ASSOCIATION FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
RELIGION, POLITICS, AND THE STATE
AT HOME AND ABROAD
Radisson Warwick Hotel
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
August 13-15
Coming when and where they do, it is hard to imagine a
more appropriate theme for these meetings than religion's relation to politics
and the state, at home and abroad. Philadelphia is the birthplace of the U.S.
Constitution and its subsequent First Amendment; a nine-month scholarly
gestation will have elapsed since the 2004 Presidential elections; and it is not
likely that the War on Terrorism, the fate of Afghanistan and Iraq, or the
religious conflicts raging in places like India, Israel, Northern Ireland or the
former Soviet Union will have been finally resolved. Religion in its various
forms will be subject to myriad interpretations in such contexts, with the one
exception of irrelevance.
OVERVIEW
Friday, August 12
5:00-8:45 p.m.
“Old” Council Meeting
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Registration
9:00-10:00 p.m.
Welcoming Reception
The Welcoming Reception is co-sponsored by the ASR and Brill Academic Publishers in celebration of the publication of the first volume of the renewed “Religion and the Social Order” series, Fengang Yang and Joseph B. Tamney’s, State, Market, and Religions in Chinese Societies.
Saturday, August 13
7:00-8:15 a.m.
Sociology of Religion Editorial Board Breakfast
8:00 a.m-2:30 p.m.
Registration
8:30-10:15 a.m.
A1. Thematic Session: Religious Freedom, Tolerance, and Democratization
A2. Gender Politics
A3. Classical Theoretical Considerations
A4. Religion and Globalization Theory: A Twenty-Five Year Retrospective Panel
Discussion
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
B1. Thematic Session: Author Meets Critics: Paul Freston’s Protestant Political Parties: A Global Survey
B2. The Sacred in/and The Secular
B3. Religion and Family
2005 Annual Meeting Program, p. 4
12:15-5:00 p.m.
12:30-2:15 p.m.
C1. Thematic Session: The Political Capital of People of Faith
C2. The Uses and Abuses of Religion
C3. Religion’s Effect on Affect
C4. Didactic Session: Inside Book Publishing
2:30-4:45 p.m.
D1. Thematic Session: Religion and Civic Engagement Around the World
D2. Thematic Session: Religion and Politics in China
D3. Religious Subcultures in Unexpected Locales
D4. Religious Identity Formation and Change
5:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 14
7:15-8:25 a.m.
8:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
8:15 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
8:30-10:15 a.m.
E1. ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session: Religion, Immigration, and Globalization
E2. Thematic Session: Religion and Environmental Concern
E3. American Catholics and Catholicism Today
E4. Religious Identity Across the Life Course
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
F1. ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session: Religion’s Confrontation with Gender and Sexuality
F2. Globalization and Christian Higher Education in East Asia
ASR 2005 Annual Meeting Program, p. 5
F3. Religion, Cognition, and the Learning Process
F4. Didactic Session: The Art and Craft of Researching Religion
12:30-2:15 p.m.
G1. Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of the Publication of Habits of the Heart
G2. Race, Religion, and Asian Americans
G3. Thematic Session: Post-Election Reflections
G4. Pilgrimage and Tourism I
2:30-4:45 p.m.
H1. Religion and the Academy
H2. Thematic Session: Author Meets Critics: David Yamane’s The Catholic Church in State Politics: Negotiating
Prophetic Demands and Political Realities
H3. Dividing and Uniting by Race
H4. Pilgrimage and Tourism II
5:00 p.m.
Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture
6:00 p.m.
Paul Hanly Furfey Reception
Monday, August 15
7:30-8:15 a.m. ASR Business Meeting
8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Registration
8:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Final Book Sale
8:30-10:15 a.m.
I1. ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session: Assessing “Faith Based Initiatives”
Organizationally, Politically, and Constitutionally
I2. Atheism and Religious Doubt
I3. Author Meets Critics: W. Bradford Wilcox’s Soft Patriarchs and New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands
ASR 2005 Annual Meeting Program, p. 6
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
J1. Thematic Session: Studying and Evaluating Faith-Based Initiatives
J2. Strictness Matters
J3. Didactic Session: Publishing Journal Articles
J4. ASR/ASA Joint Session: Author Meets Critics: Randall Collins’s Interaction Ritual Chains
12:30-2:15 p.m.
K1. Author Meets Critics: Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age: Tradition Faces the Twenty-First Century
K2. Muslims in the West
K3. Graduate Student Mentoring Meetings
2:30-4:15 p.m.
L1. Thematic Session: Author Meets Critics: Sacred Circles, Public Squares: The Multicentering of American Religion
L2. The Local Church in an Episcopal Polity
L3. Religion and Secular Organizations Around the Globe
4:30-6:00 p.m. “New “ Council Meeting
SESSIONS
Saturday, August 13, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session A1: Thematic Session: Religious Freedom, Tolerance, and Democratization
Convener and Discussant: Sarah MacMillen, University of Notre Dame
* Organizing Human Rights: The Case of Global Religious Freedom
David Brewington, Emory University
* Principled or Practiced Tolerance? An Exploration in Cross-National
Context
Sandy Marquart-Pyatt, Utah State University
* No King Save Jesus! Protestant Christianity and the Development of
Western Democracy
Melissa Warner, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Convener: Melissa Wilcox, Whitman College
* Whosoever Will Let Her Come: Social Activism and Gender Inclusivity in
the Black Church
Sandra L. Barnes, Purdue University
* ‘A Disturbance in My Heart’: Christian Women on Paths of
Empowerment in Southern India
Laura M. Leming, University of Dayton
* All Women Priests are not Revisionist: Some of Us are Orthodox
Dana Fenton, Lehman College, CUNY
Convener: James Mahon, William Paterson University
* The Old Paradigm Revisited
Warren S. Goldstein, University of Central Florida
* The Defeat and Victory of Religion in the Conflict between Religion and
Secularism
Robert L. Montgomery, Ridgewood, NJ
* Weber on Charisma and the Case of Muslim Leadership
Mahruq Khan, Loyola University of Chicago
* New Historical Research on the Weber Thesis: An Overview and Appraisal
Lutz Kaelber, University of Vermont
* The Continuing Path of Distortion: The Protestant Ethic and Max Weber’s
School Enrollment Statistics
George Becker, Vanderbilt University
ASR 2005 Annual Meeting Program, p. 8
Session A4: Religion and Globalization Theory: A Twenty-Five Year Retrospective Panel Discussion
Organizer: William R. Garrett, St. Michael’s College
Convener: Theodore Long, Elizabethtown College
* William R. Garrett, St. Michael’s College
* Roland Robertson, University of Aberdeen
* John Simpson, University of Toronto
* Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa
Saturday, August 13, 10:30 a.m.-12;15 p.m.
Session B1: Thematic Session: Author Meets Critics—Paul Freston’s Protestant Political Parties: A Global Survey
Organizer and convener: N.J. Demerath III, University of Massachusetts
* Fenggang Yang, Purdue University
* Robert Woodberry, University of Texas
* David Smilde, University of Georgia
* Philip Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University
Respondent: Paul Freston, Calvin College
Convener: Richard McCarthy, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
* Religiosity and Veterans: Observations from Operations Enduring
Freedom and Iraqi Freedom
Barbara J. Denison, Shippensburg University
* Genetics and Faith: Religious Re-enchantment through Biochemical
Discourse
Kathleen E. Jenkins, College of William and Mary
* Divine Comedy: An Assessment of Religion and Spirituality in Syndicated
Comic Strips
Pamela Leong, University of Southern California
* The Political and Religious Significance of Mel Gibson’s “Passion”
Joseph B. Tamney and Stephen D. Johnson, Ball State University
Convener: Sally Gallagher, Oregon State University
* Delivering Practical Theology: Family Planning and Senegalese Muslim
Midwives’ Roles as Religious Advisors
Anne Carrington Hayes, University of Colorado
* Evangelicals, Divorce and Young Adulthood
Anthony E. Healy, Visions-Decisions, Inc.
* Religion and a Sense of Family Obligation: A Case of Interacting Genes,
Common Environmental Influences, and Unique Experiences
Margaret Vaaler and Matt Bradshaw, University of Texas
Saturday, August 13, 12:15-5:00 p.m.
Book Exhibit
Saturday, August 13, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
Session C1: Thematic Session: The Political Capital of People of Faith
Organizer: Cynthia Woolever, Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Convener: Kraig Beyerlein, University of North Carolina
* Social and Political Beliefs of Worshipers
Deborah Bruce, Research Services, Presbyterian Church-USA
* Mission and Ministry Involvements: In-Church, Out-Church and Way Out
Adair Lummis, Hartford Seminary
* Worshipping Alone: Correlates of Social Integration
Zubeyir Nisanci and Cynthia Woolever, Hartford Institute for Religion Research
* Women of the Pew: Mobilizing Civic and Religious Capital
Cynthia Woolever, Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Convener: Jerome Baggett, Jesuit School of Theology
* “Blue” Church and “Red” Church Catholicism: Polarizing Dynamics among
American Catholics
William Dinges, Catholic University of America
* Strategies of Coping with Role Conflict among Separated and Divorced
Catholics: Internet Survey Findings
Anna Bruzzese, SUNY-Stony Brook
* Summarizing Recent Research on Catholic Parishes
James D. Davidson and Suzanne Fournier, Purdue University
* New Findings of Growth and Decline in Mainline and Evangelical-
Fundamentalist Denominations and in the Roman Catholic Church in Two
States
Robert E. Beckley, West Texas A&M University, D. Paul Johnson
and Jerome R. Koch, Texas Tech University
Convener: Anthony E. Healy, Visions-Decisions, Inc.
* Religious Coping in America: Sociocultural Location and Efficacy against
Negative Affect
Anthony J. Blasi and Barbara Kilbourne, Tennessee State University
* The Impact of the Charismatic Movement on its Participants: Do
Charismatic Experiences Make People More Religious and Happier?
Hui-Tzu Grace Chou, Utah Valley State College
* Operationalizing the Critical Theory of Religion
David Gay and Warren S. Goldstein, University of Central Florida
* Associations of Religiousness, Health, and Health Behavior in National
Surveys of the Population of the United States: Research Findings and
Opportunities
Natalie E. Dupree and R. Frank Gillum, National Center for Health
Statistics/CDC
Organizer: Charlene Chen McGrew, University of Pennsylvania
Convener: David Yamane, Wake Forest University
* Adi Hovav, Rutgers University Press
* Alan McClare, Rowman & Littlefield
* Henry Tom, Johns Hopkins University Press
Saturday, August 13, 2:30-4:45 p.m.
Session D1: Thematic Session: Religion and Civic Engagement Around the World
Convener: Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University
* Religion and Civic Engagement: A Comparative Analysis of Five Asian Nations
Pui-Yan Lam, Eastern Washington University
* Congregational Support for Participation in Social Action: Beliefs,
Belonging, and Social Capital
Heidi Rolland Unruh, Eastern University
* Constituency, Institution, Theology, or Politics? What Matters to
Washington Offices
Rachel Kraus, Ball State University
* Religion and Political Conflict in Venezuela: Catholics and Evangelicals
During the Chavez Years
David Smilde, University of Georgia
Organizer and convener: Fenggang Yang, Purdue University
* The Post-Mao Revival of Christianity and Local Governance: An
Ethnographic Study of China’s Church-State Relations
Nanlai Cao, Australian National University
* Politics Within and Beyond an Unregistered Church
Jainbo Huang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
* Unsettled Controversies: Two Case Studies of the Classification of
Confucianism
Anna Xiao Dong Sun, Princeton University
* Organizational Structure and Religious Vitality: Yiguan Dao in Social
Transition
Yunfeng Lu, Baylor University
Session D3: Religious Subcultures in Unexpected Locales
Convener: Barbara Denison, Shippensburg University
* Doing Ritual—Doing Time: Women Prisoners, Witchcraft, and
Empowerment
Wendy Griffin, California State University-Long Beach
* Sixth Street Mennonite Church: “Plains” in the City
Ketsia Lemoine, EPHE/GSRL
* Retail Religion: Faith and Work among Wal-Mart Women
Rebekah Peeples Massengill, Princeton University
* Witches on the Seven Seas: Accomodation of Wicca in the US Navy
Kim Hansen, University of California, San Diego
Session D4: Religious Identity Formation and Change I
Convener: Dana Fenton, Lehman College, CUNY
* Identity Formation: Jewish? Southern? American?
Dana Greene, Appalachian State University
* Religio-ethnic Socialization as Social Capital: Experiences of Older Adults
from Non-Western Traditions
Susan A. Eisenhandler, University of Connecticut
* Religion and Ethnic Identity among Irish Americans in Savannah, Georgia
William L. Smith and Barbara Hendry, Georgia Southern University
* Conversion and Re-affiliation as a Transgression of Norms: A Sociological
Rational Choice Explanation
Durk Hak, University of Groningen
ASR 2005 Annual Meeting Program, p. 12
Saturday, August 13, 5:00 p.m.
ASR Presidential Address
Convener: Joseph B. Tamney, Ball State University
* Dear Mr. President: Assessing Religion and Politics in Your
Administration for Posteriority
N.J. Demerath III, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Saturday, August 13, 6:00 p.m.
ASR Presidential Reception
The Reception is cosponsored by the UMass Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Science and the Department of Sociology, the Program for Research on Religion and Urban and Civil Society and the Program for Religion and Social Policy Research at the University of the Pennsylvania, and the ASR.
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Sunday, August 14, 7:15-8:25 a.m.
New Attendees’ Welcoming Breakfast
Sunday, August 14, 8:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Registration
Sunday, August 14, 8:15 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Book Exhibit
ASR 2005 Annual Meeting Program, p. 13
Sunday, August 14, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session E1: ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session: Religion, Immigration, and Globalization
Organizer, convener, and discussant: R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois-Chicago
* The Process of Immigrant Incorporation Today: Religious, Secular, and
Otherwise
Alejandro Portes, Princeton University
* Not Just Made in the U.S.A.: The Nexus between U.S. Religious Pluralism
and Global Religion
Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College
* Immigrant Religious Networks Across Borders: Implications for
Globalization
Helen Rose Ebaugh, University of Houston
Session E2: Thematic Session: Religion and Environmental Concern
Convener and discussant: Dana Fenton, Lehman College, CUNY
* Humans, Nature, and the Sacred
Matthew Immergut, Drew University
* Religious Campaigns in the U.S. Concerning Global Climate Change
Laurel Kearns, Drew University
Session E3: The Uses and Abuses of Religion
Convener: Jerry Z. Park, Baylor University
* The Strategic Use of Apocalyptic Messages: Exploring Pragmatic
Dimensions of Religious Morality
Edward Berryman, College Sainte-Foy
* Reflections on Childhood, Reflections on Mothering: Exploring Views on
Discipline in the Christian Home
Lanette Ruff, Nancy Nason-Clark, and Barbara Fisher-Townsend,
University of New Brunswick
* Religiosity and the Readiness for Peace: Religious and Nonreligious
Israeli Jews’ Perceptions Regarding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Ephraim Tabory, Bar Ilan University, and Theodore Sasson,
Middlebury College
* Fragmentation of Religion and the Construction of New Narratives: The
Guarani Religious Narrative of the Reserve of Dourados
Maria de Lourdes Beldi de Alcantara, University of São Paolo
ASR 2005 Annual Meeting Program, p. 14
Session E4: Religious Identity Formation and Change II
Convener and discussant: Dana Greene, Appalachian State University
* Identity Factors in Contemporary Religious Patterns: A Theoretical
Consideration
Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College
* Religion among Second Generation Immigrant Youth in Canada:
Preliminary Results from an Investigation in Progress
Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa
* Numinous Experiences and Reflexive Spirituality in the Formation of
Religious Capital among Feminist Women
Adair T. Lummis, Hartford Theological Seminary
Sunday, August 14, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session F1: ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session: Religion’s Confrontation with Gender and Sexuality
Organizer and convener: Ruth Wallace, George Washington University
* Gendered Divisions of Congregational Labor: Continuities, Ironies, and
Contemporary Tensions
Nancy Ammerman, Boston University
* Men of Faith: Masculinities and Religion
John Bartkowski, Mississippi State University
* Religion and the Control of Women: An Examination of Patriarchy in Sex-
Negative and Sex-Positive Religions
Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri-Columbia
* Women Bishops/Gay Bishops: Confrontation, Linkages, Crisis Networks
and Cultural Change
Paula Nesbitt, University of California, Berkeley
Session F2: Globalization and Christian Higher Education in East Asia
Organizer: Peter Tze Ming Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Convener and discussant: Shun-hing Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University
* Globalization as a Key Concept in the Study of Christian Higher Education
in East Asia
Peter Tze Ming Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
* The Global Impact of Missions and Education
Robert Woodberry, University of Texas
* Religious Competition in the Education Field: Christian Higher Education
and its Impact on Women’s Education in Modern China
Jiexia Zhai, University of Texas
ASR 2005 Annual Meeting Program, p. 15
Session F3: Religion, Cognition, and the Learning Process
Convener and discussant: David Sikkink, University of Notre Dame
* Religious Influences on College Achievement: Insights from the National
Longitudinal Study of Freshmen (NLSF)
Margarita Mooney, Princeton University
* Religion and Cognitive Sophistication
Darren E. Sherkat, Southern Illinois University
* Indoctrination versus Habituation: Social Influence Theory Meets
Religion in “Mozert v. Hawkins County Public Schools”
William Torry, West Virginia University
Session F4: Didactic Session: The Art and Craft of Researching Religion
Organizer and convener: Charlene Chen McGrew, University of Pennsylvania
* Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago
* Ram Cnaan, University of Pennsylvania
* Christian Smith, University of North Carolina
* Kevin J. Christiano, University of Notre Dame
Sunday, August 14, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
Session G1: Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of the Publication of Habits of the Heart
Organizer and convener: David Yamane, Wake Forest University
* Kelly Besecke, Kenyon College
* Wendy Cadge, Harvard University
*
Richard Wood, University of New Mexico
* Robert Zussman, University of Massachusetts
Respondent: Ann Swidler, University of California, Berkeley
Session G2: Race, Religion, and Asian Americans
Organizer: Fanggang Yang, Purdue University
Convener and discussant: Carolyn Chen, Northwestern University
* The Pluralism Project of Distortion: What Do Asian Americans Believe?
Fenggang Yang, Purdue University, and Elisa Jiexia Zhai, University
of Texas
* Analyzing Race in Asian-American Religious Communities: A
Methodological Framework
Antony Alumkal, Iliff School of Theology
* Transforming Temples into Congregations: The Case of Buddhism in the United States
Eric Yang Liu and Rodney Stark, Baylor University
* Second Generation Asian-American Experiences of Ethnic and Religious
Discrimination
Jerry Z. Park, Baylor University
ASR 2005 Annual Meeting Program, p. 16
Session G3: Thematic Session: Post-Election Reflections
Convener: Rachel Kraus, Ball State University
* Understanding U.S. Political Tides through Evangelical, Mainline, and
New Thought Congregants
Jeanette Baust, University of Denver
* Action-Reaction: An Historical Examination of the Results of Legislating
Morality
Richard McCarthy, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
* Religious Beliefs and Economic Conservatism
Amy Reynolds, Princeton University
* Explaining the Moral Voter Gap between Surveys and Voting
Darren Sherkat, Southern Illinois University
Session G4: Pilgrimage and Tourism I
Organizer: William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
Convener: Lori G. Beaman, Concordia University
* The Politics of Pilgrimage: Visiting Ground Zero
Jennifer Selby, McMaster University
* A Computer-Assisted Analysis of Religion: The Jubilee 2000 Case
Roberto Cipriani, University of Roma Tre
* For Charles and for England: Pilgrimage without Tourism
William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
* The New Pilgrimage: Return to Tradition or New Age Quest?
Martin Geoffroy, Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boniface, University
of Manitoba
Sunday, August 14, 2:30-4:45 p.m.
Session H1: Religion and the Academy
Organizer: Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University
Convener: Theodore E. Long, Elizabethtown College
Discussant: John DiIulio, University of Pennsylvania
* The Intersection of Religion and Science in the Academy
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University
* Institutional Support for Evangelical Scholarship
D. Michael Lindsay, Princeton University
* God on the Quad
Naomi Schaefer Riley, Ethics and Public Policy Center
* Religion and Knowledge in the Post-Secular Academy
John Schmalzbauer, Southwest Missouri State University
ASR 2005 Annual Meeting Program, p. 17
Session H2: Thematic Session: Author Meets Critics: David Yamane’s The Catholic Church in State Politics: Negotiating Prophetic Demands and Political Realities
Organizer: John Bartkowski, Mississippi State University
Convener and respondent: David Yamane, Wake Forest University
* Margarita Mooney, Princeton University
*
Rachel Kraus, Ball State University
* Jerome Baggett, Jesuit School of Theology
* Bryan Froehle, Dominican University
Session H3: Dividing and Uniting by Race
Convener: Antony Alumkal, Iliff School of Theology
* Religion, Social Change and Systemic Racism
John F. Connors 3rd and Gerald H. Foeman, LaSalle University
* Church Arsons as Hate Crimes? Mapping the Effects of Religious Ecology
and Local Hate Cultures on Southern Church-Burnings
Frank M. Howell and John P. Bartkowski, Mississippi State
University
* Does Religiosity Affect Perceptions of Racism in the New South?
Andrea Henderson, Jeffry Will, and Richard Phillips, University of
North Florida
Session H4: Pilgrimage and Tourism II
Organizer and discussant: William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
Convener: Lutz Kaelber, University of Vermont
* Walking the Labyrinth: Religious Identities and Lived Religion
Lori G. Beaman, Concordia University
* Pilgrimage and Transformation: Does Gender Matter?
Elizabeth Ozorak, Allegheny College
* Religious Tourism in Contemporary Japan: Kyoto’s Gion Festival
Michael Roemer, University of Texas
Sunday, August 14, 5:00 p.m.
Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture
Convener: N.J. Demerath III, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
* Citizenship vs Religious Identity: The Politics of Majoritarianism and
Marginalization in a “Democratic” State
Dipankar Gupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University
ASR 2005 Annual Meeting Program, p. 18
Sunday, August 14, 6:00 p.m.
Paul Hanly Furfey Reception
The Reception is cosponsored by the Program for Research on Religion and Urban and Civil Society and the Program for Religion and Social Policy Research at the University of the Pennsylvania, and the ASR.
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Monday, August 15, 7:30-8:15 a.m.
ASR Business Meeting
Monday, August 15, 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Registration
Monday, August 15, 8:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Final Book Sale
Monday, August 15, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session I1: ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session: Assessing “Faith-Based Initiatives” Organizationally, Politically, and Constitutionally
Organizer and convener: Mark Chaves, University of Arizona
Discussant: Arthur Farnsley II, IUPUI
* Ram Cnaan, University of Pennsylvania
* Paul Lichterman, University of Southern California
* Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle, George Washington University Law School
* Rebecca Sager, University of Arizona
Session I2: Atheism and Religious Doubt
Organizer: Benjamin Zablocki, Rutgers University
Convener: Richard McCarthy, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
* When Followers Stumble: The Impact of Doubt on Spiritual Commitment
J. Anna Looney, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
* Atheists and Cartoons: An Exploratory Analysis
Elizabeth Williamson, Rutgers University
* Factors Affecting Change in Religious Doubt from Youth to Middle Age
Benjamin Zablocki, Rutgers University
ASR 2005 Annual Meeting Program, p. 19
Session I3: Author Meets Critics: W. Bradford Wilcox’s Soft Patriarchs and New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands
Organizer: David Yamane, Wake Forest University
Convener: D. Paul Johnson, Texas Tech University
* John Bartkowski, Mississippi State University
* Sally Gallagher, Oregon State University
* Joy Charlton, Swarthmore College
Respondent: W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia
Monday, August 15, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session J1: Thematic Session: Studying and Evaluating Faith-Based Iniatives
Convener: Rebecca Sager, University of Arizona
* Altruism and Faith-Based Services in Japan
Keishin Inaba, Kobe University
* Studying a Community and Faith-Based Organization: Methodological
Issues and Lessons
Jill Witmer Sinha, Princeton University
* Low-Income Mothers, Faith, and Work: Implications for Faith-Based Job-
Training Programs
Susan Crawford Sullivan, College of the Holy Cross
* Defining the Boundaries of “Acceptable” Religion in the Context of Social
Services: Analyzing the Discourse of the Faith-Based Debate
Heidi Rolland Unruh, Eastern University
Session J2: Strictness Matters
Convener and discussant: Laurence R. Iannaccone, George Mason University
* Strictness and the Politics of Gender: Leadership, Authority, and Religious
Rules in U.S. Congregations
Nancy Martin, University of Arizona
* The Strict Church Hypothesis and Weekly Church Attendance: Does
Strictness Matter Every Week?
Paul J. Olson, Briar Cliff University
* The Evangelistic Ethic and the Spirit of Marketing: Exploring Change,
Culture, and Communication in the Church
Ronda Oosterhoff, Northwestern University
Session J3: Didactic Session: Publishing Journal Articles
Organizer and convener: Charlene Chen McGrew, University of Pennsylvania
* Rhys Williams, Editor, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
* Jerry Jacobs, Editor, American Sociological Review
* Peter Kivisto, Editor, Sociological Quarterly
* Nancy Nason-Clark, Editor, Sociology of Religion
ASR 2005 Annual Meeting Program, p. 20
Session J4: ASR/ASA Joint Session: Author Meets Critics: Randall Collins’s Interaction Ritual Chains
Organizers: David Boyns, California State University-Northridge, and N.J. Demerath III, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Convener: David Boyns, California State University-Northridge
* Neil Gross, Harvard University
* Erica Summers-Effler, University of Notre Dame
* James A. Beckford, University of Warwick
* Lynn Smith-Lovin, Duke University
Respondent: Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania
Monday, August 15, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
Session K1: Authors Meet Critics: Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age: Tradition Faces the Twenty-First Century
Organizer: Jerry Pankhurst, Wittenberg University
Convener: William R. Garrett, St. Michael’s College
* Vyacheslav Karpov, Western Michigan University
* Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa
* Roland Robertson, University of Aberdeen
Respondents: Victor Roudometof, University of Cyprus, and Jerry Pankhurst, Wittenberg University
Session K2: Muslims in the West
Convener and discussant: Peter Dewan, Harvard University
* Islam in the West: The Debate on the Necessity of a Jurisprudence of
Muslim Minorities
Kamel Ghozzi, Central Missouri State University
* United by Faith: Challenges faced by a Muslim Community in Search of
Yuting Wang, University of Notre Dame
* Bridge or Barrier? Religious Identity and the Civic Inclusion of Muslim
and Christian Arab Americans
Jen’nan Ghazal Read, University of California-Irvine
* Secular State-Formation and the Emergence of Islamist Movements in
Turkey
Ismail Demirezen, University of Maryland
ASR 2005 Annual Meeting Program, p. 21
Session K3: Graduate Student Mentoring Meetings
Organizer: Charlene Chen McGrew, University of Pennsylvania
Attendance at Session K3 is restricted entirely to those who have preregistered. It is listed here to acknowledge to the following colleagues who are serving as mentors:
* Nancy Ammerman, Boston University
* Kevin J. Christiano, University of Notre Dame
* Ram Cnaan, University of Pennsylvania
* Michael Emerson, Rice University
* Laurence Iannaccone, George Mason University
* Fred Kniss, Loyola University Chicago
* Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick
* David Sikkink, University of Notre Dame
* David Smilde, University of Georgia
* W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia
* David Yamane, Wake Forest University
* Fenggang Yang, Purdue University
Monday, August 15, 2:30-4:15 p.m.
Session L1: Thematic Session: Authors Meet Critics: Sacred Circles, Public Squares: The Multicentering of American Religion
Organizer: David Yamane, Wake Forest University
Convener: Rachel Kraus, Ball State University
* Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota
* Fred Kniss, Loyola University Chicago
* Perry Chang, Presbyterian Church, USA
Respondents: Arthur Farnsley II, IUPUI, and N.J. Demerath III, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Session L2: The Local Church in an Episcopal Polity
Convener and discussant: Kevin J. Christiano, University of Notre Dame
* Racial Inequality in College Ministry: Building the Episcopal Campus
Church in Florida, 1924-1954
Catherine Fobes, Alma College
* The Impact of Changing Demographics on Local Church’s Service Delivery
in the City of Yonkers, New York
Bernadette Kwee Garam, Lehman College CUNY, Ruth Narita
Doyle, Fordham University, and Alfred R. D’Anca, College of Mount
Saint Vincent
* From Oversight to Advice: The Unexpected Change of Episkopé in the
Church of Sweden
Per Hansson, Uppsala University
ASR 2005 Annual Meeting Program, p. 22
Session L3: Religion and Secular Organizations Around the Globe
Convener: Dietrich Jung, Danish Institute for International Studies
* The Rajneesh Movement in Nepal: The Charismatic Leader and the
Growth of the Movement in a Developing Country
Chudamani Basnet, University of Georgia
* Mapping Church and State Relations in the Asian Context: The Case of
Hong Kong
Shun-hing Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University
* Methodological and Ethical Problems in the Study of New Religious
Movements
David G. Bromley, Virginia Commonwealth University
* On Missionaries and Multi-Site Interventions: Exploring Religion and
Development in Latin America
Mark Hamilton, American University
Monday, August 15, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
“New” Council Meeting