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2001 AAR Online Program Book
A1
Chairs Workshop
Friday - 8:00 am-4:00 pm
Edward Gray, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
Theme: Effective Assessment
Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or see the Evaluating and Advancing Teaching in the Religious Studies Department - Registration page for a registration form.
A2
Chairs Workshop
Friday - 8:00 am-4:00 pm
Edward Gray, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
Theme: Effective Assessment
Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or see the Evaluating and Advancing Teaching in the Religious Studies Department - Registration page for a registration form.
A3
Chairs Workshop
Friday - 8:00 am-4:00 pm
Edward Gray, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
Theme: Effective Assessment
Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or see the Evaluating and Advancing Teaching in the Religious Studies Department - Registration page for a registration form.
A4
Chairs Workshop
Friday - 8:00 am-4:00 pm
Edward Gray, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
Theme: Effective Assessment
Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or see the Evaluating and Advancing Teaching in the Religious Studies Department - Registration page for a registration form.
A5
Chairs Workshop
Friday - 8:00 am-4:00 pm
Edward Gray, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
Theme: Effective Assessment
Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or see the Evaluating and Advancing Teaching in the Religious Studies Department - Registration page for a registration form.
A6
AAR Board of Directors
Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Rebecca S. Chopp, Yale University, Presiding
A7
Religion and Media Workshop
Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Sponsored by the Committee on Public Understanding of Religion; 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
Please see the Annual Meeting Highlights page for more information.
Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or download a registration form (requires PDF).
A8
Religion and Media Workshop
Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Sponsored by the Committee on Public Understanding of Religion; 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
Please see the Annual Meeting Highlights page for more information.
Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or download a registration form (requires PDF).
A9
Religion and Media Workshop
Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Sponsored by the Committee on Public Understanding of Religion; 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
Please see the Annual Meeting Highlights page for more information.
Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or download a registration form (requires PDF).
A10
Religion and Media Workshop
Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Sponsored by the Committee on Public Understanding of Religion; 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
Please see the Annual Meeting Highlights page for more information.
Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or download a registration form (requires PDF).
A11
Religion and Media Workshop
Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Sponsored by the Committee on Public Understanding of Religion; 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
Please see the Annual Meeting Highlights page for more information.
Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or download a registration form (requires PDF).
A12
Women's Caucus Workshop
Friday - 12:00 pm-5:00 pm
Young Lee Hertig, United Theological Seminary, Presiding
Panelists:
Elizabeth A. Say, California State University, Northridge
Linda A. Moody, Mills College
Laurel C. Schneider, Chicago Theological Seminary
Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information.
A13
EIS Orientation Session
Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Edward R. Gray and Emily J. Noonan, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
Panelists:
Patricia Zimmerman Beckman, University of Missouri, Columbia
Steve Friesen, University of Missouri, Columbia
Debra Washington Mubashshir, Beloit College
Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information.
A14
Arts Series Film: Princess Mononoke
Friday - 7:00 pm-9:30 pm
Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
Randal Lee Cummings, California State University, Northridge, Presiding
Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information.
A15
Regional Secretaries
Saturday - 8:00 am-9:00 am
William J. Cassidy, III, Alfred University, Presiding
A16
Committee on International Connections
Saturday - 8:00 am-9:30 am
Mary McGee, Columbia University, Presiding
A17
New Technologies Task Force
Saturday - 8:00 am-11:30 am
Vivian-Lee Nyitray, University of California, Riverside
A18
Publications Committee I
Saturday - 8:30 am-10:45 am
Terry F. Godlove, Jr., Hofstra University, Presiding
A19
Committee on Teaching and Learning
Saturday - 8:30 am-11:00 am
Thomas V. Peterson, Alfred University, Presiding
A20
Bus Tour: Injustice in the Landscape of North Denver: Local Snapshots of
Environmental Racism
Saturday - 8:30 am-11:30 am
Sponsored by the Religion and Ecology Group, CLAASP, and COPEEN
Beth Blissman, Oberlin College; Loraine Granado, Colorado People's Environmental and Economic Network; and Michael McClain, Rhodes College, Presiding
Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information.
There will be a $15 charge for this bus tour. Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or download a registration form (requires PDF).
A21
Museum Tour: Museo de las Américas
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Sponsored by the Native Traditions in the Americas Group; Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group; U.S. Latino-a Religion, Culture and Society Group
Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information.
There will be a $10 charge for this bus tour. Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or download a registration form (requires PDF).
A22
Student Liaison Group Business Meeting
Saturday - 9:00 am-10:45 am
Elizabeth Pullen, Drew University, Presiding
A23
Regions Committee and Regional Officers
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:00 am
William J. Cassidy, III, Alfred University, Presiding
A24
Department Chairs Brunch
Saturday - 11:00 am-12:15 am
Sponsored by the Academic Relations Program
Edward R. Gray, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
A25
Plenary Address
Saturday - 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Rebecca S. Chopp, Yale University, Presiding
Theme: A Map to the Next World
Joy Harjo, Honolulu, HI
Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information.
A26
Publications Committee II
Saturday - 12:30 pm-1:00 pm
Terry F. Godlove, Jr., Hofstra University, Presiding
A27
Scholars to Schools Luncheon
Saturday - 12:30 pm-2:00 pm
Sponsored by the Religion in the Schools Task Force
Edward R. Gray, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
Panelists:
Jon Butler, Yale University
Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico
D. Keith Naylor, Occidental College
Katrina M. Poetker, Fresno Pacific University
Stephen Kaplan, Manhattan College
Advance reservations are necessary, please email ristf@aarweb.org to express interest. Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information.
A28
Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Sponsored by the Academic Relations Task Force
James B. Wiggins, Syracuse University, Presiding
Theme: The Study of Religion Counts: What We Know (and What We Don't)
about the Shape of the Field
Edward R. Gray, American Academy of Religion
What Have We
Learned?
Lance Selfa, National Opinion Research Center
How We Collected the
Data
Jonathan Z. Smith, University of Chicago
What Does the Data Say about
the Study of Religion?: A Private Sector Perspective
Linell E. Cady, Arizona State University
What Does the Data Say about
the Study of Religion?: A Public Sector Perspective
Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information.
A29
Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Christine M. Bochen, Nazareth College of Rochester, Presiding
Theme I: Introduction to World Religions as Practice: An Experiential
Approach
Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa
Becoming Pilgrims: The
Educational Pilgrimage as Active Learning Strategy in the Introductory World
Religions Course
Calvin Mercer, East Carolina University
Experiential Learning in the
World Religions Course
Richard M. Carp, Northern Illinois University
Experiential Religious
Education in the Context of World Civilization General Education
Theme II: Teaching as Autobiography: First Year Courses and Experiences
Caryn Donna Riswold, Valparaiso University
Oz, the NBA, and First-Born
Syndrome: Challenges and Successes in the First Year of Teaching
Ann Herpel, Union Theological Seminary, New York City
Getting My Feet Wet: A First
Hand Account of Teaching an Introductory Course in Religious Studies
A30
Buddhism Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Robert E. Buswell, University of California, Los Angeles, Presiding
Theme: Buddhism on the Silk Road
Jason Neelis, Florida State University
Long-Distance Transmission of
Buddhism from South Asia to the Silk Routes: New Evidence from Rock Drawings and
Inscriptions in Northern Pakistan
Vadim N. Yagodin, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of
Uzbekkistan
The Civilization of Ancient Chorasmia and Buddhism
Joseph Walser, Tufts University
Mahayana Textual Production on the Silk
Route
Mariko Namba Walter, University of New England
Death, Burials, and the
Afterlife in Buddhist Central Asia
Peter Zieme, Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der
Wissenschaften
Special Traits of Uighur Buddhism
Responding:
Jan Nattier, Indiana University, Bloomington
A31
Ethics Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Darryl Michael Trimiew, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Presiding
Theme: Politics and Faith: Family, Community, Commonwealth
Gloria H. Albrecht, University of Detroit Mercy
The Emperor's New
Clothes: Old "Ism's" in the New Marriage Movement
Joseph S. Pettit, University of Chicago
Hospitality and Housing: An
Intersection of Theology and Social Crisis
Erin E. Dufault-Hunter, University of Southern California
Do Converts
to Deeply Religious, Alternative Communities Promote or Destroy Social
Capital?
Elizabeth L. Hinson-Hasty, Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian
School of Christian Education
Vida Dutton Scudder on Character and the
Cooperative Commonwealth
A32
History of Christianity Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University, Presiding
Theme: Dressing and Undressing Christians: Clothing and Identity in
Christian Belief and Practice
Rebecca Krawiec, Canisius College, State University of New York,
Buffalo
Clothing as Monastic Identity in Late Antiquity: Examples from
Shenoute's White Monastery
Mary Meany, Siena College
Habits and Orders: Clothing and Medieval
Status Markers
Catherine Tinsley Tuell, Claremont Graduate University
"A Silly Poor
Gospel": Quaker 'Plain Dress' in the Seventeenth Century
Martha L. Finch, Southwest Missouri State University
"As In a Mirror":
Reflections of 'Savage' and 'Civil' Bodies in Early New England
Responding:
Margaret R. Miles, Graduate Theological Union
A33
North American Religions Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Albert G. Miller, Oberlin College, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Grant Wacker's Heaven Below: Early
Pentecostals and American Culture
Panelists:
Randall Balmer, Barnard College, Columbia University
Rudy V. Busto, Stanford University
Ann Taves, Claremont School of Theology
Responding:
Grant Wacker, Duke University
Business Meeting
Peter W. Williams, Miami University, and Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College, Presiding
A34
Philosophy of Religion Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Michael Raposa, Lehigh University, Presiding
Theme: Does Morality Need Faith?
James DiCenso, University of Toronto
Autonomy and Heteronomy in
Morality: Kant and Levinas
Tirdad Derakhshani, University of Pennsylvania
From Ethics to Faith:
Kant and Levinas on the Ineluctable Question
Sara McClintock, Carleton College
Faith in Karma: The Justification of
Moral Action in Śāntarakṣita and Kamalaṣīla
Matthew C. Ally, Temple University
Faith, Hope, and Normativity in
Sartre's (unpublished) Morale et Histoire
Responding:
Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles
A35
Religion in South Asia Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
John Cort, Denison University, Presiding
Theme: The Language of Religious Difference: Alterity in South Asian
Religions
Aditya Behl, Princeton University
An Ethnographer in Disguise:
Comparing Self and Other in Mughal India
Christopher Lee, Iowa State University
"Go Tell the Hindu and His
Gods": Images of Hindus and Hinduism in Muslim Urdu Poetry
Robin Rinehart, Lafayette College
The Dasam Granth in Sikh
History
Jeevan Singh Deol, Cambridge University
"The Third Path":
Eighteenth-Century Khalsa Sikh Discourses of Identity and Difference
A. Whitney Sanford, Iowa State University
When Dauji and Jakheiya
Speak, People Listen: Legitimizing Narratives of Deity Manifestations in
Sixteenth-Century Braj Devotion
A36
Study of Islam Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso University, Presiding
Theme: Producing the Sacred: Architecture and Rhetoric from Jerusalem to
China
Linda G. Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Khụtba and
the Transmission of Culture in Medieval al-Andalus and the Maghreb
Walid Saleh, Middlebury College
The Transformation of Medieval Qur'an
Exegesis
Margaret A. Leeming, University of California, Santa Barbara
The
Structure of Sacrality in the Arabic Literary Imagination: Djughrafiya and
Faḍā'il as Prosaic Maps of Medieval Baghdad and Jerusalem
Yuan-Lin Tsai, Nanhua University
The Origin and Development of the
Chinese Muslim Madrasa in Ming-Qing Era
A37
Theology and Religious Reflection Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Kathryn Tanner, University of Chicago, Presiding
Theme: Constructing Doctrine: Feminist/Womanist Maps
Karen Trimble Alliaume, Lewis University
Re-Performing Imitatio
Christi
Karen Baker-Fletcher, Claremont School of Theology
Jesus as Dust and
Spirit: An Incarnational Theology
Serene Jones, Yale University
Redeeming "No Memory": Crucifixion and
Traumatic Absence
Catherine E. Keller, Drew University
Something about Nothing: A
Feminist Reading of Creation
A38
Women and Religion Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Andrea Smith, University of California, Santa Cruz, Presiding
Theme: The Right to Family Planning, Contraception, and Abortion in World
and Indigenous Religions
Panelists:
Daniel C. Maguire, Marquette University
Sadiyya Shaikh, Temple University
Christine E. Gudorf, Florida International University
Arvind Sharma, McGill University
Laurie Zoloth, San Francisco State University
Mary C. Churchill, University of Colorado, Boulder
A39
Black Theology Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Linda E. Thomas, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: African American Literature in Black Theologies
Beth Eddy, Princeton University
Ellison's Blues: Tragicomic
Transcendence in an Absurd and Hopeful World
F. Douglas Powe, Emory University
A Tragic-Liberation Model: Hurston's
Perspective on Life and Systematic Evil
Yolanda Pierce, University of Kentucky
James Baldwin: Interpreter of
Tongues
Robin Hawley Gorsline, Brooklyn, NY
Baldwin and Lorde as Theological
Resources for the Celebration of Darkness
Business Meeting
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
A40
Christian Systematic Theology Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Sarah Coakley, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: The Doctrine of the Imago Dei
Philip D. Kenneson, Milligan College
Receptivity, Donation, and the
Imagination: Toward a Trinitarian Account of the Imago Dei
Jennifer Bader, Catholic University of America
The Alpha and the Omega
and Everything in Between: An Ecumenical Treatment of the Imago Dei
Maurice Lee, Yale University
Love's Reflection: Retrieving a Victorine
Pneumatology of the Imago Dei
Nonna Verna Harrison, Cambridge University
Human Community as an Image
of the Holy Trinity
The business meeting of the Christian Systematic Theology Group will be held at 7:00 am Tuesday; please see Additional Meetings listings for location.
A41
Church-State Studies Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Thomas Hughson, Marquette University, Presiding
Theme: Religion and the Courts: Minorities and Majorities
Sherryl L. Wright, Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver
Did
Majority Religion Rule the Bench? A Study of the Warren Court's Treatment of
Minority Religions
Clark Lombardi, Columbia University
The Federal Courts and Religious
Minorities: Rethinking the Mormon Polygamy Cases
Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary's College of California
New Religions and
the Problem of "Legitimacy": How Seeking and Requiring Legal/Political
Acceptance Undermines Religious Freedom in America
Business Meeting
Thomas Hughson, Marquette University, Presiding
A42
Eastern Orthodox Studies Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
John H. Erickson, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Dostoevsky as a Religious Novelist
P. Travis Kroeker, McMaster University
Dostoevsky's Apocalyptic Poetics
and Monastic Spirituality: Elder Zosima on Restorative Justice
Joe Barnhart, University of North Texas
The Quest for Fyodore
Dostoevsky's Christ
Wendy Wiseman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Freedom and the
Cosmos in the Novels of Fyodore Dostoevsky
Business Meeting
Robin Darling Young, Catholic University of America, Presiding
A43
Japanese Religions Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Ruben L. F. Habito, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
Theme: Sacred Space, Haunted Place
James L. Ford, Wake Forest University
Jōkei and the 'Place' of Devotion
in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
Ian Reader, Lancaster University
Geography, Footsteps, Legends, and
Symbols: The Construction of an Emotional Landscape in the Shikoku
Pilgrimage
Susan Blakeley Klein, University of California, Irvine
The Historical
Development of Premodern Japanese Ghosts
Elizabeth Kenney, Kansai Gaidai University
Hanako, the Toilet
Ghost
Responding:
Elizabeth G. Harrison, University of Arizona
A44
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Eric J. Ziolkowski, Lafayette College, Presiding
Theme: Setting the Self and Other in Context
Stacey Ake, Philadelphia Center for Religion and Science
The More
Profound the Anxiety, the More Profound the Culture
Vanessa P. Rumble, Boston College
Love and Difference: The Christian
Ideal in Kierkegaard's Works of Love
Avron Kulak, York University
Kierkegaard, Derrida, and the Context of
Context(s)
Helene Tallon Russell, Allegheny College
Willing to Become Oneself
Which Is Not One: Kierkegaard and Irigaray
Responding:
Stephen N. Dunning, University of Pennsylvania
Mark I. Wallace, Swarthmore College
A45
Person, Culture, and Religion Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Theme: Can We Use Evolutionary Psychology to Study Religion?
Michael T. Bradley, Jr., Decatur, GA
The Adapted Soul: Evolutionary
Psychology and the Study of Religion
David A. Hogue, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
A Stretch of
the Imagination: Memory, Image, and the Healing Brain
Gregory Love, Princeton Theological Seminary
Male Violence, Sin, and
Evolutionary Biology
Holmes Rolston, III, Colorado State University
Adapted Fitness and
Religious 'Genius'
The business meeting for the Person, Culture, and Religion Group will occur during their pre-session. Please see the Additional Meetings for time and location.
A46
Religion and Ecology Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University, Presiding
Theme: World Religions and Ecology: The Harvard Book Series and
Beyond
Panelists:
David L. Haberman, Indiana University, Bloomington
Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University
Kenneth L. Kraft, Lehigh University
Norman J. Girardot, Lehigh University
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University
Rosemary R. Ruether, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
John A. Grim, Bucknell University
Responding:
Bron R. Taylor, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
A47
Religion and Ethics in Healthcare Group and Religion and Popular Culture
Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Aline Kalbian, Florida State University, Presiding
Theme: Cultural Responses to Illness and Death
Heather D. Curtis, Harvard University
"The Lord for the Body":
Sickness, Health, and Divine Healing in Nineteenth-Century Protestantism
Kathleen Garces-Foley, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Buddhism, Hospice, and the American Way of Dying
Margaret R. McLean, Santa Clara University
End of Life Issues
Personally and Spiritually Explored (ELIPSE) – Lessons from a Latino
Community
Responding:
Gary M. Laderman, Emory University
A48
Ritual Studies Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Mario I. Aguilar, University of St. Andrews, Presiding
Theme: Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, and Native American
Revitalization
David A. Shorter, University of California, Santa Cruz
Ritual as
Writing: Reflecting on Yoeme Indian Religious Action
Jean Molesky-Poz, Graduate Theological Union
Maya Rituals: "To Connect
to the Center in Which We Trust"
Michael Zogry, Duke University
No Time Outs: Charting a Ritual History
of the Cherokee Ball Game
A49
Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Wesley Avram, Yale University, Presiding
Theme: Virtual Immortality? Theological Perspectives on New
Technologies
Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Techno-Science and the Mystical
Lissa McCullough, Hanover College
The New Question concerning
Technology: From Heidegger to Baudrillard
Responding:
Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University
Graham Ward, University of Manchester
Business Meeting
Cleo McNelly Kearns, Princeton University, Presiding
A50
Modern Historical Consciousness and the Christian Churches Seminar
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Charles J. T. Talar, St. Mary's Seminary and University, Presiding
Theme: Defining Historical Consciousness
Panelists:
Lawrence Barmann, Saint Louis University
Marcus J. Borg, Oregon State University
Michael J. Kerlin, La Salle University
Harvey Hill, Berry College
Historical Consciousness and the Briggs Trial
Responding:
Allen Davidson, Georgia Southern University
Business Meeting
Harvey Hill, Berry College, Presiding
A51
Augustine and Augustinianisms Consultation
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
John Peter Kenney, Saint Michael's College, Presiding
Theme: Grace and Freedom: The Career of the Pelagian Controversy
Jason A. Mahn, Emory University
Beyond Synergism: Luther's Alternative
Compatibilism
Michael R. Rackett, Duke University
What's Wrong With Pelagianism?
Augustine and Jerome on the Dangers of Pelagius and His Followers
Paul Rigby, University of Ottawa
The Role of God's "Inscrutable
Judgments" in Augustine's Doctrine of Predestination
Jared Witt, Yale University
Economies of Exchange: Pelagianism and
Reciprocity in Calvin's Theology
Responding:
Thomas F. Martin, Villanova University
A52
Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Sponsored by the EIS Advisory Panel
Richard A. Rosengarten, University of Chicago, Presiding
Theme: "If I Knew Then What I Know Now": Lessons from the First Year on
the Job
Panelists:
Faith Kirkham Hawkins, Gustavus Adolphus College
Thomas Pearson, Muhlenberg College
Michael J. Brown, Emory University
Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information.
A53
Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Racial & Ethnic Minorities in the Profession
Karen Baker-Fletcher, Claremont School of Theology, Presiding
Theme: Identity, Scholarship, and Teaching: Studying Religion
Cross-Culturally and Ethnically
Panelists:
José I. Cabezón, Iliff School of Theology
Laura E. Donaldson, Cornell University
Chris Jocks, Dartmouth College
Lawrence Mamiya, Vassar College
Amina Wadud, Virginia Commonwealth University
Responding:
Diana L. Eck, Harvard University
Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information.
A54
Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Deborah J. Haynes, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding
Theme: Bakhtin: Arts, Literature, and Religion
Crystal Downing, Messiah College
Consummation or Consumption?: Bakhtin
and the Ethics of Intertextuality
Paul J. Contino, Valparaiso University
Confession and Dialogical
Selfhood in Bakhtin
Susan M. Felch, Calvin College
M. M. Bakhtin's Perspectival
Realism
Graham Pechey, University of Hertforshire
Intercultural,
Intercreatural: Bakhtin and the Uniqueness of 'Literary Seeing'
A55
Buddhism Section and Japanese Religions Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Robert Rhodes, Otani University, Presiding
Theme: Current Research on the Jishū
J. Todd Brown, University of Arizona
Flowers from the Sky: Auspicious
Portents in Two Jishū Hagiographies
James H. Foard, Arizona State University
The Jishū Appropriation of
Icons: The Case of the Burned-Cheek Amida
S. A. Thornton, Arizona State University
The Yugyō Shōnin, Izumi
Shikibu, and the Rededication of the Seiganji in 1580
Diana E. Wright, Western Washington University
Concerns Both Sacred and
Mundane: The Jishū Nuns of Mantokuji
Responding:
Janet Goodwin, California State University, Stanislaus
A56
Comparative Studies in Religion Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee University, Presiding
Theme: Locating Sacrifice
Robin Darling Young, Catholic University of America
Christian Martyrs
and the Heavenly Temple: The Reinterpretation of Civic Sacrifice in the Ancient
Mediterranean World
Kathryn Teague McClymond, Georgia State University
Elements of
Sacrifice: A Polytheistic Approach
Thomas Wilson, Hamilton College
Liturgics of Confucian
Sacrifice
Charles D. Orzech, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Metaphors
of Sacrifice: Language and Ideology in the Interpretation of Buddhist
'Sacrifice'
Responding:
Barbara A. Holdrege, University of California, Santa Barbara
A57
History of Christianity Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Craig D. Atwood, Salem College, Presiding
Theme: Knowing Self, Knowing God: Identity and Epistemology in Medieval
and Modern Christianity
Jay Hammond, Quincy University
The Spiritual Optics of the Mirror in
Bonaventure's Itinerarium mentis in Deum: Constructing a Subjectivity of
Desire
Russell C. Kleckley, Newberry College
Stealing Golden Vessels: Johannes
Kepler on Wordly Knowledge and Christian Truth
Constance Furey, University of Chicago
Renewing the Mind: Changing
Models of Scholarly Piety in Early Modern Catholicism
Muriel Schmid, Princeton University
From the Prison to the
Penitentiary: The Understanding of Solitude as Penitence
Quinton Hosford Dixie, Indiana University, Bloomington
To Dwell
Together in Unity: The National Baptist Convention and the Racialization of
Christian Identity, 1895-1915
Amy Koehlinger, Yale University
Religious Inmates? Total Institutions
and American Sisters in the 1960s
A58
North American Religions Section and Native Traditions in the Americas
Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Frederick E. Detwiler, Adrian College, Presiding
Theme: Disputed Discourses: Sustaining and Constructing Indigenous
Identity
Julianne Cordero, University of California, Santa Barbara
The
Reciprocal Homeland: Multi-Directional Constructions of Culture, Religion, and
Healing among Natives and Non-Natives of California's South Coast
Tisa Wenger, Princeton University
Contesting Primitive Religion:
Progressives and Traditionalists in the 1920s Pueblo Dance Controversy
Maria Poviones-Bishop, Florida International University
Life from the
Water Mother: Archeological and Mythological Evidence for a Taino Creator
Goddess
Dennis Kelley, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Our Ancestors
Paddle with Us": A Response to the Authenticity Question in Contemporary Ritual
Construction within Native American Religious Practice
Responding:
Michael McNally, Harvard University
A59
Religion and the Social Sciences Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Claudia Schippert, University of Central Florida, Presiding
Theme: Virtual Practices: De/Reterritorializing Identities and the
Internet
Deirdre King Hainsworth, Princeton Theological Seminary
The "Digital
Persona" and Human Agency: Considerations from Law and Religious Ethics
Michael C. Mitchell, Boston University
The Cyber Sutra: The Psychology
of Connection and Isolation in the Digital Era
Ann M. Burlein, Meredith College
The Productive Power of Ambiguity:
When the Body Becomes a Virtual Practice
Responding:
Randall G. Styers, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
A60
Study of Islam Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Arthur F. Buehler, Louisiana State University, Presiding
Theme: The Quest for Spiritual Authority in Islam
Hugh Talat Halman, University of Arkansas
Vesting Authority: How
Initiations with Khidr and Uways Impact the Authority of the Murshid
Scott A. Kugle, Swarthmore College
Master Without a Master? Ahmad
Zarrūq and Spiritual Authority in Early-Modern North Africa
Laury Silvers-Alario, State University of New York, Stony Brook
A
Reassessment of Fritz Meier's Definition of the Teaching Relationship in Early
Sufism
Frederick S. Colby, Duke University
Cloaked in Spiritual Authority:
Sufis, Non-Sufis, and the Investiture of the Khirqa
Robert Rozehnal, Duke University
Like a Corpse in the Hands of a
Washerman: The Adab of Master-Disciple Relations among the Chishti-Sabiri Sufis
of Pakistan
Responding:
Qamar-ul Huda, Boston College
A61
Women and Religion Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Rachel A. R. Bundang, Union Theological Seminary, New York City,
Presiding
Theme: A Witness for/from Life: Writing Feminist Theology as an Act of
Resisting Violence
Rita Nakashima Brock, Harvard University and Rebecca Parker, Starr King
School for Ministry
A Witness for/from Life: Writing Feminist Theology as
an Act of Resisting Violence
Responding:
David R Blumenthal, Emory University
Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University
Traci C. West, Drew University
Marie M. Fortune, Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic
Violence
A62
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of Southern California, Presiding
Theme: Asian American Women and Protestant Christianity
Erika A. Muse, State University of New York, Albany
Chinese Evangelical Women As
'New Creations': Ethnic Identity and the Old and New in the Ethnic Church
Nami Kim, Harvard University
Asian Pacific American Protestant Women:
Histories and Profiles
Russell Jeung, University of California, Berkeley
Crouching Tigers,
Hidden Dragons: Women as Ministers at Asian American Protestant
Congregations
Responding:
Lara Medina, Claremont Graduate University
Greer Anne Wenh-In Ng, University of Toronto
Business Meeting
Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of Southern California, and David Kyuman Kim, Harvard University, Presiding
A63
Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Lori Brandt Hale, University of Virginia, Presiding
Theme: Bonhoeffer and the Theological Task
Jeffrey W. Robbins, Syracuse University
The Advance of a Theological
Ontology: The Continuing Contribution of Bonhoeffer for Continental Philosophy
of Religion
Connie Lasher, Boston College, St. Joseph's College of Maine
'Fellowhip
in Destiny': Christological Aesthetics and the 'Dialectics of Otherness'
Responding:
Barry A. Harvey, Baylor University
A64
Church-State Studies Group and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe
Consultation
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Andrii Krawchuk, St. Paul University, Presiding
Theme: Exporting the First Amendment: Religious Liberty in Central and
Eastern Europe
Eileen V. Barker, London School of Economics
"But Then Society Shall
Make All Sorts of Laws...: "Legislative and Cultural Regulation of Religion in
Central and Eastern Europe
Olga Kazmina, Moscow State University
Religion and Building of Civil
Society in Post-Communist Russia
Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University
Confronting the Byzantine
Legacy: Orthodoxy and Modern Democracy
Katharina Von Kellenbach, St. Mary's College of Maryland
The Church and
the Nuremberg Trials
Business Meeting
J. Shawn Landres, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Leslie A. Muray, Curry College, Presiding
A65
Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Mary Keller, University of Stirling, Presiding
Theme: Religion and/as Construction I: Is Construction Itself a
Construct?
Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Tracking
Religion: Critical Studies, Cultural Studies, and the Study of Religion
Karen de Vries, University of California, Santa Cruz
Constructing the
Mind-Brain: Cognition, Conversation, and Conversion in the Scientific Study of
Religion
Roland Boer, Monash University
Marxism and Constructionism
Steven Engler, Mount Royal College
Social Constructionism vs.
What?
Responding:
Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University
A66
Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Donald L. Boisvert, Concordia University, Presiding
Theme: Sins of the Flesh or Acts of Grace?
John Blevins, Emory University
Oedipus Wrecks: Psychodynamic
Psychology, Pastoral Theology, and Ex-Gay Ministries
Ronald E. Long, Hunter College
Semantic Intercourse: The
Interpenetration of 'Religion' and 'Gay'
James E. Miller, Madison, WI
The Necessary Evil
David Sollis, King Alfred's College
Queering Death: The Reconnection of
Desire and Immortality in the Funeral Liturgies of Gay Christian Men in the UK
with AIDS
Responding:
Jay E. Johnson, Richmond, CA
Business Meeting
Jay E. Johnson, Richmond, CA, and Donald L. Boisvert, Concordia University
Presiding
A67
Hinduism Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
John S. Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia University, Presiding
Theme: Defamation/Anti/Defamation: Hindus in Dialogue with the Western
Academy
Panelists:
Swami Tyagananda, Vedanta Society
Varadaraja V. Raman, Rochester Institute of Technology
E. F. Bryant, Rutgers University
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida
Rajiv Malhotra, Infinity Foundation
Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University
Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University
Kala Acharya, Somaiya Vidya Vihar
A68
Korean Religions Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Young Chan Ro, George Mason University, Presiding
Theme: Korean Transformation of Buddhism or Buddhist Transformation of
Korea?
Panelists:
Robert E. Buswell, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert M. Gimello, Harvard University
John R. McRae, Indiana University, Bloomington
Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University
Cuong Tu Nguyen, George Mason University
A69
Mysticism Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Eugene Taylor, Harvard University, Saybrook Institute, Presiding
Theme: Eros, Love, and Mysticism
Kerry Skora, Hiram College
Abhinavagupta's Erotic Mysticism:
Experiencing Reality in/as Orgasmic Sexual Union
Yudit K. Greenberg, Rollins College
Love and Eros in Midrash Song of
Songs Rabba
Elizabeth Pullen, Drew University
The Virgin Sophia and the Spiritual
Bridegroom: Eros and Androgyny in the Mysticism of Georg Conrad Beissel
Graham M. Schweig, Christopher Newport University
Passionate Love as
Selfless Devotion in the Caitanyaite Bhakti Tradition
A70
New Religious Movements Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico, Presiding
Theme: Metaphysical Religions: Christian Science and New Thought in
American Culture
Dell deChant and Dawn Hutchinson, University of South Florida
The
Problem of Contemporary Gnosticism: Encounters with a Suspect Term
Margo Smith, University of South Florida
Christian Science and
Buddhism: Healing Modalities for the New Millennium?
Holly Folk, Indiana University, Bloomington
Problems of Leadership in
Chiropractic History: A Study of the Palmer Family
John K. Simmons, Western Illinois University
Was Mary Baker Eddy an
Apocalyptic Eschatologist or an Ethical Eschatologist?
Business Meeting
Mike Ashcraft, Truman State University, Presiding
A71
Platonism and Neoplatonism Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Jay Bregman, University of Maine, Orono, Presiding
Theme: Neoplatonic Interpretations of the Platonic Dialogues
Michael R. Cox, University of California, Santa Barbara
Reading
Neoplatonism as Platonism: An Examination of the Relationship between Platonism
and Neoplatonism along Methodologiaca Lines
Holger Zaborowski, Oxford University
Ralph Cudworth's Platonism and the
Continuity of Platonic Thought
Kevin Corrigan, Emory University
Plotinus' Interpretation of Plato's
Middle Dialogues
J. Noel Hubler, Lebanon Valley College
Plotinus and the Myth of the
Fall: An Example of Plotinus' Powers of Philosophical Synthesis
Business Meeting
Jay Bregman, University of Maine, Orono, and Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
A72
Religion and Science Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Ernest L. Simmons, Concordia College, Presiding
Theme: Science and Models of the Divine: Neuroscience and
Personhood
Michael L. Spezio, University of Oregon
Feeling the Other: Implications
of a Neuroscience of Emotion for Religious Discourse
Judith Kovach, Boston University
Pondero Ergo Sum: The Body as the
Ground of Religion, Science, and Self
Nathaniel Barrett, Cambridge, MA
Neuroscience and the Social
Self
Responding:
Karl E. Peters, University of Hartford
To obtain papers for both sessions, please send a written request plus reproduction and postage costs (US$15 for mailing in the US and Canada; US$20 for international mailing) to Ernest L. Simmons, Box 313, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN 56562. Please make checks or money orders payable to Concordia College. Requests must be mailed by November 1, 2001, to ensure that papers are delivered before the Annual Meeting.
A73
Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Lois Lorentzen, University of San Francisco, Presiding
Theme: Reconciliation, Memory, Forgiveness in Latin America: Truth and
Reconciliation Commissions
Iain S. Maclean, James Madison University
Truth and Reconciliation:
Hope for the Nations or Only as Much as Is Possible?
Mario I. Aguilar, University of St. Andrews
The Mesa de Diálogo and the
Fate of the Disappeared in Chile 1999-2000: National Forgiveness Without
Political Truth?
Michael Battle, Duke University
Truth and Reconciliation between Chile
and South Africa
David Tombs, University of Surrey
Memory, Reconciliation, and
Redemption: The Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Guatemala
Brett Greider, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Pan-Mayan Religious
Resurgence and Reconciliation in Guatemala: Indigenous Cultural Memory and
Recovery after the Truth Commissions
Responding:
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Brown University
A74
Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
William L. Blizek, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Presiding
Theme: Transformative Images in Contemporary Film
Melissa Conroy, Syracuse University
The Invisible Body of God in
Hollow Man
Alyda Faber, McGill University
Representing Saintliness: Lars von
Trier's Dancer in the Dark
Hyo-Dong Lee, Vanderbilt University
The Mythical Vision of a
Disillusioned Marxist?: Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke in Dialogue
with the 'Dialectic of Enlightenment'
Lori C. Patton, Vanderbilt University
Girls, Gods, and Monsters:
Healing from the Margins in the Anime of Hayao Miyazaki
James K. A. Smith, Loyola Marymount University
The Camera as Sacrament:
An Incarnational Film Theory in American Beauty
A75
Roman Catholic Studies Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Jeffrey Marlett, College of Saint Rose, Presiding
Theme: Roman Catholicism and the Environment
Stephen B. Scharper, University of Toronto
Green Sisters
John Hart, Carroll College
Sacramental Universe, Sacramental Commons:
Environmental Theology in a Bioregional Context
Doug Burton-Christie, Loyola Marymount University
The Wild and the
Sacred: The Columbia River Watershed Letter and the Meaning of Community
Business Meeting
Phyllis Zagano, New York, NY, and Jeffrey Marlett, College of Saint Rose, Presiding
A76
Schleiermacher Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Julia A. Lamm, Georgetown University, Presiding
Theme: Contemporary Constructive Theology and the Theological Heritage of
Schleiermacher
Panelists:
Richard R. Niebuhr, Harvard University
Marjorie Suchocki, Claremont School of Theology
Roger D. Haight, Western Theological Seminary
Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Harvard University
A77
Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 5:00 pm-6:15 pm
Edward R. Gray, American Academy of Religion
Theme: Introduction to the AAR
Panelists:
Mark Lloyd Taylor, Seattle University
Jorunn J. Buckley, Bowdoin College
Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, Indiana University, Bloomington
A78
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. Please see the AAR's Annual Fund page for more information.
A79
Reception for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession
Saturday - 6:15 pm-7:00 pm
The AAR's 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.
A80
Presidential Plenary Address and Awards Presentation
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida, Presiding
Theme: Beyond the Founding Fratricidal Conflict: Scholarship of Religion
and a Renewed Public Academy
Rebecca S. Chopp, Yale University
Prior to the Presidential Address, the following awards will be presented:
Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion
Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion
Award for Best First Book in the History of Religions
Award for Excellence in Teaching
Award for Best In-Depth News Reporting
Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information.
A81
Arts Series Film: Enemies of War
Saturday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm
Sponsored by the Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group
Anna Peterson, University of Florida, Presiding
A82
History of Religions Jury
Saturday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm
Alan F. Segal, Barnard College, Presiding
A83
AAR Members Reception
Saturday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm
Back by popular demand, AAR members are invited to join one another at the re-instated AAR Members Reception. This year the reception is complete with music and dancing.
A84
Arts Series Film: 2001:
A Space Odyssey
Saturday - 8:30 pm-11:00 pm
Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
Tony S. L. Michael, University of Toronto, Presiding
A85
Women's Caucus Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
Sponsored by the Women's Caucus and AAR's Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group
Interested persons are invited to a reception honoring women's contributions in the Academy.
A86
Student Member Reception
Saturday - 10:00 pm-11:00 pm
AAR and SBL student members are invited to drop by an open house hosted by the AAR and SBL executive staffs.
A87
JAAR Editorial Board
Sunday - 7:00 am-7:30 am
Glenn E. Yocum, Whittier College, Presiding
A88
AAR Annual Business Meeting and Continental Breakfast
Sunday - 7:30 am-8:45 am
Rebecca S. Chopp, Yale University, Presiding
AAR members are encouraged to join the AAR's Board of Directors for the annual business meeting of the Academy. A light breakfast will be provided.
A89
Special Topics Forum
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
CANCELLED
Sponsored by the Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion
Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College, Presiding
Theme: Law Enforcement, the Media, and Religious Groups in Crisis
Situations: A Simulation
Panelists:
Michael Barkun, Syracuse University
Mary Walsh, CBS News
Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University, New Orleans
CANCELLED
A90
Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Sidney Brown, University of the South, Presiding
Theme: Reading Texts, Paradigms, and Cultural Practices: New Pedagogical
Strategies
Larry Golemon, Graduate Theological Union
Ethnography, Contextual
Theology, and Postcolonial Teaching Practices
Marilyn Gottschall, Whittier College
Teaching Epistemic Diversity
through Sacred Sound
David Mellott, Emory University
What Our Students Have to Teach Us:
Pedagogical Reflections on Teaching an Introductory Course on the History of
Christianity
Eve L. Mullen, Universität Hamburg
Buddhism and Western Pop Culture in
the Classroom: Exposing Orientalism
Andrew L. Pratt and Allen Gathman, Southeast Missouri State
University
Stacking the Deck to Teach Methodological Parallels in Science
and Religion
A91
Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Brian M. Britt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Presiding
Theme: True West
Sheila Hassell Hughes, Dayton University
Corn Mother Does the
Pentecostal Conga: Joy Harjo's Forbidden Bible
David H. Perkins, Vanderbilt University
Cosmic Cowboy Christ: The
Cinematic Christology of Poet/Singer Judee Sill
Christy Cousino, Indiana University, Bloomington
How the West Was
Embodied: Expansionist Devotion and Marian Adventure Narratives
Lynn Ross-Bryant, University of Colorado, Boulder
Constructing the
'True West'
James H. Thrall, Duke University
"Mother Wants You": Frontiers of
Desire in Shane
Lynn S. Neal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Lure of
the Western Landscape in Evangelical Romance Novels
A92
Buddhism Section and Chinese Religions Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Robert Sharf, University of Michigan, Presiding
Theme: Merit and Exchange in Chinese and Indian Buddhism
Charles B. Jones, Catholic University of America
The Paradox of
Precepts in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism
Reiko Ohnuma, Dartmouth College
Gifts, Merit, and Reciprocity in Indian
Buddhism
Michael Walsh, Vassar College
The
Possibilities of Merit in Thirteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Monastic
Arenas
Yu Xue, University of Iowa
Merit Making and Merit Transfer in Chinese
Buddhism
Responding:
Jamie Hubbard, Smith College
A93
Ethics Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Paul Custodio Bube, Kansas Wesleyan University, Presiding
Theme: New Uses of Classical Sources
Bonna Devora Haberman, Brandeis University
Unmasking the Book of
Esther: Toward the Freedom of Prostituted Slaves
Darby Kathleen Ray, Millsaps College
Christic Imagination: Classical
Warrants for an Ethic of Resistance and Ingenuity
Daniel M. Bell, Jr., Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary
Sacrifice and Suffering: Beyond
Justice, Human Rights, and Capitalism
Andrew Flescher, California State University, Chico
Following the
Suffering Saint: Revisiting the Exhortations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and
Dorothy Day
A94
History of Christianity Section and Religion and Popular Culture Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College, Presiding
Theme: Disciplined Souls, Fit Bodies: Christian Gospels of the Body and
the American Production of Masculine Citizens
R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University
Manly Starvation: Fasting,
Fitness, and Masculinity During the Progressive Era
Kathryn A. Johnson, Barnard College
"St. Anthony's Crushes St.
Joseph's": Catholic Saints in Action
Heather Hendershot, Queens College
Chaste Virility: Controlling the
Bodies of Evangelical Boys
Responding:
J. Terry Todd, Drew University
A95
North American Religions Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Briane K. Turley, West Virginia University, Presiding
Theme: Mapping Religion in North America
John Corrigan, Arizona State University
Mapping French and Spanish
Colonial Missions in North America
Kevin Mickey, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
The
North American Religion Atlas
Benjamin C. Ray, University of Virginia
Mapping the Salem Witch
Trials
Responding:
Joel W. Martin, University of California, Riverside
A96
Philosophy of Religion Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Thomas P. Kasulis, Ohio State University, Presiding
Theme: The Anthropic Cosmological Principle: Life and the Cosmos
Panelists:
Holmes Rolston, III, Colorado State University
Gerald James Larson, Indiana University, Bloomington
Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University
Sherrilyn Roush, Rice University
Nancey Murphy, Fuller Theological Seminary
A97
Religion and the Social Sciences Section and Womanist Approaches to Religion
and Society Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Marcia Y. Riggs, Columbia Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: On Cheryl Townsend Gilkes' If It Wasn't for the Women: Black
Women's Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community
Daphne C. Wiggins, Duke University
Ingenuity or More of the Same?
Gender Roles and Rhetoric in African American Congregations
Katie Geneva Cannon, Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of
Christian Education
No Room for Neutrality: A Womanist Analysis of Ethics
in Sociology
Responding:
Lawrence Mamiya, Vassar College
Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College
A98
Religion in South Asia Section and Hinduism Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Sarah Caldwell, California State University, Chico, Presiding
Theme: Embracing Orientalism: South Asian Spirituality in Global
Context
Yvette Claire Rosser, University of Texas, Austin
Un-deconstructing
the Mother of Fuzzy Centers: The Limits of Postmodernism in Understanding Indic
Traditions
Stuart R. Sarbacker, Loyola University, Chicago
Finding a Middle
Ground: Religion, Culture, and Context
Hugh B. Urban, Ohio State University
Tantra, American Style:
Neo-Orientalism, Globalism, and the Western Appropriation of Tantra
Roxanne Poormon Gupta, Albright College
Embracing Orientalism and
Exposing the Goddess: Devipuram and the De-Esotericization of the Erotic
East
Responding:
J. J. Clarke, Kingston University
A99
Study of Islam Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Zayn Kassam, Pomona College, Presiding
Theme: Signifying Women: Representation, Dress, and Islamic Law
Kecia Ali, Duke University
Women, Gender, and Islamic Law: Teaching
about Classical Doctrine, Court Practice, and Contemporary Legal Reform
Hollie Kopp, Colorado State University
Dress and Diversity: Muslim
Women's Dress Choice in an Immigrant Context
Mehnaz Afridi, National University
Perceptions of Muslim Women:
Stereotypes, Myths, and the Imagination
Lynda Clarke, Concordia University
Recent Debates over Child Custody in
the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Struggle for Women's Rights
Business Meeting
Zayn Kassam, Pomona College and Jonathan E. Brockopp, Bard College,
Presiding
A100
Study of Judaism Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Martin Kavka, Florida State University, Presiding
Theme: Re-Structuring Logic in Jewish Thought
Daniel Katz, Judiska Församlingen
Aural Histories of the Holocaust:
Jewish Identity in Contemporary Classical Music
Leah Hochman, University of Florida
Judaism and the Rise of the New
Aesthetic
Aubrey L. Glazer, University of Toronto
Towards a Poetics of the Holy
in Judaism
Susan E. Shapiro, Columbia University
Reading for Gender in (Jewish)
Philosophy
A101
Theology and Religious Reflection Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Paul F. Lakeland, Fairfield University, Presiding
Theme: Theologies of Tradition
Panelists:
Roger D. Haight, Western Theological Seminary
Kathryn Tanner, University of Chicago
Orlando O. Espin, University of San Diego
Responding:
John E. Thiel, Fairfield University
Terrence W. Tilley, University of Dayton
A102
Women and Religion Section and Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Jane Caputi, Florida Atlantic University, Presiding
Theme: The Challenge of Marcella Althaus-Reid's Indecent Theology
Panelists:
Lisa Isherwood, College of St. Mark and St. John
Robert E. Goss, Webster University
Emilie M. Townes, Union Theological Seminary, New York City
Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School
Responding:
Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid, University of Edinburgh
A103
Confucian Traditions Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
John H. Berthrong, Boston University, Presiding
Theme: Boston Confucianism
Zhonghu Yan, University of Toronto
Herbert Fingareete's Representation
of the Confucian Tradition and What It Means for Boston Confucianism
Mark W. Graham, Indiana University, Bloomington
Twenty-First-Century
New Confucianism in North America: A Movement or Moment?
Mark Allen Berkson, Hamline University
Confucian Texts in Pedagogical
Contexts
Business Meeting
John H. Berthrong, Boston University and Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, Presiding
A104
Eastern Orthodox Studies Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Brian E. Daley, University of Notre Dame, Presiding
Theme: St. Cyril of Alexandria: God and Human Suffering
J. Warren Smith, Yale University
"Suffering Impassibly": Christ's
Passion and Divine Impassibility in Cyril of Alexandria
Pavel L. Gavrilyuk, Southern Methodist University
Theopatheia:
Nestorius' Main Charge against Cyril of Alexandria
Nonna Verna Harrison, Cambridge University
Cyril of Alexandria on the
Curse of Eve
A105
Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Sarah Iles Johnston, Ohio State University, Presiding
Theme: The Discourse of Idolatry I
Froma Zeitlin, Princeton University
Seeing the Gods: Idols, Images, and
Representations of the Divine
Responding:
Jan N. Bremmer, Ryksuniversiteit, Groningen
David Frankfurter, University of New Hampshire
Annabel Wharton, Duke University
A106
Native Traditions in the Americas Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding
Theme: Panel Review of the Significance of Vine Deloria, Jr.'s Work for
the Study of Native American Religious Issues
Panelists:
Sammy Toineeta, National Council of Churches
Jace Weaver, Yale University
Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara
Julian Kunnie, University of Arizona
Richard Grounds, University of Tulsa
Responding:
Vine Deloria, Jr., University of Colorado, Boulder
A107
Nineteenth-Century Theology Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Dawn A. De Vries, Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of
Christian Education, Presiding
Theme: The Reception of Greek Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century Religious
Thought
J. Noel Hubler, Lebanon Valley College
A Tale of Two Plotini: Hegel's
Reading and Use of Plotinus
Craig Q. Hinkson, Liberty University
Kierkegaard, Socrates, and the
Maieutic Art
R. D. Hedley, Cambridge University
The Winged Chariot: Imagination and
the Vision of God
Lori Pearson, Harvard University
The Rhetorical Function of the
Category of Stoicism in Troeltsch's Soziallehren
Papers will be introduced and discussed, not read. Printed papers for both sessions of the Nineteenth-Century Theology Group are available in advance for $20 from Joseph W. Pickle, Jr., Religion Department, Colorado College, 14 E. Cache La Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80907. Auditors are welcome. The business meeting of the Nineteenth-Century Theology Group will be held at 7:00 am Sunday, prior to A107 in the same room.
A108
Religion and Ethics in Healthcare Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Suzanne Holland, University of Puget Sound, Presiding
Theme: Genetic Narratives: Privacy, Privilege, and Cultural
Identity
Dena S. Davis, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
On Beyond Stigma:
Genetic Research, Ethnic Groups, and Communal Narratives
Hilda R. Davis, Vanderbilt University
Genetics and African-American
Women: Choice for Hope or Despair
Deirdre King Hainsworth, Princeton Theological Seminary
The Bounds of
Privilege: Health Care Practice Norms and the Problem of Privacy
Laurie Zoloth, San Francisco State University
"We Have Found the Book
of Life": The Sacred Text of DNA, Ethics, and NIH Education Films
Business Meeting
Charlene A. Galarneau, Tufts University and Suzanne Holland, University of
Puget Sound, Presiding
A109
Ritual Studies Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Madeline Duntley, College of Wooster, Presiding
Theme: Dismantling the Rites of Passage Paradigm
Panelists:
Ronald L. Grimes, Wilfrid Laurier University
Stephen Prothero, Boston University
Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State University
Business Meeting
Mario I. Aguilar, University of St. Andrews and Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa
State University, Presiding
A110
Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Walter Lowe, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Ethics and Recognition: Hegel, Levinas, and the Problem of
Symmetry, A Discussion with Robert Gibbs ("Why Ethics?") and Robert R. Williams
("Ethics of Recognition")
Panelists:
Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto
Robert R. Williams, University of Illinois, Chicago
A111
Religion and Disability Studies Consultation
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Maureen Connolly, Brock University, Presiding
Theme: Why the Curiously Troubled Relationship between Religion and
Disability?
Rebecca M. Raphael, Southwest Texas State University
And the Deaf Shall
Hear: Religious Responses to Cochlear Implantation
Virginia Bemis, Ashland University
Christ in the Coat Closet:
Disability and Spirituality in Reynolds Price
Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver
The
Withered Hand of God: Theology and the Experience of Disability
Business Meeting
Tom Craig, Brock University, Presiding
A112
Religions, Medicines, and Healing Consultation
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Linda L. Barnes, Boston University, Presiding
Theme: African Diaspora Healing Traditions in the Americas
Will Coleman, Columbia Theological Seminary
African/American "Root
Work" as a Strategy for Psychological Health and Wholenes
Rosemary D. Gooden, DePaul University
Send for Mrs. Mix and Be Cured:
The Life and Healing Ministry of Sarah Mix, 1832-1884
Stephanie Y. Mitchem, University of Detroit, Mercy
"Jesus Is My Doctor":
Healing and Religion in African American Women's Live
Patrick A. Polk; Donald J. Cosentino; and Michael Owen Jones, University of
California, Los Angeles
Invisible Hospitals: Botanicas in Los
Angeles
Responding:
Jualynne E. Dodson, University of Colorado, Boulder
Business Meeting
Linda L. Barnes, Boston University, Presiding
A113
Special Topics Forum
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Sponsored by the Program Committee
Rebecca S. Chopp, Yale University, Presiding
Theme: Crossing Boundaries and Creating Connections: Religion and the
Research University
Panelists:
George Rupp, Columbia University
Leo J. O'Donovan, Georgetown University
A114
Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Arthur Sutherland, Loyola College in Maryland, Presiding
Theme: From Classroom to Community: Social Justice and Service
Learning
Carol Harris-Shapiro, Temple University
Service Learning and Religious
Studies: An Awkward Fit
Christopher Johnson, Gustavus Adolphus College
Teaching and Learning
for Life: Service Learning, Vocation, and Social Justice
David T. Stewart, University of California, Berkeley
"Seeing - Judging
- Acting": The Bible as a Text for Critical Reflection in Community Based
Learning
Charles R. Strain, DePaul University
Building a Ladder of Social
Engagement: Service Learning, Student Development and the Transformation of
Institutional Practice
Kenneth B. Homan, Quincy University
Real-Life Monopoly, Pedagogy, and
Social Justice
Business Meeting
Christine M. Bochen, Nazareth College of Rochester and Barbara A. B.
Patterson, Emory University, Presiding
A115
Comparative Studies in Religion Section
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Jeffrey D. Carter, Castle Rock Institute, Presiding
Theme: Comparison in the History of Religions: Reflections and
Critiques
Panelists:
Pia Altieri, Gettysburg College
Darlene M. Juschka, University of Regina
Luther H. Martin, University of Vermont
Hugh B. Urban, Ohio State University
Joanne Punzo Waghorne, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jeppe S. Jensen, University of Aarhus
Responding:
Jonathan Z. Smith, University of Chicago
Business Meeting
Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College and Kay A. Read, DePaul University,
Presiding
A116
North American Religions Section
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Theme: Crossing a Continental Divide: Accounting for Religion in the
American West
Panelists:
Patricia Limerick, University of Colorado, Boulder
Jan Shipps, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ferenc Morton Szasz, University of New Mexico
A117
Religion and the Social Sciences Section
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Douglas A. Hicks, University of Richmond, Presiding
Theme: Religion, Civil Society, and Social Capital
Rebecca Allahyari, School of American Research
"For Christ and for
Liberty": Homeschooling for Virtue
Jennifer Harvey, Union Theological Seminary, New York City
White
Lynchers and Blackfaced Minstrels: Racial Domination and Obsession in the
Formation of White Identity
Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University
Expanding Public Policy Discourse:
The Role of Civil Society in Transforming Economic Globalization
Paul C. Johnson, University of Missouri, Columbia
The Indigenized
Migrations of "Time/Space Compression": The Garifuna of Honduras and the
Bronx
Responding:
Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Seattle University
A118
Religion in South Asia Section
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University, Presiding
Theme: Masquerade, Shape-Shifting, and Metamorphosis in Indian
Traditions
Arti Dhand, University of Toronto
Tales of Metamorphosis in the
Mahābhārata: Masculine Identity in Crisis
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Emory University
Guises, Turmeric, and
Recognition in the Gangamma Tradition of Tirupati
Vijaya Nagarajan, University of San Francisco
Yantras and Women's
Rituals: Art as a Locus of Transformed Powers
Lise F. Vail, Montclair State University
Wild and Innocent Faces:
Ascetic Masquerade in the Samnyasa Upanishads
Tamar C. Reich, Tel-Aviv University
Divine Masquerades: Kṛsṇa's
Ambivalent Epiphany to Uttaṅka in the Mahābhārata
Responding:
Aditya Adarkar, University of Chicago
A119
Study of Judaism Section
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Barbara E. Galli, McGill University, Presiding
Theme: Mysticism
Pinchas Giller, University of Judaism
Isolating the Meditative Element
in Lurianic Prayer
Michael D. Swartz, Ohio State University
A Scribal Aesthetic: Visual
Elements in Jewish Amulets and Related Genres
Shaul Magid, Jewish Theological Seminary
Translating into Tradition:
Reflections on the Recent Hebrew Writings of Rabbi Zalman
Schachter-Shalomi
Business Meeting
Barbara E. Galli, McGill University and Randi Rashkover, York College of
Pennsylvania, Presiding
A120
Women and Religion Section
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University, Presiding
Theme: Embodied Theologies: Responding to Eating Disorders, Disfigurement,
Illness, and Rape
Michelle M. Lelwica, Saint Mary's College of California
Leg-Lifts,
Calories, and Other Spiritual Matters: Third Wave Feminism and an American
Religion of the Body
Terri Munroe, Pacifica Graduate Institute
The Mercurial Texture of
Beauty: Women Living with Disfigurement
Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology, University of
Denver
Searching for the Sacred in Illness: Feminist Theology and the
Embodiment of God
Kristen Leslie, Yale University and Marit Trelstad, Pacific Lutheran
University
After Rape: Pastoral Counseling and Theological Reconstructions
of Women's Agency
Responding:
Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary, New York City
A121
African Religions Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Kathleen O'Brien Wicker, Scripps College, Presiding
Theme: New Religious Movements in Africa
Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton, University of Virginia
Millennial Islam in
Western Kenya: Indigenous Movement or Colonial Chimera?
Anthony A. Lee, Cypress College
The Bahâí Faith in West Africa
Kofi A. Opoku, Lafayette College
The Musama Disco Christo Church and
the Indigenization of Christianity in Ghana
Emmanuel K. Twesigye, Ohio Wesleyan University
The Movement for the
Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
Business Meeting
Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University and Kathleen O'Brien Wicker,
Scripps College, Presiding
A122
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group and Indigenous Religious Traditions Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Julian Kunnie, University of Arizona, Presiding
Theme: Religion, Aging, and Eldership in North America
Dianne Stewart, Emory University
Eldership in Trinidad's Yoruba/Orisha and Spiritual Baptist
Traditions
Peter Yuichi Clark, Emory University
Dynamics of Hoping in Aging Second
Generation Japanese Americans
Michael D. McNally, Harvard University
Elders Making Tradition: Elders,
Authority, and Ojibwe Cult