2007 PROGRAM SCHEDULE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 8:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. SSSR Council Meeting Buccaneer A 2:00 p.m. -5:00 p.m. RRA Board Meeting Buccaneer A 6:00 p.m. Joint SSSR/RRA Council and Board Dinner Ybor Room 6:00-9:00p.m. Registration in Regency Ballroom Foyer Galleria B 8:00-10:00 p.m. Reception with Cash Bar Regency Ballroom Foyer, Galleria B 1 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 A-3 Nationalism and National Identity [SSSR] 8:00am-3:00pm Buccaneer A Registration Galleria B Convener Nadya Jaworsky, Yale University, 9:00am-4:00pm [email protected] Book Exhibit Buccaneer B and C ‘ The Changing Dynamics of Religion and National Identity: Greece and Ireland in a Comparative Perspective’ Daphne Halikiopoulou, London School of Economics and Political Science, ___________________________________ [email protected] FRIDAY MORNING, 8:30-10:00 a.m. __________Sessions A1-A11___________ ‘Examining the role of national boundaries on religious activism and ‘just’ economic A-1 Religion and Contemporary trade’ Society [SSSR] Amy Reynolds, Princeton Garrison I University, [email protected] Convener Elisa Zhai, University of Texas, Austin, ‘Nationalism, Religion, and Secularization’ [email protected] Jonathan Eastwood, Washington and Lee University, [email protected] ‘The Public Sphere and the Making of Nikolas Prevelakis, Harvard Modern Islam in Egypt’ University, [email protected] Jeff Kenney, DePauw University, [email protected] ‘Muslims in Europe and Euro-Islam’ James A. Beckford, University of ‘Religion in Context: Exploring Religiosity Warwick, UK, [email protected] and Well-Being in Contemporary Japan’ Michael K. Roemer, The University A-4 Religious Education and of Texas at Austin, Development [SSSR] [email protected] Ybor Room Convener David Sikkink, University of Notre Dame, A-2 Issues in Denominational Research [email protected] Using Prominent National Data Sets: The “Intersecting identities: New Teachers in Case of the Mormons [SSSR/MSSA] American Catholic, Jewish and Urban Garrison II Public Schools” Session A-2 has been cancelled at the Bethamie Horowitz, NYC, NY, request of the participants. [email protected] Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Brandeis University, [email protected] 2 “Walking the Walk: building universality ‘Awe - Towards a naturalistic account’ and particularity into religious identities of Tom Sjöblom, University of youth” Helsinki, [email protected] Katie Day, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, [email protected] A-6 Religious Renewal and Traditionalism [SSSR] “Who’s in Charge of Spiritual development? Buccanneer D Exploring how Teens Negotiate their Convener Religious and Spiritual Identities Outside of Jerry Park, Baylor University, their Faith Communities.” [email protected] Josh Borkin, Teachers College, Colombia University, ‘Islam Needs Revival, Not Reform: [email protected] Traditional Islam and Segmented Assimilation Among Second-Generation “The Impact of Alternative Schooling Muslim Americans’ Strategies on Adolescent Religiosity” Christine Soriea Sheikh, University Jeremy E. Uecker, University of of Denver, [email protected] Texas at Austin, [email protected] ‘The Vanishing Veil: Roman Catholic Sisters and the Resurrection of the Holy A-5 Genetics and Cognitive Science Habit’ [SSSR] Kara Lemma, University of Southern Garrison III California, [email protected] Convener Ann Taves, University of California, Santa ‘Is There a Mormon Evangelical Christian Barbara, [email protected] Rapprochement?’ O. Kendall White, Jr., Washington ‘Genetic Influences on Religious and Lee University, [email protected] Involvement: Correlation with an Adaptive Trait as a Possible Explanation’ Matt Bradshaw, The University of A-7 Spiritual Capital [ASREC] Texas at Austin, Esplanade I [email protected] Convener/Discussant Kimon Sargeant, Templeton Foundation, ‘The Behavior Genetics of Religiosity: [email protected] Reevaluating Model Assumptions’ Jacob Felson, Penn State University, ‘Spirituality, Socially Referenced [email protected] Preferences, and the Afterlife’ ‘Death Where is Thy Sting?: Constructing Rowena A. Pecchenino,Michigan an Independent Measure of Existential State University, [email protected] Certainty’ Aaron D. McVean, University of Nevada, Reno, [email protected] R. David Hayward, University of Nevada, Reno, [email protected] 3 ‘Spiritual, Human, and Physical Capital: ‘Did Religion Have Anything to Do with Are They Complementary Factors in Success and Failure in Post-Communist Economic Growth?’ Transition?’ Carl R. Gwin, Pepperdine Leonid Krasnozhon,George Mason University, [email protected] University, [email protected] Wafa Hakim Orman, Baylor University, [email protected] ‘From the House of Representatives to the Charles M. North, Baylor Houses of God: How Churches Thrive University, [email protected] Under Special Exemptions in the Law’ Krystal Slivinski,George Mason ‘Religion and Economic Development: University, [email protected] Evidence from the Early Twentieth Century’ Robert Subrick, James Madison ‘A Sacrificial Death?’ University, [email protected] Jason Wollschleger, University of Washington, [email protected] A-8 Computational Approaches to the ‘Overcoming Selfishness: Religion and the Study of Religious Belief, Behavior, and Alternatives’ Institutions [ASREC] William McBride, George Mason Esplanade II University, [email protected] Convener/Discussant William Sims Banbridge, National Science Foundation, [email protected] A-10 American Congregations 2005 – The FACT2005 National Survey of ‘A Study of Indepdendent Church Websites’ Congregations [RRA] Chris Bader, Baylor University, Regency V [email protected] Organizer and Convener David Roozen, Director, Hartford Seminary, ‘A Model of Emergent Extermism: Hartford Institute for Religion Research, Necessary Conditions and Countervailing [email protected] Policy’ Michael Makowsky, George Mason ‘American Congregations 2005: An University, [email protected] Overview.’ David Roozen, Hartford Seminary, ‘Strategic Congregational Management’ Hartford Institute for Religion Hernan Bejarano, Penn State Research, [email protected] University, [email protected] ‘FACTs on Growth: A New Look at the Dynamics of Growth and Decline.’ A-9 Student Research #1 [ASREC] C. Kirk Hadaway, The Episcopal Esplanade III Church Convener/Discussant [email protected] TBA 4 ‘Synagogues in the FACT2005 Survey.’ ‘Catholic Identity Among Young Adult J. Shawn Landres, S3K Synagogue Catholics’ Studies Institute / UCLA, Dean Hoge, Catholic University of [email protected] America, [email protected] ‘Worship, Spiritual Identity, and Growth: Seventh-day Adventists and FACT 2005.’ Roger L. Dudley, Andrews University, [email protected] A-11 Disconnected Catholics and Catholic Identity (Catholic Research Forum) [RRA] Regency VI Convener Mary Gautier, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown, [email protected] Discussant Patricia Wittberg, Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis, [email protected] ‘Why Catholics Don't Attend Sunday Mass: An Action Research Approach’ Robert Miller, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, [email protected] ‘Catholics Who Have Stopped Going to Mass’ Bob Dixon, Australian, Catholic Bishops Conference, [email protected] Sharon Bond, LaTrobe University, [email protected] Kath Engebretson, Australian Catholic University, [email protected] Richard Rymarz, St Joseph's College, University of Alberta. 5 _________________________________ B-2 The Politics and Social Relevance FRIDAY MORNING, 10:15-11:45 a.m. of Latino Religion [SSSR/RRA] _ Sessions B1-B11___________ __ Regency V Organizer B-1 Psychological Considerations Edwin I. Hernandez, University of Notre [SSSR] Dame, [email protected] Garrison I Convener Convener Andrew Village, University of Wales, Milagros Peña, University of Florida, [email protected] [email protected] ‘Attachment to God and Self-Conscious ‘Latino Religion and Involvement in Affect’ Immigration Protest’ Harley Baker, California State Kraig Beyerlein, University of University Channel Islands, Arizona, [email protected] [email protected] David Sikkink, University of Notre Corrin Hoglund, California State Dame, [email protected] University Channel Islands, Edwin Hernandez. University of [email protected] Notre Dame, [email protected] ‘Conceptions of God across Muslim, Jewish ‘The Politics of Latino Charismatics’ and Christian Traditions: An Empirical Norman Ruano, Loyola Approach Using the Five Factor Model of University, [email protected] Personality’ Edwin I. Hernandez, University of Scott Forrest Grover, Fuller Notre Dame, [email protected] Theological Seminary, Milagros Peña, University of [email protected] Florida, [email protected] Richard Gorsuch, Fuller Theological Seminary ‘The Role of Latino Churches in HIV/AIDS Alvin Dueck, Fuller Theological Prevention’ Seminary Edwin I. Hernandez, University of Notre Dame, [email protected] ‘Exploring the Relationship Between Rebecca Burwell, University of Manipulativeness and Christian Identity’ Notre Dame, [email protected] Nena L. Kircher, Forest Institute of Milagros Peña, University of Professional Psychology and Missouri State Florida, [email protected] University, [email protected] Guillermo Grenier, Florida International University, [email protected] David Sikkink, University of Notre Dame, [email protected] 6 ‘The Social Service Provision of Latino Convener Churches’ Elizabeth Marquardt, Institute