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AAR Online Program Book

November 20-23, 2004
San Antonio, Texas, USA

A21-118

Religion and Science Group
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Lisa L. Stenmark, San Jose State University, Presiding

Theme: The Ethics of Exploration: Theological and Ethical Issues in Space Travel

Panelists:

Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University

Paul Root Wolpe, University of Pennsylvania

John Minogue, DePaul University

Shannon Lucid, NASA

John Glenn, NASA

A19-1

Chairs Workshop - Being a Chair in Today’s Consumer Culture: Navigating in the Knowledge Factory
Friday - 9:00 am-4:00 pm

Sponsored by the Academic Relations Task Force

Carey J. Gifford, American Academy of Religion, Presiding

Panelists:

Elizabeth A. Say, California State University, Northridge

Gerald S. Vigna, Alvernia College

Steve Friesen, University of Missouri, Columbia

Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College

William K. Mahony, Davidson College

See the Program Highlights for a description. Separate registration is required.

A19-2

AAR Board of Directors Meeting
Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm

Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University, Presiding

A19-5

Genes, Ethics, and Religion: A Blueprint for Teaching
Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm

Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee

Dena S. Davis, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Presiding

Panelists:

Suzanne Holland, University of Puget Sound

Sondra Ely Wheeler, Wesley Theological Seminary

Michael J. Dougherty, Hampden Sydney College

A19-3

Religion and Media Workshop - Film and the Possibilities of Justice: Documentary Film in and out of the Classroom
Friday - 10:00 am-6:00 pm

S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University, Presiding

Panelists:

Barbara Abrash, New York University

Judith Helfand, Working Films

Robert West, Working Films

Heather Hendershot, Queens College

Macky Alston, Hartley Film Foundation

See the Program Highlights for a description. Separate registration is required. Separate registration is required.

A19-4

Women's Caucus Workshop
Friday - 11:30 am-3:30 pm

Sponsored by the Student Liaison Group

Melissa Johnston-Barrett, Emory University, Presiding

Theme: Interviewing: A Behind-the-Scenes Look

Panelists:

Faith Kirkham Hawkins, Emory University

Wade Clark Roof, University of California, Santa Barbara

Dianne Stewart, Emory University

Kevin Jaques, Indiana University, Bloomington

Martha L. Moore-Keish, Columbia Theological Seminary

F. Douglas Powe, Emory University

Patricia O'Connell Killen, Pacific Lutheran University

See the Program Highlights for a description.

A20-10

Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University, Presiding

Theme: Teaching and Learning Near and Across Borders

Steven W. Ramey, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
Critiquing Borders: Teaching a Post-Colonial World Religions Survey

Frances M. Leap, Seton Hill University
"Why Do They Hate Us?": Christian and Muslim Ethics Crossing Boundaries

Abdul Mawgoud Dardery, South Valley Univeristy
co-presenter with Frances M. Leap

Jannette Gutierrez, University of Georgia
Adult Religious Education for Whom? Asian and North Asian Women Theological Educators Teaching in a White-Dominated Environment

Sara Patterson, Claremont Graduate University
Disrupting Tradition Definitions: Using Religion to Complicate "Culture" in American Studies/American History Classrooms

A20-11

Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Martha Serpas, University of Tampa, Presiding

Theme: Reflections on Graham Greene on His Centennial

Angela Franks, Boston College
Corpus Christi: Suffering, Embodiment, and Sanctity in Graham Greene's The End of the Affair

Mark G. Bosco, Loyola University Chicago
Coloring Catholicism Greene

Danny L. Franke, Alderson-Broaddus College
Graham Greene's A Burnt-Out Case: Lessons in Vocation and Spirituality/Religion for a Postmodern Society

Darren J. N. Middleton, Texas Christian University
Greene, God, Greene-Eyed God: Sleuthing The End of the Affair's Literary and Theological Sources

A20-12

Comparative Studies in Religion Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Barbara Darling Smith, Wheaton College, Presiding

Theme: Animals and Religious Ritual: Spanning the Globe

Panelists:

Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University

Mary N. MacDonald, Le Moyne College Religious Studies Dept

Jay McDaniel, Hendrix College

Kenneth Mello, University of Vermont

Eric D. Mortensen, Guilford College

Paul Waldau, Tufts University

A20-13

Ethics Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

David Clairmont, University of Chicago, Presiding

Theme: An Evaluation of A Companion to Religious Ethics

Panelists:

Darrell J. Fasching, University of South Florida

John Kelsay, Florida State University

Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles

William Schweiker, University of Chicago

A20-14

North American Religions Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Colleen McDannell, University of Utah, Presiding

Theme: Bluegrass, Polkas, Folksongs, and Father Divine: Music in American Religion

Anne Pryor, Wisconsin Arts Board
In Church There Is No Beer: Polka Mass as a Regional Devotion

Erica Hurwitz, University of Vermont
The Model Church: Evangelicalism as Source and Model for Values in Bluegrass Lyrics

Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini College
"It's Good to Be Here around the Body of God": Tradition and Innovation in the Music of Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement

Brian Walsh, University of Toronto
"At Home in the Darkness, but Hungry for Dawn": Global Homelessness and a Passion for Homecoming in the Music of Bruce Cockburn

David H. Perkins, Vanderbilt University
Selling the Sacred: Contemporary Christian Worship Music as General Market Commodity

Responding:

Stephen A. Marini, Wellesley College

A20-15

Religion and the Social Sciences Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Elizabeth Margaret Bounds, Emory University, Presiding

Theme: After Fifty Years: The Legacy and Impact of Brown vs. Board of Education

Stephanie Y. Mitchem, University of Detroit Mercy
Testing Inequality: Losing Brown vs. Board of Education, Maintaining Race

Carroll Ann Friedmann, University of Virginia
Brown vs. Board of Education: Blessing or Band-Aid?

Donald H. Matthews, University of Missouri, Kansas City
The Science of Theological Ethical Racism and Its Impact on Brown vs. Board of Education and the Fourteenth Amendment

Responding:

Alton B. Pollard, Emory University

A20-16

Theology and Religious Reflection Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Ellen T. Armour, Rhodes College, Presiding

Theme: Borders and Boundaries I

Michael Nausner, Drew University
Crossing or Inhabiting Boundaries? A Theological Hermeneutic of the Boundary

Ruben Rosario-Rodriguez, Saint Louis University
A Rarely Crossed Border: Latino/a Protestantism Engages Guadalupan Devotion

Flora A. Keshgegian, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest
Beyond Borders? Eschatological and Redemptive Themes in Discourses of (Dis)location

Arthur Sutherland, Loyola College in Maryland
Crossing By Faith: A Typology of Borders

A20-17

Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University, Presiding

Theme: Secularization, Norms, and Traditions: Responses to Jeffrey Stout

Panelists:

Linell E. Cady, Arizona State University

M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University

Timothy P. Jackson, Emory University

Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Grinnell College

Philip G. Ziegler, Atlantic School of Theology

Responding:

Ronald F. Thiemann, Harvard University

A20-18

Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Yolanda Yvette Smith, Yale University, Presiding

Theme: A Dialogue among Womanist, Mujerista, Asian, and Native American Women on the Impact of HIV/AIDS Both Nationally and Internationally

Panelists:

Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, Vanderbilt University

Corliss Heath, Emory University

Nantawan Lewis, Metropolitan State University

Rosetta E. Ross, Spelman College

Rosalind F. Hinton, DePaul University

Sharon Grant, Southern Methodist University

A20-19

Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am

Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt University, Presiding

Theme: Children as Agents of Good and Evil

Jennifer E. Beste, Xavier University
Conceptions of Children's Moral Agency in Contemporary Catholicism

David Hadley Jensen, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Depravity, Innocence, and Disease: Contested Understandings of Children and Sin in Christian Theology

Jason A. Mahn, Emory University
Growing Out of Eden? Kierkegaardian Faith and "The Child"

Joyce Ann Mercer, San Francisco Theological Seminary
Who Do You Say That I Am? Children’s Identities, “Spiritual Capital," and Congregational Life

Responding:

John Wall, Rutgers University

Business Meeting:

Marcia Bunge, Valparaiso University, Presiding

A20-20

Regions Committee and Regional Officers Meeting
Saturday - 9:30 am-11:00 am

Stacy L. Patty, Lubbock Christian University, Presiding

A20-21

Plenary Address
Saturday - 11:30 am-1:00 pm

Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University, Presiding

Theme: TEXTureS, Gestures, Power: Orientation to Radical Excavation

Panelists:

Vincent L. Wimbush, Claremont Graduate University

Responding:

Charles Hallisey, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University
G. John Renard, Saint Louis University

See the Program Highlights for a description.

A20-22

Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 11:45 am-1:00 pm

Sponsored by the Student Liaison Group and the American Theological Library Association

Kimberly Bresler, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding

Theme: AAR Student Luncheon: Alternative Careers for Religion Doctoral Students

Panelists:

Valerie R. Hotchkiss, Southern Methodist University

Raul Fernandez-Calienes, St. Thomas University

Pamela L. Schaeffer, Society of the Sacred Heart

Lynn Allan Kauppi, Antioch, TN

Clifford Blake Anderson, Princeton Theological Seminary

See the Program Highlights for a description. Separate registration is required.

A20-50

Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Sponsored by the Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Ebrahim E. I. Moosa, Duke University, Presiding

Theme: When Reconciliation Fails: Global Politics and the Study of Religion

Panelists:

Mona Siddiqui, University of Glasgow

Walter Mignolo, Duke University

S. Mostafa Mohaghhegh Damad, Academy of Sciences, Islamic Republic of Iran

See the Program Highlights for a description.

A20-51

Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Sponsored by the Religion and Disabilities Task Force

Kent A. Eaton, Bethel Seminary San Diego, Presiding

Theme: Hidden Spectacles: Disabled/Disability Viewings of Gibson's Passion

Panelists:

Jin Hee Han, New York Theological Seminary

Mary Jo Iozzio, Barry University

Glen G. Scorgie, Bethel Seminary San Diego

Kerry Wynn, Southeast Missouri State University

See the Program Highlights for a description.

A20-52

Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Committee

Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College, Presiding

Theme: AAR Excellence in Teaching Forum: A Conversation about Teaching with Timothy Renick, Winner of the AAR Excellence in Teaching Award

Panelists:

Timothy M. Renick, Georgia State University

See the Program Highlights for a description.

A20-53

Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Glenn Ambrose, University of the Incarnate Word, Presiding

Theme: San Antonio Ritual Drama and Dance: Hispanic Roots and Contemporary Flowering

Panelists:

James L. Empereur, San Fernando Cathedral

A20-54

Buddhism Section and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Lori Meeks, University of Southern California, Presiding

Theme: Buddhism and Healing

David Drewes, Indiana University, Bloomington
Medical Benefits of Mahāyāna Sutras

Andrew Goble, University of Oregon
What’s Buddhist about Buddhist Medicine?: The Case of Medieval Japan

Janet Gyatso, Harvard University
The Word of the Buddha and the Eye of the Scientist: Early Modern Debates in Tibet, 1550-1750

Pamela D. Winfield, Meredith College
Curing with Kaji: Healing and Esoteric Empowerment in Japan

Responding:

Luis O. Gomez, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

A20-56

Ethics Section and Religion and the Social Sciences Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding

Theme: Earth Ethics: Celebrating the Work of Larry Rasmussen

Daniel T. Spencer, University of Montana
"Only Connect!": Exploring Ecological Restoration as a Case Study in Larry Rasmussen's Earth Ethic Centered in Sustainable Community

Donald M. Braxton, Juniata College
Naturalizing Transcendence: Cosmologies of Emergence as the Foundation of Rasmussen's Earth Ethics

Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Seattle University
Earth-Honoring Religious Ethics: Methodological Contours

Responding:

Larry Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary

A20-57

Philosophy of Religion Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding

Theme: Philosophy and/as/in/of Religion

Thomas A. Lewis, Harvard University
Hegel’s Pragmatism?: Toward an Open-Ended Consummation of the Philosophy of Religion

Tyler T. Roberts, Grinnell College
Philosophical Turnings to and from Religion: Badiou, de Vries, and Zizek

Adam Graves, University of Pennsylvania
On the (Im)possibility of a Phenomenology of Revelation: Jean-Luc Marion on the Anonymity of the Call

Jeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College
Becoming Theological: Rethinking Philosophy of/and Religion

A20-59

Black Theology Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Juan Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University, Presiding

Theme: The Executed God: Crime and Christology

J. Kameron Carter, Duke University
The Liturgy of a New Israel, or the Early American Execution Homily as Racial Performance

Leslie R. James, DePauw University
Back Wall and the Black Other Side of God: Lockup at Home and Abroad

Raedorah Stewart-Dodd, Pasadena, CA
God-Talk, God-Thought, and Christian Iconography in In Too Deep, Training Day, and Shaft, and the Socio-Religious Fascination with Criminal Power in the Black Community

Responding:

Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary

A20-60

Christian Spirituality Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Anita De Luna, Our Lady of the Lake University, Presiding

Theme: Spiritual Practice in Latino/a Art and Devotion

Daniel Groody, University of Notre Dame
An Undocumented Spirituality: Mexican Immigration and the Eucharist

Claire Wolfteich, Boston University
Practical Theological Approaches to Research and Teaching in Spirituality: A Case Study of Devotional Practices in the Farm Worker Movement Led by Cesar Chavez

Jennifer Hughes, Graduate Theological Union
Spiritual Practice vs. Art in a Mexican Cult

Joseph de León, Graduate Theological Union
The Passion of Christ Pageant at the San Fernando Cathedral: A Theo-Catharsis of Love

Business Meeting:

Wendy Wright, Creighton University, Presiding

A20-61

Christian Systematic Theology Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Cynthia Rigby, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding

Theme: The City of God and Earthly Cities

Hans Boersma, Trinity Western University
Bordering on the Augustinian: Radical Orthodoxy’s Interpretation of the Civitas Dei and Civitas Terrena in St. Augustine

Angela Franks, Boston College
The Cosmos, the Temple, and the City: Biblical Visions and Contemporary Revisions

Cat Ngoc Jonathan Tran, Duke University
The Tale of Two Cities: Gift-Giving in the City of God

Kimberly Faye Baker, University of Notre Dame
Moving beyond Ourselves: Augustine on Living as the Body of Christ

Business Meeting:

David S. Cunningham, Hope College, Presiding

A20-62

Confucian Traditions Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Lionel M. Jensen, University of Notre Dame, Presiding

Theme: Confucianism and the Rule of Law

Karen Turner, College of the Holy Cross
The Roots of Confucian Resistance to Law

Tao Jiang, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Rule of Ritual and Rule by Law: The Qing Code and Its Ritual Ground

Youngmin Kim, Bryn Mawr College
Individual Morality, Law, and the Political in the Confucian Tradition

Responding:

Randall Peerenboom, University of California, Los Angeles
Henry Rosemont, Jr., St. Mary's College of Maryland, Brown University

Business Meeting:

Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Presiding

A20-63

Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

David Frankfurter, University of New Hampshire, Presiding

Theme: Illness and Healing: Late Antique Practices and Discourses

Zsuzsanna Varhelyi, Boston University
Praying for Health: The Role of the Peer Community in Elite Healing in the Roman Empire

Vasiliki Limberis, Temple University
Breads of Healing: Metabolizing Miracles and Metaphors in Fourth-Century Cappadocia

Dayna Kalleres, Stanford University
Healing the Judaizing Christian: Disease, Dismay, and Division in John Chrysostom’s Congregation

Charlotte Radler, Loyola Marymount University
The Anatomy of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Tertullian's Rhetorical Strategies of Health and Disease

A20-64

Evangelical Theology Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Susie Stanley, Messiah College, Presiding

Theme: Contemporary Popular Expressions of Evangelicalism

Valerie Rempel, Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary
"Almost Like God": Women and the Language of Submission in the Novels of Grace Livingston Hill

Young Hoon Yoon, Drew University
The Puzzle of the Origins of WWJD?: Charles Sheldon's In His Steps and American Evangelicalism

Valarie H. Ziegler, DePauw University
Someday My Prince Will Come: Genesis 1-3 and Gender Roles in Evangelical Marriage Manuals

Responding:

Susan Hill Lindley, St. Olaf College

A20-65

Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Rosemary P. Carbine, College of the Holy Cross, Presiding

Theme: Subaltern/Gendered Subjectivity

Jill Gorman, Rollins College
Can the Subaltern (Slave) Speak? The Representation of Female Slaves in Late Antique Christian Imperialist Discourse

Yvonne Zimmerman, University of Denver
Crime and Punishment: Human Trafficking and the Problem of "Home"

Ann Pellegrini, New York University
A New Sex Wars?: Feminist and Christian Anti-Trafficking Activism

Responding:

Laura S. Levitt, Temple University

Business Meeting:

Liora Gubkin, California State University, Bakersfield, Presiding

A20-66

Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Donald L. Boisvert, Concordia University, Presiding

Theme: Power and Submission, Pain and Pleasure: The Religious Dynamics of Sadomasochism

Justin Tanis, Metropolitan Community Church
Ecstatic Communion: The Spiritual Dimensions of Leathersexuality

Thomas V. Peterson, Alfred University
S/M Rituals in Gay Men's Leather Communities: Initiation, Power Exchange, and Subversion

Ken Stone, Chicago Theological Seminary
“You Seduced Me, You Overpowered Me, and You Prevailed”: Religious Experience and Homoerotic Sadomasochism in Jeremiah

Timothy R. Koch, New Life Metropolitan Community Church
Choice, Shame, and Power in the Construction of Sadomasochistic Theologies

Julianne Buenting, Chicago Theological Seminary
Oh, Daddy! God, Dominance/Submission, and Christian Sacramentality and Spirituality

Kent Brintnall, Emory University
Rend(er)ing God's Flesh: The Body of Christ, Spectacles of Pain, and Trajectories of Desire

A20-67

Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group and Nineteenth-Century Theology Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Andrew J. Burgess, University of New Mexico, Presiding

Theme: Jon Stewart's Kierkegaard's Relation to Hegel Reconsidered: Critique and Appreciation

Robert L. Perkins, Stetson University
Jon Stewart's Mediated Kierkegaard

David Kangas, Florida State University
Which Hegel? Reconsidering Hegel and Kierkegaard

Stephen N. Dunning, University of Pennsylvania
Response to Kierkegaard's Relation to Hegel Reconsidered, by Jon Stewart

Rick A. Furtak, Colorado College
Ancient Passion, Modern Abstraction: Kierkegaard on the Hellenistic and the Hegelian Conceptions of Philosophy

Pre-printed papers for this and other sessions of the Nineteenth-Century Theology Group may be obtained from C. J. T. Talar, University of St. Thomas, 9845 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77024 for $20.00.

A20-68

Native Traditions in the Americas Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding

Theme: American Indian Religious Revitalization as Cultural Tool, Survival Method, and Ideological Critique

John Baumann, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Wounded Land: Environmental Resistance and Revitalized Identity

James B. Jeffries, Colgate University
Re-Claiming Religion: The Emergence of Orthodoxy among Native Americans in Seventeenth-Century New France

Amado Láscar, Ohio University
The Recuperation of the Word

Michael Zogry, University of Kansas
The Cherokee Trail of Tears and the Persistence of Cherokee Religious Traditions: A Critique of the Concepts of Revitalization and Perseverance

Responding:

Kenneth Mello, University of Vermont

A20-69

New Religious Movements Group and Ritual Studies Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Sara Penn-Strah, Harvard University, Presiding

Theme: Ritual Expressions in New Religious Movements

Beth Dougherty, King's College, London
When Rituals Go Wrong: Angry Goddess, Recalcitrant Reclaimers

Laurel Zwissler, University of Toronto
Right Action: Uses of Ritual in Anti-Globalization Protests by Neo-Pagan, United Church, and Catholic Activists

Lee Gilmore, Graduate Theological Union
Theater in a Crowded Fire: Ritualizing "Spirituality without Religion" at the Burning Man Festival

Michael F. Strmiska, Siauliai University, Lithuania
Putting the Blood Back in Blot: The Revival of Animal Sacrifice in Nordic Neopaganism

Responding:

Adrian Harris, King Alfred's College Winchester

A20-70

Religious Freedom, Public Life, and the State Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Diana L. Eck, Harvard University, Presiding

Theme: Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously: Toward a Democratic Spiritual Politics

John B. Cobb, Claremont School of Theology
Process Politics in a Pluralistic Age

Rita M. Gross, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Buddhist Methods for Promoting Pluralistic Religious Discourse in the Public Square

M. A. Muqtedar Khan, Adrian College
Faith and Freedom in Islamic Context

David Machacek, Trinity College
Unsecular Humanism: From Public Protestantism to the Religion of Conscience

Michael York, Bath Spa University College
Middle Class/"Out Class" Roles for Pagans in Bridging Faith and Freedom

Responding:

Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary's College of California

A20-72

Wesleyan Studies Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Sarah Heaner Lancaster, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Presiding

Theme: Contestations over Basic Wesleyan Values

Aaron Kerr, Duquesne University
John and Charles Wesleys' "Hymns on the Lord's Supper": Their Appropriation and the Contestation of Methodist Ecclesial Identity

Mary Elizabeth Moore, Emory University
Birth and New Birth: Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Wesleyan Ecclesiology and Ministry

F. Douglas Powe, Emory University
Evangelism in the Wesleyan/Methodist Tradition: Is There One Message for Both Blacks and Whites?

Carole Dale Spencer, George Fox University
Holiness and Mysticism: The Love/Hate Relationship of John Wesley toward William Law and the Quakers

A20-73

Foucault Consultation
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

New Program Unit

J. Joyce Schuld, Cornell University, Presiding

Theme: Foucault in Contemporary Theological and Religious Studies

Geoffrey Rees, University of Chicago
Is "Sex" Worth Dying For? Exploring the Theological Implications of Foucault's Theory of Sexuality

Min-Ah Cho, Emory University
Via Purgatory, She Saw and She Was Seen: Reading Catherine of Genoa’s Purgation and Purgatory with Foucault

Gregory A. Banazak, SS Cyril and Methodius Seminary
Writing Globalization Religiously: The Case of Bartolomé de Las Casas’ Genealogy of the "New World"

Luis Reyes Ceja, Universidad del Valle de Atemajac
co-presenter with Gregory Banazak

Peter Heltzel, Boston University
"Cutting Off the Head of the King" in a Kingdom without One: Foucault, Moltmann, and American Empire

Business Meeting:

Tom Beaudoin, Santa Clara University, Presiding

A20-74

Religion and Popular Culture Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Richard J. Callahan, University of Missouri, Columbia, Presiding

Theme: Playing with Religion

Matt Blackmon, Dallas Theological Seminary
co-presenter with Kent Berghuis

Kent Berghuis, Dallas Theological Seminary
Would Jesus Play Texas Hold-Em? Reflections on Religion and the World Poker Tour

Jeremy Biles, University of Chicago
SUNDAY! . . . SUNDAY! . . . SUNDAY! The Monster Trucks’ Black Sabbath

Carmen Marie Nanko, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago
Béisbol at the Borders: Crossing the Lines of Faith and Popular Culture

Frank Ferreri, University of South Florida
co-present with Don Surrency

Don Surrency, University of South Florida
Addressing a Methodological Deficiency in the Analysis of Sports as Religion: The Discovery of the Hidden Sacred in Sports

A20-75

Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Consultation
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

Susan Windley-Daoust, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Presiding

Theme: Looking for Justice in Latin America: Balancing the Demands of Justice and Peace

David Tombs, Trinity College Dublin
The Politics of Forgiveness, Justice, and Reconciliation: The Religious Influence on Transitional Justice Debates in El Salvador and Chile

Thomas P. Boland, Jr., Union College, New York
Too Heavy a Price? Daniel Berrigan, Ernesto Cardenal, and the Nicaraguan Revolution

Juan Herrero-Brasas, California State University, Northridge
Latin American Liberation Theology vs. the Just War Tradition: A Matter of Incompatibility or Interpretation?

Responding:

Eileen M. Fagan, College of Mount Saint Vincent

Business Meeting:

Cynthia Stewart, Nashville, TN, Presiding

A20-76

JAAR International Attendees Reception
Saturday - 3:30 pm-4:30 pm

Sheila Greeve Davaney, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding

A20-100

Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Drew University, Presiding

Theme: Latinas' Experiences and Lives in Literature and Theology: A Reading by Sandra Cisneros

Panelists:

Sandra Cisneros, San Antonio, TX

Responding:

Leticia Guardiola-Saenz, Vanderbilt University
Michelle A. Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University
Elena Olazagasti, Vanderbilt University

See the Program Highlights for a description.

A20-101

Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Sponsored by the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee

Laura E. Donaldson, Cornell University, Presiding

Theme: Racial and Ethnic Minority Scholars and the Relation between the Study of Religion and the Study of Scriptures

Panelists:

Charles H. Long, Chapel Hill, NC

Rita Sherma, Binghamton University

Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School

Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley

Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University

Vincent L. Wimbush, Claremont Graduate University

Nikky Singh, Colby College

Rüdiger V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara

A reception hosted by the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee directly follows. See the Program Highlights for a description.

A20-102

Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Arthur Sutherland, Loyola College in Maryland, Presiding

Theme: Identity, Practice, and Location: Sound Pedagogy and Robust Learning in Secular and/or Confessional Contexts

Calvin Mercer, East Carolina University
“But the Bible Says . . .” Teaching Fundamentalist Christian Students

Tanja Juric, University of Toronto
Negotiating Values: Moral Education in a Multicultural and Secular Context

Charlene Burns, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Cognitive Dissonance and the Induced-Compliance Paradigm: Ethical Concerns in Teaching Religious Studies

John K. Simmons, Western Illinois University
Neutral Enthusiasm Meets Biblical Studies: Maximizing Accessibility While Avoiding Difficulties

A20-103

Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Darlene Fozard Weaver, Villanova University, Presiding

Theme: Tillich, Literature, and the Arts

Steven Fink, University of Iowa
A Journey behind the Canvas: Bringing Tillich into an Interpretation of the Paintings of Kandinsky

Russell R. Manning, University of Cambridge
Towards a Critical Reconstruction and Defense of Tillich’s Theology of Art

Jessica De Cou, University of Chicago
Drinking to the Dregs: An Exploration of Plath, Hesse, and Tillich toward an Ontology of Suicide

Responding:

Jonathan Rothchild, University of Chicago

A20-104

Buddhism Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Peter N. Gregory, Smith College, Presiding

Theme: Monks, Clerics, and (Auto)biography

Benjamin Bogin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Entering the Action: The Memoirs of a Monk Turned Ngakpa

Derek Maher, East Carolina University
Biography and Historical Context: Life Narratives of dGe lugs pa Textbook Authors

Jonathan Gold, University of Vermont
Sakya Pandita’s Buddhicization of the Rasas: Sanskrit Poetics for a Tibetan Elite

Patrick Uhlmann, University of California, Los Angeles
Chan Master Zhikong in Korea: The Collaboration of Buddhist Monks and Confucian Literati in the Creation of an Icon

Albert F. Welter, University of Winnipeg
Context and Motive: Literati Influence over Chan Buddhism in Early Song China

A20-105

History of Christianity Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Philip K. Goff, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Presiding

Theme: Reviewing Mark Noll's America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

Panelists:

Catherine L. Albanese, University of California, Santa Barbara

Randall Balmer, Barnard College, Columbia University

Richard Bushman, Columbia University

Amanda Porterfield, Florida State University

Responding:

Mark Noll, Wheaton College

A20-106

North American Religions Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Diane Winston, University of Southern California, Presiding

Theme: Being and Doing: Best Paper Proposals 2004

Matthew Hedstrom, University of Texas, Austin
How the Book Business Psychologized Spirituality, 1920-1950

John H. Lardas, Haverford College
Moby Dick in the Age of the Moving Picture

John Giggie, University of Texas, San Antonio
Purchasing Freedom: Consumer Culture and Black Religion in the American South, 1865-1915

Debra Renee Kaufman, Northeastern University
"Being" and "Doing" Jewish in America: Surveys, Narratives, and Religious Identity

Responding:

Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College

A20-107

Philosophy of Religion Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Philip L. Quinn, University of Notre Dame, Presiding

Theme: Kant and the Philosophy of Religion I (On the 200th Anniversary of His Death)

Andrew C. Dole, Amherst College
The Changing Fortunes of Kant's Copernican Revolution

Robert Erlewine, Rice University
Kant’s Conflicted Divinity: Contradictory Thrusts in Kant’s Philosophy of Religion

Jeffrey Hensley, Virginia Theological Seminary
'Grace Dreamed Up in Slothful Ttrust': Kant on Moral Regeneration and Divine Assistance

James DiCenso, University of Toronto
Kant’s Hermeneutics of Religion: Between Ethics and Politics

A20-108

Religion in South Asia Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida, Presiding

Theme: Teaching Inside-Out: Demographic Changes and Methodological Challenges in Teaching the Religions of South Asia

Panelists:

Eliza Kent, Colgate University

Anne Vallely, University of Ottawa

Amir Hussain, California State University, Northridge

Stuart R. Sarbacker, Northwestern University

Arti Dhand, University of Toronto

Responding:

Deepak Sarma, Case Western Reserve University

A20-109

Study of Islam Section and Islamic Mysticism Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

New Program Unit

Vincent J. Cornell, University of Arkansas, Presiding

Theme: Discourses of Early Sufism

Kenneth Garden, University of Chicago
Al-Ghazali's Four-Part Structure and the Underlying Logic of the Revival of the Religious Sciences

Joseph Lumbard, American University, Cairo
From Biography to Hagiography, the Creation of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ghazali

Maria Massi Dakake, George Mason University
Intimacy and Union in Early Female Sufi Discourse

Annabel Keeler, Wolfson College
Qushayri's Lata'if al-isharat: A "Mystical" Commentary on the Qur'an?

Responding:

Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University, Chicago

Business Meeting:

Vincent J. Cornell, University of Arkansas, Presiding

A20-110

Women and Religion Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Karen Pechilis, Drew University, Presiding

Theme: Writing Women into Religious History/ies

Gina Cogan, Columbia University
The Presence of the Buddha: Cosmic Connection, Temporal Continuity, and Historical Consciousness in the Lineages of Early Modern Japanese Buddhist Nuns

Monika Dix, University of British Columbia-Dept of Asian Studies
Women and Buddhism: Re-Reading Representations of Chūjōhime in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives

Jennifer Eichman, Princeton University
Sixteenth-Century Elite Chinese Male Buddhist Writings and What They Tell Us about Female Practice

Anne Murphy, Columbia University
Woman as Actor/Woman as Devotee: Women in Sikh Histories

Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University
Let the Key Not Rust: Women Sanskritists at the Time of Indian Independence

Responding:

Joseph Schaller, Nazareth College

A20-111

Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Clifford Green, Hartford Seminary, Presiding

Theme: Memory and Legacy: Bonhoeffer in Film

Panelists:

Margaret R. Miles, Berkeley, CA

Josiah U. Young, Wesley Theological Seminary

Responding:

Martin Doblmeier, Journey Films

A20-112

Chinese Religions Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Jonathan Herman, Georgia State University, Presiding

Theme: Re-Evaluating Missionary Sinology

Wah K. Cheng, Mills College
Terms of Equivalence: John Nevius and the Domestication of Chinese Life

Michael Lazich, Buffalo State College
The Chinese Repository and the Missionary Origins of American Sinology

Eric Reinders, Emory University
Church Missionary Society Publications as Sinological Resources

Michael Walsh, Vassar College
Wickedness in High Places: Missionary Descriptions of a Buddhist Monastery

Responding:

Norman J. Girardot, Lehigh University

A20-113

Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Mary Keller, University of Wyoming, Presiding

Theme: Critical Perspectives on Dubuisson's The Western Construction of Religion

Robert A. Segal, University of Lancaster
Daniel Dubuisson's The Western Construction of Religion

Aaron W. Hughes, University of Calgary
Haven't We Been Here Before?: Rehabilitating "Religion" in Light of Dubuisson's Critique

Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University
Is Religion a Western Invention?

Steven Engler, Mount Royal College
Agency, Order, and Time in the Human Science of Religion

Responding:

Ann Taves, Claremont School of Theology & Claremont Graduate University

A20-114

Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Donna M. McKenzie, Fordham University, Presiding

Theme: Gay Gene? Religious and Policy Implications of a Possible Genetic Basis for Sexual Orientation

Panelists:

Dena S. Davis, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Suzanne Holland, University of Puget Sound

Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Responding:

Rebecca T. Alpert, Temple University

A20-115

Nineteenth-Century Theology Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

David Schultenover, Marquette University, Presiding

Theme: The Reception of Pragmatism in France

Harvey Hill, Berry College
Pragmatism in France: The Case of Edouard LeRoy

Michael J. Kerlin, La Salle University
Blondel and Pragmatism: Truth Is the Equation of Thought and Life

John Shook, Oklahoma State University
Early Responses to American Pragmatism in France: Selective Attention and Critical Reaction

Charles J. T. Talar, University of St. Thomas, Houston
Le Critique Malgré Lui: Marcel Hébert’s Le Pragmatisme

Pre-printed papers for this and other sessions of the group may be obtained from C. J. T. Talar, University of St. Thomas, 9845 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77024 for $20.00.

A20-116

Platonism and Neoplatonism Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Willemien Otten, Utrecht University, Presiding

Theme: Revelation and Interpretation in Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions I

Zeke Mazur, University of Chicago
How Can One Attain the One-Beyond-Being? Reflections on the Penultimate Stage of Plotinian and Gnostic Mystical Ascent

Siamak Adhami, Saddleback College
A Neopythagorean-Neoplatonic Account of Zoroastrian Theogony

Jay Bregman, University of Maine, Orono
The Neoplatonic Revelation of Transcendentalist Nature

Gregory Shaw, Stonehill College
The Talisman

A20-117

Reformed Theology and History Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Robert Sherman, Bangor Theological Seminary, Presiding

Theme: The Place of the Bible in Reformed Theology

R. Ward Holder, Saint Anselm College
Not Really Sola Scriptura: Church and Tradition in Calvin's Interpretation of Scripture

Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke University
What's the Bible in this Church?: Pondering Illusions of Sola Scriptura

Kang-Yup Na, Westminster College
Biblical Theology and Dogmatic Theology: The Tortuous and Torturous Tale of Scriptura and Tradition

David H. Kelsey, YaleUniversity
The Ecological Niche of a Doctrine of Scripture in the "Body of Divinity"

A20-118

Religion and Popular Culture Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University, Presiding

Theme: Religious Icons and Identities in Popular Culture

Mary Kay Cavazos, Drew University
A Black Christ beyond Race: Re-Reading Countee Cullen's "The Black Christ"

Jennie S. Knight, Emory University
The Black Madonna, Mary Magdalene, and the Goddess: Re-Mythologizing the Divine Feminine in Popular Fiction

Shanny Luft, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Satan on the Silver Screen

Michele Rosenthal, University of Haifa
Religion, Media, and Culture in Israel: The Case of Tele-Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak

Erin H. Addison, University of Arizona
The Holy We Can See: The Construction and Conservation of Material Remains in the Holy Land

A20-119

Religion and Science Group and Animals and Religion Consultation
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Paul Waldau, Tufts University, Presiding

Theme: Religion and Animals: Minding the Work of Marc Bekoff

Donna Yarri, Alvernia College
Animals as Kin: The Religious Significance of the Work of Marc Bekoff

Graham Harvey, Open University
Animals, Animists, and Academics

Jay McDaniel, Hendrix College
All Animals Matter: Marc Bekoff's Contribution to Constructive Christian Theology

Nancy Howell, Saint Paul School of Theology
"Going to the Dogs": Cannid Ethology and Theological Reflection

Responding:

Marc Bekoff, University of Colorado, Boulder

A20-120

Roman Catholic Studies Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Mary Henold, Valparaiso University, Presiding

Theme: Modernized Devotions, Modernized Laity: Devotional Paths in American Catholicism

Timothy M. Matovina, University of Notre Dame
Patron Saints and Divine Providence: The Origins of Guadalupan Devotion in San Antonio

Colleen McDannell, University of Utah
Photography, the Saints, and the Dynamics of Devotion

Maryellen Davis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Marylike” Women, “Marylike” Men: Marian Models of Gendered Performance in Roman Catholic Devotional Media

Darryl Victor Caterine, California Lutheran University
Modernity and Its Discontents: Catholic Conservativism in the European-American and Latina/o Church

Responding:

Elizabeth A. Johnson, Fordham University

A20-121

Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Tyler T. Roberts, Grinnell College, Presiding

Theme: The Frankfurt School in Dialogue with Christian Thought

Daniel Barber, Duke University
Adorno and the Philosophical Production of Grace

John Hughes, University of Cambridge
Unspeakable Utopia: Art and the Return to the Theological in the Marxism of Adorno and Horkheimer

Larry Golemon, Dominican University of California
The Commodification of God under Global Capitalism

A20-122

Cultural History of the Study of Religion Consultation
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

David Chidester, University of Cape Town, Presiding

Theme: Missionaries, Anthropologists, and the Study of Religion

Dyron Daughrity, University of Calgary
Hinduisms, Christian Missions, and the Tinnevelly Shanars: A Study of Colonial Missions in Nineteenth-Century India

Laura Ammon, Claremont Graduate University
Surfacing Submerged Texts in the Study of Religion: Exploring E. B. Tylor’s Use of Missionary Documents

Elizabeth McKeown, Georgetown University
A Little Further West: Religion among the Boasians

Responding:

Patrick Provost-Smith, Harvard University

Business Meeting:

Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, Presiding
Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University, Presiding

A20-123

Law, Religion, and Culture Consultation
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, University of Chicago, Presiding

Theme: Using Religion to Sell the Law: Legal Rhetoric and the Communication between Center and Periphery

Megan Williams, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Religion and the Rhetoric of Late Roman Imperial Law

Greg Johnson, Franklin and Marshall College
Religious Language, Self-Determination, and the Native Hawaiian Recognition Act

William P. George, Dominican University
Nomos and Narrative in the Law of the Sea: Robert M. Cover and International Law

Lucinda J. Peach, American University
"Sex Slaves" or "Sex Workers"? Cross-Cultural and Comparative Religious Perspectives on Sexuality, Subjectivity, and Moral Identity in Anti-Sex Trafficking Discourse

Responding:

Paul C. Johnson, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Business Meeting:

Natalie B. Dohrmann, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding

A20-124

Religions, Medicines, and Healing Consultation
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Lara Medina, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding

Theme: Healing and Christian Traditions

Giselle De Nie, Halle, Netherlands
"Inversion of the Order of Things": Some Early Medieval Miraculous Cures Seen in the Light of Modern Cognitive Theories

Linda L. Barnes, Boston University
Chinese Healing through Missionary Eyes

Gary M. Laderman, Emory University
Harvey William Cushing, Brain Surgeon, 1869-1939: The Cult of Doctors and the Modern Culture of Healing

Responding:

Suzanne J. Crawford, Pacific Lutheran University

Business Meeting:

Linda L. Barnes, Boston University, Presiding

A20-125

African Religions Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

Pashington Obeng, Harvard University, Wellesley College, Presiding

Theme: HIV/AIDS and Religion in Africa

Afe Adogame, University of Bayreuth
“A Walk for Africa”: Combating the Demon of HIV/AIDS in an African Pentecostal Church

Musa W. Dube, Scripps College
Teaching African Religions for HIV/AIDS Prevention

Beverley Haddad, University of KwaZulu-Natal
HIV/AIDS and the Church: Compassion or Damnation?

Emmanuel K. Twesigye, Ohio Wesleyan University
AIDS and the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God

A20-126

Friends of the Academy Reception
Saturday - 5:30 pm-6:45 pm

Individuals whose generosity allow us to continue many of our programs are invited to a reception hosted by the AAR Board of Directors.

A20-127

Racial and Ethnic Minority AAR Members Reception
Saturday - 6:15 pm-7:00 pm

The Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee invites interested persons to a reception celebrating the contributions of racial and ethnic minority scholars in the Academy.

A20-128

Plenary Address
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:15 pm

Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University, Presiding

Theme: President's Address and Awards Ceremony: Reading the Qur'an with Fidelity and Freedom

Panelists:

Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown University

See the Program Highlights for a description.

A20-129

Arts Series/Films: The Passion of the Christ
Saturday - 8:30 pm-11:00 pm

See the Program Highlights for a description.

A20-130

Arts Series/Films: Santitos (Little Saints)
Saturday - 8:30 pm-10:30 pm

Craig Skrumedi, University of Ottawa, Presiding

See the Program Highlights for a description.

A20-131

AAR Members' Dance Party
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:59 am

AAR members are invited to join one another at the AAR Members’ Dance Party for music and dancing. Don’t forget the free drink ticket that will be mailed with your name badge!

A20-132

Women's Caucus Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm

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November 20-23, 2004 San Antonio, Texas, USA

November 20-23, 2004
San Antonio, Texas, USA