2001 Meeting -- a Rich and Successful Meeting
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2001 Meeting -- A rich and successful meeting. Columbus, Ohio proved to be the perfect setting for the 2001 joint meeting of the Religious Research Association and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Overall attendance was comparable to that of recent years, despite the terrorist attacks of September 11. Yes, there were some cancellations, and some traveled by car rather than fly. If you did not attend, for whatever reason, you missed a great conference, stimulating and informative sessions, the always-enjoyable annual banquet, Columbus tours, opportunities for conversations among friends and colleagues, and a great sense of camaraderie. Robert Beckley, RRA Program Chair for 2001, deserves our sincere thanks for the work he did, in collaboration with SSSR Program Chair Mark Chaves, in organizing an excellent program. Coupled with SSSR's offerings, there were sessions to satisfy a wide variety of interests. A large, attentive, and appreciative audience attended RRA's plenary session to hear David Roozen's H. Paul Douglass Lecture, entitled "10,0001 Congregations: H.P. Douglass, Strictness, and Electric Guitars." Dave provided fascinating details regarding the Faith Communities Today (FACT) project fact.hartsem.edu conducted at Hartford Seminary plus historical material about Douglass's pioneering work. SSSR's plenary featured a timely presentation by Mark Juergensmeyer on how some forms of religion may be linked with terrorism. The Program of the RRA/SSSR 2001 Meeting Friday, October 19, 2001 A1 - SSSR Friday, 8:30 - 10:00 Meeting Room 20 Tom Robbins as NRM Researcher and NRM Research Critic Organizer / Convener: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, University of Haifa, [email protected] Panelists: Benjamin Zablocki, Rutgers University, [email protected] Lorne L. Dawson, University of Waterloo, [email protected] Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, University of Haifa, [email protected] Respondent: Tom Robbins, c/o [email protected] A2 - SSSR Friday, 8:30 - 10:00 Meeting Room 21 Religious and Moral Pluralism in Europe Organizer / Convener: Karel Dobbelaere, Catholic University of Leuven, [email protected] Church Religiosity in Western and Central Europe. Karel Dobbelaere, Catholic University of Leuven, [email protected] Religious Syncretism. Lillian Voyé, Catholic University of Louvain, mailto:[email protected] Dimensions of Religiosity and Ethnocentrism: Cross-National Tests on a Controversial Relationship. Peer Scheepers, Catholic University of Nijmegen, [email protected] A3 - RRA Friday, 8:30 - 10:00 Meeting Room 31 Faith-Based Charitable Programs Convener: Dana Fenton, City University of New York, [email protected] Food as Social Capital: Consuming Community Through Faith-Based Hunger Relief. John P. Bartkowski, Mississippi State University, [email protected], Helen A. Regis, Louisiana State University, [email protected], Louis H. Bluhm, Mississippi State University, [email protected], Neil R. White, Mississippi State University, [email protected], Melinda N. Chow, University of Memphis, [email protected] Case Management, Faith, and Successful Service Development: The Three Languages of an African-American FBO's Relationship to the White Social Service Community and Its Own Constituent Churches. Bob Wineburg, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, [email protected] Faith-Based Programs in the Future. Ram Cnaan, University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Comparing Local Congregations' Social Outreach Activities in a Conservative Community. D. Paul Johnson, Texas Tech University, [email protected] A4 - RRA Friday, 8:30 - 10:00 Meeting Room 32 Religious Vitality: Congregations and Larger Entities Convener: Adair T. Lummis, Hartford Seminary, [email protected] The Glow of Health: Marks of a Vital Growing Congregation. Roger L. Dudley, Andrews University, [email protected] Mobilizing Members: Congregational Strategies for Increasing Participation. Kevin D. Dougherty, Purdue University, [email protected] Perceptions of Healthy Congregations. Carol Jeunette, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver, [email protected] The Art and Science of Subtle Proactivity: Regional Leaders and Their Congregations. Adair T. Lummis, Hartford Seminary, [email protected] A5 - SSSR Friday, 8:30 - 10:00 Meeting Room 33 Religion Through the Life Course Convener: Duane M. Covrig, University of Akron, mailto:[email protected] Helping Behavior in Young Children as a Function of Religious Mindfulness. Lawrence Lilliston, Oakland University, [email protected] Back to School: Rabbinical Seminaries and Second Career Students. Adina B. Newberg, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, [email protected] Interiority and Gerotranscendence: Dimensions of Religious and Spiritual Experience in Late Life. Susan Eisenhandler, University of Connecticut, [email protected] Faith Development Theory: Paradigm for Integrative Work in Psychology and Religion. Stephen E. Parker, Regent University, [email protected] A6 - SSSR Friday, 8:30 - 10:00 Meeting Room 34 The Spiritual Formation of Catholic Lay Ecclesial Ministers Organizer: Charles Zech, Villanova University, [email protected] Convener: Mary Gautier, Center for Applied Research on the Apostolate, Georgetown University, mailto:[email protected] The Spirituality of Lay Ecclesial Ministers: A Descriptive Profile. James D. Davidson, Purdue University, [email protected] The Spirituality of Lay Ecclesial Ministers: Variations Among Lay Ministers. Katherine Meyer, Ohio State University, mailto:[email protected] The Spirituality of Lay Ecclesial Ministers: The Impact of Ascribed, Lifecourse, and Workplace Factors. Charles Zech, Villanova University, [email protected] Program Perspectives on the Spiritual Formation of Lay Ecclesial Ministers. Mary E. Bendyna, Center for Applied Research on the Apostolate, Georgetown University, [email protected] and Mary Gautier, Center for Applied Research on the Apostolate, Georgetown University, mailto:[email protected] A7 - SSSR Friday, 8:30 - 10:00 Meeting Room 35 Religion and Civic Engagement Convener: Ron Hassner, [email protected] Religion and Civic Participation: Attendance, Belief and Prayer. Matthew T. Loveland, University of Notre Dame, [email protected] Private Religious Schools and Public Obligations: A Question with an Overlooked Answer. Steven Jones, University of Virginia, [email protected] Explaining Religious Tradition Variation in Political Participation. Kraig Beyerlein, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, [email protected] Politics in the Pews: Comprehending the Nature of a Black Political Church. Eric L. McDaniel, University of Illinois, [email protected] A8 - SSSR Friday, 8:30 -10:00 Meeting Room 30 Multi-Ethnic Congregations Convener: Fred Kniss, Loyola University, Chicago, [email protected] Becoming Anabaptist: Racial and Ethnic Recruitment in an Urban Mennonite Community. Jeff Gingerich, Bluffton College, mailto:[email protected] The Costs of Ethnic Diversity in Religious Organizations: an In-Depth Case Study. Brad Christerson, Biola University, [email protected] and Michael Emerson, Rice University, [email protected] Integrated Sundays: Using Factor Analysis to Devise a Typology of Multiracial Churches. George Yancey, University of North Texas, [email protected] Discussant: Fred Kniss, Loyola University, Chicago, [email protected] A9 - SSSR Friday, 8:30 - 10:00 Auditorium Religious Conflict Convener: Ted Jelen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, mailto:[email protected] It Takes Two to Tangle: Resolution of Conflict in Churches is a Relational Process, Not an Individual One. Kenneth J. Linfield, Spalding University, [email protected] Gay Affirming Congregations, Local Church Autonomy, and the Remaking of the Southern Baptist Polity. Daryl White, Spelman College, [email protected] and O. Kendall White Jr., Washington and Lee University, [email protected] "A Sacudir el Petate": Origins of a Violent Schism at a Mexican Apocalyptic Colony. Miguel C. Leatham, Texas Christian University, [email protected] Conflict in Religion and in Science: A Neo-Durkheimian Theory. Jan Smith, Ohio Wesleyan University, [email protected] B1 - SSSR Friday, 10:15 - 11:45 Meeting Room 20 Change in Religious Organizations Convener: Penny Edgell Becker, Cornell University, [email protected] "It's Not about Civil Rights, It's about Holiness": Contradictory Institutional Logics in the United Methodist Church's Homosexuality Struggle. Amanda Udis-Kessler, Grinnell College, [email protected] Religion, Science and Legitimacy: Institutional and Contingency Influences on the Organizational Science Philosophy of Loma Linda University from 1905 to 1998. Duane M. Covrig, University of Akron, mailto:[email protected] Reconstructing Religion: A Sociological Analysis of Vatican II. Melissa J. Wilde, University of California, Berkeley, [email protected] Theories of Social Change and the Sociology of Religion: From Crisis to Commonplaceness. Stephen Ellingson, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, [email protected] B2 - SSSR Friday, 10:15 - 11:45 Meeting Room 21 Cross-National Studies of Religion Convener: Daniel Price, Kent State University - Trumbull Campus, [email protected] Redefining Christian Orthodox Identity: The New Social Doctrine of the Russian Church in Comparison with the Social Teachings of Western Churches. Alexander Agadjanian, Arizona State University,