P19-116
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
Tim Lake, Wabash College and Wabash Center, Presiding
Theme: Faculty of Color Luncheon
Saturday - 12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Convention Center-221D (2nd Level - East)
P19-205
North American Association for the Study of Religion
Theme: Business Meeting
Saturday - 1:00 PM-1:50 PM
Hilton Palacio del Rio-El Mirador C East (Conference Center - 22nd Level)
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A19-200
Tours
Theme: San Antonio River Cruise
Saturday - 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
Offsite
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A19-201
Women and Religion Section and Contemporary Islam Group
Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina, Presiding and Kayla Renée Wheeler, University of Iowa, Presiding
Theme: The Life and Work of Fatema Mernissi: Discussions on Islamic Feminism and Muslim Women’s Activism
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Convention Center-305 (3rd Level)
Panelists:
Souad T. Ali, Arizona State University
Shehnaz Haqqani, University of Texas
Jerusha Lamptey, Union Theological Seminary
Najeeba Syeed-Miller, Claremont School of Theology
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A19-202
Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group
Mary Keller, University of Wyoming, Presiding
Theme: Gender at the Intersection of Religion and Economics: Fair-Trade, Moral Imaginations, and the Queer Potentials of Exchange
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Grand Hyatt-Mission B (2nd Level)
Laurel Zwissler, Central Michigan University
Domestic Economy: Fair-Trade, Religion, and Gendered Intimacies
Christina McRorie, Creighton University
How Feminist Economics Can Improve both the Study of Religion and Religious Reflection
Jeremy Posadas, Austin College
The Refusal of Work: Towards a Queer-Feminist Political Economy
Business Meeting:
Mary Keller, University of Wyoming
Carol White, Bucknell University
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A19-203
Academic Relations Committee
Theodore Trost, University of Alabama, Presiding
Theme: Academic Relations Committee Strategic Planning Meeting
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Goliad (2nd Level)
Panelists:
Yvonne Chireau, Swarthmore College
Edward E. Curtis, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa
Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University
Grant H. Potts, Austin Community College
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A19-204
Employment Workshops
Theme: Introduction to the Online Educational Landscape
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-225B (2nd Level - East)
Panelists:
Amy Hale, Helix Education, Oakland, CA
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A19-205
Student Lounge Roundtable
Theme: Playing the Grant Roulette: When and How to Play the Grant-Game in Higher Education
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-225D (2nd Level - East)
Panelists:
Dustin Benac, Duke University
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A19-206
Women's Caucus
Marcelle Williams, California Institute of Integral Studies, Presiding and Alicia Panganiban, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Melting Boundaries: Sacred Stories from Non-Sacred Sources
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-221A (2nd Level - East)
Marianne Delaporte, Notre Dame de Namur University
Birthing and Breastfeeding: Sacred Stories in Parenting Handbooks
Anjeanette LeBoeuf, Claremont Graduate University
Religion and Empowerment in Young Adult Fiction
Melisa Ortiz Berry, Azusa Pacific University
Winks, Wagers, and Papers: Sacred Moments in Religious Research
Sara Frykenberg, Mount Saint Mary's College
Playing (at) the Sacred: "Journey" and Video Gaming as Sacred Text
Ayat Agah, Claremont Graduate University
"Someone Who is Not Like Anyone": Forough Farrokhzad as a Poet of the Sacred and Self
Responding:
Melinda Bielas, Claremont School of Theology
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A19-207
Philosophy of Religion Section and Comparative Religious Ethics Group
Molly Farneth, Haverford College, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Thomas A. Lewis's Why Philosophy Matters for the Study of Religion—And Vice Versa (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Lone Star A (2nd Level)
Panelists:
Martin Kavka, Florida State University
Nancy Levene, Yale University
Daniel A. Arnold, University of Chicago
Elizabeth Bucar, Northeastern University
Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, Le Moyne College
Neil Arner, University of Notre Dame
Responding:
Thomas A. Lewis, Brown University
Business Meeting:
Jonathan K. Crane, Emory University
Elizabeth Bucar, Northeastern University
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A19-208
Religion and Politics Section
Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis, Presiding
Theme: Reclaiming the Radical Revolutionary: Celebrating the Ten Year Anniversary of Obery Hendricks' The Politics of Jesus (Doubleday, 2006)
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-Stars at Night 4 (3rd Level)
Panelists:
Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University
Jesse Jackson, Operation Push, Chicago, IL
Nyasha Junior, Temple University
Gary Dorrien, Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary
Keri Day, Brite Divinity School
Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University
Responding:
Obery M. Hendricks, Columbia University
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A19-209
Religion in South Asia Section
Michael Slouber, Western Washington University, Presiding
Theme: Garland of Forgotten Goddesses
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-007A (River Level)
Caleb Simmons, University of Arizona
"High" and "Low" Traditions in the Tales of Cāmuṇḍā and Uttanahaḷḷi, Goddesses of Southern Karnataka
Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin
Vāruṇī, Goddess of Spirituous Liquor
Ehud Halperin, Tel Aviv University
(Almost) Forgotten Complexities: The Multiple Origins of the Goddess Hadimba
Noor van Brussel, Ghent University
Bhadrakāḷi in the Backwaters: The Narrative Tradition of the Dārikavadham in Kerala
Responding:
Rachel Fell McDermott, Barnard College
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A19-210
Study of Islam Section
Vincent Cornell, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Shahab Ahmed's What is Islam? (Princeton University Press, 2016): A Conversation
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Republic C (4th Level)
Panelists:
Sarah Eltantawi, Evergreen State College
Zareena Grewal, Yale University
Nathan Hofer, University of Missouri
Matthew Lynch, University of North Carolina
Ebrahim E. I. Moosa, University of Notre Dame
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A19-211
African Diaspora Religions Group
Rachel E. Harding, University of Colorado, Denver, Presiding
Theme: Adorning the Spirit: Clothing, Jewelry, and the Sacred Accouterments of African Diaspora Religions
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham C (3rd Level)
Danielle Clausnitzer, Georgetown University
Adorned by Power: The Individualized Experience of the Mojo Bag
Spencer Dew, Centenary College of Louisiana
"A Person Does Not Become Something Else Just by Changing His Name, but Instead by Changing His Mind": Clothes and Epistemology in the Nuwaubian Movement
Eziaku Nwokocha, University of Pennsylvania
Ad(dress)ing the Spirits: How Clothing Mediates Spiritual Exchange within Haitian Vodou
Funlayo Easter Wood, Harvard University
Glass Beads and Geles: Modes and Meanings of African American Ifa-Orisa Practitioners "Wearing Africa"
Gary Gardiner, University of West Indies
Royal Robes and Crowns: Dress and the Self-Identification of the Bobo Shanti Rastafari
Business Meeting:
Rachel E. Harding, University of Colorado, Denver
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A19-212
Augustine and Augustinianisms Group
Paul R. Kolbet, Yale University, Presiding
Theme: Augustine on the Modalities and Realities of Power
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-302B (3rd Level)
Michael Lamb, Wake Forest University
Rhetoric, Reason, and Republican Liberty: Augustine on the Use and Abuse of Power
Joseph Lenow, University of Virginia
Reading Augustine against White Supremacy: Howard Thurman in 1961
Carsten Card-Hyatt, University of St. Andrews
Augustine, Barth, and the Politics of the Homo Spiritualis
Business Meeting:
Matthew Drever, University of Tulsa
Paul R. Kolbet, Yale University
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A19-213
Cognitive Science of Religion Group and International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion
Robert N. McCauley, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Computer Modeling as a Tool for Religious Studies
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-301C (3rd Level)
Wesley J. Wildman, Boston University
Computer Modeling as a Tool for Religious Studies: Past, Present, and Future
Connor Wood, Boston University
Simulating Shamanism: How Modeling and Simulation Can Help to Formalize Theories from Religious Studies
Justin Lane, Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion
Using Multi-Agent AI to Understand Religious Conversions and Schisms
F. LeRon Shults, Agder University
Modeling Scientific Theories of Religion: Terror Management Theory
Business Meeting:
Claire White, California State University, Northridge
Travis Chilcott, Iowa State University
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A19-214
Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Group
Jamel Velji, Claremont McKenna College, Presiding
Theme: Martyrdom, Apocalypticism, and the State
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-221B (2nd Level - East)
Chase L. Way, Claremont Graduate University
Statesman as Shadow-Prophet: Henry Kissinger and the Imaginal Sacralization of Imperialism
Rachel Wagner, Ithaca College
Gunning for God: Violent Videogames and Contemporary Apocalypticism
Meghan Beddingfield, Princeton Theological Seminary
The Not So Modern Martyrdom of Thelma and Louise: Is Violence Against the Feminized Body Incidental Emancipation or Adopted Objectification
Iselin Frydenlund, University of Oslo
Daughters and Suicide Martyrs: Notions of Asceticism and Militancy Among Sri Lanka’s Hindu and Catholic Female Freedom Fighters
Responding:
Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Moravian College
Business Meeting:
Michael Jerryson, Youngstown State University
Jamel Velji, Claremont McKenna College
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A19-215
Comparative Theology Group and Roman Catholic Studies Group
Bede Bidlack, Saint Anselm College, Presiding
Theme: Comparative Theologies of Creation: Engaging Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-007B (River Level)
Daniel Scheid, Duquesne University
Cosmic Belonging in Catholic and Hindu Theologies of Creation
Thomas Cattoi, Graduate Theological Union
Laudato Si' and a Broader Vision of Reality: Theologies of Purified Vision in Theodore the Studite and Bokar Rinpoche
Jea Sophia Oh, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Pope Francis' Integral Ecology and a Nondualistic Interconnected Cosmology in Catherine Keller and Neo-Confucian Zhang Zai
June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University
A Comparative Eco-Theology of Water: Correspondences between Pope Francis and Native American Cosmologies
Anthony Paul Smith, La Salle University
The Limits of the Common: A Decolonial Reading of Laudato Si'
Responding:
Reid Locklin, University of Toronto
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A19-216
Critical Approaches to Hip-Hop and Religion Group
Jon Gill, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
Theme: T.H.U.G. Luv: After 400 Years of Death, What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham E (3rd Level)
Octavio Carrasco, Union Theological Seminary
"I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto": Tupac and the Religious Praxis of Hip-Hop
Shea Watts, Chicago Theological Seminary
From Yeezus to Pablo: An Existential Theology between God, Black Body, and Being
Robert Peach, Graduate Theological Union
"We Against the World": White Engagement of "Thug Life" as "Thug Luv"
Evan Goldstein, Union Theological Seminary
"Got a Spot for Us All": A Theological Engagement with Tupac Shakur
Alexandra Chambers, Vanderbilt University
The Ride or Die Chick and the Trap(ped) Queen: Black Women and Love in a Time of Mass Incarceration
Responding:
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Shaw University
Business Meeting:
Daniel White Hodge, North Park University
Christopher Driscoll, Rice University
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A19-217
Daoist Studies Group
Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Arizona State University, Presiding
Theme: Copying the Heavens: The Production of Handwritten Manuscripts in Religious Daoism
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Bonham B (3rd Level)
Jonathan Pettit, Purdue University
A New Approach to the Production and Circulation of Early Daoist Manuscripts
Tyler Feezell, Arizona State University
The Real Numinous Officer: An Analysis of Non-Canonical Jiao Liturgical Manuscripts in Religious Daoism
Shu-wei Hsieh, National Cheng-chi University
Daoist Manuscript and Ritual: A Study on the Dipper Ritual in Local Daoism
David Mozina, Boston College
Living Redactions: The Practice of Textual Change in Today’s Thunder Ritual
Responding:
Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University
Business Meeting:
Elena Valussi, Loyola University, Chicago
David Mozina, Boston College
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A19-218
Ecclesial Practices Group and Practical Theology Group
Jonas Idestrom, Church of Sweden Research Unit, Uppsala, Sweden, Presiding
Theme: Action Research as Social and Ecclesial Transformation
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Grand Hyatt-Republic B (4th Level)
Sturla Stålsett, MF - Norwegian School of Theology
Intellectus Amoris, Liberationis: Diaconal Practice and Research as Ecclesiological Embodiment of Revolutionary Love?
Lorraine Cuddeback, University of Notre Dame
When Will It Be Enough? Theoretical Reflections on Accountability and Solidarity in Ethnographic Research
Kristin Ritzau, Claremont School of Theology
The Gift of Subjectivity: Narrative Inquiry and Participant Action Research with Women-Run Faith-Based Farms in the United States
Courtney T. Goto, Boston University
Critically Revising Participatory Action Research Methods in Practical Theology
Responding:
Clare Watkins, University of Roehampton
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A19-219
Ecclesiological Investigations Group
Bradford E. Hinze, Fordham University, Presiding
Theme: Globalization, Sexuality, and the Churches
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-215 (2nd Level - West)
Leanna Fuller, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
One Body, Many Parts: An Ecclesiology for Churches in Conflict
Christopher C. Brittain, University of Aberdeen
Local Anxieties and the Global Dispute over Human Sexuality in the Anglican Communion
Sara Rosenau, Drew University
A Queer Ecclesiology of Failure
JK Melton, Fordham University
Decolonizing Conflicts over Human Sexuality: Examining Sexuality Conflicts in Light of Colonialism
Business Meeting:
Bradford E. Hinze, Fordham University
Mark Chapman, Ripon College, Cuddesdon
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A19-220
Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Group
Ronald S. Cole-Turner, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Enhanced Love and Engineered Spirituality
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-304B (3rd Level)
James E. Helmer, Xavier University
Crazy, Stupid Love? Biochemical Enhancement and the Neuroethics of Solidarity and Altruism
Brett McCarty, Duke University
Against Usefulness: Why Appropriating Disability and Religion for Moral Enhancement Is a Bad Idea
Takeshi Kimura, University of Tsukuba
Spiritual and Symbolic Implication of Robotics
Responding:
Amy Michelle DeBaets, Oakland University
Robert Geraci, Manhattan College
Business Meeting:
Tracy J. Trothen, Queen's University, Kingston
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A19-221
Japanese Religions Group
Mark L. Blum, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding
Theme: Japanese Buddhism and the Fifteen-Year War (1931-1945)
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-301B (3rd Level)
Jeff Schroeder, University of Oregon
Institutional Causes of Buddhist War Support: Shin Ōtani-ha and the Fifteen-Year War (1931-1945)
Micah L. Auerback, University of Michigan
Making and Remaking Indian Buddhist Painting in Wartime Japan
Orion Klautau, Tohoku University
Replacing Persecution: Haibutsu Kishaku in Early Shōwa Historiography
Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University
A Question of Blasphemy: Censorship, Suppression, and Protest in Wartime Nichiren Buddhism
Responding:
Makoto Hayashi, Aichi Gakuin University
Business Meeting:
Asuka Sango, Carleton College
Mark Rowe, McMaster University
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A19-222
Liberation Theologies Group
Hannah Hofheinz, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Revolution, Not Love
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-006D (River Level)
Matthew Palombo, Minneapolis Community and Technical College
Liberation and the War on Terror: Somali Minnesotans and Restorative Justice
Joëlle Morgan, Saint Paul University
"The Stones Cry Out and the Trees Talk": Revolutionary Listening and a Settler Theology
Ashraf Kunnummal, University of Johannesburg
Social Reform as Love or Annihilation of Caste as Revolution? Re-Locating the Islamic Liberation Theology of Asghar Ali Engineer in Indian Context
Sarah Marusek, University of Johannesburg
Neoliberalism in Unexpected Places: The Charities Affiliated with the Islamic Resistance Movement in Lebanon
Ryan R. Gladwin, Palm Beach Atlantic University
The Search for a Nexus between Love and Revolution: Community as a Historical Project
Business Meeting:
Santiago H. Slabodsky, Hofstra University
Hannah Hofheinz, Ecumenical Theological Seminary
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A19-223
Mormon Studies Group
Gina Messina-Dysert, Ursuline College, Presiding
Theme: Blending African Tradition and Mormon Practice: Home-Making, Marriage, and Familial Relationships in Botswana, Rwanda, and Denmark
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-212A (2nd Level - West)
Caroline Kline, Irving, CA
African Women Embracing an American-Born Church: Marriage and Family Relationships in the Oral Narratives of Mormon Women in Botswana
Julie Allen, University of Wisconsin
Negotiating Belief and Belonging: Life Narratives of African LDS Women in Botswana and Denmark
Amy Hoyt, University of the Pacific
Gender-Based Violence in Botswana and Rwanda: Religion, Family, and Reconciliation
Responding:
Melissa Browning, Loyola University, Chicago
Business Meeting:
Colleen McDannell, University of Utah
J. Spencer Fluhman, Brigham Young University
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A19-224
Mysticism Group, Science, Technology, and Religion Group, and Western Esotericism Group
Claire Fanger, Rice University, Presiding
Theme: Esoteric Sciences and Mystical Technologies
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-304A (3rd Level)
Christa Shusko, York College of Pennsylvania
Astrological Eugenics: Eleanor Kirk’s The Influence of the Zodiac Upon Human Life (1894)
Liane Carlson, Princeton University
William James and the Anesthetic Unconscious
Katie Givens Kime, Emory University
Experimental Entanglements: Methodological Innovation in Research on Entheogens and Mystical Experience
Meera Kachroo, McGill University
Tantric Hermeneutics with a Scientific Spin: Srividya and Public Esotericism
Responding:
G. William Barnard, Southern Methodist University
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A19-225
Quaker Studies Group
Jon Kershner, University of Lancaster, Presiding
Theme: Sectarianism, Public Perception, and Contemporary Spirituality in the Religious Society of Friends
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Convention Center-221C (2nd Level - East)
Christopher Allison, Harvard University
Elias Hicks and Commodifying the Body of Inner Light
Isaac Barnes May, University of Virginia
Permitting a Godless Faith: Quakers, U.S. v. Seeger, and the Changing Notion of the Deity in American Law
Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
Purity, Citizenship, and Public Appeal: Towards a New Model of Sectarianism and Worldliness
Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology
Quakerism and the Nones: Contemporary Spirituality, Emergent Religion, and Maintaining Identity without Theology
Responding:
Ann Duncan, Goucher College
Business Meeting:
Jon Kershner, University of Lancaster
Carole Dale Spencer, Earlham College
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