Reports.

The section presents abstracts of papers about sociology of religion delivered at conferences and meetings held in August and September 1962. The paper, The Sociology of Religion as Part of a Generalized Sociology of Creative Behavior, A Conceptual Outline by Franz Adler, describes series of role concepts. The true author and the official author stand in a relationship which, based on cooperation, may vary widely in character. Performers who stand between authors and publics may be mediators. They may also be teachers, preachers, executives and pure performers. Another role is that of the critic. A critic with the power of suppressing a work is censor. Finally there is the consumer toward whom production of works is finally directed. It is suggested that the number of people involved in the process of creation and performance is inversely related to the likelihood of innovation. The study, The Professionalization of the Calling: Functional Implications by Robert P. Rankin, analyzes the character of this anxiety as it is expressed in interviews with ministers and laymen in the California-Nevada Annual Conference of the Methodist Church, an administrative unit comprising over three hundred local churches. Data employed in the study, Lay Expectations of the Ministerial Role: An Exploration of Protestant-Catholic Differentials by W. Widick Schroeder, were drawn from a sample of Protestant ad Catholic laymen in two Corn Belt communities, one dominantly Catholic and one dominantly Protestant. Data on questions dealing with qualities or characteristics and conduct expected of a minister are examined.