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Program Units from Past Annual Meetings
Sections
Program Unit Name |
Tenure |
Chair(s) at end of tenure |
|
Asian Religions and History of Religions |
|
Thomas J. Hopkins |
|
Biblical Literature |
1970-1983 |
Fred O. Francis |
|
Philosophy of Religion and Theology |
1970-1978 |
Peter Slater |
|
Roman Catholic Studies |
1970 |
Michael Novak |
Groups
Program Unit Name |
Tenure |
Chair(s) at end of tenure |
|
Sixteenth Century Exegetica |
|
Kenneth Hagen |
|
American Religion and Popular Devotion |
1975-1979 |
C. Carlyle Haaland and Peter W. Williams |
|
Ascetic Impulse in Religious Life and Culture |
1993-1997 |
Dianne M. Bazell and Gail Corrington-Streete |
|
Constructs of Ancient History and Religion |
1991-1998 |
David M. Gunn and Paula M. McNutt |
|
Constructs of the Social and Cultural Worlds of Antiquity |
1990-1999 |
David M. Gunn |
|
Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion |
1979-1983 |
Thomas Dean and Peter Slater |
|
Currents in Contemporary Christology |
1982-1990 |
Terence J. Martin and Mark K. Taylor |
|
Death and Dying |
1975-1977 |
Clayton Stalnaker |
|
Empiricism in American Religious Thought |
1986-1992 |
Nancy Frankenberry and Jerome A. Stone |
| Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity | 2005 | David Frankfurter |
|
Hinduism |
1978-1982 |
Jack Hawley |
|
History of the Study of Religion |
1986-1999 |
Abrahim H. Khan |
|
Interpretation Theory of Paul Ricoeur |
1976-1982 |
Loretta Dornisch |
|
Issues in the Thought of Paul Tillich |
1989-1999 |
Sharon P. Burch |
|
Liberation Theology |
1978-1990 |
Katie Geneva Cannon and Lee Cormie |
| Millenialism Studies | 1995-2002 | Eugene Gallagher |
|
Modern Religious Movements in India/Religion in Modern India |
1978-1982 |
George M. Williams |
|
Narrative Interpretation and Theology |
1982-1991 |
William Werpehowski |
|
Psycho-Social Interpretations in Theology |
1973-1977 |
Lucy Bregman and Walter Lowe |
|
Public School Religion Studies |
1975-1979 |
Nicholas Piediscalzi |
|
Quranic Studies |
1979-1985 |
Andrew Rippin |
|
Religion and Ecology |
1974-1978 |
Gustave Todrank |
|
Religion in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR |
1993-2000 |
Leslie A. Muray and J. Shawn Landres |
|
Religion, Peace, and War |
1985-1998 |
Simon Harak |
|
Religious Social Ethics |
1975-1982 |
Gibson Winter |
|
Rhetoric and Religious Discourse |
1985-1991 |
Rebecca Chopp and Susan E. Shapiro |
|
Scandinavian Theology |
1975-1980 |
Henry Vander Goot |
| Signifying (on) Scriptures Group | 2005-2007 | Vincent Wimbush and Yvonne Chireau |
|
Social World of Ancient Israel |
1976-1980 |
Frank S. Frick and Norman K. Gottwald |
|
Social World of Early Christianity |
1975-1980 |
Leander E. Keck and Carolyn Osiek |
|
Structural Analysis of Religion |
1979-1982 |
Hans Penner |
|
Theology and Process Thought |
1978-1983 |
Delwin Brown |
|
Trickster Myths |
1978-1980 |
William Hynes |
|
Wittgenstein and the Study of Religion/ Wittgenstein and Religious Studies |
1978-1982 |
Andrew Burgess |
|
Religion of the American Indian/Native American Traditions |
1973-1979 |
Sam Gill |
Seminars
Program Unit Name |
Tenure |
Chair(s) at end of tenure |
|
Albrecht Ritschl |
|
William R. Barnett |
|
Buddhist Relic Veneration |
1994-1997 |
David Germano and Kevin Trainor |
|
Business and Organizational Ethics |
1984-1994 |
Don Jones |
|
Categories of the Divine and the Human in Western Antiquity |
1987-1993 |
Eugene V. Gallagher and James D. Tabor |
| Constructions of Ancient Space | 2000-2004 | Jon L. Berquist and James W. Flanagan |
|
Euro-American Studies |
1987-1994 |
Frederick Herzog and Marjorie Suchocki |
|
Kierkegaard |
1983-1989 |
Abrahim Khan |
|
Lonergan and the Future |
1985-1989 |
Nancy C. Ring |
|
Myth |
1973-1974 |
Lee W. Gibbs and W. Taylor Stevenson |
|
Practice of Christianity in Roman Africa |
1997-2001 |
J. Patout Burns and Robin Jensen |
| Rastafari in Global Context: Religion & Culture | 1998-2002 | Richard Salter |
|
Process Thought, The Nishida School of Buddhist Philosophy in Comparative Perspective |
1985-1991 |
Francis H. Cook and Tokiyuki Nobuhara |
|
Roman Catholic Modernism |
1979-1998 |
Phyllis H. Kaminski and Charles J. T. Talar |
|
Schleiermacher |
1983-1989 |
Terrence Tice |
|
Seminar in Dialectic |
1977-1982 |
Vernon Gregson |
|
Spirituality |
1982-1988 |
Bradley Hanson |
|
Studies on the Baha'i Faith/Baha'i Studies |
1985-1991 |
Robert H. Stockman |
| Studies in Yogācāra Buddhism | 1998-2002 | Joe Wilson and Dan Lusthaus |
|
Swedenborg Issues and Influence |
1991-1997 |
Jane Williams-Hogan |
|
Tantric Studies |
1994-1999 |
Charles D. Orzech |
|
Theology and the Phenomenological Movement |
1985-1991 |
Walter J. Lowe |
|
Theosophy and Theosophic Thought |
1994-1998 |
James Santucci |
|
Tokugawa Religion |
1997-2001 |
Elizabeth G. Harrison and Dennis E. Lishka |
| Zen Buddism | 2002-2006 | Gereon Kopf and Jin Y. Park |
|
Zoroastrianism/ Zoroastrianism and the Iranian Religions |
1985-1991 |
H. Michael Simmons |
Consultations
Program Unit Name |
Tenure |
Chair(s) at end of tenure |
|
Academic Integrity and the New Religious Movements |
|
Joe Bettis and Timothy Miller |
|
Academic Issues in Religious Publishing |
1983-1984 |
James Heaney |
|
African Religions |
1980 |
Newell Booth |
|
Aging and Religious Studies |
1990-1991 |
Leo Sandon |
|
Archives |
1984 |
Andrew D. Scrimgeour |
|
Art and the Bible |
1979 |
Joseph Gutmann |
|
Autobiography and Religious Studies |
1994-1996 |
John D. Barbour |
|
Bible in American Cultures |
1990-1991 |
Douglas Jacobsen |
|
Compositional History of Whitehead's Writings |
1983 |
Lewis Ford |
|
Conversion |
1982 |
Paula Fredriksen Landes |
|
East Asian Religions |
1994-1998 |
Tom Selover and Michiko Yusa |
|
Eastern Christianity |
1977-1984 |
Sydney Griffith |
|
Ecological Issues and Religious Reflection |
1986-1987 |
William C. French |
|
Esotericism/Esotericism and Perennialism |
1984-1990 |
James B. Robinson |
|
Feminist Theory and Religion |
1985-1986 |
Dorothy Austin and Naomi Goldberg |
| Foucault | 2004-2006 | Thomas Beaudoin |
|
History of Christianity: Continental Influences Upon American Methodism |
1979 |
J. Steven O'Malley |
|
History of Christianity: Modern British Christianity |
1979 |
Dale A. Johnson and James C. Livingston |
|
History of Christianity: Patristics/Medieval |
1979 |
J. Patout Burns |
|
History of Women in Judaism |
1986 |
Barbara Geller Nathanson and Susannah Heschel |
|
Interreligious Dialogue |
1988-1989 |
Thomas Dean and Arvind Sharma |
|
Issues in Interreligious Interchange |
1992-1997 |
Chester Gillis |
|
Jacques Ellul and the Study of Religion |
1987-1988 |
Daniel B. Clendenin |
|
Jonathan Edwards |
1988-1989 |
John F. Wilson |
|
Jungian Psychology and the Study of Religion |
1980 |
James Gross and Luther Martin |
|
Marxism and Religion |
1990 |
Bruce Grelle |
|
Men's Experience and Religion |
1980-1982 |
Joseph Ramisch |
|
Myth and Symbol |
1985 |
Walter B. Gulick |
|
Narrative Theory and Religion |
1987-1988 |
Robert Detweiler |
|
Palestinian Theology and Interreligious Dialogue in the Middle East |
1997-2000 |
Rosemary Radford Ruether and Donald E. Wagner |
|
Pannenberg Studies |
1989 |
Stanley Grenz |
|
Personal Religious Syncretism |
1978-1979 |
Harry Buck and Joanna Macy |
|
Polanyi Studies |
1980 |
Phil Mullins |
|
Political Theology |
1983-1984 |
Vernon Gregson |
|
Post Modernism |
1978-1979 |
Daniel Noel |
|
Prehistoric Religions |
1987-1988 |
James B. Harrod |
|
Religion and Dream |
1983-1984 |
Patricia Cox-Miller and David L. Miller |
| Religion and Human Rights | 1997-2002 | Arvind Sharma and Sumner Twiss |
|
Religion and Public Policy |
1988-1989 |
Richard Rubenstein |
| Religion in Central and Eastern Europe | 1999-2004 | Andrii Krawchuk and J. Shawn Landres |
|
Religion in the Courts |
1986 |
Allen H. Cutler |
|
Religious Foundations of Western Civilization |
1978-1980 |
Samuel Laeuchli |
|
Religious Pluralism/Comparative Religion |
1978 |
Willard Oxtoby |
|
Religious Studies in the Nuclear Age |
1984 |
Ira Chernus |
|
Religious Totalism |
1989 |
Carl A. Taschke |
|
Sacred Biography |
1983 |
William Darrow |
|
Simone Weil |
1978-1979 |
Thomas Idinopulos |
|
Study of the Latter Day Saints/Study of the Latter Day Saints Religious Tradition |
1986-1987 |
Gordon C. Thomasson |
|
The Spatial Dimension of Religious Life |
1987-1988 |
Lonnie D. Kliever |
|
The Spiritual Journey |
1992-1993 |
Paul Mundschenk |
|
The Urantia Book |
1985 |
John C. Meagher |
|
Theology and Christian Spirituality |
1978 |
Barry Woodbridge |
|
Theology and Post-Modernism |
1988-1989 |
David R. Crownfield |
|
Theology of Catastrophe |
1978-1979 |
John M. Oesterreicher |
|
Theory of and Methods for the Study of Religion |
1983-1984 |
Charles Vernoff |
|
Thomas Merton |
1979-1980 |
Mary L. Schneider |
|
Victorian Religion |
1980 |
Dale Johnson and Dale Livingston |
|
Visual Arts |
1979 |
John W. Cook |
|
Western Esotericism from the Early Modern Period |
1999-2001 |
James Santucci |
|
Women and Religious Communities |
1987-1988 |
Constance F. Parvey |
|
Women and the Church |
1985-1986 |
Constance F. Parvey |
|
World Council of Churches |
1982-1983 |
Clifford Green |




