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COMMITTEE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION

Tenth Meeting - April 16, 1955 Men's Faculty Club, Columbia
University 400 West 117th Street, New York City

Session I Schools of Psychotherapy
Chairman, Horace L. Friess., Columbia University

10:00 Introductory Remarks - Werner Wolff, Bard College, Chairman Planning Committee.
10:10 Fred E. Blum - Psychiatry and Religion - A Historical Survey
10:25 Josephine H. Ross, Clinical Psychiatrist - A Current Contribution of Psychoanalysis to the Concept of God
10:40 Esther Harding, Author and Psychologist - The Psyche and Symbols of Religion - A Jungian Point of View
10:55 Warner L. Lowe, Alfred Adler Mental Hygiene Clinic - Value Systems in the Psychotherapeutic Process
11:10 Lawson J. Lowrie, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University - Religion in Therapy, Practical Effects
11:25 Werner Wolff, Bard College - Summary
11:30 Discussion
11:40 Recess

Session II Denominational Concepts
Chairman., Richard V. McCann, Harvard University

11:50 Otis A. Rice, St. Luke's Hospital, New York City - Contributions of Psychiatry to Pastoral Care
12:02 Abraham N. Franzblau, Hebrew Union College Psychotherapy and the Ministry
12:20 Alexander M. Schneiders, Fordham University Personality Needs, Religion and Psychotherapy
I2:35 Charles Francis Potter, First Humanist Society - Humanism as Healing.
12:50 Summary - Werner Wolff
12:55 Discussion
1:15 Lunch, Men's Faculty Club, Columbia University

Session III On the Definitions of Religion Chairman, Walter Houston Clark, Hartford Seminary Foundation

2:30 Rabbi Samuel Glassner, Jewish Board of Education, Baltimore, Md. Towards an Operational Definition of Religion
2:45 Joseph Maier, Rutgers University The Sociological Definition of Religion
3:00 Gladys Rechard, Barnard College Anthropology and Religion
3:15 Mortimer Ostow - The Need to Believe: Quasi-Religious Attitudes in Non-Believers
3:30 Summary - Werner Wolff
Discussants: Horace Kallen, New School for Social Research
Molly Harrower, University of Texas
Richard V. McCann, Harvard University, and others
4:15 Recess

4:30 Session IV Research Proposals - Chairman, Jacqueline Y. Sutton, Princeton, N. J.
6:30 Dinner - Men's Faculty Club, Columbia University
7:30 Business Meeting

(The sessions are open to all interested scholars. Additional copies of the Program may be secured from the Secretary, Dr. Walter Houston Clark) Hartford Seminary Foundation, Hartford 5, Connecticut).

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SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION

DATE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1955

PLACE: ART & LECTURE ROOM, DOHENY LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

TIME: 10 to 12:30 A.M ------------ 1:30 to 3:30 P.M.

P R O G R A M

"THE ROLE OF RELIGIOUS ATTITUDES, CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES IN PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC EXPERIENCE"

MORNING: SYMPOSIUM

GEORGE BACHS PH.D.
PRIVATE PRACTICE - GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY

WALTER M. BRIEHL, M.D.
PSYCHOANALYST

RICHARD HOGANS PH.D.
PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, PEPPERDINE COLLEGE-PRIVATE PRACTICE

MORTIMER MEYER, PH.D.
CHIEF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, VETERANS ADMINISTRATIAN MENTAL HYGIENE CLINIC

ROBERT SIELOFF, M.A., M.S.W.
PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORKER, POMONA MEDICAL GROUP

HENRY J. WEGROCKIT M.D., PH.D. PSYCHIATRIST DR. MELVIN WHEATLEY PASTOR WESTWOOD COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH

AFTERNOON: DISCUSSION GROUPS, BASED ON MORNING SYMPOSIUM.

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SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
Eleventh Meeting - November 5, 1955
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

In considering the theme for this meeting, The Natural and Social Sciences Examine Religion, the S.S.S.R. presents a program of papers and distinguished speakers to seek answers to such questions as: How is religion defined? What aspects can be integrated within the conceptual framework of science? Are there new elements of scientific methodology to aid in the study of religion? Might a scientific approach constructively modify religious doctrine and practice?

With ample time to be allowed for discussion, we will seek to define further the structure and scope of the S.S.S.R. The meeting promises to be a highly significant one for the future of the Society.

Session I Harvard Faculty Club, Quincy Street
9:00 Dr. Leslie John Adkins, Consulting Psychologist, New York City;
"Science, the human self, and theism.'

9:30 Prof. Milton J. Rosenberg, Dept. of Psychology, Yale University;
"Some sociopsychological sources of the current religious revival."

10:00 Desaraj Dhairyam, Teachers College, Columbia University;
"Self- understanding as found in Christian and Hindu religions: a study of cross-cultural religious contexts."

10:30 Prof. Jack Shand, Dept. of Psychology, Gettysburg College;
"Definitions and interpretations of religion by members of the clergy."

11:00 Dr. Charles A. Dailey, Chief Clinical Psychologist, V. A. Hospital, St. Louis, Mo.;
"Biographies of eminent ministers as contexts for their religious views."

11:30 Dean Walter Houston Clark, Hartford School of Religious Education;
"How do social scientists define religion?"

12:30 Luncheon and Business Meeting - The Coach Grille, Harvard Square.

Session II Room 112, Emerson Hall
2:30 Prof. Talcott Parsons, Chairman, Dept. of Social Relations, Harvard University;
"Religion: its content and its study as seen by a sociologist."

4:00 Prof. Clyde Kluckhohn, Anthropology, Harvard University;
"An anthropologist looks at religion."

6:00 Dinner - The Coach Grille, Harvard Square.

Session III Room 112, Emerson Hall
7:30 Dr. Henry A. Murray, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Harvard University;
"A psychiatrist looks at religion."

8:45 Emeritus Professor Phillip Frank, Department of Physics, Harvard University;
"Albert Einstein: the religion of a physicist-philosopher."

The sessions are open to all interested scholars. Additional copies of the Program may be secured from the Secretary, W. H. Clark, Hartford Seminary Foundation, Hartford 5, Connecticut. Information and reservations for Luncheon ($1.50) and Dinner ($2.50) may be secured by application, in the case of the latter before November 1, to members of the Planning Committee, Dr. Richard V. McCann, Harvard Divinity School, or Mr. Ralph W. Burhoe, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge 36.

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Revised Schedule for the Symposium
THE PROBLEM OF THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
Saturday Afternoon and Evening, November 5, 1955
Emerson Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Sessions open to all interested scholars

Four outstanding authorities on the social and physical sciences will attempt to define how their disciplines deal with religion, and to answer such questions as:
What aspects of religion have been studied scientifically and how?
Are there some new elements of scientific methodology that hold promise for the study of religion?
Does it appear that a scientific approach might constructively modify religious doctrine and practice?

Afternoon Session: 2:30 p.m.
View of a P s y c h i a t r i s t
DR. HENRY ALEXANDER MURRAY
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Harvard University

Views of an Anthropologist
DR. CLYDE KLUCKHOHN
Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University

Evening Session: 7: 3 0 p. m.
Views of a Sociologist
DR. TALCOTT PARSONS
Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Science and Religion in the Mind of Einstein
DR. PHILIPP FRANK
Successor to Einstein at Prag, Lecturer, Philosophy of Science, Harvard

In addition to discussion from the floor, four discussants will comment from the point of view of theological and philosophical scholarship:

Dr. Robert S. Hartman, Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Roger Hazelton, Philosophy of Religion, Andover Newton Theological School
Dr. John H. Lavely, Philosophy, Boston University, School of Theology
Dr. John D. Wild, Philosophy, Harvard Divinity School

Reservations for the Dinner at 6 p.m. ($2. 50) and further information may be had by addressing Dr. Richard V. McCann, Harvard Divinity School, Andover Hall, Cambridge 38, Mass. Visitors are also welcome at the morning sessions of the Society beginning at 9 a.m. , in the Library, Harvard Faculty Club.