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ANNUAL MEETING
of the
SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY
OF RELIGION
in conjunction with the
RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
"TRANSITIONS TO MATURITY"
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE HOTEL
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
OCTOBER 25-27, 1973M
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, St. John's University
Executive Secretary: WILLIAM V. D'ANTONIO, Box U68A, University of Connecticut
COUNCIL
SAMUEL W. BLIZZARD, Princeton Theological Seminary
DOROTHY DOHEN, Fordham University
JOSEPH H. FICHTER, Loyola U., New Orleans
CHARLES Y. GLOCK, University of California, Berkeley
DAVID 0. MOBERG, Marquette University
CHRISTOPHER F. MOONEY, S.J., Woodstock College
MAx L. STACKHOUSE, Andover-Newton Theological Seminary
GLENN VERNON, University of Utah
JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
BENTON JOHNSON, University of Oregon, Editor
JEFFREY HADDEN, and DAVID LITTLE, University of Virginia, Book Review
Editors
1973 PROGRAM
DONALD CAPPS, University of Chicago, Program Chairman
HARVE HOROWITZ, Columbia, Maryland, Advertising and Exhibits
RICHARD A. HUTCH, Southern Illinois University, Program Assistant
KARL REDELSHEIMER, Matteson, Illinois, Special Services
Program Advisory Committee
ALAN ANDERSON, University of Chicago
DAVID BAKAN, York University
WALTER CAPPS, University of California, Santa Barbara
RONALD CLARKE, Oregon State University
PAUL GUSTAFSON, Hiram College
RALPH HOOD, JR., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
TIMOTHY JENSEN, Mary Washington College
DAVID LITTLE, University of Virginia
BARBARA PAYNE, Georgia State University
JAMES PEACOCK, University of North Carolina
DONALD PLOCH, National Science Foundation
LEWIS SPITZ, Stanford University
ORLO STRUNK, JR., Boston University
Local Arrangements Committee
CHARLES Y. GLOCK, University of California, Berkeley, Chairman
CLAUDE WELCH, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
RALPH LANE, JR., University of San Francisco
ROBERT WUTHNOW, University of California, Berkeley
SIGURD LOKKEN, Lutheran Campus Pastor, Berkeley
OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS
President: THOMAS M. GANNON, S.J., Loyola Uni-
versity, 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
BERNARD QUINN, S.J., Council of Applied Research in the Apostolate
DOUGLAS JOHNSON, National Council of Churches, Research Division
ALAN WALTZ, United Methodist Church
JEFFREY HADDEN, University of Virginia
WILLIAM SILVERMAN, New York University
RICHARD KNUDTEN, Marquette University
LMLE BARTLETT, Berkeley, California
ARLEON KELLEY, National Council of Churches
SAMUEL SOUTHARD, Georgia Mental Health Institute
GERALD KLEVER, United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
HANS MOL, McMaster University
PAUL PICARD, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
DAVID R. STONE, United Church of Canada
REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH
RICHARD KNUDTEN, Marquette University, Editor
RONALD JOHNSTON, Central Michigan University, Book Review Editor
1973 PROGRAM
JEFFREY HADDEN, University of Virginia, Program Chairman
LAILE BARTLETT, Berkeley, California, Local Arrangements
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
THE REGISTRATION DESK will be located in the Main Lobby, First Floor. It will be open:
Thursday, October 25 9:00 A.m.-5:00 P.m.
Friday, October 26 9:00 A.m.-5:00 P.m.
Saturday, October 27 9:00 A.m.-NOON
THE REGISTRATION FEE is $7.00 for members of SSSR and RRA, $8.00 for non-members and $3.00 for
students. Fee includes admission to all meetings and one copy of the Abstracts of Papers. Tickets for the
Breakfast Dialogues are $2.00 each and your choice should be indicated on the pre-registration form.
EXHIBITS OF PUBLISHERS and recent writings by members of the SSSR and RRA will be on display in the
Monterey Room.
ADDITIONAL COPIES OF ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS are available at the Registration Desk. Price $1.50.
THE PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION is scheduled for Friday, 5:00-6:00 P.m. in the Empire Room. Price $2.00.
SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
MEMBERSHIP AND PUBLICATIONS
Membership in the Society is open to qualified scholars. The annual dues of $15 include subscription to the
Society's publication, The Journalfor the Scientilic Study of Religion which is published quarterly. Student
memberships are available at $8. Annual subscription to the Journal without membership is $15.
RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP
AND PUBLICATIONS
Membership in the Association is open to interested persons. The annual dues of $11 for Fellow, $15 for
Contributing, and $50 or more for Supporting Membership include subscription to the Association's publication,
The Review 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.
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25
9:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M.
REGISTRATION HOTEL LOBBY
SSSR Members $7.00 Non-Members $8.00
RRA Members $7.00 Students $3.00
9:00 A.M. SSSR Council Meeting
9:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M.
BOOK EXHIBIT MONTEREY ROOM
1:30 P.M.-3:45 P.M.
SESSION A
FRANCISCAN ROOM
"JESUS MOVEMENTS: CONVERSION AND DECONVERSION"
Chairman:
IVAN VALLIER, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Prodigals as Preachers: Jesus Freaks and the Return to Respectability"
ARMAND L. MAUSS and DONALD W.
PETERSEN, Washington State University
"Personality Change Within the Jesus Movement"
ROBERT B. SIMMONDS, State University of New York, Cortland
JAMES T. RICHARDSON, University of Nevada
"The Children of God: A Study of the Dynamics of Counter Forces and Strategies to Meet Opposition"
MICHAEL R. LEMING and TED C. SMITH, University of Utah
SESSION B WALNUT ROOM "THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS ETHICS"
Chairman:
DAVID LITTLE, University of Virginia
"An Analysis of Patterns of Justification in the Study of Comparative Religious Ethics"
DAVID LITTLE, University of Virginia
SUMNER B. Twiss, JR., Brown University
"Weber's Contribution to the Comparative Study of Religious Ethics"
FREDERICK BIRD, Sir George Williams University
"Afrikaner Calvinism and Economic Action"
RANDALL G. STOKES, University of Massachusetts
"Ittoen: A Japanese Form of This-Worldly Asceticism"
WINSTON DAvis, Stanford University
SESSION C TUDOR ROOM
"THE BUDDHA COMPLEX: EXPLORING EASTERN
VIEWS OF PERSONALITY"
Chairman:
PATRICIA MARTIN DOYLE, School of Theology at Claremont
"The Concept of Human Nature: Integrating Eastern and Western Approaches"
ROBERT FRAGER, University of
California, Santa Cruz
JAMES FADIMAN, Stanford University
"Death Fears and Psychological Projection in Tibetan Buddhism"
DONALD G. DAWE, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond
"Buddhist Personality Paradigms as a Psychology"
MADELINE NOLD, Wellesley College
SESSION D WINDSOR ROOM
"THE USE OF RELIGION AS AN EXPLANATORY VARIABLE"
Chairman:
GARY D. BOUMA, Dalhousie University
"The Use of Religious Explanations in Historical Research"
RICHARD L. MEANS, Kalamazoo College
"Religion as Explanation"
GARY D. BOUMA, Dalhousie University
"Assessing the Philosophical Base for the Impact of Religious Beliefs on
Human Behavior"
CARL G. CRAWLEY, Dalhousie University
SESSION E CHART ROOM
"CLERGY ROLES AND VALUES: DISSONANCE
OR DISSIDENCE?"
Chairman:
RALPH LANE, JR., University of San Francisco
"Attitudinal Differences in a Clerical Order: The Semantic Space of Innovators and Traditionalists"
LAUREN LANGMAN, Loyola University, Chicago
"Role Conflict and Value Divergence in Sister Administrators"
A. T. SHEEHAN, University of Toronto
"The Minister, The Church and the Private School"
DIANE G. SACHS, Memphis State University
4:00 P.M. EMPIRE ROOM
THE H. PAUL DOUGLASS LECTURE
(Sponsored by The Religious Research Association)
"Social Research and Theology: End of The Detente?"
ROBERT W. FRIEDRICHS, Williams College
5:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M. EMPIRE ROOM
RECEPTION (DUTCH TREAT)
7:30 P.M.
SESSION F FRANCISCAN ROOM
"MYTHS AND INSTITUTIONS: SOCIOCULTURAL ANALYSES
OF AMERICAN MINORITY RELIGIONS"
Chairman:
THOMAS STONE, New York State University, Potsdam
Section A: 7:30 P.M.
"Institutional Evolution: The Case of Black Religion in America"
SAMUEL Z. KLAUSNER, Center for Research on the Acts of Man
Discussion: MARION DEARMAN, California State University, Los Angeles
Section B: 8:45 P.M.
"Meaning and Structure of Myths: Implications for Two Empirical Studies"
Guy E. SWANSON, University of California, Berkeley
"Continuity and Change in Navaho World-View and Religion"
J. BARRE TOELKEN, University of Oregon
SESSION G TUDOR ROOM
"RELIGION AND DEATH FEARS: A MINI-SYMPOSIUM"
Chairman:
GLEN W. DAVIDSON, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
"Death and Human Expectation"
CHRISTOPHER F. MOONEY, S.J., Woodstock College
"Death, Ethnicity, and Religion"
RICHARD A. KALISH, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
DAVID K. REYNOLDS, Suicide Prevention Center, Los Angeles
"Relation of Religious Outlook to Attitudes Toward Death in Normal and
Terminally III Populations"
HERMAN FIEFEL, Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic, Los
Angeles
"Religion and Death Anxiety"
L. D. NELSON, Virginia Commonwealth University
CECILIA C. NELSON, Ohio State University
SESSION H WINDSOR ROOM
"THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH: VARIANT GOALS
AND STRUCTURAL REVERSALS"
Chairman:
Ross SCHERER, Loyola University, Chicago
"Sources of Conflict Over Priorities of the Protestant Church"
DEAN R. HOGE, Princeton Theological Seminary JEFFREY L. FAUE, Upsala College
"Skidders and Their Servants: Functions of the Skidroad Rescue Mission"
REGINALD W. BIBBY and ARMAND L. MAUSS, Washington State University
"The Institutional Role of Governing Boards in the Change of Denominational Structures"
K. PETER TAKAYAMA, Memphis State University
FRIDAY-OCTOBER 26
9:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M.
REGISTRATION HOTEL LOBBY
9:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M.
BOOK EXHIBIT MONTEREY ROOM
8:30 A.M.-9:45 A.M.
BREAKFAST DIALOGUES
EMPIRE ROOM
These sessions (which include breakfast) are limited to 12 personsper breakfast table. Tickets should be purchased in
advance of each session. Tickets will also be sold at the door preceding the sessions.
TABLE I-"AN UNDER-THE-COUNTER CULTURE: SILENT ASSAULT ON THE CULT OF SUCCESS"
"Mobility in Retirement: Challenge to the Protestant Ethic"
PHILIP E. HAMMOND, University of Arizona
"The Success Cult in America's Coming of Age"
CARNEGIE SAMUEL CALIAN, University of Dubuque
TABLE 2-"GEORG SIMMEL: THEORY AND APPLICATION"
"Toward a More Mature Functionalism: Georg Simmel's Legacy to Sociology of Religion"
HARRY YEIDE, JR., George Washington University
"The Will to be Free: The Art of Domination in Paradise Lost"
LAUREL R. WALUM, Ohio State University
TABLE 3-"THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION: MYSTICISM IN
FOCUS"
"Mysticism and the Psychology of Religion: From William James to LSD and Galileo's Telescope"
WALTER HOUSTON CLARK, Andover Newton Theological School "Mother Jennie: Contemporary Saint and
Mystic"
LEWIS KEIZER, University of California, Santa Cruz
TABLE 4-"TWO SOCIOCULTURAL THEORISTS AND THEIR USE
IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES"
"Claude Levi-Strauss and the Maturity of Religious Studies"
John E. BURKHART, McCormick Theological Seminary
"John Dewey and the Scholarly Study of Religion"
JOHN J. MAWHINNEY, Jesuit Provincialate, Baltimore
TABLE 5-"ETHICAL VS. PIETISTIC RELIGION: IDENTIFYING
THEIR POLITICAL CORRELATES"
"Religious Attitudes and Arguments in Denmark and Norway Relative to the
Referendum Concerning Membership in the European Economic Community"
THOR HALL, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
"Love and Justice: The Effect of Religious Values on Liberalism and Conservatism"
EUGENE SCHOENFELD, Georgia State University
TABLE 6-"PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION: ASSESSING SKINNERIAN MODELS"
"The Adequacy of the Behavioral Model"
CLYDE J. STECKEL, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
"N = 1 Methodology in the Psychology of Religion"
H. NEWTON MALONY, Fuller Theological Seminary
TABLE 7-"FACTS AND BELIEFS: ARE THEY COMPATIBLE?"
"Bliks as Assertions and as Attackable"
ARTHUR M. WHEELER, Kent State University
"Wanting and Knowing"
GWYNN NETTLER, The University of Alberta
TABLE 8-"THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION: DEFINITIONAL AND CONCEPTUAL
PROBLEMS"
"Is One's Definition of 'Religion' Always Circular?"
J. E. BARNHART, North Texas State University
"Inherent Conceptual Limitations of the Scientific Method and Scientific Models for the Study of
Religion"
JOHN F. MILLER 111, North Texas State University
TABLE 9-"ANTHONY F. C. WALLACE: THEORY AND APPLICATION"
"Anthony F. C. Wallace and the Future of Religion"
C. FREDERIC SANFORD, Villa Maria College
"Social Stress and the Foundation of a 'New Religion' in Japan"
BELLE HICKS, California State University, Chico
TABLE 10-"ENGINEERS AND EASY RIDERS: LOCOMOTING THE LOCAL CHURCH"
"Ecclesiastical Engineering"
JOSIE L. TYLER, Asbury United Methodist Church, Pacolet, South
Carolina
"Half-Way Church Membership: Dangers and Effects"
RICHARD K. MORTON, Jacksonville University
TABLE II-"CATHOLIC RITUAL: TWO PSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVES"
"Erich Fromm and Vatican Council II: Humanistic and Authoritarian Attitudes Toward Ritual"
FRANCIS L. GROSS, JR., Western Michigan University
"The Sacrament of the Sick: Assessing the Effectiveness of Ritual Revisions"
KEVIN F. TRIPP, University of Toronto
TABLE 12-"THE NEED FOR AFFILIATION: CATHOLIC ALTERNATIVES"
"Affective Deprivation as a Factor in Crisis Movement Formation: The Catholic Pentecostal Community
as Current Example"
KENNETH McGuIRE, Ohio State University
"The Socialization Process of Ecclesiastical Conversion to Catholicism"
JEAN C. KARLEN and JOSEPH JULIAN, University of Nebraska
10:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
SESSION I FRANCISCAN ROOM
"THE PERSISTENCE OF RELIGION: IN WHAT FORM?"
Chairman:
RICHARD FENN, Trinity College
"Andrew Greeley and 'The Persistence of Religion"
PATRICK H. McNAMARA, University of New Mexico
"Religion at the Grass-Roots: Populist Religion"
HARRY H. HILLER, University of Calgary
"Cultural Multiplexity and Religious Polytheism"
CHARLES C. LEMERT, Southern Illinois University
"A Theory of Cultural Change"
RICHARD FENN, Trinity College
SESSION J WALNUT ROOM
"A SOCIOLOGY OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION"
Presenter
MYERS REED, JR., Radford College
Panelists:
RODNEY STARK, University of Washington
ROBERT FRIEDRICHS, Williams College
BENTON JOHNSON, University of Oregon
SESSION K TUDOR ROOM
"AMERICAN RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS:
BIOGRAPHICAL ASSESSMENTS"
Chairman:
WILLIAM CLEBSCH, Stanford University
"One Man's Family: The Beechers"
ROBERT MICHAELSON, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Ralph Waldo Emerson: America's Native Son"
RICHARD A. HUTCH, Southern Illinois University
"Intimacy Vs. Isolation: Psychosocial Roots of Lincoln's 'Melancholia'"
DONALD CAPPS, University of Chicago
"Jonathan Edwards: Tactless Tracking of the Elusive God"
JAMES E. DITTES, Yale University
SESSION L WINDSOR ROOM
"WHEN HATS CHANGE HEADS: THE SHARING OF CONCEPTS IN THEOLOGY AND THE
SOCIAL SCIENCES"
Chairman:
PAUL GUSTAFSON, Hiram College
"Theological and Sociological Uses of the Concept 'Orthodoxy"'
JAMES D. DAVIDSON, Purdue University
GARY J. QUINN, Purdue University
"Goodliness and Godliness: Alternative Expressions of Christian Orthodoxy"
JULIE C. WOLFE, Washington State University
"Mature Religion and the Dichotomy Between Faith and Belief in Psychology,
Theology and Sociology"
S. DANIEL BRESLAUER, Colgate University
SESSION M CHART ROOM
"CLERGY SATISFACTION AND EFFECTIVENESS"
Chairman:
EDGAR MILLS, St. John's University
"Clergy Occupational Satisfaction"
LOYDE H. HARTLEY, Lancaster Theological Seminary
"Critical Incidents in the Early State of Professional Socialization Among
Clergymen"
J. RUSSELL HALE, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg
"Effectiveness of Young Pastors"
GERALD L. KLEVER and JOHN E. DYBLE, United Presbyterian Church
"Authority in the Catholic Church: How Important Is It?"
JOHN SEIDLER, Ohio State University
1:30 P.M.-3:45 P.M.
SESSION N FRANCISCAN ROOM
"RELIGION AND POLITICAL CONFLICT"
Chairman:
VATRO MURVAR, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"Some Social-Psychological Aspects of Sectarian Social Movements: A Study in Politics and Religion"
ROGER O'TOOLE, University of Toronto
"The Religious Factor in Northern Ireland"
STEPHEN W. BEACH, Simmons College
"Economy, Polity, War and Religion-An Investigation Into the Preconditions of Military Preparedness"
BRADLEY HERTEL, Vanderbilt University
GERRY HENDERSHOTT, Brown University
"War and Religious Beliefs"
SAMUEL FRIEDMAN, University of California, Los Angeles
SESSION 0 WALNUT ROOM
"HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE DEVELOPMENT
OF RRA AND SSSR"
Presenters: WILLIAM NEWMAN, University of Connecticut JEFFREY K. HADDEN, University of Virginia
Panelists: ELIZABETH NOTTINGHAM, Berkeley, California
DAVID MOBERG, Marquette University
LAuRis WHITMAN, Rhode Island College
ALLAN W. EISTER, Wellesley College
SESSION P
"RELIGIOUS FAITH AS SUBJECT OF
PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRY"
Chairman:
PAUL W. PRUYSER, The Menninger Foundation
"Dependence and Counter-Dependence in Psychoanalysis and Religious Faith"
WILLIAM R. ROGERS, Harvard University
"Parents, Self and Faith: A Test of Competing Theories of Individual-Religion
Relationships"
BERNARD SPILKA, JAMES ADDISON and MARGUERITE ROSENSOHN, University of Denver
"Theological Constructs as a Source of Theory in the Scientific Study of
Religion"
RALPH L. UNDERWAGER, St. Olaf College
SESSION Q WINDSOR ROOM
"ENCOUNTERS WITH 'FALSE BRETHREN': PROTESTANT
REFORMERS IN PSYCHOHISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE"
Chairman:
LEWIS SPITZ, Stanford University
"A Psychological Study of Luther and the False Brethren"
MARK U. EDWARDS, JR., University of Michigan
"John Wesley's Conversion Experience: A Psychohistorical Reappraisal"
ROBERT L. MOORE, University of Chicago
"Fear, Communion and Religion-Freud and Psychohistory"
MARGOT DREKMEIER, Stanford University
SESSION R CHART ROOM
"MEASURING RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT"
Chairman:
JOHN KovAL, De Paul University
"The Meaning and Measurement of Commitment to the Church"
BARBARA P. PAYNE and KIRK W. ELIFSON, Georgia State University
"Measuring Religious Involvement"
HAROLD S. HIMMELFARB, Ohio State University
"The Humanistic Drift: Religious Change and the College Student"
W. SEWARD SALISBURY, New York State University College, Oswego
4:00 P.M.
EMPIRE ROOM
SSSR PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
"When Idols Crumble: The Art and Agony of Disengagement"
JAMES E. DITTES, Yale University
5:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M.
EMPIRE ROOM
PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION
7:30 P.M.
SESSION S FRANCISCAN ROOM
"SURVEYS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN RELIGION"
Section A: 7:30 P.M.
Convenor:
SAMUEL A. MUELLER, University of Akron
"Basic Belief Patterns: Report on Center for the Study of American Pluralism
Project"
ANDREW M. GREELEY and WILLIAM C. MCCREADY, Loyola University,
Chicago
Section B: 8:30 P.M.
Convenors:
ROBERT BELLAH, University of California, Berkeley
CHARLES Y. GLOCK, University of California, Berkeley
"Religious Consciousness and American Youth: A Colloquy on the Berkeley
Project"
Participants:
RANDY ALFRED, University of California, Berkeley
BARBARA HARGROVE, University of North Florida
DONALD HEINZ, Graduate Theological Union
GREGORY JOHNSON, Harvard University
KAREN LANDSMAN, University of California, Berkeley
RALPH LANE, University of San Francisco
JEANNE MESSER, Institute for Research in Social Behavior
RICHARD OFSHE, University of California, Berkeley
LINDA PRITCHARD, University of Pittsburgh
HARLEN STELMACH, Graduate Theological Union
DONALD STONE, University of California, Berkeley
ALAN TOBEY, Graduate Theological Union
JAMES WOLFE, Graduate Theological Union
ROBERT WUTHNOW, University of California, Berkeley
SESSION T TUDOR ROOM
"ON THE BOUNDARY: SYNTHESIZING PHILOSOPHICAL
AND SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC VIEWS"
Chairman:
LEE YEARLEY, Stanford University
"On the Concept of 'Being Wrong' Religiously"
WILLIAM C. SHEPHERD, University of Montana
"Peter Berger and Ludwig Wittgenstein: Correlations Between the Sociology of Knowledge and Ordinary
Language Philosophy in Respect to Religion"
DAVID J. STAGAMAN, S.J., Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
"Hegel, Marx and Kierkegaard: The Problem of Transcendence"
RICHARD COMSTOCK, University of California, Santa Barbara
SESSION U WINDSOR ROOM
"PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION: THE USES
OF PROJECTIVE THEORY"
Chairman:
PETER HOMANS, University of Chicago
"Consciousness Vs. Citizenship: Toward a Psychology of Cultural Change"
STANLEY STARK, Michigan State University
"Religion, Projection and the Imaginative Construction of Reality"
Lucy BREGMAN, Indiana University
"Belief System and Projective Systems: The Conceptualization of the Life Structure in the Paradigmatic
Case of the Religious Doubter"
PHILIP M. HELFAER, Boston State Hospital
SATURDAY-OCTOBER 27
9:00 A.M.-12:00 Noon
REGISTRATION HOTEL LOBBY
9:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M.
BOOK EXHIBIT MONTEREY ROOM
8:30 A.M.
TUDOR ROOM
RAA BUSINESS MEETING
8:30 A.M.-9:45 A.M.
BREAKFAST DIALOGUES
EMPIRE ROOM
TABLE 13-"PROTEAN MAN: SOCIOLOGICAL VIEWS"
"Religion, Social Change and the Expansive Life Style"
DONALD E. MILLER, University of Southern California
"Contemporary Religious Man as Plural"
CARROLL J. BOURG, Fisk University
TABLE 14-"PSYCHOLOGICAL USES OF ART FORMS"
"A Psychological Approach to Religious Autobiography"
PAUL RANSOHOFF, University of Chicago
"Studying Religious Traits through Human Figure Drawings"
DAVID 1. LAZAR, Temple University
TABLE 15-"ACCULTURATION VS. SEPARATENESS: DILEMMAS
OF MINORITY RELIGIOUS GROUPS"
"Nichiren Shoshu of America 1967-72"
WILLIAM MCPHERSON, Lewis and Clark College
"Minority Group Status and Family Size Norms: An Assessment of MoslemChristian Differentials in the
Southern Philippines"
WILLIAM F. STINNER and PAUL DOUGLAS MADER, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
TABLE 16-"THREE CULTURAL THEORISTS: PURSUING THE ORIGINS OF RELIGION"
"William Foxwell Albright: The Mind of the Historian"
JOHN A. MILES, Loyola University, Chicago
"Freud and Durkheim as Seen in Totem and Taboo and The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life"
NICHOLAS JOHN ROBAK, St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia
TABLE 17-"WHITE-INDIAN RELATIONS: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND A CONTEMPORARY
CASE IN POINT"
"Puritan-Indian Relations and the Emergence of Racism in the American Value System"
PHILIP L. BERG, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
"Propaideutic to the Study of Amerindian Religion in an Albertan Context"
P. JOSEPH CAHILL, University of Alberta
TABLE 18-"THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE:
LAYING THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS"
"The Parapsychology of Religion"
J. SCHONEBERG SETZER, Hartwick College
"The Philosophical Presuppositions of a Psychology of Religious Experience"
BRUCE T. RILEY, Youngstown State University
TABLE 19-"GAME THEORY: DESIGNS FOR RELIGIOUS MATURITY"
"Game Theory: A Structural Approach to Religion"
NOEL DUDLEY, Households for Christ
"How the Future Molding Games Pursue Self-Fulfillment (as inferred from the core principle in the Pan-Act-
Theism Model)"
STUART C. DODD, University of Washington
TABLE 20-"THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION: DISCIPLINARY ISSUES"
"The Interdisciplinary Study of Religion"
MARY CARMEN ROSE, Goucher College
"Religion: The Scientific Study of Religion"
WILLIAM E. MURNION: Ramapo College
TABLE 21-"THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION: PHILOSOPHICAL CONTRIBUTIONS"
"Swedenborg's Concept of Religious Knowledge"
J. THEODORE KLEIN, Urbana College
"Charity and Mysticism in the Maritains"
WILLIAM ROSSNER, S.J., Rockhurst College
TABLE 22-"MEASURING AND PREDICTING RELIGIOUS BEHAVIOR: TWO THEORETICAL
PROPOSALS"
"Measuring Intergenerational Religious Behavior Patterns: A Comment on Alternative Representation
Strategies"
STEPHEN WIETING, University of Iowa
"Religion and Socio-Cultural Compatability"
CHARLES WADDELL, University of Utah
TABLE 23-"CATHOLICISM AND CHARISMATIC RENEWAL: TWO SOCIOLOGICAL PORTRAITS"
"Catholic Participation in the Charismatic Renewal Movement"
JOHN R. THOMPSON, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Spirit-filled Catholics: Some Biographical Comparisons"
CHARLES L. HARPER, Creighton University
TABLE 24-"ERIKSON AND FRANKL: LOCATING THE NEXUS OF PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION"
"Erik H. Erikson's Psychology of Religion"
NICHOLAS PIEDISCALZI, Wright State University
"Victor E. Franki: Multilevel Analyses and Complementarity"
ROBERT J. PALMA, Hope College
10:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
SESSION V FRANCISCAN ROOM
"THE PERSISTENCE OF RELIGION: LOCAL INFLUENCE"
Chairman:
CLYDE Z. NUNN, Center for Policy Research
"Religious Institutions in Mass Society: The Church and Community Life in
Gastonia"
JOHN R. EARLE, Wake Forest University
DEAN D. KNUDSEN, Purdue University
DONALD W. SHRIVER, JR., Emory University
"The Religious Factor and the American Experience: Another Look at the
Three-Generation Hypothesis"
HAROLD J. ABRAMSON, University of Connecticut
"Those Who Still Believe: An Investigation of the Effects of Localism and
Salience as Orientational Styles"
RICHARD B. PERKINS, Washington and Jefferson College
W. CLARK ROOF, University of Massachusetts
"Social Areas and Irreligion: The Case of Austria"
SAMUEL A. MUELLER, University of Akron
SESSION W WALNUT ROOM
"GETTING IT TOGETHER: A CONVERSATION BETWEEN
APPLIED AND ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS"
Resource Persons: EDGAR MILLS, St. John's University
CHARLES GLOCK, University of California, Berkeley
EVERETT PERRY, United Presbyterian Church
THEODORE ERICKSON, United Church of Christ
SESSION X NMOR ROOM
"THE CREATIVE ACT: PSYCHOBIOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATIONS IN PHILOSOPHY AND ART"
Chairman:
ANDREW ROLLE, Occidental College
"Religious Influences in the Art of van Gogh with Some Speculations on the
Art of Kandinsky and Mondrian"
ALBERT J. LUBIN, Stanford University Medical School,
"Psychobiography, Philosophy, and the Genetic Fallacy"
LEWIS S. FEUER, University of Toronto
SESSION Y WINDSOR ROOM
"RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS REEXAMINED:
CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK RITES"
Chairman:
J. ALAN WINTER, Connecticut College
"Methodological Considerations in the Study of Religious Movements"
ALAN B. ANDERSON, University of Chicago
"Theological Considerations in the Study of Religious Movements"
GEORGE W. PICKERING, University of Detroit
"The (Greek) Tragedy of Black Religion"
RANDALL H. EVANS, JR., University of Illinois, Chicago
SESSION Z CHART ROOM
"TOWARD A CANADIAN SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION"
Chairman:
HARRY H. HILLER, University of Calgary
"The Sociology of Canadian Religion: The United Church as an Illustration"
N. K. CLIFFORD, University of British Columbia
"Social Roots for the Lack of Innovation in Anglo-Canadian Religion"
W. L. ZWERMAN, University of Calgary
"Schism and Social Class in the Canadian Baptist Church"
MARY B. HILL, King's College
"Changes in Religious Commitment Among Calgary Youth"
RAYMOND CURRIE, University of Manitoba
1:30 P.M.-3:45 P.M.
SESSION AA
WALNUT ROOM
"AMERICAN RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS:
SECTARIAN MOVEMENTS"
Chairman:
RALPH W. BURHOE, Meadville Theological School
"Religious Communitarianism: Theoretical Perspectives"
GILLIAN LINDT, Columbia University
"Beginnings of Ideological Innovation: Charles G. Finney and John Humphrey
Noyes"
DENNIS KLASS, Webster College
"Acceptance, Rejection, Monopolism and Pluralism: Toward an Integrated
Model for Church-Sect Theory"
WILLIAM H. SWATOS, JR., Episcopal Theological Seminary in Kentucky
SESSION BB
"SCIENCE AND ETHICS: RECONCILING
THEIR IMAGES OF MAN"
Chairman:
JOHN B. ORR, University of Southern California
"Moral Man and Immoral Science"
MORTON KING, Southern Methodist University
"Theological Ethics in Relation to Social Science"
WELDON PARK, Rhode Island Junior College
"The Environmental Crisis in the Light of Vedantic Ethics"
S. CROMWELL CRAWFORD, University of Hawaii
SESSION CC
TUDOR ROOM
"RELIGIOUS CONFLICT: SPOTLIGHT ON ELITES"
Chairman:
DIURO VRGA, Central Michigan University
"Pugnacious Pictou Presbyterians Prosper: A Fruit of Religious Conflict"
DOUGLAS F. CAMPBELL and GARY D. BOUMA, Dalhousie University
"A Declining Hindu Temple Complex in Eastern India"
JAMES M. FREEMAN, California State University, San Jose
"Conflict in the French Clergy, 1890-1914"
MICHAEL F. REARDON, Portland State University
SESSION DD
CHART ROOM
"PSYCHOLOGY OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT"
Chairman:
JOHN P. KEATING, University of Washington
"Adult Developmental Perspectives of Community"
ROBERT G. KEGAN, Harvard University
"Stage and Sequence in the Old Testament: A Cognitive-Developmental
Analysis of Old Testament Thought"
RICHARD C. MADDOCK, Veterans Hospital, Memphis
CHARLES T. KENNY, Memphis State University
"The Hierarchical-Structural Model of Ego Development and Its Implications for Existential Concerns"
MATTHEW IKEDA, Valparaiso University
4:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M. FRANCISCAN ROOM
SSSR BUSINESS MEETING
BOOK EXHIBITS
This exhibit presents philosophical, sociological, psychological, anthropological, and historical publications
relating to the Scientific Study of Religion which have been submitted for display by publishers.
We have attempted to select materials and arrange the displays to bring the latest and most pertinent publications
to the attention of a subject-oriented public.
This exhibit is located in the Monterey Room. Orders may be placed at the exhibit. Mr. Harve C. Horowitz,
your exhibits director, will be available to answer all inquiries.
Directory of Exhibitors*
Abingdon Press
Augsburg Publishing House
Cambridge University Press
Catholic Library Association
Fordham University Press
W. H. Freeman and Company
Warren H. Green, Inc.
Harper and Row Publishers, Inc.
Herald Press
The Johns Hopkins Press
Judson Press
Notre Dame Journal of Education
Ohio State University Press
Orbis Books
Oxford University Press
Penguin Books, Inc.
The Pennsylvania State University
Press
Princeton University Press
Prometheus Books, Inc.
Seminar Press, Inc.
Swedenborg Foundation
United Church Press
The University of Alabama Press
The University of California Press
The University of Chicago Press
The University of Michigan Press
Vanderbilt University Press
The Westminster Press
*This is a partial listing, reflecting those publishing houses reserving space in advance of
this program announcement.