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SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION

Twelfth Meeting - April 21, 1956
Men's Faculty Club
Columbia University
400 West 117 Street
New York, N. Y.

General Subject: The Ministry
Morning Session: Horace L. Friess, Chairman
Contributed Papers
9:30 Robert Gutman, Dartmouth College, "Types of Prayer: An Empirical Study"
10:00 Dorly Wang, New School for Social Research, "Religion and Illness in a Hospital Setting"

The Ministry as a Profession
10:30 Charles Y. Glock, Columbia University, "The Social and Psychological Study of the Ministry as a Profession"
11:00 Elizabeth K. Nottingham, Queens College, "Professionalization and the Ministry"
11:30 Business Meeting: Richard V. McCann, Presiding
12:30-2:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session: Charles Y. Glock, Chairman

Recruitment to the Ministry 2:00 Margaretta K. Bowers, Episcopal Counselors Forum, "Some Observations on the Unconscious Motivation Determining Religious Vocation"
2:30 Frederick A. Shippey, Drew University, "Sources of Recruitment to the Methodist Ministry"

The Roles of the Minister

3:00 Saul Mendlovitz, University of Chicago, "The Role of the Rabbi"
3:45 Frank Santopolo, Fordham University, "Some Definitions of the Expected Behavior of a Catholic Priest in Selected Socio-Religious Situations"
4:30 Samuel Blizzard, Pennsylvania State University, "Self Image of the Minister as a Community Leader" (A selective report on the Russell Sage Training for the Ministry Project)
5:15 Horace L. Friess, Columbia University, "Summing Up"
6:00-7:30 Dinner

Evening Session: Marshall Sklare, Chairman

7:30 Daniel Williams, Union Theological Seminary, "The Education of the Minister" (A report on the recent survey of theological education sponsored by the American Association of Theological Schools)
8:30 John Krumm, Chaplain, Columbia University, "A Minister Views his Vocation"

The general sessions are open to all interested scholars. The Business Meeting is for members only. Additional copies of the Program may be secured from the Secretary, Walter Houston Clark, Hartford Seminary Foundation., Hartford 5, Conn. Local information and reservation for Luncheon ($1.50) or dinner ($2.35) may be secured through the Chairman of the Planning Committee, Dr. Charles Y. Glock, Bureau of Applied Social Research, 427 West 117th Street, New York 27, N. Y. Reservations should be made by Tuesday, April 17th.

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SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION

THIRTEENTH MEETING - - - - - - - - SATURDAY - DECEMBER 8, 1956
Emerson Hall - Harvard University - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Morning
9:00 A.M. - CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
1. Prof. Allan W. Eister, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Wellesley College: "The Religious Institution in our Society: Difficulties in theoretical specification of functions."

2. Prof. C. V. Gustafson, Chairman, Sociology Dept., Lewis and Clarke College, Portland, Oregon: "A Doctrinal Study of Protestantism in Portland, Oregon."

3. Dr. Frederick A. Shippey, Drew University, Madison, N. J.: "Social Class in Philadelphia Methodism"

11:00 A.M. - Dr. Werner Wolff, Dept. of Psychology, Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson, N.Y..- "Dangers and Promises of a Scientific Study of Religion: followed by discussion.

12:30 - Luncheon (Coach Grille, Harvard Square)

1:30 - Business Meeting

2:30 - SYMPOSIUM -- "CRIME AND ILLNESS, Guilt and Sin: Contemporary Predicaments."

Dr. George E. Gardner, Psychiatrist-in-chief, Children's Medical Center, Boston, and Director, Judge Baker Guidance Center

Dr. Asher Pacht, Director of Rehabilitation and Training, Dept. of Correction, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Dr. Volta Hall, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. L. Guy Brown, Chairman, Dept. of Sociology, Rhode Island University.

Dr. John M. Billinsky, Professor of Pastoral Psychology, Andover Newton Theological School, and Chaplain, Boston City Hospital.

Dr. Richard V. McCann, Associate Professor of Social Ethics, Andover Newton Theological School

4:00 - Intermission

4:30 - Open Forum, continuing Symposium topic, and relating it to problems of social and individual responsibility.

7:00 - Supper (Coach Grille, Harvard Square)

(Additional copies of the program may be secured from the Secretary, W. H. Clark, Hartford Seminary Foundation, Hartford 5, Conn.)