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ANNUAL MEETING
of the
SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC
STUDY OF RELIGION
in conjunction with the
RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

"Religion and Science in The Modern Age"

THE BISMARCK
Chicago, Illinois

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
October 28-30, 1977
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION

THE REGISTRATION DESK will be located in the Maximilian Foyer.
It will be open
Friday, October 28 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 29 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 30 9:00 a.m.-Noon

THE REGISTRATION FEE is $10.00 for members of SSSR or RRA, $12.00 for non-members; and, $5.00 for students. The fee includes admission to all meetings and one copy of the Abstracts of Paper.

THE PRESIDENT"S RECEPTION Friday evening is $2.00 for which you may pre-register or purchase tickets 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-registrationwillbesoldattheregistration desk and any remaining tickets may be purchased at the door.

EXHIBITS: Exhibits of publishers, related organizationsand recent writings of members of SSSR and RRA will be on display in Parlors D and E opposite the elevators. Convention discounts offered. Open 9-5 Friday and Saturday; 9-1 Sunday. Harve Horowitz, mgr.

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 for which you may pre-register or purchase tickets 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 Dean Knudsen, Purdue University
TREASURER Russell R. Dynes, American Sociological Assoc.
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Edgar W. Mifls, Jr., St. John"s University

COUNCIL

Donald Capps, Phillips University
James E. Dittes, Yale University
Robert Friedrichs, Williams College
Barbara Hargrove, Yale University
Dean R. Hoge, Catholic University of America
Marie Augusta NeaI, Emmanuel College
Paul W. Pruyser, The Menninger Foundation
Bryan R. Wilson, Oxford University

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

THE 1977 PROGRAM - SSSR
THEME: Religion and Science in the Modern Age

PROGRAM CHAIR: James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno
ASSISTANT PROGRAM CHAIR AND ABSTRACTS BOOK EDITOR: Peggy Sagen, University of Nevada, Reno

PROGRAM ADVISORY COMMITTEE
James Beckford (Sociology), Durham University, Durham, England
Ralph Burhoe, Editor, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Chicago
Richard Comstock (Religious Studies), University of California, Santa Barbara
N. Ross Crumrine (Anthropology), University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
William Garrett (Sociology), St. Michael"s College
Jacques Gellard, Centre Sevres, Paris
Barbara Hargrove, Yale Divinity School
Ralph Hood (Psychology), University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Meredith McGuire (Sociology), Montclair State College
Pat McNamara (Sociology), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Klas Magni, Religion Sociologiska, Instutet Stockhom, Sweden
H. Newton Malony, Jr. (Psychology), Fuller Theological Serriinarv
Richard Means (Sociology), Kalamazoo College

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE:
Robert McNamara, Loyola University (Chair); Thomas M. Gannon, Loyola University.

THE NEXT MEETING OF THE SOCIETY WILL BE IN THE SONESTAHOTEL,HARTFORD,CONN.OCTOBER27-29,1978

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 Religion 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 Edward A. Rauff, Lutheran Council in the USA

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Thomas M. Gannon, S.J., Loyola University of Chicago
Douglas Johnson, National Council of Churches
Robert Herrick, Westmar College
Samuel Mueller, University of Akron
Earl D. C. Brewer, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
John Peatling, Union College Character Research Project
Ronald Wimberley, North Carolina State University
Barbara P. Payne, Georgia State University
Edward M. Sullivan, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate

EDITOR: REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH
James D. Davidson, Purdue University

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH
Raymond C. Rympf, Purdue University

PROGRAM CHAIRPERSON, 1977
Ronald L. Johnstone, Central Michigan University

PROGRAM CHAIRPERSON, 1978
Jack Balswick, University of Georgia

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 $1 1.00 for Student memberships. Memberships 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.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE

NOTE: All sessions are two hours in length.
Conveners have been selected because of their expertise in session areas. Therefore they will be expected to participate as discussants of the papers, especially in sessions where no formal discussant is listed, but also in sessions that do list a discussant. They are expected to lead and encourage audience participation in the sessions. as well.

Thursday, October 27

4:00 pm RRA Board of Directors meeting - Blackhawk Room

7:30 pm SSSR Council meeting - Parlor C
Friday - October 28

8:30 - 10:15 - RRA Board Meeting (continued from Thursday afternoon)
10:30 - Parlor F SSSR-1
Sociological and Psychological Measurements of Religiosity
Convener: Sam G. McFarland, Western Kentucky State University

"How General are Religious Dimensions?"
Morton King, Southern Methodist Universitv, David Arno, Texas Christian University and Richard A. Hunt, Southern Methodist University

"Dimensions of Personal Religion: A Trichotomous View"
J. Roland Fleck, Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology

"Religious Orientations Dimensions: Individual and Institutional Interrelations"
Richard Kahoe, Christian Haven Homes, Mary Jo Meadow, Mankato State University

"Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religious Orientation: A Comparison by Means of Kelly"s Personal Construct Theory"
Lawrence L. Carter, University of Missouri

Discussant: Richard Gorsuch, University of Texas at Arlington
10:30 - Parlors A & B RRA-1
Religious Education and Socialization
Convener: Dean Hoge, Catholic University

"Children and Religion: A Review of the Research"
Rose Tekel, Concordia University

"Becoming a Proselytizer"
Joseph P. Miller, Lawrence Johnson & Associates, Washington, D.C.

"Empirical Conceptual Foundations of Religious Education"
Donald F. Williams, Chicago Cluster of Theological Schools

"Effects of Seminary Education"
Dallas Blanchard, University of West Florida, Pensacola

Discussant: Donald R. Ploch, University of Tennessee
10:30 - Maximilian I SSSR-2
Religion and Sexuality
Convener: William H. Swatos, Jr., King College
"Family Values, Sexuality and Sex Roles: The Religious Factor Among College Students"
William V. D"Antonio and F. Grupp, University of Connecticut

"Religiosity and Premarital Sexual Behavior Among College Students"
Hei C. Kim, Western Illinois University

"The Divinity of Sexuality"
Dorothy J. Perkins, Temple University
"Religion and Sexuality: Psychological Pleasure Principle and Christian Morality"
John Giles Milhaven, Brown University

Discussant: James W. Gladden, University of Kentucky
10:30 - Maximilian II SSSR-3
"New Religious Movements of Eastern Origin
Convener: Dick Anthony, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The Ethical Outlook of American Zen Students"
Steven Tipton, Harvard University

"Nichiren Shoshu of America, 1972-1977"
William McPherson, Center for Japanese and Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley

"Transcendental Meditation, Locus of Control, and Social Isolation"
Thomas J. Sullivan, Northern Michigan University

Discussant: Jacob Needleman, Prof. of Philosophy, San Francisco State; Director, Program for the Study of New Religious Groups in America, Graduate Theological Union
10:30 - Lincoln Room RRA-2
Predictors of Church Effectiveness
Convener: H. Newton Malony, Fuller Theological Seminary
"Member Recruitment-Involvement in Churches as a Function of Ministerial Role Expectations"
Sue Folk Smith, Fuller Theological Seminary

"Organizational Effectiveness in the Christian Church: A Study of the Survey of Organizations"
Cary D. Habegger, David Cabush, Rosemead Graduate School of Professional Psychology

"Member Recruitment-Involvement as a Function of Organizational Incorporation"
John Free, Pepperdine University

Discussant: G. Douglass Lewis, Hartford Seminary Foundation
10:30 - Medill Room SSSR-4
Ethnicity and Religion
Convener: Michael R. Welch, Florida Atlantic University

"Ethnicity and Eastern (Slavonic Rite) Orthodoxy in Central Pennsylvania"
C. Frederic Sanford, Pine Grove Presbyterian Church

"The Foreign Background Community and Nonpublic School Attendance"
William Kammrath, Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, Illinois

"The Spirit of Protest and the Black Church in America"
Hart Nelsen, Catholic University

12:30 - 1:30 - SSSR Council Luncheon - Black Hawk Room
1:30 - Parlor F SSSR-5
Sociological and Psychological Studies of Mysticism (Double Length Session)
Convener: Ralph Hood, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

"Report of"Ecstatic,"Paranormal"or"Religious"Experience in great Britain and the United States - A Comparison of Trends"
J. David Hay and A.M. Morisy, Nottingham University School of Education

"Toward an Understanding of Religious Phenomena, Love in Mystics: The Experience of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross"
John Stewart McGovern, St. Lawrence University

"Mysticism: Triggers and Anti-Triggers"
Walter Houston Clark, Andover Newton Theological School

"Mysticism in the Analytic Psychology of Carl Jung, and the Yoga Psychology of Patanjali: A Comparative Study"
Harold G. Coward, University of Calgary

"Mysticism as a Sociological Category"
Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh

"Mapping the Mysterium: Toward an Analytical Theory of the Modes of Mysticism in the Scientific Study of Religion"
William R. Garrett, St. Michael"s College
1:30 - Parlors A & B SSSR-6
Ritual and Symbolic Anthropology: Session I
Convener: N. Ross Crumrine, University of Victoria

"Masking as Religious Experience"
Marjorie M. Halpin, University of British Columbia

"Hopi Masks: A Semiotic Perspective"
Louis A. Hieb, Washington State University

""Devils" and the "Devil" Masks in Venezuela"
Angelina Pollak-Eltz, Universida Catholica Andres Bello, Caracas, Venezuela

"The Nillatun Religious Ceremony Among the Araucanians of the Southern Cone of South America"
Bernado Berdichewsky, University of Victoria

"Mayo Indian Myth and Ceremonialism, Northwest Mexico: An Opposition Culture"
N. Ross Crumrine, University of Victoria
1:30 - Parlor C SSSR-7
Video Presentation
Convener: Dennis Klass, Webster College

"The Varieties of Transcendent Experience at Death"
Dennis Klass, Webster College, St. Louis, Missouri Audrey Gordon, Oakton Community College, Chicago
1:30 - Maximilian 11 SSSR-8
Correlates of Religiosity
Convener: Keith M. Wulff, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota

"Religious Change Over Years at University: Two Canadian Institutions"
Bruce Hunsberger, Wilfrid Laurier University

"Faculty Religiosity and Commitment to Scholarly Openness"
James Alsdurf and Sam McFarland, Western Kentucky University

"Religion and Drug Use Among Adolescents: A Review of Empirical Research"
Kirk W. Elifson, David Petersen, Patricia Nodine, Georgia State University, Atlanta

"The Sociology of Religion and the Aged: an Evaluation of Research Measures"
Barbara Pittard Payne, Georgia State University, Atlanta
1:30 - Maximilian I SSSR-9
Science and Religion
Convener: Ralph Burhoe, Editor, Zygon

"Illustrations of the Religious Foundations of Science"
Winslow Galbraith, University of Pittsburgh

"Methodological Discipline in the Meeting of Religion and the Sciences"
Barbara Ann Swyhart, San Diego State University

"Science as Theology: The New Priesthood"
Eileen Barker, London School of Economics and Political Science

Discussants: Langdon Gilkey, Divinity School, University of Chicago Allan S. Janik, Boston College
1:30 - Lincoln Room RRA-3
Research Methods and the Scientific Study of Religion
Convener: Hart Nelsen, Catholic University

"Phenomenology and Social Research"
Richard A. Hoehn, Bfite Divinity School, Texas Christian University

"Triangulation: Its Usage in the Investigation of a Neo-Pentecostal Group"
Cecil Bradfield, James Madison University

"An Empirical Test of the Ethological Hypothesis"
Patrick Fontane, Arkansas State University

"Ethics of Religious Evaluative Research"
Norman Shawchuck, McCormick Theological Seminary Gustave Rath, Northwestern University
1:30 - Medill Room SSSR-10
Religion and Health: Discussion from Several Disciplinary Perpectives
Convener: Jerry Bergman, Bowling Green State University
"Search for the Meaning of Health: Religious and Scientific Dimensions"
Carnegie Samuel Calian, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary

"Asclepius, Polmandres, Hegel and Wholeness"
John R. Knight, Harvard University Divinity School
Kathryn L. Knight, Mount Auburn Hospital

"Purity, Danger, and Facelessness: Pollution Beliefs in New Religious Movements"
Frances R. Westley, McGill University

"The Problem of Measuring Spiritual Health"
David 0. Moberg, Marquette University
3:30 - Parlor F SSSR-5
Sociological and Psychological Studies of Mysticism
Convener: Ralph Hood, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Continued from 1:30 session
3:30 - Parlors A & B SSSR-11
Ritual and Symbolic Anthropology: Session II
Convener: TBA

"Dread Wasteland: Pasrafarian Ritual in West Kingston, Jamaica"
Carole D. Yawney, York University

"Dead Ends and New Beginnings: Initiation Rites in New Religious and Para-Religious Movements"
Frederick Bird, Concordia University, Montreal

"The Altar Call Ritual in a Pentecostal Church"
Judith Strutt, Concordia University, Montreal

Discussant: TBA
3:30 - Parlor C RRA-4
Religiosity and Aging
Convener: Barbara Pittard Payne, Georgia State University, Atlanta

"Age and Period Effects in Religious Commitment Scales"
Barbara P. Payne and George Melton Mobley, Georgia State University, Atlanta

"Aging and-the Motivation for Religious Behavior: A Review"
Richard D. Reddy, SUNY, Fredonia
James C. Petersen, Western Michigan University

"Measurements of Religiosity of Aging Veterans"
Max Apfeldorf and Walter J. Smith, Veterans Administration Hospital, Washington, D.C.

"Religiosity and Life Satisfaction"
Marvin L. Zimbelman, Southwestern College

Discusant: Earl Brewer, Emory University
3:30 - Maximilian I SSSR-12
Deprogramming and the Anti-Cult Movement
Convener: James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno

"The "Brainwashing" Metaphor as a Social Weapon"
Thomas Robbins, Queens College, CUNY
Dick Anthony, University of North Carolina Medical School
Jim McCarthy, Berkeley, California

"Religious Deprogramming and Subjective Reality"
Byong-suh Kim, Montclair State College

"Deprogramming and the Emerging American Anti-Cult Movement"
Anson D. Shupe, Jr., Roger Spielmann, and Sam Stigall, University of Texas at Arlington

" "Mind Control" and Religious Liberty"
Frederick Maher, St. Michael"s College

Discussants: Barbara Hargrove, Yale University
Dean Kelley, National Council of Churches, New York
3:30 - Maximilian 11 SSSR-13
"Irreligion, Invisible Religion and Civil Religion: Theory and Evidence
Convener: Robert Blumstock, McMaster University

"Making the Invisible Religion Visible: An Empirical Test of Luckmann"s Hypothesis"
Perry McWilliams and K. Peter Takayama, Memphis State University

"Irreligion as Deviance: Critique and Proposal in the Sociology of Irreligion"
Stan Gaede, Gordon College

"Fraternal Associations as Institutionalized Civil Religion: Scottish Rite Freemasonry"
Pamela M. Jolicoeur, California Lutheran College
Louis L. Knowles, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Southern California
3:30 - Lincoln Room RRA-5
Clergy Studies
Convener: Harry Hale, Northeast Louisiana University

"New Breed Orientation Toward the Ministry Among Southern Baptist Ministers and Ex Ministers"
Donald Copeland, North Greenville College
"Clergy Authority and the Dimension of Its Exercise"
Kenneth Arnold, Phillip E. Hammond and Luis Salinas, University of Arizona

"When Priests Begin to Bargain"
James H. Stewart, Saint Olaf College

"Clergy Marriage Contexts"
Marvin A. Johnson, H. Mark Keintz, Harold R. Lohr and Joseph M. Wagner, Lutheran Church in America, Philadelphia William J. Barge, Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, St. Louis
3:30 - Medill Room SSSR-14
Religious Defection
Convener: Samuel A. Mueller, University of Akron

"Determinants of Church Attitudes and Participation Among High School Youth"
Dean R. Hoge and Gregory H. Petrillo, Boys Town Center, Catholic University of America

"Some Correlates of Religious Defection"
Patrick H. McNamara and Arthur St. George, University of New Mexico

"Converts Make the Best Protestants: A Study of DenominationSwitching Among Protestant Church Members in a Midwestern City"
Allen P. Fisher and Dean D. Knudsen, Purdue University

Discussant: Waldo W. Burchard, Northern Illinois University
5:30 - Greenbrier Room
Social Hour for Psychologists of Religion
5:30 - Maximilian I RRA Business Meeting
7:30 p.m.
PLENARY SESSION I
Pavilion Room
Presiding: Joseph H. Fichter
Loyola University of the South

"Religion and Science in AD 1977:
Mutual Indifference, Possible Rapprochement, or What?"

Allan W. Eister, President, SSSR
Wellesley College

Respondents:
Donald Campbell
Northwestern University

Ralph Burhoe
Editor, Zygon

Eileen Barker
London School of Economics

President's Reception to Follow Session
(in Upper Terrace of Pavillon Room)

Note: Our international members who have come so far to participate in the program will be featured at this reception. Plan to attend and meet them.
Saturday

8:30-9:45 - Upper Terrace of Pavilion Room

Breakfast Roundtables

Table 1:
"Research in Parish Communication: History and Literature Review with Some Suggestions for Future Research."
Thomas J. Mickey, University of Iowa

Table 2:
"Freedom, The Spirit and the Body."
Trevor Watt, Religious Study Center, Canisius College

Table 3:
"Religiosity and Marriage Success"
Richard A. Hunt and Morton B. King Southern Methodist University

Table 4:
"Symbolic Interpretation and Personal Commitment"
Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University

Table 5:
"Religion and Life Crisis Counseling: Perceptions of Clergy Effectiveness"
Robert Bendiksen and Philip L. Berg, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

Table 6:
"Near-Fatal Experience, Crisis Intervention and the Anniversary Reaction"
David M. Mqss 111, Centerfor Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago

Table 7:
"Factors Affecting Ministry Candidates in Their Choice of Seminary"
John E. Dybie, Lutheran Church in America and United Methodist Church

Table 8:
"Talcott Parsons, Science, and Religion"
Barclay D. Johnson, Carleton University

Table 9:
"Up From the Ashes: Follow-up Research on West Coast Campus Ministries"
Barbara Hargrove, Yale Divinity School

Table 10:
"Civil Uncivility: Non-Civil Religion in Canada"
Robert Blumstock, McMaster University

Table 1 1:
"Rorschach Data From Neo-Pentecostal and Charismatic Subjects"
Nancy L. Niesz, Xavier (Ohio) University

Table 12:
"Conservatism, Commitment, and Church Growth"
C. Kirk Hadaway, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Table 13:
"Implications of a Competence-Oriented Individual-Process-Systems Paradigm for the Empirical Study of Religion"
Kenneth I. Pargament, Robert E. Steele and Forest B. Tyler, University of Maryland

Table 14:
"The Perceptions by Those Who are Not Healed Toward Those Who Are Healed"
Jerry Bergman, Bowling Green State University

Table 15:
"Social Characteristics ano Values of Members of the Sufi Order of the West of Pir Vilayat Khan"
Eric Evans, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley

Table 16:
"Human Rights and Manifest Destiny in Bicentennial Sermons: Some Fuel for the Civil Religion Debate"
Samuel A. Mueller, University of Akron, and Paul L. Sites, Kent State University

Table 17:
"Interpretive Paradigms for the New Religions: The 1970"s as Revitalization, Reformation, and Sectarianism"
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University

Table 18:
"Teaching Sociology of Religion"
Meredith McGuire, Montclair State College

Table 19:
"Alcoholism in the Clergy"
Joseph H. Fichter, Loyola University of the South

Table 20:
"Contemporary Trends in the German Psychology of Religion"
David M. Wulff, Wheaton College

Table 21:
"Social Theories of Religious Symbols: Current Issues and Predicaments"
Gillian Lindt, Columbia University

Table 22:
"Participation in a Doctor of Ministry Program: Its Effect on Pastor Effectiveness and the Parish Ministry"
G. Douglass Lewis, The Hartford Seminary Foundation

Table 23:
"A Theoretical Model for the Traditional Folk Religion in Japan"
Iwao Munakata, Sophia University
10:00 - Parlor F SSSR-15
Psychology of Religion: Pedagogical Issues
Convener: Don Capps, Phillips University

"Psychology of Religion as an Academic Subject: Its Challenge to Scholarship and Pedagogical Impact"
Paul W. Pruyser, The Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas

"The Introductorv Course in Psychology of Religion: Three Pedagogical Models"
Donald Capps, Phillips University

"The Dynamics of Psychology and Religion:Teaching in a Dialogical Field"
William R. Rogers, Harvard University

Discussant: James E. Dittes, Yale University
10:00 - Parlor C SSSR-16
Studying New Religious Movements
Convener: James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno

"A Program for the Study of New Religions"
Jacob Needleman, Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State, and Director, Program for the Study of New Religious Groups in America, Graduate Theological Union George Baker, Graduate Theological Union

Discussants: Dick Anthony, University of North Carolina Medical School
Irving Zaretskv, University of Chicago Divinity School
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
Kenneth Burnham, Temple University
10:00 - Parlors A & B SSSR-17
Ritual and Symbolic Anthropology: Session III
Convener: TBA

"Religion and Politics: Campaigning in Bermuda"
Frank E. Manning, Memorial University

"Strong Angels Proclaiming: The Astrology of Millenarianism"
C. D. Yawney and D. W. Smith, York University

"Taboo With Biblical Content: The Interplav of" Christian and Indigenous Religious Elements in a Polynesian Society"
Joseph C. Finney, University of Kentucky, Lexington

"Towards a Model for the Study of Change in"Part-Societies" From the Standpoint of Values"
M. D. Pradhan, University of Windsor

Discussant: E. Schwimmer, Universite Laval
10:00 - Maximilian I SSSR-18
Women and Religion
Convener: Ruth Wallace, George Washington University

"Prophesying Daughters: The Role of Women in Classical Pentacostalism"
Charles H. Barfoot, Harvard Divinity School
Gerald T. Sheppard, Union Theological Seminary, New York

"Laity"s Attitudes Toward Ordained Women in the Lutheran Church in America"
Donald Motaka, Yale Divinity School

"Need, Value, and Motivational Correlates of Religious Attitudes Toward Women"
Mary Jo Meadow, Mankato State University

"Religious Orientation: The Key to Personality Differences Between Feminists and Nonfeminists"
Edwin W. McClain, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
10:00 - Lincoln Room RRA-6
Church Growth: An Empirical Lacuna?
Convener: David Roozen, Hartford Seminary Foundation, Hartford, Connecticut

"Factors Producing Growth or Decline in United Presbyterian Congregations"
Kirk Hadaway and W. Clark Roof, University of Massachusetts

"Dimensions of Local Church Performance: An Examination of Two Hundred Sixty-Three Massachusetts and Pennsylvania United Church of Christ Congregations"
William J. McKinney, Jr., United Church of Christ

"Church Growth and the Social-Ecological Context"
Douglas Wairath, Reformed Church in America

"Factors Effecting Denominational Growth: The 1952 and 1971 National Council of Churches "Churches and Church Membership in the United States" Studies"
William Newman and Peter Halvorson, University of Connecticut
10:00 - Maximilian 11 SSSR-19
Scientific Study of Religion in Other Countries
Convener: Thomas M. Gannon, S.J., Loyola University of Chicago

"Sociology of Religion in Spain, Today"
Alfonso Perez Penasco, Departamento de Investigacion Sociologica Justiniano, Madrid, Spain

"Religion and Science in Modern Japan"
lwao Munakata, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

"Tendencies of the 19th International Conference on Sociology of Religion, Held in Strasbourg, France, 1977"
Professor Dr. Pierre Delooz, Pro Mundi Vita, Centrum Informationis, Brussels, Belgium

Other Participants (with more informal presentations)

Professor K. Dobbelaere, Departement Sociologie, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium James Beckford, Department of Sociology and Social Administration, University of Durham, England G.A.K. Howes, Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England S.B. Verma, Head, Department of Psychology, Rajendra College, Chapra, Bihar, India
10:00 - Medill Room SSSR-20
Moral Sociology
Convener: William R. Garrett, St. Michael"s College, Winooski, Vermont

"The Social Element in Religious Ethics"
Max L. Stackhouse, Andover Newton Theological School

"Pluralism: Friend or Foe?"
William Everett, St. Francis College

"Authority, Society and ... Meaning? Morality and Immorality in the Sociology of Emile Durkheim"
Charles Varela, Union College

"Worship and Moral Experience: A Phenomological Analysis"
Donald E. Miller, University of Southern California

Discussant: Stanley Hauerwas, University of Notre Dame
12 - Maximilian I
SSSR Business Meeting
1:30 - Parlor F SSSR-21
Psychodynamics and the Psychology of Religion
Convener: Daniel Aleshire, Youth Research Center, Minneapolis, Minn.

"Paradoxes About Ego in the Western Tradition"
William C. Shepherd, University of Montana, Missoula

"Creativity and the Sacred: A Psychological Perspective"
Robert L. Moore, Chicago Theological Seminary

"Psychology"s Unclaimed Legacy from Theology and Philosophy: Para-Psychological Dreams in the Nineteenth Century"
Hendrika Vande Kemp, Fuller Theological Seminary

Discussant: Paul Pruyser, Menninger Foundation
1:30 - Parlors A & B SSSR-22
Methodological Problems in Anthropological Studies of Religion
Convener: TBA

"Ethnophilosophy and the Study of Religion"
W. Dupre", Filosofisch Instituut, Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, Nederland

"Ethnoscience and Problems of Method in the Social Scientific Study of Religion"
Joseph Michael Ryan, Gwynedd-Mercy College

"Empire"s Outpost and the "Malay Magician" "
Robert L. Winzeler, University of Nevada, Reno

Discussant: E. Schwimmer, Universite Laval
1:30 - Parlor C SSSR-23
Sociology of Theology
Convener: Richard Comstock, University of California, Santa Barbara

"Theology Aside: Bacon"s Contribution to the Study of Religion"
J. Samuel Preus, Indiana University, Bloomington

"The Social Significance of the Honest to God Debate"
Robin Gill, New College, The Mound, Edinburgh

"Southernness, The God Above God: A Study of Southern Baptist Thought and Culture"
Norman Yance, George Mason University
1:30 - Maximilian I SSSR-24
Healing, Purification and Psychological Well-Being in New Religious Groups
Convener: Meredith McGuire, Montclair State College

"Purification and Healing Rituals in New Religious Groups"
Frances R. Westley, McGill University

"Healing in the New Age Groups"
John F. Miller III, North Texas State University, Denton

"Self-Actualization in Glossolalic and Non-Glossolalic Pentecostals"
Nancy L. Niesz, Astor Home and Treatment Centers, Rhinebeck, New York Earl J. Kronenberger, Xavier University

"Religious Involvement: A Stimulus to Positive Affective Functioning"
Robert E. Steele and Kenneth 1. Pargament, University of Maryland
1:30 - Maximilian 11
Theory and Method in the Sociology of Religion in Canada
Convener: Harry Hiller, University of Calgary

"Numbers and Northerners: A Review and Critique of Survey Research in the Sociology of Religion in Canada"
Reginald Bibby, University of Lethbridge

"Organizational Perspectives in the Study of Canadian Religion"
Kenneth Westhues, University of Waterloo

"Historical and Conflict Perspectives in the Sociology of Religion in Canada"
Stewart Crysdale, York University

"Theory and Research in -Quebec: Qualitative Appraisal and Perspectives"
Paul Stryckman, University of Laval

Discussant: TBA
1:30 - Lincoln Room RRA-7
Social Organizational Analysis of Denominations
Convener: James H. Davis, Research Director United Methodist Church, New York

"Systems Analysis of the Status of the United Church of Christ as an Occupational System and the Employment of Female Clergy"
Genevieve Burch, Center for Applied Urban Research, University of Nebraska, Omaha

"Centralisation in English Congregationalism"
G. K. Nelson and Janice M. Campbell, City of Birmingham Polytechnic, Birmingham, England

"Worshiping Weakly: The Cultic Component in Mainline Protestantism"
Donald L. Metz, Marquette University

"Clergy and Lay Delegate Perceptions in a Middle-Level Denominational Decision Unit"
Paul Parathazham and Ross Scherer, Loyola University of Chicago
1:30 - Medill Room SSSR-26
New Religious Movements Related to the Judeo-Christian Tradition
Convener: Tom Robbins, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, New York

"Rhetorical Aspects of Popular Atheism in America"
Roderick P. Hart, Purdue University

"Profile of a Spiritual Odyssey: The Supporters of Jews for Jesus"
Donald R. LaMagdeleine, Graduate Theological Union and Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley, California

"Main Characteristics of the Jesus Movement in Norway"
Erik Karisaune, University of Trondheim, Norway

"Thought Reform and the Unification Church"
David Taylor, University of Montana, Missoula
The H. Paul Douglas Lecture
Pavillon Room
4:00 p.m.

Presiding: Ross P. Scherer
Loyola University, Chicago;
President, Religious Research Association

"Trance and Possession: Studies of Charismatic Influence"
Guy E. Swanson University of California, Berkeley
PLENARY SESSION II
Pavillon Room
7:30 p.m.

Presiding: Gillian Lindt
Columbia University

"The General Theory of Secularisation"
David Martin London School of Economics and Political Science

Respondents:

Richard Fenn, University of Maine, Orono
Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh
Sunday

8:30 - Parlor F SSSR-27
Psychological Studies of Death
Convener: Bernard Spilka, University of Denver

"Religion and Death: The Clerical Perspective"
Bernard Spilka and M. Priscilla Rea, University of Denver
John D. Spangler, lliff School of Theology

"Death Perspectives and Religious Orientation as a Function of Christian Faith"
Leonard J. Cerny II and John Carter, Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology

"Religious Variables, Death Attitudes and Mental Health Indices"
Robert N. DeYoung, Columbia County Guidance Center, Portage, Wisconsin

Discussant: Neil C. Warren, Fuller Theological Seminary
8:30 - Parlors A & B SSSR-28
Comparative and Historical Studies
Convener: Richard F. Costigan, SJ, Loyola University of Chicago

"Two New Religious Movements, Manifestations of Pentecostalism Among Middle-Class White Americans and Working Class Mestizo Colombians"
Cornelia Butler Flora and Rebecca Tanner, Kansas State University, Manhattan

"Stages of Religious Evolution in European Religion"
Gert H. Mueller, The American University

"Sovereign Groups, Subsistence Activities, and the Presence of a High God: A New View"
John H. Simpson, Erindale College, University of Toronto

"Symbolic and Stylistic Translations in Religious Art - An Unexplored Indicator of Secularization?"
Graham A. K. Howes, University of Cambridge, England
8:30 - Parlor C SSSR-29 (with AAR)
Psycho-social Interpretations of Christianity
Convener: Lucy Bregman, Temple University

"A Critique of Social Science Interpretation of Early Christianity: John Gager"s Kingdom and Community"
Jonathan Smith, University of Chicago

"A Theological Response to Gager"s Kingdom and Community"
David Tracy, University of Chicago

"The Heuristic Value of a Psychoanalytic Model in the lnterpretation of Pauline Theology"
Robin Scroggs, Chicago Theological Seminary

"Pauline Theology and the Return of the Repressed: Depth Psychology and Early Christian Thought"
Robert Moore, Chicago Theological Seminary
8:30 - Maximilian I SSSR-30
Definitions of Religion for Use in Scientific Research
Convener: Benton Johnson, University of Oregon

"The Failure of the Neo-Positivist Paradigm in the Sociology of Religion"
Walter Broughton, Marywood College

"A Sociological Approach to Religion: Another Consideration"
Thomas M. Osborne, Wheaton College, Norton, Ma.

"Paradoxes and Problems .i the Study of Religion"
Murray L. Wax, Wa!,h-ngton University

Origin and Definition of Religion: A Symbolic lnteractionist Interpretation"
Glenn M. Vernon, University of Utah
8:30 - Maximilian II SSSR-31
Religious Communalism
Convener: Walter A. Brumm, Messiah College

"Auroville: A 20th Century Utopia"
Chitta R. Goswami, Kenyon College

"The Communal Aspect of the Peace Missicn of Father Divine"
Kenneth E. Burnham, Temple University

"Religion and Community at New Harmony 1824-27: A Study of the Failure of Robert Owen"s Atheism"
Hyman Mariampolski, Kansas State University, Manhattan

"Mysticism and Communal Movements: The Pietists, Transcen- dentalists and Hippies"
Joseph P. Miller, Lawrence Johnson & Associates, Washington, D.C.
8:30 - Lincoln Room RRA-8
Denominations and the Open Systems Model - Critique and Applications (double session)
Convener: Ross P. Scherer, Loyola University of Chicago

"Exposition and Critique of James A. Beckford, Religious Organization"
James R. Wood, Indiana University
John Seidler, Ohio State University

"Historical-Developmental Comparison"
Gary P. Burkart, Benedictine College

"Bureaucratic Accommodation and Routinization in the Southern Baptist Convention"
William R. Garrett, St. Michael"s College

"Professional Supply and Demand and Denominational Systems"
Jackson W. Carroll, The Hartford Seminary Foundation, and Robert L. Wilson, Duke Divinity School

"The Crisis of Denominational Legitimacy"
Theodore H. Erickson, United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, New York City

"Denominational Strain, Conflict, and Fission"
K. Peter Takayama, Memphis State University

"The Catholic Diocese"
Robert F. Szafran, University of Iowa and University of Wisconsin Comparative Religious Organization Studies

"The Religious Order"
Thomas M. Gannon, S.J., Loyola University of Chicago

"Past and Present Models in Parish Research and Planning"
Everett L. Perry, United Presbyterian Church Program Agency, New York City

Discussants: W. Widick Schroeder, Chicago Theological Seminary, and James A. Beckford, University of Durham
8:30 - Medill Room SSSR-32
Catholic Neo-Pentecostalism
Convener: Adams Lovekin, St. John"s Cathedral, Albuquerque, New Mexico

"Charismatic Renewal as Mysticism, Revitalization Movement and Collective Behavior: Some Alternatives to Church-Sect Theory for the Analysis of Religious Movements"
Charles L. Harper, Creighton University

"Catholic Pentecostals: An Example of"Over-conformingDeviants"
Monica Aita, Southeast Missouri State University
John Nye, University of Nebraska at Omaha

"Intellectuals and Charismatic Renewal Among Catholics: Defining Charismatic Experience as "Catholic"
John Thompson, St. Thomas Moore College

Discussant: H. Newton Malony, Fuller Theological Seminary
10:30 - Parlor F SSSR-33
Cognitive Processes in the Psychology of Religion
Convener: David M. Wulff, Wheaton College, Norton, Ma.

"Separation-Individuation in Development of Alternative Religious Commitments: A Psychoanalytic Perspective"
Thomas E. Brown, Yale University

"The Relationship of Psychological Needs to God Concept and Religious Perceptions"
David R. MacRae, Pine Rest Christian Hospital
J. Roland Fleck, Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology

"Maps of Consciousness"
John E. Biersdorf, Institute of Advanced Pastoral Studies, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

"The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Psychiatry"
Charles W. Lidz, University of Pittsburgh

Discussant: Hendrika Vande Kemp, Fuller Theological Seminary
10:30 - Parlors A & B RRA-9
Changes in the Catholic Church
Convener: James H. Stewart, St. Olaf College

"Catholic Piety and Practice Since 1972"
Thomas P. Sweetser, S.J., Loyola University of Chicago

"Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Common Religion: A Study of Grass Roots Catholics in Four English Parishes"
M. Hornsby-Smith, Raymond M. Lee, and Peter Reilly, University of Surrey, England

"Catholics and Preaching: Why Sunday Sermons are Failing"
Thomas J. Mickey, University of Iowa

"Community Formation and the Church"
K. Dobbelaere and J. Billiet, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
10:30 - Maximilian I SSSR-34
Historical Studies in Social Theory
Convener: T. Rennie Warburton, University of Victoria

"Charisma and Religious Leadership: An Historical Analysis"
Douglas F. Barnes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"Franz Cumont and the Scientific Study of Religion"
Stephen Davey Glazier, University of Connecticut, Storr

"Marx, Der Umweg and Religion"
Clyde Ebenreck, Prince George"s Community College

"False Consciousness as a Religious and Moral Problem"
Frederick Bird, Concordia University, Montreal
10:30 - Maximilian II SSSR-35
Religion and Social Change
Convener: Theodore E. Long, Hollins College

"Is Secularization a Discontinuous Process?"
Daniel Rigney, University of Texas, San Antonio, and Richard Machalek, Trinity University, San Antonio

"Religious Personnel in the Post-Vatican II Catholic Church: A Study of Adaptation to Social Change"
Evelyn Eaton Whitehead, University of Notre Dame

" "Popular Southern Protestantism" and Social Change"
W. Seward Salisbury, State University College, Oswego, New York

"A Theoretical Application to Organizational Adaptation to Social Change"
Charles E. Vetter, Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport
10:30 - Lincoln Room RRA-8
Denominations and the Open Systems Model - Critique and Applications
Convener: Ross P. Scherer, Loyola University of Chicago
Continued from 8:30 session
10:30 - Medill Room SSSR-36
Jewish Identity
Convener: Irving Zaretsky, University of Chicago Divinity School

"Modernization and Jewish Education"
S. Daniel Breslauer, Princeton University

"Primary Identity Formation in Jewish and Christian Traditions"
Peter F. Gilbert, Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto

"Jewish Identity: Maintenance of Urban Religious and Ethnic Boundaries"
Leo Driedger, University of Manitoba
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. Several recent writings of members of the SSSR and RRA will be of particular interest.

The exhibit is located in parlors D and E which is opposite the elevators and will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Sunday. 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 Associated University Presses Association for Humanistic Psychology Augsburg Publishing House Beacon Press Center of Concern Cerdic-Universite" Des Sciences Humaines De Strasbourg The Christian Literature Society The CHURCHMAN Columbia University Press Walter DeGruyter Inc. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Elsevier North-Holland, Inc. Fortress Press Halstead Press Harper & Row, Publishers A. J. Holman Co. Houghton Mifflin Co. INDEX to RELIGIOUS PERIODICALLITERATURE JOURNAL OF DHARMA The JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY Judson Press John Knox. Press @ Presses de r Universite"Laval Les Presses de r Universite" de Montreal Longman, Inc. Martinus Nijhoff BV Publishers Oxford University Press Prentice-Hall of Canada Princeton University Press Sage Publications, Inc. Simon & Schuster Swedenborg Foundation, Inc. Charles C. Thomas, Publisher University of California Press The University of Chicago Press The University of Chicago Press, Journals Division University of Notre Darrie Press The University Press of Kentucky Vivekananda Vedanta Society The Westminster Press York University