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Additional Meetings
November 20-23, 2004
San Antonio, Texas, USA
AM18-1
New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible Board
Thursday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm
AM18-3
Holman Christian Standard Bible Luncheon
Thursday - 11:45 am-3:30 pm
AM18-50
United Methodist - Women of Color Scholars Program
Thursday - 1:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM18-52
SDA Religion Chairs
Thursday - 1:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM18-51
School of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder
Thursday - 4:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM18-100
Believers Church Bible Commentary Editorial Council
Thursday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM18-101
Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Thursday - 7:00 pm-10:00 pm
Section 1
Today through Saturday the Adventist Society for Religious Studies will address the topic The Mighty Acts of God in the World. The presidential address, Is Post Modernism an Act of God?, will be presented by Jon Paulien from Andrews University. A business session will follow. For additional information regarding this section, contact Ernest Furness at P.O. Box 8050, Riverside, CA 92515 or 74617.1313@compuserve.com.
AM18-102
United Methodist - Women of Color Scholars Program
Thursday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-14
Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads: A Workshop for Journalists
Friday - 7:30 am-3:30 pm
AM19-1
New Developments in Religious Studies IV: Keeping Ourselves Current
Friday - 8:15 am-3:45 pm
New Developments in Religious Studies IV: Keeping Ourselves Current
8:15: Breakfast
9:00: Theme:
Religion in America
10:30: Elisabeth Schüssler-Fiorenza, Harvard University
Feminist Biblical Interpretation
11:45: Lunch
1:00: Teacher Session
2:30: Roger Gottlieb, Worchester Polytechnical Institute
Religion and Social Change
3:45: Break
7:00: Film/Discussion: What Do You Believe?
November 20:
9:30: Concurrent Sessions:
Anne Monius, Harvard University
Religion in South Asia
Ali Asani, Harvard University
Islam
AM19-2
Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Friday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Section 2
AM19-3
Lutheran Women in Theological Studies
Friday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Lutheran women in theological and religious studies as well as some local Lutheran clergywomen gather annually for scholarship, worship, and friendship. Lutheran women scholars - including graduate students – and other women who teach or study at Lutheran colleges and seminaries are welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. Questions? To register, please contact Dept. for Theological Education, ELCA at 1-773-380-2885.
AM19-4
North American Paul Tillich Society
Friday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theme: Tillich and Mysticism
Matthew Lon Weaver, University of Pittsburgh, Presiding
Dan Peterson, Graduate Theological Union
Jacob Boehme and Paul Tillich
John P. Dourley, Carleton University, Ottawa
Tillich’s Debt to Eckhart
Martin Gallagher, University of Kansas
The Mystical Overcoming of Theism
AM19-5
United Methodist - Women of Color Scholars Program
Friday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM19-7
Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies Board Meeting
Friday - 9:00 am-3:30 pm
AM19-8
Believers Church Bible Commentary Editorial Council
Friday - 9:00 am-3:30 pm
AM19-9
Conference on Contemporary Pagan Studies
Friday - 9:00 am-6:30 pm
9:00 Register
9:30 Welcome
9:45 Francesca Ciancimino Howell
How Pagan Is Deep Ecology?
10:15 Barbara Jane Davy
Being at Home in Nature as a Levinasian Pagan
10:45 Coffee
11:00 Theme: Publishing in Pagan Studies Panel
Panelists:
Chas Clifton
Wendy Griffin
Graham Harvey
Erik Hanson
12:15 Lunch
2:00 Constance Wise
Wiccan Epistemology: Occult Knowledge and Process Thought
2:30 Douglas E. Cowan
Cyberhenge: An Executive Summary
3:00 Jane Leverick
Witches in Wonderland: Neo-Pagans, Civil Society, and Citizenship
3:30 Coffee
3:45 Theme: Pagan Theology: A Discussion of Michael York’s book
5:30 Closing
For more information visit www.paganstudies.org or e-mail Cat McEarchern, ccps@paganstudies.org.
AM19-135
Quaker Theological Discussion Group
Friday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theme: Quaker Religious Thought in Review
Moderator: Paul Anderson
Shane Kirkpatrick
QRT 1-50: The First Fifty Issues
Susan Jeffers
QRT 51-100: The Next Fifty Issues
Discussion
AM19-12
North American Paul Tillich Society
Friday - 12:30 pm-1:30 pm
Theme: Tillich beyond Tillich: Tillich in His Own Eyes
Marion Pauck, Stanford University, Lecturer
John Dillenberger, Graduate Theological Union, Responding
AM19-50
Dharma Association of North America (DANAM)
Friday - 12:30 pm-3:30 pm
Session 1
12:30 DANAM Registration Desk opens
(To receive your DANAM Name Badge and copy of the DANAM Conference Brochure with Final Agenda, please register at www.danam-web.org/events.htm. There is no fee.)
1:00 Theme: Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Adarsh Deepak, DANAM President, Conference co-chair, Presiding
Rajinder Gandhi, DANAM Board Chairman
Welcome Remarks
Adarsh Deepak, DANAM President
Dharma Association of North America: An Introduction
Rita Sherma, DANAM Conference co-chair
Conference Introduction
1:20 Panel
Theme: Scholarship on Sanskrit, Tamil, Prakrits: Debate about Native Exegetical Traditions
T. S. Rukmani, Concordia University, Presiding
Panelists:
Sridhar Melukote, Hindu University of America
Veena Howard, University of Oregon
Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa
Srinivasan Kalyanaraman, Chennai, India
Venkatakrishna Sastry, Hindu University of America
Laurie Patton, Emory University
Respondent
Discussions
Program updates are available at www.danam-web.org/events.htm
AM19-51
Lutheran Women in Theological Studies
Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Lutheran women in theological and religious studies as well as some local Lutheran clergywomen gather annually for scholarship, worship, and friendship. Lutheran women scholars - including graduate students – and other women who teach or study at Lutheran colleges and seminaries are welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. Questions? To register, please contact Dept. for Theological Education, ELCA at 1-773-380-2885.
AM19-52
North American Association for the Study of Religion
Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Session 1
Convener: Winnifred Sullivan, wsulliva@uchicago.edu
Zane Pushaw Altman
Creating the Enemy at Waco
Nathan Baruch Rein
Sui Generis vs. Naturalistic Views of Religion, circa 1549
Anna Grazia Lecca
Developing a Scale to Measure Religious Sensitivity: "Attitude toward Catholicism Scale"
Jeppe Sinding Jensen
On Modeling Models: The Generation of Comparability
AM19-53
Quarterly Review Annual Meeting
Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
AM19-55
Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Friday - 1:00 pm-6:30 pm
Section 3
AM19-56
Annual Womanist Consultation
Friday - 1:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM19-57
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Editorial Board
Friday - 1:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM19-58
Institute for Biblical Research
Friday - 1:00 pm-6:30 pm
Session 1
AM19-59
North American Paul Tillich Society
Friday - 1:45 pm-4:15 pm
Theme: Paul Tillich: Theologian of the Boundary
John J. Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Owen Thomas, Episcopal Theological Seminary
Tillich’s Systematic Theology: Major Successes and Failures
Duane Olson, McKendree College
Tillich’s “Self-Interpretation of Man in Western Thought”
Anne Marie Reijnen, Bruxelles, Belgium
Capital Punishment: On the Public Use of Force and the Public Use of Christianity
Christopher D. Rodkey, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey
Is Bad Philosophy Good Theology? Revisiting Paul Tillich’s “Problem of Theology and Philosophy”
AM19-112
Person, Culture, and Religion Group
Friday - 2:00 pm-6:30 pm
2:00 Book Panel: Celia Brickman, Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis
James Jones, Rutgers University, Presider
Diane Jonte-Pace, Santa Clara University
David Carrasco, Harvard University
Phillis Sheppard, North Park Seminary/Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis
Celia Brickman, Center for Religion and Psychotherapy, Chicago
3:45 Coffee Break
4:00 Hetty Zock, University of Groningen, Netherlands
The Impact of a Religious Opera: “Dialogues of the Carmelites”
Respondent: Pamela Cooper-White, Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia
5:30 Experiential Session: Bill Barnard, Southern Methodist University
Body Work/Body Play
AM19-60
Anglican Association of Biblical Studies
Friday - 2:15 pm-9:30 pm
Meet at St. Mark's at 2:15 pm for a short bus ride to the church's retreat center for a presentation by the Reverends John Lewis and Mary Earle, co-directors of the Center for Faith in the WorkPlace. Bus back to St. Mark's (or meet us there) for Eucharist (5:30 pm), followed by social time, dinner (7:00 pm), and a talk by Dr. Christopher Rowland, Queen's College, University of Oxford, on the use of art in the interpretation and reception history of the book of Revelation. For dinner reservations, directions, and additional information, see www.aabs.org. The AABS is an international association of biblical scholars who are affiliated with the churches of the Anglican Communion (including the Episcopal Church in the U.S.)—new members are welcome.
AM19-61
Theology for the PC (U.S.A)
Friday - 2:30 pm-5:00 pm
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) pastors and scholars are invited to this meeting dedicated to doing theology for the church. Theme: Calling Upon the Holy Spirit Panel: Teresa Stricklen, Pittsburgh Seminary; Paul Galbreath, Office of Theology and Worship; and David Meriwether, Parkway Presbyterian Church, Corpus Christi. Background text: Calls to Worship, Prayers for Illumination, and Great Prayers of Thanksgiving, Book of Common Worship. Further information: Anita Brown, Office of Theology and Worship, 1-888-728-7228 x5033, abrown@ctr.pcusa.org.
AM19-100
Art/s of Interpretation Group
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Section 1
Randal Cummings, California State University, Northridge, Presiding
Bruce Lincoln, University of Chicago
How to Read a Religious Text: Reflections on Some Passages from the Chandogya Upanishad
Responding:
John P. Burris, Rollins College
Greg Johnson, Franklin & Marshal College
Rick Talbott, California State University, Northridge
AM19-101
North American Association for the Study of Religion
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Section 2
Organizer: Theodore Vial, tvial@vwc.edu
Jeffrey C. Ruff, Presiding
Theodore Vial
Thinking Religion: Recent Contributions towards Understanding Cognitive Constraints on Religious Thought and Behaviour
Greg Alles
The Costs of Religious Concepts: A Possible Application of Economics in Cognitive
Science?
Robert Yelle
Rhetorical, Communicological, and other Semiotic Approaches to Religion
AM19-103
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality Members' Workshop - Teaching the Classics of Christian Spirituality: The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:00 pm
AM19-104
Theology and Ethics Colloquy
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM19-105
Biblical Sites in Turkey: 7 Churches of Asia Minor and St. Paul
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Levent Oral and Ziya Gokman are here from Turkey to give you a presentatiohn with a slide show on the Biblical Sites in Turkey. They represent Ramtur, a company organizing Biblical Tours and Events in Turkey since 1982. For additional information regarding this session, contact Levent Oral at info@ramtur.com.
AM19-106
Dharma Association of North America (DANAM)
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Session 2
Theme: New Approaches to Methodological Concerns in Hindu Studies
Rita Sherma, Binghamton University, Presiding
Cynthia Humes, Claremont McKenna College
Revisiting Methods
Rajiv Malhotra, Infinity Foundation
Methods Revisited
Jeffrey Lidke, Berry College
Methodologies for Examining Tantra
Sthaneshwar Timalsina, Washington University in St. Louis
Tantric and Western Hermeneutics
Andrew Fort, Texas Christian University
Teaching Texas Christians about Hinduism
Laurie Patton, Emory University
Respondent
Discussions
Program updates are available at www.danam-web.org/events.htm.
AM19-107
Feminist Liberation Theologians' Network
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
The Network's annual gathering will focus on women, religion, and nationalism in a globalized world. All are welcome. Please send us your ideas if you are working on these issues. RSVP so we may expect you. Mary E. Hunt, WATER, 8035 13th Street, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA, 1-301-589-2509, mhunt@hers.com; Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA, 1-617 495-5751, Elisabeth_schussler@harvard.edu .
AM19-108
Karl Barth Society of North America
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary
Barth on Christ's Resurrection and Eternal Life
Bryan Wagoner, Harvard University
Revelation as Event in Barth's Early Theology
AM19-109
Korean Biblical Colloquium
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
4:00 Greetings
4:20 Yung Suk Kim, Vanderbilt University
“In Christ” as a New Hermeneutical Key to Diversity
5:00 Aaron Son, Dallas Baptist University
Anthropology and Ecclesiology in Ephesians
5:40 Business Meeting
Papers will be circulated in advance and discussed at the session. For additional information please contact John Ahn, john.ahn@yale.edu, or Paul Kim, pkim@mtso.edu, and visit the current website www.youaregood.com/kbc.htm.
AM19-110
Lutheran Women in Theological Studies
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Lutheran women in theological and religious studies as well as some local Lutheran clergywomen gather annually for scholarship, worship, and friendship. Lutheran women scholars - including graduate students – and other women who teach or study at Lutheran colleges and seminaries are welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. Questions? To register please contact Dept. for Theological Education, ELCA at 1-773-380-2885.
AM19-113
Social Ethics in the Churches of Christ: Exploring the Role of Ecclesiology and Eschatology in Ethical Deliberation
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
This session will focus on the contribution scholars in the Churches of Christ can make to the field of Christian social ethics. We will focus on the insights that a “primitivist” hermeneutic can provide to ethical inquiry. We’ll pay special attention to the influence of differing conceptions of eschatology and ecclesiology. Panelists tentatively include Lee Camp, Lipscomb University, and Shaun Casey, Wesley Theological Seminary. For more information contact Duane Barron, barron@virginia.edu, or Vic McCracken, vmccrac@emory.edu.
AM19-114
Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Stephanie Kaza, University of Vermont, Presiding
Theme: Dealing with Illness: Buddhist and Christian Resources
Three Christians and three Buddhists will present short reflection papers with most of the session devoted to group discussion.
AM19-115
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion Pre-Conference Meeting
Friday - 4:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM19-136
Accordance Training Session
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM19-137
Society for the Study of Native American Religious Traditions
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:00 pm
AM19-102
North American Paul Tillich Society
Friday - 4:30 pm-6:00 pm
Theme: Tillich and Health
Sharon Peebles Burch, San Rafael, CA, Presiding
Derek Michaud, Boston University
Health as Metaphor for the Created Condition
Terry D. Cooper, St. Louis Community College, Meremec
Britt-Mari Sykes, University of Ottawa
Paul Tillich and the New York Psychology Group 1941-1945
AM19-140
New Testament Language Project Board
Friday - 5:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-116
Søren Kierkegaard Society Banquet
Friday - 6:00 pm-10:00 pm
Rio Plaza
245 E. Commerce Street, “The Riverwalk”
6:00 Social Hour
7:00 Banquet (contact David Kangas at dkangas@mailer.fsu.edu)
8:00 David C. Wood, Vanderbilt University
A Singular Life?
AM19-117
North American Paul Tillich Society Annual Banquet
Friday - 6:30 pm-9:30 pm
Rio Rio Cantina, Presidente Room
421 E. Commerce Street
Our distinguished guest speaker for the evening will be Carl Vaught of Baylor University. The cost of the banquet is $50. Reservations can be made with Fred Parrella, Religious Studies, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053-0335; 1-408-554-4714; fparrella@scu.edu.
AM19-118
LGBT Caucus/Activist Scholars
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM19-120
Mennonite Scholars and Friends Reception
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM19-121
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion Editorial Board
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM19-122
Penitence in Christian Theology Study
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
This session, along with another on Saturday morning, is open to any member of AAR or SBL and showcases results from a research project designed to bring together biblical, historical, and theological scholars for dialogue around the theme of penitence in Christian theology. Contributions will be summarized in the session with time allowed for conversation between the various scholars. Convened by Mark Boda and Gordon Smith, members of this research project include Terry Fretheim, Carol Dempsey, Richard Bautch, Guy D. Nave, Jr., Stanley Porter, Edith Humphrey, Walter Brueggemann, Roberta Hestenes, John Chryssavgis, Ralph del Colle, Andrew Purves, Cheryl Bridges Johns, Michael Battle, Wafik Wahba, Ronald Rittgers, and Cornelia Horn. For full details and papers see http://divinity.mcmaster.ca/penitence. Contact: mjboda@mcmaster.ca.
AM19-123
Quaker Theological Discussion Group
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Theme: Quaker Decision Making
Moderator: Gayle Beebe
Chuck Conniry
Discernment - Individual and Corporate Considerations
Paul Anderson
The Meeting for Worship in Which Business Is Conducted
AM19-124
Shabbat Experience
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Participants interested in joining together for traditional Jewish Shabbat services and meals Friday night and Saturday morning are welcome to contact Joseph Weinstein weinstein@bbn.com for further information. Reservations are requested by November 1.
AM19-125
The Responsibility of the Religious Academy in Foreign Policy and International Relations
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM19-126
The Word Made Fresh
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Plenary Speaker: Clark Pinnock, McMaster University
The Recovery of the Holy Spirit in Evangelical Theology
Don Thorsen, Azusa Pacific University, Presiding
Panelists:
Molly Marshall, Central Baptist Theological Seminary
Michael Horton, Westminster Theological Seminary, California
W. C. Turner, Duke University
The Word Made Fresh was originally a document that called for the renewal of the evangelical Christian spirit. It emphasized an “irenic spirit of generous orthodoxy” within evangelical theological discourse. More than one hundred evangelical scholars signed the document in support of its call for renewal.
Azusa Pacific University sponsors The Word Made Fresh at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature.
AM19-128
The Pluralism Project Reception
Friday - 7:00 pm-10:00 pm
Diana Eck and the Pluralism Project will host this gathering of affiliate researchers, allies, advisors, friends, and colleagues. Please join us for refreshments, networking, conversation, and informal updates on research projects. Your RSVP to staff@pluralism.org is appreciated.
AM19-129
Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries Editorial Board Meeting
Friday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-130
Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Friday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
Section 4
AM19-131
AJCU Conference of Theology/Religious Studies Chairs Meetings
Friday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-132
Institute for Biblical Research
Friday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
Session 2
7:00 Welcome and Devotions: Bing Hunter, Pastor of Adult Ministries, Harvest Bible Chapel, Rolling Meadows, IL
7:15 Annual Lecture: Karen Jobes, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA
When God Spoke Greek: The Place of the Greek Bible in Evangelical Scholarship
8:15 Formal Response: Larry Perkins, Trinity Western Seminary, Langley, British Columbia
8:30 Response from the floor
8:45 Reception hosted by InterVarsity Press
For additional information about this session, contact Daniel Block (President, IBR) at 1-502-429-9788 or dblock@sbts.edu.
AM19-133
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
Friday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
Organized around the theme Hindu Ekklesia, Christian Sampradaya? A Gift Exchange, this panel brings a comparative perspective to ritual and theological visions of religious community and the question of community reform. Join us for a stimulating discussion!
Rachel McDermott, Barnard College, Presiding
Panelists:
Timothy Dobe, Harvard University
Reid Locklin, University of Toronto
Michael McLaughlin, Saint Leo University
Rita Sherma, Binghamton University
Lise Vail, Montclair State University
For additional information, please contact elizakent66@hotmail.com or visit www.sandiego.edu/theo/hcs-l
AM19-138
Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM19-139
Society for the Arts in Religious & Theological Studies Reception
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM19-127
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality: SAVAE at San Fernando: An Evening of Song and Commentary
Friday - 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
San Fernando Cathedral, 115 Main Plaza
The evening will begin with introductions to the historic Cathedral and to recent scholarship on Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe. The widely acclaimed group SAVAE (San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble) will perform and discuss pieces drawn from their critically praised recordings: ancient music from the Middle East and sixteenth-century compositions dedicated to Guadalupe. The event and reception following are free, and all are welcome. For more information, please visit http://sscs.press.jhu.edu or contact ahouck@saintmarys.edu.
AM19-141
North American Assoication for the Study of Religion Executive Meeting
Friday - 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
AM19-134
Polanyi Society
Friday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
Theme: Polanyi and Whitehead
Joseph Bracken, Xavier University
Emergent Monism and Final Causality: A Field-Oriented Approach
Responding:
Walter Gulick, Montana State University-Billings
Richard Moody, Gannon University
Polanyi Society Annual Business Meeting: 10:30 PM.
AM20-2
Conversations in Religion and Theology Advisory Board Breakfast Meeting
Saturday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM20-3
NABPR Executive Committee
Saturday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM20-4
North American Paul Tillich Society Board of Directors Meeting
Saturday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM20-5
AJCU Conference of Theology/Religious Studies Chairs Meetings
Saturday - 7:00 am-11:30 am
AM20-6
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
Saturday - 7:00 am-11:30 am
Theme: Book Banning and the Spectacle of Censorship in Hinduism and Christianity
Seeking greater understanding of current controversies, this panel undertakes a historical and comparative examination of the reception of scholarship on religion by communities of faith.
Gerald J. Larson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel Sheridan, St. Joseph’s College, Maine
Adheesh Sathaye, University of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey Kripal, Rice University
10:45 Business Meeting
Rachel McDermott, Barnard College, Presiding
For additional information, please contact elizakent66@hotmail.com or visit www.sandiego.edu/theo/hcs-l
AM20-59
Dialog: A Journal of Theology Editorial Council
Saturday - 7:00 am-11:30 am
AM20-62
Editorial Board Meeting of Spiritus
Saturday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM20-63
Tyndale House Alumni Annual Reunion
Saturday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM20-7
Institute for Biblical Research
Saturday - 8:00 am-12:45 pm
Session 2
8:00 Devotions
8:15 Old Testament Paper: Peter Gentry, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
The Importance of the Septuagint for Old Testament Studies Today
8:55 New Testament Paper: Tim McLay, St. Stephens University
The Importance of the Septuagint for New Testament Studies Today
9:35 Formal Response: David Baer, President of Overseas Council International
9:55 Discussion from the floor
10:10 Break
10:30 Annual Business Meeting
12:30 Adjournment
For additional information about this session, contact Daniel Block, President, IBR, at 1-502-429-9788 or dblock@sbts.edu.
AM20-8
The Pluralism Project Bus Tour
Saturday - 8:30 am-11:30 am
We anticipate visiting the Hindu Temple and other religious centers. Details will be available online at www.pluralism.org. Please contact us at staff@pluralism.org to reserve a seat. A modest fee will be required to cover the bus rental expense.
AM20-9
Schleiermacher Society
Saturday - 8:30 am-12:15 pm
8:30 David Seiple, Postdoctoral Fellow, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Schleiermacher, Pragmatism, and Neoliberalism
10:00 Terrence N. Tice, University of Michigan
Text and Texture of the Glaubenslehre
11:45 Future Planning/Ad Hoc Reports on Works in Progress
Ample time for discussion by all. Pre-distributed papers, and information, contact Terry Tice: ttice@frii.com.
AM20-10
Council on Graduate Studies in Religion
Saturday - 8:30 am-1:00 pm
AM20-17
International Bonhoeffer Society Board of Directors (English Language Section)
Saturday - 8:30 am-11:30 am
AM20-11
Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Section 5
AM20-12
Art/s of Interpretation Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Session 2
Multiple Souls
Eric Bain-Selbo, Lebanon Valley College, Presiding
Charles H. Long and Davíd Carrasco
Reflections on W. E. B. DuBois and José Martí
Philip Arnold
Haudenosaunee Condolence for Grief of the Divided Soul
Jennifer Reid
Mothers and Monsters: Hemispheric and Narrative Space in the Americas of Louis Riel and José Martí
David Chidester
Transatlantic Souls of Black Folks: W. E. B. DuBois and Representations of African Indigenous Religion
For more information about the Art/s of Interpretation Group, please visit our website at www.vcsun.org/~cummings/arts.html.
AM20-14
Christian Theological Research Fellowship
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Session 1
Topic: Salt and Light: The Public Dimension of Christian Ethics
9:00 Opening: Alan Padgett, Luther Seminary
Business meeting: Vincent Bacote (President, CTRF), Wheaton College
9:15 Panel and Discussion
Rebekah Miles, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
Guenther Haas, Redeemer University College
Creational Ethics Is Public Ethics
Mark Husbands, Wheaton College
Politics as the Art of Dying: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr.
D. Stephen Long, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
What Makes Theology “Political”? Come Let Us Reason Together
Respondent: Ronald Thiemann, Harvard University
Copies of the paper abstracts are available at the Christian Theological Research Fellowship (CTRF) website: http://home.apu.edu/˜CTRF/. For additional information contact Vincent Bacote, Wheaton College, 1-630-752-5278, vincent.e.bacote@wheaton.edu.
AM20-15
Dharma Association of North America (DANAM)
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Session 3
8:30 DANAM Registration Desk Re-Opens
To receive your DANAM Name Badge and copy of DANAM Conference Brochure with Final Agenda, please register at www.danam-web.org/events.htm. There is no fee.
9:00 Rita Sherma, DANAM Conference Co-Chair
Introductory Remarks
9:05 Paper Session
Theme: ”Nationalisms” and “Hinduisms”
Robert N. Minor, University of Kansas, Presiding
Phyllis Herman, California State University-Northridge
Refiguring the Other: Rama, Rakshashas, and Women
Gerald T. Carney, Hampden Sydney College
A Patriot of the Old School: Baba Premananda Bharati and Indian Nationalism
Kay Jordan, Radford University
S. Muthulakshmi Reddy, Progressive Hindu Nationalist
Robert D. Baird, University of Iowa -Cottage Grove
Respondent
Discussions
Program updates are available at www.danam-web.org/events.htm.
AM20-16
Global Ethics and Religion Forum
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theme: Religious Tolerance in the Face of Terrorism
Chair: Nancy M. Martin, Chapman University
Panelists:
John Berthrong, Boston University
Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford University
Irfan Omar, Marquette University
Claude Ozankom, Salzburg University
Philip Rossi, Marquette University
Joseph Runzo, Chapman University
www.GERForum.org
AM20-18
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion Editorial Board Meeting
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM20-19
Karl Barth Society of North America
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Panel Discussion: Egerhard Busch's new book, Karl and the Pietists, led by Donald W. Dayton, Azuza Pacific University
AM20-20
La Communidad
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM20-21
Lutheran Women in Theological Studies
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Lutheran women in theological and religious studies as well as some local Lutheran clergywomen gather annually for scholarship, worship, and friendship. Lutheran women scholars - including graduate students – and other women who teach or study at Lutheran colleges and seminaries are welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. Questions? To register please contact Dept. for Theological Education, ELCA at 1-773-380-2885.
AM20-23
Mennonite Scholars and Friends Forum
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM20-25
NABPR Executive Committee
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM20-27
North American Association for the Study of Religion
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Session 3:
Organizer/respondent: Steven Engler
sengler@mtroyal.ca
Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University
Mary Keller, University of Wyoming
John Rundin, University of Texas, San Antonio
AM20-28
North American Hindu Association of Dharma Studies
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theme: Hindu Studies in the Colonial Context: Internal and External Aspects
Presiding: Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi, Lancaster University
Panelists:
Jeffrey Long, Elizabethtown College
Rita Sherma, Binghamton University
Arvind Sharma, McGill University
For additional information about the session, please contact Rita D. Sherma, nsherma1@binghamton.edu.
AM20-29
Penitence in Christian Theology Study
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
This session is open to any member of AAR and SBL and showcases results from a research project designed to bring together biblical, historical, and theological scholars for dialogue around the theme of penitence in Christian theology. For details of this study group see the information on the first session (Friday night). For full details and papers see http://divinity.mcmaster.ca/penitence. Contact: mjboda@mcmaster.ca.
AM20-30
Person, Culture, and Religion Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
9:00 Theme: Works in Progress
Presider: Lallene Rector, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
New scholars welcome.
10:00 Discussion: Two Perspectives on Hans Loewald
Kelley Raab, St. Lawrence University, and Marsha Hewitt, University of Toronto
11:00 Business Meeting:
Kathleen Bishop and Pamela Cooper-White, Presiding
AM20-31
Polanyi Society
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theme: Exploration of Longing to Know
Esther Meek
Responding:
Dale Cannon, Western Oregon University
Jere Moorman, Polanyi Society
David Rutledge, Furman University
AM20-34
Restoration Theological Research Fellowship
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM20-35
Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theme: Promoting Healing: Buddhist and Christian Resources
Three Buddhists and three Christians will present short reflection papers with most of the session devoted to group discussion.
Business Meeting:
Ruben Habito, Perkins School of Theology, Presiding
AM20-36
Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
9:00 Welcome
Wilson Yates, President of the Society
9:10 Fr. Garcia, Rector, San Fernando Cathedral, San Antonio, Texas
San Fernando Cathedral’s Restoration
Alejandro Garcia-Rivera, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California
Aesthetic Considerations of the Restoration
10:30 Break
1:45 Business Session/Small Groups
Members are encouraged to tour San Fernando Cathedral on their own before attending the session. For additional information regarding this meeting, see our website at www.ARTSmag.org/society.htm, or contact Kimberly Vrudny at 1-651-962-5337, kjvrudny@stthomas.edu.
AM20-37
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality: Presidential Address and Business Meeting
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
9:00 2004 Presidential Address: Roberta C. Bondi, Candler School of Theology, Emory University,
The Christian Imagination: The Dragon as Handmaid of the Holy Spirit
10:30 Business Meeting:
Joann Wolski Conn, Neumann College, president-elect, Presiding
All are welcome. For more information, please contact Anita Houck at ahouck@saintmarys.edu.
AM20-38
Søren Kierkegaard Society
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
9:00 Marcia Robinson, Syracuse University, Presiding
Theme: Kierkegaard: A Life of Writing
Discussing:
Kierkegaard: A Biography, by Alastair Hannay, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
SAK: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, En Biografi (Copenhagen: Gads Forlag, 2000); forthcoming (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004)
Panelists:
Daniel Conway, Pennsylvania State University
Joakim Garff, Søren Kierkegaard Research Center, Copenhagen
Alastair Hannay, University of Oslo
Elsebet Jegstrup, Elon University
Edward Mooney, Syracuse University
For more information, contact Vanessa Rumble at rumble@bc.edu.
AM20-39
Niebuhr Society Annual Meeting
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Max L. Stackhouse, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Lawrence Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary, Emeritus
Was Niebuhr Wrong on Economics?
Robin Lovin, Southern Methodist University
Is Hauerwas Wrong on Niebuhr?
Responding:
Dennis McCann, Agnes Scott College
Discussion and Business Meeting
AM20-40
Theology and Ethics Colloquy
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM20-42
United Methodist - Women of Color Scholars Program
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM20-44
Society for the Study of Anglicanism
Saturday - 9:00 am-12:45 pm
Invited: all AAR and SBL members interested in the study of the international Anglican communion, from a variety of scholarly perspectives (theology, religious studies, history, social studies).
Meeting Sponsor: St. Augustine Foundation, Canterbury
9:00 Coffee and Donuts
9:30 Introduction:
Thomas Hughson, Marquette University
Martyn Percy, Ripon College
10:10 Theme: Postcolonial Communion, Postmodern Influences
Wendy Dackson, Canisius College
Patrick Gray, Church of the Advent/General Theological Seminary
11:30 Break
11:45 Lecture
Stephen Pickard, St. Mark’s National Theological Centre
Many Verandahs, Same House: Anglicanism in Australia
Additional information: Thomas Hughson, 1-414-288-5859; thomas.hughson@marquette.edu; or Martyn Percy, mpercy@hartsem.edu.
AM20-58
Celebrating Father Raymund Schwager: A Meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM20-60
Religious Studies Review Editors' Meeting
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM20-43
New Developments in Religious Studies IV: Keeping Ourselves Current
Saturday - 9:30 am-12:45 pm
9:30 Concurrent Sessions
Anne Monius, Harvard Universtiy
Religion in South Asia
AM20-46
New Developments in Religious Studies IV: Keeping Ourselves Current
Saturday - 9:30 am-12:45 pm
9:30 Concurrent Sessions
Ali Asani, Harvard University
Islam
AM20-47
Graduate Theological Union Alumni/ae Luncheon
Saturday - 11:00 am-12:45 pm
AM20-22
Meeting of the Forum on Religion
Saturday - 11:45 am-2:30 pm
AM20-48
North American Paul Tillich Society Annual Business Meeting
Saturday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
AM20-49
Wabash Center Editorial Board
Saturday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
AM20-50
Christian Scholarship Foundation Luncheon
Saturday - 11:45 am-1:30 pm
AM20-33
Res Publica
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
1:00 Coffee
1:15 William Dean, Presiding
Gary Dorrien, Kalamazoo College
The Redeemer Nation as Empire: Neoconservatism and the Politics of American Greatness
2:15 Break
2:30 Panel followed by general discussion
Panelists:
Linell Cady, Arizona State University
Carl Raschke, University of Denver
3:15 Business Session
Carl Raschke and William Dean, Co-Directors of Res Publica, Presiding
For additional information, contact Carl Raschke, craschke@du.edu, or see our web site: www.res-publica.us.
AM20-51
Dharma Association of North America (DANAM)
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Session 4
Theme: Constructive Theology and Philosophy in Dharma Studies
Phyllis Herman, California State University, Northridge, Presiding
Neela Bhattacharya Saxsena, Nassau Community College
Kali’s "Pregnant Nothingness": A Gynocentric Idea of Liberation
Amod Lele, Harvard University
Constructive Buddhist Studies: What It Is and Why It Matters
Ramdas Lamb, University of Hawaii
Beyond Anthropology: Towards a Global, Pluralist Perspective in Hindu Studies
Nicholas F. Gier, University of Idaho
Toward a Hindu Virtue Ethics
Jeffrey Long, Elizabethtown College
Constructive Philosophy in Hindu Studies
Discussions
Program updates are available at www.danam-web.org/events.htm
3:30 pm Business Meeting
AM20-52
Faris Kaya Lecture on Said Nursi
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Theme: A Celebration of the Life and Thought of Said Nursi
Said Nursi (1876-1960) is one of the most important Islamic thinkers of the twentieth century. In his major work Risale-i Nur, he explains how Islam can constructively engage with modernity and Christianity. With six million followers in the Islamic world and a strong commitment to nonviolence, the message of Said Nursi is especially important today. At this session, two recent books on Said Nursi will be launched.
The panel will include:
Ian Markham, Hartford Seminary, Presiding
Ibrahim Abu-Rabi, Hartford Seminary
The Life and Context of Said Nursi
Lucinda Allen Mosher, Fordham University
The Marrow of Worship and the Moral Vision: Said Nursi and Supplication
Bilal Kuspinar, McGill University
Spirituality in Nursi's Religious Thought
AM20-53
Association for Case Teaching
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Join colleagues from across the disciplines in exploring the use of case teaching in the classroom. Used in a wide range of academic settings, case teaching has proven to be an effective way of engaging students in the critical thinking and creativity that are crucial to religious studies and theology. For more information, contact the Association for Case Teaching at 1-325-674-3701 or www.caseteaching.org.
AM20-54
Institute for Biblical Research
Saturday - 1:00 pm-6:30 pm
Session 4
AM20-61
GTU Alum Focus Groups
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
AM20-55
Association of Practical Theology
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Theme: Horizons in Practical Theology: Religious Practices as a Context for Interreligious Engagement
James Nieman, Wartburg Seminary, Presiding
An exploration of the study of religious practices as an avenue for interreligious engagement and its implications for practical theology.
Panel:
John Berthrong, Boston University
Rkia Elaroui Cornell, University of Arkansas
Respondent:
Claire Wolfteich, Boston University
Business Session:
Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
For additional information, contact Rod Hunter, rhunt02@emory.edu, or Kathleen Cahalan, KCahalan@csbsju.edu.
AM20-56
Brian Beck Reception/ Book Signing
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM20-57
Religion Editorial Board Meeting
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM20-100
Abingdon Press Evangelical Theology Series
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM20-101
Adopting and Adapting: Asian-Based Buddhist Groups Changing in Encounter with Non-Asian Americans
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Insiders speak on negotiating changes as non-Asian people become attendees, adherents, and converts.
Eunsu Cho, University of Michigan, Presiding
Carleton Dallery, Won Institute of Graduate Studies
William Aiken, Soka Gakkai International
Bokin Kim, Won Institute of Graduate Studies
David Matsumoto, Institute of Buddhist Studies
Ryuei Michael McCormick, San Jose Nichiren Buddhist Temple
Venerable Yifa, University of the West
Respondents:
Christopher Queen, Harvard University
Richard Seager, Hamilton College
Information and abstracts: Cdallery@earthlink.net.
AM20-102
Society for Post-Modern Comparative Religion and Philosophy, Inaugural Meeting
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Theme: Philosophy as Religion?
AM20-104
Theological Liberalism
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Theme: Whither Liberal Theology, or Liberal Theology - Withering on the Vine?
Lead speaker: Professor Gary Dorrien, Kalamazoo College
Chair: J'annine Jobling, Liverpool Hope University College
Following a series of presentations on the future and direction of liberal theology, discussion is invited on the themes: (1) Defining liberal theology for the twenty-first century; (2) A critical assessment of liberal theology for the twenty-first century.
All are welcome.
Further information: J'annine Jobling joblinj@hope.ac.uk.
AM20-105
Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
Saturday - 4:00 pm-8:30 pm
Members are invited to attend a reception highlighting the work of various centers engaged in the study of religion in the U.S.
AM20-106
College Theology Society Board Meeting
Saturday - 4:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-107
United Methodist - Women of Color Scholars Program
Saturday - 4:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-103
Fund for Theological Education Reception to Honor Current and Former FTE Fellows - A Gathering to Celebrate Our 50th Anniversary
Saturday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM20-109
International Bonhoeffer Society Annual Meeting
Saturday - 6:30 pm-9:30 pm
Members and friends of the International Bonhoeffer Society are invited to the Society annual meeting and dinner. Reservations and Further information: Dean Skelley, dskelley@texas.net; 1-210-496-0387; or Nancy Farrell, therevnj@aol.com; 1-773-871-0775. Cost for dinner will be $40 (+cashbar), at a local restaurant (TBA) within short walking distance of convention hotels.
AM20-110
Brigham Young University and Friends Reception
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-111
European Society of Women in Theological Research (ESWTR)
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-112
Hispanic Theological Initiative Reception
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-113
Louisville Institute Reception
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-114
Presbyterian Scholars Reception
Saturday - 7:00 pm-9:30 pm
Members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and faculty at Presbyterian institutions are invited to this reception to meet and connect with each other. In addition to light refreshments, we hope to find ways to link more closely with one another and with the church—sponsored by the Office of Theology and Worship and the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities. For further information contact Anita Brown, Office of Theology and Worship, 1-888-728-7228 x5033, abrown@ctr.pcusa.org.
AM20-115
United Church of Christ Scholars Reception
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-116
Walter deGruyter Publishers Reception
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-117
Wesleyan Theological Society - Society for Pentecostal Studies Reception
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 am
AM20-118
Wabash Center Reception
Saturday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
AM20-119
Baker Academic and Brazos Press Reception
Saturday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
Authors and friends of Baker Academic and Brazos Press are welcome.
AM20-120
Evangelical Philosophical Society
Saturday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
Theme: Same Sex Marriage: Should the Traditional Understanding of Marriage as the One-Flesh Union of a Man and a Woman Be Abandoned?
William Lane Craig, Talbot School of Theology, Presiding
Panelists:
Marvin Ellison, Bangor Theological Seminary
J. Budziszewski, University of Texas, Austin
Ronald E. Long, Hunter College
Francis J. Beckwith, Baylor University
Audience discussion to follow.
For further information regarding this session, contact Scott Smith scott.smith@truth.biola.edu.
AM20-121
Kingswood Editorial Board Meeting
Saturday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM20-122
Religion and Science Hospitality Event
Saturday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
Want to know more about the relationship between science and religion? On Saturday, November 20 from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, the Institute for Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS), the Zygon Center for Religion and Science (ZCRS), and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) are hosting a "Religion and Science Hospitality Event." For more information, please contact Antje Jackelén at zcrs@lstc.edu.
AM20-138
University of St. Michael's College Faculty of Theology and Toronto School of Theology Annual Reception for Friends and Graduates
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-139
Theologos Awards Dinner
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-142
Institute for Ancient Near Eastern and Afroasiatic Curtural Research - Annual Colloquium
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-143
Smyth & Helwys Commentary Editorial Board Meeting
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-123
ATS Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM20-124
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary invites you to join with us in celebrating a century of service to the southwest region, featuring the official announcement of our recent acquisition of Horizons in Biblical Studies. We will also be introducing to you our new president and academic dean. Literature about our degree programs and about the Hispanic Theological Union will be available for your perusal.
AM20-125
Azusa Pacific University, Haggard School of Theology Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM20-126
Continuum/T&T Clark International Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM20-127
Fortress Press Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
At this year’s reception, Fortress Press will inaugurate two annual awards for innovative teaching. For further information and nomination form, visit www.fortresspress.com.
AM20-128
Korean Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
The reception welcomes all those interested in Korean studies regardless of their ethnic background. It will be a place where anyone interested in Korea and Korean scholarship in religious and biblical studies may meet. The reception is co-hosted by the Korean Biblical Colloquium, AAR Korean Religions Group, Korean-American/Canadian Theological Association, and Korean Association of Christian Studies.
AM20-129
New Religions Movements Group Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM20-130
Paraclete Press Reception: The Jesus Creed by Scot McKnight
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
By Invitation Only.Join us for a wine and cheese reception honoring Scot McKnight, author of Fall 2004 title, The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others. Dr. McKnight is the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University and author of numerous books, articles and reviews.
Endorsement for The Jesus Creed:
"Here are wise words from a scholar who lives intimately with the Word. Scot McKnight shows us in fresh new ways how Jesus' version of Israel's 'Shema' (his creed) summons us to a daily walking in prayer - especially the Lord's Prayer - that forms us for ever deeper expressions of love toward God and our neighbors." John Koenig, Glorvina Rossell Hoffman Professor of New Testament Literature and Interpretation, General Theological Seminary
AM20-131
University of California, Santa Barbara Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM20-132
Scottish Universities Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
The five sponsoring Scottish Universities with departments in Religious Studies and Theology - Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews, and Stirling - warmly invite their alumni/ae and friends, and prospective students as well, to this reception. Academic staff will be present, along with information on the participating universities.
AM20-133
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
Session 1
Theme: Comparative Studies in Buddhist Thought
Lori Witthaus, Grand Valley State University, Presiding
Robert Magliola, National Taiwan University, Ling Jiou Shan Buddhist Monastery
Contra Roger Jackson and David Loy: A Prasangika-Madhyamikan Response to Their Yogacaric Critique of Jacques Derrida
James Apple, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real; Zizek and Buddhist Thought
Tu Xiaofei, Syracuse University
The Chuokoron Discussions Revisited
Responding:
Lori Witthaus, Grand Valley State University
AM20-134
University of Pennsylvania Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM20-135
Vanderbilt University Alumni/ae and Friends Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM20-136
W. F. Albright Institute Reception for Alumni/ae and Friends
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM20-137
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM20-141
The Ekklesia Project Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM21-2
Disciples of Christ Faculty/Student Breakfast
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM21-3
Free Methodist and Wesleyan Church Scholars Breakfast
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM21-4
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary/Northwestern University Alumni/ae Breakfast
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM21-5
Gordon-Conwell Alumni/ae Breakfast
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
We welcome Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary alumni/ae to our Annual AAR and SBL Sunday Morning Worship Breakfast. This will be an occasion for us to worship and fellowship together, and hear from President Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. Please join us! Please RSVP by November 5, 2004 to Jamye Doerfler at jdoerfle@gcts.edu or 1-978-646-4029.
AM21-6
Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research Breakfast
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM21-7
Lutheran Professors and Graduate Students Breakfast
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
Sponsored by Augsburg Fortress Press.
Speaker: Renate Bethge, author of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Brief Life (Fortress Press, 2004) .
A niece of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Renate Bethge is also the widow of Bonhoeffer’s close friend Eberhard Bethge and a major interpreter of Bonhoeffer’s life and legacy. Please e-mail your breakfast reservation no later than November 8 to events@augsburgfortress.org. You may also include a request to reserve a copy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Brief Life for signing following the breakfast.
AM21-9
Mentoring for Ministry in Undergraduate Studies in Celebration of 50 Years of the Fund for Theological Education - By Invitation Only
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM21-10
Missional Hermeneutic Breakfast
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
Continental breakfast sponsored by Tyndale Seminary (Toronto) exploring a “missional paradigm” as the organizing center of biblical-theological scholarship and theological education. The speaker is Dr. Grant Lemarquand, Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Mission, Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, on the topic, The Narrative Shape of the Mission Dei. To reserve a place, contact Dr. Jeffrey Greenman via e-mail at jgreenman@tyndale.ca before November 8. Space is limited.
AM21-11
National Association of Professors of Hebrew Breakfast and Business Meeting
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM21-12
Society of John Wesley Scholars Breakfast
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM21-13
Temple University Breakfast Reception
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM21-14
Institute for Biblical Research
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
Session 3
The Institute for Biblical Research is sponsoring a worship service in the protestant evangelical tradition to be held from 7:30-8:30 am. Fellows, Associates, Friends of IBR, and all interested participants at the various annual meetings are invited. The service, led by Wayne Johnson, Dean of the Chapel, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, will include prayer, congregational singing, selected readings, and a meditation by John Oswalt, Wesley Biblical Seminary, Jackson, MS. For additional information about this session, contact Robert Yarbrough at 1-847-317-6405 or ryarbrou@tiu.edu.
AM21-24
Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, Board of Directors
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM21-25
Science and Religion Networking Breakfast, Hosted by the Metanexus Institute
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM21-26
University of Birmingham Deparment of Theology and Religion Breakfast Reception
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM21-27
Boston University School of Theology Dean's Breakfast
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM21-29
Liturgy for Catholics and Friends
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM21-30
Vanderbilt Divinity School
Sunday - 7:00 am-11:30 am
AM21-31
Church of Christ Professors
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM21-15
Theta Alpha Kappa Board Meeting
Sunday - 8:00 am-11:30 am
AM21-28
Chalice Commentaries for Today Editors and Authors
Sunday - 8:45 am-10:00 am
AM21-16
Wabash Center Grant Writing Consultation
Sunday - 9:00 am-6:30 pm
AM21-17
WBC Luncheon (Annual Event)
Sunday - 11:00 am-1:00 pm
AM21-18
Biblical Interpretation Editorial Board Meeting
Sunday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
AM21-19
Caucus of Scholars at Religiously Affiliated Institutions
Sunday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
In collaboration with the Wabash Center, the Caucus of Scholars at Religiously-Affiliated Institutions will convene for its sixth annual luncheon. The focus of discussion will be the challenges and opportunities associated with teaching religion at an RAI. All AAR or SBL members interested in the work of the Caucus are invited. The meal is free, but space is limited. To make a lunch reservation, contact Stephen Haynes, Department of Religious Studies, Rhodes College; haynes@rhodes.edu.
AM21-20
Christian Theological Research Fellowship
Sunday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
Book Event: John Milbank, Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon (Routledge)
Opening: Dennis Okholm, Co-Vice President of CTRF, Azusa Pacific University
Hans Boersma, Trinity Western University, Presiding
Panelists:
James K. A. Smith, Calvin College
Craig Keen, Azusa Pacific University
John Milbank, University of Nottingham
For additional information contact Vincent Bacote, President, CTRF, Wheaton College, 1-630-752-5278; vincent.e.bacote@wheaton.edu
AM21-21
HUC-JIR School Graduate Studies Alumni/ae Luncheon
Sunday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
AM21-22
Institute for Antiquity and Christianity Luncheon
Sunday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
AM21-23
Zondervan Author Luncheon
Sunday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
AM21-50
Society of Christian Philosophers
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Theme: Paul and the Knowledge That Puffs Up: A Taste for Idolatry
Ben Ollenburger, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Presiding
Bruce Ellis Benson, Wheaton College
Responding:
Sylvia Keesmaat, Institute for Christian Studies
Richard Middleton, Roberts Wesleyan College
AM21-53
Dharma Association of North America (DANAM): Interpretation and Means of Knowledge of Dharma Traditions
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Session 5
AM21-54
Blackwell Bible Commentaries
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
AM21-56
Morman/Evangelical Dialog Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
AM21-57
Imagining the Fetus
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
AM21-51
Bahai Studies Colloquy
Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
AM21-52
Wisdom in Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean World Editorial Board
Sunday - 4:00 pm-6:00 pm
AM21-55
Harvard Divinity School Th.D. Meeting: Schifferdecher
Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
AM21-100
Baylor University Press and Baylor University Reception
Sunday - 4:00 pm-8:30 pm
Baylor University Press, the Department of Religion, and Truett Theological Seminary invite all Press authors and University graduates and friends to this reception.
AM21-101
University of Southern California School of Religion Reception
Sunday - 4:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM21-146
Robert Jewett Festschrift Reception
Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
AM21-102
Theta Alpha Kappa Annual Meeting and Reception
Sunday - 6:30 pm-7:45 pm
Members, alumni/ae, moderators, and friends of Theta Alpha Kappa, the national honor society for Religious Studies and Theology, are welcome to attend the annual meeting (6:30 pm) and reception (7 pm). Those wishing to learn more about TAKare also welcome. For information, contact Vivian-Lee.Nyitray@ucr.edu.
AM20-140
The Catholic University of America
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM21-1
Asbury Theological Alumni/ae and Friends Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM21-103
Liturgical Press Author Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Please join Liturgical Press for a reception in honor of our new authors and their new publications. This celebration also highlights Editorial Director Mark Twomey's 33 years of distinguished service to Liturgical Press. All AAR and SBL attendees are welcome. Please contact Caroline Linz, Events Coordinator, 1-320-363-2023; clinz@osb.org for additional information."
AM21-104
Center of Theological Inquiry Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM21-105
Dempster Scholars Banquet
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM21-106
Taylor and Francis Religion Journals Drinks Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
AM21-107
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, University of Pittsburgh, Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM21-108
Evangelical Philosophical Society
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Theme: Sobel on Gödel's Ontological Proof of God's Existence
Chad Meister, Bethel College, Presiding
Robert Koons, University of Texas, Austin
Michael Rea, University of Notre Dame, Responding
For further information regarding this session, contact Scott Smith scott.smith@truth.biola.edu.
AM21-110
Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM21-111
Muktabodha Indological Research Institute Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
We invite to you drop by for conversation with our faculty and refreshments including authentic ladoos. New footage of our Vedashala in Maharashtra and of a yajna performed in Kerala will be on display, along with information regarding the next phase of our digital library, details of our Kashmir Shaivism seminars in India, and copies of our newest book, Isvara Pratyabhijna-Karika of Utpaladeva, translated with commentary by B. N. Pandit. For more information see www.muktabodha.org.
AM21-112
New Living Translation Dinner
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM21-114
Princeton University Department of Religion Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM21-115
Indiana University Religious Studies Alumni/ae Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM21-118
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Department of Religious Studies
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM21-119
University of Notre Dame Theology Department Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM21-121
Hendrickson Publishers Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM21-122
Princeton Theological Seminary Alumni/ae Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM21-141
Society for Scriptural Reasoning
Sunday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
Theme: Poverty and Debt-Release: Scriptural and Social Scientific Reasonings
This session will be an exercise in the practice of "scriptural reasoning" -- in depth, small group study of scriptural passages. The topic of discussion will be the relation between religious ethics/identity and the religious teachings about poverty and debt-release. The passages will include: a) Leviticus 25:35-43, b) Mathew 18:21-35, 20:1-16, and c) Qur'an
2:255-86. It is recommended that participants in this session atttend the earlier AAR Scriptural Reasoning Group session where papers on this topic will be presented by Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto; Dan Hardy, Cambridge University; and Basit Koshul, Concordia College. One month prior to the meeting the papers will be posted on the SSR/Drew University website:
www.depts.drew.edu/ssr/nationalssr.
AM21-145
Logos Bible Software Presentation
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM21-123
University of Iowa Reception
Sunday - 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
AM21-124
Westminister John Knox Press Reception
Sunday - 7:30 pm-9:00 pm
AM21-125
InterVarsity Press Reception: The Missionary Context of the New Testament and Early Christianity - A Conversation
Sunday - 8:00 pm-10:00 pm
AM21-113
Perkins School of Theology - Southern Methodist University
Sunday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM21-116
Science and Religion Reception
Sunday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM21-117
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