Theme: National and Trans-National Lesbian Feminisms: Disparity and Connection
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-005 (River Level)
Indhira Udofia, Boston University
Embracing "The Lady, Her Lover, and Lord": A Lesbian Womanist Reimagining of Love and Sex in the Age of the Christian Marriage Industrial Complex
John Erickson, Claremont Graduate University
"Lesbian Feminism Saved My Life": Community, Religious Resonance, and Lived Experiences
Michelle Morris, First UMC of West Memphis, West Memphis, AR
Beyond the Uterus: A Feminist, Lesbian Challenge for a Lens of Reproductive Status
Julie Morris, Duke University
Excessive Flesh: Understanding Humanity Outside the Logics of Exclusion and Essentialism
Responding:
Amy Milligan, Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences
Business Meeting:
Marie Cartier, California State University, Northridge
Amy Milligan, Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences
A21-129
Liberal Theologies Group
Sarah Morice Brubaker, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Can Liberalism Be Revolutionary?
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-301B (3rd Level)
Mark Hulsether, University of Tennessee
Can Christian Social Thought Be both Liberal and Revolutionary? The Case of Dorothee Soelle
Joel Harrison, Northwestern University
On the Uselessness of Religion: Can Religious Discourse Be Critical Discourse?
Robert Krane, University of Tennessee
Should We Speak of Liberal Islam?
HiRho Park, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, Nashville, TN
Leadership Style of Racial-Ethnic Lead Pastors Who Are Serving Large White-Majority Churches
Brandy Daniels, Vanderbilt University
Liberal Theology, Methodology, and the (Limits of the) Good Life
Responding:
Rick Benjamins, Protestant Theological University
Business Meeting:
Sarah Morice Brubaker, Phillips Theological Seminary
A21-130
Native Traditions in the Americas Group
Kenneth Mello, Southwestern University, Presiding
Theme: Indigenous Religious Hybridity and the Transformation of Traditions
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham D (3rd Level)
Aaron Ellis, Florida State University
Zitkala-Sa: A Warrior of Survivance between Traditionalism and Progressivism
Abel Gomez, Syracuse University
Shellmound Peace Walk: Prayer, Pilgrimage, and Activism in Ohlone Territory
Andrea McComb Sanchez, University of Arizona
Boundaries in the Borderlands: Pueblo Indian Patron Saint Feast Days and the Negotiation of Catholicism
Responding:
Sarah Dees, Northwestern University
Business Meeting:
Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa
Michael Zogry, University of Kansas
A21-131
Nineteenth Century Theology Group
Lori K. Pearson, Carleton College and Peter Woodford, University of Cambridge, Presiding
Theme: Religion, Morality, and Politics: Revisiting the New Nietzsche for Religious Studies
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-213B (2nd Level - West)
James Swan Tuite, Indiana University
Nietzsche’s Luther and His Genealogy of the Modern Moral Tradition
Kathleen Higgins, University of Texas
A “New Nietzsche” Perspective on Betrayal and the Spiritual Life
Kevin Wolfe, Carleton College
Nietzsche: Overcoming Nihilism and the Criticism of Democracy
Daniel Conway, Texas A & M University
The "Courage of His Bad Taste”: Nietzsche on Luther
Responding:
Tyler T. Roberts, Grinnell College
A21-132
Open and Relational Theologies Group
Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Center for Process Studies, Presiding
Theme: The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-302A (3rd Level)
Panelists:
Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University
Tripp Fuller, Claremont Graduate University
Roger E. Olson, Baylor University
Karen Baker-Fletcher, Southern Methodist University
John Sanders, Hendrix College
Business Meeting:
Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Center for Process Studies
A21-133
Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding
Theme: Embodied Images: Religion, Politics, and the Sacred in Visual Media
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-210A (2nd Level - West)
Ellen T. Armour, Vanderbilt University
Justice for Aylan Kurdi? Photography and Postcolonial Theo-Politics
Aldea Mulhern, University of Toronto
(Im)Media(cy) and Its Effects/Affects: Filmed Religious Animal Slaughter and Truthiness
Sailaja Krishnamurti, York University
Gender and the Disruption of Hindu Mythological Themes in Graphic Novels by Women
Brett Potter, Toronto School of Theology
Time, Film-Theology, and the Holy Moment: Reading the Films of Richard Linklater through Stanley Cavell and Andre Bazin
A21-134
Religion, Sport, and Play Group
Annie Blazer, College of William and Mary, Presiding
Theme: Religion and Rivalry in Sports and Fitness
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Hyatt-Travis B (3rd Level)
Jennifer Baldwin, Elmhurst College
Floor F#ckers verses Olympic Hopefuls: Religious Sexual Ethics, Feminine Sexuality, Social Acceptability, and the Rivalry between Sexy/Stripper Style and Sport/Fitness Pole Dance
Carmen Marie Nanko-Fernandez, Catholic Theological Union
Turning Those Others Cheeks? Racial Martyrdom and the Re-Integration of Major League Baseball Eric Bain-Selbo, Western Kentucky University
Sacred Rivalries: Sport in Girardian Perspective
Responding:
Joshua Fleer, Florida State University
Business Meeting:
Annie Blazer, College of William and Mary
Arthur Remillard, Saint Francis University
A21-135
Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group
Joyce Dubensky, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, Presiding
Theme: Religious Peacebuilding: Let’s Get Strategic
Theme: Violence, Time, Diaspora: Rethinking the Secular Nexus
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Hyatt-Bowie C (2nd Level)
Arvind Mandair, University of Michigan
Diasporic Event: Pluralizing the Secular through Conceptual Encounter Raji Singh Soni, Toronto, Ontario
State Violence, Sikh Grievances, and the Cartography of Diasporic Justice
Anneeth Hundle, University of California, Merced
Beyond Citizen and Subject: Interrogating Racialized Religious Community, the East African Asian Diasporic Subject, and the Peripheries of an African/South Asian Studies Project
Responding:
Michael Nijhawan, York University
Business Meeting:
Pashaura Singh, University of California, Riverside
Anne Murphy, University of British Columbia
A21-137
Tantric Studies Group and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group
Nancy Lin, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Theme: Imagination and Visualization in Tibetan Buddhist Literature
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Hyatt-Republic B (4th Level)
Michael Sheehy, Harvard University
The Magical Realism of Guru Chowang (1212-1270)
Joel Gruber, University of San Diego
When a Warm Heart Turns Cold: A Re-Imagination of Scholarly Interpretations of Tibetan "Fiction"
Vesna Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara
Imagination, Desire, and Aesthetics in Engendering the Vision of Śambhala
Matthew King, University of California, Riverside
Visions of Sovereignty in Late-Imperial Tibetan and Mongolian Travel Literature
Daniel Hirshberg, University of Mary Washington
A Yogin’s Retirement: Visionary Tourism in Nyang ral’s Twilight Years
Responding:
Jacob Dalton, University of California, Berkeley
A21-138
Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group
Eric Weed, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Paul Tillich’s Philosophical Theology on the Resurgence of Religious Extremism
