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Vol. 24
No.2
Summer 2001
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IN
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Annual Meeting, November 17-20, 2001, Denver, Colorado
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Presessions
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Friday,
Nov. 16, 2:00-6:30 p.m. |
Saturday,
Nov. 17, 9:00-11:30 a.m. |
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Regular
Sessions
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Saturday,
Nov. 17: 1:00-3:00 p.m. |
Monday,
Nov. 19, 1:00-3:00 p.m. |
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Presession
AM22 Friday, 2:00 pm-6:30 pm |
2:00
Panel:
Contemporary Perspectives on Dying, Death, and Bereavement
Franz Metcalf, Presiding
California State University Los Angeles
Panelists:
Lucy Bregman, Temple University
Dennis Klass, Webster University
Peter Homans, University of Chicago
4:00 Coffee break
4:30 Roundtable discussion of Religion in Film
Carrie Doehring, Presiding
Boston University School of Theology
6:30: PCR Dinner- details TBA
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Presession
AM70 Saturday
9:00 am-11:30 am |
9:00 Works in Progress
Kelley Raab, Presiding
St. Lawrence University
9:30 Theme: Boundaries, Margins, Relations
Britt-Mari Sykes, Presiding
University of Ottawa
Felicity Brock Kelcourse
Christian Theological Seminary
Discernment: The Dialogue of Self with God
Soo-Young Kwon
Graduate Theological Union
Codependence and Interdependence: Cross-Cultural Reappraisal
of Boundaries and Relationality
Lallene J. Rector
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Kohut's Twinship Self-Object Need and Issues of Difference in
Contemporary Feminist Theologies
11:00 Business Meeting
Franz Metcalf
California State University, Los Angeles
and Kelley Raab
St. Lawrence University, Presiding
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A45 Saturday
1:00 pm-3:30 pm |
Kelly Bulkeley,
Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Theme: Can We Use Evolutionary Psychology
to Study Religion?
Michael T. Bradley, Jr.
Decatur, GA
The Adapted Soul: Evolutionary Psychology and the Study
of Religion
David A. Hogue
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
A Stretch of the Imagination:Memory, Image, and the Healing
Brain
Gregory Love
Princeton Theological Seminary
Male Violence, Sin, and Evolutionary Biology
Holmes Rolston, III
Colorado State University
Adapted Fitness and Religious 'Genius'
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| A220 Monday, 1:00
pm-3:30 pm |
A. Gregory Schneider,
Pacific Union College, Presiding
Theme: Kohutian Approaches to Religion
Mary Clark Moschella
Wesley Theological Seminary
Seeing and Being Seen: Italian Catholic Devotional Piety in
San Pedro, California
Lisa M. Cataldo
Union Theological Seminary, New York City
Jesus as Substitute Self-Object: Kohutian Theory and the Life of
St. Francis of Assisi
Pamela Cooper-White
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
"I Do Not Do the Good I Want, but the Evil I Do Not Want
Is What I Do": The Concept of the Vertical Split in Self Psychology
in Relation to Christian Conceptions of Good and Evil
Thandeka
Williams College
The Split Self: A Self Psychological Approach
of Two Christian Doctrines of Human Nature
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| A45 Saturday, 1:00
pm-3:30 pm |
Kelly Bulkeley,
Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Theme: Can We Use Evolutionary Psychology
to Study Religion?
Michael T. Bradley, Jr.
Decatur, GA
The Adapted Soul: Evolutionary Psychology and the Study
of Religion
David A. Hogue
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
A Stretch of the Imagination:Memory, Image, and the Healing
Brain
Gregory Love
Princeton Theological Seminary
Male Violence, Sin, and Evolutionary Biology
Holmes Rolston, III
Colorado State University
Adapted Fitness and Religious 'Genius'
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The Psychology and Biblical Studies Section session on Monday,
Nov. 19, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM will center on psychological interpretations
of Genesis 3, including reviews of D. Andrew Kille’s Psychological
Biblical Criticism (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001) by Norman K.
Gottwald, Pacific School of Religion, Joel B. Green, Asbury Theological
Seminary, and Donald Capps, Princeton Theological Seminary. Additional
papers will be presented by Lyn Bechtel, Drew Theological School--
The Psychological Value of Disobedience in Human Maturation (Genesis
3), and Ilona N. Rashkow, State University of New York “‘And
God Said. . .’: God, Language, and Lacan.” The session on Saturday,
Nov. 17, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM will consider the theme of Psychological
Models for Biblical Criticism. Papers include investigations of
biblical texts from the perspective of cognitive psychology, object
relations and family systems theory. Brent Strawn, Emory University,
and Brad Strawn, Point Loma Nazarene University, From Petition
to Praise: An Intrapsychic Phenomenon?; Jeffrey H. Boyd, Waterbury
Hospital, Waterbury CT, The Sermon on the Mount in Cognitive
Therapy Perspective; Douglas Geyer, University of Chicago, Disavowing
the Gospel While Believing It; and Kamila Blessing, Christian
Board of Publication, Differentiation vs. Fusion in the Community
of Faith: Paul's "Definitions" in Galatians 1-2.
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| PCR Members Making Other Presentations?
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Making a presentation at a non-PCR session at the 2001 AAR/SBL
Annual Meeting? Please let us know so we can mention it in the next
issue of the newsletter. It's always interesting to see how PCR
members are infiltrating other areas of the academy!
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PCR Up for Renewal
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The Person, Culture and Religion Group is up for its periodic review
this year.
In the next month, Franz Metcalf and Kelly Raab, the current co-chairs
of PCR, will write a report in support of the group's renewal for
another five-year term. We would like to include feedback from individuals
who have attended PCR meetings to support our case. Here are some
of the criteria for renewal:
- imagination, conceptual richness, and scholarship evident in
the sessions
- extent to which constituency has been afforded an opportunity
to participate (with attention to diversity of age, race, ethnicity
and gender)
- degree of commitment to the ongoing life of the unit
- extent to which field of interest continues to reflect a major
area of interest for AAR membership
- range of appeal to AAR members whose fields of specialization
do not normally fall within the field of interest represented
by the unit
- intellectual caliber and distinction of the work carried on
by the unit
- promise of advancing the academic study of religion
I am interested in your comments in any or all of these areas
to use in the report. Please send to kraab@stlawu.edu
and to franzmetcalf@earthlink.net
(ASAP). Thank you for your time and energy—and for your support
of PCR.
Kelley Raab and Franz Metcalf, Co-Chairs
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| NEWS
FROM PCR MEMBERS |
Dan Noel (Pacifica Graduate Institute) is working on the
discourse of "belief" in historical, psychological, and
popular/media-cultural frameworks. He reports he is settling into
his new position as core faculty in Mythological Studies at Pacifica
Graduate Institute, and he recommends the following books to PCR
members: Eugene Taylor, Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality
in America (Counterpoint, 1999), which Dan will be reviewing
in Nova Religio, and Joseph de Rivera and Theodore R. Sarbin,
eds., Believed-In Imaginings: The Narrative Construction of Reality
(American Psychological Association, 1998).
Lucy Bregman (Temple University) has finished her sabbatical
leave at the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research in Minnesota.
She reports that the Institute offers scholars in and out of the
academy an opportunity to pursue their own research and writing,
within a residential setting. The definitions of "ecumenical"
and "cultural" are very broad, and the program is available
to persons at all stages of their scholarly careers (dissertation
writers and senior faculty, pastors and other professionals). The
Institute uses the facilities of St. John's University, a Benedictine-run
institution in rural Minnesota. The person to contact about IECR
is Patrick Henry, the director (Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural
Research, P.O. Box 6188, Collegeville, MN, 56321).
Greg Schneider (Pacific Union College) has written a chapter
titled "Heart Religion on the Divide" for a collection
titled "Heart Religion" in the Methodist Tradition
and Related Movements, to be published by Scarecrow Press later
this year. Greg's chapter is on the religious affections in the
Wesleyan Holiness movement in America. The chapter incorporates
some elements from his paper on Phoebe Palmer which he presented
at a PCR session in 1997 on cultural psychology. Greg has also written
the article on "Methodism" for the Oxford Companion
to American History which is to be published this fall.
Dan Merkur (University of Toronto) has recently published
a new book titled, Unconscious Wisdom: A Superego Function in
Dreams, Conscience, and Inspiration, from State University of
New York Press.
Jack Hanford (Ferris State University) expects his book,
Bioethics from a Faith Perspective (Haworth) to be available
in the fall of this year. The book is the result of teaching Biomedical
Ethics during the last three decades. PCR members will be especially
interested in the first half of the book, which updates research
in moral and faith development culminating in the work by James
Fowler, Clarence Snelling and his colleagues at Iliff School of
Theology, and research at the University of Minnesota. The second
half of the book includes chapters on organ donation, managed care,
genetics, and professional development of health practitioners and
pastors. Ken Vaux of Garrett Theological Seminary and Northwestern
University wrote the Foreword to the book, and Harold Koenig of
Duke Medical School added support as the senior editor.
Several PCR members were part of a session in May on "Recent
Publications in the Psychology of Religion" held at the Graduate
Theological Union in Berkeley. Diane Jonte-Pace and William
Parsons discussed their recent book Religion and Psychology:
Mapping the Terrain (Routledge Press 2001), Kelly Bulkeley
spoke about his Transforming Dreams (Wiley 2000), and D. Andrew
Kille presented his Psychological Biblical Criticism
(Fortress Press 2001). Respondents included Lew Rambo and
Greg Schneider.
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| Welcome to New PCR Member |
Charles Davidson (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary)
is a new member of PCR and a pastoral counselor in Daytona, Florida.
He will soon be joining Pastoral Counseling Services of Central
Virginia as a staff therapist, in addition to serving as the pastor
of a Presbyterian congregation. He is a candidate for the Doctor
of Ministry in pastoral counseling and psychotherapy at Garrett-Evangelical
Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, with a particular interest
in the relationship between Self Psychology, theological anthropology,
and religious experience. His most recent publications include "A
Theory of Natural Change Revisited: Theology, Psychology, and Pastoral
Counseling," Pastoral Psychology 47:6 (1999), and "Vincent
van Gogh, Son of the Manse: A Portrait in Self Psychology,"
Pastoral Psychology 45:3 (1997). The latter was given as
an illustrated narrative presentation at the 1997 meeting of the
American Association of Pastoral Counselors. Welcome, Charles!
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| Ideas for PCR Sessions in 2002?
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As many but perhaps not all PCR members know, the basic outline
of each year's PCR program is created by the steering committee
at the preceding year's conference. So, if you have suggestions
for PCR themes, topics, and issues to be considered at the 2002
AAR/SBL Annual Meeting (to be held November 23-26 in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada), please contact the steering committee co-chairs Franz
Metcalf and Kelley Raab.
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| Feedback on the 2000 AAR/SBL
Annual Meeting in Nashville |
AAR administrators conducted a post-meeting survey of members to
gauge their satisfaction with various aspects of the 2000 gathering
in Nashville. Some of the highlights of this survey are the following:
- Attendees were most pleased with the exhibit facilities (88%
either satisfied or very satisfied), the quality of the sessions
(85%), the opportunities for networking (87%), and the meeting
room space (83%).
- Attendees were least happy with the hotel facilities (46% either
dissatisfied or very dissatisfied) and especially the availability
of food (77%).
- More than half the respondents to the survey (52%) did not
make use of the plenary sessions.
From this PCR member's perspective, the only surprise is the high
satisfaction with the meeting room space. Many PCR sessions over
the past few years have been scheduled for rooms that ended up being
far too small for the total number of people who wanted to attend.
Many people have left PCR sessions early or not even tried to squeeze
into the room because of this. Perhaps more complaining by the PCR
steering committee to the AAR powers-that-be is in order!
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| Call for Papers: Dream Conference
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Nancy Grace (The Association for the Study of Dreams) is co-hosting
the 2002 ASD conference at Tufts University, June 15-19. The theme
of the conference is "Dreams and Cultures," and especially
welcome are proposals that address ways in which dreaming is interwoven
with culture, including cross-cultural studies of dreaming, effects
of dreams on cultures, and effects of culture on dream content.
For more information contact Nancy at ngrace@bcn.net.
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| PCR Online: |
There are currently 82 members of PCR-List, our online e-mail
discussion group. In the archives one can find responses to papers
presented at the Annual Meeting, resources for international communication
regarding issues of concern to PCR folks, and calls for reviewers.
If you have not taken advantage of this resource, we invite you
to join up.
Don’t forget to check the Person, Culture and Religion Website
at http://home.att.net/~pcr-aar. Copies
of the papers for the PCR sessions will be posted online at the
website prior to the Annual Meeting.
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| Conference of the International
Association for the Psychology of Religion |
The 2001 Conference of the International Association for the Psychology
of Religion will be held in Soesterberg, the Netherlands, from September
28-30. Organized in large part by Jacob Belzen, the gathering
will include presentations by several PCR members, among them Kelley
Raab, Soo-Young Kwon, Ralph Hood, Valerie DeMarinis, Naomi Goldenberg,
Dan Merkur, and Britt-Mari Sykes.
Plenary Sessions will include How Can Psychology Cope with Religion?
Theoretical, Methodological and Clinical Issues, A. Vergote
(Belgium), respondent: R.W. Hood Jr. (USA); God Help Me: Advances
in the Psychology of Religion and Coping, speaker: K. Pargament
(USA), respondent: S. Murken (Germany); and
Religion and Coping: The Adventures of Psychotherapy in a Multi-Faith
Society, speaker: K.M. Loewenthal (UK), respondent: T.H. Zock
(The Netherlands).
Papers to be presented include the following:
Coping & Religion
Hans Alma (Leiden University) & Marinus van Uden (Catholic
University, Nijmegen) Pargament's Religious Coping Scales
in the Netherlands: Findings, Problems and Possible Solutions
Leonard M. Hummel (Vanderbilt University, Nashville) Kind
of Religious Coping: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Consolation
in the Lutheran Tradition
Dirk Hutsebaut (Catholic University, Louvain) Theodicy
Models, Religious Coping Strategies, Self-Image and Post Critical
Belief. An Empirical Study on a Sample of Dutch Speaking Belgians
Valerie DeMarinis (Uppsala University) Religio-Cultural
Strategies in the Coping Systems of Bosnian Female Refugees in Sweden
Hasan Kaplan (Syracuse University, NY) Coping with Religion:
The Case of the Turkish Earthquake
Valburga Schmiedt Streck (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos,
Sao Leopoldo) The Construction of New Identities in a Pluralistic
Context.
MarieAnne Ekedahl (Uppsala University) A Hospital Chaplain's
Coping Strategies in Work-Related Stress
Ruard Ganzevoort & Alexander L. Veerman (Theological University,
Kampen) Communities Coping with Collective Trauma
Peter C. Hill (presenting author), Kevin S. Seybold, & Gary
L. Welton (Grove City College) Factors that Influence Interpersonal
Forgiveness in the Context of Religious Understandings
Studies on Religious Coping by Patients
Jos Pieper (Theological Faculty, Utrecht) Religious Coping
of Highly Religious Psychiatric Inpatients
J. Schaap- Jonker & P.J. Verhagen, (Meerkanten Mental Health
Institution, Harderwijk) Image of God and Psychopathology.
An Exploratory Study Among Psychiatric Patients
Tor Torbjørnsen, (Norwegian Lutheran School of Theology,
Oslo) God help me! A Norwegian Sample. Religious Coping in
18 Norwegian Cancer Survivors
Studies in Children's Coping
Christopher Alan Lewis (University of Ulster at Magee College)
The Social and Political Attitudes of the Children of the
"Troubles": Coping with the Religious Difference that
Divides Northern Ireland
Geoffrey Scobie (University of Glasgow) Childrens Understanding
of Forgiveness
Mario Aletti (Catholic University of Milan) Coping with
Religion: From a Psychic Representation to a Personal Attitude towards
God
Prayer Studies
Jacques A. P. J. Janssen (Catholic University, Nijmegen) The
Structure and Variety of Prayer. A Theoretical and Empirical Study
Barbara Roukema (Theological University, Kampen) Orienting
the Self in Life through Prayer. Discussion of some of the Psychological
Mechanisms by which Relating to God, on a More Subconscious Level
Do Shape the General Meaning System
Oliva Wiebel-Fanderl (Passau) Christian Storytelling
Patterns as Coping Strategies. The History of Christian Culture
as an Alternative for Hearttransplant Patients from 1993 to 1999
Methodological Issues
Douglas S. Hardy, (Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy MA) Radical
Reductionism in the Psychological Study of Religion: Prospects for
an Alternative Critical Methodology
Stefan Huber (University of Fribourg) Allport oder Glock?
Allport or Glock ? Choose Both! - A Synthesis of Two Competing Models
Underlying the Measurement of Religiosity
Naomi R. Goldenberg (University of Ottowa) Coping with
the Religious Roots of Psychological Discourse: How Secular Theorists
Might Come to Terms with an Embarrassing Ancestry
Symposion on Stage Theories of Religious Development
Fritz Oser & Dominik Schenker (University of Fribourg),
Anton Bucher (University of Salzburg), Helmut Reich (University
of Fribourg), Heinz Streib (Universität Bielefeld) 20
Years of Fowler's and Oser/Gmünder's Stage Theories: Developments
in Theory and Research & Perspectives for the Future
Fritz K. Oser (University of Fribourg), Reto Luzius Fetz (University
of Eichstätt), K. Helmut Reich (University of Fribourg), &
Peter Valentin (University of Bern) Religious Judgement and
Religious World View: Theoretical Relationship and Empirical Findings
Conversion Studies
Ulrike Popp-Baier (University of Amsterdam) Religious
Conversion - Coping Process or Rational Choice?
Rein Nauta (Tilburg Faculty of Theology) Religion as
Escape - Augustine's Conversion to Christianity
Dan Merkur (University of Toronto) Spiritual Emergency
or Transference Neurosis
Psychoanalytic Studies
Harriet Lutzky (University of Paris X) Desire as a Constitutive
Element of the Sacred
Soo-Young Kwon (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley) Mental
God-Representation Reconsidered: Integrating Private and
Collective Representations from A Psychoanalytic-Anthropological
Perspective
Kelley A. Raab (Saint Lawrence University, Canton, New York)
Mysticism, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Learning from
Marion Milner
Culture and the Psychology of Religion
Vassilis Saroglou (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Religious Differences vs. Trans-Cultural
Constants in Psychological Aspects of Religion
Nima Ghorbani (Center of psychological Services for Managers,
Teheran), P. J. Watson (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga),
Ahad Framarz Ghramaleki (University of Teheran), Mark N. Bing (University
of Tennessee at Chattanooga), Kristl Davison (University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga) Religion and Inner Awareness: Cross-Cultural
Analysis of Religious Orientation, Attention to Self, and Mental
Health in Iran and the United States
Susanne Heine (University of Vienna) Hidden Images. Premises
in Scientific Research as a Methodological Problem
Religion, Meaning and Self
Eva Nanitová & Júlia Halamová (Comenius
University, Bratislava) Personal Relationships as Determinants
of Creating Self in the Religious Groups
Peter Halama (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava) Religiosity
and Life Meaningfulness
Britt-Mari Sykes (University of Ottawa) Psychology and
Religion or Psychology as Religion: Viktor E. Frankl's Logotherapy
Impact of Environmental Change on Religious Attitudes
Jonas Eek (Lund University) Effects of Intense Liturgical
Participation. A Pre- and Posttest Comparison of Intrinsic Religious
Attitude Change following Taizé Pilgrimage
Lucia Adamovova (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava) Implicit
Theories of Religious Fundamentalism in Slovakia
K. Krishna Mohan (India) Effects of Spiritual Experiences
on Health and Well-Being: An Explorative Study
Various Non-Psychological Studies
Norbert Adamov, (Slovak Akademy of Sciences, Bratislava) Requiem
_ Religious Message About Fear of Mortality
Tina Hamrin-Dahl (Stockholm University) New Japanese
Religions as a Shelter for Immigrant Women in EU
Karin Jironet (LISOR, Leiden) Integration of the Sufi
Movement into the Dutch Society
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