Papers presented at the Institute on Modern Religious Communication Dilemmas, held at Syracuse University's Continuing Education Center for the Public Service in November 1971, are provided. The focus of the institute was the dilemmas facing modern church-public relations practitioners. The papers reproduced in this book provide a descriptive overview of some of the complexities of religious communications dilemmas brought out at the institute. The papers and their authors are as follows: (1) Introduction by Burton W. Marvin; (2) "Six Propositions on the Future of Religion" by Warren L. Ziegler; (3) "The Crisis in Culture, Belief, and Church" by T. William Hall; (4) "Toward a Social Theory of Human Communication" by William P. Ehling; (5) "Event Magazine: A Case Study in Controversy" by James E. Solheim; (6) "Religion as a Marketing Problem and How Research Can Help" by Jack Haskins; (7) "United Methodist Information Area Survey, 1970" by Robert Lear; (8) "Managing Survival in a Public Relations Paradox" by George deLodzia; (9) "P.E.A.C.E. Simulation" by Roger Sorochty; and (10) "The Future Depends on Us" by Michael V. Reagen. Two of the papers have bibliographies. (DB)