ASSOCIATION FOR THE
SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
63rd ANNUAL MEETING
SHERATON ANAHEIM
ANAHEIM,
CALIFORNIA
17-19
AUGUST 2001
RELIGION AND SOCIETAL MARGINALITY
Social
structure, according to C. Wright Mills, consists of the relative positioning
of society’s institutions. Sociologists in the past have often focused on
those institutions that have widespread and significant impacts upon a society
from their dominant position in it. In an essentially asymmetrical
relationship, these macro institutions are assumed to constitute a formative
environment for micro institutions, while remaining relatively unaffected in
return. Established religions in contemporary societies have therefore been
considered deviant cases subject to the erosive forces of modernity. By
contrast the 2001 ASR annual meeting proposes to counteract this tendency by
asserting that it is from the margins that social critique, countercultural
values, revolutions, and other movements of intentional social change come.
Seemingly private religiosities are thus powerful societal forces, whether
they are expressed by individuals in the “secularized” mainline churches,
in “upstart” sects, in new religious movements, among immigrant or
marginalized populations, or in peripheral social locations worldwide.
OVERVIEW*
Thursday,
August 16
“Old” Council Meeting — Devon
Registration — Rotunda
Friday,
August 17
8:00
a.m.-3:15 p.m.
Registration — Rotunda
8:30-10:15
a.m.
1.
New Religious Movements — Surrey
2. Author
Meets Critics: Lowell Livezey’s Public Religion and Urban Transformation
— Westmorland
3. Churches and the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Community — London
West
4. Local Dynamics of Ritual and Worship — London East
10:30
a.m.-12:15 p.m.
5.
Women in Organized Religion — Surrey
6. Authors
Meet Critics: Helen Rose Ebaugh and Janet S. Chafetz’s Religion and the
New Immi-grants — Westmorland
7. Globalization, Human Rights, and Societal Marginality — London West
8. Mysticism and Faith Healing — London East
Book Exhibit — Somerset
Authors’ Reception — Rotunda
9. Hispanic Popular Religion — Surrey
10.
Author Meets Critics: Grace Davie’s Religion in Modern Europe
— Westmorland
11.
Religion and the Environment: New and Old Articulations — London West
12. Portrayals of Religion in the Media and the Academy — London East
13.
Belief and Opinion Studies — Surrey
14. The Religious Market in Chinese Societies I — Westmorland
15. Religion, Migration, and Identity I (Joint ASR/SISR) — London West
16. The Social History of Religions — London East
Presidential Address — Kensington Ballroom East
Presidential Reception — Pond Courtyard
Saturday,
August 18
7:30-8:25
a.m.
Women’s Network Breakfast — Devon
8:00
a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Registration — Rotunda
8:00
a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Book Exhibit — Somerset
8:30-10:15
a.m.
17. Exploring Generation X Religiosity/Spirituality (Joint
ASR/ASA) — Anaheim Marriott Hotel, Orange Salon 2
18. Religion and Politics — Surrey
19. Defining Religion — Westmorland
20. Religion and Modernity: Refractions through Individual Lives — London
West
21.
Religion in a Secular and Pluralistic Society — Surrey
22. Responding to Community Crises — Westmorland
23. Mainstream Participants, Marginal Religions, and the New Age (Joint
ASR/ASA) — London West
24.
Islam, Power Relations, and Change — London East
25. Dominus Iesus — Surrey
26. Marginality and Power in a De-Centered World — Westmorland
27. Author Meets Critics: Alberto Pulido’s The Sacred
World of the Penitentes — London West
28. Explorations in the Sociology of Missions — London East
29. American Catholics — Surrey
30. Religion and Immigrant Incorporation in New York — Westmorland
31. Author Meets Critics: David Lyon’s Jesus in Disneyland —
London West
32. Narrators and Narratives: Intersections between Fieldworkers and
Fieldwork — London East
ASR Business Meeting — Surrey
Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture — Regent
Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture Reception — Pond Courtyard
Sunday,
August 19
7:30-8:25
a.m.
Sociology of Religion
Associate Editors’ Breakfast — Dorset
8:00
a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Registration — Rotunda
8:15-10:00
a.m.
Reserved Book Pick-Up — Somerset
8:30-10:15
a.m.
33. Religion in the Lives of New Immigrants to California
(Joint ASR/ASA) — Anaheim
Marriott Hotel, Grand Salon C
34.
Islam and Globalization — Surrey
35.
End Times Rhetoric and Ideology — Westmorland
36. Religions as Subcultural Identities — London West
Final Book Sale — Somerset
37.
Church, Volunteerism, and Outreach — Surrey
38.
The Religious Market in Chinese Societies II — Westmorland
39. Multicultural Issues in Churches — London West
40.
Author Meets Critics: Donald Nielsen’s Three Faces of God —
London East
41. Immigration and Religious Change in the U.S. — Surrey
42. Religious Political Cultures: Cross-national Perspectives —
Westmorland
43.
Church Organizations and Clergy — London West
44. Secularization — London East
45.
Religion and Gender: Cross-Cultural Studies — Surrey
46.
Cults, Mind Control, and Anti-Cult Movements in Japan — Westmorland
47. The Decentering and Recentering of Religion in Urban
Communities (Joint ASR/ASA) — London West
“New” Council Meeting — Somerset
Council Dinner — Dorset
48. The History of the Sociology of Religion (Joint
ASR/ASA History of Sociology Section) — Anaheim Marriott Hotel, Grand Salon
H
SESSIONS
Session
1: New Religious Movements — Surrey
Convener—Véronique Altglas,
École Pratique des Hautes Études
ØMe, You, Us and Them: Self and
Other-Imposed Marginality—and the Creation, Crossing, Changing and
Dissolution of Boundaries
Eileen Barker, London School
of Economics
ØTrance States among New Religious Movements: How Should We Study Them?
Bernard G. Comeau, South Puget Sound College
ØConsuming the Self: A
Sociological Analysis of the Discourses and Practices of “New Age”
Spiritual Thinkers
Jennifer Rindfleish, University of New England (Australia)
Session
2: Author Meets Critics: Lowell Livezey’s Public Religion and Urban
Transformation — Westmorland
Organizer—William H. Swatos,
Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
Convener—Patricia Wittberg,
Indiana University-Indianapolis
Panelists
Nancy Eiesland, Emory University
Peter Kivisto, Augustana College (Illinois)
Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago
Rhys Williams, University of Cincinnati
Session
3: Churches and the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Community — London West
Convener—William Mirola,
Marian College
Discussant—Barbara J.
Denison, Lebanon Valley College
ØFrom Social Margin to Center
Stage: Individualism, Queer Congregations, and the “Homosexuality” Debates
Melissa M. Wilcox, University of California, Santa Barbara
ØGay Margins Encircling Straight Lines: Challenges to the Christian
Churches to Embrace Social Change
Paul J. Levesque, California State University, Fullerton
Ø
Bisexuality and Spirituality: The Narratives of Male and Female
Bisexual Christians in the United Kingdom
Andrew K.T. Yip, Nottingham Trent University
Session
4: Local Dynamics of Ritual and Worship — London East
Convener—Grace Davie,
University of Exeter
Ø
The Janus Face: Aspects of Organizational Culture in the Church of
Sweden
Per Hansson, Uppsala
University
Ø
Our Place in the Pew
D. Paul Sullins, Catholic University of America
Ø
Funerals of the Congregationally Unaffiliated
Kathleen Garces-Foley, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ø
Alternative Religious Worship Spaces on the Margins: The Architecture
of Christian Science, Vedanta, Theosophy, and Baha’i in the United States
Paul E. Ivey, University of Arizona
Session
5: Women in Organized Religion — Surrey
Convener—Ruth Wallace,
George Washington University
Discussant—Laurel Kearns,
Drew University
ØThe Marginalization of
Evangelical Feminism
Sally K. Gallagher, Oregon State University
ØTraditionalism versus
Egalitarianism: Black Baptists and Women in Ministry
Shayne Lee, Northwestern University
ØGender and Clergy Work Stress: Differential Exposure and Vulnerability
Elaine M. McDuff, Truman State University
Session
6: Authors Meet Critics: Helen Rose Ebaugh and Janet S. Chafetz’s Religion
and the New Immigrants: Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant
Congregations — Westmorland
Organizer and
Convener—Lowell Livezey, University of Illinois at Chicago
Panelists:
Anthony Orum, University of Illinois at Chicago
Steven J. Gold, Michigan State University
Rebecca Kim, University of California, Los Angeles
Session
7: Globalization, Human Rights, and Societal Marginality — London West
Organizer and
Convener—William R. Garrett, St. Michael’s College
Panelists:
Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa
Thomas Cushman, Wellesley College
William R. Garrett, St. Michael’s College
John H. Simpson, University of Toronto
Session
8: Mysticism and Faith Healing — London East
Convener—D. Paul Sullins,
Catholic University of America
Discussant—Mary Jo Neitz,
University of Missouri
Ø
The Tension between Religion and Magic: Faith Healing and Christianity
Durk H. Hak, University of Groningen
Ø
Mysticism as a Social Construct: Religious Experience in
Pentecostal/Charismatic Contexts
Margaret M. Poloma, University of Akron
Ø Spirits, Ancestors or Demons: Traditional Healing and the Challenge of
Religious Fundamentalism in Samoa
Maureen Sier, National University (Samoa)
Authors’
Reception — Rotunda
The ASR authors’ reception is cosponsored by Michael
Cuneo, New York University Press, Oxford University Press, RENIR
Project—University of Houston, Religion in Urban America
Program—University of Illinois at Chicago, Smithsonian Institution Press
Friday,
August 17, 1:00-2:45 p.m.
Session
9: Hispanic Popular Religion — Surrey
Convener—Patrick H.
McNamara, University of New Mexico
Discussant—Alberto L. Pulido,
Arizona State University West
Ø
Mexican Migrant Religious Practices as Seen from their Families’
Point of View
Luis Rodolfo Morán Quiroz, Centro de Investigaciones Pedagógicas y
Sociales, Guadalajara
Ø
Festive Identities: The Festival of the Fallas of Saint Joseph in València,
Spain
Xavier Costa, University of
València
Ø
From the Margins to the Streets: Angeleno Latino Popular Religion and
Transnational R-evolution
Jeanette Reedy Solano, University of Southern California
Session
10: Author Meets Critics: Grace Davie’s Religion in Modern Europe —
Westmorland
Convener—José Casanova, New
School for Social Research
Panelists:
Nancy Ammerman, Hartford Seminary
Lina Molokotos-Liederman, École Practique des Hautes Études
Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa
Session
11: Religion and the Environment: New and Old Articulations — London West
Convener—Jennifer Rindfleish,
University of New England (Australia)
Ø "Greening” Ethnography and the Sociology of Religion
Laurel Kearns, Drew University
ØGreen Nuns and Land:
Cultivating New Varieties of Religion and Culture
Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University
Ø“The World Is a Canoe”: The Chumash Environmental Ethos and
Spiritual Connections to Maritime Culture
Dennis Kelley, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ø The Church of Euthanasia: “The World’s First Anti-Human Religion”
Matthew Immergut, Drew University
Session
12: Portrayals of Religion in the Media and the Academy — London East
Convener—Loretta M. Morris,
Loyola Marymount University
Discussant—James R. Kelly,
Fordham University
Ø Veiled Power: Henriette Delille and the Social Terrain of American
Sainthood
Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State
University
Ø Disregarding Religion: The
Case of the Handbook of Social Psychology
Michael J. Donahue, Azusa
Pacific University
ØDisability, Religion and
Societal Marginality
Albert A. Herzog, Jr., Ohio State University
Friday,
August 17, 3:00-4:45 p.m.
Session
13: Belief and Opinion Studies — Surrey
Convener—Jerry Pankhurst,
Wittenburg University
Ø Trends in Religious Influences on Support for Traditional Sexual Norms,
1972-1998
Vyacheslav Karpov and Matthew DeMichele, Western Michigan University
Ø
Abortion Attitudes and the Death Penalty
Chris Kudlac and James R. Kelly, Fordham University
ØThe Value of Sacrifice: American Catholics in Three Cohorts
Thomas Landy, College of the
Holy Cross
Ø
Catholics’ Political Orientations and Perceptions of Anti-Catholic
Bias
Paul Perl and Mary Bendyna, Center for Applied Research in the
Apostolate
Session
14: The Religious Market in Chinese Societies I — Westmorland
Organizers—Joseph B. Tamney,
Ball State University, and Fenggang Yang, University of Southern Maine
Convener—Fenggang Yang
Ø
Persistence of Traditional Values: Causality of Change and Confucian
Culture
Ø
Religious Composition of Chinese Societies, 1950-2000
Joseph B. Tamney, Ball State University
ØMoney, Power and the Revival of the Gods in China: Case Studies of the
Delicate Dance of Cadres, Villagers, Entrepreneurs and Diaspora Chinese
Graeme Lang, City University
of Hong Kong, Selina Chan, National University of Singapore, and Lars Ragvald,
Lund University
Session
15: Religion, Migration, and Identity I (Joint ASR/SISR Session) — London
West
Organizer—Grace Davie,
University of Exeter
Convener—Marie Friedmann
Marquardt, Emory University
ØFrench “Laïcité” and Religious Diversity: The Misdemeanor of
Mental Manipulation
Véronique Altglas, École Pratique des Hautes Études
ØReflections on Modern Turkey
Grace Davie, University of Exeter
ØThey Prayed in Boston and It Rained in Brazil: The Transnationalization
of Religious Life
Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College
ØIdentity Crisis: Greece, the European Union, and Religious Nationalism
Lina Molokotos-Liederman, École Pratique des Hautes Études
ØDiscussing the “American
Exception”: A French Perspective
Fabienne Randaxhe, University of St-Etienne
Session
16: The Social History of Religions — London East
Convener and Discussant—Dana
Fenton, CUNY
ØBlack Holy Ground: On African
Roots in Christianity
William H. Hardy, Tennessee State University
ØRevolution in Early
Christianity: The Gospel of Thomas
Robert M. Geraci, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ø
Path Dependent Modeling Applied to the Feast of Corpus Christi
Barbara R. Walters, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY