Sssr/rra annual Meeting 2007 preliminary program thursday, November 1


E-5 Global Growth of Mormons, Witnesses, and Adventists [SSSR/MSSA]



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E-5 Global Growth of Mormons, Witnesses, and Adventists [SSSR/MSSA]


Garrison II

Organizers and Conveners

Henri Gooren, Utrecht University, h.p.p.gooren@theo.uu.nl

Rick Phillips, University of North Florida, richard.phillips@unf.edu
International Stagnation: Declining Mormon Growth Rates and Secularization’

Ryan Cragun, University of Tampa ryantcragun@gmail.com


Mormon Dilemmas in Nicaragua’

Henri Gooren, Utrecht University, h.p.p.gooren@theo.uu.nl


On the Political Economy of Mormon Growth’

David C. Knowlton, Utah Valley State College, knowltda@uvsc.edu


Comparing Further the Global Growth-Rates and Distributions of Adventists, Mormons, and Witnesses’

Ronald Lawson, Queens College CUNY, ronaldlawson1@verizon.net



E-6 Psychological Types [SSSR]

Garrison III

Convener

Scott Forrest Grover, Fuller Theological Seminary, sf_grover@cp.fuller.edu


Mystical orientation and psychological type: an empirical study among guests staying at a Benedictine Abbey’

Leslie J. Francis, University of Wales, l.j.francis@bangor.ac.uk


Psychological profiling of Anglican clergy in England: employing Jungian typology to interpret diversity, strengths, and potential weaknesses in ministry’

Mandy Robbins, University of Wales, m.robbins@bangor.ac.uk


Church tradition and psychological type preferences among Anglicans in England’

Andrew Village, University of Wales, a.village@bangor.ac.uk



E-7 Religion and Rational Choice # 2 [SSSR/ASREC]

Esplanade I
Greek Blood Sacrifice as Economic Regulation Hunt’

John Rundin, University of California - Davis, jsrundin@ucdavis.edu


Religious Cognition, Prisoner’s Dilemmas and The Stag Hunt’

Joseph Bulbulia,Victoria University of Wellington, joseph.bulbulia@vuw.ac.nz


Ambiguity and Religious Markets (or Religious Market Structure with Endogenous Beliefs)’

Zsolt Becsi, Southern Illinois University, becsi@siu.edu


TBA’

Azim Shariff, University of British Columbia, azim@psych.ubc.ca



E-8 Religious Firms and Markets [ASREC]

Esplanade II
Market Size, Market Structure, and Competition: Local Religious Markets in Nineteenth Century Scotland
Robert I. Mochrie,Heriot-Watt University, r.I.mochrie@hw.ac.uk

John W. Sawkins, Heriot-Watt University,

Alexander U. Naumov, Heriot-Watt University
Free Riding, Market Structure, and Member Commitment in South Carolina Churches
Brooks B. Hull,University of Michigan-Dearborn, bhull@umd.umich.edu

Jody Lipford, Presbyterian College, jlipford@mail.presby.edu


Performance Incentives and Contracts for Clergy Labor
Becky Rosalius Haney,Oklahoma City University, bhaney@okcu.edu
A Model of Religious Investment to Explain the Success of “Megachurches”
Marc von der Ruhr,St. Norbert College, marc.von-der-ruhr@snc.edu

Joseph P. Daniels, Marquette University,



E-9 Religion, History, and Economic Development [ASREC]

Esplanade III
How the Medieval Church Fostered Cooperation, Built Institutions, and Contributed to the Economic Ascent of Western Europe
Charles North, Baylor University, charles_North@baylor.edu

Carl Gwin, Pepperdine University, carl.gwin@pepperdine.edu


The Afterlife as a Disciplinary Device: On Purgatory and the Credibility of Postmortem Prayers in Chantries
Michael McBride, University of California-Irvine, mcbride@uci.edu

Gary Richardson, University of California-Irvine, garyr@uci.edu


Religion and Economic Development: Weber was Right!
Robert Subrick, James Madison University, jsubrick@gmu.edu
Cultural Transformations and “Islamic Capitalism” in Malaysia from 1971 to the Present
Ermin Sinanovic,United States Naval Academy, sinanovi@usna.edu

E-10 The New Organizational Ties that Bind [RRA]

Regency V

Networking Across Denominations in the Multicultural/Multiethnic Church Movement’

Kathleen Garces-Foley, Marymount University, garces.foley@marymount.edu
Multi-Site Church Overview: The Movement of Becoming One Church in Many Locations’

Warren Bird, Leadership Network, Warren.Bird@leadnet.org



Nondenominational Meets the “New Paradigm”: Black and White Church Characteristics’


Jacqueline Wenger, The Catholic University of America, jackie_w@comcast.net

Growing Up and Leaving Home: Megachurches That Depart Denominations’

Scott Thumma, Hartford Institute for Religion Research, sthumma@hartsem.edu


Adair Lummis, Hartford Institute for Religion Research, alummis@hartsem.edu  

E-11 Denomination Identity Issues [RRA]

Regency VII
Congregational Types and Pentecostal Identity within the Assemblies of God’

Margaret M. Poloma, The University of Akron, mpoloma@uakron.edu

John C. Green, The University of Akron, green@uakron.edu
Archetypes and the American Baptist Churches

C. Jeff Woods, Associate General Secretary, ABCUSA, Jeff.Woods@abc-usa.org


Continuity and change in a historic Anabaptist denomination: Church Member Profile 2006’

Ronald Burwell, Department of Sociology, Messiah College, rburwell@messiah.edu




Denominational Identity in the Church of the Nazarene’


Mark Mountain, Executive Pastor, West Flint Church of the Nazarene, themountains@comcast.net

SATURDAY MORNING, 10:15-11:45
F-1 Special Thematic Session: Comparative Studies of Religion and Immigrant Incorporation [SSSR]

Regency V

Organizer and Chair

R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at Chicago, rswarner@uic.edu


Reconstructing Religions, Constructing Religious Pluralism: Evidence from Recent Second Generation Immigrants to Canada’

Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa, pbeyer@uottowa.ca


Islam and Immigration in Europe and in the United States: Discussion of the Congregational Model’

Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard University, jcesari@fas.harvard.edu


Faith Makes Us Live but Misery Divides Us: Haitian Catholics in Miami, Montreal and Paris,’

Margarita Mooney, University of North Carolina, margarita7@unc.edu


Immigrant Religions in New York: A Comparative-Historical Perspective’

José Casanova, New School for Social Research, Casanova@newschool.edu



F-2 Author Meets Critics [SSSR]

Regency VI

Faith in the Halls of Power by Michael Lindsay, OUP, Sept 2007
Organizer and Chair

Elaine Howard Ecklund, University at Buffalo, ehe@buffalo.edu



Panel Critics
W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia, wbw7q@virginia.edu

Don Miller, University of Southern California, demiller@usc.edu


John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State University, jschmalzbauer@missouristate.edu
Nancy Ammerman, Boston University, nta@bu.edu
Response

Michael Lindsay, Rice University, mlindsay@rice.edu



F-3 Reviews of Theory and Research [SSSR]

Garrison I

Convener

Kevin Christiano, University of Notre Dame, Kevin.J.Christiano.1@nd.edu


The Work of Rodney Stark: An Updated Review of Research over the Last Two Decades’

William R. Garrett, Saint Michael’s College, wgarrett@smcvt.edu


Faith Development Theory: A Review of the Empirical Research’

Stephen Parker, Ph.D., Regent University, steppar@regent.edu


Church-Sect Theory: A Dialectical Conflict Approach’

Warren S. Goldstein, University of Central Florida, wgoldste@mail.ucf.edu


The theological bases of the sociology of religion: Max Weber and the Hebrew roots of western rationalism’

Renan Springer de Freitas, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, springer@netuno.lcc.ufmg.br



F-4 Religion and Social Movements [SSSR]

Garrison II

Convener

Steve Offutt, Boston University soffut_1999@yahoo.com


Prophetic Leaders and How They Empower Their Congregations’

Kristeen L. Black., Drew University, Kblack@drew.edu


The Great Catholic Awakening: Rerum Novarum and the Origins of Catholic Social Action’

Christopher Pieper, University of Texas, Austin, cpieper@earthlink.net


Mahavira, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.: An Examination of the Jaina Influence on the United States’ Civil Rights Movement’

Tim Helton, Drew University, tim@timhelton.com




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