ASR 2007 Preliminary Program
STRIVING FOR A BETTER WORLD:
RELIGION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Religious groups have unequal access to social, economic, and political power. Moreover, religious collectivities address existing social arrangements in various ways drawing from unique worldviews. Consequently, many societies and religious communities are sharply divided between competing perspectives, with some viewpoints beating out the competition. The 2007 theme focuses on how different religions attempt to implement their vision of a better world by either sanctifying or challenging the status quo and the consequences of their efforts for their own communities and their relationships with the secular world.
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Last updated:
8 JuneThursday, August 9, 5:00-8:15 p.m.
ASR Executive Council Dinner and Meeting
Thursday, August 9, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Registration
Thursday, August 9, 8:30-9:30 p.m.
Opening Reception
Friday, August 10, 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Registration
Friday, August 10, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session A1: Thematic Session: Church Growth and Decline
Convener: Kristeen L. Black, Drew University
Are Conservative Denominations Growing? A Cohort Analysis of Current Trends in Religious
Preference
Suzanne C. Fournier and Deborah L. Coe, Purdue University
New Zealand Religious Affiliations over the Last Fifty Years: Patterns and Explanations
Charles Crothers, Auckland University of Technology
A Boom in Brandon (Florida) Only? Participation Increase and Geographic Advantage
among Presbyterian Church (USA) Congregations
Perry Chang and Ida J. Smith-Williams, Presbyterian Church (USA) Research Services
Congregational Splits and Denominational Apostasy
David A. Roozen and Adair T. Lummis, Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Session A2: The Relationship between Religion, Science, and Education
Convener: Kristopher H. Morgan, Purdue University
The Campus Religious Marketplace in Contemporary America
John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State University
Nexus: Religion in the Public University
Stacy Keogh, University of New Mexico
Science and Religion: Never the Twain Shall Meet?
Begoña Echeverria, Natalie Becker, and Reba Page, University of California–Riverside
"The Most Scientific Religion": The Practical Rationality of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh Applied Scientists
Richard Cimino, New School for Social Research
Session A3: Conversion and Social Identity Change (Part 1)
Organizers: Géraldine Mossière, University of Montreal, and Loïc Le Pape, École
des Hautes Études Sciences Sociales-Marseilles
Convener: Deirdre Meintel, University of Montreal
Deconstructing Sociological Approaches to Conversion
Sébastien Tank-Storper, École des Hautes Études Sciences Sociales
Change of Religion, Changing Representations of Self and Society: Different Paradigms of
Conversion
Géraldine Mossière, University of Montreal
Language and Self-Transformation: A Social Constructionist Approach to the
Study of Conversion
Claude H. Rochon, University of Montreal
How to Change Nothing? Religious Conversion, Social Context, and Identity Change
Loïc Le Pape, École des Hautes Études Sciences Sociales-Marseilles
Session A4: The Arts and Religious Performance
Convener: David M. Hummon, Holy Cross College
Producing Unchurch Worship: Sound and Stage in a Seeker Church
Kevin McElmurry, University of Missouri, Columbia
Music as Ritual: A Hotline to the Collective Conscious
Sara Horsfall, Texas Wesleyan University
"What Doth the Ladder Mean?": Jacob’s Ladder in Protestant Congregational Song, 1790-1890
David M. Hummon, Holy Cross College
The Feast of Corpus Christi
Barbara R. Walters, Kingsboro Community College, CUNY
Friday, August 10, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session B1: Thematic Session: Author Meets Critics: Elaine Howard
Ecklund’s Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life
Organizer and convener: Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University
Critics: Carolyn Chen, Northwestern University
John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State University
R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois Chicago
Respondent: Elaine Howard Ecklund, SUNY Buffalo
Session B2: Teaching the Sociology of Religion
Organizer and convener: Tia Pratt, Fordham University
Panelists: Nancy Eiesland, Emory University
Suzanne Fournier, Purdue University
Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri
David Yamane, Wake Forest University
Session B3: Religion’s Role in Health and Illness
Convener: Dana M. Greene, Appalachian State University
Great Matters of Life and Death: American Buddhist Converts Confront Aging, Illness, and Dying
Kim Lacy Rogers, Dickinson College
American Jews Respond to the Social Psychological, and Spiritual Challenges of Chronic Illness
Gail Glicksman, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Does Religion Protect against Psychological Distress among Chronically Ill and Poor Women?
Barbara Kilbourne, Tennessee State University, Charles Holzer,
University of Texas-Medical Branch, Deborah Shields, Shawn
Montgomery, Anthony Blasi, Tennessee State University, and Robert
Levine, Morehouse School of Medicine
Session B4: Spirituality and the New Age
Convener: Tanice Foltz, Indiana University Northwest
Ideological and Organizational Dilemmas of the Network of Spiritual Progressives
Celia Winkler, University of Montana
Sacro-Egoism and the Modern Approach to Religiosity in Oregon
John S. Knox, University of Birmingham
The Impact of Culture on Spiritual Experiences within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Hui-Tzu Grace Chou and Elizabeth Dean, Utah Valley State College
Parallel Glocalization: The New Age in Taiwan
Shu-Chuan Chen, Fo Guang University, and James A. Beckford, University of Warwick
Friday, August 10, 12:15-6:00 p.m.
Book Exhibit
Friday, August 10, 1:00-2:45 p.m.
Session C1: Thematic Session: Religion’s Role in Partisan Politics and Policy
Convener: Deborah L. Coe, Purdue University
Church in the State: The New Role of Religion for the Democratic Party?
Rebecca Sager, Loyola Marymount University
Politics and Religion: When Prophecies Get Involved in the Political Debate
Alexandre Bérubé Bousquet, Collège Universitaire de St-Boniface
Red-State and Blue-County Congregations: How Political Geography Relates to Social Outreach
Cynthia A. Woolever, Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Another Christian Right? The Politicization of Korean Protestantism in Contemporary Global Context
Kyuhoon Cho, University of Ottawa
Session C2: Religion, Marriage and Family
Convener: Tony Healy, Visions-Decisions
Religion and Same-Sex Marriage in Canada and the United States
Erin Flaucher and Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College
Married Catholic Priests in the United States
D. Paul Sullins, Catholic University of America
Changing Lanes in Christian Ministry: Affiliation and Marital Status Boundary Crossing
Stephen Joseph Fichter, Rutgers University
"Demografiko": Contraception, Abortion, and Population in Greece
Elisa Diamantopoulou, École Pratique des Hautes Études
Session C3: Religious Leadership
Convener: Elaine Howard Ecklund, SUNY Buffalo
Prophetic Leaders and Their Congregations
Kristeen L. Black, Drew University
Religious Leadership and Military Chaplains: Their Changing Privilege, Power, and Agenda in the Face of the New US Religious Landscape
Barbara J. Denison, Shippensburg University
Gustavo Gutiérrez: The Construction of a Legend
Ulf Borelius, Göteborg University
"Islam is a Problem": Religion, Colonial Politics, and Social Change in Dutch East India
Dietrich Jung, Danish Institute for International Studies
Session C4: Religiosities and Lifestyles
Convener: Kevin McElmurry, University of Missouri, Columbia
Religiosity, Gender, and Denominationalism: An Age/Period/Cohort Analysis
David A. Gay, University of Central Florida
Movements, Counter-movements, and the Politics of Stigma in Two Evangelical Parachurch Ministries
Lynne Gerber, Graduate Theological Union
"The Changing Church?" The Seventh-day Adventist Church and Its Homosexual Members
Ronald Lawson, Queens College, CUNY
Religion as the Embodiment of Kinship Ideals: A Macro-Level Global Theory of the Role of Religion in Determining Women’s Status
Margaret Gonsoulin, California State University, Fresno
Friday, August 10, 3:00-4:45 p.m.
Session D1: Thematic Session: Author Meets Critics: Melissa Wilde’s Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change
Organizer and convener: David Yamane, Wake Forest University
Critics: Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire
James R. Kelly, Fordham University
Brian Starks, Florida State University
Respondent: Melissa Wilde, University of Pennsylvania
Session D2: Writing Grant Proposals
Organizer and convener: Rachel Kraus, Ball State University
Panelists: Mark Regnerus, University of Texas, Austin
William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
Barbara J. Denison, Shippensburg University
Shane Sharp, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Session D3: Eastern Orthodoxy in Cultural and Political Context
Organizer and convener: Jerry G. Pankhurst, Wittenberg University
Religious Ethnocentrism among Russia’s Orthodox Christians and Muslims
Vyacheslav Karpov and Elena Lisovskaya, Western Michigan University
Being Russian Orthodox and Doing Russian Orthodoxy
Jerry G. Pankhurst, Wittenberg University
The Orthodox Church of Cyprus Faces the Twenty-First Century: Toward an Interpretation of the 2006 Archiepiscopal Elections
Victor Roudometof, University of Cyprus
Discussant: William R. Garrett, St. Michael’s College
Session D4: Secularization and Rationalization
Convener: Matthew T. Loveland, Le Moyne College
State and Secularism in India
Daniel Jasper, Moravian College
The Unilinear Conception of Secularization of the New Paradigm
Warren S. Goldstein, University of Central Florida
Rationalization, the Decay of the Narcicism of Minor Differences, Disquietness and Fissions: The Re-reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Gereformeerde Kerken [vrijgemaakt])
Durk Hak, Groningen, Netherlands
Holy Cow: The Churching of Wisconsin
Melissa Warner, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Friday, August 10, 5:00 p.m.
ASR Presidential Address
Convener: Kevin J. Christiano, University of Notre Dame
Religious Stratification: Its Origins, Persistence, and Consequences
James D. Davidson, Purdue University
Friday, August 10, 6:00-8:00 p.m.*
ASR Presidential Reception
*Time approximate: reception to open upon the conclusion of the address.
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Saturday, August 11, 7:15-8:30 a.m.
New Attendees’ Welcoming Breakfast
Attendance by preregistration only.
Saturday, August 11, 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Registration
Saturday, August 11, 8:15 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
ASR Book Exhibit
Saturday, August 11, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session E1: Thematic Session: Debating Church and State: Religious-Political Groups Advocating Different Versions of a "Better World" (Joint ASR/ASA)
Organizer and convener: William V. D’Antonio, Catholic University of America
From Possibility to Reality: Three Decades of Evangelical Activism
Nancy Ammerman, Boston University
Religion and Politics in the U.S. Congress, 1973-2006
Steven Tuch, George Washington University, and William V. D’Antonio, Catholic University of America
Remembering the Politics Shapes Religion: The Contemporary U.S.
Gene Burns, Michigan State University
Session E2: Religion’s Role in Civic Engagement and Activism
Convener: Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick
The Influence of the Religion-Family Link on Civic Engagement
Young-Il Kim, University of Virginia
From Mercy to Activism: Translating Social Justice into Religious Practice and Religious Practices into Activism
Amy Lane, University of Missouri, Columbia
Islamic Civil Society Organizations in the Middle East: Agents of Social Change?
Marie Juul Petersen and Sara Lei Jacobsen, Danish Institute for International Studies
Public Rituals and Political Positioning: Venezuelan Evangelicals and the Chá vez Government
David Smilde, University of Georgia
Session E3: Religion and the Economy on a Global Scale
Convener: Lutz Kaelber, Dept of Sociology/University of Vermont
Transnational Links in Faith and Business: Case Studies of Evangelicals in El Salvador and South Africa
Stephen Offutt, Boston University
The State, the Market, and the Church in Costa Rica: Analyzing the Role of The Costa Rican Bishops in the Free-trade Policy Debates
Amy Reynolds, Princeton University
European Union Enlargement: To What Extent Does Religion Play in Admitting New Members?
Brent Garrett, Department of Homeland Security
Householding and the Catholic Worker: Subsistence and Resistance Strategies within a Capitalist System
Paul V. Stock, Colorado State University
Session E4: Methodology, Measurement, and Scientific Approaches to Religion
Convener: Jerry Park, Baylor University
Implementing a Feminist Approach to Social Research on Religion in Zimbabwe
Gladys Ganiel, Trinity College Dublin
An Early Example of the Comparative-Historical Approach in Sociology of Religion in the U.S.: The Work of Heinrich Maurer
Michael Hillary, University of Wisconsin, Waukesha
Doing Religiosity
Shane Sharp and Greg Kordsmeier, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Let Freedom Ring . . . in Moderation: The Excesses of Therapeutic Religion
Pamela Leong, University of Southern California
Saturday, August 11, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session F1: Thematic Session: Race, Class, and Gender: Religion’s Role in Existing Institutional Arrangements (Joint ASR/ASA)
Organizer and convener: Darren E. Sherkat, Southern Illinois University
Lessons from the Field: The Intersections of Gender, Family, and Social Class in American Religious Institutions
Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota
Racial Differences in the Impact of Religious Conservatism on the Transition to Adulthood
Jennifer Glass, University of Iowa
Faith and Finances: How Religious Belief Affects Economic Values, Wealth, and Poverty
Lisa Keister, Duke University
Doubly Disenfranchised? How Race/Ethnicity and Religiosity Shape Muslim-American Political Engagement
Jen’nan Read, University of California, Irvine
Discussant: Margarita Mooney, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Session F2: Author Meets Critics: Peter Beyer’s Religions in Global Society
Organizer and convener: John H. Simpson, University of Toronto
Critics: Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College
Dietrich Jung, Danish Institute for International Studies
William Garrett, St. Michael’s College
Respondent: Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa
Session F3: Environmental and Structural Impacts on Religion
Convener: Scott A. Desmond, Purdue University
Surviving the Storm: Congregations after Katrina
Gary Adler, University of Arizona
How Changing Contest Affects Parish Life: A Test of Open-Systems Theory
Suzanne Fournier, Purdue University
Congregations and their Regional Environments: How Social Environment Shapes Opportunities and Challenges in Local Religious Organizations
Wayne Luther Thompson, Carthage College
Religion and Demographic Behavior in Mbanza-Lemba Neighborhood’s Household in Kenshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Test of Particularized Theology and Characteristics Hypotheses
Jacques Emina Be-Ofuriyua, University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium
Session F4: Conversion and Social Identity Change (Part II)
Organizers: Géraldine Mossière, University of Montreal, and Loïc Le Pape, École
des Hautes Études Sciences Sociales-Marseilles
Convener and discussant: Deirdre Meintel, University of Montreal
Choosing the Sufi Way of Islam: An "Alternative" to Negotiate Public Space for Islam in Italy?
Alessandra Marchi, É cole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Muslim Conversion and Identity-Transmission Choices for Children
Amé lie Puzenat, Université Paris 7
Instrumentalized Faiths? Conversion of and the Indochinese (Lao) Refugee Experience
Lamphone Phonevilay, University of Montreal
Saturday, August 11, 12:30-1:25 p.m.
The Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture
Religion and Politics: The Influence of Religious Political Action Organizations
on State Legislatures
Joe Micon, Indiana House of Representatives
Saturday, August 11, 1:30-2:55 p.m.
The Paul Hanly Furfey Reception
*Time approximate: reception to open upon the conclusion of the lecture.
Saturday, August 11, 3:00-4:45 p.m.
Session G1: Thematic Session: Author Meets Critics: William V. D’Antonio, James D. Davidson, Dean Hoge, and Mary Gautier’s American Catholics Today: New Realities about Their Faith and Their Church
Organizer and convener: Laura Leming, University of Dayton
Critics: John A. Coleman, Loyola Marymount University
Cynthia A. Woolever, Hartford Seminary
Fred Kniss, Loyola University Chicago
Stephen Fichter, Rutgers University
Respondents: William V. D’Antonio, Catholic University of America, and James D. Davidson, Purdue University
Session G2: Navigating the Academic Job Market in the Sociology of Religion
Organizer and convener: Tia Pratt, Fordham University
Panelists: Kevin Dougherty, Baylor University
Margarita Mooney, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jerry Park, Baylor University
Jenny Trinitapoli, University of Texas, Austin
Session G3: Intrareligious Relations
Convener: Kevin J. Christiano, University of Notre Dame
Experiments in Shared Responsibility: A Cross-National Comparison in the United States and Montreal, Quebec
Anthony J. Pogorelc, Catholic University of America, and Solange Lefebvre,
University of Montreal
Honoring or Degrading: Competing Understandings of Native American Mascots in the United Methodist Church
Gail Murphy-Geiss and Kathleen Denny, Sociology, Colorado College
Charleston: Epicenter of the Late . . . and Current Unpleasantness
Dana Fenton, Lehman College, CUNY
Session G4: Religious Agency, Creating Identities, and Balancing Community
Convener: Susan A. Eisenhandler, University of Connecticut
Transnationalism and Religious Agency: The Role of Agency in the Creation/Recreation of Social and Political Space and Identity in the Case of a Korean Ethnic Church
Daehoon Han, University of Missouri, Columbia
Stability vs. Change: Identity and Work among American Catholics
Brian Starks, Florida State University
Ages of Life and Christian Faith among Religious and Former Religious
Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University
More than Desegregation: Meaningful Integration of African Americans in a Formerly All White Congregation
Mary Hickert Herring, Temple University
Saturday, August 11, 5:00-6:45 p.m.
Session H1: Thematic Session: Religion and Gentrification in New York’s Lower East Side
Organizer and conveners: Lowell W. Livezey, New York Theological Seminary, and Tony Carnes, International Research Institute on Values Changes
Religion and Cultures of the Night: Congregational Agency in the East Village
Katherine DiSalvo and Lowell W. Livezey, New York Theological Seminary
Religion and the New Chinese Diaspora
Kenneth J. Guest, Baruch College, CUNY
Religion and the Night: Geographical Intersections between Religion and Culture in the East Village, New York City
Elizabeth Pullen and Erin Araujo, New York Theological Seminary
Religion, Gentrification and Social Change in the Lower East Side
Tony Carnes, International Research Institute on Values Changes
Session H2: Development of Adolescent Religiosity and Church Involvement
Convener: Sarah E. Soper, Purdue University
Adolescent Religious Development: How (and Why) Does Religiosity Change During Adolescence
Scott A. Desmond, Kristopher H. Morgan, and George Kikuchi, Purdue University
Believers in Progress: Youth and Religion in the Aosta Valley
Giuseppe Giordan, University of Valle d’Aosta
Understanding Adolescent Religious Identity Change
Youn Ok Lee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Patterns of Religious Service Attendance in Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood
Jonathan Hill, University of Notre Dame
Session H3: Religions and Literatures
Convener: Rebecca Sager, Loyola Marymount University
World War Z and the End of Religion as We Know It
Gayle R. Baldwin, University of North Dakota
Reason, Religion and Science: The Beliefs of the Da Vinci Code
Edward Berryman, College Sainte-Foy
"All Seasons Shall Be Sweet": Gardening as a Source of Transcendent Meaning
Susan A. Eisenhandler, University of Connecticut
When the Messiah Dies: A Comparison of Death Narratives
Susan Setta, Northeastern University
Session H4: Religion, Values, and Movements in Central and Eastern Europe
Convener: Gerardo Marti, Davidson College
Introduction to Religions and Values: Central and Eastern European Research and Values Network
András Máté Tóth and Csongor Sárközy, University of Szeged
Functions of Religion in Eastern-Central Europe
András Máté Tóth, University of Szeged
The Religiosity of Baptists and Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hungary
Gábor Dániel Nagy, University of Szeged
Neopaganism in Hungary
Reka Szilardi, University of Szeged
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Sunday, August 12, 7:15-8:15 a.m.
ASR Business Meeting
Presiding: James D. Davidson, Purdue University, and Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri
Sunday, August 12, 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Registration
Sunday, August 12, 8:15-10:20 a.m.
Reserve Book Pick-up
Sunday, August 12, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session I1: Publishing Journal Articles and Books
Organizer and convener: Rachel Kraus, Ball State University
Panel: Kevin J. Christiano, University of Notre Dame
Elaine Howard Ecklund, SUNY Buffalo
Michael O. Emerson, Rice University
Daniel V.A. Olson, Purdue University
Session I2: Thematic Session: Author Meets Critics: Lawrence A. Hoffman’s Rethinking Synagogues
Organizer and convener: J. Shawn Landres, S3K Synagogue Studies Institute
Critics: Steven M. Cohen, Hebrew Union College
Samuel Heilman, Queens College, CUNY
Adair Lummis, Hartford Seminary
Respondent: Lawrence A. Hoffman, Hebrew Union College
Session I3: Inheriting and Leaving Religion
Convener: Scott A. Desmond, Purdue University
The Sounds of Silence: The Familial and Behavioral Consequences of Israeli Children who Sever Their Identification with Orthodox Judaism
Ephraim Tabory and Shlomit Stern, Bar Ilan University
A Comparison and Second-Generation Korean Protestants and Indian Hindus in Inheritance of Religion and Ethnicity through Religion
Pyong Gap Min, Queens College, CUNY
Changing Notions of Embodiment in Exiting Religious Communities
Lynn Davidman, Brown University
Becoming an EX: Role-Exiting Theory as Applied to Former Members of an Alternative New Religious Movement
Miriam Williams Boeri and Cynthia Kemp, Kennesaw State University
Session I4: Catholicism and Contemporary Debates within the Church
Convener: Anthony J. Pogorelc, Catholic University of America
"Evangelization" as Ideography? A Rhetorical Move against Sectarian Movements
Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter and Michael McCallion, Sacred Heart Major Seminary
Debates within Contemporary Movements that Seek the Ordination of Women
Britt Baumann, Acadia University
Archbishop John Hughes and Irish Catholicism in New York
Richard McCarthy, University of Wisconsin-Rock County
Catholicism and Homosexuality: How is the Divine Message Received? A Study of a Downtown Montreal Parish
David Koussens, Université du Québec à Montréal
Sunday, August 12, 10:20a.m.-12:30p.m.
Final Book Sale
Sunday, August 12, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session J1: Thematic Session: Modes, Beliefs, and Strategies of Religious Change
Convener: David Yamane, Wake Forest University
"A Small Part of a Bigger Problem": Queer Muslims Activating Social Change in Australia
Ibrahim Abraham, Monash University
Modes of Religious Change: Radical Critics and Transformative Revisionists
Orit Avishai, University of California Berkeley
Strategies of Social Change in Traditional Religious Communities
Roberta Rosenberg Farber, Stern College/Yeshiva University
Beliefs about Inequality: The Effects of Race, Class, Gender and Religion
Sarah E. Soper and James D. Davidson, Purdue University
Session J2: Religious Responses to Violence
Convener: Margarita Mooney, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Goals and Reactions when Violence Hits within the Jewish Community
Mareleyn Schneider, Yeshiva University
Religion, Violence, and Social Change: Web-based Action to Reduce Abuse
Nancy Nason-Clark, Barbara Fisher-Townsend, and Lanette Ruff, University of
New Brunswick
Sacred Traumascape at Nazi "Euthanasia" Sites: A Comparative Historical Analysis of "Holy Spots" at Grafeneck and Hadamar
Lutz Kaelber, University of Vermont
Terror, Corpse Symbolism and Taboo Violation: The "Haredi Distaster Victim Identification Team in Israel" (ZAKA)
Nurit Stadler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Session J3: Ethnicity, Immigration, and the Response of Religion
Convener: Fenggang Yang, Purdue University
Chinese Catholics in Los Angeles: A Case Study of a Cantonese-speaking Church in Chinatown
Joy Lam, University of Southern California
The Impact of Christian Religiosity on Filial Piety among Korean Americans
Sung-Chang Chun, Mercy College of Northwest Ohio
Pagan Reconstructionism, Ethnicity, and Tradition: Neopagan Social Networks in a Globalizing World
Piotr Wiench, Warsaw Agrigultural University
"It Is Like We Are in the Motherland": Pentecostalism in an Immigrant Haitian Church
Christine McVay, Florida International University
Session J4: Religious Morality, Values, and Movements
Convener: Kristopher H. Morgan, Purdue University
Christian Social Movements and Democratization: The Case of Hong Kong
Shun-hing Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University
Confucianism and Christianity in the Korean Context
Kyungtek Chun, New School for Social Research
The Role of Religion and Culture in the Location of the Individual in Society: The Case of American Jewry
Sam Richardson, University of Connecticut
Sacerdotal Celibacy and Its Impact on the Number of Eminent Protestant German Scientists
George Becker, Vanderbilt University
Sunday, August 12, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
Session K1: Graduate Student Mentoring Session
Organizer and convener: Tia Pratt, Fordham University
This session is open only to preregistrants.
Nancy T. Ammerman, Boston University
Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College
Arthur L. Greil, Alfred University
Fred Kniss, Loyola University Chicago
Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago
Pyong Gap Min, Queens College, CUNY
William Mirola, Marian College
Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick
R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at Chicago
Session K2: Christian Communities and Groups Outside the Traditional Church
Convener: Brian Starks, Florida State University
The Couples for Christ: Organizational Frames and Socio-political Mobilization in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal
Roberto E.N. Rivera, University of Notre Dame
Boundary Making and Maintaining on a Christian College Campus Buddhists, Catholics, and Protestants
Soyoung Park, Keimyung University
Small Christian Communities as Special Purpose Groups: Lee’s Critique in Light of Wuthnow’s Restructuring
Michael J. McCallion and Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Sacred Heart Major Seminary
Innovative Cultural Strategy: Church-Based Community Organizing and American Pluralism
Heidi Swarts, Rutgers University
Session K3: Thematic Session: Striving for a Better World? Religious Non-Governmental Organizations on the Global Stage
Organizers: Martin Geoffroy, Université de Moncton, and André Laliberté, Université de Québec à Montréal
Convener: Martin Geoffroy, Université de Moncton
The Protestant Ethic in Action: A Comparative Study of the Baptist World Alliance and Samaritan’s Purse
Martin Geoffroy, Université de Moncton
Catholic Relief Service: Promoting Equality, Social Change, and Justice in Brazil
Rachael M. Vinyard, Catholic Relief Service/Brazil
The State and Transnational Buddhist Charities in China
André Laliberté, Université de Québec à Montréal
The Political Transformation and Decline of Islamist NGOs in Palestine and Egypt
Abdelkerim Ousman, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston
Session K4: Contemporary Western Paganism: Changes, Accommodations, and Tensions
Organizer and convener: Helen Berger, West Chester University
Contemporary Paganism: What’s New, What’s Changed, What the Last Fifteen Years Have Brought
Margot Adler, National Public Radio
Out of the Broom Closet: The Values of Contemporary Paganism in an Apocolyptic Era
Phyllis Curott, New Suffolk, New York
Bounding Paganism: Reflections on the Boundaries of the Scholarly Construction of Paganism Today
Bron Taylor, University of Florida
Discussant: Michael York, Bath Spa University
Sunday, August 12, 2:30-4:45 p.m.
Session L1: Author Meets Critics: Henry Goldschmidt’s Race and Religion among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights
Organizer and convener: Courtney Bender, Columbia University
Critics: Samuel Heilman, Queen’s College, CUNY
Lynn Davidman, Brown University
David Smilde, University of Georgia
Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago
Respondent: Henry Goldschmidt, Wesleyan University
Session L2: Catholic Decline and Renewal
Organizer and convener: Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University
Catholicism as a Historical Heritage in the Province of Québec: The Case of Cultural Catholicism
Martin Geoffroy, Université de Moncton, and Anne Robineau, Institut Canadien de
Recherche sur les Minorités Linguistiques
Support of the Consistent Life Ethic: The Distribution of Ideological Agreement among Catholic Laity
Matthew T. Loveland, LeMoyne College
The John Jay Phase II Study of Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse, "Causes and Contexts": An Overview
James Kelly, Fordham University
Catholic Decline and Renewal: Interviews of Pastors
Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University
Catholicism as a Crypto-state Religion in Québec
Solange Lefebvre, Université de Montréal
Session L3: Race Relations and Religion
Convener: R. Khari Brown, Wayne State University
Denominational Differences in White Christians’ Attitudes about Racial Discrimination and Segregation
R. Khari Brown and Ronald E. Brown, Wayne State University
Racial Justice in the Protestant Mainline: Liberalism and its Limits
Antony Alumkal, Iliff School of Theology
Nondenominational Churches in the Suburbs: A Portrait in Black and White
Jacqueline E. Wenger, Catholic University of America
Christian Congregations and Pluralism in Ireland: A Framework for Understanding Social and Religious Change
Claire Mitchell, Queen’s University Belfast, and Gladys Ganiel, Trinity College Dublin
Session L4: Thematic Session: New Religious Movements and the Influence of Alternative Theologies
Convener: Benjamin D. Zablocki, Rutgers University
Mahavira, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.: An Examination of the Jaina Influence on the Civil Rights Movement in the United States
Tim Helton, Drew University
Theodicy and New Religious Movements
Lammert G. Jansma, Frisian Academy
Organizational Switching, Schism, and Takeover in the Hare Krishna Movement
E. Burke Rochford, Middlebury College
Modernity, Social Change, and Hopes for a Better World: A Bahá’i Perspective on Modernity
Hoda Mahmoudi, Bahá’i World Center
Religious Movement Apostasy: Predictors in Youth, Consequences in Midlife
Benjamin D. Zablocki, Rutgers University
Sunday, August 12, 5:00 p.m.
ASR Executive Council
Presiding: Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri
Monday, August 13, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session M1: Thematic Session: Comforting the Afflicted and Afflicting the Comfortable: Service and Advocacy at the Grassroots (Joint ASR/ASA)
Organizer, convener, and discussant: James Cavendish, University of South Florida
Who Helps Ex-Prisoners? Comparing Secular and Faith-based Providers in Philadelphia
Ram A. Cnaan, University of Pennsylvania
Hispanic Churches in Social Ministries: Challenges in Feeding the Body in Contested Social Spaces
Milagros Peña, University of Florida, and Edwin Hernández, University of Notre Dame
Dilemmas of Prophecy: Liberal Christians Speaking Out
Paul Lichterman, University of Southern California