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Thompson, Hamline University Thomas B. Coburn, Naropa University Zayn Kassam, Pomona College See Program Highlights for a description. Separate registration is required. A18-2 AAR Board of Directors Meeting Friday - 9:00 am-5:00 pm Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University, Presiding A18-5 JAAR International Project Subcommittee Friday - 9:00 am-3:00 pm A18-8 Friday - 9:00 am-10:45 am A18-3 Religion and Media Workshop - "Spinning" God: Teaching, Researching, and Reporting on Politics and Religion Friday - 10:00 am-6:00 pm S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University, Presiding Panelists: Diane Winston, University of Southern California Amy Sullivan, Washington Monthly Jeffrey Sharlet, New York University David Domke, University of Washington See Program Highlights for a description. Separate registration is required. This workshop is full. Please contact Brent Plate at b.plate@tcu.edu to be placed on the waiting list. A18-4 Women’s Caucus Workshop - Using Feminist Pedagogies in the Classroom Friday - 11:30 am-3:30 pm Harriet Luckman, College of Mount St. Joseph and Laurie Wright Garry, California Lutheran University, Presiding Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida Teaching Women in the Hindu Tradition Melissa Stewart, Adrian College The Trials and Tribulations of Teaching the Enraptured and the Napping Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego Teaching Buddhism from a Feminist Perspective Julie J. Kilmer, Olivet College A Feminist Response to Student Resistance: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the Classroom Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, University of Florida Teaching Women and Islam Paula Trimble-Familetti, Chapman University Creative Feminist Pedagogical Methodologies Business Meeting: Laurie Wright Garry, California Lutheran University, Presiding See Program Highlights for a description. A18-6 Theological Programs Intiative Consultation Friday - 12:30 pm-4:00 pm Carey J. Gifford, American Academy of Religion, Presiding A18-50 Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A18-51 Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A18-54 Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm A18-100 Teaching and Learning Committee Meeting Friday - 6:00 pm-9:00 pm Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College, Presiding Please meet in the lobby of the Marriott Philadelphia Hotel at 5:45 pm to depart to the restaurant. A18-101 Arts Series/Films: Peaceable Kingdom Friday - 7:00 pm-7:30 pm Sponsored by the Animals and Religion Consultation Jay McDaniel, Hendrix College, Presiding See Program Highlights for a description. A18-102 EIS Center Orientation Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm Shelly C. Roberts, American Academy of Religion, Presiding See Program Highlights for a description. A18-103 Arts Series/Films: Mana: Beyond Belief Friday - 7:30 pm-9:00 pm Sponsored by the Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Norman J. Girardot, Lehigh University, Presiding See Program Highlights for a description. A18-104 Religion in the Schools Task Force Reception for Scholars - Rights, Responsibilities and Respect: A First Amendment Model for Teaching about Religion Friday - 8:00 pm-9:30 pm Marcia Beauchamp, California Institute of Integral Studies, Presiding A19-1 Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee Meeting Saturday - 7:30 am-8:45 am Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School, Presiding A19-2 Regional Officers Breakfast Meeting Saturday - 7:30 am-9:00 am Stacy L. Patty, Lubbock Christian University, Presiding A19-3 Status of Women in the Profession Committee: Conversation about Gender Issues with Program Unit Chairs Saturday - 7:30 am-9:00 am Rebecca T. Alpert, Temple University, Presiding A19-4 Student Liaison Group Annual Business Meeting Saturday - 7:45 am-9:00 am Kimberly Bresler, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding A19-5 Academic Relations Committee Saturday - 8:00 am-9:30 am Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College, Presiding A19-6 Publications Committee Meeting Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University, Presiding A19-7 Barnes Museum Bus Tour Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Ruth Zoe Ost, Temple University, Presiding Please meet at the signposted area outside the Marriott Philadelphia Hotel at 8:45 am. Tours are scheduled by the museum, please do not be late! Bus tour is by reservation only; please have your ticket ready. Tour tickets will be mailed with the name badge materials in September. See Program Highlights for a description. Separate registration is required. A19-8 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by AAR and Jossey-Bass Publishing Julianna Gustafson, Jossey-Bass Publishers, Presiding Theme: Popularizing Our Scholarship: Its Pleasures and Pitfalls Panelists: Vanessa Ochs, University of Virginia Robert Thurman, Columbia University Lauren F. Winner, Duke Donna Freitas, Saint Michael's College See Program Highlights for a description. A19-9 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by AAR and Christians Associated for Relationships with Eastern Europe Paul Mojzes, Rosemont College, Presiding Theme: Quo Vadis Eastern Europe? Ines A. Murzaku, Seton Hall University The Basilian Monks of Grottaferrata and the Pursuit of Christian Unity Walter Sawatsky, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary Teaching about the Other: Inter-Church Dialogue for Russian/Ukrainian Christianity N. Gerald Shenk, Eastern Mennonite Seminary Cordoba and Sarajevo: Contrasts in Religious Separation and Tolerance James R. Payton, Redeemer University College Turkish Millet, Religious Nationalism, and Civil Society Leslie A. Muray, Curry College The Legacy of Vilmos Apor and Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty See Program Highlights for a description. A19-10 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section and Hinduism Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am John Cort, Denison University, Presiding Theme: Teaching Hinduism in a Survey Course Panelists: Joseph Schaller, Nazareth College Carl Olson, Allegheny College Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University Andrew O. Fort, Texas Christian University A19-11 Christian Systematic Theology Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kristen E. Kvam, Saint Paul School of Theology, Presiding Theme: Music and the Holy Spirit Nicholas Adams, University of Edinburgh Messiaen, Meaning, and the Transmission of Tradition J. David Franks, Boston College Music as the Apocalyptic Transfiguration of History, with Special Reference to Adorno and the Fate of Spirit in the Viennese Tradition Loye Ashton, Millsaps College Rhythmicity and the Eternal Creative Act of the Holy Spirit Responding: Don E. Saliers, Emory University A19-12 Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Religion and the Social Sciences Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Diane Jonte-Pace, Santa Clara University, Presiding Theme: Beyond Freud and Jung: New Psychological Approaches to Comparative Religious Studies Panelists: Shubha Pathak, University of Chicago Jonathan Schofer, University of Wisconsin, Madison Ann Taves, University of California, Santa Barbara Stephen Kaplan, Manhattan College Responding: Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union A19-13 History of Christianity Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Teresa M. Shaw, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding Theme: Reviewing History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn, by Elizabeth A. Clark (Harvard University Press) Panelists: David Brakke, Indiana University Patricia Cox Miller, Syracuse University Gabrielle Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University Responding: Elizabeth A. Clark, Duke University A19-14 Philosophy of Religion Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas, Presiding Theme: Technology, Religion, and the Human in Question Leslie Meltzer, University of Virginia All "Dollied" Up: Why Bans on Human Cloning Are Dressed in the Garb of Human Dignity Mohammad Motahari Farimani, Regis College, University of Toronto Islamic Philosophy and the Challenge of Cloning Anais Spitzer, Pacifica Graduate Institute Exceeding the Eye: The Nodular Subject and the Dislocation of the Philosophy of Religion Michael DeLashmutt, University of Aberdeen A Better Life through Information Technology? The Posthuman Person in Contemporary Speculative Science Business Meeting: Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles/University of Chicago, Presiding A19-15 Study of Islam Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Gisela Webb, Seton Hall University, Presiding Theme: Women, Agency, and Islam Kathryn M. Kueny, Fordham University Reproductive Discourse in Early Islamic Literature Aysha Hidayatullah, University of California, Santa Barbara Sexual Prescriptions and the Legacy of Mariyah the Copt Debra Mubashshir Majeed, Beloit College Polygyny in the Identity of African American Muslims Roxanne D. Marcotte, University of Queensland An Islamist Gender Discourse Sadiyya Shaikh, University of Cape Town In Search of Al-Insan: Sufism, Ethics, and Gender Responding: Zayn Kassam, Pomona College A19-16 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Darby Kathleen Ray, Millsaps College, Presiding Theme: Violence and God-Images, "After Girard" Hugh Reynolds Nicholson, Coe College Liberating Religion from Social Conflict: A Critical Examination of Three Evasive Strategies Charlene Burns, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Honesty about God: God’s Violence/ Violence in God’s Name in Wink, Jung, and Luther Thomas E. Reynolds, St. Norbert College The Non-Necessity of God’s Violence, or the Possibility of an Iconic Monotheism Matthias Beier, Drew University Violence, Fear, and God: Eugen Drewermann's Interdisciplinary Analysis of Christian Violence A19-17 Anthropology of Religion Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Rebecca Sachs Norris, Merrimack College, Presiding Theme: Transplanting Religion: Rethinking Authenticity Stuart Charme, Rutgers University Transplanted Authenticity: The Jewishness of Eastern Europe and the Revival of Klezmer Mariana Mastagar, Trinity College, University of Toronto Macedonian-Bulgarian Diaspora in Toronto and the Orthodox Christian Church Hanna Kim, New York, NY Becoming a New Religion the Old-Fashioned Way: Perspectives from a Transnational Hindu Movement Elijah Siegler, College of Charleston Place, Space, and the “Healing Dao": Practicing Popular Daoism in the U.S., Thailand, and China Responding: Charles Lindholm, Boston University A19-18 Bioethics and Religion Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Swasti Bhattacharyya, Buena Vista University, Presiding Theme: Religion, Ethics, and Access to Health Care Nancy Berlinger, The Hastings Center Conscientious Objection and Access to Reproductive Health Care Services: Gender, Justice, and Shame Charlene A. Galarneau, Wellesley College Christian Medical Sharing Plans: An Ethical Review Marie J. Giblin, Xavier University A Theological Ethics of Solidarity: Toward Global Health Care Access Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University Access to Drugs in a New Global Environment: A New Challenge for the African Church Business Meeting: Paul R. Johnson, D'Youville College, Presiding Aline Kalbian, Florida State University, Presiding A19-19 Eastern Orthodox Studies Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Demetrios Katos, Hellenic College, Presiding Theme: Patristic and Byzantine Hymnography Bogdan G. Bucur, Marquette University The Feet That Eve Heard in Paradise and Was Afraid: The Christology of Byzantine Festal Hymns Verna E. F. Harrison, Saint Paul School of Theology The Vindication of Eve: Romanus' Second Kontakion on Christ's Nativity Elijah Mueller, Marquette University Cleansed by the Fire of a Mystic Vision Constantine J. Terss, Heathrow, FL Tradition and Change - Liturgical Chant and Music in the Greek Orthodox Christian Experience in America: Early European Origins A19-20 Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sarah L. Schwarz, Haverford College, Presiding Theme: Rituals of Reading Sarah Iles Johnston, Ohio State University, Columbus Making One's Mark: Writing, Reading, and the Authorization of Marginal Religious Practices in Ancient Greece Michael D. Swartz, Ohio State University, Columbus Ritualizing the Book in Ancient Judaism Catherine Burris, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Readers in Syriac Texts: Who, What, When, and Where Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University Miniature Books and Rituals of Private Reading in Late Antiquity A19-21 Theology and Continental Philosophy Group and Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Creston Davis, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: Gender, Politics, and the Return to Religion Panelists: Slavoj Žižek, University of Ljubljana Amy M. Hollywood, University of Chicago Graham Ward, University of Manchester M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University A19-22 Indigenous Religious Traditions Group and Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Lindsey Jones, Ohio State University, Columbia, Presiding Theme: The Works and Scholarship of David Carrasco Panelists: Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University Luis Leon, University of California, Berkeley Charles Long, Chapel Hill, NC Ines Hernandez-Avila, University of California, Davis Lara Medina, Claremont Graduate University Jacob K. Olupona, University of California, Davis Responding: David Carrasco, Harvard University A19-23 Religion and Science Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Greg Peterson, South Dakota State University, Presiding Theme: The Future of Emergence: Should Theology Mind Emergence? Steven D. Crain, University of St. Francis God Embodied in, God Bodying Forth the World: Emergence and Christian Theology James Haag, Graduate Theological Union Finding Middle Ground: Clayton on Mind and Emergence Antje Jackelen, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Emergence Everywhere?! J. Wentzel Van Huyssteen, Princeton Theological Seminary Emergence and Human Distinctiveness: Limiting or Delimiting Evolutionary Explanation? Responding: Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology A19-24 Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia, Presiding Theme: Loves Herself. Regardless: Womanist Discourse on the Black Woman's Body Kimberleigh Jordan, New York University Black Bodies Moving in Sacred Space: African American Liturgical Dance Gayle R. Baldwin, University of North Dakota Black Woman's Drag Melva L. Sampson, Spelman College Give Me Body! Black Female Body as Icon in Hip-Hop and Religious Culture Pamela Y. Cook, University of Chicago Are There Any Hip-Hop Womanists in the House? Womanist Theology, Political Activism, and the Hip-Hop Generation S'thembile West, Western Illinois University Icons of Injustice: Gendered and Hyper-Sexualized Black Women's Bodies in U.S. Culture Sallie Cuffee, Medgar Evers College Alice Walker, The Color Purple, and a Womanist Gospel of Resistance A19-25 Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Marcia Bunge, Valparaiso University, Presiding Theme: Children and Poverty: Spiritual Resilience and Community Resources Panelists: Peter Benson, The Search Institute Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt University A19-26 Religion and Sexuality Consultation Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Catherine Roach, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Presiding Theme: Regulating Desire: Christian and Buddhist Sexuality Debates in America and Beyond Wil Brant, Chicago Theological Seminary Being Christian and Having Sex, Too: The Historical Context and Contemporary Application of the Regulation of Sexual Desire as Part of the Practice of Christian Faith Paul C. Kemeny, Grove City College Anthony Comstock, Free-Lovers, and the Censorship of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass: Defining the Terms of Protestant Toleration in Late Nineteenth-Century New England Stephanie Kaza, University of Vermont Finding Safe Harbor: Buddhist Sexual Ethics in America Lynne Gerber, Graduate Theological Union The Opposite of Gay: Ex-Gay Ministries, Identity, and Desire Business Meeting: R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University, Presiding A19-30 Religion and Ecology Tour: Eco-Justice and Chester, Pennsylvania Saturday - 9:00 am-12:00 pm Sponsored by the Religion and Ecology Group Please meet at the signposted area outside the Marriott Philadelphia Hotel at 9:15 am. Bus tour is by reservation only; please have your ticket ready. Tour tickets will be mailed with the name badge materials in September. Mark I. Wallace, Swarthmore College, Presiding See Program Highlights for a description. Separate registration is required. A19-29 Mother Bethel Church Bus Tour Saturday - 9:30 am-12:00 pm Sponsored by the African Religions Group and the Afro-American Religious History Group Please meet at the signposted area outside the Marriott Philadelphia Hotel at 9:15 am. Bus tour is by reservation only; please have your ticket ready. Tour tickets will be mailed with the name badge materials in September. Moses N. Moore, Arizona State University, Presiding See Program Highlights for a description. Separate registration is required. A19-27 Plenary Address Saturday - 11:30 am-12:30 pm Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University, Presiding Theme: A Life Biography of Wolfhart Pannenberg Panelists: Wolfhart Pannenberg, Gräfelfing, Germany See Program Highlights for a description. A19-28 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 11:45 am-1:00 pm Sponsored by AAR and American Theological Library Association Kimberly Bresler, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: AAR Student Luncheon and Panel Discussion: Career Alternatives for Doctoral Students in Religion and Theology Panelists: Dennis A. Norlin, American Theological Library Association Thomas Breidenthal, Princeton University Mary Sweetland Laver, Bala Cynwyd, PA See Program Highlights for a description. Separate registration is required. A19-50 Arts Series/Films: Alambrista Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm See Program Highlights for a description. A19-51 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by JAAR Glenn E. Yocum, Whittier College, Presiding Theme: Imagining Religion in the Postcolony: Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism Panelists: Achille Membe, University of Witwatersrand Raja Bahlul, United Arab Emirates Jace Weaver, University of Georgia Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University Ebrahim E. I. Moosa, Duke University See Program Highlights for a description. A19-52 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee Melissa Rogers, Wake Forest University, Presiding Theme: The Supreme Court and Religion Panelists: Kent R. Greenawalt, Columbia University Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary's College of California Oliver Thomas, Niswonger Foundation See Program Highlights for a description. A19-53 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Committee Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College, Presiding Theme: AAR Excellence in Teaching Forum: A Conversation about Teaching with the 2005 Excellence in Teaching Award Winner Panelists: Zayn Kassam, Pomona College See Program Highlights for a description. A19-54 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jeffrey F. Keuss, Seattle Pacific University, Presiding Theme: Angels in America: Theatre, Film, Literature Kent Brintnall, Emory University Shifting Contexts for Grief and Rage: Watching Angels in America, Then and Now Craig S. Strobel, ConSpiritu: A Center for Cultural Creativity co-presenter with Victoria Rue Victoria Rue, San Jose State University Angels in America: Performing Gender Construction Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Columbia University Of Ghosts and Angels: Derrida and Kushner on the Impossibility of Forgiveness Dugan McGinley, Temple University Angels, Witches, and Goats, Oh My! Otherworldly Creatures on Broadway A19-55 Buddhism Section and Japanese Religions Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University, Presiding Theme: Buddhism in the Southern Capital: Heian and Kamakura Developments of Nara Buddhism Sarah Horton, Macalester College The Miraculous Jizos of Nara David Quinter, Stanford University Creating Bodhisattvas: Eison, Manjusri, and Kamakura-Period Buddhism Revisited Kenryo Minowa, Aichi-gakuin University Zen and the Precepts in Medieval Nara Buddhism: As Seen in Ensho Shonin Gyojo Susumu Uejima, Kyoto Prefectural University Towards a New Understanding of the Formation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism Responding: Robert Rhodes, Otani University A19-56 Ethics Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Lucinda J. Peach, American University, Presiding Theme: Spheres of (In)Justice: Terrorism, Turmoil, and the Resort to Torture Elizabeth Barre, Florida State University When Disaster Looms: Terrorism and Supreme Emergency in the Arguments of Michael Walzer and Osama bin Ladin Nancy Berlinger, The Hastings Center When the Subject Is Torture(d): Torture, Terror, Religion, and Research Ethics Bradley L. Herling, Boston University Walzer and Ignatieff on the Evils of the War on Terror Douglas McCready, Kutztown, PA When Is Torture Right? A19-57 History of Christianity Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University, Presiding Theme: Silk Hoods, Deaconess Bonnets, and Nuns’ Habits: Debating Women’s Dress in American Christianity Martha L. Finch, Missouri State University “Between Two Extreams”: Female Self-Fashioning in Early New England Jenny Wiley Legath, Princeton University Deaconess Garb: A Bad Habit or Good Fashion Sense? Stephanie Stillman, University of California, Santa Barbara Hard Habit to Break: The Work of Mapping Postconciliar Catholicism on Nuns’ Bodies Responding: Colleen McDannell, University of Utah Business Meeting: Anne Clark, University of Vermont, Presiding Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University, Presiding A19-58 North American Religions Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Catherine L. Albanese, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Metaphysical/Occult Traditions and the Imagination of America: Critical and Historical Perspectives D. Michael Quinn, Rancho Cucamonga, CA Marginalizing the Mainstream of Religion, the Occult, and the Otherworldly John H. Lardas, Haverford College The Metaphysics of Empire and the Government of Souls Robert S. Cox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Race, Nation, and the Topography of Spiritualist Emotion Darryl Victor Caterine, Grinnell College The Dark Sublime: Occult Heresies and the American Nation Responding: Ann Taves, University of California, Santa Barbara A19-59 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University, Presiding Theme: Evangelical Religion and Social Change Nora Lozano, Baptist University of the Americas Honesty, Conflict, and a New Vision of the Reign of God as a Basis for Social Change among Latino/a Evangélicos/as Kathleen Garces-Foley, California State University, Northridge Asian-American Evangelicals and the Value of Diversity Ki Joo Choi, Boston College Cultivating the Affections, Lakewood Church Style: Insights for Contemporary Religious and Moral Reflection Chris Boesel, Drew University "Thus Sayeth the Lord...": Prophetic Voice, Evangelical Theology, and Social Change Christian T. Collins Winn, Bethel University co-present with Boesel A19-60 Women and Religion Section and Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: Children, Women, War, and Politics Kristin Herzog, Independent Scholars' Association Child Soldiers, Militarism, and Theology: An Ethical Challenge Honora Chapman, Stanford University “Slaughter of the Innocents”: Children in Ancient and Modern War Raymond J. Webb, University of St. Mary of the Lake Living and Partly Living: Childhood under Occupation Responding: Katharina von Kellenbach, St. Mary's College of Maryland A19-61 Black Theology Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Juan Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University, Presiding Theme: The Nature of Black Religious Experience Torin Alexander, Rice University The Nature of African American Religious Experience: A Postmodern/Post-structuralist Analysis CL Nash, University of Edinburgh Theoretically Essential: Postmodernism and Approaches to Liberation Jonathon Samuel Kahn, Vassar College Toward a Tradition of African-American Pragmatic Religious Naturalism Responding: M. Shawn Copeland, Boston College A19-62 Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Charles Marsh, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: War as Responsible Action? The Uses and Abuses of Bonhoeffer's Ethics Susan Ford Wiltshire, Vanderbilt University “Telling the Truth”: Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Context Robert O. Smith, Baylor University Bonhoeffer, Bloggers, and Bush: Uses of a “Protestant Saint” in the Fog of War Robert Vosloo, University of Stellenbosch “Neither Defiant nor Despairing, but Humble and Confident”: In Conversation with Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Beyers Naudé on Discernment A19-63 Confucian Traditions Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Edward Slingerland, University of British Columbia, Presiding Theme: A Gentleman and His Money: Confucian Attitudes Toward the Creation and Transmission of Wealth Michael Puett, Harvard University Ritual and Non-Ritual Exchange in Early China Keith Knapp, The Citadel The Subtle Art of Avoiding Profit: The Mercantile Adventures of a Fifth-Century Confucian Exemplar Peter Ditmanson, Colby College Female Virtue, Neo-Confucian Views of Commerce in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century China Christian Jochim, San Jose State University “Confucian” Views on Wealth Creation from a Modern Interpretive Community: Social Scientists Responding: Mark Halperin, University of California, Davis A19-64 Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group and Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Laurel C. Schneider, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Taking Risks: The Rhetorical Challenges in Deconstructing the Radical Religious Right Panelists: Mark D. Jordan, Emory University Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University Ronald E. Long, Hunter College Robert E. Goss, Metropolitan Community Church Peggy Schmeiser, University of Ottawa A19-65 Islamic Mysticism Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Reading Texts, Reading Lives: Historical and Theoretical Revaluations of Sufi Sources Shahzad Bashir, Carleton College Corpses in the Hands of Morticians: Pursuing the Social Logic of Disciple-Master Relationships in Hagiographical Narratives Devin DeWeese, Indiana University, Bloomington Reading the Labels: Corporate Names of Sufi Communities in Timurid-Era Sources Amina Steinfels, Mount Holyoke College From Intertextuality to Interdiscursivity: Sufi Texts and Fiqh Texts in Medieval South Asia Elias Jamal, Amherst College Wise Servants and Virtuous Kings: Sufi Writings as a Source of Islamic Ethics Responding: Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Washington University, St. Louis A19-66 Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm David J. Gouwens, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, Presiding Theme: Kierkegaard and Contemporary Virtue Ethics Robert Roberts, Baylor University Kierkegaard and Virtue Ethics Jason A. Mahn, Duke University Kierkegaard after Hauerwas: Christian Courage and Fortunate Fallibility in Contemporary Virtue Ethics W. Glenn Kirkconnell, Santa Fe Community College Kierkegaard and the Virtues of Weakness Responding: Lee Barrett, Lancaster Theological Seminary Business Meeting: Marcia C. Robinson, Syracuse University, Presiding A19-67 Korean Religions Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Eun Hee Shin, Simpson College, Presiding Theme: Religion and Politics in Korean History Patrick Uhlmann, University of California, Los Angeles Buddhist Monks and Political Power in Late Koryô-Early Chosôn: The Trajectory and Strategy of Muhak Chach'o Weon Chu, Brookline, MA The Korean Use of Religious "Orthodoxy" as a Political Weapon: The Parallel between the Seventeenth-Century Confucian Ritual Controversy and the Twentieth-Century Christian Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy Wi Jo Kang, Wartburg Theological Seminary Shinto Religion, Politics, and Christian Response in Korea Yun Cho, Claremont Graduate University Deconstructing Religions: Religions in the Age of Nukes and Anti-Americanism Responding: John I. Goulde, Sweet Briar College Youngmin Kim, Bryn Mawr College A19-68 Nineteenth-Century Theology Group and Mysticism Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Harvey Hill, Berry College and Elizabeth Dreyer, Fairfield University, Presiding Theme: Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth-Century Approaches to Mysticism, East and West Douglas S. Duckworth, Florida State University Buddha-Nature as the Unity of the Two Truths in Mi-pham’s (’Ju Mi Pham Rgya Mtsho, 1842-1912) Interpretation Michael J. Kerlin, LaSalle University Maurice Blondel: Philosophy, Prayer, and the Mystical Charles J. T. Talar, University of Saint Thomas The Modernist and the Mystic: Albert Houtin's Une Grande Mystique John M. Thompson, Christopher Newport University Particular and Universal: Problems Posed by Shaku Sōen’s “Zen” James H. Thrall, Duke University May Sinclair: Mystic Modern A19-69 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Native Traditions in the Americas Group Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University, Presiding Theme: The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and U.S. Culture Schuyler Shawn, Syracuse University Misplaced Origins and Debts Ignored: Democracy Isn't Free Chris Jocks, Arizona State University What the American Founders Did Not* Learn from the Haudenosaunee* Nancy Napierala, State University of New York, Buffalo Clan Mothers: The Role of Haudenosaunee Clan Mothers in Survival of the Iroquois Confederacy Sally Roesch Wagner, Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists See Program Highlights for a description. A19-70 New Religious Movements Group and Contemporary Pagan Studies Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Michael York, London, United Kingdom, Presiding Theme: Neo-Pagan Religions in Central and Eastern Europe: Identity, Community, and Challenge Panelists: Adrian Ivakhiv, University of Vermont Victor Shnirelman, Russian Academy of Sciences Egidija Ramanauskaite Kiskina, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Gintautas Mazeikis, Siauliai University, Lithuania Responding: Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico A19-71 Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Nancy Frankenberry, Dartmouth College, Presiding Theme: Perspectives from the Post-Analytic Philosophy of Language in the Study of Religion Panelists: Gabriel Levy, University of California, Santa Barbara Kevin Schilbrack, Wesleyan College G. Scott Davis, University of Richmond Responding: Jeppe Sinding Jensen, University of Aarhus Terry Godlove, Hofstra University Hans H. Penner, Hanover, NH A19-72 Reformed Theology and History Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Kang-Yup Na, Westminster College, Presiding Theme: Reformed Perspectives on Genetic Engineering Elizabeth Agnew, University of Notre Dame Conversion, Grace, and Illumination: The Contribution of Jonathan Edwards’ Virtue to Debates about Personhood in Bioethics Christian D. Kettler, Friends University Image and Substitute: The Vicarious Humanity of Christ in a World of Genetic Engineering Jesse Couenhoven, Villanova University Genetic Determinism and the "Freedom of the Gaps": A Compatibilist Response Joni Powers, University of Texas, Dallas co-presenter with Robert A. Pyne Robert A. Pyne, Dallas Theological Seminary Still Being Human: The Image of God and Embodiment after the Genome A19-73 Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Shelley Wiley, Morningside College, Presiding Theme: Religion and Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean: In Honor of Oscar Romero John A. Donaghy, St. Thomas Aquinas Church Romero's Legacy in Context David Tombs, Trinity College, Dublin Oscar Romero's Commitment to Liberation and Reconciliation Michael Jagessar, Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education Resistance and Liberation Struggles among Caribbean Coolies: The Religious Imagination of Bechu - "Bound Coolie'"Radical Thia Cooper, Gustavus Adolphus College Still Struggling toward a New Earth: The Integration of Faith and Practice within Centro de Estudos e Ação Social Responding: Iain S. Maclean, James Madison University A19-74 Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group and Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Mary Ann Stenger, University of Louisville, Presiding Theme: Interrogating Ontotheology: Tillich, Heidegger, Marion, and Caputo Russell Manning, University of Cambridge Beyond Being: Tillich, Marion, and Caputo on Why God Does Not Exist Martin Gallagher, University of Kansas Tillich and Heidegger on Being Mario Costa, Drew University God-Less Thinking: The Question of Onto-Theology in Heidegger and Tillich Responding: Anthony J. Godzieba, Villanova University A19-75 Augustine and Augustinianisms Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Robert P. Kennedy, St. Francis Xavier University and Kim Paffenroth, Iona College, Presiding Theme: Augustine and Community Andrea J. Dickens, United Theological Seminary Augustine’s Image of the Ascension: Medieval Monastic Receptions Matt Jenson, University of St. Andrews Sin and the City: Augustine, Sin, and Life Together Paul R. Kolbet, Boston College Christian Identity and Imperial Participation: Tensions in Augustine's Ideal of Community Life Eric Plumer, University of Scranton The Wise Master Builder: Paul as a Model for Building Community in Augustine's Commentary on Galatians Responding: Phillip Cary, Eastern University Business Meeting: Kim Paffenroth, Iona College, Presiding A19-76 Foucault Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jeremy R. Carrette, University of Kent, Presiding Theme: Bodies and Spaces: Foucault and Philosophy of Religion John McSweeney, University of Limerick Heterotopic Theology: Toward a Liminal Foucauldian Space of Thought Jenna Tiitsman, Union Theological Seminary Scratching the Surface: Making Meaning on the Screen of The Pillow Book and the Skin of the Incorporeal God Matthew S. Waggoner, University of California, Santa Cruz The Preponderance of Objectivity: Foucault, Adorno, and the Politicization of Melancholia Responding: Sharon D. Welch, University of Missouri, Columbia Business Meeting: Thomas M. Beaudoin, Santa Clara University, Presiding A19-77 Religion, Media, and Culture Consultation Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Bradford Verter, Bennington College, Presiding Theme: Mediating Transcendence in the New Millennium Alexandra Boutros, McGill University Altered States: Travel, Transcendence, and Technology in Contemporary Vodou Practice Jill Gorman, Rollins College September 12, Madrid, and Kabul Kaboom! Shockwave Gaming and the Construction of Muslim Identity Annie Blakeney-Glazer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Tactical Heterotopias and the Space of Religious Performance Alison R. Marshall, Brandon University Digital Ecstasy: Simulating Religious Experiences in Cyberspace Business Meeting: Michele Rosenthal, University of Haifa, Presiding A19-129 JAAR International Reception Saturday - 3:30 pm-5:00 pm Gary M. Laderman, Emory University and Sheila Greeve Davaney, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding A19-100 Arts Series/Films: Sharon O'Brien - Readings from The Family Silver Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Mara Donaldson, Dickinson College, Presiding Panelists: Sharon O'Brien, See Program Highlights for a description. A19-101 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Regions Committee Jane Marie Law, Cornell University, Presiding Theme: Responding to Political Targeting of Religion Scholars in U.S. Institutions of Higher Education Panelists: Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College Linda A. Moody, Mount St. Mary's College Mary McGee, Columbia University See Program Highlights for a description. A19-102 Special Topics Forum Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Status of Racial & Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee Nami Kim, Spelman College, Presiding Theme: Storming the Ivory Tower: Conflict, Complicity, and Social Change Panelists: Miguel A. De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology Joan M. Martin, Episcopal Divinity School John J. Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University Andrea Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Debra Mubashshir Majeed, Beloit College See Program Highlights for a description. A19-103 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University, Presiding Theme: Ethics, Art, and Drama: Teaching Purpose and Performance Helen Benet-Goodman, Charlottesville, VA Hitmen and Whistleblowers: Using Films to Teach Ethics Victoria Rue, San Jose State University Acting Religious: Theatre as Pedagogy in Religious Studies and Theology Nelia Beth Scovill, Marian College of Fond du Lac co-presenter with Joel Heim Joel Heim, National-Louis University A Spectrum Approach to Christian Ethics: Respecting Difference without Resorting to Relativism Marit Trelstad, Pacific Lutheran University co-presenter with Kathryn A. Breazeale Kathlyn A. Breazeale, Pacific Lutheran University Negotiating Transformative Education through Feminist Pedagogy: Challenging Perspectives from Ethics and Art Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College Promoting Freedom, Responsibility, and Learning in a General Education Religious Studies Course: The Learning Covenant a Decade Later A19-104 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm David Jasper, University of Glasgow, Presiding Theme: Russian Orthodoxy in Literature and Modern Life Panelists: Elena Volkova, Moscow State University Oleg Komkov, Moscow State University Irina Karatsuba, Moscow State University A19-105 Buddhism Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Karen Derris, University of Redlands, Presiding Theme: Building Buddhism in the Neighborhood: Individual Papers on Place and Social Space Jacob Dalton, McMaster University Spirits under the Ground: The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism and the Notion of the "Dark Period" Jonathan Stockdale, University of Puget Sound Sutoku and Saigyo: Centripetal and Centrifugal Religious Orientations to Heiankyo Gareth Fisher, University of Virginia The Spiritual Land Rush: Morality, Power, and Place in New Chinese Buddhist Temple Construction Jeffrey Samuels, Western Kentucky University Saving the Buddhist Religion: Caste Discrimination and the Establishment of New Temples in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Sri Lanka Business Meeting: Janet Gyatso, Harvard University, Presiding Charles Hallisey, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Presiding A19-106 Christian Systematic Theology Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Joy McDougall, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Revealed Beauty: The Revelation of God's Beauty in Particular Cultural Forms Christian D. Kettler, Friends University The Vicarious Beauty of Christ: The Aesthetics of the Atonement Karen Kilby, University of Nottingham Mathematics, Beauty, and Theology Frank Burch Brown, Christian Theological Seminary Theological Aesthetics and Sacramental Imagination: Recalling the Arts Amy Pauw, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary “A Broken Beauty”: Cultural Trajectories in Barth’s Theology of Divine Beauty A19-107 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Rebecca Moore, San Diego State University, Presiding Theme: Secrecy, Politics, and Privacy: Rethinking Religious Secrecy, Pre- and Post-September 11 Paul Christopher Johnson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Public Secret Religion and the Apotheosis of Duvalier, Loa 22-Os Ruqayya Yasmine Khan, Trinity University Secrecy and Selfhood in Early Arabo-Islamic Canons Hugh B. Urban, Ohio State University, Columbus Religion and Secrecy in the Bush Administration: Gentleman, Prince, and Prodigal Son Michael Barkun, Syracuse University Religious Privacy after September 11 Responding: Steve Wasserstrom, Reed College A19-108 Ritual Studies Group and Ethics Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Donna Lynne Seamone, McMaster University, Presiding Theme: Intersections of Ritual and Ethics: Rites Shaping Ethics, Ethics Shaping Rites Ann Mongoven, Indiana University, Bloomington Organ Donation as, or Versus, Death Ritual: A Comparative Analysis, U.S.-Japan Ted A. Smith, Vanderbilt University Sinners Bound to Change Their Own Hearts: The Anxious Bench as a Ritual for Freedom Charles Taliaferro, Saint Olaf College co-present with Reasoner Paul Reasoner, Bethel University A Double-Movement Model of Forgiveness in Buddhist and Christian Rituals John-Charles Duffy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Concealing the Body, Concealing the Sacred: The Decline of Ritual Nudity in Mormon Temples Responding: William R. LaFleur, University of Pennsylvania A19-109 Philosophy of Religion Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Madhuri Yadlapati, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Presiding Theme: Religion and German Idealism: Confronting Naturalism and Critical Reason Andrew Chignell, Cornell University Kant on Beauty as a Religious Symbol Andrew C. Dole, Amherst College Schleiermacher’s Theological Anti-Realism Thomas A. Lewis, Harvard University Critical Reason, Idealism, and Religion in Hegel Responding: Terry Pinkard, Northwestern University A19-110 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Seattle University, Presiding Theme: Religious Discourse and Participation in the Public Sphere: Social Scientific Analyses Larry Golemon, Dominican University of California Sacred Visions and the Social Good: Religious Practice and Discourse toward a Just, Sustainable, Pluralistic Democracy Robert P. Jones, People for the American Way Foundation Remembering Equality: Moral Values, Taxes, and the Contemporary American Religious Left John Senior, Emory University Beyond Belief Alone: The Discursive Shape of the Religion and Society Debate David Horace Perkins, Vanderbilt University The Last Cathedral: Simmel, Sacred Music, and the Market A19-111 Religion in South Asia Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Parimal G. Patil, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: Rethinking Religion and Aesthetics in South Asia Emily Hudson, Emory University The Aesthetics of the Abandoned Wife: Ethics and the Poetics of Suffering in the Dicing Scene of the Mahabharata Ajay Rao, University of Chicago Rama as King, Rama as God: Valmiki's Epic in Courtly and Temple Spheres Katherine C. Zubko, Emory University Casting Bhakti Rasa in an Ethical Role: Performed Aesthetics and the Disruption of Religious Categories in Bharata Natyam Guy Leavitt, University of Chicago Cosmic Drama and Dramatic Cosmos: Tracing the Rapprochement between Saivism and Aesthetics in Medieval Kashmir Tony K. Stewart, North Carolina State University Emotion Thrice-Abstracted: The "Vaisnava" Poetry of Rabindranath Responding: Anne Monius, Harvard University A19-112 Study of Islam Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Washington University, St. Louis, Presiding Theme: Contemporary Muslim Intellectuals and Islamic Thought Clinton Bennett, Birmingham, U.K. The Humanization of Islam or the Islamization of Knowledge? David L. Johnston, Yale University Jamal al-Banna, Mohammad Hashim Kamali, and Khaled Abou El Fadl: An Evolving Theology of Justice and Democracy R. Michael Feener, University of California, Riverside "The Way and the Community": Modern Re-conceptualizations of Social Order in Indonesian Islam Roxanne D. Marcotte, University of Queensland An Iranian Perspective on Islamic Hermeneutics Mark Lazenby, West Hartford, CT The Notion of a Common Language and Quietism in Iraq's Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Michael Brett Wilson, Duke University The Problem of Orthodoxy in Islamic Studies A19-113 Women and Religion Section Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Toroitch D. Cherono, Georgia State University, Presiding Theme: Innovative Methodologies in the Study of Goddess Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Loyola Marymount University A Method of Studying Mago, the Great Goddess, from East Asia: The Mytho-HistoricThealogy of Magoism Dawn Work-MaKinne, Union Institute and University Creative and Arts-Based Methodologies in the Study of the Goddesses Patricia Monaghan, DePaul University Partial Truths: Narrated Scholarship and the Personal Voice Lauve H. Steenhuisen, Georgetown University Feminist Theology and Backlash Fundamentalism: Re-Imagining Reconsidered Responding: Min-Ah Cho, Emory University A19-114 African Religions Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Kimberly Rae Connor, University of San Francisco, Presiding Theme: African Religions and the Neo-Diaspora Isabel Mukonyora, Western Kentucky University Multi-Dimensional Conceptualization of the African Diaspora Yushau Sodiq, Texas Christian University West African Sufis in the Americas Afe Adogame, University of Bayreuth Up, Up Jesus! Down, Down Satan! African Religiosity in the Former Soviet Bloc: The Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations Responding: Jacob K. Olupona, University of California, Davis Business Meeting: Samuel K. Elolia, Emmanuel School of Religion, Presiding A19-115 Chinese Religions Group and Daoist Studies Consultation Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Ritual, Temple, and Power in Later Daoism Stephen Eskildsen, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Do Immortals Kill? The Controversy Surrounding Lü Dongbin Shin-yi Chao, Rutgers University -- Camden The Divine Empyrean Palace Temple Network and the Court of Song Huizong David Mozina, Harvard University How to Become a God: Ritual Transformation into Deities by Contemporary Daoist Priests Responding: Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Indiana University, Bloomington Robert Hymes, Columbia University A19-116 Christian Spirituality Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Janet Ruffing, Fordham University, Presiding Theme: Varied Voices: Theory and Practice of Christian Spiritual Guidance Anita Houck, Saint Mary's College Reading Voices: A Bakhtinian Model for Literature, Spirituality, and Vocation Elizabeth Drescher, Graduate Theological Union “Good Frendys of þe Spiritualte”: “Holi Dalywance” as a Model of Spiritual Guidance in The Book of Margery Kempe W. Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago The Counsel of Patience: Prisoners as Spiritual Directors in Early Modern England Carole Dale Spencer, George Fox University Anthony Benezet: A Philadelphia Quaker’s Testament to the Love of God Stanford J. Searl, The Union Institute Quaker Clearness Committees: An Interdisciplinary and Spiritual Process A19-117 Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Allison P. Coudert, University of California, Davis, Presiding Theme: Religion, Science, and Political Discourse: Transfers and Interactions Caleb Elfenbein, University of California, Santa Barbara Discourses on Religion, Islam, and the Remaking of Iraq Jenna Tiitsman, Union Theological Seminary Looking for What You Cannot See: Fascination with Forensic Drama and the Blind Faith of Bush Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Amsterdam On the Interface of Cultures: Astrology, Chymistry, and Kabbalah between Science and Religion Titus Hjelm, University of Helsinki Meaning and Implications of Medicalization for the Study of Religion Business Meeting: Steven Engler, Mount Royal College & Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Presiding A19-118 Evangelical Theology Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm John R. Franke, Biblical Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Remembering the Life and Works of Stan Grenz Panelists: Roger E. Olson, Baylor University Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard University Business Meeting: Anthea Butler, University of Rochester, Presiding A19-119 Religion and Disability Studies Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm John Swinton, University of Aberdeen, Presiding Theme: Critical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas's Essays on Disability: Disabling Society, Enabling Theology Panelists: Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology Bill Gaventa, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Susanne Rappmann, Karlstad University Nancy L. Eiesland, Emory University Samuel Wells, Duke University Kerry Wynn, Southeast Missouri State University Responding: Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University A19-120 Religion and Ecology Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Beth Blissman, Oberlin College, Presiding Theme: Evolution, Ecology, and Other Religious Animals Panelists: Heather Eaton, St. Paul University Daniel T. Spencer, University of Montana, Missoula Lisa Sideris, Indiana University Paul Waldau, Tufts University Responding: John B. Cobb, Claremont School of Theology Business Meeting: Beth Blissman, Oberlin College, Presiding A19-121 Religion and Popular Culture Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Gary M. Laderman, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Religion and the Politics of Parody Samantha Baskind, Cleveland State University The Fockerized Jew? Questioning Jewishness as Cool in American Popular Entertainment Christina Cabeen, University of California, Santa Barbara Pleasure Temples and Gambling Nuns: The Rhetoric of Las Vegas Religion in the Fifties and Sixties Mark W. Graham, College of Wooster Comic Form, Forms of Comedy, and the Limits of Religious Criticism in American Popular Culture Brannon Hancock, University of Glasgow Parody and Prophecy: A Serious Look at South Park A19-122 Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Susan Windley-Daoust, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Presiding Theme: Lessons Learned from the U.S./Iraq Conflicts, 1989 to the Present Panelists: John Kelsay, Florida State University Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara G. Simon Harak, War Resisters League Margaret R. Pfeil, University of Notre Dame Daniel McKanan, Saint John's University A19-123 Roman Catholic Studies Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Colleen McDannell, University of Utah, Presiding Theme: Catholics in the Movies Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College Progressive Era Religion, Politics, and the Social Problem Film Anthony B. Smith, University of Daytona Bing Crosby, Hollywood, and the Catholic Public Sphere Peter Gardella, Manhattanville College The Catholic Horror Film Timothy Meagher, Catholic University of America Cops and Priests: The Decline of the Irish-American Catholic A19-124 Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Darlene Fozard Weaver, Villanova University, Presiding Theme: Public Theology and Democracy Marc Krell, University of Arizona Constructing a Public Theology: Tillich and Buber's Movement beyond Protestant and Jewish Boundaries in Weimar Germany Jonathan Rothchild, Loyola Marymount Confronting the Powers: Tillich, Stout, and West on Democratic Principles and Procedures Loye Ashton, Millsaps College Christofascism in America: A Tillichian Analysis of Christian Reconstructionism Guy Hammond, Virginia Tech Emeritus Does the Road of Providence Lead to Freedom? Geoge W. Bush, Paul Tillich, and the Theology of History A19-125 Cultural History of the Study of Religion Consultation Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Tisa Wenger, Arizona State University, Presiding Theme: Courtrooms, Schoolrooms, and the Making of Religion Kathleen Holscher, Princeton University Making Religion in the Courtroom: The Practical Implications of the Anthropologist Expert Witness Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston The Collapse of Religion as a Constitutional Construct: Can the Study of Religion Help? Brian P. Bennett, Niagara University The Discourse of "Orthodox Culture" in Postcommunist Russia Responding: Eric Mazur, Bucknell University Business Meeting: Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University, Presiding Tisa Wenger, Arizona State University, Presiding A19-126 Queer Theory and LGBT Studies in Religion Consultation Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm New Program Unit Claudia Schippert, University of Central Florida, Presiding Theme: Queering the Study of Religion Tricia Sheffield, Columbia University Jesus as Intersexed: A Transgender Counternarrative of Embodiment Kathryn Lofton, Reed College Queering Fundamentalism: The Case Against John Balcom Shaw (1860-1935) Heather White, Princeton University Queer Encounters: Churchmen, Homophiles, and the Council on Religion and the Homosexual Leslie Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara Constructing Chaos: The Religious Right, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Scholars Who Study Them Both Responding: Robin Hawley Gorsline, Brooklyn, NY Business Meeting: Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College, Presiding A19-127 Friends of the Academy Donors' Reception Saturday - 5:30 pm-6:45 pm Individuals whose generosity allows us to continue many of our special programs are invited to a reception hosted by the AAR Board of Directors. A19-128 AAR Racial and Ethnic Minority Members' Reception Saturday - 6:15 pm-7:00 pm The Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee invites interested persons to a reception celebrating the contributions of racial and ethnic minority scholars in the Academy. A19-130 Plenary Address Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Diana L. Eck, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: AAR Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony: Hans Hillerbrand, On Book Burnings and Book Burners: Reflections on the Power (and Powerlessness) of Words and Ideas (and Powerlessness) of Words and Ideas Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University See Program Highlights for a description. A19-131 Arts Series/Films: Dennis and Dan Bielfeldt - Jazz on Sax and Piano Saturday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University, Presiding See Program Highlights for a description. A19-132 Arts Series/Films: Dogma Saturday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Rachel Wagner, Oregon State University, Presiding See Program Highlights for a description. A19-133 Arts Series/Films: Freaks Saturday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Sponsored by the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Rubina Ramji, University of Ottawa, Presiding See Program Highlights for a description. A19-134 AAR Members' Dance Reception and Dance Party Saturday - 8:30 pm-12:00 am AAR members are invited to join one another at the AAR Members’ Dance Party for music and dancing. Don’t forget the free drink ticket mailed with your name badge! A19-135 Reception Honoring Contributors to A Guide for Women in Religion and the Guide to the Perplexing: A Survival Manual for Women in Religious Studies Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm The Status of Women in the Profession Committee and the Women’s Caucus invites you to a reception honoring those women who contributed to the original Guide to the Perplexing: A Survival Manual for Women in Religious Studies and those who produced its sequel A Guide for Women in Religion: Making Your Way from A to Z. A19-136 Student Members' Reception Saturday - 10:00 pm-12:00 am AAR and SBL student members are invited to drop by for conversation with fellow students. Beer, wine, soft drinks, and light snacks will be provided. A20-1 AAR New Members' Continental Breakfast Sunday - 7:30 am-8:45 am Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University, Presiding New (first-time) AAR members in 2005 are cordially invited to a continental breakfast with members of the Board of Directors. A20-2 JAAR Editorial Board Meeting Sunday - 7:30 am-8:45 am Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia, Presiding A20-3 Native Traditions in the Americas Group and Religion and Ecology Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Vijaya Nagarajan, University of San Francisco, Presiding Theme: Ecology, Activism, and Native American Lands/Waters John Baumann, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Collaborative Environmentalism: Environmental Resistance among Natives and Non-Natives Joel Geffen, University of Montana Indians, Salmon, and the Complexities of Conflict: Ethical Foundations of Water Disputes and the Exercise of Political Power in the Klamath Basin Dianne Quigley, Syracuse University The Need for Communal Research Ethics: Haudanosaunee Democratic Models Les Benedict, Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment Ecology and Native Lands Business Meeting: Michael McNally, Carleton College, Presiding Kenneth Mello, University of Vermont, Presiding A20-4 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Program Committee Robert E. Alvis, Saint Meinrad School of Theology, Presiding Theme: Religion in Europe East and West Panelists: Anne Sofie Roald, Malmo University Timothy Byrnes, Colgate University Maria Marczewska-Rytko, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Grace Davie, University of Exeter Alexander Verkhovsky, SOVA Center for Information and Analysis Aila Lauha, University of Helsinki Responding: Andrii Krawchuk, University of Sudbury See Program Highlights for a description. A20-5 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Committee Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico, Presiding Theme: Religion and the Science Curriculum: Implications and Strategies Panelists: Ted Peters, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University John A. Grim, Forum on Religion and Ecology Diane L. Moore, Harvard University Warren A. Nord, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill See Program Highlights for a description. A20-6 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia, Presiding Theme: What You Don't Know Won't Kill You: Learning Teaching on the Job Katherine Janiec Jones, Transylvania University “Make the Part Your Own”: What Soap Opera Digest Should Have Taught Me about Teaching Emily Askew, Carroll College Negotiating the Chasm between Graduate School and the First Year of Teaching: How I Stopped Crying and Started Drinking Anette Ejsing, Augustana College What I Wished They'd Told Me about Teaching and How I Learned Better Gitte Butin, Gettysburg College Teaching Itself Andrea Hollingsworth, Bethel Seminary The Existential Anxiety of Learning: Stages and Elements in a Seminarian's Journey of Transformational Education A20-7 Buddhism Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Ronald M. Davidson, Fairfield University, Presiding Theme: The Buddhist Preacher in History and Literature Mahinda Deegalle, Bath Spa University From Dhammabhanaka to Buddhist Preaching: Theravada Vernacular Transmission David Drewes, Indiana University, Bloomington Dharmabhanakas in Early Indian Mahayana Natalie Gummer, Beloit College Listening to the Dharmabhanaka Richard Nance, Ann Arbor, MI The Dharmabhanaka Inside and Outside the Sutras Responding: Charles Hallisey, University of Wisconsin, Madison A20-8 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Mary N. MacDonald, Le Moyne College, Presiding Theme: Comparativists and the Study of Religion(s) Panelists: Victoria Kennick Urubshurow, University of Maryland Elizabeth McKeown, Georgetown University Neelima Shukla-Bhatt, Wellesley College Giovanni Casadio, University of Salermo Mihaela Timus, Bucharest, Romania Responding: Charles H. Long, Chapel Hill, NC Lawrence E. Sullivan, University of Notre Dame A20-9 History of Christianity Section and Roman Catholic Studies Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Nathan Baruch Rein, Ursinus College, Presiding Theme: Catholic Selves and Others in the New World Emma J. Anderson, Harvard University Aboriginal "Apostasy" in Colonial North America: Problems and Prospects Brandon Bayne, Harvard University Accounting for Acoma: Holy Mission, Holy War, and Holy Memory in Oñate’s Conquest of New Mexico Mark S. Clatterbuck, Catholic University of America Searching for Souls in a Twice-Foreign Land: Tribalism, Nativism, and the Evolution of Catholic Indian Missions (1902-1962) Jeffrey Marlett, College of Saint Rose Rebel Yell: Father Arthur Terminiello and American Catholicism’s Conspiratorial Margins Responding: Patricia O'Connell Killen, Pacific Lutheran University A20-10 North American Religions Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Grant Wacker, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Wrestling with the Modern: Reformers, Fundamentalists, and Showmen Jeff Wilson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill There’s a Sucker Saved Every Minute: P. T. Barnum’s Theology of Humbug Benjamin Zeller, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Oiling the Wheels of Progress: Henry Steel Olcott and the Construction of Scientific Buddhism Emily R. Mace, Princeton University “Holding Fast to the Vision of Human Solidarity”: Jane Addams on Religion and Social Reform Brantley Gasaway, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill As a Matter of Fact: J. Gresham Machen’s Defense of the Metaphysical and the Moral Responding: Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University A20-11 Religion in South Asia Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Christian Lee Novetzke, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: Post-Hindutva? Purushottama Bilimoria, University of New York, Stony Brook The Pseudo-Secularization of Hindutva and Its Campaign for Uniform Civil Codes Kalyani Devaki Menon, DePaul University Hindutva at the Margins of the State: Hindu Nationalism and Social Work Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University Sanskrit in India: Beyond the Monochrome Shana Lisa Sippy, Columbia University Presence, Absence, and Resemblance: Finding and Interpreting Hindutva in Northern California Responding: J. E. Llewellyn, Southwest Missouri State University Business Meeting: Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University, Presiding A20-12 Study of Islam Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Gordon D. Newby, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Topics of the Study of Qur'an and Sunna Khalid Blankinship, Temple University Ikhrâj in the Qur’an: The Expulsion of the Muslims from Makkah at the Hijrah Alfons Teipen, Furman University Taxonomies in Narrations about the Battle of Uhud and Their Role in Sira-Maghazi Literature Andrew J. Lane, University of Toronto Some Manuscript Evidence Concerning Al-Zamakhsharî’s "Umm al-Kashshâf" and "Khalaqa l-Qur’an" Aisha Geissinger, University of Toronto Gendering the Communal Body: Fasting in the Qur'an and the Hadith Phillip Hoefs, Temple University Women in the Sunnah of Muhammad: ‘Amal ahl al-Madinah and Its Potential Impact on Women in Islam Business Meeting: Omid Safi, Colgate University, Presiding Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso University, Presiding A20-13 Study of Judaism Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Shaul Magid, Indiana University-Bloomington, Presiding Theme: Gender, Feminism, and Orthodox Judaism Gail Labovitz, University of Judaism Assent to Ascent: Rabbinic Negotiations of Exile, Marriage, and Gender Relations Rochelle L. Millen, Wittenberg University Theological Approaches in Orthodox Feminism Jerome Gellman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Cumulative Revelation and Orthodox Feminist Theology Nora L. Rubel, Connecticut College 'Muggers in Black Coats': Gender and Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Jewish American Imagination A20-14 Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group and Theology and Religious Reflection Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Robert A. Segal, University of Lancaster, Presiding Theme: A Critical Evaluation of Tomoko Masuzawa's The Invention of World Religions (University of Chicago Press) Panelists: Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University Catherine Bell, Santa Clara University Ivan Strenski, University of California, Riverside Martin Riesebrodt, University of Chicago Responding: Tomoko Masuzawa, University of Michigan A20-15 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group and Women and Religion Section Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Anne Joh, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Writing Women's Theology in Asian North America Panelists: Rita Nakashima Brock, Faith Voices for the Common Good Laura E. Donaldson, Cornell University Karen Baker-Fletcher, Southern Methodist University Serene Jones, Yale University Responding: Grace Kim, Moravian Theological Seminary Pui Lan Kwok, Episcopal Divinity School Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary A20-16 African Religions Group and Afro-American Religious History Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Valerie C. Cooper, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Africa J. Gordon Melton, Institute for the Study of American Religion The Other African Methodists in Philadelphia: Zoar United Methodist Church Sylvester Johnson, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Africa and the Idea of the Heathen in A. M. E. Missions Ralph Watkins, Fuller Theological Seminary The Lost of the African Centeredness of the A. M. E Church: Leaders, Leadership, Transition, and Lost: The Next Generation of A. M. E. C. Leaders 1839 – 1860 Moses N. Moore, Arizona State University A Trans-Atlantic Relationship: Orishatukeh Faduma and the AME Church Responding: Jualynne E. Dodson, Michigan State University A20-17 Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Liora Gubkin, California State University, Bakersfield, Presiding Theme: Self, Subjectivity, and Agency: Theories of Religious Being Amy Black Voorhees, University of California, Santa Barbara Feminist Theory, Religion, and American History William Robert, Louisiana Sate University Exscripted Love: From a Feminine Body Elizabeth Bucar, University of Chicago "Talking Back in Iran": Religious Discourse, Women's Agency, and a Rhetorical Turn Nancy L. Eiesland, Emory University "I'll Help You Mommy": Autonomy and the "Ethics of Care" from the Perspective of Mothers with Disabilities Business Meeting: Liora Gubkin, California State University, Bakersfield, Presiding A20-18 Japanese Religions Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Paul L. Swanson, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Presiding Theme: Projections and Representations of Religion in Japanese Media Jolyon Baraka Thomas, University of Hawaii at Manoa Asobi Shûkyô' and Miyazaki Hayao’s Anime Ben Dorman, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture Stars and Strategies: Hosoki Kazuko and the Transformation of Fortune-Telling Christal Whelan, Boston University Shifting Paradigms and Mediating Media: Redefining a New Religion as “Rational” in Contemporary Society Ian Reader, Lancaster University Positively Promoting Pilgrimages: Media Representations of Pilgrimage in Japan Responding: George Tanabe, University of Hawaii, Hilo A20-19 Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group and Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding Theme: Transnational Paradigms in the Study of Religion (Invited Authors Panel) Panelists: Luis Leon, University of California, Berkeley Hector Avalos, Iowa State University Manuel Vasquez, University of Florida Marie Friedmann Marquardt, Emory University Responding: Lois Lorentzen, University of San Francisco A20-20 Men's Studies in Religion Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am David James Livingston, Mercyhurst College, Presiding Theme: Masculinities in Varying Religious Commuities John Wall, Rutgers University Fatherhood and the Creation of Society: A Christian Ethical Response to W. Bradford Wilcox’s Soft Patriarchs, New Men Amy Hoyt, Claremont Graduate University Muscular Mormonism: Gender Ideologies in an Era of Transition, 1890-1920 Sara Patterson, Loyola Marymount University Muscular Mormonism: Gender Ideologies in an Era of Transition, 1890-1920 Navdeep Mandier, Coventry, United Kingdom (En)Gendered Sikhism: The Iconolatry of Manliness in the Making of Sikh Identity Curtis Coats, University of Colorado “God, Man, Then ... Wait, How’d That Go?" Examining Emerging Gender Identities in Twenty-Something Evangelical Christians Business Meeting: David James Livingston, Mercyhurst College, Presiding Mark Justad, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Center for the Study of Religion and Culture, Presiding A20-21 Platonism and Neoplatonism Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Gregory Shaw, Stonehill College, Presiding Theme: Neoplatonism, Dead or Alive: Is Neoplatonism a Living Tradition? Part I Judy Saltzman, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Ancient Wisdom Revived: Neo-Platonism and the Theosophical Movement Matthew Rogers, Northwestern University Aleister Crowley’s Theory of the Furores Robert Puckett, Georgia Perimeter College Contested Pagan Theologies: Then and Now Dan Merkur, Toronto, ON, CANADA Psychoanalysis as a Practice of Neoplatonic Mysticism Jennifer Rapp, Stanford University Roethke’s "Epidermal Dress": The Body’s Excessive Vitality and Becoming Divine A20-23 Religion and Disability Studies Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Nadia Bolz-Weber, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Theme: A Third Way: Religion as an Alternative to the Medical Model and the Social Model of Disability Lynne Bejoian, Teachers College Columbia University Nondualistic Paradigms in Disability Studies and Buddhism: Creating Bridges for Theoretical Practice Tarek Hatab, Madnet Corporation co-presenter with Bazna Maysaa Bazna, College of Staten Island Disability in the Qur'an: The Islamic Alternative to Defining, Viewing, and Relating to Disability Amos Yong, Regent University Disability, the Human Condition, and the Spirit of the Eschatological Long Run: Toward a P(new)matological Theology of Disability Lorna Hallahan, Flinders University Let Us Seek Not to Solidify: Analyzing Disability beyond the Organic or the Social Responding: John Swinton, University of Aberdeen Business Meeting: Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding A20-24 Religion and Popular Culture Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Gordon Lynch, University of Birmingham, Presiding Theme: Exploring the Research Agenda for the Study of Religion and Popular Culture Panelists: Tom Beaudoin, Santa Clara University Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado, Boulder Jeffrey Mahan, Iliff School of Theology David Morgan, Valparaiso University Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University A20-25 Religious Freedom, Public Life, and the State Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary's College of California, Presiding Theme: Religion, Politics, and the Moral Values Debate Linda Ellison, Harvard University Abortion and the Politics of God: Why the Left Has Been Left Behind Eli Sasaran, Graduate Theological Union Moral Effectiveness of Voices on the Religious Left: Seeking Integration via the Paradigm of Nonviolence Darryl Victor Caterine, Grinnell College "Moral Values" and the Presidential Election: A Historical Overview of Protestantism and Politics Since the 1960s Joseph S. Pettit, Morgan State University The Dignity of Politics: Philosophy, Religion, and the "Consent of the Governed" Business Meeting: Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary's College of California, Presiding A20-26 Schleiermacher Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Lori K. Pearson, Carleton College, Presiding Theme: Part II of Schleiermacher's Glaubenslehre (The Christian Faith): On Sin, Redemption, and Christ (Second of a Four-Year New Investigation of Schleiermacher's Magnum Opus) Jacqueline Marina, Purdue University Christ the Bearer of the Divine Love: Christ’s Person and Work in the Theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher Walter E. Wyman, Whitman College Schleiermacher on Sin and Redemption: Continuity and Change Dawn A. De Vries, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education Faith as Communion with Christ in Schleiermacher’s Dogmatics Nathan D. Hieb, Princeton Theological Seminary Schleiermacher’s View of Resurrection in Relation to Redemption, the Naturzusammenhang, and Eschatology Business Meeting: Julia A. Lamm, Georgetown University, Presiding Brent Sockness, Stanford University, Presiding Papers for this session will be posted in mid-October at the Schleiermacher Group's "Yahoo! Group" website. AAR members wishing to join the Schleiermacher Group and access this website should contact Brent Sockness at sockness@stanford.edu. A20-27 Daoist Studies Consultation Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Norman J. Girardot, Lehigh University, Presiding Theme: Daoist Studies: Problems and Prospects Thomas Michael, George Washington University “The Bright Dao Appears Dark”: Is Early Daoism Possible? Jason Steuber, University of Missouri-Kansas City & Nelson-Atkins Museum Pedagogical Prospects: Daoist Studies and Material Culture James Miller, Queen's University Ecology and the State: The Politics and Prospects of Daoist Studies Dominic LaRochelle, Université Laval Reception Theory, Martial Arts, and Daoism in the West: An Interpretative Model in Cultural and Religious Transfers Studies Responding: Livia Kohn, Boston University Business Meeting: Louis Komjathy, Shandong University, Presiding A20-28 Death, Dying, and Beyond Consultation Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Christopher M. Moreman, St. Francis Xavier University, Presiding Theme: Continuities and Discontinuities: Contemporary Cross-Cultural Approaches to the Study of Death Michael F. Strmiska, Central Connecticut State University Pagans, Death, and Dying Eve L. Mullen, Mississippi State University The Changing Role of the Vajrayāna in the Good Death: Tibetan Buddhist Liberation in Modernity Gisela Webb, Seton Hall University Death and Dying in Traditional Islamic Spirituality: A Sufi Saint in America Denis Thalson, Graduate Theological Union Impromptu Memorial Shrines: Mediators of Ongoing Connection with the Dead in Contemporary U.S. Popular Religiosity E. Randolph Richards, Ouachita Baptist University Death Rituals in Tsunami-Devastated North Sumatra and in Remote Irian Jaya Business Meeting: Kathleen Garces-Foley, California State University, Northridge, Presiding A20-29 Open and Relational Theologies Consultation Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University, Presiding Theme: Theologies of Mission in a Pluralistic Age Donna Bowman, University of Central Arkansas Reversing Mission: Relational Resources for Bearing Witness to the Other Steven Sherman, Winebrenner Theological Seminary A Paragon for Relational Theological Apologetics in a Pluralist Society: Newbigin’s Approach as a Way Forward for Evangelical Theological Epistemology Michelle Voss Roberts, Emory University Rethinking Dualisms: An Interreligious Approach Jay McDaniel, Hendrix College Process Theology and Religious Pluralism: Evangelism as Deep Listening Responding: John Sanders, Huntington College Nancy Howell, Saint Paul School of Theology Business Meeting: Lynne Faber Lorenzen, Augsburg College, Presiding Thomas Jay Oord, Northwest Nazarene University, Presiding A20-30 Signifying (on) Scriptures Consultation and SBL's Signifying (on)Scriptures Group Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Vincent L. Wimbush, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding Theme: Theorizing Signifying Traditions and Practices Panelists: Mustapha Marrouchi, Louisiana State University Jose Rabasa, University of California, Berkeley Oyeronke Olajubu, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Jo Diamond, University of Canterbury, Christchurch Yan ShouCheng, Nanyang Technological University Please join us for a "Conversation Topics and Collaborative Research Projects Organizational and Agenda Setting Meeting" Sunday, 1:00 pm. A20-34 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: Doctoral Student Workshop for Teaching: Systematic Theology to Latinos and Latinas Doctoral Student Workshop for Teaching: Systematic Theology to Latinos and Latinas is in MP-401, Sunday 9-11:30 am. Registration is required; contact rosarir@slu.edu. A20-32 Mentoring Session with the Status of Women in the Profession Committee and the Women's Caucus Sunday - 11:30 am-1:00 pm The Status of Women in the Profession Committee and the Women's Caucus invite women who are graduate students and new scholars to a brown bag lunch with over 30 feminist mid-career and senior AAR and SBL scholars, including Rita Gross, Margarte Miles, Vasudha Narayanan, Judith Plaskow, Emilie Townes, and Karen Trimble Alliaume. A20-33 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 11:45 am-1:00 pm Thomas Pearson, Wabash Center and Lucinda Huffaker, Wabash Center, Presiding Theme: Wabash Student-Teacher Luncheon The Wabash Center and AAR Graduate Student Task Force cordially invite AAR and SBL doctoral Student Members to this lunch gathering with experienced faculty mentors to share conversation about teaching. Separate registration is required. See Program Highlights for a description. A20-50 Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Michael B. Lukens, St. Norbert College, Presiding Theme: The Interpreted Bonhoeffer Victoria Barnett, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The Quest for the Historical Bonhoeffer John de Gruchy, University of Cape Town Eberhard Bethge: Interpreter Extraordinaire of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes College Bonhoeffer and the Jews: Bethge and Beyond Business Meeting: Lori Brandt Hale, Augsburg College, Presiding A20-51 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Sponsored by the Graduate Student Task Force and the Women's Caucus Mary E. Hunt, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual, Presiding Theme: Women in Religion - Thriving, Not Just Surviving: A Conversation with Mary E. Hunt, Editor of A Guide for Women in Religion See Program Highlights for a description. A20-52 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Sponsored by the Public Understanding of Religion Committee Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico, Presiding Theme: The Marty Forum Panelists: John L. Esposito, Georgetown University Responding: Caryle Murphy, Washington Post See Program Highlights for a description. A20-53 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Presiding Theme: What the Study of Mormonism Brings to Religious Studies: A Special AAR Session Organized on the Occasion of the Bicentennial of Joseph Smith’s Birth Jan Shipps, Indiana University-Purdue University Getting Here from There: Mormonism at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Gustav Niebuhr, Syracuse University Mormonism and Media Studies Catherine Bell, Santa Clara University Mormonism and Ritual Studies Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary Mormonism and Biblical Studies and Theology Catherine Brekus, University of Chicago Mormonism and the Study of Women and Religion Thomas A. Tweed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Mormonism and Comparative and Transnational Studies See Program Highlights for a description. A20-54 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Sponsored by the Program Committee Theme: Posters Session Bradley L. Herling, Boston University Why Study Religion: A Look at the New Web Site by the Academic Relations Committee Prior Holland, Azusa Pacific University Madame President? An Analysis of Christianity’s View of Women in Leadership and the Dilemma of Women Caught between Radical Feminism and Traditional Exclusion Matthew Hunter, Temple University From Sanctuary to Sidewalk: Black Religious Iconography in Philadelphia Sang Bok Lee, Kangnam University Social Scientific Approach to Studying Christian Conversion Narratives David O'Malley, Cleveland State University Grassroots Interreligious Organizations: An Emerging Religious, Social, and Political Phenomenon in the United States Paul Oslington, University of New South Wales, Australia Economics and Religion Research Group Adam Porter, Illinois College Role-Playing the Trials of Jesus and Paul: An Introduction to the New Testament Kim Seitz, Azusa Pacific University Path-Goal Theory Made Flesh: Mordecai, Esther, and the Road to Purim Martha Smalley, Yale University Digital Resources for Classroom Use: the ATLA/ATS Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative James Van Slyke, Fuller Theological Seminary Cognitive Science and the Emergence of Symbolic Thought: Semiotic Theory and the Development of Religious Cognition See Program Highlights for a description. A20-55 Ethics Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm David Craig, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Presiding Theme: Political God-Talk: What Does the Religious Left Need to Learn? Ellen Ott Marshall, Claremont School of Theology The Peculiar Shape of Liberal Christian Political Activism Sarah Azaransky, University of Virginia An Eschatological Politics for the Religious Left Doug Gay, University of Edinburgh “We Don’t Do God!” The Moral Message of Prime Minister Tony Blair and the British Tradition of Christian Socialism Melissa Snarr, Vanderbilt University Divinity School The Impact of the Religious Left in the Living Wage Movement Business Meeting: Darryl Michael Trimiew, Medgar Evers College, Presiding A20-56 North American Religions Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Daniel Sack, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Presiding Theme: Faith and the City: Religion in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Reconstructing and Renewing Judaism in Philadelphia: The Unexpected Alliance between the Reconstructionist and Renewal Movements in the 1970s-1990s Albert G. Miller, Oberlin College Fundamentally Black: The Rise of Philadelphia's African American Evangelical Community David Perkins, Vanderbilt University Kingdoms in the Air: "Morning Cheer" and Early Media Evangelism in Philadelphia Danielle Sigler, Austin College Faith in Flux: "Black Gods" in Philadelphia 1930-1945 Responding: David Harrington Watt, Temple University A20-57 Religion, Media, and Culture Consultation and Philosophy of Religion Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Creston Davis, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: Religion, Violence, and the Special Effect: Irruptions of Exceptionality Panelists: Ward Blanton, Luther College John Milbank, University of Virginia Hent de Vries, Johns Hopkins University Slavoj Zizek, University of Ljubljana Responding: Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles/University of Chicago A20-58 Study of Judaism Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm J. Shawn Landres, Synagogue 3000 / UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, Presiding Theme: Eastern European Jewry: Culture, Thought, and Impact Ramona Kirsch, University of Missouri-Kansas City Bodies in Perilous Balance: A Rabbi’s Response to "Othering" Pinchas Giller, University of Judaism Eastern European Scholastic Kabbalah in Early Modernity Steven Lapidus, Concordia University Europe in America? The Historiography of the Landsmanshaft Synagogue Harry Brod, University of Northern Iowa The People of the Comic Book: Jewish Men and the Creation of Comic Book Superheroes A20-59 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Paul F. Lakeland, Fairfield University, Presiding Theme: Beyond Empire: Sustaining Alternatives to Violence Panelists: Catherine E. Keller, Drew University Kenneth Kraft, Lehigh University Jace Weaver, University of Georgia Sharon D. Welch, University of Missouri, Columbia Business Meeting: Paul F. Lakeland, Fairfield University, Presiding A20-60 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group and Evangelical Theology Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Paul C. H. Lim, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Constructing Asian-American Evangelical Theologies Panelists: Young Lee Hertig, Azusa Pacific University Elizabeth Y. Sung, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Cat Ngoc Jonathan Tran, Duke University Amos Yong, Regent University Responding: Richard J. Mouw, Fuller Theological Seminary Peter C. Phan, Georgetown University A20-61 Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group and Black Theology Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Marcia C. Robinson, Syracuse University, Presiding Theme: Despair, Evil, and Human Suffering: A Conversation between Kierkegaard and Black Theology Stephen Butler Murray, Skidmore College Grappling with Melancholia and Despair, Black Invisibility and the Tragicomic: The Conversation between Cornel West and Søren Kierkegaard and Its Import for Black and Womanist Theological Anthropologies James W. Perkinson, Ecumenical Theological Seminary Illin’ the Evil, Outing the Absurd: Kierkegaardian Irony Meets Machiavellian Grotesquery in the Postindustrial City Brian C. Barlow, Brenau University The Question of Evil: Romney M. Moseley's Kierkegaardian-Caribbean Theology of Suffering Responding: Stephen G. Ray, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia A20-62 Chinese Religions Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Randall Nadeau, Trinity University, Presiding Theme: Teaching Chinese Religions in the Undergraduate Classroom: A User's Guide Panelists: Jeffrey Dippmann, Central Washington University Keith Knapp, The Citadel A20-63 Eastern Orthodox Studies Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm John Behr, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Twentieth-Century Eastern European Theologians Radu Bordeianu, Marquette University Trinity and the Church in the Theology of Dumitru Staniloae Jeff McCurry, Duke University (Un)Knowing the Divine Mystery: Theological Epistemology in Dumitru Staniloae and Thomas Aquinas Maria McDowell, Boston College Tradition, Changes, and the Life of the Faithful in Fr. Dumitru Staniloae Lucian Turcescu, Concordia University Dumitru Staniloae on Law and Human Nature Business Meeting: Paul Gavrilyuk, University of Saint Thomas, Presiding James C. Skedros, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Presiding A20-64 Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group and Religious Freedom, Public Life, and the State Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Esther D. Reed, University of St. Andrews, Presiding Theme: Liberty, Values, and the Politics of Gender Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Grinnell College Democratic Tradition and Fundamental Liberties: From Bowers v. Hardwick to Lawrence v. Texas Craig Martin, Syracuse University Policing Values and the Private Judgment of the Magistrate Robert Ross, University of Massachusetts -- Boston Marriage, State, and Equality Responding: Sheila Briggs, University of Southern California A20-65 Mysticism Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm June McDaniel, College of Charleston, Presiding Theme: Mystical Relationships: Marriage and Community Charlotte Radler, Loyola Marymount University For the Beloved: Mystical Marriage in Meister Eckhart and the "Sister Catherine" Treatise Stuart R. Sarbacker, Northwestern University Indo-Tibetan Tantrism as “Spirit Marriage” Thomas Cattoi, Boston College "Devekut" and Bodily Service: The Role of the Tsaddik and the Redemption of the “Evil Urges” of the Flock in Eastern European Hasidic Communities Robert K. C. Forman, The Forge Institute Sharing Mystical Experiences in Community: Implications of Some Unusual Evidence Business Meeting: June McDaniel, College of Charleston, Presiding Neil Douglas-Klotz, Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning, Presiding A20-66 Person, Culture, and Religion Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Pamela Cooper-White, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, Presiding Theme: The Psychodynamics of Religious Violence Terry Cooper, St. Louis Community College District Religious Aggression from a Cognitive-Behavioral and Psychoanalytic Perspective: A Comparison of Aaron Beck and Erich Fromm Thomas B. Ellis, Appalachian State University Religion and Terrorism: Reflections on the Controversial Conjunction Marsha Hewitt, Trinity College Enemies of God: An Exploration into the Psychodynamics of Religion and Violence James W. Jones, Rutgers University The Psychodynamic Roots of Religious Terrorism A20-67 Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group and Religion and Science Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Peter Ochs, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: Peirce, Hegel, and Stuart Kauffman’s Complexity Theory Mark Graves, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley Pragmaticist Approach to Emergence in Cognitive Science Panelists: William Kiblinger, Winthrop University John Bugbee, University of Virginia Rocco Gangle, Oberlin College Responding: Joyce Cuff, Thiel College A20-68 Religion and Popular Culture Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University, Presiding Theme: Frontiers of Technology and Transmogrify Jeremy Biles, University of Chicago The Swan Complex: Ritual Regression, Technology, and Transfiguration in TV's "The Swan" Aaron Gross, University of California, Santa Barbara Technology and Animal Ethics in the Contemporary Kosher Industry Robert Geraci, Manhattan College Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Persistence of the Sacred Rebecca M. Raphael, Texas State University The Doomsday Body, or Dr. Strangelove as Cyborg Crip Business Meeting: Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University, Presiding Gary M. Laderman, Emory University, Presiding A20-69 Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Laura Perez, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding Theme: Sexuality, Religion, and Health Jill DeTemple, Southern Methodist University (Re)Production Zones: Religion, Development, and Sexuality in Rural Ecuadorian Households Margarita M.W. Suarez, Meredith College Cuban Feminist Theology: A Revolutionary Ethic of Health and Wholeness for Cuban Society Claudio Carvalhaes, Union Theological Seminary, New York Oppressed Bodies Don't Have Sex: The Blind Spots of Bodily and Sexual Discourses in the Construction of Subjectivity in Latin-American Liberation Theology Responding: Jorge A. Aquino, Graduate Theological Union Business Meeting: Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding A20-70 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Gaye Williams Ortiz, Augusta State University, Presiding Theme: Cinema-Going as Religious Practice? A Discussion of Issues Raised by Clive Marsh's Cinema and Sentiment: Film's Challenge to Theology (Paternoster Press) Panelists: Robert K. Johnston, Fuller Theological Seminary Gordon Lynch, University of Birmingham Brent Plate, Texas Christian University Sara A. Vaux, Northwestern University Responding: Clive Marsh, Methodist Church in Great Britain A20-72 Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Kurtis Schaeffer, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: Person, Place, and Authority in Tibet Benjamin Bogin, University of California, Berkeley The Glorious Copper-Colored Mountain: Visions of a Tantric Pure Land Derek Maher, East Carolina University The Second Paņchen Lama (1663-1737) and the Leadership of Tibet Paul Nietupski, John Carroll University The Fifth Jamyang Shepa and the Labrang Nagpas: Religious Pluralism at Labrang Jann Ronis, University of Virginia The Publication of the Kanjur and Tenjur (1729-1744) in the Formulation of the Buddhist Kingdom of Dergé in Eastern Tibet Andrew H. Quintman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Milarepa’s Life on the Rocks: Transformations of Literature and Landscape in the Borderlands of Southern Tibet Business Meeting: José I. Cabezón, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding A20-73 Western Esotericism Group Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm New Program Unit Wouter Hanegraaff, University of Amsterdam, Presiding Theme: Western Esotericism Katelyn Mesler, Northwestern University The Christianization of Angel Magic in the Late Middle Ages Olav Hammer, University of Southern Denmark Innovation and Canonization in Esoteric Discourse: The Case of Martinus Thomsen Jane Williams-Hogan, Bryn Athyn College of the New Church Emanuel Swedenborg’s Aesthetic Philosophy and Its Impact on Nineteenth-Century American Art Konstantin Burmistrov, Russian Academy of Sciences Kabbalistic Sources of the Russian Religious Philosophy and Mysticism: Some Preliminary Observations Alfred Vitale, University of Rochester Esoteric Studies and Modern Western Occultism: A Useful Methodology to Reconsider Their Relationship and Redefine Identities A20-74 Zen Buddhism Seminar Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Jin Y. Park, American University, Presiding Theme: Zen Thought Mario Poceski, University of Florida Mind, Buddha, and the Way: Doctrinal Permutations in Mid-Tang Chan Ding-hwa Evelyn Hsieh, Truman State University Doubt as a Unique Chan Approach to Cultivation and Enlightenment Jiang Wu, University of Arizona Problems with Enlightenment: The Performance of Encounter Dialogue in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Chan Buddhism Albert F. Welter, University of Winnipeg Zen and Japanese Culture: Cultural Perspectives on Suzuki Daisetsu's Interpretation of Zen Business Meeting: Gereon Kopf, Luther College, Presiding Jin Y. Park, American University, Presiding A20-75 Animals and Religion Consultation Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Kenneth Mello, University of Vermont, Presiding Theme: Compassion and Sacrifice, Friends and Enemies: Animals in Religious Traditions Susan Power Bratton, Baylor University Christ as Orpheus: Attitudes towards Animal Sacrifice and Violence towards Animals in Early Christian Art Jennifer Eichman, Seton Hall University Generating Compassion through the Release of Animals Antonia Gorman, Drew University Surrogate Suffering: Sin, Salvation, and Sacrifice within the Vivisection Movement Business Meeting: Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University, Presiding A20-76 Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Barbara Pitkin, Stanford University, Presiding Theme: Orphans and Adoption as Matters of Sex, Race, and Poverty: Interfaith Perspectives Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University The Want Ads: Second-Hand Children, the Ethics of Adoption, and the Age of Desire Jeffrey Hensley, Virginia Theological Seminary The Hospitality of Adoption Timothy P. Jackson, Emory University Suffering the Suffering Children: Christianity and the Rights and Wrongs of Adoption Elaine K. Swartzentruber, Wake Forest University Tangling the “Red Thread”: Interrogating Racial Difference in International and Cross-Cultural Adoption Responding: Amy Laura Hall, Duke University Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner, Southern Methodist University Business Meeting: Karen-Marie Yust, Christian Theological Seminary, Presiding A20-77 Liberal Theologies Consultation Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm New Program Unit Christine Helmer, Harvard Divinity School, Presiding Theme: Liberal Theologies: Parameters and Prospectives Chris Hinkle, Harvard University The Sociology of Liberal Protestantism Sheila Greeve Davaney, Iliff School of Theology Liberal Theologies: An Alternative Family History Daniel McKanan, Saint John's University Can There Be a Radical Liberalism? Nineteenth-Century Resources for Contemporary Theological Liberalism Ellen M. Umansky, Fairfield University Concerns and Parameters of Liberal Jewish Theology William E. Farley, Vanderbilt University Liberal Theology: Roots, Consensus, Enigmas Responding: Gary J. Dorrien, Union Theological Seminary Business Meeting: Christine Helmer, Harvard Divinity School, Presiding A20-78 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 1:00 pm-3:00 pm Sponsored by the Program Committee Barbara DeConcini, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Theme: Annual Meeting Initiatives and How to Propose a New Program Unit Join the chair of the Program Committee and the AAR Annual Meeting Program Director for an informal chat about upcoming Annual Meeting initiatives as well as the guidelines and policies for proposing a new Annual Meeting program unit. A20-100 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sponosred by the Status of Women in the Profession Committee Rebecca T. Alpert, Temple University, Presiding Theme: Got Life? Finding Balance and Making Boundaries in the Academy Panelists: Claudia Highbaugh, Harvard University Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College Dugan McGinley, Temple University Kathryn Ott, Union Theological Seminary Miriam Peskowitz, Atlanta, GA Andrea Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor See Program Highlights for a description. A20-101 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Committee Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College, Presiding Theme: Teaching Ethics: The Challenges of Moral Discourse in the Classroom Panelists: Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College Leela Prasad, Duke University Timothy M. Renick, Georgia State University See Program Highlights for a description. A20-102 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sponsored by the Religion and Science Group Ernest L. Simmons, Concordia College, Moorhead, Presiding Theme: The Gifford Lectures: Retrospect and Prospect Panelists: Ian G. Barbour, Carleton College (Emeritus) Holmes Rolston, Colorado State University Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago See Program Highlights for a description. A20-103 Special Topics Forum Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sponsored by the AAR, SBL, and Publisher's Weekly Jana Riess, Publishers Weekly, Presiding Theme: Before You Sign That Book Contract: Negotiating with a Publishing House Panelists: Anita Fore, Authors Guild Gail Ross, Gail Ross Literary Agency LLC Randall Balmer, Barnard College See Program Highlights for a description. A20-104 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Jennifer L. Geddes, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: Mourning and Responses to Suffering John Harvey, University of Wales, Aberystwyth Facing Death: Confronting and Portraying the Dead in Spirit Photography, 1861-1940 Melissa Johnston-Barrett, Emory University Awakening and Encouraging Desire to Hear Stories of Suffering: An Exploration of Friedrich Schleiermacher's Die Weihnachtsfeier: Ein Gespräch Jodi R. Eichler, Columbia University Maccabees and Memory: The Conflation of Hanukkah and the Holocaust in Jewish Children's Literature W. Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago Narratives of Trauma and Truth: Letters from Prison in Early Modern England Business Meeting: S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University, Presiding Jennifer L. Geddes, University of Virginia, Presiding A20-105 Christian Systematic Theology Section and Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Caryn D. Riswold, Illinois College, Presiding Theme: Beauty in Thought, Prayer, and Action: Theological Reflections on Mysticism and Social Activism Ridgeway Addison, Catholic University of America, Georgetown University Channeling Reconciliation: Howard Thurman and the "Poetics of Peace" Eleanor Forfang-Brockman, Texas Christian University Where on Earth Is God? Palamite Mystical Theology as a Basis for Environmental Activism Gregory Love, San Francisco Theological Seminary God's Beauty, Social Activism, and the Cross of Christ Sarah Morice-Brubaker, University of Notre Dame Some Questions for Male Christian Pacifists A20-106 North American Religions Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm John Corrigan, Florida State University, Presiding Theme: Author Meets Critics: Robert A. Orsi's Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them Panelists: Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University Paula Kane, University of Pittsburgh Thomas J. Ferraro, Duke University Business Meeting: Diane Winston, University of Southern California, Presiding A20-107 Japanese Religions Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Paul Copp, Princeton University, Presiding Theme: Zen and the Art of the Bell Curve: Educating Buddhists in Japan and the U.S. Stephen G. Covell, Western Michigan University Buddhist Secondary Education: Buddhist Values and Religious Education Ryan Ward, University of Tokyo From Monastic Education to the “Modern” University: The Case of the Jodo Shin School Mark Rowe, Princeton University Surveying Emptiness: The Role of Research Centers in Post-War Japanese Buddhism Wakoh Shannon Hickey, Duke University Clergy Training in American Zen Responding: Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University Business Meeting: Paula K. R. Arai, Carleton College, Presiding James L. Ford, Wake Forest University, Presiding A20-108 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Contemporary Psychological Approaches to the Comparative Study of Religion Robert C. Fuller, Bradley University Spirituality of the Flesh: The Role of Discrete Emotions in Religious Life David Gortner, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Graduate Theological Union Young Adult Worldviews and Life-Purpose: Shaped by Social Capital, Education, and Self-Efficacy, but Not Religion Ulrike Popp-Baier, University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University Experience and Religion: A Psychological Perspective Jason Slone, University of Findlay Cognitive Contributions to the Social Construction of Religion Hypothesis: Or, Experimental Studies Which Show That Postmodernists Are (Half) Right. A20-109 Religion in South Asia Section and Islamic Mysticism Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Qamar-ul Huda, Arnold, MD, Presiding Theme: Sufi Music: Poetics and Performance in South Asian Qawwali Scott A. Kugle, Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World From Baghdad to Brindaban: Erotic and Spiritual Love in Qawwali Performance Homayra Ziad, Yale University "I Emerge from Myself Like a Melody": Khvājāh Mir Dard and the Art of Sama' in Eighteenth-Century Delhi Robert Rozehnal, Lehigh University A "Proving Ground" for Spiritual Mastery: The Chishti Sabiri Musical Assembly James R. Newell, Vanderbilt University Unseen Power: Aesthetic Dimensions of Symbolic Healing in Qawwali Responding: Carl W. Ernst, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A20-110 Study of Judaism Section Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Steven D. Kepnes, Colgate University, Presiding Theme: Place as Elsewhere: Home and Homelessness in Jewish Text and Commentary Panelists: Adam Zachary Newton, University of Texas, Austin Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Hebrew University Jacob Meskin, Hebrew College Responding: Martin Kavka, Florida State University Business Meeting: Martin Kavka, Florida State University, Presiding A20-111 Chinese Religions Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Daniel B. Stevenson, University of Kansas, Presiding Theme: Rhetorical Strategies in Ritual, Narrative, and Performance Hank Glassman, Haverford College No Basis in Text: The Persistence of Unauthorized Iconographies and the Tantric Turn in the Practice of East Asian Buddhisms Hun Y. Lye, Warren Wilson College Hidden and in Plain Sight: Ritual Techniques and Textual Redaction in the Yuqie Yankou Rite Julius Tsai, Texas Christian University Mountain Journey as Narrative Device in the Ziyang Zhenren Neizhuan Gil Raz, Dartmouth College Symbolic Modules: Tracing Patterns in Daoist Ritual Business Meeting: Daniel B. Stevenson, University of Kansas, Presiding Chun-Fang Yu, Columbia University, Presiding A20-112 Christian Spirituality Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding Theme: The Spiritual Ecology of Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) at the Half-Centenary of His Death Panelists: John A. Grim, Forum on Religion and Ecology Ursula King, University of Bristol John F. Haught, Georgetown University Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University Responding: John B. Cobb, Claremont School of Theology Business Meeting: Arthur G. Holder, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding A20-113 Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm David Frankfurter, University of New Hampshire, Presiding Theme: The Uses of Comparison Fritz Graf, Ohio State University From Paul to Orpheus Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College Rehabilitating Tatian: The Pit-Falls of Over-Reading George P. Heyman, St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry The Power of Sacrifice: Roman and Christian Discourses in Conflict Business Meeting: Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College, Presiding A20-114 Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Grinnell College, Presiding Theme: Imagining Feminist Political Spaces in Religious Perspectives Melissa Snarr, Vanderbilt University Divinity School Politics and the Social Self in Feminist Christian Ethics Sharon A. Bong, Monash University Partial Visions: An Asian-Malaysian Feminist Standpoint Epistemology Christina Hutchins, Graduate Theological Union Care for the Many-Lived, Unending Forms: Departing from a Rhetoric of War through Adrienne Rich's "Transcendental Etude" Kathleen Tierney, Stanford University From Fantasy to Freedom: Iris Murdoch’s Vision of Redemption Responding: Sharon D. Welch, University of Missouri, Columbia A20-115 Indigenous Religious Traditions Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Indigenous Religious Traditions in Theory and Practice Mary Ann Clark, Rice University Santería Sacrifical Rituals: A Reconsideration of Religious Violence Graham Harvey, Open University The New Animism and the Study of Indigenous Religions Michael McNally, Carleton College Towards an Appreciation of the Religious Authority of Eldership: A Native American Example Jennifer Reid, University of Maine, Farmington Mi’kmaq Myth and Aboriginal Claims E. Randolph Richards, Ouachita Baptist University A Comparison of Acehnese (Islamic) and Dani (Christian) Death Rituals in Search of an Underlying Indigenous Indonesian View of the Soul Business Meeting: Ines Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding A20-116 Korean Religions Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Anselm K. Min, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding Theme: Religious Responses to Secular Politics/Society in Korea Shin Kwon Kim, Drew University When Cultures Clash with Each Other Julius Nam, Pacific Union College Pacificists or Legalists? Korean Seventh-Day Adventists and Their Conscientious Objection/Cooperation (1950-1970) Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Loyola Marymount University Mythic Tales of Mago, the Great Goddess, from Korea Timothy S. Lee, Texas Christian University Three Stances toward Christianity in North Korea: Exploitation, Revanche, and Engagement Responding: Hee An Choi, Boston University Hwa Yol Jung, Moravian College Business Meeting: John I. Goulde, Sweet Briar College, Presiding A20-117 Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Orlando O. Espin, University of San Diego, Presiding Theme: Faith beyond Mango Street: The Construction of the Latino in Literature - Explorations in Religion, Gender, and Identity Panelists: Jean-Pierre Ruiz, St. John's University Hjamil A. Martinez Vazquez, Texas Christian University Carmen Marie Nanko, Catholic Theological Union Responding: Neomi De Anda, Loyola University Chicago Business Meeting: Benjamin Valentin, Andover Newton Theological School, Presiding Carmen Marie Nanko, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding A20-118 Law, Religion, and Culture Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, University of Chicago, Presiding Theme: Going Public: The Legal Construction of "Religion" Cassie Adcock, University of Chicago Identifying Religion Proper: The Arya Samaj and the Politics of Religious Freedom Gregory Mack, McGill University An Examination of the Constitutive Role of Islamic Legal Institutions in Early Modernity Christian Lange, Harvard University "Making Someone Public" as Punishment in Islam: The Eschatology of Tashhîr Responding: Greg Johnson, Univ of Colorado at Boulder A20-119 New Religious Movements Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Holly Folk, Indiana University, Bloomington, Presiding Theme: Theoretical Issues in the Study of NRMs and NRMs and Their Sacred Texts John K. Simmons, Western Illinois University Developing a Memetic Continuum to Track the Potential for Violence in New Religious Movements Jonathan Moore, Grinnell College Pagans on the Prairie: Correllian Wiccans and Community Identity in Central Illinois Heinz Streib, University of Bielefeld A Variety of Deconversion Trajectories: Cross-Cultural Research Results Lola L. Williamson, University of Wisconsin-Madison Interpretations of the Bhagavad Gita in Hindu-Inspired New Religious Movements Laurel Zwissler, University of Toronto Reading between the Magic: Exploring Isobel Bird's Young Adult Fiction Series, The Circle of Three Christine Kraemer, Boston University Gender Essentialism in Matriarchalist Utopian Fantasies: Are Popular Novels Vehicles of Sacred Stories, or Only Sacred Propaganda? Business Meeting: Sarah Pike, California State University, Chico, Presiding A20-120 Nineteenth-Century Theology Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Walter E. Wyman, Whitman College, Presiding Theme: Ernst Troeltsch as Historian of Protestantism Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, University of Munich Ernst Troeltsch as Cultural Historian of Chrisitanity Arie Molendijk, University of Groningen Ernst Troeltsch’s Lasting Contribution to the Historiography of Protestantism Aimee Burant, University of Chicago "A Metaphysical Attitude towards Life": Ernst Troeltsch on Protestantism and German National Identity Lori K. Pearson, Carleton College Reassessing Troeltsch’s Conception of Protestantism and Its Relationship to Modernity Responding: Dr. Stefan Pautler, München, GERMANY A20-121 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Paul Williams, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Presiding Theme: "All Will Be Revealed": Apocalypse, Identity, and Myth in Film Roy M. Anker, Calvin College Mapping Light: Toward a Taxonomy of Narrative Modes in Contemporary Religious Film Kent Brintnall, Emory University The Moral Demand of the "Loving Cup": The Presence of the Abject Body in Tod Browning's Freaks and the Christian Eucharist Stefanie Knauss, Karl-Franzens-University "A Jew in a Porsche": Jewish (Religious) Identities in Contemporary Europe Amy Johnson Frykholm, Leadville, CO Angel of the Apocalypse Meets Slacker Theology: Kevin Smith’s Dogma (1999) Patton Dodd, Boston University No One Will Be Left Behind: The Marketing of the Apocalypse Business Meeting: Tony S. L. Michael, University of Toronto, Presiding A20-122 Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Jay Geller, Vanderbilt University, Presiding Theme: The Ethics of Forgetting Tania Oldenhage, Academy of Boldern Serenity at the Heart of Europe: Switzerland and the Fading of Wartime Memory Eric Boynton, Allegheny College Forgetting and Forgiving the Trauma of Evil Laura Gilbertson, Bethel University Remembering for Redemption or Forgetting for Reconciliation? Keshgegian and Volf on the Memory of Violence Kenneth A. Reynhout, Bethel University co-presenter with Laura Gilbertson Björn Krondorfer, St. Mary's College of Maryland Is Forgetting Permissible? The Necessary Role of Oblivion in Holocaust Remembrances Business Meeting: Oren Stier, Florida International University, Presiding Katharina von Kellenbach, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Presiding A20-123 Ritual Studies Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State University, Presiding Theme: Ritual Dwelling, Crossing, and Acting: Theory as Transtemporal, Transperformative, and Transmethodological Ronald L. Grimes, Wilfrid Laurier University What Kind of an Act Is Theorizing about Ritual? Madeline Duntley, Bowling Green State University Pacific Northwest Coast Art and Transmethodology: The Formline of Ritual Studies Theoretical Hybridity E. Thomas Lawson, Western Michigan University Ritual Form Hypothesis: Transitive Connections between Ritual Competence and Ritual Performance Thomas A. Tweed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ritual as Crossing and Dwelling: Theorizing the Religious Practices of Transnational Migrants Business Meeting: Donna Lynne Seamone, McMaster University, Presiding A20-124 Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Robison B. James, University of Richmond, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Presiding Theme: God, Being, and God beyond Being John J. Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University Why Tillich Is Not (Just) an Ontotheologian: Tillich's Indebtedness to Apophatic Theology Lois Malcolm, Luther Seminary Mystical and Prophetic: Tillich's Theology of the God beyond God Reconsidered John C. M. Starkey, Oklahoma City University God, Being, Tillich, and Neville Responding: John D. Caputo, Syracuse University Business Meeting: Robison B. James, University of Richmond, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Presiding Mary Ann Stenger, University of Louisville, Presiding A20-125 Wesleyan Studies Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Sarah Heaner Lancaster, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Presiding Theme: Pan-Methodism: History, Polity, and Theology F. Douglas Powe, Saint Paul School of Theology Cone and Wesley on the Use of Experience as a Theological Source Morris L. Davis, Drew University Pan-Methodist Union and the Demands of "American Christian Civilization": An Early Twentieth-Century Attempt Reginald Broadnax, Hood Theological Seminary The History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and its Contribution to Both Methodist Episcopacy and Methodist Polity Responding: Ted A. Campbell, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Business Meeting: K. Steve McCormick, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Presiding A20-126 Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Evelyn L. Parker, Southern Methodist University, Presiding Theme: Womanist Pedagogy and Black Women's Bodies: A Womanish Call and Man-ish Response Panelists: Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University Lynne Westfield, Drew University Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Shaw University Responding: Arthur Sutherland, Loyola College Athur Pressley, Drew University Business Meeting: Linda E. Thomas, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Presiding A20-127 Tantric Studies Consultation Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Charles D. Orzech, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Presiding Theme: Sexuality and Gender in Tantric Traditions David Gray, Santa Clara University "Tantric Sex" in an Eighth-Century Buddhist Context: The Case of the Cakrasamvara Elaine Craddock, Southwestern University Gender, Sexuality, and Tantra in South India Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado, Boulder The "Kali Practice": A Class Act Revisitation of Women's Roles in Tantra Sarah Jacoby, University of Virginia Passionate Revelation: Consort Relationships in the Tibetan Buddhist Treasure Tradition according to Sera Khandro’s (1892-1940) Biographical Writings Responding: Rachel Fell McDermott, Barnard College Business Meeting: Glen Alexander Hayes, Bloomfield College, Presiding Sthaneshwar Timalsina, Washington University in St. Louis, Presiding A20-128 AAR Retired Members' Reception Sunday - 5:30 pm-6:30 pm Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University, Presiding 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 Hans Hillerbrand, AAR president. A20-129 Plenary Address Sunday - 7:15 pm-8:15 pm Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Master Narratives and the Future of Christianity Panelists: David Martin, Woking, United Kingdom See Program Highlights for a description. A20-130 Plenary Address Sunday - 8:30 pm-9:30 pm Theme: Templeton Plenary: Charles H. Townes -- The Parallelism and Ultimate Convergence of Science and Religion Panelists: Charles H. Townes, Berkeley, CA See Program Highlights for a description. A20-131 Arts Series/Films: Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University, Presiding See Program Highlights for a description. A20-132 Arts Series/Films: By the Dawn’s Early Light: Chris Jackson’s Journey to Islam Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Sponsored by the Study of Islam Section Zareena Grewal, University of Michigan, Presiding See Program Highlights for a description. A20-133 Arts Series/Films: What the Bleep Do We Know? Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Sponsored by Religion and Science Group See Program Highlights for a description. A20-134 JAAR Editorial Board Reception Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia, Presiding A20-135 Arts Series/Films: Transnational Savior: A Salvadoran Jesus Reunites with His People in the United States Sunday - 8:30 pm-9:30 pm Sponsored by the Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group David Tombs, Trinity College, Dublin, Presiding See Program Highlights for a description. A21-1 Nominatons Committee Meeting Monday - 7:00 am-8:30 am Peter J. Paris, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding A21-2 International Members' Continental 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 International Connections Committee. A21-34 AAR Program Unit Chairs' Breakfast Meeting Monday - 7:30 am-8:45 am All program unit chairs should attend this important informational session with the AAR's Program Committee. A21-3 Special Topics Forum Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Graduate Student Task Force Patricia O'Connell Killen, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding Theme: Designing the Intellectual Experience In this interactive workshop presented by an experienced Wabash Center workshop director and consultant, participants will be led through a series of exercises to reflect together on how they currently compose intellectual experiences for their students and explore ways of doing so more effectively. See Program Highlights for a description. A21-4 Special Topics Forum Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Sponsored by the Religion and Disabilities Task Force Kerry H. Wynn, Southeast Missouri State University, Presiding Theme: The Accessible Career Journey: Employment and Disability Panelists: Mary Jo Iozzio, Barry University Bill J. Leonard, Wake Forest University F. Rachel Magdalene, Appalachian State University Edward McCaffrey, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Philadelphia, PA See Program Highlights for a description. A21-5 Special Topics Forum Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Barbara Brown Zikmund, Catholic University of America, Presiding Theme: Christian Theology's Engagement with Religious Pluralism Panelists: Diana L. Eck, Harvard University J. Paul Rajashekar, Philadelphia, PA Damayanthi M. A. Niles, Eden Theological Seminary Ian Ritchie, Montreal, QC Francis V. Tiso, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops See Program Highlights for a description. A21-6 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Fran Grace, University of Redlands, Presiding Theme: Walk, Talk, Teach, Learn: A Streetfair of Posters, Exhibits, and Interactive Displays That Will Excite and Educate about a Breakthrough Moment in the Classroom or a Great Course Mark Larrimore, New School University Saints Alive: A Student-Made Iconostasis Teaches about Religious Time, Creativity, and Community Marilyn Gottschall, Whittier College Introducing Islam on Its Own Terms: Qur'anic Recitation as Pedagogy Sidney Brown, University of the South Cultivating Empathy and a Critical Stance through Class “Experiments": The Experiments Themselves and a Best Moment on Learning Yolanda Yvette Smith, Yale University Teaching through the Oral Tradition Adam Porter, Illinois College Role-Playing the Trials of Jesus and Paul: An Introduction to the New Testament Greg Watkins, Stanford University Virtual Mandala: Teaching Buddhism by Using Computer Technology to Translate the Wheel of Life into a Western Idiom Robert C. Shippey, Shorter College Art as a Pedagogical Basis for Teaching Religion Calvin Mercer, East Carolina University Short-Term Study Abroad Made Easy Rebecca K. Huskey, University of Iowa A Grocery List and Forbidden Fruit: Teaching Interpretation Methods to Undergraduates Merrill M. Hawkins, Carson-Newman College What Does Saving Private Ryan Have to Do with the Old Testament? Reflections on Course Revisions after the First Year of Implementation Dean Andrew Nicholas, Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy Interactive Hebrew Bible Survey Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College Experiential Learning and Social Justice Action: An Experiment in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Assessment-Driven Course Design for the Introductory Course A21-7 Tantric Studies Consultation and Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Paul E. Muller-Ortega, University of Rochester, Presiding Theme: Visual Arts and Ritual in Tantric Traditions Madhu Khanna, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Visual Metaphysics and Representation in Hindu Shakta Tantra: Some Methodological Explorations Pamela D. Winfield, Meredith College Esoteric Images of Light and Life at Kokubunji Temple, Japan Laura Harrington, Trinity College Re-viewing Tibetan Tantra: The Pitfalls and Promises of Visual Culture Studies for the Exploration of Tantric Ritual Greg Grieve, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Looking into Bhairava's Face: The Animating Effect of Horror Responding: Ronald M. Davidson, Fairfield University A21-8 Buddhism Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Robert Sharf, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding Theme: Re-Wri(gh)ting: Reading Chinese Buddhist Biographies after Wright James A. Benn, McMaster University Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks: Hagiographic Collection or Monastic Manifesto? Koichi Shinohara, Yale University Efficacy and Legitimacy: Toward a Sociological Reading of “Biographies of Eminent Monks” Shaul Katzenstein, Hamilton, ON Enduring Sickness: Illness before Death in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Biographies Albert F. Welter, University of Winnipeg Tracing the Elusive Yulu: Precedents for Chan’s Records of Sayings Literature Responding: James Robson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor A21-9 Christian Systematic Theology Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am David S. Cunningham, Hope College, Presiding Theme: Critical Responses to David Bentley Hart's The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Eerdmans, 2004) Panelists: Gerard Loughlin, Durham University Lois Malcolm, Luther Seminary Francesca Murphy, University of Aberdeen James K.A. Smith, Calvin College Responding: David Bentley Hart, Loyola College A21-10 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Mark Wheeler MacWilliams, St. Lawrence University, Presiding Theme: Rituals Online: Examining the Impact and Implications of Internet Rituals on Religious Practice Panelists: Selva J. Raj, Albion College Christopher Helland, Dalhousie University Heidi Campbell, Texas A&M University Goran Larrson, Göteborg University Responding: Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder Business Meeting: Mary N. MacDonald, Le Moyne College, Presiding Selva J. Raj, Albion College, Presiding A21-11 History of Christianity Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Erin Ronsse, University of Victoria, Presiding Theme: The Body as Christian Battleground Garry J. Crites, Duke University The Starving Monk: Coercive Fasting and the Development of Irish Penitentials Edwin Woodruff Tait, Duke University Devils in the Bile: The Demonology of Martin Bucer Eric Carlsson, University of Wisconsin, Madison Exorcising Demons with History: J. S. Semler and the Spirit Possession of Anna Elisabeth Lohmann Michael Ostling, University of Toronto Of Woman Wailing for Her Demon Lover: Sex, the Satanic Pact, and Folk-Belief in the Polish Witch-Trials Marie Pagliarini, California Polytechnic State University "And the Word Was Made Flesh": The Female Body as Text in Nineteenth-Century American Catholic Culture Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto Radio Mind: Anglo-Protestants on the Frontiers of Healing A21-12 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University, Presiding Theme: Negotiating Boundaries: Religion, Migration, and Cultural Interaction William A. Barbieri, The Catholic University of America Migrant Boundaries: Constitutive Justice and the Ethics of Inclusion Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton A Border-Crossing Jesus: A Sociopolitical Reading of the Salvadoran Celebration of La Bajada in Los Angeles Prema Kurien, Syracuse University Hindu Temples in the U.S. Robert Carle, King's College From Pillarization to Assimilation: The Demise of Dutch Multi-Culturalism Business Meeting: Douglas A. Hicks, University of Richmond, Presiding A21-13 Religion in South Asia Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kumkum Chatterjee, Pennsylvania State University, Presiding Theme: The Prescribed and the Permissible: Articulations of Sastra in Indian Literary and Oral Narrative, Film, and the Performed Arts Ruth Vanita, University of Montana Together in Life after Life: Shastraic Ideas of Marriage and Rebirth, and Same-Sex Couple Suicides in Modern India Leela Prasad, Duke University “For Shastra's Sake..!” Idioms of Legitimacy in the Plural Moral Worlds of Narrative Ronald Inden, University of Chicago Breaking the National Rules for Entertainment in Film Joan Erdman, Columbia College, Chicago, and University of Chicago Challenging Choreographies and Citing Shastra in Indian Dance Responding: Velcheru Narayana Rao, University of Wisconsin, Madison A21-14 Study of Islam Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Florian Pohl, Temple University, Presiding Theme: Sectarian Indentities and Diverting Interpretations of Islam Najam Haider, Princeton University To Basmalah or Not to Basmalah: The Emergence of Sectarian Identity in Second- through Eighth-Century Kufa Shafique Virani, Zayed University Nomen and Numen: Reading Meaning and Identity in the Designations of a Shii Sect David Vishanoff, University of South Carolina Medieval Muslim Metaphors for Revelation: Interpretive Consequences Then and Now Edward E. Curtis, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis The Qur’anic Defense of Elijah Muhammad, Messenger of Allah Kathleen Malone O'Connor, University of South Florida "Each One Teach One": Teaching the Lessons and Dialogic Ethnography among the Gods of the Five Percent Nation Responding: Zeki Saritoprak, John Carroll University A21-15 Women and Religion Section Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Donna Berman, Charter Oak Cultural Center, Presiding Theme: The Coming of Lilith: An Assessment and Celebration of Judith Plaskow's Contribution to Judaism, Feminism, and Sexual Ethics Panelists: Rebecca T. Alpert, Temple University Katie G. Cannon, Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education Mary C. Churchill, University of Iowa Carol P. Christ, Ariadne Institute Emily Neill, Harvard University Susan E. Shapiro, University of Massachussetts, Amherst Responding: Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College A21-16 Afro-American Religious History Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Julia M. Speller, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Discourse of African-American Religious History and Historiography Marcus Bruce, Bates College The Translation of Finer Feelings: Henry Ossawa Tanner, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Uses of Religous Discourse Curtis Evans, Florida State University The Problem of the Negro Church: W. E. B. Du Bois and His Analysis of Black Religion Donald H. Matthews, University of Missouri, Kansas City Du Bois and the Social Scientific Study of Black Religion Responding: Dr. Dennis C. Dickerson, Vanderbilt University A21-17 Anthropology of Religion Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am J. Shawn Landres, Synagogue 3000 / UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, Presiding Theme: Sacred Transformations: Placement, Displacement, and Replacement Carol Winkelmann, Xavier University The Language of Tibetan Nuns in the Indian Himalayas Lee Gilmore, Graduate Theological Union No Spectators: Ideology and Performativity at the Burning Man Festival Erika Meitner, University of Virginia The Mezuzah: American Judaism and Constructions of Domestic Sacred Space Mark Rowe, Princeton University Dying for Agency: Posthumous Divorce in Contemporary Japan Responding: William R. LaFleur, University of Pennsylvania Business Meeting: J. Shawn Landres, Synagogue 3000 / UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, Presiding Rebecca Sachs Norris, Merrimack College, Presiding A21-19 Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, Presiding Theme: Mothers and Mothering in Hindu and Jewish Traditions Amy Alloco, Emory University Carrying Fire Pots for the Goddess: Mothers and Daughters in the Performance of a Vow to Mariyamman Vijaya Nagarajan, University of San Francisco Toward Motherhood: Fertility, Infertility, and the Ritual Struggle to Conceive Madhuri Yadlapati, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Mothers, Matriarchs, and Divine Revelation: Returning to Sita and Sarah Yudit Greenberg, Rollins College Rebecca: Mother, Prophetess, or Conspirator Responding: Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University Chicago Business Meeting: Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, Presiding A21-20 Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Rosemary P. Carbine, College of the Holy Cross, Presiding Theme: Doing Saving Work: Feminist Reconstructions of Sin and Redemption Wendy Farley, Emory University That by Which We Fall Is That by Which We Rise: A Feminist Analysis of Desire and Redemption Serene Jones, Yale University Redeeming "Harem," Saving "Law" Joy McDougall, Emory University The Bondage of the I/Eye: A Feminist Proposal for Redeeming Christian Sin-Talk Responding: Rebecca S. Chopp, Colgate University A21-22 Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Benjamin Valentin, Andover Newton Theological School, Presiding Theme: Where Do We Go from Here? Assessing the Fundamental Commitments of Latino/a Theologies Jorge A. Aquino, Graduate Theological Union "Ni Blanquitos, Ni Negritos?" On the Interpretation of Racial Formations as a Fundamental Challenge for Latino/a Theologies Maria T. Davila, Boston College "Dignidad en la Lucha": Latina/o Ethics and U.S. Civil Society Ivan Petrella, University of Miami On the Failure of Liberation Theologies in the Americas: The Case of Latino/a Theology Christopher D. Tirres, Harvey Mudd College A Pragmatic Bridge between Cultural and Political Action A21-23 Law, Religion, and Culture Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jason Bivins, North Carolina State University, Presiding Theme: Testing Secularism Grace Kao and Jerome Copulsky, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The Pledge of Allegiance and the Limits of Civil Religion James McBride, Schulte, Roth, and Zabel LLP Girard's Will, Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, and the Origins of Secular Government: A Tale of Capital, Philanthropy, and the Supreme Court I. Chatterjea, Vanderbilt University Secularism or Secular Humanism as Reactive Deviance Steven Engler, Mount Royal College & Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo Constitutional Secularization: Religious Pluralism and the Canadian Courts Responding: Robert A. Yelle, University of Illinois Business Meeting: Jason Bivins, North Carolina State University, Presiding A21-24 Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Beth Eddy, Central Michigan University, Presiding Theme: Topics in Empiricism and Pragmatism Edward Slingerland, University of British Columbia Who's Afraid of Reductionism? Cognitive Science, Pragmatism, and the Humanities Matthew Day, Florida State University Let’s Be Realistic: Evolutionary Complexity, Instrumental Biology, and the Cognitive Science of Religion Finbarr Curtis, University of California, Santa Barbara The Danger of “Wholes without Rhythm”: The Productivity of Pluralism in Dewey’s Aesthetic Theory David R. Perley, University of Toronto Cultural Pragmatist or Defender of the Unseen: Sorting through Contrasting Appropriations of William James in the Study of Religion Business Meeting: Frederick J. Ruf, Georgetown University, Presiding David Lamberth, Harvard University, Presiding A21-25 Religion and Science Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Lisa L. Stenmark, San Jose State University, Presiding Theme: What the Bleep Do We Know? The Future of the Religion and Science Discourse Panelists: Robert J. Russell, Graduate Theological Union Lou Ann G. Trost, Pigeon, MI Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of Southern California Kirk Wegter-McNelly, Boston University Barbara Holmes, Memphis Theological Seminary Business Meeting: Greg Peterson, South Dakota State University, Presiding A21-26 Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Vesna Acimovic Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Dialogues and Debates on Tibetan Medicine, Healing, and Religion Panelists: Alejandro Chaoul, Rice University Frances Garrett, University of Toronto Eric Jacobson, Harvard University Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan, Austin College A21-27 Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Marla J. Selvidge, Central Missouri State University, Presiding Theme: Religions and Denominations Working Together for Peace Noreen Herzfeld, St. John's University The Danger of Religious Nationalism and Hope for Renewal: Lessons from Srebrenica Hee An Choi, Boston University Koreanized Christianity toward Peace and Justice: A Case Study of Korea's Independence Scott Holland, Bethany Theological Seminary/CrossCurrents journal The Decade to Overcome Violence on the Nigerian Road: Stories from Abuja to Kano Emily J. Choge, Moi University The Role of Religions in Promoting Peace among the Refugees and Their Neighbors: A Case Study of Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya Vern Neufeld Redekop, Saint Paul University Reconciliation in Sudan: A Framework for Muslims, Christians, and Traditional Africans Business Meeting: Susan Windley-Daoust, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Presiding A21-28 Roman Catholic Studies Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Mary Henold, Roanoke College, Presiding Theme: Regional Catholicisms: Pennsylvania and Beyond Katie Oxx, Claremont Graduate University Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church: Problematizing the Catholic-Protestant Relationship in Early National Philadelphia Andrew Stern, Emory University Southern Harmony: Catholicism and Freedom in the Antebellum South Michael Pasquier, Florida State University "The Religion of the Sisters": Catholic Sisterhood and Southern Manhood in Confederate Hospitals Kristin Schwain, University of Missouri-Columbia The Founding of the State of Liberty Spiritual? Violet Oakley's Mural Series and Roman Catholic Protest Responding: Raymond A. Patterson, Saint Michael's College Business Meeting: Jeffrey Marlett, College of Saint Rose, Presiding Vincent J. Miller, Georgetown University, Presiding A21-29 Scriptural Reasoning Group Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Peter Ochs, University of Virginia, Presiding Theme: Scripture, Democracy, and Traditions Randi Rashkover, York College of Pennsylvania Reasoning through the Prophetic: A Reading of Luke 4:14-30 C. C. Pecknold, University of Cambridge Augustine's Readable City: Beyond the Politics of Empire Mohammad Azadpur, San Francisco State University Islam, Liberalism, and Democracy Responding: Nicholas Adams, University of Edinburgh Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University A21-30 Contemporary Pagan Studies Consultation Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am New Program Unit Wendy Griffin, California State University, Long Beach, Presiding Theme: Boundaries and Paths to Authenticity Aislinn Jones, American Academy of Religion Gods of Blood and Gods of Land: Authenticity Claims in Celtic Paganism Chas S. Clifton, Colorado State University, Pueblo Flying Ointments and the Discourse of Secrecy in Contemporary Wicca Helen Berger and Douglas Ezzy, West Chester University Paths to Teenage Witchcraft: A Cross National Study Douglas Ezzy, University of Tasmania co-presenter with Berger Douglas E. Cowan, University of Missouri, Kansas City Dating Modern Paganism: Material Culture and Calendrical Subversion Responding: Michael York, London, United Kingdom Business Meeting: Michael York, London, United Kingdom, Presiding Wendy Griffin, California State University, Long Beach, Presiding A21-35 Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Cosponsored with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Victoria Barnett, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Presiding Theme: Religion and the Holocaust in Central and Eastern Europe Vladimir Georgiev, Shoumen University The Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust: Addressing Common Misconceptions Georgeta Pana, University of Bucharest Antisemitism in the Orthodox Church and the Holocaust in Romania Gershon Greenberg, American University Faith and Death for the Wartime Leadership of the Slobodka, Lithuania, "Musar" (Moralistic) Yeshivah Responding: Suzanne Brown-Fleming, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum A21-31 AAR Annual Business Meeting Monday - 11:30 am-12:45 pm Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University, Presiding AAR members are encourage to join the Board of Directors for the annual business meeting of the Academy. A21-32 EIS Advisory Committee Meeting Monday - 11:30 am-1:00 pm Shelly C. Roberts, American Academy of Religion, Presiding A21-33 Religion and Disabilities Task Force Meeting Monday - 11:30 am-1:00 pm Kerry Wynn, Southeast Missouri State University, Presiding A21-50 Sacred and Religious Sites of Philadelphia Bus Tour Monday - 1:00 pm-5:00 pm Peter W. Williams, Miami University of Ohio and E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding Please meet at the signposted area outside the Marriott Philadelphia Hotel at 12:45 pm. Bus tour is by reservation only; please have your ticket ready. Tour tickets will be mailed with the name badge materials in September. See Program Highlights for a description. Separate registration is required. A21-51 Special Topics Forum Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School, Presiding Theme: Racial and Ethnic Minority Mentoring: A Conversation among Graduate Students and Scholars Panelists: Sharon Watson Fluker, Fund for Theological Education Miguel A. De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University Malinda E. Berry, Union Theological Seminary, New York Rachel A. R. Bundang, Union Theological Seminary, New York James Samuel Logan, Princeton Theological Seminary See Program Highlights for a description. A21-52 Special Topics Forum Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by the Publications Committee Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: The Second Edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion Panelists: Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida Frederick M. Denny, University of Colorado, Boulder Chris Jocks, Arizona State University Amy M. Hollywood, University of Chicago Responding: Lindsay Jones, Ohio State University, Columbus See Program Highlights for a description. A21-53 Special Topics Forum Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Sponsored by AAR and Temple University Laura S. Levitt, Temple University, Presiding Theme: Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression Panelists: Colleen McDannell, University of Utah Responding: Miles Orvell, Temple University David Harrington Watt, Temple University The lecture will be followed by a reception at the photography exhibit based on Professor McDannell’s work at the Mellon Society of Fellows, 10th Floor Gladfelter Hall (12th Street and Berks Mall) on the campus of Temple University. A bus will be provided following the session for attendees interested in viewing the photos. See Program Highlights for a description. A21-54 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and SBL's Reading, Theory and the Bible Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Karl A. Plank, Davidson College, Presiding Theme: Post-Scripture[s]/Post-Holocaust: Representing the Irreparable in the Art of Samuel Bak Gary A. Phillips, University of the South Bak’s Impossible Memorials: Giving Face to the Children Danna Nolan Fewell, Southern Methodist University co-presenter with Phillips Charles Rix, Drew University Quartet for the End of Time Yvonne Sherwood, University of Glasgow Iconoclash and Akedah Responding: Samuel Bak, Weston, MA A21-55 Buddhism Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Justin McDaniel, University of California, Riverside, Presiding Theme: Buddhist Encounters with Modernity Stuart Chandler, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Traditionalist and Modernist Voices in Contemporary Chinese Buddhism Juliane Schober, Arizona State University The Theravada Buddhist Engagement with Modernity in Burma Stephen C. Berkwitz, Missouri State University Resisting the Global in Sri Lankan Buddhist Nationalism Ellen Goldberg, Queen's University Buddhism and Cognitive Theory: A Response to Modernity Responding: Stephen Covell, Western Michigan University A21-56 Christian Systematic Theology Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Nora O. Lozano, Baptist University of the Americas, Presiding Theme: Mary and Divine Creativity Cyrus Olsen, University of Oxford Divine and Human Creativity in the Annunciation: Beauty and Illumination Cecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu, Graduate Theological Union Guadalupe and the Role of Beauty in the Birth of a New People Nathan Jennings, University of Virginia Mary, Sophia, and the Ascetical Aesthetics of the Doctrine of God in the Thought of Pavel Florensky Melissa Stewart, Adrian College Reflections on Mary as More Than a Reflection of God Business Meeting: David S. Cunningham, Hope College, Presiding A21-57 Ethics Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jane Hicks, St. John Fisher College, Presiding Theme: "We Fight Our Own Battles": Women's Moral Agency and the Politics of Punitive Public Policies Mary E. Hobgood, College of the Holy Cross Justice Theory and US Progressives: A Feminist Ethical Critique Noelle Damico, University of the Poor Morality That Impoverishes and the Impoverishment of Morality: Poor Women Resisting! Cheri Honkala, Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign co-presenter with Noelle Damico Ethel Long Scott, Women's Economic Agenda Project co-presenter with Noelle Domico Jonathan Gichaara, Urban Theology Unit, Sheffield African Traditional Ethics: Role of Women and Authority in the Family and HIV/AIDS Linda Ellison, Harvard University Why the Left Has Been Left Behind: Moral Marketing, Dangerous Divides, and Ethical Ineffectiveness in the American Abortion Debate A21-58 North American Religions Section and Religion, Media, and Culture Consultation Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Diane Winston, University of Southern California, Presiding Theme: Media, Commodities, and Practices in Religious Culture Faydra Shapiro, Wilfrid Laurier University Consuming Community: A Case Study in Jewish Material Culture and Practice Carol Harris-Shapiro, Gratz College Bloody Shankbones and Braided Bread: Food Narratives and the Fashioning of American Jewish Identities Beth Graybill, University of Maryland Performing Amish Tourism: Lived Religion and Commerce in the Lancaster County Marketplace Mark Hulsether, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Popular Religion, with Examples from Madonna's Anti-War Video "American Life" Responding: Anthea Butler, University of Rochester A21-59 Philosophy of Religion Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Theme: Feminism and the Philosophy of Religion Kimerer L. LaMothe, Granville, NY Becoming Body: Nietzsche's Gift to the Feminist Philosophy of Religion Beverley Clack, Oxford Brookes University Phantasy, Feminism, and the Philosophy of Religion Wesley Barker, Emory University Secondarizing the Feminine and Sexing the Divine: Consequences of Levinas’s Secondarization of Sexual Difference Wendy Wiseman, University of Washington In the Beginning: Kristeva, Cixous, and the Abject Mother of Metaphysics A21-60 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Douglas A. Hicks, University of Richmond, Presiding Theme: Robert Wuthnow: The Significance and Methodology of His Work for Religion and the Social Sciences Panelists: Wade Clark Roof, University of California, Santa Barbara Elizabeth Margaret Bounds, Emory University Diana L. Eck, Harvard University Stephen L. Carter, Yale University Mark Noll, Wheaton College Responding: Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University A21-61 Religion in South Asia Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Joseph Walser, Tufts University, Presiding Theme: Money Problems: Money, Wealth, and Religion in South Asia Panelists: Douglas Osto, SOAS, University of London Leah Renold, University of Virginia Amy C. Bard, Columbia University Ami Shah, University of California, Santa Barbara M. Whitney Kelting, Northeastern University Selva, J. Raj, Albion College Responding: Richard H. Davis, Bard College A21-62 Study of Islam Section and Study of Judaism Section and Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jeffrey Kosky, Washington & Lee University, Presiding Theme: The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy Panelists: Martin Kavka, Florida State University Ebrahim E. I. Moosa, Duke University Elisabeth Weber, University of California, Santa Barbara Responding: Gil Anidjar, Columbia University Business Meeting: Jeffrey Bloechl, College of the Holy Cross, Presiding A21-63 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Serene Jones, Yale University, Presiding Theme: Religion and Empire David R. Brockman, Southern Methodist University Christian Exceptionalism, American Exceptionalism: Texas and the Christian Contribution to the Ideology of the American Empire Jenny Daggers, Liverpool Hope University College Dissolving Christian Monism: The Gift of Altering Hospitality Anselm K. Min, Claremont Graduate University Globalization, Imperialism, and Christian Theology Whitney Bauman, Graduate Theological Union Creatio ex Nihilo, Terra Nullius, and the Colonial Mind A21-64 African Religions Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Gwinyai Muzorewa, Lincoln University, Presiding Theme: Issues in the Historiography of African Religions Robert M. Baum, Iowa State University "Religion" in the Time of the Ancestors: Methodological Problems in the Interpretation of Precolonial African Religious History Keisha Armorer, Temple University Separating the Historical from the Mythic in Ese Ifa, the Sacred Poems of Ifa Frederick P. Lampe, Syracuse University Living on the Threshold: Liminality and the Globalization of Christianity Ezra Chitando, Bayreuth University "Engaged Insiders" in the Study of African Traditional Religions: Prospects and Challenges Responding: Sandra E. Greene, Cornell University A21-65 Christian Spirituality Group and Eastern Orthodox Studies Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Grace Adolphsen Brame, LaSalle University, Presiding Theme: Spiritual Practices in Eastern Christianity Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rhodes College Becoming a Useful Servant: An Early Model of Monastic Spiritual Formation Richard Penaskovic, Auburn University The Notion of Hesychasm in the Triads of Gregory Palamas (1296-1359) John Eugene Clay, Arizona State University Popular Uses of the Jesus Prayer in Imperial Russia from the Old Believers to the Name-Glorifiers Scott Kenworthy, Miami University of Ohio Paisii Velichkovskii and the Hesychast Revolution in Modern Russian Orthodoxy A21-66 Confucian Traditions Group and Law, Religion, and Culture Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Natalie B. Dohrmann, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: Confucianism and Law Quoc Viet Nguyen, University of Kassel Confucian Values and the Dilemma of Transition to the Rule of Law in Vietnam: An Explanation from Institutional Economics Perspective Weon Chu, Brookline, MA A Social Ethicist Look at Confucian Social Conservatism through Max Weber's Thesis Vivian-Lee Nyitray, University of California, Riverside co-presenter with Dena Davis Dena S. Davis, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Cloning and Identity in Confucian and Western Contexts Responding: Jane Geaney, University of Richmond A21-67 Evangelical Theology Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Melissa (Wyndy) Corbin, Ashland Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Evangelical Theology and Scripture Craig A. Carter, Tyndale University College and Seminary Citizenship and Discipleship: Tensions in the New Testament and Postmodernity Alan G. Padgett, Luther Seminary The Canonical Sense of Scripture as a Whole: Trinitarian or Christocentric? Telford Work, Westmont College Evangelicals in the Factory of Scripture A21-68 Hinduism Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm John Hawley, Barnard College, Presiding Theme: The Bhakti Movement—Says Who? Christian Lee Novetzke, University of Pennsylvania Bhakti as Public Culture Shandip Saha, University of Ottawa Multiple Emplotments of the Pushtimarg in "Bhakti Movement" Thinking Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University The Absence of Siva: The North/South Issue Reconsidered Neelima Shukla Bhatt, Wellesley College Performance as Translation: Mira Songs in Gujarat Business Meeting: Balagangadhara Rao, Ghent University, Presiding A21-69 Islamic Mysticism Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University Chicago, Presiding Theme: Women's Contributions to Sufism: New Readings and Research Laury Silvers, Skidmore College Statistical Analysis, Comparison, and Close Readings: Getting at the Data on Early Pious and Sufi Women T. Emil Homerin, University of Rochester “Inspired with an Awesome Book”: The Mystical Life and Writings of `Â'ishah al-Bâ`ûnîyah (d. 922/1517) Rkia Elaroui Cornell, University of Arkansas Rabi'a the Teacher Maria Massi Dakake, George Mason University Mothers, Wives, and Daughters: Female Mysticism in a Family Context Responding: Joseph Lumbard, The Royal Hashemite Court of Jordan Business Meeting: Carl W. Ernst, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Presiding A21-70 Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Julianne Buenting, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Lesbian Lives: Remembrance and Transformation Gayle R. Baldwin, University of North Dakota For the Orphans and Widows Jon Pahl, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia Ending a Long Silence: The Memoirs of Loretta Coller Responding: Lori Rowlett, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Business Meeting: Elizabeth A. Say, California State University Northridge, Presiding Gayle R. Baldwin, University of North Dakota, Presiding A21-71 Men's Studies in Religion Group and Religion and Disability Studies Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm David James Livingston, Mercyhurst College, Presiding Theme: Masculinities, Disabilities, and Religion Amy Laura Hall, Duke University Holy Husbandmen: The American Social Hygiene Association's Program for Virility Darla Schumm, Hollins University From Superman to Super Jesus: Constructions of Masculinity and Disability on the Silver Screen Mark Justad, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Center for the Study of Religion and Culture Masculinity, Disability, and Religious Imagination Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of Theology What Makes a Man? Reflections from Disability Theology Responding: Rosemary R. Ruether, Claremont, CA A21-72 New Religious Movements Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Greg Johnson, Univ of Colorado at Boulder, Presiding Theme: Devoted to the Outdoors: Nature Recreation as Religious Practice Bron Taylor, University of Florida Surfing into Spirituality A. Whitney Sanford, Iowa State University Pinned on Karma Rock: Popular Understanding of Whitewater Kayaking as Religious Experience through Hindu and Buddhist Terms Samuel Snyder, University of Florida Casting for Connection: Religion, Ethics, and Environmental Conservation in Fly Fishing Culture Barbara Jane Davy, Ottawa, ON Paddling Toward the Divine: A Critical Look at Canoeing and Nature Religion in Canada Responding: William C. James, Queens University A21-73 Person, Culture, and Religion Group and Wesleyan Studies Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Rebekah Miles, Southern Methodist University, Presiding Theme: Transformation in Wesleyan Traditions Keith Haartman, University of Toronto Watching and Praying: John Wesley's Method of Personality Transformation Lallene Rector, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary A Psychoanalytic Investigation of the Transformative Impact of Sanctification Experience and Belief in the Conversion of Julia A. J. Foote, Nineteenth-Century Holiness Preacher Laceye Warner, Duke University co-presenter with Rector Hetty Zock, University of Groningen Paradigms in Psychological Conversion Research: The Emergence of the Biographical-Narrative Approach Responding: A. Gregory Schneider, Pacific Union College A21-74 Platonism and Neoplatonism Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Jay Bregman, University of Maine, Orono, Presiding Theme: Neoplatonism, Dead or Alive: Is Neoplatonism a Living Tradition? Part II Edward P. Butler, New York, NY Neoplatonism and Polytheism John Bussanich, University of New Mexico Living Neoplatonism Vladimir Kharlamov, Drew University Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: Living Neoplatonic Tradition in Practice and in the Theology of Eastern Orthodoxy Edward Moore, St. Elias Orthodox Theological Seminary The Legacy of Neoplatonic Theology in Orthodox Christianity Business Meeting: Willemien Otten, Utrecht University, Presiding A21-75 Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Suzanne J. Crawford, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding Theme: Emotions, Suffering, and Efficacy Andrew Crislip, University of Hawaii, Hilo Healing Emotions and Curing the Soul in Late Antique Monastic Psychology Rebecca Sachs Norris, Merrimack College Healing Pain: Issues of Efficacy in Biomedicine and Religious Traditions Jude Aguwa, Mercy College Typology and Functions of Agwu Sculptures in Dibia Therapeutic Practices Responding: Linda L. Barnes, Boston University Business Meeting: Suzanne J. Crawford, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding A21-77 Open and Relational Theologies Consultation Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm Eric Mazur, Bucknell University, Presiding Theme: American Empire and Religion James K.A. Smith, Calvin College The Gospel of Freedom or Another Gospel? Theology, Empire, and American Foreign Policy Laurie A. Cozad, University of Mississippi The United States's Imposition of Religious Freedom: The International Religious Freedom Act Michael York, London, United Kingdom An "Ex-Pat’s" View on the American Empire and Its Religious Divide with Europe C. Neal Keye, College of St. Scholastica Unknown Knowns: What Americans Don't Know They Know about the History of American Empire and Religion in the Age of the "Photo Wars" and "Torture Memos" Responding: Lynne Faber Lorenzen, Augsburg College A21-100 Arts Series/Films: F. S. A. Photo Exhibit Curated by Colleen McDannell Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by AAR and Temple University See Program Highlights for a description. A21-101 Special Topics Forum Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: David Tracy: Tragedy as Cultural Unconscious of Western Religion and Philosophy Panelists: David W. Tracy, University of Chicago See Program Highlights for a description. A21-102 Special Topics Forum Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Publications Committee Cynthia Read, Oxford University Press, Presiding Theme: How to Publish Your Book: Advice from Oxford University Press and the AAR Book Series Editors Panelists: Kimberly Rae Connor, University of San Francisco Susan E. Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges James Wetzel, Villanova University Jacob Kinnard, Iliff School of Theology Anne E. Monius, Harvard University Kevin Madigan, Harvard University See Program Highlights for a description. A21-103 Special Topics Forum Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Sponsored by the Graduate Student Task Force Bradley L. Herling, Boston University, Presiding Theme: Exploring the Field: Philosophy of Religion, and Religion and Literature - A Graduate Student Discussion Series Panelists: Richard Amesbury, Valdosta State University Martyn A. Oliver, Boston University Responding: William J. Wainwright, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Wesley A. Kort, Duke University See Program Highlights for a description. A21-104 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Arthur Sutherland, Loyola College and Peter Gottschalk, Wesleyan University, Presiding Theme: Teaching Religion and Violence: Approaches and Traditions Panelists: Anne Murphy, Columbia University Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University Brian K. Pennington, Maryville College Randal Cummings, California State University, Northridge Paul Younger, McMaster University Jason Bivins, North Carolina State University Responding: Michel Desjardins, Wilfrid Laurier University Business Meeting: Sidney Brown, University of the South, Presiding Joseph A. Favazza, Stonehill College, Presiding A21-105 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and SBL's Reading, Theory, and the Bible Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm S. Brent Plate, Texas Christian University, Presiding Theme: Post-Scripture[s]/Post-Holocaust: Representing the Irreparable in the Art of Samuel Bak Lawrence L. Langer, Boston, MA Skeptical Visions and Scriptural Truths in Samuel Bak's Genesis Paintings Alicia Ostriker, Rutgers University Bak's Jacob: Painting as Midrash Dan Mathewson, Emory University Survival and the Impossible in the Work of Samuel Bak and the Book of Job Responding: Samuel Bak, Weston, MA A21-106 Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Warren G. Frisina, Hofstra University, Presiding Theme: (World-)Religionization: The Politics of Religion-Making Arvind Mandair, Hofstra University Constructing Sikhism as a "World-Religion": Transcendence, Historicism, and the Comparative Imaginary of the West Markus Dressler, Hofstra University Religionizing Turkish Alevism: The Compelling Power of Institutionalized Religion Timothy Daniels, Hofstra University Javanism, Tourist Culture, and Religious Rationalization Greg Grieve, University of North Carolina, Greensboro “That's Not the Way We Operate": The Political Implications of the Globalatinized Mandala Responding: Angela Zito, New York University A21-107 Ethics Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Taigen Daniel Leighton, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Theme: The Contemplation of Social Activism: Prospects and Resources for Zen Social Ethics Thomas P. Kasulis, Ohio State University, Columbus Zen as a Social Ethics of Responsiveness Dale S. Wright, Occidental College What Understanding of Self and World Is Presupposed in Zen Monastic Practice? Jin Y. Park, American University Zen Buddhism as a Public Discourse: How Do We Turn Wisdom into Compassion? Christopher Ives, Stonehill College Not Buying into Words and Letters: Zen, Ideology, and Prophetic Critique Responding: John C. Maraldo, University of North Florida A21-108 History of Christianity Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Travis Frampton, Hardin-Simmons University, Presiding Theme: Apostates, Heretics, and Trouble-makers in the History of Christianity J. Patrick Hornbeck, University of Oxford The Development of Heresy: Eucharistic Theologies in English Lollard Dissent Karen Bruhn, Arizona State University The Accidental Apostate: "Drowsie Protestants," Temporary Faith, and Deconversion among the Godly in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England Philip Harrold, Winebrenner Theological Seminary Varieties of "Turning From": Modernist Deconversion Narratives in a Midwestern Academic Community Jonathan Moore, Grinnell College The Devil Went Down to Hoopeston: Pagans, Christians, and American Identity Responding: E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania A21-109 Religion in South Asia Section and Hinduism Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Michael C. Linderman, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: Dharma and the Sastras: The "Religious" and the "Secular" in Hindu Scholasticism Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee University Punishment and Expiation Ethan Kroll, University of Chicago Early Modern Sastric Views on the Legal Principle of Svatva Timothy C. Cahill, Loyola University, New Orleans Indian Literary Critics on "Dharma" Donald R. Davis, University of Wisconsin, Madison Hinduism as a Legal Tradition Responding: Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas, Austin A21-110 Study of Islam Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Azam Nizamuddin, Elmhurst College, Presiding Theme: Critical Approaches to Salafi Islam Scott Lucas, University of Arizona Al-Bukhari’s Legal Theory: An Early Model of Salafi Islam Walid Saleh, University of Toronto Salafism and Intra-Islamic Confessional Polemics: Ibn Taymiyah’s Minhaj al-Sunnah Natana Delong-Bas, Brandeis University, Boston College Salafis, Wahhabis and Jihadis: The Ties That Bind? Jonathan A. C. Brown, University of Chicago Between Salafi Iconoclasm and Institutional Security: Nasir Al-Din Al-Albani and the Criticism of the Canonical Hadith Collections Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, University of Illinois From Modernizing Islam to Islamizing Modernity: Historical Transformations of the Salafiyyah Movement Responding: Omid Safi, Colgate University A21-111 Study of Judaism Section and Mysticism Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Hindy Najman, University of Toronto, Presiding Theme: Responding To Elliot Wolfson's Language, Eros, Being (Fordham University Press) Panelists: Kalman P. Bland, Duke University Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto Robin Darling Young, University of Notre Dame Jeffrey Kripal, Rice University Responding: Elliot R. Wolfson, New York University A21-112 Theology and Religious Reflection Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Eric Boynton, Allegheny College, Presiding Theme: Is There a New Civil Religion? Daniel Campana, University of La Verne Civil Religion at the Hearth: Current Trends in American Civil Religion from the Perspective of Domestic Arrangement Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Moravian college The Rhetoric of "Sacrifice" in the Public Realm: Tales of Obfuscation and Glorification Stephen M. Johnson, Montclair State University Re-Viewing the Flag after September 11 and the 2004 Election: Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish Votes for Reformed Civil Religion Glenn Whitehouse, Florida Gulf Coast University Making God Safe for Democracy? Visions of American Civil Religion Old and New A21-113 Women and Religion Section Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa, Presiding Theme: Women's Religious Leadership and Feminist Identity Shin-yi Chao, Rutgers University -- Camden Daoist Priestesses in Sociopolitical Transformation and Cultural Transmission in Northern China during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Kimberly Hill, University of North Carolina,t Chapel Hill Integrating the "Race Woman": Approaches to Ministry among African Methodist Episcopal Women in the 1870s Malgorzata Kruszewska, California Institute of Integral Studies Krolowipolski: Black Queen-Mothers of Poland Priscilla Eppinger, Graceland University "Maternal Desires": Deconstruction of the Moral Value of Womanhood by Nineteenth-Century Reformers Tracy Tiemeier, Boston College “I Shall Pluck by the Roots These Useless Breasts”: A Comparative Approach to Asian American Women’s Identity Construction Business Meeting: Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University, Presiding A21-114 Black Theology Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University, Presiding Theme: Renewed Conversation: A Meeting of Black and Process Theologies Panelists: Henry James Young, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary Theodore Walker, Southern Methodist University Barbara Holmes, Memphis Theological Seminary Karen Baker-Fletcher, Southern Methodist University Monica A. Coleman, Bennett College for Women Responding: Victor Anderson, Vanderbilt University Business Meeting: Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Texas Christian University, Presiding A21-115 Comparative Studies in Hinduisms and Judaisms Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Gregory Spinner, Central Michigan University, Presiding Theme: Death and Dying in Hindu and Jewish Traditions T. S. Rukmani, Concordia University Funeral Hymn (Sukta) Connected with Death Given in the Rgveda: A Study Kyoko Murata, Georgia State University Death and Dying Rituals in Hindu Communities in Atlanta Harlan J. Wechsler, Jewish Theological Seminary Taharah: Maavar Yabok and Purifying the Dead Ellen Posman, Baldwin-Wallace College A Time to Mourn: A Comparative Analysis of Hindu and Jewish Mourning Practices Responding: Marcy Braverman Goldstein, University of Judaism A21-116 Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Paul J. Gorrell, Stockton, NJ, Presiding Theme: Riding the Margins: The Performance of Queer Religious Identities John-Charles Duffy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Why Are There So Many Gay Mormon Websites? Vanja Hamzic, International Initiative for Visibility of Queer Muslims Queer Muslims: Coming Out to Creator Steven Lapidus, Concordia University Queering the Other: The Homosexual and the Jew in Nineteenth-Century Thought Dugan McGinley, Temple University Being Queer and Normal at the Same Time? Gay Men in Liturgical and Performing Arts Responding: Peter Savastano, Seton Hall University Business Meeting: Jay E. Johnson, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding Donald L. Boisvert, Concordia University, Presiding A21-117 Native Traditions in the Americas Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Jace Weaver, University of Georgia, Presiding Theme: Rethinking Analytical Conventions for Native Traditions Marilyn Notah, University of California, Santa Barbara A Critical Analysis of Western Healing Practices in Comparison to Indigenous Healing Brian Clearwater, University of California, Santa Barbara The Rhetoric of Confusion: “Shamanism,” Eliade, and the New Age Zachary Simpson, Claremont Graduate University Native American “Religion”: A Reassessment and a Constructive Proposal Enrique Maestas, Flatonia, TX Native American Epistemology of Religion and Vine Deloria, Jr. Responding: Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara A21-118 Person, Culture, and Religion Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Kathleen Bishop, Madison, NJ, Presiding Theme: The Psychology of Anomalous Experience and the Nonunitary Self G. William Barnard, Southern Methodist University Henri Bergson and William James on Paranormal Experiences and the Multi-Dimensional Self Jaesung Ha, Vanderbilt University Spirit Possession, Shin-Byung, and the Restoration of the Self in Korean Shamanism Felicity Brock Kelcourse, Christian Theological Seminary Intersubjectivity, Infantile Helplessness, and Occultism: Non-Ordinary Experience in the Dialogue between Freud and Jung Andrea Mundis, Drew Theological School Psychology, Neurology, and Their Attempt to Dismiss Mystical Experiences: Should They Succeed? A21-119 Religion and Popular Culture Group and Animals and Religion Consultation Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Richard J. Callahan, University of Missouri, Columbia, Presiding Theme: Religious Responses to Cultural Changes and Other Animals Panelists: Michael R. Bathgate, Saint Xavier University Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University David Aftandilian, University of Chicago Paul Waldau, Tufts University A21-121 Ritual Studies Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Theme: Performance and Change in Civic and Sacred Rites Ute Huesken, University of Heidelberg Conflicts on Appropriate Ritual Procedures in a South Indian Vishnu Temple Barry Stephenson, Wilfrid Laurier University Civil Religion and Public Ritual in Lutherstadt Wittenberg Sarah Haynes, University of Calgary Authority and Improvisation in Tibetan Buddhist Ritual Manuals: Tools, Symbols, and Literalism in Text and Performance Jacob Latham, University of California, Santa Barbara The Ritual (Re)Creation of the Ancient City Responding: Tom F. Driver, Union Theological Seminary, New York A21-122 Scriptural Reasoning Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm W. Stacy Johnson, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Prophecy Heard and Not Heard Panelists: Michael A. Signer, University of Notre Dame Willie Young, Endicott College Umeyye Yazicioglu, University of Virginia Business Meeting: Peter Ochs, University of Virginia, Presiding A21-123 Wesleyan Studies Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm K. Steve McCormick, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Methodism in Eastern Europe: Renewing the Heritage Panelists: S T Kimbrough, United Methodist Church Heigo Ritsbek, Charismatic Episcopal Church of Estonia, Estonian Evangelical Alliance Joyce Mauler Michael, Prague, Czech Republic Sergei Nikolaev, Russia United Methodist Theological Seminary A21-124 Sacred Space in Contemporary Asia Consultation Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Pamela D. Winfield, Meredith College, Presiding Theme: Map and Reality Laurel Kendall, American Museum of Natural History Auspicious Places in a Mobile Landscape: Of Shamans, Shrines, and Dreams Alexander Gardner, University of Michigan Ris-Med (Non-Sectarian) Sacred Geography: Religious Authority and the Regional Unification in Nineteenth-Century Khams (Eastern Tibet) Xiaofei Kang, St. Mary's College of Maryland Two Temples, Three Religions, and Tourist Attractions: Contesting the Sacred Space at the Sino-Tibetan Border Mark McGuire, Cornell University From the Dual Mandala to World Heritage: Mount Ômine’s Emergence as a Hotspot on Global Tourist-Pilgrims’ Itineraries Responding: Eve L. Mullen, Mississippi State University Business Meeting: Steven Heine, Florida International University, Presiding Pamela D. Winfield, Meredith College, Presiding A21-129 Reformed Theology and History Group Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm Martha L. Moore-Keish, Columbia Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: "Reconciled Memory": Book Review Session with Miroslav Volf Panelists: Miroslav Volf, Yale University Responding: Sarah Coakley, Harvard University Michael Wyschogrod, New York, NY Nicholas Wolterstorff, Grand Rapids, MI Business Meeting: Robert J. Sherman, Bangor Theological Seminary, Presiding Katherine Sonderegger, Virginia Theological Seminary, Presiding A21-125 Plenary Address Monday - 7:15 pm-8:15 pm Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University, Presiding Theme: Plenary Panel: The Future of Religion in the West: Perspectives Panelists: Sarah Coakley, Harvard University Peter J. Paris, Princeton Theological Seminary Julius Schoeps, University of Potsdam Teresa Berger, Duke University Vincent J. Cornell, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville See Program Highlights for a description. A21-126 Arts Series/Films: Left Behind: The Movie Monday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Sponsored by Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group John Lyden, Dana College, Presiding See Program Highlights for a description. A21-127 Arts Series/Films: The Magdalene Sisters Monday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Sponsored by Religion and Sexuality Group See Program Highlights for a description. A21-128 AAR Program Unit Chairs and Steering Committee Members' Reception Monday - 9:00 pm-10:30 pm Program unit chairs and steering committee members are invited to a reception in their honor hosted by the Program Committee. A22-2 Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Grace G. Burford, Prescott College, Presiding Theme: An Elephant Ain't Always an Elephant: The Importance of Cultural Context in Teaching Joseph E. Bush, United Theological Seminary the Twin Cities Theological Education in South Pacific Cultures Michael F. Strmiska, Central Connecticut State University When Life Gives You Beets, Make Borscht: On Almost Teaching Religious Studies in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University "It Fulfills My Requiremen": Strategies of Passionate Teaching to Dispassionate Students Juliane Hammer, Elon University Teaching “Islam in America": Essentialism, Race, and Politics Claudia Schippert, University of Central Florida Queer Pedagogy! Or, Is Authenticity Overrated? A22-3 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University, Presiding Theme: Sacramental Arts Frank Burch Brown, Christian Theological Seminary Sacramental Sound: Theological Aesthetics in a Musical Mode Steven Shakespeare, Liverpool Hope University Bordering on the Unsayable: George Steiner and Søren Kierkegaard on Music, Language, and Sacrament Paul Myhre, Wabash Center Painting as Sacrament: An Examination of the Aesthetics and Sacramental Theology of Salvador Dalí in the 1950s Brannon Hancock, University of Glasgow The Eucharist and Body Modification: The Aesthetics of Brokenness A22-4 Buddhism Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Wang Youru, Rowan University, Presiding Theme: New Persectives on the Awakening of Faith Kosei Ishii, Komazawa Junior College Trends in Modern Day Research on the Dasheng Qixin Lun in Japan, China, and Korea Alan Cole, Lewis and Clark College A Plan for the Past: The Role of Innate Perfection in the Awakening of Faith's Sinification of Buddhism Tao Jin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The Formulation of Exegetical Issues in the Introductory Sections of Early Qixin Lun Commentaries A. Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University A Comparison of Huiyuan's and Weonhyo's Approaches to the Problem of the Two Hindrances in the Awakening of Mahayana Faith Dan Lusthaus, Boston University Why, If We Are Originally Enlightened, Is There Non-Enlightenment? The Awakening of Faith's Neglected Answers Responding: Robert M. Gimello, Harvard University A22-5 Christian Systematic Theology Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am David Berger, Brooklyn College, Presiding Theme: Abraham's Promise: The Thought of Michael Wyschogrod R. Kendall Soulen, Wesley Theological Seminary The Achievement of Michael Wyschogrod Michael Walzer, Institute of Advanced Study Covenant and Body in the Thought of Michael Wyschogrod Walter Lowe, Emory University Michael Wyschogrod and the Task of Systematic Theology Responding: Michael Wyschogrod, New York, NY A22-6 Comparative Studies in Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Mary N. MacDonald, Le Moyne College, Presiding Theme: Current Research on the Afterlife Guy Beck, Tulane University Soteriology, Music, and the Afterlife in Theistic Hinduism Mark L. Blum, University at Albany Redefining Death in Mahayana Buddhism: The Antarabhava Sutra and the Deconstruction of Karma Yechiel Shalom Goldberg, California State University, Long Beach Nourished by the Divine Splendor: The Individual and the Afterlife in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah Kiki Kennedy-Day, Rutgers University An Eleventh-Century Islamic Perspective on the Afterlife: Ibn Sina’s Thoughts on the Ma‘ad (Return) Responding: Robert Thurman, Columbia University A22-7 History of Christianity Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Arun W. Jones, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: East Meets West: Intra-Christian Tensions and Relationships Jennifer C. Lane, Brigham Young University, Hawaii Comos and Communion: The Orthodox and the Other in Thirteenth-Century Central Asia Korinna Zamfir, Babes-Bolyai University An Overview of the Tensions Related to Mixed Matrimony in Transylvania during the Eighteenth–Twentieth Centuries István Keul, Free University of Berlin Denomination and Ethnic Affiliation in East Central Europe: Past and Present Brian P. Bennett, Niagara University Western Christianity as Other: The Discourse of "Latinism" in Russian History Amy A. Slagle, University of Pittsburgh The Internalized Other: Narrative Constructions of Ethnicity among American-Born Converts to Eastern Orthodox Christianity Responding: Milica Bakic-Hayden, University of Pittsburgh A22-8 North American Religions Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University, Presiding Theme: Sex, Fear, and Loathing Amy Sitar, Princeton University The Fear of Sex: Evangelical Protestants, Adolescents, and the Pro-Family Movement in Late Twentieth-Century American Culture Kelly Baker, Florida State University Hate Made Flesh (and Cloth): Religious Hate Groups and the Creation of Identity through Dress Brian Froese, Canadian Mennonite University Body Apocalyptic: Reading Evangelical Raptures, 666, and Resurrections in the Twentieth Century Responding: Edward Ingebretsen, Georgetown University Amy Johnson Fryckholm, Leadville, CO A22-9 Philosophy of Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kevin Schilbrack, Wesleyan College, Presiding Theme: Liberalism, Pluralism, and Social Ontology Jens Zimmerman, Trinity Western University Martin Heidegger and the Limits of Phenomenology James Kraft, Huston Tillotson University Philip Quinn’s Contribution to the Epistemological Challenge of Religious Diversity Robert Erlewine, Rice University Revealed Truths and Fissured Societies: Habermas and the Problem of Monotheism Michael Johnson, University of Chicago Heidegger and Thanatology in Twentieth-Century Continental Thought A22-10 Religion and the Social Sciences Section and Anthropology of Religion Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Angela Zito, New York University, Presiding Theme: Ethnographies of Media: Performance, Audience, and Meaning Christopher Chesnek, University of California, Santa Barbara Contesting Spirits: Native Traditions in the Spiritual Marketplace Kevin O'Neill, Stanford University Movie House: Viewing Christianity in an Emotional Borderland Patton Dodd, Boston University Hollywood and Evangelical Identity Hannah Sanders, Curry College, Milton From Victim to Witch: Discourses of Dis/Empowerment in 1990s Teenage Witchcraft Responding: Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto A22-11 Study of Islam Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: <s>Public Discourses on Islam in American Society after September 11?</s>-CANCELLED Panelists: Sherman Jackson, University of Michigan Saeed Khan, Wayne State University Munir Jiwa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology H. Chad Hillier, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University Chicago Responding: Qureshi Emran, Harvard University A22-12 Study of Judaism Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Randi Rashkover, York College of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: Jewish Thought: Culture and Curriculum Alan Verskin, Princeton University Teaching Philosophy to the Multitude: The Thought of Nissim B. Moshe of Marseilles Ellen Haskell, Franklin & Marshall College Metaphor, Transformation, and Transcendence: Toward an Understanding of Kabbalistic Imagery in the Book of Zohar Marc Krell, University of Arizona The Prophetic Narrative as a Basis for Religious Socialism in Weimar Germany: Jewish and Christian Attempts to Navigate between Historicism and Dialectical Theology Kenneth Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College in Pennsylvania The Art of Writing: The Diaries of Mordechai Kaplan A22-13 Women and Religion Section Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: Women and Religious Performance Kristi Upson-Saia, Duke University Performance Anxiety: Religious and Gender "Performance" in the Attire of Ancient Female Christian Ascetics Julie J. Kilmer, Olivet College Troubling Performativity: Creating Subversive Religious Identities Cynthia Elledge-Volker, Claremont School of Theology More Bloodshed in the Name of God: When Contemporary Self-Injury Behavior Has Religious Significance Kimberleigh Jordan, New York University Black Bodies Moving in Sacred Space: African American Liturgical Dance Kelly E. Hayes, Indiana University/Purdue University Dark Side of the Sacred: Pomba Gira in Brazil A22-14 Afro-American Religious History Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Kelly Brown Douglas, Goucher College, Presiding Theme: Unmasking the Body with Passion and without Fear: Black Religions and Black Materiality as Social Constructs of Food, Health, and Identity Julius Bailey, University of Redlands “That Hardy Race of Pioneers”: Constructions of Race and Masculinity in AME Church Histories, 1865-1900 Yvonne Chireau, Swarthmore College The Body as Menagerie: African-American Narratives of Supernatural Affliction Stephen Finley, Rice University Homoeroticism, the Body, and the African-American Heterosexual Male Quest for Meaning in the Black Church Edward E. Curtis, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis The Riddle of the Bean Pie: Religion and Food in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975 Responding: Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago Business Meeting: Debra Mubashshir Majeed, Beloit College, Presiding A22-15 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Rachel A. R. Bundang, Union Theological Seminary, New York, Presiding Theme: Reformulations of Religion and Spirituality in Asian America David Kyuman Kim, Connecticut College Buried in Time's Memory: Nostalgia, Cosmopolitanism, and the Asian American Religious Imagination Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of Southern California The Moral Minority: Race, Religion, and Conservative Politics in Asian America Naoki Okamura, Claremont School of Theology Cultural Oppression and Losing One’s Spiritual Voice: A Case for Elderly Japanese-American Women Responding: Rudiger V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara Business Meeting: Duncan Williams, University of California, Irvine, Presiding Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding A22-16 Confucian Traditions Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Robert C. Neville, Boston University, Presiding Theme: Contemporary Relevance of Neo-Confucianism Yong Huang, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Why Be Moral? The Cheng Brothers’ Neo-Confucian Conception of Morality and Happiness John Berthrong, Boston University Boston Daoxue? Stephen Angle, Wesleyan University Learning to Look for Harmony Eske Mollgaard, St. Lawrence University Can We Pick Up on the Discourse of the Sages? Business Meeting: Keith Knapp, The Citadel, Presiding A22-17 Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Donald L. Boisvert, Concordia University, Presiding Theme: Sacred Tops, Manly Bottoms: Readings of Ron Long's Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods Panelists: Paul J. Gorrell, Stockton, NJ Robert E. Goss, Metropolitan Community Church Jay E. Johnson, Pacific School of Religion Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston Responding: Ronald E. Long, Hunter College A22-18 Mysticism Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Neil Douglas-Klotz, Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning, Presiding Theme: The Mystical Experience: Natural or Supernatural? Sandra Costen Kunz, Princeton Theological Seminary Dust and Wind: The Relationality between Natural and Supernatural in James Loder's Model of Mysticism for Social Transformation G. William Barnard, Southern Methodist University Henri Bergson’s Trans-Natural Mysticism Mark McInroy, Harvard University "Spiritual Senses," Natural, and Supernatural in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics Luke Higgins, Drew University Interstitial Spatiality, Relationality, and Spiritual Freedom: A “Natural” Whiteheadian Perspective on Mystical Experience A22-19 Religion and Ecology Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University, Presiding Theme: Issues of Science, Simplicity, and Sustainable Community in the Quakers, Mennonites, and Amish Ellen Ross, Swarthmore College Earth Visions: Philadelphia Quakers on Nature and Religion Trevor Bechtel, Bluffton University The Gospel of All Creatures Then and Now Darla Schumm, Hollins University co-author with Holt Sally D. Smith Holt and Darla Schumm, William Jewell College From Subsistence to Factory Farming: Rethinking Mennonite Conceptions of Community as an Ecological Response Anna Peterson, University of Florida Community, Nature, and Religion in Salvadoran and Old Order Amish Agrarian Communities Marie Vandenbark, Indiana University East Countercultural Simplicity: Theology and Practice among Amish and Quakers in Indiana A22-20 Religious Freedom, Public Life, and the State Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Andrew William Getz, Duquesne University, Presiding Theme: Religion and Public Life: Here and There Jillinda Weaver, Emory University Who Does God's Work? George W. Bush on Here and There Andrew Murphy, Valparaiso University Pluralizing the Jeremiad: Narrative and Religious Diversity in Contemporary American Public Life Alexei Krindatch, (Graduate Theological Union Religion, Public Life, and the State in Putin's Russia Kristin McLaren, University of Ottawa Sukarno’s Indonesia: A Muslim Alternative to Western-Style Democracy and the Islamic State A22-21 Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group and Ritual Studies Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Jone Salomonsen, University of Oslo, Presiding Theme: Rethinking Popular Religion Jennifer Hughes, Mt. Holyoke College The Case of María Tiburcía, Mexican Itinerant Preacher and Curandera: The Recuperation of Theology for the Study of Latin American Religion Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton "I Get Goosepimples!" Transnational Ritual: The Transfiguration of the The Salvadoran Divine Savior of the World Ruth J. Chojnacki, University of Chicago Whose Popular Religion? (Re)Construing Catholic Ritual Practice in Mexico’s Maya Highlands Jean Molesky-Poz, Santa Clara University Discerning the Fire: "To Connect to the Mystery in Which We Trust" Maya Ritual Space, Sacred Time, and Ways of Knowing Responding: Thomas A. Tweed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A22-22 Roman Catholic Studies Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Theme: New Angles from Ethnography and History in the Study of U.S. Catholicism Amy Koehlinger, Florida State University Reconceptualizing Catholic Studies: Perspectives from the Study of "New Nuns" Susan Ridgely Bales, Princeton University A Theology of Taste: First Communion as Embodied Ritual Luis Enrique Murillo, Trinity University Wither the Parish? Considerations of the Impact of Mexican and Mexican-American Transnationalism Julie Byrne, Duke University The New American Catholicism: Old Catholics and Internet Evangelism Responding: Scott Appleby, University of Notre Dame A22-23 Theology and Continental Philosophy Group Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am Bruce Ellis Benson, Wheaton College, Presiding Theme: Empire, Globalization, and Religion: Interactions with Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Arvind Mandair, Hofstra University Empire or Globalatinization: Religion, Post-Colonial Sovereignty, and the Politics of Resistance Jeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College Secularization and the Multitude: An Alternative Theology of Empire Michele Saracino, Manhattan College Facing Narcissism and Embracing Borders in the Midst of Empire Responding: Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary	More Information Annual Meeting Exhibitors & Advertisers (PDF) Employment Center Student Events at Meeting Regional Meetings Program Units Please join us in beautiful Chicago for the 2012 AAR Annual Meeting November 17-20
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