Gregory M. Reichberg, Peace Research Institute Oslo
The Relation of Just War to International Law: Two Competing Catholic Approaches
Responding:
Nathan French, Miami University
A22-256
History of Christianity Section
Dale T. Irvin, New York Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: The Civil War and Its Legacy in American Religion
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Hyatt-Roswell (Atlanta Conference Level)
Katharine Batlan, University of Texas
Christ is on Our Side: Christianity and Constitutions in the American Civil War
Priscilla Eppinger, Graceland University
The Religious Context of the Civil War and the Development of Liberal Theology: Lucretia Mott as Exemplar of Theological Liberalism
Louis A. Ruprecht, Georgia State University
Beyond the Birth of a Nation, or, The Limits of Liberal Tolerance
A22-257
North American Religions Section and Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group and Liberation Theologies Group and Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. Group
Carlos Decena, Rutgers University, Presiding
Theme: Prophetic Pulpits: The Influence and Legacies of MLK Jr. among Latina/o Activists
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Hilton-Grand Ballroom C (Level 2)
Panelists:
Michael Humphreys, Bethune-Cookman College
Maria T. Davila, Andover Newton Theological School
Altagracia Perez-Bullard, Episcopal Diocese of New York, New York, NY
A22-258
Religion and Politics Section
Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute, Washington, D.C., Presiding
Theme: Politics and Piety: New Perspectives on the Influence of Theology and Churches on African American Political Activism
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Marriott-A702 (Atrium Level)
Sam Speers, University of Virginia
Kristopher Norris, University of Virginia
America’s Freedom Church: The Politics of Piety at Ebenezer Baptist Church
Crystal DesVignes, Duke University
How God’s House Influences the State House: The Importance of Faith to African-American Women’s Political and Social Activism
Bearing the Collective Cross: Piety, Shared Experience, and Intercorporeality in Guatemala’s Semana Santa Processions
Seth Schermerhorn, Hamilton College
O'odham Walkers and their Staffs: Walking Sticks by Way of Calendar Sticks and Scraping Sticks
Jill DeTemple, Southern Methodist University
Santa Rita, Juan XXIII, the New Mission Movement, and the “Domestic Church”: Negotiating Catholic Families in Rural Ecuador
A22-263
Books under Discussion, Quadsponsorship
Chinese Religions Group and Confucian Traditions Group and Daoist Studies Group and Religions in Chinese and Indian Cultures: A Comparative Perspective Group
Tao Jiang, Rutgers University, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China (University of Hawai'i Press, 2015)
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Hilton-206 (Level 2)
Panelists:
Benjamin Brose, University of Michigan
Elizabeth Morrison, Middlebury College
C. Pierce Salguero, Abington College
Responding:
Stuart Young, Bucknell University
A22-264
Christian Spirituality Group
Lauren F. Winner, Duke University, Presiding
Theme: Preaching and Spirituality in the Work of Barbara Brown Taylor
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Hyatt-Dunwoody (Atlanta Conference Level)
Panelists:
Peter S. Hawkins, Yale University
Thomas G. Long, Emory University
Donyelle McCray, Virginia Theological Seminary
A22-265
Cognitive Science of Religion and Religion, Affect, and Emotion Group and Science, Technology, and Religion Group and SBL Religious Experience in Antiquity Group
Whitney Bauman, Florida International University, Presiding
Chas Clifton, Colorado State University, Pueblo, Presiding
Theme: Tradition and Resistance in Paganisms
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Hilton-201 (Level 2)
Laurel Zwissler, Central Michigan University
In Memoriam Maleficarum: Contemporary Pagan Mobilizations of the Burning Times
Mary Hamner, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Constructing an Authentic Witchcraft: Traditional Witchcraft, Wicca, and the Normalization of the Craft
Mariya Lesiv, Memorial University
Blood Brothers or Blood Enemies: Tradition and Ukrainian Pagan Responses to the Ukraine-Russia Crisis
A22-268
Critical Approaches to Hip-Hop and Religion Group and Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
Syed Adnan Hussain, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Presiding
Theme: Sightings and Visions of Hip Hop and Religion
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Marriott-International 1 (International Level)
Roy Whitaker, San Diego State University
“He Has Showed Up More Fully by Disappearing”: Tupac Shakur, Afrofuturism, and Trans/humanism
Tara Baldrick-Morrone, Florida State University
Adam Miller, The University of Chicago
Cindi and the Beast: Self and Collective in Opposing Visions of the Future
Jon Gill, Claremont Graduate University
Apocalyptic Science Diction: Bigg Jus and the ATL Afro-Futuristic Destruction of “Blackness”
A22-269
Eastern Orthodox Studies Group
George Demacopoulos, Fordham University, Presiding
Theme: Religion and the Crisis in Ukraine
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Hilton-Grand Salon E (Level 2)
Pavlo Smytsnyuk, University of Oxford
Greek Wine for Ukrainian Wineskins: Insights from Contemporary Greek Theologians and the Crisis in Ukraine
Tikhon Vasilyev, Oxford University
The Mission of the Christian Church in Times of War and Humanitarian Crisis: Ethical Reflection
Cyril Hovorun, St. Ignatios Theological Academy
Ukrainian Churches in and after Maidan
Nicholas Denysenko, Loyola Marymount University
In Search of a Religious Identity: Sources for the Study of Intra-Orthodox Conflict in Ukraine
A22-270
Books under Discussion, Full Papers Available
Evangelical Studies Group
Myron A Penner, Trinity Western University, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics, John G. Stackhouse's Need to Know: Vocation as the Heart of Christian Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Marriott-L405-406 (Lobby Level)
Panelists:
Richard J. Mouw, Fuller Theological Seminary
Lynn H. Cohick, Wheaton College
Paul Martens, Baylor University
Oliver Crisp, Fuller Theological Seminary
Responding:
John G. Stackhouse Jr., Crandall University
A22-271
Islamic Mysticism Group
Vernon James Schubel, Kenyon College, Presiding
Theme: Walls and Bridges: Situating the "Islamic" in Islamic Mysticism
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Marriott-International 2 (International Level)
Rubina Salikuddin, Harvard University
Prohibitions and Proper Etiquette: Regulating Ziyārat in the Timurid Period
William Sherman, Stanford University
Rituals of Revelation: Dhikr on the Afghan Frontier
Shobhana Xavier, Wilfrid Laurier University
From Jaffna to Pennsylvania: Piety and Practice at the Shrines of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Sam Houston, Florida State University
“Soldiers of God”: Tarbīya, Virtue, and Islamist Activism
Responding:
Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University, Chicago
A22-272
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group and Yogācāra Studies Group
Joseph Westfall, University of Houston-Downtown, Presiding
Theme: Kierkegaard and Buddhism
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Marriott-International 6 (International Level)
Sheridan Hough, College of Charleston
Kierkegaardian Selves, Buddhist No-Selves, and the "Will to Suffer"
David Wisdo, Columbus State University
The Self: Kierkegaard and Buddhism in Dialogue
A22-273
Practical Theology Group and Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group
Carolyn McCrary, Interdenominational Theological Center, Presiding
Theme: The Strong Black Woman: Blessing or Burden? A Roundtable Discussion on Chanequa Walker-Barnes’s Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength (Cascade Books, 2014)
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Marriott-A601 (Atrium Level)
Panelists:
Trina Armstrong, United Theological Seminiary of the Twin Citites
