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Twentieth Meeting
THE SOCIETY FOR THE
SCIENTIFIC STUDY
OF RELIGION
October28-29, 1960
INTERCHURCH CENTER, NEW YORK CITY
Bureau of Research and Survey
National Council of Churches
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28
Rooms C and D, Main Floor Lobby, Interchurch Center,
475 Riverside Drive
- 9:00 Registration, Room C
- Registration fee: $1 for non-members
No registration fee for members, applicants for membership, and students
10:00 Presiding: Allan W. Eister, Wellesley College
"A cross-cultural comparison of personality correlates of religious beliefs and observances"
Aron W. Siegman, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv
"Socio-economic background and religious knowledge of Catholic college students"
John Kosa, Cornell University; and Cyril 0. Shommer, S.J.,
and Leo D. Rachiele, LeMoyne College
"Some factors associated with church attendance"
Bernard Lazerwitz, University of Illinois
"Deathbed observations by physicians and nurses"
Karhs Osis, Parapsychology Foundation, New York
12:00 Luncheon Cafeteria, Lower Lobby, Interchurch Center
Members will go through the cafeteria line and eat in reserved section
12:00 Meeting of the Council, Cafeteria, Interchurch Center
1:30 Presiding: Lauris Whitman,
Bureau of Research and Survey, National Council of Churches
"A new method for the analysis of the supernatural: A case study from field work in Thailand"
Robert Textor, Yale University
"Adventures of a theology in the dominion of science"
Joseph Havens, Carleton College
"An experiment in testing religious claims and their significance for education"
Rubin Gotesky, University of Northern Illinois
"The meaning of 'scientific' in the study of religious values"
Philip Wiener, College of the City of New
York; Editor, Journal of the History of Ideas
FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28
- 8:00 Presiding: Horace M. KaHen, New School for Social Research
- Invited address: "The scientific study of religion as theory and as practice"
- John Hermann Randall, Columbia University
- Panel Discussion:
- Anthropology: Otto Klineberg, Columbia University
- Psychology: Solomon Asch, Swarthmore College
- Psychoanalysis: Benjamin Nelson, University of the State of
New York
- Sociology: Talcott Parsons, Harvard University
- Philosophy of Science: Sidney Morgenbesser, Columbia University
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29
- 9:30 Workshops: Problems in the scientific study of religion
- Main Floor Lobby, Interchurch Center, 475 Riverside Drive
- Anthropology, Room A
- Presiding: Dorothy Lee, Harvard University
- Panel: May Edel, John L. Elliot Institute
- Arthur I. Viditch, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
- Absalom Vilakazi, Hartford Seminary Foundation
- Psychology Room B
- Presiding: Walter H. Clark, Hartford Seminary Foundation
- Panel: James E. Dittes, Yale University
- Mary Henle, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
- John Sullivan, New York University
- Psychoanalysis Room C
- Presiding: Dr. Mortimer Ostow, New York
- Panel: Dr. Margaretta K. Bowers, New York
- Dr. John W. Higgins, Hartford
- Mrs. Benjamin Nelson, New York
- Dr. Harry Slochower, Association for Applied Psychoanalysis, New York
- Sociology Room D
- Presiding: Prentiss Pemberton, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
- Panel: Carl Mayer, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
- Leo Pfeffer, American Jewish Congress
- Helmut Wagner, Bucknell University
- Philosophy of Science Robing Room
- Presiding: H. S. Thayer, Barnard College
- Panel: Horace Friess, Columbia University
- James Gutmann, Columbia University
- Robert Marks,
Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
- 12:30 Luncheon Cafeteria, Lower Lobby, Interchurch Center
- Tickets at $2. So available in advance at registration desk
- Workshop Reports
- Dorothy Lee, Harvard University
- Walter H. Clark, Hartford Seminary Foundation
- Dr. Mortimer Ostow, New York
- Prentiss Pemberton, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
- H. S. Thayer, Barnard College
- Business Meeting
2:30 Meeting of the Council Research Conference Room, Eighth