Theme: New Meanings of Equalitarianism Post Marriage Equality and in an U.S. Educational Meritocracy
Tuesday - 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Convention Center-221C (2nd Level - East)
Dusty Hoesly, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Universal Life Church, Same-Sex Weddings, and Religious-Secular Entanglements
Hannah Adams Ingram, University of Denver
The Myth of the Saving Power of Education
A22-105
Theology and Religious Reflection Section
John Seitz, Fordham University, Presiding
Theme: Gender and Islam: Unexpected Sites for Theorizing
Tuesday - 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Grand Hyatt-Crockett D (4th Level)
Sa'diyya Shaikh, University of Cape Town
Sa'diyya Shaikh, Sufism, and Gender: Towards a Hermeneutics of Generosity
Kathryn M. Kueny, Fordham University
Generating Life from Wind, Slime, and Heat: Reflections on a Feminist Hermeneutic in Medieval Muslim Adab Literature
Sarah Eltantawi, Evergreen State College
Gendering the Political Theology of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
A22-106
African Religions Group and Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group
Mary Nyangweso, East Carolina University, Presiding
Theme: African Responses to Violence in the Realms of Gender and Sexuality: Action, Ethics, Popular Art, and Religion
Tuesday - 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham B (3rd Level)
Haley Feuerbacher, Southern Methodist University
"Our Hands Are Not in Our Pockets": Single Mothers and Social Activism in South Africa's Rural Women's Movement
Sarah Dreier, University of Washington
Where Worlds Collide: How African Churches Navigate Transnational Expectations, Government Relations, and Local Demands in Response to Global Gender and Sexuality Rights
Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds
Contestations over "Same Love": A Kenyan Gay Music Video as Expression of African Queer Artivism
Responding:
Sarojini Nadar, University of KwaZulu-Natal
A22-107
Afro-American Religious History Group
Tobin Shearer, University of Montana, Presiding
Theme: Alternative Histories of Afro-Protestantism: A Roundtable Discussion
Tuesday - 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham D (3rd Level)
Alexandria Griffin, Arizona State University
Rebecca Cox Jackson and the Creation of an Urban Shaker Discipline
Marcus Bruce, Bates College
The Man I Dreamed To Become: George Henry Jackson (1863-1943), the Congo Free State (1893-1895), and "Writing the Self"
Vaughn Booker, Dartmouth College
Royal Ancestry: Sacred Narratives of Ancient Africa in Early Twentieth Century Black Protestantism
Jonathan Langston Chism, University of Houston
“In This World [the United States], But Not of It”? Examining the Relationship between Saints’ Religious, Racial, and Nationalistic Identities in the Early Twentieth Century United States
Theme: The Construction of Asian and Asian-American Sexuality: Psychological and Religious Perspectives on Issues of Gender, Sexuality, and Sexual Identity in Asian and Asian-American Contexts
Tuesday - 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Convention Center-006B (River Level)
Angella Son, Drew University
Repeated Moral Injuries of Korean Comfort Girls-Women: Obliterated Dignity and Shamed Immoral Self
Eunil David Cho, Emory University
The Construction of Narrative Gender Identity in the Context of Asian America
Eunbee Ham, Emory University
Hyemin Na, Emory University
Orange Is Still Black or White? Asian Americans and the Racial Binary of Orange Is the New Black
A22-128
Buddhist Philosophy Group
Rafal Stepien, Hampshire College, Presiding
Theme: Narrative and Philosophy in Buddhism
Tuesday - 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Convention Center-304C (3rd Level)
Francisca Cho, Georgetown University
The Non-Linear Turn in Buddhist Philosophy and Narrative
C. W. Huntington Jr., Hartwick College
The Autobiographical No-Self
Sonam Kachru, University of Virginia
A Life Dreamed, the Traumatized Titan, and the Forest Decimated in Anger: Of the Stories Philosophers Tell, and Why Sara L. McClintock, Emory University
The Inescapability of Narrative in Buddhist Philosophy
Responding:
Malcolm David Eckel, Boston University
A22-129
Indigenous Religious Traditions Group and Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group
Gabriel Estrada, California State University, Presiding
Theme: Colonialism and Genocide of Native and Indigenous Peoples
Tuesday - 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham B (3rd Level)
Suzanne Owen, Leeds Trinity University, University of Chester and Joanne Mercer, Diocese of Central Newfoundland
Unreconciled: The Beothuk and Anglicans in Newfoundland
Maria Carson, Syracuse University
Trauma and Landscapes in The Revenant and The Earth is the Lord's
Mark Godin, University of Chester
Tethering Each to the Other: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Aboriginal Spiritual Practices, and the Presbyterian Church in Canada
Responding:
Jace Weaver, University of Georgia
A22-130
Books under Discussion
Practical Theology Group
Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke University, Presiding
Theme: Christian Practical Wisdom: A Book Panel
Tuesday - 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Convention Center-214A (2nd Level - West)
Panelists:
Willie J. Jennings, Yale University
Eric D. Barreto, Princeton Theological Seminary
Ulla Schmidt, Aarhus University
Responding:
Christian A. B. Scharen, Auburn Theological Seminary
A22-131
Reformed Theology and History Group
Joshua Ralston, University of Edinburgh, Presiding
Theme: Catholicity and Reformed Traditions
Tuesday - 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Convention Center-213B (2nd Level - West)
David Barbee, Winebrenner Theological Seminary
Early Modern Refomed Irenicism and the Quest for Catholicity
Russ Reeves, Providence Christian College
Holy German Catholic Church: John Williamson Nevin’s Pursuit of the Ideal Church in the Past and in Pennsylvania
Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, University of Edinburgh
Retrieval and Re-Interpretation: Herman Bavinck's Eclectic Catholicity and the Organic Motif in His Theological Epistemology
