Marriott University Park Hotel, Salt Lake City

12.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.	Registration
1.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.	Field Visit: Salt Lake City and the Latter-day Saints
5.00 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.	Opening Plenary Session Chair: Michael W. Homer Welcome Addresses by Local Dignitaries
6.30 p.m.	Reception - sponsored by ABC-Clio

 

Brigham Young University Law School, Provo
A courtesy bus will take participants to Provo from Salt Lake City and back. Bus leaves at 8:15 a.m. from the Marriott University Park Hotel.

9.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.	Plenary: When NRMs Cease to be "New": Emergence of Traditions Chair: Massimo Introvigne Richard L. Bushman (Columbia University) Eileen Barker (London School of Economics) Jan Shipps (University of Indiana)
11.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m.	Break
11.30 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.	Parallel Sessions 1 1A. Theosophy and Esotericism Chair: James Santucci Visiting Blatvatsky: William Butler Yeats’ Theosophical Odyssey Jerry Hejka-Ekins (Alexandria West) The Use of the Principle of Correspondence in the Golden Dawn James B. Robinson (University of Northern Iowa) Emmanuel Swedenborg’s Theory of Mind Jane Williams-Hogan (Bryn Athyn College) Notes on the Esoteric Paradigm PierLuigi Zoccatelli (CESNUR) 1B. Perspectives on Islam Chair: James Toronto New Religious Communities in Egypt Johanna Pink (Ph.D. candidate, University of Bonn) 1C. LDS Experiences Chair: Kif Augustine-Adams The Reactions of French Members of the Latter-day Saints to the Question: As French Members How Do You Relate to the American Qualities of Your church? Bernadette Rigal-Cellard (Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux) The Experience of Latter-day Saint Servicemen in the Vietnam War Mary Jane Woodger (Brigham Young University) Saving Everyone That Wants It: Universalism and Exclusionism in LDS Theology and Practice Randall Paul (Foundation for Interreligious Diplomacy) 1D. Religions in the Baltics Chair: Jean-François Mayer Religious Life in the Post-Secular Space: The Case of Visaginas Milda Alisauskiene (Vilnius University Religion Research and Study Centre) New Religions in Latvia: The Way Towards the Recognition Nikandrs Gills (University of Latvia) A Neo Buddhist "White Lotus" Movement in Ukraine and Lithuania Donatas Glodenis (New Religions Research & Information Center, Lithuania) Bridge Over National Preconceptions: The Baha’i Movement in Latvia Towards a New Multicultural Identity Formation Solveiga Krumina-Konkova (University of Latvia) 1E. Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives Chair: Gerald R. Williams Research on Religion and Physical and Mental Health P. Scott Richards (Brigham Young University) Simone Weil: Kenotic Thought and the "Sainteté Nouvelle" J. Edgar Bauer (University of Edinburgh) Identifying Religious Confessional Policies that Influence the Incidence of Psychosexual Shame Youth Suicide Mark Kim Malan (Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality) From the Secularisation of the Sacred to the Santification of the Secular - Charismatic Authority and "Authoritative Other" in Psychoanalytic Discourse Katayoun Tamara Medhat (Psychoanalytic psychotherapist) 1F. Religious Minorities in Post-Soviet Countries Chair: Elizabeth Clark Krishna Devotees in Russia Boris Falikov (Russian State University of Humanities) Freedom of Religious Minorities in Post-Soviet States: What Are the Courts Saying? Experience of Jehovah’s Witnesses Drew Holiner (Attorney-at-law) The Impact of Judicial Decisions on the Development of Minority Religions in Russia Mikhail Kouzmitchev (Lawyer,Freedom of Conscience Society, Moscow) Religious Freedom in Russia: Some New Developments Galina Krylova (Attorney-ay-law) and James T. Richardson (University of Nevada, Reno) 1G. The Changing Religious Situation in China Chair: Constance Jones Panelists: Qi Duan and Liuer Wang (Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing), J. Gordon Melton (Institute for the Study of American Religion, Santa Barbara, California)
1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.	Lunch - sponsored by BYU Studies Publishing and NRMs Jack Welch (editor, BYU Studies)
2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.	Plenary: Issues in the International Protection of Religious Freedom and Minority Religions Chair: Brett G. Scharffs International Protection of Religious Freedom at the Level of Regional Organizations W. Cole Durham, Jr. (Brigham Young University) The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and International Protection of Religious Rights: The Examples of France and Belgium Tad Stahnke (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom) Human Rights, Religious Liberty, and Minority Faiths: The NGO Perspective Joseph K. Grieboski (Institute on Religion and Public Policy)
3.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.	Break
4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.	Parallel Sessions 2 2A. Esoteric and Social Perspectives Chair: Jane Williams-Hogan From Matter-Man to Light-Man: Myth or Reality? Pierre Gohar (Voulon, France) Biotechnologies: Popular Debate and Religious Inner Breaking Sylvain Imbs (Meudon, France) Disarming the Dream Police: The Case of the Santo Daime Diana R. Trimble (Petaluma, California) 2B. Religious Minorities in Europe and in India Chair: Nikandrs Gills Minority Religions, Social Change, and Freedom of Conscience Dionisio Llamazares Fernandez (Complutense University, Madrid) Religious Freedom in Greece: Recent Developments George Mavros (attorney-at-law, Greece) Religious Minorities in Spain: A New Model of Relationships? Alejandro Torres Gutierrez (Complutense University, Madrid) Religious Minorities under Hindu Hegemony: The Tragic Tale of Secularism in India Badrinath Rao (Kettering University, Flint, Michigan) 2C. Religious Freedom Issues Chair: W. Cole Durham, Jr. Total Freedom of Conscience: What Happens When There Are No Rules At All? Timothy Miller (University of Kansas) Violence Against Christians J.G. Orban de Lengyelfalva (Aid to Church in Need) Religious Diversity and Social Order David H. Moore (University of Chicago Law School) 2D. Religions in Latin America and the Caribbean Chair: Susan Palmer Women in Movement: Religious Pluralism in Brazil and Women’s Religious Creativity Sandra Duarte (Universidade Methodista de Sao Paulo) Calling Rastafari: From Regional Cult to Global Religion Stephen D. Glazier (University of Nebraska) Strategies, Rules and Alliances Among the Minority Religious Groups in Aquascalientes Genaro Zalpa (Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico)  2E. Change in New Religious Movements Chair: Donatas Glodenis Legal Imbroglios and the Post-Charismatic Fate of the Celestial Church of Christ Afe Adogame (University of Bayreuth, Germany) From Divine Light Mission to Elan Vital: An Exploration of Change and Adaptation Ron Geaves (Chester College, UK) Religion and the Internet Jean-Francois Mayer (University of Fribourg) Family, Religious Authority, and Change in the Hare Krishna Movement E. Burke Rochford, Jr., (Middlebury College) 2F. Mormonism in Italy Chair: PierLuigi Zoccatelli Mormonism in Italy: The Political, Social, and Religious Environment in the Nineteenth Century Michael W. Homer (Attorney-at-law, Salt Lake City) 100 Years of Solitude: Mormonism in Italy, 1865-1965 Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young University) The LDS Church in Italy After 1965: Patterns of Conversion, Growth, and Adaptation Among Italian Mormons James A. Toronto (Brigham Young University) Respondent: Madison Sowell (Brigham Young University) 2G. Religious Minorities and Religious Freedom in the U.S. Chair: Frederick M. Gedicks Religious Minorities and Charitable Choice Derek Davis (J. M. Dawson Institute for Church-State Studies) Legal Controversies Over "Deprogramming" Lee Boothby (International Commission for Freedom of Conscience)
7.00 p.m.	Banquet - Alta Club, Salt Lake City Jeff Hadden and the Sociology of New Religious Movements Presiding and Introducing: J. Gordon Melton, Massimo Introvigne Panelists: James T. Richardson, David G. Bromley, Eileen Barker. Respondent: Jeff Hadden.

Saturday, June 22, 2002

University of Utah, Salt Lake City

9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.	Plenary: Violence and New Religious Movements Presiding and Introducing: J. Gordon Melton Greg Saathoff, (FBI Critical Incident Response Group) Catherine Wessinger ( Loyola University, New Orleans) David G. Bromley ( Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA) Jean-Francois Mayer (University of Fribourg)
10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.	Break
11.00 a.m. - 12.30 a.m.	Parallel Session 3 3A. Magic and Neo-Paganism Chair: Valter Jones Dark Magic and Strategies of Epistemology: Discursive Strategies in Constructing Worldviews Kennet Granholm (Abo Akademi University, Finland) Paganism: A Problematic Umbrella Term Frederic Emmanuel Lamond (independent lecturer and author) 3B. Polygamy Controversies: Utah and the Saints Chair: Reender Kranenborg Panelists: George D. Smith (Smith Research Associates); B. Carmon Hardy (California State University, Fullerton); Martha Bradley (University of Utah); Michael W. Homer (attorney-at-law, Salt Lake City, Utah) 3C. Democracy, Minorities and the French Case Chair: Bernadette Rigal-Cellard France’s Anti-Sect War: Voices From the Trenches (NRMs’ Strategical Responses to Persecution) Susan Palmer (Dawson College, Montreal) No Good Sects in France: Social and Political Implications of the Picard Law Stuart A. Wright (Lamar University, USA) The Philippe Sauvage Political Asylum Case: Religious Persecution in France and the United States Jane Dillon (sociologist, Cardiff, California) 3D. The Christian Counter-Cult Movement Chair: Timothy Miller Reflections on Louisville: The Countercult in Conversation Douglas E. Cowan (University of Missouri-Kansas, USA) After Walter Martin: Self-Consciousness in Ministry to New Religions J. Gordon Melton (Institute for the Study of American Religion) 3E. The Family 1992-2002: The Decade of Transition Chair: Eileen Barker "The Endtime Family" by William S. Bainbridge - A Review with Comments Eileen Barker (London School of Economics) The Family in Transition: The Moral Career of a New Religious Movement Gary Shepherd (Oakland University, Detroit)- Gordon Shepherd (University of Central Arkansas) The Personality & Religiousness of Youth Members in The Family Douglas Sell (Beatrice State Developmental Center, Nebraska) Response by a representative of The Family
12.30 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.	Lunch
1.30 p.m. - 3.00 p.m.	Plenary: Brainwashing Claims and New Religious Movements Chair: Eileen Barker Massimo Introvigne (CESNUR) Dick Anthony (Forensic Psychologist) James T. Richardson (University of Nevada at Reno)
3.00 p.m.- 3.30 p.m.	Break
3.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.	Parallel Sessions 4 4A. Satanism and Other Controversial Movements Chair: Martha Bradley Religionizing Crime: Ethos and Action in the Construction of the Finnish Satanism Scare Titus Hjelm (University of Helsinki) The Satanic Bible James R. Lewis (University of Wisconsin) Fifteen Years of Research on the Unarius Academy of Science, a Millenarian Psychotherapy and UFO Group Diana Tumminia (California State University) and R.George Kirkpatrick (San Diego State University) 4B. American-Born Religions Chair: Massimo Introvigne New Light, Conscience, and Jehovah’s Witnesses George Chryssides (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Free Love in Utopia: How Complex Marriage Was Introduced in the Oneida Community Larry Foster (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Freemasonry and 19th Century Mormonism Michael Homer 4C. Voices From the Field: NRMs and Religious Freedom Issues Chair: Stuart A. Wright Panelists: Dan Fefferman (International Coalition for Religious Freedom); Krishnapriya Hutner (Kashi Community); Jean Swantko (Attorney-at-law); Martin Weightman (Church of Scientology); Dominique Kounkou (Council of Christian Communities of African Expression in Europe); Sheng Mei (Salt Lake City, Utah) 4D. New Christian Movements Chair: Greg Thompson The Experience of Some Members of the El Shaddai DWXI-PPFI: A Phenomenological Approach Esmerelda Fortunado-Sanchez (University of Santo Thomas, Philippines) The Gay Christian Movement: Rights, Mobilisation and Resistance Stephen Hunt (University of Reading) The Italian Pentecostal Movement: An Italian-American Response to Irish Ethnocentrism in American Catholicism John C. Watt (University of Nevada) The Silent Charisma of Audrey Santo: Reflections on a New Religious Movement in Contemporary Catholicism Mathew N. Schmalz (The College of the Holy Cross, Worchester, Massachusetts) 4E. Dutch NRMS Chair: James T. Richardson Efraim: A New and Special Apocalyptic Movement in The Netherlands Reender Kranenborg (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) New Forms of Religiosity and the Shifting Notions of Sacredness in The Netherlands Martin Ramstedt (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences) Practice of Symbolic Death in OSHO International, Gurdjieff-Ouspensky Centre and International School of Golden Rosycross Ariana Volaric (Ljubljana University) 4F. The Mountain Meadows Massacre Chair: Dean May The Mountain Meadows Massacre Panel with Will Bagley (General Editor, Kingdom of the West series, Arthur Clark Company), Robert H. Briggs (attorney-at-law), Shannon Novak (University of Utah), Lars Rodseth (University of Utah)

Sunday, June 23, 2002

Salt Lake City

Special Tours in Salt Lake City will be available. Ticket will be sold during the conference.