Final Program
ASSOCIATION FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
68th ANNUAL MEETING
INTERSECTIONS: HISTORY MEETS THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION . . . AGAIN
This document contains the outline of sessions and presenters for the annual meeting along with the times of receptions, registration, etc.
5:30 – 8:15 p.m.
Executive
Council Meeting – Salon des Arts
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Registration
– Vestiaire Hospitalité
8:30 –
9:00 p.m.
Welcoming Reception – Été des Indiens
The
reception is co-sponsored by the ASR and Brill in celebration of the publication
of the second volume of the renewed “Religion and the Social Order” series, On the Road to Being There: Studies in Pilgrimage and Tourism in Late
Modernity, edited by William
H. Swatos, Jr.
8:00 a.m.
– 3:00 p.m.
Registration
– Vestiaire Hospitalité
8:30 –
10:15 a.m.
A1.
Christianity in East Asia: Sociological Perspectives
A2.
Catholic Decline and Renewal
A3.
Religious Markets and Marketing
A4.
Developments in Theory
10:30 a.m.
– 12:15 p.m.
B1. Author
Meets Critics: Kathleen Jenkins’s Awesome
Families
B2. Issues
in Islam and (Post?)Modernity
B3.
Religious and Spiritual Globalization
B4. The
Protestant Ethic Thesis
12:15 – 6:00 p.m., ASR Book Exhibit
1:00 –
2:45 p.m.
C1.
Religion and Immigration: Globalization, Institutions, Security
C2.
Religion and Public Policy: Culture Wars and Cultural Warriors
in
Western Countries
C3.
Didactic Session: Publishing Journal Articles
C4.
Religion and Science
3:00 –
4:45 p.m.
D1. New
Religions in the Province of Québec
D2. History
of American Sociology of Religion I
D3.
Religion and Youth
D4.
Religious Identities
5:00 p.m.
ASR
Presidential Address – Hospitalité
6:00–8:00
p.m.*
ASR
Presidential Reception
*Time
approximate: reception opens at the conclusion of the Presidential
Address
Friday,
August 11
7:15 –
8:30 a.m.
New
Attendees’ Welcoming Breakfast (open to preregistrants only)
8:00 a.m.
– 3:00 p.m.
Registration
– Vestiaire Hospitalité
8:15 a.m.
– 6:00 p.m.
ASR Book Exhibit
8:30 –
10:15 a.m.
E1 –
Religion and Emotions
E2 –
Gender Matters
E3 –
Denominations and Theological Concerns
10:30 a.m.
– 12:15 p.m.
F1 –
History of American Sociology of Religion II
F2 –
Aging, Healing and Well-being
F3 –
Clergy and Congregations
F4 –
Religious Ritual
12:30 –
2:15 p.m.
G1 –
Neo-Hindu Movements in the West
G2 –
Pilgrimages, Popular Culture, and Tourism
G3 –
Spiritualities and Communities in this World and the Next
G4 –
Historical and Sociological Analysis
2:30 –
4:45 p.m.
H1 –
Politics, Civil Society and Religion: Official Launching of the Journal
Sociology et Société
H2 – Immigrant Religions
H3 –
Interrogating Modes of Inquiry
H4 –
Families and Religion
5:00 p.m.
The
Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture – Hospitalité
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.*
Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture Reception
*Time
approximate: reception to open at the conclusion of the
Furfey Lecture.
Saturday,
August 12
7:15 –
8:15 a.m.
ASR
Business Meeting
8:00 a.m.
– 1:00 p.m.
Registration
– Vestiaire Hospitalité
8:15 –
10:20 a.m.
Reserve
Book Pick-up
8:30 –
10:15 a.m.
I1 – ASR/ASA
Joint Thematic Session: Crossing Boundaries—Contrasting
Religion
in Canada and the United States – Room 518A Palais de Congrès
I2 –
Critical Theory of Religion and the Critique of Rational Choice
I3 –
Economic Forces and Religious Behavior
I4 –
Politics and Religion
10:20 a.m.
– 12:30 p.m.
Final Book Sale
10:30 a.m.
– 12:15 p.m.
J1 – ASR/ASA
Joint Thematic Session: “Not Your Father’s Weekly Worship”
—Studying
Multi-Cultural Religious Congregations – Argenteuil
J2 –
Didactic Session: The Art and Craft of Researching Religion
J3 – New
Religions Past and Present
12:30 –
2:15 p.m.
K1 –
Graduate Student Mentoring Meeting (open to advance registrants only)
K2 – Islam, Politics, Culture
K3 –
Religion and the State in Canada
K4 –
Reports from the Field, Research Agendas for the Future
2:30 –
4:30 p.m.
L1 – ASR/ASA
Joint Thematic Session: Dharma Crossing
Boundaries—
Buddhist
Culture in the New World – Argenteuil
L2 –
Author Meets Critics: Kristy Nabhan-Warren’s The
Virgin of El Barrio
L3 –
North American and Western European Trends
4:45 p.m.
ASR
Executive Council
SESSIONS
Co-Organizers:
Mark R. Mullins, Sophia University, and Fenggang Yang, Purdue
University
Convener
and discussant: Graeme Lang, City University of Hong Kong
Christianity in Japan: Toward a
Sociology of Success and Failure
Mark R. Mullins, Sophia University
The “Christianization” of South
Korea: Religious and Nonreligious Factors for
Protestant Growth
Andrew Eungi Kim, Korea University
The Man Who Has Will Always Be
Given More? Winners of the Protestant
Market in Taiwan
Hsing-Kuang Chao, Tunghai University
Explaining the Growth of
Christianity in China: A Research Agenda
Fenggang
Yang, Purdue University
Convener:
Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University
Renewal Prophets and Movement of
Renewal
Don
Swenson, Mount Royal College
Faith Under Communism: Insights
into Cuban Catholicism Today
Margarita
Mooney, Princeton University
Catholic Decline and the Challenge
of Liberalism
Pierre
Hegy, Adelphi University
How Religious Institutions Enable Internal
Reform Movements: Voice of the
Faithful and the Enabling Mechanisms of the Catholic Church
Tricia Colleen Bruce, University of California, Santa Barbara
Convener and discussant: David
Yamane, Wake Forest University
The Charismatic Movement and the
Contemporary Worship Style: How Their
Impacts on Church Growth Differ between Mainline and Conservative
Congregations
Hui-Tzu
Grace Chou, Utah Valley State College
Religious Competition: A
Qualitative Study
Paul
J. Olson, Briar Cliff University
How Congregations Advertise and
Market Themselves
Steven
Frenk, Duke University and Wayne Luther Thompson,
Carthage
College
Session A4: Developments in Theory
Convener:
Richard McCarthy, Kutztown University
Religious Conversions in South
Asia: Agency and Social Bonds, Action and Structures
Sarah
Shafiq, University of Notre Dame
Joining Systems Theory and the
Sociology of Religion
Robert
Liebman and Martin Zwick, Portland State University
Beyond Identity: A Framework for
Understanding the Dynamics of Religious
Journeys
Gladys
Ganiel, Trinity College Dublin, and Claire Mitchell, Queen’s
University
Belfast
The Cutting Edge of History and the
Cutting Edge of Scholarship
Peter
Staples, University of Utrecht
Thursday, August 10, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session B1: Author Meets Critics: Kathleen
Jenkins’s Awesome Families: The
Promise of
Healing in the International Church of Christ
Organizer
and Convener: Lynn Davidman, Brown University
Mary
Jo Neitz, University of Missouri, Columbia
John Bartowski, Mississippi State University
Courtney Bender, Columbia University
Arthur Greil, Alfred University
Respondent: Kathleen Jenkins, College
of William and Mary
Session
B2: Issues in Islam and (Post?)Modernity
Convener: John H. Simpson, University
of Toronto
Orientalists,
Islamists and the Global Discourse on Islam: Shaping the Modern Image of a
Religion
Dietrich
Jung, University of Copenhagen
Utilizing a Practice Approach to the Study of
Religious Identities: A Case Study in Muslim Conversion
Daniel
A. Winchester, University of Missouri, Columbia
No Laughing Matter: The One/Twelve Cartoons that
Shook the World (Applying Durkheim to the “Clash of Civilizations”)
Edward
Tiryakian, Duke University
Session
B3: Religious and Spiritual Globalization
Convener:
Melissa Warner, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
“We’ve Always had Human
Rights”: Religious Movements and Discursive
Change in the Global Human Rights Regime
David
V. Brewington, Emory University
Emergent
Global Ethics: ReEnchantment and the Rhetoric of the Dispossessed
JoAnn
Chirico, Pennsylvania State University
When
I Survey the Cutting-Edge of History: The Rising and Falling of the Gospel of
Political Correctness in the Netherlands
Peter
Staples, University of Utrecht
On
the Conceptualization and Measurement of Religious Intolerance: Theoretical
Considerations and an Empirical Application
Vyacheslav
Karpov, Western Michigan University, Kimmo Kääriäinen,
Finnish
Church Research Institute, and Elena Lisovskaya, Western
Michigan
University
Session B4: The Protestant Ethic Thesis
Convener and discussant: Peter
Kivisto, Augustana College
The Mormon Work Ethic and the
Spirit of Capitalism
Michelle
Fether-Samtouni and Barry Goetz, Western Michigan University
Confucian Marxism and the Weberian
Thesis
Weigang
Chen, University of Vermont
Rescuing Weber: A Critique of the
Culturalist View of Protestantism and
Progress in Latin America
Madeleine
Cousineau, Mount Ida College
Thursday, August 10, 12:15-6:00 p.m.
Book
Exhibit
Please
see the insert “How the ASR Book Exhibit Works” in your
registration packet.
Thursday, August 10, 1:00-2:45 p.m.
Session
C1: Religion and Immigration: Globalization, Institutions, Security Organizer:
John H. Simpson, University of Toronto
Convener and discussant: William H.
Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
John H. Simpson, University of Toronto
William R. Garrett, St. Michael’s College
Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick
Lori Beaman, University of Ottawa
Session
C2: Religion and Public Policy: Culture Wars and Cultural Warriors in
Western
Countries
Organizer and convener: Pauline Côté,
University of Laval
What is Religion for Americans?
T.
Jeremy Gunn, Emory University
Contemporary Manifestations of
Religion: The Example of the “Carriers” of
Diversity within Police Forces in Germany
Barbara Thériault, University of Montréal
Public
Policy towards New Religious Movements: The French Case in European Perspective
Sabrina
Pastorelli, École Pratique des Hautes Études
Images of Religion in the Policy
Process: The Case of Religious Arbitration in
Canada (Ontario)
Ronan
Teyssier, École des Hautes Études Sciences Sociales
Session
C3: Didactic Session: Publishing Journal Articles
Organizer and Convener: Charlene Chen
McGrew, University of Pennsylvania
Joy Charlton, Swarthmore College, Book Review Editor, Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion
Rhys
Williams, University of Cincinnati, Editor, Journal
for the Scientific
Study of Religion
Patricia
Wittberg, Indiana University/Purdue University–Indianapolis,
Editor,
Review of Religious Research
David
Yamane, Wake Forest University, Editor, Sociology
of Religion
Session
C4: Religion and Science
Convener:
Suzanne Fournier, Purdue University
Evangelical Alternative Science:
Parallels between Intelligent Design Theory
and
the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality
Antony
Alumkal, Iliff School of Theology
Strong Religion and the Hard
Sciences: American Muslims and Hindus and
the
Applied Sciences
Richard
Cimino, New School for Social Research
“Spiritual
but Not Religious?” Spiritual and Religious Identities among Academic
Scientists
Elaine
Howard Ecklund, SUNY Buffalo, and Elizabeth Long, Rice University
Along
the Cutting Edge of Scholarship: On Borrowing or Stealing Each Other’s
Tools
Peter
Staples, University of Utrecht
Thursday, August 10, 3:00-4:45 p.m.
Session
D1: New Religions in the Province of Québec
Organizer:
Solange Lefebvre, Université de Montréal
Convener:
Martin Geoffroy, Université de Moncton
Catholicism as Memory in a
Spiritualist Congregation
Dierdre
Meintel, Université de Montréal
The Worldwide Church of God in Québec:
A Case Study of a New Religious
Movement in a “Distinct Society”
Claude
Rochon, Université de Montréal
Muslim Discourses in the Public
Sphere in Québec
Ali
G. Dizboni, Royal Military College of Canada
When Immigrant Religious Groups
Attract Québécois Converts
Geraldine
Mossière, Université de Montréal
From Tolerance to Prohibition: The
Question of the Islamic Headscarf in
France’s and Québec’s Schools
David
Koussens, Université du Québec à Montréal
Session
D2: History of American Sociology of Religion I
Organizer and discussant: Anthony
Blasi, Tennessee State University
Convener:
William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
A Sociological Analysis of Latino
Religions: The Formation of the Theoretical
Binary and Beyond
Alberto
Lopez Pulido, University of San Diego
Women, Gender and Feminism in the
Sociology of Religion: Theory, Research,
and Social Action
Nancy
Nason-Clark and Barbara Fisher-Townsend, University of New
Brunswick
The Trajectory of African-American
Studies
Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago
Session
D3: Religion and Youth
Convener: Melissa Warner, University
of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
Denominational Variations in
Spiritual Capital among American Youth, 1976-
Present: Identifying Trends from Monitoring the Future
John
Bartkowski, Xiaohe Xu, and Kristi McLeod, Mississippi State University
Religious Involvement, Race, and
Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Amy
M. Burdette, University of Texas, Austin
“Extreme” Catholicism on
College Campuses: Reclaiming or Renovating
Tradition?
Laura
M. Leming, University of Dayton
Who Goes to World Youth Day?
Richard
Rymarz, Australian Catholic University
Session
D4: Religious Identities
Convener:
Richard McCarthy, Kutztown University
Sweet Potato Latkes and Other
Southern Jewish Delicacies: Exploring the
Myriad Flavors of Jewish Identity Formation in the American South
Dana
M. Greene, Appalachian State University
Mennonite Cultures of Pacifism:
Resistance, Knowledge, and Use
Kendra
L. Yoder, University of Missouri, Columbia
Remaking Selves: Buddhist
Meditation in the Context of Late Modernity
Michal
Pagis, University of Chicago
Flexible Boundaries: Religious
Identity in the Twelve Tribes
Nicole
Saunders, Concordia University
Thursday, August 10, 5:00 p.m.
ASR
Presidential Address – Hospitalité
Convener:
N. J. Demerath III, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
Clio Goes to Church: Revisiting and Revitalizing
Historical Thinking in the Sociology of Religion
Kevin J. Christiano, University of Notre Dame
Thursday, August 10, 6:00-8:00
p.m.*
ASR
Presidential Reception
*Time approximate: reception to
open upon the conclusion of the address.
*
Friday, August 11, 7:15-8:30
a.m.
New
Attendees’ Welcoming Breakfast – Été des Indiens
Attendance by preregistration only.
Friday, August 11, 8:00
a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Registration
– Vestiare Hospitalité
Friday, August 11, 8:15
a.m.-6:00 p.m.
ASR
Book Exhibit
Friday, August 11, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session
E1: Religion and Emotions
Organizer and convener: Lynn Davidman,
Brown University
The Domestication of Fundamentalist
Masculinity: The Case of the Haredi
Nurit
Stadler, Hebrew University
Hochschild’s “Commercialization
of Feeling” Thesis: The Relevance for
Churches
Mary
Jo Neitz, University of Missouri, Columbia
The
Night the Guru Spanked Natalie Wood: Emotion and Legend at Esalen
Marion
Goldman, University of Oregon
Feeling Jesus in the Backbeat:
Music and Emotion in an Evangelical Worship
Experience
Kevin
L. McElmurry, University of Missouri, Columbia
Session
E2: Gender Matters
Convener:
Kathleen Jenkins, College of William and Mary
The
Oppositional Impact of Feminism and Religious Fundamentalism: Gendered
Variations in Ideological Processes on U.S. National Identity
Carrie
L. Alexandrowicz, Brown University
Gender, Patriarchy, and Religion in
Japan: Testing a Socialization Model of
Gender Differences in a Non-U.S. Context
Michael
Roemer and Matt Bradshaw, University of Texas, Austin
Progressive Politics, Conservative
Practices: Rethinking Gender in the Asian
American Church
Karen
L. Yonemoto, University of Southern California
Does Religion Influence Gender Role
Ideologies in Taiwan
Elisa
Jeixia Zhai and Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas, Austin
Session
E3: Denominations and Theological Concerns
Convener:
Dana Fenton, Lehman College, CUNY
How Theology Matters for
Congregants in Presbyterian Churches
Jennifer
Campbell Hackett, Princeton Theological Seminary
The Impact of Race on
Denominational Variations in Social Attitudes: The
Issue and Its Dimensions
David A.
Gay, John P. Lynxwiler, and Warren S. Goldstein, University of Central Florida
Evangelicalism as the Future of an
“Illusion”? An Evolutionary Perspective
Durk
Hak, University of Groningen
The Religious Mainline as a Non-Historiographic
Touchpoint
Yaakov
Ariel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Friday, August 11, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session
F1: History of American Sociology of Religion II
Organizer: Anthony Blasi, Tennessee
State University
Convener and discussant: William H.
Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
Globalization and the Ordering of
the World: Theory and Research in North
America
John
H. Simpson, University of Toronto
The Theoretical Trajectory
D.
Paul Johnson, Texas Tech University
Early Dissertations in American
Sociology of Religion
Anthony
Blasi, Tennessee State University
Session
F2: Aging, Healing and Well-being
Convener and discussant: Robert E.
Beckley, West Texas A& M University
Social
Stratification and the Effects of Religious Involvement on Changes in the Sense
of Divine Control in Late-Life
Scott
Schieman, University of Toronto, and Alex Bierman, University
of
Maryland
Mellowing with Age? Exploring Age
Variations in Anger toward God
Christopher
G. Ellison and Wei Zhang, University of Texas, Austin
Spiritual Dimensions of Everyday
Life: Perspectives from Elders
Susan
A. Eisenhandler, University of Connecticut
Session
F3: Clergy and Congregations
Convener:
Suzanne Fournier, Purdue University
Where the Babies Are: Patterns of
Congregational Fertility
Conrad
Hackett, Princeton University
Religious Leadership Under Fire:
Conflict and Tension in the Air Force
Chaplain Service
Barbara
J. Denison, Shippensburg University
The Social Ecology of Congregations
Project: Congregational Studies from the
Middle-Level
Wayne
Luther Thompson, Carthage College, Jeffrey Kroll, University of Arizona, and
Steven Frenk, Duke University
“Heart and Head” in Reaching
Pastors in Black Churches
Adair
T. Lummis, Hartford Seminary
Session
F4: Religious Ritual
Convener:
Kevin J. Christiano, University of Notre Dame
God Matters, Ritual Doesn’t: The
Effects of Importance of Religion and Church
Attendance on Moral Beliefs
Scott
A. Desmond, Purdue University, and Rachel Kraus, Ball State
University
Rituals of Civil Religion: Beyond
Durkheim
Diane
Johnson, Kutztown University
From Watch Night to First Night
Richard
McCarthy, Kutztown University, and Melissa Warner, University of
Wisconsin–Oshkosh
The Political Past as Sacred Past:
Making Shivaji a Sacred King in Western
India
Daniel Jasper, Moravian College
Friday, August 11, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
Convener: Susan Palmer, Dawson
College
The
Hinduization of the Hare Krishna Movement
E.
Burke Rochford, Jr., Middlebury College
Borderlands
and Boundaries: Globalization, Culture and Translation in the
Sathya Sai Movement
Tulasi
Srinivas, Wheaton College
ISKCON
at 40: Indian Immigrants, Krishna Consciousness, and the Future of a New
Religious Movement in North America
Travis
Vande Berg, Ithaca College
Inner-worldly
Mysticism and Successful Social Integration: The Case of Sikhs in Italy
Enzo
Pace, University of Padova
Session
G2: Pilgrimages, Popular Culture, and Tourism
Convener: Sarah Bill Schott, Loyola
University Chicago
“Dark Pilgrimages” in Virtual
Reality and Cyberspace: The Example of
“‘Browsing’ through Auschwitz”
Lutz
Kaelber, University of Vermont
The Meanings of Mary: Tourism,
Faith and Cultural Dimensions of Marian
Apparitions
Michelle
Madsen Camacho, University of San Diego
Going and Coming: The Belated
Development of the Chapel of Our Lady of the
Miraculous Medal as a Pilgrimage Site
William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office, and Sophie-Hélène
Trigeaud, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Sacred Sacrilege: Religion and
Popular Culture in Singapore
Lloyd
Chia, University of Missouri, Columbia
Session
G3: Spiritualities and Communities in this World and the Next Convener:
Melissa Warner, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
Liturgy and Imaginary Communities
Barbara
R. Walters, Kingsborough College, CUNY
Drumming
as Embodied Spirituality: Focus on Religious Venues
Tanice
G. Foltz, Indiana University Northwest
Religions Beliefs and Illness
Behavior of Africans in the 21st Century
Augustine
A. Aryee, Fitchburg State College
Somewhere between Heaven and Hell:
Congregation Members Reflect on the
Afterlife
Pamela
Leong, University of Southern California
Session
G4: Historical and Sociological Analysis
Convener:
Richard McCarthy, Kutztown University
“Epistle to Galatians” or
Epistle to the Galli? Roman Cultural Politics and
Pagan Influences in the New Testament and Beyond
Orestis
Lindermayer, Athens, Greece
The History of Oppression of
Religion in the Soviet Union and the People’s
Republic of China
Charles
Allan McCoy, Purdue University
Thomas
F. O’Dea on Mormon Intellectual Life: An Assessment Fifty Years Later
O.
Kendall White, Jr., Washington and Lee University
Pride in the Nation: The Role of Religion
Lauren
E. Pinkus, Ohio State University
Friday, August 11, 2:30-4:45 p.m.
Session
H1: Politics, Civil Society, and Religion: Official Launching of the Journal Sociologie
et Société
Organizer:
Martin Geoffroy, Université de Moncton
Convener: Marcel Fournier, Université
de Montréal
Regulation of Religious Pluralism
in Québec
Jean-Guy
Vaillancourt and Élisabeth Campos, Université de Montréal
Religion in the Public School
System
Solange
Lefebvre, Université de Montréal
How Religion Circulates in
America’s Local Public Square
Paul
Lichterman, University of Southern California
Discussant: Yolande Cohen, Université
du Québec à Montréal
Session
H2: Immigrant Religions
Convener:
Peter Kivisto, Augustana College
Views on Marriage among Immigrant
Muslim Women in the Los Angeles Area
Inger
Furseth, KIFO Centre for Church Research
The Last Shall Be First: The
Leveling Effect of Pentecostalism in Latino
Immigrants
Tony
Tian-Ren Lin, University of Virginia
Bringing Theology Back In: Building
a Swedish Lutheran Parish in an
Industrializing
City
Michael
Hillary, University of Wisconsin–Waukesha
Sophie-Hélène Trigeaud, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Session
H3: Interrogating Modes of Inquiry
Convener:
Dana Fenton, Lehman College, CUNY
The Canadian History of Wicca:
Obstacles on the Path of the Uninitiated
Researcher
Mireille
Gagnon, Laval University
Material Culture and the
Sociology of Religion: Speaking the Language of Objects
Douglas
E. Cowan, Renison College, University of Waterloo
Jewish
Ghost Stories: Support for a Cultural Source Theory for Extraordinary Human
Experience
Christopher
M Moreman, St. Francis Xavier University
Ethnographic Fluidity: Connections
between Religiosity, Vulnerability, and
Power
Kristina
Kahl, University of Colorado
Session
H4: Families and Religion
Convener
and discussant: Barbara J. Denison, Shippensburg University
Religious Coping, Family Stressors and Elderly
Depression in Taiwan
Daisy
Fan and Gang-Hua Fan, University of Texas
Religion—A
Seedbed of Civic Privatism? How Religious Familism Influences Civic Engagement
Young-Il
Kim, University of Virginia
Prostitution,
Parenting, and Pedophilia: An Exploratory Study of Women’s Accounts of Life in
a Sex Cult
Miriam
Williams Boeri, Kennesaw State University
Friday, August 11, 5:00 p.m.
The
Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture – Hospitalité
Convener:
Kevin J. Christiano, University of Notre Dame
Cognition and Religion
Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
Friday, August 11, 6:00-8:00 p.m.*
Paul
Hanly Furfey Lecture Reception
*Time approximate: reception to
open upon the conclusion of the lecture.
The
2006 Furfey Reception is co-sponsored by the ASR and Les Presses de
l’Université de Montréal to mark the launch of the journal Sociologie
et Société
*
Saturday, August 12, 7:15-8:15 a.m.
ASR
Business Meeting
Presiding:
Kevin J. Christiano, University of Notre Dame, and James D. Davidson,
Purdue
University
Saturday, August 12, 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Registration
– Vestiare Hospitalité
Saturday, August 12, 8:15-10:20 a.m.
Reserve
Book Pick-up
Saturday, August 12, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session
I1: ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session: Crossing Boundaries: Contrasting Religion in
Canada and the United States – Room 518A Palais des Congrès
Organizer:
Sam Reimer, Atlantic Baptist University
Convener: Kevin J. Christiano,
University of Notre Dame
Freedom of Incorporation and the
Incorporation of Religious and Voluntary
Organizations in the Nineteenth-Century United States and Canada
Jason
Kaufman, Harvard University
Religious
Freedom in Contrast: A Comparative Analysis of Canada and the United States
Lori
Beaman, University of Ottawa
Evangelical Protestantism in the
United States and Canada
Sam
Reimer, Atlantic Baptist University
Worlds Apart? A Comparative
Study of the Place of Religion in Canadian and American Society
Martin
Geoffroy, Université de Moncton, and Jean-Guy Vaillancourt, Université de
Montréal
Session
I2: Critical Theory of Religion and the Critique of Rational Choice
Organizer and convener: Warren S.
Goldstein, University of Central Florida
Reasonable Irrationality: Religious
Abnegations of the World Revisited
Lauren
Langman, Loyola University, Chicago
Religious
Experiences and the Economy of Exchange: Notes toward a Theory of Material
Christianity
Kenneth
MacKendrick: University of Manitoba
Consumer Culture and the Logic of
Religious Markets
Andrew
McKinnon, University of Toronto
From A Beautiful Mind to
a Critical Theory of Religion: Rational Choice,
Religion, and Adorno
Christopher
Craig Brittain, Atlantic School of Theology
Socially
Constructing the Experience of Individuation and Group Membership: A Challenge
to the Premise of Rational Choice Theory
Bonnie
Wright, Ferris State University
Session
I3: Economic Forces and Religious Behavior
Convener: Barbara J. Denison,
Shippensburg University
Structure and Agency in Religious
Empowerment: A Pragmatic Alternative
David
Smilde, University of Georgia
American
and Catholic: The Composition of the U.S. Bishop’s Economic Pastoral
Anthony
J. Pogorelc, Catholic University of America
Socioeconomic Status and the
Influence of Religious Participation on Political
Participation
Veronica
Momjian, Fordham University
Moral
Crisis in a General Motors Town: An Examination of Church Response to the Flint,
Michigan Sit-Down Strike, 1936-37
Amy
M. Lane, University of Missouri, Columbia
Session
I4: Politics and Religion
Convener: Richard McCarthy, Kutztown
University
Laïcité in France: A French
Feminist Perspective
Jennifer
Selby, McMaster University
Evangelicalism and Change in the
DUP: The Implications for Northern Ireland
Gladys
Ganiel, Trinity College Dublin
The
Mobilization of "Anti Anti-Cult Movements": A Turning Point in the
French Cult Controversy
Véronique Altglas, University of Warwick
Fighting
a Culture War? The Political Priorities of Washington Offices
Rachel
Kraus, Ball State University
Saturday, August 12, 10:20a.m.-12:30p.m.
Final
Book Sale
Saturday, August 12, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session
J1: ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session: “Not Your Father’s Weekly Worship”:
Studying Multi-Cultural Religious Congregations
Organizer
and convener: Gerardo Martí, Davidson College
Affinity, Identity, and
Transcendence: The Experience of Religious Racial
Assimilation in Diverse Churches
Gerardo
Martí, Davidson College
Wrestling with the Meaning of
Multiracial Congregations
Michael
O. Emerson, Rice University
Independence and Integration:
Chinese Christian Churches in America
Fenggang
Yang, Purdue University
Discussants: Peggy Levitt, Wellesley
College, and Peter Kivisto, Augustana College
Organizer and Convener: Charlene Chen
McGrew, University of Pennsylvania
The Process of Doing Fieldwork
Elaine
Howard Ecklund, SUNY Buffalo
Conducting a Cross-National
Ethnography
Margarita
Mooney, Princeton University
Internet Surveys with College
Students
Jerry
Park, Baylor University
Historical/Comparative and
Cross-National Statistical Research
Robert
Woodberry, University of Texas, Austin
Session
J3: New Religions Past and Present
Convener:
Becka Alper, Purdue University
Definitional Issues Concerning
Child Sexual Abuse in Alternative Religions
Stephen
A. Kent, University of Alberta
France’s Sectes in Social Context: A History of Public Management of Minority
Religions—from the Guyard Report to Chirac’s “Principle du Laïcite”
Susan
J. Palmer, Dawson College
Who
Does She Think She Is? Analyzing Self-Perceptions of Charismatic Leader Mary
Baker Eddy through Archival Research
Susan
M. Setta, Northeastern University
Lammert
G. Jansma, Foundation Forces (Netherlands)
Saturday, August 12, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
Session
K1: Graduate Student Mentoring Meeting*
Organizer and Convener: Charlene Chen
McGrew, University of Pennsylvania
This
session is open only to preregistrants.
R. Stephen
Warner, University of Illinois Chicago
Fenggang Yang, Purdue University
Mark Chaves, University of Arizona
Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota
Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri, Columbia
Jay
Demerath, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Otto Maduro, Drew University
Adair Lummis, Hartford Seminary
Mark Regnerus, University of Texas
Session
K2: Islam, Politics, and Culture
Convener: Sarah MacMillen, Duquesne
University
Turkey’s Quest for European Union
Membership: Will the EU Accept a Muslim
Candidate?
Brent
Garrett, US Department of Homeland Security
Muslims of the West: Loyalty to
Faith and Membership in Western Society
Kamel
Ghozzi, Central Missouri State University
Muslim American Politics and
Presidential Elections: Discourses, Strategies,
Orientations
Marcel
Fallu, Université Laval
Islam, Orthodoxy, and Religious
Intolerance in Russia
Vyacheslav
Karpov, Western Michigan University, Kimmo Kääriainen,
Finnish Church Research Institute, and Elena Lisovskaya, Western
Michigan University
Session
K3: Religion and the State in Canada
Organizer
and convener: Martin Geoffroy, Université de Moncton
Foundational Issues in the Study of
Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada
Paul
Bramadat, University of Winnipeg
Chaplaincy in the Canadian Forces:
New Challenges for an Old Institution
David
Seljak, St. Jeromne’s University
The Secularist Movement in Québec
Martin
Geoffroy, Université de Moncton
The Roman French Catholic Church
in Canada
Solange
Lefebvre, Université de Montréal
Session
K4: Reports from the Field, Research Agendas for the Future
Convener:
Barbara J. Denison, Shippensburg University
Getting
to the Table: Establishing a Context for African-American Catholics and Setting
the Stage for Additional Research
Tia
Noelle Pratt, Fordham University
The
Catholic Worker and Resistance to the State: On the Relevance of
Anarchy
Paul
Stock, Colorado State University
The
Place of the Charismatic Renewal in the Formation of the Coalition of
Opposition to the Consecration of V. Gene Robinson as Episcopal Bishop of
New Hampshire
Dana
Fenton, Lehman College
First Steps in the Study of
Nondenominational and Independent Churches:
How
to Find the Churches
Jacqueline
Wenger, Catholic University of America
Saturday, August 12, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Session
L1: ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session: Dharma
Crossing Boundaries: Buddhist Culture in the New World
Organizer,
convener, and discussant: Paul Numrich, Greater Columbus
Theological
Consortium
The New Buddhism
James
William Coleman, California Polytechnic State University
Buddhism in the HomeSpace
Jane
N. Iwamura, University of Southern California
True Buddhism is Not Chinese:
Taiwanese Immigrants becoming “True
Buddhists”
in the United States
Carolyn
Chen, Northwestern University
Japanese-American Religiosity: A
Contemporary Perspective
Tetsuden
Kashima, University of Washington
Session
L2: Author Meets Critics: Kristy Nabhan-Warren’s The Virgin of El Barrio: Marian
Apparitions, Catholic Evangelizing, and Mexican-American Activism
Organizer and Convener: Peter Kivisto,
Augustana College
R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at Chicago
Cecilia Menjívar, Arizona State University
Michelle Madsen Camacho, University of San Diego
William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
Respondent: Kristy Nabhan-Warren,
Augustana College
Session
L3: North American and Western European Trends
Convener: Becka Alper, Purdue
University
Canada’s
Contemporary Religious Landscape: Reflections on the Religious Data in the 2001
National Census
Roger
O’Toole, University of Toronto
Religion, Religiosity, or Something
Else? Political Trends in the U.S.
Sandy
Marquart-Pyatt, Utah State University
Faith-Based
Conferences as State-Sponsored Religion
Rebecca
Sager, University of Arizona
Are Religious Revivals Over in
France and the UK? When History and
Sociology
Compete for the Answer
Sebastien
Fath, École Pratique des Hautes Études
Saturday, August 12, 4:45 p.m.
ASR
Executive Council
Presiding: James D. Davidson, Purdue
University