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62nd ANNUAL MEETING
OMNI SHOREHAM HOTEL
WASHINGTON, DC
11-13 AUGUST 2000
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
RELIGION AND GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY
As we observe the turn of "the American century" and the passing of
another millennium it is fitting that we reflect critically upon the past as we look
toward the future. Whither the centennial sociology of religion? Whither religion in
America? Whither the millenarian world religions? What role will religion play in the
formation of a global civil society? What role could religious institutions and traditions
play in the construction of an international, economically just, and more humane and
democratic social order? What will be the new church-state and mega-state tensions and
transactions of the next century? What roles will the established religions and new
religious movements play in the on-going struggle for democratic inclusion of minorities
and other oppressed groups and for the sustainability of the planet itself?
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OVERVIEW OF SESSIONS
Thursday, August 10
5:30 p.m. "Old" Council Meeting — Embassy Room
7:00-9:00 p.m. Registration — East Conference Center
Friday, August 11 7:00-8:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast — Embassy Room
Friday, August 11 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Registration — East Conference Center
Friday, August 11 8:30-10:15 a.m.
1. The Goddess and the Gods Go Global: Goddess Worship,
Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism as Transnational Religions
2. Religion, Morality and Community
3. God Images and the Religious Imagination
Friday, August 11, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
4. Global Pentecostalization: A Latina/o View from
Newark, New Jersey
5. Issues in Contemporary Catholicism I
6. Various Expressive Forms of Spiritualities in Japan: From Alcoholics
Anonymous to Self-Development Seminars
7. Popular Trends in Evangelicalism
12:00-5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit
Friday, August 11, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
8. Tensions, Compromises and Theories: Church-State
Relations in North America
9. Issues in Contemporary Catholicism II
10. Moving Beyond Durkheim: Cutting Edge Theory and Research on Ritual
and Collective Identity
11. Immigrant Religions in the US and Europe
Friday, August 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
12. Continuity and Change: Exploring Transnational
Religion Among Recent Immigrants to the US
13. Local and Particular Stories of Rural Churches: Deconstructing the
Myth of "Rural America"
14. Religion, Welfare, and Social Service Provision
15. Author Meets Critics: Roberto Cipriani's The Sociology of Religion:
A Historical Introduction
Friday, August 11, 5:00 p.m.
Presidential Address
Presidential Reception
Saturday, August 12, 7:30-8:30 a.m.
Women's Network Breakfast
8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Registration — East Conference Center
8:15 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Book Exhibit
Saturday, August 12, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
16. Globalization, Deglobalization, and Religion in
Civil Society Worldwide
17. New Religious Movements I
18. Religion, Social Justice, and the State
Saturday, August 12, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
19. Religious (Dis)Empowerment and Women's Voices
20. New Religious Movements II
21. Issues in Korean Ethnic Churches in the 1990s
22. Author Meets Critics: Robert Montgomery's Introduction to the
Sociology of Missions
Saturday, August 12, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
23. Race and Religion: Shifting Approaches to Shifting
Categories (Joint ASR/ASA Session)
24. Religion, Society, and Culture in Global Perspective
25. Denominational Switching and Religious Affiliation
26. Theoretical Issues in the Sociology of Religion
Saturday, August 12, 2:15-4:30 p.m.
27. Our Concepts: The Illusion of Neutrality
28. Issues in Contemporary Spirituality and Implicit Religion
29. Religious Activists Beyond Borders
30. Leadership, Conflict, and Global Missions
Saturday, August 12, 5:00 p.m.
ASR Business Meeting
Saturday, August 12, 6:00 p.m.
Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture
Saturday, August 12, 7:00 p.m.
Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture Reception (Joint with ASA Sociology of Religion
Section)
7:00-8:00 p.m.
Book Exhibit
Sunday, August 13, 8:00
a.m.-1:00 p.m. Registration — East
Conference Center
Sunday, August 13, 8:15-10:00 a.m. Reserved Book Pick-Up
Sunday, August 13, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
31. Gateway Cities: Project on Religion and the New
Immigrants
32. Religion, Democracy, and Civil Society
33. The Dynamics of Conversion in Judaism and Islam
34. Gender, Clergy, and the Ordination of Women
Sunday, August 13, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Final Book Sale
Sunday, August 13, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
35. Historical Case Studies in Macro-Social
Secularization
36. Religious Conflicts and Political Intolerance in Europe
37. Religion, Society, and Culture in Historical Settings
Sunday, August 13, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
38. Religion and Global Civil Society (Joint ASR/ASA
Session)
Sunday, August 13, 2:15-4:30 p.m.
39. Comparative-Historical Research and the Sociology of
Religion: A Discussion of Swanson's Religion and Regime
40. Author Meets Critics: Penny Edgell Becker's Congregations in
Conflict
41. Gender and Schism in the LDS Context
Thursday, August 10, 5:00 p.m.
ASR Council Meeting
Thursday, August 10, 5:30 p.m.
OLD Council Meeting
Friday, August 11, 7:15 - 8:15 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
The breakfast is sponsored by the Paulist Institute of
Religious Research and by the Department of Sociology, Georgetown University
Friday, August 11, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session 1: The Goddess and the Gods Go Global: Goddess Worship, Witchcraft
and Neo-Paganism as Transnational Religions
Organizers and Conveners-Helen A. Berger, West Chester University, and Wendy Griffin,
University of California, Long Beach
> Voices from the Pagan Census: Neo-Pagans in the
United States
Helen A. Berger, Evan
A. Leach, and Leigh S. Shaffer, West Chester University
> Riding the Broomstick in Australia: Wiccans
Making Sense of Their Natural and Symbolic Worlds
Lynne Hume, University
of Queensland
> Bridging the Worlds: The Reconstruction of
Celtic Spirituality
Wendy Griffin,
California State University, Long Beach
> Witchcraft in Britain in the 21st Century
Vivianne Crowley,
King's College, University of London
Session 2: Religion, Morality and Community
Convener-Barbara Denison, Lebanon Valley College
> Does it Take a Village? Moral Communities and
Moral Individuals in the Prevention of Adolescent Delinquency
Mark D. Regnerus,
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> Religion and Honesty: Continuing the Search for
the Consequential Dimension
Robin D. Perrin,
Pepperdine University
> The Impact of Denominational Subcultures on
Attitudes Toward Homosexuality: Political Tolerance versus Moral Acceptance
David Gay and John
Lynxwiler, University of Central Florida
Session 3: God Images and the Religious Imagination
Organizer and Convener-Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University
> Beyond Belief: Faith as Relationship
Pierre Hegy, Adelphi
University
> The Meaning of Presence: Women's Images of God
Catherine A. Faver,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
> Esoteric versus Exoteric Imagination in
Americans of Italian Decent
Donna M. Chirico, York
College, CUNY
Friday, August 11, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session 4: Global Pentecostalization: A Latina/o View from Newark, New
Jersey
Organizer-Otto Maduro, Drew University
Convener and Discussant-Dana Fenton, CUNY
Panelists: Samuel Cruz, Drew University
Ricardo Ramos, Drew
University
Charles L. Perabeau,
Drew University
Session 5: Issues in Contemporary Catholicism I
Convener-John Coleman, Loyola Marymount University
> Less Politics, More Culture: American
Catholicism, the Consistent Ethic of Life, and Abortion Politics
James R. Kelly and
Chris Kudlac, Fordham University
> The Catholic "Consistent Life Ethic"
and Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment and Welfare Reform
Paul Perl and Jamie
McClintock, University of Notre Dame
> Empty Pews and Empty Altars: A Reconsideration
of the Catholic "Priest Shortage"
Paul Sullins, Catholic
University of America
> Reform Rooted in Living Tradition: The Call to
Action Social Movement Organization
Anthony J. Pogorelc,
Purdue University
Session 6: Various Expressive Forms of Spiritualities in Japan: From Alcoholics Anonymous
to Self-Development Seminars
Organizer and Convener-Masayuki Ito, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Discussant-Yasuhiro Hirai, Seijo University
> Negotiation-Appropriation of Religion: A Case
Study of Mahikari in France and Japan in Comparative Perspective
Naoki Kashio, Keio
University
> Localizing Spiritualities in Japan:
Transformation of the Ideas of "Higher Power" of Alcoholics Anonymous
Kenta Kasai, Joetsu
University of Education
> Searching for an Alternative Meaning System in
Highly Modernized Societies: A Case Study of Rajneesh's Followers
Masayuki Ito, Japan
Society for the Promotion of Science
> Self-Development Seminars in Japan
Manabu Haga, Sophia
University, Japan
Session 7: Popular Trends in Evangelicalism
Convener: Nancy Ammerman, Hartford Seminary
> Evangelical Deliverance in the United States: A
Brief Background Discussion
Michael Cuneo, Fordham
University
> Evangelical Iconography: Celebrity and Sacred
Boundary Maintenance
Corey J. Colyer,
Syracuse University
> Exporting the American Family and the First
Amendment
Steven Jones,
University of Virginia
Friday, August 11, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
Session 8: Tensions, Compromises and Theories: Church-State Relations in
North America
Organizer and Convener-Lori G. Beaman, University of Lethbridge
> Update on Social Control of Minority Faiths in
Europe: The Effects of Official Government Reports
James T. Richardson,
University of Nevada, Reno
> Religious Diversity, Civil Law, and
Institutional Isomorphism
Rhys H. Williams,
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and John P.N. Massad, DePaul University Center
for Church/State Studies
> Toward a Typology of Church-State Relationships
Arthur L. Greil, Alfred
University
> Public/Private, State/Church: Exploring the
Usefulness of Bifurcated Categories in Church-State Analysis
Lori G. Beaman,
University of Lethbridge
Session 9: Issues in Contemporary Catholicism II
Convener-Loretta Morris, Loyola Marymount University
> Millenarianism and Apocalyptic Catholicism:
Quebec's Army of Mary
Massimo Introvigne,
CESNUR
> The Catholic Church, Vatican II, and the
Contested Location of the Tabernacle
Michael J. McCallion,
Archdiocese of Detroit, and David R. Maines, Oakland University
> Church Religion and New Religiosity in Today's
Italy
Luigi Tomasi,
University of Trento
> Our Lady of Clearwater: Postmodern
Traditionalism
William H. Swatos, Jr.,
ASR/RRA Executive Office
Session 10: Beyond Durkheim: Cutting Edge Theory and Research on Ritual and Collective
Identity
Organizer and Convener-Ezra Kopelowitz, Ruppin College, Israel
> What Does Contemporary Ritual Require? (And What
Must an Adequate Theory Tell Us?)
Carolyn Marvin,
Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
> Structures of Ritual, Authority, and Identity in
a Charismatic Prayer Group
Matthew Lawson, College
of New Jersey
> Is Ritual to Moral Life as Food is to Physical
Life? Redressing the Kantian Bias in Durkheim's Theory of Ritual
Christian Scharen,
Emory University
> Non-Traditional Ritual and Collective Jewish
Identity: A Look at the Different Approaches of American and Israeli Jews to Text Study
Ezra Kopelowitz, Ruppin
College, Israel
Session 11: Immigrant Religions in the US and Europe
Convener-Fenggang Yang, University of Southern Maine
> Bonding Social Capital With Bridging Effect: A
Study of A Chinatown Church and Its Young Members
Nanlai Cao, Fordham
University
> Communities of Memory and Engagement: An
Ethnography of Mexican Churches in Rural Michigan
Ken Crane, Michigan
State University
> Neo-Hindu Movements in Europe
Véronique Altglas,
École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
Friday, August 11, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Session 12: Continuity and Change: Exploring Transnational Religion Among
Recent Immigrants to the United States
Organizer and Convener-Marie Friedmann Marquardt, Emory University
Respondent-Nancy L. Eiesland, Emory University
> The Emergence of American Hinduism: Genteel
Multiculturalism and Militant Fundamentalism
Prema Ann Kurien,
University of Southern California
> Protestant, Catholic, Vodou: Religion and
Migration in the Haitian Context
Elizabeth McAlister,
Wesleyan University
> Saving Souls Transnationally: Pentecostals and
Latino Gangs in Latin America and the US
Manuel A. Vásquez
(with Ileana Gómez), University of Florida
> Making Space: Gender, Religion, and Collective
Identity among Mexican Transmigrants in the New South
Marie Friedmann
Marquardt, Emory University
Session 13: Local and Particular Stories of Rural Churches: Deconstructing the Myth of
"Rural America"
Organizer and Convener-Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri, Columbia
Discussant-Penny Edgell Becker, Cornell University
> Pigs, Pews and Prisons: Problematizing Community
Growth and Church Vitality
Robin Albee, University
of Missouri, Columbia
> The Church at the Rural-Urban Crossroads
Karen Bradley, Central
Missouri State University
> The Changing Shade of the Rural Church: The
Euro-American Model Responds to the New Immigration
Ann
Detwiler-Breidenbach, University of Missouri, Columbia
> Changing Community Lifestyles and the Life
Cycles of Congregations
Zoey A. Heyer-Gray,
University of Missouri, Columbia
Session 14: Religion, Welfare, and Social Service Provision
Convener-Esther Heffernan, Edgewood College
> Faith, Hope, and Charitable Choice: Race,
Religion, and Poverty Relief in Rural Mississippi
John P. Bartkowski,
Mississippi State University, and Helen A. Regis, Louisiana State University
> Religion and Welfare Reform: The Case of
Catholic Charities USA
John A. Coleman, Loyola
Marymount University
> Red and Yellow, Black and White: Does Race
Matter in Congregation-Based Social Service Provision?
Stephanie C. Boddie,
University of Pennsylvania
> Identity and Commitment in Religious Sponsors:
The Effect of Changing Institutional Ties in the United Methodist Women and Two Roman
Catholic Religious Orders
Patricia Wittberg,
Indiana University at Indianapolis
Session 15: Author Meets Critics: Roberto Cipriani's The Sociology of Religion: An
Historical Introduction
Organizer and Convener-William V. D'Antonio, Catholic University of America
Panelists: Fred Kniss, Loyola University Chicago
Ruth A. Wallace, George
Washington University
Michelle Dillon, Yale
University
Federico D'Agostino,
University of Benevento
Friday, August 11, 5:00 p.m.
ASR Presidential Address
Convener-Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick
> Religion and Global Civil Society
José Casanova, New
School for Social Research
Friday, August 11, 6:00 p.m.
ASR Presidential Reception
The Presidential Reception is cosponsored by the ASR and the Office of
the Dean of the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
Saturday, August 12, 7:15-8:15 a.m.
Women's Network Breakfast
Subvention for the Women's Network Breakfast has been provided by
Trinity College, Washing-ton, D.C., celebrating "A
Century of Women Leading the Way"
Saturday, August 12, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session 16: Globalization, Deglobalization, and Religion in Civil Society
Worldwide
Organizer—William R. Garrett, St. Michael’s College
Panelists: Theodore E. Long, Elizabethtown College
John H. Simpson, University of Toronto
William R. Garrett, St. Michael’s College
Roland Robertson, University of Aberdeen
Session 17: New Religious Movements I
Organizer and Convener-Benjamin Zablocki, Rutgers University
> Time is of the Essence: The Role of Urgency in
Two Transcendent Groups
Janja Lalich, Fielding
Institute
> The Endurance of Affective Ties in Religious
Communes
J. Anna Looney, Rutgers
University
> The Birth and Death of New Religious Movements
Benjamin Zablocki,
Rutgers University
Session 18: Religion, Social Justice, and the State
Convener-Kevin J. Christiano, University of Notre Dame
> Religion, Justice, and Science: The Catholic
Sociology of Raymond W. Murray, C.S.C.
Anthony J. Blasi,
Tennessee State University
> Tensions and Rapprochements of the Catholic
Church and the Mexican State: What Can One Expect of the Future?
Marta Eugenia García
Ugarte, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios en Antropología Social
> In the Wake of the State: Seventh-day Adventism
and Apartheid in South Africa
Ronald Lawson, Queens
College, CUNY
> Spacial Variations in the Recent Church-Burning
Phenomenon: A Study of the Social Ecology of Victimized Communities in the South
John P. Bartkowski,
Frank M. Howell, and Shu-Chuan Lai, Mississippi State University
Saturday, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session 19: Religious (Dis)Empowerment and Women's Voices
Organizer and Convener-Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick
Discussant-Lynn Davidman, Brown University
> Religious Bodies: Gender, Sport, and Spirit at
Esalen
Marion S. Goldman,
University of Oregon
> A Platform for Silenced Women? Dilemmas of
Ordination in the Reformed Congregation of the Goddess
Mary Jo Neitz,
University of Missouri, Columbia
> Abused Religious Women: Listening to their
Voices and Hearing the Messages They Speak
Nancy Nason-Clark,
University of New Brunswick
Session 20: New Religious Movements II
Convener-Amy Siskind, Brooklyn, New York
> Political Sources of Religious Movement
Disaffiliation
David G. Bromley and
Lynne Kendal-Wilson, Virginia Commonwealth University
> The Dilemmas of Leadership and the Volatility of
New Religious Movements
Lorne L. Dawson,
University of Waterloo
> Falun Gong as a New Religious Movement: Its
Social Implication and Cultural Signification for Contempo-rary China
Cheris Shun-ching Chan,
Northwestern University
> The Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement
and a Global Civil Religion
Yoshihiko Joshua
Masuda, Sun Moon University, South Korea
Session 21: Issues in Korean Ethnic Churches in the 1990s
Organizer and Convener-Kwang Chung Kim, Western Illinois University
> Intergenerational Transmission of Religion and
Culture: Korean Immigrants in New York
Pyong Gap Min, Queens
College, CUNY
> An Analysis of the Contents of Sermons in Korean
American Churches
Eui-Hang Shin,
University of South Carolina
> Strong Commitment and Little Loyalty: A
Characteristic of Korean Immigrant Churches
Shin Kim, University of
Chicago
> Offering Behavior of Church Members: An Analysis
of Korean Immigrant Presbyterians
Kwang Chung Kim,
Western Illinois University
Session 22: Author Meets Critics: Robert Montgomery's Introduction to the Sociology of
Missions
Convener-William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
Panelists: Dean R. Hoge, Catholic University of
America
Robert J. O'Donnell,
Paulist Institute of Research, Old St. Mary's Church, Chicago
Robert D. Woodberry,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Saturday, August 12, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
Session 23: Race and Religion: Shifting Approaches to Shifting Categories
(Joint ASR/ASA Session)
Organizers-Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan University, and Henry Goldschmidt, University of
California, Santa Cruz
Convener-Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan University
Discussant-Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, Yale
University
> "A Man Born By My Foot": Tracing the
Hegemony of "Race" in Crown Heights
Henry Goldschmidt,
University of California, Santa Cruz
> Shifting the Categories of Racial Identity in
Caribbean Culture: Rastafari as a Case Study
Nathaniel Samuel
Murrell, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
> "Indian = Hindu": Religion and the
Formation of a Race/Ethnic Identity Among Indian Immigrants in Late 20th Century United
States
Sharmila Rudrappa,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Session 24: Religion, Society, and Culture in Global Perspective (Co-sponsored by ISA
Research Committee 22)
Convener-Luigi Tomasi, University of Trento
> Religion in the United States: A European
Perspective
Grace Davie, University
of Exeter
> World Conferences as Ritual: The Construction of
Global Culture
Frank J. Lechner, Emory
University
> The Jubilee as a Pilgrimage in the Globalization
Era
Roberto Cipriani,
University of Rome, and Federico D'Agostino, University of Benevento
> The Spirit Bade Me Go: Pentecostalism and Global
Religion
Margaret M. Poloma,
University of Akron
Session 25: Denominational Switching and Religious Affiliation
Convener-Mark Regnerus, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> Displacing the Mainline: Catholics,
Evangelicals, and the Return of Religion to American Public Life
John Schmalzbauer,
College of the Holy Cross
> African American Religious Affiliation in the
Late 20th Century: Trends, Cohort Variations, and Patterns of Switching, 1973-1998
Darren E. Sherkat,
Vanderbilt University
> A Hazard Model Analysis of the Effects of
Religious Lapses on Denominational Switching
Channin Gladden De
Haan, Arizona State University
Session 26: Theoretical Issues in the Sociology of Religion
Convener-Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University
> Choosing Rationality
James A. Beckford,
University of Warwick
> On the Applicability of Norman Cohn's Definition
of Millenarian Movements to Novel Syncretistic Movements such as Aleph (Aum Shinrikyo),
Maria Devi Khristos, and Chen Tao
Durk H. Hak, University
of Groningen
> Traditional Authority vs. Legal-Rational
Authority: Political Debate in Iran During the Parliamentary Election
Stephen Poulson,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Saturday, August 12, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Session 27: Our Concepts: The Illusion of Neutrality
Organizer-Otto Maduro, Drew University
Convener-James A. Beckford, University of Warwick
> Magic/Witchcraft
Mary Jo Neitz,
University of Missouri, Columbia
> Fundamentalism
José Casanova, New
School for Social Research
> Popular Religion
Manuel Mejido, Emory
University
Session 28: Issues in Contemporary Spirituality and Implicit Religion
Convener-Nancy Eiesland, Emory University
> Spiritual Care and the Practice of Nursing
Tracy Carr and Nancy
Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick
> The Sacred Sense of Nature: Nature Writers and
Religion
Mark S. Cladis, Vassar
College
> Speaking of Meaning in Modernity: Reflexive
Spirituality as a Cultural Resource
Kelly Besecke,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
> The Creative Spirit
Barbara
Fisher-Townsend, St. Thomas University (Canada)
Session 29: Religious Activists Beyond Borders
Organizers and Conveners-Kathy Nadeau, California State University, San Bernardino, and
Kathryn Poethig, St. Lawrence University
> "Left Islam": The Social and Political
Thought of Nahdlatul Ulama
Mark Woodward, Arizona
State University
> Human Rights and Development in the Philippines:
The Vision of the Christian Left
Kathy Nadeau,
California State University, San Bernardino
> Engaging the Peace: Transnational and Interfaith
Religious Activism in Cambodia
Kathryn Poethig, St.
Lawrence University
> Brazilian Base Communities and Gender
Consciousness: Rural-Urban Comparisons
Madeleine Cousineau,
Mount Ida College
Session 30: Leadership, Conflict, and Global Missions
Convener-Robert Montgomery, Ridgewood, New Jersey
> The Swedish Vicar: A Leader for a Church in
Transition?
Per Hansson, Uppsala
University, and Jon Aarum Andersen, Växjö University
> Effectiveness and Importance of Regional
Judicatories in Promoting Global and Local Mission
Adair T. Lummis,,
Hartford Institute for Religion Research
> Church Conflicts-The Psychosocial Work
Environment of the Parish: The Case of the Church of Sweden
Ann-Sophie Hansson,
Uppsala University
Saturday, August 12, 5:00 p.m.
ASR Business Meeting
Saturday, August 12, 6:00 p.m.
Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture
Convener-José Casanova, New School for Social Research
> Reflections on the Sociology of Religion Today
Peter L. Berger, Boston University
Saturday, August 12, 7:00 p.m.
Paul Hanly Furfey Reception
The Reception is cosponsored by the ASR, the Sociology of Religion
Section of the American Sociological Association, the Center for Applied Research in the
Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University, and the Life Cycle Institute at the Catholic
University of America
Sunday, August 13, 7:15 - 8:15 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
The breakfast is sponsored by the Paulist Institute for Religious
Research
Sunday, August 13, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session 31: Gateway Cities: Project on Religion and the New Immigrants
Organizer and Convener-José Casanova, New School for Social Research
> Houston
Helen Rose Ebaugh,
University of Houston
> New York City
José Casanova, New
School for Social Research
> Chicago
Fred Kniss, Loyola
University Chicago
> Washington
Dean Hoge, Catholic
University of America
Session 32: Religion, Democracy, and Civil Society
Convener-Rhys Williams, Southern Illinois University
> The Long-Term Influence of Religious Traditions
on Levels of Democratization
Robert D. Woodberry,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> Congregations for Society: Which Congregations
are Serving Their Communities?
Ram A. Cnaan and
Stephanie Boddie, University of Pennsylvania, and Gaynor I. Yancey, Baylor University
> Good Talk, Bad Talk? Lessons from Two
Congregations for the Public Sphere
Lyn Christine
Macgregor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
> Can Religious Communities Revitalize Civil
Society in the Inner City? An Examination of Faith-Based Community Organizing in Britain
Mark R. Warren, Fordham
University
Session 33: The Dynamics of Conversion in Judaism and Islam
Convener-Lina Molotokos-Liederman, École Practique des Hautes Études
> Conversion to Judaism in the Communist USSR
M. Herbert Danzger,
Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
> Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy Compared
Hermann Maiba,
University of Illinois at Chicago
> Revisiting Secularization Theory: The
Experiences of Native British Converts to Islam
Ali Köse, Center for
Islamic Studies (Istanbul)
Session 34: Gender, Clergy, and the Ordination of Women
Convener-R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at Chicago
> Women, Gender, and Sexuality: Issues for the
Church in Wales
Richard Startup,
University of Wales, Swansea
> "It's Not For Somebody Who Wants to Work
9-5": The Work of Women Priests in Episcopal Parish Ministry
Amy A. Holzgang,
Syracuse University
> Attitudes of Laypersons Toward Female Clergy and
Priests: Testing Two Theological Arguments Against Ordination
Krista Lynn Preheim and
Daphne Stevens, Utah State University
Sunday, August 13, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session 35: Historical Case Studies in Macro-Social Secularization
Organizer and Convener-Christian Smith, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> The Profits of Secularization: Corporate
Capitalism and the Demise of Normative Advocacy in Modern Journalism
Richard Flory, Biola
University
> Religion, Public Schools, and the Rise of
Interest Groups in American Law
David Sikkink,
University of Notre Dame
> Early American Sociology and the Secularization
of American Higher Education
Christian Smith,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> The Regulation of Religious Broadcasting:
Federal Policy and the Secularization of Radio in the 1920s and 1930s
Stephen Lippmann,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Session 36: Religious Conflicts and Political Intolerance in Europe
Convener-Jerry Pankhurst, Wittenberg University
> Religiosity and Intolerance in the United States
and Poland
Vyacheslav Karpov,
Western Michigan University
> Religion and Civil Society in Russia and the
Ukraine: An Awkward Marriage
Dmitro Volkov, Loyola
University of Chicago
> Religion: The Clash of Civilizations, of
Nations, of Groups...etc.?
Nonka Bogomilova,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Session 37: Religion, Society, and Culture in Historical Settings
Convener-Fred Kniss, Loyola University Chicago
> Feminine Exemplars from the Middle Ages as Ideal
Types: A Comparative Historical Approach
Barbara R. Walters,
Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
> Shifting Boundaries of Religious, Cultural, and
Other Forms of Travel
Lutz Kaelber, Lyndon
State College
> The Chiliastic Movement of the Anabaptists in
the Netherlands in the Early 16th Century
Lammert Gosse Jansma,
Fryske Akademy
> The Political Economy of Racially Mixed
Congregations in South Africa, 1665-1997
Dawid Venter,
University of the Western Cape
Sunday, August 13, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
Session 38: Religion and Global Civil Society (Joint ASR/ASA Session)
Organizer and Convener-José Casanova, New School for Social Research
Panelists: Grace Davie, University of Exeter
Catalina Romero,
Pontifica Universidad Catolica, Peru
George Thomas, Arizona
State University
Sunday, August 13, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Session 39: Comparative-Historical Research and the Sociology of Religion:
A Discussion of Swanson's Religion and Regime
Organizer and Convener-Ezra Kopelowitz, Ruppin College, Israel
> Religion and Regime Re-Visited: Swanson and the
Analysis of Religion and Politics in the Contemporary World
John H. Simpson,
University of Toronto
> Measuring That "Sui Generis" Thing:
The Contribution of Guy E. Swanson
Albert Bergesen,
University of Arizona
> The Relevance of Swanson's Theory for Explaining
Divergent Conceptions of Religious Authority Among Jews in Israel and the United States
Ezra Kopelowitz, Ruppin
College, Israel
> Religion and Regimes: Theoretical Development
and Historical Applications
Mansoor Moaddel,
Eastern Michigan University
> World Authority, Immanent Culture, and
Sociological Theory
George Thomas, Arizona
State University
Session 40: Author Meets Critics: Penny Edgell Becker's Congregations in Conflict
Organizer and Convener-Nancy L. Eiesland, Emory University
Panelists: Kevin J. Christiano, University of
Notre Dame
Helen Rose Ebaugh,
University of Houston
Richard Wood,
University of New Mexico
Session 41: Gender and Schism in the LDS Context
Convener—Paula Nesbitt, University of Denver
> Equality to Servitude: Evolution of Ideals for Mormon Women
in LDS Periodicals
Laura Vance, Georgia Southwestern State
University
> A Sociological Exploration of Schisms in the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints: 1830-1985
Krista Lynn Preheim, Utah State University
Sunday, August 13, 5:00 p.m.
ASR "NEW" Council Meeting