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 Practically [email protected] Illustrated” Jack Marcum, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Stephen Parker, Regent University, [email protected] [email protected] Glen Moriarty, Regent University, [email protected]
“Muhammad the Prophet: A Case Study of Attachment “Explaining Differences in the Emotional Experience of God: Theory, Images of the Sacred, and Socio-Political Effects” Using Attachment Theory to Better Understand How People Donald Swenson, Mount Royal College, Relate to God” [email protected] Glen Moriarty, Regent University, [email protected] Page 3 “Heaven Concepts: A New Measure of Religiosity” B-2 Theories of Religious Commitment, Competition, Wendy Mullins, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Coordination (ASREC) Grand B [email protected] Richard Gorsuch, Fuller Theological Seminary, Convener/Discussant: [email protected] Kevin Dougherty, Baylor University, [email protected] A-11 A District Still Burning? New Religious Patterns in “The “Prophet” Function: An Economic Theory of Spiritual Contemporary Western New York (SSSR) Wilmorite B Capitals” Colleen Berndt, George Mason University, [email protected] Convener: Laurence R. Iannaccone, George Mason University, Benjamin E. Zeller, University of North Carolina at Chapel [email protected] Hill, [email protected] “Religiosity as an Evolved Commitment Device: Theory and “Parish of the People: The Emergence and Development of Evidence” Spiritus Christi Church” Joseph Bulbulia, Victoria University of Wellington, Benjamin E. Zeller, University of North Carolina at Chapel [email protected] Hill, [email protected] “Religion, Accumulation, Trade and War” “Adapting Buddhist Abortion Rites at the Rochester Zen Resit Ergener, Bogazici University, [email protected] Center” Jeff Wilson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Strong Rational Preference, Weak Rational Preference, and [email protected] Institutional Changes” Qingjin Zhang, Shandong Academy of Social Sciences, “The Twelve Tribes: Spiritual Solutions to Social and [email protected] Familial Fragmentation” Susan J. Palmer, Dawson College, B-3 Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in the Contemporary [email protected] United States (SSSR) Grand C
“An Urban Commune in Upstate New York” Convener: Emily Campolong, Alfred University, Fredrick C. Harris, University of Rochester, [email protected] [email protected] Arthur L. Greil, Alfred University, [email protected] “Race/Ethnicity, Religion, and Environmental Concern” 10:15-11:45 AM Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin, [email protected] B-1 Commercial Culture versus Religious Culture (ASREC/SSSR) Grand A Eric L. McDaniel, University of Texas at Austin, Convener/Discussant: [email protected] Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University, [email protected] “Conceptualizations of Religion and Spirituality among “The Shape of the New Age: Demonstration of the Uses of African American Parents and Pastors and the Construction of Recommender System Data” Adolescent Attitudes and Behaviors” William Sims Bainbridge, National Science Foundation, Korie E. Edwards, Ohio State University, [email protected] [email protected] Linda J. Myers, Ohio State University, [email protected] “Managing Tension between Religious and Professional Kenneth J. Steinman, Ohio State University, Commitments in the Christian Popular Culture Industry” [email protected] Charles M. Brown, Albright College, [email protected] Townsand Price-Spratlen, Ohio State University, price- [email protected] “Deprofessionalisation of Buddhist Priests in Contemporary Jovan Nicholas, Ohio State University, [email protected] Japanese Society” Jason Whitesel, Ohio State University, [email protected] Mitsutoshi Horii, University of Kent, [email protected] “Worshipping Jesus in Hollywood: Holiness, Prosperity, and “The “Outsourcing” of Church Charity” Ambition in a Multiracial Church” Jennifer Smith, George Mason University, [email protected] Gerardo Marti, Davidson College, [email protected]
Page 4 B-4 Issues in Clergy Leadership II (RRA) Grand E Rebecca Burwell, University of Notre Dame, [email protected] Convener: Milagros Peña, University of Florida, [email protected] Jackson W. Carroll, Duke University, [email protected] Guillermo Grenier, Florida International University, [email protected] “Leading for Dynamic Peace: The Three Pillars Approach” David Sikkink, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Richard L. Gorsuch, Fuller Theological Seminary, [email protected] Discussant: Helen Rose Ebaugh, University of Houston, [email protected] “Leadership in High Performing Congregations: Uncovering the Secrets of Success” B-6 Social and Spiritual Capital (SSSR) Grand G Reginald Bruce, University of Louisville, [email protected] Convener: Matthew Price, The Episcopal Church, [email protected] “How Clergy Lead and Does It Matter?” Jackson W. Carroll, Duke University, [email protected] “Episcopalians on the Trail of Social Capital: A Bird’s Eye View of Congregations in Context” B-5 Transforming ‘El Barrio’: Latino Churches and David T. Gortner, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Their Impact on Chicago Neighborhoods (SSSR) Grand F [email protected] John L. Dreibelbis, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, j- Conveners: [email protected] Edwin Hernandez, University of Notre Dame, [email protected], “Entheogens: Venture Spiritual Capital” Milagros Peña, University of Florida, [email protected] Thomas B. Roberts, Northern Illinois University, [email protected] “Understanding the Universe of Latino Churches in Chicago: Methodological Considerations in Latino Congregational “The Moral Foundations of Social Capital: Evidence from Studies” Fifty Urban Communes” Rebecca Burwell, University of Notre Dame, Stephen Vaisey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, [email protected] [email protected] Madeline Troche-Rodriguez, Loyola University Chicago, [email protected] “Religion, Religiosity, and Volunteering” Edwin Hernandez, University of Notre Dame, Thomas M. Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago, [email protected] [email protected] Milagros Peña, University of Florida, [email protected] Guillermo Grenier, Florida International University, B-7 House of Judgment: Documenting Evangelicals on [email protected] the Eve of the Reelection of George W. Bush (SSSR) David Sikkink, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Regency C “Survival and Latino Churches in Chicago’s Humboldt Park: How Church Networks Support the Social and Economic Life Convener: of Community Members” Donald Braxton, Juniata College, [email protected] Juan Carlos Rivera, Loyola University Chicago, [email protected] Panelists: Rebecca Burwell, University of Notre Dame, Donald Braxton, Juniata College, [email protected] [email protected] Allison Bohac, Juniata College, [email protected] Laurie Gravell, Juniata College, [email protected] Edwin Hernandez, University of Notre Dame, Jude Harter, Juniata College, [email protected] [email protected] Valerie Bukowski, Juniata College, [email protected]
Milagros Peña, University of Florida, [email protected] Respondents: Guillermo Grenier, Florida International University, Kevin R. den Dulk, Grand Valley State University, [email protected] [email protected] Ted G. Jelen, DePauw University, [email protected] David Sikkink, University of North Carolina at Charlotte B-8 Religious Imagination and God Images II (SSSR) “Latino Churches in Chicago: From the Virgen de Guadalupe Carson A to Storefront Churches” Convener: Norman Ruano, Loyola University Chicago, [email protected] Leslie J. Francis, University of Wales, Bangor, Edwin Hernandez, University of Notre Dame, [email protected] [email protected] Page 5 “God Images and Moral Values among Protestant and Barbara Keller, Universitat Bielefeld, barbara.keller@uni- Catholic Adolescents in bielefeld.de Northern Ireland” Rosina-Martha Csoff, Universitat Bielefeld, rosina- Leslie J. Francis, University of Wales, Bangor, [email protected] [email protected] Christopher Silver, Wilfrid Laurier University, [email protected] “God Images and Empathy among Young People in South Africa” “Comparison between Deconverts and People Who Stay Mandy Robbins, University of Wales, Bangor, Within the Same Religious Tradition” [email protected] Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, [email protected] “Images of God in the Face of Natural Disasters: Ivan the Terrible and the Persistence of Yoruba Traditions in the Heinz Streib, Universitat Bielefeld, heinz.streib@uni- Caribbean” bielefeld.de Leslie R. James, DePauw University, [email protected] Barbara Keller, Universitat Bielefeld, barbara.keller@uni- bielefeld.de “Working Models of God: Connections among the Deity Rosina-Martha Csoff, Universitat Bielefeld, rosina- Introject, Social Support, and Mental Health” [email protected] Kathleen Galek, Health Care Chaplaincy, [email protected] “Two Contrasting Case Studies of Deconverts in Germany” Heinz Streib, Universitat Bielefeld, heinz.streib@uni- Kevin J. Flannelly, Health Care Chaplaincy, bielefeld.de [email protected] Barbara Keller, Universitat Bielefeld, barbara.keller@uni- bielefeld.de Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin, Rosina-Martha Csoff, Universitat Bielefeld, rosina- [email protected] [email protected] Andrew J. Weaver, Boston Wesleyan Association, [email protected] “Two Contrasting Case Studies of Deconverts in the U.S.A.” Christopher Silver, Wilfrid Laurier University, B-9 Revisiting Thomas O’Dea’s The Mormons 50 Years [email protected] Later: A Discussion on Editorial Direction and Content for an Updated Volume (MSSA) Carson B Discussant: David G. Bromley, Virginia Commonwealth University, Convener: [email protected] Lynn Payne, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, [email protected] B-11 International Perspectives on Church-State Interactions (SSSR) Wilmorite B Panelists: Ryan Cragun, University of Cincinnati, [email protected] Convener: John Hoffmann, Brigham Young University, Robert Montgomery, Independent Scholar, [email protected] [email protected] Cardell Jacobson, Brigham Young University, [email protected] “The WREP Project: Examining Church-State Cooperation in Rick Phillips, University of North Florida, [email protected] the Local Context” Grace Davie, University of Exeter, [email protected] B-10 A Variety of Deconversion Trajectories: Cross- Cultural Research Results (SSSR) Wilmorite A “Challenges of Islam in the 21st Century: Problems and Solutions” Convener: Hojjatollah Javani, Al-zahra University, James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno, [email protected] [email protected] “An African Religious Core to Cuba’s Humanitarian “A Variety of Deconversion Trajectories: Construction of a Programs: What You Get Is beyond What You See” Typology” Jualynne E. Dodson, Michigan State University, Heinz Streib, Universitat Bielefeld, heinz.streib@uni- [email protected] bielefeld.de Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, “Ukrainian Catholic University: Reclaiming Human Dignity [email protected] in Post-Soviet Ukraine” Ellen Pfeiffer, Harvard University, [email protected]
Page 6 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. New Attendees Welcome “The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jews, Lunch - Palladio 1980 to 2000” Barry Chiswick, University of Illinois at Chicago, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. MSSA Business Meeting – [email protected] Carson A “Defining American Jewry”
Carmel Chiswick, University of Illinois at Chicago, 12:00-1:00 PM Carson B [email protected]
"Social Scientific Research Opportunities for Faculty and C-3 Moral Reasoning among American Academic Graduate Students Utilizing the North American Jewish Data Scientists (SSSR) Grand C Bank" (Panelists: Arnold Dashefsky, University of Connecticut; Samuel Richardson, University of Connecticut; Convener: Ira Sheskin, University of Miami) Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University, [email protected]
1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Mormon History Tour "Irreconcilable Conflict? Understandings of Religion and Science from the Study of Religion among Academic 1:15-2:45 PM Scientists" (RAAS) Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University, [email protected] C-1 Weber Revisited: The “Work Ethic” in Islamic and Jerry Z Park, Baylor University, [email protected] European Societies (ASREC) Grand A “Evangelicals and the Life of the Mind” Convener/Discussant: D. Michael Lindsay, Princeton University, Robert Subrick, George Mason University, [email protected] [email protected]
“The Relationship between New Economy and Religious “Explaining the Resurgence of Religion on Campus: A Social Communities in Turkey” Movements Approach” Hüsnü E. Bodur, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State University, [email protected] [email protected]
“The Impact of Islam on Economic Growth: Evidence from Discussant: Cross Country Regressions” Nancy T. Ammerman, Boston University, [email protected] Nadwa Mossaad, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, [email protected] C-4 Ethics and Ethnography: A Discussion (RRA) Grand E “Economics, Religion, and the Decline of Europe” Niall Ferguson, New York University, Convener: [email protected] J. Shawn Landres, University of California at Santa Barbara
“Treasures in Heaven? The Relationship between Religion, Panelists: Belief, and Earnings in Germany” Richard Wood, University of New Mexico, [email protected] Guido Heineck, Austrian Institute for Family Studies, [email protected] Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado, [email protected] C-2 Judaism and Catholicism: Socioeconomic Monica Emerich, University of Colorado, Perspectives (ASREC) Grand B [email protected] Convener/Discussant: Stephen D. Glazier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Peter Boettke, George Mason University, [email protected] [email protected] Courtney Bender, Columbia University, [email protected] “Sexual Misconduct of Roman Catholic Priests: A Rational Choice Perspective” C-5 New Research from the U.S. Congregational Life Christine M. Brickman, Catholic University of America, Survey (RRA) Grand F [email protected] Conveners: “Catholics and Suicide: Is Durkheim Still Relevant?” Deborah Bruce, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Eli Berman, University of California at San Diego, [email protected] [email protected] Cynthia Woolever, Hartford Seminary, [email protected]
Page 7 “What the U.S. Congregational Life Survey Reveals about “The Nuwaubian Prophecies: Strategic Responses to Racism, What Pentecostal Pastors Need” Persecution and Criminal Prosecution” James Bowers, Church of God Theological Seminary, Susan J. Palmer, Dawson College, [email protected] [email protected] Paul Greenhouse, Independent filmmaker, “The Challenge of Diversity: New Findings about Parish Life [email protected] in Predominantly Black Catholic Congregations” James C. Cavendish, University of South Florida, Discussant: [email protected] Douglas E. Cowan, University of Missouri-Kansas City, [email protected] “Charitable and Religious Giving among English Congregations” C-8 Buddhism (SSSR) Carson A Phillip Escott, University of Manchester, [email protected] Convener: David Voas, University of Manchester, [email protected] Wendy Cadge, Bowdoin College and Harvard University, [email protected] “Beyond the Ordinary and Adventist Congregations” Roger Dudley, Andrews University, [email protected] “Zen and the Art of Boundary Maintenance: Explaining Religious Growth in Taiwan’s New Buddhist Organizations” C-6 Religion and Politics I (SSSR) Grand G Alison Denton Jones, Harvard University, [email protected] Convener: Ted G. Jelen, DePauw University, [email protected] “Tibetan Buddhism in a New Key: An Exploration of New Kadampa Buddhism’s Appeal to Non-Asian North “Religion and Philanthropic Behavior” Americans” Stephen Monsma, Calvin College, [email protected] Christopher F. Silver, Wilfrid Laurier University, [email protected] “Religion and Civic Engagement” Christopher F. J. Ross, Wilfrid Laurier University, Corwin E. Smidt, Calvin College, [email protected] [email protected]
“Preaching from the Bully Pulpit: Religion and the Public “Research in the Sociology of Buddhism: Past Results and Presidency” New Findings” Adam L. Warber, Clemson University, [email protected] Buster Smith, Baylor University, [email protected] Laura R. Olson, Clemson University, [email protected] “Science of the Mind: The Input of Your Mind Can Make All “Religion, Politics, and Civil Society in Putin’s Russia” the Difference” Alexey D. Krindatch, Graduate Theological Union, Soo-kyung Hwang, Dongguk University, [email protected] [email protected]
C-7 The Burned Over District and the Failure of C-9 Aspects of Catholicism (SSSR) Prophecy in New Religious Movements (Association for the Academic Study of New Religions) Regency C Convener: Mary Bendyna, Georgetown University, Convener: [email protected] Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University New Orleans, [email protected] “The Impact of Movements on the Life of a Diocese: Framing the Question(s), Suggesting Some Answers” “Reconsidering Failed Prophecy” Nathan Kollar, St. John Fisher College, [email protected] J. Gordon Melton, Institute for the Study of American Religion, [email protected] “Changing Cultures among Religious Virtuosi” Lluis Oviedo, Pontificia Universita Antonianum, “Failed Prophecies and Stigmatized Knowledge” [email protected] Michael Barkun, Syracuse University, [email protected] “The Tail Wagging the Dog: Irish and Latino Catholicism in “The Role of Prophecy in the Success and Failure of NRMs: the United States” The Church Universal and Triumphant” Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, Brooklyn College CUNY, Lorne Dawson, University of Waterloo, [email protected] [email protected] Brad Whitsel, Pennsylvania State University, “The Pope and the Heretics: Representations of Cults and [email protected] Religions in 125 Years of Modern Encyclicals”
Page 8 Dimitri della Faille, University of Quebec at Montreal, “Weekly Church Attendance in a Midwestern City in 2004” [email protected] Paul J. Olson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] C-10 Data Available for Congregational Planning (RRA) Wilmorite A “Religious Capital and Participation” Jason Wollschleger, University of Washington, Convener: [email protected] Perry Chang, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), [email protected] “Empirical Economic Analysis of Church Growth “Seek It” Determinants in Finland” C. Jeff Woods, American Baptist Churches, U.S.A., Esa Mangeloja, University of Jyvaskyla, [email protected] [email protected] “Vision Without Sight: The Popular Congregational Material” “Religious Belief, Religious Participation, and Social Policy Anthony E. Healy, Visions Decisions, aeh@visions- Attitudes across Countries” decisions.com John D. Huber, Columbia University, [email protected]
“Using Civic and Congregational Data to Project and Plan for D-2 Fertile Faithful Families? Patterns of Family Size the Future” and Religiosity (ASREC) Grand B Regina Murphy, Diocese of Buffalo, [email protected] Convener/Discussant: Evelyn Lehrer, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Research As an Outreach Tool” [email protected] Angelina Iturrian, North American Ministries, [email protected] “Religion and Changes in Family-Size Norms in Developed Countries” C-11 Religious Conversion in Latin America (SSSR) Alicia Adsera, University of Illinois at Chicago, Wilmorite B [email protected]
Conveners: “Caring and Providing: How Religion Affects Men’s and Henri Gooren, Utrecht University, [email protected] Women’s Work-Family Strategies” Virginia Garrard-Burnett, University of Texas at Austin, Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota, [email protected] [email protected] “Household Catholic Education and Children’s Performance: “San La Muerte in the Metropolis: Applying Social A Spanish Example” Movement Theory to the Study of Folk Religion in Argentina” Pablo Brañas-Garza, Universidad de Granada, [email protected] Alejandro Frigerio, Catholic University of Argentina and National Council for Scientific Research, “The Relationship between Religion and Fertility: Evidence [email protected] for Austria” Carlos Rivero, Catholic University of Argentina, Guido Heineck, Austrian Institute for Family Studies, [email protected] [email protected]
“The Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus in the United States” D-3 Parish Pastoral Ministers Serving in Catholic Virginia Garrard-Burnett, University of Texas at Austin, Parishes: No Longer Just an Emerging Model (RRA) [email protected] Grand C
“Religious Diversity in Central America: An Historical Convener: Perspective” Michael Cieslak, Diocese of Rockford, Clifton L. Holland, Evangelical University of the Americas, [email protected] [email protected] “The Spiritual and Professional Developmental Needs of 3:00-4:30 PM Catholic Parish Minisers” Charles Zech, Villanova University, D-1 Causes and Consequences of Religious [email protected] Participation (ASREC) Grand A Robert Miller, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, [email protected] Convener/Discussant: Anthony Gill, University of Washington, “The Evolution of Employment Practices of Lay Parish [email protected] Ministers: A National Study of 1990-2004 Data” David DeLambo, Diocese of Cleveland, [email protected]
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“Ethnic Identity of Pastoral Ministers: Methodological “Comparing the Global Growth Rates and Distributions of Elusiveness” Adventists, Mormons, and Witnesses” Mary L. Gautier, Georgetown University, Ronald Lawson, Queens College CUNY, [email protected] [email protected] Discussant: “Paradigm Changes in the History of the Catholic Church” Eugene Lauer, National Pastoral Life Center, [email protected] Ismail Demirezen, Catholic University of America, [email protected] D-4 What Research Denominations Need Done and the Data They Have to Do It (RRA) Grand E “Attitudes toward Traditional and New Religions in Russia, 1991-2005” Convener: Kimmo Kaariainen, Church Research Institute, Jack Marcum, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), [email protected] [email protected] Vyacheslav Karpov, Western Michigan University, [email protected] Panelists: Mary Bendyna, Georgetown University, D-7 New Religious Movements I (SSSR) Regency C [email protected] Ken Crow, Church of the Nazarene, [email protected] Convener: Jack Marcum, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Al Herzog, Ohio State University-Newark Campus, [email protected] [email protected] Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin, [email protected] “The Goddess, Gender Equity, and Teenage Witches: A Cross-National Study” D-5 Reviving Class in the Scientific Study of Religion Helen A. Berger, West Chester University, (SSSR) Grand F [email protected] Douglas Ezzy, University of Tasmania, Conveners: [email protected] Sean P. McCloud, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, [email protected] “Nuwaubian Gnosis: Criminal Prosecution or Racial William A. Mirola, Marian College, [email protected] Persecution? A New Religious Movement’s History of Conflict” “Exploring the Class Cultural Anchors of Fundamentalism” Susan Palmer, Dawson College, Thaddeus Coreno, Saint Vincent College, [email protected] [email protected] Paul Greenhouse, Independent filmmaker, “Putting Some Class in American Religion: Redescribing and [email protected] Reincorporating a Neglected Variable” Sean P. McCloud, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, “The New World Lucumi and the Old World Yoruba” [email protected] Amanda Royce Paige, Independent scholar, [email protected] “Class and Denominational Differences in Attitudes toward the Role of Congregations in Community Life and Public D-8 Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Religion in North Policy” America (SSSR) Carson A William A. Mirola, Marian College, [email protected] Convener/Discussant: “Neighbors in the Pews: An Empirical Analysis of Social Frances Kostarelos, Governors State University, f- Status Diversity in Christian Congregations” [email protected] Philip Schwadel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] “Four Typologies of Orthopraxis among Orthodox Christians in America: A Preliminary Investigation” Discussant: Anton Vrame, Graduate Theological Union, [email protected] Philip Schwadel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] "The inner realities of the Orthodox parish life: how much do we know about?" instead of “The Eastern Orthodox Churches: D-6 How Firm a Foundation? Religious Growth Rates The Eternal ‘Strangers’ to the American Religious (ASREC/RRA/SSSR) Grand G Landscape?” Alexey Krindatch, Graduate Theological Union, [email protected] Convener: Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University, [email protected] Page 10 “Orthodox College Ministry: An Examination of D-11 Religion in Africa (SSSR) Wilmorite B Contemporary Practice” Convener: Jeffrey D. Citro, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of James V. Spickard, University of Redlands, Theology, [email protected] [email protected]
D-9 Religion and Politics II (SSSR) Carson B “Multiplying the Audience while Consolidating Identity: The Online Reporting of South African Religion” Convener: Joyce Smith, Ryerson University, [email protected] Corwin E. Smidt, Calvin College, [email protected] “The Role of Religious Institutions in South Africa’s “Support for the Christian Right among Republican Democratic Transition” Presidential Donors, 2000: Methodological and Substantive Steve Offut, Boston University, [email protected] Issues” Daniel A. Cox, Georgetown University, “Multiplying Resources and Research in Africa” [email protected] H. Jurgens Hendriks, Stellenbosch University, [email protected] Cynthia P. Fleming, Georgetown University, [email protected] “Can Africa Help Herself? The NetACT Story and Its Carin L. Larson, Georgetown University, Promise for Relevant Contextual Theology in Africa” [email protected] Uma Onwunta, Stellenbosch University, [email protected] Joseph M. Sempolinski, Georgetown University, [email protected] 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. RRA H. Paul Douglass Alexis B. Sherman, Georgetown University, Lecture: “All Creatures Great and Small: [email protected] Megachurches in Context,” Mark A. Chaves -Grand Clyde Wilcox, Georgetown University, B [email protected]
“Religion and the Development of Civic Skills” 6:3 0 p.m. - Reception and Cash Bar – Grand Foyer James M. Penning, Calvin College, [email protected] “Religion and the Bases of Political Decision-Making” 8:00 p.m. – Informal gathering for scholars Kevin R. den Dulk, Grand Valley State University, interested in the study of the Roman Catholic Church [email protected] Regency C
“Religion and Political Tolerance” SATURDAY, November 5 Douglas Koopman, Hope College, [email protected]
D-10 Charismatic/Pentecostal Spirituality (SSSR) 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. SSSR Business Meeting Wilmorite A Regency C
Convener: 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Registration – Wilmoritie Foyer Hillary Warren, Otterbein College, [email protected] 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Book Exhibit – Regency AB “Pentecostal Conversion Careers in Latin America” Henri Gooren, Utrecht University, [email protected] 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Rochester City Tour & Eastman “‘I Will Show Ye Things That Must Be Hereafter’ (cf. House Revelation 4:1 ): Prophetic Authority, Charismatic Leadership, and the Conversion of British Branch Davidians” Poster Session – Grand Foyer Kenneth G. C. Newport, Liverpool Hope University College, [email protected] 8:00-10:00 AM “Multiplying Beliefs and Behaviors”
“Cultural Qualities of Global Pentecostalism: A Review of “Caring Work in Unsettled Religious Contexts” the Literature” Karen A. Bradley, Central Missouri State University, Michael Wilkinson, Trinity Western University, [email protected] [email protected] “The Relationship between Religion and Abortion Decisions” “A Cloud of Witnesses: Variations in the Apprehension of Jacob Felson, Pennsylvanis State University, Charismatic Authority as a Key to Resilience in New [email protected] Religious Movements” Amy Adamcyzk, Pennsylvania State University, Susan M. Setta, Northeastern University, [email protected] [email protected]
Page 11 “Evangelical ‘Pop’ Culture Texts: Reflection and Convener/Discussant: Reinforcement” Paul Froese, Baylor University [email protected] Malcolm Gold, Malone College, [email protected] “Methods of Religious Persuasion” “The Design and Development of New Online Software Mark Hartlaub, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Tools” [email protected] Chris Bader, Baylor University, Christopher Fisher, University of North Texas, [email protected] [email protected] Paul Froese, Baylor University, [email protected] “Inward, Outward, Upward Prayer: Positive and Negative Associations” “American Religious Families: Reviewing Denominational Kevin L. Ladd, Indiana University South Bend, Data and Heritage Online” [email protected] Heather Kindell, Pennsylvania State University, Ted Swanson, Indiana University South Bend, [email protected] [email protected] Trisha Metz, Indiana University South Bend, [email protected] “The ARDA Learning Modules: Developing New Online Course Assignments and Tutorials” “Wants, Needs, and Desires: The Expectations of the Clergy” Chris Scheitle, Pennsylvania State University, Jonathan Malone, University of Dayton, [email protected] [email protected] “New Sources of Religion Data: Recent and Forthcoming “Religious Growth and Change in Young Adulthood” Additions to the ARDA” Carina McCormick, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University, [email protected] [email protected] E-3 The Theological Education of Latinos in the 21st “Cloning for Children: Belief in God and Technological Century (RRA) Grand C Transcendence as Predictors of Attitudes” Michael Nielsen, Georgia Southern University, Convener: [email protected] Sharon Miller, Auburn Seminary, [email protected] William Sims Bainbridge, National Science Foundation, [email protected] “Training the Future of Latino Religious Leaders: The Experience of Seminarians” “Pilgrims, Seekers, and History Buffs: Identity Creation Milagros Pena, University of Florida, [email protected] through Religious Tourism” Edwin I. Hernandez, University of Notre Dame, Sarah Bill Schott, Loyola University Chicago, [email protected] [email protected] Caroline Sotello Turner, Arizona State University, 8:30-10:00 AM [email protected]
E-1 Piety, Prosperity, and Pluralism (ASREC) Grand A “The Pipeline Begins Here: The Experience of Latino/a Faculties” Convener/Discussant: Daniel M. Hungerman, Duke Caroline Sotello Turner, Arizona State University, University, [email protected] [email protected]
“Why Hasn’t Economic Growth Killed Religion?” Edwin I. Hernandez, University of Notre Dame, Michael McBride, University of California at Irvine, [email protected] [email protected] Milagros Pena, University of Florida, [email protected] “Influence of Socio-Economic Variables on Religious Juan Carlos Gonzalez, Arizona State University, Activities of Individuals: A Fuzzy Set Theoretic Approach” [email protected] Ishita Datta Ray, Pailan College of Management and Technology, [email protected] Kate Dillon Hogan, Arizona State University, [email protected]
Tuhin K. Das, Jadavpur University, [email protected] “Education for Hispanic Ministries at ATS Seminaries: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, and Side Steps” “Religious Beliefs, Longevity, and the Costs of Fundraising” Efrain Agosto, Hartford Seminary, [email protected] Zsolt Becsi, Southern Illinois University, [email protected] Adair Lummis, Hartford Seminary, [email protected] Edwin I. Hernandez, University of Notre Dame, E-2 The American Religion Data Archive: Recent and [email protected] Forthcoming Developments (ASREC/SSSR) Grand B
Page 12 E-4 Religion and Politics III (SSSR) Grand E Mark D. Regnerus, University of Texas at Austin, [email protected] Convener: Viviana Salinas, University of Texas at Austin, Douglas L. Koopman, Hope College, [email protected] [email protected]
“Whither America? The Religious Right, the Religious Left, E-7 Religion, Psychology, and Mental Health (SSSR) and American Civil Religion in the 2004 Presidential Regency C Election” Anne Blue Wills, Davidson College, [email protected] Convener: Kevin J. Flannelly, Health Care Chaplaincy, “There Is No ‘Catholic Vote’: Predicting Varying Catholic [email protected] Perspectives on U.S. Social Welfare Policy” “Integration of Spirituality and Religious Content into Frank Ridzi, LeMoyne College, [email protected] Doctoral Education in Psychology: A National Survey” Jillian Ruhland, LeMoyne College, [email protected] Timothy B. Smith, Brigham Young University, [email protected] “It Was the War with Iraq, Stupid, Not Moral Values” Rachel Crook Lyons, Brigham Young University, Stephen D. Johnson, Ball State University, [email protected] [email protected] Joseph Tamney, Ball State University, [email protected] Kari O’Grady, Brigham Young University, [email protected]
E-5 Meet the Author: The Kingdom Is Always but “Religious Concepts and Explicit Cognitive Systems: Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch by Christopher H. Rethinking the Modular View of Mind and the Development Evans (SSSR) Grand F of Religious Beliefs and Actions” James A. Van Slyke, Fuller Theological Seminary, Convener: [email protected] James K. Wellman, University of Washington, [email protected] “Is There a Growing Space for Religion in the Therapy Room? A Review of Psychotherapy Research, 2000-2005” Author: Janette Roseth, University of Bergen, Christopher H. Evans, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity [email protected] School, [email protected] E-8 Religio-political Movements (SSSR) Carson A Respondents: William Hutchison, Harvard University, Convener: Kraig K. Beyerlein, University of North Carolina [email protected] at Chapel Hill, [email protected] Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago, “Congregations Organizing for Change in Rochester, New [email protected] York” Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick, Diana L. Jones, Vanderbilt University, [email protected] [email protected] Gary Tyman, Interfaith Action E-6 The African HIV/AIDS Crisis (SSSR) Grand G Roxie Sinkler, Interfaith Action, [email protected] Convener: Brian Kane, Interfaith Action, [email protected] H. Jurgens Hendriks, Stellenbosch University, [email protected] Paul W. Speer, Vanderbilt University, [email protected] “Challenges Confronting Christian Theological Institutions in Africa” “Why Religion Isn’t Green: Explaining the Absence of Devison T. Banda, Justo Mwale Theological College, Religions in the Americn Environmental Movement” [email protected] Stephen Ellingson, Hamilton College, [email protected]
“Religious Responses to AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: An “Secular Conservative Philanthropy’s Seeking to Influence Examination of Religious Congregations in Rural Malawi” Mainline Protestant Churches” Jenny Trinitapoli, University of Texas at Austin, Nicole Seibert, SUNY College of Technology, [email protected] [email protected] Andrew J. Weaver, Boston Wesleyan Association, “Leadership Role of Women in the Charismatic Movement in [email protected] Ghana” Kwasi Yirenkyi, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, E-9 Religion and Immigration (SSSR) Carson B [email protected] Convener: “Religious Affiliation, Ethnicity, and AIDS-Related Helen Rose Ebaugh, University of Houston, [email protected] Discrimination in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Page 13 “Strong Religion and the Hard Sciences” Lynne Gerber, Graduate Theological Union, Richard Cimino, New School for Social Research, [email protected] [email protected] “From Antichrist to Millennial Harbinger: American “Transnationalism and Religious Identities: Cambodian Theologies of the United Nations” Refugees in Ontario” Tona Hangen, Brandeis University, [email protected] Janet McLellan, Wilfrid Laurier University, [email protected] E-12 New Approaches to Researching Spirituality: “Comparing the Mediating Role of the Catholic Church in the Methods and Findings (SSSR) Wilson Boardroom Assimilation of Haitian Immigrants in Miami, Montreal, and Paris” Convener: Margarita Mooney, Princeton University, Gary D. Bouma, Monash University, [email protected] [email protected]
“Moral Authority in New Immigrant Religions” “Influences on Youth Spirituality (‘The Spirit of Generation Fred Kniss, Loyola University Chicago, [email protected] Y’ Project)” Andrew Singleton, Monash University, E-10 Religious Change in Chinese Societies (SSSR) [email protected] Wilmorite A “Varieties of Youth Spirituality (‘The Spirit of Generation Y’ Convener/Discussant: Project)” Mark Mullins, Sophia University, [email protected] Michael Mason, Australian Catholic University, [email protected] “Secularization or Rationalization? Religious Change in Taiwan, 1985-2001” “Social Consequences of Youth Spirituality (‘The Spirit of Fenggang Yang, Purdue University, [email protected] Generation Y’ Project)” Jiexia Elisa Zhai, University of Texas at Austin, Ruth Webber, Australian Catholic University, [email protected] [email protected]
“The Virtual Freedom of Religion: Buddhist and Christian “Using Census Data to Map Changes in Spirituality” Websites in China” Gary D. Bouma, Monash University, Dedong Wei, Renmin University of China, [email protected] [email protected] 10:15-11:45 AM “Confucianism as a Lived Religion? Ethnographic Notes from China F-1 The Relationship between Economic and Religious Anna Xiao Dong Sun, Princeton University, Conservatism in the United States (ASREC/SSSR) Grand [email protected] A
E-11 Aspects of Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism Convener/Discussant: Today (SSSR) Wilmorite B Charles North, Baylor University, [email protected]
Convener: “Unholy Alliance or a Match Made in Heaven? Welfare State James M. Penning, Calvin College, [email protected] Outcomes, the Economics of Religion, and the Logic of Conservative Political Coalitions” “A New Religious Fundamentalism Measure: Preliminary Jeff Cavanaugh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Work Based on the Principle of Intratextuality” [email protected] W. Paul Williamson, Henderson State University, [email protected] “The Political Economy of Beliefs: Why Fiscal and Social Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Conservatives/Liberals Come Hand-in-Hand” [email protected] Daniel L. Chen, University of Chicago, [email protected]
“Dovetailing the ‘End-Times’: A Comparative Analysis of “Religious and Economic Preferences: An Empirical Analysis Christian Evangelical and Islamic Fundamentalist Apocalyptic of State Tax Rates” Beliefs” Ayman Reda, Grand Valley State University, Cynthia E. Ayers, U.S. Army War College, [email protected] [email protected] James White, U.S. Army (Retired), [email protected]
“Changing Sinful Bodies and the Generation of an Evangelical Habitus” Page 14 F-2 Scriptural Interpretation (ASREC/SSSR) Grand B Adair Lummis, Hartford Seminary, [email protected] Convener: William McKinney, Pacific School of Religion, Nancy T. Ammerman, Boston University, [email protected] [email protected]
“Reading an American Scripture: Interpreting Mormon’s F-5 The NYU Press Series on Qualitative Studies of Book” Religion: Talking about Methods (SSSR) Grand F Terryl Givens, University of Richmond, [email protected] Conveners: Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota, [email protected] Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri, [email protected] “‘Christ Overcame Through Scripture’: Scripture and the Presenter 1: Branch Davidians” Evangelical Christian Women Jaime Clark-Soles, Southern Methodist University, Julie Ingersoll, University of North Florida, [email protected] [email protected] Presenter 2: “Patriarchy or Gender Equality? Re-Examining New The Virgin of El Barrio Testament Writings in the Light of Becker’s Treatise on the Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Augustana College, renabhan- Family and Notions of Spiritual Capital” [email protected] Carrie Miles, George Mason University, [email protected] Presenter 3: Every Time I Feel the Spirit “Deus Economicus” Timothy J. Nelson, University of Pennsylvania, Paul Oslington, University of New South Wales, [email protected] [email protected] F-6 Religion and Health II (RRA/SSSR) Grand G F-3 Collecting Denominational Data Via the Web (RRA) Grand C Convener: Daniel M. Huber, University of Northern Iowa, Convener: [email protected] Ida Smith-Williams, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), [email protected] “Health and Mental Health among Latter-day Saints: An Evaluation of Potential Moderating and Mediating Effects” “Collecting ELCA Annual Congregational Reports Via the Timothy B. Smith, Brigham Young University, Web” [email protected] Marty Smith, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, [email protected] “Religious Commitment, Egoistic Success Orientation, and Alcohol Abuse in the Post-Collegiate Life Course” “Using the Internet to Facilitate Collection and Dissemination H. Wesley Perkins, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, of Annual Denominational Data” [email protected] Mary L. Gautier, Georgetown University, [email protected] “Health Promotion, Emotional Health, and Religion among African Americans” “Letting People Mess with Your Database: The Church of the Melvin E. Gonnerman, Jr., University of Northern Iowa, Nazarene Experience” [email protected] Dale Jones, Church of the Nazarene, [email protected] Gene M. Lutz, University of Northern Iowa, [email protected] “Did I Forget Something? Tips and Pitfalls to Collecting Michele Yehieli, University of Northern Iowa, Data On-Line” [email protected] Kris Valerius, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Bruce K. Meisinger, Black Hawk County Health Department, [email protected] [email protected]
F-4 Making Our Research Helpful to Denominations “Religion and Mental Health: Advantages and Drawbacks of (RRA) Grand E Utilizing Matters Related to Faith in the Treatment of Behavioral Health Issues” Convener: William J. Elenchin, Capella University, James W. Lewis, The Louisville Institute, jlewis@louisville- [email protected] institute.org
Panelists: Dean Hoge, Catholic University of America, [email protected]
Page 15 F-7 American Catholic Laity Today (SSSR) Regency C F-10 Research on the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (RRA) Wilmorite A Convener: David A. Yamane, Wake Forest University, Convener: [email protected] Mary Bendyna, Georgetown University, [email protected] “Voice of the Faithful: A Sociological Study of a Lay Catholic Social Movement” “Influence of Voluntary Service in JVC on Career Choice, Anthony J. Pogorelc, Catholic University of America, Voluntary Participation, and Community Involvement” [email protected] Kurt Schlichting, Fairfield University, William V. D’Antonio, Catholic University of America, [email protected] [email protected] “Religious Commitment and Social Justice Attitudes among “Negotiating Intra-Institutional Movement Identities: Participants in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps” Augmenting the Neo-Institutional Model” Paul Perl, Georgetown University, [email protected] Tricia Mein, University of California at Santa Barbara, [email protected] “Ruined for Life: The Spirituality of Former Jesuit Volunteers” “Voice of the Faithful and Religious Agency” Simon J. Hendry, Loyola University New Orleans, Laura M. Leming, University of Dayton, [email protected] [email protected] “Enduring Influences from a Year of Voluntary Service: JVC “‘The Spirit Is Talking’: Lay Catholic Identity Construction and Adult Faith Formation” among Female Laity” Thomas Gaunt, Jesuit Conference Washington, DC, Matthew R. D’Aprile, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, [email protected] [email protected] F-11 Aspects of Secularism (SSSR) Wilmorite B F-8 Religious Discrimination and Tolerance (SSSR) Carson A Convener: John O’Hara, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Convener: [email protected] Ted G. Jelen, DePauw University, [email protected] “Another Generation of Seekers? Unchurched Parents and “Pluralism, Tolerance, and Democracy: Theory and Practice the Religious Education of their Children” in Europe” Christel Manning, Sacred Heart University, Grace Davie, University of Exeter, [email protected] [email protected]
“Assessing the Impact of Religious Terminology on the “Neglecting the ‘Nots’ in the Northwest: Irreligion as a Facet Formation of Attitudes toward Muslims: A Preliminary of the Study of ‘Religion’” Experimental Study” Frank L. Pasquale, Independent scholar, [email protected] R. David Hayward, University of Nevada at Reno, [email protected] “The Spread of Irreligion” Robert J. Montgomery, Independent scholar, “Religious Dialogue and Discrimination: Second-Generation [email protected] Asian American Perspectives” Jerry Z. Park, Baylor University, [email protected] “From Secularism to Alternative Secularities and Post- secularities: Islam and Secularity in the Thought of F-9 A Review of Richard Bushman’s Cultural Abdolkarim Soroush and Seyyed Hossein Nasr” Biography of the Prophet Joseph Smith (MSSA) Carson B Ali Galestan, University of Toronto, [email protected]
Convener: F-12 Developing Content for the Second Wave of the Jan Shipps, Indiana University Purdue University at National Congregations Study Wilson Board Room Indianapolis, [email protected] Panelists: This session will be an open discussion aimed at shaping Ryan Cragun, University of Cincinnati, [email protected] the content of the NCS-II questionnaire. Rick Phillips, University of North Florida, [email protected] Gordon Shepherd, University of Central Arkansas, Convener: Mark Chaves, University of Arizona, [email protected] [email protected] Gary Shepherd, Oakland University, [email protected]
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12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. TANSTAAFL Lunch for Convener: Religion and Economics - Palladio Luther H. Martin, University of Vermont, [email protected] “It’s Hard to Imagine What God Looks Like: Imagery Effects 1:15-2:45 PM on the Recall of Counterintuitive Concepts” D. Jason Slone, Webster University, [email protected] G-1 Religion, Economics, and Culture (ASREC) Afzal Upal, University of Toledo Grand A “Stupa, Relic, and Hungry Ghosts: Can I Borrow Your Convener/Discussant: Agency for a Second?” Paul Froese, Baylor University, [email protected] William W. McCorkle, Jr., Queen’s University Belfast, [email protected] “The Neo Cultural Economics” “God from the Machine” Luigi Guiso, University of Chicago, [email protected] William Sims Bainbridge, National Science Foundation, Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago, [email protected] [email protected] Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University, paola- “Are the Neurosciences Essential for the Study of Religion?” [email protected] Donald Wiebe, University of Toronto, “Religion and the Political Organization of Muslims in [email protected] Europe” Carolyn M. Warner, Arizona State University, G-4 Meet the Author: Soul Searching by Christian [email protected] Smith (RRA) Grand E Manfred W. Wenner, Arizona State University, [email protected] Convener: Daniel V. A. Olson, Indiana University South Bend “A Model of Religious Schism with Application to Islam” M. T. Maloney, Clemson University, [email protected] Author: A. Kadir Civan, [email protected] Christian Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mary Frances Maloney, University of Chicago, [email protected] [email protected] Respondents: “Church Taxes – What Are We Paying For? Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado, Bengt O. Haraldsson, Goteborg University, [email protected] [email protected] Rhys Williams, University of Cincinnati, [email protected] Dean Hoge, Catholic University of America, [email protected] G-2 Religious Commitment and Economic Development W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia, (ASREC) Grand B [email protected]
Convener/Discussant: G-5 Meet the Author: Born Again Bodies by R. Marie Masas Ogaki, Ohio State University, [email protected] Griffith (SSSR) Grand F state.edu “The Effects of Religious Affiliation and Participation on Convener: High-School Completion: Differences by Race and Ethnicity” Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri, [email protected] Evelyn L. Lehrer, University of Illinois at Chicago, [email protected] Author: R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University, “Religious Networks and Trust” [email protected] Joseph P. Daniels, Marquette University, [email protected] Respondents: Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College, [email protected] “The Role of Religion on Regional Growth Differences” Courtney Bender, Columbia University, [email protected] Brian Osoba, University of Texas at El Paso, Barbara D. Savage, University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] [email protected]
“Religion and Economic Development: Exploring Possible Causal Mechanisms” Robert D. Woodberry, University of Texas at Austin, [email protected] Page 17 G-6 Religion and Coping (SSSR) Grand G G-8 Religion in Canada (SSSR) Carson A
Convener: Convener: Mark Regnerus, University of Texas at Austin, Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick, [email protected] [email protected]
“Forgiveness, Religious Commitment, and Well-Being “Sincerity of Belief, Validity of Religion: Masking Substance among Young to Middle-Aged Adults” with Form” H. Wesley Perkins, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Lori G. Beaman, Concordia University, [email protected] [email protected] “Happiness and Spiritual Inequality in Selected High Income Countries” “Religion among Second-Generation Immigrant Youth in Esa Mangeloja, University of Jyvaskyla, [email protected] Canada: Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists” Tatu Hirvonen, University of Jyvaskyla, [email protected] Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa, [email protected]
“Beliefs about the Afterlife and the Emotional Reactions of “A Canadian Culture War? Evidence from the 2004 Women and Men to the Death of Loved Ones” Canadian Election Study” Kevin J. Flannelly, Health Care Chaplaincy, Carol Ann MacGregor, Princeton University, [email protected] [email protected] Laura T. Flannelly, Long Island Crisis Center, [email protected] G-9 Understanding Catholic Faith Practices: Empirical Kathleen Galek, Health Care Chaplaincy, Data from the FACT Survey and Other Sources (RRA) [email protected] Carson B Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin, [email protected] Convener: Andrew J. Weaver, Boston Wesleyan Association, Mary Beth Celio, Archdiocese of Seattle, [email protected] [email protected]
“Denominational Variations in Religious Doubting” “Catholic Financial Resources: Gleanings from the FACT Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin, Survey” [email protected] Charles Zech, Villanova University, [email protected] Wei Zhang, University of Texas at Austin, [email protected] “One Church, Many Cultures: Diversity in the American Parish” G-7 Gender and Religious Identity (SSSR) Regency C Ruth Doyle, Fordham University, [email protected]
Convener: “Catholic Liturgy and Outreach: Gleanings from the FACT Georgie Ann Weatherby, Gonzaga University, Survey” [email protected] Mary Beth Celio, Archdiocese of Seattle, “A Piety of Ambivalence: How to Study Identity Formation [email protected] and Boundary Negotiation” Melissa Proctor, Brown University, G-10 Mobilizing the Religious Capital of Clergy and Laity [email protected] (SSSR) Wilmorite A
“The Ethos of ‘Voluntary Otherness’ and the Hijab: American Conveners: Muslim Women and Their Attempt to Define Their Identity Deborah Bruce, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and Create Space in the Public Sphere” [email protected] Saeed A. Khan, Wayne State University, [email protected] Cynthia Woolever, Hartford Seminary, [email protected] “Judged and Castigated: Muslim Women, Religion, and Patriarchy” “Pastoring Small Congergations: The Impact of Maleeha Aslam, Cambridge University, [email protected] Congregational Size on Clergy Experiences” Deborah Bruce, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), “Addressing the ‘Universal’ Gender Difference in [email protected] Religiousness: Part I of an Extensive Empirical Examination of Stark’s ‘Physiology and Faith’ Proposition” “The Other Half of Health: Patterns of Lay Leadership in Matt Bradshaw, University of Texas at Austin, Declining Churches” [email protected] Cynthia Woolever, Hartford Seminary, [email protected]
Page 18 “Religious Congregations as Havens of Participatory Equality Terry Wolfer, University of South Carolina, or Fortresses of Privilege? Evidence from the U.S. [email protected] Congregational Life Survey” Perry Chang, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), “The Changing Role of Religiously Affiliated Child and [email protected] Family Serving Agencies” Ida Smith-Williams, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Isaac V. Gusukuma, Baylor University, [email protected] [email protected]
“Size Does Matter: Church Size and Clergy Burnout” “Brethren in Christ Attitudes toward Peacemaking: Data from Keli Rugenstein, The Samarian Institute, [email protected] Longitudinal Surveys” Ron Burwell, Messiah College, [email protected] 3:00-4:30 PM “Politics, Public Issues, and Religiosity: Seventh-Day Adventists” H-1 Keynote Session (ASREC) Roger Dudley, Andrews University, [email protected]
“The Role of Islamic Law in the Economic Evolution of the H-4 New Religious Movements II (SSSR) Grand E Middle East.” Convener: Convener: Eli Berman Helen A. Berger, West Chester University, [email protected] Speaker: Timur Kuran “Count the Candles and Divide by Two: Methodological Professor of Economics and Law & King Faisal Professor of Considerations in the Quantification of Contemporary Islamic Thought and Culture, University of Southern Paganism” California, [email protected] Douglas E. Cowan, University of Missouri-Kansas City, [email protected] H-2 Religion and Social Networks (SSSR) Grand B “The History of the Development of New Religions Studies Convener: in the Seventies and Eighties: Multiple New Religions, Christian Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Multiple Theories, Multiple Methods” [email protected] W. Michael Ashcraft, Truman State University, [email protected] “Religion and Civic Engagement: Modeling Mechanisms” Kraig Beyerlein, University North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Perspectives on New Religious Movements” [email protected] Thomas Robbins, Independent scholar, [email protected] “Shared Visions, Imagined America: Religion and Symbolic Phillip Lucas, Stetson University, [email protected] Boundaries in American Life” Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota, [email protected] H-5 The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Eric Tranby, University of Minnesota, [email protected] Roman Catholic Church: An Agenda for Research (RRA) “Informal Care by Congregations” Grand F Ram A. Cnaan, University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Convener: Charlene C. McGrew, University of Pennsylvania, Paul Sullins, Catholic University of America, [email protected] [email protected] “Catholic Social Teaching and International Life” John A. Coleman, Loyola Marymount University, “Networks, Nomos, and Norms: Religion and Marital Quality [email protected] among Latinos, Anglos, and African Americans” W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia, “Charting an Agenda for Research in Light of the Vatican’s [email protected] Recent Statement of Its Social Doctrine” James C. Cavendish, University of South Florida, H-3 Social and Political Issues (RRA) Grand C [email protected]
Convener: “Intellectual Method of the Compendium: Critique” Marty Smith, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University, [email protected] [email protected]
“How Serving Others Can Shape the Lives of Faith-motivated James Montmarquet, Tennessee State University, Volunteers: What Church Leaders Need to Know about [email protected] Designing Community Ministry Programs” Diana Garland, Baylor University, [email protected] “The Compendium and Social Theories of Embodiment” Dennis Myers, Baylor University, [email protected] Paul Sullins, Catholic University of America, [email protected] Page 19 H-6 Interpreting Scripture and Sacred Texts “A Spiritual and Psychological Approach for Crime (RRA/SSSR) Grand G Prevention in a Sample of Women Prisoners in Turkey” Oznur Ozdogan, Ankara University, Convener: [email protected] Jaime Clark-Soles, Southern Methodist University, [email protected] Nuran Erdogruca,
“Historic Doubts Relative to Richard Whately: Did the “Religion and Parenting in the Lives of Ex-Offenders” Archbishop Believe in Miracles?” Christopher Wildeman, Princeton University, Rebecca Jarmas, George Mason University, [email protected] [email protected] “Searching Abraham’s God” Michele Ernandes, Universita di Palermo, “Changing Violent Religious Men: Searching for the Missing [email protected] Pieces of the Puzzle” Barbara Fisher-Townsend, University of New Brunswick, “Milk or Solid Food: An Application of Metaphor Theory to a [email protected] Dream of the Early Christian Female Martyr Perpetua” Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick, Patricia M. Davis, Graduate Theological Union, [email protected] [email protected] Lanette Ruff, University of New Brunswick, “Biblical Interpretation among Lay Anglicans in the Church [email protected] of England” Andrew Village, University of Wales, Bangor, H-9 Hinduism (SSSR) Carson B [email protected] Convener: H-7 Religion and Music (SSSR) Regency C Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa, [email protected]
Convener: “The Undiscovered Country: Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat As a Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado, Redefinition of North American Hinduism” [email protected] Christopher F. Silver, Wilfrid Laurier University, [email protected] “Between this World and the Next: Consuming Christian Praise and Worship Music” “‘She Has Your Mother’s Eyes’: Hindu Iconolatry and the Anna Nekola, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Compensatory Nature of Darsan” [email protected] Thomas B. Ellis, Appalachian State University, [email protected] “The Impact of Globalization on Islamic Popular Culture in Turkey: A Study of Green Novels and Islamic Music” “Hindu Worship at the Home Shrine and the Cultural Value Pinar Ozdemir, Ankara University, of Relationship: Constructing and Contextualizing a Self [email protected] through Puja” Melike Aktas, Ankara University, Janet Gunn, University of Ottawa, [email protected] “Jamaican Liturgy” “Context, Pretext, and Text: Modern Aghor Literature” “Prayer and Musical Stimuli: Theoretical Notes” Jishnu Shankar, Syracuse University, Kevin L. Ladd, Indiana University South Bend, [email protected] [email protected] H-10 Conducting Email or Web Surveys (RRA) H-8 Religion, Crime, and Incarceration (SSSR) Carson A Wilmorite A
Convener: Convener: Rachel M. Kraus, Ball State University, [email protected] Ida Smith-Williams, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), [email protected] “Religiosity and Motivation Assessment among Federal Inmates” “Weekly Attendance Patterns: An Experiment in Web-Based Okyun Kwon, Federal Bureau of Prisons, [email protected] Data Gathering” Scott D. Camp, Federal Bureau of Prisons, [email protected] Rich Houseal, Church of the Nazarene, [email protected] Jody Klein-Saffran, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Ken Crow, Church of the Nazarene, [email protected] [email protected] “Web Surveys: Applications in Denominational Research” Rebecca Sims, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, [email protected]
Page 20 “Does the Use of the Internet Introduce Response Bias in Religious Organizations?” Religious Research? The Case of the UCC Worship Survey” Arthur C. Brooks, Syracuse University, Marjorie H. Royle, Clay Pots Research, [email protected] [email protected] Destiny Shellhammer, United Church of Christ, “Faith-Based Charity and Crowd-out during the Great [email protected] Depression” Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Do Online Surveys Work? It Depends on the Audience” [email protected] Scott Thumma, Hartford Seminary, [email protected] Daniel M. Hungerman, Duke University, [email protected]
H-11 Resistance Hermeneutics in Diaspora Communities “Wrapped around Your Finger: Regulating Private Schools through Vouchers” Convener: Charles M. North, Baylor University, C. Shaun Longstreet, Texas A&M University, s- [email protected] [email protected] Deborah M. Oborny, Georgetown University, [email protected] “Abraham the Chaldean: Resistance Hermeneutics in the Book of Jubilees” “The Impact of Government Grants on Private Donations to C. Shaun Longstreet, Texas A&M University, s- Nonprofit Religious Organizations” [email protected] Thomas M. Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago, [email protected] “Are U.S. Politicians God’s Servants? Romans 13: 1-7 and Political Rhetoric” I-2 How Religion Affects the Status and Activities of Stacy Davis, St. Mary’s College, [email protected] Women and Children (ASREC) Grand B
“Anti-Imperial Hermeneutics in the Black Diaspora: Zora Convener/Discussant: Neale Hurston and African American Conjure” Carrie Miles, George Mason University, Hugh R. Page, Jr., University of Notre Dame, [email protected] [email protected] “Religious Background and the Labor Supply and Wages of 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. SSSR Presidential Plenary: “ Young Women” On Being a Community of Scholars: Practicing the Christopher M. Cornwell, University of Georgia, Study of Religion,” Nancy Ammerman – Grand D [email protected] Karen L. Tinsley, University of Georgia, [email protected] 6:30 p.m. Reception and Cash Bar – Grand Foyer Ronald S. Warren Jr., University of Georgia, [email protected] “Patterns of Inheritance of Spiritual Capital” 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 Annual SSSR Banquet and Awards David Voas, University of Manchester, [email protected] Ceremony – Grand DEFG “Does Religion Matter in Women’s Status in a Multicultural Context? The Case of Islam” 8:30 p.m. – 10:30 ASREC Social Yaghoob Foroutan, Australian National University, [email protected] SUNDAY, November 6 “Work, Money, and Leisure: Religion and the Economic Life of American Teens during the First Year after High School” Timothy J. Clydesdale, The College of New Jersey, 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. RRX Breakfast – Wilson Borad [email protected] Room I-3 Religious Markets (ASREC/SSSR) Grand C 7:00 a.m. – JSSR Editorial Board Meeting – Regency C Convener: Laurence R. Iannaccone, George Mason University, 8:30-10:00 AM [email protected]
I-1 Government’s Impact on Religious Education and “Religious Markets in the Globalization Process: The Case of Charity (ASREC/SSSR) Grand A Turkey” Ali Kirman, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Convener/Discussant: [email protected] Robert Stonebraker, Winthrop University, [email protected] “The Priest’s Dilemma: A Partial Explanation for Doctrinal Certainty within the Context of Ideological Pluralism” “Do Tax Incentives Increase Private Charitable Giving to Vernon Murray, Marist College, [email protected] Page 21 “‘Non-Market’ Religious Forces in Romania” “Does Worship Music Determine Diversification in Mihnea Vasilescu, University of Pittsburgh, Multiracial Congregations?” [email protected] Gerardo Marti, Davidson College, [email protected]
“Gender and Demographic Swings in the Cultural and “Race/Ethnic Variations in the Use of Family-Related Religious Climate: Some Lessons from the Islamic Republic Congregational Services” of Iran” Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin, Yaghoob Foroutan, Australian National University, [email protected] [email protected] I-7 Religion, Popular Music, and Culture (SSSR) I-4 African American Religion (RRA) Grand E Regency C
Conveners: Convener: Stephen D. Glazier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado, [email protected] [email protected] James V. Spickard, University of Redlands, [email protected] “‘God Hop’: Mass Mediating Black Muslim Theology” Felicia M. Miyakawa, Middle Tennessee State University, “Love for Sale: The Black Church and the Faith-based [email protected] Initiative” Gwen Alexis, Monmouth University, [email protected] “iPresence: Experiencing the Mediated Presence of God” Deborah Lubken, University of Pennsylvania, “Trends in and Comparison of African American Youths’ [email protected] Religious Engagement and Other Youth: Who Is (Still) Attending?” “The Jesus People Movement and the Rise of Christian Rock” Jill W. Sinha, Princeton University, [email protected] Shawn Young, Greenville College, [email protected] “Applying Complex Adaptive Systems to an African American Congregation” “Pop Culture Meets Pop Religion: Globalization in Hindi Gabrielle Wanamaker, Fielding Graduate University, Nightclubs and Muslim Pop” [email protected] Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado, [email protected] I-5 Religious Diversity in Latin America: From the Local to the Multinational (SSSR) Grand F I-8 Religion and National Identity (SSSR) Carson A
Conveners: Convener: Chris Chiappari, St. Olaf College, [email protected] Robert Woodberry, University of Texas at Austin, Henri Gooren, Utrecht University, [email protected] [email protected]
“Synthesizing Selves and Traditions: the Multiplicity of Maya “Religious Attendance and National Identities: Exploring the Identity and Practice in Highland Guatemala” Connection in Cross-National Context” Chris Chiappari, St. Olaf College, [email protected] Leslie Laczko, University of Ottawa, [email protected]
“The Pentecostalization of Religion and Society in Latin “‘Seek First the Kingdom’: Gospels of Prosperity in America” American Culture” Henri Gooren, Utrecht University, [email protected] Milmon F. Harrison, University of California at Davis, [email protected] “It’s a Church; It’s a Metachurch; It’s Definitely International: On the Social Organization of the International “The Emergence of Islamist Movements in Arab States: The Space of Religion in Latin America” Inadequacy of Modernist Explanations” David Clark Knowlton, Utah Valley State College, Abdullahi A. Gallab, Arizona State University, [email protected] [email protected]
I-6 Multicultural Congregational Development “Praying: How a Traditional Ritual Survives in a Secularized (RRA/SSSR) Grand G Society” Sarah Banziger, Radboud University Nijmegen, Convener: Michael Emerson, Rice University, [email protected] [email protected] “Asian American Evangelicals in a Multiethnic Society” Jacques Janssen, Radboud University Nijmegen, Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University, [email protected] [email protected]
Page 22 I-9 Religion in East Asia (SSSR) Carson B Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin, [email protected] Convener: Fenggang Yang, Purdue University, [email protected] “Developmental Patterns of Religious Activity among Urban African American Youth: Influences on Sexual Behavior” “Cultural Oppression and Losing One’s Spiritual Voice: A Kenneth J. Steinman, Ohio State University, Case for Elderly Japanese” [email protected] Naoki Okamura, Claremont School of Theology, Marc A. Zimmerman, University of Michigan, [email protected] [email protected]
“The Impact of the State on the Evolution of a Sect” “Love Styles, God Attachment, and Self Perception” Yunfeng Lu, Baylor University, [email protected] Ted Swanson, Indiana University South Bend, Graeme Lang, City University of Hong Kong, [email protected] [email protected] Karisa Wigington, Indiana University South Bend, [email protected] “Religion and Mental Health in Taiwan” Trisha Metz, Indiana University South Bend, [email protected] Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin, Kevin L. Ladd, Indiana University South Bend, [email protected] [email protected] Jiexia Elisa Zhai, University of Texas at Austin, [email protected] “Selection and Socialization in the Link between Friends’ Tai-hsi Daisy Fan, University of Texas at Austin, Religiosity and First Sex” [email protected] Amy Adamcyzk, Pennsylvania State University, I-10 Religion, Marriage, and Family (SSSR) Wilmorite A [email protected]
Convener: 10:15-11:45 AM W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia, [email protected] J-1 Causes and Consequences of Religious Conversion and Intermarriage (ASREC) Grand A “Religion and Family Relations: The Interactive Influence of Biology, Social Environments, and Religious Involvement on Convener/Discussant: Attachment to One’s Mother and Father” David Mustard, University of Georgia, Matt Bradshaw, University of Texas at Austin, [email protected] [email protected] Margaret Vaaler, University of Texas at Austin, “A Theory of Conversion to Exclusive Religious and Political [email protected] Faiths” Mario Ferrero, Universita degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Life Course Events and Religious Change: A Pooled Time- Amedeo Avogadro, [email protected] Series Analysis” Jonathan Hill, University of Notre Dame, [email protected] “Religious Switching in a Free Market: Lifetime Switching In “Gender Violence and the Price of Virginity: Theory and and Out of a Religious Identification” Evidence of Incomplete Marriage Contracts” Ariela Keysar, Brooklyn College CUNY, [email protected] Daniel L. Chen, University of Chicago, [email protected] Barry A. Kosmin, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, [email protected] “Religious Influences on Interracial Marriage” Kevin D. Dougherty, Baylor University, “Penalties of Intermarriage in the United States” [email protected] Alisa Lewin, University of Chicago, [email protected] Elicia Arai, Azusa Pacific University, [email protected] “The Effects of Religious Conversion on Spiritual Capital” I-11 Religion and Sexual Behavior (SSSR) Wilmorite B Marc Von der Ruhr, St. Norbert College, marc.von-der- [email protected] Convener: Tom Reynolds, St. Norbert College, [email protected] Evelyn L. Lehrer, University of Illinois at Chicago, [email protected] J-2 Contributions of Synagogue Studies to Congregational Studies: Challenges and Opportunities “Religion and Attitudes toward Population Issues among U.S. (RRA) Grand B Adults” Clifford Grammich, RAND Corporation, [email protected] Convener: Joseph E. Potter, University of Texas at Austin, J. Shawn Landres, University of California at Santa Barbara, [email protected] [email protected]
Julie DaVanzo, RAND Corporation, [email protected] Page 23 Panelists: J-5 Women as Religious Leaders (SSSR) Grand F Ron Wolfson, Synagogue 3000/ University of Judaism, Convener: [email protected] Joy Charlton, Swarthmore College, [email protected] Aaron Spiegel, Indianapolis Center for Congregations, [email protected] “Fitting in Theologically: Clergywomen, Laywomen and Richard Flory, Biola University, [email protected] Consequences for Church and Personal Growth” Lawrence Hoffman, S3K Synagogue Studies Institute/Hebrew Adair T. Lummis, Hartford Seminary, [email protected] Union College, [email protected] J. Shawn Landres, S3K Synagogue Studies Institute/UCLA, “Organic Transformation or Legislated Change? Women’s [email protected] Ordination in the Evangelical Covenant Church” Cynthia Woolever, Hartford Seminary, Lenore M. K. Johnson, Loyola University Chicago, [email protected] [email protected]
J-3 Alternative Methodologies (RRA) Grand C “Aimee in Arizona: Aimee Semple McPherson and Her ‘Resurrection’ in Douglas, Arizona” Convener: Charles Barfoot, Arizona State University, Paul Light, Light Consultants, [email protected] [email protected]
“The Logistics and Statistics of a Hybrid Mail and Online “Gender, Religion, and Activism: Historical and Survey” Contemporary Narratives of Women in Religiously Affiliated Neil Carlson, Calvin College, [email protected] Service Communities” Kathleen Tangenberg, Azusa Pacific University, kathleen- “Gathering Qualitative Data about Parish Closings and [email protected] Reorganizations in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston” J-6 Religious Conversion and Deconversion (SSSR) Brian H. McCorkle, Boston University, [email protected] Grand G Nancy T. Ammerman, Boston University, [email protected] Shelly Rambo, Boston University, [email protected] Convener: Ken Crow, Church of the Nazarene, [email protected] “An Internet Survey of Parish Closings and Reorganizations in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston” “An Idiographic Examination of Religious Conversion” J. P. Burns, Boston University, [email protected] Mark G. Hartlaub, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Brian H. McCorkle, Boston University, [email protected] [email protected] Lincoln Davis, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, “The Development of an Online Christian Social Network [email protected] that Integrates File-Sharing, Chat, and Blogging” Christopher Fisher, University of North Texas, Glen Moriarty, Regent University, [email protected] [email protected] “The Conversion Careers Approach: Why People Become J-4 Terrorism, New York City, and the Lingering and Remain Religiously Active” Effects of September 11 (SSSR) Grand E Henri Gooren, Utrecht University, [email protected]
Convener: “A Variety of Deconversion Trajectories: Cross-Cultural Charles Selengut, Drew University, [email protected] Research Results” Heinz Streib, Universitat Bielefeld, heinz.streib@uni- “Religion and Terrorism: Reflections on the Controversial bielefeld.de Conjunction” Ralph W. Hood, Jr., University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, Thomas B. Ellis, Appalachian State University, [email protected] [email protected] “Toward an Integrated Explanation of Conversion, “Terrorism, Posttraumatic Stress, Coping Strategies, and Commitment, and Deconversion” Spiritual Outcomes” David C. Moore, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Janice Bell Meisenhelder, Massachusetts General Hospital, [email protected] [email protected] Jack Marcum, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), J-7 “Doing” Sociology of Religion: Epistemological [email protected] Issues (SSSR) Carson B
“Emerging Religio-Civil Institutions of American Muslims in Convener: New York” Rhys Williams, University of Cincinnati, [email protected] Seyfi Kenan, ISAM Center for Islamic Studies, [email protected] “South Asia Studied by South Asian Diaspora” Pankaj Jain, University of Iowa, [email protected]
Page 24 “Defining the Public, Defining Sociology: Complementary J-9 Religious Imagination and God Images III (SSSR) Perspectives in the Study of Science and Religion” Wilmorite B Michael S. Evans, University of California at San Diego, [email protected] Convener: Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University, [email protected] “The Unfounded Totalitarian Tendency in Humanistic and Scientific Approaches to the Study of Religion” “Research on the Experience of God: Rethinking Mohammad Motahari Farimani, University of Toronto, Epistemological Assumptions” [email protected] Louis Hoffman, Colorado School of Professional Psychology, [email protected] “Truth in the Study of Religion” Christopher S. M. Grimes, Diakonos, Inc., Richard L. Gorsuch, Fuller Theological Seminary, [email protected] [email protected] Reyno Acoba, Alliant International University, [email protected] J-8 African Religions/African Religions in Diaspora Clarence M. Leung, Private practice, (RRA/SSSR) [email protected]
Convener: “The God-Reference Effect in Judgment Speed and Memory: James V. Spickard, University of Redlands, A New Experimental Paradigm for the Psychology of [email protected] Religion” Nicholas J. S. Gibson, University of Cambridge, “Tell My Feet I’ve Made It Home: African American [email protected] Imaginings of Home and the Journey to Find the Orixas” Fraser N. Watts, University of Cambridge, Patricia Williams Lessane, Wilbur Wright College, [email protected] [email protected] “Imaging and Imagining God in the Eucharist: A “It Is Not Yet Over Until It Is Over! Locating New African Psychological and Theological Conversation” Pentecostalism in Diaspora between Religious Trans- Rodolfo R. Nolasco, Providence College and Seminary, nationalism and Internationalism” [email protected] Afe Adogame, University of Bayreuth, afe.adogame@uni- bayreuth.de “The Sacramental Vision of the Shakers” Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University, [email protected] “Demanding Deities and Reluctant Devotees: Belief and Unbelief in the Trinidadian Orisha Movement” Stephen D. Glazier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected]
“The Clergy Apprenticeship Pattern in the African American Church” Timothy Larkin, University of Illinois at Chicago, [email protected]
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