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January 2007 Published by the American Academy of Religion Vol. 22, No. 1 2 0 0 7 CALLFORPAPERS

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General Information 2007 Calendar General Guidelines Proposal Formats of Deadlines Participation at the Annual Meeting The Annual Meeting program has three types of sessions: paper sessions, panel Meeting Location All participants on the AAR program must be sessions, and poster sessions. The 2007 AAR Annual Meeting and Book March 1, 2007 current (2007) members of AAR. Exhibit will be held at the San Diego Deadline for proposals, participant forms, Membership in SBL does not fulfill this Papers Convention Center, San Diego Marriott and abstracts to be received by program requirement. All participants must also be Hotel, and Manchecter Grand Hyatt Hotel unit chairs. preregistered for the Annual Meeting by June A session with separately announced paper in San Diego, CA, November 17–20. 15, 2007. Any participant who is not a cur- titles is considered a “paper” session. Paper April 1, 2007 rent 2007 AAR member or preregistered for proposals are more often submitted individu- Future Annual Meeting locations include: Notification of acceptance (or not) of pro- the Annual Meeting by June 15, 2007, will ally and arranged into a session by the chair(s) 2008 – Chicago, IL, October 25–28 posals by program unit chairs. All pro- have his/her name removed from the printed and steering committee of a program unit. 2009 – Montreal, QC, November 7–10 gram participants must renew/establish Program Book and will jeopardize his/her par- 2010 – Atlanta, GA, October 30–November 2 2007 AAR memberships in order to par- ticipation on the program in November. 2011 – San Francisco, CA, November 18–21 ticipate on the program. 2012 – Atlanta, GA, November 2–5 N.B. All 2006 and 2007 members receive History of Christianity Section April 7, 2007 this Call. To inquire about your 2007 Grant Underwood, Brigham Young Program unit chairs submit session request Registration and Housing membership status, please see University, Presiding information (Program Book copy,abstracts, par- You must be registered for the meeting in www.aarweb.org/membership. ticipant forms) to AAR executive office online. Theme: Who Do You Say That I Am? The order to secure a room in the Annual Construction and Use of Mormon and Anti- Meeting hotel at our specially negotiated May 15, 2007 Participation Limits Mormon Identities hotel rates (which are often half the pub- Annual Meeting and hotel registration Each member may appear on the Annual lished room rate for the property). When opens. Forms available online and in the Meeting program (AAR and/or SBL side) a David Gore, University of Minnesota, you receive your preregistration informa- May Religious Studies News. total of two times in any capacity (e.g., Duluth tion in the May issue of Religious Studies present a paper, be a panelist, be a respon- Joseph Smith and the Rhetoric of Economics May 30, 2007 News (or online), carefully review and fol- dent, or preside over a session). The only and Prophecy Deadline for submission of Additional low the instructions in order to secure exception is for business meeting presiders. Meeting request forms. Forms are avail- Quincy Newell, University of Wyoming your housing. Although registration may able online at www.aarweb.org/annualmeet Further, it is not appropriate to present Seeing Jane: Jane Elizabeth Manning James’ be completed without submitting your beginning March 15. the same material in two separate sessions, Posthumous Career as an LDS Symbol housing request, you are encouraged to no matter the convention for describing submit both together. June 15, 2007 D. William Faupel, Wesley Theological them. If you are proposing the same idea Deadline for participants to renew their Seminary to two different program units, you must Questions about the Call AAR membership and be preregistered for Elijah III: The Influence of Mormonism on be prepared to choose in which you will The work of the program unit is coordinated the meeting. Names of participants not John Alexander Dowie present if you are accepted onto both. by the chair(s) and a steering committee who registered will be removed from the Sara Patterson, Loyola Marymount University design the sessions and make the decisions Program Book. Multiple Submissions “A PO Box and a Desire to Witness for Jesus”: about which proposals will eventually be on July 31, 2007 To foster broad participation and to facilitate Calling and Mission in the Ex-Mormons for Jesus the program. Each proposal is carefully refer- Deadline for participants to request audio- the work of unit chairs, the Program eed, usually in a “blind” procedure (i.e., with- Responding: visual equipment at the Annual Meeting. Committee allows but does not encourage out the name of the proposer being provided multiple submissions of proposals. The total Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University to the referees). All proposals, abstracts, and August 1, 2007 limit on such submissions is two. These may completed participant information (as well as Deadline for AAR members to renew and consist of the same proposal submitted to Panels any questions you may have) should be sent update their addresses for priority receipt two different program units, or two different to the individual(s) named in this Call. of the Annual Meeting Program Book. A “panel” is a session with one proposals to two different units. announced theme and a list of partici- Please inquire with the appropriate unit September 2007 A Program Participant Form must accompa- pants who address that theme but do not chair about the amount of time granted for Annual Meeting Program Book mailed to ny each proposal (a separate participant form present separate formal papers. Panel pro- your presentation, and by what date the members. is not required for OP3), and the other pro- posals are generally submitted as pre- respondent (if any) must receive your com- November 17–20, 2007 gram units to which you submitted proposals arranged session proposals. pleted paper. AAR Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. must be indicated. While failure to disclose Christian Spirituality Group Questions about the Annual multiple submissions may well result in the Meeting rejection of all submissions, disclosure of mul- Douglas Burton-Christie, Loyola Guidelines for tiple submissions will not jeopardize full con- Marymount University, Presiding Concerns of a general nature may be sent sideration of each. The deadline for receipt Submitting Proposals Theme: Spirituality: Its Uses and Misuses to the AAR executive office to the atten- of all submissions is March 1, 2007. tion of the Annual Meeting Program Panelists: Step 1: Note acceptable method(s) of sub- Director, 825 Houston Mill Road NE, Proposal Requirements mission and the persons to whom it Philip F. Sheldrake, University of Durham Suite 300, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA; You are required to submit both a propos- should be sent. Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard University W: 404-727-3049; F: 404-727-7959; al (not more than 1,000 words) and an Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School [email protected]. Step 2: Submit all materials by one abstract (not more than 150 words) of Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University method only (if you submit your proposal your presentation. This holds regardless of Mary Frohlich, Catholic Theological Union Additional Meetings via e-mail, you must not fax your partici- your method of submission or the type of Organizations, persons, or program units pant form — the participant form must proposal you are making. Only proposals Prearranged Session wishing to plan receptions and other be sent via e-mail as well). will be evaluated in the selection process, Proposals meetings before, during, or after the but if your proposal is accepted for the Step 3: Follow all instructions for submis- Annual Meeting should go online to Annual Meeting, the abstract will be Members may wish to submit a prearranged sion requirements as outlined below, both www.aarweb.org after March 15, 2007. included in the Book of Abstracts. session in its entirety, complete with a presider, general guidelines and those specific to This Web site will have information respondent, and participants. You will note in your method of submission. regarding guidelines, necessary forms, and Proposals the Call that some program units use this pro- costs to request Additional Meeting space Step 4: Note the difference between paper The proposal should state, as fully as you cedure more than others (Religion in South at the Annual Meeting and/or how to and panel proposals. can, the proposal’s purpose and how the Asia Section, for instance). Special considera- announce your event in the Annual argument will proceed. Provide enough tions go into the submission of such a session. Step 5: Be prepared to fulfill your AAR mem- Meeting Program Book. context to show that you are aware of the The coordinator of a prearranged session must bership requirement if accepted onto the pro- basic literature in the field and summarize submit a proposal that lists all the participants Questions should be directed to gram. This must be done no later than June the argument of your presentation. Be (presider, participants, and respondent [if Experient, Inc., at 314-997-1500 after 15, 2007, or you may jeopardize your partici- specific about what sort of contribution desired]). Prearranged sessions can either be for March 15, 2007. Written requests can be pation on the program in November. your proposal will make. Bear in mind the paper or panel sessions. sent to Experient, Inc., 4 Cityplace DR, nature of the program unit to which you Suite 480, St. Louis, MO 63141-7062, or Submissions for a panel session should are applying, particularly as reflected in [email protected]. include a single proposal detailing the focus the Call for Papers. of the session, one abstract, and a single The deadline for priority scheduling of Failure to submit a proposal, an abstract, participant form for all involved. (A sepa- Additional Meeting requests is May 30, and/or participant form(s) may disqualify rate participant form is not required when 2007. Requests after that date will be a submission from consideration. Further, using OP3.) Submissions for a paper ses- accommodated as space allows. submitting a proposal in a method other sion must include each presenter’s original than those noted after each program unit’s paper proposal and abstract in addition to call will result in disqualification. the necessary forms; one participant form for See GUIDELINES p.4

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GUIDELINES, from p.3 90–Minute Sessions Submission Methods 2. Do not use institutional or other letterhead. The Sunday afternoon schedule for (Specific Guidelines) 3. Use a computer and printer, preferably a each participant. (A separate participant form the AAR program consists of three laser printer. (Handwritten proposals can- is not required when using OP3.) Failure to 90-minute sessions to be scheduled as not be accepted.) send in a complete prearranged proposal may follows: 1:00-2:30 PM; 3:00–4:30 PM; OP3 disqualify an entry. Units reserve the right OP3 4. Use the following format: and 5:00–6:30 PM. AAR encourages to accept prearranged session proposals in  creative and innovative proposals for a. Type title of proposal. full or in part. these sessions. Some possibilities Submit your 1,000–word proposal and b. Below the title, type name of presenter, a include: restricting a panel to two 30- 150–word abstract via the Online comma, and a complete name of institu- minute papers followed by discussion; Paper/Panel Proposal (OP3) system. tion. If there is no institutional affilia- Poster Session Proposals posting papers in advance to focus on Please go online to www.aarweb.org for full tion, list city, state, or province. AAR is accepting proposals for poster ses- discussion rather than presentation; submission instructions. Separate partici- sions. A poster session presents research or topical panel discussions; discussion c. Type body of proposal double-spaced. pant forms are not required with OP3, as discourse on a topic by combining graph- of a book or film; panel on teaching Proposals should not exceed 1,000 words. your participant information is integrated ics and text on a 4’ x 8’ board. The poster in the field; or workshop-style ses- in the online form. NB: Do not place If you are requested by the program unit session presenter is available during an sions. The 90-minute format is per- your name or other identifying remarks to submit a copy to both co-chairs or assigned session time in order to interact fect for hosting specialized conversa- in the body of the proposal field or steering committee members, follow the on a one-to-one basis with the attendee tions on an aspect of the field or abstract field in OP3; this may endanger instructions listed. If no one person is viewing the poster. A well-planned poster “teaching” a topic to the audience. the anonymous review process of the specified, send your complete packet to communicates its message in a visually unit and acceptance of your proposal either one of the co-chairs. Remember to and textually powerful way, allowing the may be jeopardized. include an e-mail address on your propos- attendee to grasp the information quickly. Abstracts al. If you do not use e-mail, include a fax Poster session proposals should consist of number so the program unit chair can Along with your proposal and completed par- E-mail a short description of the topic and focus  send the notification regarding your ticipant form, you must submit an abstract of Submit your 1,000-word proposal and of the research, one abstract, and a single acceptance/rejection onto the program. your proposed presentation in electronic for- 150-word abstract within the BODY of participant form for all involved with the Send one electronic copy of your abstract mat. Even if you are submitting your propos- ONE single e-mail. Locate the online presentation. Submissions will be to the same person to whom you are send- al via surface mail or fax, you must also send “Participant Form for E-mail Submission” reviewed and evaluated for acceptance ing your proposal. See above under one copy of your abstract electronically in at www.aarweb.org/annualmeet for your par- onto the program by members of the Abstracts. addition to the print copies. If possible send ticipant form. Be sure you use the exact Program Committee. Submissions are the abstract in the body of an e-mail with the same title on the “Participant Form for E- accepted through the OP3 system. subject heading: “Abstract for [supply your mail Submission” as you do on the e- Surface Mail  For more information on poster sessions, name].” You may also send it virus-free on mailed proposal. Proposals received without Unless otherwise instructed in the Call itself, please visit the AAR Web site at disk, or via e-mail as an attachment. Please the participant forms will be disqualified. submit six (6) copies of the proposal, includ- www.aarweb.org. note some program units will not accept Participant forms received without propos- ing (1) copy with your name and institution attachments. als or abstracts will also be disqualified. listed, and five (5) copies which are “anony- mous,” (i.e., your name and institution are Use the following guidelines for format: If you are requested by the program unit to not listed anywhere on the proposal). You submit a copy to both co-chairs or steering • WordPerfect, MSWord, RTF, PDF, or need only submit one (1) copy of the partic- committee members, follow the instruc- Wildcard Sessions ASCII text format. ipant form. Be certain you include a current tions listed. If no one person is specified, e-mail address on your participant form. To allow for more experimental ses- • For transliterated characters, please send your complete proposal to either one Notifications of acceptance/rejection will be sions and the development of new describe them to the best of your ability of the co-chairs. sent out via e-mail. and creative scholarly conversations, after the text of your abstract, under the Program Committee is in its sec- “Diacritical Marks.” The “Diacritical E-mail w/Attachments 1. Use plain white paper, 8.5” x 11” (or A4) ond year of a three-year experiment Marks” portion will not be included in with one-inch margins. Submit your 1,000-word proposal, 150-word that will offer members direct access your word count. These can include ital- abstract, and participant form as attachments 2. Do not use institutional or other letterhead. to the Annual Meeting program for a ics, macrons, under- or over-dots, etc. (i.e., in one single e-mail. Please locate the limited number of “wild card” ses- add macrons over the first and second “a” 3. Use a computer and printer, preferably a “Participant Form for E-mail Attachment sions. Wildcard sessions address an in Yog–ac–ara; put a slash through the “o” in laser printer. (Handwritten proposals can- Submission” at www.aarweb.org/annualmeet area of interest that does not naturally Søren). For non-Western characters, please not be accepted.) for your participant form; this will require fall within the purview of any pro- use universal embedded fonts. the use of MSWord. If you are unable to 4. Use the following format: gram unit. • The abstract should have the exact same use MSWord or the “MSWord Form” a. Type title of proposal. You may submit a proposal in title as your paper, followed by your online, please locate the “Participant Form response to a wildcard session call or name and then the name of your institu- for E-mail Submission” at b. On one copy of the proposal, below the for an entire session (session proposal; tion (please include city name if more www.aarweb.org/annualmeet for your par- title, type name of presenter, a comma, presider; list of participants with pres- than one school or campus bears the ticipant form. Be sure you use the exact and a complete name of institution entation titles and abstracts, if appli- name) or city, state, or province. same title on the “Participant Form for E- (please include city name if more than cable; etc.) via OP3. Wildcard ses- mail Submission” as you do on the one school or campus bears the name). • The body of the abstract may be no sions must be in the 90-minute ses- attached proposal you e-mailed. Proposals Or, if you are not affiliated with any more than 150 words in length. sion format. received without the participant forms will school, list city, state, or province. Do Successful proposals with abstracts longer be disqualified. Participant forms received not list this information on the other The Program Committee will review than 150 words will be shortened. without proposals or abstracts will also be five copies of the proposal. the proposals. If a proposal covers an • Do not use footnotes; any present will disqualified. area that fits within an established c. Type body of proposal double-spaced. be deleted. program unit, the proposal will be If you are requested by the program unit Proposals should not exceed 1,000 words. forwarded to the unit for possible • Please scan your abstract for viruses to submit a copy to both co-chairs or If you are requested by the program unit to inclusion on the unit’s program. before sending. steering committee members, follow the submit copies to both co-chairs or steering instructions listed. If no one person is The Program Committee’s decisions committee members, follow the instructions specified, send your complete proposal to will be announced by April 1, 2007. Participant Forms listed. If no one person is specified, send either one of the co-chairs. Wildcard sessions are subject to the your complete packet to either one of the The Program Participant Forms (see page 8) same policies as other submissions. co-chairs. Remember to include an e-mail are designed to provide the information nec- See page 19 for the Wildcard call for Fax • address on your proposal. If you do not use essary to respond to your proposal and to papers. Submit one (1) copy of the proposal, e-mail, include a self-addressed stamped organize the Annual Meeting. It is important including abstract (with your name and envelope with appropriate postage for the that these forms be filled out clearly and institution listed). Submit one (1) copy of country from which the program unit completely by the participant. Please use the the participant form. Be certain you chair will send the notification regarding participant form appropriate for your include a current e-mail address on your your acceptance/rejection onto the pro- method of submission (see below). Ensure participant form. Notifications of accept- gram. Send one (1) electronic copy of that the title of your proposal exactly match- ance/rejection will be sent out via e-mail. your abstract to the same person to whom es the title you use on the participant form in you are sending your proposal. See above order for the two to be positively matched. 1. Use plain white paper, 8.5” x 11” (or A4) under Abstracts. with one-inch margins.

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Sections are the most inclusive type of program unit, aimed at reflecting the major areas of academic interest of the members of the Academy and at addressing the continuing agenda of the var- SECTIONS ious subfields within the study of religion. Attendance at sessions of sections (as well as any of the other program units) is open to Academic Teaching and the Arts, Literature, and all persons who are registered for the Annual Meeting. Study of Religion Section Religion Section Joseph A. Favazza, Stonehill College, Jennifer Geddes, University of Virginia, sult the section’s discussion board at the The steering committee reserves the right [email protected]. Fran Grace, [email protected]. S. Brent Plate, Texas AAR’s PUCS system to coordinate efforts to add individuals to any group proposal. University of Redlands, fran_grace@ Christian University, [email protected]. and interests with others. The section’s Proposals must be made through the redlands.edu. The Arts, Literature, and Religion Section chairs and steering committee can also online system unless alternative arrange- The Academic Teaching and Study of invites proposals for papers and for pre- offer assistance in filling out panel propos- ments have been made with one of the co- Religion Section critically examines peda- arranged sessions on the following topics: als or offering advice on any issue related chairs well in advance of the deadline. The gogical theory and practice. We are com- arts and literature of China; the relation- to proposals. 2007 meeting includes a focus on contri- mitted to selecting proposals that join ship between words and images in the butions of Chinese scholars and scholar- innovative teaching practice with the study of religion; postcolonial readings; SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: ship in the study of religion. Therefore, scholarship of teaching and learning, and adaptations from book to film; photogra- OP3 session organizers are strongly encouraged creating sessions that model and foster phy and religion; architecture and litera-  to consider such scholars and scholarship experiential and active learning. Noting ture; blasphemy; John Steinbeck; Asian- in their proposals. Themes proposed for that preference will be given to presenta- American women’s writings; the arts and Christian Systematic the 2007 meeting, with organizers identi- tions featuring interactive formats, we literature of travel and migration; writings fied in parentheses where appropriate, are encourage proposals in these areas: and images of the missions; environmental Theology Section as follows: 1) Global indigenous move- 1) Teaching and Learning “Street Fair” writing, especially dealing with the desert Cynthia L. Rigby, Austin Theological ments (Kay Read, [email protected]); (posters, exhibits, and/or interactive and the ocean; border art, especially Seminary, [email protected]. 2) Encounters in ethnography today “teach-ins” that excite or educate others between the United States and Mexico; Gerard Loughlin, Durham University, (Karen Pechilis, [email protected]); 3) about a breakthrough moment in the photography and painting of the [email protected]. Religion and material culture; 4) Notions classroom or a great course); 2) For a pos- American West (Ansel Adams, Georgia of intentionality (Katherine Jones, General Theme: Sin, Grace, and sible joint session with the Buddhist O’Keeffe, Albert Bierstadt, etc.); artistic [email protected]); 5) Methodological Redemption. We invite constructive (not Critical–Constructive Reflection Group, and literary movements in the Pacific issues in teaching comparative religions; 6) merely historical) proposals on a wide range examples of contemplative practices and Rim; visual and literary afterlives of the Religion and popular culture; and 7) of approaches relating sin, grace, and redemp- teaching within a course that successfully Psalms (for a possible co-sponsored session Twins and twinship (Kimberley Patton, tion. Sessions may be organized around the advance learning outcomes or course with SBL’s Psalms Section); visualization [email protected]). Additional following themes: 1) The place of “the law” in goals; 3) Mentoring undergraduate of torture in pictures of crucifixion, mar- proposals for comparative panels and ses- the dynamics of sin, grace, and redemption; research as a teaching practice (e.g., suc- tyrdom, and public punishment (for a sions are encouraged. 2) The compatibility of Eastern and Western cess stories, strategies, pedagogical issues); possible co-sponsored session with approaches to “sin,” “grace,” and “redemp- 4) Teaching on the “edge of ecological Christian Systematic Theology Section); SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: tion”; 3) The necessity or redundancy of apocalypse” (pedagogies, courses, and Ursula Le Guin, particularly on the rela- OP3 “atonement” for “redemption”; 4) The differ- assignments that interrelate religious and tion between her work and Daoism (for a ence that the perspectives of sinner and  environmental studies); 5) Embodied ped- possible co-sponsored session with the sinned against make to the understanding of agogies that invite the learner into sacred Daoist Studies Consultation). Please send sin, grace, and redemption; 5) The helpful- Ethics Section or liminal times and spaces (e.g., yoga, proposals to both program units when ness or unhelpfulness of “sin” as a theological calendrical events, ritual performance, responding to a joint call for papers. Jane Hicks, St. John Fisher College, category; 6) The relationships between grace music, borderlands as sacred space); and [email protected]. Miguel de la Torre, Iliff and nature, grace and justice, and/or grace 6) Assessment “success stories” that SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: University, [email protected]. and vengeance; and 7) The visualization of demonstrate the achievement of identified OP3 torture in pictures of crucifixion, martyrdom, The Ethics Section invites proposals providing outcomes in courses, programs, and  and public punishment (for a possible co- ethical analyses from all religious traditions and departments, and that are translatable into sponsored session with the Arts, Literature, diverse ethical methodologies in response to other contexts. In addition, we invite pro- Buddhism Section and Religion Section). Proposals from the following themes. 1) Native, Immigrant, posals for a “topics in teaching” luncheon Chinese scholars, or scholars working on or Refugee? Cultural Identity in a Shifting to be co-sponsored by the Wabash Center Janet Gyatso, Harvard University, Chinese Christian theology, are especially wel- Environment. San Diego is a city of massive for Teaching and Learning in Theology [email protected]. Charles Hallisey, come. For planning purposes, our projected cultural and demographic flow from Latin and Religion. Selected presenters will lead University of Wisconsin, [email protected]. theme for 2008 will be “Christian Doctrine America and Asia. What are the ethical issues a round-table luncheon conversation on In anticipation of the special focus on and Judaism.” raised by immigration and its impact on the the topic (e.g., teaching disasters, teaching China at the 2007 Annual Meeting, the encounter of cultures? (co-sponsored with the beyond your comfort zone, teaching Buddhism Section invites panel proposals SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group World Religions, teaching without tenure, that thematize the place of China within OP3 and the Asian North American Religion, etc.). NOTE: Be sure to indicate clearly the various scholarly landscapes concerned Culture, and Society Group). 2) States as which area of the call your proposal will  with the study of Buddhism across Asia Laboratories: Medical, Environmental, and address. and beyond. Proposals focusing on the Comparative Studies in Economic Initiatives and the State, Challenges contours of Buddhist studies in China and Opportunities. 3) Innovative Methods in SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Religion Section OP3 itself are also welcome. Fully or partially Religious Ethics: Philosophical, Comparative, formed panel proposals on other topics are Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University and Social Scientific Perspectives. 4) Hooray  welcome as well, as are individual papers, Chicago, [email protected]. Selva J. Raj, for Hollywood? Ethics and Entertainment. which will be accomodated in one Albion College, [email protected]. Ethical issues in film, TV,media, and other ominibus panel. The section especially forms of popular culture. 5) Biblical Ethics The Comparative Studies in Religion invites proposals for sessions that take from the Margins: Racial, Ethnic, and Other Section provides the opportunity for sig- advantage in creative ways of the new for- Minority Perspectives (co-sponsored with the nificant cross-traditional and/or cross-cul- mats offered for the annual program. The Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous tural inquiry. We seek proposals that pro- section also invites panel proposals on the Communities Group and the vide occasion for comparative inquiry seri- following themes and topics: methods for Biblical/Contextual Ethics Consultation). 6) ously engaging two or more religious tra- KEY TO SYMBOLS: the study of women and Buddhism; new Papers of particular excellence on other topics ditions around a common topic and that technologies in teaching about Buddhism; are also invited. All proposals should identify also reflect critically on the conceptual = Surface mail macrohistorical and macroregional the methodology used and contribution of the  tools employed in the inquiry. While we processes and the study of the history of argument to current academic conversations. accept individual paper proposals, we • Buddhism; responses to Western science Proposals for co-sponsored sessions should be = Fax strongly encourage group proposals either by Buddhists; Buddhism and film; cate- sent to all sponsoring program units. in the form of thematic paper sessions OP3 gories of difference in Buddhist monasti- Submissions to the Ethics Section will be (maximum four presenters, a presider, and = OP3 cism (e.g., forest/village, discipline of accepted via OP3 only.  a respondent) or as panel sessions (maxi- book/discipline of meditation); notions of mum six presenters). Thematic paper ses- = E-mail Buddhist offerings and social systems; and SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA:  sion proposals must include both an miraculous events and superhuman beings OP3 abstract and individual paper proposals. = E-mail with attachment in Buddhism. 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a variety of peoples, traditions, and at the intersection of the social sciences Membership Current? regions. In recognition of the locale of our (including psychology, sociology, political next meeting, the section welcomes espe- sciences, economics, and cultural studies) You must be a current AAR member in order to participate cially proposals on borderlands (especially and religious or theological studies. Topics on the program. You must also be registered for the 2007 Mexican-American and Pacific Rim) and may include: the study of religious and meeting. Persons who do not meet the membership and religion in time of war. Other potential theological questions through specific registration requirements by June 15, 2007, will not appear topics for sessions include secularism(s), social scientific methodologies, the contri- in the Program Book. To renew your membership, use the the religious “right” and “left,” and the bution of religious and theological form on page 20 or go online to www.aarweb.org/ family (marriage, children, sexual norms, approaches to the work of social scientific membership. Annual Meeting registration opens May 15. and adoption, including international disciplines, and comparative assessments adoption). More generally, we seek pro- of current issues by humanities-based and posals that revisit the survey course on social scientific methods. In order to be religion in America, consider the relation accepted for presentation, a paper or panel History of Christianity via OP3 and will be evaluated in anony- between history and ethnography in the proposal must explicitly state its author’s Section mous peer review by the section steering study of North American religions, or methodology(ies). committee. Nathan Rein, Ursinus College, nrein@ offer critical reflections on keywords in SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: ursinus.edu. Teresa Shaw, Claremont SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: the study of American religion. To spur OP3 Graduate Union, [email protected]. OP3 interactive sessions, we seek proposals for round tables, debates, visual and musical The History of Christianity Section seeks   performances, workshops, and other to present innovative and engaging appropriate formats, as well as more tradi- research on the history, culture, and devel- Religion in South Asia North American Religions tional presentations. opment of Christianity from its origins to Section the present, while at the same time pro- Section Regardless, we encourage all presenters to Parimal G. Patil, Harvard University, moting interdisciplinary dialogue among Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt Divinity eschew the conventional format and to [email protected]. Tazim Kassam, the fields of history, ritual studies, art his- School, [email protected]. consider teaching or simply talking their Syracuse University, [email protected]. tory, anthropology, and historical theolo- Philip Goff, Indiana University–Purdue ideas and arguments, not merely reading gy. We seek proposals for individual University Indianapolis, [email protected]. their papers aloud. We invite proposals for fully developed papers or entire panels on the following paper or panel sessions on any aspect of The North American Religions Section topics: saints and sainthood; exegesis in SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: religion(s) in South Asia — textual, ethno- seeks to advance the study of religions in the history of Christianity; the history of OP3 graphic, visual, historical, philosophical, the United States, Canada, and Mexico by Christianity in China and the Chinese pedagogical, comparative, etc. We will also promoting innovative scholarship across  diaspora; and “folk” belief and “supersti- consider individual paper proposals, but disciplinary and national boundaries. tion.” We will consider proposals on other strongly encourage everyone to submit Thus, we host sessions based on their Philosophy of Religion topics as well. Papers should be conceived complete paper or panel sessions whenever potential to foster critical and comparative for an effective 20-minute presentation. Section possible. Interdisciplinary approaches and discussion on themes that are inclusive of All proposals must be submitted online Thomas A. Carlson, University of Santa multitradition perspectives are encouraged. Barbara, California, tcarlson@ Specific topics suggested by RISA members religion.ucsb.edu. Joseph Prabhu, California include: A Review of Religions of South State University, Los Angeles, jprabhu@ Asia: An Introduction (Jack Llewellyn, “These stories may come up from the basement of calstatela.edu. [email protected]); encounters in church history, but news about their existence deserves to be ethnography today (Karen Pechilis, The Philosophy of Religion Section shouted from the housetops.” —MARTIN E. MARTY [email protected]); religion and reform invites proposals for individual papers, writers in post-colonial India and Hindu- paper sessions, and panels related to the Muslim encounters: shared spaces and ide- A People’s History of Christianity following topics: Hegel’s Phenomenology of ologies (Prabhavati Reddy, pcreddy@ Spirit; the thought of Franz Rosenzweig; The Lived Religion of Christians in verizon.net); religious buildings: changing Charles Taylor’s Gifford Lectures (“Living uses and competing claims (Leslie C. Orr, the First Two Thousand Years in a Secular Age”); the turn to St. Paul in [email protected]); satire, humor, and char- General Editor: DENIS R. JANZ, Loyola University New Orleans Alain Badiou, et al.; China and the phi- acter in South Asian religions/visual culture losophy of religion; Wittgenstein on Editorial Advisory Board (Paul Courtright, [email protected]); South silence and the mystical (a session to be SEAN FREYNE, Trinity College, Dublin • ELIZABETH CLARK, Duke University Asia and the tsunami/natural disasters; co-sponsored with the Mysticism Group SUSAN ASHBROOK HARVEY, Brown University South Asia: post-9/11; prosperity and the in homage to D. Z. Phillips). We also BERNARD McGINN, University of Chicago transformation of sacred space; South Asian welcome proposals on topics not explicitly CHARLES LIPPY, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga religions through its art and architecture; listed here. PLEASE NOTE: Proposal STEVEN E. OZMENT, Harvard University reading novels religiously; illness as reli- submissions will not be accepted by any ROSEMARY RADFORD RUETHER, Pacific School of Religion gious experience; and curatorial studies, means other than the OP3 system. preservation, and RISA. Volume 3 SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Byzantine Christianity SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Edited by DEREK KRUEGER OP3 NEW! OP3 0-8006-3413-6 hardcover 272 pp $35.00   Volume 4 Medieval Christianity Religion and the Social Study of Islam Section Edited by DANIEL E. BORNSTEIN Sciences Section 0-8006-3414-4 hardcover 350 pp $35.00 Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso Douglas A. Hicks, University of University, Nelly.VanDoorn- Volume 5 Richmond, [email protected]. Each volume Reformation Christianity [email protected]. Omid Safi, University includes 50 Edited by PETER MATHESON The steering committee of Religion and of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, illustrations, 0-8006-3415-2 hardcover 350 pp $35.00 the Social Sciences especially invites pro- [email protected]. maps, and an posals in relation to the following themes: Forthcoming The Study of Islam Section encourages 8-page color 1) Political economy and the voice of reli- paper proposals in all areas of Islamic stud- gallery. Volume 6 gion; 2) Psychology of moral imagination: ies. Successful proposals will reflect theo- Modern Christianity to 1900 resources for facing environmental crisis Volume 1 Edited by AMANDA PORTERFIELD, retical and methodological sophistication, (for possible joint session with Person, Christian Origins as well as innovative examination of Volume 7 Culture, and Religion Group); 3) Border Edited by RICHARD A. HORSLEY Islamic practices and texts. As always, we TWENTIETH CENTURY crossings, immigration, and religious 0-8006-3411-X hardcover 336 pp $35.00 welcome submissions dealing with the GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY intersections in Mexico/Southern Edited by MARY FARRELL BEDNAROWSKI, Qur’an, Islamic law, philosophy, jurispru- Volume 2 California (for possible joint session with dence, Sufism, rituals, gender and sexuality Late Ancient Christianity Religion, Public Policy, and Political Edited by VIRGINIA BURRUS constructions, engagement with moderni- Change Consultation); 4) Psychologies 0-8006-3412-8 hardcover 336 pp $35.00 ty, teaching Islam, interfaith, and other and theologies of human development; areas of general interest. Furthermore we and 5) Religion and food: understandings encourage proposals dealing with Shi’ism from the social sciences and religious/the- within and across these areas. In addition, ological studies. We also welcome other we also invite more particular panels on paper or panel proposals that fit with the At bookstores or call 1-800-328-4648 fortresspress.com the following themes: 1) Islam in North section’s purpose: to support scholarship

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America. Especially solicited are proposals We invite proposals on the following top- focusing on Islamic movements and expres- ics: 1) The discourse of authenticity and/or Annual Meeting AV Requests sions in California. 2) Islam in Europe: top- heresy; 2) Judaism and American political Every attempt will be made to meet all requests for AV equip- ics concerning movements and symbolic discourse, in honor of the centenary of ment. However, due to the high cost of technical electronic AV expressions of identity (clothing, etc.) are Abraham Joshua Heschel; 3) Judaism and equipment (computers, LCD projectors, Internet, software, welcome. 3) Youth: networks, culture, and the ethics of warfare; 4) New approaches in etc.), only presentations which necessitate the use of such organizations such as MSA. 4) Teaching Jewish feminist scholarship; 5) Halakhic equipment will be granted access to it. All AV requests must Islam through the arts: poetry, films, music, reasoning and legal theory; 6) Theodicy be received at the time of your proposal. AV requests novels, etc. 5) Muslim approaches to the (for a session to be co-sponsored with the received after the deadline cannot be accommodated. Bible. 6) In view of the 2007 AAR focus on Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide China, all topics on Islam in China or Group); and 7) The formulation and func- Chinese Muslims (including those in coun- tion of vows, oaths, contracts, and/or curses tries such as Malaysia and Indonesia) are in the period of formative Judaism and Theology, gender, and science (issues such papers and panels from a variety of religious welcome. We welcome both “paper sessions” Christianity (for a session to be co-spon- as theology and neuroscience as they per- traditions that explore the role of women in and “panel sessions.” A “paper session” has sored with the SBL Social History of tain to race, gender, and class); 3) text, history, ritual, (contemporary) culture, individually listed proposals and abstracts, Formative Christianity and Judaism Interreligious dialogue and geopolitical and organizational life. This year we are focus- whereas a “panel session” is organized Section). As always, we aim to present pan- realities; 4) Theology, liberalism, and pro- ing on four themes that will locate our section around a theme. Since our review process is els at the AAR that display a wide diversity gressive Christianity; 5) Theology of the in light of the Southern California venue of an anonymous one, we especially ask that of methodological and historical subfields military; and 6) Theology and love. the 2007 conference; in light of the last joint organizers pay attention to issues of diversi- in the study of Judaism, and welcome all Additionally, the Theology and Religious meeting with colleagues from SBL; in light of ty (ethnic, gender, age, discipline, etc.). In paper and panel proposals that help meet Reflection Section welcomes paper and the culture of the gaze on the body; and in order to assure coherence in the proposal, this aim. panel proposals which address the intersec- light of women and Chinese religions. Possible feel free to utilize the Study of Islam listserv tions of theological and religious reflection topics include: women’s bodies as sites of sci- to solicit other proposals on the theme you SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: with philosophical and political issues, and ence, exchange, and meaning; women and are putting together. Finally, we encourage OP3 with questions of literary, cultural, and crit- religion in the movies; the gaze on the body; new formats to present the papers, poster  ical theory. “California Girls”; women in Bible and other sessions, and using audiovisual material. sacred scriptures; Chinese religions and SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Submissions via OP3 system unless unfore- Theology and Religious women; Chinese women in the American reli- seen technical difficulties arise. OP3 gious imagination; and women in religion and Reflection Section  in the emerging science (neuroscience, SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School, genomics, stem cell research, fertility research.) OP3 [email protected]. Joerg Rieger, Southern Women and Religion Section Panels that feature both junior and senior  Methodist University, [email protected]. scholars and papers that use innovative ways Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University, of presenting information are strongly encour- The Theology and Religious Reflection [email protected]. Laurie Zoloth, aged. Study of Judaism Section Section invites proposals for the 2007 pro- Northwestern University, lzoloth@ gram on the following themes: 1) Aryeh Cohen, University of Judaism, northwestern.edu. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Theological and religious reflections on [email protected]. Martin Kavka, Florida State OP3 work, immigration, and borders; 2) The Women and Religion Section invites University, [email protected]. 

Groups are established to encourage the exploration of an emergent area of study or methodology, to cultivate the relation between the study of religion and a cognate discipline, or to pursue a long-range and broad research project. More focused than sections and less restricted in partici- GROUPS pation than seminars, groups are expected to experiment with the format of sessions at the Annual Meeting. African Religions Group Afro-American Religious Samuel K. (Kip) Elolia, Emmanuel School of History Group Religion, [email protected]. Laura Grillo, Moses N. Moore, Arizona State Anthropology of Religion Asian North American Pacifica Graduate Institute, lgrillo@ University, [email protected]. Group Religion, Culture, and pacifica.edu. Anthea Butler, University of Rochester, Society Group J. Shawn Landres, Synagogue 3000/ Papers are invited on the following themes: [email protected]. UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, Su Yon Pak, Union Theological Seminary, 1) The material and economic dimensions of The Afro-American History Group invites [email protected]. Rebecca Sachs Norris, [email protected]. Anne Joh, Phillips religions in Africa today; 2) (Mis)translations panel proposals or papers on the following Merrimack College, rebecca.norris@ Theological Seminary, [email protected] and (re)conceptualizations of indigenous reli- themes: The history of African-American merrimack.edu. gious ideas across ethnic and cultural bound- We welcome 1) Interdisciplinary theologi- religion in the West, including such aries in Africa; 3) Religion, violence, and con- We invite proposals from across anthro- cal and religious reflections on globaliza- themes as westward migration, African flict in Africa — dynamics and responses. In pology and religion, especially papers that tion, postcolonialism, and postmodernity Americans and Mormonism, Native the evaluation of proposals, the committee move beyond traditional ethnographic in conversation with Asian and Asian- Americans, borderland issues, Mexico, and will give preference to scholarly and construc- methods. This year we especially seek American experiences; and 2) Proposals the African Diaspora and religious tradi- tive papers that are likely to solicit discussion. papers for the following themes: 1) that address the complexity of “Native, tion. Panels that also focus on historic In keeping with the 2007 international focus, Personal and community narrative (e.g., Immigrant, or Refugee? Cultural Identity aspects of African-American religion we welcome submissions from Chinese schol- autoethnography and oral history, particu- in a Shifting Environment,” since San (movement, events, or persons) in ars. Submission via OP3 is preferred, but e- larly related to Pacific Rim, Latin- Diego is a city of massive cultural and California are also encouraged. Papers or mailed submissions are acceptable. American, African-American, and African demographic flow from Latin America panels that cover the following anniver- immigrant religious communities on the and Asia. We also welcome 3) Proposals saries: the African-American religious SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: West Coast); 2) Fieldwork dilemmas in on the eve of the AAR/SBL split marking experience in Jamestown (2007 marks the OP3 the study of anomalous experiences and the history, struggle, and vision of the 400th anniversary of the landing in altered states of consciousness; 3) ANARCS/SBL Asian American   1607); and the commemoration of the “Chinese Sacred Spaces: Framing Forms Hermeneutics groups. Especially of inter- abolition of the slave trade in 1807. Panels and Fieldwork,” to be co-sponsored with est are proposals pairing senior/junior for book and/or film discussions are also the Sacred Spaces in Asia Group; and 4) scholars discussing changes and trajecto- encouraged. KEY TO SYMBOLS: Anthropology and social archaeology of ries in the study of Asian North American the ancient world, including the Dead Sea religion, theology, and Biblical studies; = Surface mail SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA:  OP3 Scrolls communities. We encourage sub- and 4) Proposals that push the boundaries missions from scholars using anthropology of theory and research in Asian North •= Fax   to study diverse traditions, regions, and American religions. eras. OP3 SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: = OP3 SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA  : OP3 OP3 = E-mail    (continued on next page) = E-mail with attachment

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Augustine and Bioethics and Religion diverse methodological, textual, historical, Black Theology Group Augustinianisms Group Group and social approaches, as well as cross-cul- Stacey Floyd-thomas, Texas Christian Robert P. Kennedy, St. Francis Xavier tural, class, and gender analyses. Special Aline H. Kalbian, Florida State University, University, [email protected]. Stephen University, [email protected]. Kim consideration will be given to proposals [email protected]. Swasti Bhattacharyya, G. Ray, Lutheran Theological Sseminary Paffenroth, Iona College, that attend to religious texts and practices. Buena Vista University, bhattacharyya@ at Philadelphia, [email protected]. [email protected]. We also invite proposals for a joint session bvu.edu. with the Women and Religion Section on The Black Theology Group seeks papers and/or Papers are invited on the following two Inspired by San Diego’s proximity to “Gender and the Ethics of Gamete panel proposals on issues of methods and themes: 1) Augustine and psychology: We Mexico, we invite papers on the theme Donation.” Papers on any topic in sources in the ongoing development of black seek papers on any aspect of this topic, “Bioethics and Borderlands.” Topics might bioethics and religion will also receive theology.Weare particularly interested in pro- including Augustine’s understanding of include health care and immigration consideration. posals that engage world religions (especially, the self; psychoanalytical interpretations of reform; the duty to care for the vulnera- but not limited to, Buddhism and Hinduism) Augustine and his work; and the influence ble; the notion of the stranger in medi- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: from a black theological perspective. of Augustinian concepts in later thought. cine; global epidemics that transgress OP3 2) Augustine and Empire: Papers dealing national borders; and ethical issues partic- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: with the place of North Africa within the  ular to immigrant populations both in the OP3 Roman empire, Augustine’s attitude(s)

United States and abroad. We encourage towards the Roman empire or imperial  aspirations generally, and Augustine’s ✃ influence, supposed or real, on later empires all would be welcome. PARTICIPANT FORM 2007 SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: OP3 (PREARRANGED SESSION) The session organizer or chair must fill out this form in its entirety. Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Names and institutions will appear in the Program Book as indicated below (please include city name if more than Indigenous Communities one school or campus bears the name). If you are not affiliated with an institution, list city, state, or province. Group (PLEASE PRINT IN BLUE OR BLACK INK.) Laura E. Donaldson, Cornell University, [email protected]. Fernando F. Segovia, Vanderbilt University, Session Organizer Contact Information [email protected]. We are co-sponsoring a session on “Biblical Ethics from the Margins: Racial, Name Ethnic, and Other Minority Perspectives” with the Ethics Section and the Institution Biblical/Contextual Ethics Consultation. We are seeking papers by and from mar- ginalized communities with a biblical eye Mailing Address toward social justice. The second session of the Bible in Racial, Ethnic and Indigenous Communities Group is an City State/Province Postal Code Country invited panel entitled “Gating the Nations: Biblical Ideologies of the Wall.” This panel will address the way the Bible Office Phone Home Phone E-mail has been used to construct (or decon- struct) walls such as that between California and Mexico, the walls of Mazanar, a World War II concentration 1. PROPOSED THEME of SESSION: 3b. OTHER PROGRAM UNITS in which above participants may par- camp in Northern California, and the ticipate or to which they are also sending submissions, if any (list walls of the California mission system. participant name and program unit): Related issues will include social walls such as the California Exclusion Act. 2. PROGRAM UNIT to which you are submitting this proposal: (Completed participant form(s) must accompany each submission.) SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: OP3 4. AUDIOVISUAL REQUIREMENTS for the entire session (note number needed):  ____ Slide Projector w/Screen & Carousel 2b. OTHER PROGRAM UNIT to which you are submitting this pro- Bible, Theology, and ____ Extra Carousel(s) posal, if any. Please place a number in the order of your prefer- ____ Overhead Projector w/Screen Postmodernity Group ence, if any, of program unit acceptance: ____ Extra Screen Jon L. Berquist, Westminster John Knox Press, [email protected]. Catherine Keller, ____ VCR or DVD Player with Monitor (circle one) Drew University, [email protected]. ____ Cassette or CD Player (circle one) ❐ ❐ ❐ This group encourages dialogue between ____ Computer: Windows Macintosh Internet 3. PLANNED PARTICIPANTS for this session, in order of appearance: constructive theologians and biblical ____ LCD Projector w/Screen scholars, dealing with themes of interest to Presider:______Other: both disciplines within the context of ______postmodern situations. We encourage cre- Panelists:______ative proposals that will suggest new and ______Audiovisual requests must be submitted at the same time as your proposal. Late provocative solutions to questions of bibli- requests cannot be accommodated. The executive office makes every attempt ______to honor the AV requests of our members. Unusual requests should be cleared, cal theology. For next year, we will focus through the appropriate program unit chair, with the executive office to confirm on new readings of Exodus, diaspora, and ______the availability of the equipment or set-up of space. immigration. ______SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: 5. SCHEDULING NEEDS due to religious observance, if any: Respondent:______OP3 ______  ______NOTE: No individual may participate on the program more than two times.

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Bonhoeffer: Theology and this work. We also invite proposals explor- Buddhist Critical– Buddhism and ecological awareness Social Analysis Group ing this question: does the current resur- Constructive Reflection inform each other; or how Buddhism and gence of religion, particularly conservative a current social problem inform each Lori Brandt Hale, Augsburg College, Group Christianity in America, call for renewed other. 2) A Buddhist theme reconsidered [email protected]. Lisa Dahill, Trinity John Makransky, Boston College, engagement with Bonhoeffer’s “religion- in its relevance to our time — such as Lutheran Seminary, ldahill@ [email protected]. Roger Jackson, Carleton less” interpretation? Finally, we invite pro- karma, liberation, emptiness, or universal trinitylutheranseminary.edu. College, [email protected]. posals for a possible co-sponsored session compassion. 3) For a co-sponsored session In honor of the long history of joint meet- with the Religion, Genocide, and This group explores how modern academ- with the Academic Teaching and Study of ings between the AAR and SBL, we invite Holocaust Group on the use of ic study of Buddhism may inform Religion Section, we also invite papers on proposals exploring Bonhoeffer’s use and Bonhoeffer’s life and theology in post- Buddhist understandings today, and how how contemplative practices may help ful- exegesis of biblical texts, including, but Holocaust (and postgenocide) interfaith Buddhist understandings may help address fill pedagogical goals of courses, with not limited to, the Psalms. Such proposals dialogues. contemporary problems in society, philos- examples. might also explore Bonhoeffer as pastor, ophy, and religion. We invite paper or preacher, and/or theologian. The release of SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: panel proposals on the following: SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: the newly translated volumes (13 & 16) of OP3 1) Buddhist perspectives on a contempo- OP3

Bonhoeffer’s pastoral letters and time in  rary issue — for example, how feminism 

London could be of particular import in and Buddhism inform each other; or how ✃ Buddhist Philosophy Group John D. Dunne, Emory University, PARTICIPANT FORM 2007 [email protected]. A. Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University, acmuller@ (INDIVIDUAL PROPOSALS) jj.em-net.ne.jp. The Buddhist Philosophy Group, while accepting individual paper proposals, seeks Each presenter, panelist, respondent, and presider must fill out a form in its entirety. mainly to sponsor tightly integrated group It is very important that the participant fill out this form. Name and institution will appear in the presentations. Topics might center on the Program Book as indicated below (please include city name if more than one school or campus bears the name). content or interpretation of a specific If you are not affiliated with an institution, list city, state, or province. philosophical problem, but they might also address metatheoretical issues such as (PLEASE PRINT IN BLUE OR BLACK INK.) methodology. Panels may likewise focus on a recent publication central to the field or a classical text of particular importance. Name Panels or sessions that use a diversity of methods to address a thematic issue with- in a regional focus are also encouraged. Institution Potential topics raised by group members include: contemplative practice and phi- losophy; a typology of philosophical cate- Mailing Address gories; ineffability; debate; tath–agatagarb- ha; perception; reflexive awareness; – City State/Province Postal Code Country dignaga in China; what is buddhist phi- losophy — emic and etic accounts; trik–aya theory; and eighth-ninth century Sino- Office Phone Home Phone E-mail Tibetan philosophy. Other topics are also welcome.

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____ Overhead Projector w/Screen (continued on next page) 2. PROGRAM UNIT to which you are submitting this proposal: ____ Extra Screen ____ VCR or DVD Player w/Monitor (circle one) ____ Cassette or CD Player (circle one) ❐ ❐ ❐ ____ Computer: Windows Macintosh Internet ____ LCD Projector w/Screen 2b. OTHER PROGRAM UNIT to which you are submitting this ____ Other:______proposal, if any. Please place a number in the order of your preference, if any, of program unit acceptance: Audiovisual requests must be submitted at the same time as your proposal. Late requests cannot be accommodated. The executive office makes every attempt to honor the AV requests of our members. Unusual requests should be cleared, through the appropriate program unit chair, with the executive KEY TO SYMBOLS: office to confirm the availability of the equipment or set-up of space. = Surface mail 5. SCHEDULING NEEDS due to religious observance, if any:  (Completed participant form(s) must accompany each submission.) ______•= Fax 3. YOUR ROLE in this session: ______❐ Presiding ______OP3 ❐ Presenting (titled paper) = OP3 ❐  Responding ❐ Panelist (untitled presentation) ❐ = E-mail Presiding at a Business Meeting  = E-mail with attachment NOTE: No individual may participate in the program more than two times.

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Chinese Religions Group Comparative Religious Ethics Comparative Theology “Daoism,” “Chinese Buddhism,” Group Group “Confucianism,” “folk religion,” etc.); Daniel B. Stevenson, University of Kansas, 2) Race, power, binary thinking (distor- [email protected]. James Robson, University of Aaron Stalnaker, Indiana University, Deepak Sarma, Case Western Reserve tions and marginalizations in the study of Michigan, Ann Arbor, [email protected]. [email protected]. University, [email protected]. Tracy religion); 3) Critical discussion of Thomas Tiemeier, Loyola Marymount University, We invite proposals related to all aspects of We encourage submissions that actively com- Tweed’s Crossing and Dwelling (how does [email protected]. religious thought and practice in China and pare and contrast positions or trajectories this theory work with specific cases, e.g., Chinese diaspora communities. For 2007 we from diverse religious thinkers or groups, Comparative Theology Group seeks pro- nomadism, diasporic religions?); welcome proposals in the following areas: rather than merely reporting views from indi- posals exploring CT in multiple tradi- 4) Documentary film and issues of visual religious policy and practice in China vidual traditions. This year, in collaboration tions. Full, multiperson proposals pre- representation; 5) Contemporary theo- (including the status of Christian and with the Confucian Traditions Group, we ferred — steering committee is willing to rists/theories from non–Euro-U.S. con- Islamic traditions, and the politics of “popu- invite papers that analyze the unusual promi- help. Topics include further theorization texts (especially those emerging out of lar superstition” and “heretical movements”); nence of studies of Chinese thought, especial- of comparison; CT as theological; CT’s non-Christian traditions); and religious ramifications of civil service exam ly early Confucianism, in the development of theories, methodologies, precedents, 6) Discourse analysis (uses and insights, culture; digital resources for the study of comparative religious ethics, pointing out genealogies; is CT inevitably Christian?; especially in the area of religious law). Chinese religions (prospects and impact on both distinctive contributions and possible vs. Euro-American domination of CT; future scholarship); ritual discourses in limitations of this trend. We also solicit inte- CT’s audience; multiple religious identi- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: China and their implications for current rit- grated sessions, as well as individual proposals, ties; oral traditions; creeds, dogmas; truth OP3 ual theory; negotiating multiple religious on substantive topics in comparative religious claims; rebirth pro/con; translation prob-  obligations; and Dunhuang studies. With ethics. Themes of particular interest include lems; Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern reli- Chinese contributions to the study of reli- comparative approaches to moral psychology gions; CT, Chinese, Japanese religions; Eastern Orthodox Studies gion as the international focus for 2007, we and moral agency; problems of relativism and Benedict XVI, Islam, apologetics; are especially interested in programs on the normative argument in comparative ethics; Christian-Jewish dialogue as CT; ortho- Group history, organization, and methodological and analysis of how comparative inquiry praxy; Taoist, Western liturgy; mysticism Paul Gavrilyuk, University of Saint disposition of religious studies as a discipline changes and/or makes claims on its practi- and spiritual practices; hagiography; Thomas (MN), [email protected]. in Chinese academic institutions. tioners. Frisina’s Unity of Knowledge and Action; lib- Eve Tibbs, Fuller Seminary, etibbs@ eral theologies, world religions; feminist adelphia.net. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: critiques; Altruism in World Religions The Eastern Orthodox Studies Group OP3 OP3 (Neusner/Chilton); freedom; and nature- invites papers on the following two topics: affirming/denying religions. Online sub-   1) Historical and/or contemporary mission only; thematic sessions (four + encounters between Eastern Christianity respondent), panels (five + respondent). Christian Spirituality Group Comparative Studies in and Islam with proposals being sought in Thematic: abstract + paper proposals; all areas of contact between the two reli- Arthur Holder, Graduate Theological Hinduisms and Judaisms panel: abstract + names. gious traditions including, but not limited Union, [email protected]. Wendy M. Group to, shared theological views, popular reli- Wright, Creighton University, SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State gious expressions, and depictions of the [email protected]. OP3 University, [email protected]. other in religious and other literature; and We welcome proposals that explore the  2) The use of images or icons in the This group seeks to bring together scholars of relationship between the academic study Eastern Christian tradition within a vari- Hinduism and Judaism to generate responsi- of Christian spirituality and its practice, as Confucian Traditions Group ety of differing contexts, settings, or space: ble and insightful comparative conversation well as proposals that employ multidisci- liturgical, devotional, public, private, or with the intention of developing alternatives Keith Knapp, Citadel, keith.knapp@ plinary perspectives. We particularly invite political. to the Christian-based paradigms that have citadel.edu. Michael Puett, Harvard proposals on the following themes: tended to dominate the academic study of University, [email protected]. 1) Christian spirituality and the phenome- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: religion. Paper proposals on any theme will be non of multiple religious belonging (e.g., We invite proposals concerning any aspect OP3 considered for acceptance, but for the 2007 Bede Griffiths, Abhishiktananda, of Confucianism. Topics of interest are: sessions we particularly invite papers on the  Intermonastic experience, etc.); 2) The empirical approaches (sociological or following themes: 1) Kabbalah, Hindu mysti- Psalms in Christian spirituality; 3) The anthropological) to the study of cism, and new religious movements; 2) Ecclesiological Investigations spirituality of Chinese or Chinese- Confucianism; Neo-Confucian ideas Practices and teaching related to hair; 3) American Christians; and 4) For a co- about evil; what is a Confucian? the for- Group Iconography and iconoclasm; and 4) sponsored session with the Religion and mation of the Confucian classics; and Michael A. Fahey, Boston College, Women’s laments. Proposals for individual Ecology Group: Christian spiritual prac- what is at stake in Confucianism as a reli- [email protected]. Gerard papers as well as full panels are encouraged. tices for a sustainable ecology. gion? In collaboration with the Mannion, Liverpool Hope University, Presenters need not have expertise in both Comparative Religious Ethics Group, we [email protected]. Hindu and Jewish traditions. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: invite papers that analyze the prominence 1) Communion and Otherness: OP3 of studies of early Confucianism in the SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Contemporary Challenges of “Impaired development of comparative religious  OP3 Communions.” Communion as an ecu- ethics. We also encourage panels in the menical challenge between churches and  new 90-minute format, which can take an ecclesiological challenge within church- the form of a symposium on a particular es, with a focus on constructive proposals text, pedagogy, or a specific author. Since for the present. We also invite papers criti- the international focus of next year’s meet- Checklists cally assessing recently published studies ing will be Chinese contributions to the Prearranged Paper/Panel Session Proposals such as Zizioulas’s Communion and study of religion, please think about Otherness. 2) “The Church and Its Many ❐ Proposal being sent via proper method including Chinese scholars in your panels. Asian Faces.” Papers exploring questions ❐ Current 2007 memberships for all participants including presider SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: pertaining to Asian ecclesiology, incultura- tion, and interreligious dialogue, with a ❐ Completed Prearranged Session Participant Form listing all OP3 specific focus upon ministry and authori- participants including presider (not necessary in OP3)  ty. We particularly welcome papers ❐ Proposal (1,000 words or fewer, double-spaced) addressing relevant ecclesiological themes Critical Theory and in relation to the AAR 2007 theme of ❐ For paper sessions: individual abstracts for all participants Discourses on Religion China. Also welcome are historical treat- ❐ For panel session: single abstract for the entire session Group ments of the churches in and of Asia and their influence upon the wider Christian ❐ Abstract(s) in an electronic format (150 words or fewer) Steven Engler, Mount Royal College, sjen- community. Papers exploring shared inter- [email protected]. Kocku von Stuckrad, ests with comparative theology, feminist, Individual Proposals University of Amsterdam, or social scientific aspects of Asian ecclesi- ❐ Proposal being sent via proper method [email protected]. ology are also invited. ❐ Current membership for 2007 CTDR offers a forum for critical/theoreti- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: cal work in conversation with concrete ❐ Completed Participant Form (not necessary in OP3) OP3 cases, e.g., the historical or ethnographic ❐ Proposal (1,000 words or fewer, double-spaced) study of religious life and institutions.  This year’s themes: 1) China’s “isms” (ori- ❐ Abstract, in an electronic format (150 words or fewer) gin, validity, and ideological functions of

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Evangelical Theology Group what does the shift toward queer sensibili- storytelling in Islamic mysticism; practical ties portend for religion and ethics? We and engaged Sufism; reformist and legal John R. Franke, Biblical Theological KEY TO SYMBOLS: also welcome paper and panel proposals aspects of Islamic mysticism; neo- Seminary, [email protected]. Wyndy on topics not listed here and from all reli- Platonism and Islamic mysticism; the Corbin Reuschling, Ashland Theological = Surface mail gious traditions. nature of a Sufi order (e.g., the  Seminary, [email protected]. Qadiriyya); Islamic mysticism and the arts • The Evangelical Theology Group is SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: (including film and communication = Fax accepting paper and panel proposals for OP3 media); and Sufism and psychology. OP3 the following themes in 2007: 1)  Proposals dealing with Islamic mysticism = OP3 Evangelical traditions and tradition. in China are especially welcome in view of  Proposals are welcomed that explore the Hinduism Group the AAR emphasis on China in 2007. diversity of evangelical expression (confes- = E-mail SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: sional/theological, cultural/ethnic, emer- Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee = E-mail with attachment gent, etc.) and its relationship to the idea University, [email protected]. Vijaya OP3 of a unifying evangelical tradition. 2) Nagarajan, University of San Francisco,  Evangelicals in Southern California. [email protected]. Proposals may explore how geographic, We invite session proposals for the 2007 Japanese Religions Group cultural, and social factors have shaped Consider including reflections on the rele- meeting on any aspect of Hinduism. evangelical interaction with the racial, eth- Paula Arai, Carleton College, parai@ vance of Japanese religiosity to religiosity Interdisciplinary and comparative propos- nic, and religious communities of the area. carleton.edu. Jay Ford, Wake Forest and the study of religion more broadly als are also welcome, but individual paper 3) For a co-sponsored session with the University, fordj.wfu.edu. construed. Creative formats (film, organ- proposals cannot be accepted. Proposals Wesleyan Studies Group: Hospitality to ized discussion, “workshop,” etc.) are must be made through the online system. We invite panel and individual proposals the dispossessed. Papers are invited which encouraged. Topics proposed at the meeting: religion related to all aspects of Japanese religious explore a theology of immigration, treat- of the “backward” moves forward practice and thought, both historical and ing topics such as social action in immi- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: (Christian Novetzke); trees and forests contemporary. For 2007 we welcome pro- grant communities, negotiating dual cul- OP3 (Eliza Kent); global gurus (Joanne posals relating to the following topics: 1) tures, and the interface between estab- Waghorne); Hindu reform movements Use of visuals (images, videos, etc.) in  lished Christian communities and newly (Diana Dimitrova); Hindu activist critique teaching Japanese religiosity; 2) How arrived immigrants. of the Hindutva (Koenraad Elst); Hindu migration (both people and traditions) has SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: “Occidentalism” (Sushil Mittal); effects of changed Japanese religion; 3) The impact OP3 tourism (Jim Lochtefeld); Bhagavata- of Japanese translations of “law” and “reli- Purana (Ithamar Theodor); and Hindu gion” on the study of religion and legal  ascetic traditions (Ramdas Lamb). debates about religion; 4) Material culture (continued on next page) Proposals on other topics are of course and practices; 5) Chinese views of Feminist Theory and welcome. Japanese religions (in conjunction with Religious Reflection Group the AAR focus on Chinese scholarship); SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: and 6) Exile in Japanese religious history. Rosemary P. Carbine, College of the Holy OP3 Cross, [email protected]. M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University,  [email protected]. Indigenous Religious Paper and panel proposals are invited that critically and practically engage feminist Traditions Group theory and religious reflection. Preference Jualynne E. Dodson, Michigan State is given to proposals with substantial femi- University, [email protected]. Ines M. nist theoretical argument and with atten- Talamantez, University of California, tion to cross-cultural perspectives, espe- Santa Barbara, [email protected]. January 28–30, 2008 cially China studies. We solicit both We welcome papers and panels devoted to papers and panels particularly on the fol- three particular areas: 1) Shamanism in lowing topics: 1) Pedagogy and power: Albert Outler and the Wesleyan Spirit indigenous practices focusing on types, teaching toward transformation in femi- forms, and meanings of shamanistic A scholarly conference on the occasion nist/womanist theory and theology (co- expression in several regions of the world, sponsored with Womanist Approaches to of the centennial of the birth of including Australasia, Africa, Europe, and Religion and Society Group); 2) the Americas. 2) Chinese scholarship on Albert Cook Outler Reconceptualizing divine and human indigenous traditions including work by power: engagements especially but not Chinese scholars on indigenous traditions only with Catherine Keller; and 3) his conference for scholars, pastors, church in China and other places and critique of Tragedy, irony, and other alternative gen- and academic professionals, and laity will such work. 3) Rethinking the study of res for feminist theories and theologies. indigenous religions in contemporary soci- bring scholars from throughout the globe to ety examining epistemological, hermeneu- TSouthern Methodist University where Albert C. Outler SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: (1908-1989) studied and taught generations of clergy and OP3 tical, and methodological innovations for scholarship on indigenous religions. In academicians. Outler was among the most important  general, we encourage papers and/or pan- ÀJXUHV LQ :HVOH\ VFKRODUVKLS DQG D OHDGLQJ WKHRORJLDQ RI els that interrogate the concept of indige- the Methodist tradition and the ecumenical movement. Gay Men’s Issues in Religion nous religion rather than report on indige- This conference will critically examine Outler’s work Group nous practice. What would be the criteria of indigenous religion for China or DQG DVVHVV KLV FRQWULEXWLRQV WR :HVOH\ VWXGLHV &KULVWLDQ Donald L. Boisvert, Concordia University, Australasia? Or, can settler traditions history, Protestant theology, ecumenism, and the church. [email protected]. become indigenous? The Gay Men’s Issues in Religion Group A Call for Papers is available at perkins.smu.edu explores the intersections of gay male SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Proposals are due March 16, 2007. experience and religion. This year we are OP3 interested in the role religion plays in the  contestations over U.S. immigration and the social construction of racial/ethnic Islamic Mysticism Group “others”; how does this relate to the (reli- gious) constructions of gay men as sexu- Vincent Cornell, Emory University, For more information contact: al/gender “others”? Similarly, we are inter- [email protected]. Carl Ernst, University Gary MacDonald, director of Advanced Ministerial Studies ested in the construction of religious “oth- of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Southern Methodist University ers” — noninstitutional forms of spiritual [email protected]. Perkins School of Theology practice as well as gay male contributions The Islamic Mysticism Group solicits P.O. Box 750133 to pagan and neopagan or “nature” reli- paper and panel proposals for the 2007 Dallas, TX 75275 gions. Finally, we encourage papers on the AAR Annual Meeting, especially in rela- historical trajectory from “gay” to “queer”; [email protected] 214.768.3161 tion to the following topics: narrative and

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Kierkegaard, Religion, and Christianity; 2) Korean Buddhism as a especially interested in engagement with Culture Group part of North Asian Buddhism; 3) Korean “non-Christian” religious practices and Member ID adaptations and developments of Chinese communities. A second session will be an Andrew Burgess, University of New Number Confucianism; 4) The status and function invited panel meant to honor the work of Mexico, [email protected]. Marilyn Piety, You can find your of women in Korean religions today; and Latino theologian Orlando Espín on the Drexel University, [email protected]. membership ID number 5) Korean religions at home and abroad: occasion of his 60th birthday. This panel on any of the official The Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture comparative analyses. We also welcome session will also explore the implications paperwork that comes Group invites proposals for papers on the any other proposals on different topics of his body of work for the ongoing devel- from the AAR. The top line topic of “Kierkegaard and Religious that have a well-defined methodology and opment of U.S. Latino/a theologies. of the address label has Pluralism.” The call should be understood include critical analyses of the data. Please your ID number. It is a sin- broadly so that it includes topics as diverse submit panel and paper proposals via the SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: gle letter followed by five as Kierkegaard’s attitude toward religions AAR OP3 system no later than March 7, OP3 (5) numbers (e.g., other than Christianity; the employment 2007. If you have any questions or addi-  Z12345). of Kierkegaardian themes in understand- tional suggestions, please contact John ing other religious traditions; the interpre- Goulde or Jin Park by e-mail. Law, Religion, and Culture If you are a 2006 or tation of Kierkegaard from the perspec- 2007 member, the label tives of other religious traditions; and the SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Group on this Call for Papers use of Kierkegaard’s writing as a resource OP3 Robert Yelle, University of Memphis, has your ID number on it. for interreligious conversation. There will  [email protected]. If it is not there, please also be a prearranged panel, co-sponsored go to www.aarweb.org/ We invite paper and panel proposals on with the Schleiermacher Group, on membership and you can Latina/o Religion, Culture, any aspect of the cultural, historical, criti- Kierkegaard’s relation to Schleiermacher. request to have your ID cal, and comparative study of the intersec- and Society Group number e-mailed to you tions of law and religion, including legal SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Carmen Marie Nanko-Fernandez, immediately. categories in religious traditions, the treat- OP3 Catholic Theological Union, ment of religion within legal traditions, [email protected]. Benjamin Valentin,  and human rights and freedom of religion Andover Newton Theological School, and belief. We especially encourage pro- [email protected]. Korean Religions Group posals on the following themes: the cross- broadly interpreted. 3) The spirituality of The Latino/a Religion, Culture, and cultural translation of the categories of Jin Y. Park, American University, boys and the issues boys face in spiritual Society Group invites papers and/or panel “law” and “religion,” the ways in which [email protected]. John I. Goulde, development. 4) Religious reflection on proposals on the following thematic: such translations have influenced the Sweet Briar College, [email protected]. men and masculinities in context — pos- Varieties of Latino/a Religious Experience study of religion — especially religions sible themes: war, empire, aging, embodi- The Korean Religions Group invites panel and Expression. This session wishes to other than Christianity — and the impact ment, fathering, sports, and global eco- and/or paper proposals on the following explore and/or engage with the distinct of law on conceptions of religion around nomics. Papers from religious traditions topics: 1) Social science approaches to the forms of religions and/or religious tradi- the world. engaging masculinities and nationality, critical understanding of Korean tions found among U.S. Latino/as. It is SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: race, class, sexual orientation, social roles, OP3 etc., also sought. We also invite papers for a shared session with the SBL Social  History of Formative Christianity and Judaism Section that investigate the social Lesbian-Feminist Issues and constructions of men, masculinity, and Religion Group maleness in the context of formative Christianity and Judaism. We are particu- Julie J. Kilmer, Olivet College, larly interested in papers that consider [email protected]. Elizabeth A. Say, these concepts in intersection with analy- California State University Northridge, sis of race, ethnicity, class, social status, [email protected]. and religion. We invite proposals on the following top- ics: 1) LFIR is interested in facilitating a SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: panel conversation on the subject of inter- OP3 generational understandings of  lesbian/queer identity. If you are interested in participating, suggest what you might Mysticism Group contribute to such a panel. 2) The effect of sexual orientation on immigrants and June McDaniel, College of Charleston, issues of immigration. 3) Lesbian identity [email protected]. Laura Weed, College in the work of Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe of Saint Rose, [email protected]. Moraga, or other Chicana lesbians. 4) We focus on the comparative, philosophi- Pagan groups/neopaganism in contempo- cal, theological, psychological, historical, rary lesbian circles. 5) Scholarship from theoretical, cross-cultural, and transna- political settings outside of the United tional nature of mysticism, religious expe- States that encourages global conversations rience, and spiritual practice. Creative, about lesbian issues in religion. We also imaginative, and scholarly proposals with encourage thoughtful, well-developed a clear methodology are invited for 2007 ideas on any range of topics falling under on 1) Asceticism, love, and knowledge; 2) the rubric of lesbian-feminist issues in reli- $FFHSWLQJ $SSOLFDWLRQV IRU Mystical body, mystical senses in tantra gion.  :RUNVKRSV &ROORTXLHV (co-sponsored with the Tantric Studies SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Group); 3) Mysticism and yoga (co-spon- OP3 sored with the Yoga Consultation); 4) 0LG&DUHHU 7KHRORJLFDO 6FKRRO )DFXOW\ Wittgenstein on silence and the mystical: 3UH7HQXUH 7KHRORJLFDO 6FKRRO )DFXOW\  in memory of D. Z. Phillips (co-spon- 3UH7HQXUH 5HOLJLRQ )DFXOW\ DW &ROOHJHV 8QLYHUVLWLHV sored with the Philosophy of Religion Men’s Studies in Religion Section); and 5) Mysticism and the arts: Group mystical paintings, poetry, and hand- $SSOLFDWLRQ 'HDGOLQH  -DQXDU\  books. David Livingston, Mercyhurst College, 6HH :DEDVK &HQWHU ZHE VLWH IRU GHWDLOV [email protected]. Mark Justad, SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Vanderbilt University Divinity School, OP3 [email protected].  Submissions are sought in: 1) Masculinities and Asian religious tradi- tions. 2) Masculinity and Border ZZZZDEDVKFHQWHUZDEDVKHGX Crossings: Mexico/U.S. border in particu- lar; men crossing/protecting borders

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Native Traditions in the religious” in a particular thinker’s work, etc. Practical Theology Group Americas Group Organizer: Ted Vial, [email protected]. 3) Joint Bonnie Miller-Mclemore, Vanderbilt KEY TO SYMBOLS: session with Société Internationale d’Etudes Michael McNally, Carleton College, University, bonnie.miller-mclemore@ sur Alfred Loisy: revisionist Roman Catholic [email protected]. Kenneth Mello, vanderbilt.edu. James Nieman, Hartford = Surface mail scholarship on Christian origins during the  University of Vermont, Seminary, [email protected]. Modernist period (1890–1914) — e.g., A. [email protected]. • Loisy, L. Duchesne, P.Batiffol, A. Houtin, E. The Practical Theology Group engages practi- = Fax We invite individual papers and group Buonaiuti, Mgr. Le Camus. Organizer: David cal theology and religious practice, reflects criti- OP3 proposals on any aspect of Native Schultenover, [email protected]. cally on religious tradition and practice, and = OP3 Traditions in the Americas. In light of explores issues in particular sub-disciplines of  meeting in San Diego, we encourage pro- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: practical theology and ministry. In particular, posals in the following areas: 1) Religious OP3 we invite papers and panel proposals on the = E-mail ideas and associations with water, includ-  following topics: 1) How prayer, worship, or = E-mail with attachment ing the transmission of religion and cul- liturgy provide occasions for shaping political ture via water and waterways (especially, Person, Culture, and attitudes, stances, and activism; 2) The role and but not limited to, proposals that focus on use of scripture in pastoral practice or practical the Pacific, California, and Mexico); 2) Religion Group theology more generally; and, in light of the Militarization of native lands and impact Kathleen Bishop, Drew University, meeting location in southern California, 3) Reformed Theology and on religions and cultures; 3) Con- [email protected]. Pamela Cooper-White, Practical theological perspectives on immi- History Group sequences of missionization in contempo- Lutheran Theological Seminary at grants, refugees, and displaced persons and Katherine Sonderegger, Virginia rary native spiritual communities; 4) Philadelphia, [email protected]. their communities. Preference will be shown to Theological Seminary, Connections between U.S. Native, proposals that demonstrate practical theological Proposals are invited on 1) Multiple selves [email protected]. Robert Sherman, Mexican indigenous, and Chicana/o reli- methods and examine the theologies embed- and subjects: multiplicity, unity, and hybridity Bangor Theological Seminary, gious/spiritual traditions; 5) Methodology ded in practices. We encourage proposals that in psychological and religious conceptions of [email protected]. for teaching native religious traditions; respect diverse beliefs, moral claims, and politi- identity (e.g., explorations from construc- and 6) Native religious traditions and cal commitments. Open Communion: Cheap Grace or tivism, trauma theory and identity, post-colo- song/music/chant/dance. Proposals must Gospel Imperative? For nearly five cen- nial theories of hybridity); 2) Negotiating reli- be submitted electronically, preferably via SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: turies Reformed communities have debat- gious pluralism: psychological resources for OP3, but may be submitted via e-mail OP3 ed lay access to the Lord’s Supper. What understanding (e.g., psychology-of-religion attachments to both co-chairs. led to these various positions on how explorations of issues re: immigration, xeno-  closed or open the Table should be? Does phobia, mestizaje, hybridity, religions in SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: the history of restricted or fenced tables America: where pluralities flourish/clash); 3) Pragmatism and Empiricism OP3 (communion tokens, the Puritans’ Half- Seeing white(ness): religious and psychologi- in American Religious Way Covenant, or the requirement of  cal reflections on the psychopatholog(ies) of Thought Group baptism) influence contemporary practice? in/visible privilege; 4) Chinese religious con- How might modern churches ritually inte- New Religious Movements ceptions of psyche, self, and healing; and 5) Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University, grate past confessional stipulations or the Psychology of moral imagination: resources [email protected]. David Lamberth, Group perspectives of access to and efficacy of for environmental crisis (co-sponsored with Harvard University, david_lamberth@ Douglas E. Cowan, Renison College, this sacrament articulated by Reformed Religion & the Social Sciences Section); See harvard.edu. University of Waterloo, decowan@ theologians such as Zwingli, Calvin, also SBL Psychology and Biblical Studies uwaterloo.ca. We invite proposals for papers on: 1) Edwards, and Barth? What about chil- Section. PCR also welcomes proposals on Gender/sexuality and pragmatist theories of dren’s participation in communion? The New Religious Movements Group other themes dealing with psychology, cul- agency; 2) In light of the conference’s location Should “closed” practices and beliefs be invites proposals on the following topics: ture, and religion. For more info: PCR Web in San Diego, CA, we invite papers to take “reformed” or remain binding? The 1) New religions in Latin America, includ- site http://home.att.net/~pcr-aar/. up the question: what can pragmatism say Reformed Theology and History Group ing the emergence of North American about immigration?; 3) William James, John invites biblical, theological, and historical Protestantisms; 2) Changes in the concep- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Dewey, and New Age religiosity; and 4) The papers concerning Reformed positions on tualization of “mainstream” versus “mar- OP3 work of Richard Bernstein. In addition to the open/closed communion table ginal” religious traditions as these relate to  these areas of interest, we welcome proposals debates. the study of new religions; 3) Religious on other topics relevant to pragmatism and innovation and creativity; and 4) All other Platonism and empiricism, as well as panel proposals. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: aspects of new religions study. For our Neoplatonism Group OP3 joint session co-sponsored with the SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA:  Western Esotericism Group, we invite Willemien Otten, Utrecht University, OP3 proposals on the exchange and innovation [email protected]. Gregory Shaw, of esoteric ideas in new and emergent reli- Stonehill College, [email protected].  Religion and Disability gions. Since the conference will be held in 1) Foundations of Neoplatonism — ✷ ✷ Studies Group San Diego, proposals that focus on new New Program Unit Papers are invited to explore the sources of Deborah Creamer, Iliff School of religions in America and the “metaphysical classical neoplatonic theory and practice. Theology, [email protected]. Kerry Wynn, heartland” of California in particular are Qur’an Group These sources may include but are not Southeast Missouri State University, especially welcome. Proposals for the Jane McAuliffe, Georgetown University, limited to Platonic, Pythagorean, [email protected]. cosponsored session should be sent to [email protected]. Gordon Newby, Aristotelian, Stoic, Gnostic, and Hermetic both groups. Emory University, [email protected]. 1) We invite papers that examine the contri- writings. The question to be addressed is butions of disability studies to the full range how these traditions are given expression We welcome proposals related to the academic SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: of fields within religious studies. For exam- by neoplatonic authors and what distin- study of the Qur’an. Topics include: analysis of OP3 ple, what does a disability lens contribute to guishes them as neoplatonic. Are there Qur’anic text; history of interpretation of the ethical deliberations about euthanasia? How  distinctly neoplatonic principles and, if so, Qur’an; the recitation/performative aspects of does disability theology fit in with liberation what are they? 2) Expressions of New Age the Qur’an; artistic aspects of the Qur’an; the theologies? What might a deaf culture per- Nineteenth-Century Neoplatonism — It has been argued that relationship of the Qur’an to other scriptures spective bring to emphases on listening with- Neoplatonism has been a primary influ- and traditions; and the historical/textual milieu Theology Group in meditation, proclamation, counseling, or ence on New Age authors from Helena in which the Qur’an has been received. We Garrett Green, Connecticut College, spiritual direction? 2) We invite papers that Blavatsky to contemporary Wiccans. In especially welcome proposals that have a peda- [email protected]. look at issues of methodology in relation to what senses are New Age beliefs and prac- gogical focus, designed to educate members of religion and disability studies. Many current 1) Nineteenth-century interpretations of earli- tices Neoplatonic? Is Neoplatonism today the AAR on incorporating material about the studies focus on ethnography. What are the est Christianity session: historical and rhetori- being given authentic expression and new Qur’an into their existing courses. Successful advantages and disadvantages of this, and cal analysis of classic nineteenth-century con- life or have contemporary authors and proposals will reflect theoretical and method- what other methodological approaches might structions of Christian origins, e.g., portraits practioners misappropriated and/or mis- ological sophistication and self-awareness, as be appropriate? How important is participa- of Jesus and Paul, accounts of Jesus’s relation understood classical neoplatonic literature? well as innovative examination of Islamic soci- tion of people with disabilities in doing to Judaism, etc. Focus is on 1840–1914. eties and texts. All prearranged sessions consid- research and designing research methodology? Proposals by scholars of earliest Christianity SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: er the gender and seniority diversity of partici- are also welcome. Organizer: Lori Pearson, pants; respondents are essential. Innovative, SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: [email protected]. 2) Religion and politics  interactive formats and multimedia presenta- OP3 in nineteenth-century theology and philoso- tions are welcome. phy of religion session: explorations of the  political dimensions of the work of classic SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: (continued on next page) nineteenth-century thinkers, or analyses of OP3 the relation between “the political” and “the  January 2007 RSN • 13 Religious Studies News

Religion and Ecology Group especial attention for a possible co-sponsored ✷ New Program Unit ✷ the state, both here and abroad, contributed? panel with the Religion and Migration NOTE: Please send all inquiries to both chairs. David Barnhill, University of Wisconsin, Consultation, but other proposals will be Thank you. Oshkosh, [email protected]. John A. considered as well; 2) Recent religious devel- Grim, Forum on Religion and Ecology, Religion, Media, and Culture opments in Mexico: issues of race and/or reli- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: [email protected]. Group gious diversity; 3) Religion and the body: OP3 The Religion and Ecology Group invites recent developments in reproductive rights; 4) Sean McCloud, University of North  proposals exploring relationships between Discovering the divine in the dark: exploring Carolina at Charlotte, spmcclou@ religions, cultures, and environments. We religion and film from Latin America and the email.uncc.edu. Gordon Lynch, University Religions, Social Conflict, encourage thematically coherent sessions, Caribbean (for a possible co-sponsored panel of Birmingham, [email protected]. panels, and individual papers related to with Religion, Film, and Visual Culture and Peace Group The Religion, Media, and Culture Group the following themes: Christian spiritual Group); and 5) Sacred sites as big business: Jon Pahl, Lutheran Theological Seminary invites individual paper and panel submissions practices and ecology; Christian eco-theol- the economics of religious tourism. at Philadelphia, [email protected]. Marla J. that further our theoretical, empirical, and his- ogy: 40 years after Lynn White’s Thesis; Selvidge, University of Central Missouri, torical understandings of the intersections religion, environmental issues, and possi- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: [email protected]. between religion, media, and different forms bilities of a sustainable China; issues relat- OP3 of cultural production and consumption. For group proposals or questions regard- ed to California: suburbanization, bound-  Although we encourage submissions in all ing the 2007 session please contact either aries, immigration, or environmental areas, in 2007 we are especially interested in: of the co-chairs listed above. The movements; globalization, free trade, and Religion, Film, and Visual 1) California as a site of media production, Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace the Pacific Rim; oceans and spiritualities distribution, and consumption, as well as the Group is soliciting papers in the following of place; religious ethics of water in dry Culture Group state’s iconographic significance in national areas: children, youth, and war; religions places; an ethic of the sea: responses to the Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount and international media; and 2) Theorizing and transnational economies in conflict loss of fisheries and ocean pollution; sci- University, [email protected]. John media and religion: exploring how key con- (globalization); literatures, images, and/or ence, technology and religion; ecology and Lyden, Dana College, [email protected]. cepts and writers in cultural and social theory the material culture of peace-making; and epistemology; sustainable campuses or We seek proposals related to: 1) might usefully inform debates in this field. We religious aspects in conflict over immigra- theological cchools: spiritual values and Methodological issues in the study and welcome innovative presentation formats and tion, sanctuary, and place. We encourage practices; and rituals that reconnect with teaching of religion, film, and visual cul- session structures that utilize a full range of the use of Power Point presentations to nature. Visit our AAR Web site: ture; 2) The use of semiotics and critical media in order to encourage discussion. supplement the papers. The group is seek- www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/2007/PUCS/ theory in the study of visuality and image; ing to co-sponsor with another group or web/default.asp, or www.religionandecology.org 3) Ritual aspects of film, and the filming SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: section during the 2007 session. and www.religionandnature.com/aar for of rituals; 4) Use of sound and music in OP3 more details, and information for organiz- film; 5) Documentary films about reli- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: ing sessions. For additional information or  gion, and hermeneutical issues arising OP3 questions, contact co-chairs listed above. from the relation of filmmakers to subjects Religions, Medicines, and  SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: filmed (e.g., “creative work” vs. “filmed reality”), and including how documen- Healing Group OP3 Ritual Studies Group taries may reveal/conceal bias, especially Linda L. Barnes, Boston University,  when used to teach about religion; and 6) [email protected]. Suzanne J. Crawford, Donna Lynne Seamone, Acadia Films on China or Chinese religions, Pacific Lutheran University, Univeristy, [email protected]. Religion and Popular Southern California, or Latino/a culture. [email protected]. Scott Haldeman, Chicago Theological We also welcome panel proposals on top- Seminary, [email protected]. Culture Group The Religions, Medicines, and Healing ics or recent books in the field, as well as Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern Group invites proposals for papers Proposals welcomed on: 1) Theorizing co-sponsorship with other units. University, [email protected]. Richard addressing religious worldviews, beliefs participants in rites: Agents? Actors? J. Callahan Jr., University of Missouri- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: and/or practices, and understandings of Subjects? or Other?; 2) Rites “as if”: ethi- Columbia, [email protected]. OP3 medicine/healing traditions, in relation to cal issues related to the doing rites of “oth- aging and/or becoming an elder. We par- ers” and/or participating in their rites; 3) The Religion and Popular Culture Group  ticularly welcome theoretical inquiry. We Economics and rites: exchange of material invites both organized sessions and indi- also invite proposals for a joint session wealth, roles of owners and benefactors of vidual paper proposals that explore the Religion, Holocaust, and with the Daoist Studies Consultation on sacred space/objects, rites in relation to intersections of religion and popular cul- Daoist understandings of, and approaches larger economic structures and dynamics; ture. This year we especially encourage Genocide Group to, healing. Minority and women scholars 4) How rites change and make change; 5) presentations that examine the workings Oren Baruch Stier, Florida International are encouraged to submit proposals. Rites on/of the Web; and 6) The state of of religion in following contexts: 1) University, [email protected]. Katharina von the field: classic theories in need of revisit- Religion and tourism (especially in the Kellenbach, St. Mary’s College of SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: ing and reevaluating and/or new questions Mexican-American borderlands); 2) Maryland, [email protected]. OP3 confronting the study of ritual and theo- Popular culture and domesticity (religion We invite individual papers and/or complete retical proposals to address them. in the home, etc.); 3) Queer theory and  panel proposals, from any methodological Proposals for full panels on other timely LGBT studies (especially, queering sacred perspective, on the following topics: 1) The issues in the ritual studies are welcomed. performance, sacred performativity, etc.); Religion, Politics, and the use and usefulness of audiovisual testimony All proposals should attend to theory and 4) Religion in the Pacific Rim; 5) Festival for religious, ethical, and theological State Group method in the study of ritual. and carnival; and 6) Virtual gaming approaches to the Holocaust and other geno- Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary’s College worlds. Our unit strongly encourages cides, especially in light of the meeting’s prox- of California, [email protected]. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: alternative, interactive, and creative for- imity to the USC Shoah Foundation Andrew Murphy, Valparaiso University, OP3 mats for panels and session presentations. Institute’s archives; 2) Theodicy in the after- [email protected]. Accompanying audiovisual and other sup-  math of catastrophe, including the Holocaust, plements are also strongly encouraged. In addition to receiving proposals that are gen- genocides, slavery, and natural disasters erally within the purview of this group, we are (papers may or may not be comparative); and SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: interested in the following: 1) How can reli- 3) A possible co-sponsored session with the OP3 gion (including political theology, whether Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis conservative or progressive) contribute to pub-  Group on the use of Bonhoeffer’s life and the- lic life, politics, and/or conceptions of democ- ology in post-Holocaust (and postgenocide) racy without undermining the separation of Religion in Latin America interfaith dialogues. We are especially interest- KEY TO SYMBOLS: church and state? 2) What is the “common ed in innovative presentation formats and and the Caribbean Group good” and how can religion contribute to a alternative panel proposals that feature com- = Surface mail Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of conception of the “common good” that is not  parative, constructive, critical, and/or reflec- California, Berkeley, [email protected]. majoritarian and therefore takes account of a tive approaches. • Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State pluralism that includes small minorities? 3) = Fax University, Fullerton, [email protected]. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Religion, democracy, and foreign policy. 4) OP3 Over the past several years, there have been a The Religion in Latin America and the OP3 = OP3 number of challenges from the margins of plu-  Caribbean Group invites submissions of pro-  ralism. How have issues involving pagans and posals on the following topics: 1) Religion, = E-mail (“illegal”) migration, displacement, coalition building, and the struggle for immigrant = E-mail with attachment rights in the Americas: proposals on the Chinese immigrant experience will be given

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Roman Catholic Studies treatment of the religions; his use of Group “Lehnsätze” in determining Christianity’s E-mail Notifications “essence”; the epistemological status and Vincent J. Miller, Georgetown University, two-fold value of properly dogmatic state- Remember to include an e-mail address on your proposal. If [email protected]. Daniel Speed ments; his decisions concerning the selec- you do not use e-mail, include a self-addressed stamped Thompson, Saint Mary’s University, tion and organization of dogmatic materi- envelope with appropriate postage for the country from [email protected]. als; the (contested) role of the prolegome- which the program unit chair will send the notification about The group welcomes proposals for papers na within the Glaubenslehre as a whole; your acceptance/rejection onto the program. or sessions on any topic concerning theo- etc. In addition, the Schleiermacher logical, historical, and cultural studies of Group is co-sponsoring with the Catholicism. Session proposals may be Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group Proposals on other continental figures or edited. Particular interests include: a prearranged panel on Kierkegaard’s rela- Signifying (on) Scriptures topics are also welcome. Catholicism in the Southwest, transna- tionship to Schleiermacher. Group tional Catholicism, geographical/other Vincent L. Wimbush, Claremont SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: borderlands. Catholicism in the immigra- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Graduate University, OP3 tion debate. Catholicism in China/Pacific OP3 [email protected]. Rim. (Suggestions for Chinese scholars are   encouraged.) The Chinese Rites contro- 2007 programming will focus on versy, inculturation. The Chinese Patriotic Science, Technology, and “Scriptural Fundamentalisms among Tibetan and Himalayan Catholic Association. Relations with Peoples of Color in the United States,” an Religions Group Islam, Benedict’s Regensburg address — Religion Group interdisciplinary research project of the Frances Garrett, University of Toronto, theological, cultural, and media studies Greg Peterson, South Dakota State Institute for Signifying Scriptures. At the [email protected]. Kurtis (for a possible joint session with Study of University, [email protected]. Lisa center of the project is an exploration of Schaeffer, University of Virginia, Islam Section). Catholicism and religious Stenmark, San Jose State University, lsten- particular groups’ engagements with [email protected]. freedom. Catholicism and the body, JPII’s [email protected]. “scriptures” and the ways in which such Theology of the Body — reception, use, cri- engagements reflect, contribute to, or In light of the 2007 AAR Annual The Science, Technology, and Religion tique. Broader considerations of the undermine social and identity formation Meeting’s focus on China, the Tibetan Group is seeking papers on 1) Bonobos Catholic body in belief, imagination, rep- with respect to society, culture, and power. and Himalayan Religions Group invites and theological anthropology/primatology, resentation, and practice, including gen- Five (5) research directors will constitute a papers or panels focused on Tibetan reli- exploring questions of human nature der, labor, sex, marginalized/invisible bod- panel reporting on the progress of their gion in China or the interface between and/or community and moral formation ies, ecclesiology-community and individu- ethnographic research and data collection. Tibetan and Chinese religions. We are also (sponsored jointly by the Animals and alism. Possible author/critics panel on The panel will be moderated and include seeking papers for a panel to be co-spon- Religion Consultation); 2) Global warm- Schloesser’s Jazz Age Catholicism. two (2) respondents. sored with the Buddhist Philosophy ing: science, ethics, and policy in theologi- Group, the Buddhism Section, or other cal perspective; and 3) Intersections SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: groups or sections as relevant. The mission between the Bible, science, sex, and gen- OP3 OP3 of the Tibetan and Himalayan Religions der identity. (Certain biblical and theolog- Group is to create an environment that  ical positions on sex and gender identity   promotes conversation between different seem to be opposed to those of evolution- approaches to the study of Tibetan and ary psychology, genetics, and neuro- ✷ ✷ ✷ ✷ Himalayan religions. New Program Unit science. This session seeks to trouble such New Program Unit Sacred Space in Asia Group oppositions, identify the overlaps, and Tantric Studies Group SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: trace possible intersections - and opposi- OP3 Steven Heine, Florida International tions - in these discourses. To be co-spon- Glen A. Hayes, Bloomfield College, University, [email protected]. Pamela D. sored with SBL's Gender, Sexuality, and [email protected]. Paul Muller-  Winfield, Meredith College, the Bible Group.) Papers and panel pro- Ortega, University of Rochester, [email protected]. posals dealing specifically with science, [email protected]. Tillich: Issues in Theology, religion, and public policy or theology In keeping with the geographical focus on The Tantric Studies Group invites papers Religion, and Culture Group and technology will also be considered. China in 2007, the Sacred Space in Asia and preformed panels dealing with recent Robison B. James (University of Group solicits papers from a wide variety SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: research in Tantric Studies, including but Richmond, and Baptist Theological of historical and methodological perspec- OP3 not limited to the following topics: 1) Seminary at Richmond), 7914 Alvarado tives especially on the following topics: 1) Mystical body, mystical senses in tantra RD, Richmond, VA 23229, USA; Wutai-shan past and present; 2) The Silk  (co-sponsored with the Mysticism Group); [email protected]. Rachel Sophia Route, including but not limited to 2) The categories of “yoga” and “tantra” Baard (Villanova University), 250 E. Dunhuang cave-shrines, Xuanzang and Scriptural Reasoning Group (co-sponsored with the Yoga Wynnewood RD, Apt. A-17, other pilgrims, Xi’an then and now, Tang Consultation); 3) Tantra and magical Wynnewood, PA 19096, USA; Randi Rashkover, York College of dynasty, Islam and other influences, powers: Siddhis as metaphors and actuali- [email protected]. Pennsylvania, [email protected]. Scott traders and raiders, and emerging scholar- ties; 4) Tantra and devotionalism: emo- Bader-Saye, University of Scranton, We invite proposals that use or relate to ship on Silk Route music; and 3) Chinese tional and aesthetic dimensions of tantra; [email protected]. Paul Tillich’s thought on: 1) Theories of sacred spaces: framing forms and field- 5) Tantra and royal/courtly cultures; 6) international relations and globalization, work (for a possible co-sponsored panel Scriptural Reasoning Group gathers Art history and the study of tantra; and 7) with possible attention to recent books by with the Anthropology of Religion Jewish, Christian, and Muslim thinkers Insider/outsider approaches to the study Mark L. Taylor, Ronald H. Stone, and Group). Full panel proposals, innovative for the study of scriptural texts that speak of tantra. The tantric studies Group sup- Lon Weaver (possible co-sponsored session programming ideas (e.g., film, audio, to themes of contemporary importance. ports the collaboration of scholars in with the Religion, Politics, and the State interactive media) and individual papers Papers should examine brief scriptural pas- Tantric Studies across the traditional Group); 2) Scriptural sources for Tillich’s on other topics related to sacred space in sages (drawing on both textual scholarship boundaries of research based on geograph- thought, including: Is Tillich a biblical China or Asia are welcome. Initial and reception history) and suggest how ic regions, specific traditions, and academ- theologian?; 3) Issues of pluralism, inclu- inquiries may be addressed to panel co- they address contemporary readers’ con- ic disciplines. Inquiries may be directed to sivism, and exclusivism — culturally as chairs. cerns. Participants will be asked to circu- Glen A. Hayes or to Paul Muller-Ortega. well as theologically; and 4) Tillich’s rela- late drafts in advance and revise their tionship with Judaism or Buddhism, SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: papers in conversation with each other. At SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: including persons and thought. Tillich- OP3 least one session will include text study in OP3 related papers on other themes will be small groups. We invite paper or panel   seriously considered, with specific themes proposals in the following areas: 1) for sessions determined by the merit of Women and scripture; 2) Law; 3) War; 4) Schleiermacher Group Theology and Continental the proposals received. A winning student Creation (Genesis 1, John 1, and Sura paper will receive the $300 Annual Tillich Brent Sockness, Stanford University, 2:30–39); and 4) SR theory. We particu- Philosophy Group Prize. [email protected]. larly welcome panel proposals to include Ellen Armour, Vanderbilt Divinity School, speakers from at least two of the three reli- [email protected]. Bruce Ellis This fourth and last session in our group’s SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: gious traditions represented in scriptural Benson, Wheaton College, four-year reexamination of OP3 reasoning. [email protected]. Schleiermacher’s magnum opus, The    • Christian Faith, will be devoted to the SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: We invite proposals that explore work work’s prolegomena (props. 1–31). OP3 done by Giorgio Agamben, the phenome- (continued on next page) Proposals are invited on any aspect of non of testimony or witnessing, science, Glaubenslehre’s introduction, e.g.:   nature, and/or embodiment (from a conti- Schleiermacher’s theory of religion and nental perspective), and visual culture.

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sponsored session with the Evangelical ing specific historical cases. Preferred theme be accepted via online submission only. Group: hospitality to the dispossessed. for panel co-sponsored with the New 90-MINUTE Papers are invited which explore a theology Religious Movements Group: “Exchange SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: of immigration, treating topics such as and innovation of esoteric ideas in new and OP3 SESSIONS social action in various immigrant commu- emergent religions.” Given the location in  nities, different experiences of first- and San Diego, proposals focusing on America, Sunday afternoons will second-generation immigrants, negotiating and more specifically California, are partic- be scheduled with three World Christianity Group dual cultures, and the interface between ularly welcome. 90-minute time slots to established Christian communities and Dale T. Irvin, New York Theological allow for more intense newly arrived immigrants. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Seminary, . Peter C. Phan, scholarly explorations on [email protected] OP3 Georgetown University, a topic. See page four SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA:  [email protected]. for more information. OP3 The World Christianity Group seeks to  Womanist Approaches to explore intercultural, interconfessional, and Religion and Society Group interreligious dynamics of Christianity as a Western Esotericism Group world religion, bringing into conversation Evelyn L. Parker, Southern Methodist scholars in church history, Christian mis- Allison P. Coudert, University of University, [email protected]. Linda sion, theology, sociology of religion, non- California, Davis, [email protected]. Thomas, Lutheran School of Theology at Christian religions, new religious move- Wesleyan Studies Group Wouter J. Hanegraaff, University of Chicago, [email protected]. ments, and comparative religion. The Amsterdam, [email protected]. Sarah Lancaster, Methodist Theological The Womanist Approaches to Religion and group welcomes proposals on 1) China in School in Ohio, [email protected]. K. The Western Esotericism Group invites Society Group invites paper and panel pro- world Christianity, with attention to the Steve McCormick, Nazarene Theological paper proposals, from various disciplinary posals that critically explore: 1) Sources and long history of Christianity in China, as Seminary, [email protected]. perspectives, dealing with Western esoteric authorities used for signifying on women’s well as the manner in which China has fig- currents and their various cultural ramifica- bodies: biblical studies, LGBTQ ured as a trope in other regional experi- The group is open to any proposals provid- tions. Theme of preference: “Esotericism theory/studies, Hip Hop, politics of media; ences of world Christianity; 2) Gendered ing historical or constructive engagement and Transgression.” Western esoteric cur- 2) Womanist ecological perspectives and perspectives on World Christianity, with with the Wesleys or Wesleyan/Methodist rents are not infrequently depicted as the ethic of care, ethical/moral responses to special attention to methodological con- traditions. This year we particularly solicit “transgressive” with respect to the religious, variations in womanist methodology, cerns; and 3) Local border-crossings and papers in these areas: 1) Celebration of the social, and political standards of main- diverse religious traditions; and 3) A co- hybridity, especially concerning tercentenary of Charles Wesley’s birth. stream culture. Which forms did that sponsored panel with the Feminist Theory Christianity and other religions. Papers are invited which explore Charles image take on, and what reasons may and Religious Reflection Group on pedago- Wesley’s contribution to the Wesleyan account for it? Proposals will be welcome gies of power and teaching for transforma- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: movement, especially how his hymns pro- that address the topic either from a general, tion with womanist and feminist theory, OP3 vide a theological understanding of the per- theoretical point of view and/or by study- theology, and methodology. Proposals will son and work of Jesus Christ. 2) For a co-  

Seminars are highly specific projects driven by a collaborative research agenda leading toward publication. They are expected to eventuate in publication(s). They are strictly limited in dura- SEMINAR tion (five years) and membership (20). Members agree to con- tinue the work of the seminar between Annual Meetings Religions in Chinese and What are the sources of ritual authority through correspondence, exchange of papers and bibliogra- phies, and on listservs, etc. The single session at the Annual Indian Cultures: A and how are they interpreted? What issues does the performance of rituals address? Meeting is devoted to consideration of previously distributed Comparative Perspective papers and to foster collaborations in a public setting that Seminar How are rituals articulated and present- ed?, etc. While comparative proposals are allows auditors to gain insight into the project, the process, and Tao Jiang, Rutgers University, very welcome, proposals addressing rituals the people involved. While no new papers are presented at the [email protected]. Chakravarthi Ram- within one particular culture and/or con- session, auditors are welcome to attend. Prasad, Lancaster University, c.ram- text are also solicited. Since we hope to [email protected]. facilitate discussions among the panelists, one requirement is that panelists are will- The theme for 2007 will be rituals in Indian ing to engage with each other in the discus- and Chinese cultures. We are seeking pro- sion at the conference. posals that address such aspects of rituals as follows: What in classical Indian and/or SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Chinese contexts do we identify as ritual and OP3 how does that affect any theory of ritual? 

Consultations are exploratory opportunities to test the degree and breadth of CONSULTATIONS interest among members of the Academy in areas and Animals and Religion protection activism in/as religion; animal Biblical/Contextual Ethics topics of academic interest Consultation consciousness/intelligence in religion Consultation not currently included in the and/or religious ethics; animality and phi- concerns of existing sec- Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern losophy of religion/continental philoso- Tom Ogletree, Yale University, thomas.ogle- tions, groups, or seminars. University, [email protected]. Paul phy/critical theory; and examination of [email protected]. Glen Stassen, Fuller Waldau, Tufts University, paul.waldau@ bonobos and theological anthropology/ Theological Seminary, [email protected]. tufts.edu. primatology, exploring questions of The Biblical/Contextual Ethics human nature and/or community/moral Prophetic Calling,” combining studies of The Animals and Religion Consultation Consultation integrates study of scriptural formation, with Science, Technology, and scriptural texts with the challenges of a encourages proposals in the following teachings in their social/ethical context Religion Group. contemporary public witness by commit- areas: the place of animals and environ- with critical study of contemporary ted Jewish, Christian, or Muslim agents. mental ethics in a sustainable China, with social/ethical contexts. We seek insights SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Topic for the session: “Critical Reflection a focus on religious resources; animals from ethical disciplines for self-critical OP3 on the Prophetic Calling.” Please direct and/as food in religious traditions; animals awareness of assumptions that influence queries about the call to Tom Ogletree. in indigenous religious traditions; animals  scriptural interpretation, and insights from and healing; animals as divinities; the role scriptural disciplines for self-critical aware- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: of zoos and religion; religious responses to ness in ethics. In 2007 we call for papers OP3 mass extinction; the place(s) of animal that offer “Critical Reflection on the 

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among other academic disciplines; the role ods not explicitly mentioned. Proposals in and the dead, and from any methodological ✷ New Program Unit ✷ of external funding in shaping the theologi- any historic period including the modern approach. Our theme for the 2007 AAR is cal orientation of institutions; and the idea era are encouraged. Innovative research “Continuing Bonds with the Dead: What Buddhism in the West of a “theology of administration” for work is welcomed. 2) Coptic Martyrdom: role do the dead have in individual lives Consultation church-related colleges and seminaries. We We welcome papers on the theme of mar- and the community?” In addition to this prefer papers that move beyond mere tyrdom in the Coptic Church. These main theme, and in keeping with the inter- Jeff Wilson, University of North Carolina, description and that endeavor to analyze themes should address martyrdom in its national theme of the AAR, we also invite Chapel Hill, [email protected]. the issues from a theological perspective. plurality of expressions such as spiritual or proposals addressing death in the Chinese physical suffering, death, ascetic martyr- context. Further, as always, all proposals are The Buddhism in the West Consultation is SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: dom, or confessors. We urge presenters to encouraged even if they do not fall squarely designed to provide a venue for new studies OP3 investigate the topic of martyrdom through within the parameters of the themes above. on Buddhism in non-Asian locales, and a the centuries, including the modern era. Please include in your proposal a descrip- chance for scholars in this area to collec-  tion of your presentation style, as it is our tively clarify the intellectual and method- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: hope to have dynamic, engaging presenta- ological underpinnings of research on Contemporary Islam OP3 tions paired with conversation among audi- Buddhism in the West, including consider- Consultation ence and presenters. ation of new possibilities in methods and  Rosalind Gwynne, University of Tennessee, approaches. In keeping with the 2007 AAR Knoxville, [email protected]. Richard C. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: focus on China, we are particularly interest- Cultural History of the Study Martin, Emory University, OP3 ed in work on Chinese Buddhism in the [email protected]. of Religion Consultation • West. The consultation also seeks proposals  Richard Jaffe, Duke University,  on 1) Practice and ritual in Western The consultation welcomes proposals for [email protected]. Tisa Wenger, Buddhist communities; 2) Issues of transla- both individual submissions and organized Arizona State University, Tisa.Wenger@ Liberal Theologies tion; 3) New directions in the study of thematic panels, in all areas that broadly asu.edu. Consultation Buddhism in the West; and 4) Open call fall under the rubric of contemporary for papers. All proposals must be made Islam, referring to the period of the last two The consultation seeks papers concerned with Christine Helmer, Harvard Divinity through the AAR’s OP3 online system. centuries. Among the themes suggested historical inquiry into the construction of the School, [email protected]. from the floor at the business meeting in category of “religion” in various social and cul- Papers are welcome that address the ques- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: 2006 were intra-Islamic dialogue; center, tural contexts, and their relationship to the aca- tion of how social, political, and/or religious OP3 periphery, and globalization; the contribu- demic study of religion. We strive for sessions praxis is dialogically related to the construc- tions of recently deceased notable figures, that represent diverse cultural/geographic loca-  tive-theological work of liberal theologies. such as Montgomery Watt and Clifford tions. This year we especially encourage pro- Considerations of praxis should draw upon Geertz; and the academic study of religion posals on the following themes: 1) The cross- Childhood Studies and concrete experiences with social action; the- in predominantly Muslim societies. The cultural implications of translations, particular- ological reflections can include theoretical, Religion Consultation consultation invites cosponsorship with ly in law, of the category “religion,” including conceptual, historical, constructive, and Marcia Bunge, Christ College, Valparaiso other units of panels on comparative the ways in which such translations have influ- interdisciplinary aspects. A specific emphasis University, [email protected]. Barbara themes (religion and migration, and Islam enced the study of religion (especially non- on the topic of praxis and liberalism as it is Pitkin, Stanford University, pitkin@stan- in colonial-postcolonial contexts have been Christian religions), and the impact of law on understood in different religions is especial- ford.edu. proposed), as well as panels and papers that conceptions of religion around the world; 2) ly welcome. Papers are also invited that crit- engage members of the AAR who are not China’s “ism”s — the origin, validity, and ideo- We invite proposals in any area of child- ically and constructively reflect on the inter- Islamic studies experts. logical functions of “Taoism,” “Chinese hood studies and religion but especially section between liberal theologies and inter- Buddhism,” “Confucianism,” “folk religion,” welcome papers on: 1) Children and sacred religious dialogue. Topics can include the SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: etc.; and 3) The significance of the cultural his- texts: children’s relation to sacred texts in postcolonial/liberation critiques of classical OP3 tory of the study of religion for religious stud- the world’s religious traditions, e.g., chil- liberalism’s Christian-centrism, constructive ies. dren’s access to, use of, and responses to  theological reflection on liberalism and reli- sacred texts; sacred texts and children’s reli- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: gious pluralism, liberalism’s contributions to gious formation; children’s scriptures; chil- Contemporary Pagan Studies OP3 the comparative study of religion, compara- dren’s memorization of sacred texts as spiri- Consultation tive theologies, and/or a theology of reli- tual practice; reading sacred texts with chil-  gions. Wendy Griffin, California State University, dren; images of children in sacred texts. 2) Long Beach, [email protected]. Women and children (co-sponsored with Daoist Studies Consultation SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: the Women and Religion Section): children We invite papers that address issues of OP3 Jonathan Herman, Georgia State in feminist religious thought and practice either “Pagan Borderlands” or “Pagans and University, [email protected]. Louis  in a variety of traditions; e.g., religious the State: Here and Abroad.” For the first, Komjathy, Pacific Lutheran University, reflection before and after parenthood; the we seek especially contributions that con- [email protected]. politics of childrearing; how parenthood cern the interfaith intersection of paganism reshapes religious ideals; social justice/liber- and mainstream religion; pagan liminality; The Daoist Studies Consultation invites panel (continued on next page) ation for women and children; feminist pluralism, polytheism, and/or international and/or paper proposals on the following topics: spiritual practices and children; and spiritu- paganism in different contexts; and cultural 1) Daoism, medicine, and healing (co-spon- ality of childbirth and parenting. appropriation or borrowing (e.g., loan sored with the Religions, Medicines and, words, concepts, and practices). For the Healing Group); 2) Daoist ritual; 3) Daoism SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: second, we are considering legal challenges; and American literature; 4) Daoist studies: OP3 political environment; paganism and polity; states of the field; and 5) Cross-cultural inter-  communities in conflict; and pagans and pretations of Daoism. We also welcome pro- the military. Papers on all these topics may posals on different topics. Please submit panel Christianity and Academia include theoretical, empirical, theological, and paper proposals via the OP3 system no or other perspectives. We also welcome later than March 1, 2007. If you have any Consultation papers on other themes dealing with con- questions or additional suggestions, please con- David S. Cunningham, Hope College, cun- temporary pagan studies. tact the co-chairs at the above e-mail addresses. [email protected]. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: This consultation explores issues at the OP3 OP3 intersection of Christian theology and KEY TO SYMBOLS: higher education. Papers are invited on   such topics as: theological accounts of aca- = Surface mail demic freedom; the (declining?) role of Coptic Christianity Death, Dying, and Beyond  denominations in church-related institu- Consultation Consultation • tions; issues surrounding institutionally = Fax Lois Farag, Luther Seminary, Kathleen Garces-Foley, Marymount sponsored worship and worship spaces; the [email protected]. University, [email protected]. OP3 challenges for non-Christian faculty at Christopher Moreman, St. Francis Xavier = OP3 church-related institutions, and the con- 1) Coptic Material Culture: We invite  University, F: 902-867-3610, verse; fundamentalism(s) on campus; the papers on Coptic material culture in its [email protected]. = E-mail postmodern student (visual culture, variety of expressions. Topics could address  embrace of personal spiritualities, themes in archeology, art history, iconogra- The Death, Dying, and Beyond = E-mail with attachment “incredulity toward metanarratives”); the phy, sculpture, textiles, architecture, cine- Consultation invites proposals for presenta- perception and reception of theology matic expressions, textual, or other meth- tions addressing all aspects of dying, death,

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Religion and Sexuality ✷ ✷ ✷ ✷ — how it is created, how it is lost; and New Program Unit New Program Unit 3) Urban poverty and economic justice Consultation under the impact of globalization. In select- Mormon Studies Consultation Pentecostal Charismatic- R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University, ing papers we will be particularly interested [email protected]. Catherine Roach James McLachlan, Western Carolina Movements Consultation in those that treat cities and urban settings University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, University, [email protected]. Grant as subjects of religious inquiry in their own James K. A. Smith, Calvin College, [email protected]. Underwood, Brigham Young University, right — not simply as sites or settings in [email protected]. Amos Yong, Regent [email protected]. which religiously significant events occur or We invite proposals on religion and sexuali- University, [email protected]. religious groups or institutions are situated. ty, broadly conceptualized and focused on The Mormon Studies Consultation invites The Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements questions of why and how sex matters for paper proposals for its inaugural session, (PCM) Consultation seeks proposals for SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: particular religious persons, communities, “Mormon Studies in the Academy.” We are fully developed panels or papers on the fol- OP3 or traditions. Topics may be historical or particularly interested in presentations that lowing themes: 1) New trajectories of PCM contemporary, and we especially encourage examine the range of topics, disciplines, and  theory and research; and, in light of the  interdisciplinary approaches, interest in methodologies that can be brought into dia- San Diego locale of the meeting, 2) Latin gender (broadly defined), and attention to logue with Mormonism as it is studied in an American/Latino immigration, transnation- Religion and Colonialism methodological issues. We welcome propos- academic environment. Possible topics include: al, and diasporic PCMs. We are interested Consultation als for papers or full sessions on an array of 1) Launching Mormon Studies courses and in directions of research that feature new topics under this capacious rubric. This programs: opportunities and challenges; 2) Mark Elmore, New York University, methods and theoretical approaches to the year we particularly encourage submissions What can Mormon Studies learn from Jewish [email protected]. Caleb Elfenbein, scholarly examination of Christian renewal that treat sexuality in relation to the politi- Studies, Catholic Studies, etc? What new per- University of California, Santa Barbara, movements past and present, as well as cization of childhood; we are also interested spectives and approaches might Mormon [email protected]. those which focus on aspects including but in topics pertaining to bioethics, technolo- Studies bring to these more established fields?; not limited to the Latin American nations In recent decades, a putative return of reli- gy, debates over marriage, and other ques- 3) How might the Mormon “case study” in the recent Pew Forum ten-country sur- gion has led to reevaluation of the secular- tions of international scope. We welcome enrich religious studies curricula?; 4) The sur- vey on PCM’s. Within the above rubrics, ization thesis. We request proposals exam- innovative program formats that allow for vey course on Mormonism: topics, texts, and papers/panels may explore PCM relation to ining an important framework for this in-depth discussion, and we hope to foster methodologies; and 5) Imagining the introduc- and influence in areas such as civil/human reevaluation: relations between religion and cross-cultural approaches to this subject. tory textbook on Mormonism. rights, environmental policy, politics, gen- state in postcolonial contexts. How did SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: der, globalization, social reform, and war colonial encounters transform relations OP3 OP3 and peace. between the state and religious formations? How did independence movements further   SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: transform this relationship? How have spe- OP3 cific postcolonial governmental develop- Religion in Europe  ments (legal, educational, economic, etc.) ✷ New Program Unit ✷ affected these relations? How have develop- Consultation Queer Theory and LGBT ments in postcolonial societies affected the Robert E. Alvis, Saint Meinrad School of North American Hinduism way colonizing societies understand the Theology, [email protected]. Andrii Consultation Studies in Religion state/religion nexus? In addressing these Krawchuk, University of Sudbury, akraw- Consultation questions, we hope to form a panel repre- [email protected]. Lola Williamson, Millsaps College, senting historically and contextually diverse [email protected]. Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College, The Religion in Europe Consultation pro- forms of colonialism, including issues of [email protected]. motes the interdisciplinary study of religion This consultation is devoted to the study of religion, neocolonialism, and globalization. relating to the social, cultural, and political diaspora and transnational forms of Hinduism This year we are especially interested in pro- We are especially interested in papers/pan- evolution of Europe. We invite proposals in North America as well as religious forms, posals on the following topics: 1) Queering els with a strong theoretical content accessi- on any aspect of religion connected to such as particular organizations, practices, or sacred performance and sacred performativi- ble to a broad listening audience. Europe in any historical period and encour- movements that are shaped significantly by ties — including, among others, ritual age submissions from various disciplines, Hindu traditions, teachings, or ideals. music, dance, movement, liturgy, objects, SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: including political science, history, sociolo- Individual paper proposals will be considered, clothing and decoration, and speech, for a OP3 gy, anthropology, law, philosophy, and the- but full panel or session proposals are preferred. possible co-sponsored session with the  ology. This year we seek papers on the fol- Online submissions only. Suggested topics: Religion and Popular Culture Group; 2) lowing themes: 1) Evolving religious per- Hindu practices outside of institutional settings; Queer/postcolonial perspectives on religion, ceptions and concepts of “Europe”/“the use of scriptures and epics in North American space, time, and kinship, especially in the ✷ New Program Unit ✷ West”; 2) Migration, minorities, and the Hinduism; role of the guru in North American context of borders and migration, both challenges of conformity/nonconformity to Hinduism; educating children in Hindu values external (e.g., tourism, international adop- Religion and Migration established religious and/or political sys- and practices; changes between first-, second-, tion, political asylum, immigration laws, Consultation tems and values; 3) Religion and empire, and third-generation immigrant Hindus. rural-urban issues) and internal (e.g., mesti- religious interpretations/critiques of the zaje, the self-policing subject, identity com- Marie Marquardt, Agnes Scott College, political order, and/or religious dimensions SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: partmentalization); 3) Queer Latina/Latino mmarquardt@agnesscott. Jennifer Saunders, of liberal democracy; and 4) Secularism, OP3 religiosities, especially (but not exclusively) Denison University, [email protected]. secularization, and the implications for reli- in San Diego and its environs; and 4)  This consultation seeks to create a forum in gious communities. Proposals that don’t Gender variance and same-sex attraction in which scholars exploring religion and correspond to these themes will also be Islam. We also welcome all other proposals Open and Relational migration engage in conversation across considered. on topics relevant to queer theory in reli- boundaries of methodology, religious tradi- Theologies Consultation gion and/or LGBT studies in religion. tion, and region. We welcome papers on SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Thomas Jay Oord, Northwest Nazarene migrating peoples within and across nation- OP3 University, [email protected]. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: al borders, and in all regions of the world. OP3  Theme: What God does, chooses not to  Potential topics include 1) Migration and do, or cannot do.” Open and relational the Chinese religious diaspora (co-spon- Religion, Public Policy, and theologies are distinguished from other the- sored with Religion in Latin America and ological movements by their claims about the Caribbean Group): building on the Political Change Consultation God’s power. But significant differences ✷ New Program Unit ✷ 2007 AAR China focus by exploring the Joe Pettit, Morgan State University, exist among open and relational theologies role of religion in settlement processes and [email protected]. Melissa Rogers, with regard to how best to conceive of Religion and Cities transnational network formation for Wake Forest University, [email protected]. divine power. These differences affect how Consultation Chinese migrants. 2) Religion on the move We seek paper and panel proposals on one approaches the problem of evil, escha- — migration, displacement, and identity: Lowell W. Livezey, New York Theological interdisciplinary research between religious tology, creation, prayer, human responsibil- examining the role of religious narratives Seminary, 475 Riverside DR, Suite 500, studies and public policy. We welcome pro- ity, religious pluralism, spiritual formation, and practices for migrants’ identity con- New York, NY 10115, USA; W: 212-870- posals on all aspects of this subject. We are etc. We invite papers that use resources struction (race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality). 1246; [email protected]. Lawrence H. especially interested in proposals address- from scriptures, theological traditions, sci- 3) Religious objects and migration: the Mamiya (Vassar College), 124 Raymond ing: 1) Racial inequality. How could inter- ence, and philosophy to explore what God transnational movement of visual and AVE, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604, USA; W: disciplinary research between religious stud- does, chooses not to do, or cannot do. material culture. 845-437-5522; [email protected]. ies and public policy influence current debates about racial inequality? 2) SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: We invite papers related to the following SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Immigration. How might attention to pub- OP3 themes: 1) Construction of religious identi- OP3 lic policy debates on immigration improve   ty in urban contexts; 2) Urban sacred space 

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religious discussions/debates on the topic as ticipants may be included as part of the Theology of Martin Luther found in such things as denominational panel. King Jr. Consultation KEY TO SYMBOLS: statements, scholarly work, or sermons (for Johnny B. Hill, Louisville Presbyterian possible co-sponsored session with the SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Theological Seminary, [email protected]. = Surface mail Religion and the Social Sciences Section)? OP3  3) Government funding of faith-based  The Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. • organizations. In particular, what are the Consultation invites paper proposals that = Fax implications of David Kuo’s Tempting Faith: examine the intersection between King’s OP3 An Inside Story of Political Seduction for ✷ New Program Unit ✷ vision of the beloved community and the = OP3 scholarship and public policy on govern- political, cultural, and economic dimen-  ment support of faith-based organizations? Space, Place, and Religious sions of globalization. King’s understanding of the beloved community as a global ethic = E-mail SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Meaning Consultation with a deep concern for the plight of the = E-mail with attachment OP3 Jeanne Halgren Kilde, University of poor and powerless serves as a core theme  Minnesota, [email protected]. of reflection. On the 40th anniversary of the Poor People’s Campaign, the consulta- This consultation seeks paper proposals tion will also consider papers that treat this Rethinking the Field from scholars of diverse traditions, reli- important juncture in King’s work and the submission in guru traditions (Lola gions, and time periods, who explore the Consultation impact of globalization on the poor. Williamson, [email protected]); modern function of religious space and/or place as a Bradley L. Herling, Boston University, meditational yoga (Lloyd Pflueger, constitutive component of religious sys- [email protected]. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: [email protected]); celebrating Gerald tems. We seek papers that employ method- OP3 Larson’s Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophy Rethinking the Field invites proposals ologically innovative approaches to under- yoga volume (Knut Jacobson, knut.jacob- (especially from graduate students) for pan- standing the relationships between space   [email protected]); gender in yoga (Laura els that reflect on established and emerging and religious meaning. We are particularly Cornell, [email protected]); yoga in early subfields within the study of religion. Past interested in how space and place function Yoga in Theory and Practice modern India (Andrew Nicholson, ajnichol- sessions have investigated philosophy of in the development of individual and com- Consultation [email protected]); definitions of Yoga religion, religion and literature, religion and munity religious memory, in the growth Christopher Key Chapple, Loyola and religion (Jim Laine, laine@ ecology, and liberal theology. For the com- and direction of religious or ecclesiastical Marymount University, [email protected]. macalester.edu); Frederick Smith’s The Self ing year, we are particularly interested in social structures, in the interpretation of Stuart Ray Sarbacker, Northwestern Possessed (Stuart Sarbacker, s-sarbacker@ sponsoring panels on sociology or anthro- texts, and in the development of religious University, [email protected]. northwestern.edu); mysticism and yoga (with pology of religion, religion and science, and practices. We encourage submissions that the Mysticism Group), and; the categories subfields within biblical studies, though all take a comparative approach across tradi- The consultation seeks papers on the topic of “yoga” and “tantra” (with the Tantric proposals are welcome. The consultation is tions or time periods, or that can be paired of Yoga in Theory and Practice from a vari- Studies Group). committed to innovative and interactive with other submissions to suggest enlight- ety of perspectives, including sociology, forms of programming: proposals from ening comparisons or disjunctures. anthropology, history of religions, philoso- SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: prospective conveners (a maximum of two phy and theology, and cultural studies. OP3 for any given panel) should justify the SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: Contacts are listed for potential joint pro- choice of the selected discipline and include OP3 posals. Submissions should be made  a plan for a program that varies from the  through OP3. Christianity and yoga (Cleo standard paper-response format. Senior par- Kearns, [email protected]); freedom and

Wildcard sessions address an area of interest that does not nat- urally fall within the purview of any program unit. Members are invited to submit fully developed proposals for an entire session WILDCARD (session proposal; presider; list of participants with presentation titles and abstracts, if applicable; etc.). Sessions must be in the 90-minute session format. The Program Committee will review the proposals. If a proposal covers an area that fits within an established program unit, the proposal will be forwarded to the SESSIONS unit for possible inclusion on the unit’s program. The Holy Child: Traditions of Is Humanism a Dead Topic the Infant and Child Jesus in the Study of Religion? Kristi Upson-Saia, Occidental College, W. David Hall, Centre College The Religion Major and Religion, Theology, and Music [email protected]. [email protected]; Glenn Liberal Education Theodore L. Trost, University of Alabama, Whitehouse, Florida Gulf Coast Although long neglected by modern Timothy M. Renick, Georgia State [email protected]. Philip Stoltzfus, St. University, [email protected]. scholars, historically the childhood of University, [email protected]. Olaf College, [email protected]. Jesus has been considered supremely Various strands of post-Enlightenment With the rapid growth of the major in We invite papers on the religious and the- important to understanding Jesus’s identi- thought shaping current study of religion religion, the unique and evolving place it ological dimensions of music. Our partic- ty and Christian piety. This session seeks and theology have suggested that religious occupies in the modern academy, and sig- ular emphasis will be upon theoretical, to address the significance of these tradi- humanism is imperialistic, inappropriate, nificant changes in the national and global methodological, or philosophical tions and depictions of the young Jesus, or passé. This session addresses the issue of contexts in which Americans view reli- approaches to the study of musical phe- from birth to childhood. We welcome whether or not humanism is still a viable gion, there is a need to reassess the rela- nomena, relating to the following themes: proposals in the following areas: 1) subject and/or methodological perspective tionship between the goals of the concen- 1) Religious or theological themes in pop- Literary traditions of the young Jesus, in the study of religion and theology. tration and those of liberal education. ular music; 2) Music as an expression of including stories of his birth, sojourn in Topics of particular interest are the history Papers for this special session — part of religious experience; 3) Theologies of Egypt, and childhood adventures; of the humanistic enterprise, humanistic an AAR/Teagle Foundation initiative — music (using historical, systematic, con- 2) Liturgical devotions to the young Jesus impulses in the various religious tradi- will discuss challenges to the major and structive, or liberationist materials); (e.g., the Infant Jesus of Prague); tions, what humanism might offer in light successful responses: How can the religion 4) The role (or lack thereof) of music in 3) Artwork and figurines depicting the of current religious conflicts around the major better prepare students to meet the theologies of art or “theological aesthet- infant and/or young boy; and 4) world, and/or whether the recent proposal needs of liberal education, the professions, ics”; and 5) World music as it relates to Traditions surrounding relics from Jesus’s for a theological humanism might offer and society? Papers that discuss challenges, world religions. infancy (e.g., holy prepuce). hope for future directions in the study of strategies and innovations at individual religion and theology. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: institutions, as well as those which exam- OP3 OP3 SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: ine these issues more broadly, are encour- aged.  OP3   SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: (continued on next page) OP3

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Religions in Southeast Asia Religious Implications of Extreme Longevity Sor-Ching Low, Trinity University, Election Results [email protected]. Calvin Mercer, East Carolina University, [email protected]. Calling for papers on religions and religious developments in Southeast Asia. Special Calls for dialogue and debate about the impli- President: Jeffrey Stout interests focus on interstices and points of cations for society of extreme longevity — the contact between art and religion, traditions indefinite extension of healthy human life — President-Elect: Emilie Townes and modernity, theory and ethnography; are being heard from several quarters (e.g., small and big traditions; and religious iden- President’s Council on Bioethics, Hastings Vice President: Mark Juergensmeyer tity and national identity. Textual, perfor- Center, leading scientists). A 2006 panel mative, and comparative approaches are addressed general implications of extreme welcome. Interdisciplinary approaches and longevity science for the world’s religions. This multireligious perspectives are encouraged. proposed panel will extend that conversation The American Academy of Religion is pleased to Individual papers or thematically formed by focusing attention on the eschatological announce the results of the elections for 2007. panels will be considered. visions of religions and how those visions might be impacted by the development and A total of 1,948 votes were cast. SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED VIA: widespread use of radical life-extension tech- OP3 nology.

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A Message from the President

Dear AAR Theology give him both the academic and Almost 20% of the student members of his visa, the U.S. government invoked a Colleagues and administrative background to be an effec- the AAR identify as racial and ethnic provision of the Patriot Act to deny a visa Friends, tive leader at this crucial juncture in the minorities, and this year a group of col- to anyone who “endorses” or “espouses” life of the Academy as we approach the leagues launched the AAR Career Guide terrorism. It was chilling to see this provi- It is a pleasure to first independent annual meeting in 2008. for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the sion interpreted so broadly as to sweep submit to you the He is familiar with both religious studies Profession, edited by Miguel A. De La into its dragnet a prominent intellectual annual report of and theological studies and will enable the Torre with contributions from many dedi- who has been a consistent public critic of the American AAR to maintain a “big tent” for the cated colleagues. This guide was previewed Islamic extremism and terrorism. Academy of whole span of scholarly discussions in the at the 2005 annual meeting and subse- Religion. At the On September 21, 2006, the government Academy. In addition, Jack is simply a quently released on the AAR Web site. It outset, I would responded to a U.S. District Judge’s delightful person with whom to work. We is a provocative online resource written by like to thank all of you who have commit- request to issue a formal decision by con- are lucky to have him. those who have “been there,” and it ted yourselves to the intellectual and pro- tinuing to block Ramadan’s request for a invites comments and critiques from those fessional work of the Academy during this When I assumed the presidency in visa, this time on the grounds that he had who use it. We hope that this will be an year. Never have I worked with a group of Philadelphia in November of 2005, we made a contribution of 600 Euros to a important resource both for candidates colleagues so dedicated to the voluntary were concluding what was the largest ever French and Swiss charity for humanitarian and for departments engaged in hiring. work that is involved in the many activi- annual meeting with 9,982 attendees, aid to Palestinians, aid which, in turn, ties and committees of the Academy. 1,200 more than the previous high in In September 2006, we learned that the might have been administered by Hamas. Atlanta in 2003. As you will see in this U.S. Government continued to block I extend a special vote of thanks to the Tariq Ramadan is certainly not the only report, the enrolled membership in the Tariq Ramadan’s visa, keeping him from search committee, chaired by Hans scholar so barred from entering the Academy has grown by some 2,000 in the entering the country and, once again, Hillerbrand, that was charged with find- United States, but his case has particular past ten years. This year, the AAR from participating at our Annual Meeting. ing a new Executive Director. The search salience for members of the AAR, as many Program Committee approved 19 new You may recall that in November 2004, committee devoted countless hours to this count him among the most articulate program units that explore old and new Tariq Ramadan had been scheduled to task over the course of many months. This Muslim theologians and ethicists. He also areas of scholarly inquiry from Coptic deliver a keynote address at the AAR. He was both time-consuming and rewarding speaks directly to the many issues raised Christianity to Comparative Ethics to did so, finally, by video-conference, since work. I also want to thank all of you who by the rising presence of Muslims in Science, Technology, and Religion. Our he was not able to enter the U.S. agreed to let us speak with you about this European and North American societies, program units, in general, have received position and who offered such insightful In January 2006, the AAR, along with the and he is a member of the editorial board more proposals than ever before. perspectives on the structure, purpose, and AAUP and PEN American Center, joined of the AAR Journal. His exclusion from future of the AAR. The AAR had evolved The study and analysis of religion is indis- an ACLU lawsuit filed against the our company strikes a blow at the very to a new level of complexity and excel- putably important in the world in which Government under the Freedom of heart of our commitment to the study and lence under the leadership of Barbara we live today. Religious and theological Information Act. We were seeking the rea- analysis of religion and should be of con- DeConcini. Assessing these productive studies are integral to the curriculum of sons for revoking Ramadan’s visa after he cern to every member of the Academy. years and looking ahead with all of you more than 2,000 colleges, universities, and had been hired as a tenured professor at was an important process. seminaries across the country. Our survey the University of Notre Dame in 2004. At of undergraduate departments also tells us issue was the use of what was deemed The Academy is fortunate to have been that the study of religion is on the “ideological exclusion” in denying able to hire Jack Fitzmier as our new upswing in colleges and universities. There Ramadan a visa under a provision of the Executive Director. Jack’s background at are more religion majors across the board Patriot Act, interpreted so broadly as to be Diana L. Eck Gordon Conwell Theological School, than ever before and more students taking a danger to the very enterprise of debate President Princeton University, Vanderbilt Divinity courses in religion. and exchange in a free society. In denying School, and Claremont School of

Centennial Strategic Plan 2004–2009 Vision As a learned society and professional associa- Goals and to support and encourage diversity tion of teachers and research scholars, the within the Academy. The American Academy of Religion (AAR) is American Academy of Religion has over To accomplish this mission, the AAR sets 8. To enhance awareness of the interna- the preeminent scholarly and professional 9,500 members, most of whom teach in forth the following goals: tional context for the study of reli- society in the field of religion, recognized as more than 1,500 colleges, universities, semi- 1. To promote research and scholarship gion and to increase involvement in the field’s leader in critical scholarship; teach- naries, and schools in North America and in the field of religion. the AAR by scholars and teachers ing and learning about religion; and resources abroad. The Academy is dedicated to further- from around the globe. for pedagogy, programs, the professoriate, and ing knowledge of religions in all their forms 2. To foster excellence in teaching and the public understanding of religion. and manifestations. This is accomplished learning in the field. 9. To advance and secure the future of through Academy-wide and regional confer- the academic study of religion. 3. To facilitate our members’ profession- ences and meetings, research support, publi- Mission al development. cations, professional development and out- Strategic Objectives In a world where religion plays so central a reach programs, and member services. 4. To develop programming and partici- role in social, political, and economic events, pation in AAR regional groups. As we prepare for the Academy’s centenni- Within a context of free inquiry and criti- as well as in the lives of communities and al in 2009, 100 years from the founding cal examination, the AAR welcomes all 5. To advance publication and scholarly individuals, there is a critical need for ongoing of its predecessor organization, we identify disciplined reflection on religion — from communication in the field. reflection upon and understanding of reli- the following strategic objectives. The both within and outside of communities gious traditions, issues, questions, and values. 6. To contribute to the public under- attention given to these objectives simply of belief and practice — and seeks to The American Academy of Religion’s mission standing of religion. highlights them for special focus within enhance its broad public understanding. is to promote such reflection through excel- the AAR’s continuing commitment to cur- 7. To welcome into our conversation the lence in scholarship and teaching. rent and ongoing programs and services. various voices in the field of religion See STRATEGIC PLAN p.24

January 2007 RSN • 23 Religious Studies News A Message from the Executive Director

Dear AAR and professional societies. Tobe sure, these The Academy’s good health allows us the Academy is very well positioned to contribute Colleagues and facts and figures are important in their own freedom to think imaginatively about the to the public understanding of religion. Friends, right. But taken together they form some- opportunities that are coming into view. In 2009 our Academy will reach a remarkable thing larger and far more impressive. During I write this message The growth of our guild over the last ten years milestone — the 100th anniversary of its Barbara’s tenure the AAR grew from a modest for our Annual is remarkable, and our Academy has kept pace. founding. Plans for our centennial obser- organization into a complex institution: mem- Report with a deep This fall our membership hit record highs, and vances will involve our membership in some bership increased from approximately 6,000 appreciation for the every indicator suggests that the Washington, sustained reflection about future directions, members to nearly 10,500; annual meetings Academy’s past and D.C., Annual Meeting will be the largest we and will involve us all in seeking support for expanded; a staff of four became a staff of six- with a keen sense have held. This growth enables enlarged con- those new initiatives. teen; our financial condition developed very of excitement about versations and a diversity of methodological nicely with net assets growing from some I think the future of the American Academy the challenges that lie before us. This looking perspectives that are exciting. Our program- $400,000 to nearly $10 million; and even the of Religion is bright, and I look forward to backward and forward, I suppose, is not sur- ming — both in the expansion of program office space grew, from an apartment turned sharing it with you. prising given the recent transition in the - - units and the addition of professional programs business space in student housing to the beau- Academy’s Executive Office. - — will also follow suit. Larger publics — both tiful Luce Center. I can assure you that this scholarly and general — are taking new inter- My predecessor in the Executive Director’s maturation of our Academy is real, not imag- est in the study of religion. Thoughtful people chair, Barbara DeConcini, graciously spent ined. It stands as a testimony to Barbara’s able are learning what many of us have already dis- much of July orienting me to the job. I leadership and as an icon of the tremendous covered: Religion is not merely one aspect of learned about AAR’s budgets and grants, com- growth of our field. This is all to say that by our cultures, it is one of the most important mittees and task forces, staff positions and job all sorts of measurable indicators, the AAR is aspects of our cultures. In an age of religious Jack Fitzmier descriptions, and about the relationships we very healthy. interest, fervor, dissent, and even violence, our Executive Director have with a large number of other scholarly

As the Academy continues to grow in STRATEGIC PLAN, from p.23 size and scope, it is important that Governance and Structure the AAR stand-alone meeting not be 1.To attract new members to the AAR. misunderstood as a gesture in favor of The notable growth of the AAR any single approach to the study of membership over the past ten years religion. The AAR must make ever New AAR Committees and Task Forces still leaves many scholars and teachers clearer its mission to welcome critical Graduate Student Committee in the field of religion unaffiliated reflection from all scholarly vantages with the AAR. Both the field and the and perspectives, from both within At its April 2006 meeting, the AAR Board granted the Graduate Student Task Force Academy will be stronger and intel- and outside of living faith traditions. standing committee status, making it the Graduate Student Committee (GSC). The lectually richer if these colleagues GSC addresses the needs and concerns of graduate students and promotes their profes- 6.To enhance the international dimen- choose to join our ranks. sional development and participation in the AAR and the academy as a whole. The GSC sion of the AAR. has developed as the result of the Board’s initiatives in the 1990s to be more intentional 2.To enhance the role of the AAR in the By its nature, the academic study of in including student members in the formal planning and structure of the AAR. To profession. religion is an international enterprise. achieve this goal, the Student Director has been elected to the Board of Directors to serve As a professional association, the AAR What is more, enhancing the AAR’s as the committee’s designated representative. includes among its primary responsi- international connections is increasing- bilities collecting and analyzing data ly important for the work of religion Task Force on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, about the field; monitoring trends in scholars and the flourishing of the field the profession that affect individuals itself in today’s interconnected world. Bisexual, and Transgendered Persons and departments (e.g., the increasing 7.To diversify the Academy’s leadership in the Profession use of adjunct teachers, the erosion of and nurture leaders for the future. At its April 2006 meeting, the AAR Board approved the creation of the Task Force on the tenure, the growing corporate culture Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Persons in the Profession. The in college and university administra- At the same time that colleges and LGBT Task Force recommends policies and practices to assure that LGBT persons have tion); keeping members apprised of universities are decreasing their histori- full access to and academic freedom within the Academy; the Task Force also develops such developments; and taking action cal support of scholarly societies, the programs to enhance their status in the profession. whenever appropriate on behalf of the AAR’s growth and ambitious program- field and its professors. ming need more dedicated and com- petent volunteers to provide intellectu- 3. To enhance the identity of the AAR al and strategic leadership. As the within the larger scholarly community. field’s contours continue to change 2006 Board of Directors As the field of religion continues to and succeeding generations of scholars develop and to change its contours, there and teachers join the Academy, it is Officers Fred Glennon, LeMoyne College is growing interest and need to relate the important to nurture and cultivate Diana L. Eck, President, Harvard Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University field to cognate fields. At the same time, new cadres of leaders, both regionally University we have not yet made a thoroughly con- and Academy-wide, and to foster Alice Wells Hunt, Vanderbilt University vincing case for our field within the lib- greater racial, ethnic, and gender diver- Jeffrey L. Stout, President Elect, Princeton - Richard M. Jaffe, Duke University eral arts setting, among college and uni- sity in the field and the Academy. To University versity administrators and colleagues. remain vital, the AAR must regularly Jane Marie Law, Cornell University Emilie M. Townes, Vice President, Yale review organizational structures to 4.To clarify the identity and mission of Divinity School Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College assure access and openness to change, the AAR vis-à-vis other scholarly soci- as well as continuity and tradition. Michelene Pesantubbee, Secretary, Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia eties in religion, holding stand-alone University of Iowa annual meetings beginning in 2008. 8.To prepare for the AAR’s centennial Douglas R. McGaughey, Willamette in 2009. John R. Fitzmier, Treasurer, American University Currently the number of scholarly Academy of Religion societies dedicated to the study of The forthcoming AAR centennial Linda A. Moody, Mount St. Mary’s religion is growing, and on a global offers the opportunity to strengthen College scale. Some have a general focus; oth- the institutional memory of the Members Corrie Norman, Taylors, SC ers very specific areas of interest. In Academy and to take steps to maxi- Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College order to insure a fruitful interaction mize continuing leadership and serv- Jacqueline Pastis, La Salle University with these societies, it is important ice in the field far into the future. Linda L. Barnes, Boston University Stacy L. Patty, Lubbock Christian that the AAR have a clearly defined 9.To enhance the financial security of Francis X. Clooney, Harvard Divinity University identity and mission of its own. the AAR. School Sarah Pike, California State University, 5. To foster scholarly interaction among The AAR’s continued striving toward Frederick M. Denny, University of Chico all approaches to the study of religion, excellence as the leading scholarly and Colorado, Boulder including the ethical and theological Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University professional association in the field of reli- perspectives that arise within particu- Eugene V. Gallagher, Connecticut College gion is related to the financial resources Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline lar religious traditions. Our objective available to imagine and undertake these W. Clark Gilpin, University of Chicago University is to welcome reflection from within and other emerging objectives. and among particular religious tradi- tions into our conversation. 24 • January 2007 RSN AAR Annual Report

Standing Committees Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia Iliff School of Theology/University of Teaching and Learning Denver, Stephanie Yuhas Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa Eugene V. Gallagher, Chair, Connecticut Academic Relations Jewish Theological Seminary, Emily Katz College Jeffrey L. Stout, Princeton University Fred Glennon, Chair, LeMoyne College Loyola University, Chicago, Brock Bingaman Tazim Kassam, Spotlight Editor, Syracuse Emilie M. Townes, Yale Divinity School University Richard M. Carp, Appalachian State University McGill University, Jeremy Wiebe Nelly Van Doorn Harder, Valparaiso University - Sheila E. McGinn, John Carroll University Chester Gillis, Georgetown University McMaster University, Sherry A. Smith Paul Myhre, Wabash Center L. DeAne Lagerquist, St. Olaf College Publications Northwestern University, Katelyn Mesler David C. Ratke, Lenoir Rhyne College Chun Fang Yu, Columbia University Francis X. Clooney, Chair, Harvard Pacifica Graduate Institute, Anais Spitzer - Divinity School Timothy M. Renick, Georgia State University Princeton Theological Seminary, Elias Executive Kimberly Rae Connor, Academy Series, Ortega-Aponte University of San Francisco Diana L. Eck, Chair, Harvard University Southern Methodist University,Tammerie Day Ad Hoc Committees, Susan E. Henking, Teaching Religious Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University Stanford University, Josh Peskin Studies Series, Hobart and William Task Forces, and Eugene V.Gallagher, Connecticut College Smith Colleges Syracuse University, Holly White Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University Jacob Kinnard, Religion, Culture, and Temple University, Ro Ruffin Juries History Series, Iliff School of Theology Stacy L. Patty, Lubbock Christian University Trinity College, University of Toronto, Employment Kevin Madigan, Texts and Translations Mariana Mastagar Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa Information Services Series, Harvard Divinity School Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian Jeffrey L. Stout, Princeton University Advisory Charles Mathewes, JAAR, University of School of Christian Education, Angela Sims Shelly C. Roberts, Chair, American Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University Virginia Union Theological Seminary, New York, Academy of Religion Emilie M. Townes, Yale Divinity School Anne E. Monius, Texts and Translations Claudio Carvalhaes Wade Clark Roof, University of California, Series, Harvard Divinity School University of Calgary, Chrissy Lakusta Santa Barbara Finance James Wetzel, Reflection and Theory in University of Cambridge, Jeffrey Bailey Jason Steuber, Glasgow University the Study of Religion Series, Villanova John R. Fitzmier, Chair, American Academy University University of Chicago, Bernard Dorsey of Religion Membership University of Florida, Samuel Snyder Robert D. Flanigan, Spelman College Public Understanding John R. Fitzmier, Chair, American Academy University of Iowa, Nathan Eric Dickman Eugene V.Gallagher, Connecticut College of Religion of Religion University of Missouri Kansas City, Day Lane Margaret Healy, Rosemont College Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College Sarah Pike, Chair, California State University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Linda A. Moody, Mount St. Mary’s College University, Chico Linda L. Barnes, Boston University Annie Blakeney-Glazer Michael Barkun, Syracuse University Francis X. Clooney, Harvard Divinity School Graduate Student University of Notre Dame, Damon McGraw Shaun Allen Casey, Wesley Theological University of Oxford, J. Patrick Hornbeck Kimberly Bresler, Chair, Princeton Seminary Religion and Disabilities Theological Seminary University of Pennsylvania, Grant H. Potts Colleen McDannell, University of Utah Kerry Wynn, Chair, Southeast Missouri Richard Amesbury, Valdosta State University University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto State University Gustav Niebuhr, Syracuse University School of Theology, Darren Josico Dias Bradley L. Herling, Boston University Kent A. Eaton, Bethel Seminary Ronald F.Thiemann, Harvard Divinity School University of Toronto, Christina Reimer Melissa Johnston-Barrett, Emory University Mary Jo Iozzio, Barry University University of Virginia, Laura Hartman Maurice Lee, Harvard University Regions F.Rachel Magdalene, Augustana College University of Washington, Jay Laughlin Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College Jacqueline Pastis, Chair, La Salle University Vanderbilt University, Nichole Phillips Religion in the Schools Linda L. Barnes, Boston University International Wheaton College, Michael Allen Diane L. Moore, Chair, Harvard Divinity Corrie Norman, Taylors, SC Connections School Status of Racial and Ann Marie B. Bahr, South Dakota State Richard M. Jaffe, Chair, Duke University Student Liaison Group Ethnic Minorities in University Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University Baylor University, Cameron Jorgenson the Profession Betty A. DeBerg, University of Northern Iowa Jonathan E. Brockopp, Pennsylvania State Boston College, Bede Bidlack Anthony B. Pinn, Chair, Rice University Richard Heyduck, Northeast Texas University Boston University, Robert Smid Community College Miguel A. De La Torre, Iliff School of Jin Hee Han, New York Theological Seminary Brown University, Daniel Ullucci Theology Stephanie McAllister, Brookline High School Teresia Mbari Hinga, Santa Clara University Catholic University of America, Miriam Laura E. Donaldson, Cornell University Lynne Westfield, Drew University Heather A. McKay, Edge Hill University, UK Perkins Fernie Zayn Kassam, Pomona College Chicago Theological Seminary, Adam Kotsko Theological Education Nominations Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Moravian Theological Claremont Graduate University, Brent Smith Seminary Carey J. Gifford, Acting Chair, American Hans J. Hillerbrand, Chair, Duke University Academy of Religion Columbia University, Rosemary Hicks Daisy L. Machado, Lexington Theological Rebecca T.Alpert, Temple University Seminary Daniel O. Aleshire, Association of Concordia Theological Seminary, Saneta Theological Schools Linell E. Cady, Arizona State University Maíko Status of Women in Larry Golemon, Dominican University of James A. Donahue, Graduate Theological Concordia University, Laurie Lamoureux California Union Scholes the Profession David H. Kelsey, Yale University Nancy Frankenberry, Dartmouth College Duke University, Susanna L. Drake Alice Wells Hunt, Chair, Vanderbilt University Paul C. H. Lim, Vanderbilt University Emory University, Matthew Bersagel Braley Mary C. Churchill, University of Program Colorado, Boulder Daisy L. Machado, Lexington Theological Florida State University, Elizabeth Barre Seminary John R. Fitzmier, Chair, American Academy Stacey Floyd Thomas, Texas Christian Fordham University, Ann M. Michaud - of Religion University Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary Fuller Theological Seminary, Kirsten Oh John C. Cavadini, University of Notre Dame M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University Kathleen T.Talvacchia, Ossining, NY Graduate Theological Union, Whitney Michel Desjardins, Wilfrid Laurier University Stephanie Y. Mitchem, University of John Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University Bauman South Carolina Diana L. Eck, Harvard University Barbara Brown Zikmund, Catholic Harvard University, Ryan Overbey Karen Pechilis, Drew University University of America Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University

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Awards for Excellence History of Religions Efforts to Improve the Environment, 2006 M. David Eckel, Coordinator of Juries, Jury Boston University The AAR is committed to awareness of envi- Karen McCarthy Brown, Chair, Corporate Culture ronmental issues as they affect our operations. Drew University Analytical–Descriptive Studies While providing our staff with benchmarks for Sustainability Initiatives Thomas P. Kasulis, Ohio State University strengthening this commitment, the following David Carrasco, Harvard University In 2006, the AAR participated with leaders report is meant to bring our Board and mem- Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto from more than a dozen national disciplinary Amy M. Hollywood, Harvard University bership up to date on progress made by the associations to consider how sustainability edu- Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University executive office. Steven P.Hopkins, Swarthmore College cation can create a better future. Sustainability Louis A. Ruprecht, Georgia State education produces graduates who are knowl- Steve Wasserstrom, Reed College University Infrastructure edgeable about and engaged in the solutions to society’s social, economic, and environmental Constructive–Reflective Studies The American Academy of Religion is headquar- challenges. The U.S. partnership for the Research Grant Jury tered at the Luce Center, which the AAR owns Francis X. Clooney, Harvard Divinity Decade of Education for Sustainable jointly with the Society of Biblical Literature. School Ellen T. Armour, Vanderbilt Divinity Development organized this stimulating meet- During the building’s planning and construction, School ing, which was sponsored by the Association of Julia A. Lamm, Georgetown University the AAR worked with the architects to create an American Colleges and Universities, the John Berthrong, Boston University environment that was functional, attractive, and Dale S. Wright, Occidental College Association for the Advancement of of low impact to the environment. Kathleen M. Erndl, Florida State Sustainability in Higher Education, and Historical Studies University The Luce Center itself is set in woodland, and University Leaders for a Sustainable Future. as few trees as possible were dislodged for its Catherine Brekus, University of Chicago Patricia O’Connell Killen, Pacific The AAR can contribute significantly to the construction. The tall trees surrounding it Lutheran University sustainability efforts from creating new text- David Frankfurter, University of New shade the building, and wide overhangs above — book opportunities and teaching workshops, to Hampshire the windows on each floor decrease air condi- making statements of support for the Decade tioning needs and electrical consumption. The Norman J. Girardot, Lehigh University and finding ways to hold environmentally headquarters is fitted with energy efficient fluo- friendly meetings. This initiative will continue, Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University rescent lights; except for security lights, the and member involvement will be critical for its building is darkened at night. Elevators provide success. full accessibility to wheelchairs, but the build- ing’s atrium is designed to encourage the use of Reducing and Reusing Members stairs. Parking lot buffers minimize water runoff, and the grounds — where they are The AAR strongly encourages an environmen- Membership Trends landscaped at all — are planted with materials tal commitment among its employees. whose water needs are matched to the local cli- Products that can be reused are retained and AAR membership has grown substantially since 1996, with 2005 membership figures mate. During dry periods, we rely on an auto- restored to inventory. Most of its staff mem- over 30% higher than at the beginning of this ten-year period. Indeed, in 2005, the mated watering system only for a brief time at a bers print routine office communications (if AAR experienced a watershed event, passing the 10,000-member mark for the first late hour, in compliance with Georgia’s volun- they must print them at all) on the unused time in its history. A small decline in membership in 2000 (probably related to the dis- tary outdoor watering restrictions. sides of fax transmissions or other discarded solution of Scholars Press and, with it, the joint AAR/SBL membership on a single materials. The AAR has provided many of its form) was reversed in 2001. Regular members account for approximately 64% of the Communications employees with PDAs, portable flash drives, total membership, while student members make up approximately 30%; retired mem- and laptop computers, minimizing the waste of bers comprise the remainder. AAR memberships run for the calendar year. The AAR has resolved to benefit the environ- printing materials that can better be carried in ment by prioritizing membership communica- electronic format. AAR Membership Trends, 1996–2005 tions in electronic format — Web site updates and e-mail notices — in lieu of print. Tothat Recycling end, we do the following: The AAR participates in all available Emory The AAR Web site provides as much interac- University recycling programs, including white tivity as possible, allowing members to retrieve paper, colored paper, and magazine/newspaper and update information without using paper. recycling. On its own, the AAR collects and (Paper options for membership records still recycles aluminum cans and plastics that are exist, of course, for those who lack access to used by employees. Toner cartridges are the Internet or who simply prefer hard copy.) returned to the manufacturer for recycling. Ephemeral communications such as Openings Alternative Transportation and In the Field are produced solely online. The AAR publishes a monthly e-Bulletin to As a university affiliate, the AAR is eligible for convey timely information to members with- the Emory University Alternative Transportation out exhausting any nonrenewable resource. Program. Two AAR employees participate in one or more alternative transportation programs, An electronic update for Board members, including carpooling, using public transporta- scheduled for delivery throughout the academic tion, and bicycling. One staff member sold his year, is currently being developed. car and now uses a scooter as his only motorized An online CV submission form was developed transportation. Additionally, the AAR encour- International Connections for the 2006 Employment Information ages its employees to telecommute as necessary, In keeping with the goal of enhancing its international dimension, the American Services. Employers registered for this service and has set up IT infrastructures to make it easi- Academy of Religion reaches out to scholars worldwide. Between 2000 and 2005, inter- can view candidates’ CVs before they arrive at er for them to do so; several AAR employees national membership as a percentage of total membership registered modest but steady the designated interviews. Electronic commu- telecommute at least one day a week. growth, from 11.9% to 14%. The international focus of our Annual Meeting — Africa nication between candidates and employers AAR employees who are enrolled in alternative in 2006, China in 2007, and South Asia in 2008 — will continue to expand the AAR’s also allows for scheduling interviews at EIS transportation programs rely on the Emory global scope. during the Annual Meeting. University fleet of cars to run errands during Growth of International Membership, 2000–2005 Membership renewal messages are sent via e- the day. Where possible, these vehicles are mail. When necessary, follow-up reminders called on for office errands as well. are sent by surface mail. It is hoped that this approach will substantially reduce our use of Committee on the Environment paper in this membership cycle. For print ver- An AAR employee sits on Emory University’s sions of the membership renewal mailing, Committee on the Environment, whose charge materials are chosen with an eye on environ- is to review capital projects for their environmen- mental responsibility: tal impact and to make policy recommendations. Inserts and envelopes are printed on paper that The committee has three primary goals: contains some recycled content. Ensure that environmental values are represented All inks used in the printing are soy-based. in Emory’sstrategic plans and policies. AAR window envelopes are cellophane-free so Embed environmental standards in individual that they can be recycled in regular white capital projects and processes. paper bins. Improve communications with campus and surrounding communities. 26 • January 2007 RSN AAR Annual Report Meetings Annual Meeting New Program Units The AAR Annual Meeting is large both in size and in complexity, from the number of registrants, sessions, and exhibitors to the number of special workshops and conferences In September 2005, the Program Committee approved the following 19 new pro- of related scholarly organizations. It is the largest scholarly conference on religion and, gram units for 2006: for the four days of the conference, the largest religion “bookstore.” In 2006, the AAR program structure comprises 15 sections, 65 groups, two seminars, and 24 consultations Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Practical Theology for a total of 106 program units. Plenary lectures, arts gatherings, business meetings, pro- Indigenous Communities Religion in Europe fessional development sessions, and a whole range of special events for various constituen- Bible, Theology, and Postmodernity cies enhance the program. Twenty-six scholarly organizations have formal ties with the Religion, Public Policy, and Political Academy, and some 193 others hold their meetings at the AAR conference. Biblical/Contextual Ethics Change Annual Meeting Registration by Affiliation, 2001–2005 Buddhist Critical–Constructive Religions in Chinese and Indian Reflection Cultures: A Comparative Perspective Buddhist Philosophy Science, Technology, and Religion (expansion of Religion and Science Christianity and Academia Group) Comparative Religious Ethics Signifying (on) Scriptures Comparative Theology Theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. Coptic Christianity World Christianity Especially for Graduate Students Yoga in Theory and Practice

Related Scholarly Organizations

The American Academy of Religion welcomes opportunities to cooperate with organizations whose missions are similar to our own. The Board has formally rec- ognized the following organizations:

African Association for the Study of North American Paul Tillich Society Religions Annual Meeting Sessions by Program Unit, 2001–2005 Person, Culture, and Religion Association of Practical Theology Polanyi Society Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Schleiermacher Society Christian Theological Research Société internationale d’études sur Fellowship Alfred Loisy European Society of Women in Society for Asian and Comparative Theological Research Philosophy Evangelical Philosophical Society Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Hermetic Academy Society for the Study of Chinese International Bonhoeffer Religions Society English Language Section – Society for the Study of Christian International Institute for Field Being Spirituality International Society for Chinese Society of Christian Philosophers Philosophy Søren Kierkegaard Society Karl Barth Society of North America Theta Alpha Kappa La Communidad of Hispanic Scholars Thomas F. Torrance Theological North American Association for the Fellowship Study of Religion

2007 Regional Meetings Future AAR Annual

Eastern International New England–Maritimes Southwest Meeting Dates and Sites May 4–5, 2007 Instead of holding a regional meeting in March 3–4, 2007 2007 San Diego, CA, November 17–20 University of Waterloo and Wilfrid 2007, the region will co-sponsor confer- Westin Hotel, DFW Airport Laurier University ences proposed by regional members. Irving, TX 2008 Chicago, IL, October 25–28 Waterloo, ONT, Canada Pacific Northwest Upper Midwest 2009 Montréal, QC, Canada, November 7–10 Mid-Atlantic May 4–6, 2007 April 13–14, 2007 2010 Atlanta, GA, October 30–November 2 March 1–2, 2007 University of Lethbridge Luther Seminary 2011 San Francisco, CA, November 18–21 Radisson Hotel at Cross Keys Lethbridge, AB, Canada St. Paul, MN Baltimore, MD Rocky Mountain–Great Plains Western Midwest March 23–24, 2007 March 24–26, 2007 March 30–31, 2007 Hilton Garden Inn The Graduate Theological Union Dominican University Omaha, NE Berkeley, CA River Forest, IL Southeast March 16–18, 2007 Sheraton Downtown Nashville Nashville, TN

January 2007 RSN • 27 Religious Studies News Publications JAAR Editorial Board

EDITOR Amy Hollywood, Harvard University John Iskander, Georgia State University AAR’s book series, published by Oxford University Press, are thriving. Over the past Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia year four new titles were published and eight new titles were contracted. Oxford David Jasper, University of Glasgow also publishes JAAR, which introduced a new cover design with the March 2006 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Tazim R. Kassam, Syracuse University issue. Back issues of JAAR can be accessed online through ATLAS, J STOR, and - Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of Project Muse. The Academy has also published one issue of Spotlight on Teaching Olga Kazmina, Moscow State University Wisconsin, Madison (Reflections on a Teaching Career in Religion) and four issues of the field’s newspa- Catherine Keller, Drew University per of record, Religious Studies News. Anna M. Gade, Oberlin College John Kieschnick, University of Bristol R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University David E. Klemm, University of Iowa Anne E. Monius, Harvard Divinity Series and Editors Teaching Religious Studies Series School Gary M. Laderman, Emory University Academy Series Susan E. Henking Jonathan Schofer, Harvard Divinity Robin Lovin, Southern Methodist Department of Religious Studies Kimberly Rae Connor School University Hobart and William Smith Colleges American Studies Geneva, NY 14456 Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Georgetown College of Professional Studies BOOK REVIEW EDITOR PHONE: 315 781 3889 University University of San Francisco - - E MAIL: [email protected] Kurtis Schaeffer, University of Virginia 2130 Fulton ST - Laurie Maffly-Kipp, University of North San Francisco, CA 94117-1047 Texts and Translations Series EDITORIAL BOARD Carolina, Chapel Hill PHONE: 415 422 2869 - - Kevin Madigan Richard B. Miller, Indiana University, E MAIL: [email protected] Hibba Abugideiri, Villanova University - Harvard Divinity School Bloomington Religion, Culture, and History Series 45 Francis AVE Leila Ahmed, Harvard Divinity School Ebrahim E. I. Moosa, Duke University Cambridge, MA 02138 Jacob Kinnard Victor Anderson, Vanderbilt University PHONE: 617 496 6673 Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida Iliff School of Theology - - E MAIL: [email protected] Maria Pilar Aquino, University of San 2201 South University BLVD - Michiaki Okuyama, Nanzan University Diego Denver, CO 80218 Anne E. Monius Jacob K. Olupona, University of PHONE: 303 765 3164 John D. Barbour, St. Olaf College - - Harvard Divinity School California, Davis E MAIL: [email protected] - 45 Francis AVE Catherine Bell, Santa Clara University Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University Reflection and Theory in the Study of Cambridge, MA 02138 Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer, Centro Religion Series PHONE: 617 495 5736 Peter J. Paris, Princeton Theological - - de Teologica e Ciencias Humanas E MAIL: [email protected] Seminary James Wetzel - Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Hebrew Villanova University Publications Committee Chair Laurie L. Patton, Emory University University of Jerusalem Department of Philosophy Francis X. Clooney, S.J. Jean Porter, University of Notre Dame 800 Lancaster AVE Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University Harvard Divinity School Villanova, PA 19085 Joseph L. Price, Whittier College 45 Francis AVE Ann Braude, Harvard Divinity School PHONE: 610 519 4709 - - Cambridge, MA 02138 Tariq Ramadan, Oxford University E-MAIL: [email protected] Catherine Brekus, University of Chicago PHONE: 617 495 4495 - - Richard A. Rosengarten, University of E MAIL: [email protected] Jose I. Cabezon, University of California, - Chicago Divinity School Santa Barbara John K. Roth, Claremont McKenna Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College College Elizabeth A. Castelli, Barnard College Abdulaziz Sachedina, University of Recently Published Monographs David Chidester, University of Cape Town Virginia Stephen C. Berkwitz. The History of the Buddha’s Relic Shrine: A Translation of the Francisca Cho, Georgetown University Michael Satlow, Brown University Sinhala Thupavamsa. November 2006. Francis X. Clooney, Harvard Divinity Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University Oliver Freiberger. Asceticism and Its Critics: Historical Accounts and Comparative School Perspectives. July 2006. Regina Schwartz, Northwestern Sheila Greeve Davaney, Iliff School of University John L. Meech. Paul in Israel’s Story: Self and Community at the Cross. August 2006. Theology Robert Sharf, University of California, Gerardus van der Leeuw. Sacred and Profane Beauty: The Holy in Art. August 2006. Barbara DeConcini, American Academy Berkeley of Religion Monographs under Contract Mona Siddiqui, University of Glasgow Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Harvard James K. A. Smith, Calvin College Jennifer Beste. God and the Victim: A Theology of Trauma, Grace, and Freedom. Divinity School Kathryn Tanner, University of Chicago David G. Bromley. Teaching New Religious Movements. Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke Divinity School University Kathleen Garces Foley. Crossing the Ethnic Divide: The Multiethnic Church on a - Bron Taylor, University of Florida Mission. Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State Margaret Kamitsuka. Feminist Theology and the Challenge of Difference. Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Princeton University University David Kyuman Kim. Melancholic Freedom: Regenerating Agency and the Revolution of Terry F. Godlove Jr., Hofstra University Richard Valantasis, Candler School of the Spirit. Daniel R. Gold, Cornell University Theology Susanne Mrozik. Virtuous Bodies. Sunil Goonasekera, University of Manuel A. Vasquez, University of Florida Tania Oldenhage. Parables for Our Time: Rereading New Testament Scholarship after the Peradeniya Steve Wasserstrom, Reed College Holocaust. Yudit K. Greenberg, Rollins College Jace Weaver, University of Georgia Jeffrey L. Richey. Teaching Confucianism. Janet Gyatso, Harvard University Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College William David Hart, University of North William J. Werpehowski, Villanova Carolina, Greensboro University Christine Heyrman, University of Elliot R. Wolfson, New York University Delaware Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton, University of Virginia Glenn E. Yocum, Whittier College

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Grants & Awards

Research Grant Awards 2006–2007 Book Awards The American Academy of Religion offers Awards for Excellence to recognize new Collaborative Individual scholarly publications that make significant contributions to the study of religion. These awards honor works of distinctive originality, intelligence, creativity, and Edward E. Curtis, Indiana University– Linda L. Barnes, Boston University School importance — books that have a decisive effect on how religion is examined, under- Purdue University Indianapolis of Medicine stood, and interpreted. Revisiting Black Gods of the Metropolis: Chinese Religious Healing in America: A African American Religions in the Social History, 1849–2004 Awards for Excellence Twentieth Century Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University Analytical Descriptive Collaborators: Paging God: Religion in the Halls of – Medicine Jonathan Z. Smith. Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Stephen W. Angell, Earlham School of Religion Heidi Campbell, Texas A&M University Religion. University of Chicago Press, 2004. Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Harvard Exploring How Religiosity Shapes Media University Use & Interaction in a Global Information Clarence E. Hardy III, Dartmouth Society in Israel College Frances Garrett, University of Toronto Kelly Eileen Hayes, Indiana Organization and Analysis of Digital University–Purdue University Editions of Tibetan Religious and Medical Indianapolis Histories Constructive–Reflective Sylvester A. Johnson, Florida A&M University R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University Dan Arnold. Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in Kathryn Lofton, Reed College Holy Sex: Christians and the Sexual South Asian Philosophy of Religion. Columbia University Press, Omar M. McRoberts, University of Revolution, from the Kinsey Reports to True 2006. Chicago Love Waits Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini Karline McLain, Bucknell University College Envisioning Hinduism: Raja Ravi Varma Carolyn Moxley Rouse, Princeton and the Visual Canon University Nora Lynne Rubel, Connecticut Donald S. Prudlo, Jacksonville State University College The Anti-Heretical Efforts of Peter of Historical Danielle Brune Sigler, Austin College Verona: An Investigation into the Lived Dan Boyarin. Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity. Religion of the Medieval Italian Laity Rebecca Sachs Norris, Merrimack College University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Religious Games and Toys: Exploring the Megan H. Reid, University of Southern Serious Side of Play California Judging Race and Religion: Pierre Crabites Collaborator: and African American Muslims in Early Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State Twentieth-Century Cairo University Sufia Mendez Uddin, University of Vermont Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist Speaking the Same Language: Muslim and Best First Book in the History of Religions University Hindu Veneration of Bonbibi The Spirit of Empire Ebrahim Moosa. Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination Archana Venkatesan, St. Lawrence University . Collaborators: Embodying Memories: Performance and University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Ritual Culture at the Vishnu Temple of Néstor Míguez, Instituto Superior Alvar Tirunagari, South India Evangélico de Estudios Teológicos Michael J. Zogry, University of Kansas Jung Mo Sung, Methodist University of Playing or Praying? The Cherokee Anetso Sao Paulo Ceremonial Complex and the Performance of Cultural Identity

Excellence in Teaching Award Media Awards The American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in Teaching both recog- Annually the AAR honors the best in-depth reporting on topics related to religion. nizes the importance of teaching and honors outstanding teaching in the field. We There are three contests. We offer our congratulations to this year’s winners. congratulate this year’s winner: News Outlets with more than 100,000 Circulation Patricia O’Connell Killen, Pacific Lutheran University. First Place Charles Radin, Boston Globe Martin E. Marty Public Understanding of Second Place Robert Sibley, Ottawa Citizen Third Place John Blake, Atlanta Journal Constitution Religion Award - News Outlets under 100,000 Circulation The Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion, established in 1996, recognizes extraordinary contributions to the public understanding of reli- First Place Jean Gordon, Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi) gion. The award goes to those whose work has a relevance and eloquence that Second Place Brett Buckner, Anniston Star (Anniston, Alabama) speaks not just to scholars, but more broadly to the public as well. The contribu- tion can be in any medium (e.g., books, films, TV, public speaking), as long as it is Third Place Terri Jo Ryan, Waco Tribune-Herald based on scholarship in religion. We congratulate this year’s awardee: Opinion Writing Andrew M. Greeley, professor of sociology, Arizona State University, and research associate, National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. First Place Naomi Schaefer Riley, Wall Street Journal Second Place Tracey O’Shaughnessy, Republican-American (Waterbury, Connecticut) Third Place Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun

January 2007 RSN • 29 Religious Studies News Outreach The Profession Government Relations The AAR has arranged for two panels to take place at the Library of Congress during the 2006 Annual Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities Online Career Guide Meeting. Both are co-sponsored by the AAR and the Library. The first, “Writing the Story of The AAR has published a Career Guide for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession. Available America’s Religious Origins,” has the additional co- online at www.aarweb.org/about/board/rem/careerguide, the guide covers the career lifespan, from graduate sponsorship of the National History Center, and the school to post tenure, and includes a chapter for administrators considering hires. Readers may partici- second, “Legislating International Religious pate in an online discussion board. Freedom,” has the additional co-sponsorship of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. In order to highlight the value of religion expertise to government officials and others in Washington’s The Job Market in Religion public policy community, several 2006 AAR forums The AAR administers the Employment Information Services (EIS) for the field, providing opportunities for communi- have been opened to the public. Among these are cation between employing institutions and candidates through Openings Online and the EIS Center at the Annual the panels at the Library of Congress and the Meeting. Annual Meeting plenaries with author Karen Openings Online appears monthly, offering the most comprehensive listing available of faculty and administrative posi- Armstrong and with former Secretary of State tions for religion scholars. Candidates can conduct searches of the positions based on a variety of criteria, including the Madeleine Albright. location of the position and the employer’s preferred subspecialty. They can choose to save particular ads to their per- Last year the AAR joined with the American sonalized “My Openings” Web page. Association of University Professors and with the The EIS Center serves hundreds of interested scholars and employers by centralizing information about position PEN American Center in an ACLU lawsuit to pre- announcements and candidate qualifications onsite at the Annual Meeting. Candidate CVs are available both onsite at vent U.S. government officials from barring foreign the EIS Center and online throughout the hiring season. The center facilitates the interview process by providing semi scholars from the United States solely because of - private space in the Interview Hall, arranging access to private interview rooms, administering a message center for views those scholars express. The suit has drawn communication between job candidates and employers, and mounting programs on career development. coverage in the Agence France Presse, Associated Press, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, At the 2005 EIS Center, 126 institutions conducted interviews for a total of 148 positions. The total number of regis- Chronicle of Higher Education, Fox News, tered candidates was 513, and the ratio of positions to candidates was 1:3.47. International Herald Tribune, Knight Ridder Each year, statistics are kept on the use of the EIS Center. Candidates and jobs registered with EIS do not represent all Newspapers, Le Matin, New York Times, Reuters, jobs in religion, nor even all jobs advertised in Openings. They do, however, provide some indicators about the state of and Wall Street Journal. As this 2006 Annual the job market (See chart of trends in Position Openings and Applicants showing data from 2003 through 2005). Report went to press, the AAR learned that the State Department had finally rendered a decision in the EIS also collects data on the outcome of searches conducted at EIS. In April of each year, all employers and candidates case of Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Islamic Studies who were registered for the previous year’s EIS Center are requested to complete a survey about the search experience. at Oxford University, denying him a visa. Employers are asked to submit information about whether the position was filled, whether the appointee was inter- viewed at the EIS Center, and the rank, position type, education, and gender of the appointee. Candidates are asked In November 2005, the AAR held several educational about their overall experiences of the job search process and whether they received an offer. Analysis of the resulting sessions for FBI agents on topics involving religion and data reveals the types of jobs offered and the kinds of candidates chosen to fill those positions. Results from the 2004 violence. Another round of sessions is slated for and 2005 surveys can be found on the EIS Web site at www.aarweb.org/eis. November 2006, when an additional panel of AAR members is scheduled to speak at a forum at FBI head- quarters. Trends in Position Openings and Applicants Several sessions were also presented in November All candidates and employers registered for the EIS Center are required to select job classifications from a provided list. 2005 to an audience of government directors of Candidates select the classifications that they consider to be their specialties, and employers select the classifications prison chaplaincy programs on issues involving free that best fit the description of the available position. The chart at right compares the candidates’ primary choices to exercise of religion by inmates. Since that time, the those of the employers’. Because the chart covers only the primary choices, when drawing conclusions from these data AAR has responded to several participant requests it is important to note that many jobs fall under classifications that candidates are less likely to use to describe their pri- for referrals to scholars with specific expertise. mary field, but might well select as a secondary or tertiary specialization (World Religions, for example). In March, a number of AAR delegations met with Additional data, including secondary and tertiary classifications and job data for the period 1990 2002, is available Congressional staff to advocate funding for the – upon request from Shelly Roberts at [email protected]. humanities, especially with respect to the academic study of religion. The AAR is organizing more than a dozen delegations for similar meetings in November 2006. Media Relations The AAR received a one-year $50,000 grant from EMPLOYERS 2003 2004 2005 The Pew Charitable Trusts to continue to fund Positions Registered 121 140 148 Religionsource, the AAR’s referral service for jour- nalists. Religionsource responded to more than Total Institutions Registered 98 115 126 1,500 queries from media, including ABC, Preregistered 76 89 133 Associated Press, Atlantic Monthly, BBC, Beliefnet, CNBC, CNN, Esquire, Forbes, France TV 2, Registered On-site 22 26 15 Gentleman’s Quarterly, Glamour, Harper’s, Los Angeles Times, NPR, New York Times, Newsweek, Ratio of Positions to Candidates 1:3.35 1:3.16 1:3.47 Ottawa Citizen, PBS, Religion News Service, CANDIDATES 2003 2004 2005 Reuters, Slate, Smart Money, Time, U.S. News & World Report, Vancouver Sun, Wall Street Journal, Total Registered 405 442 513 and Washington Post, as well as hundreds of region- al and local media. Preregistered 331 368 419 Thirty journalists attended the 2005 Annual Registered On-site 74 74 94 Meeting, including journalists from Beliefnet, Christian Century, Minnesota Public Radio, Female Participants 144 145 142 Ottawa Citizen, ReligionLink, and Washington Post. Male Participants 261 237 217 Articles about the meeting appeared in Christianity Today, Dallas Morning News, Jewish Exponent, and Did Not Report Gender 0 60 154 Publishers Weekly. Ratio of Female to Male 1:1.8 1:1.6 1:1.5

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POSITIONS TO POSITIONS CANDIDATES CANDIDATES Job Classifications 2003 2004 2005 2003 2004 2005 2003 2004 2005 Administration (e.g., President, Dean, Director, Program Director, Coordinator) 1110001:0 1:0 1:0 Ancient Near Eastern Languages N/A 00N/A 0 2 N/A 0:0 0:2 Archaeology – Ancient Near East N/A 00N/A 1 1 N/A 0:1 0:1 Archaeology – Greco-Roman N/A 00N/A 0 0 N/A 0:0 0:0 Arts, Literature & Religion 0005370:5 0:3 0:7 Asian Religions (general or not listed separately) 3 10 427 51:0.7 1:0.7 1:1.3 Biblical Languages N/A 10N/A 1 1 N/A 1:1 0:1 Buddhism 120711 15 1:7 1:5.5 0:15 Catholic Studies 1342021:2 3:0 1:0.5 Catholic Theology (all areas) 887815 19 1:1 1:1.9 1:2.7 Central and South American and Caribbean Religions 1101001:1 1:0 0:0 Christian Ethics 55625 28 26 1:5 1:5.6 1:4.3 Christian Studies 3131201:0.3 1:2 3:0 Christian Theology (general or not listed separately) 75323 23 17 1:3.3 1:4.6 1:5.7 Christian Theology: Practical/Praxis 0008850:8 0:8 0:5 Christian Theology: Systematic/Constructive 55535 26 44 1:7 1:5.2 1:8.8 Classics N/A 00N/A 0 1 N/A 0:0 0:1 Comparative Religions 3246781:2 1:3.5 1:2 Critical Studies/Theory/Methods in Religion 1005541:5 0:5 0:4 Early Christianity/Church History N/A 03N/A 12 25 N/A 0:12 1:8.3 Early Judaism N/A 00N/A 2 0 N/A 0:2 0:0 East Asian Religions (general or not listed separately) 4373541:0.8 1:1.7 1:0.6 Editorial 0010000:0 0:0 1:0 Epigraphy N/A 00N/A 0 0 N/A 0:0 0:0 Gay/Lesbian Studies in Religion 0001100:1 0:1 0:0 Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 13 10 12 57 65 69 1:4.4 1:6.5 1:5.8 Hinduism 1006641:6 0:6 0:4 History of Christianity/ Church History 37724 30 21 1:8 1:4.3 1:3 History of Religion (general) 0435540:5 1:1.3 1:1.3 Indigenous/Native/Traditional Religions 0400430:0 1:1 0:3 Introduction to Religion 0012100:2 0:1 1:0 Islam 7913 8725 1:1.1 1:0.8 1:1.9 Judaism 1295241:5 1:1 1:0.4 Library 0000000:0 0:0 0:0 Missiology 1000201:0 0:2 0:0 New Religious Movements 0000000:0 0:0 0:0 New Testament 13 12 13 40 56 71 N/A 1:4.7 1:5.5 North American Religions 34715 21 23 1:5 1:5.3 1:3.3 Pastoral Care 1204151:4 1:0.5 0:5 Philosophy of Religion 11116 11 10 1:16 1:11 1:10 Data Analysis Preaching/Ministry 2300012:0 3:0 0:1 Rabbinic Judaism N/A 01N/A 1 0 N/A 0:1 1:0 Subfields with the most positions Racial/Ethnic Minority Studies in • Islam (13) Religion 1103521:3 1:5 0:2 Religions of Africa/Oceania N/A N/A 1 N/A N/A 0 N/A N/A 1:0 • New Testament (13) Religious Ethics 33310 14 8 1:3.3 1:4.7 1:2.7 • Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (12) Religion/Theology: Two or • Catholic Theology (7) More Subfields 63411 13 11 1:1.8 1:4.3 1:2.8 • East Asian Religions (7) Second Temple Judaism N/A 20N/A 4 5 N/A 1:2 0:5 Septuagint N/A 00N/A 0 1 N/A 0:0 0:1 • History of Christianity/Church History (7) Social Sciences and Religion • North American Religions (7) (e.g., Religion & Society, Anthropology, Economics, Most common primary subfields of candidates Political Science, Psychology, Sociology) 1107881:7 1:8 0:8 • New Testament (71) South Asian Religions • Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (69) (general or not listed separately) 6 10 4514 8 1:0.8 1:1.4 1:2 • Christian Theology: Systematic/Constructive (44) Women’s Studies in Religion 1014161:4 0:1 1:6 World Religions 6650436:0 1:0.6 1:0.6 • Christian Ethics (26) Other 8915 45 71:0.5 1:0.6 1:0.5 • Early Christianity/Church History (25) Not Reporting 00047 5 28 0:47 0:5 0:28 • Islam (25) Total 121 140 148 405 442 513 1:3.35 1:3.16 1:3.47

January 2007 RSN • 31 Religious Studies News The Department Theological Programs Leadership Workshops Community College Survey At the 2005 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, the The American Academy of Religion collaborated with the Initiative Academic Relations Committee sponsored a workshop Community College Humanities Association in a study of titled Enlarging the Pie: Strategies for Managing and how religion is taught at community colleges. The study In 2005 the AAR conducted seven Theological Programs Growing Departmental Resources. Forty four participants determines what religion courses are being taught and Initiative (TPI) consultations. During these sessions, - discussed the following topics: whether they are required, how many different courses are participants responded with a plethora of comments, sug- offered, and a snapshot of the faculty teaching the courses. gestions, and personal insights regarding the Academy, Defining a Resource and Determining the Local theological schools and programs, and what new pro- Environment The data will be used to develop programming for this grams, publications, workshops, and Annual Meeting Growing Funds and Physical Space constituency of the Academy. Currently, there are about opportunities we might offer. At the broadest level, sev- Growing Faculty and Students 140 community college members of the AAR. eral all-encompassing ideas emerged in nearly every con- Budgeting and Financial Management Consultations with community college members will be text. Growing Links to Other Departments conducted at the Washington, D.C., Annual Meeting, and possibly at a few regional meetings. The need to address the theory vs. praxis tension, to reme- The workshop leaders were: dy the fragmentation of the theological school course of Timothy Renick, Georgia State University and Richard Of the colleges reporting, about 40 percent indicate they study, and to understand diverse subject matters. One of M. Carp, Appalachian State University. teach religion courses. The courses most taught, in the dichotomies that scholars in theological education Session Leaders were: descending order, are: recognize is that their concern to train students for serv- Tom Coburn, Naropa Institute Introduction to Religion/World Religion/Comparative ice in ecclesial settings often pulls faculty in directions Zayn Kassam, Pomona College Religion counter to their scholarly guilds and professional needs. Tom Kasulis, Ohio State University There was a general consensus that graduate theological John Raines, Temple University Bible (Old/New Testament; Survey of the Bible) education should focus on biblical studies, history, and Dianne Stewart, Emory University Christianity (Life of Jesus, History of Christianity) theology, and their application within and to practical Deanna Thompson, Hamline University theology. Currently, no scholarly forum for this dialogue Eastern Religions (Asian Religions, Buddhism, exists in theological schools. In Washington, D.C., the Academic Relations Committee Hinduism) will sponsor a workshop on Personnel Issues: The Good, The need to accommodate interdisciplinary and inter Other (Life, Death and Dying; Women and Religion; - the Bad, and the Ugly. Co leaders of the workshop are religious conversations between and across several disci- - Latter Day Saints; Black Church in America; Betty DeBerg, Northern Iowa University, and Chester plines, between different understandings of God, and Anthropology of Religion; Religion in the United Gillis, Georgetown University. Joining them as a panelist is between different institutional settings, theological per- States) Daniel Aleshire, executive director of the Association of spectives and approaches. No national forum is available Theological Schools. Breakout sessions will be led by Judaism for this type of dialogue regarding theological education, DeBerg, Gillis, Aleshire, and members of the Academic as it is for theological administrators. Such a forum Islam Relations Committee (Richard Carp, Appalachian State would be guided by a common educational endeavor, University, L. DeAne Lagerquist, St. Olaf College, and Enrollment trends for religion courses at community col- rather than by guild specific disciplines. The convening - Chun Fang Yu, Columbia University). leges are reported to be steady (53%) or rising (38%). of seminars and workshops was urged. - The need to narrow the divide between religious studies Regional seminars are being planned for 2007 to address Respondents report that religion is taught primarily in and theology (the analytical vs. the confessional, critical how to prepare for and navigate the intricacies of the aca- Humanities or Social Science Departments. Only three skepticism vs. passionate engagement), between evangeli- demic job hunt. Topics to be addressed will be where to colleges reported a free-standing Department of cals and liberals, between doctoral producers and doctoral look for positions, construction of a curriculum vitae and Religion/Religious Studies, and fourteen reported com- consumers, between different communities, and between teaching portfolio, writing the application letter, preparing bined religion and philosophy departments. for interviews, and negotiating salary and benefits. theological schools and the ecclesial bodies they serve. Religion courses are part of an Honors Program in 14% of Regions are being offered the seminars to be held the next respondent colleges, and 3% offer a degree program in Following the consultations, we created the Theological few years at their meetings. religion. In these latter colleges, the average number of Education Steering Committee to give leadership to the majors for the 2003 2004 academic year was 7.8. TPI. The committee is made up of nine seasoned, dis- – tinguished faculty and administrators from theological Virtual Teaching & Learning AAR also collected information on faculty appointments schools in the U.S. and degrees. Of the 964 reported as religion faculty mem- Center bers, 266 (28%) are full-time, while 698 (72%) are on adjunct or part-time appointments. For philosophy faculty Daniel Aleshire, Association of Theological Schools Under the guidance of the Committee on Teaching and (1,741), 29% are full-time, and 71% are on adjunct or Learning, this online resource consolidates the many curricular part time appointments. The highest earned degrees Larry Golemon, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement - and pedagogic resources developed by the AAR over the years, reported for full time religion faculty are: Ph.D. (42%), of Teaching - and makes them more widely available and usable in digitized M.A. (38%) and M.Div. (13%). For part-time and David Kelsey, Yale University Divinity School, emeritus form. Originally this project was called the Virtual Teaching & adjunct religion faculty, the highest earned degrees report- Learning Center, but the committee changed the name to ed are: Ph.D. (18%), M.A. (43%), and M.Div. (31%). Paul C. H. Lim, Vanderbilt Divinity School Teaching and Learning Resources to better reflect the service. The degree fields for full time religion faculty span a Daisy Machado, Lexington Theological Seminary The online data bank gathers important teaching tools in one - broad range: searchable online location, so that scholarly contributions to Glen Stassen, Fuller Theological Seminary teaching are available to the entire field. The Web site is con- Philosophy (35%) Kathleen Talvacchia, Independent Scholar stantly being updated, and its redesign will both change the look Religion (20%) and make it easier to navigate. English (12%) John Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University Divinity School Social Sciences (8%) Barbara Brown Zikmund, Catholic University of America Humanities (7%) Theology (6%) Carey J. Gifford, American Academy of Religion (Staff Undergraduate Survey History (6%) Liaison) The American Academy of Religion is in the process of Other (5%) surveying the 1,100+ universities and colleges that offer religion courses on the undergraduate level. For the first For adjunct and part time religion faculty, religion was the This committee’s charge is to meet the scholarly and pro- - time, the AAR is using an online format to gather the top degree field: fessional needs of theological educators by creating pro- data. This longitudinal project will compare how religion Religion (34%) grams and services that bring theological studies into the courses and faculty have changed since the 1999 2000 Philosophy (26%) wider conversation of the Academy, thereby enriching the – academic year, when the first such survey was completed. Theology (19%) work of theological educators. We will be reporting various relationships by affiliation Humanities (5%) and aggregate numbers regarding religion majors, courses, Social Sciences (4%) departmental characteristics, and enrollment. The surveys English (4%) are part of the signature program of the Lilly Endowment History (3%) funded Strengthening College and University Programs in Other (6%) Religion and Theology (SCURT) initiative. Data collec- tion is continuing as response rate has been low. Data analysis begins in Fall 2006.

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Independent Accountant’s Report To the Finance Committee American Academy of Religion Atlanta, Georgia We have audited the accompanying statements of financial position of the American Academy of Religion as of June 30, 2006 and 2005, and the related state- ments of activities and net assets, and cash flows for the years then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the management of the American Academy of Religion. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with U.S. generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Academy's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the American Academy of Religion as of June 30, 2006 and 2005, and the changes in its net assets and its cash flows for the years then ended in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the basic financial statements taken as a whole. The additional information on pages 16 and 17 is presented for the purpose of additional analysis and is not a required part of the basic financial statements. Such information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic financial statements and, in our opinion, are fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole. August 14, 2006 Jones and Kolb, Certified Public Accountants

2006 2005 Unrestricted Temporarily Permanently Total Total Restricted Restricted 2006 2005

ASSETS REVENUES Cash and cash equivalents $ 823,818 $ 1,351,647 AND GAINS Marketable securities 6,258,545 5,730,484 Membership dues $ 693,545 $ - $ - $ 693,545 $ 648,925 Accounts receivable, net 33,046 42,529 Grants 42,500 42,500 167,000 Pew grant receivable 66,000 ARP dues 0 4,648 Prepaid expenses 122,032 40,545 Annual Meeting 1,058,131 1,058,131 907,052 Furniture and equipment, net 25,003 28,596 Employment Share of Luce Center assets, net 2,163,593 2,180,710 information services 172,025 172,025 171,971 Total assets $ 9,426,037 $ 9,440,511 Label sales 55,297 55,297 49,104 LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Advertising and publications 20,668 20,668 17,290 Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 194,297 $ 127,264 Royalties 3,918 1,329 5,247 4,387 Accrued vacation 122,068 70,128 Book sales 18,588 18,588 25,457 Deferred revenue - memberships 331,607 305,956 Contributions 43,561 1,350 44,911 37,058 Deferred revenue - Annual Meeting 560,110 470,621 Luce Center rental Total liabilities 1,208,082 973,969 income 112,508 112,508 109,729 Interest and dividends 149,105 32,062 181,167 152,333

Net Assets Net assets released from restrictions 357,436 (357,436) 00 Unrestricted 6,168,211 6,178,747 Total revenues Temporarily restricted 949,744 1,187,795 and gains 2,684,782 (280,195) 2,404,587 2,294,954 Permanently restricted 1,100,000 1,100,000 Total net assets 8,217,955 8,466,542 Total liabilities and net assets $ 9,426,037 $ 9,440,511

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Unrestricted Temporarily Permanently Total Total 2006 2005 Restricted Restricted 2006 2005 EXPENSES Cash flows from operating activities Research and publications $ 141,382 $ -$ - $ 135,429 $ 167,038 Change in net assets $ (248,587) $ 216,155 Member services 377,204 346,696 307,193 Adjustments to reconcile change in net assets to net cash provided by (used in) Professional operating activities: development services 312,159 304,994 277,175 Depreciation 69,410 69,225 External relations 358,220 482,467 389,122 Unrealized (gain) loss on investments (190,328) (146,132) Annual meeting 986,585 934,826 600,444 Change in marketable securities (8,535) (10,542) Luce Center expenses 145,880 146,477 146,435 (Increase) decrease in receivables 75,483 246,578 General and administration 427,865 373,339 276,826 (Increase) decrease in prepaid expenses (81,487) 5,203 Fundraising 94,207 119,274 60,698 Increase (decrease) in accounts payable and accrued expenses 67,033 31,296 Total expenses 2,843,502 2,843,502 2,224,931 Increase (decrease) in accrued vacation 51,940 9,260 Change in net assets before investment Increase (decrease) in deferred revenue 115,140 60,853 gains (158,720) (280,195) (438,915) 70,023 Total adjustments 98,656 265,741 Investment gains 148,184 42,144 190,328 146,132 Net cash provided by (used in) Change in operating activities (149,931) 481,896 net assets (10,536) (238,051) (248,587) 216,155 Cash flows from investing activities Net assets Beginning of the Acquisition of equipment (23,664) (8,938) year 6,178,747 1,187,795 1,100,000 8,466,542 8,250,387 Purchase of marketable securities (354,234) (130,581) Net assets Net cash provided by (used in) End of the year $ 6,168,211 $ 949,744 $ 1,100,000 $ 8,217,955 $ 8,466,542 investing activities (377,898) (139,519) Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents (527,829) 342,377 Cash and cash equivalents Beginning of year 1,351,647 1,009,270 Cash and cash equivalents End of year $ 823,818 $ 1,351,647

[Note: Audit reports are accompanied by many pages of footnotes, giving further information and describing the accounting methods used. Please contact the AAR for these footnotes.]

Distribution of Expenses Sources of Revenue

Fundraising Growth on General and 3% Investments Marketing Administration 7% 15% Annual Meeting 3% 35% EIS 7% Luce Center Luce Center 5% 5% Book Sales 1% External Relations Annual Meeting 13% Grants/Contributions 44% 4% Research and Professional Publications Development Services Member Services 5% 11% 13% Membership Dues 29%

34 • January 2007 RSN AAR Annual Report The American Academy of Religion deeply appreciates our loyal and generous contributors.

The Academy expresses our gratitude to the foundations that have supported our work during the last several years. Special appreciation goes to the boards and executive staffs of the following. The Ford Foundation, Inc. The Henry Luce Foundation Lilly Endowment Inc. The Pew Charitable Trusts AAR’s development activities are a crucial part of our programs and services. Members’ and friends’ generous contributions to the Academy Fund year after year help support programs and important initiatives for religion scholars and the field. We are grateful for all contributions from members and nonmembers alike, whether these gifts come to us through membership renewals, Annual Meeting registrations, direct mail solicitations, or spontaneous gestures of generosity. Most donors do not restrict their gifts, though the AAR also welcomes contributions directed to specific programs. Since membership dues accounted for less than 30% of our annual budget, all contributions to the Academy Fund have a meaningful impact. The following list reflects donations received from July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006. Please notify the AAR office of any incorrect listings, as we strive for accuracy in our records. Members and friends who would like to remember the American Academy of Religion in their wills or estates are asked to contact the AAR Executive Director, Jack Fitzmier, for information (404-727-3049).

The Academy is grateful to the following donors for their support during the 2006 fiscal year.

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Alpert Barbara Boyd Barbara DeConcini Linda A. Moody ▲♦ Woosung Huh Anthony B. Pinn ▲♦✤ Alan B. Anderson Susan Power Bratton & Walt Lowe Mary Moorman ✶ Mary Jo Iozzio Albert Plotkin Peter J. Awn Ken Brooker Langston Adarsh Deepak Lewis S. Mudge E. H. Jarow Joni Powers ▲♦ Ann Marie B. Bahr Frank Burch Brown Diana L. Eck Patrick Muntazir Bonnie Johnson ✶ Jill Raitt ▲ ♦ Robert D. Baird Robert A. Bruttell Hans J. Hillerbrand Vasudha Narayanan ✤ Robert A. Jonas Frank Reynolds Elizabeth Barberi Grace G. Burford ✤ Bill Pitts Kathleen S. Nash Charles B. Jones V. Bruce Rigdon David L. Barr John E. Burkhart Gordon D. Newby ✤ Diane Jonte-Pace Frederick Rivers ✶ Michael R. Bathgate Hugh Burtner Gifts of $500 or more Tokiyuki Nobuhara Harold Kasimow Sidsel Roalkvam Catherine Bell David W. Cain Dennis A. Norlin Robert P. Kennedy ✤ Marian Ronan Anonymous Michael Berenbaum Joseph W. Caldwell Vivian-Lee Nyitray ✤ Miles Kimber Lynn Ross-Bryant Charles C. Dickinson Karen O. Borek Carnegie Samuel Calian ✶ Martin Marty Hester E. Oberman Jennifer Wright Knust Raymond Ruiz Harry M. Buck Giovanna Calvino ✶ ✤ ♦ Peter Ochs Kelly Koonce Martin Rumscheidt James Wetzel Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley Jacqueline Cameron Jim O’Connor Kerri A. Kor Don E. Saliers John O. Winston José I. Cabezón ✤ Susan Brown Carlton Carl Olson Kwok Pui Lan ✤ Emily Sampson William J. Cassidy Susanna Bede Caroselli Jacqueline Pastis ▲♦ Sarah Heaner Lancaster ✤ Lamin Sanneh ✤ Gifts of $200 or more Peter Cha J. Harley Chapman Stacy L. Patty ▲♦ Francis Landy Richard S. Sarason Francis X. Clooney ▲♦✤ David Charles ✶ Anonymous Judith B. Perkins Solange Lefebvre Jonathan D. Sarna Kimberly Rae Connor ♦ Dolores L. Christie Ernest Z. Adelman Regina Pfeiffer John K. Leonard Elizabeth A. Say ✤ Paula M. Cooey ✤ Young Ho Chun Mary F. Bednarowski Judith Plaskow ✤ Mikael Lindfelt Karen D. Scheib ✤ S. D. Crites John B. Cobb Jon L. Berquist Sally M. Promey Reid Locklin A. Gregory Schneider ✤ ✶ John Crossley David L. Coleman Kent Brintnall Martha J. Reineke David W. Lotz René Such Schreiner ✶ ♦ Kristine A. Culp Paul B. Courtright Jonathan E. Brockopp Fred N. Reiner J. Rebecca Lyman William Schweiker David S. Cunningham ✤ Reginald Crenshaw ✶ Gary L. Campbell ✤ Cornish R. Rogers Lois Malcolm Vanina G. Sechi ✤ Edward E. Curtis Wardene M. Crowley Allison P. Coudert Judy Saltzman Charles Marsh Alan Segal Bruce T. Dahlberg Dedunupitiye William G. Doty Kathleen M. Sands Luke N. Mbefo John C. Shelley Dena S. Davis Upananda ✶ Chris Downing Leigh E. Schmidt ✤ Anne G. McWilliams Michael Smith Wade Dazey Dyan Dietz ✶ David Noel Freedman Susan L. Schwartz ✤ Gary Meegan Robert London Smith Gary Delaney Deangelis Jualynne E. Dodson ✤ Warren G. Frisina ✤ Jan Shipps Morton J. Merowitz Mary Ann Stenger ▲♦ Corinne Dempsey Donald Dreisbach Eugene V. Gallagher ▲ Axel D. Steuer ✤ Jeffrey F. Meyer Jacqueline I. Stone ♦ Frederick M. Denny Joseph D. Driskill Margaret Healy Herbert B. Strange Gordon S. Mikoski David Streight ▲♦ Margaret H. Dornish Bruce Duncan Alice Wells Hunt Winnifred Fallers Sullivan ✤ Carol Miles Paul L. Swanson ✤ George Elder M. Jamie Ferreira Amir Hussain Mark Lloyd Taylor Madelon Miles ✶ Ines M. Talamantez ✤ ♦✤ Edward J. Enright Ina Ferrell Tazim Kassam Deanna A.Thompson ▲♦✤ Rochelle L. Millen Elizabeth Tapia Kathleen M. Erndl Frank K. Flinn Julianna Lipschutz Iain Torrance Julie Miller Phyllis J. Taylor Millicent Feske Amy Flynn ✶ Charles L. Lloyd James L. Waits Max Miller ✶ Sarah McFarlandTaylor ▲✤ Paul Joseph Fitzgerald J. Truett Gannon

January 2007 RSN • 35 Religious Studies News

Rose M. Tekel ✶ Ben Dorman Alexander C. McKay Curtis L. Thompson Jerry Dell Ehrlich Christopher Morton ✶ Gregory Thomas ✶ Riggins R. Earl Vaughan McTernan Frank H. Thompson Marsha A. Ellis Smith Lucinda Mosher Gene R. Thursby Yvon Elenga ✶ James J. Megivern Sybil Anne Thornton Gaston Espinosa J. Diane Mowrey Deborah Timmons-Hill ✶ Cynthia Eller David Mellins Denise Thorpe Wade Evans ✶ Camilla Mryglod ✶ Mark G. Toulouse Anthony Ephirim-Donkor Jerry D. Meyer Ama’amalele Tofaeono Marianne Farina Eugene Muhammad ✶ Mary Evelyn Tucker Carl D. Evans Alan G. Meyers Mark Totten ✶ Robert L. Fastiggi Miles Mullin ✶ Alana Vincent Howard ✶ Eileen M. Fagan Kenneth H. Miller Jeffery L. Tribble Alina Nicoleta Feld Wilberforce O. Mundia Dale Wallace ✶ Antoine Faivre ✤ Anselm K. Min Yuan-Lin Tsai Bruce L. Fields Leslyn Musch Cynthia G. Watts ✶ Betty Ferrell ✶ Yuki Miyamoto Umeda Yoshimi James W. Flanagan Siti Sarah Muwahidah ✶ George Weckman George W. Fisher Paul D. Molnar Renee Vai Joe Forman Peter Nash Samuel Wells Gavin Flood ✤ Mary Elizabeth Moore Benjamin Valentin ✤ Suzanne Franck Mary Kaye Nealen Tisa Wenger ✤ Peter Foley Gwyn Moser Ken Vandergriff Satoko Fujiwara Kathleen Davis Traci C. West Stanley Fowler Eric Mount Larry Vilardo ✶ Albert L. Garcia Niendorff Glenn Whitehouse Steve Friesen Malik Muhammed ✶ Cynthia Visscher ✶ Greg Garrett Samuel Oduyela Carol S. Wimmer Jun Fukaya Isabel Mukonyora ✤ Katharina von Laurie Wright Garry Maura O’Neill Madhuri Yadlapati Guillermo Garcia Leslie A. Muray Kellenbach ✤ Cheryl Gaver ✶ Cyril Orji ✶ Tyanna Yonkers Day ✶ Richard Gelwick Gwinyai Muzorewa ✤ C. Howard Wallace Abilio Jose Gaz Maria Ovando-Gibson Cheryl Townsend Gilkes Vijaya Nagarajan ✤ Andrew Finlay Walls James V. Geisendorfer Sang-un Park Gifts of $25 or more David Goatley Kyoko Nakanishi Andrew D. Walsh Felicia George Martyn Percy Naomi R. Goldenberg Nakano Tsuyoshi Diana Walsh-Pasulka Lynken Ghose Alicia Petersen David H. Aaron Rebecca Kneale Gould ✤ Linda Lee Nelson Nimi Wariboko ✶ Ariel Glucklich Cheryl Peterson Ulil Abshar Abdalla ✶ James Grady ✶ Rowshan Nemazee ✶ Caroline Webster Elizabeth Goodine Mary Lou Pfeiffer Alexander Abramov Clifford Green Scott Nesbitt Mary Wetzel ✶ Sonya Gravlee ✶ Judith R. Phillips Afe Adogame Joshua Greene Mutombo Nkulu- Kenneth Williams ✶ David Gray Marilyn Piety ✤ Dianne Alaimo Richard Greer ✶ Nsengha Preston N. Williams Marina Greatrex Tina Pippin Md. Sarwar Alam ✶ Gretchen Grimshaw Lucinda Nolan James Woodley June-Ann Greeley Chomingwen Pond Al-Bazian Hatem Margaret Eletta Guider Richard T. Nolan Alex Wright Terrence Grey Heather Rattray Martin ✶ Thomas Arnold ▲♦✤ Janet Varner Gunn June Elizabeth O’Connor Yu-shuang Yao Wendy B. Guiles- John A. Raymaker Linda L. Barnes Jeonghyun Ha Fortunate Ojiako ✶ Toshimasa Yasukata Trombetta ✶ Anthony G. Reddie ✤ Victoria Barnett William G. Hansen Hilmi Okur ✶ Sheridan Yeary ✶ Hong Yue Guo Eric Repphun ✶ S. Scott Bartchy Daniel Hardy ✤ Thomas Oord ✤ Edward A. Yonan Antoinette Gutzler William Rich Kabrina Bass ✶ John Hart Gaye Williams Ortiz Yohan Yoo Rosalind I. J. Hackett ✤ Philip Boo Riley Robert M. Baum Diana L. Hayes Lieve Orye Sakena Young-Scaggs Amy Laura Hall ✤ Nancy M. Rourke George S. Bebis Joel Hecker ✤ Laurie Louise Patton ✤ A. H. Mathias Zahniser Joseph R. Harris Ayako Sairenji ✶ Sheila Bell Bradley L. Herling ♦✤ Clive Pearson Wojciech Zalewski Suzanne Hasselle- Heiko Schulz Alison Benders R. J. Himes-Madero Casandra Peck ✶ Ludmila Zamah ✶ Newcombe ✶ Shawn Schuyler ✶ Kune Biezeveld Toni Hinchcliffe ✶ Kusumita P. Pedersen Cosimo Zene Bill Heersink Gretchen E. Selinski-Johnston Edward Bishop Linh Hoang Michelene Robert Zurinsky ✶ Tammy Heise ✶ Setiawan Irawati Kathleen Bishop ✤ Heath Howe Civetta Pesantubbee ▲ ♦✤ Joan M. Henriksen Hellyer Hershel Shanks Brian Black Nancy Howell Rakesh Peter Dass ✶ Gifts up to $25 Young Lee Hertig Sheila Shiki-y-Michaels ✤ Beth Blissman Thomas Hughson Albert C. Petite ✶ Garrick D. Hildebrand Laura K. Simmons William L. Blizek Anonymous Michael Humphreys ✶ Hans Pfeifer Hans-Olov Hjern Claire Singer Gilbert Bond Ibrahim Abu Bakar Robert Hunt Joanne Pierce Nathaniel Holmes C. Peter Slater Gina Bonkowski ✶ Ridgeway Addison ✶ Rodney J. Hunter R. Gabriel Pivarnik Brett Hoover ✶ Daniel Sungbin Sou ✶ Donna Bowman E. Obiri Addo Sheldon R. Isenberg Darius Piwowarczyk Krista Hughes ✶ Linda Spencer ✶ Gretchen Brabander Mary Barbara Agnew Ishii Kiyozumi Arlette Poland ✶ Sylvia Hutcherson Maddox Joann Spillman Jean-Pierre Brach ✤ Agueguia Choungo Perem Suzanne Jacobs Patricia Puder Massimo Introvigne Timothy Squier ✶ Donald Brash Susanna Akerman Myesha D. Jenkins ♦ Darby Kathleen Ray Michael Ireland ✶ Karin Juliana Steiner Kathlyn A. Breazeale Nick Alexander ✶ Richard Dennis Jiron ✶ Stephen G. Ray ✤ Hubert L. Ivery Jerome A. Stone Torkel Brekke ♦ ✶ ✶ Maria Antonaccio ♦ Melissa Johnston-Barrett Margaret Reinfeld Karda Diana R. Jackson David Sturtz Kimberly Bresler ✶ Abby Arganese ✶ Aislinn Jones ♦ Yuan Ren Robison B. James ✤ Elaine Sykes Sidney Brown ✤ Nancy Ault Jeff Kane ✶ Cynthia Rigby ✤ Ann Johnston Richard N. Taliaferro Don S. Browning Azorji Eugene Edozie Stephen Kaplan Holly Roberts Jaewan Joo Kate Temoney ✶ Pamela K. Brubaker Janel Baker ✶ Laurel D. Kearns ✤ Traugott Roser Felicity Brock Kelcourse ✤ Carol Thirumaran ✶ Raymond F. Bulman Aleeze Arthur Banks ✶ Paul A. Keim Rosetta E. Ross ✤ Mary Keller Theodore Trost ✤ Jason Butco Sams ✶ David Benfield Catherine Keller ✤ Louis A. Ruprecht Scott Kelley ✶ Swami Tyagananda Lisa Sowle Cahill Peter Bisson Minowa Kenryo Letty M. Russell C. Neal Keye Kathryn L. Valdivia Debra Campbell Celia Brickman Roger Kevorkian Sadakane Keiji Aun Ali Khalfan John van den Hengel Melinda Campbell ✶ Ryan Brooks ✶ Hyung Rak Kim ✶ Noriyuki Sakai Kim Yunseong Robert Van der Waag ✶ Juan E. Campo Anne Clarke Brown Don-Sik Kim Gabriel Salguero ✶ Heerak Christian Kim Thomas Adam Van Wart ✶ Heyward Canney Dale W. Brown Kim Jongmyung Jamie Sanders ✶ Nathan Kirkpatrick Robert L. Veon Jeffery L. Capshaw Elizabeth Brown ✶ Mari Kim ✶ Deborah Savage Michihiko Kuyama Charles I. Wallace Philippa A. Carter Jeanne M. Brown Charles A. Kimball David Schultenover David Lantigua ✶ Holly Wallace ✶ Christine Chapman ✤ ✶ L. Lang Brownlee ✶ Richard King Steven Schultheis John D. Laurance Charles D. Walters Dean Chiasson Helene Businger-Chassot ✤ David E. Klemm William L. Secrest Lee Jun Yeon ✶ Watanabe Manabu Cho YoungTae ✶ Bruce Buttler Paul V. Kollman John Senior ✶ Elizabeth Lemons Andrea Watson B. Hyun Choo Amy Carr Kristen E. Kvam ✤ Kim Shively Maria Lichtmann James Watson David Clairmont Jeremy R. Carrette ✤ Linda Land-Closson ✶ Neelima Shukla-Bhatt ✤ Kathryn Light ✶ Trevor Watt Carlo Cogliati ✶ Andrea Cartwright ✶ Joseph LaRose ✶ David Simmons K. Renato Lings Jann Cather Weaver Paul Collins ✤ Alejandro Chaoul Emmanuel Lartey Linda Sisneros ✶ John Lomperis Gisela Webb Gasper Colon Neal Christopher ✶ Robert A. Lassalle-Klein Robert Smith Davina C. Lopez ▲♦✤✶ Hans-Joachim Wiens ✶ Donald A. Crosby Judith F. Clark Jennie Latta ✶ Frederick M. Smith Kathryn A. Lyndes Gayraud S. Wilmore Helen Crovetto Shannon Clarkson Terri Laws ✶ Jay Smith Elenora Mackey Charles A. Wilson Joanna Cruickshank ✶ Cheryl Clemetson Ronald LeBel ✶ Marsha Snulligan-Haney Cushenberry ✶ Renate Wind Leslie Cunningham Christian T.Collins Winn Ben Lewinger ✶ Sodiq Yushau Susan M. Maloney ▲ Colleen Windham ✶ Susan D’Amato Charles Conway Chao-heng Liao Angella Son Gary Marrs ✶ Susan Windley-Daoust ✤ David Damrel Nancy H. Corcoran Franklin H. Littell Frederick Sontag Natalie R. Marsh Felix Yeung ✶ Nancy Danger ✶ Allen Cross Michael Lodahl ✤ George S. Spink Alan Michael Martin Diane Yoder ✶ E. Randolph Daniel John W. Crossin Christo Lombard Charlene M. Spretnak Katharine Massam Alfred P. Zarb David Daniels Michael Danczak Grace Cumming Long Ralph Steele Mary Beth Mathews Zion Zohar Michael I. N. Dash Susan E. Davies David Lyall Daniel B. Stevenson ✤ Stephanie McAllister Damian Zurro ✶ Maria T. Davila David Deane Gayatriprana J. MacPhail David T. Stewart Jim McCurdy Kari-Shane Davis ✶ Robin Deich Ottoson Mabrouk Mansouri Pamela Stockton ✶ Steven Meigs ✶ Susana de Sola Funsten ✶ Therese DeLisio ✶ Ruth Mantin Horace H. Stoddard Derek Michaud ✶ Teresa Delgado Toby Director Paul Martin ✶ Britt-Mari Sykes Robert Mickey Kenneth M. Diable Adam Downey ✶ Steven Masood Barbara Brown Taylor Amy S. Miller A. Genevive Dibley ✶ Susan Dunlap Kakuju Matsubara ✶ John Teehan Merrill P. Miller Sandra Lee Dixon ✤ Jeff Durham ✶ Eunice T. McGarrahan ✶ John Thatamanil ✤ Randall H. Miller ✤ ✶ Jane Donovan Andrew Mark Eason Mark A. McIntosh Heather Thiessen ✶ Elsie Miranda 36 • January 2007 RSN