Theme: Conversation with 2015 Religion and the Arts Award Winner Marilynne Robinson
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Hilton-Grand Ballroom A (Level 2)
Panelists:
Eric Ziolkowski, Lafayette College
Brook Wilensky-Lanford, Killing the Buddha, Jersey City, NJ
Marilynne Robinson, University of Iowa
A22-305
Buddhism Section
Lori Meeks, University of Southern California, Presiding
Theme: Books and Bodies, Caves and Technologies
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Marriott-International 9 (International Level)
Yi Ding, Stanford University
Constructing Merit: The Religious Functions of Dunhuang Caves in Light of the “Merit Record” (Gongde Ji) Texts
Eric Huntington, Princeton University
Creating Universes: Divergent Ritual Cosmologies in Nepalese and Tibetan Contexts
Alexander Hsu, University of Chicago
How Do You Use A Grove of Pearls? Notes toward a History of Medieval Chinese Buddhist Anthological Use with Evidence from Dunhuang
Daniel Tuzzeo, Stanford University
On Cognitive and Narrative Maps: Navigating Memory and the Afterlife through Imagined Space in Buddhist Texts and Material Culture
A22-306
History of Christianity Section and Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group and Practical Theology Group and Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Group
Christian A. B. Scharen, Auburn Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: New Directions in Theological Education: Pedagogical and Epistemological Models from Latino U.S.A.
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Hyatt-Roswell (Atlanta Conference Level)
Panelists:
Justo L. Gonzalez, Emory University
Edwin David Aponte, The Louisville Institute, Louisville, KY
Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, Eastern University
A22-307
North American Religions Section and African Diaspora Religions Group and Afro-American Religious History Group and Latina/o Critical-Comparative Studies Group
Solimar Otero, Louisiana State University, Presiding
Theme: Feeling Santería: Ethnographies of Affect, Mobility, and Micropractices of Afro-Cuban Religion
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Hilton-Grand Ballroom C (Level 2)
Panelists:
Aisha Beliso-De Jesus, Harvard University
Elizabeth Perez, Dartmouth College
Responding:
Tracey Hucks, Haverford College
Todd Ramón Ochoa, University of North Carolina
A22-308
Philosophy of Religion Section
Samantha Copping, Santa Barbara, CA, Presiding
Theme: Continental Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies: Past, Present, and Future
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Hyatt-Edgewood (Atlanta Conference Level)
Panelists:
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University
Sarah Hammerschlag, University of Chicago
Tyler T. Roberts, Grinnell College
Bradley Onishi, Rhodes College
A22-309
Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Group
Valerie Bridgeman, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Presiding
Theme: Biblical Interrogations of Identity, Culture, and Social Location
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Hyatt-Marietta (Atlanta Conference Level)
Lynn B. E. Jencks, Northwestern University
"For God So Loved The World": Latina/o Charismatic Catholics and the Transformative Experience of Encountering God's Love
Leslie R. James, DePauw University
Leslie R. James, DePauw University
Re-Inventing the Human: Martin Luther King, Jr., C.L.R. James, and the New Jerusalem
Angeline M.G. Song, University of Otago
Not Just Hearing, but Feeling a Scream: Connecting with Esther through a Hermeneutic of Empathy
Matthew W. Dougherty, University of North Carolina
Reading Chosenness, Reading Race: Cherokee Uses of Biblical Narrative and Covenant Theology, 1819-1838
Responding:
Ariella Werden-Greenfield, Temple University
A22-310
Buddhist Critical––Constructive Reflection Group
Grace G. Burford, Prescott College, Presiding
Theme: Buddhism as a Remedy for American Suffering: Issues in the Application of Buddhist Teachings
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Marriott-International 7 (International Level)
Brooke Dodson-Lavelle, Emory University
Against One Method: Toward a Critical-Constructive Approach to the Adaptation and Implementation of Buddhist-Based Contemplative Programs in America
Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida
“Buddhism in America After Ferguson”: Privilege, Diversity and Inclusion in American Convert Buddhism
Responding:
Sid Brown, University of the South
A22-311
Chinese Religions Group
Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding
Theme: Politics, Imperial Institutions, and Religion in Imperial China
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Hilton-206 (Level 2)
Eric Greene, University of Bristol
The Authority of Meditation in the Kaiyuan Era: The Scripture on the Secret Essentials of Meditation in Cave 59 at the Wofoyuan
Richard G. Wang, University of Florida
Liu Yuanran, the Longhushan Delegation, and the Competition for Prestige at the Ming Court
Luke Habberstad, University of Oregon
Who Gets to Praise the Emperor? A Western Han Debate about the New Year’s Court Audience
April Hughes, Gonzaga University
Shifting Conceptions of Kingship in Medieval China: A Reexamination of the Canonical and Apocryphal Maitreya Scriptures
Responding:
Charles D. Orzech, University of Glasgow
A22-312
Comparative Religious Ethics Group
Beverley Foulks McGuire, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Presiding
Theme: The Ethics of Social Difference, Global Interdependence, and Forced Migration
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Hilton-308 (Level 3)
Thomas Carrico, Florida State University
A Social Critique of the Judgment of Morality: Pierre Bourdieu and the Critical Study of Religious Ethics
Tanzih, Tashbih and Tawhid in A Secular Age: The Ethics of Oneness in Charles Taylor and Ibn Arabi
Benjamin Schewel, University of Virginia
Comparative Religious Ethics and the Problem of Forced Migration
Responding:
Irene Oh, The George Washington University
A22-313
Professional Practices and Institutional Location
Contemplative Studies Group and Mysticism Group
June McDaniel, College of Charleston, Presiding
Theme: Mystics and Contemplatives in the Academy Today: Religious Experience from the Outside In and Inside Out
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Marriott-International 3 (International Level)
Panelists:
Anne C. Klein, Rice University
Lola L. Williamson, Millsaps College
Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University
Barbara A. B. Patterson, Emory University
Jay Michaelson, Chicago Theological Seminary
Responding:
Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University
Business Meeting:
Stuart R. Sarbacker, Oregon State University
A22-314
Quadsponsorship
Ecclesiological Investigations Group and Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Group and Vatican II Studies Group and SBL Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Sacred Texts Group
Homayra Ziad, Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies, Baltimore, MD, Presiding
Theme: Inter-Religious Dialogue in Our Times: The Legacy of Nostra Aetate
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Hilton-Crystal CD (Level 1)
Thérèse Martine Andrevon Gottstein, Institut Catholique Paris
To What Extent Did the Shoah Really Influence the Redaction of Nostra Aetate § 4?
Adam Gregerman, Saint Joseph's University
Not All Blessings Are Equal: Post-Nostra Aetate Catholic Interpretations of the Biblical Blessings to the Jews and to the Nations
Katharina von Kellenbach, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Nostra Aetate’s Urgent Call to Forget the Past
Christopher Denny, Saint John's University, New York
Religiones Antiquae: Reviving Nostra Aetate to Expand the Scope of Salvation History
Responding:
John T. Pawlikowski, Catholic Theological Union
A22-315
Full Papers Available
Gay Men and Religion Group and Men, Masculinities, and Religion Group and Religion, Sport, and Play Group
Gregory Stevens, Claremont School of Theology, Presiding
Theme: Male Aesthetics and Muscle Gods
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Hyatt-Lenox (Atlanta Conference Level)
Jeffrey F. Keuss, Seattle Pacific University
Crossfit and Muscular Christianity Resurrected
Jason Smith, Vanderbilt University
Foucault for Heisman: Normalizing Power and the "Gym-Built" Amateur Athlete
Scott Strednak Singer, Temple University
From Muscular Christianity to Hard-Body Christianity: The Power Team and the Meaning of Muscle in Sports Evangelism
Jared Vazquez, Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver
When This Boy is Not a Bottom: Effeminate Men and the Failure of Masculine Performances
A22-316
Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Group and Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Group
A Critical Phenomenological Pastoral Theological Method for Responding to Suffering in Ways That Respect Religious Differences
Jonathan Stotts, Vanderbilt University
Homo Religiosus, Homo Proiciendus: Meaning-Making as Projection or Sublimation?
Annhild Tofte Haga, University of Oslo
Dialogues and Conflicts between Images of Jesus and Experiences of Being Oneself in Life Story Narratives: An Example of Dialogical Self Theory as an Analytical Tool in Empirical Research on Images of God
