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ANNUAL MEETING
of the
SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC
STUDY OF RELIGION

 TWENTY THIRD ANNUAL MEETING
Program Theme: "New Knowledge on Moral and
Mystical Dimensions of Religion"

Harvard Divinity School
45 Francis- Avenue,
Cambridge, Massachusetts

October 25-26, 1963
FRIDAY MORNING


8:45 Registration, Braun Room

9:00 SELECTED STUDIES OF MORAL AND MYSTICAL ASPECTS OF RELIGION

Session A: Lower seminar room

James N. Lapsley (Princeton Theological Seminary) "The Devotional Life and Mental Health"

Charles W. Stewart (Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies)"The Roots of Mystical Experience in Two Adolescent Girls"

Walter Houston Clark (Andover Newton Theological School)"The Mystical Consciousness as the Basis for a Concept of the Religious Self"

Discussion, opened by James R. Horne (Renison College, Ontario)

9:00 SELECTED STUDIES OF MORAL AND MYSTICAL ASPECTS OF RELIGION

Session B: Braun Room

Edward L. Burke (Center for Scientific Study of Suicide, Los Angeles)"Moral Self-Judgment in Suicide Notes"

Benjamin Nelson (State University of New York)"Conscience, Moral and Transmoral: Historic Encounters and Current Perplexities"

Maurice Friedman (Sarah Lawrence College)"The Transmoral Morality"

FRIDAY AFTERNOON

2:00 ADDITIONAL DIMENSIONS OF RELIGION

Meyer Barash (Hofstra College) "Durkheim, Weber, and Merton: Middle-Range Theory & Sociology of Religion"

Vytautas Kavolis (The Defiance College) "Art Style as Projection of Religious Qualities"

3:00 RELIGION AND CHANGING RACE RELIGIONS TODAY

Thomas F. Pettigrew (Harvard University) "Wherein the Church has Failed in Race"

Ralph L. Roy (Columbia University ) "The Clergyman and the Civil Rights Movement"

FRIDAY EVENING

Sperry Hall, Harvard Divinity School

8:00 NEW KNOWLEDGE ON MORAL AND MYSTICAL DIMENSIONS OF RELIGION
Horace M. Kallen (New School for Social Research) "Old Mysticism and New Knowledge"

James Gutmann (Columbia University) "Moral Integrity, Social Integration, and Mystical Experience "
Ralph Wendell Burhoe (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) "New Knowledge on the Nature of Moral and Mystical Experience"

SATURDAY MORNING

Sperry Hall, Harvard Divinity School

9:00 CAN EXPERIMENTATION WITH MIND-ACTIVATING SUBSTANCES FURTHER THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION?

A. Past and Present 'Mind-Activation' and Religious Consciousness

Jean Houston (Foundation for Mind Research) "Psycho-Chemistry & Religious Consciousness. An Historical Introduction"

John Beresford (Foundation for Mind Research)"Bio-Chemistry and Medical Aspects of Mind Activating Substances"

DISCUSSION OF FRIDAY EVENING AND SATURDAY MORNING PAPERS

SATURDAY AFTERNOON

Sperry Hall, Harvard Divinity School

1:00 ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING OF THE SOCIETY

2:30 CAN EXPERIMENTATION WITH MIND-ACTIVATING SUBSTANCES FURTHER THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION?

B. New Frontiers of Mind Research and Scientific Study of Religion

Michael Hollinghead (Foundation for Mind Research)"Revelation & Reformation in the Psychodelic Experience"

Comments and Discussion

GENERAL DISCUSSION OF CONFERENCE THEME