66th ANNUAL MEETING

 

 

THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF CONTEMPORARY MORALITIES

 

RAMADA PLAZA INTERNATIONAL HOTEL

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

13-15 AUGUST

 

 

We shift the agenda, at least briefly, from religion to morality. Today there is no moral consensus. Why? What are the consequences? The tie between religion and morality has been weakening. Why? What are the consequences? Some believe the United States is experiencing moral decline. Is this an accurate assessment? Some believe that morality plays only a minor role in the political-economic arena. Is this true? If it is true, why is this the case, and what are the consequences?

 

OVERVIEW*

 

 

Thursday, August 12

 

5:00-8:45 p.m.

          “Old” Council Meeting — Lombard

 7:00-9:00 p.m.

          Registration — Lobby

 9:00-10:00 pm.

          Welcoming Reception — Whitcomb Mezzanine

 

 Friday, August 13

 7:00-8:15 a.m.

          Sociology of Religion Editorial Board Breakfast — Whitcomb Mezzanine

 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

          Registration — Lobby

 

8:30-10:15 a.m.

A1.          Sex, Age, Race, and Ethnicity: Demographic Dimensions of the U.S. Catholic Population

A2.          Religion as a Paradigm of Conflict, Competition and Cooperation I: The Political Dimension (Joint with ISA RC22)

A3.          Thematic Session: Moral Traditions and Religious Inventions in Chinese Societies

A4.          Moral Dilemmas and Ideological Commitments

A5.          Religion and Homosexuality

 

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

B1.          Thematic Session: Competing Moralities in the Catholic Church

B2.          Religion as a Paradigm of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation II: Participants in the Debate (Joint with ISA RC22)

B3.          Religious Change in China: Places of Worship

B4.          Race/Ethnicity and Religious Diversity

B5.          New Religious Movements

 

12:15-5:00 p.m.

          Book Exhibit — Ghiradelli

 

 

 

*Full ASR session listings begin on page 7.

 

ASR 2004 Annual Meeting Program, p. 4

 

 

1:00-2:45 p.m.

C1.          Author  Meets Critics: Ruth Wallace’s They Call Him Pastor

C2.          Globalization and Global Ethics: A Panel Discussion

C3.          Thematic Session: Moral Decline in North America

C4.          Author Meets Critics: Omar M.McRoberts’s Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood

C5.          Spiritualities

 

3:00-4:45 p.m.

D1.          Thematic Session: Will Christian Values Lose Significance?

D2.          Religion and Family

D3.          Clergy Life Issues

D4.          African-American Churches

D5.          Pagan Ethics

 

5:00 p.m.

          Presidential Address — Whitcomb

 

6:00 p.m.

          Presidential Reception — Mezzanine

 

8:00 p.m.

          Memorial Session for Marie Augusta Neal, S.N.D. — Union Square

 

 

 

Saturday, August 14

 

7:15-8:25 a.m.

          New Attendees Welcoming Breakfast — Mezzanine

 

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

          Registration — Lobby

 

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

          Book Exhibit — Ghiradelli

 

8:30-10:15 a.m.

E1.          ASA/ASR Joint Thematic Session: Religious Discourse in Liberal Societies

E2.          Chinese Conversion to Christianity I: North America

E3.          Moral Issues in the Sociology of Religion

E4.          Neo-Weberian Issues in Religion and Society

E5.          Religion, Flesh, and Blood

 

ASR 2004 Annual Meeting Program, p. 5

 

 

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

F1.          ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session: The Clash of Civilizations: How Deep? How Enduring? How Real?

F2.          Chinese Conversion to Christianity II: Mainland China and Taiwan

F3.          The Role of Music in Spiritual Ritual and Healing

F4.          Religion in Immigrant Communities

F5.          Religion and Popular Culture

 

12:30-2:15 p.m.

G1:           Identities, Beliefs, and Practices: Findings from the U.S. Congregational Life Survey

G2:          Authority, Sexuality and Moral Coherence in the Anglican Communion

G3:          Religious Competition, Conflict, and Commitment in China

G4:          Thematic Session: Learning Moralities

G5:          Retrospective on Niklas Luhmann’s Theses on the Sociology of Religion

 

2:30-4:15 p.m.

H1.          Religious Freedom

H2.          Islam

H3.          Thematic Session: Globalization and Morality

H4.          Asian-American Religion

H5.          Secularization and Postmodernism

 

4:30-5:45 p.m.

          ASR Business Meeting

 

6:00 p.m.

          Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture — Whitcomb

 

7:00 p.m.

          Paul Hanly Furfey Reception — Mezzanine

  

Sunday, August 15

 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

          Registration — Lobby

 

8:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

          Final book sale — Ghiradelli

 

ASR 2004 Annual Meeting Program, p. 6

 

8:30-10:15 a.m.

I1.          Thematic Session: Author Meets Critics: Christian Smith’s Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture

I2.          Religious Adaptations to Political Restrictions in China

I3.          Religion and Gender

I4.          Religious Giving and Missions

I5.          The Efficacy of Liberal Moralities

 

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

J1.          ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session: Deepening Democracy through Faith-Based Citizen Activism: Strengths, Critiques, Alternatives

J2.          Protestant Expansion in Latin America

J3.          Tips for Graduate Students I: Publishing in Journals

J4.          Judaism

 

12:30-2:15 p.m.

K1.          Testing Economic Models of Religious Change

K2.          Thematic Session: Morality in Post-Communist Societies

K3.          Religion, Healing, Welfare and Well-being: Policies and Praxis in Comparative Perspective (Joint with ISA RC22)

K4.          Teenagers, Spirituality, and Freedom of Religion

 

2:30-4:15 p.m.

L1.          ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session: Conscience: Sociological Reconstruction and Deconstruction

L2.         Tips for Graduate Students II: Working as a Sociologist of Religion

L3.          Religion, Advocacy, and Social Services

L4.          Civil Religion and Moral Dialogues

 

5:00 p.m.

          “New” Council Meeting


 

SESSIONS

 

Friday, August 13, 8:30-10:15 a.m.

 

Session A1: Sex, Age, Race, and Ethnicity: Demographic Dimensions of the U.S. Catholic Population

Organizer: Paul Perl, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate

Convener: Jonathon L. Wiggins, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate

v     Generating Catholic Generations: The Distinctiveness of Catholic Generational Formation

Mark M. Gray, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate

v     Engendered Gender? Gender Differences in Religious Belief and Practice Among Catholics

Mary E. Bendyna, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate

v     Racial Variation in Religiosity and Parish Satisfaction Among Catholic Parishioners

James C. Cavendish, University of South Florida, & Paul Perl,  Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate

v     How Many Hispanics are Catholic? Reviewing the Evidence

Paul Perl & Jennifer Z. Greely, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate

 

Session A2: Religion as a Paradigm of Conflict, Competition and Cooperation I: The Political Dimension (Joint with ISA RC22)

Organizers: Grace Davie, University of Exeter, and Ivan Varga, Queens University, Kingston

Convener:  Grace Davie, University of Exeter

v     Religion as a Paradigm of Conflict, Competition and Cooperation

Ivan Varga, Queens University, Kingston

v     Is Islam in the Global Era Only a Cause of Conflict?

Jocelyn Cesari, CNRS-Paris

v     Rethinking the Relations Between Religion, State and Politics: A Feminist Perspective

Hanna Herzog, Tel-Aviv University

v     The WREP Project: Examining Church State Cooperation in Welfare

Grace Davie, University of Exeter

 

ASR 2004 Annual Meeting Program, p. 8

  

Session A3: Thematic Session: Moral Traditions and Religious Inventions in Chinese Societies

Convener: Shun-Hing Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University

v     Inventing Morality: Christianity and Local Religions in Modern Fuzhou Region

Feng Zhu, Fujian Normal University

v     Demonstration of Religiosity and Its Impact on Morality in Modern Society: The Case of Shenzhen since Economic Reform

 Lizhu Fan, Fudan Univeristy

v     The Morality in the “Morality Books” in Taiwan

Chi-Shiang Ling, Utah Valley State College  

v     How Did Confucianism Become a World Religion? The Legacy of British Colonialism and the Rise of Comparative Religion as a Discipline

Anna Xiao Dong Sun, Princeton University

 

Session A4:  Moral Dilemmas and Ideological Commitments

Organizer and convener: J. Anna Looney, Rutgers University

v     Religion, Family and Homosexuality: Conflict in the Lives of Gay and Lesbian Jehovah’s Witnesses

Janja Lalich, California State University, Chico

v     The Collision between Faith and Personal Desires as Reported by Members of NRMs

 J. Anna Looney, Rutgers University

v     The Aging of Discipline Relationships

Benjamin Zablocki, Rutgers University 

v     The Right Fight? Competing Discourses in the Campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment

Martha Bradley, University of Utah  

 

Session A5: Religion and Homosexuality

Convener: David Yamane, University of Notre Dame

v     Queer Seekers: Religion and Identity Negotiation in Los Angeles

 Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College  

v     “Tell It to Me Straight”: What's Immoral about Gay Commitment?

Gayle Baldwin, University of North Dakota  

v     For and Against: Comparing Denominational Position Statements Regarding Persons With AIDS and Statements Regarding Gay and Lesbian Leadership, 1980-2004

Robert E. Beckley, West Texas A&M University & Jerome R. Koch, Texas Tech University

v     Science and the Liberal vs. Evangelical Protestant Debate over Homosexuality

Antony W. Alumkal, Iliff School of Theology


 

ASR 2004 Annual Meeting Program, p. 9

 

 

Friday, August 13, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

 

Session B1: Thematic Session:  Competing Moralities in the Catholic Church

Convener: James D. Davidson, Purdue University

v     Catholicism as Contested Terrain: The Emergence of a Catholic Pro-Change Organization

 Laura M. Leming, University of Dayton 

v     Murmurs from the Pew: Postconciliar Lay Movements in the Catholic Church

 Tricia Mein, University of California, Santa Barbara 

v     The Emergence and Expression of Competing Moralities in the Contemporary American Catholic Church: The Case of the Divorced Catholics’ Movement

Anna Bruzzese, State University of New York at Stony Brook

v     Monastic Spirituality Beyond the Cloister: A Preliminary Look at Lay Cistercians

 William L. Smith, Georgia Southern University     

 

Session B2:  Religion as a Paradigm of Conflict, Competition and Cooperation II: Participants in the Debate (Joint with ISA RC22)

Organizers: Grace Davie, University of Exeter, and Ivan Varga, Queens University, Kingston

Chair: Ivan Varga, Queens University, Kingston

v     The Role of the Intellectual in the Study of Religion: Conflict, Competition and Cooperation

Adam Possamai, University of Western Sydney

v     The Octagon Model of Volunteer Motivation: Results from a Phenomenological Analysis

Anne Yeung, Helsinki University

v     Long and Short Term Values: The Different Functions of Long-term Church Relationships and One-off Experiences

Per Pettersson, Karlstad University

v     Beyond Parochialism: Catholicism Rediscovered

Kees de Groot, Tilburg University

 
 

ASR 2004 Annual Meeting Program, p. 10

 

 

Session B3:  Religious Change in China: Places of Worship

Organizer and convener: Richard O’Leary, Queens University, Belfast

Discussant: Richard Madsen, University of California, San Diego

v     The Growth in Centers of Christian Worship in Contemporary China

Richard O’Leary, Queens University, Belfast, and Parig Digan, London, England

v     Places of Worship in China - The Case of Christianity in Taian Region of Shandong Province PRC

 Peter Tze Ming Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong

v     Temples as Enterprises

Graeme Lang, City University of Hong Kong, Salina Ching Chan, National University of Singapore, & Lars Ragvald, Lund University

 

Session B4:  Race/Ethnicity and Religious Diversity

Convener and discussant: H.B. Cavalcanti, James Madison University

v     Church Selection among Racial Ethnic Minorities

Walter H. Bower, University of Kentucky  

v     All God’s Children: Race, Religion and the Changing Face of Race Relations in a Southern Metropolis

Andrea Henderson, Richard Phillips, & Jeffry A. Will, University of North Florida

v     Faith on the Avenue

 Katie Day, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

 

Session B5: New Religious Movements

Convener: Helen A. Berger, West Chester University

v     Almost Heaven: The Decline of New Vrindaban as a Religious Community

E. Burke Rochford Jr. & Kendra Bailey, Middlebury College

v     New Religious Movement Leaders on Fictional Network Television

 Brooke Pillifant, Xavier University of Louisiana  

v     Indoctrination:  Mind Control Without Brainwashing in Religious Sects and Cults

William Torry, West Virginia University  

v     Cults, New Religious Movements, and New Christian Churches: A Study of the Importance of Terminology in the Sociology of Religion

 Paul Olson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln  

 

Friday, August 13, 12:15-5:00 p.m.

 

Book Exhibit — Ghiradelli


 

ASR 2004 Annual Meeting Program, p. 11

 

 

Friday, August 13, 1:00-2:45 p.m.

 

Session C1:  Author Meets Critics: Ruth Wallace’s They Call Him Pastor

Organizer and convener: John A. Coleman, Loyola Marymount  University

Respondent: Ruth Wallace, George Washington University

v     Jerome Baggett, Jesuit School of Theology-GTU

v     David Yamane, University of Notre Dame

v     Melissa Wilde, University of Indiana, Bloomington

v     John A. Coleman, Loyola Marymount University

 

Session C2:  Globalization and Global Ethics:  A Panel Discussion

Organizer: William R. Garrett, St. Michael’s College

Convener: Theodore E. Long, Elizabethtown College

v     Roland Robertson, University of Aberdeen

v     John H. Simpson, University of Toronto

v     William R. Garrett, St. Michael’s College

v     Theodore E. Long, Elizabethtown College

 

Session C3: Thematic Session: Moral Decline in North America

Convener: Patricia M.Y. Chang, Boston College

Discussant: Richard McCarthy, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

v     Is America Really in Moral Decline? Evidence from the World Values Survey

Wayne Baker, University of Michigan

v      Does “Moral Decline” Mean the “End of the World”?

Daniel Johnson, Gordon College

v     Gnostic Christianity, Jungian Psychoanalysis, and Libertarian Politics: A Discursive Bricolage and Challenge to American Liberalism and Social Gospel Protestantism (1950-1990)

Andrea Coukos, University of Oregon

 

Session C4:   Author Meets Critics: Omar M. McRoberts’s Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood

Organizer: Nancy L. Eiesland, Emory University

Convener: Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota

Respondent: Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago

v     Rhys Williams, University of Cincinnati

v     Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College

v     Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota


 

ASR 2004 Annual Meeting Program, p. 12

 

 

Session C5:  Spiritualities

Convener: Dana Fenton, Lehman College, CUNY

v     Research on Contemporary Forms of “Spirituality”: Methodological Issues

Michael Mason, Australian Catholic University  

v     On the Usage of  “Spirituality” in the Context of Japanese Media

                    Kenta Kasai, Center for Information on Religion, Japan

v     Regaining God’s Grace: The Soteriology of the 700 Club Following the September 11th Attacks

 Eric Gormly, University of North Texas  

 

Friday, August 13, 3:00-4:45 p.m.

 

Session D1:  Thematic Session: Will Christian Values Lose Significance?

Organizer and convener: Joseph Tamney, Ball State University

v     The Fate of Christian Values in the Western World

 Robin Gill, University of Kent

Respondents:       N.J. Demerath III, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

James A. Beckford, University of  Warwick    

 

Session D2:  Religion and Family

Convener: Richard McCarthy, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

v     Family Matters: Religious Inheritance in Catholic and Protestant Families

Patricia M.Y. Chang & Carrie Alexandrowicz, Boston College

v     Contemplative Parenting: Homeschooling as Practice-Oriented Spirituality

Rebecca Allahyari, School of American Research

v     The Childhood of an Abuser: Examining Childhood Experiences of Men in a Faith-Based Batterer Intervention Program

Lanette Ruff, Nancy Nason-Clark, Barbara Fisher-Townsend, University of New Brunswick, & Nancy Murphy, Mars Hill Graduate School

v     God-given Talents: Direct Sales and Family Values

Barbara J. Denison, Shippensburg University

 

Session D3:  Clergy Life Issues

Convener: Anthony W. Alumkal, Iliff School of Theology

Discussant: William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office

v     Differing Perceptions of Local Clergy as Public Figures: How Community Residents View Clergy and How Clergy View Themselves

 William A. Mirola, Marian College 

v     Organizational Context and the Harassment and Abuse of Clergy

 Elaine McDuff, Truman State University  


ASR 2004 Annual Meeting Program, p. 13

v     “Preachers Kids are the Worst”: Results of a Survey among Sons and Daughters of Dutch Protestant Ministers

 Hijme Stoffels, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam  

 

Session D4:  African-American Churches

Convener: Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago

v     Race, Religion, and Morality: An Historical Study of an Episcopal African-American Campus Ministry

          Catherine Fobes, Alma College  

v     Family Relations and the Cultural Preservation of Religiousness Among African Americans

Vanessa Jones, James Bryant, Edward H. Thompson, & Michael Nigro, College of the Holy Cross

v     Leaving the Faith: Apostasy among African Americans

          Brian Coleman & Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin

v     Church Culture as a Strategy of Action: An Empirical Test Among Black Congregations

               Sandra Barnes, Purdue University

 

Session D5:  Pagan Ethics

Organizer: Michael York, Bath Spa University College

Convener and discussant: Tanice Foltz, Indiana University, Northwest

v     Self and Desire: Radical Partiality as a Path to Moral Virtue

Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary’s College of California  

v     The Ethical Implications of Idolatry

Michael York, Bath Spa University College

v     Morality, Ethics, and Teenage Witches     

Helen A. Berger, West Chester University, and Douglas Ezzy, University of Tasmania

 

Friday, August 13, 5:00 p.m.

 

ASR Presidential Address

Convener: Grace Davie, University of Exeter

v     The Failure of Liberal Morality

 Joseph B. Tamney, Ball State University


 

ASR Annual Meeting Program, p. 14

  

Friday, August 13, 6:00 p.m.

 

ASR Presidential Reception

The Reception is cosponsored by Joan and Ralph Lane, the Department of Sociology of Ball State University, and the ASR

 

Friday, August 13, 8:00 p.m.

 

Memorial Session for Marie Augusta Neal, S.N.D. — Union Square

Organizer and convener: Madeleine Cousineau, Mt. Ida College

v     Ruth Wallace, George Washington University

v     Otto Maduro, Drew University

v     N.J. Demerath III, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

v     Madeleine Cousineau, Mt. Ida College

 

 

 

Saturday, August 14, 7:15-8:25 a.m.

 

New Attendees’ Welcoming Breakfast — Mezzanine

 

Saturday, August 14, 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

 

Registration — Lobby

 

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

 

Book Exhibit — Ghiradelli

 

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

 

Session E1: ASA/ASR Joint Thematic Session: Religious Discourse in Liberal Societies

Organizer and convener: John Evans, University of California at San Diego

v     Beyond Beliefs: Religious Identity in American Civic Life

Paul Lichterman, University of Southern California

v     Public Religions in Asia

Richard Madsen, University of California, San Diego

v     The Shaping Power of American Culture: Liberalism, Religion, and Non-Christian Immigrants

 Rhys Williams, University of Cincinnati

v     Speaking in Different Tongues?  Religious Discourse about Abortion in Germany and the U.S.

 Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin, Madison


ASR 2004 Annual Meeting Program, p. 15

 

Session E2: Chinese Conversion to Christianity I: North America

Convener:  Hsing-Kuang Chao, Tunghai University

v     Helpful Hunters and Punch-Bowl Christians: Ritual and Conversion in a Chinese Protestant Church

 Andrew Abel, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

v     The Impact of Institutional Factors on Chinese Conversion to Evangelical Protestantism in the United States

 Xuefeng Zhang, University of Minnesota  

v     Religious Conversion to Christianity Among Students from the Peoples Republic of China: A Comparative Study

 Yuting Wang, University of Notre Dame 

v     Chinese American College Students and their Growing Interest in Christianity

 Brian Hall, Rutgers University

 

Session E3: Moral Issues in the Sociology of Religion

Convener: Dana Fenton, Lehman College, CUNY

v     Value-Free No More? Ethical, Political, and Epistemological Implications of Doing Sociology of Religions under Imperial Duress

Otto Maduro, Drew University  

v     We do it, Good - You do it, Bad: An Essay in Double Standards and other Nefarious Moralities

Eileen Barker, London School of Economics  

v     Sociability and the Transmission of Traditions: A Criticism of Giddens and Habermas

 Xavier Costa, University of Valencia

v     How Sociology Changed the Basis and Method of Moral Choice

            Robert Mahoney, Rockhurst University  

 

Session E4:  Neo-Weberian Issues in Religion and Society

Convener: Warren Goldsetin: University of Central Florida

v     Sectarianism in New Immigrant Religions

          Fred Kniss, Loyola University Chicago  

v     The “Minority Jurisprudence” Debate among Western Muslims: From Immigrant to Resident Islam

                    Kamel Ghozzi, Central Missouri State University

v     Benjamin Nelson and Max Weber on Religion, Usury, and Capitalism: A Comparison

Lutz Kaelber, University of Vermont

v     Psychiatrists’ and Psychologists’ Professional Practice and Religious and Spiritual Beliefs

          Ellen Wagenfeld-Heintz, University of Michigan


 

ASR 2004 Annual Meeting Program, p. 16  

 

Session E5: Religion, Flesh, and Blood

Convener and discussant: Barbara J. Denison, Shippensburg University

v     Lydia  Meets Leviticus in the Wake of the American Tattoo Renaissance: A Qualitative Overview of Spirituality and Body Art from Client, Artist, and Media Perspectives

            Marti Blose, Rutgers University

v     “I Know it When I See it”: The Moral Economy of Pornography

            Douglas E. Cowan, University of Missouri-Kansas City

v     Homophobia, Hypermasculinity, and the Black Church

            Elijah Ward, University of Illinois at Chicago

v     The Oppositional Church in the Era of HIV/AIDS

            Pamela Leong, University of Southern California

 

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

 

Session F1:  ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session: The Clash of Civilizations:  How Deep?  How Enduring?  How Real?

Organizer and convener: Jerry Pankhurst, Wittenberg University

v     Said Arjomand, State University of New York, Stony Brook

v     Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara

v     Craig Jenkins, Ohio State University

v     Roland Robertson, University of Aberdeen

 

Session F2:  Chinese Conversion to Christianity II: Mainland China and Taiwan

Convener:  Evan Hsu, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

v     “Religious Choice” and “Religious Capital”: Christian Conversions in Tai-an Region, PRC

Peter Tze Ming Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong

v     A Comparative Study of the Conversion Factors of Rural vs Urban Christians in China

 Ming-fu Hsu, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School  

v     Identity Tensions Among Chinese Intellectual Converts to Christianity

Huang Jianbo, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

v     Seeking for Solutions: Conversion to Conservative Protestantism Among Urban Immigrants in Taiwan

Hsing-Kuang Chao, Tunghai University

 

Session F3: The Role of Music in Spiritual Ritual and Healing

Organizer and convener: Tanice Foltz, Indiana University, Northwest

v     Refracting Congregational Song

Deborah Kapp, McCormick Theological Seminary

v     Drums Along the Mainline: Churched Women in Drumming Circles

Adair Lummis, Hartford Seminary


ASR Annual Meeting Program, p. 17

 

v     Women’s Spirituality, Drumming, and Healing

                    Tanice Foltz, Indiana University, Northwest

 

Session F4:  Religion in Immigrant Communities

Organizer and convener: Jen’nan Ghazal Read, University of California, Irvine

Discussant: Helen Rose Ebaugh, University of Houston

v     The Religious Participation of U.S. Immigrants: Integrating Explanations from Ethnic Community and Rational Actor Theories

Darren Sherkat and Fawaz Alanezi, Southern Illinois   University

v     Religion, Gender, and Well-Being among Arab-American Elders

          Kristine Ajrouch, Eastern Michigan University

v     Ethnic and Religious Components of Arab-American Family Role Attitudes

Jen’nan Ghazal Read, University of California, Irvine

 

Session F5: Religion and Popular Culture

Convener and discussant: Dana Fenton, Lehman College, CUNY

v     “Beware of What you Wish for”: Religion and the Moral Discourse of B-Grade Horror Cinema

Douglas E. Cowan, University of Missouri, Kansas City  

v     Morality, Meaning, Mystery, and Memory: Decoding Audience Perceptions of Television and New Religiosity