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Aleshire, Association of Theological Schools Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College Richard M. Carp, Appalachian State University L. DeAne Lagerquist, Saint Olaf College Chun-Fang Yu, Columbia University Separate registration is required. You may register for the workshop here: www.aarweb.org/department/workshops/2006Washington/default.asp. See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Pre-ConferenceWorkshops for details about the workshop. A17-5 North American Association for the Study of Religion: Executive Council Meeting Friday - 9:00 am-11:30 am A17-6 North American Paul Tillich Society Friday - 9:00 am-11:15 am Terrence O’Keefe, University of Ulster, Presiding Theme: Philosophical and Theoretical Assessments of Tillich B. Keith Putt, Samford University Affirming Acceptance/Accepting Affirmation: Tillich’s “Stroke of Grace” and Derrida’s “Yes” Daniel J. Peterson, Pacific Lutheran University Where to Find the Hidden God: The Turn from Self to Other in Tillich’s Theology Jari Ristiniemi, University of Gävle Ethics and Expressionism: Things, Individuals, and Common Concerns Francis Ching-Wah Yip, Chinese University of Hong Kong Capitalism as Quasi-religion? A Durkheimian Enhancement of Tillich A17-8 Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Board Meeting Friday - 9:00 am-11:30 am A17-3 Religion and Media Workshop - The "Muhammad Cartoon" Controversy: Perspectives on Media, Religion, Law, and Culture Friday - 10:00 am-6:00 pm Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder Laury Silvers, Skidmore College Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University Tim Jensen, University of Southern Denmark Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, State University of New York, Buffalo Separate registration is required when you register for the Annual Meeting at www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/registration.asp, or return the form on page 25 of the Program Book. See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Pre-ConferenceWorkshops for details about the workshop. A17-7 North American Paul Tillich Society Friday - 11:30 am-1:15 pm Matthew Lon Weaver, Duluth, MN, Presiding Theme: Tillich and the Dialogue of Theology and Psychology John P. Dourley, Carleton University Tillich’s Dialogue with Psychology Britt-Mari Sykes, University of Ottawa Analyzing the Experiential Side of Sin: A Dialogue Between Paul Tillich and Existential Analysis Terry Cooper, St. Louis Community College District Tillich, Sin, and Psychotherapy: A Replay of the Pelagian Controversy A17-4 Women's Caucus Workshop Friday - 12:00 pm-3:00 pm Paula Trimble-Familetti, Chapman University, Harriet Luckman, College of Mount St. Joseph, and Laurie Wright Garry, Mount Saint Mary's College, Presiding Darnise Martin, Loyola Marymount University Dissertation and Publishing Strategies Elizabeth A. Say, California State University, Northridge Strategies for Women in the Academy Julie J. Kilmer, Olivet College Academic Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness: (Re)claiming the Rights of Liberal Educators Linda A. Moody, Mount St. Mary's College Preserving Academic Freedom in the Midst of "Calls to Accountability": Trends in Higher Education Beverley Haddad, University of KwaZulu-Natal The Gendered Face of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in South Africa Rebecca T. Alpert, Temple University Care of Self and Care of Others See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Pre-ConferenceWorkshops for details. A17-50 North American Association for the Study of Religion Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Egregious Elephants? Unexplained Oversights and Omissions in the Academic Study of Religion Bryan Rennie, Westminster College Iranian Eschatology and Middle Eastern Religion: Explaining the Relative Absence of the Zoroastrian Tradition from Mainstream Anglophone Biblical Religious Studies Greg Alles, McDaniel College Hindutva and History: On the Adverse Effects of Political Ideology on Writing the History of Hinduism Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University “Wild Facts”: Some Thoughts on Our Taming Neglect of F.W.H. Myers and Ian Stevenson Responding: Ivan Strenski, University of California, Riverside A17-53 Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Board Meeting Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A17-55 Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm 1:00 pm Business Meeting 2:00 pm Victor Shepherd, Tyndale Seminary, Toronto The Torrances and the Logic of the Reformation See www.tftorrance.org for more information. A17-52 Person, Culture and Religion Group Friday - 2:00 pm-6:30 pm 2:00-3:45 Book Panel: Lee H. Butler, Jr., Liberating Our Dignity, Saving Our Souls Mary Clark Moschella, Wesley Theological Seminary Linda E. Thomas, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago Arthur Pressley, Drew University Lee H. Butler, Jr., Chicago Theological Seminary 3:45-4:00 Coffee Break 4:00 Spirit and Psyche in a Washington, DC Art Collection 5:30-6:30 Experiential Workshop: John McDargh, Boston College Focusing (Based on the Work of Eugene Gendlin) -- A Resource for Therapy, Spiritual Direction, and Teaching A17-51 North American Paul Tillich Society Friday - 2:15 pm-4:00 pm Stephen Butler Murray, Skidmore College, Presiding Theme: On the Personal God: A Tillichian Conversation Robison James, University of Richmond and Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond Dealing with the “Personal Encounter Deficit” in Tillich Jean Richard, University of Laval The Personal God as Objectivation of Religious Experience A. Durwood Foster, Pacific School of Religion Tillich’s Two God-Models A17-54 Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality Friday - 3:00 pm-5:00 pm Theme: The Saint John’s Bible and Calligraphy as Spiritual Practice The Saint John’s Bible is the first major commissioned hand-written Bible in almost 500 years. All are invited to join Rev. Christopher Calderhead, scribe and author of Illuminating the Word: The Making of the Saint John’s Bible (http://calderhead.org) in viewing pages from the Bible, learning to make simple calligraphic strokes, and exploring the spiritual dimensions of the art of the scribe. Materials will be provided. For additional information, please contact Anita Houck at ahouck@saintmarys.edu. A17-105 North American Association for the Study of Religion Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Marie Eisenstein, Indiana University Northwest, Presiding Theme: Context: “Religion” as a Colonial and Postcolonial Category Tim Fitzgerald, University of Stirling Encompassing Religion, Privatized Religions, and the Invention of Modern Politics John Zavos, University of Manchester Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts: Comparing the 1893 and 2004 World Parliaments of Religions Jun Isomae, Japan Women’s University Critiquing Current Critiques of the Field of Religious Studies A17-106 North American Association for the Study of Religion: Working Group Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Current Directions in the Economic Study of Religion Speaker: Laurence Iannaccone, George Mason University Panelists: Steven Engler, Mount Royal College Anne Koch, University of Munich John Rundin, University of California, Davis Although audience members are welcome to attend, NAASR Working Groups provide opportunities for scholars interested in a common topic to pursue collaborative work. A17-110 Société Internationale D´Etudes Sur Alfred Loisy Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A17-111 Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Religious Self-Fashioning and the Role of Community in Contemporary Buddhist and Christian Practice Alice A. Keefe, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Presiding 4:00-4:25 Sandra Costen Kunz, Princeton Theological Seminary Christian and Buddhist Confession, Affiliation, and Countercultural Action 4:30-4:55 Gene Reeves, International Buddhist Congregation Hoza: The Dharma Teacher Chapter Embodied 5:00-5:15 Break 5:15-5:40 Duane R. Bidwell, Texas Christian University Practicing the Religious Self: Buddhist-Christian Identity as Social Artifact 5:45-6:05 Respondent: Sallie B. King, James Madison University 6:05-6:30 Open Discussion A17-107 North American Paul Tillich Society Friday - 4:15 pm-6:30 pm Rachel Sophia Baard, Villanova University, Presiding Theme: Issues Concerning God, Christ, and the Trinity in Tillich’s Theology Owen C. Thomas, Episcopal Divinity School Historical Criticism, Faith, and Christology: Tillich in Conversation Stephen Butler Murray, Skidmore College The Essential Place of the Knowledge of God and Acceptance of Revelation in Tillich’s Metaphysics of Divine Action Lars Heinemann, MLU Halle-Wittenberg Tillich’s Shift to Ultimate Meaning and the Origin of his Theory of Symbols (1919-1924): A Two-fold Argument against Exclusive Claims about the Absolute Chung-Hyun Baik, Graduate Theological Union Paul Tillich’s Trinity: Tension between Its Symbolic and Dialectical Characteristics under the Trinitarian Structure of System A17-113 Søren Kierkegaard Society Banquet Friday - 6:00 pm-10:00 pm Bistro D’Oc 518 10th St. NW 6:00 Social Hour 7:00 Banquet (Contact David Kangas at dkangas@mailer.fsu.edu) 8:00 Norman Lillegard, University of Tennessee, Martin Kierkegaard and Divine Motivation Theory A17-100 Arts Series/Films: Dawn of the Dead Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Rachel Wagner, Oregon State University, Presiding See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Films for details. A17-101 Arts Series/Films: Les Maîtres Fous Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Jens Kreinath, University of Heidelberg, Presiding See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Films for details. A17-102 International Connections Committee Meeting Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University, Presiding A17-103 EIS Center Orientation Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm Shelly C. Roberts, American Academy of Religion, Presiding See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Pre-ConferenceWorkshops for details. A17-108 North American Paul Tillich Society Banquet Friday - 7:00 pm-10:00 pm Speaker: William R. Crout, Harvard University, founder and curator of the Paul Tillich Lectures at Harvard University, Tillich’s Years at Harvard A17-112 Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality Friday - 7:00 pm-10:00 pm Theme: Teaching Christian Spirituality: The Introductory Course A workshop with brief presentations on pedagogy and sample syllabi from introductions framed for doctoral, seminary, and undergraduate contexts, followed by small group discussions. All interested persons are welcome to participate. Joseph Driskill, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding Panelists: Arthur Holder, Graduate Theological Union Lisa Dahill, Trinity Lutheran Seminary Heather Eaton, St. Paul University, Ottawa A light reception will follow. For additional information, contact Anita Houck at ahouck@saintmarys.edu. A17-104 AAR Program Unit Chairs and Steering Committee Members' Reception Friday - 8:30 pm-11:00 pm John R. Fitzmier, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Program unit chairs and steering committee members are invited to a reception in their honor hosted by the Program Committee. A17-109 Polanyi Society Friday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm 9:00 Walter Mead, Illinois State University A Polanyian Resolution of the Age-old Conflict between Faith and Reason 10:00 Tony Clark, University of St Andrews Torrance, Polanyi, and Imaginative Vision A18-36 North American Association for the Study of Religion Saturday - 7:00 am-8:30 am Information Session: The 2010 World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) Donald Wiebe, Director of the International Congress Secretariat, Presiding A18-38 North American Paul Tillich Society Board of Directors Meeting Saturday - 7:00 am-8:30 am A18-1 Academic Relations Committee Meeting Saturday - 7:30 am-9:00 am Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College, Presiding A18-2 International Members' Breakfast Saturday - 7:30 am-9:00 am Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University, Presiding A18-3 Regional Officers Breakfast Saturday - 7:30 am-8:45 am Jacqueline Pastis, La Salle University, Presiding A18-4 Theological Education Steering Committee Meeting Saturday - 7:30 am-9:00 am John Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University, Presiding A20-118 SWP breakfast meeting with Gender Program Unit chairs (AAR and SBL) Saturday - 7:30 am-8:45 am A18-5 Student Liaison Group Annual Business Meeting Saturday - 7:45 am-9:00 am Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College, Presiding A18-6 Publications Committee Meeting Saturday - 7:45 am-11:30 am Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University, Presiding A18-7 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Graduate Student Committee Melissa Johnston-Barrett, Emory University, Presiding Theme: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the On-Campus Interview Panelists: Rachel A. R. Bundang, Santa Clara University Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Emory University Jennifer Harvey, Drake University F. Douglas Powe, Saint Paul School of Theology Timothy M. Renick, Georgia State University See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A18-8 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Fran Grace, University of Redlands, Presiding Theme: "When You See the Teacher on the Road, Kill Him": Contemplative Practice as Pedagogy Judith Simmer-Brown, Naropa University The Question Is the Answer: Contemplative Education at Naropa University Ramdas Lamb, University of Hawaii, Manoa A Practical Approach to Mysticism Andrew O. Fort, Texas Christian University Contemplative Exercises in an Undergraduate Buddhism Course Stanford J. Searl, Union Institute Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Silence and Social Action Richard M. Carp, Appalachian State University Contemplation in Creativity and Inspiration A18-9 Buddhism Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Karen Derris, University of Redlands, Presiding Theme: Omnibus Panel: Critical Perspectives on Interpreting Buddhist Texts and Traditions Mark Dennis, University of Wisconsin Transdiscursivity: Japan’s Shōtoku Taishi as “Author” of Buddhist Texts and Tradition Tao Jin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Alternate Ways of Categorizing Buddhist Doctrinal Systems: The Textual Organization of Qixinlun in Commentaries Mark L. Blum, State University of New York, Albany Jodoshinshu’s Two-Truth Theory and the Politics of Religion in Meiji Japan Jiang Wu, University of Arizona Literatis' Interpretations of the Suramgama Sutra in Seventeenth-Century China Andrew H. Quintman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Keeping Milarepa in Mind: Tibetan Biography as Autobiographical Revelation A18-10 Christian Systematic Theology Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Joy McDougall, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Economies of Hope: Confronting Globalization Timothy Harvie, University of Aberdeen Economics of Hope: Church Life in a Global Era Luke Bretherton, King's College, London Consumerism, Personhood, and Christian Political Witness Paul D. Murray, University of Durham Redeeming Catholicity for a Globalizing Age: The Sacramentality of the Church David Haddorff, Saint John's University Why Barth Makes a Difference in the Globalization Debate A18-11 Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Religion in South Asia Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am John Hawley, Barnard College, Presiding Theme: Powerful Objects: Materiality and Metonymy in Four Religious Communities Andrea Pinkney, Columbia University Form from Plenitude: Prasāda in Classical Sanskrit Literature Anne Murphy, The New School The Guru's Weapons Carla Bellamy, Columbia University Got Lobān? Effacement, Abundance, and the Cross-Tradition Appeal of Indian Islamic Healing Centers Anya (Anna) Bernstein, New York University Food for the Gods: The Matter of Sacrifice among the Shamans and Buddhists of Buryatia Responding: Richard H. Davis, Bard College A18-12 Ethics Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, Political Research Associates, Presiding Theme: Evangelical Initiatives/Women's Bodies Lucinda J. Peach, American University Globalizing "The Word": The Influence of Faith-based Organizations on US Anti-sex Trafficking Policy Lynne Gerber, Graduate Theological Union Desire and "Health": Making Bodily Change in Two Evangelical Ministries Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand, University of California, Santa Barbara Lobbying for Abstinence: Gender, Race, and the Politics Surrounding the HPV Vaccine Responding: Pam Chamberlain, Political Research Associates A18-13 History of Christianity Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Euan Cameron, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Author Meets Critics: Review of Lyndal Roper's Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany (Yale University Press, 2004) Panelists: H.C. Erik Midelfort, University of Virginia Susan Karant-Nunn, University of Arizona Walter Stephens, Johns Hopkins University Responding: Lyndal Roper, Oxford University Business Meeting: Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University, Presiding Nathan Baruch Rein, Ursinus College, Presiding A18-14 North American Religions Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am John Corrigan, Florida State University, Presiding Theme: The Washington, DC Mall: Living Civil Religion or Museum Artifact? Elizabeth McKeown, Georgetown University Religion on the Mall Eric Mazur, Bucknell University Washington, DC: Sacred Capital on the Banks of the Potomac Responding: John F. Wilson, Princeton University Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College Sylvester Johnson, Indiana University, Bloomington A18-15 Philosophy of Religion Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles and University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: Paul Ricoeur and the Philosophy of Religion I Ronald Kuipers, Institute for Christian Studies Between Belonging and Estrangement: Paul Ricoeur and Jürgen Habermas on the Question of Religious Identity and Tradition in a Post-Secular World Jennifer L. Geddes, University of Virginia Ricoeur, Levinas, and the Problem of Suffering Dan Stiver, Hardin-Simmons University An Odyssey of Interpretation: Ricoeur's Latest Works Diane M. Yeager, Georgetown University From Verdict to Voice: Ricoeur's Reconstruction of Conscience A18-16 Women and Religion Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: Dorothee Sölle Retrospectives Ann Herpel, Union Theological Seminary, New York “How Do We Live Whole Lives in the Midst of a Death Machine?”: Dorothee Sölle and the Empire of Full Spectrum Dominance Dianne L. Oliver, University of Evansville "Bound into the Web of Life": Remembering Dorothee Sölle’s Mystical-Political Vision of God through the World Denise Starkey, Loyola University, Chicago Confronting, Consoling, Contemplating: Dorothee Sölle's Theology of Suffering Sumi Jeung, University of Toronto Dorothee Sölle Retrospective: Significance of Theology of Suffering for Women’s Spirituality Krishana Suckau, Boston University Becoming a Drop in the Sea of God's Love: The Radical Christianity of Dorothee Sölle A18-17 Afro-American Religious History Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Debra Mubashshir Majeed, Beloit College, Presiding Theme: Variegated Faces: Non-traditional Histories of Black Islam Malachi Crawford, University of Missouri, Columbia Fashioning a Religion: Domestic Workers and the Lost Found Nation of Islam (1933-1942) Paul Easterling, Rice Universtiy Moorish Magic and Noble Drew Ali’s Temple of Hip Hop: Hip Hop Music and the Legacy of Black Nationalism in America Michael Muhammad Knight, Phelps, NY Death-Angels and Muslim Sons: The Question of White Five Percenters Responding: Edward E. Curtis, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis A18-18 Confucian Traditions Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Vivian-Lee Nyitray, University of California, Riverside, Presiding Theme: The Religious Status of Confucianism Joseph Adler, Kenyon College Confucianism as Religion/ Religious Tradition/ Neither: Still Hazy after All These Years Edward Y. J. Chung, University of Prince Edward Island Confucian Li and Family Spirituality: Reflections on the Contemporary Korean Tradition of Ancestral Rites John Tucker, East Carolina University The Metaphysics of Ancestor Worship in Early-Modern Japan Yong Chen, Vanderbilt University The Latest Development of the Controversy on Confucian Religiosity Anna Xiao Dong Sun, Kenyon College Is Confucianism a Religion in China? Intellectual Controversies and a Preliminary Ethnographic Study Responding: Thomas Selover, University of Saskatchewan A18-19 Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Shelly Rambo, Boston Universtiy, Presiding Theme: Beyond Binaries: New Feminist Perspectives on Christian Themes Wesley Barker, Emory University Sexual Ethics beyond Sexual Difference Amy Carr, Western Illinois University The Hairball We Cannot Swallow: Religious Readings of "Feeling Dirty" in Victimization Flora A. Keshgegian, Brown University Power Plays: Victimization, Innocence, and Agency in Christian Narratives of Redemption Elizabeth Gish and Sarah Peck, Harvard University On the Altar: The Vagina Monologues as a Site for Ritualized Liberatory Narrative Business Meeting: Rosemary P. Carbine, College of the Holy Cross, Presiding A18-20 Japanese Religions Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am James L. Ford, Wake Forest University, Presiding Theme: Japanese Religiosity from Tokugawa to the Present James Baskind, Yale University Mortification Practices in the Japanese Ōbaku School Wilburn Hansen, Stanford University A Japanese Nativist Healing Debate: Magic vs. Medicine Gaynor Sekimori, University of Tokyo The Revival of Nikko Shugendo Mark Wheeler MacWilliams, St. Lawrence University Manga as Living Visual Narratives in Kōfuku no Kagaku Responding: Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Business Meeting: Paula K. R. Arai, Carleton College, Presiding A18-21 Korean Religions Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sungtaek Cho, Korea University, Presiding Theme: Aesthetics and Social Context in Korean Religions Today Jung Myung Won Raymond, Graduate Theological Union Iconoclasm, Cultural Space, and Aesthetics: From Fear to Celebration, Focusing on Contemporary Cases in Korea Iconoclasm, Cultural Space, and Aesthetics: From Fear to Celebration, Focusing on Contemporary Cases in Korea Hyangsoon Yi, University of Georgia Buddhism, Orientalism, and Zen Ethnography in Korean Cinema Volker Kuester, Kampen Theological University Minjung Theology Revisited: Christian Religion in the Context of Socio-cultural Changes in South Korea Michael Ralston, Fort Meade, MD What Do Unbelievers Believe? Responding: William R. LaFleur, University of Pennsylvania Don Baker, University of British Columbia Business Meeting: John I. Goulde, Sweet Briar College, Presiding A18-22 New Religious Movements Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Douglas E. Cowan, University of Waterloo, Presiding Theme: Theorizing New Religions: Looking Backward, Looking Forward Jeremy Rapport, Indiana University, Bloomington Discourses of Difference: Examining the Unity School of Christianity as a New Religious Movement David Bromley and Rachel Bobbitt, Virginia Commonwealth University Resistance to Charismatic Authority Marie W. Dallam, Temple University The Problem of Ideal Typologies for the Study of Liminal Religious Groups Lorne Dawson, University of Waterloo New Religion Studies — Whither and Why? A18-23 Nineteenth-Century Theology Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Daniel Hardy, University of Cambridge, Presiding Theme: Contributions of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Major Concerns of the Nineteenth Century Liberty Stewart, Emory University Coleridge's Dynamic Construction of Consciousness as the Promotion of a Philosophical Position and a Moral Disposition Joel Harter, University of Chicago Defending Spirit: Symbol and History in Coleridge’s Theological Hermeneutics Jeffrey W. Barbeau, Oral Roberts University Coleridge, Christology, and the Language of Redemption Pamela Edwards, Syracuse University An English Church for a British Nation: Coleridge’s Ideas of Common Law, Customary Right, and Cultural Memory The annual business meeting of the Nineteenth-Century Theology Group will be held Sunday, 7:00-8:30 am, in the Program Unit Chairs' Lounge. Bring your own breakfast. A18-24 Religion and Disability Studies Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Nadia Bolz-Weber, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Theme: Deaf Culture and Religion Meredith Filiatreault, Gallaudet University Sacred Signs: Religion among America's Founding Deaf Community Kirk VanGilder, Boston University A Journey to the Promised Land: Examining Quasi-Religious Metaphors in Deaf Cultures in Relation to Gallaudet University Elizabeth Parish, Baylor University Christianity and Deaf Culture: Philosophical and Social Issues — A Consideration of the Apparent Conflict between Christianity and Deaf Culture Responding: Rebecca Raphael, Texas State University Business Meeting: Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding A18-25 Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding Theme: Africa in Latin America and the Caribbean Shelley Wiley, Morningside College Understanding Haitian Vodou through Marvelous Realism: Avoiding Postcolonial Eurocentrism Michelle A. Gonzalez, University of Miami Race, Religion, and Identity: The Afro-Cuban Contribution Alice Wood, Bethune-Cookman College Misunderstanding African Healing Practices in the Dominican Infirmary: A New Look at St. Martin de Porres Ennis B. Edmonds, Kenyon College Religious Transition in the Periphery: The Case of Revivalism in Fort Charles, a Rural Community in Jamaica Responding: Miguel A. De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology A18-26 Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Suzanne J. Crawford, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding Theme: Healing Movement: Techniques, Philosophies, and Implications for Healing and Religion Marcy Braverman-Goldstein, University of Judaism Avoiding and Inviting Madness in Hindu Traditions Candy Gunther Brown, Saint Louis University Adjusting Body and Spirit: The Science, Art, and Philosophy of Chiropractic Manipulations Dennis Kelley, Iowa State University Spiritual Healing through Physical Practice, Physical Healing through Spiritual Practice: Native American Canoe Traditions and Community Health Elijah Siegler, College of Charleston Taiji in America: From Healing Technique to Religious Practice and Back Again John T. Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara Falun Gong: Exercises for Perfect Health and Enlightenment Business Meeting: Linda L. Barnes, Boston University, Presiding A18-27 Roman Catholic Studies Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Daniel Speed Thompson, Saint Mary's University, Presiding Theme: Catholicism and Sex Nancy Dallavalle, Fairfield University Is Abortion the New Hubris? Recent Catholic Anthropology, Gender, and Public Policy Gerard Jacobitz, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia Intrinsically Homosexual: The Vatican’s New Instruction on Gays in the Priesthood in the Context of a Living Tradition Stefanie Knauss, Karl-Franzens University Celluloid Sex: Filmic Contributions to a Theological Discourse on Sexuality Brenna Moore, Harvard University Grief and Sexual Symbolism in Early Twentieth Century French Catholic Thought Business Meeting: Jeffrey Marlett, College of Saint Rose, Presiding Vincent J. Miller, Georgetown University, Presiding A18-28 Science, Technology, and Religion Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Ted Peters, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Stem Cells: The Scientific Frontier and the Ethical Debate Panelists: Gaymon L. Bennett, Graduate Theological Union Karen Lebacqz, Pacific School of Religion Martinez Hewlett, University of Arizona Audrey R. Chapman, American Association for the Advancement of Science Lisa Fullam, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University Munawar Ahmad Anees, Periodica Islamica A18-29 Biblical/Contextual Ethics Consultation Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Thomas W. Ogletree, Yale University, Presiding Theme: Scriptural/Ethical Reflections on the Use of Political Power Ted Grimsrud, Eastern Mennonite University Revealing a New World: Power According to Biblical Apocalyptic Betsy Perabo, Western Illinois University The Arrest of Jesus and the Use of the Sword: Critiques of Power Used By and Against Authorities Tam Parker, University of the South Blast with Both Barrels: Dualism and Essentialism in the Use of Scriptural Warrants for Political Ends Pong Im, Graduate Theological Union Ban(herem), Genocide, and Tribalism: A Historical and Socio-Cultural Investigation of Amalek in the Old Testament Business Meeting: Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding Thomas W. Ogletree, Yale University, Presiding A18-30 Contemporary Islam Consultation Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Richard C. Martin, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Islamist Discourses and Issues Rosalind Gwynne, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Abdullah Azzam on Sura 9: From Tafsir to Takfir to Tirade Raquel Ukeles, Fairfield University Does Islam Value or Reject Innovation? Qaradāwī’s “Modern” Interpretation of Bid‘ah Elizabeth Bucar, University of Chicago Good Hejab, Bad Hejab: Khomeini and Women’s Imperfect Obedience in Iran Mark J. Sedgwick, American University, Cairo Hanifi Traditionalism: An Alternative to Salafism in Chechnya Jacquelene Brinton, University of Virginia The Role of Islamist Rhetoric in the Perpetuation of Violence against Muslims: The Case of Hassan al-Turabi and Genocide in Sudan Responding: Kevin Jaques, Indiana University, Bloomington Business Meeting: Richard C. Martin, Emory University, Presiding A18-31 Religion, Media, and Culture Consultation Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Gordon Lynch, University of Birmingham, Presiding Theme: Wrestling with Method: Case Studies in Religion, Media, and Culture Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Catholic University of America A New Mediation of an Old Art: Documentary Film as Memento Mori Curtis Coats, University of Colorado, Boulder Media and Religion in the Making of Identities of Masculinity, Fatherhood, and Vocation Matthew Hedstrom, Valparaiso University Poster Art and the Promotion of Religious Reading in America, 1921-1948: Constructing a Visual Piety of the Printed Word Lynn S. Neal, Appalachian State University “I Know There Is Wrestling in Heaven”: Eddie Guerrero, Wrestling Fans, and the Transformation of Mourning Responding: Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto Business Meeting: Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding Michele Rosenthal, University of Haifa, Presiding A18-37 North American Association for the Study of Religion Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: A Conversation with Daniel C. Dennett’s Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Catholic University, Presiding Panelists: Luther Martin, University of Vermont Matthew Day, Florida State University D. Jason Slone, Webster University Donald Wiebe, University of Trinity College A18-40 Person, Culture and Religion Group Saturday - 9:00 am-12:00 pm 9:00 Works in progress – New scholars welcome! 10:00 Theme: Embodied Religious Practices in Psychological Perspective: Part I Kathleen Bishop, Madison, NJ This is My Body: Interplay of Personal Symptom and Public Symbol in Eucharistic Practice Dirk Lang, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia The Return of the Body in Eucharistic Practice: Psychoanalysis and the Disruption of Ritual 11:30 Business Meeting A18-41 Polanyi Society Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jere Moorman, Polanyi Society, Presiding 9:00 Blythe Clinchy, Wellesley College Epistemological Development as the Aim of Education: A Polanyian Perspective Respondents: Dale Cannon, Western Oregon University Esther Meek, Geneva College Zhenhua Yu, East China Normal University 11:15 Business Meeting Walter Gulick, Presiding A18-42 International Schleiermacher Society Saturday - 9:00 am-12:00 pm Theme: Schleiermacher, Religion, and Politics 9:00 Review of Schleiermacher’s Political Activities and gathering questions for Sen. Salazar 9:30 Conversation with Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) about Religion and Politics with both prearranged questions and questions from the floor 10:00 Schleiermacher in the Culture Wars a paper by Theodore Vial, Iliff School of Theology 10:45 – 12:00 Roundtable Discussion Religion and Politics Today: Can Schleiermacher Help Us Make Sense of What’s Going on Today? Is Schleiermacher’s legacy part of the problem as well as part of the solution to our current political malaise? Was Karl Barth, as one of Schleiermacher’s most influential twentieth-century critics, right when noting that Schleiermacher put culture where it did not belong? He brought cultural concerns into the “innermost sanctuary [of] his theology.” Did Schleiermacher also bring political concerns into this innermost sanctuary? “Is Schleiermacher’s theologically grounded politics an appropriate or a dangerous model for 21st century democracies?” Join in the discussion. You are also invited to write a 500-word essay (maximum length) delineating your position on this topic. Bring copies for distribution. For additional information and receipt of the papers (after October 1) contact: Cathie Kelsey, ckelsey@iliff.edu. A18-43 Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Religious Self-Fashioning and the Role of Community in Contemporary Buddhist and Christian Practice Harry Wells, Humboldt State University, Presiding 9:00-9:25 Kenneth K. Tanaka, Musashino University The Individual in Relation to the Sangha in American Buddhism: An Examination of “Individualized Religion” 9:30-9:55 Joseph A. Bracken, Xavier University Dependent Co-Origination and Universal Intersubjectivity 10:00-10:25 Open Discussion 10:30-10:55 Jonas Barciauskas, Boston College The Buddhist-Christian Studies Database: A Web-Searchable Resource 11:00-11:30 Business Meeting A18-45 Søren Kierkegaard Society Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Living Christianly: Kierkegaard's Dialectic of Christian Existence, by Sylvia Walsh (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005). Louise Carroll Keeley, Assumption College, Presiding Panelists: Lee Barrett, Lancaster Theological Seminary Andrew Burgess, University of New Mexico David Gouwens, Texas Christian University Respondent: Sylvia Walsh, Stetson University For more information contact Louise Carroll Keeley at lkeeley@assumption.edu. A18-46 Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality: Presidential Address and Business Meeting Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am 9:00 Presidential Address: David B. Perrin, St. Paul University The Uneasy Relationship Between Christian Spirituality and the Human Sciences: Psychology as a Test Case 10:30 Business Meeting: Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard University, Presiding All are welcome. For additional information, please contact Anita Houck at ahouck@saintmarys.edu. A18-47 Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am A18-32 Tour of “African Voices” Exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History Saturday - 9:30 am-12:00 pm Sponsored by the Arts, Literature, and Religion Section, African Religions Group, and Anthropology of Religion Group Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton, University of Virginia, Presiding Tour is sold out. See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#ArtsSeriesandTours for details. A18-33 National Museum of the American Indian Tour Saturday - 9:30 am-12:00 pm Sponsored by the Native Traditions in the Americas Group Tour is sold out. See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#ArtsSeriesandTours for details. A18-34 Plenary Address Saturday - 11:45 am-1:00 pm Diana L. Eck, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Karen Armstrong -- Religion after September 11 Panelists: Karen Armstrong, Birmingham, UK See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#PlenaryandPresidentialAddresses for details. A18-35 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 11:45 am-1:00 pm Sponsored by the Graduate Student Committee and American Theological Library Association Kimberly Bresler, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: ATLA Career Alternatives Luncheon for Doctoral Students in Religion and Theology Panelists: James McDonald, Bread for the World James P. Wind, Alban Institute Lucinda Huffaker, Wabash Center Separate registration is required. See www.aarweb.org/students for more information. A18-39 North American Paul Tillich Society Annual Business Meeting Saturday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm A18-44 North American Association for the Study of Religion: Business Meeting Saturday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm A18-50 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Diana L. Eck, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Roundtable Discussion on HIV/AIDS in Africa with Dr. Pauline Muchina, UNAIDS Senior Women and AIDS Advocacy Officer Pauline Muchina, UNAIDS Panelists: James R. Cochrane, University of Cape Town Musa Dube, University of Botswana Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University Margaret Farley, Yale University A18-51 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee Colleen McDannell, University of Utah, Presiding Theme: Reporting on Religion from the Nation's Capital Panelists: Kimberly Lawton, Religion & Ethics, NewsWeekly Larry Witham, Washington, DC Alan Cooperman, Washington Post Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A18-52 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section and Ritual Studies Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State University, Presiding Theme: Teaching Ritual: What We Learn Panelists: Catherine Bell, Santa Clara University Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University David Pinault, Santa Clara University Richard Schechner, New York University Business Meeting: Donna Lynne Seamone, Acadia University, Presiding A18-53 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and Religion in South Asia Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Rachel Fell McDermott, Barnard College, Presiding Theme: Popular Devotional Art in Modern India Kathryn Hansen, University of Texas "Mythologicals" and Devotion: Betab's Mahabharata in the Parsi Theatre Karline McLain, Bucknell University Radiating a Spiritual Force: Indian Comic Books as Devotional Art Susan Prill, Hamilton College Representing Namdev in Punjabi Poster Art Richard H. Davis, Bard College Temple in a Frame Natalie Marsh, Ohio State University Digital Deities, Online Puja, and Virtual Pilgrimage: An Ongian Reading Responding: Stephen Inglis, Canadian Museum of Civilization A18-54 Ethics Section and Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Marcia Bunge, Valparaiso University, Presiding Theme: Children's Rights and Responsibilities: Interfaith Perspectives Don S. Browning, University of Chicago Should the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Be Ratified and Why? Mary M. Doyle Roche, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA Children's Rights and the Common Good in Catholic Social Teaching Zayn Kassam, Pomona College Muslim Children: Problematics and Prospects in Light of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child John Wall, Rutgers University Human Rights in Light of Children: A Christian Childist Perspective Responding: Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Georgetown University A18-55 Study of Islam Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Valerie Hoffman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Presiding Theme: Patterns of Religious Authority and Reform among African Muslims Scott Reese, Northern Arizona University Debating the Equality of Souls: Social Status, Religious Authority, and Sufi Hagiography in Italian Colonial Somalia Ruediger Seesemann, Northwestern University Between Tradition and Reform: The Hadhrami Model of Islamic Learning and Religious Authority in Contemporary Kenya Ousman Kobo, Gettysburg College Western Educated Muslim Elites and the Development of Ahl al-Sunna Reform Movements in Ghana and Burkina Faso, 1960-1990 Zakyi Ibrahim, University of Winnipeg Some Sociological Aspects of Dan Fodio's Nineteenth-Century Reforms Shobana Shankar, Lafayette College Popular Revival as Political Reform: The Northern Nigerian Ideal of Islam in a Corrupt Society Responding: Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University A18-56 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Susan Abraham, St. Bonaventure University, Presiding Theme: Empire and the Other Thomas Bohache, Episcopal Divinity School Empire Meets Eros: A Queer (De)Construction Namsoon Kang, Texas Christian University Empire(s), Religious Fundamentalism, and Religious Construction of Gender Jan Pranger, Concordia College, Moorhead Kraemer vs. Kraemer: Empire and the Construction of Religious “Others” in the Dutch Theological Tradition Margaret D. Kamitsuka, Oberlin College Foucault and Empire: A Poststructuralist Model for Doing Feminist Theology in a Postcolonial Age A18-57 Women and Religion Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Letty M. Russell, Yale University, Presiding Theme: Hagar, Sarah, and Their Children: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Women in Dialogue Panelists: Judith R. Baskin, University of Oregon Francine Cardman, Weston Jesuit Theological School Amina Wadud, Virginia Commonwealth University Emilie M. Townes, Yale University Responding: Phyllis Trible, Wake Forest University A18-58 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Anne Joh, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Asian/Asian American Women Negotiating Power and Authority Min-Ah Cho, Emory University Religion beneath Mother Tongues: Religious Practice and the Act of Writing in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee Nikky Singh, Colby College Feticide in the Punjab and Fetus Imagery in Sikhism Karen Yonemoto, University of Southern California Progressive Politics, Conservative Practices: Re-thinking Gender in Asian American Church K. Christine Pae, Union Theological Seminary, New York Gender as an Analytical Tool of "Sin and Redemption": Women, Religious Fundamentalism, and Homosexuality in the Asian Pacific American Community Responding: Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University A18-59 Augustine and Augustinianisms Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Robert P. Kennedy, St. Francis Xavier University and Kim Paffenroth, Iona College, Presiding Theme: Augustine and Biography/Augustine and the Holy Spirit Felix B. Asiedu, Middlebury College In the Company of Augustine: The Postmodern Self and the Unauthorized Life of a Saint Jane E. Merdinger, Greenbelt, MD A Critique of O’Donnell’s Augustine (2005) and Lancel’s Saint Augustine (2002) Dennis W. Jowers, Faith Seminary The Unction of Christ with the Holy Spirit as a Difficulty for Augustine's Pneumatology Aage Rydstrom-Poulsen, University of Greenland Augustine's Pneumatological Theology of Grace Business Meeting: Kim Paffenroth, Iona College, Presiding A18-60 Black Theology Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Alton B. Pollard, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Looking for the Way Forward: Black Church Studies and the African Diaspora Panelists: Cecil Cone, African Methodist Episcopal Church Emmanuel Lartey, Emory University Jawanza Clark, Emory University Stephanie Y. Mitchem, University of South Carolina Marcus Harvey, Emory University Juan Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University Business Meeting: Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University, Presiding Stephen G. Ray, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Presiding A18-61 Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Christiane Tietz, University of Tuebingen, Presiding Theme: Bonhoeffer Ethics: A New Edition Nancy Berlinger, The Hastings Center Bonhoeffer’s Conscience Clauses: Ethics and the Ethics of Refusal Christine Schliesser, Fuller Theological Seminary and Tuebingen University “Nobody Can Altogether Escape Responsibility” – Bonhoeffer’s Call for a Responsible Life in His Ethics Ralf Wuestenberg, Freie Universität, Berlin Promoting a Genuine Dialogue between Religion and Politics: Bonhoeffer's Ethical Distinction between the "Ultimate and the Penultimate Things" LeRoy Walters, Georgetown University Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Critique of Nazi "Euthanasia" as Reflected in His Ethics, Two Letters, and a Sermon A18-62 Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm New Program Unit Judith Simmer-Brown, Naropa University, Presiding Theme: Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection: Theoretical Concerns and Practical Applications John J. Makransky, Boston College Academic Buddhist Studies as a Resource for Buddhist Communities: Problematics and Possibilities James Mark Shields, Bucknell University Vexing Weber: Critical Buddhist Scholarship as a Vocation Sallie B. King, James Madison University An Engaged Buddhist Response to John Rawls' The Law of Peoples Dennis Hirota, Ryukoku University Toward a Pure Land Buddhist Conception of Truth: Shinran’s Jinen Honi in Comparison with Heidegger’s Essence of Truth Business Meeting: Roger Jackson, Carleton College, Presiding John J. Makransky, Boston College, Presiding A18-63 Comparative Religious Ethics Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm New Program Unit William A. Barbieri, Catholic University of America, Presiding Theme: Authority, Justice, and Compassion in Comparative Perspective Elizabeth Bucar, University of Chicago Beyond Bully Pulpits: The Persuasiveness of Clerical Authority Betsy Perabo, Western Illinois University The Fatwa and the Epistle: Genres of Consultation and Advice-Giving in Christianity and Islam Erin Cline, University of Oregon Comparing Senses of Justice: Kongzi, Rawls, and the Nature of Comparative Ethics Amod Lele, Harvard University The Role of External Goods in Benevolence and Compassion: Applying Śāntideva's Thought to the Work of Martha Nussbaum Responding: Mark Allen Berkson, Hamline University Business Meeting: Aaron D. Stalnaker, Indiana University, Bloomington, Presiding A18-64 Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Donald S. Lopez, University of Michigan, Presiding Theme: Religion through the Senses Kerry Martin Skora, Hiram College Embraced by Being: Abhinavagupta's Recovery of the Sense of Touch Holly Gayley, Harvard University Soteriology of the Senses in Tibetan Buddhism Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Brown University Why the Smells Matter: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination Responding: Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto Business Meeting: Steven Engler, Mount Royal College and Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Presiding A18-65 Ecclesiological Investigations Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm New Program Unit Michael A. Fahey, Boston College, Presiding Theme: The Nature and Mission of the Church: Ecclesial Reality and Ecumenical Horizons for the Twenty-First Century Paul Collins, University of Chichester The Nature and Mission of the Church Communion: God, Creation, and Church Peter De Mey, Catholic University of Leuven How to Express the Link between the Church and the Holy Trinity in a Common Ecumenical Discourse? An Analysis of Recent Ecumenical Documents on the Nature of the Church Risto Saarinen, University of Helsinki Called to be the One Church? The Unity Statements of the WCC and Their Reception in the Document "The Nature and Mission of the Church" Wolfgang Vondey, Regent University Pentecostal Perspectives on The Nature and Mission of the Church Korinna Zamfir, Babes-Bolyai University Is There a Future for the Catholic-Protestant Ecclesiological Dialogue? The Non-reception and a Challenge for Ecumenical Dialogue Bradford E. Hinze, Fordham University Are Councils and Synods Decision Making? A Roman Catholic Conundrum in Ecumenical Perspective Panelists: Fr K. M. George, Orthodox Seminary, India A18-66 Indigenous Religious Traditions Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jacob K. Olupona, University of California, Davis, Presiding Theme: Indigenous Religion and Modernity Michael Zogry, University of Kansas, Lawrence “I Hope We Can Civilize Them before They Hurt Themselves”: Assessing the Legacy of Vine Deloria, Jr. Dennis Kelley, University of Missouri, Columbia Ancient Traditions, Modern Constructions: Innovation, Continuity, and Spirituality on the Pow Wow Trail Inez van der Spek, Dominican Centre for Theology and Society, Nijmegen Old Photos, New Connections: Mirroring Western and African Religion Responding: Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University A18-67 Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Marilyn Piety, Drexel University, Presiding Theme: Kierkegaard and the Spiritual Life Paul Carron, Baylor University Is Hope Located in Future Possibility or in Dying to the Self? Towards a Kierkegaardian Conception of Spiritual Therapy Olli-Pekka Vainio, University of Helsinki Kierkegaard's Eucharistic Spirituality Joseph Ballan, Syracuse University The Beatitude of Defeat: Anfechtung, Humility, and Prayer in Four Upbuilding Discourses (1844) Stephen N. Dunning, University of Pennsylvania Education's Pious Fraud: Kierkegaard's Pedagogy Responding: Brian C. Barlow, Brenau University Business Meeting: Marilyn Piety, Drexel University, Presiding A18-68 Men's Studies in Religion Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm David James Livingston, Mercyhurst College, Presiding Theme: Issues in Men's Studies in Religion Greg Ellis, Moravian Theological Seminary Theology for Non Elite Males Ellen M. Ross, Swarthmore College Men As Peacemakers: Courage and the Practice of Nonviolence Andre Musskopf, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil Ungraceful God: Masculinity and the Images of God in Popular Culture in Brazil Responding: Mark Justad, Vanderbilt University Business Meeting: David James Livingston, Mercyhurst College, Presiding Mark Justad, Vanderbilt University, Presiding A18-69 Mysticism Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm June McDaniel, College of Charleston, Presiding Theme: Mystical Asceticism and Extreme Experience Michelle Voss Roberts, Rhodes College “The Body Gains Its Share": The Asceticism of Mechthild of Magdeburg Lise Vail, Montclair State University Shiva's Pain Protocol in Basava's Vacana Poetry Charlotte Radler, Loyola Marymount University Astonishing Pain: Mystical Suffering in Christina Mirabilis Megan Summers, University of Georgia Pain and Pleasure: Body Modification and Spiritual Experience Business Meeting: Neil Douglas-Klotz, Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning, Presiding A18-70 Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University, Presiding Theme: Methodological and Theoretical Issues Alva Anderson, Wofford College Eight Is Not Enough: A Pragmatic Response to Daniel Pals' Theories Stephen Bush, Princeton University Religious Experience after the Phenomenology of Religion: The Semantics of Religious Experience Reports Jason Springs, Princeton University Re-reading Foucault on Power: Fraser, Brandom, and Rorty on the Politics of Self-creation Responding: Wayne Proudfoot, Columbia University A18-71 Signifying (on) Scriptures Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Setting the Agenda: Vincent L. Wimbush, Claremont Graduate University Leif Vaage, Emmanuel College, Presiding Theme: Scriptures and Race, Roundtable Discussion 1 Panelists: Angela Bauer-Levesque, Episcopal Divinity School Elom Dovlo, University of Ghana, Legon Charles Hallisey, University of Wisconsin, Madison Sylvester Johnson, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Shawn Kelley, Daemen College Tat-siong Benny Liew, Pacific School of Religion Gay Byron, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School A18-72 Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Tyler T. Roberts, Grinnell College, Presiding Theme: New Directions in Theology and Continental Philosophy Torin Alexander, Rice University A Certeauvian Analysis of African American Religion Christopher C. Brittain, Atlantic School of Theology Belief and Practice in Talal Asad’s “De-privatization” of Religion Matthew Hagele, Florida State University Jean-Luc Nancy and the Lineage of Spinoza Responding: Eric Boynton, Allegheny College A18-73 Wesleyan Studies Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sarah Heaner Lancaster, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Presiding Theme: Challenges to the Church Douglas Cullum, Roberts Wesleyan College Fanatical Women: The Struggle toward Public Ministry in the Early Free Methodist Church Joseph T. Reiff, Emory and Henry College A Conference in Cultural Captivity: White Mississippi Methodists and the 1963 "Born of Conviction" Statement Darryl Stephens, Emory University “We, the People...”: The US Cultural Commitments of the United Methodist Social Principles as a Challenge to Global Connection Business Meeting: K. Steve McCormick, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Presiding A18-74 Religions in Chinese and Indian Cultures: A Comparative Perspective Seminar Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm New Program Unit Tao Jiang, Rutgers University, Presiding Theme: The Buddhist Transformation of Chinese Conceptions of Freedom and Salvation Parimal G. Patil, Harvard University Genres of Buddhist Salvation in Classical India Michael Puett, Harvard University Freedom and Salvation in Early China Robert Campany, Indiana University, Bloomington Buddhist Impact on Chinese Conceptions of Freedom and Salvation? Business Meeting: Tao Jiang, Rutgers University, Presiding A18-75 Contemporary Pagan Studies Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Wendy Griffin, California State University, Long Beach, Presiding Theme: Pagan Communities: Innovations, Internal Negotiations, and Growth Jason Winslade, DePaul University Alchemical Rhythm: Sacred Dynamic Fire and the Politics of Drumming Murph Pizza, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee The Fourfold Goddess and the Undying God: Anatomies of Minnesotan Bootstrap Witchcraft Traditions Laura Wildman-Hanlon, Cherry Hill Seminary Children of Converts: Generational Retention in the Neo-Pagan New Religious Movement James Roger Lewis, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point The Pagan Explosion Business Meeting: Wendy Griffin, California State University, Long Beach, Presiding Michael York, London, United Kingdom, Presiding A18-76 Coptic Christianity Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm New Program Unit Sidney Griffith, Catholic University of America, Presiding Theme: Coptic Monasticism through the Ages Tim Vivian, California State University, Bakersfield "A Man Holy and Perfect": The Holy Man as Didaskalos (Teacher) and Mathetes (Disciple and Pupil) in the Life of Paisios/Bishoy, Attributed to John Kolobos Chrysi Kotsifou, American University, Cairo Encounters with Monks: Coptic Monastic Hospitality Networks Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rhodes College "The Soul Is Like a Ship": Sailing Imagery in Early Egyptian Monastic Literature Janet A. Timbie, Catholic University of America Then Am I Not Obliged: Shenoute of Atripe Writes to a Women's Monastery to Persuade and Discipline Lois Farag, Luther Seminary Beyond Their Gender: Coptic Female Monasticism in the Twentieth Century Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso University Patriarchs Kyrillos VI and Shenouda III: Architects of Contemporary Coptic Monasticism Responding: Mark Swanson, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago A18-77 Cultural History of the Study of Religion Consultation and Queer Theory and LGBT Studies in Religion Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Ann Pellegrini, New York University, Presiding Theme: Body Parts: Sexed Bodies, Secular Bodies Panelists: Angela Zito, New York University Margaret R. Miles, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University Elizabeth Janiak, New York University Jay Geller, Vanderbilt University Ann Burlein, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Janet Jakobsen, Barnard College Molly McGarry, University of California, Riverside A18-78 Religion, Public Policy, and Political Change Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm New Program Unit Melissa Rogers, Wake Forest University, Presiding Theme: The Politics of Religion and Public Policy Ann B. McClenahan, Harvard University Progressive Religion in the Public Sphere: A Critical Case Study about Health Care Access in Massachusetts Yvonne Zimmerman, University of Denver Not Slaves to Men: The Success of Faith-based Politics in Human Trafficking Activism Joe Pettit, Morgan State University Interfaith Open Communities: Faith-based Affordable Housing Advocacy in Metropolitan Chicago Business Meeting: Joe Pettit, Morgan State University, Presiding A18-79 Rethinking the Field Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm New Program Unit Stephanie Yuhas, University of Denver, Presiding Theme: Part I: The Future of "Religion and Ecology" and "Ecotheology"; Part II: The Role of Liberal Theology in the Discipline Panelists: Whitney Bauman, Graduate Theological Union Samuel Snyder, University of Florida Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University Greg Zuschlag, St. Thomas University Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University Audrey L. Harris, Iliff School of Theology Gary J. Dorrien, Union Theological Seminary, New York Ted Vial, Iliff School of Theology Trevor Eppehimer, Union Theological Seminary, New York See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#EspeciallyforStudents for more details. A18-80 North American Association for the Study of Religion Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Hybridity: Critiques and Alternatives Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University, Presiding Ipsita Chatterjea, Vanderbilt University Hybridity, Race, Insider Discourse: The African Methodist Episcopal Church Jens Kreinath, University of Heidleberg Colonial Displacement, Subversive Agency, Ritual Mimesis: Hybridity and the Hauka Steven Engler, Mount Royal College Hybridity, Essentialism, Temporality: The Case of Umbanda A18-100 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Academic Relations Committee and the Religion in the Schools Task Force. Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College, Presiding Theme: Representing Religion in Public: What Can Your Department Do and Why It Should Panelists: Emilie M. Townes, Yale University Timothy M. Renick, Georgia State University Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A18-101 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Graduate Student Committee and Student Liaison Group Kimberly Bresler, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Student Liaison Group Decennial Celebration Panelists: Warren G. Frisina, Hofstra University John Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University Richard Amesbury, Valdosta State University Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A18-102 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee Zayn Kassam, Pomona College, Presiding Theme: The Other Within: The Study of Religion and Diversifying Our Knowledge Production Panelists: Erin Runions, Pomona College Gaston Espinosa, Claremont McKenna College Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University Andrew Sung Park, United Theological Seminary, Ohio Responding: Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Moravian Theological Seminary See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A18-103 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Kimerer L. LaMothe, Granville, NY, Presiding Theme: The Practice of Art and the Study of Religion Panelists: Deborah J. Haynes, University of Colorado, Boulder Miranda Shaw, University of Richmond Steven P. Hopkins, Swarthmore College Margaret R. Miles, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley A18-104 Buddhism Section and Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Buddhism and Violence Stephen Jenkins, Humboldt State University Making Merit through Warfare: The Bodhisattva-gocara-upāyavişaya-vikurvāņa-nirdeśa Sūtra Derek Maher, East Carolina University The Rhetoric of War in Tibet: Towards a Buddhist Just War Theory Vesna Acimovic Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara Buddhism and Violence in Mongolia During the Theocratic Period Daniel Kent, University of Virginia Onward Buddhist Soldiers: Sermons to Soldiers in the Sri Lankan Army Michael Jerryson, University of California, Santa Barbara Buddhism and Violence in Thailand: The Objectification of the Sacred Responding: Bernard Faure, Stanford University A18-105 Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Comparative Religious Ethics Group and Comparative Theology Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Selva J. Raj, Albion College, Presiding Theme: The State of Comparative Enterprise in the Study of Religions Panelists: Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University Aaron D. Stalnaker, Indiana University, Bloomington Kimberley C. Patton, Harvard University Daniel R. Gold, Cornell University Responding: Gary L. Ebersole, University of Missouri, Kansas City A18-106 History of Christianity Section and Death, Dying, and Beyond Consultation Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Christopher Moreman, St. Francis Xavier University, Presiding Theme: The Christian Afterlife Lucy Bregman, Temple University The Rose That Grew through the Crack in the Wall: Images of Death and Afterlife in Twentieth-Century Mainline Protestantism Michael Bruening, Concordia University, Irvine The Reformation of Hell: Pierre Viret's Polemic against Catholic Theology of the Afterlife James G. Kroemer, Marquette University Bernard of Clairvaux on the Christian Afterlife: A Medieval Curiosity or Cause of War? Roddy Knowles, Boston University Nefarious Necromancy: Christian Critiques of Nineteenth-Century American Spiritualism Joshua Papsdorf, Fordham University Christ’s Descent to the Dead in the Early Latin Church: The Eternal Fate of Those Who Died before Christ Samuel Brown, Harvard University Joseph Smith's Conquest of Death: Sacerdotal Genealogy and the Chain of Being A18-107 North American Religions Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Edward E. Curtis, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Presiding Theme: Migration, Missionaries, and the Manifestation of Catholicism: Transnational Religions in the United States Michael Pasquier, Florida State University Saving an Unsalvageable City: Catholic Missionaries in Antebellum New Orleans Gretchen Boger, Princeton University What Would Jesus Do in India? How American Missionaries between the World Wars Re-fashioned Jesus Abroad Daniel Ramirez, Duke University Más Allá de Azusa: The Early Construction of Transnational Pentecostalism Kathryn Moles, Florida International University Social Capital as a Reason for Transnational Growth of Pentecostalism: How Colombian Migrants in South Florida Build Social Capital in an Unlikely Context Responding: Thomas A. Tweed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A18-108 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Seattle University, Presiding Theme: Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Religion Brian Palmer, Uppsala University To Be Spiritual Is to Stop: Inner Lives in an Economy of Uprooting Elizabeth Catlin, Massachusetts General Hospital co-presenter with Wendy Cadge Wendy Cadge, Harvard University Paging God? Constructions of Religion and Spirituality amongst Staff in Hospital Intensive Care Units David Montgomery, Boston University The Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Kyrgyzstan: How Learning Influences Practice, or Accounting for the Difference between Hizb ut-Tahrir and Ancestral Worshipers Responding: Ann B. McClenahan, Harvard University A18-109 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: The Cross and Empire Peter Jones, Southern Methodist University Christian Theology, Psychoanalysis, and Subalternity: Rethinking Kenosis, Conversion, and Agency Rebecca Parker, Starr King School for the Ministry co-presenter with Rita Nakashima Brock Rita Nakashima Brock, Faith Voices for the Common Good The Nicean Christ: Imperial Hegemony and Christian Dissent Todd D. Whitmore, University of Notre Dame Confessing in the Land of the Hunchback God: Suffering, Hope, and Forgiveness in Northern Uganda Laura Taylor, Vanderbilt University Going Native: An Interstitial and Intercultural Wisdom Christology Matthew MacKellar, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary The Cross against Empire: Toward a Counterhegemonic Theology of the Cross A18-110 African Religions Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh, Presiding Theme: African Indigenous Religions in the Twenty-First Century Bolaji Bateye, Obafemi Awolowo University "Osa Eleiye" (The Witches’ Verse!): Yoruba Orature, the Babalawo, and Female Power Danoye Oguntola Laguda, Lagos State University African Indigenous Religions and Pentecostalism: A Study of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in Lagos Samuel K. Elolia, Emmanuel School of Religion Mafuta Pole Dini Ya Africa: A Resurgence of African Religion Teresia Mbari Hinga, Santa Clara University Beyond Totem and Taboo: Indigenous African Religions and the Quest for a Global Ethic: The Gikuyu Case A18-111 Bible, Theology, and Postmodernity Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm New Program Unit Jon L. Berquist, Westminster John Knox Press, Presiding Theme: John D. Caputo's The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event (Indiana University Press, 2006) Panelists: Catherine Keller, Drew University Yvonne Sherwood, University of Glasgow Roland Faber, Claremont School of Theology Mayra Rivera, Pacific School of Religion Stephen D. Moore, Drew University Responding: John D. Caputo, Syracuse University A18-112 Bioethics and Religion Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Donna M. McKenzie, Fordham University, Presiding Theme: Bioethics, Religion, and Public Policy: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives LeRoy Walters, Georgetown University Paul Braune Resists the National Socialists' "Euthanasia" Program: July 1940 Christopher Rodkey, Drew University Is Medical Experimentation on Prisoners Ethical? David Craig, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Catholic Health Care Mission, Community Benefit, and the Public Good Andrew William Getz, Duquesne University Christian Bioethics and Public Policy: A Comparison of Engelhardt, Hauerwas, and McCormick on the Issues of Euthanasia and Universal Health Care Business Meeting: Paul R. Johnson, D'Youville College, Presiding Aline Kalbian, Florida State University, Presiding A18-113 Christian Spirituality Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Michael Battle, Virginia Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Spiritual Formation for Social Commitment Joseph W. Caldwell, Fuller Seminary "The Bells of Nagasaki Still Echo in My Ears": Exploring the Christian Social Spirituality in the Writings and Edited Works of Takashi Nagai Janet W. Parachin, Phillips Theological Seminary Nonviolence as a Christian Spiritual Path: Factors That Shape and Sustain Nonviolent Commitment Rebecca Gordon, Graduate Theological Union The Tortured Body: A Liturgy of the Eucharist John Nelson, Bethel Seminary Transfiguration Spirituality: Encountering God's Presence in the Margins Business Meeting: Wendy Wright, Creighton University, Presiding A18-114 Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jay E. Johnson, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding Theme: Mystical Erotica: Gay Living as Spiritual/Religious Practice Mário Ribas, University of Cape Town Towards a Latin American Gay Liberation Theology Peter Savastano, Seton Hall University Gay/Queer Men as Virtuosi of the Holy Art of Bricolage and as Tricksters of the Sacred John E. Allard, Providence College Intimations of Mystical Consciousness in Alternative Poetry Juan A. Herrero Brasas, California State University, Northridge Walt Whitman's Mystical Camraderie Responding: Donald L. Boisvert, Concordia University, Montreal Business Meeting: Donald L. Boisvert, Concordia University, Montreal, Presiding Jay E. Johnson, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding A18-115 Hinduism Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Michael C. Linderman, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: Invoking the Veda in the Worship of Siva and Visnu Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee University Image and Temple in the Late Vedic Ritual Codes Ute Huesken, University of Heidelberg The Veda in the Āgama Ginette Ishimatsu, University of Denver Śaiva Siddhānta and the Vedic Tradition Responding: Mary McGee, Columbia University A18-116 Islamic Mysticism Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Christiana Gruber, Indiana University, Presiding Theme: Raising the Discourse to Another Level: Diverse Appropriations and Adaptations of Muhammad's Night Journey and Ascension Elizabeth R. Alexandrin, University of Manitoba Prophetic Ascent and Initiatory Ascent in Qadi al-Nu'man's Asas al-Ta'wil Frederick S. Colby, Miami University of Ohio Early Imami Shi'i Narratives and the Construction of the Story of Muhammad's Ascension Aaron W. Hughes, University of Calgary Heavenly Journey as Contested Symbol: Echoes of the Mi'raj in Medieval Hebrew Literature Vernon James Schubel, Kenyon College "When Muhammad Went on the Mi'raj He Saw a Lion on the Road": The Mi'raj in the Alevi-Bektashi Tradition A18-117 Japanese Religions Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Paula K. R. Arai, Carleton College, Presiding Theme: Japanese Religion and Politics Jason Josephson, Stanford University and École Française d'Extrême-Orient Taming Demons: The Anti-superstition Campaign and the Invention of Religion in Meiji Japan Hwansoo Kim, Harvard University Beyond Resistance or Collaboration: The Strategic Merger of the Korean Wŏnjong and Japanese Sōtōshū in Colonial Korea William W. Hunt, Nashville, TN Relationship of Religion to the Okinawan Anti-base Protest Movement Yuki Shimada, Princeton Theological Seminary “Yasukuni Problem” Re-considered: The Tasks for Religious Studies Irit Averbuch, Tel-Aviv University Discourses of the Re-appearing: The Re-enactment and Aftermath of the Rite of Nuno-hashi Kanjô-e at Mt. Tateyama Responding: Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University A18-118 Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Peggy Schmeiser, University of Ottawa, Presiding Theme: The Challenge of Lesbian Voice/Presence to Religious Traditions Grace G. Burford, Prescott College I. B. Horner and the Writing of Women Under Primitive Buddhism (1930) Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College Abnormal Women and the "Third Sex" in the Pali Buddhist Canon Marie Cartier, Claremont Graduate University Sor Juana: Academic Freedom, the Necessity for Fiction, and the Resurrection of Queer Lineage Kerry Noonan, University of California, Los Angeles and California State University, Northridge Sisterhood or Polarity?: Controversies over the “Guardian Priestess” Path in Dianic Witchcraft A18-119 Native Traditions in the Americas Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Michael McNally, Carleton College, Presiding Theme: Law, Religion, and Native American Traditions Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston Territory, Wilderness, Property, and Reservation: Land and Religion in Native American Supreme Court Cases Emily Brault, Oregon City, Oregon Sweatlodge Practices in Prison: Another Clash of Cultures Greg Johnson, University of Colorado, Boulder Ho`oponopono: Traditional Dispute Resolution in a Repatriation Conflict Jace Weaver, University of Georgia NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) and the Return of the Repressed Responding: Suzan Shown Harjo, Morning Star Institute A18-120 Religion and Disability Studies Group and Biblical Scholarship and Disabilities Consultation Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Mary Jo Iozzio, Barry University, Presiding Theme: Writing for Publication in Religion, Bible, and Disability Studies Panelists: Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology Nancy L. Eiesland, Emory University Bill Gaventa, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Sarah J. Melcher, Furman University Mikeal C. Parsons, Baylor University A18-121 Religion and Popular Culture Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Martha L. Finch, Missouri State University, Springfield, Presiding Theme: Religion, Text, and Sex: Contemporary Religious Sex Manuals Rebecca L. Davis, Yale University Making Total Women: Sexual Bodies and Sexual Identity in Evangelical Marital Advice Guides, 1963-1980 Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University 'Born Again Is a Sexual Term": Demons, STDs, and God's Healing Sperm Evyatar Marienberg, Tel Aviv University How Should a Nice Jewish Orthodox Israeli Couple Do It? Cristina L. H. Traina, Northwestern University Catholics Do It Infallibly Responding: R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University A18-122 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theodore Trost, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Presiding Theme: Horror, Heroes, and the Supernatural in Film Douglas E. Cowan, University of Waterloo "Do I Look Like Someone Who Cares What God Thinks?": Rethinking the Relationship between Religion and Cinema Horror Anthony Mills, Fuller Seminary American Identity in Recent Marvel Comics Superhero Films Emily Merriman, Boston University Channeling, Trance, and Religion in What the Bleep Do We Know!? Kim Paffenroth, Iona College George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead: Consumerism and the Specter of Undeath Diana Walsh-Pasulka, University of North Carolina, Wilmington Heaven Can Wait: The Emergence of American Purgatory A18-123 Signifying (on) Scriptures Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University, Presiding Theme: Scriptures and Race, Roundtable Discussion 2 Panelists: Denise K. Buell, Williams College Cain H. Felder, Howard University Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida Mutombo N'kulu N'sengha, California State University, Northridge Michael Satlow, Brown University Fernando F. Segovia, Vanderbilt University Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara Business Meeting: Vincent L. Wimbush, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding A18-124 Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Mary Ann Stenger, University of Louisville, Presiding Theme: Postmodernism and Tillich Robison B. James, University of Richmond and Baptist Theological Seminary, Richmond Paul Tillich: Prophet and Partial Practitioner of the Postmodern William F. Stevens, University of Edinburgh Gift as Icon and Gestalt in Tillich and Jean-Luc Marion Jonathan Rothchild, Loyola Marymount University The Aporia of Law, Justice, and Gift/Grace: Dimensions of Forgiveness in Paul, Derrida, and Tillich Sigridur Gudmarsdottir, Drew University “Dark Depths of Madness!”: Tillichian Anxiety Meets Kristevan Abjection A18-125 Western Esotericism Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Wouter Hanegraaff, University of Amsterdam, Presiding Theme: Western Esotericism Yvonne Owens, University College, London Northern Humanists, Heretics, and Cabbala: Responses in Northern Art, Theology, and the Witch Hunt to the Theurgical Study and Ritual Practice of Jewish Mysticism in the Sixteenth Century Joel Kalvesmaki, Dumbarton Oaks Types of Greek Numerology Roelie van Kreijl, University of Amsterdam Early Homeopathy and the Medical Establishment in Germany Amanda Boyd, Sam Houston State University Yoga as a Corrective to Misguided Rationalism: Science in the Esoteric Thought of Gustav Meyrink Carol Matthews, US Naval Academy Gnosis of the Flesh II: "Prophetic Exegesis" and Temporal Alchemy in J.J. Hurtak’s Pistis Sophia A18-126 Zen Buddhism Seminar Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jin Y. Park, American University, Presiding Theme: Zen in the Contemporary World Stuart Lachs, New York, New York The Zen Master in America: Dressing the Donkey with Bells and Scarves Jeff Wilson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Transforming the Menacing Fetus: Abortion and Other Pregnancy Loss Rituals in American Zen Centers Kiyozumi Ishii, Komazawa University New Trends in Dōgen Studies in Japan John R. McRae, Tokyo, Japan The Current State of Chán Studies in Japan Business Meeting: Gereon Kopf, Luther College, Presiding Jin Y. Park, American University, Presiding A18-127 Animals and Religion Consultation Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Heather Eaton, St. Paul University, Presiding Theme: Intertwining Animals: The Real, the Sacred, the Immanent, the Symbolic M. Christian Green, Harvard University Golden Proverbs: Animals and Ethical Cosmology of the Akan Peoples of West Africa Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University Lost and Found: The Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Extinction, and Immanence Lee Bailey, Ithaca College Sacred Whispers in the World: Animal Presence Gary Steiner, Bucknell University The Ideal of A Communion of Subjects: A Challenge to Classical Liberalism Responding: Jay McDaniel, Hendrix College Business Meeting: Paul Waldau, Tufts University, Presiding A18-128 Daoist Studies Consultation Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Julia Margaret Hardy, Carrboro, NC, Presiding Theme: The Baby or the Bath Water: Reconstructing the Contexts of the Laozi and Applying Its Ideas to the Postmodern World Jia Jinhua, Harvard University Religious Origin of the Terms Dao and De and Their Signification in the Laozi Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University Are There Ritual Formulas in the Daodejing? Jonathan Herman, Georgia State University The One Gave Birth to the Two: Martin Buber's Dialogical Transformation of the Daodejing Amy Weigand, Temple University Confronting the Problem of Conceptual (Mis)Appropriation: The Daoism Example Responding: Harold D. Roth, Brown University Business Meeting: Louis Komjathy, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding Jonathan Herman, Georgia State University, Presiding A18-129 Religion and Colonialism Consultation Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm New Program Unit Mark Elmore, New York University, Presiding Theme: Colonialisms of Modernization Caleb Elfenbein, University of California, Santa Barbara Religion and Colonialism: Religion as a Primary Category of Analysis Vivienne S.M. Angeles, La Salle University Martyrdom through "Parang Sabil": A Response to Colonialism in the Philippines Robert A. Yelle, University of Illinois “The Christian Character of the North-West Provinces”: Roman Transliteration and the Linguistic Reformation of Colonial India Cassie Adcock, University of Chicago Civil Subjectivity and the Perfect Brahmachari: Cultivating Modernity in the Arya Samaj Responding: David Chidester, University of Cape Town Business Meeting: Caleb Elfenbein, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Mark Elmore, New York University, Presiding A18-130 Religion in Europe Consultation Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm New Program Unit Andrii Krawchuk, University of Sudbury, Presiding Theme: The Christian and Muslim Crossroads of European Identity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University Christianity, Islam, and European Identity: From the Mozarabic Chronicle of 754 to the Jylland Posten Cartoons of 2005 Ina Merdjanova, Sofia University Muslim Identities in Southeast Europe between Nationalism and Transnationalism Amy Marga, Princeton Theological Seminary Muslim Rage at "the West" as a Mirror for Protestant Self-Reflection: An Exploration of Protestantism's Identity through the "Caricature-crisis" in Germany Martyn A. Oliver, Boston University What to Be or Not to Be: Islam, Satire, and Identity in the European Union Business Meeting: Robert Alvis, Saint Meinrad School of Theology, Presiding Andrii Krawchuk, University of Sudbury, Presiding A18-131 Yoga in Theory and Practice Consultation Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm New Program Unit Stuart R. Sarbacker, Northwestern University, Presiding Theme: Construction and Transcendence in Modern Yoga Panelists: Sarah Strauss, University of Wyoming Elizabeth DeMichelis, Cambridge University N. E. Sjoman, Calgary, Alberta Joseph Alter, University of Pittsburgh Responding: Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University Business Meeting: Stuart R. Sarbacker, Northwestern University, Presiding Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding A18-141 Association of Practical Theology Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Pedagogies in Practical Theology: An Examination of Ethnography Carol Lakey Hess, Emory University, Presiding Effective pedagogies utilized by ethnographers and practical theologians in the teaching of ministry students and doctoral candidates. Panel: Nancy L. Eiesland, Emory University Jeffery L. Tribble, Sr., Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Mary Clark Moschella, Wesley Theological Seminary 6:20 pm Business Meeting Kathleen A. Cahalan, Saint John’s University, Presiding For additional information contact Kathleen Cahalan, kcahalan@csbsju.edu, or Claire Wolfteich, cwolftei@bu.edu. A18-142 North American Association for the Study of Religion: Presidential Plenary Panel Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm CANCELLED A18-132 Friends of the Academy Reception Saturday - 5:30 pm-6:45 pm Diana L. Eck, Harvard University, Presiding A18-133 AAR Racial and Ethnic Minority Members' Reception Saturday - 6:30 pm-7:45 pm Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University, Presiding A18-143 Evangelical Philosophical Society Saturday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm Theme: Evil and the Justice of God, by N. T. Wright William Lane Craig, Talbot School of Theology, Presiding Panelists: Michael Rea, University of Notre Dame Paul Copan, Palm Beach Atlantic University Respondent: N. T. Wright, Bishop of Durham Audience discussion to follow. For further information regarding this session, contact Scott Smith, scott.smith@truth.biola.edu. A18-134 Plenary Address Saturday - 8:00 pm-9:00 pm Jeffrey L. Stout, Princeton University, Presiding Theme: Presidential Plenary and Awards Ceremony--Diana Eck: Prospects for Pluralism: Voice and Vision in the Study of Religion Panelists: Diana L. Eck, Harvard University See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#PlenaryandPresidentialAddresses for details. A18-136 Arts Series/Films: Crash Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Films for details. A18-137 Arts Series/Films: Guelwaar Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Sponsored by the African Religions Group Robert M. Baum, University of Missouri, Presiding See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Films for details. A18-138 Women's Reception Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:30 pm Sponsored by the Status of Women in the Profession Committee and the Women's Caucus. The Women's Caucus invites all friends to join us in honoring those women who have been presidents of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. A18-140 AAR and Pluralism Project Celebration in Honor of Diana Eck Saturday - 9:00 pm-10:30 pm Sponsored by AAR and the Pluralism Project The AAR and the Pluralism Project are hosting this celebration of Diana Eck, 2006 AAR president. We welcome affiliates, advisors, friends, and colleagues to join us for light refreshments, networking, conversation, and informal updates on research projects. Your RSVP to staff@pluralism.org is appreciated. A18-135 AAR Members' Reception Saturday - 9:30 pm-12:00 am A18-139 Student Members' Reception Saturday - 10:00 pm-12:00 am A19-1 JAAR Editorial Board Breakfast Sunday - 7:15 am-8:45 am A19-2 AAR New Members' Continental Breakfast Sunday - 7:30 am-8:45 am New (first-time) AAR members in 2006 are cordially invited to a continental breakfast with members of the Board of Directors. A19-3 Religion and Disabilities Task Force Meeting Sunday - 7:30 am-8:45 am Mary Jo Iozzio, Barry University, Presiding A19-4 Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee Meeting Sunday - 8:00 am-8:45 am A19-6 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Program Committee Shanta Premawardhana, National Council of Churches, USA, Presiding Theme: Christian Theology's Engagement with Religious Pluralism: Biblical Texts and Themes Amos Yong, Regent University "The Light Shines in the Darkness": Johannine Dualism and the Challenge of Christian Theology of Religions Today Gerald R. McDermott, Roanoke College Gods, Principalities, and Powers in the Bible: Implications for Christian Theology of the Religions Marjorie Suchocki, Claremont School of Theology Transforming Heaven and Hell Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University John 6:68-69: How My Study of Hinduism Illumines, Contests, and Intensifies Peter's Confession Responding: S. Wesley Ariarajah, Drew University See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A19-7 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Status of Women in the Profession Committee Alice Wells Hunt, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Women Speaking to Religion and Leadership: Honoring the Work of Mercy Oduyoye Panelists: Sarojini Nadar, University of KwaZulu-Natal Katie G. Cannon, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education Letty M. Russell, Yale University Musa Dube, University of Botswana Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Trinity Theological Seminary, Ghana See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A19-8 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Committee Sheila E. McGinn, John Carroll University, Presiding Theme: Teaching the Introductory Course in Theology and Religion Panelists: Barbara Walvoord, University of Notre Dame Rosemary P. Carbine, College of the Holy Cross David C. Ratke, Lenoir-Rhyne College Martha J. Reineke, University of Northern Iowa James K. Wellman, University of Washington See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A19-9 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Clark M. Brittain, Greenville Technical College, Presiding Theme: Blake and Religious Vision Thomas Altizer, Mt. Pocono, PA The Revolutionary Vision of William Blake Andrea J. Dickens, United Theological Seminary A Final Vision: Blake's Dante Illustrations Steven P. Hopkins, Swarthmore College "I Walk Weeping in Pangs of a Mother's Torment for Her Children": Women's Laments in the Poetry and Prophecies of William Blake Emily Merriman, Boston University “I Mean Great Poets”: William Blake and Geoffrey Hill A19-10 Buddhism Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University, Presiding Theme: New Perspectives on Buddhist Hagiography in East Asia Stuart Young, Princeton University Indian Patriarchs in a Chinese Looking Glass: The Earliest Hagiographies of Nāgārjuna and Aśvaghoşa Joshua Capitanio, University of Pennsylvania The Immortalization of Bodhidharma: The Chan Patriarch in Buddhist Sources and Beyond Chris Callahan, Harvard University Reading with Form and Genre, Contesting Paradigms and Memory: Kakunyo’s Godenshō Heather Blair, Harvard University From Realm to Realm: Nichizō, the Genre-Crossing Holy Man Responding: Robert Campany, Indiana University, Bloomington A19-11 History of Christianity Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University, Presiding Theme: Piety, Practice, Performance: Action and Embodiment in American Christianity Panelists: Tisa Wenger, Arizona State University Kathryn Lofton, Indiana University, Bloomington Heather D. Curtis, Harvard University Anthea Butler, University of Rochester Responding: Ann Taves, University of California, Santa Barbara A19-12 Philosophy of Religion Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jeffrey Kosky, Washington & Lee University, Presiding Theme: Philosophy and Method in the Study of Religion Myron A. Penner, Trinity Western University Philosophy of Religion and the Analytic/Continental Divide Robert A. Segal, University of Aberdeen Paul Ricoeur's Reconciliation of Explanation with Interpretation Ludger Viefhues, Yale University What Lies beyond the Failure of “Religion”? Philosophy of Religion and Methodological Reflections on the History of Religious Studies Tyler T. Roberts, Grinnell College Exposures and Acknowledgements: Rethinking the Philosophy of Religion A19-13 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Lauren Leve, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Presiding Theme: Narrating the Local: Methodological Reflections on Ethnographies of Religious Practice Jill DeTemple, Southern Methodist University (Paper) Trails: An Expanded Theory of Archive in Ethnographic Practice Karen G. Ruffle, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Who Could Marry at a Time Like This?: Debating the Mehndi Ki Majlis in Hyderabad, India Jalane D. Schmidt, University of Florida, Gainesville Santería and the "Branding" of Cuba: Effects upon Local Afro-Cuban Religious Practices Chad Seales, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Layering the Local: Lived History and the Ritual Production of Place in a Nuevo New South Town Responding: Courtney Bender, Columbia University A19-14 Religion in South Asia Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas, Austin, Presiding Theme: Literary Characters across Early South Asian Narrative Traditions Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University Who Was Shaunaka? A Literary Assessment Brian Black, London University Ambattha and Shvetaketu: Literary Connections between the Upanishads and Early Buddhist Narratives Sara L. McClintock, Emory University Reading the Buddha as a Compassionate Trickster in Early Buddhist Narrative Traditions Jonathan Geen, McMaster University Krishna and Jarasandha/Shishupala in the Hindu and Jain Traditions Steven Lindquist, Concordia University, Montreal Creating a Rshi: The Later Literary Life of Yajnavalkya Responding: Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago A19-15 Study of Islam Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Khalid Yahya Blankinship, Temple University, Presiding Theme: “Islamic Fundamentalism”: Homogeny Identified or Diversity Homogenized? Lynda Clarke, Concordia University, Montreal Fundamentalism and Modern Shiism David L. Johnston, Yale University Hassan al-Hudaybi and the Muslim Brotherhood: Can Islamic Fundamentalism Eschew the Islamic State? Florian Pohl, Emory University Contesting Fundamentalism: The Case of Islamic Education David Harrington Watt, Temple University The Category “Islamic Fundamentalism”: Good for Polemics, Bad for Scholarship? Simon Wood, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Rethinking the “Fundamentals” of Fundamentalism: Dualism, Literalism, Golden Age-ism Responding: Gordon D. Newby, Emory University Business Meeting: Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso University, Presiding Omid Safi, Colgate University, Presiding A19-16 Study of Judaism Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Shaul Magid, Indiana University, Bloomington, Presiding Theme: Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Kabbalah Yechiel Shalom Goldberg, California State University, Long Beach In These Empty Fools One May Find Bells of Gold: Wise Fools and Revelation in Spanish Kabbalah Chava Weissler, Lehigh University The Popularization of Kabbalah in the Early Modern Period and Today: The Case of Women Jody Myers, California State University, Northridge New Age and Old Judaism in Kabbalah Centre Teachings Andrea Lobel, McGill University Spheres of Influence: The Portrayal and Functions of Kabbalistic Cosmogony, Cosmology, and Magic in Contemporary Speculative Fiction and Sequential Art Responding: Pinchas Giller, University of Judaism A19-17 African Religions Group and Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University, Presiding Theme: African Religions, Healing, and HIV/AIDS Tapiwa Mucherera, Asbury Theological Seminary Conflict in Religio-Cultural Values and Practices in African and Western Communities in the Age of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic Jame Schaefer, Marquette University Healing and the East African Patient: Promises and Challenges of Religious Faith-Medical Treatment Collaboration Anna Chitando, Zimbabwe Open University Women of the Spirit: Prophetesses and Healing in Contemporary Harare Ezra Chitando, University of Zimbabwe An Ancient Faith Meets a Contemporary Challenge: African Indigenous Religions and HIV and AIDS Musa Adeniyi, Obafemi Awolowo University The Spiritual Healing Dimensions of Islam: Shehu Korkoroadua as a Case Study Responding: Isabel Apawo Phiri, University of KwaZulu-Natal A19-18 Anthropology of Religion Group and Ritual Studies Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Anne Merideth, University of Rochester, Presiding Theme: That Can't Be Religion—They're Having Fun! Sex, Laughter, Leisure, and Games in Religious Practice Magnus Echtler, University of Bayreuth Liminal Transgressions at the New Year's Festival in Zanzibar Steven Engler, Mount Royal College and Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo Playing at Syncretism: New Rituals in a Brazilian Catholic Women’s Group Deidre H. Crumbley, North Carolina State University Being “Saved” — Being Children: Symbolic Prescriptions and Ritual Proscriptions of Pleasure and Play in a Storefront Pentecostal Church Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State University Ritualizing Religious Reward: The Dark Side of Play Rebecca Sachs Norris, Merrimack College Ritualizing Religious Reward: The Dark Side of Play Responding: Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University Business Meeting: J. Shawn Landres, Synagogue 3000 and University of California, Los Angeles, Presiding Rebecca Sachs Norris, Merrimack College, Presiding A19-19 Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Laura E. Donaldson, Cornell University, Presiding Theme: Biblical Scholarship and/as Public Criticism Panelists: Fernando F. Segovia, Vanderbilt University Andrea Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Margaret Aymer, Interdenominational Theological Center Tat-siong Benny Liew, Pacific School of Religion Francisco Lozada, University of the Incarnate Word Rita Nakashima Brock, Faith Voices for the Common Good A19-20 Buddhist Philosophy Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Douglas S. Duckworth, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Presiding Theme: Re-Thinking Reason, Re-Viewing Buddhist Views Richard Nance, Ann Arbor, MI On What Do We Rely When We Rely on Reasoning? David Vincent Fiordalis, University of Michigan A Rose by Any Other Name? Doxographical Classification in Indian Texts of the "Later Period" of Indian Buddhism Yaroslav Komarovski, University of Virginia Slicing the Pie Alternatively: Śakya mchog ldan on Divisions of the Mahayānā Tenet Systems Albion Butters, Columbia University Heterodox Doxography? The Philosophical Stance of Kun Mkhyen kLong Chen Rab ’Byams Pa Business Meeting: John D. Dunne, Emory University, Presiding A. Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University, Presiding A19-21 Chinese Religions Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Stephen F. Teiser, Princeton University, Presiding Theme: Violence and the Body in Late Imperial China Ann Waltner, University of Minnesota Letters from an Immortal: Religion, Gender, and Body Practices in Sixteenth-Century China Jimmy Yu, Princeton University Piety, Passion, and Blood Writing in the Late Ming Mark Meulenbeld, Princeton University Violated Bodies: How Guanyin Became a Domesticated Demon Responding: Barend J. ter Haar, Leiden University Business Meeting: Daniel B. Stevenson, University of Kansas, Presiding A19-22 Comparative Theology Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Deepak Sarma, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding Theme: The Body, Its Meanings, and New Light on the Problems and Possibilities of Comparative Theology Steven Tsoukalas, Centre College Krsna and Christ: A Comparative Study Concerning the Body-Soul-Divine Relation in the Manusi Tanu (Human Form) of Bhagavadgita 9.11 Thomas Cattoi, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley The Cosmic Christ and the Dharmakāya: Embodied Manifestations of the Cosmic Order in Maximos the Confessor and Tsong Kha Pa Peter deVries, University of Pittsburgh Recitation of the Qur’an and the Incarnation of Christ: Possibilities for Global Society Michelle Voss Roberts, Rhodes College Flowing and Crossing: The Fluid Theologies of Mechthild and Lalla Responding: Kristin Beise Kiblinger, Winthrop University A19-23 Hinduism Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am John E. Cort, Denison University, Presiding Theme: Engaged/ Progressive/ Liberation Hinduism and Hindus Vijaya Nagarajan, University of San Francisco Progressive Hindus and the California Textbook Controversy Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College Hinduism as Spiritual Humanism: The Pluralistic Vision of the Ramakrishna Mission Ramdas Lamb, University of Hawaii, Manoa Devotion, Sadhana, and Social Action Corinne Dempsey, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point Marxism and Feminism Meet Hindu Ritual: Liberation Theology Revisited and Revisioned Responding: Rita Sherma, Binghamton University Business Meeting: Sushil Mittal, James Madison University, Presiding A19-24 Law, Religion, and Culture Group and Biblical Law Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Cheryl B. Anderson, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Law and Cultural Narratives F. Rachel Magdalene, Augustana College Alfred the Great and the Law of Exodus: The Afterlife of Biblical Law in Early Medieval England Jione Havea, Southern Methodist University Members Only: The Crushed, Cut, and Tolerated in Deuteronomy 23:1-8 Ipsita Chatterjea, Vanderbilt University Biblical Law, American Law: A Typology of Tactics for the “Restoration” of Conservative Christian Normativity in the United States Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School The Biblical Defense of Slavery Responding: William Morrow, Queen's Theological College Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, State University of New York, Buffalo A19-25 Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College, Presiding Theme: Survival and Liberation: Religious Lesbian Womanists/Feminists Challenge Faith Communities Dorinda G. Henry, National Center for Human Rights Education I, Too, Sing Songs of Freedom Frances E. Wood, Emory University Living Fully into Who We Are Called to Be, or, Why Our Silence(s) Still Do Not Protect Us Responding: Gayle R. Baldwin, University of North Dakota Business Meeting: Gayle R. Baldwin, University of North Dakota, Presiding Elizabeth A. Say, California State University, Northridge, Presiding A19-26 New Religious Movements Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico, Presiding Theme: Coming of Age: Adaptation and Change in New Religions Eileen Vartan Barker, London School of Economics Youth Then and Now: A Comparison between Converts to NRMs in the 1970s and Their Now-Adult Children, Socialised in the Movement Albert K. Wuaku, Florida International University “I Conjure You Up by The Powers Of India. Appear Before My Eyes!": Constructing Images of India and Producing Hindu Spiritual Power in Popular Ghanaian Religious Discourse Helen Cornish, Goldsmiths College, University of London The 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act: Rediscovering Key Events in Pagan Historiography Mark J. Sedgwick, American University, Cairo Alexander Dugin’s Apocalyptic Traditionalism Business Meeting: Douglas E. Cowan, University of Waterloo, Presiding A19-27 Platonism and Neoplatonism Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Gregory Shaw, Stonehill College, Presiding Theme: Hierarchy in Neoplatonism Naomi Janowitz, University of California, Davis The Social Context of Jewish Middle-platonic Discourse about Hierarchy Philippa Townsend, Princeton University Sacred Races: Iamblichus and Porphyry on Ethnic Hierarchy Naoko Frances Hioki, Graduate Theological Union The Interpretation of Neoplatonic Hierarchy by Renaissance and Baroque Artists Israel M. Sandman, University of Chicago Running and Returning: Habad Hasidism on Bodily Divestment and the Subsequent Implementation of Divinity in the Lower World A19-28 Practical Theology Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Reviewing Educating Clergy: Teaching Practices and Pastoral Imagination, Charles R. Foster, Lisa E. Dahill, Lawrence A. Golemon, and Barbara Wang Tolentino (Jossey-Bass, 2005) Panelists: Rebecca S. Chopp, Colgate University Patricia E. Benner, University of California, San Francisco Fumitaka Matsuoka, Pacific School of Religion Jack Wertheimer, Jewish Theological Seminary Responding: Charles R. Foster, Emory University A19-29 Religion and Ecology Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm, Uppsala University, Presiding Theme: Religion from the Ground Up: Religious Reflections on Place Whitney Bauman, Graduate Theological Union Eternal Foundations or Contested Grounds? The (Ab)Use of Nature and God in Political Discourse Surrounding the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Tovis Page, Harvard University Rural Redemption: The Family Farm as Sacred Place in the American Catholic Agrarian Tradition David L. Barnhill, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Sacred Place and Spiritual Journey in Ursula Le Guin's Fiction Barbara A.B. Patterson, Emory University Practicing Place: Comparative Reflections on Urban Intersections of Spirituality, Identity, and Nature Responding: Stephanie Kaza, University of Vermont Business Meeting: Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University, Presiding John A. Grim, Forum on Religion and Ecology, Presiding A19-30 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Rubina Ramji, University of Ottawa, Presiding Theme: Identity, Ritual, and the Sacred in Film Ronald Green and Aine Donovan, Dartmouth College Sacred DNA: Religion and Genetics in Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca Emily Askew, Carroll College Teaching Crash Christine Kraemer, Boston University The Spectator, Gender Performance, and Gnosis in Hedwig and the Angry Inch Jens Kreinath, University of Heidelberg Visual Imageries of Ritual Possession and Colonial Mockery: Les Maîtres Fous and the Problem of Reflexive Mimesis in the Filmic Representation of the Hauka Movement Kent Brintnall, Emory University What Hath Vienna to Do with Jerusalem? The Value of Psychoanalytic Film Theory for Religion and Film Scholarship Business Meeting: John Lyden, Dana College, Presiding A19-31 Religion, Politics, and the State Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Amy Sullivan, Washington Monthly, Presiding Theme: Progressive Politics and Religion: Has the Left “Gotten It”? Panelists: Melody Barnes, Center for American Progress Jennifer Butler, Faith and Public Life Resource Center Robert P. Jones, Center for American Values in Public Life, People for the American Way Foundation Alexia Kelley, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good Harry Knox, Human Rights Campaign David Saperstein, Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism Jim Wallis, Sojourners Business Meeting: Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary's College of California, Presiding A19-32 Schleiermacher Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Ecclesiology, Pneumatology, Trinity: The Third in a Four-Year Reinvestigation of Schleiermacher's The Christian Faith Laura Thelander, Princeton Theological Seminary Reconsidering Schleiermacher’s Protestant-Catholic Antithesis and Its Significance for His Ecclesiology Cathie Kelsey, Iliff School of Theology Schleiermacher on Holy Spirit and the (Disappointing) Church: A Contemplative Reading Paul DeHart, Vanderbilt University Schleiermacher’s Trinity: Redemption as Divine Presence Gregory Walter, St. Olaf College From Divine Love to Economic Trinity in Friedrich Luecke's Interpretation of Schleiermacher's Theology Business Meeting: Brent Sockness, Stanford University, Presiding In order to facilitate informed, substantive discussion, papers for this session will be posted in mid-October at the Schleiermacher Group's Yahoo! website. AAR members wishing to join the Schleiermacher Group and access this website should contact Brent Sockness at sockness@stanford.edu. A19-33 Scriptural Reasoning Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am David F. Ford, University of Cambridge, Presiding Theme: Land, Messianism, and the Other Panelists: Aryeh Cohen, University of Judaism Marc Gopin, George Mason University Maria Dakake, George Mason University Responding: Ahmed Afzaal, Connecticut College A19-34 Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Rachel Sophia Baard, Villanova University, Presiding Theme: Encountering the Divine in a Pluralistic World David H. Nikkel, University of North Carolina, Pembroke Negotiating the Nature of Mystical Experience, Guided by Tillich and James Christian Danz, University of Vienna Breakthrough of the Unconditional: Tillich's Concept of Revelation as an Answer to the Crisis of Historicism Bryan Wagoner, Harvard University The "Jewish Dimension" of Tillich's Thought C. Peter Slater, University of Toronto Tillich and Bakhtin: Dialectical or Dialogical Comparative Theology? Business Meeting: Robison B. James, University of Richmond, and Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Presiding Mary Ann Stenger, University of Louisville, Presiding A19-35 Open and Relational Theologies Consultation Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University, Presiding Theme: What God Does, Might, or Cannot Know about the Future Karen Winslow, Azusa Pacific University The Hope of God versus the Knowledge of God Bruce G. Epperly, Lancaster Theological Seminary Surprising God: Prayer, Partnership, and the Divine Adventure Gregory A. Boyd, St. Paul, Minnesota An Adventurous Sovereignty: Risk Taking and the Infinite Intelligence of God John E. Culp, Azusa Pacific University "I Know Who Holds the Future" but Not the Future Responding: Terence Fretheim, Luther Seminary Business Meeting: Lynne Faber Lorenzen, Augsburg College, Presiding A19-36 Tantric Studies Consultation Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Constantina Rhodes Bailly, Eckerd College, Presiding Theme: New Approaches to Tantric Studies: Cognitive Science and Contemporary Metaphor Theory Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union Less Than Meets the Eye: What Cognitive Science Adds to Tantric Studies Glen Alexander Hayes, Bloomfield College Blended Worlds and Emergent Beings: Metaphors, Cognitive Science, and the Study of Tantra Kerry Martin Skora, Hiram College The Way Abhinavagupta Thinks: Bodily Metaphors, the Vitality of Language, and the Poetics of Intertwining Sthaneshwar Timalsina, San Diego State University Fluids, Metaphor, and Self-realization: Reading Tantra through the Lens of Rasa Hugh Urban, Ohio State University, Columbus Blood for the Goddess: Impurity, Kingship, and Power in Assamese Tantra Responding: Jeffrey C. Ruff, Marshall University Business Meeting: Glen Alexander Hayes, Bloomfield College, Presiding Sthaneshwar Timalsina, San Diego State University, Presiding A19-41 Theta Alpha Kappa Board of Directors Meeting Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am A19-42 Wildcard Session Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am David Kyuman Kim, Connecticut College, Presiding Theme: Critical Reflections on Cornel West's Democracy Matters Panelists: Amina Wadud, Virginia Commonwealth University Romand Coles, Duke University Jeffrey L. Stout, Princeton University Responding: Cornel West, Princeton University See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#WildcardSessions for details. A19-43 Study of Islam Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The George Washington University, Presiding Theme: Comprehending the Qur'ān: Critical Issues Raised by the Publication of E. J. Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān Panelists: Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University Claude Gilliot, University of Aix-en-Provence William A. Graham, Harvard University Wadad Kadi, University of Chicago Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria Responding: Sidney Griffith, Catholic University of America A19-37 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Tour Sunday - 10:30 am-1:00 pm Sponsored by the Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group and the Center for Holocaust Studies Victoria Barnett, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Presiding Tour is sold out. See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#ArtsSeriesandTours for details. A19-39 Women's Caucus / SWP Mentoring Lunch Sunday - 11:30 am-12:45 pm 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. A19-40 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 11:45 am-1:00 pm Sponsored by the Graduate Student Committee and the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Paul Myhre, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, Presiding Theme: Wabash Student-Teacher Luncheon See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A19-48 Society of Christian Philosophers Sunday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Theme: Materialism and Pelagianism William Lane Craig, Talbot School of Theology, Presiding Alexander Pruss, Georgetown University Responding: Michael Rea, University of Notre Dame A19-49 Religion and Cities Consultation Planning Session Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Lowell W. Livezey, New York Theological Seminary and Anne Yardley, Drew University, Presiding A19-50 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico, Presiding Theme: The Marty Forum: Andrew M. Greeley Panelists: Andrew M. Greeley, University of Chicago Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A19-51 Wildcard Session Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm TBA, Evanston, IL, Presiding Theme: A Korean Shamanic Ritual for Healing the Comfort Women Panelists: Inhui Lee, California Institute of Integral Studies Marie Cartier, Claremont Graduate University See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#WildcardSessions for details. A19-52 Wildcard Session Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Daniel Michaels, Liguori Publications, Presiding Theme: Publishing with a Denominational (Church-Owned) Press: Possibilities and Realities Panelists: J. Michael West, Fortress Press Bob Byrns, Religious Book Trade Exhibit Paul McMahon, Paulist Press See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#WildcardSessions for details. A19-53 Wildcard Session Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Judith Poxon, California State University Sacramento, Presiding Theme: Three Western Perspectives on the Re-valuation of Sacred Space: Wyoming, Kansas, and Colorado Mary Keller, University of Wyoming The Souls of Wyoming Philip Meckley, Kansas Wesleyan University Pure Land/Good Earth: Buddhism, the Land Institute, and Care of Spiritual Space Celeste J. Rossmiller, Regis University, Denver "Living Waters" and "Forest Cathedrals": Practices to Re-sacralize "Ordinary" Land See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#WildcardSessions for details. A19-54 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Sidney Brown, University of the South, Presiding Theme: Walk, Talk, Teach, and Learn: A Street Fair of Posters, Exhibits, and Interactive Displays That Will Educate and Excite about a Breakthrough Moment in the Classroom or a Great Course Millicent Feske, Saint Joseph's University "Quilting" as Metaphor and Practice in the Teaching of Feminist Theology Donald J Monnin, Villa Maria College The Religion Project: Engaging the Non-Religious Studies Major John D. Copenhaver, Jr., Shenandoah University Taste and See: Contemplative Practice as an Invitation to Animate the Study of Religion E. H. Jarow, Vassar College The Six Gatis and Their Enactment on the Lawn of Vassar College Merrill M. Hawkins, Carson-Newman College Making Them Read; Making Them Engage: The Use of Process Notes in Daily Assignments Stephen Murphy, University of Virginia Strategic Teaching, Strategic Learning: Using Religious Studies to Teach Study Skills Yolanda Yvette Smith, Yale University Teaching through the Oral Tradition Paul Thomas, University of Missouri, Kansas City Creative Cosmology: Drawing Genesis 1 Rebecca Sachs Norris and Nikki Bado-Fralick, Merrimack College and Iowa State University The Game's Afoot! An Exploration of Religious Toys in the Teaching of Religion Alice Wood, Bethune-Cookman College The Ethics Game Project A19-55 Ethics Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Darryl Michael Trimiew, Medgar Evers College, Presiding Theme: From Africa to New Orleans: Healing Racial and Urban Divides Todd D. Whitmore, University of Notre Dame "If I Could Become Death, I Would Fall on the White Man": Ugandan Hope and Hatred Towards the United States Maureen O'Connell, Fordham University "Rebuilding Better" the City of God: Compassion as Justice after Katrina Robert R. N. Ross and Deanne E. B. Ross, University of Massachusetts, Boston and City of Springfield, MA From NOLA to Springfield: Ethics, Race, and Urban Reconstruction in a Post-Katrina World Business Meeting: Miguel A. De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Jane Hicks, St. John Fisher College, Presiding A19-56 History of Christianity Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University, Presiding Theme: Who Do You Say That I Am? The Construction and Use of Mormon and Anti-Mormon Identities David Gore, University of Minnesota, Duluth Joseph Smith and the Rhetoric of Economics and Prophecy Quincy Newell, University of Wyoming Seeing Jane: Jane Elizabeth Manning James’ Posthumous Career as an LDS Symbol D. William Faupel, Wesley Theological Seminary Elijah III: The Influence of Mormonism on John Alexander Dowie Sara Patterson, Loyola Marymount University "A PO Box and a Desire to Witness for Jesus": Calling and Mission in the Ex-Mormons for Jesus Responding: Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University A19-57 Philosophy of Religion Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm LeRhonda Manigault, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Africana Phenomenology and the Study of Religion James Bryant, College of the Holy Cross Signs of Recuperation, Recuperating Significations: Charles Long and Africana Phenomenology Corey David Bazemore Walker, University of Virginia What Is This “Black” in Black Theology? Towards a (Re)Construction of Black Theology Paget Henry, Brown University African Religion and Africana Phenomenology A19-58 Study of Judaism Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Zachary Braiterman, Syracuse University, Presiding Theme: Messianism and Law in Twentieth-Century Jewish Thought Yehudah Mirsky, Harvard University Must Prophetic Halakhah Be Messianic? Abraham Isaac Kook and/or Abraham Joshua Heschel Shaul Magid, Indiana University, Bloomington Messianism, the Universal, and the Halakhic/Post-Halakhic Divide Aryeh Cohen, University of Judaism The Academy, the Law, and Messianic Expectations Responding: Shai Held, Harvard University A19-59 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Joseph Cheah, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Intersection of Religious and Spiritual Practices in Hawaii Wilburn Hansen, Stanford University Shinto in the Hawaiian Diaspora: Economics Masquerading as Nationalism at a Pre-Pacific War Hawaiian Shrine Regina Pfeiffer, Chaminade University of Honolulu Colonial Conquest(s), Especially Hawaiian or Native American in Focus Jenny Patten-Gargiulo, Graduate Theological Union Hawaiian Kapa: Sewing Spirituality Responding: Duncan Williams, University of California, Irvine Henry W. Morisada Rietz, Grinnell College Business Meeting: Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding Anne Joh, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding A19-60 Buddhist Philosophy Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm New Program Unit Sara L. McClintock, Emory University, Presiding Theme: New Approaches to Candrakīrti Daniel A. Arnold, University of Chicago Candrakīrti and the Metaphysics of Ordinary Language John D. Dunne, Emory University The Recalcitrant Candrakīrti Karen C. Lang, University of Virginia Candrakīrti’s Prescription for Treating the Three Poisons Kevin Vose, College of William and Mary What's Wrong with Inference, Again Responding: Stephen Jenkins, Humboldt State University A19-61 Christian Spirituality Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Douglas Burton-Christie, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding Theme: Spirituality: Its Uses and Misuses Panelists: Philip F. Sheldrake, University of Durham Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard University Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University Mary Frohlich, Catholic Theological Union A19-62 Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Tim Lubin, Washington and Lee University, Presiding Theme: Issues in Poetry Translation: From the Bhagavad Gita to Poetry in the Ancient Synagogue Laurie Patton, Emory University Translating the Bhagavad Gita: Poetry and Process Michael D. Swartz, Ohio State University, Columbus Translation and the Comprehensibility of the Poetry of the Ancient Synagogue A19-63 Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Hans G. Kippenberg, Max-Weber-Kolleg Erfurt, Presiding Theme: Gift, Class, Agency: Rethinking Concepts and Cases Arlene Macdonald, University of Toronto "It Felt Like a Gift": Attending to Religion in Organ Exchange Richard J. Callahan, University of Missouri, Columbia Religion as Street Fight: Religion, Performance, and the Industrial Workers of the World John Seitz, Harvard University Resistance and Belonging in Parish Vigils in the Boston Archdiocese A19-64 Evangelical Theology Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Arlene Sanchez Walsh, Azusa Pacific University, Presiding Theme: Evangelical Theology and Science Josh Reeves, Boston University Evangelicals, Theological Method, and God’s Two Books Kevin Hector, Princeton Theological Seminary Evangelical Theology and the Empirical Stance: An Engagement with Bas van Fraassen A19-65 Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Karen Trimble Alliaume, Lewis University, Presiding Theme: Women's Agency/Desire in Cross Cultural Perspectives Christine E. Gudorf, Florida International University Feminist Agency and the Construction of Sexual Desire: Querying Mahmoud's Politics of Piety and Female Pentecostals in Latin America C.L. Nash, University of Edinburgh Drinking from Their Own Wells: An Inter-Cultural Analysis of the Treatment of Widows Kate Wilkinson, Emory University Silly Little Women and Sober, Silent Virgins: The Agency of Women in the Fourth-Century Trinitarian Debates A19-66 Nineteenth-Century Theology Group and Schleiermacher Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Brent Sockness, Stanford University, Presiding Theme: The Uses and Abuses of Schleiermacher in the Nineteenth Century Dustin Feddon, Florida State University Thinking about the Infinite: The Role of the Religious in the Early Works of Schleiermacher and Feuerbach Matthew L. Becker, Valparaiso University Placing Theology in the University: Schleiermacher’s Brief Outline and Hofmann’s Encyclopedia of Theology Clive Marsh, University of Nottingham A Nineteenth-Century Case of Post-Liberalism? The Reception of Schleiermacher in the Ecclesial, Social Theology of Albrecht Ritschl In order to facilitate informed, substantive discussion, papers for this session will be posted in mid-October at the Schleiermacher Group's Yahoo website. AAR members wishing to join the Schleiermacher Group and access this website should contact Brent Sockness at sockness@stanford.edu. A19-67 Person, Culture, and Religion Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Pamela Cooper-White, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Presiding Theme: Embodied Religious Practices in Psychological Perspective, Part II Dirk G. Lange, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia The Return of the Body in Eucharistic Practice: Psychoanalysis and the Disruption of Ritual Kathleen Bishop, Long Branch, NJ This Is My Body: The Interplay of Personal Symptom and Public Symbol in Eucharistic Practice Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin, Obafemi Awolowo University Food as Ritual, Mouth as a Deity: The Place of Feast in Yoruba Concept of Vitality A19-68 Religion and Ecology Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University, Presiding Theme: Religious and Theological Reflections on Environmental Issues in Africa Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Contemporary Global Culture, the Theologies of Prosperity, and Ecological Restoration in Africa: An Ecotheologian's Perspective Tabona Shoko, University of Zimbabwe Land Crisis: Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe Eric Trozzo, Drew University The Khanya Programme and African Christian Theologies of Nature Responding: Isabel Mukonyora, Western Kentucky University A19-69 Religion, Politics, and the State Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Andrew Murphy, Valparaiso University, Presiding Theme: Global Perspectives: Political Theology at the Crossroads James L. Rowell, Lafayette College Political Theology at the Extremes: Gandhi and Bin Laden Kevin York-Simmons, Vanderbilt University Political Religion in the Era of Globalization: Toward a Postnational Christian Theology Robert F. Shedinger, Luther College Wall of Separation or Barrier to Justice? Valuing an Islamic Approach to "Church-State" Separation A19-70 Roman Catholic Studies Group and Christianity and Academia Consultation Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Jeanne Marie Heffernan, Villanova University, Presiding Theme: Issues and Controversies in Catholic Higher Education Alison Benders, Ursuline College Renewing the Identity of Catholic Colleges: Implementing Lonergan's Method for Education Daniel McKanan and Kari-Shane Davis, Saint John's University Controversial Conversations on a Catholic Campus: A Report on Research Raymond A. Patterson, Saint Michael's College Searching for the Wellspring of American Catholic Intellectual Life: The Catholic University of America, University Extension, and the Catholic Summer School Movement A19-71 Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University, Presiding Theme: In Search of Well-Watered Gardens: Theo-Ethical Resources in the Work of Alice Walker Panelists: Angela Sims, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education Alison P. Gise Johnson, Virginia Union University M. Shawn Copeland, Boston College Katie G. Cannon, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education Business Meeting: Evelyn L. Parker, Southern Methodist University, Presiding A19-72 World Christianity Group and Coptic Christianity Consultation Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm New Program Unit Lois Farag, Luther Seminary, Presiding Theme: A Vision for Coptic Studies: “Coptic Christianity” from Late Antique Egypt to the “Coptic Diaspora” Stephen Emmel, Universität Göttingen A Vision for Coptic Studies: “Coptic Christianity” from Late Antique Egypt to the “Coptic Diaspora” Business Meeting: Lois Farag, Luther Seminary, Presiding A19-73 Liberal Theologies Consultation and Theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. Consultation Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm New Program Unit Johnny B. Hill, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Building Coalitions Then and Now: African-American Thought and Twentieth-Century Liberal Theologies Panelists: Ann Duncan, University of Virginia James Deotis Roberts, Palmer Theological Seminary Charles Marsh, University of Virginia A19-74 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sponsored by the Journal of the American Academy of Religion Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria, Presiding Theme: Five Years of Building Bridges Panelists: Mona Siddiqui, University of Glasgow Miroslav Volf, Yale University Hugh Philip Goddard, University of Nottingham See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A19-75 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sponsored by the Program Committee Aislinn Jones, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Theme: How to Propose a New AAR Program Unit Join the chair of the Program Committee and the AAR Annual Meeting Program Director for an informal chat about upcoming Annual Meeting initiatives as well as the guidelines and policies for proposing a new Annual Meeting program unit. A19-76 Wildcard Session Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Jennifer Baldwin, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, Presiding Theme: Religion and Abuse: Proclamation, Disclosure, and "Hearing to Speech" Panelists: Marie M. Fortune, FaithTrust Institute Rebecca Parker, Starr King School for the Ministry James Newton Poling, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#WildcardSessions for details. A19-77 Wildcard Session Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Heidi Hadsell, Hartford Seminary, Presiding Theme: Educational Strategies to Develop Clergy Leadership of Congregations for Justice Engagement in the Public Square Panelists: Terry Boggs, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Craig L. Nessan, Wartburg Theological Seminary Maxine Beach, Drew University Theological School Ann Svennungsen, Fund for Theological Education Richard A. Hoehn, Adelphi, MD Rodney Petersen, Boston Theological Institute See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#WildcardSessions for details. A19-79 Wildcard Session Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Leslie D. Callahan, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: Epistemic Violence in the Study of Religion Ludger Viefhues, Yale University “Modern Religion” as Negotiation of Violence: Accounting for and Subverting the Epistemic Violence of the Category of Religion Shannon Craigo-Snell, Yale University Feminist Systematic Theology as Epistemic Violence, or, In Praise of Girlfights Cynthia Hess, St. Mary's College of Maryland Multiple Violences and the Possiblity of a Peaceful Self See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#WildcardSessions for details. A19-80 Wildcard Session Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Lynne Bejoian, Teachers College Columbia University, Presiding Theme: Pedagogy and Theology: Crossing the Multifaith Divide Toward Access and Inclusion Panelists: Maysaa Bazna, College of Staten Island Josh Borkin, Teachers College, Columbia University Frederick W. Weidmann, Auburn Theological Seminary See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#WildcardSessions for details. A19-81 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section and Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Mark Lloyd Taylor, Seattle University, Presiding Theme: Kierkegaard and Pedagogy Panelists: Amy Laura Hall, Duke University Timothy Polk, Hamline University Helene T. Russell, Christian Theological Seminary Jason A. Mahn, Duke University Marty Miller Maddox, Graduate Theological Union Responding: Louise Carroll Keeley, Assumption College A19-82 Buddhism Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Charles S. Prebish, Pennsylvania State University, Presiding Theme: Twenty-Five Years and Looking Forward: Former Co-Chairs' Roundtable Panelists: Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University John R. McRae, Soka University John S. Strong, Bates College Leslie Kawamura, University of Calgary Peter N. Gregory, Smith College Collett D. Cox, University of Washington George D. Bond, Northwestern University Business Meeting: Charles Hallisey, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Presiding Janet Gyatso, Harvard University, Presiding A19-83 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Selva J. Raj, Albion College, Presiding Theme: Legal Categories in the Study of Religion: Comparative Issues Panelists: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, State University of New York, Buffalo Hans G. Kippenberg, Max-Weber-Kolleg Erfurt A19-84 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University, Presiding Theme: Religion, International Collaboration, and Social Change in Africa Matthew Bersagel Braley, Emory University Learning to Stand with Africa: Religious Networks, Human Rights, and HIV/AIDS Jennifer Eaton Dyer, Vanderbilt University The Politics of Evangelicals (2000-2005): On The Issues of Debt, AIDS, and Poverty in Africa Douglas A. Hicks, University of Richmond African Poverty and the ONE Campaign: An Analysis of Moral Imagination and Motivation A19-85 Study of Islam Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding Theme: Cartoons of Muhammad and Muslim Responses Panelists: Liyakat Takim, University of Denver Munir Jiwa, University of Toronto Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University Chicago Laury Silvers, Skidmore College Hatem Al-Bazian, University of California, Berkeley Kristin Sands, Sarah Lawrence College Responding: Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard University A19-86 Theology and Religious Reflection Section and Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School, Presiding Theme: Washington Sunday: God, Sex, and Politics Panelists: Marcella Althaus-Reid, University of Edinburgh Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago Mary E. Hunt, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual Mark D. Jordan, Emory University A19-87 Women and Religion Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Rosetta E. Ross, Spelman College, Presiding Theme: African Religion and Women's Agency Beverley Haddad, University of KwaZulu-Natal Surviving the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: African Women Living and Dying, Shielding and Sheltering, Theorizing and Being Theorized Oyeronke Olajubu, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Women and the Politics of Leadership in Africa Damaris M'mworia, Drew University Evil, Suffering, and Women's Agency in Africa Sarojini Nadar, University of KwaZulu-Natal Searching the Dungeons Beneath Our Religious Discourses: The Case of Violence Against Women and The "Unholy Trinity" A19-88 Afro-American Religious History Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Deidre H. Crumbley, North Carolina State University, Presiding Theme: Celebrating the 100th Year of a "Black Revival": A Discussion on The Azusa Street Mission and Revival by Cecil M. Robeck Panelists: Wallace Best, Harvard University A.G. Miller, Oberlin College Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, Texas Southern University Responding: C. M. Robeck, Fuller Theological Seminary A19-89 Anthropology of Religion Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm J. Shawn Landres, Synagogue 3000 and University of California, Los Angeles, Presiding Theme: Familiar yet Strange: Jewish Ethnographers in Evangelical Communities Panelists: Mara Einstein, Queens College, City University of New York Lynne Gerber, Graduate Theological Union Michele Rosenthal, University of Haifa Omri Elisha, New York University Responding: Randall Balmer, Barnard College, Columbia University A19-90 Eastern Orthodox Studies Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Peter Bouteneff, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: The Theology of Sergii Bulgakov Brandon Gallaher, University of Oxford Graced Creatureliness: Ontological Tension in the Uncreated/Created Distinction in the Sophiologies of Bulgakov, Solov’ev, and Milbank Jonathan Seiling, Conrad Grebel University College From Antinomy to Sophiology: Bulgakov's Post-Kantian Idealist System A19-91 Mysticism Group and Daoist Studies Consultation Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Presiding Theme: Daoist Mystical Experiences: Embodied and Disembodied Laura Weed, College of Saint Rose Daoist Mysticism: Embodiment, Eudaimonia, and Flow Stephen Eskildsen, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Out-of-Body Experience in Tang Daoist Meditation: A Few Non-Neidan Examples Found in the Yunji Qian Louis Komjathy, Pacific Lutheran University The Daoist Mystical Body Responding: Jordan Paper, York University A19-92 Native Traditions in the Americas Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Cultural Sovereignty in the Representation of Native Traditions Ines Hernandez-Avila and Juan Avila, University of California, Davis Honoring the Patwin People: A Campus/Community Collaboration at the University of California, Davis Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University Collaborative Issues in Onondaga Nation Territory Gabrielle Tayac, National Museum of the American Indian Creating Native Space at the National Museum of the American Indian: Integrating Indigenous Philosophical Stances in the Contemporary Life Gallery A19-93 New Religious Movements Group and Yoga in Theory and Practice Consultation Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm New Program Unit Lloyd W. Pflueger, Truman State University, Presiding Theme: Embodiment, Empowerment, and Commodification in Contemporary Yoga and Tantra Shreena Gandhi, University of Florida The Practice of Yoga in the US: Bridging the Mind and Body and Religion and the Market Klas Nevrin, Stockholm University Stockholm University Empowerment and Embodiment in Modern Yoga: Styles and Modes of Postural Practice in Ashtanga Vinyasa Training Michelle Demeter, University of South Florida Yoga: Its Transmission and Commodification in the United States Madhu Khanna, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Whose Tantra? Reimagining Bazari Tantra as a Significant Category of Discourse in the Study of Tantrism Responding: Richard King, Vanderbilt University A19-94 Reformed Theology and History Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Martha L. Moore-Keish, Columbia Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Book Review Session of Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics Panelists: Emilie M. Townes, Yale University Serene Jones, Yale University Responding: David S. Cunningham, Hope College Business Meeting: Katherine Sonderegger, Virginia Theological Seminary, Presiding Robert J. Sherman, Bangor Theological Seminary, Presiding A19-95 Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Victoria Barnett, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Presiding Theme: Religion, Justice, and Genocide in Africa Eric Markusen, Danish Institute for International Studies Voices of Victims of Genocide in Darfur: Heard but Not Heeded? Fidele Lumeya, Church World Service Restorative Justice: An African Perspective Vern Neufeld Redekop, Saint Paul University A Post-Genocidal Justice of Blessing as an Alternative to a Justice of Violence: The Case of Rwanda Responding: Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University A19-96 Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Linda L. Barnes, Boston University, Presiding Theme: Teaching Religion and Healing Panelists: Stephanie Y. Mitchem, University of South Carolina Lara Medina, Claremont Graduate University Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College Suzanne J. Crawford, Pacific Lutheran University A19-97 Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group and Cultural History of the Study of Religion Consultation Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Robison B. James, University of Richmond, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Presiding Theme: Is Paul Tillich “the Unacknowledged Theoretician of the AAR’s Entire Enterprise” (Jonathan Z. Smith)? Panelists: Jonathan Z. Smith, University of Chicago Tomoko Masuzawa, University of Michigan John Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University A19-98 World Christianity Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm New Program Unit Dale T. Irvin, New York Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: World Christianity Todd M. Johnson, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary A Demographic Overview of World Christianity Lamin Sanneh, Yale University Unity and Diversity in the Christian Movement Peter C. Phan, Georgetown University Doing Theology in the Context of World Christianity Patrick Provost-Smith, Harvard University World Christianity as an Epistemological Problem Responding: Daisy L. Machado, Lexington Theological Seminary A19-99 Liberal Theologies Consultation Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Stephen G. Ray, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, Presiding Theme: Are Liberal Theologies Liberation Theologies? Peter C. Hodgson, Vanderbilt University Radical Liberalism: A Liberatory Mandate Millicent Feske, Saint Joseph's University The Material Promise of Karl Rahner's Theological Anthropology for A Feminist-Liberationist Soteriology Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Grinnell College Time for Liberal Theology? Time Zones, Tempo, and Territorial Politics Business Meeting: Christine Helmer, Harvard University, Presiding A19-135 African Association for the Study of Religion Sunday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm The AASR members look forward to welcoming Africa focus scholars. Professor Elom Dovlo, University of Ghana and President of the AASR, will speak on Observations on the State of the Study and Practice of Religion in Africa. General discussion will follow. AASR General Secretary Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh, will give an update on the state of the Association. Professor Musa W. Dube, University of Botswana, will present a progress report on planning for the AASR conference to be held in Gabarone, Botswana, July, 2007. AASR and AAR-African Religions Group members will host a dinner for the Africa focus scholars following the meeting. A19-137 Theta Alpha Kappa Annual Meeting and Reception Sunday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm A19-100 AAR Sterling Circle Reception Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A19-101 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Program Committee J. Shawn Landres, Synagogue 3000/UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, Presiding Theme: Jewish Religious and Communal Responses to Genocides in Africa Panelists: David Saperstein, Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A19-102 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Religion and Disabilities Task Force Kent A. Eaton, Bethel Seminary, Presiding Theme: Disability and the Local Faith Community: Concerns for Ministry and Theological Education Panelists: Ginny Thornburgh, National Organization on Disability See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A19-103 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 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 Patricia O'Connell Killen, 2006 Excellence in Teaching Award Winner Panelists: Patricia O'Connell Killen, Pacific Lutheran University See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A19-104 Wildcard Session Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Paul Oslington, University of New South Wales, Australia, Presiding Theme: Economic Dimensions of Religion and Religious Dimensions of Economics: A Dialogue Panelists: Lawerence Iannaccone, George Mason University Max L. Stackhouse, Princeton Theological Seminary Robert H Nelson, University of Maryland Craig M. Gay, Regent College See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#WildcardSessions for details. A19-105 Wildcard Session Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, Bowdoin College, Presiding Theme: The Role of Secular Viewpoints in Scriptural Studies: Past, Present, and Future Jacques Berlinerblau, Georgetown University Secular Criticism, the AAR, and the SBL A. J. Droge, University of Toronto What Difference Does Q Make? or Excavating Q Studies Hector Avalos, Iowa State University Translation as Manipulation: A Secular Perspective James Crossley, University of Sheffield What Is Secular Criticism? Responding: William E. Arnal, New York University Hugh Pyper, University of Sheffield See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#WildcardSessions for details. A19-106 Evils in Religious Traditions Consultation Planning Session Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Jason Steuber, University of Missour, Kansas City and Nelson-Atkins Museum, Presiding A19-107 Christian Systematic Theology Section Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Kristen E. Kvam, Saint Paul School of Theology, Presiding Theme: God's African Households Joshua Ralston, Emory University The "Matter" of the Eucharist in Bénézet Bujo’s African Catholic Ecclesiology: The Sacrament as a Means of Inculturation and Liberation Michael Battle, Virginia Theological Seminary African Apophatic Theology Ernst M. Conradie, University of the Western Cape The Whole Household of God (Oikos) in an African Ecclesiological Perspective A19-108 Ethics Section Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Daniel C. Maguire, Marquette University, Presiding Theme: Violence against Women Rooted in Religion: A Comparative Study Panelists: John C. Raines, Temple University Christine E. Gudorf, Florida International University Hu Hsiao-Lan, Temple University David Robert Loy, Bunkyo University A19-109 Religion in South Asia Section Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Corinne Dempsey, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Presiding Theme: Identity, Poetry, and Desire Nathan McGovern, University of California, Santa Barbara "Hinduism" in a "Non-Hindu" Context: A Study of Brahma-Worship in Thailand SherAli Tareen, Duke University Reifying Religion While Lost in Translation: Mirza Mazhar Jan-i Janan (d.1781) on the Hindus Deven Patel, Seton Hall University Monism, Mantra, and Poet-Mystics: Religious Readings of Courtly Epic Poetry in South Asia Shana Lisa Sippy, Columbia University Disaporic Desires: Exploring the Discourse of Desire among Hindus in the United States A19-110 Study of Islam Section Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Ruqayya Khan, Trinity University, Presiding Theme: Islam and Authority in a Public Space David Simonowitz, Otis College of Art and Design From 12 to 124,000 Venerable Models: Externally Dissimilar Manifestations of Shi`i Islam in Iranian Ritual Spaces Karen G. Ruffle, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A "Good Woman" Embodied: Constructing Fatima Kubra as an Idealized Indian Shi‘a Muslim Bride/Widow Behnam Sadeghi, Princeton University A Stylometric Evaluation of Mehdi Bazargan’s Chronology of the Qur’an Mohammad Khalil, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Between Heaven and Hell: Al-Ghazālī, Ibn al-‘Arabi, Ibn Taymiyya, and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on Salvation and the Fate of "Others" Irfana Hashmi, New York University The Women of the Medieval Minbar A19-111 Women and Religion Section and Bioethics and Religion Group Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University, Presiding Theme: Watch out Roe!: Religion and Reproductive Freedom Panelists: Toby Schonfeld, University of Nebraska Laura Purdy, Wells College Carolyn McLeod, Universitiy of Western Ontario Suzanne Holland, University of Puget Sound A19-112 African Religions Group and Ritual Studies Group Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Isabel Mukonyora, Western Kentucky University, Presiding Theme: Making Again: Rites to Heal New Challenges in African Contexts Kara Ellis Skora, University of Virginia Modern Asante Ancestorhood: Retrieving Meaning and Invoking Identity through Rituals of Remembrance Jone Salomonsen, University of Oslo Shielding Girls at Risk by Weaving Zulu and Christian Ritual Heritage Sidsel Roalkvam, Diakonhjemmet University College, Oslo The Making of Protective Spaces A19-113 Black Theology Group Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Alison Gise Johnson, Virginia Union University, Presiding Theme: Healing the Hurt: Black Theology and Human Suffering Athur Pressley, Drew University Suffering As Identity: A Call for Dialogue between Liberation Psychology and Liberation Theologies Derek Hicks, Rice University The Reclamation: The Nature of Black Theology’s Response to Human Suffering Nessette Falu, New York Theological Seminary Black Theology and Its Health Care Microscoping into Human Suffering: Addressing Black Community Health Oppression in the Twenty-First Century Kurt Buhring, Saint Mary's College Toward a Revised Humanocentric Theism: A Consideration of William R. Jones on Divine Power and Human Freedom and Suffering Responding: Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University A19-114 Chinese Religions Group and Confucian Traditions Group Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Philip Kafalas, Georgetown University, Presiding Theme: Self-Cultivation: Reworking Old Methods, Creating New Ones Miaw-fen Lu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan The Classic of Filial Piety in Early Seventeenth-Century Confucian Scholars’ Self-Cultivation Jennifer Eichman, Seton Hall University Convincing Yangming Schoolmen to Intone the Name of Amitābhā Buddha Charles B. Jones, Catholic University of America Yuan Hongdao (1568-1610) and the Xifang Helun: Advancing Pure Land Thought in Late Ming China A19-115 Comparative Religious Ethics Group Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm New Program Unit Lucinda J. Peach, American University, Presiding Theme: Assessing Recent Works in Comparative Ethics Jonathan Schofer, Harvard University Comparative Reflections on Material Virtue Charles Hallisey, University of Wisconsin, Madison Reading Michael Cook on Islamic Ethics A19-116 Law, Religion, and Culture Group Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Rosalind I. J. Hackett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Presiding Theme: Religion and Human Rights in Africa Felix B. Asiedu, Middlebury College After Forgiveness: The Morphology of Justice, the New Utilitarianism, and the Culture of Human Rights Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University The Burden of Religion and the Fragility of Constitutional Relief: A Critique of State Involvement in Religious Pilgrimages in Nigeria Responding: T. Jeremy Gunn, American Civil Liberties Union A19-119 Religion and Popular Culture Group Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University, Presiding Theme: Religion, Protest, and Popular Culture Lee Gilmore, Chabot College “Change-a-lujah!” Destabilizing Normative “Religion” with Reverend Billy and the Stop-Shopping Gospel Choir Karline McLain, Bucknell University Who Shot the Mahatma? Depicting Gandhian Nonviolence in Indian Comic Books Ibrahim Abraham, Monash University Punk Pulpit: Religion, Punk Rock, and Counter-(sub)cultures Responding: Lisle Dalton, Hartwick College Business Meeting: Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University, Presiding Richard J. Callahan, University of Missouri, Columbia, Presiding A19-120 Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Marla J. Selvidge, Central Missouri State University, Presiding Theme: A Shabby Messiah: Bush and the "Divine Mission" Andrew Fiala, California State University, Fresno The Crusade for Freedom: A Critique of The Bush Doctrine Jillinda Weaver, Emory University Civil Religion, George W. Bush's Divine Mission, and an Ethics of Mission Helen Daley Schroepfer, West Chester University “Pursuing the Enemies of Freedom”: Religion in the Persuasive Rhetoric of the Bush Administration Responding: James L. Rowell, Lafayette College J. Noel Hubler, Lebanon Valley College A19-121 Science, Technology, and Religion Group Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Connie Bertka, AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion, Presiding Theme: Interpreting Quantum Mechanics: Buddhist and Christian Perspectives Panelists: Charles H. Townes, University of California, Berkeley B. Alan Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara William R. Stoeger, University of Arizona A19-122 Scriptural Reasoning Group Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Rachel Muers, University of Exeter, Presiding Theme: Holiness and Practice Panelists: Diana Lipton, University of Cambridge Ben Quash, University of Cambridge Umeyye Isra Yazicioglu, University of Virginia Business Meeting: Rachel Muers, University of Exeter, Presiding A19-123 Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Bruce Ellis Benson, Wheaton College, Presiding Theme: Heidegger's The Phenomenology of Religious Life Panelists: Daniel Dahlstrom, Boston University Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University A19-124 Wesleyan Studies Group Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm Rebekah Miles, Southern Methodist University, Presiding Theme: John Wesley's Moral Theology Panelists: D. Stephen Long, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Randy L. Maddox, Duke University Robin W. Lovin, Southern Methodist University Phil Wogaman, Iliff School of Theology A19-125 Theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. Consultation Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm New Program Unit Henry James Young, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and Johnny B. Hill, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Fifty Years Later: The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Montgomery Bus Boycott Panelists: Lewis V. Baldwin, Vanderbilt University Rosetta E. Ross, Spelman College Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College Cornel West, Princeton University Business Meeting: Johnny B. Hill, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding A19-133 Critical Studies of Political Theology Consultation Planning Session Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm A19-136 Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Theme: Themes in Japanese Philosophy Keung Wing Lam, Kyoto University The Absolute Nothingness and Knowledge in Later Philosophy of Nishida Kitar: Reading 'The Logic of Place and the Religious Worldview. John Maraldo, Northern Florida University Kuki Shuzo’s Contingent Nothingness Judy Saltzman, California Polytechnic State University Desire to Win: Sport, Budo, and the Art of War A19-138 Evangelical Philosophical Society Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Theme: The Nature of Knowledge: The Internalism/Externalism Debate and its Theological Implications William Lane Craig, Talbot School of Theology, Presiding Panelists: James Beilby, Bethel University R. Douglas Geivett, Biola University A19-126 Plenary Address Sunday - 7:15 pm-8:15 pm Theme: Tariq Ramadan Due to the US Government’s denial of Tariq Ramadan’s visa application, he will be appearing live via satellite. See www.aarweb.org/about/announce/2006/RamadanLawsuitIntro.asp for details. A19-127 Arts Series/Films: KanKouran West African Dance Company Sunday - 8:30 pm-9:30 pm Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University, Presiding See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#ArtsSeriesandTours for details. A19-128 Arts Series/Films: Religion in Documentary Film: The Work of Helen Whitney Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:30 pm Diana L. Eck, Harvard University, Presiding See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#ArtsSeriesandTours for details. A19-129 Arts Series/Films: Gattaca Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:30 pm Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Tony S. L. Michael, York University, Presiding See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Films for details. A19-130 Arts Series/Films: Excerpts from Toward a New Christianity: Stories of African Christians in Ghana and Zimbabwe Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:30 pm Sponsored by the African Religions Group See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Films for details. A19-132 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Steve Herrick, American Academy Religion, Presiding Theme: Capitol Hill Advocacy Orientation A19-131 JAAR Editorial Board Reception Sunday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia, Presiding A20-1 AAR Program Unit Chairs' Breakfast Monday - 7:30 am-8:45 am John R. Fitzmier, American Academy of Religion, Presiding A20-2 Teaching and Learning Committee Meeting Monday - 7:30 am-9:00 am Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College, Presiding A20-39 Religion in the Schools Task Force Meeting Monday - 7:30 am-9:00 am Diane L. Moore, Harvard University, Presiding A20-38 Special Topics Forum Monday - 8:00 am-12:00 pm Theme: Capitol Hill Advocacy Orientation and Capitol Hill Visit A20-3 Special Topics Forum Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Posters Session B. Lilan Laishley, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Labyrinths: Images of the Cosmos Joseph Laycock, Indianapolis, Indiana Mothman and Durkheim: A Twentieth Century American Totem Matthew Long and Jennifer Schwartzberg, University of Georgia A Study of the Judeo-Arabic text of "The Tale of our Master Moses and the Gates of Heaven and Hell" Jennifer Oldstone-Moore, Wittenberg University Experiential Learning: Teaching Pilgrimage Through the 88 Sacred Places of Shikoku Dustin Reynolds, Azusa Pacific University Child Solidiers in Africa Sarah Steele, Graduate Theological Union Unveiled: Identity in Marjane Satrapi's Autobiographical Graphic Novels Persepolis and Persepolis 2 Denis Thalson, Graduate Theological Union A Matter of Difference: Urban vs Roadside Memorials in the US See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A20-4 Wildcard Session Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Calvin Mercer, East Carolina University, Presiding Theme: Radical Life Extension: What Religions Have to Say Panelists: Aubrey de Grey, Cambridge University Terence L. Nichols, University of St Thomas Derek Maher, East Carolina University Jeffrey Stephen Lidke, Berry College John L. Esposito, Georgetown University Nancy J. Duff, Princeton Theological Seminary See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#WildcardSessions for details. A20-5 Ethics Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am David P. Gushee, Union University, Presiding Theme: Getting Out: Ethics after a War Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary Getting Out Requires Acknowledging How We Got In Luis Reyes Ceja, Universidad del Valle de Atemajac co-presenter with Gregory A. Banazak Gregory A. Banazak, SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary Ius Post Bellum in the Indies: Light on Ethical Obligations after War from Sixteenth-Century Latin America Tori C. Lockler, University of South Florida The Suffering of the Nazi Doctors Rebecca Gordon, Graduate Theological Union Can Practice Make Perfect? Torture, Virtue Ethics, and the Christian Sacramental Tradition A20-6 History of Christianity Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Karen Bruhn, Arizona State University, Presiding Theme: Constructing Christian and National Identities Kathleen M. Self, Skidmore College At the Althing, in the Law: Constructing Christian and Icelandic Identity in the Conversion of Iceland Richard Winston Bishop, University of Virginia Render the Basilica unto Caesar? Ambrose of Milan on Church and Empire Björn Krondorfer, St. Mary's College of Maryland The Hour of the Church: Nationalizing Christian Identity in Post-1945 Autobiographies of German Protestant Theologians Regina Schwerd, University of California, Berkeley Not the German Christ, but the German Christian: The Construction of a Proto-German Identity in the Ninth-Century Heliand Aimee Burant, University of Chicago Theology as "Spiritual Renewal of the Nation": Ernst Troeltsch on Christianity and German Identity, 1914-1918 Responding: Darren Walhof, Grand Valley State University A20-7 North American Religions Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Authors Meet Critics: Religion, Law and Society with Noah Feldman (Divided by God), Marci A. Hamilton (God vs. The Gavel) and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan (The Impossibility of Religious Freedom) Panelists: Marci A. Hamilton, Yeshiva University Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, State University of New York, Buffalo Noah Feldman, New York University Responding: Sarah Gordon, University of Pennsylvania A20-8 Philosophy of Religion Section and Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Grinnell College, Presiding Theme: The Significance of Amy Hollywood's Sensible Ecstasy (University of Chicago Press) Panelists: Janet Gyatso, Harvard University Virginia Burrus, Drew University Ellen T. Armour, Vanderbilt University Patricia Daily, Columbia University Responding: Amy M. Hollywood, Harvard University A20-9 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Alton B. Pollard, Emory University, Presiding Theme: "Natural" Disasters and Social and Religious Responses Jennifer Veninga, Graduate Theological Union Burying the Dead and Feeding the Living: A Social Scientific Analysis of the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 Laurie Cozad, University of Mississippi Disaster and Divinity in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina Lynn Bridgers, St. Thomas University Beyond the Medical Model: Re-examining Religious Response in the Aftermath of Trauma and Disaster Stephen Dove, Fuller Theological Seminary Relief and Repentance: Proselytism and Evangelical Disaster Responses Business Meeting: Douglas A. Hicks, University of Richmond, Presiding A20-10 Study of Islam Section and Contemporary Islam Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Robert Rozehnal, Lehigh University, Presiding Theme: From Cyber to the Grave: Making and Marking Muslim Space Kristin Sands, Sarah Lawrence College Cyberspace and Muslim Political Theology Debra Mubashshir Majeed, Beloit College “Not Here, Sistah!": African American Women and Gender Marginalization in American Mosques Rizwan Mawani, Institute of Ismaili Studies Ismaili Jamatkhanas: Negotiating Space, Ritual, and Identity Since Aga Khan III Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University Ismaili Jamatkhanas: Negotiating Space, Ritual, and Identity Since Aga Khan III Naveeda Khan, Johns Hopkins University Inheriting Islam: The Call to Prayer and the Ordinary Voice of Tradition Responding: Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University A20-11 Study of Judaism Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Chava Weissler, Lehigh University, Presiding Theme: The “New Jews”: Reflections on Emerging Cultural Practices Barbara Kirshenbaltt-Gimblett, New York University The “New Jews”: Reflections on Emerging Cultural Practices Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University Bar Mitzvah Disco: Remediating a Rite of Passage Ari Kelman, University of California, Davis Ritual as Mediation: A Case Study in Storahtelling Judah Cohen, New York University A Musical Space of Our Own: Negotiating Genre, Authenticity, and Identity in Music of the “New” New Jews Responding: Michele Rosenthal, University of Haifa A20-12 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University, Presiding Theme: Jim Wallis' God's Politics (Harper SanFrancisco) and Critical Responses Jim Wallis, Sojourners Responding: Andrea Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Shaw University Douglas K. Harink, King's University College Business Meeting: Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School, Presiding Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University, Presiding A20-13 African Religions Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Damaris M'mworia, Drew University, Presiding Theme: Religion and Public Life in Africa: Politics, Human Rights, and Peacemaking Edwin Gimode, Kenyatta University Religion in Public Affairs: The Role of the Church in the Struggle for Democracy and a New Constitutional Order in Kenya Mary Nyangweso, Iowa State University Religion, the African Concept of the Individual, and the Human Rights Discourse Nisbert Taringa, University of Zimbabwe African Traditional Religions and Human Rights: Initiating the Discourse Isabel Apawo Phiri, University of KwaZulu-Natal Peacemaking and Reconciliation: The Contribution of African Indigenous Religious Women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Business Meeting: Samuel K. Elolia, Emmanuel School of Religion, Presiding A20-14 Bible, Theology, and Postmodernity Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Catherine Keller, Drew University, Presiding Theme: Genesis Mark I. Wallace, Swarthmore College The Food Web Is Sacred: Reading Genesis and Matthew through Green Eyes Gary A. Phillips, Wabash College Suffering Responsibility: Creation, Art, and the Genesis of Ethics Danna Nolan Fewell, Drew University Suffering Responsibility: Creation, Art, and the Genesis of Ethics Sharon V. Betcher, Vancouver School of Theology Disabling "The Fall" Jon L. Berquist, Westminster John Knox Press Genesis, Diaspora, Multiplicities Business Meeting: Jon L. Berquist, Westminster John Knox Press, Presiding A20-15 Black Theology Group and Person, Culture, and Religion Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kathleen Bishop, Madison, NJ, Presiding Theme: Explorations: Black Theology, Psychology, and Human Wholeness Monica A. Coleman, Bennett College for Women Friendly Spirits: A Womanist Theology of Mental Health through the Lens of Spirit Possession Lee Hayward Butler, Chicago Theological Seminary Breaking the Chains, Cutting the Ropes, Embodying the Disintegrated: The Liberating Work of African American Pastoral Theology Trina Armstrong, Claremont School of Theology Rot at the Core: Black Theology and Psychotherapy—an Integrative Approach Towards Liberation from Psychological Slavery Donald H. Matthews, University of Missouri, Kansas City Fatalism: An Africana Diaspora Psychology of Religion Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Duke University Deconstructing the Strong Black Woman A20-16 Christian Spirituality Group and Wesleyan Studies Group and Wesleyan Studie Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kenneth J. Collins, Asbury Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Communal Spiritual Practices in Wesleyan Traditions Jonathan Cooney, Boston University The Shout Heard 'Round the World: Similarities and Differences between American and English Camp Meetings Rhonda Hartweg, Asbury Seminary The Contributions of Sarah Anderson Jones (1753-1794) to Three Communal Spiritual Practices of Early American Methodism Robin Knowles Wallace, Methodist Theological School in Ohio “Jesus, United by Thy Grace”: A Preliminary Investigation of Wesleyan Hymn Singing as a Communal Spiritual Practice Philip Wingeier-Rayo, Pfeiffer University Recovering the Love-Feast: Moravian Contributions to Wesleyan Bands, Classes, and Societies A20-17 Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group and Religion and Sexuality Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Yudit K. Greenberg, Rollins College, Presiding Theme: A Conversation with Wendy Doniger and Daniel Boyarin: Religion and Sexuality Panelists: Laura S. Desmond, University of Chicago Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley Business Meeting: Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, Presiding A20-18 Confucian Traditions Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Mark Halperin, University of California, Davis, Presiding Theme: Values in Conflict: Confucian Attempts to Resolve Moral Dilemmas Thomas Radice, University of Pennsylvania Concealing Morality: Moral Dilemmas, Filial Piety, and Gender in Early China Kenneth Holloway, University of Pennsylvania The Rectification of Names in the Analects and Daodejing? Keith Knapp, The Citadel Where Have All the Loyal Retainers Gone? The Conflict between Family and State in Medieval Confucianism Ian Chapman, Princeton University The Ethical Reveler: Confucian Morals in Tang Court Festivities Christopher Lupke, Washington State University Filial Vestiges: The Conflict between Confucian and Modern Structures of Selfhood Responding: Peter Ditmanson, Colby College Business Meeting: Michael Puett, Harvard University, Presiding A20-19 Eastern Orthodox Studies Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Timothy Patitsas, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Presiding Theme: Creation, the Fathers, and Contemporary Orthodox Theology Joseph M. Hallman, University of Saint Thomas Augustine or Cyril? To Whom Shall We Go for the Oneness of Christ? Frederick D. Aquino, Abilene Christian University The Natural State of the Intellect in Maximus Confessor: A Virtue Epistemology of Spirituality Thomas Cattoi, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley Salvation through Matter: Maximos the Confessor and Pavel Florensky on the Propedeutic Purpose of Creation Valerie Karras, Southern Methodist University Imago Dei or Microcosmic Rational Animal? The Protological Anthropology of Gregory of Nyssa Business Meeting: James C. Skedros, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Presiding Paul Gavrilyuk, University of Saint Thomas, Presiding A20-20 Ecclesiological Investigations Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Gerard Mannion, Liverpool Hope University, Presiding Theme: Comparative Ecclesiology: Engaging the Work of Roger Haight and Exploring the Nature, Method, and Development of Comparative Ecclesiology for the Future Paul D. Murray, University of Durham Receptive Ecumenism and Transformative Ecclesial Learning: An Ethic for the Ecumenical Long Haul Minna Hietamäki, Helsinki University Is Comparative Ecclesiology Enough for the Oikoumene? Remarks on Roger Haight's Comparative Ecclesiology in the Light of Recent Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogues Reid Locklin, University of Toronto A More Comparative Ecclesiology? Bringing Comparative Theology to the Ecclesiological Table Gerard M. Jacobitz, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia Church and Sacramentality: The Theology of Symbol in Roger Haight’s Comparative Ecclesiology Ann M. Caron, St. Joseph College, Hartford Toward an Inclusive Ecclesial Communion? Responding: Roger D. Haight, Union Theological Seminary, New York Business Meeting: Amy Plantinga Pauw, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding A20-21 Evangelical Theology Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Wyndy Corbin Reuschling, Ashland Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Drama, Doctrine, and Evangelical Theology: Exploring Kevin Vanhoozer's "Canonical-Linguistic" Approach to Doctrine and Its Implications for Evangelical Theology Jay Smith, Howard Payne University “Backdoor Balthasar”: The Theo-Drama as Template for the Drama of Doctrine and the Legitimization of an Evangelical Theological Aesthetic Hans Boersma, Regent College Dramatic Imagination: The Nouvelle Théologie of Kevin Vanhoozer John Perry, University of Notre Dame Is the Bible a Playscript? Assessing Vanhoozer's Metaphor for Evangelical Theology Responding: Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Business Meeting: John R. Franke, Biblical Theological Seminary, Presiding A20-22 Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Julianne Buenting, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Hopeful Instability: Queer Love and Divine Desire in Religious Tradition Thomas V. Peterson, Alfred University "Coming Out," Witnessing, and Being Seen as Spiritual Acts in the Gay Community Alex Hivoltze, Boston University Divine Love Letters: A Theological Instancing of Queer Love and Divine Desire Elizabeth Stuart, University of Winchester Exploding Mystery: Identity Destabilisation in the Sacramental Moment John Blevins, Emory University God’s Eros Responding: Randall H. Miller, Graduate Theological Union A20-23 Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Benjamin Valentin, Andover Newton Theological School, Presiding Theme: Legacies of Colonization: Comparative Religious and Theological Perspectives on "America" from the Margins Panelists: Rüdiger V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara Gemma Cruz, Radboud University, Nijmegen Michelle A. Gonzalez, University of Miami Diana L. Hayes, Georgetown University Jean-Pierre Ruiz, St. John's University, New York Business Meeting: Carmen Marie Nanko-Fernandez, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding Benjamin Valentin, Andover Newton Theological School, Presiding A20-24 Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am David Lamberth, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Pragmatism: Broadening the Discussion Matthew Bagger, Brown University Dewey's Bulldog: Sidney Hook, Pragmatism, and Naturalism Rose Ann Christian, Towson University Susan Haack's "Reconsidered" Ethics of Belief Joseph Winters, Princeton University Rorty, Baldwin, and the Art of Story-telling Responding: William David Hart, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Business Meeting: Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University, Presiding David C. Lamberth, Harvard University, Presiding A20-25 Reformed Theology and History Group and Religion in Europe Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Robert Alvis, Saint Meinrad School of Theology, Presiding Theme: Remembering European Conflicts Past: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Memory and the Challenge of Reconciliation Panelists: Miroslav Volf, Yale University William F. Kelleher, Syracuse University Amy Linch and Jan Kubik, Rutgers University Jeffrey Olick, University of Virginia A20-26 Religion and Disability Studies Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Theme: Religion, Disability, and Concepts of the Other Joseph Ballan, Syracuse University A Levinasian Perspective on Disability and Care Molly Haslam, Vanderbilt University Dethroning Rationality: A Theological Anthropology of/for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities Lynne Bejoian, Columbia University Enlightened Agency and Engagement: Three Wisdom Traditions’ Call to Be Radically Open to the “Other” Maysaa Bazna, College of Staten Island co-presenter with Lynne Bejoian Mary Caygill, Trinity Methodist Theological College and University of Auckland Transgressing the Frame: A Movement towards a Transgressive Space beyond "Normality" Tracy Demmons, University of St. Andrews Toward a Theology of Intellectual Disability A20-27 Roman Catholic Studies Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Gregory Nelson Hite, New College of Florida, Presiding Theme: Social Justice: Questions New and Old Brett Hendrickson, Arizona State University Organizing for Dignity: Catholic Social Policy and Challenges to the Bracero Program Jay Carney, Catholic University of America Reconsidering John Paul II’s Ecclesia in Africa in the Shadow of the Rwandan Genocide Brian Matz, Katholieke Universiteit Lueven Interpreting the "Common Good" According to Greek Patristic Writings of the Second through Fifth Centuries Nicholas Rademacher, Catholic University of America The Intersection of Faith and Science in the Catholic Social Reform Work of Gladys Sellew and Mary Elizabeth Walsh in Washington, DC A20-28 Science, Technology, and Religion Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Michael L. Spezio, California Institute of Technology, Presiding Theme: Human Uniqueness: Dialogue on Evolution and Human Dignity Panelists: Ursula Goodenough, Washington University Nancy Howell, Saint Paul School of Theology Wesley Wildman, Boston University School of Theology Barbara J. King, College of William and Mary Responding: J. Wentzel Van Huyssteen, Princeton Theological Seminary A20-29 Christianity and Academia Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Diana Akiyama, Occidental College, Presiding Theme: Christian Higher Education: History, Theology, and Practice Stephen P. Shoemaker, Harvard University Politics, Epistemology, and Divinity: The Ghettoization of Theology at Nineteenth-Century Harvard Bryan V. Hillis, Luther College, University of Regina The Creator, the Administrator, and Administrating: Can Theology Inform the Decision-making of Higher Education? L. DeAne Lagerquist, Saint Olaf College Is Secularization a Bad Thing? The View from St. Olaf College Responding: M. Douglas Meeks, Vanderbilt University Business Meeting: David S. Cunningham, Hope College, Presiding A20-31 Open and Relational Theologies Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University, Presiding Theme: Intelligent Design: Theological Considerations Taede A. Smedes, University of Leiden Intelligent Design and Theology: What Place for the Creator? Anna Case-Winters, McCormick Theological Seminary The Theological Stakes of Intelligent Design Brian Madison, Duke University Implications of Intelligent Design Theory for Cosmos as Creature and God as Creator Palmyre Oomen, Radboud University Nijmegen The Theological Failure of "Intelligent Design" and a Whiteheadian Alternative Responding: James B. Miller, American Association for the Advancement of Science A20-32 Sacred Space in Contemporary Asia Consultation and Tantric Studies Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Pamela D. Winfield, Meredith College, Presiding Theme: Inner and Outer Landscapes: Tantric Dimensions of Sacred Space in Asia June McDaniel, College of Charleston Fragments of Body, Pieces of Mind: Sacred Space in the Kali Temples of West Bengal Istvan Keul, Free University of Berlin Urbanized Goddesses: The Yoginis in Banaras E. H. Jarow, Vassar College The Tantric Body of Kalidasa J. F. Marc des Jardins, Concordia University Tibetan Bonpo Exorcistic Ritual and the Shared Tantric Landscape of Kham Responding: Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado, Boulder A20-40 Special Topics Forum Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Capitol Hill Advocacy Orientation and Capitol Hill Visit A20-118 Meeting with leaders of national educational organizations for teachers and teacher educators. Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am A20-33 National Museum of African Art Tour Monday - 9:30 am-12:00 pm Sponsored by the Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and African Religions Group S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University, Presiding Tour is sold out. See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#ArtsSeriesandTours for details. A20-34 Restoration Ecology of the Anacostia River and Environmental Justice Boat Tour Monday - 9:30 am-12:00 pm Sponsored by the Religion and Ecology Group Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University, Presiding See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#ArtsSeriesandTours for details. A20-35 EIS Advisory Committee Meeting Monday - 11:30 am-1:00 pm Shelly C. Roberts, American Academy of Religion, Presiding A20-36 Plenary Address Monday - 11:30 am-1:00 pm Diana L. Eck, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: An Interview with Madeleine Albright Panelists: Madeleine Albright, Georgetown University Susan B. Thistlethwaite, Chicago Theological Seminary See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#PlenaryandPresidentialAddresses for details. A20-50 Sacred and Religious Sites of Washington Bus Tour Monday - 1:00 pm-5:00 pm Sponsored by the North American Religions Section Peter W. Williams, Miami University of Ohio, Dewey Wallace, George Washington University, and Jeanne H. Kilde, Carleton College, Presiding See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#ArtsSeriesandTours for details. A20-51 Special Topics Forum Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Publications Committee Cynthia Read, Oxford University Press, Presiding Theme: How to Publish Your Book: Advice from Oxford University Press and from the Editors of the AAR Book Series and JAAR Panelists: Kimberly Rae Connor, University of San Francisco Susan E. Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Jacob Kinnard, Iliff School of Theology Kevin Madigan, Harvard University Anne E. Monius, Harvard University James Wetzel, Villanova University Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A20-52 Special Topics Forum Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Regions Committee Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Religion, Health, and Social Justice: African Perspectives on a Global Issue Panelists: James R. Cochrane, University of Cape Town Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University Tinyinko Maluleke, University of South Africa Peter Okaalet, MAP International Deborah McFarland, Emory University Steve de Gruchy, University of KwaZulu Natal Responding: Linda L. Barnes, Boston University See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A20-53 Special Topics Forum Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Theological Education Steering Committee Barbara Brown Zikmund, Catholic University of America, Presiding Theme: Theology in the Public Sphere: The Challenges of Being a Public Intellectual Panelists: Joseph Fahey, Manhattan College Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College Ronald J. Sider, Palmer Theological Seminary Richard Cizik, National Association of Evangelicals See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A20-54 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Grace G. Burford, Prescott College, Presiding Theme: Reflecting on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Success Stories Nathan Kollar, St John Fisher College Differing and Oppositional Religious Voices in Our Classrooms John K. Simmons, Western Illinois University Exploring the Spirituality Gap between Faculty and Student Expectations in the Introductory Class in Religious Studies and Theology Claire Bischoff and Mary Elizabeth Moore, Emory University Intersections, Parallels, and Integrations: Oral History, Pedagogy, and Research Lucretia B. Yaghjian, Episcopal Divinity School, Weston Jesuit School of Theology Writing Theology Well: Reflections on Process, Pedagogy, and Writing as a Theological Practice Business Meeting: Joseph A. Favazza, Stonehill College, Presiding Fran Grace, University of Redlands, Presiding A20-55 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Ted L. Estess, University of Houston, Presiding Theme: Art, Apocalypse, and Katrina: Poetic Responses to Disaster Panelists: Sybil Estess, University of Houston John Gery, University of New Orleans Martha Serpas, University of Tampa R. Clifton Spargo, Marquette University Responding: John Utz, Duke University A20-56 Christian Systematic Theology Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Cynthia Rigby, Austin Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Global Mission after Colonialism Robert Hughes, University of the South The Missio Spiritus as an Under-explored Ground of Post-colonial Missiology and Praxis Earl Zimmerman, Eastern Mennonite University Church and Empire: Free-Church Ecclesiology in a Global Era Daniel Ott, St. Andrews Presbyterian College Inclusive Love beyond Inclusivism: Modeling the Church’s Mission after the Inclusive Love of the Trinity Margaret Eletta Guider, Weston Jesuit School of Theology From the Ends of the Earth: "International Minister" or Missionary? A Roman Catholic Perspective on the Changing Face of Mission in the United States Business Meeting: Cynthia Rigby, Austin Theological Seminary, Presiding A20-57 Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Buddhist Philosophy Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Daniel A. Arnold, University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: Buddhist Philosophy as a Comparative Enterprise: A Solution to Philosophy's Problem of Truth Panelists: Mario D'Amato, Rollins College Jonathan Gold, University of Vermont Katherine Janiec Jones, Transylvania University Parimal G. Patil, Harvard University Business Meeting: Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University Chicago, Presiding Selva J. Raj, Albion College, Presiding A20-58 North American Religions Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Amanda Porterfield, Florida State University, Presiding Theme: Keywords in American Religion: Secularism, Literalism, Mysticism, and Missions Panelists: Adam Shapiro, University of Chicago Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago David R. Perley, University of Toronto Melani McAlister, George Washington University Responding: Martin Marty, University of Chicago A20-59 Philosophy of Religion Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Eric Boynton, Allegheny College, Presiding Theme: Biopolitics and the Philosophy of Religion Matthew Chrulew, Monash University Foucault, Biopolitics, and Religion Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas Law beyond Law: Agamben, Deleuze, and the Unconscious Event Gregory Kaplan, Rice University Biopolitics, Immanence, and the Wages of Life William Robert, Louisiana Sate University Biopolitics, Ecotechnics, and the Possibility of Subjectivity A20-60 Religion in South Asia Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Shubha Pathak, University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: Transgressing Traditions and Traditional Transgressions Panelists: Katherine Ulrich, University of Southern California Scott A. Kugle, Leiden University Robert Menzies, Albion College William Elison, University of Chicago Responding: Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan, Austin College Business Meeting: Parimal G. Patil, Harvard University, Presiding Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University, Presiding A20-62 Study of Judaism Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Martin Kavka, Florida State University, Presiding Theme: “God Is the Truth”: The Star of Redemption between Philosophy and Theology Panelists: Paul W. Franks, University of Toronto Benjamin Pollock, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto A20-63 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Derek Simon, St. Thomas University, Presiding Theme: Memory, Suffering, and Hope Flora A. Keshgegian, Brown University Black Holes and Blue Skies: Trauma and Suffering in History Lester Edwin Ruiz, New York Theological Seminary Empire, Enforced Migration, and Solidarity: Pursuing a Theology of Migration Alain Epp Weaver, University of Chicago Remembering the Nakba: Tours of Destroyed Palestinian Villages as Pilgrimages of Lament and Hope Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Empire’s Other: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet’s Future Responding: Serene Jones, Yale University A20-64 Women and Religion Section and Native Traditions in the Americas Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Andrea Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Presiding Theme: Can the Subaltern Speak? Revisited: Gender, Colonialism, and the Politics of History in Noenoe Silva's Aloha Betrayed Panelists: J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Wesleyan University Justine Smith, Harvard University Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa Dale Turner, Dartmouth College Vincent L. Wimbush, Claremont Graduate University Responding: Noenoe Silva, University of Hawaii, Honolulu Business Meeting: Michael McNally, Carleton College, Presiding Kenneth Mello, University of Vermont, Presiding A20-65 Anthropology of Religion Group and Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Edward Tabor Linenthal, Indiana University, Bloomington, Presiding Theme: The Ethics and Politics of Museum Display Jennifer L. Geddes, University of Virginia The Victim's Body and the Ethics of Viewing Jane Marie Law, Cornell University Sugihara Chiune and the Political Utility of Altruism: One Hero, Two Museums, and Myriad Competing Shared Cultural Memories Oren Baruch Stier, Florida International University Torah and Taboo: Is the United States Holocaust Museum Jewish? Hannah Holtschneider, University of Edinburgh Victims, Perpetrators, Bystanders? Witnessing, Remembering, and the Ethics of Representation in Museums of the Holocaust Business Meeting: Katharina von Kellenbach, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Presiding Oren Baruch Stier, Florida International University, Presiding A20-66 Augustine and Augustinianisms Group and Eastern Orthodox Studies Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Paul Gavrilyuk, University of Saint Thomas and James C. Skedros, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Presiding Theme: Augustine and the Christian East Will Cohen, Catholic University of America The Place of Augustine in the Ecclesiology of Georges Florovsky David Dunn, Vanderbilt University Good Sex? Desire in Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa Peter Galadza, Saint Paul University The Liturgical Commemoration of Augustine in the Byzantine East: An Ambiguous Lex Orandi for an Ambiguous Lex Credendi John Panteleimon Manoussakis, Boston College The Vision of God: Reconciling the Controversy Concerning Augustine’s Exegesis of the Old Testament Theophanies A20-67 Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm New Program Unit Miguel A. De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Theme: Biblical Reading and Colonial Hermeneutics Christo Lombaard, University of South Africa Does Contextual Exegesis Require an Affirming Bible? Lessons from "Apartheid" and "Africa" as Narcissistic Hermeneutical Keys Charles E. DeBose, California State University, East Bay The Ebonics Bible: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Laura E. Donaldson, Cornell University American Samson: Learning from the Schoolmaster Raedorah Stewart, Proclaim and Publish Ministries Three Points and the Poem: Theopoetics and Non-Canonical Texts, Tones, and Tools of Black Preaching Danielle Sigler, Austin College Zora Neale Hurston's Bible Business Meeting: Laura E. Donaldson, Cornell University, Presiding A20-68 Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Lisa Dahill, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Presiding Theme: Which Bonhoeffer? For Whom? Jacqueline A. Bussie, Capital University Terrorist or Saint? Teaching Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the Twenty-first Century Jennifer McBride, University of Virginia "Religionless Christianity" for North America: Confession of Sin as the Privileged Church’s Sociopolitical Praxis Jonathan Malesic, King's College, Pennsylvania Bonhoeffer’s “Secret Discipline”: The Duty to Conceal Christian Identity in Public Life Business Meeting: Lori Brandt Hale, Augsburg College, Presiding A20-69 Chinese Religions Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Indiana University, Bloomington, Presiding Theme: Daoist Images of the Gods Poul Andersen, University of Hawaii, Manoa Categories and Visual Representations of the Gods in the Daoist Altar Terry Kleeman, University of Colorado, Boulder The Visual Ritual Canon of the Li Family of Jilong, Taiwan Angelika Cedzich, DePaul University Daoist Gods: Their Iconic Creation and Re-imagination in Visual Art and Popular Narrative Clarke Hudson, Indiana University, Bloomington The Ancestors, Births, and Lives of Yao Daoist Manuscripts Responding: Edward L. Davis, University of Hawaii, Honolulu A20-70 Korean Religions Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Marcie Middlebrooks, Cornell University, Presiding Theme: The Transformation of Korean Religious Rituals and Their Characteristics in Contemporary Korea Kim Jongmyung, Graduate School of Korean Studies Buddhist Daily Rituals in Korea: Transformation and Characteristics Jeonghyun Ha, Academy of Korean Studies Confucian Family Ancestor Worship (Chesa) in Korea: Transformation and Characteristics Sang-un Park, Korea Institution for Religion and Culture Protestant Revival Services in Korea: Transformation and Characteristics Byoungchul Ko, Academy of Korean Studies God-Humanism (Taejjongyo) Rituals in Korea: Transformation and Characteristics Responding: Pori Park, Arizona State University James H. Grayson, University of Sheffield A20-71 Law, Religion, and Culture Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jonathan Ebel, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Presiding Theme: The Bible, Education, and American Civil Religion Nathan D. Raybeck, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Reestablishing American Civil Religion? American Identity and Bible Literacy Sara Shrader, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The Bible and Its Influence: Problems and Paradoxes of Cultural Literacy in American Public Schools Jeffrey Thibert, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The Constitutionality of Bible Courses in American Public Schools Erik Owens, Boston College "Disestablishment" as Legal Paideia? Assessing Michael McConnell’s Educational Pluralism Responding: Jonathan Moore, Grinnell College Business Meeting: Robert A. Yelle, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Presiding A20-72 Men's Studies in Religion Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Mark Justad, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Men's Studies in Religion: Cross Cultural Perspectives Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher, Texas College XODUS Wilderness: Failed New Masculinities and Hope Philip Culbertson, University of Auckland Two Men Dancing: Cross-Cultural Supervision, Colonization, and Difference as Resistance and Promise for Men's Studies in Religion Björn Krondorfer, St. Mary's College of Maryland Who’s Afraid of Gay Theology? An Intellectual Probing of Heterosexual Silence Christoph Walser, Bildung und Gesellschaft, Reformierte Kirche Zürich Against Destructive Male Habits: Rereading the New Testament in European Christian Men's Groups Responding: David James Livingston, Mercyhurst College A20-73 Platonism and Neoplatonism Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jay Bregman, University of Maine, Orono, Presiding Theme: Living Tradition Garth W. Green, Boston University Christian Neo-Platonism, Medieval and Modern Matthew C. Halteman, Calvin College Neoplatonism at the Margin of Fundamental Ontology: Inklings of Ascent "Beyond Being" in the 1929 Footnotes to Heidegger's On the Essence of Ground Willemien Otten, Utrecht University Nature’s Voice: The Auditive Structure of R.W. Emerson’s Neoplatonic Spirituality David L. Smith, Central Michigan University Ralph Waldo Emerson: From Neoplatonism to Nondualism? Business Meeting: Willemien Otten, Utrecht University, Presiding A20-74 Practical Theology Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm New Program Unit James Nieman, Hartford Seminary, Presiding Theme: Political Aspects of Practical Theology Joyce Ann Mercer, Virginia Theological Seminary Showing Some Class: Practical Theological Contributions to the “Classing” of Congregational Studies Gordon S. Mikoski, Princeton Theological Seminary Teaching Against Torture: Liturgical Catechesis in Exceptional Circumstances Carmen Marie Nanko-Fernández, Catholic Theological Union De-colonizing Practical and Pastoral Theologies: A Reconfiguration En Conjunto Jennifer R. Ayres, Emory University Waiting for a Glacier to Move: Practical Theological Reflections on Social Witness Practice Responding: Elaine Graham, University of Manchester Business Meeting: Claire Wolfteich, Boston University, Presiding A20-75 Religion and Ecology Group and Contemporary Pagan Studies Consultation Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Michael York, London, United Kingdom, Presiding Theme: Sacred Space and Time: Contemporary Paganism and Spiritual Ecology Adrian Harris and Christina Welch, University of Winchester Deep Currents: The Two Tides of Neo-Paganism Chris Klassen, Wilfrid Laurier University Speaking Nature: Multivocal Participation in the Search for a Sustainable World Helen A. Berger, West Chester University Teenage Witches and Environmentalism Douglas Ezzy, University of Tasmania co-presenter with Helen A. Berger Alan Shear, McHenry County College Contemporary Pagan Pilgrimage in America Responding: Robert S. Corrington, Drew University A20-76 Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding Theme: Beyond Mestizaje: Revisiting Race, Syncretism, and Hybridity Bettina E. Schmidt, University of Oxford Afro-Caribbean Religions as Realms of Memory: The Concept of Polyphonic Bricolage as Critique against Syncretism and Mestzaje Steven Engler, Mount Royal College and Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo Mestiçagem, Brasilidade, and Feijoada: Extending Brazilian Writings on Hybridity Nestor Medina, University of Toronto Hybrid Cultures or Multiculturalism: Navigating the Contested Spaces of Mestizaje Discourse(s) Ruben Rosario-Rodriguez, Saint Louis University The Racialized Christ: Reconceptualizing Mestizaje as Transcultural Paradigm Responding: Otto A. Maduro, Drew University Business Meeting: Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding A20-77 Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Linda E. Thomas, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, Presiding Theme: Tapestries of Motion and Spirit Karen Baker-Fletcher, Southern Methodist University Loves the Spirit Keri Day, Vanderbilt University God’s Daughters: Nairobi Women and Visions of Gender Justice Deborah Buchanan, Fuller Seminary We Shall Overcome: The Beautiful Tapestry of Womanist Transformation in Dance, Literature, Poetry, and Hip Hop Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia Jan Willis' Dreaming Me: Constructing a Baptist-Buddhist Womanist Identity Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University Loving the Spirit: Expressions of Paganism in Alice Walker's Non-Fiction A20-78 World Christianity Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm New Program Unit Martha Smalley, Yale University, Presiding Theme: World Christianity in Local Contexts Paul V. Kollman, University of Notre Dame Classifying African Christianities Past and Present David Tonghou Ngong, Baylor University The New Christianity in Africa and Radical Orthodoxy: An Apology for Dialogue Mark R. Mullins, Sophia University Between Inculturation and Globalization: The Situation of Roman Catholicism in Contemporary Japanese Society Peter Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong The Necessity of the Particular in the Globalization of Christianity: The Case of Christian Higher Education in China Responding: Melanie A. May, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School Business Meeting: Peter C. Phan, Georgetown University, Presiding Dale T. Irvin, New York Theological Seminary, Presiding A20-79 Cultural History of the Study of Religion Consultation Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Richard King, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Medicalizing Religion: Inherent Biology, Pathological Emotion, and Missionizing Hygiene Lisle Dalton, Hartwick College Popular Phrenology and the Biology of Natural Religion Curtis Evans, Florida State University Emotionalism Described and Dissected: The New Psychology and the Pathologizing of Black Religion Shin Kwon Kim, Drew University An Aseptic Religion: Discovering a Hybridity on the Flux of Hygiene and Christianity in Korea Responding: Sean McCloud, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Business Meeting: Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University, Presiding Tisa Wenger, Arizona State University, Presiding A20-80 Death, Dying, and Beyond Consultation Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Kathleen Garces-Foley, Marymount University, Presiding Theme: Memorials to the Dead Cat Ngoc Jonathan Tran, Duke University Between Worlds at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University Composting a Life: Recycled Bodies, Green Burial, and Meaning Making in the Natural Death Movement Arlene Macdonald, University of Toronto Organ Donors, Fallen Soliders, and the Sensuous Civil Religion Business Meeting: Kathleen Garces-Foley, Marymount University, Presiding A20-81 Open and Relational Theologies Consultation and Latter-Day Saints and the Bible Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Lynne Faber Lorenzen, Augsburg College and John Welch, Brigham Young University, Presiding Theme: Are Openness and Relational Theologies Biblical? John Sanders, Huntington College Clear as Day: Metaphorical and Literal Readings of Scripture in the Open Theism Debate James M. McLachlan, Western Carolina University Open Readings of Genesis: Jacob Boehme’s Mysterium Magnum and Joseph Smith’s Books of Moses, Abraham, and The Book of Mormon Michael Lodahl, Point Loma Nazarene University The Human's Naming of the Creatures as the World's (and God's) Open Future: A Conflict of Interpretations among Jews, Muslims, and Mormons David L. Paulsen, Brigham Young University Opening the Bible: Open Canon and Openness Theology A20-82 Queer Theory and LGBT Studies in Religion Consultation Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Laura S. Levitt, Temple University, Presiding Theme: Queer Religion, Queer Communities Heather Thiessen, University of Louisville Something Whatever in Common: Prospects for Queer Community Justin Waters, Graduate Theological Union Public Theologies from the Inner Sanctum: A Queer Look at Public-Restroom Graffiti Gerard Loughlin, Durham University Being Creature, Becoming Human: A Theological Conversation between Oliver O’Donovan, Judith Butler, and Joan Roughgarden Business Meeting: Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College, Presiding A20-83 Religion, Media, and Culture Consultation Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Diane Winston, University of Southern California, Presiding Theme: Freedom of Expression and Religious Sensibilities: The Danish Cartoon Controversy in a Global Media Environment Panelists: Tim Jensen, University of Southern Denmark T. Jeremy Gunn, American Civil Liberties Union Susanne Schröter, University of Passau Responding: John L. Esposito, Georgetown University A20-84 Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Information Session Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Participants interested in learning more about the academic resources of the museum are invited to this information session. In addition to information about fellowships, seminars, and workshops, and the museum's publications program, there will be demonstrations of the museum's electronic resources, including Internet-II and online research tools. For additional information, please contact Victoria J. Barnett at vbarnett@ushmm.org or 1-202-488-0469. A20-85 Library of Congress Forum: Writing the Story of America's Religious Origins Monday - 1:30 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the AAR, Library of Congress, and National History Center Catherine L. Albanese, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Panelists: Susan Jacoby, Center for Inquiry – New York City Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame Stephen Prothero, Boston University Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University Mumford Room, Madison Building Library of Congress Independence Avenue and 2nd St, SE (near Capitol South Metro Station) A20-100 Foucault Consultation Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Eva Maria Räpple, College of DuPage, Presiding Theme: The Future of Foucault in Religious and Theological Studies: Engagements with Derrida and Postcolonialism Matthew Chrulew, Monash University Foucault and Derrida in the Return of Religion Susan Abraham, St. Bonaventure University Postcolonial Religious Studies and Foucault Responding: John D. Caputo, Syracuse University Mary Keller, University of Wyoming Business Meeting: Thomas M. Beaudoin, Santa Clara University, Presiding A20-101 Special Topics Forum Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the AAR Program Committee Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College, Presiding Theme: Debate: Just War Theory Versus Just Peacemaking Theory: Which Produces the Better Answer to Terrorism? Panelists: Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A20-102 Special Topics Forum Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Religion in the Schools Task Force Betty A. DeBerg, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding Theme: "Required Reading" Writing for the Secondary School Market Panelists: Stephanie McAllister, Brookline High School Ann Braude, Harvard University Divinity School John Voll, Georgetown University Scott Appleby, University of Notre Dame See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details. A20-103 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and Afro-American Religious History Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Wallace Best, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Performing African-American Religion Craig Prentiss, Rockhurst University Theodicy and the African-American Anti-Lynching Play Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College The Politics of African-American Religious Performance: Eva Jessye’s Dramatizations of Negro Music Kathryn Lofton, Indiana University, Bloomington Performing Preacher: Oprah Winfrey and the Anxious Bench Responding: Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University Business Meeting: Moses N. Moore, Arizona State University, Presiding A20-104 Buddhism Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Chun-Fang Yu, Columbia University, Presiding Theme: Clerics and Family, Clerics as Family: Rethinking the Role of Families in Monastic Buddhism Shayne Clarke, McMaster University Locating the Family in Homelessness: On Monastic Families in Indian Buddhism Gina Cogan, Boston University Serving the Buddha through Serving the Emperor: Imperial Buddhist Monks and Nuns as Abbots, Abbesses, and Adoptees in Edo Japan Annabella Pitkin, Columbia University Homeless Fathers, Sons (and Daughters): The Renunciant Relationships of Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen and the Non-Sectarian Ideal Lori Meeks, University of Southern California Inheriting the Monastic Trade: Buddhism and Family Business in Medieval Japan Responding: John S. Strong, Bates College A20-105 Christian Systematic Theology Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Stephen G. Ray, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Presiding Theme: Reimagining the Political: Kingdom, Church, and State Timothy Stanley, University of Manchester Karl Barth and Jürgen Habermas: Christian Mission and Global Civil Society Miikka Ruokanen, University of Helsinki K. H. Ting's Contribution to the Contextualization of Christianity in China Steffen Lösel, Emory University Standing at the Crossroads: A Political Theology of Justification Kristen Deede Johnson, Hope College "Public" Re-imagined: An Alternative to Church and State A20-106 Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Animals and Religion Consultation Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jay McDaniel, Hendrix College, Presiding Theme: Comparative Religious Approaches to Species Depletion, with Emphasis on Africa Panelists: Daniel McFee, Mercyhurst College Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University Richard Foltz, Concordia University, Montreal Paul Waldau, Tufts University A20-107 Ethics Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Francisca Cho, Georgetown University, Presiding Theme: Disciplining the Body as Ethical Training Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa Chastising the Body, Cultivating the Soul: Food and Drink as Ethical Issues during the Reformation Jeffrey K. Mann, Susquehanna University Martial Discipline and the Way of Peace: The Virtues and Vices of Zen-inspired Martial Arts in Japan Joyce Shin, University of Chicago Integration and Discrimination: The Significance of Artistic Activity for Moral Formation Sheila McCarthy, Duke University Eucharist as Preparation for Martyrdom in Third-Century North Africa A20-108 North American Religions Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University, Presiding Theme: Authors Meet Critics: Religion and Visual Culture with David Morgan (The Sacred Gaze) and Camilo Jose Vergara (How the Other Half Worships) Panelists: David Morgan, Valparaiso University Camilo Vergara, New York, NY Responding: Sally M. Promey, University of Maryland, College Park James Hudnut-Beumler, Vanderbilt University Business Meeting: John Corrigan, Florida State University, Presiding A20-109 Study of Islam Section and Women and Religion Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Approaching the Problem of Qur'an 4:34: Divine Legislation for Male Authority and the Beating of Wives? Laury Silvers, Skidmore College “In the Book We Have Left Out Nothing" (Q 6:38): The Ethical Problem of the Existence of Verse 4:34 in the Qur'an Ayesha Chaudhry, New York University The Problems of Conscience and Hermeneutics with Respect to Verse 4:34: Some Contemporary Muslim Approaches Kecia Ali, Brandeis University “I Wanted One Thing and God Wanted Another:” Al-Shafi‘i’s Attempt to Reconcile Qur’an and Sunnah on Subject of Striking Wives Karen A. Bauer, Princeton University “Traditional” Exegesis of 4:34: Men’s Authority and Women’s Rational Deficiency Business Meeting: Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University, Presiding A20-110 Study of Judaism Section and History and Literature of Early Rabbinic Judaism Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Michael Satlow, Brown University, Presiding Theme: Reconsidering Rabbinic Judaism Christian Wiese, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Wissenschaft des Judentums and Rabbinic Literature in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Alexei Sivertsev, DePaul University A Byzantine Judaism: Towards A New Category Steven D. Fraade, Yale University How Broad Was the Rabbinic Umbrella? The Case of Targum and Rabbinic Literature Sigrid Peterson, University of Pennsylvania Syriac-speaking Judaism: They Who Read and Write in the (Syriac) Outside Books? Responding: Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford University Business Meeting: Aryeh Cohen, University of Judaism, Presiding Martin Kavka, Florida State University, Presiding A20-111 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Nathan Kerr, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Critical Responses to Theology and the Political: The New Debate (Duke University Press, 2005) Panelists: Daniel Barber, Duke University Conor Cunningham, University of Nottingham Joshua Davis, Vanderbilt University Responding: Adam Kotsko, Chicago Theological Seminary John Milbank, University of Virginia Graham Ward, University of Manchester Slavoj Žižek, University of Ljubljana A20-112 African Religions Group and World Christianity Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm New Program Unit Akintunde Ebunolu Akinade, High Point University, Presiding Theme: African Christianity Gay Byron, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School Redrawing the Boundaries of Early Christianity: The Case of the Axumite Empire and Its Sources Mika Vähäkangas, University of Helsinki Ghambageu Encounters Jesus: Change and Continuity in the Mythology of the Sonjo (Tanzania) David Ogungbile, Obafemo Awolowo University The Ancient in the Mind, Memory, and Religious Life of the Contemporary African Peoples Frieder Ludwig, Luther Seminary African Christianity and the Neo-Diaspora in Minneapolis Responding: Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University A20-113 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group and Asian American Hermeneutics Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Teaching “Difficult” Texts in Communities—Asian North American Scholars in Conversation Panelists: Frank Yamada, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary Lai Ling Elizabeth Ngan, Baylor University Faustino Cruz, Graduate Theological Union Boyung Lee, Pacific School of Religion A20-114 Bioethics and Religion Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Aline Kalbian, Florida State University, Presiding Theme: The Human Genome Project: Religion, Bioethics, and Public Policy Panelists: Francis Collins, National Institutes of Health Responding: James F. Childress, University of Virginia Ronald Green, Dartmouth College A20-115 Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Ellen M. Umansky, Fairfield University, Presiding Theme: Ritual in Hindu and Jewish Diasporic Spaces Gwynn Kessler, University of Florida First Comes Love Then Comes Marriage...? Domesticating Queer Jews Shreena Gandhi, University of Florida A Global Polycultural Miracle: Ganesh Drinks the Milk Hilit Surowitz, University of Florida “You Have Peruvian Blood”: Creating Home at the Annual Hebraica Maccabi Games Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida Creating Community Spaces in American Hinduism: Authority, Authenticity, and Identity Responding: Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University Chicago A20-116 Comparative Theology Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm New Program Unit James Miller, Queen's University, Presiding Theme: The Comparative Religious Ideas Project: A Critical Retrospective Five Years Later Panelists: Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University Robert Smid, Boston University Wendy Farley, Emory University John Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University Responding: Robert C. Neville, Boston University Business Meeting: Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University, Presiding A20-117 Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group and Western Esotericism Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University, Presiding Theme: Disciplinary Traditions Reconsidered: Comparative Approaches to the Study of Western Esotericism and Religion Olav Hammer, University of Southern Denmark Utopian Thinking and Esoteric Discourse: Esotericism as a Comparative Category Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Amsterdam Esotericism and Mysticism: What Is the Difference? Theodore Vial, Iliff School of Theology Chips from Another German Workshop: Schleiermacher among the Theorists of Religion Christopher Lehrich, Boston University Discipline and Interdiscipline: On Magical Comparisons A20-118 Islamic Mysticism Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Vincent J. Cornell, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Presiding Theme: Permutations of Islamic Mysticism Heba Khan, Rice University Defining an Islamic Notion of Justice: Shehu Uthman Dan Fodio's Kitab Al-Usul Al-Adl Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes The Hurûfî Concept of Knowledge According to the Early Hurûfî Texts Margaret Jean Rausch, University of Kansas Inside a Women's Sufi Ritual: Modern Responses to the Transmission of Baraka in Tajikistan SherAli Tareen, Duke University Sufism, Reform, and Heterologies: The Case of Deoband Business Meeting: Carl W. Ernst, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Presiding A20-119 Person, Culture, and Religion Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Lallene Rector, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Spiritual Care in Diverse Cultural Contexts David Bell, Emory University The Identity Marketplace: Conceptualizing Religious Identity Development for Research and Spiritual Care in Pluralistic Societies Hetty Zock, University of Groningen Doing the Splits: The Professional Identity of the Spiritual Counselor in Contemporary Dutch Health Care Jae Haeng Choi, Graduate Theological Union Spirituality through Theater for Healing the Broken-Heartedness Valerie DeMarinis, Uppsala University The Impact of Postmodernization on Worldview Construction and Spiritual Care in Sweden For Business Meeting see A18-40. A20-120 Religion and Popular Culture Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Richard J. Callahan, University of Missouri, Columbia, Presiding Theme: Museums, Monuments, and Memory Louis A. Ruprecht, Georgia State University Shrines to the Muse Rosemary Hicks, Columbia University Palace and Mosque 2005: Evaluating Islamic Culture at the National Gallery of Art Evan Berry, University of California, Santa Barbara Sacred Histories and Prophetic Spaces: Civil Religion in Museums of the American West Isaac Weiner, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Bell and the Bomb: Cultural Memory and Civic Identity at the International Friendship Bell Responding: Oren Baruch Stier, Florida International University A20-121 Religion, Politics, and the State Group and Religion, Public Policy, and Political Change Consultation Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm William A. Barbieri, Catholic University of America, Presiding Theme: Assets and the Poor: An Interreligious and Interdisciplinary Dialogue Panelists: Michael Sherraden, Washington University, St. Louis Jim Bailey, Duquesne University Sondra Ely Wheeler, Wesley Theological Seminary Qamar-ul Huda, Montgomery Village, MD Stephanie Boddie, Washington University, St. Louis Alan J. Avery-Peck, College of the Holy Cross Responding: Ray Boshara, New American Foundation A20-122 Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jon Pahl, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Presiding Theme: Grassroots Peacebuilding around the Globe: Case Studies Megan Shore, St. Jerome's University, University of Waterloo Christianity and Justice in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Case Study in Religious Conflict Resolution Katherine Attanasi, Vanderbilt University Walking in Step with the Spirit: Applying Pentecostal Commitments to HIV/AIDS in South Africa Kathryn Poethig, California State University, Monterey Bay Saying No to Empire: Filipino Feminist Theologians against America's Unjust Wars Siti Sarah Muwahidah, Gadjah Mada University Interfaith Dialogue at the Grassroot Level: A Case Study of an Interfaith Empowerment Program in East Java Indonesia Edith Szanto, University of Toronto Muslim/Christian Dialogue in Syria Business Meeting: Marla J. Selvidge, Central Missouri State University, Presiding Susan Windley-Daoust, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Presiding A20-123 Science, Technology, and Religion Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Lou Ann G. Trost, Pigeon, MI, Presiding Theme: Re-thinking the Engagement between Science, Technology, and Religion in the Public Sphere Robert Geraci, Manhattan College The Human Machine: Dignity and Blame in Conceptualizing Humanity Lisa L. Stenmark, San Jose State University Disputational Friendship: A Model for Science, Religion, and Public Policy David Lewin, University of Kent At the Touch of a Button: The Significance of Tillich’s Thought for an Understanding of Technological Culture George Tsakiridis, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago Evangelical Science: Examining the Scientific Beliefs of Evangelicals and Fundamentalists Business Meeting: Lisa L. Stenmark, San Jose State University, Presiding A20-124 Scriptural Reasoning Group and Biblical/Contextual Ethics Consultation Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto, Presiding Theme: Resident Aliens and the Ethics of Immigration: Biblical Ethics and Scriptural Reasoning Panelists: Tisha Rajendra, Boston College Michael Budde, DePaul University Zeki Saritoprak, John Carroll University Responding: Steven D. Kepnes, Colgate University A20-125 Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jeffrey Kosky, Washington & Lee University, Presiding Theme: New Directions in Continental Philosophy and Theology Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara The Religious Climate: Genetic Technology, Global Warming, and The Natural Contract Christina Hutchins, Graduate Theological Union Departure as Prophesy: Drawing on Bergson’s Intuition, Whitehead’s Value, and Butler’s Agency to Read Temporality Anew Theodore Wilson Dickinson, Syracuse University Haunting Religious Identity: The Enemy, Heresiology, and the Ghost Responding: M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University Business Meeting: Bruce Ellis Benson, Wheaton College, Presiding A20-126 Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Natalie Gummer, Beloit College, Presiding Theme: Transformations in Research and Teaching on Tibetan Buddhism with the Use of New Technologies Panelists: David Germano, University of Virginia Frances Garrett, University of Toronto Georges Dreyfus, Williams College Jacob Dalton, Yale University José I. Cabezón, University of California, Santa Barbara Business Meeting: Kurtis Schaeffer, University of Virginia, Presiding A20-127 Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Karen-Marie Yust, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education, Presiding Theme: Children as Moral and Religious Agents in Literature and Film Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner, Southern Methodist University St. Charlie and the Chocolate Cathedral Dana Dillon, Duke University Harry Potter and a Fate Worse than Death: Landscaping the Moral Imaginations of Our Children Devin Kuhn, Claremont Graduate University Coming of Age: Nonviolence and Just War Theory in The Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard University Interior Life and Moral Agency in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Responding: Dawn A. De Vries, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education Business Meeting: Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt University, Presiding A20-128 Religion and Sexuality Consultation Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jesse Terry Todd, Drew University, Presiding Theme: Sex in the Field: Current Ethnographic Research in Religion and Sexuality Andrea Allen, Harvard University Matriarchy, Cosmology, and Discretion: Female Homosexuality in the Afro-Brazilian Religion, Candomblé Sandra Avila, Florida International University Prostitution and Bhikkuni Ordination in Strategies of Thai Women’s Organizations Mary T. Kantor, Harvard University Sex and the Celestial City: Consecration to a Life of Virginity for Women Living in the World Sarah Krier, University of Pittsburgh The Jamu Industry, Islam, and Women in Indonesia Melissa Proctor, Brown University A Mormon Philosophy of Sex: Some Surprises Business Meeting: R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University, Presiding Catherine Roach, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Presiding A20-129 Sacred Space in Contemporary Asia Consultation Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Steven Heine, Florida International University, Presiding Theme: Structures of Re-Enchantment Patricia Graham, University of Kansas Buddhism's Sacred Spaces in Contemporary Japan Don Baker, University of British Columbia Hallowed Ground: Surveying the Religious Geography of Korea Sor-Ching Low, Trinity University A German Goddess in Singapore Florian Pohl, Emory University The Mosque in Indonesian Education: Integrating the Learning Space Responding: Donald K. Swearer, Harvard University Business Meeting: Pamela D. Winfield, Meredith College, Presiding Steven Heine, Florida International University, Presiding A20-133 Daoist Studies Consultation Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Louis Komjathy, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding Theme: Laoshan Daoist Monks Discuss Daoism Panelists: Jiang Sheng, Shandong University Liu Huaiyuan, Qingdao Daoist Association Li Zongxian, Taiqing Gong in Laoshan Liu Hongsheng, Qingdao Daoist Association Gao Mingjian, Taiqing Gong Li Zhilong, Taiqing Gong Xu Guoen, Taiqing Gong A20-134 Nineteenth-Century Theology Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Lori K. Pearson, Carleton College, Presiding Theme: Responses to Hans Schwarz, Theology in a Global Context: The Last Two Hundred Years (Eerdmans, 2005) Russell C. Kleckley, Augsburg College The Shifting Context of Global Context: The Changing Task and Scope of Historical Theology Craig L. Nessan, Wartburg Theological Seminary Schwarz's Theological Vision: The History of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Theology Darrell Jodock, Gustavus Adolphus College Context, Continuity, and Discontinuity in Hans Schwarz's Survey of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Theology Arie Molendijk, University of Groningen The Historiography of Modern Theology Responding: Hans Schwarz, University of Regensburg Preprinted papers for sessions of the Nineteenth-Century Theology Group may be obtained for $20.00 from Ted Vial, Iliff School of Theology 2201 S. University Blvd., Denver, CO 80210; TVial@iliff.edu. A20-135 International Society for Chinese Philosophy Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jeffrey Dippmann, Central Washington University, Presiding Francis Li Chung-hung, Chinese University of Hong Kong Contemporary Chinese Policies on Religions: Taking Taoist Religion as an Example Derong Chen, University of Toronto Secularization: Exemplified by Identities of Daoist Priests in China Ye Peng, Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences Between Morality and Feudarist Absolutism: An Approach to Confucianism and Daoism Jeffrey Dippmann, Central Washington University For the Sins of the Fathers (and Grandfathers): Collective Responsibilty in Medieval Daoism and Ancient Judaism A20-139 Mysticism Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Neil Douglas-Klotz, Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning, Presiding Theme: Mystical Healing: Modes and Methodologies Fran Grace, University of Redlands "Map of Consciousness": A New Paradigm for Mysticism and Healing Ann Gleig, Rice University Healing Narcissism: From Regression to Transformation in the Psychoanalytic Encounter with Unchurched Mysticism Mark Graves, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley Memory, Trauma, and Healing Anthony Chiffolo, Praeger Publishers Heavenly Visions, Holy Stigmata, and the Human Brain: A Neurotheological Look at the Life of Padre Pio A20-140 Library of Congress Forum: Legislating International Religious Freedom Monday - 4:00 pm-6:00 pm Sponsored by the AAR, Library of Congress, and Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Timothy S. Shah, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, Presiding Panelists: Thomas Farr, former director, U.S. State Department Office of International Religious Freedom Allen D. Hertzke, University of Oklahoma Elizabeth Prodromou, Boston University Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, State University of New York, Buffalo Mumford Room, Madison Building Library of Congress Independence Avenue and 2nd St, SE (near Capitol South Metro Station) A20-138 AAR Annual Business Meeting Monday - 6:00 pm-7:00 pm Diana L. Eck, Harvard University, Presiding AAR members are encourage to join the Board of Directors for the annual business meeting of the Academy. A20-136 Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Monday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Bongrae Seok, Alvernia College, Presiding Theme: Peace, Justice, and Religious Identity Bina Gupta, University of Missouri, Columbia Frameworks of Peace in Indian Tradition: Some Reflections Donna Giancola, Suffolk University Maya and Dike: Eco-Feminism and Eco-Justice: A Question of Environment Lori Witthaus, Grand Valley View State University Narratives of South Asian Religious Identity A20-137 Society of Christian Philosophers Monday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Eric Gregory, Princeton University, Presiding Theme: The Good of Diversity and the Virtue of Tolerance Speaker: Kelly James Clark, Calvin College Respondents: Andrew Chignell, Cornell University Kristen Deede Johnson, Hope College A20-130 Plenary Address Monday - 7:15 pm-8:15 pm Diana L. Eck, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Karen McCarthy Brown--Telling My Stories: Race, Responsibility, and Historical Consciousness Panelists: Karen McCarthy Brown, Drew University See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#PlenaryandPresidentialAddresses for details. A20-131 Arts Series/Films: Mooladé Monday - 8:30 pm-10:30 pm Sponsored by the African Religions Group See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Films for details. A20-132 Arts Series/Films: Hedwig and the Angry Inch Monday - 8:30 pm-10:30 pm Sponsored by Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Christine Kraemer, Boston University, Presiding See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Films for details. A21-1 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Fran Grace, University of Redlands, Presiding Theme: Body, Mind, Spirit: Integrative and Innovative Pedagogies Ridgeway Addison, Catholic University of America, Georgetown University Picture Yourself (Praying) Naked: Contemplative Practices and Self-disclosure in the Teaching of Religious Studies and Theology Michelle M. Lelwica, Concordia College, Moorhead Embodying Learning: Post-Cartesian Pedagogy and the Academic Study of Religion Susan Windley-Daoust, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota Why Consciousness-Raising Doesn't Work: Virtue Theory as "First Moment" Pedagogy in the Social Justice Classroom Jane Compson, University of Central Florida The Ecology of Learning: Some Buddhist Insights on Teaching Methodology Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College What Would We Be Doing if We Weren't Doing This? An Experiment in Liberatory Departmental Practice A21-2 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia, Presiding Theme: Religion, Representation, and Resistance Matthew Hunter, Temple University Liberation in Black and White: Visual Representations of America’s Freedom Struggles in Philadelphia-area Episcopal Churches Melva L. Sampson, Spelman College Dancing in the Spirit: Rhythmic Movement in Hip-Hop “Krumping” Dance Culture as Liberative Praxis of Hope and Resistance Michael Jagessar, Queen's Foundation, Birmingham UK Spinning Texts and Images: Derek Walcott, God-Talk, and Caribbean Identity William Barbieri, Catholic University of America Human Rights, Suffering, and the Moral Imagination Business Meeting: S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University, Presiding Jennifer L. Geddes, University of Virginia, Presiding A21-3 Buddhism Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Robert E. Buswell, University of California, Los Angeles, Presiding Theme: Tantric Buddhism through the Chinese Looking Glass Paul Copp, Western Michigan University If Not "Tantric" or "Esoteric" Then What? Notes on the Nature of Certain Tang Buddhist Practices Richard D. McBride, Washington University, St. Louis The Mysteries of Body, Speech, and Mind: The Three Esoterica in Medieval Sinitic Buddhism Charles D. Orzech, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Tantras and Translation in the Tang and Song George A. Keyworth, University of Colorado, Boulder Reconsidering Tantric Buddhism in Song China Robert M. Gimello, Harvard University Manifest Mysteries: The Nature of the “Exoteric/Esoteric” (Xian/Mi) Distinction in Later Chinese Buddhism Responding: Robert Sharf, University of California, Berkeley A21-4 Christian Systematic Theology Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Gerard Loughlin, Durham University, Presiding Theme: Fulfilling Life: Health and Ecology Radu Bordeianu, Marquette University Maximus and Ecology: The Relevance of Maximus the Confessor's Theology of Creation for the Present Ecological Crisis Hilda Koster, University of Chicago "Missio Dei, Missio Mundi": Towards a Green Missiological Ecclesiology Rachel Sophia Baard, Villanova University HIV/AIDS and the Christian Doctrine of Sin: Moral Possibilities Beyond Moralism John Blevins, Emory University Different Silences: Christian Theology, the AIDS Pandemic, and the (In)Ability to Speak A21-5 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am William Gilders, Emory University, Presiding Theme: The Religious Anatomy of Detail: Theorizing the Religious Micromanagement of the Body Stephen R. Lloyd-Moffett, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dirty Bodies, Ascetic Texts, and the Micromanagement of Daily Practices Marie Pagliarini, California Polytechnic State University "Angels, Clothed in Mortal Flesh": The Practice of Sacred Comportment in Nineteenth-Century Visitation Monastic Life Jonathan Schofer, Harvard University Rabbinic Bodies in Everyday Space Eric Reinders, Emory University No Laughing in the Toilet: The Craft of Dignity in Daoxuan's Guides to Buddhist Discipline Responding: Angela Zito, New York University A21-6 Ethics Section and Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Bernadette Brooten, Brandeis University, Presiding Theme: Sexual Ethics/Sexual Justice: Feminist/Womanist Perspectives in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Panelists: Kecia Ali, Brandeis University Margaret Farley, Yale University Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College Traci C. West, Drew University A21-7 North American Religions Section and Evangelical Theology Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Anthea Butler, University of Rochester, Presiding Theme: Pentecostalism a Century after Azusa Street Douglas Gordon Jacobsen, Messiah College “God Liquidized”: Pentecostalism’s Complex Identity Michael J. McClymond, Saint Louis University We're Not in Kansas Anymore: The Dissemination of Ideas, Persons, and Practices in African, Latin American, and North American Pentecostalism Clarence Hardy, Dartmouth College “I Am None of Your Nationalities”: Migrating Pilgrims, Black Pentecostals, and the Development of a Transnational Rhetoric Joseph Williams, Florida State University Medicine and Psychology in Pentecostal Healing: The Impact of Modernization on Pentecostalism Responding: David Daniels, McCormick Theological Seminary A21-8 Philosophy of Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Mark I. Wallace, Swarthmore College, Presiding Theme: The Surplus of Meaning and the Limits of Reason: Paul Ricoeur and the Philosophy of Religion Morny Joy, University of Calgary Philosophy, Religion, and the Gift David Pellauer, DePaul University The Limits of Rational Religion: Ricoeur’s Critical Appropriation of Kant Richard Kearney, Boston College Ricoeur's Possible God Bernard Dauenhauer, University of Georgia Acting against Evil Business Meeting: Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles, University of Chicago, Presiding A21-9 Religion in South Asia Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Emily Hudson, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Sectarian Grammars: Agency and Agenda David P. Lawrence, University of North Dakota Abhinavagupta's Monistic Saiva Philosophy of Grammatical Persons Ajay Rao, University of Chicago Grammar as Interpretation: Construing "Tat Tvam Asi" in Visistadvaita and Dvaita Rebecca Manring, Indiana University, Bloomington The Grammar That Is the Nectar of the Lord's Name Anne Monius, Harvard University Claiming Tamil and Sanskrit for the Bodhisattva Responding: Richard Salomon, University of Washington A21-10 Study of Islam Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, University of Florida, Presiding Theme: Islam in Society Sa'diyya Shaikh, University of Cape Town Engaged Sufism: Engaging Embodiment, Negotiating Gender Zain Abdullah, Temple University Parading Islamic Diversity: The Negotiation of West African Muslim Identities in New York City Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Writing Out Loud: American Muslim Women Writers between Faith, Community, and Public Opinion Anna M. Gade, Oberlin College "Developing" Cham Muslim Communities in Cambodia Danielle Widmann Abraham, Harvard University Transforming Poverty, Transforming Gender: Zakat and the Cultural Politics of Dowry in India Rachel Scott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Sharing in an Islamic Civilization: Sharia as a Source of "Islamic Nationality" for Eastern Christians Responding: Markus Dressler, Hofstra University A21-11 Study of Judaism Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Vanessa Ochs, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: Jewish Culture from Antiquity to the Present David Levinsky, Stanford University Asceticism and Social Status: Nazirite Vows among Elite Jewish Women in the First Century Esperanza Alfonso, Universidad Complutense, Madrid Prologues to Commentaries on the Book of Proverbs: Some Examples from Late Medieval Iberia Heidi M. Szpek, Central Washington University “And in Their Death They Were Not Separated”: Aesthetics of Jewish Tombstones in Europe Emily Katz, Jewish Theological Seminary From the Land of the Bible to the Land of the Free (Market): Israeli Material Culture in America, 1948-1967 Erika Meitner, University of Virginia Tattoo Jew: Exploring Contemporary American Jewish Identity through the Lens of Jewish Tattoos A21-12 Women and Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa, Presiding Theme: Crossing Boundaries of Religious Traditions: Women's Spiritual Resistance Emily Leah Silverman, Graduate Theological Union Crossing Boundaries of Gender and Religion during the Shoah: The Queering of Religious Identities of Regina Jonas, a Woman Rabbi, and Edith Stein, a Jewish Nun, as a Form of Spiritual Resistance Rebecca Moody, University of Texas, Austin Chaos Theory: Women’s Ritual and Physical Impurity in Judaism Simonetta Calderini, Roehampton University Discourses on Women’s Hair in Islam: A Case Study from Fatimid Egypt Alicia Ostriker, Rutgers University Psalm and Anti-psalm: The Space of This Dialogue A21-13 Indigenous Religious Traditions Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Spirit Possession and Indigenous Religious Traditions Mary N. MacDonald, Le Moyne College Spirit Possession and a Phenomenology of Presence Umar Danfulani, University of Jos Girka—Learning the Dance Step of the Spirits: Male and Female Imageries in the Bori Cult of Babale near Jos Rachel E. Harding, The Veterans of Hope Project To Be in the State of the Saint: Intimacy with the Divine in Afro-Brazilian Candomble Jualynne E. Dodson, Michigan State University Interactionist Religion: "Dear Orula, How's the Universe" Responding: Velma Love, Florida A&M University Business Meeting: Jacob K. Olupona, University of California, Davis, Presiding A21-14 Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Lara Medina, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding Theme: Theo-Erotics: Decolonizing Sex and Spirituality—Latinas, Religious Discourse/Practice, and US Politics Laura Perez, University of California, Berkeley Thea/o-erotics: Revisioning the Body,Gender, Sexuality, and Spirituality in Disidentificatory Marian Images Irene Lara, San Diego State University Panocha Pláticas: Sexuality, Power, and Chicana/Latina Healers Lois Ann Lorentzen, University of San Francisco Transgender Sex Workers and Devotional Crossings: Santisimma Muerte and Spiritual Solidarity in Guadalajara and San Francisco Rafael Luevano, Chapman University The Juarez-Chihuahua Femicides: Sins of Violence and Dehumanization Luis Leon, University of Denver Cesar Chavez's Religious Politics: Performing Machismo and Eros Across the Spiritual Line Responding: Ines Hernandez-Avila, University of California, Davis A21-15 Reformed Theology and History Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Madeline Duntley, Bowling Green State University, Presiding Theme: What Has Geneva to Do with Washington? The Reformed Tradition in US Culture and History David Bains, Samford University A Capital Presence: The Presbyterian Quest for a "National Church" in Washington, DC Timothy A. Beach-Verhey, Davidson College God, Democracy, and War: Abraham Lincoln’s Covenantal Vision for American Public Discourse Jill Carlson Colwell, Yale University History in (as?) the Hand of God: John Calvin and George W. Bush on the Doctrine of Providence Stephen Strehle, Christopher Newport University The Reformed Roots of Democratic and Federal Government A21-16 Religion and Popular Culture Group and Religion, Media, and Culture Consultation Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am David Morgan, Valparaiso University, Presiding Theme: Africa's Changing Religious Media Scene Rosalind I.J. Hackett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Devil Bustin' Satellites: How Media Liberalization in Africa Generates Religious Intolerance and Conflict Benjamin Soares, Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden Theorizing New Media and Religious Expression in West Africa's Changing Public Spheres Asonzeh Ukah, Bayreuth University Selling Religion: Advertising and the Pentecostal Industry in Nigeria A21-17 Religion, Politics, and the State Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary's College of California, Presiding Theme: Political Religion, Democracy, and the Common Good Jeff Bailey, University of Cambridge Political Theology for a Post-Secular World: Karl Barth and Radical Democracy Erik Owens, Boston College Civic Education for Religious Freedom Darryl Victor Caterine, Le Moyne College Secular Sainthood: Vocation and Nation-Building in America Sarah Azaransky, University of Virginia A Theological Model of Democratic Citizenship Kent Dunnington, Duke University Are Virtue Ethics and Liberal Democracy Mutually Exclusive? A Synthesis of MacIntyre and Wolterstorff A21-18 Ritual Studies Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Donna L. Seamone, Acadia University, Presiding Theme: Spaces/places of Ritual Transformation Hans Stifoss-Hanssen, Oslo Centre for Church Research Disaster Ritual as Ritualizing: Four Cases (Presentation # 1: Design and Theoretical Background) Lars Johan Danbolt, Sanderud Psychiatric Hospital Disaster Ritual as Ritualizing: Four Cases (Presentation # 2: Findings and Discussion) Wendy Griffin, California State University, Long Beach Doing Ritual, Doing Time: Women Prisoners, Witchcraft, and Empowerment Tovis Page, Harvard University Saints of the Soil and Imperial Figures: Farmers, Ritual, and Religion A21-19 Roman Catholic Studies Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Vincent J. Miller, Georgetown University, Presiding Theme: Public Catholicism Rosemary P. Carbine, College of the Holy Cross Going Public: American Catholic Practices of Public Engagement Dorian Llywelyn, Loyola Marymount University Nationality, Nationalism, and Catholic Theology Paul Allen, Concordia University Science, Catholicism, and Political Controversy Jennifer Naccarelli, Claremont Graduate University An Audience with the Cardinal: Catholic Suffrage Reconsidered A21-20 Report on Contingent (Adjunct) Faculty Tuesday - 9:00 am-10:00 am Join us for a presentation on the Report on Contingent Faculty, to be released by the American Association of University Professors on Friday, November 17th. The report assess the situation and status of contingent or adjunct faculty in higher education. The report contains recommendations for benefits and continued employment status. A21-21 Roundtable Discussion with Community College Faculty Tuesday - 10:15 am-12:00 pm Join the AAR for a discussion of needs, hopes and wants of community college faculty. The AAR recently completed a survey of the field in community colleges and wants to expand the conversation. Kyle Cole, American Academy of Religion and Thomas Pearson, Wabash Center, Presiding	More Information Annual Meeting Exhibitors & Advertisers (PDF) Employment Center Student Events at Meeting Regional Meetings Program Units Please join us in beautiful Baltimore for the 2013 AAR Annual Meeting November 23-26
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