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Home ► Meetings ► Annual Meeting ► Past and Future Meetings ► 2004 http://www.aarweb.org/Meetings/Annual_Meeting/Past_and_Future_Meetings/2004/programbook.asp AAR Online Program Book November 20-23, 2004 San Antonio, Texas, USA A21-118 Religion and Science Group - Lisa L. Stenmark, San Jose State University, Presiding Theme: The Ethics of Exploration: Theological and Ethical Issues in Space Travel Panelists: Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University Paul Root Wolpe, University of Pennsylvania John Minogue, DePaul University Shannon Lucid, NASA John Glenn, NASA A19-1 Chairs Workshop - Being a Chair in Today’s Consumer Culture: Navigating in the Knowledge Factory Friday - 9:00 am-4:00 pm Sponsored by the Academic Relations Task Force Carey J. Gifford, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Panelists: Elizabeth A. Say, California State University, Northridge Gerald S. Vigna, Alvernia College Steve Friesen, University of Missouri, Columbia Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College William K. Mahony, Davidson College See the Program Highlights for a description. Separate registration is required. A19-2 AAR Board of Directors Meeting Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University, Presiding A19-5 Genes, Ethics, and Religion: A Blueprint for Teaching Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee Dena S. Davis, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Presiding Panelists: Suzanne Holland, University of Puget Sound Sondra Ely Wheeler, Wesley Theological Seminary Michael J. Dougherty, Hampden Sydney College A19-3 Religion and Media Workshop - Film and the Possibilities of Justice: Documentary Film in and out of the Classroom Friday - 10:00 am-6:00 pm S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University, Presiding Panelists: Barbara Abrash, New York University Judith Helfand, Working Films Robert West, Working Films Heather Hendershot, Queens College Macky Alston, Hartley Film Foundation See the Program Highlights for a description. Separate registration is required. Separate registration is required. A19-4 Women's Caucus Workshop Friday - 11:30 am-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Women's Caucus Laurie Wright Garry, California Lutheran University, Presiding Panelists: Grace Kim, Moravian Theological Seminary Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary's College of California Harriet Luckman, Fairfield University Paula Trimble-Familetti, San Francisco Theological Seminary Rebecca Moore, San Diego State University See the Program Highlights for a description. A19-100 Teaching and Learning Committee Meeting Friday - 6:30 pm-8:30 pm Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College, Presiding A19-101 EIS Center Orientation Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm Sponsored by the EIS Advisory Committee Shelly C. Roberts, American Academy of Religion, Presiding See the Program Highlights for a description. A19-102 Arts Series/Films: What Do You Believe? American Teenagers, Spirituality, and Freedom of Religion Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Sarah Feinbloom, San Francisco, CA, Presiding See the Program Highlights for a description. A20-1 Student Liaison Group Business Meeting Saturday - 7:30 am-9:00 am Kimberly Bresler, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding A20-3 Regional Secretaries Meeting Saturday - 7:30 am-9:30 am Stacy L. Patty, Lubbock Christian University, Presiding A20-2 Academic Relations Task Force Meeting Saturday - 8:00 am-9:30 am Warren G. Frisina, Hofstra University, Presiding A20-4 International Connections Committee Saturday - 8:00 am-10:00 am Mary McGee, Columbia University, Presiding A20-5 Publications Committee Meeting Saturday - 8:30 am-11:30 am Francis X. Clooney, Boston College, Presiding A20-6 Arts Series/Films: The Holy Artwork Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am See the Program Highlights for a description. A20-7 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the AAR's Religon and Media Center and The Pew Charitable Trusts Kyle Cole, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Theme: Navigating the News Interview: Scholars as Primary Sources See the Program Highlights for a description. A20-8 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Maggie Kulyk, American Express Financial Advisors, Presiding Theme: Planning Your Retirement Income See the Program Highlights for a description. A20-9 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Student Liaison Group Melissa Johnston-Barrett, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Interviewing: A Behind-the-Scenes Look Panelists: Faith Kirkham Hawkins, Emory University Wade Clark Roof, University of California, Santa Barbara Dianne Stewart, Emory University Kevin Jaques, Indiana University, Bloomington Martha L. Moore-Keish, Columbia Theological Seminary F. Douglas Powe, Emory University Patricia O'Connell Killen, Pacific Lutheran University See the Program Highlights for a description. A20-10 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University, Presiding Theme: Teaching and Learning Near and Across Borders Steven W. Ramey, University of North Carolina, Pembroke Critiquing Borders: Teaching a Post-Colonial World Religions Survey Frances M. Leap, Seton Hill University "Why Do They Hate Us?": Christian and Muslim Ethics Crossing Boundaries Abdul Mawgoud Dardery, South Valley Univeristy co-presenter with Frances M. Leap Jannette Gutierrez, University of Georgia Adult Religious Education for Whom? Asian and North Asian Women Theological Educators Teaching in a White-Dominated Environment Sara Patterson, Claremont Graduate University Disrupting Tradition Definitions: Using Religion to Complicate "Culture" in American Studies/American History Classrooms A20-11 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Martha Serpas, University of Tampa, Presiding Theme: Reflections on Graham Greene on His Centennial Angela Franks, Boston College Corpus Christi: Suffering, Embodiment, and Sanctity in Graham Greene's The End of the Affair Mark G. Bosco, Loyola University Chicago Coloring Catholicism Greene Danny L. Franke, Alderson-Broaddus College Graham Greene's A Burnt-Out Case: Lessons in Vocation and Spirituality/Religion for a Postmodern Society Darren J. N. Middleton, Texas Christian University Greene, God, Greene-Eyed God: Sleuthing The End of the Affair's Literary and Theological Sources A20-12 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Barbara Darling Smith, Wheaton College, Presiding Theme: Animals and Religious Ritual: Spanning the Globe Panelists: Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University Mary N. MacDonald, Le Moyne College Religious Studies Dept Jay McDaniel, Hendrix College Kenneth Mello, University of Vermont Eric D. Mortensen, Guilford College Paul Waldau, Tufts University A20-13 Ethics Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am David Clairmont, University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: An Evaluation of A Companion to Religious Ethics Panelists: Darrell J. Fasching, University of South Florida John Kelsay, Florida State University Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles William Schweiker, University of Chicago A20-14 North American Religions Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Colleen McDannell, University of Utah, Presiding Theme: Bluegrass, Polkas, Folksongs, and Father Divine: Music in American Religion Anne Pryor, Wisconsin Arts Board In Church There Is No Beer: Polka Mass as a Regional Devotion Erica Hurwitz, University of Vermont The Model Church: Evangelicalism as Source and Model for Values in Bluegrass Lyrics Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini College "It's Good to Be Here around the Body of God": Tradition and Innovation in the Music of Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement Brian Walsh, University of Toronto "At Home in the Darkness, but Hungry for Dawn": Global Homelessness and a Passion for Homecoming in the Music of Bruce Cockburn David H. Perkins, Vanderbilt University Selling the Sacred: Contemporary Christian Worship Music as General Market Commodity Responding: Stephen A. Marini, Wellesley College A20-15 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Elizabeth Margaret Bounds, Emory University, Presiding Theme: After Fifty Years: The Legacy and Impact of Brown vs. Board of Education Stephanie Y. Mitchem, University of Detroit Mercy Testing Inequality: Losing Brown vs. Board of Education, Maintaining Race Carroll Ann Friedmann, University of Virginia Brown vs. Board of Education: Blessing or Band-Aid? Donald H. Matthews, University of Missouri, Kansas City The Science of Theological Ethical Racism and Its Impact on Brown vs. Board of Education and the Fourteenth Amendment Responding: Alton B. Pollard, Emory University A20-16 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Ellen T. Armour, Rhodes College, Presiding Theme: Borders and Boundaries I Michael Nausner, Drew University Crossing or Inhabiting Boundaries? A Theological Hermeneutic of the Boundary Ruben Rosario-Rodriguez, Saint Louis University A Rarely Crossed Border: Latino/a Protestantism Engages Guadalupan Devotion Flora A. Keshgegian, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest Beyond Borders? Eschatological and Redemptive Themes in Discourses of (Dis)location Arthur Sutherland, Loyola College in Maryland Crossing By Faith: A Typology of Borders A20-17 Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University, Presiding Theme: Secularization, Norms, and Traditions: Responses to Jeffrey Stout Panelists: Linell E. Cady, Arizona State University M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University Timothy P. Jackson, Emory University Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Grinnell College Philip G. Ziegler, Atlantic School of Theology Responding: Ronald F. Thiemann, Harvard University A20-18 Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Yolanda Yvette Smith, Yale University, Presiding Theme: A Dialogue among Womanist, Mujerista, Asian, and Native American Women on the Impact of HIV/AIDS Both Nationally and Internationally Panelists: Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, Vanderbilt University Corliss Heath, Emory University Nantawan Lewis, Metropolitan State University Rosetta E. Ross, Spelman College Rosalind F. Hinton, DePaul University Sharon Grant, Southern Methodist University A20-19 Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Children as Agents of Good and Evil Jennifer E. Beste, Xavier University Conceptions of Children's Moral Agency in Contemporary Catholicism David Hadley Jensen, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary Depravity, Innocence, and Disease: Contested Understandings of Children and Sin in Christian Theology Jason A. Mahn, Emory University Growing Out of Eden? Kierkegaardian Faith and "The Child" Joyce Ann Mercer, San Francisco Theological Seminary Who Do You Say That I Am? Children’s Identities, “Spiritual Capital," and Congregational Life Responding: John Wall, Rutgers University Business Meeting: Marcia Bunge, Valparaiso University, Presiding A20-20 Regions Committee and Regional Officers Meeting Saturday - 9:30 am-11:00 am Stacy L. Patty, Lubbock Christian University, Presiding A20-21 Plenary Address Saturday - 11:30 am-1:00 pm Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University, Presiding Theme: TEXTureS, Gestures, Power: Orientation to Radical Excavation Panelists: Vincent L. Wimbush, Claremont Graduate University Responding: Charles Hallisey, University of Wisconsin, Madison Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University G. John Renard, Saint Louis University See the Program Highlights for a description. A20-22 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 11:45 am-1:00 pm Sponsored by the Student Liaison Group and the American Theological Library Association Kimberly Bresler, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: AAR Student Luncheon: Alternative Careers for Religion Doctoral Students Panelists: Valerie R. Hotchkiss, Southern Methodist University Raul Fernandez-Calienes, St. Thomas University Pamela L. Schaeffer, Society of the Sacred Heart Lynn Allan Kauppi, Antioch, TN Clifford Blake Anderson, Princeton Theological Seminary See the Program Highlights for a description. Separate registration is required. A20-50 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Journal of the American Academy of Religion Ebrahim E. I. Moosa, Duke University, Presiding Theme: When Reconciliation Fails: Global Politics and the Study of Religion Panelists: Mona Siddiqui, University of Glasgow Walter Mignolo, Duke University S. Mostafa Mohaghhegh Damad, Academy of Sciences, Islamic Republic of Iran See the Program Highlights for a description. A20-51 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Religion and Disabilities Task Force Kent A. Eaton, Bethel Seminary San Diego, Presiding Theme: Hidden Spectacles: Disabled/Disability Viewings of Gibson's Passion Panelists: Jin Hee Han, New York Theological Seminary Mary Jo Iozzio, Barry University Glen G. Scorgie, Bethel Seminary San Diego Kerry Wynn, Southeast Missouri State University See the Program Highlights for a description. A20-52 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Committee Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College, Presiding Theme: AAR Excellence in Teaching Forum: A Conversation about Teaching with Timothy Renick, Winner of the AAR Excellence in Teaching Award Panelists: Timothy M. Renick, Georgia State University See the Program Highlights for a description. A20-53 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Glenn Ambrose, University of the Incarnate Word, Presiding Theme: San Antonio Ritual Drama and Dance: Hispanic Roots and Contemporary Flowering Panelists: James L. Empereur, San Fernando Cathedral A20-54 Buddhism Section and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Lori Meeks, University of Southern California, Presiding Theme: Buddhism and Healing David Drewes, Indiana University, Bloomington Medical Benefits of Mahāyāna Sutras Andrew Goble, University of Oregon What’s Buddhist about Buddhist Medicine?: The Case of Medieval Japan Janet Gyatso, Harvard University The Word of the Buddha and the Eye of the Scientist: Early Modern Debates in Tibet, 1550-1750 Pamela D. Winfield, Meredith College Curing with Kaji: Healing and Esoteric Empowerment in Japan Responding: Luis O. Gomez, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor A20-56 Ethics Section and Religion and the Social Sciences Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Earth Ethics: Celebrating the Work of Larry Rasmussen Daniel T. Spencer, University of Montana "Only Connect!": Exploring Ecological Restoration as a Case Study in Larry Rasmussen's Earth Ethic Centered in Sustainable Community Donald M. Braxton, Juniata College Naturalizing Transcendence: Cosmologies of Emergence as the Foundation of Rasmussen's Earth Ethics Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Seattle University Earth-Honoring Religious Ethics: Methodological Contours Responding: Larry Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary A20-57 Philosophy of Religion Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Philosophy and/as/in/of Religion Thomas A. Lewis, Harvard University Hegel’s Pragmatism?: Toward an Open-Ended Consummation of the Philosophy of Religion Tyler T. Roberts, Grinnell College Philosophical Turnings to and from Religion: Badiou, de Vries, and Zizek Adam Graves, University of Pennsylvania On the (Im)possibility of a Phenomenology of Revelation: Jean-Luc Marion on the Anonymity of the Call Jeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College Becoming Theological: Rethinking Philosophy of/and Religion A20-59 Black Theology Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Juan Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University, Presiding Theme: The Executed God: Crime and Christology J. Kameron Carter, Duke University The Liturgy of a New Israel, or the Early American Execution Homily as Racial Performance Leslie R. James, DePauw University Back Wall and the Black Other Side of God: Lockup at Home and Abroad Raedorah Stewart-Dodd, Pasadena, CA God-Talk, God-Thought, and Christian Iconography in In Too Deep, Training Day, and Shaft, and the Socio-Religious Fascination with Criminal Power in the Black Community Responding: Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary A20-60 Christian Spirituality Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Anita De Luna, Our Lady of the Lake University, Presiding Theme: Spiritual Practice in Latino/a Art and Devotion Daniel Groody, University of Notre Dame An Undocumented Spirituality: Mexican Immigration and the Eucharist Claire Wolfteich, Boston University Practical Theological Approaches to Research and Teaching in Spirituality: A Case Study of Devotional Practices in the Farm Worker Movement Led by Cesar Chavez Jennifer Hughes, Graduate Theological Union Spiritual Practice vs. Art in a Mexican Cult Joseph de León, Graduate Theological Union The Passion of Christ Pageant at the San Fernando Cathedral: A Theo-Catharsis of Love Business Meeting: Wendy Wright, Creighton University, Presiding A20-61 Christian Systematic Theology Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Cynthia Rigby, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: The City of God and Earthly Cities Hans Boersma, Trinity Western University Bordering on the Augustinian: Radical Orthodoxy’s Interpretation of the Civitas Dei and Civitas Terrena in St. Augustine Angela Franks, Boston College The Cosmos, the Temple, and the City: Biblical Visions and Contemporary Revisions Cat Ngoc Jonathan Tran, Duke University The Tale of Two Cities: Gift-Giving in the City of God Kimberly Faye Baker, University of Notre Dame Moving beyond Ourselves: Augustine on Living as the Body of Christ Business Meeting: David S. Cunningham, Hope College, Presiding A20-62 Confucian Traditions Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Lionel M. Jensen, University of Notre Dame, Presiding Theme: Confucianism and the Rule of Law Karen Turner, College of the Holy Cross The Roots of Confucian Resistance to Law Tao Jiang, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Rule of Ritual and Rule by Law: The Qing Code and Its Ritual Ground Youngmin Kim, Bryn Mawr College Individual Morality, Law, and the Political in the Confucian Tradition Responding: Randall Peerenboom, University of California, Los Angeles Henry Rosemont, Jr., St. Mary's College of Maryland, Brown University Business Meeting: Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Presiding A20-63 Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm David Frankfurter, University of New Hampshire, Presiding Theme: Illness and Healing: Late Antique Practices and Discourses Zsuzsanna Varhelyi, Boston University Praying for Health: The Role of the Peer Community in Elite Healing in the Roman Empire Vasiliki Limberis, Temple University Breads of Healing: Metabolizing Miracles and Metaphors in Fourth-Century Cappadocia Dayna Kalleres, Stanford University Healing the Judaizing Christian: Disease, Dismay, and Division in John Chrysostom’s Congregation Charlotte Radler, Loyola Marymount University The Anatomy of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Tertullian's Rhetorical Strategies of Health and Disease A20-64 Evangelical Theology Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Susie Stanley, Messiah College, Presiding Theme: Contemporary Popular Expressions of Evangelicalism Valerie Rempel, Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary "Almost Like God": Women and the Language of Submission in the Novels of Grace Livingston Hill Young Hoon Yoon, Drew University The Puzzle of the Origins of WWJD?: Charles Sheldon's In His Steps and American Evangelicalism Valarie H. Ziegler, DePauw University Someday My Prince Will Come: Genesis 1-3 and Gender Roles in Evangelical Marriage Manuals Responding: Susan Hill Lindley, St. Olaf College A20-65 Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Rosemary P. Carbine, College of the Holy Cross, Presiding Theme: Subaltern/Gendered Subjectivity Jill Gorman, Rollins College Can the Subaltern (Slave) Speak? The Representation of Female Slaves in Late Antique Christian Imperialist Discourse Yvonne Zimmerman, University of Denver Crime and Punishment: Human Trafficking and the Problem of "Home" Ann Pellegrini, New York University A New Sex Wars?: Feminist and Christian Anti-Trafficking Activism Responding: Laura S. Levitt, Temple University Business Meeting: Liora Gubkin, California State University, Bakersfield, Presiding A20-66 Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Donald L. Boisvert, Concordia University, Presiding Theme: Power and Submission, Pain and Pleasure: The Religious Dynamics of Sadomasochism Justin Tanis, Metropolitan Community Church Ecstatic Communion: The Spiritual Dimensions of Leathersexuality Thomas V. Peterson, Alfred University S/M Rituals in Gay Men's Leather Communities: Initiation, Power Exchange, and Subversion Ken Stone, Chicago Theological Seminary “You Seduced Me, You Overpowered Me, and You Prevailed”: Religious Experience and Homoerotic Sadomasochism in Jeremiah Timothy R. Koch, New Life Metropolitan Community Church Choice, Shame, and Power in the Construction of Sadomasochistic Theologies Julianne Buenting, Chicago Theological Seminary Oh, Daddy! God, Dominance/Submission, and Christian Sacramentality and Spirituality Kent Brintnall, Emory University Rend(er)ing God's Flesh: The Body of Christ, Spectacles of Pain, and Trajectories of Desire A20-67 Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group and Nineteenth-Century Theology Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Andrew J. Burgess, University of New Mexico, Presiding Theme: Jon Stewart's Kierkegaard's Relation to Hegel Reconsidered: Critique and Appreciation Robert L. Perkins, Stetson University Jon Stewart's Mediated Kierkegaard David Kangas, Florida State University Which Hegel? Reconsidering Hegel and Kierkegaard Stephen N. Dunning, University of Pennsylvania Response to Kierkegaard's Relation to Hegel Reconsidered, by Jon Stewart Rick A. Furtak, Colorado College Ancient Passion, Modern Abstraction: Kierkegaard on the Hellenistic and the Hegelian Conceptions of Philosophy Pre-printed papers for this and other sessions of the Nineteenth-Century Theology Group may be obtained from C. J. T. Talar, University of St. Thomas, 9845 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77024 for $20.00. A20-68 Native Traditions in the Americas Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: American Indian Religious Revitalization as Cultural Tool, Survival Method, and Ideological Critique John Baumann, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Wounded Land: Environmental Resistance and Revitalized Identity James B. Jeffries, Colgate University Re-Claiming Religion: The Emergence of Orthodoxy among Native Americans in Seventeenth-Century New France Amado Láscar, Ohio University The Recuperation of the Word Michael Zogry, University of Kansas The Cherokee Trail of Tears and the Persistence of Cherokee Religious Traditions: A Critique of the Concepts of Revitalization and Perseverance Responding: Kenneth Mello, University of Vermont A20-69 New Religious Movements Group and Ritual Studies Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sara Penn-Strah, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Ritual Expressions in New Religious Movements Beth Dougherty, King's College, London When Rituals Go Wrong: Angry Goddess, Recalcitrant Reclaimers Laurel Zwissler, University of Toronto Right Action: Uses of Ritual in Anti-Globalization Protests by Neo-Pagan, United Church, and Catholic Activists Lee Gilmore, Graduate Theological Union Theater in a Crowded Fire: Ritualizing "Spirituality without Religion" at the Burning Man Festival Michael F. Strmiska, Siauliai University, Lithuania Putting the Blood Back in Blot: The Revival of Animal Sacrifice in Nordic Neopaganism Responding: Adrian Harris, King Alfred's College Winchester A20-70 Religious Freedom, Public Life, and the State Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Diana L. Eck, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously: Toward a Democratic Spiritual Politics John B. Cobb, Claremont School of Theology Process Politics in a Pluralistic Age Rita M. Gross, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Buddhist Methods for Promoting Pluralistic Religious Discourse in the Public Square M. A. Muqtedar Khan, Adrian College Faith and Freedom in Islamic Context David Machacek, Trinity College Unsecular Humanism: From Public Protestantism to the Religion of Conscience Michael York, Bath Spa University College Middle Class/"Out Class" Roles for Pagans in Bridging Faith and Freedom Responding: Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary's College of California A20-72 Wesleyan Studies Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sarah Heaner Lancaster, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Presiding Theme: Contestations over Basic Wesleyan Values Aaron Kerr, Duquesne University John and Charles Wesleys' "Hymns on the Lord's Supper": Their Appropriation and the Contestation of Methodist Ecclesial Identity Mary Elizabeth Moore, Emory University Birth and New Birth: Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Wesleyan Ecclesiology and Ministry F. Douglas Powe, Emory University Evangelism in the Wesleyan/Methodist Tradition: Is There One Message for Both Blacks and Whites? Carole Dale Spencer, George Fox University Holiness and Mysticism: The Love/Hate Relationship of John Wesley toward William Law and the Quakers A20-73 Foucault Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm New Program Unit J. Joyce Schuld, Cornell University, Presiding Theme: Foucault in Contemporary Theological and Religious Studies Geoffrey Rees, University of Chicago Is "Sex" Worth Dying For? Exploring the Theological Implications of Foucault's Theory of Sexuality Min-Ah Cho, Emory University Via Purgatory, She Saw and She Was Seen: Reading Catherine of Genoa’s Purgation and Purgatory with Foucault Gregory A. Banazak, SS Cyril and Methodius Seminary Writing Globalization Religiously: The Case of Bartolomé de Las Casas’ Genealogy of the "New World" Luis Reyes Ceja, Universidad del Valle de Atemajac co-presenter with Gregory Banazak Peter Heltzel, Boston University "Cutting Off the Head of the King" in a Kingdom without One: Foucault, Moltmann, and American Empire Business Meeting: Tom Beaudoin, Santa Clara University, Presiding A20-74 Religion and Popular Culture Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Richard J. Callahan, University of Missouri, Columbia, Presiding Theme: Playing with Religion Matt Blackmon, Dallas Theological Seminary co-presenter with Kent Berghuis Kent Berghuis, Dallas Theological Seminary Would Jesus Play Texas Hold-Em? Reflections on Religion and the World Poker Tour Jeremy Biles, University of Chicago SUNDAY! . . . SUNDAY! . . . SUNDAY! The Monster Trucks’ Black Sabbath Carmen Marie Nanko, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago Béisbol at the Borders: Crossing the Lines of Faith and Popular Culture Frank Ferreri, University of South Florida co-present with Don Surrency Don Surrency, University of South Florida Addressing a Methodological Deficiency in the Analysis of Sports as Religion: The Discovery of the Hidden Sacred in Sports A20-75 Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Susan Windley-Daoust, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Presiding Theme: Looking for Justice in Latin America: Balancing the Demands of Justice and Peace David Tombs, Trinity College Dublin The Politics of Forgiveness, Justice, and Reconciliation: The Religious Influence on Transitional Justice Debates in El Salvador and Chile Thomas P. Boland, Jr., Union College, New York Too Heavy a Price? Daniel Berrigan, Ernesto Cardenal, and the Nicaraguan Revolution Juan Herrero-Brasas, California State University, Northridge Latin American Liberation Theology vs. the Just War Tradition: A Matter of Incompatibility or Interpretation? Responding: Eileen M. Fagan, College of Mount Saint Vincent Business Meeting: Cynthia Stewart, Nashville, TN, Presiding A20-76 JAAR International Attendees Reception Saturday - 3:30 pm-4:30 pm Sheila Greeve Davaney, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding A20-100 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Drew University, Presiding Theme: Latinas' Experiences and Lives in Literature and Theology: A Reading by Sandra Cisneros Panelists: Sandra Cisneros, San Antonio, TX Responding: Leticia Guardiola-Saenz, Vanderbilt University Michelle A. Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University Elena Olazagasti, Vanderbilt University See the Program Highlights for a description. A20-101 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee Laura E. Donaldson, Cornell University, Presiding Theme: Racial and Ethnic Minority Scholars and the Relation between the Study of Religion and the Study of Scriptures Panelists: Charles H. Long, Chapel Hill, NC Rita Sherma, Binghamton University Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University Vincent L. Wimbush, Claremont Graduate University Nikky Singh, Colby College Rüdiger V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara A reception hosted by the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee directly follows. See the Program Highlights for a description. A20-102 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Arthur Sutherland, Loyola College in Maryland, Presiding Theme: Identity, Practice, and Location: Sound Pedagogy and Robust Learning in Secular and/or Confessional Contexts Calvin Mercer, East Carolina University “But the Bible Says . . .” Teaching Fundamentalist Christian Students Tanja Juric, University of Toronto Negotiating Values: Moral Education in a Multicultural and Secular Context Charlene Burns, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Cognitive Dissonance and the Induced-Compliance Paradigm: Ethical Concerns in Teaching Religious Studies John K. Simmons, Western Illinois University Neutral Enthusiasm Meets Biblical Studies: Maximizing Accessibility While Avoiding Difficulties A20-103 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Darlene Fozard Weaver, Villanova University, Presiding Theme: Tillich, Literature, and the Arts Steven Fink, University of Iowa A Journey behind the Canvas: Bringing Tillich into an Interpretation of the Paintings of Kandinsky Russell R. Manning, University of Cambridge Towards a Critical Reconstruction and Defense of Tillich’s Theology of Art Jessica De Cou, University of Chicago Drinking to the Dregs: An Exploration of Plath, Hesse, and Tillich toward an Ontology of Suicide Responding: Jonathan Rothchild, University of Chicago A20-104 Buddhism Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Peter N. Gregory, Smith College, Presiding Theme: Monks, Clerics, and (Auto)biography Benjamin Bogin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Entering the Action: The Memoirs of a Monk Turned Ngakpa Derek Maher, East Carolina University Biography and Historical Context: Life Narratives of dGe lugs pa Textbook Authors Jonathan Gold, University of Vermont Sakya Pandita’s Buddhicization of the Rasas: Sanskrit Poetics for a Tibetan Elite Patrick Uhlmann, University of California, Los Angeles Chan Master Zhikong in Korea: The Collaboration of Buddhist Monks and Confucian Literati in the Creation of an Icon Albert F. Welter, University of Winnipeg Context and Motive: Literati Influence over Chan Buddhism in Early Song China A20-105 History of Christianity Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Philip K. Goff, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Presiding Theme: Reviewing Mark Noll's America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln Panelists: Catherine L. Albanese, University of California, Santa Barbara Randall Balmer, Barnard College, Columbia University Richard Bushman, Columbia University Amanda Porterfield, Florida State University Responding: Mark Noll, Wheaton College A20-106 North American Religions Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Diane Winston, University of Southern California, Presiding Theme: Being and Doing: Best Paper Proposals 2004 Matthew Hedstrom, University of Texas, Austin How the Book Business Psychologized Spirituality, 1920-1950 John H. Lardas, Haverford College Moby Dick in the Age of the Moving Picture John Giggie, University of Texas, San Antonio Purchasing Freedom: Consumer Culture and Black Religion in the American South, 1865-1915 Debra Renee Kaufman, Northeastern University "Being" and "Doing" Jewish in America: Surveys, Narratives, and Religious Identity Responding: Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College A20-107 Philosophy of Religion Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Philip L. Quinn, University of Notre Dame, Presiding Theme: Kant and the Philosophy of Religion I (On the 200th Anniversary of His Death) Andrew C. Dole, Amherst College The Changing Fortunes of Kant's Copernican Revolution Robert Erlewine, Rice University Kant’s Conflicted Divinity: Contradictory Thrusts in Kant’s Philosophy of Religion Jeffrey Hensley, Virginia Theological Seminary 'Grace Dreamed Up in Slothful Ttrust': Kant on Moral Regeneration and Divine Assistance James DiCenso, University of Toronto Kant’s Hermeneutics of Religion: Between Ethics and Politics A20-108 Religion in South Asia Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida, Presiding Theme: Teaching Inside-Out: Demographic Changes and Methodological Challenges in Teaching the Religions of South Asia Panelists: Eliza Kent, Colgate University Anne Vallely, University of Ottawa Amir Hussain, California State University, Northridge Stuart R. Sarbacker, Northwestern University Arti Dhand, University of Toronto Responding: Deepak Sarma, Case Western Reserve University A20-109 Study of Islam Section and Islamic Mysticism Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm New Program Unit Vincent J. Cornell, University of Arkansas, Presiding Theme: Discourses of Early Sufism Kenneth Garden, University of Chicago Al-Ghazali's Four-Part Structure and the Underlying Logic of the Revival of the Religious Sciences Joseph Lumbard, American University, Cairo From Biography to Hagiography, the Creation of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ghazali Maria Massi Dakake, George Mason University Intimacy and Union in Early Female Sufi Discourse Annabel Keeler, Wolfson College Qushayri's Lata'if al-isharat: A "Mystical" Commentary on the Qur'an? Responding: Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University, Chicago Business Meeting: Vincent J. Cornell, University of Arkansas, Presiding A20-110 Women and Religion Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Karen Pechilis, Drew University, Presiding Theme: Writing Women into Religious History/ies Gina Cogan, Columbia University The Presence of the Buddha: Cosmic Connection, Temporal Continuity, and Historical Consciousness in the Lineages of Early Modern Japanese Buddhist Nuns Monika Dix, University of British Columbia-Dept of Asian Studies Women and Buddhism: Re-Reading Representations of Chūjōhime in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives Jennifer Eichman, Princeton University Sixteenth-Century Elite Chinese Male Buddhist Writings and What They Tell Us about Female Practice Anne Murphy, Columbia University Woman as Actor/Woman as Devotee: Women in Sikh Histories Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University Let the Key Not Rust: Women Sanskritists at the Time of Indian Independence Responding: Joseph Schaller, Nazareth College A20-111 Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Clifford Green, Hartford Seminary, Presiding Theme: Memory and Legacy: Bonhoeffer in Film Panelists: Margaret R. Miles, Berkeley, CA Josiah U. Young, Wesley Theological Seminary Responding: Martin Doblmeier, Journey Films A20-112 Chinese Religions Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jonathan Herman, Georgia State University, Presiding Theme: Re-Evaluating Missionary Sinology Wah K. Cheng, Mills College Terms of Equivalence: John Nevius and the Domestication of Chinese Life Michael Lazich, Buffalo State College The Chinese Repository and the Missionary Origins of American Sinology Eric Reinders, Emory University Church Missionary Society Publications as Sinological Resources Michael Walsh, Vassar College Wickedness in High Places: Missionary Descriptions of a Buddhist Monastery Responding: Norman J. Girardot, Lehigh University A20-113 Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Mary Keller, University of Wyoming, Presiding Theme: Critical Perspectives on Dubuisson's The Western Construction of Religion Robert A. Segal, University of Lancaster Daniel Dubuisson's The Western Construction of Religion Aaron W. Hughes, University of Calgary Haven't We Been Here Before?: Rehabilitating "Religion" in Light of Dubuisson's Critique Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University Is Religion a Western Invention? Steven Engler, Mount Royal College Agency, Order, and Time in the Human Science of Religion Responding: Ann Taves, Claremont School of Theology & Claremont Graduate University A20-114 Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Donna M. McKenzie, Fordham 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 Responding: Rebecca T. Alpert, Temple University A20-115 Nineteenth-Century Theology Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm David Schultenover, Marquette University, Presiding Theme: The Reception of Pragmatism in France Harvey Hill, Berry College Pragmatism in France: The Case of Edouard LeRoy Michael J. Kerlin, La Salle University Blondel and Pragmatism: Truth Is the Equation of Thought and Life John Shook, Oklahoma State University Early Responses to American Pragmatism in France: Selective Attention and Critical Reaction Charles J. T. Talar, University of St. Thomas, Houston Le Critique Malgré Lui: Marcel Hébert’s Le Pragmatisme Pre-printed papers for this and other sessions of the group may be obtained from C. J. T. Talar, University of St. Thomas, 9845 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77024 for $20.00. A20-116 Platonism and Neoplatonism Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Willemien Otten, Utrecht University, Presiding Theme: Revelation and Interpretation in Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions I Zeke Mazur, University of Chicago How Can One Attain the One-Beyond-Being? Reflections on the Penultimate Stage of Plotinian and Gnostic Mystical Ascent Siamak Adhami, Saddleback College A Neopythagorean-Neoplatonic Account of Zoroastrian Theogony Jay Bregman, University of Maine, Orono The Neoplatonic Revelation of Transcendentalist Nature Gregory Shaw, Stonehill College The Talisman A20-117 Reformed Theology and History Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Robert Sherman, Bangor Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: The Place of the Bible in Reformed Theology R. Ward Holder, Saint Anselm College Not Really Sola Scriptura: Church and Tradition in Calvin's Interpretation of Scripture Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke University What's the Bible in this Church?: Pondering Illusions of Sola Scriptura Kang-Yup Na, Westminster College Biblical Theology and Dogmatic Theology: The Tortuous and Torturous Tale of Scriptura and Tradition David H. Kelsey, YaleUniversity The Ecological Niche of a Doctrine of Scripture in the "Body of Divinity" A20-118 Religion and Popular Culture Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University, Presiding Theme: Religious Icons and Identities in Popular Culture Mary Kay Cavazos, Drew University A Black Christ beyond Race: Re-Reading Countee Cullen's "The Black Christ" Jennie S. Knight, Emory University The Black Madonna, Mary Magdalene, and the Goddess: Re-Mythologizing the Divine Feminine in Popular Fiction Shanny Luft, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Satan on the Silver Screen Michele Rosenthal, University of Haifa Religion, Media, and Culture in Israel: The Case of Tele-Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak Erin H. Addison, University of Arizona The Holy We Can See: The Construction and Conservation of Material Remains in the Holy Land A20-119 Religion and Science Group and Animals and Religion Consultation Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Paul Waldau, Tufts University, Presiding Theme: Religion and Animals: Minding the Work of Marc Bekoff Donna Yarri, Alvernia College Animals as Kin: The Religious Significance of the Work of Marc Bekoff Graham Harvey, Open University Animals, Animists, and Academics Jay McDaniel, Hendrix College All Animals Matter: Marc Bekoff's Contribution to Constructive Christian Theology Nancy Howell, Saint Paul School of Theology "Going to the Dogs": Cannid Ethology and Theological Reflection Responding: Marc Bekoff, University of Colorado, Boulder A20-120 Roman Catholic Studies Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Mary Henold, Valparaiso University, Presiding Theme: Modernized Devotions, Modernized Laity: Devotional Paths in American Catholicism Timothy M. Matovina, University of Notre Dame Patron Saints and Divine Providence: The Origins of Guadalupan Devotion in San Antonio Colleen McDannell, University of Utah Photography, the Saints, and the Dynamics of Devotion Maryellen Davis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Marylike” Women, “Marylike” Men: Marian Models of Gendered Performance in Roman Catholic Devotional Media Darryl Victor Caterine, California Lutheran University Modernity and Its Discontents: Catholic Conservativism in the European-American and Latina/o Church Responding: Elizabeth A. Johnson, Fordham University A20-121 Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Tyler T. Roberts, Grinnell College, Presiding Theme: The Frankfurt School in Dialogue with Christian Thought Daniel Barber, Duke University Adorno and the Philosophical Production of Grace John Hughes, University of Cambridge Unspeakable Utopia: Art and the Return to the Theological in the Marxism of Adorno and Horkheimer Larry Golemon, Dominican University of California The Commodification of God under Global Capitalism A20-122 Cultural History of the Study of Religion Consultation Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm David Chidester, University of Cape Town, Presiding Theme: Missionaries, Anthropologists, and the Study of Religion Dyron Daughrity, University of Calgary Hinduisms, Christian Missions, and the Tinnevelly Shanars: A Study of Colonial Missions in Nineteenth-Century India Laura Ammon, Claremont Graduate University Surfacing Submerged Texts in the Study of Religion: Exploring E. B. Tylor’s Use of Missionary Documents Elizabeth McKeown, Georgetown University A Little Further West: Religion among the Boasians Responding: Patrick Provost-Smith, Harvard University Business Meeting: Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, Presiding Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University, Presiding A20-123 Law, Religion, and Culture Consultation Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: Using Religion to Sell the Law: Legal Rhetoric and the Communication between Center and Periphery Megan Williams, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Religion and the Rhetoric of Late Roman Imperial Law Greg Johnson, Franklin and Marshall College Religious Language, Self-Determination, and the Native Hawaiian Recognition Act William P. George, Dominican University Nomos and Narrative in the Law of the Sea: Robert M. Cover and International Law Lucinda J. Peach, American University "Sex Slaves" or "Sex Workers"? Cross-Cultural and Comparative Religious Perspectives on Sexuality, Subjectivity, and Moral Identity in Anti-Sex Trafficking Discourse Responding: Paul C. Johnson, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Business Meeting: Natalie B. Dohrmann, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding A20-124 Religions, Medicines, and Healing Consultation Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Lara Medina, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding Theme: Healing and Christian Traditions Giselle De Nie, Halle, Netherlands "Inversion of the Order of Things": Some Early Medieval Miraculous Cures Seen in the Light of Modern Cognitive Theories Linda L. Barnes, Boston University Chinese Healing through Missionary Eyes Gary M. Laderman, Emory University Harvey William Cushing, Brain Surgeon, 1869-1939: The Cult of Doctors and the Modern Culture of Healing Responding: Suzanne J. Crawford, Pacific Lutheran University Business Meeting: Linda L. Barnes, Boston University, Presiding A20-125 African Religions Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Pashington Obeng, Harvard University, Wellesley College, Presiding Theme: HIV/AIDS and Religion in Africa Afe Adogame, University of Bayreuth “A Walk for Africa”: Combating the Demon of HIV/AIDS in an African Pentecostal Church Musa W. Dube, Scripps College Teaching African Religions for HIV/AIDS Prevention Beverley Haddad, University of KwaZulu-Natal HIV/AIDS and the Church: Compassion or Damnation? Emmanuel K. Twesigye, Ohio Wesleyan University AIDS and the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God A20-126 Friends of the Academy Reception Saturday - 5:30 pm-6:45 pm Individuals whose generosity allow us to continue many of our programs are invited to a reception hosted by the AAR Board of Directors. A20-127 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. A20-128 Plenary Address Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:15 pm Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University, Presiding Theme: President's Address and Awards Ceremony: Reading the Qur'an with Fidelity and Freedom Panelists: Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University See the Program Highlights for a description. A20-129 Arts Series/Films: The Passion of the Christ Saturday - 8:30 pm-11:00 pm See the Program Highlights for a description. A20-130 Arts Series/Films: Santitos (Little Saints) Saturday - 8:30 pm-10:30 pm Craig Skrumedi, University of Ottawa, Presiding See the Program Highlights for a description. A20-131 AAR Members' Dance Party Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:59 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! A20-132 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 to the Academy. A20-133 Student Members' Reception Saturday - 10:00 pm-11:59 am Sponsored by the Student Liaison Group AAR and SBL student members are invited to drop by for conversation with fellow students. Beer, wine, soda, and light snacks will be provided. A21-1 AAR New Members' Continental Breakfast Sunday - 7:30 am-8:45 am New (first time) AAR members in 2004 are cordially invited to a continental breakfast with members of the Board of Directors. A21-2 History of Religions Jury Meeting Sunday - 7:30 am-8:45 am Alan Segal, Barnard College, Columbia University, Presiding A21-3 JAAR Editorial Board Meeting Sunday - 7:30 am-8:45 am Glenn E. Yocum, Whittier College, Presiding A21-33 Religion in the Schools Task Force Meeting Sunday - 7:30 am-8:45 am Marcia Beauchamp, California Institute of Integral Studies, Presiding A21-4 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Regions Committee William D. Lindsey, Philander Smith College, Presiding Theme: Religion and Public Life in the Southwest/Southern Crossroads Region Panelists: Kathlyn A. Breazeale, Pacific Lutheran University Marjorie Jane Harris, Hendrix College Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Shaw University Divinity School Bill J. Leonard, Wake Forest University Andrew M. Manis, Macon State College Responding: Stacy L. Patty, Lubbock Christian University See the Program Highlights for a description. A21-5 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Committee Grace G. Burford, Prescott College, Presiding Theme: Cross-Disciplinary Collaborative Teaching: Challenges and Successes in Co-Teaching Courses in "Religion and _________" Panelists: Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College Laura Ammon, Claremont Graduate University Roger Brooks, Connecticut College James Harlan Foard, Arizona State University Richard D. Hecht, University of California, Santa Barbara Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University See the Program Highlights for a description. A21-6 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Fran Grace, University of Redlands, Presiding Theme: Pushing the Envelope: Frameworks and Strategies for Better Teaching T. L. Brink, Crafton Hills College Power Teaching in the Classroom and Web-Based Learning Objects James E. Deitrick, University of Central Arkansas E-Jing: Using Technology to Teach Classical Chinese Texts Joyce Ann Mercer, San Francisco Theological Seminary A Madness to Our Method: Congregational Studies as a Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Contextualizing Teaching and Learning in Theological Education Jeffrey Thibert, University of South Florida A Call for Reform in the Teaching of the Introductory World Religions Course: Proposal for a Dialogical World Religions Pedagogy Anita Houck, Saint Mary's College But Did Jesus Laugh? Humor in the Religious Studies Classroom A21-7 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am David Jasper, University of Glasgow, Presiding Theme: Twenty Years of Religion and Literature: A Review Panelists: James Dougherty, University of Notre Dame Andrew Hass, University of Stirling Alison Jasper, University of Stirling Elizabeth Jay, Oxford Brookes University Jeffrey F. Keuss, Northwest Graduate School David E. Klemm, University of Iowa Robert Lance Snyder, State University of West Georgia Heather Walton, University of Glasgow Graham Ward, University of Manchester Eric Ziolkowski, Lafayette College Business Meeting: Jennifer L. Geddes, University of Virginia, Presiding S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University, Presiding A21-8 Buddhism Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University, Presiding Theme: Spells in Buddhism Paul Copp, Princeton University The Stuff of Spells: The Superlative Spell and the Poetics of Material Efficacy in Tang Buddhism Jacob Dalton, British Library How to Formulate a Canonical Dhāranī: Comparisons of Two Chinese and Tibetan Dhāranīs from Dunhuang Richard D. McBride, Washington University in St. Louis Were Dhāranī and Spells Really Proto-Tantric in Medieval Sinitic Buddhism? Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union The Clear Light Mantra: Religious Agency in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Ritual Responding: Ryuichi Abe, Harvard University A21-9 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Frank Reynolds, University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: Rethinking Comparative Ethics: Toward Cross-Cultural/Traditional Understanding(s) Panelists: Pia Altieri, University of Chicago Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University William A. Barbieri, Catholic University of America Ronald Green, Dartmouth College Responding: Greg Johnson, Franklin and Marshall College David Little, Harvard University Business Meeting: Mary N. MacDonald, Le Moyne College Religious Studies Dept, Presiding Selva Raj, Albion College, Presiding A21-11 History of Christianity Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Grant Wacker, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Gospels of Mammon and Manhood: Religious Identity and Authority in America, 1870-1920 Jonathan Ebel, Texas Christian University Dying the Gospel: Imitatio Christi and the American Fighting Man, 1917-1918 Matthew Harper, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A Gospel of Respectability: The Manliness, Morality, and Decorum of the “Better Class” of Men in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 1880-1900 Richard Pizzi, Indiana University, Bloomington The Prosperous Christian: Russell Conwell and Protestant Identity in the Era of High Capitalism Responding: David Hackett, University of Florida Business Meeting: Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University, Presiding Anne Clark, University of Vermont, Presiding A21-12 North American Religions Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Stephen Prothero, Boston University, Presiding Theme: Author Meets Critics: William Hutchison's Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal Panelists: Deborah Moore, Vassar College Laurence Moore, Cornell University Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University Responding: William Hutchison, Harvard University Business Meeting: John Corrigan, Florida State University, Presiding A21-13 Religion in South Asia Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Richard H. Davis, Bard College, Presiding Theme: South Asian Religious Expression and the Secular State Cassie Adcock, University of Chicago Sacred Cow? Freedom of Religion and the Cow Protection Movement Laura Jenkins, University of Cincinnati Political and Religious Apostasy: Lower Caste Religious Conversions from Hinduism Steven W. Ramey, University of North Carolina, Pembroke "We Are Hindu!": Secularism, Tolerance, and the Marginalization of Sindhi Hindus Valerie Stoker, Wright State University Harming the Common Good? A Kirpan Case in Québec A21-14 Study of Islam Section and Theology and Religious Reflection Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Zayn Kassam, Pomona College, Presiding Theme: Theodicy and the Problem of Evil in the Islamic Tradition Mehdi Aminrazavi, University of Mary Washington Omar Khayyam on Theodicy: The Irreconcilability of the Intellectual and the Existential Frank Griffel, Yale University Determination and the Best of All Possible Word in the Early al-Ghazali Jon Hoover, Near East School of Theology The Justice of God and the Best of All Possible Worlds: The Optimism of Ibn Taymiyya Ibrahim Kalin, College of the Holy Cross “Why Do Animals Eat Other Animals?”: Mulla Sadra on the Best of All Possible Worlds Responding: Eric Ormsby, McGill University A21-15 Women and Religion Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Andrea Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Presiding Theme: Sexual Violence: The Unmentionable Sin Twentieth Anniversary, 2nd Edition (Pilgrim Press), by Marie Fortune Panelists: Carol Adams, Richardson, TX Mary Hunt, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual Nantawan Lewis, Metropolitan State University Traci West, Drew University Responding: Marie M. Fortune, FaithTrust Institute A21-16 Anthropology of Religion Group and Native Traditions in the Americas Group and Religions, Medicines, and Healing Consultation Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Linda L. Barnes, Boston University, Presiding Theme: The Ethnography of Native Traditions, Plants, and Healing Suzanne J. Crawford, Pacific Lutheran University Spirituality and Cancer Survival: Native Women's Wellness in the South Puget Sound Enrique Maestas, Flatonia, TX Cultural and Religious History of Texas Native Americans Lisa Swanson Madera, Florianopolis, Brazil Visions of Christ: Ayahuasca Use in Two South American Christian Communities Responding: Meredith B. McGuire, Trinity University, San Antonio Jim Spickard, University of Redlands A21-17 Black Theology Group and Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Emilie M. Townes, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Brown vs. Board of Education: Fifty Years Later Panelists: Barbara Holmes, Memphis Theological Seminary Susan Holmes Winfield, District of Columbia Superior Court Responding: Eric Mazur, Bucknell University Marcia Y. Riggs, Columbia Theological Seminary Darryl Michael Trimiew, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School A21-18 Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Barbara Holdrege, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Constructing Others, Defining Selves Joel Kaminsky, Smith College Election and Otherness in Biblical and Rabbinic Literature Nathaniel Deutsch, Swarthmore College Deconstructing the Maiden of Ludmir Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University, Chicago Good Mothers and Other Mothers, or Another View of Mothers? Reconsidering Maternal Sexuality in Krishna Devotion Jill Gorman, Rollins College Screening Female Desire: The Representation of Love in Trembling Before Gd and Fire Responding: Robert Goldenberg, State University of New York, Stony Brook A21-19* Confucian Traditions Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Edward Slingerland, University of Southern California, Presiding Theme: Benevolence and Bodhisattvas: Confucian and Buddhist Accommodations in Medieval China Kyoko Tokuno, University of Washington “Translating” the Law of Karma and Rebirth into Confucian Language: A Buddhist Strategy for Cross-Cultural Persuasion in Medieval China Keith Knapp, The Citadel The Attraction of Filial Cannibalism: The Confucian Appropriation of the Sujati Jataka D. Neil Schmid, North Carolina State University, Raleigh The Practice of "Cutting the Thigh": Gegu as a Buddhist-Confucian Conceptual Blend Mark Halperin, University of California, Davis - East Asian Languages & Cultures This Buddhism of Ours: Buddhist Temples and Chinese Literati in Yuan China Responding: Bruce C. Williams, University of California, Berkeley A21-20 Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Luis León, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding Theme: Mujerista Theology: A Theology of Struggle and Liberation: The Work of Ada María Isasi-Díaz Panelists: Fernando F. Segovia, Vanderbilt University Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School Sharon D. Welch, University of Missouri, Columbia Michelle A. Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University M. Shawn Copeland, Boston College Mary C. Churchill, University of Iowa Responding: Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Drew University A21-21 Men's Studies in Religion Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Mark J. Justad, Center for the Study of Religion and Culture at Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Suffering Manhood: A Response to Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ Panelists: James Newton Poling, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Hary Brod, University of Northern Iowa Mary Hembrow Snyder, Mercyhurst College Dennis King Keenan, Fairfield University David James Livingston, Mercyhurst College Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Grinnell College Business Meeting: Mark J. Justad, Center for the Study of Religion and Culture at Vanderbilt University, Presiding A21-22 Mysticism Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Neil Douglas-Klotz, Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning, Presiding Theme: Mystics as Activists Lynn Bridgers, Spring Hill College Mystic as Activist: Trauma, Mimesis, and the Currents of Consciousness Jerome Gellman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Hasidic Mysticism as an Activism Jerry Law, Claremont Graduate University Mystical Self, Activist Self: Religion and Emancipation in the Thought of Simone Weil Lisa Powell, Princeton Theological Seminary Howard Thurman and Troeltsch's Third Type Gregory A. Banazak, SS Cyril and Methodius Seminary The Role of Mysticism in Conversion to Social Activism: The Case of Sixteenth-Century Latin America Luis Reyes Ceja, Universidad del Valle de Atemajac co-presenter with Gregory A. Banazak A21-23 Person, Culture, and Religion Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Spirituality: Psychology? Religion? Both? Neither? Part I: Issues of Practice Lucy Bregman, Temple University Psychology Sliding into Spirituality: An Examination of the Death Awareness Movement Laura J. Praglin, University of Northern Iowa "Spirituality" and "Religion" in the Helping Professions: Who's Defining the Terms? Lee Hayward Butler, Chicago Theological Seminary African American Spirituality: A Psycho-Theological Tradition F. LeRon Shults, Bethel Seminary Modeling Spirituality: Psychology, Religion, and the Dynamics of Transformation A21-24 Reformed Theology and History Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Martha L. Moore-Keish, Columbia Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: The Role of Discipline in the Reformed Tradition Stephen Edmondson, Virginia Theological Seminary Sinews of the Body: Discipline and Repentance in Calvin Glen Segger, Drew University "Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum": An Attempt to Restore Godly Discipline in the Church of England at the Refomation Madeline Duntley, College of Wooster Clergy, Discipline, and the Salem Witch-Hunt: Popular Stereotypes vs. Seventeenth-Century Ecclesiology Nathan Kerr, Vanderbilt University The Beauty of True Virtue: Jonathan Edwards, Divine Providence, and the Aesthetic Necessity of Discipline Business Meeting: Robert Sherman, Bangor Theological Seminary, Presiding Katherine Sonderegger, Virginia Theological Seminary, Presiding A21-25 Religion and Disability Studies Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jane Hurst, Gallaudet University, Presiding Theme: Ethnic and Disability Diversity in Religious Experience J. Eric Pridmore, Drew University Religion in Race and Disability: An Exploitive System Framed as "God-Given" Monica A. Coleman, Bennett College for Women “You Need Jesus!”: The Absence of the Black Church in Black Women’s Writings about Depression Carmen Marie Nanko, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago Living la Lengua Cotidiana: Deaf Latinas/os Negotiating the Borders of Language and Identity Nadia Bolz-Weber, University of Colorado, Boulder The Deaf as a Cultural Group within the Academic Study of Religion Responding: John Swinton, University of Aberdeen A21-26 Scriptural Reasoning Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Rachel Muers, University of Exeter, Presiding Theme: Poverty and Debt-Release: Scriptural and Social-Scientific Reasonings Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto Property in Persons: Rereading Scriptural Economics Basit B. Koshul, Concordia College, Moorhead The "Economic" in Religion and the "Religious" in Economics: A Qur'anic-Weberian Perspective Daniel Hardy, University of Cambridge Poverty and Debt-Release Responding: Stanley M. Hauerwas, Duke University Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University A21-27 Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Mary Ann Stenger, University of Louisville, Presiding Theme: Tillich in Dialogue (1) With Feminism, (2) With Nietzsche Rachel Sophia Baard, Villanova University Dialogues between Tillich and Feminism: A Rhetorical Map Tabea Rösler, University of Heidelberg Anthropological Approaches in Paul Tillich’s Mature Systematic Theology Jari Ristiniemi, University of Gävle Politics of the Soul in Changing Society: Tillich’s Political Pathos in the 1920s in the Light of Nietzsche’s Moral Philosophy Donald Dreisbach, Northern Michigan University Paul Tillich’s Response to Nietzsche A21-28 Open and Relational Theologies Consultation Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Thomas Jay Oord, Northwest Nazarene University, Presiding Theme: What It Means to Say That God Is Relational David R. Larson, Loma Linda University Necessarily, Essentially, Neither, or Both: How Does God Love the Universe? Joseph A. Bracken, Xavier University Creatio Ex Nihilo: A Field-Oriented Approach Lyle Dabney, Marquette University The Possibility of God: The Spirit in God’s Creation--and in God Michael Lodahl, Point Loma Nazarene University Creator-Logos-Spirit: Pursuing Trinitarian Reflection as a Critique of Creatio Ex Nihilo Responding: Catherine E. Keller, Drew University Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology Business Meeting: Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University, Presiding Lynne Faber Lorenzen, Augsburg College, Presiding A21-29 Sacred Space in Contemporary Asia Consultation Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Steven Heine, Florida International University, Presiding Theme: Siting Asian Identities Panelists: James Miller, Queen's University Shin-yi Chao, Tajen Institute of Technology Greg Grieve, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Knut Axel Jacobsen, University of Bergen Responding: Pamela D. Winfield, Meredith College Business Meeting: Steven Heine, Florida International University, Presiding Pamela D. Winfield, Meredith College, Presiding A21-128 Plenary Address Sunday - 9:00 am-10:00 am Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University, Presiding Theme: Islam in the West: The North American Context Panelists: Tariq Ramadan, University of Notre Dame See the Program Highlights for a description. A21-30 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 A21-32 Mentoring Session with the Status of Women in the Profession Committee and the Women's Caucus Sunday - 11:30 am-1:00 pm Laurie Wright Garry, California Lutheran University, Presiding The Status of Women in the Profession Committee and the Women's Caucus invite women who are graduate students and new scholars to a brown bag lunch with over 30 feminist mid-career and senior AAR and SBL scholars, including Lara Donaldson, Rita Gross, Ann Matter, Margaret Miles, Vasudha Narayanan, Judith Plaskow, Jennifer Rycenga, Emilie Townes, and Karen Trimble Alliaume. A21-31 Wabash Student-Teacher Luncheon Sunday - 11:45 am-1:00 pm Sponsored by the Student Liaison Group and the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Kimberly Bresler, Princeton Theological Seminary, 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 at www.aarweb.org/students/. A21-50 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: Posters Session Derek N. Anderson, Loyola University, Chicago Theological Nonviolence in Julian of Norwich’s Showings of Divine Love Kaiya Ansorge, Emory University The Concept of Miracle: Entering Theology through Aesthetics Kirsten Bault, Azusa Pacific University Theology of Employee Selection Richard Bohannon, Drew University Power Dynamics and Religious Architecture: A Case Study of the Christian Science Center, Boston, MA Peter Foley, University of Arizona Teaching Celtic Spirituality Karlynn Greene, Azusa Pacific University Shall We Entreat the Lady: A Theological Question of Antidepressant Medication Corliss Heath, Emory University A Womanist Approach to Understanding and Assessing the Relationship between Spirituality and Women’s Mental Health Natalie Houghtby-Haddon, George Washington University Freed from Debt and Slavery: The Bent-Over Woman in Luke’s Imagination Cameron Jorgenson, Baylor University Visual Ethics: A Teleological Approach to Ethical and Faith Formation Steven Keates, Azusa Pacific University Extreme Sports, Mystical Experiences, and Elijah: Danger and the Experience of God Kiki Kennedy-Day, Rutgers University Reconsidering Women as Prophets in Islam Martha Ann Kirk, University of the Incarnate Word Women of Bible Lands: A Pilgrimage to Compassion and Wisdom Jyri Komulainen, University of Helsinki Is a Multi-Religious Identity Theologically Plausible? Some Post-Liberal Reflections John Kozyra, Azusa Pacific University Conscience, Neuroscience, and Non-Reductive Physicalism Michelle Kraft, Azusa Pacific University Who's Raising Our Children? Alice Maung-Mercurio, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis “Feeding the Four Thousand”: Food Production and Consumption in Early Egyptian Monasteries, via Contemporary Analyses of the Physical and Social Organization Amanda Pettikas, Azusa Pacific University Women in the Friends Church Jason Steuber, University of Missouri, Kansas City Deus Ex Machina: Automobiles and Mobile Religious Spaces Eugene Taylor, Saybrook Graduate School, Harvard University Phil 6: Psychological Aspects of the Religious Life, 1901-02: Notes on the Only Graduate Course on the Psychology of Religion That William James Taught at Harvard University James Van Slyke, Fuller Theological Seminary Theology in the Flesh: The Role of the Body in Religious Experience Glenn E. Yocum, Whittier College Cosmologies: Combining Religious Studies and Science to Enhance Students' Understanding of Time and the Cosmos See the Program Highlights for a description. A21-51 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Sponsored by the Student Liaison Group Kimberly Bresler, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Introducing the Teaching Portfolio Panelists: Darren J. N. Middleton, Texas Christian University Jan Jaynes Quesada, Texas Christian University Jack A. Hill, Texas Christian University C. David Grant, Texas Christian University See the Program Highlights for a description. A21-52 Philosophy of Religion Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Patrick M. Clemens, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Secularization: Philosophy, Religion, Culture Nancy Levene, Indiana University, Bloomington Nothing More Natural Than Culture: Vico and the Secular J. Heath Atchley, South Hadley, MA Confronting Secularity: Nietzsche and Deleuze Anna Mercedes, Drew University Kenotic Secularization Marie L. Baird, Duquesne University Whose Kenosis? An Analysis of Levinas, Derrida, and Vattimo on God's Self-Emptying and the Secularization of the West Business Meeting: Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding A21-53 Study of Islam Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Rubina Ramji, University of Ottawa, Presiding Theme: Thinking beyond Books: Exploring Media in Teaching Islam Timothy C. Cahill, Loyola University, New Orleans Teaching Islam in a Wired Environment June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University An Introduction to Islam in Image and Sound Amir Hussain, California State University, Northridge "A Message on the Wind": Incorporating Audio and Visual Materials into Courses on Islam Kristin Sands, Sarah Lawrence College Crossing Borders: Teaching Transnational Islam through the Internet Responding: Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, University of Florida Business Meeting: Omid Safi, Colgate University, Presiding Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso University, Presiding A21-54 Study of Judaism Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto, Presiding Theme: Jewish Feminism and Political Theology Panelists: Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University Claire Katz, Pennsylvania State University Randi Rashkover, York College of Pennsylvania Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University A21-55 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Paul F. Lakeland, Fairfield University, Presiding Theme: Borders and Boundaries II Laura Taylor, Vanderbilt University La Frontera: The Third Place Emily Askew, Carroll College Displacement: Against Sedentarist and Nomadic Romance Stories William Clark, College of the Holy Cross Crossing Borders, Defending Borders: The Sacred Space of an Old Immigrant Community Business Meeting: Paul F. Lakeland, Fairfield University, Presiding A21-56 Women and Religion Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa, Presiding Theme: Contemporary Women's Spirituality Debra Campbell, Colby College The Nun and the Crocodile: The Stories within The Nun's Story Mary Ann Clark, University of Houston, Clear Lake Where Women Rule: An Explication of Santeria as a Female-Normative Religion Wendy Farley, Emory University He Stripped Me of My Virtues: Mechthild of Magdeburg and Contemporary Women's Spirituality Diana Walsh-Pasulka, University of North Carolina, Wilmington Saint Clare on the Air: Mother Angelica and the Catholic Church Valerie Bridgeman Davis, Memphis Theological Seminary The Innerspace of Evangelist and Pastor Claudette Anderson Copeland A21-57 Anthropology of Religion Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm J. Shawn Landres, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Preservation and Appropriation in the Transnational Trading of Religion Saba Soomekh, University of California, Santa Barbara The Cultural Journey from Tehran to Los Angeles Tulasi Srinivas, Wheaton College Sacred Webs: Rethinking Globalization and Religion through the Transnational Sathya Sai Movement Seth Kunin, University of Aberdeen Structure and Identity Construction among the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico Michael D. Hill, Drury University The Many Lives of Mama Coca: Andean Sacred Plants in the Context of Mystical Tourism and the New Age Movement Responding: Lois Lorentzen, University of San Francisco Business Meeting: Rebecca Sachs Norris, Merrimack College, Presiding A21-58 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Duncan Williams, University of California, Irvine, Presiding Theme: The Ethnography of Identity and Boundary Negotiation: Case Studies of Hindu and Buddhist Communities in North America Emily R. Mace, Princeton University Beyond Discrimination: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Challenge of Temple Building Douglas M. Padgett, Indiana University, Bloomington Lost and Found, Living and Dead: Rites for the Dead in Buddhist Little Saigon Jeff Wilson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "There's No Such Thing as Not My Buddhism": Cross-Sectarian Buddhist Hybridity in the American South Benjamin Zeller, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The God in the Geo-Dome: Ethnic and Spatial Dynamics at an ISKCON Temple Responding: Paul D. Numrich, Loyola University Chicago A21-59 Black Theology Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University, Presiding Theme: Naming Black Women's Diasporic Experience: Womanist? Black? Or . . . ? Panelists: Teresia Mbari Hinga, DePaul University Lee Hayward Butler, Chicago Theological Seminary Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University Responding: M. Shawn Copeland, Boston College Business Meeting: Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University, Presiding A21-60 Chinese Religions Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Chun-Fang Yu, Columbia University, Presiding Theme: Spiritual Seekers in a Fluid Religious Landscape: The Creation of New Religious Practices in Late Ming China Jennifer Eichman, Princeton University Forging New Alliances: Huang Hui's Melding of Confucian and Buddhist Paths to Liberation Miaw-fen Lu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Religious Dimensions of Filial Piety Developed during the Late Ming Hui-Hung Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Visualization as a Spiritual Practice: A Jesuit Meditation in Late-Ming Society Responding: Hun Y. Lye, Warren Wilson College A21-61 Christian Spirituality Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Joseph D. Driskill, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding Theme: I'm Spiritual, but Not Religious Owen C. Thomas, Episcopal Divinity School Spiritual but Not Religious: The Influence of the Current Romantic Movement Daniel McKanan, St. John's University Being Spiritual but Not Religious in Community: A Camphill Case Study Solange Lefebvre, Université de Montréal Religion, Spirituality, and Youth Donna Freitas, St. Michael's College I’m Spiritually Homeless! (and Ritually Invisible): Religion for the Bridget Joneses and Carrie Bradshaws of the World Douglas Burton-Christie, Loyola Marymount University Spirituality at the End of the World: The Destruction of the Earth and the New Eschatology A21-62 Hinduism Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Trichur Rukmani, Concordia University, Presiding Theme: Consciousness Theories in Advaita Vedanta Andrew O. Fort, Texas Christian University Predisposing Consciousness: Vasanas in the Jivanmuktiviveka. Anantanand Rambachan, St. Olaf College The Dilemma of Knowing the Knower Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University Auto-Luminosity (Svatah-Prakasata): The Role of Reflexive Consciousness in Advaita Metaphysics and Soteriology Kaplan Stephen, Manhattan College Consciousness and Ignorance (Avidya), Simultaneous and Coterminus? A Holographic Model to Illuminate the Advaita Debate Responding: Thomas Forsthoefel, Mercyhurst College Business Meeting: S. N. Balagangadhara, Ghent University, Presiding A21-63 Indigenous Religious Traditions Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Jacob K. Olupona, University of California, Davis, Presiding Theme: Indigenous Thought, Ethics, and Modernity Yuki Miyamoto, DePaul University Possessed and Possessing: Fox Possession and Discrimination against the Wealthy in Late Modern Japan Fritz Dewiler, Adrian College The Oglala Sun Dance and the Formation of Moral Community Samsul Maarif, Florida International University Indigenous Strategy for Religion-Cultural Survival: The Ammatoa of Sulawesi, Indonesia Ahmad Muttaqin, Florida International University Redefining Religion: Indonesian Indigenous Religions vis a vis Hegemony Responding: Dianne Stewart, Emory University Business Meeting: Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding A21-64 Japanese Religions Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm John Breen, London University, Presiding Theme: Negotiating the Boundaries of Religion in Modern Japan Trent Maxey, Cornell University The Politics of Belief in a Neo-Colonial World: The Urakami Problem, 1865-1873 Nancy Stalker, University of Texas, Austin Spiritual Entrepreneurialism: Oomoto Enterprises in Pre-War Japan Sarah E. Thal, Rice University Surviving without Religion: The Dilemma of a State-Supported Shrine in the 1880s A21-65 Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Timothy H. Polk, Hamline University, Presiding Theme: Kierkegaard and Constructions of Society and/or Gender Avron Kulak, York University Between God, Self, and Neighbor: The Twofold Ethics of Fear and Trembling Sylvia I. Walsh, Stetson University Godly and Ungodly Women: Gender and Sexual Politics in Kierkegaard and American Fundamentalism Keith Hyde, University of Saint Andrews Keeping Your Distance: Kierkegaard and Social Reform Kevin Hoffman, Valparaiso University Compassion and the Descent of Love: Reading Kierkegaard through Nussbaum Business Meeting: Timothy H. Polk, Hamline University, Presiding A21-66 New Religious Movements Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Phillip Charles Lucas, Stetson University, Presiding Theme: Legal Issues and the Persecution of New Religious Movements James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno New Religions in Former Soviet Countries: A Sociology of Law Analysis Constance A. Jones, California Institute of Integral Studies New Religions in China in the Early Twentieth Century: The Case of the True Jesus Church and the Little Flock Douglas E. Cowan, University of Missouri, Kansas City Researching Scientology: Premises, Promises, and Problematics James McBride, Schulte, Roth, and Zabel LLP Religious Persecution in the People's Republic of China: Falun Gong's Recourse to American Courts Responding: Massimo Introvigne, Cesnur Business Meeting: Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico, Presiding A21-67 Religion and Disability Studies Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm J. Eric Pridmore, Drew University, Presiding Theme: Disability Diversity, Religion, and Identity Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology Am I Disabled [Enough]? Disability, Diversity, and Identity Hermeneutics Lori Rowlett, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Religion, Heroism, and Vietnam: Constructions of Masculinity in Two Films about Disabled Veterans Virginia Bemis, Ashland University Rescuing the Perishing: The Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby Kerry Wynn, Southeast Missouri State University The Deafness of Walter Rauschenbusch Responding: Susanne Rappmann, Karlstad University Business Meeting: Kerry Wynn, Southeast Missouri State University, Presiding A21-68 Religion and Ecology Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University, Presiding Theme: Beyond the Borders: Religion and Ecology in Latin America John Hart, Boston University School of Theology Community and Commons: Brazilian Perspectives on Liberation and Creation Lisa Swanson Madera, Florianopolis, Brazil Mapping the Trash: The Sacred Cartography of Garbage and Ecological Devastation in the Ecuadorian Andes and on the Southern Coast of Brazil Beth Blissman, Oberlin College Straw Bales and Santuarios: New Forms of Religious Response to the Ecological Challenges of the Borderlands Laura Yordy, Duke University Nature as Commodity, Nature as Gift in The Aguero Sisters Laurel Kearns, Drew University What Does Justice Taste Like? The Churches and Fair-Trade Coffee as Eco-Justice Praxis A21-69 Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Shelley Wiley, Morningside College, Presiding Theme: Transmodern Dialogues: A Panel in Celebration of Enrique Dussel's 70th Birthday Panelists: Tariq Ramadan, University of Notre Dame Marc H. Ellis, Baylor University Eduardo Mendieta, State University of New York, Stony Brook Lewis R. Gordon, Temple University Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University Laura Perez, University of California, Berkeley Responding: Enrique Dussel, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa A21-70 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm William L. Blizek, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Presiding Theme: "Power in the Blood": Images of Evil and Violence Meredith Hammons, Vanderbilt University More Than the Word: Images of Jews in Films about Jesus Beringia Zen, Pacific School of Religion Rebirthing Technology and Orbital Strikes: PlanetSide and the Creation of an Ideology of Non-Consequential Violence Mark W. Graham, College of Wooster Talk about The Passion: Articulating Christian Aesthetic and Religious Experience Susan L. Schwartz, Muhlenberg College The Mysterious Powers of a Woman's Blood: The Case of The Red Violin Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Goucher College A Bloodthirsty Salvation: Behind the Polarized Popular Reaction to a Violent Atonement in Gibson's The Passion A21-71 Religious Freedom, Public Life, and the State Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Sherryl L. Wright, Highland Community College, University of Kansas, Presiding Theme: Religious Freedom and Negotiating the Church/State Divide Adrianne Nagy, Boston College Head Scarves and Peyote: Questioning Religious Freedom in France and the United States Isaac Weiner, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill One Nation under Buddha?: Buddhism in American Jurisprudence Betsy Perabo, Yale University Soldiering, Obedience to Authority, and the Exercise of Conscience: Christian and Islamic Perspectives Ann Duncan, University of Virginia The American Peace Society: Negotiating the Church-State Divide Lisa L. Stenmark, San Jose State University The Limits of Politics and the Role of the Church: Hannah Arendt on Brown vs. the Board of Education Business Meeting: Eric Mazur, Bucknell University, Presiding A21-72 Roman Catholic Studies Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Phyllis Zagano, Hofstra University School of Phil & Religious Studies, Presiding Theme: Meanings of Mary in Grassroots Catholicism Panelists: Virgilio Elizondo, University of Notre Dame Charlene Spretnak, California Institute of Integral Studies China Galland, Center for Art, Religion, and Education (CARE/Graduate Theological Union) Business Meeting: Vincent J. Miller, Georgetown University, Presiding A21-73 Augustine and Augustinianisms Consultation Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Robert P. Kennedy, St. Francis Xavier University and Kim Paffenroth, Iona College, Presiding Theme: Love and Augustine Lynn Bridgers, Spring Hill College A Snare of My Own Choosing: Love and the Captive Will in Augustine's Anthropology Phillip Cary, Eastern University Love and Tears: Augustine's Project of Loving without Losing Burt Fulmer, Vanderbilt University Identity Creation in Augustine's Theology of Love Jennifer Hockenbery, Mount Mary College The He, She, and It of God: Translating Augustine's Gendered God-Talk into English Responding: Eric Gregory, Princeton University Business Meeting: Robert P. Kennedy, St. Francis Xavier University, Presiding Kim Paffenroth, Iona College, Presiding A21-74 Religion, Media, and Culture Consultation Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm David Morgan, Valparaiso University, Presiding Theme: Author Meets Critics: From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural by Lynn Schofield Clark Panelists: Wade Clark Roof, University of California, Santa Barbara Bradford Verter, Bennington College Jana Riess, Publishers Weekly Heather Hendershot, Queens College Responding: Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado at Boulder Business Meeting: Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding Michele Rosenthal, University of Haifa, Presiding A21-75 Ethics Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Jane Hicks, St. John Fisher College, Presiding Theme: Nos Iriamos o Nos Quedariamos: The Ethics of Border Crossings and Global Trade Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College The Ethics of Economic Border Crossings: Work, the Common Good, and Justice Julian Sanborn, Temple University Got the Time?: The Impact of Marx's Labor Theory of Value on Workers in the Global Garment Industry Kevin York-Simmons, Vanderbilt University Thinking Theologically about CAFTA: A Proposal for a North American Response to Free Trade Yvonne Zimmerman, University of Denver Sexual Exploitation/Gendered Migration: Theorizing Women in Discourses of Human Trafficking A21-76 Scriptural Reasoning Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm New Program Unit Peter Ochs, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: Learning and Teaching in the Abrahamic Traditions Panelists: Vincent J. Cornell, University of Arkansas Steven D. Kepnes, Colgate University Mike Higton, University of Exeter Business Meeting: Peter Ochs, University of Virginia, Presiding Rachel Muers, University of Exeter, Presiding A21-77 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Sponsored by the Program Committee Join the chair of the Program Committee and the Annual Meeting Program Director for an informal chat about the guidelines and policies for proposing a new Annual Meeting program unit. Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University, Presiding Theme: Future of the AAR Annual Meeting: New Programs and Initiatives Panelists: Francis X. Clooney, Boston College Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School William A. Dyrness, Fuller Theological Seminary Steven M. Tipton, Emory University Emilie M. Townes, Union Theological Seminary Barbara DeConcini, American Academy of Religion Aislinn Jones, American Academy of Religion A20-55 Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Hinduism Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Mark Wheeler MacWilliams, St. Lawrence University, Presiding Theme: Monotheisms in Theory and Practice: Hindu and Comparative Insights Panelists: Francis X. Clooney, Boston College Alon Goshen-Gottstein, The Elijah School, Jerusalem Kurt Anders Richardson, McMaster University Carl Olson, Allegheny College Robert A. Yelle, University of Toronto Responding: Parimal G. Patil, Harvard University A21-100 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Jill Raitt, University of Missouri, Columbia, Presiding Theme: Professional Development: Religious Studies' Contribution to Professional Service Panelists: Ed Lambeth, University of Missouri, Columbia Glenda Nickell, University of Missouri, Columbia Satish Nair, University of Missouri, Columbia Ken Evans, University of Missouri, Columbia L. Scott Smith, Corpus Christi, TX See the Program Highlights for a description. A21-101 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sponsored by the Status of Women in the Profession Committee Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College, Presiding Theme: Critical Reflections on the Status of Women in the Profession Panelists: Mary E. Hunt, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual Traci C. West, Drew University Rosamond C. Rodman, Macalester College Margarita M. W. Suarez, Meredith College Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College See the Program Highlights for a description. A21-102 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section and Evangelical Theology Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Mark U. Edwards, Jr., Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Faith in the Academy Today: Responses to Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation Panelists: Anthea Butler, Loyola Marymount University Nathan Hatch, University of Notre Dame James Heft, University of Dayton Douglas Gordon Jacobsen, Messiah College Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, Messiah College Responding: Richard T. Hughes, Pepperdine University A21-103 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Deborah J. Haynes, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding Theme: Visual Aesthetics Gerard Loughlin, University of Durham Rain, Fire, Water, Snow, Dew: Seeing the Unshowable in Tarkovsky’s Films James K. A. Smith, Calvin College Picturing Revelation: Idolatry and the Aesthetic and Rosenzweig and Marion Eric Boynton, Allegheny College Evil and the Problem of Commemoration Susan L. Nelson, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary The Use of Religious Symbols in the Context of Auschwitz: A Theological Analysis of the Artwork of Marian Kolodziej A21-104 Ethics Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Darryl Michael Trimiew, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, Presiding Theme: The Streets Are Our Teachers: Activism, Protest, and Struggle as Moral Revelations Ken Estey, New York, NY The Streets Are Our Teachers: Activism as a Source for Social Ethics Richard A. Hoehn, Bread for the World Seminaries and the Arts of Public Engagement Stephanie Kaza, University of Vermont Unlearning Consumerism: Everyday Activism for Ethical Awareness Joseph S. Pettit, Morgan State University Five Rules for Teaching Social Justice A21-105 History of Christianity Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Trish Beckman, University of Missouri, Columbia, Presiding Theme: Who Are They? Naming and Shaping Jews and Christians Dayna Kalleres, Stanford University Christian Women and Jewish Seductions: Gender and Conversion in John Chrysostom’s Adversus Iudaeos Homilies Daniel E. Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Boston College “The People of That Time Too Were Christians”: The Maccabean Martyrs as Christians in Augustine’s Sermons Deborah Schoenfeld, Graduate Theological Union The Literal as Polemical: Rashi and the Ordinary Gloss on Genesis 22 Jessica A. Boon, Duke University In the Aftermath of Unity: The Suffering Christ in the Theology of Spanish "Conversos" Responding: Andrew S. Jacobs, University of California, Riverside A21-106 North American Religions Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Luis Enrique Murillo, Trinity University, Presiding Theme: From Atlantic to Pacific, North and South: Borderlands Religion in North America Stephen Berry, Duke University Crossings: The Atlantic Passage and the Transfer of Religion in the Eighteenth Century D. E. Gene Mills, Jr., Florida State University The Death of a "God" and the Dynamic Nature of Religious Exchange: Post-Contact Kahuna Healing in Hawaii Kristin McLaren, University of Ottawa The Underground Railroad Community and a New Religious Vision for North America Lisa J. M. Poirier, Miami University Jesuits and the Gendered Contexts of “Conversion” in New France Responding: Laurie Maffly-Kipp, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A21-107 Religion in South Asia Section and Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Rita Sherma, Binghamton University, Presiding Theme: Feminist Theory in the Study of South Asian Religions Karen Pechilis, Drew University Feminist and Religious Readings of a Hindu Woman Saint’s Story Susan Landesman, Columbia University Goddess Tara and the "Great Secret” Carla Bellamy, Columbia University Who Died and Left You in Charge? or Possession, Power, and Religious Identity in Contemporary Northwestern India Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado, Boulder Feminine Speech: The Tantric Mantra and Its Gendered Implications Responding: Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College A21-108 Study of Islam Section and Study of Judaism Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Gordon D. Newby, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Law in Judaism and Islam David Novak, University of Toronto Natural Law as a Border Concept between Judaism and Islam David Freidenreich, Columbia University Jewish and Islamic Restrictions on Foreign Food: A Case Study in the Significance of Similarity Raquel Ukeles, Harvard University Comparing Religions One at a Time: Juxtaposing Jewish and Islamic Law to Illuminate Islamic Normative Practice Mark Wagner, New York University Jewish Mysticism on Trial in a Muslim Court Responding: Abdulaziz A. Sachedina, University of Virginia A21-109 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Stephen G. Ray, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Anthony Pinn's Children of Nimrod Panelists: Peter J. Paris, Princeton Theological Seminary Sharon D. Welch, University of Missouri, Columbia William R. Jones, Florida State University Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Shaw University Divinity School Responding: Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University A21-110 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Race and Sexuality in Asian American Religions Wakou Shannon Hickey, Duke University Two Buddhisms, Three Buddhisms, and Racism Hak Joon Lee, New Brunswick Theological Seminary Systematic Distortion of Race: A Habermasian Analysis of the Korean-Black Conflicts in the U.S. Wan-Li Ho, Emory University Taoism and Sexuality Boyung Lee, Pacific School of Religion De-Spiritualization of the Body Responding: Rita Nakashima Brock, Starr King School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union Business Meeting: Duncan Williams, University of California, Irvine, Presiding Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding A21-111 Chinese Religions Group and Confucian Traditions Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Daniel B. Stevenson, University of Kansas, Presiding Theme: Lineage Construction in Chinese Religions Gil Raz, Dartmouth College Blood Rites and Pure Covenants: Lineage Construction in Early Daoist Ritual and Narrative Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of Wisconsin, Madison Han through Six Dynasties: Portrayals of Ru in the Standard Histories Elizabeth Morrison, Middlebury College Reflections on the Emergence of Lineage in Chinese Buddhism Edward A. Irons, The Hong Kong Institute Lineage in Guangdong Quanzhendao: Construction, Loyalties, and Real World Effects Responding: Thomas A. Wilson, Hamilton College Business Meeting: Daniel B. Stevenson, University of Kansas, Presiding A21-112 Christian Spirituality Group and Religion and Popular Culture Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Randall G. Styers, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Presiding Theme: Religion, Spirituality, and Modernity Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado at Boulder Exploring Revolve, the New Testament for Teens at the Intersection of Twenty-First Century Religion, Media, and the Marketplace Kathryn Lofton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Religious Reunion and the New Spirituality James H. Thrall, Duke University Life, Death, and the Bourgeoisie in Evelyn Underhill’s The Grey World Responding: Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University Business Meeting: Gary M. Laderman, Emory University, Presiding A21-113 Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Jay Emerson Johnson, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding Theme: Differing Accents: Queering White, Gay, Male Religious Discourse Jakob Hero, Zagreb, Croatia Do We Really Need That T? Trans-Inclusion in Queer Communities of Faith Katharine Baker, Vanderbilt University The Transvestite Christ: Hedwig and the Angry Inch Perform Queer Theology Burkhard Scherer, Canterbury Christ Church University College Transgenderism, Homosexuality, and the Pandakas: Gender Identity and "Queer" Sexual Conduct in Early Buddhism and Beyond Andre Musskopf, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil "A Gap in the Closet": Gay Theology in Latin American Context Randy P. Conner, California Institute of Integral Studies; Los Medanos College Queer Participation in Santeria, Candomble, and Vodou Jason B. Crawford, Graduate Theological Union White Weddings? Racisms, Racialized Publics, and the Moral Politics of California's Proposition 22 Business Meeting: Donald L. Boisvert, Concordia University, Presiding Jay Emerson Johnson, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding A21-114 Korean Religions Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sungtaek Cho, Korea University, Presiding Theme: The Absolute and the Individual in Modern Korean Religiosity Panelists: Young Sang Ahn, Seoul, Korea Jong Seong Choi, Seoul National University Soon Woo Chung, The Academy of Korean Studies Responding: Don Baker, University of British Columbia Seung-Hwan Lee, Korea University Youngmin Kim, Bryn Mawr College A21-115 Mysticism Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm June McDaniel, College of Charleston, Presiding Theme: Mystical Triggers, Mystical Experience Stuart R. Sarbacker, Northwestern University Herbs as a Means to Power in Patañjali’s Yogasutra Kelly Baker, Florida State University Henry Ossawa Tanner and Visual Mysticism Mary Ann Clark, University of Houston, Clear Lake Ambiguities in Santeria Possession Trance: Challenges to the Unitary and Gendered Self Glenn Young, University of Missouri, Kansas City The Sound of Silence: Quasi-Mantric Prayer in Modern Christian Mystical Practices Business Meeting: June McDaniel, College of Charleston, Presiding Neil Douglas-Klotz, Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning, Presiding A21-116 Religion and Ecology Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding Theme: Building Meta-Ecological Worlds: The Cultural Production of Environmental Awareness Janel Atlas, Messiah College Appealing to the Prodigal Son: Ecological Responsibility in Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer Sarah M. Taylor, Northwestern University Ecologies of Hope and Horror: Activist Women, Ecofeminist Science Fiction, and the Prophetic Imagination Bron Taylor, University of Florida Disney Worlds at War Lucas Johnston, University of Florida The Ethics of Restoration Ecology: Recovering the Value of Relationship Evan Berry, University of California, Santa Barbara Historical Issues in Religion and Ecology Business Meeting: Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding Beth Blissman, Oberlin College, Presiding A21-119 Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Iain S. Maclean, James Madison University, Presiding Theme: Latin American Liberation Theology: The Next Generation Panelists: Ivan Petrella, University of Miami Jung Mo Sung, Universidade Metodista de São Paulo Nancy Bedford, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Marcella Althaus-Reid, University of Edinburgh Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of California, Berkeley Responding: Enrique Dussel, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa Business Meeting: Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding A21-120 Ritual Studies Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Ute Huesken, University of Heidelberg, Presiding Theme: Ritual Failure: Mistakes in Ritual and Ritual Dynamics Panelists: Michael Stausberg, University of Heidelberg Axel Michaels, University of Heidelberg Eftychia Stavrianopoulou, University of Heidelberg Gregor Ahn, University of Heidelberg Responding: Ronald L. Grimes, Wilfrid Laurier University A21-121 Schleiermacher Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Andrew C. Dole, Amherst College, Presiding Theme: Part I of Schleiermacher's The Christian Faith as the First Year of a Three Year Investigation of the Glaubenslehre Thomas A. James, Union Theological Seminary Divine Causality, the Natural Order, and the Charge of "Occasionalism": Examining Schleiermacher's Interpretation of Creation and Preservation John Crossley, University of Southern California The Religious Ethics Implicit in Schleiermacher's Doctrine of Creation Ward Daryll, Kettering College of Medical Arts Causality and Schleiermacher's Living God Julia A. Lamm, Georgetown University System, Structure, and Some Oft-Neglected Propositions Responding: John E. Thiel, Fairfield University Business Meeting: Julia A. Lamm, Georgetown University, Presiding A21-122 Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Frances M. Garrett, University of Toronto, Presiding Theme: Authoritative Discourse in Tibetan Literary Production Sam van Schaik, The British Library Oral Teachings and Written Texts: Transmission and Transformation in Dunhuang Holly Gayley, Harvard University The Divinization of Female Agency in a Tibetan Hagiography Kurtis Schaeffer, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Avalokiteśhvara's Diary Cameron David Warner, Harvard University Divine Agency and Identity in the Biographies of Srong Btsan Sgam Po Responding: Janet Gyatso, Harvard University A21-123 Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Robison B. James, University of Richmond, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Presiding Theme: Tillich and the Post-Modern World Russell R. Manning, University of Cambridge Tillich, Taylor, Milbank, and the Prospects for a Postmodern Theology of Culture Henry W. Spaulding, Trevecca Nazarene University The End of Modernity and Outwitting Nihilism: Preliminary Thoughts on the Appropriateness and Importance of a Tillichian Engagement with Radical Orthodoxy Michael DeLashmutt, University of Glasgow The Shifting Form of Tillich’s Theological Circle: A Ricoeurian Analysis Jonathan Rothchild, University of Chicago Global Flows, Head Scarves, and Finite Freedom: Tillich on Globalization Business Meeting: Robison B. James, University of Richmond, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Presiding Mary Ann Stenger, University of Louisville, Presiding A21-124 Zen Buddhism Seminar Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm John C. Maraldo, University of North Florida, Presiding Theme: Zen Ethics and Practice Miriam Levering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Zen for the Women's Quarters: The Teachings of Soshin-ni (1588-1675) Paula K. R. Arai, Carleton College Zen Practices of Japanese Laywomen David E. Riggs, International Research Center for Japanese Studies The Zen Precepts of Soto Zen: Historical Arguments for the Transcendent, or Scholar-Monks in a Bind Christopher Ives, Stonehill College What's Compassion Got to Do with It? Determinants and Parameters of Zen Social Ethics Brian Victoria, Binghamton University The Ethical Implications of Zen-Related Terrorism in 1930s Japan Business Meeting: Gereon Kopf, Luther College, Presiding Jin Y. Park, American University, Presiding A21-125 Augustine and Augustinianisms Consultation and Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Consultation Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Robert P. Kennedy, St. Francis Xavier University and Kim Paffenroth, Iona College, Presiding Theme: Augustine, Just War, and Terrorism: Application or Irrelevance? William Barbieri, Catholic University of America Contra Augustinum: On the Irrelevance of Classical Just War Theory Today Pamela K. Brubaker, California Lutheran University A Critical Appraisal of Jean Bethke Elshtain’s Just War Against Terror Warren Smith, Duke University Augustine and the Limits of Preemptive War Douglas McCready, Kutztown, PA Now More Than Ever: The Just War Tradition in an Age of Terrorism A21-126 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sponsored by AAR, SBL, and Publishers Weekly Jana Riess, Publishers Weekly, Presiding Theme: Ask the Experts: Turning the Dissertation into a Marketable “Scholarly Trade” Book Panelists: Henry L. Carrigan, Trinity International Press Elaine Maisner, University of North Carolina Press Stephanie Wellen Levine, Tufts University Elda Rotor, Oxford University Press Mark Oppenheimer, New Haven, CT See the Program Highlights for a description. A21-127 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 Jane Dammen McAuliffe, president. A21-129 Arts Series/Films: Alambrista Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:30 pm David Carrasco, Harvard University, Presiding See the Program Highlights for a description. A21-130 Arts Series/Films: Luther Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:30 pm Anne Thayer, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Presiding Responding: Mark U. Edwards, Harvard University See the Program Highlights for a description. A21-131 JAAR Editorial Board Reception Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm JAAR Editorial Board members are invited to a reception in their honor. A21-132 Arts Series/Films: SAVAE (San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble) Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University, Martha Ann Kirk, University of the Incarnate Word, and James L. Empereur, San Fernando Cathedral, Presiding See the Program Highlights for a description. A22-1 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 International Connections Committee. A22-2 Nominations Committee Meeting Monday - 7:30 am-8:30 am Peter J. Paris, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding A22-3 Program Unit Chairs Breakfast Meeting Monday - 7:30 am-8:45 am Barbara DeConcini, American Academy of Religion, Presiding All program unit chairs should attend this important informational session with the AAR's Program Committee. A22-5 Special Topics Forum Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am William K. Mahony, Davidson College, Presiding Theme: Academic Freedom and Academic Responsibility in the Study of Religion Panelists: Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University John Voll, Georgetown University Francis X. Clooney, Boston College Jonathan Z. Smith, University of Chicago Karen McCarthy Brown, Drew University See the Program Highlights for a description. A22-6 Special Topics Forum Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee David G. Hackett, University of Florida, Presiding Theme: Contested Sacred Space: The National Park Service in San Antonio and Beyond Panelists: Thomas Bremer, Rhodes College Steve Whitesell, National Park Service Edward Tabor Linenthal, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Chris Jocks, Dartmouth College Dwight Pitcaithley, National Park Service See the Program Highlights for a description. A22-7 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jennifer L. Geddes, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: Monuments, Memories, and the Memorializing Process Lorena E. Cuevas, New York, NY "All My Love Is Here and Has Remained": Monuments as Tributes to Memory of September 11, 1973 in Chile Jeffrey F. Meyer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Changing Meanings of Memorials and Monuments: Tiananmen and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Mark W. Graham, College of Wooster Memorializing May 4, 1970 at Kent State University: The Transformations of Public Art, from Representation to Abstraction and Religious Criticism to Spiritual Reflection C. Hannah Schell, Monmouth College “On These Grounds”: American Sublime and the Process of Memorializing Tragedy Martin Holland, Rosborough Partners co-presenter with Hannah Schnell A22-8 Buddhism Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Stephen F. Teiser, Princeton University, Presiding Theme: Buddhism in the Dark: What Monks and Nuns, Lay People, Artists, Patrons, and Others Did in Buddhist Cave-Temples in India, Central Asia, Tibet, and China Panelists: Sarah E. Fraser, Northwestern University Chunwen Hao, Capital Normal University Angela F. Howard, Rutgers University Christian Luczanits, University of Vienna Keiji Sadakane, Kyoto City University of Arts Robert Sharf, University of California, Berkeley Walter Spink, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Hung Wu, Methodist Graduate School of Theology, Taiwan Fuxue Yang, Dunhuang Research Institute Wei Yang, Northwestern University A22-9 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University, Chicago, Presiding Theme: Stop in the Name of God! Wayside Shrines in South Asian, Southeast Asian, and North American Traditions Panelists: Jill Barnes, University of Iowa Justin McDaniel, University of California, Riverside Eliza Kent, Colgate University June McDaniel, College of Charleston Selva Raj, Albion College Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University Clayton McNearney, Marshall University Responding: Juan Campo, University of California, Santa Barbara A22-10 History of Christianity Section and Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Nathan Baruch Rein, Ursinus College, Presiding Theme: But Is It True? Representations of Christian History in Fiction and Film Joseph Pearson, Fordham University "The Wonder of the Ages": Mark Twain's Joan of Arc as History and Anti-Religious Fiction Jonathan Seitz, Princeton Theological Seminary “But Is It True?”: Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible on American Imperialism, Foreign Missions, and African Christianity Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University Will the Real Martin Luther Please Stand Up: Reflections on Film and History Susan Karant-Nunn, University of Arizona Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: Early Modern Models Jason A. Mahn, Emory University A Lutheran Luther and a Christian Christ: The Function of Religious Imagery in Twenty-First-Century Film A22-11 Philosophy of Religion Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Steven Heine, Florida International University, Presiding Theme: Deconstruction and the Ethical in East Asian Thought Gereon Kopf, Luther College The Ethical and the Non-Ethical: Nishida’s Methodic Subversion Dan Lusthaus, Boston University Zhuangzi's Aporetic Ethics as a Response to Mohist and Confucian Ethics Jin Y. Park, American University The Ethical in Derridean Deconstruction and Contemporary Discourse on Zen Buddhism Youru Wang, Rowan University Deconstructing Karma and the Aporia of the Ethical in Hongzhou Zen Responding: Robert Magliola, Ling Jiou Shan Buddhist Monastery A22-12 Religion and the Social Sciences Section and Person, Culture, and Religion Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Felicity Brock Kelcourse, Christian Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Narrative Methods in Psychology and Religion Kathleen Bishop, Madison, NJ The Moral of the Story: Narrative Truth and Moral Experience Linda Ellison, Harvard University Abortion and the Politics of God: Patient Narratives and the Psychology of Religion Gordon Lynch, University of Birmingham The Role of Discourses of the Self in the Narration of Personal Faith and Spirituality in Contemporary Western Society Erin Dufault-Hunter, University of Southern California Understanding "Fanatics": A Hermeneutical Approach to Religion A22-13 Study of Islam Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Omid Safi, Colgate University, Presiding Theme: Recasting Prophet Muhammad and the Qur'an Kecia Ali, Brandeis University "I Was a Girl of Nine": Recent Online Controversies over the Prophet's Marriage to Aisha Amer Latif, Marlboro College Mercy in Literalness: Ibn al-Arabi’s Quranic Hermeneutics Seth Carney, University of London The Prophet Muhammad as Ecunemical Figure: Legal and Mystical Interpretations Sarah Bowen Savant, Harvard University Muhammad’s Spiritual Ancestors and Their Blood Descendants: Charting Persian Identity in Medieval Islam Responding: Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Washington University A22-14 Study of Judaism Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Randi Rashkover, York College of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: Augustine and Judaism Panelists: Lewis Ayres, Duke University Paula Fredriksen, Boston University Chad Pecknold, University of Cambridge Responding: Michael A. Signer, University of Notre Dame A22-15 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Wendy Farley, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Interreligious Dialogue in an Age of Globalization David R. Brockman, Southern Methodist University Turning to the Religious Other: Christian Theology and Interreligious Dialogue in the Age of Globalization Hyo-Dong Lee, Vanderbilt University Interreligious Dialogue as a Politics of Recognition: A Hegelian Reconfiguration of Interreligious Relationships in an Age of Globalization Joseph Lumbard, American University, Cairo Koranic Inclusivism in a Broader Historical Context Heup Young Kim, Kang Nam University A Tao of Interreligious Dialogue in an Age of Globalization A22-16 Women and Religion Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Marcia Beauchamp, California Institute of Integral Studies, Presiding Theme: Untold or Silenced Knowledge? Ethnographies on Neo-Pagan Goddess Spiritualities and the Academy Panelists: Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State University Kristy Coleman, Claremont Graduate University Pamela A. Detrixhe, Temple University Jone Salomonsen, University of Oslo Responding: Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico A22-17 African Religions Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Peter J. Paris, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: African Religions and Ecology Kofi A. Opoku, Lafayette College Ecology Is Religion: African Traditional Religion and the Environment Joel Cabrita, University of Virginia Holy Water, Profane Water: Appropriations of a River James B. Kantiok, Azusa Pacific University Women and Leadership in Pre-Islamic and the Early Years of Islam in Hausaland: Nature Spirits and Bori Practices in Northern Nigeria Business Meeting: Samuel K. Elolia, Emmanuel School of Religion, Presiding A22-18 Afro-American Religious History Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Aminah Beverly McCloud, DePaul University, Presiding Theme: The Legacy of C. Eric Lincoln and the Study of Islam in North America Panelists: Edward E. Curtis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Jamillah Karim, Duke University Richard B. Turner, University of Iowa Responding: Carolyn Rouse, Princeton University Business Meeting: Debra Mubashshir Majeed, Beloit College, Presiding A22-19 Christian Systematic Theology Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Amy Plantinga Pauw, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Church, Spirit, and Authority Nicholas M. Healy, St. John's University Authority in the Church: Some Constructive Suggestions from Thomas Aquinas Dan R. Stiver, Hardin-Simmons University The Fellowship of the Spirit and Dissent in the Free Church Tradition Elizabeth Groppe, Xavier University Authority and Ecstasis: The Church in the Power of the Spirit Steffen Lösel, Emory University Guidance from the Gaps: The Holy Spirit, Ecclesial Authority, and the Principle of Juxtaposition A22-20 Eastern Orthodox Studies Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Brian E. Daley, University of Notre Dame, Presiding Theme: Rethinking Gregory of Nyssa Vladimir Kharlamov, Drew University Deification Innuendo in Gregory of Nyssa Jennifer Kreis, Boston College Rethinking Gregory of Nyssa’s Apophaticism: Understanding and Theology as Rational and Eschatological Gordon S. Mikoski, Princeton Theological Seminary From One Degree of Glory to Another: Baptism, Trinity, and Ecclesial Pedagogy in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa David Dunn, Olivet Nazarene University Perpetual Purgation: The Internal Logic of Apokatastasis A22-21 Japanese Religions Group and Sacred Space in Contemporary Asia Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Paul L. Swanson, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Presiding Theme: Screening and Panel Discussion of Documentary Film Opening the Gates to Heaven: A Pilgrimage to Oyama by Barbara Ambros Panelists: Andrew Bernstein, Lewis and Clark College James Robson, University of Michigan Donald K. Swearer, Harvard University Responding: Barbara Ambros, International Christian University, Tokyo A22-22 Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Margarita M. W. Suarez, Meredith College, Presiding Theme: Latina/o Religiosity: Public Ritual and American Catholicism Lara Medina, Claremont Graduate University Communing with the Dead: Public Ritual, Community Renewal, and Popular Culture in the Southwest Mary Ellen O'Donnell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Apparitions and Interpretations: The Virgin of Guadalupe and American Cultural Catholicism Business Meeting: Michelle A. Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding Benjamin Valentin, Andover Newton Theological School, Presiding A22-23 Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group and Law, Religion, and Culture Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Natalie B. Dohrmann, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: Religious Values and the Legal Construction of American Marriage Fay Botham, Claremont Graduate University How a Catholic Theology of Marriage Crushed California's Anti-Miscegenation Law Rosemary Hicks, Columbia University The Debate over Gay-Marriage and the Relationship of Church and State Patrick Mason, University of Notre Dame Mormonism and Miscegenation: A Study in Religion, Politics, and Culture Chris Talbot, University of Michigan Disciplining Mormons: Polygamy and the Legal Reification of Public and Private Responding: Paul Finkelman, University of Tulsa A22-24 Native Traditions in the Americas Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University, Presiding Theme: Gender and Geography in the Study of Indigenous Mexico and Southwest United States Anne Key, California Institute of Integral Studies Birth and Death: The Cihuateteo in Mesoamerican Cosmology Joseph Kroger, Saint Michael's College Mexico's Madonnas of Conquest Juan Avila, University of California, Davis Luis Valenzuela Beeteme: Yoeme Sacred Geography from a Historical Perspective Marilyn Notah, University of California, Santa Barbara The Ideology of the Diné in Relation to Their Land Responding: Ines Hernandez-Avila, University of California, Davis Business Meeting: Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa, Presiding Michael McNally, Carleton College, Presiding A22-25 Religion and Disability Studies Group and Biblical Scholarship and Disabilities Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Theme: Experiences of Disability and the Teaching of Religion: A Roundtable Discussion Panelists: Bruce C. Birch, Wesley Theological Seminary Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Jane Hurst, Gallaudet University Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College John Swinton, University of Aberdeen Kirk VanGilder, Boston University A22-26 Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Katharina Von Kellenbach, Saint Mary's College of Maryland, Presiding Theme: Theology, Rhetoric, and the Future of Holocaust and Genocide Studies Tam K. Parker, University of the South The Good Word, Spoken and Un/done: Ethical Rhetoric and Moral Reasoning in the Perpetration of Atrocity and Genocide Kevin Lewis O'Neill, Stanford University The Truth Will Set Us Free: The Practice of Christian Theology within Lay and Faith-Based Truth and Reconciliation Reports Sarah K. Pinnock, Trinity University New Directions in Post-Holocaust Theology Cat Ngoc Jonathan Tran, Duke University The Politics of Re-Memory Business Meeting: Susan L. Nelson, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Presiding Oren Baruch Stier, Florida International University, Presiding A22-27 Wesleyan Studies Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sondra Matthaei, Saint Paul School of Theology, Presiding Theme: Latina/o Studies and Wesleyan Studies Daniel Ramirez, Arizona State University Yanking Out the “Royal Telephone”: Convert Agency in Borderlands Methodism and Pentecostalism Philip Wingeier-Rayo, Pfeiffer University The Class Meeting: Base Christian Communities and Pentecostalism in Cuernavaca, Mexico Elaine Robinson, Texas Christian University Recovering Los Desaparecidos, Renewing Wesleyan Theology Business Meeting: K. Steve McCormick, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Presiding A22-28 Constructions of Ancient Space Seminar Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jon L. Berquist, Westminster John Knox Press, Presiding Theme: Critical Spatiality and/in Representations of the Past, Present, and Future Susan L. Graham, Saint Peter's College Justinian and the Politics of Space Mary Huie-Jolly, Knox College, Dunedin Winnicott’s Formation of Self and Lefebvre’s Construction of Space Kathryn Muller Lopez, Campbell University Standing before the Throne of God: Critical Spaciality in the Judgment of the Wicked in Apocalyptic Literature Wesley A. Kort, Duke University Author Meets Critics: Kort's Place and Space in Modern Fiction Business Meeting: James W. Flanagan, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding A22-29 Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Marcia Bunge, Valparaiso University, Presiding Theme: The Role of Narrative in the Spiritual Formation of Children: Perspectives from Two Award-Winning Authors Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, Congregation Beth-El Zedeck Walking in Cain's Shoes: Sacred Narrative with Question Marks Walter Wangerin, Jr., Valparaiso University But the Child Is the Hyena: Narrative, Identification, and Faith Formation Responding: Jerome W. Berryman, Center for the Theology of Childhood A22-30 Tantric Studies Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Theme: The "Body" across Tantric Traditions Vesna Acimovic Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara The Body as a Tantric Text: A Buddhist Tantric "Genome Project" Kerry Martin Skora, Hiram College The Pulsating Heart and Its Divine Sense-Energies: Abhinavagupta's Embodied Phenomenology of Mantra-Consciousness Jeffrey Stephen Lidke, Berry College Towards a Theory of Tantra-Ecology Shaman Hatley, University of Pennsylvania Mapping the Esoteric Body in Medieval Bengali Islamic Yoga Helen Crovetto, Azusa, CA From Tiruvannamalai to Prescott and Bozeman: The Western Baul Lineage David G. White, University of California, Santa Barbara A Reflection on the First Consultation in Tantric Studies: The Tantric "Body" Business Meeting: Glen Alexander Hayes, Bloomfield College, Presiding Sthaneshwar Timalsina, Washington University, St. Louis, Presiding A22-31 EIS Advisory Committee Monday - 11:30 am-1:00 pm Shelly C. Roberts, American Academy of Religion, Presiding A22-32 AAR Annual Business Meeting Monday - 11:45 am-1:00 pm Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University, Presiding AAR members are encouraged to join the AAR Board of Directors for the annual business meeting of the Academy. A22-33 Religion and Disabilities Task Force Meeting Monday - 11:45 am-1:00 pm Kerry Wynn, Southeast Missouri State University, Presiding A22-50 Special Topics Forum Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the International Connections Task Force Mary McGee, Columbia University, Presiding Theme: Latin American Discourse: Contributions to the Study of Religion Panelists: Sylvia Marcos, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Claremont Graduate University Manuel Vasquez, University of Florida Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of California, Berkeley See the Program Highlights for a description. A22-51 Special Topics Forum Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Publications Committee Cynthia Read, Oxford University Press, Presiding Theme: Publishing in the Five AAR/OUP Book 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, Iliff School of Theology James Wetzel, Colgate University See the Program Highlights for a description. A22-52 Special Topics Forum Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee Dena S. Davis, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Presiding Theme: The Marty Forum: A Conversation with Huston Smith Panelists: Huston Smith, Syracuse University, emeritus Diane Connolly, Religionlink See the Program Highlights for a description. A22-53 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College, Presiding Theme: The Classroom as Borderland/Borderlands in the Classroom Richard M. Carp, Appalachian State University Borders at the Center: Teaching the Borders of/in the Classroom Hjamil A. Martinez Vazquez, DePaul University Building a Borderland in the Classroom: Pedagogy for the Analysis of Religion in the Borderlands Richard Bautch, St. Edward's University Exchanging Customs and Concepts in the Classroom as Borderlands Business Meeting: Sidney Brown, University of the South, Presiding Christopher Johnson, Gustavus Adolphus College, Presiding A22-54 Buddhism Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm John D. Dunne, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Presiding Theme: Studies in Buddhist Philosophy and Mental Culture Noa Ronkin, Stanford University Selfless Minds and Causal Relations: Revisiting the Theravadin Abhidhamma Analysis of Consciousness Jason Carbine, University of Chicago Defending the Front-Line Fortress: Transmitting the Patthana in Contemporary Burma Kevin Vose, University of Virginia Knowing the Ultimate: Debates in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Revival of Candrakirti’s Madhyamaka Joseph Walser, Tufts University Nagarjuna in the Region of Mathura Business Meeting: Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University, Presiding Peter N. Gregory, Smith College, Presiding A22-55 North American Religions Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Reeva Simon, Columbia University, Presiding Theme: Finding Islam in New York City Zaheer Ali, Columbia University "Black Mecca": The Nation of Islam's Mosque No. 7, Harlem, and Islam in New York City Linda Beck, Barnard College, Dept of Political Science The “Other” Black Muslims: The Transnational Community of West African Muslims in New York City Munir Jiwa, Massacusetts Institute of Technology Muslim Visual Artists and the Boundaries of Muslim Identity Yusuf Nuruddin, Brooklyn, NY Islam, Afrocentricity, and Urban Mythology: Syncretizing Qur'anic and Kemetic Cultures in the Inner City Neguin Yavari, New York, NY Reconstructing the Past: The “Founding” Texts of a Sufi Revivalist Movement in New York City A22-56 Philosophy of Religion Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Eric Boynton, Allegheny College, Presiding Theme: Kant and the Philosophy of Religion II (On the 200th Anniversary of His Death) Terry Godlove, Hofstra University Kant and the Quest for Modesty Wendy Wiseman, University of California, Santa Barbara Rending the Veil: The Kantian Sublime and Nietzsche's Dionysus Gerald J. Larson, emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara and Indiana University, Bloomington Kant's Influence on New Directions in Contemporary Indian Philosophy Andrew Saldino, Syracuse University Foucault's Imperative for Theological Thinking A22-57 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Douglas A. Hicks, University of Richmond, Presiding Theme: Religious Responses to the Impact of Free Trade Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University Lessons from the FTAA: Reorienting Economic Theory Lorena E. Cuevas, New York, NY From the End of the World -- Goods of the Earth, Goods for the People: The Mapuche of Chile Hold the World Leaders Accountable in the Age of Free Trade Agreements Ruth J. Chojnacki, University of Chicago Indigenous Apostles: Proclaiming Religion, Reclaiming the Land in Mexico’s Maya Highlands Julian Sanborn, Temple University "Nothing for Ourselves Alone, but Everything for Everyone": How the Zapatistas Sparked a Global Resistance A22-58 Religion in South Asia Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Phyllis Herman, California State University, Northridge, Presiding Theme: Can Muslims Talk to Hindus? An Exploration of Islamic Categories for Hindu-Muslim Dialogue Panelists: Irfan A. Omar, Marquette University Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University Mahmoud Ayoub, Temple University Arvind Sharma, McGill University Responding: Douglas L. Berger, Oakton Community College A22-59 Study of Judaism Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Pinchas Giller, University of Judaism, Presiding Theme: Authority and Its Grounds Michael Gottsegen, Harvard University Two Stages in the Development of Levinas's Political Theology Kenneth Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College Reading Practices and Religious Authority: Abraham Geiger's Biblical Criticism and the Study of Judaism Robert Erlewine, Rice University Purging Myth, Purging Intolerance: Cohen, Assmann, and the Promise of Ethical Monotheism Jonathan Schofer, University of Wisconsin, Madison Rabbinic Ethics and Rabbinic Authority: Tropes for Transformation through Torah Business Meeting: Martin Kavka, Florida State University, Presiding Randi Rashkover, York College of Pennsylvania, Presiding A22-60 Women and Religion Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University, Presiding Theme: Scholarly and Popular Treatments of Mary Magdalene Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University Jesus Loved Her More Than the Rest: Mary Magdalene, the Early Church, and What's Been Covered Up Melanie L. Harris, Union Theological Seminary A Womanist Look at Soteriology in the Gospel of Mary Jane F. Crosthwaite, Mount Holyoke College The Shaker Message from Mary Magdalene: Visionary Encouragement for the Celibate Life Responding: Jacqueline Z. Pastis, La Salle University Business Meeting: Jacqueline Z. Pastis, La Salle University, Presiding A22-61 Bioethics and Religion Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Paul R. Johnson, D'Youville College, Presiding Theme: The Ethics of Health Care Delivery/Religious Ethics, Medicine, and Technology Michael McKenzie, Keuka College "Noncompliant Patients" in Rural Health Care: The Need for the "Agapic Voice" in the Patient-Physican Relationship Rebecca Edmondson, Boston University When Religion and Bioethics Collide: Catholic Hospitals and Emergency Contraception for Victims of Rape Swasti Bhattacharyya, Buena Vista University Babies, Science, and the Mahabharata: A Hindu Ethic Applied to Assisted Reproductive Technology Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University Living under the Fallen Sky: Biotechnology, Escatology, and Forbidden Knowledge Business Meeting: Aline Kalbian, Florida State University, Presiding Paul R. Johnson, D'Youville College, Presiding A22-62 Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Paul Christopher Johnson, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Presiding Theme: Monotheism(s) and Polytheism(s): Rhetorics and Legacies Greg Grieve, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Symbol, Idol, and Murti: Monotheism's Spiritual Legacy and the Rhetoric of Scripturalism Michael Hawley, Mount Royal College Encounters with Monotheisms: Radhakrishnan on Christian, Hindu, and Islamic Monotheism Wouter Hanegraaff, University of Amsterdam Mysteries of Incarnation: The Hermetic Animation of Statues in Christian Monotheism Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Amsterdam European Polytheism Revisited: From “Pagan Dreams” to Visual Culture in Renaissance Studies Responding: Steve Wasserstrom, Reed College Business Meeting: Steven Engler, Mount Royal College, Presiding Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Amsterdam, Presiding A22-63 Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford University, Presiding Theme: "Outside the Canon": Oral, Visual, and Other Extra-Textual Cultures in Late Antiquity Shira L. Lander, St. Mary's Seminary and University “The Word Made Flesh”: Case Studies of Confluence and Conflict in the Shrines of the Terebinths of Mamre and the Maccabean Martyrs in Daphne, Syria Georgia Frank, Colgate University Hell Overheard: Romanos the Melodist on the Death of Christ Caroline T. Schroeder, Stanford University Playing the Harlot in an Egyptian Monastery: The Rhetorics of Sexuality and Prophecy in Shenoute’s Letters Responding: Patricia Cox Miller, Syracuse University Business Meeting: Jason D. BeDuhn, Northern Arizona University, Presiding Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College, Presiding A22-64 Evangelical Theology Group and Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Anthea Butler, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding Theme: Evangelicalism in Latina/o and Latin American Communities Philip Wingeier-Rayo, Pfeiffer University The Search for an Evangelical Identity of Social Engagement: The Church in Cuba Bobby C. Alexander, University of Texas at Dallas The Role of a Mexican Protestant Church and Its U.S. Missions in Transnational Migration Ruben Rosario-Rodriguez, Saint Louis University Popular Religion or Academic Movement? Reconsidering Teología en Conjunto Responding: Daniel Ramirez, Arizona State University A22-65 Islamic Mysticism Group and Mysticism Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Barbara R. von Schlegell, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: In Theory and in Practice: Sufi Thinkers on the Integration of Ontology and Ethics Richard J. McGregor, Vanderbilt University The Ontology of the Master-Disciple Relationship: The Shaykhs of the Wafa’iyya Timothy Gianotti, University of Oregon Knowledge Illuminating Practice, Practice Precipitating Knowledge: The Symbiotic Relationship of the Practical and the Theoretical in the Mystical Thought of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali Neil Douglas-Klotz, Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning Languages of Experience: The Theory and Practice of a General Semantics Sufi Laury Silvers, Skidmore College The Presence of Theoretical Sufism in the Early Period: With an Example of the Interrelationship between the Theoretical and the Practical from the Work of Abu Bakr al-Wasiti (d. ca. 320/928) Responding: T. Emil Homerin, University of Rochester A22-66 Korean Religions Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Hong-Bin Lim, Korea University, Presiding Theme: Religion and National Identity in Modern Korea Pori Park, Arizona State University The Development of Buddhist Nationalism during Japanese Colonial Rule (1910–1945) Paul Hyoshin Kim, Little Falls, NJ Taksa Ch’oe Pyŏnghŏn and the Struggle for a “Christian-Korean” Identity Andrew Eungi Kim, Korea University The Rituals, Beliefs, and Symbols of Korean Civil Religion: The Making of Korean Nationhood and Peoplehood Responding: Jin Y. Park, American University John I. Goulde, Sweet Briar College Business Meeting: Sungtaek Cho, Korea University, Presiding A22-67 Men's Studies in Religion Group and Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Dawn A. De Vries, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education, Presiding Theme: Making Boys: Religion and the Gender Construction of Boys Reidar Aasgaard, University of Oslo From Boy to Man: Jesus in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas Susan Ridgely Bales, Carleton College Training Christian Soldiers: An Analysis of James Dobson’s Approach to “Bringing Up Boys” from 1970-2003 Ludger Viefhues, Yale University On Grace, Sissies, and Exploding Manholes: Normative Masculinity and the Impossible Theology of Boyhood of Focus on the Family Mark J. Justad, Center for the Study of Religion and Culture at Vanderbilt University Religion and the Gender Construction of Boys in a Postpatriarchal Context Responding: Donald E. Capps, Princeton Theological Seminary A22-68 New Religious Movements Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm William M. Ashcraft, Truman State University, Presiding Theme: Community and Identity in New Religious Movements Tulasi Srinivas, Wheaton College Bodily Betrayals: Desire, Identity, and Discipline in the Construction of Transnational Sai Devotion Gilbert Bradshaw, Brigham Young University Alcohol, Gangs, and Education: Secularization of Youth of the Charismatic Renewal in an Indigenous Guatemalan Community Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ritual and Renewal: Creating Jewish Traditions 1960s-1970s Martha Bradley, University of Utah Religious Communal Groups as Spatial Communities Responding: Jean E. Rosenfeld, University of California, Los Angeles A22-69 Platonism and Neoplatonism Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Gregory Shaw, Stonehill College, Presiding Theme: Revelation and Interpretation in Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions II William P. Franke, Vanderbilt University Apophasis and the Neoplatonic Interpretation of Religious Revelation David Wisdo, Columbus State University Exegete and/or/as Philosopher: Origen on Self-Knowledge in the Commentary on the Song of Songs Anders S. Tune, Wittenberg University Augustine's Theological Use of the "Books of the Platonists" Robert L. Fastiggi, Sacred Heart Major Seminary Platonism as Divine Revelation according to Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) Business Meeting: Willemien Otten, Utrecht University, Presiding A22-70 Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Warren G. Frisina, Hofstra University, Presiding Theme: Issues in Pragmatism and Empiricism: Kaplan and Democracy, Dewey, and Language and Experience William Plevan, Princeton University Democracy and the Jewish Tradition: Mordecai Kaplan and the Democratization of Judaism Christopher D. Tirres, Harvard University Dewey at the San Fernando Cathedral John Shook, Oklahoma State University Dewey's Hegelianism and His Repair of the Religious/Secular Divide Michael Slater, Brown University Does the Linguistic Turn Have Limits? Experience and the Scope of the Conceptual in Contemporary Pragmatism Ronney B. Mourad, Albion College Language Use as a Transcendental-Pragmatic Condition of Experience Business Meeting: Frederick J. Ruf, Georgetown University, Presiding David C. Lamberth, Harvard University, Presiding A22-71 Religion and Science Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Greg Peterson, South Dakota State University, Presiding Theme: Study of Mind in Buddhism and Cognitive Science Daniel A. Arnold, University of Chicago Causes and Reasons in Buddhist Philosophy: Reflections in Light of Vincent Descombes’s Critique of Cognitivism Zhihua Yao, University of Hong Kong Would Dignaga Agree with the Higher-Order Perception or Higher-Order Thought Theory? James Boyd Apple, University of Alberta Buddhist Theories of Mind as Representationalist Analysis: Bridging the Gap between “First Person” Accounts for “Third Person” Problems Lili Zhang, Emory University Sudden Enlightenment in The Platform Sutra Business Meeting: Lisa L. Stenmark, San Jose State University, Presiding A22-72 Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Alex R. Hawkins, Duke University, Presiding Theme: St. Paul and Philosophy Dennis King Keenan, Fairfield University Zizek, St. Paul, and Agape Douglas K. Harink, King's University College False Universal? Badiou's Paul, sans Jesus, Israel, and the Church Philip Goodchild, University of Nottingham Who Needs Universalism? Responding: Walter James Lowe, Emory University Business Meeting: Ellen T. Armour, Rhodes College, Presiding A22-73 Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College, Presiding Theme: A Real Woman with a Dollar in Her Shoe: Black Women and Theologies of Prosperity Panelists: Stephanie Y. Mitchem, University of Detroit Mercy Responding: Teresa L. Fry Brown, Emory University Paula McGee, Claremont Graduate University Karen Baker-Fletcher, Southern Methodist University Business Meeting: Evelyn L. Parker, Southern Methodist University, Presiding Marcia Y. Riggs, Columbia Theological Seminary, Presiding A22-74 Animals and Religion Consultation Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Barbara K. Darling-Smith, Wheaton College, Presiding Theme: Animals as Subjects, Objects, and Symbols Laura Yordy, Duke University An Eco-Critical Reading of Athanasius' Life of Saint Anthony Aaron Gross, University of California, Santa Barbara The Ethical Human Subject, Animals, and Dietary Ritual: The Case of Kashrut Juan Herrero-Brasas, California State University, Northridge Latin American Liberation Theology and the Struggle for Animal Liberation Anne Vallely, University of Ottawa Animals, Jainism, and the Religious Imperative Christopher Moreman, Indiana University of Pennsylvania The Symbolic Connection between Birds and Spirits of the Dead Business Meeting: Paul Waldau, Tufts University, Presiding A22-75 Religion in Central and Eastern Europe Consultation Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Andrii Krawchuk, University of Sudbury, Presiding Theme: From Traumatic Memory and Violence to the Quest for Peace and Tolerance: Religious, Ethical, and Legal Dimensions Robert E. Alvis, St. Meinrad School of Theology Ethics and the Practice of Memory: Catholic Responses to the Expulsion of Ethnic Germans from Postwar Poland Slavica Jakelic, University of Virginia Considering the "Peacemakers" and "War Legitimizers" within Collectivistic Religions: The Role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Wars in Bosnia and Croatia David Tombs, Trinity College Dublin The Guatemalan Genocide and Reconciliation through Justice James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno Constitutional Courts and Religion in Former Soviet Countries Responding: Oren Stier, Florida International University Business Meeting: J. Shawn Landres, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Andrii Krawchuk, University of Sudbury, Presiding A22-76 Bus Tour of San Antonio Religious Sites Monday - 1:00 pm-5:00 pm Please meet at the signposted area outside the convention center, Alamo Street entrance at 12:45 pm. Bus tour is by reservation only; please have your ticket ready. Tour tickets will be mailed with the name badge materials in September. Thomas Bremer, Rhodes College, Timothy M. Matovina, University of Notre Dame, Steve Whitesell, National Park Service, and Peter W. Williams, Miami University, Presiding See the Program Highlights for a description. A22-101 Special Topics Forum Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by International Connections Committee and Religion and the Schools Task Force Marcia Beauchamp, California Institute of Integral Studies, Presiding Theme: Rethinking Religious Education and Plurality in Europe and the United States Panelists: Robert Jackson, University of Warwick David Chidester, University of Cape Town Tim Jensen, University of Southern Denmark Warren A. Nord, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Responding: Ivan Strenski, University of California, Riverside Diane L. Moore, Harvard University See the Program Highlights for a description. A22-103 Buddhism Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Karen Derris, University of Redlands, Presiding Theme: Buddhist Education: Teaching, Texts, and Bodies in Tibet, Sri Lanka, China, and Thailand Thomas Borchert, University of Chicago Theravada Monastic Training in the Chinese National Sangha Georges Dreyfus, Williams College The Two Methodologies of Tibetan Scholastic Education: A Few Considerations Justin McDaniel, University of California, Riverside Abbreviating the Buddha: Teaching the Dhammapada in Thailand Jeffrey Samuels, Western Kentucky University Learning to Attract the Heart: The Aesthetics of Ritual Performance in Contemporary Sri Lanka Responding: Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University A22-104 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Mark Allen Berkson, Hamline University, Presiding Theme: Methods of Metaphor and Metonymy in New Comparative Studies of Religions: Turning from West to East and Back James Egge, Eastern Michigan University Comparative Analysis of Religious Metaphor: Appreciating Similarity as well as Difference Julie Gifford, Miami University of Ohio The Art of Seeing the Invisible: An Interpretation of the Terraces atop Barabudur Shubha Pathak, University of Chicago Reminding the Amnesiac Metaphor of “Epic”: A New Method for Critically Examining the Categories of Cross-Cultural Comparative Religious Study Laurie L. Patton, Emory University Laughter and the Creeper Mantra: Comparative Implications for the Category of Metonymy Responding: Edward Slingerland, University of Southern California A22-105 Ethics Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm William David Hart, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Presiding Theme: Christ Sets You Free, Indeed!: The Christian Case for (Radical) Democracy Panelists: Stanley M. Hauerwas, Duke University Jeffrey L. Stout, Princeton University Cornel West, Princeton University Responding: Romand Coles, Duke University Business Meeting: Gloria H. Albrecht, University of Detroit Mercy, Presiding A22-106 History of Christianity Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University, Presiding Theme: Christianity on the Frontiers and Borderlands Emma J. Anderson, Harvard University The Missionary, "the Apostate," and "the Sorcerer": A Study in Jesuit-Aboriginal Interaction in Early Seventeenth-Century Canada Linford Fisher, Harvard University “Such a Dore of Opportunity”: Roger Williams and Indian Conversion Brian C. R. Zugay, Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ Making Church Building "Universally Popular": Frontier Church Extension and the Institutionalization of Architectural Practice in American Evangelical Protestantism Alan Terlep, University of Chicago Redeeming the Apostate: James Brookes in Missouri, 1858-1873 Alan Watt, New Braunfels, TX Religious History in the Borderlands: A Comparison of California and Texas in the Context of the Farm-Worker Movement in the 1960s Responding: Edwin David Aponte, Southern Methodist University A22-107 North American Religions Section and Study of Judaism Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Rebecca T. Alpert, Temple University, Presiding Theme: New Directions in the Study of American Judaism Jeffrey Gurock, Yeshiva University American Jewish Orthodox Social Norms as Viewed through the Vista of Sports, 1950-2004 Andrew Heinze, University of San Francisco God's Partners or God's Servants? "Democratic Judaism" vs. "Autocratic Christianity" in American Popular Theology Ellen M. Umansky, Fairfield University From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews Shuly Schwartz, Jewish Theological Seminary They Married What They Wanted to Be: Rabbis' Wives as American Jewish Leaders Responding: Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University A22-108 Religion in South Asia Section and Hinduism Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Leslie C. Orr, Concordia University, Presiding Theme: Unwritten Hinduism Panelists: Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Emory University Charles Hallisey, University of Wisconsin, Madison Velcheru Narayana Rao, University of Wisconsin, Madison Responding: Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University Business Meeting: Philip Lutgendorf, University of Iowa, Presiding Leslie C. Orr, Concordia University, Presiding A22-109 Study of Islam Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Margaret A. Leeming, University of California, Santa Barbara, Vassar College, Presiding Theme: Test Cases and Contestations of Islamic Law Paul R. Powers, Lewis and Clark College Offending Man and God: Crime, Sin, and Expiation in Islamic Law Paul Heck, Georgetown University No Monopoly of Salvation: The Case of Muhammad al-Habash (Damascus, Syria) Mona Hassan, Princeton University Delineating Islam: The Scholarly Activities of an Early Muslim Woman Jacquelene Brinton, University of Virginia Rethinking the Role of Religious Discourse and Practice in Political Reform: The Case of the Ottoman Ulama and the Reforms of Mahmud II A22-110 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Darby Kathleen Ray, Millsaps College, Presiding Theme: Space, Body, Beauty: Aesthetics and Material Practices Rachel Sophia Baard, Villanova University Material Theology: Talal Asad and the Task of Rhetorical Theology S. T. Campagna-Pinto, Claremont McKenna College Manhattan Jeremiad: Theological Implications of the World Trade Center Memorial Beth Felker Jones, Huntington College Body as Icon and Beauty Transformed Jeffrey Kosky, Washington and Lee University Clouds That Reveal: Mystical Theology and the Creative Habitation of Today's Global Blur A22-111 Afro-American Religious History Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Eddie Glaude, Jr., Princeton University, Presiding Theme: Survival, Resistance, and Transmission: New Historiographical and Methodological Perspectives for the Study of Slave Religion Panelists: J. Gordon Melton, Institute for the Study of American Religion Heather White, Princeton University Yolanda Pierce, University of Kentucky Responding: Albert J. Raboteau, Princeton University A22-112 Anthropology of Religion Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Rebecca Sachs Norris, Merrimack College, Presiding Theme: Where Minds Meet Cultures: Organic Processes and Cultural Practices in the Study of Religion Thomas Tweed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Organic Channels and Cultural Currents: Theorizing Spatial Representation Ann Taves, Claremont School of Theology & Claremont Graduate University Where (Fragmented) Selves Meet Cultures: Theorizing Spirit Possession Carl Andrew Seaquist, University of Pennsylvania The Cognitive Study of Ritual Action: Theorizing Agency Harvey Whitehouse, Queen's University, Belfast The Evolution and History of Religion: Theorizing Religious Transmission Responding: Simon Coleman, University of Sussex A22-113 Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Lori Brandt Hale, Augsburg College, Presiding Theme: Resistance and Patriotism: Re-Examining Bonhoeffer Christine Schliesser, Fuller Theological Seminary/ Tuebingen University Accepting Guilt for the Sake of Germany: An Analysis of Bonhoeffer’s Concept of Accepting Guilt and Its Implications for Bonhoeffer’s Political Resistance Stephen Butler Murray, Skidmore College The Vocation of the Patriot as the Loving Critic: A Comparison in the Theological and Social Ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and William Sloane Coffin Responding: Craig J. Slane, Simpson College Business Meeting: Lisa Dahill, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Presiding A22-114 Christian Systematic Theology Group and Roman Catholic Studies Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Michelle A. Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding Theme: Ekklesia and/as Koinonia: The Ecclesiological Influence of Latin American Theologies in North America Panelists: William T. Cavanaugh, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul Virgilio P. Elizondo, University of Notre Dame Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Drew University Michael E. Lee, Fordham University A22-115 Evangelical Theology Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Christine D. Pohl, Asbury Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Evangelicals and the Public Arena: Public Policies and Political Engagement Brantley Gasaway, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Mr. President, You Should Be Ashamed”: The Progressive Evangelical Critique of the Bush Administration Kenneth A. Reynhout, Bethel Seminary St. Paul Liberating Evangelical Spirituality James K. A. Smith, Calvin College Empire, Ekklesia, and Evangelical Public Theology: A Critical Proposal Responding: Richard J. Mouw, Fuller Theological Seminary Business Meeting: David Kling, University of Miami, Presiding Anthea Butler, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding A22-116 Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University, Presiding Theme: Religion in French Feminist Thought Emily Holmes, Emory University Incarnate Words in French Feminist Thought Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College Subject, Abject, Sacred, Profane: Kristeva and Otto as Tools for Theorizing Religion and Social Power Phyllis H. Kaminski, Saint Mary's College Daughters Thinking Religious Experience: Living the Difference(s) with and beyond Luce Irigaray Jone Salomonsen, University of Oslo Refusing to be a Woman, Claiming to be a Witch: Inviting Students of French Feminism and American Witchcraft to Engage in Dialogue Responding: Morny Joy, University of Calgary A22-117 Indigenous Religious Traditions Group and Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding Theme: Re-Inventing America at the Borders Michael D. Hill, Drury University "The True Story of the Andes Is Just about to Be Written…": New Age Andean Spirituality, Mestizo Double Consciousness, and Mythic-Historical Revision Terry Rey, Florida International University Habitus and Hybridization: A Bourdieuian Interpretation of Syncretism in Afro-Atlantic Religion Ramón Grosfoguel, University of California, Berkeley Religion and Borders in the Americas: Afro-Caribbean and Chicana Perspectives Lois Lorentzen, University of San Francisco Religion at the Gendered Borders: Santissima Muerte, St. Jude, and Transgendered Sex Workers in San Francisco, CA and Guadalajara, Mexico Responding: Luis Leon, University of California, Berkeley A22-118 Islamic Mysticism Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm New Program Unit Carl W. Ernst, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Presiding Theme: Transformations of Islamic Mystical Traditions Yuan-Lin Tsai, Nanhua University Sufism in Wang Dai-yu’s San-yi (the Threefold of Oneness) Theory: The Advent of Chinese Muslim Syncretism Elizabeth R. Alexandrin, McGill University The Sphere of "Walayah": Typologies of the Imam in the 'Majalis al-Mu'ayyadiyyah Vernon James Schubel, Kenyon College No Sympathy for the Devil: Adam, Iblis, and Hallaj in the Alevi-Bektashi Tradition Shafique Virani, Zayed University Uneasy Bedfellows: Sufism and Ismailism in the Wake of the Mongol Invasions Responding: Barbara R. von Schlegell, University of Pennsylvania A22-119 Japanese Religions Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Paula K. R. Arai, Carleton College, Presiding Theme: Viewing the World and the Academy through Japanese Religions Panelists: William R. LaFleur, University of Pennsylvania James W. Heisig, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University Helen Hardacre, Harvard University Business Meeting: Paula K. R. Arai, Carleton College, Presiding Ruben L. F. Habito, Southern Methodist University, Presiding A22-120 Person, Culture, and Religion Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sandra Lee Dixon, University of Denver, Presiding Theme: Spirituality: Psychology? Religion? Both? Neither? Part II: Issues of Philosophy and History Christopher Glen White, Georgia State University A Mind “Intensely Unsettled”: Problems of Faith and Spiritual Assurance in Nineteenth-Century American Culture Hans Alma, Leiden University Spirituality: A Secular View -- Transcendence and Spirituality in Philosophy and Psychology of Art Carol Matthews, Johnson County Community College Between Two Worlds: Rituals of Mythic Identity and Crisis in a New Age Bookstore Community David L. Smith, Central Michigan University The Authenticity of Alan Watts Responding: A. Gregory Schneider, Pacific Union College A22-121 Religion and Ecology Group and Religious Freedom, Public Life, and the State Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm John Baumann, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Presiding Theme: Religion, Ecology, and the Politics of 2004 Panelists: Karen Baker-Fletcher, Southern Methodist University David L. Barnhill, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh John B. Cobb, Claremont School of Theology Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute A22-122 Religion and Popular Culture Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Gary M. Laderman, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Listening Party: Serious Reflections on Religion and Music Panelists: Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University Erica Hurwitz, University of Vermont Robin Sylvan, University of California, Davis Titus Hjelm, University of Helsinki Christopher Partridge, University College Chester This experimental, participatory session will include selections and comments from the audience, so bring your own music. A22-123 Religion and Science Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Ernest L. Simmons, Concordia College, Moorhead, Presiding Theme: Exploring Altruism: Science, Religion, and Love Jeffrey Schloss, Westmont College Evolution and Love: Perspectives from Biology Jason McMartin, Claremont Graduate University Compatibility Issues: Virtue Ethics and Sociobiology Jennifer Thweatt-Bates, Princeton Theological Seminary Particularity and the Evolution of Morality Charlene Burns, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Seeds of Divine Love Scattered through the Cosmos: A Theological Interpretation of Altruism in Nature Responding: Stephen G. Post, Case Western Reserve University A22-124 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm John Lyden, Dana College, Presiding Theme: "Our Lives Teach Us Who We Are": Issues of Identity Clive Marsh, Methodist Church in Great Britain Love, Actually?: Sentimentality as Problem and Opportunity in the Use of Film for Teaching Theology and Religion Brannon Hancock, University of Glasgow A Community of Characters: The Narrative Self in the Films of Wes Anderson Christine Kraemer, Boston University Self and (M)other: Apocalypse as Return to the Womb in Neon Genesis Evangelion David Rogers, Biscoe, AR The Post-Modern Scooby Doo: Paradigm Surrender in an Age of Media Bombardment J. Heath Atchley, South Hadley, MA The Silences of Secularity: Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation Business Meeting: Tony S. L. Michael, University of Toronto, Presiding A22-125 Ritual Studies Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm W. Scott Haldeman, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Death, Sacrifice, and Politics Jacob Dalton, British Library A Rite of Human Sacrifice in Tibetan Buddhism: Religious vs. Secular Perspectives Jalane D. Schmidt, Oberlin College Catholic Gallstones and Santeria Squash: Displays of Dissonance at a Cuban Shrine Thomas Quartier, Radboud University Nijmegen Roman Catholic Funeral Rites and Human Finitude: Empirical Explorations in a Modernized Context Responding: Donna Lynne Seamone, McMaster University Business Meeting: Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State University, Presiding Donna Lynne Seamone, McMaster University, Presiding A22-130 Special Topics Forum Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by AAR and Jossey-Bass Publishers Theme: In Particulars: Writing from Particularistic Religious Traditions in a Pluralistic Society Panelists: Peter Ochs, University of Virginia Lauren F. Winner, Columbia University Stephen Prothero, Boston University See the Program Highlights for a description. A22-127 Plenary Address Monday - 7:00 pm-8:00 pm Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University, Presiding Theme: A God of Incredible Surprises Panelists: Virgilio Elizondo, University of Notre Dame See the Program Highlights for a description. A22-128 Arts Series/Films: Ilha da Magia: Nature, Spirit, and Belief on Santa Catarina Island, Brazil Monday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Lisa Swanson Madera, Florianopolis, Brazil, Presiding See the Program Highlights for a description. A22-131 Plenary Address Monday - 8:30 pm-9:30 pm Theme: The Science and Religion Dialogue: Where It Stands Today -- and Why It Matters Panelists: George Ellis, University of Cape Town A22-129 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. A23-1 Buddhism Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Andy Rotman, Smith College, Presiding Theme: Buddhist Saints and Sainthood Vanessa Rebecca Sasson, McGill University Ambivalent Sainthood: A Look at the Buddha's Mother in the Pali and Sanskrit Literature of Early Buddhism Karen Derris, University of Redlands Reconsidering Paccekabuddhas: How Solitary Are "Solitary Buddhas"? John S. Strong, Bates College The Development of a Cult: The Arhat Gavampati in South and Southeast Asia Ryan Bongseok Joo, Princeton University The Study of Early Sixteen Arhat Images in Medieval China Responding: Hank Glassman, Haverford College A23-2 Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Religion in South Asia Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Bradley S. Clough, American University, Cairo, Presiding Theme: Revealing and Creating through Miracles: Ethnographic Encounters with the Wonderous in South Asian Traditions Panelists: Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Emory University Selva Raj, Albion College Jonathan S. Walters, Whitman College Corinne Dempsey, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point Responding: Velcheru Narayana Rao, University of Wisconsin, Madison Jonathan Z. Smith, University of Chicago A23-3 History of Christianity Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Arun W. Jones, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Conversion and Gender Roles/Biblical Translations: When Culture Meets the Word Kathleen M. Self, Skidmore College Converter Queens and Caustic Pagans: Gender Roles in Medieval Conversion Narratives Meghan T. Sweeney, Emory University Gender in Teresa of Avila and Its Role in the Conversion of Edith Stein Quincy Newell, University of Wyoming Reckoning Kinship: Colonial Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Families at Mission San Francisco de Asís Brian P. Bennett, Niagara University The Mythos of Logos: Paratextual Accounts of the Church Slavonic Bible Monica Siems, University of California, Santa Barbara Joseph Renville's Bibles: The Presence and Shape of the Word among Early Dakota Christians Kris Pratt, Baylor University Transforming the South: Race Relations in the Cotton Patch Version of the New Testament A23-4 North American Religions Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Julie Byrne, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Miracles and Madonnas, Saints and Apparitions Anne Pryor, Wisconsin Arts Board Signs and Miracles: Supernatural Events at a Marian Apparition Michael Pasquier, Florida State University Our Lady of Tickfaw: The Making of a New Marian Cult in America Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini College Building an Altar for St. Joseph: Healings, Miracles, and Vows in the Contemporary Catholic Reality of Italian-American Women Responding: Paula Kane, University of Pittsburgh A23-5 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Seattle University, Presiding Theme: Religious Groups and Social Engagement: Some Methodological Reflections Jeff Jordan, University of Georgia Religion and Community Development Ayman Reda, Michigan State University Religious Charities and Government Funding Thia Cooper, University of Edinburgh Struggling toward a New Earth: The Integration of Faith and Development Practice within CSOs Responding: Elizabeth Margaret Bounds, Emory University Business Meeting: Elizabeth Margaret Bounds, Emory University, Presiding Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding A23-6 Study of Islam Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Ruqayya Y. Khan, Trinity University, Presiding Theme: Contemporary Islam in a Contested World Franz Volker Greifenhagen, Luther College "Clashism" Alive and Well? Some Recent Evangelical Christian Publications on Islam Roy Jackson, King’s College, London Avoiding the Deadly Boring God: Muhammad Iqbal’s Admiration for the "Nietzschean God" of Islam Roxanne D. Marcotte, University of Queensland Religious Freedom in Islam Simon Wood, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Islamic Da'wah and the "Religion of the Other': Rashid Rida's Revision of Islamic Exclusivism Responding: Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso University A23-7 Study of Judaism Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Martin Kavka, Florida State University, Presiding Theme: Maimonides's Political Theology Panelists: Aryeh Botwinick, Temple University Aaron W. Hughes, University of Calgary Gregory Kaplan, Rice University Responding: Heidi Ravven, Hamilton College A23-8 Women and Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: Theory and Method in the Study of Women and Religion Constance Wise, Metropolitan State College of Denver Every Woman Creates the Meaning of Woman: A Process Thought Alternative to Gender Essentialism Sarah Azaransky, University of Virginia Feminist Theological Method and “Usable Aspects of the Past” Elizabeth Goodine, Temple University The Power of Self-Differentiation as Seen in the Martyrdom of Blandina of Lyon Donna Wallace, Santa Clara University Goddess in the Academy: Why Do We Fear? A23-9 Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Rollins College, Presiding Theme: Cooking, Giving, Feasting: Food Practices of Jews and Hindus Gregory Spinner, Central Michigan University Altar, Table, and Charity Plate: Food in the Rabbinic Practice of Gemilut Hasadim Norma Baumel Joseph, Concordia University Food Gifts – Female Gift Givers: A Taste of Jewishness Jeffrey Lidke, Berry College Cooking Consciousness: The Preparation and Transformation of Food in Four Hindu Contexts Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University You Are Where You Eat: Food, Utopia, and Hindus in America Responding: Katherine Ulrich, Wesleyan University Business Meeting: Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, Presiding A23-10 Eastern Orthodox Studies Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Vivian Olender, University of Manitoba, Presiding Theme: Contemporary Orthodox Eschatology Alexei Khamine, Drew University Apocalyptic Discourses in Action: Nineteenth- to Twentieth-Century Russia Thomas Cattoi, Boston College Living in the End Times: Eschatology, Exclusivism, and Fragmentation in the Experience of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Lithuanian Old-Believers Paul Gavrilyuk, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul Universal Salvation in the Eschatology of Sergius Bulgakov Business Meeting: Robin Darling Young, University of Notre Dame, Presiding James C. Skedros, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Presiding A23-11 Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Linda A. Moody, Antioch University Los Angeles, Presiding Theme: Ring around the Collar: Lesbian Identity and the Church Julia Sheetz-Willard, Temple University Getting Disoriented: Authority, Identity, and Mainline Protestant Debates over the Bible and Gay/Lesbian Ordination Rebecca Edmondson, Boston University Leaving the Ecclesial Closet Behind: The Evolution of the Lesbian Clergy Identity Gayle R. Baldwin, University of North Dakota The Resurrection of Matthew Shepard; the Disappearance of Sakia Gunn: Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation, and the Religious Imagination Business Meeting: Gayle R. Baldwin, University of North Dakota, Presiding Elizabeth A. Say, California State University, Northridge, Presiding A23-12 Nineteenth-Century Theology Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Daniel Hardy, University of Cambridge and Theodore Vial, Virginia Wesleyan College, Presiding Theme: The Theological Genesis, Criticisms, and Appropriations of the "Science of Religions" circa 1870-1900 Robert A. Segal, University of Lancaster William Robertson Smith’s Theory of Religion: Anthropological or Theological? Ivan Strenski, University of California, Riverside Explaining Tiele’s Shift from “History” to Phenomenology of Religion Thomas Ryba, Purdue University, University of Notre Dame Religion Marked as Development: Tiele, Newman, and Developmental Biology in the Early Nineteenth Century Lori K. Pearson, Carleton College Troeltsch and Theories of Culture Pre-printed papers for this and other sessions of the group may be obtained from C. J. T. Talar, University of St. Thomas, 9845 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77024 for $20.00. A23-13 Religion and Popular Culture Group and Religion, Media, and Culture Consultation Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Rochelle L. Millen, Wittenberg University, Presiding Theme: After The Passion Is Gone: What the Film Tells Us about Religion in America Panelists: Michael Berenbaum, University of Judaism J. Shawn Landres, University of California, Santa Barbara Mark Silk, Trinity College, Hartford Karen Jo Torjesen, Claremont Graduate University Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes College S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University Julie J. Ingersoll, University of North Florida A23-14 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Joseph A. Favazza, Rhodes College and Rosetta E. Ross, Spelman College, Presiding Theme: Teaching Black/Being Black: Influences of Blackness on Best Teaching Practices Panelists: Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University Stephen G. Ray, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University Juan Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University Arthur Pressley, Drew University Lynne Westfield, Drew University Lincoln Galloway, Claremont School of Theology	More Information Annual Meeting Exhibitors & Advertisers Student Events at Meeting Regional Meetings Program Units Join us in vibrant Atlanta for the 2010 AAR Annual Meeting, October 30–November 1. Click here for more information and to register. See you there!
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