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Orsi, Harvard University, Presiding A3 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. A4 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. A5 Teaching and Learning Committee Meeting Friday - 6:30 pm-8:30 pm Carey J. Gifford, American Academy of Religion, Presiding A6 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. A7 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. A8 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. A9 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 Student Liaison Group Margaret A. Kulyk, American Express Financial Advisors, Presiding See the Program Highlights page for a description. Please RSVP online. A280 Best Practices in Collecting Oral Histories Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Noted oral historian Clifford Kuhn will conduct a workshop on "Best Practices in Collecting Oral Histories." Kuhn is past president of the Oral History Association. The session will be limited to 25 participants. Contact Barbara DeConcini to register for the workshop. There is no cost, but we hope some participants will agree to conduct interviews as part of the AAR Oral History Project. A14 Pitts Theology Library/Michael C. Carlos Museum Tour Saturday - 9:30 am-12:00 pm Pitts tour sponsored by the AAR's Theology and Religious Reflection Section; Reformed Theology Group; Wesleyan Studies Group. Carlos tour sponsored by the AAR's Arts, Literature, and Religion Section; Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group; Anthropology of Religion Consulation Please arrive fifteen minutes early and gather by MM-International Hall South. See the Program Highlights page for a description. A21 David Plante - A Personal Experience Saturday - 11:30 am-12:30 pm Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: A Personal Experience David Plante, Columbia University See the Program Highlights page for a description. A22 Japanese Scholars' Lunch Reception Saturday - 12:30 pm-2:00 pm Sponsored by the International Connections Committee Visiting Japanese scholars and invited guests are cordially welcome to a light lunch reception held in honor of Japanese scholars' contributions to the academy. A23 PEW - From Side Show to Center Stage: Mainstreaming the Study of Religion at Major Research Universities Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts Diane Winston, the Pew Charitable Trusts, Presiding Theme: From Side Show to Center Stage: Mainstreaming the Study of Religion at Major Research Universities Panelists: Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University Robert Sullivan, University of Notre Dame Angela Zito, New York University Donald Miller, University of Southern California James Davison Hunter, University of Virginia See the Program Highlights page for a description. A24 SLG - Introduction to the AAR Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Student Liaison Group Richard Amesbury, Valdosta State University, Presiding Theme: Introduction to the AAR Panelists: Kimberly Rae Connor, University of San Francisco Carey J. Gifford, American Academy of Religion Susan E. Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Sarah Heaner Lancaster, Methodist Theological School in Ohio Mark Lloyd Taylor, Seattle University See the Program Highlights page for a description. A25 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and History, Method, and Theory in Religion Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Norman J. Girardot, Lehigh University, Presiding Theme: New Directions in the Study of Art and Religion: The Case of Self-Taught/Outsider/Vernacular Art Panelists: Paul Ivey, University of Arizona Charles Russell, Rutgers University Jenifer Borum, City University of New York David Parker, University College Northampton Carol Crown, University of Memphis Jeffrey Hayes, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Erika Doss, University of Colorado, Boulder Responding: S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University A26 Buddhism Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University, Presiding Theme: Contributions to the Study of Buddhism Michael Como, College of William and Mary Medicine, Immortality and Yoshino David Drewes, University of Virginia Caitya Comparisons in Indian Buddhist Texts: A Reevaluation of the Evidence for a Cult of the Book in Indian Mahayana Christian K. Wedemeyer, University of Chicago Beef, Dog, and Other Mythologies: Connotative Semiotics in Mahayoga Tantra Ritual Justin McDaniel, Ohio University Negotiating with the Pali: Lao Buddhist Homiletics and the Kammavaca Nissaya Kyoko Tokuno, University of Washington Unraveling the Paradox of "Canonical Apocrypha" in Chinese Buddhism Business Meeting: Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University, and Peter N. Gregory, Smith College, Presiding A27 Ethics Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Darryl Michael Trimiew, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, Presiding Theme: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Exploring the Moral Obligations to Eliminate Marginality Albino Barrera, Providence College Ethical Foundations for Ameliorative Economic Policies: An Illustration of Why Religion Matters for Social Ethics James L. Rowell, University of Pittsburgh Religious Realism and Inequality in Comparative Analysis Joseph S. Pettit, DePaul University Religion, Inequality, and the Common Good: Why Democracy Needs Religion Randall H. Miller, Graduate Theological Union Colored Justice: A Comparison of the Understandings of Social Injustice in Rawls and King A28 Philosophy of Religion Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Philip L. Quinn, University of Notre Dame, Presiding Theme: Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Religion: Fifty Years after the Philosophical Investigations Thomas Arnold, Harvard University Inheriting the Investigations: Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Philosophy of Religion's Discipline Thomas Carroll, Boston University Religious Experiences and Religious Beliefs in Light of the Private Language Argument Kaitlin Magoon, University of Chicago Nonsense and the Mystical: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language and New Approaches to Negative Theology Ludger Viefhues, Yale University The Unorthodox Wittgenstein of the Investigations and Consequences for Category Formation in Religious Studies Responding: John A. Knight, University of Chicago A29 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Kathleen Greider, Claremont School of Theology, Presiding Theme: Neuro-Physical Understandings of the Brain Rebecca Sachs Norris, Merrimack College A Silk Purse out of a Sow's Ear: Contributions of Psychological Anthropology and Neurobiology to the Study of Transcendence and the Body Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union New Neuroscientific Views of the Unconscious: Implications for Religious Studies Alice Maung-Mercurio, Luther Seminary, Saint Paul The Gendered Brain and Mystical Experience: Neuro-Physiological, Psychological, and Social Narrative Views of Sex-Differences in Religious/Mystical Experiences Responding: David A. Hogue, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary A30 Religion in South Asia Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Christian Lee Novetzke, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: Kabir between Religious and Political Discourses Linda Hess, Stanford University Political/Spiritual Kabir Purushottam Agrawal, Jawaharlal Nehru University Kabir's Sadhana Milind Wakankar, State University of New York, Stony Brook The Inner Citadel of Caste: The Dalit Critique of Kabir in Hindi Criticism Nancy M. Martin, Chapman University The Weaver of Dignity: Low-Caste Theology in the Songs of Kabir Responding: Rebecca Manring, Indiana University, Bloomington A31 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University, Presiding Theme: Religion and Globalization I Emily Askew, Vanderbilt University Challenging the Globe: Theological Spatiality and Space Theory Ray C. Gingerich, Eastern Mennonite Seminary Religio-Economic Systems and the Powers: Toward a Theology of Economic Transformation Larry Golemon, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Theology and Culture in the Belly of the Whale: Post-Liberalism as a Contextual Response to Globalization in North America Laurel C. Schneider, Chicago Theological Seminary Making Room for Gd: Constructing Theology in Light of Global Nationalisms* A32 Native Traditions in the Americas Group and Women and Religion Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Eva Garroutte, Boston College, Presiding Theme: Deconstructing Captivities: Native Women in the Contact Zone Panelists: Laura E. Donaldson, Cornell University Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa Joel W. Martin, University of California, Riverside Vera B. Palmer, Dartmouth College Responding: Mary C. Churchill, University of Colorado, Boulder A33 African Religions Group and Religion, Medicine, and Healing Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Teresia Mbari Hinga, DePaul University, Presiding Theme: Healing Practices in African Religious Traditions Jude Aguwa, Mercy College Emergent Issues in the Study of African Medicine Mary Ann Clark, University of Houston Healing Rituals in the Suburbs: African-Based Healing among Middle-Class Americans Mei Mei Sanford, College of William and Mary The Drop of Oil That Puts out the Fire: The Yoruba Orisa Sopanna in the New Age of Smallpox Ina Johanna Fandrich, Louisiana State University A Lusty and Paying Ghost: Voodoo Queen Marie Laveaux's Tomb as a National Shrine of Healing A34 Black Theology Group and Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University, Presiding Theme: The Ties That Bind: African-American and Hispanic-American/Latino Theologies in Dialogue Panelists: Michelle A. Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University Traci C. West, Drew University Responding: Benjamin Valentin, Drew University Anthony B. Pinn, Macalester College A35 Christian Spirituality Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Postmodern Medievals? Late Modern Appropriation of Medieval Devotional Culture in Interdisciplinary Perspective Panelists: Candace Hull Taylor, University of California, Davis Patricia Donohue White, Duquesne University Stephen Katz, University of California, Berkeley Elizabeth Drescher, Graduate Theological Union A36 Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm James L. Ford, Wake Forest University, Presiding Theme: Recent Research on Japanese Religions and Society Pamela D. Winfield, Temple University Repositioning Power: How Mandala Installation Affects the Reading of Shingon Ritual Spaces Kenneth Lee, Stetson University Medieval Japanese Cult of Shotoku Worship Nam-lin Hur, University of British Columbia Zen Monks and the Diplomacy of Foreign Conquest in Late Sixteenth-Century Japan Yuki Miyamoto, University of Chicago Rebirth in the Pure Land or God's Sacrificial Lambs? Interpretations of the Atomic Bombings by True Pure Land Buddhism (Hiroshima) and Catholicism (Nagasaki) Responding: Paula K.R. Arai, Carleton College Business Meeting: Ruben L.F. Habito, Southern Methodist University, and Christopher Ives, Stonehill College, Presiding A37 Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Amy Laura Hall, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Kierkegaard, Eschatology, and Terror Hugh Pyper, University of Leeds "Your Wish Is My Command": The Peril and Promise of the Bible As "Letter from the Beloved" Martin Beck Matustik, Purdue University Violence and Secularization, Evil and Redemption Vanessa Rumble, Boston College Kierkegaard on Violence and Transcendence: An Ethics of the Sublime Responding: Patricia Huntington, Loyola University, Chicago Business Meeting: Marcia C. Robinson, Syracuse University, Presiding A38 Korean Religions Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sungtaek Cho, Korea University, Presiding Theme: Religions and Public Values of Contemporary Korea Seung-Hwan Lee, Seoul, Korea The Concept of the Public in Korean Neo-Confucianism and Its Modern Transformation Don Baker, University of British Columbia The Religion and the Rise of Civil Society Hong-Bin Lim, Korea University The Irrelevance of the Tragic in Korea's Religious Consciousness James T. Bretzke, University of San Francisco Theology of Accompaniment in Post-Minjung Korea Responding: Young-chan Ro, George Mason University Robert C. Neville, Boston University A39 Men's Studies in Religion Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm David James Livingston, Mercyhurst College, Presiding Theme: Clergy Sexual Abuse: Theological and Gender Perspectives Panelists: Donald Cozzens, Saint Marys Seminary Marie M. Fortune, Seattle, WA Merle Longwood, Siena College William Schipper, Saint John's University Responding: Elaine Graham, University of Manchester Theme: Masculinities: Heroes and Predators John Blevins, Emory University On Being a Father without a Script Business Meeting: Mark Justad, Vanderbilt University, Presiding A40 New Religious Movements Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Eileen V. Barker, London School of Economics, Presiding Theme: New Religious Movements in the South and the Legal and Political Struggles of New Religious Movements Timothy Miller, University of Kansas How Prevalent Are New Religious Movements in the American South? A Regional Look at NRMs, with an Exploration of Some Problems with NRMs Methods and Demography Phillip C. Lucas, Stetson University The Communication That Heals: Spiritualism and the New Age Movement at Cassadaga, Florida Gregory L. Reece, University of Montevallo Graceland Too: The Ambiguity of Elvis Devotion in the American South Lee Irwin, College of Charleston Walking the Line: Native Pipe and Sweat Ceremonies in Prison Amy E. Lorion, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Unwitting Collaborators: Mary Baker Eddy, Her Critics, and the Development of Christian Science Theology A41 Religion and Ecology Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Heidi Hadsell, Hartford Seminary, Presiding Theme: Religion and United Nations Sustainability Politics: From Rio to Johannesburg and Beyond Rick Clugston, Center for Respect of Life and Environment, Washington, DC The Earth Charter: Past Challenges and Future Prospects Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University Religion and Ethics at the United Nation's Earth Summit in Rio, 1992 Bron Taylor, University of Florida Religion and Ethics at the United Nation's Sponsored World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, 2002 Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University The Search for Viable Global Ethics in and around the United Nations Responding: Gary Gardner, Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC A42 Religion and Popular Culture Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Valarie H. Ziegler, DePauw University, Presiding Theme: America the Violent Jane Caputi, Florida Atlantic University Religion, Ritual Sacrifice, and the Iconic Serial Killer Jon Pahl, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia Spectacles of Sacrifice in a Theater of Terror: Religion and the Cinema of Adolescence from Reefer Madness (1936) to Scream (1996) Whitney Bauman, Graduate Theological Union Terror, Violence, Natality, and Revelation: Bowling For Columbine and the Culture of Fear Kent Brintnall, Emory University Tarantino's Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence A43 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Rubina Ramji, University of Ottawa, Presiding Theme: The Mythologies of Film Tony Chartrand-Burke, Wilfrid Laurier University Gnostic Mythology in Disney's Pinocchio Andrew DeJohn, University of Chicago Constituting and Confronting Evil: Satan, Postmodernism, and the Mythological Language of Film Stephen Butler Murray, Skidmore College Tolkien and Tillich: A Theological Reading of the Mythology of Evil in The Lord of the Rings Kathryn Blanchard, Duke University “It Came to Me”: Gift and Reciprocity in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Greg Watkins, Stanford University Irving Singer's Reality Transformed and Its Import for the Study of Religion and Film Business Meeting: Tony S.L. Michael, University of Toronto, and Rubina Ramji, University of Ottawa, Presiding A44 Religious Freedom, Public Life, and the State Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Esther D. Reed, University of Saint Andrews, Presiding Theme: Challenges to Dominant Paradigms of Religion and the State Tisa Wenger, Southern Methodist University Religious Freedom Debates in the Pueblo Dance Controversy Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary's College, Moraga America's Sacred Ground and the Marketplace: Rediscovering the Religious and Moral Roots of Economic Freedom Perry Glanzer, Baylor University Taking Worldviews Seriously across the Curriculum: Why Training Public School Teachers to Teach about Religion Is Not Enough Hajer Ben Hadj Salem, Public Activism for American Muslim Civil Liberties after September 11 June McDaniel, College of Charleston Mandatory Monotheism and Some Problems of Religious Freedom in Bali Business Meeting: Eric Mazur, Bucknell University, Presiding A45 Roman Catholic Studies Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Rodger Payne, Louisiana State University, Presiding Theme: Catholicism and Civil Rights in the Twentieth-Century South Panelists: Gregory Nelson Hite, University of Virginia Charles R. Gallagher, Milwaukee, MI Andrew S. Moore, Middle Tennessee State University Justin Poche, University of Notre Dame Responding: Peter A. Huff, Centenary College of Louisiana A46 Augustine and Augustinianisms Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Robert P. Kennedy, Saint Francis Xavier University, Presiding and Kim Paffenroth, Iona College, Presiding Theme: The Many Augustines Paul Rigby, Saint Paul University The Psychologists' Augustine: Narcissistic Readings of the Confessions James K.A. Smith, Calvin College On (True) Religion: Contesting Postmodern Augustines Brad Green, Baylor University The Protomodern Augustine? Colin Gunton and the Failure of Augustine Charles A. Wiley, Princeton Theological Seminary If Augustine Is on Our Side: Claiming Augustine on the Church Visible and Invisible Business Meeting: Robert P. Kennedy, Saint Francis Xavier University, Presiding A47 Relics and Sacred Territory (Space) Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm James K. Wellman, University of Washington, Presiding Theme: Types of Relics: Toward a Typology and Location Robert Alvis, University of Massachusetts, Boston Relics of National Sacrifice: Toward a Typology Kristin Scheible, Harvard University Stealing, Hoarding, Guarding: Nagas and the Three Types of Buddha Relics in the Pali Vamsas Cornelia B. Horn, University of Saint Thomas Transgressing Claims to Sacred Space: The Advantage of Portable Relics in the Christological Conflicts in Syria-Palestine in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries Scott Noegel, University of Washington Osiris' Head: Relics and Metonymy in Ancient Egypt Brannon Wheeler, University of Washington The Treasure of the Ka'bah: Relics and Territory in Islam Business Meeting: Scott Noegel, University of Washington, Presiding A267 Study of Islam Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Muhammad Hozien, William Paterson University, Presiding Theme: Al-Ghazali on Theology and Philosophy and His Critics Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University Dialectics of Conscience: Subjectivity and Ethics in Ghazali Eric Ormsby, McGill University Al-Ghazali on Love of God Frank Griffel, Yale University MS. London, British Library OR. 3126: An Unknown Work by Al-Ghazali on Metaphysics and Theology Timothy J. Gianotti, University of Oregon Al-Ghazali on the Real Religious Science: An Introduction to the Jurisprudence of the Heart (Fiqh Al-Qalb) James Pavlin, Rutgers University A Medieval Struggle over Quranic Interpretation: Ibn Taymiyyah's Critique of Al-Ghazali's Metaphysics in the Mishkat al-Anwar Responding: Mashhad Al-Alaaf, Saint Louis University A275 Confucian Traditions Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Presiding Theme: Confucianism in Contemporary China: Portents, Prospects, and Ambiguities Panelists: Mark Allen Berson, Hamline University Vivian-Lee Nyitray, University of California, Riverside Thomas Selover, University of Saskatchewan A48 JAAR - Contesting Religions: Prospects and Perils in a Global Context Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by JAAR Ebrahim E. I. Moosa, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Contesting Religions: Prospects and Perils in a Global Context Panelists: Avisahi Margalit, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Madhu Kishwar, Delhi University Maysoon Melek, United Nations Population Fund, New York Enrique Dussel, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico See the Program Highlights page for a description. A49 REM - Surviving and Flourishing: Challenges and Opportunities of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Status of the Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee David Kyuman Kim, Brown University, Presiding Theme: Surviving and Flourishing: Challenges and Opportunities of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Panelists: Mary C. Churchill, University of Colorado, Boulder Andrew Sung Park, United Theological Seminary, Dayton Joretta L. Marshall, Eden Theological Seminary Luis G. Pedraja, Memphis Theological Seminary Marcia Y. Riggs, Columbia Theological Seminary See the Program Highlights page for a description. A50 Regions - The Use and Abuse of Adjunct Faculty in Religious Studies Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm 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 Sponsored by the Study of Islam Section Jonathan E. Brockopp, Pennsylvania State University, Presiding Theme: The Legacy of Franz Rosenthal for Islamic Studies Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University Franz Rosenthal and Ibn Khaldun Revisited Gordon D. Newby, Emory University Franz Rosenthal and Comparative Semitics Frederick M. Denny, University of Colorado, Boulder Franz Rosenthal on Faith and Knowledge Vincent J. Cornell, University of Arkansas Franz Rosenthal and the Historiography of Islam Responding: Wadad Kadi, University of Chicago See the Program Highlights page for a description. A115 Buddhism Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Language, Text, and Image in the Transmission of Buddhism Sarah Horton, Macalester College Living Buddha Images in Japan: Statues and the Transmission of Buddhism in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Hudaya Kandahjaya, Graduate Theological Union Architectural Prototype of Borobudur George A. Keyworth, University of Colorado, Boulder Dissent and the Dharma: Tales of Transmission from behind Bars and Banishment Karil Kucera, Saint Olaf College Universal Appeal: Transmitting the Dharma through Text and Image at Baodingshan D. Neil Schmid, North Carolina State University Popular Lectures: Liturgical Origins of Art and Text at Dunhuang Responding: Bruce C. Williams, University of California, Berkeley A116 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Mark Wheeler MacWilliams, Saint Lawrence University, Presiding Theme: Myth-Understanding: Categories, Controversies, and Cross-Cultural Concerns Takeshi Kimura, University of Tsukuba What Are Inside and Outside Myths: Japanese Study of Myth Lesley A. Northup, Florida International University The Ongoing Christian Myth: On the Necessity of Myth in Religious Studies Gregory Spinner, Central Michigan University Judaism Re-mythologized: The Case of Phinehas and the Category of "Myth" Hiroshi Yamanaka, University of Tsukuba The Utopian "Power to Live": What the Miyazaki Phenomenon Signifies Responding: Gary L. Ebersole, University of Missouri, Kansas City A117 North American Religions Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm John Corrigan, Florida State University, Presiding Theme: Fashion, Funerals, and the First Moral Majority: Best Paper Proposals 2003 Martha L. Finch, Southwest Missouri State University "Fashions of Worldly Dames": Dress, Gender, and Visible Sainthood in Early New England Paul Charles Kemeny, Grove City College The First Moral Majority: The New England Watch and Ward Society, Moral Reform Politics, and the Battle over Commercial Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Boston Jennifer Rycenga, San José State University Abolitionists, Spiritualists, and Exodusters: The Mythic Aura of Kansas in the Late Nineteenth Century Lawrence Snyder, Western Kentucky University Funerals without God: Victorian Humanism and the Ritualization of Death Lynn S. Neal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Leo Frank Case: Sidelights and Shadows on Religious Intolerance Responding: Catherine L. Albanese, University of California, Santa Barbara A118 Religion in South Asia Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Jeff Brackett, Dickinson College, Presiding Theme: Faithful Histories: Religion and Historiography in South Asia Anne Murphy, Columbia University The Material of History in Sikh Tradition Bradford Phillips, University of Virginia For Guru, God, and Country: Envisioning the Resurrection of Divine Rule in Medieval Tibet Christopher Lee, Canisius College Performing the Past, Present, and Future: History and the Urdu Ghazal in Banaras Peter Gottschalk, Wesleyan University Through the Historiographic Lens: Religion in Arampur Karline McLain, University of Texas, Austin Remembering Shivaji: Narrative and Counter-Narrative in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Maharashtra Responding: Christian Lee Novetzke, University of Pennsylvania Business Meeting: Leslie C. Orr, Concordia University, Montreal, and Philip Lutgendorf, University of Iowa A119 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Religion and Postcolonialism Marion S. Grau, Graduate Theological Union Divine Commerce: A Postcolonial Christology for Times of Neo-Colonial Empire Arvind Mandair, Hofstra University Virtually Religion: Towards a Postcolonial 'Sikh Theology' John May, Irish School of Ecumenics The Postcolonial Mediation of Transcendence Jan H. Pranger, DePaul University Beyond Orientalist Constructions of Religious "Others": Christian Encounters with Other Religions in a Postcolonial World A120 Women and Religion Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Justine Smith, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Sexual/Domestic Violence and Accountability in Religous/Spiritual Communities: Exploring New Women of Color Activisms Panelists: Joy R. Bostic, New York, NY Renee L. Hill, All Saints Church, Pasadena, CA Kimberleigh Jordan, New York University Andrea Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor A121 African Religions Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: African Religions and the Arts Alisa LaGamma, Columbia University, Metropolitan Museum of Art Exploring the Sources of Inspiration for African Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Joseph M. Murphy, Georgetown University Crowning the Spirit: Orisa Altar Crowns in South Florida Babatunde Lawal, Virginia Commonwealth University Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water: Incarnating Sango, the Yoruba Thunderstorm Deity Business Meeting: Samuel K. Elolia, Emmanuel School of Religion, Presiding A122 Afro-American Religious History Group and Black Theology Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Rachel E. Harding, University of Denver, Presiding Theme: Religion and Social Transformation: The Liberating Scholarship of Vincent Harding Panelists: Jennifer Graber, Duke University Victor Anderson, Vanderbilt University Bernice Johnson Reagon, Smithsonian Institution Responding: Vincent Harding, University of Denver A123 Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Mark S. Brocker, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Engaging Bonhoeffer within Communities of Resistance and Reconciliation Willis Jenkins, University of Virginia Kenosis and Resistance: Protest Ecclesiologies in Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr. Steven Bezner, Baylor University Ontological Obedience: Examining Bonhoeffer's Hermeneutics of Nonviolence in Light of the Bruderhof Community Katharina Von Kellenbach, Saint Mary's College of Maryland The Gospel of Cheap Grace: Rituals of Forgiveness and Convicted Perpetrators after the Holocaust Business Meeting: Lisa Dahill, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Presiding A124 Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Daniel Matt, Shalom Hartman Institute, Berkeley, CA, Presiding Theme: Mantra and Divine Name in Hindu and Jewish Meditation Traditions Lloyd W. Pflueger, Truman State University Personal and Impersonal Interpretations of "Meditation on the Lord" in Patañjali's Yogasutra Paul E. Muller-Ortega, University of Rochester Mantra and Meditation in the Upaya Classification of the Saiva Tantra Elliot R. Wolfson, New York University Seeing the Eye That Sees: Embodying the Name in the Meditation Practices of Prophetic Kabbalah Pinchas Giller, University of Judaism Sacred Names in Late Kabbalah Responding: Barbara A. Holdrege, University of California, Santa Barbara A125 Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Jay Geller, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Critical Views of Cognitive Science of Religion and Neurotheology Michael T. Bradley, Jr., Decatur, GA "We Shall Take No Account of the Soul": An Assessment of the Cognitive Basis of Religion Matthew C. Day, New College, Sarasota, FL Religion, Off-Line Cognition, and the Virtues of Embeddedness Jonathon S. Feit, Boston University Neuropsychology and Its Critics Responding: Robert N. McCauley, Emory University Business Meeting: Steven Engler, Mount Royal College, and Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Amsterdam, Presiding A126 Eastern Orthodox Studies Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Eve Tibbs, Fuller Seminary, Presiding Theme: Theosis and Its Reception in Western Christianity Paul Lehninger, Wisconsin Lutheran College Luther and Theosis: Deification in the Theology of Martin Anthony D. Baker, University of Indianapolis Poesis and Inversion: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sergei Bulgakov in Von Bathasar's Dramatics of Salvation Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Fuller Theological Seminary, University of Helsinki The Idea of Theosis in Martin Luther's Soteriology: The Ecumenical Significance of a New Interpretation of Luther's Theology of Salvation Gösta Hallonsten, Catholic University of America The Concept of Theosis in Recent Research: The Need for a Clarification A127 Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group and Religious Freedom, Public, and the State Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Emily Erwin Culpepper, University of Redlands, Presiding Theme: Religion, Law, and Politics at Home and Abroad Elizabeth Currans, University of California, Santa Barbara Sexuality, Race and Politics: California's 2000 Primary Election Marvin M. Ellison, Bangor Theological Seminary Is Same-Sex Marriage a Must or a Bust? Lessons from the Intra-LBGT Community Debate about Civil and Religious Marriage D.Ø. Endsjø, University of Oslo LGBT Rights and the Relativism of Human Rights Beverly W. Harrison, Cedar Mountain, NC Are Fetuses More Full-Bodied Than the Rest of Us? The Christian Right, the Court, and the Struggle for Human Rights in the U.S. Responding: Sheila Briggs, University of Southern California A128 Mysticism Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm John M. Thompson, Hood College, Presiding Theme: Mysticism and Mystics "Within" and "Without" Formally Recognized Spiritual Traditions Ridgeway Addison, Catholic University of America The Confluence of Peace and Nonviolence in the Mystical Theology of Howard Thurman Lissa McCullough, Muhlenberg College Simone Weil's Radical Mysticism Kenneth T. Rose, Christopher Newport University Interspirituality and Unsaying: Apophatic Strategies for Departicularizing Christ and the Church in Current Roman Catholic Mystical Movements G. William Barnard, Southern Methodist University Postmodern Mystical Healings Business Meeting: Neil Douglas-Klotz, Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning, Presiding A129 Person, Culture, and Religion Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Pamela Cooper-White, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Presiding Theme: Psyche, Soul, and Self Felicity Brock Kelcourse, Christian Theological Seminary A Phenomenology of Psyche, Self and Soul: What Can We Learn from a Name? Franz Aubrey Metcalf, The Forge Institute A Winnicottian Transpersonal Psychology Marsha Hewitt, Trinity College To Never Wholly Die, Never to Fully Live: Death and Rebirth in the Emergence of Self in the Therapeutic Process Wil Brant, Chicago Theological Seminary Souls That Materialize: Implications of Judith Butler's Psyche on the Christian Self A130 Platonism and Neoplatonism Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Gregory Shaw, Stonehill College, Presiding Theme: Myth, Imagination, and Ecstasy in Platonic and Neoplatonic Thought II Jennifer Rapp, Stanford University Debunking the Myth of Platonic Dualism through a Consideration of Platonic Myth: Phaedrus 246a-256e Aaron William Hughes, University of Calgary Imagination and Myth in Islamicate Neoplatonism Sarah Pessin, California State University The Manifest Image: Revealing the Hidden in Halevi, Saadya and Gabirol Stephen Edmondson, Virginia Theological Seminary Awakened to the World: Coleridge and the Imaginative Reading of Scripture Business Meeting: Willemien Otten, Utrecht University, Presiding A131 Reformed Theology and History Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Michelle J. Bartel, Hanover College, Presiding Theme: The Reformed Tradition and The Enlightenment: Continuity or Conflict? John Perry, University of Notre Dame From Miracles As Revelation to Miracles As Evidence: How the Enlightenment Shaped the Reformed Doctrine of Cessationism Jason A. Nicholls, Marquette University Appealing at "The Bar of Common Sense": Nathaniel Taylor, Reformed Theology and the Scottish Enlightenment Virginia W. Landgraf, Princeton Theological Seminary Jacques Ellul As Critic and Heir of the Enlightenment Gregory W. Love, San Francisco Theological Seminary I and We: A Reformed Pattern to Human Freedom Business Meeting: Kathryn Greene-McCreight, Yale University, and Robert J. Sherman, Bangor Theological Seminary, Presiding A132 Religion and Disability Studies Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Mary Jo Iozzio, Barry University, Presiding Theme: Biblical Images of Disability in Modern Perspective Kerry Wynn, Southeast Missouri State University PBS at the Jabbok Rebecca M. Raphael, Southwest Texas State University Images of Disability in Hebrew Prophetic Literature Jennifer Koosed, Albright College, and Darla Schumm, Hollins University Physically Challenged, Spiritually Lost? Examining the Blind in the Gospel of John Responding: Hector Avalos, Iowa State University A133 Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Iain S. Maclean, James Madison University, Presiding Theme: Religion and Violence Carole A. Myscofski, Illinois Wesleyan University Creating Violence in Colonial Brazil: Imagining Encounters with Amazons and Cannibals Jeffrey Mallinson, Union College, Barbourville, KY Principalities and Powers: French and Spanish Violence in Florida As Holy Warfare Jennifer S. Hughes, Graduate Theological Union The Iconography of Suffering: Indigenous Perspectives on Christian Self-Inflicted Violence and the Brutality of the Crucifix in Colonial Mexico Lois Lorentzen, University of San Francisco Ahora la Luz: Transnational Gangs, Violence, and Religion Responding: Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of California, Berkeley Business Meeting: Lois Lorentzen, University of San Francisco, and Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding A134 Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Why Tillich? Why Now? Building Bridges Pia Altieri, University of Chicago Exploring Tillich's Frontier: Logos in History for History of Religions Darlene Fozard Weaver, Villanova University The Boundaries of Agape: Resources in Paul Tillich for a Post-Modern World Rachel Sophia Baard, Princeton Theological Seminary Original Grace, Not Destructive Grace: A Feminist Appropriation of Paul Tillich's Notion of Acceptance David S. Blix, Wabash College "Icons: and "Artifacts": Tillich on Religion and Culture Responding: Langdon Gilkey, University of Virginia A135 Modern Historical Consciousness and the Christian Churches Seminar Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Harvey Hill, Berry College, Presiding Theme: Modern Historical Consciousness and the Christian Churches Darrell Jodock, Gustavus Adolphus College D. F. Strauss' Life of Jesus, F. C. Baur, and Modern Historical Consciousness Kenneth L. Parker, Saint Louis University Newman and Acton on Papal Infallibility: Modern Historical Consciousness and Theology Responding: Paul Misner, Marquette University Business Meeting: Harvey Hill, Berry College, Presiding A136 Confucian Traditions Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Edward Slingerland, University of Southern California, Presiding Theme: Reading Sex and Gender in Confucian Texts Vivian-Lee Nyitray, University of California, Riverside Reading Women out of the Text: Breaking the Hermeneutical Circle of Confucian Exegesis Paul Rakita Goldin, University of Pennsylvania Manhood in the Analects Pauline C. Lee, Santa Clara University What Is Distinctive about Confucian Feminism? Jane Geaney, University of Richmond Shame and Sex in Early Confucian Ethics Business Meeting: Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Edward Slingerland, University of Southern California, Presiding A228 Religion, Culture, and Communication Consultation Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Mark Silk, Trinity College, Presiding Theme: Re-presenting Religion in the Media Matthew S. Waggoner, University of California, Santa Cruz The Photographic Medium: The Specular Production of Religious and Racial Selves in Early American Pentecostalism Titus Hjelm, University of Helsinki Our Good Religion: Constructing Deviant Religion in the Finnish Media Claudia Schippert, University of Central Florida No Longer Sitting on the Curb: Virtual Heroes and Re-emerging Hagiography in Post-September 11 Media/Religion Brian Flanagan, Boston College www.vatican.va: The Encoded Ecclesiology of the Vatican Website Responding: Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder Business Meeting: Michele Rosenthal, University of Haifa, and Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding A138 Pub - Publishing in AAR/OUP Series Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sponsored by the Publications Committee Cynthia Read, Oxford University Press, Presiding Theme: Publishing in AAR/OUP Series Panelists: Kimberly Rae Connor, University of San Francisco Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of Wisconsin, Madison Susan E. Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Jacob Kinnard, College of William and Mary James Wetzel, Colgate University See the Program Highlights page for a description. A139 SWP - Women, Religion, and Global Conflict Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sponsored by the Status of Women in the Profession Committee Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College, Presiding Theme: Women, Religion, and Global Conflict Panelists: Loretta Ross, Center for Human Rights Education Patricia Martinez, University of Malaya Ziba Mir-Housseini, University of London Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Hebrew University of Jerusalem See the Program Highlights page for a description. A140 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Fran Grace, University of Redlands, Presiding Theme: More Voices, Multiple Lenses: Diverse Perspectives in the Religious Studies Classroom Edward E. Curtis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Honoring African-American Experience in Teaching about Islam Shelley C. Wiley, Concordia College, Moorhead "This Little Light of Mine" and Other Subversive Texts and Strategies Pamela Owens, University of Nebraska, Omaha Academic Teaching and the Study of Native American Religion(s): Teaching with and for Respect Frederick E. Detwiler, Adrian College Playing Buddha Golf: Pedagogy and Perspective Florian Pohl, Temple University Pedagogical Dialogue: The Pesantren Tradition of Yogyakarta, Indonesia A141 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: Evil and Negativity Barbara E. Galli, McGill University Facing Evil: The Parable of the Ring in the Hands of Abraham Abulafia and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Eric Boynton, Allegheny College Ivan's Rebellion: Love and the Excess of Evil Anita Houck, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame Comic Theodicies: Laughter and Divine Responsibility in Modern Literature Alyda Faber, Atlantic School of Theology Reading the Letters and Journals: Virginia Woolf's "Poetics of Reality" A142 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Presiding Theme: Religion/s between Covers: Dilemmas of the World Religions Textbook Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College The Disappearance of Women in World Religions Textbooks Mark Wheeler MacWilliams, Saint Lawrence University Shinto in World Religions Textbooks Ross Miller, Prentice Hall/Pearson Higher Education and Melanie White, London, UK Creating a World Religions Text for the Twenty-First Century Selva Raj, Albion College The Quest for a Balanced Representation of South Asian Religions in World Religions Textbooks Kay A. Read, DePaul University World Religions and the Miscellaneous Category Joanne Punzo Waghorne, Syracuse University Revisiting the Question of "Religion" in the World Religions Textbook Robert M. Baum, Iowa State University The Forgotten South: African Religions in World Religions Textbooks A143 History of Christianity Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Mark R. Mullins, Sophia University, Presiding Theme: Christianity in Japan: Conflicting Experiences Dorothea Magdalena Filus, University of Tokyo Religious, Social and Political Conflict in a Small Town in Japan Ikuo Higashibaba, Tenri University Strategies for Resolving Christian Conflicts in Early Modern Japan Mira Sonntag, University of Tokyo The Second Coming of Christ Movement: A Discourse on Salvation and Rationality in Modern Japan Responding: Fumitaka Matsuoka, Pacific School of Religion Business Meeting: Anne Clark, University of Vermont, and Anne Thayer, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Presiding A144 North American Religions Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm E. Brooks Holifield, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Popular Christianity in the American South: 1945-Present Elesha Coffman, Duke University Converts in a Strange Land: Catholic Missions in North Carolina under Bishop Vincent S. Waters, 1945-1974 Seth Dowland, Duke University Moral Majority and the Mobilization of White Evangelicals in Alabama Jennifer Graber, Duke University Pax Christi, Pacifism, and the New Catholic Landscape of Richmond, Virginia Responding: David E. Harrell, Auburn University A145 Philosophy of Religion Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Mark C. Taylor: Recent Work on Religion, Philosophy, and Network Culture Panelists: William G. Doty, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Glenn William Shuck, Rice University Amy M. Hollywood, Dartmouth College John D. Caputo, Villanova University Responding: Mark C. Taylor, Williams College A146 Religion and Ecology Group and Religion and the Social Sciences Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Daniel T. Spencer, University of Montana, Presiding Theme: A Liminal Age: Between Fossil Fuels and the Future Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University A Liminal Age and Religious Consciousness Lee Cormie, University of Toronto Another World Is Possible: Contributions of the World Social Forum to the Ethics of Alternative Globalization Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Seattle University Ethics in a Liminal Age: Critical Mystical Vision Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University Fossil Fuels and Faith: Energy Issues and a Sustainable Future Rebecca Kneale Gould, Middlebury College Saying L'chaim to a Post-Fossil Fuel Future: Religious Identity, Environmental Activism and American Public A147 Study of Islam Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Gordon D. Newby, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Inscribing Authority in Medieval and Modern Islamic Societies Stuart D. Sears, American University, Cairo Dirty Dirhams and Righteous Rebels: A Controversy Surrounding the Inscription of Qur'anic Text on Early Muslim Coins Maria Massi Dakake, George Mason University "Rarer Than Red Sulfur": Women and the Early Shi`ite Movement Erik S. Ohlander, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor A Sethian Genealogy: Connecting Futuwwa, Akhis, and Ribat-Based Sufism in the Early Thirteenth Century Amina Steinfels, Gettysburg College In the Presence of the Master: The Malfuzat of Sayyid Jalal al-din Bukhari Alfons Teipen, Furman University Unseemly Women in Sacred Biographical Literatures: A Comparison between Early Christian Texts and Early Muslim Narratives about Muhammad David Dakake, Temple University Swords Thrown into the Sky: The Decontextualization of Quranic Verses on Jihad in the Fatwa of the World Islamic Front Responding: Laury Silvers-Alario, Skidmore College Please join us for iftar during this session. A148 Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group and Study of Judaism Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm David Blumenthal, Emory University, Presiding Theme: The Zohar: Pritzker Edition--An Assessment of Daniel Matt's New Annotated Translation Panelists: Daniel Matt, Shalom Hartman Institute, Berkeley, CA Elliot R. Wolfson, New York University Moshe Idel, Hebrew University A149 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Serene Jones, Yale University, Presiding Theme: The Ethics of Theological Reflection John Wall, Rutgers University In the Image of God: The Human Capability for Moral Creativity Shelly Rambo, Emory University Witnessing Death and Life: Theologians Occupying the Middle Space Neal E. Magee, Syracuse University Vectors and Junkspace: Reconfiguring Theological Reflection Rosemary P. Carbine, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame The Public Theologian: Insights from Interstitiality A150 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Nikky Singh, Colby College, Presiding Theme: South Asian Religious Communities in the American South Steven W. Ramey, Furman University Hindu, Sikh, and Sufi: Recreating a Regional Heritage in the Context of Atlanta Khyati Joshi, Fairleigh Dickinson University Desis in Dixie: Indian American Experiences of Religion and Race in Atlanta Thomas Russell, Western Kentucky University Bible Belt Jainism: The Rise and Development of the Jain Tradition in the Mid-South Responding: Diana L. Eck, Harvard University Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida A151 Christian Spirituality Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Michael Battle, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Spiritualities of Resistance and Reconciliation Hak Joon Lee, New Brunswick Theological Seminary The Politics of Imago Dei: The Communitarian Anthropology of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Desmond Tutu and the Struggles of Resistance and Reconciliation Ann Coble, Westminster College Clarence Jordan: Resistance and Reconciliation in the Cotton Patch Kevin Mongrain, Saint Mary's University, San Antonio Ritual and Forgiveness: Inscribing God's Forgiveness on the Human Body of Christ Responding: Gilbert Bond, Yale University Business Meeting: Arthur G. Holder, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding A152 Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Jason D. BeDuhn, Northern Arizona University, Presiding Theme: Demons and Demonologies Catherine Burris, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Syriac Demonology: Rhetoric and Reality David Brakke, Indiana University, Bloomington Unutterable Beauty and Unnatural Acts: Gender and the Demonic in Two Egyptian Monastic Communities Sarah L. Schwarz, University of Pennsylvania Astrology As Demonology in the Testament of Solomon Annette Reed, McMaster University Fire, Blood, and Water: Demonology and Halakha in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies Nicola Denzey, Bowdoin College Roman Christian Demonological Ascent Formulae in Mortuary Context Business Meeting: Sarah Iles Johnston, Ohio State University, Presiding A153 Evangelical Theology Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm John G. Stackhouse, Regent College, Presiding Theme: Connections, Tensions, Dissentions: The Current State of Evangelical Theology Panelists: Molly Marshall, Central Baptist Theological Seminary Henry H. Knight, Saint Paul School of Theology William Pannell, Fuller Theological Seminary Michael S. Horton, Westminster Seminary Business Meeting: David Kling, University of Miami, Presiding Anthea Butler, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding A154 Hinduism Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm T. S. Rukmani, Concordia University, Montreal, Presiding Theme: Hinduism and Western Hermeneutics: Problems and Possibilities Purushottama Bilimoria, University of Melbourne Dialogic Fecundation of Western Hermeneutics and Hindu Mimamsa in the Critical Era Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College Truth, Diversity, and the Unfinished Project of Modern Hinduism Arvind Sharma, McGill University Hinduism's Socio-Political Response to Western Hermeneutical Theories of Religion Sharada Sugirtharajah, University of Birmingham Muller and Textual Management Responding: Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University Business Meeting: Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University, Chicago, Presiding A155 Japanese Religions Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Daniel Boucher, Cornell University, Presiding Theme: Revisiting Authenticity Discourses in Japanese Religious Renewal Movements: Theory and a Descent to Cases Lisa Kuly, Cornell University Contending Voices of Meaning in the Contemporary Hanamatsuri Jane Marie Law, Cornell University Reconsidering Authenticity in Religious Revival and Renewal in Japan: Theoretical Considerations Kakuju Matsubara, Cornell University Inventing Zen Tradition and Its Authenticity: The Inside Problems of Tradition Maintenance in Contemporary Rinzai Zen Mark McGuire, Cornell University Moments of Recognition and Healing: Shugendo Asceticism and Cultural Property Designation in the Folk Performing Arts of Japan Responding: Edmund T. Gilday, Grinnell College A156 Native Traditions in the Americas Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa, Presiding Theme: Impediments to Spiritual/Cultural Integrity and Creativity in Indigenous America Joel Geffen, University of California, Santa Barbara Picture This: The Role of Iconography in Contemporary Yakama Identity Formation Janet Parker, Chicago Theological Seminary Steering the Canoe: The Kaswentha Principle in Haudenosaunee Struggles for Land and Self-Determination Adam Darlage, University of Chicago Inquisitions at Home and in the New World: Success in Italy and Negotiated Settlements in the Americas Philip J. Deloria, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Indians in Unexpected Places Responding: Michael McNally, Carleton College A157 Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Wayne Proudfoot, Columbia University, Presiding Theme: Pragmatism and Democracy: Assessing Jeffrey Stout's Democracy and Tradition: Religion, Ethics, and Public Philosophy Panelists: Stanley M. Hauerwas, Duke University Cornel West, Princeton University Richard Rorty, Stanford University Responding: Jeffrey L. Stout, Princeton University A159 Ritual Studies Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State University, Presiding Theme: Bodies in Ritual Practice Lisa Battaglia, Vanderbilt University Profaning the Sacred, Sacralizing the Profane: Ritual Space and Ritual Practice among Thai Buddhist Nuns Constance Wise, University of Denver Feminist Wiccan Ritual Magic As Effective Cultural Practice Jeffrey Samuels, Western Kentucky University The Very Idea of a Practical Canon: The Body as a Key Rubric in Monastic Training Donna Lynne Seamone, McMaster University Encountering Spirit in the Body: Divine Messages in Pentacostal Ritualizing Business Meeting: Donna Lynne Seamone, McMaster University, Presiding A160 Schleiermacher Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Jacqueline Marina, Purdue University, Presiding Theme: Schleiermacher and Romanticism, Schleiermacher As Romantic Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology Schleiermacher As Romantic: Joyful Experience, the Individual, and the Whole David E. Klemm, University of Iowa Kunstreligion in Early German Romanticism: Schleiermacher and Caspar David Friedrich Eric Nelson, University of Toledo Schleiermacher's "Romanticism": The Singular, the Whole, and the Unconditional Peter Foley, University of Arizona De-romanticising and Re-romanticising Schleiermacher: Self-Reflexivity and Kant Responding: Richard Crouter, Carleton College Business Meeting: Julia A. Lamm, Georgetown University, Presiding A161 Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm José I. Cabezón, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Women in Tibetan Religious Life: Histories and Contemporary Communities Bryan Cuevas, Florida State University Tibetan Female Revenants Robert Trent Pomplun, Loyola College, Maryland Hell Hath No Fury: The Lady Tshe-ring Bkra-shis and the Death of Sde-srid Sangs-rgyas Rgya-mtsho Alyson Prude, University of California, Santa Barbara A Comparative Look at Himalayan Nunneries Kurtis Schaeffer, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa A Royal Nun in Fifteenth-Century Tibet Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego Buddhist Women and Social Change in the Spiti Valley Business Meeting: Kurtis Schaeffer, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Presiding A162 Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Marcia Y. Riggs, Columbia Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Unspeakable Things Unspoken: Interdisciplinary Explorations of the Work of Toni Morrison As Fulcrum for Religious Discourse Panelists: C. Dale Gadsden, Harvard University Charles H. Long, Chapel Hill, NC Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia Emilie M. Townes, Union Theological Seminary, New York David Carrasco, Harvard University Business Meeting: Marcia Y. Riggs, Columbia Theological Seminary, Presiding A163 Religions, Medicines, and Healing Consultation Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Linda L. Barnes, Boston University, Presiding Theme: Religion and the Healing Arts Sunju Chong, University of Chicago Communal Healing in Korean Tradition of Music and Dance in Performance of Mask Dance, Pansori, and Kut Bridget Blomfield, Claremont Graduate University The Zar Ritual: Healing Tradition of Islamic Middle East and Africa James W. Perkinson, Eucumenical Theological Seminary Kongo Nkisi/Canaanite Repartee/Black Savvy: Possession and Healing at the Crossroads Responding: Suzanne J. Crawford, University of California, Santa Barbara Business Meeting: Linda L. Barnes, Boston University, Presiding A277 Caring for Nature: From Fact to Value, from Respect to Reverence Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sponsored by the AAR and the Templeton Foundation Ian G. Barbour, Carleton College,Presiding Theme: Caring for Nature: From Fact to Value, from Respect to Reverence Holmes, Rolston, III, Colorado State University See the Program Highlights section for a description. A164 AAR Retired Members Reception Sunday - 5:30 pm-6:30 pm All members of the AAR who are retired from full-time employment are cordially invited to an open house hosted by Barbara DeConcini, executive director, and Robert A. Orsi, president. A165 Michael Jackson - The Prose of Suffering and the Practice of Silence Sunday - 7:15 pm-8:15 pm Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: The Prose of Suffering and the Practice of Silence Michael Jackson, University of Copenhagen See the Program Highlights page for a description. A279 The Gospel of John Sunday - 8:00 pm-11:00 pm Rialto Theater, Georgia State University Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Tony S. L. Michael, University of Toronto Please meet at the information kiosk in the main lobby of the Marriott Marquis at 7:30 pm to go to the theater. See the Program Highlights page for a description. A166 Places of Peace and Power: The Sacred Sites Slide Show of Martin Gray Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University, Presiding Martin Gray, Sedona, AZ See the Program Highlights page for a description. A167 Distance: Screening and Conversation with Director Kore-eda Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Hirokazu Kore-eda, Tokyo, Japan, Michiaki Okuyama, Nanzan University, and Paul L. Swanson, Nanzan University, Presiding See the Program Highlights page for a description. A169 JAAR Editorial Board Reception Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm A170 Religions in the Schools Task Force Meeting Monday - 7:30 am-8:30 am Marcia Beauchamp, The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, Presiding A171 AAR Program Unit Chairs Breakfast Monday - 7:30 am-8:45 am Barbara DeConcini, American Academy of Religion, Presiding All program unit chairs should attend this important informational sesion with the AAR's Program Committee. A172 International Members Continental Breakfast Monday - 7:30 am-8:45 am All AAR international attendees are invited to an information session and continental breakfast hosted by the AAR's International Connections Committee. A281 Monday - 7:30 am-8:45 am A173 RSTF - Preparing Teachers to Teach about Religion: Current Practices and Models Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Religion in the Schools Task Force Diana L. Eck, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Preparing Teachers to Teach about Religion: Current Practices and Models Panelists: Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico Stephen N. Dunning, University of Pennsylvania Diane L. Moore, Harvard University See the Program Highlights page for a description. A174 SLG - Top Ten Ways to Survive Your First Year on the Job Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Student Liaison Group Richard Amesbury, Valdosta State University, Presiding Theme: Top Ten Ways to Survive Your First Year on the Job Sandie Gravett, Appalachian State University See the Program Highlights page for a description. A175 Afro-American Religious History Group and Religion and Social Sciences Section and Womanist Approaches to Religion Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by Religion and Social Sciences Section, Afro-American Religious History Group, and Womanist Approaches to the Study of Religion Group David Daniels, McCormick Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Centennial Celebration of the Scholarship of W. E. B. DuBois Terrence Johnson, Brown University Religion, Race, and Liberalism: DuBois and Rawls on the Issue of Justice Arthur Sutherland, Loyola College, Maryland The Motif of the Stranger in The Souls of Black Folk Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College The Gift of W. E. B. DuBois: A Sociology of Vision and Spirit Responding: Nellie McKay, University of Wisconsin, Madison See the Program Highlights page for a description. A176 Study of Islam Section and Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Amir Hussain, California State University, Northridge, Presiding Theme: Sufis in Western Societies: Global Networking and Locality Markus Dressler, New York University Sufis in the City: The Predicament of Pluralism Ron Geaves, Chester College Transglobal Mysticism or a Case of Cultural Binary Fission: The Transmigration of Sufism to Britain Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University, Chicago "Global Sufism": Theirs and Ours Gritt Klinkhammer, University of Erfurt Re-traditionalizing Spirituality: The Burhaniya Sufi Order in Germany Juliane Hammer, Georgetown University Globalizing Sufism in a Virtual World: Sufi Orders on the Internet Responding: Gisela Webb, Seton Hall University A177 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Frederick J. Ruf, Georgetown University, Presiding Theme: Making Space Sacred Joan R. Branham, Providence College The Temple That Won't Quit: Constructing Sacred Space in Orlando's Holy Land Theme Park Stephen Murphy, University of Virginia Conflict, Commemoration, Community, and Making Space Sacred: The Response to Racist Violence at Saint John's Baptist Church, Dixiana, South Carolina Ki Joo Choi, Boston College Art and Architecture As Religious and Moral Language? Assessing Contemporary Theological Responses through a Liberationist Example Crystal Downing, Messiah College Readers of the Lost Ark: Containing the Sacred Responding: William G. Doty, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa A178 Buddhism Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am David Germano, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: An Appraisal of Ronald Davidson's Indian Esoteric Buddhism in the Context of the Social History of Medieval Esoteric Movements Panelists: Ryuichi Abe, Columbia University Edward Davis, University of Hawaii Phyllis Granoff, McMaster University Jeffrey Stephen Lidke, Berry College Robert Sharf, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michael D. Swartz, Ohio State University Hugh B. Urban, Ohio State University Responding: Ronald M. Davidson, Fairfield University A179 Ethics Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jane Hicks, Saint John Fisher College, Presiding Theme: Visions of Rapture or Visions of Desolation? Connecting Globalization to Poverty Jim Bailey, Duquesne University Assets, the Poor, and Democracy Maria T. Davila, Boston College Empowerment of the Poor and Democracy: New Dimensions on the Question of International Development Bron Taylor, University of Florida Earth in Play: Globalization and Religious Ethics at the World Summit on Sustainable Development Ken Estey, New York, NY Union Democracy and Global Change: Prospects for the Working Classes A180 Christian Spirituality Group and History of Christianity Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Christopher Bellitto, Paulist Press, Presiding Theme: Paulist Press's Classics of Western Spirituality Series Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Panelists: Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago Sandra M. Schneiders, Jesuit School of Theology Ewert H. Cousins, Fordham University A181 Law, Religion, and Culture Consultation and North American Religions Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Nation, Law and Religion James McBride, New York, NY Holy Nation, Holy War: The Controversy over the Pledge of Allegiance in Times of Conflict Justin Watson, Le Moyne College Bush, Clinton, and American Civil Religion Avi M. Spiegel, Harvard University Healing the Student Body: Spirituality, Yoga, and the Law K. Healan Gaston, University of California, Berkeley Re-reading the Judeo-Christian Tradition: Will Herberg's "Protestant, Catholic, Jew" as a Cold War Text A182 Study of Judaism Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Randi Rashkover, York College of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: Thinking Ritual Panelists: Peter Ochs, University of Virginia Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto Steven D. Kepnes, Colgate University Responding: Graham Ward, University of Manchester A183 Women and Religion Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jacqueline Z. Pastis, La Salle University, Presiding Theme: Women and Mysticism Trish Beckman, University of Missouri, Columbia Authority and Performance with/in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts Carol P. Christ, Ariadne Institute for the Study of Myth and Ritual, Lesbos, Greece Embodied Embedded Mysticism: Affirming the (Female) Body and the World Body Sarah M. Taylor, Northwestern University Green Mysticism and Spiritual Madness: The Committed "Lunacy" of an Eco-Woman Warrior Maria Massi Dakake, George Mason University "The Guest of My Inmost Heart": Images of the Divine Beloved in Female Sufi Poetry A184 Bioethics and Religion Group and Lesbian-Feminist Issues in Religion Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Rebecca T. Alpert, Temple University, Presiding Theme: Gay Gene? Religious and Policy Implications of a Possible Genetic Basis for Sexual Orientation Panelists: Dena S. Davis, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Suzanne Holland, University of Puget Sound Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston A185 Christian Systematic Theology Group and Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Joy McDougall, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Innovations and Revelations: Latino/a Systematic Theology Alejandro Garcia-Rivera, Jesuit School of Theology The Correspondence of Aesthetics with Doctrines of Revelation and As Theological Method Mayra Rivera, Drew University Sophia the Hybrid: A Latina Postcolonial Theology Stephen L. Stell, Austin College Sources and Products of Revelation: "Religious Experience" and "Culture" in the Works of Latina/o Theologians Responding: Roberto S. Goizueta, Boston College A186 Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Graham M. Schweig, Christopher Newport University, Presiding Theme: Erotic Figuring of Divine Love in Jewish and Hindu Traditions Sarah Pessin, California State University, Fresno Love's Desire: Eros and Divinity in the Poetry of Solomon Ibn Gabirol Yehudit K. Greenberg, Rollins College To Desire or to Love? That Is the Question! Steven P. Hopkins, Swarthmore College Extravagant Beholding: The Love of Two Bodies and the Language of Excess in the Song of Songs and South Indian Devotion Rita Dasgupta Sherma, Binghamton University Union and Separation from the Kama Sutra to the Gitagovinda Responding: Francis X. Clooney, Boston College Business Meeting: Barbara A. Holdrege, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, Presiding A187 Cultural History of the Study of Religion Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am John P. Burris, Rollins College, Presiding Theme: The Politics of Making "Religion" in the U.S. John Lardas, University of California, Santa Barbara Ungraspable Phantoms: The Emergence of the Culture Concept in Antebellum America Kent McConnell, Dartmouth College Consumer Culture and Remaking "Lost Cause" Religion in the South Kristin Schwain, University of Missouri, Columbia Religious Experience and Racial Uplift in the Art of Henry Ossawa Tanner Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa The Cold War, the Humanistic Study of Religion, and the Fallacy of Insufficient Cynicism Responding: Ann Taves, Claremont School of Theology Business Meeting: Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, and Leigh Schmidt, Princeton University, Presiding A188 Eastern Orthodox Studies Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Brian E. Daley, University of Notre Dame, Presiding Theme: Maximus the Confessor Ian A. McFarland, University of Aberdeen Fleshing out Christ: Maximus the Confessor's Christology in Anthropological Perspective Stephen J. Shoemaker, University of Oregon The Georgian Life of the Virgin Attributed to Maximus the Confessor: Its Authenticity and Importance Despina Prassas, Johnson City, NY Theoria and Praxis in Saint Maximos the Confessor's "Quaestiones et Dubia" Business Meeting: Robin Darling Young, University of Notre Dame, and James C. Skedros, Holy Cross School of Theology A189 New Religious Movements Group and Japanese Religions Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Robert Kisala, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Presiding Theme: Public Relations and Growth Strategies in New Religious Movements in Japan Ben Dorman, Australian National University Japanese Print Media Reporting of Two New Religions in Occupied Japan Saburo Morishita, Tenri University The Question of Self Presentation in Tenrikyo Manabu Watanabe, Nanzan University Aum Shinrikyo and Its Utilization of Media Yoshihide Sakurai, Hokkaido University Cult Controversy and Strategies of the Unification Church of Japan Responding: Ian Reader, Lancaster University A190 Nineteenth-Century Theology Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Darrell Jodock, Gustavus Adolphus College, Presiding Theme: Historians of Theology in the Late Nineteenth Century: In Honor of Claude Welch Paul Misner, Marquette University John Henry Newman As Historian of Christian Thought Gregory Walter, Princeton Theological Seminary Defining Protestantism in Albrecht Ritschl's Historical Method Walter E. Wyman, Jr., Whitman College Adolf von Harnack As Historian and Theologian Thomas Buchan, Drew University Convergences in Historical Theological Method in J. H. Newman and A. von Harnack David T. Ball, Methodist Theological School in Ohio Ernst Troeltsch's Method for Discerning the Normative in History A191 Person, Culture, and Religion Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kathleen Bishop, Drew University, Presiding Theme: Practicing Theory and Theorizing Practice G. William Barnard, Southern Methodist University Scholarship and Healing: Two Worlds, One Life Stanford J. Searl, Union Institute, San Diego Making a Place for the Soul: The Pedagogy of Silence Al Dueck, Pasadena, CA Ethics, Levinas, and Psychotherapy Lee Hayward Butler, Chicago Theological Seminary From Theory to Student to Parish/Client and Back Again: Pastoral Theology As Praxis A192 Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group and Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jay Geller, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Film and the Holocaust: Reflections of Identity Meredith Hammons, Vanderbilt University Blessed Haman and Wicked Mordechai: Inversion of the Story of Esther in Veit Harlan's Jud Suss Theresa Sanders, Georgetown University The Cinematic Lives of Edith Stein Liora Gubkin, California State University, Bakersfield As If You Were There: Knowledge and Identity in The Devil's Arithmetic Responding: Laura S. Levitt, Temple University Business Meeting: Susan L. Nelson, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and Oren Baruch Stier, Florida International University, Presiding A193 Religious Freedom, Public Life, and the State Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kenneth Woodward, Newsweek, Presiding Theme: Bush, the War, and Religious Rhetoric Panelists: Steven Waldman, Beliefnet.com David Brooks, Weekly Standard Peter Steinfels, New York Times Mark Silk, Trinity College A194 Wesleyan Studies Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kenneth J. Collins, Asbury Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Celebrating the Tercentenary: Worship and Spirituality Richard Heitzenrater, Duke University Portraits and Piety: Wesleyan Iconography in the Methodist Tradition Candy Gunther Brown, Saint Louis University Sanctified Singing: The Role of Hymnody in Shaping Wesleyan Traditions, 1736-1915 Gregory S. Clapper, University of Indianapolis Wesley's "Main Doctrines" Were Life Experiences: What This Means for Spiritual Formation and Teaching Doctrine in the Wesleyan Tradition L. Edward Phillips, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary Open Tables and Closed Minds: United Methodist Attitudes toward the "Open" Communion Table A195 Constructions of Ancient Space Seminar Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am James W. Flanagan, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding Theme: Critical Issues in Spatial Studies William E. Deal, Case Western Reserve University Discourses of Space Hayim Lapin, University of Maryland Towards a Regional History of Later-Roman Palestine: The Making of Provincial Space Christl Maier, Yale University Daughter Zion as a Gendered Space in the Book of Isaiah William R. Millar, Linfield College A Bakhtinian Reading of Narrative Space and Its Connection to Social Space Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College Ideology of Apocalyptic Spaces David M. Gunn, Texas Christian University Spatial Analysis in Modern Historiography Relating to the Book of Judges Burke Long, Bowdoin College Picturing the Past: The Use of Illustrations in Recent Presentations of Biblical History Keith W. Whitelam, University of Sheffield Space and the Poetics of Historiography Business Meeting: James W. Flanagan, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding A196 Animals and Religion Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jay McDaniel, Hendrix College, Presiding Theme: Many Traditions, Many Animals Jonathan D. Brumberg-Kraus, Wheaton College The Tension between Vegetarianism and Meat-Eating in Judaism Kenneth Mello, University of Minnesota, Duluth Sacred Animals in American Indian Creation Narratives Stephanie Kaza, University of Vermont Are All Buddhists Vegetarian? Thomas Hughson, Marquette University Wolves and Religion: Can Christianity Assimilate "Religious Experience" of Animals? Lisa Sideris, McGill University Who Named the Animals? A Comparison of Christian and Islamic Interpretations Responding: Paul Waldau, Tufts University Business Meeting: Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University, Presiding A197 History, Method, and Theory in the Study of Religion Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Michel Gardaz, University of Ottawa, Presiding Theme: Confronting Orientalism: East and West in the Study of Religion Twenty-Five Years after Said's Orientalism Carl Olson, Allegheny College A Critical Look at the Radical Politics That Informs the Orientalism of Said and Postcolonialism Mathieu Courville, University of Ottawa Edward Said on the Clash of Civilizations Jan H. Pranger, DePaul University Orientalist Constructions of Religious "Others" in European Protestant Theology Responding: Gary L. Ebersole, University of Missouri, Kansas City A198 Religion, Ethics, and Society in Contemporary East Asia Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Paula K.R. Arai, Carleton College, Presiding Theme: Monotheism vs. Polytheism? East Asian Views on Religions and Environmental Ethics Yoshitsugu Sawai, Tenri University Environmental Ethics and the Japanese Religious Views of Nature Katsuhiro Kohara, Doshisha University The Confrontation of Monotheistic and Polytheistic View of Nature in Japan Klaus Spennemann, Doshisha University Environmental Ethics and Japanese Religion Mitsuya Dake, Ryukoku University Environmental Ethics and the Japanese Religious Views of Nature Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya, Tokyo University Science and Popular Ethics in Modern Japanese Religion: Some Theoretical Aspects Revisited Responding: Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University Max L. Stackhouse, Princeton University Business Meeting: Young-chan Ro, George Mason University, and Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University, Presiding A199 EIS Advisory Committee Meeting Monday - 11:30 am-1:00 pm Carey J. Gifford, American Academy of Religion, Presiding A200 Religion and Disabilities Task Force Meeting Monday - 11:45 am-1:00 pm Kerry Wynn, Southeast Missouri State University, Presiding A201 Wabash Student-Teacher Luncheon Monday - 11:45 am-1:00 pm Sponsored by the Student Liaison Group and the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Richard Amesbury, Valdosta State University, Presiding The Wabash Center cordially invites student attendees to gather for conversation and a light lunch. Attendance is limited to the first 75 students who sign up. Please RSVP online. A276 AAR Annual Business Meeting Monday - 11:45 am-1:00 pm Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, Presiding AAR members are encouraged to join the AAR's Board of Directors for the annual business meeting of the Academy. A137 Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Consultation Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Peter Gathje, Christian Brothers University, Presiding Theme: Is Religion the Forgotten "Key to Peace" in the Middle East? Analyzing Marc Gopin's Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East and Charles Kimball's When Religion Becomes Evil David Mycoff, Warren Wilson College Can Religion Be the Forgotten Key to Peace in the Middle East? The Experience of the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Hebron, 1995 - Present Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, University of Saint Thomas Problematic Interpreters or Problematic Texts? A Response to Charles Kimball Jon Pahl, Lutheran Theological Seminary Of Specks and Logs: U.S. Scholars of Religion and Violence in an Age of American Empire Sallie B. King, James Madison University An Engaged Buddhist Response to Gopin and Kimball Responding: Marc Gopin, Tufts University Charles A. Kimball, Wake Forest University Business Meeting: Susan Windley-Daoust, University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, Presiding A202 Walking Tour of Atlanta's Religious and Civic Sites Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the North American Religions Section Peter W. Williams, Miami University, and Jeanne H. Kilde, Macalester College, Presiding See the Program Highlights page for a description. A203 RDTF- Methodology in the Study of Religion and Disability Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Religion and Disabilities Task Force and the Religion and Disability Studies Group Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Methodology in the Study of Religion and Disability Panelists: Nancy L. Eiesland, Emory University Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University See the Program Highlights page for a description. A204 The Marty Forum: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on the Changing Face of American Protestantism Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Judith M. Buddenbaum, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Presiding Theme: The Marty Forum: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on the Changing Face of American Protestantism Panelists: Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University Gus Niebuhr, Princeton University See the Program Highlights page for a description. A205 SLG - Introduction to Syllabus Writing Workshop Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Student Liaison Group Shannon Planck, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Theme: Introduction to Syllabus Writing Workshop Panelists: Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College William C. Placher, Wabash College Timothy M. Renick, Georgia State University Emilie M. Townes, Union Theological Seminary, New York City See the Program Highlights page for a description. A206 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and Roman Catholic Studies Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Peter Ellard, Siena College, Presiding Theme: Comparative Approaches to the Work of Shusaku Endo Christopher Link, Boston University Bad Priests and the Valor of Pity: Shusaku Endo and Graham Greene on the Paradoxes of Christian Virtue Jeffrey F. Keuss, University of Glasgow God without Fumie: Reading Shusaku Endo's Silence with Jean-Luc Marion Carroll Ann Friedmann, University of Virginia Bondage to the Face in Endo's Silence Jon K. Cooley, Centre College The Violent Bear It Away Silently: Comedic Violence in Shusaku Endo and Flannery O'Connor Responding: Darren J.N. Middleton, Texas Christian University Business Meeting: S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University, and Jennifer L. Geddes, University of Virginia, Presiding A207 Buddhism Section and Chinese Religions Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Peter N. Gregory, Smith College, Presiding Theme: The Transformation of Buddhism in Contemporary Taiwan Scott Hurley, Luther College The Development of Religious Ideology in Mid-Twentieth-Century China: Master Yinshun's Interpretation of Buddhist Doctrine and Its Relationship to the "Humanistic Buddhism" Movement Chien-yu Julia Huang, National Tsing Hua University The Buddhist Compassion Relief Movement in Taiwan and Its Mission of Education Stuart Chandler, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Foguangshan and Buddhist-Style Democracy Linda Learman, Boston University A Buddhist Wedding Ceremony in Taiwan Responding: Chun-Fang Yu, Rutgers University A208 Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Religion in South Asia Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Deepak Sarma, Yale University, Presiding Theme: Refutation and Ridicule: Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains As Seen by Others Panelists: Elaine Craddock, Southwestern University Katherine Ulrich, DePauw University Stuart R. Sarbacker, Loyola University, Chicago Karen C. Lang, University of Virginia Hugh Reynolds Nicholson, Coe College Elizabeth L. Wilson, Miami University Responding: Anne E. Monius, Harvard University A209 Ethics Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm John Kelsay, Florida State University, Presiding Theme: "Fear and Trembling": Understanding Universal Rights in a Dangerous and Complex World Michael Skerker, University of Chicago Religion and Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach Irene Oh, University of Virginia Universality Amid Particularity: Islam and Universal Human Rights Discourse Donna Yarri, Alvernia College Universal Rights and Liberties in an Age of Terrorism Business Meeting: Gloria H. Albrecht, University of Detroit, Mercy, and Darryl Michael Trimiew, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, Presiding A210 History of Christianity Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Edwin David Aponte, Southern Methodist University, Presiding Theme: Ritual and Redemption B. Lilan Laishley, University of Pittsburgh The Harrowing of Hell and Other Medieval Christian Labyrinth Rituals Beth Langstaff, Institut zur Erforschung des Urchristentums The Resuscitation of Dead Babies for Baptism: The Fate of a Marian Miracle in the Genevan Reformation W. Scott Haldeman, Chicago Theological Seminary Race and Rites: Interrogating U.S. Protestant Liturgical History Corrie Ellen Norman, Converse College Martha and Iron Chef in Rome: Or, Culinary Holiness, Catholic Reform, and Food in the History of Christianity Heather D. Curtis, Harvard University "Acting Faith": Bodily Performance and Rituals of Religious Healing in Late Nineteenth-Century Protestantism Marie Pagliarini, University of California, Santa Barbara Transforming the "Natural" Body: Rituals of Discipline and Pain in the Nineteenth-Century Georgetown Visitation Convent A211 Philosophy of Religion Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jason Slone, Findlay University, Presiding Theme: Keeping Religion in Mind: Cognitive Science and the Study of Religion Panelists: Robert N. McCauley, Emory University Pascal Boyer, Washington University, Saint Louis Brian Malley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Deb Kelemen, Boston University Business Meeting: Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Thomas P. Kasulis, Ohio State University, Presiding A212 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Alton B. Pollard, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Flags and Voters: The Changing U.S. South Robert P. Jones, Southwest Missouri State University The Unintended Consequences of Dixieland Post-Liberalism Marla Frederick, Interdenominational Theological Center Women, Televangelism, and Shifting Discourses of Racial Progress Francesca Nuzzolese, Columbia Theological Seminary; and John Blevins, Emory University Why a Cross on a Flag Is a Bad Idea: A Personal/Psychological Perspective A213 Study of Islam Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm R. Michael Feener, University of California, Riverside, Presiding Theme: Expressions of Islam in Southeast Asia Vivienne S. M. Angeles, La Salle University From Ethnic to Islamic: Visual Expressions of Muslim Identity in Predominantly Catholic Philippines Patrice Claude Brodeur, Connecticut College Transnational Higher Education Migration Patterns between Indonesia and Canada: The Case of IAINs and McGill University Rob Rozehnal, LeHigh University Transplanting the Tariqa: Chishti Sabiri Sufism in Malaysia Florian Pohl, Temple University Religion and Conflict: Religious Education at the Pesantren of Yogyakarta, Indonesia Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso University Indonesian Muslim Women Working toward Applications of a Discourse on Universal Human Rights Responding: Frederick M. Denny, University of Colorado, Boulder A214 Study of Judaism Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Aryeh Cohen, University of Judaism, Presiding Theme: Method and Theory in the Study of Early Judaism Jonathan Schofer, University of Wisconsin, Madison The Play of Tropes in Rabbinic Culture: Metaphor Theory and the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Elijah School, Jerusalem The Role of Polemics in the Shaping of Rabbinic Thought: Methodological Reflections in Light of Jewish and Christian Readings of the Song of Songs Christopher Beall, Oxford University The Archaeology of Variety: Material Remains in the Construction of Diaspora Judaism Marjorie S. Lehman, Jewish Theological Seminary of America Reading Talmudic Texts on Women and Festival Ritual: Methodological Considerations A215 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Duncan Williams, University of California, Irvine, Presiding Theme: Japanese American Immigrants and Religion in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Stephen Ward Angell, Earlham College Bunji and Toshi Kida: Quaker Missionaries to the Japanese in California Michihiro Ama, University of California, Irvine The Early History of the "Americanization of Shin Buddhism": The Case of Reverend Itsuzo Kyogoku Tomoe Moriya, Hannan University A Historical Analysis on D. T. Suzuki's Articles for the Shin Bukkyo Magazine Tara K. Koda, University of California, Santa Barbara Buddha in the Land of Tengoku: Buddhism in Plantation Hawaii Responding: Brian Masaru Hayashi, Kyoto University Business Meeting: Duncan Williams, University of California, Irvine, and Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of Southern California, Presiding A216 Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Liora Gubkin, University of Southern California, Presiding Theme: The Relation of Theory and Praxis/Political Action Bonna Devora Haberman, Brandeis University Unmasking Feminist Activist Performance Aysha Hidayatullah, University of California, Santa Barbara Nisa'iya: Naming a Muslim Women's "Feminist" Theology Movement Michelle A. Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University Daily Life Is Not Abstract: The Theoretical Turn in Contemporary Latina Theologies Business Meeting: Liora Gubkin, University of Southern California, and M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University, Presiding A217 Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Donald L. Boisvert, Concordia University, Montreal, Presiding Theme: Love Is a Many Splendored Thing: Varied Views on Polyamory Julianne Buenting, Chicago Theological Seminary (Marriage) Queered: Proposing Polyfidelity As Christian Theo-Praxis Robert E. Goss, Webster University Proleptic Sexual Love: God's Promiscuity Reflected in Christian Polyamory Jay E. Johnson, Richmond, CA Trinitarian Tango: Divine Perichoretic Fecundity in Polyamorous Relations Mark D. Jordan, Emory University "One Wife": The Problem with the Patriarchs and the Promiscuity of Agape Ronald E. Long, Hunter College Heavenly Sex: The Moral Authority of a Seemingly Impossible Dream Responding: Paul J. Gorrell, Drew University A218 Mysticism Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Carol P. Christ, Ariadne Institute for the Study of Myth and Ritual, Lesbos, Greece, Presiding Theme: Mysticism from a Feminist Perspective Beverly Lanzetta, Prescott College Julian and Teresa As Cartographers of the Soul: A Contemplative Feminist Study Elizabeth Dreyer, Fairfield University Feminist Appropriation of Medieval Mysticism: Borrowing or Stealing? Tracy Coleman, Colorado College Spiritual Freedom within Social Constraints? Eros and Gender in the Construction of Hindu Mysticism June McDaniel, College of Charleston My Mother, Myself: Female Mystical Identity in Bengali Shaktism A219 Native Traditions in the Americas Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Andrea Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Presiding Theme: Canaanites, Cowboys, and Indians: The Bible and Narratives of Conquest Panelists: Mary Ann Tolbert, Pacific School of Religion Jace Weaver, University of Georgia Randall Bailey, Interdenominational Theological Seminary Justine Smith, Harvard University Rita Nakashima Brock, Starr King School for the Ministry Rebecca Parker, Starr King School for Ministry Responding: Robert Allen Warrior, University of Oklahoma Business Meeting: Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa, Presiding A220 Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sigridur Gudmarsdottir, Drew University, Presiding Theme: Issues in Pragmatism and Empiricism William D. Dean, Iliff School of Theology A Neglected Apology for Mystery Jacob Goodson, Northwestern University William James's "Philosophy" in The Varieties of Religious Experience: From Theology to the Science of Religions John Walter Woell, Claremont School of Theology The Proliferation of Pragmatisms: A Call for Restraint Business Meeting: David Lamberth, Harvard University, and Frederick J. Ruf, Georgetown University, Presiding A221 Religion and Ecology Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Presiding Theme: Religion and Conservation in Place Anne M. Daniell, Drew University Theology for an Estuary Community: How a Theology of Liminality Can Address the Pontchartrain Basin and Its Constitutive Communities Elizabeth Gaines, Taimen Conservation Fund, Livingston, MT Buddhism and Conservation: A Case Study in Restoring Buddhism and Taimen in Mongolia Jill DeTemple, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Whole Person Theology, Whole Earth Ecology: Religion, Development and the Environment in Rural Ecuador Nicole Roskos, Drew University For the Love of Trees and Pagans: The Decimation of Sacred Groves in Christian History and Its Appropriation by Contemporary Anti-environmentalism Business Meeting: Bron Taylor, University of Florida, and Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding A222 Anthropology of Religion Consultation and Religion and Popular Culture Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, Presiding Theme: Performing Religion: Places, Objects, and Stories in the Cultural Transformation of Religion Jesse Terry Todd, Drew University The Pieta and the Pope at the New York World's Fair Beth E. Graybill, University of Maryland Marketing the Amish for God and Profit: Amish Women Entrepreuners and the Production of Religious Tourism Jennifer Saunders, Emory University The Local in a Globalized World: Constructing a Hindu Home through Story and Ritual Gordon Lynch, University of Birmingham Contemporary Ecstasies: Exploring British Club Culture As Mysticism Responding: Karen McCarthy Brown, Drew University A223 Ritual Studies Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Diane Sharon, Jewish Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Ritual in/and Torah Sara Penn-Strah, Lowell, MA Canaanite Ritual in the Joseph Story: Ritualized Bodies James W. Watts, Syracuse University Ritual Legitimacy and Scriptural Authority Bryan Bibb, Furman University Interpreting Leviticus: Ritual Words and Literary Worlds Nicole Ruane, Union Theological Seminary, "A Male without Blemish": The Significance of Gender among Sacrificial Victims Responding: Heather A. McKay, Edge Hill College A224 Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jeffrey Kosky, Washington and Lee University, Presiding Theme: Abrahamic Faith in Question: Contemporary Rationality and Culture Tyler T. Roberts, Grinnell College Trauma and Revelation: Theology without Ideology, Community without Boundaries Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology Spirituality As Spirit and Spirituality toward Spirit James Wetzel, Colgate University The Shrewdness of Abraham: Violence and Sexual Difference in a Paradigm of Monotheistic Faith Daphne Hampson, Oxford University The Potential Usefulness of Heidegger for the Future of Theology Business Meeting: Jeffrey Bloechl, College of the Holy Cross, Presiding A225 Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Mary Ann Stenger, University of Louisville, Presiding Theme: Tillich in Dialogue: Dynamics of Relationality Jonathan Rothchild, University of Chicago Self, Otherness, Theology, and Ontology: A Critical Engagement between Tillich and Kristeva, Levinas, and Bataille Guy B. Hammond, Highlands, NC The Primacy of Ethics: Intersubjectivity in Levinas, Buber, and Tillich John C.M. Starkey, Oklahoma City University From Symbol and Concept to Narrative: Re-reading Tillich through Ricoeur Mary Montgomery Clifford, Chicago Theological Seminary Paul Tillich and Pitirim A. Sorokin on Love: A Dialogue between Science and Religion Business Meeting: Robison B. James, University of Richmond, and Mary Ann Stenger, University of Louisville, Presiding A226 Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University, Presiding Theme: The Measure of Womanism: Revisiting Walker's Four-Part Definition Panelists: Kelly Brown Douglas, Goucher College Katie G. Cannon, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education M. Shawn Copeland, Boston College Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University Lynne Westfield, Drew University Responding: Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Drew University Letty M. Russell, Yale University A227 Law, Religion, and Culture Consultation Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University, Presiding Theme: Getting It Wrong: Framing Law and Religion Grace Kao, Havard University Religion and Human Rights: Three Category Mistakes to Avoid Jeremy Schott, Duke University The Anti-pagan Legislation of the Fourth Century and Biblical "Idolater": A Post-Colonial Perspective on Law, Religion, and Empire Charles Brian McAdams, Temple University The Use of the Bible in the Closing Arguments of Death Penalty Trials by Prosecutors in Georgia Robert A. Yelle, University of Toronto Bentham's Fictions: Canon and Idolatry in the Genealogy of Law Responding: Jonathan Z. Smith, University of Chicago Business Meeting: Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University, Presiding A229 ARTF - Numbers Count: Gathering, Managing, and Using Census Data in Program Review and Enhancement Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Academic Relations Task Force Warren G. Frisina, Hofstra University, Presiding Theme: Numbers Count: Gathering, Managing, and Using Census Data in Program Review and Enhancement Panelists: Terrence W. Tilley, University of Dayton Carey J. Gifford, American Academy of Religion See the Program Highlights page for a description. A230 Cultural History of the Study of Religion Consultation Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the International Connections Committee and the Cultural History of the Study of Religion Consultation John R. McRae, Indiana University, Bloomington, Presiding Theme: Response to Modernity: Interactions between Japanese and European Scholarship on Buddhism Mark Blum, State University of New York-Albany When the Stoics Visited Shinran: Kiyozawa Manshi and the Modernization of Shin Buddhism Richard Jaffe, Duke University Suzuki Daisetz As Japanese Mahayana Buddhist Masahiro Shimoda, University of Tokyo Liberating Ourselves from Modernity: Toward a New Horizon of Buddhist Studies in Japan Shizuka Sasaki, Tokyo, Japan Jodo Shin Buddhism and the Encounter with European Orientalist Scholarship Responding: Constance Furey, Indiana University, Bloomington See the Program Highlights page for a description. A231 SLG - Putting Your PhD to Work: Alternative Careers for Religion Graduates Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Student Liaison Group Richard Amesbury, Valdosta State University, Presiding Theme: Putting Your PhD to Work: Alternative Careers for Religion Graduates Panelists: Laura C. Wood, Emory University Jan C. Heller, Providence Health System David Little, Harvard University Rex D. Matthews, Society of Biblical Literature Rodney Petersen, Boston Theological Institute Stephen S. Peterson, Allstate Insurance See the Program Highlights page for a description. A232 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University, Presiding Theme: In-spired Minds and En-spirited Teaching: The Whole Person in and out of the Classroom Ann Lutterman-Aguilar, Augsburg College Experiential, Critical, and Feminist Pedagogies Meet the Lilly Grant: Teaching about Vocation and Identity in a Multicultural World Gayle R. Baldwin, University of North Dakota From Sole Learning to Soul Learning -- Does It Actually Work? Donna Freitas, New York University Teaching Spirituality outside the Classroom: Re-envisioning Our Academic Vocation on College Campuses John K. Simmons, Western Illinois University Vanishing Boundaries: When Teaching about Religion Becomes Spiritual Guidance in the Classroom Business Meeting: Sidney Brown, University of the South, and Christopher Johnson, Gustavus Adolphus College, Presiding A233 Buddhism Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Martin Adam, McGill University, Presiding (reinstate) Theme: It's Merit That Matters: Variation in the Practices and Aims of Merit Transfer Barbra Clayton, Mount Allison University The Virtue of Cultivating Merit: Santideva and the Significance of Merit Transfer Alan Cole, Lewis and Clark College Reading for the Merit: Value and Seduction in Early Mahayana Sutras James Egge, Eastern Michigan University Three Practices of Merit Transfer in Early Buddhism John Clifford Holt, Bowdoin College Gone but Not Departed: The Dead among the Living in Contemporary Buddhist Sri Lanka Responding: John S. Strong, Bates College A234 Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Critical Theory and Discourses in Religion Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Greg Grieve, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Presiding Theme: Historizing Tradition Jason Carbine, University of Chicago Simas and Monastic Purification: The Kalyani Inscriptions in Fifteenth-Century Burma Frederick S. Colby, Miami University Innovative Tradition in the Celebration of Two Muslim Festivals Johnson Gregory, Franklin and Marshall College Traditional Visions and Seeing Like a State Susanna Morrill, University of Chicago The Interpretation of Tradition within Mormon Women's Literature Responding: Richard S. Weiss, Victoria University A235 History of Christianity Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Arun W. Jones, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Visions in Tension in Early Modern and Modern Christianity Nathan Baruch Rein, Ursinus College Union and Resistance: "Religion" and the Failure of Protestant-Catholic Ecumenism in Germany, 1540-1551 Haruko Nawata Ward, Columbia Theological Seminary Catholic Education of Women in Sixteenth-Century Japan Stephen P. Shoemaker, Harvard University "A Vile Peece of Paganism": The Debate over the Role of Classical Ethics in Theological Education at Seventeenth-Century Harvard Miranda Hassett, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Poverty, Purity, Suffering, and Growth: American and Ugandan Accounts of the Source of African Christian Moral Authority Peter R. Gathje, Christian Brothers University The Open Door Community of Atlanta: Radical Christianity in the Bible Belt Chong Bum Kim, Harvard University Saving Body and Soul: Healing in Early Korean Protestantism A236 North American Religions Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: Religion and War in American Culture John D. Carlson, University of Chicago Moral Memory, Ethical Principles, and Political Realism: America's Ironic Experience of War Jonathan Ebel, University of Chicago "And for What?": The Religious Meaning of the First World War in America Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia Speaking the Unspeakable: Representations of War, Trauma, and Religious Experience in the Twentieth Century Responding: Harry Stout, Yale University Business Meeting: Diane Winston, the Pew Charitable Trusts, Presiding A237 Philosophy of Religion Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Richard King, Liverpool Hope University College, Presiding Theme: Religion, Exchange, and the Global Economy: Rethinking the Philosophy of Religion Panelists: Gregory D. Alles, McDaniel College Jeremy R. Carrette, University of Stirling Philip Goodchild, University of Nottingham William Large, College of Saint Mark and Saint John A238 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Seattle University, Presiding Theme: Reparation and Reconciliation in Practice and Theory: Possibilities, Problems, and Conundrums Flora A. Keshgegian, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest Getting Back to Basics? Rethinking the 3 Rs of Reconciliation, Reparation, and Restorative Justice Sharon Tan, Emory University Satyagraha, Political Forgiveness, and Reconciliation Cynthia Hess, Yale University Sites of Violence and of Grace: A Feminist Reconception of Christian Nonviolence Zion Zohar, Florida International University, Miami. Nonviolence and Peace in the Jewish Mystical Tradition: The Case of the Book of Splendor (the Zohar) Business Meeting: Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Elizabeth Margaret Bounds, Emory University, Presiding A239 Religion in South Asia Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Leslie C. Orr, Concordia University, Montreal, Presiding Theme: From Students in India to Experts Back Home: Ethical Issues in Scholarly Interactions with Diaspora Jain Communities Panelists: Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University John Cort, Denison University Mikal Austin Radford, McMaster University Anne Vallely, University of Toronto Responding: Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Emory University A240 Study of Islam Section and Women and Religion Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University, Presiding Theme: Teaching Gender and Islam Panelists: Vivienne S. M. Angeles, La Salle University Shahzad Bashir, Carleton College Zayn Kassam, Pomona College Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, University of Florida Sufia Uddin, University of Vermont Gisela Webb, Seton Hall University Business Meeting: Jacqueline Z. Pastis, La Salle University, Presiding A241 Study of Judaism Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Kalman P. Bland, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Character, Law, and Authority: Jewish Virtue Ethics, Past and Present Panelists: Dov Nelkin, University of Virginia Jonathan Schofer, University of Wisconsin, Madison Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University Heidi Ravven, Hamilton College Responding: Louis E. Newman, Carleton College Business Meeting: Randi Rashkover, York College of Pennsylvania, and Martin Kavka, Florida State University, Presiding A242 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Paul F. Lakeland, Fairfield University, Presiding Theme: Discussion of Stephen G. Ray's Do No Harm: Social Sin and Christian Responsibility Panelists: Victor Anderson, Vanderbilt University Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke University Alistair McFadyen, University of Leeds Responding: Stephen G. Ray, Louisvile Presbyterian Theological Seminary A243 Christian Systematic Theology Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm David S. Cunningham, Hope College, Presiding Theme: Theologies of the Gift in the Work of John Milbank and Kathryn Tanner Panelists: Sarah Coakley, Harvard University Michael J. Root, Luthern Theological Southern Seminary Miroslav Volf, Yale University Responding: John Milbank, University of Virginia Kathryn Tanner, University of Chicago A244 Evangelical Theology Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Anthea Butler, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding Theme: Theological Boundaries in American Evangelicalism Matt Blackmon, Dallas Theological Seminary The Buswell-Chafer Controversy Circa 1936-7: An Unusually Civil War of Words? Donald L. Denton, Westmont College The Problematic Nature of Evangelical Boundaries: The Significance of Narrative Identity Will Eisenhower, Faith Presbyterian Church The Long Kiss Goodbye: Problems and Possibilities Inherent in Left-Wing Evangelical Identity Responding: Wyndy Corbin, Ashland Theological Seminary A245 Korean Religions Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Eun Hee Shin, Simpson College, Presiding Theme: Women, Religion, and Ritual Values in Contemporary Korea Kim Unhey, Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary Subjectivity and Difference: Toward a Korean Christian Feminism from Daoist Perspective Grace Kim, University of Toronto Korean Women's Place Sunju Chong, University of Chicago Philosophical and Psychological Reflection of the Effect of Save-Face in Korean Tradition: A Redress of the Deficit in Globalized and Postmodern Context Chansoon Lim, Drew University Dynamics between Confucianism and Christianity in the Case of Ancestor Worship for the Public Values of Contemporary Korea Responding: Bockja Kim, Hong Kong University Kang-nam Oh, University of Regina Business Meeting: Sungtaek Cho, Korea University, and Bockja Kim, Hong Kong University, Presiding A246 Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jorge A. Aquino, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Nueva Sur: Regional Latino Religion Stewart Stout, Chicago Theological Seminary A Faith That Travels: Border-Crossing Narratives among Mexican Evangélicos Daniel Ramirez, Duke University Public Lives and Migrating Faiths: Latino Churches in the New South Margarita M. W. Suarez, Meredith College Public Ministry Empowering Hispanic Immigrants in North Carolina: The Reverend Maria Palmer Thomas Russell, Western Kentucky University Latino Roman Catholicism Music City Style! Responding: Milagros Pena, New Mexico State University Business Meeting: Michelle A. Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University, and Rüdiger V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding A247 Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Mary E. Hunt, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual, Presiding Theme: Carnal Appetites: Food, Sex, Religion Panelists: Marcella Althaus-Reid, University of Edinburgh Julianne Buenting, Chicago Theological Seminary Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa Lori Rowlett, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Zandra Wagoner, University of La Verne Responding: Susan E. Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Business Meeting: Elizabeth A. Say, California State University, Northridge, and Jennifer Rycenga, San José State University, Presiding A248 Religion and Disability Studies Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Bill J. Leonard, Wake Forest University, Presiding Theme: Everyday Intimacies: Lived Theology of Disability Elizabeth L Agnew, University of Notre Dame "The Full Imago Dei": The Implications of Wesleyan Scriptural Holiness for Conceptions of Suffering and Disability Deborah Creamer, University of Denver "God Doesn't Treat His Children That Way": The Experience of Disability in the Families of God J. Douglas Harrison, University of Southern California "The Lame Shall Enter First": The Unconventional Body As the Gracious Disruption of the Family and Cosmos in the Stories of Flannery O'Connor Christopher Hinkle, Harvard University Smart Enough for Church? Liberal Protestantism and Cognitive Disability Business Meeting: J. Eric Pridmore, Drew University, Presiding A249 Religion and Popular Culture Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., Claremont Graduate University, Presiding Theme: Music Matters Ennis B. Edmonds, Kenyon College "The Stone That the Builder Refuse": Rastafari and Jamaican Popular Music Evelyn L. Parker, Southern Methodist University "I'm No Showpiece": Gender, Race, and Class Work in Hip-Hop Gospel Theodore Trost, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Protest Songs and Battle Hymns of the Republic: Singing America in a Dangerous Time Jessica De Cou, University of Iowa Wide Awake: The Appropriation of the Desert Fathers and Social Justice in U2's "Bad" Chad Seales, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill U2's Bono As Public Theologian of an Emerging World Polity A250 Religion and Science Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Lou Ann G. Trost, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Pluralism and the Science-Religion Dialogue Mikael Stenmark, Uppsala Unversity A Religiously Neutral Science? Islamic and Christian Perspectives James F. Moore, Valparaiso University Inter-religious Dialogue as an Evolutionary Process Harry Lee Poe, Union University, Jackson Religious Pluralism and the Science and Religion Dialogue Responding: Lisa L. Stenmark, San José State University Business Meeting: Greg Peterson, South Dakota State University, Presiding A251 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm William L. Blizek, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Presiding Theme: Authoring Books on Religion, Film and Visual Culture Panelists: S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University John Lyden, Dana College Bryan Stone, Asia Pacific University Robert K. Johnston, Fuller Theological Seminary Richard Burridge, King's College, London A252 Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Richard Hecht, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Other Voices: Religious Persecution and Cultural Genocide beyond Europe Anne Waters, State University of New York, Binghamton Indigenism in the Americas Subodh Atal, Columbia, MD Article 370: An Impediment to Defusing the Kashmir Crisis Vesna Acimovic Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara Who Spoke for Buddhists in Communist Mongolia? Sachi Dastidar, State University of New York, Old Westbury "Where Do My People Go?" The Quest of Bangladeshi Hindu Minorities Responding: Rao Balagangadhara, University of Ghent A253 David Clohessy - A Clergy Abuse Survivor's Historical View of The Crisis - A Perspective From 13 Years In The Trenches Monday - 7:15 pm-8:15 pm Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: A Clergy Abuse Survivor's Historical View of the Crisis - A Perspective From Thirteen Years In The Trenches David Clohessy, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests See the Program Highlights page for a description. A254 Voices of Inner Strength Gospel Choir Monday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University, Presiding See the Program Highlights page for a description. A255 Ramadan: A Fast of Faith and My Journey, My Islam Monday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Sponsored by the Study of Islam Section Jonathan E. Brockopp, Pennsylvania State University, Presiding See the Program Highlights page for a description. A256 Trembling Before Gd* Monday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Sponsored by the Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group and Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group See the Program Highlights page for a description. A257 AAR Program Unit Chairs and Steering Committee Members Reception Monday - 9:00 pm-10:30 pm Program unit chairs and steering committee members are invited to a reception in their honor hosted by the Program Committee. A258 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Joseph A. Favazza, Rhodes College, Presiding Theme: Texts and Contexts: Exploring Frameworks for Sound Teaching and Learning Anne Moore, University of Calgary Clifford Geertz, Andrey Tarkovsky, and Martin Scorsese: Intersection of Religion and Film as a Problem of Meaning Dereck Daschke, Truman State University "That's News to Me...": Midwestern Undergraduates Find Religion – In the News! Alfred Benney, Fairfield University What Can You Do with Digital Video That You Can't Do with a Book? Julia Winden Fey, University of Central Arkansas From World Religions and Sexuality to World Religions and the W.A.R. Project: Clustering the Introductory Course Richard M. Carp, Appalachian State University Experiential Religious Studies in the Context of World Civilization General Education A259 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jennifer L. Geddes, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: Religion and the Tragic Panelists: Graham Ward, University of Manchester Kenneth Surin, Duke University Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University A260 Buddhism Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am John S. Strong, Bates College, Presiding Theme: Buddhist Responses to Orientalist Modernities in South and Southeast Asia Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University Desirable Knowledge: Buddhist Education in Late Nineteenth-Century Colombo Thomas Borchert, University of Chicago Whose Orient? Sipsongpanna Buddhism in Chinese and Thai Academic Discourse Jacob N. Kinnard, College of William and Mary Locative Orientalism and the Construction of One Buddhism David L. McMahan, Franklin and Marshall College Anagarika Dharmapala and the Discourse of Scientific Buddhism Juliane Schober, Arizona State University Missionizing the Dhamma: Burmese Buddhism Engages the Modern World Responding: Donald K. Swearer, Swarthmore College A261 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Mary N. MacDonald, Le Moyne College, Presiding Theme: New Horizons in the Comparative Study of Religion Eyal Regev, Bar-Ilan University Sectarian Practice and Organization in Qumran in Light of the Regulations of the Shakers, Hutterites, Mennonites and Amish Christopher Roberts, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill From Lévi-Strauss to Mauss: Or, from Loquacious Myths and Mute Rituals to the Mythico-Ritual Complex Alex Snow, Syracuse University Kukai, Hazrat Inayat Khan, and String-Theory: Comparative Cosmologies of Vibration Elizabeth Cameron Galbraith, St. Olaf College Agape, Bodhisattva, and Maya in Shusaku Endo's Deep River Abraham Velez de Cea, Georgetown University The Need for a More Realistic Understanding of Religious Ethical Traditions A262 Ethics Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Gloria H. Albrecht, University of Detroit, Mercy, Presiding Theme: Voices of the Silenced: The Problematic Necessity of Airing Dirty Laundry Crystal Downing, Messiah College Bakhtin in the Barbershop Catherine Roach, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics: Religious Studies and the Sex Workers' Rights Movement Roger A. Sneed, Vanderbilt University Letting the Queen Speak: Representations of Homosexuality in Black Liberation Theology and African American Cultural Criticism Darryl Michael Trimiew, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School Who Speaks for Us? The Problem of Moral Leadership in the Black Community A263 History of Christianity Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Anne Clark, University of Vermont, Presiding Theme: Memoria, Habitus, Imitatio: The Power of the Past in the Present Michael Penn, Mount Holyoke College Defeat into Victory: Syriac Christian Transformations of the Islamic Conquest Judith L. Bishop, Graduate Theological Union Memory Morphing across Time and Space: Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction of the Medieval Image of Brigit of Ireland Alison Knowles Frazier, University of Texas, Austin Imitating Augustine: Hermits vs. Canons in Renaissance Manuscript and Print Timothy J. Johnson, Flagler College Michel de Certeau, Bonaventure's Journey of the Soul into God, and Peripatetic Prayer Steven Engler, Mount Royal College Time, Habit, and Embodied Memory in English Puritanism Responding: Theodore Vial, Virginia Wesleyan College A264 North American Religions Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of Southern California, Presiding Theme: Promise and Problems in Asian American History Jennifer Snow, Columbia University "The Evolution of the Japanese": Scientific Racism and Missionary Responses to Japanese Immigration Jeffrey Staley, Seattle University Building a Home: Methodist Women, Orphan Children, and the San Francisco Oriental Mission's National Fund-Raising Tour of 1908-1909 Jason Steuber, University of Missouri, Kansas City Religious Dimensions of Ethnic Caricatures: The Heathen Chinese and Nineteenth-Century American Press Illustrations Drew Bourn, University of California, Santa Barbara Kannon Reversed: How the Statue of a Buddhist Deity of Compassion became the Object of Horror in a Baltimore Cemetery Responding: Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University A265 Philosophy of Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles, Presiding Theme: Authority and Subjectivity Kathleen Tierney, Stanford University Spiritual Exercises: Transformations of the Self in the Work of Pierre Hadot and Iris Murdoch Pamela M. Hall, Emory University Tragedy As Moral Pedagogy in Recent Virtue Ethics Kerry Mitchell, University of California, Santa Barbara Authority and Self-Knowledge: The Foundation of the Author in Divine and Human Law Thomas E. Reynolds, Saint Norbert College Between Openness and Closure: The Paradox of Authority in Religion A266 Religion in South Asia Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Swasti Bhattacharyya, Buena Vista University, Presiding Theme: Sacred Groves: Houseplants, Cremation Grounds, Santal Spirits, and Embedded Ecologies Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University, Chicago Grove, Goddess, Houseplant, Bride: Ascetic/Domestic Values in the Worship of Tulsi Elaine Craddock, Southwestern University Cremation Ground As Sacred Grove: The Life and Poetry of Karaikkal Ammaiyar Selva Raj, Albion College The Santal Sacred Grove: Site of Construction and Contestation of Identity Vijaya Nagarajan, University of San Francisco Sacred Groves As Embedded Ecological Commons: A Theoretical Exploration in Tamil Nadu Responding: Eliza Kent, DePaul University A268 Study of Judaism Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Martin Kavka, Florida State University, Presiding Theme: Strategies of Jewish Identity Rebecca T. Alpert, Temple University Reflections on Teaching Judaism in Indonesia Pinchas Giller, University of Judaism Shar'abi Rising: Canon Limitation in Late Classical Kabbalah Masen Uliss, University of California, Santa Barbara The Americanization of Chabad Literature Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University The Cousins Club: The Yearning for the Lost Tribes and the Use of Human Genetics to Find Them A269 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Eric Boynton, Allegheny College, Presiding Theme: Religion and Globalization II Luis Reyes Ceja, Universidad del Valle de Atemajac, and Gregory A. Banazak, Saints Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary Empire before and after Modernity Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara Global Responsibility and Self-Creativity in the Thought of Michael Serres Yvon Elenga, Weston Jesuit School of Theology Globalization and Postcolonial Representations in Sub-Saharan Africa Business Meeting: Paul F. Lakeland, Fairfield University, Presiding A270 Women and Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University, Presiding Theme: Women's Bodies As "Fundamentalist" Battleground Linda Ellison, Harvard University Abortion and the Politics of God: Women's Bodies As Fundamentalist Background Julia Sheetz-Willard, Temple University "Causes of Unrest": Gender and the Bible in the 1920's Fundamentalist-Modernist Debates Nancy E. Nienhuis, Harvard University Historical and Contemporary Responses to Battering Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Harvard University Historical and Contemporary Responses to Battering Christy Cousino, Indiana University, Bloomington "The Woman Shall Conquer": Sex, Reproduction, and Mothering on the Catholic Apocalyptic Battlefield A271 African Religions Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Samuel K. Elolia, Emmanuel School of Religion, Presiding Theme: African Religion(s) in a Global Context Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University African Churches in Houston Mabiala Justin-Robert Kenzo, Canadian Theological Seminary Hermeneutics of African Traditional Religions Isabel Mukonyora, University of Virginia Religious Plurality, Globalization, and the Quest for Belonging from the Margins Samuel Paul, University of Southern California Interpretation of the New Testament from the Third World: A Global Perspective A272 Black Theology Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University, Presiding Theme: Competing Faith Claims and the Nature of Black Theology and the Theologian Monica A. Coleman, Claremont Graduate University Metaphysics and Black Religions: A Case Study of Process Metaphysics and Yoruba-Based Religions Anthony B. Pinn, Macalester College Rethinking the Nature of Religion and the Doing of Black Theology: A Humanist and Comparative Perspective Josef Sorett, Harvard University Langston's Legacy: Couplets of a Doubly-Conscious Faith Business Meeting: Anthony B. Pinn, Macalester College, Presiding A273 Chinese Religions Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jeffrey L. Richey, Berea College, Presiding Theme: Sanctity in the Chinese Religious Tradition Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of Wisconsin, Madison Sages and Worthies: Debates over the Transcendence of the Shengren in Early Confucianism Keith Knapp, The Citadel Confucian and Christian Miracles in Early Medieval Eurasia Thomas Michael, George Washington University Regard the Descended Spirit, So Good and Ravishing: Shamanism in Early China Chun-Fang Yu, Rutgers University Eminent Nuns and Exemplary Laywomen: Feminine Sanctity in the Chinese Buddhist Tradition Responding: Livia Kohn, Boston University A274 Ritual Studies Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Norma Baumel Joseph, Concordia University, Montreal Presiding Theme: Golden Apple or Forbidden Fruit? Using Multimedia and Video in Studying and Teaching Ritual Panelists: Todd E. Johnson, Loyola University, Chicago James Caccamo, Loyola University, Chicago Eileen Crowley-Horak, Reston, VA Responding: Mary E. 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