The Year 2006 Proceedings of the ASSR-SW

Joe Barnhart, University of North Texas : The Wind (Spirit) Blows Where It Chooses: Reflection on the Origin of Religion

Walter Scalen, Angelina College / Stephen F. Austin State University and J. B. Watson, Jr., Stephen F. Austin State University : The Stonewashed Church : The Impact of Consumer Culture On Modern U.S. Evangelical Churches

Todd Jay Leonard,   Hirosaki Gakuin University ( Japan ) : Talking to the Other Side:  An Investigative Study of Modern Spiritualist Mediums and their Mediumship

Mary Ann Clark, Rice University: Adelante, Good Spirit: Spiritism and Ancestor Veneration Among Santeria Practitioners

Takefusa Sasamori, Hirosaki Gakuin University ( Japan ) :  Itako Ritual: How the Blind Shaman Women of Aomori Japan Dialogue between the Sprit of the Dead and the Client

Jon K. Loessin, Wharton County Junior College :  Cioran and the Paradox of Faith

Thomas D. Watts, The University of Texas at Arlington : The Eight Degrees of Tzedakah in Maimonides: Some Current Implications