1972 Program

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ANNUAL MEETING
of the
SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC
STUDY OF RELIGION
in conjunction with the
Religious Research Association

Parker House
Boston, Massachusetts

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
October 26-28, 1972

OFFICERS AND COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
OFFICERS PRESIDENT James E. Dittes, Yale University
VICE-PRESIDENT Samuel Klausner, University of Pennsylvania
SECRETARY Phillip E. Hammond, University of Arizona
TREASURER Edgar W. Mills, Ministry Studies Board, National
Council of Churches of Christ in the USA
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY William V. D' Antonio, Box U68A, University of Connecticut

COUNCIL
Samuel W. Blizzard, Princeton Theological Seminary
Daniel J. Callahan, Institute of Society,Ethics and the Life Sciences
Dorothy Dohen, Fordham University
Joseph H. Fichter, SUNY, Albany
Charles Y. Glock, University of California, Berkeley
C. Eric Lincoln, Union Theological Seminary
David 0. Moberg, Marquette University
Christopher F. Mooney, S.J., Woodstock College

EDITOR: JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
Benton E. Johnson, University of Oregon

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Robert G. Jones, University of Virginia

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRMEN
Dean D. Knudsen and James D. Davidson, (Sociology) Purdue U.
Advisory Committee
Edward A. Maziarz, (Philosophy) Loyola University, Chicago
Thomas W. Ostrom, (Psychology) The Ohio State University
Phillip Rice, (Psychology) Morningside College
Edward Schapmeier, (History) Illinois State University
Thomas Stone, (Anthropology) State University College at Potsdam, N.Y.
Nathan Turner, (Religious Education) American Baptist Convention
John M. Vayhinger, (Theology) Anderson School of Theology
Student Advisory Committee, Purdue University
Francis Bissallion
Mary Lou Echterling
Allen Fisher
Leslie Hollingsworth
Hyman Mariampoiski
Pamela J. Rich
R. Niles Stroh

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE
Thomas Imse, Holy Cross College, Chairman
Herbert Stotts, Boston University
Max Stackhouse, Andover Newton Theological School

OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS
PRESIDENT Thomas M. Gannon, S.J., Loyola University of Chicago
VICE PRESIDENT Everett L. Perry, Board of National Missions, United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
SECRETARY William Silverman, New York University
TREASURER Charles Thorne, Metropolitan New York Synod, Lutheran Church in America

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ronald L. Johnstone, Central Michigan University
Oscar Cohen, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
James E. Dittes, Yale University
Sr. Eloise Thomas, B.V.M., Mundelein College
Arleon Kelley, Ohio Council of Churches
Samuel Southard, Georgia Mental Health Institute

EDITOR: REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH
David 0. Moberg, Marquette University

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Richard Knudten, Marquette University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE, 1972
Ross Scherer, Chairman, Loyola University of Chicago
Waldo Burchard, Northern Illinois University

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE
Sandra Rajcock Blackman, City Missionary Society of Boston

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
THE REGISTRATION DESK will be located in the Main Lobby, First Floor.
It will be open
Thursday, October 26 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Friday, October 27 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.-M.
Saturday, October 28 9:00 A.M. - Noon

THE REGISTRATION FEE is $6.50 for members of SSSR, RRA, or APRRE*, $7.50 for non-members and $2.50 for students. Fee includes admissions to all meetings and one copy of the Abstracts of Papers. The charge for attendance at The Presidental Reception is $1.50 including the cost of drinks. Tickets for the Breakfast Roundtables are $ 1.50 each and your choice should be indicated on the pre-registration form.

*The 1972 Meetings of the Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education are being held also at the Parker House in Boston. The program of sessions for that organization follows the listing of SSSR-RRA sessions. Registrants to either conference are welcome to attend sessions of the other.

EXHIBITS: Exhibits of publishers and recent writings by members of SSSR and RRA will be on display in the Curtis Room.

ABSTRACTS: Additional copies of Abstracts of Papers are available at the Registration Desk. Price $1.50.

SPECIAL OCCASIONS
Presidental Reception: Friday 5:00 - 6:30 P.M. Hawthorne Room

SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION MEMBERSHIP AND PUBLICATIONS
Membership in the Societv is open to qualified scholars. The annual dues of S15 include subscription to the Society's publication, 7he Journal for the Scientific Sti4dy of Religion which is published quarterly. Student memberships are available at $8. Annual subscription to the Journal without membership is $ 1 5.

RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP AND PUBLICATIONS
Membership in the Association is open to interested persons. The annual dues of SI 1 for Fellow, $ 15 for Contributing, and $ 50 or more for Supporting Membership include subscription to the Association's publication, Tlze Revievv of Religious Research, which is published three times a year. Student memberships are available at $9. Annual subscription to the Review without membership is $9.

1972 PROGRAM

SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
in conjuction with the
Religious Research Association

Theme:
THE RELIGIOUS SCENE IN THE 1970s: ANALYSIS AND PROSPECTS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26

9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Registration First Floor Lobby
SSSR Members $6.50
RRA Members $6.50
APRRE Members $6.50
NonMembers $7.50
Students $2.50
Tickets to:
Presidential Reception $1.50
Breakfast Roundtables $1.50 (per session)

9:00 A.M.
SSSR COUNCIL MEETING, James Dittes, President, SSSR, Presiding
Dickens Room
RRA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING, Thomas M. Gannon, S.J., President, RRA, Presiding
Brandeis Room

12:00
SSSR COUNCIL LUNCHEON Room 166

2:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.
SESSION I (Formal) RELIGION AND MENTAL HEALTH
Brandeis Room
Chairman:
PAUL PRUYSER, The Menninger Foundation, Topeka Kansas
Participants:
JOSIE L. TYLER JR., Pacolet, South Carolina
"The Sacramental Aspect of Therapy"
E. MARK STERN, Iona College
"Psychotherapy as an Approach to Religious Concern"
ROBERT MILLS, Emanuel Congregation, Chicago
"Health Care and the Role of Church/Synagogue:
Some Administrative Perspectives"

SESSION 2 (Seminar) THE POOR AND THE CHURCH
Hawthorne Room
Chairman:
NORMAN BIRNBAUM, Amherst College
Participants:
JAMES CONE, Union Theological Seminary
HARVEY CO I Harvard Divinity School
JOSEPH FITZPATRICK, Fordham University

SESSION 3 (Seminar) CHURCH MERGERS: THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE
Old Boston Room
Chairman:
PHILLIP STEINMETZ, Vicar, St. John's Church, Ashfield, Massachusetts
Participants:
STEWART CRYSDALE, York University
STANLEY SKINNER, New York Council of Churches, Syracuse
THEODORE ERICKSON, U.C.C., Board of Homeland Ministers
DANIEL SCHORES, Austin College

SESSION 4 (Seminar) CHANGING PATTERNS OF JEWISH IDENTIFICATION
(Session sponsored by the Association for the Sociological Study of Jewry)
Hutchinson and Lowell Rooms
Chairman:
ARNOLD DASHEFSKY, University of Connecticut
Participants:
JESSIE BERNARD, Washington, D.C.
HILLEL LEVINE, Harvard University
CARMI SCHWARTZ, Associated Jewish Charities,Baltimore
STEPHEN STEINBERG, Graduate Center, CUNY

3:45 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
SESSION 5 (Formal) RELIGION AND MODERNIZATION IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
Hutchinson and Lowell Rooms
Chairman:
THOMAS STONE, The State University College at Potsdam, New York
Participants:
JAMES PEACOCK, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Psychological Implications of the Muslim Refortnation in Southeast Asia"
THOMAS KIRSCH, Cornell University
"The Modernizing Implications of 'Sectarianism' in the Thai Buddhist Sangha"
Discussant:
RUEL TYSON, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

SESSION 6 (Seminar) RELIGIOUS ATTITUDES: A PROBLEM OF COGNITIVE-AFFECTIVE CONSISTENCY
Brandeis Room
Presenter:
PROF. DR. G. SCHMIDTCHEN, University of Zurich
"German Catholics Between Church and Society"

SESSION 7 (Formal) RELIGION AND THE SELF
Holmes Room
Chairman:
GLENN VERNON, University of Utah
Participants:
GARY D. BOUMA and DONALD Q. BRODIE, Dalhousie University
"Religious Participation and Personal Integration"
PATRICK M. BIESTY, County College of Morris, Dover, New Jersey
"The Functioning of the Self in Rites of Passage"

SESSION 8 (Formal) CONCEPTS AND MEASURES OF RELIGIOSITY
Old Boston Room
Chairman:
ROBERT B. TAPP, University of Minnesota
Participants:
DAVID 0. MOBERG, JAMES BOBZIEN, Marquette University; MICHAEL R. LEMING, University of Utah; and JOHN ZYLAK, Fordham, University
"Interrelationships between Christian Social Concern, Evangelism, and Orthodoxy"
DAVID R. GIBBS, SAMUEL A. MUELLER, AND JAMES R. WOOD, Indiana University
"Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience, and the Consequential Dimension"

5:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Happy Hour (Dutch Treat)
Hawthorne Room

8:00 P.M.
SESSION 9 H. PAUL DOUGLASS LECTURE
Hawthorne Room
(Sponsored by The Religious Research Association)
Chairman:
EVERETT PERRY, United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
Presenter:
EARL D.C. BREWER, Emory University
"Social Indicators and Religious Indicators"

SESSION 10 (Seminar) RELIGION AND REVOLUTION
Old Boston Room
Chairman:
C.P. WOLF, Brown University
Participants:
ROBERT D. ROSSEL, Southern Illinois University
WAYNE YOUNGQUIST, Northern Illinois University
HENRY CARSCH, Sir George Williams University
VATRO MURVAR, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
WILLIAM MURNION, Newton College of the Sacred Heart
FR. THOMAS FENTON, Maryknoll Missioners

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27
9:OOA.M.-5:OOP.M. Registration First Floor Lobby

9: 00 A.M. - 1 0: 00 A.M. BREA KFAST ROUNDTABLES
Hawthorne Room
(These sessions include coffee and rolls, and are limited to 12 persons per table. Admission is by ticket only, cost $1.50 per session. Tickets should be ordered in advance for each session through pre-registration card. Tickets will also be available at the registration desk.)

Table I - W. SEWARD SALISBURY, SUNY, Oswego
"Finnish and American Protestant Seminarians: A CrossCultural Study"
Table 2 - CHARLES C. LEMERT, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
"Defining Non-Church Religion"
Table 3 - BRADLEY HERTEL, Vanderbilt University
"Some Dimensions of Sanskritization: Belief, Practice, and Equalitarianism Among Hindus of the Gangetic Plain"
Table 4 - WILLIAM MAESEN, College of St. Francis and SHERRY JAEGER MAESEN, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle
"Academic Panic vis-a'-vis An Institutional Self-Study: A Case in Point"
Table 5 - BENJAMIN BEIT-HALLAHMI, Ann Arbor, Michigan
"Some Uses of Religion in the Arab-Israeli Conffict"
Table 6 - PAUL R. DOMMERMUTH, SUNY, Fredonia
"The Changing Scene: Training Dilemmas in the Socialization of the Clergy"
Table 7 - JOSEPH M. ARCERI, Oblate College
"The Trickster and the Counter-Culture: Mythic Text and Historical Event in Mediation"
Table 8 - ANDREW J. WEIGERT, University of Notre Dame
"Whose Invisible Religion? Luckmann Revisited"
Table 9 - PHILIP J. MURNION, Archdiocese of New York
'. A Typology of Theodicies"
Table 1O -DANIEL BRESLAUER, Colgate University
"Jewish Mysticism on the University Campus: Some Sociological Considerations"
Table 11 - WALTER HOUSTON CLARK, Andover - Newton Theological School
"The Place of Drugs in the Religion of the Counter Culture"
Table 12 - DONALD PLOCH, Yale University
"Highei, Education: Faculty as Professionalization and Change Agents"
Table 13 - MOCHINOBU SHIMO, Andover - Newton Theological School
"Buddhist and Social Change: The Case of the Jyodo Shinshu and the Peasant War in Medieval Japan"
Table 14 - LOYDE H. HARTLEY, The Lancaster Theological Seminary
"A Study of Professional Placement and Deployment in the United Church of Christ"
Table 15 - DJURO J. VRGA, Central Michigan University "The Religious and Psychosocial Aspects of Confession"

10:15 A.M. - 11:45 A.M.
SESSION 1 1 (Formal) THE NEW RELIGIONS: ASIA AND AFRICA
Hutchinson and Lowell Rooms
Chairman:
THOMAS STONE, The State University College at Potsdam, New York
Participants:
HOWARD WIMBERLY, Adelphi University
"Tradition and Continuity in Contemporary Japanese Religious Movements"
JAMES W. FTRNANDEZ, Dartmouth
"African Religious Movements"
Discussant:
BERNARD BERNIER, University of Montreal
GERALD WIENER, Adelphi University

SESSION 12 (Formal) CHANGES IN CATHOLICISM
Brandeis Room
Chairman:
ROGER O'TOOLE, Scarborough College
Participants:
MICHAEL HARRISON, SUNY, Stony Brook
"Sources of Recruitment to Catholic Pentecostalism, a Middle-Class Religious Movement"
MEREDITH B. McGUIRE, Montclaire State College
"The 'Underground Church' in American Catholicism"

SESSION 13 (Formal) MATHEMATICS AND THEOLOGY: EVIDENCE OF MUTUAL INTERACTION AND INFLUENCE
Holmes Room
Chairman:
DONALD PLOCH, Yale University
Participants:
GRANVILLE C. HENRY, Jr., Claremont Men's College
"Mathematics and a Doctrine of God"
EDWARD A. MAZIARZ, Loyola University, Chicago
"Meta-Mathematics and Meta-Theology: An Inquiry"

SESSION 14 (Formal) COMMUNES AND PARA-RELIGIOUS GROUPS
Old Boston Room
Chairman:
GORDON ZATIN, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Participants:
JOFIN W. GROUTT and THOMAS 0. KARST, Temple U.
"Inside Mystical Heads: The Personal Construct Theory of George A. Kelly as Applied to a Religious-Mystical Commune"
CLARENCE H. SNELLING and OLIVER R. WHITLEY, Iliff School of Theology
"Problem-Solving Behavior in Religious and ParaReligious Groups"

1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
SESSION 15 (Seminar) ON BERGER, RIEFF, and BELLAH
Hutchinson and Lowell Rooms
Chairman:
VATRO MURVAR, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Participants:
GORDON CLANTON, Rutgers University
CHRIS DOWNING, Rutgers University
RANDY HUNTSBERRY, Wesleyan University

SESSI0N 16 (Seminar) INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
Holmes Room
Chairman:
DAVID MOBERG, Marquette University
Participants:
DOUGLAS W. JOHNSON, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
"The Use of Social Science Data as a Basis for Administrative Information Systems in Religion"
VICTOR STREUFERT, Center for Social Research in the Church and Concordia Teachers College
"Information Systems for the Use of Census Data in Scientific Research on Religion"
BELDEN MENKUS, Bergenfield, New Jersey
"Elements in a Model for a Comprehensive Information System in Religion"
Discussant:
ARLEON KELLEY, Ohio Council of Churches

SESSION 17 (Seminar) YOUTH: THEIR RELIGION AND ROLE IN THE CHURCH
Hawthorne Room
Chairman:
LAUREN LANGMAN, Loyola University, Chicago
Participants:
MERTON STROMMEN, Youth Research Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
RALPH C. UNDERWAGER, Youth Research Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
M.L. BREKKE, Youth Research Center, Minneapolis, Minn.

SESSION 18 (Formal) RELIGION AND LEISURE
Old Boston Room
Chairman:
NATHAN TURNER, American Baptist Convention
Participants:
DONALD LIEBERT, Rutgers University
"The Church and Leisure: A Conceptual Framework and a Resort Community Illustration"
BARBARA PAYNE, Georgia State University
"The Local Church in the New Towns"

2:45 P.M. 3:45 P.M.
SESSION 19 (Formal) RELIGION AND SOCIAL CLASS
Hutchinson and Lowell Rooms
Chairman:
N.J. DEMERATH III, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Participants:
RICHARD B. STURGIS, Western Illinois University and PHILIP W. CONN, Frankfort, Kentucky
"The Association Between the Socio-Economic Status of Congregations and Hymn Preference"
CLYDE Z. NUNN, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
"Social Class and Religious Participation: Sectarians As An Exception"

SESSION 20 (Formal) RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE-1
Brandeis Room
Chairman:
JOHN M. VAYHINGER, Anderson School of Theology
Participants:
BRUCE T. RILEY, Youngstown State University
"Neglected Aspects of Religious Experience"
ALBIN R. GILBERT, West Virginia Wesleyan College
"Mind Expansion and Unitive Living"

SESSION 21 (Formal) RELIGION: PERINIANENCE AND CHANGE
Holmes Room
Chairman:
JOSEPH H. FICHTER, SUNY, Albany
Participants:
CHARLES THORNE, Lutheran Church in America
"The Need for a New Type of Clergy Leadership"
WALTER H. CAPPS, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Toward a Kinetic Model of Research in Religion"
CONALD FOUST, Sangamon State University
"Integrative and Disintegrative Religious Authority"

SESSION 22 (Formal) CONFLICT AND CHANGE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Old Boston Room
Chairman:
JOHN STRUZZO, Northern Illinois University
Participants:
JOHN SEIDLER, The Ohio State University
"Catholic Clergy in Conflict: A Causal Model to Explain Priest-Initiated Rebellion Against Bishops"
JAMES STEWART, St. Olaf College
"Religious Authority, Ideology, and Organizational Change: The National Federation of Priest's Council"

4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
SSSR Business Meeting
Old Boston Room

5:00-P.M. -6:30 P.M.
Presidential Reception
Hawthorne Room

8:00 P.M.
SESSION 23 (Seminar) JESUS FREAKS: OBSERVATIONS AND FORECASTS
Hawthorne Room
Chairman:
ALLAN W. EISTER, Wellesley College
Participants:
CARDELL K. JACOBSON, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
RICHARD ANTHONY, University of North Carolina
THOMAS ROBBINS, Queens College
THOMAS E. CURTIS, University of North Carolina
BARBARA W. HARGROVE, Survey Research Center, Berkeley
THOMAS J. PILARZYK, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

SESSION 24 (Seminar) WOMEN'S RELIGIOUS ORDERS IN CHANGE
Old Boston Room
Chairman:
SR. MARIE AUGUSTA NEAL, Emmanuel College
Participants:
SR. MARIE AUGUSTA NEAL, Emmanuel College
NATALIE ALLON, Hofstra University
ELAINE STOCKER, Chicago, Illinois
SR. MARIA VIANNEY DONOVAN, Everett, Mass.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28
9:00 A.M. - Noon Registration First Floor Lobby

9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.
BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLES
Hawthorne Room
(These sessions include coffee and rolls, and are limited to 12 persons per table. Admission is by ticket only, cost $1.50 per session. Tickets should be ordered in advance for each session through pre-registration card. Tickets will also be available at the registration desk.)
Table 16 - STANLEY STARK, Michigan State University
"Charismatic Perception: Positive and Negative"
Table 17 - JOHN E. BIERSDORF, National Council of the Churches of Christ
"Evaluation of Religion in American Life"
Table 18 - JOHN KOTRE, University of Michigan, Dearborn
"The Church as an Inkblot"
Table 19 - JAMES L. LOWRY, Enablement, Inc., Boston, Mass.
"Tentmakers: Clergy with Secular Employment"
Table 20 - WILLIAM H. LIKINS, United Methodist Church, Nashville, Tennessee
"Identifying Potential Seminarians and Interpreting-Enlisting for Ministry in the 1970s"
Table 21 - ROBERT ALTHAUSER, Princeton University
"The 'Instrumental Paradox': An Empirical Test of a Hypothesis"
Table 22 - REGINALD D. OLSON, Muskingam College
"Ministers on the Moon: Clergy Attitudes Toward the Space Program"
Table 23 - WILLIAM H. ANDERSON, JR., Virginia Union University
"The American Black as Weber's Pariah People"
Table 24 - EDWARD C. LEHMAN, JR., SUNY, Brockport
"A Reexamination of Academic Discipline as Predictive of Faculty Religiosity"
Table 25 - CHARLES W. ESTUS , Assumption College
"Religious Crisis: The Catholic Situation"
Table 26 - ALBERT BERGESEN, Stanford University
"The Role of 'Immanence' in a Theory of Witch-Hunts"
Table 27 - JOHN KEATING, University of Washington
"The Next Step: A Progessive Dialogue Between Empirical Psychology and Religion"
Table 28 - FRANCIS H. TOUCHET
"The Cold War and the Social Gospel: The Metish Case"
Table 29 - RICHARD C. MADDOCK and CHARLES T. KENNY, Memphis State University
"Philosophies of Human Nature as a Function of Personal Religious Orientations"
Table 30 - DEAN R. HOGE, Princeton Theological Seminary and JACKSON W. CARROLL, Emory University
"Religion and Prejudice Among Suburban Protestants"

10:30 A.M. - Noon
SESSION 25 (Formal) DEFINITIONAL PROBLEMS IN RELIGION
Old Boston Room
Chairman:
PHILIP RICE, Morningside College
Participants:
MARY C. ROSE, Goucher College
"The Agapastic Attitude in the Study of Religion"
WARREN W. LANE, Buffalo, New York
"The 'Numinous' as a Category in the Psychology of Religion"

SESSION 26 (Formal) CHURCH ORGANIZATION AND RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY
Brandeis Room
Chairman:
W. CLARK ROOF, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Participants:
JOHN NILES BARTHOLOMEW, The Lindenwood Colleges
"The Relationship Between Theological and Organizational Authority in Varying Polities"
K. PETER TAKAYAMA, Memphis State University
"Results of Administrative Rationalization in irrotestant Denominations"

SESSION 27 (Seminar) UPDATING WEBER: INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF THE PROTESTANTISM WITH WHICH CONTEMPORARY, CORPORATE CAPITALISM COULD HOLD AN ELECTIVE AFFINITY
Hutchinson and Lowell Rooms
Chairman:
J. ALAN WINTER, Connecticut College
Participants:
DEAN HOGE, Princeton Theological Seminary
RICHARD KNUDTEN, Marquette University
CHARLES LEMERT, Southern Illinois University
DAVID LITTLE, University of Virginia

SESSION 28 (Formal) RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE-II
Holmes Room
Chairman:
DONALD CAPPS, Divinity School, University of Chicago
Participants:
EDWARD GEORGE BOZZO, St. Tiinothy's Church, Norwood, Massachusetts
"Jesus as a Paradigm for Personal Life"
GERALD B. STRICKLER, California State University, Long Beach
"A Meaningful Symbol for God"

Noon - 1:00 P.M.
Hawthorne Room
RRA BUSINESS MEETING

1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.
SESSION 29 (Seminar) APPROACHES TO THEOLOGY IN THE 1970's
Hutchinson and Lowell Rooms
Chairman:
A.M. FRAZIER, Hollins College
Discussants:
JOHN G. MILHAVEN, Brown University
GUSTAVE-PIERRE LEONARD, Bronxville, New York
GARY J. QUINN, University of Notre Dame

SESSION 30 (Formal) CHURCH AND SECT
Holmes Room
Chairman:
RUSSELL DYNES, The Ohio State University
Participants.
JOHN B. SNOOK, Barnard College
"An Alternative to Church-Sect"
PAUL M. GUSTAFSON, Hiram College
"Exegesis on the Gospel According to Saint Max"

SESSION 31 (Formal) RELIGION AND ECOLOGY
Brandeis Room
Chairman:
SCOTT PARADISE, Boston Industrial Mission
Participants:
OWEN OWENS, American Baptist Home Mission Societies
"Salvation and Ecology"
ARTHUR KROKER, McMaster University
"Christianity and Ecology: Steps to an Appreciative Ascetic"

ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSORS AND RESEARCHERS IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts-October 28-30, 1972
President Neely D. McCarter, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia
President-Elect C. Ellis Nelson, Union Theological Seminary, N.Y.
Secretary-Treasurer Harriet L. Miller, United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio
Editor of Newsletter Donald F. Williams, Atlanta Theological Association, Emory University

PROGRAM SCHEDULE*
Saturday, Oct. 28
2:00 P.M. "Education Within Community," Joseph C. Neiman,** International Center of Religious Education
2:30 P.M. "Me Faith Community as Teacher," Donald E. Miller, Bethany Theological Seminary
3:00 P.M. "A Theology of Learning," Delbert Schultz, Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod
3:30 P.M. Break for Coffee
4:00 P.M. Responses to papers by: Charles Metchert, Colgate Rochester/Bexley Hall/Crozer Divinity School and McMurry S. Richey, The Divinity School, Duke University
4:30 P.M. General Discussion
8:00 P.M. "A social-science approach to Religious Education," James Michael Lee, University of Notre Dame
Panel Discussion: Clifton Moore, Boston University, Schp?l of Theology, David Stewart, Pacific School of Religion, Berard L. Marthaler, Catholic University of America

Sunday, Oct. 29
9:30 A.M. "Eliciting Education Awareness in Theological Students by a Pre-Educational Process," Don Rogers, United Theological Seminary
10:00 A.M. "Clinical models for the professional preparation for a Teaching Ministry," Patrick J. Rooney, Center for Studies in Religious Education
10:30 A.M. Break for coffee
1 1:00 A.M. Table discussion of these papers and other efforts to develop new patterns of professional education. Leader: Sara Little, Presbyterian School of Christian Education
2:00 P.M. "Story-telling and Christian Ministry," Ralph R. Sundquist, Jr., HgCrford Seminary Fovindation
Respondents: William D. Streng, Wartburg Theological Seminary, Lester Rampley, Lexington Theological Sem.
3:00 P.M. "The Church School Teacher in Her Natural Habitat," William E. Chapman, McMurry College
4:15 P.M. Question and general discussion period about this research project, led by: Richard A. Olson, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Harry G. Goodykoontz, Louisville Presbyterian Seminary
7:00 P.M. ANNUAL MEETING Neely D. McCarter, Pres. of APRRE, presiding, Presidential Address, Election of Officers, Financial Report, General Business

Monday, Oct. 30
9:00 A.M. "Three Components of Human Spirituality," Robert E. Koenig, United Church of Christ, (This paper will be read and commented on by Gerald H. Slusser, Eden Theological Seminary)
9:30 A.M. "(Iristian Paideia in America: Changing Perceptions in the Nineteenth Century," Robert W. Lynn, Union Theological Seminary Discussion
11:00 A.M. Adjournment

*Unless otherwise noted, all meetings will be held in the Old Boston Room. **Complete addresses of Program Participants are listed at the end of Abstracts of Papers.

BOOK EXHIBITS
You are urged to visit the Exhibit Area (Curtis Room) and review the latest publications related to the scientific study of religion. Several individual exhibits, plus hundreds of publications and periodicals in the Combined Exhibit are on display. Mr. Harve C. Horowitz, your exhibits director, will be available to answer all inquiries.

Directory of Exhibitors*

ABINGDON PRESS AMS PRESS INC. THE CATHOLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CHANGE MAGAZINE FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS HARPER AND ROW, PUBLISHERS INC. HERALD PRESS THE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS PENGUIN BOOKS INC. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS THE SEABURY PRESS, INC. THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION-SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS STUDIES IN RELIGION/SCIENCE RELIGIE- USES (A CANADIAN JOURNAL) SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS UNIYERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY THE WESTMINSTER PRESS YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

*This is a partial listing, reflecting only those publishing houses reserving space in advance of this Program announcement.