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A2 Chairs Workshop Friday - 8:00 am-4:00 pm Edward Gray, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Theme: Effective Assessment Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or see the Evaluating and Advancing Teaching in the Religious Studies Department - Registration page for a registration form. A3 Chairs Workshop Friday - 8:00 am-4:00 pm Edward Gray, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Theme: Effective Assessment Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or see the Evaluating and Advancing Teaching in the Religious Studies Department - Registration page for a registration form. A4 Chairs Workshop Friday - 8:00 am-4:00 pm Edward Gray, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Theme: Effective Assessment Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or see the Evaluating and Advancing Teaching in the Religious Studies Department - Registration page for a registration form. A5 Chairs Workshop Friday - 8:00 am-4:00 pm Edward Gray, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Theme: Effective Assessment Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or see the Evaluating and Advancing Teaching in the Religious Studies Department - Registration page for a registration form. A6 AAR Board of Directors Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm Rebecca S. Chopp, Yale University, Presiding A7 Religion and Media Workshop Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm Sponsored by the Committee on Public Understanding of Religion; Religion and Popular Culture Group; Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group; Religion, Culture and Communication Consultation; and SBL's Bible in Ancient and Modern Media Section Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder and Jeffrey H. Mahan, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Please see the Annual Meeting Highlights page for more information. Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or download a registration form (requires PDF). A8 Religion and Media Workshop Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm Sponsored by the Committee on Public Understanding of Religion; Religion and Popular Culture Group; Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group; Religion, Culture and Communication Consultation; and SBL's Bible in Ancient and Modern Media Section Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder and Jeffrey H. Mahan, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Please see the Annual Meeting Highlights page for more information. Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or download a registration form (requires PDF). A9 Religion and Media Workshop Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm Sponsored by the Committee on Public Understanding of Religion; Religion and Popular Culture Group; Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group; Religion, Culture and Communication Consultation; and SBL's Bible in Ancient and Modern Media Section Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder and Jeffrey H. Mahan, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Please see the Annual Meeting Highlights page for more information. Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or download a registration form (requires PDF). A10 Religion and Media Workshop Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm Sponsored by the Committee on Public Understanding of Religion; Religion and Popular Culture Group; Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group; Religion, Culture and Communication Consultation; and SBL's Bible in Ancient and Modern Media Section Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder and Jeffrey H. Mahan, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Please see the Annual Meeting Highlights page for more information. Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or download a registration form (requires PDF). A11 Religion and Media Workshop Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm Sponsored by the Committee on Public Understanding of Religion; Religion and Popular Culture Group; Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group; Religion, Culture and Communication Consultation; and SBL's Bible in Ancient and Modern Media Section Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder and Jeffrey H. Mahan, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Please see the Annual Meeting Highlights page for more information. Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or download a registration form (requires PDF). A12 Women's Caucus Workshop Friday - 12:00 pm-5:00 pm Young Lee Hertig, United Theological Seminary, Presiding Panelists: Elizabeth A. Say, California State University, Northridge Linda A. Moody, Mills College Laurel C. Schneider, Chicago Theological Seminary Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A13 EIS Orientation Session Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm Edward R. Gray and Emily J. Noonan, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Panelists: Patricia Zimmerman Beckman, University of Missouri, Columbia Steve Friesen, University of Missouri, Columbia Debra Washington Mubashshir, Beloit College Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A14 Arts Series Film: Princess Mononoke Friday - 7:00 pm-9:30 pm Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Randal Lee Cummings, California State University, Northridge, Presiding Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A15 Regional Secretaries Saturday - 8:00 am-9:00 am William J. Cassidy, III, Alfred University, Presiding A16 Committee on International Connections Saturday - 8:00 am-9:30 am Mary McGee, Columbia University, Presiding A17 New Technologies Task Force Saturday - 8:00 am-11:30 am Vivian-Lee Nyitray, University of California, Riverside A18 Publications Committee I Saturday - 8:30 am-10:45 am Terry F. Godlove, Jr., Hofstra University, Presiding A19 Committee on Teaching and Learning Saturday - 8:30 am-11:00 am Thomas V. Peterson, Alfred University, Presiding A20 Bus Tour: Injustice in the Landscape of North Denver: Local Snapshots of Environmental Racism Saturday - 8:30 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Religion and Ecology Group, CLAASP, and COPEEN Beth Blissman, Oberlin College; Loraine Granado, Colorado People's Environmental and Economic Network; and Michael McClain, Rhodes College, Presiding Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. There will be a $15 charge for this bus tour. Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or download a registration form (requires PDF). A21 Museum Tour: Museo de las Américas Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Native Traditions in the Americas Group; Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group; U.S. Latino-a Religion, Culture and Society Group Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. There will be a $10 charge for this bus tour. Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or download a registration form (requires PDF). A22 Student Liaison Group Business Meeting Saturday - 9:00 am-10:45 am Elizabeth Pullen, Drew University, Presiding A23 Regions Committee and Regional Officers Saturday - 9:00 am-11:00 am William J. Cassidy, III, Alfred University, Presiding A24 Department Chairs Brunch Saturday - 11:00 am-12:15 am Sponsored by the Academic Relations Program Edward R. Gray, American Academy of Religion, Presiding A25 Plenary Address Saturday - 11:30 am-12:30 pm Rebecca S. Chopp, Yale University, Presiding Theme: A Map to the Next World Joy Harjo, Honolulu, HI Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A26 Publications Committee II Saturday - 12:30 pm-1:00 pm Terry F. Godlove, Jr., Hofstra University, Presiding A27 Scholars to Schools Luncheon Saturday - 12:30 pm-2:00 pm Sponsored by the Religion in the Schools Task Force Edward R. Gray, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Panelists: Jon Butler, Yale University Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico D. Keith Naylor, Occidental College Katrina M. Poetker, Fresno Pacific University Stephen Kaplan, Manhattan College Advance reservations are necessary, please email ristf@aarweb.org to express interest. Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A28 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Academic Relations Task Force James B. Wiggins, Syracuse University, Presiding Theme: The Study of Religion Counts: What We Know (and What We Don't) about the Shape of the Field Edward R. Gray, American Academy of Religion What Have We Learned? Lance Selfa, National Opinion Research Center How We Collected the Data Jonathan Z. Smith, University of Chicago What Does the Data Say about the Study of Religion?: A Private Sector Perspective Linell E. Cady, Arizona State University What Does the Data Say about the Study of Religion?: A Public Sector Perspective Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A29 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Christine M. Bochen, Nazareth College of Rochester, Presiding Theme I: Introduction to World Religions as Practice: An Experiential Approach Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa Becoming Pilgrims: The Educational Pilgrimage as Active Learning Strategy in the Introductory World Religions Course Calvin Mercer, East Carolina University Experiential Learning in the World Religions Course Richard M. Carp, Northern Illinois University Experiential Religious Education in the Context of World Civilization General Education Theme II: Teaching as Autobiography: First Year Courses and Experiences Caryn Donna Riswold, Valparaiso University Oz, the NBA, and First-Born Syndrome: Challenges and Successes in the First Year of Teaching Ann Herpel, Union Theological Seminary, New York City Getting My Feet Wet: A First Hand Account of Teaching an Introductory Course in Religious Studies A30 Buddhism Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Robert E. Buswell, University of California, Los Angeles, Presiding Theme: Buddhism on the Silk Road Jason Neelis, Florida State University Long-Distance Transmission of Buddhism from South Asia to the Silk Routes: New Evidence from Rock Drawings and Inscriptions in Northern Pakistan Vadim N. Yagodin, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekkistan The Civilization of Ancient Chorasmia and Buddhism Joseph Walser, Tufts University Mahayana Textual Production on the Silk Route Mariko Namba Walter, University of New England Death, Burials, and the Afterlife in Buddhist Central Asia Peter Zieme, Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Special Traits of Uighur Buddhism Responding: Jan Nattier, Indiana University, Bloomington A31 Ethics Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Darryl Michael Trimiew, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Presiding Theme: Politics and Faith: Family, Community, Commonwealth Gloria H. Albrecht, University of Detroit Mercy The Emperor's New Clothes: Old "Ism's" in the New Marriage Movement Joseph S. Pettit, University of Chicago Hospitality and Housing: An Intersection of Theology and Social Crisis Erin E. Dufault-Hunter, University of Southern California Do Converts to Deeply Religious, Alternative Communities Promote or Destroy Social Capital? Elizabeth L. Hinson-Hasty, Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education Vida Dutton Scudder on Character and the Cooperative Commonwealth A32 History of Christianity Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University, Presiding Theme: Dressing and Undressing Christians: Clothing and Identity in Christian Belief and Practice Rebecca Krawiec, Canisius College, State University of New York, Buffalo Clothing as Monastic Identity in Late Antiquity: Examples from Shenoute's White Monastery Mary Meany, Siena College Habits and Orders: Clothing and Medieval Status Markers Catherine Tinsley Tuell, Claremont Graduate University "A Silly Poor Gospel": Quaker 'Plain Dress' in the Seventeenth Century Martha L. Finch, Southwest Missouri State University "As In a Mirror": Reflections of 'Savage' and 'Civil' Bodies in Early New England Responding: Margaret R. Miles, Graduate Theological Union A33 North American Religions Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Albert G. Miller, Oberlin College, Presiding Theme: Author Meets Critics: Grant Wacker's Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture Panelists: Randall Balmer, Barnard College, Columbia University Rudy V. Busto, Stanford University Ann Taves, Claremont School of Theology Responding: Grant Wacker, Duke University Business Meeting Peter W. Williams, Miami University, and Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College, Presiding A34 Philosophy of Religion Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Michael Raposa, Lehigh University, Presiding Theme: Does Morality Need Faith? James DiCenso, University of Toronto Autonomy and Heteronomy in Morality: Kant and Levinas Tirdad Derakhshani, University of Pennsylvania From Ethics to Faith: Kant and Levinas on the Ineluctable Question Sara McClintock, Carleton College Faith in Karma: The Justification of Moral Action in Śāntarakṣita and Kamalaṣīla Matthew C. Ally, Temple University Faith, Hope, and Normativity in Sartre's (unpublished) Morale et Histoire Responding: Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles A35 Religion in South Asia Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm John Cort, Denison University, Presiding Theme: The Language of Religious Difference: Alterity in South Asian Religions Aditya Behl, Princeton University An Ethnographer in Disguise: Comparing Self and Other in Mughal India Christopher Lee, Iowa State University "Go Tell the Hindu and His Gods": Images of Hindus and Hinduism in Muslim Urdu Poetry Robin Rinehart, Lafayette College The Dasam Granth in Sikh History Jeevan Singh Deol, Cambridge University "The Third Path": Eighteenth-Century Khalsa Sikh Discourses of Identity and Difference A. Whitney Sanford, Iowa State University When Dauji and Jakheiya Speak, People Listen: Legitimizing Narratives of Deity Manifestations in Sixteenth-Century Braj Devotion A36 Study of Islam Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso University, Presiding Theme: Producing the Sacred: Architecture and Rhetoric from Jerusalem to China Linda G. Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara The Khụtba and the Transmission of Culture in Medieval al-Andalus and the Maghreb Walid Saleh, Middlebury College The Transformation of Medieval Qur'an Exegesis Margaret A. Leeming, University of California, Santa Barbara The Structure of Sacrality in the Arabic Literary Imagination: Djughrafiya and Faḍā'il as Prosaic Maps of Medieval Baghdad and Jerusalem Yuan-Lin Tsai, Nanhua University The Origin and Development of the Chinese Muslim Madrasa in Ming-Qing Era A37 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Kathryn Tanner, University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: Constructing Doctrine: Feminist/Womanist Maps Karen Trimble Alliaume, Lewis University Re-Performing Imitatio Christi Karen Baker-Fletcher, Claremont School of Theology Jesus as Dust and Spirit: An Incarnational Theology Serene Jones, Yale University Redeeming "No Memory": Crucifixion and Traumatic Absence Catherine E. Keller, Drew University Something about Nothing: A Feminist Reading of Creation A38 Women and Religion Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Andrea Smith, University of California, Santa Cruz, Presiding Theme: The Right to Family Planning, Contraception, and Abortion in World and Indigenous Religions Panelists: Daniel C. Maguire, Marquette University Sadiyya Shaikh, Temple University Christine E. Gudorf, Florida International University Arvind Sharma, McGill University Laurie Zoloth, San Francisco State University Mary C. Churchill, University of Colorado, Boulder A39 Black Theology Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Linda E. Thomas, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: African American Literature in Black Theologies Beth Eddy, Princeton University Ellison's Blues: Tragicomic Transcendence in an Absurd and Hopeful World F. Douglas Powe, Emory University A Tragic-Liberation Model: Hurston's Perspective on Life and Systematic Evil Yolanda Pierce, University of Kentucky James Baldwin: Interpreter of Tongues Robin Hawley Gorsline, Brooklyn, NY Baldwin and Lorde as Theological Resources for the Celebration of Darkness Business Meeting Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding A40 Christian Systematic Theology Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sarah Coakley, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: The Doctrine of the Imago Dei Philip D. Kenneson, Milligan College Receptivity, Donation, and the Imagination: Toward a Trinitarian Account of the Imago Dei Jennifer Bader, Catholic University of America The Alpha and the Omega and Everything in Between: An Ecumenical Treatment of the Imago Dei Maurice Lee, Yale University Love's Reflection: Retrieving a Victorine Pneumatology of the Imago Dei Nonna Verna Harrison, Cambridge University Human Community as an Image of the Holy Trinity The business meeting of the Christian Systematic Theology Group will be held at 7:00 am Tuesday; please see Additional Meetings listings for location. A41 Church-State Studies Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Thomas Hughson, Marquette University, Presiding Theme: Religion and the Courts: Minorities and Majorities Sherryl L. Wright, Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver Did Majority Religion Rule the Bench? A Study of the Warren Court's Treatment of Minority Religions Clark Lombardi, Columbia University The Federal Courts and Religious Minorities: Rethinking the Mormon Polygamy Cases Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary's College of California New Religions and the Problem of "Legitimacy": How Seeking and Requiring Legal/Political Acceptance Undermines Religious Freedom in America Business Meeting Thomas Hughson, Marquette University, Presiding A42 Eastern Orthodox Studies Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm John H. Erickson, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Dostoevsky as a Religious Novelist P. Travis Kroeker, McMaster University Dostoevsky's Apocalyptic Poetics and Monastic Spirituality: Elder Zosima on Restorative Justice Joe Barnhart, University of North Texas The Quest for Fyodore Dostoevsky's Christ Wendy Wiseman, University of California, Santa Barbara Freedom and the Cosmos in the Novels of Fyodore Dostoevsky Business Meeting Robin Darling Young, Catholic University of America, Presiding A43 Japanese Religions Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Ruben L. F. Habito, Southern Methodist University, Presiding Theme: Sacred Space, Haunted Place James L. Ford, Wake Forest University Jōkei and the 'Place' of Devotion in Medieval Japanese Buddhism Ian Reader, Lancaster University Geography, Footsteps, Legends, and Symbols: The Construction of an Emotional Landscape in the Shikoku Pilgrimage Susan Blakeley Klein, University of California, Irvine The Historical Development of Premodern Japanese Ghosts Elizabeth Kenney, Kansai Gaidai University Hanako, the Toilet Ghost Responding: Elizabeth G. Harrison, University of Arizona A44 Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Eric J. Ziolkowski, Lafayette College, Presiding Theme: Setting the Self and Other in Context Stacey Ake, Philadelphia Center for Religion and Science The More Profound the Anxiety, the More Profound the Culture Vanessa P. Rumble, Boston College Love and Difference: The Christian Ideal in Kierkegaard's Works of Love Avron Kulak, York University Kierkegaard, Derrida, and the Context of Context(s) Helene Tallon Russell, Allegheny College Willing to Become Oneself Which Is Not One: Kierkegaard and Irigaray Responding: Stephen N. Dunning, University of Pennsylvania Mark I. Wallace, Swarthmore College A45 Person, Culture, and Religion Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Can We Use Evolutionary Psychology to Study Religion? Michael T. Bradley, Jr., Decatur, GA The Adapted Soul: Evolutionary Psychology and the Study of Religion David A. Hogue, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary A Stretch of the Imagination: Memory, Image, and the Healing Brain Gregory Love, Princeton Theological Seminary Male Violence, Sin, and Evolutionary Biology Holmes Rolston, III, Colorado State University Adapted Fitness and Religious 'Genius' The business meeting for the Person, Culture, and Religion Group will occur during their pre-session. Please see the Additional Meetings for time and location. A46 Religion and Ecology Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University, Presiding Theme: World Religions and Ecology: The Harvard Book Series and Beyond Panelists: David L. Haberman, Indiana University, Bloomington Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University Kenneth L. Kraft, Lehigh University Norman J. Girardot, Lehigh University Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University Rosemary R. Ruether, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary John A. Grim, Bucknell University Responding: Bron R. Taylor, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh A47 Religion and Ethics in Healthcare Group and Religion and Popular Culture Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Aline Kalbian, Florida State University, Presiding Theme: Cultural Responses to Illness and Death Heather D. Curtis, Harvard University "The Lord for the Body": Sickness, Health, and Divine Healing in Nineteenth-Century Protestantism Kathleen Garces-Foley, University of California, Santa Barbara Buddhism, Hospice, and the American Way of Dying Margaret R. McLean, Santa Clara University End of Life Issues Personally and Spiritually Explored (ELIPSE) – Lessons from a Latino Community Responding: Gary M. Laderman, Emory University A48 Ritual Studies Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Mario I. Aguilar, University of St. Andrews, Presiding Theme: Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, and Native American Revitalization David A. Shorter, University of California, Santa Cruz Ritual as Writing: Reflecting on Yoeme Indian Religious Action Jean Molesky-Poz, Graduate Theological Union Maya Rituals: "To Connect to the Center in Which We Trust" Michael Zogry, Duke University No Time Outs: Charting a Ritual History of the Cherokee Ball Game A49 Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Wesley Avram, Yale University, Presiding Theme: Virtual Immortality? Theological Perspectives on New Technologies Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara Techno-Science and the Mystical Lissa McCullough, Hanover College The New Question concerning Technology: From Heidegger to Baudrillard Responding: Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University Graham Ward, University of Manchester Business Meeting Cleo McNelly Kearns, Princeton University, Presiding A50 Modern Historical Consciousness and the Christian Churches Seminar Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Charles J. T. Talar, St. Mary's Seminary and University, Presiding Theme: Defining Historical Consciousness Panelists: Lawrence Barmann, Saint Louis University Marcus J. Borg, Oregon State University Michael J. Kerlin, La Salle University Harvey Hill, Berry College Historical Consciousness and the Briggs Trial Responding: Allen Davidson, Georgia Southern University Business Meeting Harvey Hill, Berry College, Presiding A51 Augustine and Augustinianisms Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm John Peter Kenney, Saint Michael's College, Presiding Theme: Grace and Freedom: The Career of the Pelagian Controversy Jason A. Mahn, Emory University Beyond Synergism: Luther's Alternative Compatibilism Michael R. Rackett, Duke University What's Wrong With Pelagianism? Augustine and Jerome on the Dangers of Pelagius and His Followers Paul Rigby, University of Ottawa The Role of God's "Inscrutable Judgments" in Augustine's Doctrine of Predestination Jared Witt, Yale University Economies of Exchange: Pelagianism and Reciprocity in Calvin's Theology Responding: Thomas F. Martin, Villanova University A52 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the EIS Advisory Panel Richard A. Rosengarten, University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: "If I Knew Then What I Know Now": Lessons from the First Year on the Job Panelists: Faith Kirkham Hawkins, Gustavus Adolphus College Thomas Pearson, Muhlenberg College Michael J. Brown, Emory University Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A53 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Racial & Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Karen Baker-Fletcher, Claremont School of Theology, Presiding Theme: Identity, Scholarship, and Teaching: Studying Religion Cross-Culturally and Ethnically Panelists: José I. Cabezón, Iliff School of Theology Laura E. Donaldson, Cornell University Chris Jocks, Dartmouth College Lawrence Mamiya, Vassar College Amina Wadud, Virginia Commonwealth University Responding: Diana L. Eck, Harvard University Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A54 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Deborah J. Haynes, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding Theme: Bakhtin: Arts, Literature, and Religion Crystal Downing, Messiah College Consummation or Consumption?: Bakhtin and the Ethics of Intertextuality Paul J. Contino, Valparaiso University Confession and Dialogical Selfhood in Bakhtin Susan M. Felch, Calvin College M. M. Bakhtin's Perspectival Realism Graham Pechey, University of Hertforshire Intercultural, Intercreatural: Bakhtin and the Uniqueness of 'Literary Seeing' A55 Buddhism Section and Japanese Religions Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Robert Rhodes, Otani University, Presiding Theme: Current Research on the Jishū J. Todd Brown, University of Arizona Flowers from the Sky: Auspicious Portents in Two Jishū Hagiographies James H. Foard, Arizona State University The Jishū Appropriation of Icons: The Case of the Burned-Cheek Amida S. A. Thornton, Arizona State University The Yugyō Shōnin, Izumi Shikibu, and the Rededication of the Seiganji in 1580 Diana E. Wright, Western Washington University Concerns Both Sacred and Mundane: The Jishū Nuns of Mantokuji Responding: Janet Goodwin, California State University, Stanislaus A56 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee University, Presiding Theme: Locating Sacrifice Robin Darling Young, Catholic University of America Christian Martyrs and the Heavenly Temple: The Reinterpretation of Civic Sacrifice in the Ancient Mediterranean World Kathryn Teague McClymond, Georgia State University Elements of Sacrifice: A Polytheistic Approach Thomas Wilson, Hamilton College Liturgics of Confucian Sacrifice Charles D. Orzech, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Metaphors of Sacrifice: Language and Ideology in the Interpretation of Buddhist 'Sacrifice' Responding: Barbara A. Holdrege, University of California, Santa Barbara A57 History of Christianity Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Craig D. Atwood, Salem College, Presiding Theme: Knowing Self, Knowing God: Identity and Epistemology in Medieval and Modern Christianity Jay Hammond, Quincy University The Spiritual Optics of the Mirror in Bonaventure's Itinerarium mentis in Deum: Constructing a Subjectivity of Desire Russell C. Kleckley, Newberry College Stealing Golden Vessels: Johannes Kepler on Wordly Knowledge and Christian Truth Constance Furey, University of Chicago Renewing the Mind: Changing Models of Scholarly Piety in Early Modern Catholicism Muriel Schmid, Princeton University From the Prison to the Penitentiary: The Understanding of Solitude as Penitence Quinton Hosford Dixie, Indiana University, Bloomington To Dwell Together in Unity: The National Baptist Convention and the Racialization of Christian Identity, 1895-1915 Amy Koehlinger, Yale University Religious Inmates? Total Institutions and American Sisters in the 1960s A58 North American Religions Section and Native Traditions in the Americas Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Frederick E. Detwiler, Adrian College, Presiding Theme: Disputed Discourses: Sustaining and Constructing Indigenous Identity Julianne Cordero, University of California, Santa Barbara The Reciprocal Homeland: Multi-Directional Constructions of Culture, Religion, and Healing among Natives and Non-Natives of California's South Coast Tisa Wenger, Princeton University Contesting Primitive Religion: Progressives and Traditionalists in the 1920s Pueblo Dance Controversy Maria Poviones-Bishop, Florida International University Life from the Water Mother: Archeological and Mythological Evidence for a Taino Creator Goddess Dennis Kelley, University of California, Santa Barbara "Our Ancestors Paddle with Us": A Response to the Authenticity Question in Contemporary Ritual Construction within Native American Religious Practice Responding: Michael McNally, Harvard University A59 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Claudia Schippert, University of Central Florida, Presiding Theme: Virtual Practices: De/Reterritorializing Identities and the Internet Deirdre King Hainsworth, Princeton Theological Seminary The "Digital Persona" and Human Agency: Considerations from Law and Religious Ethics Michael C. Mitchell, Boston University The Cyber Sutra: The Psychology of Connection and Isolation in the Digital Era Ann M. Burlein, Meredith College The Productive Power of Ambiguity: When the Body Becomes a Virtual Practice Responding: Randall G. Styers, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A60 Study of Islam Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Arthur F. Buehler, Louisiana State University, Presiding Theme: The Quest for Spiritual Authority in Islam Hugh Talat Halman, University of Arkansas Vesting Authority: How Initiations with Khidr and Uways Impact the Authority of the Murshid Scott A. Kugle, Swarthmore College Master Without a Master? Ahmad Zarrūq and Spiritual Authority in Early-Modern North Africa Laury Silvers-Alario, State University of New York, Stony Brook A Reassessment of Fritz Meier's Definition of the Teaching Relationship in Early Sufism Frederick S. Colby, Duke University Cloaked in Spiritual Authority: Sufis, Non-Sufis, and the Investiture of the Khirqa Robert Rozehnal, Duke University Like a Corpse in the Hands of a Washerman: The Adab of Master-Disciple Relations among the Chishti-Sabiri Sufis of Pakistan Responding: Qamar-ul Huda, Boston College A61 Women and Religion Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Rachel A. R. Bundang, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, Presiding Theme: A Witness for/from Life: Writing Feminist Theology as an Act of Resisting Violence Rita Nakashima Brock, Harvard University and Rebecca Parker, Starr King School for Ministry A Witness for/from Life: Writing Feminist Theology as an Act of Resisting Violence Responding: David R Blumenthal, Emory University Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University Traci C. West, Drew University Marie M. Fortune, Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence A62 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of Southern California, Presiding Theme: Asian American Women and Protestant Christianity Erika A. Muse, State University of New York, Albany Chinese Evangelical Women As 'New Creations': Ethnic Identity and the Old and New in the Ethnic Church Nami Kim, Harvard University Asian Pacific American Protestant Women: Histories and Profiles Russell Jeung, University of California, Berkeley Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Women as Ministers at Asian American Protestant Congregations Responding: Lara Medina, Claremont Graduate University Greer Anne Wenh-In Ng, University of Toronto Business Meeting Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of Southern California, and David Kyuman Kim, Harvard University, Presiding A63 Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Lori Brandt Hale, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: Bonhoeffer and the Theological Task Jeffrey W. Robbins, Syracuse University The Advance of a Theological Ontology: The Continuing Contribution of Bonhoeffer for Continental Philosophy of Religion Connie Lasher, Boston College, St. Joseph's College of Maine 'Fellowhip in Destiny': Christological Aesthetics and the 'Dialectics of Otherness' Responding: Barry A. Harvey, Baylor University A64 Church-State Studies Group and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe Consultation Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Andrii Krawchuk, St. Paul University, Presiding Theme: Exporting the First Amendment: Religious Liberty in Central and Eastern Europe Eileen V. Barker, London School of Economics "But Then Society Shall Make All Sorts of Laws...: "Legislative and Cultural Regulation of Religion in Central and Eastern Europe Olga Kazmina, Moscow State University Religion and Building of Civil Society in Post-Communist Russia Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University Confronting the Byzantine Legacy: Orthodoxy and Modern Democracy Katharina Von Kellenbach, St. Mary's College of Maryland The Church and the Nuremberg Trials Business Meeting J. Shawn Landres, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Leslie A. Muray, Curry College, Presiding A65 Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Mary Keller, University of Stirling, Presiding Theme: Religion and/as Construction I: Is Construction Itself a Construct? Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston Tracking Religion: Critical Studies, Cultural Studies, and the Study of Religion Karen de Vries, University of California, Santa Cruz Constructing the Mind-Brain: Cognition, Conversation, and Conversion in the Scientific Study of Religion Roland Boer, Monash University Marxism and Constructionism Steven Engler, Mount Royal College Social Constructionism vs. What? Responding: Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University A66 Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Donald L. Boisvert, Concordia University, Presiding Theme: Sins of the Flesh or Acts of Grace? John Blevins, Emory University Oedipus Wrecks: Psychodynamic Psychology, Pastoral Theology, and Ex-Gay Ministries Ronald E. Long, Hunter College Semantic Intercourse: The Interpenetration of 'Religion' and 'Gay' James E. Miller, Madison, WI The Necessary Evil David Sollis, King Alfred's College Queering Death: The Reconnection of Desire and Immortality in the Funeral Liturgies of Gay Christian Men in the UK with AIDS Responding: Jay E. Johnson, Richmond, CA Business Meeting Jay E. Johnson, Richmond, CA, and Donald L. Boisvert, Concordia University Presiding A67 Hinduism Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm John S. Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia University, Presiding Theme: Defamation/Anti/Defamation: Hindus in Dialogue with the Western Academy Panelists: Swami Tyagananda, Vedanta Society Varadaraja V. Raman, Rochester Institute of Technology E. F. Bryant, Rutgers University Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida Rajiv Malhotra, Infinity Foundation Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University Kala Acharya, Somaiya Vidya Vihar A68 Korean Religions Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Young Chan Ro, George Mason University, Presiding Theme: Korean Transformation of Buddhism or Buddhist Transformation of Korea? Panelists: Robert E. Buswell, University of California, Los Angeles Robert M. Gimello, Harvard University John R. McRae, Indiana University, Bloomington Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University Cuong Tu Nguyen, George Mason University A69 Mysticism Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Eugene Taylor, Harvard University, Saybrook Institute, Presiding Theme: Eros, Love, and Mysticism Kerry Skora, Hiram College Abhinavagupta's Erotic Mysticism: Experiencing Reality in/as Orgasmic Sexual Union Yudit K. Greenberg, Rollins College Love and Eros in Midrash Song of Songs Rabba Elizabeth Pullen, Drew University The Virgin Sophia and the Spiritual Bridegroom: Eros and Androgyny in the Mysticism of Georg Conrad Beissel Graham M. Schweig, Christopher Newport University Passionate Love as Selfless Devotion in the Caitanyaite Bhakti Tradition A70 New Religious Movements Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico, Presiding Theme: Metaphysical Religions: Christian Science and New Thought in American Culture Dell deChant and Dawn Hutchinson, University of South Florida The Problem of Contemporary Gnosticism: Encounters with a Suspect Term Margo Smith, University of South Florida Christian Science and Buddhism: Healing Modalities for the New Millennium? Holly Folk, Indiana University, Bloomington Problems of Leadership in Chiropractic History: A Study of the Palmer Family John K. Simmons, Western Illinois University Was Mary Baker Eddy an Apocalyptic Eschatologist or an Ethical Eschatologist? Business Meeting Mike Ashcraft, Truman State University, Presiding A71 Platonism and Neoplatonism Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jay Bregman, University of Maine, Orono, Presiding Theme: Neoplatonic Interpretations of the Platonic Dialogues Michael R. Cox, University of California, Santa Barbara Reading Neoplatonism as Platonism: An Examination of the Relationship between Platonism and Neoplatonism along Methodologiaca Lines Holger Zaborowski, Oxford University Ralph Cudworth's Platonism and the Continuity of Platonic Thought Kevin Corrigan, Emory University Plotinus' Interpretation of Plato's Middle Dialogues J. Noel Hubler, Lebanon Valley College Plotinus and the Myth of the Fall: An Example of Plotinus' Powers of Philosophical Synthesis Business Meeting Jay Bregman, University of Maine, Orono, and Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding A72 Religion and Science Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Ernest L. Simmons, Concordia College, Presiding Theme: Science and Models of the Divine: Neuroscience and Personhood Michael L. Spezio, University of Oregon Feeling the Other: Implications of a Neuroscience of Emotion for Religious Discourse Judith Kovach, Boston University Pondero Ergo Sum: The Body as the Ground of Religion, Science, and Self Nathaniel Barrett, Cambridge, MA Neuroscience and the Social Self Responding: Karl E. Peters, University of Hartford To obtain papers for both sessions, please send a written request plus reproduction and postage costs (US$15 for mailing in the US and Canada; US$20 for international mailing) to Ernest L. Simmons, Box 313, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN 56562. Please make checks or money orders payable to Concordia College. Requests must be mailed by November 1, 2001, to ensure that papers are delivered before the Annual Meeting. A73 Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Lois Lorentzen, University of San Francisco, Presiding Theme: Reconciliation, Memory, Forgiveness in Latin America: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Iain S. Maclean, James Madison University Truth and Reconciliation: Hope for the Nations or Only as Much as Is Possible? Mario I. Aguilar, University of St. Andrews The Mesa de Diálogo and the Fate of the Disappeared in Chile 1999-2000: National Forgiveness Without Political Truth? Michael Battle, Duke University Truth and Reconciliation between Chile and South Africa David Tombs, University of Surrey Memory, Reconciliation, and Redemption: The Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Guatemala Brett Greider, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Pan-Mayan Religious Resurgence and Reconciliation in Guatemala: Indigenous Cultural Memory and Recovery after the Truth Commissions Responding: Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Brown University A74 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm William L. Blizek, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Presiding Theme: Transformative Images in Contemporary Film Melissa Conroy, Syracuse University The Invisible Body of God in Hollow Man Alyda Faber, McGill University Representing Saintliness: Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark Hyo-Dong Lee, Vanderbilt University The Mythical Vision of a Disillusioned Marxist?: Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke in Dialogue with the 'Dialectic of Enlightenment' Lori C. Patton, Vanderbilt University Girls, Gods, and Monsters: Healing from the Margins in the Anime of Hayao Miyazaki James K. A. Smith, Loyola Marymount University The Camera as Sacrament: An Incarnational Film Theory in American Beauty A75 Roman Catholic Studies Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jeffrey Marlett, College of Saint Rose, Presiding Theme: Roman Catholicism and the Environment Stephen B. Scharper, University of Toronto Green Sisters John Hart, Carroll College Sacramental Universe, Sacramental Commons: Environmental Theology in a Bioregional Context Doug Burton-Christie, Loyola Marymount University The Wild and the Sacred: The Columbia River Watershed Letter and the Meaning of Community Business Meeting Phyllis Zagano, New York, NY, and Jeffrey Marlett, College of Saint Rose, Presiding A76 Schleiermacher Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Julia A. Lamm, Georgetown University, Presiding Theme: Contemporary Constructive Theology and the Theological Heritage of Schleiermacher Panelists: Richard R. Niebuhr, Harvard University Marjorie Suchocki, Claremont School of Theology Roger D. Haight, Western Theological Seminary Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Harvard University A77 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 5:00 pm-6:15 pm Edward R. Gray, American Academy of Religion Theme: Introduction to the AAR Panelists: Mark Lloyd Taylor, Seattle University Jorunn J. Buckley, Bowdoin College Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, Indiana University, Bloomington A78 AAR Donors Reception Saturday - 5:30 pm-6:45 pm Individuals whose generosity has allowed us to continue many of our special programs are invited to a reception hosted by the AAR Board of Directors to learn about some exciting new initiatives. Please see the AAR's Annual Fund page for more information. A79 Reception for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Saturday - 6:15 pm-7:00 pm The AAR's Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession invites interested persons to a reception celebrating the contributions of racial and ethnic minority scholars in the Academy. A80 Presidential Plenary Address and Awards Presentation Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida, Presiding Theme: Beyond the Founding Fratricidal Conflict: Scholarship of Religion and a Renewed Public Academy Rebecca S. Chopp, Yale University Prior to the Presidential Address, the following awards will be presented: Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion Award for Best First Book in the History of Religions Award for Excellence in Teaching Award for Best In-Depth News Reporting Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A81 Arts Series Film: Enemies of War Saturday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Sponsored by the Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group Anna Peterson, University of Florida, Presiding A82 History of Religions Jury Saturday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Alan F. Segal, Barnard College, Presiding A83 AAR Members Reception Saturday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Back by popular demand, AAR members are invited to join one another at the re-instated AAR Members Reception. This year the reception is complete with music and dancing. A84 Arts Series Film: 2001: A Space Odyssey Saturday - 8:30 pm-11:00 pm Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Tony S. L. Michael, University of Toronto, Presiding A85 Women's Caucus Reception Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm Sponsored by the Women's Caucus and AAR's Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Interested persons are invited to a reception honoring women's contributions in the Academy. A86 Student Member Reception Saturday - 10:00 pm-11:00 pm AAR and SBL student members are invited to drop by an open house hosted by the AAR and SBL executive staffs. A87 JAAR Editorial Board Sunday - 7:00 am-7:30 am Glenn E. Yocum, Whittier College, Presiding A88 AAR Annual Business Meeting and Continental Breakfast Sunday - 7:30 am-8:45 am Rebecca S. Chopp, Yale University, Presiding AAR members are encouraged to join the AAR's Board of Directors for the annual business meeting of the Academy. A light breakfast will be provided. A89 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am CANCELLED ~~Sponsored by the Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion~~ ~~Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College, Presiding~~ Theme: Law Enforcement, the Media, and Religious Groups in Crisis Situations: A Simulation Panelists: Michael Barkun, Syracuse University Mary Walsh, CBS News Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University, New Orleans CANCELLED A90 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sidney Brown, University of the South, Presiding Theme: Reading Texts, Paradigms, and Cultural Practices: New Pedagogical Strategies Larry Golemon, Graduate Theological Union Ethnography, Contextual Theology, and Postcolonial Teaching Practices Marilyn Gottschall, Whittier College Teaching Epistemic Diversity through Sacred Sound David Mellott, Emory University What Our Students Have to Teach Us: Pedagogical Reflections on Teaching an Introductory Course on the History of Christianity Eve L. Mullen, Universität Hamburg Buddhism and Western Pop Culture in the Classroom: Exposing Orientalism Andrew L. Pratt and Allen Gathman, Southeast Missouri State University Stacking the Deck to Teach Methodological Parallels in Science and Religion A91 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Brian M. Britt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Presiding Theme: True West Sheila Hassell Hughes, Dayton University Corn Mother Does the Pentecostal Conga: Joy Harjo's Forbidden Bible David H. Perkins, Vanderbilt University Cosmic Cowboy Christ: The Cinematic Christology of Poet/Singer Judee Sill Christy Cousino, Indiana University, Bloomington How the West Was Embodied: Expansionist Devotion and Marian Adventure Narratives Lynn Ross-Bryant, University of Colorado, Boulder Constructing the 'True West' James H. Thrall, Duke University "Mother Wants You": Frontiers of Desire in Shane Lynn S. Neal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Lure of the Western Landscape in Evangelical Romance Novels A92 Buddhism Section and Chinese Religions Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Robert Sharf, University of Michigan, Presiding Theme: Merit and Exchange in Chinese and Indian Buddhism Charles B. Jones, Catholic University of America The Paradox of Precepts in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism Reiko Ohnuma, Dartmouth College Gifts, Merit, and Reciprocity in Indian Buddhism Michael Walsh, Vassar College The Possibilities of Merit in Thirteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Monastic Arenas Yu Xue, University of Iowa Merit Making and Merit Transfer in Chinese Buddhism Responding: Jamie Hubbard, Smith College A93 Ethics Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Paul Custodio Bube, Kansas Wesleyan University, Presiding Theme: New Uses of Classical Sources Bonna Devora Haberman, Brandeis University Unmasking the Book of Esther: Toward the Freedom of Prostituted Slaves Darby Kathleen Ray, Millsaps College Christic Imagination: Classical Warrants for an Ethic of Resistance and Ingenuity Daniel M. Bell, Jr., Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary Sacrifice and Suffering: Beyond Justice, Human Rights, and Capitalism Andrew Flescher, California State University, Chico Following the Suffering Saint: Revisiting the Exhortations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dorothy Day A94 History of Christianity Section and Religion and Popular Culture Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College, Presiding Theme: Disciplined Souls, Fit Bodies: Christian Gospels of the Body and the American Production of Masculine Citizens R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University Manly Starvation: Fasting, Fitness, and Masculinity During the Progressive Era Kathryn A. Johnson, Barnard College "St. Anthony's Crushes St. Joseph's": Catholic Saints in Action Heather Hendershot, Queens College Chaste Virility: Controlling the Bodies of Evangelical Boys Responding: J. Terry Todd, Drew University A95 North American Religions Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Briane K. Turley, West Virginia University, Presiding Theme: Mapping Religion in North America John Corrigan, Arizona State University Mapping French and Spanish Colonial Missions in North America Kevin Mickey, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis The North American Religion Atlas Benjamin C. Ray, University of Virginia Mapping the Salem Witch Trials Responding: Joel W. Martin, University of California, Riverside A96 Philosophy of Religion Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Thomas P. Kasulis, Ohio State University, Presiding Theme: The Anthropic Cosmological Principle: Life and the Cosmos Panelists: Holmes Rolston, III, Colorado State University Gerald James Larson, Indiana University, Bloomington Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University Sherrilyn Roush, Rice University Nancey Murphy, Fuller Theological Seminary A97 Religion and the Social Sciences Section and Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Marcia Y. Riggs, Columbia Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: On Cheryl Townsend Gilkes' If It Wasn't for the Women: Black Women's Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community Daphne C. Wiggins, Duke University Ingenuity or More of the Same? Gender Roles and Rhetoric in African American Congregations Katie Geneva Cannon, Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education No Room for Neutrality: A Womanist Analysis of Ethics in Sociology Responding: Lawrence Mamiya, Vassar College Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College A98 Religion in South Asia Section and Hinduism Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sarah Caldwell, California State University, Chico, Presiding Theme: Embracing Orientalism: South Asian Spirituality in Global Context Yvette Claire Rosser, University of Texas, Austin Un-deconstructing the Mother of Fuzzy Centers: The Limits of Postmodernism in Understanding Indic Traditions Stuart R. Sarbacker, Loyola University, Chicago Finding a Middle Ground: Religion, Culture, and Context Hugh B. Urban, Ohio State University Tantra, American Style: Neo-Orientalism, Globalism, and the Western Appropriation of Tantra Roxanne Poormon Gupta, Albright College Embracing Orientalism and Exposing the Goddess: Devipuram and the De-Esotericization of the Erotic East Responding: J. J. Clarke, Kingston University A99 Study of Islam Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Zayn Kassam, Pomona College, Presiding Theme: Signifying Women: Representation, Dress, and Islamic Law Kecia Ali, Duke University Women, Gender, and Islamic Law: Teaching about Classical Doctrine, Court Practice, and Contemporary Legal Reform Hollie Kopp, Colorado State University Dress and Diversity: Muslim Women's Dress Choice in an Immigrant Context Mehnaz Afridi, National University Perceptions of Muslim Women: Stereotypes, Myths, and the Imagination Lynda Clarke, Concordia University Recent Debates over Child Custody in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Struggle for Women's Rights Business Meeting Zayn Kassam, Pomona College and Jonathan E. Brockopp, Bard College, Presiding A100 Study of Judaism Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Martin Kavka, Florida State University, Presiding Theme: Re-Structuring Logic in Jewish Thought Daniel Katz, Judiska Församlingen Aural Histories of the Holocaust: Jewish Identity in Contemporary Classical Music Leah Hochman, University of Florida Judaism and the Rise of the New Aesthetic Aubrey L. Glazer, University of Toronto Towards a Poetics of the Holy in Judaism Susan E. Shapiro, Columbia University Reading for Gender in (Jewish) Philosophy A101 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Paul F. Lakeland, Fairfield University, Presiding Theme: Theologies of Tradition Panelists: Roger D. Haight, Western Theological Seminary Kathryn Tanner, University of Chicago Orlando O. Espin, University of San Diego Responding: John E. Thiel, Fairfield University Terrence W. Tilley, University of Dayton A102 Women and Religion Section and Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jane Caputi, Florida Atlantic University, Presiding Theme: The Challenge of Marcella Althaus-Reid's Indecent Theology Panelists: Lisa Isherwood, College of St. Mark and St. John Robert E. Goss, Webster University Emilie M. Townes, Union Theological Seminary, New York City Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School Responding: Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid, University of Edinburgh A103 Confucian Traditions Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am John H. Berthrong, Boston University, Presiding Theme: Boston Confucianism Zhonghu Yan, University of Toronto Herbert Fingareete's Representation of the Confucian Tradition and What It Means for Boston Confucianism Mark W. Graham, Indiana University, Bloomington Twenty-First-Century New Confucianism in North America: A Movement or Moment? Mark Allen Berkson, Hamline University Confucian Texts in Pedagogical Contexts Business Meeting John H. Berthrong, Boston University and Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Presiding A104 Eastern Orthodox Studies Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Brian E. Daley, University of Notre Dame, Presiding Theme: St. Cyril of Alexandria: God and Human Suffering J. Warren Smith, Yale University "Suffering Impassibly": Christ's Passion and Divine Impassibility in Cyril of Alexandria Pavel L. Gavrilyuk, Southern Methodist University Theopatheia: Nestorius' Main Charge against Cyril of Alexandria Nonna Verna Harrison, Cambridge University Cyril of Alexandria on the Curse of Eve A105 Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sarah Iles Johnston, Ohio State University, Presiding Theme: The Discourse of Idolatry I Froma Zeitlin, Princeton University Seeing the Gods: Idols, Images, and Representations of the Divine Responding: Jan N. Bremmer, Ryksuniversiteit, Groningen David Frankfurter, University of New Hampshire Annabel Wharton, Duke University A106 Native Traditions in the Americas Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding Theme: Panel Review of the Significance of Vine Deloria, Jr.'s Work for the Study of Native American Religious Issues Panelists: Sammy Toineeta, National Council of Churches Jace Weaver, Yale University Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara Julian Kunnie, University of Arizona Richard Grounds, University of Tulsa Responding: Vine Deloria, Jr., University of Colorado, Boulder A107 Nineteenth-Century Theology Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Dawn A. De Vries, Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education, Presiding Theme: The Reception of Greek Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought J. Noel Hubler, Lebanon Valley College A Tale of Two Plotini: Hegel's Reading and Use of Plotinus Craig Q. Hinkson, Liberty University Kierkegaard, Socrates, and the Maieutic Art R. D. Hedley, Cambridge University The Winged Chariot: Imagination and the Vision of God Lori Pearson, Harvard University The Rhetorical Function of the Category of Stoicism in Troeltsch's Soziallehren Papers will be introduced and discussed, not read. Printed papers for both sessions of the Nineteenth-Century Theology Group are available in advance for $20 from Joseph W. Pickle, Jr., Religion Department, Colorado College, 14 E. Cache La Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80907. Auditors are welcome. The business meeting of the Nineteenth-Century Theology Group will be held at 7:00 am Sunday, prior to A107 in the same room. A108 Religion and Ethics in Healthcare Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Suzanne Holland, University of Puget Sound, Presiding Theme: Genetic Narratives: Privacy, Privilege, and Cultural Identity Dena S. Davis, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law On Beyond Stigma: Genetic Research, Ethnic Groups, and Communal Narratives Hilda R. Davis, Vanderbilt University Genetics and African-American Women: Choice for Hope or Despair Deirdre King Hainsworth, Princeton Theological Seminary The Bounds of Privilege: Health Care Practice Norms and the Problem of Privacy Laurie Zoloth, San Francisco State University "We Have Found the Book of Life": The Sacred Text of DNA, Ethics, and NIH Education Films Business Meeting Charlene A. Galarneau, Tufts University and Suzanne Holland, University of Puget Sound, Presiding A109 Ritual Studies Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Madeline Duntley, College of Wooster, Presiding Theme: Dismantling the Rites of Passage Paradigm Panelists: Ronald L. Grimes, Wilfrid Laurier University Stephen Prothero, Boston University Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State University Business Meeting Mario I. Aguilar, University of St. Andrews and Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State University, Presiding A110 Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Walter Lowe, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Ethics and Recognition: Hegel, Levinas, and the Problem of Symmetry, A Discussion with Robert Gibbs ("Why Ethics?") and Robert R. Williams ("Ethics of Recognition") Panelists: Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto Robert R. Williams, University of Illinois, Chicago A111 Religion and Disability Studies Consultation Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Maureen Connolly, Brock University, Presiding Theme: Why the Curiously Troubled Relationship between Religion and Disability? Rebecca M. Raphael, Southwest Texas State University And the Deaf Shall Hear: Religious Responses to Cochlear Implantation Virginia Bemis, Ashland University Christ in the Coat Closet: Disability and Spirituality in Reynolds Price Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver The Withered Hand of God: Theology and the Experience of Disability Business Meeting Tom Craig, Brock University, Presiding A112 Religions, Medicines, and Healing Consultation Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Linda L. Barnes, Boston University, Presiding Theme: African Diaspora Healing Traditions in the Americas Will Coleman, Columbia Theological Seminary African/American "Root Work" as a Strategy for Psychological Health and Wholenes Rosemary D. Gooden, DePaul University Send for Mrs. Mix and Be Cured: The Life and Healing Ministry of Sarah Mix, 1832-1884 Stephanie Y. Mitchem, University of Detroit, Mercy "Jesus Is My Doctor": Healing and Religion in African American Women's Live Patrick A. Polk; Donald J. Cosentino; and Michael Owen Jones, University of California, Los Angeles Invisible Hospitals: Botanicas in Los Angeles Responding: Jualynne E. Dodson, University of Colorado, Boulder Business Meeting Linda L. Barnes, Boston University, Presiding A113 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Sponsored by the Program Committee Rebecca S. Chopp, Yale University, Presiding Theme: Crossing Boundaries and Creating Connections: Religion and the Research University Panelists: George Rupp, Columbia University Leo J. O'Donovan, Georgetown University A114 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Arthur Sutherland, Loyola College in Maryland, Presiding Theme: From Classroom to Community: Social Justice and Service Learning Carol Harris-Shapiro, Temple University Service Learning and Religious Studies: An Awkward Fit Christopher Johnson, Gustavus Adolphus College Teaching and Learning for Life: Service Learning, Vocation, and Social Justice David T. Stewart, University of California, Berkeley "Seeing - Judging - Acting": The Bible as a Text for Critical Reflection in Community Based Learning Charles R. Strain, DePaul University Building a Ladder of Social Engagement: Service Learning, Student Development and the Transformation of Institutional Practice Kenneth B. Homan, Quincy University Real-Life Monopoly, Pedagogy, and Social Justice Business Meeting Christine M. Bochen, Nazareth College of Rochester and Barbara A. B. Patterson, Emory University, Presiding A115 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Jeffrey D. Carter, Castle Rock Institute, Presiding Theme: Comparison in the History of Religions: Reflections and Critiques Panelists: Pia Altieri, Gettysburg College Darlene M. Juschka, University of Regina Luther H. Martin, University of Vermont Hugh B. Urban, Ohio State University Joanne Punzo Waghorne, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Jeppe S. Jensen, University of Aarhus Responding: Jonathan Z. Smith, University of Chicago Business Meeting Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College and Kay A. Read, DePaul University, Presiding A116 North American Religions Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Crossing a Continental Divide: Accounting for Religion in the American West Panelists: Patricia Limerick, University of Colorado, Boulder Jan Shipps, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Laurie Maffly-Kipp, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ferenc Morton Szasz, University of New Mexico A117 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Douglas A. Hicks, University of Richmond, Presiding Theme: Religion, Civil Society, and Social Capital Rebecca Allahyari, School of American Research "For Christ and for Liberty": Homeschooling for Virtue Jennifer Harvey, Union Theological Seminary, New York City White Lynchers and Blackfaced Minstrels: Racial Domination and Obsession in the Formation of White Identity Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University Expanding Public Policy Discourse: The Role of Civil Society in Transforming Economic Globalization Paul C. Johnson, University of Missouri, Columbia The Indigenized Migrations of "Time/Space Compression": The Garifuna of Honduras and the Bronx Responding: Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Seattle University A118 Religion in South Asia Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University, Presiding Theme: Masquerade, Shape-Shifting, and Metamorphosis in Indian Traditions Arti Dhand, University of Toronto Tales of Metamorphosis in the Mahābhārata: Masculine Identity in Crisis Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Emory University Guises, Turmeric, and Recognition in the Gangamma Tradition of Tirupati Vijaya Nagarajan, University of San Francisco Yantras and Women's Rituals: Art as a Locus of Transformed Powers Lise F. Vail, Montclair State University Wild and Innocent Faces: Ascetic Masquerade in the Samnyasa Upanishads Tamar C. Reich, Tel-Aviv University Divine Masquerades: Kṛsṇa's Ambivalent Epiphany to Uttaṅka in the Mahābhārata Responding: Aditya Adarkar, University of Chicago A119 Study of Judaism Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Barbara E. Galli, McGill University, Presiding Theme: Mysticism Pinchas Giller, University of Judaism Isolating the Meditative Element in Lurianic Prayer Michael D. Swartz, Ohio State University A Scribal Aesthetic: Visual Elements in Jewish Amulets and Related Genres Shaul Magid, Jewish Theological Seminary Translating into Tradition: Reflections on the Recent Hebrew Writings of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Business Meeting Barbara E. Galli, McGill University and Randi Rashkover, York College of Pennsylvania, Presiding A120 Women and Religion Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University, Presiding Theme: Embodied Theologies: Responding to Eating Disorders, Disfigurement, Illness, and Rape Michelle M. Lelwica, Saint Mary's College of California Leg-Lifts, Calories, and Other Spiritual Matters: Third Wave Feminism and an American Religion of the Body Terri Munroe, Pacifica Graduate Institute The Mercurial Texture of Beauty: Women Living with Disfigurement Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver Searching for the Sacred in Illness: Feminist Theology and the Embodiment of God Kristen Leslie, Yale University and Marit Trelstad, Pacific Lutheran University After Rape: Pastoral Counseling and Theological Reconstructions of Women's Agency Responding: Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary, New York City A121 African Religions Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Kathleen O'Brien Wicker, Scripps College, Presiding Theme: New Religious Movements in Africa Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton, University of Virginia Millennial Islam in Western Kenya: Indigenous Movement or Colonial Chimera? Anthony A. Lee, Cypress College The Bahâí Faith in West Africa Kofi A. Opoku, Lafayette College The Musama Disco Christo Church and the Indigenization of Christianity in Ghana Emmanuel K. Twesigye, Ohio Wesleyan University The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God Business Meeting Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University and Kathleen O'Brien Wicker, Scripps College, Presiding A122 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group and Indigenous Religious Traditions Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Julian Kunnie, University of Arizona, Presiding Theme: Religion, Aging, and Eldership in North America Dianne Stewart, Emory University Eldership in Trinidad's Yoruba/Orisha and Spiritual Baptist Traditions Peter Yuichi Clark, Emory University Dynamics of Hoping in Aging Second Generation Japanese Americans Michael D. McNally, Harvard University Elders Making Tradition: Elders, Authority, and Ojibwe Culture in Motion Responding: Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara A123 Black Theology Group and Christian Systematic Theology Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Presiding Theme: Apocalyptic and Eschatology in Dialogue with Black Theological Traditions Michael Battle, Duke University Balanced Destiny: An African Christian Eschatology Telford Work, Duke University Songs of Zion: Eschaton and Blues in African-American Faith Kurt Anders Richardson, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Beyond Racial Exclusivism in Primitivist American Eschatologies Responding: M. Shawn Copeland, Marquette University The business meeting of the Christian Systematic Theology Group will be held at 7:00 am Tuesday, please see Additional Meetings listings for location. A124 Chinese Religions Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Norman J. Girardot, Lehigh University, Presiding Theme: The Dao of the Tao of the West: A Critical Appraisal of J. J. Clarke's The Tao of the West: Western Transformations of Taoist Thought Panelists: Russell Kirkland, University of Georgia Elijah Siegler, University of California, Santa Barbara Jonathan Herman, Georgia State University James Miller, Queen's University, Kingston Louis Komjathy, Boston University Julia M. Hardy, Muhlenberg College Jeffrey Dippmann, Central Washington University Responding: J. J. Clarke, Kingston University Business Meeting Terry Kleeman, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding A125 Christian Spirituality Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Steven L. Chase, Dominican Center at Marywood, Presiding Theme: Christian Spirituality and Ecological Responsibility Connie Lasher, Boston College, St. Joseph's College of Maine Ressourcement: Theological Aesthetics as Ecological Identity Nancy Joyce Hudson, Yale University Divine Immanence: Nicholas of Cusa's Mystical Theology and the Retrieval of a 'New' Model of God Peter Ellard, Siena College The World Soul: The Spirituality of the School of Chartres and Our Ecological Crisis Belden C. Lane, Saint Louis University Tasting the Goodness of the World: Jonathan Edwards, the "Sensus Suavitatis," and the Splendor of God A126 Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University, Presiding Theme: Power and Method Panelists: Anne C. Klein, Rice University Elizabeth Beall, Drew University Clare Fischer, Graduate Theological Union Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke University A127 Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Lissa McCullough, Hanover College, Presiding Theme: The Challenge of The Moment: Kierkegaard on Faith and Religion Brian C. Barlow, Brenau University Mutual Correctives: Attack and Reconciliation in the Late Søren Kierkegaard and Karl Barth Donald W. Dayton and Christian T. Collins Winn, Drew University Kierkegaard and the Subversion of Christendom Wanda Warren Berry, Colgate University The Faiths of Others and the Works of Love: Toward a Kierkegaardian Religious Pluralism Responding: Lee C. Barrett, Lancaster Theological Seminary Business Meeting Sylvia Walsh, Stetson University, Presiding A128 Reformed Theology and History Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm R. Ward Holder, St. Anselm College, Presiding Theme: Reformed and Roman Catholic Responses to Dominus Iesus Panelists: Michael A. Fahey, Marquette University Anna Case-Winters, McCormick Theological Seminary S. Mark Heim, Andover Newton Theological School James F. Thomas, Princeton Theological Seminary Business Meeting Kathryn Greene-McCreight, Smith College, Presiding A129 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group and Religion, Culture, and Communication Consultation Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Jolyon Mitchell, Edinburgh University, Presiding Theme: Television as Religion and Religion as Television Panelists: Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder Linda A. Mercadante, Methodist Theological School in Ohio Rubina Ramji, University of Ottawa Sarah L. Schwarz, University of Pennsylvania James H. Thrall, Duke University A130 Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Natalie Gummer, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Medicine and Buddhism in Indo-Tibetan Tradition Stephen Jenkins, Humboldt State University Continuity and Contrast in Indian Buddhist Medical Metaphor and Practice Frances M. Garrett, University of Virginia Becoming Human in Early Tibetan Scholasticism: Tibetan Embryology and the Intertwining of Medical and Religious Rhetoric Janet Gyatso, Amherst College Ideology vs. Empiricism in the Service of Gender Distinction: A Debate in Tibetan Medicine Kurtis Schaeffer, Harvard University Textual Scholarship and Medical Learning in Tibet Responding Susanne Mrozik, Harvard University A131 Wesleyan Studies Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Sondra Matthaei, Saint Paul School of Theology, Presiding Theme: Postmodernism and the Self: Wesleyan Perspectives D. Lyle Dabney, Marquette University In Anticipation of Our Self: Toward a Contemporary Wesleyan Understanding of the Self Jeff Rickman, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Wesleyan Ethics in a Postmodern Era Dean G. Blevins, Trevecca Nazarene University "We" Are the Church: A Wesleyan View of the Liturgical Construction of the Self Business Meeting Pamela Couture, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Presiding A132 Practice of Christianity in Roman Africa Seminar Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm William Tabbernee, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Localizing the Holy through Pious Practices Susan T. Stevens, Randolph-Macon Woman's College The Architecture of Regional Pilgrimage: The Case of Bir Fthoua (Carthage) Robin M. Jensen, Andover Newton Theological School Pilgrimage and Baptism Ad Sanctos in Roman Africa Thomas F. Martin, Villanova University "Nec ascensiones pedibus corporalibus quaeramus" (en.ps. 119.1) - Relocating Practice: Augustine on Pilgrimages of the Heart Andrew B. McGowan, Episcopal Divinity School Tertullian on Fasting Maureen A. Tilley, University of Dayton Possession of Space: The Body as Locus of Demonic Activity in North African Christianity J. Patout Burns, Vanderbilt University The Practice of Almsgiving Business Meeting William Tabbernee, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding Copies of the papers to be discussed will be accessible through http://divinity.library.vanderbilt.edu/burns/chroma. This session is the final meeting of this seminar on the AAR program. A133 Studies in Yogācāra Buddhism Seminar Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Joe Wilson, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Presiding Theme: Yogācāra Buddhism in East Asia Dan Lusthaus, University of Missouri, Columbia Kuiji's Invention of a Dharmapāla Lineage Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University Weonhyo's Problem with the Two Hindrances Zhihua Yao, Boston University A Huayan Reception of Self-Cognition Jiang Wu, Harvard University The Revival of Yogācāra Studies in Seventeenth-Century China and the Use of Buddhist Syllogism in Anti-Christian Polemic Business Meeting Dan Lusthaus, University of Missouri, Columbia and Joe Wilson, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Presiding Discussion of papers pre-circulated among seminar members. Papers and other communications are available at the seminar's Web site: http://www.uncwil.edu/p&r/yogacara/eastasia. A134 Tokugawa Religion Seminar Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Paul B. Watt, DePauw University, Presiding Theme: Playing at Buddhism: Double Sixes on the Road to Paradise Elizabeth G. Harrison, University of Arizona and Dennis E. Lishka, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Playing at Buddhism: Double Sixes on the Road to Paradise Business Meeting Dennis E. Lishka, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Presiding This session is the final meeting of this seminar on the AAR program. A135 NEW PROGRAM UNIT Anthropology of Religion Consultation Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, Presiding Theme: Dress and Adornment: Marking Identity and Building Religious Worlds Anne Merideth, University of Rochester "She Walks in Poorer Garb": Fashioning Christian Identity in Tertullian's On the Apparel of Women Edward E. Curtis, Trinity University Marking the Black Body in Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam June McDaniel, College of Charleston Binding Heaven and Earth: The Sacred Thread in the Hindu Upanayana Ritual and the Jewish Tallit Jackie Feldman, Bar Ilan University, Jordan Valley Academic College Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag: Israeli Youth Voyages' (Re)claiming of Holocaust Poland Responding: Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University, Indiana University, Bloomington Business Meeting Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto and June McDaniel, College of Charleston, Presiding A136 NEW PROGRAM UNIT History, Method, and Theory in the Study of Religion Consultation Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Robert A. Segal, Lancaster University, Presiding Theme: "Orientalism" and "Religion" as Categories in the Study of Religion Morny Joy, University of Calgary Luce Irigaray and Orientalism Michel Gardaz, University of Ottawa Fashion from the East: The Emergence of French Orientalism Gregory Price Grieve, University of Chicago Dialexis: Or I Was Colored into the Landscape C. Neal Keye, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Ambivalence of Demarcation: Institution and Interpretation in the Study of Religion Business Meeting Gregory D. Alles, Western Maryland College, Presiding A137 Planning for Toronto Sunday - 2:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Program Committee Shannon Planck, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Please join the Annual Meeting Program Director and members of the Program Committee for a conversation about the 2002 Annual Meeting in Toronto. A138 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sponsored by the Committee on International Connections Manabu Watanabe, Nanzan University, Presiding Theme: Religion and Society after the Aum Affair Panelists: Mark R. Mullins, Meiji Gakuin University Yoshihide Sakurai, Hokkaido University Robert Kisala, Nanzan University Responding: Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University, New Orleans Irving Hexham, University of Calgary A139 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sponsored by the New Technologies Task Force David Suiter, Regis College, Presiding Theme: Digital Culture: Critical Implications of Technology for Religious Studies Teaching and Research Carl Raschke, University of Denver Postmodern/Digital Education: What Is the Theory Underlying Digital Pedagogy? Anne Foerst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Digital Embodiment: Is Electronic Data an Extension of the Mind//Body? Harold W. Anderson, Iliff School of Theology Digital Ontology as a Critical Perspective for Online Education Alfred Benney, Fairfield University Redressing Digital Culture through Digital Imaging Brenda E. Brasher, Mount Union College Online Religion as Digital Culture A140 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Jennifer L. Geddes, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: Lynda Sexson's Ordinarily Sacred Panelists: Jennifer Rycenga, San José State University Mark Ledbetter, Culloden, GA Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia David L. Miller, Syracuse University Responding: Lynda Sexson, Montana State University A141 Buddhism Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Robert Thurman, Columbia University, Presiding Theme: Issues of Identity and Alterity in Buddhist Traditions David Gray, Princeton University Eating the Heart of the Brahmin: Representations of Alterity and the Formation of Identity in Tantric Buddhist Discourse John C. Maraldo, University of North Florida Alterity and Non-duality in the Oxherding Pictures of Chan/Zen Ananda Abeysekara, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Contingent Conjunctures in the Postcolonial Study of Buddhism, Alterity, and Difference Wendy Cadge, Princeton University American Buddhists? The Religious Identities of Theravada Buddhist Practitioners in the United States C. John Powers, Australian National University Fighting with History: The Ideological Battle between the Tibetan Exile Government and the Peoples' Republic of China Responding: Joseph Walser, Tufts University A142 Ethics Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Gloria H. Albrecht, University of Detroit Mercy, Presiding Theme: Transforming Global Capitalism: Religious and Ethical Strategies Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University Transforming Globalization through Local Accountability: How Community Supported Agriculture Reveals an Alternative Ethical Paradigm Hans D. Van Hoogstraten, University of Nijunegen Deep Economy: A Fruitful Concept in Theological Social Ethics Shelini Harris, Emory University Can Religious and Ethical Strategies Transform Global Capitalism Without First Being Transformed by the Voices of the Poor, Especially in the Third World? Ivan Petrella, Harvard University Liberation Theology, Historical Projects, and Global Capitalism: From Critique to Construction A143 History of Christianity Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Anne Merideth, University of Rochester, Presiding Theme: Ritual and Rhetoric in Late Antiquity Blake Leyerle, University of Notre Dame Saints, Monks, and Children Catherine M. Chin, Duke University On the Uses of Bad Children: Education, Misbehavior, and Christianization in the Later Roman Empire Dayna Kalleres, Brown University The Catechetical Homilies of Cyril of Jerusalem: Baptismal Instruction Crafted in the Era of Trinitarian Controversy Ayse Tuzlak, Syracuse University Prayer in the Dark (Ages): Imagining the Night Hours in Early Christianity Todd E. Johnson, Loyola University, Chicago From North African Refrigerium to Masses for the Dead A144 North American Religions Section and Study of Islam Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Gisela Webb, Seton Hall University, Presiding Theme: Islamic Mysticism in North America Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University The Bridge of Faith: Ethics in Isma'ili Spirituality Alan Godlas, University of Georgia Sufi Orders on the World Wide Web: Interconnected or Isolationist? Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University, Chicago Literary Productions of American Sufi Movements David Damrel, Arizona State University Apocalyptic Themes in New World Islamic Mysticism Responding: Thomas A. Tweed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Please join us for iftar immediately following this session. A145 Philosophy of Religion Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Amy M. Hollywood, Dartmouth College, Presiding Theme: Gender, Deconstruction, and the Divine: Feminist Approaches to Philosophy of Religion Panelists: Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College Sarah Coakley, Harvard University Victor Anderson, Vanderbilt University Responding: Pamela Sue Anderson, University of Sunderland Grace M. Jantzen, University of Manchester Ellen T. Armour, Rhodes College A146 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Eugene James McBride, Fordham University, Presiding Theme: Concordat, the Churches, and Nazi Germany Richard L. Rubenstein, University of Bridgeport Political Legitimacy, the ReichsKonkordat, and Its Tragic Consequences Constance L. Benson, City University of New York Protestantism and the Third Reich: The Case of Nazi Theologian Emanuel Hirsch Eloise Rosenblatt, Lincoln Law School of Sacramento Concordat Thinking in the U.S. Church and Its Effect on Employment Policies Responding: David P. Gushee, Union University Business Meeting Elizabeth M. Bounds, Emory University and Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding A147 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Mark I. Wallace, Swarthmore College, Presiding Theme: Derrida and Emancipation Eric Boynton, Rice University Derrida, Undecidability, and Religious Reflection Richard T. Quinn, Vanderbilt University (Trans)figurations: Derrida, Performativity, and Emancipatory Openness to the Other James K. A. Smith, Loyola Marymount University Pure Derrida? Deconstruction and the Possibility of Emancipatory Critique Mark Manolopoulos, Monash University Derrida's Gift to Ecotheology A148 Afro-American Religious History Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Merrill M. Hawkins, Carson-Newman College, Presiding Theme: Race, Religion, and the Continuing American Dilemma: The Scholarship of C. Eric Lincoln Mary R. Sawyer, Iowa State University C. Eric Lincoln and the Prophetic Voice of the Black Church J. Deotis Roberts, Duke University The American Dilemma Revisited: The Legacy of C. Eric Lincoln Ralph Watkins, Augusta State University Looking Blackward: C. Eric Lincoln, Black Nationalism, Black Identity, and Black Religiosity Business Meeting Daphne C. Wiggins, Duke University, Presiding A149 Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Daniel R. Gold, Cornell University, Presiding Theme: Guru and Tzaddik: The Teacher in Bhakti and Ḥasidic Traditions Suzanne Stillman, University of California, Santa Barbara Revisioning the Guru: From Vedic Poet-Seer to Bhakti Poet-Saint Graham M. Schweig, Christopher Newport University Grace of God in the Flesh: The Guru in the Caitanyite Vaiṣṇava Tradition Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Theorizing the Tzaddik in Ḥasidic Traditions: Reflections from Rabbi Naḥman of Braslav Gabriel Levy, University of California, Santa Barbara The Tzaddik: A Comparative Approach to Innovation and Genius Responding: Yudit K. Greenberg, Rollins College A150 Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Elizabeth A. Say, California State University, Northridge, Presiding Theme: To Be of Use: The Role of Religious Scholars in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Activism Panelists: Ghazala Anwar, University of Cantebury Mari E. Castellanos, Coral Gables Congregational Church Emily Erwin Culpepper, University of Redlands Carter Heyward, Episcopal Divinity School Mary E. Hunt, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual Responding: Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College A151 Men's Studies in Religion Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Mark J. Justad, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: The Policing of Women in Male Scriptures John C. Raines, Temple University Polution and Danger in Cross-Cultural Perspective Daniel C. Maguire, Marquette University Contraception and Control in Cross-Cultural Perspective Farid Esack, Auburn Theological Seminary Islam and the Construction of Male Desire Marvin M. Ellison, Bangor Theological Seminary Christianity and the Construction of Male Desire Responding: Mark William Muesse, Rhodes College A152 Platonism and Neoplatonism Group and Augustine and Augustinianisms Consultation Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Darlene Fozard Weaver, Georgetown University, Presiding Theme: Augustine's "Friends" and "Enemies": The Question of Augustine's Neoplatonism Anthony D. Baker, University of Virginia Semio-Erotics: Augsutine and Post-Metaphysical Theology Paula Fredriksen, Boston University Augustine's "Doctrine" of Jews as Witness in History and Scholarship Jeffrey Hensley, Virginia Theological Seminary Schleiermacher the Augustinian? Stephen A. Wilson, Stanford University Jonathan Edwards on the Natural and Supernatural Virtues Responding: Eugene Teselle, Vanderbilt University Business Meeting Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia, Presiding A153 Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Jerome P. Soneson, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding Theme: New Insights on Pragmatism and Religion Douglas Jacobsen, Messiah College The Undeveloped Empiricism of Early Pentecostal Theology in Dialogue with D. C. Macintosh and Donald L. Gelpi James S. Freeman, Columbia University Rorty's Concept of Romance and the Justification of Religious Faith James Kraft, Graduate Theological Union Religious Belief Without Rational or Experiential Foundations: James and Heidegger Compared and Appropriated Business Meeting Thomas A. Byrnes, Benedictine University, Presiding A154 Religion and Ecology Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Heather Eaton, St. Paul University, Presiding Theme: An Unspoken Hunger: Landscape, Literature, and Lust Sarah M. Taylor, Northwestern University Land as Lover: Mormon Eco-Eroticism and Planetary Polyamory in the Work of Terry Tempest Williams Mark S. Cladis, Vassar College A Sense of Place and the Place of the Wild: Terry Tempest Williams and the Erotics of Place Daniel T. Spencer, Drake University and Ann M. Pederson, Augustana College Refuge of Refugee: Teaching Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge as a Case Study in Social, Cultural, and Theological Location Marquerite Rigoglioso, California Institute of Integral Studies The Rape of the Lake: A Study of the Spiritual and Environmental History of Lake Pergusa, Sicily Maria Jansdotter, Karlstad University An Ecoreligious Perspective in a Secularized Nordic Context Mary Grey, Sarum College, University of Wales Gender and Poverty in Drought-Stricken Rajasthan: Seeking the Dying Wisdom Business Meeting Heather Eaton, St. Paul University and Sarah M. Taylor, Northwestern University, Presiding A155 Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Jeanette Reedy Solano, University of Southern California, Presiding Theme: Mariologies in the Americas Sylvia Marcos, Claremont Graduate University Preaching Women: Indigenous Wisdom within Theology Lisa Swanson Madera, Emory University Dreaming and Dressing the Virgin: The Power of Clothes in the Andean Catholic Imagination Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Berea College Religious Reform in El Barrio: The Virgin of the Americas and Community Identity in South Phoenix Elina Vuola, University of Helsinki La Morenita on Skis: The Karelian Mary and Her Latin American Sisters Responding: J. Gordon Melton, Institute for the Study of American Religion Business Meeting Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Brown University and Lois Lorentzen, University of San Francisco, Presiding A156 Roman Catholic Studies Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Terrence W. Tilley, University of Dayton, Presiding Theme I: Inculturated American Catholicism Maryellen Davis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Popery or Patriotism? Catholic Antebellum Fiction and Constructions of U.S. Catholic Identity Patricia O'Connell Killen, Pacific Lutheran University Construction Institutional and Individual Identities in the Pacific Northwest: Regional Character and Religiousness Responding: Paula Kane, University of Pittsburgh Theme II: Women and Inculturation Claire Wolfteich, Boston University Roman Catholic Women in the United Farm Workers Movement: Defining Religious Identity and Political Strategy Paula Elizabeth Holmes, State University of New York, Buffalo Embodied Inculturation: Re/Patriation of a Native American Folk Saint Responding: David Pitt, University of Notre Dame A157 Schleiermacher Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Christine Helmer, Claremont School of Theology, Presiding Theme: Schleiermacher and the Enlightenment Ernest Boyer, Harvard University Schleiermacher, Shaftesbury, and the German Enlightenment Martin Leiner, Neuchatel, Switzerland Schleiermacher and Zinzendorf on Individuality, Community, and Religious Experience Peter De Mey, Catholic University of Leuven The Defense of Revealed Christianity through an Appeal to Experience in Hume, Lessing, and Schleiermacher Kelly Leigh Brotzman, University of Chicago Schleiermacher and Kant on the Role of Experience in Ethics Business Meeting Julia A. Lamm, Georgetown University, Presiding A158 Law, Religion, and Culture Consultation Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: Religion, Law, and Violence Patrick Q. Mason, University of Notre Dame Mormons, Violence, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America Scott D. Seay, Vanderbilt University Rapists and Arsonists, Witches and Infanticides: Social and Theological Constructions of Criminality in Colonial New England Julie Miller, University of the Incarnate Word Keeping Women 'Rapable': The Transformation of Rapture in Medieval Law and Mysticism Responding: Natalie B. Dohrmann, University of Chicago Business Meeting Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, University of Chicago, Presiding This session is the final meeting of this consultation on the AAR program. A159 NEW PROGRAM UNIT Religion, Ethics, and Society in Contemporary East Asia Consultation Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University, Presiding Theme: Asian Religions and Globalization: Responses to Western/Christian Perspectives Panelists: Max L. Stackhouse, Princeton Theological Seminary Hak Joon Lee, Princeton Theological Seminary Young Chan Ro, George Mason University Craig A. Burgdoff, Syracuse University Steven Heine, Florida International University Responding: Robert C. Neville, Boston University Business Meeting Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University and Young Chan Ro, George Mason University, Presiding A160 Western Esotericism from the Early Modern Period Consultation Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm James Santucci, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding Theme: Western Esotericism: Personalities and Current Research Rouslan Elistratov, Claremont Graduate University Daniel Andreev and His Place in Western Esotericism: Some Implications for Clarifying the Relationship between Esotericism and the Apocalyptic Genre Jane Williams-Hogan, Bryn Athyn College of the New Church The Heavenly Secrets of Genesis according to Pico della Mirandola and Emanuel Swedenborg: A Comparative Analysis Jean-Pierre Laurant, Centre National de la Recherche Esotericism and Tradition according to René Guénon (1886-1951): The Function of the Writer Responding: James Burnell Robinson, University of Northern Iowa Business Meeting James Santucci, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding This session is the final meeting of this consultation on the AAR program. A161 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 4:30 pm-6:00 pm Sponsored by the AAR, Publishers Weekly, and SBL Jana Reiss, Publishers Weekly, Presiding Theme: Who Says My Degree Isn't Practical? Careers in Religion Publishing and Writing Panelists: Mark Tauber, Beliefnet Henry L. Carrigan, Trinity Press International Lauren Winner, Beliefnet Eric Brandt, HarperSan Francisco A162 Retired Members Reception Sunday - 5:30 pm-6:30 pm All members of the AAR who are retired from full-time employment are cordially invited to an open house hosted by Barbara DeConcini, executive director, and Rebecca Chopp, president. A163 Arts Series Performance: Baritone Robert Gardner Sunday - 5:45 pm-6:45 pm CANCELLED ~~Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University, Presiding~~ ~~Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information.~~ CANCELLED A164 Plenary Address Sunday - 7:15 pm-8:15 pm Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: Theology's Great Sin James H. Cone, Union Theological Seminary, New York City Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A165 Arts Series Performance: The Colorado Choir Sunday - 8:15 pm-9:30 pm Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University, Presiding Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A166 Arts Series Film: Andre's Lives Sunday - 8:15 pm-10:30 pm Sponsored by the Religion in Central and Eastern Europe Consultation J. Shawn Landres, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A167 Arts Series Film: Fight Club Sunday - 8:15 pm-10:30 pm Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Amir Hussain, California State University, Northridge, Presiding Panelists: Nicholas Kirschman, Chaminade College Preparatory School Sandie Gravett, Appalachian State University Jason Patrick, Baylor University Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A168 Arts Series Film: Veterans of Hope Project Sunday - 8:15 pm-10:30 pm Sponsored by the Afro-American Religious History Group Vincent Harding, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A169 JAAR Editorial Board Reception Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm JAAR Editorial Board members are invited to a reception in their honor. A170 Reception for Religion Scholars in Part-Time, Adjunct, Independent, and Nonacademic Positions Sunday - 9:00 pm-10:00 pm This conversation and reception, hosted by Mark Lloyd Taylor of the AAR's Board of Directors, will explore ways in which the AAR might better support members employed in part-time, administrative, or nonacademic positions. Planning toward a session on adjunct teaching issues within the program of a future annual meeting will continue. For more information about AAR programs for Religion Scholars in Part-Time, Adjunct, Independent, and Nonacademic Positions, please see The Profession pages. A171 Nominations Committee Monday - 7:00 am-8:30 am Raymond B. Williams, Wabash College, Presiding A172 Program Unit Chairs Breakfast Monday - 7:30 am-8:45 am Barbara DeConcini, American Academy of Religion, Presiding All program unit chairs should attend this important informational session with the AAR's Program Committee. A173 Religion in the Schools Task Force Monday - 7:30 am-8:45 am Edward R. Gray, American Academy of Religion, Presiding A174 International Members Breakfast Monday - 7:30 am-8:45 am All AAR international attendees are invited to an information session and continental breakfast hosted by the AAR's Committee on International Connections. A175 Special Topics Forum Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College, Presiding Theme: Faith Based on What? Feminist Scholars of Religion Speak Out about Public Policy and the Bush II Administration Panelists: Rita Nakashima Brock, Harvard University Mary C. Churchill, University of Colorado, Boulder Joan M. Martin, Episcopal Divinity School Mary E. Hunt, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A176 Special Topics Forum Monday - 9:00 am-10:30 am Sponsored by the Religion in the Schools Task Force Edward R. Gray, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Theme: Religion in the Schools Day Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A177 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Valarie H. Ziegler, DePauw University, Presiding Theme: Rethinking Relationships, Revisioning the Teaching of Ethics Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University Transforming Connections: Service Learning as a Practice of Solidarity in the Feminist/Womanist Ethics Course Patrick F. Gibbons, Ursuline College Theological Reflections as an Integrative Skill in Teaching Social Justice Gary L. Chamberlain, Seattle University Teaching Catholic Social Teaching Stephanie Kaza, University of Vermont Students Teaching Students Environmental Justice A178 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am John R. Betz, Loyola College in Maryland, Presiding Theme: Being John Malkovich and Continental Religious Reflection Gitte Butin, University of Virginia "No Strings Attached": Puppeteering, Seduction, and the Representation of 'Subjectivity' Jonathan J. Malesic, University of Virginia Choking on Words: Lessons on Direct and Indirect Communication from Kierkegaard and Being John Malkovich William W. Young III, Loyola College in Maryland Otherwise than Being John Malkovich: Incarnating the Name of God Terry Baker, Warner Pacific College Beyond Using John Malkovich: Embodiment, Identity, and Ethics Business Meeting Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia and Mark Ledbetter, Culloden, GA, Presiding A179 Buddhism Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Ronald M. Davidson, Fairfield University, Presiding Theme: Prophecies, Buddhist Monks, and Politics Karen Derris, Harvard University Towards a Typology of Theravadin Predictions Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University Prophecy in Action: Shambhala and the Mongols Mario Poceski, University of Florida From the Province to the Capital: The Role of State Support in the Spread of the Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism Roseanne Freese, Arlington, VA The Monk Tanwuchan: Mentor of Men and Victim of Kings Business Meeting Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University and John S. Strong, Bates College, Presiding A180 Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Ritual Studies Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College, Presiding Theme: Women as Ritual Experts/Ritual Innovators Norma Baumel Joseph, Concordia University Women's Prayer Groups: Ritual Forms of Submission and Subversion Dianne E. Jenett, New College of California Cooking Up Equality: Pongala at Attukal Temple, Kerala, South India Jone Salomonsen, University of Oslo Enchanted Feminism: Women as Initiators and Crafters of Human Growth Theresa Smith, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Medicine and Magic: Conversations between an Anishnaable Medicine Woman and a Cornish Village Witch Responding: Susan Sered, Bar-Ilan University A181 Ethics Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Arvind Sharma, McGill University, Presiding Theme: Population, Development, and Reproductive Health: Does Religion Count? Panelists: Rosemary R. Ruether, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Teresia Mbari Hinga, DePaul University James Martin-Schramm, Luther College Responding: Frances Kissling, Catholics for a Free Choice A182 History of Christianity Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Bonganjalo Goba, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Making Christians in Asia Elizabeth Cameron Galbraith, Coe College Christian Imperialism: The Case of Indian Christianity Eric Reinders, Emory University Penetration of the Interior: Victorian Missions to China and the Necessity of Violence Sung Deuk Oak, Boston University The Kingdom of God and the Japanese Empire: Preached Messages of Korean Christians under Japanese Colonialism, 1905-1945 Thomas Pearson, Muhlenberg College To Win Their Hearts and Minds: Evangelical, Humanitarian, and Military Missions during the Vietnam War Responding: Amanda Porterfield, University of Wyoming A183 North American Religions Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University, Presiding Theme: Religion and the Construction of Gendered Identities in America Panelists: Debra Campbell, Colby College Jualynne E. Dodson, University of Colorado, Boulder David G. Hackett, University of Florida Beryl Satter, Rutgers University This session was organized in cooperation with the American Society of Church History. A184 Philosophy of Religion Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Gereon Kopf, Luther College, Presiding Theme: Ways of Living: Religious Experience and Philosophy Donald Blakeley, California State University, Fresno The Art of Living: Pierre Hadot's Rejection of Plotinian Mysticism Matthew C. Bagger, Columbia University The Skeptic's Practical Criterion and Pragmatism Kevin Schilbrack, Wesleyan College Ritual, World View, and Metaphysics Jeremy R. Carrette, University of Stirling Passionate Belief: William James, Emotion, and Religious Experience Thomas Arnold, Harvard University A Live Option: On "Experience" in Grace Jantzen's Feminist Philosophy of Religion A185 Study of Islam Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University, Presiding Theme: "Travelling Home": Wilfred Cantwell Smith and the Study of Religion Panelists: Frederick M. Denny, University of Colorado, Boulder William A. Graham, Harvard University Amir Hussain, California State University, Northridge Diana L. Eck, Harvard University Tamara Sonn, College of William and Mary A186 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sharon D. Welch, University of Missouri, Columbia, Presiding Theme: Theology and Childhood David James Livingston, Mercyhurst College Rituals of Grace: Religious Reflection on Authentic Liberating Family Dynamics Kristin Herzog, Durham, NC The Child as Savior and Victim: Religious Tradition and Contemporary Reality Joyce Ann Mercer, Union Theological Seminary in Philip Children as Innocents or Devils: Getting Beyond Theology's Reproduction of Cultural Ambivalence toward Children with a Critical-Practical Theology of Childhood James C. Peterson, Wingate University The Challenge of Cloning for Our Theology of Childhood and the Family Business Meeting Paul F. Lakeland, Fairfield University, Presiding A187 Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Michael B. Lukens, St. Norbert College, Presiding Theme: Bonhoeffer, Christ, and Social Witness Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary Bonhoeffer's Use of the Sermon on the Mount in the Pluralistic Context of the Conspiracy Renate Wind, Protestant Fachhochschule, Nuernberg and Craig L. Nessan, Wartburg Theological Seminary Bonhoeffer's 1933 Christology Lectures: Past Impact and Present Relevance Responding: Wayne Whitson Floyd, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia Business Meeting Jeffrey C. Pugh, Elon University, Presiding A188 Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kathryn Teague McClymond, Georgia State University, Presiding Theme: Jewish and South Asian Diaspora Communities: The Homeland and Ethnocultural Identity Ellen Posman, University of California, Santa Barbara Outside Looking In: Exilic and Diasporic Representations of the Homeland Gurinder Singh Mann, University of California, Santa Barbara The Sikhs and the Land of Punjab Bonna Devora Haberman, Brandeis University The Land of Israel: A Palace in Space Susan L. Schwartz, Muhlenberg College She Stands before Us to Bear Witness: The Arangetram and the Bat Mitzvah in the Diaspora Responding: Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara Business Meeting Barbara A. Holdrege, University of California, Santa Barbara and Paul Morris, Victoria University, Presiding A189 Eastern Orthodox Studies Group and Roman Catholic Studies Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Millicent C. Feske, Saint Joseph's University, Presiding Theme: Primacy and Communion Ecclesiology in Jean Tillard and John Zizioulas Panelists: Michael A. Fahey, Marquette University John H. Erickson, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary Dennis M. Doyle, University of Dayton Emmanuel Clapsis, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology A190 Hinduism Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am John J. Thatamanil, Millsaps College, Presiding Theme: Constructive Hindu Theology Parimal G. Patil, Emory University A Prolegomena to "Comparative Theology" Anantanand Rambachan, St. Olaf College A Reassessment of the Distinction between Brahman as Nirguna and Saguna in Advaita Kenneth Valpey, Oxford University and Tamal Krishna Goswami, Cambridge University Porous Boundaries and Asymmetries: Doing Constructive Theology in ISKCON Rita D. Sherma, Claremont Graduate University Eros, Ethics, and Enlightenment: Towards a Reconstructive Approach to Ultimate and Penultimate Goals in Hindu Theology Responding: Francis X. Clooney, Boston College Business Meeting Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University, Chicago and Sarah Caldwell, California State University, Chico, Presiding A191 Mysticism Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am David B. Perrin, St. Paul University, Presiding Theme: Mysticism of Daily Life Jonathan Herman, Georgia State University The Mystical and the Mundane: The Strange Case of Confucian Mysticism Donna Freitas, Catholic University of America Mystical Experience as Emancipatory for Women Neil Douglas-Klotz, Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning Maqām and Hāl: The Mysticism of Ordinary Life in Sufism David L. Smith, Central Michigan University Beautiful Necessities: American Beauty and the Idea of Freedom Business Meeting David B. Perrin, St. Paul University, Presiding A192 Nineteenth-Century Theology Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am William L. Portier, Mount Saint Mary's College, Presiding Theme: Roman Catholic Modernism in Context: Assessing Catholicism Contending with Modernity James C. Livingston, College of William and Mary The Contextualization of Intellectual History: Its Merits, Limits, and Problems Michael J. Walsh, University of London Doing Theology as If History Really Mattered Elizabeth McKeown, Georgetown University Text and Context: Catholicism Contending with Modernity and the Roman Catholic Modernism Group Papers will be introduced and discussed, not read. Printed papers for both sessions of the Nineteenth-Century Theology Group are available in advance for $20 from Joseph W. Pickle, Jr., Religion Department, Colorado College, 14 E. Cache La Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80907. Auditors are welcome. The business meeting of the Nineteenth-Century Theology Group will be held at 7:00 am Sunday, prior to A107 in the same room. A193 Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am C. Robert Mesle, Graceland University, Presiding Theme: Religious Naturalism Today Panelists: Gordon D. Kaufman, Harvard University Ursula Goodenough, Washington University Henry S. Levinson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Charley D. Hardwick, American University Donald A. Crosby, Colorado State University A194 Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group; Anthropology of Religion Consultation; and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Rochelle L. Millen, Wittenberg University and J. Shawn Landres, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Un(re)covered Memories: Suppressed Histories and Contested Places - Part One Flora A. Keshgegian, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest Finding a Place Past Night: Armenian Genocidal Memory in Diaspora William Robert, University of California, Santa Barbara Witnessing the Archive: In Mourning Janet Jacobs, University of Colorado, Boulder Gender, Place, and Memory: Women's Remembrance of the Holocaust Business Meeting Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes College and Rochelle L. Millen, Wittenberg University, Presiding A195 U.S. Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Rudy V. Busto, Stanford University, Presiding Theme: Trespassing Borders: Latino/a Identities and Ways of Knowing Margarita Suarez, Colorado College Trans-bordering Identity: A Cuban-American Conversation Nancy A. Pineda-Madrid, Graduate Theological Union Notes toward a Chicana Feminist Epistemology (And Why It Is Important for Latina Feminist Theology) Kevin O'Neil, Harvard University Illegality: A Socially Constructed Obstacle Lourdes Arguelles, Claremont Graduate University La Luz del Mundo: Origins, Development, and Transnationalization Processes A196 Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Rosetta E. Ross, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, Presiding Theme: Identity as Commodity in Global Market Capitalism: Womanist Critique and Response Emilie M. Townes, Union Theological Seminary, New York City Vanishing into Limbo: The Peculiar Career of Aunt Jemina Responding: M. Shawn Copeland, Marquette University Dianne Stewart, Emory University Kelly Brown Douglas, Goucher College Yolanda Yvette Smith, Yale University Business Meeting Marcia Y. Riggs, Columbia Theological Seminary, Presiding A197 Constructions of Ancient Space Seminar Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jon L. Berquist, Chalice Press, Presiding Theme: Method and Theory in the Study of Ancient Space Thomas B. Dozeman, United Theological Seminary Geography and History in Herodotus and in Ezra-Nehemiah James W. Flanagan, Case Western Reserve University The Trialectics of Biblical Study Wesley A. Kort, Duke University A Narrative-Based Theory of Human Place-Relations Burke O. Long, Bowdoin College Embodied Typology: Modeling the Mosaic Tabernacle Paula M. McNutt, Canisius College Spatiality and Marginal Social Groups in Ancient Palestine Keith W. Whitelam, University of Sheffield Transcending the Boundaries: Expanding the Limits Business Meeting Jon L. Berquist, Chalice Press, Presiding Papers will not be read at the meeting but are posted on the seminar's website (http://www.guildzone.org/) and should be read by all attending the session. Seminar members online discussions begin by September 1. Annual Meeting session focuses on method and theory issues raised in papers and discussion. Further information is available on the website or from Jon L. Berquist (jberquist@aol.com) or James W. Flanagan (flanagan@po.cwru.edu), co-chairs. A198 NEW PROGRAM UNIT Religion, Culture, and Communication Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding Theme I: Marketing Religion: Historical Approaches Candy Gunther Brown, Saint Louis University Best-Selling Religion: Nineteenth-Century Evangelicalism and the Creation of American Mass Media Kathleen J. Knaack, Drew University Methodism, Marketing, and the Emerging Media Sphere: A Case Study in the Making of "The American Way" Responding: David Morgan, Valparaiso University Theme II: Religions of the Word in the Age of the Image T. Scott Daniels, Southern Nazarene University Is There a Living Word?: Worship, Word, and Ethics in an Image Oriented Culture Christopher Patrick Parr, Webster University Is It Always "The Media's" Fault? - Islam, Protestantism, and Media (Mis-)Representations Responding: Rosalind I. J. Hackett, Harvard University, University of Tennessee Business Meeting Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder and Michele Rosenthal, University of Haifa, Presiding A199 Students Talk About Teaching Luncheon Monday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm Elizabeth Pullen, Drew University, Presiding Theme: The Transition from Student to Teacher The Wabash Center cordially invites AAR student members to gather for conversation with experienced faculty about the emerging identity of a new teacher. A light lunch will be provided. Attendance is limited to the first 70 students who sign up. Please go online to the 2001 Annual Meeting Wabash Student Luncheon List to RSVP. A200 Walking Tour of Denver's Religious and Civic Sites Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jeanne H. Kilde, Macalester College and Peter W. Williams, Miami University, Presiding Separate registration required. See the registration form in the Program Book or download a registration form (requires PDF). Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A201 Special Topics Forum Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching and Learning; the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion; and the Leeds Learning and Teaching Support Network, Philosophical and Religious Studies Subject Centre Michael Battle, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Ethnic and Religious Pluralism in the Classroom: What Can We Learn from the British Experience? Panelists: Hugh S. Pyper, University of Leeds David Jasper, University of Glasgow Ann Loades, University of Durham Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University Responding: Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University Raymond B. Williams, Wabash College Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A202 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and Christian Spirituality Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Clark M. Brittain, Greenville Technical College, Presiding Theme: Christian Spirituality and Poetic Imagination Bruce A. Heggen, University of Delaware Deep Calling Deep: Wellsprings and Rilke's Praise Mark S. Burrows, Andover Newton Theological School "Getting the World Right": Wallace Stevens on Imagination and "The Vulgate of Experience" Christopher Patrick Parr, Webster University James K. Baxter's Late Poetry as Trying the Boundaries of Christian Spirituality Sarah Avery, Rutgers University Who Can't Be a Christian Poet?: The Problem of Boundaries and the Puzzling Case of H.D. A203 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Mark Wheeler MacWilliams, St. Lawrence University, Presiding Theme: Dream Rituals Serinity Young, American Museum of Natural History Constraint and Spontaneity in Tibetan Buddhist Dream Rituals and Interpretation Mary N. MacDonald, Le Moyne College Dreaming Religious Change in Highlands Papua New Guinea Lee Irwin, College of Charleston The Ontology of Dreaming: Visionary Epistemology in Indigenous Religions Scott Noegel, University of Washington Dream Rituals, Symbolic Dreams, and the Production of Power in Ancient Mesopotamia Kasia Szpakowska, University of California, Los Angeles Striking Cobras, Spitting Fire: Dream Rituals in Pharaonic Egypt Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union Rituals of Dream Interpretation in Contemporary America Responding: Ronald L. Grimes, Wilfrid Laurier University Papers will be introduced and discussed, not read. Printed papers for this session will be available in advance. Please request copies of the papers by November 1 from Kelly Bulkeley at kellybulkeley@earthlink.net or 1-510-528-0226. A204 Ethics Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Michael McKenzie, Keuka College, Presiding Theme: Ethics, Politics, and Elections: What Can We Learn from the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election? Mark Ellingsen, Interdenominational Theological Center Get Real: An Augustinian-Constitutional Approach to Political Ethics Melissa Snarr, Emory University Talking about Democracy: Christian Social Ethics and Campaign Finance Reform Jeffrey McCurry, Duke University Ethics of Remembering and Forgetting: Spinoza, Post-Electoral Rhetoric, and the Ideology of Statehood Business Meeting Pamela K. Brubaker, California Lutheran University and Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College, Presiding A205 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Susan Windley-Daoust, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Presiding Theme: Handguns, Militias, and How to Reduce U.S. Violence John Helgeland, North Dakota State University The Religion of Homicide William C. French, Loyola University, Chicago The Theology of the NRA Eugene James McBride, Fordham University Taming the Image of the Wild West: Deconstrucing the Myth of the Gun Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary Preventing Homicide: What Works A206 Religion in South Asia Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Shahzad Bashir, Carleton College, Presiding Theme: Accounting for Islam in Hindu Experience James W. Laine, Macalester College Hinduism Textbooks and the Silencing of Islam Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University The Muslim Other of Digital Dharma Peter Gottschalk, Southwestern University and Mathew N. Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross Hinduism and Islam in the Virtual Village Responding: Linda Hess, Stanford University Business Meeting Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida and Anne Feldhaus, Arizona State University, Presiding A207 Study of Judaism Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm David Fox Sandmel, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: Christianity in Jewish Terms: Reconsidering Avenues in Jewish-Christian Relations Panelists: David Novak, University of Toronto Peter Ochs, University of Virginia Michael A. Signer, University of Notre Dame Susan A. Ross, Loyola University, Chicago A208 Theology and Religious Reflection Section and Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Paul F. Lakeland, Fairfield University, Presiding Theme: Kierkegaard and Postnationalism Panelists: Patricia Huntington, Loyola University, Chicago Robert L. Perkins, Stetson University Gary M. Simpson, Luther Seminary Responding: Martin J. Beck Matuštík, Purdue University A209 Women and Religion Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Rebecca T. Alpert, Temple University, Presiding Theme: Speaking of "Woman": Problems and Practices in Religious and Feminist Discourse Cynthia Eller, Princeton University Religious Feminism and the Eternal Feminine Mary Keller, University of Stirling From Women and Religion to Religious Bodies in a Post-Colonial Context Elizabeth M. Bounds, Emory University Missing Women: Engendering Violence and Reconciliation Constance Wise, Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver A Foucaultian Archaeology and Genealogy into the Discourse of Inclusive Language, or Does One Have to Be Naked to Be a Witch? Responding: Frances E. Wood, Emory University Business Meeting Mary C. Churchill, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding A210 African Religions Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Robert M. Baum, Iowa State University, Presiding Theme: Ethical Issues in Research on African Religions Panelists: Emily J. Choge, Fuller Theological Seminary Rosalind I. J. Hackett, Harvard University, University of Tennessee Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University Jacob K. Olupona, University of California, Davis A211 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jan Nattier, Indiana University, Bloomington, Presiding Theme: Buddhism in Asian America Lori A. Pierce, University of Hawaii Buddhist Modernism: Meiji Reform and the Issei Generation Joseph Cheah, Graduate Theological Union Monastic School (Phongyi Kyaung) as a Metaphor of Identity of the Burmese American Buddhist Group Consciousness Sharon A. Suh, Harvard University Surrendering the Mind to Maitreya Buddha: Women's Devotional Practices and the Development of Self-Esteem in Koreatown, Los Angeles Responding: Duncan Williams, Trinity College A212 Chinese Religions Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Russell Kirkland, University of Georgia, Presiding Theme: Neidan (Internal Alchemy) in the Song and Yuan: Praxis, Ritual Application, and the Problem of Syncretism Stephen Eskildsen, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Neidan Master Chen Pu's Nine Stages of Transformation Lowell Skar, University of Pennsylvania Ritual Empowerment: Chen Nan's Inner Alchemy and Its Relations to Thunder Ritual Shin-yi Chao, University of British Columbia Internal Alchemy, Thunder Ritual, and the Zhenwu Cult: A Case Study of "Jinque xiansheng jiashu biwen" Ng Kum-Hoon, University of Colorado, Boulder Notes Towards a Comparative Semiotics of Inner Alchemy: The Case of Bai Yuchan and the Chan Masters Paul Crowe, University of British Columbia The Place of Daoxue and Buddhist Cultivation in the Work of Li Daochun (fl. 1288-1290) A213 Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sean McCloud, College of Charleston, Presiding Theme: Religion and/as Construction II: Frauds, Constructions, Institutions, Identities A. J. Droge, University of California, San Diego Il/legitimate Jeffrey T. Kenney, DePauw University Constructing an Anti-Model of (Political) Violence: The Kharijites in Medieval Islamic Thought David A. Shefferman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Instituting Santeria: Afro-Cuban Studies and the Politics of Enchantment (1939) David A. Shorter, University of California, Santa Cruz Yoeme Indian Place-Names and Religious Identity in Northwest Mexico Responding: Frank J. Korom, Boston University Business Meeting Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University and Jay Geller, Vanderbilt University, Presiding A214 Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm David Brakke, Indiana University, Bloomington, Presiding Theme: The Discourse of Idolatry II Nathaniel Levtow, Brown University Polemics against Cult Images in Early Jewish Biblical Interpretation Elizabeth Castelli, Barnard College Idolatrous Spectacles and Christian Tableaux: The Paradox of Early Christian Cultural Criticism and Spectacles Thomas Buchan, Drew University "The Tyrant Became a Crucible for the Beauty of the True Ones": Apostasy, Idolatry, and the Nisibene Church in Ephrem the Syrian's Hymns against Julian Horace Six-Means, Hood Theological Seminary Preserve Your Chastity: The Rhetorical Formulation of Internal and External Idol Smashing in the Preaching of Augustine Responding: Michael D. Swartz, Ohio State University Business Meeting David Brakke, Indiana University, Bloomington, Presiding A215 Evangelical Theology Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Amos Yong, Bethel College, St. Paul, Presiding Theme: The Recent History of American Evangelicalism and Race David P. Gushee, Union University Racial Reconciliation or Racial Justice? White Evangelicals, Race, and the Love/Justice Problem Timothy Tseng, American Baptist Seminary of the West Stirring Up the Evangelical "Melting Pot: " The Impact of Asian Pacific Americans on InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Jeremy Rehwaldt-Alexander, Vanderbilt University How Race Shapes Interpretation: An Analysis of Racial Reconciliation Efforts Responding: Anthea Butler, Loyola Marymount University Business Meeting David Daniels, McCormick Theological Seminary, Presiding A216 Korean Religions Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Wi Jo Kang, Wartburg Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: On the Korean Transformation of Buddhism Sang Yil Kim, Hanshin University Wonchuk's Transformation of Yogācāra Buddhism: A Process View Eunsu Cho, University of Michigan Creating a Buddhist Tradition: Wonhyo and the Making of a Korean Buddhist Identity Pori Park, Carleton College A Korean Buddhist Response to Modernity: Han Yongun's Doctrinal Reinterpretation for His Reformist Thought Goun Ho Kim, State University of New York, Stony Brook Neo-Confucian Elements in State-Protection Buddhism (Hoguk Pulgyo): Hyujong's Syncretic Approach to Buddhism and Confucianism Responding: Kang-Nam Oh, University of Regina Jin Y. Park, American University Business Meeting: Sungtaek Cho, State University of New York, Stony Brook and Bockja Kim, Hong Kong University, Presiding A217 Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Claudia Schippert, University of Central Florida, Presiding Theme: Spiritual Sacrilege: Lesbian Bodies in Conversation Julie J. Kilmer, Chicago Theological Seminary Re(con)ceiving and Re(con)textualizing White Feminist Intersubjectivity: Conversations between Lesbian and Bisexual Women Jennifer Harvey, Union Theological Seminary, New York City Ambiguous Identities: Navigating Whiteness in the Building of Lesbian Community Marie Cartier, Claremont Graduate University Viewing 1950s Butch-Femme Social Practice as Possibly Religious Practice/Practicing Religion Elizabeth Currans, University of California, Santa Barbara Transgression, Sacrality, and Political Embodiment: The Relationship between Sacrilege and Queer Political Activism Business Meeting Jennifer Rycenga, San José State University and Peggy Schmeiser, University of Ottawa, Presiding A218 Men's Studies in Religion Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm David James Livingston, Mercyhurst College, Presiding Theme: Violating Identities Björn Krondorfer, St. Mary's College of Maryland Rupture, Rapture, Revelation: Confessions of an African Bishop and a Jewish Ghetto Policeman Elizabeth Pullen, Drew University "I Believe God Has a Twisted Sense of Humor": A Survey of the Effect of Ministerial Misconduct Upon Male Parishioners Judith A. Johnson, Claremont Graduate University Shedding Blood: The Religious Roots of Supermasculinity Horace L. Griffin, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary Black Machoism and Its Discontents Responding: Mark J. Justad, Vanderbilt University Business Meeting David James Livingston, Mercyhurst College and Mark J. Justad, Vanderbilt University, Presiding A219 Millennialism Studies Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Timothy Miller, University of Kansas, Presiding Theme: Varieties of Millennialisms Graeme Sharrock, University of Chicago The Visual Culture of Antebellum Millennialism: The Visions of Ellen White Kenneth G. C. Newport, Liverpool Hope University College "The Branch She": Lois Roden and the Branch Davidians Adam C. English, Baylor University Christian Reconstructionism after Y2K Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ongoing Anxieties and Hopes: Millennialism in the Twenty-First Century Jay Gary, World Network of Religious Futurists The Rise of Transmillennialism Business Meeting Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College, Presiding A220 Person, Culture, and Religion Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A. Gregory Schneider, Pacific Union College, Presiding Theme: Kohutian Approaches to Religion Mary Clark Moschella, Wesley Theological Seminary Seeing and Being Seen: Italian Catholic Devotional Piety in San Pedro, California Lisa M. Cataldo, Union Theological Seminary, New York City Jesus as Substitute Self-Object: Kohutian Theory and the Life of St. Francis of Assisi Pamela Cooper-White, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia "I Do Not Do the Good I Want, but the Evil I Do Not Want Is What I Do": The Concept of the Vertical Split in Self Psychology in Relation to Christian Conceptions of Good and Evil Thandeka, Williams College The Split Self: A Self Psychological Approach of Two Christian Doctrines of Human Nature The business meeting for the Person, Culture, and Religion Group will occur during their pre-session. Please see the Additional Meetings for time and location. A221 Religion and Popular Culture Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jeffrey Marlett, College of Saint Rose, Presiding Theme: Youth, Religion, and Popular Culture Susan Ridgely Bales, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Mine Is a House of Order": A Comparative Analysis of Mormon and Focus on the Family's Prescriptive Parenting Literature Michael M. Ostling, University of Toronto Harry Potter and the Disenchantment of the World Justin Watson, Lafayette College Print the Legend: John Ford's Liberty Valence and the Martyr of Columbine Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico After Columbine: Demonic Teens on the Internet, God's Martyrs in the Headlines Responding: Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado, Boulder Business Meeting Gary M. Laderman, Emory University and Bruce David Forbes, Morningside College, Presiding A222 Religion and Science Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Lou Ann G. Trost, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Science and Social Location: Women, Religion, and Science Lisa L. Stenmark, Graduate Theological Union Feminist Theology and the Science and Religion Discourse Robin Ficklin-Alred, Emory University Practical Theology as a Feminist Method in Religion and Science Ann M. Pederson, Augustana College and Anne Foerst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gender Differences in the Pursuit of Religion and Science Responding: Nancy Howell, Saint Paul School of Theology Business Meeting Ernest L. Simmons, Concordia College, Presiding To obtain papers for both sessions, please send a written request plus reproduction and postage costs (US$15 for mailing in the US and Canada; US$20 for international mailing) to Ernest L. Simmons, Box 313, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN 56562. Please make checks or money orders payable to Concordia College. Requests must be mailed by November 1, 2001, to ensure that papers are delivered before the Annual Meeting. A223 Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Georges Dreyfus, Williams College, Presiding Theme: Pilgrims and Pixels: Tibetan Buddhism in Traditional and Contemporary Academic Practice Alexander C. McKay, University of London Will the Real Kailas Please Stand Up!: Towards a Theory of Himalayan Pilgrimage Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan, Harvard University The Life and Fasting Ritual of dGe slong ma dPal mo: The Experiences of a Leper, Founder of Smyung Gnas, and Transmitter of Buddhist Teachings on Suffering and Renunciation in Tibetan Religious History David Germano, University of Virginia Digital Library and the Study of Tibetan Buddhism Alejandro Chaoul, Rice University The Magical Wheel: Mind-Body Relationship in the Bon Tradition and Its Applications in Today's World Eve L. Mullen, Universität Hamburg The Dalai Lama and Rangzen: Changing Symbols Business Meeting Georges Dreyfus, Williams College, Presiding A224 Wesleyan Studies Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Kelley Steve McCormick, Eastern Nazarene College, Presiding Theme: Wesleyan Construction of the Self: Historical Perspectives Elaine Robinson, Texas Christian University Charles Wesley's Theological Anthropology: A Song of the Self? Chris Armstrong, Duke University The Camp-Meeting Holiness Self as Romantic/Sentimental Self Susie Stanley, Messiah College Women Preachers Proclaim a Sanctified Self Michael Turner, Vanderbilt University Freedom and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century Methodism A225 Special Topics Forum Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Committee on International Connections Mary McGee, Columbia University, Presiding Theme: Ninian Smart and the International Study of Religion Panelists: Deborah Sawyer, Lancaster University Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University Gavin Hyman, University of Lancaster Ursula King, University of Bristol John Sawyer, Lancaster University Juan E. Campo, University of California, Santa Barbara A brief remembrance service will immediately follow this session in the same room. A226 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section and Ethics Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Barbara A. B. Patterson, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Teaching Ethics, Learning Justice Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College Crossing the Tracks for Social Justice: A College-High School Collaboration Ellen Ott Marshall, Vanderbilt University Making the Most of a Good Story: Effective Use of Film as a Teaching Resource for Ethics Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College Teaching Ethics Actively: Experiential Learning and Social Justice Action Suzanne Holland, University of Puget Sound The Ethics of Responsibility and Difference: The Relationship between Ethics and Justice in the Undergraduate Classroom Katharine R. Meacham, Mars Hill College Hearing Each Other into Speech: Teaching Ethics and Social Justice in Genuinely Diverse Communities A227 Buddhism Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Miriam Levering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Presiding Theme: Engaged Buddhist Ethics: The Dialectics of Buddhist Tradition and Contemporary Globalism George D. Bond, Northwestern University The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement of Sri Lanka: Gandhian Discourse and Millenialist Visions in Response to Buddhist Nationalism Christopher Queen, Harvard University Gentle or Harsh? The Practice of Right Speech in Engaged Buddhism John Marston, Colegio de México Buddhist Values and Cambodian Human Rights NGOs Sallie B. King, James Madison University Justice for All? Engaged Buddhist Avoidance of Justice Language Responding: Donald K. Swearer, Swarthmore College A228 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Kimberley C. Patton, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Weeping in the Religious Imagination Gary L. Ebersole, University of Missouri, Kansas City The Poetics and Politics of Ritualized Weeping in Early and Medieval Japan Kay A. Read, DePaul University Productive Tears: Weeping, Water, and the Underworld in Aztec Tradition Gay Lynch, Graduate Theological Union "Why Do Your Eyes Not Run like a River?" Ritual Tears in Greek Funerary Traditions Nehemia Polen, Hebrew College Holy Tears and Divine Weeping in Rabbinic Literature and Hasidism Responding: John Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia University A229 History of Christianity Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Scott W. Sunquist, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: The Love-Hate Relationship between Mission and Empire Haruko Nawata Ward, Princeton Theological Seminary Women and Confraternity of Miséricordia in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire Arun W. Jones, Princeton Theological Seminary Working Out the Mission Theory of Charles Henry Brent, Episcopal Bishop of the American Empire in the Philippines, 1901-1917 Karen Seat, Franklin & Marshall College "The British of Asia": The Rise of Japanese Imperialism and Its Impact on American Understandings of Race, Religion, and Missions Responding: Andrew F. Walls, University of Edinburgh Business Meeting Georgia Frank, Colgate University and Anne Thayer, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Presiding A230 North American Religions Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Catherine L Albanese, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: The Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities of American Religious Pluralism: A Discussion of the Issues Raised by Diana L. Eck's A New Religious America Pluralism Panelists: Diana L. Eck, Harvard University Duncan Williams, Trinity College Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida Jeffrey Sheler, U.S. News and World Report Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University Laurie Zoloth, San Francisco State University A231 Philosophy of Religion Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm William J. Wainwright, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Presiding Theme: Religious Toleration and Proselytism Panelists: Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago Paul J. Griffiths, University of Illinois, Chicago Responding: Philip L. Quinn, University of Notre Dame Business Meeting Thomas P. Kasulis, Ohio State University, Presiding A232 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Kathleen Greider, Claremont School of Theology, Presiding Theme: Religion and Psychology "On the Couch": Controversies in the Relationship between Psychological Methods and the Study of Religion Jeremy R. Carrette, University of Stirling The Individual and the Collective: The Politics of the Psychology of Religion Erin E. Dufault-Hunter, University of Southern California Narrative Psychology Meets Ethics: Toward a Practice of Transformation Patricia Brown, Union Institute Christian Spiritual Formation and Psychological Theory and Practice: Two Contrasting Paradigms Michael A. Hayes, University of Surrey Encounters between Psychotherapy and Spiritual Direction: Method, Convergence, and Dialogue Responding: H. John McDargh, Boston College A233 Religion in South Asia Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Philip Lutgendorf, University of Iowa, Presiding Theme: Custodial Rites: The Conservation and Historiography of Pilgrimage Centers in India Panelists: Knut Axel Jacobsen, University of Bergen Prabha Reddy, George Washington University Andrea Pinkney, Columbia University Christian Lee Novetzke, Columbia University Jeffrey M. Brackett, University of Pittsburgh Brian K. Pennington, Maryville College Responding: Linda Hess, Stanford University A234 Study of Islam Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Gordon D. Newby, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Negotiating Cultural Identities in Text, Sites, and Media Juan E. Campo, University of California, Santa Barbara Virtual Pilgrimage? The Hajj in the Modern Media Gabriel Said Reynolds, Yale University Regarding the Islamic Polemic behind the De Rationibus Fidei of Saint Thomas Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Georgia State University Postmodernity, Postmodernism, and Islam Ruth Mas, University of Toronto Rediscovering Islam in a Diasporic World: Islam as Master Narrative in the Philosophical Discourse of Mohammed Arkoun, Fethi Benslama, and Abdelkebir Khatibi A235 Study of Judaism Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Kalman P. Bland, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Aesthetics Barbara E. Galli, McGill University Aesthetics and Redemption: Rosenzweig's Theory of Art and Celan's Piercing of Blindness Edward K. Kaplan, Brandeis University Ornament and Insight in Abraham Heschel's Poetic Rhetoric Zachary Braiterman, Syracuse University Hermann Cohen and Steven Schwarzchild: Art, Judaism, and the Problem of Style Elliot R. Wolfson, New York University Poetic Envisioning and the Harmonics of Internal Time Consciousness A236 Afro-American Religious History Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Debra Washington Mubashshir, Beloit College, Presiding Theme: Twentieth-Century Religious Figures/Movements Edward Curtis, Trinity University Ritualization and the Making of Elijah Muhammad the Religious Prophet Marie W. Dallam, Temple University Rivals in the House of the Lord: Daddy Grace and Father Divine on 115th Street Darnise C. Martin, Graduate Theological Union Iyanla Vanzant, Coming to a Church near You Gail M. Harley, University of South Florida Unto the Ancestors: Spiritual Renewal and Cultural Preservation of the Gullah Geechee Peoples A237 Christian Spirituality Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Stephanie Paulsell, University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: Teaching Christian Spirituality Anita Houck, Saint Mary's College Spirituality and Pedagogy: Faith and Reason in the Age of Assessment Lynn Bridgers, Emory University Beyond Recognition: Trauma, Spirituality, and Pedagogy for the Prophetic Lucinda Huffaker, Wabash Center Spirituality in/of the Classroom James J. McGee, Santa Clara University Toward a Contemplative Pedagogy: Theory and Technique for the Use of Silence in Teaching Spirituality Business Meeting Steven L. Chase, Dominican Center at Marywood, Presiding A238 Christian Systematic Theology Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Miroslav Volf, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: The Doctrine of the Love of God Roland Faber, University of Vienna God's Love Without God? The Nondifference of God as Mystical Solution of Feuerbach's Antinomy of Love Rachel Reesor, Bluffton College St. Anselm's Cur Deus Homo: A Nuanced Doctrine of the Love of God Barry G. Rasmussen, University of Winnipeg Martin Luther's Joyful Exchange: A Trinitarian Theology of the Gift Responding: David H. Kelsey, Yale University The business meeting of the Christian Systematic Theology Group will be held at 7:00 am Tuesday, please see Additional Meetings listings for location. A239 Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Susan Simonaitis, Fordham University, Presiding Theme: Historiography and Cultural Memory Flora A. Keshgegian, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest Telling Tales from Memory: Women, History, and Power Deidre Butler, Concordia University Remembering Jewish Ethics: Gender, Modern Jewish Philosophy, and the Shoah Susan M. St. Ville, University of Notre Dame Telling Stories: Trauma and the Writing of Feminist Theology Responding: Amy M. Hollywood, Dartmouth College Business Meeting Karen Trimble Alliaume, Lewis University and Susan Simonaitis, Fordham University, Presiding A240 Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jay E. Johnson, Richmond, CA, Presiding Theme: Engaging Sodom: Responses to Mark D. Jordan's The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism Panelists: Donald L. Boisvert, Concordia University Robert E. Goss, Webster University Mary E. Hunt, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual Edward J. Ingebretsen, Georgetown University Responding: Mark D. Jordan, Emory University A241 Japanese Religions Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Christopher Ives, University of Puget Sound, Presiding Theme: Studies in Shinto and Japanese Society Takeshi Kimura, Yamaguchi University Kamiari-sai in the Month of Kan'nazuki Hiromi Maeda, Harvard University Court Ranks for Local Tutelary Shrines: The Spread of Yoshida Shinto in Mid-Tokugawa Society Jonathan Stockdale, University of Chicago "The Profoundest Bow": The 1890 Imperial Rescript on Education and the Construction of Imperial Divinity Susan G. Carter, California Institute of Integral Studies Amaterasu-O-Mi-Kami: Great Ancestor of the Emperor and Mother of the Japanese Nation Responding: Ian Reader, Lancaster University Business Meeting Ruben L. F. Habito, Southern Methodist University and Christopher Ives, University of Puget Sound, Presiding A242 Native Traditions in the Americas Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Eva Garroutte, Boston College, Presiding Theme: Institutions of Confinement: Native American Struggles against Religious and Cultural Disfranchisement Jamie S. Scott, York University Identity Politics and the Politics of Identification: Residential Schools and Native Canadian Writers Laura E. Donaldson, Cornell University Dear America, My Heart Is Not on the Ground: Semiotic Repatriation and the Boarding School Experience Emily Brault, Vanderbilt University Sweating in the Joint: Native American Sweat Lodge Practice in Prison Justine Smith, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Indigenous States of Confinement: Ex-slave Perspectives on Southeastern Indian Slavery Responding: Martha L. Finch, Southwest Missouri State University Business Meeting Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Colorado, Boulder and Andrea Smith, University of California, Santa Cruz, Presiding A243 New Religious Movements Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Brenda E. Brasher, Mount Union College, Presiding Theme: Asian New Religions in Asia and the West Edward A. Irons, Graduate Theological Union Suma Ching Hai: Commerce, Image, and Femininity in a New Syncretic Movement Paul Alan Laughlin, Otterbein College Not All Sweetness and Light: The Controversy over Sukyo Mahikari outside Japan James E. Deitrick, University of Central Arkansas Socially Engaged Buddhism? Asian and American Sources of an Emergent Religious Tradition Craig A. Burgdoff, Syracuse University Why Falun Gong? A Report to the Academy on an Emerging Religious Movement A244 Platonism and Neoplatonism Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Ethics and Identity in Augustine, et al.: Contemporary Readings Willemien Otten, Utrecht University Nussbaum's Therapy of Desire: Ethics and Epistemology in Augustine, Eriugena, and Anselm Burcht Pranger, University of Amsterdam The Voices of Augustine and Stanley Cavell Hent de Vries, University of Amsterdam Lyotard as Reader of Augustine A245 Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group and Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Cleo McNelly Kearns, Princeton University, and Frederick J. Ruf, Georgetown University, Presiding Theme: Intersections: Pragmatism and Postmodernism Tirdad Derakhshani, University of Pennsylvania Hope Before Knowledge: Rorty and the Messianic Richard Alexis Amesbury, Claremont Graduate University Can Deconstruction's Formal Conception of Justice Be Given Pragmatic Content? Christina Hutchins, Graduate Theological Union Breaking Habits: Whitehead and Butler as Theological Opportunity David Lamberth, Harvard University Twentieth-Century Philosophies in the Twenty-First Century: What Is the Future for Pragmatism and Postmodernism? A246 Reformed Theology and History Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Leanne Van Dyk, Western Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: The Life, Work, and Thought of Lesslie Newbigin Guenther Haas, Redeemer College Newbigin on Socio-Cultural Engagement Scott Collins-Jones, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary What Contemporary Reformed Christians Can Learn from the Sacramental Theologies of John Williamson Nevin and Lesslie Newbigin Robert A. Robinson, Christian Studies Center Lesslie Newbigin and Hindu-Christian Dialogue: A Decided Ambivalence Responding: Katherine Sonderegger, Middlebury College George Hunsberger, Western Theological Seminary Geoffrey Wainwright, Duke University A247 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm John Lyden, Dana College, Presiding Theme: Narratives of Redemption in the Visual Sara Kviat Bloch, University of California, Santa Barbara Redeeming the Holocaust: Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm, Uppsala University Gustaf Aulén Meets Ripley, Bess, and Babette: Redemptive Themes in Contemporary Film Jeanette Reedy Solano, University of Southern California Blessed Broken Bodies: Exploring Redemption in Brazilian and Danish Film Crystal Downing, Messiah College Plagiarizing Redemption: Finding Forrester in a Glass Darkly Donna Yarri, Alvernia College Redemption in the Film Fight Club: Embracing the Shadow Side Business Meeting Rubina Ramji, University of Ottawa and Tony S. L. Michael, University of Toronto, Presiding A248 Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group; Anthropology of Religion Consultation; and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe Consultation Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, Presiding Theme: Un(re)covered Memories: Suppressed Histories and Contested Places - Part Two Tania Oldenhage, Mount Union College Walking the Way of the Cross: German Places, Church Traditions, and Holocaust Memories Edward Tabor Linenthal, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Remembrance, Contestation, Excavation: The Work of Memory in Oklahoma City, the Washita Battlefield, and the Tulsa Race Riot David S. Chidester, University of Cape Town Indigenous Traditions, Alien Abductions: Creolized and Globalized Memory in South Africa Responding: Oren Baruch Stier, Florida International University A249 Religion and Human Rights Consultation Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University, Presiding Theme: Problems of Religious Freedom in Asia and Europe Zhonghu Yan, University of Toronto Spiritual Practice or Evil Cult? Comprehending Falun Gong in the Context of China's Religious Policy Shelini Harris, Emory University Your Freedom When It Loses Its Fetters Becomes Itself the Fetter of a Greater Freedom: Implementation of Religious Freedom Laws in South Asia Laurie A. Cozad, University of Mississippi The U. S. Implementation of Religious Freedom: The International Religious Freedom Act in India Anna Doswell, University of Derby From East to West, North to South: The Contribution of the European Convention on Human Rights to Religious Freedom in Europe and Beyond Responding: Sumner B. Twiss, Brown University Kusumita P. Pedersen, St. Francis College Business Meeting Arvind Sharma, McGill University, Presiding A250 Plenary Address Monday - 7:00 pm-8:00 pm Theme: Liberation Theology and the Twenty-First Century: Celebrating Past, Present, and Future Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University, Presiding Gustavo Gutiérrez, Instituto Bartomé de Las Casas, University of Notre Dame James H. Cone, Union Theological Seminary, New York Letty Russell, Yale University Orlando Espin, University of San Diego Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A251 Arts Series Performance: Middle Eastern Dance Monday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University, Presiding Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A252 Arts Series Film: Aimée & Jaguar Monday - 8:30 pm-11:00 pm Sponsored by the Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group and Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Sue E. Houchins, Harvard University and Kathryn Poethig, St. Lawrence University, Presiding Please see the Annual Meeting Program Highlights page for more information. A253 Program Unit Chairs and Steering Committee Reception Monday - 9:00 pm-10:30 pm AAR program unit chairs and steering committee members are invited to a reception in their honor hosted by the AAR's Program Committee. A254 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Joseph A. Favazza and F. Michael McLain, Rhodes College, Presiding Theme: Teaching and Learning as Transformation: A Discussion of the American Association for Higher Education's Service Learning and Religious Studies Panelists: Elizabeth M. Bounds, Emory University Raymond B. Williams, Wabash College Charles R. Strain, DePaul University A255 Buddhism Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kyoko Tokuno, University of Oregon, Presiding Theme: Cults, Transformations, and Transnationalism in Buddhism Abraham Zablocki, Cornell University The Maitreya Project: A Case Study in Transnational Tibetan Buddhism Zhi-Ru Ng, Pomona College The Sahā Triad as a New Buddhist Pattern of Cultic Devotion: Image Worship and Restructuring Religious Consciousness in Modern Taiwan David Quinter, Stanford University The Shingon Ritsu School and the Hannyaji Monju Cult: Image, Economy, and Magic Bryan Phillips, University of Virginia The Mạni-yāna: A Medieval Tibetan Unification Discourse from Guru Chos-kyi dbang-phyug Cristina Rocha, University of Western Sydney Zazen or Not Zazen? The Predicament of Sotoshu's Missionaries in Brazil A256 Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Study of Judaism Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Michael Wyschogrod, University of Houston, Presiding Theme: Carnal Israel and Eucharistic Theology: A New Encounter? Panelists: Scott Bader-Saye, University of Scranton Lauren F. Winner, Columbia University Randi Rashkover, York College of Pennsylvania Responding: William T. Cavanaugh, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul A257 North American Religions Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Richard Bushman, Columbia University, Presiding Theme: The Latter-Day Saints in America: Issues of Identity and Pedagogy David Charles, Oxford University What's in a Church's Name?: Mormonism, Christianity, and the Limits of Self-Identification Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University Solving the 'Mormon Problem': The Smoot Hearing of 1903-1907 and the Delimitation of Religious Citizenship Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University Mormonism in the 'American Religion' Survey Course Responding: Philip L. Barlow, Hanover College A258 Philosophy of Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Greg Zuschlag, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Of Two Communities: The Possible Postmodern Benefit of Royce's Late Thought for the Life of Both the Polis and the Ecclesia Panelists: Kelly A. Parker, Grand Valley State University Nancy A. Pineda-Madrid, Graduate Theological Union Alejandro Garcia-Rivera, Jesuit School of Theology John J. Markey, Barry University C. Hannah Schell, Monmouth College Responding: Linell E. Cady, Arizona State University A259 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Max L. Stackhouse, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Recasting the Globalization Debate: Research Projects from Religious Perspectives Panelists: Maryann Cusimano Love, Catholic University of America Gaspar Lo Biondo, Woodstock Theological Center Vittorio Falsina, Harvard University Responding: William Schweiker, University of Chicago Scott Thomas, University of Bath A260 Religion in South Asia Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding Theme: Mahagurus and Their Movements in a Global Context Panelists: Thomas Forsthoefel, Mercyhurst College Tamal Krishna Goswami, Cambridge University Elizabeth Lassell Hallstrom, University of New Mexico Cynthia Ann Humes, Claremont McKenna College Smriti Srinivas, Ohio State University Lola L. Williamson, University of Wisconsin, Madison Selva Raj, Albion College Responding: Daniel R. Gold, Cornell University A261 Study of Islam Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Zeki Saritoprak, Georgetown University, Presiding Theme: Modes of Knowledge in Sufi Literature Jack Renard, Saint Louis University Experiential Knowledge of God in Classical Sufi Manuals Omid Safi, Colgate University God-Knowledge from the Heart: Modes of Sufi Knowledge according to Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani Michael Sells, Haverford College Love as Knowledge in the Mystical Thought of Ibn `Arabi Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Washington University Experiential Knowledge according to Aziz-i Nasafi Responding: Shahzad Bashir, Carleton College A262 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Don Compier, Graceland University , Presiding Theme: Religion, Emancipation, and Economics Ellen Ott Marshall, Vanderbilt University Social Activism and the Divine Campaign Unfolding Susan Abraham, Harvard University Karl Rahner's "Freedom" and Gustavo Gutierrez's "Liberation" in a Postcolonial Perspective Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University Between Economics and Postmodernism: Overcoming an Arbitrary Division of Labor in Theological Studies Marion S. Grau, Drew University Divin/e-commerce: Constructing Theological Economies in Postmodernity A263 Women and Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Frances E. Wood, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Textual Representations and Lived Experience of Asian Women Ding-hwa Hsieh, Truman State University Sexual Purity and Danger: Images of Buddhist Nuns in Sung (960-1279) Confucian Writings Shin-yi Chao, University of British Columbia Female Pilgrims as seen through Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature Cabell Gathman, Truman State University Mizuko Kuyô: Perceptions and Realities Grace Ji-Sun Kim, University of Toronto Violence against Asian Women A264 Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group and History, Method, and Theory in the Study of Religion Consultation Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Robert J. Baird, The National Faculty, Presiding Theme: Religious History and the Construction of Modernity Hans G. Kippenberg, University of Bremen Religious History and the Construction of Modernity Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Bremen Relative, Contingent, Determined: The Category 'History' and Its Methodological Dilemma Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University Religion, Modernity, and the Dilemmas of Reflexivity Ann Taves, Claremont School of Theology The Power of Pre-Animistic Religion: Narrative and Explanation in the History of the Study of Religion Steve Wasserstrom, Reed College The Idea of Europe and the Origins of Religionsgeschichte: Some Thoughts after Kippenberg A265 Evangelical Theology Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Young Lee Hertig, United Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Pentecostal Theology/Ethics as Viable Perspectives within Evangelicalism Terry L. Cross, Lee University What Can Pentecostal Theology Offer Evangelical Theology? William D. Eisenhower, Trinity Presbyterian Church The Prophetic Stance: Social Ethics in a Niebuhrian/Neo-Pentecostal Perspective Frank Macchia, Vanguard University The Spirit Set Us Free: Implications in Pentecostal Theology for a Pneumatological Soteriology Responding: Cherith Fee Nordling, University of St. Andrews A266 Indigenous Religious Traditions Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Julian Kunnie, University of Arizona, Presiding Theme: Indigenous Healers: Women, Languages, and Cultures Alexander Nava, Seattle University Teresa Urrea: Mexican Mystic, Healer, and Revolutionary Henrietta Montjane-Malete, Topsfield, MA Indigenous Women and Healing Power: Isihlambiso in Southern Africa Miri Hunter Haruach, Berkeley, CA Zar Ritual of Ethiopia and Yemen: The Use of Talismanic Art and Drum and Dance Circles as Healing Traditions Responding: Charles H. Long, Chapel Hill, NC Business Meeting Julian Kunnie, University of Arizona, Presiding A267 Religion and Popular Culture Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Carl Olson, Allegheny College, Presiding Theme: Religion in Commercial Cultures Linda A. Mercadante, Methodist Theological School in Ohio Ethnicity and/as Religion: The Sopranos (Just When You Can't Go Home Again, It's Finally OK to Be from New Jersey) C. Wyatt Evans, Drew University Of Mummies and Methodism: Reverend Clarence True Wilson and the Legend of John Wilkes Booth Dell deChant, University of South Florida The Holiness of Holidays: The Religious Dimension of Holidays in Popular Culture Tricia Sheffield, Drew University Totemic Desires: Advertising as Divine Mediator, Sacramentality, and Ultimate Concern Responding: Louis A. Ruprecht, Georgia State University, Mercer University A268 Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes College, Presiding Theme: Post-Holocaust Religious Reflection Marc Philippe Lalonde, Concordia University The Art of Self-Forgetfulness: Etty Hillesum, the Holocaust and Critical Jewish Thought David E. Roberts, University of Edinburgh The Religious Elements of Genocide: The Holocaust through the Eyes of Yugoslavia David O. Woodyard, Denison University Theology after the Holocaust and after Slavery: Emil Fackenheim and James Cone Sally A. McReynolds, Saint Mary College Strategies of Resistance: Audacity and Thanksgiving in the Concentration Camp Memoirs of M. Fabiola Ditek: Pacratz, Terzin, and Ravensbruck, 1943-45 A269 U.S. Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Gaston Espinosa, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Re-thinking Latino/a Religion and Identity Panelists: Manuel Vasquez, University of Florida Laura Pérez, University of California, Berkeley Luis León, Arizona State University Miguel A. De la Torre, Hope College Business Meeting Lara Medina, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding A270 Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Joan M. Martin, Episcopal Divinity School, Presiding Theme: Analyzing Youth Violence in U.S. Culture: Womanist Approaches Valerie Elverton Dixon, United Theological Seminary Out of the Ethical Void: A Womanist Approach to an Analysis of Teen Suicide Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Graduate Theological Union Machiavellian Morbidity or the Epidemiological Personified Violence of Tupac Amaru Shakur (1971-1976): Teens, Violence, and Death Anne E. Streaty Wimberly, Interdenominational Theological Center The Violence of Racism, the Strategy of Empowerment: Relational Hope and Co-Action with Black Youth Responding: Traci C. West, Drew University A271 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: The Teaching and Study of Religion post September 11, 2001 Brief remarks will be made by: Catherine L. Albanese, University of California, Santa Barbara Rebecca S. Chopp, Yale University Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University Peter J. Paris, Princeton Theological Seminary Lawrence Sullivan, Harvard University Discussion with audience to follow. A272 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Theme: September 11, 2001 and Islam Brief remarks will be made by: Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University Zayn Kassam, Pomona College Bruce Lawrence, Duke University Discussion with audience to follow.	More Information Annual Meeting Exhibitors & Advertisers (PDF) Employment Center Student Events at Meeting Regional Meetings Program Units Please join us in beautiful Baltimore for the 2013 AAR Annual Meeting November 23-26
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