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. Robert Psychosocial Predictors of Attitudes toward Gay Men and J. Mahoney, Rockhurst University, Lesbians: Gender, Social Contact, and Religon, [email protected] Amy Gomez, Idaho State University, [email protected] Social Sources of Imperialistic Science Remembering Polygamy: The RLDS Church and Late Robert L. Montgomery, Ridgewood, New Jersey, Twentieth-Century American Spiritualities, [email protected] David Howlett, University of Iowa, [email protected] Page -1- A – 4 Religion and Adolescents’ Behaviors (Joint Religious Institutions and New Ventures: Evidence from SSSR/RRA) — Salon A the African-American Experience, Marci Bounds Littlefield, Indiana State University, Convener and discussant: Paul D. Froese, Baylor [email protected] University, [email protected] More Important than Government Money: Faith-based Religiosity and High School Misbehavior, Linda Loury, Providers’ Persistence in Religious Activities Tufts University, [email protected] William H. Lockhart, Baylor University, [email protected] The Many “Callings” of American Evangelical Adolescents, Daniel C. Johnson, Gordon College, A – 7 U.S. Congregational Life Survey: Research from [email protected] a Variety of Perspectives (RRA) — Brush Creek Religion, Civic Engagement, and Teen Drug Use: Organizers and conveners: Deborah Bruce, Research Evidence from Monitoring the Future, John P. Bartkowski Services, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and Xiaohe Xu, Mississippi State University, [email protected]), and Cynthia Woolever, [email protected] Hartford Institute for Religion Research A – 5 Religion, Ethnicity, Identity — Salon F A Look at Hispanics in U.S. Congregations, Matt Loveland, University of Notre Dame, Convener: Anna Xiao Dong Sun, Princeton University, [email protected], and Edwin Hernandez, [email protected] University of Notre Dame The Effect of Religious Identity in the Construction of Ordinary or Beyond Ordinary? A Comparison of the Gender and Ethnic Identities: The Case of Second- “Strengths” of General Conference Delegates with Generation Asian Americans, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Persons Attending UM Congregations, Craig This, Cornell University, [email protected], and Jerry Z. Park, Office of Research and Planning, United Methodist Baylor University Church, [email protected] Church or Sect: Exploring the Organizational Type of a Leaders in Seventh-day Adventist Churches, Chinese Immigrant Church, Ping Ren, University of Roger Dudley, Institute of Church Ministry, Andrews California, Irvine, [email protected] University, [email protected] Moral Projects and the Civic Engagement of New Generational Differences in Nazarene Congregations, Immigrants, Fred Kniss, Loyola University, Chicago, Ken Crow, Research Center, Church of the Nazarene, [email protected] [email protected] “To Be or Not to Be”: ISKCON, African Americans, and A – 8 Professional Religious Leadership — Salon G the Role of Initiation in the Identity of Gaudiya-Vaishnava Believers in the Southeastern United States, Christopher F. Convener: Dana Fenton, Lehman College, CUNY, Silver, Wilfrid Laurier University, [email protected] [email protected] Lay Catholic Perceptions of the Institutional Church and A – 6 Faith-based Social Action: Experience, its Leadership, Dean R. Hoge, Catholic University of Explanation, and Empowerment (RRA) — Mill Creek America, [email protected], and James D. Davidson, Purdue University Convener and discussant: Alethea Abuyuan, University of Megachurches: The Complexities of Leadership Southern California, [email protected] Transition, Sheila S. Smith, Luther Seminary, [email protected] Learning about How Churches Learn about Ministry: Reflections on Research that Explains and Empowers, Heidi Rolland Unruh, Congregations, Community Outreach, and Leadership Development Project, [email protected] Page -2- Congregational Relationships, Religious Coping, and A – 11 Personal Religiosity I — Salon C Mental Health among Presbyterian Clergy, Lori A. Roalson and Christopher G. Ellison, University of Convener and discussant: David Wulff, Wheaton College, Texas at Austin, and John P. Marcum, PCUSA Research [email protected] Services, [email protected] Structure and Varieties of Praying, Jacques Janssen and Revisiting the Stained Glass Ceiling: Women in Positions Sarah Bänziger, University of Nijmegen, of Church Leadership, Jimi Adams, Ohio State University, [email protected] [email protected] The Foundations of Religious Identities, Paul A. Djupe, A – 9 Economic Consequences of Religious Freedom Denison University, [email protected], and Anand E. (REC) — Westport Sohkey, Ohio State University Convener: Melissa Wilde, Indiana University, Prayers about Traumatic Experiences as Self-disclosure to [email protected] God, Patrick R. Bennett, University of Nevada, [email protected] Religion’s Role in the Rule of Law, Charles North and Carl Gwin, Baylor University, [email protected] 10:00 – 11:50 The Cost of Bigotry: The Educational and Economic B – 1 Thematic Session: Secularity and Implicit Consequences of Restricting Missions, Robert Woodberry, Religion: Institutionalized A-Religion, Irreligion, or University of Texas at Austin, [email protected] Anti- Religion? — Plaza Religion, Ethnicity, and Social Conflict: An International Organizer: Edward Bailey, Middlesex University, Assessment, Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University, [email protected] [email protected] Convener: William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive The Cities of God Versus the Countries of Earth: The Office, [email protected] Restriction of Religious Freedom (RRF), Brian Grim, Pennsylvania State University, [email protected] Time for a “Risorgimento” for Sociology? Edward Bailey, Middlesex University, [email protected] A – 10 Religion and the International Political- Economy — Salon B Implicit Irreligion in Medical Chaplaincy, Roger Grainger, University of Surrey, Roehampton Convener: Richard McCarthy, University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh [email protected] Seeing and Believing: Some Empirical Approaches to Implicit Religion in Sacred Spaces, Graham Howes, Religion, Civic Engagement and Support for Democracy: University of Cambridge, A Cross-National Examination, Daniel Tope, Katherine [email protected] Meyer, and Cheryl Sowash, Ohio State University, [email protected] “The Third Wave,” the Long Boom, and Implicit Religion: The Struggle between the Implicit and the Explicit in Scriptural Obligations, Holy Wars and Religious Techno-Utopian Sense-Making Visions, Karen Parna, Disappointment: The Case of the Continuing Arab-Israeli University of Leiden, [email protected] Conflict, Charles Selengut, Drew University, [email protected] B – 2 Neurotheology — Amphitheater The Impact of Evangelical Networks on Central American Organizer and Convener: Michael Winkelman, Arizona Refugee Communities, Stephen Offutt, Boston University, State University, [email protected] [email protected] Productive and Reductive: Andrew Newberg’s Religious Markets in the Globalization Process: The Case Neurotheology and the Theory of Religion, Richard Grigg, of Turkey, M. Ali Kirman, K.S.U. Ilahiyat Fakultesi, Sacred Heart University, [email protected] [email protected] Page -3- Evolutionary Neurotheology as an Explanatory Framework A Comparative Analysis of the “Family Values” of Right- for Theurgy and Related Spiritual Practices, Bruce Wing Women’s Organizations in Canada and the United MacLennan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, States, Kristin