2007 PROGRAM SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1

8:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. SSSR Council Meeting Buccaneer A

2:00 p.m. -5:00 p.m. RRA Board Meeting Buccaneer A

6:00 p.m. Joint SSSR/RRA Council and Board Dinner Ybor Room

6:00-9:00p.m. Registration in Regency Ballroom Foyer Galleria B

8:00-10:00 p.m. Reception with Cash Bar Regency Ballroom Foyer, Galleria B

1 F RIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 A-3 Nationalism and National Identity [SSSR] 8:00am-3:00pm Buccaneer A Registration Galleria B Convener Nadya Jaworsky, Yale University, 9:00am-4:00pm [email protected] Book Exhibit Buccaneer B and C ‘The Changing Dynamics of Religion and National Identity: Greece and Ireland in a Comparative Perspective’ Daphne Halikiopoulou, London School of Economics and Political Science, [email protected] FRIDAY MORNING, 8:30-10:00 a.m. ______Sessions A1-A11______‘Examining the role of national boundaries on religious activism and ‘just’ economic A-1 Religion and Contemporary trade’ Society [SSSR] Amy Reynolds, Princeton Garrison I University, [email protected] Convener Elisa Zhai, University of Texas, Austin, ‘Nationalism, Religion, and Secularization’ [email protected] Jonathan Eastwood, Washington and Lee University, [email protected] ‘The Public Sphere and the Making of Nikolas Prevelakis, Harvard Modern Islam in Egypt’ University, [email protected] Jeff Kenney, DePauw University, [email protected] ‘Muslims in Europe and Euro-Islam’ James A. Beckford, University of ‘Religion in Context: Exploring Religiosity Warwick, UK, [email protected] and Well-Being in Contemporary Japan’ Michael K. Roemer, The University A-4 Religious Education and of Texas at Austin, Development [SSSR] [email protected] Ybor Room Convener David Sikkink, University of Notre Dame, A-2 Issues in Denominational Research [email protected] Using Prominent National Data Sets: The “Intersecting identities: New Teachers in Case of the Mormons [SSSR/MSSA] American Catholic, Jewish and Urban Garrison II Public Schools” Session A-2 has been cancelled at the Bethamie Horowitz, NYC, NY, request of the participants. [email protected] Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Brandeis University, [email protected]

2 “Walking the Walk: building universality and particularity into religious identities of ‘Awe - Towards a naturalistic account’ youth” Tom Sjöblom, University of Katie Day, Lutheran Theological Helsinki, [email protected] Seminary at Philadelphia, [email protected] A-6 Religious Renewal and “Who’s in Charge of Spiritual Traditionalism [SSSR] development? Exploring how Teens Buccanneer D Negotiate their Religious and Spiritual Convener Identities Outside of their Faith Jerry Park, Baylor University, Communities.” [email protected] Josh Borkin, Teachers College, Colombia University, ‘Islam Needs Revival, Not Reform: [email protected] Traditional Islam and Segmented Assimilation Among Second-Generation “The Impact of Alternative Schooling Muslim Americans’ Strategies on Adolescent Religiosity” Christine Soriea Sheikh, University Jeremy E. Uecker, University of of Denver, [email protected] Texas at Austin, [email protected] ‘The Vanishing Veil: Roman Catholic Sisters and the Resurrection of the Holy A-5 Genetics and Cognitive Science Habit’ [SSSR] Kara Lemma, University of Southern Garrison III California, [email protected] Convener Ann Taves, University of California, Santa ‘Is There a Mormon Evangelical Christian Barbara, [email protected] Rapprochement?’ O. Kendall White, Jr., Washington ‘Genetic Influences on Religious and Lee University, [email protected] Involvement: Correlation with an Adaptive Trait as a Possible Explanation’ Matt Bradshaw, The University of A-7 Spiritual Capital [ASREC] Texas at Austin, Esplanade I [email protected] Convener/Discussant Kimon Sargeant, Templeton Foundation, ‘The Behavior Genetics of Religiosity: [email protected] Reevaluating Model Assumptions’ Jacob Felson, Penn State University, ‘Spirituality, Socially Referenced [email protected] Preferences, and the Afterlife’ ‘Death Where is Thy Sting?: Constructing Rowena A. Pecchenino,Michigan an Independent Measure of Existential State University, [email protected] Certainty’ Aaron D. McVean, University of Nevada, Reno, [email protected] R. David Hayward, University of Nevada, Reno, [email protected]

3 ‘Spiritual, Human, and Physical Capital: Are They Complementary Factors in ‘Did Religion Have Anything to Do with Economic Growth?’ Success and Failure in Post-Communist Carl R. Gwin, Pepperdine Transition?’ University, [email protected] Leonid Krasnozhon,George Mason Wafa Hakim Orman, Baylor University, [email protected] University, [email protected] Charles M. North, Baylor ‘From the House of Representatives to the University, [email protected] Houses of God: How Churches Thrive Under Special Exemptions in the Law’ ‘Religion and Economic Development: Krystal Slivinski,George Mason Evidence from the Early Twentieth Century’ University, [email protected]

Robert Subrick, James Madison ‘A Sacrificial Death?’ University, [email protected] Jason Wollschleger, University of Washington, [email protected]

A-8 Computational Approaches to the ‘Overcoming Selfishness: Religion and the Study of Religious Belief, Behavior, and Alternatives’ Institutions [ASREC] William McBride, George Mason Esplanade II University, [email protected] Convener/Discussant William Sims Banbridge, National Science Foundation, [email protected] A-10 American Congregations 2005 – The FACT2005 National Survey of ‘A Study of Indepdendent Church Websites’ Congregations [RRA] Chris Bader, Baylor University, Regency V [email protected] Organizer and Convener David Roozen, Director, Hartford Seminary, ‘A Model of Emergent Extermism: Hartford Institute for Religion Research, Necessary Conditions and Countervailing [email protected] Policy’ Michael Makowsky, George Mason ‘American Congregations 2005: An University, [email protected] Overview.’ David Roozen, Hartford Seminary, ‘Strategic Congregational Management’ Hartford Institute for Religion Hernan Bejarano, Penn State Research, [email protected] University, [email protected] ‘FACTs on Growth: A New Look at the Dynamics of Growth and Decline.’ A-9 Student Research #1 [ASREC] C. Kirk Hadaway, The Episcopal Esplanade III Church Convener/Discussant [email protected] TBA

4 ‘Synagogues in the FACT2005 Survey.’ ‘Catholic Identity Among Young Adult J. Shawn Landres, S3K Synagogue Catholics’ Studies Institute / UCLA, Dean Hoge, Catholic University of [email protected] America, [email protected]

‘Worship, Spiritual Identity, and Growth: Seventh-day Adventists and FACT 2005.’ Roger L. Dudley, Andrews University, [email protected]

A-11 Disconnected Catholics and Catholic Identity (Catholic Research Forum) [RRA] Regency VI Convener Mary Gautier, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown, [email protected]

Discussant Patricia Wittberg, Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis, [email protected]

‘Why Catholics Don't Attend Sunday Mass: An Action Research Approach’ Robert Miller, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, [email protected]

‘Catholics Who Have Stopped Going to Mass’ Bob Dixon, Australian, Catholic Bishops Conference, [email protected] Sharon Bond, LaTrobe University, [email protected] Kath Engebretson, Australian Catholic University, [email protected] Richard Rymarz, St Joseph's College, University of Alberta.

5 ______B-2 The Politics and Social Relevance FRIDAY MORNING, 10:15-11:45 a.m. of Latino Religion [SSSR/RRA] _ Sessions B1-B11______Regency V Organizer B-1 Psychological Considerations Edwin I. Hernandez, University of Notre [SSSR] Dame, [email protected] Garrison I Convener Convener Andrew Village, University of Wales, Milagros Peña, University of Florida, [email protected] [email protected]

‘Attachment to God and Self-Conscious ‘Latino Religion and Involvement in Affect’ Immigration Protest’ Harley Baker, California State Kraig Beyerlein, University of University Channel Islands, Arizona, [email protected] [email protected] David Sikkink, University of Notre Corrin Hoglund, California State Dame, [email protected] University Channel Islands, Edwin Hernandez. University of [email protected] Notre Dame, [email protected]

‘Conceptions of God across Muslim, ‘The Politics of Latino Charismatics’ Jewish and Christian Traditions: An Norman Ruano, Loyola Empirical Approach Using the Five Factor University, [email protected] Model of Personality’ Edwin I. Hernandez, University of Scott Forrest Grover, Fuller Notre Dame, [email protected] Theological Seminary, Milagros Peña, University of [email protected] Florida, [email protected] Richard Gorsuch, Fuller Theological Seminary ‘The Role of Latino Churches in HIV/AIDS Alvin Dueck, Fuller Theological Prevention’ Seminary Edwin I. Hernandez, University of Notre Dame, [email protected] ‘Exploring the Relationship Between Rebecca Burwell, University of Manipulativeness and Christian Identity’ Notre Dame, [email protected] Nena L. Kircher, Forest Institute of Milagros Peña, University of Professional Psychology and Missouri State Florida, [email protected] University, [email protected] Guillermo Grenier, Florida International University, [email protected] David Sikkink, University of Notre Dame, [email protected]

6 ‘The Social Service Provision of Latino Regency VI Churches’ Convener Rebecca Burwell, University of Elizabeth Marquardt, Institute for American Notre Dame, [email protected] Values, [email protected] Edwin Hernandez, University of Notre Dame, [email protected] ‘Prayers of the People: Family Metaphor Milagros Peña, University of in the Liturgies of the Pro-Life and Faith Florida, [email protected] Based Labor Movements’ Guillermo Grenier, Florida Rebekah Peeples Massengill, International University, [email protected] Princeton University, David Sikkink, University of Notre [email protected] Dame, [email protected] ‘There Must be a Son: Religious Influences on Sex Preference for Children in Uzbekistan’ B-3 Religion and Civic Engagement Jennifer Barrett, University of Texas [SSSR] at Austin, [email protected] Ybor Room Convener ‘Familial Religious Involvement, Family Tim Helton, Drew University, Dynamics and Children’s Concentration [email protected] Difficulties’ Margaret Vaaler, University of ‘Teaching Civic Skills: The Role of Texas at Austin, Religion’ [email protected] James M. Penning, Calvin College - [email protected] ‘Studying the Interrelationship Between Corwin Smidt, Calvin College, Religion and the Family: A Longitudinal [email protected] View’ Stacy A. Hammons, Fresno Pacific ‘From Sect to Public Engagement: The University, [email protected] Evangelical Movement in El Salvador’ Steve Offutt, Boston University, [email protected] B-5 Religion and the State [SSSR] Buccanneer ‘Do Churches Make Good Neighbors? The A Effects of Congregational Context on Civic Convener Participation’ Melissa Wilde, University of Pennsylvania, Edward C. Polson, Baylor [email protected] University, [email protected] ‘Religious Restriction and Contentious ‘Religion and Membership in Civic Politics in the Middle East’ Associations’ Katherine Meyer, The Ohio State Corwin Smidt, Calvin College, University, [email protected] [email protected] Lauren Pinkus, The Ohio State University, [email protected]

B-4 Family and Youth [SSSR]

7 B-7 Religion, Values, and Economic ‘Beheading the Saint, Bearing the Cross: Development [ASREC] Reconfiguring Nation and Religion in Esplanade I Quebec and Poland’ Convener/Discussant Geneviève Zubrzycki, University of TBA Michigan-Ann Arbor, [email protected] ‘Values, Beliefs and Development’ ‘Church and State Government: From Jeffry Jacob, College of St. Benedict, Constantine to Charlemagne’ St. John’s University, [email protected] Alex Tokarev, The King’s Thomas Osang, Southern Methodist College, [email protected] University, [email protected]

‘Corruption, Faith, and Economic Growth’ B-6 Religion and Higher Education John E. Stapleford, Eastern [SSSR] University, [email protected] Buccanneer D Convener ‘Efficiency Comparison Between John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State Conventional Development Aid and University, Missionary Work’ [email protected] Esa Mangeloja, University of Jyvaskyla, [email protected] ‘Faith and the Sciences?: How University Tomi Ovaska, Youngstown State Scientists view the Connection of Religion to University, [email protected] their Particular Disciplines’ Elaine Howard Ecklund, University ‘International Christian Organizations and at Buffalo, SUNY, [email protected] the Development of Sub-Saharan Africa--A Critical Study’ ‘Gender Climate Among Faculty at an James A.P. Tiburcio, Universidade Evangelical College’ de Brasilia, [email protected] Brad Christerson, Biola University, [email protected] B-8 Demography, Development, and ‘Thriving on the Margins: The Evangelical Gender [ASREC] Academy’ Esplanade II Glenn Lucke, University of Virginia, Convener: [email protected] Brian Grim, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, [email protected] ‘The Effects of Education on American Christianity’ ‘Demographic Change and Religion in Philip Schwadel, University of Central Asia Following the Transition to a Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] Market Economy’ Kathryn H. Anderson, Vanderbilt University, [email protected] Linda Carter, Vanderbilt University, [email protected]

8 ‘Religion, Attitudes Towards Working B-10 Changes from within Catholicism Mothers and Wives’ Full-time Employment: [RRA] Evidence for Germany, Italy, and the UK’ Garrison II Guido Heineck, University of Convener Erlangen-Nuremberg, Mary Gautier, Center for Applied Research [email protected] in the Apostolate at Georgetown, [email protected] ‘The Church versus the Spirit: The Impact of Christianity on the Treatment of Women ‘Lay Movements: A New Form of Catholic in Africa’ Religious Life?’ Carrie A. Miles, George Mason Patricia Wittberg, IUPUI, University, [email protected] [email protected] ‘The New Evangelization in the Archdiocese ‘Human Capital, Religion, and of Detroit and Changing Religious Contraceptive Use in Ghana’ Connections’ Niels-Hugo Blunch, Washington and Michael J. McCallion, Institute for Lee University, Lexington, Research on the New Evangelization, Sacred [email protected] Heart Major Seminary, [email protected]

B-9 New Book Session: “God from the ‘The American Bishops at the Beginning Machine” [ASREC] and End of the JP II Era: A descriptive and Esplanade III social network analysis.’ Convener Thomas Gaunt, S.J., Jesuit Laurence R. Iannaccone, George Mason Conference-USA, [email protected] University, [email protected] Anthony Jennings, Jesuit Conference-USA, [email protected] Panelists Chris Bader, Baylor University, ‘Ethnic Variation in Predictors of Parish [email protected] Satisfaction Among Black Catholics Today’ Michael Makowsky, George Mason James Cavendish, University of University, [email protected] South Florida, [email protected] Laurence R. Iannaccone, George Mason University, [email protected] B-11 New Book Panel Discussion --- Author/Response Author Meets Other Authors [RRA] William Sims Banbridge, National Science Regency VII Foundation, [email protected] Faith in America [Three Volumes] Changes, Challenges, New Directions Praeger 2006 edited by Charles Lippy

Organizer and Convener Scott Thumma, Hartford Seminary, Hartford Institute for Religion Research [email protected]

9 Presenters ‘Faith in America: How It All Came to Be’ Charles Lippy, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Charles- [email protected]

‘Growth and Decline in the Mainline.’ C. Kirk Hadaway, The Episcopal Church, [email protected] Penny Marler, Samford University, [email protected]

‘Fundamentalism and Pentecostalism: The Changing Face of Evangelicalism in America.’ David G. Roebuck, Lee University, [email protected]

‘The Shifting Role of the Latter-day Saints as the Quintessential American Religion’. Ethan Yorgason, Brigham Young University Hawaii, [email protected]

‘Religion and Politics: The Impact of the Religious Right.’ Julie Ingersoll, University of North Florida, [email protected]

‘New and Alternative Religions: Changes, Issues, Trends’. Sean McCloud, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, [email protected]

12:00-1:00 SSSR New Members Lunch Regency 2

12:00-1:00 MSSA Meeting Regency 3

12:00-1:00 Congregational Study meeting with Cynthia Woolever Esplanade 4

10 ______C-2 The Processes of Academic FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 1:15-2:45 p.m. Publishing [SSSR] ______Sessions C1-C11______Regency VI

C-1 Globalization, Religion and Organizer Culture: Theoretical and Institutional Rhys H. Williams, University of Cincinnati Perspectives [SSSR] Panelists Regency V Rhys H. Williams, University of Cincinnati, Convener editor, Journal for the Scientific Study of Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa, Religion, [email protected] [email protected] Joy Charlton, Swarthmore College, book ‘Global Millennialism: A Postmortem on review editor, Journal for the Scientific Secularization’ Study of Religion, Roland Robertson, University of [email protected] Aberdeen, [email protected] Theo Calderara, religion editor, Oxford ‘Religion as Contestation and Identity in University Press, [email protected] Global Context’ John H. Simpson, University of Fred Kniss, Loyola University of Chicago, Toronto at Mississauga, Member of editorial board, Journal for the [email protected] Scientific Study of Religion [email protected] ‘Globalization, Migration and the Two Types of Religious Boundary: A European Perspective’ C-3 Health and Well-Being [SSSR] Margit Warburg, University of Garrisson I Copenhagen, [email protected] Convener Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee ‘Global Religious Organizations: The at Chattanooga - [email protected] Origins and Growth of RINGOS’ John Boli, Emory University, ‘Churches, Mosques, and Stigmatizing AIDS [email protected] in Sub-Saharan Africa’ David Brewington, Emory Mark Regnerus, University of Texas, University, [email protected] [email protected] Jenny Trinitapoli, Arizona State University, [email protected]

‘Religious Contextual Norms, Structural Constraints, and Personal Religiosity for Abortion Decisions’ Amy Adamczyk, Wayne State University, [email protected]

11 ‘Religion, Spirituality and Well-Being in Cross-National Perspective’ Marta Elliott, Ph.D. University of C-5 Spirituality [SSSR] Nevada, Reno, [email protected] Buccanneer A R.David Hayward, M.A. University Convener of Nevada, Reno, Elizabeth Williamson, Rutgers University, [email protected] [email protected]

‘Religious Homogeneity and Life ‘Spiritual Experience and Private/Public Expectancy Around the World’ Religiosity’ Donald J. Ebel, MA, MAG, Duke Ye Jung Kim, Baylor University, University - [email protected] [email protected] Jerry Park, Baylor University

C-4 Religion and Gender [SSSR] ‘Creating a Spiritual Experience Through Regency VII Belly Dance’ Convener Rachel Kraus, Ball State University, Georgie Weatherby, Gonzaga University, [email protected] [email protected] ‘Spiritual Practice and Social Action: The ‘Religion, Media, and Masculinity: Social case of drumming communities’ Selves in Search of Meaning’ Tanice G. Foltz, Indiana University Stewart M. Hoover, Ph.D., Northwest, [email protected] University of Colorado at Boulder, [email protected] ‘Sprituality Redescribed, Self-esteem Curtis D. Coats, University of Misrecognized’ Colorado at Boulder, Thomas B. Ellis, Appalachian State [email protected] University, [email protected]

‘Why Were They Called? An Exploration of Catholic Nuns Autobiographies’ C-6 Introducing Wave II of the Susan E. Eichenberger, Seton Hill National Congregations Study [SSSR] University, [email protected] Ybor Room Convener ‘Shaping Women Identities Through The Mark Chaves, Duke University, Interpretation Of The Qur’an: [email protected] Methodologies Of Interpreting Women Issues’ Introducing the Second Wave of the Norbani binti Ismail, International National Congregations Study Islamic University Malaysia, Mark Chaves, Duke University, [email protected] [email protected]

‘Gender and Nostalgia: The Valorization of ‘Congregational Conflict’ Medieval Judaism in European Memory’ Shawna Anderson, University of Janet Jacobs, University of Colorado, Arizona, [email protected] [email protected]

12 ‘Congregational Leadership’ Service Organizations’ Catherine Hoegeman, University of Michael McGinnis, Indiana Arizona, [email protected] University, [email protected]

‘Congregations and Politics’ ‘Assessing the Impact of Religion in Foreign Kraig Beyerlein, University of Policy: A Religious Economy Analysis’ Arizona, [email protected] Carolyn Warner, Arizona State University, [email protected]

‘Greedy Sects and the Jealous States: The Political Logic of Religious Regulation’ David Smith, University of C-7 Student Research #2 [ASREC] Michigan, [email protected] Esplanade I Convener/Discussant ‘Democratic Governance and TBA Organizational Success: The Industrial Organization of Religious Firms’ ‘Religion, Altruism, and Social Capital’ William R. Clark, University of Nathanael Smith, George Mason Michigan, [email protected] University, [email protected] C-9 Economics of Religion #1 ‘Economics of Philanthropy: Evidence from [ASREC] the Late-Ming and Qing Dynasties’ Esplanade III Yang He, George Mason University, [email protected] ‘Egalitarianism and Economics: American Jewish Families’ ‘Rational Irrationality as a Habit: A Carmel Chiswick, University of Dynamic Approach Towards Belief Illinois at Chicago, [email protected] Formation’ Dalibor Rohac, George Mason ‘Sects and Violence’ University, [email protected] Eli Berman, University of California, San Diego, [email protected] ‘ “Yield Not to Temptation”: Religion as Anti-Addictive Social Capital’ ‘Religious Roots of the Print Revolution: SangHo Yoon, George Mason Why Some Adopted Printing and Others University, [email protected] Waited 300 Years’ Robert Woodberry, University of Texas- Austin, C-8 Political Economy [ASREC] [email protected] Esplanade II Convener/Discussant "Interest Bans and Institutions: An TBA Economic Theory of Inhibitive Norm Persistence in Islam & Christianity" ‘The Political Manipulation of Religion and Jared Rubin, Stanford University, its Limits:Modeling How Policy Incentives [email protected] Change the Priorities of Faith-based

13 C-10 So Much for Inclusiveness: The Current Schismatic Impulse in Oldline ‘Ethnologies of Scriptural Readings in U.S. Protestantism [RRA] Communities of Color: A Latino Garrison II Pentecostal Exemplum’ Organizer and Convener Efrain Agosto, Hartford Seminary, David Roozen, Director, Hartford Seminary, [email protected] Hartford Institute for Religion Research, [email protected]

Panelists: William H. Swatos, Jr., Diocese of Quincy in the Anglican Communion, [email protected]

C. Jeff Woods, Associate General Secretary for Regional Ministries, American Baptist Churches USA , [email protected]

Keith Wulff, Coordinator of Research Services, The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), [email protected]

C-11 Race and Ethnicity Issues [RRA] Garrison III Convener Milagros Peña, University of Florida, [email protected]

"Black Women in Ministry: Serving a Resistance Pew" Ruth D. Edwards, Fielding Graduate University, [email protected]

‘Women in the African American church’ Carrie Spell-Hansson, Fielding Graduate University, [email protected]

‘What is the Value of the Black College Fund?’ Michelle Fugate, Director of Research and Data Management, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of The United Methodist Church, [email protected]

14 ______D-2 Cognitive Science of Religion: The FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 3:00-4:30 Naturalistic Basis of Religion and Sessions D-1 to D-10______Religious Experience [NAASR/SSSR] Garrison I D-1 Immigration and Civic Organizers Involvement [SSSR] Robert N. McCauley, Emory University, Ybor Room [email protected] Convener Luther H. Martin, The University of Margarita Mooney, University of North Vermont, [email protected] Carolina, [email protected] Convener ‘Messengers of Truth. Evangelism by a Robert N. McCauley Ghanaian Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Netherlands’ ‘The Naturalistic Foundations of Danielle Koning, VU University Reincarnation Beliefs’ Amsterdam, [email protected] Claire Cooper, Queen’s University Belfast, [email protected] ‘Participation of Christian Immigrant Congregations in Society’ ‘Religious Experience and the Brain’ Dr. Marten van der Meulen, VU Ann Taves, University of California, University Amsterdam, Santa Barbara, [email protected] [email protected] “Numerical Rituals: Metrics for Modeling Prof.dr. H.C. Stoffels, VU University Sensory Pageantry and Arousal” Amsterdam, [email protected] Don Braxton, Juniata College, [email protected] ‘City Level Spiritual Capital? Lessons from the Immigrant Experience in Three Small ‘Minimal Counterintuitiveness in Religious Cities’ Concepts: Revisited, Revised, and Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University, Vindicated?’ [email protected] Justin Barrett, Oxford University, B. Nadya Jaworsky, Yale University, [email protected] [email protected] Quynh-Tram H. Nguyen, University of Washington, [email protected] D-3 Globalization, Religion and Culture: Multi-Dimensional Perspectives ‘Religious Organization and Immigrant [SSSR] Governance’ Regency V Dr. Tuomas Martikainen, Abo Convener Akademi University, Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa, [email protected] [email protected]

15 ‘ Religion, Globalization, and Ecology: Elizabeth Marquardt, Institute for Climate Change and the Fair Trade American Values, Movement’ [email protected] Laurel Kearns, Drew University, Kenny Steinman, Ohio State [email protected] University, [email protected]

‘Latin America: The ‘Other Christendom’, Response: Timothy Clydesdale, The College Pluralism and Globalization’ of New Jersey, [email protected] Paul Freston, Calvin College, Mark Regnerus, University of [email protected] Texas at Austin, [email protected]

‘Globalization and the Conflict of Values in Middle Eastern Societies’ D-5 Race and Religion: Socio-historical Vincenzo Pace, University of Padua, Considerations [SSSR] [email protected] Garrison II Convener ‘ Religion, Global Flows, and Global Sheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College, Pentecostalism’ [email protected] Michael Wilkinson, Trinity Western University, [email protected] ‘The racial divide in a South African church’ Kobus Schoeman, Church Mirror D-4 Author Meets Critics Session Research Unit, Dutch Reformed Church, [SSSR] South Africa, University of Pretoria, Regency VI [email protected] Organizer R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at ‘W.E.B. Du Bois and the Philadelphia Black Chicago, [email protected] Church: An Early Sociological Study’ Robert A. Wortham, North Carolina Chair Central University, [email protected] Rhys H. Williams, University of Cincinnati, [email protected] [email protected] ‘Signifying Emancipation: Alexander Mark Regnerus, Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Bedward, Norman Paul and the Religion in the Lives of American Destabilization of Empire’ Teenagers (Oxford University Press, Leslie R. James, DePauw University, 2007). [email protected] Timothy Clydesdale, The First Year Out: Understanding American Teens after High School (University of Chicago D-6 Religion and Rational Choice # 1 Press, 2007) [SSSR/ASREC] Esplanade I Critics: Lynn Schofield Clark, University Convener/Discussant: of Denver, [email protected] Brooks B. Hull, University of Michigan- Dearborn, [email protected]

16 ‘Does Low Religious Market Share Boost Recruitment Efforts?’ Jonathan Hill, University of Notre D-8 Religious Conflict, Commitment, Dame, [email protected] and Cohesion: Evolutionary and Daniel V. A. Olson, Purdue Economic Approaches [ASREC] University Esplanade III Convener/Discussant ‘Free riding in religious communities: Can Richard Sosis,University of Connecticut, it be eradicated?’ [email protected] Sergio Figueroa Sanz, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, ‘Ingroups and Outgroups: How Religion [email protected] has Cohered and Cleaved’ Azim Shariff, University of British ‘The Marketplace of Religion: Reflections Columbia, [email protected] on the Rise of the Dge lugs School in Tibet’ Rachel M. McCleary, Harvard ‘Psalms for Safety: Magico-Religious University, [email protected] Responses to Threats of Terror’ Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp, Harvard Richard Sosis, University of University, [email protected] Connecticut, [email protected]

‘Religion and Support for Suicide Attacks’ D-7 Religion and Philanthropy Ara Norenzayan, University of [ASREC] British Columbia, [email protected] Esplanade II Ian Hansen, University of British Convener/Discussant: Columbia, TBA Jeremy Ginges, New School for Social Research. ‘Passing the Collection Plate: An Examination of Weekly Church Offerings’ ‘Exploring the Relationship between Paul J. Olson, Briar Cliff University, Religious Commitment and Cooperation: [email protected] Findings from Northeastern Brazil’ Montserrat Soler, Rutgers ‘Faith, Hope, and Charity’ University, [email protected] Thomas M. Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago, [email protected] D-9 Session: Congregations and the ‘Diversity and Crowd Out: A Theory of Community [RRA] Cold-Glow Giving’ Garrison III Daniel Hungerman ,Notre Dame, [email protected] Convener Michael McMullen, University of Houston, ‘Religion, Exchange, Coexistence and Clear Lake, [email protected] Growth’ Resit Ergener, Bogazici University, [email protected]

17 ‘Homeschooling the Enchanted Child: Civic Dr. William H. Day, Jr., New Lessons in Domestic Questing’ Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Rebecca A. Allahyari, School for [email protected] Advanced Research, ‘Who Really Is a Parishioner? A Historical [email protected] Examination of Shifting Churchgoer Priorities’ ‘What's Cooking?’ Clinton M. Jenkin, Focus on the Deborah Kapp, McCormick Family, [email protected] Theological Seminary, Nate Mabe, Focus on the Family [email protected] ‘Keep Your Hands off of our Money ‘How Congregations Become Involved in Church: Empirically Linking Attitudes and Sustain Community Ministry’ Opposing the Politicalization of the Church Diana Garland, Baylor University, and Economic Wealth in Europe’ School of Social Work, Brian N. Hewlett, Department of [email protected] Sociology University of Arizona, [email protected] ‘In the Eye of the Storm: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Religious Lives of ‘Church Staffing Ratios: Research on the Survivors’ Staff-to-Parishioner Ratio, Theories to Patrick Bennett, Indiana State Explain the Variations’ University; [email protected] Warren Bird, Leadership Network, Jamie Aten, University of Southern [email protected] Mississippi; Peter Hill, Biola University 4:45-5:30 SSSR New Book Reception ‘The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the sponsored by Oxford University Press Viability of the Churches Located in the Buccaneer D Greater New Orleans Area’ Dr. William H. Day, Jr., New 5:30-6:30 H. Paul Douglass Lecture Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Regency Ballroom (5-7) [email protected] "The Four M's of Religion: Magic, Membership, Morality, and Mysticism” Randall Collins, Dorothy Swaine Thomas D-10 Internal and External Influences Professor in Sociology, University of on Religious Life [RRA] Pennsylvania. Buccanneer A Convener 6:30-7:30 Reception with Cash Bar Dana Fenton Lehman College, CUNY, Galleria B [email protected] 9:00-11:00 ASREC Evening Social ‘The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Harborview Room Megachurches Located in New Orleans, Louisiana’

18 9:00-10:00 Gathering of Researchers Stephen M Cherry, University of Interested in Catholicism organized by Texas, Austin, [email protected] Bill D'Antonio & Dean Hoge Regency 2 ‘Word of Faith Pentecostalism as a tool of Assimilation and Integration for Latino Immigrants’ SATURDAY, November 3 Tony Tian-Ren Lin, University of Virginia, [email protected] 7:00-8:00 JSSR Editorial Board Meeting Channelside 1 E-2 Women / Ethnography -- A Group Discussion [SSSR/ RRA] 7:45-8:30 SSSR Business Meeting Buccanneer D Esplanade 4 Co-Organizers and Conveners James V. Spickard, University of Redlands, jim_spickard@redlands. ______J. Shawn Landres, S3K Synagogue Studies SATURDAY MORNING , 8:30-10:00 Institute / UCLA, [email protected] ____ Sessions E1-E11______Panelists: E-1 Immigration and Immigrant Rebecca Allahyari, School for Religious Participation [SSSR] American Research, [email protected] Ybor Room Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University, Convener [email protected] Danielle Koning, VU University Amy Moff, Boston University, Amsterdam, [email protected] [email protected] Mary Jo Neitz, University of “‘It is like we are in the motherland’: Missouri, [email protected] Pentecostalism in an immigrant Haitian church” Christine McVay, Florida E-3 Religious Communities and International University, Politics [SSSR] [email protected] Garrison I Convener ‘New Directions for Immigrant Religious Fred Kniss, Loyola University Chicago Research: The Convergence of Contextual [email protected] and Micro-Level Theories as Determinants for Variation in Immigrant Religious ‘Religious Identification, Friendships with Participation Surrounding the Migratory Coreligionists, and Catholics’ Political Event’ Orientations’ Phillip Connor, Princeton University, Paul Perl, Georgetown University, [email protected] [email protected]

‘Faithfully Filipino and American- Religion ‘Embattled on Both Sides: A Study of the and Transnational Civic Life’ Evangelical Left’

19 Jeremy Rhodes, Baylor University, E-5 Global Growth of Mormons, [email protected] Witnesses, and Adventists [SSSR/MSSA] ‘In Buddha We Trust: The Influence of Garrison II Buddhism on Politics in the United Organizers and Conveners States’ Henri Gooren, Oakland University, Buster Smith, Baylor University, [email protected] [email protected] Rick Phillips, University of North Florida, ‘Religious Cues and Attitudes towards [email protected] Immigration: An Experiment’ Carin Robinson, Georgetown ‘International Stagnation: Declining University, [email protected] Mormon Growth Rates and Secularization’ Ryan Cragun, University of Tampa [email protected] E-4 Catholic Decline and Renewal [SSSR] ‘Mormon Dilemmas in Nicaragua’ Buccanneer A Henri Gooren, Oakland University, Convener [email protected] Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University, [email protected] ‘On the Political Economy of Mormon Growth’ ‘Attempts of renewal among religious David C. Knowlton, Utah Valley virtuosi: A Catholic experiment’ State College, [email protected] Luis Oviedo, Pontificia Universita Antonianum, [email protected] ‘Comparing Further the Global Growth- Rates and Distributions of Adventists, ’More religious or more spiritual? Youth Mormons, and Witnesses’ and religion in Aosta Valley’ Ronald Lawson, Queens College Giuseppe Giordan, University of CUNY, [email protected] Valle d’Aosta, [email protected]

‘Explaining Religious Growth and Decline: E-6 Psychological Types [SSSR] The Roman Catholic Church from 1955- Garrison III 2005’ Convener Melissa J Wilde, University of Scott Forrest Grover, Fuller Theological Pennsylvania, [email protected] Seminary, [email protected] Kristin Geraty, Indiana University, [email protected] ‘Mystical orientation and psychological type: an empirical study among guests ‘Factors of Catholic Decline’ staying at a Benedictine Abbey’ Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University, Leslie J. Francis, University of [email protected] Wales, [email protected]

‘Psychological profiling of Anglican clergy in England: employing Jungian typology to

20 interpret diversity, strengths, and potential Nineteenth Century Scotland’ weaknesses in ministry’ Robert I. Mochrie, Heriot-Watt Mandy Robbins, University of University, [email protected] Wales, [email protected] John W. Sawkins, Heriot-Watt University, ‘Church tradition and psychological type Alexander U. Naumov, Heriot-Watt preferences among Anglicans in England’ University Andrew Village, York St. John’s University, [email protected] ‘Free Riding, Market Structure, and Member Commitment in South Carolina Churches’ E-7 Religion and Rational Choice # 2 Brooks B. Hull, University of [SSSR/ASREC] Michigan-Dearborn, [email protected] Esplanade I Jody Lipford, Presbyterian College, Convener/Discussant [email protected] TBA ‘A Model of Religious Investment to ‘Greek Blood Sacrifice as Economic Explain the Success of “Megachurches”’ Regulation Hunt’ Marc von der Ruhr, St. Norbert John Rundin, University of College, [email protected] California - Davis, [email protected] Joseph P. Daniels, Marquette University. ‘Religious Cognition, Prisoner’s Dilemmas and The Stag Hunt’ Joseph Bulbulia,Victoria University E-9 Religion, History, and Economic of Wellington, [email protected] Development [ASREC] Esplanade III ‘Religious Market Structure with Convener/Discussant Endogenous Beliefs’ TBA Zsolt Becsi, Southern Illinois University, [email protected] ‘How the Medieval Church Fostered Cooperation, Built Institutions, and ‘Religion Trumps Race in Implicit Contributed to the Economic Ascent of Prejudice’ Western Europe’ Azim Shariff, University of British Charles North, Baylor University, Columbia, [email protected] [email protected] Carl Gwin, Pepperdine University, [email protected] E-8 Religious Firms and Markets [ASREC] ‘The Afterlife as a Disciplinary Device: On Esplanade II Purgatory and the Credibility of Convener/Discussant Postmortem Prayers in Chantries’ TBA Michael McBride, University of California-Irvine, [email protected] ‘Market Size, Market Structure, and Gary Richardson, University of Competition: Local Religious Markets in California-Irvine, [email protected]

21 ‘Growing Up and Leaving Home: ‘Does economic development cause a Megachurches That Depart decline in religiosity? Explaining the Denominations’ separation between Church and State in Scott Thumma, Hartford Institute France in 1905’ for Religion Research, Raphael Franck, Bar-Ilan University, [email protected] [email protected] Adair Lummis, Hartford Institute for Religion Research, [email protected]

‘Cultural Transformations and “Islamic Capitalism” in Malaysia from 1971 to the Present’ Ermin Sinanovic, United States E-11 Denomination Identity Issues Naval Academy, [email protected] [RRA] Regency VII Convener E-10 The New Organizational Ties that David Roozen, Hartford Seminary, Hartford Bind [RRA] Institute for Religion Research, Regency V Roozen @hartsem.edu

‘Congregational Types and Pentecostal Convener Identity within the Assemblies of God’ Melinda B. Wagner, Radford University Margaret M. Poloma, The University [email protected] of Akron, [email protected] John C. Green, The University of ‘Networking Across Denominations in the Akron, [email protected] Multicultural/Multiethnic Church Movement’ ‘Archetypes and the American Baptist Kathleen Garces-Foley, Marymount Churches’ University, [email protected] C. Jeff Woods, Associate General Secretary, ABCUSA, Jeff.Woods@abc- ‘Multi-Site Church Overview: The usa.org Movement of Becoming One Church in Many Locations’ ‘Continuity and change in a historic Warren Bird, Leadership Network, Anabaptist denomination: Church Member [email protected] Profile 2006’ Ronald Burwell, Department of ‘Nondenominational Meets the “New Sociology, Messiah College, Paradigm”: Black and White [email protected] Church Characteristics’ Jacqueline Wenger, The Catholic ‘Denominational Identity in the Church of University of America, the Nazarene’ [email protected] Mark Mountain, Executive Pastor, West Flint Church of the Nazarene, [email protected]

22 23 ______Panel Critics SATURDAY MORNING, 10:15-11:45 W. Bradford Wilcox, University of ______Sessions F1-F11______Virginia, [email protected] Don Miller, University of Southern F-1 Special Thematic Session: California, [email protected] Comparative Studies of Religion and John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State Immigrant Incorporation [SSSR] University, Regency V [email protected] Organizer and Chair Nancy Ammerman, Boston R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at University, [email protected] Chicago, [email protected] Response Michael Lindsay, Rice University, ‘Reconstructing Religions, Constructing [email protected] Religious Pluralism: Evidence from Recent Second Generation Immigrants to Canada’ Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa, F-3 Reviews of Theory and Research [email protected] [SSSR] Garrison I ‘Islam and Immigration in Europe and in Convener the United States: Discussion of the Kevin Christiano, University of Notre Congregational Model’ Dame, [email protected] Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard University, [email protected] ‘The Work of Rodney Stark: An Updated Review of Research over the Last Two ‘Faith Makes Us Live but Misery Divides Decades’ Us: Haitian Catholics in Miami, Montreal William R. Garrett, Saint Michael’s and Paris,’ College, [email protected] Margarita Mooney, University of North Carolina, [email protected] ‘Faith Development Theory: A Review of the Empirical Research’ ‘Immigrant Religions in New York: A Stephen Parker, Ph.D., Regent Comparative-Historical Perspective’ University, [email protected] José Casanova, New School for Social Research, [email protected] ‘Church-Sect Theory: A Dialectical Conflict Approach’ Warren S. Goldstein, University of F-2 Author Meets Critics [SSSR] Central Florida, [email protected] Regency VI Faith in the Halls of Power by Michael ‘The theological bases of the sociology of Lindsay, OUP, Sept 2007 religion: Max Weber and the Hebrew roots of western rationalism’ Organizer and Chair Renan Springer de Freitas, Federal Elaine Howard Ecklund, University at University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Buffalo, [email protected] [email protected]

24 F-4 Religion and Social Movements ‘Spirits and Spouses: Women’s Agency in [SSSR] Brazilian Pentecostal Churches in Garrison II Mozambique’ Convener Linda van de Kamp, Vrije Steve Offutt, Boston University Universiteit, Amsterdam, [email protected] [email protected]

‘Prophetic Leaders and How They The challenges of new media and Empower Their Congregations’ transnational networks for the identity of Kristeen L. Black, Drew University, local Pentecostal churches [email protected] Miranda Klaver, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, [email protected] ‘The Great Catholic Awakening: Rerum Novarum and the Origins of Catholic Social ‘Spiritual and social gift exchange in Action’ African Angolan Pentecostalism’ Christopher Pieper, University of Regien Smit, Vrije Universiteit, Texas, Austin, [email protected] Amsterdam, [email protected]

‘Mahavira, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.: An Examination of the Jaina F-6 Religious Otherness and Influence on the United States’ Civil Rights Community Solidarity [SSSR] Movement’ Garrison III Tim Helton, Drew University, Convener and Discussant [email protected] Benjamin Zablocki, Rutgers University, [email protected]

F-5 Global Pentecostalism: ‘Impression Management and Public Comparative Studies From Three Relations: A History of the Bruderhof Continents [SSSR] Movement’s Obsession with Image’ Ybor Room Analena Bruce, University of Organizer and Convener Pittsburgh, [email protected] Henri Gooren, Oakland University, [email protected] ‘Donning Religion: Muslim and Sikh Experiences’ ‘Global Pentecostalism: “Magical” or Shruti Devgan, Rutgers University, “Rational-Ethical” Religion? A case study [email protected] of religious communities in Rural Malawi’ Nicolette Manglos, University of ‘Up, down, and all around: how leaders in Texas at Austin, [email protected] the Reclaiming movement negotiate Andrea Henderson, University of attributions of glamour and charisma’ Texas at Austin, Elizabeth Williamson, Rutgers [email protected] University, [email protected]

25 F-7 Book Session: “Who Really Cares? ‘Value Change and Sustainable Moderation America’s Charity Divide: Who Gives, of Political Islam: Theory and Evidence Who Doesn’t, and Why It Matters” from Turkey’ [ASREC] Murat Somer, Koc University, Esplanade I [email protected] Convener David Mustard, University of Georgia, ‘The Beloved Enemy: The Love-hate [email protected] Relationship Between the Syrian Government and Islam’ Panelists Malda Al-Sarayji, George Mason Thomas M. Smith, University of Illinois at University, [email protected] Chicago, [email protected]

Daniel Hungerman, Univ. of Notre Dame, F-9 ERel-Ed: Teaching Students the [email protected] Economics of Religion [ASREC] Esplanade III Anthony Gill, Univerisity of Washington, Convener [email protected] TBA

David Mustard, University of Georgia, ‘ERel for graduate students’ [email protected] Gary Richardson,University of California-Irvine, [email protected]

F-8 Islamic Economics and the ‘Teaching a large undergraduate ERel Economics of Islam [ASREC] class’ Esplanade II Michael McBride,University of Convener/Discussant California-Irvine, [email protected] TBA ‘Human capital development in social ‘ERel as a topic for undergraduate capital matrix perspective: A case study of microeconomics courses’ Pakistan in emerging global market’ Robert Stonebraker, Winthrop Syed Akhter Hussain Shah, Pakistan University, [email protected] Institute of Developmental Economics, [email protected] ‘ERel as an interdisciplinary field of study Eatzas Ahmed Quaid-I-Azam, for PhD students’ University Islamabad Pakistan, Carmel Chiswick, University of Muslehud Din, Pakistan Institute of Illinois at Chicago, [email protected] Developmental Economics

‘How ‘Islamic’ are Islamic Banks?’ F-10 Research and Teaching Reports Feisal Khan, Hobart and William Honoring Our Mentor, James D. Smith Colleges, [email protected] Davidson [RRA] Regency VII Organizer Jerome R. Koch, Texas Tech University, [email protected]

26 Discussant F-11 Train up a Child – Raising Future James D. Davidson, Purdue University Generations [RRA] Buccanneer A ‘Teaching Sociology in the Bible Belt, Convener Britain, and Beyond.’ Cynthia Woolever, Hartford Institute for Kevin Demmitt, Clayton State Religion Research, [email protected] University, [email protected] ‘Blind Faith: The Relationship Between ‘Beyond Academics: The ‘Pastoral’ Role of Religious Socialization and Identity the Mentor.’ Formation in Adolescents of High Tension Charles Hall, Pepperdine Religion’ University,[email protected] Stephen Armet, Notre Dame, [email protected] ‘We Are Not Strippers: The Spiritual and Empowering Experiences of Belly Dancers.’ ‘Early Childhood Education in Rachel Kraus, Ball State University, Congregations: Findings from a [email protected] National Study’ Diana Garland, Baylor University, ‘Comfortable collegiality, enduring School of Social Work, encouragement, and an occasional kick in [email protected] the butt.’ Jon Singletary, Center for Family Alan Mock, Lakeland College, and Community Ministires, Baylor [email protected] University, School of Social Work, [email protected] ‘Religious Beliefs and Ethnic Prejudice.’ Michael Sherr, Baylor University, Ralph Pyle, Michigan State School of Social Work, University, [email protected] [email protected]

‘What the Hell Do a Nazarene and a Roman ‘Religious Asphyxia: Do Structured Youth Catholic Have in Common?’ Programs Suffocate the Next Mike Roberts, Eastern University, Generation?’ [email protected] Clinton M. Jenkin, Focus on the Family, [email protected] ‘Organization men, social movements, and James L. Dye, Focus on the Family interviews: Living through the lens of a Nate Mabe, Focus on the Family sociological imagination.’ Anthony Pogorelc, Catholic University of America, 12:00-1:00 ASREC ‘TANSTAAFL’ [email protected] Luncheon Regency 2 ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Religious Tattoo’ Jerry Koch, Texas Tech University, 12:00-1:00 RRA Business Meeting [email protected] Esplanade 4

27 ______‘Denominational Differences in White SATURDAY AFTERNOON 1:15-2:45 Christian’s Attitudes about Racial ______Sessions G-1 to G11______Discrimination and Segregation’ R. Khari Brown, Wayne State G-1 Spiritual Narratives in Everyday University, [email protected] Life: Early Reports from the Field [SSSR] Ybor Room ‘Why we are not Segregated?: What the Organizer & Convener Origin of Multiracial Churches Means to Nancy T. Ammerman, Boston University the Potential of Church Growth and [email protected] Corporate Identity?’ George Yancey, The University of “Introducing the Project” North Texas, [email protected] Nancy Ammerman, Boston University, [email protected] ‘Exploring Adolescent Social Ties and Attendance of Multiracial Congregations’ “Strong Agents, Strong Limits: Women in Carlos D. Tavares, University of Latter Day Saints Communities” Notre Dame, [email protected] Amy Moff, Boston University, [email protected] G-3 Religious Freedom and Tolerance [SSSR] “Not Religious? Spiritual Narratives Garrison I beyond Organized Religion” Convener Melissa Scardaville, Emory Kevin R. den Dulk, Grand Valley State University, [email protected] University, [email protected]

“Times and Places: Locating Religious ‘Political correctness as the political Action” expression of moral relativism’ Roman Williams, Boston University, Karen Cancinos, Francisco [email protected] Marroquín University, Guatemala, [email protected]

G-2 Race and Religious Communities ‘Particularism and Universalism: Elie [SSSR] Wiesel and Faith Identified with Being’ Regency V Frederick L. Downing, Valdosta Convener State University, [email protected] Michael Emerson, Rice University, [email protected] ‘Political Influences on Religious Freedom of Speech in Public Spaces: From Nation, to ‘Religion, Race and the New Asian Court, to Community’ Immigrants: Findings From the New Elizabeth Martinez, University of Immigrant Survey 2003’ Notre Dame, [email protected] Jerry Z. Park, Baylor University, [email protected] ‘Religious Liberty Success in the Federal Courts of Mainstream and Minority Religions’

28 Darryn Cathryn Beckstrom, UW- ‘A Generational Sequential Model of Madison, [email protected] Family Structure and Religious Alienation’ Gary Horlacher, University of G-4 Religion Across and Within Southern California, [email protected] Generations [SSSR] Casey E. Copen, University of Regency VI Southern California, [email protected] Conveners Vern L. Bengtson, University of Southern California, [email protected] G-5 Intergroup Relations and Conflict Donald E. Miller, University of Southern [SSSR] California, [email protected] Garrison II Norella M. Putney, University of Southern Convener California, [email protected] Carin Robinson, Georgetown University, [email protected] ‘Religious Change Within Families Across Generations: Family Trajectories and Then ‘U.S. attitudes toward individuals of Generational Shift Hypothesis’ perceived Middle Eastern religions before Merril Silverstein, University of and after 9/11: a longitudinal study’ Southern California, [email protected] Morgan N. Green, University of Gary Horlacher, University of Nevada, Reno Southern California, [email protected] Jennifer S. Shoemaker, University of Nevada, Reno, [email protected] ‘Religious Transmission: A Qualitative Study of Value Transmission Across ‘Korean Christian Zionism after 9/11: The Generations’ Interface between Evangelical Susan C. Harris, University of Fundamentalism and Religious Southern California, [email protected] Nationalism’ Norella M. Putney, University of Sung-Gun Kim, Seowon University, Southern California, [email protected] Korea, [email protected] Petrice S. Oyama, University of Southern California, [email protected] ‘Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics: Vern L. Bengtson, University of Challenges of Conflict Prevention, Southern California, [email protected] Transformation, and National Reconciliation in Uganda’ ‘Growing Apart and Coming Together: Deusdedit R.K. Nkurunziza, Similarities and Differences in Religiosity in Makerere University,Uganda, Parent/Adult Child Dyad Across the Life [email protected] Course’ Lindsey A. Baker, University of ‘Fatwa and Violence in Indonesia’ Southern California, [email protected] Luthfi Assyaukanie, Merril Silverstein, University of www.assyaukanie.com Southern California, [email protected]

29 Molly A. Martinez, Yale University, [email protected]

G-6 Effects of Participation in New ‘Casino Development – Sin or Savior? Religious Movements [SSSR/AASNR] Situating Economic Behavior in Religious Garrison III Context’ Organizer and Convener Tracey L. Farrigan, Economic Benjamin Zablocki, Rutgers University, Research Service, US Dept. of Agriculture, [email protected] [email protected]

‘Gender Differences in Long Term ‘Max Weber and Islam: The Paradox of Response to a Cult Stimulus in Early Economic Development in Islamic Societies’ Adulthood’ Ayman Reda, Grand Valley State Benjamin Zablocki, Rutgers University, [email protected] University, [email protected] ‘(Mis)marketing policy: How megachurch ‘Psychological Abuse: Theoretical and growth has changed American politics’ Measurement Issues’ Mara Einstein, Queens College, Michael Langone, International CUNY, [email protected] Cultic Studies Association, [email protected] G-8 The Religious Factor in ‘An assessment of the relationship between Contemporary American Political spiritual capital, anomalous experiences Conflict [SSSR/ASREC] and meditation practices’ Esplanade II Elizabeth Williamson, Rutgers Convener/Discussant: University, Laura Olson,Clemson University, [email protected] [email protected]

‘Changing self-perceptions of José Luis de ‘A ‘Sophisticated’ Prejudice: Anti-Christian Jesús Miranda founder of the new religious Fundamentalism in Contemporary America’ movement Creciendo en Gracia’ Louis Bolce, Baruch College, Susan M. Setta, Northeastern [email protected] University, [email protected] Gerald De Maio, Baruch College, [email protected]

G-7 Religion and Economy ‘The Changing Face of Politicized Anti- [SSSR/ASREC] Catholicism’ Esplanade I J. Matthew Wilson, Southern Convener/Discussant Methodist University, [email protected] Mark Chaves, Duke University, [email protected] ‘Religion in Congress Revisited’ James L. Guth, Furman University, ‘Faith-Based Organizations and Federal [email protected] Dollars: More God for your Buck?’

30 Cynthia Woolever, Hartford Institute for Religion Research, Hartford Seminary, ‘Religion, Liberalism and [email protected] Incommensurable Norms’ Robert T. Miller, Villanova University School of Law, ‘Using Attender Responses from the [email protected] National Church Life Survey to Measure Social Capital in Australian Catholic Parishes.’ G-9 International Patterns of Religious Robert Dixon, Australian Catholic Affiliation and Participation [ASREC] Bishops Conference, Esplanade III [email protected] Convener/Discussant: TBA ‘Measuring a Match: Methodological Challenges of Putting Worshipers in ‘A Terrible Beauty is Born: Exploring the Context’ Relationship Between Changing Religious Cynthia Woolever, Hartford Institute Attributes and Emerging Social Attitudes in for Religion Research, Hartford Seminary Europe’ [email protected] Michael J. Breen, University of Limerick, [email protected] ‘Inviting Others: A Profile of Those Who Do and Those Who Don't’ ‘Changing Religious Identification in Deborah Bruce, Research Services, Australia and New Zealand’ Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Sarah King-Hele, University of [email protected] Manchester, Sarah.King- [email protected] ‘The Episcopal Congregational Life Survey: David Voas, University of What 45,000 Episcopalians Are Telling Us’ Manchester, [email protected] C. Kirk Hadaway, The Episcopal Church, [email protected] ‘Triangulating the World’s Most Dynamic Matthew Price, Church Pension Religious Market: Africa’ Group, [email protected] Brian J. Grim, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, ‘Faith Sharing in English Congregations’ [email protected] Phillip Escott, Manchester University, [email protected]

G-10 Religious Participation in Context: Congregations and Their Communities G-11 Authors Meet Critics Session: [RRA] American Catholics Today: New Realities Regency VII of Their Faith and Their Church [RRA] Organizers/Conveners Buccanneer A Deborah Bruce, Research Services, Convener Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Dean Hoge, Catholic University of America, [email protected] [email protected]

31 Authors William D'Antonio, Catholic University of America [email protected] James Davidson, Purdue University [email protected] Dean Hoge, Catholic University of American [email protected] Mary Gautier, CARA, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University [email protected]

Critics Kevin Christiano, University of Notre Dame, [email protected] Patricia Wittberg, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis [email protected] Barry Kosmin, Trinity College, Hartford, CT [email protected]

32 ______‘Yes, The Subaltern Can Speak! Everyday SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 3:00-4:30 Resistance of the Urban Poor in Latin Sessions H1-H9______America’ Stephen Armet, University of Notre H-1 Bricks and Bridges: Developing Dame, [email protected] Inter-Disciplinary Infrastructure in the Cognitive Science of Religion [SSSR] ‘Diversions and oddities: religion as Buccanneer A depicted in online news’ Conveners Joyce Smith, Ryerson University, Karen Walsh Wyman, North American Canada, [email protected] Science and Religion Foundation, Abby Goodrum, Ryerson University, [email protected] Canada

‘Keeping ‘Science’ in Cognitive Science of ‘Syncretism, “Creolization,” and Religion: Needs of the Field’ Juxtaposition: Notes on the Interpenetration Justin Barrett, Oxford University, of New World Religions’ [email protected] Stephen D. Glazier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] ‘Some reflections on where (and how) we stand: The importance of individual differences’ H-3 Religion in South Africa [SSSR] Brian H. McCorkle, Boston Garrison I University, [email protected] Convener Jan Bisschoff, University of Pretoria, ‘Growing the Field: Looking Forward, [email protected] Looking Back’, E. Thomas Lawson, Queen’s ‘The Congregational Life Survey in a South University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, African church: strengths and weaknesses’ [email protected] Kobus Schoeman, University of Pretoria, [email protected] “Becoming Seriously Interdisciplinary: Benefits and Pitfalls of the Meeting of ‘“Seven giants” challenges the new Academic Cultures". democracy in South Africa: a quest for Paul Wason, John Templeton commitment and the development of Foundation, [email protected]. capacity by the Dutch Reformed Church’ Jan Bisschoff, University of Pretoria, [email protected] H-2 Transnational and Global Concerns [SSSR] ‘Changing perceptions of churches as Regency V welfare agents in the new South Convener Africa’ Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard University, Johannes C. Erasmus, University of [email protected] Stellenbosch, South Africa, [email protected]

33 H-4 Contemporary Faith ‘Faith, Politics, and the Life Story’ Organizations [SSSR/ RRA] Michelle Albaugh, Northwestern Ybor Room University, [email protected] Convener Dan P. McAdams, Northwestern Ryan T. Cragun, University of Tampa, University, [email protected]. [email protected] ‘American Republican Religion: ‘The Demography of Conservative disentangling the causal link between Protestant Congregations’ partisan identities and religious Conrad Hackett, Princeton commitment in US politics’ University, [email protected] Stratos Patrikios, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, ‘The Sociological Construction of [email protected] Contemporary Evangelicalism’ Kevin D. Dougherty, Baylor ‘Mormons and the State: LDS Politics and University, [email protected] Identity’ Byron Johnson, Baylor University, Michael Nielsen, Georgia Southern [email protected] University, [email protected] Jared Maier, Baylor University, Barry Balleck, Georgia Southern [email protected] University, [email protected]

‘Small Groups on a Big Stage: The Paradox of Conservatism in a Rock and Roll Church’ H-6 Theory and Methods [SSSR] Karen Macke, Syracuse University, Garrison II [email protected] Convener Stephen Parker, Regent University, ‘The Challenges of Leadership Transition in [email protected] Megachurches’ Sheila Strobel Smith, Luther ‘Theologically correct survey questions’ Seminary, [email protected] Charles Kadushin, Brandeis University, [email protected]

H-5 Religion, Politics, and the ‘Understanding Religious Experience in an Individual [SSSR] Interdisciplinary and International Context’ Buccanneer D Louis Hoffman, Colorado School of Convener Professional Psychology, James L. Guth, Furman University , [email protected] [email protected] Glen Moriarty, Regent University, [email protected] ‘Religion and Diffuse Support for Government’ ‘Researching religion amongst the non- Kevin R. den Dulk, Grand Valley religious’ State University, [email protected] Abby Day, University of Sussex, UK, [email protected]

34 ‘Giving, Getting and Religion’ Karen Monique Gregg, University of Notre Dame, [email protected]

H-7 ASREC Presidential Address Esplanade I, II, III H-9 Clergy Leadership and Theology Convener/Introduction [RRA] Anthony Gill, Univerisity of Washington, Regency VI [email protected] Convener Paula Nesbitt University of California, Presidential Address Berkeley, [email protected] ‘Faithful Measures: Toward Improving Religion Metrics’ ‘The effects of clergy peer groups on Roger Finke, Penn State University, creativity and theological depth’ [email protected] Penny Long Marler, Samford University, [email protected] Charles E. Stokes, University of H-8 Religion and Social Action [SSSR] Texas Garrison III Convener ‘(Re)Emerging Theologies of Discernment: Corwin Smidt, Calvin College, Ministry Student Perceptions and Practices’ [email protected] Dennis J. Horton, Baylor University, [email protected] ‘Seventh-day Adventism and Social Action’ Dr Kenneth G.C. Newport, ‘ The Power of “Micro-Theology:” How Liverpool Hope University, UK, Liberal, Moderate, Traditional and [email protected] Conservative Eastern Orthodox Priests Shape the Lives of their Parishes.’ ‘The Effect of Premillennialist Theology on Alexei D. Krindatch, Patriarch Attitudes toward Social and Economic Athenagoras Orthodox Institute (Graduate Justice’ Theological Union), [email protected] Ashley E. Palmer-Boyes, Baylor Anton C. Vrame, Religion Education University, [email protected] Department, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, [email protected] ‘Creative Mennonite Engagement of (both) Tradition and Politics’ ‘By What Authority?: How Clergy Christopher Morrissey, University of Understand Their Authority to Notre Dame, [email protected] Lead’ Jackson W. Carroll, Duke ‘Congregational Youth Mentoring: University Divinity School, Implications for Communities and [email protected] Professional Social Work’ Katy Tangenberg, Azusa Pacific SATURDAY PLENARY ACTIVITIES University, [email protected] FOLLOW ON NEXT PAGE

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5:30-6:30 SSSR Presidential Plenary Regency Ballroom (5-7) “Singing and Solidarity” R. Stephen Warner, President, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

6:30-7:15 Reception and Cash Bar Galleria B

7:30-9:00 SSSR Banquet and Award Ceremony Regency Ballroom (1)

9:00-11:00 ASREC Evening Social # 2 Harborview Room

36 SUNDAY , November 4 ‘Secularization as Innovation: The Spread 7:00 RRX Breakfast of Religious Independence in the U.S.’ Esplanade 4 Ryan T. Cragun, University of ______Tampa, [email protected] SUNDAY MORNING, 8:30-10:00 Sessions I1-I-11______'Making choices to meet my needs: Religion and the construction of personal identity I-1 A Roundtable on Religion in the among un-churched parents in America' 2006 and 2008 Elections [SSSR] Christel Manning, Sacred Heart Regency V University, [email protected], Convener Stefanie Toise, Clark University Laura R. Olson, Clemson University, [email protected] 'Varieties of nonreligious experience: Patterns of thought, attitude, and action Participants: among secular group affiliates in the Pacific Franklyn C. Niles, John Brown University, Northwest' [email protected] Frank L. Pasquale, ISSSC, Trinity Laura R. Olson, Clemson University, College, [email protected] [email protected] Corwin E. Smidt, Calvin College, [email protected] I-3 Religion and LGBTQ Concerns J. Matthew Wilson, Southern Methodist [SSSR] University, [email protected] Regency VI Convener Karen Macke, Syracuse University, I-2 Forms and challenges of [email protected] secularism and irreligion in a religious world [SSSR] ‘The Dutch Reformed Church and Buccanneer homosexuality: a theological and A sociological perspective’ Organizer Jan Bisschoff, University of Pretoria, Frank L. Pasquale, [email protected] [email protected] Convener Barry A. Kosmin, ISSSC, Trinity College, “‘No Big Jihad’: Australian Queer [email protected] Muslims’ Strategies for Acceptance” Respondent/discussant Ibrahim Abraham, Monash Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of University, Tennessee-Chattanooga Ralph- [email protected] [email protected] ‘Seeking Change in Atlantic Canada: The 'The secularization of the American Sunday' Attitudes of Roman Catholic Ordination Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, University Activists on Gay and Lesbian Rights’ of Haifa, Israel [email protected] Britt Bauman, Acadia University, Ariela Keysar, ISSSC, Trinity [email protected] College, [email protected]

37 I-4 Russian Orthodoxy in Socio- ‘Adolescence and Social Algorithms: Why Cultural Context [SSSR] Religion Works’ Garrison I Candace S. Alcorta, University of Organizer and Convener Connecticut, [email protected] Jerry G. Pankhurst, Wittenberg University, [email protected] ‘Region, Religion, Race and Adolescent Sexual Activity’ ‘Re-reading Alaskan Church History: An Amy M. Burdette, University of Anthropologist's Perspective.’ Texas at Austin, [email protected] Nina Shultz, American Margaret L. Vaaler, University of Theological Library Association, Texas at Austin [email protected] Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin ‘Religious Intolerance towards the Jews in Russia.’ ‘Spiritual Fruit in Young Life Late Vyacheslav Karpov, Western Adolescents: Evidence from Testimonies’ Michigan University, [email protected] Justin L. Barrett, Oxford University, Elena Lisovskaya, Western [email protected] Michigan University, [email protected] I-6 Workshop: Group Evolution ‘Teaching (about) Religion in Post-Atheist [NAASR/SSSR] Russian Schools: Exploring the Discord and Garrison II Intolerance among Orthodox Christians and Convener and Chair Muslims.’ Luther H. Martin, The University of Elena Lisovskaya, Western Vermont, [email protected] Michigan University, [email protected] “How Religious Organizations Evolve in Free Societies” ‘Phenomenological Dimensions of Russian Presentation and Discussion with Peter J. Orthodox Faith and Practice’ Richerson, Department of Environmental Jerry G. Pankhurst, Wittenberg Science and Policy, University of California, University, [email protected] Davis; co-author of Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution, [email protected] I-5 Religion and Adolescence [SSSR] Buccanneer D Convener I-7 Religion and Identity [ASREC] Stephen Armet, University of Notre Dame, Esplanade I [email protected] Convener/Discussant TBA ‘Religiosity and Delinquency: Does Religiosity Predict Change in Delinquency over Time?’ Scott A. Desmond, Purdue University, [email protected]

38 ‘Hostile Territory: High-tension Religion and the Jewish Peddler’ Colleen E.H. Berndt, San Hose State I-9 Author Meets Critics: Peter University, [email protected] Beyer Religion in A Global Society [SSSR/RRA] ‘Identity, Collective Beliefs, and the Buccaneer C Allocation of Resources’ Organizer and Convener Thomas D. Jeitschko, Michigan State James V. Spickard, University of Redlands University, [email protected] [email protected] Seamus O’Connell, Maynooth College, [email protected] Critics Rowena A. Pecchenino, Michigan José Casanova, New School for State University, [email protected] Social Research, [email protected] Joseph Tamney, Ball State ‘Rational Choice Meets School Choice in University, [email protected] the Jewish Community: The Case of Jewish Gary Bouma, Monash University, Day Schools’ [email protected] Bruce A. Phillips, Hebrew Union Tekle Woldemikael, Chapman College, [email protected] University, [email protected]

‘Private School Choice: The Effects of Religious Affiliation and Participation’ 1-10 Parish Transitions in the Roman Danny Cohen-Zada, Ben-Gurion Catholic Archdiocese of Boston -- University, [email protected] [SSSR/RRA] William Sander, DePaul University, Regency VII Convener Brian McCorkle, Boston University, I-8 Economics of Religion #2 [email protected] [ASREC] Esplanade II ‘Historical Context of Parish Transitions in Convener/Discussant the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston’. TBA James Burns, Boston University, [email protected] ‘Religion in China Under Communism: A Brian McCorkle, Boston University, Political Economic Approach’ [email protected] Fenggang Yang, Purdue University, Aimee Radom, Boston University, [email protected] [email protected] Paul Thayer, Boston University, ‘Looking Backward: Reconstructing [email protected] Religious History with Retrospective Data’ Laurence Iannaccone, George Mason University, [email protected]

‘Public Reason as a Discursive System’ Fred Frohock,University of Miami, [email protected]

39 ‘Adult Parishioners Telling Their Stories’ New Data on Who Joins NRMs and Why: A Brian McCorkle, Boston University, Case Study of the Order of Christ Sophia [email protected] Jim Lewis, University of Wisconsin- James Burns, Boston University, Stevens Point, [email protected] [email protected] From “Cult” to Church: The Maturation of Aimee Radom, Boston University, a NRM [email protected] Scott Thumma, Hartford Seminary, Paul Thayer, Boston University, [email protected] [email protected] In Their Own Words - Attitudes and Values ‘Clergy Resilience and Burnout in the Face of two New Religious Movements. of Adversity’ Barbara Johnson, Center of Light, Brian McCorkle, Boston University, Kansas City, [email protected] [email protected] James Burns, Boston University, Intelligence, Personality, and Pathology in [email protected] Members of a New Religious Movement: A Sarah Whitman, Boston University, Study of the Order of Christ Sophia [email protected] Lucille Cozzolino, California Institute of Integral Studies, ‘How Adolescents Understand and Cope [email protected] with Parish Transitions’ Mary Francis Drake, Boston Paul Thayer, Boston University, University, [email protected] [email protected] Brian McCorkle, Boston University, [email protected] Aimee Radom, Boston University, [email protected]

‘How Lay Adult Parishioners Access and Employ Positive Coping Strategies During Parish Transitions’ Aimee Radom, Boston University, [email protected] Brian McCorkle, Boston University, [email protected] Paul Thayer, Boston University, [email protected]

I-11 Order of Christ Sophia, A New Religious Movement Evolving [RRA] Esplanade III Organizer and Convener Jim Lewis, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, [email protected]

40 ______J-2 Cognitive Science of Religion: SUNDAY MORNING, 10:15-11:45 Historical and evolutionary studies ______Sessions J1-J-13______[NAASR/SSSR] Garrison I J-1 Health and Well-Being: Research Chair on Therapeutic Religiosity [SSSR] Luther H. Martin, University of Vermont Ybor Room Convener ‘The Cognitive Basis for Divination’ Jenny Trinitapoli, Arizona State University, Anders Lisdorf, University of [email protected] Copenhagen, [email protected]

‘Modeling Religion and Well-Being: The ‘Anthropomorphism, Niche Construction, Role of Group Norms’ and Morality’ R. David Hayward, University of Joseph Bulbulia, Victoria University Nevada, Reno, [email protected] of Wellington, [email protected] Marta Elliott, University of Nevada, Reno, [email protected] ‘From Apes to Devils and Angels” Comparing Scenarios on the Evolution of ‘Essential Performances: Creative Religion’ Engagement Marriage of the New Priests Armin Geertz, Aarhus University, and the Old’ [email protected] Kathleen E. Jenkins, The College of William and Mary, [email protected] ‘Evolutionary Forces Acting on Religion in the United States’ ‘The Lazarus Project: The Beginning of a Peter Richerson, University of Longitudinal Study of Spiritual California, Davis, [email protected] Transformation in a Faith-based Rehabilitation Program’ W. Paul Williamson, Henderson J-3 Religion in Latin America [SSSR] State University, [email protected] Buccanneer A R. W. Hood, Jr., University of Organizer and Convener Tennessee at Chattanooga, Ralph- Henri Gooren, Oakland University, [email protected] [email protected]

‘Dealing with mental illness in pastoral ‘Looking for Lupe: Locating the Virgin of care: clergy and their explanatory models’ Guadalupe in Mexico’s Religious Economy’ Gerard Leavey Department of Andrew Chesnut, University of Mental Health Sciences, University College Houston, [email protected] London, [email protected] ‘Masculinity in Mexican evangelical recorded music’ Carlos Garma Navarro, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, [email protected]

41 ‘The Churches in Nicaragua’ J-5 Uses of Emotion in Megachurches Henri Gooren, Oakland University, [SSSR] [email protected] Regency VI Organizer and Convener ‘The Religion and the Car’s Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri, Baptism: Secularism, Disenchantment and [email protected] Re-Enchantment in Copacabana, Bolivia.’ David C. Knowlton, Utah Valley ‘Understanding Emotion in Congregational State College, [email protected] Contexts’ Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri, [email protected] J-4 Faith and the Internet [SSSR/RRA] ‘Small Groups in Big Churches: How Regency V Megachurches Solve the "Span-of-Care" Convener Problem for Their Members’ Lynn Clark, University of Colorado, Nancy Martin, California State, Long [email protected] Beach, [email protected]

‘Virtual Church: Alternative or ‘Music and Emotion in Seeker-Oriented Supplement?’ Ritual Practice’ Marjorie H. Royle, Clay Pots Kevin McElmurry, University of Research, [email protected] Missouri, [email protected] Andrew Lang, United Church of Christ, [email protected] ‘Reflections on the Forms and Emotions of Loss in an Evangelical Context’ ‘Where “Religious Tolerance” Enters the Karen Bradley, University of Central Conversation: The Everyday Politics of Missouri, [email protected] Negotiating Respect for Other People’s Beliefs’ Alicia Juskewycz, Princeton J-6 Issues of Gender Inequality University, [email protected] [SSSR] Regency VII ‘Predictors of Online Browsing by Convener Mormons’ Joy Charlton, Swarthmore College, Michael Nielsen, Georgia Southern [email protected] University, [email protected] Meryem Sevinc, Georgia Southern “Attitudes about Gender and Authority: University, Catholic differentiation of religious and [email protected] secular spheres” Farha Ternikar, Le Moyne College Frank Ridzi, Le Moyne College Matthew T. Loveland, Le Moyne College, [email protected]

42 “Gender Equality and Religion: Developing ‘“Give me that new old-time religion” - a Cross-National Model” Passing on the Faith at Ocean Grove’ Anne M. Price, Ohio State Laura M. Leming, University of University, [email protected] Dayton, [email protected] Katherine Meyer, Ohio State University ‘“You Need Not Wash My Feet": Examining the Decline of Footwashing and “Covered Faces: Islamic Religiosity, Physicality in Mennonite Communion Gender, and Social Attitudes in Rituals’ Comparative Perspective.” Robert Brenneman, University of Alessandra L. González, Baylor Notre Dame, [email protected] University, [email protected] J-8 Religion and Ethnicity [SSSR] “Debates within Contemporary Movements Buccanneer B that Seek the Ordination of Roman Catholic Convener Women” Stephen M. Cherry, University of Texas, Britt Baumann, Acadia University, Austin, [email protected] [email protected] “‘Secular Judaism?’ The Empirical Evidence” J-7 Religious Practices [SSSR] Bruce A. Phillips, Hebrew Union Garrison II College, [email protected] Convener William Swatos, Executive Officer, ‘The Role of Religion and Culture in the Religious Research Association, Location of the Individual in Society: The [email protected] Case of American Jewry’ Sam Richardson, University of ‘Inward, Outward, Upward Prayer: The Connecticut, [email protected] Psychological Role of Artifacts in Religion’ Kevin L. Ladd, Indiana University, ‘Neither Greek Nor Jew Nor Korean?: [email protected] Shifting Ethnic Boundaries Within Korean Meleah L. Ladd, University of Notre American Churches’ Dame, [email protected] Sharon Kim, California State E. James Baesler. Old Dominion University, Fullerton, University, [email protected] [email protected] Johan Modée, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden, [email protected] ‘The Religious Life of Eritreans in the U.S.’ ‘Tourist and Pilgrim, Preacher and Tekle Woldemikael, Chapman Teacher: The Role of Religious Tourism in University, [email protected] the Development of Cultural Identities’ Sarah Bill Schott, Loyola University, [email protected]

43 J-9 Empirical Studies of Religious ‘Human Capital Accumulation and the Participation [ASREC] Inter-Denominational Mobility of American Esplanade I Jews’ Convener/Discussant Christine Brickman, Catholic TBA University of America, [email protected]

‘Moving on Over: Geographic Mobility as a Predictor of Switching and Attendance ‘The Life and Death Implications of Frequency in American Religion’ Subsidies for Spiritual Capital’ Christopher Born, Catholic Robert Subrick, James Madison University of America, [email protected] University, [email protected]

‘Local Culture and the Maintenance and Transmission of Religious Practice’ J-11 International Issues [RRA] David Voas, University of Buccaneer C Manchester, [email protected] Convener Daniel V.A. Olson, Purdue Alexey Krindatch, Patriarch Athenagoras University, [email protected] Orthodox Institute (Graduate Theological Union), [email protected] ‘Measuring Religious Commitment and Secularization Through Time-Use Data’ Sources of Religious Freedom and Non- Ariela Keysar, Trinity College, Freedom [email protected] Robert L. Montgomery, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, University [email protected] of Haifa. Barry Kosmin, Trinity College. ‘Multi-Secularity Disorder: The Many Faces of European Secularity’ ‘Praying for a Recession: The Business Brian N. Hewlett, University of Cycle and Protestant Church Growth in the Arizona, [email protected] United States’ David Beckworth, Texas State ‘The Empire Strikes Back: The Role of The University, [email protected] Primates and Bishops of the Global South in the Realignment of The Episcopal Church in the United States.’ J-10 Empirical Studies of Religious Dana Fenton, Lehman College, Capital [ASREC] CUNY, [email protected] Esplanade II Convener TBA

‘Subjective and objetive measures of religiosity and fertility choices’ Alicia Adsera, Princeton University, [email protected]

J-12 Tensions within Denominations [RRA]

44 Buccanneer D Church Advisory Councils [RRA Convener (Catholic Research Forum)] Laura R. Olson, Clemson University, Channelside 1 [email protected] Convener Michael Cieslak, Diocese of Rocford, ‘Reproducing the Faith: Comparing [email protected] Fertility between Mainline and Evangelical Protestants’ ‘Best Practices in Catholic Parish Pastoral Jack Marcum, Presbyterian Church Councils’ (U.S.A.), [email protected] Mary Bendyna, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown, ‘Religiosity, Fundamentalism, Deviance, [email protected] and Body Art.’ Mary Gautier, Center for Applied Jerome R. Koch, Texas Tech Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown, University, [email protected] [email protected] Alden E. Roberts, Texas Tech Robert Miller, Archdiocese of University, [email protected] Philadelphia, [email protected] Myrna L. Armstrong, Texas Tech Chuck Zech, Villanova University, University Health Sciences Center [email protected] [email protected] Donna C. Owen, Texas Tech ‘Best Practices in Catholic Parish Finance University Health Sciences Center, Councils’ [email protected] Robert Miller, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, [email protected] ‘Polarization or Cooperation? The Class Chuck Zech, Villanova University, Basis of U.S. Religious Congregations’ [email protected] Perry Chang, Presbyterian Church Mary Bendyna, Center for Applied (U.S.A.) Research Services, Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown [email protected] [email protected] Ida J. Smith-Williams, Presbyterian Mary Gautier, Center for Applied Church (U.S.A.) Research Services, Research in the Apostolate at [email protected] Georgetown [email protected] ‘Sociocultural Influences Weakening the Biblical Worldview of Christians: A Review ‘Best Practices in Catholic Parish of Extant Literature and other Resources’ Stewardship Councils’ Raamses Rider, Focus on the Family, Chuck Zech, Villanova University, [email protected] [email protected] Shelby Chillion, Focus on the Family, [email protected] ‘Best Practices in Catholic Diocesan Lisa Herrera-Hodges, Focus on the Stewardship Departments’ Family, [email protected] Mark Gray, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate Georgetown [email protected] J-13 Changing Religious Forms and Connections: Best Practices in Catholic

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