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Founded in 1938 as the American Catholic Sociological Society, the Association for the Sociology of Religion traces its roots to scholars in search of a hospitable place for both empirical study and social criticism animated by the social teachings of the church. They would have agreed with Troeltsch's earlier observation that "with regard to the complicated social, political, and moral energies which it presupposes," sociology "cannot create ultimate values and standards from within" and therefore "is obliged to use institutions outside the borders of its own special faculty." In this sense, the study of religious behavior and traditions contributes to the development of critically alert social science. At a time characterized by declining confidence in Enlightenment premises of rationality as well as the eruption of a variety of fundamentalisms, critical dialogue with religious traditions can offer especially crucial contributions to the social sciences.

Wednesday, August 19

3:00-5:00 p.m.

Special "Old" Council Meeting -- Portola

6:00-9:00 p.m.

Regular "Old" Council Meeting -- Portola

7:30-9:00 p.m.

Registration -- Lower Lobby

Thursday, August 20

8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Registration -- Lower Lobby

8:30-10:15 a.m.

1. The Growth and Politics of Non-Catholic Religions in Latin America: Global Influences and Local Formations

2. Religion, Culture, and Participation

3. Defining Meaningful Boundaries

4. Women's Role and Gender Issues

10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

5. Religious Competition in Contemporary Mexico: Politics, Ethnicity, and Meaning in the Face of Change

6. Competition, Conversion, and Civil Religion

7. Religion in Contemporary Europe: The Great European Cult Scare and Other Issues

12:00-6:00 p.m.

Book Exhibit

12:30-2:15 p.m.

8. Social Organization and Religion: Assorted Case Studies

9. Research in Progress on Catholic Religious Orders I

10. Robert Bellah on Religion and Society: Perspectives from Japan

Thursday's events continue on the following page.

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*Full program listings begin on page 6. The Index begins on page 14.

Thursday, August 20 (continued)

2:30-4:15 p.m.

11. Faith-based Community Organizing and America's Racial Divide

12. Research in Progress on Catholic Religious Orders II

13. Searching for the Holy Grail: Assessing the Parliament of the World's Religions

14. Authors Meet Critics: Jackson W. Carroll et al., Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools

4:30-5:20 p.m.

ASR Annual Business Meeting

5:30p.m.

ASR Presidential Address

Reception

Friday, August 21

7:00-8:15 a.m.

Women's Caucus Breakfast

8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Registration

8:15 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Book Exhibit

8:30-10:15 a.m.

15. Challenges and Changes in Contemporary Jewish Boundaries

16. Author Meets Critics: Kieran Flanagan, The Enchantment of Sociology

17. Affiliation, Commitment, and Culture

18. Religion, Ethnicity, and the New Immigrants

10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

19. Deviance

20. Issues in Contemporary Roman Catholicism I

21. Gay and Lesbian Issues

22. Buber Symposium

12:30-2:15 p.m.

23. Issues in Contemporary Roman Catholicism II

24. Religion and Modernization: Selected Cases

25. Authors Meet Critics: R. Stephen Warner, Judith Wittner et al., Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration

2:30-4:15 p.m.

26. Young Adult Catholics: Who Do You Say We Are?

27. Personnel, Administration and Boundaries

28. Secularization and Values

29. Studying American Religious Organizations: Reports from the Field

4:30 p.m.

The Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture

Reception

Saturday, August 22

8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Registration

8:15-10:00 a.m.

Reserved Book Pick-Up

8:30-10:15 a.m.

30. Religion and Globalization I: Ongoing Theoretical and Empirical Research

31. Strictness and Identity

32. Asian Religion, Asian Identity

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Final Book Sale

10:30-12:15 p.m.

33. What Most Needs the Attention of Sociologists of Religion in the Next Century?

12:30-2:15 p.m.

34. Religion and Globalization II: Ongoing Theoretical and Empirical Research

35. Evangelicals in Contemporary American Culture

36. Religion and Health

2:30-4:15 p.m.

37. Authors Meet Critics: William H. Swatos, Jr., et al., The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society

38. Theoretical Issues

39. Religion and Society: Critical and Emerging Boundaries

5:00 p.m.

"New" Council Meeting and Dinner

Sunday, August 23

8:30-10:15 a.m.

40. Religion and Transnationalism Among New Immigrants in the U.S. -- Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel (Joint Session with ASA)

Special "Old" Council Meeting -- Portola

Constitution and By-laws

Regular "Old" Council Meeting -- Portola

Committee Reports

Session 1: The Growth and Politics of Non-Catholic Religions in Latin America: Global

Influences and Local Formations

Organizer and Convener: Christopher L. Chiappari, University of Minnesota

"Reconsidering Non-Catholic Church Growth in Guatemala," Henri Gooren, Utrecht University

"Mormonism and Indianism in Bolivia," David Clark Knowlton, Rio Negro

"The Impact of Religion in the Organization of Rural Mexican Society," Pedro Arrieta Fernández, CIESAS-Golfo

"The Origins and Growth of Protestantism in a Highland Guatemalan Town," Christopher L. Chiappari, University of Minnesota

Session 2: Religion, Culture, and Participation

Convener: Bryan Froehle, CARA at Georgetown

"Rhetoric of Commitment: Religion, Belonging, and Service," Penny Edgell Becker, Cornell University

"Religion and Volunteerism Among Churchgoing Protestants," Jerry Park, University of Notre Dame

"Are Private Schoolers Privatized? Religion, Alienation, and Civic Participation," David Sikkink, University of North Carolina

Session 3: Defining Meaningful Boundaries

Organizer and Convener: Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick

"Negotiating the Boundaries Between Secular and Sacred: The Role of Christian Schools in Evangelical Culture," Lori Beaman, University of Lethbridge

"Families are Forever: Religious Women Redefine the Meaning of Family After the Experience of Bereavement or Abuse," Lisa Hanson and Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick

"Virgin Mary or Mother Mary? Examining the Role of Catholic Teaching in

The Lives of Practicing Catholic Women," Michelle Spencer, University of New Brunswick

Session 4: Women's Role and Gender Issues

Convener and Discussant: Maria Jose Fontelas Rosado Nunes

"The Role of Women in Old Political and Religious Movements," Inger Furseth, KIFO-Centre for Church Research (Oslo, Norway)

"The Women's Condition in the Teaching of the Popes of the Twentieth Century," Carlo Prandi, University of Parma-Italy

"A Variety of Gifts: The Social Ministries of Episcopal Women," Catherine Faver, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Session 5: Religious Competition in Contemporary Mexico: Politics, Ethnicity, and

Meaning in the Face of Change

Organizer and Convener: Christopher L. Chiappari, University of Minnesota

"Religious Diversity and Cultural Reproduction in an Interethnic Space: the Nahuas of Central Veracruz," María Teresa Rodríguez Lopez, CIESAS

"Evangelical Religious Experience in the Face of Death," Felipe Vázquez Palacios, CIESAS

"Ethnic Identity and Religious Affiliation in the Mayo Valley of Northwest Mexico," Mary I. O'Connor, University of California-Santa Barbara

Session 6: Competition, Conversion, and Civil Religion

Convener: Penny Edgell Becker, Cornell University

"Becoming a Disciple: A Grounded Theory of Religious Conversion," Thomas G. Lane, University of Cincinnati

"Charismatic Conversion and Gendered Power," Matthew Lawson, Brandeis University

"Faith Across the Border: Civil Religion in the North American Context," Brian Lowe, University of Virginia

"Devotion in Dixie: Is the American South More Friendly to Religion? A Test of the Effects of Regional Origin and Migration on Individual Religiosity," Christian Smith, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Jason Bailey, Carson Newman College

Session 7: Religion in Contemporary Europe: The Great European Cult Scare and Other Issues Organizer and Convener: Massimo Introvigne, Center for Studies on New Religions (Torino, Italy)

Respondent: Michael W. Homer, Suitter Axland, Salt Lake City

"The Anti-Cult Paradigm, the Definition of Religion, and the Reaction of the Judiciary: the Decision on Scientology of the Italian Supreme Court," Massimo Introvigne, Center for Studies on New Religions, Torino, Italy

"The Great European Cult Scare: Eastern and Western Europe," J. Gordon Melton, Institute for the Study of American Religion

"Religious and Ethno-National Human Capital: Evaluating the Conditions of Post-Soviet Russia," Jerry G. Pankhurst, Wittenberg University

"The Church in Wales: Growth or Decline?" Chris Harris, University of Wales and Richard Startup, University of Wales

Session 8: Social Organization and Religion: Assorted Case Studies

Convener: Bryan Froehle, CARA at Georgetown

"The Relative Appeal of Buddhism and Christianity to Chinese Americans," Joseph B. Tamney, Ball State University

"The 'Ground Base': Religion and the Problem of Identity in a Society in Transition--Naples as a Liminal City," Frederico D'Agostino, University Benincasa of Naples

"To March or Not to March: Anti-Drug Activism as a Sign of Religious Commitment," James Cavendish, University of South Florida

"'Living Our Faith': The Pastoral Letter of the Bishops of Malawi and the Shift to Multi-Party Democracy, 1992-1993," Maura Mitchell, Florida Atlantic University

Session 9: Research in Progress on Catholic Religious Orders I

Organizer and Convener: Patricia Wittberg, SC, Indiana University-Indianapolis

"Factors Behind the Success or Failure of Religious Recruitment Strategies," Mary Johnson, SNDdeN, Emmanuel College

"Maintaining and Nurturing the Social Identity of Women Religious," Mary Charlotte Chandler, Graduate Theological Union

"Community of Mind: How is it Effected?" Barbara Zajac, University of California-Riverside

Session 10: Robert Bellah on Religion and Society: Perspectives from Japan

Organizer and Convener: Mark R. Mullins, Meiji Gakuin University

Respondent: Robert Bellah, University of California

"From Tokugawa Religion to Habits of the Heart: An Introduction the Work

of Robert Bellah in Translation," Mark Mullins

"Tokugawa Religion Revisited: Religion, Ethics and Economic Integration

in Japan," Helmut Loiskandl, Tokiwa University

"Civil Religion and 'Nihonjinron'," Yoshiya Abe, Kokugakuin University

"Habits of the Heart and Emerging Individualism in Japan," Kuniko Miyanaga, International Christian University

Session 11: Faith-based Community Organizing and America's Racial Divide

Organizer and Convener: Mark R. Warren, Fordham University

Panelists: Michael Byrd, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University

Omar McRoberts, Harvard University

Timothy A. Ross, Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center

Session 12: Research in Progress on Catholic Religious Orders II

Organizer and Convener: Patricia Wittberg, SC, Indiana University-Indianapolis

"The Ecology of New Religious Communities in the U.S. Catholic Church," Patricia Wittberg, Indiana University-Indianapolis

"U.S. Jesuits Since the Council," Peter McDonough, Arizona State University and Eugene Bianchi, Emory University

"New Directions in Religious Communities," Paula Gallagher, Divinity School, University of Chicago

Session 13: Searching for the Holy Grail: Assessing the Parliament of the World's Religions

Organizer and Convener: Michael York, Bath Spa University College

Respondent: Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa

"Inter-Faith Dialogue, the New Religions and the Parliament of the World's Religions," J. Gordon Melton, Institute for the Study of American Religion

"Power, Postmodernism and Parliament," Jon Bloch, Kent State University

"Missing the Mark: A Critical Examination of the 1993 Parliament," Michael York, Bath Spa University College

Session 14: Authors Meet Critics: "Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools" (Jackson W. Carroll, Barbara G. Wheeler, Daniel O. Aleshire, and Penny Long Marler)

Organizer and Convener: R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at Chicago

Critics: Joy Charlton, Swarthmore College

Daniel V. A. Olson, Indiana University South Bend

Kevin Christiano, University of Notre Dame

Rhys Williams, Southern Illinois University

Respondents: Jackson Carroll, Duke Divinity School

ASR Annual Business Meeting

The ASR Presidential Address

Convener: R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at Chicago

"Sociology and Public Theology: A Case Study of Pro-Choice/Pro-Life Common Ground"

James R. Kelly, Fordham University

The Presidential Address Reception

The reception is co-sponsored by the Association for the Sociology of Religion and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Fordham University.

Women's Network Breakfast

Session 15: Challenges and Changes in Contemporary Jewish Boundaries

Organizers: Ellen J. Kennedy, University of St. Thomas, and Mareleyn Schneider, Yeshiva University

Convener: Mareleyn Schneider

Discussant: Meg Wilkes Karraker, University of St. Thomas

"Non-Jews in the Bar-Bat Mitzvah Ritual," Ellen J. Kennedy, University of St. Thomas

"Torah and Dharma: Jewish Seekers in Eastern Religions," Judith Linzer, Graduate Theological Union Center for Jewish Studies

"Orthodox Jewish Women Trying to Effect Change in a Traditional Denomination: The Case of Women's Prayer Groups," Ailene Cohen Nusbacher, CUNY-Kingsboro

"Modern Orthodox Jewish Women at Stern College for Women in the Secular and Religious Worlds," Susan B. Prager and Mirium Grosoff, Stern College

Session 16: Author Meets Critics: "The Enchantment of Sociology" (Kieran Flanagan)

Organizer: William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Officer

Convener: Grace Davie, University of Exeter

Critics: James R. Kelly, Fordham University

Peter Kivisto, Augustana College

Philip Selznick, University of California, Berkeley

Kenneth Westhues, University of Waterloo

Respondent: Kieran Flanagan, University of Bristol

Session 17: Affiliation, Commitment, and Culture

Convener: Patricia Wittberg, Indiana University-Indianapolis

"Public Discourse and Religious Communitarianism in Liberal Democracies," Mark S. Cladis, Vassar College

"Religious Affiliation and Attitudinal Outlooks Among African Americans," David Gay, University of Central Florida, and John Lynxwiler, University of Central Florida

"Contrasting the Religious Involvement of Jews in the United States and Israel," Bernard Lazerwitz, Bar-Ilan University

Session 18: Religion, Ethnicity, and the New Immigrants

Organizer and Convener: Helen Rose Ebaugh, University of Houston, Texas

Discussant: Nancy Eiesland, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

"Religion and Ethnicity: Variations in Majority-Minority Status in the Home and Host Countries," Fenggang Yang, University of Houston

"The Practical Religion of the Yoruba Converted: A Comparison Between Brooklyn, NY and Houston, Texas," Mary Curry, University of Houston

"Immigrant Congregations as Social Service Providers: Are They Safety Nets for Welfare Reform?" Helen Rose Ebaugh and Paula Pipes, University of Houston

Session 19: Deviance

Convener: Tanice Foltz, Indiana University-Northwest

"The Witch Trial in 1998," Helen A. Berger, West Chester University

"How Much Clergy Malfeasance is Actually Out There? A Survey of Prevalence," William A. Stacey, University of Texas at Arlington, Susan E. Darnell, Indiana University-Northwest, and Anson Shupe, Indiana-Purdue University-Fort Wayne

"Social Capital and Adolescent Deviance: The Inconsistent Effects of Religious Measures of Community Embeddedness," Sharon K. Houseknecht and Susan K. Lewis, Ohio State University

"Child Abuse in the Hare Krishna Movement," E. Burke Rochford and Jennifer Heinlein, Middlebury College

Session 20: Issues in Contemporary Roman Catholicism I

Convener: William Mirola, Marion College

"Attitudinal Changes in a Catholic Volunteer Program," Paul Perl, University of Notre Dame

"Irish Priests in the United States: Where Are They and What Are They Saying," William L. Smith, Georgia Southern University

"We Are Called to Love One Another: An Exploration of Catholic Priests' and Administrators' Perceptions of Discrimination of Latinos," Susan Eichenberger-Levy, University of Florida

"Christian/Catholic Identities: A Psychosocial Approach," Pierre Hegy, Aldelphi University

Session 21: Gay and Lesbian Issues

Convener: Barbara J. Denison, Penn State Capital College

"The Issues of Gays and Religion: The Struggles of Three Parishes," Robert E. Beckley, West Texas A&M University, Jerome Koch and D. Paul Johnson, Texas Tech University

"From Gay to Straight: The Role of Religion in Effecting Change of Sexual Orientation," Ronda A. Rubio, California State-Fullerton

"Spirituality and Sexuality: The Personal Identities of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Christians in Britain," Andrew Yip, Nottingham Trent University

Session 22: Buber Symposium

Organizer and Convener: M. Herbert Danzger, Graduate Center, CUNY

"Buber, Levinas and Hegel," Stanley Aronowitz, Graduate Center, CUNY

"The Interhuman and What is Common to All: Buber's Significance for Sociology," Maurice Friedman, San Diego State University

"Illuminating the Concept of Evil: Buber Discusses Wrong-Doing and Wrong Doers," Mareleyn Schneider: Yeshiva University

"Martin Buber: From Existentialism to Public Philosopher," Michael Duffy, Lehman College, CUNY

Session 23: Issues in Contemporary Roman Catholicism II

Convener: Paul Perl, University of Notre Dame

"Catholics and the Moral Veto: Twentieth-Century Birth Control Politics in the United States," Gene Burns, Michigan State University

"Woman-Conscious Catholics as Models of Religious Agency," Laura M. Leming, Boston College

"Should a Parish be Established? Pastoral Planning in Transition," Robert Durel, Christopher Newport University

"Contradictions in Catholic Social Doctrine," Joseph Ferraro, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana

Session 24: Religion and Modernization: Selected Cases

Convener: Christopher Chiaparri, University of Minnesota

"Ecumenism, Religious Competition, and Inter-Faith Movements," Elena Kalinichenko, Institute of Comparative Politics (Moscow)

"Beyond the Dumping Ground: A Critique of Modernization Theory in a Philippine Basic Ecclesial Community," Kathy Nadeau, California State University-Stanislaus

"Work and Its Discontents: Two Cases of Contemporary Religious Response to Unemployment," Clare B. Fischer, Starr King School for Ministry

. "The Notion of Organization as a Critical Instrument in Sociology of Religion," Yuki Shiose, Université de Sherbrooke, and Jacques Zylberberg, Université Laval

Session 25: Author Meets Critics: "Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the

New Immigration" (R. Stephen Warner and Judith Wittner)

Organizer and Convener: Helen Rose Ebaugh, University of Houston

Critics: Terry Sullivan, University of Texas-Austin

Carl Bankston, University of Southwest Louisiana

Stephen Gold, Michigan State University

Respondents: R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at Chicago; Judith G. Wittner,

Loyola University Chicago; Karen Chai, Harvard University; Shoshanah Feher,

UCLA; Sheba George, University of California-Berkeley; Randall Hepner,

Michigan State University; Prema Kurien, University of Southern California;

Fenggang Yang, University of Houston

Session 26: Young Adult Catholics: Who Do You Say We Are?

Organizer and Convener: William D. Dinges, Catholic University of America

Panelists: Juan L. Gonzales, Jr., California State University-Hayward

Mary Johnson, Emmanuel College

William D. Dinges

Session 27: Personnel, Administration and Boundaries

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

"Still Too Many Pastors: Consequences of the Clergy Oversupply in the 1990s," Patricia M. Y. Chang, University of Notre Dame

"Lay Leaders Needed! A Study of Staffing Change at the Parish Level," Robert Durel, Christopher Newport University

"The Dilemma of Prison Chaplaincy: Equality of Opportunity or Brokerage by the Established Church," James a Beckford, University of Warwick

"Judicatories, Niches, and Negotiations," Adair T. Lummis, Hartford Seminary

Session 28: Secularization and Values

Convener: Ailene Cohen Nusbacher, CUNY-Kingsboro

"Shifts in Secularization Theory: The Implications for the Study of Religion in Europe," Grace Davie, University of Exeter

"Secularization, Sacralization, or Polarization? Contemporary Religious Trends," James T. Duke, Brigham Young University

"Valuing 'Secularization': What Can Be Salvaged from the Secularization Debate?," William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office

Session 29: Studying American Religious Organizations: Reports from the Field

Organizer and Convener: Nancy Ammerman, Hartford Seminary

"Finding Rural Churches: Methodological and Practical Consequences of Invisibility," Zoey Heyer-Gray and Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri

. "Intra-Denominational Differences Among Albuquerque Episcopalians: The Effects of Context," Sandra Woerle, University of New Mexico

"Connectionalism Beyond the Denomination: Local Religious Ecologies and Beyond," Scott Thumma, Hartford Seminary

"Work and Theological Culture: The Case of the United Church of Christ," Emily Barman, University of Chicago

The Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture

"The Bible and Sociology," John A. Coleman, S.J., Loyola Marymount University

The Furfey Lecture Reception

The Furfey Lecture Reception is co-sponsored by the Association for the Sociology of Religion and the Catholic Social Thought Project, University of San Francisco

Session 30: Religion and Globalization I: Ongoing Theoretical and Empirical Research

Organizer and Convener: William R. Garrett, Saint Michael's College

"Globality and Religiosity," Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh

"Religion, Ethnicity, and the Clash of Civilizations: A Modest Theoretical Proposal for Enlarging the Global Field," William R. Garrett, St. Michael's College

"Withdrawing from the World: Dismantling Global Mission in the Church of the Brethren," Theodore Long, Elizabethtown College

"Culture Clash in the Global System: Is Huntington Right?" John Simpson, University of Toronto

Session 31: Strictness and Identity

Convener: Gene Burns, Michigan State University

"Prevalence and Success of Strict Churches in Middletown," Joseph B. Tamney, Stephen D. Johnson, and Kevin McElmurry, Ball State University

"Strictness and Religious Commitment: A Five Denomination Study," Daniel V.A. Olson, Indiana University South Bend, and Paul Perl, University of Notre Dame

"Strictness as Competitiveness: An Exploration of a Rational Choice Theory of Why Conservative Churches Grow," Joseph Zimmerman, Quincy University

"The Negative Relationship of Religious Pluralism and Religious Affiliation Among Canadian Counties and Cities," Daniel V. A. Olson, Indiana University South Bend and C. Kirk Hadaway, United Church of Christ, Board for Homeland Ministries

Session 32: Asian Religion, Asian Identity

Convener: Grace Davie, University of Exeter

"The Curse of the Goddess Kali: Ritual Revival in a Village of North India," Tribhuwan Kapur, Indira Gandhi National Open University

"Christian or Korean: Korean-American Evangelical College Students' Religious and Racial/Ethnic Identity," Soyoung Park, Drew University

"Many Are Called But Few Are Chosen: Two Chinese Buddhist Temples in Chicago Metropolitan Area," C. S. Stone Shih, University of Illinois at Chicago

Session 33: What Most Needs the Attention of Sociologists of Religion in the Next Century?

Organizer and Convener: James Kelly, Fordham University

Panelists: Robert Bellah, University of California-Berkeley

David O. Moberg, Marquette University

Marie Augusta Neal, SNDdeN (delivered by Mary Johnson, SNDdeN)

Session 34: Religion and Globalization II: Ongoing Theoretical and Empirical Research

Organizer and Convener: William R. Garrett, Saint Michael's College

"Responses to Globalization," Frank Lechner, Emory University

"What Counts as Religion in Global Society? From Practice to Theory," Peter Beyer , University of Ottawa

"Religions, Civilizations and Global Order: A Critique of Huntington's Religious Division of the World," W. Brent Garrett, Washington State University

"Global Gemeinschaft and Global Gesellschaft: Theoretical Connections Among Global Social Movements," Michael McMullen, University of Houston-Clear Lake

Session 35: Evangelicals in Contemporary American Culture

Convener: Joseph B. Tamney, Ball State University

"Interpreting Mixed Messages: Evangelicals on Sex Roles and Decision Making," Melinda Lundquist, University of North Carolina

"What the Rest of America Thinks About Evangelicalism," Mark Regnerus, University of North Carolina

"Godly Masculinities: Discourses of Gender and Power Among the Promise Keepers," John P. Bartkowski, Mississippi State University

"Orthodoxy in the American Cultural Market: Preliminary Analysis," Nina Schmit, American Theological Library Association

Session 36: Religion and Health

Convener: Ralph Lane, University of San Francisco

"Examining a Twisted Knot: Healing, Health, Spirituality, and Religion," Margaret M. Poloma, Southern California College and University of Akron, Herbert Benson, Deaconess Hospital and Jean-Anne Sutherland-Bindas, University of Akron

"Disability, Religion, and a Critical Social Science: Considering the Possibilities," Albert A. Herzog, Jr., Ohio State University

"From Separation to Integration: The Odyssey of the Seventh-Day Adventist Hospital System," Ronald Lawson, Queens College-CUNY

"Race and Class in Nashville's Church Responses to the Mental Health Needs of Older Persons," Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University, and Baqar A. Husaini, Tennessee State University

Session 37: Author Meets Critics: "Encyclopedia of Religion and Society" (William H.

Swatos, Jr., et al.)

Organizer and Convener: Barbara J. Denison, Penn State Capital College

Critics: H. Wesley Perkins, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Benton Johnson, University of Oregon

Rodney Stark, University of Washington, and John Simpson, University of Toronto

Respondents: William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Officer

Grace Davie, University of Exeter

Mitch Allen, AltaMira Press

Session 38: Theoretical Issues

Convener: Albert A. Herzog, Jr., Ohio State University

"Of Bodies and Boundaries: Cultural Narrative as Incantation," Wendy Griffin, California State University-Long Beach

"On the Exchanges Between God and Men: A Critical Evaluation of Rodney Stark's Micro Foundations of Religion," Durk Hak, University of Groningen

"Episcopal Hierarchy as Totem: A Durkheimian Interpretation of the Social Origins and Social Functions of Ecclesiastical Governance Structures," James H. Mahon, William Paterson University

Session 39: Religion and Society: Critical and Emerging Boundaries

Convener: E. Burke Rochford, Middlebury College

"Faust's Bargain: Science, Technology, and Myth," William A. Stahl, Luther College

"Exploring the Interface Between Theology and Social Science: Richard Niebuhr and the Early Bonhoeffer Critically Revised," Peter Staples, University of Utrecht

"Of Demons and Hollywood: Exorcism in American Culture," Michael Cuneo, Fordham University

"New" Council Meeting

Session 40: Joint Session with ASA: Religion and Transnationalism Among New

Immigrants in the U.S.

Organizer and Convener: Helen Rose Ebaugh, University of Houston

Discussant: Cristina Szanton Blanc, Columbia University

"Contemporary Paganism as a Transnational Community," Michael York, Spa Bath University College

"Creating and Sustaining Immigrant Communities Via the Internet," Kathy Sullivan, University of Houston

"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: How Immigration Affects Indian Women in the United States," Prema Kurien, University of Southern California

The numbers following a participant's name refer to the session(s) in which she or he is involved.

Abe, Yoshiya 10

Allen, Mitch 37

Aronowitz, Stanley 22

Arrieta Fernández, Pedro 1

Bailey, Jason 6

Bankston, Carl 25

Barman, Emily 29

Bartkowski, John P. 35

Beaman, Lori 3

Becker, Penny Edgell 2, 6

Beckford, James A. 27

Beckley, Robert E. 21, 27

Bellah, Robert 10, 33

Benson, Herbert 36

Berger, Helen A. 19

Beyer, Peter 34

Bianchi, Eugene 12

Blanc, Cristina Szanton 40

Blasi, Anthony J. 36

Bloch, Jon 13

Burns, Gene 23, 31

Byrd, Michael 11

Carroll, Jackson W. 14

Cavendish, James C. 8

Chai, Karen 25

Chandler, Mary Charlotte 9

Chang, Patricia M. Y. 27

Charlton, Joy 14

Chiappari, Christopher 1, 5, 24

Christiano, Kevin J. 14

Cladis, Mark S. 17

Cuneo, Michael 39

Curry, Mary 18

D'Agostino, Frederico 8

Danzger, M. Herbert 22

Davie, Grace 16, 28, 32, 37

Denison, Barbara J. 21, 37

Dinges, William D. 26

Duffy, Michael J. 22

Duke, James T. 28

Durel, Robert 23, 27

Ebaugh, Helen Rose 18, 25, 40

Eichenberger-Levy, Susan 20

Eiesland, Nancy 18

Faver, Catherine 4

Feher, Shoshanah 25

Ferraro, Joseph 23

Fischer, Clare B. 24

Flanagan, Kieran 16

Foltz, Tanice 19

Friedman, Maurice 22

Froehle, Bryan 2, 8

Furseth, Inger 4

Gallagher, Paula 13

Garrett, W. Brent 34

Garrett, William R. 30, 34

Gay, David 17

George, Sheba 25

Gold, Stephen 25

Gonzales, Juan L., Jr. 26

Gooren, Henri 1

Griffin, Wendy 38

Grosoff, Mirium S. 15

Hadaway, C. Kirk 31

Hak, Durk 38

Hanson, Lisa 3

Harris, Chris 7

Hegy, Pierre 20

Heinlein, Jennifer 19

Hepner, Randall 25

Herzog, Albert A. 36, 38

Heyer-Gray, Zoey 29

Homer, Michael 7

Houseknecht, Sharon K. 19

Husaini, Baqar A. 36

Introvigne, Massimo 7

Johnson, Benton 37

Johnson, D. Paul 21

Johnson, Mary 9, 26

Johnson, Stephen D. 31

Kalinichenko, Elena 24

Kapur, Tribhuwan 32

Karraker, Meg Wilkes 15

Kelly, James R. 16, 33

Kennedy, Ellen J. 15

Kivisto, Peter 16

Knowlton, David Clark 1

Koch, Jerome 21

Kurien, Prema 25, 40

Lane, Ralph 36

Lane, Thomas G. 6

Lawson, Matthew 6

Lawson, Ronald 36

Lazerwitz, Bernard 17

Lechner, Frank 34

Leming, Laura M. 23

Lewis, Susan 19

Linzer, Judith 15

Loiskandl, Helmut 10

Long, Theodore E. 30

Lowe, Brian 6

Lummis, Adair T. 27

Lundquist, Melinda 35

Lynxwiler, John 17

Mahon, James H. 38

McDonough, Peter 12

McElmurray, Kevin 31

McMullen, Michael 34

McRoberts, Omar 11

Melton, J. Gordon 7, 13

Mirola, William 20

Mitchell, Maura 8

Miyanaga, Kuniko 10

Moberg, David O. 33

Mullins, Mark 10

Nadeau, Kathy 24

Nason-Clark, Nancy 3

Neal, Marie Augusta 33

Neitz, Mary Jo 29

Nusbacher, Ailene Cohen 15, 28

O'Connor, Mary I. 5

Olson, Daniel V. A. 14, 31

Pankhurst, Jerry G. 7

Park, Jerry 2

Park, Soyoung 32

Perkins, H. Wesley 37

Perl, Paul 20, 23, 31

Pipes, Paula 18

Poloma, Margaret 36

Prager, Susan B. 15

Prandi, Carlo 4

Regnerus, Mark 35

Robertson, Roland 30

Rochford, E. Burke 19, 39

Rodriguez López, María Teresa 1

Rosado Nunes, Maria Jose 4

Ross, Timothy A. 12

Rubio, Ronda A. 21

Schmit, Nina 35

Schneider, Mareleyn 15, 22

Selznick, Philip 16

Shih, C.S. Stone 32

Shiose, Yuki 24

Shupe, Anson 19

Sikkink, David 2

Simpson, John H. 30, 37

Smith, Christian 6

Smith, William L. 20

Spencer, Michelle 3

Stacey, William 19

Stahl, William A. 39

Staples, Peter 39

Stark, Rodney 37

Startup, Richard 7

Sullivan, Kathy 40

Sullivan, Terry 25

Sutherland-Bindas, Jean-Anne 36

Swatos, William H., Jr. 16, 28, 37

Tamney, Joseph B. 8, 31, 35

Thumma, Scott L. 29

Vázquez Palacios, Filipe 5

Warner, R. Stephen 14, 25

Warren, Mark R. 11

Westhues, Kenneth 16

Williams, Rhys H. 14

Wittberg, Patricia 9, 12, 17

Wittner, Judith 25

Woerle, Sandra 29

Yang, Fenggang 18, 25

Yip, Andrew 21

York, Michael 13, 40

Zajac, Barbara 9

Zimmerman, Joseph 31

Zylberberg, Jacques 24

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