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P16-400
Adventist Society for Religious Studies

Theme: Paper Session I: Adventist Studies
Thursday, 6:30 PM–8:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)
John Brunt, Edmonds Adventist Church
Rescuing Paul from the Reformation?
Mathilde Frey, Walla Walla University
Righteousness by Faith: When Abraham Was Cynical and Righteous at
the Same Time
Eike Mueller, Adventist International Institute of Advanced
Studies
Luther and Antisemitism
Business Meeting:Tarsee Li, Oakwood University, Presiding

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Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Theme: Devotional
Friday, 8:00 AM–8:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)

A17-101
Teaching and Learning Committee Meeting
Friday, 8:00 AM–12:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-AAR Suite
Lerone Martin, Washington University, St. Louis, Presiding

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Anti-Islamophobia Workshop
Theme: Confronting Islamophobia: Equipping Scholars of
Religion to Understand and Challenge Anti-Muslim Bigotry
Friday, 8:00 AM–5:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Jefferson (Third Level)
Todd Green, Luther College, and Homayra Ziad, Institute forIslamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, Presiding
Panelists:
Zareena Grewal, Yale University
Sylvester Johnson, Virginia Tech University
Khalil Abdur Rashid, Harvard University
Josh Seftel, Director and Producer of The Secret Lives of Muslims
Simran Jeet Singh, Trinity University
Najeeba Syeed, Claremont School of Theology
See page 68 for details.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16

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Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Theme: Paper Session II: Biblical Studies and Paper Session III:
Historical Studies
Friday, 8:30 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)
Kevin Burrell, Burman University
Five Hundred Years of Reformation? What Luther’s 95 Theses Did
Not Change in Christendom
Matthew Lucio, Iowa-Missouri Conference of Seventh-Day
Adventists
Luther and Loyola: Spiritual Crisis, Consolation, and Conversion
Nicholas Miller, Andrews University
Martin Luther to Martin Luther King, Jr.: Protestant Roots ofModern Civil Rights
Warren Trenchard, La Sierra University
Five Hundred Years of Reformation: Five Hundred Years of Sola
Scriptura
Michael W. Campbell, Adventist International Institute ofAdvanced Studies
The Perspicuity of Scripture, the Reformation, and Ellen G. White:
Exploring the Meaning and Contours of “Plain Reading” for Seventhday Adventism
Douglas F. Morgan, Washington Adventist University
After Babylon Falls: Adventist Identity and the Radical Reformation
ImpulseAlan Parker, Southern Adventist University
Adventist Millennials’ Perceptions of Traditional Evangelistic
Presentations on the Antichrist
Business Meeting:Tarsee Li, Oakwood University, Presidingx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Friday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM

P17-107
North American Paul Tillich Society
Theme: Creative Justice and ResistanceFriday, 9:00 AM–10:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Olmsted (Fifth Level)

A17-104
International Connections Committee Meeting
Friday, 9:00 AM–3:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Exeter A (Third Level)
Amy L. Allocco, Elon University, Presiding

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Theological Education Workshop

P17-103
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Board Meeting
Friday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Vermont (Fifth Level)

A17-113
Public Understanding of Religion Committee Meeting
Friday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Connecticut (Fifth Level)
Erik Owens, Boston College, Presiding

Theme: Resisting Injustice in the Age of Trump
Friday, 9:00 AM–3:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-312 (Third Level)
Miguel De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver,
Presiding, Presiding
See page 68 for details.
Panelists:
Jacqueline Lewis, Middle Collegiate Church and The Middle
Project
Joerg Rieger, Vanderbilt University
Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMarie Alford-Harkey, Religious Institute, Bridgeport, CT
Jacqueline Hidalgo, Williams College

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A17-100
Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, andQueer Persons in the Profession Committee Meeting
Friday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Rhode Island (Fifth Level)
Kathleen T. Talvacchia, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding

A17-114Comparative Hagiology Workshop
Theme: Cross-cultural Approaches to Religious Life Writings
Friday, 9:00 AM–4:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level)
Massimo Rondolino, Carroll University, Presiding
See page 68 for details.

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A17-107/S17-103

Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession
Committee Meeting
Friday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Orleans (Fourth Level)
Nargis Virani, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding

THATCamp - The Humanities and Technology CampAARSBL2017
Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-208 (Second Level)
Eric Smith, Iliff School of Theology, Michael Hemenway, Iliff Schoolof Theology, and Candace Mixon, University of North Carolina,
PresidingSee page 69 for details.

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
C

Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

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North American Association for the Study of Religion

American Lectures in the History of Religions Committee
Meeting

Theme: Subjects
Friday, 10:00 AM–11:50 AM
Fairmont Copley Place-State Suite A (Lower Lobby Level)

P17-105

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17

P17-104

Friday, 10:30 AM–1:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon C (Third Level)
Louis Ruprecht, Georgia State University, Presiding

A

International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies
Theme: Mochizuki’s Doctrinal History of Pure Land Buddhism in
China
Friday, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-103 (Plaza Level)
Kenneth Tanaka, Musashino University, Presiding
All too little known outside circles of specialists working on Japanese
Buddhism, Shinko Mochizuki (1896–1948) is one of the pioneering
giants of modern Buddhist studies. Mochizuki is perhaps bestknown for the encyclopedia of Buddhism (Bukkyō daijiten, 1933, 10
vols.) that he edited, and which is still in print today. The work being
featured in this panel discussion, Pure Land Buddhism in China: A
Doctrinal History (tr. Leo Pruden, ed. Richard K. Payne and Natalie
Quli; Chūgoku Jōdo kyōrishi, published in 1942), was based on alengthy series of lectures he gave on the history, thought and practiceof Pure Land Buddhism in China. The work remains a resource forJapanese Pure Land Buddhist scholarship, and has now been madeavailable in English translation. In order to bring this publication up
to date, the translation has been complemented by a second volume offour supplemental essays—a biographical study of Mochizuki (DanielGetz), and bibliographical essays on scholarship since Mochizuki’s
publication in Chinese (Charles B. Jones), Japanese (Mark L. Blum),and English (Scott A. Mitchell). These four contributors will discuss
the importance and value of Mochizuki’s work, and its continuing
relevance for Pure Land Buddhist studies.
Panelists:
Daniel A. Getz, Bradley University
Charles B. Jones, Catholic University of America
Mark L. Blum, University of California, Berkeley
Scott Mitchell, Institute of Buddhist Studies

P17-108
Polanyi Society

A17-112Q

Museum of African American History, MLK Archive andMarsh Chapel Tour
Friday, 11:00 AM–4:00 PM
Offsite-Meet at the Registration Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD in
the Convention Center
See page 9 for details.

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Religion and Media Workshop
Theme: Between Fake News and Natural Media
Friday, 11:00 AM–6:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level)
M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University, Ann M. Burlein, Hofstra
University, Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston, and Elliott
Bazzano, Le Moyne College, Presiding
See page 69 for details.
Panelists:
John Durham Peters, Yale University
Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado
Deborah Whitehead, University of Colorado

P17-106
Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Theme: Business Session III
Friday, 11:30 AM–12:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)
Tarsee Li, Oakwood University, Presiding

Theme: Polanyian Perspectives: New Voices
Friday, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Falmouth (Fourth Level)
Thomas Lynn, Cincinnati, OH
Biological Reductionism: Its Limitations, Its Liabilities: Recalling
Michael Polanyi
Matthew Elmore, Duke University
Tacita Scientia: Reading Aquinas with Michael Polanyi
Martin Beddeleem, University of Montreal
Michael Polanyi: Pivotal Figure of Early Neoliberalism

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P17-109
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology andReligion
Theme: How Learning Works: Research on Learning as a Resource
for Teaching Theology and Religion
Friday, 12:00 PM–5:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-107 (Plaza Level)
What if we designed courses and teaching activities in theology
and religion based on how people actually learn? Recent advancesin cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and other areas ofeducational research provide exciting new clues into the processes
by which learning takes place. But busy teachers often lack timeto engage in extensive study of contemporary learning theory
to inform their teaching. In this 5-hour workshop, participants
will be introduced to a framework of seven principles of learningthat research has shown can enhance learning in significant ways.
Participants then will have the opportunity to work in-depth with one
or more of these principles in relation to a course they teach. We will
explore strategies for teaching; share expertise and provide feedback
on learning-based teaching practices; and consider the particular,
subject-specific implications such understandings of learning may
have for the teaching of theology and religion.
We will begin with a buffet lunch at noon, and conclude with areception for participants ending at 5:30. Participants will be asked
to read, before the workshop, one chapter that will be provided by the
Wabash Center. Space is limited. Pre-registration is required. Send
an email to Beth Reffett, reffettb@wabash.edu. Registration deadline
is November 1. For additional information, see: http://wabashcenter.
wabash.edu/programs/2017-pre-conference-workshop.
Panelists:
Jeremy Posadas, Austin College
Joyce Ann Mercer, Yale University

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A17-111

Status of Women in the Profession Committee Meeting
Friday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Franklin (Fifth Level)
Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University, PresidingA

P17-242
North American Paul Tillich Society

Theme: Book Review: Prophetic Interruptions by Bryan WagonerFriday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Clarendon (Third Level)
Bryan Wagoner, Davis and Elkins College, Presiding
Responding:Ronald Stone, Carnegie Mellon University
Russell Re Manning, Bath Spa University
Christian Danz, Universität Wien

P17-230
North American Association for the Study of Religion
Theme: Objects
Friday, 1:00 PM–2:50 PM
Fairmont Copley Place-State Suite A (Lower Lobby Level)

P17-231
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Board Meeting
Friday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Vermont (Fifth Level)

Museum of African American History, MLK Archive andMarsh Chapel Tour

A17-200

Friday, 12:30 PM–5:30 PM
Offsite-Meet at the Registration Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD in
the Convention Center
See page 9 for details.

Friday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
Bhakti Mamtora, University of Florida, Presiding

Graduate Student Committee Meeting

A17-210
Regional Coordinators Meeting
Friday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Orleans (Fourth Level)
Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
C

Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

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Responding:Nancy Ammerman, Boston University

Theme: The Patristic Foundations of the Reformed-Orthodox
Ecumenical Dialogue
Friday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-109 (Plaza Level)
Thomas A. Noble, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Presiding
Building upon his book, Thomas F. Torrance and the Church
Fathers (Wipf & Stock, 2014), Jason Radcliff ’s paper will offer an
introduction, critical assessment, and constructive extension of theReformed-Orthodox Dialogue spearheaded by T. F. Torrance in thelate 1980s. It will explore in particular how the Dialogue’s ecumenicaluse and creative interpretation of the Trinitarian and Christocentric
theology of the Church Fathers has much to offer contemporary
Trinitarian theology. For more information go to www.tftorrance.org.
1:00 PM - Business Meeting for all members
1:40 PM - Lecture
2:45 PM - Question and Answer
Panelists:
Jason Radcliff, University of Edinburgh

P17-241
Harvard Religious Literacy Project and American Academyof Religion
Theme: FBI and Religion Scholars: Reflecting on the Past 25 Years
Friday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Offsite-Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave, Sperry Room,
Andover Hall 116
Philip Heymann, Harvard University, Presiding
In the years following the 1993 confrontation between the FBI anda religious community called the Branch Davidians, religion scholars
have occasionally offered the FBI advice regarding dissident religious
groups who are less commonly well-understood and who come into
conflict with law enforcement. The American Academy of Religion
has served as an interlocutor for the Critical Incident ResponseGroup and has also established a relationship with the FBI Academy
through its National Academy. The mutual hope of religion scholars
and the FBI officials with whom they have interacted has been that
consultation might lead to better outcomes than occurred with the
Branch Davidians. This panel will reflect on the interaction between
religion scholars and law enforcement officials over the past 25 years
and what may be learned from that experience to inform interaction
going forward.
Welcoming remarks will be provided by Diane L. Moore, Directorof the Religious Literacy Project, Harvard Divinity School. Afterthe panelists speak, there will be time for the panel to respond toquestions from the audience.
Panelists:
Eileen Barker, London School of Economics and Political Science
Michael Barkun, Syracuse University
David T. Resch, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Robin Montgomery, Brookfield, CT
Steven Weitzman, University of Pennsylvania
Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College
Gregory B. Saathoff, University of Virginia

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Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship#womanists@aar

Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit
Theme: Womanist Consultation
Friday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-101 (Plaza Level)

A17-201

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Brand You: Creating Your Own Brand for Academic
Survival Workshop
Friday, 1:00 PM–4:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-108 (Plaza Level)
Paula L. McGee, Memphis Theological Seminary, Presiding
See page 69 for details.

A17-202

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Ethnography and Theology Workshop
Theme: The Use of Ethnography for Theological Research
Friday, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-313 (Third Level)
Natalie Wigg-Stevenson, University of Toronto, Jonas Ideström,
Church of Sweden Research Unit, Uppsala, Sweden, Christian A.
B. Scharen, Auburn Theological Seminary, and Mary McClintock
Fulkerson, Duke University, Presiding
See page 70 for details.
Panelists:
Angela Cowser, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Tone Stangeland Kaufman, MF Norwegian School of Theology
Karen Kilby, University of DurhamPeter Ward, MF Norwegian School of Theology

A17-203

K

Academic Relations Committee Leadership Workshop
Theme: Digital Media and Communications
Friday, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-309 (Third Level)
Theodore Trost, University of Alabama, Rosalind I. J. Hackett,University of Tennessee, and Joanne Maguire Robinson, Universityof North Carolina, Charlotte, Presiding
See page 70 for details.
Panelists:
Jeremy Hughes, University of Tennessee
Responding:
Rebekka King, Middle Tennessee State University
Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University
Brian M. Britt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University

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A17-206

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17

Teaching Religion and Disability Studies Workshop
Theme: Engaging Curriculum and Pedagogy with Intersectionality
and Communities
Friday, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-102 (Plaza Level)
Kirk VanGilder, Gallaudet University, Nicholas Shrubsole, Universityof Central Florida, and Raedorah Stewart, Wesley TheologicalSeminary, Presiding
See page 70 for details.
Panelists:
Mary Jo Iozzio, Boston College

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A17-205
Boston City Tour

Friday, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM
Offsite-Meet at the Registration Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD in
the Convention Center
See page 9 for details.

P17-233
Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Theme: Paper Session IV: Theological Studies
Friday, 1:30 PM–3:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)
Zdravko Zack Plantak, Loma Linda University, Presiding
Adelina Alexe, Andrews Theological Seminary
Subjectivity in Hermeneutics: Moving beyond Misunderstanding,Misuse, and Abuse
Jason Hines, Adventist University of Health Sciences
The Question of Slavery and the Principle of Sola Scriptura
Richard Rice, Loma Linda University
Assurance and Its Aftermath: The Reformation and Divine
DeterminismCharles Scriven, Adventist Forum
The World as Moral Responsibility: Calvin Light on Reading—and
Misreading—the Bible

Women’s Caucus
Theme: Gathering and Workshop on Resilience and Vulnerability
in Transforming Lives and Scholarship
Friday, 1:30 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-305 (Third Level)
Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College, Presiding
Come enjoy the camaraderie of the Women’s Caucus and networkwith other scholars. Learn about the Women’s Caucus and join inthis workshop-style session as we engage the 2017 AAR conference
theme, Religion and the Most Vulnerable with the Women’s Caucus
theme of Resilience. Come participate and join in this exciting
conversation as we reflect on how we engage topics of vulnerability
and resilience both in our scholarship and in our personal andprofessional lives. Share your ideas on how we might offer pathways
towards resilience and care for the most vulnerable in our society
within classroom settings and in our pedagogies in our endeavor tocatalyze transformations in peoples lives and in our scholarship.
Panelists:
Alicia Panganiban, Princeton Theological Seminary

P17-244
Polanyi Society Board of Directors Meeting
Friday, 1:30 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Boardroom (Third Level)K

A17-207
The Public Scholars Project Workshop

Theme: Practical Skills for the Public Scholar
Friday, 2:00 PM–5:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay D (Second Level)
Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds, Presiding and BenjaminMarcus, Newseum Institute Religious Freedom Centre, Washington
DC, Presiding
Co-sponsored by the AAR Committee on the Public Understandingof Religion and the Newseum Institute Religious Freedom Center
See page 71 for details.
Liz Kineke, CBS Religion & Culture
How to Respond to Requests for Information from Journalists
Vanessa Zoltan, Harvard University
Learning How to Speak for Camera and Radio
Simran Jeet Singh, Trinity University
The Effective Use of Social Media

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
C

Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

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International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies
Theme: Shinran in the Light of Heidegger and Levinas
Friday, 2:00 PM–5:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-103 (Plaza Level)
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University, Presiding
This panel presents work in an ongoing project jointly sponsoredby the Institute of Buddhist Studies and the Ryukoku University
Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures. The project seeks to
explore resources in recent continental philosophy for illuminating
Shinran’s Pure Land Buddhist path, focusing on the thoughtof Heidegger and Levinas. The panelists will present papers
treating a variety of philosophical themes and issues that suggest
resonances with aspects of Shinran’s thought — such as non-willfulcomportment, attunement, and dwelling in the philosophy ofHeidegger and conscience, incapacity, and the Other in Levinas.
The expectation is that probing such resonances will both cast fresh
light on the implications of current philosophical topics and further
suggest paths toward developing cogent and compelling contemporary
understandings of Shinran’s thought.
Bret W. Davis, Loyola University, Maryland
Gelassenheit and the Entrusting Heart: Toward a Dialogue between
Heidegger and ShinranJames Fredericks, Loyola Marymount University
Shinran and Attunement (Bestimmtheit)
Ryan Coyne, University of Chicago“This Burning House”: Heidegger, Shinran, and the Meaning ofLicensed EvilCharles Hallisey, Harvard University
On the Sources of Morality: Reading Shinran with Jankelevitch andLevinasLeah Kalmanson, Drake University
The (Non-)Practice of Not-Directing-Merit: Levinas, Shinran, andthe Impossibility of Doing Good
Dennis Hirota, Ryukoku University
Shinran and Heidegger on Dwelling
Responding:
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University

P17-235
International Bonhoeffer Society Board of Directors
Meeting
Friday, 2:00 PM–5:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon F (Third Level)

P17-245A

Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17

Susan B. Thistlethwaite, Chicago Theological Seminary
Writing for the Internet
Evan Berry, American University
Bridging the Gap between Policy and Academic Research

Theme: The Legacy and Challenges of Raimon Panikkar
Friday, 2:00 PM–7:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Massachusetts (Fifth Level)
Raimon Panikkar (1918–2010), a self-described Buddhist-ChristianHindu, has been widely acknowledged as one of the most influential
religious thinkers of the twentieth century. To celebrate Panikkar’s
legacy and examine his challenges for religious studies and theology,
the Lutterworth Press (Cambridge, UK) is bringing out a volume,
Raimon Panikkar: A Companion, edited by Peter C. Phan and Youngchan Ro, with fifteen essays on various aspects of Panikkar’s thought.
At this session the participants will respond to other than one’s own
essays. The purpose of the session is for the contributors (and theaudience) to learn more about Panikkar beyond the areas of one’s
own expertise. The session also includes other presenters than thosecontributors to the forthcoming book.
Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles
Raimon Panikkar as a Christian Thinker: An Appreciation
Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University
Raimon Panikkar and the Silence of the Buddha
Jyri Komulainen, University of Helsinki
Panikkar the Dialogical Man: Religion and Religions
Abraham Velez de Cea, Eastern Kentucky University
Hermeneutics, Myth, Symbol, Religious Language
Young-chan Ro, George Mason University
Mysticism and Spirituality in Raimon Panikkar
Leo Lefebure, Georgetown University
Who’s Is Playing with Whom? The Many Dwelling Places of Wisdomin the Theology of Raimon Panikkar
Anselm Min, Claremont Graduate University
The Trinity and the Cosmotheandric Vision: Reflections on Panikkar’s
Intercultural Theology
Roberta Cappellini, Florence, Italy
Gender and Sexuality in Raimon Panikkar’s VisionFred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame
Sacred Secularity and Prophetism: A Tension in Panikkar’s Work?
Peter C. Phan, Georgetown University
Raimon Panikkar’s “Eschatology”: The Unpublished Chapter
Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University
An Epilogue, After Panikkar
Erik Ranstrom, Rosemont College
Raimon Panikkar and the Contemplative Life: Lessons for a Spiritual
Director in the Ignatian Tradition
Mark Banas, Georgia State University
Panikkar at the Movies: Examples of Myth and Logos in Film
Seungchul Kim, Nanzan University
Venture in the Forest: Reading and Translating Raimon Panikkar

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Religion and Ecology Workshop

Theme: Integrating Ecology and JusticeFriday, 2:30 PM–5:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-311 (Third Level)
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University, and John A. Grim, Yale
University, Presiding
See page 71 for details.
Panelists:
Willie J. Jennings, Yale University
Jace Weaver, University of Georgia
Heup Young Kim, Korea Forum for Life and Science
Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary,
Graduate Theological Union
Frederique Apffel- Marglin, Smith College
Grove Harris, Temple of Understanding
Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University
Erin Lothes, College of Saint Elizabeth

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Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Theme: Business Session IV
Friday, 3:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)
Tarsee Li, Oakwood University, Presiding

P17-237
North American Association for the Study of Religion
Theme: Scholars
Friday, 3:00 PM–4:50 PM
Fairmont Copley Place-State Suite A (Lower Lobby Level)

Evangelical Philosophical Society
Theme: Human Flourishing: Biblical, Theological andPhilosophical Issues
Friday, 3:00 PM–6:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Olmsted (Fifth Level)
Chris Armstrong, Wheaton College, Presiding
Marc Cortez, Wheaton College
How are the “Natural” and “Spiritual” Telos of the Human Person
Interrelated: Biblical Contours on FlourishingDavid Horner, Biola University
Human Flourishing in Ancient and Medieval Thought
Greg Forster, Trinity International University
Contested Visions of Flourishing: The Challenge of Pluralism
Responding:Jay Wood, Wheaton College

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Teaching Hinduism Workshop

Theme: Teaching Tales: Narrative and Pedagogy in the Hindu
Studies Classroom
Friday, 3:30 PM–6:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-207 (Second Level)
Arti Dhand, University of Toronto, Presiding
See page 71 for details.
Steven Lindquist, Southern Methodist University
Teaching Stories about Teaching Self: 8SDQLΙDGLF Narrative in theClassroom
Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University
Teaching Hinduism with Mahābhārata Dialogues: Intertextuality
and Thematic Continuity in Divine/Human Encounters
Vishwa Adluri, City University of New YorkRe-imagining the Mahābhārata: A Report from the Kochi-Muziris
Biennale
Joydeep Bagchee, University of Munich
Myth and History: Teaching Hinduism through Narratives
Elizabeth Mary Rohlman, University of Calgary
The Dynamic Canon of the Puranas and the Ethnography of theClassroom
Raj Balkaran, University of Toronto
How the Goddess Teaches Hinduism: Decoding Divergent Boons
Jeffrey Brackett, Ball State University
Translation, Transcreation, and Tukaram
Shana Sippy, Carleton College
Stories to Grow on: Shaping Hindu Subjects and Morals throughNarrative Pedagogy in the Hindu Diaspora

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Adventist Society for Religious Studies

Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies

Theme: Sectional Meetings
Friday, 3:30 PM–4:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)
Martin Hanna, Andrews University
Christian Theology and History
Erhard Gallos, Andrews University
New Testament
Alden Thompson, Walla Walla University
Old Testament
Zane Yi, Loma Linda University, and Timothy Golden, Walla
Walla University
Philosophy and Ethics
Ernest Furness, Southeastern California Conference of SeventhDay Adventists
Practical Theology
Paul Dybdahl, Walla Walla University
World Religions/Missiology

Theme: What Buddhists and Christians Can Learn from Muslims
Friday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-New Hampshire (Fifth Level)
In the current climate, constructive interreligious dialogue with Islam
is a critical task for both Buddhism and Christianity. In this panel,several different examples of either Buddhist or Christian engagementwith Islam are described, including the positive outcomes of theengagement. Two Muslim scholars offer a response and suggestions
for further dialogue.
Glenn Willis, Misericordia University
Tawhid and Surrender: Islamic Challenges for Buddhist Modernism
John Sheveland, Gonzaga University
Radicalization and Mercy: Christian Theological Learning from theOpen Letter to al-Baghdadi
Kunihiko Terasawa, Wartburg College
A Buddhist Fascination with Islamic Mysticism: In Case of ToshihikoIzutsu ੩࿞෥಻ and Ibn Arabi
Responding:Bahar Davary, University of San Diego
Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University

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Karl Barth Society of North America
Theme: Karl Barth and the Reformation
Friday, 3:30 PM–6:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level)
Michael J. Root, Catholic University of America
Barth, the Reformation, and Roman Catholic Theology Today
Christoph Schwöbel, University of Tübingen
Karl Barth and Martin Luther

Friday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM

P17-310
International Association for the Cognitive Science ofReligion
Theme: The Importance of History and Psychology when Applying
Theoretical Models in CSR: Bridging the Gap between Cognitive
Historiography and Experimental Psychology
Friday, 4:00 PM–5:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Arnold Arboretum (Fifth Level)
In this session, scholars from different disciplines who teach the
Cognitive Science of Religion discuss how they teach it and provide
advice for others.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17

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P17-312Society of Christian Philosophers
Theme: Neglected Conceptions of Faith
Friday, 4:00 PM–7:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Adams (Seventh Level)
Andrew Chignell, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding
Teresa Morgan, Oxford University
Celsus, Origen, and the Evolutions of Faith
Dennis Lindsay, Northwest Christian University“Moses’ Faith” in Josephus and the New Testament
Dan McKaughan, Boston College, and Michael Pace, Chapman
University
Judeo-Christian Faith as Loyalty and Trust
Responding:Daniel Howard-Snyder, Western Washington University

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Polanyi Society
Theme: Polanyian Perspectives
Friday, 4:00 PM–7:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Boston Common (Fifth Level)
Jon Fennell, Hillsdale University
Can Alasdair MacIntyre Relieve Grene’s Polanyian Regret?
Charles Lowney, Hollins University
Should We Be Pluralists or Emergentists?
Esther Meek, Geneva College
Contact with Reality: Then and Now
There will be a business meeting at 6:45 PM.

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Religious Literacy College-Wide Project Planning Meeting
Friday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty C (Second Level)GA17-300

Department Chairs’ and Program Coordinators’ Reception
Friday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-AAR Suite
The Academic Relations Committee invites leaders in departments
to a social gathering on the eve of the annual conference. Come join
us: learn about the work of the Committee; suggest future program
initiatives; and meet colleagues from across the country and aroundthe world.

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Feminist Studies in Religion Boards Pre-Conference/Forum
Friday, 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Helicon (Seventh Level)

A17-403
Status of LGBTIQ Persons, People with Disabilities,
Racial and Ethnic Minorities, and Women in the Profession
Committees Joint Meeting
Friday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-203
Kecia Ali, Boston University, Presiding

Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
Theme: Reform and Reformers in Hindu-Christian Perspective
Friday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Essex Center (Third Level)
Reid Locklin, University of Toronto, Presiding
2017 marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s (1483–1546)
Theses and the genesis of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. In
commemoration of this event, this panel will explore the categories
of “Reform” and “Reformers” in the context of Hindu-ChristianStudies, by examining specific comparative cases in South Asia, fromthe sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The respondent will draw thecase studies into conversation with one another and with key points ofLuther’s theology.
Jon Keune, Michigan State University
Religious Reformers as Agents of Social Change? A Comparative
Historical View of Eknath’s and Luther’s Interpreters
J. Barton Scott, University of Toronto
The Victorian Luther: How the British in India Reimagined theReformation
Srilata Raman, University of Toronto
The Wandering Bottle Gourd Guru: Post-sectarian Reformations andDalit Charisma in Nineteenth–Twentieth Century South India
Anant Rambachan, Saint Olaf College
B. R. Ambedkar and Hindu Reformations: Caste, Liberty, and
Democracy
Responding:
Kristin Johnston Largen, Gettysburg SeminaryG

P17-412
Søren Kierkegaard Society Banquet

Friday, 7:00 PM–10:00 PM
Offsite-St. Botolph Club, 199 Commonwealth Ave
The cost is $54, or $65 with wine. For graduate students and recent
PhDs seeking full-time employment, the cost is $21, or $27 withwine. Advance reservations are required. Please contact Carl Hughes(chughes@tlu.edu) with questions.
George Connell, Concordia College
Kierkegaard and the Spatial Turn

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Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies

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Film: Yemanjá: Wisdom from the African Heart of Brazil
Friday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Constitution (Second Level)
Rachel E. Harding, University of Colorado, Denver, Presiding
Yemanjá: Wisdom from the African Heart of Brazil, is a documentary
film that examines the indigenous values of the Afro-Brazilian
religion Candomblé, through the voices of four elder spiritualmothers. Women are at the apex of leadership in many of theoldest and most traditional ritual communities in this tradition.
Yemanjá centers their visions and wisdom as it explores intersectionsof African-based religious practice with issues of environmental
ethics, racial justice, healing and religious tolerance in contemporary
Brazil. The title, Yemanjá, honors the Yoruba/Brazilian Goddess ofthe oceans, the sacred mothering energy of Candomblé. Narrated
by Pulitzer-prize winning author Alice Walker, the film explores
the philosophical legacy of Africans enslaved in Brazil. Yemanjá
powerfully compels viewers to reconsider relationships with thenatural world and with each other as members of the humancommunity. This film relates to the African Diaspora Religions unit’s
theme, “Medicine and Mothering in African Diaspora Religions.”
Panelists:
Donna Roberts, FilmmakerA17-401

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Film: Get Out

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Theme: You, Darkness From Which I Come: A Performanceand Discussion of a Contemporary Musical Setting of New
Translations of Rilke’s Poems
Friday, 7:30 PM–9:00 PM
Offsite-Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Mary Lyon Hall
Delvyn Case, Wheaton College, and Mark S. Burrows, Protestant
University of Applied Sciences, Presiding
The musical portion will be performed by Margot Rood, soprano, andBrady Millican on the piano. This event is free and open to the public
and will be followed by refreshments.
Responding:Andrew Shenton, Boston University

Panelists:
Sudhakshina Rangaswami, Fort Washington, PA
Catherine Cornille, Boston College
Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los AngelesPeter Kovach, Bethesda, MD
Nadya Pohran, University of Cambridge
Responding:
Fabrice Blée, Saint Paul University

Friday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level)
Get Out is a 2017 American horror film written, produced anddirected by Jordan Peele. The film follows a young interracial couple
who visit the mysterious estate of the woman’s parents.

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P17-411Feminist Studies in Religion Boards Reception
Friday, 8:30 PM–10:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-Helicon (Seventh Level)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

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Yoga Class
Saturday, 7:00 AM–8:00 AM
Westin Copley Place-Empire (Seventh Level)
Join us for a 50-minute energizing and wakening yoga class,appropriate to all levels of practitioners. Fun flow will incorporate
the whole body — stretching into the legs, releasing tension in theshoulders, opening up the heart with some gentle back bending.
All with a great playlist to get you ready for the day. Towels will be
provided. Please wear comfortable clothing. The cost for yoga is $25.

P18-5

Film: Dawn of the Abyss: The Spiritual Birth of Swamiji

Society for Hindu-Christian Studies Board Meeting

Friday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)
Christian Hackbarth-Johnson, University of Salzburg, Presiding
The unique life of Henri Le Saux/Swami Abhishiktananda reveals
the spiritual dynamism which lies in the encounter of Christianitywith Hindu mysticism. Can this dynamism be brought into a film
and speak to a public more than forty years after the depicted events?
What is the legacy of Abhishiktananda for our time of globalizationand new policies of national and religious identity? What can be therole of mysticism, whether monastic or not monastic, today? Watch
the trailer for the film at http://english.solarsproductions.com/.

Saturday, 7:30 AM–8:30 AM
Westin Copley Place-St. George A-B (Third Level)
Michelle Voss Roberts, Wake Forest University, Presiding

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New Members’ Breakfast and Annual Meeting Orientation
Saturday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM
Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level)
Jack Fitzmier, American Academy of Religion, and Eddie S. Glaude,Princeton University, Presidingx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Regional Officers’ Breakfast
Saturday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM
Hynes Convention Center-301 (Third Level)
Elizabeth Hardcastle, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
By invitation only. The AAR is happy to provide this opportunity
for officers in the AAR’s ten regions to network with one anotherand to hear reports from AAR staff about AAR Board actions anddeliberations and regional initiatives being undertaken by the AAR.

P18-6
Feminist Studies in Religion
Theme: EFSR Board Meeting
Saturday, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Maine (Fifth Level)

Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM

P18-110European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism
Theme: Esotericism in Non-Western Cultures? Critical
Assessment of Buddhist and Islamic Esotericism
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Fairmont Copley Place-Copley Room (Lobby Level)

P18-111
Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Theme: Paper Session V: The Promise of Adventism
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)
Mindy Bielas, Claremont School of Theology
Stop Sacrificing our Daughters: An Analysis of Sexism in Adventist
Education
Zdravko Zack Plantak, Loma Linda University
Does Adventism Inspire Young Adventists?

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Graduate Student Committee
Theme: Religious Scholars as Humanitarians: Publications,
Pedagogies, and the Protection of the Most Vulnerable
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level)
Chase L. Way, Claremont Graduate University, and Bhakti Mamtora,
University of Florida, Presiding
This panel debates the ethical obligations that scholars of religion owe
to the most vulnerable members of global society, particularly in thewake of the 2016 US presidential election. Through a combinationof presentations and workshop activities, it will provide a safe
space in which junior and senior scholars can explore how theymight develop their academic careers while simultaneously making
meaningful contributions to the pursuit of social justice. The featured
speakers of this panel work on a diverse range of topics at the nexusof humanitarian and scholarly work, including the advancement of
non-human animal rights, the lived experience of Muslim feminists,
and the creation of public humanities projects that weave together
knowledge about faith, the environment, and social equality foreducational purposes.
Brianne Donaldson, Rice University
Religious Studies and Ethical Curiosity: Class Projects That Reveal
Unseen Stories in a Midwest Slaughterhouse Town
Nayawiyyah Muhammad, Claremont Graduate University
The Women’s Mosque of America and Social Justice in American
MosquesA. Whitney Sanford, University of Florida
Sacred Waters, Contested Histories, and the Public Good in theAmerican South
Responding:
Greg Johnson, University of Colorado

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Anthropology of Religion Unit

Theme: Vulnerability and Reciprocity in the Fieldwork Encounter
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level)
James Bielo, Miami University, Presiding
Gwendolyn Gillson, University of Iowa
Buddhist Ritual against Vulnerability: Japanese Women’s Use of Pure
Land Ritual to Create the Emotional Basis of Social Bonds
Kristin Bloomer, Carleton College
Ethnography Over Time: Vulnerable Subjects
James Edmonds, Arizona State University
Flipping the Ethnographic Gaze: Illuminating the Importance ofBeliefSymbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
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Jason Ellsworth, Dalhousie University“Rolls of Love”: Food Insecurity, Vulnerable Populations, and Buddhist
Food Programs
Jessica Johnson, University of Washington
Vulnerabilities of Encounter: Religion, Ethnography, AffectResponding:Mary Keller, University of Wyoming
Business Meeting:
Laurel Zwissler, Central Michigan University, and James Bielo,
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Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit
Theme: Theopoetics and Poetic Religion
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick B (Second Level)
Zhange Ni, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Presiding
Regina Walton, Harvard University
What is Twenty-First Century Devotional Poetry? An Exploration in
Three Parts
Caleb Murray, Brown University
Allen’s Lamentation: Religion, Resistance, and the Poetics of Madness
Shawn Fawson, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver
Passionately Pursuing the Real: Conveying the Sacred throughContemporary Poetry
Heather R. Martin, Principia College
Jack Clemo’s Theopoetics: A Call to Community from the Margins
Gloria Maité Hernández, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
Discalced Carmelite Theopoetics
Business Meeting:
Yolanda Pierce, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding

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Augustine and Augustinianisms Unit
Theme: Augustine on Exile and Migration
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-101 (Plaza Level)
Matthew Drever, University of Tulsa, Presiding
Sean Hannan, MacEwan University
Tempus Refugit: Reimagining Pilgrimage as Migrancy in Augustine’s
City of God
Kevin Grove, University of Notre Dame
Exercises in Wayfaring: Augustine’s Expositions of the Psalms ofAscent as Communal Explorations of Exile and Migration
Joseph Lenow, University of VirginiaInterstitial Homiletics: Augustine’s Sermo Dolbeau 26 in Postcolonial
Perspective
Matthew Elia, Duke University
The Wanderer in Exile and the Fugitive Slave: Two Models of
Citizenship for Augustinian Politics

A18-104

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Black Theology Unit and Theology and Religious Reflections
Unit
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Josef Sorett’s Spirit in the Dark:
A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics (Oxford University Press,
2016)
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-111 (Plaza Level)
Adam Clark, Xavier University, Presiding
Panelists:
Ashon Crawley, University of California, Riverside
Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University
Bryan Massingale, Marquette University
Carol B. Duncan, Wilfrid Laurier University
Monica A. Coleman, Claremont School of Theology
Responding:Josef Sorett, Columbia University

A18-105

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

A18-102

Responding:Sarah Stewart-Kroeker, University of Geneva
Business Meeting:
Paul R. Kolbet, Yale University, Presiding

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Body and Religion Unit
Theme: The Spatiality and Instrumentality of the Body
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level)
George Pati, Valparaiso University, Presiding
Michael Raposa, Lehigh University
The Body as Instrument of Attention in Martial Spirituality
Matthew Robertson, Florida State University
Autophagous Bliss: The Obliteration of Spatiality in the Bodily
Philosophies of Georges Bataille and the Taittirīya Upanishad
Jessica Wong, Azusa Pacific University
Discerning the Body: Spiritual Economy and Social Locations ofPower in the Modern Conception of RaceK. Christine Pae, Denison University
Prostituted, Militarized, Racialized, and Colonized Bodies: U.S.
Military Prostitution in South Korea as a Site of Spiritual Activism
Responding:Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University, Chicago
Business Meeting:George Pati, Valparaiso University, and Kevin Schilbrack,
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Cultural History of the Study of Religion Unit

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Buddhism Unit
Theme: Poetic Turns in Buddhist Literature
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Grand D (Fourth Level)
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University, Presiding
Julie Regan, La Salle University
An Early Buddhist Theory of Poetics as a Path to Awakening
Sonam Kachru, University of Virginia
Of Poets, Their Lies, and the Savage Fruits Thereof: Four Brief
Vignettes on the Imagination in Buddhism
Xi He, Appalachian State University
Buddhists and Sanskrit Prose Literature during the Early Centuries
CE
Nancy Lin, Vanderbilt University
Promiscuous Bodies of Knowledge: Poetics at the Fifth Dalai Lama’s
Court
Responding:Charles Hallisey, Harvard University

A18-107
Comparative Studies in Religion Unit
Theme: Embodiment, Place, and Landscape in Buddhist
Traditions
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level)
Ivette Vargas-O’Bryan, Austin College, Presiding
Caleb Carter, Johns Hopkins University
Gendered Topographies in Medieval Japan: Faultlines in the Standard
Narrative
Lindsey E DeWitt, Kyushu University
Rethinking the Religious Landscape of “No-Women-Allowed” Mt.
Ōmine, Japan
Eric Huntington, Princeton University
Disembodied Images: Changing Views on the Materiality of Objects in
Buddhism
Responding:Paula K. R. Arai, Louisiana State University

Theme: Race and the Genealogy of Genealogies
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-MIT (Third Level)
Joseph Blankholm, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Jason Josephson-Storm, Williams College
Foucault, Nietzsche, Genealogy, History, and Race
Terence Keel, University of California, Santa Barbara
A Tradition of Christian Peoplehood
Myrna Sheldon, Ohio University
The Biology of Biopower: Genealogy in the Cultural History of
Religion
Sarah Dees, Northwestern University
American Scholars on Cultural and Religious Evolution
Business Meeting:
J. Barton Scott, University of Toronto, and Elizabeth Ann
Pritchard, Bowdoin College, Presiding

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Daoist Studies Unit

Theme: A Review of Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early
Daoist Communities (Harvard University Press, 2016)
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Fairfax B (Third Level)
Joshua Capitanio, Stanford University, Presiding
Panelists:
Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Arizona State University
Franciscus Verellen, Ecole Francaise d’Extreme-Orient
Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of California, Berkeley
James Robson, Harvard University
Gil Raz, Dartmouth College
Responding:
Terry Kleeman, University of Colorado
Business Meeting:David Mozina, Boston College, and Elena Valussi, Loyola
University, Chicago, Presiding

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Ecclesial Practices Unit and Practical Theology Unit

Hinduism Unit and Women and Religion Unit

Theme: What Is Theology: How, Why, and for Whom?
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Commonwealth (Third Level)
Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke University, Presiding
Panelists:
Natalie Wigg-Stevenson, University of Toronto
Karen Kilby, University of Durham
Tom Beaudoin, Fordham University
Daniel Franklin Pilario, Adamson University

Theme: Reconstructing Authority: Female Gurus Today
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level)
Nancy M. Martin, Chapman University, Presiding
Karen Pechilis, Drew University
The Backstory of Today’s Female Gurus as “Mother”
Cora Gaebel, University of Cologne
From the Hearth to the World: Female Gurus at the Kumbh Mela
István Keul, University of Bergen
The Parsi Guru: Female Leadership in a Transreligious Movement in
Mumbai
Antoinette E. DeNapoli, University of Wyoming
A Female Shankaracarya? The Feminism and Alternative Religious
Leadership of a Female Guru in a North Indian Pilgrimage Town
Responding:Amanda Lucia, University of California, Riverside
Business Meeting:
Timothy Dobe, Grinnell College, and Amanda Lucia, Universityof California, Riverside, Presiding

A18-111
Ethics Unit
Theme: Civic Virtues and Democratic Citizenship
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Adams A (Third Level)
Nichole Flores, University of Virginia, Presiding
Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon, Birmingham-Southern College
The Geopolitics of Virtue
Jesse Perillo, DePaul University
Redemption Requires Recognition: Attending Anger and Incivility
When a Product of Structural InjusticeJoe Pettit, Morgan State University
In Praise of the Boring Political Virtues
Kerry Danner, Georgetown University
Defying the Status Quo: Humility, Hope, and Courage as Necessary
for Civic Virtue of JusticeRosemary Kellison, University of West Georgia
Empathy and the Politics of Virtue

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

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Indian and Chinese Religions Compared Unit
Theme: The Art of Commentary
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-209 (Second Level)
Maria Heim, Amherst College, Presiding
John Makeham, La Trobe University
Strategies Adopted in Commentaries on the Analects
Mark L. Blum, University of California, Berkeley
What’s in a Name? Making Sense of Buddhist Commentary Rubrics
in East Asia
Alexander Hsu, University of Chicago
Anthology as Commentary: Management and Manipulation of Paper
Dharma through Medieval Chinese Buddhist Leishu
Richard Nance, Indiana University
Burdened Donkeys, Unfinished Paintings, and Thieves in the Night:
Vasubandhu on the Challenges of Commentary
David Buchta, Brown University
God and Her Grammarian: Grammatical Justifications in Śantanu’s
Commentary on the Durgāsaptaśatī
Michael Allen, University of Virginia
The Art of Sub-sub-commentary: Prakāśātman on the Nature of
Ignorance
Business Meeting:
Dan Lusthaus, Harvard University, Presidingx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Islam, Gender, Women Unit

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18C

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Theme: Research Methodologies in the Study of Gender, Women,
and Islam
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Riverway (Fifth Level)
Aysha Hidayatullah, University of San Francisco, Presiding
Each table at this session will draw on one of five pre-circulated
papers on a diverse array of periods, places, and topics as a starting
point for a discussion of research methodologies in the study ofgender, women, and feminism in relation to Islam and Muslims.
Each table will bring together the author, a facilitator, and interested
readers. A broader discussion among all participants will finish thesession. Attendees should choose and sign up for one of the five tables
in advance and read the paper for discussion at that table prior to thesession (accessible through the AAR website). Please contact Aysha
Hidayatullah at ahidayatullah@usfca.eduu to obtain access to the signup web form.
Anna Piela, Leeds Trinity University
Videoconferencing as a Tool Facilitating Feminist Interviews with
Muslim Women Who Wear the Niqab
Andrea Stanton, University of Denver, Facilitator
Sa’diyya Shaikh, University of Cape Town
Feminism, Epistemology, and Experience: Critically (En)gendering
the Study of Islam
Homayra Ziad, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish
Studies, Facilitator
Rubina Ramji, Cape Breton University
Second Generation Muslim Women Growing Up In Canada: Creating
and Sustaining a Religious Identity
Zaid Adhami, Williams College, Facilitator
Zahra Ayubi, Dartmouth College
Gendered Metaphysics and Power of the (Hu)man’s Soul in Islamic
EthicsEtin Anwar, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Facilitator
Fareen Parvez, University of Massachusetts
Politicizing Islam: The Islamic Revival in France and India
Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Vassar College, Facilitator
Responding:Danielle Widmann Abraham, Ursinus College
Business Meeting:Justine Howe, Case Western Reserve University, and Aysha
Hidayatullah, University of San Francisco, Presiding

Jain Studies Unit
Theme: Region and Identity in the Study of Jains
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-St. Botolph (Second Level)
Lisa Owen, University of North Texas, Presiding
Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds, and Caroline Starkey,
University of Leeds
Building Jainism in Britain: Diversification and Change among
Contemporary Jain Communities
Anja Pogacnik, University of Edinburgh
Religious Change in Diasporic Jainism: Young Leicester Jains andTheir Conceptualisation of Socio-geographical and Inter-generational
Religious Change
Aleksandra Gordeeva, Yale University$ΧDKLODYƘΕ¸and Kharatara Gaccha Views on Drama: Reflection of theCity Life in Literary Works
Gregory Clines, Harvard University
The Multiple Regions and Multiple Languages of Early Modern
Digambara Literature
Responding:Ellen Gough, Emory University
Business Meeting:
Lisa Owen, University of North Texas, and Steven Vose, Florida
International University, PresidingC

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Liberation Theologies Unit

Theme: Liberating Identities
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-310 (Third Level)
Santiago H. Slabodsky, Hofstra University, Presiding
Nikia Robert, Claremont School of Theology
The Cross, Criminality, and the Carceral State: A Liberation Theology
of Lockdown America
Katie Grimes, Villanova University
Blackness, Class, and Race
Samaneh Oladi, Virginia Commonwealth University
Women’s Sacred Activism: Between Modernity and Tradition
Alexander Abbasi, University of Johannesburg
Beyond Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Decolonial Critique of
Postcolonial Muslim Ontology
Jorge Rodriguez, Union Theological Seminary
The Neoliberal Co-optation of “Identity Politics”: Geopolitical
Situatedness as a Decolonial Alternative

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Jeremy Posadas, Austin College
Beyond “Identity” vs. “Class”: Strategic Classism Built from Insights of
New Working Class Studies and Fraser’s Critical Theory
Business Meeting:
Hannah Hofheinz, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, Presiding

A18-118

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Mysticism Unit

A18-119C

New Religious Movements Unit
Theme: Sex, Scandal, and Extremism: Marginalizing New
American Religions
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Public Garden (Fifth Level)
Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University, Presiding
Joshua Paddison, Texas State University
Dangerous Celibacy: The Fountaingrove Sex Scandal of 1891-1892
Evelyn Sterne, University of Rhode Island“Heaven on Earth” or “Harem Heaven”?: Delegitimizing Michigan’s
House of DavidJames B. Bennett, Santa Clara University
For Faith, Family, and the Future of America: The Rise of the Modern
Anticult Movement and Religious Intolerance in the 1970s
Responding:Sarah M. Pike, California State University, ChicoBusiness Meeting:Jeremy Rapport, College of Wooster, and Megan Goodwin,
Syracuse University, Presiding

Philosophy of Religion Unit
Theme: The Political Worlds of Hannah Arendt
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Northeastern (Third Level)
Oona Eisenstadt, Pomona College, Presiding
David Grumett, University of Edinburgh
Love for the World in Hannah Arendt’s Augustinian Political
Philosophy
Johnathan Kelly, Boston University
Arendt’s Theodicy of the Banality of Evil
Timothy Stanley, University of Newcastle, Australia
Supplementing Arendt
Elijah Prewitt-Davis, Drew University
Alienation and Lost Belief: Arendt and Deleuze on the World
Responding:Anna Bialek, Washington University, St. Louis

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Theme: Definitions on the Edge
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Berkeley (Third Level)
Jason N. Blum, Davidson College, Presiding
Christine Libby, Indiana University
Mystic Assemblages and the Translation of AffectGary Gardiner, University of the West Indies, Open Campus
Restoring the Mystery in Mysticism
Anthony Dupont, University of Leuven
Augustine of Hippo’s Personal Experience and Theoretical
Understanding of Mysticism
Evan Goldstein, Union Theological Seminary“Mysticism,” Judaism, and Orientalism in Graetz and Scholem
Joel Harrison, Northwestern University
Mysticism between Normativity and History: A Reconsideration of
Ernst Troeltsch’s Mystic Type
Business Meeting:
Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida, and Jason N. Blum,Davidson College, Presiding

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Queer Studies in Religion Unit and SBL LBGTI/Queer
Hermeneutics Unit
Theme: Author Meets Critics: The Relevance of Lee Edelman’s
Work for the Study of Religion, Theology, and Sacred Texts
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Constitution (Second Level)
Brandy Daniels, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Panelists:
Kent Brintnall, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Rhiannon Graybill, Rhodes College
Jacqueline Hidalgo, Williams College
Justin Crisp, Yale University
Erin Runions, Pomona College
Linn Tonstad, Yale University
Responding:
Lee Edelman, Tufts University
Business Meeting:
Thelathia Young, Bucknell University, Presidingx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Robin Veldman, Iowa State University“Global Warming Alarmists Remove Our Motivation to Thank God
for His Gifts of Cheap, Abundant Energy Resources”: How Leadersin the Christian Right Used Evangelical Mass Media to Promote
Climate Skepticism

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18C

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Religion and Disability Studies Unit
Theme: Disability: Growing Up, Growing Old, Cute, Mad, andIncarcerated
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-102 (Plaza Level)
Mary Jo Iozzio, Boston College, Presiding
Valerie Michaelson, Queen’s University, Kingston, and John
Swinton, University of Aberdeen
Spiritual Health, Disability, and Church Involvement of CanadianChildren: A Quantitative Study
Courtney Wilder, Midland University
Spoonies, #Disabled and Cute, and Cripping the Vote: Audre Lorde,Paul Tillich, and Religious Activity on Twitter
Richard Saville-Smith, University of Edinburgh
Acute Religious Experiences — Disability or What?
Michael Mawson, University of Aberdeen
Disability and the Limits of Life: Insights from Disability Theology for
Approaching Aging
Bruce Stevens, Charles Sturt University
Old Behind Bars: A Systematic Review with Theological Implications
Business Meeting:
Mary Jo Iozzio, Boston College, and Heike Peckruhn, Daemen
College, Presiding

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Religion and Ecology Unit
Theme: Identity and Community in Religion and Ecology
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level)
Evan Berry, American University, Presiding
Amanda Baugh, California State University, Northridge
Reading Laudato Si with Catholics Who Deny Climate Change
Jason Brown, University of British Columbia
Dwelling in the Wilderness: The Embodied Semiotics of CatholicMonks in the American West
Stephen Meawad, Duquesne University
The Wholeness of Living Ecologically: The Development of a Coptic
Orthodox Politeia and Its Contribution to Ecological Ethics
Rose Caraway, Iowa State University
If We Are the Problem Then We Are the Solution: Religion andResilience in Contemporary Cuba

A18-124
Religion and Humanism Unit and Ricoeur Unit
Theme: National Formations of Narrative Identities
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level)
J. Sage Elwell, Texas Christian University, Presiding
Richard A. Rosengarten, University of Chicago
Revisiting Oneself as Another: Reprise, or Revise?
Claire Taylor Jones, University of Notre Dame
Memory in Iron: The Teutonic Knights and National Identity inEastern Europe
Daniel Boscaljon, University of Iowa
The Narratives of Black Folk
Glenn Whitehouse, Florida Gulf Coast University
Narrative Identity and National Nostalgia
Verna Marina Ehret, Mercyhurst University
Public Discourse as Performative Narrative of Reconciliation

A18-125
Religion and Politics Unit
Theme: From White Nationalism to Civil Religion: Religion’sRole in Nationalist Language
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-311 (Third Level)
Alex Matthews, University of Chicago, Presiding
Kevan Feshami, University of Colorado
Wiederkehr der Ahnen: Paganism, Black Metal, and the AntiChristian and Anti-capitalist Roots of the White Genocide Myth
Cynthia Bishop Jonas, University of Colorado
American Civil Religion in the Courts of the Conqueror
D. Ashley Campbell, University of Colorado
Speaking of Hope and Change: The Civil-Religious Rhetoric of Trump
and Obama
Yukai Chen, University of Colorado
The Spring Gala: Rituals and Symbols of Civil Religion in China

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Religion in Europe Unit

Theme: Responses to Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, andRepresentation
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Republic A (Second Level)
Scott Gardner, Hartford Seminary, Presiding
Panelists:
Elizabeth Coody, Iliff School of Theology
Beth Davies-Stofka, Colorado Community Colleges Online
Mohamed S. Hassan, Temple University
Constance Kassor, Lawrence University
Aaron Ricker, McGill University
Responding:
A. David Lewis, MCPHS University

Theme: Under the Surface of Current Debates: Islam Negotiatingwith European Culture
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-The Fens (Fifth Level)
Elissa Cutter, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding
Carol Ferrara, Boston University
The Making of a Common Enemy: Interreligious Consensus Amidst
Secular Pluralism in France
Stephanie Frank, Columbia College, Chicago
The Niqab Ban in France: Unveiling the Durkheimian Model of
Religion at WorkDavid Bos, University of Amsterdam
Homosexuality and Islam in Dutch Public Discourse Since the 1960s
Spencer Dew, Centenary College of Louisiana
The Purloined Church: Ahmadiyya Negotiations of Danish
Conceptions of Religion
Business Meeting:
Elissa Cutter, Loyola Marymount University, and Kocku vonStuckrad, University of Groningen, Presiding

A18-127

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Religion and Sexuality Unit
Theme: Reproducing Justice: Exposing Whiteness, Sovereign
Rape, Phallogocentrism, and Sexuality Education as Tools of
Racist Reproductive Control
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-203 (Second Level)
Shelley Dennis, Drew University, Presiding
Minenhle Nomalungelo Khumalo, Drew University
Hagar, Sarah, and Their By-products of Patriarchy: A Marxist, Afrofuturist Exploration of Reproductive Justice
Max Thornton, Drew University
Repetition and Procreation: Theology and the Reproduction ofWhiteness
Ylisse Bess, Boston University
The White Vote: On Abortion Access for African-American Adolescent
Women
Lisa Gasson-Gardner, Drew University
Contra the Sovereign Rape Exception: Towards a Political Theology of
Reproductive Justice
Responding:Karen Bray, Wesleyan College
Kate Ott, Drew University
Business Meeting:Jennifer S. Leath, Iliff School of Theology, and Nina Hoel,
University of Oslo, Presiding

A18-129 – Pre-Posted Papers Session

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Religion and Popular Culture Unit and Study of Islam Unit

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Religions, Medicines, and Healing Unit
Theme: State of the Field: Past, Present, and Future of the Studies
of Religions, Medicines, and Healing
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty C (Second Level)
Steven Barrie-Anthony, University of Southern California, Presiding
Panelists:
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida
C. Pierce Salguero, Abington College
Ofelia Villero, Graduate Theological Union
Responding:
Linda L. Barnes, Boston University School of Medicine
Business Meeting:
Emily Wu, Dominican University, California, Presidingx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Unit
Theme: Colombia Emerging: Aspirations of the New in a Time of
Post-peace Accord
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Berkeley (Third Level)
Ian Brown, University of Toronto, Presiding
Rebecca Bartel, University of Toronto
The Promise of a New Colombia: Miracles, Morality, and the Yet to Be
Janna Hunter-Bowman, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
The State in Post-accord Colombia: New Accounting for a Political
Theology of Peace
Sarah MacDonald, Emory University
Transformation without Saviors: Lessons from Faith-Based Solidarity
Activism in Colombia
Responding:
Kimberly Theidon, Tufts University
Business Meeting:Atalia Omer, University of Notre Dame, and Ellen Ott Marshall,
Emory University, PresidingBC

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A18-132

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Sikh Studies Unit
Theme: Sikh Scholar-Activists on Vulnerabilities
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-309 (Third Level)
Pashaura Singh, University of California, Riverside, Presiding
Panelists:
Simran Jeet Singh, Trinity University
Sapreet Kaur, Sikh Coalition
Tejkaran Kaur Bains, United Sikhs, New York, NY
John Cibotti, Florida International University
Nirinjan Khalsa, Loyola Marymount University
Business Meeting:Michael Hawley, Mount Royal University, Presiding

Space, Place, and Religion Unit
Theme: Negotiating Diversity through Urban Landscapes: Civic
Space, Religious Identity, and Social Status
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay A (Second Level)
Susan L. Graham, Saint Peter’s University, Presiding
Kelsey Moss, Princeton University
Cidades de Deus no Brasil Colonial: Religion and Race in the Spaceand Place of Colonial Salvador da Bahia
Richard Gale, Cardiff University, and Andrew Rogers, Universityof Roehampton
Accommodating Practices? Urban Planning, Post-migrant FaithGroups, and the Spatial Politics of Belonging in the UK
Claire Dwyer, University College, London, Nazneen Ahmed,
University College, London, and David Gilbert, University of
LondonPerforming Religion in Suburbia: Negotiations in Public Space
Enoch Gbadegesin, Obafemi Awolowo University
Secularizing the City of 201 Gods: Oòni of Ife and the Transformationof Sacred Spaces in Ile-Ife of Southwestern Nigeria
Responding:Thomas A. Tweed, University of Notre Dame
Business Meeting:
Brian J. Nichols, Mount Royal University, and David Bains,
Samford University, PresidingK

A18-133
Teaching Religion Unit

Theme: Teaching about Religion as Anti-Racism Education
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)
Sajida Jalalzai, Saint Michael’s College, Presiding
Panelists:
Richard Newton, Elizabethtown College
Martha Roberts, University of the South
Christine Hong, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Tiffany Puett, Institute for Diversity and Civic Life, Austin, TX

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Practices and
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Sustainability and Religion

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Receptions and Breakfasts

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Peter C. Phan, Georgetown University
The Protestant Reformations in Asia: A Blessing or a Curse?
Responding:Francis Ching-Wah Yip, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Business Meeting:
Jonathan Tan, Case Western Reserve University, and Corey
Williams, Leiden University, Presiding

A18-134
Theology and Continental Philosophy Unit
Theme: Memorializing “Mourning and Melancholia”
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Arlington (Third Level)
Travis Stevens, Harvard University, Presiding
Panelists:
Eleanor Craig, Harvard University
Amy M. Hollywood, Harvard University
Dana Luciano, Georgetown University
Kalpana Seshadri, Boston College
Kris Trujillo, University of California, Berkeley
Antonio Viego, Duke University

Material Islam Seminar

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Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit
Theme: New Research on Ritual, Politics, and Possession in
Himalayan Religions
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-201 (Second Level)
Sarah Jacoby, Northwestern University, Presiding
Ian MacCormack, Harvard University
Figuring the Divine: Kāvya in Tibetan Political Writing
William Dewey, University of California, Santa Barbara
Geluk Sectarianism and the Tibetan Regency
Christopher Bell, Stetson University
Standardizing the Oracles: Spirit Possession in the Tibetan Monkey
Year Festival
Katarina Turpeinen, University of Virginia
Soteriology and Shamanism in the Case of a Tibetan Oracle
Natasha Mikles, University of Virginia“When is a Hat a Mountain?” Ritual’s Role in Constructing the
Object of Vision
Business Meeting:
Benjamin Bogin, Skidmore College, Presiding

A18-136C

World Christianity Unit
Theme: The Protestant Reformation in World Christianity: Global
Perspectives
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-208 (Second Level)
Dale T. Irvin, New York Theological Seminary, Presiding
Joel Cruz, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago
Spaniards in the Americas: Las Casas among the Reformers
Rebecca Giselbrecht, University of Zurich, Fuller TheologicalSeminary
Women from Then to Now: A Commitment to Mutuality and Literacy
David Daniels, McCormick Theological Seminary
The Global South: The Synod of Dort on Baptizing “Ethnics”

Theme: Islamic Books in Manuscript, a Material Analysis
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Westin Copley Place-St. George A-B (Third Level)
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College, Presiding
Asma Hilali, Institute of Ismaili Studies
The Sanaa Palimpsest and the Early Transmission of the Qur’an
Jonathan E. Brockopp, Pennsylvania State University
The Earliest Arabic Manuscripts and the Rise of Book Culture amongthe “Ulamā”
Ali Karjoo-Ravary, University of Pennsylvania
Adorning the King of Islam: The Materiality of a Fourteenth-Century
Persian Chronicle
Walid Saleh, University of Toronto
Tafsīr Manuscripts in Istanbul: Preliminary Remarks
Responding:
Sheila Blair, Boston College
Business Meeting:Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University, Presiding

A18-138

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

A18-135SC

A18-137 – Pre-Posted Papers Session

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Political Theology Seminar
Theme: Resisting: Political Theology
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-306 (Third Level)
David Newheiser, Australian Catholic University, Presiding
Panelists:
William T. Cavanaugh, DePaul University
Philip Gorski, Yale University
Sarah Hammerschlag, University of Chicago
Pamela Lightsey, Boston University
Anna Rowlands, Durham University
Responding:Inese Radzins, Pacific School of Religion
Business Meeting:David Newheiser, Australian Catholic University, and Inese
Radzins, Pacific School of Religion

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Religious Literacy College-Wide Project
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-207 (Second Level)
Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College, Diane L. Moore, Harvard
University, and Steve Herrick, American Academy of Religion,
PresidingMany college students do not take even an introductory course inreligion, and their exposure to religion elsewhere in curricula may behaphazard. To position colleges to be better at graduating religiously
literate students, the AAR is developing guidelines for colleges todraw upon in identifying the religion-related knowledge and skills
that all associate’s and bachelor’s degree students ought to gain prior
to graduation. The initiative is funded by a grant from the Arthur
Vining Davis Foundation. This seminar session is the second of several
annual ones to discuss what those guidelines should be and how theyshould be promoted. This session will discuss a draft of the guidelines,
which will be available in advance of the session at the AAR website.
Regardless of whether one attended last year’s session, any Annual
Meeting registrant is welcome to attend this year’s session. (So thatparticipants’ feedback can be fully retained, the session may be audiorecorded. But the recording will only be shared only with the draftinggroup, and you may opt to have your remarks excluded.)
Panelists:
Cherie Hughes, Tulsa Community College
Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
Eugene Y. Lowe, Northwestern University
Margaret Lowe, Bridgewater State University
Brian K. Pennington, Elon University
Martha Reineke, University of Northern Iowa

A18-140 – Pre-Posted Papers Session

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Transnational Religious Expression: Between Asia andNorth America Seminar
Theme: Theory and Method in the Study of Transnational
Religious Expression
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon F (Third Level)
Lucas Carmichael, University of Chicago, Presiding
Lawrence Whitney, Boston University
Protestantization and Confucianism: The Case of Boston
Confucianism 2.0
Anandi Salinas, Emory University
Lived Transnational Religion: Reflections on an Ethnography of*DXΕư\D9DLΙΧDYDD Practices in the Southeastern US

Kristian Petersen, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Asian American Muslim Cinema: A Theoretical Preface
Minjung Noh, Temple University
Salvation, Salvage, and the Fashioning of Care in the Haitian
Religious Field: A Case Study of Korean American Protestant Women
Missionaries in Haiti
Torang Asadi, Duke University
Transmateriality: Iranian-American Alternative Healing Practices
Responding:Scott Mitchell, Institute of Buddhist Studies
Business Meeting:
Holly Gayley, University of Colorado, Presiding

A18-141
Video Gaming and Religion Seminar
Theme: New Voices In the Study of Religion and Video Games
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Vineyard (Fourth Level)
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, University of Bremen, Presiding
Vit Sisler, Charles University, and Josef Slerka, Charles University
Communion Reloaded: Social Network Analysis of Religion and
GamingJohn Borchert, Syracuse University
No-Death: Posthuman Living through Ritualized Game Death
Jonathan A. Seitz, Taiwan Theological Seminary
The Temple is a Dojo, the Church is a Gym: Gaming, Walking, andWorshipping with Pokémon Go in Taipei, Taiwan
Benjamin Chicka, Claremont Graduate University
Nontraditional Video Games and the Other
Business Meeting:
Gregory Grieve, University of North Carolina, Greensboro,
Presiding

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Women’s Caucus
Theme: Rethinking Resistance and Resilience
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-305 (Third Level)
Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Methodist Theological School, Ohio,
PresidingSusan Willhauck, Atlantic School of Theology
Female Child Soldiers and Christian Feminist Resistance andResilience
Michael Karlberg, Western Washington University
Constructive Resilience and Feminist Theories of Power

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Colleen D. Hartung, Holy Wisdom Monastery, Middleton, WI
Pussy Hats and Anatomical Signage: Ritualizing and Resistance atthe Women’s March on Washington D.C.
Robert Drake, Princeton Theological Seminary, and David Smith,
Princeton Theological Seminary
Reinhold Niebuhr and the Queer Ethic of Pride
Responding:Julia Berger, University of Kent

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Theme: AAR Journalism Award Session: Journalists Discuss the
Challenges of Covering Religions
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Provincetown (Fourth Level)
Ayesha S. Chaudhry, University of British Columbia, Presiding
The three winners of this year’s AAR Journalism Awards will join twoother acclaimed journalists to share their insights and experiences intheir years covering religion. Their writing examines religions in awide array of settings, from the classroom to the battlefield, therefugee camp to the prosperity gospel church. The 2017 AAR
Journalism Awards will also be presented in a short ceremony.
Ariel Sabar is the winner of the 2017 American Academyof Religion Award for Best In-Depth Newswriting on
Religion for his newswriting on the Jesus’s Wife papyrus
and academic research and politics involving historicalJesus. He has published in the Atlantic, Boston Globe,
Harper’s, Mother Jones, New York Times, Washington Post,
and This American Life. He is the author of My Father’s
Ariel Sabar
Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq,
which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Rachel Zoll placed second in the contest for the 2017
AAR Award for Best In-Depth Newswriting on Religion
for her newswriting on a renewed black separatist
message from Louis Farrakhan; U.S. evangelicals feelingalienated and anxious; and neighboring Baptist churches
in Georgia, with congregations split along racial lines.
She is national religion reporter for the Associated Press Rachel Zolland holds a master’s degree in international affairs from
Columbia University.
Ruth Graham placed third in the contest for the 2017
AAR Award for Best In-Depth Newswriting on
Religion. Her article on former Wheaton professor
Larycia Hawkins, who wore a hijab as a gesture of
support for Muslims, has especially drawn praise. Graham
has written for Al Jazeera America, The Atlantic, New YorkTimes Magazine, Slate, and the Wall Street Journal.
Ruth Graham
Nick Shindo Street is Senior Writer at the Center for Religion and
Civic Culture, at the University of Southern California. He has written
for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Al
Jazeera America. He is the former religion editor at Routledge and John
Knox press and a contributing editor for LGBT issues at Religion
Dispatches. He has received a grant from the Pulitzer Center for hisjournalism on left-wing Muslims in Europe. He holds an MTS injournalism from USC and an MTS in theology from Emory University.

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Nominations Committee Meeting
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-301 (Third Level)

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Applied Religious Studies Committee Meeting
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-105 (Plaza Level)
Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Harvard Law School, Presiding

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Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
Theme: Ashrams in Space: Multiplying Sites, Mobilizing Methods
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Westin Copley Place-Staffordshire (Third Level)
Timothy Dobe, Grinnell College, Presiding
Nadya Pohran, University of Cambridge
Indian Christian Ashrams as the “Kingdom of God”
Claire Robison, Lewis and Clark College
Reflections of the Secular Cityscape in a Rural Religious Ashram:
Urban Aspirations in a Vaisnava Ecovillage
Kerry San Chirico, Villanova University
One Catholic Ashram as “Abundant Space” and Index of Contemporary
India
Srivastava Shivam, University of Salzburg
Bettina Bäumer’s Samvidālaya: Abhinavagupta Research Library in
Varanasi as a Meeting Place of Scholars and Spiritual Seekers
Responding:
Timothy Dobe, Grinnell College
Business Meeting:Michelle Voss Roberts, Wake Forest University, Presidingx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Public Understanding of Religion Committee and the
Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting

Alice Su’s journalism focuses on refugees, religion, migration, China,
and the Middle East. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Foreign
Affairs, Foreign Policy, Guardian, Harper’s, New York Times, New Yorker,
Washington Post, Wired, and Al Jazeera. She has been a four-time
recipient of grants from the Pulitzer Center, and she holds a master’s
degree in Chinese Politics and International Relations from Yenching
Academy of Peking University and an A.B. in Near Eastern Studies
from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
at Princeton University.
Panelists:
Ruth Graham, Slate
Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic
Nick Street, University of Southern California
Alice Su, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting
Rachel Zoll, Associated Press

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P18-116Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality

Theme: Girard’s Legacy: Continuing the Conversation
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Westin Copley Place-Defender (Seventh Level)
Brian Robinette, Boston College, Presiding
Stewart Clem, University of Notre Dame
Nonviolent Grammar of Sacrifice
Anthony William Bartlett, Syracuse, NY
Between Girard and Heidegger: A New Ontology
Chris Haw, University of Notre Dame
Girard at Intersection of Analogy and Dialectic

Theme: Presidential Address and Annual Meeting
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Westin Copley Place-St. George C-D (Third Level)
Bernadette Flanagan, Spirituality Institute for Research and
Education, Dublin, Ireland, Presiding
9:00 AM–10:15 AM - 2017 Presidential Address
Pieter G. R. De Villiers, University of the Free State“Beauty” in the Book of Revelation: On Biblical Spirituality andAesthetics
10:30 AM–11:30 AM - Annual Meeting
All are welcome. For more information on the Society and its events,
please visit https://sscs.press.jhu.edu/ or contact Anita Houck, Secretary,at ahouck@saintmarys.edu.

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North American Association for the Study of Religion and
SBL Greco-Roman Religions Section

Niebuhr Society

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Colloquium on Violence and Religion

Theme: Theorizing Ancient Theories of Religion
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Fairmont Copley Place-State Suite A (Lower Lobby Level)

P18-115Society for Comparative Research on Iconographic andPerformative Texts
Theme: Miniature Scriptures
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Dalton (Third Level)
Dorina Miller Parmenter, Spalding University, Presiding
James W. Watts, Syracuse University
Ritualizing the Size of Books
Yohan Yoo, Seoul National University, and Woncheol Yun, Seoul
National University
Sutras Working in Buddha’s Belly and Buddhists’ Pockets: Iconic andPerformative Miniature Sutras in Korean Buddhism
Jon Skarpeid, University of Stavanger
Wars and Weddings: The Ideologies of Miniature Bhagavad Gitas witha Focus on Gender
Dorina Miller Parmenter, Spalding University
Small Things of Greatest Consequence: Miniature Bibles in America
Responding:
Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University

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Theme: The Virtue of Reinhold Niebuhr
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Westin Copley Place-Northstar (Seventh Level)
Kevin Carnahan, Central Methodist University, Presiding
Robin W. Lovin, Southern Methodist University
Niebuhr and the Virtue of LoveCharles Mathewes, University of Virginia
Niebuhr on the Ironies of Virtue and the Virtue of Irony
K. Healan Gaston, Harvard University
Niebuhr and Humility
Christopher Dowdy, Paul Quinn College
Niebuhr, Contrition, and Race
The Niebuhr Society business meeting will follow.

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North American Paul Tillich Society
Theme: Tillich and Reformation Heritage
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Brandeis (Third Level)
Christian Danz, Universität Wien
Critique and Forming: Paul Tillich’s Interpretation of Protestantism
Tyler Atkinson, Bethany College
Power Plays in the Political Thought of Tillich and Luther
Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF Norwegian School of Theology
Tillich and the Reformation

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Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

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Sustainability and Religion

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Tours

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Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

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Søren Kierkegaard Society

Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies

Theme: Kierkegaard’s Attack on Christendom: Then and Now
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Westin Copley Place-Helicon (Seventh Level)
Mark McCreary, Kirkwood Community College, Presiding
Jason A. Mahn, Augustana College
Post-Christendom or Neo-Christendom?: A Kierkegaardian
Assessment of Christian Privilege in Contemporary U.S. Culture andPolitics
Mark Tietjen, Stony Brook School
The Scope of Kierkegaard’s Attack
Responding:
Heather C. Ohaneson, George Fox University

Theme: Uses and Misuses of Anger in Buddhism and Christianity
Saturday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-New Hampshire (Fifth Level)
The role of anger in both Buddhism and Christianity is complex
and multivalent. Both religions teach the need to combat anger
and its destructive consequences, particularly the way it fractures
relationships. However, at the same time, anger can be a powerful tool
for advocacy and action, particularly for the sake of justice. In thissession, different aspects of anger are explored, with an eye both toanger’s constructive role and also to its dangers.
Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia
Claude AnShin Thomas: Pausing at Hell’s Gate and Undoing Anger
Thomas Cattoi, Santa Clara University and Graduate Theological
Union
Searching for Holy Anger: Voices from the Philokalia and the Tibetan
Buddhist Tradition
Lama Rod Owens, Dharma Boston Sangha
The Wrathful Guru: Exploring the Vajrayana Understanding of Anger
Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College
Anger Makes Us Ugly: Reflections from Pali Buddhism
Joel Daniels, Georgetown University
The Wind of the Spirit Blows Gently and Fiercely: A Pentecostal
Perspective on Love and Anger
Responding:
Judith Simmer-Brown, Naropa University
The business meeting for the Society for Buddhist Christian Studies
will take place immediately following this session. All Society
members are welcome to attend.

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Society for Pentecostal Studies
Theme: Pentecostal Readings in the Hebrew Bible
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon G (Third Level)
Van Johnson, Tyndale University , Presiding
David Hymes, Northwest University
Reception-History of the Book of Numbers within the Early
Pentecostal Tradition
Meghan Musy, McMaster Divinity College
A Pentecostal Reading of Psalm 28: Praying through and Being Heard
Lee Roy Martin, Pentecostal Theological Seminary
Psalm 150 and Pentecostal Spirituality

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Karl Barth Society of North America
Theme: “Keep Yourself to the Left” - Barth’s Political Vision Today
Saturday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Independence B (Fourth Level)
Keith Johnson, Wheaton College
Barth’s Politics of Hope: Human Dignity in the Midst of Horrors
Raymond Carr, Pepperdine University
Barth, Cone, and the Prison Industrial Complex
Gillian C Breckenridge, University of Virginia
Karl Barth and Michel Foucault on the Power/Knowledge of Sin andthe Task of Theology
W. Travis McMaken, Lindenwood University
Helmut Gollwitzer: Forgotten Left-Wing Barthian
Responding:Andrea C. White, Union Theological Seminary

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Polanyi Society
Theme: Trade, Employment, and Public Policy: Polanyi Then andNow
Saturday, 9:00 AM–3:00 PM
Offsite-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2 Amherst St,
Building E 51, Room 95
Phil Mullins, Missouri Western State University, Presiding
The Polanyi Society has solicited twelve papers for an international
workshop centered on Michael Polanyi’s 1945 book Full Employment& Free Trade and his slightly earlier film on economics. Presentations
will consider Polanyi’s relation to figures like Keynes, Hayek, and his
brother Karl, but focus on the relevance of Polanyi’s economic andpolitical thought today.
See http://polanyisociety.org for abstracts or papers after November 1,
information on travel to the site, lunch reservations, and other details.
Panelists:
Struan Jacobs, Deakin University
Nilanjan Raghunath, Singapore University of Technology and
DesignAnne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Walter B. Gulick, Montana State University, Billings
Gabor Biro, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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III. Theology
Ed Waggoner, Brite Divinity School
The God of Quieter Miracles: Schleiermacher on the End of the Divine
Spirit’s Miraculous Expressions
Wendy Sue Petersen-Boring, Willamette University, and Emily
Boring, Yale University
God’s Self-Diffusing Goodness: Bonaventure, Evolutionary Biology,
and Cosmic Order
Andrew Chignell, University of Pennsylvania
On Getting Drunk by Accidents

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Erik Slaton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jordan Howell, Harvard University
Jaime Wong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
J. Michael Wahlen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marta Felis-Rota, Autonomous University of Madrid
Eduardo Beira, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Agnes Festre, Université Nice Sophia AntipolisQ

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Museum of Fine Arts Tour

Saturday, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Offsite-Meet at the Registration Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD in
the Convention Center
See page 9 for details.

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Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Theme: Worship Service
Saturday, 11:00 AM–12:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)
Michael Pearson, Newbold College
Sermon: Human Accountability and the Law of Unintended
Consequences

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P18-125Society of Christian Philosophers
Theme: God and Horrors: Nine Short Talks in Honor of Marilyn
McCord Adams
Saturday, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Essex Center (Third Level)
Shannon Craigo-Snell, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary,and Christine Helmer, Northwestern University, Presiding
I. Horrendous Evils
Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio, Seminary of the Southwest
For Those Who Remain: A Proposal For Stage Three Horror Defeat
Jesse Couenhoven, Villanova University
Reframing the Free Will Defense: A Compatibilist Approach
Sarah K. Pinnock, Trinity University
God after Auschwitz and the Praxis of Evil
II. Pastoral Theology
Janet Waggoner, Brite Divinity School
God’s Goodness Made Manifest: Pastoral Theologizing and Theological
PastoringRebecca Voelkel, Center for Sustainable Justice, Minneapolis,
MN
Carnal Knowledge of God: Theology, Embodiment, and Building a
Movement for Justice
Ruthanna Brinton Hooke, Virginia Theological Seminary
Queering Worship

Society for the Study of Japanese Religions
Theme: Meet the Authors: New Books in Japanese Religions
Saturday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Fairmont Copley Place-Back Bay Room (Lower Lobby Level)
Heather Blair, Indiana University, Presiding
As part of the business meeting for the SSJR we will be hosting a“meet the authors” session, highlighting recent important publicationsin the field of Japanese Religions.
Anna Andreeva, University of Heidelberg
Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship inMedieval Japan
Caitilin Griffiths, University of Toronto
Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishu Nuns of Medieval Japan
Edward Drott, Sophia University
Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan
Bryan Lowe, Vanderbilt University
Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures inAncient Japan
Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Ohio State University
Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the
Utopian Imagination

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
C

Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

Student Lounge Roundtable

Theme: Doubting, Fashioning and Enjoying (Conventional)
Reality: Skepticism, Ficitonalism and Eudaimonism in Indian
Buddhist Thought
Saturday, 11:00 AM–12:45 PM
Fairmont Copley Place-Singleton Room (Lobby Level)
This panel is comprised of three papers on Indian Buddhist, and inparticular, Madhyamaka, philosophical thought. A theme running
through the entire panel is the relationship between conventional
and ultimate reality, and in particular, seeing the boundary between
the two truths as contested, and perhaps even malleable terrain.
Representing epistemology, Ethan Mills examines skeptical elements
within early Buddhist and Madhyamaka texts, with an eye to bothindicating the role of doubting reality in relation to liberation, as wellas suggesting that escape from bondage does not exhaust the role ofskeptical thinking in Indian Buddhist thought.
Representing metaphysics, Laura Guerrero argues that thecontemporary analytic framework of fictionalism can help address
lingering conundrums left behind by Mark Siderits’ enormously
influential reductionist reading of Madhyamaka texts. Finally,
representing ethics, Stephen Harris analyses the role of joy inŚāntideva’s eighth-century CE Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way ofLife, and explores the apparent tension emerging from Śāntideva’semphasis on the illusion-like nature of pleasant sensation, while
frequently emphasizing the positive value of virtuous kinds of joy inthe bodhisattva’s development. The panel is distinctive in two ways.
First, its emphasis on skepticism, fictionalism and the virtue of joy
in Buddhist ethics draws attention to three relatively underanalyzed
elements of Buddhist philosophical thought. Second, thepresentations are tightly linked in their exploration of the relationshipbetween conventional and ultimate truth. The panel as a whole acts
as an investigation into the practical and theoretical elements of thiscentral Buddhist tenet.
Laura Guerrero, Utah Valley University
Fictionalism and Buddhist Reductionism
Ethan Mills, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Skeptical Themes in Early Buddhism
Stephen Harris, Leiden University
The Bodhisattva’s Illusion-like Joy

Theme: Pedagogical Uses of Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, andBeyondSaturday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
Bhakti Mamtora, University of Florida, and Bradley Erickson,
University of North Carolina, Presiding
Co-sponsored by the Wabash Center and the SBL Student Advisory
Board
Graduate students please join us for lunch and an interactive
presentation about teaching in higher education. Many of us and ourstudents use YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to curate ouridentities, present ourselves to our communities, and ascribe meaning
to our worlds. What are effective ways to use social media in theclassroom? How can it be integrated with more traditional teachingstrategies? How can we increase critical thinking about social media?
This session explores effective and critically aware ways to incorporatesocial media in the classroom and in public discussions of religion.
Please join us for lunch and conversation. Pre-registration is strongly
encouraged; please email Bhakti Mamora (bhaktim@ufl.edu) to reserve
your spot. Registration deadline is November 1. Walk-ins will beaccommodated if space permits.
Panelists:
Mary T. Stimming, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in
Theology and Religion
Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Earlham College
Brooke Lester, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Coffee BreakSaturday, 11:30 AM
Complimentary coffee will be served in the backof Aisle 2100 and Aisle 2600 of the Exhibit Hall.

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Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology andReligion
Theme: Faculty of Color Luncheon
Saturday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-107 (Plaza Level)
You are invited to attend the Faculty of Color Luncheon. This
mealtime gathering is a space for fellowship, mutual support, andempowerment for our teaching lives. Hear about Wabash Centerprogramming and how to apply for the 2018–19 Peer Mentoring
Cluster grants. Participants in past and current Peer Mentoring
Cluster grants, Colloquial and Fellowships will be available forconversation.
Pre-registration is required. Send an email to Beth Reffett reffettb@
wabash.edu. Registration deadline is November 1. Walk-ins may also
be accepted if space is available.
Panelists:
Roger Nam, George Fox University
Nancy Lynne Westfield, Drew University

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Contingent Faculty Luncheon: What Can Non-tenuretrack Faculty Career Growth Look Like?
Saturday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Hynes Convention Center-108 (Plaza Level)
Kerry Danner, Georgetown University, and Edwin David Aponte,
Louisville Institute, Louisville, KY, Presiding
Part-time, full-time, and all non-tenure-track faculty and their allies
are invited to join the Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty
Working Group for lunch. In addition to getting to know one another,
we will be discussing best practices for career growth, identifying andovercoming obstacles to scholarship, and providing other up-to-date
information on areas of concern. Please join us Saturday, November
18, 11:45 AM–12:45PM. Registration for the lunch costs $13 perperson and is limited to 60 people.
To register for this luncheon, choose “Academic Labor and Contingent
Faculty Luncheon” in the “Options” section when registering for the
Annual Meeting. If you have already registered for the Annual Meeting,you may contact reg@aarweb.org to reserve your lunch.

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Women’s Caucus
Theme: Goddess Studies and Herstory of Resilience
Saturday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Hynes Convention Center-305 (Third Level)
Theresa A. Yugar, California State University, Los Angeles, Presiding
This brown-bag lunch will provide a reflection space to discuss theimportance of female deities and goddesses, particularly in Korea,
Europe, Tibet, India, and Latin America, as we engage in socioreligious and political discourses that continue to undermine women’s
agency and leadership. The most important strategy for doing
feminism is to discover the most valuable characters of womanhood,which has been lacking in western religions in general yet embodied
in non-western mythologies, especially in Asian religions. It is timeto increase feminist goddess studies in order to emphasize women’s
leadership in societies and communities such as families, andchurches, on a national and transnational level.
Panelists:
Jea Sophia Oh, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
Janice Poss, Claremont Graduate University
Responding:
Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, Nassau Community College

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Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM

LGBTIQ Mentoring Lunch
Saturday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level)
Kathleen T. Talvacchia, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding
All students and junior scholars who identify outside of normative
gender histories and/or sexualities are welcome to join us for an
informal lunch. No fee or pre-registration is required. Please bring yourown lunch; a cash-and-carry station will be available near the room forthose wishing to buy their lunches onsite. The roundtable leaders listed
were confirmed attendees as of April; other senior scholars in the field
may be joining us as well. Topics for discussion include: Demystifying
Tenure, Service and the Subtle Art of Saying No, Scholarship andActivism, Navigating Queer and Religion in the Curriculum, Teaching
While Queer: Out and Subversive Actions During the Age of Attacks
and Alternative Facts, Dual Vocation, The Writing Process.
Mentors:
Rebecca Alpert, Temple University
Kent Brintnall, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Faith Matters Network, Nashville,
TNMark Larrimore, New School
Pamela Lightsey, Boston University
Cameron Partridge, St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco
Heather White, University of Puget Sound
Thelathia Young, Bucknell UniversityC

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North American Association for the Study of Religion
Business Meeting
Saturday, 1:00 PM–1:50 PM
Fairmont Copley Place-State Suite A (Lower Lobby Level)CP18-211
Hagiography Society Business Meeting
Saturday, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-St. George A-B (Third Level)

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
C

Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, andQueer Persons in the Profession Committee
Theme: Equal Protection of the Law? Religious Freedom and
LGBTIQ Lives
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level)
Roger A. Sneed, Furman University, Presiding
The purpose of this panel is to examine the use of the rhetoric of“religious freedom” to license discrimination against LGBTIQ
citizens and other socially marginal communities. Particularly inthe current political climate, religious freedom laws and executive
action have become a central battleground in America’s culture wars,
but the very framing of a conflict between the values of freedom
and equal citizenship in this context echoes long traditions ofreligious justification for racial and gender supremacy and otherforms of oppression. The panelists will explore important aspectsof the deployment of notions of religious liberty to reinforce themarginalization of various social groups, and they will offer reflections
on paths forward in the fight for equality.
Panelists:
Finbarr Curtis, Georgia Southern University
Keri Day, Princeton Theological Seminary
Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College
Ann Pellegrini, New York University
Alex McNeill, More Light Presbyterians, Minnetonka, MNAAnthropology of Religion Unit and Comparative Studies in
Religion Unit
Theme: Authors Meet Critics: David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler,
Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern
Spirituality (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level)
Anna Sun, Kenyon College, Presiding
Panelists:
Lucas Carmichael, University of Chicago
Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University
Amanda Lucia, University of California, Riverside
Tulasi Srinivas, Emerson College
Thomas A. Tweed, University of Notre Dame
Responding:David A. Palmer, University of Hong Kong
Elijah Siegler, College of Charleston

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Theme: Effective Strategies for Scholarly Publication
Saturday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
This roundtable session provides strategies for publishing anddeveloping one’s reputation as scholars in their respective fields.
Steven Félix-Jäger will elaborate on the various types of scholarly
publications (journal articles, book reviews, encyclopedia entries,
book chapters, edited volumes and monographs), discuss reformattingtheses and dissertations for publication, and explore new alternative - modes of publication. In particular, he will shed lighton the challenges and opportunities that come with popular bookpublications.
Panelists:
Steven Félix-Jäger, Southeastern University

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Body and Religion Unit and Contemplative Studies Unit
Theme: Remapping, Remodeling, and Recovering the Body: The
Subtle Body across Space and Time
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Constitution (Second Level)
David P. Lawrence, University of North Dakota, Presiding
Kerry Martin Skora, Hiram College
The Subtle Body of Vital Presence in Contemplative Practices of
Abhinavagupta’s Trika Shaivism and Longchenpa’s Great Perfection
Sthaneshwar Timalsina, San Diego State University
Reprogramming Embodied Experiences in the Maharthamañjarī ofMaheśvarānanda
Louis Komjathy, University of San Diego
Daoist Body-Maps and Meditative Praxis
Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado
Rethinking the Body’s Subjectivity through Abhinavagupta’s
Contemplation of the Subtle Body
Responding:
M. Alejandro Chaoul, University of Texas, Houston

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Buddhism in the West Unit
Theme: New Studies of Buddhism in the West
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Yarmouth (Fourth Level)
John Crow, Florida State University, Presiding
America’s Buddha in an Age of Empire: Cosmopolitan Domesticity or
Commodity Racism?
Laura Harrington, Boston University
Cold War Karma: A Brief History of Buddhist Studies and the CIA,
1951–1967
Adeana McNicholl, Stanford University
Being Buddha, Staying Woke: Racial Formation in Black Buddhist
Writings
Christopher Emory-Moore, University of Waterloo
Renunciation and the Householder/Renouncer Relation in a New
Buddhist Movement
Caroline Starkey, University of Leeds“Don’t Mention the F Word”: Monastic Women and Gendered
Hierarchies in British Convert Buddhism
Business Meeting:David McMahan, Franklin and Marshall College, Presiding

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Buddhism Unit and Chinese Religions Unit
Theme: Reshaping Family Life in Modern Chinese Buddhism
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Exeter (Third Level)
Alison Jones, Harvard University, Presiding
Jessica Zu, Princeton University
Buddhisizing the Secular: Reframing the Family Ideals on Yogācāra
Terms in Republican China
Paul Katz, Academia Sinica
Chen Hailiang’s Vision of Buddhist Family Life: A Pilot StudyNatasha Heller, University of Virginia
Buddhist Parenting for Modern Families: A Case StudyNeky Tak-Ching Cheung, University of Macau
Ritual and the Reformulation of Family Values: A Case Study of Lay
Buddhist Menopausal Rituals in China
Responding:Robert Weller, Boston University

Christian Systematic Theology Unit and Schleiermacher
Unit
Theme: Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Christian Faith: Doctrinal
Analyses in Celebration of the First English-Language Critical
Edition (Westminster John Knox, 2016)
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-109 (Plaza Level)
Shelli Poe, Millsaps College, and Holly Taylor Coolman, ProvidenceCollege, Presiding
Calli Micale, Yale University
A Schleiermacherian Solution: Eschatalogical Continuity, Disability,
and Communication
Andrew Packman, University of Chicago
Schleiermacher’s “Change of Heart” and the Recovery of Feeling in
Theology
Timo Helenius, Brown University
The State of Servitude: Schleiermacher’s Phenomenology of Sin

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Class, Religion, and Theology Unit and Religion andDisability Studies Unit
Theme: The Complex Intersections between Disability and Class
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-102 (Plaza Level)
Heike Peckruhn, Daemen College, Presiding
Joseph Strife, Union Theological Seminary
Charity and the Formation of the Working Class
Lang Chen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Disability, Religion, and Class in Shi Tiesheng’s Works: A PostCommunist Perspective
Jeremy Posadas, Austin College
Intersections of Disability and Class: Redistributive Recognition,
Organizing Collaboration, and Anti-Work Theory
Lisa Hancock, Southern Methodist University
Resisting Salvific Productivity: Disability, Cyborgs, and the Body of
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Cognitive Science of Religion Unit and International
Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion

Comparative Religious Ethics Unit

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Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit and
SBL Violence and Representations of Violence
Theme: Charges of Blasphemy in Religious Discourse
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Hampton (Third Level)
Simon Zeldin, McMaster University, Presiding
Kimberly Stratton, Carleton University
The Ultimate Sacrilege—Deicide and the Paschal Lamb:Appropriating Exodus to Authorize Violence against Jews
James Petitfils, Biola University
Apparently Other: Appearance and Blasphemy in the Ancient
Christian Martyr Acts
Benjamin Lappenga, Dordt College“Formerly a Blasphemer and a Man of Violence”: First Timothy andthe Othering of Jews
Responding:
Christine Luckritz, Sacred Heart University
Jennifer Bryson, Center for Islam and Religious Freedom,
Washington, DC and Army War College

Theme: Author Meets Critics: Richard B. Miller’s Friends andOther Strangers (Columbia University Press, 2016)
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Riverway (Fifth Level)
Aline Kalbian, Florida State University, and Aaron Stalnaker, Indiana
University, Presiding
Panelists:
Diana Fritz Cates, University of Iowa
Ross Moret, Florida State University
Eric Gregory, Princeton University
Atalia Omer, University of Notre Dame
Responding:Richard Miller, University of Chicago
Business Meeting:
Jonathan K. Crane, Emory University, and Jung Lee,
Northeastern University, Presiding

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Comparative Theology Unit and Society for HinduChristian Studies
Theme: Rāmānuja at 1000: The Heritage and Promise of the Studyof Rāmānuja in a Christian-Hindu Comparative Theology
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-111 (Plaza Level)
John Carman, Harvard University, Presiding
Gopal Gupta, College of Idaho
Why Rāmānuja? Some Reflections on Christian-Vaisnava
Comparative Theology
Hugh Nicholson, Loyola University, Chicago
Rudolf Otto’s Encounter with Rāmānuja as Model for Comparative
Theology
Jon Paul Sydnor, Emmanuel College, Boston
What if Rāmānuja Was Right? On the Possibility of Divine
Embodiment in the Christian Tradition
Ankur Barua, University of Cambridge
The God of Love and the Love of God: Thinking With Rāmānuja
About Grace in Christianity
Robindra Martin Ganeri, English Province of the Order ofPreachers
Thinking the Creator and Creature Together: How Rāmānuja’s
Account of Scriptural Meaning Encourages a Retrieval of Unitive
Language in Christian Discourse about God and the World
Rakesh Peter Dass, Hope College
Proper Acts: Rāmānuja and Luther on Works
Responding:Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University

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Theme: Against Empathy (or How the Buddhists Got Morality
Right)
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-311 (Third Level)
Claire White, California State University, Northridge, Presiding
Panelists:
Edward Slingerland, University of British Columbia
David DeSteno, Northeastern University
Mina Cikara, Harvard University
Responding:Claire White, Yale University

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Business Meeting:
Monica R. Miller, Lehigh University, Presiding

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Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit and Western Esotericism
Unit
Theme: The Pagan-Esoteric Complex: Mapping Intersecting
Milieus
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-201 (Second Level)
Egil Asprem, Stockholm University, Presiding
Vivianne Crowley, Nottingham Trent University
Ancient Egypt in an Irish Castle: How an Irish Goddess Spirituality
Movement Bridges the Esoteric and Exoteric, Pagan, and ChristianWorldsCaroline Tully, University of Melbourne
Isis of the North: The Celtic Priests of the Linage of Scota
Diana Brown, Syracuse University“Eastern Methods and Western Bodies”: Dion Fortune’s Assessment of
Yoga for a Western Audience
Jason Winslade, DePaul University
Faeries, Bards, and Magicians: Fantasy Worlds of the Pagan Music
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Critical Approaches to Hip-Hop and Religion Unit

Theme: Gurus and Gangstas: Capital, Charisma, and Making theSacred/Profane
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick B (Second Level)
Christopher Driscoll, Lehigh University, Presiding
Amanda Furiasse, Florida State University, and Sher Afgan
Tareen, Florida State University
Listening to the End Times: Brand Nubian and the Ethics ofListening as a Black Apocalyptic Disciplinary PracticeJessica Couch, University of Georgia
Is God a Gangsta? Recentering the Narrative “I” and the Precarity ofBlack Masculinity
Abimbola Adelakun, University of Texas
The Widow Morality: Anti-Hubris and Nigerian Hip-Hop Music
Forrest Kentwell, University of Groningen
Flatbush Zombies, Aries, and Afro-Pessimism: A Way of Reading
Marcus Evans, McMaster University
Wu-Tang Clan’s East Asian Religious Dimensions: Racial andReligious Transcendence in the Life-Narrative and Imagination ofRZA

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Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit
Theme: Sergii Bulgakov and Modern Western Theology: Panel
Discussion
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Berkeley (Third Level)
Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University, Presiding
Panelists:
Cyril J. O’Regan, University of Notre DameDavid B. Hart, University of Notre Dame
Paul R. Valliere, Butler University
Katherine Sonderegger, Virginia Theological Seminary
Responding:Jennifer Newsome Martin, University of Notre Dame
Brandon Gallaher, University of Exeter

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Evangelical Studies Unit
Theme: Evangelicalism and Posturing Public Life
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Berkeley (Third Level)
Vincent Bacote, Wheaton College, Presiding
April French, Brandeis University
Protest from the Margins: A Human Rights Campaign Led by
Evangelical Women in the Soviet Union, 1964-1987
Paul Louis Metzger, Multnomah Biblical Seminary
Re-imagining Piety, Prophetic Witness, and Political Theology: An
Appraisal of Bonhoeffer and Evangelicalism
Lindsey Maxwell, Florida International University
Training God’s Children: Curriculum and Culture in the ChristianHomeschooling Movement, 1983-2000
Aaron Griffith, Duke University“Lawlessness Has Become the Spirit of Our Age”: Crime Concern and
the Making of Postwar Evangelicalism

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Receptions and Breakfasts

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Hinduism Unit and Religion, Colonialism, andPostcolonialism Unit

International Development and Religion Unit and Space,
Place, and Religion Unit

Theme: Constructing and Contesting Race in Hindu Religions
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-110 (Plaza Level)
Michael Altman, University of Alabama, Presiding
Philip Deslippe, University of California, Santa Barbara
Yoga, Race, and the Place of “Hindus” in Early Twentieth-Century
America
Alexander Rocklin, Willamette University
The Race of a Hindu: Hindu Identification, Obeah, and Politics ofCategorization between the US and the Caribbean
Drew Thomases, San Diego State University
Appropriating Archetypes: Murtis and “Idol Anxieties” on the Margins
of Hindu and Hippie
Nicole Karapanagiotis, Rutgers University, Camden
Krishna West and the Reinvention of ISKCON
Responding:
Joanne Punzo Waghorne, Syracuse University

Theme: Asian Religious Sites and Secular Space in Dynamic
TensionSaturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)
Brian J. Nichols, Mount Royal University, Presiding
Jonathan H. X. Lee, San Francisco State University
A Tale of Three Temples, Three Cities, and Three Goddesses? Historicity
and Sacred Space in the Cult of Tianhou/Mazu at Meizhou, Beigang,
and San Francisco
Steven Hu, University of California, Santa Barbara“Transforming the City by God’s Grace”: Christian Publicity, Sense ofPlace, and Place-Making in Shanghai, China
Grace Ramswick, Stanford University
Reinventions and Revaluations of Pakistan’s Buddhist Ruins: The
Case of Recent South Korean Delegations to Taxila and Takht-i-Bahi
Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College
Loss and Promise: The Buddhist Temple as Tourist Space in Thailand
Responding:
Courtney Bruntz, Doane University

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Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Unit
Theme: Barbies, Bots, and Mere Mortals: Images of God?
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level)
Ronald S. Cole-Turner, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Presiding
Victoria Lorrimar, University of Oxford
Does Co-creation Theology Encourage Human Enhancement?
Karen O’Donnell, Durham University
Performing the Imago Dei: Human Enhancement and Optative
Image-Bearing
Alec Arnold, Saint Louis University
Perceiving Souls in Bread, Bodies, and Bots: A Liturgical-Theological
Evaluation of Transhumanism
Kara Slade, Duke University, and Michelle Wolff, Duke
University
Beyond Barbie, Blow-Up Dolls, and Blondes: Sex Robots and theTranshuman Future
Business Meeting:Tracy J. Trothen, Queen’s University, Kingston, Presiding

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Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit
Theme: Kierkegaard and the Future of Revelation – Part I: The
Power and the Fragility of Revelation
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Republic A (Second Level)
Sheridan Hough, College of Charleston, Presiding
Avron Kulak, York University
Kierkegaard, History, Contemporaneity: Reflections After 11/9
Christopher Nelson, South Texas College
Opening a Kierkegaardian Time-Capsule in Twenty-First Century
America: Communications, Reduplications, and Revelations
Bryan Ellrod, Emory University
After the Earthquake: Is There Something Edifying for a Post-Trump
America to Be Found in a Polemic against Justice?
Marcia C. Robinson, Syracuse University“Blooming in the Dung Heap”: Kierkegaard and the Dialectic of
Revelation and Faith in Troubling Times
Business Meeting:
Sheridan Hough, College of Charleston, Presidingx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious
Thought Unit
Theme: Pragmatism in the Age of Trump
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level)
William David Hart, Macalester College, Presiding
Logan Narikawa, University of Hawai’i
In the Midst of Fire: Achieving Our “Post-Truth” Country
Beth Eddy, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAnd Whose Little American are You? Masks, Tribalism, and Love in
the Age of Trump
Aaron Ghiloni, University of Queensland
Dewey Defeats Trump!
Jacob Waldenmaier, Cleveland State University
The Will to Disbelieve: A Pragmatist-Ethical Challenge to National
Narcissism
Business Meeting:William David Hart, Macalester College, PresidingC

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Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit
Theme: Womanists at the Wheel: Emerging Concepts andContributions in Pastoral and Practical Theology
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-207 (Second Level)
Stephanie M. Crumpton, Hood Theological Seminary, Presiding
Beverly Wallace, Shaw University
Absence and Presence: Conceptualizing a Model of Care for African
American Families and Communities Using the Theory of Ambiguous
Loss
Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Mercer University
Until You Do Right by Me: A Womanist View of Racial
Reconciliation
Pamela Yetunde, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
Theologies of the “Impure”: A Womanist Response to the Religious
Freedom to Discriminate
Kishundra King, Vanderbilt University
Womanist Pastoral Theology for the Future: Impediments andPossibilities for Black Girl MagicBusiness Meeting:Eileen Campbell-Reed, Central Baptist Theological Seminary,and Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding

Qur’an Unit and Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit
Theme: Christianity and Islam in the Late Antique
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level)
Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College, Presiding
Richard (Todd) Godwin, University of London
Leveling the Playing Field: The Flat-Earth Cartography and Worldly
Asceticism of Cosmas the India Traveler’s Topographica Christiana
and Its Readers
Ute Possekel, Harvard University
Exegesis and Ritual at the School of Nisibis: Thomas of Edessa on the
Feast of Epiphany
Matthew Niemi, Indiana University
What Was Islam? The Meaning of Dīn in Seventh-Century Arabia
Responding:
Joseph Lumbard, American University of Sharjah
Business Meeting:Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College, and James McGrath,
Butler University, PresidingC

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Reformed Theology and History Unit

Theme: The Kingdom of God and Civil Governments
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay A (Second Level)
Cynthia Rigby, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding
Henry Kuo, Graduate Theological Union
Peregrinating between Two Cities: Revisiting the Peregrinus
Matthew Kaemingk, Fuller Theological Seminary
A Reformed Critique of Theocratic and Secular Hegemony: The Promiseand Problems within Abraham Kuyper’s Political Theology
Andrew Klumpp, Southern Methodist University
A Latter-Day Geneva?: Building a Dutch Reformed Society in theAmerican Midwest
Matthew Jantzen, Duke University
Reformed Resistance Theory: A Theological Minority Report
Business Meeting:
Cynthia Rigby, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, andJ. Todd Billings, Western Theological Seminary, Presiding

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Religion and Politics Unit
Theme: Populism through the Lens of Religion and Race
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level)
Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute, Presiding
This session explores the impact of religion and race on American
populism across the ideological spectrum. Papers explore theinterplay of religious and secular forces on the #BlackLivesMattermovement, including a theological exploration of the death ofMichael Brown and an examination of how Millennial activists areblurring secular/religious boundaries. The session juxtaposes these
topics with examinations of white conservative populist expressions.
Papers explore populist elements within the Southern Baptist
Convention that laid the foundation for white evangelicals to throw
their support behind Donald Trump and among Tea Party womenwhose rhetoric centered around a vision of white Christianity
fighting the legality of abortion.
Larycia Hawkins, University of Virginia
The Reproductive Politics of Evangelical Tea Party Women and theAfterbirth of Trump’s America
Adam Hankins, DePaul University
Populism in the Southern Baptist Convention
Seth Gaiters, Ohio State University
Critical Complexities: Religious-Secularity or Secular-Religiosity, and#BlackLivesMatter
Rima Vesely-Flad, Warren Wilson College
Seeing Jesus in Michael Brown: Theological Protest as the Performanceof Purity in the Black Lives Matter Movement

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Religion in Southeast Asia Unit
Theme: Exclusion, Vulnerability, and Anxiety: Perspectives on andfrom Southeast Asia
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon F (Third Level)
Richard Fox, Heidelberg University, Presiding
Susan Hayward, Georgetown University, United States Instituteof Peace, Washington, D.C.
Women’s Bodies as Battleground: Debates about Nationalism,
Conversion, and Women’s Rights in Myanmar
Kelly Meister, University of Chicago
Sacrificing Tradition to Create Heritage: Globalization, Anxiety, andShifting Material Culture at Wat Phra Thāt (Nakhon Si Thammarat,
Thailand)Raphael Lorenzo Aguiling Pangalangan, University of thePhilippines
Relative Impermeability of the Wall of Separation: An Uphill Battle
for Marriage Equality in the Philippines
Hans Harmakaputra, Boston College
The “Conservative Turn” in Indonesian Islam and Indonesian
Christians Responses
Responding:Alexandra Kaloyanides, Stanford University
Business Meeting:
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Theme: Valuing Religion
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-203 (Second Level)
Kati Curts, University of the South, Presiding
Samuel Brody, University of Kansas
One Jew, Two Jews, Red Jews, Blue Jews: Contemporary Jewish
Economic Literature between “Social Justice” and “Business Ethics”
Andrew Jungclaus, Columbia University
The Presbyterian “Lifetime Income Plan” and the Democratization ofEndowment
Charles McCrary, Florida State University
Swindlers, Vagrants, and Religious Sincerity in New York, 1870–
1920
Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg, University of Copenhagen
Value Creation, Marketization of Spiritual Tourism and Religious
Transformation in Ladakh, India
Responding:
Bethany Moreton, Dartmouth College
Business Meeting:
Elayne Oliphant, New York University, and Daniel Vaca, Brown
University, Presiding

Business Meeting:Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute, and Vincent
Biondo, Humboldt State University, Presiding

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Religion, Media, and Culture Unit
Theme: Broadening Conversations in Media, Religion, andCulture Studies: Multi-disciplinary Reflections on Religious
Identity and Authority
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Public Garden (Fifth Level)
Heidi Ann Campbell, Texas A&M University, Presiding
Nandra Perry, Texas A&M University
Cybersaints? Ritual, Community, and the Book of Common Prayer
OnlineRebecca Hankins, Texas A&M University
Reel Bad Muslims: The Complicated Portrayals of African American
Muslims on TV
Ashley Passmore, Texas A&M University
Electronic Apikoros/Electronic Apostate: Orthodox Jewish Satire
OnlineNesrine Mansour, Texas A&M University
Virtual Sacred Architecture in Digital Religion: Ambiance Perceptionof Light as Shaping Public and Personal Spiritual Experience
Tommy Pfannkoch, Texas A&M University
William Tyndale as Media Theorist: Collaboration and Authority In
Sixteenth-Century England
Felicia Piscitelli, Texas A&M University
Whose Music Is It? The Use of Sacred Music and Its Audiences
Ruth Tsuria, Texas A&M University
Jewish Sexuality Online — No Touching!
Business Meeting:
Andrew Aghapour, University of North Carolina, PresidingC

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Roman Catholic Studies Unit

Theme: Reconsidering Urban and Rural Spaces in Roman Catholic
Studies
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Provincetown (Fourth Level)
Kathleen Holscher, University of New Mexico, Presiding
Dylan Belton, University of Notre Dame
Technology and the Modern City: Toward a Contemporary Catholic
VisionBrennan Keegan, Duke University
Industrial Catholicism: The Collision of Catholicism and Mining in
Urban Montana

Katherine Dugan, Springfield College
Catholic in Flyover Country: Studying Rural Catholicism in the U.S.
Adrienne Ambrose, University of the Incarnate Word
Throwback Theater: Max Reinhardt’s The Miracle, Public
Catholicism, and the Age of Urban Spectacle
Responding:Catherine Osborne, University of Notre Dame
Business Meeting:
Karen Enriquez, Loyola Marymount University, and Michael
Pasquier, Louisiana State University, PresidingA

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Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit
Theme: Resurrecting Wounds: Living in the Afterlife of Trauma(Baylor University Press, 2017): A Book Review Panel on Shelly
Rambo’s New Work
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-101 (Plaza Level)
Jacob Erickson, Trinity College, Dublin, Presiding
Panelists:
Wendy Farley, San Francisco Theological Seminary
Willie J. Jennings, Yale University
Tat-siong Benny Liew, College of the Holy Cross
Richard Kearney, Boston College
Responding:
Shelly Rambo, Boston University

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Secularism and Secularity Unit and Sociology of Religion
Unit and Critical Research on Religion
Theme: How Modern is Secularity? A Discussion of HistoricalPrecursors to Modern Forms of the Religious-Secular Divide
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-209 (Second Level)
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, University of Leipzig, Presiding
Panelists:
Christoph Kleine, Leipzig University
Adrian Hermann, University of Bonn
Sven Bretfeld, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Markus Dressler, Leipzig University
C. Pierce Salguero, Pennsylvania State University, Abington
Business Meeting:
Joseph Blankholm, University of California, Santa Barbara, andJonathan VanAntwerpen, Henry Luce Foundation, New York,NY, Presiding

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Tantric Studies Unit
Theme: Transformation in the Iconography of Tantric Deities
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Fairfax B (Third Level)
Ute Huesken, Heidelberg University, Presiding
Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin
The Iconography of Śiva 0ΩW\XΥMD\D
Adam Newman, University of Virginia
5ƘΙΛUDVHQƘ: A Regional Martial Goddess Set in a Theriomorphic
Yoginī Form
Xenia Zeiler, University of Helsinki
Transformations in Tantric Iconography: Visual Representations of theMahavidya Goddesses in Medieval Texts and Contemporary Contexts
Anna A. Golovkova, Cornell University
A Visual History of the Goddess Tripurasundarī
Responding:Rachel Fell McDermott, Barnard College
Business Meeting:Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin, and John Nemec,
University of Virginia, Presiding

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Teaching Religion Unit and Wabash Center for Teachingand Learning in Theology and Religion
Theme: Introduction as Subversion: On Liberal Arts Religious
Studies Pedagogy for Non-majors
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-107 (Plaza Level)
Kevin Minister, Shenandoah University, Presiding
Panelists:
Amy P. Langenberg, Eckerd College
The Demise of the Survey Course and the Contested Value of the
Liberal Arts
Jack Downey, La Salle University“My High School Theology Teacher Told Me My Dad Is Going toHell”: Student Resistance to Christian Studies at a Roman Catholic
University
Matthew Haar Farris, Richmond, CA
The Transformative Pedagogy of Philosophi for an Introduction to
Religious Studies
Holly Hillgardner, Bethany College
15 Weeks in 2017: Reflections on RELS 100 at a Historic ProtestantCollegeElliott Bazzano, Le Moyne College
Your Required Religion Class? “Religion, Drugs, and Culture” in a
Jesuit Catholic Core Curriculum
Responding:Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College
Business Meeting:David B. Howell, Ferrum College, and Molly Bassett, Georgia
State University, Presiding

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Theme: New Approaches to Teaching about Islam and Muslims
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level)
Carole Barnsley, Transylvania University, Presiding
Anandi Salinas, Emory University
Transnational Religion in the Classroom: Transformative Theories
and Digital Methods
Frederick Colby, University of Oregon
Reacting to the Religious and Political Past: Using RTTP RolePlaying Pedagogies in the Religious Studies Classroom
Harold Morales, Morgan State University
Teaching Islam as a Section of World Religions: Exploring the
Challenges and Possibilities of Pedagogical Scholarship on Threshold
Concepts
Hussein Rashid, Islamicate, LLC
This Is Not an Islam Course: Teaching Islam through Popular Culture

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Theology and Religious Reflection Unit
Theme: The Revelry of Suspicion: Apocalypticism, Conspiracy
Theory, and AffectSaturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Arlington (Third Level)
M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University, Presiding
Donovan Schaefer, University of Oxford
The Lust to Believe: Paranoia, Conspiracy Theory, and Apocalypticism
Maia Kotrosits, Denison University
This Whole Thing Is Going Down: Fantasy, Reality, and the Psychic
Life of Destruction
Robert Paul Seesengood, Albright College
Scary Stories: Apocalyptic, Conspiracy, Horror, and AffectErin Runions, Pomona College
In Surveillance We Dwell: Sovereignty, Interiority, and Conspiracy in
Political Biblical Interpretation
Business Meeting:
Brenna Moore, Fordham University, and Tamsin Jones, Trinity
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Women and Religion Unit
Theme: Women’s Activism Past and Present
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty C (Second Level)
Boyung Lee, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding
Ally Kern, Claremont School of Theology
Free to Heal: Addressing Intimate Partner Violence with Faith-Based
Resources for Victims of Abuse
Etin Anwar, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
The Political Theology of Resistance: Muslim Women’s Activism inAmerica
Lydia Willsky-Ciollo, Fairfield University“This Equal Share in Public Affairs”: Unitarianism,
Transcendentalism, and Anti-women’s Rights Activism in Boston
Sherry Jordon, University of Saint Thomas
Re-Imagining Re-visited: Conference, Controversy, and Community
Business Meeting:
Deborah Whitehead, University of Colorado, PresidingC

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A18-237

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Chinese Christianities Seminar
Theme: Chinese Christianities and Religious Boundaries
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon E (Third Level)
Christie Chui-Shan Chow, City Seminary of New York, Presiding
Jin Lu, Purdue University Northwest
From Pagan Virtues to the Salvation of Non-Christians: Father Wang
Changzhi’s Contribution to Chinese Christianity
Tsz Him Lai, Episcopal Divinity School
A Non-violent Model of Liberation Theology in Hong Kong: A
Dialogue with Maoism
Justin Tse, Northwestern University
The Politics of Exclusivity: The Secular Political Implications ofCantonese Evangelical Rejections of Buddhist Cooperation in
Vancouver, BC
Alexander Chow, University of Edinburgh
Christianity as a Chinese Religion: A Theological Reflection
Responding:
Stephanie Wong, Georgetown University
Business Meeting:Alexander Chow, University of Edinburgh, Presiding

Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Seminar
Theme: Religious Philosophies of the Self
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-America Center (Fourth Level)
Timothy D. Knepper, Drake University, Presiding
Oludamini Ogunnaike, College of William and MaryTwo Islamic Global Philosophies of Religion: Suhrawardi andShushtari
Agnieszka Rostalska, Ghent University
Nyāya Theory of Knowledge Generating Processes: A Comparative
Study of Nyāya and A. Goldman
Kiseong Shin, Drew University
The Understanding of Self as a Psychosomatic Complex and Relational
Nexus
Business Meeting:
Gereon Kopf, Luther College, Presiding

A18-238 – Pre-Posted Papers Session

SCH

New Materialism, Religion, and Planetary Thinking
Seminar
Theme: New Materialism, Religion, and Planetary Thinking
Seminar
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-America North (Fourth Level)
Whitney Bauman, Florida International University, Presiding
Zayin Cabot, California State University, East Bay
Planetary Thinking: This Time with Feeling and AffectAdrian Ivakhiv, University of Vermont
Matters of Concern, Justice, and Emergency: Ontological Politics in the
AnthropoCapitalocene
Kimerer L. LaMothe, Vital Arts, Granville, NY
Dancing Immanence: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming
Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology
Matter Values: Ethics and Politics for a Planet in Crisis
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University
The Animist, Almost-Feminist Old Materialism of Giordano Bruno
Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University
An Emergence Theory of Religion
Ursula Goodenough, Washington University, St. LouisThe Emergence of Consciousness from the Material

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Michael Hogue, Meadville Lombard Theological School
Process, Pragmatism, and Planetary Thinking
Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University
New Materialism and Planetary Persistence, Purpose, and Politics
Karen Bray, Wesleyan College
Gut Theology: On the Peril and Promise of Religious and Political
AffectLuke Higgins, Armstrong State University
Process Thought and the New Materialisms
Business Meeting:
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University, Presiding

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Religion and US Empire Seminar
Theme: Race, Gender, Class, and US Empire in the Production of
Religion
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-The Fens (Fifth Level)
Tracy Leavelle, Creighton University, Presiding
Jessica Carr, Lafayette College
An Imperial Imagination: Orientalism, Palestine, and JewishAmerican Visual Culture
Michael Hawkins, Creighton University
Sanitizing the Taboo: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Moro Exhibit at the
St. Louis World’s Fair
Gale Kenny, Barnard College
Protestant Missionaries and the Practice of Comparative Religion in
the Early Twentieth Century
Jonathan Ebel, University of Illinois
Reforming Religion, Reconstituting Empire: New Deal Encounterswith Anti-modern Faiths in Agricultural California
Responding:Cara Burnidge, University of Northern Iowa
Business Meeting:
Heather D. Curtis, Tufts University, Presiding

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Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America Seminar
Theme: Fashioning Religion
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level)
Martha L Finch, Missouri State University, Presiding
Adam Park, Florida State University“Black Belts of the Faith”: Accessories and Christian Martial ArtistryMichelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa
The “Pocahontas Perplex” Lives on in Designer Clothing
Andre Key, Claflin University
Holy Dashikis! Cultural Nationalism and Black Hebrew Religious
FashionLynn S. Neal, Wake Forest University
A Catholic Nunnish Theme
Kayla Renée Wheeler, University of Iowa
Fashioning Muslim Women: YouTube as a Space for Creating
Alternative Islamic Femininities and Knowledges
Business Meeting:Marie W. Dallam, University of Oklahoma, Presiding

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A18-239 – Pre-Posted Papers Session

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Exploratory Sessions
Theme: Global Perspectives on Religion and National Security
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Grand D (Fourth Level)
Patrick Mason, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
Currently, most religion and national security (RNS) research seeks
to unpack the influence of monotheistic religious traditions on theinternational decisions of Western states. This roundtable challenges
this tendency to analyze non-Western states’ security issues as a subsetof the political struggles between ostensible “Great Powers,” attends
to the religious discourses and practices being used to mediate global
conflicts, challenges traditional divisions between “Western” and “nonWestern” territories, and focuses attention on religious traditions not
typically cited in RNS work.
Whitny Braun, Loma Linda University
Religion and National Security in India: The Evolution of Sikh and
Hindu Nationalist Views on the Indian Military
Flagg Miller, University of California, Davis
When Salvation Meets the “Security Belt”: Reading and Reporting
Sectarianism in Southern Yemen
Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan University
National Security and Natural Disaster in Haiti
Chase L. Way, Claremont Graduate University
From Narcotraffickers to Knights: How Drug Cartels Use Theology to
Resist Mexico’s National Security State
Responding:Michael Jerryson, Youngstown State University

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P18-212
Association of Practical Theology

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

African Association for the Study of Religions
Theme: Crossing Borders: Interaction of Healing Practices of
Religions in Modern Africa
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-309 (Third Level)
Esther Acolatse, University of Toronto, Presiding
African traditional medicine, and faith healing practices ofPentecostalism, the Charismatics and Prophet Churches have had
quite some history of interactions in Africa. The interactions havemanifested as conflicts, separatism, dialogue, and integration in formsof syncretism. These models of interaction assume that there areconditions under which interaction of therapeutic ideas and practices
occur, increase or diminish. The realities of geography, history, sociocultural factors, the state of a religion, the level of development ofhealth services in a society, or other causes may create such conditions
The Panel looks at theories of border crossing in general and theirrelevance in the history of interaction of religiously based therapeutic
traditions in Africa. It examines conditions under which interaction oftherapeutic ideas and practices occur, increase or diminish. It also will
focus on when and how religious practitioners and healers construct,synthesize, blend, negotiate; that is to say; cross religious borders inmatters of healing practices.
Anita Aba Ansah, University of Oslo
Appropriation of African Traditional Religion Mechanisms in the
Healing and Deliverance Practices of Pentecostals in the Milieu of
Inadequate Health Care in Ghana
S. Kip Elolia, Emmanuel Christian Seminary
The Role of Repentance in the Holistic Healing of the Roho Churchesof Kenya
Timothy Carey, Boston College“God Has Sent Down Both the Disease and the Cure”: Syncretism inIslamic and African Traditional Worship in Post-Colonial Kenya
Responding:Jude Aguwa, Mercy College, NY

Theme: Practical Theology, Bodily (Im)proprieties, Mobilizing
ResistanceSaturday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-St. George C-D (Third Level)
Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke University, Presiding
Practical theology’s expansive body of knowledge presents
opportunities for proprietary inquiry:• Who owns, controls, manages, regulates, or
dictates bodies and knowledge?
• What is the interplay between body and knowledge, and how does
one animate the other?
• What is the place of body, bodily knowing, and bodily knowledge
in practical theological research?
• How does practical theology investigate the regulationsof propriety in the realms of theory and practice—theregimentation of embodied scholarship and the habituationof bodily practices according to dominant templates andchoreographies of “norm” and “other”?
• How does the above investigation attend to the complicatednessof “the body” and of embodiment, taking seriously complex
bodily expressions—children as more than non-adult bodies;lesbian bodies; transitioning bodies; disabling bodies (bodies whochallenge and dismantle normative assumptions about bodies andabilities); the presence/action/protesting of ill and dying bodies(e.g., ACT UP during early AIDS activism); racial and sexual
bi-bodies... .
• How have bodies and knowledge been engaged as mobilizing
sources and mediums for resistance—from resistant knowing toresistant action?
This session presents panelists who will help to catalyze collective
musings on the above question.
Panelists:
Nancy Lynne Westfield, Drew University
Lakisha Lockhart, Boston College
Faustino Cruz, Fordham University
Cláudio Carvalhaes, Union Theological Seminary
Responding:John P. Falcone, Iona College

Q

A18-242
Back Bay Wine Tasting Tour

Saturday, 1:45 PM–4:15 PM
Offsite-Meet at the Registration Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD in
the Convention Center
See page 10 for details.
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Practices and
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Receptions and Breakfasts

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FPKA

P18-342Society for Pentecostal Studies

Theme: How to Make Department Service Work for You:
Establishing Collective Resources
Saturday, 2:30 PM–4:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
Landing a successful academic job requires that you cultivate yourskills as a professional researcher and teacher, but it also requires thatyou demonstrate your ability to help build a thriving and substantial
department life. This roundtable is geared towards two specificgoals: 1) helping you identify how and where you can begin to makeimportant interventions in the collective life of your department, and2) mobilizing those interventions for the job market.
Panelists:
Candace Mixon, University of North Carolina
Shannon Trosper Schorey, University of North Carolina

Theme: A Roundtable Discussion of John Christopher Thomas, A
Pentecostal Reads the Book of Mormon
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Clarendon (Third Level)
Blaine Charette, Northwest University, Presiding
Panelists:
Jenny Webb, Huntsville, AL
Joseph Spencer, Brigham Young University
Dale E. Luffman, Community of Christ Seminary
D. William Faupel, Wesley Theological Seminary
Responding:John Christopher Thomas, Pentecostal Theological Seminary

A18-301

Coffee BreakBFPKPlenary Panel

Saturday, 3:30 PM
Complimentary coffee will be served in the backof Aisle 2100 and Aisle 2600 of the Exhibit Hall.

Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Student Lounge Roundtable

FPK

Student Lounge Roundtable
Theme: Educational Entrepreneurship: Monetizing Your Expertisethrough Digital Teaching
Saturday, 4:00 PM–5:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
Online education is the way of the future. If you’re passionate aboutsharing your knowledge with others, you can pursue a rewarding
career on your own terms as an online educational entrepreneur. You
can do so in tandem with, or instead of, teaching at the academy.
Most importantly, you will learn how to harness your doctorate in afulfilling teaching career, irrespective of the state of the tenure-track
job market. In this workshop, Raj Balkaran shares key insights on his
journey founding the School of Applied Mythology, a digital academy
for meaningful learning.
This workshop lays the foundation for successful educational
entrepreneurship, including (1) content creation; (2) curriculum design;(3) sales and marketing strategy; and (4) effective digital pedagogy.
Panelists:
Raj Balkaran, University of Toronto

Theme: Protecting the Vulnerable on Campus
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level)
Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University, Presiding
Sponsored by the Academic Labor and Contingent FacultyCommittee and Graduate Student Committee and Status of
LGBTIQ Persons in the Profession Committee
For many of us who study or work in colleges and seminary campuses
today it may be easy to ignore the vulnerable at our institutions. Yet
the most vulnerable are often at risk or subject to discrimination andexploitation based on inequities of power, money, lack of social net, ormeans to voice their concerns about campus life and work. This panel
will examine what needs attention and the strategies that vulnerable
people and their allies can use to decrease vulnerability and increasesolidarity. Special attention will be paid to the status of, and strategies
being deployed by, the LGBT+ community, graduate students, peopleof color, low paid workers, and non-tenured faculty.
Cameron Partridge, St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, San
Francisco“Although the Doors Were Shut”: Cultivating CourageousCommunity at the Borders of the Academy
Prea Persaud, University of Florida
It Doesn’t Always Feel Good: Redefining Notions of Inclusion andMoving beyond “Diversity”
James Keenan, Boston College
Solidarity within the Faculty
Hussein Rashid, Islamicate, LLC
Ad Junk: Accounting for Different Vulnerabilities in Vulnerable
Professional Positions
Kerry Danner, Georgetown University
Just Employment: Solidarity among Campus Workers

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John Nemec, University of Virginia
Kristian Petersen, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Robert A. Yelle, University of Munich

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FPK

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Applied Religious Studies Committee
Theme: Another Plan “A”: Religious Studies Education andCareers Beyond the Academy
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-101 (Plaza Level)
Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Harvard Law School, Presiding
Worried about the job market? Thinking that a career in higher
ed no longer matches your interests and goals? Or just wondering
about options? Join the Applied Religious Studies Committee fora discussion on career paths outside the academy. Panelists hold or
are working on masters and doctoral degrees in a variety of religious
studies and theology programs and will discuss fields including:publishing and editing; freelance writing; nonprofits and foundations;
government; religious communities; academic administration; andmore. This year’s panel includes current PhD candidates who will talkabout their own experiences of exploring nonacademic career optionsin the context of their graduate studies, and panelists will discuss theways faculty, departments, and the AAR might better support scholars
as they consider careers beyond the academy. Come hear more about
what graduate education in religious studies already does to prepare
us for and enhance our practice of various careers, and help us think
about what more the academy can and should do to support scholars
in the pursuit of nonacademic work.
This panel will include substantial time for audience Q&A anddiscussion. Please join us to share your thoughts!
Panelists:
Jason Blakeburn, McGill University
Regina Walton, Harvard University
Emily Mace, Lake Forest College
Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute
Lauren Taylor, Harvard UniversityK

A18-303
Publications Committee
Theme: How to Get Published
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level)
Cynthia Read, Oxford University Press, and Theodore Vial, Iliff
School of Theology, Presiding
Panelists:
Cynthia Eller, Claremont Graduate University
Karen Jackson-Weaver, Harvard University
Margaret D. Kamitsuka, Oberlin College

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A18-304
African Religions Unit

Theme: Agency and the African Religious Imagination: African
Religious and Political Responses to Vulnerability
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)
Tracey Hucks, Colgate University, Presiding
Sheila Otieno, Boston University
Trickster Magic: Summoning Agency through Hauntings of African
Religious Moral Imagination in Oral Traditions
Georgette Ledgister, Emory University
Conjuring Warriors: Agency through Ancestral Interventions in War
amongst the Luba Mai-Mai
Danielle Clausnitzer, Georgetown University
The “Problem” of Albinism: The Construction of Racial and SpiritualDifference in Twenty-first Century Tanzania
Oluwatomisin Oredein, Duke University
Precarious Practices: An African Feminist Examination of African
Theology’s Patriarchy Problem
Responding:
Jacob K. Olupona, Harvard University

A18-305
Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit
Theme: Museums and the Public Understanding of Religion:
Sacred Art, History, and Science on Display
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-The Fens (Fifth Level)
S. Brent Plate, Hamilton College, Presiding
There are over 850 million visits every year to museums in the UnitedStates, much more than attendance at sporting events and amusement
parks combined. Museums are go-to spaces for educational field trips,
must-see destinations for tourists, for hands-on scientific exploration,and flint stones of socio-political controversy. And they are filled withreligious objects.
Presenters in this roundtable have worked with national institutionsof US history, major museums of fine art, and have extensively
studied the commitments of museum staff to shape opinion. Eachpanelist will reflect on their own experiences at the intersectionof religion and museums, commenting on how museums engage,
promote, and influence the public understanding of religion in
the United States. The implications of the relations move beyond
religious traditions and museum collections and connect with

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Black Theology Unit
Theme: Michelle Alexander and Walter Fluker: The MysticalProphetic in Black—A Special Look at Mass Incarceration and theBlack Lives Matter Movement
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level)
Walter Earl Fluker, Boston University, Presiding
Featuring Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass
Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010) and Walter Fluker, editorof the Howard Thurman Papers Project, this panel will discuss waysthat black theology contributes to prophetic advocacy and movementbuilding and to a political, moral and spiritual revolution. Papers will
suggest resources black theological interpreters may garner from theBlack Lives Matter Movement and the tradition of black mysticism inHoward Thurman, James Baldwin and others. The Howard Thurman
Center for Common Ground at Boston University will host a reception
following the session. All attendees of the session are invited.
Larry Perry, University of Virginia
A Blues Enthused Mysticism: Howard Thurman, Mysticism, andTragedy
Wendy Arce, University of San Francisco
Freedom in an Age of Repression: The Role of Black Theology andBlack-Produced Media in Forging Freedom
Gregory Williams, Duke University
Jewish Election and the Blackness of God: Reading Barth on theElection of the Community in the Context of Mass Incarceration and#BlackLivesMatter
S.Kyle Johnson, Boston College“Trapped in a History Which They Do Not Understand”: Reading
James Baldwin with Thomas Merton, toward a Theological-SpiritualAccount of Mass Incarceration
Responding:Michelle Alexander, Union Theological SeminaryBusiness Meeting:
Andrea C. White, Union Theological Seminary, and Adam Clark,
Xavier University, PresidingC

A18-307
Buddhist Critical–Constructive Reflection Unit

Theme: Buddhist Visions of the Good Life for All
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Provincetown (Fourth Level)
Manuela Kalsky, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Presiding
Barbra R. Clayton, Mount Allison University
The Development of Wellbeing: Gross National Happiness andBhutan’s Vision for the Ideal Society
Christopher Ives, Stonehill College
Buddhist Environmentalist Visions of the Good Life for All
Hsiaolan Hu, University of Detroit, Mercy
Dharma Drum Mountain’s Version of Humanistic Buddhism
Gereon Kopf, Luther College
The Conception of Life in Contemporary Japanese Socially Engaged
Buddhism
Responding:
Sallie B. King, James Madison University
Business Meeting:
Sid Brown, University of the South, and Hsiaolan Hu, Universityof Detroit, Mercy, Presiding

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international legal issues, cultural appropriation, secularization,
corporate sponsorships, economic reform, histories of art, scientificmethods, and theological orthodoxy.
Panelists:
Lauren Turek, Trinity University
Peter Manseau, National Museum of American History,
Washington, DC
William Trollinger, University of Dayton
Susan Trollinger, University of Dayton
Laura Weinstein, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Eric Lewis Williams, Smithsonian National Museum of African
American History and Culture
Responding:
Stephen Prothero, Boston University

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Chinese Religions Unit
Theme: Chinese Religions and Print Culture
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level)
Noga Ganany, Columbia University
Origin Narratives: Writing and Worship in Late Ming Print Culture
Katherine Alexander, University of Colorado
Late Qing Performances of Philanthropic Identity in Reprints of Pan
Gong Baojuan
Yair Lior, Boston University
The Tang-Song Transition in Light of Communication Technologies
Kaiqi Hua, University of British Columbia
The Tangut Buddhist Canon in the Yuan Dynasty: Printing Alien
Scriptures under Alien Rule
Responding:
Jiang Wu, University of Arizona
Business Meeting:
Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee, and Anna Sun, Kenyon
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Christian Spirituality Unit
Theme: Spiritualities of the Reformation
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Riverway (Fifth Level)
Lisa E. Dahill, California Lutheran University, Presiding
Simeon Zahl, University of Nottingham
Prayer and Affliction: Martin Luther on the Spiritual Roots ofTheological InsightJustin Nickel, Princeton Theological Seminary
We Must Inquire after Their Language: Luther’s Language as
Spiritual Discipline
Travis Ables, Regis University
The Cross of the Bitter Christ: Competing Christomorphisms in the
Radical and Magisterial Reformations
Flynn Cratty, Yale University
The Origins of Reformed Prayer: Devotional Humanism and theFracturing of European Devotional Culture
Rebecca Giselbrecht, University of Zurich, Fuller TheologicalSeminary
The Prayer Book and Spiritual Writings of Anna Alexandria vonFurstenberg zu Rappoltstein
Business Meeting:Margaret Benefiel, Shalem Institute For Spiritual Formation, andGlenn Young, Rockhurst University, PresidingC

A18-310

Vebjorn Horsfjord, University of Oslo
“Traditional Values” at the UN: Can Shared Religiousness Be a Basisfor Political Action?
Responding:
Christopher Stroop, University of South Florida
Business Meeting:
Brandon Gallaher, University of Exeter, and Vera Shevzov, Smith
College, PresidingC

A18-311Ecclesiological Investigations Unit

Theme: Global Ecclesial Responses to Increasing Extremism andNationalism
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Republic A (Second Level)
Miriam Perkins, Milligan College, Presiding
Vincent J. Miller, University of Dayton
Which Nationalism? What Extremism? Responding to Political
Violence in a New Moment
Stan Chu Ilo, DePaul University
Confronting the Challenges of Religious Extremism and the
Humanitarian and Migration Crisis in Africa
Ulrich Schmiedel, University of Munich
European Extremes: Churches in the Clash of Cultures
Gerard Mannion, Georgetown University
Resisting the Politics of Hatred and Exclusion: Time for New Forms of
Public and Political Theology
Business Meeting:
Bradford E. Hinze, Fordham University, Presiding

Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit

A18-312

Theme: Evangelicals, Eastern Orthodox Christians, andTraditional Values: A Global Alliance?
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-209 (Second Level)
Vera Shevzov, Smith College, Presiding
Lydia Kemi (Olukemi) Ingram, Murrieta, CA
Reclaiming the Faith of Our Grandparents: Identity, Values, andTradition in African American Orthodox Christian Narratives
Sonja Luehrmann, Simon Fraser University
Jessica’s Hope: Fieldwork and Translation between Evangelical andOrthodox Family Values
John P. Burgess, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Traditional Values? National Identity as a Problem for “OrthodoxRus’” and “Christian America”

Ethics Unit

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Theme: The Ethics of Democracy
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-110 (Plaza Level)
Christophe D. Ringer, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding
Derrick Muwina, Boston University
A Reflection on Donald Trump’s Rhetoric on Immigration through the
Ethical Lens of Civility
Thomas Greene, Florida State University
Religious Endorsements for Secular Governments: Contemporary
Iranian Examples of Moving beyond a Modus Vivendi
Todd D. Whitmore, University of Notre Dame
Who Are The Wicked? Religion and the Shifting Political Productionof the Drug Addict
Sarah Azaransky, Union Theological Seminary
The Harlem 9: Public Education and the Limits of American Democracy

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Practices and
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Receptions and Breakfasts

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Tyler Davis, Baylor University
Civil Rights and Cold War: The Limits of Reinhold Niebuhr’s
Antiracism
Karen V. Guth, College of the Holy Cross
Laying Claim to Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights
Legacy: An Ethical Assessment of Walter Rauschenbusch Scholarship
Business Meeting:
Keri Day, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding

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Gay Men and Religion Unit

A18-314Hinduism Unit and North American Hinduism Unit
Theme: Gandhian Afterlives: Transnational Circuits of Gandhi’sMemorySaturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Vineyard (Fourth Level)
Christian Lee Novetzke, University of Washington, Presiding
Timothy Dobe, Grinnell College
Transnational Homespun: Citizen Art, Gandhi Ashrams, andPerforming Counter-Modernity
Karline McLain, Bucknell University
The Afterlives of Gandhi’s Ashrams in South Africa and India
A. Whitney Sanford, University of Florida
Non-Violence, Voluntary Simplicity, and Radical Democracy: Gandhi’s
Legacy in Contemporary Intentional Communities in the US
Leela Prasad, Duke University
The Resonance of Ahimsa: Teaching Gandhi in a US Prison
Responding:Richard H. Davis, Bard College#aarhcs

History of Christianity Unit
Theme: New Histories of Americano Protestantisms: Hegemonsand Subalterns
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-311 (Third Level)
Daniel Ramirez, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
Jorge Rodriguez, Union Theological Seminary
Creating Puerto Rican Subalterns: The Protestant Missionary Projectof the Late Nineteenth Century
Erika Helgen, Yale University
Migration, Drought, and the Pentecostalization of Catholic AntiProtestantism in Brazil, 1911-1945
Lloyd Barba, Amherst College
Through the Lens of the Subaltern: Mexican-Pentecostal Narratives
and Church Family Photographs
Justin Doran, University of Texas
Um País Laico, com Infraestrutura Apropriada: Toward a PostSecular Political Economy in São Paulo’s Templo de Salomão
Responding:Ana Maria Bidegain, Florida International University

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Theme: Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights(University of North Carolina Press, 2015): Book Panel with
Heather White
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Grand D (Fourth Level)
Marco Derks, Utrecht University, Presiding
Brett Krutzsch, College of Wooster
Religion in Secular Gay Activism: A Reflection on Heather White’s
Reforming Sodom
David Bos, University of Amsterdam
Sodom Across the Atlantic: A Comparison of American and Dutch
Histories
William Boyce, University of Virginia
Reforming Sodom in Review: Prospects for Solidarity and the Theopolitical Imagination of Evangelical Protestants
Responding:
Heather White, University of Puget Sound
Business Meeting:Roger A. Sneed, Furman University, Presiding

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A18-316
Law, Religion, and Culture Unit
Theme: America’s Bureaucracy of Transcendence: Government
Legitimation of American Religion
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Adams A (Third Level)
Haley Iliff, Florida State University, Presiding
Catholic Sisters, Hospitals, and the Legitimization of Public Work
Michael Graziano, University of Northern Iowa
True Religion and the Iranian Revolution: The View from
Washington, D.C.
Brad Stoddard, McDaniel College
Free Exercise?: Religious Freedom in American Prisons
Sarah Dees, Northwestern University
Legitimate Religions or “Conjurors’ Arts”? Native American
Traditions and the Court of Indian Offenses
Responding:Michael McVicar, Florida State University

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Business Meeting:Elizabeth Margaret Bounds, Emory University, and Zachary
Moon, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18C

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit
Theme: Reformation: Repentance and ResistanceSaturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay A (Second Level)
Vitor Westhelle, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, Presiding
L. DeAne Lagerquist, St. Olaf College
Reformation, Repentance, #Decolonizelutheranism
Meghan Johnston Aelabouni, Iliff School of Theology andUniversity of Denver
The Repentance of Playmobil Luther: Resisting Anti-Judaism in the
Iconization of Luther in Popular Culture
Carl-Eric Gentes, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago
Justified By Faith Not Reason: The “Sin Against Rigorous Thinking”
and the Possibilities of Thought in Human/Animal Entanglements
Moses Paul Peter Penumaka, Pacific Lutheran TheologicalSeminary
Reformation and Lutheran Theology in Asia
Jesse David Chariton, Columbus State University
Addie Graves (1922–2007) and Lutheran Church Desegregation in
Columbus, Georgia
Business Meeting:Kirsi Stjerna, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, PresidingC

A18-318

Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and Culture
Unit
Theme: (Re)Defining Moral Injury
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-201 (Second Level)
Elizabeth Margaret Bounds, Emory University, Presiding
Michael Yandell, Emory University
Fractured Morality/Fractured Selves: Moral Injury as Epistemological
Brokenness
Cassie Trentaz, Warner Pacific College(Re)Defining Moral Injury: Using Moral Injury to Help Us UnderstandImmigrant Experiences in Today’s Cultural-Political Moment
Carrie Doehring, Iliff School of Theology, and Shawn Fawson,
Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver
Making the Invisible Visible: (Re)defining Moral Injury through theExperience of Microaggressions and the Poetics of Testimony
Callid Keefe-Perry, Boston University
Getting Beyond “An Act:” Moral Dimensions of the Teaching
Profession and the Need to Expand the Construct of Moral Injury

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A18-319

Native Traditions in the Americas Unit and North American
Religions Unit
Theme: Standing Together at Standing Rock: Cross-Cultural
Perspectives and Critiques
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-207 (Second Level)
Tiffany Hale, Yale University, Presiding
Margaret McMurtrey, University of California, Santa Barbara
Standing Rock: Movement or Spiritual Call? Confrontations
Concerning Space- and Place-based RhetoricPeter Huff, University of Mary
Parliament of Religions on the Prairie: Standing Rock asInterreligious Event
Lily Oster, Emory University
Decolonizing Earth-based Spiritualities: Negotiating Earthawakening without Appropriation
David Walsh, Gettysburg College
Ceremony in Historical Perspective at Standing RockResponding:Michael McNally, Carleton College

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Philosophy of Religion Unit
Theme: Repentance, Reparations, and the Responsibility of Race
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Public Garden (Fifth Level)
Jonathon Kahn, Vassar College, Presiding
Robert Overy-Brown, Claremont Graduate University
Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophy of Metanoetics and the Comparative
Future of Political Theology
Timothy McGee, Southern Methodist University
Opacity and the Racial Politics of (Human) Redemption between
Charles Long and Sylvia Wynter
Danube Johnson, Harvard University
On Foucault’s Racial Speech: Failures, Silences, and Transgressions
Anna Bialek, Washington University, St. Louis
Justice in Time: Reparations, Sabbath, and Temporality in JusticeSeeking
Stephen Bush, Brown University
Politics and Philosophy in Doris Salcedo’s Art

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Practices and
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Receptions and Breakfasts

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Religion and Popular Culture Unit

Theme: Eros and Ascent in the Ancient and Medieval World
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Fairfax B (Third Level)
Kevin Corrigan, Emory University, Presiding
Michael Motia, Harvard University
Mimetic Desire in Late Antiquity: On Gregory of Nyssa andIamblichus of Chalcis
Jordan Wood, Boston College
Provocations on Mystical Union in Thomas Aquinas and Maximus
Confessor
Adam Eitel, Yale University
The Politics of Contemplation
Luke Zerra, Princeton Theological Seminary
The Birth of the Son in the Soul: Analogy, Univocity, and Dialectic in
Meister Eckhart’s Commentary on John 1:1-14
Jyoti Raghu, University of Oxford
I’m Mad about You, God, You’re Mad about Me: The Erotic to Agapic
Transfiguration of Our “Bootylicious” Body
Business Meeting:
Kevin Corrigan, Emory University, Presiding

Theme: Religion and Popular Culture in America: A Critical
Analysis
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay C (Second Level)
James Thrall, Knox College, Presiding
Panelists:
Richard Callahan, University of Missouri
Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of the West
Megan Goodwin, Syracuse University
John Modern, Franklin and Marshall College
Responding:Jeffrey H. Mahan, Iliff School of Theology
Bruce Forbes, Morningside College
Business Meeting:Elijah Siegler, College of Charleston, Presiding

A18-322

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Religion and Politics Unit
Theme: International Relations and Religious Studies: Pedagogy
and Interdisciplinary Exchange
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon E (Third Level)
Evan Berry, American University, Presiding
Panelists:
David Buckley, University of Louisville
Jeremy Menchik, Boston University
James Miller, Queen’s University, Kingston
Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University
Qamar-ul Huda, Georgetown University
Nukhet Sandal, University of Ohio

A18-324C

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Platonism and Neoplatonism Unit

C

Religion and Science Fiction Unit
Theme: Religion and Global Science Fiction
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level)
Laura Ammon, Appalachian State University, Presiding
Michael Pittman, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health
Sciences
Revisiting Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker: Revisioning an Encounter
with the Divine
Erica Hurwitz Andrus, University of Vermont
From Handmaid to Gardener: Margaret Atwood Gets Religion
Chris Porter, Ridley College
The Ghost in Our Shell? An Exploration of Self and Identity within
Eastern and Western Frames of Transhumanism and Artificial
Intelligence
Ahmed Ragab, Harvard University
Muslim Futures: Science Fiction, Islam, and the Making of
Ethnoreligious Futurity
Bradley Johnson, Rice University
The Invention of Hells: Black Mirror and Punishment as Spectacle
Responding:Rudy V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara
Business Meeting:
Rudy V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Laura
Ammon, Appalachian State University, Presidingx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina, and Frederick
Colby, University of Oregon, Presiding

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18R

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit and Sociology of
Religions Unit

#islamaar

Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit
Theme: Voices from Larung Gar
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-102 (Plaza Level)
Michael Sheehy, University of Virginia, Presiding
Antonio Terrone, Taiwan National Chengchi University“Striving to Do Virtuous Deeds”: The Tenth Panchen Lama and
Larung Gar in the Making of Modern Buddhism in Tibet
Jann Ronis, University of California, Berkeley“The Union of Religion and Tibetan Culture”: Rebuttals by Metrül
Tenzin Gyatso to the Anti-religious Polemics of Tibetan Secularists
Chelsea Hall, Harvard University
Khenmo Yönten’s Quiet Commentaries: Publishing Female-Authored
Buddhist Texts at Serta Larung Gar
Catherine Hardie, University of Oxford
The PRC-based “Larung Movement”: Promoting Listening,
Contemplating, and a Superior Mode of Lay Participation for Chinese
Newcomers to Tibetan Buddhism
Responding:
Holly Gayley, University of Colorado

Theme: Lived Religion and the Public Sphere: Practices andExperiences among Latinxs and Latin Americans
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-111 (Plaza Level)
Elaine Peña, George Washington University, Presiding
Gustavo Morello, Boston College
The Poor, the Pope, and the Religious Legitimation in the Public
SphereNéstor Da Costa, Catholic University of Uruguay“Non-affiliated” and Believers in the Uruguayan Public Sphere:
Definitions, Tensions, and Reconfigurations of the “Public”
Miren Iziar Basterretxea Moreno, University of Deusto
Latin-American Catholics in Bilbao: What Changes and What
Remains
Jonathan Calvillo, Boston University
Saints in the Barrio: Public Religion and Social Belonging among
Mexican Immigrants in Santa Ana, CA
Responding:Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Princeton University

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A18-328

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Study of Islam Unit
Theme: Islamic South Asia: Text, Interpretation, and ResistanceSaturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level)
Tehseen Thaver, Bard College, Presiding
Usman Hamid, University of Toronto
The Hajj of the Heart: The Making of Local Islam in South Asia
Patrick D’Silva, University of North Carolina
Mughal Indology in the Ain-i Akbari: Abu’l Fazl and EsotericDivination Practices
Mohsin Ali, University of California, Los Angeles
The Legal Justification for Jihād in a Sixteenth-Century South Indian
Text
Fuad Naeem, Georgetown University
Contesting Colonial Modernity through Humor: The Satirical Poetryof Akbar Allāhābādī
Responding:Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, University of Vermont

A18-329/P18-344
Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit and IQSA Qur’anand Late Antiquity Unit
Theme: Re-orienting the Study of Late Antiquity Before and After
Muhammad
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-208 (Second Level)
Michael Pregill, Boston University, and Khodadad Rezakhani,
Princeton University, Presiding
Panelists:
Jennifer Hart, Elon University
Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College
Sara Ronis, St. Mary’s University, TX
Kevin Jaques, Indiana University

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Practices and
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Q

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Receptions and Breakfasts

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A18-332 – Pre-Posted Papers Session

Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion Seminar

Theme: Black Magicians, Dark Spiritualists, and Walkers Alongthe Left-Hand Path: A Discursive Survey of Traditions at the
Fringes of Modernity
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level)
Claire Fanger, Rice University, Presiding
Keith Cantú, University of California, Santa Barbara+DΛKD\RJD as Black Magic in Theosophy: The Case of Rāma PrasādJackson Stephenson, University of Washington“The Strongest Light in the Darkest Abyss”: The Durkheimian Leftand the Western Left-Hand Path
Joel Bordeaux, Colgate University
If You’re Feeling Sinister: Universalist Discourse in a Satanic Sex
Magic Manual
Benjamin Mayo, Rice University
Presencing the Dark: The Ethics of Occult Anti-humanism as a Lived
Practice in the Order of Nine Angles
Steven Engler, Mount Royal University
Quimbanda: Brazil’s Left-Hand Path
Responding:Henrik Bogdan, University of Gothenburg
Business Meeting:
Egil Asprem, Stockholm University, and Claire Fanger, Rice
University, Presiding

Theme: Millennials from Festivals to Fandoms and the Emerging
Church: National and Regional Snapshots
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Berkeley (Third Level)
Michael Zbaraschuk, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding
Randy Reed, Appalachian State University“Goosing” Millennials, Millennials in the South and the Wild Goose
Festival
Stephanie Yuhas, Naropa University
Burning Man Festival as Spiritual Ritual Space for the Millennial
Generation
Vanessa Williams, Fordham University
The Church of Fandom: Why Religious Scholars, Theologians, andChurch Leaders Need to Pay Attention to Nerd Culture
Terry Shoemaker, Arizona State University
Crafting Church: Ecclesiological Life of Progressive Christians in theUpper South
Galen Watts, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON“Spiritual but Not Religious” Millennials in Canada
Rachel Schneider, Rice University
New Monasticism, Poverty, and the Politics of Friendship in the US
and South Africa
Business Meeting:Michael Zbaraschuk, Pacific Lutheran University, and Randy
Reed, Appalachian State University, Presiding

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Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit
Theme: From Roots to More: Perspectives on James Mallinson andMark Singleton’s Roots of Yoga (Penguin Classics, 2017)
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-310 (Third Level)
Sravana Borkataky-Varma, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington, Presiding
Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin
Roots of Yoga: Structure, Scope, and SignificanceJeffrey Stephen Lidke, Berry College
Constructing the Self through Yoga: Exploring Roots of Yoga andOther Yogic Texts on Self-Cultivation
Anya Pokazanyeva Foxen, California Polytechnic State University
Tangled Roots: What About Modern Yoga?
Andrew J. Nicholson, Stony Brook University
Creating a Canon: Roots of Yoga and the History of Yoga in the
AcademyResponding:Mark Singleton, St. John’s College, Santa Fe
James Mallinson, SOAS University of London
Business Meeting:
Andrea Jain, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis,
and Sravana Borkataky-Varma, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington, Presiding

A18-333 – Pre-Posted Papers Session

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Western Esotericism Unit

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Navarātri Seminar
Theme: Navarātri and the Production and Performance of SocioPolitical Structures
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick B (Second Level)
Ute Huesken, Heidelberg University, Presiding
Ehud Halperin, Tel Aviv University
Establishing Gods, Kingship, and Kingdom: Palanquin Rituals in the
Kullu Dasahra
Anne Mocko, Concordia College
Removing the Royals from Nepal’s Navarātri
Jeremy Saul, Mahidol University
Navarātri as a Festival of Hanuman and Male Asceticism
James Bradbury, University of Manchester
Durga Puja: Civic Engagement and Communitarian Belonging
Responding:Caleb Simmons, University of Arizona
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Exploratory Sessions
Theme: Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Arlington (Third Level)
Eleanor Craig, Harvard University, Presiding
Speakers for this Roundtable will offer their reflections andrecommendations for the directions that the study of race, coloniality,and philosophy of religion ought to take in the present. What are
the most crucial questions, methods, and sites of analysis for such a
study? Philosophy of religion has played a crucial role in providing the
epistemic platform for the articulation and circulation of coloniality
at the global level. However, discussion of race and coloniality—alongwith gender and sexuality—has been traditionally marginalized within
the discipline of philosophy (and within philosophy of religion),
which implicitly or explicitly sets many of its claims above historical
specificity. This will be a dedicated space to a set of conversations thathave so far happened sporadically and separately under headings ofphilosophy or (pan)ethnic and regional identities. We also aim toremedy a frequent disconnect between U.S. discourses about race andtransnational discourses examining coloniality.
Panelists:
Ellen T. Armour, Vanderbilt University
J. Kameron Carter, Duke University
Devin Singh, Dartmouth College
David Kyuman Kim, Connecticut College
Elaine Padilla, University of La Verne
An Yountae, Lebanon Valley College

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A18-335
Wildcard Session

Theme: Recognition, Religious Identities, and the RecognitionFailures of Theodicies
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-203 (Second Level)
Risto Saarinen, University of Helsinki, Presiding
Recognition of normative statuses, including identities, constitutes
a fundamental phenomenon in, e.g., religion, psychology, sociology,
politics, history, and literature. Recognition is also a very timely topic,
as witnessed by recent political developments, debates over religious
identities and multiculturalism, as well as religious and politicalextremism. This session aims to combine historical discussions ofreligion with contemporary systematic explorations of recognition,
especially in relation to theodicies.

The presentations proceed from an analysis of the contemporary
systematic framework through ancient and medieval intellectual
history to the critical issue of recognition-failure in theodicies,
discussed since the Book of Job. In addition to presenting systematicand historical reflections on the themes of religion, identity, andrecognition in historical, philosophical, and literary contexts, thesession seeks to show that developing a form of antitheodicism
capable of ethically recognizing the reality of meaningless suffering
requires an interplay of philosophical, theological, and literary analysis
and argumentation.
Heikki J. Koskinen, University of Helsinki
Religious Identities and Theodicist Pathologies of Mediated
Recognition
Ritva Palmén, University of Helsinki
Shame and Recognition in the Middle Ages
Maijastina Ritva Kahlos, University of Helsinki
Recognizing the Road: Graeco-Roman Appeals for Religious Diversity
in the Late Roman Empire
Sami Pihlström, University of Helsinki
Failing to Recognize: Theodicy and Metaphysical Realism
Sari Kivistö, University of Tampere
Unmerited Suffering as the Destruction of Meaning in Joseph Roth’s
Hiob
Panu-Matti Pöykkö, University of Helsinki
Levinasian Sincerity and the Immorality of Theodicies

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A18-336
Women’s Caucus

Theme: Publishing Panel: Fresh Perspectives and Resilience inGender, Race, and Other Social Justice Issues
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-305 (Third Level)
Colleen D. Hartung, Holy Wisdom Monastery, Middleton, WI, andAlicia Panganiban, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
This session presents scholars who have published books in Womenstudies, gender, race, and social justice, in 2016 and 2017. This panelof AAR and SBL authors will provide an overview of their books aswell as share their perspectives on current research being publishedin women studies and religion’s relationship with social justiceissues. In a round table discussion, these scholars will also share theirexperiences regarding strategies and mechanics for getting Women’sstudies and religion books published, and to offer advice for thoseseeking publication of their book manuscript.
Stephanie N. Arel, Boston University
Affect Theory, Shame, and Christian Formation
Sharon Delgado, Earth Justice Ministries, Nevada City, CA
Love In a Time of Climate Change: Honoring Creation, Establishing
Justice
Katie Grimes, Villanova University
Christ Divided: Antiblackness as Corporate Vice

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The Rape of Eve: The Transformation of Roman Ideology In Three
Early Christian Retellings of Genesis
Sabrina MisirHiralall, Montclair State University
Confronting Orientalism: A Self-Study of Educating ThroughKuchipudi Dance
Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, Nassau Community College
Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover’s Journey into
Christianity and Judaism
Rima Vesely-Flad, Warren Wilson College
Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives,
and the Struggle for JusticeC

Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit
Theme: Performance, Precarity and Disruption
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon F (Third Level)
Carol Wayne White, Bucknell University, Presiding
Kimerer L. LaMothe, Vital Arts, Granville, NY
A Poetic Approach to Feminist Philosophy of Religion and Dance: A
Paper-Performance
Kevin Minister, Shenandoah University
The Precarious Art of Maintenance: Intersections of Gender, Labor,and Ecology under Late Capitalism
Elonda Clay, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam“I Only Roll With Goddesses”: Black Women as the Divine Feminine
in Internet Subcultures and Digital Visual Culture
Responding:Susannah Laramee Kidd, Mellon-ACLS Public Fellow, Los
Angeles County Arts Commission
Business Meeting:
Carol White, Bucknell University, and Mary Keller, University of
Wyoming, Presiding

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Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Theme: Gods of Our Fathers: Restoration, Archaism and Nostalgia
in Greco-Roman Religions
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick A (Second Level)
Sandra Blakely, Emory University, Presiding
Frederick E. Brenk, Pontifical Biblical Institute, RomeGods of Our Fathers: The Delphic Oracle in Plutarch’s
Kenneth Yu, University of Chicago
Ancient Reflections on Myth and Cult in Greek Paradoxography
Zsuzsanna Varhelyi, Boston University
Thrasea Paetus: Loss and Recovery of Republican Religious Traditionin Imperial Rome
Jeffrey Brodd, California State University, Sacramento
The Jerusalem Temple and Emperor Julian’s “Invention of Tradition”

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Friends of the Academy Reception
Saturday, 5:30 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-AAR Suite
Individuals who have been members of the AAR for 40 years ormore and those whose generosity allows us to continue many of
our special programs are invited to a reception hosted by the
AAR Board of Directors.

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International Members Reception
Saturday, 6:30 PM–7:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level)
Amy L. Allocco, Elon University, Presiding
A reception for international members of the AAR. Winners of the
Collaborative International Research Grants will be honored. By
invitation only.
2016–2017 Collaborative International Research Grant Winners
Yaqoob Bangash, IT University of the Punjab, Pakistan, and Arun
W. Jones, Emory University“Dear Sisters, let us go on a little trip”: The Religious of Jesus andMary and Women’s Education in Colonial Punjab, 1856–1947
Deidre Green, Brigham Young University, Amy Hoyt, Universityof the Pacific, Gertrude Fester, Sol Plaatje University, South
Africa, Kristen J. Leslie, Eden Theological Seminary, and Julie
Allen, Brigham Young University
Women, Religion, and Transitional Justice: Ethnographic Research in
RwandaAzfar Moin, University of Texas, and Noman Baig, Habib
University, Pakistan
Saint Shrines and Sovereignty in Pakistan
Lauren Pfister, Hong Kong Baptist University, Ricardo Mak King
Sang, Hong Kong Baptist University, Tatiana L. Pang, Instituteof Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, andPiotr Adamek, Monumenta Serica, Germany
A Comparative Sinological Assessment of The Four Books and Its
Commentaries by Zhu Xi Produced in the 1820s by the Russian
Orthodox Missionary-Scholar Iakinf (1777–1852)
Ute Possekel, Harvard University, and J. F. Coakley, University ofCambridge
Liturgy, Learning, and Exegesis in Late Antique Persia: Thomas of
Edessa’s Explanations of the Feasts
Tehseen Thaver, Bard College, and Hamed Fayazi, Qom Islamic
Seminary, IranOperations of Ambiguity in Medieval Shi‘i Qur’an Commentaries

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Mark A. Seifrid, Concordia Seminary
Participation in Christ and Current Discussion of the Atonement
Steve Porter, Biola University
Four Considerations in Favor of Penal Substitutionary Atonement

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18
Saturday, 7:00 PM and Later

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

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Journal of the American Academy of Religion ( JAAR) Editorial
Board Meeting

Presidential Address — Eddie Glaude: Religion and theMost Vulnerable

Saturday, 7:00 PM–8:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-St. Botolph (Second Level)
Cynthia Eller, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding

Saturday, 7:00 PM–8:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second
Level)David P. Gushee, Mercer University, Presiding
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the William S. Tod Professor
Eddie S. Glaude of Religion and African American Studies at
Princeton University. He is chair of the Departmentof African American Studies, a program he first became involved
with shaping as a doctoral candidate in Religion at Princeton.
His books on religion and philosophy include African American
Religion: A Very Short Introduction, Democracy in Black: How Race
Still Enslaves the American Soul, In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism
and the Politics of Black America, and Exodus! Religion, Race andNation in Early 19th Century Black America, which was awarded theModern Language Association’s William Sanders ScarboroughBook Prize. Currently Glaude is at work on a book about James
Baldwin, tentatively titled James Baldwin’s America, 1963–1972.
Glaude left his home in Moss Point, Mississippi at age 16 to
begin studies at the Morehouse College. He holds a master’s
degree in African American Studies from Temple University,and a Ph.D in Religion from Princeton University. He began
his teaching career at Bowdoin College. He has been a visiting
scholar at Amherst College and Harvard. In 2011 he delivered
Harvard’s Du Bois lectures.
Known to be a convener of conversations and debates, Glaude
takes care to engage fellow citizens of all ages and backgrounds— from young activists, to fellow academics, journalists andcommentators, and followers on Twitter in dialogue about thecourse of the nation. His scholarship and his sense of himself as apublic intellectual are driven by a commitment to think carefully
with others in public. Accordingly, his writing and ideas are citedand shared widely. Glaude has written for The New York Times
and The Huffington Post. He is a columnist for Time Magazine
and regularly provides commentary on radio and television news
programs like Democracy Now!, Morning Joe, and the 11th Hour.
Prior to Dr. Glaude’s address, a group of former AAR Presidents
will present a tribute to Executive Director Jack Fitzmier, whowill be retiring in 2018.
Panelist:
Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton UniversityG

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Critical Research on Religion Reception

Saturday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Offsite-Lir, 903 Boylston Street
You are invited to a reception sponsored by Critical Research on
Religion (http://crr.sagepub.com) in conjunction with the following
AAR Program Units: Sociology of Religion; Religions in the Latina/oAmericas; Secularism and Secularity; Comparative Approaches to
Religion and Violence; and Religion, Memory, History.

Q

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Haunted Boston Ghost Walk Tour

Saturday, 7:00 PM–9:30 PM
Offsite-Meet at the Registration Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD in
the Convention Center
See page 10 for details.

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Evangelical Philosophical Society
Theme: Penal Substitution Atonement Theories Today
Saturday, 7:00 PM–10:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)
Robert B. Stewart, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Presiding
This session will focus on contemporary penal substitutionary
atonement theories and Biblical, theological, and philosophical issues
related to those theories.
William Lane Craig, Biola University and Houston Baptist
University
On the Alleged Injustice of Penal Substitution
Douglas J. Moo, Wheaton College
The Word of the Cross in Paul

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Full Papers Available on AAR
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B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
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Sustainability and Religion

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Tours

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Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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JAAR Reception for Authors and Board Members

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Film: Kundun

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Film: Alone in Fukushima
Saturday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B
Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina, Presiding
Nakamura Mayu’s Alone in Fukushima documents a year in the lifeof fifty-five-year-old Matsumura Naoto, a resident of Fukushima
Prefecture, Japan. After the triple disaster of March 11, 2011—a
massive earthquake followed by a tsunami and a nuclear meltdown,
Matsumura has remained behind in his deserted hometown ofTomioka City next to the damaged Fukushima Daiichi reactor.
There, Matsumura looks after animals that were abandoned in thewake of the disaster. While Matsumura has received considerable
media attention in Europe and America, where he has become amessianic icon of animal rights and the anti-nuclear movement, theJapanese media have virtually ignored him. Nakamura’s documentary
portrays Matsumura as a complex character who is resisting theerasure of his hometown while struggling for survival alongside thenon-human inhabitants of the evacuation zone. Alone in Fukushimaraises important ethical questions about interspecies becoming andthe vulnerability of life in the Anthropocene.
Panelists:
Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University
Christopher Ives, Stonehill College
Mayu Nakamura, Independent Filmmaker, Tokyo, Japan

Saturday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)
John Phillip Santos, San Antonio, TX, Presiding
In 1986, Fr. Virgilio Elizondo, a native of San Antonio, Texas,
undertook an powerful journey of witness through Nicaragua, Peru,
and Brazil, encountering such powerful scenes as a village on the
Honduran border of Nicaragua in the middle of the Contra War; thevibrant “pueblo jóven” of Villa El Salvador, outside of Lima; and thefaith of street people in Sao Paolo. Along the way, Elizondo — who is
now widely regarded as the father of U.S. Hispanic/Latino theology— engaged such luminaries as Gustavo Gutierrez, Leonardo Boff,
Dom Helder Camara, Pedro Casaldaligla, and Enrique Dussel, and ahost of others. Elizondo’s testimonial here is a remarkable, and little
seen, glimpse of the flowering of liberation theology, which continues
to be felt across the Americas today.
John Phillip Santos, the producer of the film, will be present to lead abrief discussion after the viewing.

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African Association for the Study of Religions Dinner
Saturday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
OffsiteDinner at a local African restaurant. Details TBA.

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G

Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology andReligion Reception
Saturday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Gloucester (Third Level)
All are invited to come celebrate our 20 years of publishing thescholarship of teaching in Teaching Theology and Religion. Past,
present, and future participants in Wabash Center workshops,
colloquies, consultations, and grants are all welcome to join us for an
evening of conversation and celebration.

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LGBTIQ Scholars/Scholars of LGBTIQ Studies
Reception
Saturday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level)
LGBTIQ scholars, scholars of LGBTIQ studies, and friends areinvited to a reception. Come network, see old friends, and make new
ones! Sponsored by the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,
Intersex, and Queer Persons in the Profession Committee.

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Saturday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Constitution (Second Level)
Kundun is a 1997 epic biographical film written by Melissa Mathisonand directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the life and writingsof Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, the exiled political andspiritual leader of Tibet.
“Kundun” (sku mdun in Tibetan), meaning “presence”, is a title bywhich the Dalai Lama is addressed.

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Film: Hunger for God, Hunger for Bread: The Faith of Latin
America’s Poor (CBS News)

Saturday, 8:00 PM–9:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-AAR Suite

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AAR Annual Business Meeting

Sunday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM
Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level)
Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University, Presiding
Join the AAR Board of Directors for a continental breakfast
and a brief business meeting.

FPKG

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Applied Religious Studies Breakfast
Sunday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick A (Second Level)
Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Harvard Law School, Presiding
AAR members who apply their degrees to work outside of theacademy, or students who are interested in an alternative career path
are welcome to meet and greet each other at this breakfast hosted by
the AAR’s Applied Religious Studies Committee. Please RSVP by
Friday, November 3, by e-mailing annualmeeting@aarweb.org.

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Theme: Book Review: Beauty’s Vineyard: A Theological Aesthetic of
Anguish and Anticipation
Sunday, 9:00 AM–10:30 AM
Westin Copley Place-St. George C-D (Third Level)Frank Burch Brown, Christian Theological Seminary, Presiding
In her most recent book, Beauty’s Vineyard: A Theological Aesthetic of
Anguish and Anticipation, Kimberly Vrudny presents a socially engaged
theology of beauty rooted in a Catholic theological imagination. Join
us for a conversation about beauty, art, and social transformation.
Panelists:
Janet Walton, Union Theological Seminary
Cláudio Carvalhaes, Union Theological Seminary
Maeve Louise Heaney, Australian Catholic University
Responding:
Kimberly Vrudny, University of St. Thomas

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North American Association for the Study of Religion
Theme: Bans, Boycotts, Institutional Statements: A NAASR
Perspective
Sunday, 9:00 AM–10:50 AM
Fairmont Copley Place-State Suite A (Lower Lobby Level)

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion Leadership Meeting
Applied Religious Studies Committee and Public
Understanding of Religion Committee

Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM

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Sunday, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Massachusetts (Fifth Level)

Graduate Student Committee Business Meeting
Sunday, 9:00 AM–9:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
Bhakti Mamtora, University of Florida, Presiding
Attention Graduate Students! We will be holding our annual businessmeeting on Sunday, November 18th from 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM in theStudent Lounge. We encourage you to attend the meeting, meet with
the Graduate Student Committee members, and share your requests
for AAR’s Annual Meeting (2018) with us!

Theme: Inside the State Department: Scholars Reflect on Working
for the Government
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level)
Mara Willard, University of Oklahoma, Presiding
What’s it like to work in the US Department of State?
How is academic knowledge about religion practical to
public policymakers? What are the ethical implications ofengaging — and of declining to engage — in such work?
What seems to be the future of such work in this area.
Three of the panelists recently completed a year or more
Evan Berryas an AAR-Luce Fellow in the US Department of State:in the Office of Religion and Global Affairs, Evan Berry focused on
the environment, and Jerome Copulsky on anti-Semitism, refugees,
and training; and in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs,
Todd Green focused on Islamophobia.

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Exploratory Sessions

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Books Under Discussion

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Business MeetingS

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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

Rounding out the panel are Elizabeth Prodromou, former
Vice-Chair of the US Commission on International
Religious Freedom, who brings expertise on international
policy and conflict resolution; and Robert Albro, asociocultural anthropologist, who chaired the American
Anthropological Association’s Ad Hoc Commission on
Jeromethe Engagement of Anthropology with the U. S. Security
Copulskyand Intelligence Communities.
AAR-Luce Fellowships are made possible through a generous grantfrom the Henry Luce Foundation.
Panelists:
Evan Berry, American University
Jerome E. Copulsky, American University
Todd Green, Luther College
Elizabeth Prodromou, Tufts University
Robert Albro, American University
Todd Green

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Status of Women in the Profession Committee

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African Religions Unit
Theme: Decolonizing the Study of Religion in Africa
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level)
Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds, Presiding
Oludamini Ogunnaike, College of William and Mary
From Theory to Theoria and Back Again: Decolonizing Theories ofAfrican Religion and Philosophy
Annalisa Butticci, Utrecht University
Nana Ntona: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Ghanaian Afro-CatholicSaint

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Afro-American Religious History Unit and North American
Religions Unit
Theme: “Religio-racial Identity” as Challenge and CritiqueSunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-201 (Second Level)
Sylvester Johnson, Northwestern University, Presiding
Matthew Cressler, College of Charleston
Black Power, Religio-racial Identity, and the Unveiling of White
Catholicism
Jamil Drake, Florida State University“American Peasants,” Religio-racial Identity, and the Problem of Classin Health Research
Megan Goodwin, Syracuse University
Disciplining Religio-racial Difference: Anti-Klan Laws v. Women of
Color
Laura McTighe, Columbia University
Surveillance and Sabotage: Religio-racial Identity in the Women’s
Carceral SphereResponding:
Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University
Business Meeting:
LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant, Williams College, and Lerone
Martin, Washington University, Saint Louis, Presiding

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Anthropology of Religion Unit and Religion and the Social
Sciences Unit
Theme: The Anthropology of Catholicism: A Roundtable on
Method, Challenges, and Opportunities
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Jamaica Pond (Fifth Level)
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, University of Iowa, and James Bielo, Miami
University, Presiding
Panelists:
Julie Byrne, Hofstra University
Brian Clites, Northwestern University
Susan Reynolds, Boston College
Susan Ridgely, University of Wisconsin
Business Meeting:
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, University of Iowa, and Nichole Phillips,
Emory University, Presidingx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Theme: Women and Vulnerability in the Academy
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-305 (Third Level)
Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University, Presiding
What forms of vulnerability do women and female-bodied people
encounter in the academy? How does that impact our professional
development, our careers, and our very survival? Our invited panelists
will discuss various forms of vulnerability such as gender, race,
queer and/or trans identity, disability, term/contingent employment,
immigration status, religious identity, or being an ally for any of theseidentities. Join the Status of Women in the Profession Committee fora session that will continue our rich conversation on the complexity of
power dynamics and gender through a combination of presentations
and audience discussion.
Panelists:
Emily Askew, Lexington Theological Seminary
Teresa Delgado, Iona College
Aysha Hidayatullah, University of San Francisco
Siobhan Kelly, Harvard University
Nikky Singh, Colby College
Jeanine Viau, University of Central Florida

Marcus Harvey, University of North Carolina, Asheville
The “Speech of Silence” and Other Decolonizing Concepts: New
Theoretical Horizons in Malidoma Somé’s Of Water and the Spirit
Ayodeji Ogunnaike, Harvard University(Re)Making African Religions
Responding:
Laura Grillo, Georgetown University

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Unit
and Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit

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Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Theme: Dialogue through Art: Asian Christian Art andInterreligious Discourse in South, Southeast, and East Asia
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)
James Ponniah Kulandai Raj, University of Madras, Presiding
John Clammer, O.P. Jindal Global University
Dialogue through the Image: Asian Christian Art and Interreligious
Discourses in Early Modern Asia
Gudiun Loewner, United Theological College, Bangalore
Interreligious Dialogue in Art: The Icon of Saint Teresa of Calcutta
Verena Grüter, University of Goettingen
The Art of Music in Asian Christianity
Katherine C. Zubko, University of North Carolina, Asheville
Performing Social Critique: Christian Nāyikās in Bharata Natyam

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Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
Theme: Religion, Race, and National Belonging
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-MIT (Third Level)
Helen Jin Kim, Harvard University, Presiding
Daniel K. Eng, University of Cambridge
The Shameless Father: Honor and Shame in the Parable of the Prodigal
Son and Its Reception among Asian-Americans
Ren Ito, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto
Beyond the Binary in Asian North American Antiracism
Ryan Anningson, Wilfrid Laurier University
Once the Buddha Was an Aryan: Race Sciences and the Domesticationof Buddhism in North America
Michael Hawley, Mount Royal University
Transnational Pioneers: A Century of the Hari Family in Calgary
Business Meeting:
Rachel A. R. Bundang, Schools of the Sacred Heart, San
Francisco, and Devin Singh, Dartmouth College, Presiding

Theme: Present and Future of Biblical Studies, I: Celebrating 25
Years of Brill’s Journal, Biblical Interpretation
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-311 (Third Level)
Tat-siong Benny Liew, College of the Holy Cross, Presiding
Co-Sponsored by: SBL Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics
Unit; SBL Bible and Cultural Studies Unit; SBL Contextual BiblicalInterpretation Unit; SBL Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible Unit;
SBL Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible Unit; SBL Ideological Criticism
Unit; SBL LGBTI/Queer Hermeneutics Unit; SBL Minoritized
Criticism and Biblical Interpretation Unit; SBL Postcolonial Studies
and Biblical Studies Unit; SBL Reading, Theory, and the Bible Unit;
SBL Rhetoric and the New Testament Unit; SBL Slavery, Resistance,and Freedom Unit
Panelists:
Fiona Black, Mount Allison University
Steed Davidson, McCormick Theological Seminary
Jacqueline Hidalgo, Williams College
Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College
Stephen Moore, Drew University
Jorunn Okland, University of Oslo
Responding:Randall C. Bailey, Interdenominational Theological CenterC

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Buddhism Unit

Theme: Buddhist Practical Canons: Textual Community in the
Pre-modern Buddhist World
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level)
José I. Cabezón, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Rafal Felbur, Stanford University
A Canon before the Canon in Chinese Buddhism: Reflections on the
Practical Canon in the Work of Sengrui (352-419 or 354-421)
Jonathan Young, California State University, Bakersfield
Practical Canons from Buddhist Pasts: What Pāli Anthologies Can
Tell Us about Buddhist History
Or Porath, University of California, Santa Barbara
A Cunning Canonization: The Plasticity of Canon in Tendai’s Eshin
Lineage
Adam Krug, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Early Indian Mahāmudrā Canon and Practical Canonicity in the
Esoteric Buddhism of India and Tibet

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Exploratory Sessions

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Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
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Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

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D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

Responding:Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University
Business Meeting:
James Robson, Harvard University, and Reiko Ohnuma,
Dartmouth College, Presiding

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Buddhist Philosophy Unit

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Christian Systematic Theology Unit
Theme: Tradition: Catholic and ProtestantSunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay D (Second Level)
Holly Taylor Coolman, Providence College, Presiding
Steven Edward Harris, Hamilton, ON
Christ the One Teacher of All: Toward an Ecumenical Theology of theMagisterium
Luke Tallon, LeTourneau University
Trinitarian Tradition: A Critical Response and Counter-Proposal toJoseph Ratzinger’s Ecumenical Reformulation
Simeon Zahl, University of Nottingham
Tradition and Its “Use”: Theological Retrieval as Ethical Drama
Pui Ip, University of Cambridge
The Relationship between Revelation (Scripture) and Its Transmission(Tradition): John Webster on the Root of the Protestant-Catholic
Disagreement

Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit andJapanese Religions Unit
Theme: Trauma in Japanese Religion
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-209 (Second Level)
Jessica Starling, Lewis and Clark College, Presiding
Kristina Buhrman, Florida State University
Disasters Inscribed upon a Landscape: Buddhist Institutions, theMassed Dead, and the State in Pre-modern Japan
Byoungdo Park, University of Tokyo
Commemorating Trans-sectarian Deaths: From Two Cases ofDisasters in Early Modern Japan
Paride Stortini, University of Chicago
The Silk Road as the Way Home: Trauma, Memory, and Buddhism in
the Art and Activism of Hirayama Ikuo
Yuki Miyamoto, DePaul University
Guilt Trip: Pilgrimage, Dark Tourism, and an Ethic of the Visitor ata Nuclear Disaster Site
Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University
From Pastoral Care to Victim Care: Toward a Genealogy of “Trauma”
in Contemporary Japanese Religion
Responding:
Akira Nishimura, University of Tokyo

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Comparative Theology Unit
Theme: Agents of Aesthetic Encounters with Holiness:
Hagiography as Lens on Theological-Aesthetic Developments in
Islam and Christianity
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-101 (Plaza Level)
Aaron Hollander, University of Chicago, Presiding
Alec Arnold, Saint Louis University
Come and See, Come and Hear: Holy Mediators of Divine Aesthetics
in Early Islamic and Byzantine Christian Hagiographies
Axel Takacs, Harvard University
Between Sainthood and Friendship in Christianity and Islam: The
Role Hagiographies Play in the Drama of Life
June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University“Saintly” Optics and Gendered E (in)vocations of Holiness: The
Hagiographic Traditions of St. Clare of Assisi and Women Mystics ofIslam
Lucinda Mosher, Hartford Seminary
Writing the Sublime: Visual Hagiography and the Promotion of
Christian-Muslim Understanding
Business Meeting:
Marianne Moyaert, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, andWilhelmus Valkenberg, Catholic University of America,
Presidingx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Theme: Emotion: Buddhism, Neuroscience, and Moral Cultivation
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Hampton (Third Level)
A. Charles Muller, University of Tokyo, Presiding
John Dunne, University of Wisconsin
Constructing Emotion for Action in the World: A Buddhist Perspective
Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University
Neuroscientific Theories of Emotion: Classical and Constructed
Jake Davis, Brown University
Emotion and the Qualities of Heart: Towards a Cross-Cultural
Cognitive Science
Christian Coseru, College of Charleston
Does Introspective Attention Change What We Perceive and How We
Feel?
Emily McRae, University of New Mexico
The Moral Contours of Self-Liberating Emotions in Patrul Rinpoche’s
Essential Jewel

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Cara Rock-Singer, Columbia University
Relational Technologies: Performing Queer Ritual Art
Lisle Dalton, Hartwick College
Railroad Catechisms

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19C

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Contemporary Islam Unit
Theme: Intersections of Islamophobia: Between Nationalism andGlobalization
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level)
Yunus Dogan Telliel, City University of New York, Presiding
Giulia Evolvi, Ruhr University
Islamexit: Twitter Islamophobia after the British Referendum
Iselin Frydenlund, MF Norwegian School of Theology
Islamophobia and Its Buddhist Vicissitudes
Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston“CIA to Survey World’s Moslems”: Islam and the American Public
under Carter and Reagan
Mathew J. Guest, Durham University
Representing Islam on UK University Campuses: Negotiating
Research and Identity within a Securitised Educational Environment
Iman AbdoulKarim, Dartmouth College
Islam is #BlackLivesMatter: Muslim Women on the Frontier of AntiBlackness and Islamophobia
Business Meeting:
Danielle Widmann Abraham, Ursinus College, Presiding

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Evangelical Studies Unit
Theme: Evangelicalism and Questions of Ethnicity
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-St. Botolph (Second Level)
Dan Wells, Florida State University“I Just Wish I Could Be Born Again Everyday”: Eldridge Cleaver andthe Evangelical Mentality of Displacement
Shari Madkins, Emory University“Ain’t I an Evangelical, Too?” How Whiteness Erases People of Colorfrom the Multi-cultural Evangelical Church Movement
Kristopher Norris, University of Virginia
The White Problem in Evangelicalism: A Costly Model ofReconciliation
Daniel Rodriguez, Pepperdine University
Hispanic Evangelicalism in the United States: Critical and Theological
Responses to Trump’s Vision for America and to White Evangelicals
Who Embrace It
Keith Johnson, Wheaton College
Evangelicals, Race, and the Perils of the Evaluative Form

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Technology, and Religion Unit
Theme: Religious Histories of Technology in the Americas
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Public Garden (Fifth Level)
Anthony Petro, Boston University, Presiding
John Modern, Franklin and Marshall College
On Technomasochism
David Walker, University of California, Santa Barbara
Railroading Secularism
Kati Curts, University of the South
Secular Sublime, Remixed Religion: Categorical Mash-Up in
Christian Marclay’s The Clock
Lucia Hulsether, Yale University
Bound to the Company: Technologies of Capitalist Humanitarianism
Angela Tarango, Trinity University
The “New Buffalo”: Indian Gaming and Cultural Identity among the
Oklahoma Nations#aarhcs

History of Christianity Unit
Theme: Late Ancient Ruminations: Thinking Today by Reading
the Past
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Boylston (First Level)Peter Anthony Mena, University of San Diego, Presiding
Nathaniel Morehouse, John Carroll University
Nicaea’s Unorthodox Benefactor: The Emperor Julian and the Rise of
Nicaean DominanceTola Rodrick, Indiana University
Technologies of the Cell: Transforming Mud Brick into Virtue in Late
Ancient Egypt
Tara Baldrick-Morrone, Florida State University“A Familiar Art”: Contemporary Reproductions of Abortion in
Antiquity
Dan Salyers, Fuller Theological Seminary
Refugee Bishops in the Fourth Century

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M Arts Series
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Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

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Practices and
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Receptions and Breakfasts

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Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit
Theme: Kierkegaard and the Future of Revelation – Part II:
Community and the Limits of Democracy
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-208 (Second Level)
Stacey Ake, Drexel University, Presiding
Jennifer Veninga, St. Edward’s University
Kierkegaard’s Hope for the Present Age: Individuality, Love, andWitness as Antidotes to Uncertain Times
Thomas Millay, Baylor University
Revelation Contra Nation(s): Kierkegaard’s Theological Critique of
Nationalism
Natalia Marandiuc, Southern Methodist University
Love is a Revolution: Kierkegaard at the Women’s March
Brandon Pierce, Stamford Church of Christ“Very Simply—I Want Honesty”: Kierkegaard’s Attack on
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Lesbian-Feminisms and Religion Unit
Theme: The Lesbian as a Space for Revolution in Communities,
Organizations, and Politics
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Brandeis (Third Level)
Amy Milligan, Old Dominion University, Presiding
Laulie Eckeberger, University of Winchester“I Can’t Believe We’re Still Protesting This!”: How the LesbianFeminist Embodies Our Way Forward

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Music and Religion Unit
Theme: Community Formation: Intersections of Congregations,
Religious Musics, and Popular Culture
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)
Jeffers Engelhardt, Amherst College, Presiding
Andrew Mall, Northeastern University
Resistance, Renewal, and Congregation at Christian Music Festivals
Joshua Busman, University of North Carolina, PembrokeBands, Brands, and Bodies: “Corporate” Worshipping at the Passion
Conference
Katelyn Medic, University of Minnesota
The Voice and Worship in Twin Cities Churches
Maren Haynes Marchesini, University of Montana“It’s Not Our Brand”: Mission, Music and Race in a Twenty-First
Century New Calvinist Megachurch
Business Meeting:Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University, and David Stowe,
Michigan State University, Presiding

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Theme: Sufism and Yoga in Early Modern India
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level)
Shaman Hatley, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Presiding
Heidi R. M. Pauwels, University of Washington
Encounters and Transformations: Yogis in the Sufi Romances(Premākhyān)
Supriya Gandhi, Yale University
Sound, Breath, and Mystical Nondualism: Reading the Omnāma
Shankar Nair, University of Virginia
Yoga for Sufis? “Muslim Yoga” in a Persian Mughal Treatise
Ayesha Irani, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Yoga for the Bengali Darveś: The Esoteric Teachings of the Jñāna
Pradīpa, Lamp of Knowledge
Responding:Carl W. Ernst, University of North Carolina
Business Meeting:
Andrea Marion Pinkney, McGill University, and Hamsa Stainton,
University of Kansas, Presiding

Andrea Glass, Pennsylvania State University“Postcards from the Resistance”: The Politics and Practices of the
Lesbian Community in Lancaster
Anjeanette LeBoeuf, Claremont Graduate University
Space, Location, Resistance, and Lesbians
Responding:Michelle Wolff, Duke University
Business Meeting:Marie Cartier, California State University, Northridge, Presiding

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Open and Relational Theologies Unit and Tillich: Issues in
Theology and Culture Unit
Theme: Does God Need the World? Whitehead and Tillich inConversation
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level)
Devan Stahl, Michigan State University, Presiding
Janna Gonwa, Yale University“A Tender Care That Nothing Be Lost”: Whitehead, Tillich, and theEternal Life of the Ecosystem
Marc Pugliese, Saint Leo University
Tillich on the Dynamics of the “Divine Life”: Evasive or Earnest?
Kirk MacGregor, McPherson College
The Tillichian Dispensability of the World to God
Demian Wheeler, United Theological Seminary of the Twin
CitiesGod Is the World: Bernard Loomer as a Bridge between Whitehead
and Tillich
Responding:Robert C. Neville, Boston University

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Theme: Theological Education in Spaces of Social Marginality
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-310 (Third Level)
Christian A. B. Scharen, Auburn Theological Seminary, Presiding
Clare Radford, University of Glasgow
Interpreting Injustice: Narrating Experiences of Marginalisation in
Scotland as Constructing Theological Praxis
Sarah Jobe, Duke University
Programs in Prisons: Transforming the Who, Where, How, and Whatof Theological Education
Rachelle Green, Emory University
Pedagogical Justice: Toward a Theologically Responsible Pedagogy for
Teaching Religion to Women in Prison
Richard Burgess, University of Roehampton
The Pedagogical Challenges of Teaching Theology to First-generation
Students from Non-traditional Churches
Responding:Daniel Franklin Pilario, Adamson University
Business Meeting:
Christian A. B. Scharen, Auburn Theological Seminary, Tone
Stangeland Kaufman, MF Norwegian School of Theology, andDarby Ray, Bates College, PresidingH

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Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious
Thought Unit

Theme: Ecology, Naturalism, and Democratic Faith
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Berkeley (Third Level)
William David Hart, Macalester College, Presiding
Mary Friedline, Southern Methodist University
Is Democratic Faith Secular? Seeking Pluralism in Rorty’s Achieving
Our Country
Gary Slater, St. Edward’s University
The Ecological Ethics of William James’s A Pluralistic Universe
Scot Yoder, Michigan State University
Neo-Pragmatism and Religious Naturalism: What Rorty and Rue
Might Learn From Each Other

Religion and Cities Unit
Theme: Conflict and Creativity: The Reimagining of Urban Space
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Dartmouth (Third Level)
Elise Edwards, Baylor University, Presiding
Juan Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University
A Holy War in Harlem: Father Divine, Daddy Grace, and the Battle
for the Soul of Black New York
Heather White, University of Puget Sound“This Disco Used to Be a Cute Cathedral”: Queer Genealogies ofSecularism at the Limelight Nightclub
Jung Lee, Northeastern University
The Dharma of the City: A Tibetan Buddhist Refuge in Cambridge
Responding:Katie Day, United Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia
Business Meeting:
Helene Slessarev-Jamir, Claremont School of Theology, Presiding

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Religion and Ecology Unit
Theme: Critical Approaches to Racial and Environmental Justice
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Simmons (Third Level)
Christopher Carter, University of San Diego, Presiding
Mark S. Cladis, Brown University
Racial and Environmental Justice in the Wild
Karen Crozier, Fresno County Historical Museum
Black Prey, White Predator: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Practical Theology of
Racial Freedom in the U.S. “Wilderness”
Courtney O’Dell-Chaib, Syracuse University
Making-With Disaster
Ryne Beddard, University of North Carolina
Benjamin Steele-Fisher, University of Denver
Toward a Decolonial Religious Poetics beyond the Human
Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteHearing Nature’s Voice: The Possibilities of Ecological Democracy

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
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Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
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H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

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Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

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Ritual Studies Unit

Theme: Religion, Food, and Place
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon A (Third Level)
Jeremy Rapport, College of Wooster, Presiding
Cody Musselman, Yale University
In Tune with the Intimate: The Imperial Bodies of New Thought
Beth Ritter-Conn, Belmont University
Guests at Our Own Tables: Paradox, Power, and Hospitality in aSouthern City
E Moore Quinn, College of Charleston“To Hell the Generous Will Never Go”: The Clash of Ethical Culturesin Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Business Meeting:
Nora L. Rubel, University of Rochester, and Derek Hicks, Wake
Forest University, Presiding

Theme: Ritual Aesthetics and the Senses
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Hyannis (Fourth Level)
Jens Kreinath, Wichita State University, Presiding
Adam Bursi, University of Tennessee
Scents of Pilgrimage: Early Islamic Pilgrimage, Relics, and the Senses
Sarah Kathleen Johnson, University of Notre Dame
Listening for Harmony and Dissonance in Overlapping Ritual
Systems
Clayton Ashton, University of British Columbia
The Moral Aesthetics of the Everyday: Ritualization in the ChineseBook of Rites
Jay Ramesh, Columbia University
Transforming Language: Prescription, Affect, and Translation in
Early Modern South Indian Śaiva Literature
Responding:
S. Brent Plate, Hamilton College
Business Meeting:
Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico, and Jens
Kreinath, Wichita State University, Presiding

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Religion and Politics Unit
Theme: Islam and Muslims in Western States
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Vineyard (Fourth Level)
Vincent Biondo, Humboldt State University, Presiding
David Tittensor, Deakin University
Navigating the Era of Hyper Security: Being Muslim in Australia
Kaarina Aitamurto, University of Helsinki
The Pressure for Centralization in the Russian Governance of Islam asa Challenge to Solidarity within Muslim Minorities in Moscow and
St. Petersburg
Angela Bernardo, Sapienza University of Rome
Negotiating Religion: The “National Pact for an Italian Islam”
between Agency, Security Claims, Legitimization, and Recognition
Abbas Barzegar, Georgia State University, and Nagham Elkarhili,Georgia State University
Countering Violent Extremism: Paradoxical Muslim Responses to theQuestion of Islam and Terrorism

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Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit
Theme: Images and Shrines in Latin America: Authors/Book
SessionSunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon E (Third Level)
Jennifer Scheper Hughes, University of California, Riverside,
PresidingPanelists:
William Taylor, University of California, Berkeley
Jalane D. Schmidt, University of Virginia
Responding:David Carrasco, Harvard University

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Sacred Texts and Ethics Unit
Theme: American Divines: Interpretations of Authority, Sacrifice,and Exceptionalism
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-New Hampshire (Fifth Level)
Valerie C. Cooper, Duke University, Presiding
Michael Cohen, Temple University
George Duffield, John Adams, and America as New Israel
Joshua Nunziato, Villanova University
The Offering of Walden: Thoreau and the Sacrificial Economy of the
Bhagavad-Gita
Seth Perry, Princeton University“Five Links, Two Hooks, and a Swivel”: Lorenzo Dow’s Chain as
Populist Exegesis
Responding:
Molly Farneth, Haverford College
Business Meeting:
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Economics and Capitalism in the Study of Buddhism
Seminar

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Study of Judaism Unit
Theme: Reimagining the Field: Theorizing the “Jewishness” ofJewish Thought
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Hynes Convention Center-110 (Plaza Level)
Annette Yoshiko Reed, New York University, Presiding
Elias Sacks, University of Colorado
Critical Theory Out of the Sources of Judaism: Horkheimer, Cohen, andJewish Thought
Sarah Hammerschlag, University of Chicago
The Reluctant Children of Postwar French Judaism: Jean Wahl,
Vladimir Jankélévitch, and Rabi
Samuel Brody, University of Kansas
On Building a Jewish Political Economy Canon
Responding:
Larisa Reznik, University of Chicago
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Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit
Theme: Wholistic Self-Care: Mining the Depths, Challenges, andStigmas of Communal and Private Mental Health from Womanist
Perspectives
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level)
Melva L. Sampson, Emory University, Presiding
Rezenet Moges, California State University, Long Beach
The Unveiled Treasure of “Phenomenal Black Deaf Womxn”
Monica A. Coleman, Claremont School of Theology
Womanist Ase: Ifa Practices that Support Black Women’s Experiencesof Depression
Responding:
Trina Armstrong, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Mercer University

Theme: Buddhist Practice During Collapse: Economic, Cultural,Institutional, and Political
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Fairfax B (Third Level)
Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Courtney Bruntz, Doane University
Buddhism for a Tech-Savvy Chinese YouthElizabeth Williams-Oerberg, University of Copenhagen
The Centrality of “ Youth” in Promoting and Reforming Buddhist
Monasteries in Ladakh
Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College
Theravada Buddhist Economic Realities: Decline Narratives andCoffee Shops in Northern Thailand
Kevin Buckelew, Columbia University
Buddhist Rhetorics of Productivity and Debt at the End of Medieval
China: “Inner-Worldly Asceticism” and the Chan Tradition
Business Meeting:
Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara, andRichard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union, PresidingC

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Holmes Welch and the Study of Buddhism in TwentiethCentury China Seminar
Theme: Revisiting the Revival: Holmes Welch’s Work at 50
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Regis (Third Level)
Rongdao Lai, University of Southern California, Presiding
Panelists:
Erik Braun, University of Virginia
Robert E. Buswell, University of California, Los Angeles
Holly Gayley, University of Colorado
Jessica Main, University of British Columbia
Nathaniel Welch, Welch Consulting, Los Angeles, CA
Business Meeting:Erik Hammerstrom, Pacific Lutheran University, and Gregory
Adam Scott, University of Manchester, Presiding

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M Arts Series
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Exploratory Sessions

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Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
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Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

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Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

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Publications Committee Meeting
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-301 (Third Level)
Theodore Vial, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding

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Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit and Religion and
Migration Unit and Religion and Popular Culture Unit
and Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit and Religion,
Media, and Culture Unit
Theme: American Gods
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Constitution (Second Level)
Alison Marshall, Brandon University, Presiding
Inspired by Neil Gaiman’s novel, this roundtable explores thesignificance of religion and divinity in the new television show,
American Gods. From the devotional practices of contemporary Pagans
and polytheists, to cinematic representations of Mexican Jesus andbeyond, participants in this session explore how Gaiman’s adapted
story probes enduring themes of desire, order, and sacrifice within the
study of religion. As Gaiman’s narrative reminds us, migrants don’t
relinquish their gods when they cross borders.

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Colloquium on Violence and Religion
Theme: Book Review: Does Religion Cause Violence?
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Religion in the Modern
World
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Adams (Third Level)
Jeremiah Alberg, Sophia University, Presiding
Scott Cowdell, Charles Stuart University, and Joel Hodge,
Australian Catholic University
Introduction to the Volume Does Religion Cause Violence?
(Bloomsbury, 2017)
William T. Cavanaugh, DePaul University
Girard and the Myth of Religious Violence
Joel Hodge, Australian Catholic University
Why is God Part of Human Violence? The Idolatrous Nature ofModern Religious Extremism
Wolfgang Palaver, University of Innsbruck
Religious Extremism, Terrorism, and Islam: A Mimetic Perspective
Asma Afsaruddin, Indiana University
Islam and Violence: Debunking the Myths
James W. Jones, Rutgers University
Review of the Volume: Does Religion Cause Violence?

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Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology andReligion
Theme: Grant Design Conversations
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-107 (Plaza Level)
Do you have a grant idea for a project on teaching and learning? Haveyou ever thought about applying for a Wabash Center grant? Do you
have questions about our grant procedures and protocols, whether
your project would qualify, or how your ideas might be shaped into an
appropriate Wabash Center proposal?
Come see us in the Convention Center Room 107 on both Sunday,
Nov. 19 and Monday, Nov. 20 from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM tomeet with one of the Wabash Center Staff. We are schedulingappointments ahead of time. Please write Beth Reffett (reffettb@
wabash.edu) to schedule a time to meet with us.
For more info go to http://bit.ly/2rZBD7C.

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Theme: Spiritual but Not Religious: A Roundtable Discussion on
the Past, Present, and Future(s) of Research
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Riverway (Fifth Level)
Andrea Jain, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis,
PresidingThis exploratory session is meant to formalize an ongoing
conversation on the Spiritual But Not Religious (SBNR) with theaim of establishing a Spiritual But Not Religious program unit.
The discussion will address what national surveys agree is a growing
social phenomenon in the United States and to what some argue isa growing transnational movement. Most generally, the term SBNR
denotes those who, on the one hand, are disillusioned with traditional
institutional religions and, on the other hand, feel that those same
traditions contain wisdom and valuable practices. This discussion will
engage the past, present, and future(s) of the SBNR phenomenon
to various degrees. It will offer new perspectives on the study of
the SBNR that challenge existing assumptions, call attention to its
unarticulated features, and offer expectations of and prescriptions for
its future growth. Anticipated outcomes include the formation of newdebates, issues, and intellectual trajectories.
Panelists:
Joy R. Bostic, Case Western Reserve University
Robert C. Fuller, Bradley University
Matthew Hedstrom, University of Virginia
Linda A. Mercadante, Methodist Theological School, Ohio
William Parsons, Rice University
Jodie Vann, Arizona State University

Humans constantly create and sustain deities, even as devotees
envision their gods as themselves giving life. Dreamlike portrayalsof American Gods’ Mr. Wednesday and Shadow show divinities
transcending boundaries of region, race, gender, color, creed, andmorality. Here, gods represent and become more than vestiges of oldand new worlds as they are eternally recreated and become part of themultifaceted human experience.
Panelists:
Robert N. Puckett, American Academy of Religion
Laurel Zwissler, Central Michigan University
Ken Derry, University of Toronto
Rubina Ramji, Cape Breton University
Sailaja Krishnamurti, Saint Mary’s University

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Society for Comparative Research on Iconographic andPerformative Texts
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Clarendon (Third Level)
Richard Newton, Elizabethtown College, Presiding
The Society for Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative
Texts (SCRIPT) fosters academic discourse about the social
functions of books and texts that exceed their semantic meaning andinterpretation, such as their display as cultural artifacts, their ritual use
in religious and political ceremonies, their performance by recitationand theater, and their depiction in art.
Sonia Hazard, Franklin and Marshall College
How Not to Read: The Trace of Evangelical Readers and the Powers of
the Religious Book in the United States, c. 1825–1861
Marianne Schleicher, Aarhus University
Sensory Uses of Scriptures in Israelite-Jewish Religion
Alice Mandell, University of Wisconsin
Texts Unseen: Invisible Writings and Performance in the Ancient
LevantJoy Palacios, Simon Fraser University
A Script in Hand? Small-Format Ecclesiastical Texts and Priestly
Performance in Early Modern France

Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Vermont (Fifth Level)
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edward’s University, Presiding

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Student Lounge Roundtable

Theme: Employment and Recruitment from an HR Perspective
Sunday, 10:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
In this roundtable-workshop session, Jessia Ehinger discusses
issues particular to job hunting outside the traditional tenure track,including how to write an effective resume and cover letter, how
to identify potential positions, and how non-academic job hunting
differs from the academic market. In doing so, the session provides
graduate students and young investigators with a solid understandingof what to expect in the job hunting process, so that they can best
present themselves and their interests in the job market.
Panelists:
Jessica Ehinger, Boston University

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AAR Mid-Atlantic Region
Theme: Religion and Theology in a Crossroads Age
Sunday, 10:30 AM–11:30 AM
Westin Copley Place-Defender (Seventh Level)

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Society for Pentecostal Studies
Theme: A Conversation with Harvey Cox on Pentecostalism,
Markets, Scripture, and the Future of Faith
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty A (Second Level)
Robby Waddell, Southeastern University, Presiding
Panelists:
David Daniels, McCormick Theological Seminary
Cheryl Bridges Johns, Pentecostal Theological Seminary
Rickie Moore, Lee University
Frank Macchia, Vanguard University
Responding:
Harvey Cox, Harvard University

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North American Association for the Study of Religion
Theme: Roundtable: The State of the Study of Religion
Sunday, 11:00 AM–12:50 PM
Fairmont Copley Place-State Suite A (Lower Lobby Level)

Coffee Break
Sunday, 11:30 AM
Complimentary coffee will be served in the backof Aisle 2100 and Aisle 2600 of the Exhibit Hall.

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
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Exploratory Sessions

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Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
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B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
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Sustainability and Religion

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Tours

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Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Student Lounge Roundtable

Public University Department Chairs Meeting

Theme: Balancing Act: Creating a Diverse and Dynamic CV
Sunday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
Career paths for academics are becoming more diverse and variedby the day. As such, even with academia one cannot depend on
conferences and papers and a few chapters in compilations alongsidea list of your thesis and dissertation supervisors to make you standout. What, for instance, is this “Public Engagement” section all about?
What exactly constitutes teaching experience? Is there a way to makewhat you did sound more like what you did, versus what it may havebeen titled at some point, by someone who may or may not have been
involved in the event itself ?
Crafting a CV, particularly for those positions outside of traditional
academic posts (or even for those posts within) is not difficult, its
merely different. This roundtable session discusses and workshops how
to frame, format, organize and phrase your experience and prepare a
CV for every exciting opportunity you encounter.
Panelists:
Katelynn Carver, University of St Andrews

Sunday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Hynes Convention Center-301 (Third Level)
Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama, Presiding
This session provides a forum for the chairs of religion/religious
studies departments/programs at public universities to discuss issues
related to teaching about and conducting research on religion in thisparticular context.

Society for the Study of Chinese Religions Roundtable
Sunday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere B (Second Level)

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Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology andReligion
Theme: Teach with Confidence: “Difficult Conversations” in theClassroom (Graduate Student Lunch and Session)
Sunday, 11:30 AM–1:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-107 (Plaza Level)
Graduate students please join us for lunch and an interactive
presentation about teaching in higher education.
Many professors in theology and religious studies report an increase in
the number and intensity of “difficult conversations” in the classroom
over the past year. Whether sparked by perennial questions intheological and religious studies or daily headlines, passionate, though
not necessarily informed, opinions flood our classrooms.
How can we engage emotionally and politically charged topics
in ways that enlighten and educate? Rebekka King and Cláudio
Carvalhaes will present teaching strategies for conducting productiveclass discussions in today’s contentious environment.
Pre-registration is required. Send an email to Beth Reffett reffettb@
wabash.edu. Registration deadline is October 1. Walk-ins may also be
accepted if space is available.
Open Q&As will follow the workshop. For more information go to
http://bit.ly/2rZBD7C.
Panelists:
Rebekka King, Middle Tennessee State University
Cláudio Carvalhaes, Union Theological Seminary

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Women’s Mentoring Lunch
Sunday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level)
Andrea C. White, Union Theological Seminary, and Melissa M.
Wilcox, University of California, Riverside, Presiding
Women who are graduate students and new scholars are invited to aluncheon with over thirty womanist, feminist, and LGTIQ mid careerand senior scholars. Women will have the opportunity to mentor andbe mentored in a context where every question is valued. The lunch
costs $13 per person; sorry, no refunds. Registration is limited to 100.
Mentors:
Kecia Ali, Boston University
Rebecca Alpert, Temple University
Ellen T. Armour, Vanderbilt University
Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado
Monica A. Coleman, Claremont School of Theology
Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University
Mary E. Hunt, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, andRitual, Silver Spring, MD
Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of the West
Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University
Valerie Miles-Tribble, American Baptist Seminary of the West
Elaine Padilla, University of La Verne
Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa
Michele Saracino, Manhattan College
Angella Son, Drew University
Nargis Virani, Graduate Theological Union

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Women’s Caucus
Theme: Parliament of World Religions Women’s Task Force – A
Brown Bag Discussion
Sunday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Hynes Convention Center-305 (Third Level)
Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College, Presiding
The AAR/SBL Women’s Caucus is pleased to host a co-sponsoredbrown bag discussion with leadership of the Parliament of World
Religions regarding topics and issues for women’s programming
for the 2018 Parliament of World Religions. The discussion will befacilitated by Elizabeth Ursic, Chair of the Parliament’s Women’s Task
Force, Co-Chair of the AAR/SBL Women’s Caucus, and a board
member of the Parliament. Other board members serving on the
Women’s Task Force leadership team and Parliament staff will also be
in attendance.
Panelists:
Rachel Mikva, Chicago Theological Seminary
Michael Trice, Seattle UniversityC

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La Comunidad of Hispanic Scholars of Religion

Theme: Latinxs Ethical and Theological Readings of Scripture
Sunday, 12:30 PM–3:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Defender (Seventh Level)
Loida I. Martell, Lexington Theological Seminary, Presiding
Latinxs scholars have often noted the important role of scripture in
the articulation of their theological and ethical constructions. For
some, it is the foundational authority that gives legitimacy to what
they write and say. This session will revisit previous studies carriedout on the role of the Bible for theologians, ethicists, and biblicalscholars, as well as previous interfaith studies on the role of scripture
in Christian and Muslim communities. In this session, a panel ofscholars will present on the current importance of scripture in thearticulation of theological, ethical, and biblical constructions for theLatinx community. The session will conclude with a presentation
focusing on how noted Christian social ethicist, Eldin Villafañe, has
contributed to the field of ethics and theology through his use of
Scripture and particular hermeneutical and pneumatological lens.
Discussion will follow, and La Comunidad Lifetime Achievement
Award in Scholarship will be awarded.
Leticia Guardiola-Saenz, Seattle University
From the Pulpit to the Academy—Latinx Scriptural Hermeneutics
Maria T. Davila, Andover Newton Theological School
For a Time Such as This—Scripture, Theological Ethics, and Multifaith Reflection

Harold Morales, Morgan State University
Beyond Bible—Scripture Among Diverse Latinx Communities
Efrain Agosto, New York Theological Seminary
Scripture and Liberating Ethics—Honoring Eldin Villafañe
Responding:
Eldin Villafañe, Gordon-Conwell TheologicalBusiness Meeting:
Loida I. Martell, Lexington Theological Seminary, Presiding

Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PMPK

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Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee
Theme: The Rapid Erosion of Tenure: 2008-2018
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-208 (Second Level)
Sylvester Johnson, Northwestern University, Presiding
Frank Donoghue, Ohio State University
The Tenure Myth
Responding:
Theresa A. Yugar, California State University, Los Angeles

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Public Understanding of Religion Committee
Theme: Back From the Front Lines of Diplomacy: A Religion
Scholar Reflects on the Role of Religion Expertise in US Foreign
PolicySunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level)
Erik Owens, Boston College, Presiding
From July 2013 through January 2017, Shaun Allen
Casey served the U.S. Secretary of State as the Special
Representative for Religion and Global Affairs and as
inaugural Director of the Office of Religion and Global
Affairs. The three-fold mission of the office was to advise
Secretary Kerry on matters related to religion, to increase
the capacity of State Department posts, offices, andShaun Casey
bureaus to engage religious actors and assess religious
dynamics, and to serve as the contact point for those seeking tounderstand the intersection of U.S. foreign policy and religion.
The Office of Religion and Global Affairs incorporated the Special
Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, the Special
Representative to Muslim Communities, and the Special Envoy to theOrganization of Islamic Cooperation.
Dr. Casey came to the Department of State after serving as Professorof Christian Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary and working
on President Obama’s 2008 campaign staff as part of its religious
outreach effort.

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He is currently Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace,and World Affairs, at Georgetown University and Professor of thePractice in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown
University.
Dr. Casey has also held positions at the Center for American Progress
and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is aformer chair of the AAR Committee on the Public Understanding of
Religion.
He is the author of The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs.
Nixon 1960 and co-editor, with Michael Kessler, of the forthcoming
Oxford Handbook of Political Theology. Casey holds an MPA from
Harvard Kennedy School, and an M.Div. and doctorate in theology
in religion and society from Harvard Divinity School and Bachelor’s
degree from Abilene Christian University.
Elizabeth Dias will serve as interlocutor. As a correspondent for Time,she covers politics and religion. She holds an MDiv from Princeton
Theological Seminary. Her newswriting on international concerns
involving religion has included stories on the Pope, the Dalai Lama,
Sudan, Syria, and other topics.
Panelists:
Shaun Casey, Georgetown University
Elizabeth Dias, TIME Magazine

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African Diaspora Religions Unit and Indigenous Religious
Traditions Unit
Theme: The Black and Red Atlantic
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Jamaica Pond (Fifth Level)
Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Hobart and William Smith Colleges,
Presiding
Joanne Braxton, Library of Congress
Red-Black Spirit Medicine in the Chesapeake: Origins of the
Weyanoke and the Weyanoke Association, 1619-Present
Gabriel Estrada, California State University
James Young Deer, Wampanoag, and Seminole Media: Red-Black
Atlantic Spiritual Traditions
Andrew McKee, Florida State University“The Red Men Are Melting”: Making and Marking Urban Native
Spaces in the Antebellum Atlantic World
Responding:Jace Weaver, University of Georgia

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Student Lounge Roundtable

Animals and Religion Unit and Teaching Religion Unit

Theme: Using Teaching Opportunities to Expand Your Skill Set
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
Discussions of “teaching and professional development” often focus
on how to improve your teaching. However, teaching opportunities
can also be used to expand your skills for beyond the classroom. In
an academic world where promising graduate students cannot counton landing professor positions, future teaching careers may not be in
the cards for everyone, so we need to find creative ways to translate
graduate teaching experience into other professional realms. In thisworkshop, we will discuss a variety of basic and innovative teaching
techniques that can be used to develop transferable skills for the
non-teaching aspects of your academic or alt-ac career. In addition to
making yourself a more well-rounded teacher, learning to think in thisway should also help you to be more maneuverable in the job market.
Panelists:
Kristy Slominski, University of Mississippi

Theme: Teaching Animals and Religion
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-108 (Plaza Level)
David Aftandilian, Texas Christian University, Presiding
Panelists:
Eric D. Mortensen, Guilford College
Jay McDaniel, Hendrix College
Aaron Gross, University of San Diego
Barbara K. Darling-Smith, Wheaton College
Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina
David Clough, University of Chester
Lea Schweitz, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago
Grace Kao, Claremont School of Theology

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Teaching and Learning Committee
Theme: Conversation with Excellence in Teaching Award Winner
Lynn Neal
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon F (Third Level)
Lerone Martin, Washington University, Saint Louis,
PresidingPanelists:
Lynn Neal
Lynn S. Neal, Wake Forest UniversityK

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Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit
Theme: Religious Expression and Sacred Power in African
American Literature
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-101 (Plaza Level)
Eric Williams, Smithsonian Institution, Presiding
Emerson Zora Hamsa, Rice University“Mah Tongue Is in Mah Friend’s Mouf ”: Black Women’s TruthTelling, Healing, and Spiritual Transformation in Zora Neale
Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
Derek Brown, Boston College
Behind That Wall: Trauma, Choice, and Heterogeneity in Toni
Morrison’s Beloved
Vaughn Booker, Dartmouth College“Pulpit and Pew”: African American Humor on Irreverent Religious
Participation in the Negro Digest

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Augustine and Augustinianisms Unit and EvangelicalStudies Unit

Theme: Author Meets Critics: James K.A. Smith’s Awaiting theKing: Reforming Public Theology (Baker Academic, 2017)
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Arlington (Third Level)
David Henreckson, Dordt College, Presiding
Panelists:
Eric Gregory, Princeton University
Gregory Lee, Wheaton College
Molly Farneth, Haverford College
Responding:James K. A. Smith, Calvin College

Buddhism Unit
Theme: Clear Serenity, Quiet Insight (University of Hawai’i Press,
2017): Reflecting on Zhiyi’s Masterwork and Paul Swanson’s
English Translation
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Suffolk (Third Level)
Eric Swanson, Harvard University, Presiding
Panelists:
Jinhua Chen, University of British Columbia
Daniel B. Stevenson, University of Kansas
Paul Groner, University of Virginia
Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University
Brook Ziporyn, University of Chicago
Responding:Paul L. Swanson, Nanzan University

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Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Unit andYogācāra Studies Unit

Body and Religion Unit
Theme: Carnal Hermeneutics
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level)
Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University, Presiding
Nathan Lyons, University of Cambridge
Sign as Body, Sign as God: A Psychosomatic Analogy of the Trinity
Adam Pryor, Bethany College
Desiring Flesh: Incarnation as a Normative Framework for Carnal
Hermeneuitcs
Julia Reed, Harvard University
Word As/Made Flesh: Carnal Hermeneutics and an Interdisciplinary
Approach to Incarnation
Responding:Richard Kearney, Boston College

Theme: Yogācāra in the World: Social and Political Dimensions
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Simmons (Third Level)
C. John Powers, Deakin University, Presiding
Douglas S. Duckworth, Temple University
Locating a Social Consciousness in Yogācāra
William S. Waldron, Middlebury College
Prolegomena for a Yogācāra Critical Theory
Jin Y Park, American University
Beyond Subjective Idealism: Yogācāra and Creative Engagement with
the World
Eyal Aviv, George Washington University
Transforming the Social Base: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Yogācāra Social
Philosophy
Responding:
Sallie B. King, James Madison University

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
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Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

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A19-212Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit

Theme: Fantasy, Religion, and Violence
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Columbus I & II (First Level)
Michael Jerryson, Youngstown State University, Presiding
Christopher Rodkey, Pennsylvania State University, YorkYou’ll Have to Pry Christendom from My Cold, Dead Hands: God’s
Not Dead as Reverse Revenge Fantasy of WhitenessMichael Broyles, Arizona State University
Lest We Become Possessed: James Baldwin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, andthe Relationship between Myth and Violence
Huan Jin, City University of Hong Kong
Fantasy Disseminated: The Drama of Politics and Religion in the
Taiping Rebellion
Business Meeting:
Jamel Velji, Claremont McKenna College, Presiding

A19-213#aarcomptheo

Theme: Silence and Apophaticism in Theory and Practice:
Comparative Theological Perspectives
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Public Garden (Fifth Level)
Catherine Cornille, Boston College, Presiding
Andrew Massena, Boston College
Torah Lishmah and Lectio Divina: Contemplative Reading in
Rabbinic Judaism and Evangelical Christianity
Yongho Francis Lee, University of Notre Dame
Bonaventure and Chinul: The Soul’s Leap into Union with God andthe Mind’s Awakening to Absolute Reality
Rhiannon Grant, Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre,
Birmingham, UK
Silence as Common Ground? Liberal Quakerism as Hosting Space and
Theological Conversation
James Bretzke, Boston College
Deep Silence: Giving Voice to Shusaku Endo’s Novel Use of Zen
Ascetical Spirituality

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Contemporary Islam Unit and Islam, Gender, Women Unit
and Islamic Mysticism Unit and Qur’an Unit and Study ofIslam Unit

A19-215
Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit
Theme: Magic in the Time of the Tower: Witchcraft, Activism, andPolitical Resistance
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level)
Shawn Arthur, Wake Forest University, Presiding
Peg Aloi, State University of New York, New Paltz“We Are the Weirdos, Mister!”: The Re-emergence of W.I.T.C.H. and a
New Generation of Media Witches
Sabina Magliocco, California State University, Northridge
Witchcraft as Political Resistance: Magical Responses to the 2016
Election
Egil Asprem, Stockholm University
The Magical Theory of Politics: Meme Magic, the Cult of Kek, andHow to Topple an Egregore

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Daoist Studies Unit
Theme: New Directions in Daoist Studies: Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Lived Religion
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Dartmouth (Third Level)
Michael Puett, Harvard University, Presiding
Louis Komjathy, University of San Diego
Towards a Contemplative and Animalistic Daoist Studies
James Miller, Queen’s University, Kingston
Daoist Studies, Sinology, and Sustainability
David A. Palmer, University of Hong Kong
Daoist Studies and the “Ontological Turn” in Anthropology
Elijah Siegler, College of Charleston
Secularism, Spirituality, and Daoist Studies
Responding:
Norman J. Girardot, Lehigh University

Theme: Mentoring Session for Scholars Studying Muslims/Islam
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level)
Martin Nguyen, Fairfield University, Presiding
This mentoring session will provide an opportunity for graduate
students, faculty, and independent scholars engaged in the studyof Islam and Muslims to connect with others and receive tailoredmentoring and professional advice.

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Comparative Theology Unit

We will share best practices and engage in small group discussions
led by senior scholars on topics such as publishing, the tenure process,job searches, discrimination, institutional and professional service, anddiscussing Islam with the media and general public.
Panelists:
Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University, Chicago
Aysha Hidayatullah, University of San Francisco

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Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit

A19-217SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit and Middle Eastern
Christianity Unit
Theme: Peacemaking and Hospitality in Middle Eastern
Christianity: Accommodating Difference in the Eastern ChristianTraditions
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)Peter Galadza, Saint Paul University, Presiding
Nicholas Sooy, Fordham University
Peacemaking in the Lives of St. Maruthas and St. Acacius
Bishoy Dawood, University of Toronto
Coptic Chanting, Pluralistic Voices: Coptic Hymns as a Medium for a
Pluralistic Egypt
Lana Sloutsky, Boston University
Helena Palaiologina: Preserving Byzantine Culture throughPhilanthropy in Post-1453 Cyprus
Responding:Mark Swanson, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago

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Ecclesiological Investigations Unit
Theme: Church Perspectives on the Legacy of the Reformation
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay D (Second Level)
Mark Chapman, Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Presiding
Brian Flanagan, Marymount University
Ecclesial Sin and Holiness in Liturgical Commemoration of theReformation
Wolfgang Vondey, University of Birmingham
Pentecostalism and the Reformation: Toward a Joint EcumenicalCommemoration
Shaun Brown, University of Toronto
George Lindbeck’s Early Israelology: A “Catholic Protestant”
Perspective on the Reformation
Responding:Gunda Werner, University of Tübingen

Theme: Staying with the Trouble: Cultivating Selves in Relation
with the Most Vulnerable
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon E (Third Level)
Carol Wayne White, Bucknell University, Presiding
Kathryn Moles, Graduate Theological Union
A Feminist Theological Framework for Incorporating Child Sexual
Abuse Prevention in Catholic Schools
Tom Berendt, Temple Univeristy
Offering Sanctuary to the Most Vulnerable: A Feminist Response to the
Horrors of Husbandry
Mary Keller, University of Wyoming
Staying with Trouble in the Chthulucene: I/indigeneity and the Sixth
Extinction in Art, Image, Sound, and Illusions?

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Japanese Religions Unit and Tantric Studies Unit

Theme: Tantricization of Gods and Deities in Medieval Japan:
Bernard Faure’s Gods of Medieval Japan (University of Hawai’i
Press, 2015)
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Fairfield (Third Level)
Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Charles D. Orzech, University of Glasgow
What Are the Gods? Faure and the Question of Esoteric Buddhism inMedieval Japan
Pamela D. Winfield, Elon University
Gods and Demons at the Interface of Religious Studies and Art
History
Aaron Proffitt, State University of New York, Albany
Normativity and Heterogeneity: Rethinking Medieval Japanese Pure
Land Buddhism
Kristin Johnston Largen, Gettysburg Seminary
Gods and Gender: Women, Sexuality, and Performance in Medieval
Japan
Responding:
Bernard Faure, Columbia University

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M Arts Series
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Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

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Sustainability and Religion

Q

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Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

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Law, Religion, and Culture Unit and Religious Conversions
Unit

Mysticism Unit

Theme: Trial and Error: Religious Conversions Before the Law
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Hampton (Third Level)
Marc Pugliese, Saint Leo University, Presiding
Jacob Betz, University of Chicago“She Objects to Having Her Child Reared in a Protestant Family”:
Catholics, Child Custody, and Court-Ordered Conversions in the
United States, 1870–1920
Justin Jones, University of Oxford
The Threat of Apostasy and its Lawful Solution: Debating Marriage,
Law and Conversion in Indian Islam
Karin Neutel, University of Oslo
Male Circumcision as an Obstacle to Religious Conversion? The
Problematic Origins of the Concept of Religion in Legal Criticism of
Circumcision
Allison Covey, University of Toronto
Authenticity and Secular Conversion: Grainger, Hashman, and theOntario Human Rights Commission

Liberation Theologies Unit and Sacred Texts, Theory, andTheological Construction Unit
Theme: Speaking of Liberation: Unexpected Sacred Texts inContemporary Social Justice Movements
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level)
Filipe Maia, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding
Alease Brown, Stellenbosch University
Re-imagining Sacred Texts: How Protests, Tattoos, and Hashtags
Constitute Vibrant Articulations of the Christian Faith
Kathryn House, Boston University
For Those Who Kissed Waiting Goodbye: Exploring the Sacred Texts ofEvangelical Purity Culture
Jason Wyman, Union Theological Seminary“I Speak to God in Public”: Contemporary Black Popular Music as
Primary Theological Language, Sacred Text, and Liberation Theology
Responding:
Kelly Brown Douglas, Goucher College

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North American Religions Unit and Religion, Memory,
History Unit
Theme: White Nostalgia in the North American Religious
LandscapeSunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-310 (Third Level)
Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, Presiding
Emmy Corey, Emory University
Moral Memories: Racial Justice and the Problem of WhitenessAndrew Hudson, University of Pennsylvania
The Not-White White Pentecostals of Appalachia: Rethinking Religioracial Identities in the History of American Pentecostalism
Kimberly Humphrey, Boston College
The Challenge of Dangerously Remembering White Supremacy in a
“Colorblind” Society: Shame, Disgust, and Ecclesial Failures
Lauren Kerby, Boston University
Saving History: White Nostalgia and the American Christian Right

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Theme: Mutable Flesh: Mysticism, Bodies, and Boundaries
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level)
Margarita Simon Guillory, University of Rochester, Presiding
Emily Holmes, Christian Brothers University“Her Table is Hunger”: Eating and Being Eaten in the Writings of
Two Thirteenth-Century Women Mystics
Mara Block, Harvard University
Boundaries Undone: Time, Bodily Negations, and Mystical Exercisesin the Late Notebooks of Simone Weil
Justine Bakker, Rice University
On the Afterlife of Those Who Drowned: Ellen Gallagher’s Watery
Ecstatic, Oceanic Feeling, and Mysticism in the Flesh

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Pentecostal–Charismatic Movements Unit and Queer
Studies in Religion Unit
Theme: Author Meets Critics: A Discussion of Ashon Crawley’s
BlackPentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham
University Press, 2016)
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Boylston (First Level)
Thelathia Young, Bucknell University, Presiding
Panelists:
Ashon Crawley, University of California, Riverside
Responding:
Biko Gray, Syracuse University
Keri Day, Princeton Theological Seminary

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Roman Catholic Studies Unit

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Philosophy of Religion Unit
Theme: Gendering Philosophy of Religion: The Influence ofPamela Sue Anderson
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Riverway (Fifth Level)
Beverley Clack, Oxford Brookes University, Presiding
Panelists:
Kate Kirkpatrick, University of Hertfordshire
Nancy Frankenberry, Dartmouth College
Ellen T. Armour, Vanderbilt University
William Robert, Syracuse UniversityA

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Religion and Economy Unit and Secularism and Secularity
Unit
Theme: Author Meets Critics: A Conversation about Finbarr
Curtis’s The Production of American Religious Freedom (New York
University Press, 2016)
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Tremont (First Level)
Dana Logan, Washington University, Saint Louis, Presiding
Panelists:
Tisa Wenger, Yale University
Sonia Hazard, Franklin and Marshall College
Joseph Winters, Duke University
Joseph Blankholm, University of California, Santa Barbara
Responding:Finbarr Curtis, Georgia Southern University

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Religion and the Social Sciences Unit
Theme: Religion’s Role in Producing Strangers and Neighbors
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Boston Common (Fifth Level)
Sara Williams, Emory University, Presiding
Mary Puckett, University of Florida
The Cosmopolitanization of a Mexican Pentecostal Church
Gwendolyn Gillson, University of Iowa
Supplementing the “Uchi” through Buddhism: Japanese Women’s New
Visions of Stranger and Neighbor

Theme: Between the Imperial and the Intimate: Practicing
Catholicism in a Global Media Environment
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level)
Katherine Dugan, Springfield College, Presiding
Mathew N. Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross“My Ways Are Not Your Ways”: The Discourse of Sin and Success in a
North Indian Catholic Charismatic Television Show
Eric Hoenes del Pinal, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Negotiating Intimate Relationships with an Uncertain Audience:Q’eqchi’-Maya Catholics’ Use of FM Radio
Maryellen Davis Collett, Lewis University
Miraculous Mediation(s) and Paradoxes of Peace: Marian
Apparitions, Genocide, and Global Catholic MediaMarc Loustau, College of the Holy Cross
Global Becoming among Transylvanian Catholic Media Volunteers
Responding:
Joanne Maguire Robinson, University of North Carolina,CharlotteBC

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Theme: Scriptural Reasonings: Pragmatism, Semiotics, andVulnerability
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)
Deborah Barer, Towson University, Presiding
Nechama Juni, Brown University
Christian Pragmatism and Halakha: Rethinking the Tension between
Continuity and Change in Religious Traditions
H. Peter Kang, Grace Church of West Feliciana Parish, LA
Like a Game of Catch: Non-binary Relational Semiotics in Clement of
Alexandria
Matthew Goldstone, New York University
The Unstable Dynamics of Extreme Vulnerability
Business Meeting:Mark James, Hunter College, Presiding

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Practices and
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Women’s Caucus

North American Association for the Study of Religion

Theme: Emerging Scholars: Resilience Amidst Vulnerability inInternational Issues
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-305 (Third Level)
Julia Berger, University of Kent, and Janice Poss, Claremont
Graduate University, Presiding
Jea Sophia Oh, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
Global Vulnerability of Energy and Korean Women’s Empowerment:
An Ecofeminist Talk
Alicia Panganiban, Princeton Theological Seminary
Theology of Resilience Amidst Vulnerability in the Book of Ruth: An
Asian Perspective

Theme: “...But What Do You Study?”: A NAASR Workshop on
Theory & Method in the Job Market - Session I
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:50 PM
Fairmont Copley Place-Back Bay Room (Lower Lobby Level)
This session proposes to explore the employment challenges facing
early career scholars who are interested in issues of theory and methodin the study of religion, through both a discussion and workshop.
The session will address issues important to junior NAASR members(notably, but not exclusively, ABDs now entering or about to enter
the job market) by demonstrating how a professional organization can
provide a practical and strategic forum for job-market advice.

JungJa Joy Yu, Claremont Graduate University
The Vulnerability of Former Asian Comfort Women’s Issue
Responding:
Meredith Minister, Shenandoah University

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Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Grand A (Fourth Level)
Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary, and Kecia Ali, Boston
University, Presiding
The American Academy of Religion’s Professional Conduct Task
Force has been charged by the Board to craft a Professional Conduct
Statement that will:• Stress the twofold commitment — to robust support of academic
freedom and to the expectation that all AAR members willconduct themselves in a professional manner.
• Clearly state AAR’s desires to build communities that are freefrom discrimination and harassment, and that foster inclusivity,
mutual respect, and diversity.
• Update and revise our current statement on Sexual Harassment.
• Make clear how the above relate to AAR gatherings and activities(national, regional, and other).
• Recommend policies for handling infractions of professional
conduct.
The Task Force drafted this Professional Conduct statement to berecommended to the Board for its consideration in 2018. This public
session aims to have a wider conversation and to solicit feedback
about the draft statement. There will also be an online platform tosolicit feedback from AAR members after the session.
Panelists:
David A. Sánchez, Loyola Marymount University
Megan Goodwin, Syracuse University
Barbara A. B. Patterson, Emory University
Melissa M. Wilcox, University of California, Riverside
Randall Styers, University of North Carolina
Emilie M. Townes, Vanderbilt University
Jack Fitzmier, American Academy of Religion

Theme: Present and Future of Biblical Studies, II: Celebrating 25
Years of Brill’s Journal, Biblical Interpretation
Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-311 (Third Level)
Lynn Huber, Elon University, Presiding
Co-Sponsored by: SBL Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics
Unit; SBL Bible and Cultural Studies Unit; SBL Contextual BiblicalInterpretation Unit; SBL Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible Unit;
SBL Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible Unit; SBL Ideological Criticism
Unit; SBL LGBTI/Queer Hermeneutics Unit; SBL Minoritized
Criticism and Biblical Interpretation Unit; SBL Postcolonial Studies
and Biblical Studies Unit; SBL Reading, Theory, and the Bible
Unit; SBL Rhetoric and the New Testament Unit; and SBL Slavery,
Resistance, and Freedom Unit
Panelists:
Lynne St. Clair Darden, Interdenominational Theological Center
Yii-Jan Lin, Yale University
Yvonne Sherwood, University of Kent
Ken Stone, Chicago Theological Seminary
Jay Twomey, University of Cincinnati
Gerald West, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Responding:
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Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Unit
and Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit

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Religion and Ecology Unit
Theme: Ritual and Community in Religion and Ecology
Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-201 (Second Level)
Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University, Presiding
Barbara Jane Davy, University of Waterloo, and Stephen Quilley,
University of Waterloo
Ritual Matters: Changing Ontologies, Values, and Ecological
Conscience Formation
Anne Read, University of Waterloo
Land-Based Judaism and Jewish Youth Identity Formation
Tallessyn Grenfell-Lee, Boston University
Food Gardens as Points of Contact for Awareness and Engagement inIntersectional Eco-justice Ministries
Luke Whitmore, University of Wisconsin, Steven’s PointAre Local Gods Ecological?
Meaghan Weatherdon, University of Toronto
Walking from Whapmagoostui: Understanding the Land as a Resource
for Resilience in Cree Social Movements

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Freedom Trail’s Revolutionary Women Walk Tour

Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Offsite-Meet at the Registration Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD in
the Convention Center
See page 10 for details.

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International Society for Chinese Philosophy
Theme: New Perspective on Confucianism
Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Hyannis (Fourth Level)
Chenyang Li, Nanyang Technological University, Presiding
Bruce Brooks, University of Massachusetts
The Personal and the Governmental in Mencius
Chenyang Li, Nanyang Technological University
Confucian Xiao as Filial Care
Jesse Ciccotti, Hong Kong Baptist University
A Ruler’s Religiosity: Comparing Marcus Aurelius and Mengzi on the
Spiritual Side of Political Life

Bin Song, Boston University
Confucianism, Gapponshugi and the Spirit of Japanese Capitalism
Responding:
Xiaojiao Cu, Beijing University
Wenzhi Zhang, Shandong University
Andrew Fuyarchuk, Yorkville University
Anna Sun, Kenyon College

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Status of Persons with Disabilities in the Profession
Committee Meeting
Sunday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Massachusetts (Fifth Level)
Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown University, PresidingFK

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Student Lounge Roundtable

Theme: Student-Centered Learning: A Practical Guide
Sunday, 2:30 PM–4:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
Paul Myhre, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology
and Religion, and Debbie Gin, Association of Theological Schools,
PresidingMany of us have heard about the wonders of “student-centeredlearning”: higher engagement, better critical thinking skills, student
empowerment. But how exactly can we implement these methods incollege and university Religious Studies classrooms? This Roundtablesession will go over simple but effective strategies for both instructors
and teaching assistants to create a student-centered learning
environment. These strategies are derived from both the educational
literature and personal experience in both capacities.
Attendees will leave with concrete examples of how to implement
student-centered learning in addition to a resource list to aid in
additional investigation into student-centered learning activities andprinciples. In order to see student-centered learning in practice, thissession will leave time for a discussion and brainstorming session
at the end to workshop some ideas and/or problems particular to
instituting student-centered learning in the study of religion.
Panelists:
Gwendolyn Gillson, University of Iowa

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Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology andReligion and Association of Theological Schools

Public Understanding of Religion Committee

Theme: Seminary Teaching and Formation Online
Sunday, 2:30 PM–4:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-107 (Plaza Level)
Paul Myhre, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology
and Religion, and Debbie Gin, Association of Theological Schools,
Presiding
The session will explore what the Association of Theological Schools
has been learning about formation in online contexts through the
Educational Models and Practices project, particularly throughthe peer-group phase; name important questions, challenges, andobstacles to student formation at a distance; and discuss with two coleader/panelists specific aspects of student formation at a distance.
Panelists:
Brooke Lester, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Barbara Blodgett, Lexington Theological Seminary

Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM

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Applied Religious Studies Committee
Theme: Preparing Scholars of Religion for Non-academic Careers:
What’s a Faculty Member to Do?
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Berkeley (Third Level)
Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Harvard Law School, Presiding
In recent years as the job market for tenure-track academic positions
has tightened and the use of contingent faculty has exploded,
increasing numbers of graduate degree seekers are intending to pursue
nonacademic careers. While some areas of study present obvious
nonacademic options, for scholars in the humanities, nonacademic
career opportunities and the best preparation for them may not be
obvious and religious studies faculty are exploring how graduate
programs can — and should — prepare all alumni for multiple
employment outcomes. This panel brings together faculty members
from a variety of institutions to discuss some of the problems
confronting their students and their programs as more people turn —by necessity and by choice — to nonacademic career paths.
Panelists:
Molly Bassett, Georgia State University
Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University
Kathleen Moore, University of California, Santa Barbara

Theme: Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of
Religion Forum: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level)
Erik Owens, Boston College, Presiding
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is the recipient of the 2017
Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understandingof Religion. Sullivan is Professor and Chair of Religious
Studies, and Affiliate Professor of Law, at Indiana
University at Bloomington.
Sullivan’s work focuses on the phenomenology of religion
Winifredunder the modern rule of law, and she is widely known
Fallers Sullivan
for her critical studies of American law and jurisprudence
about religion. She is the author of four books: Paying the Words Extra:
Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States (1994),
The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (2005), Prison Religion: Faithbased Reform and the Constitution (2009), and A Ministry of Presen
ce: Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care, and the Law (2014); and the co-editorof three volumes: After Secular Law (2011), Varieties of Religious
Establishment (2013), and The Politics of Religious Freedom (2015).
Beyond the religious studies guild, Sullivan’s public scholarship on
religion and her work as an expert witness have had an important
impact in courtrooms, prisons, military units, and government offices
from city halls to the State Department.
In this year’s Marty Award Forum, Laurie Patton, President ofMiddlebury College, will join Sullivan for an extended public dialogue
about Sullivan’s life and work.
Panelists:
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Indiana University
Laurie Louise Patton, Middlebury College

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Publications Committee and Teaching and Learning
Committee
Theme: Teaching Interreligious Encounters (Oxford University Press,
2017)
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-310 (Third Level)
Kimberly Rae Connor, University of San Francisco, Presiding
Developing out of the AAR / Luce Foundation Summer Seminars
on Comparative Theology and Theologies of Religious Pluralism,
Teaching Interreligious Encounters is a multidisciplinary volume oforiginal essays addressing an array of pedagogical issues in a varietyof contexts related to teaching that occurs at the encounters of“different ‘religious traditions’,” or in “interreligious encounters.”
This latest volume in the AAR Teaching Religious Studies Series
brings together a group of international scholars who work in andspeak from a variety of contexts as loci for teaching interreligious
encounters: undergraduate and graduate programs, secular andreligiously-affiliated institutions, divinity schools and seminaries, aswell as graduate career preparation in non-nonreligious professions.
In manifold ways, these essays share the common teaching goal oftransforming ways of being and acting through an intimate encounter
with the “religious other,” which continues to be a cause of concern,and even anxiety, in our age of globalization and migration.

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Black Theology Unit

Panelists:
Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University
Zayn Kassam, Pomona College
Martha Reineke, University of Northern Iowa
John Thatamanil, Union Theological Seminary
Responding:Marc Pugliese, Saint Leo University
Alexander Y. Hwang, Xavier UniversityK

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Special Topics Forum: Using Humanities Commons toCurate Your Online Presence, Increase the Impact of Your
Scholarship, and Tell the Story of Your Work
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)
Imagine a humanities network with the sharing power of Academia.
edu, the archival quality of an institutional repository, and acommitment to using and contributing to open source software. Now
imagine that this network is not-for-profit. It doesn’t want to sell
your data or generate profit from your intellectual property. That’s
Humanities Commons. Run by a nonprofit consortium of scholarly
societies, Humanities Commons wants to help you curate your online
presence, expand the reach of your scholarship—whatever form it may
take—and connect with other scholars who share your interests.

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Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
and Secularism and Secularity Unit
Theme: Asian American Secularities: Race, Religion, and theSecular in Chinese North American Communities
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon E (Third Level)
Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University
Explaining Diasporic Chinese Non-Religiousness: A Liyi Theoretical
Approach
Rachel Pang, Davidson College
Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors in Li-Young Lee’s The Winged Seed
Justin Tse, Northwestern University“This Is About the Property We Bought”: The Secular Dimensions ofCantonese Evangelical Social Conservatism in the San Francisco Bay
Area
Responding:Jonathan Tan, Case Western Reserve University

Theme: Afro-pessimism and Black Theology
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level)
Andrea C. White, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding
Calvin Warren, Emory University
Is it Righteous to Be? Afro-pessimism, Black Theology, and the
Problem of Ontology
Marvin Wickware, Duke University
An Inheritance of Endurance: Black Life’s Resources of Melancholic
Hope and Prideful Love
Joseph Winters, Duke University
The Ecstatic Space between Optimism and Pessimism: Fanon, Spillers,
and the Promise of Afro-anguish
J. Kameron Carter, Duke University
Black Care: An Insurgent Ecstatics of the SacredB

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Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit

Theme: Responsible Action and Public Theology: Dietrich
Bonhoeffer and the Vulnerable Other
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Public Garden (Fifth Level)
Nik Byle, Arizona Western College, Presiding
Ryan Tafilowski, University of Edinburgh
Particularity in Solidarity: The Ethical Promise of the Doctrine of theOrders of Creation
Josh de Keijzer, Luther Seminary
Bonhoeffer’s Vulnerable God: From Theologia Crucis to a Public
Theology of Vulnerability
Matthew Jones, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Eschatological Wrestling: EpistemologicalAmbivalence in Fiction from Tegel Prison
Dianne Rayson, University of Newcastle, Australia
Earthly Christianity for the Vulnerable as a Potential Bonhoefferian
Eco-ethic

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Buddhist Philosophy Unit and Tibetan and Himalayan
Religions Unit

Ethics Unit

Theme: Tibetan Madhyamaka
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level)
Richard Nance, Indiana University, Presiding
Michael Ium, University of California: Santa Barbara
Fake Truths: Jetsunpa, Gorampa, and Sectarian Polemics in Tibet
Jed Forman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Pus and Nectar: Mixing 3UDPƘΧD with Madhyamaka
Douglas S. Duckworth, Temple University
Buddhist High Culture on the Tibetan Plateau: Tsültrim Lodrö on the
Middle Way

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Chinese Religions Unit

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Comparative Theology Unit and Women and Religion Unit

A19-261Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit and Religion inSoutheast Asia Unit
Theme: The Interreligious Classroom in Indonesia, Canada, andthe US
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Boylston (First Level)
Jennifer Howe Peace, Andover Newton Theological School, Presiding
Nicholas Adams, University of BirminghamIndonesian Interreligious Learning
Adriana Tulissi, University of Calgary, Paul Verhoef, University ofCalgary, and Syd Erais, University of Calgary
Re-imagining Pedagogy in Canadian Religious Studies Departments:
Connecting Theory with Practice
Aaron Hollander, University of Chicago
Threading a Needle to Weave a Fabric: Introducing Religion as
Interreligion
Colleen Windham-Hughes, California Lutheran University
Expecting the Common Good: On the Cooperation of Persons in theInterfaith Studies Classroom

Theme: Towards Understanding Lateral Leadership: Reflections
on Medieval Texts in Hinduism, Christianity, and Sikhism
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level)
Ana Laura Funes Maderey, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding
Mugdha Yeolekar, Loyola Marymount University
Can the “Vulnerable” Be “Powerful”? Analyzing Dynamics of Powerand Vulnerability in a Sixteenth-Century Hindu Text
Margaret Gower, Loyola Marymount University
Maternal Bodies as Political Bodies in the Writings of Christine de
Pizan
Nirinjan Khalsa, Loyola Marymount University
Subversive Power and Symbolic Violence: Ego-Loss as a Feminine
Ethic in Sikh Devotional Scripture and Praxis
Responding:Karen Enriquez, Loyola Marymount University
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Theme: Mapping Religion in Contemporary China
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Grand A (Fourth Level)
Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee, Presiding
Fenggang Yang, Purdue University
Mapping Religious Sites in Twentieth Century China: A Comparisonof Mapping Techniques
Joey Marshall, Purdue University
Mapping the Growth of Buddhism and Daoism under Repressive
Conditions in Twentieth-Century China
Yunping Tong, Purdue University
Religious Geography and Son Preference: A Spatial Analysis ofReligious Sites in China
Responding:
Jiang Wu, University of Arizona

Theme: The Ethical Dimensions of Truth and Post-Truth
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Simmons (Third Level)
Melanie Jones, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding
L. Patrick Burrows, Harvard University
Post-Truth, Truthiness, and the Ethics of Parrhesia
Christina McRorie, Creighton University
Social Analysis in an Age of “Post-Truth” Economics: What (andHow) Should Religious Ethicists Critique?
Paul W. Gleason, University of Virginia
Idolatry and Prophecy in the Age of Trump
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Islam, Gender, Women Unit and Men, Masculinities, andReligion Unit and Religion in Europe Unit
Theme: Islamophobia, the Body, and the State in Contemporary
EuropeSunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level)
Justine Howe, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding
Laurens de Rooij, University of Cape Town
Islamophobia and Gender in Britain: Do Men and Women RespondDifferently to Media Representations of Muslims?
Elisabeth Becker, Yale University
The Ethnographic Study of Highly Securitized Populations: Lessons
from Women in European Mosques
Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Vassar College
Of Long and Short Skirts: Mixité, Homosociality, and Racialized
Gender Difference in France
Responding:Markus Dressler, Leipzig University

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Islamic Mysticism Unit
Theme: Contemporary Expressions of Vernacular Sufism
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-101 (Plaza Level)
Robert Rozehnal, Lehigh University, Presiding
Talia Gangoo, University of Michigan
Healing the Body, Repairing the Soul: Disease and Health inNaqshbandiyya-Nazimiyya Sufi Thought and PracticeMelinda Krokus, Marywood University
Inspiration (Wahy) at the Margins: A Vulnerable and Vernacular Sufi
Hermeneutics of the Qur’an
Rose Aslan, California Lutheran University
Painting on Water: Islam, Spirituality, and Art in Contemporary
Istanbul
Responding:
Shobhana Xavier, Franklin and Marshall College

Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit andPentecostal–Charismatic Movements Unit
Theme: Subverting Power: Mission, Politics, and Place within
Global Pentecostalism
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level)
Erica Ramirez, Drew University, Presiding
Jonathan Calvillo, Boston University
The Persistence of Mexican Borderlands Protestantism in Southern
California
Alex Mayfield, Boston University“A Gloriously Free Work”: Pentecostal POWs and Spirit-Empowered
ResistanceDavid Luckey, Southern Methodist University
Subverting Political Fallacies: The Voice of a Latin-American
Pentecostal Immigrant Community in the U.S.

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New Religious Movements Unit
Theme: Bodies and Practices in American Religious Innovations
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)
Lydia Willsky-Ciollo, Fairfield University, Presiding
Leah Payne, George Fox University“Bobbing the Hair” and Other “Masculinated” Sins: Women,
Pentecostals, and Politics in the United States from 1890-1930
Isaac May, University of Virginia
A Toxic Red Pill: Contemporary Organized Atheism, Misogyny, andthe Concept of Rationality
Clara Schoonmaker, Syracuse University“No Skyclad beyond This Point”: Transforming Society through Pagan
Rituals of Resistance
Responding:Lynne Gerber, Harvard University

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Practices and
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Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit
Theme: Religion, Psychology, and the Most Vulnerable
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay D (Second Level)
James I. Higginbotham, Earlham College, Presiding
Helen Boursier, College of St. Scholastica
Art as Spiritual Care from Trauma for Recovery: Judith Herman’s
Trauma and Recovery Viewed through the Hermeneutical Lens of
Art Therapy in Contextual Praxis with Immigrants Seeking Asylum
Lisa M. Cataldo, Fordham University
Ambivalent Identifications and the Power of Belonging: Mass
Incarceration, Religious Fundamentalism, and the Ambiguity of“Breaking Free”
Hilary Scarsella, Vanderbilt University
A Spotlight on Religion: The Role of Religion in Historically BostonBased Movements of Resistance to Sexual ViolenceA19-267/P19-252#aarquakers17

Theme: Quakerism and Decolonization/Enculturation in Kenya
and Rwanda
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Vineyard (Fourth Level)
Esther Acolatse, University of Toronto, Presiding
Rosina Lepareyo, Samburu Friends Mission, and Sammy Letoole,
St. Paul’s University
Quakerism and Decolonization/Enculturation in Samburu Female
Circumcision
Benson Ombaha, Friends Theological College and Bware Yearly
Meeting, and Oscar Lugusa Malande, Friends TheologicalCollege
Quakerism as a Resource for Social Cohesion in Kenya
Theoneste Sentabire, Earlham College
Quakerism as a Resource in the Wake of the Rwandan Genocide
Responding:
Ann K. Riggs, Howard County General Hospital

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Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit
Theme: Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: The Spiritual in Film
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Boston Common (Fifth Level)
Brett Potter, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Presiding
Panelists:
Joseph Kickasola, Baylor University
Taylor Worley, Trinity International University
Zachary Settle, Vanderbilt University
Kathryn Reklis, Fordham University
Crystal Downing, Messiah College
David Dark, Belmont University

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Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Unit
Theme: Religion and Emerging Peace Practices: Water Protection,
SLAM Poetry, and Memorializing State Terror
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Jamaica Pond (Fifth Level)
Atalia Omer, University of Notre Dame, Presiding
James Waters, Vanderbilt University
Water and Oil: The Dakota Access Pipeline Protests and the Framingof the Sacred
Andrea Gacs, Fuller Theological Seminary
Performance Poetry as a Tool for Social Conflicts and Peace: How
Methodologies of Vulnerability and Performance Address Racial,
Religious, Gender, and LGBTQIA Discrimination to Create an
Inclusive Community
Loren Lybarger, Ohio University, and James Damico, Indiana
University¡La Impunidad No Será Eterna! Religion and the Commemorationof the Disappeared in Argentina Forty Years after the DictatorshipResponding:Ellen Ott Marshall, Emory University

Theme: Gendered Traditions: Intersections of Gender, Genre, andReligion in South Asian Storytelling
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level)
Rebecca Manring, Indiana University, Presiding
Margaret Mills, Ohio State U Emerita
Trickster: Global Theories, Local Traditions, Gender, and Genre
Coralynn Davis, Bucknell University
Sāmā for the Ages and Sāmā for Our Times: The Past and Future ofMaithil Women’s Storytelling in the Shifting Terrain of Gender andSocietyx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Quaker Studies Unit and African Association for the Studyof Religions

Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, University of Illinois
The Folk Pativratā: Narrative Discourses on Hindu Womanhood in
Nepal
Responding:
Leela Prasad, Duke University

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Roman Catholic Studies Unit and Vatican II Studies Unit
Theme: Pope Francis and the “Globalization of Indifference”:
Catholicism and the Most Vulnerable
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-208 (Second Level)
Massimo Faggioli, Villanova University, Presiding
Kerry Alys Robinson, National Leadership Roundtable on
Church Management, Washington, DC
The Creative Tension of Mercy and Reform in Francis’ Pontificate
Mark Shriver, Save the Children
Pope Francis’ Message of Faith, Love, Humility, and Mercy: Does It
Really Matter?
Rafael Luciani, Boston College
A Structural Option for the Poor: Geopolitics, Social Movements, andEvangelization
Responding:Richard Gaillardetz, Boston College

A19-272#aarsorSociology of Religion Unit and Critical Research on Religion
Theme: Multiple Religious Belongings within and against
Identities, Affiliations, and Conflict
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Hampton (Third Level)
Rebekka King, Middle Tennessee State University, Presiding
Joantine Berghuijs, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Drawing from Many Sources: Conceptualizing and Measuring
Religious Flexibility
John Hartley, Yale University
The Field of American Evangelicalism: Struggles with Islam and theCompetition for Religious Authority
Marat Shterin, King’s College, London
Conceptualising Religion in Political Conflict: The “Sacred” in the
Russian-Ukrainian Crisis
Roger Baumann, Yale University
Constructing and Contesting the “Holy Land”: Christian Pilgrimage
as a Multifaceted Social Phenomenon
Responding:David Feltmate, Auburn University, Montgomery

Study of Judaism Unit
Theme: Holding and Beholding: Material and Visual Cultures
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Orleans (Fourth Level)
Jennifer Caplan, Middletown, CT, Presiding
Rebecca Wollenberg, University of Michigan
The Unread Bible as Image: When Written Text Becomes PictographEmma Brodeur, Syracuse University
Freud and the Bible: Dream Images and Jewishness

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Theology and Continental Philosophy Unit

Theme: Reframing the Continental Philosophy of Religion?
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Fairfield (Third Level)
Beatrice Marovich, Hanover College, Presiding
Panelists:
An Yountae, Lebanon Valley College
Amaryah Armstrong, Vanderbilt University
Marika Rose, Durham University
Lucas Wright, University of California, Santa Barbara
Responding:
Steven Shakespeare, Liverpool Hope University
Business Meeting:Adam Kotsko, Shimer College, and Beatrice Marovich, HanoverCollege, Presiding

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Wesleyan Studies Unit
Theme: Wesleyan Ecclesiologies
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Dartmouth (Third Level)
Ted A. Campbell, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
Panelists:
Edgardo Colon-Emeric, Duke University
Daniel Castelo, Seattle Pacific University
Hilde Marie Movafagh, MF Norwegian School of Theology
Kimberly Belcher, University of Notre Dame
Kirsten Sonkyo Oh, Azusa Pacific University

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Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
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B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
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Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

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Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

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Coffee Break

Theological Education Committee Meeting

Sunday, 3:30 PM

Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Boardroom (Third Level)
Scott C. Alexander, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding

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Complimentary coffee will be served in the backof Aisle 2100 and Aisle 2600 of the Exhibit Hall.

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Student Lounge Roundtable

Theme: Arguing Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) and
Religion
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Republic B
Ellen T. Armour, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
This exploratory roundtable session invites both supporters anddissenters of the movement to Boycott, Divest, and Sanction Israel(BDS) to a roundtable conversation. Rather than demonizing thoseeither for or against BDS, this exploratory session will allow a variety
of voices to be heard.
The participants will consider the issue from an analytical space safefor deep questioning and honest scholarly dialogue. What do welearn about religion in the twenty-first century by understanding thereligious ethics, theologies, rituals, aesthetics, and community-making
motivating and motivated by these activities? What differences andcommonalities help us analyze these religious actors and religious
activities? How does BDS fit into a larger history of religions
supporting and not supporting boycotts and divestment, such as
the South Asian Independence Movements, the US civil rights
movements of the 1960s, and the global student led anti-apartheid
movements in the 1980s?
Panelists:
Hatem Bazian, Zaytuna College and University of California,
Berkeley
Zareena Grewal, Yale University
Peter Pettit, Muhlenberg College
Brant Rosen, Jewish Voice for Peace
Laurie Zoloth, University of Chicago
Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco

Theme: Researching, Managing, and Writing with Technology: A
Hands-on Exploration of Online Tools
Sunday, 4:00 PM–5:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
Working primarily with paper and/or an office suite of applications
such as Microsoft Word and Excel for your rigorous research projects
have their obvious limitations and ensuing frustrations. However,
online tools such as Zotero, Evernote, and Scrivener can ease the painof this cumbersome process by digitally organizing and simplifying
the tasks of taking and managing a zillion note, creating mastermind-maps and efficient workflows, and writing systematicallyand flawlessly. This roundtable session will focus on the merits andchallenges of researching, managing, and writing with the help ofsuch online tools of bibliographical, archival–retrieval, and structural
management. It provides a hands-on exploration of these tools toexperience firsthand how they not only store and organize yourresearch compiled in almost any form—stacks of books and journal
articles, digital documents, handwritten notes, pictures, videos, audios,and the like—but also sync your research and writing across multiple
devices, share them instantly with anyone, and most importantly, notlose them even if you lose your laptop!
Panelists:
Kalpesh Bhatt, University of Toronto

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North American Association for the Study of Religion
Theme: “...But What Do You Study?”: A NAASR Workshop on
Theory & Method in the Job Market - Session II
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:50 PM
Fairmont Copley Place-Back Bay Room (Lower Lobby Level)
This session proposes to explore the employment challenges facing
early career scholars who are interested in issues of theory and methodin the study of religion, through both a discussion and workshop.
The session will address issues important to junior NAASR members(notably, but not exclusively, ABDs now entering or about to enter
the job market) by demonstrating how a professional organization can
provide a practical and strategic forum for job-market advice.

Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM

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Applied Religious Studies Committee and Employment
Services Advisory Committee
Theme: Career Services for Non-academic Careers
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Berkeley (Third Level)
Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Harvard Law School, Presiding
When humanities scholars talk about exploring and pursuing “alt-ac”
and “post-ac” careers, two concerns often dominate the conversation:
1) Graduate studies in the humanities don’t prepare us for or aren’t
relevant to non-academic career paths, and 2) We don’t know where
to look for or how to apply for non-academic jobs. Whether you area scholar thinking about non-academic careers or a faculty member
interested in supporting students engaged in such searches, join ourpanel of career services experts to discuss the many careers that areopen to — and even looking for! — people with advanced training
in the humanities. Panelists will discuss existing resources and whereto find them, as well as ways that departments, universities, andprofessional organizations like the AAR can better support scholars in
non-academic careers.

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Exploratory Sessions

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Plenary Panel

Panelists:
Amy Defibaugh, Assistant Director, Academic Affairs, Temple
University
Susan Lawler, Director of Career Services, Harvard Divinity
SchoolBrooke Noonan, Executive Director, UChicagoGRAD
Experience, University of Chicago
Susannah Laramee Kidd, Mellon-ACLS Public Fellow, Los
Angeles County Arts Commission
This panel will include substantial time for audience Q&A anddiscussion. Please join us to share your thoughts!

Theme: Recolonizing the Academy Under a Trump Presidency
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level)
Munir Jiwa, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Sponsored by the Status of LGBTIQ Persons,
Persons with Disabilities, Racial and Ethnic
Minorities, and Women in the Profession
Committees
This panel will analyze the intensified colonizationof academic spaces—both intellectual and physical—
Munir Jiwa
under the current presidency. How do we accurately
map these changes and negotiate these spaces in an era ofnational “whitelash” from peripheral ideological and embodied
spaces? How do we contend with the increasing marginalizationand targeting of vulnerable populations? What strategies mightscholars use to contribute to the ongoing process of decolonizing
the academy? What are the potential ramifications of our nonaction or complicity in this academic landscape?
Panelists:
Hatem Bazian, Zaytuna College and University of California,
Berkeley
Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University
Mel Chen, University of California, Berkeley
Shanell T. Smith, Hartford Seminary

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Theme: How to Propose a New Program Unit
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-301 (Third Level)
Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, and Robert N.
Puckett, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
Join the Director of Meetings and the Program Unit Director for an
informal chat about upcoming Annual Meeting initiatives as well as
the guidelines and policies for proposing a new program unit.

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Regions Forum

Theme: Marc DiPaolo: Religious Studies and Interdisciplinary
Liberal Arts Teaching and Scholarship in the Age of Austerity
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level)
Katherine Downey, Hockaday School, Dallas, TX, Presiding
As contract-hour budgeting and the corporatization of the academy
make non-vocational teaching rarer, professors dedicated to thestudies of the different branches of the humanities, arts, sciences, andreligious studies should find ways to collaborate with one anotherinstead of merely compete with one another for dwindling fiscal
resources. Building such bridges between the disciplines is in the bestinterests of the students, professors, and the profession. It also has
the potential to return to higher education the Late Medieval andRenaissance values of educating the complete person in the interestsof reforming both the academy and society. An encore presentation of
the AAR-SW Presidential Address given on March 11, 2017 at theSouthwest Commission on Religious Studies conference.
Panelists:
Marc DiPaolo, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Hatem Bazian

Jasmin Zine

Mel Chen

Shanell Smith

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Afro-American Religious History Unit
Theme: Black Religious Histories and Herstories of New England
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Dartmouth (Third Level)
Alexis S. Wells-Oghoghomeh, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Timothy Rainey, Emory University
I’ve Got A Home: Black Capital, Nationalism, and the Spiritual Politics
of African Recolonization in the Era of Paul Cuffe, 1808–1816
Daniel A. Morris, Augustana College
Walker’s Appeal and the Black Just War Tradition

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
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Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

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Sustainability and Religion

Q

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Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

Kevin M. Franco, Elgin Community College
And Still We Rise: Prince Hall, Abiel Smith School, and the Battle
for Education Equality in Late Eighteenth and Early NineteenthCentury Boston
Fatimah Fanusie, Howard Thurman Historical Home, New Birth
Corporation
Boston’s Temple #11: The Early Years, 1948–1968
James Hill, Northwestern University
The Transnational Legacy of Ella Little-Collins: Race, Boston, andDecolonial Black Islamic Thought

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Anthropology of Religion Unit

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Buddhism in the West Unit and Buddhist CriticalConstructive Reflection Unit
Theme: Situating Dharma: Examining Power, Privilege, andIdentity in American Buddhisms
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Vineyard (Fourth Level)
Hsiao-Lan Hu, University of Detroit, Mercy, Presiding
Panelists:
Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida
Sharon A. Suh, Seattle University
Rod Owens, Dharma Boston Sangha
Natalie Quli, Institute of Buddhist Studies

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Christian Systematic Theology Unit
Theme: Traditions of Interpretation
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)
Natalia Marandiuc, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
Rebekah Earnshaw, University of St. Andrews
Creation from Nothing Does Not Come from Nothing
Derek Michaud, University of Maine
Reimagining Revelation, Tradition, and the Development of DoctrineA

Confucian Traditions Unit
Theme: Roundtable Session on Ivanhoe’s Three Streams: Confucian
Reflections on Learning and the Moral Heart-Mind in China, Korea,
and Japan (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-101 (Plaza Level)
Tao Jiang, Rutgers University, Presiding
Panelists:
Michael Puett, Harvard University
Robert C. Neville, Boston University
Shirong Luo, Simmons College
Responding:Philip J. Ivanhoe, City University of Hong Kong

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Contemporary Islam Unit
Theme: Citizenship and Minorities in Contemporary Islam
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-110 (Plaza Level)
Ermin Sinanovic, International Institute of Islamic Thought,
PresidingPanelists:
Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto
Zainab Alwani, Howard University
Andrew F. March, Yale University
Basma Abdelgafar, Maqasid InstituteOvamir Anjum, University of Toledo

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Theme: Pregnant in the Field
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Public Garden (Fifth Level)
Michal Raucher, University of Cincinnati, Presiding
Panelists:
Nancy Ammerman, Boston University
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, New York University
Cara Rock-Singer, Columbia University
Emily Sigalow, Duke University
Responding:Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina

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Critical Theories and Discourses in Religion and Cultural
History of the Study of Religion Unit and Philosophy of
Religion Unit
Theme: Author Meets Critics: The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic,
Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences (University of
Chicago Press, 2017)
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Boylston (First Level)
J. Barton Scott, University of Toronto, Presiding
Panelists:
Hugh B. Urban, Ohio State University
Shannon Trosper Schorey, University of North Carolina
Meredith Coleman-Tobias, Emory University
Joanna Smith, University of North Carolina
Responding:
Jason Josephson-Storm, Williams College

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Ecclesiological Investigations Unit and World Christianity
Unit
Theme: Rethinking Theology in Light of World Christianities: The
Legacy of Robert Schreiter and Stephen Bevans
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay D (Second Level)
Deanna Womack, Emory University, Presiding
Henry Kuo, Graduate Theological Union
A New Confessional Catholicity: Reformed Ecclesiology and the New
Catholicity
Jaisy Joseph, Boston College
Re-imagining Catholicity: Robert Schreiter and the Interruption of
Universalizing Tendencies
Norbert Hintersteiner, University of Münster
The Translational Fabric of Cultures: When Theology is Cross-Cultural
Translation
Scott Hagley, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Suffering Translation: Faithful Presence as the Means and Hope ofContextual Theology

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Hinduism Unit
Theme: The Ethics of Bhakti: Exploring Moral and Aesthetic
Dimensions in the Life of Hindu Devotion
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level)
John Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia University, Presiding
Alberta Ferrario, Swarthmore College
Ethics and Devotion According to Abhinavagupta: The
Conceptualization of Bhakti in the *ưWƘUWKDVDՉJUDKD
Lisa Blake, McGill University
The Two Faces of 0ƘUL\DPPDϝ: Ethical and Aesthetic Dichotomies
in Colonial Era Tamil and English Depictions of a Hindu Village
Goddess
Patton Burchett, College of William and MaryThe Ethics of Early Modern 9DLΙΧDYLVP: Humble Sufis, Arrogant
Naths, and the Virtues of Love’s Savor
Gardner Harris, Bucknell University
Disorientation and Distraction: The Ethics of Erotic Imagery in0ƘΧLNNDYƘFDNDUµV Tiruvācakam
Responding:Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida

Theme: A Spectrum of Faith: Religions of the World in the Heartlandof America (Drake University Press, 2017)
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level)
Timothy D. Knepper, Drake University, Presiding
Panelists:
Anoushe Seiff, Drake University
Dustin Eubanks, Drake University
Carol Spaulding-Kruse, Drake University
Responding:Jennifer Howe Peace, Andover Newton Theological School

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Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit andNineteenth Century Theology Unit
Theme: Luther’s Nineteenth-Century Heirs and Interpreters
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level)
Matthew L. Becker, Valparaiso University, and Darrell Jodock,Gustavus Adolphus College, Presiding
Andrew Hamilton, Southern Methodist University
Freedom and Necessity United: I.A. Dorner’s Utilization of Luther in
His Doctrine of Religious Perfection
Angela Berlis, University of Bern
Ignaz von Döllinger (1799–1890) and Other Liberal Catholic(Church) Historians on Luther and the Reformation in the NineteenthCentury – From Polemic Apologetics to Critical Appreciation
James Lee, Saint Louis University
Luther among the Neo-Lutherans
Responding:Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen, University of Aarhus

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
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Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

Responding:
Courtney T. Goto, Boston University

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New Religious Movements Unit and Religion in theAmerican West Unit
Theme: Western Utopias: Ghost Dances, Jewish Farming, andPsychedelic Mystics
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Boston Common (Fifth Level)
Jeremy Rapport, College of Wooster, Presiding
Adrienne Krone, Allegheny College
The Lure of a Land-Based Utopia: Jewish Agricultural Settlements in
Nineteenth-Century North Dakota and Today
Morgan Shipley, Michigan State University“Fruits of the Religious Life”: Entheogenic Spirituality, Communal
Consciousness, and Compassionate Living Down on The Farm
Tammy Heise, University of Wyoming
Women Warriors Ghost Dancing (Again) at Wounded Knee
Responding:Brandi Denison, University of North Florida

Open and Relational Theologies Unit
Theme: Open-Relational Theologies beyond Christianity
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon E (Third Level)
Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Center for Process Studies, Claremont, CA,
Presiding
Matthew Ingalls, American University, Dubai
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210): The Ultimate Muslim
Incompatibilist
Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College
An Open-Relational Hindu Theology
John Becker, Claremont School of Theology
Relational Theology: A Buddhist Perspective
Responding:
Jay McDaniel, Hendrix College
Michael Lodahl, Point Loma Nazarene University

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Practical Theology Unit

Religion and Politics Unit and Religion and Public Schools:International Perspectives Unit
Theme: Religious Dimensions on “Global Citizenship”
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Jamaica Pond (Fifth Level)
Michael Waggoner, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding
Jana Philippa Parenti, University of Hamburg
Testing Religion-State Relations - How the Current Rise of
Nationalism in Europe Influences the Further Development of“Religious Education for All” in Hamburg
Katharine Batlan, University of Texas
World Christian Citizenship Conferences: Defining Good Global
Citizens in the 1910s
Greg Peterson, South Dakota State University
Global Citizenship Values as a Byproduct of Democratic Virtue
Education
Erik Owens, Boston College
Religion Education and Global Citizenship: A Match Made in
Heaven?

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Religion and Popular Culture Unit
Theme: The Legacy of the Summer of Love, 1967-2017
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-201 (Second Level)
Jon Gill, California State University, Long Beach, Presiding
Jeremy Guida, Santa Barbara, CA
The Summer of Love and the Pluralization of Popular Culture
Andrew Smith, Tennessee Technological University
Summers of Love, Streets of Liturgy, and the Liberation ofSound: Revisiting, Reliving, and Reclaiming the Leftwing Hippy
Christianity of the “Submarine Church”
Scott Muir, Duke University
Fifty Summers of Love and Counting: Music Festivals and theInstitutionalization of the Psychedelic Tradition
Responding:David Stowe, Michigan State University

Theme: Taking On Practical Theology: A Book Panel Based on
Courtney Goto’s Challenge to the Field
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-208 (Second Level)
Tone Stangeland Kaufman, MF Norwegian School of Theology,
PresidingPanelists:
Mary Elizabeth Moore, Boston University
Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt University
Esther Acolatse, University of Toronto
Mark Cartledge, Regent University

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Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit and Theology andReligious Reflection Unit

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Religion and Sexuality Unit

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19R

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Theme: Queer Gathering: Engaging the Intersections between
Religion, Bodies, and Sexualities
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)
Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Methodist Theological School, Ohio,
Presiding
Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds, and Kwame Edwin
Otu, University of Virginia
Ancestors, Embodiment, and Sexual Desire: Wild Religion and the
Body in the Story of a South African Lesbian Sangoma
Lai-Shan Yip, Graduate Theological Union
A Queer China in the Eyes of Matteo Ricci and Its Relation to theChristian-Confucian Synthesis
Gilbert Chen, Washington University, St. Louis
Ordinary Monks, Nuns, and Everyday Sexuality in Early Modern
China
Stephanie Budwey, Kirchliche Hochschule, Wuppertal“Nature Loves Variety, Unfortunately, Society Hates It”: German
Intersex Christians’ ExperiencesK

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Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit and Transformative
Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit
Theme: Teaching Holocaust and Genocide in This Time:
Strategies of Engagement
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level)
M. Brandon McCormack, University of Louisville, Presiding
Richard A. Freund, University of Hartford
Teaching about the Holocaust through Geo-science and Archaeology
Will Livingston, Florida State University
Teaching Genocide in a “Post-truth” Age: Strategies for Activism,
Engagement, and ScholarshipDavid Tollerton, University of Exeter
Holocaust Education, “British Values”, and Religious Diversity in the
United Kingdom

Theme: The Legacy of Virgilio Elizondo
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-310 (Third Level)
Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, University of Miami, Presiding
Panelists:
Benjamin Valentin, Yale University
Michael E. Lee, Fordham University
Chris Tirres, DePaul University
John Phillip Santos, San Antonio, TX
Timothy Matovina, University of Notre DameDavid Carrasco, Harvard University
Nancy A. Pineda-Madrid, Boston College

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Ritual Studies Unit
Theme: Rituals and the Subaltern
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Hampton (Third Level)
Curtis Hutt, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Presiding
Kolby Knight, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ritual Surplus and Sub(Liminality) in Vaudevillian Catholicism
Baiju Markose, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago
Subaltern Ritual Hermeneutics: Pottan Theyyam - A Case Study
Rose Aslan, California Lutheran University
To Pray or Not to Pray: The Trouble with Muslim Public Expressionsof Piety in the US
Responding:
Laurel Zwissler, Central Michigan University

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Business MeetingS

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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
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Sustainability and Religion

Q

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Receptions and Breakfasts

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Wildcard Session

Theme: Book Panel: Tillich and the Abyss: Foundations, Feminism,
and Theology of Praxis (Palgrave, 2016) by Sigridur Gudmarsdottir
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Grand A (Fourth Level)
Michele Watkins, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding
Panelists:
Kwok Pui Lan , Emory University
John Thatamanil, Union Theological Seminary
Catherine Keller, Drew University
Responding:Sigridur Gudmarsdottir, University of Tromso
Business Meeting:
Devan Stahl, Michigan State University, and Stephen G. Ray,
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Presiding

Theme: Sleepwalking into Extinction: Elaine Scarry’s S.O.S. to
Scholars of Religion
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Constitution (Second Level)
Brian Palmer, Uppsala University, Presiding
This forum brings Elaine Scarry into conversation with scholarsof religion to discuss why our species may be sleepwalking into athermonuclear extinction. How do we make sense of human passivity
in the face of possible imminent extinction? The roundtable will bea space in which to think ethnographically about different religious
groups — their theologies, ethics, eschatologies, etc. — and whatshapes them into (not) caring about the threat of nuclear war. What
if anything do we owe to potential future generations? How do
we assess the nature of the loss if all of human civilization were tobe obliterated? How might we respond to those who assert thathumanity deserves to be annihilated, that our extinction would be agood thing? Six scholars with diverse specialties will converse with
Elaine Scarry before opening the floor to audience voices.
Panelists:
R. Marie Griffith, Washington University in Saint LouisJean Halley, University of New York
Kate Holbrook, Church of Latter Day Saints Church History
Department, Salt Lake City, UTYana Stainova, Dartmouth College
Responding:Elaine Scarry, Harvard University

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Yogācāra Studies Unit
Theme: Reading Vasubandhu’s 7ULβğLNƘ and Its Commentaries
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Commonwealth (Third Level)
Roy Tzohar, Tel-Aviv University, Presiding
Jonathan Gold, Princeton University
Vasubandhu’s Thirty Verses on Non-duality and Figurative
Predication
Jay Garfield, Smith College
7ULԲğLNƘ 22 and Its Commentaries and Sequelae
Malcolm Keating, Yale-NUS College
Kumārila %KDΛΛD on the Metaphor of Self
Dan Lusthaus, Harvard University
A Few Things We Can Learn About the 7ULԲğLNƘ From the Chinese
Sources
Jingjing Li, McGill University
Manifesting the Body through the Function: The Translation of
Vijñāna and Vijñāpti in Chinese Yogācāra
Business Meeting:
C. John Powers, Deakin University, and Roy Tzohar, Tel-Aviv
University, Presiding

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Women’s Caucus
Theme: FORGiNG VOICE – Filmmaking as Scholarship: Film
Premier and Panel Discussion
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-305 (Third Level)
Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College, Presiding
Join us for the panel and film premiere of the project FORGiNG
VOICE: Interviews with Pioneering Feminist and Womanist Theologians(www.forgingvoicefilm.com). The project consists of an online
archive of interviews where theologians discuss their experiences inovercoming adversity in forging their voice and making significant
contributions to feminist and womanist theology. It also featuresa short-film developed in response to the process of creating thisproject. The short-film is meant to be an educational and meditative
tool to prompt deeper reflection on feminist and womanist issues aswell as prompting viewers to consider how they can continue to forge
their own voice. After the premier, a panel—featuring filmmaker
Kate Common, producer Ashley Theuring, and composer Elizabeth
Ursic— will discuss working on the film and its effects on theirscholarship. Kutter Callaway from the Religion, Film, and Visual
Culture group will be the respondent to the film and panel.
Panelists:
Kathryn Common, Boston University
Ashley Theuring, Boston University
Responding:Stefanie Knauss, Villanova University

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Reception
Sunday, 6:30 PM–8:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level)

P19-300
European Society of Women in Theological Research
Theme: Networking and Brainstorming
Sunday, 6:00 PM–7:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Massachusetts (Fifth Level)

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P19-301
Theta Alpha Kappa Annual Meeting and Reception

Sunday, 6:00 PM–7:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level)
Theta Alpha Kappa, the National Honor Society for Religious Studies
and Theology, invites faculty chapter representatives and members toattend our annual meeting which is preceded by a brief reception.

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19

P19-302

American Journal of Theology and Philosophy and the Institutefor American Religious and Philosophical Thought Annual
Lecture and Business Meeting
Sunday, 6:00 PM–8:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-MIT (Third Level)
This year’s annual AJTP lecture will be given by John Kaag, Professorof Philosophy at University of Massachusetts, author of American
Philosophy: A Love Story. Anyone with interest in the intersections ofAmerican philosophy and theology are welcome and encouraged toattend. The lecture will be preceded by a brief business meeting.
Panelists:
John Kaag, University of Massachusetts

Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology andReligion
Theme: Dinner for New Teachers (Invitation Only Event)Sunday, 6:30 PM–8:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Simmons (Third Level)
By invitation only - new teachers will join together for an elegant
dinner and directed table conversations about the first years ofteaching.
For more information go to http://bit.ly/2rZBD7C.

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Religious Education Association

Theme: Teaching In and For Multifaith Contexts: Concepts andPractices
Sunday, 6:45 PM–8:15 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Boston University (Third Level)
How shall we educate our faith communities so that they can practicehospitality in the world of many faiths? How are we to prepare religious
leaders who are capable of leading congregations and communities in
the practice of hospitality in a multifaith context? How are we to equip
religious leaders in the practice of ministry in interfaith settings?
What curriculum design, educational programs, and pedagogies shallwe pursue to lead and minister effectively in a multifaith setting? These
are the larger questions that framed a new shared book project, Teachingfor a Multifaith World (ed. Eleazar S. Fernandez, Wipf and Stock 2017).
This session will be an interactive engagement with several of theauthors from the book, focused on sharing both conceptual frames andpragmatic practices for doing this work.
This session is an opportunity to connect with the Religious Education
Association, a related scholarly organization of the AAR. We valueinterdisciplinary and intercultural research at the intersections ofreligion and education (see www.religiouseducation.net).
Panelists:
Justus Baird, Auburn Theological Seminary
Ruben L. F. Habito, Southern Methodist University
Mary E. Hess, Luther Seminary
Lucinda Mosher, Hartford Seminary
Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Claremont School of Theology,
Claremont Graduate University
Jennifer Howe Peace, Andover Newton Theological School
Daniel Schipani, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
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L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

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Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

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Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

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Arts Series: Harry Potter and the Sacred Text

P19-403
Société Internationale d’Études sur Alfred Loisy
Theme: Modernists and the Papacy
Sunday, 7:00 PM–9:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Jefferson (Third Level)
Jeffrey Morrow, Seton Hall University, Presiding
Elizabeth Farnsworth, University of Dayton
Wilfrid Ward on the Liberalism of Pope Leo XIII
Annelies Lannoy, Ghent University
The Papacy in the Correspondence of Franz Cumont and Alfred Loisy
Luc Brogly, Eckholsheim, France
Pierre Batiffol, Bishops, Cardinals, and Popes: A Survey from his
Private Letters and Published Works
Max Vodola, Catholic Theological College
Roncalli, Modernism, and the Journey to Vatican II
Responding:Charles J. T. Talar, University of St. Thomas, Houston

Sunday, 7:00 PM–10:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Constitution (Second Level)
Asuka Sango, Carleton College, Presiding
Described by some critics as the third in a “religion trilogy” by director
Martin Scorsese, Silence (2016) tells the story of seventeenth-century
Jesuit priests who travel to Japan to spread Catholicism in defiance of
the Japanese government’s ban of Christianity. As these missionaries
witness the martyrdom of Japan’s “hidden Christians,” they grapple
with their inability to save Japanese martyrs and they begin toquestion the meaning of suffering in face of the silence of God. The
film also scrutinizes the colonial implications of Japanese encounter
with Christianity and resultant transformations of Christianity inJapan. The screening is sponsored by the generous support of theCenter for Information on Religion in Tokyo, Japan, and is supported
by Christian Spirituality; Japanese Religions; Religion, Film, andVisual Culture; Religious Conversions; and Roman Catholic Studies
Units. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion withpanelists from Christian Studies and Japanese Religions.
Panelists:
Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University
Chad Bauman, Butler University

P19-401
Evangelical Philosophical Society
Theme: Engagement with Scripture in Philosophy and Analytic
Theology
Sunday, 7:00 PM–10:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Orleans (Fourth Level)
This panel will discuss proposals for how philosophers andtheologians can and should engage with scripture in their analytic andphilosophical thinking.
Dru Johnson, King’s College, New York
Must Our Philosophy Conform with Scripture?
Oliver Crisp, Fuller Theological Seminary
Reflections on Scripture’s use in Philosophy and Analytic Theology
Joshua Blander, King’s College, New York
Humble Thyself in the Light of the Source: Scripture as a Source ofPhilosophical Data
Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Reflections on Scripture in Philosophy and Theology

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Sunday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-310 (Third Level)
Emily Filler, Earlham College, Presiding
Sponsored by the Contemporary Pagan Studies Group and the Sacred
Texts and Ethics Group
What if we read the books we love as if they
were sacred texts? What would we learn? How
might they change us? Harry Potter and theSacred Text is a weekly podcast reading Harry
Potter, the best-selling series of all time, as if it
was a sacred text. Just as Christians read theBible, Jews the Torah and Muslims read the
Qur’an, this podcast has embarked on a
199-episode journey (one chapter an episode, released weekly) toglean what wisdom and meaning we can make from J.K. Rowling’s
beloved novels. The podcast reads Harry Potter, not just as novels, but
as instructive and inspirational texts that teach us about our own lives.
Each week, the podcast explores a central theme through which to
explore the characters and context, always grounding itself in the text.
It engages in traditional forms of sacred reading to unearth the hidden
gifts within even the most mundane sentences.
Join the producers and hosts of the popular podcast in a traditionalsacred reading practice with the non-traditional but much beloved
Harry Potter series. In addition to the reading practice, this informal
session will also feature the podcasters along with Stephanie Paulsell
discussing the history of sacred reading practices and the implicationsof their work for ethical reflection, chaplaincy, and other forms ofministry in the changing religious climate.
Panelists:
Vanessa Zoltan, Harvard University
Casper ter Kuile, Harvard University
Ariana Nedelman, Harvard University
Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard University

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Arts Series: Ravishing Far/Near: Sheila Gallagher’s Art andthe Mute Magic of Things
Sunday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Washington (Third Level)
Daniel Bradley, Gonzaga University, Presiding
Sheila Gallagher’s art speaks powerfully to ourdesire for a renewed spiritual life that will pay
careful attention to the sacredness of nature andto the marginalized and the neglected, that which
exists outside the circles of power and privilege.
Through her thought provoking use of materials
and the engagement with diverse religious traditions,ns,
Gallagher’s art is deeply interwoven with both of thesehese
themes and their connection to our desire for the divine.
Her works will give the theologians of the AAR a greattdeal to think and talk about, as it moves them by its beauty andinspires them to see the sacred in the profane. Further, the fruitfulnessof this work, as a source of theological discourse, will be enhancedby the proposed roundtable discussion between the artist, Sheila
Gallagher and her academic interlocutors, Richard Kearney and John
Panteleimon Manoussakis.
Panelists:
John Panteleimon Manoussakis, College of the Holy Cross
Sheila Gallagher, Boston College
Richard Kearney, Boston College

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A19-405

Film: Let The Mystery Be: Screening of the Finale of the
HBO TV Show The Leftovers and Discussion with Religious
Scholar Consultant and Producer of the Show, Reza Aslan
Sunday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level)
Manuel Lopez, New College, Florida, Presiding
This year, HBO will air the third and final season of The Leftovers, a
TV show that, like no other in recent times, has had faith and religion
as its central topic. Based on Tom Perrotta’s 2011 novel of the same
name, the show examines the effects (social, psychological, spiritual)of a rapture-like event in which 2% of the world’s population simply
vanishes without any logical explanation. In the aftermath of thisevent, an array of new messianic figures and religious movements
emerge trying to bring meaning to a world in which traditionalreligion seems to have no answers. During the three seasons of theshow, we follow the main characters struggling with a world in which
God seems to have spoken, but no one knows what it meant. The
rapture, instead of being the ultimate answer to the existence of God,
becomes the ultimate question.

The session will begin with a screening of the finale (courtesy of
HBO), followed by a Q&A with Reza Aslan, the religious studies
scholar consultant in the show (and one of the consulting producers)
about the ways in which The Leftovers has dealt with a variety of
religious issues: the role of faith and religion in society, the emergenceof new religious movements, the human need for meaning, thestruggle of peaceful coexistence of different religious worldviews, andthe ethical and moral implications of an event like the rapture. The
session will also discuss social and political readings of the show suchas the rapture as an allegory of September 11, the notion of “the endof times” as a metaphor for the collapse of our current political order,etc.
Panelists:
Reza Aslan, University of California, Riverside
Damon Lindelof, Screenwriter and ProducerL

A19-406
Film: Son of Man: a South African Jesus Film

Sunday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)
Sarojini Nadar, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Presiding
The African Religions unit yet again hosts a film screening as partof the AAR annual meeting. This year we will screen the film Sonof Man (2006), directed by Mark Dornford-May. Following thescreening, Prof Sarojini Nadar, who holds the Desmond Tutu Chair of
Ecumenical Theology and Social Transformation at the University of
the Western Cape, South Africa) will open a discussion of the film.
In the state of Judea in southern Africa, violence, poverty andsectarianism are endemic. The neighboring Alliance has invaded
under the pretense of restoring peace. Bloody street battles
accompany the dictatorship’s incursion into its weaker satellite.
Promises of a transition to open democratic rule are marred bysummary executions and brutal massacres. As the civil war reaches
new heights, a divine child is born to a lowly couple. As he grows
and witnesses the inhumanity of the world he lives in, his angelic
guardians offer him an escape to the heavens. He refuses. This is hisworld and he must try to save it from the work of evil men and fromthe darkness working through them. As an adult, he travels to thecapital, gathering followers along the way from the armed factions ofrebels across the land. He demands that his followers give up theirarms and confront their corrupt rulers with a vision of non-violent
protest and solidarity. Inevitably, he attracts the attention of the
Judean tribal leaders who have struck a power-sharing deal with thealoof Governor Pilate. The Son of Man must be brought down anddestroyed. This film is a powerful retelling of the life of Christ set incontemporary South Africa.

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
C

Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

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A20-1
Program Unit Chairs’ Breakfast

Monday, 7:15 AM–8:45 AM
Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level)
Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, Presiding
Program Unit Chairs are invited to a breakfast featuring information
on upcoming program initiatives and celebrating their contributions
to the AAR Annual Meeting.

Monday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM

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Publications Committee
Theme: How to Publish When I Am in a Teaching-Intensive and/or Contingent Faculty Position
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Marriott Copley Place-MIT (Third Level)
Daniel Miller, Landmark College, Presiding
Advice and strategies for maintaining an active research andpublication agenda by and for faculty at institutions and/or inpositions that do not typically support research and publishing.
Panelists:
Christy Cobb, Wingate University
Corinne Dempsey, Nazareth College
Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College
Jordan Miller, Stonehill College

Student Lounge RoundtableP20-100
Feminist Studies in Religion Meeting
Monday, 9:00 AM–10:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Vermont (Fifth Level)

A20-102

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Status of LGBTIQ Persons in the Profession Committee
and Status of Persons with Disabilities in the Profession
Committee
Theme: Toilet Justice: Peeing and the Politics of Marginalized Bodies
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-102 (Plaza Level)
Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown University, Presiding
As the title of a popular children’s book universally proclaims,“everyone poops.” What is not universally true, however, is thateveryone is ensured safe bathroom access. Focusing on toilets as a siteof risk, injustice, and activism for many marginalized communities,
this session explores how toilet justice can be a site for building
coalitions among multiple minoritized communities. Alongsidecurrent contemporary political debates over trans toilet activism— and the important activist coalitions happening between trans,
queer, and disabled folks about safe bathroom access, the session will
highlight toilets as a prism to think about the material experienceof marginalized bodies, about the physical links between bodily
elimination and people who are often targeted for elimination.
Trans, queer, immigrant, and disability voices will strategize ways
for transforming the mundane reality of bodily elimination into
opportunities for radical practices of justice.
Panelists:
Neomi De Anda, University of Dayton
Leo Guardado, University of Notre Dame
Preston Parsons, University of Cambridge
Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College
Santiago H. Slabodsky, Hofstra University
Max Strassfeld, University of Arizona
Max Thornton, Drew University
Shani Tzoref, University of Potsdam

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: The Potential Value of Genre-based Pedagogy in Religious
Studies
Monday, 9:00 AM–10:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
Priyanka Ramlakhan, University of Florida, Presiding
This roundtable is intended to make a case to religious studies
instructors for the value of adopting the genre-based method of
instruction developed primarily in the discipline of writing studies,
explaining its merits and challenges. The syllabus handouts thatwill be provided model this method for a range of religious studies
courses. In addition to genre-based instruction, some of the courses
also attempt to integrate two other valuable pedagogical techniquesin the context of religious studies: critical pedagogy and technologysupplemented pedagogy.
Although the roundtable focuses primarily on the value of genrebased pedagogy as an innovative intervention in religious studies
pedagogy, we will also discuss the importance of instructors’cultivation of critical literacy and use of a variety of media andmethods. Genre-based instruction helps cultivate a number ofdiscipline-specific and domain-general skills valued by students andinstructional institutions.
Panelists:Nathan Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara

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African Religions Unit and Arts, Literature, and Religion
Unit

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: Religious Representation and Imagination inContemporary African Arts and Literature
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-313 (Third Level)
Mary Nyangweso, East Carolina University, Presiding
Danielle Widmann Abraham, Ursinus College
Situating Resistance: The Muslim Body in the Films of Ousmane
SembeneMarthinus Johannes Havenga, Stellenbosch University“Woza Albert!” – A Theological Engagement with a South African
Anti-Apartheid Protest Play
Sara Fretheim, Akrofi-Christaller Institute“O My Absurd Ancestry, Down from What Tree?” Jesus,
Sassabonsam, and Testimonies of Exile: Exploring Themes of African
Religion(s) and Culture in the Poetry of Tchicaya U Tam’si, AfuaKuma, and Abena Busia
Kara Ellis Skora, College of Wooster
Homegoing and the Radiance of Tomorrow: How Recent African
Literature Enhances Our Understanding of Historical, Diasporan,and Contemporary Religious Experience in Asante and Mende
Cultures, Respectively
Business Meeting:
Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds, and Mary Nyangweso,
East Carolina University, Presiding

A20-104#animalsaar17BC

A20-105

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

C

Animals and Religion Unit
Theme: Animal Expression, Theological Thought: How Animal
Encounters Ground Theological Construction
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon B (Third Level)
Matthew Eaton, St. John’s University, Presiding
Panelists:
Trevor Bechtel, Conrad Grebel College
Kimberly Carfore, California Institute of Integral Studies
Grace Kao, Claremont School of Theology
Timothy Harvie, St. Mary’s University, Alberta, Canada
Business Meeting:David Clough, University of Chester, and Barbara Ambros,University of North Carolina, Presiding

Bioethics and Religion Unit
Theme: Vulnerability in the Manipulation of Life and Death
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Boston Common (Fifth Level)
George D. Randels, University of the Pacific, Presiding
Ashley Moyse, Regent College
Hugging Death, Anticipating Suicide: Vulnerability of Despair andthe Marcelian Response to Medical Assistance in Dying
Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego
Crushed Between Walls: Buddhist Perspectives on Neonatal Ethics
Nikki Bailey, University of Oxford
Redeeming Creation? A Barthian Discussion of Human Genetic
Modification as Treatment and/or Prevention
Laurie Zoloth, University of Chicago
May We Make the World? The Ethics and Theologies of Gene Drives
Business Meeting:Marcella Norling, Orange Coast College, PresidingC

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Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit

Theme: Political Theology, Social Justice, and Privilege: Dietrich
Bonhoeffer in the (Evangelical) Age of Trump
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level)
Jennifer McBride, McCormick Theological Seminary, Presiding
Paul Louis Metzger, Multnomah Biblical SeminaryEndangered Bonhoeffer, Endangered People Groups, and theEvangelical Theo-political Imagination
Chris Dodson, University of Aberdeen
The Reign of Justice or the Rain of Fire: Hearing the Call of Christ
from Below
Ross Halbach, University of Aberdeen
Jesus’ White Bonhoeffer: Insights for Addressing Race from the Side ofPrivilege
Myles Werntz, Hardin-Simmons University
Fugitive Theology: The Confessing Church, Illegality, and Our
Immigration Question
Business Meeting:
Lori Brandt Hale, Augsburg College, and Stephen R. Haynes,
Rhodes College, Presiding

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
C

Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Buddhism Unit

Chinese Religions Unit and Confucian Traditions Unit

Theme: Crime and Punishment: Legal Dialogues between
Buddhism and Local Society in East and Central Asia
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Exeter (Third Level)
Mark L. Blum, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding
Charles Manson, École Pratique des Hautes Études
Conundrums in Tibetan Medieval Crime and Punishment
Cuilan Liu, University of Toronto
Alcohol, Women, and Animal Slaughtering: The Death of Two
Buddhist Monks in Tang China
Asuka Sango, Carleton College
Sōshō’s (1202–1278) Vows to Refrain from Evils and Practice Good:A Minority Report of the Precept Revival Movement in Medieval
Japan
Vesna Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara
Why Fermented Mare’ Milk (Airag) and Not Vodka (Arkhț)? Cultural
Norms and the Limits of the Vinaya in Mongolia
Responding:Charles Hallisey, Harvard University

Theme: Religious Legacies of the Taiping War, 1850-1900
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Brandeis (Third Level)
Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee, Presiding
Hsueh-Yi Lin, University of Wisconsin
Breaking the Symbiosis: The Destruction of Shrines of Worthies and the
Decline of Confucianism
Gregory Adam Scott, University of Manchester
Local Gazetteer Data on the Post-Taiping Reconstruction of Religious
Institutions
Joshua Sooter, New York University
Translating Religion: Qing Officials, Local Religious Sects, and the
Problem of Orthodoxy in Post-Taiping China
George Kam Wah Mak, Hong Kong Baptist University
An Assessment of the Taiping Legacy on the Protestant Bible Work in
Late Qing China
Responding:Natasha Heller, University of California, Los Angeles
Business Meeting:Pauline Lee, Saint Louis University, and Aaron Stalnaker, Indiana
University, Presiding

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Childhood Studies and Religion Unit

A20-110/S20-117

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Christian Spirituality Unit and SBL Ecological
Hermeneutics Unit
Theme: Planetary Solidarity: Global Women’s Voices on Christian
Doctrine and Climate Justice
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-208 (Second Level)
Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Earlham College, Presiding
Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University
Imagining an Earth-centric Theological Framing for Planetary
Solidarity
Wanda Deifelt, Luther College
And God Saw That It Was Good—Imago Dei and Its Challenge to
Climate JusticeHilda Koster, Concordia College, Moorhead
Trafficked Lands: Sex Trafficking, Oil, and Ecological Evil in the
DakotasJea Sophia Oh, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
Seeds, Cross, and a Paradox of Life from Death: A Postcolonial EcoTheology
Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University
Eco-Womanist Wisdom: Encountering Earth and the Spirit
Barbara Rossing, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago
Reimagining Eschatology towards Healing and Hope, for a World at
the Eschatos
Responding:Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard University
Karenna Gore, Union Theological Seminary

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: Innovative Methodologies in Childhood Studies andReligion
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)
Katarina Westerlund, Uppsala University, Presiding
Natalie Carnes, Baylor University
Human Desire and Original Sin: Moving beyond Augustine’s Greedy
InfantBrett Speakman, University of St Andrews
The Theatrical Encore of Infancy: Transcendence and the Perceptive
Vision of Childhood
Karen-Marie Yust, Union Presbyterian Seminary
Spiritual Vulnerability on the Digital Playground: Relational
Aggression, Cyberbullying, and Adolescent “Drama”
Rachael Shillitoe, Worcester University
Sacred Soundscapes: Children’s Agency and Voice in Collective WorshipResponding:
Sally Stamper, Capital University
Business Meeting:Susan Ridgely, University of Wisconsin, and Sally Stamper,
Capital University, Presiding#chineserelsC

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Christian Systematic Theology Unit

Theme: On the Nature of Tradition
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay C (Second Level)
Junius Johnson, Baylor University, Presiding
Jonathan Ciraulo, University of Notre Dame
The Eucharistic Reception of Tradition in Blondel and Balthasar
Michelle Sanchez, Harvard University
Reading Tradition as Pedagogy: The Case of Calvin’s Election
Brandon Morgan, Baylor University
Wanting to Go On: Desire and Tradition in the Scenes of Instructionof Robert Jenson and Stanley Cavell
Business Meeting:
Holly Taylor Coolman, Providence College, PresidingC

A20-112Class, Religion, and Theology Unit

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20C

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Theme: Class and Religion in the USA: American Dream?
American Nightmare?
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere A (Second Level)
Ken Estey, Brooklyn College, Presiding
Jung Mo Sung, Methodist University, Sao Paulo
Neoliberalism’s Denial of Human Rights, Idolatry, and Classes
Struggle
Lisa Gasson-Gardner, Drew University
When Ethnicity Elides Whiteness: The Eschatological Arc of Recent
White Class Narratives and a Queer Alternative
Edith Szanto, American University of Iraq, Sulaimani
Peons, Proles, and Fat Cats: Class and the Study of Contemporary
Islam
Responding:
Joerg Rieger, Vanderbilt University
Business Meeting:
Joerg Rieger, Vanderbilt University, and Ken Estey, Brooklyn
College, Presiding

Comparative Studies in Religion Unit
Theme: The “Unsayable” in Tibetan Religious Literature
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Vineyard (Fourth Level)
Benjamin Bogin, Skidmore College, Presiding
Eric D. Mortensen, Guilford College
What Is Not Told about What Was Once Invisible? Performative
Lacunae in the Folklore of Tibetans of Geza
Dominique Townsend, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
Unsayably Clear, Empty, and Divine: Cultivating an Awarenessof Life and Death as Illusory through a Tibetan Practice of Lucid
Dreaming
Annabella Pitkin, Lehigh University
What Cannot Be Said Must Be Remembered: Unsayability andTibetan Buddhist Aporias of Absence, Loss, Longing, and Realization
Business Meeting:
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Contemplative Studies Unit

Theme: Sharing the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises across Religious
Traditions
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Constitution A (Second Level)
Daniel A. Madigan, Georgetown University, Presiding
Panelists:
Roger Haight, Union Theological Seminary
Ruben L. F. Habito, Southern Methodist University
Erin Cline, Georgetown University
Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University
Business Meeting:
Harold D. Roth, Brown University, and Judith Simmer-Brown,
Naropa University, Presiding

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Contemporary Islam Unit
Theme: Crossing Borders, Transcending Boundaries: The Shifting
Contexts of Muslim Politics
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level)
Kristian Petersen, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Presiding
Sam Houston, Florida State University
Educating Resistance: ΖDVDQDO%DQQƘ, Tarbiya, and Embodied
EthicsSymbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
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Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

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Full Papers Available on AAR
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B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
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Institutional Location Sessions

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Sustainability and Religion

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Tours

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Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

Samuel Kigar, Duke University
The Walled Muslim State: Morocco’s Anti-Saharawi Berm, Muslim
State Sovereignty, and the Waning of Westphalia
Justin Jones, University of Oxford
Informal Law as “Shari’a Governance”: Islamic Courts within India’sMuslim Minority
Rebecca Moody, Syracuse University(Re)Orienting Vulnerability: Using Visual Images to Parse Morocco’s
Dominant and Quotidian Islams
Mahshid Zandi, University of Toronto
The Political Economy of State-Sponsored Pilgrimages to the Iran-Iraq
Battlefields

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Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit
Theme: Pagan Intersections with Social and Cultural Systems
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Boylston (First Level)
Kimberly Kirner, California State University, Northridge, andGarrett Sadler, NASA Ames Research Center
Seeking Healing and Support: Mental and Physical Health Challenges
in Pagan Communities
Jeffrey Albaugh, Oxnard, CA
A Phenomenological Exploration of Theophany and Metanoia in
Contemporary Paganisms
Jone Salomonsen, University of Oslo, and Sarah M. Pike,
California State University, Chico
Presence and Absence at the Steilneset Witchcraft Memorial
Business Meeting:Amy Hale, Atlanta, GA, and Shawn Arthur, Wake Forest
University, Presiding

Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit andReligion, Affect, and Emotion Unit
Theme: Do I Love My Subjects? A Roundtable about Pleasure,
Paranoia, and Care in American Religious Studies
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Berkeley (Third Level)
Sonia Hazard, Franklin and Marshall College, Presiding
Andrew Walker-Cornetta, Princeton University
Care to Listen? Reparative Readings in American Religious Studies
Dana Logan, Washington University, Saint Louis
It’s a Thin Line
Richard Callahan, University of Missouri
Redeeming the History of the Oppressed, the Losers, the Marginalized,
the Peripheral, the Erased
Jenna Supp-Montgomerie, University of Iowa
Infrastructures of Feeling#deathbeyond

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Death, Dying, and Beyond Unit
Theme: Death at the Margins
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Jamaica Pond (Fifth Level)
Amy Defibaugh, Temple University, Presiding
Rex Barnes, Columbia University
I Got 99 Lives but a Glitch Ate One: A Walk-Through of Perilous andPeril-less Gaming
Jordan Rowan Fannin, Berry College
The Anonymity of Death at the Margins: Remembrance andResolution in the South Texas Dying Fields
Joshua Schnell, Brown University
Dead Bodies for the Living: The Politics of Ancient Maya Mortuary
Practices
Eliezer Sariel, Shaanan College, Ohalo College
Moving Behind the Wall: The Attitude of Modern Jewish Law
Towards Death as Reflected in the Struggle over the Laws ofMourning a Suicide
Michael F. Strmiska, Orange County Community College
The Ambiguity of Ancestors: Questions of Inclusion, Exclusion, andEthnicity in Modern Pagan Conceptions of the Afterlife
Business Meeting:
Mohamed S. Hassan, Temple University, and Jamie Brummitt,Duke University, Presiding

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Hinduism Unit and Religion in South Asia Unit
Theme: Modernizing the Language of the Gods: Religious
Identity, Instruction, and Innovation in Contemporary Sanskrit
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level)
Shubha Pathak, American University, Presiding
Laurie Louise Patton, Middlebury College
Sanskrit as Personality Development: The Twentieth-Century Epics ofKshama Rao
Charles Preston, Millsaps College
Worshipping the Nation, Teaching the World: Imagining Audiences
and Identities in Modern Sanskrit Poetry
Finnian Moore Gerety, Yale University
Amateur Hour: Innovation, Instruction, and Identity in Sanskrit
Dramas of Kerala
Borayin Larios, Heidelberg University
Proud to Be Brahmin: Identity Construction and Self-Representation
on Facebook
Responding:Anne Monius, Harvard University

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Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit and Religion,
Holocaust, and Genocide Unit

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: Interreligious Solidarity and Collaboration
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick B (Second Level)
Kate Temoney, Montclair State University, Presiding
Tazeen Ali, Boston University
Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism in America: Comparing
Intersectional and Single-Issue Models of Interfaith Alliances
Jennifer Hancock, Dallas, TX
Faith Forward: “Enlightened” Interfaith Solidarities in Contest withWhite Nationalist “Deceptions” in Dallas
Larycia Hawkins, University of Virginia
Embodied Solidarity in Theopolitical Space: Interreligious Solidarity
from below
Kristi Del Vecchio, Catholic Theological Union
Interreligious Environmentalism: Pragmatic Projects and Moral
Competencies That Address Climate Change
James W. Perkinson, Ecumenical Theological Seminary
Interreligious Collaboration in the Struggle to Protect Water at theStrait: Indigenous Spirits Schooling Christian Texts in an Age of
Climate Apocalypse
Business Meeting:Jennifer Howe Peace, Andover Newton Theological School, andHomayra Ziad, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish
Studies, PresidingC

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Korean Religions Unit

Theme: Medicine, Pluralism, and Nation: The Challenges andOpportunities for Religion in Modernity
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon F (Third Level)
Sujung Kim, DePauw University, Presiding
Shin Kwon Kim, University of Oxford
A Religious Pathology or a Pathological Religion in Korea
John D. Dadosky, University of Toronto, and Jaechan Park,
University of Toronto
In Merton’s Footsteps: Report and Reflection upon an Experiential
Interreligious Encounter in South Korea
Ray Kim, Georgetown University
Islam in Korea: Past, Present, and Future

Hyun Hui Kim, Drew University
Remembering the Body of a South Korean Female Sex Worker:
Imperialism, Nationalism, and Doing Feminist Theology from Within
Responding:
Timothy S. Lee, Texas Christian University
Business Meeting:
Deberniere Torrey, University of Utah, Presiding

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Law, Religion, and Culture Unit

Theme: Author Meets Critics: Tisa Wenger, Religious Freedom:
The Contested History of an American Ideal (University of North
Carolina Press, 2017)
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Berkeley (Third Level)
Richard Amesbury, University of Zurich, Presiding
Panelists:
Anna Su, University of Toronto
Robert A. Yelle, University of Munich
Greg Johnson, University of Colorado
Responding:Tisa Wenger, Yale University
Business Meeting:Richard Amesbury, University of Zurich, PresidingC

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Liberal Theologies Unit

Theme: Liberal Theologies and Post-Truth Politics
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level)
Sarah Morice Brubaker, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding
Joel Harrison, Northwestern University
Matters of Concern and Ultimate Concern: Negotiating Facts with
Values in the Post-Truth Era
David Bruner, Princeton Theological Seminary
Eberhard Jüngel, Metaphor, and the Post-Truth Moment
David Galston, Westar Institute
Is It Useless to Revolt? Raising Foucault’s Question in Theology
Wouter Slob, University of Groningen
Post-Truth and Normativity
Business Meeting:
Sarah Morice Brubaker, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
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Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

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Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Mysticism Unit and Women and Religion Unit
Theme: Mysticism and the Feminine
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-111 (Plaza Level)
Andrea Dara Cooper, University of North Carolina, Presiding
Minji Lee, Rice University
Vulnerable Womb Crossing Boundaries: Hildegard of Bingen’s Mystical
Representation of the Female Reproductive Body
Christine Libby, Indiana University
The Heart of the Matter: Rethinking Affective Mysticism
Zannah Breunig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Penetrating the Seventh Palace: Reading the Sexual Dimensions of
The Hebrew Apocalypse of Enoch
Mary Louise Stone, Questa, NM
Andean Pachamama and Women: Though Vulnerable, Widespread andAncestral Cultures Engage Modernity
Responding:June McDaniel, College of Charleston

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Platonism and Neoplatonism Unit

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Quaker Studies Unit
Theme: Race, Gender, Class: Quakers in the Public Sphere
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Fairfax B (Third Level)
Jon Kershner, University of Lancaster, Presiding
Maria Power, University of Liverpool
A Theology with Profound Political Possibilities: Quaker
Contributions to British Christian Socialism and Its Debates around
Pacifism
Guy Aiken, University of Virginia“Some of These Days I’m Going to Turn into a Radical”: The Early
AFSC, Class, and Economic Justice

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Reformed Theology and History Unit
Theme: The “Solas” in Reformed Traditions
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-The Fens (Fifth Level)
Christina Larsen, Grand Canyon University, Presiding
Bruce Pass, University of Edinburgh
Upholding Sola Scriptura Today: Some Unturned Stones in Herman
Bavinck’s Doctrine of Inspiration
Timothy Baylor, University of St. Andrews
Reforming the Glory of God: Solus Christus and the Necessity of the
Cross
Kimlyn Bender, Baylor University
The Sola behind the Solas: The Unity of the Five Solas of theReformation and a Proposal for Their Understanding

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Religion and Popular Culture Unit
Theme: The Present State of Nostalgia: Religious Longings for theAmerican Past
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)
Rabia Gregory, University of Missouri, Presiding
Samantha Kang, University of California, Santa Barbara
Good, Harmless Fun? A Critique of “Consumed Nostalgia”
Signe Cohen, University of Missouri
Fantastic Beasts and the Dangers of American Nostalgia
Meghan Johnston Aelabouni, Iliff School of Theology andUniversity of Denver
Timeless Questions, Timely Answers: Time Travel as Ethical Responseto the White Construction of American History
Jordan Conley, Boston University
Voting, Votive, Devotion: “I Voted” Stickers and the Ritual
Reverberations of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Responding:Lisle Dalton, Hartwick College

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: Eros and Ascent in the Ancient and Medieval World,
Session II
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty C (Second Level)
John Kenney, Saint Michael’s College, Presiding
Louis Ruprecht, Georgia State University
Plato’s Tragicomic Ascent of the Soul
Syed Zaidi, Emory University
Eternity, Time, and Space in the Cosmologies of Plotinus and Mīr
Dāmād
Alexander J.B. Hampton, University of Toronto
Romanticisiation, Eros, and Ascent: Plotinian Influences on Novalis

Nicholas Burton, Northumbria University, Donncha Kavanagh,
University College, Dublin, and Martin Brigham, Lancaster
University
The Decline of the Quakers in the World of Business: The Role ofCorporate Ethics and the Law
David St John, University of Texas
Non-ownership Principles as Understood by Lay Practitioners of
Jainism and Quakerism
Responding:
Sa’ed Atshan, Swarthmore College
Business Meeting:
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Religion and the Social Sciences Unit
Theme: Special Session Honoring the Scholarship of Nancy
AmmermanMonday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-309 (Third Level)
Emily Sigalow, Duke University, and Jeffrey Guhin, University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles, Presiding
Panelists:
Lydia Bean, Faith in Texas, Dallas, TX
Jaime Clark-Soles, Southern Methodist University
Arthur Farnsley, Indiana University-Purdue University,
Indianapolis
Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago
James Nieman, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Religion in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean Unit
Theme: The Social Positioning of Holy Figures
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-New Hampshire (Fifth Level)
Alan Verskin, University of Rhode Island, Presiding
Nathaniel Morehouse, John Carroll University
Equal to the Emperor: Constantine’s Burial and the Elevation of theApostlesHadi Qazwini, University of Southern California
The Heir of the Biblical Prophets: Shī’ite Devotion to Imam ΖXVD\Q
and Karbala
Nicole Archambeau, Colorado State University
Protection Miracles in the Shifting Political Landscape of the
Fourteenth-Century Western Mediterranean
Joseph Maurice Davis, Gratz College
Jewish Hagiography, Anti-hagiography, and Extended Families inEighteenth-Century Prague
Responding:Sara Ritchey, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Business Meeting:David Freidenreich, Colby College, Presiding

Theme: The Religious Varieties of Westward Expansion
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-200 (Second Level)
Fay Botham, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Presiding
James Dupey, Arizona State University
The Business of Building a Church: The Importance of Economic
Advantage for Denomination Building in the Trans-AppalachianWest
Danae Jacobson, University of Notre Dame
Imbricated Landscapes: North American Religious Sisters’ Spiritualand Material Perceptions of the Land
Jeffrey Mahas, Joseph Smith Papers“The Lamanites Will Be Our Friends”: Mormon Eschatology and thePerception of American Indians in the Council of Fifty
Megan Leverage, Florida State University“The Engineering of Souls”: The Silicon Valley and the Exclusion of
Women and People of Color
Responding:Katherine Moran, Saint Louis University
Business Meeting:John-Charles Duffy, Miami University, PresidingK

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Religion, Media, and Culture Unit and Teaching Religion
Unit and Theology and Religious Reflection Unit
Theme: Teaching and Scholarship as Resistance in the Post-Truth
Era
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Arlington (Third Level)
Kathryn Reklis, Fordham University, and Stephanie Frank, Columbia
College, Chicago, Presiding
Panelists:
Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia
Emilie M. Townes, Vanderbilt University
Laura S. Levitt, Temple University
Yannik Thiem, Villanova University
Janine Giordano Drake, University of Great Falls
Melissa Borja, City University of New York
Sarah Eltantawi, Evergreen State College
Todd Green, Luther College

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
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Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

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Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Religion, Memory, History Unit

Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit

Theme: Making White Nostalgia “Great” Again: The Politics ofReligion and Memory in the United States
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Hynes Convention Center-109 (Plaza Level)
Roy Whitaker, San Diego State University, Presiding
Chase L. Way, Claremont Graduate University
Paleo-Confederate Theology: White Nostalgia, Religion, and Douglas
Wilson’s Revision of the Southern Intellectual Tradition
Natalie Avalos, Connecticut College“We’re Not All Immigrants”: The White Liberal Nostalgia of
Immigrant Life
Michael Graziano, University of Northern Iowa
White Nostalgia, Religion, and U.S. National Security
Megan Goodwin, Syracuse University
Misremembrance of Muslims Past: #MAGA and White Conservative
Countermemory
Responding:Mathias Gardell, Uppsala University
Business Meeting:Mona Hassan, Duke University, and Tim Langille, Arizona State
University, Presiding

Theme: Grassroots Religion: Ethnography, Resistance, and Sacred
Presence
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon G (Third Level)
Daisy Vargas, University of California, Riverside, Presiding
Harold Morales, Morgan State University
El Cristo Guatemalteco de Baltimore: Theorizing “Presence” inTransnational Ways of Being-in-the-World
Rudy V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Virgin of Guadalupe as Science Fiction
Laurel Marshall, Central American University
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Christian Base Communities in theConstruction of New Sacramental Theology
Matthew Casey, University of California, Davis
Andean Pastoral: An Indigenous Catholic Third Way in 1970s Peru
Petra Kuivala, University of Helsinki
Hidden Histories – The Catholic Experience in Cuban Revolutionary
Reality
Responding:Jessica Delgado, Princeton University
Business Meeting:
Chris Tirres, DePaul University, Presiding

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Science, Technology, and Religion Unit
Theme: Religion and Science as Political Theology: Doing
Interdisciplinary Scholarship in a “Post-truth” Society
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level)
Jennifer Baldwin, Grounding Flight Wellness, Marietta, GA,
Presiding
Whitney Bauman, Florida International University
Religion and Science as Critical Discourse: Postmodern Does Not
Mean Post-truth
Craig A. Boyd, St. Louis University
Making America Humble Again: Humility and Magnanimity as
Greatness in a Post-veridical World
Lisa L. Stenmark, San Jose State University
Modern Political Lying: Science and Religion as a Critical Discourse
in a Post-truth WorldPaul Allen, Concordia University
The Golden Mean in a Political Theology of Science and Religion
Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology
Confessions of a Recovering Objectivist: Religion/Science as Engaged
Theology and Environmental Strategy
Ted Peters, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Truth in Science, Faith, and Public Theology

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: Players, Politics, and Piety: Religion, Sports, and the Statein Twentieth-Century America
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon A (Third Level)
James Dennis LoRusso, Princeton University, Presiding
Christa Schwind, University of Denver
Renegotiating American Yoga: A Narrative of Lifestyle Fitness
Adam Park, Florida State University“Soldier Sport”: WWI and the YMCA’s Allied Boxing Program
M. Cooper Harriss, Indiana University
I Am America: Muhammad Ali’s Conversion to the State
Brad Stoddard, McDaniel College“Behind the Walls”: Sports-Based Prison Ministries and the Carceral
State
Responding:Annie Blazer, College of William and MaryBusiness Meeting:
Arthur Remillard, Saint Francis University, and Carmen Marie
Nanko-Fernandez, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding

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Paul Nahme, Brown University, and Sarah Imhoff, Indiana
University, Presiding

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

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Study of Islam Unit

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: New Graduate Research in Islamic Studies
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Simmons (Third Level)
Frederick Colby, University of Oregon, Presiding
John Zaleski, Harvard University
The Transformation of Late Antique Ascetic Culture: Reimagining
Fasting and Celibacy in Early Muslim Ascetic Literature
Ari M. Gordon, University of Pennsylvania
Sacred Orientation: The Qibla as Ritual, Metaphor, and Identity
Marker in Early Islam
Rebecca Makas, Emory University
In Spite of Their Thoughts, Their Words Require Interpretation: Silenceand Ineffability in Medieval Islamic Mysticism
Nicholas Boylston, Georgetown University
The Kaleidoscope of Reality: Rediscovering the Significance ofDiversity in Twelfth Century Persian Philosophical Literature
Patrick D’Silva, University of North Carolina
The Power of the Breath in Persianate India
Josef Linnhoff, University of Edinburgh
What Does It Mean to “Associate” with God? Muslim Interpretationsof Shirk
Ken Chitwood, University of Florida
Fluid Dynamics, Puerto Rican Muslims, and Global Islam

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Study of Judaism Unit

Theme: Book Panel: Robert Erlewine’s Judaism and the West
(Indiana University Press, 2016)
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Falmouth (Fourth Level)
Dustin Atlas, Al Quds Bard College for Arts and Sciences, Presiding
Martin Kavka, Florida State University
After Jewish Philosophy as a Normative Science
Larisa Reznik, University of Chicago
Master’s Tools, Master’s Houses, Mastery: Thinking with Judaism andthe West about “Religion”
Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College
The Prophetic Problem: Robert Erlewine’s Analysis of Abraham
Heschel’s Critique of Biblical ScholarshipResponding:Robert Erlewine, Illinois Wesleyan University

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Theology and Continental Philosophy Unit
Theme: Islamic Futures in Dialogue with Continental Thought
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Grand A (Fourth Level)
Elizabeth R. Alexandrin, University of Manitoba, Presiding
Ali Altaf Mian, Seattle University
The Concept of Taqlid: A Philosophical Inquiry
Micah Hughes, University of North Carolina
The Bergsonian Mysticism of an Anatolian Socialist: Nurettin Topçu(1909–1975)
Basit Iqbal, University of California, Berkeley
Toward a Psychoanalytics of Tribulation
Mehnaz Afridi, Manhattan College
Mourning, Melancholia, and Nostalgia within Islamic Literature
Responding:Richard McGregor, Vanderbilt University

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Vatican II Studies Unit

Theme: The Contributions of John O’Malley, SJ to the Critical
Study of Vatican II
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level)
Gerard Mannion, Georgetown University, Presiding
Catherine E. Clifford, Saint Paul University
Style is Substance: John W. O’Malley’s Contribution to the Study andInterpretation of Vatican IIDavid A. Stosur, Cardinal Stritch University
A Tale of Two Translations: Rhetorical Style and the Post-conciliar
English Translations of the Mass
Brenna Moore, Fordham University
What Happens When We See Them through the Lens of the Council?
John W. O’Malley, “Parishization”, and Vatican II
Ormond Rush, Australian Catholic University
Pope Francis as an Interpreter of Vatican II: On Implementing theCouncil’s Style and Substance
Responding:John O’Malley, Georgetown University
Business Meeting:Massimo Faggioli, Villanova University, Presiding

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Practices and
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Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Exploratory Sessions

Theme: Womanist Ways of Advocacy: Public Policy and Reenvisioning the Black Social Gospel
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-310 (Third Level)
Michele Watkins, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding
Carla Jean-McNeil Jackson, North Chesterfield, VA
Rhythm, Rhyme, and Representation: The Role of Black Women Artists
in Political ResistanceMarcia Riggs, Columbia Theological Seminary
Envisioning and Practicing Beloved Community in the Twenty-first
Century
Melanie Jones, Chicago Theological Seminary
Bodies on the Line: Should Black Women Reclaim the Legacy of
Warrior Women of Dahomey?
Responding:
Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University
Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University
Business Meeting:Teresa L. Fry Brown, Emory University, and Cheryl A. KirkDuggan, Shaw University, Presiding

Theme: Religion and War
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-203 (Second Level)
Joshua Jeffery, University of Tennessee, Presiding
The subject of “Religion and War” has become an increasingly
studied area in recent years, especially in the subfields of religious
history, ethics, and theology. The substantial increase in the output
of monographs and articles on this topic, coupled with the everincreasing risk of localized, regional, and even global war and the rolereligion plays in these conflicts, warrants the creation of a permanent
unit that studies the relationship between religion and war. This
exploratory panel announces our intention to create a new “Religion
and War Unit” in the AAR, by focusing on the relationship between
these two human phenomena in the context of World War I, in thisyear which commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the United Statesentering the conflict. Papers will interrogate how religion supported,challenged, sustained, and disrupted war between state and non-state
polities in the context of the Great War and its aftermath, 1916–1921.
Matthew Kosuta, Mahidol University
The War to End All Wars and Modern Religious Militarism
John Chappo, Pennsylvania College of Technology
From The Shade of the Trees to “No Man’s Land”: Alfred Joyce Kilmer
as Poet, Lecturer, and Soldier
John Laaman, Auburn University
All That Is Unfit to Print: Churches of Christ Editors in the Great War
Carlos Alves Lopes, University of Lisbon
The Internal Front and “Religious War”
Responding:William E. Kooi, Oklahoma Christian University

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Theme: The Path Ahead for Academic Centers on Religion andPublic Life
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Columbus I & II (First Level)
Erik Owens, Boston College, and R. Marie Griffith, Washington
University, St. Louis, Presiding
Over the past three decades a small ecosystem of centers for religion
and public life has developed in colleges and universities in the U.S. andaround the world. Beyond a shared underlying mission to enhance thepublic understanding of religion, these centers vary widely in mission,scope, size, and institutional setting, and they rarely collaborate with one
another. This session at the Annual Meeting convenes a working groupof leaders of such centers in an effort to find common cause, share bestpractices (and pitfalls), and discuss the future of our work. Among the
topics for discussion: Which publics are we addressing? What are our
civic and moral obligations as scholars of religion and public life? How
do we know if we are successful? What’s the proper role for politicaladvocacy? Can we work together on any of this?
Panelists:
John D. Carlson, Arizona State University
Michael Kessler, Georgetown University
Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds
Josef Sorett, Columbia University

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Theme: Religion, Diaspora, and the Homeland: Theorizing the
Religious in Diaspora and the Diasporic in Religion
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level)
Torang Asadi, Duke University, Presiding
Panelists:
Cristina Rocha, Western Sydney University
Elena Kravchenko, Washington University, St. Louis
Katherine Merriman, University of North Carolina
Hunter Bandy, Duke University

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Plenary Panel

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Theme: Forcibly Displaced Syrians and Iraqis: What to Know
about the Crisis and What You as a Religion Scholar Can Do
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level)
Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University, Presiding
The current situation involving forcibly displaced persons
constitutes the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II.
There are, for example, more than 6 million Syrian refugees andmore than 3 million internally displaced Iraqis. The centerpieceof this session will be a video conversation with Syrian refugees
and/or displaced Iraqis speaking live from an audio-visual studioat a displaced persons camp in Iraq or from a studio in Jordan
or Germany. The AAR’s aim in arranging this conversation is toprovide a platform for them to voice their thoughts and concerns
directly to us so that we are better informed in a way that helps us
respond more effectively to the crisis.
From the Boston side, the conversation with them will
be facilitated by Amir Hussain and Alice Su. Prior to theconversation, Sarah Tobin and Mark Juergensmeyer will provide
background on Syria and Iraq and the religious dimensions of
the crisis. After the conversation, Diane Moore will discuss ways
scholars of religion can address the crisis, and the panelists willtake questions from the audience.
Sarah Tobin is an anthropologist with expertise on Islam andgender in the Middle East. She spent two years conducting researchwith Syrian refugees in Jordanian camps and is the author of theforthcoming Privatizing Resilience: Syrian Refugees in Jordan. Mark
Juergensmeyer is a sociologist who focuses on nationalism andglobal religious violence. He has interviewed, and blogged about,refugees in several camps in Iraq. Amir Hussain is a professor oftheology who focuses on contemporary Islam in North America
and is the author of the chapter “Toward a Muslim Theology of
Migration” in Theology of Migration in the Abrahamic Religions.
Alice Su is an independent journalist who won the 2014 UN
Correspondents Association Award and a grant from the Pulitzer
Center for her newswriting on refugees in Jordan and Tunisia.
Diane Moore is Director of the Religious Literacy Project; Lecturer
on Religion, Conflict, and Peace; and principal investigator for the
Religious Literacy and Humanitarian Action Research Project at
Harvard Divinity School.
Panelists:
Sarah Tobin, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway
Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
Alice Su, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Diane L. Moore, Harvard University

Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee
Meeting
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-301 (Third Level)
Kerry Danner, Georgetown University, and Edwin David Aponte,
Louisville Institute, Louisville, KY, Presiding

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Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit, SBL
Pseudepigrapha Unit, and SBL Digital Humanities in
Biblical, Early Jewish, and Christian Studies Unit

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

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Theme: Multi-spectral Imaging and the Recovery of “Lost” Texts
from Palimpsests
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Fairfax A (Third Level)
James McGrath, Butler University, Presiding
Michael Phelps, Early Manuscripts Electronic Library
The Sinai Palimpsests Project: The Recovery of Erased Texts in theWorld’s Oldest Library
Keith Knox, Rochester Institute of Technology
Scholars and Scientists Working Together to Recover Erased Text
Todd R. Hanneken, Saint Mary’s University, San Antonio
The Jubilees Palimpsest Project
Ted Erho, University of Munich
Ethiopic Palimpsests and the Curious Case of Petermann II Nachtr. 24
Loren Stuckenbruck, University of Munich
The Recoverable Text to 1 Enoch in Petermann II Nachtrag 24
Roger L. Easton, Rochester Institute of Technology
Spectral Image Processing Methods for Recovering Damaged Text

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
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Exploratory Sessions

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Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

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D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology andReligion

Student Lounge Roundtable

Theme: Grant Design Conversations
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-107 (Plaza Level)
Do you have a grant idea for a project on teaching and learning? Haveyou ever thought about applying for a Wabash Center grant? Do you
have questions about our grant procedures and protocols, whether
your project would qualify, or how your ideas might be shaped into an
appropriate Wabash Center proposal?
Come see us in the Convention Center Room 107 on both Sunday,
Nov. 19 and Monday, Nov. 20 from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM tomeet with one of the Wabash Center Staff. We are schedulingappointments ahead of time. Please write Beth Reffett (reffettb@
wabash.edu) to schedule a time to meet with us.
For more info go to http://bit.ly/2rZBD7C.

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Theme: Writing Successful Grant Applications: Dos and Don’ts
Monday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
Applying for academic grants and external funding is a daunting task.
The competition is fierce with an average of 5–10% acceptance rate.
The difference between successful and unsuccessful funding is often
minor. On the applicant’s side, the effort involved in producing a grant
proposal is labor intensive and comparably more strenuous than writing
your dissertation proposal. Moreover, theoretical and methodologicalconsiderations must be determined beforehand. So why bother? Asidefrom the fact that university and college administrations encourage
professors to seek external funding to supplement faculty resources andoften tie successful application to merit review and promotion, the value
for researchers is that they can conduct important work that leads to
new knowledge. In this discussion, I will draw on my experience as apeer reviewer who has evaluated research grants for different funding
agencies and my own success in securing grants to offer tips on how tomake successful applications.
Panelists:
Peter Althouse, Southeastern University

Coffee BreakMonday, 11:30 AM
Complimentary coffee will be served in the backof Aisle 2100 and Aisle 2600 of the Exhibit Hall.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: Pentecostal Reflections on Text and Method in the New
Testament
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Hyannis (Fourth Level)
Melissa Archer, Southeastern University, Presiding
Chris Green, Pentecostal Theological Seminary
The Present Tense of Calvary: Trinity, Time, and Sacrament
Hannah Mather, London School of Theology
Spirit Hermeneutics: Avenues for Further ResearchMark Cartledge, Regent University
Anointed to Proclaim Good News to the Poor (Luke 4.14-30):
Towards a Renewal Public Theology

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Søren Kierkegaard Society
Theme: Kierkegaard, Crisis, and the Future of Revelation
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Orleans (Fourth Level)
Andres Roberto Albertsen, Luther Seminary, Presiding
This session of papers features interdisciplinary approaches tothe concept of revelation in Kierkegaard’s writings and in hishermeneutical approaches to the Bible. The papers attend to the waythat “crisis” functions existentially and religiously in Kierkegaard’s
biblical hermeneutic — with applicable insights for today.
Deidre Green, St. Olaf College
God’s Blackened Breast: The Revelaton of the Cross
Carl Hughes, Texas Lutheran University
Extending Sinai’s Darkness: From the Bible as Source to the Bible as Model
Lee Barrett, Lancaster Theological Seminary
Can Kierkegaard’s Hermeneutic Survive Neo-populism?

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Plenaries

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Theme: Linda Sarsour
Monday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level)
Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University, Presiding
Linda Sarsour is a working woman, racial justice andcivil rights activist, and mother of three. Ambitious,
outspoken and independent, Linda shatters stereotypesof Muslim women while also treasuring her religious
and ethnic heritage. She is a Palestinian Muslim
American and a self-proclaimed “pure New Yorker, born
Linda Sarsour
and raised in Brooklyn!” She is the Executive Director of
the Arab American Association of New York and co-founder of thefirst Muslim online organizing platform, MPOWER Change. Linda
has been at the forefront of major civil rights campaigns including
calling for an end to unwarranted surveillance of New York’s Muslim
communities and ending police policies like stop and frisk. In wakeof the police murder of Mike Brown, she co-founded Muslims for
Ferguson to build solidarity amongst American Muslim communities
and encourage work against police brutality. She is a member of
the Justice League NYC, a leading NYC force of activists, formerly
incarcerated individuals, and artists working to reform the New York
Police Department and the criminal justice system.
Linda co-chaired the March2Justice, a 250-mile journey on foot todeliver a justice package to end racial profiling, demilitarize police anddemand the government invest in young people and communities.
Linda Sarsour was instrumental in the Coalition for Muslim School
Holidays to push New York City to incorporate 2 Muslim high holy
holidays in to the NYC Public school calendar. This year, New York
City will be the largest school system in the country to officiallyrecognize these holidays. This year, Linda joined leading social justicefaith leaders as a Senior Fellow at Auburn Seminary.
She has received numerous awards and honors including“Champion of Change” by the White House, YWCA USA’s
Women of Distinction Award for Advocacy and Civic Engagement
and the Hala Maksoud Leadership Award from the American Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee. Sarsour was named among 500
of the most influential Muslims in the world. Most recently, Linda
was profiled on the front page of the New York Times Metro Section
and dubbed “Brooklyn Homegirl in a Hijab” and introduced
Linda to their readership as “Mixing street smarts, activism andher Muslim identity, Linda Sarsour has become a political force”.
She has written for and has been featured in local, national, andinternational media discussing impact of domestic policies thattarget Arab and Muslim American communities, criminal justiceissues and Middle East affairs. Linda is well respected amongst
diverse communities in both in New York City and nationally. She
is most known for her intersectional coalition work and building
bridges across issues, racial, ethnic and faith communities.
Panelists:
Linda Sarsour, MPower Change

Program Committee Meeting
Monday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
OffsiteKathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, Presiding

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Connecting Conversations Luncheon

Monday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level)
Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown University, Presiding
The Status of People with Disabilities in the Profession Committee(PWD) will host a luncheon for scholars and students with disabilities,
as well as anyone interested in disability issues in the Academy. The
lunch will follow our session on Toilet Justice: Peeing and the Politics
of Marginalized Bodies. Please join us Monday, November 20, 11:45
AM–12:45 PM to continue the conversation about the intersection ofactivism and the Academy, as well as to discuss other issues related todisability and academic life. The luncheon will also offer opportunities
for mentoring and informal connections with colleagues. Registration
for the lunch costs $13 and is limited to 60 people.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

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Monday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Hynes Convention Center-305 (Third Level)
Alicia Panganiban, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Elizabeth
Ursic, Mesa Community College, Presiding
Come join in the Women’s Caucus Business Meeting. We will be
reviewing feedback from this year’s panels, discussing our ongoingprojects, establishing the Women’s Caucus leadership team for 2018
and making plans for next year’s conference. All are welcome.
Panelists:
Julia Berger, University of Kent
Kathryn Common, Boston University
Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Methodist Theological School, Ohio
Rosemarie Daher Kowalski, Northwest University
Colleen D. Hartung, Holy Wisdom Monastery, Middleton, WI
Anne Hillman, Boston University
Meredith Minister, Shenandoah University
Jea Sophia Oh, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
Janice Poss, Claremont Graduate University
Theresa Yugar, California State University, Los Angeles
Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
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Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Student Lounge Roundtable
Theme: Balancing Graduate School with Other Dimensions of Lifeand Identity
Monday, 12:00 PM–1:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
In this rountable session, Nicholas Werse discusses how to fulfill
academic responsibilities that come with graduate school (teaching,researching, studying and publishing) while maintaining one’s healthand well-being. He provides practical tips on and discusses thebenefits of incorporating extra-curricular activities into our daily
routine.
Panelists:
Nicholas Werse, Baylor University

Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM

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Program Committee and Public Understanding of Religion
Committee

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Theological Education Committee, Comparative
Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit, Islam, Gender,
Women Unit, Law, Religion, and Culture Unit, and Religion
and Politics Unit
Theme: Religion and Conflict under the Trump Administration
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level)
Julie J. Ingersoll, University of North Florida, Presiding
This roundtable examines the role of the Trump Administration in the2017 intersections of religion and conflict.
Panelists:
Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Winnifred Sullivan, Indiana University
David Carrasco, Harvard University
Terrence Johnson, Georgetown University
Susan Hayward, Georgetown University, United States Instituteof Peace, Washington, D.C.
Nadia Marzouki, Harvard University

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: Religion on Television: Production, Positives and Perils/
Pitfalls
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level)
Shreena Gandhi, Michigan State University, Presiding
This panel is on the different approaches scholars of religion are
taking in presenting religion and the study of religion to a wider
audience on television. Reza Aslan (Prayer in America, The Secret Lifeof Muslims, and Believer), Amir Hussain (The Story of God with Morgan
Freeman), Candida Moss (Bible Secrets Revealed, Greatest Mysteries,
and Finding Jesus: Faith. Fact. Forgery), Vanessa Ochs (Religion andEthics Newsweekly), and Stephen Prothero (God in America) are all
experts in this area, and will answer questions about their experienceson being a part of these programs, as well as being invited guests on
various news and talk shows. The goal of this panel is to generate arobust discussion, during which the panelists will respond to somepreliminary questions, but will also take questions from each otherand the audience. The moderator will ask them to consider: what wereyour hopes and expectations, what challenges did you face, and what
lessons did you learn, in the process of producing these programs
for a general, often non-academic, audience? Further, what was thereception, both popular and scholarly, of your program, and whatchanges would you make if you had the chance/moving forward? Do
the theoretical discussions and expectations of the academic studyof religion translate to popular representations of religion, or is thatperhaps, a false binary? What other concerns regarding religious
representation, scholarly responsibility or popular prejudices did you
find you had to address when in the midst of program production?
Through this discussion, we hope to give some insight into thecomplicated processes of presenting religion for a wider audience,but also think through the role of religious studies scholars during
these times when religions are often demonized, exoticized,
misappropriated, misrepresented and misunderstood in the media andpopular culture.

Panelists:
Reza Aslan, University of California, Riverside
Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
Candida Moss, University of Birmingham
Vanessa Ochs, University of Virginia
Stephen Prothero, Boston University

Baha’i Studies Unit
Theme: Religion and Public Discourse in an Age of Transition
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Columbus I & II (First Level)
Robert H. Stockman, Indiana University, South Bend, Presiding
Benjamin Schewel, University of Virginia
Religion in an Age of Transition
Julia Berger, University of Kent
Towards a New Discourse on Gender Equality: A Study of the Bahá’íCommunity’s Engagement with the United Nations
Michael Karlberg, Western Washington University
Beyond Non-Violent Opposition: The Bahá’í Experience ofConstructive Resilience
Geoffrey Cameron, University of Toronto
The Bahá’í Community and Public Policy: The Bahá’í Refugee
Resettlement Program (1981–1989)
Business Meeting:Robert H. Stockman, Indiana University, South Bend, and Susan
Maneck, Jackson State University, Presidingx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Cognitive Science of Religion Unit

A20-203Childhood Studies and Religion Unit
Theme: Representations of Religious Children in Literature
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Boston Common (Fifth Level)
Sailaja Krishnamurti, Saint Mary’s University, Presiding
Meredith Ross, Florida State University
Cassie or Rachel? Shifting Representations of Teen Faith atColumbine
Jesse Zink, University of Cambridge
The Literature of the Lost Boys of Sudan: Depiction of African
Childhood and Religion in American Christianity
Samira Mehta, Albright College
Picture Books and the Raising of Children in Christian-Jewish
Interfaith Families
Russell Dalton, Brite Divinity School
The Children of the Bible as Taught to American Children
Responding:Wendy Love Anderson, Washington University, Saint Louis

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Christian Systematic Theology Unit
Theme: Reformed Traditions
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level)
Daniel Wade McClain, Loyola University, Maryland, Presiding
Ross Kane, University of Virginia
Reforming “Tradition”: A Protestant Account of Spirited Continuity
Justin Heinzekehr, Goshen College
A Punctuated Fecundity: Children and Tradition in the Radical
Reformation
Andrew Forsyth, Yale University
New Traditions of Natural Law? The Reformed Confessions of Faith

Theme: Cognitive Historiography of Religion: What Is It? What’s
the Point? And How Do You Do It?
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-The Fens (Fifth Level)
Ann Taves, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Luther H. Martin, University of Vermont
Cognitive Historiography (of Religions)
Edward Slingerland, University of British Columbia
Cognitive Historiography Meets Big Data: A Large-Scale Textual
Analysis Approach to Mind-Body Dualism in Early China
Travis Chilcott, Iowa State University
Modulating Desires through Devotion: Cognitive Historiography,
Hindu Devotionalism, and the Science of Managing Desire
Willoughby Britton, Brown University, and Jared Lindahl, Brown
University
Buddhist Meditation and Fear: A Cognitive Model of Arousal andHypersensitivity
Responding:Daniel L. Smail, Harvard University
Business Meeting:
Travis Chilcott, Iowa State University, and Claire White,
California State University, Northridge, Presiding

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Comparative Religious Ethics Unit
Theme: Solidarity, Resistance, and Freedom in Comparative
Perspective
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)
Jung Lee, Northeastern University, Presiding
David Decosimo, Boston University
In Defense of Big Comparison: Why the Arguments against
Comparing Entire Religious Traditions Don’t Succeed
Laura Alexander, University of Nebraska, Omaha(The Image of ) God in All of Us: Putting Sikh and Christian
Humanitarian Responses to the Refugee Crisis in Conversation
Won Chul Shin, Emory University
Must Resist Totalitarian Sickness: Women’s Moral Protest under the
Totalitarian Regime in South Korea, 1970-1979
Faraz Sheikh, College of William and Mary
Conceptualizing Freedom of Religion in Early Islamic Thought: AlMuhasibi’s “Mind Your Own Subjectivity” Approach to Others

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
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Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Comparative Studies in Religion Unit
Theme: Contemporary Perspectives on a “Perennial” Figure: The
Intellectual Legacy of the Late Huston Smith (1919–2016)
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay C (Second Level)
Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, Presiding
Panelists:
Dana Waide Sawyer, Maine College of Art
Naomi R. Goldenberg, University of Ottawa
Kimberley Patton, Harvard University
Jonathan Herman, Georgia State University
James S. Cutsinger, University of South Carolina
Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama
Arvind Sharma, McGill University

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Daoist Studies Unit and Ritual Studies Unit

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Death, Dying, and Beyond Unit and Religion, Film, andVisual Culture Unit
Theme: Superheroes, Where Is Thy Sting?
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level)
A. David Lewis, MCPHS University, Presiding
Ken Derry, University of Toronto
Its Rider’s Name Was Death: Superman’s Apocalyptic Colonialism
Adam D. J. Brett, Syracuse University
The Monstrosity of Messianism in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel andBatman vs. Superman
Aaron Ricker, McGill University
Death, Dying, and Beyond in Mike Mignola’s Hellboy

A20-210Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit andLesbian-Feminisms and Religion Unit and Women of Color
Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism Unit
Theme: Spinning Survival with the Word and Methodolatry:
Reflections and Critiques on the Legacy of Mary Daly
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon B (Third Level)
Marie Cartier, California State University, Northridge, Presiding
Zachary Settle, Vanderbilt University
Spinning Survival with Witch Words: What Mary Daly Taught Me
About Theological Language
Sheila Briggs, University of Southern California
Methodolatry: Mary Daly and Feminist Theory
Katy Guillen, University of Houston, Downtown
The Word as Feminist Intervention
Responding:Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University
Linda Barufaldi, San Diego, CA

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History of Christianity Unit and Religion in Premodern
Europe and the Mediterranean Unit
Theme: Disciplinary Approaches to Baptism in Medieval Europe
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Vineyard (Fourth Level)
John Baldovin, Boston College, Presiding
Fran Altvater, University of Hartford
The Not-so-Far North: Scandinavian Baptismal Fonts in Context
Carolyn Twomey, Boston College
Baptism in the Great Rebuilding: The Origins of Medieval Fonts in
England
Julia Perratore, Fordham University
Medieval Baptism and Community in Romanesque Iberia
Nicole Reibe, Boston College
Baptizing Solomon: Liturgical Uses of King Solomon in the Twelfth
Century
Responding:Marcia Colish, Yale University

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: From Another World: A Conversation between Daoism
and Ritual Theory
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level)
David Mozina, Boston College, Presiding
Tobias Zuern, Washington University, St. Louis
Ritual Embodiment of the Way and Resonating Correspondences inthe Huainanzi
Joshua Capitanio, Stanford University
Sincerity and the Subjunctive in a Daoist Ritual Manual
Michael Naparstek, University of Wisconsin
Consummate Bodies: A Prolegomenon to a Daoist Ritual Theory of theSensesMark Meulenbeld, University of Wisconsin
Categories of Culture: Daoist Ritual and Modernity in Villages ofCentral Hunan

Michael Nichols, Saint Joseph’s College
Dead Again: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Mortality
Responding:Candi Cann, Baylor University

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International Development and Religion Unit

A20-212
Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Unit andReligion and Science Fiction Unit
Theme: Religion, Science Fiction, and Transhumanism
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)
Tracy J. Trothen, Queen’s University, Kingston, Presiding
Juli Gittinger, Georgia College
Personhood in the HBO Series Westworld
Robert Geraci, Manhattan College
Anchoring the Future: Transhumanism in Indian Science Fiction
Victoria Lorrimar, University of Oxford
Science Fiction, Theology, and Human Technological Enhancement
Jeff Appel, University of Denver
Benjamin Peters, University of Denver
Smearing the Boundary: A Materiality of Soul in Kim Stanley
Robinson’s Aurora
Responding:Sean O’Callaghan, Salve Regina University

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Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit
Theme: Indigenous Methodologies: Translating Words,
Inhabiting Worlds
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Berkeley (Third Level)
Siv Ellen Kraft, University of Tromsø, Presiding
Panelists:
Robert M. Baum, Dartmouth College
Greg Johnson, University of Colorado
Gregory D. Alles, McDaniel College
Afe Adogame, Princeton Theological Seminary
Natalie Avalos, Connecticut College
Liudmila Nikanorova, University of Tromsø
Bjorn Ola Tafjord, University of TromsøBusiness Meeting:
Gregory D. Alles, McDaniel College, and Gabriel Estrada,
California State University, Presiding

Theme: Risk, Religion, and Vulnerability in the Context ofInternational Economic Development
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Arlington (Third Level)
Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds, Presiding
David Kupp, University of Toronto
Seeking the Good City: Urban Fragmentation’s Challenge toDevelopment and Religion
Alison Lutz, Vanderbilt University
Whose Imagination, Whose Failure?: The Agency of the Dispossessed
and Global Health Equity
Willem Fourie, University of Pretoria
Protecting the Poor or Propping up the Powerful? On Religion and
Official Development AssistanceOlivia Wilkinson, Trinity College, Dublin
Religion, Risk, and Vulnerability Following Disaster: The Case of
Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines
Responding:
Jill DeTemple, Southern Methodist University
Business Meeting:
Christopher Duncanson-Hales, University of Sudbury, Presiding

A20-215Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit
Theme: Perry Schmidt-Leukel’s Fractal Interpretation of Religious
Diversity
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level)
Paul Knitter, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding
Jerusha Lamptey, Union Theological Seminary
Feminist Fractals? Perry Schmidt-Leukel’s Fractal Interpretation of
Religious Diversity and Comparative Feminist Theology
Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University
Perry Schmidt-Leukel’s Religious Pluralism and Interreligious
Theology
Jennifer Howe Peace, Andover Newton Theological School
Interreligious Studies and a Fractal Interpretation of Religious
Diversity
John Makransky, Boston College
A Buddhist Fractal Approach to Interreligious Theology
Kenneth T. Rose, Christopher Newport University
Perry Schmidt-Leukel’s Fractal Interpretation of Religious Diversity:
Moving Beyond Stalemates in the Theology of Religions andComparative Theology

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A Fractal Interpretation of Religious Diversity

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Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
Theme: Protest and Accomodation: Latinx Responses to theProtestant Reformations
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level)
Lauren Frances Guerra, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
Panelists:
Sammy Alfaro, Grand Canyon Theological Seminary
Matilde Moros, Virginia Commonwealth University
Responding:Néstor Medina, University of Toronto
Business Meeting:Jeremy V. Cruz, St. John’s University, New York, and Sammy
Alfaro, Grand Canyon Theological Seminary, Presiding

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Men, Masculinities, and Religions Unit

Theme: Twenty-five Years of Judith Herman’s Trauma andRecovery (Basic Books, 1992)
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Constitution A (Second Level)
Gabriella Lettini, Starr King School for the Ministry, Presiding
Daniel Moceri, Graduate Theological Union
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: Judith Herman, Complex Trauma, anda Legacy of Healing
Michelle A. Walsh, Boston University
Opening the Cross-Cultural Door: Interdisciplinary Implications ofHerman’s Work for Lived Religion Studies
Brandy Daniels, Vanderbilt University
Tracking the Undertow Only So Far? Witnessing (and) Mourning in
Theological Engagements with, and beyond, Trauma
Jennifer Baldwin, Grounding Flight Wellness, Marietta, GA
Resiliency of Mind, Body, and Spirit: Tracing the Wisdoms of Judith
Herman, Bessel van der Kolk, and Embodied Spiritual Practices forConstructing Trauma Sensitive Theology and Praxis
Responding:
Judith Herman, Harvard University

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Mormon Studies Unit
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A House
Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early
Mormonism, 1835-1870 (Knopf, 2017)
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-203 (Second Level)
Colleen McDannell, University of Utah, Presiding
Patrick Mason, Claremont Graduate University
Mormon Women, Mormon Feminism, and Mormon Studies
Debra Majeed, Beloit College
Polygyny in the World of African American Muslims
David Walker, University of California, Santa Barbara
Plural Marriage and the Study of Religion
Business Meeting:Spencer Fluhman, Brigham Young University, and Colleen
McDannell, University of Utah, Presidingx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: Voice of the Voiceless: Music, Gender and Power in the
Middle East and South Asia
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty C (Second Level)
Linda G. Jones, University of Pompeu Fabra, Presiding
Hamilton Cook, Emory University
Have No Fear—All Is One!: Turkish Metal Band Songs as SpiritualWeapons of the Weak
Summar Shoaib, Emory University
Making Their Voices Heard: Minhaj ul Qur’an Women and Na’at
Recitation
Isaac Foster, Emory University
The Down-Trodden: Heavy Metal in South India and Hindu Male
Voices of the Voiceless
Amanullah De Sondy, University College, Cork
Madam Noor Jehan: Islam, Music, Queer Identities and the
Vulnerable in Pakistan
Scott A. Kugle, Emory University
Singing of Transgressive Love: Vulnerable Voices in Qawwali
Responding:Regula Qureshi, University of Alberta
Business Meeting:Amanullah De Sondy, University College Cork, and Linda G.
Jones, University of Pompeu Fabra, Presiding

Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and Culture
Unit and Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

A20-220 – Pre-Posted Papers Session

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Nineteenth Century Theology Unit
Theme: Ted Vial’s Modern Religion, Modern Race (Oxford
University Press, 2016)
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-306 (Third Level)
Lori K. Pearson, Carleton College, Presiding
Panelists:
J. Kameron Carter, Duke University
Tyler T. Roberts, Grinnell College
Amy M. Hollywood, Harvard University
Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College
Responding:
Theodore Vial, Iliff School of Theology
Business Meeting:Todd Gooch, Eastern Kentucky University, Presiding

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Philosophy of Religion Unit

North American Hinduism Unit

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: Making Difference: Religion and Disability in the UnitedStatesMonday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-102 (Plaza Level)
Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown University, Presiding
Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University
Disability Studies Needs Religion: Lessons from a Queer Crippled Jew
Darla Schumm, Hollins University
Misfitting as a Practice of Justice: Religion, Disability, andCommunity in the U.S.
Andrew Walker-Cornetta, Princeton University
Aware of Angels: Reflections on Studying Religion and Disability
Anthony Petro, Boston University
Bob Flanagan’s Crip Catholicism

A20-223C

A20-221

North American Religions Unit

Theme: Hinduism and Transnational Religions: Theories andMethods
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-209 (Second Level)
Anya Pokazanyeva Foxen, California Polytechnic State University,
PresidingPanelists:
Jennifer B. Saunders, Fairfield University
Claire Robison, University of California, Santa Barbara
Arun Brahmbhatt, University of Toronto
Andrea Jain, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Business Meeting:Michael Altman, University of Alabama, and Anya Pokazanyeva
Foxen, California Polytechnic State University, Presiding

Theme: Ecology in Philosophy of Religion
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-109 (Plaza Level)
Nicholas Friesner, Brown University, Presiding
Liane Carlson, Princeton University“Whoever Has No Religion Should Not Be Called an Atheist or
Unbeliever, but Negligent”: Michel Serres and Theological Ecology
Sam Mickey, University of San Francisco
A Place for Ecological Democracy in Whitehead’s Philosophy of
Religion and Ecology
Jacob Sherman, University of Cambridge
Nature after Nature: Ecology, Religion, and the Anthropocene
Joanna Leidenhag, University of Edinburgh, and Mikael
Leidenhag, University of Edinburgh
Panpsychism, Ecology, and Religion: Is Panpsychism an Ecological
Philosophy of Religion?
Business Meeting:Thomas A. Lewis, Brown University, and Mary-Jane Rubenstein,
Wesleyan University, Presiding

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
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Platonism and Neoplatonism Unit and SBL Nag Hammadi
and Gnosticism Unit
Theme: Eros and Ascent in the Ancient and Early Medieval World
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Exeter (Third Level)
John Turner, University of Nebraska, Presiding
Ilaria L. E. Ramelli, Catholic University, Milan, Angelicum,
Princeton University
Eros and Ascent in Ps. Dionysius: Metaphysical Framework and Roots
Christopher Denny, St. John’s University
A Self Shaped by Sacrifices: Augustine’s Unique Mystical-Ecclesial
BalanceVolker Drecoll, Tübingen University
Progress and Failure: Ascent in Augustine
Zachary Ugolnik, Columbia University“Tesseracts,” Spheres, and Divine Vision in the Enneads
Business Meeting:
Kevin Corrigan, Emory University, Presiding

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Religion and Migration Unit
Theme: Loss, Gain, and Innovation: Alternative Narratives in
Migrant Worlds
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon F (Third Level)
Rubina Ramji, Cape Breton University, Presiding
Nanette Spina, University of Georgia
Across Boundaries and Borders: Women’s Leadership and DiasporicInnovations in a Hindu Goddess Tradition
Marie-Therese Mäder, University of Zurich
The Communication of Religious Identities through Documentaries:
Migration Narratives in Iraqi Odyssey (Samir, 2015)
Travis Travis, Temple University
Mapping the Maritime Silk Road: Migration and the Spread of
Buddhism
Alistair Hunter, University of Edinburgh
Choosing between “Good Death” and “Good Grief ”: The Question of
Female Participation at Muslim Funerals in Britain and France
Business Meeting:Alison Marshall, Brandon University, Presiding

Qur’an Unit and Study of Islam Unit

A20-227

Theme: Interpreting Divine Language
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Boylston (First Level)
Kristin Sands, Sarah Lawrence College, Presiding
Dominic Longo, University of St. Thomas
Spiritual Grammar, Divine Language: Qushayrī’s 1DԓZ al-Qulūb
Mairaj Syed, University of California, Davis
The Constraint and Contingency Model of Tradition-Based
Rationality
Sarah Eltantawi, Evergreen State College
Medieval Medicine in a Twenty-first Century Courtroom in Nigeria:
Reinventing the State of Ihsān (Marriage)
Omar Farahat, Yale University
Social Construction in Islamic Legal Theory: The Case of theImperative Form
Nuri Friedlander, Harvard University
From Purity to Animal Rights: Transforming ΚD\\LE into a Qur’anic
Ethic to Confront Contemporary Questions of Farming and FoodBusiness Meeting:Gordon D. Newby, Emory University, and Walid Saleh,
University of Toronto, Presiding

Religion in South Asia Unit

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: New Directions in the Study of South Asian Religions
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-309 (Third Level)
Steven Vose, Florida International University, Presiding
Lynna Dhanani, Yale University
Hemacandra’s “Hymn to the Dispassionate One”: An Inter-textual
Definition of Jain Devotion
Naseem Surhio, Harvard University
Mystical Exotericism: Situating the Call to Hadith by Muhammad
Mu’in al-Sindhi, a Sufi Scholar of the Eighteenth Century
Julie Hanlon, University of Chicago
From Hilltop Ascetics to Courtly Advisers: The Development of Jain
Monastic Communities and Literary Production in Ancient Tamil
Nadu, South India
Yael Lazar, Duke University
Shree Siddhivinayak Dot Com: Hindu Temples’ Adoption of Digital
Media
Responding:Anne Monius, Harvard University

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

BC

A20-228
Religion, Affect, and Emotion Unit

Theme: The Felt Life of Vulnerability
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-New Hampshire (Fifth Level)
Jill Petersen Adams, Emory University, Presiding
Kate LeFranc, Graduate Theological Union
The Feeling of Whiteness: Privilege and the Illusion of Invulnerability
Jonathan Burrow-Branine, University of Kansas
Affect and Vulnerability in LGBT Social Justice Work in
Evangelicalism
M. Brandon McCormack, Vanderbilt University
Black Joy: Reflections on Affective Praxes of Resistance, Resilience, andReligion
Joshua Schwartz, New York University
Feeling Is Hard: A Corrective to Mystical Bliss
Business Meeting:Donovan Schaefer, University of Oxford, PresidingBC

A20-229

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit
Theme: Vulnerable Populations and the Connections between
Truth and Action
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick B (Second Level)
Benjamin Sax, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies,
Baltimore, MD, Presiding
Rebecca Moore, San Diego State University
Godwin’s Law and Jones’s Corollary: The Problem of Using Extremes
to Make Predictions
Jennifer L. Geddes, University of Virginia
Historical Comparison, Vulnerability, and the Trustworthy Witness:
Hannah Arendt’s “Lying in Politics”
Russell Johnson, University of Chicago
Un-American Activities: McCarthyism, Nazism, and Islamophobia
Responding:Kate Temoney, Montclair State University
Business Meeting:Alana Vincent, University of Chester, Presiding

Religion, Media, and Culture Unit
Theme: Religious Entrepreneurs of Alternative Media
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere A (Second Level)
Kayla Renée Wheeler, University of Iowa, Presiding
Jeremy Guida, Santa Barbara, CA
Charisma, Ego-Trips, and Alternative News: Timothy Leary and theUnderground Press
Justin Henry, University of Chicago
Alternative Media Coast to Coast: Conspiracy, Christian Eschatology,
and Moral Urgency in Maverick AM Radio Broadcasting
D. Ashley Campbell, University of Colorado“Taking Back the Narrative” of American Identity: Millennial
Muslims as Media Entrepreneurs
Angela Rudert, Ithaca College
New Media, Same Old Magic: “This Is the Siddhi”

CA20-231
Religious Conversions Unit

Theme: Diverse Sites of Conversion and De-conversion
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Jamaica Pond (Fifth Level)
Chad Bauman, Butler University, Presiding
Vanessa Rau, University of Cambridge
Migration or Conversion? Expressions of Being and Longing in
Jewish Spaces in Berlin
Blatei Nongbri, John Roberts Theological Seminary
Revisiting the Religious Conversion among the Khasis of North East
India: A Historical Reflection
Philip Francis, Manhattan College
Sex, Art, and Embodiment in Evangelical De-conversion
Veronique Lecaros, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Conversion to Pentecostalism as a Safe Alternative out of DelinquentGangs in Peruvian Jails
Business Meeting:Marc Pugliese, Saint Leo University, Presiding

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Exploratory Sessions

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P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

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Full Papers Available on AAR
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Practices and
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Sustainability and Religion

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Receptions and Breakfasts

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A20-234

Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit

Theology and Religious Reflection Unit

Theme: Why “Constructive” Theology: Discerning Contemporary
and Emerging Themes in Constructive Theology
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Grand A (Fourth Level)
Marion S. Grau, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Presiding
Panelists:
Jason Wyman, Union Theological Seminary
Holly Hillgardner, Bethany College
Steed Davidson, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
John Thatamanil, Union Theological SeminaryBusiness Meeting:
Jacob Erickson, Trinity College Dublin, and Marion S. Grau, MF
Norwegian School of Theology, Presiding

Theme: Theologies of Flourishing and the Most Vulnerable
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level)
Sarah Farmer, Yale University, Presiding
Panelists:
Keri Day, Princeton Theological Seminary
Graham Ward, Oxford University
Miroslav Volf, Yale University
Fernando F. Segovia, Vanderbilt University

A20-233#aarsorC

Sociology of Religion Unit and Critical Research on Religion

BC

Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. Unit
Theme: Exploring Kingian Ethics and the Most Vulnerable in the
Trump Era
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Berkeley (Third Level)
Rosetta E. Ross, Spelman College, Presiding
Karen V. Guth, College of the Holy Cross
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Theological Ethics of the Most Vulnerable:
An Intra-social Gospel Comparison
Leonard McKinnis, Saint Louis University
Personhood, Conscience, and the Law: Martin Luther King, Jr. andthe Theological Ethic of Resistance in the Age of “45”Jeremy Sorgen, University of VirginiaKing’s Phenomenology of Encounter: Re-norming Bodies with theBlood of the Oppressed
Business Meeting:
AnneMarie Mingo, Pennsylvania State University, Presiding

A20-236

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Wesleyan Studies Unit
Theme: Methodism and Nationalism
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-310 (Third Level)
Theodore Walker, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
Ryan Nicholas Danker, Wesley Theological Seminary
Monarchists in an Age of Competing Authorities: John and Charles
Wesley, Methodism, and the Ancien Régime
Cindy K. Wesley, University of Northern Colorado
Divided Loyalties: The Methodist Episcopal Church, Nationalist
Propaganda, and the German Methodist Conferences
Dion Forster, Stellenbosch University
A State Church? A Consideration of the Methodist Church of Southern
Africa in the Light of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “Theological Position Paperon State and Church”
Mark Gorman, Centre United Methodist Church, Forest Hill, MD
Discipleship and Antinationalism in Stanley Hauerwas and John
WesleyBusiness Meeting:
Edgardo Colon-Emeric, Duke University, Presidingx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Theme: Religion, Rationality, and Rational Choice
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Fairfax B (Third Level)
Katja Rakow, Utrecht University, Presiding
Mitsutoshi Horii, Shumei University
Historicizing the Category of “Religion” in Sociological Theories: Max
Weber and Emile Durkheim
Jon R. Stone, California State University, Long Beach
Prophetic Authority in New Religious Movements: Beyond Festinger,
beyond Weber
Andrew Lynn, University of Virginia, and Isabella Hall,
University of Virginia
Making Your Work Matter to God: The Cultural Production of New
Spirits of Capitalism in Twentieth-Century American Evangelicalism
Torkel Brekke, University of Oslo
Applying Market Theory of Religion Outside the Modern West
Responding:Adam Seligman, Boston University
Business Meeting:
Warren S. Goldstein, Center for Critical Research on Religion,
Newton, MA, and Rebekka King, Middle Tennessee State
University, Presiding

A20-235

Responding:Klaus Koschorke, University of MunichBusiness Meeting:
Deirdre de la Cruz, University of Michigan, Presiding

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

A20-237
Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit and Yogācāra Studies Unit
Theme: Yogācāra and Meditation: An Inquiry Into the Practical
Dimensions of Yogācāra Doctrine
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Falmouth (Fourth Level)
William S. Waldron, Middlebury College, Presiding
Yao-ming Tsai, National Taiwan University
Meditative Practices as Determinative Factors in Constructing andUnderstanding the Spatial World
Bruce C. Williams, University of California, Berkeley
A Paradigm of Yogācāra Meditative Practice in Sixth–SeventhCentury Northeastern China
Daniel McNamara, Emory University
Yogācāra as Theory and Practice in Ratnākaraśānti’s
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Yaroslav Komarovski, University of Nebraska
Why Pointing at the Moon in the First Place? How Positive
Articulations of Reality Affect Its Non-conceptual Realization
Responding:Karin Meyers, Kathmandu University

A20-238 – Pre-Posted Papers Session

SC

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

New Perspectives on Religion in the Philippines Seminar
Theme: New Perspectives on Power, Politics, and Religion in theContemporary Philippines
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-200 (Second Level)
Adrian Hermann, University of Bonn, Presiding
David Gowey, Arizona State Uninversity
The Problem of the Visayas in Southeast Asian History andHistoriography
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, University of Bremen
Duterte Go — Nationalism and Video Gaming on the Philippines
Candida Binarao, Manila, Philippines, and Esmeralda Sanchez,
Philippine Association for the Study of Culture, History andReligion
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines’s Shift of Religious
Discourse on the Reproductive Health Bill and Death Penalty and Its
Futile Effect to Filipino Public Opinion and Lawmakers’ Stand
Giovanni Maltese, University of Heidelberg
Pentecostalism, Hegemony and Reproductive Health in the Philippines

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A20-239

Origen and the Roots of “Human Freedom” and “Human
Dignity” in the West Seminar
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-111 (Plaza Level)
Anders-Christian Jacobsen, Aarhus University, Presiding
Kristian Bunkenborg, Martin Luther University
Castration and Democratic Rights: Origen in Post-Apartheid South
AfricaGiovanni Tortoriello, Martin Luther University
A “River of Gold” or a “Perverter of the Doctrine of Justification”? The
Reception of Origen in Erasmus and Melanchthon
Karen Felter, University of Münster“The Middle Way of Truth”: The Role of Christ in Anne Conway’s
Trinitarianism
Elisa Zocchi, University of Münster“It Is Precisely the World That Counts”: From Origen to Balthasar,
Bodiliness and Freedom as Reflection of Divine MysteryPeter Anthony Mena, University of San Diego
Mattering Bodies: Beauty, Animacy, and Visibility in Origen’s On
First Principles
William Boyce, University of Virginia“Origen I Have Already Banned”: Luther and the Paradox ofEccentric Freedom as Dangerous Embodiment
Responding:Peter Martens, Saint Louis University
Michael Raubach, Aarhus University
Ellen Muehlberger, University of Michigan
Elena Rapetti, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan
Business Meeting:Anders-Christian Jacobsen, Aarhus University, Presiding

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P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

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Full Papers Available on AAR
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Exploratory Sessions
Theme: Monsters, Monster Theory, and Religion
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon G (Third Level)
Laurel Zwissler, Central Michigan University, Presiding
Judith Halberstam famously claimed that monsters are “meaningmachines” that can be used to represent a variety of ideas, including
morality, gender, race, and nationalism (to name only a few).
Accordingly, monsters are always part of the project of making
sense of the world and our place in it. When we think or talk about
monsters we act as homo faber, to employ J.Z. Smith’s applicationof the term. Therefore, to the extent that monsters function as a tool
through which human beings create worlds in which to meaningfully
dwell, they fall entirely within the field of religious studies. Monsters
and Monster Theory will provide focused space to explore thedefinition of “monster,” the categorization of monsters as a basisof comparison across cultures, and the relationship of monsters to
religion with the goal of probing the origins of a large variety ofmonsters and their connection to the supernatural, sociological, andpsychological aspects of religion.

A20-242
Academic Relations Committee Meeting
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-301 (Third Level)
Theodore Trost, University of Alabama, Presiding

A20-243
Professional Conduct Task Force Meeting
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-MIT (Third Level)
Kecia Ali, Boston University, and Su Yon Pak, Union TheologicalSeminary, Presiding

A20-247/S20-219a
Applied Religious Studies Committee, Employment
Services Advisory Committee, Graduate Student
Committee, SBL Professional Development Committee,
and SBL Student Advisory Board
Theme: ImaginePhD: A Career Exploration and Planning Tool for
Humanities and Social Sciences
Monday, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Suffolk (Third Level)
Launched in fall 2017, ImaginePhD is a free and confidential career
exploration and planning tool for humanities and social science
PhDs. Powered by the Graduate Career Consortium, and created bymore than fifty graduate-level career and professional development
leaders across the United States and Canada, this platform provides aunique opportunity for PhDs to assess their skills, interests and values,
map those onto career paths, and create an individual development
plan that supports degree completion and professional/personal
development. Please join Sarah Peterson, ImaginePhD Content Lead,for this interactive training session to learn how to use this tool andintegrate it into departments. To make the most of this session, pleasebring a laptop or tablet.
Panelist:
Sarah Peterson, Atlanta, GA

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201

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: Sound As Religion
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Simmons (Third Level)
Rosalind I. J. Hackett, University of Tennessee, Presiding
While interdisciplinary interest in the phenomenon of sound has
been growing apace, understanding the diverse ways in which sound is
implicated in religious practice and spiritual experience remains underresearched in the field of religious studies. This Exploratory Session
examines the production, transmission, and reception of sound in arange of contexts, as well as broader conceptual and methodologicalquestions. The session engages “Sound as Religion,” that is, the ways
sound comes to constitute religion, and invites the exploration of sonicand auditory cultures on their own terms: how do vocal, instrumental,
or aural practices generate texts, rituals, performances, affective states,
and religious institutions? The session also explores religious studies assound: what techniques and methods are suited to capturing religion asa sonic phenomenon? Conducted as a roundtable in which participants
share research through sound clips and objects, this forum provides
opportunities for listening and open discussion.
Panelists:
Peter McMurray, University of Cambridge
Isaac Weiner, Ohio State University
Vicki Brennan, University of Vermont
Finnian Moore Gerety, Yale University
Annette Wilke, University of Münster
Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University
Andrew Mall, Northeastern University
Mariam Goshadze, Harvard University
James Webb, Independent Artist, Cape Town, South Africa
Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University

Esther Hamori, Union Theological Seminary
The Biblical God and His Company of Monsters
Rhiannon Graybill, Rhodes College
A Child is Being Eaten: Maternal Cannibalism in the Hebrew Bible
Linda Ceriello, Rice University
The Big Bad and the Big AHA: Metamodern Monsters as
Transformational Figures of Instability
Justin Mullis, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Fighting the War on Christmas with Krampus
Responding:
Timothy Beal, Case Western Reserve University
Business Meeting:
Steve A. Wiggins, Oxford University Press, and Kelly Murphy,
Central Michigan University, Presiding

C

P20-201a
African Association for the Study of Religions

Theme: Texts in Context: Molding the Maasai and Prosperity
Gospel in South Africa
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Grand D (Fourth Level)
Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University, Presiding
Knut Holter, VID Specialized University
Moulding the Maasai in the Form of the Ancient Israelites: Moritz
Merker’s Early Twentieth-Century Ethnographic Study of the Maasai
Kevin G. Smith, South African Theological Seminary, and Genis
Pieterse, South African Theological Seminary
The Appeal of the Word of Faith Movement
Business Meeting:
Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University, and Corey Williams,
Leiden University, Presiding

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

P20-223aQ

A20-244MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Historical Houses of Worship in Boston’s Back Bay Tour
Monday, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM
Offsite-Meet at the Registration Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD in
the Convention Center
See page 10 for details.

FNK

A20-245/S20-250
Student Lounge Roundtable

Theme: Publish or Perish for Graduate Students
Monday, 1:30 PM–3:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
What makes an effective publication? How can you develop acompetitve record of publishing? In this session, Dr. Miguel De La
Torre discusses strategies for effective and competitive publishingstrategies as a means to prepare graduate students for various job
opportunities.
Panelists:
Miguel De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion

A20-246/S20-251

Theme: FSRBook Series Session: Congress of Wo/men: Religion,
Gender and Kyriarchal Power by E. Schüssler Fiorenza and Women,
Religion, Revolution edited by X. Alvizo and G. Messina
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Vermont (Fifth Level)
Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, Drew University, Presiding
As the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, the oldest feminist
academic journal in religious studies, so also the new FSRBook Series
is interreligious in its subjects, transdisciplinary in its methods, andintersectional in its political analyses. In light of these goals, the panel
will discuss FSRBook’s first publications: Congress of Wo/men: Religion,
Gender, and Kyriarchal Power by E. Schüssler Fiorenza and Women,
Religion, Revolution edited by X. Alvizo and G. Messina.
Panelists:
Xochitl Alvizo, California State University, Northridge
Maria Pilar Aquino, University of San Diego
Namsoon Kang, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University
Gina Messina, Ursuline College
Fulata Moyo, World Council of Churches and Harvard University
Nancy A. Pineda-Madrid, Boston College
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard University

Student Lounge Roundtable

FK

Theme: Tips for Integrating Guest Faith Practitioners in theClassroom
Monday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
As graduate student instructors of religion, we might face challenges
of expertise or authority with our students, or teach students who
have never encountered individuals of a particular religious tradition.
Bringing faith practitioners to speak in our classes might be auseful strategy to expose students to insider views, hear from moreauthoritative sources, and encounter faith practitioners perhaps
for the first time. In spite of the potential benefits of inviting faithpractitioners to our classes, there are also potential challenges. How
do we ensure that these experiences are appropriately bracketed
to maintain academic rigor? Do certain institutional contexts orprograms support this more than others? How does our status
as graduate students affect these concerns, especially as graduate
students take on such a large role of undergraduate instruction?
This roundtable session will discuss these issues and discuss ways ofeffectively bringing guest faith practitioners into the classroom.
Panelists:
Joshua Patterson, University of Georgia

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Sustainability and Religion

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Tours

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Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

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Coffee Break

A20-302

Monday, 3:30 PM

Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
and Women and Religion Unit

Complimentary coffee will be served in the backof Aisle 2100 and Aisle 2600 of the Exhibit Hall.

Monday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM

A20-300
African Diaspora Religions Unit and Religions, Medicines,
and Healing Unit

A20-301
Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit
Theme: Interpreting, Decoding, and Transforming Visual
Religious Representations
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level)
Anthony Dupont, University of Leuven, Presiding
Anthony Dupont, University of Leuven
Artistic Perspectives on the Conversion of Augustine of Hippo
Elena Vishnevskaya, Central College
Contemplating Sacred Images: A Synergy between the Cataphatic andApophatic Prayers
Yohana Junker, Graduate Theological Union
Post-Commodity: Decolonizing Contemporary Native American
Visualities
Joelle Hathaway, Duke University
Missional Museums: Medieval Cathedrals, Tourism, andContemporary Art Exhibitions

A20-303/S20-324
Augustine and Augustinianisms Unit and SBL History and
Literature of Rabbinic Judaism
Theme: Self-Control in Augustine and Rabbinic Literature
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level)
Jonathan Klawans, Boston University, Presiding
Liza Anderson, Episcopal Divinity School
The Im(permeable) Self in Augustine and Other Ancient Writers
Jonathan Schofer, University of Texas
Self-Control, Foucault’s Ethics, and Deuteronomy Rabbah 8:4
Orit Malka, Tel Aviv University
Incompetent Witnesses and Self-Control in Tannaitic Literature
Matthew Goldstone, New York University
Humility and the Self: Parallel (Yet Competing) Orientations in theWork of Augustine and the Rabbis of Late Antiquity
Responding:Virginia Burrus, Syracuse University

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: Medicine and Mothering in African Diaspora Religions
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-102 (Plaza Level)
Rachel E. Harding, University of Colorado, Denver, Emily Wu,
Dominican University, California, and Linda L. Barnes, Boston
University School of Medicine, Presiding
Yanique Hume, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Performing the Divine Feminine: The Embodied Praxis of Madre
Nkisis (Mothers of the Medicines) in Palo Monte
Jazmin Graves, University of Chicago
Dancing under the Veil: Mediating the African Ancestor-Saint Mai
Mishra in Western India
Emily Crews, University of Chicago
Miracles of Motherhood from the Margins: Religious Ritual among
Female Nigerian Immigrants
Kyrah Malika Daniels, Harvard University“My Children Come in Many Colors”: Whiteness, Motherhood, andMental Health in Haitian Vodou Initiation

Theme: Leading Wisdom: Asian and Asian North American
Women Leaders
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Grand A (Fourth Level)
Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding
Panelists:
Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University
Haruko Ward, Columbia Theological Seminary
Laura Cheifetz, National Asian Pacific American Women’s
Forum
Mai-Anh L. Tran, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Responding:Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University
Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University203

Business Meeting:Kenneth A. Reynhout, United Theolgical Seminary of the Twin
Cities, Presiding

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20C

A20-304

Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Unit
Theme: The Bible and Folklore—Global Perspectives
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Vineyard (Fourth Level)
Valerie Bridgeman, St. Mary’s College, Presiding
Eric Ziolkowski, Lafayette College
The Bible in Folklore Worldwide–Prefatory Remarks and Overview
Kerry Hull, Brigham Young University
Incorporation of Biblical Narratives in Mesoamerican Oral Traditions
John T. P. Lai, Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Bible in Chinese Folkloric Traditions during the Nineteenth andTwentieth Centuries
Jerusha Neal, Duke University
Biblical Reception in Fijian Verbal Folklore
Herman Tull, Lafayette College
The Missionary Position in South Asian Folklore
Bishop Makobe, University of Venda
Reception of the Bible in Southern African Folklore
Responding:Hugh Rowland Page, University of Notre Dame
Business Meeting:Valerie Bridgeman, Methodist Theological School, Ohio, andHugh Rowland Page, University of Notre Dame, Presiding

BC

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

A20-305

Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit and Ricoeur
Unit
Theme: Religion, Vulnerability, and Violence: Ricoeur andBonhoeffer in Dialogue
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay C (Second Level)
Kenneth A. Reynhout, United Theological Seminary of the Twin
Cities, Presiding
Gabriel Morgan, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia
Religionless Christianity and the Narrative Figuration of Temporality
Brian Gregor, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Religion, Vulnerability, and l’Homme Capable: Bonhoeffer andRicoeur in Dialogue
Howard Pickett, Washington and Lee University
The Prison Gives Rise to Thought: Bonhoeffer and Ricoeur on
Incarnation and IncarcerationC

A20-306
Buddhist Philosophy Unit

Theme: Literary Forms of Argument in Chinese Buddhist
Philosophy
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Arlington (Third Level)
Bernard Faure, Columbia University, Presiding
Alan Wagner, Collège de France
Philosophical Narrative in the Sūtra on Sundarī 須陀利經Rafal Stepien, University of Oxford
Enlightening Literature: A Chinese Buddhist Approach to Emptinessof Word and Mind
Ben Van Overmeire, St. Olaf College
Zen Encounter Dialogues as Utopian Narrative: The Ideal World of
the Song Dynasty Record of Linji
Steven Heine, Florida International University
Arguments for and against Chan Buddhist Literature as Philosophy
Business Meeting:Richard Nance, Indiana University, and Sara L. McClintock,
Emory University, PResiding

A20-307
Comparative Studies in Religion Unit
Theme: Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of
Religion
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level)
Timothy D. Knepper, Drake University, Presiding
Panelists:
Purushottama Bilimoria, Graduate Theological Union; Universityof California, Berkeley
Jin Y. Park, American University
Laura Weed, College of Saint Rose
Bin You, Minzu University

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Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
204

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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

A20-308
Confucian Traditions Unit and Religions, Social Conflictand Peace Unit
Theme: A Gentleman Does Not Enter the Kitchen, but ... :Confucian Attitudes Towards Violence
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level)
Mark Halperin, University of California, Davis, Presiding
Don Wyatt, Middlebury College
Confucianism and the Militaristic Three of the Six Arts
Uffe Bergeton, University of North Carolina
King :· in Revisionist Historiography: Non-violent
Conceptualizations of War in Pre-Qín to Medieval Rú Thought
Keith Knapp, The Citadel
Filial Murderers: The Inescapability of Violence in Medieval Chinese
Tales of Sonly Revenge
Ying Zhang, Ohio State University
Confucianism and Imprisoned Officials in Ming China (1368–1644)

A20-309

C

Contemporary Islam Unit and North American Religions
Unit

A20-310

C A

Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit
Theme: Critique and Religious Studies: Assessing the Import of
the Dialectic of Enlightenment after 70 Years
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Simmons (Third Level)
Larisa Reznik, University of Chicago, Presiding
Benjamin Fong, Arizona State University
Halbbildung: Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s Theory of“Religion”
Agata Bielik-Robson, University of Nottingham
Judaism Undercover? Jewish Cryptotheology in the Dialectic ofEnlightenment
Ian Bacher, University of Nottingham
Impotence and the Question of Knowledge

A20-311C

Ecclesial Practices Unit
Theme: Transcending the Human: Theological Ethnography andMateriality
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-208 (Second Level)
Jonas Ideström, Church of Sweden Research Unit, Uppsala, Sweden,
PresidingMichael Grigoni, Duke University
Guns, Affect, and the Actant God: New Materialism and theEthnographic Turn in Ecclesiology
Linn Sæbø Rystad, MF Norwegian School of Theology
Materiality’s Role in Children’s Meaning-Making from Preaching –A Norwegian Case Study
Andrew Rogers, University of Roehampton
Ordinary Theologies of Place: A Case Study of New Black Majority
Churches in London
Laura Lysen, Baylor University
Net/work in Memory of Freddie Gray: Lethal Objects, Theological
Materiality, and the Church
Business Meeting:Natalie Wigg-Stevenson, University of Toronto, Presiding

A20-312B

Ethics Unit and Religion and the Social Sciences Unit
Theme: American Political Economy and the Politics of Producing
Vulnerable Populations
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Berkeley (Third Level)
Christophe D. Ringer, Chicago Theological Seminary, and Nichole
Phillips, Emory University, Presiding
Panelists:
Zine Magubane, Boston College
Devin Singh, Dartmouth College
Najeeba Syeed-Miller, Claremont School of Theology
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College
Responding:Emilie M. Townes, Vanderbilt University

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205

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: Muslims and Contemporary American Politics
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-203 (Second Level)
Mohammad Khalil, Michigan State University, Presiding
Panelists:
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College
Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina
Sylvia Chan-Malik, Rutgers University
Rudolph Ware, University of Michigan
Alisa Perkins, Western Michigan University
Business Meeting:
Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, and Sylvester Johnson,
Northwestern University, Presiding

Lucas Wright, University of California, Santa Barbara
Criticism and the Identification of Power, and Knowledge in the Studyof Religion: On Whether the Dialectic of Enlightenment is Possible
Today
Responding:Martin Shuster, Goucher College
Business Meeting:David Walker, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Sean
McCloud, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Presiding

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

A20-313#aarhcs

Responding:
Kristin Sands, Sarah Lawrence College
Business Meeting:Martin Nguyen, Fairfield University, and Robert Rozehnal,
Lehigh University, Presiding

History of Christianity Unit
Theme: Mystical Topographies in Late Medieval Christianity(Thinking with Certeau)
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-109 (Plaza Level)
Trish Beckman, St. Olaf College, Presiding
Charlotte Radler, Loyola Marymount University
On the Road to Nowhere: Meister Eckhart’s and Michel de Certeau’s
Topographical MetaphorsDavid Albertson, University of Southern California
Mystical and Geometrical Space in Nicholas of Cusa: Measure as
Negation
Min-Ah Cho, Catholic Theological Union“Neither Path Nor Way”: Hadewijch on Wandering and Exilein Search of Love
Leah Buturain Schneider, Fuller Theological Seminary
Drawing the Curtain to the Virgin’s Cell: Guarding Solitude for
Beholding
Douglas Christie, Loyola Marymount University
Elsewhere: Ruusbroec’s Itinerary into DarknessC

A20-314MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Islamic Mysticism Unit
Theme: Commentarial Complexities and Exegetical Explorationsin the Sufi Textual Tradition
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon F (Third Level)
Tehseen Thaver, Bard College, Presiding
Ahmad (Masoud) Ariankhoo, Harvard University
Imitation and Verification: ‘Ayn al-Qudat on Knowledge andReligious Prejudice
Faris Casewit, Harvard University
Idolatrous Muslims: The Transposition of the Qur’ānic Religious Other
in Abū DOΖDVDQDOΖDUUƘOưµV (d. 1241) Kitāb al-Tawfiyah
Axel Takacs, Harvard University
Abū DOΖDVDQ Khatamī Lāhūrī’s Commentary on the Love Lyrics ofΖƘ¾Ν Shīrāzī: The Mystico-poetics between the Seen and Unseen
Hamilton Cook, Emory University
The Perfect Human as the Most Vulnerable of Creation: Ismail Hakki
Bursevi and the Multiple Meanings of Kamāl in Sufi Theology
Mariam Sheibani, University of Chicago
The Grammar of the Heart: The Construction of Sufi Legitimacy inCommentaries on Arabic GrammarC

A20-315
Japanese Religions Unit

Theme: Narratives as Strategies: Narrative in Premodern Japanese
ReligionsMonday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Boston Common (Fifth Level)
Ryuichi Abe, Harvard University, Presiding
Mikael Bauer, McGill University
Picking up the Sovereign’s Sandals: Fujiwara No Nakamaro and theCreation of Fujiwara Authority
Bryan Lowe, Vanderbilt University
Localizing the Universal: Narrative and Performative Strategies inNinth-Century Japanese Homilies
Su Jung Kim, DePauw University
Feeling Story: Religious Emotion in Myōe’s Kegon Engi Emaki
Jesse Drian, University of Southern California
The Networking of Origins: Strategies for Moving beyond the Singularin Temple and Shrine Origin Narratives
Responding:
Chris Callahan, University of Illinois
Business Meeting:
Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University, and Asuka
Sango, Carleton College, Presiding

A20-316
Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit andReformed Theology and History Unit
Theme: Reformation and Reformations
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level)
Kirsi Stjerna, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Presiding
This panel examines the meaning of “Reformation” and what
implications the notion of “Reformation” or “reformations” has for us
today - theologically or ecclesially. Panelists explore the relevance of“reformation/s” for the contemporary context, including ways in whichaspects of the Protestant Reformation deserve retrieval, reframing, orretraction today.

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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
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Sustainability and Religion

Q

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G

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Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

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Panelists:
Amy Plantinga Pauw, Louisville Presbyterian TheologicalSeminary
Kristen E. Kvam, Saint Paul School of Theology
Cornelis van der Kooi, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Evangeline Anderson Rajkumar, Lenoir-Rhyne University

A20-317C

A20-319
Native Traditions in the Americas Unit

C

Middle Eastern Christianity Unit
Theme: Middle Eastern Christians and Empire
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere A (Second Level)
Aaron Sokoll, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Joshua Mugler, Georgetown University
City of God, City of Empire: Antioch in the Byzantine Resurgence
Jessica Ehinger, Boston University
Obedience as an Umayyad Milieu: Melkite Identity in the Early
Islamic Empire
Deanna Womack, Emory University
Syrian Christians: From Imperial Subjects to American Immigrants
Responding:
Jason R. Zaborowski, Bradley University
Business Meeting:
Jason R. Zaborowski, Bradley University, Presiding

A20-318
Music and Religion Unit and Theology of Martin LutherKing, Jr. Unit

A20-320 – Pre-Posted Papers Session

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Nineteenth Century Theology Unit
Theme: American Transcendentalism as Theological Resource for
the Anthropocene
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Berkeley (Third Level)
Todd Gooch, Eastern Kentucky University, Presiding
Nicholas Friesner, Brown University
A Transcendental Intimacy
Kristen Drahos, University of Notre Dame
Nailed to the World: Annie Dillard’s Cruciform Transcendentalism
Alda Balthrop-Lewis, Princeton University
The Emersonian Roots of Thoreau’s Political Asceticism
Emily Dumler-Winckler, University of Notre Dame
Emersonian Virtues of the Anthropocene
Responding:Mark S. Cladis, Brown University

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: Voices of Protest: Race, Religion, and Music
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Boylston (First Level)
AnneMarie Mingo, Pennsylvania State University, Presiding
Thomas Breedlove, Baylor University
Suffering and Translation: Christology and the Spirituals of Roland
Hayes
Octavio Carrasco, Union Theological Seminary
Singing Songs for Survival: Freedom Songs in the Civil Rights
Movement
Leonard Lowe, University of North Carolina“After God is Music”: Combative Music as a Response to Vulnerability
among Independent Pentecostals in Haiti
Marilyn Batchelor, Claremont Graduate University
The Social Consciousness of Music during the Civil Rights Movement

Theme: Native American Rhetoric: Sacred Language,
Transformation, Placiality and Nature
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level)
Seth Schermerhorn, Hamilton College, Presiding
Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University“And Now Our Minds Are One”: The Thanksgiving Address andAttaining Consensus among the Haudenosaunee
Felicia Lopez, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nahua Rhetorical Speech in the Glyphic and Alphabetic Codices ofPrecontact and Colonial Central Mexico
Delores Mondragon, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chicana/o Rhetoric: Relevance and Survival through Naming, Space,and Inclusion
Alesha Claveria, University of California, Santa Barbara
Rhetoric and Reality: Survivance, Activism, and Sacrality in Native
North American Theater
Lawrence W. Gross, University of Redlands
The Use of Digressions in Anishinaabe Rhetoric as a Moral Act:
Connecting Speech to the Religious Idea That All Things Are Related
Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara
Agency of the Ancestors: Is There Such a Thing as Apache Rhetoric?
Responding:Ines Hernandez-Avila, University of California, Davis
Business Meeting:Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa, PresidingA20-323

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20BC

A20-321
Open and Relational Theologies Unit

Theme: Open Theology, Open Borders? Religion and the Most
Vulnerable
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)
Krista E. Hughes, Newberry College, Presiding
Donna Bowman, University of Central Arkansas
Love Trumps Hate: Images of God’s Love from Pussyhat Makers
Timothy Murphy, Claremont School of Theology
We All Need Somebody to Lean On: Mutual Interest and thePreferential Option
Deena Lin, Claremont Graduate University
Embracing Syrian Life: An Intellectual and Political Call to Action
Robert Overy-Brown, Claremont Graduate University
Towards a Transgressive Political Theology: Open Theology as
Imperative to Open Borders
Responding:Catherine Keller, Drew University
Joerg Rieger, Vanderbilt University
Business Meeting:
Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Center for Process Studies, Claremont,
CA, PResiding

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

A20-322
Pentecostal–Charismatic Movements Unit

Theme: Gender, Prosperity and Migrations: New Trends inPentecostal-Charismatic Scholarship
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Fairfax B (Third Level)
Arlene Sanchez-Walsh, Azusa Pacific University, Presiding
Panelists:
Leah Payne, George Fox University
Daniel Ramirez, Claremont Graduate University
Judith Casselberry, Bowdoin College
Business Meeting:Arlene Sanchez-Walsh, Azusa Pacific University, and Leah Payne,
George Fox University, Presiding

Queer Studies in Religion Unit
Theme: New Research in Queer Religious Studies
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-310 (Third Level)
Jared Vazquez, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding
Andrea Allen, Western University, Canada“A House of Prayer for All People”: LGBT Evangelicals in Brazil
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Princeton University
Sacred Dissent: For Queers’ Sake and on Queer Stakes in Black
Religious Studies
Jennifer Buck, Azusa Pacific University
Bad and Boujee — Towards a Trap Feminist Theology
Joshua Warfield, Graduate Theological Union
Resistance and the Freedom to Live Authentically: Queering Martin
Luther’s View of Vocation
Michelle Mueller, Santa Clara University
Sisterhood, Patriarchy, and “Bromance”: Gender Norms in Reality TV
Polygamy/Polyamory

A20-324#aareco2017

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Religion and Ecology Unit
Theme: Constructive Approaches to Religion and Ecology
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-The Fens (Fifth Level)
Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University, Presiding
Dorothy Dean, Vanderbilt University
Ethics beyond Exceptionalism?
Matthew Eaton, St. John’s University
Of Religious Ecologies and Their “Queer Little Gods”: On the Way toan Animist Trinitarianism
Andrew Thompson, University of the South
Vulnerability, Resilience, and Agency: Climate Vulnerability as Hybrid
Concept and as Tactic
Jacob Erickson, Trinity College, Dublin
Promiscuous Vines: On the Queer Emergence of a Theological Botany
Business Meeting:
James Miller, Queen’s University, Kingston, Presiding

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
C

Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
208

N

Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

A20-325
Religion and Migration Unit and Religion, Memory,
History Unit
Theme: Lost Lands and Lives: Religious Memories of Movement,
Migrations, and Landscapes
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Grand D (Fourth Level)
Mona Hassan, Duke University, Presiding
Michael Amoruso, University of Texas“Because This Is Where the Slaves Were Hanged”: Haunting and
Devotion in Sao PauloElina Vuola, University of Helsinki
The Pilgrimage of St.Tryphon of Pechenga as an Expression of Lossand Memory for the Skolt Sami Indigenous People
Hyunwoo Koo, Boston University
Migrating Ritual: A Theological Ethnography on Chudo Yebea(Ancestral Grieving Rite for Korean Christians) in America
Sabahat Adil, University of Colorado
The Memory of al-Andalus in al-Ghassānī’s (d. 1707) Travelogue(5LԓOD)
Anja Pogacnik, University of Edinburgh
Loss, Gain, and Innovation: How Young Leicester Jains Conceptualise
Socio-geographical and Inter-generational Religious Change

A20-326

CK

Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives
Unit

A20-327#islamaar

Religion and Sexuality Unit and Study of Islam Unit
Theme: Sexual Ethics in Medieval Islamic Thought
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Constitution A (Second Level)
Carolyn Baugh, Gannon University, Presiding
Aisha Geissinger, Carleton University“This Is Not in the Book of God!”— or Is It? A Queer Medieval
Textual Moment and the Gendering of Textual Authority

A20-328
Religion in South Asia Unit
Theme: The Other Religious Politics: Making Religion in theService of Secularity
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level)
Ananya Dasgupta, Case Western Reserve University
Secular Imaginations of a Muslim Homeland: Bengali Muslim
Cultural Activists of the 1940s and Their Antecedents
Dean Accardi, Connecticut College
Kashmiriyat, Hindutva, and Secularist Visions of Religion in
Kashmir
Philip Friedrich, University of Pennsylvania
Vicissitudes of the Sāsana: Linking and Delinking Religion and
Politics in Sri Lanka
Jaclyn Michael, James Madison University
Visions of Religious Belonging and Secular India in Premchand’s
KarbalaResponding:Brian K. Pennington, Elon University

A20-329

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Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit
Theme: Watching Stranger Things Religiously: Fierce Community,
Binge-Watching, and the Shifting Landscape of TV Consumption
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-313 (Third Level)
Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton,
PresidingKatelynn Carver, University of St Andrews
Coffee and Contemplation: “Friends Don’t Lie” and Other “Stranger”
Commandments of a Spirituality of Human Relationality
John Lyden, Grand View University
Streaming the Upside Down: Stranger Things on Netflix Than Are
Dreamt of in Broadcast Television
Responding:
Kutter Callaway, Fuller Theological SeminaryBusiness Meeting:Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton, and
Ken Derry, University of Toronto, Presidingx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: Nationalism and Religion Education in Public Schools
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-New Hampshire (Fifth Level)
Michael Waggoner, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding
Kate Soules, Boston College
When Religion Isn’t a Part of Culture: Reviewing the Relationshipbetween Religion and Multicultural Education
Norman Richardson, Stranmillis University College, Belfast
Religion, Schooling, and Conflicting Nationalisms: Educational
Perspectives from Northern Ireland
Responding:
Jenny Berglund, Södertörn University
Business Meeting:Jenny Berglund, Södertörn University, and Michael Waggoner,
University of Northern Iowa, Presiding

Sara Omar, American University
Shifting Orthodoxies: Representations of the Zaynab bint -DΗVK
AffairArafat Razzaque, Harvard University
Curtain Ethics: Sex, Privacy, and the Idea of Concealing Sins inMedieval Islam
Saadia Yacoob, Williams College
Gendering Sexual Desire: Tamkīn and Female Sexual Agency
Responding:
Kecia Ali, Boston University

A20-332

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Study of Judaism Unit

A20-330
Roman Catholic Studies Unit
Theme: Sinfulness and Satisfaction: Exploring the Limits ofForgiveness and Reconciliation in a Global Context
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-309 (Third Level)
Julia Enxing, St Georgen Graduate School of Theology andPhilosophy, Presiding
Katharina Peetz, Saarland University
Repairing the Irreparable? Practices of Symbolic Reparations in Postgenocide Rwanda
Jutta Koslowski, University of Mainz
The Development of Ecclesial Rituals of Repentance: A Critical
Analysis of the International Project’s “Path of Reconciliation” and“March of Life”
Dominik Gautier, University of Oldenburg
The Challenge of Epistemic Violence: A Postcolonial Reflection on the
Doctrine of Reconciliation
Ulrike Link-Wieczorek, University of Oldenburg
Reconciliation by Symbolic Compensation (Wiedergutmachung): A
Re-interpretation of the Satisfaction-Theory of Anselm of Canterbury
Responding:
Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Moravian CollegeC

A20-331MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Science, Technology, and Religion Unit
Theme: On the Future of Science, Technology, and Religion
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level)
Christopher Southgate, University of Exeter, Presiding
Robert Geraci, Manhattan College
On the Importance of Being Local: Anthropology in the Study ofReligion, Science, and Technology
Curtis Baxter, American Association for the Advancement of
Science
Science and the Next Generation of Religious Leaders: The AAAS
Science for Seminaries Project
Adam Pryor, Bethany College
Religion in Dialogue with Cross-Disciplinary Scientific Inquiry
Ahmed Ragab, Harvard University“A Beau Ideal for Whosoever Hopes for God”: Piety, Medicine, andProphetics in the Medieval and Contemporary Middle East
Business Meeting:
Greg Cootsona, California State University, Chico, Presiding

Theme: Jews and Racialization
Monday, 4:00 PM–5:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Brandeis (Third Level)
Shari Rabin, College of Charleston, Presiding
Nicholas Andersen, Brown University
The Hook in Leviathan’s Mouth: Jewish Difference in Carl Schmitt’s
Der Leviathan
Daniel May, Princeton University
Liberal Zionism and its Discontents: Louis Brandeis, Leo Strauss,
Isaiah Berlin, and the Foundations of a Fraying Consensus
Paul Nahme, Brown University
Semitism and Secularism: Jewish Class Consciousness between Raceand Religion
Evan Goldstein, Union Theological Seminary
Heinrich Graetz and the Racialization of Judentum
Responding:Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University

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A20-333
Teaching Religion Unit

Theme: Teaching the Introductory Course
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Jamaica Pond (Fifth Level)
Molly Bassett, Georgia State University, Presiding
William Robert, Syracuse University
Ways and Means (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
Introduction to the Study of Religion)
Andrew McKee, Florida State University
The Use and Misuse of Cults and New Religious Movements in an
Introduction to World Religions Classroom
Beverley Foulks McGuire, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington
The Impact of Experiential Learning in an Introduction to Asian
Religions Course
Gregory Robbins, University of Denver, and Andrea Stanton,
University of Denver
Teaching Common Figures in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic
Scriptures
Esther Boyd, Interfaith Youth Core
Emerging Frontiers for Interreligious and Interfaith Studies:Interreligious Pedagogy for Pre-professional Education

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
C

Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
210

N

Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

A20-334/S20-331

A20-336

Western Esotericism Unit and SBL Mysticism, Esotericism,and Gnosticism in Antiquity Unit

World Christianity Unit

Theme: Ritual Creativity: Old and New, Inside and Out
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-209 (Second Level)
Claire Fanger, Rice University, Presiding
Paul Pasquesi, Marquette University“Having Started With the Spirit Are You Now Ending With the
Flesh?” Circumcision, Vision, and Initiation in Galatians
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edward’s University
Historiolae and Pseudepigraphy: An Assessment with an Eye toward
Ritual and Ascent
Cynthia Dawson, Rice University
Hiding Sophia: Preservation of the Female Body’s Value in Gnostic
Mythology
Matthew Dillon, DePauw University(Re)Inventing the Bridal Chamber: Sacrament, Psychic
Androgenization, and Sacred Sex
Marla Segol, State University of New York, Buffalo
Mystical Embryologies: Knowledge, Practice, and Devotion

A20-335

C

Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism Unit

A20-337

C

Folklore and Religion Seminar
Theme: Material Culture and Vernacular Religion
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty C (Second Level)
Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini University, Presiding
Amy Milligan, Old Dominion University
Creating a Sanctuary of the Home: Material Culture and the Jewish
Sabbath in the Interwar Years
Jonathan D. Brumberg-Kraus, Wheaton College
Gastronomic Judaism as Vernacular Religion
Aled Thomas, Open University
The Material Culture of Scientology: The Evolution of Hubbard’s
Auditing “Tech” and E-meters
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, New York University
Pixelating Holiness: Digital Orthodoxy in Appalachia
Marion Bowman, Open University
Ambiguity, Power, and Creativity: Materiality, Relationality, andVernacular Legitimacy in the Cult of Gauchito Gil
Responding:Donald Cosentino, University of California, Los Angeles
Business Meeting:
Stephen Wehmeyer, Champlain College, Presidingx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Theme: This is MY Body: Women of Color Preaching Activisms,
Reproductive Justice, and Virtu[e]al Theologies
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick B (Second Level)
Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Earlham College, Presiding
Gina Jungyeon Bae, University of Toronto
Imaging God as a North American Korean Feminist
Cona Marshall, Michigan State University“Who Made These Rules?” Black Women Rapping and Preaching
Activism and Liberation
Ashlyn Strozier, Claremont Graduate University“What You Preaching We Ain’t Livin’”: Faith Traditions andCommunities Impact on Black Women’s Reproductive Decisions
Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University
All Babies Matter: Analyzing Debates of Reproductive Justice andReligious Media
Responding:Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University
Business Meeting:Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University, and Grace Ji-Sun Kim,
Earlham College

Theme: Identities in Crisis: Cases of Christianities across Asia
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-111 (Plaza Level)
Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University, Presiding
Chandra Mallampalli, Westmont College
Dalit Christian Reservations: A Live Debate with Colonial Moorings
Herman Teule, Université Catholique de Louvain
Middle Eastern Christian Identity - Ethnic Instead of Ecclesiastical:
A Shift in Perspective
Albertus Bagus Laksana, Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia
Hybrid Identity in Peril: Christian Community and Political Islam inIndonesia
Sebastien Peyrouse, George Washington University
Christianity and Ethnicity in Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia:
Mutual Intrusions and Instrumentalisations
Po Ho Huang, Chang Jung Christian University
Christian Bewilderment of Identity Struggling in East Asia – A
Taiwanese Perspective211

A20-339 – Pre-Posted Papers Session

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20C

A20-338
Interreligious Reflections on Immigration Seminar

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Columbus I & II (First Level)
Joseph Mas, Ohio Hispanic Coalition, Columbus, OH, Presiding
Waleed El-Ansary, Xavier University
Al-Azhar University on the Responsibilities of Minority Muslims
Living in Non-Islamic Societies
Hussam S. Timani, Christopher Newport University
On Being a Muslim in a Non-Islamic Society: Seeing Islam in the“Other”
Zahra Jamal, Rice University
Becoming American: Loving One’s Refugee-Migrant Neighbors
James McBride, New York University
From the American Protective Association to Trump’s America First:
American Xenophobia in Historical Perspective
Ron Choong, Center for Interdisciplinary Research
Reflections on Faith, Religion, and Geography: Christianity on the
Silk Road
Alexander Y. Hwang, Xavier University
Comparative Reflections on the Meanings of My Neighbor’s Faith:
Toward a Christian Theology of Immigration
Helen Boursier, College of St. Scholastica
The Great Exchange: An Interfaith Theology of Absolute Hospitality
for Immigrants Seeking Asylum
Responding:
Laura Alexander, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Allen G. Jorgenson, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary
Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego
Kristine Suna-Koro, Xavier University
Loye Ashton, Tougaloo College
Hee-Kyu Heidi Park, Xavier University
Marcus Mescher, Xavier University
Silas Allard, Emory University
Business Meeting:Alexander Y. Hwang, Xavier University, Presiding

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Religion and Families in North America Seminar
Theme: Religions and Families in North America
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-200 (Second Level)
Samira Mehta, Albright College, Presiding
Irene Stroud, Princeton University“Fewer and Better Babies”: Eugenics and the Middle-Class ProtestantMarriage
Brooke Katheen Brassard, University of Waterloo
Domestic and Sacred: Mormon Rituals of Healing, Prophecy, andFamily in Canadian Settlements
Francesco Morriello, Harvard University
Catholic Missionaries and Rituals of Marriage and Family
Reproduction in the French Caribbean, c. 1756–1802
Susan Ridgely, University of Wisconsin
The Religious Agenda behind the Mommy Wars
Business Meeting:Susan Ridgely, University of Wisconsin, and Samira Mehta,
Albright College, Presiding

BK

A20-341
Theological Education Committee

Theme: Faith and Resistance in an Age of Trump
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level)
Miguel De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding
The national climate leading up to and resulting in the election of
Donald Trump as 45th President of the United States poses many
challenges and questions for theological educators. We find ourselves
struggling to discern ways in which we can shape our research andteaching to offer and model analytical integrity rooted in moral
conviction in the context of an increasingly chaotic and incoherent
matrix of national discourse in which the very nature and value oftruth has been radically called into question. As an alternative tooffering ideological testimonies of understandable outrage, presentersin this Forum are committed to sharing their observations regarding
specific research and pedagogical strategies for resistance to injusticewhich directly address the distinctive circumstances of the current
historical moment. Presenters will pay particular attention to thechallenges involved in engaging students in theologically grounded
praxes of resistance which are inclusive and designed to unite people
around shared stories and common self-interest rather than divide
them along religious, partisan, ethnic, or other lines.

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
C

Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
212

N

Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

Panelists:
Susan B. Thistlethwaite, Chicago Theological Seminary
Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
Miguel Diaz, Loyola University, Chicago
David P. Gushee, Mercer University
Kwok Pui Lan, Emory University
Santiago H. Slabodsky, Hofstra University

A20-340/S20-349

Monday, 8:00 PM and Later

A20-401FK

Student Lounge Roundtable
Theme: Dissertation + Baby: How to Do Two of the Hardest
Things You’ve Ever Done in Your Life Simultaneously, with Little
Money or Sleep
Monday, 4:30 PM–6:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level)
This workshop will guide participants in planning for how to makegood progress on their dissertations while parenting young children.
Topics discussed include: setting realistic expectations about thewriting process and parenting; putting a support network in place;caring for yourself physically and spiritually while under stress;
addressing the financial challenges of grad school; managing yourteaching load; and staying connected to your scholarly community.
The presenter wrote her dissertation while caring for her two children,and has since published a number of scholarly articles and essays anda volume of poetry.
Panelists:
Regina Walton, Harvard University

P20-410

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Film: The Bahá’ís

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Theme: Erik Wielenberg’s Robust Ethics: Theistic Responses
Monday, 7:00 PM–10:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Falmouth (Fourth Level)
Erik Wielenberg offers his “Godless Normative Realism” as analternative to theistic accounts of moral realism. In this session, several
theists engage Dr. Wielenberg’s view and objections to theistic moral
realism.
Panelists:
William Lane Craig, Biola University and Houston Baptist
University
Mark Murphy, Georgetown University
Tyler McNabb, Houston Baptist University
Adam Johnson, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Responding:
Erik Wielenberg, DePauw University

A20-402

G

Program Unit Chairs’ and Steering Committee Members’
Reception
Monday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-AAR Suite
Program Unit Chairs and steering committee members are invited
to a reception celebrating their contributions to the AAR Annual
Meeting.

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Evangelical Philosophical Society

Monday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)
Robert H. Stockman, Indiana University, South Bend, Presiding
Religion is often portrayed in mainstream discourse as having little
relevance to the modern world. It is considered naïve, divisive, evendangerous. At best, it’s something to be kept private.
However, in villages and cities, on farms and in indigenous
populations across the globe, a small but growing number of people
are putting into practice spiritual teachings that they believe are not
only relevant to the future of our world, but absolutely vital if we areto overcome historic divisions of gender, race, religion and politics.
They are members of the Bahá’í Faith and each is doing his or herpart to serve their community and their fellow human beings. Theirconviction stems from the belief that religion can provide the essential
motivation to overcome historically intractable antagonisms and effectpeaceful and lasting change.
This one-hour documentary asks viewers to consider a different
perspective on religion than the one portrayed in the mainstream
media. The film follows an intriguing set of individuals as they help tobuild peaceful, just and unified communities.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21

A21-102
Christian Spirituality Unit

Coffee BreakTuesday, 8:30 AM
Complimentary coffee will be served in the backof Aisle 2100 and Aisle 2600 of the Exhibit Hall.

A21-100
African Religions Unit and Childhood Studies and Religion
Unit
Theme: Rites of Passage, Rites of Return: Performative Markers ofChildhood, Youth, and Religious Change in Africa
Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level)
Sally Stamper, Capital University, Presiding
Devaka Premawardhana, Colorado College
A Rite of Return: Boys and Mothers in an African Initiation
Ceremony
Funlayo Easter Wood, Harvard University
By This Time Next Year, I’ll Surely Be Worshiping the White Man’s
God: Children, Conversion, and Resistance in YorubalandAbimbola Adelakun, University of Texas
Pentecostal Naming as Performative Utterance among the Yoruba,
Nigeria

A21-101

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21

Afro-American Religious History Unit and Space, Place,and Religion Unit
Theme: Africa on Abernathy
Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
Hynes Convention Center-313 (Third Level)
Zaid Adhami, Williams College, Presiding
Panelists:
Meredith Coleman-Tobias, Emory University
Diana Burnett, University of Pennsylvania
Amey Victoria Adkins, Duke University
Ashley Coleman, Emory University
Responding:James Manigault-Bryant, Williams College

Theme: Embodiment and the Study of Spirituality
Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty C (Second Level)
Douglas Hardy, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Presiding
Laura Anellia Soureli, University of Cambridge
Embodied Dimensions of the Contemplative Practices in Hesychasm(Eastern Orthodox Asceticism): A New Perspective
Marie Pagliarini, Saint Mary’s College“Sacramentalizing the Body”: Christian Tattooing in the San
Francisco Bay Area
Lexi Eikelboom, Indiana Wesleyan University
Using Rhythm to Move beyond Text in the Study of Christian
Spirituality

A21-103
Comparative Studies in Religion Unit
Theme: Recentering Sacred Biography: Hagiography as a Categoryof Analysis for Comparative Sanctities
Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
Sheraton Boston-Clarendon (Third Level)
Jon Keune, Michigan State University, Presiding
Gloria I-Ling Chien, Gonzaga Univeristy
An Example of Tibetan Namtar: Lojong Master Tokmé Zangpo’s Life
Todd French, Rollins College
Texts of Lives and Lives of Texts: A Reconsideration of the
Hagiographical Compilations of John of Ephesus and Cyril of
Scythopolis
Massimo Rondolino, Carroll University
A Case for Hagiography: On Academic Awareness and Saintly Lives
as Historiographic Practices
Business Meeting:
Sara Ritchey, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

A21-104#aarhcs

History of Christianity Unit
Theme: Complicating Luther and the Reform: A Quincentenary
Retrospective
Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level)
David Daniels, McCormick Theological Seminary, Presiding
Ross Kane, University of Virginia
Sola Scriptura or the White Man’s Book? Negotiating Reformation
Legacies in the Global South

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
C

Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
214

N

Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

Matthew Rosebrock, Concordia University St. PaulIcons of Theology: Lucas Cranach’s Law and Gospel Paintings andMartin Luther
Andrew Martin, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Jesus or Moses? Thomas Hobbes’s Eschatological Change of Heart andthe Diversity of Reformed Two Kingdoms Theology
Laura Jurgens, University of Calgary
Let Them Bear Children to Death: A Discourse on Martin Luther,
Women, and Misogyny

A21-105
Qur’an Unit
Theme: Qur’an Commentary and PracticeTuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere A (Second Level)
Gordon D. Newby, Emory University, Presiding
The papers in this session will discuss aspects of Qur’an commentaryand practice.
James Riggan, Florida State University
Touched by the Book: The Relationship between the Qur’an and the
Body in Moroccan Exorcism Practices
Stephen Burge, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK“Summary Exegeses” as a Distinct Genre of Tafsīr: The Tafsīr alJalālayn
Marianna Klar, SOAS University of London
Ibn Kathīr’s (d. 774/1373) Treatment of the David and Uriah
Narrative: The Issue of Isrā’īliyyāt and the Syrian School of Exegesis
Samuel Ross, Yale University
What Were the Most Popular Qur’an Commentaries in Islamic
History? An Assessment of the Manuscript Record and the State ofWestern Tafsir Studies
Abdulla Galadari, Al-Maktoum College
Mīqāt: The Appointed Time in the Qur’an

A21-106
Religion and Disability Studies Unit

Theology and Religious Reflection Unit
Theme: Sacred Time in Judaism and Seventh-Day Adventism
Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
Sheraton Boston-Public Garden (Fifth Level)
Rakesh Peter Dass, Hope College, Presiding
Lynn Kaye, Ohio State University
Does Classical Rabbinic Judaism Have Sacred Time?
Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Elijah Interfaith Institute, Zefon
Yehuda, Israel
Constructing Sacred Time in Judaism: Memory, Eschatology, Temple,
and PresenceMichel Lee, University of Texas
Cyclical and Linear Time in Nineteenth-Century Seventh-Day
Adventism

Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM

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Animals and Religion Unit
Theme: Encountering God in the Farmyard: Religion in Animal
SpacesTuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon B (Third Level)
Christopher Carter, University of San Diego, Presiding
The Cow Saw Jesus, Too: Domestic Animals as Rhetorical Religious
Actors in Early America
Tom Berendt, Temple Univeristy
Bovine Benefactories: An Examination of the Role of Religion in Cow
Sanctuaries across the United States
Adrienne Krone, Allegheny College
Humans and the Humble Bees: Bee-Human Relations, Rituals, andSacred Spaces at Shoresh Jewish Environmental Programs
Melody Escobar, Oblate School of Theology
Wisdom’s Hooves: Becoming and Belonging in the Arena of Christ; A
New Path to Exploring the Motherhood Motif of Julian of Norwich
Responding:David Clough, University of Chester
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21

Theme: Disability Across Traditions: Islam, Pentecostalism, andGlobal Christianity
Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
Hynes Convention Center-102 (Plaza Level)
David Scott, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver,
PresidingHalla Attallah, Georgetown University
The Qur’ān and Disability Studies: Physical Disability and Icon
Polemics in Qur’ān 21:51–70
Matthew Brake, George Mason University
Amos Yong, Feminist Disability, and Overcoming the Ideology of Curein Pentecostal Theology
Heike Peckruhn, Daemen College
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Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit
Theme: Islamic History, Art, and Memory
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)
Francesca Chubb-Confer, University of Chicago, Presiding
Syeda Beena Butool, Florida State University
Jesse Miller, Florida State University
Qur’anic Inscriptions as Signposts of Power
Jamila Davey, University of Texas
Ethical Dimensions of Literary Interpretation: Assia Djebar’s Novel
Approach to the Islamic Past

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Natasha Mikles, University of Virginia
The Butcher, the Baker, and the Hell-Being Maker: How the
Embodied Experience of Samsara Makes Buddhist Hell
Jessica Starling, Lewis and Clark College
Vulnerability and Friendship at a Japanese Leprosarium: Affective
Ethical Practice among Jōdo Shinshū Buddhists

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21
Mona Hassan, Duke University
Poetic Memories of the Prophetic Household at the Helm of Islamic
Governance
Isa Babur, Igdir University(An)iconism in Turkish Islam: A Literary Genre and the Calligraphic
Form of Depiction of the Prophet

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A21-112Christian Systematic Theology Unit

A21-110
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
and North American Religions Unit
Theme: Welcoming the Stranger: Ethics of Care and Religious
Refugee Resettlement Work in the United States from WWII to
the Present
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Hynes Convention Center-108 (Plaza Level)
Arissa Oh, Boston College, Presiding
Melissa Borja, City University of New York
“I’m Going to Be Your Big Sister, Big Brother”: Notions of Gender andFamily in Faith-Based Refugee Care
Gale Kenny, Barnard College
Mothers for the New World Order: Postwar Refugees and ProtestantChurchwomen
Janet Bauer, Trinity College
The Role of Faith-Based and Faith-Related Voluntary Organizations
in Facilitating Pathways to Refugee Social Inclusion
Responding:Paul Bramadat, University of Victoria

A21-111TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21

Buddhism Unit
Theme: New Work in Buddhist Studies
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level)
Reiko Ohnuma, Dartmouth College, Presiding
Nathan McGovern, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Oral Theory and Protestant Assumptions in the Study of Early
Buddhist Sutras
Blayne Harcey, Arizona State Univeristy
The Search for Buddhist Origins and the Construction of Lineage at
Lumbini Nepal
Ian MacCormack, Harvard University
Circling the Square: Rethinking the Lhasa 0DΧΕDOD

Theme: Panel Discussion on A Kryptic Model of the Incarnation(Routledge, 2014)
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-207 (Second Level)
James Arcadi, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding
Panelists:
Richard Cross, University of Notre Dame
Oliver Crisp, Fuller Theological Seminary
C. Stephen Evans, Baylor University
Thomas McCall, Trinity International University
Joshua Farris, Houston Baptist University
Responding:Andrew T. Loke, University of Hong Kong

A21-113#aareco2017

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Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit and Native Traditionsin the Americas Unit and Religion and Ecology Unit
Theme: Standing Rock and Beyond: Lakota Knowledge, Global
Indigenous Sovereignty, and Religious Freedom
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-309 (Third Level)
Danoye Oguntola-Laguda, Lagos State University, Presiding
Stephanie Yuhas, Naropa University
Standing for Sovereignty at Standing RockSiv Ellen Kraft, University of Tromsø¸ and Greg Johnson,
University of Colorado
Injury, Action, and Protection: Comparing Discourses of Religion,
Law, and the Environment at Standing Rock (North Dakota), Alta
(Sápmi), and Mauna Kea (Hawai’i)
Nicholas Shrubsole, University of Central Florida
Incommensurability and the Challenge for Indigenous Religious
Freedom Claims
Kenneth Richards, University of North Carolina
Savage Ecologies: Religious Freedom, Traditional Indigenous
Knowledge, and U.S. Environmental Policy
Responding:
Kathleen J. Martin, California Polytechnic State University

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
C

Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

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A21-114
Japanese Religions Unit and Tantric Studies Unit
Theme: The Reweaving of Mantra: Esoteric Buddhism in Japanafter Kūkai (774–835)
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Berkeley (Third Level)
Ryuichi Abe, Harvard University, Presiding
Ethan Bushelle, Western Washington University
The Aesthetics of Mantra: A Buddhological Genealogy of Medieval
Waka Poetics
Eric Swanson, Harvard University
Majestic Methods to Vanquish Evil: Negotiating the Power of
Subjugation in Tendai Esoteric Commentaries
Aaron Proffitt, State University of New York, Albany
Exo-esoteric Pure Land Buddhism in Early-Medieval Japan
Anna Andreeva, University of Heidelberg
Enlightenment for the “Country Bumpkins”? Esoteric Buddhism,
Kami Cults, and Non-elite Practitioners in Medieval Japan
Responding:
Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara

A21-115
Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
Theme: Sanctuary Spaces and Liturgical Practices: Safety and
Resilience in Latinx Communities
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level)
Jeremy V. Cruz, St. John’s University, New York, Presiding
Leo Guardado, University of Notre Dame
Sanctuary Churches: Resisting State Violence
Jennifer Owens, Graduate Theological Union
Las Caminatas por la Paz as Epistemological Practice: How Popular
Catholicism Makes Meaning of Suffering and Practices Healing
Responding:
Neomi De Anda, University of Dayton

A21-116
Theme: New Directions for Analytic Philosophy of Religion?
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Adams A (Third Level)
Amber Griffioen, University of Konstanz, Presiding
Michelle Panchuk, Murray State University
Distorting Concepts, Obscured Experiences: On the Role of
Hermeneutical Injustice in Religious Trauma
Andrea C. White, Union Theological Seminary
A Womanist Hermeneutic of Revelation
Kelli Potter, Utah Valley University
Heterodoxy and the Philosophy of Religion

A21-117
Religion and Economy Unit and Secularism and Secularity
Unit
Theme: Capital and the Secular: New Critiques and New Horizons
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-The Fens (Fifth Level)
Justin Stein, University of Toronto, Presiding
Panelists:
Elayne Oliphant, New York University
Rosemary R. Corbett, Bard College
Josef Sorett, Columbia University
Matthew King, University of California, Riverside
Lucia Hulsether, Yale University
Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University
Rebecca Bartel, University of Toronto
Responding:Webb Keane, University of Michigan

A21-118#rpc

Religion and Popular Culture Unit
Theme: Sartorial Transgressions: Reflections on Fashion,
Religion, and Resistance
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-201 (Second Level)
Thelathia Young, Bucknell University, Presiding
Benae Beamon, Boston University
Fashioning the Subject: Black Queerness, Identity, and an Ethic of
Honor
Jeanine Viau, University of Central Florida
In and Out of One Another’s Closets: Notes on Form, Fashion, andFreedom in the Classroom
Jared Vazquez, Iliff School of Theology
Rummaging through the Bargain Bin: Agency and Resistance in the
Pursuit of Personal Style
Whitney Bond, Chicago Theological Seminary
You Gone Wear That?! Fashion, Self-Expression, and Resistance forQueer Black Women and Gender Non-conforming Black Folk in the
PulpitResponding:
Otto von Busch, New Schoolx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21

Philosophy of Religion Unit

Nolwandle Lembethe, University of the Witersrand
Gendered Epistemic Intuitions and Spiritual Spaces of Knowing: A
South African Context

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21

Study of Judaism Unit

A21-119
Religion in South Asia Unit
Theme: Constructing Powerful Selves: Autobiography in South
Asia
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level)
Kristin Bloomer, Carleton College, Presiding
Alyson Prude, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Authority and Vulnerability: Tibetan Buddhist Women’s Oral Life
Narratives
Ben Williams, Harvard University
Abhinavagupta as a Cosmopolitan Siddha: Religious Sources for
Writing the Self in Medieval Kashmir
J. Barton Scott, University of Toronto
A Bourgeois Ethic for Hindu Bombay: Victorian Self-Help and the
Gujarati Travelogue
Chloe Martinez, Claremont McKenna College“An Eminent Mohammedan Moulvie”: Autobiography andConversion in Colonial Punjab
Responding:
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University

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A21-120TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21

Science, Technology, and Religion Unit
Theme: Vulnerable Populations, Science, Technology, andReligion
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-209 (Second Level)
Sarah Fredericks, University of Chicago, Presiding
Michelle Wolff, Duke University, and Kara Slade, Duke
University
Sex Robots: Outsourcing Care Labor to Technology
Stina Busman Jost, Bethel University, and Andrea Hollingsworth,
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
Inherited Vulnerabilities: Epigenetics and Religious Ethics
Jordan Brady Loewen, Syracuse University“Hacking Perception”: Techno-Entheogens, Virtual Reality, and the
Vulnerability of Subjectivity

Theme: Vulnerability, Resistance, and Mourning
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Jefferson (Third Level)
Yonatan Brafman, Jewish Theological Seminary of America,
Presiding
Sam Shonkoff, University of Chicago“Corporeality, Not Spirituality”: Martin Buber’s Resistance at Eranos
in 1934
William Plevan, Congregation Shaare Zedek, New York, NY
The Theoretical Elimination of Resistance: Buber’s Critique of Platoand Weber
Geoffrey Claussen, Elon University
Two Approaches to Vulnerability and the Exodus Narrative: The
Stranger in the Writings of Irving Greenberg and Meir Kahane
Gila Silverman, University of Arizona“We Sat Shiva for Three Days”: Jewish Mourning among Liberal
American Jews

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Teaching Religion Unit

Theme: Evidence Based Teaching in Religion
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon F (Third Level)
David B. Howell, Ferrum College, Presiding
Kate DeConinck, University of San Diego
Engaging Contentious Issues Using Team-Based Learning Strategies
John Lyden, Grand View University
Teaching Islam and Current Events through Experiential Learning
Nathaniel Samuel, St. Thomas University
Teaching Introduction to Religious Studies through a Partial
Community Engagement Model
Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Fordham University
History Repeats: The Critical Theorist’s/Theologian’s Study of Religious
History in Real Time
Calvin Mercer, East Carolina University
Somatic Learning: An Exercise in “Reading” Religious Texts

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
C

Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Unit
Theme: Politics, Power, and the Rise of Fascism
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-203 (Second Level)
Stephen G. Ray, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Presiding
Ho Siu Pun, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Power as Basic Element for Analyzing and Responding to Fascism: A
Study of Paul Tillich’s Theology of Power
Rachel Sophia Baard, Villanova University
Bonhoeffer and Tillich: Brothers in Arms
Jari Ristiniemi, University of Gefle
State Philosophy, Micro-fascism, and the New Materiality: Tillich’s
Contribution for Recent Political Philosophy
Caleb Hendrickson, University of Virginia
The Demonic Arts and the Politics of Resistance: Discerning the Spiritsof Visual Culture with Paul Tillich

A21-124
Women and Religion Unit
Theme: Roundtable on Critical Theology against U.S. Militarism
in Asia: Decolonization and Deimperialization
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Sheraton Boston-Fairfax B (Third Level)
Nami Kim, Spelman College, and Anne Joh, Garrett-Evangelical
Theological Seminary, Presiding
Panelists:
Michael Sepidoza Campos, Emerging Queer Asian Religion
Scholars
K. Christine Pae, Denison University
Amy R. Barbour, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Responding:
Rita Brock, Volunteers of America

P21-129
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion

A21-125
Cognitive Science of Religion Unit
Theme: Current Theories and Applications of the Cognitive
Science of Religion
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level)
Travis Chilcott, Iowa State University, Presiding
Hillary Lenfesty, Arizona State University, and Jeffrey Schloss,
Westmont College
Ecstatic Religious Experiences Promote Cooperation
Adam Baimel, University of British Columbia, Rita McNamara,
Victoria University, Wellington, Benjamin Purzycki, Max
Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Ara
Norenzayan, University of British Columbia
An Anthropomorphized God Is a Believable God
Kathryn Johnson, Arizona State University, and Adam Cohen,
Arizona State University
Evolved, Fundamental, Social Motives, and the Varieties of God
Representations
Aiyana Willard, University of Texas
Understanding the Mind of God: The Role of Anthropomorphism as
Motivated Cognition in Explaining Supernatural Belief

A21-126
Daoist Studies Unit
Theme: Where Sources Merge and Streams Depart: Ge Hong and
the Navigation of Religious Identity
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-313 (Third Level)
Willis Munroe, University of British Columbia, Presiding
Matthew Wells, University of Kentucky
The Earth Immortal: The Political and Social Context of Ge Hong’s
Religious Writing
Clayton Ashton, University of British Columbia
The Limits of Propriety: Ritual Practice in the Baopuzi
Wayne Kreger, Columbia College
The Great Beginning with Myriad Completions — Ge Hong’s Thoughtin Cultural Context
Responding:Robert Campany, Vanderbilt University

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Theme: “Pauline” Landscapes
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay C (Second Level)
Barbara Reid, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding
The title of this panel, “Pauline Landscapes,” refers to the complex
spaces that are created by historical reconstruction, scholarlycommentary, and theological interpretation of texts attributed to theapostle Paul. How scholars explicate the character of a “Pauline” text
contributes to defining the image of the people who are its senders
and receivers and the identity of its scholars and readers. The panel
will explore as to how the commentary writers’ feminist perspectives
and their processes of commentary writing has changed theirunderstanding of the “Pauline” scholarly landscape.
Panelists:
Alicia Batten, University of Waterloo
Mary Anne Beavis, St. Thomas More College

Annette Huizenga, University of Dubuque
Cynthia Kittredge, Episcopal Theological Seminary of theSouthwest
Florence Gillman, University of San Diego
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard University

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A21-129
Religion and the Social Sciences Unit

A21-127
Ethics Unit
Theme: Legacies of Revolution in Light of the 500th Anniversary of
the Protestant Reformation
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty A (Second Level)
Frederick Simmons, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ,
PresidingJonathan Sauder, Brite Divinity School
The Malleable Mennonite Conscience: From Persecuted Prophets toPrivileged Pacifists
Brian Lee, Princeton University
Is Harper’s Ferry an American Mount Moriah? Ethics at the Limitsof Law and Order
Marlon Millner, Northwestern University
The Light in Darkness — Evening Light Saints, Pentecostal
Fugitivity, and Faith Alone
R. Ward Holder, Saint Anselm College
The Reformation as Revolution? Questioning the Revolutionary
Character of the Church, Then and Now

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21

Religion and Politics Unit
Theme: The U.S Supreme Court and the Evolution of Religious
Liberty
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Clarendon (Third Level)
Jenna Reinbold, Colgate University, Presiding
Katrina Myers, Boston University
Little Sister’s Sorrow: Religion and Reproductive Justice in the Era of
Obamacare
Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary’s College of California
The Fourth Disestablishment: Legitimacy and Religious Minorities
Eric Stephen, Harvard University
Unpacking the Theological Underpinnings of Hobby Lobby: AnIntellectual History of the Idea of “Complicity” in American Religion
and Law

Theme: Religion and Social Activism in a Trump Era
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere A (Second Level)
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, University of Iowa, Presiding
Donna Bowman, University of Central Arkansas
Religious Convictions Among Pussyhat Makers
David Feltmate, Auburn University, Montgomery, and Kimberly
P. Brackett, Auburn University, Montgomery
The Threats to Families Today: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Changing
Religio-political Landscape in the United States

A21-130#islamaar

Study of Islam Unit
Theme: Exploring the Islamic and the Secular
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Public Garden (Fifth Level)
Elliott Bazzano, Le Moyne College, Presiding
Anna Piela, Leeds Trinity University
Identity and Experiences of Women Who Choose to Wear the Niqab in
the United Kingdom
Shatha Almutawa, Willamette University
Playing with Gender and Modernity: Tango in Secular Muslim
Contexts
David Decosimo, Boston University
What Is an Islamic Value? Are There Any?

A21-131
Western Esotericism Unit
Theme: Differently Gendered Esotericisms: Modern Esoteric
Negotiations of Gender Polarity
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty C (Second Level)
Cathy N. Gutierrez, New York, NY, Presiding
Erin Prophet, Rice University
Syncretism in the Gendered and Nongendered Reproduction ofBlavatsky’s Root Races: From Hermaphrodites to Hairy Red Giants
Georgia van Raalte, University of Kent
Pomegranates and Crescent Honey-Cakes: Divine Femininity andEveryday Womanhood in the Work of Dion Fortune
Manon Hedenborg White, Uppsala University
Queering the Cup? The Negotiation of Gender Polarity inContemporary Thelema

Symbol Key:E AAR Award Winners
M Arts Series
A
C

Exploratory Sessions

L Films

Books Under Discussion

P Focus on Employment

Business MeetingS

F Especially for Students
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Full Papers Available on AAR
WebsiteR New Program Unit

B Religion and the Most Vulnerable

Practices and
K Professional
Institutional Location Sessions

H

Sustainability and Religion

Q

Tours

G

D

Wildcard Sessions

Receptions and Breakfasts

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

OTHER EVENTS (ADDITIONAL MEETINGS)THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16

M16-300
FaithTrust Institute
Theme: Ending Violence: More Than a Life’s Work
Thursday, 4:00 PM–7:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-210 (Second Level)
Join us as we celebrate our history and envision our future! FaithTrust
Institute invites you to celebrate our 40 years of working to equip
faith communities with the tools they need to address domestic
violence, sexual assault, and clergy misconduct. As we look backon all that we have accomplished, we want to recognize the worldchanging contributions of our founder, Rev. Dr. Marie M. Fortune,
who has dedicated her life to supporting survivors and educating
faith communities across the globe so that they can work to preventand respond to gender-based violence. A multifaith panel of scholars
and activists who address violence will discuss the impact of Rev. Dr.
Fortune’s work and look toward the future and the work that remains
to be done. Reception to follow.

Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego
Bridging Generosity and Economic Ethics: The Maya of Virtue andResponsibility
Amod Lele, Boston University
Disengaged Buddhism: South Asian Buddhist Rejection of Systemic
ChangeTanya Storch, University of the Pacific$KLΥVƘ at Every Moment: Traditional and Modern UnderstandingPeter Ryan, Lotus School of Liberal ArtsThe Egg, the Chick, the Hen: A Moment of Presence for Student andTeacher—$KLΥVƘ and Anti-Hierarchy
Responding:Karen Enriquez, Loyola Marymount University

M17-101
Forum for Theological Exploration Alumni Consultation
Friday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Essex South (Third Level)

M17-102
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M17-5
Lutheran Women in Theological and Religious Studies
Theme: Women’s Public Voice: Fear Not
Friday, 7:30 AM–5:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-America North (Fourth Level)
Lutheran Women in Theological and Religious Studies (LWTRS)
as well as some local Lutheran rostered women gather annually forscholarship, worship, and friendship. Lutheran women scholars,
including graduate students and women who teach or study at
Lutheran institutions, are invited. Papers, a business meeting, worship,and meals comprise the day.
For questions or to receive registration and dinner information, pleasecontact Heather Dean at heather.dean@elca.org after August 31, 2017.

M17-100
Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)
Theme: Charitable Actions and Dharma: Giving and Compassion
Friday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Brandeis (Third Level)
Rita Sherma, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Ithamar Theodor, University of Haifa
Charitable Actions by the Ideal Person in the Hindu and Chinese
Traditions

Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education
Theme: Secondary School Religion Teachers Event
Friday, 9:00 AM–3:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-St. Botolph (Second Level)

M17-112Poverty in the Biblical World and The Poverty Consortium
Theme: Homelessness and Affordable Housing: Poverty
Immersion
Friday, 9:00 AM–4:00 PM
Offsite-Boston University, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Lower Level,
Howard Thurman CenterIn the morning we’ll have breakfast and educational deep-diveinto homelessness challenges and solutions by local leaders in antihomelessness movement. In the afternoon there will be lunch,followed by a tour of Boston by homeless and formerly homelesspeople. Then we’ll finish with final discussion and a networking
opportunity. This is hosted at Boston University, which is on the green
line T Train, a direct route from the Annual Meetings. The cost for
Annual Meetings attendees is $35, which includes meals. Students
are encouraged to attend the morning session complimentary.
Registration is limited. To register and get more information aboutschedule, please contact Diana M Swancutt at dmswancutt@gmail.com
or 203-824-8509.

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M17-114
Accordance Bible Software Training Seminar

M17-113
Presbyterian Church (USA) Social Ethics Network Annual
Meeting
Friday, 9:00 AM–4:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty C (Second Level)
The Annual Meeting of the PC(USA) Social Ethics Network (SEN)
invites scholars teaching in the area of Christian social ethics atPC(USA)-affiliated seminaries and colleges, as well as PC(USA)affiliated scholars teaching at other institutions, to meet with thedenomination’s Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy(ACSWP). SEN works with the denomination in formulating policies
on issues in social ethics. This year, SEN will discuss overtures related
to faith in higher education and the use and abuse of “religious
freedom” in the pursuit of anti-reproductive justice and anti-LGBTIQ
agendas. Contact Letitia Campbell at letitia.campbell@emory.edu orJohn Senior at seniorje@wfu.edu for more information.

M17-103
Catholicism, Colonialism, and Race in America
Theme: Collaboration
Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Lincoln (Third Level)
Panelists:
Herman Bennett, City University of New York
Matthew Cressler, College of Charleston
Jack Downey, La Salle University
Felipe Hinojosa, Texas A&M University
Kathleen Holscher, University of New Mexico
Anne Martinez, University of Groningen
Bryan Massingale, Fordham University
Maureen O’Connell, La Salle University
Michael Pasquier, Louisiana State University
Shannen Williams, University of Tennessee

M17-104
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Editorial Board
Meeting
Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
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Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level)
Join us for a free training seminar which covers the new featuresof this cutting-edge Bible software for Windows and Mac as well
as iOS, for potential, basic, and advanced level users. The morning
sessions will cover the interface and search capabilities, while theafternoon is devoted to powerful new features, tools, and aids forstudy and teaching. Bring your own laptop or follow the projected
demonstration. The seminar training will start at 9 am and end at 5pm, with a break for lunch (on your own).

M17-105
International Society for Science and Religion
Theme: Attending to Symbiosis: Theology and the Connectednessof Nature
Friday, 10:30 AM–1:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Republic A (Second Level)
Few recent developments in biology are as striking as our new
appreciation of mutually beneficial symbiosis: the hair on a slothis adapted for growing algae, which forms an important source ofcalories for its host in return; the earliest known fossils of life on
Earth are of symbiotic communities; garden centres stock spores offungus that extends the root system of trees, and is nourished withsugars in return. Mutualism — beneficial relationships between
organisms of different — is no longer seen as a marginal curiosity; it is
now known to be profoundly widespread.
Evolution now seems to present the story of shifting patterns ofbenefit, not simply of competition. Some of its most momentous
developments have involved the symbiotic engulfing of smallerorganisms by larger ones (endosymbiosis), as with chloroplasts andmitochondria. There are important practical consequences. Aspectsof human health depend on our relationship with the bacteria, or
microbiome, of our gut. Something as fundamental to agriculture as
soil is a shaped and preserved by symbiotic relationships.
Beginning with a survey of state of contemporary scientificknowledge, this panel will address the relative lack of theologicalattention to these developments, and consider their significance fora theological understanding of nature, not least in the form of theirconsequences for systematic theology and theological ethics.
Registration is not required. For more information, please see http://
issr.yolasite.com.
Panelists:
Daniel Castillo, Loyola University, Maryland
Andrew Davison, University of Cambridge
Adam Pryor, Bethany College
Katherine Sonderegger, Virginia Theological Seminary
Wesley J. Wildman, Boston University

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Theme: Renunciation, Climate Change, and Modernity
Friday, 11:00 AM–1:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Brandeis (Third Level)
Mark Schmanko, Rice University, Presiding
Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University
Jainism and Solar Energy
Michael Reading, Claremont School of Theology
Sri Acharya Tulsi, The Anuvrat Movement, and Climate Change
Ramdas Lamb, University of Hawai’i
Hindu Sadhus and the Joys of Limited Consumption
Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, Smith College
Integral Ecology and Climate Change: Shakta Hinduism,
Renunciation and Western Modernity Contrasted
Rodney Sebastian, University of Florida
9DLΙΧDYD Concepts for Ecological Sustainability: Case Study of theGovardhan Ecovillage Project
Responding:
Rita Sherma, Graduate Theological Union

M17-107
Hispanic Theological Initiative Consortium Member
Council Meeting (Private)

M17-110
Forum on Religion and Ecology Annual Luncheon
Friday, 11:45 AM–1:45 PM
Hynes Convention Center-200 (Second Level)

M17-111
Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (BDK) America
Theme: Numata Chairs Coordinators Meeting
Friday, 12:00 PM–5:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level)

M17-200
Review and Expositor Editorial Board Meeting

Friday, 11:00 AM–3:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-America South (Fourth Level)

Friday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon E (Third Level)

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M17-201

Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Editorial Board
MeetingDharma Academy of North America (DANAM)

Friday, 11:00 AM–4:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-St. George A (Third Level)

M17-109
Association for Interreligious and Interfaith Studies
Theme: Teaching and Learning in our Times: Interreligious/Interfaith Studies and Intercultural Theology
Friday, 11:30 AM–5:15 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Adams (Third Level)
Join us for a working lunch to mark the launch of a neworganization: Association for Interreligious/Interfaith Studies.
The lunch will be followed by a half day workshop for faculty andemerging scholars who want to collaborate with colleagues to shareresources and ideas for teaching (in college, university, and seminaryclassrooms) using frameworks from interreligious/interfaith studies
or intercultural theology.

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Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)

The lunch and workshop were developed through a collaboration
between the newly established Association for Interreligious/Interfaith Studies (AIIS) and the European Society for Intercultural
Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS). The events aresupported and co-sponsored by the Interfaith Youth Core, the Henry
Luce initiative on The Current State of Interfaith Learning in theUS, and the Pluralism Project at Harvard University with additional
support from Hebrew College’s Miller Center for Interreligious
Learning and Leadership, the Journal of Interreligous Studies ( JIRS)
and the journal Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology (ISIT).

Theme: $KLβVƘ as Strategic Resistance to Structural InjusticeFriday, 2:00 PM–4:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Brandeis (Third Level)
Gisele Lemos, University of Wisconson, Presiding
Veena Howard, California State University, Fresno“Love in Action”: James Lawson’s Radical Interpretation of $KLΥVƘ in
the Civil Rights Movement
Purushottama Bilimoria, Graduate Theological Union andUniversity of California, Berkeley
Rev Pauli Murray: Black Gay Gandhian Feminist’s Strategy of
Radical $KLΥVƘ for Civil Rights and Social Justice
Varun Khanna, Chinmaya University
Dhārmic Resistance: Building Bridges between Advaita Vedānta andSocial Justice for the Twenty-first Century
Responding:Andrew Fiala, California State University, Fresno

M17-202
Theology and Ethics Colloquy Meeting
Friday, 2:00 PM–5:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon C (Third Level)x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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M17-203
International Society for Science and Religion
Theme: CRISPR/Cas and Human Germline Gene Editing:
Possibilities and Perspectives
Friday, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level)
This mini-conference addresses the possibility of human germline
gThis mini-conference addresses the possibility of human germline
gene editing from the perspectives of religion, bioethics, and public
engagement. New genome-editing techniques, including CRISPR/
Cas, enable precise changes to the genome. These alterations may
include gene editing in particular patients (so-called “somatic cell genetherapy”) or in future children, which then changes the descendants of
those children (“germline modification”). The journal Science declared
CRISPR/Cas as the 2015 Science Breakthrough of the Year, andcommentators regularly call this technology a “revolution” because it
could in principle allow for germline enhancements to humans thathave long been regarded as controversial by theologians and ethicists.
The first speaker is biologist Richard O. Hynes, co-chair of theCommittee on Human Gene Editing: Scientific, Medical, andEthical Considerations of the National Academy of Sciences and the
National Academy of Medicine. Working with counterparts in theRoyal Society and the Chinese Academy of Science, for instance inhosting the 2015 International Summit on Human Gene Editing,this Committee has been central to discussions by experts and thegeneral public on promises and challenges presented by advances ingene editing. Professor Hynes is the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for
Cancer Research at MIT, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a Fellowof the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He willcomment on the state of the technical advances and what they suggest
for future uses human germline modification.
Three panelists will respond in light of the scientific possibilities
described by Prof. Hynes. They include (1) Laurie Zoloth, Deanof the University of Chicago Divinity School and President of the
AAR in 2014, whose work brings together advances in biomedical
research, bioethics, and religion; (2) Ron Cole-Turner, Vice Presidentof the International Society for Science and Religion and editorof Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human
Germline Modification; and (3) John H. Evans, Sociology, Universityof California, San Diego, a leading expert on public and religious
responses to advances in biotechnology and a member of the NAM/
NAS Committee on Human Gene Editing. At least 30 minutes isreserved for public discussion.
Questions to be explored in this mini-conference include technical,
bioethical, religious, and social issues. What should our response be to
the intentional modification of the human species? Are there changes
that are acceptable? What religious issues are implicated in thesedecisions? Which conceptions of justice are important to consider inthis debate? What is the likelihood of a future society stratified bygenetic traits? How can a public debate be structured so that it allows
for the deeper concerns often reflected in religious discourse?
This mini-conference is organized and sponsored by the International
Society for Science and Religion (ISSR). It is expected that this event
will be webcast. For details, please visit the website of the National
Academies (http://nationalacademies.org/gene-editing) just before theconference occurs. The ISSR gratefully acknowledges that the webcast
is supported by the National Academy of Medicine’s Kellogg Healthof the Public Fund.
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The ISSR also acknowledges the assistance of the American Academyof Religion in offering this event and the co-sponsorship of twounits of the AAR: Bioethics and Religion Unit and the Human
Enhancement and Transhumanism Unit.
Updated information about this session will be posted online at the
ISSR website (www.issr.org.uk) or at www.issr.yolasite.com. Please
direct any questions to Ron Cole-Turner at coleturn@pts.edu.
Panelists:
Richard O. Hynes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laurie Zoloth, University of Chicago
Ronald S. Cole-Turner, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
John H. Evans, University of California, San Diego

M17-300
Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)
Theme: Secrecy in Sahajiyā and *DXԐư\D9DLԔՀDYD Bhakti
Theologies
Friday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Brandeis (Third Level)
Graham M. Schweig, Christopher Newport University, Presiding
Jonathan Edelmann, University of Florida
Secrets to Conceal and Secrets to Obscure in *DXΕư\D9DLΙΧDYLVPDavid Buchta, Brown University
Is Sanskrit a Language of Secrecy in *DXΕư\D9DLΙΧDYLVP?
Glen Hayes, Bloomfield College
Hidden Textuality: Strategies of Concealment and Appropriation in
Seventeenth-century 9DLΙΧDYD Sahajiyā Traditions
Abhishek Ghosh, Grand Valley State University
From Secrecy to Intuition: Sahaja Theology and Practice in Colonial
BengalResponding:Hugh B. Urban, Ohio State University

M17-301
Feminist Liberation Theologians’ Network Gathering
Friday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-111 (Plaza Level)
Mary E. Hunt, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual,
Silver Spring, MD, and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard
University, Presiding
The Feminist Liberation Theologians’ Network sponsored by the
Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER) will
discuss “Feminist Liberation Theologies: Resistance, Resilience, andCreativity”. We will explore the roles of critical feminist religious
studies, ministry, and activism can inspire these practices and kindle
hope in the current climate of neo-liberal destabilization of discourse,
increased sexism, racism and xenophobia, refugees, wars, and systemic
injustice. All are welcome, so please RSVP to help us plan. Contact
Mary at 301-589-2509 and mhunt@her.com or Elisabeth at eschussler@
hds.harvard.edu.
Panelists:
Christine Pae, Denison University
Elaine Wainwright, Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia andPapua New Guinea
Sharon D. Welch, Meadville Lombard Theological Schoolx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Forum for Theological Exploration

Mennonite Scholars and Friends

Theme: Nurturing the Next Generation of Scholars
Friday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Great Republic (Seventh Level)

Theme: Forum: Supersessionism
Friday, 6:30 PM–8:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere A (Second Level)
Kimberly Penner, University of Toronto, Presiding
John Kampen, Methodist Theological School, Ohio
The Gospel of Matthew and Antisemitism
Maxwell Kennel, McMaster University
Emancipatory History: Anabaptist Restitution and Jacob Taubes’
Occidental Eschatology
Philipp Gollner, Goshen College
Mennonites on Tour: Christian Supersessionisms and the Sacralizationof Place after the Shoah
Responding:
Lois Y. Barrett, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

M17-304
Center of Theological Inquiry
Theme: Fresh Thinking from CTI
Friday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Clarendon (Third Level)

M17-305
Society for the Study of Native American Sacred Traditions
Annual Meeting
Friday, 4:30 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Dalton (Third Level)
The Society meetings are open to anyone. We do take a “gift” offering
to help defray the cost of the meeting. The attendees typically talkabout their research and then have an open discussion on topics
related to the Society. Occasionally local Native American leaders areinvited to speak.

M17-306
Stone-Campbell Journal
Theme: A Conversation about the Gospel of Luke and Reception
Friday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Commonwealth (Third Level)
Mark Hamilton, Abilene Christian University, Presiding
SCJ invites friends and colleagues from all streams who identify
with the Stone-Campbell Movement tradition for fellowship, lightrefreshments, and interesting conversation. For additional information
contact William Baker at scjeditor@aol.com.
Panelists:
Heather Gorman, Johnson University
Kindalee Pfremmer De Long, Pepperdine University

M17-308
United Methodist Women of Color Scholars Reception andPanelFriday, 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-306 (Third Level)

M17-405
Unitarian Universalist Scholars and Friends
Theme: Unitarian Universalism and Today’s Global Crisis: Semper
Reformanda?
Friday, 6:30 PM–9:30 PM
Offsite-Arlington Street Church, 351 Boylston Street
Michelle A. Walsh, Boston University, Presiding
This year’s UU Scholars and Friends Conversation will explore
the evolution of Unitarian Universalism over the past fifty years,
with an eye both to the five-hundred-year legacy of the Protestant
Reformation and to the current crisis of democratic institutions in
the US and worldwide. Does the Unitarian Universalist Association’s
current affirmation of an anti-oppressive, anti-racist, multi-cultural,and economically inclusive society represent a “reformation” of ourcore identity, or a recovery of more ancient principles? Is it possible
to resist the rising tide of nativism and religious intolerance, andsimultaneously welcome congregants of diverse political ideologies?
As new nationalisms challenge the (far from perfect) globalizing
institutions that Unitarian Universalists once supported, how should
we respond?
This event will take place in the Chapel at Arlington Street Church,a fifteen minute walk down Boylston Street or two stops on theGreen Line from the Hynes Convention Center. It is co-sponsoredby Harvard Divinity School, Starr King School for the Ministry,
and the Unitarian Universalist Panel on Theological Education. The
conversation will run 6:30–8:00 pm, followed by a reception from
8:00–9:30 pm.
There will be also be an opportunity to explore Boston’s Unitarian
Universalist heritage earlier in the day on Friday, November 17.
Interested persons should contact Dan McKanan at dmckanan@hds.
harvard.edu for more information.
Panelists:
Clyde Grubbs, Blue Hills Spiritual Direction
Stephanie Y. Mitchem, University of South Carolina
Elias Ortega-Aponte, Drew University
Hafidha Saadiqah, Bowling Green State University
Sharon D. Welch, Meadville Lombard Theological Schoolx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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M17-403
Mennonite Scholars and Friends Reception

M17-406
Boston College’s Lonergan Institute
Theme: The Fragility of Consciousness: Book Panel Discussion
Friday, 6:30 PM–9:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere B (Second Level)

M17-401

Friday, 8:30 PM–10:00 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level)

M17-404
Friends of Animals and Religion Reception
Friday, 9:00 PM–10:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Courier (Seventh Level)

Perspectives in Religious Studies Editorial Board Meeting
Friday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon E (Third Level)

M17-407
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, andCulture Friends and Members Meeting
Friday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay D (Second Level)

M17-408
Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion
Theme: Celebrating Gary Dorrien’s The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du
Bois and the Black Social Gospel
Friday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Olmsted (Fifth Level)
Tyler Mayfield, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary,PresidingPanelists:
Rima Vesely-Flad, Warren Wilson College
Christopher H. Evans, Boston University
Zachery Williams, University of Akron
Responding:Gary Dorrien, Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary

M17-402
Academy Anonymous Recovery Meetings (AARM)
Friday, 7:30 PM–8:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Lincoln (Third Level)

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M18-5
Spiritus Journal Editorial Board Meeting
Saturday, 7:00 AM–8:30 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere B (Second Level)

M18-8
Council on Graduate Studies in Religion Annual Meeting
Saturday, 8:00 AM–12:00 PM
Fairmont Copley Place-St. James Room (Lobby Level)

M18-100
Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)
Theme: Reconsidering the Origins of Bhakti
Saturday, 8:30 AM–10:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Tufts (Third Level)
Graham M. Schweig, Christopher Newport University, Presiding
Vishwa Adluri, City University of New York
Bhakti and Avatāra in the 1ƘUƘ\DΧư\DEdward Butler, New York, NY
Bhakti and Henadology
Stuart R. Sarbacker, Oregon State University
Svādhyāya and Bhakti: 6DJXΧD Devatā and 1LUJXΧD Īśvara in$ΙΛƘφJD\RJD
Caley Smith, Harvard University
Indra as Time: Reconsidering Devotion in ΨJYHGD X.27
Sudhakshina Rangaswami, Fort Washington, PA
Bhakti as the Fruition of Jñāna — Revisiting Rāmānuja’s Legacy
Responding:Joydeep Bagchee, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Accordance Bible Software

Charles S. Peirce Society

Theme: Syntactic Databases for Biblical and Early Jewish Texts
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Yarmouth (Fourth Level)
Please join us for a demonstration, with examples and discussion,of the research potential of the Accordance Bible syntax databaseson the Hebrew Bible, Qumran texts, and New Testament. The basic
principles of the tagging process will be briefly covered, but thefocus will be on example searches and the more advanced linguistic
issues relating to the databases, such as verbal valency. Attendees areencouraged to bring questions and sample searches for discussion.
Rob Holmstedt, University of Toronto
Syntax of the Hebrew Bible
Martin Abegg, Trinity Western University
Syntax of QumranJohn Cook, Asbury Theological Seminary
Valence and Other Syntactical Considerations
Roy Brown, OakTree Software and Accordance
Syntax Searching and Display on Accordance

Theme: Charles S. Peirce and the Study of Religion
Saturday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Fairmont Copley Place-Commonwealth Room (Lower Lobby Level)
Founded in 1946, the Charles S. Peirce Society encourages studyof and communication about the work of Charles S. Peirce and its
ongoing influence in the many fields of intellectual endeavor to which
he contributed. As the founder of pragmatism and of semiotics,
Peirce’s thought has deeply influenced numerous theologians andphilosophers of religion working today. The purpose of this meetingis to discuss how his work has influenced the contemporary landscapeand what might be done to continue promoting Peirce’s work in the
study of religion.

M18-112Society for the Study of Anglicanism

Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Westin Copley Place-Essex North (Third Level)

Theme: Portable Anglicanism: The Impact of Migration on
Identity
Saturday, 9:00 AM–12:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-Empire (Seventh Level)
This meeting will include breakfast, a keynote address, a panel
discussion in response, and a time for questions and comments from
attendees.
Panelists:
Nicholas Sagovsky, Liverpool Hope University and University of
Roehampton

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M18-105

Salvation Army Scholars and Friends Annual Meeting

Theology Without Walls Group

M18-102
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Annual Meeting

Saturday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Jefferson (Third Level)
Roger J. Green, Gordon College, Presiding
Emily Wilce, University of Leicester
Art and the Army: An Art Historical Perspective
Dean Smith, Nazarene Theological College
The Salvation Army and the Challenge of Theological Higher
Education for a New Millennium
Andrew Eason, Booth University College
Spreading Salvation Abroad: The Impact of World Missions on theLife and Thought of Catherine Booth

Theme: Love and Desire, Human and Divine
Saturday, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Great Republic (Seventh Level)
Jerry L. Martin, University of Colorado, Presiding
Different traditions propose different analyses of desire, and henceof love. These differences are reflected in their understanding of therelation of the human to the divine, and of the divine to the human,and of the human to the human. Which understandings are mostadequate to the human condition and the divine reality? What
texts, stories, theories, practices, or examples are most illuminatingin this regard? How do the religious texts and ideas interact with
understandings gained from other sources, personal, psychological,
literary, philosophical, scientific, etc.?
Panelists:
S. Mark Heim, Andover Newton Theological School
Paul Knitter, Union Theological Seminary
Richard Oxenberg, Endicott College
Michelle Voss Roberts, Wake Forest University
Wesley J. Wildman, Boston University

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Wesley Works Editorial Board Luncheon

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Paraclete Press
Theme: The Ecumenism of Beauty - Panel Discussion and Coffee:
The Role of Visual Arts in Ecumenical Exchange for the 500th
Commemoration Year of the Reformation
Saturday, 10:00 AM–11:30 AM
Westin Copley Place-Adams (Seventh Level)
Join Paraclete Press and the Mount Tabor Ecumenical Centre for
Art and Spirituality for coffee and discussion on the role of visualarts in ecumenical exchange. This panel will cover themes presented
in The Ecumenism of Beauty (edited by Monsignor Timothy Verdon,
Director of the Museo Dell’Opera del Duomo in Florence, Italy),
and will highlight topics covered in the symposium “The Arts andEcumenism—What Theology Risks in Artistic Creation,” held earlier
in 2017 in the European cities of Paris, Strasbourg and Florence
and in North America at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and theCommunity of Jesus, in Orleans, MA.

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Grundtvig Study Center, Aarhus University, Denmark,Church of Sweden Research Department, and Vandenhoeck& Ruprecht
Theme: Passionately Human! The Future of Scandinavian Creation
Theology
Saturday, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon E (Third Level)
Jakob Wirén, Church of Sweden, Presiding
The three founding figures of Scandinavian creation theology (SCT)—K.E. Løgstrup, Regin Prenter, and Gustaf Wingren—combined
seminal insights from Martin Luther, mediated through the Danish
theologian N.F.S. Grundtvig. The world outside the churches is not
God-less. The world is God-given and imbued with a divine presence;
therefore it is religiously valid to approach the world from a secularperspective, and from embodied experiences. Thus, SCT offers amodel for reconfiguring reformation theology for a post-secular age,holding the view that the doctrine of creation is not just another
theological locus to be followed by other loci, such as justification andfulfillment. Rather, creation constitutes the universal horizon for any
Christian theologizing, also regarding Christ and church, baptism andsalvation.
Elisabeth Gerle, Church of Sweden and Lund University
Passionate Embrace: Luther on Love, Body, and Sensual Presence(Cascade, 2017)
Trygve Wyller, University of Oslo
Reformation Theology for a Post-Secular Age: The Future of
Scandinavian of Scandinavian Creation Theology (V&R Academic
2017)
Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Åbo Akademi University
Becoming Human Again: The Theological Life of Gustaf
Wingren (Cascade, 2016)
Responding:Catherine Keller, Drew University
Marit Trelstad, Pacific Lutheran University
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Saturday, 11:00 AM–1:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Maine (Fifth Level)

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Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)
Theme: Yoga Sutra and Bhakti
Saturday, 10:30 AM–12:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Tufts (Third Level)
Phyllis Herman, California State University, Northridge, Presiding
Graham M. Schweig, Christopher Newport University
Divine Grace in the Highest Samādhi: A Bhakti Hermeneutic forGreater Understanding of the Yoga Sūtra
Stephanie Corigliano, Humboldt State University
Pluralism, Religious Devotion, and T. Krishnamacharya: Or, How the
Yoga Sūtra Assumed Scripture-status for Modern Yoga
Edwin F. Bryant, Rutgers University
0RNΙD is Equivalent to Hell: the Minimization of the Goal of the
Yoga Sūtra in the Bhagavata Purana
Ramdas Lamb, University of Hawai’i
The Union of Yoga, Tapasya, and Bhakti in the Ramananda
Sampraday
Responding:
Phyllis Herman, California State University, Northridge

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Liverpool Hope University, University of Manchester, andMethodist Church of Great Britain
Theme: Madness in their Methodism: Exploring the Beliefs,
Practices and Legacy of an Eighteenth-century Anglican Sect
Saturday, 11:00 AM–3:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Boston University (Third Level)
Andrew Cheatle, Liverpool Hope University, Presiding
Panelists:
Tom Greggs, University of Aberdeen
Anna Lawrence, Fairfield University
David Hart, Methodist Church of Great Britain
Christopher H. Evans, Boston University
Gareth Lloyd, University of Manchester
Kenneth Newport, Liverpool Hope University

M18-110Christian Scholarship Foundation Luncheon
Saturday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Fairmont Copley Place-Forum Room (Lower Lobby Level)x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Academy Anonymous Recovery Meeting (AARM)
Saturday, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Lincoln (Third Level)

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North American Hindu Association of Dharma Studies

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HarperOne
Theme: The History Behind the Story of the Exodus: A Discussionof Richard Elliott Friedman’s New Book The Exodus
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Essex North (Third Level)
Join a distinguished panel for a rich discussion of the breadth of new
evidence pointing to the historical background behind the biblicalstory, as well as the cultural impacts this event has had on the rise ofmonotheism and the ethic of loving both the neighbor and the alien.

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Common English Bible Interpreter’s Commentary
Saturday, 2:00 PM–4:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Rhode Island (Fifth Level)

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Toward Ecological Civilization
Theme: EcoCiv 2nd Annual Meeting: Stakeholder Workshop andDiscussion
Saturday, 4:00 PM–5:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level)
John Becker, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding
Each year, the AAR & SBL Annual Meetings bring together roughly
10,000 scholars from around the world. This includes transportation,
meals, housing, etc. Like any event of this size, our annual meeting has
a significant impact on the environment.

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Hispanic Theological Initiative Consortium Mentoring
Gathering (Private)
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-America North (Fourth Level)

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Theology Without Walls Group
Theme: Recognizing the Divine Imprint Across Religious
Boundaries
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-Great Republic (Seventh Level)
Jerry L. Martin, University of Colorado, Presiding
A spiritually alert person who reads texts in other religious traditions
encounters, sometimes to the reader’s surprise, a divine voice or
imprint — not only texts but also practices and persons — whichneeds to be taken into account, theologically. This has happened toall of us and how it happens deserves consideration. Panelists will be
asked to consider how this has happened to them, what texts captured
their attention and what “divine marks” (if any) distinguished those
texts. Were there ways these texts spoke to their personal situations
or searches? Are such texts to be found only in religious canons, or inliterature or philosophy or other works?
Panelists:
Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University
Christopher Denny, St. John’s University
Rita Sherma, Graduate Theological UnionJohn Thatamanil, Union Theological Seminary
Jonathan Weidenbaum, Berkeley College

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Theme: The Future of Secularism in India and the United States
Saturday, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Brandeis (Third Level)
Rita Sherma, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Panelists:
Anant Rambachan, Saint Olaf College
John Thatamanil, Union Theological Seminary
Ramakrishnan Parameshwaran, Graduate Theological Union
Responding:Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College

As scholars, activists, and responsible citizens, it is imperative that
we recognize the environmental impact of our annual meeting andexplore more sustainable policies and practices necessary for an
ecological civilization. At the 2016 SBL & AAR Annual Meetings,
EcoCiv (http://ecociv.org) gathered leaders across the attendees
to discuss our responsibility as scholar-activists to transform ourclassrooms, institutions, and local communities in light the climate
crisis and U.S electoral politics. Building on those conversations, our2017 session will be an exploratory workshop on specific proposals
for changes to the AAR & SBL Annual Meetings to reduce ourenvironmental impact. Participants will be invited to engage withleaders and peers as citizen-stakeholders. Our goal is to collaboratively
develop an action plan that constituencies across AAR and SBL can
support, and present this to the AAR and SBL leadership for formal
consideration.
Panelists:
Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology
Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Center for Process Studies, Claremont,
CA
Elizabeth Singleton, Claremont School of Theology

OTHER EVENTSSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

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Enoch Seminar Panel and Reception

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Muktabodha Indological Research Institute 20th
Anniversary Reception

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18

Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-Newbury/Gloucester (Second Level)
Join us for a tea reception in honor of the 20th anniversary of the
Muktabodha Indological Research Institute.

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Religion and Education Collaborative
Theme: Networking Social and Reception, hosted by Boniuk
Institute for Religious Tolerance at Rice University
Saturday, 6:00 PM–7:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-Baltic (Seventh Level)

Saturday, 7:00 PM–9:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-Essex South (Third Level)
The Enoch Seminar is a group of international specialists of early
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Our group gathers to discuss topics
of interest and new research. At this event, we will host a panel toconclude the First Enoch Colloquium at Harvard University andpresent a Festschrift to Michael Stone, followed by a reception. All areinvited to join us!

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Zygon Center for Religion and Science, International
Society for Science and Religion, Center for Theology and
the Natural Sciences, Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study ofReligion, Institute for Religion in an Age of Science

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Theme: Science and Religion Hospitality Event
Saturday, 7:00 PM–10:00 PM
Fairmont Copley Place-St. James Room (Lobby Level)
Please join us for refreshments and conversation at this year’s Scienceand Religion Hospitality Event, sponsored by:
The Zygon Center for Religion and Science (Zygon Center), which
offers graduate courses at the Lutheran School of Theology at
Chicago, hosts public lectures and visiting scholars and shares offices
with Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. (www.zygoncenter.org)
The International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) is anhonorary academic society of established scholars in religion withexpertise and publications in one or more of the natural sciences,scientists with a commitment to dialogue with religion, or historians
and philosophers of science. More on the ISSR can be found at www.
issr.org.uk. The ISSR events at the AAR & SBL Annual Meetings arelisted at www.issr.yolasite.com.
The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) is now a
Program of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU). CTNS supports
research, provides MDiv and doctoral courses through the Ian G.
Barbour Chair at the GTU, and publishes the peer-reviewed Journal
Theology and Science. Check out our extensive resources at www.ctns.org.
The Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion (IBCSR),
which sponsors research in the scientific study of religion, supports
Boston University’s Religion and Science Ph.D., publishes the journal
Religion, Brain and Behavior and the monthly IBCSR Research Review.
(www.ibcsr.org)
The Institute for Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS), which
is an open-membership organization that holds annual summer
conferences and co-publishes the peer-reviewed journal Zygon: Journalof Religion and Science. (www.iras.org)

Indiana University Religious Studies Alumni and Friends
Reception

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Forum for Theological Exploration Reception Honoring
Fellows and Alumni
Saturday, 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-America South (Fourth Level)

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Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern
Christian Studies and AAR’s Eastern Orthodox Studies
Unit
Theme: Vespers (Evening Prayer) in the Byzantine Rite
Saturday, 6:30 PM–8:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-209 (Second Level)

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John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Reception
Saturday, 6:30 PM–8:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-Essex Center (Third Level)

Saturday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Huntington (Second Level)372

Fordham University Theology Department Reception
Saturday, 7:30 PM–9:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Essex North (Third Level)
The faculty of Fordham University’s Department of Theology invite
you to join our graduate students, alumni/ae, and friends for a festive
reception.

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Dallas Theological Seminary Alumni Reception

Center for Process Studies Reception

Saturday, 8:00 PM–9:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Adams (Seventh Level)

Saturday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Northstar (Seventh Level)
This reception is open to all friends, members, and persons interested
in the Center for Process Studies and/or Open-Relational Theologies.
Learn about recent developments and ways to get involved. Enjoy
wine, cheese, and conversation!

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Macquarie University & Australian College of Theology
Reception
Saturday, 8:00 PM–9:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-Parliament (Seventh Level)
Friends and associates of the Australian College of Theology and
Macquarie University, and anyone interested in theological education
and research in the South Pacific, are invited for wine, cheese andconversation. Greet Martin Sutherland and other faculty in an
informal networking and discussion time.

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Harvard University Divinity School Reception

Saturday, 8:00 PM–9:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-St. George A-B (Third Level)

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Baker Academic and Brazos Press Reception

Saturday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-America North (Fourth Level)

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Saturday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Offsite-Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, McKim Building( Johnson Building, Boylston Hall)
Faculty, students, staff, alumni, colleagues, and friends are cordiallyinvited to attend the Harvard University reception for the AAR &SBL Annual Meetings, sponsored by Harvard Divinity School, theCenter for the Study of World Religions, and the Committee on the
Study of Religion (Faculty of Arts and Sciences). No RSVP necessary.
We look forward to seeing you there!

Saturday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Staffordshire (Third Level)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19

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De Gruyter Reception

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Alumni Connect
Breakfast

Saturday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-St. George C-D (Third Level)

Saturday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Great Republic (Seventh Level)

Sunday, 7:00 AM–8:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-St. Botolph (Second Level)
Alumni and spouses are invited to attend the Gordon-Conwell
Theological Seminary Alumni Connect Breakfast. Prospective
students also may attend to connect with alumni and faculty andto hear updates on the seminary. There is no cost to attend, butregistration is required by Friday, November 10, 2017 at https://my.gordonconwell.edu/alumni under Upcoming Events.

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Graduate Theological Union Alumni Reception

Church of Christ Professors Meeting

Saturday, 8:00 PM–11:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-America Center (Fourth Level)

Sunday, 7:00 AM–8:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-210 (Second Level)

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Calvin Theological Seminary Reception

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Society for Pentecostal Studies and Wesleyan TheologicalSociety Reception

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Lutheran Scholars of Religion

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Disciples of Christ Student and Faculty Breakfast
Sunday, 7:00 AM–8:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Commonwealth (Third Level)

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Temple University Breakfast
Sunday, 7:00 AM–8:45 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick B (Second Level)

Theme: Ecclesiologies of Resistance
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Westin Copley Place-Great Republic (Seventh Level)
Christine Helmer, Northwestern University, Presiding
Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF Norwegian School of Theology
Taking Responsibility for Truth: Ecclesial Practices in an Age of
Hypocrisy
Cheryl Peterson, Trinity Lutheran Seminary
Starting with the Spirit: A Lutheran Ecclesiology of Resistance
Responding:Allen G. Jorgenson, Wilfrid Laurier University
Jone Salomonsen, University of Oslo

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New York Theological Seminary and the Journal of World
Christianity Breakfast
Sunday, 7:00 AM–9:00 AM
Westin Copley Place-Empire (Seventh Level)

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University of Birmingham, UK Breakfast and Research
Showcase
Sunday, 7:00 AM–9:00 AM
Hynes Convention Center-108 (Plaza Level)

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Center of Theological Inquiry Breakfast Reception
Sunday, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Columbus I & II (First Level)

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John Templeton Foundation
Theme: Measures of Religion & Spirituality in Repeating Open
Access Datasets
Sunday, 8:00 AM–8:45 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere B (Second Level)
Sociologists have made extensive use of repeating, representative,
cross-cultural, open access datasets such as the General Social
Survey and the World Values Survey. Yet these data sets appear to beunderutilized by many who study religion and spirituality. Moreover,the data sets often lack relevant or more nuanced measures of religion
and spirituality. Our research team, at Arizona State University,
has launched a project funded by the John Templeton Foundation
designed to investigate the possibilities of adding measures of religion
and spirituality to these open access datasets.
Please join us in a discussion of this project as we seek to identify which
variables and datasets may be of the most interest to researchers. We
appreciate your expertise! Please consider this opportunity to learn more
about this project and to have a voice in our recommendations.
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Association for Theopoetics Research and Exploration
Theme: Radical Theology / Radical Politics: Re-Thinking
Relations to the Most Vulnerable
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere A (Second Level)
Jennifer Bailey, Faith Matters, Presiding
This session questions how institutionalized forms of religion, politics,
and economics create categories of vulnerability. The precarious placeof the vulnerable in our society has been threatened by the recent,visible emergence of right-wing propaganda and radicalization ofreligious rhetoric. Radical thinking may overcome the popularizationof polarizations in the present. In response, we investigate the social
imaginary by integrating the resources of radical theology and radical
politics. Such radical thinking offsets the normalizing tendencies that
preserve a status quo that marginalizes the vulnerable by offering adiagnostic that draws on the resources of radical thinking. This panel
will engage conversationally around the following focal points elicitedconversationally through questions and answers:• Depicting the cause: Politics and Economics• Defining the depth: Radical Theology and Radical Politics• Demanding our Attention: Radical Theology and The People• Delimiting the Possible: Theopoetics as Radical Response• Determining the Value: Property as Test Case
More information is available via www.theopoetics.net.
Panelists:
Karen Bray, Wesleyan College
Daniel Boscaljon, University of Iowa
J. Kameron Carter, Duke University
Jon Gill, California State University, Long BeachJames Hill, Northwestern University
Katharine Lassiter, Mount St. Joseph University
Jordan Miller, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Jeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College
George Schmidt, US Navyx See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x

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Theology and Decoloniality Group
Theme: Decolonial Theological Encounters: An Invitation toFurther Conversation
Sunday, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Fairfield (Third Level)
In this meeting, we continue the scholarly conversations that beganat the 2016 SBL & AAR Annual Meetings in San Antonio. The
scholars gathered last year (and in subsequent explorations) confirmedthat a rich variety of experiments are underway which draw fromthe Latin American modernity/coloniality framework and inspire a
rethinking of the theological task in a decolonial key. The meeting isconvened by Michel Andraos, Lee Cormie, Néstor Medina, and Becca
Whitla, who in their respective fields of expertise find that Latin
American decolonial thinking resonates well with critical discoursesof many oppressed groups addressing a broad range of social, cultural,epistemological and justice/eco-justice issues, in particular withthe evolving critical discourses from indigenous peoples and their
movements. The session will be highly participatory. Its goals include:
dialogue across different social locations, political contexts, “liberation”
movements and practices; clarification of points of convergence,and divergence; identification of possible collaboration(s); and someconcrete next steps.

Biblical Interpretation Editorial Board Meeting
Sunday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-St. George A-B (Third Level)

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Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Pines
School of Graduate Studies Alumni Association Luncheon
Sunday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Commonwealth (Third Level)

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Baker Academic Textbook Meeting
Sunday, 1:30 PM–4:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Beacon C (Third Level)

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Seventh Annual Analytic Theology Lecture
Theme:The Meanings of History: Event and Interpretation in the
Bible and Theology
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Adams (Third Level)
The word “history”, notoriously, has several significantly different
meanings, not always tracked in relevant discussions. The word
“meaning” itself will vary according to which meaning of “history”
we choose. Discussion here has been hindered by several interlocking
but systematically confusing debates: (1) the over-bright either/or of“natural” and “supernatural” in modern thought, with its tendency to
reductionism on one side and Docetism on the other; (2) the sterile(and itself historically conditioned!) antithesis of pantheistic “progress”
and an irruptive “apocalyptic”, with its various spin-offs in biblicalinterpretation; (3) the multivalence of the term “historical-critical”,
sometimes used to indicate the employment of history to undermine
traditional Christian claims and sometimes in a supposedly more“neutral” sense; (4) the question of biblical “authority”. A fresh
appraisal of “history” is required, seeing the term as (at least) a
shorthand for various narratives concerning events, tasks, storytellingand symbol-making both within the biblical traditions themselves andwithin their reappropriation not only as faith-narratives in the church
but also as proclamation, explanation and apologia in the wider world.
Panelists:
N.T. Wright, University of St Andrews

Loyola University, Maryland
Theme: Thinking Prayer: A Conversation with Andrew Prevot
Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-306 (Third Level)
Winner of the College Theological Society’s Best Book in Theology
Award, Thinking Prayer, has already garnered significant attention,
most recently from an excellent symposium in Syndicate. In
arguing that theologians must take the spiritual life as central
when confronting both the crisis of metaphysics and the legacies
of colonialism, Thinking Prayer draws on the insights of liberation
theology, phenomenology, and diverse Christian spiritual traditions.

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Journal of Religious Ethics Editorial Board Meeting
Sunday, 4:30 PM–6:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-St. George A-B (Third Level)

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Seventh Annual Analytic Theology Reception
Sunday, 4:30 PM–6:00 PM
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Panelists:
Willie J. Jennings, Yale University
Rebekah Eklund, Loyola University Maryland
Kevin L. Hughes, Villanova University
Responding:Andrew Prevot, Boston College

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Come hear an update on developments in Cambridge’s Faculty ofDivinity and Oxford’s Faculty of Theology and Religion, and meetcurrent faculty members. Prospective students are warmly welcome
to come and learn about the benefits of studying in Cambridge orOxford. Further information is available at www.theology.ox.ac.uk andwww.divinity.cam.ac.uk.

Paulist Press Reception Honoring Richard Clifford, SJ
Sunday, 6:00 PM–7:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-Northstar (Seventh Level)

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Louisville Institute Reception
Sunday, 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Essex North (Third Level)

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19

MF Norwegian School of Theology and University of Oslo
Theme: Turid Karlsen Seim Memorial Session
Sunday, 6:30 PM–8:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Defender (Seventh Level)
Colleagues and friends are invited to attend this event rememberingand celebrating the life and career of Turid Karlsen Seim.

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Canadian Scholars and Friends Reception
Theme: Celebrating Over 150 years of Canadian Theology
Sunday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Third Floor Atrium Lounge (Third Level)
Join Parasource Canada and their partner publishers IVP Academic,
Abingdon, Baker Academic, B&H, Concordia, Eerdmans, FortressPress, Hendrickson, Kregel Academic, and Westminster John Knox
for a 150th birthday party for Canada. This informal reception willreconnect Canadian scholars with other organizations and scholars
doing work from Sea to Sea to Sea. Canadian scholars, students andfriends welcome. Please RSVP to Martin Smith at martin.smith@parasource.com.

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Princeton Theological Seminary Reception
Sunday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Park Plaza-Arlington and Berkeley (Mezzanine Level)

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Malbon Festschrift Presentation
Theme: Elizabeth Struthers: Panel and Presentation
Sunday, 7:00 PM–8:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Liberty A (Second Level)

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Boston College Theology Department Reception
Sunday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Fairmont Copley Place-St. James Room (Lobby Level)

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Princeton University Department of Religion Reception
Sunday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Parliament/Adams/Baltic (Seventh Level)

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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Department ofReligious Studies Reception
Sunday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-St. George C-D (Third Level)

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Yale University Reception

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Sunday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-America Center (Fourth Level)

Zen Reading Group Fourth Annual Meeting

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University of Oxford and University of Cambridge Joint
Reception
Sunday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay C (Second Level)
The Universities of Cambridge and Oxford are delighted to invite
colleagues, friends, alumni and prospective graduate students to a
reception at the AAR & SBL Annual Meetings in Boston.
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Sunday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere B (Second Level)
Steven Heine, Florida International University, Presiding
Juhn Ahn, University of Michigan
What Does it Mean to Gain Energy (Deli) through Zen Reading?
Jennifer Eichman, SOAS University of London
Late Ming Confucian Uses of the Platform Sutra
Dominick Scarangello, Rissho Kosei-kai
Dialoging with Modernity on Paper: The Sōtō Fushūkai and Its
Opponents

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Responding:Jin Y. Park, American University

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University of Iowa Alumni and Friends Reception

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International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Theme: Al-Faruqi Memorial Lecture
Sunday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Hynes Convention Center-207 (Second Level)
Panelists:
Kecia Ali, Boston University

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Sunday, 7:30 PM–9:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick B (Second Level)
Join us to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the Department ofReligious Studies.

M19-414
Brown University Department of Religious Studies andProgram in Judaic Studies Reception
Sunday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Huntington (Second Level)

Academy Anonymous Recovery Meetings (AARM)
Sunday, 7:30 PM–8:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Lincoln (Third Level)

M19-409
Theme: Networking with Friends
Sunday, 7:30 PM–9:00 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere A (Second Level)
Join us to help facilitate the initial meeting to form a Chinese
Evangelical Theological Association with those who are interested.

M19-410
Jewish Theological Seminary Kekst Graduate School
Reception
Sunday, 7:30 PM–9:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Arlington (Third Level)
The JTS Kekst Graduate School invites alumni, students, facultycolleagues and their friends to a light, kosher reception. Jewish dietarylaws will be observed. Be sure to confirm the location in the AAR and
SBL mobile app or in the Online Program Books.

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Alumni and Friends
Dessert Reception
Sunday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-St. George B (Third Level)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19

China Academic Consortium

M19-415

M19-433
Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
Reception
Sunday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Suffolk (Third Level)

M19-416
University of California, Davis Graduate Group in the Studyof Religion Reception

University of Notre Dame Theology Reception

Sunday, 8:30 PM–10:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-Helicon (Seventh Level)
The Graduate Group in the Study of Religion at the University ofCalifornia, Davis welcomes everyone who is interested in our program
and would like an informal, fun way to meet people associatedwith the group to join us! Now in our fifth year, we look forward
to meeting you in what will be the first reception in our program’s
history.

Sunday, 7:30 PM–9:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Newbury/Gloucester (Second Level)

M19-417

M19-411

Vanderbilt University Divinity School Reception

M19-412
Concordia Seminary, Concordia Theological Seminary, andConcordia Publishing House Reception
Sunday, 7:30 PM–9:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-St. George A (Third Level)
Join us for the celebration of The Press of the Text: Biblical Studies in
Honor of James W. Voelz.

Sunday, 9:00 PM–10:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-America North (Fourth Level)

M19-418
Brite Divinity School Reception
Sunday, 9:00 PM–10:30 PM
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M19-419
Columbia University Religion Department Reception
Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Essex North (Third Level)

M19-420
Drew University Theological School Annual Alumni
Gathering
Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Adams (Third Level)

M19-421

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19

Florida State University Religion Reception
Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Fairmont Copley Place-State Suite (Lower Lobby Level)

M19-426
Southern Methodist University and Perkins School of
Theology Alumni/ae and Friends Reception
Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Fairmont Copley Place-Forum Room (Lower Lobby Level)

M19-427
Scottish Universities Reception
Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Essex Center (Third Level)

M19-428
University of California, Santa Barbara Religious Studies
Reception
Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Park Plaza-Georgian (Mezzanine Level)

M19-429

M19-422

University of Chicago Divinity School Reception for
Alumni and Friends

Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary PhD Reception

Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Staffordshire (Third Level)

Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level)

M19-423
Emory University Graduate Division of Religion (GDR)
Reception
Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-America South (Fourth Level)

M19-434
Duke University Graduate Program in Religion Reception
Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay A (Second Level)

M19-435

M19-424

Union Theological Seminary and Episcopal Divinity School
Reception

Nordic Universities Reception

Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level)

Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Essex South (Third Level)

M19-425
Johns Hopkins University Near Eastern Reception
Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick A (Second Level)378

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

M20-16
Green Seminary Initiative

M20-5
Restoration Quarterly Breakfast
Monday, 7:00 AM–8:30 AM
Westin Copley Place-Parliament/Adams/Baltic (Seventh Level)

M20-6
Friends of Regent College Breakfast
Monday, 7:00 AM–8:30 AM
Westin Copley Place-St. George C-D (Third Level)

Theme: Certification Cohort Gathering and General Info
Monday, 7:45 AM–8:45 AM
Hynes Convention Center-200 (Second Level)
By the time of this year’s AAR & SBL Annual Meetings, the Green
Seminary Initiative will have approximately 16 schools enrolled intheir Seminary Environmental Certification program. This is a threeyear program designed to add an ecological lens to Education Liturgy, Ritual, and Worship - Building and Grounds - Community
Life - and Public Leadership. Representatives from each of thesecohort schools are invited to gather during this time for the purposeof getting to know each other better, comparing notes on theirprogress in the program, and sharing ideas and encouragement.
Any others interested in learning more about the Green Seminary
Initiative are also welcome to join us.

M20-7
Fuller Theological Seminary Alumni/ae and Friends
Breakfast
Monday, 7:00 AM–9:00 AM
Westin Copley Place-Essex Center (Third Level)

M20-8
Union Presbyterian Seminary Alumni Breakfast

M20-15
University of Chicago Divinity School’s Coffee with Deanfor Prospective Students
Monday, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Westin Copley Place-Northstar (Seventh Level)

M20-9
Dead Sea Discoveries Breakfast Editorial Board Meeting
Monday, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Westin Copley Place-St. George A-B (Third Level)

Theology Without Walls Group
Theme: Rising Scholars and the Future of Transreligious Theology
Monday, 9:30 AM–11:00 AM
Westin Copley Place-Empire (Seventh Level)
Jerry L. Martin, University of Colorado, Presiding
Join us for an open meeting to address the theological future.
Graduate students and young faculty members grew up in a world
more globalized and disaffiliated than that of their teachers. They
may well have different presuppositions, concerns, aims, personal
backgrounds, career patterns, and institutional or organizationalsettings. They may theologize in terms of a much wider range ofspiritual data, and in service of a wider community than just the“faithful”. In this open-ended discussion, every participant will begiven an opportunity to speak personally about the changing situation.
Panelists:
Christopher Denny, St. John’s University
Rory McEntee, Drew Univsersity
Kurt Anders Richardson, McMaster University
Bin Song, Boston University

M20-101
Theology Without Walls Group Planning Meeting
Monday, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Empire (Seventh Level)
Jerry L. Martin, University of Colorado, Presiding
Join us for an open meeting to discuss future panel topics,
publications, and other activities related to Theology Without Walls.
Panelists:
Christopher Denny, St. John’s University
Jeanine Diller, University of Toledo
Kurt Anders Richardson, McMaster University
John Thatamanil, Union Theological Seminary

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Monday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM
Westin Copley Place-Defender (Seventh Level)
You’re invited to hear President Brian K. Blount share what’s new
at Union while enjoying table fellowship with seminary friends andcolleagues. Also, Alumni Director Clay Macaulay (D.Min.’85) willbe there eager to hear about your ministry. Please register by Monday,
November 13 here: www.regonline.com/UnionAlumBreakfast2017.
For questions please contact Hayley Mathews in the Alumni Office:hmathews@upsem.edu.

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M20-402
State University of New York (SUNY) Press

Monday, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Lincoln (Third Level)

Theme: Celebration of the Work of Robert NevilleMonday, 6:30 PM–7:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-Great Republic (Seventh Level)
Please join SUNY Press and Robert Neville for a reception andbook signing to celebrate Robert Neville’s contributions to religious
studies and philosophy. Advance copies of Defining Religion: Essays
in Philosophy of Religion, his latest book, which is also his twentysecond single-authored volume for SUNY Press, will be available
for purchase along with copies of The Good Is One, Its Manifestations
Many: Confucian Essays on Metaphysics, Morals, Rituals, Institutions,and Genders, and his Philosophical Theology Set, Volumes 1–3: Ultimates,
Existence, and Religion.

M20-300

M20-403

Auburn Theological Seminary Reception

King’s College London Reception

M20-102
Journal for the Study of Judaism Editorial Board Meeting
Monday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Westin Copley Place-Mastiff (Seventh Level)

M20-103
Academy Anonymous Recovery Meetings (AARM)

Monday, 6:00 PM–7:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-St. George A-B (Third Level)
Everyone is welcome as we celebrate the work of scholar-activists
who, like long-time Auburn faculty member Walter Wink, aretroubling the waters and healing the world. Auburn will award
the Third Annual Walter Wink Scholar-Activist Award. Former
awardees are Dr. Simran Jeet Singh (2016) and Dr. Traci West (2015).
The award will be given by Auburn President Rev. Dr. Katharine
Henderson during the reception, with a brief talk by the awardee
to follow. Come enjoy the hospitality and network with fellow
troublemaking friends, old and new.

Monday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Westin Copley Place-Essex South (Third Level)
Once again we are delighted to invite prospective students, alumni,
friends and guests to a reception at the AAR and SBL Annual
Meetings, this time in Boston. As well as updating on generalnews from the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, thereception will note the recent publication of books by membersof King’s. Everyone is warmly encouraged to join us to hear aboutdevelopments since last year’s Annual Meetings, including newopportunities for study at Master’s level. For further information
about the Department, see www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/trs.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20

M20-401
Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate
University Reception
Monday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
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