Sssr 2009 Denver Paper Session Preliminary Schedule

5:30-6:30 SSSR Presidential Plenary (TBD)
6:30-7:30 SSSR Reception (TBD)

Sunday, October 25

Period I: 8:00am-9:30am
Sessions:

I-1. SSSR: Visual Engagement: Visual Methods, Engaged Scholarship, and the Sociology of Religion

Room: Crystal Cove

Organizer: Roman R. Williams, Calvin College ([e-mail])

Convener: Roman Williams, Calvin College ([e-mail])

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SSSR: Engaging Congregations Visually

Presenter: Roman Williams, Calvin College ([e-mail])

Keywords: Visual Methods, Congregational Studies, Engaged Scholarship

SSSR: Staying Alive: Pacing the Work of Ministry

Presenter: Deborah Kapp, McCormick Theological Seminary ([e-mail])

Keywords: Visual Methods, Clergy, Engaged Scholarship
SSSR: There but Not There: Picturing Religion and Family Violence

Presenter: Catherine Holtmann, University of Saskatchewan ([e-mail])

Co-Author 1: Nancy Nason-Clark, Sociology Department, University of New Brunswick

Co-Author 2: Barbara Fisher-Townsend, Sociology Department, University of New Brunswick

Keywords: Visual Methods, Domestic Violence, Engaged Scholarship
I-2. SSSR: Roundtable Discussion: The Future of Mormon Studies

Room: Copper Cove

Organizer: Kristeen Black, Drew University ([e-mail])

Convener: Bob Rees, Graduate Theological Union ([e-mail])

Discussant: Boyd Petersen, Utah Valley University ([e-mail])
*Panelists: Armand Mauss, Claremont Graduate University ([e-mail])

Patrick Mason, Claremont Graduate University ([e-mail])

Kristeen Black, Drew University ([e-mail])

Bob Rees, Graduate Theological Union ([e-mail])

Boyd Petersen, Utah Valley University ([e-mail])

I-3. SSSR: ASREC/SSSR Session #4: Religion, Economics, and Culture

Room: Grand Pacific Ballroom A

Organizer: Laurence Iannaccone, Chapman University ([e-mail])

Convener: Chris Bader, Chapman University ([e-mail])

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SSSR: Human Capital and Development: Christian Missions to Luminosity in India

Presenter: Latika Chaudhary Hartman, Naval Postgraduate School ([e-mail])

Co-Author 1: Amparo Castello-Climent, University of Valencia

Co-Author 2: Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute - Delhi

Keywords: XXX, XXX, XXX

SSSR: Going native in Japan: observing Japan's religious ambiguity

Presenter: Andrea Molle, Chapman University ([e-mail])

Keywords: XXX, XXX, XXX
SSSR: TBA

Presenter: Jerrod Anderson, UC Irvine ([e-mail])

Keywords: XXX, XXX, XXX
SSSR: LOOKING BACKWARD: A Cross-National Study of Religious Trends

Presenter: Laurence Iannaccone, Chapman University ([e-mail])

Keywords: XXX, XXX, XXX
I-4. SSSR: Author meets critics: The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050

Room: Grand Pacific Ballroom B

Organizer: Conrad Hackett, Pew Research Center ([e-mail])

Convener: Lisa Pearce, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ([e-mail])

Discussant: Conrad Hackett, Pew Research Center ([e-mail])
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SSSR: Response to Pew Research Center projections report

Presenter: David Voas, University of Essex ([e-mail])

Keywords: Demography, Religion, Critics

SSSR: Response to Pew Research Center projections report

Presenter: Donald Miller, University of Southern California ([e-mail])

Keywords: Demography, Religion, Critics
SSSR: Response to Pew Research Center projections report

Presenter: Phil Zuckerman, Pitzer College ([e-mail])

Keywords: Demography, Religion, Critics
I-5. SSSR: Muslims in the West II

Room: Grand Pacific Ballroom E

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SSSR: Thinking globally, Existing locally: Can Muslims adopt Modernity

Presenter: Farooq Hassan, NED University of Engineering & Technology ([e-mail])

Keywords: integration and borrowing, peaceful coexistence, religious identity

SSSR: Tensions betwen Old and New Muslims in a Secular Society

Presenter: Ringo Ringvee, Ministry of the Interior ([e-mail])

Keywords: Islam, Europe, religious change
SSSR: Two Disconnected Narratives of Disconnection: Anti-West and Anti-Islamic Discourses

Presenter: Gary Bouma, Monash University ([e-mail])

Keywords: Islamophobia, religious conflict, intergroup relations
SSSR: Western Islamic Thinkers and their Engagement with the Western Context

Presenter: Serhan Tanriverdi, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ([e-mail])

Keywords: islam, The West, Modernity, Challenges
I-6. SSSR: Globalization, Modernity and Indigenity

Room: Coral Cove

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SSSR: China and the Exclusive Brethren: Indigenous Christianity and Globalization in the Early 20th Century

Presenter: Daniel Jackson, BA: NYU, MA: University of Chicago ([e-mail])

Keywords: China, Christianity, indigenous

SSSR: Globalization, Islam, and Modernity in Indonesia

Presenter: whitney smitherman, Arizona State University ([e-mail])

Keywords: Islam, Modernity, Indonesia
SSSR: Leaps of globalization and collective conversion among the Chumash in South-central California

Presenter: Ella Paldam, Aarhus University, Research program for the study of religion ([e-mail])

Keywords: Indigenous revitalization, Chumash religion, Collective conversion
I-7. SSSR/RRA Joint Session: Faith and American Politics

Room: Grand Pacific Ballroom F

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SSSR: Political Regulation of Clergy Politicking in the American States

Presenter: Paul A Djupe, Denison University ([e-mail])

Keywords: religion and politics, clergy, political economy

RRA: Politicking from the Pulpit?

Presenter: Dilara Uskup, University of Chicago-PhD Candidate ([e-mail])

Co-Author 1: Dilara Uskup, University of Chicago-PhD Candidate

Keywords: African Americans, Black Liberation Theology, Sexuality

SSSR: What Religious Contexts Matter Most for U.S. Civic Engagement?

Presenter: Kraig Beyerlein, University of Notre Dame ([e-mail])

Co-Author 1: John Hipp, University of California at Irvine

Keywords: Contextual effects, Religion, Civic Engagement

I-8. SSSR/RRA Joint Session: Familial Relationships

Room: Sapphire Cove

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SSSR: Cross-Country Analysis of family and Gender Representation: Does Religion Matter?

Presenter: Yaghoob Foroutan, The University of Waikato ([e-mail])

Keywords: Cross-cultural analysis, religion, family and gender

SSSR: Religious affiliation and women's labor patterns in U.S. counties: the moderating effect of traditional family structure

Presenter: Andrew Schaefer, University of New Hampshire ([e-mail])

Keywords: religion, women and work, spatial regression
SSSR: Religious Change and Family Transmission Across Generations, 1970-2005

Presenter: Merril Silverstein, Syracuse University ([e-mail])

Co-Author 1: Vern L. Bengston, University of Southern California ([e-mail])

Keywords: Youth and generations, Social trends and generations, Families and religion

RRA: Why Religion Helps and Harms: Duality and Divergent Outcomes at the Nexus of Faith and Family Life

Presenter: David C Dollahite, Brigham Young Univ - School of Family Life ([e-mail])

Co-Author 1: Hilary Dalton, BYU

Co-Author 2: Loren D Marks, Louisiana State University

Keywords: family, qualitative methods, marriage
I-9. SSSR: Modelling, Mapping and Sampling Religions

Room: Newport Coast Salon 1

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SSSR: Initial Development and Factor Structure for a Scale to Assess the Aspects of Fowler's Model of Faith Development

Presenter: Paul Mallery, La Sierra University ([e-mail])

Co-Author 1: Suzanne Mallery, La Sierra University

Keywords: Faith Development, Scale Construction, Fowler
SSSR: Innovative Sources of Data for Studying Religion and Spirituality

Presenter: Thomas Kersen, Jackson State University ([e-mail])

Co-Author 1: Larry Bates, University of North Alabama

Co-Author 2: Richard Hudiburg, University of North Alabama

Keywords: Data Sources, Documents, Sermons
SSSR: Investigating Sources of Error in Survey Measures of Church Attendance Using Cognitive Interviews

Presenter: Philip Brenner, University of Massachusetts Boston ([e-mail])

Keywords: measurement, survey research, church attendance
SSSR: Measuring Metaphysical Religion

Presenter: Carol Ann Macgregor, Loyola University New Orleans ([e-mail])

Keywords: Spirituality, Measurement, Metaphysical Religion
I-10. SSSR/RRA Joint Session: Gender and Age in Congregations

Room: Mariner Cove

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SSSR: Organizational Resources and the Gender Gap in Congregational Lay Leadership

Presenter: Todd Ferguson, Baylor University ([e-mail])

Keywords: Gender, Congregations, Leadership

SSSR: Women Who Lead in Christian Organizations

Presenter: Amy Reynolds, WHEATON COLLEGE ([e-mail])

Keywords: gender, Christianity, nonprofit
SSSR: The Threat of Secular Manhood: mobilizing masculinities through the disciple discourse in U.S. men's ministries

Presenter: Andres Lopez, Iowa State University ([e-mail])

Keywords: mobilizing masculinities, discourse, men's ministries
RRA: Factors contributing to congregational vitality X life stage

Presenter: Linda Bobbitt, ELCA ([e-mail])

Keywords: Congregational vitality, healthy congregations, congregation
I-11. SSSR: Exclusivity, Intolerance and Like-Minded Others

Room: Newport Coast Salon 2

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SSSR: Social Network Analysis of an Interfaith Network

Presenter: Hasina Mohyuddin, Vanderbilt University ([e-mail])

Co-Author 1: Aaron Stauffer, Religions for Peace USA

Keywords: social network analysis, interfaith, homophily
SSSR: To hell with tolerance: Salvific exclusivity and political attitudes

Presenter: Youssef Chouhoud, University of Southern California ([e-mail])

Keywords: tolerance, political attitudes, religiosity
SSSR: Islamophobia in Europe: Does religious affiliation have the effect of increasing Islamophobia or does it make people more willing to accept Muslim neighbors?

Presenter: Linda Lockettt, University Nevada Las Vegas ([e-mail])

Keywords: Islamophobia, religious affiliation, public attitudes toward Muslims
I-12. SSSR: Secularism, Secularization and Pluralism

Room: Del Mar

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SSSR: Learning through the Enemy: Dialectic, Intellectual Exertion and Liberation in the Work of Two Early Indian Doxographers

Presenter: Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich ([e-mail])

Keywords: Indian, Philosophy, Doxography

SSSR: Post-Secularism and neo-liberalism: towards the i-sation of society?

Presenter: Adam Possamai, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY ([e-mail])

Keywords: Post-Secularism, Neo-Liberalism, McDonaldisation
SSSR: Secularisation Meets Comparative-Historical Sociology: Conceptualising "Separation" and "Regulation"

Presenter: Efe Peker, Simon Fraser University ([e-mail])

Keywords: Secularisation, Differentiation, State building
SSSR: Four types of (un-)belief. Results from a representative mixed methods study on religiosity, spirituality, and secularity in Switzerland

Presenter: Jörg Stolz, ORS University of Lausanne ([e-mail])

Keywords: Religiosity, Spirituality, Secularization
I-13. SSSR: The Role of Religion Post-Crisis

Room: Treasure Cove

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SSSR: Crisis, Alterity, and Mutual Recognition in Rome: an empirically-grounded psychoanalytic exploration of how interfaith methodologies temporarily alleviate crisis and foster conditions for interpersonal transformation.

Presenter: Jennifer (Jenn) Lindsay, Boston University ([e-mail])

Keywords: Interfaith dialogue, transformation, religious pluralism

SSSR: Faith in contention: examining the salience of religion in ethnic conflict

Presenter: Matthew Isaacs, Brandeis University ([e-mail])

Keywords: religious violence, ethnic conflict, religious organizations
SSSR: Post-disaster Relief and Socialization Undertaken by Christian-based Agents after the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake

Presenter: Da-Wei Hsu, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology ([e-mail])

Keywords: disaster, religious revival, conversion
SSSR: Rebuilding an Engaged Ecclesiology in the aftermath of Disaster: Japanese Evangelicals' Response to Fukushima

Presenter: Yutaka Osakabe, University of Aberdeen ([e-mail])

Keywords: Japanese Christianity, Fukushima, Habermas
I-14. SSSR: Case Studies in Chinese Faiths

Room: Sunset

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SSSR: Measuring the Meteoric Rise of a Chinese Temple Network: Yiguan Dao in the 1930s

Presenter: Joey Marshall, Purdue University ([e-mail])

Keywords: religion in China, social movements, theory

SSSR: Temple of Society: Religious Syncretism, Rituals as Social Services, and Urbanization -- A Case Study of Xiahaimiao Temple, Shanghai, China

Presenter: Yun Chen, East China Normal University ([e-mail])

Keywords: Buddhism, Syncretism, Urbanizaiton
SSSR: The Comparision of Yi-Ming God and Land God in Taiwan and Southeast Asia

Presenter: Pen-Hsuan Lin, National United University ([e-mail])

Keywords: Taiwan, Southeast Asia, worship of hero
SSSR: The Pluralization of Religious Repression? Tracing the Local Roots of Religious Persecution in China

Presenter: Ray Wang, National Chengchi University ([e-mail])

Keywords: Religious Repression, China, Spatial and Temporal Data Analysis
I-15. SSSR/RRA Joint Session: Christian Networks and Connections

Room: Laguna

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SSSR: In God We Trust: Divine Healing and Belief in a Fundamentalist Christian Church

Presenter: Lindsay Wood, University of Pennsylvania ([e-mail])

Keywords: Divine healing, Belief, Fundamentalism

RRA: Inter-Denominational Shared Knowledge: Christian Book Co-Purchase Networks

Presenter: Nathaniel Porter, Pennsyvania State University ([e-mail])

Keywords: Denominations, Social Networks, Consumption
SSSR: Social Location, New Testament Studies, and the Jesus Seminar

Presenter: Sean Everton, Naval Postgraduate School ([e-mail])

Keywords: Social Space, Bourdieu, Correspondence Analysis
SSSR: To Know and Be Known: Divine Attachments, Intimacy and Biblical Literalism

Presenter: Blake Kent, Baylor University ([e-mail])

Keywords: Attachment to God, Biblical Literalism, Gender
I-16. SSSR: Changes in Religion and Worldview: Longitudinal Perspectives

Room: Avalon

Organizer: Barbara Keller, Bielefeld University ([e-mail])

Convener: Ralph W. Hood, UT Chattanooga ( [e-mail] )

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SSSR: Changing accounts of relating to the transcendent: Faith and its Development observed over time

Presenter: Barbara Keller, Bielefeld University ([e-mail])

Keywords: Faith Development, Longitudinal, Narrative account

SSSR: Identity is Complex: On becoming a "spiritual" and "religious" "atheist"

Presenter: Thomas Coleman, UT Chattanooga ([e-mail])

Keywords: Identity, Atheism, Narrative
SSSR: Do Religious Styles and Schemata Change over Time: Results with the Religious Schema Scale

Presenter: Heinz Streib, Bielefeld Universits ([e-mail])

Co-Author 1: Constantin Klein, Bielefeld University

Keywords: Religious styles, Religious Schemata, Longitudinal analysis

SSSR: Conceptualizing relationships between faith development and mysticism: A search for causation

Presenter: Ralph W. Hood, UT Chattanooga ([e-mail])

Keywords: Mysticism, Faith development, Common core theory

Period J: 9:45am-11:15am
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J-1. SSSR: Publishing Visual Research on Religion, A Roundtable Discussion

Room: Coral Cove

Organizer: Roman R. Williams, Calvin College ([e-mail])

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SSSR: Panelist 1

Presenter: Timothy Shortell, Brooklyn College, CUNY ([e-mail])

Keywords: publishing, visual methods

SSSR: Panelist 2

Presenter: Laura R. Olson, Clemson University ([e-mail])

Keywords: visual methods, publishing
SSSR: Panelist 3

Presenter: Theo Calderara, Oxford University Press ([e-mail])

Keywords: visual research
SSSR: Panelist 4

Presenter: Alissa Jones Nelson, De Gruyter ([e-mail])

Keywords: visual research
J-2. SSSR: Engaging Justice: Pope Francis, gender-based violence and theological conservatism

Room: Copper Cove

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SSSR: Faith and the Fragility of Justice: Religious Responses to Gender-Based Violence in South Africa

Presenter: Meredith Whitnah, Westmont College ([e-mail])

Keywords: Gender, Religious and cultural change, South Africa

SSSR: Justice Seeking and "The Religious Rim": The Influence of Pope Francis

Presenter: Laura M Leming, UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON ([e-mail])

Keywords: Pope Francis, Social Justice, Marginalized Catholics
SSSR: The Differential Effects of Protestant Theological Conservatism on Female and Male Environmental Cooperation

Presenter: Brandon Martinez, Providence College ([e-mail])

Co-Author 1: Kyle Irwin, Baylor University

Keywords: Trust, Theological Conservatism, Environmental Cooperation

J-3. SSSR: Icons, Wonder and Public Representations of Memory and Tradition

Room: Crystal Cove

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SSSR: "Are All My Junior Snow Angels Here?": Making Space for Christmas at Stone Mountain

Presenter: Michael Bradley, Georgia Perimeter College ([e-mail])

Keywords: popular, religion, spatial

SSSR: The Sacralization of Collective Memory: Ethno-religious Representations and Nationalist Motifs at the Memorial at Srebrenica

Presenter: Janet L Jacobs, University of Colorado ([e-mail])

Keywords: religion, collective memory, ethnicity
SSSR: Towards a sociology of the icon

Presenter: Elena Lisovskaya, Western Michigan University ([e-mail])

Keywords: icon, religious art, women and religion
SSSR: Wonder: Lingering Source of Significance?

Presenter: Patricia Schoenrade, WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE ([e-mail])

Co-Author 1: Chelsea Garland, William Jewell College

Co-Author 2: Menghan Xiao, William Jewell College

Keywords: wonder, meaning, purpose
J-4. SSSR: Pornography and Substance Abuse: Religion as a buffer

Room: Sapphire Cove

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SSSR: Early adolescent pornography viewing and non-sexual health behaviors in late adolescence: exploring the buffering effects of religion

Presenter: Fanhao Nie, Purdue University ([e-mail])

Keywords: Porn, Health, Religion

SSSR: More than Friends and Family?: Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Religiosity on Substance Use in Emerging Adulthood

Presenter: Bob Thomson, Baylor University ([e-mail])

Keywords: emerging adulthood, substance use, differential association
SSSR: The historical and theological foundations of pornography addiction narratives within American evangelicalism

Presenter: Jeremy Thomas, Idaho State University ([e-mail])

Keywords: evangelicalism, sexuality, narrative
J-5. SSSR: Secularization: Challenges and Measurements

Room: Grand Pacific Ballroom A

Organizer: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, UNIV OF HAIFA ([e-mail])

Convener: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, UNIV OF HAIFA ([e-mail])

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SSSR: Where should we place Spirituality and the Spiritual Not -Religious Population?

Presenter: Barry Kosmin, Trinity College ([e-mail])

Keywords: spiritual, secularization, United States

SSSR: Nominal Religion: On the Road to Secularization

Presenter: Ariela Keysar, Trinity College ([e-mail])

Keywords: nominal religion, secularization, American college students
SSSR: Families, culture and the causes of religious decline

Presenter: David Voas, University of Manchester ([e-mail])

Co-Author 1: Ingrid Storm, University of Manchester

Keywords: secularization, socialization, intergenerational transmission

SSSR: Psychological theories of religion and religiosity face secularization

Presenter: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, University of Haifa ([e-mail])

Keywords: Psychological theories, Secularization, Fluctuations in religiosity
J-6. RRA: Looking for vitality within Catholic structures: from schools to the Roman Curia

Room: Grand Pacific Ballroom B

Organizer: Michael Cieslak, Diocese of Rockford ([e-mail])

Convener: Mary Gautier, CARA @ Georgetown University ([e-mail])

Discussant: Patricia Wittberg, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate ([e-mail])
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RRA: Religious Attitudes and Practices of Australian Catholic School Students

Presenter: Richard Rymarz, St Joseph's College, University of Alberta ([e-mail])

Keywords: Catholic schools, Religious practices, Australia

RRA: Measuring Church Vitality

Presenter: Thomas Gaunt, CARA @ Georgetown University ([e-mail])

Co-Author 1: Nicholas Barton, CARA @ Georgetown University

Keywords: Church vitality, Modelling, Catholic

RRA: Perverse effects: the Catholic Church and human relations.

Presenter: Fabrizio Mastrofini, Vatican Radio ([e-mail])