Final Program
ASSOCIATION FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
68th ANNUAL MEETING
INTERSECTIONS: HISTORY MEETS THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION . . . AGAIN
This document contains the outline of sessions and presenters for the annual meeting along with the times of receptions, registration, etc.
5:30 – 8:15 p.m.
Executive
Council Meeting – Salon des Arts
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Registration
– Vestiaire Hospitalité
8:30 –
9:00 p.m.
Welcoming Reception – Été des Indiens
The
reception is co-sponsored by the ASR and Brill in celebration of the publication
of the second volume of the renewed “Religion and the Social Order” series, On the Road to Being There: Studies in Pilgrimage and Tourism in Late
Modernity, edited by William
H. Swatos, Jr.
8:00 a.m.
– 3:00 p.m.
Registration
– Vestiaire Hospitalité
8:30 –
10:15 a.m.
A1.
Christianity in East Asia: Sociological Perspectives
A2.
Catholic Decline and Renewal
A3.
Religious Markets and Marketing
A4.
Developments in Theory
10:30 a.m.
– 12:15 p.m.
B1. Author
Meets Critics: Kathleen Jenkins’s Awesome
Families
B2. Issues
in Islam and (Post?)Modernity
B3.
Religious and Spiritual Globalization
B4. The
Protestant Ethic Thesis
12:15 – 6:00 p.m., ASR Book Exhibit
1:00 –
2:45 p.m.
C1.
Religion and Immigration: Globalization, Institutions, Security
C2.
Religion and Public Policy: Culture Wars and Cultural Warriors
in
Western Countries
C3.
Didactic Session: Publishing Journal Articles
C4.
Religion and Science
3:00 –
4:45 p.m.
D1. New
Religions in the Province of Québec
D2. History
of American Sociology of Religion I
D3.
Religion and Youth
D4.
Religious Identities
5:00 p.m.
ASR
Presidential Address – Hospitalité
6:00–8:00
p.m.*
ASR
Presidential Reception
*Time
approximate: reception opens at the conclusion of the Presidential
Address
Friday,
August 11
7:15 –
8:30 a.m.
New
Attendees’ Welcoming Breakfast (open to preregistrants only)
8:00 a.m.
– 3:00 p.m.
Registration
– Vestiaire Hospitalité
8:15 a.m.
– 6:00 p.m.
ASR Book Exhibit
8:30 –
10:15 a.m.
E1 –
Religion and Emotions
E2 –
Gender Matters
E3 –
Denominations and Theological Concerns
10:30 a.m.
– 12:15 p.m.
F1 –
History of American Sociology of Religion II
F2 –
Aging, Healing and Well-being
F3 –
Clergy and Congregations
F4 –
Religious Ritual
12:30 –
2:15 p.m.
G1 –
Neo-Hindu Movements in the West
G2 –
Pilgrimages, Popular Culture, and Tourism
G3 –
Spiritualities and Communities in this World and the Next
G4 –
Historical and Sociological Analysis
2:30 –
4:45 p.m.
H1 –
Politics, Civil Society and Religion: Official Launching of the Journal
Sociology et Société
H2 – Immigrant Religions
H3 –
Interrogating Modes of Inquiry
H4 –
Families and Religion
5:00 p.m.
The
Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture – Hospitalité
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.*
Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture Reception
*Time
approximate: reception to open at the conclusion of the
Furfey Lecture.
Saturday,
August 12
7:15 –
8:15 a.m.
ASR
Business Meeting
8:00 a.m.
– 1:00 p.m.
Registration
– Vestiaire Hospitalité
8:15 –
10:20 a.m.
Reserve
Book Pick-up
8:30 –
10:15 a.m.
I1 – ASR/ASA
Joint Thematic Session: Crossing Boundaries—Contrasting
Religion
in Canada and the United States – Room 518A Palais de Congrès
I2 –
Critical Theory of Religion and the Critique of Rational Choice
I3 –
Economic Forces and Religious Behavior
I4 –
Politics and Religion
10:20 a.m.
– 12:30 p.m.
Final Book Sale
10:30 a.m.
– 12:15 p.m.
J1 – ASR/ASA
Joint Thematic Session: “Not Your Father’s Weekly Worship”
—Studying
Multi-Cultural Religious Congregations – Argenteuil
J2 –
Didactic Session: The Art and Craft of Researching Religion
J3 – New
Religions Past and Present
12:30 –
2:15 p.m.
K1 –
Graduate Student Mentoring Meeting (open to advance registrants only)
K2 – Islam, Politics, Culture
K3 –
Religion and the State in Canada
K4 –
Reports from the Field, Research Agendas for the Future
2:30 –
4:30 p.m.
L1 – ASR/ASA
Joint Thematic Session: Dharma Crossing
Boundaries—
Buddhist
Culture in the New World – Argenteuil
L2 –
Author Meets Critics: Kristy Nabhan-Warren’s The
Virgin of El Barrio
L3 –
North American and Western European Trends
4:45 p.m.
ASR
Executive Council
SESSIONS
Co-Organizers:
Mark R. Mullins, Sophia University, and Fenggang Yang, Purdue
University
Convener
and discussant: Graeme Lang, City University of Hong Kong
Christianity in Japan: Toward a
Sociology of Success and Failure
Mark R. Mullins, Sophia University
The “Christianization” of South
Korea: Religious and Nonreligious Factors for
Protestant Growth
Andrew Eungi Kim, Korea University
The Man Who Has Will Always Be
Given More? Winners of the Protestant
Market in Taiwan
Hsing-Kuang Chao, Tunghai University
Explaining the Growth of
Christianity in China: A Research Agenda
Fenggang
Yang, Purdue University
Convener:
Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University
Renewal Prophets and Movement of
Renewal
Don
Swenson, Mount Royal College
Faith Under Communism: Insights
into Cuban Catholicism Today
Margarita
Mooney, Princeton University
Catholic Decline and the Challenge
of Liberalism
Pierre
Hegy, Adelphi University
How Religious Institutions Enable Internal
Reform Movements: Voice of the
Faithful and the Enabling Mechanisms of the Catholic Church
Tricia Colleen Bruce, University of California, Santa Barbara
Convener and discussant: David
Yamane, Wake Forest University
The Charismatic Movement and the
Contemporary Worship Style: How Their
Impacts on Church Growth Differ between Mainline and Conservative
Congregations
Hui-Tzu
Grace Chou, Utah Valley State College
Religious Competition: A
Qualitative Study
Paul
J. Olson, Briar Cliff University
How Congregations Advertise and
Market Themselves
Steven
Frenk, Duke University and Wayne Luther Thompson,
Carthage
College
Session A4: Developments in Theory
Convener:
Richard McCarthy, Kutztown University
Religious Conversions in South
Asia: Agency and Social Bonds, Action and Structures
Sarah
Shafiq, University of Notre Dame
Joining Systems Theory and the
Sociology of Religion
Robert
Liebman and Martin Zwick, Portland State University
Beyond Identity: A Framework for
Understanding the Dynamics of Religious
Journeys
Gladys
Ganiel, Trinity College Dublin, and Claire Mitchell, Queen’s
University
Belfast
The Cutting Edge of History and the
Cutting Edge of Scholarship
Peter
Staples, University of Utrecht
Thursday, August 10, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session B1: Author Meets Critics: Kathleen
Jenkins’s Awesome Families: The
Promise of
Healing in the International Church of Christ
Organizer
and Convener: Lynn Davidman, Brown University
Mary
Jo Neitz, University of Missouri, Columbia
John Bartowski, Mississippi State University
Courtney Bender, Columbia University
Arthur Greil, Alfred University
Respondent: Kathleen Jenkins, College
of William and Mary
Session
B2: Issues in Islam and (Post?)Modernity
Convener: John H. Simpson, University
of Toronto
Orientalists,
Islamists and the Global Discourse on Islam: Shaping the Modern Image of a
Religion
Dietrich
Jung, University of Copenhagen
Utilizing a Practice Approach to the Study of
Religious Identities: A Case Study in Muslim Conversion
Daniel
A. Winchester, University of Missouri, Columbia
No Laughing Matter: The One/Twelve Cartoons that
Shook the World (Applying Durkheim to the “Clash of Civilizations”)
Edward
Tiryakian, Duke University
Session
B3: Religious and Spiritual Globalization
Convener:
Melissa Warner, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
“We’ve Always had Human
Rights”: Religious Movements and Discursive
Change in the Global Human Rights Regime
David
V. Brewington, Emory University
Emergent
Global Ethics: ReEnchantment and the Rhetoric of the Dispossessed
JoAnn
Chirico, Pennsylvania State University
When
I Survey the Cutting-Edge of History: The Rising and Falling of the Gospel of
Political Correctness in the Netherlands
Peter
Staples, University of Utrecht
On
the Conceptualization and Measurement of Religious Intolerance: Theoretical
Considerations and an Empirical Application
Vyacheslav
Karpov, Western Michigan University, Kimmo Kääriäinen,
Finnish
Church Research Institute, and Elena Lisovskaya, Western
Michigan
University
Session B4: The Protestant Ethic Thesis
Convener and discussant: Peter
Kivisto, Augustana College
The Mormon Work Ethic and the
Spirit of Capitalism
Michelle
Fether-Samtouni and Barry Goetz, Western Michigan University
Confucian Marxism and the Weberian
Thesis
Weigang
Chen, University of Vermont
Rescuing Weber: A Critique of the
Culturalist View of Protestantism and
Progress in Latin America
Madeleine
Cousineau, Mount Ida College
Thursday, August 10, 12:15-6:00 p.m.
Book
Exhibit
Please
see the insert “How the ASR Book Exhibit Works” in your
registration packet.
Thursday, August 10, 1:00-2:45 p.m.
Session
C1: Religion and Immigration: Globalization, Institutions, Security Organizer:
John H. Simpson, University of Toronto
Convener and discussant: William H.
Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
John H. Simpson, University of Toronto
William R. Garrett, St. Michael’s College
Nancy Nason-Clark, University of New Brunswick
Lori Beaman, University of Ottawa
Session
C2: Religion and Public Policy: Culture Wars and Cultural Warriors in
Western
Countries
Organizer and convener: Pauline Côté,
University of Laval
What is Religion for Americans?
T.
Jeremy Gunn, Emory University
Contemporary Manifestations of
Religion: The Example of the “Carriers” of
Diversity within Police Forces in Germany
Barbara Thériault, University of Montréal
Public
Policy towards New Religious Movements: The French Case in European Perspective
Sabrina
Pastorelli, École Pratique des Hautes Études
Images of Religion in the Policy
Process: The Case of Religious Arbitration in
Canada (Ontario)
Ronan
Teyssier, École des Hautes Études Sciences Sociales
Session
C3: Didactic Session: Publishing Journal Articles
Organizer and Convener: Charlene Chen
McGrew, University of Pennsylvania
Joy Charlton, Swarthmore College, Book Review Editor, Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion
Rhys
Williams, University of Cincinnati, Editor, Journal
for the Scientific
Study of Religion
Patricia
Wittberg, Indiana University/Purdue University–Indianapolis,
Editor,
Review of Religious Research
David
Yamane, Wake Forest University, Editor, Sociology
of Religion
Session
C4: Religion and Science
Convener:
Suzanne Fournier, Purdue University
Evangelical Alternative Science:
Parallels between Intelligent Design Theory
and
the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality
Antony
Alumkal, Iliff School of Theology
Strong Religion and the Hard
Sciences: American Muslims and Hindus and
the
Applied Sciences
Richard
Cimino, New School for Social Research
“Spiritual
but Not Religious?” Spiritual and Religious Identities among Academic
Scientists
Elaine
Howard Ecklund, SUNY Buffalo, and Elizabeth Long, Rice University
Along
the Cutting Edge of Scholarship: On Borrowing or Stealing Each Other’s
Tools
Peter
Staples, University of Utrecht
Thursday, August 10, 3:00-4:45 p.m.
Session
D1: New Religions in the Province of Québec
Organizer:
Solange Lefebvre, Université de Montréal
Convener:
Martin Geoffroy, Université de Moncton
Catholicism as Memory in a
Spiritualist Congregation
Dierdre
Meintel, Université de Montréal
The Worldwide Church of God in Québec:
A Case Study of a New Religious
Movement in a “Distinct Society”
Claude
Rochon, Université de Montréal
Muslim Discourses in the Public
Sphere in Québec
Ali
G. Dizboni, Royal Military College of Canada
When Immigrant Religious Groups
Attract Québécois Converts
Geraldine
Mossière, Université de Montréal
From Tolerance to Prohibition: The
Question of the Islamic Headscarf in
France’s and Québec’s Schools
David
Koussens, Université du Québec à Montréal
Session
D2: History of American Sociology of Religion I
Organizer and discussant: Anthony
Blasi, Tennessee State University
Convener:
William H. Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
A Sociological Analysis of Latino
Religions: The Formation of the Theoretical
Binary and Beyond
Alberto
Lopez Pulido, University of San Diego
Women, Gender and Feminism in the
Sociology of Religion: Theory, Research,
and Social Action
Nancy
Nason-Clark and Barbara Fisher-Townsend, University of New
Brunswick
The Trajectory of African-American
Studies
Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago
Session
D3: Religion and Youth
Convener: Melissa Warner, University
of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
Denominational Variations in
Spiritual Capital among American Youth, 1976-
Present: Identifying Trends from Monitoring the Future
John
Bartkowski, Xiaohe Xu, and Kristi McLeod, Mississippi State University
Religious Involvement, Race, and
Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Amy
M. Burdette, University of Texas, Austin
“Extreme” Catholicism on
College Campuses: Reclaiming or Renovating
Tradition?
Laura
M. Leming, University of Dayton
Who Goes to World Youth Day?
Richard
Rymarz, Australian Catholic University
Session
D4: Religious Identities
Convener:
Richard McCarthy, Kutztown University
Sweet Potato Latkes and Other
Southern Jewish Delicacies: Exploring the
Myriad Flavors of Jewish Identity Formation in the American South
Dana
M. Greene, Appalachian State University
Mennonite Cultures of Pacifism:
Resistance, Knowledge, and Use
Kendra
L. Yoder, University of Missouri, Columbia
Remaking Selves: Buddhist
Meditation in the Context of Late Modernity
Michal
Pagis, University of Chicago
Flexible Boundaries: Religious
Identity in the Twelve Tribes
Nicole
Saunders, Concordia University
Thursday, August 10, 5:00 p.m.
ASR
Presidential Address – Hospitalité
Convener:
N. J. Demerath III, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
Clio Goes to Church: Revisiting and Revitalizing
Historical Thinking in the Sociology of Religion
Kevin J. Christiano, University of Notre Dame
Thursday, August 10, 6:00-8:00
p.m.*
ASR
Presidential Reception
*Time approximate: reception to
open upon the conclusion of the address.
*
Friday, August 11, 7:15-8:30
a.m.
New
Attendees’ Welcoming Breakfast – Été des Indiens
Attendance by preregistration only.
Friday, August 11, 8:00
a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Registration
– Vestiare Hospitalité
Friday, August 11, 8:15
a.m.-6:00 p.m.
ASR
Book Exhibit
Friday, August 11, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session
E1: Religion and Emotions
Organizer and convener: Lynn Davidman,
Brown University
The Domestication of Fundamentalist
Masculinity: The Case of the Haredi
Nurit
Stadler, Hebrew University
Hochschild’s “Commercialization
of Feeling” Thesis: The Relevance for
Churches
Mary
Jo Neitz, University of Missouri, Columbia
The
Night the Guru Spanked Natalie Wood: Emotion and Legend at Esalen
Marion
Goldman, University of Oregon
Feeling Jesus in the Backbeat:
Music and Emotion in an Evangelical Worship
Experience
Kevin
L. McElmurry, University of Missouri, Columbia
Session
E2: Gender Matters
Convener:
Kathleen Jenkins, College of William and Mary
The
Oppositional Impact of Feminism and Religious Fundamentalism: Gendered
Variations in Ideological Processes on U.S. National Identity
Carrie
L. Alexandrowicz, Brown University
Gender, Patriarchy, and Religion in
Japan: Testing a Socialization Model of
Gender Differences in a Non-U.S. Context
Michael
Roemer and Matt Bradshaw, University of Texas, Austin
Progressive Politics, Conservative
Practices: Rethinking Gender in the Asian
American Church
Karen
L. Yonemoto, University of Southern California
Does Religion Influence Gender Role
Ideologies in Taiwan
Elisa
Jeixia Zhai and Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas, Austin
Session
E3: Denominations and Theological Concerns
Convener:
Dana Fenton, Lehman College, CUNY
How Theology Matters for
Congregants in Presbyterian Churches
Jennifer
Campbell Hackett, Princeton Theological Seminary
The Impact of Race on
Denominational Variations in Social Attitudes: The
Issue and Its Dimensions
David A.
Gay, John P. Lynxwiler, and Warren S. Goldstein, University of Central Florida
Evangelicalism as the Future of an
“Illusion”? An Evolutionary Perspective
Durk
Hak, University of Groningen
The Religious Mainline as a Non-Historiographic
Touchpoint
Yaakov
Ariel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Friday, August 11, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session
F1: History of American Sociology of Religion II
Organizer: Anthony Blasi, Tennessee
State University
Convener and discussant: William H.
Swatos, Jr., ASR/RRA Executive Office
Globalization and the Ordering of
the World: Theory and Research in North
America
John
H. Simpson, University of Toronto
The Theoretical Trajectory
D.
Paul Johnson, Texas Tech University
Early Dissertations in American
Sociology of Religion
Anthony
Blasi, Tennessee State University
Session
F2: Aging, Healing and Well-being
Convener and discussant: Robert E.
Beckley, West Texas A& M University
Social
Stratification and the Effects of Religious Involvement on Changes in the Sense
of Divine Control in Late-Life
Scott
Schieman, University of Toronto, and Alex Bierman, University
of
Maryland