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RRA: Denominational Cultures
Program Chair: Fred Kniss
Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel
Nashville, Tennessee
November 8-10, 1996
As in years past, the joint SSSR / RRA meeting will also include sessions organized by other
groups that have chosen to meet with us:
| student/emeriti | $12 | $15 | $17 |
| regular members | $34 | $30 | $40 |
| contributing | $45 | $30 | $40 |
| supporting | $60 | $30 | $40 |
| patron | $100 | $30 | $40 |
| non-members | - -- | $40 | $50 |
| students | $10 | $15 | $17 |
| sustaining | $24 | $30 | $40 |
| non-member | - -- | $40 | $50 |
BOOK EXHIBIT
Kirkland/Calhoun Room
Mezzanine Level
Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM,
Saturday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Allyn and Bacon
Carfax Publishing Company
Genesis Publishing Company, Inc.
Religious Education Press
Rutgers University Press
The Scholar's Choice
Southeast Asia Publications
Westminster-John Knox press
Executive Office (current):
Edward C. Lehman, Jr.
Department of Sociology
State University of New York
350 New Campus Drive
Brockport, NY 14420-2955
Executive Office (1997-2000):
Marie Cornwall
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
872 SWKT
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
Phone :801 -378-4882 E-mail: MARIE_CORNWALL@ BYU. EDU
Business Office:
Anna T. Davidson
SSSR Office
Department of Sociology
1365 Stone Hall
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907- 1365
Phone:317-494-6286 E-mail: SSSR@SRI.SOC.PURDUE.EDU
Executive Office:
William H. Swatos, Jr.
Religious Research Association
3520 Wiltshire Drive
Holiday, Florida 34691
E-mail: SWATOS@MICROD.COM
Business Office:
Lorraine D'Antonio
RRA Business Office
108 Marist Hall
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC 20064
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Friday, 8, 1996
A-1 RRA/ASSSJ 8:45-10:15 am Friday
Belmont
Jewish Denominations and Jewish Identity
Organizer
Jerome S. Legge, Jr. Dept. of Political Science University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602
Convener/Discussion Leader
Jerome S. Legge, Jr.
American Jewish Movements as Sacred
Actors: An Affirmation
Alan Davidson.
University of Connecticut
Stores, CT 06269
The Union for Traditional Judaism: Assessing the Potential for the Emergence of a New Denomination
Jerome S. Legge, Jr.
Denomination Does Matter: Traditionalists, Modernists, and American Jewish Continuity
Chaim Waxman. Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Jewish Choices: American Jewish Denominationalism
Arnold Dashefsky. University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269
Bernard Lazerwitz.
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan, Israel
J. Alan Winter.
Connecticut College
New London, CT 06320
Ephraim Tabory.
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Can, Israel
A-2 SSSR 8:45-10:15 am Friday
Gold
Mediated Religiosity: Religion News and the Image of a Christian America
Organizer
Judith M. Buddenbaum.
Convener/Discussant
Daniel A. Stout.
Department of Communication
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 04602
From Religious News to Religion News: The Legacy of James Gordon Bennett
Judith M. Buddenbaum. Journalism and Technical Communication Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523
Whose Religion Matters? Trends in Religion News Coverage Since World War II
Debra Mason. Department of English Otterbein College Westerville, OH 43081
Religion, the News Media and the Secularization Hypothesis
Mark Silk. Atlanta Journal-Constitution Atlanta, GA 30302
A-3 SSSR 8:45-10:15 am Friday
Carmichael
Studying Religion and "Generation X":
Challenges and Opportunities
Organizer/Convener
J. Shawn Landres.
The Media Studies Approach
Lynn Schofield Clark.
School of Journalism and Mass
Communication
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO
The Ethnographic Approach
J. Shawn Landres.
Department of Religious Studies
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
The Social Survey Approach
Andrea Williams.
Department of Sociology
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Religion and Social Attitudes of
Generation X: The General Social
Survey Data
David W. Machacek.
Department of Religious Studies
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
A-4 RRA 8:45-10:15 am Friday
Neely
Divorce in Interdenominational
Perspective
Organizer<BR>
Pierre Hegy.
Dept. of Sociology
Adelphi University
Garden City, NY 11530
Convener/Discussion Leader
William H. Swatos, Jr. Exec. Dir., RRA and ASR 3520 Wiltshire Dr. Holiday, FL 34691
Not Made in Heaven: Divorce in the English Reformation
William H. Swatos, Jr.
Divorce in Eastern Orthodoxy: Norms and Practices
Patrick Viscuso. Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America
Contemporary Clergy Divorce: Social Causes and Consequences for Religious Institutions
Adair Lummis. Hartford Seminary 77 Sherman St. Hartford, CT 06105
A-5 NAASR/SSSR 8:45-10:15 am Friday
McTyeire
Cognitive Approaches to Religion: I
Organizer
Gustavo Benavides. Department of Theology and Religious Studies Villanova University
Convener/Discussion Leader
Thomas Lawson. Department of Comparative Religion Western Michigan University
Religious Ritual and Memory Dynamics
Robert N. McCauley. Department of Philosophy Emory University
Sacred texts: A cognitive approach
Brian Malley. University of Michigan
A-6 SSSR 8:45-10:15 am Friday
Rand
Religion in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Ukraine
Convener/Discussion Leader
James Richardson.
Department of Sociology
University of Nevada
Reno, NV 89557
The Religion in the Context of the Contemporary Cultural and Spiritual Renaissance of Ukraine
Lyudmila Filipovitch. Philosophy Institute of UNAS Kyiv, Ukraine
The Orthodox Church and New Religions in Russia
Marat Shterin. 21 Harley St. London, UK
The Sacred, Time and Everyday Consciousness in Eastern Europe
Nonka Bogomilova Todorova. Department of Anthropology Institute of Philosophical Sciences Sofia, Bulgaria
A-7 RRA 8:45-10:15 am Friday
Platinum
Denominational Cultures and Ecumenism
Convener/Discussion Leader
Peggy Shriver.
National Council of Churches
475 Riverside Dr., Room 861
New York, NY 10115
Profile of a Powerful Council of Churches: How Does a Thriving Dinosaur Predict the Future?
Carl S. Dudley. Center for Social & Religious Research Hartford Seminary 77 Sherman St. Hartford. CT 06105
The Defeat of Denominational Culture in the Argentine Evangelical Movement
Matt Marostica. Dept. of Political Science Univ of California at Berkeley 210 Barrows Hall Berkeley, CA 94720
Denominational Cultures and Ecumenical Process: A Cross Cultural Comparison of Protestant Ecumenism in Canada and the Netherlands
Peter Staples.
Faculty of Theology
University of Utrecht
Heidelberglaan 2,
Post Box 80.105
3508 TC Utrecht
The Netherlands
A-8 SSSR 8:45-10:15 am Friday
Sarratt
Catholic Women and the Transformation of the Sacred
Convener/Discussion Leader
Mary Johnson.
Emmanuel College
400 the Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
Transforming the sacred with rational critical discourse: How Catholics argue for women's ordination
Michele Dillon. Department of Sociology Yale University New Haven, CT 06520
Consciousness and spirituality Groups: The Micro-mobilization of Catholic Feminists
Tracy Memoree Thibodeau. Department of Sociology Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901
"Sisters doing it for themselves": The importance of community in Catholic religious life
Marybeth C. Stalp. Department of Sociology University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602
A-9 RRA/SSSR 8:45-10:15am Friday
Snaffles
Race, Class and Gender in Denominational Life
Convener/Discussion Leader
Scott Cormode. School of Theology at Claremont 1325 N. College Ave. Claremont, CA 91711
Los Angeles Pentecostal Women and Men in the 1920's and 1930's: Leadership Opportunities and Activities in the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel and the Church of God in Christ
Kira M. Hilden-Minton. Dept. of History UCLA 2748 Campus Walk, Apt. 21d Durham, NC 27705
Gender and Religious Identity in the Adventist Review, 1850- 1993
Laura L. Vance. Dept. of Psychology and Sociology Georgia Southwestern State University 800 Wheatley St. Americus, GA 31709
Development and Change: A Cultural History Approach to Understanding Innovation and the Work of Racial Reconciliation in the St. Louis Presbytery (PCUSA)
Brian Howell. Dept. of Anthropology Washington University One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130
Mormon Cultural Contradictions: An Example of Marriage and Race
Daryl White. Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology Box 247 Spelman College Atlanta, GA 30314
O. Kendall White, Jr.
Dept. of Sociology and
Anthropology
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
A-10 SSSR 8:45-10:15 am Friday
Branscomb
The Dynamics of Faith Transformation: Micro and Macro Perspectives
Convener/Discussion Leader
Joseph T. Reiff. Department of Religion Emory & Henry College PO. Box 947 Emory, VA 24327-0947
Transmitting Faith to the Next Generation
Carol E. Lytch. Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary 1044 Alta Vista Rd. Louisville, KY 40205- 1798
Children's conceptions of the Bible: Some psychological and cultural conditions
Przemyslaw Jablonski. Dept. of Cultural Psychology and Psychology of Religion Catholic University of Nijmegen Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Children's understanding of agency: God's and humans'
Justin L. Barrett. Department of Psychology Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853
A-11 SSSR 8:45-10:15 am Friday
Kissam
Religion and Secular Society
Convener/Discussion Leader
David Yamane.
Department of Sociology
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Psychotherapy as a Cultural Shaper of Religion
Lawrence Lilliston. Department of Psychology Oakland University Rochester, MI 48309
From Faith to Fun: The Role of Humor in a Secular World
Russell Heddendorf. Covenant College Lookout Mountain, GA 30750
The public image of religion among its cultured despisers: MacArthur 'Geniuses' and Nobel Peace Prize recipients
William Silverman. PO Box 584 Hicksville, NY 11802
The Role of the Internet and Electronic Community
David Suiter. School of Theology Boston University Boston, MA 02215
B-1 SSSR 10:30-12:00 pm Friday
Belmont
The Law and Remaking the Sacred
Organizers
Phillip E. Hammond and
Eric Michael Mazur
Convener
Phillip E. Hammond
The Impact of Law on Minority Religions: Illustrations from the World of Smaller Faiths
James T. Richardson. Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies University of Nevada Reno, NV 89557
Religion, Psychology, Communicative Behavior and the Reconstruction of Moral Boundaries
Thomas Robbins. 427 4th St. SW, Apt 8-A Rochester, MN 55902
Dick Anthony
Producing and Maintaining the Sacred at the Heart of the Constitutional Order
Eric Michael Mazur. Department of Religious Studies University California Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Smith and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: The Emerging NonDiscrimination Principle in Religious Free Exercise
Philip A. Brown. Department of Political Sciences University California Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Remaking of Sacred Through the First Amendment
Phillip E. Hammond. Department of Religious Studies University California Santa Barbara, CA 93106
B-2 SSSR 10:30-12:00 pm Friday
Snaffles
Making the Sacred in Everyday Life
Organizer/Convener
Courtney Bender
Religious Practice in the Everyday Life of Modern Homesteaders: Case Studies and Theoretical Reflections on the Production of Religious Cultures
Rebecca K. Gould.
Program in Religious Studies
Harvard University
Contamination and Contagion: Practical and Methodological Hazards of Defining Cooking for People with AIDS 'Religious Practice'
Courtney Bender. Department of Sociology Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544
Rituals of Homebirth: Domestic, But Not Everyday
Pamela E. Klassen. Religion and Society The Graduate School Drew University
Discussant
Lynn Davidman.
Department of Sociology
Brown University
Providence, RI 02904
B-3 RRA/PARAL 10:30-12:00 pm Friday
Gold
Dreaming in Latino: Religion and Denominational Cultures in Conflict
Organizer/Convener
Ana Maria Diaz-Stevens.
Union Theological Seminary
Broadway at Reinhold Niebuhr
Place
New York, NY 10027
Discussant
Jose Casanova.
Dept. of Sociology
New School for Social Research
65 Fifth Ave., Room 330
New York, NY 10027
Transforming Tradition: Hypotheses for the Analysis of Hispanic Religious Agency
Otto Maduro. Religion & Society Dept. Graduate & Theological Schools Drew University Madison, NJ 07940
Multiculturalism: Breaking with
Eurocentric-Religious Conformity
- The Impact of the Afrocentric
Paradigm on Afro-Latin Religions
Andres I. Perez y Mena.
Graduate School of Education
Long Island University
University Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Latino Syncretism and American
Religious Hegemony
Gustavo Benavides.
Dept. of Theology and
Religious Studies
Villanova University
800 Lancaster Ave.
Villanova, PA 19085
B-4 RRA 10:30-12:00 pm Friday
Platinum
Feminist Approaches in
Congregational Studies
Organizer
Nancy L. Eiesland.
Candler School of Theology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
Convener/Discussion Leader
Nancy L. Eiesland
Panelists:
B-5 NAASR/SSSR 10:30-12:00pm Friday
McTyeire
Cognitive Approaches to Religion: II
Organizer
Gustavo Benavides.
Department of Theology and
Religious Studies
Villanova University
Convener/
Discussion Leader
Thomas Lawson.
Department of Comparative
Religion
Western Michigan University
A cognitive approach to syncretism
Timothy Light.
Western Michigan University
Cognitive Constraints on Cultural
Transmission: Psychological Evidence
Justin L. Barrett.
Cornell University
B-6 SSSR 10:30-12:00pm Friday
Sarratt
Mediated Religion as Public and
Private Practice
Organizer/Convener
Stewart M. Hoover
The Right to Religious Speech: A
Free Marketplace?
Claire Badaracco.
Marquette University
Media, Meaning and the Lifecourse:
Assessing the Household Level
Stewart M. Hoover.
Center for Mass Media Research
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Media, Meaning and Identity
Construction in a Postmodern
Context: The Case of 'Generation X'
Lynn Schofield Clark.
School of Journalism and Mass
Communication
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Discussant
Judy Weidman. General Secretary United Methodist Communications PO. Box 320 Nashville, TN 37202
B-7 RRA 10:30-12:00pm Friday
Carmichael
Developing Archives for the Study of Religion
Organizer
Roger Finke. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology Purdue University 1365 Stone Hall West Lafayette, IN 47907
Convener/Discussion Leader
Carl Dudley. Center for Social and Religious Research Hartford Seminary Hartford, CT 06105
Empirical Data Bases and Theological Education
Daniel Aleshire. Assoc. Dir., Association of Theological Schools 10 Summit Park Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15275
Developing an Archive for the Study of American Religion
Roger Finke
Toward an International Directory of the World's Religions
J. Gordon Melton. Dir., Institute for the Study of American Religion University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106
B-8 SSSR 10:30-12:00 pm Friday
Rand
Public Religion in Contemporary Life
Organizer/Convener
Margaret Seyford Hrezo
Reconciling the Order of God and the Order of Man in Old Testament Israel and Postmodern America
Nicholas John Pappas, (and students). Department of Political Science Box 6945 Radford University Radford, VA 24142
The Production of Public Religion in Community Newspapers
Melinda Bollar Wagner, Julia Everett, Jerusha K. Brooks. Department of Sociology and Anthropology Box 6948 Radford University Radford, VA 24142
John Dewey, William Bennett, and the Use and Abuse of Public Religion
Margaret Seyford Hrezo. Department of Political Science Box 6945 Radford University Radford, VA 24142
B-9 SSSR 10:30-12:00pm Friday
Neely
The Power of Gender in Religion
Organizer/Convener
Georgie Ann Weatherby.
Department of Sociology and
Criminal Justice
Gonzaga University
Spokane, WA 99258
Gendering Salvation: Keeping (or Attempting to Keep) 'Narrow the Path'
Teresa Donati. Department of Sociology Fairleigh Dickinson University 1000 River Rd. Teaneck, NJ 07666
Crisis in women's ordination: Has the question been infallibly silenced and can the Women's Ordination Conference survive its internal conflicts?
Susan Farrell. Department of Behavioral Sciences 2001 Oriental Blvd. Kingsborough Community College Brooklyn, NY 11235
Feminist values, cooperation and competition among clergywomen
Adair Lummis. 77 Sherman St. Hartford Seminary Hartford, CT 06105-2260
An organizational analysis of the survival and transformation of an Episcopal Campus Chapel
Catherine Fobes. Department of Sociology Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306
B-10 SSSR 10:30-12:00pm Friday
Kissam
Constructing and Reconstructing a Jewish Identity
Convener/Discussant
Shoshanah Feher. Department of Family Medicine UCLA
The Return to the Sacred: Ritual Purification Among Crypto-Jews in the Diaspora
Janet L. Jacobs. Department of Women Studies University of Colorado
Reconstructing Religion: Strategies of Identity and Memory in the Jewish Community of Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
J. Shawn Landers. Center for the Study of Religion Department of Religious Studies University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106
The Holocaust and the Construction of the Sacred: The Emerging Mythos of the 'Crucified Clan'
Gary L. Brock. Department of Sociology Southwest Missouri State University Springfield, MO 65804
Equality Versus Tradition: Gender Issues as a Source of Religious Schism
Phil Zuckerman. Department of Sociology University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403
B-ll SSSR 10:30-12:00 pm Friday
Branscomb
Religious Diversification in Latin America
Organizer/Convener
Christian Smith. Department of Sociology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Religious Competition and Catholic Pastoral Innovation in Nicaragua: An Empirical Analysis of Parish Activities
Andrew James Stein. Dept. of Political Science Tennessee Technological University Cookeville, TN 38505
The Formation of a "New" Tradition: Maya Religion in a Highland Guatemalan Town
Christopher Chiappari. Department of Anthropology University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455
"Esoteric" Circles of Production and
Dialogical Frontiers in the Brazilian
Religious Marketplace
Robert Carpenter.
Department of Religious Studies
University of California
Santa Barbara. CA 93106
Charismatic Leaders and Charismatic
Practices in the Argentine Evangelical
Movement
Matthew Marostica.
Department of Political Science
University of California
Berkeley, CA
B-12 RRX 11:30-12:30 pm Friday
Grille Room
Luncheon Meeting
C SSSR 12:30-1:30 pm Friday
Belmont
SSSR Business Meeting
C-1 SSSR 12:30-1:30 pm Friday
Neely
The Job Search Process
Organizer/Convener
Julie Ingersoll.
Department of Religious Studies
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Panelists
C-2 SSSR 12:30-3:00 pm Friday
Mezzanine
Poster Session
Consequences of Religious Identity
Joshua Searle-White and
Elizabeth Weiss Ozorak.
Dept of Psychology
Allegheny College
Meadville, PA 16335
Representative Sampling in
Psychology and Religion
Katherine Alton and
Dierdre Kramer.
Psychology Dept.
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Faces in the Clouds
Stewart Guthrie.
Dept of Sociology and
Anthropology
Fordham University
College at Lincoln Center
New York, NY 10023
D-lSSSR 1:30-3:00 pm Friday
Belmont
Religion in the 1996 Election
Organizer/Convener
Lyman A. Kellstedt.
Political Science
Wheaton College
The Role of the Christian Right in
Elections: Does it Make a Difference?
John Green.
Political Science
University of Akron
James Guth.
Political Science
Furman University
Lyman Kellstedt.
Political Science
Wheaton College
Corwin Smidt.
Political Science
Calvin College
Religion and the 1996 Election: The Historical Context
David Leege. Political Science University of Notre Dame
Ken Wald.
Political Science
University of Florida
Discussants
Dan Balz.
Washington Post
Gustav Neibuhr.
New York Times
D-2 SSSR 1:30-3:00 pm Friday
McTyeire
Religious Liberties and First Amendment Issues
Organizer/Convener
Claire Badaracco.
College of Communication
Marquette University
Panelists
D 3 RRA 1:30-3:00 pm Friday
Platinum
Availability and Applications of Church Membership Data
Organizer
Kenneth E. Bedell. Editor, Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 4341 Reeves Court Dayton, OH 45415
Convener/Discussion Leader
Kenneth E. Bedell
Planning for the Churches and Church Membership Study in 2000
Dale Jones. Churches and Church
Membership Planning Committee
Church of the Nazarene.
6401 The Passeo
Kansas City MO 64131
Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches Meets the Electronic Age
Kenneth E. Bedell
Making Sense of Roman Catholic Data
Mary Beth Celio. Director of Research, Archdiocese of Seattle Seattle, Washington
Using Church Data for Stewardship Analysis
John Ronsvalle, Sylvia Ronsvalle Empty Tomb, Inc. Champaign, IL 61825
D-4 RRA 1:30-3:00 pm Friday
Gold
Walking the Path in Exile
Organizer/Presider
H. B. Cavalcanti. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology University of Richmond Richmond, VA 23173
Panelists
D-5 SSSR 1:30-3:00 pm Friday
Neely
Religion, Technology, and the Visual: Religious Practice in the Media Age
Organizer/Convener
Stewart M. Hoover. Center for Mass Media Research University of Colorado
From Culture Producer to Culture Critic: The Early Years of the Broadcast and Film Commission of the National Council of Churches.
Michele Rosenthal. University of Chicago
Visual Piety and the Sociology of Religious Images
David Morgan. Art History Department Valparaiso University Valparaiso, IN 46383
Legends, Quests, and Bible Stories: The Status of 'The Religious' Visual in CD-ROMs
Lynn Schofield. Clark School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309
Toward Visual Literacies of 'The Religious' in Contemporary Experience
Stewart M. Hoover. Center for Mass Media Research University of Colorado
D-6 SSSR 1:30-3:00 pm Friday
Sarratt
Globalization and the Remaking of the Sacred
Organizer
William R. Garrett.
St. Michael's College
Convener
Eileen Barker.
London School of Economics
Panelists
D-7 RRA 1:30-3:00 pm Friday
Carmichael
Denominational Cultures and Congregational Life
Convener/Discussion Leader
Joseph T. Reiff.
Dept. of Religion
Emory and Henry College
PO. Box 947
Emory, VA 24327
The Value of Volunteers as Resources for Congregations
Dean R. Hoge.
Life Cycle Institute
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC 20064
Charles Zech.
Dept. of Economics
Villanova University
Villanova. PA 19085
Patrick McNamara.
Dept. of Sociology
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Michael J. Donahue.
3619 12th Ave. S., #2
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Managing Congregational Life in the Pentecostal Tradition: Creative Resources in Pentecostal Ritual and Practice
Stephen Parker. Dept. of Counseling and Human Services Regent University Virginia Beach, VA 23464
A Case Study of New Age Plausibility Maintenance: A Skeptic's Excommunication from a Celestine Prophecy Workshop
Susan Kwilecki. Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies Radford University Radford, VA 24142
Worship. Music and Religious Identity
Linda Clark. Boston University School of Theology 745 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215
Joanne Swenson.
30 Richborough St.
Madison, CT 06443
Mark Stamm.
430 E. Main St.
Roaring Spring, PA 16673
D-8 SSSR 1:30-3:00 pm Friday
Rand
Theoretical Issues in the Social Scientific Study of Religion
Convener/Discussion Leader
Larry Ingram. Dept of Sociology University of Tennessee Martin, TN 38238
Rethinking Religious Social Action: What is 'Rational' about Rational Choice Theory?
James Spickard. Department of Sociology University of Redlands
Redlands, CA 92373
Unbelief as a Problem for the Sociology of Religion
Frank J. Lechner and Paul Jean. Department of Sociology Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322
Comparing Pictures: Images of Conflict in Sociology and the Sociology of Religion
James D. Davidson. Department of Sociology and Anthropology Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907
Ralph E. Pyle.
Department of Sociology
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV 89154
The Blacklisting of a Concept: The Strange History of the Brainwashing Conjecture in the Sociology of Religion
Benjamin Zablocki. Department of Sociology Rutgers University Livingston Campus New Brunswick, NJ 08903
D-9 SSSR 1:30-3:00 pm Friday
Snaffles
Analyzing Denominational and Sectarian Cultures
Convener/Discussion Leader
Jackson W. Carroll.
Divinity School
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
The Structure and Process of Educational Cultures: Two Papers Presenting Findings from a Multi-year Study of Two Protestant Theological Seminaries
Jackson W. Carroll. Duke University
Daniel Aleshire.
Association of Theological
Schools
The dynamics of decentralization among the Two By Twos
Caroline Hartse. Anthropology / Social Sciences Olympic College 1600 Chester Ave. Bremerton, WA 98312
Religion and the Sociology of Culture: Exploring the Organizational Cultures of two Midwestern Roman Catholic Dioceses
Charles L. Harper. Department of Sociology and Anthropology Creighton University
Rebecca Schulte.
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Creighton University
D-10 SSSR 1:30-3:00 pm Friday
Kissam
Religion and Social Movement Activism
Organizer/Convener
Christian Smith. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599
The Role of Religious Infrastructures in People of Color Environmental Organizations
Bob Edwards. Department of Sociology East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27834
Sexual Politics and the Religious
Right: A Case Study of a Community
Conflict over AIDS Education
Lyn Gesch.
Department of Sociology
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Participatory Construction of a
Sacred Cause: From Individual
Affiliation to Collective Action in a
Baha'i Community
Annette Prosterman.
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Loyola University Chicago
6525 N. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60626
Secularization and Social Movements:
Reframing the Disability Rights
Movement
Nancy L. Eiesland.
Candler School of Theology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
D-11 SSSR 1:30-3:00 pm Friday
Branscomb
The Earth is Sacred: Goddess
Worship in Present Day America
Organizer
Helen A. Berger
Convener
Madeleine Cousineau
Perfect Love-Perfect Trust: The
Wiccan Coven
Helen A. Berger.
Department of Sociology
West Chester University
West Newton, MA 02165
Divine Divorce: Healing Wounded
Relationships through Goddess Ritual
Tanice G. Foltz.
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Indiana University Northwest
3400 Broadway
Gary, IN 46408
Heratics: Priestesses-in-Training
Wendy Griffin. Women's Studies Program California State University Long Beach, CA 90840
Postmodern Myth Making: Feminists Encounter the Goddess and the Dying God
Mary-Jo Neitz. Department of Sociology University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211
Discussant
Janet Jacobs.
Women's Studies Program
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO
E RRA 3:15-4:15 pm Friday
Belmont
Plenary Session I
The Future of Denominations: The View from Nashville
Organizer/Presider:
Benton Johnson.
Dept. of Sociology
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97401
Panelists:
F RRA 4:30-5:30 pm Friday
Belmont
Plenary Session II
RRA Presidential Address
Theology and the Position of Pastors on Social Issues: Continuity and Change over Thirty Years
Benton Johnson. Dept. of Sociology University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97401
Friday 5:30-6:30 pm
Belle Meade
RRA Presidential Reception
Friday 8:00-10:00 pm
McTyeire
Documentary Film on the Christian Karen of Northern Thailand
Producer
Michael Leming.
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
St. Olaf College
Saturday, November 9, 1996
BRK 7:00-8:00 am Saturday
Cheekwood
Women's Caucus Breakfast
G- 1 SSSR 8:00-9:30 am Saturday
McTyeire
Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements: I
Organizer/Convener
Thomas Robbins. 427 4th St. SW, Apt. A-8 Rochester, MN 55902
Millennialism With and Without the Mayhem: Catastrophic and Progressive Expectations
Catherine Wessinger. Department of Religious Studies Loyola University New Orleans, LA 70113
When Popes Go Bad: Mount St. Michael's and American Catholic Sedevacantism
Michael W. Cuneo. Department of Sociology and Anthropology Fordham University
Woman as World Savior: The Feminization of the Millennium in New Religious Movements
Susan Palmer. Department of Religion Dawson College 3040 Sherbrooke St. W. Westmount, Quebec Canada H3Z IA4
Cosmotheism and the Turner Diaries: William Pierce's Theology of Revolution
Brad Whitsel. 100 Eggers Hall Syacuse University Syacuse, NY 13244-1090
G-2 RRA 8:00-9:30 am Saturday
Belmont
Fuzzy Denominationalism I: Views from the Academy
Organizer/Presider:
Douglas Jacobsen. Re-Forming the Center Project Messiah College Grantham, PA 17027
Panelists
G-3 SSSR-PARAL 8:00-9:30 am Saturday
Gold
Latino Rumpelstiltskin: Spinning Gold from Flax By Innovations in Research Methods
Organizer:
Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo. PARAL -Rm 402B University Center and Graduate School CUNY 33 West 42nd St. New York, NY 10036
Convener/Discussion Leader:
Otto Maduro. Drew University
Moving from the Cathedral to Store Front Churches: Exploring the causes and impact of religious switching among Latinos in the United States
Edwin I. Hernandez. Department of Sociology Andrews University
Sociology and the Clergy: Progress Report on an Experiment in Collaborative Research
Milagros Pena. Department of Sociology New Mexico State University
Religious Switching and Conversion
Among Latinos
Segundo Pantoja.
Sociology
CUNY-Graduate School
Religion and Culture: Socioreligious
Research in Cuba
Jorge Ramirez Calzadilla.
Departamento de Estudios
Socioreligiosos
CIPS
Cuba
G-4 RRA/SSSR 8:00-9:30 am Saturday
Sarrat
Religious Culture and Social Action
Convener/Discussion Leader
Annette Prosterman.
Dept. of Sociology and
Anthropology
Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL 60626
Denominational Cultures and Clergy Responses to AIDS
Robert Beckley. Dept. of Behavioral Sciences West Texas A & M University Canyon, TX 79016
Religion as Language for Social Action: The Role of Religion in a Volunteer Community
David Todd Campbell. Dept. of Sociology Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL 60626
Spiritual Warfare: A Chicago Church Combats Neighborhood Drugs and Violence
James Cavendish. Dept. of Sociology University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556
Urbanism and the Politics of Identity: The Dynamics of Religious-Based Organizing in Metropolitan Nashville
Michael Byrd. Vanderbilt University 1410 25th Ave. S. #705 Nashville, TN 37212
G-5 NAASR/SSSR 8:00-9:30 am Saturday
Neely
Late Capitalism Arrives on Campus: Making and Remaking the Study of Religion
Organizer/Convener:
Russell T. McCutcheon.
Dept of Religious Studies
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Panelists
G-6 SSSR 8:00-9:30 am Saturday
Kissam
Religious Pluralism, Commitment and Regulation
Organizer/Convener
Daniel VA. Olson
Denominational Pluralism and Church Attendance in Sweden: 1970- 1990
Eva M. Hamberg. Department of Theology and Religious Studies Lund University Allhelgona Kyrkogata 8S-223 62 Lund Sweden
Thorleif Pettersson. Department of Social Sciences of Religion Faculty of Theology University of Uppsala PO Box 1604S-751 46 Uppsala Sweden
Revivalism from Within: Religious Orders as Sectarian Movements
Roger Finke. Department of Sociology and Anthropology Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907
Patricia Wittberg.
Department of Sociology
Indiana University/Purdue
University at Indianapolis
425 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Religious Subcultures and Religious Markets: Effects on Religious Commitment
Daniel VA. Olson. Department of Sociology Indiana University South Bend 1700 Mishawaka Ave. South Bend, IN 46634
Court Regulation of Religion in the U.S.: A Rational Choice Approach to Understanding Our Religious Economy
John Wybraniec. Department of Sociology and Anthropolgy Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907
G-7 RRA 8:00-9:30 am Saturday
Snaffles
Episcopal Culture and Race in the
Founding Era and the Civil Rights Era
Organizer
Joanna B. Gillespie.
Women's Studies Dept.
University of Arizona
Rt. 1, Box 48
Rochester, VT 05767
Convener
Wade Clark Roof.
Dept. of Religious Studies
U.C. Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Discussion Leader
Rima Lunin Schultz.
Seabury Western Theological
Seminary
320 N. Ridgeland Ave.
Oak Park, IL 60302
Rebuff or Rebellion: Anglican
Historiography on the Black Episcopal
Church
Sandra H. Boyd.
Iliff Theological Seminary
Denver University
8521 E. Phillips Place
Englewood, CO 80112
The 1964 Mississippi Freedom
Summer Project and ESCRU: Rhode
Island and Massachusetts Connections
Donald Cunnigen.
Dept. of Sociology
University of Rhode Island
Providence, RI 02906
The Cultural Offense of Sarah Patton
Boyle's Desegregated Heart (1962)
Joanna B. Gillespie.
G-8 SSSR 8:00-9:30 am Saturday
Platinum
Religion and the Media
Convener/Discussion Leader
James Mathisen.
Department of Sociology
Wheaton College
Wheaton, IL 60187
They passed out guns in the chapel: The social construction of religious groups in the national print media
Jennifer McKinney. Department of Sociology and Anthropology Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907
Religious Leaders' Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Broadcast News Coverage of Religion: A Qualitative Study
Eric Kevin Gormly. Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287
Religion, Morality, and Television Commercials
Brendan Maguire. Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Western Illinois University Macomb, IL 61455
The Media, Folkloric Motifs, and Marginalized Religious Movements: A Case Study of the Branch Davidians
Sean McCloud. Department of Religious Studies University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599
G-9 SSSR 8:00-9:30 am Saturday
Carmichael
Feminist Spirituality and the Transformation of the Sacred
Convener/Discussion Leader
Mary Jo Neitz. Department of Sociology University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211
Empowerment in Feminist Spirituality: Is the Personal Political?
Rebecca S. Krantz. Department of Sociology University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706
The Self, the Sacred, and Social Transformation: Narratives of Female Activists
Catherine A. Faver. College of Social Work University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996
Expanding Our Notions of Sacred: The Emergence of Lesbigay Ecotheology
Beth Blissman. University of Denver Iliff School of Theology 1340 Oneida St. Denver, CO 80220
Invented Culture / Invented Religion: The Fictional Origins of Contemporary Paganism
Michael York. Study of Religions BCHE - Newton Park Bath BA2 9BN, U.K.
G-10 RRA 8:00-9:30 am Saturday
Rand
Denominational Cultures and Cross-cultural Contact
Convener/Discussion Leader
K. Peter Takayama.
Dept. of Sociology and
Social Work
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152
Traditional Religions in Multicultural and Multiconfessional Russia and Tatarstan
Ravil G. Baltanov.
Kazan Medical University
Kazan, Chehova
Russia
Goulnara Baltanova.
Kazan Technological University
Kazan, Chehova
Russia
New Immigrant Congregations and"Sectarian Drift": A Case Study of Latino Adventism
Ken R. Crane. Dept. of Behavioral Science Andrews University Berrien Springs, MI 49104
New Religious Cultures Affecting
Religious Communities in Nigeria
Sister Mary Paul Hsoegwu.
140 North Ave.
Highwood, IL 60040
Cultural Hybridity and Religious Practice: The Case of the Church Army in the Canadian North, 1893-1960
Myra Rutherdale. Dept. of History York University Burlington, Ontario Canada L7L 2L3
G-11 SSSR 8:00-9:30 am Saturday
Branscomb
Eastern Orthodox Christianity in North America Today
Organizer/Convener
Frances Kostarelos
Narratives of the Weeping Icon in an
Arab Orthodox Church
Nina Schmit.
Divinity School
University of Chicago
1025 E. 58th St.
Chicago. IL 60637
Conversions to Orthodox Christianity in Contemporary America: Why the Attraction?
Father Theodore Niklasson. The Brotherhood of St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Christian Monastery Platina, CA
St. John Maximovitch: A Holy Man Facing Modernity
Sister Catherine McCaffery. Christ the Saviour Brotherhood 1539 Rose Ave. Santa Rosa, CA 95407
Ethnicity and Religious Identity: Narratives from the Saint Basil Congregation
Frances Kostarelos. College of Arts and Sciences Governors State University University Park, IL 60466
Discussant
Frederick Denny. Department of Religious Studies
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
H-1 RRA 9:40-11:10 am Saturday
Belmont
Fuzzy Denominationalism II: Views from the Churches
Organizer/Presider
Douglas Jacobsen.
Re-Forming the Center Project
Messiah College
Grantham, PA 17027
Panelists
H-2 SSSR 9:40-ll:l0 am Saturday
McTyeire
Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements: II
Organizer
Thomas Robbins
Convener/Discussion Leader
Phillip Lucas. Department of Religious Studies Stetson University DeLand, FL 32724
Phallic Millenialism and Radical Environmentalism: The Apocalyptic Vision of Earth First!
Lois Ann Lorentzen. Department of Religious Studies University of San Francisco 2130 Fulton St. San Francisco, CA 94117
The Fragmenting of Apocalypticism within a Denominationalizing Sect: The Case of Seventh-day Adventism
Ronald Lawson. Department of Urban Studies Queens College CUNY
The Transformation of Apocalyptic Prophecy to Secular Scientific Radicalism: Toward a Theory of Revolutionary Millenarianism
James F. Rinehart. International Relations Program Troy State University Ft. Bragg, NC 28307
H-3 SSSR-PARAL 9:40-ll:l0 am Saturday
Gold
The Dialectic of Religious Music: Culture and Worship in Counterpoint
Organizer/Convener
Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo.
PARAL -Rm 402B
University Center and
Graduate School
CUNY
33 West 42nd St.
New York, NY 10036
The Healing Power of Music and Dance: The Case of Latino Charismatics in the Bronx
Edgardo Diaz-Diaz. CUNY
Litergical Folk Music as Collective Memory
Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo. PARAL
Measuring the Effects of Theological Education: The Musical Dimension
Pablo Jimenez. AETH Decatur, GA
Flor y Conto Apostolico: Inquiries into Latino Pentecostal Hymnody
Daniel Ramirez. Stanford University
H-4 RRA 9:40-ll:l0 am Saturday
Carmichael
Methodism and American Culture
Organizer
Jackson W. Carroll.
Divinity School
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
Convener/Discussion Leader
Russell Richey.
Divinity School
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
Identity and Ethos of United Methodist Congregations: A Comparative Analysis of Churches in North Carolina and California
Jackson W. Carroll,
Wade Clark Roof.
Dept. of Religious Studies
U.C. Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Determinants of the Mission Funding Crisis: An Evaluation of Three Hypotheses
Charles E. Zech. Dept. of Economics Villanova University Villanova, PA 19085
Defining Local Culture: Contradictory Mission Imperatives in UMC Congregations
Penny Edgell Becker. Dept. of Sociology Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853
H-5 SSSR 9:40-ll:l0 am Saturday
Platinum
Affect: The Neglected Dimension in the Study of Religion
Organizer/Convener
Ralph W. Hood, Jr.
Language and Affect in Christian Fundamentalism
Ron Hopson. University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN
Serpents and the Elicitation of Affect in Holiness Sects
Ralph W. Hood, Jr. Department of Psychology University of Tennessee Chattanooga, TN 37403
The Phenomenology of Affect in Holiness Sects
Paul Williamson. University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN
The Role of Affect in the Toronto Blessing
Margaret Paloma. University of Akron
Lynette F Hoelter.
Penn State University
Discussant
Peter C. Hill.
Grove City College
Grove City PA
H-6 SSSR 9:40-11:l0 am Saturday
Neely
Teaching the Social Science of Religion
Organizer/Convener/DiscussionLeader:
Meredith McGuire. Department of Sociology and Anthropology Trinity University San Antonio, TX 78212
Panelists
H-7 RRA 9:40-ll:l0 am Saturday
Kissam
Denominational Trends and Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region
Organizer
Mark R. Mullins. Meiji Gakuin University Tokyo, Japan
Convener/Discussion Leader
Thomas Hastings. Tokyo Union Theological Seminary
Madness in Their Methodism: Denominational Delegitimation in Fiji, 1987-1996
Robert Wolfgramm. Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology Monash University Melbourne, Australia
Denominational and Ethnic Cultures: Muslims, Buddhists and the Dutch in Australia
Gary D. Bouma. Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology Monash University Melbourne, Australia
Denominational Subcultures in Japanese Christianity
Mark R. Mullins
H-8 SSSR 9:40-ll:l0 am Saturday
Sarratt
Measurement Issues in the Social
Scientific Study of Religion
Convener/Discussion Leader
Donald Ploch.
Dept of Sociology
University of Tennessee at
Knoxville
Will They Know We Are Christians By
Our Love?: Resurrecting the
Consequential Dimension of Religious
Commitment
Robin D. Perrin.
Pepperdine University
Malibu, CA 902263
The Factorial Stability of the Religious Status Inventory: Empirical and Ideological Implications
H. Newton Malony. Graduate School of
Psychology
Fuller Theological Seminary
180 North Oakland
Pasadena, CA 91101
Michele Drewlow.
Graduate School of
Psychology
Fuller Theological Seminary
180 North Oakland
Pasadena, CA 91101
Cynthia Jackson.
Center for Aging Resources
The Graduate School of
Psychology
Fuller Theological Seminary
Steve Newton.
Center for Aging Resources
The Graduate School of
Psychology
Fuller Theological Seminary
The understanding and 'reception' of others' religious experience
Laurence Brown. The Religious Experience Research Center Westminster College Oxford, OX2 9AT England
The Missing Fifty Percent: Explaining the Difference Between Survey Estimates and Head-Counts of Church Attendance
Robert D. Woodberry. Department of Sociology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599
H-9 SSSR 9:40-ll:l0 am Saturday
Rand
Religion and Cyberspace: Strategies for Studying a New Medium
Organizer/Convener
Brenda E. Brasher.
Thoughts on the Status of the Cyborg: On Technological Socialization and its Links to the Religious Function of Popular Culture
Brenda E. Brasher. Mount Union College brenda@nauticom.net
Psychology, Religion and the Future: Doing Social Science on the World Wide Web
Michael E. Nielsen. Georgia Southern U.
mnielsen@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu
Religion On-Line: Electronic Democracy and Religion-Based Community Development
Donald E. Miller. University of Southern California Miller@mizar.usc.edu
How Do Presbyterians Want To Be Wired?
Keith M. Wulff Presbyterian Church (USA) KEITH_WULFFparti@ecunet.org
Neophilic Irreligions: Audience Cults on the World Wide Web
Rick Smith. University of Virginia rls3z@virginia.edu
H-10 RRA 9:40-ll:l0 am Saturday
Branscomb
Denominations, Paradenominations, and the Public Sphere
Convener/Discussion Leader
Michele Dillion.
Dept. of Sociology
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520
Denominational Structures of Organization and Lifeworld: A Survey of Recent Political Action in Nashville
Michael Byrd. Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37235
Habitat for Humanity: Observations on a Paradenominational Organization in the Public Sphere
Jerome Baggett. Graduate Theological Union 400 Highland Ave. Piedmont, CA 94611
And Now You Know the Rest of the Story: Why Churches Cannot Participate in Partisan Politics
James D. Davidson,
Michael Schlehuber. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907
H-11 SSSR 9:40-11:l0 am Saturday
Snaffles
Gender Roles and Religious Tradition
Convener/Discussion Leader:
Nancy Nason-Clark.
Department of Sociology
University of New Brunswick
Redefining Christian Masculinity: Implications of Promise Keepers' Ideology and Its Appeal to Women
Lynne Isaacson. Department of Sociology University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403
Wheeler Revisited: The Gendered Nature of the Religious Culture Created by Evangelicals
Julie Ingersoll. Department of Religious Studies University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Gender Roles and Caring in the LDS Culture
Larry Jensen. Dept of Psychology BYU Provo, UT 84602
Ronald S. Jackson.
BYU-Hawaii
Laie, HI
Grant Underwood.
BYU-Hawaii
I, 11:20-12:20pm Saturday
Belmont
RRA Business Meeting
Chancellor's Board Room
PARAL Business Meeting
J-1 SSSR/RRA 12:30-2:00 pm Saturday
Belmont
SSSR / RRA History Project Session
Whither the Associations? Reflections at the 25th Joint Meeting of RRA and SSSR
Organizers
Fred Kniss.
Dept. of Sociology and
Anthropology
Loyola University Chicago
Mark A. Shibley.
Dept. of Sociology and
Anthropology
Loyola University Chicago
Presider
Fred Kniss
Panelists
J-2 SSSR 12:30-2:00 pm Saturday
Snaffles
American Evangelicalism: Strategies for Social Influence
Organizer / Convener / Discussion Leader:
Christian Smith. Department of Sociology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Negotiating Race: American Evangelicals and an American Dilemma
Michael Emerson. Bethel College St. Paul, MN 55112
Faith and Economic Identity among American Protestants
Mark Regnerus. Department of Sociology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Religion and Sexism: Assessing Differences Between Evangelical and Fundamentalist Protestants
Kathleen Holladay. Department of Sociology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Evangelical Strategies for Saving Public Education
David Sikkink. Department of Sociology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599
J-3 RRA 12:30-2:00 pm Saturday
Platinum
Christians and the Construction of Social Order(s)
Convener/Discussion Leader
Courtney Bender.
Dept. of Sociology
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Christian Reconstructionism and the Angry Rhetoric of Postmillenialism
Anson Shupe. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. IN 46805
Early Christianity as an Ideology
Anthony J. Blasi. Dept. of Sociology Tennessee State University Nashville, TN 37209
The Future of Solidarity in Catholic Social Teaching
Ed Martin. Dept. of Public Administration School of Public Affairs Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287
Christian Community-Building Movements in the U.S. Today
Mary R. Sawyer. Religious Studies Program Iowa State University 413 Catt Hall Ames, IA 50011
J-4 SSSR 12:30-2:00 pm Saturday
Gold
Religion and Politics
Convener/Discussion Leader:
Ted G. Jelen. Political Science Illinois Benedictine College Lisle, IL 60532
The Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition in "Middletown"
Joseph B. Tamney. Dept of Sociology Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306
Stephen D. Johnson.
Dept of Sociology
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306
Conservative Protestant Politics In
Canada: Comparative and Theoretical
Perspectives
Dennis R. Hoover.
317 10th St. NE #14
Washington, DC 20002
Squaring Off in the Public Square
Joe E. Barnhart.
Department of Philosophy and
Religion Studies
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203
Reconceptualizing Church-State
Separation In an Era of Politicized
Religion
Byron W. Daynes.
Dept of Political Science
BYE
Provo, UT 84602
Raymond Tatalovich.
Dept of Political Science
Loyola University of Chicago
WTC-LT601
820 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
J-5 SSSR 12:30-2:00pm Saturday
Kissam
Religion in America: Contributions to
American Culture and Character
Organizer/Convener
Julius H. Rubin.
Religion in America: Historical and
Thematic Overview
Julius H. Rubin.
Department of Sociology
Saint Joseph College
West Hartford, CT 06117
The Making of a Pluralistic Religious
Faith: William James's Assessment of
His Father
Paul Jerome Croce.
American Studies
Stetson University
DeLand, FL 32720
Religious Freedom of the Amish
Mami Hiraike Okawara.
Takasaki City University of
Economics
1300 Kaminamie
Takasaki
Gunma 370 Japan
J-6 RRA 12:30-2:00 pm Saturday
Sarratt
Disciples' Culture: Perspectives on the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Organizer/Convener
Brenda E. Brasher. Dept. of Religion and Philosophy Mount Union College Alliance, OH 44601
Discussion Leader
Mark G. Toulouse. Brite Divinity School Texas Christian University TCU Box 298130 Ft. Worth, TX 76129
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ): A Look at the Third Millennium from Outside the Cocoon
Brenda E Brasher
Core Values and Disciples' Culture: A View of the Inside
Anthony L. Dunnavant. Lexington Theological Seminary Lexington, KY 40508
Both Inside and Out: An African American Woman in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Delores Carpenter. Howard University Washington, DC 20017
The Family of God: Disciples' Identity and American "Family Values"Rhetoric
Karen-Marie Must. Harvard Divinity School Cambridge, MA 02138
J-7 SSSR 12:30-2:00 pm Saturday
Neely
Myth and Story in the Production of the Sacred
Convener/Discussion Leader:
Nancy Nason-Clark.
Dept. of Sociology
University of New Brunswick
P O. Box 4400
Fredericton, NB
Canada E3B 5A3
Chinese Folktales and the Sacred
Demerie Faitler.
Clarion University
Clarion, PA 16214
Making the Sacred in the Ancient Near East-The Three Zone Theory and Ugaritic Conceptions of the Divine
Hugh R. Page, Jr. University of Notre Dame 18115 State Route 23 Suite 112 South Bend, IN 46637
My Switch from Professor to President: Myths and Realities
Thomas P. Imse. College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA 01610
J-8 RRA 12:30-2:00 pm Saturday
McTyeire
Denominational Cultures within International Mormonism
Organizer
Marcus H. Martins.
Dept. of Sociology
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
Convener/Discussion Leader
James T. Duke.
Dept. of Sociology
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
Cultural and Structural Factors in the Growth of the LDS Church
James T. Duke
Multiple Cultures in the LDS Church: A Theoretical Perspective
Marcus H. Martins
Understanding the Relationship between Sacred Text and Religious Experience
John Harding. Church Educational System 3640 S. New Haven Tulsa, OK 74135
A Study of Haitian Mormon Converts Dwelling in New York City: A Cross-Cultural Perspective in Understanding, Interpreting, and Experiencing the Mormon Subculture
Yvon Milien. Dept. of Sociology Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602
J-9 SSSR 12:30-2:00 pm Saturday
Carmichael
The Attitudinal Effects of Religiosity
Convener/Discussion Leader:
Albert A. Herzog, Jr.
Center for Persons with
Disabilities in the Life of the
Church
1287 Clydesdale
Columbus, OH 43229
Religious Orientation and Prejudice:
The Role of Religious Proscription /
Nonproscription
Robert Duck.
Department of Psychology
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
Canada
Bruce Hunsberger.
Department of Psychology
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
Canada
The Extent of Religiosity and Its Impact Upon Attitudes Among University Undergraduates in Slovenia and Texas
Sergej Flere. Pedagosk Fakulteta Maribor Univerza V Mariboru
Further Analysis of Religious Identification and the Life Ethic
David T. Bailey. Sam Houston State University Huntsville, TX 77341
The Seventh-Day Adventist Family in North America: Trends and Implications
Roger L. Dudley. Institute of' Church Ministry Andrew's University Berrien Springs, MI 49104
J-10 SSSR 12:30-2:00 pm Saturday
Branscomb
The Social Correlates of Religious Behavior
Convener/Discussion Leader
Charles L. Harper.
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Creighton University
Revisiting the Social Origins of Denominational Affiliation
Thaddeus Coreno. Department of Sociology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650-2690
Socioeconomic Status and Religious Participation Revisited: An Analysis of Recent General Social Survey Data
Edward B. Reeves. Dept of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology Morehead State University Morehead, KY 40351
Robert A. Bylund.
Dept of Sociology, Social
Work, and Criminology
Morehead State University
Morehead, KY 40351
Understanding Gender Differences in Religiosity: Applying Stark and Bainbridge's Theory of Religion
Mary Ann Kanieski. Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
J-11 SSSR 12:30-2:00 pm Saturday
Rand
Religion and Health
Convener/Discussion Leaders
Carol Maxwell
Coping with Spinal Cord Injury: The roles of meaning, control, and esteem from both religious and nonreligious sources
Micah Beree. Department of Psychology University of Denver Denver, CO 80208
(Co-authors: Daniel N. McIntosh, Kevin L. Ladd, Bernard Spilka, Anne Luckow, and Dore LaForett)
Paths to Control in Coping with Cancer
Kevin L. Ladd. Indiana University at South Bend 1120 W. Jefferson Blvd. South Bend, IN 46601
(Co-authors: Daniel N. McIntosh, Bernard Spilka, Anne Luckow, and Alex Galloway)
Spiritual Beliefs and Quality of Life in Cancer and HIV Patients
George Fitchett. Department of Religion, Health and Human Values Rush-Presbyterian St. Lukes Medical Center 1653 West Congress parkway Chicago, IL 60612-3833
David F. Cella and Amy Peterman.
Division of Psychosocial
Oncology
Ruch-Presbyterian St. Lukes
Medical Center
1653 West Congress parkway
Chicago, IL 60612-3833
Religion and Childhood Sexual Abuse
Cynthia Doxey. Department of Family Sciences
BYU
Provo, UT 84602
K-1 SSSR 2:10-3:40 pm Saturday
Belmont
Author Meets Critics:
Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America
by Colleen McDannell
Organizer/Convener
J. Shawn Landres.
Center for the Study of Religion
University of California
Santa Barbara
Critics
K-2 RRA 2:10-3:40 pm Saturday
McTyeire
What's the Future of Religious Print? Denominational Identity and Electronic Publishing
Organizer/Presider
Carl Dudley.
Hartford Seminary
Hartford, CT 06105
Discussion Leader
Kirk Hadaway. United Church Board for Homeland Ministries Cleveland, OH 44115
Panelists
K-3 SSSR 2:10-3:40 pm Saturday
Platinum
The Social Construction of the Sacred
Convener/Discussion Leader
Nancy L. Eiesland.
Candler School of Theology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
'I Want to Know Where I Am': Framing the Sacred in African American Life and Culture
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes. Department of Sociology and Anthropology Colby College Waterville, ME 04901
Anthropology and the Concept of the Sacred
Stewart Guthrie. Dept of Sociology and Anthropology Fordham University 113 West 60th St. New York, NY 10023
Sacred Choreography: Micro and Macro Perspectives on the Construction of Sacred Time
Bradley Hertel. Department of Sociology Virginia Tech University Blacksburg, VA 34061
Dancing on the Head of a Pin: Angel Records and the Marketing of the Sacred
Rebecca Sullivan. Graduate Program in Communications McGill University Montreal, Canada
K-4 SSSR 2:10-3:40 pm Saturday
Snaffles
Rational Choice and Market Models in the Social Scientific Study of Religion
Convener/Discussion Leader
Larry Young.
Department of Sociology
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 04602
Much Ado About Nothing: Long-Run Trends in American Church Attendance, Giving, and More
Larry Iannaccone. Department of Economics Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA 95053
For the Bible Tells Them So: The Effect of Parents' Fundamentalism on Children's Educational Attainment
Darren E. Sherkat. Department of Sociology Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37235
Alfred Darnell.
Department of Sociology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235
The Patterns, Sources and Implications of' Rapid Church Growth within International Seventh-day Adventism-Applying and Testing Stark's Revised General Model
Ronald Lawson. Dept of Urban Studies Queens College CUNY Flushing, NY 11367
K-5 RRA 2:10-3:40pm Saturday
Kissam
Religious Ethnography: Insights from the Field
Organizer
Penny Becker.
Dept. of Sociology
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14cR53
Convener/Discussion
Leader
Penny Becker
Struggles for Mutual Reverence:
Social Strategies and Religious
Stories
Matt Lawson.
Dept. of Sociology and
Anthropology
Williams College
Williamstown, MA 01267
The Church and the Street: Race and
Poverty in an Inner-City Congregation
Tim Nelson.
Dept. of Sociology
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637
Multiple Moral Cultures in the
Opposition to Abortion: Naturalistic
Research Studies
Elfriede Wedam.
Religion in Urban America
Program
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607
Amazing Grace! How Sweet the
Sound! Southern Evangelical
Religion and Gay Drag in Atlanta
Edward R. Gray.
Graduate Division of Religion
211 Bishop's Hall
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
Scott Thumma.
Candler School of Theology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
K-6 SSSR 2:10-3:40 pm Saturday
Sarratt
Religion, Society and Psychoanalysis
Organizers
Donald Capps and Janet L.
Jacobs
Convener/Discussant
Janet L. Jacobs.
Women's Studies
University of Colorado
Childhood Fears, Adult Anxieties and the Longing for Inner Peace: Erik H. Erikson's Psychoanalytic Psychology of Religion
Donald Capps. Princeton Theological Seminary
Melanie Klein, Motherhood and the"Heart of Darkness"
Patricia H. Davis. Southern Methodist University
Alice Miller's Insights into Religious Seekership
Marion S. Goldman. University of Oregon
Psychoanalysis and Fundamentalism: A Lesson from Feminist Critiques of Freud
Ralph W. Hood. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
K-7 RRA 2:10-3:40 pm Saturday
Neely
Race, Class and Gender in Congregational Life
Convener/Discussion Leader
Larry Ingram. Dept of Sociology University of Tennessee Martin, TN 3CI23O
"The Protestantization of Latino Immigrants: A Study of Inner-City Latino Protestant Churches"
Irene C. Lin. University of Southern California 131 E. Live Oak St. #11 San Gabriel, CA 91776
Discrimination and Church Visitors: The Myth that Cultural Images of Class Differences Don't Matter
John Verburg. Dept. of Sociology University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506
Race Projects: Religious Institutions and Neighborhood Racial Change
Michael Leachman. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL 60626
K-8 SSSR 2:10-3:40 pm Saturday
Rand
Religion and Adolescent Socialization
Convener/Discussion Leader
Michael J. Donahue.
3619 12th Ave. S., #2
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Effects of Religious Commitment and Parental Involvement on Adolescent Self-Concept: Evidence From the National Education Longitudinal Survey
Christopher G. Ellison. Department of Sociology University of Texas Austin, TX 78712
Chandra Muller.
Department of Sociology
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712
The Role of Parental Religiosity and Authoritarianism in Childrearing Goals and Practices
Henry Danso. Department of Psychology Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L 3C5
The Impact of Family and Adolescent Religious Experience on Religious Socialization
Jeremiah K Clark. Dept of Sociology BYU Provo, UT 84602
Adolescent Religiosity as Mediator of the Relationship between Parenting and Adolescent Deviant Behavior
Allen W. Litchfield. Department of Sociology BYU Provo, UT 84602
(Co-authors: Darwin L. Thomas and Bing Dao Li)
K-9 RRA 2:10-3:40 pm Saturday
Carmichael
Denominational Culture and Conflict
Convener/Discussion Leader
Donald Musser.
Dept. of Religious Studies
Stetson University
DeLand, Fl. 32720
Grass Roots Echoes of the Baptist Battles: Results of an Exploratory Survey at the Community Level
James Cotten, D. Paul Johnson, Chris Evers. Dept. of Sociology Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409
Cultural Clash Impact of a Mission Statement at a Religious Medical School: Pilot Study Report
Johnny Ramirez. Dept. of Religion Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA 92354
Worldviews in Collision: Understanding Denominational Conflict
John C. Lai. The Fielding Institute 2120 Caraway St. Escondido, CA 92026
The Effect of United Methodist General Agency Membership on Denominational Policy Positions
Craig This. The Office of Research General Council on Ministries United Methodist Church Dayton, OH 45406
K-10 RRA 2:10-3:40 pm Saturday
Branscomb
Denominational Culture and the Next Generation
Convener/Discussion Leader
Andrea Williams. Dept of Sociology 1365 Stone Hall Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907
The Christian Reformed Church: Denominational Distinctiveness in a Changing Environment
James M. Penning, Corwin Smidt. Dept. of Political Science Calvin College Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Acting Like Adventists: Lifestyle Standards in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Steve Case, Roger Dudley. Institute of Church Ministry Andrews University Berrien Springs, MI 49104
Taking Values Seriously: Assessing the Christian Liberal Arts Experience
Gay Holcomb. Asbury College Wilmore, KY 40390
Modern Liturgies for Skeptical Seekers: The Proliferation of Willow Creek Style Churches
Kimon Howland Sargeant. University of Virginia
K-ll MSSA-SSSR 2:10-3:40pm Saturday
Gold
Mormonism Among Pacific Islanders:
A Case Study In the Interplay
Between Denominational Culture and
Indigenous Cultures
Organizer
Grant Underwood.
Professor of Religion
BYU-Hawaii
Laie, HI 96762
Convener/Discussant:
Paul R. Spickard.
Division of Social Sciences
BYU-Hawaii
The Presence of Denominational
"Icons" in Latter-day Saint Homes in
Selected Pacific Basin and Asian Rim
Cultures
Ronald S. Jackson
Dept of Psychology
BYU-Hawaii
Samoan Saints: Standing Between
Two Worlds
Max E. Stanton.
Dept of Anthropology
BYU-Hawaii
Mormonism and 'Maoritanga:'
Religion and Cultural Negotiation in
New Zealand
Grant Underwood.
Department of Religion
BYU-Hawaii
Varnice Wineera
Institute for Polynesian Studies
BYU-Hawaii
L SSSR 3:50-5:10 pm Saturday
Belmont
Plenary Session III
A Production of Culture Approach to the Study of Religion
Convener
Wade Clark Roof.
Religious Studies
University of California Santa
Barbara
Featured Speaker
Robert Wuthnow.
Center for the Study of
American Religion
Princeton University
Respondents
Richard Peterson.
Department of Sociology
Vanderbilt University
Randall Balmer.
Department of Religion
Columbia University
Janet Jacobs.
Women's Studies
University of Colorado at
Boulder
5:30-6:00 pm Saturday
Ballroom Foyer
Cash Bar
6:00-7:30 pm Saturday
Belle Meade/Cheekwood
Buffet
M SSSR 7:45-9:00 Saturday
Belle Meade/Cheekwood
Plenary Session IV
Convener
Wade Clark Roof.
Religious Studies
University of California
Santa Barbara
SSSR Student Paper Award
[TBA]
SSSR Distinguished Article Award
[TBA]
SSSR Distinguished Book Award
[TBA]
SSSR Career Achievement Award
Martin E. Marty
Featured Speaker
Martin Marty.
Divinity School
University of Chicago
MSSA 7:00-8:00 Sunday
Garden Lounge
Business Meeting/Breakfast
N-1 RRA 8:00-9:30 am Sunday
Belmont
African and Afro-Caribbean Culture in African-American Religion
Organizer
James V Spickard.
Dept. of Sociology and
Anthropology
University of Redlands
Redlands, CA 92373
Convener/Discussion Leader
James V. Spickard.
Quaker Enlightenment and Gullah
Resistance: The Right to the Tree of
Life
Leslie R. James.
DePauw University
Greencastle, IN 46135
Sex Roles, Leadership and Spirituality: Denominational Culture among Trinidad's Spiritual Baptists
Stephen D. Glazier. Dept. of Anthropology University of Nebraska, Kearney
Emerging Themes and Practices of
African Theology in Contemporary
African-American Religious Life
Wardell Payne.
School of Divinity
Howard University
Washington, DC 20017
N-2 SSSR/RRA 8:00-9:30 am Sunday
McTyeire
The Dynamics of Church Growth: I
Convener/Discussion Leaders:
Jack Marcum.
Research Services
Presbyterian Church (USA)
100 Witherspoon St.
Louisville, KY 40202
The "Churched" Century: Oligopoly and Denominational Vitality in Canada, 1867- 1965
Peter Beyer. Department of Religious Studies University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario KIN 6N5
The Religious Leader Factor: A Comparison of Mainline and Conservative Clergy in Canada
Reginald W. Bibby. Department of Sociology University of Lethbridge Lethbridge, Alberta TLK 3M4
Liberal vs. Conservative Protestantism: A Religious Economies Perspective on the Two Party System
Andre Nauta. Department of Sociology Central Missouri State University Warrensburg, MO 64093
N-3 MSSA-SSSR 8:00-9:30 am Sunday
Snaffles
Challenges of Mormon Growth Among Latinos in North and South America: A new Latino Majority within the LDS Church
Convener/Discussant:
Perry Cunningham.
Research Information Division
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints
50 East North Temple St.
Salt Lake City, UT 84150
Serving Spanish-speaking Mormons in North America: Challenges and Successes
Jessie L. Embry, Charles Redd. Center for Western Studies, 4069 HBLL BYU Provo, UT 84602
Mormon Lay Leaders and Socio Economic Status in Latin America
David Knowlton. 517 West Capitol Salt Lake City, UT 84602
A Profile of the LDS Church in Brazil
Marcus Martins. College of Religious Education BYU Provo, UT 84602
Mormonism in the Context of Protestant Growth in Yucatan, Mexico
Patricia Fortuny Lloret de Mola. CIESAS-Occidente, Av. Espana 1359, Col. Moderna 44190 Guadalaja Jalisco, Mexico
The Myth of LDS Growth in Guatemala: Report From A Barrio
Henri Gooren. Cultural Anthropology Utrecht University Bologgnalaan 32 3584 CJ Utrecht The Netherlands
N-4 SSSR 8:00-9:30 am Sunday
Platinum
Gender and the Construction of the Evangelical World-view
Organizer/Convener
Nancy Nason-Clark
Jean Skirts: The Negotiated Settlement of United Pentecostal Women
Dawne Clarke-Van Every. Department of Sociology University of New Brunswick PO. Box 4400 Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5A3
Holding Each Other's Hands: Exploring the Role of Religion in the Lives of Elderly Women
Lisa Hanson. Department of Sociology University of New Brunswick PO. Box 4400 Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5A3
Caught in the Cross-fire: Youth Pastors and their Role in the Contemporary Evangelical Church
Christy Hoyt. Department of Sociology University of New Brunswick PO. Box 4400 Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5A3
Submission. Suffering and Sacrifice: Women and the Evangelical Worldview
Lori Beaman-Hall. Department of Sociology University of Lethbridge Lethbridge, Alberta CANADA TLK 3M4
One Head or Two: Evangelical Clergy and Views on the Family
Nancy Nason-Clark. Department of Sociology University of New Brunswick PO. Box 4400 Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5A3
N-5 RRA/SSSR 8:00-9:30 am Sunday
Sarratt
Traditional and Progressive Catholics
Convener/Discussion Leader
Gene Burns.
Dept. of Sociology
Franklin and Marshall College
PO. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604
Traditional and Progressive
Catholicism: An Empirical Analysis
Charles L. Harper.
Dept. of Sociology and
Anthropology
Creighton University
Omaha, NE 68178
Kevin T. Leicht.
Dept. of Sociology
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52245
Gen X Catholics: A "Backlash" against
Vatican II Ideals?
Andrea Williams.
Dept. of Sociology
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
U.S. Catholic Religious Orders:
Possible Paths to the Future
Mary Johnson.
Dept. of Sociology
Emmanuel College
400 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
When Catholics Divorce: Religious
Annulments and the Church
Cynthia A. Woolever.
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Research Services
100 Witherspoon St.
Louisville, KY 40202
Richard J. Jenks.
Indiana University Southeast
New Albany, IN
N-6 SSSR 8:00-9:30 am Sunday
Kissam
Patterns of Affiliation and Disaffiliation: Micro and Macro Perspectives
Convener/Discussion Leader
Arthur L. Greil. Dept of Sociology Alfred University Box 545 Alfred, NY 14802
Patterns of Affiliation and Disaffiliation in the Bruderhof, an Anabaptist Religious Community Over a 75 Year Period
Benjamin Zablocki. Department of Sociology
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Some determinants of leaving the Catholic Church in Germany
Gerhard Schmied. Johannes Gutenberg-niversitat Kleinmann - Weg 2 D-55099 Mainz
Germany
Swimming Against the Flow:Exceptional Cases of Apostates and Believers
Bruce Hunsberger. Department of Psychology Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L 3C5
Constructing Cognitive Imbalance in the Conversion Process
John Pitt. Mountain Empire Community College PO. Box 847 Pound, Virginia 24279
N-7 RRA 8:00-9:30 am Sunday
Gold
The International Churches of Christ / Boston Movement
Organizer/Convener
Joel Elliott.
Dept. of Religious Studies
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Discussion Leader
Anson Shupe.
Dept. of Sociology and
Anthropology
Indiana University-Purdue
University
Ft. Wayne, IN 46805
Upside Down, Inside Out: The Historical Origins of the International Churches of Christ
Rick Bauer. Freedom House Ministries Washington, DC
The Rhetoric of the International Churches of Christ: A Genre of Manipulative Speech
Carl M. Cates. Dept. of Speech Communication Valdosta State University Valdosta, GA
Faithful Witness / Radical Disciples: Comparative Reflections on Jehovah's Witnesses and the International Church of Christ
Joel Elliott
N-8 SSSR 8:00-9:30 am Sunday
Neely
Popular Religion and the Transformation of Historical Tradition
Convener/Discussion Leader:
David Hackett.
Department of Religion
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
Remaking World Religions in Popular Religion: The Example of Saints
Stephen Sharot. Department of Behavioural Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
The (Re)Emergence of Popular Religion Among Non-Hispanic Catholics in the United States
Patrick L. Malloy. Dept of Theology Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA 15282
American Catholics: One Church, Two Cultures
Anthony J. Pogorelc. Department of Sociology and Anthropology Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907
James D. Davidson. Department of Sociology and Anthropology Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907
World views in Modern Society: Empirical Studies on the Relationship between Culture, World view, Personality and Upbringing
Nils G. Holm. Comparative Religion Abo Akademi University FIN-20500 ABO: Finland
Kaj Bjorkqvist.
Camparative Religion
Abo Akademi University
FIN-20500 ABO: Finland
N-9 SSSR 8:00-9:30 am Sunday
Carmichael
Modernity, Post-modernity, and the Future of Religion
Convener/Discussion Leader:
Michael York. Study of Religions BCHE - Newton Park Bath BA2 9BN, U.K.
Jurgen Habermas: The Critical Analysis of Culture and the Possible Significance of Religion Today
Peter J. Albano. St. Johns University 8000 Utopia Parkway Jamaica, NY 11439
Interpreting the Normative Dimensions of Modern Culture: Jose Severino Croatto and Political Hermeneutics
John R. Pottenger. Department of Political Science University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, AL 35899
Discourse, Identity and Power: Modernity, Postmodernity and the Future of Religion
Marsha Aileen Hewitt. Faculty of Divinity Trinity College 6 Hoskin Ave. Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S IH8
Charisma and Culture
Reinard Nauta.
Tilburg Faculty of Theology
PO Box 9130
5000 HC Tilburg
The Netherlands
N-10 RRA 8:00-9:30 am Sunday
Branscomb
Denominational Cultures in a Changing Social Context
Convener/Discussion Leader
William Newman. Dept. of Sociology University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269
The Post-Modern Denomination: An Examination of Willow Creek Association Churches
Kimon Howland Sargeant. Post-Modernity Project University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22902
The Emergence of the Concept of Denomination: An Indication of Paradigm Shift within the Sociology of Religion
Dianne C. Tillman. Dept. of Sociology University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269
From Sect to Church to Subculture: The Mennonite Church in North America
Bruce K. Friesen. Kent State University Canton, OH 44720
John W. Friesen.
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
Evangelical Commitment and Sub-Cultural Distinctiveness
Sam Reimer. Dept. of Sociology University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556
N-1 l SSSR 8:00-9:30 am Sunday
Rand
Religion and Popular Culture
Convener/Discussion Leader
Brenda E. Brasher.
Dept. of Religion and
Philosophy
Mount Union College
Alliance, OH 44601
Contemporary Christian Music: An Index of Religious Orientation and Attachment Style?
Lynn New. East Texas Baptist University 1290 North Grove St. Marshall, TX 75670
Blinded By the 'Light'?: Claims and Counterclaims of Evangelical as a Social Problem
Charles M. Brown. Dept of Sociology Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901
Critical religious pedagogies amidst U.S. popular cultures
Mary E. Hess. Boston College
0-1 SSSR 9:45-11:15 am Sunday
Gold
The Organizational Context of Apostasy
Organizer/Convener
David G. Bromley.
Department of Sociology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA 23284-2040
The Role of Apostates in Media Constructions of the Cult Problem
Jeffrey Hadden. Dept of Sociology University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903
Richard Smith.
Department of Sociology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Apostates, Defectors, Laws, and Social Control
James Richardson. Dept of Sociology University of Nevada Reno, NY 89557
The Role of Religious Apostates in the Anti-Cult Movement
Anson Shupe. Dept of Sociology Indiana/Purdue University Ft. Wayne, IN 46805
0-2 RRA 9:45-11:15 am Sunday
Rand
Toward a First Draft of the Cooperative Congregational Studies Project Questionnaire
Organizer/Presider
David A. Roozen.
Hartford Seminary
Hartford, CT 06105
Panelists
0-3 SSSR/NAASR 9:45-11:15 am Sunday
Snaffles
Two Perspectives on Religion as a Causal Force
Organizers and Conveners
Daniel H. Krymkowski.
Dept of Sociology
University of Vermont
Luther H. Martin.
Department of Religion
University of Vermont
Opposing Perspectives:
Recent social scientific research fails to demonstrate religious causation
Daniel H. Krymkowski and Luther H. Martin
The causal consequence of Religion: Getting beyond religion as a dependent variable
Darren E. Sherkat. Department of Sociology Vanderbilt University
Two Respondents:
Donald Ploch.
Dept of Sociology
University of Tennessee at
Knoxville
Wade Clark Roof.
Dept of Religious Studies
University of California Santa
Barbara
0-4 RRA 9:45-11:15 am Sunday
Belmont
Denominational Cultures in African American Churches
Organizer
James V Spickard. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology University of Redlands Redlands, CA 92373
Convener/Discussion Leader
James V Spickard
"The Extension of Our Dreams:" The Social Construction of Leadership in Four African American Congregations
Katie Day. Dept. of Church and Society Lutheran Theological
Seminary
Philadelphia, PA 19119
African-American Church-Based Political Discourse and Political Mobilization in the City of Detroit, Michigan
Ronald E. Brown, Sabrina Williams. Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202
Toward a Synthesis of African American Religious Organizational Development: African-American Religious Bodies
Wardell J. Payne. School of Divinity Howard University Washington, DC 20017
0-5 SSSR 9:45-11:15 am Sunday
Kissam
The Dynamics of Church Growth: II
Convener/Discussion Leader
Albert A. Herzog, Jr. Center for Persons with Disabilities in the Life of the Church 1287 Clydesdale Columbus, OH 43229
Korean Churches: A Source of Growth in the PCUSA
Ida Smith-Williams. Research Services Congregational Ministries Division Presbyterian Church, USA 100 Witherspoon St. Louisville, KY 40202
Rapid Growth of Protestantism in Modern Korean Society
SetByol Choi. Department of Sociology Yale University
Attitudinal Cohesion in Congregations
Paul A. Djupe.
Department of Political Science
Washington University in
St. Louis
One Brookings Drive
St Louis, MO 63130
0-6 RRA 9:45-11 :15 am Sunday
McTyeire
Religion and Social Capital: Three Perspectives
Organizer
Peter Dobkin Hall.
Program on Non-Profit
Organizations
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520
Convener/Discussion Leader
Rhys Williams.
Dept. of Sociology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901
Religion and Social Capital: A Dialogue between Past and Present
Scott Cormode. School of Theology at Claremont 1325 N. College Ave. Claremont, CA 91711
The Changing Population of Voluntary Organizations in New Haven, 1930-1990
Peter Dobkin Hall
A Community Study of Churches and Human Services in Central Pennsylvania in the 1990s
Carl Milofsky. Dept. of Sociology Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 17837
0-7 SSSR 9:45-11:15am Sunday
Sarratt
Christian Missionary Work and Ethnic Identity in Social Context
Convener/Discussion Leader
Larry Ingram. Dept of Sociology University of Tennessee Martin, TN 38238
The Christian Karen of Northern Thailand
Michael R. Leming. Department of Sociology and Anthropology Saint Olaf College
Making and Remaking the Sacred Among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea Before and After Conversion to Christianity
Roger I. Lohmann. Department of Anthropology University of Wisconsin Madison
The Influence of Christian Missionaries on Alaskan Indigenous Peoples
Julie Manville. Department of Anthroplogy University of Western Australia Nedlands, Western Australia 6907 Australia
Religion and Cultural Conflict in Africa: Christian Missionizing and the Politics of Deviance Construction
Jack E. Nelson. Pacific University 2417 18th Ave. Forest Grove, OR 97116
0-8 SSSR 9:45-11:15am Sunday
Neely
Religion and "Family Values"
Convener/Discussion Leader
Ted G. Jelen. Political Science Illinois Benedictine College Lisle, IL 60532
Bill McCartney and Promise Keepers: Muscular Moral Crusaders in the Culture Wars
James Mathisen. Department of Sociology Wheaton College Wheaton, IL 60187
Sex and the Single Parishioner
Reginald W. Bibby. Department of Sociology University of Lethbridge Lethbridge, Alberta TLK 3M4
Citizen Attitudes Toward Prayer in Public Schools: Secular and Sacred Dimensions
Christopher P Gilbert. Dept of Political Science Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN 56082
Paul Mueller.
Dept of Political Science
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter, MN 56082
An Intersection of Powers:
Negotiating Right-of-Way in the
Experience of Anti-Abortion Activists
Daniel C. Johnson.
539 Cabell Hall
Department of Sociology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
0-9 RRA 9:45-11:15am Sunday
Carmichael
Denominational Culture and Politics:
Evidence from Survey Research
Convener/Discussion Leader
Corwin Smidt.
Dept of Political Science
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Was the Church Sheltering
Democrats? The Effect of Church
Attendance on Support for
Democratic Values in Postcommunist
Societies
Mary L. Gautier.
Dept. of Sociology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
The Impact of Doctrinal Belief on
Political World Views: The Case of
Mormonism
Jeffrey C. Fox.
Dept. of Political Science
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019
Religion and the O. J. Simpson
Verdict among the Elderly
Stephen D. Johnson.
Dept. of Sociology
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306
Denominational Cultures, Religiosity, and Politics in Canada: Evidence from the 1992 ISSP Survey
Leslie S. Laczko. Dept. of Sociology University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario Canada KlN 6N5
0-10 SSSR 9:45-11:15am Sunday
Platinum
Violence and the New Religions:
Historical and Theoretical
Perspectives
Organizer/Convener
J. Gordon Melton.
Director
Institute for the Study of
American Religion
Santa Barbara, CA
Violent Confrontation During the
Reformation: The Case of Thomas
Muntzer
Irvin Kyle Queal.
Virginia Commonwealth
University
Nineteenth Century New Religions:
Fact and Fiction - the Mormon
Example
Michael W. Homer.
Suitter Axland & Hanson
175 South West Temple
Suite 700
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
When the Millennium Comes
Violently: A Comparison of
Jonestown, Aum Shinrikyo, Branch
Davidians, and the Montana Freemen
Catherine Wessinger.
Dept of Religious Studies
Loyola University, New
Orleans
New Orleans, LA 70118
Discussant
Brad Whitsel.
Dept of Political Science
Syracuse University
0-11 SSSR 9:45-11:15 am Sunday
Branscomb
Implications of the Gender /Age Shift for Ministry
Organizers
Edgar W. Mills and Paula
Nesbitt
Convener/Discussant:
Edward C. Lehman, Jr.
SUNY- Brockport
Time out from sacred work: Nondenominational, nonstipendiary, and noncongregational work trends among female and male clergy
Paula D. Nesbitt. Illiff School of Theology
Expectations and realities: Insights from a longitudinal study of clergywomen
Joy Charlton. Swarthmore College
Explaining the effects of age / gender interaction of clergy career patterns
Edgar W. Mills. University of Connecticut
P- 1 SSSR/RRA 11:30-1 :00 pm Sunday
Sarratt
The Sacred in a Multicultural Context: Studies in Jewish Identity
Convener/Discussion Leader
Alan G. Davidson.
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
Temporal Dimensions of the Liberal Sacred
Ezra Kopelowitz. Dept of Sociology and Anthropology Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mount Scopus Campus Jerusalem 91905 Israel
Rhetoric Versus Reality: Messianic Jewish Ambivalence toward Rabbinic Judaism
Howard Bernstein. Centre for the Study of Religion University of Toronto 123 St. George St. Toronto, Ontario M5S 2E8
Jews and the Christian Right
Phil Zuckerman. Dept of Sociology University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403
Racism and Anti-Semitism in American Popular Culture: A Comparison of Contemporary Responses to Slavery and the Holocaust
Dana Greene. Department of Sociology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109
P-2 SSSR 11:30-1:00 pm Sunday
Snaffles
Religious Identities in Survey Research
Organizer/Convener
Christian Smith. Department of Sociology UNC- Chapel Hill
What Common Religious Labels Mean to Ordinary Protestants
David Sikkink. Department of Sociology UNC Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Religion in Survey Research: Measuring Religious Affiliation, Commitment and Belief in the Mass Public
John Green. Dept of Political Science University of Akron Akron, OH 44325
James Guth.
Dept of Political Science
Furman University
Greenville, SC 29613
Lyman Kellstedt.
Dept of Political Science
Wheaton College
Wheaton. IL 60187
Corwin Smidt.
Dept of Political Science
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Fundamentalists, Evangelicals, Liberals: Categorizing Survey Respondents
Ray Swisher. Department of Sociology UNC Chapel Hill, NC 27599
The Influence of the Church in the Lives of Catholics, Protestants, and Mormons
Larry Jensen. Dept of Psychology BYU Provo, UT 84602
P-3 RRA 11:30-1:00 pm Sunday
McTyeire
Identifying and "Measuring"Denominational Culture
Convener/Discussion Leader
Thomas E. Frank. Candler School of Theology Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322
Rhetoric and Symbol in the United Methodist Church
Thomas E. Frank
Dissenting Sect or Evangelical Denomination: The Tension within Seventh-Day Adventism
Roger L. Dudley. Institute of Church Ministry Andrews University Berrien Springs, MI 49104
Desperately Seeking Culture: Is There American Lutheran Culture?
L. DeAne Lagerquist, Michael Aune. St. Olaf College Northfield, MN 55057
How Different Are Lay Leaders? A Comparison of Elders and Other Members in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
John P Marcum. Research Services Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)Louisville, KY 40202
P-4 SSSR 11:30-1:00 pm Sunday
Platinum
Violence in the New Religions: The Case of Japan
Organizer
J. Gordon Melton Dept of Religious Studies University of California Santa Barbara
Convener/Discussion Leader
Robert Jay Lifton
Understanding the AUM Shinrikyo
Shimazono Susumu. University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo Tokyo 113 Japan
The Political / Legal Response to AUM Violence in Japan
Mark Mullins. Meiji Gakuin University 3-25 Hachiyama Cho, Shibuya Tokyo 150 Japan
Predictable Violence?: What have we Learned from AUM Shinrikyo
Ian Reader. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Leifsgade 33 DK -2300 Copenhagen S Denmark
P-5 SSSR 11:30-l:00 pm Sunday
Gold
The Apostate Role and Career
Organizer/Convener
David G. Bromley.
Department of Sociology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA 23284-2040
The Politics of Marginal Heresy
Eileen Barker.
Dept of Sociology
London School of Economics
Aldwych, London
England WC2A 2AE
In Defense of Self: Apostasy and Spoiled Identity
Armand Mauss. Dept of Sociology Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-4020
Exploring the Varieties of Apostate Roles
Stuart Wright. Department of Sociology Lamar University Beaumont, TX 77710
P-6 SSSR/RRA 11:30-l:00 pm Sunday
Belmont
Memorial to Richard Schoenherr
Convener
Larry Young.
Department of Sociology
Brigham Young University
P-7 SSSR 11:30-l:00 pm Sunday
Kissam
Weberian Themes in the
Contemporary Study of Religion
Convener/Discussion Leader:
Lyman Stewart: A Case Study in
Industrial Capitalism and Protestant
Fundamentalism in Southern
California, 1893- 1923
Richard W. Flory.
Sociology Department
Biola University
Lori Jensen.
Sociology Department
University of Southern
California
On the Ideological Roots of Capitalism: Puritans, Waldensians, and Cathars as Entrepreneurs an Shop Proprietors
Lutz Kaelber. Department of Sociology Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405
Making the State Sacred
Tapio Lampinen.
Saterintie 23
FIN-08500
LOHJA AS
Finland
The Sacred Body: Images of the human body as relating to capitalism, work and religion
Rita Maria Melendez. Department of Sociology Yale University New Haven, CT 06520-8265
P-8 SSSR 11:30- l :00 am Sunday
Neely
Religion and the Natural Environment
Convener/Discussion Leader:
Laurel Kearns.
Theological School
Drew University
Madison, NJ 07940
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Environmentalism: A Neo-Weberian Response to the Population and Consumption Crisis
Sherrie Steiner Aeschliman. Department of Sociology Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164
A Grassroots Look at the "Greening"of Mainline Religion in the U.S.
Jonathon Wiggins. Department of Sociology and Anthropology Loyola University Chicago 6525 N. Sheridan Rd. Chicago, IL 60626
Mark A. Shibley.
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Loyola University Chicago
6525 N. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60626
Remaking the Sacred: The Loretto Earth Network in Action
Beth Blissman. University of Denver Iliff School of Theology 1340 Oneida St. Denver, CO 80220
Living the 'New Story': Creation Spirituality and Ecology as a Spiritual Path
Sarah McFarland Taylor. Department of Religious Studies University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Sacred and the naturalistic worldview
Matti Kamppinen. Comparative Religion University of Turku Fin-20500 Turku Finland
P-9 SSSR 11:30-1:00 pm Sunday
Rand
The Role of Religion in Immigrant Communities
Convener/Discussion Leader
Shoshanah Feher. Department of Family Medicine UCLA
The Church in Little Brazil: Religion in the Lives of Brazilian Immigrants in Boston
Madeleine Cousineau. Mount Ida College Newton Center, MA 02159
Role of religion in cross-cultural adjustment of Poles from Kazahstan repatriated to Poland
Halina Grzymala-Moszczynska. Jagiellonian University 30-658 Cracow Luzycka St. 63/99 POLAND
Constructing the Sacred: Social and Cultural Explorations in the Phenomenology of the Latin Tridentine Mass
William D. Dinges. School of Religious Studies Catholic University of America Washington, D.C. 20064
P-10 RRA 11:30-l:00 pm Sunday
Branscomb
Religious Identity and Experience: Individual-Level Analyses
Convener/Discussion Leader
Wayne Thompson. Dept of Sociology Concordia University River Forest, IL 60305
Returning to the Fold: A Comparison of Lifelong Church Goers and Those with Interrupted Attendance Patterns
Deborah Bruce. Research Services Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)Louisville, KY 40202
Religion as Opiate: Is Denomination Related to Fatalism and Perceived Justice?
Cardell K. Jacobson. Dept. of Sociology Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602
Death Anxiety and Religious Attitudes, Practices and Affiliation
T. L. Brink, Anna Avila. Dept. of Psychology Crafton Hills College Yucaipa, CA 92399
Attachment Styles and the Report of Religious Experience
Ronald J. Morris, Ralph W. Hood, Jr. Dept. of Psychology University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN 37403
P-11 SSSR 11:30-l:00 pm Sunday
Carmichael
Perceiving and Knowing the Sacred
Convener/Discussion Leader:
Phillip Lucas. Department of Religious Studies Stetson University DeLand, FL 32724
Be thou my vision: How seeing remakes sacred and sacred remakes seeing
Elizabeth Weiss Ozorak. Department of Psychology Allegheny College Meadville, PA 16335
'By the renewing of you mind': The Role of "Knowing" in the Word of Faith Movement
Milmon Ferdinand Harrison. Department of Sociology University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106
The Concept of Spiritual Knowledge in the Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Judy D. Saltzman. Philosophy Department California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Towards a conceptual framework for psychological research in religious language comprehension: the contribution of cultural psychological theories
Przemyslaw Jablonski. Dept of Cultural Psychology and Psychology of Religion Posbus 91 046500 HE NIJMEGEN The Netherlands
Harmony and balance in Nature: an individual quest or a societal norm?
Parveen Hasanali. Dept of Religious Studies St. Thomas University Fredericton, NB E3B SG3 Canada
Congregation Studies Addendum- 1
Sunday 1:15-7:00 PM
Kirkland/Calhoun
Congregational Studies Meeting #1
Convener:
Carl Dudley.
Hartford Seminary
77 Sherman Street
Hartford, CT 06105
2:00-3:30 pm Sunday
Neely
Violence Addendum-1
Violence and Religion: Case of Europe
Organizer
J. Gordon Melton.
Institute for the Study of
American Religion
Box 90709
Santa Barbara, CA 93190
The Myths of the Solar Temple
Jean Francoise Meyer.
PO. Box t33
CH- 1705 Fribourg
Switzerland
Religious Violence in Italy
Massimo Introvigne.
Center for Studies on New
Religions
Via Bertola 86
Turnio, Italy
Neo-Pagans Confront the Authorities in Modern England
Michael York. Bath College of Higher Education Newton Park Bath BA2 9BN United Kingdom
Respondent
Eileen Barker.
Department of Sociology
London School of Economics
Aldwych, London WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
2:00 - 3:30 pm Sunday
McTyeire
Apostacy Addendum
The Construction and Assessment of
Apostate Accounts
Convener:
David Bromley.
Department of Sociology
Virginia Commonwealth
University
Richmond, VA 232~34-2040
Apostates and Their Role in the
Construction of Grievance Claims
Against the Northeast Kingdom/
Messianic Communities
Susan J. Palmer.
Department of Religion
Dawson College, Atwater Campus
3040 Sherbrooke Street, West
Westmount, Quebec
Canada H3Z IA4
Apostates Who Never Were: The
Structuring of Absque Facto Apostate
Accounts
Daniel C. Johnson.
Department of Sociology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Carriers of Tales: On Assessing
Credibility of Apostate and Other
Outsider Accounts of Religious
Practices
Lewis F Carter.
Department of Sociology
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-4020
3:45-5:05 pm Sunday
Neely
Violence Addendum-2
Violence and New Religions: The
Case of North America
Organizer
J. Gordon Melton.
Institute for the Study of
American Religion
Box 90709
Santa Barbara, CA 93190
A Canadian "Jonestown"
Susan Palmer.
Department of Religion
Dawson College, Atwater Campus
3040 Sherbrooke St., West
Westmont, Quebec
Canada H3Z IA4
Observations on the Freemen:
Religion and Violent Tendencies
Jean Rosenfeld.
Department of Political Science
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Where Does Waco Fit?
Phil Arnold.
Reunion Institute
2444 Times, Suite 236-M
Houston, TX 77005
Convener/Discussant
John Saliba.
University of Detroit
Detroit, MI
8:00 AM - 4:00 pm Monday
Kirkland/Calhoun
Congregational Studies Addendum-2
Congregational Studies Meeting #2
Convener:
Carl Dudley.
Hartford Seminary
77 Sherman Street Hartford, CT 06105