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ANNUAL MEETING
of the
SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC
STUDY OF RELIGION
meeting jointly with the
RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

Program Themes:
"Changing Religion in a
Changing World"
"Voluntarism and the Church: Implications
for Faith and Organizing"

Program
October 29 - November 1, 1981
Lord Baltimore Hotel
Baltimore, Maryland

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
THE REGISTRATION DESK will be located in the foyer on the Second Floor of the hotel. It will be open Friday, October 30, 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM and Saturday, October 31, 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM.

REGISTRATION FEE is $15 for members of SSSR and RRA, $18 for non-members, and $5 for students. The fee includes admission to all sessions, 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 $3.00 each for Saturday morning only. Indicate choice of roundtable on the pre-registration form. Spaces not sold through pre-registration will be sold at registration desk.

BOOK EXHIBIT is on display in Salon A. Convention discounts available.

MEETING ROOMS are located mainly on the Second Floor - Salons and Ballroom. The Maryland, Harbor, and Chesapeake Rooms are on the Third Floor.

SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTEFIC 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
Jackson W. Carroll, Hartford Seminary Foundation
William V. D'Antonio, University of Connecticut
Meredith McGuire, Montclair State College
Hart M. Nelsen, Louisiana State University
James Richardson, University of Nevada
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University

JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
EDITOR: Phillip E. Hammond, University of California, 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'81
Chairperson: Mary Jo Meadow, Mankato State University
Local Arrangements: Mary C. Rose, Goucher College

PROGRAM '82
Chairperson: Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University

SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION MEMBERSHIP AND JOURNAL
Membership is open to interested persons. Annual dues for 1981 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, Stom, CT 06268 RELIGIOUS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS
PRESIDENT G. Douglass Lewis, Hartford Seminary Foundation
PRESIDENT-ELECT David 0. Moberg, Marquette University
SECRETARY Constant H. Jacquet, Jr., National Council of Churches
TREASURER Everett L. Perry, United Presbyterian Church

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jackson W. Carroll, Hartford Seminary Foundation
James D. Davidson, Purdue University
Carl S. Dudley, McCormick Theological Seminary
Barbara Hargrove, Iliff School of Theology
Gillian Lindt, Columbia University
H. Newton Malony, Fuller Theological Seminary
Mary Mattis, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Meredith McGuire, Montclair State College
William J. McKinney, Jr., United Church Board for Homeland Ministries
Barbara P. Payne, Georgia State University
Wade Clark Roof, University of Massachusetts
David Roozen, Hartford Seminary Foundation
Ross P. Scherer, Loyola University of Chicago
Edward M. Sullivan, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate
Douglas A. Watrath, Religious Consultant

PROGRAM CHAIRPERSON
Ross P. Scherer, Loyola University of Chicago

REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH
EDITOR: Hart M. Nelsen, Louisiana State University
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.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Thursday, October 29
3:30-5:30PM Maryland Room RRA Board of Directors Meeting
7:00-9:OOPM Florentine Room Open Meeting for Research on Lutherans and Lutheranism
Hosts: Paul F. Goetting, Lutheran Council in the USA Allen Klaas, Aid Association for Lutherans
7:30-11:OOPM Maryland Room SSSR Council Meeting

Friday, October 30
7:30-9:30AM Maryland Room RRA Board of Directors Meeting
9:30-12:OOAM Maryland Room SSSR Council Meeting

8:30-9:50 PM Salon C SSSR-1
Contemporary Religious Conservatism
Chair and Discussion Leader: Anthony J. Blasi, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto
"Catholic Traditionalism in America: Sociological Aspects of a Value-Oriented Social Movement"
William D. Dinges, American Studies, Kansas University
"Is There a Moral Majority"
John H. Simpson, Sociology, University of Toronto, Erindale Campus
"Humanism as a New Scapegoat"
Joe E. Barnhart, Philosophy, North Texas State University

8:30-9:50 AM Salon D SSSR-2
Mechanisms of Power
Chair and Discussion Leader: Doyle Paul Johnson, Sociology, University of South Florida
"In Pursuit of Social Power: Revival Religion and the Social Order"
J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, Penn State University, Hazelton Campus
"Prophecy As a Covert Mechanism of Power"
Kenneth McGuire, csp, Paulist Institute for Religious Research, Washington, D.C.
"Charisma and Commitment: An Empirical Analysis of Leaders and Followers in Religious Organizations"
Merlin B. Brinkerhoff and Kathryn L. Burke, Sociology, University of Calgary

8:30-9:50 AM Salon E SSSR-3
Religious Attitudes
Chair and Discussion Leader: Eugene C. Best, Religious Studies, Marist College
"Attitudinal Dispositions Toward Technology and Religiosity"
Warner Woodworth, Brigham Young University
Taggart Frost, Business, University of Northern Iowa
Todd A. Britsch, Brigham Young University
"Church Attendance and the Tolerance of Nonconformists"
Cynthia Toolin, Sociology, University of Massachusetts
"Identification of Congregational Worldviews: Measurement of Myth and Belief"
G. Melton Mobley and James E. Hopewell, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

8:30-9:50 AM Salon F SSSR-4
Directions in the New Religious Movements
Chair and Discussion Leader: James D. Hunter, Sociology, Douglass College, Rutgers University
"Sex Roles in the Unification Movement"
James H. Grace, Philosophy and Religion, Glassboro State College
"The New Religious Movements Turn to Worldly Success"
Kirpal Singh Khalsa and James McCarthy, Sociology, University of Colorado
"Spiritual Science: 'Metaphysics' as a Response to 'Rational' Culture"
Melinda Bollar Wagner, Sociology and Anthropology, Radford University

8:30-9:50 AM Salon B RRA-1
Symposium: Local Voluntaryism: Congregational Growth and Decline
Chair: David S. Luecke, Valparaiso University
"Local Church Growth and Decline in a Southern City"
C. Kirk Hadaway, Southern Baptist Urban Center - Nashville
"Congregational Behavior as Affected by Church-Sect Characteristics, Gemeinschaft, and Member Size: The Case of the Church of the Nazarene"
Leonard J. Pinto, University of Colorado
Kenneth -E. Crow, Mid-America Nazarene College
"Sociotheological Models for Congregational Renewal"
Howard Snyder, Olive Branch Mission - Chicago
Discussant: David S. Luecke, Valparaiso University

10:00-11:50AM Salon C SSSR-5
Changes In the Traditional Religions
Chair and Discussion Leader: Stephen D. Glazier, Anthropology, University of Connecticut
"The Changing Orthodox Synagogue"
George Kranzler, Sociology, Towson State University
"Friends Community: A Quaker Response to the Eighties"
Christopher J. Frost, Boston University
"The Ethiopian Church: Responding to Revolutionary Changes"
Kassahun Checole, Africana Studies, Rutgers University

10:00-11:50AM Salon D SSSR-6
Symposium: The Orthodox Jewish Woman Responds to the Secular Challenge: Empirical Studies
Chair: Janet Weinglass, Social Psychology, Teacher's College of Columbia University
"Retention of Orthodoxy a Decade Later: A Survey of Female Graduates of Religious Day Schools"
Renee Billet, Sociology, New York University
"American Orthodox Jewish Women: A Generational Study"
Blanche Frank, Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, State of New York
"The Orthodox Jewish Professional Woman"
Elaine Nussbacher, Sociology, New York University
"Firmness and Flexibility: Some Responses of Orthodox Synagogues to the Women's Movement"
Rela Geffen Monson, Jewish Community Studies, Gratz College
"Feminism, Sex Role and Jewish Identity in Orthodox and Nonobservant Males and Females"
Pearl Beck, Social and Personality Psychology, City University of New York
"Correlates of the Desire for Change in Traditional Religious Practices: A Study of Orthodox Jewish College Women"
Janet Weinglass, Social Psychology, Teacher's College of Columbia University
Janice Steil, Institute for Advanced Psychological Study, Adelphi University

10: 00- 1 1: 50 AM Salon E SSSR-7
Measuring Religious Variables
Chair and Discussion Leader: Walter Broughton, Sociology, Marywood College
"Social Science Measures of Religious Variables"
William Silverman, Hicksville, New York
"Experimenter Effects in Studies of Religious Attitudes"
Jeffrey Howard Ennis, Social Work, University of Toronto
Bruce Hunsberger, Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University
"A Signal Detectability Analysis and Validation of Measures of Intrinsic-Extrinsic and Committed and Consensual Faith"
Bernard Spilka and Annie Amaro, Psychology, University of Denver

10:00-11:50AM Salon F SSSR-8
Methodological Issues
Chair and Discussion Leader: Hendrika Vande Kemp, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology
"Religion of Science in the Science of Religion"
Walter Benesch, Philosophy and Humanities, University of Alaska
"Quantum Physical Complimentarity: A New Analogy for the Study of Consciousness"
James Murray Miclot, Religious Studies, University of Montana
"Experimental Introspection and Religious Experience: The Dorpat School of Religious Psychology"
David M. Wulff, Psychology, Wheaton College, Massachusetts

10:00-11:50 AM Harbor/Chesapeake SSSR-9
The Mist of Mysticism and Modernity Concepts and Analysis
Chair: John Thompson, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan
"Mysticism, Modernity, and the Definition of Religion: Bursting Old Skins"
William H. Swatos, Jr., St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Silvis, Illinois
"The Complementarity of Adjustment and Conflict in the Religious Life"
Anthony J. Blasi, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto
"Mysticism in the Writings of Peter Berger: Approaches, Anomalies and Ambiguities"
Bruce Karlenzig, Sociology, University of Saskatchewan

10: 00- 1 1: 50 AM Salon B RRA-2
Symposium: Church Strategy and the Numbers Game
Chair: Everett L. Perry, Consultant, Studies and Planning, United Presbyterian Church
Participants:
"The Past, Present, and Future: A Review of Demographic Trends"
Cynthia M. Taeuber, Census Programs Staff, Population Division, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C.
"CAPC: Effective Church Uses of Census Data"
John P. O'Hara, Research and Planning, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, St. Louis
"1980 Census Utilization by the United Methodist Church"
Sarla Lall, Research, Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church, New York City
"Is 'Lutheran' Really a Lutheran?"
Allen C. KIaas, Corporate Research Branch, Aid Association for Lutherans, Appleton, Wisconsin

12:00 Noon Maryland Room SSSR Council Luncheon

12:00 Noon Harbor/Chesapeake SSSR-10
Film Festival
Presenter and Producer: DeeDee Halleck, New York University
Bronx Baptism - 27 minutes
Meadows Green - 25 minutes
Jaraslawa - 10 minutes

1:00-2:50 PM Salon C SSSR-11
Religious Leadership
Chair and Discussion Leader: Dallas A. Blanchard, Sociology and Anthropology, The University of West Florida
"Clergy Rebellion: A Bishop's Dilemma in Tumultuous Times"
John Seidler, Sociology, The Ohio State University
"National Federation of Priests' Councils: Bureaucratization of a Social Movement"
James H. Stewart, Sociology, St. Olaf College
"Clergy Career Patterns: The Impact of Background and Wives"
M. Monroe Wright, Manchester, Maryland

1:00-2:50 PM Salon D SSSR-12
Mutual Influences: Religion and Politics
Chair and Discussion Leader: Roland Robertson, Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
"Religious Beliefs and Political Behavior: A Study of the United States Congress"
Peter Benson, Search Institute, Minneapolis "From Prophetic Rhetoric to Presidential Priesthood: A Religion Model for the Scientific Study of the Presidency"
James Murray Miclot, Religious Studies, University of Montana

1:00-2:50 PM Salon E SSSR-13
The Farther Reaches
Chair and Discussion Leader: Marion V. Dearman, Sociology, California State University, Los Angeles
"Some Extra-Scientific Dimensions of the Scientific Study of the Easternization of Western Monotheisms"
Mary Carman Rose, Philosophy, Goucher College
"Psychology of Religion and Popular Culture: 'Where No (Person) Has Gone Before"'
Christopher J. Frost, Boston University
"Dimensions of Meaning in Late-Medieval Religious Art"
Bron Hyman, Religious Studies, University of Toronto

1:00-2:50 PM Salon F SSSR-14
Ecstatic Religion
Chair and Discussion Leader: Felicitas D. Goodman, Cuyamungue Institute and Denison University
"Mysticism, Psychopathology, and Creativity: A Case Illustrated Discusssion"
Walter Houston Clark, Andover Newton Theological School
"The Operation was a Success but the Patient Died: The Uses of Healing in the Charismatic Renewal"
Mary Jo Neitz, Sociology, University of Missouri
"Correlates of Music Innovation Among Trinidad's Spiritual Baptists"
Stephen D. Glazier, Anthropology, University of Connecticut

1: 00-2:50 PM Salon B RRA-3
Symposium: Voluntary Action and Religion: Maps and Realities
Chair: David 0. Moberg, Marquette University
Presenter: "Churches are Ignored in Votuntary Action Research: Causes and Consequences"
David H. Smith, Boston College
Respondents: "An Historical Perspective"
David Little, University of Virginia
"Voluntaryism and Roman Catholic Subsidiarity"
Bruno V. Manno, National Catholic Educational Association
"A Research Director's Perspective"
Orrin Morris, Board of Home MissionsResearch Division, Southern Baptist Convention
"A Paradenominational Agency Perspective"
Paul R. Picard, Aid Association for Lutherans
Discussant: David 0. Moberg, Marquette University

1:00-2:50 PM Harbor/Chesapeake RRA-4
Workshop: The Role of Leadership Within the Voluntary Church
Chair: G. Douglass Lewis, Hartford Seminary Foundation
"Impact of Leadership Style upon Congregational Climate"
William E. Ramsden, Training Ecumenically to Advance Mission - Philadelphia
"Leadership in Small Congregations"
Douglas A. Walrath, Church Strategy Consultant - Albany
"Correlates of Voluntary Lay Leadership"
Mary C. Weber, Lutheran Church in America - Planning, Research, and Evaluation

3:00-4:50 PM Plenary Session: Ballroom SSSR-15/ RRA-5
Ballroom Toequeville and the Third Great Awakening: Socio-political Consequences of the Current Evangelical Movement
Organizer and Chair: Phillip E. Hammond, University of California, Santa Barbara
Panelists: Robert C. Gordon-McCutchan, University of California, Santa Barbara
James D. Hunter, Rutgers University
Timothy L. Smith, The Johns Hopkins University
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
Discussant: Benton Johnson, University of Oregon

5:OOPM Assembly Foyer CASH BAR

5:15 PM Salon F Women's Caucus of SSSR/RRA
All interested in women's concerns and issues are welcome!

5:30 PM Salon C RRA Annual Business Meeting

8:15 PM Ballroom Presidential Address
"Taking Stock: Reflections on the End of Another Era"
Benton Johnson, University of Oregon

Saturday, October 31
7:30-8:50 A.M. Ballroom
SSSR Breakfast Boundtables
1. "A Quest for Religious Maturity: An Obsessive-Compulsive Personality"
Ann Mary Dooley, SSJ, Religious Studies, Niagara University
2. "Toward a Sociology of Religious Migration"
John R. Hall and Richard A. Riddle, Sociology, University of Missouri
3. "The Role of Religion in Coping with Childhood Cancer"
Bernard Spilka, Psychology, University of Denver
William J. Zwartjes, Georgia M. Zwartes, Dory Heideman, and Katherine A. Cilli, University of Denver and The Children's Hospital, Denver
4. "The Stability-maintaining Function of Religion in an Old Order Mennonite Community"
T. W. Jentsch, Sociology, Kutztown State College
5. "Comparative Religion: The Wholistic Triad of Ethics/Education-Epistemology/Economics"
Danielle Mihram, Firestone Library, Princeton University
G. Arthur Mihram, Haverford, Pennsylvania
6. "Effect of Watching Religious Television Programs on Religious Behavior and Attitudes"
G. Melton Mobley, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
7. "Evaluating Religion: A Design for Research"
James B. Sadler, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
8. "Creation, The Flood, The Unconscious: Sin, Judgment, and Punishment"
L. Mulry Tetlow, Continuing Education, Loyola University in New Orleans
9. "Early Sources in the Integration of Psychology and Christianity"
Hendrika Vande Kemp and H. Newton Malony, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology
10. "Interviewer Training for Religious Studies"
Gay Tennis, United Presbyterian Church- Special Offi&e of Research
11. "A Study of Factors Relating to Church Growth in the North American Division of Seventh-Day Adventists" Roger L. Dudley, Seventh-Day Adventist Theological Seminary, Andrews University

9:00-10:20 AM Salon D SSSR-16
Innovations in the Teaching of the Scientific Study of Religion
Chair: Michael R. Leming, Sociology, St. Olaf College
Films and Videotapes - Meredith McGuire, Sociology, Montclair State University
Religious Case Studies -H. Newton Malony, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology
Disciplinary Diffusion - Glenn M. Vernon, University of Utah
Computer Assisted Instruction - Michael R. Leming, Sociology, St. Olaf College
Discussants: Persons Attending Session

9:00-10:20 AM Salon E SSSR-17
Scale Development
Chair and Discussion Leader: Bernard Spilka, Psychology, University of Denver
"Subjective Measures of Spiritual Well-Being"
David 0. Moberg, Sociology, Marquette University
"A Unidimensional Measure of Christian Orthodoxy"
J. Timothy Fullerton, Saskatchewan Penitentiary Bruce Hunsberger, Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University
"The Empirical Identification and Utilization of Lifton's Modes of Death Transcendence"
Ralph W. Hood, Jr. and Ronald J. Morris, Psychology, University of Tennessee

9:00-10:20 AM Salon F SSSR-18
Power and the New Religious Movements
Chair and Discussion Leader: John R. Hall, Sociology, University of Missouri - Columbia
"Violence and New Religions: Historical and Theoretical Analyses"
James T. Richardson, Sociology, University of Nevada Brock Kilbourne, University of Nevada
"The Prosecutor's Reach: Legal Issues Stemming from the New Religious Movements"
William C. Shepherd, Religious Studies, University of Montana
"Deconversion and Reality Transformation: A Model of Defection from New Religious Movements"
Stuart A. Wright, Sociology, University of Connecticut

9:00-10:20 AM Salon B Symposium: RRA-6
The Voluntary Congregation Interacts with Its Environment
Chair: Carl S. Dudley, McCormick Theological Seminary
"Innovation through a Covenant Community: Patchwork Central"
Philip Amerson, Patchwork Central Ministries - Evansville
"Lafayette Urban Ministries: Implications for Congregational Involvement in Metropolitan Social Concerns"
James D. Davidson, Purdue University
"A Bridge Church in a Pluralistic, Urban Culture"
David Frenchak, Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education -Chicago
Discussant: Carl S. Dudley, McCormick Theological Seminary

9:00-10:20 AM Salon C
Opportunity to meet others wanting to collaborate on programs for next year's meeting.

9:OOAM-12:OOPM Maryland Room SSSR-19
Seminar: Commitment to Altruism
Chair: Sister Marie Angusta Neal, Sociology, Emmanuel College
For reservations, contact Sr. Neal at Emmanuel College, 400 The Fenway, Boston, Ma. 02115 Other participants admitted as space permits.

10:30AM-12:20 PM Harbor/Chesapeake Symposium: SSSR-20
Religion in Middletown
Chair: Howard M. Bahr, Family and Demographic Research Institute, Brigham Young University
"Devotional Practice in Middletown"
Howard M. Bahr, Brigham Young University
"The Future of Religion in Middletown"
Theodore Caplow, Sociology, University of Virginia
"Religious Ritual in Middletown: 1924-1980"
Joseph B. Tamney, Ball State University
"Changes in Religious Observance in Middletown: 1890-1980"
Bruce A. Chadwick, Sociology, Brigham Young University
"From Simpson's Chapel to Grace Baptist Church"
Dwight W. Hoover, History, Ball State University

10:30AM-12:20 PM Salon C SSSR-21
Panel Discussion: Healing Beliefs and Practices in Religious Groups
Chair: Meredith B. McGuire, Sociology, Montclair State College
Participants: Frances Westley, Sociology, University of Western Ontario
Steven Tipton, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Debra Kantor, New School for Social Research, New York City
Melinda Wagner, Sociology and Anthropology, Radford University
George Brandon, New Jersey College of Dentistry
Peter Phillips, Physics, Washington University-St. Louis

10: 30 AM- 1 2:20 PM Salon D SSSR-22
Politics, Religious Movements,and Social Action
Chair and Discussion Leader: Thomas P. Imse, Sociology, College of the Holy Cross
"Relative Deprivation and Resource Mobilization: A Study of Early Quakerism"
Stephen Kent, Religious Studies, McMaster University
"Religion, Tradition, and Political Action: Slave Revolts, Quilombos, and Religious Brotherhoods in Colonial and Post-colonial Brazil"
W. E. Hewitt, Sociology, McMaster University
"Power and Politics: Charismatic Christians on Social Issues and Political Action"
Margaret M. Poloma, University of Akron

10:30AM-12:20PM Salon E SSSR-23
Models for Understanding Religious Life
Chair and Discussion Leader: Richard D. Kahoe, Christian Haven Homes, Wheatfield, Indiana
"The Psychology of Prayer"
Donald Capps, Princeton Theological Seminary
"When the Bombs Drop: Another Look at the Reaction to Disconfirmed Prophecy"
Robert W. Balch, Gwen Farnsworth, and Sue Wilkins, Sociology, University of Montana
"Normal State Deviations, Non-specific Arousal, Prior Religiosity, Life Stress, and the Report of Religious Experience"
William G. Spradlin and H. Newton Malony, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology

10: 30 AM- 12:20 PM Salon F East/West SSSR-24
Religious Synthesis
Chair and Discussion Leader: Joseph H. Fichter, S.J., Sociology, Loyola University -New Orleans
"A Comparison Between Members of Two Eastern Guru Movements: The Bhagwan Movement and the Divine Light Mission"
Jan Van Der Lans and Frans Derks, Psychology of Culture and Religion, Catholic University, Nijmegen, Holland
"The Christian Ashram Movement: A New Religious Movement in Contemporary India"
Helen Ralston, Sociology, St. Mary's University
"Where East Meets West: The Church of Higher Consciousness"
John Franklin Miller III, Philosophy, North Texas State University

10: 30 AM- 12:20 PM Salon B RRA-7
Symposium: Church Response to Organizational Threat
Chair: K. Peter Takayama, Memphis State University
"Mainline Church Response to the New Christian Right"
Jeffrey Hadden, University of Virginia
"Clergywomen as Threats to Voluntary Church Participation"
Edward Lehman, S.U.N.Y., Brockport
"Organizational Memberships as Sources of Church Members' Opposition to Social Action: Implications for Church Leaders"
James R. Wood, Indiana University
Discussant: K. Peter Takayama, Memphis State University

12:30-1:20 PM Ballroom SSSR Annual Business Meeting

12:30-1:20 PM Harbor/Chesapeake Film Festival REPEAT of SSSR-10

1:30-3:20 PM Harbor/Chesapeake Secularization SSSR-25
Chair and Discussion Leader: Carroll J. Bourg, Sociology, Fisk University
"Urban Religion: A Cross-Cultural Perspective"
Felicitas D. Goodman, Cuyamungue Institute and Denison University
"Church, State, and Cult"
Thomas Robbins, Berkeley, California
"The Failure of Ritual"
Richard K. Fenn, Sociology, University of Maine

1:30-3:20 PM Salon D Women and Religion: Their Mutual Impact SSSR-26
Chair: Carole A. Rayburn, Silver Spring, Maryland
"'Archetypes' and Women's Spirituality"
Mary Jo Meadow, Psychology, Mankato State University
"The Changing Greek-American Woman and the Unchanging Orthodox Church"
Aphrodite Clamar, New York City
"Impact of Nonsexist Language and Guidelines for Women in Religion"
Carole A. Rayburn, Silver Spring, Maryland
"Career Development in Women Religious: Does God Like SAE-Types Best?"
Lee J. Richmond, Education, Counseling & Human Development, The Johns Hopkins University
"Concept of Choice as Expressed Through the Image of Women?"
Antoinette R. Appel, Psychiatry, Butler Hospital of Brown University
Discussant: Eileen A. Gavin, Psychology, College of St. Catherine

1:30-3:20 PM Salon E Conversion and Apostasy SSSR-27
Chair and Discussion Leader: Jack Hanford, Ferris State College
"What Do We Know About the Conversion Process?"
Arthur L. Greil, Alfred University
David R. Rudy, Morehead State University
"Apostasy: A Social Learning Analysis"
Bruce Hunsberger, Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University

1:30-3:20 PM Salon F Religious Meaning and Belonging SSSR-28
Chair and Discussion Leader: Joel S. Wright, Sociology, Stetson University
"The Importance of the Meaning Dimension of Religion for College Students"
Marianne Ferguson, Philosophy and Religion, State University College at Buffalo
"The Meaning of Belonging to Experimental Parishes: An Exploration in Grounded Theory"
William John Doran, Lathrup Village, Michigan
"Underlife in a Local Church"
Larry C. Ingram, Sociology and Anthropology, University of Tennessee at Martin

1: 30-3:20 PM Salon B Symposium: Denominations, Ecumenical Dialogue, and the Federating Process RRA-8
Chair: Keith R. Bridston, World Council of Churches, New York City
Participants: To Be Announced
Discussion of Walter G. Muelder's Report of the Work Group on Education for Ecumenism, "A Comparative Study of TwentyOne North American Churches on Church Unity"

1: 30-3:20 PM Salon C Symposium: The Church, Mediation, and Public Issues RRA-9
Chair: Jackson W. Carroll, Hartford Seminary Foundation
"Going Public: Churches as Mediating Structures"
Barbara Hargrove, Iliff School of Theology
"The Role of Churches in Affecting Legislation in the United States"
Dean M. Kelley, National Council of Churches, Division of Church and Society
"Community Leaders View Religious Presence in a Metropolitan Area"
William McKinney, United Church of Christ, Board for Homeland Ministries
"Church and Community: Varieties of Religious Presence"
David A. Roozen and Jackson W. Carroll, Hartford Seminary Foundation
Discussant: Philip Amerson, Patchwork Central - Evansville

3:30-4:50 PM Plenary Session: H. Paul Douglas Lecture RRA-10 Ballroom
"Politics and Social Movements in Denominations: A Fulcrum of Social Change"

Presiding: G. Douglass Lewis, Hartford Seminary, President of RRA

Speaker: Mayer N. Zald, University of Michigan, Center for Research on Social Organization

5:00 PM Ballroom General Reception
Co-Sponsored by:
The Johns Hopkins University
Loyola College in Maryland
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Religious Research Association

8:15 PM Ballroom In Honor of Walter Houston Clark SSSR-29
Presiding: Jeffrey K. Hadden, Sociology, University of Virginia

Participants:
Ralph W. Burhoe, Meadville Theological School
James E. Dittes, Religious Studies, Yale University
Joseph H. Fichter, Sociology, Loyola University, New Orleans
Charles Y. Glock, University of California-Berkeley (in absentia)
H. Newton Malony, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology
Mary Jo Meadow, Psychology, Mankato State University

Final Word: Walter H. Clark, Andover Newton Theological Seminary

Sunday, November 1
9:00-10:50 AM Hatbor/Chesapeake Civil Religion SSSR-30
Chair and Discussion Leader: William V. D'Antonio, Sociology, University of Connecticut
"A Framework for a Synthesis of Work on Civil Religion, Church Growth and Decline, Religion as an Independent Variable and the Electronic Church"
Donald R. Ploch, Sociology, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
"Spiritual Innovation and Civil Religion Crisis"
Thomas Robbins, Berkeley, California
Dick Anthony, Berkeley, California

9:00-10:50 AM Salon D Symposium: Importance of Networking and Dominoeing to Religious Women SSSR-31
Chair: Carole A. Rayburn, Silver Spring, Maryland "Mormon Women and Their Networks and Their Dominoes" Alice Allred Pottmeyer, Arlington, Virginia and Hazel Davis Rigby, Alexandria, Virginia, Mormons for ERA
"Intra- and Inter-faith Feminist Networking in Reform Judaism"
Annette Daum, Interreligious Affairs, Union of American Hebrew Congregations
"Networking Among Women Rabbis"
Rabbi Cathy Felix, Brown University
"Importance of Networking and Dominoeing to Women Religious Conservatives"
Carole A. Rayburn, Silver Spring, Maryland

9:00-10:50 AM Salon E Peligious Socialization SSSR-32
Chair and Discussion Leader: Wade Clark Roof, Sociology, University of Massachusetts
"Family and Religious Recruitment"
Frances R. Westley, Sociology, University of Western Ontario
"Transmission of Religious and Social Values From Parents to Teenage Children"
Dean R. Hoge, Gregory H. Petrillo, and Ella I. Smith, Boys Town Research Center, Catholic University
"Gender and Religious Socialization: Comparisons From Pakistan and the United States"
Hart M. Nelsen, Sociology, Louisiana State University
Arshad Rizvi, Bowie State College

9:00-10:50 AM Salon F New Light on Classical Works SSSR-33
Chair and Discussion Leader: R. Stephen Warner, Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle
"Religion and Social Structure in The Division of Labor"
Ernest Wallwork, The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University
"The Biographical Sources of Sociological Analysis: H. Richard Niebuhr's Social Sources of Denominationalism"
Jon Diefenthaler, History, The Johns Hopkins University
"A Critical Analysis of Freud's The Future of an Illusion"
L. Mulry Tetiow, Continuing Education, Loyola University- New Orleans

9:00-10:50 AM Salon B Symposium: Evaluation Research in Religious Instituitions RRA-11
Chair: Mary C. Mattis, United Presbyterian Church, The Support Agency - Research
"Evaluation Research: Opportunities in the Roman Catholic Church"
Thomas Barrett, Archdiocese of New York
"Evaluation and Policy Analysis for New Church Development"
Theodore Erickson, United Church of Christ - Board for Homeland Ministries
"The Payoff of Evaluation for Decision Making"
William Erickson, Lutheran Church in America Evaluation, Research, and Planning
Discussant: To Be Announced

9:00-10:50 AM Salon C Symposium: The Individual and Voluntary Religious Experience RRA-12
Chair: Kirk W. Elifson, Georgia State University
"Overview of the Religious Perspective of Young Catholics"
William McCready, NORC-Chicago
"Glossolalic Expressions Among Pentecostal College and Seminary Students"
William H. Rarick and H. Newton Malony, Fuller-Pasadena
"A Model of Stages of Adult Spiritual Development"
Elizabeth McSherry and Fred Dagenais, University of California Medical School, San Francisco
"Identifying the Religious Needs of College Students"
Kenneth I. Paragament, Ruben Enchemendia, Steven Johnson, and Cheryl McGath, Bowling Green State University
Vaugh Maatman, United Christian Fellowship
William Baxter, Bowling Green State University
Discussant: Raymond C. Rymph, Purdue University

9:OOAM-12:OONoon Ballroom Poster Session SSSR- 34
The poster session allows for extended conversation with presenters in whose work you are specially interested.

1. "Fascism and Religious Legitimation"
Nancy Bancroft, Lincoln University
2. "The Puritan Ethic, The Spirit of Utilitarianism, and Therapeutic Life Styles: An Analytical Comparison of Three Moral Systems" Frederick Bird, Concordia University

3. "Modern Jewish Orthodoxy and the Quest for Religious Authority: A Case Study"
David Ell6nson, Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles

4. "American Conservatism Reaches the Colleges"
Marilyn Ferguson, Philosophy and Religion, State University College at Buffalo

5. "Faith Development of Adult Couples"
Margaret Gorman, Theology, Boston College

6. "Creating a 'New' Self in Religious Conversion Rituals"
Thomas Charles Hood, Sociology, University of Tennessee

7. "Voluntaryism: Schizophrenia in American Religion?"
Lenora Heilig Nast, Randallstown, Maryland

8. "A Global Perspective on Church-State Relations"
Roland Robertson, Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

9. "Sociology of Religion from a Liberation Theology Perspective"
Caleb Rosado, All Nations Seventh-Day Adventist Church

10. "Towards a Sociology of Morality: Religious Conversion as a Test Case"
Steve Tipton, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

11. "Peoples Temple: Creation of a New Reality"
Judith Weightman, Drew University

11: 00 AM- 12:50 PM Salon C Symposium: Antecedents of Religious Conversion: Varying Viewpoints SSSR-35
Chair: Lita L. Schwartz, Pennsylvania State University - Ogontz
"The Linneweil Affair: A Study in Adolescent Vulnerability"
Natalie Isser, History, Pennsylvania State University - Ogontz
"Psychological Antecedents of Conversion"
Lita L. Schwartz, Educational Psychology, Pennsylvania State University - Ogontz
"Psychological Implications of the Religious Attitude to Conversion"
Reuven Bulka, Center for Study of Psychology and Judaism, Ottawa

1 1: 00 AM- 12:50 PM Salon D Personality Studies of Women in the Bible SSSR-36
Chair: Lee J. Richmond, Counseling and Human Development, The Johns Hopkins University
"Eve: Archetypical Woman"
I Linda Gordon Kuzmack, George Washington University
"Personality Study of Deborah"
Carole A. Rayburn, Silver Spring, Maryland
"Personality Profile: Ruth, the Daughter-in-Law of Naomi"
Sharon Kanis, SSND, The Johns Hopkins University
"Personality Profile: Mary, the Mother of Jesus"
Lee J. Richmond, Counseling and Human Development, The Johns Hopkins University

1 1: 00 AM- 1 2:50 PM Salon E The Consequential Dimension SSSR-37
Chair and Discussion Leader: Stephen Hart, Sociology, Wesleyan University
"Religion as an Independent Variable: Review of Some Recent Research"
Donald R. Ploch and Marc L. Lester, Sociology, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
"National Longitudinal Religion Data: the Canadian Case"
Reginald W. Bibby, Sociology, The University of Lethbridge
"Religious Behavior Among Bereaved Elderly"
Emerson L. Lesher and James A. Peterson, Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California

1 1: 00 AM- 1 2:50 PM Salon B Symposium: Religion, Voluntaryism and Aging RRA-13
Chair: Barbara Payne, Georgia State University
"Protestant Denominations' Policy Response to Aging"
Earl D. C. Brewer, Emory University
"Jewish Policy and Practice"
(Rabbi) Sanford Seltzer, National Interfaith Coalition on Aging
"Roman Catholic Policy and Practice"
Charles Fahey, Fordham University
"Research Implications and Needs of Religious Organizations as Social Support Networks for the Elderly"
Staff Representative, National Institute on Aging
Barbara Payne, Georgia State University
Discussant: Joseph H. Fichter, S.J., Loyola University - New Orleans

1 1: 00 AM- 12:50 PM Salon E Panel Discussion: Paranormal Phenomena in Religion SSSR138
Chair: Mary Jo Meadows, Psychology, Mankato State University
Panelists:
Walter H. Clark, Andover Newton Theological Seminary
Mary Carman Rose, Philosophy, Goucher College
Felicitas D. Goodman, Cuyamungue Institute and Denison University
Elizabeth (Pat) Fenske, Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship
Melinda Bollar Wagner, Sociology and Anthropology, Radford University
Peter Phillips, Physics, Washington University-St. Louis
Audience participation is invited.

ll:OOAM-12:50PM Harbor/Chesapeake
Opportunity to meet others wanting to collaborate on programs for next year's meeting.

DIRECTORY OF EXHIBITORS
Abingdon Press Ablex Publishing Corporation Academic Press Alfred Publishing Co. *Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. *Harper & Row D. C. Heath & Co. Herald Press Johns Hopkins University Press Human Sciences Press The Natural Therapy Foundation Oxford University Press *Pilgrim Press The Rose of Sharon Press Rutgers University Press Stanford University Press Transaction *University Press of- America Wadsworth Publishing Co. *Westminster Press Zygon Member Authors - Displays Robert S. Ellwood, Jr. Felicitas D. Goodman James A. Hall James Richardson Anna-Maria Rizzuto Thomas Robbins Andrew Weigert

*Indicated a representative may be in attendance.

Book display is in Salon A. Hours 11:00 AM-5:30 PM on Friday; 9:00 AM-5:30 PM on Saturday. One-half price book sale begins at 3:30 PM Saturday extending until Sunday noon. Contact Harve Horowitz about future advertising and book displays.