RELIGION, IDENTITY AND PLACE

REGISTRATION

Thursday, August 12, 7:00-9:00 p.m. – Embassy Foyer

Friday, August 13, 7:45 a.m.–4:30 p.m. – Embassy Foyer

SESSIONS

Friday, August 13, 8:15-10:15 a.m.

Session A1: Religion, Politics and Civic Culture I –

Convener: Todd Nicholas Fuist, Loyola University Chicago

Schooling for Democracy? Involvement in Religious Congregations and the Diffusion of Civic Skills and Activities

Joelle M. Anderson, Perry Chang, and Ida J. Smith-Williams, Presbyterian

Church (U.S.A.)

"It’s Not a Religious Issue": Local Government Planning and the Refusal of Islamic

Schools in Metropolitan Sydney, Australia

Laura Beth Bugg, University of Sydney, Australia

Rethinking the Role of the Catholic Church in Building Civil Society in

Contemporary China: The Case of Wenzhou

Shun-hing Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University

A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of Religion on Political Activism

Katie E. Corcoran, David Pettinicchio, and Jacob T. N. Young, University of

Washington

Session A2: Gender and Sexuality I –

Convener: Margarita A. Mooney, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

The Paranoid War on Darwinism: Intelligent Design, Gender, and Sexuality

Antony Alumkal, Iliff School of Theology

Women in Motion: The Gendered Space of the West African Pentecostal Diaspora in

Italy

Annalisa Butticci, University of Padua

For the Love of God: Safe and Sacred Spaces for High School Adolescents to Negotiate Alternative Sexual Identities

Karen Monique Gregg, University of Notre Dame

Believing Men and Believing Women: Muslim American Discourses on Gender

Identity, Equality, and Difference

Christine Soriea Sheikh, University of Denver

Session A3: Religion and Identity Construction I –

Convener: Jerry Pankhurst, Wittenberg University

Formation and Change of Religious Identity in History

Robert Montgomery, Asheville, North Carolina

Negotiating the Negotiation of Disparate Identities

Tia Noelle Pratt, Fordham University

Multireligiosity

Liza Steele, Princeton University

"We Have Been Mistaken to Worship Stone": Religious Change and Modern Self-

Identity in Nepal

Emily McKendry-Smith, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Session A4: Theories, Paradigms and Concepts in Sociology of Religion –

Convener: Thomas Josephsohn, Loyola University Chicago

The Foundations of a Critical Sociology of Religion

Warren S. Goldstein, Harvard University

Out Demons Out: A Durkheimian Reading of the 1967 Exorcism of the Pentagon

Joseph Laycock, Boston University

Representing, Defending and Questioning Divinity: Pragmatist Sociological Motifs in

Plato’s Timaeus, Phaedo, Republic, and Laws.

Robert Prus, University of Waterloo

Friday, August 13, 10:25 a.m.-12:25 p.m.

Session B1: Religion, Politics and Civic Culture II –

Convener: Jerry Pankhurst, Wittenberg University

National and European Identities in Post-Socialist Countries: The Role of Religion

Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt, Michigan State University

Law, Heart, and Soul: Religion and Military Service in the Making of American Citizenship

Charlotte E. Hunter, Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute,

and Lyman M. Smith, University of Florida

September 11 and the (Religious) Meaning of America: Contesting Frames

Christopher Morrissey, University of Notre Dame

Debates on Religion in the Public Sphere: The Example of Turkey

Ejder Okumuş, Eskişehir Osmangazi University

Session B2: Gender and Sexuality II –

Convener: Courtney Irby, Loyola University Chicago

Mediating Sexuality in Religious Space among Religious Young People: Contestation, Adaptation and Negotiation

Sarah Page, Andrew K.T. Yip, University of Nottingham, and Michael

Keenan, Nottingham Trent University

Social Location, Religion, and Gender Ideology: The Role of Religion in Poor Women’s Gender Ideologies and Labor Force Choices

Susan Crawford Sullivan, College of the Holy Cross

Back into the Public Sphere: The Response of the Canadian Roman Catholic Church to the Same-Sex Marriage Debate

Britt Baumann, University of Waterloo

Serious Parody: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as Postmodern Religion

Melissa M. Wilcox and Liam K. Mina, Whitman College

　

　

　

　

Session B3: Charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity –

Convener: Walt Bower, Georgetown College

"The World’s Largest Prayer and Praise Gathering": The Religious Experiences of Trinity Broadcasting Network Viewers

Kathleen Hladky, Florida State University

African Pentecostal and Charismatic Diasporas in Italy: Leadership Strategies and Religious Citizenship

Enzo Pace, University of Padua

Varieties of Prayer in the Pentecostal Movement

Michael Wilkinson, Trinity Western University, and Peter Althouse, Southeastern University

Discussant: Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh

Friday, August 13, 12:30-5:00 p.m.

ASR Book Exhibit –

Friday, August 13, 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Session C1: Religion and Identity Construction II –

Convener: D. Paul Johnson, Texas Tech University

Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries: Religion as a Tool of Boundary Reinforcement and Contestation in Fiji

Jessamin Birdsall, Harvard University

The American Amish Religious Identity: An Anthropological Perspective

Andrea Borella, University of Turin

"I’m Just the Nanny": How Race, Gender, Nationality, and Class Show Up in the Mid-day Playground

Melissa James, Graduate Theological Union

Charisma and Beruf

Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University

Session C2: Religion, Politics and Civic Culture III –

Convener: Todd Nicholas Fuist, Loyola University Chicago

Little Towns from the Focolare Movement: A Model for Big Cities on the Way to Live Together – A Comparison Study of Little Towns in the United States, Brazil, and Argentina

Ana Lourdes Suárez, Universidad Catolica Argentina

From Isolation to Cooperation: African American Faith-based Partnerships in Local Community Development

Tonya Nashay Sanders, University of Illinois Chicago

Religious Identity in Organizational Systems: Implications for Local Faith-based Organizations

Patricia Wittberg, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Living Together but Separately? The Emergence and Evolution of Sectarian Autonomist Claims in Lebanon, 1975-2009

André G. Sleiman, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre d’Études des Faits Religieux (Paris)

　

　

　

Session C3: Creating Community through Religion –

Convener: Janel Kragt Bakker, Emory University

The Cartographic Imagination: Mapping Relationships with Religious "Others"

Lloyd Chia, University of Missouri

Religious Homogeneity and Interpersonal Trust: A Multilevel Analysis

John P. Hoffmann, Jeremy Flaherty, and Ralph B. Brown, Brigham Young University

New Monastic Communities’ Identity: Innovation, Recognition, Legitimation

Stefania Palmisano, University of Torino

New Monasticism: Counterculture or Subculture?

Beverly M. Pratt and Kendra H. Barber, University of Maryland – College Park

Friday, August 13, 3:15-5:15 p.m.

Session D1: Scholars and National Leaders of the Emerging Church Movement –

Organizer and convener: Gerardo Marti, Davidson College

Panel: James S. Bielo, Miami University of Ohio

Doug Pagitt, Solomon’s Porch

Tim Hartman, University of Virginia

Troy Bronsink, Neighbors Abbey

Session D2: The Many Cultures of Islam –

Convener: Enzo Pace, University of Padua

Globalization and the Exile Predicament: The Case of Islamist Exiles in Europe

Kamel Ghozzi, University of Central Missouri

The Muslim Monolith: An Interethnic Comparison of American Muslim Religiosity

Besheer Mohamed, University of Chicago

Religious and Secular Culture, Identity and Place: Exploring Everyday "Cultures" of Muslim American Youth

John O’Brien, University of California Los Angeles

In God’s Image? Renegotiating in the Art of Second- and Third-generation Post-diasporic Religious Minority Communities

Jennifer Harris, School of Oriental and African Studies (London)

Gender and Mosque Networks in a Majority Muslim Context: The Case of Kuwait

Alessandra L. González, Baylor University

Session D3: Religion and Family Life –

Convener: Courtney Irby, Loyola University Chicago

Religion, Race and Attitudes toward Marriage

Amy M. Burdette and Stacy H. Haynes, Mississippi State University

Faith, Hope and Charity in the Lives of Violent Men: The Long-term Effects of Living

Dangerously

Barbara Fisher-Townsend and Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New

Brunswick

From Words to Action: Canadian Catholic Responses to Domestic Violence

Cathy Holtmann, University of New Brunswick

"A Gift from God": Adolescent Motherhood and Religion in Brazilian Favelas

Liza Steele, Princeton University

　

　

Friday, August 13, 5:30 p.m.

ASR Presidential Address –

Convener: Gerardo Marti, Davidson College

Creating an American Islam: Thoughts on Religion, Identity, and Place

Rhys H. Williams, Loyola University Chicago

Friday, August 13, 6:30-8:00 p.m.*

ASR Presidential Reception –

The Presidential Reception is co-sponsored by Oxford University Press/Oxford Journals, the publisher of Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, the official journal of the Association for the Sociology of Religion.

*Time approximate: reception to open upon the conclusion of the address.

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Saturday, August 14, 7:00-8:15 a.m.

New Attendees’ Welcoming Breakfast –

Attendance by preregistration only.

Saturday, August 14, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Registration – Embassy Folyer

　

Saturday, August 14, 8:15 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

ASR Book Exhibit –

Saturday, August 14, 8:30-10:15 a.m.

Session E1: Citizenship: Religion, Identity and the Body –

Organizer and convener: Gerardo Marti, Davidson College

Panel: Lynn Davidman, Kansas University

Nurit Stadler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Kevin L. McElmurry, Indiana University

Discussant: Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri

Session E2: Identity and Place among American Evangelicals –

Convener: Walt Bower, Georgetown College

New Directions and New Identities: Examining Social Activism among Young Evangelicals

Adriane Bilous, Fordham University

The City Imagined: Race, Place and Identity in the Making of a Young Urban

Church

Jessica Barron, Loyola University of Chicago

Rome of the West – A Historical Prospectus Concerning the Birth of Colorado as a

Mecca for the Evangelical Right

Melissa Galica, Texas Tech University

Session E3: Publishing Journal Articles and Books –

Organizer: William H. Swatos, Jr., Augustana College (Illinois)

Convener: Patricia Wittberg, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Panel: Scott Scheiman, University of Toronto

Wendy Shamier, Brill

Peter Kivisto, Augustana College (Illinois)

Saturday, August 14, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Session F1: Public Sociology: Challenges of Engaged Scholarship in Religious Communities –

Organizer and convener: Kathleen E. Jenkins, College of William and Mary

Do They Want to Hear the Truth? The Challenges of Doing an Engaged Study of a Rural Black Church

Sascha L. Goluboff, Washington and Lee University

Engaged Religious Scholarship and the Formation of the Intellectual Self

Gerardo Marti, Davidson College

How Can We Engage the General Public and the Academy about Our Research at the Same Time?

Margarita A. Mooney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Publishing Challenges and the Engaged Religious Sociologist

Kathleen E. Jenkins, College of William and Mary

Session F2: Making Sacred Spaces –

Convener: Laura Leming, University of Dayton

The Making of Sacred Spaces in Virtual Places as Tools for Liberation

Sybrina Atwaters, Georgia Institute of Technology

Material Culture, American Interests, and the Sacred in the Construction of the US

Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel

Mary Ellen Konieczny and Meredith Whitnah, University of Notre Dame

Making Temples and Building Collectivity: Revivals of Popular Religion in South China

Hsin-chow Wu, Harvard University

Liturgical Music throughout the Ages: From Bach to the Beatles

Brian Galica, Texas Tech University

Taizé and Collective Effervescence in Two Contexts

Beth Laurel Dougherty, Loyola University Chicago

Session F3: Authors-Meet-Critics: Religion Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Religious and Social Dynamics in Africa and the New African Diaspora –

Convener: William H. Swatos, Jr., Augustana College (Illinois)

Critics: Akanmu G. Adebayo, Kennesaw State University

Frank Lechner, Emory University

Milton Lopes, Fielding Graduate University

Enzo Pace, University of Padua

Respondents: Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh, and James V. Spickard,

University of Redlands

　

　

Saturday, August 14, 12:30-2:15 p.m.

Session G1: Congregations and their Leaders –

Convener: Kevin Dougherty, Baylor University

Telling a New Story: Leadership and Identity-Work in the Episcopal Church

Lydia Bean, Baylor University, Marshall Ganz, Harvard Kennedy School, and Scott Draper, Baylor University

Gated Communities or New Melting Pots? Analyzing the French Megachurch Phenomenon

Sebastian Fath, CNRS/EPHE Sorbonne

Religious Rules and "Span-of-Care": The Importance of Structure in Studying Strictness

Nancy J. Martin, California State University, Long Beach

Expatriate Congregations: Rethinking Religious Place in Middle Eastern Societies

Martin Rowe, Boston University

The Politics of Priests in Venezuela

David Smilde, University of Georgia

Session G2: Conversion and Experiences of Spirituality –

Convener: Laura Leming, University of Dayton

How Young Catholics Experienced Conversion at World Youth Day

Michael C. Mason, Australian Catholic University

Body Technique and its Influence on the Restructuration of Popular Religion in Taiwan

Wei-hsian Chi, Nanhua University

"You Never Know: Nothing is Impossible with God": How Far Can we Push our Prayer Requests?

Giuseppe Giordan, University of Padua

The Formation of the Next Civilization: Christianity and its Strategic Solidarity with Workers

Paul Kasun, University of Texas Austin

Korean Missionaries in America

Rebecca Y. Kim, Pepperdine University

Saturday, August 14, 2:30-4:45 p.m.

Session H1: Congregations and Communities: A Session in Honor of Nancy Eiesland –

Organizer and convener: Nancy Ammerman, Boston University

"A Little Picture of Heaven": The Fraught Emergence of Multi-ethnic Congregations in the Midst of Anti-immigrant Hostility

Marie Friedman Marquardt, Emory University

Interwoven Threads of Friendship and Scholarship: Remembering Nancy Eiesland

Shoshanah Feher, San Diego, California

Living the Revolution in Nashville: Evangelical Witness in the Postmodern World

Graham Reside, Vanderbilt University

Discussant: R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois Chicago

Session H2: Teaching the Sociology of Religion –

Organizer and convener: Gerardo Marti, Davidson College

Panel: Barbara J. Denison, Shippensburg University

Catherine Fobes, Alma College

Christine Soriea Sheikh, University of Denver

Brian Starks, Florida State University

Session H3: Studies in Secularization –

Convener: William H. Swatos, Jr., Augustana College (Illinois)

Confidence in Religious Institutions: Do the Trends Still Support Secularization?

John P. Hoffmann, Brigham Young University

The Secularization of Sunday: Real or Perceived Competition for Churches?

Stephen McMullen, University of New Brunswick

The Subjective Secularization of Great Britain: 1991-2008

Donald Swenson, Mount Royal University

Saturday, August 14, 5:00-6:00 p.m.

The Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture –

Convener: Rhys H. Williams, Loyola University Chicago

Sacred Space and Collective Memory: Memorializing Genocide at Sites of Terror

Janet L. Jacobs, University of Colorado

Saturday, August 14, 6:00-7:30 p.m.*

The Paul Hanly Furfey Reception –

*Time approximate: reception to open upon the conclusion of the lecture.

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Sunday, August 15, 7:15-8:25 a.m.

ASR Business Meeting –

Presiding: Rhys H. Williams, Loyola University Chicago, and Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa

Sunday, August 15, 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Registration – Embassy Foyer

Sunday, August 15, 8:15 a.m. –10:15 a.m.

Reserve Book Pick-up –

Sunday, August 15, 8:30-10:00 a.m.

Session I1: Authors-Meet-Critics: Christian Smith and Patricia Snell’s Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults –

Organizer: Melissa Wilde, University of Pennsylvania

Convener: Gerardo Marti, Davidson College

Panel: William V. D’Antonio, Catholic University of America

R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois Chicago

W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia

Respondents: Christian Smith and Patricia Snell, University of Notre Dame

Session I2: Religion and Health I –

Convener and discussant: Robert E. Beckley, West Texas A & M University

Religion’s Potential Role for Deterring Smoking and Drinking among Secular and Religious Youth

Amy Adamczyk, City University of New York

Cultural Differences in the Relationship between Religion and Health

R. David Hayward, Duke University Medical Center, and Marta Elliott, University of Nevada Reno

Can "Honorable Suicide" as Part of a Military Mission or a Rescue Mission

Be Justified from the Religious Standpoint? An Analysis of a Mail Survey in American Christian and Japanese Buddhist Communities

Tatsushi Hirono, SUNY Stony Brook

Session I3: Theorizing Through Religion –

Organizers: Daniel Winchester, University of Minnesota, and Michal Pagis, Hebrew

University of Jerusalem

Convener and discussant: Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago

Theorizing Self through Religion

Michal Pagis, Hebrew University

Theorizing through Religion: Gender and Agency

Rachel Rinaldo, University of Virginia

The Orthodox Paradox: The Phenomenological Careers of Orthodox Jewish and

Muslim Converts

Iddo Tavory, University of California Los Angeles, and Daniel Winchester

Sunday, August 15, 10:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

Final Book Sale –

Sunday, August 15, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Session J1: Studies of Religious Belief –

Convener: Thomas Josephsohn, Loyola University Chicago

Ye of Little Faith: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Doubt

Corey J. Colyer, West Virginia University

Negotiating Belief and Practice: Family of Origin Influences on the Spiritual Lives of Adult Children

Amy Moff Hudec, Boston University

Friend to King: Shifts in Images of God, 1984-2008

Rebekah Peeples Massengill, Princeton University, and Conrad Hackett, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life

Religious Belief and Attitudes toward Capital Punishment in Western Societies: A Multilevel Analysis

Sarah J. Reed and Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas Austin

Religiosity and Political Attitudes in Europe

Gergely Rosta, University of Münster

Session J2: Religion and Health II –

Convener: Eugen Schoenfeld, Georgia State University

Examining the Reciprocal Effects of Drug Use and Religion from Adolescence to Young Adulthood

John P. Hoffmann, Brigham Young University

Religion and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Are There Variations by Affiliation?

Philip B. Mason, Mississippi State University

Christian Denominations and Latino Immigrant Health

Ephraim Shapiro, Columbia University

Session J3: Analyzing Scholarship in the Sociology of Religion –

Convener: Robert Montgomery, Ashville, North Carolina

American Sociology of Religion in Ph.D. Dissertations, 1895-1939

Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University

Social Scientific Research on Religion in Central and Eastern Europe

Gabor Daniel Nagy, University of Szeged

Sunday, August 15, 12:30-2:30 p.m.

Session K1: Jews and Jewish Identity: The Impact of Place –

Co-sponsored by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ) and the Mandell Berman Institute North American Jewish Data Bank

Organizers: Arnold Dashefsky, University of Connecticut (Convener), and Harriet Hartman, Rowan University

Convener and discussant: Rela Mintz Geffen, Towson University

Religion and Migration: The Religious Lives of Sephardic Jews in New York City

Joëlle Bahloul, Indiana University

Changes in Jewish Identity through Time and Place

Arnold Dashefsky, University of Connecticut

Why Jewish Communities Differ

Bruce Phillips, Hebrew Union College

Geographic Variations in the Demography and Religiosity of Jews from the Former

Soviet Union Living in the United States

Ira Sheskin, University of Miami

Session K2: Reflecting and Building Upon the Work of Nancy Eiesland in Religion and Disability Studies –

Convener: Laurel Kearns, Drew University

Mothers with Disabilities and Issues of Agency

Elizabeth Bounds, Emory University

The Sociology of Religion and the Disabled God

Albert A. Herzog, Jr., Westerville, Ohio

Charitable Access: An Exploratory Study of Disability Rights in the United Methodist Church

Eric Pridmore, Drew University

Session K3: Travel and Tourism –

Convener and discussant: William H. Swatos, Jr., Augustana College (Illinois)

"Vagabonding," Placelessness and Authenticity: Travel as a Practice of Spirituality

Ben Brazil, Emory University

"All the Same Underneath": Bridging Social Boundaries between Participants in International Short-term Mission Trips

LiErin Probasco, Princeton University

Simple Gifts: How Religious Tourist Sites Engage their Larger Social Contexts Sarah Bill Schott, Concordia University Chicago

Sunday, August 15, 3:00-5:00 p.m.

ASR Executive Council –

Presiding: Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa

Monday, August 16, 8:30-10:15 a.m.

Session L1: Religion, Transnational Immigrants and Citizenship –

Organizer and convener: Rhys H. Williams, Loyola University Chicago

The Rise of American Theravada Buddhism: Transnational Connections and Immigrant Religious Communities

Carl L. Bankston III, Tulane University

The Will to Religion: Obligatory Religious Citizenship

Lori G. Beaman, University of Ottawa

Transnationalism, Sectarianism, and Civic Engagement

Fred Kniss, Eastern Mennonite University

Korean Immigrant Churches’ Strong Linkages to Religious Institutions in Korea and their Unique Characteristics

Pyong Gap Min, Queens College CUNY