A19-226
Qur'an Group
Daniel A. Madigan, Georgetown University, Presiding
Theme: Mystical and Geographic Tafsir
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-207A (2nd Level - West)
Ariela Marcus-Sells, Elon University
"Poised on the Higher Horizon": Narrative Tafsīr and Sufi Practice in the Southern Sahara
Joshua Mugler, Georgetown University
From the Farthest End of the City: Antioch in the Interpretation of the Qur'an
Shifa Noor, University of Virginia
Sufi Qur'anic Commentaries: Why We Need to (Re-)Read Them
Nicholas Boylston, Georgetown University
Mystical Literalism: The Exegetical Significance of the Epistolic Genre for ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt’s Mystical Interpretations of the Qur’ān
Business Meeting:
Gordon D. Newby, Emory University
Walid Saleh, University of Toronto
A19-227
Religion and Ecology Group
Evan Berry, American University, Presiding
Theme: The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Religion and Ecology Group
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Texas E (4th Level)
Panelists:
Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University
Bron Taylor, University of Florida
Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Groningen
Graham Harvey, The Open University
Jay McDaniel, Hendrix College
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A19-228
Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives Group
Jenny Berglund, Södertörn University, Presiding
Theme: Representation of Religion in Public Schools
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Crockett D (4th Level)
Minna Hietamäki, University of Helsinki
Gains and Losses in the 2016 Finnish National Curriculum on Religious Education
Joanne Maguire Robinson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
IB or Not IB: The International Baccalaureate Curriculum and Religion as a Way of Knowing
Satoko Fujiwara, University of Tokyo
Islamicized Buddhism in RE textbooks in England: How the Call for Community Cohesion Has Affected RE
Kate Soules, Boston College
The Essential Role of Teacher Education in Improving Religion Curricula
Business Meeting:
Michael Waggoner, University of Northern Iowa
Jenny Berglund, Södertörn University
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A19-229
Religion in Southeast Asia Group
Thomas Patton, City University of Hong Kong, Presiding
Theme: Studying Sites of Religious Leisure: A Roundtable Discussion on Justin McDaniel’s Architects of Buddhist Leisure (University of Hawaii Press, 2016)
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Travis B (3rd Level)
Panelists:
David Morgan, Duke University
Lawrence Chua, Syracuse University
Anne R. Hansen, University of Wisconsin
Richard Fox, Heidelberg University
Responding:
Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania
Business Meeting:
Vivienne Angeles, La Salle University
Richard Fox, Heidelberg University
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A19-230
Religion, Affect, and Emotion Group
Abigail Kluchin, Ursinus College, Presiding
Theme: Affect: Discrimination and Resistance
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-005 (River Level)
Raquel Robvais, Louisiana State University
The Politics of Affect and Power in the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963)
Erin Runions, Pomona College
Faith-Based Prison Programs and the Affective Circulation of Interest and Debt
Bevin Blaber, University of Chicago
In Defense of a Limited "Politics of Rage"
Matt Sheedy, University of Manitoba
The Niqabis Are Coming! Affect and the Invisible Muslim Body
Business Meeting:
Donovan Schaefer, University of Oxford
M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University
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A19-231
Religion, Media, and Culture Group and Religion, Memory, History Group
Mona Hassan, Duke University, Presiding
Theme: New Technologies of Memory: Mediating Religion, Race, and Identity
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Republic A (4th Level)
Elonda Clay, VU University, Amsterdam
Conjuring the Diasporic African American Past for the Present: Reality TV Genomics, the Remediation of Collective Memory, and the Hegemonic Hijacking of Black Identities
Lauren Kerby, Boston University
The Selfie as a Technology of Memory
Tim Hutchings, Stockholm University
Death, Digital Media, and the Study of Religion
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A19-232
Ricoeur Group and SBL Contextual Biblical Interpretation Group
Kenneth A. Reynhout, Bethel University, St. Paul and Daniel Patte, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Theme: Contextual Readings with Ricoeur
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Lone Star F (2nd Level)
Christopher Duncanson-Hales, University of Sudbury
Trod Mount Zion: A Rastafari Hermeneutic of Hope
Jason Roberts, University of Georgia
Liberating Theologies, Hermeneutics, and the Second Naïveté
Michael LeChevallier, University of Chicago
Mimetic Proverbs: A Ricoeurean Engagement with African Narrative Theologies
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A19-233
Sociology of Religion Group
Rebekka King, Middle Tennessee State University, Presiding
Theme: Comparative Critique: A Dialectical Analysis of the “Critical Canon” in Religious Studies
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham D (3rd Level)
Jason Josephson-Storm, Williams College
The Negation of the Negation of the Critique of Religion: Or Critical Religion Meets Negative Dialectics
Lucas Wright, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sublation Without an End: The Status of Religion in The Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)
Joel Harrison, Northwestern University
Beyond Religious Ideas: Competing Weberian Legacies in Critical Theory and Critical Religion
Responding:
Katja Rakow, Utrecht University
Business Meeting:
Rebekka King, Middle Tennessee State University
Warren S. Goldstein, Center for Critical Research on Religion
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A19-234
Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
Adam Kotsko, Shimer College, Presiding
Theme: Love, Revolutionary and Otherwise
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-007D (River Level)
Julia Reed, Harvard University
This Is My Body, Don’t Touch Me: Jean-Luc Nancy on Cartesian and Christian Incarnation
Ashok Collins, Australian National University
Love Your Neighbour as Yourself: Jean-Luc Nancy and Michel Henry on Affectivity and the Theological Turn
Chris DiBona, Brown University
The Political Promise of Hegel’s (Radical) Anti-Revolutionary Love
Business Meeting:
Adam Kotsko, Shimer College
Ellen T. Armour, Vanderbilt University
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A19-235
Wesleyan Studies Group
Edgardo Colon-Emeric, Duke University, Presiding
Theme: Reflections on the 250th Anniversary of John Wesley's Plain Account of Christian Perfection
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-006B (River Level)
Priscilla Pope-Levison, Southern Methodist University
Are Perfect Love and Sanctification Synonymous? Iva Durham Vennard’s Reinterpretation of J.A. Wood’s Perfect Love
Charles Rivera, Yale University
Origen of Alexandria on Christian Perfection
Wilson Pruitt, Austin, TX
A Plain Account of a Christian Partita: Listening to Bach while Reading John Wesley
Responding:
Randy L. Maddox, Duke University
Business Meeting:
Edgardo Colon-Emeric, Duke University
Ted Campbell, Southern Methodist University
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A19-236
Yogācāra Studies Group
Joy Brennan, Kenyon College, Presiding
Theme: Reading the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Mission A (2nd Level)
Pierre-Julien Harter, University of Chicago
First Things First: The Genre of the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga
Dian Denis, Laval University
The Structure of the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga and Kārikā and Its Use of the Notion of Support
John Y. Cha, Gustavus Adolphus College
The Darśana of the Dharmadharmatā-vibhāga
William S. Waldron, Middlebury College
On the Relation between "Bhājana-loka," "Vijñapti," and "Vāsanā" in the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga and Its Commentaries
Jingjing Li, McGill University
What is Abūta-parikalpa? Debates on the Authenticity of Dharma-dharmatā-vibhāga in Early Modern China
Business Meeting:
C. John Powers, Australian National University
Roy Tzohar, Tel-Aviv University
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A19-237
Economics and Capitalism in the Study of Buddhism Seminar
Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Theme: Economics and Capitalism in the Study of Buddhism Seminar
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Texas C (4th Level)
Dawn Neal, Graduate Theological Union
Transmission or Certification? Secularizing Trends in Buddhist Teacher Training
Scott Mitchell, Institute of Buddhist Studies
Scrambled Eggs: At the Intersection of Buddhist Economies and Knowledge Economies
Barbra R. Clayton, Mount Allison University
Bhutan and the Politics of Happiness: Gross National Happiness as Engaged Secular Buddhism
Ronald Purser, San Francisco State University
McDonaldization of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Responding:
Jeff Wilson, University of Waterloo
Business Meeting:
Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara
Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union
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A19-238
Holmes Welch and the Study of Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China Seminar
Erik Hammerstrom, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding
Theme: Monastic Models and Lineages in Modern Chinese Buddhism
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-223 (2nd Level - East)
Ester Bianchi, University of Perugia
The Theravāda Model in the Chinese Conception and Reconfiguration of Monastic Discipline in Holmes Welch’s Scholarship and Subsequent Buddhist Studies
Andrew Wormald, University of Groningen
Yuanying and the Narrative of Modern Chinese Buddhism
Stefania Travagnin, University of Groningen
A Small Nunnery but a Big Story: Buddhist Women and the Hidden History of Modern Chinese Buddhism
Rongdao Lai, University of Southern California
Lineage Networks and the Transnational Transmission of Modern Chinese Buddhism
Business Meeting:
Gregory Adam Scott, University of Edinburgh
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A19-239
Religion and US Empire Seminar
Jennifer Graber, University of Texas, Presiding
Theme: U.S. Empire and the Production of Religion
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-304C (3rd Level)
Andrew McKee, Florida State University
Body Trade: Biblical Phrenology and the Unmasking of the Savage
Matthew Smith, Northwestern University
Religion, Race, Empire, and the Urgency of Student Foreign Missions
Michelle Sanchez, Harvard University
Periodization, Empire, and the Christian Worldview: Charting the Political Impact of Evangelical Apologetic Discourse, 1968-2001
Responding:
Raymond Haberski, Jr., Indian University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Business Meeting:
Tracy Leavelle, Creighton University
Heather D. Curtis, Tufts University
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A19-240
Wildcard Session
Angela Tarango, Trinity University, Presiding
Theme: Religions of Texas: The Study of Religion and the Making of a Place
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Lone Star B (2nd Level)
Panelists:
Sarah Moczygemba, University of Florida
Katherine Sanchez, University of Texas
Martha Smith Roberts, University of the South
Lauren Horn Griffin, University of Oklahoma
Tiffany Puett, Institute for Diversity and Civic Life
Responding:
Chad Seales, University of Texas
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A19-241
Wildcard Session
Josh Hasler, Boston University, Presiding
Theme: “Is God Dead?” Fifty Years after the Infamous Easter Issue of Time, 1966
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Texas A (4th Level)
Panelists:
Thomas Altizer, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Jason Blakeburn, Boston University
Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Alina N. Feld, Hofstra University
Lissa McCullough, Los Angeles, CA
Ray L. Hart, Boston University
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A19-242
Tours
Theme: San Antonio River Cruise
Saturday - 2:00 PM-3:15 PM
Offsite
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A19-300
Hinduism Group
Diana Dimitrova, University of Montreal, Presiding
Theme: Theorizing Horror in Bollywood
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham B (3rd Level)
Aditi Sen Chowdhury, Queen's University
Do You Want to Know the Raaz? Savitri, Satyavan, and the Other Woman
Brian Collins, Ohio University
Whistling Past the Kabrasthan: Aesthetics, Demonology, and Politics in Hindi Horror Film Posters and Ephemera
Kathleen M. Erndl, Florida State University
Divine Horror in Bollywood: Avenging Goddesses in Hindi Cinema
Ellen Goldberg, Queen's University, Kingston
In Dev Man is the Cruelest Animal
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A19-301
Pentecostal––Charismatic Movements Group
Michael J. McClymond, Saint Louis University, Presiding
Theme: Megachurches and Migration in London: Transformations of Social Relationships and the Self?
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham E (3rd Level)
Mark Cartledge, Regent University
Megachurch Studies: Setting the Scene
Sophie Bremner, University of Birmingham
London's Black Megachurches and the Building of Aspirational and Transnational, and yet Locally-Relevant, Identities
Sarah Dunlop, University of Birmingham
Social Capital and Migration: A Case Study of Two Megachurches in London
Business Meeting:
Arlene Sanchez-Walsh, Azusa Pacific University
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A19-302
Religion and Cities Group
Elise Edwards, Baylor University, Presiding
Theme: Religion and Meaning: The Contestation of Urban Spaces
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Convention Center-213B (2nd Level - West)
Chad Haines, Arizona State University
Breaking with the Past: Being Modern and Muslim in Islamabad
Timothy Quevillon, University of Houston
Musar, Zionism, and Civil Rights: How Israeli Ethics and Values Shaped Houston’s Conservative Jewish Community
Lynne Gerber, Harvard University and Rachel Deitch, Harvard University
The Castro and Its Metaphors: Religious Narrations of San Francisco's Gayborhood
Spencer Dew, Centenary College of Louisiana
The Sacred Obligations of the Citizen: Sovereign Citizen Occupations, Urban and Rural, and the Political Theology Thereof
Responding:
Helene Slessarev-Jamir, Claremont School of Theology
Business Meeting:
Elise Edwards, Baylor University
Helene Slessarev-Jamir, Claremont School of Theology
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A19-303
Roman Catholic Studies Group
J. Michelle Molina, Northwestern University, Presiding
Theme: Ex-Catholics: Thresholds of Catholic Identity and Defiance
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Republic B (4th Level)
Nicholas Rademacher, Cabrini University
Rethinking Resistance: Varities of Dissent and Patterns of Solidarity among U.S. Catholics
Kori Pacyniak, Brite Divinity School
Ex-Catholics: Exile or Exodus in the Borderlands of the Church
Meredith Massar Munson, Graduate Theological Union
All that Glitters is Not Gold: Andy Warhol's Byzantine Icon, Gold Marilyn Monroe
Kerry Noonan, Champlain College
“I’m Going to Try Reiki Next, and I’m Not Going to Confession!” Negotiating Vernacular Catholicism
Responding:
Mauricio Najarro, Graduate Theological Union
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A19-304
Sacred Texts and Ethics Group
Emily Filler, Earlham College, Presiding
Theme: Sacred Texts, Social Self-Understandings, and Politics: Ethnographic and Historical Portraits of Sacred Texts in Context
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Crockett D (4th Level)
Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Arkansas State University
GodSmacks: Westboro Baptist Church Delivering God’s Hate in Love
Daniel del Nido, Columbia University
The Nation and the Church: Love as an Ethical Ideal in Post-Revolutionary France
Amy Binning, University of Cambridge
Transnational Tibetan Texts: Contemporary Practice, Production, and Aid Work Surrounding Tibetan Buddhist Sacred Texts
Responding:
Elizabeth Phillips, Westcott House
Business Meeting:
Emily Filler, Earlham College
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A19-305
Academic Relations Committee
Michael Trice, Seattle University, Presiding
Theme: Living into the Hyphen: The Faculty-Administrator
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Crockett A (4th Level)
Panelists:
Patricia O'Connell Killen, Gonzaga University
Grant Taylor, Samford University
Mary C. Boys, Union Theological Seminary
Mark Hearn, Seattle University
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A19-306
Publications Committee
Theodore Vial, Iliff School of Theology and Cynthia Read, Oxford University Press, Presiding
Theme: How to Get Published
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Texas E (4th Level)
Panelists:
Cynthia Eller, Claremont Graduate University
Aaron W. Hughes, University of Rochester
Karen Jackson-Weaver, Harvard University
John A. Knight, Marist College
John Nemec, University of Virginia
Robert A. Yelle, University of Munich
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A19-307
Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee
David A. Sánchez, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding
Theme: Religious and Racial Identity Politics in Media Coverage of the 2016 US National Election
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Texas A (4th Level)
Panelists:
Ebrahim E. I. Moosa, University of Notre Dame
Jean-Pierre Ruiz, St. John's University, New York
Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Earlham College
Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University
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A19-308
Student Lounge Roundtable
Theme: Valuing Your Work, Working Your Values: Uncovering Why You Do What You Do
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-225D (2nd Level - East)
Panelists:
Raj Balkaran, University of Toronto
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A19-309
Buddhism Section
Zhaohua Yang, Columbia University, Presiding
Theme: Buddhist Apocrypha: From Khotan to Kōyasan
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-006C (River Level)
Warner A. Belanger III, Milledgeville, GA
The Khotanese Transformation of the Buddhist Genre of Vyākaraṇa during the Late Eighth and Early Ninth Centuries C.E.
Stephanie Lynn Balkwill, University of Southern California
Unpacking Apocrypha: On the Sūtra on Transforming the Female Form
Elizabeth Tinsley, Columbia University, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Appearance, Discovery, and Production of Texts and Gods in the Kōyasan Henmyōin Daishi Myōjin Go-Takusen Ki (Record of the Oracle of Daishi Myōjin at Henmyōin [Cloister])
Peter M. Romaskiewicz, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Indelible Smell of Zhu Fonian’s (fl. 379–413) Apocryphal Scriptures
Luke N. Thompson, Columbia University
Japanese Buddhist Myth and Apocryphal Claims about Śākyamuni in Twelfth-to-Fourteenth-Century Japan
Responding:
Hank Glassman, Haverford College
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A19-310
History of Christianity Section
Ralph Keen, University of Illinois, Chicago, Presiding
Theme: Christian Visions and Memories of Conversion and Difference
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Republic A (4th Level)
Yosi Yisraeli, CSOC, Ben Gurion University, Bar-Ilan University
From Neophytes to Converts: The Converso Crisis of the 15th Century and the Judeo-Christian Meaning of Conversion
Garry Sparks, George Mason University
Sixteenth-Century Dominicans’ Fieldnotes among the Maya: Kislak Manuscript 1015
David Price, Vanderbilt University
The Philosophical Jew and the Identity Crisis of Christianity in G. E. Lessing’s Nathan the Wise
Jesse Zink, University of Cambridge
A Missionary and a Prophet: The Memory of Archibald Shaw among Dinka in Southern Sudan
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A19-311
Religion and the Social Sciences Section and Sociology of Religion Group
Warren S. Goldstein, Center for Critical Research on Religion, Presiding
Theme: Rethinking Theory, Methods, and Data: A Conversation between Religious Studies and Sociology of Religion
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Convention Center-007D (River Level)
Panelists:
James Spickard, University of Redlands
Gabriel Acevedo, University of Texas, San Antonio
Marla Frederick, Harvard University
Randall Styers, University of North Carolina
Responding:
Nichole Phillips, Emory University
Rebekka King, Middle Tennessee State University
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