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Program Schedule PROGRAM SCHEDULE THURSDAY, November 3 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. SSSR Council Meeting - “The Economics of Interpretation in Islamic Law: The Shi’a Carlson Institution of Taqlid” 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Early Bird Tour Option: Ayman Reda, Grand Valley State University, [email protected] Niagara Falls 2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. RRA Board Meeting - Carlson “The Scientific Ethos and Sacrificial Rhetoric: Weber’s Para- 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Joint SSSR/RRA Council Religious Appeal in ‘Science as a Vocation’” Dinner – Two Vine Christopher Roberts, University of North Carolina at Chapel 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Registration – Wilmorite Foyer Hill, [email protected] 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Kick-off Reception and “After and Possibly Before the New Age: Faith and Factor V” Welcome – Regency Foyer Paul D. Trapnell, University of Winnipeg, [email protected] FRIDAY, November 4 “Postmodernism and Its Discontents: Whither Constitutionalism after God and Reason?” 7:00 a.m – 3:00 p.m. Registration – Wilmorite Foyer Nikolai Wenzel, George Mason University, [email protected] 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit - Regency AB "Genocide and Religious Memory: Jewish Memorials in Post- 8:00- 10:00 a.m. Holocaust Europe" Janet Jacobs, University of Colorado, [email protected] Poster Session - Grand Foyer 8:30-10:00 AM “Multiplying Traditions and Philosophies” A-1 ASREC Opening Session (ASREC) Grand A “The Past as a Prologue: Islam in 21st Century West African Convener: Societies” Laurence R. Iannaccone, George Mason University, E. Obiri Addo, Drew University, [email protected] [email protected] “The Muslim Brotherhood” Opening Remarks: Ismail Demirezen, The Catholic University of America, Laurence R. Iannaccone , George Mason University, [email protected] [email protected] Nancy T. Ammerman, Boston University, [email protected] “More Religious or More Spiritual? A Survey on a Rural Catholic Parish” “Has Job Reservation Been Effective? Caste, Religion, and Giuseppe Giordan, Universita della Valle d’Aosta, Economic Status in India” [email protected] Vani Borooah, University of Ulster, [email protected] Amaresh Dubey, North-Eastern Hill University, “Social Prophecy from Rochester: Rauschenbusch’s Christian [email protected] Socialism and Morgan’s Ancient Society” Sriya, Cambridge University, [email protected] Werner Lange, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] “Faith-Based Initiative: Liberals Woo the Religious Left” Sean Everton, Stanford University, [email protected] “The Hypotenuse: The Pathway of Peace” Carlos E. Puente, University of California, Davis, “Study of Missionary Activity around the World” [email protected] Feler Bose, George Mason University, [email protected] Page 1 “Missionary Data (1813-1968) as a Resource for Testing "Clergy Who Violate Boundaries: Sexual Abuse and Religious Economies and Secularization Theory” Misconduct" Robert D. Woodberry, University of Texas at Austin, Miriam Ukeritis, The Southdown Institute, [email protected] [email protected] Xiaoyun Lu, University of Texas at Austin, [email protected] A-4 Religion and Health I (SSSR) Grand E A-2 Religion and Adolescents (SSSR) Grand B Convener: Keith Wulff, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Convener: [email protected] Susan A. Eisenhandler, University of Connecticut, [email protected] “Religion and Spirituality in Medical Settings: An Institutional Approach” “Finding Faith, Losing Faith: The Prevalence and Context of Wendy Cadge, Bowdoin College and Harvard University, Religious and Spiritual Transformation during Adolescence” [email protected] Mark D. Regnerus, University of Texas, [email protected] “Religion, Health, and ... Spin: How the News Media Told Jeremy E. Uecker, University of Texas, the American Public about the Relationship between Religion [email protected] and Health” Hillary Warren, Otterbein College, [email protected] “Religion and Psychological Functioning: An Examination of Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin, School Context during Adolescence” [email protected] Jenny Trinitapoli, University of Texas, [email protected] Robert L. Crosnoe, University of Texas, “Correlates of Health Promotion: Meaning in Life, [email protected] Religiosity, and Christian Identification” Daniel M. Huber, University of Northern Iowa, “Zion’s Youth: The Contours and Consequences of Latter- [email protected] day Saint Teen Religiosity” Melvin E. Gonnerman, University of Northern Iowa, John P. Bartkowski, Mississippi State University, [email protected] [email protected] Xiaohe Xu, Mississippi State University, [email protected] “Religious Activity and Substance Use during Adolescence: Variation by Demographic Characteristics and Type of “Racial Differences in Religious Participation among Substance” Adolescents” Kenneth J. Steinman, Ohio State University, Brad Christerson, Biola University, [email protected] [email protected] Amy K. Ferketich, Ohio State University, Korie L. Edwards, Ohio State University, [email protected] [email protected] Timothy Sahr, Ohio State University, [email protected] Richard Flory, Biola University, [email protected] A-5 Religion and the Social Order in Rochester (SSSR) A-3 Issues in Clergy Leadership I (RRA) Grand C Grand F Convener: Convener: Jackson W. Carroll, Duke University, [email protected] Christopher H. Evans, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, [email protected] “An Idiosyncratic Profession: The Vocational World of Episcopal Clergy” “Finney and Rochester: Roots of Reform” Matthew J. Price, The Episcopal Church, [email protected] Ron Satta, SUNY Brockport, [email protected] “Congregational Health Ministries: A National Study “Helen Barrett Montgomery’s Reform Pilgrimage in Exploring the Views of Pastors” Rochester” Ana Maria Catanzaro, Duke University, Kendal P. Mobley, Enon Baptist Church, [email protected] [email protected] “Issues Concerning International Catholic Priests in the “African American Churches and Social Reform in United States” Rochester, 1900-1945” Dean R. Hoge, Catholic University of America, Ingrid Overacker, Jefferson Community College, [email protected] [email protected] Aniedi Okure, Catholic University of America, [email protected] Page 2 “Mormonism’s Roots in the Burnt-Over District: American A-8 Religion and Education (SSSR) Carson A Pariahs, American Heroes” Myna German, Delaware State University, [email protected] Convener: John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State University, A-6 Congregational Identities (RRA/SSSR) Grand G [email protected] Convener: “Culture Wars and Ultimate Sacred Postulates: A Case Study Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota, [email protected] of Conservative Christian Schools (A Paper in Honor of Roy A. Rappaport)” “Congregations as ‘Multivocal’ Mentoring Cultures: Melinda Bollar Wagner, Radford University, Comparative Research among Three Protestant [email protected] Denominations” Penny Long Marler, Samford University, “Neo-Traditionalism versus Secularism: Debates on Religion [email protected] in Russian Schools” Kristin Taylor Curtis, Samford University, Elena Lisovskaya, Western Michigan University, [email protected] [email protected] Chuck Stokes, University of Texas, Austin, Vyacheslav Karpov, Western Michigan University, [email protected] [email protected] “Religious Discipline? A Closer Look at Religious Rules in Mainstream American Religion” “Social Roots and Ramifications of Legacy Admissions in Nancy Martin, University of Arizona, Elite Colleges and Universities” [email protected] Deborah L. Coe, Purdue University, [email protected] James D. Davidson, Purdue University, “Religious Ideas, Congregational Practices, and Cultural Fit [email protected] in American Society” Elfriede Wedam, Indiana University South Bend, “The Impact of Modern Information Technology on the [email protected] Traditional System of Islamic Education in Shi’a Seminaries” Mahdi Emami, Islamic Azad University of Jahrom, A-7 Issues in Religious Leadership (SSSR) Regency C [email protected] Convener: A-9 Teaching Sociology (and Anthropology) of Religion Laura R. Olson, Clemson University, [email protected] in the Context of Student Religious Diversity and Religious “Illiteracy” (SSSR) Carson B “And Innovation Makes Four: How Religious Organizational Leadership Expands Weber’s Forms of Legitimate Convener: Domination” Meredith McGuire, Trinity University, [email protected] jimi adams, Ohio State University, [email protected] Panelists: Helen Rose Ebaugh, University of Houston, [email protected] “Religious Charlatanism in Pakistan: A Case Study of Milagros Peña, University of Florida, [email protected] Khairpur, Sindh” Mark Shibley, Southern Oregon University, Maleeha Aslam, Cambridge University, [email protected] [email protected] R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Religious Coping and Mental Health among Presbyterian [email protected] Clergy: Longitudinal Evidence from the Presbyterian (PCUSA) Panel Survey” A-10 Religious Imagination and God Images I (SSSR) Karissa D. Horton, University of Texas at Austin, Wilmorite A [email protected] Lori A. Roalson, University of Texas at Austin, Convener: [email protected] Glen Moriarty, Regent University, [email protected] Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin, [email protected] “How to Help Clients Change Their God Image: Kenneth I. Pargament, Bowling Green State University, Psychodynamic Interventions Spelled Out and
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