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ANNUAL MEETING
of the
SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC
STUDY OF RELIGION
in conjunction with the
RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
and
ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSORS
AND RESEARCHERS IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

"TAKING STOCK OF OUR TRADITIONS:
RELIGION IN AMERICA AND THE ANALYTICAL STUDY OF RELIGION"

THE WARWICK
Philadelphia, PA

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
October 29-31, 1976
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION

THE REGISTRATION DESK will be located in the Mezzanine Concourse.
It will be open
Friday, October 29 9:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 30 9:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 31 9:00 a.m. Noon

THE REGISTRATION FEE is $10.00 for members of SSSR, RRA or APRRE, $12.00 for non-members; and, $5.00 for students. The fee includes admission to all meetings and one copy of the Abstracts of Papers.
THE CONVENTION SOCIAL HOUR is $2.00 which you may pre-register for or purchase at the registration desk or at the door.
THE BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLE tickets are $2.50 each and your choice should be indicated on the pre-registration form. Those spaces not sold through pre-registration will be sold at the registration desk and any remaining tickets may be purchased at the door.
EXHIBITS: Exhibits of publishers, related organizations and recent writing of members of SSSR and RRA will be on display in "The Book Room" opposite the main Ballroom. Convention discounts offered. Open 9-5 Friday and Saturday; 9-1 Sunday.
ABSTRACTS: Additional copies of Abstracts of Papers are available at the Registration Desk for $2.00 per copy.
SOCIAL HOUR FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS OF RELIGION is $2.00 which you may pre-register for or purchase at the registration desk or at the door.

OFFICERS AND COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE
SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION

OFFICERS

PRESIDENT Allan W. Eister, Wellesley College
VICE-PRESIDENT Benton Johnson, University of Oregon
SECRETARY Phillip E. Hammond, University of Arizona
TREASURER Edgar W. Mills, St. John's University
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY William V. D'Antonio, University of Connecticut

COUNCIL

Donald Capps, Phillips University
James E. Dittes, Yale University
Robert Freidrichs, Williams College
Jeffrey K. Hadden, University of Virginia
Barbara Hargrove, Yale University
Morton King, Southern Methodist University
Marie Augusta Neal, Emmanuel College
Paul W. Pruyser, The Menninger Foundation

EDITOR: JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
Richard L. Gorsuch, University of Texas, Arlington

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
Jeffrey K. Hadden, University of Virginia

PROGRAM COMMITTEES

PROGRAM CHAIRPERSON
Dean R. Hoge, Catholic University of America

ASSISTANT PROGRAM CHAIRPERSON AND ABSTRACTS BOOK EDITOR
David T. Polk, York College, Pennsylvania

ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Donald E. Capps (Psychology) Phillips University
Jeffrey K. Hadden (Sociology) University of Virginia
Richard L. Means (Sociology, Philosophy) Kalamazoo College
Hart M. Nelsen (Sociology) Catholic University of America
Donald R. Ploch (Sociology) National Science Foundation
Roland Robertson (Sociology) University of Pittsburgh
Ernest Wallwork (Theology, Ethics) Yale University

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE
Samuel Z. Klausner, Chair, Center for Research for the Acts of Man and University of Pennsylvania
Muhammad K. H. Ahmad, Temple University
Willy De Craemer, University of Pennsylvania
Ward H. Goodenough, University of Pennsylvania
Antoinette Munafo, Mount Saint Joseph Convent

PLEASE NOTE SSSR'S UPCOMING CHANGE OF ADDRESS EFFECTIVE NOV. 1, 1976

The Executive Office will be located at St. John's University, Jamaica, NY 11439. Edgar W. Mills will be the Executive Secretary.

After that date please direct all correspondence to that office.

SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
MEMBERSHIP AND PUBLICATIONS

Membership in the Society is open to interested persons. The annual dues of $15.00 include subscription to the Society's publication. The Journal for the Scientific Study of RelWou which is published quarterly. Student memberships are available at $8.00. Annual subscription to the Journal without membership is $15.00.

OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
THE RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS

PRESIDENT Ross P. Scherer, Loyola University of Chicago
VICE-PRESIDENT Barbara Hargrove, Yale Divinity School
SECRETARY Dean R. Hoge, Catholic University of America
TREASURER Charles Thorne, Metropolitan New York Synod, Lutheran Church in America

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Margaret J. Thomas, Division of Research, United Presbyterian Church
Laile Bartlett, University of California, Berkeley
Bernard Quinn, Glenmary Research Center
Alan K. Waltz, Program Council, United Methodist Church
Loyde Hartley, Lancaster Theological Seminary
Ronald Johnstone, Central Michigan University
Richard D. Knudten, Marquette University
John Peatling, Character Research Project, Union College
Paul Picard, Aid Association for Lutherans
David R. Stone, United Church of Canada
Earl D. C. Brewer, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Douglas Johnson, Institute for Church Development
Thomas M. Gannon, S. J., Loyola University of Chicago
Robert Herrick, Westmar College
Samuel Mueller, University of Akron
Ronald Wimberley, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

EDITOR: REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH
Richard D. Knudten, Marquette University

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH
Ronald Johnstone, Central Michigan University

PROGRAM CHAIRPEOPLE

PROGRAM CHAIRPERSON, 1976
Loyde Hartley, Lancaster Theological Seminary

PROGRAM CHAIRPERSON, 1977
Ronald Johnstone, Central Michigan University

RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
MEMBERSHIP AND PUBLICATIONS

Membership in the Association is open to interested persons. The annual dues are $14.00 for Fellow, $25.00 for Contributing, and $12.00 for Student Memberships. These include a subscription to the Association's publication, the Review of Religious Research, which is published three times a year. Annual subscription to the Review without membership is $12.00. Address: Religious Research Association, Inc., P.O. Box 228, Cathedral Station, New York, NY 10025.

OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE
ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSORS AND RESEARCHERS
IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

OFFICERS

PRESIDENT Gerald A. Slusser, Eden Theological Seminary
PRESIDENT-ELECT Norma H. Thompson, New York University University
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Donald F. Williams, Chicago Cluster Of Theological Schools

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Gloria Durka, Boston College
Dorothy Jean Furnish, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Mark Heath, O.P., Dominican House of Studies
Donald M. Joy, Asbury Theological Seminary
Richard A. Olson, Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia
Clarence H. Snelling, Jr., Iliff School of Theology

PROGRAM PERSONNEL

PROGRAM CHAIRPERSON
Norma H. Thompson, New York University

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Richard A. Olson. Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia

ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSORS AND
RESEARCHERS IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
MEMBERS AND PUBLICATION

Membership in the Association is open to professionals in the related fields, to professionals retired from the field, and to persons preparing to become professionals in the field. The respective annual dues of $10.00 for Member, $7.50 for Associate Member, and $5.00 for Emeritus or Student Member include subscription to the Associations Newsletter, which is published twice a year, and copies of papers presented at the annual meeting.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Thursday - October 28

4:00 P.M. - RRA Board Meeting - Walnut Room

8:00 P.M. - SSSR Council Meeting - Locust Room
Friday - October 29

8:30 A.M. - RRA Board Meeting - Walnut Room
10:30 - 12:30 - Adams Room
Session SSSR-1
Theoretical Orientations in Sociology of Religion
Chairperson: Edward C. Lehman, Jr., S.U.N.Y. at Brockport
"Max Weber and the Definition of Religion: An Essay on Definition and Methodology."
Paul M. Gustafson, Hiram College
"The Protestant and the Catholic Ethic."
Gert H. Mueller, American University
"Without Marx or Jesus: Religion and Reform in the Development of American Sociology."
William H. Swatos, Jr., King College
Discussant: Patrick H. McNamara, University of New Mexico
10:30 - 12:30 - Washington Room
Session SSSR-2
Meaning and Structure of Ritual Expression
Chairperson: Melvin D. Williams, University of Pittsburgh
"Black Religious Folksong: Its Role and Symbolic -Meaning in a Sanctified Church."
Richard M. Raichelson, University of Pennsylvania
"The Testimony as Performance in a Black Urban Holiness Church."
J. Stephen Smith, University of Pennsylvania
"Religious Speaking and Religious Hearing: Rules and Responsibilities."
Meredith B. McGuire, Montclair State College
10:30 - 12:30 - Green Room
Session SSSR-3
Personality and Religious Cognition Among Youth
Chairperson: Bernard Spilka, University of Denver
"Personality and Demographic Correlates Associated with Conceptual Religious Thinking and Religious Orthodoxy in Children and Adolescents."
David A. Cater, Orange County Mental Health Center
H. Newton Malony, Jr., Fuller Theological Seminary
"The Child's Image of God and Clergy: Diffuse Support for the Religious Institution."
Hart M. Nelsen, Catholic University of America
"Development of Conservative-Liberal Attitudes in the Christian Young Adult."
Richard D. Kahoe, Georgetown College, Kentucky
10:30 - 12:30 - Mirror Room
Session SSSR-4
Religious Meaning and Behavior
Chairperson: Ronald Wimberley, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
"Symbol Negatives, Negative Theology, and Original Negative ("Sin")."
Glenn M. Vernon, University of Utah
"Sermons, Social Classes, and Social issues, 1963-72."
Harry C. Dillingham and Joseph Trotta, University of Cincinnati
"The Pentecostal Minister and Political Socialization."
Morton Perry, Mesa State College, Colorado
Discussant: Michael C. Thomas, Salem College, North Carolina
10:30 - 12:30 - Locust Room
Session RRA-1
Research in Ministry: The Contribution of Doctor of Ministry Candidates to Religious Research
Chairperson: Robert C. Worley, McCormick Theological Seminary
The program will consist of brief presentations of selected D. Min. projects which have used empirical research to address church policy concerns.
Discussant: Loyde H. Hartley, Lancaster Theological Seminary
1:30 - 3:30 - Adams Room
Session SSSR-5
Neglected Figures in the Sociology of Religion
Chairperson: Richard L. Means, Kalamazoo College
"Toward a Dramaturgical Interpretation of Religion: Erving Goffman, Kenneth Burke."
Paul M. Harrison, Pennsylvania State University
"On the Possibility of Secular Transcendence: Jacque Ellul and Technological Civilization."
Theodore Long, Hollins College, Virginia
"Levi-Strauss: The Structural Analysis of Religious Ceremony."
Chris Crocker, University of Virginia
"'Religion is True': Toward a New Sociology of Religion - Bellah and Santayana."
Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University, New York
1:30 - 3:30 - Washington Room
Session SSSR-6
Moral Development and the Formation of Conscience in Civilizational Perspective
Chairperson: Edmund Leites, Queens College of C.U.N.Y.
"Moral Logics, Moral Cultures, and Moral Careers."
Vytautas Kavolis, Dickinson College
"Guilt and Self-Indictment in the Confucian Tradition: The Evidence of Autobiography."
Pei-yi Wu, Queens College of C.U.N.Y.
"Sex and Conscience in Medieval and Early Modern Latin Catholicism."
Vern Bullough, California State University, Northridge
Discussant: Abraham Edel, University of Pennsylvania
1:30 - 3:30 - Green Room
Session SSSR-7
Religious Conversion: What Changes?
Chairperson: Glenn M. Vernon, University of Utah
"Some Characteristics of Christian Conversion Experience."
R. Ward Wilson, Viterbo College, Wisconsin
"Changing Attitudes Toward Psychotherapy on the Part of Converts to Eastern Mysticism."
Dick Anthony, Thomas Curtis, and Madalyn Doucas, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Thomas Robbins, Queens College of C.U.N.Y.
"Conversion: A Structural-Developmental Analysis."
Romney M. Moseley, University of Virginia
Discussant: Richard Gorsuch, University of Texas at Arlington
1:30 - 3:30 - Mirror Room
Session SSSR-8
Refigious and Ethnic Pluralism
Chairperson: William V. D'Antonio, University of Connecticut
"Issues That Divide - Twenty Years Later."
Leo Pfeffer, New York City
"Politics, the Nation, and the Fortunes of Post-Reformation Roman Catholicism in England."
Roger O'Toole, University of Toronto
"The Social Function of the Immigrant Church: A Case Study of Armenian Churches in Los Angeles."
Donald E. Miller, University of Southern California
1:30 - 3:30 - Locust Room
Session RRA-2
Religious Professionals
Chairperson: James D. Glasse, Lancaster Theological Seminary
"Dimensions of Pastoral Roles as Perceived by Clergy and Laity."
Marvin A. Johnson, Harold R. Lohr, Joseph M. Wagner, and H. Mark Keintz, Lutheran Church in America
John E. Dyble, United Presbyterian Church
William J. Barge, Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
"Future Directions of Religious Orders of Women in the U.S."
Sister Marie Augusta Neal, S.N.D., Emmanuel College
"Priest Resignations in a Lazy Monopoly."
John Seidler, Ohio State University
"Religious Orthodoxy and the Multi-Dimensional Phenomenon of Conservatism."
James H. Stewart, Saint Olaf College
3:30 - 5:30 - Adams Room
Session SSSR-9
American Religion in the Revolutionary Era
Chairperson: Hart M. Nelsen, Catholic University of America
"Revolutionary Symbolics and the Black Churches."
Henry J. Ferry, Howard University
"An Immigrant Speaks Boldly: Views of Thomas Paine's Philosophy of Religion."
Gerald B. Strickler, California State University, Long Beach
"Cultural Process and Religious Change in Revolutionary America."
Stephen A. Marini, Wellesley College
3:30 - 5:30 - Washington Room
Session SSSR-10
New Religious Movements: Recruitment and Maintenance
Chairperson: Thomas Robbins, Queens College of C.U.N.Y.
"Crisis in the Community: The Children of God and Their Struggle for Survival in the Seventies."
Charles H. Barfoot, Harvard Divinity School
Gerald T. Sheppard, Union Theological Seminary, New York
"Conversion Process and Faith Maintenance- The Case of the Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon."
Byong-suh Kim, Montclair State College
"Addiction and the Jesus Movement."
Robert B. Simmonds, S.U.N.Y. at Cortland
"Grass Roots Ecumenism: Religious and Economic Cooperation in Two African Churches."
Bennetta Jules-Rosette, University of California, San Diego
3:30 - 5:30 - Green Room
Session SSSR-11
Attitudes and RelWous Orientation
Chairperson: Samuel Mueller, University of Akron
"Philosophical-Religious Attitudes Inventory: Factor-Analytically Derived Scales."
Mary Jo Meadow, Mankato State University
"Religiosity and Prejudice: An Interdimensional Analysis."
Thomas E. Cygnar, Cardell K. Jacobson, and Donald L. Noel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Death Perspectives, Death Anxiety, and Form of Personal Religion."
Bernard Spilka and Barbara Minton, University of Denver Douglas Sizemore, Covenant College
3:30 - 5:30 - Mirror Room
Session SSSR-12
Religion and Polity in Comparative Perspective
Chairperson: R. J. McCorkle, Meharry Medical College
"Conscience, Leisure, and Learning: John Locke and the Levellers."
Edmund Leites, Queens College of C.U.N.Y.
"The Effects of Religious Spatial Concepts on the Structure of Polities."
Corinne Lathrop Gflb, Wayne State University
"Diarchy and Disestablishment."
Carroll J. Bourg, Fisk University
3:30 - 5:30 - Locust Room
Session RRA-3
Theory and Research in Parish Development
Chairperson: G. Douglass Lewis, Hartford Seminary Foundation
"The Small Church: Single-Cell, Culture-Carrying Congregations."
Carl S. Dudley, McCormick Theological Seminary
"Women Officers in Protestant Local Churches - Signs of Change, Precursors of Change."
Susan M. Anderson and James R. Wood, Indiana University
"Sociological and Theological Assumptions Underlying Parish Research."
Thomas Sweetser, Parish Evaluation Project and Loyola University of Chicago
"Methods of Assessing Organizational Effectiveness in Congregations."
Jackson W. Carroll, Hartford Seminary Foundation
3:30 - 5:30 - APRRE Executive Committee Meeting - Valley Forge Room
5:30 - Green Room
Social Hour for Psychologists of Religion
6:45 - 7:45 - Mirror Room
Hospitality Hour, An informal Period Hosted by the APRRE Executive Committee
8:00 P.M. Ballroom
PLENARY SESSION I
Presiding: Allan W. Eister, Wellesley College; President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
"Religion and the Legitimation of the American Republic."
Robert N. Bellah, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Phillip E. Hammond, University of Arizona
Saturday - October 30

8:30 - 9:45 - Ballroom - Round Table Breakfast Sessions
These sessions include coffee, juice and an assortment of rolls and are limited to 10 persons per table. Admission is by ticket only ($2.50) which should be ordered in advance (see the registration card at the end of this program). Tickets not sold through pre-registration will be available at the registration desk.

(Note: Tables 1 - 12 are sponsored by SSSR/RRA and Tables 13 - 17 are APRRE)

Table 1:
"Relationships Between Values and Self-Esteem Among a Selected Population of Aged People."
William M. Clements, University of Iowa
Table 2:
"Marriage Encounter: The Effects of Participation in a Spiritual Movement on Family Cohesiveness."
Arnold Dashefsky, University of Connecticut
Table 3:
"Theoretical Considerations in the Methodology of Inter-Religious Dialogue."
Peter F. Gilbert, Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto
Table 4:
"Roman Catholicism Since Vatican II: Theoretical Resources for an Institutional Analysis of Change."
Patrick H. McNamara, University of New Mexico
Table 5:
"The Prospects for a Normative Psychology of Religion: G. W. Allport as a Paradigm."
Robert J. Palma, Hope College, Michigan
Table 6:
"Log-odds and Logits: A Discussion of New Methods in the Scientific Study of Religion for Nonmethodologists."
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
Table 7:
"Religious Beliefs and College Major."
Waldo W. Burchard, Northern Illinois University
Table 8:
"The Effect of Planned Change in Symbols on Corporate Worship Experience."
Robert C. Richard, Fuller Theological Seminary
Table 9:
"The Lafayette Urban Ministry: A Model for Increasing Parish Involvement in Social Concerns."
James D. Davidson, Purdue University
Ronald Elly, Lafayette Urban Ministry
Table 10:
"Religion and the Bicentennial: Church Services on July 4, 1976."
Samuel A. Mueller, University of Akron
Paul Sites, Kent State University
Table 1 1:
"Christian Science Conceptions of Treatment and Etiology of Illness: An Empirical Study."
Arthur E. Nudelman, Old Dominion University
Table 12:
"The Jamaat-i-Islami: A Major Revivalist Movement in 20th Century Islam."
Anis Ahmad, The North American Institute of Islamic Research
Table 13:
"A Theological Base for Religious Education."
Padraic O'Hare, Diocese of Rochester
Table 14:
"Christian Education as Faith Translation."
Douglas E. Wingeier, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Table 15:
"Cultural Awareness and the Educational Ministry."
Joyce Bailey, Drew University Theological School
Table 16:
"Effectiveness Training - Useful Skills for Religious Educators."
David W. Danner, Presbyterian School of Christian Education
Table 17:
"Models for Integrating Scientific and Theological Insights into Educational Philosophy."
Donald F. Williams, Chicago Cluster of Theological Schools
10:00 - 12:15 - Adams Room
Session SSSR-13
The Authors Meet the Critics: The New Relixious Consciousness
Chairperson: Jeffrey K. Hadden, University of Virginia
Comments on The New Religious Consciousness, edited by Robert N. Bellah and Charles Y. Glock:
Thomas Robbins, Queens College of C.U.N.Y.
W. Clark Roof, University of Massachusetts
Dick Anthony, University of North Carolina
James T. Richardson, University of Nevada
Response by Authors:
Robert N. Bellah and Charles Y. Glock, University of California, Berkeley
10:00 - 12:15 - Washington Room
Session SSSR-14
Religion and the American Nation
Chairperson: Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh
"Religion, Morality, and the State: Some Eighteenth Century Options."
David Little, University of Virginia
"American Religion in European Perspective 1776-1976: A Thematic Analysis."
Gillian Lindt, Columbia University
10:00 - 12:15 - Green Room
Session SSSR-15
Psychoanalytic Studies of Religion
Chairperson: Donald Capps, Phillips University, Oklahoma
"Psychoanalytic Method in the Study of Religious Meaning."
Paul W. Pruyser, The Menninger Foundation
"Defense and Loss of Meaning in Psychoanalytic Perspective."
William R. Rogers, Harvard Divinity School
"John Wesley, Methodism, and Modernization: A Psychological Response to Weber, Halevy, and Semmel."
Robert L. Moore, Western Illinois University
10:00 - 12:15 - Madison Room
Session SSSR-16 - Jointly sponsored with Social Science History Assn.
Civil Religion: An Interdisciplinary Assessment
Chairperson: William M. Newman, University of Connecticut
"Civil Religion: A Contemporary Reassessment."
Richard K. Fenn, University of Maine, Orono
"New England's Republican Millennium: An Ideology of Civil Religion in the Early National Period."
Nathan Hatch, Notre Dame University
Discussant: Harry (Skip) Stout, University of Connecticut
Papers available in advance: W. Newman, U68, U. of CT., Storrs, CT. 06268
10:00 - 12:15 - Locust Room
Session RRA-4
Theological Education: Recent Research
Chairperson: Earl D. C. Brewer, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
"Some Biographical Characteristics of Seminary Students."
Richard A. Hunt, Southern Methodist University
"Overview of the Readiness for Ministry Project."
David S. Schuller, Association of Theological Schools
"Developing Criterion-Referenced Assessment Instruments for Theological Seminaries."
Daniel 0. Aleshire, Youth Research Center
"Individual and Institutional Uses of Criterion-Referenced Instruments."
Merton P. Strommen, Youth Research Center
10:00 - 12:15 Mirror Room
APRRE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
"The Visionary Journey."
Gerald A. Slusser, Eden Theological Seminary
12:15 - 1:15 - RRA Business Meeting Locust Room
12:15 - 1:15 - SSSR Council Luncheon Valley Forge Room
1:30 - 3:45 - Adams Room
Session SSSR-17
Religion and The American Republic
Chairperson: Max L. Stackhouse, Andover Newton Theological School
"Nature and Nation: The Placing of the American Republic."
Conrad Cherry, Pennsylvania State University
"History and the Nation: Shaping an American Consciousness."
James H. Smylie, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond
1:30 - 3:45 - Green Room
Session SSSR-18
Psychological Studies of Religion
Chairperson: H. Newton Malony, Fuller Theological Seminary
"Psychotherapy as Ritual: Structure and Symbolism in Psychological Healing."
John B. Snook, Westchester Institute for Training in Counseling and Psychotherapy
"Ego-Strength and the Development of Religious Founders: The Case of Helena Blavatsky."
Richard A. Hutch, Southern Illinois University
"Empirical Science and Value Assumptions: Lessons from C. G. Jung."
Robert C. Smith, Trenton State College
1:30 - 3:45 - Washington Room
Session SSSR-19
Analysis of Religious Beliefs and Action
Chairperson: Donald R. Ploch, National Science Foundation
"Ethics as the Death of Christianity: Some Empirical Evidence."
Edward C. Lehman, Jr., S.U.N.Y. at Brockport
"Religiosity and Militancy in Ulster."
Ronald J. Terchek, University of Maryland
"Inconsistency of Beliefs in the Existence of Heaven and Afterlife."
Bradley Hertel, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
"Religious Beliefs: Powerful Predictors of Actions and Behavior."
Merton P. Strommen and Daniel 0. Aleshire, Youth Research Center
1:30 - 3:45 - Madison Room
Session SSSR-20
New Religious Forms: Spirituality, Eastern Religions, and the Occult
Chairperson: N. J. Demerath III, University of Massachusetts
"The Astrological Religion: Society in the Heavens."
Frances Butler, Allegheny College
"Toward the Oriental and the Occult: The Future Direction of Religion in the United States."
John F. Miller, III, North Texas State University
"An Ethic for the Maintenance of Capitalism: The Nichiren Shoshu Sokagakkai in America."
Jane H. Brandfon, Temple University
"A Tentative Verbal Model of Spirituality."
John E. Biersdorf, Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies
1:30 - 3:45 - Locust Room
Session RRA-5
Trends in Church Membership and Participation
Chairperson: Jackson W. Carroll, Hartford Seminary Foundation
"Key Elements in Congregational Growth and Decline."
John E. Dyble and Arthur L. Benjamin, United Presbyterian Church
"The Relationship of Church School Participation, Church and Membership Trends."
Warren Hartman, United Methodist Church
"Why Conservative Churches Are Still Growing."
Dean M. Kelley, National Council of Churches
"Why Persons Leave the Church: A Study of United Presbyterian 'Dropouts'."
Benjamin E. Blumel, United Presbyterian Church
Discussant: Everett L. Perry, United Presbyterian Church
1:30 - 3:45 - Walnut Room
Session APRRE-1 - Task Force Seminar
Cognitive, Moral and Faith Development
Convener: Margaret Webster, Ewart College, Toronto
"The Development of an Experimental Course."
Mary M. Wilcox and Clarence H. Snelling, Iliff School of Theology
"The Imperative of an Understanding of Faith in Educational Processes: A Look at the Developmental Model of James Fowler."
James Whitt, Iliff School of Theology
1:30 - 3:45 - Junior Mirror Room
Session APRRE-2 - Task Force Seminar
Myth and Symbol
Convener: Gerald A. Slusser, Eden Theological Seminary
"Symbol of Sacrament."
Michael G. Lawler, Creighton University
"Foundational Truth for Education: Person as Spirit."
Ross Snyder, Chicago Theological Seminary
1:30 - 3:45 - Mirror Room
Session APRRE-3 - Task Force Seminar Research and Education
Convener: Richard A. Olson, Lutheran Theological Seminary
"Church Growth as a Variable Related to Programmatic Satisfaction."
Margaret J. Thomas, United Presbyterian Church
"Belief Systems About Eschatology and Social Ethics in the United States."
Barry Keating, Illinois College
1:30 - 3:45 - Ballroom Foyer
Session APRRE-4 - Task Force Seminar
Development of a Christian Philosophy of Suffering
Convener: Weyburn Groff, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries
"Dealing Creatively with Suffering - The Living Death."
J. Bardarah McCandless, Westminister College
"Suffering and One's Neighbor: Jewish and Christian Concepts of Justice and Love."
Wilma G. von Jess, Harvard Divinity School
1:30 - 3:45 - Ballroom
Session APRRE-5 - Task Force Seminar
Modeling and Experience-Based Religious Education
Convener: John H. Peatling, Union College Character Research Project
"Modeling and Experience."
Gloria Durka, Institute for the Study of Religious Education and Service, Boston College
Joanmarie Smith, St. Joseph's College
4:00 Ballroom
R. PAUL DOUGLASS LECTURE Annual Lecture
Sponsored by the Religious Research Association
Presiding: Ross P. Scherer, Loyola University, Chicago; President, Religious Research Association
"The People, The Plures, and the Unum."
Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago
5:15 - Mirror Room
General Convention Social Hour
8:00 Ballroom
PLENARY SESSION II
Presiding: Dean R. Hoge, Catholic University of America
"Historical Wissenschaft and the Scientific Study of RelWon in America."
Sydney E. Ahlstrom, Yale University
Discussant: Benton Johnson, University of Oregon
Sunday - October 31

8:30 - 9:45 - Ballroom - Pound Table Breakfast Sessions
(Note: Tables 18 - 29 are sponsored by SSSR/RRA and Tables 30 - 34 by APRRE)

Table 18:
"An Empirical Test of the Persistence of Traditional Social Functions of Religion."
Ann H. Diemer, University of Windsor
Table 19:
"Ritual and Personality."
W. Edgar Gregory, University of the Pacific
Table 20:
"The Alcoholic, the Episcopal Priest, and the Parish Pulpit."
David M. Moss, Center for Religion and Psychotherapy
Table 21:
"Theoretical Elements of an Ethnography of Missionization."
Roger S. Sennott, University of Rhode Island
Table 22:
"Religious Orthodoxy and Emotionality."
Jack Balswick, University of Georgia
Table 23:
"Religious Beliefs and Educational and Occupational Achievement in a Midwestern City."
Hei Chu Kim, Western Illinois University
Table 24:
"The Birth of Christianity Without Jesus? An Issue of Culturology."
J. E. Barnhart, North Texas State University
Table 25:
"'Do Unto Others . . . The Golden Rule, Erik Erikson, and College Teaching: A Psycho-Religious Study."
Francis L. Gross, Jr., Western Michigan University
Table 26:
"The Aggressive Organization and the Reluctant Environment: The Precariousness of an Inter-Faith Coordinating Agency."
K. Peter Takayama and Susanne B. Darnell, Memphis State University
Table 27:
"Attribution of Sincerity to Messages of Religious Professionals."
Kathleen Connor, D'Youville College, New York
Daniel Brown, California State University, Fullerton
Table 28:
"The Messianic Jews: Anatomy of a Schism."
Gerald Schorr, Temple University
Table 29:
"Edward Diller Starbuck: A Thematic Analysis."
Howard J. Booth, Graceland College, Iowa
Table 30:
"Communicating the Message in Pre- and Post-Literate Cultures."
Mary Charles Bryce, Catholic University of America
Table 31:
"What Are the Educational Implications of Ecumenical Trends for the Christian Churches?"
Arthur F. Gouthro, Graymoor Ecumenical Institute
J. Blaine Fister, National Council of Churches
Table 32:
"The Content of Process."
Marion Snapper, Calvin Theological Seminary
Table 33:
"Moral Education: Panacea or Problem?"
Stephen A. Schmidt. Concordia Teachers College
Table 34:
"Tlingit Indian Education: Learning Skills Through Learning Virtues."
David S. Steward, Pacific School of Religion
Margaret S. Steward, University of California, Davis
10:00 - 12:15 - Adams Room Session SSSR-21
Civil Religion
Chairperson: Ruth Wallace, George Washington University
"Civil Religion and Church and State."
Ronald C. Wimberley and James A. Christenson, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
"Comparative Civil Religion: Theoretical Issues."
William McPherson, Lewis and Clark College
"The Churches in a Pluralistic Land."
Christopher F. Mooney, S.J., St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia
"Civil Religion in Sectarian Perspective."
Donald B. Kraybill, E@bethtown College, Pennsylvania
10:00 - 12:15 - Washington Room Session SSSR-22
Religion and Values
Convener: Ernest Wallwork, Yale University
Chairperson: Theodore Steeman, Boston College
"Horatio Alger in the Melting Pot: Two Myths of American Folk Religion."
Frederick Bird, Concordia University, Montreal
"The Religious in a Post-Religious Age."
Gibson Winter, Princeton Theological Seminary
"Beyond Ethnomethodology: The Role of Values in Social Theory."
Charles C. Lemert, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
10:00 - 12:15 - Green Room Session SSSR-23
Intense Religious Experience
Chairperson: James T. Richardson, University of Nevada
"Differential Evaluation of Three Intense Experiences as a Function of Their Triggers, Dogmatism, and Social Acquiescence."
Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
"Traditional Religion, Mysterium Tremendum, and Aesthetic Factors in Transcendence."
Modern American Self- School
John R. Knight, Harvard Divinity School
Walter H. Clark, Andover Newton Theological
"Toward a Consensus in the Psychological study of Ecstasy-"
Dennis Klass, Webster College, Missouri
10:00 - 12:15 - Madison Room
Session SSSR-24
Jewish Identity and Institutions in Contemporary America
Chairperson: J. Alan Winter, Connecticut College
"Zionism as Messianism in an American Jewish Community."
Samuel Z. Klausner, Center for Research on the Acts of Man and University of Pennsylvania
"Projected Demographic Changes in the U.S. Jewish Population: Implications for Shifts in Values, Attitudes, and Organizational Structures."
Alvin Chemkin, Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds
"Contemporary American Jewish Identity: Problems and Prospects."
Chaim 1. Waxman, Rutgers University
William B. Helmreich, City College of C.U.N.Y.
"Jewish Ritual as Civil Religion: From Spinoza to Heschel."
S. Daniel Breslauer, Princeton University
Discussant: Michael Berenbaum, Wesleyan University
10:00 - 12:15 - Locust Room
Session RRA-6
Types and Sources of Involvement in Religion
Chairperson: David A. Roozen, Hartford Seminary Foundation
"Sources and Correlates of Religious Involvement."
Reginald W. Bibby, University of Lethbridge
"Determinants of Protestant Church Commitment."
Dean R. Hoge, Catholic University of America David T. Polk, York College, Pennsylvania
"Maintaining Commitment: A Comparative Study of a 'Mainline' and a Charismatic Congregation."
Douglas MeGaw, University of Massachusetts
"Toward an Empirical Understanding of Proselytism."
Stan Gaede, Gordon College
Discussant: W. Clark Roof, University of Massachusetts
10:00 - 12:15 - Mirror Room
Session APRRE-7
APRRE Address
"The Development of a Theory of Instruction for Christian Education."
H. Edward Everding, Mary M. Wilcox, Clarence H. Snelling, Jr., Iliff School of Theology
Responses: Donald M. Joy, Asbury Theological Seminary Berard L. Marthaler, Catholic University of America
12:15 - 1:15 - SSSR Business Meeting - Locust Room
1:15 - 3:30 - Adams Room
Session SSSR-25
New Religious Movements: Motivation and Function
Chairperson: Barbara Hargrove, Yale Divinity School
"A Comparison and Contrast of Two Contemporary Glossolalic Movements."
James T. Richardson, University of Nevada
M.T.V. Reidy, London School of Economics and Political Science
"The Paths Seekers Follow: Ideology and Ritual in the New Religious Groups."
Egon Mayer and Laura W. Kitch, Brooklyn College
"The Relationship Between Healing Rituals and Group Organization."
Frances Westley, Concordia University, Montreal
"Neo-Pentecostalism: A Test of Glock's Deprivation Thesis."
Cecil D. Bradfield, Madison College, Virginia
1:15 - 3:30 - Madison Room
Session SSSR-26
Workshop on Innovative Methods in Teaching the Ideology and Psychology of Religion
Chairpersons: Meredith B. McGuire, Montclair State College
Edgar W. Mills, St. John's University
Participants may bring copies of one-page descriptions of teaching methods for discussion.
1:15 - 3:30 - Adams Room
Session SSSR-27
Religion and Modernity
Chairperson: Carroll J. Bourg, Fisk University
"Religions on the Roads to Modernity."
Benjamin Nelson, New School of Social Research
"The Prospects of Religion in Modern Society."
Talcott Parsons. University of Pennsylvania
1:15 - 3:30 - Walnut Room
Session SSSR-28
Slide and Film Presentation: "The Rootdoctor."
Slides and a documentary film on primitive religious healing practices and voodooism in the South Carolina Sea Islands
Josie L. Tyler, Jr., United Methodist Minister. Columbia, South Carolina
1:15 - 3:30 - Locust Room
Session RRA-7
Religion and Social Activism: Recent Research
Chairperson: Ross P. Scherer, Loyola University, Chicago
"A Profile of Civil Disobedient Clergy, 1956-68."
Charles W. Teel, Jr., Loma Linda University
"Relevant Religion: Southern Baptist and Social Concern, A Case Study of Tension Between Isolation and Involvement."
Norman A. Yance, George Mason University, Virginia
"The Positive Functions of Oligarchy: The National Council of Churches and the Rise of Social Activism."
J. Craig Jenkins, University of Missouri-Columbia
1:15 - 2:45 - Mirror Room
Session A.PRRE-7
APRRE Address
"What is Religious Education?"
Charles F. Melchert, Presbyterian School of Christian Education
Response: John H. Westerhoff, HI, Duke University Divinity School
2:45 - 3:30 - APRRE Business Meeting - Mirror Room
3:30 - 4:30 - APRRE Executive Committee Meeting - Mirror Room
BOOK EXHIBITS

This exhibit presents anthropological, historical, philosophical, psychological, and sociological publications relating to the Scientific Study of Religion which have been submitted for display by publishers and related organizations.

We have attempted to select materials which will bring the latest and most pertinent titles to your attention.

The exhibit is located in "The Book Room" which is opposite the main Ballroom and will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily. Your exhibits director, Harve C. Horowitz, will be available to answer inquiries and to accept book orders on a Convention discount basis in accord with the individual publisher policies.

We have cited below a mere fraction of the total participants since the listing includes only those publishing houses reserving space in advance of this program announcement.

Directory of Exhibitors

Abingdon Press Association for Humanistic Psychology Augsburg Publishing House Congregational Involvement Study Fortress Press Franklin Publishing Co. Glide Publications Greenwood Press Harper & Row Harvard University Press Herald Press McGraw Hill Book Co. Na Pali Publishing Co. Oxford University Press Philosophy Documentation Center Simon & Schuster Inc. Claude Stark & Co. University of California Press University of Chicago Press University of Georgia Press University of Notre Dame Press The Westminster Press