http://www.aarweb.org/meetings/Annual_Meeting/Past_and_Future_Meetings/2006/programbook.asp
AAR Online Program Book
November 18-21, 2006
Washington, DC, USA
A17-1
AAR Board of Directors Meeting
Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Diana L. Eck, Harvard University, Presiding
A17-2
Chairs Workshop – Personnel Issues: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Friday - 9:00 am-4:30 pm
Sponsored by the Academic Relations Committee
Betty A. DeBerg, University of Northern Iowa and Chester Gillis, Georgetown University, Presiding
Panelists:
Daniel O. Aleshire, Association of Theological Schools
Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College
Richard M. Carp, Appalachian State University
L. DeAne Lagerquist, Saint Olaf College
Chun-Fang Yu, Columbia University
Separate registration is required. You may register for the workshop here: www.aarweb.org/department/workshops/2006Washington/default.asp.
See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Pre-ConferenceWorkshops for details about the workshop.
A17-5
North American Association for the Study of Religion: Executive Council Meeting
Friday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
A17-6
North American Paul Tillich Society
Friday - 9:00 am-11:15 am
Terrence O’Keefe, University of Ulster, Presiding
Theme: Philosophical and Theoretical Assessments of Tillich
B. Keith Putt, Samford University
Affirming Acceptance/Accepting Affirmation: Tillich’s “Stroke of Grace” and Derrida’s “Yes”
Daniel J. Peterson, Pacific Lutheran University
Where to Find the Hidden God: The Turn from Self to Other in Tillich’s Theology
Jari Ristiniemi, University of Gävle
Ethics and Expressionism: Things, Individuals, and Common Concerns
Francis Ching-Wah Yip, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Capitalism as Quasi-religion? A Durkheimian Enhancement of Tillich
A17-8
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Board Meeting
Friday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
A17-3
Religion and Media Workshop - The "Muhammad Cartoon" Controversy: Perspectives on Media, Religion, Law, and Culture
Friday - 10:00 am-6:00 pm
Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder
Laury Silvers, Skidmore College
Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
Tim Jensen, University of Southern Denmark
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, State University of New York, Buffalo
Separate registration is required when you register for the Annual Meeting at www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/registration.asp, or return the form on page 25 of the Program Book. See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Pre-ConferenceWorkshops for details about the workshop.
A17-7
North American Paul Tillich Society
Friday - 11:30 am-1:15 pm
Matthew Lon Weaver, Duluth, MN, Presiding
Theme: Tillich and the Dialogue of Theology and Psychology
John P. Dourley, Carleton University
Tillich’s Dialogue with Psychology
Britt-Mari Sykes, University of Ottawa
Analyzing the Experiential Side of Sin: A Dialogue Between Paul Tillich and Existential Analysis
Terry Cooper, St. Louis Community College District
Tillich, Sin, and Psychotherapy: A Replay of the Pelagian Controversy
A17-4
Women's Caucus Workshop
Friday - 12:00 pm-3:00 pm
Paula Trimble-Familetti, Chapman University, Harriet Luckman, College of Mount St. Joseph, and Laurie Wright Garry, Mount Saint Mary's College, Presiding
Darnise Martin, Loyola Marymount University
Dissertation and Publishing Strategies
Elizabeth A. Say, California State University, Northridge
Strategies for Women in the Academy
Julie J. Kilmer, Olivet College
Academic Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness: (Re)claiming the Rights of Liberal Educators
Linda A. Moody, Mount St. Mary's College
Preserving Academic Freedom in the Midst of "Calls to Accountability": Trends in Higher Education
Beverley Haddad, University of KwaZulu-Natal
The Gendered Face of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in South Africa
Rebecca T. Alpert, Temple University
Care of Self and Care of Others
See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Pre-ConferenceWorkshops for details.
A17-50
North American Association for the Study of Religion
Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Theme: Egregious Elephants? Unexplained Oversights and Omissions in the Academic Study of Religion
Bryan Rennie, Westminster College
Iranian Eschatology and Middle Eastern Religion: Explaining the Relative Absence of the Zoroastrian Tradition from Mainstream Anglophone Biblical Religious Studies
Greg Alles, McDaniel College
Hindutva and History: On the Adverse Effects of Political Ideology on Writing the History of Hinduism
Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University
“Wild Facts”: Some Thoughts on Our Taming Neglect of F.W.H. Myers and Ian Stevenson
Responding: Ivan Strenski, University of California, Riverside
A17-53
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Board Meeting
Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
A17-55
Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship
Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
1:00 pm Business Meeting
2:00 pm Victor Shepherd, Tyndale Seminary, Toronto
The Torrances and the Logic of the Reformation
See www.tftorrance.org for more information.
A17-52
Person, Culture and Religion Group
Friday - 2:00 pm-6:30 pm
2:00-3:45 Book Panel: Lee H. Butler, Jr., Liberating Our Dignity, Saving Our Souls
Mary Clark Moschella, Wesley Theological Seminary
Linda E. Thomas, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago
Arthur Pressley, Drew University
Lee H. Butler, Jr., Chicago Theological Seminary
3:45-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 Spirit and Psyche in a Washington, DC Art Collection
5:30-6:30 Experiential Workshop: John McDargh, Boston College
Focusing (Based on the Work of Eugene Gendlin) -- A Resource for Therapy, Spiritual Direction, and Teaching
A17-51
North American Paul Tillich Society
Friday - 2:15 pm-4:00 pm
Stephen Butler Murray, Skidmore College, Presiding
Theme: On the Personal God: A Tillichian Conversation
Robison James, University of Richmond and Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond
Dealing with the “Personal Encounter Deficit” in Tillich
Jean Richard, University of Laval
The Personal God as Objectivation of Religious Experience
A. Durwood Foster, Pacific School of Religion
Tillich’s Two God-Models
A17-54
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
Friday - 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
Theme: The Saint John’s Bible and Calligraphy as Spiritual Practice
The Saint John’s Bible is the first major commissioned hand-written Bible in almost 500 years. All are invited to join Rev. Christopher Calderhead, scribe and author of Illuminating the Word: The Making of the Saint John’s Bible (http://calderhead.org) in viewing pages from the Bible, learning to make simple calligraphic strokes, and exploring the spiritual dimensions of the art of the scribe. Materials will be provided. For additional information, please contact Anita Houck at ahouck@saintmarys.edu.
A17-105
North American Association for the Study of Religion
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Marie Eisenstein, Indiana University Northwest, Presiding
Theme: Context: “Religion” as a Colonial and Postcolonial Category
Tim Fitzgerald, University of Stirling
Encompassing Religion, Privatized Religions, and the Invention of Modern Politics
John Zavos, University of Manchester
Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts: Comparing the 1893 and 2004 World Parliaments of Religions
Jun Isomae, Japan Women’s University
Critiquing Current Critiques of the Field of Religious Studies
A17-106
North American Association for the Study of Religion: Working Group
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Theme: Current Directions in the Economic Study of Religion
Speaker: Laurence Iannaccone, George Mason University
Panelists:
Steven Engler, Mount Royal College
Anne Koch, University of Munich
John Rundin, University of California, Davis
Although audience members are welcome to attend, NAASR Working Groups provide opportunities for scholars interested in a common topic to pursue collaborative work.
A17-110
Société Internationale D´Etudes Sur Alfred Loisy
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
A17-111
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Theme: Religious Self-Fashioning and the Role of Community in Contemporary Buddhist and Christian Practice
Alice A. Keefe, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Presiding
4:00-4:25 Sandra Costen Kunz, Princeton Theological Seminary
Christian and Buddhist Confession, Affiliation, and Countercultural Action
4:30-4:55 Gene Reeves, International Buddhist Congregation
Hoza: The Dharma Teacher Chapter Embodied
5:00-5:15 Break
5:15-5:40 Duane R. Bidwell, Texas Christian University
Practicing the Religious Self: Buddhist-Christian Identity as Social Artifact
5:45-6:05 Respondent: Sallie B. King, James Madison University
6:05-6:30 Open Discussion
A17-107
North American Paul Tillich Society
Friday - 4:15 pm-6:30 pm
Rachel Sophia Baard, Villanova University, Presiding
Theme: Issues Concerning God, Christ, and the Trinity in Tillich’s Theology
Owen C. Thomas, Episcopal Divinity School
Historical Criticism, Faith, and Christology: Tillich in Conversation
Stephen Butler Murray, Skidmore College
The Essential Place of the Knowledge of God and Acceptance of Revelation in Tillich’s Metaphysics of Divine Action
Lars Heinemann, MLU Halle-Wittenberg
Tillich’s Shift to Ultimate Meaning and the Origin of his Theory of Symbols (1919-1924): A Two-fold Argument against Exclusive Claims about the Absolute
Chung-Hyun Baik, Graduate Theological Union
Paul Tillich’s Trinity: Tension between Its Symbolic and Dialectical Characteristics under the Trinitarian Structure of System
A17-113
Søren Kierkegaard Society Banquet
Friday - 6:00 pm-10:00 pm
Bistro D’Oc
518 10th St. NW
6:00 Social Hour
7:00 Banquet (Contact David Kangas at dkangas@mailer.fsu.edu)
8:00 Norman Lillegard, University of Tennessee, Martin
Kierkegaard and Divine Motivation Theory
A17-100
Arts Series/Films: Dawn of the Dead
Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
Rachel Wagner, Oregon State University, Presiding
See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Films for details.
A17-101
Arts Series/Films: Les Maîtres Fous
Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
Jens Kreinath, University of Heidelberg, Presiding
See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Films for details.
A17-102
International Connections Committee Meeting
Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University, Presiding
A17-103
EIS Center Orientation
Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Shelly C. Roberts, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#Pre-ConferenceWorkshops for details.
A17-108
North American Paul Tillich Society Banquet
Friday - 7:00 pm-10:00 pm
Speaker: William R. Crout, Harvard University, founder and curator of the Paul Tillich Lectures at Harvard University, Tillich’s Years at Harvard
A17-112
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
Friday - 7:00 pm-10:00 pm
Theme: Teaching Christian Spirituality: The Introductory Course
A workshop with brief presentations on pedagogy and sample syllabi from introductions framed for doctoral, seminary, and undergraduate contexts, followed by small group discussions. All interested persons are welcome to participate.
Joseph Driskill, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding
Panelists:
Arthur Holder, Graduate Theological Union
Lisa Dahill, Trinity Lutheran Seminary
Heather Eaton, St. Paul University, Ottawa
A light reception will follow. For additional information, contact Anita Houck at ahouck@saintmarys.edu.
A17-104
AAR Program Unit Chairs and Steering Committee Members' Reception
Friday - 8:30 pm-11:00 pm
John R. Fitzmier, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
Program unit chairs and steering committee members are invited to a reception in their honor hosted by the Program Committee.
A17-109
Polanyi Society
Friday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
9:00 Walter Mead, Illinois State University
A Polanyian Resolution of the Age-old Conflict between Faith and Reason
10:00 Tony Clark, University of St Andrews
Torrance, Polanyi, and Imaginative Vision
A18-36
North American Association for the Study of Religion
Saturday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
Information Session: The 2010 World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR)
Donald Wiebe, Director of the International Congress Secretariat, Presiding
A18-38
North American Paul Tillich Society Board of Directors Meeting
Saturday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
A18-1
Academic Relations Committee Meeting
Saturday - 7:30 am-9:00 am
Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College, Presiding
A18-2
International Members' Breakfast
Saturday - 7:30 am-9:00 am
Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University, Presiding
A18-3
Regional Officers Breakfast
Saturday - 7:30 am-8:45 am
Jacqueline Pastis, La Salle University, Presiding
A18-4
Theological Education Steering Committee Meeting
Saturday - 7:30 am-9:00 am
John Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
A20-118
SWP breakfast meeting with Gender Program Unit chairs (AAR and SBL)
Saturday - 7:30 am-8:45 am
A18-5
Student Liaison Group Annual Business Meeting
Saturday - 7:45 am-9:00 am
Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College, Presiding
A18-6
Publications Committee Meeting
Saturday - 7:45 am-11:30 am
Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University, Presiding
A18-7
Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Sponsored by the Graduate Student Committee
Melissa Johnston-Barrett, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the On-Campus Interview
Panelists:
Rachel A. R. Bundang, Santa Clara University
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Emory University
Jennifer Harvey, Drake University
F. Douglas Powe, Saint Paul School of Theology
Timothy M. Renick, Georgia State University
See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details.
A18-8
Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Fran Grace, University of Redlands, Presiding
Theme: "When You See the Teacher on the Road, Kill Him": Contemplative Practice as Pedagogy
Judith Simmer-Brown, Naropa University
The Question Is the Answer: Contemplative Education at Naropa University
Ramdas Lamb, University of Hawaii, Manoa
A Practical Approach to Mysticism
Andrew O. Fort, Texas Christian University
Contemplative Exercises in an Undergraduate Buddhism Course
Stanford J. Searl, Union Institute
Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Silence and Social Action
Richard M. Carp, Appalachian State University
Contemplation in Creativity and Inspiration
A18-9
Buddhism Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Karen Derris, University of Redlands, Presiding
Theme: Omnibus Panel: Critical Perspectives on Interpreting Buddhist Texts and Traditions
Mark Dennis, University of Wisconsin
Transdiscursivity: Japan’s Shōtoku Taishi as “Author” of Buddhist Texts and Tradition
Tao Jin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Alternate Ways of Categorizing Buddhist Doctrinal Systems: The Textual Organization of Qixinlun in Commentaries
Mark L. Blum, State University of New York, Albany
Jodoshinshu’s Two-Truth Theory and the Politics of Religion in Meiji Japan
Jiang Wu, University of Arizona
Literatis' Interpretations of the Suramgama Sutra in Seventeenth-Century China
Andrew H. Quintman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Keeping Milarepa in Mind: Tibetan Biography as Autobiographical Revelation
A18-10
Christian Systematic Theology Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Joy McDougall, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Economies of Hope: Confronting Globalization
Timothy Harvie, University of Aberdeen
Economics of Hope: Church Life in a Global Era
Luke Bretherton, King's College, London
Consumerism, Personhood, and Christian Political Witness
Paul D. Murray, University of Durham
Redeeming Catholicity for a Globalizing Age: The Sacramentality of the Church
David Haddorff, Saint John's University
Why Barth Makes a Difference in the Globalization Debate
A18-11
Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Religion in South Asia Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
John Hawley, Barnard College, Presiding
Theme: Powerful Objects: Materiality and Metonymy in Four Religious Communities
Andrea Pinkney, Columbia University
Form from Plenitude: Prasāda in Classical Sanskrit Literature
Anne Murphy, The New School
The Guru's Weapons
Carla Bellamy, Columbia University
Got Lobān? Effacement, Abundance, and the Cross-Tradition Appeal of Indian Islamic Healing Centers
Anya (Anna) Bernstein, New York University
Food for the Gods: The Matter of Sacrifice among the Shamans and Buddhists of Buryatia
Responding:
Richard H. Davis, Bard College
A18-12
Ethics Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, Political Research Associates, Presiding
Theme: Evangelical Initiatives/Women's Bodies
Lucinda J. Peach, American University
Globalizing "The Word": The Influence of Faith-based Organizations on US Anti-sex Trafficking Policy
Lynne Gerber, Graduate Theological Union
Desire and "Health": Making Bodily Change in Two Evangelical Ministries
Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand, University of California, Santa Barbara
Lobbying for Abstinence: Gender, Race, and the Politics Surrounding the HPV Vaccine
Responding:
Pam Chamberlain, Political Research Associates
A18-13
History of Christianity Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Euan Cameron, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Review of Lyndal Roper's Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany (Yale University Press, 2004)
Panelists:
H.C. Erik Midelfort, University of Virginia
Susan Karant-Nunn, University of Arizona
Walter Stephens, Johns Hopkins University
Responding:
Lyndal Roper, Oxford University
Business Meeting:
Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University, Presiding
Nathan Baruch Rein, Ursinus College, Presiding
A18-14
North American Religions Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
John Corrigan, Florida State University, Presiding
Theme: The Washington, DC Mall: Living Civil Religion or Museum Artifact?
Elizabeth McKeown, Georgetown University
Religion on the Mall
Eric Mazur, Bucknell University
Washington, DC: Sacred Capital on the Banks of the Potomac
Responding:
John F. Wilson, Princeton University
Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College
Sylvester Johnson, Indiana University, Bloomington
A18-15
Philosophy of Religion Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles and University of Chicago, Presiding
Theme: Paul Ricoeur and the Philosophy of Religion I
Ronald Kuipers, Institute for Christian Studies
Between Belonging and Estrangement: Paul Ricoeur and Jürgen Habermas on the Question of Religious Identity and Tradition in a Post-Secular World
Jennifer L. Geddes, University of Virginia
Ricoeur, Levinas, and the Problem of Suffering
Dan Stiver, Hardin-Simmons University
An Odyssey of Interpretation: Ricoeur's Latest Works
Diane M. Yeager, Georgetown University
From Verdict to Voice: Ricoeur's Reconstruction of Conscience
A18-16
Women and Religion Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding
Theme: Dorothee Sölle Retrospectives
Ann Herpel, Union Theological Seminary, New York
“How Do We Live Whole Lives in the Midst of a Death Machine?”: Dorothee Sölle and the Empire of Full Spectrum Dominance
Dianne L. Oliver, University of Evansville
"Bound into the Web of Life": Remembering Dorothee Sölle’s Mystical-Political Vision of God through the World
Denise Starkey, Loyola University, Chicago
Confronting, Consoling, Contemplating: Dorothee Sölle's Theology of Suffering
Sumi Jeung, University of Toronto
Dorothee Sölle Retrospective: Significance of Theology of Suffering for Women’s Spirituality
Krishana Suckau, Boston University
Becoming a Drop in the Sea of God's Love: The Radical Christianity of Dorothee Sölle
A18-17
Afro-American Religious History Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Debra Mubashshir Majeed, Beloit College, Presiding
Theme: Variegated Faces: Non-traditional Histories of Black Islam
Malachi Crawford, University of Missouri, Columbia
Fashioning a Religion: Domestic Workers and the Lost Found Nation of Islam (1933-1942)
Paul Easterling, Rice Universtiy
Moorish Magic and Noble Drew Ali’s Temple of Hip Hop: Hip Hop Music and the Legacy of Black Nationalism in America
Michael Muhammad Knight, Phelps, NY
Death-Angels and Muslim Sons: The Question of White Five Percenters
Responding:
Edward E. Curtis, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
A18-18
Confucian Traditions Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Vivian-Lee Nyitray, University of California, Riverside, Presiding
Theme: The Religious Status of Confucianism
Joseph Adler, Kenyon College
Confucianism as Religion/ Religious Tradition/ Neither: Still Hazy after All These Years
Edward Y. J. Chung, University of Prince Edward Island
Confucian Li and Family Spirituality: Reflections on the Contemporary Korean Tradition of Ancestral Rites
John Tucker, East Carolina University
The Metaphysics of Ancestor Worship in Early-Modern Japan
Yong Chen, Vanderbilt University
The Latest Development of the Controversy on Confucian Religiosity
Anna Xiao Dong Sun, Kenyon College
Is Confucianism a Religion in China? Intellectual Controversies and a Preliminary Ethnographic Study
Responding:
Thomas Selover, University of Saskatchewan
A18-19
Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Shelly Rambo, Boston Universtiy, Presiding
Theme: Beyond Binaries: New Feminist Perspectives on Christian Themes
Wesley Barker, Emory University
Sexual Ethics beyond Sexual Difference
Amy Carr, Western Illinois University
The Hairball We Cannot Swallow: Religious Readings of "Feeling Dirty" in Victimization
Flora A. Keshgegian, Brown University
Power Plays: Victimization, Innocence, and Agency in Christian Narratives of Redemption
Elizabeth Gish and Sarah Peck, Harvard University
On the Altar: The Vagina Monologues as a Site for Ritualized Liberatory Narrative
Business Meeting:
Rosemary P. Carbine, College of the Holy Cross, Presiding
A18-20
Japanese Religions Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
James L. Ford, Wake Forest University, Presiding
Theme: Japanese Religiosity from Tokugawa to the Present
James Baskind, Yale University
Mortification Practices in the Japanese Ōbaku School
Wilburn Hansen, Stanford University
A Japanese Nativist Healing Debate: Magic vs. Medicine
Gaynor Sekimori, University of Tokyo
The Revival of Nikko Shugendo
Mark Wheeler MacWilliams, St. Lawrence University
Manga as Living Visual Narratives in Kōfuku no Kagaku
Responding:
Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Business Meeting:
Paula K. R. Arai, Carleton College, Presiding
A18-21
Korean Religions Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Sungtaek Cho, Korea University, Presiding
Theme: Aesthetics and Social Context in Korean Religions Today
Jung Myung Won Raymond, Graduate Theological Union
Iconoclasm, Cultural Space, and Aesthetics: From Fear to Celebration, Focusing on Contemporary Cases in Korea
Iconoclasm, Cultural Space, and Aesthetics: From Fear to Celebration, Focusing on Contemporary Cases in Korea
Hyangsoon Yi, University of Georgia
Buddhism, Orientalism, and Zen Ethnography in Korean Cinema
Volker Kuester, Kampen Theological University
Minjung Theology Revisited: Christian Religion in the Context of Socio-cultural Changes in South Korea
Michael Ralston, Fort Meade, MD
What Do Unbelievers Believe?
Responding:
William R. LaFleur, University of Pennsylvania
Don Baker, University of British Columbia
Business Meeting:
John I. Goulde, Sweet Briar College, Presiding
A18-22
New Religious Movements Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Douglas E. Cowan, University of Waterloo, Presiding
Theme: Theorizing New Religions: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
Jeremy Rapport, Indiana University, Bloomington
Discourses of Difference: Examining the Unity School of Christianity as a New Religious Movement
David Bromley and Rachel Bobbitt, Virginia Commonwealth University
Resistance to Charismatic Authority
Marie W. Dallam, Temple University
The Problem of Ideal Typologies for the Study of Liminal Religious Groups
Lorne Dawson, University of Waterloo
New Religion Studies — Whither and Why?
A18-23
Nineteenth-Century Theology Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Daniel Hardy, University of Cambridge, Presiding
Theme: Contributions of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Major Concerns of the Nineteenth Century
Liberty Stewart, Emory University
Coleridge's Dynamic Construction of Consciousness as the Promotion of a Philosophical Position and a Moral Disposition
Joel Harter, University of Chicago
Defending Spirit: Symbol and History in Coleridge’s Theological Hermeneutics
Jeffrey W. Barbeau, Oral Roberts University
Coleridge, Christology, and the Language of Redemption
Pamela Edwards, Syracuse University
An English Church for a British Nation: Coleridge’s Ideas of Common Law, Customary Right, and Cultural Memory
The annual business meeting of the Nineteenth-Century Theology Group will be held Sunday, 7:00-8:30 am, in the Program Unit Chairs' Lounge. Bring your own breakfast.
A18-24
Religion and Disability Studies Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Nadia Bolz-Weber, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding
Theme: Deaf Culture and Religion
Meredith Filiatreault, Gallaudet University
Sacred Signs: Religion among America's Founding Deaf Community
Kirk VanGilder, Boston University
A Journey to the Promised Land: Examining Quasi-Religious Metaphors in Deaf Cultures in Relation to Gallaudet University
Elizabeth Parish, Baylor University
Christianity and Deaf Culture: Philosophical and Social Issues — A Consideration of the Apparent Conflict between Christianity and Deaf Culture
Responding:
Rebecca Raphael, Texas State University
Business Meeting:
Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding
A18-25
Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding
Theme: Africa in Latin America and the Caribbean
Shelley Wiley, Morningside College
Understanding Haitian Vodou through Marvelous Realism: Avoiding Postcolonial Eurocentrism
Michelle A. Gonzalez, University of Miami
Race, Religion, and Identity: The Afro-Cuban Contribution
Alice Wood, Bethune-Cookman College
Misunderstanding African Healing Practices in the Dominican Infirmary: A New Look at St. Martin de Porres
Ennis B. Edmonds, Kenyon College
Religious Transition in the Periphery: The Case of Revivalism in Fort Charles, a Rural Community in Jamaica
Responding:
Miguel A. De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology
A18-26
Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Suzanne J. Crawford, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding
Theme: Healing Movement: Techniques, Philosophies, and Implications for Healing and Religion
Marcy Braverman-Goldstein, University of Judaism
Avoiding and Inviting Madness in Hindu Traditions
Candy Gunther Brown, Saint Louis University
Adjusting Body and Spirit: The Science, Art, and Philosophy of Chiropractic Manipulations
Dennis Kelley, Iowa State University
Spiritual Healing through Physical Practice, Physical Healing through Spiritual Practice: Native American Canoe Traditions and Community Health
Elijah Siegler, College of Charleston
Taiji in America: From Healing Technique to Religious Practice and Back Again
John T. Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara
Falun Gong: Exercises for Perfect Health and Enlightenment
Business Meeting:
Linda L. Barnes, Boston University, Presiding
A18-27
Roman Catholic Studies Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Daniel Speed Thompson, Saint Mary's University, Presiding
Theme: Catholicism and Sex
Nancy Dallavalle, Fairfield University
Is Abortion the New Hubris? Recent Catholic Anthropology, Gender, and Public Policy
Gerard Jacobitz, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia
Intrinsically Homosexual: The Vatican’s New Instruction on Gays in the Priesthood in the Context of a Living Tradition
Stefanie Knauss, Karl-Franzens University
Celluloid Sex: Filmic Contributions to a Theological Discourse on Sexuality
Brenna Moore, Harvard University
Grief and Sexual Symbolism in Early Twentieth Century French Catholic Thought
Business Meeting:
Jeffrey Marlett, College of Saint Rose, Presiding
Vincent J. Miller, Georgetown University, Presiding
A18-28
Science, Technology, and Religion Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Ted Peters, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Stem Cells: The Scientific Frontier and the Ethical Debate
Panelists:
Gaymon L. Bennett, Graduate Theological Union
Karen Lebacqz, Pacific School of Religion
Martinez Hewlett, University of Arizona
Audrey R. Chapman, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Lisa Fullam, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley
Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University
Munawar Ahmad Anees, Periodica Islamica
A18-29
Biblical/Contextual Ethics Consultation
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
New Program Unit
Thomas W. Ogletree, Yale University, Presiding
Theme: Scriptural/Ethical Reflections on the Use of Political Power
Ted Grimsrud, Eastern Mennonite University
Revealing a New World: Power According to Biblical Apocalyptic
Betsy Perabo, Western Illinois University
The Arrest of Jesus and the Use of the Sword: Critiques of Power Used By and Against Authorities
Tam Parker, University of the South
Blast with Both Barrels: Dualism and Essentialism in the Use of Scriptural Warrants for Political Ends
Pong Im, Graduate Theological Union
Ban(herem), Genocide, and Tribalism: A Historical and Socio-Cultural Investigation of Amalek in the Old Testament
Business Meeting:
Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding
Thomas W. Ogletree, Yale University, Presiding
A18-30
Contemporary Islam Consultation
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
New Program Unit
Richard C. Martin, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Islamist Discourses and Issues
Rosalind Gwynne, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Abdullah Azzam on Sura 9: From Tafsir to Takfir to Tirade
Raquel Ukeles, Fairfield University
Does Islam Value or Reject Innovation? Qaradāwī’s “Modern” Interpretation of Bid‘ah
Elizabeth Bucar, University of Chicago
Good Hejab, Bad Hejab: Khomeini and Women’s Imperfect Obedience in Iran
Mark J. Sedgwick, American University, Cairo
Hanifi Traditionalism: An Alternative to Salafism in Chechnya
Jacquelene Brinton, University of Virginia
The Role of Islamist Rhetoric in the Perpetuation of Violence against Muslims: The Case of Hassan al-Turabi and Genocide in Sudan
Responding:
Kevin Jaques, Indiana University, Bloomington
Business Meeting:
Richard C. Martin, Emory University, Presiding
A18-31
Religion, Media, and Culture Consultation
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Gordon Lynch, University of Birmingham, Presiding
Theme: Wrestling with Method: Case Studies in Religion, Media, and Culture
Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Catholic University of America
A New Mediation of an Old Art: Documentary Film as Memento Mori
Curtis Coats, University of Colorado, Boulder
Media and Religion in the Making of Identities of Masculinity, Fatherhood, and Vocation
Matthew Hedstrom, Valparaiso University
Poster Art and the Promotion of Religious Reading in America, 1921-1948: Constructing a Visual Piety of the Printed Word
Lynn S. Neal, Appalachian State University
“I Know There Is Wrestling in Heaven”: Eddie Guerrero, Wrestling Fans, and the Transformation of Mourning
Responding:
Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto
Business Meeting:
Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding
Michele Rosenthal, University of Haifa, Presiding
A18-37
North American Association for the Study of Religion
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theme: A Conversation with Daniel C. Dennett’s Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Catholic University, Presiding
Panelists:
Luther Martin, University of Vermont
Matthew Day, Florida State University
D. Jason Slone, Webster University
Donald Wiebe, University of Trinity College
A18-40
Person, Culture and Religion Group
Saturday - 9:00 am-12:00 pm
9:00 Works in progress – New scholars welcome!
10:00 Theme: Embodied Religious Practices in Psychological Perspective: Part I
Kathleen Bishop, Madison, NJ
This is My Body: Interplay of Personal Symptom and Public Symbol in Eucharistic Practice
Dirk Lang, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia
The Return of the Body in Eucharistic Practice: Psychoanalysis and the Disruption of Ritual
11:30 Business Meeting
A18-41
Polanyi Society
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Jere Moorman, Polanyi Society, Presiding
9:00 Blythe Clinchy, Wellesley College
Epistemological Development as the Aim of Education: A Polanyian Perspective
Respondents:
Dale Cannon, Western Oregon University
Esther Meek, Geneva College
Zhenhua Yu, East China Normal University
11:15 Business Meeting
Walter Gulick, Presiding
A18-42
International Schleiermacher Society
Saturday - 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Theme: Schleiermacher, Religion, and Politics
9:00 Review of Schleiermacher’s Political Activities and gathering questions for Sen. Salazar
9:30 Conversation with Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) about Religion and Politics with both prearranged questions and questions from the floor
10:00 Schleiermacher in the Culture Wars a paper by Theodore Vial, Iliff School of Theology
10:45 – 12:00 Roundtable Discussion Religion and Politics Today: Can Schleiermacher Help Us Make Sense of What’s Going on Today?
Is Schleiermacher’s legacy part of the problem as well as part of the solution to our current political malaise? Was Karl Barth, as one of Schleiermacher’s most influential twentieth-century critics, right when noting that Schleiermacher put culture where it did not belong? He brought cultural concerns into the “innermost sanctuary [of] his theology.” Did Schleiermacher also bring political concerns into this innermost sanctuary? “Is Schleiermacher’s theologically grounded politics an appropriate or a dangerous model for 21st century democracies?” Join in the discussion. You are also invited to write a 500-word essay (maximum length) delineating your position on this topic. Bring copies for distribution.
For additional information and receipt of the papers (after October 1) contact: Cathie Kelsey, ckelsey@iliff.edu.
A18-43
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theme: Religious Self-Fashioning and the Role of Community in Contemporary Buddhist and Christian Practice
Harry Wells, Humboldt State University, Presiding
9:00-9:25 Kenneth K. Tanaka, Musashino University
The Individual in Relation to the Sangha in American Buddhism: An Examination of “Individualized Religion”
9:30-9:55 Joseph A. Bracken, Xavier University
Dependent Co-Origination and Universal Intersubjectivity
10:00-10:25 Open Discussion
10:30-10:55 Jonas Barciauskas, Boston College
The Buddhist-Christian Studies Database: A Web-Searchable Resource
11:00-11:30 Business Meeting
A18-45
Søren Kierkegaard Society
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theme: Living Christianly: Kierkegaard's Dialectic of Christian Existence, by Sylvia Walsh (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005).
Louise Carroll Keeley, Assumption College, Presiding
Panelists:
Lee Barrett, Lancaster Theological Seminary
Andrew Burgess, University of New Mexico
David Gouwens, Texas Christian University
Respondent: Sylvia Walsh, Stetson University
For more information contact Louise Carroll Keeley at lkeeley@assumption.edu.
A18-46
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality: Presidential Address and Business Meeting
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
9:00 Presidential Address: David B. Perrin, St. Paul University
The Uneasy Relationship Between Christian Spirituality and the Human Sciences: Psychology as a Test Case
10:30 Business Meeting: Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard University, Presiding
All are welcome. For additional information, please contact Anita Houck at ahouck@saintmarys.edu.
A18-47
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
A18-32
Tour of “African Voices” Exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History
Saturday - 9:30 am-12:00 pm
Sponsored by the Arts, Literature, and Religion Section, African Religions Group, and Anthropology of Religion Group
Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton, University of Virginia, Presiding
Tour is sold out. See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#ArtsSeriesandTours for details.
A18-33
National Museum of the American Indian Tour
Saturday - 9:30 am-12:00 pm
Sponsored by the Native Traditions in the Americas Group
Tour is sold out. See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#ArtsSeriesandTours for details.
A18-34
Plenary Address
Saturday - 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Diana L. Eck, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Karen Armstrong -- Religion after September 11
Panelists:
Karen Armstrong, Birmingham, UK
See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#PlenaryandPresidentialAddresses for details.
A18-35
Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Sponsored by the Graduate Student Committee and American Theological Library Association
Kimberly Bresler, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: ATLA Career Alternatives Luncheon for Doctoral Students in Religion and Theology
Panelists:
James McDonald, Bread for the World
James P. Wind, Alban Institute
Lucinda Huffaker, Wabash Center
Separate registration is required. See www.aarweb.org/students for more information.
A18-39
North American Paul Tillich Society Annual Business Meeting
Saturday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
A18-44
North American Association for the Study of Religion: Business Meeting
Saturday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
A18-50
Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Diana L. Eck, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Roundtable Discussion on HIV/AIDS in Africa with Dr. Pauline Muchina, UNAIDS Senior Women and AIDS Advocacy Officer
Pauline Muchina, UNAIDS
Panelists:
James R. Cochrane, University of Cape Town
Musa Dube, University of Botswana
Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University
Margaret Farley, Yale University
A18-51
Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee
Colleen McDannell, University of Utah, Presiding
Theme: Reporting on Religion from the Nation's Capital
Panelists:
Kimberly Lawton, Religion & Ethics, NewsWeekly
Larry Witham, Washington, DC
Alan Cooperman, Washington Post
Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder
See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details.
A18-52
Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section and Ritual Studies Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State University, Presiding
Theme: Teaching Ritual: What We Learn
Panelists:
Catherine Bell, Santa Clara University
Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University
David Pinault, Santa Clara University
Richard Schechner, New York University
Business Meeting:
Donna Lynne Seamone, Acadia University, Presiding
A18-53
Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and Religion in South Asia Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Rachel Fell McDermott, Barnard College, Presiding
Theme: Popular Devotional Art in Modern India
Kathryn Hansen, University of Texas
"Mythologicals" and Devotion: Betab's Mahabharata in the Parsi Theatre
Karline McLain, Bucknell University
Radiating a Spiritual Force: Indian Comic Books as Devotional Art
Susan Prill, Hamilton College
Representing Namdev in Punjabi Poster Art
Richard H. Davis, Bard College
Temple in a Frame
Natalie Marsh, Ohio State University
Digital Deities, Online Puja, and Virtual Pilgrimage: An Ongian Reading
Responding:
Stephen Inglis, Canadian Museum of Civilization
A18-54
Ethics Section and Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Marcia Bunge, Valparaiso University, Presiding
Theme: Children's Rights and Responsibilities: Interfaith Perspectives
Don S. Browning, University of Chicago
Should the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Be Ratified and Why?
Mary M. Doyle Roche, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Children's Rights and the Common Good in Catholic Social Teaching
Zayn Kassam, Pomona College
Muslim Children: Problematics and Prospects in Light of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
John Wall, Rutgers University
Human Rights in Light of Children: A Christian Childist Perspective
Responding:
Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Georgetown University
A18-55
Study of Islam Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Valerie Hoffman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Presiding
Theme: Patterns of Religious Authority and Reform among African Muslims
Scott Reese, Northern Arizona University
Debating the Equality of Souls: Social Status, Religious Authority, and Sufi Hagiography in Italian Colonial Somalia
Ruediger Seesemann, Northwestern University
Between Tradition and Reform: The Hadhrami Model of Islamic Learning and Religious Authority in Contemporary Kenya
Ousman Kobo, Gettysburg College
Western Educated Muslim Elites and the Development of Ahl al-Sunna Reform Movements in Ghana and Burkina Faso, 1960-1990
Zakyi Ibrahim, University of Winnipeg
Some Sociological Aspects of Dan Fodio's Nineteenth-Century Reforms
Shobana Shankar, Lafayette College
Popular Revival as Political Reform: The Northern Nigerian Ideal of Islam in a Corrupt Society
Responding:
Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University
A18-56
Theology and Religious Reflection Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Susan Abraham, St. Bonaventure University, Presiding
Theme: Empire and the Other
Thomas Bohache, Episcopal Divinity School
Empire Meets Eros: A Queer (De)Construction
Namsoon Kang, Texas Christian University
Empire(s), Religious Fundamentalism, and Religious Construction of Gender
Jan Pranger, Concordia College, Moorhead
Kraemer vs. Kraemer: Empire and the Construction of Religious “Others” in the Dutch Theological Tradition
Margaret D. Kamitsuka, Oberlin College
Foucault and Empire: A Poststructuralist Model for Doing Feminist Theology in a Postcolonial Age
A18-57
Women and Religion Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Letty M. Russell, Yale University, Presiding
Theme: Hagar, Sarah, and Their Children: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Women in Dialogue
Panelists:
Judith R. Baskin, University of Oregon
Francine Cardman, Weston Jesuit Theological School
Amina Wadud, Virginia Commonwealth University
Emilie M. Townes, Yale University
Responding:
Phyllis Trible, Wake Forest University
A18-58
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Anne Joh, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Asian/Asian American Women Negotiating Power and Authority
Min-Ah Cho, Emory University
Religion beneath Mother Tongues: Religious Practice and the Act of Writing in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee
Nikky Singh, Colby College
Feticide in the Punjab and Fetus Imagery in Sikhism
Karen Yonemoto, University of Southern California
Progressive Politics, Conservative Practices: Re-thinking Gender in Asian American Church
K. Christine Pae, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Gender as an Analytical Tool of "Sin and Redemption": Women, Religious Fundamentalism, and Homosexuality in the Asian Pacific American Community
Responding:
Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University
A18-59
Augustine and Augustinianisms Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Robert P. Kennedy, St. Francis Xavier University and Kim Paffenroth, Iona College, Presiding
Theme: Augustine and Biography/Augustine and the Holy Spirit
Felix B. Asiedu, Middlebury College
In the Company of Augustine: The Postmodern Self and the Unauthorized Life of a Saint
Jane E. Merdinger, Greenbelt, MD
A Critique of O’Donnell’s Augustine (2005) and Lancel’s Saint Augustine (2002)
Dennis W. Jowers, Faith Seminary
The Unction of Christ with the Holy Spirit as a Difficulty for Augustine's Pneumatology
Aage Rydstrom-Poulsen, University of Greenland
Augustine's Pneumatological Theology of Grace
Business Meeting:
Kim Paffenroth, Iona College, Presiding
A18-60
Black Theology Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Alton B. Pollard, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Looking for the Way Forward: Black Church Studies and the African Diaspora
Panelists:
Cecil Cone, African Methodist Episcopal Church
Emmanuel Lartey, Emory University
Jawanza Clark, Emory University
Stephanie Y. Mitchem, University of South Carolina
Marcus Harvey, Emory University
Juan Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University
Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University
Business Meeting:
Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University, Presiding
Stephen G. Ray, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Presiding
A18-61
Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Christiane Tietz, University of Tuebingen, Presiding
Theme: Bonhoeffer Ethics: A New Edition
Nancy Berlinger, The Hastings Center
Bonhoeffer’s Conscience Clauses: Ethics and the Ethics of Refusal
Christine Schliesser, Fuller Theological Seminary and Tuebingen University
“Nobody Can Altogether Escape Responsibility” – Bonhoeffer’s Call for a Responsible Life in His Ethics
Ralf Wuestenberg, Freie Universität, Berlin
Promoting a Genuine Dialogue between Religion and Politics: Bonhoeffer's Ethical Distinction between the "Ultimate and the Penultimate Things"
LeRoy Walters, Georgetown University
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Critique of Nazi "Euthanasia" as Reflected in His Ethics, Two Letters, and a Sermon
A18-62
Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
New Program Unit
Judith Simmer-Brown, Naropa University, Presiding
Theme: Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection: Theoretical Concerns and Practical Applications
John J. Makransky, Boston College
Academic Buddhist Studies as a Resource for Buddhist Communities: Problematics and Possibilities
James Mark Shields, Bucknell University
Vexing Weber: Critical Buddhist Scholarship as a Vocation
Sallie B. King, James Madison University
An Engaged Buddhist Response to John Rawls' The Law of Peoples
Dennis Hirota, Ryukoku University
Toward a Pure Land Buddhist Conception of Truth: Shinran’s Jinen Honi in Comparison with Heidegger’s Essence of Truth
Business Meeting:
Roger Jackson, Carleton College, Presiding
John J. Makransky, Boston College, Presiding
A18-63
Comparative Religious Ethics Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
New Program Unit
William A. Barbieri, Catholic University of America, Presiding
Theme: Authority, Justice, and Compassion in Comparative Perspective
Elizabeth Bucar, University of Chicago
Beyond Bully Pulpits: The Persuasiveness of Clerical Authority
Betsy Perabo, Western Illinois University
The Fatwa and the Epistle: Genres of Consultation and Advice-Giving in Christianity and Islam
Erin Cline, University of Oregon
Comparing Senses of Justice: Kongzi, Rawls, and the Nature of Comparative Ethics
Amod Lele, Harvard University
The Role of External Goods in Benevolence and Compassion: Applying Śāntideva's Thought to the Work of Martha Nussbaum
Responding:
Mark Allen Berkson, Hamline University
Business Meeting:
Aaron D. Stalnaker, Indiana University, Bloomington, Presiding
A18-64
Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Donald S. Lopez, University of Michigan, Presiding
Theme: Religion through the Senses
Kerry Martin Skora, Hiram College
Embraced by Being: Abhinavagupta's Recovery of the Sense of Touch
Holly Gayley, Harvard University
Soteriology of the Senses in Tibetan Buddhism
Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Brown University
Why the Smells Matter: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination
Responding:
Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto
Business Meeting:
Steven Engler, Mount Royal College and Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Presiding
A18-65
Ecclesiological Investigations Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
New Program Unit
Michael A. Fahey, Boston College, Presiding
Theme: The Nature and Mission of the Church: Ecclesial Reality and Ecumenical Horizons for the Twenty-First Century
Paul Collins, University of Chichester
The Nature and Mission of the Church Communion: God, Creation, and Church
Peter De Mey, Catholic University of Leuven
How to Express the Link between the Church and the Holy Trinity in a Common Ecumenical Discourse? An Analysis of Recent Ecumenical Documents on the Nature of the Church
Risto Saarinen, University of Helsinki
Called to be the One Church? The Unity Statements of the WCC and Their Reception in the Document "The Nature and Mission of the Church"
Wolfgang Vondey, Regent University
Pentecostal Perspectives on The Nature and Mission of the Church
Korinna Zamfir, Babes-Bolyai University
Is There a Future for the Catholic-Protestant Ecclesiological Dialogue? The Non-reception and a Challenge for Ecumenical Dialogue
Bradford E. Hinze, Fordham University
Are Councils and Synods Decision Making? A Roman Catholic Conundrum in Ecumenical Perspective
Panelists:
Fr K. M. George, Orthodox Seminary, India
A18-66
Indigenous Religious Traditions Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Jacob K. Olupona, University of California, Davis, Presiding
Theme: Indigenous Religion and Modernity
Michael Zogry, University of Kansas, Lawrence
“I Hope We Can Civilize Them before They Hurt Themselves”: Assessing the Legacy of Vine Deloria, Jr.
Dennis Kelley, University of Missouri, Columbia
Ancient Traditions, Modern Constructions: Innovation, Continuity, and Spirituality on the Pow Wow Trail
Inez van der Spek, Dominican Centre for Theology and Society, Nijmegen
Old Photos, New Connections: Mirroring Western and African Religion
Responding:
Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University
A18-67
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Marilyn Piety, Drexel University, Presiding
Theme: Kierkegaard and the Spiritual Life
Paul Carron, Baylor University
Is Hope Located in Future Possibility or in Dying to the Self? Towards a Kierkegaardian Conception of Spiritual Therapy
Olli-Pekka Vainio, University of Helsinki
Kierkegaard's Eucharistic Spirituality
Joseph Ballan, Syracuse University
The Beatitude of Defeat: Anfechtung, Humility, and Prayer in Four Upbuilding Discourses (1844)
Stephen N. Dunning, University of Pennsylvania
Education's Pious Fraud: Kierkegaard's Pedagogy
Responding:
Brian C. Barlow, Brenau University
Business Meeting:
Marilyn Piety, Drexel University, Presiding
A18-68
Men's Studies in Religion Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
David James Livingston, Mercyhurst College, Presiding
Theme: Issues in Men's Studies in Religion
Greg Ellis, Moravian Theological Seminary
Theology for Non Elite Males
Ellen M. Ross, Swarthmore College
Men As Peacemakers: Courage and the Practice of Nonviolence
Andre Musskopf, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil
Ungraceful God: Masculinity and the Images of God in Popular Culture in Brazil
Responding:
Mark Justad, Vanderbilt University
Business Meeting:
David James Livingston, Mercyhurst College, Presiding
Mark Justad, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
A18-69
Mysticism Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
June McDaniel, College of Charleston, Presiding
Theme: Mystical Asceticism and Extreme Experience
Michelle Voss Roberts, Rhodes College
“The Body Gains Its Share": The Asceticism of Mechthild of Magdeburg
Lise Vail, Montclair State University
Shiva's Pain Protocol in Basava's Vacana Poetry
Charlotte Radler, Loyola Marymount University
Astonishing Pain: Mystical Suffering in Christina Mirabilis
Megan Summers, University of Georgia
Pain and Pleasure: Body Modification and Spiritual Experience
Business Meeting:
Neil Douglas-Klotz, Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning, Presiding
A18-70
Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University, Presiding
Theme: Methodological and Theoretical Issues
Alva Anderson, Wofford College
Eight Is Not Enough: A Pragmatic Response to Daniel Pals' Theories
Stephen Bush, Princeton University
Religious Experience after the Phenomenology of Religion: The Semantics of Religious Experience Reports
Jason Springs, Princeton University
Re-reading Foucault on Power: Fraser, Brandom, and Rorty on the Politics of Self-creation
Responding:
Wayne Proudfoot, Columbia University
A18-71
Signifying (on) Scriptures Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Setting the Agenda: Vincent L. Wimbush, Claremont Graduate University
Leif Vaage, Emmanuel College, Presiding
Theme: Scriptures and Race, Roundtable Discussion 1
Panelists:
Angela Bauer-Levesque, Episcopal Divinity School
Elom Dovlo, University of Ghana, Legon
Charles Hallisey, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sylvester Johnson, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Shawn Kelley, Daemen College
Tat-siong Benny Liew, Pacific School of Religion
Gay Byron, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
A18-72
Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Tyler T. Roberts, Grinnell College, Presiding
Theme: New Directions in Theology and Continental Philosophy
Torin Alexander, Rice University
A Certeauvian Analysis of African American Religion
Christopher C. Brittain, Atlantic School of Theology
Belief and Practice in Talal Asad’s “De-privatization” of Religion
Matthew Hagele, Florida State University
Jean-Luc Nancy and the Lineage of Spinoza
Responding:
Eric Boynton, Allegheny College
A18-73
Wesleyan Studies Group
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Sarah Heaner Lancaster, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Presiding
Theme: Challenges to the Church
Douglas Cullum, Roberts Wesleyan College
Fanatical Women: The Struggle toward Public Ministry in the Early Free Methodist Church
Joseph T. Reiff, Emory and Henry College
A Conference in Cultural Captivity: White Mississippi Methodists and the 1963 "Born of Conviction" Statement
Darryl Stephens, Emory University
“We, the People...”: The US Cultural Commitments of the United Methodist Social Principles as a Challenge to Global Connection
Business Meeting:
K. Steve McCormick, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Presiding
A18-74
Religions in Chinese and Indian Cultures: A Comparative Perspective Seminar
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
New Program Unit
Tao Jiang, Rutgers University, Presiding
Theme: The Buddhist Transformation of Chinese Conceptions of Freedom and Salvation
Parimal G. Patil, Harvard University
Genres of Buddhist Salvation in Classical India
Michael Puett, Harvard University
Freedom and Salvation in Early China
Robert Campany, Indiana University, Bloomington
Buddhist Impact on Chinese Conceptions of Freedom and Salvation?
Business Meeting:
Tao Jiang, Rutgers University, Presiding
A18-75
Contemporary Pagan Studies Consultation
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Wendy Griffin, California State University, Long Beach, Presiding
Theme: Pagan Communities: Innovations, Internal Negotiations, and Growth
Jason Winslade, DePaul University
Alchemical Rhythm: Sacred Dynamic Fire and the Politics of Drumming
Murph Pizza, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
The Fourfold Goddess and the Undying God: Anatomies of Minnesotan Bootstrap Witchcraft Traditions
Laura Wildman-Hanlon, Cherry Hill Seminary
Children of Converts: Generational Retention in the Neo-Pagan New Religious Movement
James Roger Lewis, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
The Pagan Explosion
Business Meeting:
Wendy Griffin, California State University, Long Beach, Presiding
Michael York, London, United Kingdom, Presiding
A18-76
Coptic Christianity Consultation
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
New Program Unit
Sidney Griffith, Catholic University of America, Presiding
Theme: Coptic Monasticism through the Ages
Tim Vivian, California State University, Bakersfield
"A Man Holy and Perfect": The Holy Man as Didaskalos (Teacher) and Mathetes (Disciple and Pupil) in the Life of Paisios/Bishoy, Attributed to John Kolobos
Chrysi Kotsifou, American University, Cairo
Encounters with Monks: Coptic Monastic Hospitality Networks
Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rhodes College
"The Soul Is Like a Ship": Sailing Imagery in Early Egyptian Monastic Literature
Janet A. Timbie, Catholic University of America
Then Am I Not Obliged: Shenoute of Atripe Writes to a Women's Monastery to Persuade and Discipline
Lois Farag, Luther Seminary
Beyond Their Gender: Coptic Female Monasticism in the Twentieth Century
Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso University
Patriarchs Kyrillos VI and Shenouda III: Architects of Contemporary Coptic Monasticism
Responding:
Mark Swanson, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago
A18-77
Cultural History of the Study of Religion Consultation and Queer Theory and LGBT Studies in Religion Consultation
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Ann Pellegrini, New York University, Presiding
Theme: Body Parts: Sexed Bodies, Secular Bodies
Panelists:
Angela Zito, New York University
Margaret R. Miles, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University
Elizabeth Janiak, New York University
Jay Geller, Vanderbilt University
Ann Burlein, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Janet Jakobsen, Barnard College
Molly McGarry, University of California, Riverside
A18-78
Religion, Public Policy, and Political Change Consultation
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
New Program Unit
Melissa Rogers, Wake Forest University, Presiding
Theme: The Politics of Religion and Public Policy
Ann B. McClenahan, Harvard University
Progressive Religion in the Public Sphere: A Critical Case Study about Health Care Access in Massachusetts
Yvonne Zimmerman, University of Denver
Not Slaves to Men: The Success of Faith-based Politics in Human Trafficking Activism
Joe Pettit, Morgan State University
Interfaith Open Communities: Faith-based Affordable Housing Advocacy in Metropolitan Chicago
Business Meeting:
Joe Pettit, Morgan State University, Presiding
A18-79
Rethinking the Field Consultation
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
New Program Unit
Stephanie Yuhas, University of Denver, Presiding
Theme: Part I: The Future of "Religion and Ecology" and "Ecotheology"; Part II: The Role of Liberal Theology in the Discipline
Panelists:
Whitney Bauman, Graduate Theological Union
Samuel Snyder, University of Florida
Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University
Greg Zuschlag, St. Thomas University
Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University
Audrey L. Harris, Iliff School of Theology
Gary J. Dorrien, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Ted Vial, Iliff School of Theology
Trevor Eppehimer, Union Theological Seminary, New York
See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#EspeciallyforStudents for more details.
A18-80
North American Association for the Study of Religion
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Theme: Hybridity: Critiques and Alternatives
Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University, Presiding
Ipsita Chatterjea, Vanderbilt University
Hybridity, Race, Insider Discourse: The African Methodist Episcopal Church
Jens Kreinath, University of Heidleberg
Colonial Displacement, Subversive Agency, Ritual Mimesis: Hybridity and the Hauka
Steven Engler, Mount Royal College
Hybridity, Essentialism, Temporality: The Case of Umbanda
A18-100
Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Sponsored by the Academic Relations Committee and the Religion in the Schools Task Force.
Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College, Presiding
Theme: Representing Religion in Public: What Can Your Department Do and Why It Should
Panelists:
Emilie M. Townes, Yale University
Timothy M. Renick, Georgia State University
Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico
See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details.
A18-101
Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Sponsored by the Graduate Student Committee and Student Liaison Group
Kimberly Bresler, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Student Liaison Group Decennial Celebration
Panelists:
Warren G. Frisina, Hofstra University
John Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University
Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University
Richard Amesbury, Valdosta State University
Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College
See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details.
A18-102
Special Topics Forum
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Sponsored by the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee
Zayn Kassam, Pomona College, Presiding
Theme: The Other Within: The Study of Religion and Diversifying Our Knowledge Production
Panelists:
Erin Runions, Pomona College
Gaston Espinosa, Claremont McKenna College
Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University
Andrew Sung Park, United Theological Seminary, Ohio
Responding:
Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Moravian Theological Seminary
See www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2006/pbook/highlights.asp#SpecialTopicsForums for details.
A18-103
Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Kimerer L. LaMothe, Granville, NY, Presiding
Theme: The Practice of Art and the Study of Religion
Panelists:
Deborah J. Haynes, University of Colorado, Boulder
Miranda Shaw, University of Richmond
Steven P. Hopkins, Swarthmore College
Margaret R. Miles, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
A18-104
Buddhism Section and Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Theme: Buddhism and Violence
Stephen Jenkins, Humboldt State University
Making Merit through Warfare: The Bodhisattva-gocara-upāyavişaya-vikurvāņa-nirdeśa Sūtra
Derek Maher, East Carolina University
The Rhetoric of War in Tibet: Towards a Buddhist Just War Theory
Vesna Acimovic Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara
Buddhism and Violence in Mongolia During the Theocratic Period
Daniel Kent, University of Virginia
Onward Buddhist Soldiers: Sermons to Soldiers in the Sri Lankan Army
Michael Jerryson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Buddhism and Violence in Thailand: The Objectification of the Sacred
Responding:
Bernard Faure, Stanford University
A18-105
Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Comparative Religious Ethics Group and Comparative Theology Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Selva J. Raj, Albion College, Presiding
Theme: The State of Comparative Enterprise in the Study of Religions
Panelists:
Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University
Aaron D. Stalnaker, Indiana University, Bloomington
Kimberley C. Patton, Harvard University
Daniel R. Gold, Cornell University
Responding:
Gary L. Ebersole, University of Missouri, Kansas City
A18-106
History of Christianity Section and Death, Dying, and Beyond Consultation
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Christopher Moreman, St. Francis Xavier University, Presiding
Theme: The Christian Afterlife
Lucy Bregman, Temple University
The Rose That Grew through the Crack in the Wall: Images of Death and Afterlife in Twentieth-Century Mainline Protestantism
Michael Bruening, Concordia University, Irvine
The Reformation of Hell: Pierre Viret's Polemic against Catholic Theology of the Afterlife
James G. Kroemer, Marquette University
Bernard of Clairvaux on the Christian Afterlife: A Medieval Curiosity or Cause of War?
Roddy Knowles, Boston University
Nefarious Necromancy: Christian Critiques of Nineteenth-Century American Spiritualism
Joshua Papsdorf, Fordham University
Christ’s Descent to the Dead in the Early Latin Church: The Eternal Fate of Those Who Died before Christ
Samuel Brown, Harvard University
Joseph Smith's Conquest of Death: Sacerdotal Genealogy and the Chain of Being
A18-107
North American Religions Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Edward E. Curtis, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Presiding
Theme: Migration, Missionaries, and the Manifestation of Catholicism: Transnational Religions in the United States
Michael Pasquier, Florida State University
Saving an Unsalvageable City: Catholic Missionaries in Antebellum New Orleans
Gretchen Boger, Princeton University
What Would Jesus Do in India? How American Missionaries between the World Wars Re-fashioned Jesus Abroad
Daniel Ramirez, Duke University
Más Allá de Azusa: The Early Construction of Transnational Pentecostalism
Kathryn Moles, Florida International University
Social Capital as a Reason for Transnational Growth of Pentecostalism: How Colombian Migrants in South Florida Build Social Capital in an Unlikely Context
Responding:
Thomas A. Tweed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
A18-108
Religion and the Social Sciences Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Seattle University, Presiding
Theme: Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Religion
Brian Palmer, Uppsala University
To Be Spiritual Is to Stop: Inner Lives in an Economy of Uprooting
Elizabeth Catlin, Massachusetts General Hospital
co-presenter with Wendy Cadge
Wendy Cadge, Harvard University
Paging God? Constructions of Religion and Spirituality amongst Staff in Hospital Intensive Care Units
David Montgomery, Boston University
The Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Kyrgyzstan: How Learning Influences Practice, or Accounting for the Difference between Hizb ut-Tahrir and Ancestral Worshipers
Responding:
Ann B. McClenahan, Harvard University
A18-109
Theology and Religious Reflection Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago, Presiding
Theme: The Cross and Empire
Peter Jones, Southern Methodist University
Christian Theology, Psychoanalysis, and Subalternity: Rethinking Kenosis, Conversion, and Agency
Rebecca Parker, Starr King School for the Ministry
co-presenter with Rita Nakashima Brock
Rita Nakashima Brock, Faith Voices for the Common Good
The Nicean Christ: Imperial Hegemony and Christian Dissent
Todd D. Whitmore, University of Notre Dame
Confessing in the Land of the Hunchback God: Suffering, Hope, and Forgiveness in Northern Uganda
Laura Taylor, Vanderbilt University
Going Native: An Interstitial and Intercultural Wisdom Christology
Matthew MacKellar, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
The Cross against Empire: Toward a Counterhegemonic Theology of the Cross
A18-110
African Religions Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh, Presiding
Theme: African Indigenous Religions in the Twenty-First Century
Bolaji Bateye, Obafemi Awolowo University
"Osa Eleiye" (The Witches’ Verse!): Yoruba Orature, the Babalawo, and Female Power
Danoye Oguntola Laguda, Lagos State University
African Indigenous Religions and Pentecostalism: A Study of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in Lagos
Samuel K. Elolia, Emmanuel School of Religion
Mafuta Pole Dini Ya Africa: A Resurgence of African Religion
Teresia Mbari Hinga, Santa Clara University
Beyond Totem and Taboo: Indigenous African Religions and the Quest for a Global Ethic: The Gikuyu Case
A18-111
Bible, Theology, and Postmodernity Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
New Program Unit
Jon L. Berquist, Westminster John Knox Press, Presiding
Theme: John D. Caputo's The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event (Indiana University Press, 2006)
Panelists:
Catherine Keller, Drew University
Yvonne Sherwood, University of Glasgow
Roland Faber, Claremont School of Theology
Mayra Rivera, Pacific School of Religion
Stephen D. Moore, Drew University
Responding:
John D. Caputo, Syracuse University
A18-112
Bioethics and Religion Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm