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ANNUAL MEETING
Of The
SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC
STUDY OF RELIGION
Meeting Jointly With The
RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
Program Theme:
"LIFESTYLE AND FAITH: IMPLICATIONS FOR INSTITUTIONAL AND
PERSONAL RELIGION"
October 26-28, 1979
The Menger Hotel
San Antonio, TX
The 30th Anniversary of the founding of SSSR
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
THE REGISTRATION desk will be located in the Hotel Lobby. It will be open Friday, October 26, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Saturday, October 27, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
REGISTRATION FEE is $15 for members of SSSR or RRA, $18 for nonmembers, and $5 for students. The fee includes admission to all meetings plus one copy of the Abstract Book.
ADDITIONAL ABSTRACT BOOKS are available at the registration desk at $3 per copy.
BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLE tickets are $3.40 each and your choice should be indicated on the pre-registration form. Reservations cannot be held without payment. Those spaces not sold through pre-registration will be sold at the registration desk.
BOOK EXHIBIT is on display in the Cavalier Room. Convention discounts offered. Open 9-5 Friday and Saturday; 9-1 Sunday. H. Horowitz, Manager.
LOCAL TOURS of San Antonio are scheduled for 12 Noon to 3:00 p.m. Saturday. Tour of old Spanish missions, with lecture by Fr. Balthasar Janacek, Archdiocesan Director for the Old Spanish Missions; Box lunch provided, for $3 total. See bulletin board for details and registration.
EXTENDED SEMINARS are offered each morning, 9-12. Interested participants should pre-register directly with the leader. Seminar topics and leaders are as follows:
Friday - "The Crisis in Moral Authority: Ethics, Religion, and Alter-
nate Life Styles", led by Robert Wuthnow
Saturday - "The Case Study Method in the Teaching of Religious
Studies," led by Hendrika Vande Kemp and H. Newton Maloney
Sunday - "The Formation and Growth of Cult Movements," led by Rodney Stark and William Bainbridge
Reading lists available from leaders.
SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
OFFICERS AND STAFF
PRESIDENT William V. D'Antonio, University of Connecticut
VICE-PRESIDENT Bernard Spilka, University of Denver
SECRETARY Dean Knudsen, Purdue University
TREASURER Russell Dynes, American Sociological Association
EXECUTIVE
SECRETARY Wade Clark Roof, University of Massachusetts
BUSINESS MANAGER Lorraine D'Antonio, University of Connecticut
COUNCIL
Richard K. Fenn, University of Maine
Dean Hoge, Catholic University of America
H. Newton Malony, Fuller Theological Seminary
Paul Pruyser, The Menninger Foundation
James Richardson, University of Nevada
Bryan Wilson, All Souls College, Oxford
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
EDITOR: Phillip E. Hammond, University of California-Santa Barbara
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Jeffrey K. Hadden,. University of Virginia
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR ELECT: Donald Capps, Phillips University
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: EUROPE: Bryan Wilson, All Souls College
MONOGRAPH EDITOR: William Newman, University of Connecticut
PROGRAM'79
Chairperson: H. Newton Malony, Fuller Theological Seminary
Local Arrangements:
Chair: Edgar W. Mills, Jr., University of Texas-San Antonio
Committee: John Donahue, Trinity University,
Patrick Keating, Incarnate Word College,
J. Willis Langlinais, St. Mary's University,
Richard Machalek, Trinity University,
Frances Jerome Woods, Our Lady of the Lake University,
Andrew Wueste, Oblate College
PROGRAM'80
Chairperson: John Seidler, Ohio State University
RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS
PRESIDENT Barbara Hargrove, Iliff School of Theology
PRESIDENT-ELECT Dean Hoge, Catholic University of America
SECRETARY William J. McKinney, Jr., United Church Board for Homeland Ministries
TREASURER Edward A. Rauff, Lutheran Council in the USA
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Laile Bartlett, Berkeley, California
Earl D.C. Brewer, Ehnory University
Jackson Carroll, Hartford Seminary Foundation
James H. Davis, United Methodist Church
Carl S. Dudley, McCormick Theological Seminary
Constant Jacquet, Jr., National Council of Churches
Richard Knudten, Marquette University
G. Douglass Lewis, Hartford Seminary Foundation
Hart Nelsen, Catholic University of America
Barbara P. Payne, Georgia State University
John Peatling, Union College
Everett L. Perry, United Presbyterian Church
Wade Clark Roof, University of Massachusetts
Ross P. Scherer, Loyola University of Chicago
Edward M. Sullivan, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate
Douglas Walrath, Altamont, N.Y.
Ronald Wimberley, North Carolina State University
PROGRAM'79
Chairperson: Hart Nelsen, Catholic University of America
REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH
EDITOR: James D. Davidson, Purdue University
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Raymond C. Rympf, Purdue University
RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
MEMBERSHIP AND PUBLICATION
Membership in the Association is open to interested persons. Annual dues are $14.00 for Fellow, $25.00 for Contributing, and $7.00 for Student Memberships. These include a subscription to 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, P.O. Box 303, Manhattanville Station, New York, NY 10027.
1979 SSSR - RRA PROGRAM
IN MEMORY OF
ARan Eister
Benjamin Nelson
Talcott Parsons
Louis Schneider
- Colleagues of High Vision, Loyal Members,
and Dedicated Scholars -
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Thursday, October 25
4:00 PM - Religious Research Association Board of Directors Meeting
Ming
7:30 PM - Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Council
Meeting Renaissance
Friday, October 26
7:30 - 9:00 AM RRA Board of Directors Meeting Ming
9:00 - 11:00 AM SSSR Council Meeting Motor Parlor A
9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon Extended Seminar SSSR-1
Motor Parlor B
The Crisis in Moral Authority: Ethics, Religion and Alternative
Life Styles.
Led by Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University, Sociology Dept.,
Princeton, N.J. 08540.
Preregistration with leader required.
9:00 - 10:50 AM Symposium RRA-1
Colonial
Religious Socialization of Youth
Chair - Kirk W. Elifson, Georgia State University
"Experience and Knowledge: A Study of Theological Understandings and
Pedagogical Priorities"
Andrew Thompson, Boys Town Center at Catholic University
"Staying Together, Praying Together: Family Interaction and
Preadolescent Religiousness"
Hart M. Nelsen, Boys Town Center at Catholic University
"The Influence of Parents on Youth Religiosity"
Marie Cornwall, Joseph A. Olsen, and Stan E. Weed, Correlation
Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Discussant - Michael R. Welch, Florida Atlantic University
9:00 - 10:50 AM Symposium SSSR-2
Ming
The Functions of Religion
Chair - Robert J. Palma, Hope College
"Functionalism and Understanding A New Religion"
Joe E. Barnhart, North Texas State University
"Simone Weil: Self, God and World: A Phenomenological Approach to the
Experience of 'Being Understood' "
Christopher J. Frost, Boston University
"Religious Decision Making in Crisis: Toward Mental Health in Coping"
Patrick Keating, Incarnate Word College
"A Comparison of Four Statistical Methods For Assessing Similarity of
God Concept to Parental Images"
Harvey C. Nicholson III and Keith J. Edwards, Rosemead Graduate
School of Psychology
Discussant - Richard Kahoe, Christian Haven Homes
9:00 - 10:50 AM Symposium SSSR-3
Renaissance
Religion Among Sub-Cultures
Chair - David 0. Moberg, Marquette University
"Jewish Identification Among Children of Holocaust Survivors and
American Jewish Parents"
Stephen A. Weiner and Bernard Spilka, University of Denver
"Interpretations of Evil: A Case Study of Survivors of the 1915 Armenian
Massacre"
Donald E. Miller, University of Southern California
"California Charismatics, Hasidics and Members of the Self Realization
Fellowship: Their Religious Experience, Practices and Ethics"
Erika Wilson, California State University, Los Angeles
"Tradition and Modernity in American Jewish Ritual"
Frieda Kerner Furman, University of Southern California
Discussant - Allen P. Fisher, Coe College
9-00 - 10:50 A.M. Symposium SSSR-4
Minuet
Aspects of Religious Involvement
Chair - R. Ward Wilson, Wheaton Graduate School
"Motivational Patterns of Four Religious Orientations"
Edwin W. McClain, University of Tennessee
"Belief Systems and the Conceptualization of God"
Carl F. Stemberg and O.J. Harvey, University of Colorado
"Phasic Progression of Self Esteem in Teen Challenge: A Cross Cultural
Analysis"
LeRoy Gruner, Northern Kentucky University
"Commitment as a Social Process: The Impact of Associational Networks on Religious Comniitment"
Helen R. Ebaugh, University of Houston
Discussant - Willard G. Oxtoby, University of Toronto
11:00 - 12:00 Colonial
Film: "Swedenborg: The Man Who Had To Know"
12:00 - 1:50 PM Panel Discussion SSSR-5
Colonial East
Religion and Healing
Chair - Meredith McGuire, Mountclair State College
Panelist - Frances Westley-Bird, University of Western Ontario
12:00 - 2:00 PM Ming
SSSR Council Luncheon
12:00 - 1:50 PM Symposium RRA-2
Motor Parlor A
Potpourri
Chair - Richard A. Hoehn, Texas Christian University
"The Psychological Captivity of Evangelicalism"
Jack Balswick, University of Georgia
"Theological Stance and Social Justice"
Thomas P. Faase, Marquette University
"Religious Affiliation and Attitudes Toward Faith Healing and
Compliance With Medical Regimen"
Orville Cunningham, John Nelson, and Watson Pryor, Louisiana
State University
"The Role of Religion in Primary and Secondary Organizational
Involvements: Lenski Revisited"
Wm. Alex McIntosh and Jon P. Alston, Texas A & M University
"Clergy Backgrounds, Career Opportunities and Vocational Choices:
A Longitudinal Study"
John Niles Bartholomew, The Lindenwood Colleges
Discussant - Raymond C. Rymph, Purdue University
12:00 - 1:50 PM Symposium SSSR-6
Minuet
Religion and Sexual Mores
Chair - Roger D. Irle, University of Oregon
"Female Exclusion from Religious Participation: a cross cultural test of competing explanation"
Michael R. Welch, Florida Atlantic University
"Sexual Orientation and Religious Expression"
Roger D. Irle, University of Oregon
"Student Perspectives on Adultery and Anomie"
Phil Lampe, Incarnate Word College
"Sex, Nudity and the Great Outdoors"
William DeVall, Humboldt State University
Discussant - Robert Bendiksen, University of Wisconsin
12:00 - 1:50 PM Symposium SSSR-7
Renaissance
Individual Religion and Economic Viability
Chair - Edwin W. McClain, University of Tennessee
"Sect Transformation and Upward Mobility: the Missing Mechanism"
Rodney Stark, University of Washington
"The Socioeconomic Advantages Associated with Religious Non Affiliation"
J. Wayne MacDonald and Bonnie ShieU, Carleton University, Canada
"The Religious Payoff: Sectarianism and Pay Satisfaction"
Donald B. Kraybfll and D. Scott Barninger, Elizabethtown College
"The Production and Reproduction of Low Socioeconomic Status and Mobility Aspirations in Black Pentecostal Sects"
John H. Stanfield, University of Texas at San Antonio
Discussant - Edgar W. Mills, Jr., University of Texas at San Antonio
12:00 - 1:50 PM Symposium SSSR-8
Colonial
Cross Cultural Dynamics of Religion
Chair - Harry Hiller, Duke University
"Dual Identity and Ecuadorian Protestantism"
Kent Maynard, Indiana University
"Personal Religion and Psychological Schemata: A Cross Cultural
Perspective"
J. Roland Fleck, Andrea Horner, Rosemead Graduate School of
Psychology and Naomi L. Castillo, Universidad Santa Maria,
La Antigua
"Traditional Chinese Religious Practices in an Urban-Industrial Setting:
Kwan Tong-Hong Kong"
John T. Myers, Wayne State College
"Epidemiology of Stigmatization"
Marco Margnelh, Laboratorio di Fisiologia Dei Centri Nervosi
Discussant - Thomas P. Imse, Holy Cross College
2:00 - 3:50 PM Symposium RRA-3
Ming
Economic and Growth Considerations for Churches
Chair - G. Douglass Lewis, Hartford Seminary Foundation
"New Church Development and Denominational Growth"
C. Kirk Hadaway, Home Missions Board, Southern Baptist
Convention
"Key Factors in the Financial Support of Congregations"
Arthur L. Benjamin, Research Division of the Support Agency,
United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
"Church Membership Growth: Institutional and Contextual Correlations in
Urban, Suburban, Town and Rural Congregations"
Carl S. Dudley, McCorniick Theological Seminary
Discussant - L.oyde H. Hartley, Lancaster Theological Seminary
2:00 - 3:50 PM Symposium RRA-4
Motor Parlor A
The Churches Experience of Social Science Research
Chair - Donald Ploch, University of Tennessee
"The Uses of Social Science Theory and Survey Techniques in an
Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church"
Thomas C. Hood, University of Tennessee
"Analysis of Panelists' Participation in a 3-Year Study"
Marjorie Rosar Cunningham, Research Division of the Support
Agency, United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
"Religion's Response to Social Science: Lutheran Clergy and A Study of Generations "
Theodore E. Long and Karin S. Addison, Hollins College
Discussant - James Davidson, Purdue University
2:00 - 3:50 PM Symposium SSSR-9
Renaissance
Modes of Religious Response to Changes in Caribbean Societies
Chair - Leslie G. Desmangles, Trinity College
" 'Performative Utterances' in Spiritual Baptist Ritual"
Stephen D. Glazier, University of Connecticut
"Afro-American Religion and Oracles: Santeria in Cuba"
Joseph M. Murphy, Temple University
"Androgeneity of the Principle of Crossroads in Vodun: Symbiosis of Legba and St. Peter in Haiti"
Leslie G. Desmangles, Trinity College
"The Rastafarian Movement of Jamaica: Religious Response to Socioeconomic Deprivation"
C. M. Rogers, University of New Orleans
Discussant - John T. Myers, University of South Carolina
2:00 - 3:50 PM Symposium SSSR-10
Colonial
Psychological Origins and Functions of Religiousness
Chair - Mary Jo Meadow, Mankato State University
"The Origin of Religion"
Michael E. Campbell, Our Lady of the Lake University
"A Psychological Interpretation of Religion"
Jay Einhorn, Illinois Institute of Technology
"Religiousness: A Response to the Experience of Finitude"
Mary Jo Meadow, Mankato State University
"A Classification of Rehgion's Functions"
Richard D. Kahoe, Christian Haven Homes
Discussant - Donald E. Miller, University of Southern California
2:00 - 3:50 PM Symposium SSSR-11
Minuet
The Curandero: Faith Healing, Mental Health and Modern Living
Chair - Patrick Keating, Incarnate Word College
"The Curandero: An Instrument of God With a Call, Suffering and
Referral Role"
Signor Cerilio Sanches, Curandero, San Antonio, Texas
"Mental Health Dimensions of the Curandero in the Mexican-American
Community"
Cerrando Martinez, University of Texas Health Science Center
"Sociological Perspectives of the Curandero"
Susan Hoppy, University of Texas Health Science Center
4:00 PM SSSR-12
Colonial
Plenary Session
"People's Temple and Jonestown: A Corrective Critique and
Comparison"
James Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno
H. Hewton Malony, Presiding
5:00 - 6:00 PM Cash Bar - Poolside
5:30 - 6:30 PM Minuet
RRA Annual Business Meeting
8:00 PM RRA-5
Colonial
H. Paul Douglass Lecture
Annual Lecture Sponsored by The RRA
Presiding: Barbara Hargrove, Iliff School of Theology
"H. Paul Douglass: His Perspective and Work"
Jeffrey K. Hadden, University of Virginia
Saturday, October 27
7:30 - 9:00 AM Colonial East
Breakfast Roundtables (reserve and prepay $3.40 for each)
Table 1.
"Max Weber on Metaphysical Needs"
Joe E. Barnhart, North Texas State University
Table 2.
"Keeping the Faithful: Patterns of Membership Retention in the
Christian Reform Church"
Gary D. Bouma, Monash University
Table 3.
"Myth, Madness and the Human Need"
James O'Leary, Daemen College
Table 4.
"Current Religious Ferment and its Significance in American Culture"
Gerald Largo, St. Francis College
Table 5.
"Psychology and Religion: Building a Partnership to Meet Human Needs"
Kenneth 1. Pargament, Roger Mitchell, Robert F. Steele,
Bernice Schlien, University of Maryland
Table 6.
"Secular Life as Milieu of Religious Consecration"
C.A. Joachim Pillai, St. Paul University
Table 7.
"Cross Cultural Analysis of Missionary Success Among the Mormons,
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Seventh Day Adventists"
Jon P. Alston, Texas A & M College, G. David Johnson,
Southern Illinois University
Table 8.
"A Research Note on Yinger's Study of the Substructures of Religion"
S.A. Wright and William V. D'Antonio, University of Connecticut
Table 9.
"The Resurgence of Ethnicity and the Return to Religion"
Thomas Imse, Holy Cross College
Table 10.
"Spiritual Evolution and the Use of Psychotherapy: an appraisal of
Sri Aurobindo's Contribution to Practical Psychology"
Chitta R. Goswami, Kenyon College
Table 11.
"The Use of Religious Immagery as a Psychotherapy Technique"
Rebecca Propst, Ohio University
Table 12.
"Self Esteem and Dependency in Early, Late and Non Boarding
Missionary Children"
David L. Wichstrom, Grace College and J. Roland Fleck,
Rosemead Graduate School of Professional Psychology
Table 13.
"Changing a Pastor and Parish Through Education and Consultation"
G. Douglass Lewis, Hartford Seminary Foundation
9-00 AM - 12:00 Noon Extended Seminar SSSR-13
Motor Parlor B
The Case Study Method in the Teaching of Religious Studies
Led by Hendrika Vande Kemp and H. Newton Malony, Fuller
Theological Seminary School of Psychology 177 No. Madison Ave.,
Pasadena, CA 91101
Preregistration with leader required
9-00 - 10:50 AM Symposium RRA-6
Ming
Women and the Ministry
Chair - Barbara Hargrove, Iliff School of Theology
"Congruence or Crisis: Clergy Spouse Roles"
Mary Mattis, Research Division of the Support Agency, United
Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
"Clergywomen in the United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A."
Gay H. Tennis, Research Division of the Support Agency, United
Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
"United Methodist Clergywomen Survey: A Preliminary Report"
Harry Hale, Northeast Louisiana University
"Catholic Women in Ministry: A Pilot Study"
Florence Rafman Rosenberg, Center for Applied Research in the
Apostolate (CARA)
Discussant - Barbara Hargrove, Iliff School of Theology
9:00 - 10:50 AM Symposium SSSR-14
Minuet
Religion and Death
Chair - Michael R. Leming, St. Olaf College
"If there were no____________________________humans would invent one."
a. God b. Death c. Immortality d. all of these
Glenn Vernon, University of Utah
"The Effects of Personal and Institutionalized Religion Upon Death
Attitudes"
Michael R. Leming, St. Olaf College
"Cancer Residency for Clergy: A Preliminary Evaluation of an Institutional Response to Clergy Involvement in Cancer Management"
Robert Bendiksen, Mary Hewitt and Daniel Vinge,
University of Wisconsin
Discussant - George E. Dickinson, Morehead State University
9:00 - 10:50 AM Symposium SSSR-15
Renaissance
Dynamics of Institutional Religion
Chair - John Seidler, Ohio State University
"Meaning and Belonging in a Charismatic Congregation: An Investigation into Sources of Neo-Pentecostal Success"
Douglas B. McGaw, Emporia State University
"The Regionalism of American Religion: a critique and reanalysis"
William M. Newman and Peter L. Halvorson, University of Connecticut
"The Dilemma of Power in a Protestant Bureaucracy"
Donald A. Luidens, Hope College
"Religious institutions, social welfare programs, and ethnic identity"
Fredrick Bird, Concordia University
"The Consequences of Religiosity"
Reginald Bibby, The University of Lethbridge
Discussant - Robert Steele, University of Maryland
9:00 - 10:50 AM Panel Discussion SSSR-16
Motor Parlor A
Teaching the Sociology of Religion
Chair - Edgar W. Mills, Jr. University of Texas, San Antonio
Participants -
Richard Machalek, Trinity University
Philip Lampe, Incarnate Word College
Sociology students from local colleges
11:00 AM Colonial
SSSR Business Meeting
12:00 - 3:00 PM Lecture Tour of four 17th and 18th Century
Spanish Missions
Fr. Balthazar Janacek
12:00 - 1:50 PM Symposium SSSR-17
Motor Parlor B
Religious Organizational Change
Chair - Ross Crunuine, University of Victoria, Canada
"The Search for a Middle Range Explanation of Change and Struggle Within Catholicism"
John Seidler, Ohio State University
"Religious Movements: Reaction to Change"
Judith M. Justinger, Center of Concern, Washington, D.C.
"Mutated Sacred Symbols: Social Change's Lead Indicators"
Mary Lou Steed, Duke University
"A Minority and Its Martyrs: a Case Study in the Sociology of English Roman Catholicism"
Roger O'Toole, University of Toronto
Discussant - Paul H. Besanceney, Center for Applied
Research in the Apostolate
12:00 - 1:50 PM Symposium SSSR-18
Minuet
New Religious Movements
Chair - Jon P. Alston, Texas A & M University
"Charismatic Manicheanism and Authoritarian Sects"
Thomas Robbins, City University of New York
Dick Anthony, University of California, Berkeley
"Metaphysics in Midwestern America"
Melinda Bollar Wagner, Radford University
"A Dramaturgical Analysis of Leadership in a New Religious
Movement"
A. Theodore Kachel, University of Michigan
Discussant - Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh
12:00 - 1:50 PM Symposium RRA-7
Ming
The 1978 Gallup Unchurched Survey
Chair - David A. Roozen, Hartford Seminary Foundation
"Determinants of Church Involvement"
Wade Clark Roof, University of Massachusetts
Dean R. Hoge, Boys Town Center at Catholic University
"Denominational Switching and Religiosity"
C. Kirk Hadaway, Home Missions Board, Southern
Baptist Convention
"Adult Religiosity of Intensely Religious Youth"
John O'Hara, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
"Life Cycle, Cohort and Historical Period Effects on
Religious Disaffiliation"
David A. Roozen, Hartford Seminary Foundation
Discussant - Douglas A. Walrath, Reformed Church of
America
12:00 - 1:50 PM Symposium SSSR-19
Renaissance
Transpersonal Religious Experience
Chair - Rebecca Propst, Ohio University
"The Mediam and Her Message: A Study of Spiritualism at Lily Dale, N.Y."
Michael Richard, State University College of New York,
Geneseo
Albert Adato, Center for Policy Research
"Knowledge and Experience Criteria in the Report of Mystical Experience"
Ralph W. Hood, Ronald Morris, and Rebecca Stern,
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
"Fear and Terror in Religious Experience: a theoretical commentary"
Walter Houston Clark, (retired) Andover Newton
Theological School
"Kirlian Auras and Glossolalic Expression"
Aune Strom and H. Newton Malony, Fuller School of Psychology
"The Quantitative Study of Mystical Phenomenology"
John Uebersax, University of Texas, Austin
Discussant - Allen P. Fisher, Coe College
12:00 - 1:50 PM Panel Discussion SSSR-20
Colonial
Social Sciences and the Media
Chair - Barbara Hargrove, Iliff School of Theology
Rodney Stark, University of Washington
Paul Pruyser, Menninger Foundation
George Baker, Program for the Study of New Religious Movements in America, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
2:00 - 3:50 PM Panel Discussion SSSR-21
Minuet
Family lifestyles in New Religious Movements
Chair - Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
Meredith B. McGuire, Montclair State College
James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno
Thomas Robbins, City University of New York
Frances Westley-Bird, University of Western Ontario
Discussant - David M. Moss, The Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of
Chicago
2:00 - 3:50 PM Symposium RRA-8
Motor Parlor B
Islamic Studies
Chair - Ali Mohammad Dataee, Association of Muslim Social Scientists
"Islamic Economic System and Modernization"
M. Raquibuz Zaman, Ithaca College
"The Muslim Family Under Stress"
Ali Mohammad Dataee, Association of Muslim Social Scientists
"Religious Values and Spouse Selection among Modem Muslims: A Study of Matrimonial Columns in Muslim Newspapers in the U.S.A."
Mohammed Ma'roof, Cheyney State College, and Alima Dolores
Juliana Reardon
"The Islamic Perspective on Crisis-Prone People"
John E. Sullivan, Islamic Teaching Center (Indianapolis)
Discussant - Ali Mohammad Dataee, Association of Muslim Social Scientists
2:00 - 3:50 PM Symposium SSSR-22
Ming
Religious Responses to Pain
Chair - Joseph Fichter, Loyola of the South
"Spiritual Dimensions of Health Care"
Joseph H. Fichter, Loyola University
"Spiritual Ministrations to the Elderly"
Barbara Payne, Georgia State University
"Religious Modalities of Pain Control"
Paul Pruyser, Menninger Foundation
"Spiritual Support in Life-Threatening Illness"
Bernard Spilka and John D. Spangler, University of Denver
Discussant - Marie Augusta Neal, Emmanuel College
2:00 - 3:50 PM Symposium SSSR-23
Motor Parlor A
Religion and Cultural Change
Chair - James H. Stewart, St. Olaf College
"A College Profile of Belief: Religious Expression as Portrayed in
Time Magazine, 1947-1976"
Roderick P. Hart, Kathleen J. Turner and Ralph E. Knupp, Purdue
University
"Science, Morality and Social Policy"
James H. Stewart, St. Olaf College
"American Facism, Religious and Secular Analysis and Responses"
Nancy Bancroft, Lincoln University
"Religion and the Modern State"
Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh
Discussant - William H. Swatos, King College
2:00 - 3:50 PM Symposium SSSR-24
Renaissance
Moral and Faith Development
Chair - Richard L. Gorsuch, University of Texas
"Fowler's Faith Stages: an application"
Bradley Prunty, Harvard Divinity School
"Some Beliefs, Behaviors and Values of Evangelical Youth"
Mack Goldsmith, California State University, Stanislaus
"The Role of the Parent in the Moral Development of the Child: Lead or
Bit Part"
Mary Ann Barnhart, North Lake College
"An Application of Sunden's Role-taking Theory to the Vocational
Conflicts of John Henry Newman"
Donald Capps, Phillips University
Discussant - J. Roland Fleck, Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology
2:00 - 3:50 PM Panel Discussion SSSR-25
Colonial
Near-Death Experiences: Some Research Findings and Their Implications
Chair - Kenneth Ring, University of Connecticut
Panelist - Craig Lundahl, Western New Mexico University
4:00 PM SSSR-26
Colonial
SSSR - Presidential Address
Convener: Joseph Fichter, Loyola University of the South
"Family and Religion: Exploring a Changing Relationship"
William V. D'Antonio, University of Connecticut
5:00 PM Poolside
General Reception
Co-Sponsored by: Incarnate Word College, Oblate College, Our Lady of the Lake University, Religious Research Association, St. Mary's University, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Trinity University (Dept. of Sociology), University of Texas San Antonio College of Humanities and Social Science.
8:00 PM SSSR-27
Colonial
Plenary Session
Convener: Richard Gorsuch, University of Texas, Ft. Worth
"The Marxist Challenge to Religious Social Ethics"
Thomas W. Ogletree, Vanderbilt University
Sunday, October 28
7:30 - 9:00 AM Colonial East
Breakfast Roundtables (reserve and prepay $3.40 for each)
Table 15.
"Religious Lifestyle and Selection of Educational Alternatives in
Catholic Families"
C. Lincoln Johnson, University of Notre Dame
Table 16.
"The Role of the Minister in Holistic Health Education"
Neil Denton and Robert L. Potter, Central Baptist Theological
Seminary
Table 17.
"Methodist Ministerial Characteristics on the Webb IRAI"
Richard A. Hunt, Southern Methodist University
Table 18.
"The Use of Prayer in Counseling"
Sheldon Louthan, Friends Center on Family Living
Table 19.
"Intimacy and Saliency: Dimensions For Ordering Religious
Experiences"
Raymond Currie, University of Manitoba; Leo F. Klug, Newman
Theological College; Charles M. McCombs, Jefferson Community
College
Table 20.
"The Female Episcopal Priest: A 'Transient Situational
Disturbance"
David M. Moss, The Center for Religion and Psychotherapy
in Chicago
Table 21.
"Swedenborg and the Visionary Tradition"
Stephen Larsen, Ulster County Community College
Table 22.
"Faith and Behavior: Religion in Introductory Psychology Texts of the 1950's and 1970's"
Glenn Comp and Bernard Spilka, University of Denver
Table 23.
"The Divine Healer: A Populist Called Out of Babylon"
Leonard J. Pinto, University of Colorado, Boulder
Table 24.
"Societal Reaction to the Unification Church"
Anson D. Shupe, Jr., University of Texas, Arlington
Table 25.
"An Organizational Analysis of Church Effectiveness"
Kenneth E. Crow, University of Colorado
Table 26.
"Charismatic Leadership: An Analysis of Three Religious Leaders"
Anthony Russo, Harvard University
Bradley Prunty, Harvard Divinity School
Table 27.
"Marriage Encounter: a Medium of Church Renewal"
Gerald Strickler, California State University, Long Beach
9:00 AM - 12:00 NOON - Extended Seminar SSSR-28
Motor Parlor B
The Formation and Growth of Cult Movements
Led by Rodney Stark and William Bainbridge, University of Washington,
Sociology Dept. Seattle, WA 98195
Preregistration with leaders required.
9:00 - 10:50 AM Panel Discussion RRA-9
Renaissance
The Work of H. Paul Douglas
Presiding: Everett L. Perry, United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
Panel:
James H. Davis, Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church
Jeffrey K. Hadden, University of Virginia
William Newman, University of Connecticut
Ross P. Scherer, Loyola University of Chicago
John H. Shope, Salisbury State College (Maryland)
9-00 - 10:50 AM Symposium SSSR-29
Minuet
Religion and Society in the Southwest
Chair - J. Willis Langlinais, St. Mary's University
"Religion and Society in the Southwest: The Experience of the
Spanish Speaking Peoples"
Felix Almaraz, University of Texas, San Antonio
"The Merging of Cultures: The Emergence of Mexican Catholicism"
Vergilio Efizondo, Mexican-American Cultural Center
"Presbyterians and Mexican-Americans in Texas: the 19th and 20th centuries"
Douglas Brackenbridge and Fransisco Garcia,
Trinity University
9:00 - 10:50 AM Symposium SSSR-30
Colonial
Attitudes Toward Sociopolitical Issues
Chair - Roger O'Toole, University of Toronto
"Religious and Political Conservatism Among Students in the 1970s: secular vs. church-related colleges"
Pamela M. Jolicoeur, California Lutheran College
"Secularization: a Different View"
John Wilson, Duke University
"Evangelistic Life Style: A Tentative Report on Structural Change of a Religious Institution Toward Ecological Wholeness and Social Justice"
Owen D. Owens, American Baptist Churches, USA
"Religious Identification and Affect for the Political System"
Thomas Hoffman, University of Arizona
Discussant - James Wood, Indiana University
9:00 - 10:50 AM Symposium SSSR-31
Ming
Religious Perspectives on Singleness
Chair - Hendrika Vande Kemp, Fuller School of Psychology
"Identity Processes: The Family as Determinant"
G. Peter Schreck and Hendrika Vande Kemp, Graduate School of
Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary
"The Single: A Shoot Off the Family Tree?"
Hendrika Vande Kemp, Fuller School of Psychology
"A Comparison of Religious and Nonreligious Singles"
David W. Sawyer, Fuller School of Psychology
"The Single and Societal Institutions"
Charles E. Taylor, Fuller School of Psychology
"The Celibate Perspective"
Quinn R. Conners, Fuller School of Psychology
Discussant - Phillip Hammond, University of Arizona
11:00 AM - 12:50 PM Symposium SSSR-32
Minuet
The Peoples Temple Phenomenon
Chair - Anson Shupe, University of Texas
"Jim Jones, Charles Manson and the Process of Religious Group
Disintegration"
J. Gordon Melton, The Institute for the Study of American Religion
Dick Anthony, University of California, Berkeley
"Violence and Religious Commitment in the Seventies"
Kenneth Levi, University of Texas, San Antonio
"Brainwashing and the Persecution of Cults"
Thomas Robbins, City University of New York
Discussant - Glen Vernon, University of Utah
11:00 AM - 12:50 PM Symposium SSSR-33
Ming
Dimensions of Religious Experiencing
Chair - Mike Rulon, Covenant College
"Conversion to the Perspectives of Alcoholics Anonymous"
David R. Rudy and Arthur L. Greil, Alfred University
"Personality Variables in God/Humanity Image Formation"
William Burkhart, Fuller School of Psychology
"Ego Identity Status and Religious Orientation"
J. Wesley Reilly, Hacienda Psychological Services
J. Roland Fleck, Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology
"Ritual and Experience: a Preliminary Typology"
Fredrick Bird, Concordia University
Discussant - Patrick Keating, Incarnate Word College
11:00 AM - 12:50 PM Symposium SSSR-34
Renaissance
Effects of Religion on lafe Style
Chair - Stan Gaede, Gordon College
"To Deter or Defer: Conflicting Consequences of Religiosity for
Delinquency"
H. Paul Chalfant, Charles W. Peek, Evan W. Curry, Texas Tech
University
Carmen Rivera Worley, University of Texas, Austin
"Pot, Pom and Pansies': Conventional Religiosity, Conflict Crimes, and
Income Stratification in the United States"
John H. Simpson and John Hagan, Erindale College
"An Analysis of the Therapeutic Effects of a Pentecostal Church on
Alcohol and Drug Abuse"
Sheila Womack, University of Texas, Austin
"Some Implications of Jewish Marriage Philosophy for Marital
Breakdown"
Reuven P. Bulka, Center for the Study of Psychology and Judaism
Discussant - Richard K. Fenn, University of Maine
Book Exhibits
This exhibit presents sociological, philosophical, psychological, anthropological, and historical publications relating to the Scientific Study of Religion which have been submitted for display by publishers and interested organizations.
We have attempted to select materials and arrange the displays to bring the latest and most pertinent publications to the attention of a subjectoriented membership.
This exhibit is located in the Cavalier Room. Orders may be placed at the exhibit on a convention discount basis in accord with individual publisher policies. The exhibit will be open from 9-5 PM on Friday and Saturday, October 26th and 27th, and from 9-Noon on Sunday, October 28th. Your exhibits director, Harve C. Horowitz, will be available to answer all inquiries.
The Directory of Exhibitors cited below is a partial fisting, reflecting only those publishing houses reserving display space in advance of this program announcement.
Directory of Exhibitors
Academic Press, Inc.
Association for Humanistic
Psychology
Augsburg Publishing House
Biola College
Consortium Press
Fortress Press
Glenmary Research Center
Warren H. Green, Inc.
Harper and Row Publishers
Harvard University Press
Herald Press
Highly Specialized Promotions
John Knox Press
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.
Robert E. Krieger Publ-@shing Co.
Learned Publications
Macmillan Publishing Co.
Nelson Hall, Inc.
Oxford University Press, Inc.
Paulist Press
Philosophy Documentation Center
The Pilgrim Press
Religion & Ethics Institute
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations
University of California Press
State University of New York Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Massachusetts Press
University of North Carolina Press
University of Toronto Press
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
The Westminster Press