The H. Paul Douglass Lecture is presented every other year at the annual meeting. These lectures are subsequently published in the Review of Religious Research to provide an original contribution to the literature of religious research.
Lecturers have included:
| Nancy Ammerman | Jeffrey K. Hadden | Talcott Parsons |
| Earl D.C. Brewer | Philip E. Hammond | Nichole R. Phillips |
| Tricia C. Bruce | Barbara June Watts Hargrove Part I – Part II |
Milton Rokeach Part I – Part II |
| Edmund deS. Brunner Part I – Part II |
Will Herberg | David Roozen |
| Jackson W. Carroll Part I – Part II |
Dean Hoge | Lyle E. Schaller |
| Mark Chaves | Francois H. Houtart | Joseph A. Scimecca |
| Randall Collins | Dean M. Kelley | Guy E. Swanson |
| Grace Davie | Samuel C. Kincheloe Part I – Part II |
Ruth Wallace |
| James Dittes | Samuel Z. Klausner | R. Stephen Warner |
| Mary Douglas | Otto Maduro | George W. Webber |
| Carl Dudley | H. Newton Malony | Barbara Wheeler |
| Christopher G. Ellison | David Martin | Lauris B. Whitman |
| Joseph H. Fichter | Martin E. Marty | Charles V. Willie Part I – Part II |
| Robert W. Friedrichs | William McKinney | Robert Wuthnow |
| Charles Y. Glock | David O. Moberg | J. Milton Yinger |
| Andrew M. Greeley | Marie Augusta Neal Part I – Part II |
Mayer N. Zald |