The Year 2003 Proceedings of the ASSR-SW

Richard Ambler, Southern Arkansas University:  A Sociological Perspective on the Origin of the Human Species

Jon Loessin, Wharton County Junior College :  de Maistre and the Divine

Patrick Scott Smith, Southwest Missouri State University : Girard and Burkert on Sacrifice and Ritual Theory

Joe Barnhart, University of North Texas :  Faces in the Clouds: A Critical Analysis and Expansion of Stewart Guthrie’s Theory of Religion as Anthromorphism

Linda Kraeger, Grayson County College : Status Anxiety and Weakness in Corinth : A Psychosocial Interpretation of Paul’s Apocalypticism and Messianism

Jeter Basden, Baylor University : Factors that Influence a Call to Ministry

Mary Ann Clark, Rice University :  You Are (Not) Shango: Jungian Archetypes in Contemporary Santeria

J. David Holcomb, Baylor University :  Religion in Public Life: A Pfefferian Perspective

Michael West, Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary:  The Catholic Gap: The Dangers of Blink-on, Blink-off History