RELIGIOUS RESEARCH
ASSOCIATION

Annual Meeting



June 16-18, 1966



Sheraton-Jefferson Hotel
St. Louis, Missouri




Thursday, June 16, 1966
4-6 P.M.

Registration

8 P.M.
Presiding: Dr. Paul Mundy,
President, Religious Research Association

H. Paul Douglass Lecture I

Dr. Lauris Whitman, Executive
Director, Department of Research,
National Council of Churches

"Religion and Social Science: Two Worlds or One?"



Friday, June 17, 1966


9 A.M. to Noon

Theory and Planning Section

Presiding: Lyle E. Schaller,
RegionalChurch Planning Office,
Cleveland, Ohio

Russell O. Allen, Department of Psychology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming and Bernard Spilka, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
"Committed and Consensual Religion: A Specification of Religion-Prejudice Relationships"

Sam Mueller, Ph.D. candidate, Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois
"Rokeach and the Church: A Theory of Organizational Reaction Formation"

Harry Sharp, The University of Wisconsin, Survey Research Laboratory
"The Religious Beliefs of the College Student"



1:30 P.M. to 3:45 P.M.

Charles Thorne, The Protestant Council of the city of New York
"The Functions of the Church Planner and Researcher"

Ronald Johnstone, Ph.D., Director of Research Center and Assistant Professor, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
"An Empirical Evaluation Study of Lutheran Parish Education"

Richard K. Morton, Professor of Sociology and Religion, Jacksonville University, Florida
"A Study of the Middle Class Urban View of the Functions of the Church"



Religious Education Section

9 A.M. to Noon


Presiding: Barry Keating, National Council of Churches

A Panel Discussion
"Methods for Estimating Church-Related Research Schedules and Budgets"

John Teatling
Chairman, Protestant Episcopal Church

Martin Bradley
Baptist Sunday School Board, Southern Baptist Convention

Marvin Johnstone
Character Research Project

Merton Stommen
Lutheran Youth Research and Religious Education Association

Charles Thorne
Protestant Council of New York City



1:30 to 3:45 P.M.

"A Study of the Student Beliefs, Values and Concerns in Twelve Lutheran Colleges"

Frances Bailey, Chairman -- Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Paper by Francis Gamelin

Reactors: Gerhart Elston -- National Christian Student Federation

Gerald Slusser -- Eden Seminary

Margaret Thomas -- Bd. of Chr. Ed. -- Presbyterian Church in the United States


4 P.M.

Business Meeting



6 P.M.

Annual Banquet

Toastmaster -- Dr. David Schuller

Speaker -- Dr. Richard S. Gordon, Director Central Research Department Monsanto Company
"Research, Renewal, and the Evolution of Society"



8 P.M.

Presiding: Dr. Paul Munday

H. Paul Douglass Lecture II

Dr. Lauris Whitman, Executive
Director Department of Research,
National Council of Churches



Saturday, June 18, 1966


8:45 A.M.

Presiding: Dr. Yoshio Fukuyama

Dr. Leo Rippy, Jr. Scarritt College
"The North Carolina Methodist Research Project"



9:30 A.M.

"Plans and Suggestions for 1970 Census"

Speaker: Conrad Taeuber -- Bureau of the Census

Reactor: Glen W. Trimble -- Department of Research, N.C.C.



11 A.M.

Business Meeting

ADJOURNMENT




For hotel reservations write to
SHERATON-JEFFERSON HOTEL

12th Boulevard at Locust
St. Louis 1, Missouri

$ 8.50 single
$12.50 twin



The Religious Research Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 228, Cathedral Station
New York, New York 10025


Fellow...............................$6.00
Student Membership...................$3.00
Contributing Membership.....$15.00 or more
Supporting Membership.......$50.00 or more
One-year subscription to the REVIEW..$3.00

President: Paul Mundy
Vice-President: Lyle E. Schaller
Secretary: Doris E. Hoel
Treasurer: George W. Kaslow, Jr.
Annual Meeting