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Annual Conference of the
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

Park Sheraton Hotel
New York, New York

October 29-30, 1965

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Thursday, October 28
8:00 - 10:00 P.M.

Council Meeting

Friday, October 29
Morning Session

8:30 - 10:15 A.M. Ballroom

Scientific Study of Religion: Scope and Methods

Chairman: Samuel Z. Klausner, Bureau of Social Science Research, Washington, D.C.

"The Ecology of Affective Mysticism in European History"
Herbert Moller

"Religious Institutions and Dilemmas"
Thomas O'Dea

"A National Study of the Protestant Ministry, Preliminary Findings"
Jeffrey K. Hadden

Discussant: Jaroslav Pelikan, Yale University

10:30 - 12:15 P.M.

Max Weber and Talcott Parsons as Interpreters of Western Religious and Social Development
A Commemorative Colloquium

Benjamin Nelson, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Long Island

James L. Adams, Harvard Divinity School

James M. Gustafson, Yale University

Commentator: Talcott Parsons, Harvard University

Afternoon Session

1:45 - 3:30 P.M.

Religious and Cultural Change in Developing Societies
Chairman: Joseph Bram, New York University

"Validation of Authority in Pentecostal Sects of Brazil and Chile"
Emilio Willems, Vanderbilt University

"Christianity and Reconstruction of World-View Amongs the New Intelligentsia of East Africa"
Manfred Stanley, Wagner College

"Max Weber, the Protestant Ethic and the Chettiars of Madra"
Philip Siegelman, University of Minnesota

3:45 - 5:30 P.M.

Chairman: Joseph L. Cunneen, Editor, Cross Currents Magazine

"Calvinism, Equality and Integration, The Case of South Africa"
Jan T. Loubser, University of Toronto

"American Protestant Neo-Orthodoxy: A Sociological View"
Toyamasa Fuse, Carleton College

"Sub-Cultures and Political Values--Catholics, Protestants and Jews"
Michael Parenti, Sarah Lawrence College

"The Catholic Church and the Desegregation Process: A Study of Bureaucracy"
William A. Osborne, St. John's University
Evening
8:00 P.M.

Dinner

Chairman: Walter H. Clark, Andonver-Newton Theological School

Guest Speakers:

Vittorio Lanternari, Visiting Professor, Department of Religion, Columbia University
"Religions of the Oppressed: Reflections"

Harvey G. Cox, Harvard Divinity School
"Religious Traditions, Science, Democracy: Emerging Conflicts

Saturday, October 30
Morning Session
8:30 - 10:00 A.M.

Religion, Society, Culture: Research in Progress
"Church Members: Toward a New Typology"
Jerry Hochbaum, Yeshiva University

"Attitudes to Death"
Glenn Vernon, University of Maine

"Psychiatric Illness and Religious Affiliation: A Study of a Mental Hospital, 1958-1963"
James Otis Smith and Stanley Seaton, The Timberlawn Foundation

10:15 - 12:15 P.M.

Religious Experience and Belief: Experimental, Clinical and Historical Evidence
Chairman: Walter H. Clark, Andover-Newton Theological School

"Hypnosis, Depth Perception and Psychedelic Experience"
Bernard S. Aaronson, New Jersey Bureau of Research in Neurology and Psychiatry, Princeton, New Jersey

"A Psychedelic Experiment and Experiences"
Richard Underwood, Hartford Seminary Foundation

"Religious Perspectives and Clinical Research"
Robert W. Daly, Upstate Medical Center, State University of New York, Syracuse

"Max Weber Revisited: The 'Protestant Ethic' and Protestant Experience"
David Little, Yale Divinty School

1:30

Business Meeting