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

Special Themes
"RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTS"
"SOCIOLOGY OF THE PARISH"
"FOUNDATIONS FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN THE 1980'S"

PROGRAM
October 30-November 2, 1980
Netherland Hilton Hotel
Cincinnati, Ohio

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
THE REGISTRATION DESK will be located in foyer on the Fourth Floor of the hotel. It will be open Friday, October 31, 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM and Saturday, November 1, 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM.

REGISTRATION FEE is $15 for members of SSSR, RRA, or APRRE, $18 for non-members, and $5 for students. The fee includes admission to all meetings, the general reception, and one copy of the Abstract Book.

ADDITIONAL ABSTRACT BOOKS are available at the registration desk at $3 per copy.

BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLE tickets are $3.25 each and your choice should be indicated by number on the pre-registration form. Reservations cannot be held without payment. Spaces not sold through pre-registration will be sold at the registration desk. APRRE Research Interest Groups are attended only by pre-registration.

BOOK EXHIBIT is on display in Parlor 1. Convention discounts available.

MEETING ROOMS are located mainly on the Fourth Floor. The Julep Room is on the Third Floor, the Continental Room is on the First Floor off from the main lobby.

PERSONS interested in participating in the Extended Seminars should contact the leaders for seminar activities and readings.

SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
OFFICERS AND STAFF
PRESIDENT Benton Johnson, University of Oregon
VICE-PRESIDENT Marie Augusta Neal, Emmanuel College
SECRETARY N. Ross Crumrine, University of Victoria
TREASURER Ruth A. Wallace, George Washington University
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Wade Clark Roof, University of Massachusetts
BUSINESS MANAGER Lorraine D'Antonio, University of Connecticut

COUNCIL
Earl D. C. Brewer, Emory University
William V. D'Antonio, University of Connecticut
Richard K. Fenn, University of Maine
H. Newton Maloney, Fuller Theological Seminary
Meredith McGuire, Montclair State College
James Richardson, University of Nevada
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University

JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
EDITOR: Phillip E. Hammond, University of Califomia, Santa Barbara
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Donald Capps, Phillips University
ASSOCIATE EDITOR-EUROPE: Bryan Wilson, All Souls College

SSSR MONOGRAPH SERIES
EDITOR: William Newman, University of Connecticut

PROGRAM '80
Chairperson: John Seidler, Ohio State University
Local Arrangements: Harry Dillingham, University of Cincinnati

PROGRAM '81
Chairperson: Mary Jo Meadow, Mankato State University

SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF REUGION MEMBERSHEP AND JOURNAL
Membership is open to interested persons. Annual dues for 1980 of $20.00 includes subscription of JSSR, published quarterly. Student memberships and memberships for retired persons are available at $10.00. Annual subscription to the Journal without membership is $20.00

Address: SSSR, University of CT, Box U-68A, Storrs, CT 06268

RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS
PRESIDENT Dean R. Hoge, Catholic University of America
PRESIDENT-ELECT G. Douglass Lewis, Hartford Seminary Foundation
SECRETARY Constant H. Jacquet, Jr., National Council of Churches
TREASURER Edward A. Rauff, Lutheran Council in the USA

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jackson W. Carroll, Hartford Seminary Foundation
James D. Davidson, Purdue University
James H. Davis, United Methodist Church
Carl S. Dudley, McCormick Theological Seminary
Richard Knudten, Marquette University
Gillian Lindt, Columbia University
Mary Mattis, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
William J. McKinney, Jr., United Church Board for Homeland Ministries
Barbara P. Payne, Georgia State University
Everett L. Perry, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Wade Clark Roof, University of Massachusetts
Ross P. Scherer, Loyola University of Chicago
Edward M. Sullivan, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate
Douglas A. Walrath, Religious Consultant

PROGRAM CHAIRPERSON
James H. Davis, United Methodist Church

REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH
EDITOR: Hart M. Nelsen, Catholic University of America
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: C. Kirk Hadaway, Southern Baptist Convention

RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP AND PUBLICATIONS
Membership in the Association is open to all interested persons. The annual dues are $18.00 for members and $10.00 for emeritus and student members. Membership includes a subscription to the Review of Religious Research, which is published four times a year. For persons not desiring membership but wishing to subscribe to the Review, the cost is $16.00 per year. Institutional subscriptions to the Review are $20.00 per year. Address: Religious Research Association, Inc., P.O. Box 303, Manhattanville Station, New York, N.Y. 10027.

ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSORS AND RESEARCHERS IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
OFFICERS
PRESIDENT David S. Steward, Pacific School of Religion
PRESIDENT-ELECT Margaret Webster, Ewar-t College
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Donald F. Williams, Chicago Cluster of Theological Schools

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
James Michael Lee, University of Alabama, Birmingham
J. Bardarah McCandless, Westminister College
Taylor McConnell, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Sonja M. Stewart, Western Theological Seminary
Ralph R. Sundquist, Jr., Hartford Seminary Foundation
Michael Warren, St. John's University
Mary Charles Bryce, O.S.B., Catholic University of America

PROGRAM CHAIRPERSON
Margaret Webster, Ewart College

ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSORS AND RESEARCHERS IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION MEMBERS AND PUBLICATION
Membership in the Association is open to professionals in the field of Religious Education, to professionals in related fields, to professionals retired from the field, and to persons preparing to become professionals in the field. The respective annual dues of $12.00 for Member, $7.50 for Associate Member, and $5.00 for Emeritus or Student Member include subscription to the Association's Newsletter, which is published twice a year, and copies of papers presented at the annual meeting.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Thursday, October 30
3:30 P.M. Julep Room RRA Board of Directors Meeting

7:30 P.M. Julep Room SSSR Council Meeting

Friday, October 31
7:30-9:30 Julep Room RRA Board of Directors Meeting

8:00-9:50 AM Parlor E Symposium SSSR-1

Religion in a "Foreign" Context
Chair: Thomas P. Imse, Holy Cross
"Mennonite Displacement of Indigenous Peoples: An Historical and Sociological Analysis"
Calvin Redekop, Conrad Grebel College
"Development of the Church of the Brethren Mission in Northeastern Nigeria (1922-1945) -Analysis of a Missionary Expatriate Society"
Phillip M. Kulp, Shippensburg State College
"Conflict and Marriage between Euro-Christian Religion and African Religion"
K. Akwabi-Ameyaw, University of Cincinnati
Discussant: Carroll J. Bourg, Fisk University

8:00-9:50 AM Parlor F Symposium SSSR-2
Role Studies of the Clergy
Chair and Organizer: Robert Bendiksen, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
"The Chaplaincy: A Sociological Profile"
Robert Bendiksen and Philip L. Berg, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
"A Comparative Evaluation of Changes in Clinical Pastoral Education Studies in Different Types of Clinical Settings"
Marjories Klein, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Leonard 1. Stein, University of Wisconsin, Madison
John R. Thomas, Mendota Mental Health Institute, Madison
"The Clergy Family as a Role Model"
G. Lloyd Rediger, Office of Pastoral Services, Madison
Discussant: Bernard Spilka, University of Denver

8:00-9:50 AM Parlor G Symposium RRA-1
Contextual Versus Institutional Factors in Church Growth and Performance
Chair: Carl S. Dudley, McCormick Theological Seminary
"The Demographic Environment and a Church Membership Change"
C. Kirk Hadaway, Home Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention
"The Role of Demographic and Program Factors In Congregational Growth"
William J. McKinney, United Church Board for Homeland Ministries
"Relative Impact of Situational, Resource, and Leadership Variables on 'Performance' of Latter-Day Saint (Mormon) Parishes"
Stan E. Weed, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

8:00-9:50 AM Parlor B Panel Discussion SSSR-3
Feminism or Sexism in Religion?
"The Catholic Church and Pragmatic Sexism: Hypothesis"
Anthony J. Blasi, Mystic, Connecticut
"Women in the New Religious Movements"
Erika Wilson, California State University

8:00-9:50 AM Parlor C Symposium SSSR-4
Denominationalism
Chair: Douglas McGaw, Emporia State University
"Catholic Charismatic Movement: Reform or Revival?"
Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University
"Identifying with Religious Denominatione'
Marianne Ferguson, State University College at Buffalo
"The Paradox of Faith and Doctrine: Confessional Unity and Confessional Diversity in Modem Religion"
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
Discussant: Russell R. Dynes, American Sociological Association

8:00-9:50 AM Parlor D Panel Discussion SSSR-5
Christian-Marxist Dialogue
Chair and Discussant: John A. Coleman, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley
Panelists: Nancy Bancroft, Lincoln University
"Toward Christian-Marxist Partnership on Human Rights"
Donald L. Redfoot, Douglass College
"The Science of Theodicy and the Theodicy of Science"

9:00-12:00 AM Parlor A Extended Seminar SSSR-6
Religious Conversion, Brainwashing and Related Phenomena
Led by James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno

9:30-11:30 Julep Room SSSR Council Meeting

10:00-11:50 AM Parlor E Symposium RRA-2
The Unchurched, Inactive, and Marginal Members
Chair: David A. Roozen, Hartford Seminary Foundation
"Unchurched Black Americans: Residential and Regional Patterns"
Hart M. Nelsen, Boys Town Center, Catholic University
"Unchurched Methodists"
Sarla E. Lall, Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church
James H. Davis, Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church
"Conceptualizing the Attending Non-Member" John W. Hawthorne, Purdue University
Raymond C. Rymph, Purdue University
"Reclaiming the Apathetic and Bored Church Member"
John S. Savage, LEAD Consultants, Inc.

10:00-11:50 AM Parlor G Symposium SSSR-7
Religious Evolutions
Chair: Philip L. Berg, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
"The Fading of the Pharc>ahs' Curse: The Rise and Fall of the Priesthood Ban Against the Blacks in the Mormon Church"
Armand L. Mauss, Washington State University
"The Cohesive Role of Religion in Hindu Society - A Reinterpretation"
Bradley R. Hertel, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"The Strategy of Prohibition and Human Rights in the 1920's"
K. Austin Kerr, Ohio State University
Discussant: Barbara Hargrove, Iliff School of Theology

10:00-11:50 AM Parlor H Symposium SSSR-8
Cults and Curing
Chair and Organizer: Frank E. Manning, University of Western Ontario

10:00-11:50 AM Parlor B Symposium SSSR-9
Religion and Politics
Chair: James R. Wood, Indiana University
"Religion and Confidence in Elites"
Eugene Schoenfeld, Georgia State University
"Religiosity and Socio-Political Self Identification: Their Influence on Attitudes toward Church Teachings on Abortion, Birth Control, and Premarital Sex"
John Krejci, Kearney State College
"The Politics of 'Born-Again' Christians: Historical and Theoretical Considerations"
Timothy Crippen, University of Texas at Austin
Discussant: Katherine Meyer, Ohio State University

10:00-11:50 AM Parlor C Symposium SSSR-10
Electronic Church
Chair and Organizer: Jeffrey K. Hadden, University of Virginia

12:00 AM Parlor J SSSR Council Luncheon

1:00-2:50 PM Parlor G Panel Discussion SSSR-11
Emerging Church-State Issues
Co-Organizers: Thomas Robbins, Yale University
Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh
Panelists: Richard Fenn, University of Maine
Thomas Robbins, Yale University
Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh
R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle

1:00-2:50 PM Parlor E Symposium SSSR-12
The Mormon Church: Coping with Problems
Chair: Glenn M. Vernon, University of Utah
"Social Control Mechanisms Within the Mormon Church"
James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno
"Messages to the Laity: Mormon Awareness of Problems and Membership Needs, 1960-1980"
Jon P. Alston, Texas A& M University
Julie McDanel, Texas A& M University
"Charisma, Control, and Compliance in the Mormon Church"
Armand L. Mauss, Washington State U-niversity

1:00-2:50 PM Parlor C, D Symposium SSSR-13
Dramaturgical and Literary Interpretation of Religion
"Dramaturgical Analysis of Religious Ethics"
Paul M. Harrison, Pennsylvania State University
"Religion in Literature: The Writings of William Faulkner"
Patrick H. Samway, LeMoyne College

1:00-2:50 PM Parlor A, B Symposium SSSR-14
Morality
Chair: John P. Keating, University of Washington
"Morality as a Cultural System"
Frederick Bird, Concordia University
"Bringing Ethics Back In: A Reconsideration of the Place of Ethical Thinking in Sociology"
James A. Aho, Idaho State University
"Suggestions for Further Study of the Function of Religion and Faith in Moral Development"
Jack Hanford, Ferris State College
Discussant: Richard Means, Kalamazoo College

1:00-3:00 AM Parlor F Extended Seminar SSSR- 15
Developing an Index of Leading Religious Indicators
Led by George Gallup, Jr., Princeton Religious Research Center and Gallup Organization, Inc.

3:00-4:50 PM Pavilion Room SSSR Plenary Session I SSSR- 1 6
Religion and Human Rights: Western and Islamic Traditions
Presiding: John Seidler, Ohio State University
Recognition of Ralph W. Burhoe, Winner of Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion -
William V. D'Antonio, University of Connecticut
"Intellectual and Social Roots of Western Human Rights Ideas"
Max L. Stackhouse, Andover Newton Theological School
"The Notion of Human Rights in Islamic Law"
Marilyn R. Waldman, Ohio State University
Discussant: Phillip E. Hammond, University of California, Santa Barbara

5:00 PM Continental Room Cash Bar

5:30 PM Parlor G Women's Caucus

5:30 PM Parlor H RRA Annual Business Meeting

7:00 PM Parlor G APRRE-1
APRRE Plenary Session I
Presiding: Mary Charles Bryce, Catholic University of America
Introduction: David W. Danner, Presbyterian School of Christian Education
Presidential Address: "Beyond Networks: Professional Conversation for the 1980s"
David S. Steward, Pacific School of Religion
Response: Maria Harris, Andover Newton Theological School

8:30 PM Pavilion Room RRA-3
The H. Paul Douglass Lecture
Presiding: Dean R. Hoge, Boys Town Center, Catholic University, and President, Religious Research Association
Speaker: George W. Webber, President, New York Theological Seminary

9:00 PM APRRE Refreshments

9:00 PM Julep Room APRRE Executive Committee Meeting

Saturday, November 1
8:00-9:30 AM Continental Room
SSSR Breakfast Roundtables
1. "Social Control and the Religious Functionary in an Old Order Mennonite Community"
Theodore W. Jentsch, Kutztown State College
2. "A Social Psychological Interpretation and Application to New Religions of Lifton's 'Protean Man' Concept"
Brock Kilbourne and James T. Richardson, University of Nevada
3. "Religious Conflict in the Black Church"
Lawrence E. Dalzine, Central State University
4. "Religious Rights and the Use of Psychedelic Plants and Drugs"
Walter Houston Clark, Andover Newton Theological School
5. "The Father Divine Peace Mission: A Sociological Interpretation"
Wade F. Hook, Gettysburg College, and Alan M. Barr, Baltimore
6. "Ratings of Journals Related to the Scientific Study of Religion by Members of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion"
Bruce Hunsberger, Wilfred Laurier University
7. "Orthodox Jewish Activists"
Harry Perlstadt, Michigan State University

8:00-9:30 AM Parlor C, D
APRRE Breakfast Roundtables
8. "Where Religious Education Begins"
Lucie Barber, Union College Character Research Project
9. "The Work of the Church Educator: A Survey"
David Danner, Presbyterian School of Christian Education
10. "Liberation Theology and the Handicapped"
Max Pearse, Jr., The Church Divinity School of the Pacific
11. "Imaging of Religious Experience in The Interior Castle of Teresa of Avila"
John Welch, Washington Theological Union
12. "Religious Education's Response in the '80's"
E. Franklin Wise, Canadian Nazarene College
13. "A Seminary Institute of Religious Meanings for the Last Third of Life"
Ross Snyder, San Francisco Theological Seminary

8:00-9:30 AM Parlor A, B
APRRE Research Groups
14. Foundations of Religious Education
Convener: James E. Loder, Princeton Theological Seminary
Papers: "C. J. Jung and H. Richard Niebuhr: The Necessity of the Symbolic Life"
Gerald H. Slusser, Eden Theological Seminary
"The Dynamics of Conversion"
Joanmarie Smith, St. Joseph's College
15. Roots of Religious Education
Convener: C. Ellis Nelson, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Papers:
"Origins of the Religious Education Association: 1902-1935"
Boardman W. Kathan, Religious Education Association
"A Public Pedagogy: The Myth and Mission of the Religious Education Association"
Stephen A. Schmidt, Mundelein College
16. Emerging Methods in Religious Education
Convener: Douglas Wingeier, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Papers:
"Christian Nurture and Critical Openness: Toward Appropriate Criteria"
Gloria Durka, Fordham University
"On Recovering Teaching"
Charles R. Foster, Methodist Theological School

9:15-10:50 AM Pavilion SSSR Plenary Session II SSSR- 17
Presiding: Joseph H. Fichter, Loyola University of the South
"The Heretical Imperative"
Peter L. Berger, Boston University
Discussants: Wade Clark Roof, University of Massachusetts
Howard Harrod, Vanderbilt University Divinity School
Donald E. Miller, University of Southern California
Stan D. Gaede, Gordon College

9:30 APRRE Coffee

10:00-12:00 AM Parlor G APRRE-2
APRRE Plenary Session II
Foundations Reconsidered I
Convener: Joseph D. Ban, McMaster Divinity College
Address: "Education as Helping Understanding"
Charles F. Melchert, Presbyterian School of Christian
Response: Craig Dykstra, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Parlor H Foundations Reconsidered 11
Convener: Sonja M. Stewart, Western Theological Seminary
Address: "Foundations Reconsidered: An Evangelical Perspective"
Howard W. Burgess, Asbury Theological Seminary

10:00-12:00 AM Parlor E, F Workshop RRA-4
Church Use of the 1980 Census
Participants: William J. McKinney, United Church Board for Homeland Ministries
Mary C Mattis, Special Office of Research, United Presbyterian Church
Robert C. Tomlinson, Special Office of Research, United Presbyterian Church 11:00 AM North Hall SSSR Business Meeting

1:00-2:50 PM Parlor G Symposium RRA-5
New Directions in Roman Catholic Parish Research
Chair: Father Thomas M. Gannon, S.J., Loyola University, Chicago
"Parish Surveys on Catholic Life in Yorkville and Rockland Counties"
Ruth T. Doyle, Archdiocese of New York
"The Ethnic Parish As a Basis for Neighborhood Stability: The Case of Sagrado Corazon, Lorraine, Ohio"
John P. Fitzpatrick, S.J., Fordham University
"Children's Sacraments as Adults' Resocialization"
James R. Kelly, Fordham University

1:00-2:50 PM Parlor H Symposium SSSR-18
Contemporary Religious and Quasi-Religious Groups
Chair: Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
"The Emergence of Paganism and Witchcraft in Contemporary America, a Quantitative Study"
J. Gordon Melton, The Institute for the Study of American Religion
"Making the World Work: Ideas of Social Responsibility in the Human Potential Movement"
Steven Tipton, Emory University
"William Irwin Thompson and His Views on Planetary Culture"
Paul W. Diener, York College
Discussant: William Newman, University of Connecticut

1:00-4:50 PM Parlor M Symposium SSSR- 19
Women's Concerns, Religion, and Sexism
Organizer and Chair: Mary Jo Meadow, Mankato State University
"Religion as the Legitimation of Political Power: A Feminist Perspective"
Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi, Syracuse University
"Dis-Closure of the Canon: Iconoclastic Imagination and the Reform of Religious Studies"
Lynda Sexson, Montana State University
"The Heritage of the Fathers: A Daughter's View"
Christine Downing, San Diego State University
"Psychological Consequences and Correlates of Sexist Religion"
Mary Jo Meadow, Mankato State University
"American Churches and 'Women's Place"
Barbara Hargrove, Iliff School of Theology
"The Religious Calling and the Feminist Movement"
Marie Augusta Neal, Emmanuel College
Discussant: Ruth A. Wallace, George Washington University

1:00-2:50 PM Parlor A, B Symposium SSSR-20
Cults and Human Rights
Chair: John Bartholomew, Lindenwood College
"Assumptions about Human Rights in Contemporary Religious Movements"
Eileen Barker, The London School of Economics and Political Science
"Coping With Cults"
James S. Wolfe, Iowa State University
"The Unification Church and the American Family: Strain, Conflict and Social Control"
David G. Bromley, University of Texas, Arlington
Bruce Busching, James Madison College
Anson D. Shupe, Jr., University of Texas, Arlington
Discussant: Joseph H. Fichter, Loyola University of the South

1:00-2:50 PM Parlor C, D Symposium SSSR-21
Religion and Human Rights in East Europe
Chair and Organizer: Alan Scarfe, Keston College and Society for the Study of Religion Under Communism
"Religion and the Human Rights Movement in Romania"
Alan Scarfe, Keston College
"Religion and Atheism in the USSR"
Jerry G. Pankhurst, Ohio State University
"Evangelical Protestants in the Soviet Union"
Paul Steeves, Stetson University

1:30-4:30 Julep Room Extended Seminar SSSR-22
Field Research in Religious Minorities
Led by Jon Alston, Texas A& M University, and Anson D. Shupe, Jr., University of Texas, Arlington

1:30-2:30 North Hall APRRE-3
APRRE Plenary Session III
Foundations for Religious Education
Convener: Andrew P. Grannell, Bangor Theological Seminary
A. Children and Youth
Iris V. Cully, Lexington Theological Seminary
B. Adults
Henry C.. Simmons, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto
C. A Shared Praxis Approach
Thomas H. Groome, Boston College

2:30-3:30 PM Parlors E, F, J Discussion APRRE-4
Sections on A, B, and C

3:30-4:50 PM Parlor A Symposium SSSR-23
Anthropological Studies
Chair: Ojo Arewa, Ohio State University
"Moves Towards Separateness and Reconciliation: A Study of Public Ritual in the Spiritualist Movement"
Judith Castle, Concordia University
"Subsistence Systems and High Gods: The Elementary Forms of Work and the Religious Life"
John H. Simpson, Erindale College, University of Toronto
"A Rhetorical Theory of Charisma"
Thomas Chordas, Duke University
Discussant: Ross Crumrine, University of Victoria

3:00-4:50 PM Parlor B Symposium RRA-6
Theory and Practice of Parish Development
Chair: C. Douglass Lewis, Hartford Seminary Foundation
"Emerging Issues in Parish Development - Exploring Some of the Blocks to Faithful and Effective Parish Development"
Robert Johnson, Hartford Seminary Foundation
"Critical Thinking on the Theory and Practice of Parish Revitalization"
George Magnuson, McCormick Theological Seminary
"Resourcing the Small Village Church: A Case Study"
Douglas Walrath

3:00-4:50 PM Parlor L Panel Discussion SSSR-24
Religion and the Category of Humanity-Emergent Global Theodicy
Chair and Organizer: Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh
Panelists: Richard Fenn, University of Maine
JoAnn Klepin, Washington and Jefferson College
Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh

3:00-4:50 PM Parlor H Symposium RRA-7
Future Goals for Religious Education
Chair: Hart M. Nelsen, Boys Town Center, Catholic University
"Desired Outcomes of Religious Education and Youth Ministry in Six Denominations"
Dean R. Hoge and Colleagues, Boys Town Center, Catholic University
"Influence of Social and Theological Factors Upon Goals of Religious Education"
Hart M. Nelsen, Boys Town Center, Catholic University
"Specific Educational Goals of Catholic Parents and Religious Educators"
Andrew D. Thompson, Boys Town Center, Catholic University

3:00-4:50 PM Parlor G Author Meets the Critics SSSR-25
Chair: William M. Newman, University of Connecticut
"Into Denominationalism: The Anglican Metamorphosis"
William H. Swatos, Jr., St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Silvis, Illinois
Discussants: Russell Dynes, American Sociological Association David Little, University of Virginia

3:00-4:50 PM Parlor C Symposium SSSR-26
Religion and Rights Across Cultures
Chair: Harry Dillingham, University of Cincinnati
"The Notion of Religious Liberty and the Rule of Law and Order in Certain States in Southern Africa"
John N. Jonsson, Midwest Baptist Theological Seminary and the University of Natal, South Africa
"A Comparison of Rights in East Germany, India, and the United States"
Max L. Stackhouse, Aridover Newton Theological School

3:00-4:50 PM Parlor D Panel Discussion SSSR- 27
Teaching the Social Science of Religion
Organizer: Paul Gustafson, Hiram College

5:00 PM Continental Room General Reception
Co-Sponsored by: University of Cincinnati, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Religious Research Association, and Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education

8:00 PM Hall of Mirrors SSSR-28
SSSR Plenary Session III
On the Work of Charles Y. Glock: Critique and Appreciation
Chair: Benton Johnson, University of Oregon
Panelists: Rodney Stark, University of Washington
Barbara Hargrove, Iliff School of Theology
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
N. J. Demerath III, University of Massachusetts

Sunday, November 2
8:00-9:30 AM Continental Room
SSSR Breakfast Roundtables
17. "Religion in the Electronic Media: A Test of the Secularization Thesis"
Harry H. Hiller, University of Calgary
18. "The Quasi-Cognitive Aspect of Religion in a Contracting World"
Harry M. Johnson, University of Illinois
19. "Faith and Social Praxis: How Practical are Liberation and Political Theology?"
Robert Kress, Catholic University of America
20. "Conversation with Ralph Burhoe,"
Meadville Theological School, Winner of the 1980 Templeton Award 21. "Toward A New Covenant Vision: An Expansion of Jeremy Rifkin's Thesis"
Margaret Poloma, University of Akron

8:00-9:30 AM Parlor C, D
APRRE Breakfast Roundtables
22. "Religious Education in a Telecommunications Society"
John Elias, Fordham University
23. "Joint Educational Development: A Report of Progress"
Andrew P. Grannell, Bangor Theological Seminary
24. "The 'Back to Basics' Mood: A Challenge to Religious Education"
J. Cy Rowell, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University
25. A Hunger Curriculum: The Use of Research in Curriculum Design"
Jack Seymour and Robin Lovin, Chicago Theological Seminary
26. "'What is Truth?': Correcations between Kohlberg and Perry Models found in Theological Student Interviews"
Clarence H. Snelling, Jr., and Mary M. Wilcox, Iliff School of Theology
27. "Generative Words in Six Cultures"
Douglas Wingeier, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

8:00-9:30 AM Parlor A, B
APRRE Research Groups
28. Foundations of Religious Education
Convener: Berard L. Marthaler, Catholic University of America
Papers: "Catechesis and Religious Education: Toward a Foundational Language"
Michael Warren, St. John's University
Mary C. Boys, Boston College
29. The Context of Religious Education
Convener: Stuart D. McLean, Graduate Seminary, Phillips University
Papers: "The Church and the Task of Inhabiting the Symbol"
Michael A. Fuchs, Marywood College
"The Local Church as an Ecology of Human Development"
A. Kieran Scott, St. Bonaventure University

9:00-12:00 AM Julep Room Extended Seminar SSSR-29
Studying the A-Religious, the Non-Religious, and the Anti-Religious - Issues and Trends
Led by Thomas Davenport, National Opinion Research Center

9:30 APRRE Coffee

9:30-11:20 AM Parlor E Symposium SSSR-30
Religion, Illness, and Death
Chair: Bernard Spilka, University of Denver
"Stress and Illness Behavior Among Christian Scientists and Others: Partial Parsimony Prevails"
Arthur E. Nudelman, Old Dominion University
"Religious Orientation, Report of Mystical Experience and Attitudes Toward Death"
Ronald J. Morris, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
"Suicide and Religion"
Steven Stack, Indiana University
Discussant: Robert Steele, University of Maryland

9:30-11:20 AM Parlor F Symposium SSSR-31
Background Factors and Religion
Chair: C. Kirk Hadaway, Home Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention
"Age at Conversion: Theory and Some 'New' Data (8,608 Cases)"
Richard D. Kahoe, Christian Haven Homes
"Sensory Isolation and the Differential Elicitation of Religious Imagery in Intrinsic and Extrinsic Persons"
Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
"I Am God: The Metaphor of 'Metaphysics"'
Melinda Bollar Wagner, Radford University
Discussant: Raymond F. Currie, University of Manitoba

9:30-11:20 AM Parlor G Symposium RRA-8
Opinion Research by Denomination
Chair: John P. O'Hara, Office of Research and Planning, Lutheran Church -Missouri Synod
"An Investigation of Church Members' Attitudes Toward Cities and the Relation to Concepts of Urban Mission and Ministry in Cities"
Arthur L. Benjamin, Special Office of Research, United Presbyterian Church
"Social Attitudes and Religious Beliefs"
Mary C. Weber, Office of Research and Planning, Lutheran Church in America
"Pastors' Attitudes Toward Stewardship"
John P. O'Hara, Office of Research and Planning, Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod
"United Presbyterian Opinions About the Nature of Biblical Authority" Gay H. Tennis, Special Office of Research, United Presbyterian Church

9:30-11:20 AM Parlor H Symposium SSSR-32
Secularization
Chair: Edward B. Arroyo, Loyola University of the South
"Sacralization/Secularization in Kelantan, Malaysia: A Test Case of Fenn's Toward a Theory of Secularization"
Paul M. Gustafson, Hiram College
"Revolution in a Rationalized World: Weber Revisited and Extended"
William W. Swatos, Jr., St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Silvis, Illinois
"The Sacred Commitment of Humanistic Jews"
Gary P. Williams, Columbus College
"Modernization and Functional Religiosity in Middletown"
Joseph B. Tamney, Ball State University
Discussant: Margaret Poloma, University of Akron

9:30-11:20 AM North Hall Symposium SSSR-33
In and Out of Cults: Exercising Choice?
Chair: Rodney Stark, University of Washington
"The Choice Not To Choose"
Jane Hurst, University of Virginia
"The Medicalization of Deviant Religion: Preliminary Observations and Critique"
Thomas Robbins, Yale University
Dick Anthony, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
"Deprogramming: A Response to the Rise of Cults"
J. Gordon Melton, The Institute for the Study of American Religion
Discussant: Meredith B. McGuire, Montclair State College

9:30-11:20 AM Parlor 0 Panel Discussion SSSR-34
Religion and Human Rights in Latin America
Panelists: Patrick H. McNamara, University of New Mexico
William V. D'Antonio, University of Connecticut

10:00-12:00 AM Parlor L
APRRE Plenary Session IV
Foundations Applied to Religious Education Practice
Convener: Maureena Fritz, St. Michael's College, Toronto
Dialogue: Gabriel Moran, New York University Malcolm Warford, Union Theological Seminary, New York

11:30 AM-1;20 PM Parlor E Symposium SSSR-35
Religious Commitment, Change, and Conflict
Chair: Donald R. Ploch, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"The Influence of Role Preference and Role Clarity on Vocational Commitment of Protestant Ministers"
Dean R. Hoge, Boys Town Center, Catholic University
John C. Dyble, Princeton Religious Research Center
David T. Polk, York College
"The Kyodan's Decade of Division and Conflicts"
K. Peter Takayama, Memphis State University
"A Call to Action and a Religious Response"
Marie Augusta Neal
Discussant: Jackson W. Carroll, Hartford Seminary Foundation

11:30 AM-1:20 PM Parlor F Symposium SSSR-36
The Study of Religion: Origins and Approaches
Chair: Dean Knudsen, Purdue University
"An Alliance for Progress: The Early Years of the Sociology of Religion in the United States"
Myer S. Reed, Jr., Radford University
"Comparative Religion: Religion is Man's Earliest Science"
G. Arthur Mihram, Haverford, Pa.
Danielle Mihram, Haverford, Pa.
"Reductionism and the Social Scientific Study of Religion"
Robert A. Segal, Reed College
Discussant: Eileen Barker, London School of Economics and Political Science

APRRE-5 11:30 AM-1:20 PM Parlor G Symposium SSSR-37
Religious Movements
Chair: Edward B. Arroyo, Loyola University of the South
"Segregated Sundays: The Emergence of the Black Protestant Church"
Brenda Donnelly, The University of Delaware
"Cults and the Civil Religion: A Tale of Two Centuries"
Phillip E. Hammond and Robert McCutchen, University of California, Santa Barbara.
"Resource Mobilization in a Revolutionary Situation: The Case of Shi'a Islam in Iran"
Soheyl Amini, Ohio State University
Discussant: Thomas Hood, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

11:30 AM-1:20 PM Parlor H Symposium SSSR-38
Religious Experience and Commitment
Chair: Ralph W. Hood, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
"Sociological Cocoons: Organizations for the Transformation of Identity"
David R. Rudy, Morehead State University
Arthur L. Greil, Alfred University
"'Religious Experiencing: A Phenomenological Analysis of a Unique Behavioral Event"
H. Newton Maloney, Fuller Theological Seminary "Associational and Communal Supports for the Plausibility Structure of the Christian Reformed Church"
Gary D. Bouma, Monash University
Discussant: Kirk W. Elifson, Georgia State University

11:30 AM-1:20 PM Parlor N Symposium SSSR-39
Studies in Religiosity
Chair: James Davidson, Purdue University
"The Theory of Multidimensional Religiosity: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Developments"
Jerry D. Cardwell, Longwood College
"Religion and Prejudice: New Evidence and a New Interpretation"
John Runda, Ohio State University
John Seidler, Ohio State University
"The Relationship Between Age and Religiosity: A Reappraisal"
Susan Eisenhandier, University of Massachusetts
Jon Eisenhandler, University of Massachusetts
"Sources of Religious Involvement"
Reginald Bibby, Lethbridge University
Discussant: Joseph Faulkner, Pennsylvania State University

11:30 AM-1:20 PM Parlor 0 Panel SSSR-40
Religion and Social Science
Chair: Emile Pin, Vassar College
"Bridging the Gap between Theology and Social Science"
Donald E. Miller, University of Southern California
"The Potential of Social Science Experimentation about Religious Phenomena"
John P. Keating, University of Washington
"Can Faith be an Object of Study for the Sociologist?"
Emile Pin, Vassar College

1:30 PM Parlor G APRRE Business Meeting

2:30 PM Parlor J APRRE Executive Committee

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.
The exhibit is located in Parlor I on the 4th Floor. Orders may be placed at the exhibit on a convention discount basis in accord with individual publisher policies. The exhibit will be open from 12:00 noon-5:30 on Friday, October 31st, 9 am-5:30 pm on Saturday, November lst and 9 am-Noon on Sunday, November 2nd. Your exhibits director, Herve C. Horowitz, will be available to answer all inquiries.
The Directory of Exhibitors cited below is a partial listing, reflecting only those publishing houses reserving display space in advance of this program announcement.
DIRECTORY OF EXHIBITORS Abingdon Press Alfred Publishing Co. American Society of Criminology American Trust Publications Child Welfare League of America Christian Herald Conference Book Service Family Service Association of America Fortress Press Glenmary Research Center Harper & Row Haymark Publications Herald Press International Society of Political Psychology Massachusetts Institute of Technology National Council on Family Relations North Central Sociological Association Oxford University Press Philosophy Documentation Center The Pilgrim Press Re-Vision - A Journal of Knowledge and Consciousness Sage Publications St. Martin's Press Seabury Press Society for the Study of Alternative Lifestyles Society for the Study of Social Problems Transaction University of Toronto Press University Press of America Westview Press Zondervan 1980
SSSR Program Committee
Anthropology:
Ojo Arewa, Ohio State University
Thomas Chordas, Duke University
Ross Crumrine, University of Victoria
Frank E. Manning, The University of Western Ontario

History:
Richard D. Shiels, Ohio State University
Marilyn Waldman, Ohio State University

Psychology:
Mary Jo Meadow, Mankato State University
John P. Keating, University of Washington
Robert Steele, University of Maryland

Religious Studies:
Edward B. Arroyo, Loyola University
John A. Coleman, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
James A. @ridan, Washington Theological Union
Errol G. Rohr, United Christian Center, Columbus

Sociology:
Paul Gustafson, Hiram College
C. Kirk Hadaway, Home Mission Board, Atlanta
Barbara Hargrove, Iliff School of Theology, Denver
John P. Koval, DePaul University
Meredith B. McGuire, Montclair State College
Richard L. Means, Kalamazoo College
William Newman, University of Connecticut
Jerry Pankhurst, Ohio State University
Margaret Poloma, Akron University
James Richardson, University of Nevada
Robert Szafran, The University of Iowa
Ruth Wallace, George Washington University
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University