A19-312
Religion in South Asia Section
Patton Burchett, College of William and Mary, Presiding
Theme: Praise Poetry across South Asian Religious Traditions
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-007A (River Level)
Xi He, University of California, Berkeley
Singing Praises of the Buddha: A Study of the Lalitavistara
Hamsa Stainton, University of Kansas
Approaching Praise Poetry via Kashmir
Luther Obrock, University of Pennsylvania
Sanskrit Praise Poetry in the Sultanate: Religion, Politics, and Materiality in Medieval North India
Audrey Truschke, Rutgers University, Newark
Innovation and Conventions: Brahmanical Praises for Kavindracarya’s Negotiations with Shah Jahan
Responding:
Christian K. Wedemeyer, University of Chicago
A19-313
Study of Islam Section
Richard B. Turner, University of Iowa, Presiding
Theme: Black-Brown Relations among Muslims in America in Transnational Context
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Lone Star A (2nd Level)
Jeffrey Diamant, City University of New York
Transnational Transformations: Relationships between African-American Muslims and Saudis, 1975-1995
Sally Howell, University of Michigan, Dearborn
Solidarity or Unity? Exploring the Transcommunal Politics of Detroit’s Muslims in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Rosemary R. Corbett, Bard College
Bilal in America: Black and Brown Muslim Contests over Religious Authority
Edward E. Curtis, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
America’s Bilal in Diasporic Perspective
Responding:
Sherman Jackson, University of Southern California
Business Meeting:
Frederick Colby, University of Oregon
Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina
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A19-314
Theology and Religious Reflection Section and Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Group and Colloquium on Violence and Religion
Jeremiah Alberg, International Christian University, Presiding
Theme: René Girard: Religion and the Legacy of Mimetic Theory
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-302B (3rd Level)
Janice McRandal, Charles Sturt University
The Slow Apocalypse: What Sort of Difference Does Girard Make to How We Read Apocalyptic Biblical Texts?
Kevin L. Hughes, Villanova University
"There are Many Antichrists": Rene Girard, Ivan Illich, and Apocalyptic Criticism
Leah Thomas, Drew University
Scapegoated: An Evaluation of the Theory of René Girard and the Role of Bodily Suffering and Disability in the Book of Job and Today
Jason Wyman, Union Theological Seminary
Police Violence against People of Color as Scapegoating Mechanism: René Girard, James Baldwin, and a Christian Theological Response
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A19-315
Women and Religion Section and Women's Caucus
Mary E. Hunt, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual, Presiding
Theme: Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, Goddess and God in the World (Fortress Press, 2016): An Embodied Theological Conversation
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-Stars at Night 4 (3rd Level)
Panelists:
Carol P. Christ, Ariadne Institute for the Study of Myth and Ritual
Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College
Monica A. Coleman, Claremont School of Theology
Aysha Hidayatullah, University of San Francisco
Miranda Shaw, University of Richmond
Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown University
Business Meeting:
Deborah Whitehead, University of Colorado
Debra Majeed, Beloit College
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A19-316
Animals and Religion Group and Religion, Affect, and Emotion Group
M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University, Presiding
Theme: Book Session: Engaging Donovan Schaefer's Religious Affects (Duke University Press, 2015)
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-212A (2nd Level - West)
Matthew Hotham, Ball State University
Affect, Animality, and Islamophobia: Human-Animal Relations in the Production of Muslim Difference in America
Courtney O'Dell-Chaib, Syracuse University
Biophilia’s Queer Remnants
Hollis Phelps, University of Mount Olive
Do Mushrooms Have Religion, Too? Affect, Animality, and the Case for Vegetal and Fungal Life
Jay Johnston, University of Sydney
Re-Wilding Religion: Affect and Animal Dance
Responding:
Donovan Schaefer, University of Oxford
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A19-317
Buddhism in the West Group and Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group
Linda L. Barnes, Boston University, Presiding
Theme: Beyond Mindfulness: Buddhism and Healing in Contemporary Practice
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham C (3rd Level)
Cody Bahir, Leiden University
The Science of Adhiṣṭhāna: Buddhist Postmodernism and Charismatic Healing
Clark Chilson, University of Pittsburgh
Medicalizing Meditation in Japan: Naikan as a Psychiatric Intervention
Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Ohio State University
Cooking More and Eating Less: Zen Food as Health Food in Japan and America
C. Pierce Salguero, Abington College
Beyond Mindfulness: Varieties of Buddhist Healing in Multiethnic Philadelphia
Kin Cheung, Moravian College
Case Study of a Contemporary Chinese-American Healer
Responding:
Robert Sharf, University of California, Berkeley
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A19-318
Class, Religion, and Theology Group and Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group
Santiago H. Slabodsky, Hofstra University, Presiding
Theme: Class and the Deepening Discussion of Intersectionality in the Study of Religion
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Texas F (4th Level)
Panelists:
Joan M. Martin, Episcopal Divinity School
Jeremy Posadas, Austin College
Traci C. West, Drew University
Joerg Rieger, Vanderbilt University
Business Meeting:
Ken Estey, Brooklyn College
Joerg Rieger, Vanderbilt University
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A19-319
Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Group and SBL Violence and Representations of Violence in Antiquity
Christine Marquis, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Violent Spectacles and Religion
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-221B (2nd Level - East)
Kent Brintnall, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Mobility, Intimacy, and Spectacular Violence in the Work of Leo Bersani and Georges Bataille
Sutopa Dasgupta, Harvard University
Religious Conflict, Accommodation, and the Spectacle of Violence: A View on Hindu-Muslim Relations from Pre-Colonial Bengal
Abby Kulisz, Indiana University
What Others Suffer, We Behold: Public Pain and Traumatization in the Shi’ite Ashura Ritual
Travis Ables, Episcopal Church of St. Peter and St. Mary, Denver, CO
The Redemptive Victim: The Invention of the Cross as the Divine Legitimation of Violence in Ancient Christian Martyr Traditions
Jennifer Hunter, Northern Arizona University
Performing Suffering in the Early Christian Community
Responding:
Chris Frilingos, Michigan State University
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A19-320
Eastern Orthodox Studies Group
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, New York University, Presiding
Theme: Lived Orthodoxy
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham A (3rd Level)
Irina Paert, University of Tartu
Orthodox Dreams and Visions: Lived Religion versus Theology
Christopher Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Fond du Lac
Epistolary Eldership and Pilgrimage in G.E.H. Palmer’s Correspondence with Fr. Nikon Strandtmann
Katya Tolstaya, VU University, Amsterdam
Invented Saints: The Cases of Fr. Arseny and Fr. Pavel
Georgios Tsourous, University of Kent
Christian De-Othering: Border Makings and Crossings in Old City Jerusalem
Responding:
Vera Shevzov, Smith College
Business Meeting:
Vera Shevzov, Smith College
Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University
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A19-321
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group
Sheridan Hough, College of Charleston, Presiding
Theme: Kierkegaard – The Nature and Dimensions of Power
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-007B (River Level)
Carson Webb, Eureka College
Power, Joy, and Kierkegaard's Implicit Critique of Spinoza in Christian Discourses
Thomas Millay, Baylor University
The Power of Eternity: The Telos of Kierkegaard's Works of Love and Its Hegelian Substructure
Christopher C. Brittain, University of Aberdeen
Kierkegaard and Adorno on the Revolutionary Power of Love
Responding:
Charles K. Bellinger, Brite Divinity School
Business Meeting:
Marcia C. Robinson, Syracuse University
Avron Kulak, York University
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A19-322
Latina/o Critical and Comparative Studies Group and Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group
Jennifer Scheper Hughes, University of California, Riverside, Presiding
Theme: Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean: Borders, Hybridities, and Identity
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham D (3rd Level)
Mary Nickel, Princeton University
A Revolutionary Political Theology
Michael Amoruso, University of Texas
A Transcendental Mission: Spiritism and Francisco I. Madero’s Turn Toward Revolutionary Violence in San Antonio, Texas
William A. Calvo-Quiros, University of Michigan
Jesús Malverde: Blood in the Fields and the Crash with Modernity
Justin Doran, University of Texas
As Veias Abençoadas da América Latina: Brazilian Pentecostal Subjectivity in Houston, Texas
Alastair Lockhart, University of Cambridge
The Jamaican Journey of an Unconventional British Spiritual Healing Practice
Business Meeting:
Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, University of Miami
Jalane D. Schmidt, University of Virginia
Jennifer Scheper Hughes, University of California, Riverside
Chris Tirres, DePaul University
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A19-323
Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Group
Kirsi Stjerna, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Eco-Reformation: Toward a Lutheran Approach to Eco-Justice
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Lone Star B (2nd Level)
Panu Pihkala, University of Helsinki
History of Lutheran Eco-Justice Theology
Crystal Hall, Union Theological Seminary
A Lutheran Rereading of Justification in Light of Today's Ecological Crises
Kiara Jorgenson, Luther Seminary
New Earth, New Decalogues: Retrieving and Recasting the Lutheran Doctrine of Vocation
Jan H. Pranger, Concordia College, Moorhead
Mining for Christ: Extracting Theological Resources for Eco-Justice in Lutheran Theology
Business Meeting:
Vitor Westhelle, Lutheran School of Theology
Kirsi Stjerna, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
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A19-324
Men, Masculinities, and Religions Group
Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Princeton University, Presiding
Theme: Masculinities, Sacred Texts, and Archetypes: Representation and Reception
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-214B (2nd Level - West)
Teemu Ratinen, University of Helsinki
Changing Masculinity before the Changing God: God Image and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity
Joseph Stuart, University of Utah
“Great and Mighty Ones”: Super-Children and Masculinity in Mormon Discourse, 1852-1912
Paul A Brazinski, Catholic University of America
The Heretical Eunuch: The Role of Eunuchs in the Formation of Orthodoxy and Arianism (311-450 AD)
Martin Nykvist, Lund University
A Homosocial Priesthood of All Believers: Laity and Gender in Inter-War Sweden
Responding:
Jared Vazquez, Iliff School of Theology
Business Meeting:
Amanullah De Sondy, University College Cork
Linda G. Jones, University of Pompeu Fabra
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A19-325
Mysticism Group
Jason N. Blum, Davidson College, Presiding
Theme: Depth Psychology as a Hermeneutical Key for Mystical Phenomena
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-304A (3rd Level)
David Odorisio, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Dionysus in Depth: Mystes, Method, and Madness
Thomas Cattoi, Graduate Theological Union
Rescuing Alexandria: Depth Psychology and the Return of Allegorical Exegesis
Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida
Embodying Enlightenment: The Adoption of Depth Psychology in Contemporary American Mysticism
Margarita Simon Guillory, University of Rochester
Beyond the Racialized Ego: Depth Psychology and Self-Representation in the Nahziryah Monastic Community
Responding:
William Parsons, Rice University
Business Meeting:
Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida
Stuart R. Sarbacker, Oregon State University
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A19-326
New Religious Movements Group
Megan Goodwin, Bates College, Presiding
Theme: Commodities and Commodification of Emergent Spiritualities
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-210A (2nd Level - West)
Jeremy Saul, Mahidol University
Miracles of Love and Materialism in a Corrupt Era: The Devotional Movement of Babosa, a New God of India
Tirzah Chesky, University of Kansas
From Dianetics to Scientology: Mapping the Transition from Psychology to a Religious Movement in Wichita, Kansas
Michael McVicar, Florida State University
“Prepare Every Needful Thing”: Latter-Day Saints Self-Reliance Discourse and the Commercial Culture of Food Storage
Linda Ceriello, Rice University
Russell Brand’s Dialectic of Comedy, Spirituality, and Political Activism as Metamodern Soteriology
Responding:
Sean McCloud, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Business Meeting:
Jeremy Rapport, College of Wooster
Megan Goodwin, Bates College
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A19-327
Practical Theology Group
Tone Stangeland Kaufman, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Presiding
Theme: Pedagogies of Practical Theology
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-006B (River Level)
Marianne Gaarden, Lynge, Denmark
From Sermon Formation to Preacher Formation Requires a Room Free of Power
Catherine Williams, Princeton Theological Seminary
The Practical Theologian as Broker of Homiletical Practices in the Classroom
Easten Law, Georgetown University
Praxis Education for Ministry in Urban Contexts: A Pedagogical and Programmatic Review of Wesley Theological Seminary’s Urban Fellows Program
Dustin Benac, Duke University
Thinking Institutionally as a Christian Practice
Business Meeting:
Christian A. B. Scharen, Auburn Theological Seminary
Tone Stangeland Kaufman, MF Norwegian School of Theology
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A19-328
Religion and Science Fiction Group
David McConeghy, Chapman University, Presiding
Theme: Speculative Fiction Dreaming It Is Religion? Or Religion Dreaming It Is Speculative Fiction?
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-304B (3rd Level)
Aleah Cornett, Stanfield, NC
Fear and Religion in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy
Adam Pryor, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ
Oankali/Human Hybrids: Octavia Butler's Science Fiction Informing the Religious Ethical Imagination
Jeffrey Durham, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Time Travel by Thankga: How Tibetan Art and Narrative Traditions Shift Time and Alter Identity
Responding:
Seth Perry, Princeton University
Business Meeting:
Laura Ammon, Appalachian State University
Rudy V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara
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A19-329
Religion and Sexuality Group
Marco Derks, Utrecht University, Presiding
Theme: Transfiguring Trans*formation: Inside Perspectives and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-008A (River Level)
Heleen Zorgdrager, Protestant Theological University, Amsterdam
Transfiguration: An Intertextual Reading of Transgender Lifestories and Gregory of Nyssa’s On Perfection
Anne-Marie Korte, Utrecht University
Transitions of Passion: From Transvestite Saints to Conchita Wurst
Srdjan Srmac, VU University, Amsterdam and Mariecke van den Berg, VU University, Amsterdam
Transition and Conversion: Remixing the Real in Trans* Autobiographies
Lieke Schrijvers, Utrecht University
Transition and Authority: Transwomen and Religious Leadership in the Netherlands
Responding:
Mark Jordan, Harvard University
Claudia Schippert, University of Central Florida
Business Meeting:
Nina Hoel, University of Oslo
Jennifer S. Leath, Iliff School of Theology
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A19-330
Religion in the American West Group
Natalie Avalos, Connecticut College, Presiding
Theme: Making New Religious Homes: Migration and Contested Meanings in the American West
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-223 (2nd Level - East)
Julius Bailey, University of Redlands
Sacralizing the Land: The Nineteenth-Century Expansion of the AME Church in the American West
Lloyd Barba, University of Michigan
The Dust District: Cosmopolitan and Okie Pentecostal Convergence in California
Brandon Bayne, University of North Carolina
The Bones of Father Kino: Memory and the Making of a Borderland Pioneer, Migrant Protector, and Religious Patron
Sara Patterson, Hanover College
Eyes Westward: The Smithification of the American West
Responding:
Jennifer Graber, University of Texas
Business Meeting:
Brett Hendrickson, Lafayette College
Brandi Denison, University of North Florida
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A19-331
Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Group
Max Mueller, University of Nebraska, Presiding
Theme: Religion, Postcolonial Pedagogies, and #BlackLivesMatter on Campus
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-214D (2nd Level - West)
Panelists:
David Amponsah, University of Missouri
Shreena Gandhi, Kalamazoo College
Pamela Lightsey, Boston University
Matthew Cressler, College of Charleston
Business Meeting:
Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston
Syed Adnan Hussain, Saint Mary's University, Halifax
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A19-332
Ritual Studies Group
James Bielo, Miami University, Presiding
Theme: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Holy Land Pilgrimage
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-221C (2nd Level - East)
Curtis Hutt, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Strange Bedfellows? Inter-Religiosity at Pilgrimage Sites in the Holy Land
Jens Kreinath, Wichita State University
The Infrastructures of Shared Pilgrimage Sites: Saint Veneration, Interreligious Relations, and the Enduring Networks of Pilgrimage Routes in the Holy Land
Jackie Feldman, Bar Ilan University
Christian Holy Land Pilgrimage as Interreligious Dialogue
Sara Williams, Emory University
Holy Land Pilgrimage as a Technology of the Self
Layla Karst, Emory University
Of Pilgrims and Tourists: The Hybrid Nature of the Holy Land Pilgrim
Robert O. Smith, University of Notre Dame
Sanctifying the Settler-Colonial Gaze: Nineteenth-Century American Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Business Meeting:
Grant H. Potts, Austin Community College
Jens Kreinath, Wichita State University
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A19-333
Secularism and Secularity Group
Michael Graziano, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding
Theme: Superstition, Secularism, and Religion: Testing a Trinary
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-007C (River Level)
Panelists:
Jason Josephson-Storm, Williams College
Jeffrey Wheatley, Northwestern University
Rebecca Nedostup, Boston College
J. Brent Crosson, University of Texas
Charles McCrary, Florida State University
Business Meeting:
Joseph Blankholm, University of California, Santa Barbara
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A19-334
Space, Place, and Religion Group
Brian J. Nichols, Mount Royal University, Presiding
Theme: Mountaineering Religion in Asia and Beyond
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-304C (3rd Level)
Timothy Swanger, Arizona State University
Memory, Place, and Religion in an Early Medieval Chinese Stele
Pamela D. Winfield, Elon University
The Situated Body at Eiheiji Zen Mountain Monastery, Japan
Sarah King, Grand Valley State University
“A Blaze of Reality”: The Ecstasy of Mountains in Dolores LaChappelle’s Deep Ecology
David Damrel, University of South Carolina Upstate
Visiting Magic Mountain: Contemporary Religious Travel Guides at a Sufi Shrine in East Java, Indonesia
Blayne Harcey, Iliff School of Theology
Relics, Traces, and Indexes: The Politics of Territory and the Construction of Memory in Encounter at Śri Pāda
Responding:
Matthew Mitchell, Duke University
Business Meeting:
David Bains, Samford University
Brian J. Nichols, Mount Royal University
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