http://www.aarweb.org/Meetings/Annual_Meeting/Past_and_Future_Meetings/2005/programbook.asp
AAR Online Program Book
November 19-22, 2005
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
A18-1
Chairs Workshop - Enlarging the Pie: Strategies for Managing and Growing Departmental Resources
Friday - 9:00 am-4:30 pm
Sponsored by the Academic Relations Committee
Timothy M. Renick, Georgia State University and Richard M. Carp, Appalachian State University, Presiding
Panelists:
Thomas P. Kasulis, Ohio State University, Columbus
Dianne Stewart, Emory University
Deanna A. 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