1969 Program

OFFICERS AND COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OFFICERS
CHARLES Y. GLOCK, President

BENJAMIN NELSON, Vice President

BENTON JOHNSON, Secretary

RALPH W. BURHOE, Treasurer

SAMUEL L. KLAUSNER, Executive Secretary

COUNCIL MEMBERS
PETER L. BERGER
ANDREW W. GREELEY
JOSEPH BRAM
EDGAR W. MILLS
WALTER H. CLARK
ALBERT C. OUTLER
NICHOLAS J. DEMERATH, III
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE
Chairman: PAUL FACEY, Weston College
EUGENE S. ASHTON, Tufts University
CHARLES W. HAVICE, Northeastern University
THOMAS H. IMSE, College of the Holy Cross
EDWARD ZERIN, Temple Sinai, Sharon, Massachusetts

PROGRAM CHAIRMAN
PHILLIP HAMMOND, University of Wisconsin

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP AND PUBLICATIONS
Membership in the Society is open to qualified scholars. The annual dues of $12.00 include subscription to the Society's scholarly forum, The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Student memberships are available at $6.00. Annual Subscription to the Journal without membership is $12.00.

Members also receive a quarterly Newsletter, occasional supplements, conference reports and a periodically revised Directory. The central office of the Society is located at 3812 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.

TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY
1969 Conference Program
SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY
OF RELIGION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23rd
Room: 6:00-11:00 P.M.-Council Meeting in the Colony Room
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24th
1:00-3:00 P.M.
Thematic Session
Roundtable Discussion: Beyond the Classics
Registrants are invited to choose a discussion and join in conversation

Beyond William James' Varieties of Religious Experience in the Empress Room
Chairman: JAMES DITTES, Yale University

Beyond H. R. Niebuhr's Social Sources of Denominationalism in the Drawing Room
Chairman: ALLAN W. EISTER, Wellesley College

Beyond Max Weber's comparative studies in the Mayflower Room
Chairman: BENJAMIN NELSON, New School for Social Research

Beyond Karl Marx on religion in the Plaza Room
Chairman: NORMAN BIRNBAUM, Amherst College

Beyond Sigmund Freud on religion in the Carlton Room
Chairman: PAUL PRUYSER, Menninger Foundation

3:30-5:30 P.M.
Thematic Session
The Intersection of Social Science and Theology: Taking Stock in the Princess Room
A panel of past presidents of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Chairman: WALTER HOUSTON CLARK, Andover-Newton Theological School

Studies in Religion and Personality Regency
Chairman: VICTOR THIESSEN, Case Western Reserve University

Intrapsychic Functioning and Religious Behavior
JACOB J. LINDENTHAL, JEROME K. MYERS, MAX P. PEPPER, Yale University

Religious Implications of the Experimentally-Induced Telepathic Dream
STANLEY KRIPPNER and RICHARD DAVIDSON, Maimonides Medical Center

Jewish Authoritarianism and Jewish Education
VICTOR D. SANUA, City College of New York

Case Studies as a Means of Identifying Adolescents' Significant Responses to the Bible
FRANCES E. BAILEY, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

6:30-7:30 P.M. President's Reception Princess Foyer

7:30-10:OOP.M. Twentieth Anniversary Banquet Princess Ballroom
Chairman: BENTON JOHNSON, University of Oregon

Presidential Address: Images of "God", Images of Man, and Social Structure
CHARLES Y. GLOCK, University of California, Berkeley

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25th
9:00-11:30 A.M. Princess
Thematic Session
Religion and Social Policy: Impact or Impotence?
Chairman: HENRY CLARK, Duke University

The Detroit Industrial Mission as an Agent of Social justice
ROBERT W. TERRY, University of Chicago

Secular Correlates of Different Styles of Church Participation
TOM CAMPBELL, Yale Divinity School

Eroding Prevailing Social Power through Focused Normative Change
PRENTICE L. PEMBERTON, Colgate Rochester Divinity School

Ministries of Dialogue
HENRY CLARK, Duke University

Discussant: Robert Friedrichs, Drew University

Theory of Religion and Religious Action Regency
Chairman: CHARLES W. ESTUS, Clark University

Secularization of the Value System
RICHARD K. FENN, Bryn Mawr College
The Process of Commitment and Some Areas for Its Application
RONALD C. WIMBERLEY, University of Tennessee

Religion in the Light of a General Behaviorial Model
EDWARD GOLDSMITH, Richmond-Upon-Thames, England

The Concept of the "Inquisitor" and Psychedelic Drugs
WALTER HOUSTON CLARK, Andover-Newton Theological School

1:00-3:00 P.M. Princess
Thematic Session
Religious Commitment: Identifying and Measuring the Religious Variable
Chairman: PAUL PRUYSER, Menninger Foundation
Commitment to Religion and the Church: A Study Using a National Sample
BARBARA B. PITTARD, Georgia State College
and RAYMOND PAYNE, University of Georgia

Mythical-Symbolic Religious Commitment: The LAM Scales
RICHARD A. HUNT, Southern Methodist University

Bridge Burners: Commitment and Participation in a Religious Movement
VIRGINIA H. HINE, Miami, Florida

The Psychology of Religious Doubt
PHILIP M. HELFAER, Boston State Hospital

Discussants: BERNARD SPILKA, University of Denver, HANS G. FURTH, Catholic University

Historical Studies of Religion Regency
Chairman: PAUL DEATS, Boston University

Ethnic Diversity Within Catholicism: Towards the Sociology of Religio-Ethiiic Systems
HAROLD J. ABRAMSON, University of Connect- icut

Religious Commitments of College Students over Five Decades
DEAN R. HOGE, Princeton Theological Seminary

Religion and Reform: The Case Study of Henry Wallace
EDWARD L. SCHAPSMEIER, Illinois State University, and FREDERICK H. SCHAPSMEIER, Wisconsin State University, Oshkosh

Middle Class Moralities: New and Old
C. P. WOLF, Brown University

3:30-5:30 P.M. Princess
Thematic Session
Religion in Various Socio-Cultural Settings
Chairman: GILLIAN L. GOLLIN, American University

A Test of the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Its Implications for Religious Sects in Various Socio-Cultural Settings
LAWRENCE LA FAVA, University of Windsor, and WILLIAM AUGUST MAESEN, Aquinas College

Buddhism and Modernization
NOLAN PLINY JACOBSON, Winthrop College

Religious Communitariariism invarious Cultural Settings: A Reassessment of Recent Empirical Research
GILLIAN LINDT GOLLIN and CONSTANCE M. HALL, American University

Taiping Religion as a Revolutionary Ideology
SUHN-KYUONG HONG, Harvard University

Discussant: Allan Eister, Wellesley College

Churches and Social Change Regency
Chairman: N.J. DEMERATH, III, University of Wisconsin

Churches in Racially Integrated Neighborhoods
GALEN GOCKEL, NORMAN M. BRADBURN, SEYMOUR SUDEN, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago

The Engagement of Churches in West German Social Policy and Its Impact on the Structural Changes of Church Organization
JOACHIM MATTHES, Westfalische WilhelmsUniversitact, West Germany

Religion and Discontent 1: Attitudes of Negroes Toward the Church Following the Los Angeles Riot
JOHN B. McCONAHAY, Yale University

Theological Dimensions of Religious Belief and Their Relationship to Attitudes on Race, Police Brutality and Political Involvement
JOSEPH C. HOUGH, JR., School of Theology at Claremont

8:00 P.M. Joint Plenary Session with the American Academy of Religion Sanders Theatre, Harvard University

The Scientific and Humanistic Study of Religion
Chairman: SAMUEL Z. KLAUSNER, University of Pennsylvania
Theological and Scientific Language in the Study of Christian Tradition
ROBERT N. BELLAH, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant: JAMES T. BURTCHAELI University of Notre Dame

Humanistic and Scientific Knowledge of Religion: Their Social Context and Contrast
WERNER STARK, Fordham University

Discussant: KURT H. WOLFF, Brandeis University

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26th
9:00-11:30 A.M. Empress
Studies of Clergy and Laymen
Chairman: JEFFREY K. HADDEN, Tulane University

Self Perceptions of the Military Chaplain
GORDON C. ZAHN, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Presbyterian Laymen and the Confession of '67: A Case Study in Status Politics
JOHN H. SIMPSON, Stanford University

Theology and Political Attitudes Among Clergymen
JACK BALSWICK, University of Georgia

Variation in Religious Commitment among Anglican Clergy and Its Implications for Religion in England
ROBERT C. TOWLER, University of Leeds, England

Philosophical Studies I Drawing
Chairman: SAMUEL W. BLIZZARD, Princeton Theological Seminary

Identifying the Mystic Variable
ALBIN R. GILBERT, West Virginia Wesleyan College
Pluralism and the American Ideal
ROBERT T. HALL, College of Steubenville
Mysticism and Conversion: Where Social Science and Religion Intersect
BRUCE T. RILEY, Youngstown State University

The Future: The Intersection of Planning, Predicting and Hoping
ROBERT ESBJORNSON, Gustavus Adolphus College

Consciousness and Irreconciliation in the Thought of Luther and Marx
HENRY CARSCH, Queens University

Assessing Religious Identification Mayflower
Chairman: JOSEPH H. FICHTER, Harvard University
The Religiosity of Religious "Nones"
STEPHEN L. FINNER, University of Delaware, Newark

Multi-denominational Instruments for the Assessment of Religious Belief and Behavior
WALTER J. SMITH, Veterans Administration Hospital, Washington D.C. and MAX APFELDORF, Veterans Administration Center, Martinsburg, West Virginia

Identifying and Measuring Religious Dimensions
MORTON KING and RICHARD A. HUNT, Southern Methodist University

Stratification and Religion in Urban Zambia
DAVID WILEY, University of Wisconsin

Behavioral Consequences of Religion Plaza
Chairman: ROBERT ALTHAUSER, Princeton University

Religion's Role in Individual Self-Fulfillment
RICHARD K. MORTON, Jacksonville University

Religious Belief and Behavior: An Isolated System?
ALEXANDER J. WEARING, Yale University

Religion and Fear of Death
GLENN M. VERNON, University of Utah

The Good Samaritan in the Laboratory: Implications of Research on Social Responsibility for Religious Ethics
RONALD R BOHR and THOMAS A. STEINBERG, Philadelphia State Hospital

Studies in Religious Institutions Carlton
Chairman: RICHARD KNUDTEN, Valparaiso University

The Soccer Cult in Brazil: A Quasi-Religion
JANET R. LEVER, Yale University

The Social Integration Function of the Retreat
CARL SLAWSKI, Wayne State University

The Sociology of Schism
JOHN WILSON, Duke University

Some Observations on the Sociology of Religious and Secular Giving: From Charity to Taxes and Beyond
S. RANI BHATNAGAR, Schenectady, New York

1: 00-2: 00 P.M. Business Meeting, CHARLES Y. GLOCK, President Princess

2:00-4:OOP.M. Princess
Thematic Session
Religion as Organization: The Dynamics of Bureaucratized Faith
Chairman: GIBSON WINTER, University of Chicago

Charismatic Authority and Technical Competence in Developing Religious Structures
PAUL M. HARRISON, Pennsylvania State University

Discussants: LAISLE BARTLETT, University of California, Berkeley, MRS. HOBART BURCH, University of Maryland, PATRICK H. McNAMARA, University of Texas, El Paso, JAMES STEWART, University of Notre Dame

Philosophical Studies 11 Regency
Chairman: JERRY HOCHBAUM, Yeshiva University
The Passover, the Last Supper and the Sociology of Symbols
H.J. HELLE, Technische Hochschule, West Germany

Durkheim and Wittgenstein on Forms of Life
PAUL L. HOLMER, Yale University

Some Insights from Sociology into History and Historicity
JACKSON W. CARROLL, Emory University

Phenomenology and the Scientific Study of Religion
LARRY E. SHINER, Cornell College