A21-148
Status of Persons with Disabilities in the Profession Committee
Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown University, Presiding
Theme: Connecting Conversations Luncheon
Monday - 11:45 AM-12:45 PM
Convention Center-225A (2nd Level - East)
A21-149
Women's Caucus
Marcelle Williams, California Institute of Integral Studies and Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College, Presiding
Theme: Women's Caucus Business Meeting
Monday - 11:45 AM-12:45 PM
Convention Center-221A (2nd Level - East)
Panelists:
Alicia Panganiban, Princeton Theological Seminary
HyeRan Kim-Cragg, University of Saskatchewan
Responding:
Kathy McCallie, Phillips Theological Seminary
Kathryn Common, Boston University
Natalie Terry, Santa Clara University
Marsha Thrall, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Meredith Minister, Shenandoah University
Janice Poss, Claremont Graduate University
Melinda Bielas, Claremont School of Theology
Maha Marouan, Pennsylvania State University
Julia Berger, University of Kent
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A21-150
Yogācāra Studies Group
C. John Powers, Australian National University, Presiding
Theme: Informal Brown-Bag Lunch Session
Monday - 11:45 AM-12:45 PM
Convention Center-223 (2nd Level - East)
Jowita Kramer, University of Munich
Sthiramati and the Seventeen Works Attributed to Him
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A21-200
Public Understanding of Religion Committee
Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds, Presiding
Theme: Public Understandings of Religion, Immigration, and Politics: North American and European Perspectives
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Convention Center-302A (3rd Level)
Panelists:
Atalia Omer, University of Notre Dame
Daniel Groody, University of Notre Dame
Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard University
Erin Wilson, University of Groningen
Victor Carmona, University of Notre Dame
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A21-201
History of Christianity Section
David Daniels, McCormick Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: The Contested History of Christian Philanthropy: Empire, Markets, and Identity in Global Context
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Convention Center-214B (2nd Level - West)
Daniel Caner, Indiana University
The Meaning of Philanthropy in Ancient Greek Religion and Early Christianity
Anelise Shrout, Cal State Fullerton
Blood Stained or Benevolent? Competing Quaker Philanthropies in the Nineteenth Century
Andrew Jungclaus, Columbia University
True Philanthropy and the Religious History of the Modern Non-Profit Foundation
Responding:
David King, Indiana University-Purdue University
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A21-202
North American Religions Section
Michael Pasquier, Louisiana State University, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics Roundtable: John Corrigan, Emptiness: Feeling Christian in America (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Texas D (4th Level)
Panelists:
Tisa Wenger, Yale University
Matthew Hedstrom, University of Virginia
Julie Byrne, Hofstra University
Leigh E. Schmidt, Washington University, Saint Louis
Responding:
John Corrigan, Florida State University
Business Meeting:
Sharon A. Suh, Seattle University
Sylvester Johnson, Northwestern University
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A21-203
Eastern Orthodox Studies Group, Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Group, Mormon Studies Group, and Roman Catholic Studies Group
Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University, Presiding
Theme: Christian Approaches to Deification (Theosis): Panel Discussion
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Marriott Rivercenter-Conference Room 1 (3rd Level)
Panelists:
Bishoy Dawood, University of Toronto
J. B. Haws, Brigham Young University
Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Fuller Theological Seminary
Brandon Gallaher, University of Exeter
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A21-204
Japanese Religions Group
Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University, Presiding
Theme: Japanese Religions under Depopulation
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Convention Center-207B (2nd Level - West)
Tim Graf, Heidelberg University
Shaping Religious Identities in Disaster-Affected Areas
Momoko Yokoi, Jodo Shinshu Honganji-ha Research Institute
Bōmori’s Social Engagements and the Revitalization of Temple Buddhism
Daniel Friedrich, McMaster University
Religious Revival and Fiscal Survival: Explorations of Shrine Shinto and Temple Buddhism in Japan’s Depopulating Regions
Mark Rowe, McMaster University
Depopulating Japanese Temple Buddhism
Responding:
Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina
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A21-205
Law, Religion, and Culture Group
Bronwyn Roantree, Woodside, NY, Presiding
Theme: Race, Religion, and the Law
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Convention Center-208 (2nd Level - West)
Henrique Antunes, University of São Paulo
Law, Religion, and Cultural Heritage: Mapping the Public Controversy Regarding the Use of Ayahuasca in Brazil
Richard Kent Evans, Temple University
The Impossibility of Definition-by-Analogy: Comparative Religion in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Alexander Forsyth, University of Glasgow
When Bert & Ernie met Hobby Lobby: The 'Conscientious Objection' from Religious Belief by For-Profits Businesses in the UK and USA to Provide Certain Goods & Services
Ariel Schwartz, Northwestern University
Categorizing Hate: American Hate Crime Laws and the Construction of Religion and Race
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A21-206
Religion, Memory, History Group
Tim Langille, Arizona State University, Presiding
Theme: Forms of Memory: Imagined Spaces, Train Stations, and Sacred Sites
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham E (3rd Level)
Danube Johnson, Harvard University
Dwelling in Monstrosity: A Genre of the Khora
David Le, Brown University
Holocaust Memory at Binario 21: Italian Indifference and the Case for Sanctuary
Jay Ramesh, Columbia University
Creating a Tamil Shaiva Past: Two Moments in the History of South Indian Sthalapurāṇas
Business Meeting:
Jodi Eichler-Levine, Lehigh University
Mona Hassan, Duke University
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A21-207
Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group
Kyrah Malika Daniels, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Defining Spirituality in the Frameworks of Healthcare, Medicines, and Healing
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham B (3rd Level)
Kathryn M. Kueny, Fordham University
Seeing Alzheimer's Disease through Medieval Muslim Visions of Memory, Mind, and Body
Tara Flanagan, Loyola University, Chicago
The Receding Role of Religion and Spirituality in Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Jennifer Stockwell, University of North Carolina
Going to the (Hospital) Chapel: A Study of Emplaced Rhetorics of Spirituality in Medical Sites
Ira Helderman, Vanderbilt University
Therapeutic Spirituality and Therapists’ Spirituality: The Role of Psychotherapists in the Construction of Spirituality in the United States
Responding:
Elizabeth Gordon, Graduate Theological Union
Business Meeting:
Emily Wu, Dominican University of California
Lance D. Laird, Boston University
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A21-208
Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group
Michele Watkins-Branch, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding
Theme: Black Girl Magic: Considering Contemporary Challenges and Black Women's Resistance
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Lone Star D (2nd Level)
Latishia James, Pacific School of Religion
“Loves the Folk; Loves Herself, Regardless”: What the Black Religious Community Can Learn from the Redemptive Self- and Communal- Love of Lesbian, Trans*, Queer, and Bisexual Black Women
Almeda Wright, Yale University
Magical, Radical, Improvisational Pedagogy: Reflecting on Black Women Teachers who Create Social Change
Carla Jean-McNeil Jackson, North Chesterfield, VA
Hashtags and Hallelujahs: The Role of #BlackGirlMagic Performance and Social Media in Spiritual #Formation
Stephanie M. Crumpton, Lancaster Theological Seminary
She’s Coming Home: Learning from Women’s Experience of Faith and Reentry Support Following Incarceration
Business Meeting:
Phillis Isabella Sheppard, Vanderbilt University
Pamela Lightsey, Boston University
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A21-209
World Christianity Group
Corey Williams, Leiden University, Presiding
Theme: Beyond Reverse Mission
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Convention Center-006C (River Level)
Emily R. Stewart, University of Pittsburgh
Broadening the Frame for World Christianity: The Limits of Reverse Mission Study and the Challenges of Transnationalism
Katja Rakow, Utrecht University
From "Reverse Mission" to Multidirectional Missionary Flows
Daniel Rober, Sacred Heart University
World Christianity, Secularization, and Reverse Mission: Saving Europe and North America from Themselves?
Responding:
Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh
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A21-210
Employment Workshops
Theme: PhD Transitions over 40
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-225B (2nd Level - East)
Panelists:
Amy Hale, Helix Education, Oakland, CA
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A21-211
Student Lounge Roundtable
Theme: Time-Saving Resources and Strategies for Teaching
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-225D (2nd Level - East)
Panelists:
Kristy Slominski, University of Mississippi
Brett Esaki, Georgia State University
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A21-212
Buddhism Section and Religions in Chinese and Indian Cultures: A Comparative Perspective Group
Amy P. Langenberg, Eckerd College, Presiding
Theme: Trans-Regional Dynamics in Buddhist Cultures
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-301B (3rd Level)
Daniel Tuzzeo, Stanford University
Mapping Indic Time and Space in Chinese Buddhist Historiography
Joseph Marino, University of Washington
What Happens in Hell: The Gāndhārī Great Conflagration Sūtra and the Development of Buddhist Infernal Imagery
Yi Ding, Stanford University
Was there Chinese Esoteric Buddhism in Dunhuang? The Compendium of Maṇḍala Liturgies (Tanfa Yize) and the Attempts to Systematize Dunhuang Buddhism
Amanda Goodman, University of Toronto
Vajragarbha Bodhisattva’s Three-Syllable Contemplation: A Chinese Guanxiang 觀想 Text from Late Medieval Dunhuang
Brandon Dotson, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
Coincidence, Contingency, and Tendrel: Buddhism and Divination in Early Tibet
Christina A. Kilby, James Madison University
Humanizing the Divine Childhood: Child Tulku Mentorship through Letter Writing in Tibetan Buddhism
Benjamin Wood, St. Francis College
Searching for the Right Buddha: Contesting Tulku Candidates in the Ocean Annals of Amdo
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A21-213
Christian Systematic Theology Section
Holly Taylor Coolman, Providence College, Presiding
Theme: The Spirit: Engaging Christian Traditions
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-215 (2nd Level - West)
Marika Rose, Durham University
Tongues of Fire, Thrones of Fire: Angels and the Spirit in Dionysius the Areopagite and Thomas Aquinas
Andrew Meszaros, University of Vienna, University of Leuven
Contested Pneumatologies: J. Daniélou and G. Thils on the Role of the Holy Spirit in the 20th c. Theology of History Debates
Harald Hegstad, MF Norwegian School of Theology
Overcoming the Pneumatological Deficit of the Doctrine of Justification
Ekaterina Lomperis, University of Chicago
Discerning the Early Protestant Spirit: Martin Luther, Medical Cessationism, and the Spirit’s Work of Healing
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A21-214
Comparative Studies in Religion Section
Matthew Vanderpoel, University of Chicago, Presiding
Theme: Theorizing Demonic Language in Mediterranean Religions
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-214D (2nd Level - West)
Andrew Durdin, University of Chicago
Pliny the Elder’s History of Magic and the Logic of Demonization
Andrew M. Langford, University of Chicago
"Doctrines of Demons": 1 Timothy and Ancient Demonological Discourses
Alex Matthews, University of Chicago
Jinni and Human Rhetoric in The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity
Rachel Katz, University of Chicago
The Sabians in Medieval Jewish Thought, 13th-14th Centuries
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A21-215
Philosophy of Religion Section and Yogācāra Studies Group
Roy Tzohar, Tel-Aviv University, Presiding
Theme: Kinds of Buddhist Idealism
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-216 (2nd Level - West)
Sonam Kachru, University of Virginia
Mind and Our Living Forms of Life
Davey Tomlinson, University of Chicago
A Buddhist Debate on the Status of Error and the Question of Intentionality
Daniel A. Arnold, University of Chicago
On the Importance of the Question to which Vasubandhu's Proof of Idealism Is the Answer
Jonathan Gold, Princeton University
Idealism and a Buddhist Causal Theory of Meaning
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A21-216
Religion and the Social Sciences Section
Nichole Phillips, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Religion, Social Movement, and Social Change
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-006D (River Level)
Georgia Kasamias, Youngstown State University
Colorblindness in the Greek Orthodox Church of the United States
John Hartley, Yale University
Theorizing Religious Exclusivism: Manifestation of Beliefs through Struggles for Power and Identity
F. LeRon Shults, Agder University and Justin Lane, Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion
Predicting Religious Terrorism: A Computational Model of Mutually Escalating Religious Violence (MERV)
Trelawney J. Grenfell-Muir, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Religious Soft Power: An Analysis of the Influence and Diplomatic Effectiveness of Clergy Peacebuilders in the Northern Ireland Conflict
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A21-217
Religion in South Asia Section and Sikh Studies Group and Space, Place, and Religion Group and Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
Charles Townsend, University of California, Riverside, Presiding
Theme: Religious "Site Visits" as Pedagogical Method
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-212A (2nd Level - West)
Panelists:
Brian J. Nichols, Mount Royal University
Anne Murphy, University of British Columbia
Andrea Marion Pinkney, McGill University
Michael Hawley, Mount Royal University
Jonathan H. X. Lee, San Francisco State University
Ravi M. Gupta, Utah State University
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A21-218
Study of Islam Section
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, University of Vermont, Presiding
Theme: Translation and Transmission of Knowledge
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-302B (3rd Level)
Sajida Jalalzai, Saint Michael's College
Translating Space: Muslims in North American Christian Seminaries
Saqer Almarri, State University of New York, Binghampton
Theologies of the Qur’anic Language: The Case of Rashad Khalifa and Edip Yüksel
Gregory A. Lipton, Macalester College
What's Driving the Camels of Love? Reinterpreting the "Celebrated Verses" of Ibn 'Arabi's Interpreter of Desires
Elias G. Saba, University of Pennsylvania
Riddles, Questions, and Performance: A Social Life of Islamic Legal Knowledge
Shankar Nair, University of Virginia
Being a Yogi in the Sufi Way: Translating the Yoga of the Yoga-Vasistha in Mughal South Asia
Responding:
Susan Gunasti, Ohio Wesleyan University
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A21-219
Study of Judaism Section
Isaac Weiner, Ohio State University, Presiding
Theme: Jewish Bodies in Public Spaces: Race, Gender, Religion
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-006A (River Level)
Shana Sippy, Carleton College
Metonymic Effects and Affects: Bodies of and in Synagogues
Shari Rabin, College of Charleston
Transporting Judaism: Train Cars as Religious Spaces in Nineteenth-Century America
Annalise Glauz-Todrank, Wake Forest University
"Good" Schools and Jewish Americans: The Racialization of Prestige in the Early Twentieth Century
Shayna Weiss, United States Naval Academy
A Beach of Their Own: The Creation of Tel Aviv’s Gender Segregated Beach
Business Meeting:
Aaron W. Hughes, University of Rochester
Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University
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A21-220
Theology and Religious Reflection Section and Queer Studies in Religion Group
Ed Waggoner, Brite Divinity School, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Linn Tonstad, God and Difference: The Trinity, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Finitude (Routledge, 2015)
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-302C (3rd Level)
Panelists:
Cameron Partridge, Harvard University
Graham Ward, Oxford University
Mark Jordan, Harvard University
Timothy McGee, Southern Methodist University
Larisa Reznik, Bowdoin College
Responding:
Linn Tonstad, Yale University
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A21-221
African Religions Group and Indigenous Religious Traditions Group
Dianna Bell, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Theme: Roundtable on Robert Baum's West Africa's Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition (Indiana University Press, 2015)
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-212B (2nd Level - West)
Panelists:
Charles Ambler, University of Texas, El Paso
Maha Marouan, Pennsylvania State University
Isabel Mukonyora, Western Kentucky University
Joseph Hellweg, Florida State University
Rosalind I. J. Hackett, University of Tennessee
Responding:
Robert M. Baum, Dartmouth College
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A21-222
Afro-American Religious History Group and Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
Anthea Butler, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding
Theme: Such You Are Called to See: Nate Parker's The Birth of a Nation Among the Religionists
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-301C (3rd Level)
Panelists:
M. Cooper Harriss, Indiana University
LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant, Williams College
Jon Pahl, Lenoir-Rhyne University
Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University
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A21-223
Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Group
Ariella Werden-Greenfield, Temple University, Presiding
Theme: The Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities: Enduring Questions and New Horizons
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham D (3rd Level)
Amanda Furiasse, Florida State University
From Lost to Chosen: The Myth of the Lost Tribes of Israel in Oneida Folklore
Leif Tornquist, University of North Carolina
The Bible in American Eugenics Discourse
Philipp Gollner, Goshen College
Being Right--or Mennonite: Hispanic Evangelicals, Anglo-Mennonites, and the Breakdown of Diversity
Andrew Peterson, Princeton Theological Seminary
The New Dalit Liberation Theology: Exegesis, Praxis, and Revolution
Responding:
Leslie R. James, DePauw University
Business Meeting:
Hugh Rowland Page, University of Notre Dame
Valerie Bridgeman, Methodist Theological School in Ohio
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A21-224
Chinese Religions Group
Fenggang Yang, University of Houston, Presiding
Theme: Local Knowledge of "Chinese Religions"
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-213B (2nd Level - West)
Gareth Fisher, Syracuse University
A Buddhism of Their Own: The Category of Buddhism and Popular Religious Identity in Contemporary China
Ting Guo, Purdue University
Christian "Cosmopolitanism" in Republican Shanghai and Its Contemporary Implications
Justin Tse, University of Washington
Canto-Theologies in the Umbrella Movement: Christians and Cantonese Heroes in Protest
Elena Valussi, Loyola University, Chicago
The Localization of Daoist Beliefs and Practices in Nineteenth Century Sichuan
Shaodan Zhang, University of Illinois
Chinese Muslims in the Qing Empire: Associations, Law, and Identities, 1644-1911
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A21-225
Books under Discussion
Evangelical Studies Group
Joy J. Moore, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Review panel of Sara Moslener, Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-007B (River Level)
Panelists:
Lynne Gerber, Harvard University
Gregory Thornbury, The King's College, New York
Mark Regnerus, University of Texas
Paul Louis Metzger, Multnomah Biblical Seminary
Responding:
Sara Moslener, Central Michigan University
Business Meeting:
Jason Sexton, California State University, Fullerton
Joy J. Moore, Fuller Theological Seminary
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