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SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION

Fourteenth Meeting - April 13, 1957
Men's Faculty Club,, Columbia University
400 West 117th Street, New York City
SYMBOLISM AND RELIGION

Morning Session: Theoretical Aspects
Chairman, Walter Houston Clark, Ph.D.

Opening - Werner Wolff, Ph.D.

10:00 L. John Adkins, Ph.D.: Construct Formation in Science and Religion
10:20 Swami Akhilananda: Psychological Necessity of Religious Symbols
10:40 Maya Deren: Major Religious Symbols in the Voodoo Cult
11:00 Ralph Harper, Ph.D.: The Relationship between Mystical Symbols and Existential Boundary Situations
11:20 Horace M. Kallen, Ph.D.: The Symbol as a Survival Value
11:40 Dagobert D. Runes, Ph.D.: Symbolism in the Philosophy of Spinoza
12:00 Werner Wolff, Ph.D.: Origin and Structure of Religious Symbols

12:30 Lunch, Men's Faculty Club, Columbia University
1:30 Business Meeting

Afternoon Session: Clinical Aspects
Chairman, Charles Y. Glock Ph. D.

2:30 Margaretta K. Bowers, M.D.: Clinical Notes on the Psychological Derivation of Personal Distortions of Doctrine by Theological Students
2:50 M. Esther Harding, M.D.: What Makes the Symbol Effective?
3:10 Ernest Harms, Ph.D.: Genesis of the Religious Symbol Experience in Children
3:30 Margaret Naumburg: Religious Symbols in the Unconscious of Man
3:50 Mortimer Ostow, M.D.: The Biologic Basis of Religious Symbolism
4:10 Alexander A. Schneiders, Ph.D.: Religious Symbolism and Neurotic Disorder
4:30 Harry Slochower, Ph.D.: The Psychoanalytic Process and Symbolism in the Book of Job
5:00 Research Proposals, Chairman, Jacqueline Y. Sutton, Ph.D.

(Except for the Business Meeting, these sessions are open to the public. Additional copies of the program may be had from the Secretary, W. H. Clark, Hartford School of Religious Education, Hartford 5, Connecticut.)

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SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION

Fifteenth Meeting - November 2, 1957
Harvard Faculty Club, Quincy Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts

SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF RELIGION

Morning sessions

9:00 Registration and reservations for lunch (Fee for non-members--one dollar)
9:15 Welcoming remarks - Richard V. McCann, Andover-Newton Theological School

9:30-11:00 Some Functions-of Religion in Pre-industrial Societies

Chairman: Allan W. Eister, Wellesley College

"Proselytizing Religions and Tribalism in a West African Town," Daniel F. McCall, Boston University
"Functional Relationships of a Hindu Cult." Pauline Mahar, Cornell University
"Religion and Ideology in the Modernization Process," Robert N. Bellah, Harvard University

11:10 12:30 Some Functions of Religion in American Society

Chairman: Harold W. Pfautz, Brown University

"The Acculturation Process and the Peace Doctrine of the Church of the Brethren in the American Midwest" Donald M. Royer, Manchester College
"Comparison of Religious Beliefs and Practices of Jewish, Catholic and Protestant Students," Joseph Maier and William Spinrad, Rutgers University
"A Study of Altruistic Behavior among Fraternity Men" Robert Friedrichs, Drew University
"Cultural Consciousness among Jewish Youth in a Metropolitan Area." Werner J. Cahnman, Hunter College

12:40 Lunch (followed by Business Meeting) Coach Grill, 22 Boylston Street, off Harvard Square

Afternoon sessions

2:00 - 3:20 Some Psychological Functions of Religion

Chairman: Walter H. Clark, Hartford School of Religious Education

"Need for Cognitive Clarity as a Defense of Self-Esteem," James E. Dittes, Yale University
"Why do People Consult the Occult?" Mrs. Lee R. Steiner, Psychologist, New York Citv
"Psychology and.Ethics: the viewpoint of a Clinical Psychologist,' John V. Quaranta, Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of New York

3:30 -5:00 Colloquium on the dialectic between intellectualism and anti- intellectualism in American Protestantism

Chairman: Everett C. Hughes, The University of Chicago (Visiting Professor, Harvard University)

Horace R. Cayton, Bureau of Research and Survey, National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
Hans Hofmann, Harvard University
Horace M. Kellen, New School for Social Research
Samuel Z. Klausner, Columbia University
William G. McLoughlin, Jr., Brown University
Arnold S. Nash, The University of North Carolina
Bleff, Brandeis University

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The NEXT MEETING of The Society is scheduled for April 13, 1957 at Columbia University. Persons wishing to read papers are asked to submit either papers or 300 word abstracts to the program chairman, Dr. Lauris B. Whitman, c/o the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America 297 Fourth Avenue, New York 10, N.Y.

Persons wishing to join -1@ Society and receive abstracts of papers read at the meetings are invited to write the Secretary, Dean Walter H. Clark, Hartford School of Religious Education, Hartford 5, Connecticut.