PROGRAM SCHEDULE THURDAY, October, 21, 2004 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. RRA Board Meeting - Common Cognitive Processes as Barriers to Studying Boardroom Religion: What Can Social Cognition Research Teach Us? Mark G. Hartlaub, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Early Bird Tour Option:
[email protected] A Visit with the President A – 2 Symposium on the Role of the Imagination in Ethnographic Research — Amphitheater 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. SSSR Council Meeting - Boardroom Organizer and convener: Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University,
[email protected] 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Joint SSSR/RRA Panelists: Jim Spickard, University of Redlands, Council Dinner
[email protected] 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Registration J. Shawn Landres, University of California, Santa Barbara,
[email protected] 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Kick-off Reception and Frances Kostarelos, Governors State University, Welcome – Salon D
[email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Stevens-Arroyo, Brooklyn College, FRIDAY, October 22
[email protected] 8:00 – 9:50 a.m. A – 3 Studies in Mormonism I (cosponsored by MSSA) — Southmoreland A – 1 Thematic Session: The Scientific “Study” of Religion? — Plaza Organizer and convener: Lynn Payne, LDS Church,
[email protected] Convener: William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office,
[email protected] Peace Psychology and Religion: The Example of Mormonism. Michael Nielsen, Georgia Southern The Implosion of Religion and the Emergence of Atheism University,
[email protected] from the Scientific Study of Religions Jack David Eller, Community College of Denver, A Re-examination of Stark’s LDS Church Growth
[email protected] Projections by Individual Countries, Ryan Cragun, University of Cincinnati,
[email protected] A Disappointing Dalliance: Missed Minds and Perceptual Flaws in the Pursuit of Religion by Social Science.