congregations as Mentoring Environments: Comparative Case Studies among Three Protestant Denominations
Penny Long Marler and Kristen Taylor Curtis, Samford University, plmarler@samford.edu
Soul Searchers or Soul Savers? The Effects of Religious Background on Seminary Selection and Religious Beliefs
Jennifer McKinney, Seattle Pacific University, mckinj@spu.edu
Entrance and Retention for the Jesuits of the USA: A 20-Year Review
Thomas Gaunt, Jesuit Conference-USA, tgaunt@jesuit.org
E – 8 Religion, Public Violence, and Sacrifice
Violence by Proxy: War and the American Market for Religious Militarism
James Wellman, University of Washington, jwellman@u.washington.edu
The Mourning of the State: Religious Ritual, Memory, and the State in Comparative Perspective
Babak Rahimi, European University Institute-Florence, brahimi77@hotmail.com
Human Rights and the Growth of Religious Violence: Two Global Trends
William R. Garrett, Saint Michael’s College, wgarrett@smcvt.edu
E – 9 Faith and Philanthropic Activity
Convener and discussant: Rachel McCleary, Harvard University,
Welfare Spending and Religious Participation: Evidence from the United States
Anthony Gill, University of Washington, tgill@u.washington.edu
Race and Charitable Church Activity
Daniel Hungerman, Duke University, dahn@econ.duke.edu
Economic Distress and Religious Intensity
Daniel Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, daniel_li_chen@yahoo.com
Religious Charities and Government Funding
Ayman Reda, Michigan State University, redaayma@msu.edu
E – 10 Religion and Sociopolitical Action and Values
Religious Responses to Global Warming
Laurel Kearns, Drew University, lkearns@drew.edu
Religious Attendance and Political Participation: The Need for a Quantitative Study of Local Voter Participation
Carol Ann MacGregor, McGill University, carol.macgregor@mail.mcgill.ca
Putting Religion in Context by Putting Context into the Study of Religion: “Religious Threat” in the 1960 and 2000 Presidential Elections
David Edward Campbell, University of Notre Dame, campbell.91@nd.edu
Catholics and Life-Consistent Views on Two Political Issues
Stephen D. Johnson, Ball State University, sjohnso5@bsu.edu
E – 11 Spirituality and Church Life
Forms of Spirituality and their Impact on Social Trust
Philip Hughes, Christian Research Association, p.hughes@cra.org.au, and Peter Kaldor, NCLS Research (Australia)
More Religious or More Spiritual? A Survey of a Rural Italian Catholic Parish
Giuseppe Giordan, Università di Torino, Giuseppe.giordan@tin.it
Research on Contemporary Forms of “Spirituality”: Methodological Issues
Michael Mason, Australian Catholic University, m.mason@patrick.acu.edu.au
Changing Patterns of Church Life in Christchurch New Zealand 1960 to 2000
Kevin Ward, University of Otago, wardk@xtra.co.nz
10:00 – 11:50 a.m.
F – 1 Presidential Session: Religion and Africa
Organizer and convener: Mark Regnerus, University of Texas at Austin,
Globalization of Pentecostalism in Africa: Evidence from the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria
Asoneh Ukah, University of Bayreuth, asonzeh.ukah@uni-bayreuth.de
Religion and Marital Stability in Africa
Baffour Takyi, University of Akron, btakyi@uakron.edu, Stephen Obeng-Gyimah, Queen’s University, and Isaac Addai, Lansing Community College
Repentance and Hope among Christians and Muslims in Rural Malawi
Susan Watkins, University of Pennsylvania, swatkins@pop.upenn.edu, and
Chiweni Chimbwete
Protestant Missions and Forced Labor in the French and Belgian Congo
Robert Woodberry, University of Texas at Austin, bobwood@mail.la.utexas.edu
F – 2 Psychedelics and Spirituality
Organizer: Michael Winkelman, Arizona State University, michael.winkelman@asu.edu
The New Gutenberg Reformation: From Ritual to Text to Primary Religious Experience
Thomas B. Roberts, Northern Illinois University, troberts38@aol.com
Psychedelics and Spirituality: LSD in Los Angeles, 1954-1962
Marlene Dobkin de Rios, University of California, Irvine, septrion@aol.com
Contemporary Psychedelic Religions
Charles S. Grob, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, csgrob@aol.com
Neurotheology and the Law
Richard Glen Boire, Center for Cognitive Liberty, rgb@cognitiveliberty.org
F – 3 Latino/a Catholic Political Involvement: Voice and Equality Revisited
(PARAL)
Convener: Anneris Goris, Brooklyn College CUNY, agoris@brooklyn.cuny.edu
The Political Participation of Latinos and Anglos: Does Religion Matter?
David Leal, University of Texas at Austin, dleal@gov.utexas.edu
Dogma and Democracy: Latino Catholic Attitudes toward Civic Participation
Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, Brooklyn College CUNY, astevens@brooklyn.cuny.edu
The Political Participation of Latinos in New York City
Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Hunter College, cvargasr@hunter.cuny.edu
Ayudate que yo te ayudaré: The Influence of Interreligious and Transnational Dynamics on the Sociopolitical Role of Latino Catholicism
Samiri Hernández, University of Michigan, samiri@umich.edu
F – 4 Adolescent Religiosity and Spirituality in the United States
Organizer: Christian Smith, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill,
Convener and discussant: Melinda Lundquist Denton, University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, mlund@email.unc.edu
The Religious Experience and Practices of Youth
Richard Flory, Biola University, richard.flory@biola.edu
“Spiritual but Not Religious”: An Empirical Evaluation of the “New Spirituality” Hypothesis for Adolescents
Darci Powell, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, dapowell@email.unc.edu
Poor Parents, Religious Teens?
Phil Schwadel, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill,
F – 5 Lived Religion
Dereifying Historical Boundaries: Continuities in American Lived Religion
Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire, michele.dillon@unh.edu
The Holocaust as Recurring Reality: Implications of Victimization Themes in Jewish-American Short Stories on Jewish-American Ethnic Identity Formation in the American South
Dana M. Greene, Appalachian State University, greenedm@appstate.edu
Memory, Trauma and Religious Identity: Religion and Belief among Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors
Janet Jacobs, University of Colorado, jacobs@spot.colorado.edu
Words Apart: Traversing Epistemological Barriers in Textual Analysis
Andrea Coukos, University of Oregon, acoukos@juno.com
F – 6 Engendering Faith: Gender and Religious Action in Local and Global Contexts (RRA)
The Material and Symbolic Roles of Women in the Resurgence of the Religious Right
Kristin Blakely, Loyola University Chicago, kblakel@luc.edu
Understanding the Power of the Prophetic Voice: Clergy Referrals to Male Batterer Intervention Programs
Barbara Fisher-Townsend, Nancy Nason-Clark, and Lanette Ruff, University of New Brunswick, fisher.townsend@unb.ca
Unruly Women: Religion and Social Controversy for Revolutionary Women in Cuba
Jennifer Manlowe, University of West Georgia, jmanlowe@earthlink.net
Value Connections and Disconnections: Women in Church Leadership and Missions Priorities for the Congregation, the State, and the World
Adair Lummis, Hartford Institute for Religion Research, alummis@hartsem.edu
F – 7 Co-constructing Catholic Parishes: Three Studies that Engage People in Building Effective Parishes
Organizer and convener: Michael Cieslak, Rockford Diocese,
Convener: Jeff Rexhausen, University of Cincinnati, jeff.rexhausen@uc.edu
Listening to the People of God: Lay Leaders Reflect on Parish Reorganization
Robert Miller and Robert Parfet, Archdiocese of Philadelphia,
drmiller@adphila.org, and Charles Zech, Villanova University
Consulting the People of God: The Evolving Role of the Parish School
Michael Cieslak, Rockford Diocese, mcieslak@rockforddiocese.org
Leading the People of God: Understanding Expectations for Excellence in the Pastor
Mary E. Bendyna and Mary L. Gautier, Center for Applied Research in the
Apsotolate, bendynam@georgetown.edu
Discussant: Anthony J. Pogorelc, Catholic University of America, pogorelc@cua.edu
F – 8 Religious Issues from the Former Soviet Sphere
Anti-religiousness and Religiousness in Eastern European Religious Studies
Marina V. Vorobjova, Religious Studies Research Center-St. Petersburg
Marina.vorobjova@upelsinka.com
Contradictions, Conflicts, and Dilemmas: An Application of William Chambliss’s Theories to the Development of Laws Concerning Religion in Former Communist Countries
James T. Richardson, University of Nevada-Reno, jtr@unr.edu
The Nature and Meaning of Religious Intolerance in Post-Soviet Russia
Vyacheslav Karpov, Western Michigan University, v.karpov@wmich.edu,
Kimmo Kääriäinen, Research Institute of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of
Finland, and Elena Lisovskaya, Western Michigan University
Public Religions and Collective Identity: A Comparative Look at Roman Catholicism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia
Slavica Jekelic, University of Virginia, sj3d@virginia.edu
F – 9 Economic Theories of Religious Behavior (REC)
Proverbial Path
Bridget I. Butkevich, David M. Levy, Dan Houser, George Mason University, bbutkevich@aol.com, Sandra Peart, Baldwin Wallace College, and M. Ali Khan
Johns Hopkins University
On the Allocation of Time to Religious Activities: The Value of Life and Other Results
Constantino Hevia, University of Chicago, chevia@uchicago.edu
Orthodox Economics and Proverbial Religion: Looking Back at the Heckscher-Viner Controversy
David Levy, George Mason University, davidmlevy@aol.com, and Sandra Peart, Baldwin-Wallace College
The Accidental Atheist: An Agent-based Model of Religious Regionalism
Michael McKowsky and L.R. Iannaccone, George Mason University, larry@econzone.com
F – 10 Analyzing Catholic Institutions and History (REC)
What Makes a Progressive Religious Leader? Analyzing Votes from the Second Vatican Council
Melissa Wilde, Kristin Geraty, Shelley Nelson, Emily Bowman, and Grace
Yukich, University of Indiana, mwilde@indiana.edu
The Rise and Triumph of Christianity in the Roman Empire: An Economic Interpretation
Mario Ferrero, University of the Eastern Piedmont, ferrerom@sp.unipmn.it
Franchise Conflict: The Tide of Antipopes in the Aftermath of the Eastern Schism
Kristina Terkun, Clemson University, kterkun@clemson.edu
The Papal Conclave: How Do Cardinals Divine the Will of God?
J.T. Toman, University of Sydney, j.toman@econ.usyd.edu.au
F – 11 Religious Identity and Change at the Congregational and Personal Levels
Toward a New Model of Religious Conversion Careers
Henri Gooren, Utrecht University, h.gooren@compaqnet.nl
Parish Involvement Scores of Generation X Mass Attenders in the United States and Australia
Bob Dixon, Australian Catholic Bishops Conference,
Conflict Resolution Used in Religious Congregations: An Initial Model
Mike McMullen, University of Houston-Clear Lake, mcmullen@cl.uh.edu
Religion and Self-Esteem: A Meta-analysis
Patrick R. Bennett and Markus Kemmelmeier, University of Nevada,
patrickb@unr.nevada.edu, and Jean Twenge, San Diego State University
12:00 – 12:50 p.m.
RRA Business Meeting
TANSTAAFL Luncheon – Religion, Economics, and Culture Group
1:00 – 2:50 p.m.
G – 1 Presidential Session: Religion and Church-State Relations in Communist China
Organizer and convener: Fenggang Yang, Purdue University
The Fate of Confucianism as a Religion in Contemporary China: Controversies and Paradoxes
Anna Xiao Dong Sun, Princeton University, xiaosun@princeton.edu
Chairman Mao as a God in Northern China
Xiao-qing Wang, University of Notre Dame, wang.64@nd.edu
The Cross Faces the Loudspeakers: A Village Church’s Reactions to State Power
Jianbo Huang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, jbhmhuang@hotmail.com
Control or Transformation of State Rule: Religious Policy in Reform Era China
Carsten Vala, University of California, Berkeley, carstenv@uclink.berkeley.edu
G – 2 The Religious Imagination and the Healing of Memories
Organizer and convener: Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University, hegy@panther.adelphi.edu
A Case of God Image Transformation in a Latino Male Pentecostal Pastor
Fernando Garzón, Regent University, ferngar@regent.edu
Re-discovering the Other: Healing the Religious Imagination through Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Glen Moriarty, Regent University, glenmor@regent.edu
Healing of the Memories and Clergy Sexual Abuse
Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University
Dancing and Reasoning: The Dialectic of Imagination and Healing in Shango and Rastafari
Leslie James, DePauw University, ljames@gwia_vs.depauw.edu
G – 3 History and Anthropology of Religion: Orthodox Christian Case Studies
Organizer and convener: Nina Schmit, American Theological Library Association,
Orthodoxy and Peasant Woodsmen from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries
Jennifer B. Spock, Eastern Kentucky University, jennifer.spock@eku.edu
The Texture of Northern Russian Monasticism: Interweaving the Cultures of Eastern
Monasticism in the World: Adaptation of Orthodox Monks and Nuns to the Soviet Regime, 1917-1939
Jennifer Wynot, Metropolitan State College of Denver, wynot@mscd.edu
New Focus on Religious Practices of Russian Orthodoxy: Approaches and Methods
Alexander Agadjanian, Arizona State University, alexander.agadjanian@asu.edu
Boundaries and Locations: Reflections on Fieldwork among Eastern Orthodox Chriatians
Frances Kostarelos, Governors State University, f-kostarelos@govst.edu
American Orthodoxy and/or Orthodoxy in America: Profiling the Next Generation of the Eastern Christian Clergy in the United States
Alexey D. Krindatch, Russian Academy of Sciences, akrindatch@aol.com
Discussant: Frederick M. Denny, University of Colorado, frederick.denny@colorado.edu
G – 4 Religion, Aging and Mortality
Reflective and Reflexive Dimensions of Faith in Late Life
Susan A. Eisenhandler, University of Connecticut,
susan.a.eisenhandler@uconn.edu
Practice Site and Discussion of Spirituality: A Study of Geriatric Social Workers
Ellen Wagenfeld-Heintz, University of Michigan, wheintz@umich.edu
Religious Attendance and External Causes of Mortality
Daisy Fan, University of Texas at Austin, daisy@mail.la.utexas.edu
Religion and Child Survival in Ghana
Stephen Obeng Gyimah, Queens University, gyimahs@post.queensu.ca, Isaac Addai, Lansing Community College, and Baffour K. Takyi, University of Akron
G – 5 Race, Religion, and Sociopolitical Sentiments
The Resurgence of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in Contemporary America: The Significance of Race and Religion
Xuefeng Zhang, University of Minnesota, zhang@soc.umn.edu
Faith, Race, and Conservatism
Kenn H. Fukuda and Eric McDaniel, University of Texas at Austin, kennf@prc.utexas.edu
Race, Religion, and Prosocial Orientations
Matt Bradshaw and Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin, cellison@prc.utexas.edu
African American Youth and Communities of Faith: Capitalizing on Compassion
Jill Witmer Sinha, University of Pennsylvania, jwsinha@ssw.upenn.edu
G – 6 Religious Action in Pursuit of a Good Society (RRA)
Linking Worship and Social Action in the United Church of Christ
Marjorie H. Royle, Lincoln Park, New Jersey, tayloroyle@optonline.net
Do Civil Society Organizations Based on Christian Principles Engage in Ethical Self-Reflection? A Case Study of the Belgian Christian Labor Movement
Veerle Draulans, University of Tilburg, v.j.r.draulans@uvt.nl
Religion and Social Action: An Option for a Culture of Peace
Luis Collazo, Interamerican University of Puerto Rico,
Religious Organizations and Progressive Social Change: A Study of the Ansar-ud-deen Society of Nigeria
Yahya Oyewole Imam, University of Maidurguri, imamyo2003@yahoo.com
G – 7 Catholic Pastors, not Priests: Author Meets Critics (RRA)
Organizer and convener: John Bartkowski, Mississippi State University,
Ruth Wallace’s They Call Him Pastor: Married Men in Charge of Catholic Parishes (Paulist Press)
Critics: Lynn Davidman, Brown University, lynn_davidman@brown.edu
Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire, michele.Dillon@unh.edu
Margaret Poloma, University of Akron, mpoloma@uakron.edu
John Bartkowski, Mississippi State University
G – 8 The Study of Religion in Comparative Perspective: Insights from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America
Organizer and convener: Irving Hexham, University of Calgary, hexham@ucalgary.ca
Algorithmic Oracles and Online Divination in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Douglas E. Cowan, University of Missouri-Kansas City, cowande@umkc.edu
Anti-Christian Movements on the Internet in Contemporary Korea
Chang Han Kim, University of Calgary, kimch@ucalgary.ca
Neo-Shamanism and Shamanism Today
Joan Townsend, University of Manitoba, townsnd@cc.umanitoba.ca
Local-Global Aspects of Eastern Religions and the Development of National Socialism
Karla Poewe, University of Calgary
G – 9 Religion and Economic Development: Historical Perspectives (REC)
Christianity and Capitalist Civilization
Salim Rashid, University of Illinois, s-rashid@uiuc.edu
The Transformation of Work Ethics in Austria: The Imitation of Protestant Institutions by a Catholic Country
Peter Lewisch, Imadec University, peter.lewisch@chsh.at
The Ottoman Response to the Economic Policies of the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages
Resit Ergener, Bogazici University, resit.ergener@bound.edu.tr
A Pious and Profitable Mystery: Purgatory, Cooperation, and the Commercialization of Late Medieval England
Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine, garyr@uci.edu
Desecration and Resistance
Ron Hassner, Stanford University, ronyhassner@yahoo.com
G – 10 Religious Markets (REC)
Niches in the Islamic Religious Market and Fundamentalism: Examples from Turkey, Algeria, Palestine, and Iraq
Massimo Introvigne, Center for Studies on New Religions, cesnur@tin.it
Religious Competition and Faithful Remnant: Two Ways that Religious Markets Affect Congregations
Daniel V.A. Olson, Indiana University South Bend, dolson@iusb.edu, and David Sikkink, University of Notre Dame
Religious Plurlaism and Religious Adherence in U.S. Counties: Assessing the Reassessment
Charles North and Melissa Staha, Baylor Universitiy, charles_north@baylor.edu
G – 11 Religion and Professional Life
Ethical, Spiritual, and Professional Boundaries between Social Work and Faith-based Social Services: Implications for Practice and Research
Kathleen Tangenberg, University of Iowa, kathleen-tangenberg@uiowa.edu
Religious Expectations and Conflicts in the Relations between the Professions and their Publics
J. Kenneth Benson and Edward Brent, University of Missouri-Columbia, bensonjk@missouri.edu
How to Become a Well-Cited JSSR Author: Citation Patterns since 1980
Christopher G. Ellison and Amy M. Burdette, University of Texas at Austin,
Systematic Self-Observation Tweaked: Recommended Procedures for Enhanced Control
Andrew Abel, Keene State College, aabel@keene.edu
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
H – 1 Presidential Session: Religion in Black and White after the American Civil War
Organizer and convener: Edward J. Blum, Baylor University, edward_blum@baylor.edu
Slavery, Civil War, and Salvation: Slave Religion 1830-1870
Daniel L. Fountain, Louisiana School for Math, Science & the Arts, dfountain@lsmsa.edu
“Publish or Perish”: The Impact of Sunday School Publishing on Southern Denominations
Sally G. McMillen, Davidson College, samcmillen@davidson.edu
Memory and Aesthetics in the Southern Lost Cause: A New Look at the Debate over Civil Religion
W. Scott Poole, College of Charleston, poolews@cofc.edu
Discussant: Gaines Foster, Louisiana State University, hyfost@lsu.edu
H – 2 Sacrifice
Organizer, convener and discussant: Michael Winkelman, Arizona State University,
Making Biological Sense of Religious Sacrifice
Rick Goldberg, Austin, Texas, goldberg@io.com
Neurobiology of Sacrificial Rites
Michele Ernandes, Università di Palermo, ernandes@unipa.it
“Wired” for Self-Destruction: The Inherent Dangers of the Religious Impulse
Matthew Alper, Brooklyn, New York, godpart@aol.com
H – 3 Evangelicalism
Evangelical Christianity and the Appropriation of Jewish Identities
William Stuart, University of Maryland, wmstuart@umd.edu
Elite Networks as Social Power: New Modes of Organization within American Evangelicalism
D. Michael Lindsay, Princeton University, mlindsay@princeton.edu
Negotiating Boundaries in Ethnographic Religious Research: A Comparative Analysis of Researcher Identity Management among Northern Irish Evangelicals
Galdys Ganiel, University College Dublin, bangorgal@hotmail.com, and Claire Mitchell, Queen’s University, Belfast
Evangelicals, Political Participation, and Democracy in Brazil
Alexandre Brasil Fonseca, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, brasil@uel.br
H – 4 Religion and U.S. Adolescent Romance, Sexuality and Body Image
Organizer: Christian Smith, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill,
Convener and discussant: David Sikkink, University of Notre Dame, dsikkink@nd.edu
Religious Variations in Teen Dating: Evidence from the National Study of Youth and Religion
John Bartkowski and Xiaohe Xu, Mississippi State University,
The Sexual Norms and Conduct of Religious Youth
Mark Regnerus, University of Texas at Austin, regnerus@prc.utexas.edu
Religion and Body Image among High School Girls
Lisa D. Pearce and Kimberly R. Manturuk, University of North Carolina Chapel
Hill, ldpearce@email.unc.edu
Lessons Learned? Congregations Talking about Homosexuality
Wendy Cadge, Bowdoin College, wcadge@bowdoin.edu, and Christopher
Wildeman, Princeton University
The Gay Rights Debate in Action: How Clergy and Laity View Statements on Homosexuality in Two Denominations
Paul A. Djupe, Denison University, djupe@denison.edu, Laura R. Olson, Clemson University, and Christopher P. Gilbert, Gustavus Adolphus College
“Blood in the House”: Selection Advantages of Judaism’s Requirement for Ovulation-Related Conjugal Separation and Reunion (Niddah-Tvilah)
Rick Goldberg, Austin, Texas, goldberg@io.com
Sita and Sarah: Female Complementarity or Special Revelation?
Maduhuri M. Yadlapati, Louisiana State University, myadlapati@cox.net
H – 6 Rationality, Economy, and Religious Action (RRA)
Strange Bedfellows or Blood Brothers? Rationality and Religion Reconsidered as a Foundation for Social Action
Robert J. Mahoney, Rockhurst University, bob.mahoney@rockhurst.edu
An Economic Explanation for the “Culture Wars” Thesis
Ayman Reda, Michigan State University, redaayma@msu.edu
Religious Attendance and Giving in Nebraska
Paul Olson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, pjolson@unlserve.unl.edu
“Moral” Math and the Golden Rule
Sarah Voss, Omaha, Nebraska, sarvoss@aol.com
H – 7 Slicing the Pie Differently: New Views of Worshipers and Their Congregations
Organizers and conveners: Deborah Bruce, Presbyterian Church (USA),
dbruce@ctr.pcusa.org, and Cynthia Woolever, Hartford Institute for Religion Research
New People in U.S. Congregations: Who Are They and Why Do They Come?
Deborah Bruce, Presbyterian Church (USA)
Understanding Catholic Parish Vitality
Robert Dixon, Australian Catholic Bishops Conference,
Members and Attending Non-Members: Comparing Worshipers in the U.S. Congregational Life Survey
John P. Marcum, Presbyterian Church (USA), jmarcum@ctr.pcusa.org
What Difference Does Context Make? Congregational Vitality and Geography
Cynthia Woolever, Hartford Institute for Religion Research, woolever@hartsem.edu
H – 8 Religion and Popular Culture: Non-Protestant Denominational/ Organizational Issues
Organizer and convener: Charles M. Brown, Albright Collelge, cbrown@alb.edu
Authenticity, Negotiation and Community: Toward a New Model of Revelation in American Sectarian Texts
Carol S. Matthews, Johnson County Community College, myrkvith@yahoo.com
Religious Media Literacy: Studies of the Mormon Audience
Daniel Stout, Brigham Young University, daniel_stout@byu.edu
Performing Consensus: Testing Religious Practice against an Ideal World for Consensual Decision Making
Kerry Strayer, Otterbein College, kstrayer@otterbein.edu
Testing Assumptions: Comparative Work on Youth Media Culture in Judaism and Evangelical Protestantism
Hillary Warren, Otterbein College, hwarren@otterbein.edu
H – 9 REC Keynote Address
Looking Forward: A Future for the Economics of Religion
Laurence R. Iannaccone, George Mason University
Respondents: Evelyn Lehrer, University of Illinois at Chicago
Anthony Gill, University of Washington
Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University
H – 10 Issues in Chinese Religion
An Exploration of Possible Influences of Maoism on the Rise of Falun Gong in 1990s China
Chuck Ditzler, University of Wisconsin-Madison, cditzler@ssc.wisc.edu
Overcoming Boundaries of Nationality: Two Examples of Christianity from China
Constance A. Jones, California Institute of Integral Studies, cjones@ciis.edu, and
J. Gordon Melton, Institute for the Study of American Religion, jgordon@linkline.com
Chinese Immigrant Christians Negotiating the Abortion Issue: Societal Position, Religiosity, and Moral Reasoning
Beiye Gu, Graduate Center CUNY, bgu@juno.com
Religious Conversion as Women’s Liberation from the Family: The Case of Taiwanese Immigrant Women
Carolyn Chen, Northwestern University, cchen@northwestern.edu
H – 11 Spirituality, Sacrality, and Theology
Spirituality in Australia
John Bellamy, NCLS Research (Australia), Alan Black, Edith Cowan University,
Keith Castle, NCLS Research (Australia), Philip Hughes, Christian Research Association, and Peter Kaldor, NCLS Research (Australia), pk@pnc.com.au
Reflexive Spirituality Revealed in the First Unitarian Society of Madison, 1952-1961
Thomas W. McLeod, University of Wisconsin-Madison, tmacleod@sss.wisc.edu
Dialogue on Sacred Texts: A Possible Model for Creating Changes in Religious Views
James F. Moore, Valparaiso University, james.moore@valpo.edu
Sociotheology: Developing a Methodology for the Study of Lived Religion
Lauve H. Steenhuisen, Georgetown University, steenhul@georgetown.edu
5:00 p.m.
SSSR Presidential Address
Presiding: Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University, wuthnow@princeton.edu
Putting an End to Ancestor Worship
Rodney Stark, Baylor University, socstark@aol.com
6:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Predinner Reception
6:30 – 8:15 p.m.
SSSR Banquet
Presiding: Arthur L. Greil, Alfred University, fgreil@alfred.edu
8:30 – 10:30 p.m.
ASREC Social
Sunday
7:00 a.m. – 7:50 a.m. RRX Breakfast
Presiding: Scott Thumma, Hartford Seminary, sthumma@hartsem.edu
8:00 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.
I – 1 Paving the Way: Author Meets Critics
Organizer: Melissa Wilde, Indiana University, mwilde@iu.edu
Omar McRoberts’s Streets of Glory (University of Chicago Press)
I – 2 God Images: Qualitative Assessments
Organizer and convener: Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University, hegy@panther.adelphi.edu
Faces in the Dark: God Images in Adult Female Prostitutes
Sandra Varley, Spring Center for Mental Health, svarley@viawest.net
What’s the Difference: Contrasting African Americans and Haitian Americans with Regard to Ethnic and Religious Identities
Yanick St. Jean, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, stjean@uwp.edu
I Love You, I Hate You: Hindu Devotion and the Vicissitudes of Object Representations
Thomas B. Ellis, Bucknell University, tellis@bucknell.edu
Make-Believing God Images
Camille A. Wingo, Queens’ College Cambridge, caw41@cam.ac.uk
Imperfect Parents, Perfect God: Attachment and Children’s Spiritual Imagination
Jane R. Dickie, Hope College, dickie@hope.edu, and Pehr Granqvist, Uppsala
University
I – 2A Neurology, Spirituality, and Healing
Organizer: Michael Winkelman, Arizona State University, michael.winkelman@asu.edu
Convener: Mortimer Ostow, Jewish Theological Seminary of America,
A Hermeneutical Approach to Interpreting Theology from the Perspective of Neuroscience
Samuel M. Powell, Point Loma Nazarene University, sampowell@ptloma.edu
Toward a Molecular Basis for Spirituality and Religious Knowledge: Implications for Nurture and Evolution in Long-Term Memory
Roulette Wm. Smith, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, roulette@csudh.edu
Psychoanalysis and Spirituality: Spirituality as Seen in the Mind of the Analysand and the Psychoanalyst
Paula Hamm, Washington Psychoanalytic Society, paulajhamm@aol.com
Bio-theology, Imagery and Healing: An Exploration into the Relation between Calcium, Bodhicitta, Health and “Right Action”
Gilah Hirsch, California State University Dominguez Hills, gilah@verizon.net
Leaving Extreme Religious Communities
Lynn Davidman, Brown University, lynn_davidman@brown.edu
New Religious Movements and Collective Violence
Thomas Robbins, Rochester, Minnesota, tomrobbins427@aol.com
A Phenomenological Perspective on Encountering Death from Bitten Religious Serpent Handlers
W. Paul Williamson, Henderson State University, williaw@hsu.edu, and Ralph
W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, ralph-hood@utc.edu
Which Way Islamists? From One Islamism to Another
Abdullahi A. Gallab, Brigham Young University, abdullahi_gallab@byu.edu
I – 4 Religion and Rationality
The Logic of Expressive Choice and Rational Choice Theories of Religion
John H. Simpson, University of Toronto, hermanjs@sympatico.com
Religious Concepts and Schemas: Fixed Templates or Flexible-Adaptive Dynamics?
Luís Oviedo, Università Gregoriana, loviedo@ofm.org
Simulating Sects: A Computer Model of the Stark-Finke-Bainbridge-Iannaccone Rules for Sectarian Behavior
James V. Spickard, University of Redlands, jim_spickard@redlands.edu
I – 5 Issues of Gender, Religion, and Political Economics
Convener: Georgie Ann Weatherby, Gonzaga University, weatherb@gonzaga.edu
The Role of Religion in the Formation of Attitudes toward Working Mothers and the Impact on Wives’ Employment: Evidence for Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and the UK
Guido Heineck, Austrian Institute for Family Studies, guido.heineck@iof.ac.at
Gender, Religious Tradition, and Biblical Literalism
John P. Hoffmann, Brigham Young University, john_hoffmann@byu.edu, and
John P. Bartkowski, Mississippi State University
Religion and Ideas about Appropriate Gender Roles in the United States: 1977-1998 Change
David C. Moore, University of Nebraska-Omaha, dm42914@alltel.net
Boundaries and Opportunities: An Overview of the State of Research on Women, Politics, and Religion
Candice D. Ortbals, Pepperdine University, cortbals@indiana.edu
I – 6 Faith and Freedom in a Global Civil Society (RRA)
Whose Freedom? Examining Religious Justifications for Empire
David Wright, Drew University, dwright@drew.edu
Religion and Globalizaiton of Freedom, Rights, and Justice
Barbara Strassberg, Aurora University, bstrass@aurora.edu
The Emergence of British Muslim Civil Society and Identity
Konrad Pędziwiatr, University of Leuven, k.pedziwiatr@soc.kuleuven.ac.be
The Spirit of Young People in Thailand and Australia: Some Initial Explorations
Philip Hughes, Christian Research Association, p.Hughes@cra.org.au
I – 7 Faith Works? Religious Vitalilty in Cross-Cultural Perspective (RRA)
Core Qualities of Healthy Churches: Research in the United States, England, Australia, and New Zealand
Sam Sterland, Peter Kaldor, Keith Castle, NCLS Research (Australia),
ssterland@anglicare.org.au, Robert Dixon, Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, and John Bellamy, NCLS Research (Australia)
Attracting and Integrating Newcomers without a Church Background
John Bellamy, Keith Castle, Peter Kaldor, and Sam Sterland, NCLS Research (Australia), jbellamy@anglicare.org.au
Expected Outcomes of a Five-Year Strategic Plan for the Seventh-day Adventist World Church
Roger L. Dudley, Andrews University, dudley@andrews.edu
Religious Research as Kingpin in the Fight against Poverty and AIDS in the Western Cape, South Africe
H. Jurgens Hendriks, Stellenbosch University, hih@sun.ac.za
I – 8 Testing Assumptions and Challenging Authority in Media, Religion and Culture
Organizer and convener: Hillary Warren, Otterbein College, hwarren@otterbein.edu
Exploring Revolve and Refuel: The “New” New Testaments for Teens at the Intersection of 21st Century Religion, Media, and the Marketplace
Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado, lynn.clark@colorado.edu
Religion as Product: The Alpha Course
Mara Einstein, Queens College CUNY, mara_einstein@hotmail.com
Viewing Advertizing through the Lens of Faith: Finding God in Images of Mammon
Tony Kelso, Iona College, akelso@iona.edu
Highway Shrines
Clayton L. McNearney, Marshall University, mcnearne@marshall.edu
I – 9 Bio-evolutionary Approaches to Religion
Convener: Richard Sosis, University of Connecticut, richard.sosis@uconn.edu
Scars for War: A Cross-cultural Study of Male Initiiation Rites as Costly Signals of Commitment in Warfare
Richard Sosis, University of Connecticut
Random Religions: Evaluating Evolutionary Theories of Religion with a Random Sample
David Sloan Wilson, dwilson@binghamton.edu
Religion, Self-deception, and Health
Joseph Bulbulia, Victoria University, joseph.bulbulia@vuw.ac.nz
The Bioeconomics of Religious and Ethnically Homogeneous Merchant Groups as Adaptive Units
Janet Landa, York University, jlanda@yorku.ca
I – 10 Religion in the United States
Playing the Odds: Religious Involvement and State Lottery Participaiton
Christopher G. Ellison and Bryan C. Shepherd, University of Texas at Austin,
Millenarian Movement or Atheist Agitators? Religion and Labor in Eastern Kentucky, 1931-32
Richard J. Callahan, Jr., University of Missouri, callahanrj@missouri.edu
Both-And Mission Paradigms: Exploring the Boundaries of Belief
Heidi Rolland Unruh, Congregations and Community Outreach Project,
Civil Religion, American Patriotism and the National Pastime: A Study of Culture in Action
Lenore M.K. Johnson, Loyola University Chicago, ljohn11@luc.edu
I – 11 Religion and Community
Religion, Social Capital and Community Development
Jeffrey L. Jordan, Religion, Social Capital and Community Development
Congregational Social Use of Space
Ram A. Cnaan, Charlene C. McGrew, and Beverly Frazier, University of Pennsylvania, cnaan@ssw.upenn.edu
“Crisis Narration” about the Church as an Organization
Tomasz Ochinowski, Warsaw University, ochinto@mail.wz.uw.edu.pl, Tadeusz
Kaowlewski, Technical University of Bialystok, and Andrzej Molenda,
Jagiellonian University
Public Religious Aesthetics and Interior Domestic Space: Case Studies of Catholic Churches and Congregants’ Homes
Mary Ellen Konieczny, University of Chicago,
10:00 – 11:50 a.m.
Organizer: Conrad Hackett, Princeton University, chackett@princeton.edu
The Concept and Measurement of Religious Traditions in American Religious Life
Corwin Smidt, Calvin College, smid@calvin.edu
Measuring Evangelicalism: Consequences of Different Operationalization Strategies
Michael Lindsay, Princeton University, mlindsay@princeton.edu, and Conrad
Hackett, Princeton University
Selection Effects and Social Desirability Bias in Studies of Religious Influences
Mark Regnerus, University of Texas at Austin, regnerus@prc.utexas.edu
Phase Completion Scales: A Better Approach to Scale Construction than the Likert Method?
David Hodge, University of Pennsylvania, dhodge@sas.upenn.edu
J – 2 God Images: The Empirical Tradition
Organizer and Convener: Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University, hegy@panther.adelphi.edu
“For Now We See in a Mirror, Dimly”: Overcoming Methodological Boundaries in the Experimental Investigation of Religious Cognition
Nicholas J.S. Gibson, University of Cambridge, njsjg2@hermes.cam.ac.uk
God Images and Empathy among Young People in the United Kingdom
Leslie J. Francis, University of Wales, Bangor, l.francis@bangor.ac.uk
God Images and Self-Esteem among Young People in South Africa: A Study among Three Linguistic Communities
Mandy Robbins, University of Wales, Bangor, rsr601@bangor.ac.uk
Where We are Using Adjective Checklists to Describe God
Richard Gorsuch, Fuller Theological Seminary, rgorsuch@fuller.edu
J – 3 Visual Representations of Religion
Organizer and convener: Gregory Stanczak, Williams College,
Training Dancers, Singers, and Other Artists: How Evangelical NGOs in Armenia are Re-invigorating the Cultural Landscape
Tim Fisher, University of Southern California, tnf@usc.edu
Capturing the Visual Traces of the Missionary Movement: An International Collaboration to Create a Scholarly Resource on the Internet
Jon Miller, University of Southern California, jonmill@usc.edu
Moving Interviews: From Photo-Elicitation to Video Methodology
Gregory Stanczak, Williams College
J – 4 Religion, Identity, and Mobilization
Commodity Chains and the Role of Faith-Based Actors in Central America
Amy Reynolds, Princeton University, areyno@princeton.edu
Two Types of Secularism: State-Religion Relations in the United States, France, and Turkey
Ahmet T. Kuru, University of Washington, ahmet@u.washington.edu
Toward a Comparative Theory of Religiously Based Political Mobilization
Newton J. Gaskill, Stephen F. Austin State University, ngaskill@sfasu.edu
Religion and National Identity in the Netherlands
Frank J. Lechner, Emory University, flechn@emory.edu
J – 5 The Future of the Study of Latino/a Religion (PARAL)
Convener: Segundo Pantoja, Borough of Manhattan Community College CUNY,
Parallel Religiosity: A New Perspective on Contemporary Religion
Andrés Pérez y Mena, Brooklyn College CUNY, aperezymena@nyc.rr.com
Future Steps for a Sociology of Latino Religion: Assessing the Diversity of Religious Life in a Context of Accelerated Change
Cristina Mora-Torres, Princeton University, morag@princeton.edu
Decolonization, Gender Study, Race and Latinio Religion: New Challenges to Interdisciplinarity
Laura Perez, University of California, Berkeley, leperez@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Latino/a Images in the Media: A Theo-Ethical Response
Gabriel A. Salguero, Union Theological Seminary, gs2036@columbia.edu
J – 6 Civic Engagement Reconsidered: Faith, Community, and Individualism(RRA)
Caring for the Local Community: Narratives and Practices of Volunteerism for Korean Americans in Congregations with Different Ethnic Compositions
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Cornell University, emh5@cornell.edu
The Construction of Pentecostal Discourse among the Kaiowá
Maria de Lourdes Beldi de Alcântara, University of São Paulo,
Opting Out: Preliminary Findings from Interviews with the Intentionally Un-institutional
Arthur E. Farnsley II, Indiana University-Columbus, afarnsley@ameritech.net
J – 7 In Earshot of Mighty Rushing Winds: Author Meets Critics (RRA)
Organizer and convener: Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee-Chattanooga,
Margaret M. Poloma’s Main Street Mystics: The Toronto Blessing and Reviving Pentecostalism (AltaMira Press)
Critics: Nancy T. Ammerman, Boston University, nta@bu.edu
Christopher Silver, Wilfrid Laurier University, christopher-silver@utc.edu
James V. Spickard, University of Redlands, jim_spickard@redlands.edu
W. Paul Williamson, Henderson State University, williaw@hsu.edu
J – 8 The Religion Problematic
Comparison as a Theoretical Exercise
Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University, blasi3610@cs.com
What Does it Mean to be Religious (properly defined)? A Cross-Cultural Perusal of the Question
Eileen Barker, London School of Economics, e.barker@lse.ac.uk
In or Out: Are Religious Researchers Marginalized in the Modern American Academy?
Ryan T. Cragun, University of Cincinnati, ryan@genesoc.com
J – 9 Religion, Family and Education (REC)
The Impact of Religious Identification on Differences in Educational Attainment among American Women 2001
Ariela Keysar and Barry Kosmin, Brooklyn College CUNY, akeysar@aol.com
Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Women’s Educational Attainment and Wages
Evelyn Lehrer, University of Illinois at Chicago, elehrer@uic.edu
Preserving Religious Identity through Education
Danny Cohen-Zada, Ben-Gurion University, danoran@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Religion and Education Gender Gap: Are Muslims Different from Christians?
Mandana Hajj, American University of Beirut, mfhajj@hotmail.com, and Ugo Panizza, Inter-American Development Bank
J – 10 Old Theories Never Die
Adumbrations of Autonomy: Scholarly Prescience and the Varieties of Contemporary Religious Experience
Roger O’Toole, University of Toronto, otoole@utsc.utoronto.ca
(De)Constructing Concepts among Sociologists and Anthropologists of Religion
Julie Manville, Australian National University, Julie.Manville@anu.edu.au
After Secularization: Distinctions that Make a Difference
J. Shawn Landres, University of California, Santa Barbara, shawn@landres.com
Recent Advances in Theories of Religion and Secularization
Michael Mason, Australian Catholic University, m.mason@patrick.acu.edu.au
J – 11 Supernatural Actors and Change
Who Loves The Passion? Who Hates The Passion?: Political-Social Values and Personality Variables as Correlates of Evaluatons of The Passion of Christ
Lawrence Lilliston, Gary Shepherd, and Gordon Shepherd, Oakland University
Audience Responses to The Passion of Christ
William Brown, Jack Keeler, and Julie Shen, Regent University,
Forest Guardian Spirit (chullachaqui) in the Peruvian Amazon
Matti Kamppinen and Minna Opas, University of Turku, matti.kamppinen@utu.fi
A Narrow Approach Will Not Do: Toward a Multidisciplinary Study of Jewish Conversions
Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, yariel@email.unc.edu,