AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION
Fostering Excellence in the Study of Religion
ANNUAL MEETING
Chicago, IL • November 1–3, 2008
FUTURE AAR MEETINGS
2009 Montreal, QC November 7–10 2010 Atlanta, GA October 30–November 2 2011 San Francisco, CA November 19–22 2012 Atlanta, GA November 3–6
ANNUAL MEETING PUBLICATIONS
May 21, 2008 The AAR Annual Meeting team is pleased to introduce the new Annual Meeting Program Planner! The Program Planner gives you a sneak peek at the exciting sessions at the 2008 AAR Annual Meeting in Chicago, November 1-3. The Planner is one of three Annual Meeting publications available to AAR members. The other two are our Annual Meeting Program Book, and our Online Program Book, which are described below. The Program Planner lists the day, time, and theme for all AAR and Additional Meetings sessions. You will notice that some sessions include the full abstract and participant listing. Our Program Team asked each Program Unit to highlight one of their sessions to be specially previewed in this manner. Our hope is that in offering these early previews of some sessions, our members might be especially encouraged to cross some of the traditional disciplinary lines that mark our Annual Meeting. Full information is also given for Special Topics Forums, special theme sessions, and Plenary Addresses. A guide on how to use the new Program Planner is available on p. 12. As noted above, a complete listing of all AAR and Additional Meeting session information, including participant names, paper titles, room locations, and abstracts will be available in the Online Program Book on the AAR website at www.aarweb.org by July 1. The keyword, date and time, and other search features in the Online Program Book allow you to find the sessions you’re most interested in attending. The Online Program Book includes a utility so you can select the individual sessions you want to print to make your own custom printed program. The traditional Annual Meeting Program Book will be distributed to all Annual Meeting attendees onsite in Chicago. This is the familiar publication that includes complete session listings of AAR and Additional Meetings with up-to-date times, room locations, session and participant indices, and hotel maps. The change to the Annual Meeting publications format is designed to improve: • Planning: The early Program Planner mailing gives AAR members nearly five months to begin their Annual Meeting planning compared to the early two-month window of past years. • Accessibility and accuracy: The Online Program Book allows members to see the program in its entirety in an accessible and searchable format. Schedule updates are posted to the Online Program Book throughout the summer and fall. The Online Program Book is the most accurate and up-to-date way to view the program. Print publications are accurate only up to their print date and important changes or cancellations may be missed by attendees. • Convenience: Annual Meeting attendees have complained in the past about the inconvenience of juggling several different publications at the same time to get the full picture of a session. By publishing the detailed Program Book for use onsite, attendees will now have the complete details for each program session, including room location, participant information, and updates all in one book. • Sustainability: The Program Planner has been designed to reduce paper usage, printing costs, and mailing expense. Printing the address on the back cover of the Program Planner removes the need for a separate mailing envelope. The smaller page count and weight costs less in postage to mail. In 2007, AAR paid $23,500 to mail the 500 page Program Book around the world. This year, our costs will be greatly reduced. To further minimize the Annual Meeting carbon footprint, international AAR members outside of Canada will be encouraged to use the Online Program Book. Due to the vagaries of international mail, many of the AAR’s international attendees never received the 2007 Program Book at all. We hope you find the Annual Meeting Program Planner to be useful in your Annual Meeting planning. See you in Chicago this November! AAR Annual Meeting Team
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANNUAL MEETING INFORMATION Registration Information ......................................................................................................................................................... 4 Travel Information................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Hotel Information ................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Job Center Information ........................................................................................................................................................... 6 Workshops ............................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Tours ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 How to Use the Program Planner ......................................................................................................................................... 12 AAR PROGRAM SESSIONS Pre-Conference Meetings...................................................................................................................................................... 13 Saturday, November 1 ........................................................................................................................................................... 16 Sunday, November 2 ............................................................................................................................................................. 51 Monday, November 3 ............................................................................................................................................................ 82 ACADEMY INFORMATION ....................................................................................................................................................................... 111 ADDITIONAL MEETINGS Thursday, October 30 .......................................................................................................................................................... 131 Friday, October 31 ............................................................................................................................................................... 131 Saturday, November 1 ......................................................................................................................................................... 140 Sunday, November 2 ........................................................................................................................................................... 148 Monday, November 3 .......................................................................................................................................................... 153 SESSION INDEXES American Academy of Religion .......................................................................................................................................... 189 Additional Meetings ............................................................................................................................................................ 195 EXHIBITOR INDEX AND EXHIBIT HALL MAP ............................................................................................................................................ 198
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INFORMATION
PREREGISTRATION
Why preregister for the meeting? Only after you register for the AAR Annual Meeting can you book your housing at the specially negotiated rates at one of our official hotels. Registration opens on April 21, and rates will be in the first tier, “Advanced” category through September 15. The second tier, “Regular” category rates begin on September 16 and last until October 30. Onsite at the Annual Meeting, the rates will move to the third and final tier. All participants at the Annual Meeting (presenters, panelists, etc.) must be registered by June 15 at either the member, student member, or retired member rate, not the spouse/partner rate. Admission to sessions and the exhibit hall is by name badge only!
September 16 Early October October 5
IMPORTANT DATES
April 21 Online, Fax, Mail: Registration and Housing open for the 2008 Annual Meeting at 9:00 am (EDT). You must be registered to secure housing. “Advance” registration rates are in effect until September 15. Annual Meeting Job Center registration opens. You can register for Job Center along with your Annual Meeting registration and housing. Second tier (“Regular”) pre-meeting registration rates go into effect. Registration packets mailed to those who registered between April and October 1. Special housing rates end. Continue to contact the Experient Registration and Housing Bureau for housing throughout the meeting. Pre-meeting registration refund request deadline. Contact the Experient Registration and Housing Bureau for refunds (see pre-meeting registration form for details). Job Center registration and resumé deadline. Pre-meeting registration ends at 5:00 pm EST. All registrations after this date must take place online or onsite in Chicago, IL in the Chicago Hilton Towers Hotel. Annual Meeting of AAR, Chicago, IL.
ONLINE PROGRAM BOOK
A complete listing of all AAR and Additional Meetings session information, including participant names, paper titles, and abstracts will be available in the online Program Book on the AAR website at www.aarweb.org by July 1. The keyword search feature will allow you to find the sessions you’re most interested in attending!
October 15
October 22 October 30
ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM BOOK
The printed version of the Annual Meeting Program Book will be distributed to all attendees onsite in Chicago. This will include program highlights, complete session listings of AAR and Additional Meetings with room locations, session and participant indices, and hotel maps. The Program Book is your single, must-have guide for the Annual Meeting!
November 1–3
Remember: You must be registered to secure housing!
It is necessary for those entering the United States to clear customs and immigration. Visitors from Canada and Mexico must present a passport in order to enter the U.S. Please be prepared. Non–US citizens should inquire about possible visa requirements from their own country. Official letters of invitation to the Annual Meeting to support visa applications are available. E-mail annualmeeting@aarweb.org with your name, address, and the full contact information of the consulate of your country. The US Customs and Border Protection Office now uses a digital 10-fingerprint scanner to verify the identity of all incoming international visitors at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.
INTERNATIONAL ATTENDEES
sale fare inventories. You can call 1-800-433-1790 or use www.aa.com to make your reservations. Amtrak is offering a 10% discount for train travel to Chicago from October 29-November 4. CALL TOLL-FREE Carrier American Airlines Amtrak Phone Number 1-800-433-1790 1-800-872-1477 File Number A34H8AI X44S-935
If you book through your own travel agency, be sure to give them the appropriate discount code above.
TRAVEL DISCOUNTS
Take advantage of specially discounted rates for travel to the Annual Meeting of the AAR in Chicago this November! American Airlines is offering a 5% discount off published fares, including first class and international fares on American Airlines, American Eagle, and AmericanConnection flights. Discounts do not apply to certain restricted fares and exclude
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AIRPORT TRANSFERS
To Hilton Towers/Essex Inn: • From O’Hare International Airport: Take CTA Blue line train (to 54th/Cermak) to Jackson/Dearborn. Walk 0.6 miles southeast. • From Midway Airport: Take CTA Orange line train to Roosevelt. Walk 0.5 miles north.
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To the Palmer House Hilton: • From O’Hare International Airport: Take CTA Blue line train to Monroe/Dearborn. Take Monroe east to the hotel. The Palmer House is on the south side of the street. • From Midway Airport: Take CTA Orange line train from Midway to Downtown. Get off at the Adams/ Wabash stop. The Palmer House is located on the west side of Wabash Avenue. Taxi from O’Hare: $30-35 Taxi from Midway: $25-30
HOUSING CANCELLATIONS OR CHANGES
All hotel accommodation questions, changes, and cancellations should be directed to the Experient Registration and Housing Bureau throughout the meeting year. Note that cancellations must be received in writing (mail, fax, or e-mail) at least 72 hours prior to arrival date for a refund of your deposit (see premeeting registration form for details).
SUITE REQUESTS
HOTEL RATES
Some hotels have suites available at a discounted rate. Contact the Experient Registration and Housing Bureau for more information: 1-800-575-7185 (U.S. & Canada); +1-330-4259330 (outside U.S. & Canada); aarreg@experient-inc.com. Note: All rates are subject to local taxes, currently 15.4% tax per room per night. For example, a $149 rate is $171.95 with tax included.
HOTEL 1. Chicago Hilton Towers* 2. Palmer House Hilton* 3. Essex Inn *Headquarter Hotel SINGLE $149 $149 $156 DOUBLE $175 $175 $156 TRIPLE $195 $195 $166 QUAD $200 $200 $176
Suite reservations must be requested through the Experient Registration and Housing Bureau. Some Annual Meeting hotels are providing discounts off their current suite rate. Suites are not to be used for interviewing purposes. Employers who plan to use the Annual Meeting Job Center may request a Private Interview Room when they register for the Job Center. Job Center registration opens with registration and housing on April 21. For additional information about the Job Center, please see page 7 and www.aarweb.org/programs/career_services.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
To receive the specially negotiated room rates, you must first register for the meeting. You may then make your reservation through the Experient Registration and Housing Bureau. They are available 24 hours a day. You may contact the housing bureau by Internet, fax, or mail using the enclosed housing form. Be sure to follow the instructions carefully and provide all requested information. Reservations cannot be made prior to April 21. Special rates may not be available after October 5; however, Experient will continue to handle Annual Meeting housing throughout the meeting.
All meeting rooms are accessible by elevator (doors are wide enough to accommodate wheelchairs) or wheelchair lift. A limited number of guest rooms are set aside for the physically challenged. If you need special accommodations, please indicate your specific needs on the designated area of the housing form and fax or mail it to the Experient Registration and Housing Bureau. Attendees with disabilities who need information regarding special assistance during the meeting, excluding hotel accommodations, should contact the Annual Meeting planners, by phone at 1-314-997-1500, by fax at 1-314-997-1550, via e-mail at aar@experient-inc.com, or by mail c/o Experient, Inc., 1001 Craig Road, Suite 490, St. Louis, MO 63146. Located this year at the Hilton Chicago Hotel, the Annual Meeting Job Center will provide employers and job candidates with interview facilities, a message service, current job listings, and candidate credentials for review.
PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED ATTENDEES
HOUSING CONFIRMATION
You will receive a confirmation when you make your hotel reservation with the Experient Registration and Housing Bureau. Confirmations are e-mailed in the first instance, then faxed or mailed. Please allow at least 3–5 days for receipt. If you receive a written confirmation that is incorrect, please contact the housing bureau immediately to correct your reservation. The bureau will send you a new confirmation reflecting the corrections. If cancellation is necessary, please do so in writing at least 72 hours in advance of scheduled arrival to receive a refund of your deposit. Be sure to keep a record of your cancellation number.
Register Online at
www.aarweb.org
Print forms for fax and surface mail available online.
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JOB CENTER
CANDIDATE SERVICES
All registered candidates receive: • Annual Meeting Edition of Job Postings. • Opportunity to file a CV for employer review. • Access to the Job Center message system to send and receive confidential communication with registered employers. • Use of a drop box to leave employers requested documents. All candidates have the option of filing a CV with the Job Center. Those who register by October 13 may upload an electronic CV, due October 14. Organized by job classification, the online CVs are available to employers August 15, 2008 through January 31, 2009. Organized by job classification, the online CVs are available to employers August 15, 2008 though January 31, 2009 and onsite at the Annual Meeting Job Center. Onsite registrants and those who do not upload their CV by the deadline may bring two copies to the Job Center to be filed alphabetically. Please see www.aarweb.org/jump/jobcenter for more information. Candidate Fees Preregistration: $25 Onsite registration: $50 Employer Fees First job: $275 ($325 onsite) Each additional job: $60 ($85 onsite)
JOB POSTING
In order to ensure the widest possible pool of candidates, all jobs registered with the Job Center must be advertised in the August, September, or October issue of the online Job Postings. The fee for the advertisement is not included in the Job Center registration fee. To place an ad, go to www.aarweb.org/jump/jobpostings.
REGISTRATION
Register for the 2008 Job Center at www.aarweb.org/jump/jobcenter. Registration opens on April 21 and closes on October 13.
JOB CENTER HOURS OF SERVICE
Friday, November 1 .............. 7:00 pm-9:00 pm Saturday, November 2 .......... 8:00 am-7:00 pm Sunday, November 3 ............ 8:00 am-7:00 pm Monday, November 4 ........... 8:00 am-5:00 pm
EMPLOYER SERVICES
All registered employers receive: • Use of the Interview Hall and the ability to invite any Annual Meeting registrant to an interview. • Placement of job advertisement in the Annual Meeting Edition of Job Postings, available onsite to all candidates. • Job Center icon next to Job Postings Online job advertisement. • Access to candidate credentials, in print at the Job Center and online August 15, 2008 through January 31, 2009. • Access to the Job Center message system to send and receive confidential communication with registered candidates. • Ability to reserve a Private Interview Room for an additional fee. Employers who register onsite will not be able to reserve Private Interview Rooms or Interview Hall space prior to arriving onsite.
www.aarweb.org/jump/jobcenter Questions? Phone: 1-404-727-3049 E-mail: careers@aarweb.org
JOB CENTER REGISTER ONLINE
Registration closes October 13!
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RELIGION & MEDIA WORKSHOP
Religion in the Race for the White House
Friday, October 31
Not since John F. Kennedy’s 1960 campaign has religion been so prominent an issue in the race for the American presidency. Forty-seven years after Kennedy became the first successful Roman Catholic contender for a White House previously occupied only by Protestant men, Americans again have watched contenders for the White House publicly confront questions about their religious beliefs. In addition to the religious scrutiny applied to Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton’s political aspirations have been widely ascribed to her longstanding Methodist faith, while the supernatural beliefs of Dennis Kucinich have been blamed for his campaign’s loss of credibility. And just as early pundits asked if Obama was black enough, conservatives have complained that John McCain isn’t religious enough. In this charged atmosphere, every reporter of the 2008 presidential campaigns has been forced to cover religion to a significant degree. What do these conversations and the media’s coverage of them say about the concept of religion in America today? What do they neglect or exclude? The 2008 annual Religion and Media Workshop invites you to discuss these and other issues with nationallyrenown reporters and academics who have not only covered the religious controversies during this protracted campaign, but who have also examined important historical and philosophical issues underlying the political process. Questions to be raised in panel and small group sessions include: Why does religion matter in presidential elections? To whom does it matter? How are “media” and “religion” constructed now? With only four days remaining before Election Day 2008, please join us for an in-depth look at media coverage of religion at this historic moment in American history.
SCHEDULE
9:30 am-9:40 am Welcome & Introductory Comments Kaley M. Carpenter and Jenna Tiitsman, cochairs Making Religion in the Public Square Chris Lundberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Steve Waldman, author of Founding Faith (2008), founder of Beliefnet When “Mitt’s a Mormon” Is News Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University Manya Brachear, Chicago Tribune Melissa Proctor, Harvard University Coffee Break Race and Religion in the Race for the White House Speakers to be announced… 1:00 pm-2:00 pm 2:00 pm-3:00 pm Lunch with Small Group Discussions Faith, Fundamentalism, and First Families: A Round Table Discussion Michael Lindsay, Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite Jeff Sharlet, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of America’s Civil Religion Randall Balmer, God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from JFK to G.W. Bush Coffee Break Power and Piety: Open Discussion Planning Meeting for 2009 Workshop
9:40 am-10:40 am
10:40 am-11:40 am
3:30 pm-3:45 pm 3:45 pm-4:30 pm 4:30 pm-5:00 pm
11:40 am-12:00 pm 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
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RELIGION AND MEDIA WORKSHOP Friday, October 31, 2008
Participation is limited to the first 50 registrants. Name ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Institution __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mailing Address _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Phone _______________________________________________ Fax __________________________________________________________________ E-mail _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Registration is US$55 before October 30, 2008, or US$70 onsite (fee includes lunch). Payment Method: Check (payable to “AAR Annual Meeting”) Visa MasterCard American Express Discover Credit Card Number _____________________________________ Expiration Date (mm/yy)________________________________________________ Cardholder Signature _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Name on Card (print) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Register by fax: Register by mail: 1-330-963-0319 Religion and Media Workshop, c/o Experient, Inc., 2451 Enterprise Pkwy E, Twinsburg, OH 44087 AAR Annual Meeting Program Planner See the full Annual Meeting program online at www.aarweb.org! 7
LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP
Taking Religion(s) Seriously: What Students Need to Know
An Annual Meeting Leadership Workshop Friday, October 31, 9:00 am–4:30 pm
Krista Tippett, the host of Minnesota Public Radio’s popular Speaking of Faith program, will open the Academic Relations Committee’s annual Leadership Workshop during the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Chicago on Friday, October 31. The daylong workshop, “Taking Religion(s) Seriously: What Students Need to Know,” will explore the common goal of religion courses: that all students learn to think seriously about the ways religion impacts public life and their role as citizens. In this workshop we will investigate what this goal entails and then invite participants to consider how the curriculum they oversee addresses (or could address) it; how the mission and culture of their institution shapes this objective; and how it might contribute to assessment of their program’s effectiveness. The interactive workshop will feature several speakers, panelists, and breakout sessions. Following the opening introduction by Chester Gillis, Georgetown University, Tippett will open with a discussion of “Educating Students for Public Life.” After questions and answers, a panel discussion will follow, addressing “How does the goal that all students learn to think seriously about the ways religion impacts public life and their role as citizens interact with the mission and culture of your institution?” The concluding plenary will concentrate on a principal question: “How should this goal be assessed and how do you assess it?” The workshop will expand a specific area addressed by the Teagle Foundation-funded “The Religion Major and Liberal Education,” which guided the theme of last year’s Leadership Workshop. Colleagues in your institution, such as chairs, other faculty members, faculty being developed to assume leadership responsibilities, and deans, may be interested in attending this workshop. Chairs may want to bring a team of faculty or send a designated faculty person. Registration is limited to the first 75 participants, and last year’s workshop filled up long before the Annual Meeting. The cost for the workshop is $100, which includes the entire day of sessions, lunch, and a book on the topic. The Leadership Workshop is arranged by the Academic Relations Committee. Members are Fred Glennon, chair, Chester Gillis, L. DeAne Lagerquist, Steve Young, Rosetta Ross, Edwin David Aponte, and Kyle Cole, staff liaison.
Preliminary Agenda: 9:00 am–9:15 am 9:15 am–9:45 am 9:45 am–10:15 am 10:15 am–11:00 am 11:00 am–12:00 pm 12:00 pm–1:15 pm 1:15 pm–2:00 pm 2:00 pm–3:30 pm Introductions Educating Students for Public Life Break-out Session Discussion: How does this interact with the mission and culture of your institution? Break-out Session Lunch Assessment of your institution: Addressing the question—How should this be assessed and how do you assess it? Plenary session on objectives and assessments
See the registration form on the following page.
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Leadership
W O R K SHOP
TAKING RELIGION(S) SERIOUSLY: WHAT STUDENTS NEED TO KNOW
Featuring Krista Tippett, host of Speaking of Faith
Friday, October 31, 2008 Chicago, IL
goal entails and then invite chairs to consider how the curriculum they oversee addresses (or could address) it, how the mission and culture of their institution shape this objective, and how it might contribute to assessment of their program’s effectiveness. Exchange of experience and ideas will be central to the day’s work.
The goal of the workshop is that all students learn to think seriously about the ways religion(s) impacts public life and their role as citizens. This may be a common goal of religion courses offered at all sorts of institutions; however, this objective is not always articulated and may be submerged in more specialized concerns. In this workshop we explore what this
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Legal issues, conflicts, and life cycles will be addressed for individual, department, and administration concerns.
Introductions Educating students for public life 9:45–10:15 Break-out session 9–9:15 9:15–9:45 10:15–11 Panel discussion: How does this interact with the mission and culture of your institution? Break-out session LUNCH 1:15–2 Assessment of your institution: Addressing the question — How should this be assessed and how do you assess it? Plenary session on objectives and assessments
11–12 12–1:15
2–3:30
The workshop will be of benefit to a range of participants: faculty, administrators, and graduate students. The goal is to bring a diverse group of AAR members together in a lively and open discussion.
TO REGISTER
Complete the information below, arrange payment, and send via fax or surface mail. You can also register online as part of the Annual Meeting registration process: www.aarweb.org/meeting/annual_meeting/current_meeting.
Name Department Institution Serving as Chair since Number of faculty in department
Registration is limited to the first 75 participants. Send your registration form and payment of $100.00.
PAYMENT INFORMATION
❒ Check: (payable to “AAR Annual Meeting,” memo “Leadership Workshop”) Credit Card (Check one): ❒ Visa ❒ Mastercard ❒ American Express
Credit Card Number CID Cardholder Signature Name on Card (Please Print) Expiration Date
For more information, contact Kyle Cole, Director of Professional Programs, at kcole@aarweb.org, or by phone at 404-727-1489. The Leadership Workshop is arranged by the Academic Relations Committee of the American Academy of Religion, chaired by Fred Glennon.
❒ Discover
Register online (as part of Annual Meeting registration): www.aarweb.org/meetings/ annual_meeting/current_meeting Register by Fax: 330-963-0319 Register by surface mail:
AAR Leadership Workshop c/o Experient 2451 Enterprise PKWY Twinsburg, OH 44087 USA
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TOUR INFORMATION
A1-135 CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE WALKING TOUR
Saturday, 9:00 am-12:45 pm
The Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (SARTS) invites the AAR membership to join them on a tour of new Chicago landmarks. The tour has been organized by SARTS member Judith Dupré, noted author of Skyscrapers (1996), Bridges (1997), Churches (2001) and Monuments (2007). The morning program will begin with a brief reception and talk about Chicago architecture, held at the offices of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, led by SOM design partner, Leigh Breslau, whose work focuses on arts and public assembly projects. SOM has designed and engineered landmark structures around the world, including, in Chicago, the Sears Tower, John Hancock Tower, Trump International Hotel and Tower, and the master plan for Millennium Park. The firm’s houses of worship include the United States Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado, the Islamic Cultural Center in Manhattan, and the forthcoming Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland. They also have designed four of the ten tallest buildings in the world, including the newest tallest, the Burj Dubai, and the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center in New York. Following this presentation, a walking tour of nearby Chicago landmarks will include Millennium Park (Chicago’s award-winning center for art, music, architecture and landscape design, which features the work of world-renowned architects, planners, artists and designers including Frank Gehry’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion and Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate sculpture on the AT&T Plaza); the Chicago Tribune Tower, Marina City, and Chicago’s newest skyscraper, the Trump International Tower. The tour is free, but registration is limited.
A1-136 TOXICS TO TREASURES: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE TOUR OF LAKE CALUMET
Saturday, 9:00 am-12:45 pm
The Lake Calumet region on the far south side of Chicago provides a stunning example of the extremes of nature and culture in our industrialized world. Once the heart of a vast wet prairie system spanning 22,000 acres in Illinois alone, the area became the preferred dumping ground for Chicago’s industrial and municipal waste in the 19th century. Today just 500 acres of wetland remain, sandwiched between legal and illegal waste dumps, including a Superfund toxic waste site, and 2,000 acres of abandoned industrial lands. Yet nature does not give up so easy, and the area is also home to one of the greatest concentrations of threatened and endangered birds in Illinois, including the Midwest’s largest breeding colony of Black-crowned Night Herons. The City of Chicago and the State of Illinois are collaborating on a new Calumet Initiative to reserve natural areas and provide economic development for the Calumet, one result of which is a new Ford Calumet Environmental Center that will be built with recycled steel from abandoned industrial sites nearby. On this bus tour led by community activists, we will see the lows and highs of the Calumet region’s industrial and natural history, and hear about the efforts of local residents to fight dumping and advocate for sustainable development of their neighborhoods. Sites to be visited on the tour may include Dead Stick Pond (familiar to fans of mystery writer Sara Paretsky), Big Marsh and the adjacent Acme Steel Coke Plant, the abandoned but soon to be redeveloped U.S. Steel South Works site, as well as numerous dump sites and wetlands in the process of being restored. Tour fee: $30.
A3-235 SACRED AND RELIGIOUS SITES OF CHICAGO BUS TOUR
Monday, 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
Located at the crossroads, Chicago is a city of great religious diversity. Even if you’ve been on a sacred sites tour in Chicago before, this year you’ll visit the south side, seeing three religious landmarks you may have missed. KAM Isaiah Israel is the oldest synagogue in Chicago, and very possibly the oldest in the Midwest, founded in 1847 as Kehilath Anshe Maarav (KAM), the Congregation of the Men of the West. In 1971 KAM merged with Temple Isaiah Israel to become a leader in the Reform movement. The current structure, built for Temple Isaiah Israel in 1924, was designed by Alfred Alschuler. After viewing photographs of fragments of a second-century synagogue unearthed at Tiberias by Professor Nahum Slouschz, Alschuler adapted its motifs resembling those used in architecture of the Byzantine period and incorporated them in his ornamental designs for the building.
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Rockefeller Memorial Chapel opened in 1928 as the spiritual and ceremonial center of the University of Chicago. It was a gift of John D. Rockefeller and designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. It combines Gothic, Byzantine, and Romanesque features in a style designed to serve as both a Christian and non-religious place of meeting, a place for sacred arts, and a place of worship. The chapel’s carillon, the second largest in the world, is named in honor of Rockefeller’s wife Laura Spellman Rockefeller. Trinity United Church of Christ, in the Princeton Park neighborhood, since its start forty-five years ago has become the largest congregation in its largely white denomination. Declaring itself “Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian”, Trinity is dedicated to the Black religious experience and to its community. Its now-retired pastor Jeremiah Wright has long been a religious leader in the city and a mentor to Senator Barack Obama. These three places, with differing histories and differing spaces, offer a valuable window into the richness of religious life in Chicago. Tour fee: $15.
TOUR RESERVATION FORM
No. of People ________ Workshop/Tour Religion and Ecology Bus Tour: Toxics to Treasures Environmental Justice Tour of Lake Calumet ________ Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies Chicago Architecture Walking Tour ________ Sacred and Religious Sites of Chicago Bus Tour Saturday 11/1 Monday, 11/3 9:00 AM 1:00 PM Free US $15 Saturday, 11/1 9:00 AM US $35 Date Time Cost/Person
Name(s): ______________________________________________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________________________________________ City, State, Country, Postal Code: ____________________________________________________________________ Payment Method: Check (payable to “AAR”) Visa MasterCard Amex Discover
Credit Card Number: ______________________________________________ Exp. Date (mm/yy): _____________ Signature: ______________________________________________________________________________________ Name on Card (please print): _______________________________________________________________________ Return form with payment by October 15 to Tours, c/o Experient Registration & Housing Bureau, 2451 Enterprise Parkway East, Twinsburg, OH 44087; or register for tours in the online registration system at www.aarweb.org!
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HOW TO USE THE PROGRAM PLANNER
PROGRAM SESSIONS
SESSION DATE AND TIME
Monday, 1:00 pm-3:30pm
A3-203 Buddhism Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: New Studies in Late Ming Chinese Buddhism
Eboni Marshall, Union Theological Seminary The Politics of Incarnation: Identity, DoubleConsciousness, and the Feasibility of a Womanist Mediating Ethic Responding: Emilie M. Townes, Yale University
A3-207 A3-204 Christian Systematic Theology Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Rethinking Covenant
History of Christianity Section and The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Patricia O’Connell Killen, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding Theme: Teaching the History of Christianity: Critical Themes and Challenges What are the key challenges, opportunities, and goals in the History of Christianity classroom today, and how best should teachers respond to them? This session will explore these broad questions through a frank and open conversation with a group of skilled working teachers, representing a variety of backgrounds and institutional settings. The format will be a loosely structured roundtable or “fishbowl”style discussion, with the audience invited to participate, comment, and reflect. The focus will be on actual classroom practices, experiences, and challenges. Panelists: Madeline Duntley, Bowling Green State University Constance Furey, Indiana University, Bloomington W. Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago Horace E. Six-Means, Hood Theological Seminary
HIGHLIGHTED SESSION
SYMBOL
A3-205
Comparative Studies in Religion Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Twins and Twinship: Ongoing Comparative Development of a Theme
SESSION NUMBER
A3-206
Ethics Section and Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Katie G. Cannon, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education, Presiding Theme: Celebrating the Work of Emilie Townes: Womanist Contributions to Christian and Social Ethics Keri Day, Vanderbilt University Poor Black Women and Public Policy: Emilie Townes’s Theological Vision of Justice within A Womanist Theory of Political Criticism
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Andrea C. White, University of Chicago Eschatological Identity in the Thought of Emilie Townes Jonathan L Walton, University of California, Riverside “Deliver Us from Evil”: An Assessment of the Hermeneutical and Methodological Creativity of Emilie Townes in Uncovering/Dismantling Culturally Produced Evil
A3-208
North American Religions Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Religion and Emotion in Modern America: Modulations of Mood and Performances of Passion
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PROGRAM SESSIONS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30
A30-100 Sustainability Task Force Meeting
10:00 am-4:00 pm
A31-102
Religion and Media Workshop: Religion in the Race for the White House
9:00 am-6:00 pm Kaley Middlebrooks Carpenter, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding Jenna Tiitsman, University of North CarolinaChapel Hill; Auburn Media, Presiding What do these conversations and the media’s coverage of them say about the concept of religion in America today? What do they neglect or exclude? The 2008 annual Religion and Media workshop invites you to discuss these and other issues with nationally renown reporters and academics who have not only covered the religious controversies during this protracted campaign, but who have alos examined important historical and philosophical issues underlying the political process. Questions to be raised in panel and small group sessions include: Why does religion matter in presidential elections? To whom does it matter? How are “media” and “religion” constructed now? With only four days remaining before Election Day 2008, please join us for an indepth look at media coverage of religion at this historic moment in American history. Panelists: Christian Lundberg, Northwestern University Steven Waldman, Beliefnet Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University Manya Brachear, Chicago Tribune Melissa Proctor, Harvard University D. Michael Lindsay, Rice University Jeffrey Sharlet, New York University Randall Balmer, Columbia University See page 7 for registration form.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
A31-100 Board of Directors Meeting
9:00 am-5:00 pm
A31-101
Leadership Workshop: Taking Religion Seriously: What Students Need to Know
9:00 am-5:00 pm Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith, Presiding That all students learn to think seriously about the ways religion(s) impacts public life and their role as citizens may be a common goal of religion courses offered at all sorts of institutions; however this objective is not always articulated and may be submerged in more specialized concerns. In this workshop we explore what this goal entails and then invite chairs to consider how the curriculum they oversee addresses (or could address) it; how the mission and culture of their institution shapes this objective; and how it might contribute to assessment of their program’s effectiveness. Exchange of experience and ideas will be central to the day’s work. Panelists: Steve Young, McHenry County College L. DeAne Lagerquist, Saint Olaf College Ellen LeVee, Spertus College James Kenneth Echols, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago Responding: Timothy M. Renick, Georgia State University See page 8 for registration form.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
A31-103
Women’s Caucus Workshop
12:00 pm-3:00 pm Julie J. Kilmer, Olivet College, Presiding Paula Trimble-Familetti, Chapman University, Presiding Donna Freitas, Boston University The Second Shift of Academia: Making Smart Decisions about Writing, Publishing, and Audience Arisika Razak, California Institute of Integral Studies Honoring the Differences that Help Us Build Strong Alliances Melissa Stewart, Adrian College Tell Us Your Issues and Needs as a Woman in the Field of Religion
Panelists: Pamela Cooper-White, Columbia Theological Seminary Responding: Celia Brickman, Center for Religion and Psychotherapy, Chicago William Parsons, Rice University Susan Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 3:45 pm-4:00 pm Break 4:00 pm-5:00 pm Sebastian Murken, University of Trier, Germany Heavenly Services: Psychological Reflections on Today’s Attractiveness of Angels 5:30-6:30 Praxis Reflection: A. Gregory Schneider, Pacific Union College, California, and Mei Ann Teo, Artist-inResidence, Pacific Union College Knowing through Becoming-Exercises in Documentary Theater: Reflections on Red Books: Our Search for Ellen White PCR Annual Dinner to follow at a local restaurant. Exact location TBA.
M31-201
Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship
1:00 pm-3:30 pm 1:00 pm Business Meeting George Hunsinger, Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary Thomas F. Torrance’s Theology of the Sacraments with Special Emphasis on the Eucharist www.tftorrance.org for more information.
M31-305
Society for Buddhist Christian Studies
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sandra Costen Kunz, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Cognitive Science, Religious Practices, and Human Development: Buddhist and Christian Perspectives Sascha de Lac, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and Paula Arai, Louisiana State University The Body and the Mind: Buddhist Bowing and Neuroscience Robert Aitken, Roshi, Diamond Sangha, Hawaii “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory”: Zen and the Two-hemisphere Brain
M31-206
Bonhoeffer Society: Editorial Board, Board of Directors, and Annual Meeting
1:00 pm-6:00 pm
M31-210
Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group (formerly Person, Culture, and Religion)
2:00 pm-6:30 pm Diane Jonte-Pace, Santa Clara University, Presiding Theme: Book Panel: Mourning Religion (Bill Parsons, Diane Jonte-Pace and Susan Henking, Eds., University of Virginia Press, 2008)
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Noreen Herzfeld, St. John’s University, Collegeville “Your Cell Will Teach You Everything”: How Practice Shapes Thought in Neuroscience and Early Christian Monasticism Wesley J. Wildman, Boston University Cognitive Error and Contemplative Practices: The Cultivation of Discernment in Mind and Heart Thomas Cattoi, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley Verbal Imagining: Scientific Reflection on Visual Cognition in Light of Traditional Tibetan and Christian Theologies of the Image
M31-413
Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (SARTS)
7:00 pm-9:30 pm Theme: Reception and Lecture by Judith Dupré: Building as Being: The Ethical Function of Architecture The reception will include a remembrance and recognition of the life and work of John Dillenberger. The evening program will feature a lecture by Judith Dupré: Building as Being: The Ethical Function of Architecture. This lecture will be followed Saturday morning by a tour of new Chicago architecture, led by Dupré with commentary by some of Chicago’s most renowned architects. Dupré is author of six illustrated non-fiction books including Skyscrapers (1996, 2008), and Churches (2005). Non-members as well as members are welcome to this event. See page 10 for registration information.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1
M31-400
Søren Kierkegaard Society
6:30 pm-9:00 pm Theme: Kierkegaard and Ramanuja 6:30 pm Banquet (location to be announced) 8:00 pm Merigala Gabriel, Madras Christian College Kierkegaard and Ramanuja
A31-106
Film: Haro Hara! Pilgrimage to Kataragama, Sri Lanka
9:00 pm-11:00 pm Samuel Holt, Presiding This film chronicles the journey of a group of pilgrims down the war-torn east coast of Sri Lanka. The film documents the pilgrims as they meet with holy men, perform never before recorded religious acts and proceed peacefully through areas plagued with conflict, on their way to Kataragama, the site of a multi-religious festival in Southeast Sri Lanka. The film was shot in 2003 and 2004, capturing a world where peace was a possibility and a vibrant, tolerant culture would prevail, if given the chance. Haro Hara presents archival footage of a peaceful Sri Lanka and promotes the hope that, just as the pilgrims return to Kataragama every year, so, too, will peace and prosperity return to the island.
A31-104
Job Center Orientation
7:00 pm-9:00 pm Jessica B. Davenport, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
A31-105
Welcome Reception
7:00 pm-9:00 pm Join your friends and colleagues for conversation and fun at the Welcome Reception. Light refreshments, cash bar, and live jazz combine to make this a great way to catch up with friends old and new. The Exhibit Hall will be open during the registration time to give you a sneak peek at the exhibits!
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A31-107 Film: A Son’s Sacrifice, Ichthus, and Mouseholes
9:00 pm-11:00 pm Three films, including A Son’s Sacrifice, Ichthus, and Mouseholes. Rubina Ramji, Cape Breton University, Presiding A Son’s Sacrifice (2007), dir. Yoni Brook (27 minutes). This film follows the journey of Imran, a young American Muslim who struggles to take over his father’s halal slaughterhouse in New York City. A first-generation American, Imran must confront his mixed heritage (Puerto Rican and Bangladeshi) and gain acceptance from his father’s immigrant community at the traditional storefront slaughterhouse. On the holiest day of the year, Imran must lead a sacrifice that will define him as a Muslim, an American, and a son. Antonio D. Sison, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding Ichthus (2006), dir. Antonio Sison. (17 minutes) An angel appears to Jonas in his sleep announcing glad tidings… “the sea will birth a miracle… a multiplication of fish here and now.” But the miracle is shrouded in mystery and Jonas needs to unlock the secret of the ancient code “ICHTHUS.” He finds himself searching for clues in his childhood haunt, a humble fishing village along Lingayen Gulf, in the northern Philippine province of Pangasinan. In a journey that is as much inward as it is outward, Jonas inadvertently casts his net into the hidden regions of a parable. Ichthus is a mytho-poetic short film written and lensed by Chicago-based Filipino theologian Antonio Sison. Kevin Lewis, University of South Carolina, Columbia, Presiding Mouseholes (1999), dir. Helen Hill (8 minutes) Experimental film-maker Helen Hill (19702007) created Mouseholes using hand-crafted animation and integrating sequences of
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different kinds of image, including animated cut-out puppet figures, still photos, home movie snippets, simple drawing, and a bit of traditional film. Thematically, Mouseholes treats the dying and death of her beloved grandfather, a long retired railroad worker, followed by his envisioned resurrection to join pre-deceased aunts at a tea party in heaven, and finally then by Hill’s concluding quick rumination on the possibility of opening a channel of communication with him (and for him) metaphorically through enabling mouseholes.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
M31-419
Polanyi Society
9:00 pm-11:00 pm Theme: Symposium on Tony Clark’s Divine Revelation and Human Response (Some Polanyian Reflections)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
A1-1 Regionally Elected Directors Meeting
7:00 am-9:00 am
A1-2
Regional Officers’ Breakfast
7:00 am-9:00 am Jacqueline Pastis, La Salle University, Presiding Networking Breakfast for AAR Regional Secretaries and AAR Regional Officers.
A1-3
Graduate Student Committee Meeting
7:30 am-8:45 am
A1-4
International Members’ Breakfast
7:30 am-8:45 am Breakfast and question and answer session for international members of the AAR.
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A1-5
New Members Continental Breakfast
7:30 am-8:45 am New (first-time) AAR members in 2008 are cordially invted to a continental breakfast with members of the Board of Directors.
A1-6
Theological Education Steering Committee Meeting
7:30 am-9:00 am
M1-1
European Society of Women in Theological Research
7:00 am-8:45 am Theme: Explorations: The Future Role of the North American ESWTR
through the support of the Teagle Foundation, has conducted an extensive study of the state of the religion major. Over one hundred AAR members have formally participated in some aspect of the study, and structured discussions have taken place on over a dozen campuses. This summer, the AAR/Teagle working group produced and circulated a “white paper” summarizing its findings. This session will bring working group members and the broader membership of the AAR together for an open discussion of the state of the religion major, a consideration of best practices, and an exploration of challenges to be faced in the future.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
A1-101
Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Milton Matters: A Quadricentennial Consideration of His Reception
A1-7
Religion in the Schools Task Force Meeting
8:00 am-11:00 am
A1-102
Buddhism Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: From San Juan to Sukhavati: Reflections on Buddhist Studies and the Career of Luis O. Gomez
A1-8
Publications Committee Meeting
8:00 am-11:30 am
M1-5
La Comunidad of Hispanic Scholars of Religion at the AAR and SBL Board Meeting and Panel Discussion
8:00 am-10:30 am
A1-103
Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Religion in South Asia Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Globalization and South Asian Religions: Redefining the Discourse beyond Diaspora
Saturday, 9:00 am-11:30 am
A1-100 Special Topics Forum
9:00 am-11:30 am Timothy M. Renick, Georgia State University, Presiding Sponsored by the AAR Teagle Initiative Theme: The AAR White Paper on the Religion Major: A Forum What is the purpose of the major in religion? How is it changing? What are the major’s central goals, and how do they contribute to the larger aims of a liberal education? For over two years, the American Academy of Religion,
A1-104
History of Christianity Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Practices of Seeing in the History of Christianity
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A1-105 North American Religions Section and Afro-American Religious History Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Philip K. Goff, Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis, Presiding Theme: Albert Raboteau’s No-Longer-”Invisible Institution”: An Anniversary Retrospective Thirty years ago Albert Raboteau’s Slave Religion appeared to great critical praise. Employing such sources as slave narratives, folklore, autobiographies, missionary accounts, and diaries of whites, Raboteau both broadened and deepened our understanding of black antebellum religion. Engaged in the debates surrounding the extent of Africanisms, group formation and behavior, and the relationship between conjure and Christianity, the book’s influence extended into many fields of inquiry and methods of study. In this session, several generations of scholars will assess the influence of Slave Religion and use the opportunity to consider the directions of the study of African American religions in the coming years. Ample time will be dedicated to audience participation as we critically reflect on the significance, influence, and promise of this work thirty years into its life. Panelists: Dennis C. Dickerson, Vanderbilt University Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame Jalane D. Schmidt, University of Virginia Curtis Evans, University of Chicago Paul W. Harvey, University of Colorado Responding: Albert J. Raboteau, Princeton University Business Meeting: Philip K. Goff, Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis and Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
A1-106
Philosophy of Religion Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Evolutionary Theory and Religion
A1-107
Study of Islam Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: At the Crossroads of Religion, Law, and Society: Fatwas as Sites for the Study of Islamic History and Legal Authority
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
A1-108
Women and Religion Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Isra Yazicioglu, St Joseph’s University, Presiding Theme: Muslim Women: History, Theory, and Practice of Faith Rosemarie Bernard, Waseda University Japanese Muslims: Poetics and Politics of Conversion to Islam among Japanese Women Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte American Muslim Women Scholars and the Study of Gender Issues in Islam Mary Nyangweso, Drew University Negotiating Agency, Culture, and Religion: A Case of Muslim Women in Kenya
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Anthropology of Religion Group and Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Jens Kreinath, Wichita State University, Presiding Theme: Ritual and Reflection: Tropes in Transformation and Transgression (Wenner Gren Workshop) This workshop, supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, is designed to examine the theoretical implications and practical consequences of the relationship between ritual and reflection with an attempt to reshape the common understanding in the study of ritual. Although one can observe a major shift in ritual theory towards more refined models of analysis and interpretation, the question of the relation between ritual and reflection is still an unresolved issue. This workshop will address the role that reflection and reflexivity in and of ritual action play in the process of practicing and theorizing rituals. The aim is to make explicit the extent to which ritual theory considers ritual as a reflective and reflexive form of social practice. Besides that, it is at issue whether and how such theoretical reflections are actually reflected in the various forms of transformation and transgression in and of ritual practice. Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University On the Ritual Aspects of Reflexivity Bent Flemming Nielsen, University of Copenhagen A Re-examination of the Role of the Body and the Experience of Presence within Protestant Religious Tradition Refika Sarionder, University of Bielefeld Reflexive Transformations of the Alevi Cem and Ritual Handbooks Steven Engler, Mount Royal College Reflexivity, Virtuality, and Social Relations in Brazilian Umbanda Responding: Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago
A1-110
Augustine and Augustinianisms Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Kim Paffenroth, Iona College, Presiding Theme: Augustine and the Secular This session examines Augustine’s reflections on secularity, together with later appropriations of Augustine’s thought. The first paper explores Augustine’s understanding of the boundaries between “sacred,” “secular,” and “profane” by way of his comments on public spectacles (i.e. the theater and circus). Drawing on twentieth and twenty-first century philosophical treatments of Augustine’s ontology, as well as more theological and literary treatments of Augustine’s readings of Scripture, the second argues for a fundamental harmony between metaphysics and Scripture in the Augustinian world. The third shows how Pascal uses Augustine’s political thought to argue that a stable society can exist only when its members systematically misapprehend the true character of power and treat force as worth. Finally, Hannah Arendt and Kant are juxtaposed to argue for the possibility of constructing a new democratic theory that will benefit as much from revisiting its Augustinian roots as it will by creatively (re)reading its Kantian heritage. John Penniman, Emory University “Seek More Profitable Sights”: Augustine, Secular Spectatorship, and the Spectacula of the Church Jeffrey Biebighauser, University of Nottingham Pagan Sacraments? Ontology and Theurgy in Augustine William D. Wood, University of Notre Dame Power, Deception, and the Political Imagination in Blaise Pascal’s Pensées Eric Bugyis, Yale University From Augustinian Appetitus to Kantian Urteilskraft in the Political Thought of Hannah Arendt Business Meeting: Robert P. Kennedy, St. Francis Xavier University, Presiding
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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A1-111 Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Tat-siong Benny Liew, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding Theme: Bible and the Arts: Reception of the Bible, Its Invocations and Applications in the Arts, within the Context of Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities in the United States This session examines the reception of the Bible, its invocations and applications in the arts, within the context of racial, ethnic, and indigenous communities in the United States. Hugh Rowland Page, University of Notre Dame The Bible and Africana Esoterism—Toward an Architectonic for Interdisciplinary Study Charlene Moore Cooper, Howard University Musical Interpretations of Biblical Passages: The African American Influence Valerie Bridgeman Davis, Memphis Theological Seminary “When You Have Forgotten Sunday”: Biblical Overtures in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks and Other African American Women Business Meeting: Tat-siong Benny Liew, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding
A1-114
Cultural History of the Study of Religion Group and Indigenous Religious Traditions Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Representing and Performing Indigenous Religions in Drama, Ethnography, and State Spectacle
A1-115
Ecclesiological Investigations Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Consensus Statements on the Church: What Remains Divisive?
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
A1-116
Korean Religions Group and World Christianity Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Women and Christianity in East Asia
A1-117
Practical Theology Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: The Use of Power in Arenas of Practical Theology
A1-118
Qur’an Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Omid Safi, University of North Carolina, Presiding Theme: The Disobedient Prophet? Tensions between Qur’anic Verses and Prophetic Practice Muslim scholars rely on the practice of Muhammad in order to explain legal Qur’anic verses and assume that they are always in harmony, even when Qur’anic prescriptions and Prophetic practice appear to be at variance. This panel will examine the tensions created by the dissonance between Qur’anic prescriptions and Prophetic practice through four papers. The first paper explores the broad theoretical debate concerning the legal relevance of the Prophetic practice, and the other three papers
A1-112
Confucian Traditions Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Confucian Ethics: A Panel Discussion on New Directions in the Field
A1-113
Contemporary Pagan Studies Group and Religion and Popular Culture Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Talking with the Dead
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investigate these tensions by looking at case studies wherein a Prophetic practice consciously departed from severe legal prescriptions in the Qur’an. The three case studies are the Prophet’s disregard for the Qur’anic injunction to kill the Meccan polytheists when he conquered Mecca (Q. 9:5), the Prophet’s personal qualms with the prescription of wife-beating (Q. 4:34), and the Prophet’s reticence in applying corporal punishment for illicit sexual intercourse as mandated in the Qur’an (Q. 24:2). Jonathan Brown, University of Washington Is the Devil in the Details? Tension between Minimalism and Comprehensiveness in the Production of Religious Law in the Life of the Prophet Rumee Ahmed, University of Virginia To Forgive Is Human, to Slay Divine: Muhammad’s Response to an Imperative to “Slay the Pagans Wherever You Find Them” (Q. 9:5) Ayesha Chaudhry, New York University “I Wanted One Thing and God Wanted Another”: The Dilemma of the Prophetic Example and the Qur’anic Injunction on Wife-Beating Scott Lucas, University of Arizona “Perhaps You Only Kissed Her?”: Muhammad’s Attitude to Sexual Crimes in Sunni Hadith Literature Responding: Kecia Ali, Boston University Business Meeting: Gordon D. Newby, Emory University and Frederick M. Denny, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding
A1-120
Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Marla J. Selvidge, University of Central Missouri, Presiding Theme: Teaching Peace Drop by our session for reports on how people around the globe are integrating peace strategies into their curricula. There will be case studies from seminaries in Chicago about how they are using transforming strategies to teach peace. Netpeace is an organization that brings together non-religious and religious individuals with hopes of making peace. Others will help us to understand how to communicate in a nonviolent way or to integrate peace topics into the academic study of religions. Le Anne Clausen, Chicago Theological Seminary Unauthorized Peacemaking: Transforming Seminaries and Healing the World (Influences and Early Lessons from the Center for Faith and Peacemaking) Anna Halafoff, Monash University Netpeace: Multifaith and Secular-religious Networks for Common Security Elizabeth N. Agnew, Ball State University Needs and “Nonviolent Communication”: Peacemaking and the Religious Studies Curriculum Atalia Omer, Harvard University Religious Studies and the Study of Religion and Peacebuilding Heidi Tauscher, Emory University Atlanta World Pilgrims: An Interfaith Pedagogy for Peacemaking, Interreligious Cooperation, and Social Activism Business Meeting: Jon Pahl, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia and Marla J. Selvidge, University of Central Missouri, Presiding
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
A1-119
Reformed Theology and History Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: The Significance of Confession in the Reformed Tradition
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A1-121 Schleiermacher Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Brent Sockness, Stanford University, Presiding Theme: Schleiermacher Studies in Germany/ Europe: New Avenues and Vistas This year’s session will consist of a panel of invited German scholars reflecting on recent trends in Schleiermacher scholarship in Europe. How has our understanding of Schleiermacher as theologian, philosopher, and humanist changed as a result of the Schleiermacher Critical Edition and the recent renaissance in Schleiermacher studies? What sort of concerns, approaches, and theoretical paradigms are framing German scholarship on Schleiermacher? How might they compare to those of North American scholarship? Panelists will be asked to assess the state of scholarship in various regions of Schleiermacher’s oeuvre. This session will be an encore to an international conference on “Schleiermacher, the Study of Religion, and the Future of Theology,” organized by the chair of AAR Schleiermacher Group in consultation with the German Schleiermacher-Gesellschaft, co-sponsored by Stanford University and the University of Chicago Divinity School, and held in Swift Hall, Hyde Park, Oct. 29-31, 2008. Panelists: Andreas Arndt, Freie Universitaet Berlin Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, University of Munich Eilert Herms, University of Tuebingen Cornelia Richter, Philipps-Universität Marburg Jan Rohls, University of Munich
A1-123
Western Esotericism Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Allison P. Coudert, University of California, Davis, Presiding Theme: Esotericism and the Visual Imagination
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
Western esoteric movements, currents, and ideas are frequently depicted in visual images and constructions (in painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, film, etc.). These images are often rooted in past traditions while at the same time reflecting current cultural preoccupations. The five papers in this panel will investigate the forms these images/ imaginings take on and the reasons which may account for their use and significance in various works from the sixteenth century to the present day. Joyce Pijnenburg, University of Amsterdam The Role of Mental Imagery in Giordano Bruno’s German Period Work Sean McGrath, University of Toronto Hermetic Illustrations in the Dutch Editions of Jakob Boehme Tessel Bauduin, University of Amsterdam “Entrée des Médiums”: Mediumistic Art and Technique in Surrealism Melvyn Draper, University of California, Davis The Modern Magus: Austin Osman Spare and the Visible Underworld of the Soul Matthew Rogers, Northwestern University “By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth”: Comic Book Occultism and Excursus Religion
A1-122
Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Theology and Materialism
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Animals and Religion Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Heather Eaton, St. Paul University, Presiding Theme: “Real” Animals and Religion From a variety of religious studies interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, this group of papers addresses issues of “real” animals. Recognizing the significance of animals in symbolic categories, the Animals and Religion Consultation seeks to push the boundaries of the binary of “human-animal” by asking how “real” animals—living, functioning, acting—exist or not exist in religious traditions. From a Mongolian camel to a cow in Luther’s eyes, we ponder these possibilities. Esther D. Reed, University of Exeter Animals in Orthodox Iconography Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Eternal Bonds: Pet Memorial Rituals and Conceptualizations of the Afterlife of Pets in Contemporary Japan David Clough, University of Chester The Anxiety of the Human Animal: Martin Luther on Animality and the Image of God Anne Marie Dalton, St Mary’s University Animals in Mongolian Tradition: The Case of “The Weeping Camel” Responding: Paul Waldau, Tufts University Business Meeting: Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University, Presiding
“Of a Spiritual Kind and Not of a Material Kind”: The Dematerialization of Buddhism in NineteenthCentury America Helen J. Baroni, University of Hawaii, Manoa Love, Roshi: Correspondence between Robert Baker Aitken and His “Distant Correspondents” Ann Gleig, Rice University After the Ecstasy, the Laundry? The Incorporation of the Personal and the Sacralization of the Everyday in American Vipassana Buddhism Business Meeting: Jeff Wilson, University of Waterloo, Presiding
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Christianity and Academia Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Diana Akiyama, Occidental College, Presiding Theme: Book Discussion of Beaty and Henry, The Schooled Heart: Moral Formation in American Higher Education (Baylor University Press, 2007) In the first decade of the twenty-first century, new questions are being raised about the prospect of reintegrating moral formation into the curriculum of institutions of higher education in both public and private contexts. The book The Schooled Heart: Moral Formation in Higher Education, edited with an introduction by Michael Beaty and Douglas Henry, brings together a set of eight essays that challenge the presumption that moral formation should not be part of the curriculum. The panelists will offer perspectives about the contributions that explore American Higher Education’s “unschooled heart” as well as assess the potential for proposals using “Christian resources for moral formation in the academy.” Panelists: Michael G. Cartwright, University of Indianapolis Mark Schwehn, Valparaiso University Philip Linden, Xavier University of Louisiana Responding: Nicholas Meriwether, Shawnee State University Douglas M. Henry, Tualatin, OR Business Meeting: David S. Cunningham, Hope College
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Buddhism in the West Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am David McMahan, Franklin and Marshall College, Presiding Theme: American Buddhism Revisited Scott Mitchell, Institute of Buddhist Studies The End of American Buddhism: Toward a Transnational Perspective Jocelyn Newsome, Claremont Graduate University
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A1-127 Cognitive Science of Religion Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Ann Taves, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Cognitive Science of Religion: What Is It and Why Is It Important? Strengthened by breakthroughs in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) has become a recognizable, fruitful field within the past ten years in scholarly circles. Further, issues addressed by this field are gaining momentum in the popular sphere in part due to anti-religious appropriation. But is CSR necessarily anti-theological, or can the field’s momentum be harnessed to maximize the scientific potential of CSR, and to engage theological perspectives in a mutually productive, instead of antagonistic, manner? This session inaugurates the new Cognitive Science of Religion Consultation by introducing the CSR approach, identifying tensions within it, examining its philosophical and theological implications, and exploring its potential to change the manner in which we study religion. Two target papers will be followed by four short responses from leading figures in the field, with most of the session reserved for questions and discussion. Harvey Whitehouse, Queen’s University, Belfast Explaining Religion Gabriel Levy, University of Aarhus Non-reductive Cognitive Science of Religion: A Developmental Systems Theory Approach Responding: Justin Barrett, Oxford University Robert N. McCauley, Emory University Roger Trigg, University of Oxford Joseph Bulbulia, Princeton University
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Liberation Theologies Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Thia Cooper, Gustavus Adolphus College, Presiding Theme: Liberation Theologies for the Twenty-first Century What does liberation theology mean in and for the twenty-first century? This panel of liberationists will engage their particular contexts (economics, politics, sex, gender, ethnicity, race, environment, etc.) with the themes of cross-over dialogue—between contexts and between disciplines; and reflection on the implications of liberationist discourse for the transformation of theology as a whole—both methodologically and theologically. Panelists: Rosemary R. Ruether, Claremont Graduate University George E. Tinker, Denver, CO Ivan Petrella, University of Miami Benjamin Valentin, Andover Newton Theological School Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Drew University Emilie M. Townes, Yale University Business Meeting: Thia Cooper, Gustavus Adolphus College, Presiding
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group and Religion and Sexuality Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Purity and Redemption: Practices of Sexual Bodies and Body Politics
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Religion Education in Public Schools: International Perspectives Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Tim Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, Presiding Theme: Religion Education in Public Schools in Europe, the United States, and Japan A comparative discussion of religion education in state-sponsored schools in Europe, Japan, and the United States. Robert Jackson, University of Warwick Teaching about Religions in European Public Education: Recent Developments in the European Commission, the Council of Europe, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Wanda Alberts, University of Bremen Teaching and Learning about Religion(s) in Secular School Contexts Jeffrey Thibert, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign Strengthening the Argument for Religious Education in American Public Schools (With a Little Help from Our International Friends) Erik Owens, Boston College Can/Should American Public Schools Teach Religious Freedom? Koichi Mori, Doshisha University Religious and Citizenship Education in Public Schools in Japan: A Comparison with the United States Business Meeting: Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico, Presiding
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Religion, Public Policy, and Political Change Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Darryl Michael Trimiew, Medgar Evers College, Presiding Theme: Prophets and Politics This session considers constructive proposals for understanding and developing new perspectives on the role of prophetic discourse in political and public policy debates. Each of the three papers draws on interdisciplinary analysis in order to challenge and to expand traditional characterizations of prophetic language. Two of the papers explore the role of prophetic discourse within religious traditions that have not received significant consideration for their prophetic contributions to political life, Pentecostal and Evangelical Christianity. The third paper proposes a form of “dialogical” prophetic speech with the intention making prophetic discourse more relevant to the strategic dimensions of political life. Paul Alexander, Azusa Pacific University Pentecostal Prophetic Protestimony and Political Discourse Darryl Stephens, Emory University Mimicking the Mainline: An “Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility” as Heir to the Social Gospel? John Senior, Emory University Prophetic Listening as Grounded Hope
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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A1-132 Space, Place, and Religious Meaning Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Joanne Punzo Waghorne, Syracuse University, Presiding Theme: The Physical, the Material, and the Aural in US Religious Spaces The study of religion has been expanding to consider not only texts and oral sources gathered through fieldwork, but the role of space and place for understanding the meaning and significance of religion for historical and living communities. This consultation makes use this year of historical and contemporary ethnography to locate religion physically, materially, and aurally in both urban and rural environments in North America. We present visual and tactile expressions marking religious space and place in the form of material culture, folk art, architecture, pilgrimage, public and private display events, as well as the significance of situating religious space in the ever-present, but often over-looked and under-studied, world of human-produced sound. Thomas E. Frank, Emory University Historic Houses of Worship in Community Memory and Imagination Brian C. R. Zugay, Texas Tech University “You’re Trying to Make Episcopalians of Us”: Using Organizational Analysis to Understand Architectural Change in the Disciples of Christ, 1922-1946 Airen Hall, Syracuse University Religious World-Making: Pilgrimage and Scriptural Narrative in the Construction of Latter-Day Saint Sacred Space Joseph Sciorra, Queens College Built with Faith: Place Making and the Religious Imagination in Italian New York City Business Meeting: Jeanne Halgren Kilde, University of Minnesota, Presiding
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Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Kate Ott, Religious Institute, Presiding Theme: Keeping The Light: Third Wave Feminist Teaching and Activism This panel explores women’s experiences as religious scholars committed to feminism in their teaching, scholarship, and activism. It features a variety of women scholars of the next generation who are committed to making connections between the feminisms they teach in the classroom, explore in their scholarship, and practice in communities through social activism. In spite of the life work of many foremothers, the Academy tends to discourage scholarship and teaching that reflects upon feminist principles and does not require connections to communities of struggle. This panel engages scholars interested in wrestling with the disconnect between academic value and the feminist scholarship that embodies feminist activism. This panel is unique in that it signals a shift in waves of feminism and attempts to reach out to the fourth generation of feminist. As such, it models collaborative work necessary among women in religion who engage the work of feminism in scholarship and activism. Panelists: Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University Nami Kim, Spelman College Aana Vigen, Loyola University Chicago Malinda Berry, Union Theological Seminary, New York Business Meeting: Shannon Craigo-Snell, Yale University, Presiding
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Transhumanism and Religion Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Calvin Mercer, East Carolina University, Presiding Theme: Perspectives on Human Enhancement “Transhumanism” or “human enhancement” refers to an intellectual and cultural movement that advocates the use of a variety of emerging technologies. The convergence of these technologies may make it possible to take control of human evolution, providing for the enhancement of human mental and physical abilities and the amelioration of aspects of the human condition regarded as undesirable. If these enhancements become widely available, it could have a more radical impact than any other development in human history—one need only reflect briefly on the economic, political, and social implications of some of the extreme enhancement possibilities. The implications for religion and the religious dimensions of human enhancement technologies are enormous and will be discussed in this session’s papers. Todd Daly, Urbana Theological Seminary Returning to Eden: Reflections on the Transhumanist Vision of Extended Life with Respect to the Ascetic Tradition in the Desert Fathers Jennifer Thweatt-Bates, Princeton Theological Seminary The Glorified Body? Transhumanist Dualism and Theological Anthropology Philip Douglas, Michigan State University Brain Uploading: The Transhumanist Quest for Immortality Stephen Garner, University of Auckland Constructing a Theology of Technology in Response to Transhumanism Responding: Ted Peters, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary Business Meeting: Calvin Mercer, East Carolina University, Presiding
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Colloquium on Violence and Religion
9:00 am-11:30 am Martha Reineke, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding Theme: For the Exploration, Criticism, and Development of René Girard’s Mimetic Theory 9:00 am Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University Book Presentation: Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice Responding: Thomas Wilson, Hamilton College 10:10 am Break 10:20 am Mark Heim, Andover Newton Theological School Book Presentation: Saved From Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross Responding: Józef Niewiadomski, University of Innsbruck Discussion will follow each presentation/ response Questions: contact martha.reineke@uni.edu.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: 2008 Presidential Address and Business Meeting 9:00 am Mary Frohlich, Catholic Theological Union at Chicago Under the Sign of Jonah: Studying Spirituality in a Time of Ecosystemic Crisis 10:30 am Business Meeting Arthur G. Holder, Graduate Theological Union, President-elect, Presiding All are most welcome. For more information, please contact Anita Houck, Secretary, at ahouck@saintmarys.edu.
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M1-106 North American Association for the Study of Religion
9:00 am-11:30 am Bryan Rennie, Westminster College, Presiding Theme: Religious Institutions in the Context of Finance Market Capitalism Terry Rey and Suzanne Parlier, Temple University What Is Religious Capital? Looking for Answers from Bourdieu to Stark SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Anne Koch, University of Munich Neo-Institutionalist Theses on a German Regional Yoga-market Jeremy Carrette, University of Kent Global Institutions, Religious NGOs, and the United Nations: A Study of Quaker (Religious Society of Friends) Economic and Political Influence Rachel McCleary, Harvard University Religion and Economic Development: A Two-Way Causation
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Karl Barth Society of North America
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Panel Discussion on Nicea and Its Legacy by Lewis Ayres Panelists: Paul Molnar, St. John’s University Kathryn Greene-McCreight, New Haven, CT Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University Responding: Lewis Ayres, Duke University
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Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
9:00 am-11:30 am John Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Female Authority and Religious Power in Hindu Traditions: A Reappraisal of Grace Jantzen’s Power, Gender, and Christian Mysticism David Buchta, University of Pennsylvania An Honorary Male or an Honorary Non-female? Baladeva Vidyabhusana on Gargi Vacaknavi Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier, Loyola Marymount University Engendering the “Mysticism” of the Alvars Michelle Voss Roberts, Rhodes College Power, Gender, and the Classification of a Kashmir Saiva Mystic Antoinette E. DeNapoli, Emory University “Crossing over the Ocean of Existence”: “Mystical Experience” and Religious Authority amongst the Female Hindu Sadhus of Rajasthan Responding: Ella Johnson, University of St. Michael’s College Panelists will make brief remarks based on abbreviated papers to make room for audience participation. Full papers will be made available in advance on the HCS listserv. To get copies (after Oct. 15), please email: reid.locklin@ utoronto.ca. 11:00 Business Meeting
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North American Paul Tillich Society
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Evangelical Responses to Tillich David Barbee, University of Pennsylvania What Would Paul Tillich Do? A Tillichian Contribution to Evangelical Ethics Carlos Bovell, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto Can an Evangelical Say That God Does Not Exist? Christopher A. Stephenson, Marquette University Symbol, Sacrament, and Spirit(s): Paul Tillich in Pentecostal Theology Robison B. James, University of Richmond and Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond Three Ways Tillich Can Help Evangelicals Be Biblical
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Chicago Architecture Walking Tour
9:00 am-12:45 pm Sponsored by AAR and the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies Robin Jensen, Vanderbilt University, Presiding The tour has been organized by SARTS member Judith Dupré, noted author of Skyscrapers (1996), Bridges (1997), Churches (2001) and Monuments (2007). The tour begins with a brief reception led by a design partner at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, a pre-eminent Chicago architecture firm. Next, a walking tour of nearby Chicago landmarks will include Millennium Park; the Chicago Tribune Tower, Marina City, and Chicago’s newest skyscraper, the Trump International Tower. The tour is free, but registration is limited. See form on page 11.
A1-137 Plenary Address
11:45 am-12:45 pm Emilie M. Townes, Yale University, Presiding Theme: Exploring the Soul of the Human Community Poet Nikky Finney, a native of South Carolina, is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Kentucky. She is also a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, a community-based writing collective that, as the name suggests, acknowledges and celebrates the role African Americans have played in the development of the culture of Appalachia. Finney is the author of a collection of short stories and two books of poetry, Wings Made of Gauze and Rice. She and her work are also featured in a video about the Affrilachian Poets, Coal Black Voices. Panelists: Nikky Finney, University of Kentucky
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Toxics to Treasures: Environmental Justices Tour of Lake Calumet Bus Tour
9:00 am-12:45 pm David Aftandilian, University of Chicago, Presiding The Lake Calumet region on the far south side of Chicago provides a stunning example of the extremes of nature and culture in our industrialized world. On this bus tour led by community activists, we will see the lows and highs of the Calumet region’s industrial and natural history, and hear about the efforts of local residents to fight dumping and advocate for sustainable development of their neighborhoods. Sites to be visited on the tour may include Dead Stick Pond (familiar to fans of mystery writer Sara Paretsky), Big Marsh and the adjacent Acme Steel Coke Plant, the abandoned but soon to be redeveloped US Steel South Works site, as well as numerous dump sites and wetlands in the process of being restored. Tour fee: $30. See form on page 11.
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Special Topics Forum
11:45 am-1:00 pm Sponsored by the Graduate Student Committee and the American Theological Library Association Nichole Phillips, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: ATLA Graduate Student Luncheon: Careers beyond the Academy The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) and the AAR Gradate Student Committee cordially invite all doctoral students attending the Annual Meeting to gather for a panel conversation about the full spectrum of careers for those with advanced degrees in Religious Studies. PhD graduates will discuss their experiences working in fields outside of university teaching. The purpose of the luncheon is to provide a relaxed atmosphere for advanced graduate students to discuss very real questions about their future within the field. Attendance is limited to the first 100 students who register. Please see the Online AAR Program Book for more information about this session.
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Saturday, 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
A1-200 Special Topics Forum
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee Colleen McDannell, University of Utah, Presiding Theme: Religion in the World of Museums America’s museums have become important conduits for the dissemination of cultural information. They have also become sites of conflict as curators, artists, historians, and the museum-going public interact over what should be placed in museums and how it should be interpreted. This panel explores the ways museum curators and their staff assemble exhibitions that deal with religious topics. What are the politics involved with displaying religion? What happens behind the scenes? The panelists will discuss who creates educational materials, how they design art and historical exhibitions, and in what ways they involve (or ignore) community members. What does the museum world want us to think about when we look at representations of religion? Panelists: Elizabeth Pope, Art Institute of Chicago Jill Grannan, Chicago History Museum Gretchen Buggeln, Valparaiso University Responding: Sally M. Promey, Yale University
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Wildcard Session
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Creston Davis, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: On the Relation between A/Theism and the Political; or, The Political Theology of the Void, Parmenides, and St. Paul Alain Badiou, University of Paris St. Paul and the Politics of the Void Ernesto Laclau, Northwestern University The Multiple and Hegemony: Badiou’s “Void” and the Via Negativa Kenneth Reinhard, University of California, Los Angeles There is Something of One (God): Lacan and Political Theology Mark C. Taylor, Columbia University Holy Terror: A Political Ontology Responding: Slavoj Žižek, University of Ljubljana Kenneth Surin, Duke University
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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Buddhism Section and Women and Religion Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: The New Nun’s Movement in Buddhism: Challenges, Debates, and Promise
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Ethics Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Engineering Life: Current Issues in Biomedical Ethics
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Religion and Politics Section and Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary’s College of California, Presiding Jon Pahl, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Presiding Theme: Pluralism and Peacemaking This panel brings together a distinguished lineup of scholars working at the intersections of peacemaking and interfaith religious activism, to present a variety of perspectives on the important role that religion(s) have to play in envisioning a pluralistic and peaceful future. Eboo Patel draws on sociological literature to call for a robust interfaith youth movement. Helene Slessarev-Jamir explores the tradition of prophetic activism as a counter to the hegemonic narrative of the United States as a Christian empire, emphasizing the importance of the American church as a contested space in the struggle over alternate visions of an inclusive global future. Philip P. Arnold provides an in-depth study of one particular example of pluralism and peacemaking, the Roots of Peacemaking: Indigenous Values, Global Crisis held at Onondaga Lake in New York, which has been hosted by Syracuse University in collaboration with the Onondaga Nation, since 2005. Ellen Van Stichel and Julianne Funk Deckard bring together Catholic theology and peacebuilding theory to offer a view of religious and political as mutually enriching and complementary elements for pursuing the common good. Susan B. Thistlethwaite explores the ways in which issues of war, peace, pluralism, and secularism have manifested themselves in the current US presidential election campaign. Ebrahim Patel, Interfaith Youth Core The Kids Are Alright: Young People, Religious Extremism, and the Interfaith Movement Helene Slessarev-Jamir, Claremont School of Theology Prophetic Activism in an Age of Empire Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University Roots of Peacemaking: Indigenizing America at Onondaga Lake
Ellen Van Stichel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Political and Religious Motivations for CrossFertilization: Peace and a Catholic Theological Perspective Susan B. Thistlethwaite, Chicago Theological Seminary War and Pluralism
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Religion and the Social Sciences Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Recent Authors Analyze Religion, Politics, and the Election SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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Religion in South Asia Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: The Divine Child in South Asian Religious Traditions
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Study of Islam Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Competing Social Imaginaries in South Asian Islam: Perspectives on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Reformist and Revivalist Movements
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Theology and Religious Reflection Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Religion, Capital, and Globalization
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A1-209 African Religions Group and Hinduism Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm T. S. Rukmani, Concordia University, Presiding Theme: Hinduism in Africa: Adaptation and Integration This session explores the various changes in Hindu practice in the context of diaspora in Africa, and interactions between Hinduism and local religious traditions. The papers address different periods up to the present, and deal with cases from South Africa, East Africa, and Ghana. The unifying themes are the historical forces determining the introduction of Hindu traditions in various African settings, the integration both of religious ideas and practices and of the communities that preserve them, and the interactions and transformations of Hindu and native African traditions in this plural religious matrix. P. Pratap Kumar, University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa Patterns of Immigration and Hindu Practices and Beliefs in South Africa and East Africa Paul Younger, McMaster University Sanskritization of Hindu Ritual in NineteenthCentury South Africa Albert K Wuaku, Florida International University Hindu Influence and Local Appropriations in the Ghanaian Religious Field Usha Shukla, University of KwaZulu-Natal Contemporary Role of the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas among South African Hindus
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Bible, Theology, and Postmodernity Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Eucharist and Leviticus
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Black Theology Group, Men’s Studies in Religion Group, and Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Gendered Conversations between Black Females and Males
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Buddhist Philosophy Group and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: The Uttaratantra Debate: Examining Competing Claims Regarding the Significance of the Uttaratantra in Classical Tibetan Buddhist Literature
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Chinese Religions Group and Daoist Studies Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Practices of Transformation in Daoist Ritual
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Comparative Religious Ethics Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Anne E. Monius, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Moral Anthropology in South Asia This panel of papers seeks to explore the intersections of anthropological work and the study of ethics in South Asia. Our fundamental questions are these: in what way do the insights of anthropology sustain, nuance, and at times subvert our understanding of “ethics” in South Asia as derived from textual sources, and vice versa? How do people become certain kinds of selves, engaging in, resisting, and adapting
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Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Negotiating Inclusion and Exclusion
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the cultural norms of dharma? How are people disciplined by the manifold idioms of their South Asian cultures—by story, narrative, by dreams, ritual, aesthetics, and memories, by the distinctive patterns of kinship and social relationships within particular social worlds at particular times? Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University Tricking God: Alternative Moralities in a Harsh Climate Maria Heim, Amherst College How to Be Good: Intention and Motivation in Buddhist Stories Leela Prasad, Duke University Time, Timing, and Tellability: On the Making of Ethical Subjects in Narration Responding: Emily Hudson, Harvard University Business Meeting: Aaron D. Stalnaker, Indiana University, Bloomington, Presiding
various trajectories for the twenty-first century. Panelists: Maria Pilar Aquino, University of San Diego John Burdick, Syracuse University Gustavo Gutierrez, Lima, Peru Sylvia Marcos, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, and Claremont Graduate University Manuel Vasquez, University of Florida
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Law, Religion, and Culture Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Winnifred Sullivan, State University of New York, Buffalo, Presiding Theme: Mark deWolfe Howe, The Garden and the Wilderness (University of Chicago Press, 1965) Mark deWolfe Howe’s The Garden and the Wilderness was published in 1965. Notwithstanding the many subsequent judicial and scholarly developments in First Amendment religion clause jurisprudence, this slim volume remains among the best efforts to consider seriously the inter-related histories of law and religion in the United States. Because of the political and scholarly polarization on this subject, however, Howe’s book is too often read with present debates in mind, assigning him to the “pro-religion” camp. Howe’s argument is more subtle and more complex than such an assignment would imply. This panel will bring together scholars of American legal and religious history to speak about the importance of Howe’s reading of constitutional law respecting religion for their own work and for the collective work of understanding the story of law and religion in the United States. Panelists: Elizabeth Dale, University of Chicago Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University W. Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago Sarah Gordon, University of Pennsylvania William Novak, University of Chicago Randall G. Styers, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Business Meeting: Robert A. Yelle, University of Memphis, Presiding
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Contemporary Pagan Studies Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Polytheism in Practice
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Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group and Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Carmen Marie Nanko-Fernandez, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Medellin at Forty: Rethinking Liberation Theology’s “Church of the Poor” in the Age of Globalization The gathering of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) at Medellin, Columbia in 1968 has been called the birth site of the theology of liberation. This panel evaluates the impact of Medellin on religious belief and practice in Latin America and explores the legacy of the conference for the continent, looking at how it shaped and defined the current religious landscape. This panel of distinguished theologians and scholars will revisit the origins of the movement, describe its continued relevance, assess its effects on the ground for ordinary people, and outline its
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A1-219 Mysticism Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm June McDaniel, College of Charleston, Presiding Theme: The Stages of Mystical Development The four papers in this session will examine how a variety of mystics and scholars of mysticism have understood the progress of spiritual development. The papers will explore benchmarks and roadmaps of mystical transformation. They include mystical journeys in patristic and medieval Christianity, and understandings of mystical development in Gaudiya Vaishnava and Western philosophy. Katherine Rousseau, University of Colorado, Denver Bodies and Maps: The Sensory Journey in the Apocalypse of Paul John Reardon, Fordham University Do Different Mystical Experiences Interrelate as Developmental Stages? Revisiting R.C. Zaehner’s Theory of Mysticism Ann M. Caron, St. Joseph College Christian Medieval Women Mystics: Spiritual Senses and Stages of Mystical Development Travis Chilcott, University of California, Santa Barbara Religious Practice, Doctrines, and the Production of Mystical States Business Meeting: Laura Weed, College of Saint Rose, Presiding
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Platonism and Neoplatonism Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Gregory Shaw, Stonehill College, Presiding Theme: The Role of Myth in Platonic/Pythagorean Traditions The Platonism and Neoplatonism Group welcomes all members of the AAR to our exploration of the role of myth in Platonic and Pythagorean traditions. These traditions combine highly discursive exercises, often focused on texts, with the full awareness that the wisdom to which they aspire is transmitted not by rational thought or language but by symbol and myth. The mythic basis underlying these traditions allowed for a wide divergence of doctrinal expressions depending on the cultural and religious context in which they developed. Our papers will explore this mythic dimension, the hidden continuity of Platonism, from Pythagorean questions of metempsychosis, to Renaissance philosophers’ influence on art, to the Platonism underlying American independence and its continued influence through nineteenth-century Transcendentalists. Papers will be available electronically prior to the meeting through contacting the co-chairs (Gregory Shaw, gshaw@stonehill.edu; Willemien Otten, wotten@uchicago.edu). Time of each presentation is limited to 15 minutes to allow for discussion. David U.B. Liu, Duke University Ethical Onthologies in Plato, Plotinus, and Pico R.D. Hedley, University of Cambridge Vico, Myth, and the Neoplatonic Inheritance Louise Hickman, Newman University College, Birmingham Casting Out Hagar: Platonism, Liberalism, and the Origins of American Independence Arthur Versluis, Michigan State University Ralph Waldo Emerson and Platonism
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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Native Traditions in the Americas Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Sacred Spaces and Sacred Places
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Nineteenth-Century Theology Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Creation and Design in NineteenthCentury Theology
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Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm David Lamberth, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Roberto Unger: Pragmatism Unbound (Harvard University Press, 2007) Roberto Unger’s latest book, The Self-Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound, proposes to make explicit the revolutionary implications of pragmatism in contemporary quests for justice. This panel examines not only Unger’s claims about “radicalizing” pragmatism but seeks to explore the implications of his ideas for the study of religion. Elesha Coffman, Duke University ”Faith in Quest of a Philosophy”: Charles Clayton Morrison, the University of Chicago, and The Christian Century T.L. Gray, Boston University Exploring the Theological Implications of Unger’s Radicalized Pragmatism Ronald Kuipers, Institute for Christian Studies Turning Memory into Prophecy: Roberto Unger and Paul Ricoeur between Past and Future Responding: William David Hart, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Business Meeting: Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University, Presiding
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Roman Catholic Studies Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: The Changing Parish: Interdisciplinary Approaches
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Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Claire Katz, Texas A & M University, Presiding Theme: On the Neighbor Sean Dempsey, Boston University The View from Elsewhere: Literature and the Neighbor Joseph Ballan, University of Chicago Franz Rosenzweig’s Philosophy of the Two: Powers of Relation and Substitution Colleen Windham, University of California, Santa Barbara Monstrous Equality: Neighbor-Love and Indifference in Arendt and Žižek Kim Hee-Kyung, Boston University The Oppressed and the Courage to Believe in SelfLove in Order to Love Thy Neighbor
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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Wesleyan Studies Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Douglas M. Strong, Seattle Pacific University, Presiding Theme: Wesleyans and Sexuality Christopher J. Anderson, Drew University Miss America and Methodism: Twentieth-Century Beauty Pageants as Christian Mission Darryl Stephens, Emory University Clerical Maladministration and Sexual Sins: Cautionary Parallels in Twentieth-Century Methodism Regarding Divorce and Homosexuality Elaine A. Heath, Southern Methodist University Swallowing Life: Eucharistic Healing and the Shame of Sexual Abuse Responding: Pamela Couture, Saint Paul School of Theology Business Meeting: Rex D. Matthews, Emory University, Presiding
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Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: After September 11: Psychological and Religious Reflections on Terror and Anxiety
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Religion, Media, and Culture Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Current Directions in Religion and Media Studies
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A1-230 Contemporary Islam Consultation
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Malika Zeghal, University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: Contemporary ‘Ulama: Approaches to Reform, Critique, and Dialogue Aside from a few notable exceptions, within the Academy the work of the Muslim religious scholarly class has been sidelined in favor of studying political (Islamist) and Salafi trends. The assumption seems to be that the ‘ulama, or traditionalist scholars, are simply a relic of the past, and their work static and devoid of relevance and creative energy. By critically examining the work of ‘ulama in both the Sunni and Shi‘i traditions, and focusing on scholars in South Asia, Iran, and the Middle East, we hope to highlight the dynamism inherent within the work of modern ‘ulama, and to search for important parallels and divergences across these various articulations of traditionalist Muslim scholarship. By showing how contemporary scholars have dealt with issues of gender, reform, modern media, interfaith dialogue, and methodological integrity, we hope to foster a healthy discussion on the work of contemporary ‘ulama in the Muslim world. Liyakat Takim, University of Denver Revival of Religious Thought: The Re-evaluation of Classical Texts by Contemporary Shi‘i Jurists Jawad Qureshi, University of Chicago Abūl Ḥasan Alī Nadwī’s (d. 1999) Essay Political Interpretation of Islam: A Sunnī Religious Scholar’s Critique of Islamist Conceptions of Religion Fareeha Khan, University of Michigan Maulana Ashraf ‘Ali Thanawi on the Permissibility of Women’s Leadership Nuri Friedlander, Harvard University The Mufti and the Media: How Muslim Scholars Use Mass Media and the Reactions They Inspire Joseph Lumbard, Brandeis University A Common Word Responding: Muhammad Khalid Masud, Council of Islamic Ideology Business Meeting: Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University, Presiding, Presiding
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Music and Religion Consultation
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Philip Stoltzfus, University of St. Thomas, Presiding Theme: Improvisation: Chicago and Beyond Awet Andemicael, Yale University Secularity in Black Gospel Music: A Theological Consideration Nathan Crawford, Loyola University, Chicago Attunement and the Religious Task: Using a Musical Metaphor to Think about Religion David Wilmington, Baylor University The Devil’s Music Goes to Church: Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts as Inter-community Theological Engagement Katy Scrogin, Claremont Graduate University Religiosity and Non-conformism: The Curious Exception of the Violent Femmes Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University “Ancient to the Future”: Religion and Improvisation in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians Business Meeting: Theodore Trost, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Presiding
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements Consultation
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Heather D. Curtis, Tufts University, Presiding Theme: Pentecostalism and Prosperity: Changing Discourses “Prosperity” and “empowerment” are central themes manifest in the global Pentecostal, charismatic, and renewal movement. This session features four papers which explore these themes especially, albeit not exclusively, in the United States, focusing on their expressions in a plurality of ethnic contexts. Various methodological approaches—theological, anthropological, ethnographic, and historical, among others—will be drawn upon by the presenters in their explorations and assessments of these controversial themes in global Pentecostalism. Michael J. McClymond, Saint Louis University Prosperity Already and Not Yet: An Eschatological Interpretation of the Health and Wealth Teaching in North American Pentecostalism Jonathan L Walton, University of California, Riverside “From the Storefront Margins to the Megachurch Mainstream”: The Influence of the Black Spiritual Movement on Contemporary African-American Protestant Christianity Responding: Gaston Espinosa, Claremont McKenna College Business Meeting: Amos Yong, Regent University, and James D. Smith, Bethel Seminary and University of San Diego, Presiding
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Religion and Colonialism Consultation
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Caleb Elfenbein, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: The “Denaturalization” of the Concept of Religion With an introduction by Richard King, this session explores the conditions giving rise to the “denaturalization” of religion as a concept in the study of religion. Each paper presents different ways of approaching the question, though all share in common the idea that colonial and postcolonial histories (of different forms) provide an ideal space in which to explore how and why “religion” became and functions as an operative analytical concept. Richard King, Vanderbilt University A Few Words on Why the Category of Religion Is Being “Denaturalized” at This Moment in History Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University India within the Bounds of European Discourse— before “Religion” Cassie Adcock, University of Chicago Of Insults and Outrage: The Legal Regulation of Proselytizing in Colonial North India Purushottama Bilimoria, Deakin and Melbourne The Limits of Secular Post-Coloniality: Wedged between Personal Law and Uniform Civil Code Angie Heo, University of California, Berkeley Defining Limits on Church Power: The Politics of Coptic Orthodox Priesthood in Contemporary Egypt Business Meeting: Caleb Elfenbein, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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Queer Theory and LGBT Studies in Religion Consultation
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Queering Culture(s)
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M1-200 Christian Theological Research Fellowship
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Contesting Evangelicalism: Symposium on the Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology Panelists: Timothy Larsen, Wheaton College Roger Olson, Truett Theological Seminary Melissa Wyndy Corbin-Reuschling, Ashland Theological Seminary Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Brite Divinity School What Manner of Woman Is This? Karen Pechilis, Delhi University Thinking beyond Binaries: The Problem with Normative Academic Myths Dianne Stewart, Emory University How to Be Collegial Laura Stivers, Pfeiffer University Sexism in the Academy W. David Nelson, Brite Divinity School Too Close for Comfort: Midrash and Meaning in Theological Education
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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Evangelical Philosophical Society
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Chad Meister, Bethel College, Presiding Theme: Religious Diversity Paul Moser, Loyola University Religious Exclusivism Keith Yandell, University of Wisconsin, Madison The Diversity of Religious Experience Responding: Paul Knitter, Union Theological Seminary
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Special Topics Forum
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Religion in the Schools Task Force Betty A. DeBerg, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding Theme: AAR Guidelines for Teaching about Religion in K-12 Schools The AAR Board of Directors has approved a proposal by the Religion in the Schools Task Force to construct AAR Guidelines for Teaching about Religion in K-12 Schools. This session will focus on the first draft of this threeyear initiative and is intended as an opportunity to solicit feedback from AAR members. These guidelines are written for teachers, administrators, school boards, parents, and other citizens who seek guidance regarding how to teach about religion responsibly. They will complement guidelines put out by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE), where religion is referenced but not elaborated upon. Panelists: Mark Alan Chancey, Southern Methodist University Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico Anne E. Monius, Harvard University
Saturday, 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
A1-300 Special Topics Forum
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Moravian Theological Seminary, Presiding Sponsored by the Status of Women in the Profession Committee and the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee Theme: Making Room, Making Sense: ReVisioning our Fields, Re-Bordering Scholarship Howard Eilberg Schwartz, Memphis, TN Howard’s End? Reflections on Tenure, Knowledge, and Power (and Life after Academia)
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Special Topics Forum
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Graduate Student Committee and the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Annie Blakeney-Glazer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Presiding Theme: “If I Knew Then What I Know Now”: Lessons for the First Year Teaching The first year in a faculty position can be a daunting experience. This special topics forum addresses the teaching component of a faculty member’s life in the academy; bringing together experienced teachers from a variety of institutional settings to share their wisdom on the first years of teaching. Ranging from public research universities to liberal arts colleges to private religious institutions and divinity schools, the four panelists will offer concrete advice on specific topics; from constructing a lecture-based course for a large number of students to engaging students in critical dialogue at faith-affiliated institutions. Following short presentations by the panelists, we will break into small groups and continue our discussions, enabling participants more intimate interaction with panelists whose experiences reflect a particular institutional setting. It is our hope that sharing pedagogical strategies will foster best practices and excellence in teaching religion and theology. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. Responding: Paul Myhre, Wabash Center
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Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University, Presiding Theme: Re-enchantment and Re-connection: On the Relation of Religion and Contemporary Art Has modern art banished the sacred? Does art replace religion in the modern age (the museum replace the church/synagogue/temple)? A few decades ago, Clement Greenberg argued how art and religion have gone their separate ways, and this split should be commended. Meanwhile, others have seen the continued specter of religion haunting the canvases and video screens of contemporary art. This panel takes its cue from such issues, options, opportunities, and questions, offering a variety of suggestions, answers, and perhaps more questions. Distinguished scholars of art history and religious studies (including James Elkins, David Morgan, Norman Girardot, Deborah Haynes, Chris Parr, Brent Plate, and Ena Heller) will come together to discuss the relation between religion and contemporary art. Panelists: David Morgan, Valparaiso University Deborah J. Haynes, University of Colorado, Boulder Christopher Patrick Parr, Webster University Ena Heller, Museum of Bible in Art Norman J. Girardot, Lehigh University James Elkins, Art Institue of Chicago Pictured: Bill Viola: “The Greeting,” 1995, video/sound installation, production still, photo: Kira Perov. Image courtesy of Bill Viola Studio.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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A1-304 Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Comparative Theology Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Deepak Sarma, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding Theme: Axis Chicago: Comparative Study in Hyde Park and Beyond The Divinity School at the University of Chicago has been an axis mundi for comparative studies. With its roots in Wach and Eliade, the “Chicago School” has undergone many births and rebirths. The thinkers in this panel, all linked in some way to the Chicago School, will address the enterprise of comparison as it pertains to their specific sub-discipline. How do words like “religion,” “ethics,” “theology,” and “philosophy” qualify and narrow the meaning of “comparative”? Does “comparative” sustain an interestingly common meaning when it is applied to comparative religion, comparative theology, ethics, and other fields. Are the various fields better off when done comparatively—is comparative theology better than theology? What are the criteria for assessing the advantages and disadvantages of practicing these disciplines as comparative? The four scholars will reflect on these and related issues. Laurie Patton, a student of the Chicago School, will be the respondent. Panelists: Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago Paul Griffiths, Duke University Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University Lee H. Yearley, Stanford University Responding: Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University
A1-306
Religion in South Asia Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Women’s Leadership and Monastic Organization in Theravada Buddhism
A1-307
Study of Islam Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Critical Theory in Practice: Ongoing Projects from the Field
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
A1-308
Teaching Religion Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Dogs and Deceivers: How Metaphors Inform the Practice of Teaching
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Theology and Religious Reflection Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University, Presiding Theme: Dissent, Tradition, and Rights: Religion, Modernity, and Planetary Life in South Asia This interactive panel presentation by contemporary South Asian scholars whose interdisciplinary work bridges analyses of religion, modernity, tradition, development, human and environmental rights, and justice, focuses on contemporary South Asian critical and constructive appraisals of the same. Substantive comments will be made by Vandana Shiva and Tissa Balasuriya. Susan Abraham will join the conversation and elicit questions from the audience for a dialogical presentation. Panelists: Vandana Shiva, Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology Tissa Balasuriya, Centre for Society and Religion, Colombo Susan Abraham, Harvard University
A1-305
Religion and the Social Sciences Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Zora Neale Hurston as Social Scientist and Anthropologist
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Business Meeting: Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University, and Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School, Presiding
Terri Laws, Rice University Agency or Surrogacy? Race, Class, and Gender in Medical Research Recruitment Gerard Mannion, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: What Has Changed in Catholic Teaching and Why? Discerning Constructive Proposals beyond the Impasse Business Meeting: Swasti Bhattacharyya, Buena Vista University, and Aline Kalbian, Florida State University, Presiding
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Afro-American Religious History Group and Mormon Studies Consultation
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: African-Americans and the Latter-Day Saints Church: A Historical Examination
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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Bioethics and Religion Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm George D. Randels, University of the Pacific, Presiding This session focuses on issues that intersect the disciplines of religion, ethics and medicine. The first two papers examine how physicians think and are trained to think about religion in the context of their medical practice. Wendy Cadge presents material on her study of religious attitudes of pediatric oncologists and Denise Dudzinski looks at an innovative interdisciplinary approach to religion in medical education implemented at the University of Washington School of Medicine. The second set of papers deploy some fresh methodological perspectives to examine two relevant topics in bioethics: medical research recruitment and end-of-life decisions. Terri Laws uses womanist theology as a lens for a critical analysis of the recruitment of low-income black women and children for medical research. Gerard Mannion proposes the disability rights perspective as a way to move beyond the impasse in Catholic teaching on artificial nutrition and hydration. Theme: Medical Practice and Religious Belief/ Critical Approaches to Issues in Religion and Bioethics Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University A Barrier or a Bridge: Understandings of Religion amongst Pediatric Oncologists Denise Marie Dudzinski, University of Washington School of Medicine Innovations in Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Practicum in Religion, Bioethics, and Science
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Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group and Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. Consultation
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Willis Jenkins, Yale University, Presiding Jennifer McBride, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King: Receiving Their Legacies for Christian Social Thought This panel considers the legacies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr. for Christian social thought, and discusses the promise and perils of interpreting the two together. Recognizing the contested claims on each figure, panelists reflect on whether and how to interpret their legacies together. Perhaps the analogous controversies open lines of mutual interpretation, or at least pedagogically useful tensions. Papers and responses from five scholars of Christian social thought describe angles of mutual interpretation that may precipitate new understandings of both King and Bonhoeffer, and that engage the social issues that construct their enduring American importance. Panelists: Josiah U. Young, Wesley Theological Seminary Larry Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary, New York Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago Traci C. West, Drew University J. Kameron Carter, Duke University
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A1-313 Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Group and Buddhist Philosophy Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Buddhist Philosophical and Contemplative Perspectives Jeffrey Morrow, University of Dayton From Living Word to Ossified Text: Hobbes, Spinoza, the Bible, and the Redefinition of Religion Peter Gottschalk, Wesleyan University Picture Perfect: Religion, Representation, and Categories of Comparison Gabriel Robinson, University of Chicago Picturing and Practicing Primordial Religion: The 1918 Exposition “El Arte en la Tauromaquia” Responding: Colleen McDannell, University of Utah Business Meeting: Richard King, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
A1-314
Chinese Religions Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Telling Sacrifices: Intertextuality and Efficacy in Prayers from Medieval China
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group and Religion in Europe Consultation
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Theorizing Religion in Europe: Approaches, Topics, and Debates
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Gay Men’s Issues in Religion Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm James J. Berg, College of the Desert, Presiding Theme: Religious Resources in Resignifications of Queer Identity: The Case of Christopher Isherwood, “Homosexualist” and Disobedient Subject The significance of Christopher Isherwood’s religious life continues to be occluded, with the expatriate Briton suspended in aspic as either the raucous, bad boy of the Weimar Republic or as a literary mentor figure to 1970s gay liberation. Neither of these characterizations allows for an engagement with spiritual life. The first-person accounts of his encounter with Vedanta, and the translations with his guru of key Vedanta texts, fall outside of these conventional views, confronting the assumption that religion would always be mutually exclusive of “homosexuality,” and revealing Isherwood as a “disobedient” subject, of exemplary interest today. By border crossing—seeking out technologies of the self from alternative knowledge systems—Isherwood disrupted authorized versions of masculinity and the prevailing view of homosexuality as failed development, to stage what Judith Butler calls “unforeseen and unsanctioned modes of identity… in which the subject exceeds the terms that constitute him/her.”
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Cultural History of the Study of Religion Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sean McCloud, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Presiding Theme: Visual/Material Culture and the Meanings of “Religion” A number of recent works have sought to plot the emergence of the modern category of religion and its impact upon western and non-western societies. These works, whilst theoretically innovative and historically important, have tended to focus on (nonmaterial) discursive practices and the shifting meanings of the term “religion” over time as tracked in historically important texts. The papers in this panel approach the question from a different angle, exploring the role of visual and material culture in the construction and development of modern notions of “the religious”.
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Victor Marsh, University of Queensland The Disobedient Subject: Disrupting Authorized Versions of Masculinity and Spirituality in Christopher Isherwood’s Autobiographical Narrative Katherine Bucknell, London, England Christopher Isherwood: Hinduism and Homosexuality Jamie W. Carr, Niagara University Going Back in Time: Sexuality, Spirituality, and Anglo-American “Modernity” Mario Faraone, University of Trieste “Staring and Staring into the Mirror, It Sees Many Faces within Its Face”: Images and Reflections of the Spiritual Self in Christopher Isherwood’s Narrative Pravrajika Vrajaprana, Vedanta Society of Southern California His Guru and the Swami’s Disciple: The Guru– Disciple Relationship as the Locus of Christopher Isherwood’s Advaita Vedanta Christopher B. Stewart, West Virginia University Whitman and the Origins of Queer Spiritual Autobiography Responding: Peter Savastano, Seton Hall University Business Meeting: Paul J. Gorrell, Stockton, NJ, Presiding
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Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Curtis L. Thompson, Thiel College, Presiding Theme: Kierkegaard’s Attack upon Established Christianity Kierkegaard’s attack upon the established state church of Denmark (1854-55) is one of the most controversial parts of his writing. This session will explore four aspects of this literature: 1) The misogynist and ascetic strands that emerge in the attack; 2) The linguistic sources (commercial, bureaucratic, legal, and medical) from which Kierkegaard draws his anti-ecclesiastical invective; 3) The power of “the numerical” in the “social imaginations” (Charles Taylor) operative within Danish society of that time, as well as today (e.g., the Danish cartoon controversy); and 4) the search for an interpretive key to the attack within Kierkegaard’s hermeneutics of love for the neighbor. Mark Lloyd Taylor, Seattle University The Hermit Emerges Victorious: Contempt for Women in Kierkegaard’s Attack upon the (Male) Ecclesiastical Establishment David R. Law, University of Manchester Kierkegaard’s Anti-Ecclesiastical Invective in The Moment Jennifer Veninga, Graduate Theological Union Imagining the Numerical: Majority and Minority in Søren Kierkegaard and Arjun Appadurai Avron Kulak, York University Kierkegaard and The Moment: Heresy, History, and Hermeneutics Business Meeting: Andrew J. Burgess, University of New Mexico, and Marilyn Piety, Drexel University, Presiding
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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Islamic Mysticism Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Islamic Theology and Sufism
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Platonism and Neoplatonism Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Diverse Traditions and Receptions of Platonic/Neoplatonic Thought
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A1-322 Religion and Disability Studies Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Disability in Theology: Past and Present Panelists: Tom F Driver, Union Theological Seminary, New York Helen Phelan, University of Limerick Fred W. Clothey, University of Pittsburgh Theodore W. Jennings, Chicago Theological Seminary Ruel W. Tyson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Eric Venbrux, Radboud University, Nijmegen Colleen D Hartung, Gettysburg College Responding: Ronald L. Grimes, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Religion and Ecology Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: New Directions in Religion and Ecology
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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Religion and Popular Culture Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Looking Back: Moments in the History of Religion and American Popular Culture
A1-327 A1-325 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Visual Imageries of Reality and Fantasy
Roman Catholic Studies Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Vincent J. Miller, Georgetown University, Presiding Theme: Catholic Violence and Violent Catholics James T. Fisher, St. Louis, MO Cockeye Dunn Shot Me: American Catholic Studies in the Code of Violence Amy Koehlinger, Florida State University “The Continually Wounded Heart of Christ”: Religion and Violence in American Catholic Boxing Naoko Frances Hioki, Graduate Theological Union Truth and Violence: Catholic Iconoclasm against Buddhist Images in Early Modern Japan Salvador Leavitt-Alcantara, Graduate Theological Union The Historicized Theological Methodology of Ignacio Ellacuría, S. J. and the Phenomenon of Violence
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Ritual Studies Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Barry Stephenson, Wilfrid Laurier University, Presiding Theme: Thinking Grimes: A Critical Engagement on the Occasion of Ronald Grimes’s Retirement from Wilfrid Laurier University This prearranged panel celebrates the work of Ronald L. Grimes. Ron retires from Wilfrid Laurier University’s Religion and Culture Department in summer 2008. As Ron was one of the founding members of the AAR’s Ritual Studies Group, the AAR’s Annual Meeting seems to be the perfect occasion to gather Ron’s friends and colleagues, in order to honor and discuss his past work, and help launch him on his post-Laurier career. Barry Stephenson will preside; and Tom Driver, Helen Phelan, Fred Clothey, Ted Jennings, Ruel Tyson, Colleen Hartung, and Eric Venbrux will participate. Ron will serve as respondent.
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Science, Technology, and Religion Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Public Education, Knowledge, and Visions for Non-toxic Religion
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Tantric Studies Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Marcy Braverman-Goldstein, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding Theme: Heterogeneous Tantras in Practice: A Simulated Engagement of the Scholarship of David G. White In his scholarship and teaching, David White challenges us to evaluate the multiple traditions of Tantra in their lived heterogeneous expressions. In this panel we seek to link the hermeneutical insights gained from textual exegesis directly to the flesh, bones, fluids, breaths, movements, gazes, sighs, and multiple cultural constructions of the bodies of those individuals for whom Tantric praxis operates as a context-specific normative epistemological framework. Grounded simultaneously in the lived cultural spheres of Tantric practice and in the richly coded world of the texts that inform those spheres, the panel explores the rich themes of Mudra, Tantric images, and the categories of “yoga” and “Tantra,” in relation to those “Real Tantrikas” who embody the heterogeneous forms of Tantras in practice. Jeffrey Stephen Lidke, Berry College Tantra as a Cultural Practice of Applied Mathematics: The Examples of Nepal, Bali, Andhra Pradesh, and Bhutan Jeffrey C. Ruff, Marshall University “So, a Vetāla and Piśācī Ran into Abhinavagupta on the Street One Day …”: The Scholarship of David White and Teaching Hindu Polytheism, Tantra, and Yoga Sthaneshwar Timalsina, San Diego State University Tantra in Practice: The Scope and Significance of Visualization in Everyday Tantra Kerry Martin Skora, Hiram College Mimetic Images and Embodied Presences: The Tantric Dialectic of Reality and Virtuality Responding: David White, Emory University Business Meeting: Glen Alexander Hayes, Bloomfield College, Presiding
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Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Tillich and Issues in Phenomenology
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Biblical/Contextual Ethics Consultation
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Amy Laura Hall, Duke University, Presiding Theme: The Turn toward the Study of Jesus in Biblical Ethics The last decade has seen an up surge in scholarly treatment of the moral teachings of Jesus. Works by Allen Verhey, William Spohn, Obery Hendricks, Dallas Willard, Glen Stassen and David Gushee, Daniel Harrington and James Keenan, Lee Camp, and Amy Jill Levine are among those that signal the trend. This session offers four papers reflecting on specific moral teachings of Jesus and on various aspects of the scholarship currently addressed to those teachings. The papers take a variety of methodological paths and consider a wide range of passages from the Synoptic Gospels. Willliam Carter Aikin, Hanover College Instruction and Invitation: The Moral Teachings of Jesus as both Disclosure and Direction Kerry Danner-McDonald, Graduate Theological Union What Jesus Did for the Disciples He Does for Us, So We Do It for Others: William Spohn and the Faithful Imagination Steven H Schroeder, Shenzhen University Explosive Poetry Institutionally Contained: Jesus as Poet and Teacher of Ethics Betsy Perabo, Western Illinois University Nobody Knows What Jesus Would Do: Humility, Imagination, and the Use of Force Business Meeting: David P. Gushee, Mercer University, Presiding
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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A1-332 Coptic Christianity Consultation
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Lois Farag, Luther Seminary, Presiding Theme: Martyrdom and Coptic Christians The session will investigate martyrdom in its plurality of expressions, especially as it relates to topics such as suffering, death, asceticism, and the role of confessors and martyrs. Discussions include comparative perspectives related to different methodologies and media. Panelists will address Coptic martyrdom in comparative studies with various language groupings, and investigate the topic of martyrdom through the centuries, including the modern era. Panelists: Cornelia Horn, Saint Louis University Mark Swanson, Luther Seminary Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso University Jason R. Zaborowski, Bradley University Business Meeting: Lois Farag, Luther Seminary, Presiding Anna Case-Winters, McCormick Theological Seminary Reframing Incarnation: A Process-Panentheist Proposal Daryll Ward, Kettering College Identity and Temporality: Exploring Perfection and Incarnation Michael Zbaraschuk, Pacific Lutheran University Creative, Responsive, Loving/Jesus? Mining Process Theology for Resources for an Open and Relational Christ Marit Trelstad, Pacific Lutheran University Atonement through Covenant: A Process Feminist Approach Responding: Tyron Lee Inbody, United Theological Seminary Business Meeting: Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University, Presiding
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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Religion and Cities Consultation
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Lawrence Mamiya, Vassar College, Presiding Theme: Religion as a Factor in Urban Dynamics (Cultural, Political, Economic, and Spatial) with a Particular Focus on American Cities
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Open and Relational Theologies Consultation
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Lynne Faber Lorenzen, Augsburg College, Presiding Theme: The Person, Role, and Significance of Jesus Christ Open and relational theologies often engage questions about the person, role, and significance of Jesus the Christ. This session explores Christology from an open and relational perspective. Among the topics addressed are Jesus’s relation to God, incarnation, miracles and message, role as prophet-priest-king, ministry, and engagement with political forces. Feminist, panentheist, process, and openness resources are used as the presenters explore biblical and theological implications of Christology.
This session explores religion as a factor in urban dynamics. How does faith function in the changing cultural, economic, and political
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dynamics of city life? In what ways is it a factor in the definition of urban space? Does the diversity of coexisting religious traditions build social solidarity or exacerbate balkanization of city space? This year, the Religion and Cities Consultation invited papers with particular focus on urban centers in the United States, including but not limited to contemporary Chicago. The papers selected for this session represent diverse approaches to the urban context from literary and theological to the social scientific. The topics also represent diversity from urban cacophony to a global Pentecostal network for immigrants in urban centers. Several papers include Chicago. Amanda Baugh, Northwestern University Sacred in the City? Interfaith Religious Environmentalism in Chicago Richard Bohannon, Drew University Theodicy in the Public Square: Questioning the City in the Aftermath of Disaster Elise Edwards, Claremont Graduate University Exploring the Urban Context through Narrative and Theological Analysis: A Study of Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City Kevin O’Neill, Indiana University, Bloomington From Guatemala City to Chicago: NeoPentecostal Constructions of Illegality Isaac Weiner, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Urban Cacophony: Listening to Religious Conflict on City Streets Business Meeting: Katie Day, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Presiding
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Religion and Sexuality Consultation
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Bernadette Brooten, Brandeis University, Presiding Theme: Womanist/Feminist Sexual Ethics: Overcoming Slavery’s Legacy—Presentations from the Brandeis Feminist Sexual Ethics Project Slavery has cast a long shadow over the lives of women and girls. The participants in this session explore the impact of slavery on enslaved women and their descendants. Many enslaved women and girls were sexually exploited, in many cases by people of faith. Such sexual exploitation corrupted the moral values of individuals and of society, but enslaved women and their families resisted, creating their own moral vision. If we are to create a society in which ethics and social structures are based on freedom and dignity, we need to recognize the extent to which slave-holding values have shaped and continue to influence religious policy and to draw upon the resource of African American women’s voices, past and present. The participants represent four disciplines: ethics, theology, law, and poetry, because society needs the best thought and creativity from every area of life to overcome the multiple legacies of slavery. Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern University The Paradox of Silence and Display: Sexual Violation of Enslaved Women and Contemporary Contradictions in Black Female Sexuality Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago Slavery, Black Women, and Sexual Justice: A Theological Perspective Nancy Rawles, Seattle, WA Prayer for My Daughter
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
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A1-336 Sikh Studies Consultation
4:00 pm-6:30 pm N.G. Barrier, University of Missouri, Presiding Theme: Framing Issues in Sikh Studies Framing Issues in Sikh Studies is a forum for highlighting some of the most recent and innovative scholarship in the area of Sikh Studies. This selection of papers draws from a broad range of methodological and theoretical approaches by both established scholars as well as those new to the field. Reflecting a balance of theory and substantive content, the papers in this session call into question key critical terms, challenge established frames of reference, and offer innovative and alternative ways in which Sikh tradition(s) can be understood and studied in the Academy. This session makes a unique contribution to this year’s area focus on South Asia. The methodological and theoretical approaches in these presentations will be of interest not only to those working in the area of Sikh and Punjabi Studies, but to those with an interest in the (re)construction of religious and cultural identity in the South Asian context. Rahuldeep Singh Gill, University of California, Santa Barbara Opening the “Key”: Towards a New Perspective on an Early Sikh Commentator Prabhsharandeep Singh Sandhu, Birmingham University Nihilism, Sufi Discourse, and Modernism in Works of Harinder Singh Mahboob Ami Shah, University of California, Santa Barbara Ugradanti: The Dasam Granth and the Namdhari Tradition Michael Nijhawan, York University Prayer, Song, and Ethics: Notes on Sikh Performances in Unhappy Circumstances Prabhsharanbir Singh, Punjabi University, Patiala Sikhs as Homo Sacer: Politics of the Body and Sovereign Power Business Meeting: Michael Hawley, Mount Royal College, Presiding
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Theology and the Political Consultation
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College, Presiding Theme: The Politics of Theology, the Theology of Politics The Theology and the Political Consultation provides a forum for religious studies scholars, philosophers, and theologians to critically reflect on different conceptions of the political and draw out the theoretical and practical significance for the tasks of theology. The theme for this year’s meeting is “The Politics of Theology, the Theology of Politics.” Our session will engage the cultural, economic, social, and theoretical politics that in/form the discourse of theology as well as the “theology” that underwrites historic and contemporary forms of politics and political theory. Papers will also engage the question: “How and in what ways do contemporary forms of political theology support, undermine, and/or transform the justifications and practices of war?” Elizabeth Ann Pritchard, Bowdoin College Liberalism’s Theology of Consent K. Christine Pae, Union Theological Seminary, New York Political Theology and Theology of Sex in the Context of Globalized Militarism: US Overseas Militarism and Military Prostitution in a Time of War Todd D. Whitmore, University of Notre Dame Whose War? Which Genocide? Theology, Politics, and the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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Vincent Lloyd, University of California, Berkeley Politics of the Middle: John Milbank, Gillian Rose, and the Sharia Controversy Miriam Perkins, Catholic University of America Saving the Day: The Heroics of Conversion in Evangelical Preaching on the Sunday after September 11 Business Meeting: Corey David Bazemore Walker, Brown University, Presiding
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Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Saturday – 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University, Presiding Theme: Reflections on the Work of Henry Rosemont, Jr. Sumner Twiss, Florida State University Confucian Ethics, Concept-Clusters, and Human Rights William R. LaFleur, University of Pennsylvania Heart/Mind’s Purity vs. Utilitarianism: Ethics in Mencius, Wang Yang-ming, and Nishida Kitaro Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University Did Kongzi Teach Us How To Become Gods?
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Association for Practical Theology
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Pedagogies for the Urban Context This session invites critical reflection on the implications of urbanization and the complexities of urban ministry for our pedagogy as theological educators and pastoral leaders. Panelists: Cynthia Milsap, Director, Nurturing the Call, Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education (SCUPE) Bryan P. Stone, Boston University
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Society for the Study of Chinese Religions
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
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Society of Christian Philosophers
7:00 pm-9:30 pm Andrew Chignell, Cornell University, Presiding Theme: The Moral and Spiritual Prospects of Vegetarianism Terence Cuneo, University of Vermont Conditional Moral Vegetarianism Matthew Halteman, Calvin College Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation Stephen H. Webb, Wabash College A Christian Case for Compassion for Animals Responding: Shannon Craigo-Snell, Yale University
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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International Schleiermacher Society
4:00 pm-7:00 pm
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Countdown to the Centennial: AAR Celebrates 100 Years, 1909-2009
5:15 pm-6:30 pm Friends of the Academy, members of the Sterling Circle, AAR leadership and other invited guests gather for an informal kickoff for AAR’s Centennial Celebration. The year-long activities will officially begin in Montreal in 2009 and conclude in Atlanta in 2010.
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Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Reception
6:30 pm-8:00 pm Interested persons are welcome to this reception celebrating the contributions of racial and ethnic minority scholars in the Academy.
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A1-401 Presidential Plenary Address
8:00 pm-9:00 pm Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Walking on the Rimbones of Nothingness: Scholarship and Activism Emilie M. Townes, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology at Yale University, has been instrumental in constructing womanist theology. Her books, Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope; In a Blaze of Glory: Womanist Spirituality as Social Witness; Breaking the Fine Rain of Death: African American Health Care, and A Womanist Ethic of Care are considered ground-breaking texts in the field. An ordained American Baptist clergywoman, Townes served as an interim minister at the Christ the Redeemer Metropolitan Community Church in Evanston, Illinois and held teaching positions at theological schools and seminaries, including Union Theological Seminary. She holds three degrees from the University of Chicago: a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts from the Divinity School and a Doctor of Ministry. She earned a Ph.D. from the Joint Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary/Northwestern University Program in Religious and Theological Studies. Panelist: Emilie M. Townes, Yale University
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Film: A Purple State of Mind
8:30 pm-10:00 pm Craig Detweiler, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding Craig Detweiler and John Marks became friends in college in the 1980’s, a time when Craig became a Christian and John became a skeptic. Since then, Craig has become a filmmaker and scholar of religion and culture, and John has become a journalist and television producer. In this film, they are reunited for several conversations on religion and politics, to reflect on the cultural and religious divide in the United States (“Red” vs. “Blue”) and the possibilities of moving beyond the impasse.
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Film: Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons
8:30 pm-10:00 pm Darius Gray, and Margaret Young, Brigham Young University, Presiding When people think of Mormons they conjure up images of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, white congregants, polygamy, abstinence from caffeine and alcohol, and Mormon missionaries. Few people know that there were black congregants in the church’s earlier days, that the vanguard company of Mormon pioneers included three “colored servants” who were baptized Mormons, and whose descendants remained active in the Church for several generations. Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons, produced by Margaret Young and Darius Gray is a film that addresses the history of black Mormons, their little-known legacy, the effects of the Civil Rights movement, and how it was a pivotal force in the church’s releasing its restrictions on the priesthood for blacks.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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LGBTIQ Task Force Reception
8:00 pm-10:00 pm LGBTIQ scholars of religion, scholars of LGBTIQ studies in religion, and friends are invited to a reception at Chicago’s LGBT community center in the heart of “Boystown.” The Center on Halsted, 3656 North Halsted Street, is an easy ride on the El - simply take the red line north to Addison, go east to Halsted, and turn right (south) on Halsted. It’s also a short trip by taxi, and there are restaurants in the area for those wanting to dine before the reception. Come network, see old friends, make new ones, and celebrate the growth of our community and our subfield within the AAR!
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Members’ Dance Party
9:00 pm-12:00 am AAR members are invited to join one another at the Members’ Dance Party for music and dancing. Don’t forget the free drink ticket that will be mailed with your name badge!
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Academic Relations Committee Meeting
7:30 am-9:00 am
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Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee Meeting
7:30 am-9:00 am
Sunday, 9:00 am-11:30 am
A1-406 Women in the Profession Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm Julie J. Kilmer, Olivet College, Presiding Alice Hunt, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding The women’s caucus welcomes all friends to join us in (re)telling the history of the Women’s Caucus in the American Academy of Religion.
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Special Topics Forum
9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Theological Education Steering Committee Kathleen T. Talvacchia, New York University, Presiding Theme: Theological Illiteracy and Its Effect on the Enterprise of Theological Education Theological educators observe that entering students come to seminary without formation in specific denominational and religious traditions. As a result, these students are theologically illiterate in their own tradition and yet aspire to ministry or other forms of leadership in those same traditions. What is the effect of this theological illiteracy on the enterprise of theological education? This panel seeks to explore implications for how we teach, how we form leaders, and how we define our mission as theological educators. It seeks to explore questions such as: How do scripture courses function when students no longer know Bible stories? How do field educators place persons in ministerial settings when students know nothing about church polity or history? How do we do theology or religious education when would-be pastors need basic understanding of a tradition? How can we teach interreligious dialogue when students know other traditions but not their own? Panelists: Lee Hayward Butler, Chicago Theological Seminary Emily Click, Harvard University Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, Claremont School of Theology Daisy L. Machado, Union Theological Seminary John Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University Lynne Westfield, Drew University
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Student Members’ Party
9:30 pm-11:00 pm Halloween? All Saints Day? Dia de los Muertos? Samhain? Regardless of what you want to celebrate, join other AAR student-members at the annual AAR Student Members’ Party. There will be music, drinks, and the opportunity to meet and greet other AAR student members. You will even receive one free drink ticket, and you may walk away with some fabulous kistch! Bring your dancing shoes if you are up for it!
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
A2-1 Annual Business Meeting
7:30 am-8:45 am Join the AAR Board of Directors for a brief business meeting and a continental breakfast.
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Status of LGBT Persons in the Profession Task Force Meeting
7:30 am-8:45 am
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Nominations Committee Meeting
7:30 am-8:45 am
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PROGRAM SESSIONS
A2-101 Special Topics Forum
9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Status of Women in the Profession Committee and Status of Racial and Ethic Minorities in the Profession Committee Alice Hunt, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Making Room, Making Sense: ReVisioning our Fields, Re-Bordering Scholarship Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University Inside/Out: Thoughts on Doing Black Religious Studies from the Margins Miguel A. De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology Are the Ivies Allies to the Multidiscipline Hispanic Scholar? Laurel C. Schneider, Chicago Theological Seminary Question/able Authority: Naming Some Stakes in Revisioning Scholarship Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University Interdisciplinarity and African Theology SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University Writing for Popular Audiences Rita Nakashima Brock, Faith Voices for the Common Good/The New Press Revisioning Scholarship responding to the tragedy of September 11 and the “war on terror” have changed the space in which Islam has been imagined and constructed. We will also consider the following questions: Are most Americans more knowledgeable about Islam now than they were ten years ago? How have Muslim Americans’ experiences and practices been shaped by public perceptions of their religion? Panelists will address these and other questions during this session cosponsored by the Islam Section and the Public Understanding of Religion Committee. Ample time will be provided for discussion and question and answer. Panelists: Muneer Fareed, Islamic Society of North America Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith Munir Shaikh, University of California, Los Angeles Omer Mozaffar, University of Chicago
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Wildcard Session
9:00 am-11:30 am Kimberly Rae Connor, University of San Francisco, Presiding Theme: The Legacy of Nathan A. Scott Jr. This panel explores the work and career of Nathan A. Scott Jr. (1925-2006) from the perspective of scholars whose work and careers bears his influence. Eulogized by The Very Reverend Samuel T. Lloyd, III, Dean of National Cathedral, as a “boundary walker,” participants will discuss how Scott “lived and wrote on the boundary between religion and literature, between the sacred and the secular, between ancient and modern, between theology and culture.” In this endeavor, we are guided by the remarks of Scott himself who, in the essay “A Ramble on a Road Taken,” wrote that “It is by way of such remembering that we may be able to chart one or another kind of course alternative to the kind of hermeneutical terrorism that prevails in our phase of civility.”
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Special Topics Forum
9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee Omid Safi, University of North Carolina, Presiding Theme: America’s War on Terror: Assessments of Its Impact on Muslims and the American Public Panelists will discuss the ways in which September 11 and the subsequent “war on terror” have affected the lives and experiences of Muslims, and shaped non-Muslim Americans’ perceptions and understandings of Islam. Of particular interest will be the ways in which
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Panelists: Charles H. Long, Chapel Hill, NC Giles B. Gunn, Santa Barbara, CA Mary Gerhart, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Kevin Lewis, University of South Carolina, Columbia Anthony C. Yu, University of Chicago Wesley A. Kort, Duke University Clark M. Brittain, Greenville Technical College Frank Burch Brown, Christian Theological Seminary Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia
H. Peter Kang, University of Virginia Viewing the Church as Israel through Liturgy and Ritual Thomas Burke, Boston College Breaking Open Gift-Exchange: A Dialogue with Louis-Marie Chauvet on the Liturgical Formation of Jewish and Christian Identities
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History of Christianity Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Possession among Christians in India: Issues of Authenticity, Authority, and Identity
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Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Writing with Spirit: Four Women Writers Reflect on Art as Spiritual Practice
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North American Religions Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Colonialism and Violence: Rethinking the Narrative(s) of American Religious History
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Buddhism Section and Japanese Religions Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Transmission, Authenticity, and Knowledge: Sacred Works and the Transformation of Japanese Culture
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Philosophy of Religion Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Denys Turner, Yale University, Presiding Theme: Religious Motives in the Philosophy of Stanley Cavell Panelists: Hent de Vries, Johns Hopkins University Mark Jordan, Emory University Ludger Viefhues, Yale University Responding: Stanley Cavell, Harvard University SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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Christian Systematic Theology Section and Scriptural Reasoning Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Samuel Wells, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Liturgy, Eucharist, and Transfiguration This session explores the relationship between Christian doctrine and Judaism with special attention to sacramental and liturgical practice. Topics include eucharist and passover; transfiguration, religious identity, and eschatological peace; church as Israel in liturgy and ritual; eucharist, land, and liturgical gift exchange. Matthew Myer Boulton, Harvard University A New Passover? Christian Eucharistic Doctrine and the Jewish Passover Meal Kevin L. Hughes, Villanova University Transfigurations: Scriptural Reasoning upon Mount Tabor
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Religion and Politics Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Religion and the 2008 Presidential Campaign
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Religion and the Social Sciences Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Youth Spiritualities and Youth Rituals
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A2-112 Study of Islam Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Makers of “Traditional Islam”: Identifying a Phenomenon through Its Architects Oz Lorentzen, Prairie Bible College Without Excuse: A Philosophical Theological Reading of Paul and the L(l)aw Business Meeting: Jon L. Berquist, Westminster John Knox Press, Presiding
A2-113
Study of Judaism Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Jewish Theology, Ancient and Modern
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Black Theology Group and PentecostalCharismatic Movements Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Identity and Belief Constructions in Afro–Pentecostal and Black Church Theological Traditions
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Teaching Religion Section and Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Pedagogical Challenges in Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide
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Comparative Religious Ethics Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Critical Assessment of Arguing the Just War in Islam (Harvard University Press, 2007) by John Kelsay
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Anthropology of Religion Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Putting Your Self Out There: Risk and Faith in Fieldwork
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Confucian Traditions Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Vivian-Lee Nyitray, University of California, Riverside, Presiding Theme: Music in Confucian Moral Cultivation When introducing Confucianism to the lay person, scholars generally begin by speaking of the rites and ethics of community cohesion and order. A much overlooked, yet absolutely integral aspect of many Confucian traditions lay in the relationship between music and self-cultivation. This panel examines the role of music as a ritual performance that helps cultivate not just rational knowledge of morality, but deeply felt and internalized patterns of harmony as well. Music helps engender a particular aesthetic and moral sense and even, in some cases, a special relationship to the cosmos. We will show that the use of music provides an individual with the means of achieving specific goals that are perhaps not as easily attained through other types of practices.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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Bible, Theology, and Postmodernity Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Jon L. Berquist, Westminster John Knox Press, Presiding Theme: Paul, Law, and Postmodernity Ted Grimsrud, Eastern Mennonite University Justice apart from the Law (and Empire): Paul’s Deconstruction of Idolatry Mary C. Moorman, Southern Methodist University Beyond the Law: Covenant as Generosity in Romans Frederiek Depoortere, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven Love beyond the Law? Slavoj Žižek’s Reading of 1 Corinthians 13
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Our analysis of music will shed light upon the link between music and the moral individual— in its cosmic, emotional, and aesthetic aspects. Erica Brindley, Penn State University Bodily Ethics and Notions of the “Taboo”: The Case of Heterodox Music in Early Confucian Discourse Loye Ashton, Tougaloo College Harmonic Rhythm and Ritual in Xinglixue Thought as a Means to Promote Tianren Heyi (“Heaven-and-Human Oneness”) in the TwentyFirst Century Global Junzi Mingmei Yip, City University of New York Forbidding Emotion: Confucianism and Qin Music Nathaniel Barrett, Boston University The Art of Exemplary Conduct: A Comparative Investigation of the Aesthetic Dimension of Ethics in Xunzi and John Dewey Responding: Joseph Lam, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Practical Theology Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Thomas Beaudoin, Santa Clara University, Presiding Theme: Theologies of the Laity Featuring papers that present theological questions and insights from contemporary research about lived faith in relation to lay Christian practices, this session will particularly explore how lay experience might contribute to ecclesiologies and to theologies of ministry. By relating fieldwork on lay faith practices to traditional and contemporary theological theories, the papers foreground the difference that careful attention to the particularities of lay witnesses to faith makes for accepted and influential theological categories in church life and teaching, such as Christian nonviolence, Catholic religious life, and Protestant congregational identity, and even lay identity and ministry itself. The session explores, then, some ways that lay practices make a difference for practical theology. Susan Willhauck, Wesley Theological Seminary Big Hair and Jesus: Theological Challenges from Lay People Engaged in Ministry in the World Theresa A Ladrigan-Whelpley, Graduate Theological Union Evolving Lay Practices and Vocational Identities within Roman Catholic Monastic and Apostolic Religious Charisms James Pitts, University of St. Andrews Liberative and Congregational: An Anabaptist Social Theory for Practical Theology Nicole Johnson, Mount Union College “A More Excellent Way”: Lived Experience of Nonviolence as Resource for Reflection and Practice within the United Methodist Church Responding: Roberto Goizueta, Boston College Business Meeting: Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
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Gay Men’s Issues in Religion Group and Men’s Studies in Religion Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Across the Great Divide: Men, Masculinities, and the Challenge of Gay Religious Scholarship
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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Hinduism Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Grammar and the Gods: When Metaphysics and Language Rules Collide
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Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Queer Families
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A2-124 Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Problems with Pragmatism here speak to the powerful role that place plays in shaping the contours of sacred lands, establishing divine kingship, and renewing religious authority throughout history in the Indo-Tibetan sphere. Benjamin Fleming, University of Pennsylvania Making Sacred Space in Medieval Bengal: LandGrant Inscriptions in the Chandra Dynasty Michael C. Linderman, University of Pennsylvania The Rest of the Kingdom: Procession and Sovereignty in the Monumental Pilgrim Rest House of Raja Serfoji II of Tanjavur, South India Cameron David Warner, Harvard University, Middlebury College Reading the Renovations to the Central Chapel of the Lhasa Temple (Jokhang) Responding: Brian Nichols, Rice University Business Meeting: Steven Heine, Florida International University, Presiding
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Religion and Disability Studies Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Theology, Disability, and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church
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Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Topics in Religions, Medicines, and Healing
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Ritual Studies Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Loss and Found
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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Sacred Space in Asia Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Glen Alexander Hayes, Bloomfield College, Presiding Theme: The Power of Place In accordance with the South Asian focus of AAR this year, the Sacred Space in Asia Group focuses its attention on Hindu-Buddhist sites of power and authority in the Indo-Tibetan sphere. The first paper explores yogic ideals of Hindu-Buddhist sanctity as they are mapped onto the Kathmandu Valley in medieval Nepal. The second paper investigates royal land grant inscriptions of the mostly Buddhist Canda dynasty in medieval Bengal. The third paper focuses on Hindu royal processions and religious authority in nineteenth century colonial Tamil Nadu; and the final paper highlights the political dimensions of Lhasa’s main Buddhist temple renovations throughout Tibet’s rich history. Taken together, the sites discussed
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Science, Technology, and Religion Group and Cognitive Science of Religion Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Affect: A Link between Religious Studies and Affective Neuroscience
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Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Rachel Sophia Baard, Villanova University, Presiding Theme: Paul Tillich and Political Theology This session will explore themes in contemporary political theology in dialogue with the seminal contribution of Paul Tillich. Themes include sovereignty, the depth of power, and the nature of restorative justice. The thinkers the panel will discuss include Agamben, Adorno, Horkheimer, Thoreau, and Martin Luther King Jr. The session will demonstrate the vibrancy of a certain tradition of liberal-minded, philosophically sophisticated, and culturally sensitive political theology, as well as reaffirming the relevance of Paul Tillich’s distinctive contribution to this subject. Gregory Walter, St. Olaf College Critique and Promise in Paul Tillich’s Political Theology: Engaging Giorgio Agamben on Sovereignty and Possibility Bryan Wagoner, Harvard University Tillich in Dialog with Adorno and Horkheimer J. Heath Atchley, Mount Holyoke College Sounding the Depth of the Secular: Tillich with Thoreau Jonathan Rothchild, Loyola Marymount University Tillich and King on Love and Justice and the Significance for Models of Restorative Justice
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North American Hinduism Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Leslie C. Orr, Concordia University, Presiding Theme: Representing and Misrepresenting Hinduism in North America Over the past fifteen years, scholarship about Hinduism has been deeply concerned with questions of representation. Who defines and imagines a given community or tradition? Which metaphors, narratives, and historical perspectives are considered authentic, offensive, or liberating, and by whom? How are debates over religious, community, and political articulation arbitrated? These long standing questions about who speaks for Hindus and Hinduism/s take on additional characteristics when such debates happen in North America. Questions of representation are coupled with conceptions of multiculturalism, separation of church and state, capitalism, and spirituality among others that are unique to the North American landscape. This panel explores a range of representations and misrepresentations of Hinduism, from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary, in the spheres of popular culture, education, politics, and practice. Panelists: Tanisha Ramachandran, Wake Forest University Leena Taneja, Stetson University Gillian McCann, Nipissing University Richard Mann, College of William and Mary Shana Lisa Sippy, Columbia University Business Meeting: Lola L. Williamson, Millsaps College, and Chad Bauman, Butler University, Presiding
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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A2-133 Religion and Migration Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Thomas Pearson, Wabash Center, Presiding Theme: Encountering Self and the Other: Multisited Religion in the Process of Migration This session examines the multiple ways in which religion both shapes and is refined by the dynamics of encounter that emerge through migration processes. Session participants explore how religious beliefs and practices offer resources for migrants and those they encounter, both in migration destinations and in places of origin, to negotiate and make sense of self and other in the migration experience. Furthermore, the session explores how, as Filipina domestic workers reinterpret Christian symbols and stories to endure and sometimes challenge their oppression by Chinese Buddhist employers in Hong Kong; Mexican Pentecostals re-enact the experience of border-crossing as a catalyst for religious conversion; return migrants, who have converted from Catholicism to Islam while working in Saudia Arabia, shape the contours of Muslim practice in the Philippines; and the goddess Kali contributes to formulating a national Guyanese identity within a multi-ethnic society, migrants transform and are transformed by their religious traditions. Gemma Cruz, Saint Ambrose University In Search of Promised Land: Religion in the Life of the Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong Vivienne Angeles, La Salle University Labor Migration and the Balik Islam Movement in the Philippines Rupa Pillai, Amarillo, TX The Goddess Crossing the Dark Waters: The Development of Kali Worship in Guyana Leah Sarat, University of Florida Reenacting the US–Mexico Border: Migration, Tourism, and Religious Identity in El Alberto, Hidalgo Responding: Terry Rey, Temple University Business Meeting: Marie Marquardt, Agnes Scott College, Presiding
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Religion in Europe Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Robert Alvis, Saint Meinrad School of Theology, Presiding Theme: The Meaning and Limits of Secularization in Modern Europe The waning influence of religion long has been accepted as a defining feature of the modern European experience. In recent years, however, the “secularization thesis” has come under greater scrutiny as scholars in various disciplines have offered alternative narratives that challenge simplistic accounts of secularization, emphasize religious “change” over religious “decline,” or highlight signs of religious vitality. This session advances the debate, drawing together five scholars who bring fresh perspectives to the issue. Topics for analysis include the role of Catholic clergy in the religious ferment in revolutionary France; the theological foundations of the distinctively Dutch solution to religious pluralism; the utility of Charles Taylor’s conception of secularization for interpreting the facts on the ground in contemporary Denmark; the alternative reading of Europe’s recent religious development offered by Philip Jenkins; and the intellectual alliance between Pope Benedict XVI and Jürgen Habermas in advocating for a “post-secular” Europe. Elissa McCormack, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology A Model Citizen–Priest: Henri Grégoire and the Civil Constitution of the Clergy John Wood, Saint Louis University Abraham Kuyper, Covenant, and Secular Society Jennifer Veninga, Graduate Theological Union Secularity in the Context of Established Religion: The Dynamics of Religious and Secular Imaginations in Contemporary Denmark Todd Green, Vanderbilt University Retelling Modern European Religious History: The Alternative Narrative of Presence in Philip Jenkins’s God’s Continent
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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Michael DeJonge, Emory University, and Free University Berlin Pope Benedict XVI and Jürgen Habermas: Allies for a “Post-Secular” Europe? Business Meeting: Robert Alvis, Saint Meinrad School of Theology, and Andrii Krawchuk, University of Sudbury, Presiding
Alicia Turner, University of Chicago Saving the Sasana: The Burmese Monastic Demonstrations and a History of Alternative Buddhist Modes of Identity Mustaghfiroh Rahayu, Florida International University Which/Whose Powers Are Playing in this Pesantren? Construction of Sexual Discourse in Indonesia’s Islamic Boarding Schools Business Meeting: Sor-Ching Low, Muhlenberg College, Presiding
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Religion in Southeast Asia Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Jason Carbine, Whittier College, Presiding Theme: Religion in Southeast Asia From Burma to Thailand to Indonesia, the papers in the Southeast Asia panel examine how religion, whether from Buddhist, Hindu or Islamic perspectives, is continuously subject to reformation and contestation through both discourse and practice. In this panel, we examine, among other issues, how ideas of nation and collective identity can be kept separate from a religious defense of Burmese “sasana” (religion); how an Indonesian boarding school shapes sexual politics in the midst of Buddhist and Islamic interaction; and, how printed imagery in Bangkok reveals itself as a site of contestation between socalled “orthodox” and “popular” religious attitudes. Additionally, by looking at the interface between religious traditions and such topics as nationhood, our panelists foreground the complexities at work as the nations of Southeast Asia take stock of their colonial past and religious traditions even as they attempt to move forward, politically, socially, and economically. Thomas Borchert, University of Vermont Monastic Labor: Preliminary Thoughts about the Work of Theravada Monks Edith Franke, University of Marburg Shifting Identities of Buddhism in Islamic Shaped Indonesian Society Tiffany Hacker, National University of Singapore, and Christopher Patrick Parr, Webster University Of Muscular Gods and Technicolor Buddhas: Thai Popular Buddhist Imagery and Everyday Religious Expressions in Contemporary Southeast Asia
A2-136
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Premodern Christianity Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Carly Daniel-Hughes, Concordia University, Presiding Theme: Thinking with “Sex” and “Sexuality” in Pre-modern Christian Texts “Thinking with Sex and Sexuality in Premodern Christian Texts” is the first session of a new consultation that explores questions involving a nexus of three interrelated categories—sex, gender, and sexuality—in Christian thought and practice from its inception through the late Middle Ages. Christians in each of these periods drew on a common set of resources (scripture, GrecoRoman philosophy, and ancient medical traditions) to articulate and debate various understandings of sexual difference, sexual practices, and the implications of each. Given this complex interplay of intellectual common ground and diversity, the consultation seeks to provide a forum that brings together scholars working on these materials in the different periods of Christianity up through the Middle Ages. The inaugural session examines ways that Christians “thought with” sex (i.e., sexual acts, anatomy, desires, and stereotypes) to various theological ends in treatises of late antiquity, the Byzantine period, and the Middle Ages. Taylor Petrey, Harvard University The Usefulness of the Sexual Organs in Ps. Justin Martyr’s On the Resurrection Kate Wilkinson, Emory University The Reproductive Anatomy of Virgins: The Conception of Christ in the Virgin’s Mouth in Ambrose and Jerome
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PROGRAM SESSIONS
Susanna L. Drake, Duke University “A Synagogue of Malakoi”: Sexual Stereotypes in John Chrysostom’s Sermons Against the Jews Cameron Partridge, Harvard University Tropoi of Existence and Sexual Transformation in Maximus the Confessor Constance Furey, Indiana University, Bloomington Mystical Spears and Sexual Theories Business Meeting: Ben Dunning, Fordham University, Presiding
Sunday, 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
A2-200 Special Topics Forum
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Sponsored by the International Connections Committee Dwight Friesen, University of Edinburgh, Presiding Theme: Art, Aesthetics, and Performance This forum will explore the way in which performance—in the guises of yoga, art, and filmmaking—contributes to the bodily and aesthetic bases of an academic understanding of Hinduism. At the same time, these practices help construct the identity of “India” in ancient and modern ages, and this identity also comes to include or exclude other religio-cultural institutions like Islam in South Asia. Experts in fields of yoga, Sanskrit, and film studies will contribute to the performative dimensions of South Asian religions. Panelists: Ira Bhaskar, Jawaharlal Nehru University M. A. Jayashree, University of Bangalore Responding: Philip Lutgendorf, University of Iowa
A2-137
Mentoring Luncheon
11:30 am-1:00 pm Sponsored by the Status of Women in the Profession Committee and the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee Graduate students and new scholars have to navigate the waters of, first, the job search and, then, progress toward tenure. These steps in your career can be complicated by both personal identity issues and institutional peculiarities. At the mentoring lunch all questions about these processes are welcomed. Reserve a seat at the lunch where you can connect with established mid-career and senior scholars who will be available for conversation and networking. (Reservation details online at www.aarweb.org.)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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African Association for the Study of Religion
11:45 am-12:45 pm Theme: Tapping African Wisdom to Heal the Wounds of Colonialism and Slavery
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Special Topics Forum
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico, Presiding Theme: The Marty Forum: Wendy Doniger The recipient of the 2007 Martin Marty Award for contributions to the public understanding of religion is Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the University of Chicago Divinity School. Doniger has authored or co-authored numerous influential books on mythology and translations of Hindu texts, including Siva: The Erotic Ascetic; The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology; Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India; The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade; and The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth. The Marty Forum provides an informal setting in which Doniger will talk about her work with Charles Howard Candler Professor and Professor of Early Indian Religions at Emory University, Laurie Patton. Panelists: Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University
student members an opportunity to hear about expanded student services and network with one another. Additionally, we will discuss current trends in the academy and how such trends will impact the next generation of scholars of religion. We eagerly anticipate your presence at this important event in the life of the AAR student community and encourage you to: 1) Come discuss new graduate and undergraduate student services; 2) Meet members of the Graduate Student Committee (GSC); and 3) Greet the 2008-2009 student director. Panelists: Whitney Bauman, Forum on Religion and Ecology Annie Blakeney-Glazer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Janet Gunn, University of Ottawa Cameron Jorgenson, Baylor University
A2-203
Special Topics Forum
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Sponsored the Teaching and Learning Committee Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College, Presiding Theme: Conversation with Fred Glennon, the Excellence in Teaching Award Winner Join us for a conversation about teaching with this year’s winner of the AAR Excellence in Teaching Award winner, Fred Glennon. Panelists: Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
A2-202
Special Topics Forum
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Sponsored by the Graduate Student Committee Nichole Phillips, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: “Bringing Sexy Back”: A Town Hall Meeting for the AAR Graduate Student Community Graduate students are on the cutting edge of the academy—the newest research, the sexiest topics, the most heated struggles. The AAR Graduate Student Committee and the student director are here to address your concerns and are excited to bring you innovative new programming aimed at student needs. Please join us for a town hall meeting that will offer
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A2-204 Wildcard Session
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Julius Nam, Loma Linda University, Presiding Theme: The End Is Not What It Used to Be: The Taming of the Apocalyptic Movements in American Religions This panel seeks to examine the “taming” of various apocalyptic movements in American religions and identify broad trends and significant motifs that characterize this process. Four scholars who have devoted significant attention to the apocalyptic movements in America will provide brief analyses of this “taming” phenomenon, which will be followed by a brief formal response and an open discussion. The first panelist will discuss the question of the use of scripture and/ or authoritative texts in the domestication process of apocalyptic movements. The two following panelists will examine how this process has affected Seventh-day Adventism and Mormonism. The final panelist will offer perspectives on the dynamics of peace and war in apocalyptic movements, as it relates to the overall theme of the panel. Panelists: Kenneth G.C. Newport, Liverpool Hope University College Ginger Hanks Harwood, La Sierra University Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University Richard Landes, Boston University Responding: Jon R. Stone, California State University be dedicated to the consideration of the uses of narrative and the construction of memory and history in religious practices, texts, and contexts. This panel represents the kind of session that the consultation is meant to promote: crossreligious and cross-cultural inquiry around a related thematic, methodological, or theoretical concern. Here, we address the theme of memory in relation to its negation to explore the contours of memory and its limits in the formation of religious subjectivity. In keeping with the investigative nature of our session, it is designed as a hybrid of the panel and paper session formats. It is designed to promote methodological and cultural breadth, and as a result the paired themes of remembering and forgetting are explored in multiple dimensions and across religious traditions and periods. Eliza Slavet, University of California, San Diego Remembering, Repeating, and Working-through Moses the Egyptian and the Psychoanalytic Model of Cultural Discourse Amy Holmes, Australian National University Depicting Miracles as an Art of Memory: A Case Study of the Himalayan Buddhist Biography of Togden Shakya Shri (1853- 1919) Jeffrey M Brackett, Ball State University The Rhetorical Guru: Remembering Samartha Ramdas Swami Cameron David Warner, Harvard University, Middlebury College Remembering and Forgetting the Significance of Princess Wencheng: Micro-historical Challenges to the Master Narrative of Tibetan Buddhist Historiography Kristen Rudisill, Bowling Green State University Pre-emptive Nostalgia and Displaced Tradition: A Tamil Brahmin Marriage in Washington DC David Reinhart, DePaul University Memory and a Prayer from Ravensbrück Responding: Albert J. Raboteau, Princeton University
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
A2-205
Wildcard Session
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Anne Murphy, University of British Columbia, Presiding Theme: Remembering and Forgetting in the Formation of Religious Subjectivities This wildcard panel anticipates the resubmission of an application for a related new consultation entitled Narrative, Memory, History, which will
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Wildcard Session
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Thomas Ryba, Notre Dame / Purdue University, Presiding Theme: The Post-secular Turn in Literary Studies A post-secular turn is currently taking place in the field of literary studies. What Heidegger, Derrida, and Marion have set afoot in Continental philosophy finds similar expression in fiction of the last two decades, as authors and literary scholars evince a renewed interest in discourse about God, religion, and spirituality. This session offers a look at the post-secular as it shows up in literary studies by identifying the prominent figures involved in post-secular work, examining literary works that may be designated as post-secular, and attempting to characterize the thematic and stylistic trends associated with post-secularism. The papers presented in this session shed light on the occurrence in one discipline of what may be the new cultural dominant. Michael Kaufmann, Temple University Literary Studies and Post-Secularism Kathryn Ludwig, Purdue University In Between the Sacred and the Secular: Religious Possibility in Don DeLillo’s Underworld Magdalena Maczynska, Marymount Manhattan College Playing Games with the Sacred: Post-secular Perspectives in Postmodernist Fiction
tradition. Over a century ago, Indologist Sylvain Lévi recommended studying the Kathmandu Valley to understand how Buddhism might have evolved if it had survived in South Asia. Yet, his suggestion has been largely ignored. Recently, however, new ethnographic and historical research has taken up this charge. Documenting beliefs and practices, translating epigraphs and colophons, and mapping changes wrought by modernization, scholars have highlighted moments of innovation and debate that challenge old assumptions about Newar Buddhist isolation and adaptation. Putting aside Hegelian notions of the ways religious traditions unfold in favor of concrete studies of medieval inscriptions, modern legal wrangling, twentiethcentury poetry, economic change, and contemporary ritual, this session proposes that a serious engagement with Newar Buddhism requires rethinking often implicit historical and geographical epistemologies that guide the field of Buddhist Studies. Panelists: Todd T. Lewis, College of the Holy Cross Lauren Leve, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Christoph Emmrich, University of Toronto, Mississauga Bronwen Bledsoe, Cornell University Dina Bangdel, Virginia Commonwealth University
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
A2-209 A2-207 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: Asian Perspectives on the Religious in Dance and Literature
Christian Systematic Theology Section
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: Beyond Supersessionism
A2-210
Ethics Section
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: Ethics and the Vote 2008
A2-208
Buddhism Section
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Will Tuladhar-Douglas, University of Aberdeen, Presiding Theme: Buddhism in the South Asian Context: What Can Newars Teach Buddhist Studies? Newar Buddhism has long occupied an exceptional place in academic Buddhist Studies: that of the only extant Indic Buddhist
A2-211
History of Christian Section and Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements Consultation
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: Pentecostalisms in Africa: Histories and Theologies
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A2-212 Study of Islam Section and Qur’an Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: Varieties of Qur’anic Hermeneutics this phenomenon from historical, theological, and sociological perspectives and assess its relationship to earlier monastic traditions. Brian Campbell, Emory University Raven’s Bread and the Contemporary Hermit Revival: Negotiating Identity and Practice Philip Harrold, Trinity School for Ministry The “New Monasticism” as Ancient–Future Belonging: Imagination and Memory in the Emerging Church Martha McAfee, Southern Methodist University Neo-Monasticism: It’s New, but Is It Monastic? Business Meeting: Wendy Wright, Creighton University, Presiding
A2-213
Study of Judaism Section
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: The Figure of the Jew
A2-214
Women and Religion Section and Religion and Ecology Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: Feminist Possibilities and Perspectives: Women, Religion, and Ecology
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Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: Project: The Bible in Latino/a American Society and Culture
Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Yudit K. Greenberg, Rollins College, Presiding Theme: Indo–Judaic Studies in the TwentyFirst Century: Current Trends and Future Trajectories in the Comparative Study of Hinduisms and Judaisms This session provides a brief overview of the major themes and trends of scholarship that have been addressed in the Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group over the past years, with a specific eye on the recent volume Indo–Judaic Studies in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Nathan Katz. The panel will explore the religious connections between Hindu and Jewish traditions and the broader comparative enterprise involved in working with these two traditions. Presentations will provide historical studies of the social, political, and economic connections between Indian and Jewish cultures in the ancient and medieval periods; studies of contemporary connections between India and Israel in political and religious discourse; and studies of various Jewish communities in India. The panel will also look ahead to future avenues for comparative work in the study of these two
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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Christian Spirituality Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Evan B. Howard, Spirituality Shoppe, Presiding Theme: The New Monasticism The term “new monasticism” was coined by theologian Jonathan Wilson in his book Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World (1998). Wilson was inspired by moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre’s call for “the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us...We are waiting for another—doubtless very different—St. Benedict.” During the last decade, numerous North American Christians (including many evangelicals as well as mainline Protestants and Roman Catholics) have formed communities that profess to represent a new monastic movement. This session will examine
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traditions and how that work will contribute to the study of religion more broadly. Nathan Katz, Florida International University The Present and Future of Indo–Judaic Studies Richard G. Marks, Washington and Lee University Jacob in India: A Nineteenth-Century Jew Encounters Idolatry and Holiness among Hindus Philippe Bornet, University of Lausanne Comparing Normative Discourses: On Hospitality in Brahmanic and Rabbinical Texts Barbara A. Holdrege, University of California, Santa Barbara Indo–Judaic Studies: Connecting Cultures Outside of and in Spite of the West
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Japanese Religions Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: Buddhism in Contemporary Japan
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New Religious Movements Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: Celebrating the Past, Looking to the Future of New Religions Study
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Religion and Disability Studies Group and Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Suzanne J. Crawford O’Brien, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding Theme: Health, Wellness, Disability, and Spirituality This session will examine issues of physical, mental and spiritual health, wellness, and disability as they relate to religion. What parts, these papers ask, does spirituality play in reorienting understandings of healing and wellness in contexts of different kinds of disability? How does spirituality sometimes play a part in the reframing of violence and related disability? How does disability challenge ritual meanings assigned to body and mind? The papers in this session examine these issues through a range of research methodologies. Elizabeth Gordon, Graduate Theological Union Meaningful Life as a Psychiatric Treatment Goal: A Qualitative Analysis of Healing from the Perspective of Mental Health Clients Noam Ostrander, DePaul University “God Just Sat Me Down”: Meaning-making among Men with Violent Spinal Cord Injuries Joanne Pearson, University of Winchester Disabled Rites: Ritual, the Body, and Mental Health in Wicca Responding: Mary Jo Iozzio, Barry University
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Comparative Theology Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: Writs and Chains: Verbal Testimony as Limit and License in the Comparative Theological Project
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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Eastern Orthodox Studies Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: Origen and Origenisms
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Gay Men’s Issues in Religion Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: The Construction of Maleness and Masculinity in Diasporic and Post-Queer Contexts
A2-221
Hinduism Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: Categories and Trajectories of Modernity in the Late-Colonial Religious Milieu
A2-222
Indigenous Religious Traditions Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: Survival and Persistence of Indigenous Traditions
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A2-226 Science, Technology, and Religion Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: Neuroscience, Transcendence, and Moral Exemplars in the philosophical dimensions of various religions together to comparatively assess and further enhance both our understanding of these philosophies and to stimulate further developments within such philosophies, as well as the religions, across traditionally existing boundaries. Panelists: Arindam Chakrabarti, University of Hawaii, Manoa Christopher Framarin, University of Calgary Katrin Froese, University of Calgary Lin Chen-Kuo, National Chenchi University Tsingsong Vincent Shen, University of Toronto Responding: Tinu Ruparell, University of Calgary Business Meeting: Morny Joy, University of Calgary, Presiding
A2-227
Wesleyan Studies Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: What Makes Theology “Wesleyan”?
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Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: “...With Every Color Flower Represented”: Multiple Methods in Womanist Approaches
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Comparative Philosophy and Religion Seminar
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Morny Joy, University of Calgary, Presiding Theme: Comparative Philosophy and Religion, beyond Incorporation: Alternative Approaches to Non-Western Philosophical Systems, Categories, and Ideas Traditional comparative philosophies of religion and comparative theologies, in so far as they have existed, have largely integrated the nonWestern, non-Christian “other” into Western categories. This seminar will ask investigate ways in which, beginning from category/ categories from other religions, Western/ Christian arguments can be rethought in terms of those categories. A concomitant focus will be an investigation of the ways that explorations of this nature can inform and enrich each other. Such an approach acknowledges that within Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Confucianism, and Islam there are well-developed, highly sophisticated philosophical thinkers and schools that constitute crucial aspects of these religions. The aim of this seminar is to bring experts
A2-230
Religion, Food, and Eating Seminar
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Benjamin Zeller, Brevard College, Presiding Theme: Religion, Food, and Eating in North America: Introductory Meeting The seminar aims to bring together diverse scholars who work on different faith traditions and use different methodologies, but all have a shared interest in the topic of food, eating, and religion in America. The first year we focus on what we have in common, aiming to produce a set of guiding questions, themes, and vocabulary that will bind together our discrete projects. Auditors are welcome to attend. Please contact the chair for further details. Panelists: Marie W. Dallam, Temple University Reid L. Neilson, Brigham Young University Nora L. Rubel, University of Rochester Business Meeting: Benjamin Zeller, Brevard College, Presiding
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Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Consultation
1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: When Truth Is a Woman but Reason Is a Whore: Quandary of the Lutheran Philosopher
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Special Topics Forum
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sponsored by the International Connections Committee Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Religion and the Environment in South Asia: A Discussion with Vandana Shiva In this discussion and presentation, Dr. Shiva, a renowned physicist, activist, and ecologist discusses religion, indigenous peoples, and the preservation of the environment. Panelist: Vandana Shiva, Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
Sunday, 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
A2-250 Special Topics Forum
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sponsored by the Journal of the American Academy of Religion Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: Religion and Politics in the 2008 Election Cycle: Roundtable on Amy Sullivan, The Party Faithful (Scribner, 2008) Three panelists, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Brian Hehir, and Emilie Townes, will discuss Amy Sullivan’s The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats Are Closing the God Gap. Sullivan will reply to their thoughts, and a conversation will ensue, with time for questions from the audience. Panelists: Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago J. Bryan Hehir, Harvard University Emilie M. Townes, Yale University
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Special Topics Forum
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: How to Propose a New Program Unit Join the chair of the Program Committee and the Director of Meetings and Marketing for an informal chat about upcoming Annual Meeting initiatives as well as the guidelines and policies for proposing a new program unit. Panelists: Aislinn Jones, American Academy of Religion Jack Fitzmier, American Academy of Religion
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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Planning Session: Women of Color
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A2-253 Wildcard Session
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Thomas Beaudoin, Santa Clara University, Presiding Theme: Progressive Religion in the West: Sarah McFarland Taylor’s Green Sisters (Harvard University Press, 2007) and Gordon Lynch’s The New Spirituality (I. B. Tauris, 2007) Whilst there has been considerable academic and public interest in recent years to various forms of “fundamentalism” and the Religious Right in contemporary Western society, far less attention has been given to the significance of the Religious Left. This session will offer an opportunity to discuss two recent books on emerging forms of progressive religion, which adopt different methods of research and levels of analysis. Sarah McFarland Taylor’s Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology (Harvard University Press, 2007) presents an ethnographic account of the impact of environmental concern on the lifestyles, rituals, and beliefs of Catholic female religious orders. By contrast, Gordon Lynch’s The New Spirituality: An Introduction to Progressive Belief in the Twenty First Century (I.B. Tauris, 2007) offers a broader sociological overview of key trends in the ideologies and structures of progressive groups since the 1960’s across a range of religious and spiritual traditions. The session will prompt discussion about the nature of progressive religious beliefs, identities, and practices in the contemporary world. Panelists: Gordon Lynch, Birkbeck, University of London Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University Responding: Naomi R. Goldenberg, University of Ottawa Rebecca Kneale Gould, Middlebury College
A2-254
Wildcard Session
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Spirituality: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Measurement Spirituality has become a catchword for the “people on the street” to self-identify their religious identity. The rapidly increasing popularity of self-identified spirituality is one of the most spectacular events in the Western religious landscapes—with Americans having an unchallenged lead. Most recent research results will be discussed. We will also discuss questions of measurement: What are the adequate instruments for empirically studying “spirituality”? What’s meant by “spirituality” in terms of semantics? Since the new semantics has, in the meantime, arrived in religious studies where some suggest to supplement or even exchange “religion” with “spirituality,” we will add some fuel to the fire of a lively discussion: “spirituality” should be viewed from different perspectives; one can propose an inclusion of “spirituality” into the nomenclature of the scientific study of religion, but also to suggest rereading and reconsidering Schleiermacher, Troeltsch, Weber, James, and Bourdieu. Heinz Streib, University of Bielefeld Conceptualizing “Spirituality”: Reconsidering the Classics Ralph W. Hood, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga The Semantics of Spirituality
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Walter DeGruyter, 2007)
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History of Christianity Section
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: The Reformation and Early Modern Christianity: Current Issues, Trends, and Challenges
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Philosophy of Religion Section and Roman Catholic Studies Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Nature and Grace
A2-260
Study of Islam Section
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Interrogating Muslim Masculinities: A Preliminary Conversation
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Religion and the Social Sciences Section
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Interreligious Cooperation and Social Activism
A2-261
Study of Judaism Section
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Beth Berkowitz, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Presiding Theme: Taking Note of Narrative in Rabbinic Law The law and literature movement of the 1970s and 80s, combined with the meeting between critical theory and midrash at around the same time, has contributed to a radical rethinking of the relationship between law and narrative within rabbinic literature. Traditionally perceived as mutually exclusive genres constituting rabbinic literature, “halakhah” and “aggadah,” loosely equivalent to law and narrative, are now being understood as having a far more complex relationship. The implications of this conversation are profound: it not only changes the assumptions and expectations we bring to rabbinic literature but it also shifts the long-standing Christian-inflected perception of Judaism as a religion centered on law. Moreover, the participation of rabbinics scholars in law and literature debates allows religion to expand the terms of these debates beyond jurisprudence and literary theory. This panel will showcase three scholars’ emerging work that reconceptualizes law and narrative within rabbinic literature. Jane Kanarek, Hebrew College A Match Made in Heaven: Rebecca and the Construction of Rabbinic Marriage Naftali Cohn, Concordia University, Montreal Narrating the Iterative: The Mishnah’s Ritual Narrative Genre Barry Wimpfheimer, Northwestern University The Inverse of Talmudic Legal Narrative Responding: Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford University
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Religion in South Asia Section
3:00 pm-4:30 pm John E. Cort, Denison University, Presiding Robin Rinehart, Lafayette College, Presiding Theme: The Study of Religion in South Asia: The State of the Field The academic study of religion has followed different trajectories. Its primary location in most North American and European universities is in departments variously titled Religion, Religious Studies or Theology. But in most South Asian universities, religion is most often studied and taught either in departments focused on a single religious tradition (Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, etc.), or in departments such as History, Anthropology or Indology. The focus on South Asia at the 2008 AAR meetings gives us a chance to learn about the study and teaching of religion in South Asia from some of its leading practitioners. We have invited scholars from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka to share with us some of their experiences in a roundtable presentation. We anticipate an informative set of presentations followed by a discussion aimed at allowing us all to come away with an enlarged sense of our shared field Panelists: Uma Chakravarti, University of Delhi Muhammad Khalid Masud, Council of Islamic Ideology Golam Dastagir, Jahangirnagar University Premakumara De Silva, University of Colombo M. A. Jayashree, University of Bangalore K. Srinivasan, Vivekananda College
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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A2-262 Teaching Religion Section and Death, Dying, and Beyond Consultation
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Bringing Death to Life: Teaching the Death and Dying Class Trina Armstrong, Claremont School of Theology In God’s Image? Contemporary Masculine and Feminine Gendering in Queer Identified Black Folk Josef Sorett, Harvard University Preaching beyond the Choir: Black Churches and the Question of Heteronormativity Raedorah Stewart, Padasena, CA Say Now “Shibboleth”—Queer(y)ing Black Homily, Hymnody, and Hollah Towards a Radically Inclusive Prophetic Gospel Business Meeting: Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Brite Divinity School, and Stephen G. Ray, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Presiding
A2-263
Theology and Religious Reflection Section and Theology and the Political Consultation
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Evangelicals and Empire: Engaging Hardt and Negri
A2-264
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience
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Buddhist Philosophy Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Daniel A. Arnold, University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: Buddhist Philosophical Problems Constance Kassor, Emory University Affirming and Negating Negation: Cataphatic and Apophatic Treatments of the Catuṣkoṭi Ching Keng, Harvard University On the Different Understandings of the Dharmabody by Asaṅga and by Vasubandhu Andrew J Nicholson, Stony Brook University Vedanta through Buddhist Eyes: Bhavya’s Madhyamaka-hrdaya-karika as Doxography and Polemic Edward Falls, Emory University Tsong kha pa on the Contents of Distinct Realizations of Emptiness in the Lam rim chen mo: A Brouwerian Interpretation Business Meeting: John D. Dunne, Emory University, and A. Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University, Presiding
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Black Theology Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Stephen G. Ray, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Presiding Theme: About Time: A Conversation about Black Theology and Queer Reality in Black Life Black Theology has from its inception been dedicated to the liberation of Black people from the bonds of social, political, and economic oppression. Early on the question of which Black people was raised by Black women and Black peoples of the transatlantic. While the voices and experiences of Black women and Black persons throughout the Diaspora have become central to the project of Black Theology, there is the still small voice of the Black Queer community asking, “Ain’t I Black Too?” This session explores the ways that the experiences and witness of Black men and Black women of the LGBT community challenge the Black theology movement to be a voice of liberation for all Black people.
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Chinese Religions Group and Confucian Traditions Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Questioning the Spirits: The Yijing (I Ching or Classic of Changes) as a Way of Personal Spirituality in the Confucian Tradition
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Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Randall G. Styers, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Presiding Theme: Class Revisited The analytical category “class” has a long history in the academic study of religion. Recent decades, though, have witnessed a decline of this concept in method and theory in the study of religion. This session discusses the reasons for such a development and makes suggestions as to how to use the concept of class in contemporary scholarship. The three papers address the relation between class and status in a discourse of the body, the link between material conditions, class, and religion, and finally argue for a more integrative categorization of class in academic research. Thus, the session reveals the importance and usefulness of the category “class” for analyzing religion today. Lynne Gerber, Graduate Theological Union Fat Christians and Fit Elites: Negotiating Class and Status in Evangelical Weight Loss Culture Sean McCloud, University of North Carolina, Charlotte The Ghost of Marx and the Stench of Deprivation: Cutting the Ties That Bind in the Study of Religion and Class Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University Class Aspects of Religion and Religious Aspects of Class: Reconstructing Popular Misconceptions Responding: Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University
A2-268
Comparative Religious Ethics Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Practice and Reflection in Comparative Religious Ethics: Current Work on Martyrdom, Embodiment, and Theory of Comparison
A2-269
Contemporary Pagan Studies Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State University, Presiding Theme: Polytheism in Theory Traditional models see the historical movement from polytheism to monotheism as progress, as a natural, linear evolution. Today, however, we find groups looking to their cultural heritages to recapture ancient polytheistic traditions, to reconstruct these to fit modern circumstances, and to create or discover new polytheistic spiritualities that address contemporary life. This session explores the theoretical aspects of this emerging polytheism. Graham Harvey, Open University Polytheism and the Indigenisation of No-Longer Esoteric Paganisms Constance Wise, Metropolitan State College of Denver Process Thought as Philosophical Response to the Polytheistic Challenge Michael York, London, United Kingdom The Pantheonic Challenge to “Deca-logic”: Polytheism as Contemporary Theology and the Issue of Human Sacrifice Responding: Laurel C. Schneider, Chicago Theological Seminary
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Ann Pellegrini, New York University, Presiding Theme: Ritual: Transgression and Affirmation Sean Delmore, Boston University TranSpire, Not Expire: Creating a Ritual That Affirms Transgender Lives Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College Bodily Transgressions: Reading Self-Injury through Ritual and Feminist Theory
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A2-273 Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Gilberto Cavazos-Glz, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Constructing Pastoral Identities in Latino/a Church Leadership This session explores issues of pastoral leadership in US Latino/a Christian communities from ethnographic, ecclesiological, theological, and ethical perspectives. Otto A. Maduro, Drew University Becoming Pastora: Latina Pentecostal Women’s Stories from Newark, NJ Carmen Marie Nanko-Fernandez, Catholic Theological Union Orthoproxy and Orthopraxis: Ministry, Agency, and Representation Business Meeting: Benjamin Valentin, Andover Newton Theological School, and Carmen Marie NankoFernandez, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding
A2-277
Religion, Media, and Culture Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Titus Hjelm, University College, London, Presiding Theme: Author Meets Critics: Stewart Hoover, Religion in the Media Age (Routledge, 2006) Stewart Hoover has been a pioneering scholar in the study of religion and media for more than twenty years. This session provides an opportunity for a critical discussion of Hoover’s recent book, Religion in the Media Age (Routledge, 2006). Drawing both on his own extensive research on media use in a range of religious and domestic contexts, as well as his analysis of key literature on media and religion, Hoover’s book sets out an important view of the key issues at stake in making sense of the religious significance of contemporary media. The session will be an important opportunity both to review the state of scholarship in this field, as well as considering key issues for future research. Panelists: David Morgan, Valparaiso University Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University Responding: Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
A2-274
Western Esotericism Group and Mysticism Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Visualization in Mystical and Esoteric Practice
A2-278 A2-275 Native Traditions in the Americas Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Indigenous Resistance and Cultural Movements
Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Peacemaking within Islam
A2-279 A2-276 Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Observing Genocide: Christian Theological Paradigms for Intervention and NonInvolvement in Mass Violence
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Science, Technology, and Religion Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Philip Hefner on Science and Theology: From Pre-history to Post-history?
Professional Practices & Institutional Location Sessions Receptions and Breakfast Sustainability and Religion
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Tantric Studies Group
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theme: Categories and Emotion in the Study of Tantra
Panelists: Dominique-Sila Khan, Institute of Rajasthan Studies Responding: Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University
M2-300
Theta Alpha Kappa Members’ Meeting and Reception
4:00 pm-6:00 pm Theta Alpha Kappa, the National Honor Society for Religious Studies and Theology, welcomes all chapter moderators, student members, and anyone interested in establishing a chapter on their campus to the annual business meeting and reception.
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Special Topics Forum
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by Publishers Weekly and AAR Jana Riess, Publishers Weekly, Presiding Theme: Ask the Experts: Turning the Dissertation into a Marketable “Scholarly Trade” Book As university presses feel the squeeze of financial constraints and the library market shrinks with each passing year, young scholars face more pressure than ever as they launch their careers and face the old admonition to “publish or perish.” In this special publishing session, a panel of acquisition editors and authors will discuss the topic of turning a dissertation into a marketable “scholarly trade” book, answering some of the most common questions posed by young scholars: what is a “publishable” dissertation topic? How can I find and query a publisher? How should I revise my dissertation to make it more accessible to a general audience? Should I broaden my topic? What are the hot projects right now that editors are seeking to acquire? This panel will be useful to young scholars who are currently revising their dissertations for publication, but also to graduate students who are still choosing a topic or writing their dissertations. At least half an hour will be devoted to an “ask-the-experts” session where panelists will answer audience members’ questions. Panelists: Carey Newman, Baylor University Press Curtis Evans, University of Chicago Jennifer Hammer, New York University Press Amy Koehlinger, Florida State University Theo Calderara, Oxford University Press
Sunday, 5:00 pm-6:30 pm
A2-300 Special Topics Forum
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the International Connections Committee Kurt Anders Richardson, McMaster University, Presiding Theme: Comparative Theology and the Interreligious / International Encounter Religions as intellectual projects often take the form of theologies in the most general sense. Taking hints, and at points borrowing from one another’s theological hermeneutics and even categories, contemporary theologies are beginning to exhibit a significant comparative dimension. Detecting points of convergence and mutual interest, theologies of religions require international encounter to achieve these ends. Although religious intellectuals migrate and contribute to this process, a vital dimension of comparative theology takes place uniquely through international encounter, where representatives of sizeable and historic religious communities with extensive theological traditions are brought into close relation for occasions of exchange and mutual learning. The purpose of this encounter will be to pursue several lines of theological inquiry for an enhanced understanding of difference and commonality in relation.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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A2-330 Special Topics Forum
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Sally Promney, Yale University, Presiding Emilie Townes, Yale University, Presiding Theme: Religion and the Arts Award: Betye and Alison Saar In multiple media, prints, collage, assemblage, sculpture, and installation, Betye Saar (b. 1926) and Alison Saar (b. 1956) push the boundaries and categories of art and religion. With works in the collections of the finest arts institutions and museums, the two have been hailed as “conjure women of the arts.” Each one practices a synthetic art, creating material shape for persistent spiritual and cultural questions of identity, ethnicity, race, religion, and gender. Betye Saar’s Liberation of Aunt Jemima (1972) has acquired virtual iconic status. The shrines and altars she creates explore mysticism and vodou as well as racial and sexual politics. Alison Saar’s installations, objects, and sculptures pursue relations among spiritualities in African cultural diaspora. Each one of these women might be justifiably hailed as an insider artist for persuasively, creatively bringing personal encounters with visionary, vernacular, and “outsider” arts of many cultures to public attention. Panelists: Betye Saar, Los Angeles, CA Alison Saar, Los Angeles, CA
A2-302
Wildcard Session
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Martin Kavka, Florida State University, Presiding Theme: The Potterian Way of Death: J.K. Rowling’s Conception of Mortality An in-depth look at the ideas of mortality and immortality in the Harry Potter series, with an analysis of the residue they might leave in the politics, ethics, and theology of the generation now reaching adulthood. Panelists: Lois Shepherd, Florida State University College of Law Paul Corey, McMaster University Oona Eisenstadt, Pomona College
A2-303
Wildcard Session
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University, Presiding Theme: Women of Color and the Study of Religion and Theology Do women of color scholars and scholars interested in the academic work of women of color need a designated venue in the AAR for the discussion of common academic interests? If so, what are the specific needs of such scholars and what would be the foci of a program unit created to meet these needs? This wildcard session will explore these needs and foci, including such subjects as the development of women of color scholarship in religion and theology, possible trajectories of its further development, implications for teaching and mentoring, and implications for institutional and social change. Audience input will also be solicited.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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Panelists: Mary C. Churchill, Sonoma State University Anne Joh, Phillips Theological Seminary Mayra Rivera, Pacific School of Religion Katie G. Cannon, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education
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Religion and Politics Section
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Religion and National Identity
A2-308
Study of Judaism Section
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: New Wine in Old Wineskins: Kabbalah, Healing, and Jewish Renewal
A2-304
Wildcard Session
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Alexander Y. Hwang, St. Louis University, Presiding Theme: Religious Conversions Religious conversions are phenomena that are essential to religions, but are also a source of great controversy. This session explores some of the complex and multifaceted aspects of religious conversions. Fr. Peter Gilquist will present a paper that discusses his conversion from Protestantism to the Orthodox tradition, his theological rationale, and his reflection on his conversion since converting. Linda Mercadante will discuss religious conversions in the context of Italian-American immigrants. Linda A. Mercadante, Methodist Theological School in Ohio Italian-American Immigrants and Religious Conversion Peter Gilquist, Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church My Journey to Orthodoxy Responding: Charles J. Scalise, Fuller Theological Seminary
A2-309
Theology and Religious Reflection Section and Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: David Tracy
A2-310
Women and Religion Section and Scriptural Reasoning Group
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Hairy Legs and All: An Exploration of Ideal Womanhood and the Queen Sheba of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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African Religions Group
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Gender, Myth, Media, and Religious Competition in Africa
A2-305
Comparative Studies in Religion Section
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Celibacy and Religious Traditions
A2-306
North American Religions Section
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Plural Contests: Religion and Difference in Modern America
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A2-312 Afro-American Religious History Group
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Quinton H. Dixie, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Presiding Theme: The Sound of the Genuine: The Papers of Howard Thurman, Volume I This panel explores the writings and previously unpublished correspondence of Howard Thurman through the lens of volume one of the Howard Thurman papers. Through his own words as well as the detailed analyses of the papers project’s editorial staff, The Sound of the Genuine: June 1918-March 1936 offers new insight into Thurman’s formative educational experiences, including his pivotal pilgrimage to India. This panel seeks to celebrate and critique the initial published offering from the Howard Thurman Papers Project. The goal is to illuminate the new paths in Thurman scholarship leading out of volume one, while anticipating the potential directions of forthcoming volumes. Panelists include Clayborne Carson and Cornel West, with Walter Earl Fluker responding. Panelists: Cornel West, Princeton University Clayborne Carson, Stanford University Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University Barbara Holmes, Memphis Theological Seminary Responding: Walter E. Fluker, Morehouse College
A2-314
Augustine and Augustinianisms Group and Platonism and Neoplatonism Group
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: “I Read of Plotinus and Paul”: Outward Signs, Inner Grace, and the Second Founder of the Faith
A2-315
Bioethics and Religon Group and Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Are Some Children Too Expensive to Treat? Ethics and Neonatal Intensive Care
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Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Form in Literature: Bonhoeffer, King, and Moses
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
A2-317
Daoist Studies Group
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Daoist Sacred Space
A2-318
Evangelical Theology Group and Biblical/ Contextual Ethics Consultation
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Popular Evangelical Expressions and Practices: On Consumerism and Communism
A2-313
Anthropology of Religion Group and Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Complicating Indian Christian Identities amid Competition, Conflict, and Colonialism
A2-319
Islamic Mysticism Group and Western Esotericism Group
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Sufism and Western Esoteric Traditions: Reciprocal Relations
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Law, Religion, and Culture Group and Religion and Colonialism Consultation
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Colonial Secularism, Religious Fundamentalism, and the Codification of Law in South Asia
Brian McGrath Davis, Emory University Apophatic Theology as Method for a Critical Analysis of Gender Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder Sources of the Male Self: Religious Culture, Media Culture, and Lived Practice Business Meeting: Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher, Texas College, Presiding
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Men’s Studies in Religion Group
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Robert A. Atkins, Grace United Methodist Church, Naperville, IL, Presiding Theme: Critical, Theological, and Ethnographic Analysis of the Various Social Constructs of Masculinities The Men’s Studies in Religion Group looks at the relationship between religion, politics, and masculinity through the lenses of theology, critical theory and ethnographic research. Just as the ethnographer struggles with the influence of doing research on the “Other,” so Men’s Studies struggles with with two hermeneutical stances: Observation and Advocacy. The three presentations in this session employ distinctly different strategies to consider the role and effect of gender studies. A primary ethnographic study, through in depth interviews with a cluster of participants in the culture, describes masculine identity construction. A critical review of the literature of men’s movements in the United States, especially conservative or evangelical movements, offers interpretive insights for the body politic. Finally, there is a paper describing and exploring an apophatic method that deconstructs the binary opposition implied in the designation “Men’s Studies” and following out the implications. Peter Heltzel, New York Theological Seminary Defending Fatherhood and Family: James Dobson, Presidential Politics, and the Crisis of Evangelical Masculinity
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Reformed Theology and History Group
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Kang-Yup Na, Westminster College, Presiding Theme: What Is Reformed about the Reformed Tradition? Like any complex, world-wide culture, the Reformed tradition denotes a rich, diverse, and polyphonic movement. This panel, composed of scholars and representatives of this tradition, aims to set out various understandings of what is “Reformed” about churches with roots in the Swiss Reformation. While uncovering an “essence” of the Reformed tradition may prove impossible or unwanted, discerning the notes of “Reformed” identity may be welcome in the post-colonial, global era of Protestant witness. Panelists: Cynthia Rigby, Austin Theological Seminary Douglas F. Ottati, Davidson College Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke University John P. Burgess, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Lee Kanghack, Graduate Theological Union
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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A2-323 Religion and Ecology Group
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Michael Hogue, Meadville Lombard Theological School, Presiding Theme: Chicago Religious Environmentalisms Chicago’s religious environment is being changed in significant ways by Chicago’s religious environmentalism. This panel of Chicago religious environmentalists will engage questions and share practices and results about their work within and across diverse populations. Situated in a variety of institutional settings in Chicago, the panelists bring to the discussion an array of experiences working between and among Chicago’s academic, civic, religious, and artistic sectors. Panelists: David Rhoads, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago David Aftandilian, University of Chicago Robert Saler, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago Clare Butterfield, Faith in Place
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Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group and Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group, and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Victoria Barnett, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Presiding Theme: Taking the Testimony of Genocide: The Work of Fr. Patrick Desbois Father Patrick Desbois has served since 2003 as an advisor to the Vatican’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. A Catholic priest, he is a member of the board of the French Judeo-Christian Friendship Society and President of the Yahad-In Unum Association, which was co-founded by the Archbishop of Paris and the head of the World Jewish Congress to promote Jewish-Catholic dialogue, joint social relief programs, and common moral values throughout Europe. Father Desbois has interviewed numerous surviving eyewitnesses and participants in mass shootings in Ukraine and has investigated some 700 of an estimated 2,000 mass graves of Jewish victims. On 22 May 2006, Father Desbois was awarded the Human Rights Award of B’nai B’rith France for his work on behalf of Jewish victims in the Ukraine. Panelist: Patrick Debois, Uahad-In Unum
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Religion and Popular Culture Group
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Selling Religion: Commodification of Religious Practices
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Two Recent Books on the Intersection of Latin American Art and Religion: Laura Perez’s Chicana Art (Duke University Press, 2007) and David Carrasco’s Mapa de Cuauhtinchan (University of New Mexico Press, 2007)
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Ritual Studies Group and Queer Theory and LGBT Studies in Religion Consultation
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Jakob Hero, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding Theme: Transgender Performances: Ritualizing across Lines of Gender Cosponsored by Ritual Studies and Queer Theory/LGBT Studies, this session explores transgender/ed performance/performativity through reflection on three specific religious/ ritual contexts where transgender performativity occurs. First, Sparks explores gender fluidity and sexual diversity in Yoruba-diasporic religious practice, focusing on sacred performative roles and elements associated with gender/sexual diversity/transgender behavior and samesex eroticism in African-Atlantic religions. Second, Goodwin explores performances of “unmanliness” in Norse Pagan practices, specifically those of transgender/intersex activist and Northern Tradition shaman, Raven Kaldera, whose use of “unmanliness” functions to refer to a “third sex” in constructing religious identity and authority, complicating the “legibility” of his body. Third, transactivist, writer, and Pagan priest Patrick Califia explores Pagan alternatives to monotheistic condemnation that offer blessing rather than excommunication to transgendered, intersexed, gender queer, two-spirited, or transsexual people drawing on ancient myths and religious practices, progressive politics, and queer theory. Amy Hollywood will be responding. David Hatfield Sparks, College of Alameda Dancing the River: Communicating Gender Fluidity and Sexual Diversity in Yoruba-diasporic Religious Practice Megan Goodwin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Dangerous “Interscetions”: “Unmanliness” in Abject Religious Discourse Pat Califia, San Francisco, CA Performing a/as Pagan Priest/ess Responding: Amy M. Hollywood, Harvard University
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Sacred Space in Asia Group
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Back to the Source: Siting Asia in America; Sighting Americans in Asia
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Yoga in Theory and Practice Consultation
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Modern Buddhist Yoga: Ancient Traditions in the Contemporary Global Context
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World Christianity Group
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Hybridity and Transculturalization
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JAAR Editorial Board Meeting
6:00 pm-7:00 pm Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia, Presiding
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A2-401 AAR Awards Ceremony and Reception
6:30 pm-7:30 pm Celebrate the achievements of the 2008 AAR award winners at the ceremony and reception held in their honor. AWARD WINNERS: Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago Excellence in Teaching Award Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College Religion and the Arts Award Betye Saar and Alison Saar, Los Angeles, CA Best First Book Award Emma Anderson, University of Ottawa The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert (Harvard University Press, 2007) BEST IN-DEPTH REPORTING ON RELIGION AWARDS News Outlets with Circulations over 100,000: First Place: Manya Brachear, Chicago Tribune Second Place: Yaroslav Trofimov, The Wall Street Journal Third Place: Adam Parker, The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.) News Outlets with Circulations under 100,000: First Place: Lee Lawrence, The Christian Science Monitor Second Place: G. Jeffrey MacDonald, The Christian Science Monitor Third Place: Brad A. Greenberg, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles Opinion Writing: First Place: Mohamad Bazzi, articles published in The Nation and Newsday Second Place: William McKenzie, The Dallas Morning News Third Place: Robert Sibley, Ottawa Citizen The AAR Book Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion have yet to be determined.
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American Journal of Theology and Philosophy
6:30 pm-8:00 pm Michael S. Hogue, Meadville Lombard Theological School, Presiding David E. Conner, Wheat Ridge, CO, United Church of Christ Whitehead the Naturalist Responding: J. Thomas Howe, Iliff School of Theology, We are anticipating a lively conversation about process thought. Everyone is welcome! For additional information, contact Jennifer Jesse at jgjesse@truman.edu.
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JAAR Reception for Board Members and Authors
7:00 pm-8:00 pm Reception for JAAR Editorial board members and JAAR authors.
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Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Reception
7:00 pm-8:30 pm The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invites all those interested in the intersection of religious studies and Holocaust studies for refreshments, networking, and conversation. For more information on our programs and fellowship opportunities please see www.ushmm. org/research/center/.
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A1-403 Plenary Address
7:30 pm-8:30 pm Emilie M. Townes, Yale University, Presiding Theme: How I’ve Changed My Mind (or Not) Charles H. Long, after attending Dunbar Junior College and volunteering for the US Army Air Forces during World War II, received a D.B. and Ph.D from the University of Chicago. He joined Mircea Eliade and Joseph Kitagawa in establishing the international journal, History of Religions. He, along with a group of his colleagues, established the first curriculum for the study of religion at the University of Chicago. He has been involved in the training of three generations of scholars in religion and African-American studies. Long has a unique perspective from which to speak of the general meaning of religion in history and culture, and specifically about African religions in Africa and in the Atlantic world. Long has served on the faculties at the University of Chicago, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Syracuse University, and is professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of several books including Significations. Panelists: Charles H. Long, Chapel Hill, NC
concepts on issues that all of these disciplines pursue, albeit from vastly different perspectives. His academic and religious background enables him to comfortably and credibly move within each of these domains, and his extensive writings have evoked new and important consideration of humankind’s most profound concepts.
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Film: On the Road with the Red God
8:30 pm-10:00 pm Frances Garrett, University of Toronto, Presiding Every twelve years, impassioned devotees pull a sixty-five-feet tall unwieldy chariot in the Kathmandu Valley, its rider an enigmatic god worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists, on a month-long journey preceded by abundant ritual and animal sacrifice. The enterprise calls for extreme cooperation and rigorous observance of ritual in the building, sanctification, and pulling of the chariot. But the jatra (festival) is an arena of gritty reality, where participants vie for everything from a share of ritual meat to status and proximity to the god. The chariot teeters, as does the community, between chaos and order, conflict or solidarity. Thus, every twelve years, the same question: will the journey succeed?
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AAR Special Invited Guest: 2008 Templeton Prize Winner Michael Heller
8:30 pm-9:30 pm Theme: Human Time and the Time of the Universe Michael Heller, Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow, Poland, is a cosmologist and Catholic priest who has developed sharply focused and strikingly original concepts on the origin and cause of the universe. He earned masters in theology and philosophy and a PhD in philosophy from the Catholic University of Lublin. His studies were largely in physics, but authorities prevented the university from granting degrees in that discipline. He has served as researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics at Oxford University and the Vatican Observatory. Heller is a compelling figure in physics, cosmology, theology, and philosophy with provocative
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Film: Karunamayudu
8:30 pm-10:30 pm Dwight Friesen, University of Edinburgh, Presiding Karunamayudu(Telugu for Man of Compassion), also known by its Hindi title Daya Sagar, may well be India’s most widely recognized and commercially produced Jesus film. Not only was it a box office hit upon its release, it has been a regular feature on network television during Christian holidays and continues to be screened today. It also spawned a TV serial in the vein of the popular Ramayana and Mahabharata. Like many Indian films, it reflects, without slavishly copying, its Western predecessors, blending biblical narrative with local conventions to present a cinematic Christ for India.
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A2-407 Art Series: Wicker Park Grace’s Stations of the Cross
8:30 pm-10:00 pm Across time and cultures artists have wrestled with spiritual meaning, negotiating the intersection of tradition and lived experience. Members of Wicker Park Grace, an alternative congregation in Chicago’s arts-focused Wicker Park neighborhood, have created Stations of the Cross, imbuing an ancient form with modern spirituality. This session will showcase the Stations and feature comments from some of the artists.
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Teaching and Learning Committee Meeting
7:30 am-8:45 am
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Job Placement Task Force Meeting
7:30 am-9:00 am
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A3-100 Special Topics Forum
9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the International Connections Committee Richard Jaffe, Duke University, Presiding Theme: The Influence of Religion on Women’s Legal Rights in India Panelists: Flavia Agnes, Majlis Centre for Rights Discourse Monmayee Basu, University of Delhi Uma Chakravarti, University of Delhi
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Arts Series: Salem Baptist Church’s Gospel Choir
8:30 pm-10:00 pm From Thomas Dorsey to the Staples Singers, Chicago has long been a capital for gospel music. That music has rich roots in the city’s churches and popular culture. A choir from Salem Baptist Church, one of the city’s biggest and fastest-growing congregations, will offer a sampling of gospel’s vitality and diversity.
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Special Topics Forum
9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Academic Relations Committee Edwin David Aponte, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: The Elephant in the Room: Contingent Faculty and the Profession Data presented by the American Association of University Professors demonstrate that the proportion of faculty holding tenured or tenure eligible position is declining. This national trend is evident at every type of institution of higher learning. Moreover, the trend affects people: the scholars who hold adjunct or contingent positions of various sorts, their families, their colleagues, and their students. In this special topics forum, we will provide information about
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Program Unit Chairs’ Breakfast
7:15 am-8:45 am Jack Fitzmier, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Program unit chairs are invited to a continental breakfast featuring information on upcoming program initiatives.
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International Connections Committee Meeting
7:30 am-8:45 am
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the present situation and launch discussion of how best to respond. We will consider both personal responses and institutional policies and practices toward fair treatment of contingent faculty, collegial relationships among all faculty, and productive working conditions for teaching, learning, and research. While we do not anticipate solving the “problem,” we do hope to foster constructive public conversation. Panelists: Matthew Gowans, Loyola University Chicago Elizabeth Cameron Galbraith, Saint Olaf College Luis G. Pedraja, Middle States Commission on Higher Education Evelyn L. Parker, Southern Methodist University Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University
Ellen T. Charry, Princeton Theological Seminary Called to Love and Obedience: Jews, Christians, and the Continuity of Scriptures David Rudolph, Messianic Jewish Theological Institute Paul’s “Rule in All the Congregations” (1 Cor 7:17-24) and God’s “Call” to Torah-defined Ecclesiological Variegation Jodie Boyer Hatlem, University of Toronto Unmuzzling the Ox: Why the Torah Should Be Normative for “Gentile” Christians Holly Taylor Coolman, Boston College The Christological Torah Responding: Randi Rashkover, George Mason University David Novak, University of Toronto
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Christian Systematic Theology Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Lynn H. Cohick, Wheaton College, Presiding Theme: The Torah and the Continuity of Scripture in Jewish Christian Dialogue The focus of this panel will be on questions pertaining to the place of the Torah in theological dialogue between Jews and Christians. We will be assessing the relevance of the Jerusalem Council for current Jewish– Christian relations and investigating the nature of the decision regarding gentile converts, including whether it should still stand today. Our framing of the conversation in terms of scriptural continuity has proven helpful insofar as it has invited a variety of concrete proposals for how Christians and Jews should relate to each other with respect to matters of law, obedience, and love. Historical diagnoses of the problems of supersessionism, while undeniably important, often balk when it comes to offering constructive paths forward. To date, diagnoses that provide a means of advancement have often involved radically reconstruing, or altogether rejecting, traditional Christological claims. This session explores an alternative route, or rather alternative routes, to Jewish– Christian unity.
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Comparative Studies in Religion Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: New Religious Movements and Science: Legitimation, Complementarity, and Non-Western Validation
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Ethics Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Criminal Injustice and Christian Responsibility: Christianity and the Criminal Justice Systems
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North American Religions Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: The Americas Perspective on the Study of Religion MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
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Philosophy of Religion Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: The Philosophy of Yuasa Yasuo
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A3-107 Religion and Politics Section and Religion and the Social Sciences Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Mark Chaves, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Religion, Politics, and Civic Engagement: Separating Fact from Fiction Religion continues to shape American political and civic life. In this session, two prominent political scientists will present the latest research on the complex connections between religion and politics, and, more broadly, between religion and civic engagement. John Green is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron and Senior Fellow with the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. David Campbell is the John Cardinal O’Hara Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and co-author with Robert Putnam of a forthcoming book on the changing role of religion in America. Green will focus on religion and electoral politics, including the nature of this relationship in the 2008 elections. Campbell will focus on religion and civic engagement, describing both the current situation and significant trends. There will be ample time for open discussion of these important and timely subjects. John Green, University of Akron Religion and American Elections David H. Campbell, Phoenix Seminary Religion and American Civic Life Business Meeting: Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary’s College of California, and Andrew Murphy, Valparaiso University, Presiding
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Study of Judaism Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Conceptualizing Modern Jews and Judaism
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Teaching Religion Section
9:00 am-11:30 am James A. Donahue, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Where Religion Faculty Meet Students’ Worlds: Lessons from the Graduate Theological Union Preparing Future Faculty Project In 2007, the Graduate Theological Union undertook a two-part project to mentor doctoral students as future faculty who could practice pedagogies which would engage “big questions;” questions of meaning and value provoked by the content of their courses, which students bring to the undergraduate classroom, and which they face in the world outside the university. Our research interest was to determine how faculty charged with developing future faculty can best mentor toward vocations of teaching scholarship in which “big questions” are central in practical approaches to classroom teaching. In this panel, project team members present findings and conclusions, while a project Mentor and two project Fellows offer inside perspectives on the mentoring process and on collegial relationships as they developed in the project. This will be concluded by Alexander and Helen Astin, who respond on the basis of their research on spirituality and higher education (the HERI report). Maureen Maloney, Graduate Theological Union Engaging the Institution: Mentoring Future Faculty, Big Questions of Vocation, and the Reality of Assessment Elizabeth Drescher, Graduate Theological Union Re-engineering the Teaching Machine: Big Questions from the Inside Out and the Outside In
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Religion in South Asia Section and Contemporary Islam Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Islam as Discourse: Identity Construction in Medieval and Modern South Asia
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Martha Ellen Stortz, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary The Stakes Involved in “Going Spiritual”: Mentoring Future Faculty toward Meaning and Value Melissa James, and Steven C. Bauman, Graduate Theological Union Big Questions of Vocation, Professional Identity, and Classroom Practice: A Conversation between Colleagues Responding: Helen Astin, University of California, Los Angeles Alexander Astin, University of California, Los Angeles Business Meeting: Fran Grace, University of Redlands, and Joseph A. Favazza, Stonehill College, Presiding
Sodiq Yushau, Texas Christian University The Application of Islamic Law in Northern Nigeria: A Success or A Failure Franz Kogelmann, University of Bayreuth Eight Years of “Full Sharia-Implementation” in Northern Nigeria–Only Political Sharia? Some Remarks on Religious Politics in Nigeria–The Example of Zakat Business Meeting: Tapiwa Mucherera, Asbury Theological Seminary, Presiding
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Christian Spirituality Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Eros and Christian Spirituality
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Comparative Theology Group and World Christianity Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Maintaining Multiple Religious Belonging: Dancing with Two Partners
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Theology and Religious Reflection Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire
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Eastern Orthodox Studies Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: The Perception of the West in Eastern Orthodoxy
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Women and Religion Section
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Mapping the Fetus: Four Historical Case Studies
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African Religions Group
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3 9:00 am-11:30 am Danoye Oguntola- Laguda, Lagos State University, Presiding Theme: Sharia in Africa Fola Taiye Lateju, Obafemi Awolowo University Islamic Laws of Inheritance and Its SocioEconomic Implications on Yoruba Muslims of Southwestern Nigeria Joshua Ralston, Emory University Separation without Marginalization: Political and Legal Theories of Mosque, Church, and State in Nigeria
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A3-117 Ecclesiological Investigations Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Julie Clague, University of Glasgow, Presiding Theme: Twenty-First Century Church This session will explore contemporary reality and future prospects for the church in general and ecclesiology in particular. Papers will share an engagement with broader thematic reflections and discussion (e.g., on postmodernity); each speaker offering a more specific treatment of a particular ecclesial phenomenon, development, or debate (such as the challenges and prospects for the church in pluralist contexts, the “Emerging Church” phenomenon, the interrelation between ecclesiology and ethics in ecumenical ecclesiological discourse and practice, and ecofeminist challenges to ecclesiology today). Thus the session encompasses both studies of developments at grass roots/regional level as well as more comparative and systematic surveys and projections of where ecclesiology is presently “at” and in what directions it is likely to or might best develop. Ann K Riggs, Earlham School of Religion “Ecclesiology and Ethics”: An Under-Attended Trajectory of Ecumenical Ecclesiological Investigation Doug Gay, University of Glasgow Theorizing “Emergence” as New Wave Ecumenism Paul Pulikkan, University of Calicut Church in Pluralist Society of India: Encounter with the Hindutva Forces MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Jane Carol Redmont, Guilford College Earth’s Body, Women’s Bodies, and the Body of Christ: Ecofeminist Challenges to Ecclesiology Paul F. Lakeland, Fairfield University Toward a More Inductive Ecclesiology: Listening to the Spirit Business Meeting: Paul Collins, University of Chichester, Presiding
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Evangelical Theology Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Reforming the Doctrine of God (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2005) by F. LeRon Shults
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Indigenous Religious Traditions Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Jualynne E. Dodson, Michigan State University, Presiding Theme: Conceptualizing the Sacred Durkheim and Eliade, among others, divide human activity and thus temporal events in separate spheres known respectively as “sacred” and “profane.” The sacred is that which is set apart as somehow “holy different” and demarcated from the ordinary (profane). This distinction has become codified in comparative religious studies. Yet is the dichotomy useful in discussing indigenous cultures, in which the “sacred” permeates every act and element and it becomes difficult if not impossible to separate the “religious” from what is otherwise political, artistic, economic, etc. To put it differently, is the sacred a viable concept for the study of indigenous religious traditions. Each of the four presentations on this panel discusses dialogue with indigenous traditions. Two look at Native American religious traditions and how they have been misperceived and represented. Another examines the use of the Bible in Christian, non-Christian, and syncretic divination in Africa. Still another looks at the possibility of conversation between indigenous and contemporary Pagan discourses. James B. Jeffries, Clemson University Imposing Religion: Missionary Roots of the Comparative Study of Religion Scott Edmondson, University of California, Los Angeles Any and Every Book of Moses: Using Sacred(?) Texts in Southern Ghana Michael York, London, United Kingdom
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Negotiating the Sacred and the Possibility of Indigenous and Pagan Discourse Mary Keller, University of Wyoming Tracking the Sacred in International Discourse and the Work of Walter Echo Hawk Business Meeting: Jace Weaver, University of Georgia, Presiding
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Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Blessed Rage or Sacred Resistance: Exploring the Intersections of Religion and Activism
A3-122 A3-120 Korean Religions Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Miriam Levering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Presiding Theme: Religion, Violence, and the State in Korean Religions The session explores the theme of religion and violence in Korean Shamanism, Buddhism, Christianity, and North Korean Juche thought. Jonathan Best, Wesleyan University The Raising of the Temple of Maitreya: A Buddhist Faith-Based Initiative for Conquest in Early Korea Marcie Middlebrooks, Cornell University Torturous Enlightenment: Public Secrets and Spiritual Progress in a Korean Buddhist Narrative Michael J. Pettid, University of Hawaii Shamanic Supermen and Superwomen: Creating Alternative Spaces for the Oppressed David Kim, Princeton University Korean Shamanism, the Accident, and Material History: A Ritual of Unraveling and Redemption for Military “Comfort Women” Chang Han Kim, University of Calgary Christian Sects and Cults, and Anti-Cults Movements in Contemporary Korea Kyuhoon Cho, University of Ottawa Religious Dimension of a Socialist Society: Juche Civil Religion and Religions in North Korea’s Socialist Modernization in Global Society Responding: Don Baker, University of British Columbia Business Meeting: Jin Y. Park, American University, and Timothy S. Lee, Brite Divinity School, Presiding
Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group
9:00 am-11:30 am L.J. Tess Tessier, Youngstown State University, Presiding Theme: Not Your “Old Time Religion”: Lesbian/ Queer/Feminist Challenges to Received Notions of Religion and Spirituality The invisibility of women’s lives in maledominated religions, and proscriptions against lesbian existence in many religious traditions, has led lesbians to find religious and spiritual meanings outside of received forms, rituals, or paths and has led lesbian and feminist religious scholars to confront limitations in received categories of religion, gender, and sexuality. In this panel, presenters raise questions concerning the definition of “religion” as mediated by lesbian, queer, and feminist experience. How does scholarship on lesbian-feminist issues broaden, challenge, or obfuscate the meanings of “religion” and “spiritual”? Marie Cartier, Claremont Graduate University Listening to the Narratives of Pre-Stonewall Lesbians Kathleen M. Sands, University of Hawaii, Manoa Mixing It Up: Religion, Lesbian Feminism, and Queerness Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University Serious Immanence: Ludic Philo-sophia (for the Birds) Susan B. Thistlethwaite, Chicago Theological Seminary Heterosexism on My Mind
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
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A3-123 Religion and Popular Culture Group and Religion, Media, and Culture Group
9:00 am-11:30 am William David Hart, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Presiding Theme: Just Gaming? Virtual Religious Worlds and Religious Studies Scholars have studied online religion for some time now. Yet one important aspect of our digital mediascape has been ignored: Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs). One of the most popular forms of online media, MMORPGs are more than digital playgrounds, but are also virtual arenas in which real-life possibilities are played out. This panel explores religion on two MMORPGs: Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft, and Linden Lab’s Second Life. The panel maps the intersection of religion and these virtual worlds and how research of virtual worlds expands our understanding of the phenomenon of religion in general. Combining case studies with various methodological and theoretical perspectives, the six presentations examine human inventiveness, conflict mediation, and adaptation as they intersect with marriage, myth, ritual, ethics, identity, gender, and theology. The panel will play with the traditional format, allowing the audience to have hands on experience of the online worlds. Panelists: Rabia Gregory, University of Missouri, Columbia Steven Benko, Meredith College Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, University of Heidelberg Rachel Wagner, Ithaca College Kimberly Knight, Emory University Gregory Grieve, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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Tantric Studies Group and Yoga in Theory and Practice Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Stuart R. Sarbacker, Northwestern University, Presiding Theme: Yogic Powers (Siddhis)
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Ambiguity characterizes the attitudes to yogic powers (siddhis, iddhis) in the Buddhist and Hindu traditions. These powers are attained by many founding figures, are generally accepted as signs of divinity, and are central to the descriptions of the progress towards the yogic goal. However, both in the Yoga traditions and in the Buddhist traditions, the texts include warnings that these powers are really hindrances to the ultimate goal (kaivalya, nirvana). The omnipresence of these powers in the texts on Yoga and Buddhist meditation suggests that they are more central to the teaching than the warnings should suggest. Power and purity are often understood as opposites in South Asian religious traditions, but they are often intertwined in the religious practice; so also in yoga and meditation. The papers in this panel analyze this tension between power and purity in South Asian Yoga traditions. Knut Axel Jacobsen, University of Bergen Are the Powers (Siddhis) of Yogasutra an Example of Buddhist Influence on Yoga? David Fiordalis, University of Michigan Remembering Lives and Reading Minds: The Importance of Yogic Powers in Early Theravada Buddhism
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Bradley S. Clough, University of Montana The Miracles of the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa: Narrative Form and Doctrinal Content David G. White, University of California, Santa Barbara How Big Can Yogis Get? How Much Can Yogis See? Lloyd W. Pflueger, Truman State University Holding On, Letting Go, and Hitting the Mark: Demonstrating “Success” in Classical Yoga Business Meeting: Stuart R. Sarbacker, Northwestern University, and Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding
Responding: Philip K. Goff, Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis Business Meeting: James B. Bennett, Santa Clara University, and Quincy Newell, University of Wyoming, Presiding
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Religions in Chinese and Indian Cultures: A Comparative Perspective Seminar
9:00 am-11:30 am Tao Jiang, Rutgers University, Presiding Theme: Body and Medicine in Indian and Chinese Religions This panel explores contemporary scholarly perspectives on the many distinct if overlapping conceptions of the body in Indian and Chinese religious thought and practice which can inform the theoretical resources for the study of the body available today. In particular, we would like to approach these issues through the lens of “medicine,” recognizing that the anthropology of medical traditions offers a sharp disciplinary focus on the body in philosophy and religion. Topics of this year’s panel include: medical divination, tantric healing, bodily possession and communications with the dead, etc. Panelists: Donald Harper, University of Chicago Peng Mu, University of Pennsylvania Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa Sthaneshwar Timalsina, San Diego State University Responding: Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University Business Meeting: Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University, and Tao Jiang, Rutgers University, Presiding
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Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group and Buddhism in the West Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Tibet and the West: Modern Intersections
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Religion in the American West Seminar
9:00 am-11:30 am Laurie Maffly-Kipp, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Presiding Theme: Framing Issues in the Study of Religion in the American West The inaugural session of the Religion in the American West Seminar will consist of a wideranging discussion of the state of the field— where it came from, where it is, and where it might go—based on three pre-circulated papers by William Deverell, Rudy Busto, and Sara Patterson. Philip Goff will start the discussion with a brief response; then all attendees are welcome to join in the conversation. Everyone who attends is asked to have read the three papers in advance; they will be posted on the Seminar’s website (www.aarweb.org/Meetings/ Annual_Meeting/Program_Units/PUCS/Website/ main.asp?PUNum=AARPU180) a month before the session convenes. Panelists: Sara Patterson, Hanover College Rudy V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara William Deverell, University of Southern California
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A3-129 Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Karen-Marie Yust, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education, Presiding Theme: Children’s Voices and Agency: Challenges for Research This session explores some of the major challenges faced by scholars who are attempting to describe, analyze, and understand the thoughts, experiences, and agency of children. Papers represent a range of approaches and methodologies in the growing field of Childhood Studies and examine issues such as children’s spiritual lives, their participation in religious rituals and practices, their contributions to families and communities, their rights and responsibilities, their social agency, and the possible benefits of including more attention to children’s voices and experiences in the study of religion. Susan Ridgely, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Religious Ritual from the Inside Out: Using Children’s Voices as Primary Sources in Religious Studies Duane Bidwell, Phillips Theological Seminary, and Donald Batisky, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Ohio State University College of Medicine Children’s Accounts of Hope as a Spiritual Resource in Chronic Illness Trygve Wyller, University of Oslo, Norway Children’s Citizenship: Between Utopia and Heterotopia Responding: Annemie Dillen, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven Business Meeting: Marcia Bunge, Valparaiso University, Presiding
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Death, Dying, and Beyond Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Sarah K. Pinnock, Trinity University, Presiding Theme: The Commodification of Death This session will examine the ways in which death and its attendant ritual activity become the subject of commodification and commercialization. While there has been much media attention on the commercial practices of the American funeral industry, much less attention has been given to the ways in which funerary rites are used to further ideological agendas. Four speakers will engage this topic from as disparate contexts as the ancient Egyptian practice of mummification to the contemporary green burial movement. Presenters will utilize visual media and welcome dialogue with those in attendance. Cynthia Hogan Dopko, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Death Industry in Ancient Egypt: A Cautionary Tale Stanley Thayne, Brigham Young University “There Is No Death”: Defying Death, the State, and the Self—Marie Ogden and the Home of Truth Cathy N. Gutierrez, Sweet Briar College A Democracy of the Dead: Cremation, Green Burials, and the Future of the Spirit Rebecca Moore, San Diego State University Naming Names: Identifying and Memorializing the Jonestown Dead Business Meeting: Kathleen Garces-Foley, Marymount University, Presiding
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Liberal Theologies Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Ellen Umansky, Fairfield University, Presiding Theme: Liberalism and Its Analogues in Global Religions This session explores the concepts and theories used to determine the “liberal” in distinct religious traditions. We look at how “liberal” is identified in the study of particular religions—in the case of this panel, Christianity, Judaism, and Buddhism—from historical and theological perspectives. We are interested in critical and constructive reflections of terms and concepts used to further the analysis of “liberal” and to compare “liberal” among global religions. Sandra Yocum Mize, University of Dayton Catholics Engaging Liberalism: Theological Education as Socio-political Strategy Jeff Wilson, University of Waterloo Buddhists and Other Liberals: Rethinking a Key Term in American Religious Historiography Jeremy Hustwit, California State University, San Bernardino Nature, Revelation, and Religious Comparison in Liberal Christian Theology Laura S. Levitt, Temple University Jews, Liberalism, and the Secular: Postcolonial Engagement Business Meeting: Christine Helmer, Northwestern University, Presiding
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Rethinking the Field Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Stephanie Yuhas, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver, Presiding Theme: Anybody Up There? An Interview with Anthony Pinn on African-American Humanism The field of African-American Religious Studies is not monolithic; Anthony Pinn’s work is a testament to this fact. In fact, Pinn’s accomplishments amount to a new field: African-American Humanism. Unlike traditional panels, this session will be an interactive discussion with Pinn. We ask the audience to come with questions directed towards our central theme: How does AfricanAmerican Humanism reshape AfricanAmerican Religious Studies? Panelists: Roy Whitaker, Claremont Graduate University Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University Theme: Past, Present, Other: Rethinking the Study of Ancient Religion The new relationship between the AAR and the SBL presents difficulties, especially for scholars of the ancient Mediterranean. But the separation is also an opportunity, and the current moment is the perfect occasion to rethink the study of ancient religious traditions. This roundtable discussion will therefore focus on the way we should put the historical material in conversation with the study of contemporary, lived religion. Panelists: Ian Curran, Emory University Janelle Peters, University of California, San Diego Anne Bullock, Emory University Jyoti Raghu, Columbia University Robert von Thaden, Mercyhurst College Business Meeting: Bradley L. Herling, Marymount Manhattan College, Presiding
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Religion and Migration Consultation and Religion and Cities Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Migrants, Religion, and the Reconfiguration of Cities
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A3-135 Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. Consultation
9:00 am-11:30 am Rosetta E. Ross, Spelman College, Presiding Theme: Speaking Truth to Power: The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.—Empire and the 2008 Presidential Election On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis, Tennessee as he led protests in support of Black sanitation workers. On the backdrop of his prophetic call to end the war in Vietnam, King recognized the growing interrelatedness of American militarism, imperialism, and poverty in the United States and abroad. King was also becoming acutely aware of the ways in which powerful economic and political forces considered it necessary to suppress resistance movements domestically as a consequence of Empire in world affairs. This session explores the relationship between the assassination of King, surrounding events related to the Vietnam War, and King’s precipitous critique of America as Empire in global perspective. It also addresses the connections related to the thought and the historical situations leading to his assassination and into conversation with contemporary issues concerning the 2008 Presidential Election and the War in Iraq. Reginald Broadnax, Hood Theological Seminary How Martin Luther King Jr. Can Speak to the 2008 Presidential Election Peter Heltzel, New York Theological Seminary King, Evangelicals, and Obama: The Roots of Prophetic Evangelicalism Mary R. Sawyer, Iowa State University Forty Years of Wilderness: American Society Since the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Cassie Trentaz, Chicago Theological Seminary “…A Threat to Justice Everywhere”: A Look at Personhood and the Sacred/Beloved Communities of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King Jr. in the Age of Global HIV/AIDS Business Meeting: Johnny B. Hill, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
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Career Services Advisory Committee Meeting
11:30 am-1:00 pm
A3-137 Plenary Address
11:45 am-12:45 pm Emilie M. Townes, Yale University, Presiding Theme: The Journey of Black Sacred Music Even a cursory look at the career of Nolan Williams Jr. reveal the story of an exceptional young man gifted with extraordinary talent. A musical prodigy since age four, Williams has emerged as a significant presence in the music world with his chief-editorial leadership of the landmark The African-American Hymnal; his premiere orchestrations performed by some of the country’s leading orchestras; and his musical direction for events of national and international prominence such as inaugural events for Presidents Clinton and Bush and a US celebration of South African President Nelson Mandela. Williams has also received Grammy nominations for his songwriting projects and has worked collaboratively with major gospel and mainstream artists such as Diana Ross, Yolanda Adams, Erykah Badu, Donnie McClurkin, and Sean Jean Combs. Williams lives in Washington, DC where he is Minister of Music at the Metropolitan Baptist Church. Panelist: Nolan Williams Jr., NEW Inspiration, Inc.
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A3-200 Special Topics Forum
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Sustainability Task Force Kyle Cole, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Theme: Thinking about Religion and Sustainability: Gottlieb’s A Greener Faith (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Beyond Taking Roger Gottlieb’s book on religious environmentalism as a jumping off point, panel members will discuss and contextualize current movements in religion and sustainability. In particular, the panel will address what the Academy’s role is in relationship to sustainability concerns and how scholars of religion can bring broader attention to these issues in meaningful ways. Panelists: Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University Isabel Mukonyora, Western Kentucky University John J. O’Keefe, Creighton University Barbara A.B. Patterson, Emory University Responding: Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
the concrete pedagogical payoffs. Panelists: Miguel A. De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology Peter R. Gathje, Memphis Theological Seminary Andrea Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Susan B. Thistlethwaite, Chicago Theological Seminary
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Special Topics Forum
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Theological Education Steering Committee Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Theology of Hope and Healing for a Divided Nation The United States is ailing from a history of racial division, experiencing religious tensions in the wake of September 11, worried about strained international relations, and polarized by internal struggles. In the presidential campaign, we have seen indications of this hurt, but we have also seen possibilities of healing. As in previous presidential elections, religious rhetoric has played a prominent role during the primary season and in the general election. While religion scholars stand ready to offer critical analyses of public religious discourse, can engaged scholars and learned religious leaders offer constructive proposals that can offer hope for the public life of this pluralistic nation? Can we understand such offerings as contributions to the public understanding of religion? How might reflective religious leaders and scholars offer theologies of healing for an ailing nation? We invite our distinguished speakers to offer just such theologies on the eve of the election. Panelists: Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary Michael Lerner, Tikkun Magazine; Rabbi, Beyt Tikkun Synagogue Obery M. Hendricks, New York Theological Seminary
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Special Topics Forum
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Committee Joseph A. Favazza, Stonehill College, Presiding Theme: Who Does Service Learning Serve? A Hybrid Workshop with Interactive Dialogue In this interactive session, we will be defining service-learning, sharing experiences and resources, discussing the roles of institutions and community partners, and examining the ideas of leadership, social change, and transformative education. Our goals are information, inspiration, and integration of the various theories and practices in service-learning and
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A3-203 Buddhism Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: New Studies in Late Ming Chinese Buddhism Eboni Marshall, Union Theological Seminary The Politics of Incarnation: Identity, DoubleConsciousness, and the Feasibility of a Womanist Mediating Ethic Responding: Emilie M. Townes, Yale University
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Christian Systematic Theology Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Rethinking Covenant
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History of Christianity Section and The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Patricia O’Connell Killen, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding Theme: Teaching the History of Christianity: Critical Themes and Challenges What are the key challenges, opportunities, and goals in the History of Christianity classroom today, and how best should teachers respond to them? This session will explore these broad questions through a frank and open conversation with a group of skilled working teachers, representing a variety of backgrounds and institutional settings. The format will be a loosely structured roundtable or “fishbowl”style discussion, with the audience invited to participate, comment, and reflect. The focus will be on actual classroom practices, experiences, and challenges. Panelists: Madeline Duntley, Bowling Green State University Constance Furey, Indiana University, Bloomington W. Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago Horace E. Six-Means, Hood Theological Seminary
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Comparative Studies in Religion Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Twins and Twinship: Ongoing Comparative Development of a Theme
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Ethics Section and Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Katie G. Cannon, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education, Presiding Theme: Celebrating the Work of Emilie Townes: Womanist Contributions to Christian and Social Ethics Keri Day, Vanderbilt University Poor Black Women and Public Policy: Emilie Townes’s Theological Vision of Justice within A Womanist Theory of Political Criticism Andrea C. White, University of Chicago Eschatological Identity in the Thought of Emilie Townes Jonathan L Walton, University of California, Riverside “Deliver Us from Evil”: An Assessment of the Hermeneutical and Methodological Creativity of Emilie Townes in Uncovering/Dismantling Culturally Produced Evil
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North American Religions Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Religion and Emotion in Modern America: Modulations of Mood and Performances of Passion
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Philosophy of Religion Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Dis-Enclosure: Deconstruction of Christianity (Fordham University Press, 2007).
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Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Mark Unno, University of Oregon, Presiding Theme: Buddhist Constructive Thought and Critical Frameworks for Praxis This panel gathers together diverse ways that Buddhist critical-constructive reflection may inform current understanding and practice East and West. One paper explores how new forms of Buddhist theological reflection may help Buddhist healthcare chaplains find answers to questions emerging in their work bridging cultures, and how cross-cultural Buddhist chaplaincy work, in turn, brings new perspectives to Buddhist theology. Another paper compares Tibetan monastic and American social-scientific institutions in their common tendency to focus critical, deconstructive analysis upon phenomena other than their own institutions. The last two papers explore an ancient Japanese Buddhist master, Kukai, and a contemporary theologian, Raimon Panikkar, to see how their models of religious diversity may newly inform contemporary Buddhist reflection on religious pluralism. Jessica Falcone, Cornell University The Scope of Meditative Thinking: Tibetan Monastics and American Academics Negotiate the Institutional Limits of Reflexivity and Introspection Danny Fisher, University of the West Attending to the Buddha: The Importance of Buddhist Theology for Practitioners Working as Professional Healthcare Chaplains Wamae Muriuki, Ohio State University Kukai’s Esoteric Topography: One Model for Religious Comparison Abraham Velez de Cea, Eastern Kentucky University Toward a Pluralistic Understanding of Dharma Practice: A Panikkar-Inspired Buddhist “Theology” of Religions Business Meeting: Roger Jackson, Carleton College, and John J. Makransky, Boston College, Presiding MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
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Religion and Politics Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Islam and Politics
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Religion in South Asia Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: The Role of Miracles and the Miraculous in Creating and Sustaining South Asian Religions This session is dedicated to the memory of Selva Raj.
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Study of Islam Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Sunni—Shi’a Debates on Law, Identity, and Religious Authority
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Study of Judaism Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Embarrassment of Scripture and Its Reembracement
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Teaching Religion Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: The Pedagogy of Dissonance: Teaching at the Borders
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Women and Religion Section
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Pentecostalisms: Women and a Widening World
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Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Race, Power, and Prayer: US Influences on Bonhoeffer’s Theology
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A3-218 Daoist Studies Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jonathan Herman, Georgia State University, Presiding Theme: Chronicling the Dao: A Critical Appraisal of Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen’s The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang (University of Chicago Press, 2005) The massive body of material known as the Daoist (or Taoist) Canon (Daozang) is arguably the most important single resource for the study of Daoist history, doctrine, and practice. It has also been virtually unknown outside the Sinological world, and even those trained specifically in Chinese religion have had only intermittent access to bits and pieces of it. However, the scholarly landscape changed considerably with Kristopher Schipper and Franciscus Verellen’s publication of The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang (2005), a three-volume magnum opus that includes analysis and contextualization of every text in the Canon. This panel brings several scholars representing different areas of focus within Daoist Studies, each bringing his or her particular expertise to bear on analysis and critical appraisal of this milestone publication. Panelists: James Miller, Queen’s University Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Arizona State University Russell Kirkland, University of Georgia Louis Komjathy, Pacific Lutheran University Responding: C. Franciscus Verellen, Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient Kristofer Schipper, Fuzhou University Business Meeting: Louis Komjathy, Pacific Lutheran University, and Jonathan Herman, Georgia State University, Presiding
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Eastern Orthodox Studies Group and Mysticism Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Thomas Cattoi, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, Presiding Theme: Eastern Orthodoxy and the Spiritual Senses This co-sponsored session of the Mysticism Group and the Eastern Orthodox Studies Group will examine ways that the spiritual practices of Eastern Orthodoxy have been understood and developed, as well as how sensory and imagistic practices that originated within Eastern Orthodoxy have spread to Western Christian mystical practices. Sarah Coakley, Harvard University Gregory of Nyssa on the Spiritual Senses: A Reconsideration Derek Michaud, Boston University The Patrisitc Roots of John Smith’s True Way or Method to Attaining Divine Knowledge Brandon Withrow, Samford University A Connecticut Valley Yankee in a Cappadocian Court: Jonathan Edwards, Eastern Christianity, and the “Spiritual Sense” Joseph Molleur, Cornell College A Hindu Monk’s Appropriation of Eastern Orthodoxy’s Jesus Prayer: The “Inner Senses” of Hearing and Seeing in Comparative Perspective
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Evangelical Theology Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm John R. Franke, Biblical Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Evangelical and Muslim Discussion of A Common Word and the Yale Center’s “Christian Response” This panel will feature two evangelical theologians dialoguing with two Muslim signatories of A Common Word about the letter, the Yale Center’s “Christian Response,” and Christian–Muslim relations more generally. The evangelical theologians will address textual matters related to the Bible and Qur’an, and more generally theological concerns. The Muslim intellectuals, both of whom are signatories to A Common Word, will review the last year of responses to the Muslim statement, and then speak directly to the evangelical responses. Each scholar will give a 15-minute presentation, to be followed by 30 minutes of exchange among the four, and then 60 minutes of open discussion with the audience. Panelists: Gordon Nickel, Associated Canadian Theological Schools Gerald R. McDermott, Roanoke College Joseph Lumbard, Brandeis University Caner Dagli, Roanoke College Business Meeting: Wyndy Corbin Reuschling, Ashland Theological Seminary, Presiding
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Native Traditions in the Americas Group and Animals and Religion Consultation
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Kenneth Mello, University of Vermont, Presiding Theme: Animals in Native American Religious Traditions This joint session focuses on Animals in Native American Religious Traditions by examining issues ranging from broad categories such as Indigenous ontology to the more particular exploration of specific animals in one tradition. Presentations focus on: religious and cultural significance of animals in the Mescalero Apache Creation Narrative, exploring ancient oral traditions and contemporary teachings; the mythological significance of dogs in earthly and cosmic realms in Cherokee cultural narratives which suggest that the “sacred” roles of dogs correspond with their “profane” service to humans in these constructions; the concept of animism in Anishinaabeg and other Algonkian languages as it relates to and problematizes ideas about “totemism”; and the use of animals as a window to the ontological structure of Indigenous knowledge as a whole. A response to these presentations and their relationship to the current status of both fields of study will be followed by a period of general discussion. Natalie Avalos Cisneros, University of California, Santa Barbara My Sister, My Brother, My Mother, My Father: Animals in Native Traditions, A Window to Indigenous Ontology Carrie McLachlan, Western Carolina University Celestial Dogs in Cherokee Thought Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara Animals in the Mescalero Apache Creation Narrative Graham Harvey, Open University Revisiting Totemism in the Wake of the New/ Indigenous Animism Responding: Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
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Law, Religion, and Culture Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Theological and Ideological Trials as Social Ordering Mechanism: The Possibilities for Analysis and Comparison
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A3-223 New Religious Movements Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University, New Orleans, Presiding Theme: New Religions in South Asia Conceptually, the study of new religions has often been limited to the West, to those groups that appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and to those caught up in one or another of the “cult controversies.” New religions, however, emerge from within a wide variety of traditions and in all parts of the world. Some of the most active new religious development is taking place within and among south Asian religions, both in their sites of origin and their diasporic communities. This session will explore some of these exciting developments, offering perspectives on rarely discussed groups and insight into new religious phenomena worldwide that can be gained by considering groups that are often neglected. Istvan Keul, Freie Universitaet Berlin Urban, Hybrid, Cross-Religious? A New Religious Movement in Mumbai Hanna H. Kim, New York University Liberal Scholars, Educated Informants, and the Need to Rethink the Hindu Subject: The Case of the Swaminarayan Community Phillip Charles Lucas, Stetson University The Ramana Maharshi Effect: When a Movement Is Not a Movement June McDaniel, College of Charleston Agama Hindu Bali as a New Religious Movement: Hinduism Recreated in the Image of Islam MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Angela Rudert, Syracuse University Tradition and Innovation in Anandmurti Gurumaa’s “New Age” Spirituality Business Meeting: Douglas E. Cowan, University of Waterloo, Presiding
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Nineteenth-Century Theology Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Russell C. Kleckley, Augsburg College, Presiding Theme: The Struggle with Darwinism in the Nineteenth Century This session is dedicated to the memory of Daniel Hardy. Beth Eddy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Struggle or Mutual Aid: Jane Addams and the Progressive Encounter with Social Darwinism Cathy N. Gutierrez, Sweet Briar College Selected, Not Chosen: The Darwinian Theology of John Humphrey Noyes Biff Rocha, University of Dayton Father De Concilio’s Position in the NineteenthCentury American Catholic Debate over Darwinian Evolution Responding: Mark A. McIntosh, Loyola University Chicago
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Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Kathleen Bishop, Drew University, Presiding Theme: Psychologies and/of Race In this election year in the United States, race has often been a focus in public discourse. This panel will explore race and racial identity from a variety of psychological perspectives and methodologies, including Self Psychology (of which Chicago is the birthplace). Lisa M. Cataldo, Fordham University Whiteness Real and Unreal: Destruction, Survival, and Racial Melancholia Roshan Kalantar, Iliff School of Theology ”Only God Can Judge Me”: Mapping the Religious Discourse of “At-risk” Youth Kathryn A. Lyndes, Elmhurst College and Chicago Theological Seminary Self Psychology as a Psychology of Race–Gender and Gender–Race Self-object Experiences
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Lallene Rector, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Narcissistic Dimensions of Racial Identity: The Role of Self-object Experiences in the Development and Maintenance of “Whiteness” Lauren Price, Wilfrid Laurier University Decolonizing Consciousness
Francisca Cho, Georgetown University Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University Irena Makarushka, Towson University Richard M. Carp, Appalachian State University John Lyden, Dana College Business Meeting: John Lyden, Dana College, Presiding
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Qur’an Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Qur’anic Approaches
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Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Dante Quick, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Teaching American Slavery and the Holocaust In recent years, American slavery and the Holocaust have grown increasingly prominent in the American public imagination. How is it possible to teach about and learn from these two different legacies without participating in what Laurence M. Thomas calls “invidious comparisons”—the widespread tendency to claim that one of these catastrophes was worse and therefore ought to be remembered more urgently than the other? The challenge of teaching American slavery and the Holocaust together is in part the search for a methodology that allows teachers and students to attend to the ways in which each of these legacies can complicate our questions about the other. This also means to resist the idea of coherent histories and innocent memories with regard to both American slavery and the Holocaust. Panelists: Rebecca Alpert, Temple University Marian Ronan, American Baptist Seminary of the West Tania Oldenhage, Academy of Boldern Joan M. Martin, Episcopal Divinity School Oren Baruch Stier, Florida International University Jennifer Harvey, Drake University Business Meeting: Laura S. Levitt, Temple University, and Katharina von Kellenbach, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Presiding
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Religion and Popular Culture Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Constructing Religious Identities through Popular Culture
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Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Subversive Saints and Spirits: Spectral Memory and Social Change in the Religious Imaginary
A3-229
Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Greg Watkins, Stanford University, Presiding Theme: New Work in the Teaching of Religion and Film Part of the AAR’s Teaching Religious Studies Series, Teaching Religion and Film (Oxford University Press, 2008) is an important new contribution to both the on-going discussion of the basic theoretical approaches to the intersection of religion and film as well as a practical guide to classroom issues. This panel brings together five contributors to the volume to present new thinking on teaching religion and film. The five panelists are representative of the range of material presented in the volume, which focuses on three basic approaches to the religion and film intersection: 1) Film and the teaching of religious traditions; 2) The religious studies approach; and 3) The values approach. Panelists:
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A3-231 Science, Technology, and Religion Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm William Stoeger, Vatican Observatory Research Group, Presiding Theme: Scientific and Religious Perspectives on Natural Evil On occasion, scientific theories have been used both to attack and promote religious worldviews. Although conflict has been a primary motif in American popular culture, the reception of science has varied considerably among the world’s religious traditions and even within religious traditions. Many religious scholars have adopted scientific theories and incorporated them directly into their methodological and ontological positions. This session looks at how the interaction between science and religion deals with a specific issue: evil and suffering in the world. Topics to be considered include how the laws of nature set up the problem of suffering, the role of biomedicine in relation to suffering and death, how psychology changes our views on “evil” in human actions, theodicy questions, among others. How are we to deal with the problem of evil? Is the urgent debate over the nature and cause of evil a rehashing of old science versus religion arguments? Stephanie J. Stillman, University of California, Santa Barbara Bad Boys and Brain Damage: Investigating Fissures in the Souls and in the Minds of School Shooters Amy Weigand, Temple University Unnecessary Evil: Insufferable Pain in the Age of Biomedicine Responding: Robert J. Russell, Graduate Theological Union Niels Christian Hvidt, University of Southern Denmark Wesley Wildman, Boston University Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology Ted Peters, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary Business Meeting: James Haag, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
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Wesleyan Studies Group and Open and Relational Theologies Consultation
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Atonement
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World Christianity Group
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jane Carol Redmont, Guilford College, Presiding Theme: Methodological Issues in World Christianity One of the major issues in the study of World Christianity is how Christianity is received by the local churches in their socio-political, cultural and religious contexts. This “reception” has never been simply a matter of mere acceptance of the new religion brought in by foreign missionaries but a transformation of it by the body of local believers. Whether this process is called the contextualization, indigenization, or inculturation of the Gospel, the local community is undeniably its agent. What are the method, stages, limits, successes and failures of this process? What are the respective roles of the various members of the local community, in particular the leaders and the women? What is the nature of the end-product of this process? Is the new Christianity still recognizably Christian? Is it a hybrid? What is “syncretism”? Are there criteria to judge the authenticity of the new forms of World Christianity? How is this judgment to be made? By whom? Anselm K. Min, Claremont Graduate University Methodological Reflections on Global Theology Jan H. Pranger, Concordia College, Moorhead Redeeming Tradition: Narratives of Normative Pasts in Postcolonial Christianity Robert Hurteau, Loyola Marymount University What Happens When Church Elites Begin to Take Seriously the Perspective of Indigenous Peoples? John J. Considine, M.M. and the 1954 Lima Methods Conference of the Maryknoll Fathers
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Ryan Weimer, University of Mississippi Christians in North India During the Formation of a New Nation and the Movement toward New Churches Responding: David Daniels, McCormick Theological Seminary Business Meeting: Dale T. Irvin, New York Theological Seminary, and Peter C. Phan, Georgetown University, Presiding
Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara Birth of the Human through Burial of the Dead: On Worldhood and the Memory of Place in Recent Humanism and Post-Humanism John D. Caputo, Syracuse University On the Wings of Angels: Post-Humanism and InfoTechno-Theology
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Sacred and Religious Sites of Chicago Bus Tour
1:00 pm-5:00 pm Peter W. Williams, Miami University, Ohio, Presiding Jeanne Halgren Kilde, University of Minnesota, Presiding Daniel Sack, University of Chicago Divinity School, Presiding Chicago is a city of great religious diversity. Even if you’ve been on a sacred sites tour in Chicago before, this year you’ll visit the south side, seeing three religious landmarks you may have missed. KAM Isaiah Israel is the oldest synagogue in Chicago, and very possibly the oldest in the Midwest, founded in 1847 as Kehilath Anshe Maarav (KAM), the Congregation of the Men of the West. Rockefeller Memorial Chapel opened in 1928 as the spiritual and ceremonial center of the University of Chicago. It combines Gothic, Byzantine, and Romanesque features in a style designed to serve as both a Christian and nonreligious place of meeting, a place for sacred arts, and a place of worship. Trinity United Church of Christ, in the Princeton Park neighborhood, since its start forty-five years ago. Declaring itself “Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian”, Trinity is dedicated to the Black religious experience and to its community. Tour fee: $15. See registration form on page 11.
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Religion and Humanism Consultation
1:00 pm-3:30 pm W. David Hall, Centre College, Presiding Theme: Critiques of Humanism and Neohumanist Responses The twentieth century was characterized by an increasing suspicion and criticism of humanism in its various forms under the banner of postor anti-humanism. The names most closely associated with this movement are Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault, but the list of contributors and kindred movements is long. As the new century begins, we witness the reemergence of an interest in humanist sensibilities, typically dubbed neo-humanism, that takes seriously the criticisms of posthumanists and anti-humanists but which seeks to advance a humanist agenda that has been purified by the fire of criticism. This year, the Religion and Humanism Consultation seeks to give voice to both the the post-humanist/ anti-humanist criticisms and the neo-humanist responses. The panel brings together a group of accomplished and emerging scholars who will speak to a number of perspectives, e.g., Heidegger, Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricoeur, Edward Said, Michel Serres. Steven Benko, Meredith College Levinas and Foucault: Humanism, AntiHumanism, and Humanism Again Michael Johnson, University of Chicago Call, Critique, Conviction: Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutical Account of Conscience as a Resource for Theological Humanism David M. Buyze, University of Toronto Postcolonial Hybrid Identities and the Cultural/ Religious Other
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Monday, 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
A3-300 Special Topics Forum
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Status of LGBT Persons in the Profession Task Force Kathleen M. Sands, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Presiding Theme: The Future of LGBT Studies in Religion What is the future of LGBT studies in religion? What new directions does the field need to explore and what existing areas of study need further attention? Furthermore, how are we to set about working toward that—or those— future(s)? What needs to happen now to ensure that our varied visions of the future of LGBT studies in religion can come to pass? Please join panelists Mark Jordan, Heather White, Janet Jakobsen, Farah Zeb, Benjamin Reynolds, and Melissa Wilcox for an in-depth discussion of these and other issues in this growing subfield. Panelists: Mark Jordan, Emory University Heather White, Vassar College Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College Farah Zeb, London, UK Benjamin Reynolds Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College their students. OUP is a premier international publisher; and the AAR has published hundreds of titles, many of which have become essential tools in the development of our field and in the training of new scholars. AAR/OUP books are published in five series: Academy Series; Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series; Religion, Culture and History Series; Religion in Translation Series; and Teaching Religious Studies Series. The JAAR editor will also discuss essay publishing. This panel provides the opportunity to hear from experienced OUP and AAR editors and ask any and all questions you might have about publishing in the AAR/ OUP Series. There will also be an opportunity to speak individually with an editor. Panelists: Kimberly Rae Connor, University of San Francisco Susan E. Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Jacob Kinnard, Iliff School of Theology Kevin Madigan, Harvard University Anne E. Monius, Harvard University Theodore Vial, Iliff School of Theology Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia
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Wildcard Session
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Randall Balmer, Columbia University, Presiding Theme: Fathers and Sons: The Influence of Evangelists Walter Maier, Percy Crawford, Merv Rosell, Jack Wyrtzen, and Charles Woodbridge on Fundamentalism in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s Five sons of prominent evangelists of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, who have themselves pursued careers in academia, reflect on their fathers’ role in shaping and directing the fundamentalist movement during the critical period between the antimodernist wars of the 1920s and the Billy Graham era when fundamentalism was redefining itself. Walter A. Maier, Percy Crawford, Merv Rosell, Jack Wyrtzen, and Charles Woodbridge represented a new generation of evangelists who differed markedly
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Special Topics Forum
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Publications Committee Cynthia Read, Oxford University Press, Presiding Theme: How to Publish Your Book: Advice from Oxford University Press and from the Editors of the AAR Book Series and JAAR Founded on the premise that scholars know best what books are needed in the fields of religion and theology, the AAR publishing program with Oxford University Press (OUP) produces quality scholarship for religion scholars and
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
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from their elders, striking a more moderate and positive tone. They embraced the newest forms of mass communication — radio and television — reaching vast new audiences with a message of hope and regeneration. Drawing on family documents and personal recollections, after half a century, each of the five participants is uniquely situated to recover the ethos of this period, and give a first-hand account of his father’s ministry and commitment to evangelism, and his relevance for evangelicals today. Panelists: Paul Maier, Western Michigan University Dan Crawford, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Garth M. Rosell, Gordon Conwell Seminary Don Wyrtzen, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary John Woodbridge, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
A3-306
Comparative Studies in Religion Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Kay A. Read, DePaul University, Presiding Theme: Comparative Perspectives on Dreams in Religion This session explores the relationships between dream experiences and narratives, on the one hand, and the impact and interpretation of dreams in religious contexts, on the other. Each paper deals with materials from more than one religious tradition. Explicit attention will be devoted to the question of how best to study dreams and dream-accounts in religions, and one paper will argue that methods drawn from cognitive studies and recent brain-mind science offer new promise for the comparative analysis of the religious significances of dreams. Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union Dreaming of the Dead: A New Comparative Approach to Religiously Significant Dreams Patricia M. Davis, Graduate Theological Union Holy Scripture as an Interpretative Lens for Conversion Dreams in Christianity and Islam Andrew Zhonghu Yan, University of Saskatchewan The Role of Dreams and Mysticism in Confucius’s Thought Robert Campany, University of Southern California The Dreamscape of Early Medieval China Responding: Michael Puett, Harvard University Business Meeting: Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University, Chicago, and Kimberley C. Patton, Harvard University, Presiding
A3-303
Arts, Literature , and Religion Section and Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Performing Arts
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Buddhism Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Omnibus Session: New Work in Buddhist Studies
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Christian Systematic Theology Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Jewish/Christian Dis/unity
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
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A3-307 Ethics Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Donna Yarri, Alvernia College, Presiding Theme: Global Ethical Concerns This session highlights postcolonial and liberationist approaches to international issues. Papers engage critical theoretical perspectives on trends such as climate change, fine art, grass-roots movements, assisted reproduction, and cultural homogenization and diversity. Of particular interest will be the related dialogues between theory and practice, as each informs the other and provides a basis for mutual assessment. Justin Waters, Graduate Theological Union Brave New Worlds: Imaginations of Heterotopia in “Fine-Art” Spheres James Martin-Schramm, Luther College The Power to Change: US Energy Policy and Global Warming Mary E. Hobgood, College of the Holy Cross Ornery Discipleship: Learning Womanist Christian Social Ethics from the Activist US Poor and the Global South Robert Tappan, University of Virginia Fatwas and Beyond: Ethical Decision Making in Iranian Fertility Clinics Bo Yong Lee, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver Theological Understanding of Multiculturalism of the “two realms” or “two kingdoms.” The session will include a paper proposing a new understanding of such “kingdom” theology by using the concept as a gateway towards a sense of multiplicity of kingdoms. Two further papers offer concrete applications of the Lutheran understanding of church-state relationships. One paper offers a study of Hans Christoph von Hase, a cousin of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and his opposition to the Third Reich. Another paper analyzes the tortured historical relationship between the Brazilian state and the Lutheran church in that country. A final paper explores the implications of Luther’s biblical query of the public accountability of political authority for its office. Eric Trozzo, Drew University A Multiplicity of Kingdoms Rudolf von Sinner, Escola Superior de Teologia Lutheranism and Citizenship in Brazil Luka Ilić, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia Flacius’s Status Confessionis as an Inspiration for von Hase, Bonhoeffer, and the Confessing Church in the Third Reich Gary M. Simpson, Luther Seminary “Partakers of Divine Majesty”: The Question of American Empire and the Hope of International Law in Light of Luther’s Realistic Principle and Practice of God’s Publicity Business Meeting: Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University, Presiding
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
History of Christianity Section and Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Consultation
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Luther’s Theology as Resource for Protest and Possibility in Contemporary Global Contexts The session explores the contribution of Lutheran theology to the understanding of the relationship of Christianity to the social and political order, expressed in Luther’s concept
A3-309
North American Religions Section and Women and Religion Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Wives, Deaconesses, and White City Women: New Studies in Gender and American Religion
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Philosophy of Religion Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: John Clayton’s Religions, Reasons, and Gods (Cambridge University Press, 2006): A Panel Discussion
A3-311
Religion and Politics Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: New Directions in Religion and Politics
Shafique Virani, University of Toronto Carl W. Ernst, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Laury Silvers, Skidmore College Ebrahim Patel, Interfaith Youth Core David Freidenreich, Franklin and Marshall College Business Meeting: Omid Safi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso University, Presiding
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Religion in South Asia Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Caste, Dalits, and Christianity
A3-314
Study of Judaism Section and New Religious Movements Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Jews in/and New Religions
A3-313
Study of Islam Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University, Chicago, Presiding Theme: Speaking Truth beyond the Tower: Academics of Islam Engaging in the Public Sphere The proliferation of “popular” sources of information in recent times evokes both tremendous possibility and significant concern. Academics regularly cringe at the shallow prattle of TV news “experts,” the influence of nonpeer-reviewed books, and the (mis)information available on many popular websites, blogs, and YouTube. This is particularly true in the areas of Islamic and Middle East studies. However, since the proper functioning of civil society depends on a well-informed public, scholars have responsibilities that extend far beyond the Ivory Tower. Therefore, this interactive panel includes discussions on how to make our web pages extensions of our classrooms and propel them to the top of the Google ranking lists; writing and marketing our books for a broader public; spreading balanced and engaging scholarship using YouTube and MySpace; blogging from the virtual minbar to contribute informed comment to discourse on current issues; engaging in community outreach; and becoming media savvy. Panelists: Alan Godlas, University of Georgia Daniel Varisco, Hofstra University
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Teaching Religion Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: “Religious Literacy” and Student “Spirituality”: Coming to Terms with the Terms
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Theology and Religious Reflection Section
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Theology, Economics, and the Person
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Afro-American Religious History Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Gateway of the Spirits: African Diaspora Religions in Chicago
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
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A3-318 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group and Sikh Studies Consultation
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Michael Hawley, Mount Royal College, Presiding Theme: Forming Identities Through interdisciplinary approaches, four papers examine various ways in which identities are formed, intersected, performed, and interpreted in different religious and cultural sites. “Babaylan” explores the intersection at which gender, nation, and identity intersect in the life of a Filipino-American bakla health worker in Northern California. By examining recent ritual innovations within the Ma-tsu Temple USA. community, “Sacred Spaces” discusses the implications for Chinese-America in the realm of identity formation. While “Gurbany Kirtan and the Performance of Sikh Identity” examines how Sikh identities are formed, performed, informed, interpreted, and understood through participants’ relationship with the Sikh practice of Gurbani kirtan, “Sikh Material Culture” explores the educational role of Sikh children’s literature and its influence on the development of a young Sikh’s identity. Michael Sepidoza Campos, Graduate Theological Union Babaylan: Shifting Identities in Diaspora Charles Townsend, University of California, Riverside Gurbani Kirtan and the Performance of Sikh Identity in the Southern California Diaspora MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Jonathan H. X. Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara Sacred Space, Ritual Change, and Meiguo Mazu (Taiwanese-American Goddess) in San Francisco: Identity and Community Formations Toby Johnson, University of California, Riverside Sikh Material Culture: Children’s Literature and Sikh Identity Responding: Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Chinese Religions Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm James Robson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Presiding Theme: Women in Chinese Religions: Women as Goddesses, Vengeful Revenants, Caretakers, and Spirit Mediums This panel moves women from the periphery of scholarly attention to the center stage of Chinese religiosity. The four papers redress received scholarship and theories of women in Chinese religions. Shin-yi Chao explores the late imperial apotheosization of Wei Huacun from a medieval Daoist priestess to a rain deity. Jimmy Yu explores the cult of female chastity during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and shows how women controlled the circumstances and significance of their own deaths as vengeful revenants who assert claims to religious power and sanctity. Xiaofei Kang shows how elderly rural women who serve as temple caretakers transform their resourcefulness to religious and moral capital. Erin Cline discusses the social and religious roles of women spirit mediums in Fujian province. She shows how these women exploit their status as women and community elders to establish authority that supersedes other religious specialists. Shin-yi Chao, Rutgers University, Camden Daoist Transcendent and Popular Goddess: The Worship of Wei Huacun in North China Jimmy Yu, Princeton University The Power of Women as Vengeful Revenants Xiaofei Kang, Carnegie Mellon University Cooking in the Temples: Elderly Rural Women and Their Sacred Space in Contemporary China Erin Cline, University of Oregon Female Spirit Mediums and Religious Authority in Southeastern China Responding: Jean DeBernardi, University of Alberta Business Meeting: James Robson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Daniel B. Stevenson, University of Kansas, Presiding
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A3-320
Christian Spirituality Group and Reformed Theology and History Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Spiritual Practices in the Reformed Tradition
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Islamic Mysticism Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Vincent J. Cornell, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Sufism and Society in South Asia This paper session examines the role of Sufism in expanding the conceptual boundaries of Islamic practice in the societies of South Asia. The papers in this session will discuss the holy city of Mecca in the South Asian Sufi imaginary, the notion of the body as a site of religious transcendence for Sufi healers in Hyderabad, concepts of mind and soul in South Asian Sufism, modernist Sufism and the promotion of religious pluralism in Bangladesh, and Sufism under state surveillance in colonial India. Erik S. Ohlander, Indiana University and Purdue University, Fort Wayne Mecca Real and Imagined: Transregionality and Medieval South Asian Sufi Hagiography Eric Rothgery, University of Iowa Bodies beyond Religion: Ritual Healings of Hindus and Muslims in the Sufi Tombs of Hyderabad Ali Mian, Duke University Constant Craving for the Divine: Psychoanalytic Practices in a North Indian Sufi Hospice Sarwar Alam, Emory University Sufi Pluralism in Bangladesh: The Case of the Maizbhandariyya Tariqa Garrison Doreck, University of Chicago Sufis under Surveillance in the Colonial Archive
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Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Kabbalah from Jerusalem to Banaras: Comparative Kabbalah in Theory and Practice
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Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Sacrifice, the Body, and Meaning-Making
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Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Desire and Shame: Exposure of Yearning
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Hinduism Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Configuring Hindu Communities beyond India
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
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A3-326 Japanese Religions Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Duncan Williams, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding Theme: New Approaches to Religion and Healing in Premodern Japan This session brings together a diverse set of studies examining how religious individuals and institutions engaged in the production of medical knowledge and the practice of healing in premodern Japan. The papers present perspectives on the role of religion in the conceptualization of health, illness, and the body, situating these concepts within their various historical contexts, while also investigating the role of the body in structuring religious thought and practice. Taken together, they challenge theoretical frameworks that differentiate between “medical” and “magical” therapies, demonstrating the degree to which different therapeutic modes were in fact integrated and illustrate how religion’s role in the construction of the body—including conceptualizations of gender, life-stages, purity and defilement, health and illness—related to broader religious concerns, such as theories of ritual efficacy and salvation, the legitimization of sacred authority, the ordering sacred space, and the articulation of cosmology. Andrew Goble, University of Oregon Medicine and Religion: Reflecting on Karmic Illness in Medieval Japan Michael Como, Columbia University Medicine, Monks, and the Politics of Healing in Nara Japan MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Anna Andreeva, University of Cambridge Healing Strategies in Esoteric Kami Worship: The Miwaryū Rites for Pregnancy and Birth Complications Edward Drott, Dartmouth College Aging and Longevity in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Medicine Juhn Ahn, University of Toronto Zen and the Art of Nourishing Life: Labor, Exhaustion, and the Malady of Meditation
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Mormon Studies Consultation
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Philip L. Barlow, Utah State University, Presiding Theme: Media, Religion, and Politics: Mitt Romney’s Campaign for the US Presidency The session probes the intersection of religion, politics, and contemporary American culture through the revealing prism of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. Dimensions considered include an exploration of the uneasy position of Mormonism within competing versions of the national memory; one reporter’s perspective on his experience in covering Romney’s distinctive religion in relation to other religious controversies he has covered at length; analysis of national media coverage of Romney’s religion and the candidate’s attempt to respond; and the use of exit poll data from the Republican primaries and caucuses to determine if antiMormonism among evangelical Protestants actually had a negative impact on Romney’s unsuccessful effort. Mark Silk, Trinity College, and John Green, University of Akron Anti-Mormonism and the Romney Campaign; or, Did Evangelical Hostility Sink Mitt’s Ship? Doe Daughtrey, Arizona State University Vocal Mormons Meet Mitt Romney: The Impact of a Mormon Presidential Candidate on Mormon Self-expression Michael Paulson, Boston Globe Media and the Mormon Candidate: One Reporter’s View Business Meeting: James M. McLachlan, Western Carolina University, Presiding
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Religion and Ecology Group and Ritual Studies Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Religion, Ritual, and Ecology
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Scriptural Reasoning Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: History, the Church, and Border Crossings: Honoring the Work of the Late Daniel Hardy
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Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Linda L. Barnes, Boston University, Presiding Theme: South Asian Religions, Health, and Medical Issues Religious studies as a discipline has only recently begun to explore the many and diverse links between religious traditions and issues related to health, illness, wellness, and healing. South Asian religions provide a particularly rich field for research on the interrelationships between religious traditions and medical traditions. The papers on this panel reflect the diversity of approaches taken by religious studies scholars in new research on religion and health: analysis of empirical data from a survey, ethnographic fieldwork, theological reflection, and analysis of a medical text’s religious perspectives. The methodological diversity demonstrates the profound richness of the topics available for research. Investigation of the interrelationships between religious traditions and issues of health and healing has only begun, but this field promises to be increasingly important. Participants on this panel aspire to generate discussion that inspires new research. Panelists: Anthony Cerulli, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Deepak Sarma, Case Western Reserve University George Pati, Valparaiso University Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University Responding: Ivette Vargas-O’Bryan, Austin College
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Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Theology, Practice, and the Political
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Death, Dying, and Beyond Consultation
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Death, Popular Culture, and Technology
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Film: Madarrpa Funeral at Gurka’wuy
8:00 pm-10:00 pm Jens Kreinath, Wichita State University, Presiding Dunlop was invited to film the funeral of a child during his time in Gurka’way among the Yolngu in Arnhem Land. This film gives a sensual account of how the Aborigines handle the emotional complexities of death and mourning in their mortuary rituals. It sensitively presents the formal and informal practices that were carried out before and after the burial and accounts for how the mortuary rituals of traditional ceremonies changed due to modern conditions. Finely depicting the cycle of songs and rituals that are performed at the child’s burial, the film visualizes the subtle and complex symbolic meanings that the mortuary rituals have for members of the Yolngu.
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Roman Catholic Studies Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Revisiting Figures in Twentieth-Century Catholicism
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A3-401 Film: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring
8:00 pm-10:00 pm Melissa Conroy, Muskingum College, Presiding This Korean film portrays the story of a Buddhist monastery which floats on a lake in a pristine forest, and the monk who passes through the seasons of his life from childhood to old age. The film uses images more than dialogue to tell the story of his life and its challenges under the eye of his master. The passage of time brings slow learning and understanding through death, suffering, and redemption, and ultimately shows that the cycle goes on.
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Program Unit Chairs and Steering Committee Reception
8:00 pm-10:00 pm Theme: Program Unit Chairs and Steering Committee Reception Program unit chairs and steering committee members are invited to a reception celebrating their contributions to the AAR Annual Meeting.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
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ACADEMY INFORMATION
Much of the work of the Academy is accomplished through its board, committees, and program units. These groups are composed of individuals who contribute their time and talents to the AAR’s mission of fostering excellence in teaching and scholarship in religion. For the ongoing vitality of the Academy’s work, it is important to continually welcome new voices into the conversation and to achieve a broad and diverse range of member participation in these leadership positions. John R. Fitzmier, American Academy of Religion Executive Director Board Members Linda L. Barnes, Boston University New England-Maritimes Region Donna Bowman, University of Central Arkansas Southwest Region Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University Chair, Publications Committee Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College Chair, Teaching and Learning Committee W. Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago Delegate, American Council of Learned Societies Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College Chair, Academic Relations Committee Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University Chair, Nominations Committee Alice Hunt, Chicago Theological Seminary Chair, Status of Women in the Profession Committee Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University Chair, International Connections Committee Scott T. Kline, University of Waterloo Eastern International Region Susan M. Maloney, University of Redlands Western Region Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia Editor, Journal of the American Academy of Religion Douglas R. McGaughey, Willamette University Pacific Northwest Region John J. O’Keefe, Creighton University Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Region Jacqueline Pastis, La Salle University Mid-Atlantic Region Brian K. Pennington, Maryville College Southeast Region Nichole Phillips, Vanderbilt University Student Director Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico Chair, Public Understanding of Religion Committee Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University Chair, Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee
NOMINATION FOR SERVICE IN THE AAR
Nominations for Elected Office Each year the Nominations Committee nominates persons for election by the membership as a whole. These generally elected offices include the president, president-elect, vice president, secretary, and student director. The vice president goes on to serve as president-elect and then president. Because terms of office vary, not every position is open every year. The Nominations Committee seeks the participation of the membership in their processes. Please send your suggestions for nominations for elective office (along with a rationale) to the Nominations Committee in care of the AAR executive offices at nominations@aarweb.org. Nominations for Committee and Task Force Appointments Appointments to committees and task forces are made by the president in consultation with the executive director. If you want to nominate a colleague or yourself, please send a letter explaining interest in serving on a particular committee, participation in the AAR, academic and professional interests, and a C.V. to nominations@aarweb.org. Calls for nominations to elective office and committee appointments are published regularly in Religious Studies News, on the AAR Web site at www.aarweb.org, and in the AAR e-Bulletins.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Officers Emilie M. Townes, Yale University President; Chair, Executive Committee Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara President-Elect Ann Taves, University of California, Santa Barbara Vice President Michel Desjardins, Wilfrid Laurier University Secretary David Thibodeau, Nashville, TN Treasurer; Chair, Finance Committee
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Jeffrey L. Stout, Princeton University Immediate Past President Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University Midwest Region Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University Upper Midwest Region
STANDING COMMITTEES
Academic Relations Fred Glennon, Chair, Le Moyne College Edwin David Aponte, Lancaster Theological Seminary Chester Gillis, Georgetown University L. DeAne Lagerquist, Saint Olaf College Rosetta E. Ross, Spelman College Steve Young, McHenry County College Executive Emilie M. Townes, Chair, Yale University Michel Desjardins, Wilfrid Laurier University Alice Hunt, Chicago Theological Seminary Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University Jeffrey L. Stout, Princeton University Ann Taves, University of California, Santa Barbara Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University Finance David Thibodeau, Chair, Treasurer Donna Bowman, University of Central Arkansas John R. Fitzmier, American Academy of Religion Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College Graduate Student Whitney Bauman, Forum on Religion and Ecology Annie Blakeney-Glazer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Janet Gunn, University of Ottawa Cameron Jorgenson, Baylor University Nichole Phillips, Vanderbilt University International Connections Richard M. Jaffe, Chair, Duke University Edward Phillip Antonio, Iliff School of Theology Jonathan E. Brockopp, Pennsylvania State University
EXECUTIVE STAFF
Kyle Cole Director of Professional Programs Jessica B. Davenport Associate Director of Professional Programs Joe DeRose Director of Technology Services Toby Director Finance and Administration Coordinator Ina Ferrell Associate Director of Finance and Administration John R. Fitzmier Executive Director Carey J. Gifford Director of Publications and Theological Programs Stephanie Gray Associate Director of Publications Steve Herrick Director of External Relations Myesha D. Jenkins Director of Membership Development Margaret Jenkins Director of Development Aislinn Jones Director of Meetings and Marketing Deanna Lord Administrative Assistant Deborah Minor Director of Finance and Administration Robert Puckett Associate Director of Meetings Catherine Reid Work Study Susan Snider Associate Director of External Relations
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Teresia Mbari Hinga, Santa Clara University Xiaofei Kang, Carnegie Mellon University Tat-siong Benny Liew, Pacific School of Religion Nominations Hans J. Hillerbrand, Chair, Duke University Rebecca Alpert, Temple University Linell E. Cady, Arizona State University Stacy L. Patty, Lubbock Christian University Jeffrey L. Stout, Princeton University Jonathan L Walton, University of California, Riverside Program John R. Fitzmier, Chair, American Academy of Religion Michel Desjardins, Wilfrid Laurier University Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara Ellen Ott Marshall, Claremont School of Theology Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia Evelyn L. Parker, Southern Methodist University Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa Jeffrey L. Stout, Princeton University Ann Taves, University of California, Santa Barbara Emilie M. Townes, Yale University Public Understanding of Religion Sarah M. Pike, Chair, California State University, Chico Shaun Allen Casey, Wesley Theological Seminary Diane Connolly, Religion Newswriters/ReligionLink Lawrence Mamiya, Vassar College Colleen McDannell, University of Utah Ronald F. Thiemann, Harvard University Publications Francis X. Clooney, Chair, Harvard University Kimberly Rae Connor, University of San Francisco Susan E. Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Jacob Kinnard, Iliff School of Theology Kevin Madigan, Harvard University
Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia Anne E. Monius, Harvard University Theodore Vial, Iliff School of Theology Regions Jacqueline Pastis, Chair, La Salle University Douglas R. McGaughey, Willamette University Brian K. Pennington, Maryville College Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Anthony B. Pinn, Chair, Rice University Akintunde Ebunolu Akinade, High Point University Miguel A. De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University Zayn Kassam, Pomona College Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Moravian Theological Seminary Status of Women in the Profession Alice Hunt, Chair, Chicago Theological Seminary Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Brite Divinity School M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University Nadia M. Lahutsky, Texas Christian University Karen Pechilis, Drew University Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College Teaching and Learning Eugene V. Gallagher, Chair, Connecticut College Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia Paul Myhre, Wabash Center Andrew Sung Park, United Theological Seminary Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College David C. Ratke, Lenoir-Rhyne College
AD HOC COMMITTEES AND TASK FORCES
Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion Book Award Juries Malcolm David Eckel, Coordinator, Boston University Catherine Brekus, University of Chicago
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ACADEMY INFORMATION
David Carrasco, Harvard University Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University David Frankfurter, University of New Hampshire Norman J. Girardot, Lehigh University Amy M. Hollywood, Harvard University Steven P Hopkins, Swarthmore College . Career Services Advisory Jessica B. Davenport, Chair, American Academy of Religion Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago Jason Steuber, University of Florida Governance Task Force Jeffrey L. Stout, Co-Chair, Princeton University Emilie M. Townes, Co-Chair, Yale University Rebecca Alpert, Temple University David Kyuman Kim, Connecticut College Robin W. Lovin, Southern Methodist University Jacqueline Pastis, La Salle University Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso University History of Religions Jury Pamela Klassen, Chair, University of Toronto Paula K. R. Arai, Louisiana State University Ebrahim E.I. Moosa, Duke University Louis A. Ruprecht, Georgia State University Job Placement Task Force Deanna A. Thompson, Chair, Hamline University Alice Hunt, Chicago Theological Seminary Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College Albert G. Miller, Oberlin College Wayne Proudfoot, Columbia University Timothy M. Renick, Georgia State University Religion in the Schools Task Force Diane L. Moore, Chair, Harvard University Ann Marie B. Bahr, South Dakota State University Betty A. DeBerg, University of Northern Iowa
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David Haberman, Indiana University, Bloomington Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University Stephanie McAllister, Brookline High School Status of LGBT Persons in the Profession Task Force Melissa M. Wilcox, Chair, Whitman College Jennifer Harvey, Drake University Mark Jordan, Emory University Laurel C. Schneider, Chicago Theological Seminary D. Mark Wilson, Pacific School of Religion Sustainability Task Force Sarah McFarland Taylor, Chair, Northwestern University Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University Isabel Mukonyora, Western Kentucky University John J. O’Keefe, Creighton University Barbara A.B. Patterson, Emory University Theological Education Steering Committee John Thatamanil, Chair, Vanderbilt University Daniel O. Aleshire, Association of Theological Schools Larry Golemon, Alban Institute David H. Kelsey, Yale University Paul Lim, Vanderbilt University Anant Rambachan, Saint Olaf College Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary Kathleen T. Talvacchia, New York University Barbara Brown Zikmund, Wesley Theological Seminary
PROGRAM UNIT CHAIRS SECTIONS
Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University Eric Ziolkowski, Lafayette College Buddhism Section Janet Gyatso, Harvard University Charles Hallisey, Harvard University
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Christian Systematic Theology Section Gerard Loughlin, Durham University Joy McDougall, Emory University Comparative Studies in Religion Section Kimberley C. Patton, Harvard University Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University, Chicago Ethics Section Miguel A. De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology Jane Hicks, St. John Fisher College History of Christianity Section Martha L. Finch, Missouri State University Nathan Baruch Rein, Ursinus College North American Religions Section Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University Philip K. Goff, Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis Philosophy of Religion Section Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles/ University of Chicago Ludger Viefhues, Yale University Religion and Politics Section Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary’s College of California Andrew Murphy, Valparaiso University Religion and the Social Sciences Section Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University Douglas A. Hicks, University of Richmond Religion in South Asia Section John E. Cort, Denison University Robin Rinehart, Lafayette College Study of Islam Section Omid Safi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso University
Study of Judaism Section Aryeh Cohen, American Jewish University Martin Kavka, Florida State University Teaching Religion Section Joseph A. Favazza, Stonehill College Fran Grace, University of Redlands Theology and Religious Reflection Section Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University Women and Religion Section Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University
GROUPS
African Religions Group Laura Grillo, Pacifica Graduate Institute Tapiwa Mucherera, Asbury Theological Seminary Afro-American Religious History Group Julius Bailey, University of Redlands Anthea Butler, University of Rochester Anthropology of Religion Group J. Shawn Landres, University of California, Los Angeles; Synagogue 3000 Rebecca Sachs Norris, Merrimack College Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group Nami Kim, Spelman College Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary Augustine and Augustinianisms Group Robert P Kennedy, St. Francis Xavier University . Kim Paffenroth, Iona College Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Group Valerie Bridgeman Davis, Memphis Theological Seminary Fernando F. Segovia, Vanderbilt University
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Bible, Theology, and Postmodernity Group Jon L. Berquist, Westminster John Knox Press Anne Joh, Phillips Theological Seminary Bioethics and Religion Group Swasti Bhattacharyya, Buena Vista University Aline Kalbian, Florida State University Black Theology Group Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Brite Divinity School Stephen G. Ray, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group Lisa Dahill, Trinity Lutheran Seminary Lori Brandt Hale, Augsburg College Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Group Roger Jackson, Carleton College John J. Makransky, Boston College Buddhist Philosophy Group John D. Dunne, Emory University A. Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University Chinese Religions Group James Robson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Daniel B. Stevenson, University of Kansas Christian Spirituality Group Arthur G. Holder, Graduate Theological Union Wendy Wright, Creighton University Comparative Religious Ethics Group Aaron D. Stalnaker, Indiana University, Bloomington Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group Yudit K. Greenberg, Rollins College Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University Comparative Theology Group Kurt Anders Richardson, McMaster University Deepak Sarma, Case Western Reserve University Confucian Traditions Group Keith Knapp, The Citadel Michael Puett, Harvard University Contemporary Pagan Studies Group Wendy Griffin, California State University, Long Beach Michael York, London, United Kingdom Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Amsterdam Cultural History of the Study of Religion Group Richard King, Vanderbilt University Tisa Wenger, Arizona State University Daoist Studies Group Jonathan Herman, Georgia State University Louis Komjathy, Pacific Lutheran University Eastern Orthodox Studies Group Paul Gavrilyuk, University of Saint Thomas Eve Tibbs, Fuller Theological Seminary Ecclesiological Investigations Group Michael A. Fahey, Boston College Gerard Mannion, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven Evangelical Theology Group Wyndy Corbin Reuschling, Ashland Theological Seminary John R. Franke, Biblical Theological Seminary Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Grinnell College Gay Men’s Issues in Religion Group Paul J. Gorrell, Stockton, NJ Peter Savastano, Seton Hall University Hinduism Group Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee University Vijaya Nagarajan, University of San Francisco
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Indigenous Religious Traditions Group Jualynne E. Dodson, Michigan State University Jace Weaver, University of Georgia Islamic Mysticism Group Vincent J. Cornell, Emory University Carl W. Ernst, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Japanese Religions Group Paula K. R. Arai, Louisiana State University James L. Ford, Wake Forest University Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group Andrew J. Burgess, University of New Mexico Marilyn Piety, Drexel University Korean Religions Group Timothy S. Lee, Brite Divinity School Jin Y. Park, American University Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group Carmen Marie Nanko-Fernandez, Catholic Theological Union Benjamin Valentin, Andover Newton Theological School Law, Religion, and Culture Group Greg Johnson, University of Colorado, Boulder Robert A. Yelle, University of Memphis Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group Julie J. Kilmer, Olivet College Elizabeth A. Say, California State University, Northridge Men’s Studies in Religion Group Robert A. Atkins, Grace United Methodist Church, Naperville, IL Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher, Texas College Mysticism Group June McDaniel, College of Charleston Laura Weed, College of Saint Rose
Native Traditions in the Americas Group Mary C. Churchill, Sonoma State University Kenneth Mello, University of Vermont New Religious Movements Group Douglas E. Cowan, University of Waterloo Nineteenth-Century Theology Group Lori K. Pearson, Carleton College Platonism and Neoplatonism Group Willemien Otten, University of Chicago Gregory Shaw, Stonehill College Practical Theology Group Dale P Andrews, Boston University . James Nieman, Hartford Seminary Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group Kathleen Bishop, Drew University Pamela Cooper-White, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia Qur’an Group Frederick M. Denny, University of Colorado, Boulder Gordon D. Newby, Emory University Reformed Theology and History Group Kang-Yup Na, Westminster College Katherine Sonderegger, Virginia Theological Seminary Religion and Disability Studies Group Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology Kerry Wynn, Southeast Missouri State University Religion and Ecology Group David L. Barnhill, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh John A. Grim, Yale University
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Religion and Popular Culture Group Richard J. Callahan, University of Missouri, Columbia Lisle Dalton, Hartwick College Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group Jorge A. Aquino, University of San Francisco Jennifer Hughes, University of California, Riverside Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group John Lyden, Dana College Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group Laura S. Levitt, Temple University Katharina von Kellenbach, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Religion, Media, and Culture Group Gordon Lynch, Birkbeck, University of London Sean McCloud, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group Linda L. Barnes, Boston University Suzanne J. Crawford O’Brien, Pacific Lutheran University Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group Jon Pahl, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia Marla J. Selvidge, University of Central Missouri Ritual Studies Group W. Scott Haldeman, Chicago Theological Seminary Ute Huesken, University of Oslo Roman Catholic Studies Group Vincent J. Miller, Georgetown University Daniel Speed Thompson, Saint Mary’s University Sacred Space in Asia Group Steven Heine, Florida International University Pamela D. Winfield, Meredith College Schleiermacher Group Brent Sockness, Stanford University Science, Technology, and Religion Group James Haag, Graduate Theological Union Lisa L. Stenmark, San Jose State University Scriptural Reasoning Group Scott Bader-Saye, University of Scranton Randi Rashkover, George Mason University Tantric Studies Group Glen Alexander Hayes, Bloomfield College Paul E. Muller-Ortega, University of Rochester Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Ellen T. Armour, Vanderbilt University Bruce Ellis Benson, Wheaton College Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group Frances Garrett, University of Toronto Kurtis Schaeffer, University of Virginia Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group Rachel Sophia Baard, Villanova University Russell Re Manning, University of Cambridge Wesleyan Studies Group Sarah Heaner Lancaster, Methodist Theological School, Ohio Rex D. Matthews, Emory University Western Esotericism Group Allison P Coudert, University of California, Davis . Wouter Hanegraaff, University of Amsterdam Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Evelyn L. Parker, Southern Methodist University Linda E. Thomas, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago World Christianity Group Dale T. Irvin, New York Theological Seminary Peter C. Phan, Georgetown University
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SEMINARS
Comparative Philosophy and Religion Seminar Morny Joy, University of Calgary Tsingsong Vincent Shen, University of Toronto Religion in the American West Seminar James B. Bennett, Santa Clara University Quincy Newell, University of Wyoming Religion, Food, and Eating Seminar Benjamin Zeller, Brevard College Religions in Chinese and Indian Cultures: A Comparative Perspective Seminar Tao Jiang, Rutgers University Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University
Coptic Christianity Consultation Lois Farag, Luther Seminary Death, Dying, and Beyond Consultation Kathleen Garces-Foley, Marymount University Christopher Moreman, St. Francis Xavier University Liberal Theologies Consultation Christine Helmer, Northwestern University Liberation Theologies Consultation Thia Cooper, Gustavus Adolphus College Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Consultation Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University Mormon Studies Consultation James M. McLachlan, Western Carolina University Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University Music and Religion Consultation Philip Stoltzfus, University of St. Thomas Theodore Trost, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa North American Hinduism Consultation Chad Bauman, Butler University Lola L. Williamson, Millsaps College Open and Relational Theologies Consultation Lynne Faber Lorenzen, Augsburg College Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements Consultation James K. A. Smith, Calvin College Amos Yong, Regent University Queer Theory and LGBT Studies in Religion Consultation Claudia Schippert, University of Central Florida Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College Religion and Cities Consultation Lawrence Mamiya, Vassar College
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CONSULTATIONS
Animals and Religion Consultation Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University Paul Waldau, Tufts University Biblical/Contextual Ethics Consultation David P Gushee, Mercer University . Buddhism in the West Consultation Jeff Wilson, University of Waterloo Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation Marcia Bunge, Valparaiso University Karen-Marie Yust, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education Christianity and Academia Consultation David S. Cunningham, Hope College Cognitive Science of Religion Consultation Edward Slingerland, University of British Columbia Ann Taves, University of California, Santa Barbara Contemporary Islam Consultation Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
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Religion and Colonialism Consultation Caleb Elfenbein, University of California, Santa Barbara Mark Elmore, University of California, Davis Religion and Humanism Consultation W. David Hall, Centre College Glenn Whitehouse, Florida Gulf Coast University Religion and Migration Consultation Marie Marquardt, Agnes Scott College Jennifer B. Saunders, Denison University Religion and Sexuality Consultation R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University Catherine Roach, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Religion Education in Public Schools: International Perspectives Consultation Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico Tim Jensen, University of Southern Denmark Transhumanism and Religion Consultation Religion in Europe Consultation Robert Alvis, Saint Meinrad School of Theology Andrii Krawchuk, University of Sudbury Religion in Southeast Asia Consultation Jason Carbine, Whittier College Sor-Ching Low, Muhlenberg College Religion, Public Policy, and Political Change Consultation Joe Pettit, Morgan State University Melissa Rogers, Wake Forest University Rethinking the Field Consultation Bradley L. Herling, Marymount Manhattan College Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Pre-modern Christianity Consultation Carly Daniel-Hughes, Concordia University Ben Dunning, Fordham University Yoga in Theory and Practice Consultation Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University Stuart R. Sarbacker, Northwestern University Calvin Mercer, East Carolina University Sikh Studies Consultation Michael Hawley, Mount Royal College Nikky Singh, Colby College Space, Place, and Religious Meaning Consultation Jeanne Halgren Kilde, University of Minnesota Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini College Theology and the Political Consultation Hent de Vries, Johns Hopkins University Corey David Bazemore Walker, Brown University Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. Consultation Johnny B. Hill, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Henry James Young, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Consultation Shannon Craigo-Snell, Yale University Kate Ott, Religious Institute
STUDENT LIAISONS
2008 Student Liaisons Cameron Jorgenson, Baylor University Bede Bidlack, Boston College Jay Carney, Catholic University of America Adam Kotsko, Chicago Theological Seminary Daniel Vaca, Columbia University Laurie Lamoureux Scholes, Concordia University Coleman Fannin, University of Dayton Krista Hughes, Drew University Susanna L. Drake, Duke University Matthew Bersagel Braley, Emory University
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Kathleen Hladky, Florida State University Eleanor Finnegan, University of Florida Matt Hamsher, Fuller Theological Seminary Erin Brigham, Graduate Theological Union Linford Fisher, Harvard University Stephanie Yuhas, Iliff School of Theology Andrea Hollingsworth, Loyola University, Chicago Day Lane, University of Missouri, Kansas City Lei Kuan Lai, McGill University Sherry Smith, McMaster University Brian Frank Curry, University of Oxford Joe Good, Pacifica Graduate Institute Jimmy Yu, Princeton University Mary C. Moorman, Southern Methodist University K.Christine Pae, Union Theological Seminary, New York Tammie Marie Grimm, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education Rebekka King, University of Toronto Timothy P McConnell, University of Virginia . Mandy Furney, University of Waterloo Leah Payne, Vanderbilt University Michael D. White, Wheaton College
PRESIDENTS
2008—Emilie M. Townes 2007—Jeffrey L. Stout 2006—Diana L. Eck 2005—Hans J. Hillerbrand 2004—Jane Dammen McAuliffe 2003—Robert A. Orsi 2002—Vasudha Narayanan 2001—Rebecca S. Chopp 2000—Ninian Smart 1999—Margaret R. Miles 1998—Judith Plaskow 1997—Robert Detweiler 1996—Lawrence E. Sullivan 1995—Peter J. Paris 1994—Catherine L. Albanese
1993—Edith Wyschogrod 1992—Robert C. Neville 1991—Judith A. Berling 1990—Elizabeth A. Clark 1989—Robert L. Wilken 1988—Martin E. Marty 1987—John Dillenberger 1986—Nathan A. Scott, Jr. 1985—Wendy Doniger 1984—Ray L. Hart 1983—Wilfred Cantwell Smith 1982—Gordon D. Kaufman 1981—Jill Raitt 1980—William A. Clebsch 1979—Langdon B. Gilkey 1978—John C. Meagher 1977—Shubert M. Ogden 1976—Preston N. Williams 1975—William F. May 1974—Christine M. Downing 1973—Charles H. Long 1972—Robert S. Michaelsen 1971—James T. Burtchaell 1970—Claude Welch 1969—Jacob Neusner 1968—J. Wesley Robb 1967—John F. Priest 1966—William E. Hordern 1965—James L. Price, Jr. 1964—Ira J. Martin, III
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
John R. Fitzmier, 2006– Barbara DeConcini, 1991–2006 James B. Wiggins, 1983–1991 Charles E. Winquist, 1979–1982 John F. Priest, 1976–1979 Robert A. Spivey, 1973–1975 Harry M. Buck, 1964–1972
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RELATED SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS
African Association for the Study of Religions Kathleen Wicker, Scripps College The African Association for the Study of Religions (AASR) is an academic association of scholars of religions posted in universities in Africa, and of scholars of the religions of Africa posted in universities outside of Africa. The AASR seeks to stimulate the academic study of religions in Africa in a variety of ways: providing a forum for multilateral communications between scholars of African religions; facilitating the exchange of resources and information; encouraging the development of linkages and research contacts between scholars and institutions in Africa, and between scholars in Africa and those overseas. The AASR also endeavors to assist scholars to publish their work and travel to professional meetings. The AASR is an affiliate of the International Association for the History of Religions since 1995. It meets at the IAHR quinquennial congresses and organizes conferences in Africa. The AASR publishes the bi-annual AASR Bulletin and maintains a website: www.a-asr.org. Association of Practical Theology Claire Wolfteich, Boston University The purpose of the Association of Practical Theology (APT) is to promote critical reflection on theology and practice. Reconstituted from its predecessor organizations in 1984, the APT was sparked by the understanding of practical theology as an integrative hermeneutical endeavor at the heart of theological education that includes critical examination of religious traditions and practices and exploration of the contributions of ministerial subdisciplines. The APT meets annually in conjunction with the AAR and biennially for a three-day conference. APT meetings at the AAR draw national and international scholars from a variety of disciplines (members of APT and non-members), and the biennial meeting allows for more in depth study of specific issues and the conduct of official business. The APT posts proceedings, membership information, and other news on its website (www. practicaltheology.org) and welcomes new members from all areas of religious and theological study. Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Victoria J. Barnett, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum supports scholarship and publications in the field of Holocaust studies, promotes the growth of Holocaust studies at American universities, fosters strong relationships between American and international
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scholars, and initiates programs to ensure the ongoing training of future generations of scholars specializing in the Holocaust. The center accomplishes its mission through sponsorship of fellowship opportunities; seminars for teaching faculty at the college and university levels; research projects and publications; summer research workshops, conferences, lectures, and symposia; and the evaluation, collection, and making available of Holocaust-related archival materials. The Committee on Church Relations and the Holocaust, an integral part of the center, is a resource for individuals and groups grappling with the ethical and philosophical issues raised by the Holocaust and contemporary anti-Semitism, and it investigates the relationship of the Holocaust to the history and future potential of Jewish/Christian relations. Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions Kiochi Mori, Doshisha University The Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (CISMOR), established in 2003, conducts comprehensive and interdisciplinary research and educational activities related to the monotheistic world. It fosters specialists who can help to achieve coexistence among different civilizations and at the same time makes the results of its research available to the world at large, with the goal of becoming a mediator between the Islamic, Judaic, and Christian worlds. In order to achieve peace, security, and the coexistence of civilizations in today’s world, we must undertake comprehensive and interdisciplinary educational and research activities from a civilizational perspective. CISMOR is unlike any other research institute in the world because it centralizes in-depth interdisciplinary research on all three Abrahamic religions and also because of its unique location in Japan, a country that is free of historical or cultural constraints on such studies, thus allowing the institute to take an entirely objective point of view. By increasing our understanding of Abrahamic religions, we will at the same time contribute to a deeper understanding of Japanese religion. We try to find the way to contribute to reform the Abrahamic religions from the standpoint of Japanese religiosity. Christian Theological Research Fellowship Steve Long, Marquette University The Christian Theological Research Fellowship is a distinctively Christian research organization in systematic and moral theology and related disciplines. The society exists to promote and sustain fellowship and truth-seeking (fides quaerens intellectum) in theological reflection upon the Christian faith within the mainstream of the Christian tradition. We see ourselves as a spiritual fellowship in service to the Church of Messiah Jesus.
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Colloquium on Violence and Religion Martha Reineke, University of Northern Iowa The Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R) is an international association of scholars founded in 1990. It is dedicated to the exploration, criticism, and development of René Girard’s mimetic model of the relationship between violence and religion in the genesis and maintenance of culture. COV&R is concerned with questions of research and application. Scholars from diverse fields and theoretical orientations are invited to participate in its Conferences and publications. Membership includes subscriptions to Contagion and to the organization’s biannual Bulletin which contains recent Bibliography of Literature on the Mimetic Theory, book reviews, and information on the annual COV&R conference as well as on relevant satellite sessions in conferences of diverse disciplines. European Society of Women in Theological Research (ESWTR) Susanne Scholz, Starr King School for the Ministry Founded in 1986 in Switzerland, ESWTR is a scholarly network of women scholars in theological research and religious studies. Currently, the society has more than 500 members who come from different religious, denominational, national, and academic backgrounds. The ESWTR provides the opportunity for women researchers from the European continent to meet and to dialogue with each other at biannual international conferences held in different European countries. Conference themes raise important issues in feminist theological and religious research. During the year in which no international meeting takes place, members meet nationally or regionally. Currently, country or regional groups exist in Austria, Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Republic of Georgia, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Northern America, Palestine, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Membership is open to women engaged in the academic study of theology, religious studies, and related areas. They may live and work in Europe, hold a European passport, or may be admitted after special consideration by the board. Members receive the ESWTR Newsletter and the annually published Journal of the ESWTR. Evangelical Philosophical Society William Lane Craig, Biola University Founded in 1974, the Evangelical Philosophical Society (EPS) is an organization of professional scholars devoted to pursuing philosophical excellence in both the church and the academy. Interested laypersons can join as associate or student members. The EPS holds a national meeting each year in conjunction
with the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. The EPS journal, Philosophia Christi, is a scholarly publication containing discussion of a variety of topics that are of interest to the philosopher and to the philosopher of religion. For more information visit www.epsociety.org. Hermetic Academy Karen-Claire Voss, Istanbul, Turkey and James B. Robinson, University of Northern Iowa The Hermetic Academy is a professional society for scholarly research into esoteric traditions in religion. Our primary aim is to facilitate communication among scholars of the esoteric within the field of religious studies and other related areas. Specifically, we want to provide information from and to our readers which is not readily obtainable from more conventional sources. We also want to support and encourage publishers to maintain and increase individual works or series devoted to topics in esotericism and to convince editors of journals that articles on the esoteric in religion are of value to the field of religious studies and are of substantive scholarly merit. Our plans for future development include providing a venue for those interested in encouraging methodological pluralism in the field of esotericism, possibly in the form of a refereed Internet journal. For more information see www.istanbul-yes-istanbul. co.uk/. Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought Creighton Peden, Highlands, NC The Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought, Inc. is a community of productive scholars, with diverse theological and philosophical perspectives. The Institute contributes to the academic study of religion and philosophy through interpretive, critical and constructive reflections whose principal focus is distinctively American religious and philosophical thought. It fosters broad discussion of relevant options through its sponsorship of conferences, seminars, workshops, and publications. The work of the Institute emphasizes: (1) theological and philosophical reflections, especially where these efforts have utilized the American philosophical and religious traditions; (2) the history and development of liberal religious thought in America; (3) themes pertinent to the “Chicago School” of theology; and (4) naturalism in American theology and philosophy.
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International Bonhoeffer Society: English Language Section John W. Matthews, Grace Lutheran Church The International Bonhoeffer Society: English Language Section is an interfaith scholarly organization. It was founded in 1971 to promote research in the theology, ethics, and life of the German theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945). The English Language Section has members in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and other lands. It is governed by an elected board and society officers. Society membership is open to all persons interested in the theology, life, and spiritual influence of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and in constructive theological and pastoral studies inspired by his legacy. For more information see www.dbonhoeffer.org/ibsinfo.htm. The International Institute for Field-Being (IIFB) Lik Kuen Tong, Fairfield University The IIFB is a nonprofit research-oriented international educational association of scholars, professionals, organizations, and interested individuals in any field or discipline who study and promote the Field-Being modes of thought. More specifically, the Institute centers its research projects on the following topics or areas: philosophical implications of the Field-Being worldview; Non-substantialism versus Substantialism East and West; and the Non-substantialistic Turn in twentieth-century thought and philosophy. Since its inception in 1996, the IIFB has sponsored three international symposia on Field-Being and the Non-substantialistic turn. For more information please see www.iifb.org. International Society for Chinese Philosophy Jeffrey W. Dippmann, Central Washington University The International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP) is a non-profit organization formed for the purpose of uniting persons affiliated with the study and research of Chinese philosophy or interested in promoting the study and research of Chinese philosophy in both academic and non-academic circles. By “Chinese philosophy” is meant the whole philosophical tradition and heritage within the span of Chinese history and the spectrum of Chinese civilization. The term “Chinese Philosophy” also connotes the areas of logical, metaphysical, ethical, aesthetical, and epistemological thinking and reflection in reference to the Chinese philosophical tradition and heritage, Chinese language, Chinese society, and Chinese civilization. The society organizes and sponsors conferences and conference panels on Chinese philosophy. Its official journal is the Journal of Chinese Philosophy (Blackwell Publishers, Inc.). ISCP also sponsors and co-sponsors philosophical, educational, cultural, or scientific activities in cooperation with educational, cultural, philosophical, or scientific institutions or organizations associated with the study and research of Chinese philosophy.
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Karl Barth Society of North America George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary The Society’s membership is open to all interested parties: scholars, students, pastors, and laypersons. A newsletter is published twice a year, edited by Paul D. Molnar, Division of Humanities, St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens, NY 11439. Annual dues are $15 (students $10). A Web site is posted by the Center for Barth Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary, Clifford B. Anderson: barth.studies@ptsem.edu. The Web site contains substantial articles as well as information about events. Two sessions are held each year as Additional Meetings at the AAR Annual Meeting: one on Friday afternoon, the other on Saturday morning. As perhaps is only appropriate, the society is always more of an event than an institution, whose irregular activities have earned it the well-known Barthian motto: providentia dei, confusione hominum. La Communidad of Hispanic Scholars Gastón Espinosa, Claremont McKenna College La Comunidad is an ecumenical association of Hispanic scholars of religion. La Comunidad proactively advances the interests and scholarship of Latinas and Latinos in biblical, theological, and religious studies. For more information, please contact Gastón Espinosa, gaston.espinosa@claremontmckenna. edu or Efrain Agosto, eagosto@hartsem.edu. North American Association for the Study of Religion Robert Yelle, University of Memphis The North American Association for the Study of Religion was initially formed in 1985 to encourage the historical, comparative, structural, theoretical, and cognitive study of religion among North American scholars; to represent North American scholars of religion at the international level; and to sustain communication between North American scholars and their international colleagues engaged in the study of religion. In order to achieve these goals, NAASR is affiliated with the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion and has annual meetings together with the American Academy of Religion on the one hand, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion on the other. NAASR is affiliated with the International Association for the History of Religions and is the only organization from the United States that enjoys such affiliation. NAASR’s official peer-review journal, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion is published quarterly by E. J. Brill of the Netherlands. NAASR also sponsors a book series, “Key Thinkers in the Study of Religion,” published by Equinox Publishers of the UK.
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North American Paul Tillich Society Frederick J. Parrella, Santa Clara University Founded in 1975, the 250-member NAPTS is concerned with Paul Tillich’s (1886–1965) philosophical-theological thought; with its analysis, critique, and revision; with the implications and the use of this thought in political, social, psychotherapeutic, scientific, artistic, and ethico-religious spheres; and with the impact and the creative extension of Tillich’s legacy. The society meets annually in conjunction with AAR; organizes international conferences, collaborates with the German, French-speaking, and several other Tillich societies; awards an annual student-paper prize; and sponsors publications. The quarterly newsletter carries papers from meetings. Dues: $35/year. Membership: Frederick Parrella, Religious Studies, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, 95053-0335; fparrella@mailer.scu.edu. Polanyi Society Walter B. Gulick, Montana State University, Billings The Polanyi Society includes in its membership scholars and students who, inspired by the thought of Michael Polanyi (1891-1976), seek to explore and expand upon his seminal ideas. The Polanyi Society holds its Annual Meeting Friday evening and Saturday morning at the beginning of the AAR Annual Meeting. Papers to be discussed are posted prior to the meeting on the Society website, www.missouriwestern. edu/orgs/polanyi/. Archived copies and current issues of the Polanyi Society’s peer-reviewed journal, Tradition and Discovery (three issues a year), information about joining the society, upcoming meetings, and links to Polanyi essays will be found on the website. Personal Knowledge is sub-titled “Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy,” and the society invites all those who are interested in exploring postfoundational versions of epistemology, philosophy of religion, ethics, and theology to join us. Polanyi’s notions of tacit knowing, heuristic passion, and conviviality are among the many contributions to this ongoing venture. Psychology, Culture, and Religion Kathleen Bishop, Drew University, and Pamela Cooper-White, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia The Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group is an informal association of scholars and practitioners in the fields of religion and psychology broadly defined who share common interests in the relationship among religion, psychology, and contemporary cultures. Working at the intersections of religion and psychology, the group enables participants to contextualize religious studies in relationship to the theory and practice of psychotherapy and pastoral counseling. PCR’s location on the boundary of academic study and applied professions like clinical psychology and pastoral psychotherapy results in
rich, varied, and stimulating interdisciplinary conversations of a kind uncommon in the AAR generally. Elements of the dialogue have included modern and postmodern developments in psychology, counseling, cultural and social anthropology, sociology, feminist studies, critical literary theory, and other forms of interpretive theory. Schleiermacher Society Cathie Kelsey and Ted Vial, Iliff School of Theology Taking up the heritage of Schleiermacher’s liberating and inclusive vision, the International Schleiermacher Society seeks to engage in ongoing conversations in which well-formed and critical Schleiermacher scholarship is brought into dialogue with questions arising from life today so that mutual learning can occur among all participants - scholars, pastors, laypeople, and students - and so that all can be better equipped for work in the world, church, and academy. In service of these purposes, the society also seeks to facilitate international cooperation among Schleiermacher scholars through conferences and other modes of communication and to nurture the emergence of young and marginalized scholars. Attendance is open. Send inquiries to Dr. Cathie Kelsey or Dr. Ted Vial, cochairs ckelsey@ iliff.edu, tvial@iliff.edu. Société International D’études sur Alfred Loisy C.J.T. Talar, University of Saint Thomas, Houston The société is a nonprofit association formed to foster study of the French exegete and scholar of religion, Alfred Loisy (1857-1940), and of the Roman Catholic Modernist movement in which he figured so prominently. It was formed to foster international communication and contact among scholars from a variety of disciplines, as well as other interested parties whose work and interests bear upon issues that surfaced in the latter decades of the nineteenth century and remain of enduring religious significance. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP) Gereon Kopf, Luther College The SACP was established in 1967 as a nonprofit organization aimed at advancing the development of the disciplines of Asian and comparative philosophy in the international academic arena and bringing together Asian and Western philosophers for a mutually beneficial exchange of ideas. It holds panels in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association, the Association of Asian Studies, and the American Academy of Religion. Annual individual membership dues for the SACP are $35 ($20 for students and professors emeriti) and include a subscription to the SACP Forum.
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The society also sponsors a monograph series on specialized topics published by the University of Hawai’i Press. For more information about the SACP and about the journal, Philosophy East and West, please see our website at www.sacpweb.org. Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies Robin Jensen, Vanderbilt University The Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies was organized to provide a forum for scholars and artists interested in the intersections among theology, religion, and the arts; to share thoughts, challenge ideas, and strategize approaches in the classroom; and to advance the discipline in theological and religious studies curricula. The goal of the society is to attract consistent participation of a core group of artists and scholars of theology and religion in order to have dialogue about the theological and religious meaning of the arts and the artistic/aesthetic dimension of theological and religious inquiry. Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Harry Wells, Humboldt State University The Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies was founded in 1987 to provide an ongoing organization for those committed to study, reflection, interchange, and practice arising out of Buddhist-Christian encounters. The purposes of the society are 1) To serve as a coordinating body supporting activities related to the comparative study of, and the practical interaction between, Buddhism and Christianity, by groups and individuals; 2) To encourage those who report on BuddhistChristian dialogue and comparative study to employ analytical and theoretical tools and to set their discussion within the framework of our larger human history; 3) To be as inclusive as possible in all its activities, seeking a balance with regard to geography, ethnicity, age, sex, denomination or lineage, cultural tradition, and leadership in both academic and religion institutions, and in the public and private sectors. The society meets annually in conjunction with the national AAR meeting, having board meetings and a program session one day prior (Friday) to the start of the AAR schedule (Saturday). There is a second program session on Saturday morning. International conferences lasting approximately five days are held every four years, usually in the summer. The society publishes a scholarly journal, The Journal for Buddhist-Christian Studies (University of Hawaii), and a biannual newsletter. The society’s website, www.society-buddhist-christian-studies.org, includes membership information, upcoming dialogue events, conference summaries, newsletters, and links, including one to the newly launched Buddhist-Christian Studies database housed at Boston College. Society for Hindu-Christian Studies Corinne Dempsey, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point The Society for Hindu-Christian Studies was founded in November, 1994 as a logical extension to the dialogue and scholarship being carried on in the Hindu-Christian Studies Bulletin (now the Journal of Hindu Christian Studies), which first appeared in 1988 under its founding editor, Harold Coward. The society is dedicated to the study of Hinduism and Christianity and their interrelationships. It seeks to create a forum for the presentation of historical research and studies of contemporary practice for the fostering of dialogue and interreligious conversation carried forward in a spirit of openness, respect, and true inquiry. Committed to scholarly interchange according to accepted traditional and contemporary methods, the society understands its scope broadly, so as to include issues related to religious practice, spirituality, and education; it is interested in supporting activities related to the comparative study of Hinduism and Christianity. Our membership includes Christians interested in the study of Hinduism, Hindus interested in the study of Christianity, and scholars—Hindu, Christian, and other— interested in the historical and contemporary interactions of Hinduism and Christianity. Society for the Study of Chinese Religions Michael Puett, Harvard University The annual membership dues for the society are $30 ($15 for students and retired). In order to become a new member of SSCR, send a check payable in U.S. dollars to the SSCR treasurer: Jonathan R. Herman; Dept. of Philosophy, Georgia State University; Atlanta, GA 30302-4089; TEL: 1-404-6510714; jherman2@gsu.edu. The membership fee pays for the receipt of the annually produced Journal of Chinese Religions. Make sure to include your full address and your e-mail address with the payment. Additional information on published works (books or articles), recently read papers or presentations, and work in progress is also useful and welcome. Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality Anita Houck, Saint Mary’s College, Indiana The Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality promotes research and dialogue within the growing community of people interested in spirituality. Formed in 1991, the SSCS is ecumenical and strives to be inclusive of the widest possible range of expressions of Christian spirituality. It is interdisciplinary and welcomes the application of diverse disciplines to the study of spirituality. While the emphasis of the SSCS is clearly on Christian spirituality, it seeks to foster creative dialogue with other traditions of spirituality. 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such as pastors, practitioners, and those in the helping professions. For more information, please contact Anita Houck at ahouck@saintmarys.edu. Society of Christian Philosophers Kelly Clark, Calvin College The Society of Christian Philosophers was organized in 1978 to promote fellowship among Christian philosophers and to stimulate study and discussion of issues which arise from their Christian and philosophical commitments. One of its chief aims is to go beyond the usual philosophy of religion sessions at the American Philosophical Association and to stimulate thinking about the nature and role of Christian commitment in philosophy. Informal discussion among several Christian philosophers led them to believe that it was possible to form a group designed to promote philosophizing and fellowship among philosophers who shared a commitment to Christianity. Linda Zagzebski, University of Oklahoma, is the current president and Kelly James Clark is executive director. The society is open to anyone interested in philosophy who considers himself or herself a Christian. Membership is not restricted to any particular “school” of philosophy nor to any branch of Christianity nor to professional philosophers. Søren Kierkegaard Society Lee Barrett III, Lancaster Seminary Founded by Robert L. Perkins in 1979, the Søren Kierkegaard Society (SKS) exists to encourage study and discussion of the thought of Søren Kierkegaard in all its dimensions and ramifications, including its sources and influences. SKS is affiliated with the American Academy of Religion and the American Philosophical Association and alternates its annual business meeting between the AAR and APA conventions. At times, dinner meetings with guest speakers are coordinated with these conventions. The society encourages scholarship on Kierkegaard at, or in connection with, the national and regional meetings of the AAR and APA through an executive committee that includes members of both organizations. Membership in SKS is open to all interested in Kierkegaard. A newsletter informs members of calls for papers and upcoming programs. The current president of SKS is Lee Barrett III, Lancaster Seminary, lbarrett@lancasterseminary.edu. Theta Alpha Kappa Vivian-Lee Nyitray, University of California, Riverside Founded in 1976, Theta Alpha Kappa is the only baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate national honor society for religious and/ or theological studies accredited by the Association of College Honor Societies. Governed by a national board of directors, Theta Alpha Kappa currently sponsors more than 200 chapters
in diverse public and private institutions around the country. Its activities importantly include inviting and inducting students of excellence in these disciplines and providing scholarship and fellowship opportunities for them. For more information, please contact the president, Vivian-Lee Nyitray, ThetaAlphaKappa@ uucr.edu. Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship Paul D. Molnar, St. John’s University This distinctively Christian research organization is devoted to the exploration, development, and dissemination of the theology of T.F. Torrance and other theologians contributing to this endeavor. The society exists to promote and sustain fellowship and truth-seeking (fides quaerens intellectum) in theological reflection upon the Christian faith, within the mainstream of the Christian Church and tradition in light of the theological legacy of Thomas F. Torrance. We are a Christian fellowship serving the Christian faith and the renewal of the Church of Jesus Christ. Membership is open to all scholars, pastors, and laypersons who are interested in research in Christian theology and related disciplines and are in accord with the above mentioned mission statement. We support free inquiry and critical examination of the many facets of theology and religion, especially as these relate to issues that concerned Torrance himself, such as the relationship between science and religion and how to interpret specific Christian doctrines and their implications for today. We seek to bring T. F. Torrance’s important thinking into conversation with other significant theologians in an academic way so as to advance a better understanding of the nature of and meaning of contemporary Christian theology. Our website, www.tftorrance. org, contains information about membership, meetings, the board of directors, and T. F. Torrance himself. At present we are planning to meet as an additional meeting at the AAR on Friday afternoon. Please check our website for the most up-todate information.
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ADDITIONAL MEETINGS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30
M30-100 Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception-Main Editors
9:00 am-5:00 pm
M30-400
University of Chicago Divinity School Reception and Open House
7:00 pm-9:00 pm Swift Hall, University of Chicago 1025 E. 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637 The University of Chicago Divinity School cordially invites its alumni and friends to a reception and open house hosted by faculty at Swift Hall on the University of Chicago campus from 7:00–9:00 pm. Program, with faculty introductions, will begin at 8 pm. Round-trip bus transportation to Swift Hall will begin at 6:30 pm from the Hilton Chicago.
THURSAY, OCTOBER 30
M30-101
The Sammukham Project: Tracing the Dialogical in South Asian Religious Traditions
9:00 am-5:00 pm
M30-200
General Board of Higher Education and Ministry Women Of Color Scholarship Program
1:00 pm-5:00 pm
M30-401
General Board of Higher Education and Ministry Women of Color Scholars Program
7:00 pm-9:00 pm
M30-201
Society of Anglican and Lutheran Theologians
1:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Being Church in the Public Square Part I 1:15 pm-1:45 pm Registration and Social Gathering Time 1:45 pm-2:00 pm Welcome and Announcements 2:00 pm-3:30 pm Pamela Cooper-White, Columbia Theological Seminary Sacred Space as Potential Space: The Transforming and Empowering Potential of Sacred Built Environments 3:30 pm-4:00 pm Break 4:00 pm-6:00 pm The Dynamics of (and Barriers to) Being Church in the Public Square Panelists: Meghan Sweeney, Boston College Richard Perry, Lutheran School of Theology Jim Perkinson, Ecumenical Theological Seminary 6:00 pm-6:30 pm Worship 6:30 pm-8:30 pm SALT Conference Dinner at location TBA
M30-402
SRU Scriptural Reasoning-University Meeting
8:00 pm-10:00 pm
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
M31-1 General Board of Higher Education and Ministry Women of Color Scholars Program
7:30 am-12:00 pm
M31-2
New Developments in Religious Studies VIII: Keeping Ourselves Current
8:00 am-4:00 pm Cosponsored by the Program in Religion and Secondary Education at Harvard Divinity School, Religious Studies in Secondary Schools, and the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education This annual national conference provides an opportunity for secondary school teachers in independent and public schools to join together to meet colleagues from across the country and to hear about new developments in the fields of ethics and the major religious traditions of the world. Nationally and internationally known
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Society for the Study of Native American Religious Traditions
4:00 pm-6:30 pm
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ADDITIONAL MEETINGS
scholars share information about new research and resources, and teachers talk together about innovative projects they are developing. Please visit www.hds.harvard.edu/prse/ndrs for updated information including the agenda, presentation descriptions, and registration forms.
M31-102
North American Association for the Study of Religion Executive Council Meeting
9:00 am-11:30 am
M31-3
Lutheran Women in Theological and Religious Studies
8:30 am-5:00 pm Lutheran women in theological and religious studies as well as some local Lutheran clergywomen gather annually for scholarship, worship, and friendship. Lutheran women scholars–including graduate students–and other women who teach or study at Lutheran colleges and seminaries are welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. Questions? To register please contact Sandra Mejia-Vega at 1-773-380-2885 or sandra.mejia@elca.org.
M31-103
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Board of Directors Meeting
9:00 am-11:30 am
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
M31-104
Society of Anglican and Lutheran Theologians
9:00 am-1:00 pm Theme: Being Church in the Public Square Part II 9:00 am-10:30 am Willis Jenkins, Yale Divinity School Neighborhood Ethics: Theology and New Forms of Urbanism 10:35 am-11:05 am Business Meeting 11:05 am-11:15 am Short Break 11:15 am-12:45 pm Presenter: Dr. Martin Marty, emeritus professor, University of Chicago, and editor, Christian Century. 1:00 pm Lunch at place TBA
M31-100
Dharma Association of North America
9:00 am-11:00 am Theme: Dharma Traditions and the Feminine, Part I
M31-101
North American Paul Tillich Society
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Contemporary Theology Responds to Tillich Matthew Aaron Tennant, University of Oxford Tillich and the Wild Things: Evil and Transformative Soteriology Todd Bates, University of Central Florida Tillich and the Ontology of the “Homo Sacer”– Bare Life and Sovereign Power Jon Paul Sydnor, Emmanuel College Paul Tillich Theology of Religions for Comparative Theology Jim Champion, Inver Hills Community College Ernst Becker and Paul Tillich: Cultural Meaning and the Encounter with Death
M31-105
Spiritual Perception in Western Christianity
9:00 am-5:00 pm
M31-106
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception-Editorial Board
9:00 am-5:00 pm
M31-107
SR-U Scriptural Reasoning-University Meeting
9:30 am-12:00 pm
M31-108
Dharma Association of North America
11:00 am-1:00 pm Theme: Dharma Traditions and the Feminine, Part II
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M31-109
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception-Editorial Board
11:00 am-3:00 pm
M31-112
Numata Chair Coordinators Meeting
11:30 am-5:30 pm
M31-110
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception-Editorial Board
11:00 am-3:00 pm
M31-113
The Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University
12:00 pm-5:00 pm 12:00 pm Luncheon by invitation only 2:00 pm Theme: Heart of the Universe This session will feature the new film Heart of the Universe with Brian Swimme. This is the first film to offer a comprehensive narrative of the evolution of the universe and the earth. The film draws on the best of current science blended with a poetic sensibility that evokes awe and wonder. This symposium will be led by Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker, who together wrote the script and the accompanying book.
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Qur’an Commentaries: Sources, Methods, and Hermeneutics
11:00 am-5:30 pm A Series of Roundtable Discussions on Pre-modern Qur’an Commentaries 11:00 am-11:15 am Welcome 11:15 am-12:45 pm The Origins of Exegesis– Contexts and Sources Panelists: Karen Bauer Devin Stewart Roberto Tottoli Jane Dammen McAuliffe 12:45 pm-2:00 pm Lunch 2:00 pm-3:30 pm The Development of Hermeneutics and Techniques of Interpretation Jamal Elias, Presiding Panelists: Robert Gleave Tariq Jaffer Suleiman Mourad Andrew Rippin Walid Saleh 3:45 pm-5:15 pm The Esoteric and the Exoteric: Methods and Taxonomies Kristin Sands, Presiding Panelists: Gerhard Böwering Feras Hamza Todd Lawson Ludmila Zamah Cosponsored by the Qur’an Group and the Institute of Ismaili Studies. All are welcome to attend!
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
M31-200
North American Association for the Study of Religion
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Tim Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, Presiding Theme: The Case(s) of Turkey: From Secularization to De-Secularization? Michael Brett Wilson, Duke University Secularism and the Qur’an: Dealing with an Arabic Qur’an in the Context of Turkish Nationalism Ivan Strenski, University of California, Riverside Is the Secular Study of Religion in Turkey a Western “Imposition”? Refika Sarionder, University of Bielefeld Alevis and Turkish Secularism Jens Kreinath, Wichita State University Body Symbols and Media Events: How Islamicist Politics and Women’s Veiling became a Major Constitutional Challenge of Turkish Secularism
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M31-201 Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship
1:00 pm-3:30 pm 1:00 pm Business Meeting George Hunsinger, Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary Thomas F. Torrance’s Theology of the Sacraments with Special Emphasis on the Eucharist
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
Laurel Schneider, Chicago Theological Seminary John Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University Carol Wayne White, Bucknell University Responding: Roland Faber, Claremont School of Theology
M31-206
Bonhoeffer Society: Editorial Board, Board of Directors, and Annual Meeting
1:00 pm-6:00 pm
www.tftorrance.org for more information.
M31-202
Desire and Theology Research Team
1:00 pm-3:30 pm
M31-211
Theology and Ethics Colloquy
1:00 pm-5:00 pm
M31-203
North American Paul Tillich Society
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Tillich as Catalyst of Personal Transformation Echol Nix, Furman University Tillich as Apologetic Preacher: Theology in the Form of Sermons Courtney Wilder, Midland Lutheran College Reading Martin Luther King, Jr. as a Tillichian: “The Courage to Be” and “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” Nathaniel Holmes, Jr., St. Thomas University Paul Tillich and the Gospel of Prosperity
M31-207
SR-U Scriptural Reasoning-University Meeting
1:30 pm-4:00 pm
M31-208
Wabash Center Workshop: Teaching Introductory Courses
1:30 pm-8:00 pm Advance registration required on the Wabash Center webpage: www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/ programs/article.aspx?id=12770 An interactive, hands-on workshop addressing the teaching of introductory religion courses in public, private, and religiously affiliated contexts. Topics include: faculty and students’ goals for learning; assignments and grading; pedagogical strategies; what highly effective teachers do. Dinner will be served. Participants are eligible for $2000 Followup Department Grant to host a workshop on teaching introductory courses in your department. All participants will also receive a free copy of Barbara Walvoord’s book, Teaching and Learning in College Introductory Religion Courses (Blackwell, 2008).
M31-204
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Board of Directors Meeting
1:00 pm-3:30 pm
M31-205
Review of God as Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theologies, by Roland Faber (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008)
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Mayra Rivera, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding Reviewers: John D. Caputo, Syracuse University Catherine Keller, Drew University
M31-209
Dharma Association of North America
2:00 pm-4:00 pm Theme: Jaina Dharma
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Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group (formerly Person, Culture, and Religion)
2:00 pm-6:30 pm Diane Jonte-Pace, Santa Clara University, Presiding Theme: Book Panel: Mourning Religion (Bill Parsons, Diane Jonte-Pace and Susan Henking, Eds., University of Virginia Press, 2008) Panelists: Pamela Cooper-White, Columbia Theological Seminary Responding: Celia Brickman, Center for Religion and Psychotherapy, Chicago William Parsons, Rice University Susan Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 3:45 pm-4:00 pm Break 4:00 pm-5:00 pm Sebastian Murken, University of Trier, Germany Heavenly Services: Psychological Reflections on Today’s Attractiveness of Angels 5:30-6:30 Praxis Reflection: A. Gregory Schneider, Pacific Union College, California, and Mei Ann Teo, Artist-inResidence, Pacific Union College Knowing through Becoming-Exercises in Documentary Theater: Reflections on Red Books: Our Search for Ellen White PCR Annual Dinner to follow at a local restaurant. Exact location TBA.
Those staying for the evening program may RSVP for dinner ($10.00) at CTU’s dining room. For more information or to RSVP please , contact Anita Houck at ahouck@saintmarys.edu.
M31-302
Feminist Liberation Theologians’ Network
4:00 pm-6:30 pm The Network’s annual gathering, to be held both at the AAR and SBL, will focus on “The Politics of Naming/Branding.” We will look at how that dynamic, with particular reference to feminism and liberation, operates in the academy, in publishing, and in public policy. All are welcome. RSVP: Mary E. Hunt, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER), 301 589-2509 mhunt@hers.com; Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School, 617 4955751 Eschussler@hds.harvard.edu.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
M31-303
Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Annual Religious Studies Review Editors Meeting
4:00 pm-6:30 pm
M31-304
North American Association for the Study of Religion
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Brian McCorkle, Boston University, Presiding Theme: The Testability of Cognitive Theories of Religion Justin L. Barrett, Oxford University So Counterintuitiveness Helps Explain Religion: What’s the Evidence? Emma Cohen, Oxford University Do Spirits Have Bodies? Or, Are Ghost Concepts Really Minimally Counterintuitive? Robert N. McCauley, Emory University The Importance of Being “Ernest” Responding: Harvey Whitehouse, Oxford University
M31-300
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
4:00 pm-6:00 pm Theme: Teaching Spirituality Well Catholic Theological Union Courtyards 2 & 3 5401 S. Cornell Ave Chicago IL 60615 All are welcome. CTU can be reached via Metra trains, CTA buses, and cab; a bus will also be provided from the Annual Meeting site, returning after our evening reception. For details, visit sscs.press.jhu.edu/annual_meeting/index.html.
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M31-305 Society for Buddhist Christian Studies
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sandra Costen Kunz, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Cognitive Science, Religious Practices, and Human Development: Buddhist and Christian Perspectives Sascha de Lac, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and Paula Arai, Louisiana State University The Body and the Mind: Buddhist Bowing and Neuroscience Robert Aitken, Roshi, Diamond Sangha, Hawaii “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory”: Zen and the Two-hemisphere Brain Noreen Herzfeld, St. John’s University, Collegeville “Your Cell Will Teach You Everything”: How Practice Shapes Thought in Neuroscience and Early Christian Monasticism Wesley J. Wildman, Boston University Cognitive Error and Contemplative Practices: The Cultivation of Discernment in Mind and Heart Thomas Cattoi, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley Verbal Imagining: Scientific Reflection on Visual Cognition in Light of Traditional Tibetan and Christian Theologies of the Image
M31-307
Karl Barth Society of North America
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Keith Johnson, Wheaton College “The Invention of the Antichrist?” Reconsidering Barth’s Rejection of the Analogia Entis Kevin Hector, University of Chicago Election and the Trinity: How My Mind Has Changed
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
M31-308
The Intersection of Modernity and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Europe: William Robertson Smith, Ignaz von Dollinger, and J.R. Illingworth
4:30 pm-6:00 pm Harvey Hill, Berry College, Presiding Kenneth Parker, St. Louis University The Development of Dollinger’s Modern Historiography Joseph Rivera, St. Louis University Sacrifice and Atonement: William Robertson Smith’s Influence on Atonement Theology, 1890-1920 Eric Moser, St. Louis University J.R. Illingworth and a Modern Assimilation of Evolutionary Theory Responding: C.J.T. Talar, University of St. Thomas, Houston
M31-306
North American Paul Tillich Society
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Explorations and Expositions of Themes in Tillich Christian Danz, Protestant Faculty of the University of Vienna Symbols Are “The Language of Religion”: The Conditions of Tillich’s Theory of Symbol in his Early Writings Guy Hammond, Virginia Tech Unconditionality without Sovereignty: Tillich, Caputo and the Minimalist Theologies of Postmodernity Jan-Olav Henriksen, Norwegian School of Theology Tillich and Eros in Light of Marion’s Erotic Phenomena
M31-309
Dharma Association of North America
4:30 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Conversion in Christianity and Hinduism
M31-310
General Board of Higher Education and Ministry Women of Color Scholarship Program
5:00 pm-7:00 pm
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Art/s of Interpretation Group
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sylvester Johnson, Indiana University, Bloomington, Presiding Theme: Reconceptualizing the Study of Religion from the Contact Zone(s) of North America This session explores the implications of the uniquely modern religious problems arising within colonial and postcolonial contact zones of North America and the inherent hybridities of these zones. Davíd Carrasco, Harvard University Contact Zone or Conquest Zone: Mexico City as the Foundation of the Americas Philip P Arnold, Syracuse University . The Doctrine of Discovery: Christian Dispossession of Indigenous People from the Fifteenth Century Lisa J.M. Poirier, Miami University The Kettle: Hybridity in Seventeenth Century New France Jennifer I. Reid, University of Maine Mapping Post-Colonial Space: The Mi’kmaq Mission to St. Anne at Potlotek, Nova Scotia Respondent: Charles H. Long, University of California, Santa Barbara, emeritus
M31-403
New Religious Movements Group
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Theme: Researching New Religions: The Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints Case and Beyond
M31-404
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Chakravathi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University, Presiding Theme: Perspectives in Indian Philosophy of the Mind Judy Saltzman, California Polytechnic Institute Cosmic Order and Hierarchy in Vedanta and NeoPlatonism Douglas L. Berger, Southern Illinois University The Embodiment of Self-Consciousness: Reconfiguring Nyaya Ontology toward a Proposed Solution of the Problem of Interaction Purushottama Bilamoria, Deakin University The Rise and Fall of Dualist Accounts of the Mind: East and West
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
M31-405
LGBT Caucus of the AAR
7:00 pm-8:30 pm The LGBT Caucus is an informal network of scholars seeking to connect their scholarship with advocacy for LGBT people. This year we’ll discuss the critical connections among race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender. Our meeting will be facilitated by Jakob Hero and AnnJay Boatman.
M31-400
Søren Kierkegaard Society
6:30 pm-9:00 pm Theme: Kierkegaard and Ramanuja 6:30 pm Banquet (location to be announced) 8:00 pm Merigala Gabriel, Madras Christian College Kierkegaard and Ramanuja
M31-406 M31-401 Feminist Studies in Religion, Inc. PreConference Meeting
6:30 pm-9:00 pm
Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Annual Board Meeting
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
M31-407 M31-402 Jesuit Departments of Theology and Religious Studies: Business Meeting
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Mennonite Scholars and Friends Reception
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
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M31-408 Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Following the lecture, you are invited to attend a reception. (See M31-417 in the Annual Meeting Program Book for the location.) There we will discuss the formation of a preconference before the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. For further information, contact Don Thorsen at dthorsen@ apu.edu.
M31-409
Pedagogy for the Perplexed
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Theme: Naming the Dilemmas of Pedagogy Related to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Location: First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple 77 W. Washington, Chicago An invitation for teachers in universities, theological schools, and congregations to come together for thoughtful consideration of the complicated issues of teaching in relation to the current situation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The keynotes and the discussion will focus on possibilities for teaching and learning. Ellen T. Charry, Princeton Theological Seminary A Christian Perspective Yehezkel Landau, Hartford Theological Seminary A Jewish Perspective Yahya Hendi, Georgetown University A Muslim Perspective Responding: Heidi Hadsell, President, Hartford Theological Seminary For further information and to register: www.pedagogyfortheperplexed.org.
M31-411
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
7:00 pm-9:00 pm Theme: Art and Spirituality: A Reflective Exploration The Art Gallery Catholic Theological Union 5416 S. Cornell Ave Chicago IL 60615 All are welcome. A light reception will be included. CTU can be reached via Metra trains, CTA buses, and cab; a bus will also be provided from the Annual Meeting site before our afternoon session, returning downtown after the evening reception. For details, please check our website at http://sscs.press.jhu.edu/annual_ meeting/index.html. For more information, please contact Anita Houck, Secretary, at ahouck@ saintmarys.edu.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
M31-412
Association for Practical Theology
7:00 pm-9:30 pm Practical theology is undertaken within a complex and interdependent ecology that provides the discipline’s resources, shapes its agenda, and receives its products. From different locations within this intellectual, ecclesial, cultural, and social ecology, panelists will extend and critique the argument of For Life Abundant: Practical Theology, Theological Education, and Christian Ministry (eds., Dorothy Bass and Craig Dykstra, 2008). Craig Dykstra, Lilly Endowment Inc., Presiding Theme: Panel Discussion on For Life Abundant: Practical Theology, Theological Education, and Christian Ministry (eds., Dorothy Bass and Craig Dykstra, 2008)
M31-410
The Word Made Fresh
7:00 pm-8:45 pm 7:00 pm Lecture John Franke, Biblical Theological Seminary, Presiding Kevin Vanhoozer, Research Professor of Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Remythologizing Theology 9:00 pm Evangelical Christian Scholars Reception
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Panelists: Serene Jones, Union Theological Seminary Yolanda Smith, Yale Divinity School Lillian Daniel, First Congregational Church (UCC) Responding: John Witvliet, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
M31-415
Inter Religious Federation for World Peace Annual Reception
7:30 pm-9:00 pm Theme: Intelligent Design in the New World Encyclopedia Intelligent design is an arena of contention. Most scientists view the theory as religion, or creationism. Conversely ID scholars raise concerns about the Darwinian model of evolution specifically, and the limitations of science in general. The values-based, general knowledge New World Encyclopedia must meet challenges presented by such “hot topics.” How can students learn and understand the merits of arguments from both sides, gaining proper knowledge beyond partisan bickering?
M31-413
Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (SARTS)
7:00 pm-9:30 pm Theme: Reception and Lecture by Judith Dupré: Building as Being: The Ethical Function of Architecture The reception will include a remembrance and recognition of the life and work of John Dillenberger. The evening program will feature a lecture by Judith Dupré: Building as Being: The Ethical Function of Architecture. This lecture will be followed Saturday morning by a tour of new Chicago architecture, led by Dupré with commentary by some of Chicago’s most renowned architects. Dupré is author of six illustrated non-fiction books including Skyscrapers (1996, 2008), and Churches (2005). Non members as well as members are welcome to this event.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
M31-416
Pluralism Project Reception and Premiere of Documentary Film, Fremont, USA
8:30 pm-11:00 pm You are invited to the Pluralism Project reception and the premiere of Fremont, USA, our new documentary film narrated by Diana Eck. Fremont, California is home to Peace Terrace, where Muslims and Methodists built houses of worship side by side and Gurdwara Road, where a large Sikh community engages in creative forms of outreach. The diversity of the global Buddhist community is also present: Thai, Chinese, and Burmese temples dot the landscape. As initial filming was underway, Alia Ansari, an Afghan-American woman, was murdered while walking along a street with her daughter. Was she killed because of her headscarf? Was it a hate crime? How will the larger community respond? This film will make the challenges of religious diversity vivid, visible, and accessible for discussion.
M31-414
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
7:00 pm-10:00 pm Amy Allocco, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Constructing and Crossing Religious Boundaries in South Asia: A Discussion with International Visiting Scholars Panelists: Tissa Balasuriya, OMI, Centre for Society and Religion, Colombo Dominique-Sila Khan, Institute of Rajasthan Studies, Jaipur K. Srinivasan, Vivekananda College, Chennai Responding: Paul M. Collins, University of Chichester
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M31-417 Evangelical Christian Scholars Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm Evangelical Christians are invited to attend a reception, following the 7:00 pm lecture by Kevin Vanhoozer, entitled Remythologizing Theology, for The Word Made Fresh. (See M31417 for the location of The Word Made Fresh.) Tom Oord, Northwest Nazarene University, Presiding At the reception, we will discuss the formation of a pre-conference before Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. For further information, contact Don Thorsen at dthorsen@ apu.edu.
M1-4
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies Board Meeting
7:30 am-8:45 am
M1-5
La Comunidad of Hispanic Scholars of Religion at the AAR and SBL Board Meeting and Panel Discussion
8:00 am-10:30 am
M1-6
Dharma Association of North America
8:30 am-10:15 am Theme: The “H” Word
M31-418
Jesuit Departments of Theology and Religious Studies Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
M1-100
Jesuit Departments of Theology and Religious Studies: Colloquium on Religious Pluralism
9:00 am-11:30 am
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
M31-419
Polanyi Society
9:00 pm-11:00 pm Theme: Symposium on Tony Clark’s Divine Revelation and Human Response (Some Polanyian Reflections)
M1-101
Colloquium on Violence and Religion
9:00 am-11:30 am Martha Reineke, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding Theme: For the Exploration, Criticism, and Development of René Girard’s Mimetic Theory 9:00 am Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University Book Presentation: Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice Responding: Thomas Wilson, Hamilton College 10:10 am Break 10:20 am Mark Heim, Andover Newton Theological School Book Presentation: Saved From Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross Responding: Józef Niewiadomski, University of Innsbruck Discussion will follow each presentation/ response. Questions: contact martha.reineke@ uni.edu.
M31-420
Friends of China Academic Consortium
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
M1-1 European Society of Women in Theological Research
7:00 am-8:45 am Theme: Explorations-The Future Role of the North American ESWTR
M1-2
North American Paul Tillich Society Board Meeting
7:00 am-8:45 am
M1-3
Dialog Editorial Council Meeting
7:00 am-11:00 am
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M1-102
Society for Buddhist Christian Studies
9:00 am-11:30 am Alice Keefe, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Presiding Theme: Thomas Merton Forty Years after his Death: Buddhist and Christian Perspectives Daijaku Judith Kinst, California Institute of Integral Studies Self-Surrender in Merton’s Writings and Contemplative Psychology Judith Simmer-Brown, Naropa University Thomas Merton Meets Tibetan Buddhism Paula Hirschboeck, Edgewood College Non-dual Wisdom as Feminine: Sophia and Prajnaparamita in Merton’s Poem, “Hagia Sophia” Kristin Johnston Largen, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg Was Thomas Merton’s Soteriology Influenced by His Experience with Buddhism?
M1-104
The Niebuhr Society
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Reinhold and H. Richard Niebuhr Douglas Ottati, Davidson College Realism and Responsibility: The Legacy of H. Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr K. Healan Gaston, Harvard University Debating Democracy: The Niebuhr Brothers on Secularism and the Responsibilities of the Theologian Reports on Current Research: John Burk, University of Edinburgh Gary MacDonald, Southern Methodist University Business Meeting: Robin Lovin, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
M1-105 M1-103 Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: 2008 Presidential Address and Business Meeting 9:00 am Mary Frohlich, Catholic Theological Union at Chicago Under the Sign of Jonah: Studying Spirituality in a Time of Ecosystemic Crisis 10:30 am Business Meeting Arthur G. Holder, Graduate Theological Union, President-elect, Presiding All are most welcome. For more information, please contact Anita Houck, Secretary, at ahouck@saintmarys.edu.
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion Board Meeting
9:00 am-11:30 am
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
M1-106
North American Association for the Study of Religion
9:00 am-11:30 am Bryan Rennie, Westminster College, Presiding Theme: Religious Institutions in the Context of Finance Market Capitalism Terry Rey and Suzanne Parlier, Temple University What Is Religious Capital? Looking for Answers from Bourdieu to Stark Anne Koch, University of Munich Neo-Institutionalist Theses on a German Regional Yoga-market Jeremy Carrette, University of Kent Global Institutions, Religious NGOs, and the United Nations: A Study of Quaker (Religious Society of Friends) Economic and Political Influence Rachel McCleary, Harvard University Religion and Economic Development: A Two-Way Causation
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M1-107 Art/s of Interpretation Group
9:00 am-11:30 am Jennifer Reid, University of Maine, Presiding Theme: The Chicago School of Religion in Retrospect and Prospect: Descriptions, Prescriptions, and Predictions Thomas A. Ininopulos, Miami University Are There Differing Sacreds in the Methodologies of Otto, Wach, Eliade on One Side, and Durkheim on the Other Side? Gregory D. Alles, McDaniel College After the Naming Explosion: Joachim Wach’s Unfinished Project Randal Cummings, California State University, Northridge The Chicago School: Legacy, Longevity, Legitimacy Responding: Kees Bolle, University of California, Los Angeles Casey Koons, Syracuse University Rick Talbott, California State University, Northridge
M1-109
Søren Kierkegaard Society
9:00 am-11:30 am David Gouwens, Brite Divity School, Presiding Theme: Kierkegaard and Levinas Papers by: Martin Matuśtík, Purdue University M. J. Ferreira, University of Virginia J. Aaron Simmons, Hendrix University David Kangas, Pacific School of Religion
M1-110
US Ecumenical Response to A Common Word between Us and You
9:00 am-11:30 am
M1-111
Mennonite Scholars and Friends Forum
9:00 am-11:30 am
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
M1-112
Karl Barth Society of North America
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Panel Discussion on Nicea and Its Legacy by Lewis Ayres Panelists: Paul Molnar, St. John’s University Kathryn Greene-McCreight, New Haven, CT Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University Responding: Lewis Ayres, Duke University
M1-108
North American Paul Tillich Society
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Evangelical Responses to Tillich David Barbee, University of Pennsylvania What Would Paul Tillich Do? A Tillichian Contribution to Evangelical Ethics Carlos Bovell, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto Can an Evangelical Say That God Does Not Exist? Christopher A. Stephenson, Marquette University Symbol, Sacrament, and Spirit(s): Paul Tillich in Pentecostal Theology Robison B. James, University of Richmond and Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond Three Ways Tillich Can Help Evangelicals Be Biblical
M1-113
Presidential Politics and Religious Rhetoric
9:00 am-11:30 am Alice W. Hunt, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding Panelists: Randall Balmer, Columbia University Jacques Berlinerblau, Georgetown University Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Brite Divinity School Michael G. Long, Elizabethtown College Martin Marty, University of Chicago
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M1-114
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
9:00 am-11:30 am John Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Female Authority and Religious Power in Hindu Traditions: A Reappraisal of Grace Jantzen’s Power, Gender, and Christian Mysticism David Buchta, University of Pennsylvania An Honorary Male or an Honorary Non-female? Baladeva Vidyabhusana on Gargi Vacaknavi Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier, Loyola Marymount University Engendering the “Mysticism” of the Alvars Michelle Voss Roberts, Rhodes College Power, Gender, and the Classification of a Kashmir Saiva Mystic Antoinette E. DeNapoli, Emory University “Crossing over the Ocean of Existence”: “Mystical Experience” and Religious Authority amongst the Female Hindu Sadhus of Rajasthan Responding: Ella Johnson, University of St. Michael’s College Panelists will make brief remarks based on abbreviated papers to make room for audience participation. Full papers will be made available in advance on the HCS listserv. To get copies (after Oct. 15), please email: reid.locklin@utoronto.ca. 11:00 Business Meeting
M1-117
Religion in the Academy
9:00 am-12:00 pm
M1-118
Early Methodism: Texts, Traditions and Theologies
9:00 am-12:45 pm Theme: John and Mary Fletcher of Madeley: Champions of a Non-Wesleyan Methodism? Sponsors: Liverpool Hope University, University of Manchester, and Point Loma Nazarene University 9:00 am Welcome 9:10 am Short papers on the significance of John and Mary Fletcher of Madeley by the following speakers: William J. Abraham, Southern Methodist University Carol Blessing, Point Loma Nazarene University Peter Forsaith, The Oxford Centre for Church History and Methodism, Oxford Brookes University David Wilson, University of Manchester 11:30 am Questions and round-table discussion 12:45 pm Conclusion Additional information: Kenneth Newport, knewport@hope.ac.uk.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
M1-119
Dharma Association of North America
10:30 am-12:15 pm Theme: Samkhya
M1-115
Polanyi Society
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Phil Rolnick’s Person, Grace, and God
M1-120
North American Association for the Study of Religion Business Meeting
11:45 am-12:45 pm
M1-116
Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group (formerly Person, Culture, and Religion)
9:00 am-11:30 am 9:00 am–10:30 am Open Discussion of Works in Progress New scholars and graduate students welcome! 10:30 am–11:30 am PCR Business Meeting/ Elections Kathleen Bishop and Pamela Cooper-White, PCR Co-Chairs
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M1-121 Religious Literacy: Models for Curriculum and Culture in Colleges and Universities
11:45 am-12:45 pm The Society for Values in Higher Education held a June institute for 10 campus teams working to develop and implement curricular or cocurricular programs that address religion-study across the curriculum and difficult questions involved with religion in the academy. This session, reporting on progress and problems, will seek to generate additional support for strengthening religious literacy nationwide.
M1-200
Christian Theological Research Fellowship
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Contesting Evangelicalism: Symposium on the Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology Panelists: Timothy Larsen, Wheaton College Roger Olson, Truett Theological Seminary Melissa Wyndy Corbin-Reuschling, Ashland Theological Seminary
M1-122
Wabash Center: Lunch Table Teaching Conversations
11:45 am-12:45 pm Advanced Registration Required at www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/programs/article. aspx?id=14267 Sponsored by The Wabash Center and Teaching Religion Section Register to join small table conversations on specific issues in the teaching of religion and theology. Enjoy a simple box lunch. Advanced Registration Required. Topics include: Teaching Asian Religions through Art; Ideas for Small Group Interaction; Teaching Religion through Blogging; and Asian and Asian North American Women: Power Dynamics in the Classroom. Additional topics, descriptions, more information, and registration are available on the Wabash Center website: www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/programs/article. aspx?id=14267
M1-201
Mission and Biblical Interpretation: Toward a Missional Hermeneutic
1:00 pm-3:30 pm What would it mean to read the Bible with an explicit methodological starting point in an ecclesial location understood as fundamentally missional? George R. Hunsberger, professor of congregational mission and director of doctor of ministry studies at Western Theological Seminary will present an address entitled, Starting Points, Trajectories, and Outcomes in Proposals for a Missional Hermeneutic: Mapping the Conversation. The address will trace accents and implications in the presentations given at this Annual Meeting in recent years. The meeting will include formal responses and small group engagement with particular biblical texts. For information, visit www.gocn.org or contact Jeffrey Greenman, Wheaton College, Jeffrey.P .Greenman@wheaton.edu.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
M1-202
Cognitive Science of Religion
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Justin Barrett, Oxford University, Presiding Theme: Theory of Mind, Folk Dualism, and Religious and Moral Cognition Edward Slingerland, University of British Columbia Folk Dualism and Religious and Moral Cognition in Early China Emma Cohen, Oxford University Mind, Body, and the Afterlife in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Experimental and Ethnographic Evidence
M1-123
Dharma Association of North America Awards Ceremony
12:15 pm-1:30 pm
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Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union Dreaming of the Dead: A Cognitive Scientific Analysis Joseph Craig, Northwestern University Islam, Virtue Theory, and the Cognitive Science of Ethics
M1-304
The Fund for Theological Education Reception Honoring 2008-2009 Doctoral Fellows
4:45 pm-6:30 pm
M1-305 M1-203 Evangelical Philosophical Society
1:00 pm-3:30 pm Chad Meister, Bethel College, Presiding Theme: Religious Diversity Paul Moser, Loyola University Religious Exclusivism Keith Yandell, University of Wisconsin, Madison The Diversity of Religious Experience Responding: Paul Knitter, Union Theological Seminary
University of Pennsylvania Reception
5:30 pm-7:30 pm
M1-400
Forum on Sports and Religion
6:30 pm-8:00 pm Eric Bain-Selbo, Western Kentucky University, Presiding Theme: Chicago Cubs—The Faith and the Faithful In 1908 the Chicago Cubs defeated the Detroit Tigers four games to one to repeat as World Series champions. For 100 years the team has failed to win another championship, an achievement (so to speak) unparalleled in American sport. Yet generations of Cubs fans have continued to “keep the faith.” In this panel discussion, scholars associated with the Mercer University Press Series on Sports and Religion and others discuss the religious dimensions of the Cubs phenomenon. Panelists: Joseph Price, Whittier College Greg Sapp, Stetson University Chris Sheppard, University of Chicago Reinder Van Til, Eerdmans Publishing
M1-300
Association for Practical Theology
4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Pedagogies for the Urban Context This session invites critical reflection on the implications of urbanization and the complexities of urban ministry for our pedagogy as theological educators and pastoral leaders. Panelists: Cynthia Milsap, Director, Nurturing the Call, Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education (SCUPE) Bryan P Stone, Boston University .
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
M1-301
Meadville Lombard Theological School Reception
4:00 pm-6:30 pm
M1-401
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Reception
6:30 pm-8:30 pm
M1-302
International Schleiermacher Society
4:00 pm-7:00 pm
M1-303
College Theology Society Board Meeting
4:00 pm-8:30 pm
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M1-402 Bahá’í Studies Colloquy
6:30 pm-9:00 pm Susan Maneck, Jackson State University, Presiding Theme: Studies on the Bahá’í Faith Christopher Hamilton, Washburn University Complex Theologies and Politics against Preemptive War: A Comparison of American United Methodists and Bahá’í Morality and Advocacy against Pre-emptive War and for Peacemaking: The Case of the War in Iraq Chelsea Horton, University of British Columbia Potlatch, Pipe, and Prayer: Negotiating Indigenous Bahá’í Ritual in the North American West Robert H. Stockman, DePaul University Persian and American Bahá’í Biblical Interpretation, 1895-1912 For additional information about the Bahá’í Studies Colloquy, contact Robert Stockman at rstockman@usbnc.org or 1-847-337-7750 (cell).
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
M1-405
Presbyterian Scholars Reception
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Members of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and faculty at Presbyterian institutions are invited to this reception to meet and connect with each other. In addition to light refreshments, we hope to find ways to link more closely with one another and with the church— sponsored by the Office Theology and Worship and the Office of Theological Education and Seminary Relations. For further information contact Anita Brown, Office of Theology and Worship, 1-888-728-7228 x5033, anita.brown@ pcusa.org.
M1-406
Indiana University Religious Studies Alumni Reception
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
M1-407 M1-403 Memorial Service for Selva J. Raj
7:00 pm-8:00 pm
Society for the Study of Chinese Religions
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
M1-404
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Saturday – 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University, Presiding Theme: Reflections on the Work of Henry Rosemont, Jr. Sumner Twiss, Florida State University Confucian Ethics, Concept-Clusters, and Human Rights William R. LaFleur, University of Pennsylvania Heart/Mind’s Purity vs. Utilitarianism: Ethics in Mencius, Wang Yang-ming, and Nishida Kitaro Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University Did Kongzi Teach Us How To Become Gods?
M1-408
Korean North American Systematic Theology
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Co-sponsored by Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary Sang Hyun Lee, Presiding Andrew Park will discuss his new book, Triune Atonement: Christ’s Healing for Sinners, Victims, and the Whole Creation(Westminster/John Knox, 2008)
M1-409
Where Religion and Ecology Meet: The Field and the Force
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Speaker: Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University
M1-410
Society of Pentecostal Studies and Wesleyan Theological Society Reception
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
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Unitarian Universalist Scholars and Friends Discussion
7:00 pm-9:30 pm Theme: Religious Liberalism, Politics, and Empire: Resistance and Complicity Our annual discussion will explore liberal religious responses to the “imperial” policies of the United States. What resources does our tradition offer for resistance to empire, and in what ways have we been complicit in imperial structures? If we are simultaneously complicit and resistant to empire, how might we move forward? A panel of scholars and pastors will introduce the theme, with plenty of time for open conversation. Confirmed presenters include Jeff Wilson, Paul Rasor, Stephanie Mitchem, and Dan McKanan. Sponsored by Starr King School for the Ministry, Harvard Divinity School, UUA Panel on Theological Education, and Beacon Press. Participants are encouraged to attend the Meadville Lombard reception just prior to this event.
M1-413
Science and Religion Reception Hosted by Three Centers, CTNS, IRAS, and ZCRS.
7:00 pm-10:00 pm The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) supports research, provides MDiv and doctoral teaching through the Ian G. Barbour Chair, publishes the peer-reviewed journal Theology and Science and administers the Science and Transcendence Advanced Research Series (STARS) research grant program. The Institute for Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) has summer conferences at Star Island off the New Hampshire coast and co-publishes the peer-reviewed journal Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. The Zygon Center for Religion and Science (ZCRS), a partnership of Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and CASIRAS, brings together scientists and theologians to research crucial issues of human concern. ZCRS supports masters and doctoral students through LSTC and shares quarters with Zygon.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
M1-412
Society of Christian Philosophers
7:00 pm-9:30 pm Andrew Chignell, Cornell University, Presiding Theme: The Moral and Spiritual Prospects of Vegetarianism Terence Cuneo, University of Vermont Conditional Moral Vegetarianism Matthew Halteman, Calvin College Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation Stephen H. Webb, Wabash College A Christian Case for Compassion for Animals Responding: Shannon Craigo-Snell, Yale University
M1-414
Graduate Theological Union Alumni Reception
7:00 pm-11:00 pm
M1-425
Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies
7:00 pm-9:30 pm Theme: Presentations of Projects from Luce Award Winners for 2007-08 Featuring presentations by Colleen Cullinan, Scott Robinson, Allen Terrell, and Kathleen Turner, followed by a business meeting of the Society.
M1-415
Study of Islam Section Annual Dinner
7:30 pm-9:30 pm
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M1-426 Studies in Comparative Theology: Comparative Monotheism
7:30 pm-9:30 pm Theme: Messianism and Monotheism Panelists: David Novak, University of Toronto Vincent Cornell, Emory University Kurt Anders Richardson, McMaster University
M1-423
Global Ethics and Religion Forum
9:00 pm-11:00 pm Theme: The Role of Religion in a Just and Sustainable World Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha, California State University, Northridge Bumuntu: An African Paradigm Irfan Omar, Marquette University Religion and Secular Society Inez Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara A Native American Perspective Philip Rossi, S.J., Marquette University Sustaining Civil Discourse Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University Environmental Sustainability Whitney Sanford, University of Florida Food Sovereignty and Social Justice Joseph Runzo, Chapman University War and Human Rights
M1-416
Religion and Ecology Reception
8:30 pm-10:00 pm
M1-417
New Religious Movements Group Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
M1-418
Fortress Press Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm Fortress Press invites all AAR attendees to join us for hospitality and conversation. Visit www. fortresspress.com for additional information about Fortress Press at AAR.
M1-424
Harvard University Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
M1-419
Vanderbilt University Alumni/ae and Friends Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
M2-1 Lutheran Theological Society of North America
7:00 am-8:30 am 7:00 am Morning Prayer 7:15 am Theme: Middle East Peace-Making and Interfaith Initiatives Panelists: Carol Schersten LaHurd Michael Trice No registration required. Questions? Please contact Sandra Mejia at 773-380-2885 or sandra.mejia@elca.org.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
M1-420
Azusa Pacific University Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm Come join us! If you are faculty, students, alumni/ ae, or friends of Azusa Pacific University, then we invite you to attend our reception. It will be a great time for dessert, coffee, tea, and fellowship.
M1-421
Walter de Gruyter Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
M1-422
University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Religious Studies Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
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Center of Theological Inquiry Reception
7:00 am-8:30 am The Center of Theological Inquiry invites members and friends to a breakfast reception. Peter Ochs, Stacy Johnson, and colleagues will speak on the forthcoming publication of the CTI research project on Scriptural Reasoning in the Jewish, Muslim and Christian Traditions. The Center will also honor the work of its former Director, Daniel Hardy.
M2-9
Princeton Theological Seminary Breakfast
7:00 am-9:00 am Princeton Theological Seminary alumni/ae and friends are invited to join President Iain R. Torrance for breakfast and an update on new projects at the Seminary. The cost for the breakfast is $10, and advanced registration is encouraged. Visit www.ptsem.edu, and click on “Alumni/ae,” or call 1-800-622-6767, ext. 7756, to register. Limited tickets will be available at the door. Prospective students are welcome as guests of the seminary.
M2-3
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Alumni Breakfast
7:00 am-8:45 am Please join us for the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Alumni Breakfast. Prior reservations are required and can be made at www.tiu.edu/divinity/alumni. Any questions can be directed to Judy Tetour at tedsdean@tiu.edu or 1-847-317-8086.
M2-10
Disciples of Christ Faculty/Student Breakfast
7:00 am-8:45 am
M2-100
Theta Alpha Kappa Board of Directors Meeting
9:00 am-11:30 am
M2-4
Conversation with the New Associate Dean for the Center for Advanced Theological Studies (CATS) of Fuller Theological Seminary
7:00 am-8:45 am
M2-102
A Conversation Addressing the Philosophical Discussions that Undergird the Emerging Church Movement
11:30 am-1:00 pm
M2-5
New York Theological Seminary Breakfast
7:00 am-8:45 am
M2-103
North American Paul Tillich Society Business Meeting
11:45 am-12:45 pm
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
M2-6
Temple University Religion Department Breakfast
7:00 am-8:45 am
M2-104
North American Hindu Association of Dharma Studies
11:45 am-12:45 pm Arvind Sharma, McGill University, Presiding Theme: Seva as the Focus of Hindu Sampradayas Panelists: Jeffrey Long, Elizabethtown College Rita Sherma, Binghampton College Katherine K. Young, McGill University Shruti, Shruti Foundation For additional information please contact Arvind.Sharma@McGill.ca.
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Church of Christ/Christian Church Professors Meeting
7:00 am-8:45 am
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ADDITIONAL MEETINGS
M2-105 Christian Theological Research Fellowship
11:45 am-12:45 pm Theme: Contesting Evangelicalism: American Pop Culture, Žižek, and Evangelicals Beth Felker Jones, Wheaton College, Presiding Presenter: David Fitch, Northern Seminary Responding: James K. Smith, Calvin College Bruce Benson, Wheaton College
M2-201
Educating Religious Leaders for a Multireligious World
1:00 pm-3:30 pm
M2-202
Wabash Center and Louisville Institute Grant Writing Consultation
1:30 pm-5:00 pm Drop in for conversation about your grant ideas or help with grant writing. Appointments are not required, but are preferred and may be made in advance at the Wabash Center webpage: www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/programs/article. aspx?id=14268.
M2-106
African Association for the Study of Religion
11:45 am-12:45 pm Theme: Tapping African Wisdom to Heal the Wounds of Colonialism and Slavery
M2-300
Theta Alpha Kappa Members’ Meeting and Reception
4:00 pm-6:00 pm Theta Alpha Kappa, the National Honor Society for Religious Studies and Theology, welcomes all chapter moderators, student members, and anyone interested in establishing a chapter on their campus to the annual business meeting and reception.
M2-200
The Future of Biblical Studies
1:00 pm-3:30 pm All AAR members are invited to a conversation about the future of biblical studies. We will discuss questions such as: What is the appropriate role for biblical studies in AAR? What interdisciplinary conversations are possible? How can biblical studies reach out to scholars of religion and theology? What topics should biblical studies address in the coming years? We hope for broad interaction between biblical scholars and other AAR members interested in cooperating with biblical scholars. Panelists: Jon L. Berquist, Westminster John Knox Press Teresa Hornsby, Drury University Alice W. Hunt, Chicago Theological Seminary Francisco Lozada, Brite Divinity School Rodney S. Sadler, Jr., Union Theological Seminary-PSCE, Charlotte Ken Stone, Chicago Theological Seminary Frank Yamada, Seabury Western Theological Seminary
M2-301
Cognitive Science of Religion: Research Forum
4:00 pm-6:30 pm
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
M2-303
ReligionDispatches Reception
5:30 pm-7:30 pm
M2-304
Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought Business Meeting
5:45 pm-6:15 pm
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American Journal of Theology and Philosophy
6:30 pm-8:00 pm Michael S. Hogue, Meadville Lombard Theological School, Presiding David E. Conner, Wheat Ridge, CO, United Church of Christ Whitehead the Naturalist Responding: J. Thomas Howe, Iliff School of Theology, We are anticipating a lively conversation about process thought. Everyone is welcome! For additional information, contact Jennifer Jesse at jgjesse@truman.edu.
M2-403
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Department of Religious Studies Reception
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
M2-404
Gay Men’s Issues in Religion Reception
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
M2-405
Unitarian Universalist Scholars and Friends Reception
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Persons connected to the Unitarian Universalist tradition are invited to gather for conversation and to plan next year’s events. Sponsored by Starr King School for the Ministry, Harvard Divinity School, UUA Panel on Theological Education, and Beacon Press.
M2-402
The Centre of Theology and Philosophy
6:45 pm-9:15 pm Nathan Kerr, Trevecca Nazarene University, Presiding Theme: The Return of Metaphysics: A Dialogue on the Occasion of the Publication of Belief and Metaphysics (eds. P. Candler and C. Cunningham, Veritas Series, SCM Press, 2007) Panelists: John Betz, Loyola College Sarah Coakley, Cambridge University Paul DeHart, Vanderbilt University David Bentley Hart, Providence College John Milbank, University of Nottingham Sponsored by the Centre of Theology and Philosophy (Nottingham, UK) and SCM Press’ Veritas Series
M2-406
Durham University Department of Theology and Religion Reception for Theology, Ethics and Study of Religion
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Friends and alumni/ae of Durham University are warmly welcomed to the reception where they will be informed about significant developments in the department during the last year.
M2-407
Muktabodha Indological Research Institute
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
M2-408 M2-400 Wabash Center Dinner for New Teachers
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Annual gathering of new teachers for dinner and directed table conversations about the first years of teaching. Nomination of new teachers for participation is required. September 15 deadline. Contact: Paul Myhre, myhrep@ wabash.edu.
Denver University/Iliff School of Theology Joint PhD reception
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
M2-409
The Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture Reception
7:00 pm-8:30 pm The Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture will host a reception promoting its various programs.
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M2-410 Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Reception
7:00 pm-8:30 pm The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invites all those interested in the intersection of religious studies and Holocaust studies for refreshments, networking, and conversation. For more information on our programs and fellowship opportunities please see www.ushmm. org/research/center/.
M2-418
Brown University Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
M2-419
Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
M2-420
Marquette University Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
M2-412
University of Iowa Alumni and Friends Reception
7:30 pm-9:30 pm
M2-421
Duke University Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
M2-413
VU Institute for the Study of Religion, Culture and Society (VISOR)
7:30 pm-10:00 pm Theme: VISOR Launching Reception and Presentation VISOR is a new institute situated at the VU University in Amsterdam. VISOR forms a platform for multi-and interdisciplinary research and exchange between scholars working in the field of the study of religion in all its dimensions; with as current focus the place of religion in the public domain. Please join us for a panel discussion about Nations Divided by Faiths, followed by a reception.
M2-422
Center for Process Studies Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm Join us for wine, cheese, and conversation. Friends and members of CPS and anyone interested in process-relational approaches to science and religion, religious studies, theology, biblical hermeneutics, and philosophy of religion are invited. Greet Roland Faber, Philip Clayton, and Marjorie Suchocki. Network, discuss, and schmooze. Informal, fun!
M2-424
Brite Divinity School Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
M2-414
Princeton University Department of Religion Reception
8:00 pm-10:00 pm
M2-425
Nazarene Theological Seminary Alumni/ ae and Friends Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
M2-415
Syracuse University Department of Religion Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
M2-426
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York Alumni/ae and Friends Reception
9:00 pm-11:30 pm
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
M2-416
Drew University Alumni Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
M2-427
John Templeton Foundation Reception
10:00 pm-12:00 am
M2-417
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Boston University Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
M3-1 Friends of Regent College Breakfast
7:00 am-8:45 am
M3-100
Christian Theological Research Fellowship
9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Contesting Evangelicalism: William Abraham’s Canonical Theism D. Stephen Long, Marquette University, Presiding Presenter: William Abrahm, Perkins Theological Seminary Responding: Kevin Hector, University of Chicago Paul J. Griffiths, Duke University Susan Wood, Marquette University
M3-101
TBRC Digital Library Training Session
9:00 am-12:00 pm Please join TBRC for a hands-on-training session at the meeting of the AAR in Chicago on Monday November 3, 2008. This meeting is intended to enable a more efficient use of the TBRC digital library by scholars and to provide feedback to TBRC. Topics will include: examining the TBRC data model; navigating the contents of large collections in both search and browse mode; searching the biographical database; searching specialized subject headings in Tibetan literature; retrieving texts from the Digital Library; understanding the extent of the TBRC Digital Library. This is a hands on training session so please bring your questions and special research interests.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
M3-400
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality Governing Board Meeting
7:00 pm-9:00 pm
M3-401
Claremont Reception
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
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Being Black, Teaching Black
Politics and Pedagogy in Religious Studies Edited by Nancy Lynne Westfield A new examination of the role that prominent African American scholars have played in transforming the study and teaching of theology—and a demonstration of the need for a more thorough incorporation of the fruits of Black scholarship into the mainstream of the academic study of religion. Discover the challenges and opportunities of bringing Black art, Black intellectual thought, and Black culture into predominantly White classrooms and institutions.
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Black Church Studies
An Introduction by Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Juan Floyd-Thomas, Carol B. Duncan, Stephen Ray, and Nancy Lynne Westfield Drawing on the work of specialists in several fields, this volume introduces core theological disciplines from an African American standpoint—from African American biblical interpretation, to womanist theology and ethics, to sociological understandings of the life of African American churches. Examine the diverse functions of the Black Church. Explore the ways in which race, class, religion, and gender inform its evolution. This book will enable the reader to relate the work of African American theological scholars to the tasks of preaching, teaching, and leading in local congregations.
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Two books that offer new frameworks for establishing cooperative beneficial relationships between science and religion
Theological and Scientific Commentary on Darwin’s Origin of the Species
by Ted Peters and Martinez Hewlett As the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s major work approaches, theology professor Peters and biology professor Hewlett distinguish between the real and imagined conflicts between Darwin and religion. This book examines the philosophical implications of Darwin’s theory and provides an overview of today’s versions of Creationism, Intelligent Design, Theistic Evolution, Social Darwinism, and more. This serious work includes a CD-ROM of the complete 6th edition of Darwin’s Origin of Species by Natural Selection.
978-0-687-64939-6. Book with CD-ROM, $20.00
Nature's Witness
How Evolution Can Inspire Faith by Daniel M. Harrell In light of a perceived conflict between evolution and religion, some choose either to deny scientific data, or separate science and faith from each other—giving the appearance that faith is disconnected from reality. Rather than seeing science and faith as diametrically opposed, this book suggests that evolutionary data actually opens the door for deeper theological reflection on God’s creation. Writing out of a pastoral concern for those struggling to negotiate faith and evolution, the author demonstrates that being reliable witnesses to creation helps people of faith be reliable witnesses to its creator.
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THE POWER OF GOD AND THE GODS OF POWER
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Flesh Made Word Saints’ Stories and the Western Imagination Aviad Kleinberg Belknap Press $29.95 Seven Deadly Sins A Very Partial List Aviad Kleinberg Belknap Press $22.95 The Faithful A History of Catholics in America James M. O’Toole Belknap Press $27.95 What Happened at Vatican II John W. O’Malley, S. J. Belknap Press $29.95 Jerusalem City of Longing Simon Goldhill Belknap Press $27.95 The Peculiar Life of Sundays Stephen Miller $27.95
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■ Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception
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■ Ernst Troeltsch: Kritische Gesamtausgabe
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Hope & Nonviolent Action in a Palestinian Village Arthur G. Gish offers an inside view of the work of Christian Peacemaker teams in the Palestinian town of AtTuwani. Through vivid stories told in journal fashion, Gish offers a stark portrait of traditional Palestinian village life in the shadow of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Paper, 300 pages, 978-0-8361-9406-7: $17.99
All Right Now
Finding Consensus on Ethical Questions This book helps churches and individuals formulate what Timothy J. Geddert calls the “middle way” between rule-oriented legalism and irresponsible freedom in which anything is permissible. All Right Now looks at the nature and task of the believing community as it exercises discernment on ethical issues. Geddert focuses on how Scripture can be effectively examined in reaching ethical decisions. A study of a few controversial ethical issues demonstrates how the discerning community can work toward consensus. Paper, 226 pages, 978-0-8361-9418-0: $16.99
Marpeck: A Life of Dissent and Conformity
Pilgram Marpeck was a brilliant engineer and passionate theologian committed to justice and nonviolence. While thousands died during the tumultuous years of the Reformation, Marpeck consistently stood up to the ruling powers, calling for freedom of religion and separation of church and state. Walter Klaassen and William Klassen have deeply mined Marpeck’s writing and dialogue with other Reformation leaders placing his life, work, and theology in the context of his violent, changing times. This thorough biography shows that Marpeck, perhaps more than any other early Anabaptist figure, helped lay the theoretical and practical foundations of the believers’ church. Volume 44 in the Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History Series. Hard, 300 pages, 978-0-8361-9423-4: $32.99
Reasoning Together
A Conversation on Homosexuality This book brings together two theologians with significantly different viewpoints on the issue of homosexuality. Mark Thiessen Nation and Ted Grimsrud engage in a spirited give-and-take discussion characterized by mutual respect and honesty. Nation presents the biblical and theological case in favor of the churches’ traditional understanding that sexual intercourse is reserved for a man and a woman in a married relationship. Grimsrud counters with an argument in favor of the churches blessing same-sex marriage while remaining committed to the norm of lifetime fidelity and monogamy. A unique feature is the sustenance of a conversation that does not shrink from the differences but values the opportunity to learn from those differences rather than simply reinforcing polarization. Paper, 240 pages, 978-0-8361-9430-2: $15.99
States of Exile
Visions of Diaspora, Witness, and Return Alain Epp Weaver offers a political theology of exile which understands diaspora and return not as irreducible opposites but as together integral dimensions of the church’s witness for the shalom of the city. Through critical conversations with John Howard Yoder, Edward Said, Karl Barth, Daniel Boyarin, and the Palestinian refugee experience, the author explores how the church as a community in exile must learn to be theologically “not in charge.” The church cultivates a receptiveness to the inbreaking of God’s Spirit from beyond its walls. Volume 3 in the Polyglossia: Radical Reformation Theologies. Paper, 250 pages, 978-0-8361-9422-7: $18.99
Springs of Living Water
Christ-Centered Church Renewal David S. Young approaches the need for renewal with a spiritual thrust and an active servant leader style and gives systematic help in how to be a healthy church with an urgent mission. This manual helps a church cultivate its spiritual life, train leaders, and focus efforts in ministries which express its identity and call. Paper, 200 pages, 978-0-8361-9411-1: $16.99
On the Way with Jesus
A Passion for Mission Richard Showalter’s lifetime passion has been the church’s local and international mission to enlarge the body of Christ through the transformation of individual souls. In On the Way with Jesus, Showalter puts his passion into words as he explores the multiple dimensions of Christian mission. While offering pointed challenges to mission engagement, Showalter encourages the church to enter more fully into its mission both locally and globally. Paper, 130 pages, 978-0-8361-9415-9: $16.99
Death and Life in America
Biblical Healing and Biomedicine “In this book, Raymond Downing as physician-educator perceptively lays down a foundation for a critical dialogue among thinking people. Death and Life in America is a wake-up call for followers of Jesus in medicine to become engaged.”—Bill Pearson, Institute of Faith and Medicine “In this remarkable book, Downing puts biomedicine under the lens, not of the scientists’ microscope, but of the narrative of the Christian Bible.”—Farr Curlin, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago Paper, 150 pages, 978-0-8361-9413-5: $15.99
A Litigation Ethic
The Theological Challenge to the Courts Richard P. Church seeks to recover the church as a unique reconciled body in a world of enmity, particularly via civil litigation. He traces the church’s historic reticence to litigate within the body and with non-believers through key biblical texts, an historical survey, with a particular focus on the Anabaptist witness, and a constructive theological defense of the necessity of eschewing certain forms of civil litigation contrary to the church’s witness of reconciliation. Volume 4 in the Polyglossia: Radical Reformation Theologies. Paper, 250 pages, 978-0-8361-9410-4: $18.99
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The Classics of Indian Buddhism series has been established to publish accessible translations, primarily from Sanskrit, of important texts from the Buddhist traditions of South Asia. Each volume will contain a single text and may range dramatically in size. An introductory essay will place the text in its intellectual and historical context, and the translations will otherwise be presented free of commentary. Andy Rotman’s skillful translation of the Divya vada na is an ideal inaugural volume for this exciting new series. ¯ ¯
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Gabriel Vahanian
In this poetically written and profoundly lifeaffirming work, Vahanian reinvigorates the secular against the claims of fundamentalism, which makes the relative absolute, and against the ideology of a kind of atheism (“secularism” is his term), which makes the absolute relative. $35.00 cloth
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“A very substantial contribution to the field of Chinese studies. The scholarship is prodigious. There are similar works in Chinese, but in the West this book stands very much alone.” —Edward L. Shaughnessy, University of Chicago, author of Rewriting Early Chinese Texts and translator of I Ching: The Classic of Changes Richard Lectures $35.00 cloth
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Encountering the Secular
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Adopting a philosophical approach that takes the ontological and ethical concepts of religion seriously, J. Heath Atchley engages with contemporary novels, poetry, and films to show how the division of experience into the distinct realms of the religious and the secular overlooks the subtle ways in which value can be born. February 2009
Religion after Postmodernism
Retheorizing Myth and Literature
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Victor E. Taylor
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Soon Come Sacred Order/ Social Order
Philip Rieff Kenneth S. Piver, General Editor Volume 1 My Life among the Deathworks Illustrations of the Aesthetics of Authority
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Jamaican Spirituality, Jamaican Poetics Hugh Hodges
Drawing inspiration from the history of Myal, Kumina, Revivalism, and Rastafari, Hugh Hodges develops a critical language for the discussion of a wide range of Jamaican texts, both oral and written. $59.50 cloth, $21.50 paper
Mourning Religion
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Virginians Reborn
Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century Jewel L. Spangler
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Michigan State University Press
The inaugural issue of the new Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture Series from MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Politics and Apocalypse
Edited by Robert Hamerton-Kelly Series Editor: William A. Johnsen Apocalypse. To most, the word signifies destruction, death, the end of the world. But the literal definition is “revelation” or “unveiling,” the basis from which renowned theologian René Girard builds his own view of Biblical apocalypse. Properly understood, Girard explains, Biblical apocalypse has nothing to do with a wrathful or vengeful God punishing his unworthy children, and everything to do with a foretelling of what future humans are making for themselves now that they have devised the instruments of global self-destruction. In this volume, some of the major thinkers about the interpenetration of politics and religion—including Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, and Carl Schmitt—are scrutinized by some of today’s most qualified scholars, all of whom are thoroughly versed in Girard’s groundbreaking work.
Including an important new essay by Girard, this volume enters into a philosophical debate that challenges the bona fides of philosophy itself by examining three supremely important philosophers of the twentieth century. It asks how we might think about politics now that the attacks of 9/11 have shifted our intellectual foundations and what the outbreak of rabid religion might signify for international politics.
224 pages, 6 x 9, paper, 978-0-87013-811-9 $19.95
Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
EDITOR: William A. Johnsen, Michigan State University Contagion is the journal of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R), an international group established to pursue the research agenda initiated by René Girard’s mimetic hypothesis. This focus attracts essays by a distinguished international list of contributors from the fields of conflict resolution; theology; Biblical, Hebrew, and Islamic studies; social and biological science; feminism; literary studies in both classical and modern languages; polite and popular culture; art and music; film studies; philosophy; economics; psychology; ecology; pedagogy and educational theory; and rhetoric. ISSN 1075-7201
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Saturday, November 1 Colloquium on Violence and Religion For the Exploration, Criticism, and Development of René Girard’s Mimetic Theory 9:00 am Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University Book Presentation: Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice Responding: Thomas Wilson, Hamilton College 10:10 am Break 10:20 am Mark Heim, Andover Newton Theological School Book Presentation: Saved From Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross Responding: Józef Niewiadomski, University of Innsbruck Discussion will follow each presentation/response Martha Reineke, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding Questions: contact martha.reineke@uni.edu
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Arts, Literature, and Religion A1-101 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A1-303 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-104 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-207 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm A2-255 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A3-303 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Buddhism A1-102 A1-202 A2-105 A2-208 A3-203 A3-304 Sat Sat Sun Sun Mon Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 1:00 pm-2:30 pm 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-209 A3-310 Mon Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 5:00 pm-6:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Women and Religion A1-108 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A1-202 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-214 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm A2-310 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-112 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-215 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A3-309 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Religion and Politics A1-204 Sat A2-110 Sun A2-307 Sun A3-107 Mon A3-210 Mon A3-311 Mon
Religion and the Social Sciences A1-205 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A1-305 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-111 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-258 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A3-107 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am Religion in South Asia A1-103 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A1-206 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A1-306 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-259 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A3-108 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-211 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A3-312 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Study of Islam A1-107 Sat A1-207 Sat A1-307 Sat A2-112 Sun A2-212 Sun A2-260 Sun A3-212 Mon A3-313 Mon Study of Judaism A2-113 Sun A2-213 Sun A2-261 Sun A2-308 Sun A3-109 Mon A3-213 Mon A3-314 Mon Teaching Religion A1-308 Sat A2-114 Sun A2-262 Sun A3-110 Mon A3-214 Mon A3-315 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 1:00 pm-2:30 pm 3:00 pm-4:30 pm 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 1:00 pm-2:30 pm 3:00 pm-4:30 pm 5:00 pm-6:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 3:00 pm-4:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
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African Religions A1-209 Sat A2-311 Sun A3-113 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 5:00 pm-6:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am
Christian Systematic Theology A2-106 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-209 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm A3-102 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-204 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A3-305 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Comparative Studies in Religion A1-103 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A1-304 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-305 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-103 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-205 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A3-306 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Ethics A1-203 A2-210 A3-104 A3-206 A3-307 Sat Sun Mon Mon Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 1:00 pm-2:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Afro-American Religious History A1-105 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A1-310 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-312 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-317 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Anthropology of Religion A1-109 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-115 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-313 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society A1-210 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-264 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A3-318 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Augustine and Augustinianisms A1-110 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-314 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities A1-111 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-215 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Bible, Theology, and Postmodernity A1-211 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-116 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am Bioethics and Religion A1-311 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-315 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Black Theology A1-212 Sat A2-117 Sun A2-265 Sun 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
History of Christianity A1-104 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-107 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-211 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm A2-256 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A3-207 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A3-308 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm North American Religions A1-105 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-108 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-306 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-105 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-208 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A3-309 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Philosophy of Religion A1-106 Sat A2-109 Sun A2-257 Sun A3-106 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am 9:00 am-11:30 am 3:00 pm-4:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theology and Religious Reflection A1-208 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A1-309 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-263 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A2-309 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-111 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-316 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis A1-312 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-316 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-216 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
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Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection A1-313 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-217 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Buddhist Philosophy A1-213 Sat A1-313 Sat A2-266 Sun Chinese Religions A1-214 Sat A1-314 Sat A2-267 Sun A3-319 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 3:00 pm-4:30 pm 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 3:00 pm-4:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Ecclesiological Investigations A1-115 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-117 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am Evangelical Theology A2-318 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-118 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-220 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection A1-129 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-272 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A3-323 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Gay Men’s Issues in Religion A1-318 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-120 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-220 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Hinduism A1-209 A2-121 A2-221 A3-324 Sat Sun Sun Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 1:00 pm-2:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Mysticism A1-219 A2-274 A3-219 Sat Sun Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 3:00 pm-4:30 pm 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Native Traditions in the Americas A1-220 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-275 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A3-222 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm New Religious Movements A2-224 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm A3-223 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A3-314 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Nineteenth-Century Theology A1-221 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A3-224 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Platonism and Neoplatonism A1-222 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A1-321 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-314 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Practical Theology A1-117 Sat A2-123 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am 9:00 am-11:30 am
Christian Spirituality A2-216 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm A3-114 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-320 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Comparative Religious Ethics A1-215 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-118 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-268 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms A2-217 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm A3-321 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Comparative Theology A1-304 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-218 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm A3-115 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am Confucian Traditions A1-112 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-119 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-267 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Contemporary Pagan Studies A1-113 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A1-216 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-269 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion A1-109 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A1-315 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-270 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A3-322 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Cultural History of the Study of Religion A1-114 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A1-316 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Daoist Studies A1-214 Sat A2-317 Sun A3-218 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 5:00 pm-6:30 pm 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Indigenous Religious Traditions A1-114 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-222 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm A3-119 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am Islamic Mysticism A1-319 Sat A2-319 Sun A3-325 Mon Japanese Religions A2-105 Sun A2-223 Sun A3-326 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 5:00 pm-6:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 1:00 pm-2:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought A1-223 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-124 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am Psychology, Culture, and Religion A1-224 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A3-225 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Qur’an A1-118 A2-212 A3-226 Sat Sun Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am 1:00 pm-2:30 pm 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture A1-320 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-303 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Korean Religions A1-116 Sat A3-120 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am 9:00 am-11:30 am
Reformed Theology and History A1-119 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-322 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-320 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Religion and Disability Studies A1-322 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-125 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-225 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Religion and Ecology A1-323 Sat A2-214 Sun A2-323 Sun A3-328 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 1:00 pm-2:30 pm 5:00 pm-6:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society A1-217 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-273 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A3-121 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am Law, Religion, and Culture A1-218 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-320 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-221 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion A2-122 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-122 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am Men’s Studies in Religion A1-212 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-120 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-321 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Eastern Orthodox Studies A2-219 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm A3-116 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-219 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
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Religion and Popular Culture A1-113 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A1-324 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-324 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-123 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-227 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
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Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean A1-217 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-325 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-228 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Religion, Film, and Visual Culture A1-325 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-229 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide A2-114 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-276 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A2-331 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-230 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Religion, Media, and Culture A1-225 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-277 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A3-123 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am Religions, Medicines, and Healing A2-126 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-225 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm A3-329 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace A1-120 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A1-204 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-278 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A2-276 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Ritual Studies A1-326 Sat A2-127 Sun A2-326 Sun A3-328 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 5:00 pm-6:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Tantric Studies A1-329 Sat A2-280 Sun A3-124 Mon
4:00 pm-6:30 pm 3:00 pm-4:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am
CONSULTATIONS
Animals and Religion A1-124 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-222 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Biblical/Contextual Ethics A1-331 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-318 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Buddhism in the West A1-125 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-125 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am Childhood Studies and Religion A2-315 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-129 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am Christianity and Academia A1-126 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Cognitive Science of Religion A1-127 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-129 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am Contemporary Islam A1-230 Sat A3-108 Mon Coptic Christianity A1-332 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Theology and Continental Philosophy A1-122 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A1-228 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-309 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-332 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Tibetan and Himalayan Religions A1-213 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A3-125 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture A1-330 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-130 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am Wesleyan Studies A1-229 Sat A2-227 Sun A3-232 Mon Western Esotericism A1-123 Sat A2-274 Sun A2-319 Sun 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 1:00 pm-2:30 pm 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 3:00 pm-4:30 pm 5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society A1-212 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-228 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm A3-206 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm World Christianity A1-116 Sat A2-329 Sun A3-115 Mon A3-233 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am 5:00 pm-6:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Death, Dying, and Beyond A2-262 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A3-131 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-333 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Liberal Theologies A3-132 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am
Roman Catholic Studies A1-227 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A1-327 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-257 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A3-330 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sacred Space in Asia A2-128 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-327 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Schleiermacher A1-121 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am
Liberation Theologies A1-128 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions A2-231 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm A3-308 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Mormon Studies A1-310 Sat A3-327 Mon Music and Religion A1-231 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
SEMINARS
Comparative Philosophy and Religion A2-229 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Religion in the American West A3-127 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am Religion, Food, and Eating A2-230 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Religions in Chinese and Indian Cultures: A Comparative Perspective A3-128 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am
Science, Technology, and Religion A1-328 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-129 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-226 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm A2-279 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm A3-231 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Scriptural Reasoning A2-106 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-310 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-331 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
North American Hinduism A2-131 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am Open and Relational Theologies A1-333 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-232 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
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Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements A1-232 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-117 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-211 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Queer Theory and LGBT Studies in Religion A1-233 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-326 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Religion and Cities A1-334 Sat A3-133 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy A1-133 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Transhumanism and Religion A1-134 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Yoga in Theory and Practice A2-328 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-124 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am Mentoring Session A2-137 Sun 11:30 am-1:00 pm
Michael Heller, 2008 Templeton Prize Winner A2-404 Sun 8:30 pm-9:30 pm Religion and Politics in the 2008 Election Cycle: Roundtable on Amy Sullivan, The Party Faithful (Scribner, 2008) A2-250 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Religion and the Arts Award: Betye and Alison Saar A2-330 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Religion and the Environment in South Asia: A Discussion with Vandana Shiva A2-251 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Religion in the World of Museums A1-200 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm The AAR White Paper on the Religion Major: A Forum A1-100 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am The Elephant in the Room: Contingent Faculty and the Profession A3-101 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am The Future of LGBT Studies in Religion A3-300 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm The Influence of Religion on Women’s Legal Rights in India A3-100 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am The Marty Forum: Wendy Doniger A2-201 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theological Illiteracy and Its Effect on the Enterprise of Theological Education A2-100 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am Theology of Hope and Healing for a Divided Nation A3-202 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Thinking about Religion and Sustainability: Gottlieb’s A Greener Faith (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Beyond A3-200 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Who Does Service Learning Serve? A Hybrid Workshop with Interactive Dialogue A3-201 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
SPECIAL TOPICS FORUMS
AAR Guidelines for Teaching about Religion in K-12 Schools A1-301 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm America’s War on Terror: Assessments of Its Impact on Muslims and the American Public A2-102 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am Art, Aesthetics, and Performance A2-200 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Ask the Experts: Turning the Dissertation into a Marketable “Scholarly Trade” Book A2-301 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm ATLA Graduate Student Luncheon: Careers beyond the Academy A1-138 Sat 11:45 am-1:00 pm “Bringing Sexy Back”: A Town Hall Meeting for the AAR Graduate Student Community A2-202 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Comparative Theology and the Interreligious/International Encounter A2-300 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Conversation with Fred Glennon, the Excellence in Teaching Award Winner A2-203 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm How to Propose a New Program Unit A2-281 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm How to Publish Your Book: Advice from Oxford University Press and from the Editors of the AAR Book Series and JAAR A3-301 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm “If I Knew Then What I Know Now”: Lessons for the First Year Teaching A1-302 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Making Room, Making Sense: Re-Visioning our Fields, Re-Bordering Scholarship A1-300 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-101 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am
Religion and Colonialism A1-234 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A2-320 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Religion and Humanism A3-234 Mon 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Religion and Migration A2-133 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am A3-133 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am Religion and Sexuality A1-129 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A1-335 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Religion Education in Public Schools: International Perspectives A1-130 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Religion in Europe A1-315 Sat A2-134 Sun 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am
Religion in Southeast Asia A2-135 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am Religion, Public Policy, and Political Change A1-131 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Rethinking the Field A3-134 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Premodern Christianity A2-136 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am Sikh Studies A1-336 Sat A3-318 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Space, Place, and Religious Meaning A1-132 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Theology and the Political A1-337 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A2-263 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. A1-312 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A3-135 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am
PLENARIES
Nikkey Finney: Exploring the Soul of the Human Community A1-137 Sat 11:45 am-12:45 pm
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Charles Long: How I’ve Changed My Mind (or Not) A2-403 Sun 7:30 pm-8:30 pm Emilie Townes: Presidential Address: Walking on the Rimbones of Nothingness: Scholarship and Activism A1-401 Sat 8:00 pm-9:00 pm Nolan Williams, Jr.: The Journey of Black Sacred Music A3-137 Mon 11:45 am-12:45 pm
Sustainability Task Force Meeting A30-100 Thu 10:00 am-4:00 pm Teaching and Learning Committee Meeting A3-3 Mon 7:30 am-8:45 am Theological Education Steering Committee Meeting A1-6 Sat 7:30 am-9:00 am
LGBTIQ Task Force Reception A1-402 Sat 8:00 pm-10:00 pm Members’ Dance Party A1-406 Sat 9:00 pm-12:00 am New Members Continental Breakfast A1-5 Sat 7:30 am-8:45 am Program Unit Chairs and Steering Committee Reception A3-402 Mon 8:00 pm-10:00 pm Program Unit Chairs’ Breakfast A3-1 Mon 7:15 am-8:45 am Racial and Ethnic Minorities Reception A1-400 Sat 6:30 pm-8:00 pm Student Members’ Party A1-407 Sat 9:30 pm-11:00 pm Welcome Reception A31-105 Fri 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
FILMS AND PERFORMANCES BUSINESS AND COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Academic Relations Committee Meeting A2-4 Sun 7:30 am-9:00 am Annual Business Meeting A2-1 Sun 7:30 am-8:45 am Board of Directors Meeting A31-100 Fri 9:00 am-5:00 pm Career Services Advisory Committee Meeting A3-136 Mon 11:30 am-1:00 pm Committee on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Meeting A2-5 Sun 7:30 am-9:00 am Graduate Student Committee Meeting A1-3 Sat 7:30 am-8:45 am International Connections Committee Meeting A3-2 Mon 7:30 am-8:45 am JAAR Editorial Board Meeting A2-400 Sun 6:00 pm-7:00 pm Job Placement Task Force Meeting A3-4 Mon 7:30 am-9:00 am Nominations Committee Meeting A2-3 Sun 7:30 am-8:45 am Publications Committee Meeting A1-8 Sat 8:00 am-11:30 am Regional Officers’ Breakfast A1-2 Sat 7:00 am-9:00 am Regionally Elected Directors Meeting A1-1 Sat 7:00 am-9:00 am Religion in the Schools Task Force Meeting A1-7 Sat 8:00 am-11:00 am Status of LGBTIQ People in the Profession Task Force Meeting A2-2 Sun 7:30 am-8:45 am Film: A Purple State of Mind A1-403 Sat 9:00 pm-10:30 pm Film: A Son’s Sacrifice, Ichthus, and Mouseholes A31-107 Fri 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Film: Haro Hara! Pilgrimage to Kataragama, Sri Lanka A31-106 Fri 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Film: Karunamayudu A2-406 Sun 8:30 pm-10:30 pm Film: Madarrpa Funeral at Gurka’wuy A3-400 Mon 8:00 pm-10:00 pm Film: Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons A1-404 Sat 9:00 pm-10:30 pm Film: On the Road with the Red God A2-405 Sun 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Salem Baptist Church’s Gospel Choir A2-408 Sun 8:30 pm-9:30 pm Film: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter.... And Spring A3-401 Mon 8:00 pm-10:00 pm Wicker Park Grace’s Stations of the Cross A2-407 Sun 8:30 pm-9:30 pm
Women in the Profession Reception A1-405 Sat 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
PRE-CONFERENCES AND TOURS
Chicago Architecture Walking Tour A1-135 Sat 9:00 am-12:45 pm Job Center Orientation A31-104 Fri 7:00 pm-9:00 pm Leadership Workshop: Taking Religion Seriously: What Students Need to Know A31-101 Fri 9:00 am-5:00 pm Religion and Media Workshop: Religion in the Race for the White House A31-102 Fri 9:00 am-6:00 pm Sacred and Religious Sites of Chicago Bus Tour A3-235 Mon 1:00 pm-5:00 pm Toxics to Treasures: Environmental Justice Tour of Lake Calumet A1-136 Sat 9:00 am-12:45 pm Women’s Caucus Workshop A31-103 Fri 12:00 pm-3:00 pm
RECEPTIONS AND BREAKFASTS
AAR Awards Ceremony and Reception A2-401 Sun 6:30 pm-7:30 pm Countdown to the Centennial: AAR Celebrates 100 Years, 1909-2009 A1-338 Sat 5:15 pm-6:30 pm International Members’ Breakfast A1-4 Sat 7:30 am-8:45 am JAAR Reception for Board Members and Authors A2-402 Sun 7:00 pm-8:00 pm
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WILDCARD SESSIONS
Fathers and Sons: The Influence of Evangelists Walter Maier, Percy Crawford, Merv Rosell, Jack Wyrtzen, and Charles Woodbridge on Fundamentalism in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s A3-302 Mon 4:00 pm-6:30 pm On the Relation between A/Theism and the Political; or, The Political Theology of the Void, Parmenides, and St. Paul A1-201 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Progressive Religion in the West: Sarah McFarland Taylor’s Green Sisters (Harvard University Press, 2007) and Gordon Lynch’s The New Spirituality (I. B. Tauris, 2007) A2-253 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Religious Conversions A2-304 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Remembering and Forgetting in the Formation of Religious Subjectivities A2-205 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Spirituality: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Measurement A2-254 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm The End Is Not What It Used to Be: The Taming of the Apocalyptic Movements in American Religions A2-204 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm The Legacy of Nathan A. Scott Jr. A2-103 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am The Post-secular Turn in Literary Studies A2-206 Sun 1:00 pm-2:30 pm The Potterian Way of Death: J.K. Rowling’s Conception of Mortality A2-302 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Women of Color and the Study of Religion and Theology A2-303 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm
RELATED SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS
African Association for the Study of Religion M2-106 Sun 11:45 am-12:45 pm Association for Practical Theology M31-412 Fri 7:00 pm-9:30 pm M1-300 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies A2-330 Sun 5:00 pm-6:30 pm M2-410 Sun 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Christian Theological Research Fellowship M1-200 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm M2-105 Sun 11:45 am-12:45 pm M3-100 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am Colloquium on Violence and Religion M1-101 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am European Society of Women in Theological Research M1-1 Sat 7:00 am-8:45 am Evangelical Philosophical Society M1-203 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm International Bonhoeffer Society M31-206 Fri 1:00 pm-6:00 pm International Schleiermacher Society M1-302 Sat 4:00 pm-7:00 pm Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought M2-304 Sun 5:45 pm-6:15 pm M2-401 Sun 6:30 pm-8:00 pm Karl Barth Society of North America M31-307 Fri 4:00 pm-6:30 pm M1-112 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am La Comunidad of Hispanic Scholars of Religion M1-5 Sat 8:00 am-10:30 am North American Association for the Study of Religion M31-102 Fri 9:00 am-11:30 am M31-200 Fri 1:00 pm-3:30 pm M31-304 Fri 4:00 pm-6:30 pm M1-106 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am M1-120 Sat 11:45 am-12:45 pm North American Paul Tillich Society M31-101 Fri 9:00 am-11:30 am M31-203 Fri 1:00 pm-3:30 pm M31-306 Fri 4:00 pm-6:30 pm M1-2 Sat 7:00 am-8:45 am M1-108 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am M2-103 Sun 11:45 am-12:45 pm
Polanyi Society M31-419 Fri M1-115 Sat
9:00 pm-11:00 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am
Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group M31-210 Fri 2:00 pm-6:30 pm M1-116 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (SARTS) M31-413 Fri 7:00 pm-9:30 pm M1-425 Sat 7:00 pm-9:30 pm A1-135 Sat 9:00 am-12:45 pm Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies M31-103 Fri 9:00 am-11:30 am M31-204 Fri 1:00 pm-3:30 pm M31-305 Fri 4:00 pm-6:30 pm M1-102 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Society for Hindu-Christian Studies M31-414 Fri 7:00 pm-10:00 pm M1-4 Sat 7:30 am-8:45 am M1-114 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am A2-313 Sun 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Society for the Study of Chinese Religions M1-407 Sat 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality M31-300 Fri 4:00 pm-6:00 pm M31-411 Fri 7:00 pm-9:00 pm M1-103 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am M3-400 Mon 7:00 pm-9:00 pm Society of Christian Philosophers M1-412 Sat 7:00 pm-9:30 pm Søren Kierkegaard Society M31-400 Fri 6:30 pm-9:00 pm M1-109 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Theta Alpha Kappa M2-100 Sun M2-300 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am 4:00 pm-6:00 pm
Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship M31-201 Fri 1:00 pm-3:30 PM
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Women of Color A2-252 Sun 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
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African Association for the Study of Religion M2-106 Sun 11:45 am-12:45 pm American Journal of Theology and Philosophy M2-401 Sun 6:30 pm-8:00 pm Art/s of Interpretation Group M31-311 Fri 4:00 pm-6:30 pm M1-107 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Association for Practical Theology M31-412 Fri 7:00 pm-9:30 pm M1-300 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Azusa Pacific University Reception M1-420 Sat 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Bahá’í Studies Colloquy M1-402 Sat 6:30 pm-9:00 pm Bonhoeffer Society: Editorial Board, Board of Directors, and Annual Meeting M31-206 Fri 1:00 pm-6:00 pm Boston University Reception M2-417 Sun 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Brite Divinity School Reception M2-424 Sun 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Brown University Reception M2-418 Sun 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Reception M2-410 Sun 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Center for Process Studies Reception M2-422 Sun 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture Reception M2-409 Sun 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Center of Theological Inquiry Reception M2-2 Sun 7:00 am-8:30 am Centre of Theology and Philosophy M2-402 Sun 6:45 pm-9:15 pm Christian Theological Research Fellowship M1-200 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm M2-105 Sun 11:45 am-12:45 pm M3-100 Mon 9:00 am-11:30 am Church of Christ/Christian Church Professors Meeting M2-7 Sun 7:00 am-8:45 am Claremont Reception M3-401 Mon 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Cognitive Science of Religion M1-202 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm M2-301 Sun 4:00 pm-6:30 pm College Theology Society Board Meeting M1-303 Sat 4:00 pm-8:30 pm Colloquium on Violence and Religion M1-101 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Conversation Addressing the Philosophical Discussions that Undergird the Emerging Church Movement M2-102 Sun 11:30 am-1:00 pm Conversation with the New Associate Dean for the Center for Advanced Theological Studies (CATS) of Fuller Theological Seminary M2-4 Sun 7:00 am-8:45 am Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Annual Religious Studies Review Editors Meeting M31-303 Fri 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Annual Board Meeting M31-406 Fri 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Denver University/Iliff School of Theology Joint PhD reception M2-408 Sun 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Desire and Theology Research Team M31-202 Fri 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Dharma Association of North America M31-100 Fri 9:00 am-11:00 am M31-108 Fri 11:00 am-1:00 pm M31-209 Fri 2:00 pm-4:00 pm M31-309 Fri 4:30 pm-6:30 pm M1-6 Sat 8:30 am-10:15 am M1-119 Sat 10:30 am-12:15 pm M1-123 Sat 12:15 pm-1:30 pm Dialog Editorial Council Meeting M1-3 Sat 7:00 am-11:00 am Disciples of Christ Faculty/Student Breakfast M2-10 Sun 7:00 am-8:45 pm Drew University Alumni Reception M2-416 Sun 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Duke University Reception M2-421 Sun 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Durham University Department of Theology and Religion Reception for Theology, Ethics and Study of Religion M2-406 Sun 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Early Methodism: Texts, Traditions and Theologies M1-118 Sat 9:00 am-12:45 pm Educating Religious Leaders for a Multireligious World M2-201 Sun 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Editorial Board M30-100 Thu 9:00 am-5:00 pm M31-109 Fri 11:00 am-3:00 pm M31-110 Fri 11:00 am-3:00 pm M31-105 Fri 9:00 am-5:00 pm European Society of Women in Theological Research M1-1 Sat 7:00 am-8:45 am Evangelical Christian Scholars Reception M31-417 Fri 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Evangelical Philosophical Society M1-203 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Feminist Liberation Theologians’ Network M31-302 Fri 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Feminist Studies in Religion, Inc. PreConference Meeting M31-401 Fri 6:30 pm-9:00 pm Fortress Press Reception M1-418 Sat 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University M31-113 Fri 12:00 pm-5:00 pm Forum on Sports and Religion M1-400 Sat 6:30 pm-8:00 pm Friends of China Academic Consortium M31-420 Fri 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Friends of Regent College Breakfast M3-1 Mon 7:00 am-8:45 am Fund for Theological Education Reception Honoring 2008-2009 Doctoral Fellows M1-304 Sat 4:45 pm-6:30 pm Future of Biblical Studies M2-200 Sun 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Gay Men’s Issues in Religion Reception M2-404 Sun 7:00 pm-8:30 pm General Board of Higher Education and Ministry Women Of Color Scholarship Program M30-200 Thu 1:00 pm-5:00 pm M30-401 Thu 7:00 pm-9:00 pm M31-1 Fri 7:30 am-12:00 pm M31-310 Fri 5:00 pm-7:00 pm Global Ethics and Religion Forum M1-423 Sat 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Graduate Theological Union Alumni Reception M1-414 Sat 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
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Harvard University Reception M1-424 Sat 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought Business Meeting M2-304 Sun 5:45 pm-6:15 pm Indiana University Religious Studies Alumni Reception M1-406 Sat 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Inter Religious Federation for World Peace Annual Reception M31-415 Fri 7:30 pm-9:00 pm International Schleiermacher Society M1-302 Sat 4:00 pm-7:00 pm Intersection of Modernity and Theology in Nineteenth Century Europe: William Robertson Smith, Ignaz von Dollinger, and J.R. Illingworth M31-308 Fri 4:30 pm-6:00 pm Jesuit Departments of Theology and Religious Studies M31-402 Fri 7:00 pm-8:30 pm M31-418 Fri 9:00 pm-11:00 pm M1-100 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am John Templeton Foundation Reception M2-427 Sun 10:00 pm-11:45 pm Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion Board Meeting M1-105 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Karl Barth Society of North America M31-307 Fri 4:00 pm-6:30 pm M1-112 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Korean North American Systematic Theology M1-408 Sat 7:00 pm-8:30 pm LGBT Caucus of the AAR M31-405 Fri 7:00 pm-8:30 pm La Comunidad of Hispanic Scholars of Religion at the AAR and SBL Board Meeting and Panel Discussion M1-5 Sat 8:00 am-10:30 am Lutheran Theological Society of North America M2-1 Sun 7:00 am-8:30 am Lutheran Women in Theological and Religious Studies M31-3 Fri 8:30 am-5:00 pm Marquette University Reception M2-420 Sun 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Meadville Lombard Theological School Reception M1-301 Sat 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
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Memorial Service for Selva J. Raj M1-403 Sat 7:00 pm-8:00 pm Mennonite Scholars and Friends M31-407 Fri 7:00 pm-8:30 pm M1-111 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Mission and Biblical Interpretation: Toward a Missional Hermeneutic M1-201 Sat 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Muktabodha Indological Research Institute M2-407 Sun 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Nazarene Theological Seminary Alumni/ ae and Friends Reception M2-425 Sun 9:00 pm-11:00 pm New Developments in Religious Studies VIII: Keeping Ouselves Current M31-2 Fri 8:00 am-4:00 pm New Religious Movements Group M31-403 Fri 7:00 pm-8:30 pm M1-417 Sat 9:00 pm-11:00 pm New York Theological Seminary Breakfast M2-5 Sun 7:00 am-8:45 am Niebuhr Society M1-104 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am
Pluralism Project Reception and Premiere of Documentary Film, Fremont, USA M31-416 Fri 8:30 pm-11:00 pm Polanyi Society M31-419 Fri M1-115 Sat 9:00 pm-11:00 pm 9:00 am-11:30 am
Presbyterian Scholars Reception M1-405 Sat 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Presidential Politics and Religious Rhetoric M1-113 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Princeton Theological Seminary Breakfast M2-9 Sun 7:00 am-9:00 am Princeton University, Department of Religion Reception M2-414 Sun 8:00 pm-10:00 pm Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group (formerly Person, Culture, and Religion) M31-210 Fri 2:00 pm-6:30 pm M1-116 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Qur’an Commentaries: Sources, Methods, and Hermeneutics M31-111 Fri 11:00 am-5:30 pm Religion and Ecology Reception M1-416 Sat 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Religion in the Academy M1-117 Sat 9:00 am-12:00 pm ReligionDispatches Reception M2-303 Sun 5:30 pm-7:30 pm Religious Literacy: Models for Curriculum and Culture in Colleges and Universities M1-121 Sat 11:45 am-12:45 pm Review of God as Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theologies, by Roland Faber (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008) M31-205 Fri 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sammukham Project: Tracing the Dialogical in South Asian Religious Traditions. M30-101 Thu 9:00 am-5:00 pm Science and Religion Reception Hosted by Three Centers, CTNS, IRAS and ZCRS. M1-413 Sat 7:00 pm-10:00 pm Scriptural Reasoning-University Meeting M30-402 Thu 8:00 pm-10:00 pm M31-107 Fri 9:30 am-12:00 pm M31-207 Fri 1:30 pm-4:00 pm
North American Association for the Study of Religion M31-102 Fri 9:00 am-11:30 am M31-200 Fri 1:00 pm-3:30 pm M31-304 Fri 4:00 pm-6:30 pm M1-106 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am M1-120 Sat 11:45 am-12:45 pm North American Hindu Association of Dharma Studies M2-104 Sun 11:45 am-12:45 pm North American Paul Tillich Society M31-101 Fri 9:00 am-11:30 am M31-203 Fri 1:00 pm-3:30 pm M31-306 Fri 4:00 pm-6:30 pm M1-2 Sat 7:00 am-8:45 am M1-108 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am M2-103 Sun 11:45 am-12:45 pm Numata Chair Coordinators Meeting M31-112 Fri 11:30 am-5:30 pm Pedagogy for the Perplexed M31-409 Fri 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Reception M2-419 Sun 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
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Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy M31-404 Fri 7:00 pm-8:30 pm M1-404 Sat 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Society for Buddhist Christian Studies M31-103 Fri 9:00 am-11:30 am M31-204 Fri 1:00 pm-3:30 pm M31-305 Fri 4:00 pm-6:30 pm M1-102 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Society for Hindu-Christian Studies M31-414 Fri 7:00 pm-10:00 pm M1-4 Sat 7:30 am-8:45 am M1-114 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology M31-408 Fri 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (SARTS) M31-413 Fri 7:00 pm-9:30 pm M1-425 Sat 7:00 pm-9:30 pm Society for the Study of Chinese Religions M1-407 Sat 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality M31-300 Fri 4:00 pm-6:00 pm M31-411 Fri 7:00 pm-9:00 pm M1-103 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am M3-400 Mon 7:00 pm-9:00 pm Society for the Study of Native American Religious Traditions M30-300 Thu 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Society of Anglican and Lutheran Theologians M30-201 Thu 1:00 pm-6:30 pm M31-104 Fri 9:00 am-1:00 pm Society of Christian Philosophers M1-412 Sat 7:00 pm-9:30 pm Society of Pentecostal Studies and Wesleyan Theological Society Reception M1-410 Sat 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Spiritual Perception in Western Christianity M31-106 Fri 9:00 am-5:00 pm Study of Islam Section Annual Dinner M1-415 Sat 7:30 pm-9:30 pm Studies in Comparative Theology: Comparative Monotheism M1-426 Sat 7:30 pm-9:30 pm Syracuse University Department of Religion Reception M2-415 Sun 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
Søren Kierkegaard Society M31-400 Fri 6:30 pm-9:00 pm M1-109 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am TBRC Digital Library Training Session M3-101 Mon 9:00 am-12:00 pm Temple University Religion Department Breakfast M2-6 Sun 7:00 am-8:45 am Theology and Ethics Colloquy M31-211 Fri 1:00 pm-5:00 pm Theta Alpha Kappa M2-100 Sun M2-300 Sun 9:00 am-11:30 am 4:00 pm-6:00 pm
VU Institute for the Study of Religion, Culture and Society (VISOR) M2-413 Sun 7:30 pm-10:00 pm Wabash Center M31-208 Fri M1-122 Sat M1-401 Sat M2-202 Sun M2-400 Sun 1:30 pm-8:00 pm 11:45 am-12:45 pm 6:30 pm-8:30 pm 1:30 pm-5:00 pm 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Walter de Gruyter Reception M1-421 Sat 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Where Religion and Ecology Meet: The Field and the Force Speaker: Dr. Mary Evelyn Tucker M1-409 Sat 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Word Made Fresh M31-410 Fri 7:00 pm-8:45 pm
Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship M31-201 Fri 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Alumni Breakfast (prior reservations required) M2-3 Sun 7:00 am-8:45 am Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York Alumni/ae and Friends Reception M2-426 Sun 9:00 pm-11:30 pm Unitarian Universalist Scholars and Friends Discussion M1-411 Sat 7:00 pm-9:30 pm M2-405 Sun 7:00 pm-8:30 pm University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Religious Studies Reception M1-422 Sat 9:00 pm-11:00 pm University of Chicago Divinity School Reception and Open House M30-400 Thu 7:00 pm-9:00 pm University of Iowa Alumni and Friends Reception M2-412 Sun 7:30 pm-9:30 pm University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Department of Religious Studies Reception M2-403 Sun 7:00 pm-8:30 pm University of Pennsylvania Reception M1-305 Sat 5:30 pm-7:30 pm US Ecumenical Response to A Common Word between Us and You M1-110 Sat 9:00 am-11:30 am Vanderbilt University Alumni/ae and Friends Reception M1-419 Sat 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
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EXHIBITOR INDEX (AS OF MAY 10, 2008)
Abingdon Press .............................. 108 American Academy of Religion ..... 501 American Theological Library Association ................................ 719 Ashgate Publishing Company ........ 600 ATF Press ..................................... 1013 Baker Academic and Brazos Press ............................... 215 Basic / Perseus Books Group .......... 412 Baylor University Press .................. 318 Beacon Press .................................. 218 Bhaktivedanta Book Publishing ..... 118 Brill ......................................... 500, 504 Cambridge University Press ........... 200 Catholic University of America Press........................................... 608 Colloquium on Violence and Religion ..................................... 505 Columbia University Press ............. 703 Continuum / T&T Clark ............... 115 The Crossroad Publishing Co. ....... 205 Doubleday Books ........................... 714 Duke University Press .................... 606 Editorial Verbo Divino ................... 204 Edwin Mellen Press ........................ 109 Eerdmans Books for Young Readers ...................................... 801 Eisenbrauns .................................. 1017 Equinox Publishing Ltd .................. 511 Espiritour ...................................... 1019 Fordham University Press .............. 116 Fortress Press .......... 900, 901, 903, 909 Gale Cengage Learning .................. 700 Georgetown University Press ......... 510 Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. ........................... 614 Harper One .................................... 300 Hartley Film Foundation.............. 1023 Harvard University Press ............... 619 Hendrickson Publishers ................. 813 Herald Press ................................... 817 Hindu American Foundation ...... 1014 Independent Publishers Group .... 1108 Indiana University Press ................ 313
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Institute of Ismaili Studies ........... 1000 Institute of Jesuit Sources ............ 1113 Int Assn. for the History of Religion 2010 World Congress .............. 1021 InterVarsity Press ........................... 315 Jewish Publication Society ........... 1008 John Templeton Foundation ................ 709, 808, 812 Jossey-Bass Publishers, A Wiley Company ................................... 414 The Light Publishing, Inc............. 1020 Liguori Publications ....................... 721 Liturgical Press ............................... 408 Mercer University Press ................. 802 Mohr Siebeck ................................. 316 Morning Light Press ....................... 720 New City Press ............................... 800 New World Library ....................... 1012 New York University Press ............. 607 Numata Center for Buddhist Translation & Research ............ 613 Oneworld Publications................... 213 Orbis Books .................................... 201 Oxford University Press ................. 308 Pacifica Graduate Institute ............ 512 Palgrave Macmillan...................... 1002 Paulist Press .................................. 1009 Pearson Education.......................... 920 Peeters Publishers ........................... 209 Penguin Group (USA) ................... 918 Penn State Press ............................. 818 Peter Lang Publishing, Inc ............. 701 The Pilgrim Press ........................... 208 Princeton University Press ............. 914 Prometheus Books.......................... 620 Random House, Inc. ...................... 713 Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group ........................................ 409 Saint Mary’s Press of Minnesota .. 1103 Scarecrow Press/Rowman Littlefield Publishing Group..................... 1109 Scholar’s Choice ............................ 706 Shambhala Publications Inc........... 716 Snow Lion Publications ................. 819
Soka Gakkai International-USA .................... 820 South Asia Books / Motilal Banarsidass .............................. 1104 Springer .......................................... 604 St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press/Holy Cross Press ............................... 1005 Stanford University Press ............... 617 State University of New York PressSUNY Press ............................... 616 SteinerBooks / Lantern Books ..... 1010 Swedenborg Foundation Publishers .................................. 507 Tahrike Tarsile Qur’an, Inc. ......... 1018 University of California Press......... 111 University of Chicago Press ........... 601 University of Hawaii Press ............. 405 University of Illinois Press .............. 611 University of New Mexico Press .... 610 University of North Carolina Press............................ 516 University of Notre Dame Press .... 702 University of Pennsylvania Press.... 919 University of Tennessee Press ...... 1015 University of Virginia Press ............ 608 University Press of Florida ............. 712 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht ........... 1017 Vedanta Press ............................... 1016 Walter de Gruyter, Inc. .................. 913 Waveland Press .............................. 710 Westminster John Knox Press........................... 301, 400, 401 White Cloud Press ......................... 718 Wiley-Blackwell Blackwell Publishing .................................. 415 Wipf and Stock Publishers ............. 807 Wisdom Publications ..................... 921 Yale University Press ...................... 910 Zondervan Publishing House ......... 309
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