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 Univers