A19-103
Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer Persons in the Profession Committee
Richard McCarty, Mercyhurst University, Presiding
Theme: Expendable Bodies, Knowledge, and Positionality
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-221B (2nd Level - East)
Panelists:
Heather White, University of Puget Sound
Emilie M. Townes, Vanderbilt University
Jeremy Posadas, Austin College
Rebecca Alpert, Temple University
Mark Larrimore, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School
Joy Ladin, Yeshiva University
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A19-104
Student Lounge Roundtable
Theme: Encouraging Student Engagement with Assigned Readings
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-225D (2nd Level - East)
Panelists:
Joshua Canzona, Georgetown University
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A19-105
Women's Caucus
Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College, Presiding
Theme: Agitating Boundaries: Intersectionality and Political Action
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-221A (2nd Level - East)
Evangeline Anderson Rajkumar, Lenoir-Rhyne University
Busting and Blurring Boundaries: Coagulation of Bodies at the Site of Struggle
Maha Marouan, Pennsylvania State University and Julia Berger, University of Kent
Faith-Based and Feminist NGOs: Forging a Common Agenda
Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, University of Johannesburg
Postcolonial Imaginations of a Feminist Liberation Methodology
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A19-106
Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
Zhange Ni, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Presiding
Theme: Mystery, Memory, and Time
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-005 (River Level)
Samuel Kessler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
City of the Popes: Archetype, Storytelling, and the Mystical Power of Time in the Novels of Lawrence Durrell
Matthew Potts, Harvard University
The Sight of Memory: Rankine, Morrison, Certeau
Margaret Elwell, Princeton Theological Seminary
Buried Violence and the Theological Power of Memory
Jill Petersen Adams, Emory University
Crossing Worlds, Creating Worlds: Flâneuring with Mockett, Murakami, and Japanese Religion
Business Meeting:
Cláudio Carvalhaes, McCormick Theological Seminary
Yolanda Pierce, Princeton Theological Seminary
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A19-107
Buddhism Section
Jacob Dalton, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding
Theme: Book Session: Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (Columbia University Press, 2015)
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-217C (2nd Level - West)
Panelists:
Kurtis Schaeffer, University of Virginia
Richard Nance, Indiana University
Sonam Kachru, University of Virginia
Bernard Faure, Columbia University
Responding:
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University
Business Meeting:
Lori Meeks, University of Southern California
Christian K. Wedemeyer, University of Chicago
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A19-108
Christian Systematic Theology Section and Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements Group
Amos Yong, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: The Spirit from the Great Awakenings through Azusa: Pentecostal Receptions of Edwards’ Pneumatology
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-303A (3rd Level)
Steven Studebaker, McMaster Divinity College
Edwards’ Progressive and Proto-Pentecostal Pneumatology
Andrew Gabriel, Horizon College and Seminary
Jonathan Edwards’ Pneumatology as a Resource for Pentecostal Theology and Contemporary Theologies of the Spirit
Lisa Stephenson, Lee University
Pneumatological Ecclesiology: Jonathan Edwards and Pentecostal Theology in Dialogue
Michael J. McClymond, Saint Louis University
Portion of God or Principle of Action? Edwardsean-Pentecostal Reflections on the Holy Spirit as Divine Presence and Dispositional Agent
Responding:
Amy Plantinga Pauw, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
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A19-109
Comparative Studies in Religion Section
Eric D. Mortensen, Guilford College, Presiding
Theme: On the Possibility of Magic
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Hyatt-Republic B (4th Level)
Kenny Smith, Louisiana State University
The Contemporary American Magical Landscape
Theresa Smith, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Piskey Led/ Bush Blind: The Transformative Relational Magic of Genii Loci
Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Beyond the Western Intellectual Landscapes of Bad Religion: African Mystical Technologies and the Politics of Translation
Alexis S. Wells, Vanderbilt University
Of Hags and Witches: The Limits and Possibilities of Magic in the Study of Enslaved Religiosity in the Lower South
Responding:
Dianne Stewart, Emory University
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A19-110
Philosophy of Religion Section and Science, Technology, and Religion Group
Brad J. Kallenberg, University of Dayton, Presiding
Theme: Engaging the Philosophical Theology of Nancey Murphy
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-304B (3rd Level)
Christian E. Early, Eastern Mennonite University
Evaluating Nancey Murphy’s Contribution to Philosophy of Religion
Robert Russell, Center for Theology and Natural Sciences
Assessing Nancey Murphy's Deployment of Lakatos for Theology and Science
Warren Brown, Fuller Theological Seminary
Spirituality Beyond the Self: Externalism and Worship
Ryan Newson, Campbell University
About Schmitt: Politics Beyond Divine Intervention or Process
Responding:
Nancey Murphy, Fuller Theological Seminary
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A19-111
Religion and the Social Sciences Section
Gerardo Marti, Davidson College, Presiding
Theme: Latino Protestant Congregations in America: Ethnographic Insights on Gender, Power, and Ethnic Identity
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham B (3rd Level)
Aida Ramos, University of Texas, San Antonio
Latino Protestant Megachurches in the Borderlands
Jonathan Calvillo, University of California, Irvine
Latino Evangelical Moral Identities: Remaining Ethnic while Reconceptualizing the Past
Ricardo Franco, Boston University
Women and the Distribution of Power in a Latino Pentecostal Church
Mark T. Mulder, Calvin College and Debbie Berho, Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities
“God is a God of Order”: Spontaneity and Constraint in Latino Pentecostal Worship
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A19-112
Religion in South Asia Section
Steven Vose, Florida International University, Presiding
Theme: New Directions in the Study of Religion in South Asia: Translation, Mediation, and Authenticity
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-305 (3rd Level)
Gregory Clines, Harvard University
Plagiarized Purāṇas? Jain Textual Composition in Early Modernity
Bhakti Mamtora, University of Florida
The Making of Scripture in 19th-century Gujarat: An Analysis of the Oral and Textual Lives of the Svāmīnī Vāto
Genoveva Castro, University of Washington
Wajid Ali Shah's Adaptation of a Vaishnava Story: A Hindu-Muslim Encounter
Chloe Martinez, Claremont McKenna College
Against Authenticity: What Fake Autobiography Can Tell Us about Real Religion in South Asia
Responding:
Laurie Louise Patton, Middlebury College
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A19-113
Teaching Religion Section and Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and Culture Group
Gabriella Lettini, Starr King School for the Ministry, Presiding
Theme: Teaching Challenging Subjects: The Role of Pedagogies of Moral Injury
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-007D (River Level)
Elizabeth Agnew Cochran, Duquesne University and Darlene Fozard Weaver, Duquesne University
Moral Injury and Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching about Social Justice
Karen V. Guth, College of the Holy Cross
Moral Injury and the Ethics of Teaching Tainted Legacies
Meredith Minister, Shenandoah University
Teaching Cultural Imagination as a Response to Moral Injury
Responding:
David Carrasco, Harvard University
Business Meeting:
Elizabeth Margaret Bounds, Emory University
Rita Brock, Brite Divinity School
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A19-114
Theology and Religious Reflection Section
Mara Willard, University of Oklahoma, Presiding
Theme: Religious Aesthetics, Theology, and the Humanities
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham E (3rd Level)
Robert Davis, Fordham University
Historicizing Religious Experience in the Human Sciences
Kathryn Reklis, Fordham University
The Aesthetic Education of Theology: Theology and the Humanities in the 20th Century
Mark S. Cladis, Brown University
Radical Aesthetics and Poetics of Religion in Romanticism
Kevin Minister, Shenandoah University
Public Religious Aesthetics: Theorizing the Affect and Import of Interreligious Aesthetics
Responding:
Tamsin Jones, Trinity College, Hartford
Business Meeting:
Brenna Moore, Fordham University
Tamsin Jones, Trinity College, Hartford
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A19-115
African Religions Group and Anthropology of Religion Group
Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds, Presiding
Theme: Researching Religion in Africa: Methodological Contributions and Challenges to Religious Studies
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Hyatt-Bowie C (2nd Level)
Marcus Harvey, University of North Carolina, Asheville
"If You Want to See Everything, You Become Blind": Phenomenological Epistemology as an Approach to the Study of Autochthonous African Spiritual Cultures
Oludamini Ogunnaike, Stanford University
Amadou Hampaté Bâ and the Myths of African Islam
Sara Fretheim, University of Liverpool
The African Christian Study of African Religions: Creative Methodologies as Challenges to Accepted Categorizations in the Study of Religion in Africa
Responding:
Jacob K. Olupona, Harvard University
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A19-116
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group
Rachel A. R. Bundang, Schools of the Sacred Heart, San Francisco, Presiding
Theme: The National Study of Asian and Pacific Island Catholics in the United States: A Summary of Findings
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Hyatt-Mission B (2nd Level)
Panelists:
Tricia Bruce, Maryville College
Jerry Park, Baylor University
Stephen Cherry, University of Houston Clear Lake
Responding:
Peter C. Phan, Georgetown University
Tia Noelle Pratt, St. Joseph's University
Jeremy V. Cruz, St. John's University, New York
Business Meeting:
Devin Singh, Dartmouth College
Rachel A. R. Bundang, Schools of the Sacred Heart, San Francisco
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A19-117
Bioethics and Religion Group
George D. Randels, University of the Pacific, Presiding
Theme: Bioethics and Religion in the Public Sphere
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Hyatt-Mission A (2nd Level)
Terri Laws, University of Michigan, Dearborn
"I Don’t Care How Much You Know, Until I Know How Much You Care": Religion, Subjugated Knowledge, and the Flint Water Crisis
Leif Tornquist, University of North Carolina
Sex, Race, and God in American Eugenics Discourse
Tim Carey, Boston College
“I Am the Lord; I Act with Steadfast Love, Justice, and Righteousness in the Earth”: Love as Operative in the Sunni Muslim and African Catholic Bioethical Response to HIV and AIDS in Kenya
Cassie Houtz, Harvard University
The Politics of Suffering and the Limits of Love
Business Meeting:
Marcella Norling, Orange Coast College
George D. Randels, University of the Pacific
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A19-118
Body and Religion Group
Stefanie Knauss, Villanova University, Presiding
Theme: Commodification of Bodies
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Hyatt-Presidio C (3rd Level)
Thomas B. Ellis, Appalachian State University
Of Submissions, Prostrations, and Intimidations: The Ethology of Religious Ritual
Marcia Mount Shoop, Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, Asheville, NC
Money Ball: The Commodification of Bodies Veiled as Opportunity and Honor in Collegiate Revenue Sports
Sarah Bloesch, Elon University
Neoliberal Bodies: Salvation as Commodity in the Prison Industrial Complex
Business Meeting:
George Pati, Valparaiso University
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A19-119
Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Group
John W. Matthews, Grace Lutheran Church, Apple Valley, MN, Presiding
Theme: Bonhoeffer and the Reformation
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-214C (2nd Level - West)
Michelle Sanchez, Harvard University
Bonhoeffer’s Lutheran Assertions: Is a Cataphatic Ethic of Responsibility to the "Other" Possible?
Gabriel Morgan, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
On the Theological Program of Religionless Christianity
Joel Looper, University of Aberdeen
Renarrating the History and Etiology of American Protestantism with Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Robert Vosloo, Stellenbosch University
Commemorating the Reformation? Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Reformation Day Sermons and Performative Remembering
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A19-120
Buddhist Critical––Constructive Reflection Group
Christopher Ives, Stonehill College, Presiding
Theme: Controversial Dharma: Reflections on Issues in Western Buddhism
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Hyatt-Lone Star B (2nd Level)
Dawn Neal, Institute of Buddhist Studies
Mindfulness-Based Concern for Ethics? Why Ethics in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Matters
Jeff Wilson, University of Waterloo
Blasphemy as Bhavana: Friends of the Western Buddhist Order and Therapeutic Blasphemy
Charles R. Strain, DePaul University
Is a Buddhist Praxis Possible?
Andre van der Braak, VU University, Amsterdam
After Buddhism? Stephen Batchelor’s Secular Buddhism 2.0
Responding:
Sid Brown, University of the South
Business Meeting:
Hsiao-Lan Hu, University of Detroit Mercy
Christopher Ives, Stonehill College
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A19-121
Chinese Religions Group
Natasha Heller, University of California, Los Angeles, Presiding
Theme: Envisioning Salvation: Eschatology and Utopias in Medieval China
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-214D (2nd Level - West)
Max Brandstadt, University of California, Berkeley
Reading Scripture as the Dharma Declines: The Exegetical Strategies of Tang China's Three Levels Movement
Zhaohua Yang, Columbia University
From Scatology to Eschatology: The Refashioning of Ucchusma in Two Dharani-Sutras in the Early Eighth Century
April Hughes, Gonzaga University
Imagining Utopia in the Canonical and Apocryphal Maitreya Scriptures
Dominic Steavu-Balint, University of California, Santa Barbara
Cosmic Time and its Reversion in Taoist Utopias
Responding:
James A. Benn, McMaster University
Business Meeting:
Anna Sun, Kenyon College
Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee
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A19-122
Cognitive Science of Religion Group
Travis Chilcott, Iowa State University, Presiding
Theme: Looking Back, Looking Forward: CSR Theories, Methods, and Research
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-006B (River Level)
Claire White, California State University, Northridge
What the Cognitive Science of Religion Is (and Is Not)
John Teehan, Hofstra University
Empathy, Religion, and Social Evolution: A Cognitive Model
Christopher Kavanagh, University of Oxford; Shuhei Tsuchida, University of Hokkaido; Jonathan Jong, Coventry University; and Harvey Whitehouse, Queen's University, Belfast
Ritual Pain and Social Gain: Examining the Impact of Collective Dysphoric Arousal on In-Group Preference and Cooperation, Using a Novel Artificial Ritual Paradigm
Rachel Watson-Jones, University of Texas
Does the Body Survive Death? Cultural Variation in Beliefs about Life Everlasting
Aiyana Willard, University of Texas
Secularization and the Spiritual Market Place in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Miguel Farias, Coventry University; Lois Lee, University College, London; Stephen Bullivant, St. Mary's College, London; and Jonathan Lanman, Queen's University, Belfast
The Scientific Study of Nonreligious Beliefs: Testing the Belief Replacement Hypothesis
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A19-123
Contemplative Studies Group
Jared Lindahl, Brown University, Presiding
Theme: Contemplative Prisms: Emotion, Posture, Voice, and Secularity
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center-212A (2nd Level - West)
Lloyd W. Pflueger, Truman State University
Towards a Phenomenology of Meditative Space: Expansion, Contraction, and Identity in Yogic Meditation
Rachel Wheeler, Graduate Theological Union
Anxiety in Contemplative Practice: Stories from the Christian Desert
Wanjoong Kim, Graduate Theological Union
To Ritualize the Ministry of Words: A Reconsideration of Verbally Centered Religious Culture from a Comparative Study of the Pureland Buddhism and the Qadiri Order in Sufism
Brian A. Butcher, Saint Paul University
The Martial as the Mystical: Taekwondo and Orthodox Christian Spirituality
Daniel Moseson, Syracuse University
Contemplative Studies and the Secular
Business Meeting:
Louis Komjathy, University of San Diego
Anne C. Klein, Rice University
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A19-124
Death, Dying, and Beyond Group
Jamie Brummitt, Duke University, Presiding
Theme: Post Life Materialities: Environments and Their Impacts on Relationships between the Living and the Dead
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Hyatt-Crockett A (4th Level)
Corinne Dempsey, Nazareth College
Harassment with a Cause: Spirit Altruism and Reciprocity in Northern Iceland
Tim Hutchings, Stockholm University
Death Online: Religion, Gender, and Talking to the Dead
Ermine Algaier, Harvard University
"Irrationality as the Prius": William James on Mediumship and Exceptional Phenomena
Annette Stott, University of Denver
Dum Tacet Clamat: Speaking with the Living at the Grave
Erik Seeman, University at Buffalo
"I Am Still in Your Midst": Shaker Visions and the Antebellum Culture of Death
Business Meeting:
Diana Walsh-Pasulka, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
A. David Lewis, MCPHS University
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A19-125
Evangelical Studies Group
Jason Sexton, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding
Theme: Representations of Global Evangelicalism
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Hyatt-Lone Star F (2nd Level)
Meadhbh McIvor, University College London
Establishment Exiles: Religious Publicity and Communicative Doubt among London's Conservative Evangelicals
William A. Dyrness, Fuller Theological Seminary
Insider Movements as a (Global) Challenge to Evangelical Identity
Melisa Ortiz Berry, Azusa Pacific University
Henrietta Mears and Gospel Light Publishing: Evangelical Women and the Dissemination of a Global Evangelical Orthodoxy
Sung-Sup Kim, Okinawa Kyosei Church
Evangelicalism and Empire: Evangelicals in Korea and Japan under Japanese Imperialism
Helen Jin Kim, Harvard University
Transpacific Piety and Politics: Billy Graham's Largest "Crusade," South Korea, 1973
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A19-126
Islam, Gender, Women Group
Aysha Hidayatullah, University of San Francisco, Presiding
Theme: Theoretical and Discursive Issues in the Study of Gender, Feminism, and Islam
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Hyatt-Presidio B (3rd Level)
Fatima Seedat, University of Cape Town and Sa'diyya Shaikh, University of Cape Town
Islam, Feminism, and Islamic Feminism: Between Inadequacy and Invisibility
Roshanarah Jahangeer, York University and Hina Azam, University of Texas
Towards a Feminist Dispositif: Encounters between Secular Femonationalists and Muslim Feminists in Québec
Matthew Pierce, Centre College and Scott A. Kugle, Emory University
Vulnerable Bodies, Masculine Ideals
Rochelle Terman, Stanford University and Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina
Islamophobia, Feminism, and the Politics of Critique
Justine Howe, Case Western Reserve University and Debra Majeed, Beloit College
Reading for Kernels of Truth: Constructing Gender, Sexuality, and Feminism in an American Muslim Book Club
Business Meeting:
Kecia Ali, Boston University
Aysha Hidayatullah, University of San Francisco
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