REACTIONS TO REED.

The article presents reaction to Myer S. Reed's article. The author is one of those secular sociologists who published more than four articles on religion during the 1960's. And he is hoping that he is also turn up among those whose work is coded by Reed as more, rather than less, methodologically sound. Since the author is an object of this research it seems appropriate to assess it through the confessional form prized by all subjects of sociological analysis. Unfortunately the author has found that, in the eyes of many of the religionists in the field, to be classified as a friendly secularist usually depends on what one chooses to study (or not study) and how lucky one is about the signs of the correlations one turns up. Not a soul has risen to characterize the author as "the village atheist on the loose with a computer" or as having "positivistically" measured religious commitment following his recent paper demonstrating that measures of psychotherapy are negatively related to religiousness.