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Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
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A20-224
Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
Jacob Erickson, St. Olaf College, Presiding
Theme: Book Panel on An Yountae's The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins (Fordham University Press, 2016)
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Convention Center-213B (2nd Level - West)
Panelists:
Jorge A. Aquino, University of San Francisco
Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University
Mayra Rivera, Harvard University
Responding:
An Yountae, Lebanon Valley College
A20-225
Western Esotericism Group
Brian Collins, Ohio University, Presiding
Theme: South Asian Yoga and Tantra in Western Esoteric and Occult Traditions: A Cross-Fertilization of Practice
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Convention Center-303A (3rd Level)
Keith Cantú, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sri Sabhapati Swami: The Forgotten Yogi of Western Esotericism
Henrik Bogdan, University of Gothenburg
Kenneth Grant, Tantra, and the Left-Hand Path
Joel Bordeaux, Colgate University
You Say Cthulhu, I Say Kundalini: Hindu Tantra in the Context(s) of Chaos Magic
Jackson Stephenson, University of Washington
Cosmology and Deification in the Western Left-Hand Path and Tantric Krama Traditions
Anna Pokazanyeva, California Polytechnic State University
Forged Records? The Theosophical Appropriation of Akasha
A20-226
Exploratory Sessions
Joseph Laycock, Texas State University, Presiding
Theme: Visual and Material Elements of the Global Marian Movement
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Lone Star F (2nd Level)
Panelists:
J. Gordon Melton, Baylor University
Massimo Introvigne, Center for Studies on New Religions
Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, University of Kansas
Karen E. Park, St. Norbert College
Donald Westbrook , University of California, Los Angeles, Fuller Theological Seminary
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Exploratory Sessions
Kathleen M. Erndl, Florida State University, Presiding
Theme: Navaratri in South Asia and Beyond
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Lone Star C (2nd Level)
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida
Navaratri and Nostalgia: Recreating Social Order, Reconstructing the Cosmos
Caleb Simmons, University of Arizona
Dasara and the Performance of Dynastic Continuity
Astrid Zotter, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Who Kills the Buffalo? Authority and Agency in the Ritual Logistics of the Nepalese Dasain Festival
Responding:
Ute Huesken, University of Oslo
A20-228
Wildcard Session
Karen Baker-Fletcher, Southern Methodist University , Presiding
Theme: Revolutions of Love: The Politics and Flesh of Religion
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Convention Center-Stars at Night 4 (3rd Level)
Serene Jones, Union Theological Seminary
Revolutionary Love
Elaine Padilla, New York Theological Seminary
The Queer Axis of Love
John Thatamanil, Union Theological Seminary
Is Revolutionary Love Solely Christian? Comparative Considerations of Affect and Action
Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University
Empowering Love for Revolution: Divine and Creaturely Action
Responding:
Catherine Keller, Drew University
A20-229
Wildcard Session
Andrew Forsyth, Yale University, Presiding
Theme: Community Organizing, Religious Diversity, and "Faithfully Secular" Politics: Engagements with Luke Bretherton’s Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship, and the Politics of a Common Life (Cambridge, 2015)
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Convention Center-302A (3rd Level)
Panelists:
Ernesto Cortes, Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)/West SouthWest IAF Network
Rick Elgendy, Wesley Theological Seminary
Randi Rashkover, George Mason University
Devin Singh, Dartmouth College
Responding:
Luke Bretherton, Duke University
A20-230
Status of Persons with Disabilities in the Profession Committee
Theme: Committee Meeting
Sunday - 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Convention Center-223 (2nd Level - East)
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Tours
Daniel Sack, Washington, DC, Presiding
Theme: San Antonio Missions Tour
Sunday - 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Offsite
A20-263
Women in Religion Section and Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and Culture Group and Practical Theology Group and Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group
Sarah Shirley, U.S Special Operations Command, Tampa, FL, Presiding
Theme: Political Implications of Defining and Depicting Moral Injury
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Texas A (4th Level)
Panelists:
Jonathan Shay, Colrain, MA
A20-250
American Lectures in the History of Religions
Ebrahim E. I. Moosa, University of Notre Dame and Louis A. Ruprecht Jr., Georgia State University, Presiding
Theme: Fatemeh Keshavarz - Unsilencing the Sacred: Poetic Conversations with the Divine
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-Stars at Night 4 (3rd Level)
Panelists:
Fatemeh Keshavarz, University of Maryland
A20-251
Applied Religious Studies Working Group
Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Preparing Scholars of Religion for Nonacademic Careers: What's a Faculty Member to Do?
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-301C (3rd Level)
Panelists:
Stephen Prothero, Boston University
Martin Kavka, Florida State University
Sarah Fredericks, University of Chicago
Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University
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Public Understanding of Religion Committee
Michael Kessler, Georgetown University, Presiding
Theme: Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion Forum: J. Bryan Hehir
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-214B (2nd Level - West)
Panelists:
J. Bryan Hehir, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Shaun Allen Casey, U.S. Department of State
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Religion and the Arts Award Jury
Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University and S. Brent Plate, Hamilton College, Presiding
Theme: Conversation with Religion and the Arts Awardee Shahzia Sikander
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-007A (River Level)
Panelists:
Shahzia Sikander, New York , NY
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Student Lounge Roundtable
Theme: Embedded and Embodied: The Ethics of Virtual Ethnography
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-225D (2nd Level - East)
Panelists:
Kayla Renée Wheeler, University of Iowa
A20-255
Theological Education Committee
Jeffrey Williams, Brite Divinity School, Presiding
Theme: Committee Meeting
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Marriott Rivercenter-Conference Room 9 (3rd Level)
Panelists:
Arthur Holder, Graduate Theological Union
Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of the West
Phillis Isabella Sheppard, Vanderbilt University
Scott C. Alexander, Catholic Theological Union
Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner, Southern Methodist University
A20-256
Women's Caucus
Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College, Presiding
Theme: Pushing Boundaries: Publishing New Books on Gender and Religion
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-221A (2nd Level - East)
Sharon Jacob, Drew University
Reading Mary Alongside Indian Surrogate Mothers: Violent Love, Oppressive Liberation, and Infancy Narratives (Bible and Cultural Series, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
HyeRan Kim-Cragg, University of Saskatchewan
Reading Hebrews from Feminist Perspectives (Liturgical Press, 2015)
Kathy McCallie, Phillips Theological Seminary
The Women's Caucus Book Review Project
Carol P. Christ, Ariadne Institute for the Study of Myth and Ritual
Goddess and God in the World: Conversations in Embodied Theology (Fortress Press, 2016)
A20-257
Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Religion in Southeast Asia Group
Alicia Turner, York University, Presiding
Theme: Translation in Theory and Practice: Writing across Languages in Southeast Asia
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham A (3rd Level)
Verena Meyer, Columbia University
Translating Divinity: Hamza Fansuri’s Poetic Reception of Ibn al-ʿArabī
Richard Fox, Heidelberg University
The Girl with Two Souls: On the Indeterminacy of Translation in Bali and Beyond
Jason Carbine, Whittier College
TBA
Responding:
Thomas Borchert, University of Vermont
A20-258
History of Christianity Section
Peter Anthony Mena, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Christianity and the Uses of the Past
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-214C (2nd Level - West)
Alexander Angelov, College of William and Mary
Christ in Armenia: From Byzantine Narratives to Modern Nationalism
Aaron Hollander, University of Chicago
Lionslayers: Hagiographical Imagination and National Struggle on the Island of Saints
Tara Baldrick-Morrone, Florida State University
"Real Blood, Sweat, and Tears": The Rhetorical Use of Early Christian Martyrdom in the American Abortion Wars
A20-259
North American Religions Section
Sharon A. Suh, Seattle University, Presiding
Theme: Religion on the Move: Space, Place, and Religious Formation
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-301A (3rd Level)
Abigail Cooper, Brandeis University
Conjuring Emancipation: Revival and the Making of Black Religion in the Refugee Camps of the American Civil War
Eleanor Finnegan, University of Alabama
Orienting America: The Ongoing Negotiation of Muslim Place Names in the United States
Minjung Noh, Temple University
Gendered Performances in the Mission Field: Two Case Studies on Female Korean American Missionaries in Haiti
A20-260
Religion in South Asia Section
Sarah Pierce Taylor, Oberlin College, Presiding
Theme: Modern Sanskrit, Religious Others, and South Asian Nationalism
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-216 (2nd Level - West)
Eric Gurevitch, University of Chicago
Resembling the Upanayana Samskara: Modern Sanskrit Revival Perspectives on Early Zionism
Charles Preston, Northwestern University
Akbar à la Kalidasa: Muslims, Tolerance, and Hindu Nationalism in a Modern Sanskrit Drama
Justin Henry, University of Chicago
Balancing Mount Kailash: Ravana’s Sanskrit in the Dravidian and Sinhala Buddhist Nationalist Movements
Responding:
Cassie Adcock, Washington University, St. Louis
A20-261
Study of Judaism Section
Shira Billet, Princeton University, Presiding
Theme: The Medieval in the Modern
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Marriott Rivercenter-Conference Room 1 (3rd Level)
Mark A. Kaplowitz, University of Memphis
“God Can Have No Actuality”: Maimonidean Negative Attributes in the Jewish Theology of Hermann Cohen
Elias Sacks, University of Colorado
Discovery or Disclosure? Medieval Exegesis and Modern Judaism between East and West
Dustin Atlas, Al Quds Bard College for Arts and Sciences
The Spinoza Filter: Legitimating Medieval Jewish Thought for Modernity
Brian Hillman, Indiana University
Medieval Jewish Philosophy in the Thought of Nachman Krochmal
A20-262
Teaching Religion Section and Chinese Religions Group
Natasha Heller, University of California, Los Angeles, Presiding
Theme: Teaching Religions of China in Practice
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham E (3rd Level)
Panelists:
Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Arizona State University
Courtney Bruntz, Doane University
Erik Hammerstrom, Pacific Lutheran University
Daniel B. Stevenson, University of Kansas
Angela Zito, New York University
A20-264
Afro-American Religious History Group
Vaughn Booker, Dartmouth College, Presiding
Theme: Disciplining African American Religion
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Lone Star F (2nd Level)
Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University
Holy Precipitators of Psychosis: African American Religion and Early Twentieth Century Psychiatry
Lerone Martin, Washington University, Saint Louis
“Sincerely Yours, J. Edgar Hoover:" The FBI and Black Religion Beyond COINTELPRO
Stephanie Gaskill, University of North Carolina
"They Are There Watching": How Media Coverage of Moral Rehabilitation Disciplines African American Religion
Business Meeting:
Josef Sorett, Columbia University
LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant, Williams College
A20-265
Animals and Religion Group
David Clough, University of Chester, Presiding
Theme: Anthropomorphism and Its Discontents: Lightning Presentation Panel
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-008A (River Level)
Matthew Eaton, University of St. Michael's College
Alterity and Anthropomorphism
Josh Williams
Loving the Animal: Pro Anthropomorphism in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Purushottama Bilimoria, University of California, Berkeley, University of Melbourne
The Ambiguous Space between Anthropomorphizing and Deification of Animals in Indian Religions
Dorothy Dean, Vanderbilt University
Pro-Anthropomorphism in the Fight Against Human Exceptionalism
Jared Beverly, Chicago Theological Seminary
Anthropomorphism and the Furry Fandom
Eric Daryl Meyer, Loyola Marymount University
Anthropomorphism and Eduardo Kohn’s "Trans-Species Pidgins"
David Aftandilian, Texas Christian University
Stories, Personhood, and Anthropomorphism
Business Meeting:
Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina
David Clough, University of Chester
A20-266
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group
Melissa Borja, City University of New York, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Russell Jeung At Home in Exile: Meeting Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors (Zondervan, 2016)
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Marriott Rivercenter-Conference Room 7 (3rd Level)
Panelists:
David Kyuman Kim, Connecticut College
Stephanie Hinnershitz, Cleveland State University
Helene Slessarev-Jamir, Claremont School of Theology
Jerry Park, Baylor University
Responding:
Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University
A20-267
Body and Religion Group, Men, Masculinities, and Religion Group, and Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Group
Darby Ray, Bates College, Presiding
Theme: Drawing, Dressing, and Playing with God
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-207A (2nd Level - West)
Calvin Mercer, East Carolina University
Constructing God: Teaching about the Gender of Deity
Julie Morris, Duke University
Dressing the Savior: Considering a New Notion of Gender Theory through the Feminized Body of Christ
Jennifer Hockenbery, Mount Mary College
Playing at Love: Analyzing Male Desire and Religious Passion in the Works of Augustine, Abelard, and Kierkegaard through Reader’s Theater
A20-268
Contemporary Islam Group
Danielle Widmann Abraham, James Madison University, Presiding
Theme: Subjects of Terror: Islamophobia in a Global Context
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-212A (2nd Level - West)
Younghwa Kim, Yale University
Hostility, Fear, and Rejection of Islam in South Korea: The Formation of Islamophobia in a Non-Western Country
Ashraf Kunnummal, University of Johannesburg
Traveling Islamophobia in South India: On the Global Circulation and Reception of Malala Yusufzai
Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston
The Good, the Bad, and the Monstrous: Muslims in and beyond Contemporary American Film
Megan Goodwin, Bates College
“Women Against Islam”: American Women, Muslim Men, and the Gendering of Islamophobia
Responding:
J. Kameron Carter, Duke University
A20-269
Contemporary Pagan Studies Group
Sabina Magliocco, California State University, Northridge, Presiding
Theme: Modernity and Postmodernity: Pagans Reimagining the Future
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-212B (2nd Level - West)
Christopher W. Chase, Iowa State University
Differential Modernities: Rethinking Vodou in Contemporary Paganism
Barbara Jane Davy, Ottawa, ON and Stephen Quilley, University of Waterloo
Reconstructing Alternatives: Wicked Dilemmas for Contemporary Pagan Responses to Modernity
Thomas Berendt, Philadelphia, PA
Postmodern Paganisms: Embracing Polythetic Plurality, Diversity, and Hybridity
Responding:
Amy Hale, Helix Education, Oakland, CA
A20-270
International Development and Religion Group and Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group
Jill DeTemple, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
Theme: Transforming Our World? The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals through the Intersection of Peace-Building, Development Studies, and Religious Studies
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-210B (2nd Level - West)
Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds
Gender, Religion, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The Role of Faith Actors in Conceptualising and Realising the SDGs and the Implications for Gender Equality
Kristyn Sessions, Emory University
Sustaining Partnerships: Hopes for the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Fidele Lumeya, Congolese American Council for Peace and Development, Washington, DC
Respondent Biography
Responding:
Fidele Lumeya, Congolese American Council for Peace and Development, Washington, DC
A20-271
Korean Religions Group
Anselm Min, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
Theme: How Did Korean Religions Treat Each Other Politically? A Roundtable Proposal for Korean Religions in Relation
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Marriott Rivercenter-Conference Room 8 (3rd Level)
Panelists:
Halla Kim, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Timothy S. Lee, Brite Divinity School
Franklin Rausch, Lander University
Edward J. Shultz, University of Hawaii
Business Meeting:
Deberniere Torrey, University of Utah
Richard D. McBride, Brigham Young University, Hawaii
A20-272
Mysticism Group
John M. Thompson, Christopher Newport University, Presiding
Theme: Violence, Sacrifice, and Suffering in Medieval Christian and Jewish Mysticism
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Presidio A (3rd Level)
Jeremy Brown, University of San Francisco
Imago Martyris as Imago Templi in the Writings of R. Moses de León: On the Contemplative Practice of Dismemberment in 13th C. Castilian Kabbalah
John Arblaster, KU Leuven
The Wound of Love and Spiritual Death in Richard of Saint-Victor and John of Ruusbroec
Amber Griffioen, University of Konstanz
Longing, Suffering, and Love in Medieval "Minnemystik"
A20-273
Native Traditions in the Americas Group and Religion in the American West Group
Brandi Denison, University of North Florida, Presiding
Theme: Pilgrimages and Contested Places: Reinscribing the Land with Tradition
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Crockett A (4th Level)
Stanley Thayne, University of North Carolina
Migrations and Borderlands: The Mormon Settlement of Cardston and the Kainai Reserve
Karl Johnson, Yale University
Stories of Holy Dirt: The Appeal to Indigeneity in the Founding Myths of El Santuario de Chimayo
Matthew Anderson, Concordia University, Montreal
Indigeneity, Journey, and Historical Recollection on the Northern Great Plains
Responding:
Mark Clatterbuck, Montclair State University
A20-274
Queer Studies in Religion Group
Amaryah Armstrong, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Theme: Strange Fruit: Critical Perspectives on Race, Religion, and Sexuality
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-006B (River Level)
Lucia Hulsether, Yale University
Imagine Racial Capitalism
Adrian Emmanuel Hernandez-Acosta, Harvard University
Threshold of the Radical: The Black Woman from Erzulie to Spillers
Amey Victoria Adkins, Duke University
Other Diasporas: Mary, Glissant, and Theology-in-Relation
Ashon Crawley, University of California, Riverside
Neutrinos, Blackpentecostal Sound, and the Possibility for Justice Otherwise
Responding:
Aisha Beliso-De Jesus, Harvard University
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