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ANNUAL MEETING
of the
SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC
STUDY OF RELIGION

 TWENTY SECOND ANNUAL MEETING
Program Theme:
"The Nature of Modern Religious Consciousness"

Interchurch Center,
New York City

October 26-27, 1962

FRIDAY AFTERNOON


3:00 P.M.: Registration, Publisher's Exhibits.
4:00 P.M.: "Is Christianity Regressing or Developing?"Gabriel Vahanian, Syracuse University.
Plenary discussion introduced by Bruce Morgan, Amherst College.

FRIDAY EVENING

Anthropology

Chairman: Dennison Nash, University of Connecticut.

"Iroquois Religions Change and Handsome Lake" - Elisabeth Tooker, Mt. Holyoke College.

"New England Praying Indian Towns: A Method of Conversion" - Ethel Boissevain, Hunter College.

"Religious Conversion and Self-Aggrandizement; A Guatemalan Case Study" -- Benson Saler, University of Connecticut.

"Puerto Rican Spiritualism in Philadelphia" -- Joan D. Koss, University of Pennsylvania.

"Christian Conversion Versus Cultural Conversion" -- Charles Kraft, The Hartford Seminary Foundation.

Psychology

Chairman: James E. Dittes, Yale University.

"Religious Conflict in College Students" -- Joseph Havens, Carleton College .

"Religion, Anti-social Behavior and the Moral Response to Transgression" Aron Wolfe Siegman, University of Maryland.

"Changes in the Religious Orientation of the Individual as They Relate to Changes in the Self-Image" -- Richard V. McCann, Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission.

Sociology

Chairman: Daniel Lerner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"A Perspective on the Functions of Religion in a Developing Society: Islam in Pakistan.' -- Allen W. Eister and Ellen J. McNeilly, Wellesley College.

"Islam and Society in Morocco Past and Present" -- Elaine C. Hagopian, Smith College.

"Some Further Light on the Church-Sect Typology" -- Benton Johnson, University of Oregon.

History

Chairman: Heiko Oberman, Harvard Divinity School.

SATURDAY MORNING


9:00 A.M.: "Contemporary Religion: Consciousness, World View, Institution" -- Thomas Luckmann, New School for Social Research. Plenary discussion introduced by William Johnson, Trinity College.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON


Panel discussion on general theme by chairmen of the Friday evening sections.

Chairman: Peter Berger, Hartford Seminary Foundation.

Members are invited to send to the secretary copies or reprints of recent publication. These will be included in a special display in the registration and exhibit room at the Annual Meeting. Please send the material promptly to James E. Dittes, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven 11, Connecticut.

NEW YORK HOTELS


Only hotel in the immediate vicinity of the Interchurch Center is the King's Crown Hotel, 420 West 116th Street. The Paris Hotel, 752 West End Avenue, is two subway stops away. Both have reasonable rates.

The YMCA William Sloane House, 356 West 34th Street, is convenient to the Interchurch Center by subway. Rates begin at $2.65 for single room without bath.

A complete list of hotels in New York City is available from the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, 90 East 42nd Street.