Volume
31 Issue 1/2, Spring 2008
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PCR Program 2008
Presessions
Friday, October 30 and Saturday, November 1, 2008
Location TBA
Book Panel on Mourning Religion, edited by Bill Parsons, Diane Jonte-Pace and Susan Henking
Paper: Heavenly Services: Psychological Reflections on Today’s Attractiveness of Angels
Reflection by Greg Schneider and Mei Ann Teo: Knowing through Becoming - Exercises in Documentary Theater: Reflections on "Red Books: Our Search for Ellen White"
Works in Progress and PCR Business Meeting/ Elections
Regular Sessions: Times & Locations TBA
Psychological and Religious Reflections on Terror and Anxiety
Psychologies and/of Race
PCR Changes Its Name: To PCR!
At the 2007 business meeting of the PCR group, the decision was made to change our name slightly but significantly—from “Person, Culture, and Religion” to “Psychology, Culture, and Religion.” The main rationale was to clarify the identity of our group as the AAR’s primary forum for the discussion of psychology and religion.
PCR Steering Committee News
No steering committee slots opened up this year, so the composition of our group’s leadership remains the same until the 2008 AAR meeting in Chicago. At that time, several decisions will need to be made.
News from PCR Members:
News from Kirk Bingaman and Andrew Kille.
PCR Commentary
Moral Reasoning
in the Jury Box
At 8:30 a.m. on the Monday morning after Thanksgiving I showed up at the California State Superior Courthouse in Richmond, looking as scruffy and disreputable as I could manage. I sat in the back row of the reception room and kept my head down. I conspicuously rubbed my unshaved chin. None of it mattered. According to my answers on the entrance survey, I was a middle-aged (sigh) white male, a rare demographic type in the juror pool that day. I soon found myself in the first group of potential jurors taken to a courtroom, where I was the fifth person evaluated for suitability to serve in that particular trial.
Thanks to Our Members
Membership dues in PCR support resources for audio-visual equipment and refreshments at the Annual Meeting. These costs, imposed by the host city hotels, have been increasing steadily over the past several years. Feel the warm glow of knowing that you're helping to enhance PCR sessions. subsidize grad students' attendance at the PCR dinner and to distribute PCR-related information to scholars, clinicians, and clergy members interested in our work.
Person, Culture & Religion News Volume 31, Issue 1/2
Editor: Kelly Bulkeley; Layout: D. Andrew Kille