E-Bulletin
December 2011
 
 
American Academy of Religion
In This Issue
 

IMPORTANT MEMBER UPDATES

Renew Today for 2012 Membership
Don't miss out on your membership! Renew today for the 2012 AAR membership year. Renew before December 31, 2011 and you will receive the 2011 membership rate. Member rates increase on January 1, 2012!

AAR Election Winners Announced!

  • Vice President: Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University
  • Secretary: Warren G. Frisina, Hofstra University
  • At-Large Director: Roberto R. Lint Sagarena, Middlebury College
  • Student Director: Elonda Clay, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago

Congratulations to Laurie, Roberto, Elonda, and Warren. They join our Board at an exciting time in our history. Thank you to Naomi R. Goldenberg, Justin McDaniel, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, and David L. Weddle for running as well. 

Best wishes to Kwok Pui Lan as she completed her tenure as AAR President at the Annual Meeting in November. Otto A. Maduro is the new AAR President and John L. Esposito is President-Elect.

We extend warm appreciation and thanks to the outgoing leadership of the AAR — check the March issue of Religious Studies News for more about their great work.

Luce Summer Seminar on Comparative Theology
The AAR will once again deliver a Summer Seminar on Theologies of Religious Pluralism and Comparative Theology to theological educators. These seminars will help faculty participants to formulate a working answer to the properly theological question, "What significance does my neighbor's faith and tradition have for my own?" The next cohort will be composed of 18 participants and 7 instructors and will gather for a week-long event during summer 2012, then a one day event the following fall at the 2012 Annual Meeting, followed by another week-long event the next summer. The application deadline is January 15, 2012. Find out more information about this seminar.

 

AAR AWARDS NEWS

Religion and the Arts Award: Deadline February 1, 2012
Nominations are being accepted for the Religion and the Arts award, which is presented annually to an artist, performer, critic, curator, or scholar who has made a recent significant contribution to the understanding of the relations among the arts and religions, both for the Academy and for a broader public. Nominees need not be AAR members. Please, no self nominations. To be considered for the 2012 award, nominations must be made by February 1, 2012. For submission requirements and more information, please see here.

Martin E. Marty Public Understanding of Religion Award: Deadline January 25, 2012

To nominate someone for the AAR's Martin E. Marty Award, which recognizes extraordinary contributions to the public understanding of religion by those whose work speaks to the public as well as to scholars, please see here. The deadline for nominations is January 25, 2012.

 
ACADEMIC ABBY: Professional Advice from Your Colleagues
Do you have a question about life in academe that you are at a loss to answer by yourself but don't feel you can approach your colleagues with it? Ask Academic Abby! Academic Abby is able to answer questions large and small, from dealing with faculty dilemmas, to tenure issues, to work/life balance troubles. Questions can be submitted anonymously through an online form. Members of the AAR Status of Women in the Profession Committee will respond to each question received. The question and answer will be posted on the SWP web page and issues of Religious Studies News.

 

AAR MEMBER NOTES

Awards:
Anthony Cerulli, Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for his project, "Medical Narratives and Allegorical Bodies in Indian Medical Literature."

Books:

Guy L. Beck, Tulane University
Vaishnava Temple Music in Vrindaban: The Radhavallabha Songbook, Blazing Sapphire Press, October 2011.

Monica A. Coleman and Nancy R. Howell and Helene Tallon Russell, Claremont School of Theology
Creating Women's Theology: A Movement Engaging Process Thought, Pickwick Publications, September 2011 release date. 978-1-61097-177-5

Carl W. Ernst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations, University of North Carolina Press, December 2011, ISBN-13: 978-0807835166

David M. Freidenreich, Colby College
Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law. Berkeley: University of California Press, August 2011 (ISBN 978-0520253216)

Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of California, Los Angeles
Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture, Oxford University Press, December 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0199738618

Justin D. Klassen, Bellarmine University
The Paradox of Hope: Theology and the Problem of Nihilism, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011, ISBN-13: 978-1608997701

Reid B. Locklin, University of Toronto
Liturgy of Liberation: A Christian Commentary on Shankara's Upadesasahasri. Leuven: Peeters, November 2011 release date.

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, University of California, Davis
The Sign of the Cross: From Golgotha to Genocide. Transaction Publishers, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-4128-1133-0.

Glen G. Scorgie, Bethel University
Gen. ed. Dictionary of Christian Spirituality. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011. Consulting editors: Simon Chan, Gordon T. Smith, James D. Smith III. ISBN: 978-0-310-29066-7

Eliezer Segal, University of Calgary
Reading Jewish Religious Texts, Routledge, October 2011. ISBN-10: 0415588227. ISBN-13: 978-0415588225

Eliezer Segal, University of Calgary
On the Trails of Tradition: Explorations of Jewish Life and Learning. 2011. Paper: CreateSpace, ISBN-10: 1463623917; ISBN-13: 978-1463623913; ebooks: (Apple iBook, Kindle, Nook) Quid Pro Books: ISBN 9781610271035.

Eliezer Segal, University of Calgary
For Signs and for Seasons. Paperback: CreateSpace 2011: ISBN-10: 1463610017, ISBN-13: 978-1463610012. e-books (Apple iBook, Kindle, Nook): Quid Pro Books: ISBN 9781610271066.

Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College
Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation. Routledge, 2011. ISBN: 9780415618748

Benjamin M. Stewart, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
A Watered Garden: Christian Worship and Earth's Ecology, Augsburg Fortress, 2011. ISBN: 978-0806653938

Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University New Orleans
Ed., Oxford Handbook of Millennialism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).

Career Transitions

Andre E. Johnson, Memphis Theological Seminary
Named the Dr. James L. Netters Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Religion and African American Studies.

Let your AAR colleagues know about your professional milestones! Submit your Member Note online.
 
Table of Contents
  1. Member Updates
  2. Awards & Grants
  3. Academic Abby
  4. AAR Member Notes
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