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