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2003 AAR Online Program Book

Chairs Workshop - Scholarship, Service, and Stress: The Tensions of Being a Chair
Friday - 8:00 am-4:00 pm

Carey J. Gifford, American Academy of Religion, Presiding

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

AAR Board of Directors
Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm

Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, Presiding

Religion and Media Workshop
Friday - 10:00 am-6:00 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; and Religion, Culture, and Communication Consultation

Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado, Boulder, and S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University, Presiding

Mona Siddiqui, University of Glasgow
Islam in the News

Rubina Ramji, University of Ottawa
From Navy Seals to The Siege: Getting to the Know the Muslim Terrorist, Hollywood Style

Hamid Naficy, Rice University
Identity Politics of Iranian Exile Music Videos

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

Women's Caucus Workshop
Friday - 11:30 am-5:00 pm

Laurie Wright Garry, Saint Gregory's University, and Jennifer Harvey, Union Theological Seminary, New York, Presiding

Panelist:
Mary E. Hunt, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

Teaching and Learning Committee Meeting
Friday - 6:30 pm-8:30 pm

Carey J. Gifford, American Academy of Religion, Presiding

EIS Center Orientation
Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Shelly C. Roberts, American Academy of Religion, Presiding

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: Music as Spiritual Practice, a Performance by Don and Emily Saliers
Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality

Mark S. Burrows, Andover Newton Theological School, Presiding

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Friday - 7:00 pm-9:30 pm

Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
Jill Gorman, Temple University, Presiding

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

Regions Secretaries Meeting
Saturday - 8:00 am-9:00 am

Stacy L. Patty, Lubbock Christian University, Presiding

A10

Academic Relations Task Force Meeting
Saturday - 8:00 am-9:30 am

Warren G. Frisina, Hofstra University, Presiding

A11

International Connections Committee Meeting
Saturday - 8:00 am-10:00 am

Mary McGee, Columbia University, Presiding

A12

Jimmy Carter Center Tour
Saturday - 8:30 am-11:00 am

Sponsored by the Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Consultation

Please arrive fifteen minutes early and gather by MM-International Hall South.

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

A13

Martin Luther King, Jr. Tour
Saturday - 8:30 am-11:00 am

Sponsored by the AAR's Afro-American Religious History Group; Black Theology Group; and Womanist Approaches to the Study of Religion Group

Please arrive fifteen minutes early and gather by MM-International Hall South.

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

A15

Publications Committee Meeting
Saturday - 8:30 am-11:30 am

Francis X. Clooney, Boston College, Presiding

A16

Student Liaison Group Meeting
Saturday - 9:00 am-10:45 am

Richard Amesbury, Valdosta State University, Presiding

A17

Regions Committee and Regional Officers
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:00 am

Stacy L. Patty, Lubbock Christian University, Presiding

A18

Answering the Reporter’s Call: Being a Reliable News Source
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:00 am

Sponsored by the AAR's Religion and Media Center and the Pew Charitable Trusts

Kyle Cole, American Academy of Religion, Presiding

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

A19

JAAR International Breakfast
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:00 am

Sponsored by the JAAR International Conference

A20

SLG - Money Matters: A Professional Development Workshop Geared Toward Early Career Decisions
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Sponsored by the Regions Committee

Mark Lloyd Taylor, Seattle University, Presiding

Theme: The Use and Abuse of Adjunct Faculty in Religious Studies

Panelists:
Elizabeth Pullen, Drew University
John Curtis, American Association of University Professors
Carey J. Gifford, American Academy of Religion
Julie J. Kilmer, Elmhurst College

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

A51

Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College, Presiding

Theme: Teaching a Key Concept: A Workshop

Patricia O'Connell Killen, Pacific Lutheran University
Because key concepts provide the bedrock upon which any course is built, teaching them effectively is important and challenging. Not only are the concepts sometimes inherently difficult, but finding the space where the concepts and the students meet can be quite difficult as well. Why? Because key concepts are the point at which academic disciplines and students' intellectual development meet most directly. In this workshop, through a process of guided reflection, workshop participants will analyze their experience of teaching key concepts and situate them within a theory of the design of intellectual experience.

A52

Comparative Studies in Religion Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Pia Altieri, University of Chicago, Presiding

Theme: Rethinking Comparative Ethics: A Diverse Division of Labor

Panelists:
Francisca Cho, Georgetown University
John Grim, Bucknell University
Anna L. Peterson, University of Florida
Darlene Fozard Weaver, Villanova University

Responding:
Robin W. Lovin, Southern Methodist University
William Schweiker, University of Chicago

Business Meeting:
Mary N. MacDonald, Le Moyne College, and Selva Raj, Albion College, Presiding

A53

Ethics Section and Religion and Disability Studies Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Amy Laura Hall, Duke University, Presiding

Theme: Better People? Eugenics and the Church in U.S. History<br> Panelists:
Sharon M. Leon, University of Minnesota, St. Paul
Dennis Durst, Saint Louis University
Christine Rosen, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, DC

Responding:

Stephen G. Ray, Louisvile Presbyterian Theological Seminary

A54

History of Christianity Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Teresa M. Shaw, Claremont Graduate School, Presiding

Theme: Reviewing The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity by Philip Jenkins

Panelists:
Vincent L. Wimbush, Claremont Graduate University
Wietse de Boer, Miami University, Ohio
Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton, University of Virginia
Lamin Sanneh, Yale University

Responding:
Philip Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University

A55

North American Religions Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Roberto R. Lint-Sagarena, University of Southern California, Presiding

Theme: Replotting American Religion: The Transnational Perspective
Ethan Sharp, Indiana University, Bloomington
Testimonies, Transition, and Trasnational Mexican Communities

Alexei Krindatch, Russian Academy of Science
The Orthodox (Eastern) Christian Churches in the American Religious Landscape: The Questions of Nature and Identity

Dana Evan Kaplan, University of Miami
The Renaissance of Jewish Religious Life in Contemporary Cuba

Abbas Barzegar, University of Colorado, Boulder
Latino and African American Muslim Communities

A56

Philosophy of Religion Section and Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University, Presiding

Theme: Kyoto School Thought in Dialogue with Western Thought

James W. Heisig, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
Nishida Kitaro's Medieval Bent

Yoshio Tsuruoka, University of Tokyo
Interpretations of Western Mysticism by Some Kyoto School Thinkers: Suzuki, Nishitani, and Ueda

John C. Maraldo, University of North Florida
Talk of Nothingness: What Is Gained and What Is Gainsaid

Thomas P. Kasulis, Ohio State University
Watsuji Tetsuro's Critique of Modern European Social Philosophy and Its Impact on the Kyoto School

A57

Religion, Social Conflict, and Peace Consultation and Religion and the Social Sciences Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Cynthia Stewart, Nashville, TN, Presiding

Theme: Nonviolence across the Disciplines

Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Love's Limits: Religious Nonviolence in the Civil Rights Movement

Susan Abraham, Harvard University
When Karl Rahner Meets Ashis Nandy: Christian and Postcolonial Resources for Nonviolent Resistance in India

Sharon D. Welch, University of Missouri, Columbia
The Art of Peacemaking and Global Action to Prevent War

Responding:
J. Denny Weaver, Bluffton College

A58

Religion in South Asia Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas, Austin, Presiding

Theme: Apparent and Inherent Debates: Dialogics in South Asian Religious Traditions

Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University
Samvada as a Literary and Philosophical Genre

Steven Lindquist, University of Texas, Austin
Sarcasm As Strategy: The Dialogics of the Yajnavalkya-Debates

David Gray, Rice University
Generous Sacrifice: Buddhist Responses to the Purusasukta

Robert A. Yelle, University of Toronto
Monological Gods, Dialogical Selves: Canon and Monotheism As Strategies for Interreligious Debate in Nineteenth-Century India

Responding:
Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa

A59

Study of Islam Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Alan Godlas, University of Georgia, Presiding

Theme: Reinventing Tradition? Modalities of Modern Islam

Christi Caldwell, Cambridge, MA
The Politicization of Gender in Bangladesh

David L. Johnston, Yale University
Fuzzy Reformist-Islamist Borders: Malik Bennabi and Rashid al-Ghannushi on Civilization and Civil Society

Karen G. Ruffle, Univesity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Take Me to Karbala: Hazrat Zaynab Bint `Ali and the Shi`i Community of Remembrance

Amy C. Bard, Columbia University
"How Could Your Wits Attain the Heights of Our Wisdom!": Voice, Diction, and Authority in South Asian Shi`i Women's Sermons

Kristin Sands, Sarah Lawrence College
Muslims Taking It to the Internet: Suffering, Interpretation and Activism

A60

Women and Religion Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Jeanne H. Kilde, Macalester College, Presiding

Theme: Women's Religious Thought: A Conversation on Mary F. Bednarowski's The Religious Imagination of American Women
Panelists:
Paula M. Cooey, Macalester College
Rita M. Gross, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College
Peter W. Williams, Miami University

Responding:
Mary F. Bednarowski, United Theological Seminary, Minneapolis
Jane F. Crosthwaite, Mount Holyoke College

A61

Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Jeffrey C. Pugh, Elon University, Presiding

Theme: Discerning God's Will: Bonhoeffer's Legacy in Times of Turmoil

Panelists:
Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago
Stanley M. Hauerwas, Duke University
George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary

A62

Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Robert A. Segal, University of Lancaster, Presiding

Theme: Communication, Public Arenas, Secularity, and the Quest of Modern Culture

Norichika Horie, University of the Sacred Heart
Construction of Religion As Culture

Robert J. Baird, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
Thinking at the Boundaries of Religion and the Secular: Talal Asad's Formations of the Secular

Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Amsterdam
Religion As Communication: Do We Need a New Paradigm?

Responding:
Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University

A63

Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Judith Poxon, Syracuse University, Presiding

Theme: The Rhetorics of Motherhood

Kimerer L. LaMothe, Harvard University
"Giving Birth to a Dancing Star": Friedrich Nietzsche and Isadora Duncan on Religion, Dance, and Motherhood

Rita Sherma, Binghamton University
The River and the Tigress: Indian Religious Ideals of the Maternal and Their Social Implications

Jeong Sug Kim, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary
Embodied Spirit: Subjectivity of Korean Women - A Construction of Narrative Identity from an Autobiographical Ethnography of Han

Lorena E. Cuevas, New York, NY
Rhetoric of Motherhood and Resistance in Chile

Responding:
Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Grinnell College

A64

Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Jay E. Johnson, Richmond, CA, Presiding

Theme: Queer Lives and Religious Faith: Teasing out Treasures (and Tensions) from Our Traditions

Roger J. Corless, Duke University
Analogue Consciousness Isn't Just for Faeries: Applying Harry Hay's Insights to Buddhism and Christianity

Lars Gårdfeldt, University of Karlstad
Hagiography As Fagiography

Paul J. Gorrell, Drew University
Erotic Conversion as a Response to the Priest Pedophilia Crisis

Edward Ingebretsen, Georgetown University
The Church Colonial: Soulforce, Resistance, and Panic over Native Uprisings

Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Gay and Orthodox? Sexual Orientation and Return to Tradition

Responding:
Robert C. Neville, Boston University

Business Meeting:
Donald L. Boisvert, Concordia University, Montreal, and Jay E. Johnson, Richmond, CA, Presiding

A65

Indigenous Religious Traditions Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Jacob K. Olupona, University of California, Davis, Presiding

Theme: Indigenous Educational Systems and Religion

Deborah Grenn-Scott, New College of California
Oral Tradition, Ceremony, and Prayer As Educational System among South Africa Lemba

Azim A. Nanji, University of Florida
Children in Madrasa: Islamic Education in Indigenous Muslim Communities in East Africa

Dianne Quigley, Syracuse University
The Value of Indigenous Science to Problems of Environmental Health Research

Michael McNally, Carleton College
Indigenous Pedagogy in the Classroom: A Service Learning Model for Discussion

Responding:
Ina Johanna Fandrich, Louisiana State University

Business Meeting:
Jacob K. Olopuna, University of California, Davis, and Ines T. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding

A66

Nineteenth-Century Theology Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

David C. Ratke, Lenoir-Rhyne College, and Charles J. T. Talar, University of Saint Thomas, Presiding

Theme: The Left-Wing Hegelians and Alienation from Religion

Heiko Schulz, University of Essen
True Consciousness Dreaming: Feuerbach's Critique of Religion Reconsidered

Todd Gooch, Eastern Kentucky University
Stirner's Egoistic Atheism in Relation to Feuerbach and Bauer

Theme: Historians of Theology in the Late Nineteenth Century: In Honor of Claude Welch

Peter C. Hodgson, Vanderbilt University
F. C. Baur, Theologian of History: Revisited after Forty Years
Michael J. Himes, Boston College
J. A. Möhler As Historian of Theology

A67

Platonism and Neoplatonism Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Willemien Otten, Utrecht University, Presiding

Theme: Myth, Imagination, and Ecstasy in Platonic and Neoplatonic Thought I

Jeffrey Brodd, California State University, Sacramento
Julian, Myth, and Platonism

Burcht Pranger, University of Amsterdam
Augustine and the Epiphany of Scripture

Geoffrey McVey, Miami University
Ficino's Demons: The Ambivalence of Phantasia in Fifteenth-Century Neoplatonism

R. D. Hedley, Cambridge University
Prophecy, Imagination, and the Poet's Fine Frenzy: Reflections of a Cambridge Platonist

A68

Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group and Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Frederick J. Ruf, Georgetown University, Presiding

Theme: Paul Tillich and American Pragmatism

Robison B. James, University of Richmond
The Pragmatism of Paul Tillich, Especially in His Theory of the Religious Symbol

Richard Grigg, Sacred Heart University
Remaking Tillich as a Pragmatist: From Foundationalist Ontology to Pragmatic Construction

David H. Nikkel, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
The Varieties of Mystical Experience: Paul Tillich and William James

Responding:
Michael Raposa, Lehigh University

A69

Reformed Theology and History Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Robert Sherman, Bangor Theological Seminary, Presiding

Theme: The Legacy of Colin Gunton for Reformed Theology

Panelists:
John Webster, University of Aberdeen
Katherine Sonderegger, Virginia Theological Seminary
Bruce McCormack, Princeton Theological Seminary
Richard J. Mouw, Fuller Theological Seminary

A70

Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding

Theme: Race, Religion, and Empire

Panelists:
Walter Mignolo, Duke University
Eduardo Mendieta, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Santiago H. Slabodsky, Duke University

Responding:
Shelley C. Wiley, Concordia College, Moorhead

A71

Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Bryan Cuevas, Florida State University, Presiding

Theme: Lineage Construction in Tibet

Jacob Dalton, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Strategies of Lineage Construction in the Sutra Empowerment Tradition

Ronald M. Davidson, Fairfield University
The Construction of Esoteric Indian Buddhist Lineages: The Case of the gSar-ma Translators

Frances M. Garrett, University of Toronto
The Role of Illness in Tibetan Historiography

David Germano, University of Virginia
The Construction of Lineages and Cosmological Narratives in early medieval Tibet: The rNying ma Creation of a Buddhist Vehicle Termed rDzogs Chen

Responding:
T. Griffith Foulk, Sarah Lawrence College

A72

Wesleyan Studies Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Sarah Heaner Lancaster, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Presiding

Theme: Celebrating the Tercentenary: Mission and Evangelism

Laceye Warner, Duke University
Saving Women: Evangelistic Ministry in Southern Methodism

Jeffrey Williams, Claremont Graduate University
Conversion and Communitas: Rethinking the Historiography on Early American Methodism

Rosemary Keller, Union Theological Seminary, New York
"The Call of My Career": Anna Howard Shaw As the "New Woman" of American Methodism

Business Meeting:
K. Steve McCormick, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Presiding

A73

Zen Buddhism Seminar
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Jin Y. Park, American University, Presiding

Theme: Zen Buddhism and Scholarsticism

Tao Jiang, Southern Illinois University
A Synchronic Analysis of Emptiness in Lin-chi's Zen

Youru Wang, Rowan University
How "Living Words" Function in Zen Soteriological Practices: Philosophical Investigation of Three Types of "Living Words"

Ding-hwa Evelyn Hsieh, Truman State University
Poetry and Chan Gong'an: From Xuedou Chongxian (980-1052) to Wumen Huikai (1183-1260)

A. Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University
Gihwa's Analysis of the Relationship between the Worded and Wordless Teachings: The O ga Hae Seoreui

Business Meeting:
Gereon Kopf, Luther College, and Jin Y. Park, American University, Presiding

A74

Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Marcia Bunge, Valparaiso University, Presiding

Theme: Research on Children and Childhood in Religious Studies

Lesleigh Cushing, Colgate University
I Will Also Forget Thy Children: Childhood in Jewish Studies

John Wall, Rutgers University
The Christian Ethics of Children: Emerging Questions and Possibilities

Ruqayya Yasmine Khan, Trinity University
Childhood in Islamic Studies

Responding:
Christine E. Gudorf, Florida International University
Ray Hiner, University of Kansas
Reflections on Children and Religion in American Historiography

Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt University
Children and Children's Spirituality in Religious Education and Popular Spiritual Literature

Karen-Marie Yust, Christian Theological Seminary
A Critical Analysis of Children's Ministries: Implications for Scholarship in Practical Theology

Responding:
Barbara Pitkin, Stanford University

Business Meeting:
Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso University, Presiding

A278

Outsider Art Exhibit Reception
Saturday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm

1280 Peachtree Street

Please join us at a special reception sponsored by the AAR Arts Series and the Atlanta College of Art highlighting an exhibit of Outsider Art. This exhibition coincides with A25 "New Directions in the Study of Art & Religion: The Case of Self-Taught/Outsider/ Vernacular Art," sponsored by the Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and the History, Method, and Theory in the Study of Religion Consultation. Directions: from the Peachtree Center MARTA Station, go four stops north to the Arts Center Marta stop. Follow the signs to the Atlanta College of Art. For more information contact Brent Plate, B.plate@tcu.edu.

A75

Friends of the Academy Reception
Saturday - 5:30 pm-6:45 pm

Individuals whose generosity allows us to continue many of our programs are invited to a reception hosted by the AAR Board of Directors.

A76

Racial and Ethnic Minority AAR Members Reception
Saturday - 6:15 pm-7:00 pm

The Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee invites interested persons to a reception celebrating the contributions of racial and ethnic minority scholars in the Academy.

A77

Awards and President's Address - A New Beginning, Again
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:15 pm

Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University, Presiding

Theme: A New Beginning, Again

Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

A78

AAR Members' Dance Party
Saturday - 8:30 pm-12:00 am

AAR members are invited to join one another at the AAR Members' Dance Party for music and dancing. Don't forget the free drink ticket that will be mailed with your name badge!

A79

The Matrix: Reloaded
Saturday - 8:30 pm-11:00 pm

Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group

Julien Fielding, University of Kansas, Presiding

See the Program Highlights page for a description

A168

The Seventh Chamber of Edith Stein: An Interpreted Life
Saturday - 8:30 pm-10:30 pm

Sponsored by the Religion, Genocide, and Holocaust Group and Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group

Theresa Sanders, Georgetown University, Presiding

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

A80

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.

A81

Student Members' Reception
Saturday - 10:00 pm-11:30 pm

AAR and SBL student members are invited to drop by for conversation with fellow students. Beer, wine, soda, and light snacks will be provided.

A82

JAAR Editorial Board
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am

Glenn E. Yocum, Whittier College, Presiding

A83

AAR New Members' Continental Breakfast
Sunday - 7:30 am-8:45 am

New (first-time) AAR members in 2003 are cordially invited to a continental breakfast with members of the Board of Directors.

A84

CIC - Religious Studies in the Japanese Context
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Sponsored by the International Connections Committee

Manabu Watanabe, Nanzan University, Presiding

Theme: Religious Studies in the Japanese Context

Panelists:
Makoto Hayashi, Aichi Gakuin University
Tsuyoshi Nakano, Soka University
Fumiko Nomura, Kawamura Gakuen Women's University
Susumu Shimazono, University of Tokyo

Responding:
William E. Paden, Vermont College
Paul Swanson, Nanzan University

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

A85

PUR - Religion in the 2004 Election
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee

Laura Olson, Clemson University, Presiding

Theme: Religion in the 2004 Election

Panelists:
Diane Connolly, Religionlink
E.J. Dionne, Brookings Institute, Washington Post
Allen D. Hertzke, University of Oklahoma
Allison Calhoun-Brown, Georgia State University

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

A86

TLC - Site Visits in the Study of Religion: Practice, Problems, Prospects
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Committee

Barbara A. B. Patterson, Emory University, Presiding

Theme: Site Visits in the Study of Religion: Practice, Problems, Prospects

Panelists:
Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University, Chicago
Patrice Claude Brodeur, Connecticut College
Jeffrey D. Carlson, Dominican University
Karen McCarthy Brown, Drew University
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Emory University
Grace G. Burford, Prescott College

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

A87

Publishers Weekly - Getting Marketing and Publicity for Your Scholarly Book
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Sponsored by AAR, SBL, and Publishers Weekly

Jana Riess, Publishers Weekly, Presiding

Theme: Getting Marketing and Publicity for Your Scholarly Book
Panelists:
Roger Freet, HarperSan Francisco
Kelly Hughes, DeChant-Hughes Public Relations
Rudy Faust, Oxford University Press

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

A88

Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Arthur Sutherland, Loyola College in Maryland, Presiding

Theme: The Craft of a Public Intellectual: Teaching at the Intersections of Religious Studies and the Common Good

Beth Blissman, Oberlin College
Teaching Ethics in a Time of War: Pathways to Place-Based Ecosocial Transformation

Peter Ellard, Siena College
Catholic Social Teaching and Today's College Classroom: The Missing Link of Advocacy

Sheila E. McGinn, John Carroll University
The Religious Studies Introductory Course and the Jesuit Mission in Higher Education in the United States

Stephen A. Wilson, Earlham College
Religious Ethics and the Vocation of the Public Intellectual

A89

Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Wesley A. Kort, Duke University, Presiding

Theme: Music: Enchantment and Protest

David H. Perkins, Vanderbilt University
Spiritual Aphrodisiac: Praise and Worship Music and the Re-enchantment of Western Culture

Cyril Guerette, University of Toronto
Aleatoric Rhetoric: P(r)o(ph)etic Freestyling from Ancient Israel to the Backalley Cipher

James R. Newell, Vanderbilt University
The Power to Enchant: Meaning and Context in African American and Turkish Religious Music

Responding:
Jeremy Begbie, Cambridge Theological Federation, University of Saint Andrews

A90

Buddhism Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Robert M. Gimello, Harvard University, Presiding

Theme: Polycentric Buddhism in Peripheral Regions of South and Central Asia

Jason Neelis, University of Florida
Buddhist vs. Brahmanical Perspectives on Gandhara: Sacred Center or Peripheral Frontier?

Mariko Namba Walter, Harvard University
Turfan: The Crossroad of Tokharian and Chinese Buddhism?

Jacob Dalton, University of London
Mahayoga in Post-Tibetan Occupation Dunhuang

Vesna Acimovic Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Literary Creation of Buddhist Identity and the Expression of Mongolian Ethnicity

Responding:
Daniel Boucher, Cornell University

A91

North American Religions Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Wade Clark Roof, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding

Theme: Ethnic Diversity in American Religious Communities

Kathleen Garces-Foley, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ethnic Diversity and the Culture of Discomfort

R. Scott Hanson, Philadelphia University
Multi-Ethnic Congregations in a Microcosm of World Religions: Snapshots from Flushing, Queens

Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University
Power and Class: Faith-Based Organizing in a Multi-Ethnic Community

Gerardo Marti, Whittier, CA
Can Lightning Strike Twice? A Comparative Analysis of Two Large Multi-Ethnic Congregations in Los Angeles

Responding:
Edwin David Aponte, Southern Methodist University

A92

Religion and the Social Sciences Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Claudia Schippert, University of Central Florida, Presiding

Theme: The Allure of Violence: Rethinking the Function of Violence in the Religious Imagination

Matthias Beier, Drew University
Redeeming a Violent God-Image: Eugen Drewermann's Contribution to a Theology of Nonviolence

Kaia Stern, Emory University
Shackling the Holy: The Intersection of Criminal Justice and Theology

Brandi Denison, University of Colorado, Boulder
Towards a Responsible Apocalypse: The Apocalyptic Discourse of the American Nonviolence Movement

Caryn D. Riswold, Illinois College
The Rhetoric of Evil and Eradicating Terrorism

A93

Study of Islam Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Zayn Kassam, Pomona College, Presiding

Theme: Progressive Islam

Panelists:
Farid Esack, Xavier University, Cincinnati
Amir Hussain, California State University, Northridge
Omid Safi, Colgate University
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, University of Florida
Kecia Ali, Harvard University

Responding:
Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University

Business Meeting:
Jonathan E. Brockopp, Pennsylvania State University, Presiding

Zayn Kassam, Pomona College, Presiding

A94

Study of Judaism Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Peter Ochs, University of Virginia, Presiding

Theme: The Land of Israel and the Diaspora in the Talmud

Panelists:
Menachem Lorberbaum, Tel Aviv University
Dina Stein, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
Martin Kavka, Florida State University

Cosponsored with the Society for Textual Reasoning

A95

Theology and Religious Reflection Section and Animals and Religion Consultation
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

John A. Grim, Bucknell University, Presiding

Theme: Theological Reflection and Other Animals: Recognizing Our Heritage, Recognizing Today's Realities

Panelists:
Richard Foltz, University of Florida
Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University
Paul Waldau, Tufts University
Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University
Stephen H. Webb, Wabash College
Anne Elvey, Monash University

A96

Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group and Women and Religion Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Knox College, Presiding

Theme: The Fifteenth Year of Rita Nakashima Brock's Journeys by Heart: Reflections on a Christology of Erotic Power
Panelists:
James H. Cone, Union Theological Seminary, New York City
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Drew University
Catherine E. Keller, Drew University
Kwok Pui-lan, Episcopal Divinity School
Joan M. Martin, Episcopal Divinity School
Fumitaka Matsuoka, Pacific School of Religion

Responding:
Rita Nakashima Brock, Starr King School for the Ministry

A97

Afro-American Religious History Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Debra Mubashshir Majeed, Beloit College, Presiding

Theme: Images and Innovations of the Black Church Prior to 1945

Moses N. Moore, Arizona State University
A Balm in Gilead: The Social Gospel Ministry of Henry H. Proctor

Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College
The Negro Soldier and the Sacralization of Military Service

Richard B. Turner, University of Iowa
Academic and Popular Images of African-American Islam 1920-1945

Responding:
Robert Michael Franklin, Atlanta, GA

Business Meeting:
David Daniels, McCormick Theological Seminary, Presiding

A98

Bioethics and Religion Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Donna M. McKenzie, Fordham University, Presiding

Theme: Health Care, Human Rights, Moral Obligations

Rachel Muers, University of Cambridge
Justice to Future Generations: The Contribution of Theological Bioethics

Janet R. Nelson, Meredith College
In Suffering and Hope: Moral Obligations for Mental Health Care

James C. Peterson, Wingate University
Universal Health Care: A Common Good and Imperative Self-Interest

Aana Vigen, Union Theological Seminary, New York
"To Count among the Living": What Black and Latina Women with Cancer Know about Healthcare Quality

Business Meeting:
Michael M. Mendiola, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding

A99

Chinese Religions Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Michael Puett, Harvard University, Presiding

Theme: Ambivalence of Pattern: New Historical Approaches to Early Medieval Chinese Religions

Panelists:
Gil Raz, Indiana University, Bloomington
Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Indiana University, Bloomington
Rob Campany, Indiana University, Bloomington

Business Meeting:
Randall Nadeau, Trinity University, Presiding

A100

Christian Systematic Theology Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Lois Malcolm, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Presiding

Theme: Forgiven and Forgiving: Contemporary Systematic Perspectives

Dan Bell, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary
"Forgive Us Our Debts As We Forgive Our Debtors": Forgiveness and the End of Economy

Anna Madsen, University of Regensburg
Painful Forgiveness: The Wrath and Love of God in the Forgiveness of Sins

Michael Nausner, Drew University
The Space of Forgiveness: Theological Reflections on Forgiveness from a Space In-between

Margaret B. Adam, Evanston, IL
The Interpretation of Forgiveness and the Forgiveness of Interpretation

Business Meeting:
David S. Cunningham, Hope College, Presiding

A101

Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding

Theme: Popular Religion: A Category and Its Problems

Robin Jensen, Andover Newton Theological School
Pictures and Popular Religion in Early Christianity: Visual Art As the Book of the Illiterate?

Matthew C. Baldwin, Mars Hill College
Unpopular Christian Literature: The Case of the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions and the Apocryphal Acts of Peter

Leor Halevi, Texas A&M University
The Paradox of Islamization: Tombstones and the Problem of Religious Change

Responding:
David Frankfurter, University of New Hampshire

A102

Hinduism Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Francis X. Clooney, Boston College, Presiding

Theme: The Ramakrishna Mission and the Face of Contemporary Hinduism

Panelists:
Gerald J. Larson, Indiana University, Bloomington
Anant Rambachan, Saint Olaf College
Gwilym Beckerlegge, Manchester, UK
Rachel Fell McDermott, Barnard College

Responding:
Lola L. Williamson, University of Wisconsin, Madison

A103

Indigenous Religious Traditions Group and Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding

Theme: The Stuff of Creation: A Panel Discussion Marking the Fortieth Year of Charles H. Long's Alpha: Myths of Creation
Panelists:
Charles H. Long, Chapel Hill, NC
Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University
David Carrasco, Harvard University
David Chidester, University of Cape Town
Jacob K. Olupona, University of California, Davis
Jennifer Reid, University of Maine, Farmington
Joanne P. Waghorne, Syracuse University

A104

New Religious Movements Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico, Presiding

Theme: New Religious Movements at the Interface with Science and Technology

Alyssa Beall, Syracuse University
Home, Home on the Web: Use of the Internet in Neopagan Religions

Don Baker, University of British Columbia
New Korean Religions in North America and on the Web

Lee Gilmore, Graduate Theological Union
Desert Dreams: Reflexivity, Ritual, and the Media at the Burning Man Festival

Benjamin Zeller, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Gatekeepers of (Ir)Religion: The Scientific Religion of Heaven's Gate

Susan J. Palmer, Dawson College
Rael, from Contactee-Prophet to Messianic Scientist: A Study in Charisma

Business Meeting:
Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico, Presiding

A105

Religion and Popular Culture Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Richard J. Callahan, University of Missouri, Columbia, Presiding

Theme: Death in the Midst of Life

Shelly Rambo, Emory University
Negotiating Death and Life: Six Feet Under and the Middle Space

Diana Walsh-Pasulka, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
The Space Between: Purgatory in Contemporary Popular Culture

Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University
The Care of the Dying in America: The Ethics and Theology of Hair Dye, Botox, and Prozac

Ian Bradley, Saint Andrews University
The Use of Popular Songs in Funeral Services in Britain: Pastoral and Liturgical Implications

Business Meeting:
Gary M. Laderman, Emory University, Presiding

A106

Roman Catholic Studies Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Daniel P. Thompson, Fordham University, Presiding

Theme: Critical Perspectives on the Clergy Sexual Misconduct Crisis

Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University
Sex, Continence, Power

Elizabeth Pullen, Drew University
Putting Sexual Abuse by Catholic Priests in Context: Authority, Power and Clerical Malfeasance

Eamonn Conway, University of Limerick
Systemic Issues Regarding Child Sexual Abuse in the Roman Catholic Church

Mary J. Henold, University of Rochester
Grassroots Catholic Reform Movements and the Evolution of the Dialogue Strategy, 1966-1986

Responding:
Dennis M. Doyle, University of Dayton

Business Meeting:
Jeffrey Marlett, College of Saint Rose, and Vincent J. Miller, Georgetown University, Presiding

A107

Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Cleo McNelly Kearns, Princeton University, Presiding

Theme: Political Theology: J. B. Metz and Others

Sung Lim Lee, Seoul, Korea
Anamnestic Rationality and Solidarity for Otherness of Others: Johann Baptist Metz's Political-Theological Discourse

Alan Revering, Quincy University
Metz As Anselm: The Ontological Argument and Political Theology

J. David Franks, Boston College
A Storm Blowing from Paradise: What Metz's Critique of Bourgeois Temporality Owes to Benjamin, Horkheimer, and Adorno

Derek Simon, McGill University
The New Political Theology of Metz: Confronting Schmitt's Political Theology and the Violent Identity Politics of Exclusion

A108

Anthropology of Religion Consultation
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Anne Merideth, University of Rochester, Presiding

Theme: Pilgrims and Tourists: Religion and the Construction of Travel

Thomas Bremer, Rhodes College
Half a Pilgrim: Religion, Tourism, and Sacred Spaces

Alexei Khamine, Drew University
Ignatius of Antioch: A Mediterranean Cruise to Martyrdom

Clare Fischer, Graduate Theological Union
Monument or Mall: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Indonesia

Laurel Zwissler, University of Toronto
Pilgrimage and Protest: Travel by Religiously Motivated Activists to Anti-globalization Protests

Responding:
Thomas A. Tweed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Business Meeting:
Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, Presiding

Mario I. Aguilar, University of Saint Andrews, Presiding

A109

Religion in Central and Eastern Europe Consultation
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Andrii Krawchuk, St. Paul University, Presiding

Theme: Ethics, Historical Memory and Reconciliation in Post-Communist Societies

Brendan Ozawa-de Silva, Oxford University
Lessons from East Germany: Intersections of Historiography, Ethics, and Theology Moving into the Twenty-First Century

Joseph A. Favazza, Rhodes College
Religion and Social Reconciliation in Translyvania

Slavica Jakelic, Boston University, Notre Dame University
The Problem of Secularization in the Post-communist Societies: The Cases of Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian Catholicism

Leslie A. Muray, Curry College
Christian Ethical Analyses of the Post-Communist Economy and Society in Hungary

Responding:
Robert Alvis, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Business Meeting:
Andrii Krawchuk, St. Paul University and J. Shawn Landres, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding

A158

Religion and Science Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Ernest L. Simmons, Concordia College, Moorhead, Presiding

Theme: Nature, Humanity, and Purpose: Greg Peterson's Minding God
Nancy Berlinger, The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY
Sacred Fools and Heroic Crips: Science and the Myth of Religious Consciousness

David H. Nikkel, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
Minding God and the Body: An Embodied Versus a Functionalist Understanding of Mind

Jacqueline Cameron, Northwestern University
Minding God/Minding Pain: Christian Theological Reflections on Recent Pain Research

Amos Yong, Bethel College
Pneuma and Pratityasamutpada: Cognitive Science, the Christian-Buddhist Dialogue, and the Human Person

Responding:
Greg Peterson, South Dakota State University

A110

Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee Meeting
Sunday - 11:30 am-12:45 pm

Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School, Presiding

A111

Mentoring Session with the Women's Caucus and the Status of Women in the Profession Committee
Sunday - 11:30 am-1:00 pm

Based on the positive feedback from this session last year, the Women's Caucus and the Status of Women in the Profession Committee have invited thirty feminist mid-career and senior AAR scholars to a brown bag lunch with new scholars and graduate students. Please join Katie Cannon, Elizabeth Castelli, Susan Henking, Serene Jones, Judith Plaskow, Emilie Townes, and many more to discuss pertinent issues like choosing an adviser, getting published, contract negotiation, and the challenge of balancing work and personal commitments. Please bring your questions and your lunch.

A112

A Conversation with the AAR Executive Committee and Board Members
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm

Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, Presiding

Theme: A Conversation with the AAR Executive Committee and Board Members

Panelists:
Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College
Barbara DeConcini, American Academy of Religion
Frederick M. Denny, University of Colorado, Boulder
Susan E. Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University
William K. Mahony, Davidson College
Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University
Mary McGee, Columbia University
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

A113

PUR - How Religion Matters in Crisis Situations: Perspectives from Law Enforcement, News Media, and Religious Studies Scholars
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm

Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee

Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College, Presiding

Theme: How Religion Matters in Crisis Situations: Perspectives from Law Enforcement, News Media, and Religious Studies Scholars

Panelists:
Eileen V. Barker, London School of Economics
Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mary Walsh, CBS News
Representation from members of the FBI

See the Program Highlights page for a description.

A114

The Legacy of Franz Rosenthal for Islamic Studies
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm