ASSOCIATION FOR THE
SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
64th ANNUAL MEETING
ESSEX INN AT GRANT PARK
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
15-17 AUGUST 2002
FREEDOM AND CONTROL
Throughout its history, sociology has been concerned with the ways in which individuals and groups are both controlled and enabled through the functioning of different levels of society. What we hope to explore at this meeting are the ways in which both institutionalized religions and spiritual cultures can affect and be affected by individuals and other aspects of society such as the economy, politics, the legislature, the workplace, and the family. under what conditions, we might ask, is negotiation more or less possible? To what extent do the claims of different religions add that "extra something" which allows men and women to wield an authority which would not have been possible without the "sanction of the Almighty" or the belief in supernatural powers. How has religious authority changed over the past century or so? What is the "perfect freedom" of which some religionists speak? What has the arrival of new religious movements taught us about techniques of mind control and state control?
OVERVIEW
Wednesday, August 14
5:00 p.m.
"Old" Council Meeting — Windsor Court
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Registration — Room 301
9:00-10:00 p.m.
Welcome Reception — Poolside
Thursday, August 15
8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Registration — Room 301
8:30-10:15 a.m.
1. Frontline Religion2. New Religious Movements—Ideals and Realities
3. Civic Engagement and Social Movements
4. Freedom and Control in Communities of Knowledge
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
5. Globalization and Religion—Freedom and Control in the Aftermath of September 11
6. New Religious Movements—Innovative Examples
7. Author Meets Critics—Michael Cuneo’s American Exorcism
8. Testing Theories/Hypotheses
12:00-4:30 p.m.
Book Exhibit — Buckingham Court
12:15-12:45 p.m.
Authors’ Reception
1:00-2:45 p.m.
9. Lay Ministries
10. Religion and Welfare—Policies and Praxis
11. Author Meets Critics—Ted Jelen’s Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
12. Aesthetic Identities
3:00-4:45 p.m.
13. Freedom and Control in Missions
14. Author Meets Critics—Jerome Baggett’s Habitat for Humanity
15. Examples of Socialization
16. Religion and Spirituality—Technologies of Control and Opportunity
5:00 p.m.
Presidential Address
6:00 p.m.
Presidential Reception
Friday, August 16
7:15-8:25 a.m.
Women’s Network Breakfast
8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Registration — Room 301
8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Book Exhibit — Buckingham Court
8:30-10:15 a.m.
17. Freedom from Soviet Control I
18. Authors Meet Critics — Kevin J. Christiano, William H. Swatos, Jr., and Peter Kivisto’s Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments
19. Social Attitudes
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
20. Secularization or Desecularization? The China Case
21. Local Congregations
22. Author Meets Critics—Stephen Sharot’s A Comparative Sociology of World Religions
23. New Religious Movements—Conflicts and Their Resolution
12:30-2:15 p.m.
24. Freedom and Control—Sexuality and Authority in the Roman Catholic Church
25. Religion and Adolescent Life Outcomes
26. Freedom from Soviet Control II—Central and Eastern Europe
2:30-4:15 p.m.
27. Changing Patterns of Catholic Leadership
28. Marginality and Power in a Decentered World
29. Author Meets Critics—Robert Montgomery’s The Lopsided Spread of Christianity
30. Religion and Rights
4:30 p.m.
ASR Business Meeting — Park East Walk
5:30 p.m.
Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture — Park East Walk
6:30 p.m.
Furfey Lecture Reception (joint ASR/ASA Sociology of Religion section) — Poolside
Saturday, August 17
7:00-8:25 a.m.
Sociology of Religion Editorial Board Breakfast
8:00 a.m.-Noon
Registration — Room 301
8:15-10:00 a.m.
Reserved Book Pick-Up — Buckingham Court
8:30-10:15 a.m.
31. Religion, the Internet, and Society (Joint ASR/ASA) — Park East Walk
32. Does Gender Make a Difference?
33. Author Meets Critics—Steve Hart’s Cultural Dilemmas of Progressive Politics
34. Long-term Trends in Southern Europe
10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Final Book Sale — Buckingham Court
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
35. Regulating Religion—Allocations of Religious Freedom in Contemporary Societies (Joint ASR/ASA) — Park East Walk
36. Patrick N. McNamara Memorial Session
37. Approaches to Religion in Latin America
38. Minority Experience in the United States
12:30-2:15 p.m.
39. Conceptualizing and Measuring Catholic Identity
40. Freedom from Soviet Control III—Russia
41. Globalization—Theory and Practice
42. Researching Emotional Data
2:30-4:15 p.m.
43. Ascription in New Religions (Joint ASR/ASA) — Chicago Hilton, Continental A
4:45 p.m.
"New" Council Meeting — Essex Court
6:30 p.m.
Council Dinner — Windsor Court
SESSIONS
Thursday, August 15, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session 1: Frontline Religion
Convener—Lina Molokotos-Liederman, GSRL/IRESCO, Paris
Ø Rebirth in South Africa: Travail and Trial in a Regenerating Land
Brad Breems, Trinity Christian College
Ø New Forms of Religious Authority in the Context of Armed Conflicts in the Congo
Arsène Mwaka Bwenge, Université de Kinshasa
Ø The Difference that Divides in Northern Ireland: The Social and Political Attitudes of the Children of the "Troubles"
Christopher Alan Lewis, University of Ulster
Ø The Political Dynamics of Religious Change: Evangelical Protestant Identification in Northern Ireland
Claire Mitchell, University of Dublin, and Gladys Ganiel, University of Maine
Session 2: New Religious Movements—Theory and Practice
Convener and Discussant—Eileen Barker, London School of Economics
Ø "No Sects Please, We’re French": A Study of the Impact of the 1996 Guyard Report and France’s Anti-cult Actions on New Religious Movements and Other Minority Groups
Susan Palmer, Dawson College, Concordia University
Ø The Modern North American Anticult Movement: Vicissitudes of Success and Failure
Anson Shupe, Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne, David G. Bromley, Virginia Commonwealth University, Susan E. Darnell, Portage, Indiana
Ø An Analysis of Conversion Narratives to Jehovah’s Witnesses
Ines Jindra, Spring Arbor College
Session 3: Civic Engagement and Social Movements
Convener—R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at Chicago
Discussant—Pamela Popielarz, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ø Volunteering for Nonprofits: The Role of Religious Engagement
Kirsten Grønbjerg and Brent Never, Indiana University
Ø Religion and Civic Cultures: A Cross-National Study of Voluntary Association Membership
Pui-Yan Lam, Eastern Oregon University
Ø Raging Within the Machine: Spirituality in the Workplace as Social Protest
Wendy Martin, University of Ottawa
Session 4: Freedom and Control in Communities of Knowledge
Convener and Discussant—Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University
Ø The Great Divide: How Sociology’s Conflict with Much of Western Civilization’s Religious and Intellectual Traditions Have Affected the Discipline and Society Itself
Robert J. Mahoney, Rockhurst University
Ø Social Theory and the Relevance of Hume’s "Devastating Hypothesis" on Religion
Seyed Javad Meynagh, University of Bristol
Ø One Mind or Two: Psychiatrists’ and Psychologists’ Religious and Scientific Interpretations of Mind
Ellen Wagenfeld-Heintz, Western Michigan University
Session 5: Globalization and Religion: Freedom and Control in the Aftermath of September 11
Organizer—William R. Garrett, St. Michael’s College
Convener—Theodore E. Long, Elizabethtown College
Panelists
Roland Robertson, University of Aberdeen
William R. Garrett, St. Michael’s College
John H. Simpson, University of Toronto
Session 6: New Religious Movements—Innovative Examples
Convener—Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist, London School of Economics
Ø The Prophet Elijah, the Efraim Society: "But the End Is Not Yet"
Durk H. Hak, University of Groningen
Ø Glossalia as One Dialectic?
Irene Smolik, Carleton University
Ø Religious Recruitment and Membership on the Web: A Comparison of Kemetic Orthodoxy and Other New Religious Movements
Marilyn C. Krogh and Brooke Ashley Pillifant, Loyola University Chicago
Ø Psychoactive Sacramentals—Easy Questions, Hard Answers
Thomas B. Roberts, Northern Illinois University
Session 7: Author Meets Critics—Michael Cuneo’s American Exorcism
Organizer and Convener—Patricia Wittberg, Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis
Panelists
Kevin J. Christiano, University of Notre Dame
Margaret Poloma, University of Akron
Randal Hepner, Loyola University Chicago
Session 8: Testing Theories/Hypotheses
Convener and Discussant—William Silverman, Hicksville, New York
Ø Trends in Adolescent Church Attendance: An Analysis of the Secularization Thesis
Michelle Petrie and Jill Heiser, University of Georgia
Ø Religious Plausibility Structures, Race, and Education’s Effect on Biblical Literalism
Larry R. Petersen, University of Memphis
Ø Are There Religious Variations in Marital Infidelity?
Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin, Darren E. Sherkat, Southern Illinois University, Amy M. Burdette, University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, August 15, 12:15-12:45 p.m.
Authors’ Reception
The ASR Authors’ Reception is cosponsored by Michael Cuneo, Greenwood Publishing Group, New York University Press, and the University of Chicago Press.
Thursday, August 15, 1:00-2:45 p.m.
Session 9: Lay Ministries
Organizer and Convener—Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University
Ø Protestant Alternatives to Ordained Pastors: Implications for Denominational Identity and Membership Growth
Adair Lummis, Hartford Seminary
Ø Parish Ministers Today: The Characteristics, Attitudes, and Experiences of Parish-Based Lay Ecclesial Ministers
Mary E. Bendyna and Mary L. Gautier, CARA, Georgetown University
Ø Friends of a Contemplative Community of Nuns: Some Hypotheses about the Whys and Wherefores of Support
Barbara Zajac, Indiana State University
Ø Catholic Identities and the Tridentine Paradigm: A Religious Culture Perspective
Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University
Session 10: Religion and Welfare—Policies and Praxis
Convener—James D. Davidson, Purdue University
Discussant—Marilyn Krogh, Loyola University Chicago
Ø Religious Foundations of Welfare State Policies
Michael Opielka, Jena University of Bonn
Ø Sacred or Secular? Measuring the Religiosity of Social Service Programs
Paula Pipes, University of Houston
Ø Ties that Bind, Encourage, and Keep on Track: Social Ties in Faith-based and Secular Poverty-to-Work Programs
William H. Lockhart, Baylor University
Session 11: Author Meets Critics—Ted Jelen’s Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
Convener—Dana Fenton, Lehman College, CUNY
Panelists
Lori G. Beaman, University of Lethbridge
Daniel V.A. Olson, University of Indiana South Bend
Patricia Wittberg, University of Indiana/Purdue University Indianapolis
Session 12: Aesthetic Identities
Convener—Lina Molokotos-Liederman, GSRL/IRESCO, Paris
Ø Is Seeing Believing? Taking Pictures of Jesus
Edward Berryman, Québec City, Canada
Ø Why Should the Methodists Have All the Good Music? The Secularization of Hymn Music
Richard McCarthy, University of Wisconsin—Fox Valley
Ø Technology and Myth: Implicit Religion in Technological Narratives
William A. Stahl, Luther College, University of Regina
Ø Don’t Call Me Ishmael: Religious Names Among Protestants and Catholics
Paul Perl and Jonathon Wiggins, CARA, Georgetown University
Thursday, August 15, 3:00-4:45 p.m.
Session 13: Freedom and Control in Missions
Organizer and Convener—Robert Montgomery, Ridgewood, New Jersey
Discussant—Fenggang Yang, Purdue University
Ø Monopolistic Religions on the Defensive: New Freedoms for Missions
Robert Montgomery, Ridgewood, New Jersey
Ø Monopolistic Religion and the Exploitation of Colonial Societies
Robert D. Woodberry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ø Rolling to the Ends of the Earth: Measuring LDS Church Growth
Roger D. Loomis, UNUMProvident
Session 14: Author Meets Critics—Jerome Baggett’s Habitat for Humanity
Organizer and Convener—Patricia Wittberg, Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis
Panelists
D. Paul Johnson, Texas Tech University
Richard L. Wood, University of New Mexico
Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago
Session 15: Examples of Socialization
Convener—Mia Lövheim, Uppsala University
Ø Religious Socialization and Homogeneity and Religious Individualization in Eastern and Western Germany: A Comparison
Detlef Pollack, European University Viadrina
Ø Socialization for Intolerance on Our Own Shores: Fundamentalist Independent Baptists and the American Culture Wars
Victoria C. Rosenholtz, SUNY Canton
Ø Generational Processes in the Formation of Palestinian Islamist Consciousness
Loren D. Lybarger, University of Chicago
Ø Religious Movements and Their Children: Issues in Religious Socialization
Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist, London School of Economics
Session 16: Religion and Spirituality: Technologies of Control and Opportunity
Organizer and Convener—Tanice Foltz, Indiana University Northwest
Discussant—Adair Lummis, Hartford Seminary
Ø Drumming as Spiritual Technology: Creating Rhythmic Community
Tanice G. Foltz, Indiana University Northwest
Ø Weaving the Web: Witches On-Line
Wendy Griffin, California State University at Long Beach
Ø The Internet as Virtual Spiritual Community: Teen Witches in the U.S. and Australia
Helen A. Berger, West Chester University, and Douglas Ezzy, University of Tasmania
Thursday, August 15, 5:00 p.m.
ASR Presidential Address
Convener—Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University
Ø And the Wisdom to Know the Difference? Freedom, Control, and Responsibility—and the Sociology of Religion
Eileen Barker, London School of Economics
Thursday, August 15, 6:00 p.m.
ASR Presidential Reception
The Reception is cosponsored by the ASR and Loyola University Chicago’s McNamara Center for the Social Study of Religion.
Friday, August 16, 7:15-8:25 a.m.
Women’s Network Breakfast
Friday, August 16, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session 17: Freedom from Soviet Control I
Organizer and Convener—Eileen Barker, London School of Economics
Ø Religion and Law in Russia and Central Asia since 1991
Jeremy Gunn, Emory University School of Law
Ø The Regulation of Religion in Contemporary Bulgaria
Emil Cohen, Plovdiv State University
Ø Freedom and Control in the Unified Germany: Governmental Approaches to Alternative Religions since 1989
Hubert Seiwert, University of Leipzig
Ø Issues Relating to Religion in Recent Hungarian Legislation
Balazs Schanda, Attorney at Law, Budapest
Session 18: Author Meets Critics—Kevin J. Christiano, William H. Swatos, Jr., and Peter Kivisto’s Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments
Organizer and Convener—James C. Cavendish, University of South Florida
Panelists
Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri
George Thomas, Arizona State University
Barbara Denison, Lebanon Valley College
Session 19: Social Attitudes
Convener—Richard McCarthy, University of Wisconsin, Fox Valley
Ø Social Attitudes Among U.S. Religious Groups, 1972-2000: Change or Continuity?
John P. Hoffmann, Brigham Young University
Ø Religious Involvement and Beliefs About Social Inequality
Catherine A. Faver, Mary Ellen Cox, and Ann Callahan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Ø Religious Influences on Opposition to Abortion and Premarital Sex, 1972-2000
Vyacheslav Karpov, Western Michigan University
Ø Religion and the Racial Inequality Paradox
Jerry Z. Park and Victor J. Hinojosa, University of Notre Dame
Friday, August 16, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session 20: Secularization or Desecularization? The China Case
Organizers—Fenggang Yang, Purdue University, and Peter Tze Ming Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Convener—Joseph B. Tamney, Ball State University
Discussant—Richard Madsen, University of California, San Diego
Ø Spiritual Changes among Chinese Youth: Faith as Meaning-Making
Lizhu Fan, Fudan University
Ø Religious Revivals in China since the Late 1970s: A Sociological Explanation
Peter Tze Ming Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ø Secularist Ideologies and Desecularizing Reality: An Intellectual History of the Idea of Religion in Communist China
Fenggang Yang, Purdue University
Session 21: Local Congregations
Convener—James C. Cavendish, University of South Florida
Ø The Bible, Tradition, or Willow Creek: Reconfiguring Religious Authority in Local Congregations
Stephen Ellingson, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Ø Easter Morning: An Ethnographic Study of Organizational Renewal for a Liberal Protestant Church
Michael H. Montgomery, Chicago Theological Seminary
Ø Worship Strategies and Congregational Contexts
Deborah Kapp, McCormick Theological Seminary
Ø Webs of Significance: The Methodist Denomination’s Interconnections with Three Tiny Rural Missouri Churches
Karen A. Bradley, Central Missouri State University, and Robin T. Albee, University of Missouri-Columbia
Session 22: Author Meets Critics—Stephen Sharot’s A Comparative Sociology of World Religions
Organizer and Convener—William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
Panelists
Lutz Kaelber, University of Vermont
Peter Kivisto, Augustana College
Ian Markham, Hartford Seminary
Grace Davie, University of Exeter
Session 23: New Religious Movements—Conflicts and Their Resolution
Convener and Discussant—Durk H. Hak, University of Groningen
Ø A Counterproposal to Wallis’s Typology of New Religious Movements—And Problems in Typologizing Religious Groups
Yoshihiko Joshua Masuda, Sun Moon University
Ø State, Politics and Discrimination, and the Management of an Ethnoreligious Movement: The Case of the Nation of Islam in Britain
Nuri Tinaz, University of Warwick
Ø Theodicy, Distribution of Risk, and Reflexive Modernization: Exploring the Cultural Significance of New Religious Movements
Robert Campbell, University of Toronto
Friday, August 16, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
Session 24: Freedom and Control—Sexuality and Authority in the Roman Catholic Church
Convener—William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
Panelists
Andrew Walsh, Religion in the News, Trinity College
Michelle Dillon, University of New Hampshire
Mark Kowlewski, Diocese of Los Angeles
Session 25: Religion and Adolescent Life Outcomes
Organizer—Christian Smith, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Convener—Michael Emerson, Rice University
Ø Youth and Civic Education in Religious Schools
David Sikkink, University of Notre Dame
Ø Religious Influences on Adolescent Resilience and Vulnerability
Mark Regnerus, Calvin College
Ø Parental Church Attendance, Moral Expectations, Supervision, and Network Closure Effects on Adolescent Behavior
Christian Smith and Kraig Beyerlein, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ø Are American Adolescents Alienated from Religion?
Melinda Lundquist Denton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Session 26: Freedom from Soviet Control II—Central and Eastern Europe
Convener—Robert Beckley, West Texas A&M University
Ø Between Secularization and Tradition: Religiousness in Eastern Europe
Olaf Müller, European University Viadrina
Ø Church-State Relationship and Its Consequences for Religious Vitality in Post-Communist Countries
Detlef Pollack, European University Viadrina
Ø Religious Life in an Ex-State: Constraints to Religious Freedom, Extensions of Religious Freedom, and Variations of Religious Life in the Former Communist Yugoslavia, 1945-1990
Sergej Flere, University of Maribor
Ø Religion and Society in Tensions: Social and Legal Status of Religions in Croatian Transition Circumstances
Sinisa Zrinšcak, University of Zagreb
Friday, August 16, 2:30-4:15 p.m.
Session 27: Changing Patterns of Catholic Leadership
Organizer—Ruth A. Wallace, George Washington University
Convener and Discussant—John A. Coleman, Loyola Marymount University
Ø Attitudes of Priests toward Celibacy
Dean R. Hoge and Jacqueline E. Wenger, Catholic University of America
Ø Lay Leadership in Parish Life: Evidence from the National Parish Inventory
Mary L. Gautier and Mary E. Bendyna, CARA, Georgetown University
Ø Married Men in Charge of Roman Catholic Parishes
Ruth A. Wallace, George Washington University
Session 28: Marginality and Power in a De-Centered World
Organizer and Convener—Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick
Panelists
Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri
Lynn Davidman, Brown University
Marion Goldman, University of Oregon
Session 29: Author Meets Critics—Robert Montgomery’s The Lopsided Spread of Christianity
Convener—William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
Panelists
Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa
Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University
Joseph B. Tamney, Ball State University
Session 30: Religion and Rights
Convener—James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno
Ø Religion and Rights: The Illusion of Freedom and the Reality of Control
Lori G. Beaman, University of Lethbridge
Ø Global Institutions and Patterns of Religious Growth and Decline
Evelyn Bush, Cornell University
Ø Christian Praxis and Theology During the Yusin Era (1972-1979): Developing the Dialectical Approach to Social Movements
Paul Yunsik Chang, UCLA
Ø "Equal Respect, Unequal Treatment": Secularism and the Social Control of Religious Minorities in India
Badrinath Rao, Kettering University
Friday, August 16, 4:30 p.m.
ASR Business Meeting — Park East Walk
Friday, August 16, 5:30 p.m.
Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture — Park East Walk
Convener—Eileen Barker, London School of Economics
Ø Crosses of Blood: Religion, Peace, and Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Michael Sells, Haverford College
Friday, August 16, 6:30 p.m.
Paul Hanly Furfey Reception — Poolside
The Reception is cosponsored by the ASR, the ASA Sociology of Religion Section (which will present its annual awards during the Reception), the Department of Sociology of the University of Chicago, the Religion in Urban America Program—University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Youth and Religion Project—University of Illinois at Chicago.
Saturday, August 17, 7:00-8:25 a.m.
Sociology of Religion Editorial Board Breakfast
Saturday, August 17, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session 31: Religion, the Internet, and Society (Joint ASR/ASA Session) — Park East Walk
Organizers—Jeffrey K. Hadden, University of Virginia, and Lorne L. Dawson, University of Waterloo
Convener—Lorne L. Dawson Discussant—Jeffrey K. Hadden
Ø Popular Religion and the World Wide Web: A Match Made in [Cyber] Heaven
Christopher Helland, University of Toronto
Ø Religion and the Quest for Virtual Community
Lorne L. Dawson, University of Waterloo
Ø E-space and the Democratization of the Christian Countercult
Douglas Cowan, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Ø Young People, Religious Identity, and CMC
Mia Lövheim, Uppsala University
Session 32: Does Gender Make a Difference?
Convener and Discussant—Karen A. Bradley, Central Missouri State University
Ø Feminism and the Rhetoric of Change: Research Among Religious Women in the Ideological Middle
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Cornell University
Ø Mobilizing Clergy for Political Action: Does Gender Matter?
Melissa M. Deckman, Washington College, Sue S.E. Crawford, Creighton University, Laura R. Olson, Clemson University
Ø Women’s Religious Agency: Observations and Contrasts in the Lives of Indian and US Catholic Women
Laura M. Leming, University of Dayton
Session 33: Author Meets Critics—Steve Hart’s Cultural Dilemmas of Progressive Politics
Organizer and Convener—Rhys H. Williams, University of Cincinnati
Panelists
Annulla Linders, University of Cincinnati
Sharon Nepstad, Princeton University
Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri, Columbia
Richard L. Wood, University of New Mexico
Session 34: Long-term Trends in Southern Europe
Convener and Discussant—Grace Davie, University of Exeter
Ø Demonizing Freedom: The Clash Between Amoral Familism and Civic Individualism in Orthodox Greece Today
Orestis Lindermayer, World Pentecost, Athens
Ø The Legacy of Helleno-Christianity in the Construction of Modern Greece
Lina Molokotos-Liederman, GSRL/IRESCO, Paris
Ø Piety and Enlightenment in an Harmonious Relationship: Josep Vliment I Avient, Bishop of Barcelona, 1766-1775
Andrea Smidt, Ohio State University
Saturday, August 17, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session 35: Regulating Religion: Allocations of Religious Freedom in Contemporary Societies (Joint ASR/ASA) — Park East Walk
Organizer and Convener—James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno
Ø Regulating Religion in Australia: Funding Religious Schools, Anti-vilification Legislation and Post-Sept 11 Responses to Religious Diversity
Gary D. Bouma, Monash University
Ø Religious Freedom and Religious Status Allocation: The Case of the Supreme Court of Canada
Pauline Côte, Université Laval
Ø Rights Talk and Cults Talk in Africa: A Recipe for Conflict or Consensus?
Rosalind I.J. Hackett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Ø Regulating Religion in Europe: Sociological Comparisons of Selected Societies
James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno
Session 36: A Retrospective on the Life and Work of Patrick N. McNamara
Organizer and Convener—Rhys H. Williams, University of Cincinnati
Panelists
Benton Johnson, University of Oregon
Ruth A. Wallace, George Washington University
Charles E. Zech, Villanova University
Session 37: Approaches to Religion in Latin America
Convener and Discussant—Christian Smith, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ø The Presbyterian Church in Cuba between 1959 and 2001: A Dilemma Between Reformed and Liberation Theology
Robert E. Beckley, West Texas A&M University, Michael N. Miller, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Ø Church Policy, Sociopolitical Context, and Base Community Activism in Two Brazilian Dioceses
Madeleine Cousineau, Mount Ida College
Ø The Cinema and the Brazilian Issue: The Catholic Church Faces Brazilian Productions
Maria de Lourdes Beldi de Alcântara, University of São Paulo
Ø Disarming the Dream Police
Diana R. Trimble, Naropa Oakland University of Creation Spirituality
Session 38: Minority Experience in the United States
Convener—Ted G. Jelen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Ø September 11: Its Ideological Impacts on Muslim America
Kamel Ghozzi, Central Missouri State University
Ø New York’s South Asian Muslim Taxi Drivers as Religious Innovators: The Challenges of Daily Practice and Their Challenge to the Study of New Immigrant Religions
Courtney Bender, Columbia University, and Elta Smith, Harvard University
Ø "Mr. President, Why Do You Exclude Us from Your Prayers?": Hindus Challenge American Pluralism
Prema Kurien, University of Southern California
Ø Praying to the Wrong God: Changing Religious Authority in the American Condition
William H. Hardy, Tennessee State University
Saturday, August 17, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
Session 39: Conceptualizing and Measuring Catholic Identity
Organizer and Convener—John A. Coleman, Loyola Marymount University
Discussant—Richard L. Wood, University of New Mexico
Ø The Catholic Identity of Catholic Institutions: How to Measure and Conceptualize It
John A. Coleman, Loyola Marymount University
Ø Catholicism as Lived Practice
Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire
Ø Identity Among Young Catholics: Centrality, Boundaries, and Core versus Periphery
Dean R. Hoge and William V. D’Antonio, Catholic University of America
Session 40: Freedom from Soviet Control III—Russia
Convener—Grace Davie, University of Exeter
Ø Religiosity in Russia
Kimmo Kääriäinen, Research Institute of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Ø Russian Religious Culture and Post-Soviet Laws on Religion: Interinstitutional, Indigenous, and Global Factors Influencing Change
Jerry G. Pankhurst, Wittenberg University
Ø Religion’s Role in Helping Russians Cope with Post-Soviet Reforms: The Case of Russian Army Officers
Alex Bierman, University of Maryland
Ø Independent Religious Communities in Leningrad in the 1960s and 1970s
Olga V. Tchepournaya, European University at St. Petersburg
Session 41: Comparative Examples—Theory and Practice
Convener and Discussant—John H. Simpson, University of Toronto
Ø Religious Rejections of Globalization and Their Directions
Frank J. Lechner, Emory University
Ø Variations in the Distinction between Popular and Elite Religions
Robert Montgomery, Ridgewood, New Jersey
Ø Religious Socialization and Ascription-based Inequality: The Case of Japan’s Hidden Christians
Dorothea M. Filus, University of Tokyo
Session 42: Researching Emotional Data
Convener—Sharon Houseknecht, Ohio State University
Discussant—Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri
Ø Factors Associated with Successful Completion of a Treatment Program for Male Batterers Run by a Faith-based Organization
Barbara Fisher-Townsend, Saint Thomas University (Fredericton), Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick, and Nancy Murphy, Seattle, Washington
Ø Feeling Data: Emotion and Affect as Data in the Analysis of Religious Organizations
Dana Fenton, Lehman College, CUNY
Ø "Thus Said the Lord": Prophecy and the Pentecostal/Charismatic Movement
Margaret M. Poloma, University of Akron
Saturday, August 17, 2:30-4:15 p.m.
Session 43: Ascription in New Religions (Joint ASR/ASA Session) — Chicago Hilton, Continental A
Organizer and Convener—Eileen Barker, London School of Economics
Discussant—David G. Bromley, Virginia Commonwealth University
Ø Overcoming Ascriptions in New Religious Movements
J. Gordon Melton, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ø Ascription, Religion, and Popular Culture: Fiction and the Social Construction of Ascribed Religious Characteristics—A Case Study of Anti-Mormonism
Massimo Introvigne, CESNUR, Torino, Italy, and Michael W. Homer, CESNUR/USA, Salt Lake City
Ø Children, Community and Commitment: Do Kanterian Mechanisms Apply to the Second Generation?
Susan Palmer, Dawson College, Concordia University
Saturday, August 17, 4:45 p.m.
"New" Council Meeting — Essex Court
Saturday, August 17, 6:30 p.m.
Council Dinner — Windsor Court