THE SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION 1971 ANNUAL MEETING.

The article presents the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) held from October 21-24, 1971 at the Bismarch Hotel, Chicago. Suggestions for the 1971 program rested on the premise that researchers have arrived at a critical juncture point in the development of what they have been calling the scientific study of religion. Not only in the SSSR and in the several disciplines represented in it but more generally in the universities and in society radical challenges, quite different in many cases from those presented in the past are being leveled against concepts and modes of thinking about "religion." The meeting would help set fundamental issues clearly and focus attention on tasks that have to be done if we are to make further headway in the several disciplines concerned directly with the scientific study of religion, religious behavior, religious institutions, etc.