Hilton Bayfront-Indigo D David P. Lawrence, University of North Dakota Relations between Tantra and Bhakti in the Constructive Scholarship of Gopinath Kaviraj Karen Pechilis, Drew University A Tamil Poetess as Tantric Practitioner? (Karaikkal Ammaiyar) Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado The Bhāvanā of the Body: Bhakti in Tantra in Nondual Kashmiri Śaivism June McDaniel, College of Charleston Bhakti and Tantra in Balinese Hinduism Jeffrey Stephen Lidke, Berry College Anuttara Sakti Bhakti: Adoration of the Highest Power in the Non Dual Tantra of Abhinavagupta Responding: Sthaneshwar Timalsina, San Diego State University Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM A22-104 Academic Relations Committee and Public Understanding of Religion Committee Joseph Tucker Edmonds, IUPUI, Presiding Theme: Junior Faculty Activism Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM Convention Center-31A Panelists: Mehnaz Afridi, Manhattan College Kelly Baker, Chronicle Vitae Hillary Kaell, Concordia University Abigail Kluchin, Ursinus College Yasir Qadhi, Rhodes College A22-105 Publications Committee and Teaching and Learning Committee Kimberly Rae Connor, University of San Francisco, Presiding Theme: Teaching World Religions: Challenges and Opportunities Using The Norton Anthology of World Religions (2014) Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM Convention Center-9 Panelists: Jack Miles, University of California, Irvine
Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Kathryn Lofton, Yale University Responding: Anne E. Monius, Harvard University Business Meeting: Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University, and Yolanda Pierce, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding A22-108 Buddhism Section Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding Theme: Buddhist Scripture in Comparative Perspective Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM Convention Center-10 Brian Ruppert, University of Illinois Shōgyō as Scripture in Medieval Japanese Buddhism Shenghai Li, Harvard University Scripture, Citation, and Expanded Corpus of Sacred Texts Charles Hallisey, Harvard University Buddhaghosa on the Futures of Scriptures Jiang Wu, University of Arizona Imagining Tripiṭaka: Legends about the Buddhist Canon in Chinese Sources Responding: Luis O. Gomez, El Colegio de Mexico Business Meeting: Christian K. Wedemeyer, University of Chicago, and Lori Meeks, University of Southern California, Presiding A22-109 Christian Systematic Theology Section Bernard Chris Dorsey, Western Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Humanity, Inhumanity, and Postcolonialism Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Saturday - 4:00 PM-5:00 PM A22-300 Student Lounge Roundtable Theme: The Promiscuous Term Paper: CV Building through Effective Use of Seminar Papers Saturday - 4:00 PM-5:00 PM Convention Center-14B Panelist: Cristina Richie, Boston College Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM A22-301 Bioethics and Religion Group Laura Kicklighter, Lynchburg College, Presiding Theme: Justice in Personal, Public, and Environmental Health Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:00 PM Hilton Bayfront-402 Emily Trancik, Saint Louis University Restoring or Destroying Human Freedom?: Deep Brain Stimulation and Thomistic Anthropology Shin Kwon Kim, University of Oxford Killing Dirty Germs for Health: From Nurturing Life to Hygiene Hajung Lee, Boston University Pursuing Gender Justice and Promoting Health Equity through Interreligious Water Activism George D. Randels, University of the Pacific Justice for More Than Just Us? Bioethics and Environmental Health Business Meeting: Laura Kicklighter, Lynchburg College, and George D. Randels, University of the Pacific, Presiding
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM Convention Center-7B Judith Casselberry, Bowdoin College "The Kingdom in the Midst": African American Apostolic Pentecostal Eschatological Paradoxes in Practice Courtney Wilder, Midland University The Mormon Mommy Blogger: Analyzing the Writing of Contemporary LDS Women Ashlee Andrews, Indiana University Cooking the Home: Food, Bodies, and Authority in Bengali Hindu Women's Domestic Gastronomic Rituals Sara Swenson, Liverpool, NY Ideal Womanhood and the Liberated Ascetic: Theologies of Self-Denial Among U.S. Progressive Era Women Responding: Debra Majeed, Beloit College Business Meeting: Deborah Whitehead, University of Colorado, Presiding A22-315 African Religions Group Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh, Presiding Theme: Mental Health and Religion in Nigeria: Yoruba, Muslim, and Pentecostal Perspectives Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM Convention Center-26 Ayodeji Ogunnaike, Harvard University Divine Diagnosis: A Case Study in Traditional Yoruba Approaches to Mental Illness Yushau Sodiq, Texas Christian University Mental Health and Religion: The Case of Muslims with Mental Health Issues in Nigeria Oyeronke Olademo, University of Ilorin Mental Health and Religions in Yoruba Land Donatus Pius Ukpong, University of Uyo Mental Health and Religious Practices: Redefining Mental Disorders and Spirituality in Africa Responding: Joseph Hellweg, Florida State University A22-316 Animals and Religion Group David Clough, University of Chester, Presiding Theme: Rethinking Animals and Religion through Literature Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
White Women’s Dogs, Black Women’s Babies: Class Analysis and the Lives of Single, Working-Class Mothers Hollis Phelps, Mount Olive College Debt, Class, and Theology: A Critical Theological Proposal Jeremy Posadas, Austin College Disrupting Theological Complicity in the Disappearing of the Working Class Responding: Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University Business Meeting: Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University, and Ken Estey, Brooklyn College, Presiding A23-120 Comparative Religious Ethics Group Jonathan Crane, Emory University, Presiding Theme: The Social Body Sunday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM Convention Center-30D Amy Hyne, University of Texas Being Natural, Being Pure: Locating "Sanity" in Classical India Richard Amesbury, Universität Zürich Is the Body Anterior to Religion? Circumcision, Religious Minorities in Germany, and the Right to Bodily Integrity Beverley Foulks McGuire, University of North Carolina, Wilmington For Personal Health or Social Welfare? A Study of "Mindful Eating" Practices in America and Taiwan Responding: Jonathan Schofer, University of Texas Business Meeting: Elizabeth Bucar, Northeastern University, Presiding A23-121 Contemporary Islam Group Edith Szanto, American University of Iraq, Presiding Theme: New Trends in Islamic Law Sunday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM Convention Center-28C Hamid Mavani, Claremont, CA Two Shi‘i Jurisprudential Methodologies to Address Contemporary Challenges: Traditional Ijtihad and Foundational Ijtihad Fatima Seedat, University of Cape Town Sex Difference and the Making of Women in Islamic Law
Convention Center-1A Panelists: Barry Stephenson, Memorial University Ronald L. Grimes, Ritual Studies International, Waterloo, ON, Canada Lee Gilmore, San Jose State University Ute Huesken, University of Oslo Responding: Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University Timothy Beal, Case Western Reserve University Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa A23-143 Holmes Welch and the Study of Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China Seminar J. Brooks Jessup, University of Minnesota, Morris, Presiding Theme: Holmes Welch and the Study of Buddhism in Twentieth Century China Sunday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM Hilton Bayfront-500 Stefania Travagnin, University of Groningen The Old and the New in Buddhist Education: Assessing Agencies and Agendas in the "Revival" of Education for the Sangha Gregory Adam Scott, University of Edinburgh Sacred Spaces, Printing, and the Meaning of "Revival" in Welch's The Buddhist Revival in China Brian J. Nichols, Mount Royal University Holmes Welch's The Practice of Chinese Buddhism 1900-1950: How Well Does It Age? Jeffrey Dippmann, Central Washington University Daoism's Legacy in the Work of Holmes Welch: Methodological Reflections Business Meeting: Erik Hammerstrom, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding
A24-210 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and SBL Bible and Visual Art Section Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University, Presiding Theme: Biblical Art in the San Diego Museum Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM Hilton Bayfront-313 Daniel Rober, Fordham University Georges Rouault's Le Christ et Mammon in the San Diego Museum of Art: The Aesthetics of Social and Economic Justice Leonora Onarheim, University of Oslo Memory and Mourning in The Deposition (Late Fifteenth Century) and The Lamentation of Christ (ca. 1460-1475) at the San Diego Museum of Art Angela Yarber, Wake Forest University Salomania in Text, Canvas, and Stage: Where Does Bernardino’s Salome Belong? Ela Nutu, University of Sheffield Luini Bernardino at the San Diego Museum of Art: Salome, Modesty and Vanity Responding: David M. Gunn, Texas Christian University A24-211 Buddhism Section Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego, Presiding Theme: Buddhist Femininities: Demystifying the Essential Feminine Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire L Robekkah Ritchie, Freie Universität Berlin Sikkhamat: The Aesthetics of Asoke Ascetics Matthew Mitchell, Duke University Ordination, Education, Individual Choice, and Social Context in the Construction and Deployment of Buddhist Femininities in Early Modern Japan Michelle J. Sorensen, Columbia University Feminine Identities in Buddhist Chöd Jeff Wilson, University of Waterloo Mindfully Feminine? The Role of Meditation in the Production and Marketing of Gendered Lifestyles Responding: Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, University of Alabama