Theme: Borderlands, Borders, and the Space on the Other Side
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham B (3rd Level)
Martha Ann Kirk, University of the Incarnate Word
Danzando San Antonio, from the Missions to Today, Dancing is Praying Here
Yohana Junker, Graduate Theological Union
At the Site of the Mission Makeover Mural: Delineations of Remembrance and Resistance
Helen Boursier, University of St. Mary
The Power of Hope: Art as Mission inside an Immigrant Family Detention Center
Brian Bantum, Seattle Pacific University
Birth of the Mestizo: Diego Rivera's Arrival of Cortes as Borderland Creation
A21-301
Buddhism Section and Japanese Religions Group
Victoria R. Montrose, University of Southern California, Presiding
Theme: De-Centering and Re-Centering India and Sanskrit: Translation and Canonization in Three Cases of Japanese Buddhist Scholarship, 1700-1945
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Convention Center-217C (2nd Level - West)
Nathaniel Gallant, University of Michigan
Between Siddham and Sanskrit: The Place of Early Modern Scholarship on India
Paride Stortini, University of Chicago
Universalizing the Particular: Nanjō Bunyū’s Role in Placing Japan within Buddhism as a World Religion
Bruce Winkelman, University of Chicago
Translating the Mahāvairocana Bisambhodi Tantra: Kawaguchi Ekai and Japanese Buddhist Studies during the 1930’s
Responding:
Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University
A21-302
North American Religions Section
Sharon A. Suh, Seattle University, Presiding
Theme: The Study of Religion as Racial Science in Nineteenth Century America
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Convention Center-215 (2nd Level - West)
Kathryn Gin Lum, Stanford University
The Construction of the “Heathen Chinese”
Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University
How Science Made Race and Religion: The Case of Jewishness in the United States
Sarah Dees, Northwestern University
Ethnology as Applied Science: The Study and Management of Native American Religions
Terence Keel, University of California, Santa Barbara
Racial Science as Christian Universalism by Other Means
A21-303
Religion and the Social Sciences Section
C. Melissa Snarr, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Theme: The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2014) Authors Meet Critics Panel: Marti and Ganiel, Co-Authors
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Convention Center-221B (2nd Level - East)
Panelists:
Douglas Gay, University of Glasgow
Mathew J. Guest, Durham University
Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University
Responding:
Gladys Ganiel, Queen's University Belfast
Gerardo Marti, Davidson College
A21-304
Study of Judaism Section
Aaron W. Hughes, University of Rochester, Presiding
Theme: Kabbalah: Roots and Shoots
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Convention Center-208 (2nd Level - West)
Pinchas Giller, American Jewish University
Sacred Name Traditions in Classical Kabbalah
Gadi Sagiv, The Open University of Israel
A Prolegomenon to Sixteenth-Century Kabbalistic Color Theory: Gate of Colors by R. Moses Cordovero
Brian Ogren, Rice University
Creation as Simulation in Early Modern Italian Jewish Thought
A21-305
Women and Religion Section and Religion and Food Group
Deborah Whitehead, University of Colorado, Presiding
Theme: Kitchen Religion: Food, Faith, and Gender
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Convention Center-006B (River Level)
Christa Shusko, York College of Pennsylvania
Feeding Feminism: Cooking Up Suffrage and Spirituality in the Work of Dr. Alice Bunker Stockham (1833-1912)
Alisha L. Jones, Indiana University
"I Don't Want No Peanut Butter and Jelly": Appetite Loss as a Metaphor of Belonging in Black Gospel Music Performance
Sarah King, Grand Valley State University
“She Looked Radiant”: Gender, Purity, and Spiritual Servitude in Laurel’s Kitchen
A21-306
Confucian Traditions Group
Thomas A. Wilson, Hamilton College and Liang Cai, University of Notre Dame, Presiding
Theme: If and When Did the Word Ru Come to Mean Confucian?
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham E (3rd Level)
Diane B. Obenchain, Calvin College
When Did a Ru Become a Confucian? Answers from Texts of the Warring States Period
Liang Cai, University of Arkansas
Transforming Ru into Followers of Confucius: A Close Reading of The Collective Biographies of Confucians by Sima Qian
Keith Knapp, The Citadel
The Existence of the C-word in Early Medieval China
Albert Welter, University of Arizona
Did Ru become Confucian? Buddhist Literati Monks and Confucian Literati Buddhists in the Song Dynasty
A21-307
Daoist Studies Group
Louis Komjathy, University of San Diego, Presiding
Theme: Morphing and Crisscrossing Hagiographies: Daoism, Chan, and Sectarian Societies
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bowie C (2nd Level)
Joshua Capitanio, University of the West
Daoist Responses to the Buddhist Lü Dongbin
Paul Crowe, Simon Fraser University
Three Contemporary Spirit Writing Congregations and Adoption of Inner Alchemy Lineages within Their Narratives of Continuity
Adrien Stoloff, Brown University
The Daoist Transformation of the Bedchamber Arts: From Health to Transcendence
Stephen Eskildsen, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Bodhidharma in the Daoist Canon, Neidan Literature, and Sectarian Hagiography
Responding:
Mario Poceski, University of Florida
A21-308
Hinduism Group
Joel Lee, Williams College, Presiding
Theme: Untouchability, Dalitness, and the Study of Hinduism: A Panel Discussion of Rupa Viswanath's, The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India (Columbia University Press, 2014)
Julius-Kei Kato, King's College - Western University, Presiding
Theme: Religious Transition and Immigrant Communities within the Roman Catholic Church of Japan
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Travis B (3rd Level)
Alec LeMay, Sophia University
Private Implications of Public Education: School Responsibilities' Impact on Sunday Worship
Ria Fitoria, Sophia University
Passing Down Primary Experience: Issues Facing the Religious Identity Formation of Indonesian Catholics and Their Children in Tokyo
Takefumi Terada, Sophia University
Filipino Mothers and the Changing Faces of the Roman Catholic Church in Japan
Responding:
Faustino Cruz, Seattle University
Business Meeting:
Alison Marshall, Brandon University
Rubina Ramji, Cape Breton University
A21-311
Religion and Popular Culture Group
Jon Gill, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
Theme: Participation, Identity, and Social Materiality in Contemporary Popular Religion
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Convention Center-006D (River Level)
Hanna Reichel, University of Halle
The Return of the "Big Other" in Participatory Surveillance: The Implicit Religion of Digital Materialism
Tuve Floden, Georgetown University
Religion, Community Development, and the Power of the Youth Audience: A Theoretical Analysis of the Aims of Muslim Media Preachers
Robert K. Warren, Drew University
The Art of Making the Pope POP: Corita Kent, Pop Forms, and Vatican II Affects
Bridget O'Brien, University of Notre Dame
"Have I Done Enough?" Lin-Manuel Miranda's Eliza Hamilton and the Christian Romantic Feminine
Responding:
James Thrall, Knox College
A21-312
Roman Catholic Studies Group
Amy Koehlinger, Oregon State University, Presiding
Theme: The Future of Canonization and Sainthood in the Catholic Church
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Lone Star F (2nd Level)
Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo, Wake Forest University
San Romero, Risen in the Salvadoran People and Canonized by the Salvadoran People: A Case Study in the Tension between Popular and Ecclesiastical Sainthood
Jack Downey, La Salle University
A Human Torch: Martyrdom, Horror, and the Self-Immolation of Roger LaPorte Karen E. Park, St. Norbert College
Gianna Molla, Maria Goretti and the Aesthetics of Sainthood at a Modern Marian Shrine
Rafael Luevano, Chapman University
Blessed Miguel Pro: Superstar Saint and Patron for Victims of Narco-Violence
Responding:
Brandon Bayne, University of North Carolina
A21-319
History of Christianity Section
Vera Shevzov, Smith College, Presiding
Theme: The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, 2016: A Paradigm Shift in the Church?
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Convention Center-301C (3rd Level)
Panelists:
Zachary Ugolnik, Columbia University
Will Cohen, University of Scranton
Brandon Gallaher, University of Exeter
Elizabeth Prodromou, Tufts University
Responding:
Paul Gavrilyuk, University of St. Thomas
A21-313
Academic Relations Committee
Bryan Wagoner, Davis and Elkins College, Presiding
Theme: What’s Love Got to Do with It? Critical Appraisals of Love as a Civic Value
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-Stars at Night 4 (3rd Level)
Panelists:
Amy M. Hollywood, Harvard University
Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama
Sarah Eltantawi, Evergreen State College
David P. Gushee, Mercer University
Arvind Sharma, McGill University
A21-315
Student Lounge Roundtable
Theme: The Work-Life Balance in Academia: Balancing Graduate School with Family
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-225D (2nd Level - East)
Panelists:
Elissa Cutter, Loyola Marymount University
A21-316
Christian Systematic Theology Section
Bernard Chris Dorsey, Western Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: The Spirit Indwelling
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-217A (2nd Level - West)
Austin Wilson, Duke University
Indwelling and Incorporation: Prayer, Desire, and the Spirit in Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love
Ryan Hoselton, Heidelberg University
The Indwelling Spirit and Experiential Knowledge in Jonathan Edwards’ Exegesis
Simeon Zahl, University of Nottingham
The Holy Spirit, Affectivity, and the Experience of Grace
Brett Potter, Toronto School of Theology
Coming Back to Our Senses: The Spiritual Senses in Pneumatological and Ecumenical Perspective
A21-317
Comparative Studies in Religion Section
Steven P. Hopkins, Swarthmore College, Presiding
Theme: Asceticism and Religious Identity
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-207B (2nd Level - West)
Oliver Freiberger, University of Texas
Ascetics and Householders: Self-Promotion and Boundary-Making in Early Buddhism
Claire Maes, Ghent University
To Be or Not to Be Naked? An Examination of Identity Negotiation in Early Jainism
Martha Newman, University of Texas
To Pray and to Work: Establishing Monastic Difference in Twelfth-Century Europe
Massimo Rondolino, Carroll University
A Good Title a Great Difference Makes: Some Comparative Hagiological Considerations on Two Sources for St. Francis of Assisi and Milarepa
Antoinette E. DeNapoli, University of Wyoming
Their Hearts Are Indian but Their Minds Are Western: Religious Identity Formation and the Construction of Authentic Indianness among Hindu Ascetics in North India
Business Meeting:
Eric D. Mortensen, Guilford College
Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University
A21-318
Ethics Section
Gerald P. McKenny, University of Notre Dame, Presiding
Theme: Exemplarity in Movement: Towards a Social Model of Moral Exemplars
Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida, Presiding
Theme: Transnational Buddhisms: Meditation, Music, Memory, and Mobilization
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-212A (2nd Level - West)
Michael Friedman, Georgetown University
Meditating from the Fringe: The Emergence of Jewish-Buddhist Meditation Retreats
Courtney Bruntz, Doane University
Jade Buddha on the Move: Transnationalism, Pilgrimage, and Mobilization
Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds
Building Buddhist Heritage in the West and the Construction of Memory: Evidence from England
Scott Mitchell, Institute of Buddhist Studies
The Life of a Song: Or, Why Are We Singing "Buddha Loves You"?
Christopher W. Chase, Iowa State University
Listen to His Voice: The Buddhist Church of America 78s of the 1950s
Business Meeting:
David McMahan, Franklin and Marshall College
A21-326
Class, Religion, and Theology Group
Ken Estey, Brooklyn College, Presiding
Theme: Class and Race in the Study of Religion
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-301B (3rd Level)
Benjamin Robinson, Southern Methodist University
Producing (White) Property: Racial Capitalism and the Foundational Role of Political Violence in Framing Investigations in Religion, Theology, and Class
Carmen Lansdowne, Graduate Theological Union
The Outhouse: A Racially Charged Preferential Option for Adequate Facilities
Timothy McGee, Southern Methodist University
The "Infinite Anguish" of the Poor: Hegel, Poor and Rich Rabble, and the Crucified God in Contemporary U.S. Politics
Ashon Crawley, University of California, Riverside
The Harvest is Ripe but the Laborers are Not Few: The General Strike and an Emancipatory Epistemology
A21-327
Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group and SBL Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible Group
Gwynn Kessler, Swarthmore College, Presiding
Theme: Resisting Rape Culture in or with Sacred Texts: Hindu Mythology, Title IX, Canons and Liturgy
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-209 (2nd Level - West)
Nicole Goulet, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Constructions of Hindu Mythology after the Rape of Jyoti Singh Pandey: Coupling Activism with Pedagogy
Susanne Scholz, Southern Methodist University
Biblical Rape Texts and the Contemporary Title IX Debate
Bernadette Brooten, Brandeis University
Analyzing Slavery in Early Christian Canons Can Help to Dismantle Racialized Rape Culture
Hilary Scarsella, Vanderbilt University
Resisting Rape in the Sanctuary: Feminist Theory and Christian Liturgical Practice
