Rhetoric and Marginalization through a Tibetan Buddhist Perspective
Joy Brennan, Kenyon College
Gender and Karma Then and Now
A22-206
Comparative Studies in Religion Section
Jonathan Herman, Georgia State University, Presiding
Theme: God Is Not One (HarperCollins, 2011): Author Meets Critics
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Hyatt-Piedmont (Atlanta Conference Level)
Panelists:
Kenny Smith, Louisiana State University
Nathan Rein, Ursinus College
Responding:
Stephen Prothero, Boston University
A22-207
North American Religions Section and Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group and Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group and Secularism and Secularity Group
Emily Wu, Dominican University of California, Presiding
Theme: Healing Between Religion and the Secular in North America
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Hilton-Grand Ballroom C (Level 2)
Justin Stein, University of Toronto
The Impact of Different Framings of Reiki’s "Spirituality" on Access to U.S. Healthcare Sites
Katie Givens Kime, Emory University
The Buffered Addict: Beneath the “Religious or Not?” of Twelve-Step Programs
Shenandoah Nieuwsma, University of North Carolina
Between “Religion” and “the Secular:” Negotiating Healthcare “Spirituality’s” Place in the Twenty-First Century
Ira Helderman, Vanderbilt University
“Religion” and “Secular” in U.S. Psychotherapists’ Interface with Buddhist Traditions
Responding:
Steven Barrie-Anthony, University of California, Santa Barbara
A22-208
Study of Islam Section and Contemporary Islam Group and Islamic Mysticism Group and Islam, Gender, Women Group and Qur'an Group
Aysha Hidayatullah, University of San Francisco, Presiding
Theme: Mentoring Session for Scholars Studying Muslims/Islam
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Marriott-Atrium C (Atrium Level)
A22-209
Theology and Religious Reflection Section
Ed Waggoner, Brite Divinity School, Presiding
Theme: God and Religion in the Next U.S. War
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Hilton-Crystal CD (Level 1)
Joshua Jeffery, Vanderbilt University
"Never Been So Thoroughly Policed": Systematic United States Government Surveillance and Suppression of Religious Dissent during the Great War, 1917-1918
Laura Alexander, University of Virginia
International Law and Humanitarian Intervention: Theological Ethics in Public Deliberation over the "Next War"
Women and Religion Section and Men, Masculinities, and Religions Group and Religion in Southeast Asia Group
Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds, Presiding
Theme: Contesting Authority, Reclaiming Traditions: Religion and Gender in Southeast Asia
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Marriott-M301-302 (Marquis Level)
Norbani Ismail, Herndon, VA
Muslim Religious Authority and the Mass Media in Malaysia: Reaffirming Orthodoxy through Female Preachers (Pendakwah)
Tyler A. Lehrer, University of Colorado
Reframing Authority: Buddhist Blogging and the Theravāda Bhikkhunī Ordination Dispute
Lara K. Schubert, Claremont Graduate University
Restraint Over Freedom: Empowerment of Cambodian Buddhist Donji (Nuns) and Female Christian Pastors
David Brian Esch, Florida International Univerity
The World's First Transgender Mosque: Javanese, Gendered, and Religious Embodiments
A22-211
African Diaspora Religions Group and Indigenous Religious Traditions Group and Native Traditions in the Americas Group
Gregory D. Alles, McDaniel College, Presiding
Theme: Decolonization through Therapeutic and Culinary Practices
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Hyatt-Roswell (Atlanta Conference Level)
Natalie Avalos Cisneros, University of California, Santa Barbara
Healing as Liberation: Native American and Tibetan Decolonization
Andrea Smith, University of California, Irvine
Indigenity, Gender, and Anti-Blackness: Decolonizing Decolonization through Spiritual Healing and Transformation
Scott Alves Barton, New York University
Race, Faith, and Cake: Foodways and a Festa de Divino Espírito Santo
Responding:
Kathleen J. Martin, California Polytechnic State University
A22-212
African Religions Group and Lesbian-Feminist Issues and Religion Group and Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group
Dianna Bell, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Theme: Violence against Women in Africa: Politics, War, and Religion
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Marriott-A705 (Atrium Level)
Laura Grillo, Pacifica Graduate Institute
An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Civil War
Won Chul Shin, Emory University
The Liberian Mothers’ Journey to Peace: Gendered Violence during the Liberian Civil Wars and the Liberian Women's Mass Action for Peace as Ritual in Protest
Michelle Wolff, Duke University
The “Corrective” Rape of Black Lesbians in South Africa: Locating the Failure of Progressive Politics within Secular Democracy
David Tombs, University of Otago
Breaking the Silence: The Role of the Churches in Responding to Sexual Violence in South Africa
Situating Black Judaism in the South: Stories of Migration and Reorientation
Sholomo Levy, Northampton Community College
From Out of Zion: Arnold Josiah Ford and Black Jewish Nationalism
Responding:
Khadijah Miller, Norfolk State University
A22-214
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group
Melissa Borja, City University of New York, Presiding
Theme: Resistance through Interpretation: Pedagogy, Memory, and Narrative Identity
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Hilton-309 (Level 3)
Courtney T. Goto, Boston University
Teaching to Decenter Assumptions about Context: An Asian North American Contribution to Practical Theology
Min-Ah Cho, St. Catherine University
Becoming Wisdom Woman and Strange Woman: Asian and Asian-American Women’s Pedagogy in Coping with Stereotypes
Henry Kuo, Graduate Theological Union
The Dangerous Memory of 1965: Immigration Legislation as Asian-American Ecclesiological Challenge
Anne Blankenship, North Dakota State University
Reshaping the American West: Japanese American Pioneers during World War II
A22-215
Bible, Theology, and Postmodernity Group
Marion S. Grau, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Presiding
Theme: Biblical and Theological Hermeneutics “After” Postmodernity
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Marriott-A702 (Atrium Level)
Brock Perry, Drew University
Surface Reading: Affective Encounters with the Bible after Postmodernism
Brett Potter, Toronto School of Theology
Film as Midrash: Postmodern Hermeneutics and Visual Theology
Michael Sohn, Cleveland State University
Word, Writing, Tradition: Ricoeur’s Post-Modern Retrieval of Religion
Richard Livingston, Claremont Graduate University
Divining the Event Horizon
Business Meeting:
Jacob Erickson, St. Olaf College
A22-216
Black Theology Group
Brian Bantum, Seattle Pacific University, Presiding
Theme: Black Theology, The Arts, and Popular Culture
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Marriott-International 1 (International Level)
Jeania Ree Moore, University of Cambridge
Beauty, Ugliness, and Black Theology: A Theological Aesthetics for Black Experience
Rufus Burnett Jr., Duquesne University
Afro-Christian, Afro-Blue: Land-Based Autonomy and the Making of Blues Identities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Daniel White Hodge, North Park University
Yeezus is Jesuz: Examining the Socio- Hermeneutical Transmediated Images of Jesus Employed by Kanye West
Responding:
Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary
A22-217
Body and Religion Group and Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group
Shawn Arthur, Wake Forest University, Presiding
Theme: Body as Ultimate Concern
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Marriott-L405-406 (Lobby Level)
Panelists:
Russell Re Manning, Bath Spa University
Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary
Courtney Wilder, Midland University
A22-218
Class, Religion, and Theology Group
Joan M. Martin, Episcopal Divinity School, Presiding
Theme: Class Contention in Religion and Theology
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Hilton-Grand Salon D (Level 2)
Jan Rehmann, Union Theological Seminary
How Max Weber's Sociology of Religion Is Informed by His Class Project
Jung Mo Sung, Methodist University of São Paulo
Class, Consumption, and Struggle of Gods: An Approach from Liberation Theology
Ken Estey, Brooklyn College
Class Controversies in Religion and Theology
A22-219
Comparative Religious Ethics Group and Religion and Humanism Group
Slavica Jakelic, Valparaiso University, Presiding
Theme: The Future of Human Dignity
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Hyatt-Edgewood (Atlanta Conference Level)
Panelists:
Jennifer A. Herdt, Yale University
Matthew Puffer, University of Virginia
Chad Wellmon, University of Virginia
Responding:
Elizabeth Bucar, Northeastern University
A22-220
Confucian Traditions Group
Filippo Marsili, Saint Louis University, Presiding
Theme: Roundtable Discussion on Anna Sun's Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities (Princeton University Press, 2013)
Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Group and Quaker Studies Group
Jon Kershner, University of Lancaster, Presiding
Theme: Quaker Spirituality and Interfaith Dialogue: Practical, Pedagogical and Ethical Dimensions
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Marriott-International 3 (International Level)
Ann Riggs, Loyola University Chicago
The Multiple Strands of Quaker Ethics of Interfaith Dialogue
Rebecca Mays, The Dialogue Institute, Philadelphia, PA
Will Interfaith Study and/or Activism Compromise Individual Faith and/or Religious Communal Identity?
Rebecca Tatum, Union Theological Seminary
A Sense of the Meeting: Quaker Process as a Bridge between First Nations and Anglo Ways of Knowing in the 1995 British Columbia Land and Resource Management Plans (LRMP)
Russell CD Arnold, Regis University
Cultivating Parker Palmer’s Habits of the Heart in an Integrative Course on Israel/Palestine
A Quaker Approach to Interreligious Dialogue: Michael Birkel's Qur'an in Conversation
Responding:
Jennifer Howe Peace, Andover Newton Theological School
A22-224
Japanese Religions Group
Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University, Presiding
Theme: Selling Spirituality, Buying Buddhism, Commercializing Kami, Marketing Merit, Delivering Doctrine: Economic Aspects of Religious Traditions in Japan
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Marriott-International 6 (International Level)
Elisheva Perelman, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Pawns of Immortality: The Consequences of Soteriological Care in Japan’s Modern Tuberculosis Epidemic
Jessica Starling, Lewis and Clark College
Selling Doctrine: Buddhist Women's Associations and the Production of Religious Literature for Women (Fujin Kyōke) in Modern Japan
Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara
Creative Religiosity: Religious Performances and Religious Marketing in Edo Period Popular Religion
Matthew Mitchell, Duke University
Skewering Fortune: Temple Fundraising Lotteries in Early Modern Japan, with a Focus on Zenkōji’s Daihongan Convent
Responding:
Stephen G. Covell, Western Michigan University
A22-225
Middle Eastern Christianity Group
Michel Andraos, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding
Theme: Middle Eastern Christianity and Islam: Areas for Dialogue?
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Hilton-Grand Salon B (Level 2)
Melanie Trexler, Valparaiso University
Educating the Americaines: Arab Baptist–Muslim Dialogue in Lebanon
Joshua Mugler, Georgetown University
How the Churches of Classical Baghdad Were Built
Andrew M. Sharp, University of Virginia
Orthodox Christians, Muslims, and the Environment: Ecology as Fertile Ground for Dialogue in the Middle East
Deanna Womack, Emory University
Muslim-Christian Dialogue, Past and Present: Lessons from Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Syria
A22-226
Music and Religion Group and Religion and Migration Group
Philip Stoltzfus, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, Presiding
Theme: Belief and Blessings: Migration, Music, and Affect
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Hilton-208 (Level 2)
Alemayehu Bahta, Duke University
Bäsdät ʾägär Mänor: An Analysis of Ethiopian Sacred Music and the Changing Definition of Migration
Lisle Dalton, Hartwick College
“The Gospel Train to Heaven”: Technology and Salvation in Railroad Songs
Alison Marshall, Brandon University
Affective Tetherings: Blessings and Bayanihan in Filipino Canada
Business Meeting:
Alison Marshall, Brandon University
Rubina Ramji, Cape Breton University
A22-227
Mysticism Group
Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida, Presiding
Theme: Spiritual but Not Religious: Mysticism and the “Nones”
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Hilton-307 (Level 3)
Jane A. Shaw, Stanford University
The Mystical Turn and the "Spiritual but Not Religious" Phenomenon in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Stephanie Yuhas, University of Colorado
Seeking Non-Dual Experience: The Spiritual but Not Religious Approach to Mysticism
Linda Ceriello, Rice University
Contemporary Narratives of the SBNR and Nones: Toward a Metamodern Reading of Millennial Mysticisms
Responding:
Linda A. Mercadante, Methodist Theological School, Ohio
A22-228
Nineteenth Century Theology Group
James Swan Tuite, Indiana University, Presiding
Theme: Neo-Kantianism and Religious Thought
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Hilton-304 (Level 3)
Robert Erlewine, Illinois Wesleyan University
The Philosopher as Interpreter: Hermann Cohen’s Critique of the History of Religions School
Todd Gooch, Eastern Kentucky University
Paul Natorp "Between the Times"
Peter Woodford, University of Cambridge
The Very Idea of a “Science of Religion:” Ernst Troeltsch and Heinrich Rickert in Conversation
A22-229
Pentecostal––Charismatic Movements Group
Michael J. McClymond, Saint Louis University, Presiding
Theme: Reframing Gender and Pentecostalism in the Global and New South
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Hilton-310 (Level 3)
Kijan Bloomfield Maxam, Princeton University
In, But Not Of the World: Pentecostal Faith and Belonging for Women and Girls in Urban Jamaica
Judith Casselberry, Bowdoin College
Running For Jesus: Gender Mobility in Black American Pentecostalism
Justin Doran, University of Texas
The Heartfelt Spirit: A Pentecostal Dialectic between the New and the Global South
A22-230
Religion and Sexuality Group
Edward Silver, Wellesley College, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Erin Runions's The Babylon Complex:Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty (Fordham University Press, 2014)
