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2002 AAR Online Program Book
A1
Chairs Workshop
Friday - 8:00 am-4:00 pm
Carey J. Gifford, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for a description and registration form. Separate registration required (requires PDF).
A2
Religion and Media Workshop
Friday - 8:00 am-5:00 pm
Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee;
Arts,
Literature, and Religion Section; Religion and Popular
Culture Group; Religion, Film and Visual Culture Group;
Religion, Culture, and Communication Consultation; and SBL’s Bible
in Ancient and Modern Media Section
Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Jeffrey H. Mahan, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding
Panelists:
Edward Phillip Antonio, Iliff School of Theology
Ronald L. Grimes, Wilfrid Laurier University
S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University
Wade Clark Roof, University of California, Santa Barbara
Angela Zito, New York University
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for a description and registration form. Separate registration required (requires PDF).
A3
AAR Board of Directors
Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida, Presiding
A4
Women's Caucus Workshop
Friday - 11:30 am-5:00 pm
Young Lee Hertig, United Theological Seminary, Presiding
Panelists:
Kathlyn Breazeale, Pacfic Lutheran University
Anthea Butler, Princeton University
Mary E. Hunt, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for a description.
A5
EIS Center Orientation
Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Carey J. Gifford, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for a description.
A6
Arts Series/Film: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Friday - 7:00 pm-9:30 pm
Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
Amir Hussain, California State University, Northridge, Presiding
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for a description.
A7
Regional Secretaries
Saturday - 10:00 am-11:00 am
Mark Lloyd Taylor, Seattle University, Presiding
A8
Publications Committee I
Saturday - 8:30 am-10:45 am
Terry Godlove, Hofstra University, Presiding
A9
Committee on Teaching and Learning
Saturday - 8:30 am-11:00 am
Thomas V. Peterson, Alfred University, Presiding
A10
Student Liaison Group Business Meeting
Saturday - 9:00 am-10:45 am
Richard Amesbury, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
A11
Regions Committee and Regional Officers
Saturday - 8:00 am-10:00 am
Mark Lloyd Taylor, Seattle University, Presiding
A12
Working with Reporters: Your Role as a News Source
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Sponsored by the AAR's Religion and Media Center and the Pew Charitable Trusts
Kyle Cole, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for a description.
A13
Academic Relations Task Force
Saturday - 10:00 am-11:30 am
Warren G. Frisina, Hofstra University, Presiding
A14
Plenary Address
Saturday - 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida, Presiding
Theme: Bharata Natyam: Beyond the Borders of Religion
Francis Barboza, West Orange, NJ
Panelists:
Arti Dhand, University of Toronto
Meera Vignarajah, Toronto, ON
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for a description.
A15
Publications Committee II
Saturday - 12:30 pm-1:00 pm
Terry Godlove, Hofstra University, Presiding
A16
Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Sponsored by the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada
Christopher Wilkins, Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada, Presiding
Theme: AAR, SBL, and ATS Grants Forum
Panelists:
Barbara Ashbrook, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC
Patrick Henry, Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, Collegeville, MN
James W. Lewis, Louisville Institute, Louisville, KY
Christine O'Brien, National Research Council, Washington, DC
Michael Hawes, Canada and United States Fulbright Program, Ottawa, ON
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for a description.
A17
Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Sponsored by the EIS Advisory Committee
Edward R. Gray, Atlanta, GA, Presiding
Theme: If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Lessons from the First Year on the Job
Panelists:
Jane F. Crosthwaite, Mount Holyoke College
Michael Penn, Mount Holyoke College
Glenn Holland, Allegheny College
Eric Boynton, Allegheny College
Christopher Stanley, St. Bonaventure University
Peter Trudinger, St. Bonaventure University
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for a description.
A18
Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section and Study of Islam Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Jonathan E. Brockopp, Bard College, Presiding
Theme: Teaching Islam after September 11
Panelists:
Frederick M. Denny, University of Colorado, Boulder
Anna M. Gade, University of Chicago
Zayn Kassam, Pomona College
Omid Safi, Colgate University
Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University
Business Meeting:
Jonathan E. Brockopp, Bard College, and Zayn Kassam, Pomona College, Presiding
A19
Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Susan G. Cumings, Georgia College and State University, Presiding
Theme: Religious Seeing and Seeing Religiously
Stephen T. Campagna-Pinto, Colgate University
Poetic Ecology as Spiritual Critique: Wright's Guggenheim Museum and the Demands of Vision
Paul Myhre, Wabash College
The Experience of Loss and Grief as Illustrated through the Paintings of Edvard Munch, 1885 to 1900
Ulrike Vollmer, University of Sheffield
Towards an Ethics of Seeing: Sally Potter's The Tango Lesson
Elijah Mueller, Marquette University
John Damascene's On the Divine Images: Witness, Theosis, and Humanized Revelation
Hartwig Bischof, University of Vienna
Task 46.97: Given
A20
Ethics Section and Bioethics and Religion Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Suzanne Holland, University of Puget Sound, Presiding
Theme: Religious Ethics and Public Discourse: Canadian and American Considerations of Stem Cells and Reproductive Technologies
Laura Kicklighter, University of Texas
Liberation from the Private Sphere: Arguing for Religious Voices in National Policy
Theme: The Place of Ethics in National Policy Making in Canada on Reproductive Technology
Panelists:
Ian Shugart, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON
John Berkman, Catholic University of America
Joseph Boyle, University of Toronto
A21
North American Religions Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Charles H. Lippy, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Presiding
Theme: American Christianity and Social Welfare
Priscilla Eppinger, Graceland University
A Theological Basis of Nineteenth-Century Social Reform
Christopher Glen White, Harvard University
"Faith as a Moral Act": Nineteenth-Century Liberals on Religious Experience and Social Action
Matthew Hedstrom, University of Texas, Austin
Rufus Jones, Quaker Mysticism, and the Transformation of American Religion
Responding:
Elizabeth McKeown, Georgetown University
A22
Religion and the Social Sciences Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Susan E. Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Presiding
Theme: Critical Psychology and Its Critics
Panelists:
Naomi R. Goldenberg, University of Ottawa
Diane Jonte-Pace, Santa Clara University
James W. Jones, Rutgers University
H. John McDargh, Boston College
Responding:
Jeremy R. Carrette, University of Stirling
A23
Women and Religion Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Mary C. Churchill, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding
Theme: Delores Williams: The Womanist Who Went before Us in the Wilderness
Panelists:
Hyun-Kyung Chung, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Michelle Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University
Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago
Andrea Smith, University of California, Santa Cruz
Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College
Emilie Townes, Union Theological Seminary
Responding:
Delores S. Williams, Union Theological Seminary, New York
A24
Afro-American Religious History Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Debra Mubashshir, Beloit College, Presiding
Theme: The Politics of Identity in Black Protestantism
Julius Bailey, University of Redlands
Benjamin T. Tanner and the Creation of the AME Church Newspaper the Child's Recorder, 1868-1884
Shalanda Denise Dexter, Princeton University
Black Pentecostalism and Urban Identity
Anthea Butler, Princeton University
Making the Unrespectable Respectable: Black Pentecostal Women and Identity
Responding:
Marcus Bruce, Bates College
A25
Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group and Christian Systematic Theology Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Barry A. Harvey, Baylor University, Presiding
Theme: Sin, Suffering, and Finitude: In Conversation with Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Hilda Koster, University of Chicago
Suffering with Creation: Bonhoeffer's Promise for an Ecological Soteriology
Christina-Maria Franke, Humboldt University, Berlin
Shame: The Basic Reality of Sin
Elaine Robinson, Texas Christian University
Suffering in the Wilderness: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Stellvertreter Meets Delores Williams' Sister Hagar
Kirsten Busch Nielsen, University of Copenhagen
Religion between Imago Dei and Sin in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A26
Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Barbara A. Holdrege, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Theme: Re-imagining the Nation-State: Religious Nationalisms in India and Israel
Panelists:
Richard D. Hecht, University of California, Santa Barbara
Roger Friedland, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ainslee T. Embree, Columbia University
Stanley J. Tambiah, Harvard University
Paul Morris, Victoria University, Wellington
Responding:
Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
A27
Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Flora A. Keshgegian, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Presiding
Theme: Author/izing Lives: Uses of Memoir and Autobiography in and for Religious Knowledge
Amy Carr, Western Illinois University
The Ends of Memoir and Testimony
Marian Ronan, American Baptist Seminary of the West
Dangerous Memories: Autobiographical Strategy in the Religious Writings of James Carroll
Shannon Craigo-Snell, Yale University
Writing the Female Body: Quaker Autobiography as Theological Disruption
Amy M. Hollywood, Dartmouth College
Medieval Christian Women's Writing and the Problem of Autobiography
A28
Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Jay E. Johnson, Richmond, CA, Presiding
Theme: A Global Queer(y)ing of Religion
Christopher Lamb, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Seeing How Things Really Are When in the Mythic Matrix Queerness Is All Around!
Jeffrey Mann, Muskingum College
Life as a Gay Filipino: Perception, Identity, and Ethics
Horace Leedolphus Griffin, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary
Out of Africa: African Myth, Ritual, Homoeroticism, and Homosexual Expression
Ken Hamilton, The Union Institute and University
The Flames of Namugongo: Postcoloniality Meets Queer on African Soil?
Responding:
James E. Miller, Madison, WI
A29
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
David J. Gouwens, Brite Divinity School, Presiding
Theme: Sources of the Self: Charles Taylor and Sřren Kierkegaard
Panelists:
Edward F. Mooney, Sonoma State University
Stephen Crites, Wesleyan University
Marilyn Piety, Drexel University
Abrahim H. Khan, University of Toronto
Responding:
Stephen N. Dunning, University of Pennsylvania
A30
Mysticism Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Neil Douglas-Klotz, Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning, Presiding
Theme: How Do Mystics Understand Self-Annihilation versus Self-Actualization?
Sarah K. Pinnock, Trinity University
Bodily Mysticism of the Annihilated Self
Stuart R. Sarbacker, Loyola University, Chicago
The Numinous and Cessative as Dimensions of Indian Mysticism
John R. Haule, C. G. Jung Institute, Boston
Self-Annihilation and Ecstasy: The Engine of Franciscan Sadhana
Margaret E. Taylor-Ulizio, Marquette University
The Christological Basis for Self-Actualization and Self-Annihilation in the Works of Catherine of Siena and Teresa of Avila
A31
Native Traditions in the Americas Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Justine Smith, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Indigenous Religious Identity in the Americas and the Politics of Blood Quantum
Panelists:
Eva Garroutte, Boston College
Angela Gonzales, Cornell University
Kehaulani Kauanui, Wesleyan University
Audra Simpson, McGill University
Responding:
John Mohawk, State University of New York, Buffalo
A32
New Religious Movements Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Mike Ashcraft, Truman State University, Presiding
Theme: New Religious Movements in Canada and East Asia
James A. Beverley, Tyndale Seminary
God's Dominion and New Religious Movements
Sushil Jain, Institute of Asian Cultures, Windsor, ON
Globalization, Immigration and Religious Accommodation: The Sikhs in Canada
Alison R. Marshall, Brandon University
Cooperation and Lingji Performance on Taiwan
James Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno
"Deprogramming" around the World: Still a Problem?
A33
Platonism and Neoplatonism Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Jay Bregman, University of Maine, Orono, Presiding
Theme: Neoplatonism and the Body
Mark McPheran, University of Maine, Farmington
Socrates' Last Words
Twyla Gibson,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Sight and Insight: The Body as an Instrument of the Soul in Plato and Plotinus
Wendy Wiseman, University of California, Santa Barbara
The "Perverted Imp": Plotinus and the Metaphysics of Shame
Torrance Kirby, McGill University
"Glorified Body": Resurrection and the Secular Political Order in the Thought of Richard Hooker
Alison Teply, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, Platonism, and the Body
Business Meeting:
Jay Bregman, University of Maine, Orono, and Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
A34
Religion and Ecology Group and Religion and Science Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University, Presiding
Theme: From Ecosystems to Outer Space: Exploring the Connections among Religion, Science, and Ecology
James Proctor, University of California, Santa Barbara
American Environmentalism: Science or Religion?
Susan Power Bratton, Baylor University
The Precautionary Principle and the Biblical Wisdom Literature: Toward an Ethic of Ecological Prudence in Ocean Management
Beth Blissman, Oberlin College
From Theory to Pedagogy: Engaging Science, Religion, and Ecosocial Location
Lee W. Bailey, Ithaca College
Spaceship Epiphanies and Cosmologies
Responding:
Lisle Dalton, Hartwick College
Business Meeting:
Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University, Presiding
A35
Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Presider, TBA
Theme: Decolonizing Spiritualities
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Duke University
Spiritualities of Liberation in the Americas: Gregory Baum, Frantz Fanon, and Guillermo Gómez-Peńa
David Tombs, Trinity College, Dublin
The Principle of Mercy: Jon Sobrino and the Spirituality of Decolonization
Shelley C. Wiley, Concordia College, Moorhead
The Spirits Are Dancing within Us
Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton University
Decolonizing Spiritualities: Discourse and Symbols
Responding:
Christopher D. Tirres, Harvard University
A36
Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
William L. Blizek, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Presiding
Theme: Reading Film as Text: Methodology and the Study of Religion and Film
Randal Cummings, California State University, Northridge
Pedagogical Uses of Feature Films for Religion Courses
Melanie Jane Wright, University of Cambridge
Passionate about Joan: New Approaches in Religion and Film
Stephen Jenkins, Humboldt State University
Popcorn for Prasadam: Contemporary Cinema as a Ritual Space for Penetrating Maya
Ken Derry, University of Toronto
Paul Ricoeur's Mythology of Evil as Religion and Film Hermeneutic
John Schultes, Iowa State University
Perceptions and Realities: Hollywood Films Tackle Religion
Business Meeting:
Tony S. L. Michael, University of Toronto, and Rubina Ramji, University of Ottawa, Presiding
A37
Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Religious Life in the Time of the Fifth Dalai Lama
Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Harvard University
Controlling Time and Space in Lhasa: The New Year and City Pilgrimage Routes under the Fifth Dalai Lama
Bryan Cuevas, Florida State University
Religious Life in a Seventeenth-Century Tibetan Monastery
Jacob Dalton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Rnying-ma Politics in the Seventeenth-Century
Trent Pomplun, Loyola College, Maryland
Tibetan Prophetic Literature in the Notizie Istoriche of Ippolito Desideri, S. J.
Responding:
Matthew Kapstein, Columbia University
A38
Modern Historical Consciousness and the Christian Churches Seminar
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Sheila E. McGinn, John Carroll University, Presiding
Theme: Modern Historical Consciousness and the Christian Churches
Charles J. T. Talar, University of St. Thomas
Defining Historical Consciousness
Marcus J. Borg, Oregon State University
Historical Consciousness and the Jesus Seminar
Responding:
Karen L. King, Harvard University
Bill J. Leonard, Wake Forest University
Historical Consciousness and Baptists in the South: Owning and Disowning a Tradition
Responding:
Molly T. Marshall, Central Baptist Theological Seminary
Business Meeting:
Harvey Hill, Berry College, Presiding
A39
History, Method, and Theory in the Study of Religion Consultation
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Michel Gardaz, University of Ottawa, Presiding
Theme: Expositions and Journals in the Nineteenth Century
Bradley L. Herling, Boston University
The "Indian Sphinx": Conceiving South Asian Religion in A. W. von Schlegel's Indische Bibliothek
Arie L. Molendijk, University of Groningen
Religion at the 1883 Colonial and Export Trade Exhibition in Amsterdam
John Harding, University of Pennsylvania
Exhibiting Buddhism: Religion, Nationalism, and Japanese Agency at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions
Responding:
John Burris, Rollins College
Business Meeting:
Gregory D. Alles, McDaniel College, Presiding
A40
Religion and Human Rights Consultation
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Arvind Sharma, McGill University, Presiding
Theme: Religion, Violence, and Human Rights
Paul Allen Williams, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Human Rights Atrocities and the Ambiguities of the "Missionary Position": The Case of the Disciples of Christ Congo Mission (DCCM) in the Congo Free State, 1897-1908
Robert Erlewine, Rice University
Never without Shame: Intersubjectivity, the Holocaust, and Ethical Responsibility
Melissa Fennewald, Florida State University
Anatomy of Religious Terrorism in the United States
Thomas A. Idinopulos, Miami University
Radical Islam, Human Rights, and Terrorism
Anna Doswell, University of Derby
Blasphemy, Religious Hatred, and Free Speech: Exploring a Dilemma for Contemporary Human Rights Discourse
Responding:
Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University, and Sumner B. Twiss, Brown University
A41
Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Sponsored by the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee
Daisy L. Machado, Texas Christian University, Presiding
Theme: The Public Role of Racial and Ethnic Scholars
Panelists:
Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Drew University
Chris Jocks, Dartmouth College
Sheema Khan, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Ottawa, ON
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Graduate Theological Union
Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University
Responding:
Michael Eric Dyson, University of Pennsylvania
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for description.
A42
Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Christopher Johnson, Gustavus Adolphus College, Presiding
Theme: Making Justice: Pedagogies of Transformation
Melissa M. Wilcox, University of California, Santa Barbara
Teaching toward Justice: Dilemmas of Pedagogical Activism
Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University
An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Environmental Justice in the Borderlands
Beth Blissman, Oberlin College
Academically-Based Community Service: A Liberation Feminist Pedagogy for Non-Violence and Justice-Making
Fran Grace, University of Redlands
Teaching Religion and Hate: The Crucible for a "Pedagogy of Emergence/y"
Glenn Whitehouse, Florida Gulf Coast University
A Mockery of Justice: Using Role-Playing to Teach Intercultural Ethics
A43
Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Clark M. Brittain, Greenville Technical College, Presiding
Theme: Hermeneutics
Margo Kitts, Merrimack College
Sanctified Violence in Ritual and in War: Homeric Oath-Sacrifice and Ritual Performance as Metaphorical Transformation
David L. Simmons, University of Chicago
The Faustian Hermeneutic: Biblical Interpretation and Goethe's Poetics of Allegory
Neil Douglas-Klotz, Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning
Re-hearing Qu'ran in Open Translation: Ta'wil, Postmodern Inquiry, and Poetic Hermeneutics
Andrew Hass, University of Houston
"Literature and Theology" and the Re-sourcing of Kant
Gitte Butin, University of Virginia
Harrowing Hermeneutics: Caputo's Radical Hermeneutics "In the Penal Colony"
Thomas B. Ellis, University of Pennsylvania
On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of J. L. Mehta
A44
Buddhism Section and Japanese Religions Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University, Presiding
Theme: Colonialism, Transnational Exchange, and Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan
Micah L. Auerback, Princeton University
Rethinking "Pro-Japanese" Korean Buddhism
Akeshi Kiba, Otani University
Modern Japanese Buddhist Proselytization in East Asia: Societal Reform and the Doctrine of Memorializing Enemies and Compatriots with Equal Compassion
Pori Park, University of Colorado, Boulder
The Intersection of Politics and Religion: The Japanese Buddhist Presence in Korea
Fumihiko Sueki, University of Tokyo
Modern Chinese Buddhist Perspectives on Japanese Buddhism
Responding:
Nam-lin Hur, University of British Columbia
A45
Comparative Studies in Religion Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Karen L. King, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Reading, Remembering, and Reciting: Textual Practice as Spiritual Practice
David Carpenter, St. Joseph's University
(Trans)formation through the Veda: The Case of the Indian Svādhyāya
Shawn Madison Krahmer, St. Joseph's University
Lectio Divina and the Perfection of the Soul: The Physiological Process of Memoria and the Transformation of the Individual in Medieval Western Christian Monasticism
Michael D. Swartz, Ohio State University
Semiotics, Kinetics, and Mnemonic Strategies in Rabbinic Judaism
Dale S. Wright, Occidental College
Empty Texts/Sacred Meaning: Reading as Spiritual Practice in Chinese Buddhism
Responding:
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University
A46
History of Christianity Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Selva Raj, Albion College, Presiding
Theme: Translations and Conversions
Rachel Fulton, University of Chicago
God's "Uuord" and the Conversion of Saxony
Deeana Klepper, Boston University
Medieval Franciscan Hebraists: Constructing a Historical Jesus
Kerry Fast, University of Toronto
"To Be Brought Up in a Christian Home": The WMS Work among Chinese and Aboriginal Girls in British Columbia
Paul V. Kollman, University of Notre Dame
Converting Slaves: The Place of Work in Catholic and Quaker Evangelization in Nineteenth-Century East Africa
Eliza Kent, Chicago, IL
The Devil in the Topknot: Conflicting Definitions of Conversion in Colonial South India
Mathew N. Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross
Dalit Christian Conversion, Resistance, and Salvation in Northern India
A47
North American Religions Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Timothy Van Meter, Bethany Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Ritual, Representation, and Media in Public Commemoration
Carolyn Marvin, Universitiy of Pennsylvania
Being There: The Role of Presence in Ritual Reconstructions of September 11
Stewart M. Hoover and Anna Maria Russo, University of Colorado, Boulder
Rituals of Crisis and Commemoration in the Mediated Experience: The Cultural Wake of 9-11/11-9
Edward Tabor Linenthal, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
The Construction of an Imagined Bereaved Community: Oklahoma City and the Media
Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico
No Novenas for the Dead: Public Rites of Mourning and the Burning Man Festival
Responding:
Diane Winston, Pew Charitable Trusts
A48
Religion in South Asia Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa, Presiding
Theme: Is Vedanta Really the "End" of the Veda?: The Continuation of Vedic Worlds in Vedantic Thought
Sucharita Adluri, University of Pennsylvania
Scriptural Authority in Ramanuja's Sri-Bhasya
Signe Cohen, University of Pennsylvania
"Like Oil in Sesame Seeds": Upanishadic Views of the Vedanta within the Veda
Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University
The Veda in American Vedanta
Valerie Stoker, University of Pennsylvania
Madhva and the Veda: Defining Sarvavidya
Responding:
Francis X. Clooney, Boston College
A49
Study of Islam Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Zayn Kassam, Pomona College, Presiding
Theme: Intimate Acts and Public Consequences: Sex, Gender, and Power in Islamic Societies before the Modern Era
Scott A. Kugle, Swarthmore College
Shah Hussayn's Sexual-Spiritual Play: Homoerotic Acts and Public Morality in the Mughal Era
Kecia Ali, Duke University
Prohibited Acts and Forbidden Partners: The Consequences of Unlawful Sexual Activity in Ninth-Century Sunni Legal Texts
Kathryn M. Kueny, Lawrence University
Excising the Other: Islamic Visions of Male Circumcision
Khaleel Mohammed, Brandeis University
"Your Wives Are a Tilth for You…" Interpretations of Qur'an 2:223
A50
Women and Religion Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Victoria Rue, St. Lawrence University, Presiding
Theme: Prayers at a Different Altar
Panelists:
Miri Hunter Haruach, New College of California
Arisika Razak, California Institute of Integral Studies
Michelle D. Herrera, California Institute of Integral Studies
Responding:
Carol P. Christ, Ariadne Institute for the Study of Myth and Ritual, Athens, Greece
A51
Chinese Religions Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Lee H. Yearley, Stanford University, Presiding
Theme: Conceptual Metaphor and the Study of Chinese Religion
Panelists:
John Berthrong, Boston University
Edward Slingerland, University of Southern California
Griet Vankeerberghen, California State Polytechnic University
Responding:
Mark Allen Berkson, Hamline University
A52
Church-State Studies Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary's College of California, Presiding
Theme: Issues in Religious Liberty (United States)
Ronald B. Flowers, Texas Christian University
To Defend the Constitution
Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes College
Public School Bible Courses in Tennessee: A Case Study
William R. Barnett, Le Moyne College and Jane E. Hicks, Augustana College
Grading the Court on Zelman: School Voucher Programs and the Politics of Establishment Jurisprudence
Eric Michael Mazur, Bucknell University
Examining the Canon in Church-State Studies
Business Meeting:
Eric Michael Mazur, Bucknell University, Presiding
A53
Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Frank J. Korom, Boston University, Presiding
Theme: Violence as Constitutive of Religion
Jacob Kinnard, College of William and Mary
Communitas and Conflict: Rethinking and Reapplying Turner's Analysis of the Pilgrimage Process
William A. Barbieri, Catholic University of America
Discourses of Militancy in Islam: A Heterological View
Robert A. Segal, Lancaster University
The Frazerian Roots of the Theories of Girard and Burkert on Religion and Violence
Jay Geller and Richard Hecht, Vanderbilt University
The Hermeneutics of Violence and the Violence of Hermeneutics: From Walter Benjamin to Jacques Derrida to Sam D. Gill, with Sidetracks to Michael Taussig and Michael Bernstein
Responding:
Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University
Business Meeting:
Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University, and Steven Engler, Mount Royal College, Presiding
A54
Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Kate Cooper, University of Manchester, Presiding
Theme: Sexuality in the Late Antique Mediterranean, Part One
Panelists:
Cynthia M. Baker, Santa Clara University
Virginia Burrus, Drew University
Lynn R. LiDonnici, Vassar College
Terry Wilfong, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
A55
Evangelical Theology Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
John Sanders, Huntington College, Presiding
Theme: Nonviolent Theologies of the Atonement
Thomas Finger, Elizabethtown College
Christus Victor as Nonviolent Atonement
Hans Boersma, Trinity Western University
Penal Substitution and the Possibility of Unconditional Hospitality
T. Scott Daniels and Marty Michelson, Southern Nazarene University
Passing the Peace: Worship and Evangelism from a Non-Substitutionary Atonement Perspective
J. Denny Weaver, Bluffton College
Nonviolent Analysis of Anselmian Atonement Violence
Responding:
Katherine Sonderegger, Virginia Theological Seminary
A56
Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group and Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Elizabeth A. Say, California State University, Northridge, Presiding
Theme: Sexual Freedom, Religious Freedom, and the Limits of Tolerance: Responses to Love the Sin by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini
Panelists:
Gayle R. Baldwin, University of North Dakota
Marcella Althaus-Reid, University of Edinburgh
Rebecca T. Alpert, Temple University
Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Grinnell College
Responding:
Ann Pellegrini, University of California, Irvine, and Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College
A57
Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Michelle Anne Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding
Theme: Race and Liberation: Commentaries on Andrés G. Guerrero's A Chicano Theology
Hector Avalos, Iowa State University
Is a Chicano Theology Feasible?: A Critique of Andrés G. Guerrero's A Chicano Theology
Christopher D. Tirres, Harvard University
"Liberation" in the Latina/o Context: Reassessing Guerrero's A Chicano Theology
Robert D. Maldonado, California State University, Fresno
Malinchista Hermeneutics: Resistance and Appropriation in the Chicano Bible
Responding:
Andrés G. Guerrero, Aims Community College
A58
Person, Culture, and Religion Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Kelley A. Raab, St. Lawrence University, Presiding
Theme: Critical Dialogue between Religion and Evolutionary Psychology
William S. Waldron, Middlebury College
Buddhism and the Sciences of Mind: A Critical Dialogue
Nathaniel Barrett, Boston University
Existential Semiotic and the Cultural Critique of Evolutionary Psychology
Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union
The Evolution of Wonder: Religious and Neuroscientific Perspectives
Responding:
Jeffrey Schloss, Westmont College
Business Meeting:
Franz Aubrey Metcalf, The Forge Institute, and Kelley A. Raab, St. Lawrence University, Presiding
A59
Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Frederick J. Ruf, Georgetown University, Presiding
Theme: Pragmatism and Feminism
Deborah Whitehead, Harvard University
Feminism, Religion, and Democracy in the American Pragmatic Tradition
Marit Trelstad, Pacific Lutheran University
Possession, Intuition, and James's "Leaky Consciousness"
Elizabeth Pritchard, Bowdoin College
Surrender Your Gender: Religious Subjectivity in William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience
Responding:
Nancy K. Frankenberry, Dartmouth College
A60
Roman Catholic Studies Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Richard Curtis, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
Theme: Reconsidering Catholic Social Thought
John Berkman, Catholic University of America
Social Injustice, Eugenics, and the Dignity of the Poor: The Ryan-Sanger Debate over Fertility Control
Melissa Stewart, Vanderbilt University
Intra-Catholic Pluralism: Resources to Resist a Universalizing, Characterless Globalization
Andrew Skotnicki, St. Patrick's Seminary
Foundations Once Destroyed: The Catholic Church and Criminal Justice
Dominic F. Doyle, Boston College
Charles Taylor's A Catholic Modernity? and Nicholas Boyle's Who Are We Now? Christian Humanism from Hegel to Heaney: A Comparison of Two Catholic Humanist Critiques of Friedrich Nietzsche
Responding:
Maura A. Ryan, University of Notre Dame
Business Meeting:
Nancy Dallavalle, Fairfield University, and Jeffrey Marlett, College of Saint Rose, Presiding
A61
Schleiermacher Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Timothy R. Clancy, Gonzaga University, Presiding
Theme: Schleiermacher and Religious Pluralism
Philip L. Quinn, University of Notre Dame
Schleiermacher and the Challenge of Religious Diversity
Jacqueline Marina, Purdue University
Schleiermacher on the Out-Pourings of the Inner Fire: Experiential Expressivism and Religious Pluralism
Thomas E. Reynolds, Vanderbilt University
Dialectical Pluralism: Rethinking Schleiermacher and the Problem of the Religions
Responding:
Jack C. Verheyden, Claremont School of Theology
A62
Constructions of Ancient Space Seminar
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
James W. Flanagan, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding
Theme: Expanding Critical Spatiality
Jon L. Berquist, Chalice Press
Critical Spatiality and the Uses of Theory
Claudia V. Camp, Texas Christian University
Storied Space, or Ben Sira "Tells" a Temple
William E. Deal, Case Western Reserve University
Rhetorics of Religious Space: Some East Asian Perspectives
Thomas B. Dozeman, United Theological Seminary
"Scriptural Maps" and the Journey from Kadesh through Transjordan
David M. Gunn, Texas Christian University
Covering David: Michelangelo's David from the Piazza della Signoria to My Refrigerator Door
Business Meeting:
James W. Flanagan, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding
Papers will not be read at the meeting but are posted on the seminar's website(http://guildzone.org) and should be read by all attending the session. Seminar members online discussions begin by September 1. Annual Meeting session focuses on method and theory issues raised in papers and discussion. Further information is available on the website or from Jon L. Berquist(jberquist@aol.com) or James W. Flanagan(flanagan@po.cwru.edu), co-chairs.
A63
Anthropology of Religion Consultation
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, Presiding
Theme: Experiencing Experience: Fieldwork Dilemmas in the Study of Religion
Julie S. Heath, Indiana University, Bloomington
A Place at the Table: Unity and Difference in Fieldwork on Religious Practice
Aryana Bates, Drew University
White Lesbian, Black Church: The Ethnographer as Participant in a Pluralistic Community
Cat McEarchern, University of Stirling
Going Native in Academia: Studying Neo-Paganism as Insider and Outsider
Courtney Bender, Columbia University
The Elusive Subject: Finding and Interpreting the "Religious" in the Ethnography of Daily Life
Responding:
Ruth Marie Griffith, Princeton University
Business Meeting:
Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, and June McDaniel, College of Charleston, Presiding
A64
Augustine and Augustinianisms Consultation
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Kevin L. Hughes, Villanova University, Presiding
Theme: Augustine Reading and Reading Augustine
Michael Cameron, Archdiocese of Chicago
Augustine Reading Paul Reading Moses: Christ Accursed and How Signs Work
Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, University of Notre Dame
The Creation of Tradition: Isidore of Seville as a Reader of Augustine
Andrea J. Dickens, University of Virginia
Can Illumination Be Auditory? The Augustinian Legacy in William of St. Thierry and Bernard of Clairvaux
Peter Thuesen, Tufts University
Augustine as Nemesis: The Beechers as Readers of the Bishop of Hippo
A65
Cultural History of the Study of Religion Consultation
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
New Program Unit
Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University, Presiding
Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Toward a Cultural History of the Study of Religion
Panelists:
David S. Chidester, University of Cape Town
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Emory University
Peter Harrison, Bond University
Donald S. Lopez, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Business Meeting:
Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, and Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University, Presiding
A66
Religion and Disability Studies Consultation
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
J. Eric Pridmore, Drew University, Presiding
Theme: Living Bodies Interpreting Texts: Susan Wendell on The Rejected Body
Sharon V. Betcher, Drew University
De-Colonizing Disabled Bodies: "The Blind See, the Lame Walk, the Deaf Hear..."
Molly Haslam, Vanderbilt University
Experiencing the Sacred: Beyond the Limits of Language and the Cultural Linguistic Approach to Religion
Susanne Rappmann, Karlstad University
The Disabled Body of Christ as a Critical Metaphor
Maria Truchan-Tataryn, University of Saskatchewan
Transfigured Bodies: Wendell and Eastern Christian Iconography
Responding:
Nancy L. Eiesland, Emory University
Kerry Wynn, Southeast Missouri State University
Tom Craig, International Communicology Institute
Business Meeting:
Maureen Connolly, Brock University, Presiding
A67
Introduction to the AAR
Saturday - 5:00 pm-6:15 pm
Sponsored by the Student Liaison Group
Richard Amesbury, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
Theme: Introduction to the AAR
Panelists:
Susan E. Henking, Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Anita L. Bradshaw, Lutheran Seminary
Sarah Heaner Lancaster, Methodist Theological School in Ohio
Mark Lloyd Taylor, Seattle University
Kimberly Rae Connor, University of San Francisco
Carey J. Gifford, American Academy of Religion
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for a description.
A68
AAR Donors Reception
Saturday - 5:30 pm-6:45 pm
Individuals whose generosity has allowed us to continue many of our special programs are invited to a reception hosted by the AAR Board of Directors to learn about some exciting new initiatives.
A69
Reception for Racial and Ethnic Minority Members
Saturday - 6:15 pm-7:00 pm
The Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession invites interested persons to a reception celebrating the contributions of racial and ethnic minority scholars in the Academy.
A70
Presidential Plenary Address
Saturday - 7:15 pm-8:30 pm
Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Embodied Cosmologies
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for description.
A71
AAR Members Party
Saturday - 8:30 pm-11:00 pm
Following the success of last year's party, AAR members are invited to join one another at the AAR Members Party for music and dancing. Don't forget your free drink ticket that will be mailed with your name badge!
A72
Arts Series/Films: In the Light of Reverence
Saturday - 8:30 pm-11:00 pm
Sponsored by the Native Traditions in the Americas Group
Andrea Smith, University of California, Santa Cruz, Presiding
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights pagefor a description.
A73
Arts Series/Films: Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
Saturday - 8:30 pm-11:00 pm
Sponsored by Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
Lee Demarbre, Ottawa, Ontario, Presiding
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for a description.
A74
Women's Caucus Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
Sponsored by the Women's Caucus
Interested persons are invited to a reception honoring women's contributions in the Academy
A75
Student Member Reception
Saturday - 10:00 pm-12:00 am
AAR and SBL student members are invited to drop by for conversation with fellow students. Beer, wine, soda, and light snacks provided.
A76
JAAR Editorial Board
Sunday - 7:00 am-7:30 am
Glenn E. Yocum, Whittier College, Presiding
A77
AAR Annual Business Meeting and Continental Breakfast
Sunday - 7:30 am-8:45 am
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida, Presiding
A78
Special Topics Forum
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Sponsored by the Academic Relations Task Force and the Caucus of Scholars at Religiously Affiliated Institutions
Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes College, Presiding
Theme: Academy, University, and Faith Community: Teaching Religion at Religiously Affiliated Institutions
Panelists:
William J. Cahoy, St. Johns University
Mary Todd, Concordia University
Bill J. Leonard, Wake Forest University
Annette Moran, Carroll College
Ted Grimsrud, Eastern Mennonite University
Keith J. Wilson, Brigham Young University
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for a description.
Interested persons are invited to attend a luncheon immediately following. See AM137 for more information.
A79
Special Topics Forum
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee
Dena S. Davis, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Presiding
Theme: Religion and Public Policy: Embryos, Stem Cells, and Clones
Panelists:
James F. Childress, University of Virginia
Ronald M. Green, Dartmouth College
Moira McQueen, University of Toronto
Laurie Zoloth, San Francisco State University
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for a description.
A80
Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Sid Brown, University of the South, Presiding
Theme: Preparing Scholar-Teachers: Reflections on Professional Development and Practice
Theodore Brelsford, Lynn Huber, and Gary M. Laderman, Emory University
Preparing Scholar-Teachers in Emory University's Graduate Division of Religion
Michael Barnes, University of Dayton
Student Responses to a Teacher's Religious Goals
Sandra L. Gravett, Appalachian State University
"You Want Me To Teach What?": A Survival Guide for Teaching outside of Your Academic Training
Kristin Scheible, Harvard University
Cultivating Mutual Respect for Effective Teaching and Learning in the Study of Religion
Business Meeting:
Christine M. Bochen, Nazareth College of Rochester, and Barbara A. B. Patterson, Emory University, Presiding
A81
Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Darlene Fozard Weaver, Villanova University, Presiding
Theme: Artistic Responses to Loss
Maria Tattu Bowen, University of Portland
Apokatastasis Panton Redux: Loss and Restoration in the Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz
J. Heath Atchley, Alfred University
The Language of Loss, the Loss of Language: DeLillo on Religion, Terror, and Mourning
Peter J. Thuesen, Tufts University
Twice Lost: The Deaths of the Unconverted in Harriet Beecher Stowe and Robert Lowell
Laughter and the Holocaust: Risibility as Resistance in Elie Wiesel's Gates of the Forest
Oren Stier, Florida International University
"‘Til the Mourning Comes": Working through Loss in Holocaust Documentary Films
Business Meeting:
Jennifer L. Geddes, University of Virginia, and S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University
A82
Buddhism Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
James C. Dobbins, Oberlin College, Presiding
Theme: Transnational Exchange and Buddhist Modernism in Asia
Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University
A Cosmopolitan in Colombo: Hikkaduve Sri Sumangala's Nineteenth-Century Transnational Buddhism
Anne R. Hansen, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Monk Travels and the Politics of Textual Production in Colonial Cambodia
Kosei Ishii, Komazawa Junior College
Thoughts and Genealogy of Ultranationalists Strongly Influenced by Buddhist Philosophy: The Exchange of Japanese Nationalists and Ceylonese Buddhists
Richard Jaffe, Duke University
Paper, Ink, Bone, and Stone: Mapping Buddhism in an Age of Empire
Responding:
Richard King, University of Derby
A83
Comparative Studies in Religion Section, Religion in South Asia Section, and Ritual Studies
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Daniel R. Gold, Cornell University, Presiding
Theme: Ritual Levity, Ritual Play in South Asian Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu Traditions
Panelists:
Corinne Dempsey, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
William P. Harman, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Rachel Fell McDermott, Barnard College
Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University, Chicago
Selva Raj, Albion College
Whitney Sanford, Iowa State University
Elizabeth L. Wilson, Miami University
Responding:
Jonathan Z. Smith, University of Chicago
A84
Ethics Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
David Craig, Indiana University, Purdue University, Presiding
Theme: Justice and Civil Liberties in the Wake of September 11
Molly Hadley Jensen, Vanderbilt University
Ethics of the Borderlands: Blurring the Boundaries of National Identity to Include a Recognition of Others
David True, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education
Democracy and the Good: Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Pursuit of the Good in the Political Realm
Richard B. Miller, Indiana University, Bloomington
Islam and Social Criticism in the Aftermath of September 11
Purushottama Bilimoria, Deakin University, Melbourne
The Right to Flee and to Seek Refuge: Mispredications in the Oceanic Contexts
A85
History of Christianity Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University, Presiding
Theme: Christian Images of Islam and Muslim Images of Christianity
Stephen J. Shoemaker, University of Oregon
Christmas in the Qur'an: New Evidence Regarding the Christian Sources of the Qur'anic Nativity Traditions
Jason R. Zaborowski, Catholic University of America
The Coptic Neo-Martyr John of Phanijoit: The Re-conversion of an Apostate Christian "Deceived by Lust of a Saracen Woman" (c.1210)
David Freidenreich, Columbia University
Neither Fish Nor Fowl: The Conception of Islam in Classical Canon Law Sources on Commensality
Antonia Atanassova, Boston College
Truth and Selectiveness: Muslim-Christian Dialogue in the Balkans
Responding:
William A. Graham, Harvard University
A86
North American Religions Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Philip L. Barlow, Hanover College, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Sarah Barringer Gordon's The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
Panelists:
Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University
Richard Ostling, Associated Press
Stephen J. Stein, Indiana University, Bloomington
John F. Wilson, Princeton University
Responding:
Sarah Gordon, University of Pennsylvania
Business Meeting:
Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College, and Peter W. Williams, Miami University, Presiding
A87
Philosophy of Religion Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
William J. Wainwright, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Presiding
Theme: War and the Religious Traditions
Panelists:
James T. Johnson, Rutgers University
Sallie B. King, James Madison University
Henry Rosemont, St. Mary's College, Maryland
Business Meeting:
Thomas P. Kasulis, Ohio State University, Presiding
A88
Religion and the Social Sciences Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Elizabeth M. Bounds, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Doing Our First Works Over: White Theologians and Ethicists Talk about Race
Panelists:
Karin Case, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Robin Hawley Gorsline, Brooklyn, NY
Jennifer Harvey, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Sally MacNichol, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Aana Vigen, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Responding:
Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago
A89
Study of Judaism Section and Theology and Religious Reflection Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University, Presiding
Theme: Judaism in and Jewish Responses to John Milbank's Radical Orthodoxy
Panelists:
Steven Kepnes, Colgate University
Randi Rashkover, York College of Pennsylvania
Peter Ochs, University of Virginia
Responding:
John Milbank, University of Virginia
A90
Women and Religion Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Naomi R. Goldenberg, University of Ottawa, Presiding
Theme: God-She and Goddess: Does Gender Make a Difference?
Carol P. Christ, Ariadne Institute for the Study of Myth and Ritual, Athens, Greece
Goddess, God-She, and Process Philosophy
Hyun-Kyung Chung, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Goddess in Korea
Ruth Mantin, University College Chichester
Telling the Difference: Thealogy, Identity and Socio/Political Transformation
Melissa Raphael, University of Gloucestershire
From Jerusalem to Auschwitz and Back: The Shekhinah among Women during the Holocaust
A91
Afro-American Religious History Group and Black Theology Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
David Daniels, McCormick Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Migration and Interreligious Faith Communities of African Descent in Canada: Historical and Contemporary Voices
Panelists:
Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University
Michael Wilkinson, Nazarene University College
C. Denise Gillard, Toronto, ON
A92
Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Lisa Dahill, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Presiding
Theme: Bonhoeffer, Community, and Politics
Nancy Berlinger, The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY
Bonhoeffer on Truth Telling: Relevance for Reconciliation after Harm
Jacqui Stewart, University of Leeds
Bonhoeffer, Bauman, and Theology of Community
Ralf Wuestenberg, University of Heidelberg
Reconstructing the Doctrine of Reconciliation within Politics
A93
Indigenous Religious Traditions Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Dennis Kelley, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Theme: Religion and Political Reality: Native Americans Today
Richard Grounds, University of Tulsa
yUdjEhanAno^ so^KAnAno^ ("We Yuchi People, We Are Still Here")
Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University
Eating Locust at Onondaga: Indigenous Responses to United States Terrorism
Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara
Remembering, Re-learning: Placing Ancestral Wisdom in the Academy
Responding:
Suzanne J. Crawford, University of California, Santa Barbara
Business Meeting:
Jacob K. Olupona, University of California, Davis, and Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
A94
Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Francisco Lozada, University of the Incarnate Word, Presiding
Theme: Editors Meet Critics: A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology: Religion and Justice
Panelists:
M. Shawn Copeland, Marquette University
Timothy M. Matovina, Loyola Marymount University
Rita Nakashima Brock, Oakland, CA
Benjamin Valentin, Drew University
Responding:
Daisy L. Machado, Texas Christian University, and Jeanette Rodriguez, Seattle University
Business Meeting:
Rüdiger V. Busto, Stanford University, and Michelle Anne Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding
A95
Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Sue E. Houchins, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding
Theme: Religious Authority and the Power of Definition: Queer Ripostes
Elizabeth Currans, University of California, Santa Barbara
Embodiment of Belief: Symbolic Struggle in the San Francisco Dyke March
Andrea Smith, University of California, Santa Cruz
Safety in Home? Gender, Race, and Religious Fundamentalism
Miri Hunter Haruach, New College of California
In the Sweet Bi and Bi: The Politics of Bisexuality
Business Meeting:
Peggy Schmeiser, University of Ottawa, and Jennifer Rycenga, San José State University, Presiding
A96
Mysticism Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
David Perrin, St. Paul University, Presiding
Theme: Current and New Methodologies for the Study of Mysticism
Willemien Otten, Utrecht University
The Mystical Embrace: Desire and the Body in Eckhart and Eriugena
Martin T. Adam, McGill University
A Post-Kantian Perspective on Recent Debates about Mystical Experience
Arthur Versluis, Michigan State University
Method in the Study of Mysticism and the Esoteric
Willem Zwart, University of Colorado, Boulder
Toward an Anthropology of Consciousness
Business Meeting:
Neil Douglas-Klotz, Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning, Presiding
A97
New Religious Movements Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Dell deChant, University of South Florida, Presiding
Theme: Some Case Studies of New Religious Movements in Transition
J. Gordon Melton, Institute for the Study of American Religion
Al-Qaeda as a New Religious Movement
Michael F. Strmiska, Miyazaki International College
Neopagan Movements in Lithuania and Latvia
Cat McEarchern, University of Stirling
Varieties of Nature in Modern Paganism
Business Meeting:
Mike Ashcraft, Truman State University, Presiding
A98
Nineteenth-Century Theology Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theodore Vial, Virginia Wesleyan College, Presiding
Theme: The Idea of the University
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, University of Munich
Why Still Theology? Strategies of Legitimation: Protestant Theology in German Protestantism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Harvey Hill, Berry College
Scientific History and Catholic Theology: The Impact of the French University on the Modernist Crisis
M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University
The Test Case of Psychology: Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century
Rebecca S. Chopp, Colgate University
Twentieth-Century Changes to the Nineteenth-Century Models and Current Attempts to Retrieve Some of the Nineteenth-Century Models
A99
Platonism and Neoplatonism Group and Augustine and Augustinianisms Consultation
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Kim Paffenroth, Iona College, Presiding
Theme: Augustine on the Body
Robert P. Kennedy, St. Francis Xavier University
Augustine on Human Embodiment and Communication
M.B. Pranger, University of Amsterdam
The Gift of Destiny: Augustine, Anselm, Henry James
William Robert, University of California, Santa Barbara
Reading Augustine's Corpus: Confessional Hermeneutics and the Cosmological Body
Nicole Roskos, Drew University
Loving and Despising the Body: The Ambivalence of Death in Augustine's Good Creation
Responding:
Margaret R. Miles, Graduate Theological Union
A100
Religion and Popular Culture Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Edward Ingebretsen, Georgetown University, Presiding
Theme: Entertaining Evil
Justin Holcomb, University of Virginia
Evil, Vampires, and Religious Symbolism
Laurel Zwissler, University of Toronto
Jesus Christ, Action Hero: Christianity Battles Evil in the Canadian Horror FilmJesus Christ, Vampire Hunter
Paul Custodio Bube, Lyon College
Left Behind with Harry Potter
Brian M. Britt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
The Fall from Eden, Critical Theory, and the Teletubbies
A101
Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Jeff Kosky, Bucknell University, Presiding
Theme: Discussion of Richard Kearney's The God Who May Be: The Hermeneutics of Religion
Panelists:
Jeffrey Bloechl, College of the Holy Cross
Nicholas Constas, Harvard University
Serene Jones, Yale University
Craig Nichols, Boston University
Responding:
Richard Kearney, Boston College
A102
Religion, Ethics, and Society in Contemporary East Asia Consultation
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University, Presiding
Theme: Interplay of Religious Elements and the Effects of Globalization in Asian Societies at Large
Thomas Selover, University of Saskatchewan
Confucius on Horseback, 2002: Governing by Virtue in Globalizing China
Peter T.C. Chang, Harvard University
Wang Yang Ming's Liang-Chih and the Freedom of Conscience
Christine E. Gudorf, Florida International University
Religious Resources for Environmentalism in Indonesia
Responding:
Max L. Stackhouse, Princeton University
Robert C. Neville, Boston University
Dale S. Wright, Occidental College
Business Meeting:
Young-chan Ro, George Mason University, and Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University, Presiding
A103
Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Business Meeting
Sunday - 11:30 am-12:45 pm
Peter J. Paris, Princeton University, Presiding
A104
Mentoring Session with the Women's Caucus and the Status of Women in the Profession Committee
Sunday - 11:30 am-1:00 pm
Rebecca T. Alpert, Temple University, and Young Lee Hertig, United Theological Seminary, Presiding
A105
Special Topics Forum
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: The Professional as Personal: Telling the History of the AAR and the Study of Religion in North America from Personal Experience
See the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for a description.
A106
Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Jamie S. Scott, York University, Presiding
Theme: Urban Spaces/Religious Practices/Literary Productions
Graham Ward, University of Manchester
A Theological Defense of Syncretism: The Contemporary City and Salman Rushdie'sSatanic Verses
Wesley A. Kort, Duke University
Between Conrad's London and Sacred Space
Roland T. Boer, Monash University
The Allegory of Paris in Walter Benjamin's Arcades
Pamela D. Winfield, Temple University
Two Tales of a City: Kūkai and Dōgen on Religious Activity within/without Kyoto
Clara Joseph, University of Calgary
Between Space and Practice: The Risk Literature of Mahatma Gandhi and Arundhati Roy
Chelva Kanaganayakam, University of Toronto
Remembering Gunga: Urban Space and Hindu Ritual
A107
Ethics Section
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Gloria H. Albrecht, University of Detroit Mercy, Presiding
Theme: NAFTA, Free Trade, and Globalization
Stephen Martin, Seton Hall University
Public Theology, Economics, and "Sacred Space": The Theology/Economics of D. Stephen Long and Bernard Lonergan
Ken Estey, New York, NY
An Ethic of Accountability: NAFTA, Free Trade, and Labor Rights
Lucinda J. Peach, American University
Globalization and Corporate Social Responsibility for Human Rights: The Case of Myanmar
Scott T. Kline, McGill University
Toward an Ethic of Embedded Economy? The World Faiths in Dialogue with the Institutions of Globalization
A108
Philosophy of Religion Section
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Pauline C. Lee, Stanford University, Presiding
Theme: Anthropos and Ethics: Description, Comparison, and Construction
Mark Allen Berkson, Hamline University
Conceptions of Self and Modes of Connection: Comparative Soteriological Structures in Classical Chinese Thought
Thomas A. Lewis, University of Iowa
Anthropology and the Categories of Comparison: Hegel on Tradition
Jonathan Schofer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Self, Subject, and Chosen Subjection: The Case of Rabbinic Ethics
Aaron D. Stalnaker, Georgetown University
Constructive Comparisons: Preliminary and Final Ends in Comparative Religious Ethics
Responding:
Lee H. Yearley, Stanford University
A109
Religion and the Social Sciences Section
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Daphne C. Wiggins, Duke University, Presiding
Theme: Postmodern Perplexities: Pluralism and Religious Institutions
Malory Nye, University of Stirling
Minority Religions and the Politics of Multiculturalism
Aryana Bates, Drew University
Elements of Pluralism in a Contemporary Black Church: God and Identity at Liberation in Truth, Unity Fellowship Church, Newark, NJ
Chad Seales, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Cuban Catholics as Elite Facilitators of a Pan-Latina/o Movement in the Archdiocese of Atlanta
Michael C. Mason, Australian Catholic University
Secularization Is Alive and Well and Living in Australia
A110
Study of Islam Section
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Diana Lobel, Boston University, Presiding
Theme: Imagination in Medieval Islamic Thought
Panelists:
Scott C. Alexander, Catholic Theological Union
Vincent J. Cornell, Duke University
Aaron William Hughes, University of Calgary
Steven M. Wasserstrom, Reed College
Responding:
Elliot R. Wolfson, New York University
A111
Study of Judaism Section
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Martin Lockshin, York University, Presiding
Theme: The Multi-faceted Judaism of Toronto
Irving Abella, York University
When Toronto Jews Became White
Rina Cohen, York University
Diversity of Routes and Roots: Russian and Israeli Immigrants in Toronto
Stuart Schoenfeld, York University
The Jewish Revival in Downtown Toronto: 20 Years Later
Alex Pomson, York University
Jewish Scholarship in Toronto
A112
African Religions Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Kathleen O'Brien Wicker, Scripps College, Presiding
Theme: The Role of Religion in Peace Making in Africa
Gwinyai Muzorewa, Lincoln University
An Analysis of the Traditional Rituals among the Shona of Zimbabwe That Can Have a Transforming Effect for Peace upon African Politicians
Samuel K. Elolia, Emmanuel School of Religion
Peace Building through African Traditions among the Pastoralist People of Kenya
Samuel Paul, Fuller Theological Seminary
A Negotiated Settlement: Why Was South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Successful?
Adewale A. Kuyebi, University of Manitoba
Osun Osogbo in America: A Religious Peaceful Co-Existence
A113
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Elijah Siegler, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Theme: Teaching Asian/American/Religions: What, Why, and How
Panelists:
Sharon Kim, Occidental College
Greer Anne Wenh-In Ng, University of Toronto
Richard H. Seager, Hamilton College
Duncan Williams, Trinity College
Responding:
Russell Jeung, Foothill College
Business Meeting:
Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of Southern California, and David Kyuman Kim, Brown University, Presiding
A114
Chinese Religions Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Russell Kirkland, University of Georgia, Presiding
Theme: Daoist Matters of Life and Death: Immortality, Immortals, and "Super"-Deities
Shin-yi Chao, University of British Columbia
The Impact of Daoist Liturgy on the Pantheon of Chinese Popular Religion
Julius Tsai, Stanford University
The Emplacement of the Five Perfect Scripts in Early Lingbao Ritual
Brian Hoffert, North Central College
Bridging the Gap between "Philosophical" and "Religious" Taoism
Responding:
Terry Kleeman, University of Colorado, Boulder
Business Meeting:
Randall Nadeau, Trinity University, Presiding
A115
Christian Systematic Theology Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
David S. Cunningham, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Feminist Engagements with Systematic Loci
Panelists:
Katie Geneva Cannon, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education
Amy Plantinga Pauw, Louisville Presbyterian Seminary
Leanne Van Dyk, Western Theological Seminary
Responding:
William C. Placher, Wabash College
A116
Church-State Studies Group and Native Traditions in the Americas Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Michael McNally, Carleton College, Presiding
Theme: Religion and the Legal Status of First Nations Peoples in Canada
Alain Durocher, Graduate Theological Union
Christian Churches and Canadian State, Hand in Hand in Guilt and in Remorse: Bringing Justice to the First Nations of Canada
Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Sacred Land, Communal Sovereignty: The Limitations of "Religion" as a Constitutional Construct
Will J. Friesen, Fresno Pacific University
Lighting Up the South - Plugging Up the North: A Canadian Church Response
Denise Nadeau, San Francisco Theological Seminary and Alannah Young, University of British Columbia
Decolonizing Bodies: Defiance and Rebellion against the Canadian Nation-State
Responding:
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, University of Chicago
Business Meeting:
Andrea Smith, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding
A117
Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Matthew S. Waggoner, University of California, Santa Cruz, Presiding
Theme: Material Economies of Religion/Other Views of the Other
Maria Heim, California State University, Long Beach
Commodification, Classification, and Contestation in the South Asian Gift
Steven Engler, Mount Royal College
Michel Despland on Modernity and (Material) Economies of Religion
Finbarr Curtis, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Certainty of Scientific Creationism
Richard S. Weiss, University of Chicago
The Other and the Possibility of Utopia
Responding:
Michel Despland, Concordia University, and Martin B. Baumann, University of Hannover
A118
Eastern Orthodox Studies Group and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe Consultation
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Robin Darling Young, Catholic University of America, Presiding
Theme: East Central European Religions in North America
Myroslaw Tataryn, University of Saskatchewan
Father Nicholas Shumsky: Dual Loyalties, One Life
Harriet Luckman, Fairfield University
From Deification to Assimilation: The Evolution of Holiness
Peter Galadza, St. Paul University
Ukraine Is with Us - "Understand Ye Churches and Submit": Canadian Ukrainian Orthodox Phyletism and Its Influence on Greco-Catholicism, 1916-1991
Responding:
Andrii Krawchuk, St. Paul University
Business Meeting:
J. Shawn Landres, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Andrii Krawchuk, St. Paul University, Presiding
A119
Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Sarah Iles Johnston, Ohio State University, Presiding
Theme: Sexuality in the Late Antique Mediterranean Part Two
Isabelle Kinnard, University of Chicago
Like a Virgin: Sacrifice and Gender Transformation in Perpetua's Passion
Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The Representation of Same-Sex Monastic Cohabitation and Companionship in the Christian East: A Narrative Eros Reconsidered
Ayse Tuzlak, Skidmore College
Male Brides and Lions: Mithraism and Masculinity in the Roman Empire
Responding:
Harry O. Maier, Vancouver School of Theology
Business Meeting:
Sarah Iles Johnston, Ohio State University, Presiding
A120
Hinduism Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Kathleen M. Erndl, Florida State University, Presiding
Theme: Hinduism and the Feminine: Reinterpretations and Reclamations
Francis X. Clooney, Boston College
Beauty Embraced and Eclipsed in the Saundarya Lahari
Phyllis Herman, California State University, Northridge
Sita Rasois and Shakta Pithas: A Feminine Reclamation of Mythic and Epic Proportions
Laurie L. Patton, Emory University
Vedic Metaphor and Feminist Ethical Thought
Karen Pechilis Prentiss, Drew University
Female Gurus and the Divine Feminine
Rita Sherma, Claremont Graduate University
Liberation and Lokasangraha: The Teleological Significance of Biogenesis and Diversity in Shakta Ontology
Responding:
Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University, Chicago
A121
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Hugh Pyper, University of Leeds, Presiding
Theme: Kierkegaard and the Media
Edward K. Kaplan, Brandeis University
Kierkegaard and Baudelaire: Empathy, Irony, and the Religious
Lissa McCullough, Hanover College
Kierkegaard: Prophet of the New Media?
Brian C. Barlow, Brenau University
Sřren Kierkegaard, C.S. Lewis, and the Present Age: On the Literary Critique of Media, Culture, and Character in Modernity
Responding:
Amy Laura Hall, Duke University
Business Meeting:
Timothy H. Polk, Hamline University, Presiding
A122
Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
David C. Lamberth, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Pragmatic Approaches to Religion: Rorty and Burke
Thomas W. Simpson, University of Virginia
Rorty and Rauschenbusch on Religion and Reform
Beth Eddy, Princeton University
Kenneth Burke's Natural Piety and the Shaping of Identity
Mark Hadley, Western Maryland College
Pragmatism as Ethical Polytheism
Responding:
Eddie S. Glaude, Bowdoin College
Business Meeting:
David Lamberth, Harvard University, and Frederick J. Ruf, Georgetown University, Presiding
A123
Religion and Popular Culture Group and Religion, Culture, and Communication Consultation
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Gary M. Laderman, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Popular Religion, Popular Culture, and the Supernatural
Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado, Boulder
The "Funky" Side of Religion: Religion, Media, and the Supernatural in the Ethnographic Narratives of United States Adolescents
James H. Thrall, Duke University
Who's in Charge of Heaven?: The Afterlife, Film, and Ethics
Bradford Verter, Bennington College
Occult Eroticism: Black Magicians, Yellow Journalists, and Sex Cults in the 1920s
Responding:
Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini College
A124
Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Iain S. Maclean, James Madison University, Presiding
Theme: Charismatic and Pentecostal Movements in the Americas
Bobby C. Alexander, University of Texas, Dallas
Social Mobility and Cultural Dissonance in a Transnational Mexican Pentecostal Church: A Case Study of the Dallas Mission
Lois Lorentzen, University of San Francisco
El Milagro Esta en Casa: Gender in a Migrant Pentecostal Church
Philip Wingier-Rayo, Chicago Theological Seminary
Where Are the Poor: An Ethnographic Study of an Ecclesial Base Community and a Pentecostal Church in Cuernavaca Mexico
Responding:
Jorge A. Aquino, Graduate Theological Union
A125
Ritual Studies Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm</