Living the Qur'an in Secular Turkey: CemalNur Sargut's Oral Tafsir
Susan Gunasti, Ohio Wesleyan University
Exegetical Trends in Contemporary Turkey Ayman Shabana, Georgetown University, Qatar
In Pursuit of Consonance: Science and Religion in Modern Works of Tafsir
Aisha Geissinger, Carleton University
Imagining the Qur’an in Mecca: Scripture, Community, and a Woman’s Bleeding Body
A20-276
Religion and Disability Studies Group
Alison Melnick, Bates College, Presiding
Theme: Hagiography and Healing: Contemporary and Classical Perspectives
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-224 (2nd Level - East)
Lisa Hancock, Southern Methodist University
Deformed by Sin, Healed by Grace: Narrative Prosthesis in Augustine's Anti-Pelagian Writings
Mary Corley Dunn, Saint Louis University
Handicapping Hagiography: Disability in the Lives of the Saints
Sean O'Neil, St. Mary's University, Halifax
Making Body-Wear for a Disabled Surfer's Soul: The Contested Mediation of A Heterosexy, Evangelical, Female Icon
A20-277
Religion, Media, and Culture Group
Andrew Aghapour, University of North Carolina, Presiding
Theme: Islam in Multimedia and Multicultural Contexts
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Convention Center-210A (2nd Level - West)
Rubina Ramji, Cape Breton University
Constructing a Religious Identity in a Multicultural Context: Muslims Growing up Canadian
Laurens de Rooij, Tricht, Netherlands
Believing and Belonging: The Aesthetics of Media Representations of Islam and Muslims in Britain and Its Relationship to British Understandings of Culture, Secularity, and Non-Religion
Theme: Paul's First Journey and the North African Connection
Sunday - 4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Marriott Riverwalk-Alamo A (2nd Level)
M20-301
Analytic Theology Lecture Series
Theme: Sixth Annual Analytic Theology Reception
Sunday - 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Hilton Palacio del Rio-Salon del Rey B (Mezzanine Level)
M20-302
Journal of Religious Ethics
Theme: Editorial Board Meeting
Sunday - 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Convention Center-006A (River Level)
A20-300
Films
Eileen Campbell-Reed, Central Baptist Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Moral Injury in Scholarship and Film: The Politics of Moral Injury in Women Veterans -- National Premiere of After Fire, Nick Stuart and CarolAnne Dolan, Executive Producers, Transform Films/Odyssey Networks
Sunday - 4:30 PM-7:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Texas A (4th Level)
Panelists:
Brittany Huckabee, New York, NY
Valerie Sullivan
Roberta Castaneda
Wil Gafney, Brite Divinity School
Kristen Leslie, Eden Theological Seminary
A20-301
Contingent Faculty Task Force
David Harrington Watt, Temple University, Presiding
Theme: Accentuate the Positive: Practical Strategies for Supporting Contingent Faculty
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-005 (River Level)
Panelists:
Amy Hale, Helix Education, Oakland, CA
Abigail Kluchin, Ursinus College
Jason Winslade, DePaul University
A20-302
Program Committee
Robert N. Puckett, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
Theme: How to Propose a New Program Unit
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-223 (2nd Level - East)
A20-303
Public Understanding of Religion Committee
Kali Handelman, Center for Religion and Media at New York University, Presiding
Theme: Writing Religion Online: Scholars and Journalists in Conversation
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-007B (River Level)
Panelists:
Brook Wilensky-Lanford, Killing the Buddha, Chapel Hill, NC
Religion and Politics Section and Confucian Traditions Group
Anna Sun, Kenyon College, Presiding
Theme: Democracy, Meritocracy, and Confucianism: A Roundtable Discussion of Daniel Bell's China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2015)
Paths of Freedom: Practices of Prison Ministry, Education, and Activism in Response to Mass Incarceration
Responding:
Tanya Erzen, University of Puget Sound
A20-312
Black Theology Group and Nineteenth-Century Theology Group
Juan Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Theme: History of the Black Social Gospel
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-006B (River Level)
Malcolm Foley, Baylor University
Francis Grimke and Elias Camp Morris: The Pulpit and the Negro Problem Joel Brown, University of Chicago
Saving Black Metropolis: Reverdy C. Ransom, Richard R. Wright, Jr., and the Seeds of the Black Social Gospel in Chicago
Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University
In the Clutches of Men: Black Women and the Burden of a New Abolition
Responding:
Gary Dorrien, Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary
A20-313
Body and Religion Group and Religion and Sexuality Group
Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, University of Johannesburg, Presiding
Theme: Religious Bodies, Religious Sexualities
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-007A (River Level)
Mara Block, Harvard University
Between Sexual Madness and Religious Experience: Sacred Desire
Philip Francis, Manhattan College
Sexual Practices of Religious Uncertainty
Katherine Sepulveda, Villanova University
Erotic Ecstasy, Divine Encounter: The Fleshly Significance of Mystical Experience
Barbara Thiede, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Reinscribing, Rewriting, Reenacting: The Woman of Ashkenaz Take Circumcision into Their Own Hands
A20-314
Childhood Studies and Religion Group
Susan Ridgely, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and Rachael Shillitoe, Worcester University, Presiding
Theme: Roundtable Introducing The Bloomsbury Reader in Childhood and Religion (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming)
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-008A (River Level)
Panelists:
Jodi Eichler-Levine, Lehigh University
Anna Strhan, University of Kent
Vanessa R. Sasson, Marianopolis College
Business Meeting:
Susan Ridgely, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
A20-315
Chinese Religions Group and Daoist Studies Group
David Mozina, Boston College, Presiding
Theme: Submerged Readings of the Zhuangzi Rewind: Receptions of the Early Modern and Republican Period
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-212B (2nd Level - West)
Jesse Chapman, Stanford University
In Defense of the Zhuangzi: Su Jiarong’s Philosophy of Zhuangzi
Dennis Schilling, University of Munich and Chengchi University
The Psychology of Language and Its Political Implications: An Interpretation of the Explanations of the Discourse on Equating Things (Qi Wu Lun Shi) by Zhang Taiyan
Tobias Zuern, University of Wisconsin
Hanshan Deqing's Buddhist Reading of the Qiwulun as a Dhāraṇī
Responding:
Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of California, Berkeley
A20-316
Contemporary Islam Group and Qur'an Group
Brett Wilson, Macalester College, Presiding
Theme: Continuity and Change in Modern Qur’anic Exegesis
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-301A (3rd Level)
Nebil Husayn, University of Miami
From Supernatural to Natural: The Hermeneutics of Miracles in the Qurʼan
Younus Mirza, Allegheny College
Tafsir Ibn Kathir as a Modern Tafsir: How Ahmad Shakir Helped Make Tafsir Ibn Kathir into the New Baydawi
Hadia Mubarak, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Intersections: Modernity, Gender, and Qurʾanic Exegesis
Samuel Ross, Yale University
The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Archaeology: The Grappling of Modern Qur’anic Exegetes with the New Historiography of the Ancient Middle East
Responding:
Johanna Pink, University of Freiburg
A20-317
Cultural History of the Study of Religion Group
Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University, Presiding
Theme: We Need the Cultural History of THAT! (or: Got Genealogy?)
Eastern Orthodox Studies Group and Wesleyan Studies Group
Peter Galadza, Saint Paul University, Presiding
Theme: Eastern Orthodox and Wesleyan Communities: Resonances, Parallels, and Connections
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Lone Star F (2nd Level)
Dion Forster, Stellenbosch University
On the 250th Anniversary of A Plain Account of Christian Perfection: Orthodox Notions of Theosis in Wesley's Christian Perfection and Their Contribution to Contemporary Discourses on Christian Humanism
Daniela C. Augustine, Lee University
The Spirit in Word and Sacrament: Eastern Orthodoxy and Wesleyan Holiness Pentecostalism on Liturgy and Christoformaiton
Ted Campbell, Southern Methodist University
Some New Insights on John Wesley's Encounter with Orthodox Bishop Gerasimos Avlonites (Erasmus Aulonita)
A20-319
Ethics Section
Melanie Jones, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Theological Reflections on the Obama Presidency in a Neoliberal Age
