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The Secret Lives of Muslims The Secret Lives Paper Session II: Biblical Studies and Paper Session III: Paper Session II: Biblical Studies and Paper Confronting Islamophobia: Equipping Scholars of Confronting Islamophobia: Adventists StudiesAdvanced Kevin Burrell, Burman University Kevin Burrell, Theses Did 95 of Reformation?What Luther’s Years Hundred Five in Christendom Change Not Iowa-Missouri of Seventh-Day Conference Matthew Lucio, and Conversion Consolation, Spiritual Crisis, Luther and Loyola: Andrews University Miller, Nicholas of Protestant Roots Jr.: Martin Luther King, Martin Luther to Rights Civil Modern La Sierra University Trenchard, Warren of Sola Years Hundred of Five Reformation: Years Hundred Five Scriptura International Institute of Adventist Campbell, W. Michael White: and Ellen G. the Reformation, Perspicuity ofThe Scripture, for Seventh- “Plain Reading” of Exploring the Meaning and Contours day Adventism University Adventist Washington Morgan, Douglas F. and the Radical Identity Adventist Reformation Falls: After Babylon Impulse University Southern Adventist Alan Parker, Evangelistic Traditional of Perceptions Millennials’ Adventist Presentations on the Antichrist Presiding University, Oakwood Li, Tarsee Zareena Grewal, Yale University Yale Zareena Grewal, University Tech Virginia Sylvester Johnson, Harvard University Khalil Abdur Rashid, of and Producer Director Josh Seftel, University Trinity Jeet Singh, School Claremont of Syeed, Najeeba ĞĚ^ĐŚŽůĂƌůLJKƌŐĂŶŝnjĂƟŽŶƐ;Z^KƐͿƚŚĂƚŚĂǀĞƐŝŵŝůĂƌŵŝƐƐŝŽŶƐ www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 P17-6 P17-6 SocietyAdventist for Religious Studies Theme: Historical Studies 8:30 AM–11:30 AM Friday, Hynes Center-202 (Second Convention Level) Business Meeting: A17-102 A17-102 Workshop Anti-Islamophobia Theme: and Challenge Anti-Muslim Bigotry Religion to Understand 8:00 AM–5:30 PM Friday, Hilton Boston Back Bay-Jefferson (Third Level) Institute for and Homayra Ziad, Luther College, Green, Todd Presiding and Jewish Studies, Christian, Islamic, Panelists: See 68 for details. page ŵĂƌŬĞĚǁŝƚŚĂWηͿ͕ƚŚĞĐŽŶƚĞŶƚŽĨƚŚĞƐĞƐĞƐƐŝŽŶƐŝƐŶŽƚƌĞǀŝĞǁ and C papers.aarweb.org/program_book ZĞůŝŐŝŽŶĐŽŽƉĞƌĂƚĞƐǁŝƚŚZĞůĂƚ PROGRAM SESSIONS PROGRAM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 NOVEMBER FRIDAY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16 NOVEMBER THURSDAY, Devotional Paper Session I: Adventist Studies Paper Session I: Adventist See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Studies John Brunt, Edmonds Adventist Edmonds Adventist John Brunt, fromRescuing Paul the Reformation? University Walla Walla Mathilde Frey, at Cynical and Righteous Was When Abraham Faith: by Righteousness Time the Same International Institute of Advanced Adventist Eike Mueller, Luther and Antisemitism Presiding University, Oakwood Li, Tarsee ĂƐƚŚĞZ͕ĂŶĚƉƌŽǀŝĚĞƐƚŚĞŵƐƉĂĐĞĨŽƌƚŚĞŝƌŵĞĞƟŶŐƐ;ƐĞƐƐŝŽŶƐ ďLJĞŝƚŚĞƌƚŚĞZ͛ƐWƌŽŐƌĂŵhŶŝƚƐŽƌŝƚƐWƌŽŐƌĂŵŽŵŵŝƩĞĞ͘ A17-101 and Learning Committee Meeting Teaching 8:00 AM–12:00 PM Friday, Sheraton Boston-AAR Suite Presiding Louis, St. University, Washington Lerone Martin, Friday, 8:00 AM–8:30 AM Friday, Hynes Center-202 (Second Convention Level) Adventist SocietyAdventist for Religious Studies Theme: P17-5 Thursday, 6:30 PM–8:30 PM Thursday, Hynes Center-202 (Second Convention Level) Business Meeting: Adventist SocietyAdventist for Religious Studies Theme: P16-400 ůƚŚŽƵŐŚƚŚĞŵĞƌŝĐĂŶĐĂĚĞŵLJŽĨ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 A17-104 International Connections Committee Meeting Friday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM Friday, 9:00 AM–3:00 PM Sheraton Boston-Exeter A (Third Level) P17-107 Amy L. Allocco, Elon University, Presiding North American Paul Tillich Society Theme: Creative Justice and Resistance A17-105 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 NOVEMBER FRIDAY, B A Friday, 9:00 AM–10:30 AM Theological Education Workshop Sheraton Boston-Olmsted (Fifth Level) Theme: Resisting Injustice in the Age of Trump Friday, 9:00 AM–3:00 PM P17-103 Hynes Convention Center-312 (Third Level) Miguel De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver, Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Board Meeting Presiding, Presiding Friday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM See page 68 for details. Marriott Copley Place-Vermont (Fifth Level) Panelists: Jacqueline Lewis, Middle Collegiate Church and The Middle A17-113 Project Joerg Rieger, Vanderbilt University Public Understanding of Religion Committee Meeting Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Friday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM Marie Alford-Harkey, Religious Institute, Bridgeport, CT Marriott Copley Place- (Fifth Level) Jacqueline Hidalgo, Williams College Erik Owens, Boston College, Presiding A17-106 A17-100 Comparative Hagiology Workshop Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Theme: Cross-cultural Approaches to Religious Life Writings Queer Persons in the Profession Committee Meeting Friday, 9:00 AM–4:00 PM Friday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level) Marriott Copley Place- (Fifth Level) Massimo Rondolino, Carroll University, Presiding Kathleen T. Talvacchia, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding See page 68 for details.

A17-114 A17-107/S17-103 K Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession THATCamp - The Humanities and Technology Camp Committee Meeting AARSBL2017 Friday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM Marriott Copley Place-Orleans (Fourth Level) Hynes Convention Center-208 (Second Level) Nargis Virani, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Eric Smith, Iliff School of Theology, Michael Hemenway, Iliff School of Theology, and Candace Mixon, University of North Carolina, Presiding See page 69 for details.

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Between Fake News and Natural Media Business Session III John Durham Peters, Yale University Yale John Durham Peters, University of Hoover, Stewart M. University of Colorado Whitehead, Deborah www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 ReligionWorkshop and Media Theme: 11:00 AM–6:00 PM Friday, Hynes Center-302 (Third Convention Level) Hofstra Burlein, Ann M. Syracuse University, Gail Hamner, M. and Elliott College of Charleston, Kathleen Foody, University, Presiding Le College, Moyne Bazzano, See 69 for details. page Panelists: P17-106 SocietyAdventist for Religious Studies Theme: 11:30 AM–12:00 PM Friday, Hynes Center-202 (Second Convention Level) Presiding University, Oakwood Li, Tarsee A17-108 American Lectures in the History of Religions Committee Meeting PM 10:30 AM–1:00 Friday, Sheraton C (Third Boston-Beacon Level) Presiding Georgia State University, Louis Ruprecht, A17-112 and Archive MLK Museum of African American History, Tour Marsh Chapel PM 11:00 AM–4:00 Friday, Offsite-Meet in Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD at the Registration Center the Convention See 9 for details. page A17-109 and A , 1933, 10 1933, , papers.aarweb.org/program_book Bukkyō daijiten Bukkyō Pure Land in : A in China: , published in 1942), was based on a on was based published in 1942), , (tr. Leo Pruden, ed. Richard K. Payne and Natalie and Natalie Payne K. Richard ed. Leo Pruden, (tr. Polanyian Perspectives: New Voices Mochizuki’s Doctrinal History of Pure Land Buddhism in Mochizuki’s Doctrinal Subjects See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Chūgoku Jōdo kyōrishi Chūgoku Jōdo Thomas Lynn, Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati, Lynn, Thomas Recalling Its Liabilities: Its Limitations, Reductionism: Biological Polanyi Michael Duke University Matthew Elmore, Polanyi Reading Aquinas with Michael Scientia: Tacita University of Montreal Martin Beddeleem, Figure of Early Neoliberalism Pivotal Polanyi: Michael Daniel A. Getz, Bradley University Getz, Daniel A. Catholic University of America Jones, Charles B. Berkeley University of California, Blum, L. Mark Institute of Scott Mitchell, Friday, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM Friday, Level)Marriott (Fourth Copley Place-Falmouth Theme: P17-108 Society Polanyi Theme: P17-105 P17-105 International of Shin Association Studies Buddhist China 10:00 AM–12:00 PM Friday, Hynes Center-103 (Plaza Convention Level) Presiding Musashino University, Tanaka, Kenneth on Japanese outside circlesAll too little known of specialists working Shinko of the pioneering Mochizuki (1896–1948) is one Buddhism, Mochizuki is perhaps best- giants of modern studies. Buddhist known forencyclopedia the of Buddhism ( Friday, 10:00 AM–11:50 AM Friday, Copley Place-StateFairmont Suite A (Lower Lobby Level) being work The and which is still in print today. he edited, that vols.) this panel discussion, in featured Doctrinal History Quli; P17-104 North American for the Study Association of Religion Theme: lengthy series of lectures he gave on the history, thought and practice the history, on series he gave lengthy of lectures for resource remains a work The Landof Pure Buddhism in China. been made now and has Japanese Pure Land Buddhist scholarship, to bring In order this publication up available in English translation. of volume a second by has been complemented the translation to date, four supplemental essays—a biographical study of Mochizuki (Daniel and bibliographical essays scholarship since Mochizuki’s on Getz), Blum), L. Japanese (Mark Jones), publication (Charles in Chinese B. These four contributors will discuss Mitchell). and English (Scott A. and its continuing work, the importance and value of Mochizuki’s Land for Pure relevance Buddhist studies. Panelists: Friday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17

A17-110 P17-109 Status of Women in the Profession Committee Meeting Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Friday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM Religion Sheraton Boston-Franklin (Fifth Level) Theme: How Learning Works: Research on Learning as a Resource Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University, Presiding for Teaching Theology and Religion FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 NOVEMBER FRIDAY, Friday, 12:00 PM–5:30 PM Hynes Convention Center-107 (Plaza Level) P17-242 A What if we designed courses and teaching activities in theology and religion based on how people actually learn? Recent advances North American Paul Tillich Society in cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and other areas of Theme: Book Review: Prophetic Interruptions by Bryan Wagoner educational research provide exciting new clues into the processes Friday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM by which learning takes place. But busy teachers often lack time Sheraton Boston-Clarendon (Third Level) to engage in extensive study of contemporary learning theory to their teaching. In this 5-hour workshop, participants Bryan Wagoner, Davis and Elkins College, Presiding will be introduced to a framework of seven principles of learning Responding: that research has shown can enhance learning in significant ways. Ronald Stone, Carnegie Mellon University Participants then will have the opportunity to work in-depth with one or more of these principles in relation to a course they teach. We will Russell Re Manning, Bath Spa University explore strategies for teaching; share expertise and provide feedback Christian Danz, Universität Wien on learning-based teaching practices; and consider the particular, subject-specific implications such understandings of learning may have for the teaching of theology and religion. P17-230 We will begin with a buffet lunch at noon, and conclude with a reception for participants ending at 5:30. Participants will be asked North American Association for the Study of Religion to read, before the workshop, one chapter that will be provided by the Theme: Objects Wabash Center. Space is limited. Pre-registration is required. Send Friday, 1:00 PM–2:50 PM an email to Beth Reffett,[email protected] . Registration deadline Fairmont Copley Place-State Suite A (Lower Lobby Level) is November 1. For additional information, see: http://wabashcenter. wabash.edu/programs/2017-pre-conference-workshop. Panelists: P17-231 Jeremy Posadas, Austin College Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Board Meeting Joyce Ann Mercer, Yale University Friday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Marriott Copley Place-Vermont (Fifth Level) A17-111 Q Museum of African American History, MLK Archive and A17-200 Marsh Chapel Tour Friday, 12:30 PM–5:30 PM Graduate Student Committee Meeting Offsite-Meet at the Registration Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD in Friday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM the Convention Center Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level) See page 9 for details. Bhakti Mamtora, University of , Presiding

A17-210 Regional Coordinators Meeting Friday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM Marriott Copley Place-Orleans (Fourth Level)

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The Use of Ethnography for Theological Research The Use of Ethnography for Theological Digital Media and Communications Womanist Consultation University Angela Cowser, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Garrett-Evangelical Angela Cowser, Theology MF Norwegian School of Stangeland Kaufman, Tone University of Durham Karen Kilby, Theology MF Norwegian School of Ward, Peter Tennessee University of Hughes, Jeremy State University Tennessee Middle Rebekka King, Kathryn Georgia State University McClymond, Virginia Institute and State Polytechnic Britt, Brian M. Nancy Ammerman, Boston University Boston Nancy Ammerman, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A17-202 A17-202 Workshop TheologyEthnography and Theme: 1:00 PM–5:00 PM Friday, Hynes Center-313 (Third Convention Level) Jonas Ideström, Toronto, University of Wigg-Stevenson, Natalie Christian A. Sweden, Uppsala, Unit, of Sweden Research Church and Mary McClintock Theological Seminary, Auburn Scharen, B. Presiding Duke University, Fulkerson, See 70 for details. page Panelists: A17-203 Workshop Academic Relations Committee Leadership Theme: 1:00 PM–5:00 PM Friday, Hynes Center-309 (Third Convention Level) Hackett, J. Rosalind I. University of , Trost, Theodore University Robinson, and Joanne Maguire Tennessee, University of Presiding Charlotte, of North Carolina, See 70 for details. page Panelists: Responding: Responding: #womanists@aar P17-243 to Religion Approaches Society and Unit Womanist Theme: 1:00 PM–4:00 PM Friday, HynesCenter-101 (Plaza Convention Level) A17-201 Own Brand for Academic Your Creating You: Brand Survival Workshop 1:00 PM–4:30 PM Friday, Hynes Center-108 (Plaza Convention Level) Presiding Theological Seminary, Memphis McGee, L. Paula See 69 for details. page and . www.tftorrance.org papers.aarweb.org/program_book on the interaction between the interaction between on Thomas F. Torrance and the Church Torrance and the Church F. Thomas Brookfield, CT Brookfield, FBI and Religion Scholars: Reflecting on the Past 25 Years FBI and Religion Scholars: Reflecting on The Patristic Foundations of the Reformed-Orthodox The Patristic Foundations (Wipf & Stock, 2014), Jason Radcliff (Wipf 2014), an paper will offer ’s & Stock, See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Eileen Barker, London Science School of Economics and Political Eileen Barker, Syracuse University Michael Barkun, of Investigation Bureau Federal Resch, T. David Robin Montgomery, Steven Weitzman, University of StevenWeitzman, Connecticut College Gallagher, V. Eugene University of Virginia Saathoff, Gregory B. Jason Radcliff, University of Edinburgh Jason Radcliff, Harvard Religious Literacy and American Project Academy of Religion Theme: 1:00 PM–4:00 PM Friday, Sperry Room, Ave, Francis Offsite-Harvard 45 Divinity School, 116 Hall Andover Presiding Harvard University, Philip Heymann, the FBI and between following 1993 confrontation the In the years scholars religion community calleda religious Davidians, the Branch religious dissident regarding occasionallyhave advice the FBI offered into less commonly and who come well-understood who are groups The American Academy of Religion conflict with law enforcement. has served as an interlocutor for the Critical Incident Response with the FBI Academy and has also established a relationship Group religion scholars mutual hope of The Academy. its National through interacted has been that and the FBI officials with whom they have with the than occurred to better outcomes might lead consultation reflect This panel will . P17-241 religion scholars and law enforcement officials over the past 25 years over the past 25 officials scholars and law enforcement religion that experience and what may be learned to inform interaction from going forward. Director Moore, Diane L. by will be provided remarks Welcoming After . of the Religious Literacy Project, to will be time for there the panel to respond the panelists speak, the audience. questions from Panelists: Fathers 1:00 PM - Business Meeting for all members 1:40 PM - Lecture 2:45 PM - Question and Answer Panelists: P17-232 Torrance TheologicalFellowship F. Thomas Theme: Ecumenical Dialogue 1:00 PM–4:00 PM Friday, HynesCenter-109 (Plaza Convention Level) Presiding Theological Seminary, Nazarene Noble, Thomas A. Building upon his book, of the constructive and extension critical assessment, introduction, in the Torrance F. T. Reformed-Orthodox Dialogue spearheaded by ecumenical particular in It will explore how the Dialogue’s late 1980s. and Christocentric Trinitarian interpretation of the use and creative to offer contemporary has much theology Fathers of the Church information go to more For theology. Trinitarian FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 A17-206 K Women’s Caucus A17-204 Theme: Gathering and Workshop on Resilience and Vulnerability K in Transforming Lives and Scholarship Teaching Religion and Disability Studies Workshop Friday, 1:30 PM–3:30 PM Theme: Engaging Curriculum and Pedagogy with Intersectionality Hynes Convention Center-305 (Third Level) and Communities Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College, Presiding Friday, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 NOVEMBER FRIDAY, Come enjoy the camaraderie of the Women’s Caucus and network Hynes Convention Center-102 (Plaza Level) with other scholars. Learn about the Women’s Caucus and join in Kirk VanGilder, Gallaudet University, Nicholas Shrubsole, University this workshop-style session as we engage the 2017 AAR conference of Central Florida, and Raedorah Stewart, Wesley Theological theme, Religion and the Most Vulnerable with the Women’s Caucus Seminary, Presiding theme of Resilience. Come participate and join in this exciting See page 70 for details. conversation as we reflect on how we engage topics of vulnerability and resilience both in our scholarship and in our personal and Panelists: professional lives. Share your ideas on how we might offer pathways Mary Jo Iozzio, Boston College towards resilience and care for the most vulnerable in our society within classroom settings and in our pedagogies in our endeavor to catalyze transformations in peoples lives and in our scholarship. A17-205 Q Panelists: Boston City Tour Alicia Panganiban, Princeton Theological Seminary Friday, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM Offsite-Meet at the Registration Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD in P17-244 the Convention Center See page 9 for details. Polanyi Society Board of Directors Meeting Friday, 1:30 PM–3:30 PM Sheraton Boston-Boardroom (Third Level) P17-233 Adventist Society for Religious Studies A17-207 K Theme: Paper Session IV: Theological Studies Friday, 1:30 PM–3:00 PM The Public Scholars Project Workshop Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level) Theme: Practical Skills for the Public Scholar Zdravko Zack Plantak, Loma Linda University, Presiding Friday, 2:00 PM–5:00 PM Adelina Alexe, Andrews Theological Seminary Sheraton Boston-Back Bay D (Second Level) Subjectivity in Hermeneutics: Moving beyond Misunderstanding, Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds, Presiding and Benjamin Misuse, and Abuse Marcus, Newseum Institute Religious Freedom Centre, Washington DC, Presiding Jason Hines, Adventist University of Health Sciences The Question of Slavery and the Principle of Sola Scriptura Co-sponsored by the AAR Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion and the Newseum Institute Religious Freedom Center Richard Rice, Loma Linda University Assurance and Its Aftermath: The Reformation and Divine See page 71 for details. Determinism Liz Kineke, CBS Religion & Culture Charles Scriven, Adventist Forum How to Respond to Requests for Information from Journalists The World as Moral Responsibility: Calvin Light on Reading—and Vanessa Zoltan, Harvard University Misreading—the Bible Learning How to Speak for Camera and Radio Simran Jeet Singh, Trinity University The Effective Use of Social Media

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, edited by Peter C. Phan and Young- Phan and C. Peter edited by , : Reading and Translating Raimon Panikkar Translating Reading and : The Legacy and Challenges of Raimon Panikkar The Legacy and Challenges Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles California State University, Joseph Prabhu, An Thinker: Appreciation as a Christian Raimon Panikkar University Washington Western Michiko Yusa, and the Silence of the Buddha Raimon Panikkar University of Helsinki Jyri Komulainen, and Religions Religion the Dialogical Man: Panikkar Eastern Kentucky University de Cea, Velez Abraham Language Religious Symbol, Myth, Hermeneutics, George Mason University Ro, Young-chan and Spirituality in Raimon Panikkar University Georgetown Leo Lefebure, The Many Dwelling Places of Whom?Wisdom Is Playing with Who’s TheologyPanikkar of in the Raimon Graduate University Claremont Anselm Min, Panikkar’s Trinity Reflections and the Cosmotheandric on Vision: The Theology Intercultural Italy Florence, Roberta Cappellini, Vision Gender and Sexuality in Raimon Panikkar’s Dame University of Notre Dallmayr, Fred Work? in Panikkar’s Tension Sacred Secularity A and Prophetism: Georgetown University Phan, C. Peter Chapter The Unpublished “Eschatology”: Raimon Panikkar’s Harvard University Clooney, X. Francis After Panikkar An Epilogue, Rosemont College Erik Ranstrom, Lessons for a Spiritual Life: and the Contemplative Raimon Panikkar Tradition in the Ignatian Director Georgia State University Banas, Mark of in Film Examples Myth and Logos at the Movies: Panikkar Nanzan University Seungchul Kim, in the Forest Venture www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 P17-245 P17-245 Society Philosophy for Asian and Comparative Theme: 2:00 PM–7:00 PM Friday, Marriott Place-Massachusetts Copley (Fifth Level) a self-described Buddhist-Christian- (1918–2010), Raimon Panikkar has been widely acknowledged of the most influential as one Hindu, celebrate Panikkar’s To century. thinkers of the twentieth religious legacy and theology, studies and examine his challenges for religious UK) is bringing out a volume, the Lutterworth (Cambridge, Press A Companion Raimon Panikkar: thought. with fifteenPanikkar’s essays on variousaspects of chan Ro, own the participants to other than one’s At this session respond will The purpose is for the contributors (and the of the session essays. of one’s the areas beyond about Panikkar audience) to learn more also includesThe session than those other presenters own expertise. contributors to the forthcoming book. and papers.aarweb.org/program_book ent and compelling contemporary Shinran in the Light of Heidegger and Levinas Shinran in the Light See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Susan B. Thistlethwaite, Chicago Theological Seminary Chicago Thistlethwaite, Susan B. for the Internet Writing American University Evan Berry, and Academic Research Bridging between the Gap Policy Bret W. Davis, Loyola University, Maryland Loyola University, Davis, W. Bret a Dialogue between Toward and the EntrustingGelassenheit Heart: and Shinran Heidegger Loyola Marymount University James Fredericks, and Attunement (Bestimmtheit) Shinran University of Chicago Ryan Coyne, and the Meaning of Shinran, “ThisHeidegger, House”: Burning Licensed Evil Harvard University Charles Hallisey, and with Jankelevitch On the Sources of Shinran Morality: Reading Levinas Drake University Leah Kalmanson, and Shinran, Levinas, The (Non-)PracticeNot-Directing-: of ofthe Impossibility Doing Good Ryukoku University Dennis Hirota, on DwellingHeidegger and Shinran Harvard University Janet Gyatso, International Bonhoeffer Society of Directors Board Meeting 2:00 PM–5:00 PM Friday, Sheraton F (Third Boston-Beacon Level) P17-235 Friday, 2:00 PM–5:00 PM Friday, HynesCenter-103 (Plaza Convention Level) Presiding Harvard University, Janet Gyatso, jointly project in an ongoing sponsored work This panel presents the Institute of Buddhist Studies Universityby and the Ryukoku seeks to project The Buddhist Cultures. World Center for Research for illuminating continental philosophy in recent resources explore focusing on the thought Land Pure Buddhist path, Shinran’s papers The panelists will present of Heidegger and Levinas. a varietytreating of philosophical themes and issues that suggest thought — such as non-willful with aspects of Shinran’s resonances of the philosophy in and dwelling attunement, comportment, and the Other in Levinas. incapacity, Heidegger and conscience, willresonances both such cast fresh The expectation is that probing light on the implications philosophical of current further topics and developing cog suggest paths toward Theme: P17-234 International of Shin Association Studies Buddhist thought. understandings of Shinran’s Responding: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 P17-238 Evangelical Philosophical Society A17-208 Theme: Human Flourishing: Biblical, Theological and B H Philosophical Issues Religion and Ecology Workshop Friday, 3:00 PM–6:00 PM Theme: Integrating Ecology and Justice Sheraton Boston-Olmsted (Fifth Level) Friday, 2:30 PM–5:30 PM Chris Armstrong, Wheaton College, Presiding Hynes Convention Center-311 (Third Level) FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 NOVEMBER FRIDAY, Marc Cortez, Wheaton College Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University, and John A. Grim, Yale How are the “Natural” and “Spiritual” Telos of the Human Person University, Presiding Interrelated: Biblical Contours on Flourishing See page 71 for details. David Horner, Biola University Panelists: Human Flourishing in Ancient and Medieval Thought Willie J. Jennings, Yale University Greg Forster, Trinity International University Contested Visions of Flourishing: The Challenge of Pluralism Jace Weaver, University of Georgia Heup Young Kim, Korea Forum for Life and Science Responding: Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Jay Wood, Wheaton College Graduate Theological Union Frederique Apffel- Marglin, Smith College A17-209 K Grove Harris, Temple of Understanding Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University Teaching Hinduism Workshop Erin Lothes, College of Saint Elizabeth Theme: Teaching Tales: Narrative and Pedagogy in the Hindu Studies Classroom Friday, 3:30 PM–6:00 PM P17-236 Hynes Convention Center-207 (Second Level) Adventist Society for Religious Studies Arti Dhand, University of Toronto, Presiding See page 71 for details. Theme: Business Session IV Friday, 3:00 PM–3:30 PM Steven Lindquist, Southern Methodist University Teaching Stories about Teaching Self: 8SDQLΙDGLF Narrative in the Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level) Classroom Tarsee Li, Oakwood University, Presiding Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University Teaching Hinduism with Mahābhārata Dialogues: Intertextuality and Thematic Continuity in Divine/Human Encounters P17-237 Vishwa Adluri, City University of North American Association for the Study of Religion Re-imagining the Mahābhārata: A Report from the Kochi-Muziris Theme: Scholars Biennale Friday, 3:00 PM–4:50 PM Joydeep Bagchee, University of Munich Myth and History: Teaching Hinduism through Narratives Fairmont Copley Place-State Suite A (Lower Lobby Level) Elizabeth Mary Rohlman, University of Calgary The Dynamic Canon of the and the Ethnography of the Classroom Raj Balkaran, University of Toronto How the Goddess Teaches Hinduism: Decoding Divergent Boons Jeffrey Brackett, Ball State University Translation, Transcreation, and Tukaram Shana Sippy, Carleton College Stories to Grow on: Shaping Hindu Subjects and Morals through Narrative Pedagogy in the Hindu Diaspora

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and Michael Pace, Chapman and Michael Pace, istian Theological LearningTheological istian from the and Ibn Arabi ੩࿞෥಻ Neglected Conceptions of Faith Polanyian Perspectives What Buddhists and Christians Can Learn from Muslims What Buddhists and University Teresa Morgan, Oxford University Morgan, Teresa of Faith and the Evolutions Origen, Celsus, Christian Northwest University Dennis Lindsay, Testament and the New Josephus in Faith” “Moses’ Boston College, Dan McKaughan, Trust and as Loyalty Judeo-Christian Faith University Washington Western Daniel Howard-Snyder, Hillsdale University Jon Fennell, Regret? Polanyian Grene’s Can Alasdair MacIntyre Relieve Hollins University Charles Lowney, or Emergentists? Be Pluralists We Should Geneva College Esther Meek, Now Then and with Reality: Contact Glenn Willis, Misericordia University Misericordia Willis, Glenn and Surrender: for Islamic Challenges Tawhid Gonzaga University John Sheveland, Chr Radicalization and Mercy: al-Baghdadi to Letter Open College Wartburg Terasawa, Kunihiko Toshihiko In Case of with Islamic Mysticism: A Buddhist Fascination Izutsu University of San Diego Bahar Davary, Loyola Marymount University Amir Hussain, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 P17-312 Society of Christian Philosophers Theme: 4:00 PM–7:00 PM Friday, Copley Place-Adams (Seventh Level) Westin Presiding University of Pennsylvania, Andrew Chignell, Responding: P17-315 Society Polanyi Theme: 4:00 PM–7:00 PM Friday, Sheraton Common (Fifth Boston-Boston Level) will meeting at 6:45 PM. be a business There P17-311 Society Buddhist-Christian for Studies Theme: 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Friday, Marriott Place-New Copley (Fifth Hampshire Level) Islam dialogue with constructive interreligious climate, In the current In this panel, is a criticalfor both Buddhism and Christianity. task Buddhist or Christian examples of either several engagement different including outcomes of the the positive described, with Islam are and suggestions response a Muslim scholars offer Two engagement. for further dialogue. Responding: and papers.aarweb.org/program_book Friday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM The Importance of History and Psychology when Applying Karl Barth and the Reformation Sectional Meetings See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Walla University Walla Day Adventists Michael J. Root, Catholic University of America Root, Michael J. Today Theology and Roman Catholic the Reformation, Barth, Tübingen University of Christoph Schwöbel, Karl Barth and Martin Luther Martin Hanna, Andrews University Martin Hanna, TheologyHistory and Christian University Andrews Gallos, Erhard Testament New Walla University Walla Thompson, Alden Old Testament Walla Timothy Golden, and Loma Linda University, Yi, Zane Ethics and Philosophy Southeastern of Seventh- California Conference Ernest Furness, Practical Theology University Walla Walla Dybdahl, Paul Religions/Missiology World Theme: P17-310 International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion Theoretical Models in CSR: Bridging the Gap between Cognitive Historiography and Experimental Psychology 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Friday, Sheraton (Fifth Boston-Arnold Arboretum Level) the disciplines who teach different scholars from In this session, Science Cognitive provide of Religion discuss how they teach it and advice for others. Theme: 3:30 PM–6:00 PM Friday, Sheraton Boston-Back (Second Bay B Level) P17-240 Karl Barth Society of North America Friday, 3:30 PM–4:30 PM Friday, Hynes Center-202 (Second Convention Level) P17-239 SocietyAdventist for Religious Studies Theme: Friday, 7:00 PM and Later FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1718

P17-410 A17-301 Society for Hindu-Christian Studies Religious Literacy College-Wide Project Planning Meeting Theme: Reform and Reformers in Hindu-Christian Perspective Friday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Friday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM Sheraton Boston-Liberty C (Second Level) Westin Copley Place-Essex Center (Third Level)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 NOVEMBER FRIDAY, Reid Locklin, University of Toronto, Presiding A17-300 G 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s (1483–1546) Theses and the genesis of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. In Department Chairs’ and Program Coordinators’ Reception commemoration of this event, this panel will explore the categories Friday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM of “Reform” and “Reformers” in the context of Hindu-Christian Marriott Copley Place-AAR Suite Studies, by examining specific comparative cases in South Asia, from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The respondent will draw the The Academic Relations Committee invites leaders in departments case studies into conversation with one another and with key points of to a social gathering on the eve of the annual conference. Come join Luther’s theology. us: learn about the work of the Committee; suggest future program initiatives; and meet colleagues from across the country and around Jon Keune, Michigan State University the world. Religious Reformers as Agents of Social Change? A Comparative Historical View of Eknath’s and Luther’s Interpreters J. Barton Scott, University of Toronto P17-314 G The Victorian Luther: How the British in India Reimagined the Reformation Feminist Studies in Religion Boards Pre-Conference/Forum Srilata Raman, University of Toronto Friday, 6:00 PM–8:00 PM The Wandering Bottle Gourd Guru: Post-sectarian Reformations and Westin Copley Place-Helicon (Seventh Level) Dalit Charisma in Nineteenth–Twentieth Century South India Anant Rambachan, Saint Olaf College B. R. Ambedkar and Hindu Reformations: Caste, Liberty, and A17-403 Democracy Status of LGBTIQ Persons, People with Disabilities, Responding: Racial and Ethnic Minorities, and Women in the Profession Kristin Johnston Largen, Gettysburg Seminary Committees Joint Meeting Friday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM Hynes Convention Center-203 P17-412 G Kecia Ali, Boston University, Presiding Søren Kierkegaard Society Banquet Friday, 7:00 PM–10:00 PM Offsite-St. Botolph Club, 199 Commonwealth Ave The cost is $54, or $65 with wine. For graduate students and recent PhDs seeking full-time employment, the cost is $21, or $27 with wine. Advance reservations are required. Please contact Carl Hughes ([email protected]) with questions. George Connell, Concordia College Kierkegaard and the Spatial Turn

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Boards Reception Boards SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, is a 2017 American horror film written, produced and produced is a 2017 American film horror written, Get Out Sudhakshina Rangaswami, Fort Washington, PA Washington, Fort Sudhakshina Rangaswami, Boston College Catherine Cornille, Los Angeles California State University, Joseph Prabhu, MD Bethesda, Kovach, Peter University of Cambridge Pohran, Nadya University Saint Paul Blée, Fabrice www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A18-2 A18-2 Orientation Breakfast and Annual Meeting Members’ New 7:30 AM–8:45 AM Saturday, Hynes Center-302 (Third Convention Level) Glaude, and Eddie S. American Academyof Religion, Jack Fitzmier, Presiding University, Princeton P17-411 P17-411 Studies Religion in Feminist 8:30 PM–10:30 PM Friday, Copley Place-Helicon (Seventh Level) Westin A18-1 Class 7:00 AM–8:00 AM Saturday, Copley Place-Empire (Seventh Level) Westin class, yoga Join us for a 50-minute energizing and wakening will incorporate flow Fun to all levelsappropriate of practitioners. in the tension releasing into the legs, the whole body — stretching opening up the heart with some gentle back bending. shoulders, will be Towels for the day. ready playlist to get you All with a great yoga is $25. The cost for Please comfortable wear clothing. provided. P18-5 Society for Hindu-Christian Studies Board Meeting 7:30 AM–8:30 AM Saturday, George A-B (Third Copley Place-St. Level) Westin Presiding University, Forest Wake Roberts, Voss Michelle Panelists: Responding: A17-402 Film: 8:00 PM–10:00 PM Friday, Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level) Get Out young interracial couple The film follows a Peele. Jordan by directed parents. who visit the mysterious of the woman’s estate and L L

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What is the legacy for our time of globalization of Abhishiktananda and new identity?What policies of national and religious can be the Watch today? or not monastic, whether monastic of mysticism, role the trailer for the film at A17-401 A17-401 the oceans, the sacred mothering energy of Candomblé. Narrated Narrated mothering energy the sacred of Candomblé. the oceans, the film explores Pulitzer-prizeby Walker, winning author Alice the philosophical legacy of Africans in Brazil. enslaved of African-based religious practice with issues of environmental of African-based practice with issues of environmental religious tolerance in contemporary healing and religious racial justice, ethics, The title, Brazil. Film: 8:00 PM–10:00 PM Friday, Sheraton (Second Boston-Constitution Level) Presiding Denver, University of Colorado, Harding, Rachel E. Wisdom from the AfricanYemanjá: of Heart Brazil the Afro-Brazilian film that examines the indigenous values of of four elder spiritual the voices through Candomblé, religion of the in many at the apex of leadership are Women mothers. oldest and most traditional in this tradition. ritual communities Yemanjá A17-400 A17-400 P17-403 SocietyTheological for the Arts in Religious Studies and Theme: Musical Setting of New and Discussion of a Contemporary Poems Translations of Rilke’s 7:30 PM–9:00 PM Friday, Mary Hall Lyon Boylston 645 Street, Offsite-Old South Church, Protestant Burrows, S. and Mark Wheaton College, Delvyn Case, Presiding University of Applied Sciences, and soprano, musical portionThe Margot Rood, by will be performed and open to the public This is free event Brady Millican the piano. on refreshments. by and will be followed Responding: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 A18-100 B F H K Graduate Student Committee A18-3 Theme: Religious Scholars as Humanitarians: Publications, G Pedagogies, and the Protection of the Most Vulnerable Regional Officers’ Breakfast Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Saturday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level) Hynes Convention Center-301 (Third Level) Chase L. Way, Claremont Graduate University, and Bhakti Mamtora, Elizabeth Hardcastle, American Academy of Religion, Presiding University of Florida, Presiding By invitation only. The AAR is happy to provide this opportunity This panel debates the ethical obligations that scholars of religion owe for officers in the AAR’s ten regions to network with one another to the most vulnerable members of global society, particularly in the and to hear reports from AAR staff about AAR Board actions and wake of the 2016 US presidential election. Through a combination deliberations and regional initiatives being undertaken by the AAR. of presentations and workshop activities, it will provide a safe space in which junior and senior scholars can explore how they might develop their academic careers while simultaneously making P18-6 meaningful contributions to the pursuit of social justice. The featured speakers of this panel work on a diverse range of topics at the nexus Feminist Studies in Religion of humanitarian and scholarly work, including the advancement of Theme: EFSR Board Meeting non-human animal rights, the lived experience of Muslim feminists, and the creation of public humanities projects that weave together Saturday, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, knowledge about faith, the environment, and social equality for Marriott Copley Place-Maine (Fifth Level) educational purposes. Brianne Donaldson, Rice University Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM Religious Studies and Ethical Curiosity: Class Projects That Reveal Unseen Stories in a Midwest Slaughterhouse Town Nayawiyyah Muhammad, Claremont Graduate University P18-110 The Women’s Mosque of America and Social Justice in American European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism Mosques Theme: Esotericism in Non-Western Cultures? Critical A. Whitney Sanford, University of Florida Assessment of Buddhist and Islamic Esotericism Sacred Waters, Contested Histories, and the Public Good in the American South Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM Fairmont Copley Place-Copley Room (Lobby Level) Responding: Greg Johnson, University of Colorado P18-111 A18-101 B C Adventist Society for Religious Studies Theme: Paper Session V: The Promise of Adventism Anthropology of Religion Unit Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM Theme: Vulnerability and Reciprocity in the Fieldwork Encounter Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level) Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Mindy Bielas, Claremont School of Theology Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level) Stop Sacrificing our Daughters: An Analysis of Sexism in Adventist James Bielo, Miami University, Presiding Education Gwendolyn Gillson, University of Iowa Zdravko Zack Plantak, Loma Linda University Buddhist Ritual against Vulnerability: Japanese Women’s Use of Pure Does Adventism Inspire Young Adventists? Land Ritual to Create the Emotional Basis of Social Bonds Kristin Bloomer, Carleton College Ethnography Over Time: Vulnerable Subjects James Edmonds, Arizona State University Flipping the Ethnographic Gaze: Illuminating the Importance of Belief

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Spirit in the Dark: Taittirīya Upanishad Taittirīya (Oxford University Press, (Oxford University Press, The Spatiality and Instrumentality of the Body The Spatiality and Instrumentality of the Author Meets Critics: Josef Sorett’s Author Meets Critics: Appalachian State University, Presiding Appalachian State University, Michael Raposa, Lehigh University Michael Raposa, as InstrumentThe Body of in Martial SpiritualityAttention Florida StateMatthew Robertson, University of Spatiality in the Bodily The Obliteration Bliss: Autophagous and the of Bataille Georges Philosophies Sarah Stewart-Kroeker, University of Geneva Sarah Stewart-Kroeker, Presiding University, Yale Kolbet, R. Paul University Azusa Pacific Wong, Jessica of Locations Spiritual Social Economy and Discerning the Body: Conception of in the Modern Power Race Denison University Christine Pae, K. U.S. Bodies: and Colonized Racialized, Militarized, Prostituted, Military Prostitution of Spiritual in South Korea as a Site Activism Chicago Loyola University, Pintchman, Tracy and Kevin Schilbrack, University, Valparaiso George Pati, Ashon Crawley, University of California, Riverside University of California, Ashon Crawley, Arizona State University Fessenden, Tracy University Marquette Bryan Massingale, Wilfrid Duncan, Laurier University B. Carol Theology School Claremont of Coleman, Monica A. 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An Devotional Exploration Twenty-First Whatis Parts Three University Brown Caleb Murray, of Madness and the Poetics Resistance, Religion, Lamentation: Allen’s Theology Iliff and UniversitySchool of Denver of Shawn Fawson, the Sacred Conveying through Pursuing the Real: Passionately Poetry Contemporary College Principia Martin, Heather R. to Community A Call from the Margins Theopoetics: Jack Clemo’s Pennsylvania Chester University, West Gloria Maité Hernández, Theopoetics Discalced Carmelite Presiding Theological Seminary, Princeton Pierce, Yolanda Responding: Business Meeting: Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Saturday, Hynes Center-101 (Plaza Convention Level) Presiding Tulsa, University of Matthew Drever, A18-103 A18-103 Unit and Augustinianisms Augustine Theme: Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Saturday, Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick B (Second Level) Virginia Institute and State University, Polytechnic Zhange Ni, Presiding Business Meeting: Theme: A18-102 A18-102 and Religion Unit Literature, Arts, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 A18-108 C Cultural History of the Study of Religion Unit A18-106 Theme: Race and the Genealogy of Genealogies Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Buddhism Unit Marriott Copley Place-MIT (Third Level) Theme: Poetic Turns in Buddhist Literature Joseph Blankholm, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Jason Josephson-Storm, Williams College Marriott Copley Place-Grand D (Fourth Level) Foucault, Nietzsche, Genealogy, History, and Race Janet Gyatso, Harvard University, Presiding Terence Keel, University of California, Santa Barbara Julie Regan, La Salle University A Tradition of Christian Peoplehood An Early Buddhist Theory of Poetics as a Path to Awakening Myrna Sheldon, University Sonam Kachru, University of Virginia The Biology of Biopower: Genealogy in the Cultural History of Of Poets, Their Lies, and the Savage Fruits Thereof: Four Brief Religion Vignettes on the Imagination in Buddhism Sarah Dees, Northwestern University Xi He, Appalachian State University American Scholars on Cultural and Religious Evolution Buddhists and Prose Literature during the Early Centuries Business Meeting: CE J. Barton Scott, University of Toronto, and Elizabeth Ann Nancy Lin, Vanderbilt University SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, Pritchard, Bowdoin College, Presiding Promiscuous Bodies of Knowledge: Poetics at the Fifth Dalai ’s Court Responding: A18-109 C A Charles Hallisey, Harvard University Daoist Studies Unit Theme: A Review of Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early A18-107 Daoist Communities (Harvard University Press, 2016) Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Comparative Studies in Religion Unit Sheraton Boston-Fairfax B (Third Level) Theme: Embodiment, Place, and Landscape in Buddhist Joshua Capitanio, Stanford University, Presiding Traditions Panelists: Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level) Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Arizona State University Ivette Vargas-O’Bryan, Austin College, Presiding Franciscus Verellen, Ecole Francaise d’Extreme-Orient Caleb Carter, Johns Hopkins University Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of California, Berkeley Gendered Topographies in Medieval Japan: Faultlines in the Standard James Robson, Harvard University Narrative Gil Raz, Dartmouth College Lindsey E DeWitt, Kyushu University Responding: Rethinking the Religious Landscape of “No-Women-Allowed” Mt. Terry Kleeman, University of Colorado Ōmine, Japan Business Meeting: Eric Huntington, Princeton University Disembodied Images: Changing Views on the Materiality of Objects in David Mozina, Boston College, and Elena Valussi, Loyola Buddhism University, Chicago, Presiding Responding: Paula K. R. Arai, Louisiana State University

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Durgāsaptaśatī The Art of Commentary Reconstructing Authority: Female Gurus Today Reconstructing Authority: of California, Riverside, Presiding Riverside, of California, John Makeham, La Trobe University Trobe La John Makeham, on the Analects in Commentaries Adopted Strategies Berkeley University of California, Blum, L. Mark Making Sense of Buddhist Commentary in a Name? 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A Female Town Guru Indian Pilgrimage in a North Leadership of a Female Riverside University of California, Amanda Lucia, University and Amanda Lucia, Grinnell College, Timothy Dobe, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A18-114 A18-114 Indian and Chinese Religions Unit Compared Theme: 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Saturday, Hynes Center-209 (Second Convention Level) Presiding Amherst College, Maria Heim, Business Meeting: A18-113 A18-113 and Religion Unit Women Hinduism Unit and Theme: 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Saturday, Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level) Presiding University, Chapman Martin, Nancy M. Responding: Business Meeting: and papers.aarweb.org/program_book Civic Virtues and Democratic Citizenship What Is Theology: How, Why, and for Whom? 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The Rise of the Modern of America: and the Future Family, Faith, For in the 1970s Anticult Intolerance and Religious Movement Chico California State University, Pike, Sarah M. and Megan Goodwin, Wooster, College of Rapport, Jeremy Christine Libby, Indiana University Christine Libby, of Affect Translation and the Mystic Assemblages Open Campus Indies, West University of the Gary Gardiner, the Mystery Restoring in Mysticism University of Leuven Anthony Dupont, Theoretical Experience and Personal Augustine of Hippo’s of Mysticism Understanding Theological Seminary Union Evan Goldstein, and Orientalism and Scholem in Graetz , “Mysticism,” University Northwestern Joel Harrison, of A Reconsideration and History: Mysticism between Normativity Mystic Type Ernst Troeltsch’s Blum, and Jason N. University of Central Florida, Ann Gleig, Business Meeting: American Religions 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Saturday, Sheraton (Fifth Boston-Public Garden Level) Presiding University, Princeton Weisenfeld, Judith Responding: Business Meeting: New Religious Movements Unit Theme: A18-119 A18-119 Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Saturday, Sheraton (Third Boston-Berkeley Level) Presiding Davidson College, Blum, Jason N. Business Meeting: Mysticism Unit Theme: A18-118 A18-118 Robin Veldman, Iowa State University SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 “Global Warming Alarmists Remove Our Motivation to Thank God for His Gifts of Cheap, Abundant Energy Resources”: How Leaders in the Christian Right Used Evangelical Mass Media to Promote A18-122 C Climate Skepticism Religion and Disability Studies Unit Theme: Disability: Growing Up, Growing Old, Cute, Mad, and A18-124 Incarcerated Religion and Humanism Unit and Ricoeur Unit Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Theme: National Formations of Narrative Identities Hynes Convention Center-102 (Plaza Level) Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Mary Jo Iozzio, Boston College, Presiding Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level) Valerie Michaelson, Queen’s University, Kingston, and John J. Sage Elwell, Texas Christian University, Presiding Swinton, University of Aberdeen Spiritual Health, Disability, and Church Involvement of Canadian Richard A. Rosengarten, University of Chicago Children: A Quantitative Study Revisiting Oneself as Another: Reprise, or Revise? Courtney Wilder, Midland University Claire Taylor Jones, Spoonies, #Disabled and Cute, and Cripping the Vote: Audre Lorde, Memory in Iron: The Teutonic Knights and National Identity in Paul Tillich, and Religious Activity on Twitter Eastern Europe Richard Saville-Smith, University of Edinburgh Daniel Boscaljon, University of Iowa SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, Acute Religious Experiences — Disability or What? 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Graham, Saint Peter’s University, Presiding Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Kelsey Moss, Princeton University Marriott Copley Place-Berkeley (Third Level) Cidades de Deus no Brasil Colonial: Religion and Race in the Space Ian Brown, University of Toronto, Presiding and Place of Colonial Salvador da Bahia Rebecca Bartel, University of Toronto Richard Gale, Cardiff University, and Andrew Rogers, University The Promise of a New Colombia: Miracles, Morality, and the Yet to Be of Roehampton Janna Hunter-Bowman, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary Accommodating Practices? 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Ayesha will join two Awards AAR Journalism year’s winners of this The three other acclaimed their insights and experiences in journalists to share Their writingreligions in a examines covering religion. their years the the classroom from to the battlefield, wide array of settings, The 2017 AAR camp refugee to the prosperity gospel church. in a shortalso be presented will ceremony. Journalism Awards SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 P18-116 Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality P18-113 Theme: Presidential Address and Annual Meeting Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Colloquium on Violence and Religion Westin Copley Place-St. George C-D (Third Level) Theme: Girard’s Legacy: Continuing the Conversation Bernadette Flanagan, Spirituality Institute for Research and Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Education, Dublin, Ireland, Presiding Westin Copley Place-Defender (Seventh Level) 9:00 AM–10:15 AM - 2017 Presidential Address Brian Robinette, Boston College, Presiding Pieter G. R. De Villiers, University of the Free State Stewart Clem, University of Notre Dame “Beauty” in the Book of Revelation: On Biblical Spirituality and Nonviolent Grammar of Sacrifice Aesthetics Anthony William Bartlett, Syracuse, NY 10:30 AM–11:30 AM - Annual Meeting Between Girard and Heidegger: A New Ontology All are welcome. For more information on the Society and its events, Chris Haw, University of Notre Dame please visit https://sscs.press.jhu.edu/ or contact Anita Houck, Secretary, Girard at Intersection of Analogy and Dialectic at [email protected].

P18-114 P18-121 C SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, North American Association for the Study of Religion and Niebuhr Society SBL Greco-Roman Religions Section Theme: The Virtue of Reinhold Niebuhr Theme: Theorizing Ancient Theories of Religion Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Westin Copley Place-Northstar (Seventh Level) Fairmont Copley Place-State Suite A (Lower Lobby Level) Kevin Carnahan, Central Methodist University, Presiding Robin W. Lovin, Southern Methodist University Niebuhr and the Virtue of Love P18-115 Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia Society for Comparative Research on Iconographic and Niebuhr on the Ironies of Virtue and the Virtue of Irony Performative Texts K. Healan Gaston, Harvard University Theme: Miniature Scriptures Niebuhr and Humility Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Christopher Dowdy, Paul Quinn College Niebuhr, Contrition, and Race Sheraton Boston-Dalton (Third Level) Dorina Miller Parmenter, Spalding University, Presiding The Niebuhr Society business meeting will follow. James W. Watts, Syracuse University Ritualizing the Size of Books P18-122 Yohan Yoo, Seoul National University, and Woncheol Yun, Seoul National University North American Paul Tillich Society Working in Buddha’s Belly and Buddhists’ Pockets: Iconic and Theme: Tillich and Reformation Heritage Performative Miniature Sutras in Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Jon Skarpeid, University of Stavanger Marriott Copley Place-Brandeis (Third Level) Wars and Weddings: The Ideologies of Miniature Bhagavad Gitas with a Focus on Gender Christian Danz, Universität Wien Critique and Forming: Paul Tillich’s Interpretation of Dorina Miller Parmenter, Spalding University Small Things of Greatest Consequence: Miniature Bibles in America Tyler Atkinson, Bethany College Power Plays in the Political Thought of Tillich and Luther Responding: Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF Norwegian School of Theology Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University Tillich and the Reformation

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Full Employment Employment Full for abstracts or papers after November 1, for abstracts or papers after 1, November and his slightly earlier film on economics. Presentations Presentations and his slightly earlier film on economics. Trade, Employment, and Public Policy: Polanyi Then and Trade, Employment, and Public Policy: Polanyi Uses and Misuses of Anger in Buddhism and Christianity Uses and Misuses of Design Union http://polanyisociety.org Struan Jacobs, Deakin University Struan Jacobs, and Technology Singapore University of Raghunath, Nilanjan Technology Massachusetts Institute of Anne McCants, Billings Montana State University, Gulick, B. Walter and Economics Technology Budapest University of Gabor Biro, Carolyn Medine, University of Georgia Carolyn Medine, and Undoing Anger Hell’s Gate at Pausing Thomas: AnShinClaude Theological Santa Clara University and Graduate Thomas Cattoi, fromTibetan and the the Philokalia Voices Anger: for Holy Searching Buddhist Tradition Boston Dharma Lama Rod Owens, of Understanding Anger Exploring the Guru: Wrathful The Kalamazoo College Anderson, S. Carol Reflections Ugly: AngerPali Buddhism Us Makes from Georgetown University Joel Daniels, Pentecostal A The ofWind Spirit the Blows Gently and Fiercely: and Anger on Love Perspective University Judith Simmer-Brown, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 P18-124 P18-124 Society Polanyi Theme: Now 9:00 AM–3:00 PM Saturday, 2 Amherst St, Technology, Offsite-Massachusetts Institute of Room 95 Building E 51, Presiding State University, Western Missouri Phil Mullins, Polanyi Society papers for an international has solicited twelve The 1945 book Michael Polanyi’s on centered workshop Trade & Free and his Hayek, like Keynes, to figures relation will consider Polanyi’s economic and but focus on the relevance of Polanyi’s Karl, brother political thought today. See and other details. lunch reservations, to the site, on travel information Panelists: P18-118 P18-118 Society Buddhist-Christian for Studies Theme: 9:00 AM–12:00 PM Saturday, Marriott Place-New Copley (Fifth Hampshire Level) both Buddhism and Christianityrole of anger in The is complex anger teach the need to combat Both religions and multivalent. particularly it fractures the way and its destructive consequences, can anger be a powerful tool time, at the same However, relationships. In this particularly for the sake of justice. for advocacy and action, both to with an eye explored, are of anger aspects different session, and also to its dangers. constructive role anger’s Responding: The business meeting for the Society Christian for Buddhist Studies All Society will take place immediately session. following this to attend. welcome members are and papers.aarweb.org/program_book “Keep Yourself to the Left” - Barth’s Political Vision Today Pentecostal Readings in the Hebrew Bible Kierkegaard’s Attack on Christendom: Then and Now Kierkegaard’s Attack See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Keith Johnson, Wheaton College Keith Johnson, Dignity in the Midst ofHuman Horrors of Hope: Politics Barth’s University Pepperdine Raymond Carr, and the Prison Cone, IndustrialBarth, Complex Virginia University of Gillian C Breckenridge, of on the Power/Knowledge Sin and Karl Foucault Barth and Michel of Theology the Task University Lindenwood McMaken, Travis W. Left-Wing Barthian Forgotten Gollwitzer: Helmut Theological Seminary Union White, C. Andrea David Hymes, Northwest University Northwest David Hymes, the Early within ofReception-History of Numbers the Book Tradition Pentecostal McMaster Divinity College Meghan Musy, Praying through and Being Heard Reading of Psalm 28: A Pentecostal Theological Seminary Pentecostal Lee Martin, Roy Spirituality Psalm 150 and Pentecostal Jason A. Mahn, Augustana College Augustana Mahn, Jason A. A Kierkegaardian or Neo-Christendom?: Post-Christendom Culture and Assessment of Christian Privilege U.S. in Contemporary Politics Stony School Brook Tietjen, Mark Attack of Kierkegaard’s The Scope University George Fox Ohaneson, Heather C. Saturday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM Saturday, Level) Copley Place-Independence B (Fourth Westin Responding: Theme: P18-117 Karl Barth Society of North America Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Saturday, Sheraton G (Third Boston-Beacon Level) Presiding University , Tyndale Johnson, Van Society for Pentecostal StudiesSociety for Pentecostal Theme: P18-148 Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Saturday, Copley Place-Helicon (Seventh Level) Westin Presiding Community College, Kirkwood McCreary, Mark Responding: P18-123 Søren Kierkegaard Society Theme: III. Theology SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Ed Waggoner, Brite Divinity School The God of Quieter Miracles: Schleiermacher on the End of the Divine Erik Slaton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Spirit’s Miraculous Expressions Jordan Howell, Harvard University Wendy Sue Petersen-Boring, Willamette University, and Emily Jaime Wong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Boring, Yale University God’s Self-Diffusing Goodness: , Evolutionary Biology, J. Michael Wahlen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cosmic Order Marta Felis-Rota, Autonomous University of Madrid Andrew Chignell, University of Pennsylvania Eduardo Beira, Massachusetts Institute of Technology On Getting Drunk by Accidents Agnes Festre, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis P18-120 A18-143 Q Adventist Society for Religious Studies Museum of Fine Arts Tour Theme: Worship Service Saturday, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM Saturday, 11:00 AM–12:30 PM Offsite-Meet at the Registration Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD in Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level) the Convention Center Michael Pearson, Newbold College See page 9 for details. Sermon: Human Accountability and the Law of Unintended

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, Consequences P18-119 Society of Christian Philosophers P18-125 Theme: God and Horrors: Nine Short Talks in Honor of Marilyn Society for the Study of Japanese Religions McCord Adams Theme: Meet the Authors: New Books in Japanese Religions Saturday, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM Saturday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Westin Copley Place-Essex Center (Third Level) Fairmont Copley Place-Back Bay Room (Lower Lobby Level) Shannon Craigo-Snell, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Heather Blair, Indiana University, Presiding and Christine Helmer, Northwestern University, Presiding As part of the business meeting for the SSJR we will be hosting a I. Horrendous Evils “meet the authors” session, highlighting recent important publications Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio, Seminary of the Southwest in the field of Japanese Religions. For Those Who Remain: A Proposal For Stage Three Horror Defeat Anna Andreeva, University of Heidelberg Jesse Couenhoven, Villanova University Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Reframing the Free Will Defense: A Compatibilist Approach Medieval Japan Sarah K. Pinnock, Trinity University Caitilin Griffiths, University of Toronto God after Auschwitz and the Praxis of Evil Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishu Nuns of Medieval Japan II. Pastoral Theology Edward Drott, Sophia University Janet Waggoner, Brite Divinity School Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan God’s Goodness Made Manifest: Pastoral Theologizing and Theological Bryan Lowe, Vanderbilt University Pastoring Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Rebecca Voelkel, Center for Sustainable Justice, Minneapolis, Ancient Japan MN Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Ohio State University Carnal Knowledge of God: Theology, Embodiment, and Building a Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Movement for Justice Utopian Imagination Ruthanna Brinton Hooke, Virginia Theological Seminary Queering Worship

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112 x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 113 G ) to reserve reffettb@ x F K G F K [email protected] . Registration deadline is November 1. Walk-ins may also may Walk-ins Registration deadline 1. is November . Faculty of Color Luncheon Pedagogical Uses of Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, and Pedagogical Uses of Theology and Religion Mary T. Stimming, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning and in Teaching Center for Wabash Stimming, T. Mary Earlham College Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Theological Seminary Garrett-Evangelical Lester, Brooke Roger Nam, George Fox University George Fox Roger Nam, Drew University Westfield, Nancy Lynne www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 your spot. Registration deadline is November 1. Walk-ins will be will be Walk-ins Registration deadline 1. November is spot. your permits. accommodated if space Panelists: wabash.edu be accepted if space is available. Panelists: P18-127 Theology and Learning in and Teaching Center for Wabash Religion Theme: 11:30 AM–1:00 PM Saturday, Hynes Center-107 (Plaza Convention Level) This of Color Luncheon. the Faculty invited to attend are You and support, mutual mealtime gathering is a space for fellowship, Center Wabash Hear about lives. for our teaching empowerment Mentoring and how to applyprogramming Peer for the 2018–19 Mentoring Peer in past and current Participants Cluster grants. will be available for Colloquial and Fellowships Cluster grants, conversation. Send an email to Beth Reffett is required. Pre-registration A18-144/S18-201a StudentLounge Roundtable Theme: Beyond 11:30 AM–1:00 PM Saturday, HynesCenter-303 (Third Convention Level) Bradley and University of Florida, Erickson, Bhakti Mamtora, Presiding University of North Carolina, Center and the SBL Student Advisory Wabash the by Co-sponsored Board join us for lunch and an interactive Graduate students please of us and our Many education. in higher about teaching presentation and Instagram to curate our Facebook Twitter, YouTube, students use and ascribe meaning ourselves to our communities, present identities, What ways effective to use social media in the are to our worlds. classroom? How can traditional teaching with more it be integrated criticalstrategies? How can increase we thinking about social media? and effective criticallyThis session explores ways to incorporate aware social media in the classroom of religion. and in public discussions is strongly Pre-registration Please join us for lunch and conversation. Bhakti Mamora ( please email encouraged; and papers.aarweb.org/program_book Guide to the ’s Way of Way the Bodhisattva’s Guide to Saturday, 11:30 AM Saturday, Coffee Break Coffee Complimentary coffee will be served in the back of Aisle 2100 and Aisle 2600 of the Exhibit Hall. Doubting, Fashioning and Enjoying (Conventional) Doubting, Fashioning See the full Annual Meetings program online at x , and explores the apparent tension emerging from Śāntideva’s Śāntideva’s emerging from tension the apparent and explores , Laura Guerrero, Utah Valley University Valley Utah Laura Guerrero, Fictionalism and Buddhist Reductionism Chattanooga Tennessee, University of Ethan Mills, in Early Buddhism Themes Skeptical Leiden University Stephen Harris, Joy Illusion-like The Bodhisattva’s P18-126 Society Philosophy for Asian and Comparative Theme: Ficitonalism and Eudaimonism in Indian Reality: Skepticism, Buddhist Thought 11:00 AM–12:45 PM Saturday, Copley Place-Singleton (LobbyFairmont Room Level) and in This panel is comprised papers on Indian Buddhist, of three A theme running philosophical thought. , particular, conventional between panel is the relationship the entire through seeing the boundary between and in particular, and ultimate reality, and perhaps even malleable terrain. truthsthe two as contested, Mills examines skeptical Ethan elements epistemology, Representing to both with an eye within early texts, Buddhist and Madhyamaka as well to liberation, indicating of doubting reality in relation the role of the role does not exhaust as suggesting that escape bondage from skeptical thinking in Indian Buddhist thought. argues that the Laura Guerrero metaphysics, Representing contemporary analytic of fictionalism framework can help address enormously lingering conundrums left Siderits’ Mark behind by Finally, texts. reading of Madhyamaka reductionist influential Stephen Harris analyses in of joy the role ethics, representing eighth-century CE Śāntideva’s Life while of pleasant sensation, emphasis on the illusion-like nature value of virtuous in positive the frequently emphasizing kinds of joy ways. in two The panel is distinctive development. the bodhisattva’s and the virtue fictionalism of joy on skepticism, its emphasis First, underanalyzed relatively in draws attention to three the Second, elements of Buddhist philosophical thought. tightly are linked in their exploration of the relationship presentations acts The panel as a whole and ultimate truth. conventional between practical into the and theoretical of this elements as an investigation centraltenet. Buddhist SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 A18-147 Women’s Caucus A18-145 P K G Theme: Goddess Studies and Herstory of Resilience Saturday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM Contingent Faculty Luncheon: What Can Non-tenure- Hynes Convention Center-305 (Third Level) track Faculty Career Growth Look Like? Theresa A. Yugar, California State University, Los Angeles, Presiding Saturday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM This brown-bag lunch will provide a reflection space to discuss the Hynes Convention Center-108 (Plaza Level) importance of female deities and goddesses, particularly in Korea, Kerry Danner, Georgetown University, and Edwin David Aponte, Europe, Tibet, India, and Latin America, as we engage in socio- Louisville Institute, Louisville, KY, Presiding religious and political discourses that continue to undermine women’s Part-time, full-time, and all non-tenure-track faculty and their allies agency and leadership. The most important strategy for doing are invited to join the Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty feminism is to discover the most valuable characters of womanhood, Working Group for lunch. In addition to getting to know one another, which has been lacking in western religions in general yet embodied we will be discussing best practices for career growth, identifying and in non-western mythologies, especially in Asian religions. It is time overcoming obstacles to scholarship, and providing other up-to-date to increase feminist goddess studies in order to emphasize women’s information on areas of concern. Please join us Saturday, November leadership in societies and communities such as families, and 18, 11:45 AM–12:45PM. Registration for the lunch costs $13 per churches, on a national and transnational level. person and is limited to 60 people. Panelists: To register for this luncheon, choose “Academic Labor and Contingent Jea Sophia Oh, West Chester University, Pennsylvania SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, Faculty Luncheon” in the “Options” section when registering for the Janice Poss, Claremont Graduate University Annual Meeting. If you have already registered for the Annual Meeting, you may contact [email protected] to reserve your lunch. Responding: Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, Nassau Community College

A18-146 F K G Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM LGBTIQ Mentoring Lunch Saturday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM P18-210 C Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level) North American Association for the Study of Religion Kathleen T. Talvacchia, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding Business Meeting All students and junior scholars who identify outside of normative gender histories and/or sexualities are welcome to join us for an Saturday, 1:00 PM–1:50 PM informal lunch. No fee or pre-registration is required. Please bring your Fairmont Copley Place-State Suite A (Lower Lobby Level) own lunch; a cash-and-carry station will be available near the room for those wishing to buy their lunches onsite. The roundtable leaders listed were confirmed attendees as of April; other senior scholars in the field P18-211 C may be joining us as well. Topics for discussion include: Demystifying Tenure, Service and the Subtle Art of Saying No, Scholarship and Hagiography Society Business Meeting Activism, Navigating Queer and Religion in the Curriculum, Teaching Saturday, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM While Queer: Out and Subversive Actions During the Age of Attacks Westin Copley Place-St. George A-B (Third Level) and Alternative Facts, Dual Vocation, The Writing Process. Mentors: Rebecca Alpert, Temple University Kent Brintnall, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Faith Matters Network, Nashville, TN Mark Larrimore, New School Pamela Lightsey, Boston University Cameron Partridge, St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco Heather White, University of Puget Sound Thelathia Young, Bucknell University

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Great Perfection Great Maharthamañjarī (University of Chicago Press, 2017) (University of Chicago Remapping, Remodeling, and Recovering the Body: The Remapping, Remodeling, and Recovering Authors Meet Critics: David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler, Authors Meet Critics: Kerry Martin Skora, HiramKerry College Martin Skora, of of The Subtle Body Vital Practices Presence in Contemplative and Longchenpa’s Shaivism Trika Abhinavagupta’s San Diego State University Timalsina, Sthaneshwar in the Experiences Embodied Reprogramming Lucas Carmichael, University of Chicago Lucas Carmichael, Rice University Kripal, J. Jeffrey Riverside University of California, Amanda Lucia, Emerson College Srinivas, Tulasi Dame Notre University of Tweed, Thomas A. Palmer, David A. College of Charleston Elijah Siegler, Maheśvarānanda University of San Diego Louis Komjathy, Praxis and Meditative Daoist Body-Maps University of Colorado Loriliai Biernacki, Subjectivity through Abhinavagupta’s Rethinking the Body’s of the Subtle Body Contemplation Houston Texas, University of Chaoul, Alejandro M. www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A18-203 Body and Religion Studies Unit and Contemplative Unit Theme: Subtle Body across Space and Time 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Saturday, Sheraton (Second Boston-Constitution Level) Presiding University of North Dakota, Lawrence, David P. A18-202 A18-202 Anthropology of Religion Studies Unit and Comparative in Religion Unit Theme: Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Dream Trippers: Global Spirituality 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Saturday, (ThirdSheraton Boston-Gardner Level) Presiding College, Kenyon Anna Sun, Panelists: Responding: Responding: and B F K papers.aarweb.org/program_book Equal Protection of the Law? Religious Freedom and Equal Protection of the Law? Religious Freedom Effective Strategies for Scholarly Publication Effective Strategies See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Finbarr Curtis, Georgia Southern University Finbarr Curtis, Theological Seminary Princeton Keri Day, College Barnard Jakobsen, Janet R. University York New Ann Pellegrini, MN Minnetonka, Light Presbyterians, More Alex McNeill, Steven Félix-Jäger, Southeastern University Steven Félix-Jäger, Theme: LGBTIQ Lives 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Saturday, Hynes Center-302 (Third Convention Level) Presiding University, Furman Sneed, Roger A. The purpose of this panel is to examine the use of the rhetoric of to license discrimination against LGBTIQ freedom” “religious citizens and other socially Particularly in marginal communities. laws and executive freedom religious politicalthe current climate, wars, culture in America’s become a central battleground action have but the very the values of freedom between of a conflict framing and equal citizenship of in this context echoes long traditions and other gender supremacy justification for racial and religious importantThe panelists will explore aspects forms of oppression. liberty the religious of of notions of the deployment to reinforce reflections and they will offer marginalization of various social groups, on paths forward in the fight for equality. Panelists: A18-201 A18-201 and Intersex, Transgender, Bisexual, Gay, Status of Lesbian, Committee in the Profession Queer Persons Saturday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Saturday, HynesCenter-303 (Third Convention Level) for publishing and strategies roundtable session provides This fields. in their respective as scholars reputation developing one’s the various will elaborate on typesSteven of scholarly Félix-Jäger encyclopedia entries, book reviews, publications (journal articles, discuss reformatting and monographs), volumes edited book chapters, new - and explore theses and dissertations for publication, light he will shed In particular, - modes of publication. alternative opportunitieson the challenges and with popular book come that publications. Panelists: A18-200/S18-247a A18-200/S18-247a StudentLounge Roundtable Theme: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 A18-206 A Christian Systematic Theology Unit and Schleiermacher A18-204 C Unit Theme: Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Christian Faith: Doctrinal Unit Analyses in Celebration of the First English-Language Critical Theme: New Studies of Buddhism in the West Edition (Westminster John Knox, 2016) Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Marriott Copley Place-Yarmouth (Fourth Level) Hynes Convention Center-109 (Plaza Level) John Crow, Florida State University, Presiding Shelli Poe, Millsaps College, and Holly Taylor Coolman, Providence America’s Buddha in an Age of Empire: Cosmopolitan Domesticity or College, Presiding Commodity Racism? Calli Micale, Yale University Laura Harrington, Boston University A Schleiermacherian Solution: Eschatalogical Continuity, Disability, Cold War Karma: A Brief History of Buddhist Studies and the CIA, and Communication 1951–1967 Andrew Packman, University of Chicago Adeana McNicholl, Stanford University Schleiermacher’s “Change of Heart” and the Recovery of Feeling in Being Buddha, Staying Woke: Racial Formation in Black Buddhist Theology Writings Timo Helenius, Brown University Christopher Emory-Moore, University of Waterloo The State of Servitude: Schleiermacher’s Phenomenology of Sin SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, Renunciation and the /Renouncer Relation in a New Buddhist Movement Caroline Starkey, University of Leeds A18-207 “Don’t Mention the F Word”: Monastic Women and Gendered Class, Religion, and Theology Unit and Religion and Hierarchies in British Convert Buddhism Disability Studies Unit Business Meeting: Theme: The Complex Intersections between Disability and Class David McMahan, Franklin and Marshall College, Presiding Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Hynes Convention Center-102 (Plaza Level) A18-205 #chineserels Heike Peckruhn, Daemen College, Presiding Joseph Strife, Union Theological Seminary Buddhism Unit and Chinese Religions Unit Charity and the Formation of the Working Class Theme: Reshaping Family Life in Modern Lang Chen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Disability, Religion, and Class in Shi Tiesheng’s Works: A Post- Marriott Copley Place-Exeter (Third Level) Communist Perspective Alison Jones, Harvard University, Presiding Jeremy Posadas, Austin College Jessica Zu, Princeton University Intersections of Disability and Class: Redistributive Recognition, Buddhisizing the Secular: Reframing the Family Ideals on Yogācāra Organizing Collaboration, and Anti-Work Theory Terms in Republican China Lisa Hancock, Southern Methodist University Paul Katz, Academia Sinica Resisting Salvific Productivity: Disability, Cyborgs, and the Body of Chen Hailiang’s Vision of Buddhist Family Life: A Pilot Study Christ Natasha Heller, University of Virginia Buddhist Parenting for Modern Families: A Case Study Neky Tak-Ching Cheung, University of Ritual and the Reformulation of Family Values: A Case Study of Lay Buddhist Menopausal Rituals in China Responding: Robert Weller, Boston University

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Friends and (Columbia University Press, 2016) (Columbia University Rāmānuja at 1000: The Heritage and Promise of the Study Rāmānuja at 1000: The Heritage and Promise Author Meets Critics: Richard B. Miller’s Author Meets Critics: Preachers Northeastern University, Presiding Northeastern University, Gopal Gupta, College of Idaho Gopal Gupta, Why Rāmānuja? Some Reflections on Christian-Vaisnava Theology Comparative Chicago Loyola University, Hugh Nicholson, with Rāmānuja for Comparative Encounter as Model Rudolf Otto’s Theology Boston Emmanuel College, Sydnor, Jon Paul of Divine Right? On the Possibility What if RāmānujaWas Tradition in the Christian Embodiment University of Cambridge Ankur Barua, Thinking With Rāmānuja of of and the Love Love The God God: in Christianity Grace About of the Order of English Province Robindra Martin Ganeri, How Rāmānuja’s Together: and Creature Thinking the Creator a Retrieval of Meaning Encourages Account of Unitive Scriptural World and the God in ChristianLanguage Discourse about Hope College Dass, Rakesh Peter RāmānujaWorks Proper and Luther on Acts: Harvard University Clooney, X. Francis Diana Fritz Cates, University of Iowa Cates, Diana Fritz Florida State University Ross Moret, University Princeton Eric Gregory, Dame University Notre of Atalia Omer, University of Chicago Miller, Richard and Jung Lee, Emory University, Crane, Jonathan K. www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A18-211 #aarcomptheo A18-211 Theology Unit and Comparative Society for Hindu- Christian Studies Theme: Theology of Rāmānuja in a Christian-Hindu Comparative 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Saturday, Hynes Center-111 (Plaza Convention Level) Presiding Harvard University, John Carman, Responding: A18-210 A18-210 ReligiousComparative Ethics Unit Theme: Other Strangers 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Saturday, Sheraton Boston-Riverway (Fifth Level) Indiana Stalnaker, and Aaron Florida StateAline Kalbian, University, Presiding University, Panelists: Responding: Business Meeting: and papers.aarweb.org/program_book Charges of Blasphemy in Religious Discourse Against Empathy (or How the Buddhists Got Morality Against Empathy (or See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Washington, DC and Army War College War DC and Army Washington, Kimberly Stratton, CarletonKimberly University Stratton, Lamb: Paschal Sacrilege—DeicideThe Ultimate and the Jews AuthorizeViolenceAppropriating to against Exodus Biola University James Petitfils, in the Ancient and Blasphemy Appearance Apparently Other: Christian Martyr Acts College Dordt Benjamin Lappenga, Timothy and First Violence”: and a Man of a Blasphemer “Formerly the Othering of Jews Sacred Heart University Christine Luckritz, Center for Islam and Religious Freedom, Jennifer Bryson, Edward Slingerland, University of British Columbia Slingerland, Edward Northeastern University David DeSteno, Harvard University Mina Cikara, University Yale White, Claire Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Saturday, Sheraton (Third Boston-Hampton Level) Presiding McMaster University, Simon Zeldin, Responding: Theme: A18-209/S18-250 Approaches to ReligionViolenceComparative and Unit and ViolenceViolenceSBL of and Representations Right) 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Saturday, HynesCenter-311 (Third Convention Level) Presiding Northridge, California State University, White, Claire Panelists: Responding: Theme: A18-208 Cognitive Science of Religion Unit and International CognitiveAssociation for the Science of Religion Responding: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Daniel White Hodge, North Park University Business Meeting: A18-212 Monica R. Miller, Lehigh University, Presiding Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit and Western Esotericism Unit A18-214 Theme: The Pagan-Esoteric Complex: Mapping Intersecting Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit Milieus Theme: Sergii Bulgakov and Modern Western Theology: Panel Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Discussion Hynes Convention Center-201 (Second Level) Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Egil Asprem, Stockholm University, Presiding Marriott Copley Place-Berkeley (Third Level) Vivianne Crowley, Nottingham Trent University Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University, Presiding Ancient Egypt in an Irish Castle: How an Irish Goddess Spirituality Panelists: Movement Bridges the Esoteric and Exoteric, Pagan, and Christian Worlds Cyril J. O’Regan, University of Notre Dame Caroline Tully, University of Melbourne David B. Hart, University of Notre Dame Isis of the North: The Celtic Priests of the Linage of Scota Paul R. Valliere, Butler University Diana Brown, Syracuse University Katherine Sonderegger, Virginia Theological Seminary SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, “Eastern Methods and Western Bodies”: Dion Fortune’s Assessment of Responding: Yoga for a Western Audience Jennifer Newsome Martin, University of Notre Dame Jason Winslade, DePaul University Brandon Gallaher, University of Exeter Faeries, Bards, and Magicians: Fantasy Worlds of the Pagan Music Festival A18-215 A18-213 C Evangelical Studies Unit Critical Approaches to Hip-Hop and Religion Unit Theme: and Posturing Public Life Theme: Gurus and Gangstas: Capital, Charisma, and Making the Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Sacred/Profane Sheraton Boston-Berkeley (Third Level) Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Vincent Bacote, Wheaton College, Presiding Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick B (Second Level) April French, Brandeis University Christopher Driscoll, Lehigh University, Presiding Protest from the Margins: A Human Rights Campaign Led by Evangelical Women in the Soviet Union, 1964-1987 Amanda Furiasse, Florida State University, and Sher Afgan Tareen, Florida State University Paul Louis Metzger, Multnomah Biblical Seminary Listening to the End Times: Brand Nubian and the Ethics of Re-imagining Piety, Prophetic Witness, and Political Theology: An Listening as a Black Apocalyptic Disciplinary Practice Appraisal of Bonhoeffer and Evangelicalism Jessica Couch, University of Georgia Lindsey Maxwell, Florida International University Is God a Gangsta? Recentering the Narrative “I” and the Precarity of Training God’s Children: Curriculum and Culture in the Christian Black Masculinity Homeschooling Movement, 1983-2000 Abimbola Adelakun, University of Texas Aaron Griffith, Duke University The Widow Morality: Anti-Hubris and Nigerian Hip-Hop Music “Lawlessness Has Become the Spirit of Our Age”: Crime Concern and the Making of Postwar Evangelicalism Forrest Kentwell, University of Groningen Flatbush Zombies, Aries, and Afro-Pessimism: A Way of Reading Marcus Evans, McMaster University Wu-Tang Clan’s East Asian Religious Dimensions: Racial and Religious Transcendence in the Life-Narrative and Imagination of RZA

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Kierkegaard and the Future of Revelation – Part I: The Kierkegaard and the Future of Revelation Asian Religious Sites and Secular Space in Dynamic Asian Religious Sites Avron Kulak, York University York Kulak, Avron Reflections 11/9 After Contemporaneity: History, Kierkegaard, College Texas South Christopher Nelson, Century Twenty-First Time-Capsule in a Kierkegaardian Opening and Revelations Reduplications, Communications, America: Emory University Bryan Ellrod, Post-Trump There Something Edifying for a Is After the Earthquake: Justice? against in a Polemic America Be Found to Syracuse University Robinson, C. Marcia of and the Dialectic Kierkegaard in the Dung“Blooming Heap”: Times Troubling in and Faith Revelation Presiding College of Charleston, Sheridan Hough, Jonathan H. X. Lee, San Francisco State University San Francisco Lee, X. Jonathan H. ThreeTemples, Cities, and Threeof Goddesses? Three Historicity A Tale Beigang, Tianhou/Mazu at Meizhou, and Sacred in the of Space and San Francisco Santa Barbara University California, of Steven Hu, Sense of Christian Publicity, “Transforming Grace”: God’s the City by China and Place-Making in Shanghai, Place, Stanford University Grace Ramswick, The Buddhist Ruins: of and Revaluations Pakistan’s Reinventions Takht-i-Bahi and Taxila to Case of Recent South Korean Delegations Rhodes College Schedneck, Brooke Thailand Tourist in Space as Temple The Buddhist Loss and Promise: Doane University Courtney Bruntz, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A18-219 A18-219 and Culture Unit Religion, Kierkegaard, Theme: Power and the Fragility of Revelation 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Saturday, Sheraton Boston-Republic A (Second Level) Presiding College of Charleston, Sheridan Hough, Business Meeting: A18-218 International Development and Religion Unit and Space, and ReligionPlace, Unit Theme: Tension 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Saturday, Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level) Presiding University, Mount Royal Nichols, Brian J. 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Tracy Philip Deslippe, University of California, Santa Barbara UniversityCalifornia, of Philip Deslippe, Twentieth-Century in Early “Hindus” and the Place of Race, Yoga, America Willamette University Alexander Rocklin, Politics of and Obeah, Identification, Hindu The RaceHindu: of a between the US and the Caribbean Categorization San Diego State University Thomases, Drew on the Margins Anxieties” “Idol Murtis and Appropriating Archetypes: and Hippie of Hindu Camden Rutgers University, Karapanagiotis, Nicole of ISKCON and the Reinvention West Krishna Syracuse University Joanne PunzoWaghorne, Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Unit Transhumanism Human Enhancement and Theme: 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Saturday, Sheraton Boston-Back (Second Bay B Level) Presiding Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh Cole-Turner, Ronald S. A18-217 A18-217 Business Meeting: Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Saturday, HynesCenter-110 (Plaza Convention Level) Presiding University of Alabama, Michael Altman, Responding: Theme: A18-216 and Colonialism, Religion, Hinduism Unit and Unit Postcolonialism SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 A18-222 C Qur’an Unit and Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit A18-220 C Theme: Christianity and Islam in the Late Antique Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level) Thought Unit Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College, Presiding Theme: Pragmatism in the Age of Trump Richard (Todd) Godwin, University of London Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Leveling the Playing Field: The Flat-Earth Cartography and Worldly Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level) of Cosmas the India Traveler’s Topographica Christiana William David Hart, Macalester College, Presiding and Its Readers Logan Narikawa, University of Hawai’i Ute Possekel, Harvard University In the Midst of Fire: Achieving Our “Post-Truth” Country Exegesis and Ritual at the School of Nisibis: Thomas of Edessa on the Feast of Epiphany Beth Eddy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute And Whose Little American are You? 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Exclusion, Vulnerability, and Anxiety: Perspectives on and Exclusion, Vulnerability, Biondo, Humboldt State University, Presiding Humboldt State University, Biondo, D.C. Washington, of Peace, Philippines Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute, and Vincent and Public Institute, Research Religion Jones, Robert P. 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Ritual, Community, and the Book of Common Prayer Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit Online Theme: Resurrecting Wounds: Living in the Afterlife of Trauma Rebecca Hankins, Texas A&M University (Baylor University Press, 2017): A Book Review Panel on Shelly Reel Bad Muslims: The Complicated Portrayals of African American Rambo’s New Work Muslims on TV Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Ashley Passmore, Texas A&M University Hynes Convention Center-101 (Plaza Level) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, Electronic Apikoros/Electronic Apostate: Orthodox Jewish Satire Jacob Erickson, Trinity College, Dublin, Presiding Online Panelists: Nesrine Mansour, Texas A&M University Wendy Farley, San Francisco Theological Seminary Virtual Sacred Architecture in Digital Religion: Ambiance Perception of Light as Shaping Public and Personal Spiritual Experience Willie J. Jennings, Yale University Tommy Pfannkoch, Texas A&M University Tat-siong Benny Liew, College of the Holy Cross William Tyndale as Media Theorist: Collaboration and Authority In Richard Kearney, Boston College Sixteenth-Century England Responding: Felicia Piscitelli, Texas A&M University Shelly Rambo, Boston University Whose Music Is It? The Use of Sacred Music and Its Audiences Ruth Tsuria, Texas A&M University Jewish Sexuality Online — No Touching! A18-230 #aarsor C Business Meeting: Secularism and Secularity Unit and Andrew Aghapour, University of North Carolina, Presiding Unit and Critical Research on Religion Theme: How Modern is Secularity? 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Louis t. y onathan Ebel, Universit onathan Ebel, essica m igio p Process Thought and the New Materialism Thought and the Process Mary Evelyn Karen Bray, Wesleyan College Wesleyan Karen Bray, PerilTheology: and On the Politica Promise ofGut and Religious Aff Luke Higgins, Process, PraProcess, Universit SaintPaul Heather Eaton, and Politics Purpose, and Planetary Materialism New Persistence, Michael Hogue, Meadville Lombard Theological School Meadville Lombard Meadville Lombard MichaelMichael Hogue, Hogue, Thinking and Planetary Pragmatism, Process, University SaintPaul Heather Eaton, and Politics Purpose, and Planetary Materialism New Persistence, College Wesleyan Karen Bray, PerilTheology: and On the Political PromiseGut of and Religious Affect State Armstrong University Luke Higgins, New Materialisms Thought and the Process Presiding University, Yale MaryTucker, Evelyn Heather D. Curtis, Curtis, Heather D. Cara Burnid the Earl J Re in Agricultural California with Anti-modern Faiths S College Barnard Gale Kenny, Protestant Missionaries and the Practice of Com A A Mic Sanitizin J Jessica Carr, Lafayette College Lafayette Jessica Carr, and Jewish- Palestine, Orientalism, An Imperial Imagination: American Visual Culture University Creighton Michael Hawkins, and the Moro Exhibit at the Polygamy, Slavery, Taboo: Sanitizing the Fair World’s Louis St. College Barnard Gale Kenny, in Religion Protestant Missionaries and the Practice of Comparative Century Twentieth the Early University of Illinois Jonathan Ebel, Deal Encounters New Reconstituting Empire: Reforming Religion, in Agricultural California with Anti-modern Faiths UniversityNorthern of Iowa Cara Burnidge, Presiding University, Tufts Curtis, Heather D. l 18- usiness rac Business Meeting: Business Meeting: Res B Sheraton Boston-The Fens (Fifth Level Sheraton Boston-The T ReligionReligion Seminar Semina and US Empire and US Empire Theme:The Religion Re 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Saturday, Saturda Fens (Fifth Level) Sheraton Boston-The Presiding University, Creighton Leavelle, Tracy Responding: Business Meeting: A18-239 A18-239 A SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 P18-212 Association of Practical Theology P18-205 Theme: Practical Theology, Bodily (Im)proprieties, Mobilizing Resistance African Association for the Study of Religions Saturday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM Theme: Crossing Borders: Interaction of Healing Practices of Westin Copley Place-St. George C-D (Third Level) Religions in Modern Africa Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke University, Presiding Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Practical theology’s expansive body of knowledge presents Hynes Convention Center-309 (Third Level) opportunities for proprietary inquiry: Esther Acolatse, University of Toronto, Presiding • Who owns, controls, manages, regulates, or African traditional medicine, and faith healing practices of dictates bodies and knowledge? Pentecostalism, the Charismatics and Prophet Churches have had • What is the interplay between body and knowledge, and how does quite some history of interactions in Africa. The interactions have one animate the other? manifested as conflicts, , dialogue, and integration in forms of syncretism. These models of interaction assume that there are • What is the place of body, bodily knowing, and bodily knowledge conditions under which interaction of therapeutic ideas and practices in practical theological research? occur, increase or diminish. The realities of geography, history, socio- • How does practical theology investigate the regulations cultural factors, the state of a religion, the level of development of of propriety in the realms of theory and practice—the health services in a society, or other causes may create such conditions regimentation of embodied scholarship and the habituation SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, The Panel looks at theories of border crossing in general and their of bodily practices according to dominant templates and relevance in the history of interaction of religiously based therapeutic choreographies of “norm” and “other”? traditions in Africa. It examines conditions under which interaction of • How does the above investigation attend to the complicatedness therapeutic ideas and practices occur, increase or diminish. It also will of “the body” and of embodiment, taking seriously complex focus on when and how religious practitioners and healers construct, bodily expressions—children as more than non-adult bodies; synthesize, blend, negotiate; that is to say; cross religious borders in lesbian bodies; transitioning bodies; disabling bodies (bodies who matters of healing practices. challenge and dismantle normative assumptions about bodies and Anita Aba Ansah, University of Oslo abilities); the presence/action/protesting of ill and dying bodies Appropriation of African Traditional Religion Mechanisms in the (e.g., ACT UP during early AIDS activism); racial and sexual Healing and Deliverance Practices of Pentecostals in the Milieu of bi-bodies... . Inadequate Health Care in Ghana • How have bodies and knowledge been engaged as mobilizing sources and mediums for resistance—from resistant knowing to S. Kip Elolia, Emmanuel Christian Seminary resistant action? The Role of Repentance in the Holistic Healing of the Roho Churches of Kenya This session presents panelists who will help to catalyze collective musings on the above question. Timothy Carey, Boston College “God Has Sent Down Both the Disease and the Cure”: Syncretism in Panelists: Islamic and African Traditional Worship in Post-Colonial Kenya Nancy Lynne Westfield, Drew University Responding: Lakisha Lockhart, Boston College Jude Aguwa, Mercy College, NY Faustino Cruz, Fordham University Cláudio Carvalhaes, Union Theological Seminary Responding: John P. Falcone, Iona College

A18-242 Q Back Bay Wine Tasting Tour Saturday, 1:45 PM–4:15 PM Offsite-Meet at the Registration Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD in the Convention Center See page 10 for details.

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Theological SeminaryPentecostal Thomas, John Christopher Plenary Panel Theme: 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Saturday, Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level) Presiding University, Princeton Glaude, Eddie S. the Academic LaborSponsored by and Contingent Faculty Committee and Graduate Student Committee and Status of Committee in the Profession Persons LGBTIQ in colleges and seminary many of us who study or work campusesFor Yet the vulnerable at our institutions. today it may be easy to ignore oftenthe most vulnerable are at risk or subject to discrimination and or lack of social net, money, exploitation based on inequities of power, This panel their concerns about campusmeans to voice and work. life that vulnerablewill examine what needs attention and the strategies vulnerabilitypeople and their allies can use to decrease and increase and strategies Special attention will be paid to the status of, solidarity. people graduate students, community, the LGBT+ by, being deployed faculty. non-tenured and low paid workers, of color, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 P18-342 StudiesSociety for Pentecostal Theme: Pentecostal Reads the Book of Mormon Pentecostal Reads the 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Saturday, Sheraton (Third Boston-Clarendon Level) Presiding University, Northwest Blaine Charette, Panelists: Responding: and F P K F P K F P papers.aarweb.org/program_book Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Saturday, 3:30 PM Saturday, Coffee Break Coffee Complimentary will be served coffee back in the Hall.of Aisle 2100 and Aisle 2600 of the Exhibit Educational Entrepreneurship: Monetizing Your Expertise Educational Entrepreneurship: Monetizing How to Make Department Service Work for You: How to Make Department See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Raj Balkaran, University of Toronto University of Raj Balkaran, Candace Mixon, University of North Carolina Candace Mixon, University of North Carolina Schorey, Trosper Shannon A18-300/S18-342a A18-300/S18-342a Student Lounge Roundtable Theme: through Digital Teaching 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Saturday, Hynes Center-303 (Third Convention Level) passionate about If you’re Online education is the way of the future. can pursue a rewarding you knowledge with others, sharing your You own terms as an online educational entrepreneur. your career on at the academy. teaching of, or instead can do so in tandem with, in a doctorate will learn how to harness your you Most importantly, of the state of the tenure-track irrespective fulfilling teaching career, his key insights on Raj Balkaran shares In this workshop, job market. a digital academy journey founding the School Mythology, of Applied for meaningful learning. laysworkshop the foundation for successful educationalThis (2) curriculum design; including (1) content creation; entrepreneurship, strategy;(3) sales and marketing digital pedagogy. and (4) effective Panelists: A18-243/S18-253 StudentLounge Roundtable Theme: Resources Establishing Collective 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Saturday, HynesCenter-303 (Third Convention Level) cultivate your that you Landing academic a successful requires job that but it also requires and teacher, researcher skills as a professional ability demonstrate your to help build a thrivingyou and substantial specific two towards geared roundtable is This department life. can begin to make you and where identify how 1) helping you goals: and important interventions department, life of your in the collective 2) mobilizing those interventions market. for the job Panelists: Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 John Nemec, University of Virginia Kristian Petersen, University of Nebraska, Omaha A18-302 F P K Robert A. Yelle, University of Munich Applied Religious Studies Committee Theme: Another Plan “A”: Religious Studies Education and A18-304 B Careers Beyond the Academy African Religions Unit Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Theme: Agency and the African Religious Imagination: African Hynes Convention Center-101 (Plaza Level) Religious and Political Responses to Vulnerability Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Harvard Law School, Presiding Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Worried about the job market? Thinking that a career in higher Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level) ed no longer matches your interests and goals? Or just wondering Tracey Hucks, Colgate University, Presiding about options? Join the Applied Religious Studies Committee for a discussion on career paths outside the academy. Panelists hold or Sheila Otieno, Boston University are working on masters and doctoral degrees in a variety of religious Trickster Magic: Summoning Agency through Hauntings of African studies and theology programs and will discuss fields including: Religious Moral Imagination in Oral Traditions publishing and editing; freelance writing; nonprofits and foundations; Georgette Ledgister, Emory University government; religious communities; academic administration; and Conjuring Warriors: Agency through Ancestral Interventions in War more. This year’s panel includes current PhD candidates who will talk amongst the Luba Mai-Mai SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, about their own experiences of exploring nonacademic career options Danielle Clausnitzer, Georgetown University in the context of their graduate studies, and panelists will discuss the The “Problem” of Albinism: The Construction of Racial and Spiritual ways faculty, departments, and the AAR might better support scholars Difference in Twenty-first Century Tanzania as they consider careers beyond the academy. Come hear more about what graduate education in religious studies already does to prepare Oluwatomisin Oredein, Duke University us for and enhance our practice of various careers, and help us think Precarious Practices: An African Feminist Examination of African about what more the academy can and should do to support scholars Theology’s Patriarchy Problem in the pursuit of nonacademic work. Responding: This panel will include substantial time for audience Q&A and Jacob K. Olupona, Harvard University discussion. Please join us to share your thoughts! Panelists: Jason Blakeburn, McGill University A18-305 Regina Walton, Harvard University Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit Emily Mace, Lake Forest College Theme: Museums and the Public Understanding of Religion: Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute Sacred Art, History, and Science on Display Lauren Taylor, Harvard University Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Sheraton Boston-The Fens (Fifth Level) A18-303 S. Brent Plate, Hamilton College, Presiding K There are over 850 million visits every year to museums in the United Publications Committee States, much more than attendance at sporting events and amusement Theme: How to Get Published parks combined. Museums are go-to spaces for educational field trips, must-see destinations for tourists, for hands-on scientific exploration, Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM and flint stones of socio-political controversy. And they are filled with Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level) religious objects. Cynthia Read, Oxford University Press, and Theodore Vial, Iliff Presenters in this roundtable have worked with national institutions School of Theology, Presiding of US history, major museums of fine art, and have extensively Panelists: studied the commitments of museum staff to shape opinion. Each panelist will reflect on their own experiences at the intersection Cynthia Eller, Claremont Graduate University of religion and museums, commenting on how museums engage, Karen Jackson-Weaver, Harvard University promote, and influence the public understanding of religion in Margaret D. Kamitsuka, Oberlin College the United States. 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Chinese Religions and Print Culture Buddhist Visions of the Good Life for All Buddhist Visions of College, Presiding College, of Detroit, Mercy, Presiding Mercy, of Detroit, Noga Ganany, Columbia University Ganany, Noga Ming Print in Late Culture Worship and Writing Origin Narratives: University of Colorado Katherine Alexander, Qing PerformancesLate of in Reprints Philanthropic Identity of Gong Baojuan University Boston Lior, Yair Technologies in Light of Communication Transition Tang-Song The University of British Columbia Kaiqi Hua, Yuan Dynasty: Printing Tangut Buddhist Canon in the Alien The Scriptures under Alien Rule University of Arizona JiangWu, Kenyon and Anna Sun, Tennessee, University of Megan Bryson, Barbra R. Clayton, Mount Allison Mount University Clayton, BarbraR. and Happiness National Gross Wellbeing: of The Development Vision Society for the Ideal Bhutan’s Stonehill College Christopher Ives, Visions Life for of All the Good Buddhist Environmentalist Mercy University of Detroit, Hsiaolan Hu, Buddhism of Humanistic Version Dharma Drum Mountain’s Luther College Kopf, Gereon Engaged Socially The Conception of Japanese Life in Contemporary Buddhism James Madison University King, Sallie B. 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Andrea Lauren Turek, Trinity University Trinity Lauren Turek, Museum of American National History, Manseau, Peter University of Dayton Trollinger, William University of Dayton Trollinger, Susan Boston Fine Museum of Arts, Weinstein, Laura Smithsonian Museum of AfricanEric National Lewis Williams, Boston University Stephen Prothero, Prophetic in Black—A Special Look at Mass Incarceration and the Prophetic in Black—A Special Look at Mass Black Lives Matter Movement 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Saturday, Sheraton Boston-Back (Second Bay B Level) Presiding Boston University, Earl Fluker, Walter author of Michelle Alexander, Featuring Black Theology Unit Theme: in the Age of Colorblindness Incarceration this panel will discuss ways Project, Papers Thurman of the Howard that black theology contributes advocacy to prophetic and movement will Papers moral and spiritual revolution. building and to a political, black theological thesuggest resources interpreters may garner from and the tradition of blackBlack mysticism Matter Movement Lives in Thurman The Howard James Baldwin and others. Thurman, Howard at Boston Universityhost a reception will Center for Common Ground invited. of the session are All attendees following the session. Responding: Business Meeting: A18-306 A18-306 international legal issues, cultural appropriation, secularization, secularization, cultural appropriation, legal issues, international scientific histories art, of economic reform, corporate sponsorships, and theological orthodoxy. methods, Panelists: Responding: Vebjorn Horsfjord, University of Oslo SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 “Traditional Values” at the UN: Can Shared Religiousness Be a Basis for Political Action? Responding: A18-309 C Christopher Stroop, University of South Florida Christian Spirituality Unit Business Meeting: Theme: Spiritualities of the Reformation Brandon Gallaher, University of Exeter, and Vera Shevzov, Smith College, Presiding Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Sheraton Boston-Riverway (Fifth Level) Lisa E. Dahill, California Lutheran University, Presiding A18-311 C Simeon Zahl, University of Nottingham Prayer and Affliction: Martin Luther on the Spiritual Roots of Ecclesiological Investigations Unit Theological Insight Theme: Global Ecclesial Responses to Increasing Extremism and Nationalism Justin Nickel, Princeton Theological Seminary We Must Inquire after Their Language: Luther’s Language as Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Spiritual Discipline Sheraton Boston-Republic A (Second Level) Travis Ables, Regis University Miriam Perkins, Milligan College, Presiding The Cross of the Bitter Christ: Competing Christomorphisms in the Vincent J. Miller, University of Dayton Radical and Magisterial Reformations Which Nationalism? What Extremism? Responding to Political SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, Flynn Cratty, Yale University Violence in a New Moment The Origins of Reformed Prayer: Devotional Humanism and the Stan Chu Ilo, DePaul University Fracturing of European Devotional Culture Confronting the Challenges of Religious Extremism and the Rebecca Giselbrecht, University of Zurich, Fuller Theological Humanitarian and Migration Crisis in Africa Seminary Ulrich Schmiedel, University of Munich The Prayer Book and Spiritual Writings of Anna Alexandria von European Extremes: Churches in the Clash of Cultures Furstenberg zu Rappoltstein Gerard Mannion, Georgetown University Business Meeting: Resisting the Politics of Hatred and Exclusion: Time for New Forms of Margaret Benefiel, Shalem Institute For Spiritual Formation, and Public and Political Theology Glenn Young, Rockhurst University, Presiding Business Meeting: Bradford E. Hinze, Fordham University, Presiding A18-310 C Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit A18-312 C Theme: Evangelicals, Eastern Orthodox Christians, and Ethics Unit Traditional Values: A Global Alliance? Theme: The Ethics of Democracy Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Hynes Convention Center-209 (Second Level) Hynes Convention Center-110 (Plaza Level) Vera Shevzov, Smith College, Presiding Christophe D. Ringer, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding Lydia Kemi (Olukemi) Ingram, Murrieta, CA Reclaiming the Faith of Our Grandparents: Identity, Values, and Derrick Muwina, Boston University Tradition in African American Orthodox Christian Narratives A Reflection on Donald Trump’s Rhetoric on Immigration through the Ethical Lens of Civility Sonja Luehrmann, Simon Fraser University Jessica’s Hope: Fieldwork and Translation between Evangelical and Thomas Greene, Florida State University Orthodox Family Values Religious Endorsements for Secular Governments: Contemporary Iranian Examples of Moving beyond a Modus Vivendi John P. Burgess, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Traditional Values? National Identity as a Problem for “Orthodox Todd D. Whitmore, University of Notre Dame Rus’” and “Christian America” Who Are The Wicked? 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America’s Bureaucracy of Transcendence: Government America’s Bureaucracy of Transcendence: New Histories of Americano : Hegemons New Histories of Americano Catholic Sisters, Hospitals, and the Legitimization of Public Work and the Legitimization of Public Hospitals, Sisters, Catholic University of Northern Iowa Michael Graziano, The View from Revolution: and the Iranian Religion True D.C. Washington, McDaniel College Brad Stoddard, in American Freedom Prisons Religious Exercise?: Free Northwestern University Sarah Dees, American Arts”? “Conjurors’ Native or Religions Legitimate Court and the of Indian OffensesTraditions Florida State University Michael McVicar, Jorge Rodriguez, Union Theological Seminary Union Jorge Rodriguez, The MissionaryProtestant Project Rican Subalterns: Creating Puerto Century Nineteenth of the Late University Yale Erika Helgen, of Anti- Catholic and the Pentecostalization Drought, Migration, 1911-1945 Protestantism in Brazil, Amherst College Barba, Lloyd Narratives Mexican-Pentecostal Through the Lens of the Subaltern: Photographs Family and Church Texas University of Justin Doran, a Post- Toward com Infraestrutura Apropriada: Laico, País Um de Salomão Templo in São Economy Paulo’s Secular Political Florida International University Ana Maria Bidegain, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A18-316 and Culture Unit Religion, Law, Theme: Legitimation of American Religion 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Saturday, (Third A Hilton Boston Back Bay-Adams Level) Presiding Florida State University, Haley Iliff, Responding: A18-315 #aarhcs A18-315 Unit Theme: and Subalterns 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Saturday, HynesCenter-311 (Third Convention Level) Presiding Graduate University, Claremont Daniel Ramirez, Responding: and

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See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Tyler Davis, Baylor University Davis, Tyler ofThe Limits Niebuhr’s Reinhold War: Rights and Cold Civil Antiracism of the Holy College Cross Guth, V. Karen Rights and the Civil Jr. Martin Luther King, Laying Claim to Scholarship Rauschenbusch An Ethical AssessmentWalter of Legacy: Presiding Theological Seminary, Princeton Keri Day, Timothy Dobe, Grinnell College Timothy Dobe, and Gandhi Ashrams, Citizen Art, Homespun: Transnational Performing Counter-Modernity Bucknell University Karline McLain, in South AfricaAshrams of Gandhi’s The and India Afterlives University of FloridaWhitney Sanford, A. Gandhi’s and Radical Democracy: Simplicity, Voluntary Non-Violence, in the US Communities Intentional in Contemporary Legacy Duke University Leela Prasad, Gandhi in a US Teaching Prison The Resonance of Ahimsa: College Bard Davis, H. Richard Brett Krutzsch, College of Wooster College of Krutzsch, Brett A ReflectionWhite’s Heather on in Secular Gay Activism: Religion Reforming Sodom University of Amsterdam David Bos, A Comparison of American Atlantic: Across the Sodom and Dutch Histories Virginia University of William Boyce, Reforming Sodom Protestants Imagination of Evangelical political University of Puget Sound White, Heather Presiding University, Furman Sneed, Roger A. 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DeAne Lagerquist, St. Olaf College Hynes Convention Center-207 (Second Level) Reformation, Repentance, #Decolonizelutheranism Tiffany Hale, Yale University, Presiding Meghan Johnston Aelabouni, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver Margaret McMurtrey, University of California, Santa Barbara The Repentance of Playmobil Luther: Resisting Anti-Judaism in the Standing Rock: Movement or Spiritual Call? Confrontations Iconization of Luther in Popular Culture Concerning Space- and Place-based Rhetoric Carl-Eric Gentes, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago Peter Huff, University of Mary Justified By Faith Not Reason: The “Sin Against Rigorous Thinking” Parliament of Religions on the Prairie: Standing Rock as and the Possibilities of Thought in Human/Animal Entanglements Interreligious Event SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, Moses Paul Peter Penumaka, Pacific Lutheran Theological Lily Oster, Emory University Seminary Decolonizing Earth-based Spiritualities: Negotiating Earth- Reformation and Lutheran Theology in Asia awakening without Appropriation Jesse David Chariton, Columbus State University David Walsh, Gettysburg College Addie Graves (1922–2007) and Lutheran Church Desegregation in Ceremony in Historical Perspective at Standing Rock Columbus, Georgia Responding: Business Meeting: Michael McNally, Carleton College Kirsi Stjerna, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Presiding A18-320 A18-318 C Philosophy of Religion Unit Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and Culture Theme: Repentance, Reparations, and the Responsibility of Race Unit Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Theme: (Re)Defining Moral Injury Sheraton Boston-Public Garden (Fifth Level) Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Jonathon Kahn, Vassar College, Presiding Hynes Convention Center-201 (Second Level) Robert Overy-Brown, Claremont Graduate University Elizabeth Margaret Bounds, Emory University, Presiding Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophy of Metanoetics and the Comparative Michael Yandell, Emory University Future of Political Theology Fractured Morality/Fractured Selves: Moral Injury as Epistemological Timothy McGee, Southern Methodist University Brokenness Opacity and the Racial Politics of (Human) Redemption between Cassie Trentaz, Warner Pacific College Charles Long and Sylvia Wynter (Re)Defining Moral Injury: Using Moral Injury to Help Us Understand Danube Johnson, Harvard University Immigrant Experiences in Today’s Cultural-Political Moment On Foucault’s Racial Speech: Failures, Silences, and Transgressions Carrie Doehring, Iliff School of Theology, and Shawn Fawson, Anna Bialek, Washington University, St. Louis Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver Justice in Time: Reparations, Sabbath, and Temporality in Justice- Making the Invisible Visible: (Re)defining Moral Injury through the Seeking Experience of Microaggressions and the Poetics of Testimony Stephen Bush, Brown University Callid Keefe-Perry, Boston University Politics and Philosophy in Doris Salcedo’s Art Getting Beyond “An Act:” Moral Dimensions of the Teaching Profession and the Need to Expand the Construct of Moral Injury

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A18-327 #islamaar C A18-329/P18-344 Study of Islam Unit Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit and IQSA Qur’an Theme: Islamic South Asia: Text, Interpretation, and Resistance and Late Antiquity Unit Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Theme: Re-orienting the Study of Late Antiquity Before and After Muhammad Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level) Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Tehseen Thaver, Bard College, Presiding Hynes Convention Center-208 (Second Level) Usman Hamid, University of Toronto The Hajj of the Heart: The Making of Local Islam in South Asia Michael Pregill, Boston University, and Khodadad Rezakhani, Princeton University, Presiding Patrick D’Silva, University of North Carolina Mughal Indology in the Ain-i Akbari: Abu’l Fazl and Esoteric Panelists: Divination Practices Jennifer Hart, Elon University Mohsin Ali, University of California, Los Angeles Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College The Legal Justification for Jihād in a Sixteenth-Century South Indian Sara Ronis, St. Mary’s University, TX Text Kevin Jaques, Indiana University Fuad Naeem, Georgetown University Contesting Colonial Modernity through Humor: The Satirical Poetry of Akbar Allāhābādī Responding: Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, University of Vermont

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full Annual Meetings program online at x University, Presiding University, and Sravana Borkataky-Varma, University of North Carolina, University of North Carolina, and Sravana Borkataky-Varma, Presiding Wilmington, +DΛKD\RJD Jackson Stephenson, “The Strongest Light in the Darkest Abyss”: The Durkheimian “TheLeft Strongest Light in the Darkest Abyss”: Left-Hand Path Western and the Colgate University Joel Bordeaux, Sex in a Satanic Discourse Universalist Sinister: Feeling IfYou’re Magic Manual Rice University Benjamin Mayo, The Ethics of Occult as a Lived Anti-humanism Presencing the Dark: Practice in the Order of Nine Angles University Mount Royal Steven Engler, Left-Hand Path Brazil’s Quimbanda: University Gothenburg of Henrik Bogdan, Rice Fanger, and Claire Stockholm University, Egil Asprem, Other Yogic Texts on Self-Cultivation Texts Yogic Other State University California Polytechnic Foxen, Anya Pokazanyeva Yoga? 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Creating a Canon: Academy Santa Fe College, John’s St. Singleton, Mark University of London SOAS James Mallinson, Indianapolis, Indiana University-Purdue University, Jain, Andrea Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin University of Gudrun Bühnemann, Yoga Roots of Berry College Jeffrey Stephen Lidke, Exploring ConstructingYoga: the Self through Keith Cantú, University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Keith Cantú, Responding: Business Meeting: Responding: Business Meeting: Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Saturday, Hynes Center-310 (Third Convention Level) University of North Carolina, Sravana Borkataky-Varma, Presiding Wilmington, Mark Singleton’s Theme: A18-331 TheoryPractice Unit in and Yoga A18-330 Esotericism Unit Western Theme: A Discursive Survey of Traditions at the the Left-Hand Path: Fringes of Modernity 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Saturday, (ThirdSheraton Boston-Gardner Level) Presiding Rice University, Fanger, Claire The presentations proceed from an analysis of the contemporary SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 systematic framework through ancient and medieval intellectual history to the critical issue of recognition-failure in theodicies, discussed since the Book of Job. In addition to presenting systematic and historical reflections on the themes of religion, identity, and A18-334 N recognition in historical, philosophical, and literary contexts, the Exploratory Sessions session seeks to show that developing a form of antitheodicism capable of ethically recognizing the reality of meaningless suffering Theme: Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion requires an interplay of philosophical, theological, and literary analysis Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM and argumentation. Marriott Copley Place-Arlington (Third Level) Heikki J. Koskinen, University of Helsinki Eleanor Craig, Harvard University, Presiding Religious Identities and Theodicist Pathologies of Mediated Speakers for this Roundtable will offer their reflections and Recognition recommendations for the directions that the study of race, coloniality, Ritva Palmén, University of Helsinki and philosophy of religion ought to take in the present. What are Shame and Recognition in the Middle Ages the most crucial questions, methods, and sites of analysis for such a Maijastina Ritva Kahlos, University of Helsinki study? Philosophy of religion has played a crucial role in providing the Recognizing the Road: Graeco-Roman Appeals for Religious Diversity epistemic platform for the articulation and circulation of coloniality in the Late Roman Empire at the global level. However, discussion of race and coloniality—along with gender and sexuality—has been traditionally marginalized within Sami Pihlström, University of Helsinki the discipline of philosophy (and within philosophy of religion), Failing to Recognize: Theodicy and Metaphysical Realism which implicitly or explicitly sets many of its claims above historical Sari Kivistö, University of Tampere SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, specificity. This will be a dedicated space to a set of conversations that Unmerited Suffering as the Destruction of Meaning in Joseph Roth’s have so far happened sporadically and separately under headings of Hiob philosophy or (pan)ethnic and regional identities. We also aim to remedy a frequent disconnect between U.S. discourses about race and Panu-Matti Pöykkö, University of Helsinki transnational discourses examining coloniality. Levinasian Sincerity and the Immorality of Theodicies Panelists: Ellen T. Armour, Vanderbilt University A18-336 A J. Kameron Carter, Duke University Women’s Caucus Devin Singh, Dartmouth College Theme: Publishing Panel: Fresh Perspectives and Resilience in David Kyuman Kim, Connecticut College Gender, Race, and Other Social Justice Issues Elaine Padilla, University of La Verne Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM An Yountae, Lebanon Valley College Hynes Convention Center-305 (Third Level) Colleen D. Hartung, Holy Wisdom Monastery, Middleton, WI, and A18-335 Alicia Panganiban, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding D This session presents scholars who have published books in Women Wildcard Session studies, gender, race, and social justice, in 2016 and 2017. This panel Theme: Recognition, Religious Identities, and the Recognition- of AAR and SBL authors will provide an overview of their books as Failures of Theodicies well as share their perspectives on current research being published in women studies and religion’s relationship with social justice Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM issues. In a round table discussion, these scholars will also share their Hynes Convention Center-203 (Second Level) experiences regarding strategies and mechanics for getting Women’s Risto Saarinen, University of Helsinki, Presiding studies and religion books published, and to offer advice for those Recognition of normative statuses, including identities, constitutes seeking publication of their book manuscript. a fundamental phenomenon in, e.g., religion, psychology, sociology, Stephanie N. Arel, Boston University politics, history, and literature. Recognition is also a very timely topic, Affect Theory, Shame, and Christian Formation as witnessed by recent political developments, debates over religious Sharon Delgado, Earth Justice Ministries, Nevada City, CA identities and multiculturalism, as well as religious and political Love In a Time of Climate Change: Honoring Creation, Establishing extremism. This session aims to combine historical discussions of Justice religion with contemporary systematic explorations of recognition, especially in relation to theodicies. Katie Grimes, Villanova University Christ Divided: Antiblackness as Corporate Vice

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136 x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 137 G G x AAR Board of Directors. AAR Board A18-337 A18-337 W. Jones, Emory University Jones, W. South Sol Plaatje University, Fester, Gertrude of the Pacific, and Julie Theological Seminary, Eden Leslie, Kristen J. Africa, University Young Brigham Allen, Pakistan University, Institute Pang, L. Tatiana Hong Kong Baptist University, Sang, and Russian Academy of Sciences, of Oriental Manuscripts, Germany Monumenta Serica, Piotr Adamek, Cambridge Iran Seminary, our special programs are invited to a reception hosted by the hosted by to a reception invited are our special programs Yaqoob Bangash, IT University of the Punjab, Pakistan, and Arun Pakistan, IT University of the Punjab, Bangash, Yaqoob ofThe Religious and Jesus on a little trip”: let us go “Dear Sisters, 1856–1947 Punjab, Education in Colonial MaryWomen’s and University Amy Hoyt, University, Young Brigham Green, Deidre in Research Ethnographic Justice: Transitional and Religion, Women, Rwanda Habib Baig, and Noman Texas, University of Azfar Moin, Saint Shrines and Sovereignty in Pakistan Ricardo Mak King University, Hong Kong Baptist Lauren Pfister, and Its Four Books The Assessment Sinological of A Comparative Zhu Xi Produced by Commentaries the Russian in the 1820s by Orthodox Missionary-Scholar (1777–1852) Iakinf University of Coakley, F. and J. Harvard University, Ute Possekel, Thomas of Antique Persia: in Late and Exegesis Learning, Liturgy, of Explanations the Feasts Edessa’s Islamic Qom Fayazi, and Hamed College, Bard Thaver, Tehseen of Ambiguity Shi‘iMedieval in Operations Qur’an Commentaries Friends of the Academy Reception Academy of the Friends 5:30 PM–6:30 PM Saturday, Sheraton Suite Boston-AAR or been members of the AAR for 40 years Individuals who have generosity and those whose many of allows us to continue more www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A18-400 A18-400 International Members Reception 6:30 PM–7:30 PM Saturday, Hynes Center-302 (Third Convention Level) Presiding Elon University, Allocco, Amy L. Winners of the for international members of the AAR. A reception By will be honored. Grants International Research Collaborative invitation only. Winners International2016–2017 Collaborative Grant Research and C papers.aarweb.org/program_book Gods of Our Fathers: Restoration, Archaism and Nostalgia Performance, Precarity and Disruption See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Angeles County Arts Commission Presiding Wyoming, Celene Lillie, Tanho Center Tanho Celene Lillie, Three TransformationIdeology of Roman In The The of Eve: Rape of Genesis Early Christian Retellings Montclair State UniversitySabrina MisirHiralall, Through Confronting of A Self-Study Educating Orientalism: Dance Kuchipudi Community College Nassau BhattacharyaNeela Saxena, Journey into A Kali Lover’s West: ofAbsent the Mother God Christianity and Judaism Wilson College Warren Rima Vesely-Flad, Black Lives, Pollution, Racial Moral Purity Bodies: and Dangerous and the Struggle for Justice Frederick E. Brenk, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome Biblical Institute, Pontifical Brenk, E. Frederick in Plutarch’s Oracle The Delphic of OurGods Fathers: University of Chicago Yu, Kenneth Ancient ReflectionsParadoxography on Myth and Cult in Greek Boston University Varhelyi, Zsuzsanna Tradition Loss and RecoveryPaetus: of Religious Republican Thrasea in Imperial Rome Sacramento California State University, Brodd, Jeffrey Tradition” of “Invention Julian’s and Emperor Temple The Jerusalem Kimerer L. LaMothe, Vital Arts, Granville, NY Granville, Vital Arts, LaMothe, L. Kimerer A of and Dance: Religion Philosophy Feminist to Approach A Poetic Paper-Performance Shenandoah University Kevin Minister, Labor, The of Gender, Intersections Precarious Art of Maintenance: and Ecology Capitalism under Late Amsterdam Universiteit, Vrije Elonda Clay, Feminine as the Divine Women Black With“I Goddesses”: Only Roll Visual Culture and Digital Subcultures in Internet Los Public Fellow, Mellon-ACLS Susannah Laramee Kidd, University of and Mary Keller, Bucknell University, White, Carol Theme: P18-341 Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions in Greco-Roman Religions 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Saturday, Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick A (Second Level) Presiding Emory University, Sandra Blakely, Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Saturday, Sheraton F (Third Boston-Beacon Level) Presiding Bucknell University, White, Wayne Carol Responding: Business Meeting: Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit Feminist Theme: A18-338 A18-338 Mark A. Seifrid, Concordia Seminary SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Participation in Christ and Current Discussion of the Atonement Steve Porter, Biola University Saturday, 7:00 PM and Later Four Considerations in Favor of Penal Substitutionary Atonement

A18-401 A18-402 B Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) Editorial Presidential Address — Eddie Glaude: Religion and the Board Meeting Most Vulnerable Saturday, 7:00 PM–8:00 PM Saturday, 7:00 PM–8:00 PM Marriott Copley Place-St. Botolph (Second Level) Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Cynthia Eller, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding Level) David P. Gushee, Mercer University, Presiding Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the William S. Tod Professor P18-402 G Eddie S. Glaude of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University. He is chair of the Department Critical Research on Religion Reception of African American Studies, a program he first became involved Saturday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM with shaping as a doctoral candidate in Religion at Princeton. Offsite-Lir, 903 Boylston Street His books on religion and philosophy include African American

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 NOVEMBER SATURDAY, You are invited to a reception sponsored by Critical Research on Religion: A Very Short Introduction, Democracy in Black: How Race Religion (http://crr.sagepub.com) in conjunction with the following Still Enslaves the American Soul, In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, and Exodus! Religion, Race and AAR Program Units: Sociology of Religion; Religions in the Latina/o th Americas; Secularism and Secularity; Comparative Approaches to Nation in Early 19 Century Black America, which was awarded the Religion and Violence; and Religion, Memory, History. Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Book Prize. Currently Glaude is at work on a book about James Baldwin, tentatively titled James Baldwin’s America, 1963–1972. A18-408 Glaude left his home in Moss Point, Mississippi at age 16 to Q begin studies at the Morehouse College. He holds a master’s Haunted Boston Ghost Walk Tour degree in African American Studies from Temple University, Saturday, 7:00 PM–9:30 PM and a Ph.D in Religion from Princeton University. He began his teaching career at Bowdoin College. He has been a visiting Offsite-Meet at the Registration Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD in scholar at Amherst College and Harvard. In 2011 he delivered the Convention Center Harvard’s Du Bois lectures. See page 10 for details. Known to be a convener of conversations and debates, Glaude takes care to engage fellow citizens of all ages and backgrounds — from young activists, to fellow academics, journalists and P18-400 commentators, and followers on Twitter in dialogue about the course of the nation. His scholarship and his sense of himself as a Evangelical Philosophical Society public intellectual are driven by a commitment to think carefully Theme: Penal Substitution Atonement Theories Today with others in public. Accordingly, his writing and ideas are cited Saturday, 7:00 PM–10:00 PM and shared widely. Glaude has written for Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level) and The Huffington Post. He is a columnist for Time Magazine and regularly provides commentary on radio and television news Robert B. Stewart, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Presiding programs like Democracy Now!, Morning Joe, and the 11th Hour. This session will focus on contemporary penal substitutionary Prior to Dr. Glaude’s address, a group of former AAR Presidents atonement theories and Biblical, theological, and philosophical issues will present a tribute to Executive Director Jack Fitzmier, who related to those theories. will be retiring in 2018. William Lane Craig, Biola University and Houston Baptist Panelist: University On the Alleged Injustice of Penal Substitution Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University Douglas J. Moo, Wheaton College The Word of the Cross in Paul

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(CBS News) Hunger for God, Hunger for Bread: The Faith of Latin The for Hunger Bread: for God, Hunger www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 P18-401 African for the Study Association of Religions Dinner 8:00 PM–10:00 PM Saturday, Offsite TBA. Details Dinner at a local African restaurant. P18-403 Theology and Learning in and Teaching Center for Wabash Religion Reception 8:00 PM–10:00 PM Saturday, Marriott Copley Place-Gloucester (Third Level) of publishing the 20 years celebrate our invited to come All are Past, Theology and Religion. Teaching in scholarship of teaching Center workshops, Wabash participants and future in present, to join us for an all welcome and grants are consultations, colloquies, and celebration. evening of conversation A18-407 Scholars/Scholars Studies LGBTIQ of LGBTIQ Reception 9:00 PM–11:00 PM Saturday, Hynes Center-302 (Third Convention Level) and friends are studies, scholars of LGBTIQ scholars, LGBTIQ and make new see old friends, Come network, invited to a reception. Transgender, Bisexual, Gay, the Statusones! Sponsored by of Lesbian, Committee. in the Profession and Queer Persons Intersex, A18-406 A18-406 Film: 8:00 PM–10:00 PM Saturday, Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level) Presiding TX, San Antonio, John Phillip Santos, Texas, of San a native Antonio, Virgilio Elizondo, Fr. In 1986, Peru, undertook Nicaragua, an powerful through journey of witness encountering such powerful on the scenes as a village and Brazil, the War; in the middle of Nicaragua Honduran border the Contra of and the outside of Lima; Villa of El Salvador, jóven” “pueblo vibrant Elizondo — who is the way, Along Sao people in faith of street Paolo. Hispanic/Latino theology as the father of U.S. now widely regarded Leonardo Boff, — engaged such luminaries as Gustavo Gutierrez, and a and Enrique Dussel, Casaldaligla, Pedro Dom Helder Camara, and little is a remarkable, here testimonial Elizondo’s host of others. continues which theology, glimpse of the floweringliberation of seen, the Americasto be felt today. across to lead a will be present of the film, the producer John Phillip Santos, brief after discussion the viewing. America’s Poor America’s and G

L L H Alone in Fukushima papers.aarweb.org/program_book documents a year in the life documents a year Alone in Fukushima is a 1997 epic biographical film by Melissa Mathison written Alone Fukushima in Kundun See the full Annual Meetings program online at Reception for Authors and Board Members and Board Reception for Authors x Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State North Carolina University Levi McLaughlin, Stonehill College Christopher Ives, Japan Tokyo, Independent Filmmaker, Mayu Nakamura, raises important and ethical becoming about interspecies questions the vulnerability of life in the Anthropocene. Panelists: Saturday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM Saturday, Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B Presiding University of North Carolina, Barbara Ambros, Mayu’s Nakamura A18-405 A18-405 Film: Fukushima resident of a Naoto, of fifty-five-year-old Matsumura 2011—a After 11, the triple of March disaster Japan. Prefecture, a tsunami and a nuclear earthquakemassive by followed meltdown, behind in his deserted of has remained hometown Matsumura Daiichi reactor. City Fukushima to the damaged next Tomioka in the looks after abandoned Matsumura were animals that There, While considerable has received Matsumura wake of the disaster. he has become a where and America, media attention in Europe the messianic icon of animal rights and the anti-nuclear movement, documentary Nakamura’s virtuallyJapanese media have him. ignored the portrays resisting character who is a complex as Matsumura while strugglingof his hometown for survivalerasure alongside the non-human inhabitants of the evacuation zone. and directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the life and writings the life and It is based on Martin by Scorsese. and directed political the exiled and the fourteenth , Gyatso, Tenzin of Tibet. spiritual leader of by is a title “presence”, meaning Tibetan), (sku mdun in “Kundun” which Lama the Dalai is addressed. A18-404 A18-404 Film: 8:00 PM–10:00 PM Saturday, Sheraton (Second Boston-Constitution Level) Kundun A18-403 A18-403 JAAR 8:00 PM–9:00 PM Saturday, Marriott Place-AAR Copley Suite SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 P19-117 A Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies Theme: Book Review: Beauty’s Vineyard: A Theological Aesthetic of A19-1 C Anguish and Anticipation AAR Annual Business Meeting Sunday, 9:00 AM–10:30 AM Sunday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM Westin Copley Place-St. George C-D (Third Level) Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level) Frank Burch Brown, Christian Theological Seminary, Presiding Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University, Presiding In her most recent book, Beauty’s Vineyard: A Theological Aesthetic of Anguish and Anticipation, Kimberly Vrudny presents a socially engaged Join the AAR Board of Directors for a continental breakfast theology of beauty rooted in a Catholic theological imagination. Join and a brief business meeting. us for a conversation about beauty, art, and social transformation. Panelists: Janet Walton, Union Theological Seminary A19-2 F P K G Cláudio Carvalhaes, Union Theological Seminary Applied Religious Studies Breakfast Maeve Louise Heaney, Australian Catholic University Sunday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM Responding: Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick A (Second Level) Kimberly Vrudny, University of St. Thomas Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Harvard Law School, Presiding AAR members who apply their degrees to work outside of the P19-110 academy, or students who are interested in an alternative career path are welcome to meet and greet each other at this breakfast hosted by North American Association for the Study of Religion the AAR’s Applied Religious Studies Committee. Please RSVP by Friday, November 3, by e-mailing [email protected]. Theme: Bans, Boycotts, Institutional Statements: A NAASR Perspective Sunday, 9:00 AM–10:50 AM P19-5 Fairmont Copley Place-State Suite A (Lower Lobby Level) Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion Leadership Meeting SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, Sunday, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM A19-101 P K Marriott Copley Place-Massachusetts (Fifth Level) Applied Religious Studies Committee and Public Understanding of Religion Committee Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM Theme: Inside the State Department: Scholars Reflect on Working for the Government A19-100 C F Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level) Graduate Student Committee Business Meeting Willard, University of Oklahoma, Presiding Sunday, 9:00 AM–9:30 AM What’s it like to work in the US Department of State? Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level) How is academic knowledge about religion practical to Bhakti Mamtora, University of Florida, Presiding public policymakers? What are the ethical implications of Attention Graduate Students! We will be holding our annual business engaging — and of declining to engage — in such work? meeting on Sunday, November 18th from 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM in the What seems to be the future of such work in this area. Student Lounge. We encourage you to attend the meeting, meet with Three of the panelists recently completed a year or more the Graduate Student Committee members, and share your requests Evan Berry as an AAR-Luce Fellow in the US Department of State: for AAR’s Annual Meeting (2018) with us! in the Office of Religion and Global Affairs, Evan Berry focused on the environment, and Jerome Copulsky on anti-Semitism, refugees, and training; and in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Todd Green focused on Islamophobia.

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Of Water and the Spirit Water Of The Anthropology of Catholicism: A Roundtable on “Religio-racial Identity” as Challenge and Critique “Religio-racial Identity” Emory University, Presiding Emory University, Martin, Washington University, Saint Louis, Presiding Saint Louis, University, Washington Martin, Marcus Harvey, University of North Carolina, Asheville University of North Carolina, Harvey, Marcus New Concepts: Decolonizing and Other of Silence” “Speech The Horizons in Malidoma Somé’s Theoretical Ayodeji Ogunnaike, Harvard University Ogunnaike, Ayodeji (Re)Making African Religions Georgetown University Laura Grillo, Julie Byrne, Hofstra University Julie Byrne, Northwestern University Brian Clites, Boston College Susan Reynolds, Wisconsin University of Susan Ridgely, Phillips, and Nichole University of Iowa, Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Matthew Cressler, College of Charleston Matthew Cressler, White of and the Unveiling Identity, Religio-racial Black Power, Catholicism Florida State UniversityJamil Drake, and the Problem of Class Identity, Religio-racial Peasants,” “American Research in Health Syracuse University Megan Goodwin, Women of v. Anti-Klan Laws Difference: Religio-racial Disciplining Color Columbia University Laura McTighe, Women’s in the Identity Religio-racial Surveillance and Sabotage: Sphere Carceral University Princeton Weisenfeld, Judith and Lerone Williams LeRhonda College, Manigault-Bryant, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 Responding: A19-105 A19-105 Anthropology of Religion Unit and Religion and the Social Sciences Unit Theme: Method, Challenges, and Opportunities 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, (FifthSheraton Level) Boston-Jamaica Pond Miami and James Bielo, University of Iowa, Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Presiding University, Panelists: Business Meeting: A19-104 A19-104 Afro-American Religious History Unit and North American Religions Unit Theme: AM 9:00 AM–11:30 Sunday, Hynes Center-201 (Second Convention Level) Presiding Northwestern University, Sylvester Johnson, Responding: Business Meeting: and B P K B P papers.aarweb.org/program_book Rounding out the panel are Elizabeth Prodromou, former former Elizabeth the panel are Rounding out Prodromou, Vice-Chair International on the US Commission of who brings expertise international on Religious Freedom, a and Robert Albro, policyresolution; and conflict the American chaired who sociocultural anthropologist, on Hoc Commission Ad Anthropological Association’s Security S. the Engagement of Anthropology with the U. and Intelligence Communities. American University Evan Berry, American University Copulsky, E. Jerome Luther College Green, Todd University Tufts Elizabeth Prodromou, American University Robert Albro, Decolonizing the Study of Religion in Africa Women and Vulnerability in the Academy See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Oludamini Ogunnaike, College of William College of and Mary Oludamini Ogunnaike, Theories of Decolonizing TheoriaAgain: and Back Theoryto From African and Philosophy Religion University Utrecht Annalisa Butticci, ofPolitics a Ghanaian The Aesthetics and Afro-Catholic Ntona: Nana Saint Emily Askew, Lexington Theological LexingtonSeminary Emily Askew, Iona College Delgado, Teresa University of San Francisco Hidayatullah, Aysha Harvard University Siobhan Kelly, College Colby Singh, Nikky University of Central FloridaViau, Jeanine AAR-Luce Fellowships are made possible through a generous grant a generous possible through made are AAR-LuceFellowships the Henryfrom Luce Foundation. Panelists: Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, Hynes Center-205 (Second Convention Level) Presiding University of Leeds, Adriaan van Klinken, Theme: A19-103 African Religions Unit Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM 9:00 AM–11:30 Sunday, Hynes Center-305 (Third Convention Level) Presiding Georgia State University, Monique Moultrie, What forms of vulnerability and female-bodied people do women encounter in the academy? our professional does that impact How and our very survival? Our our careers, invited panelists development, race, will discuss various forms of vulnerability such as gender, term/contingent employment, disability, queer and/or trans identity, or being an ally for any of these identity, religious status, immigration for Committee in the Profession Join the StatusWomen of identities. a session that will our rich the complexity continue on conversation of of presentations dynamics a combination power and gender through and audience discussion. Panelists: A19-102 A19-102 Committee in the Profession Women Status of Theme: Todd Green Jerome Jerome Copulsky SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 A19-108/S19-141 Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Unit A19-106 and Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit Theme: Present and Future of Biblical Studies, I: Celebrating 25 Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit Years of Brill’s Journal, Biblical Interpretation Theme: Dialogue through Art: Asian Christian Art and Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Interreligious Discourse in South, Southeast, and East Asia Hynes Convention Center-311 (Third Level) Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM Tat-siong Benny Liew, College of the Holy Cross, Presiding Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level) Co-Sponsored by: SBL Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics James Ponniah Kulandai Raj, University of Madras, Presiding Unit; SBL Bible and Cultural Studies Unit; SBL Contextual Biblical John Clammer, O.P. Jindal Global University Interpretation Unit; SBL Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible Unit; Dialogue through the Image: Asian Christian Art and Interreligious SBL Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible Unit; SBL Ideological Criticism Discourses in Early Modern Asia Unit; SBL LGBTI/Queer Hermeneutics Unit; SBL Minoritized Criticism and Biblical Interpretation Unit; SBL Postcolonial Studies Gudiun Loewner, United Theological College, Bangalore and Biblical Studies Unit; SBL Reading, Theory, and the Bible Unit; Interreligious Dialogue in Art: The Icon of Saint Teresa of Calcutta SBL Rhetoric and the New Testament Unit; SBL Slavery, Resistance, Verena Grüter, University of Goettingen and Freedom Unit The Art of Music in Asian Christianity Panelists: Katherine C. Zubko, University of North Carolina, Asheville Fiona Black, Mount Allison University Performing Social Critique: Christian Nāyikās in Bharata Natyam Steed Davidson, McCormick Theological Seminary Jacqueline Hidalgo, Williams College A19-107 C Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College Stephen Moore, Drew University Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit Jorunn Okland, University of Oslo Theme: Religion, Race, and National Belonging Responding: Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Randall C. Bailey, Interdenominational Theological Center Marriott Copley Place-MIT (Third Level)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, Helen Jin Kim, Harvard University, Presiding Daniel K. Eng, University of Cambridge A19-109 C The Shameless Father: Honor and Shame in the Parable of the Prodigal Son and Its Reception among Asian-Americans Buddhism Unit Ren Ito, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto Theme: Buddhist Practical Canons: Textual Community in the Beyond the Binary in Asian North American Antiracism Pre-modern Buddhist World Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Ryan Anningson, Wilfrid Laurier University Once the Buddha Was an Aryan: Race Sciences and the Domestication Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level) of Buddhism in North America José I. Cabezón, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Michael Hawley, Mount Royal University Rafal Felbur, Stanford University Transnational Pioneers: A Century of the Hari Family in Calgary A Canon before the Canon in Chinese Buddhism: Reflections on the Business Meeting: Practical Canon in the Work of Sengrui (352-419 or 354-421) Rachel A. R. Bundang, Schools of the Sacred Heart, San Jonathan Young, California State University, Bakersfield Francisco, and Devin Singh, Dartmouth College, Presiding Practical Canons from Buddhist Pasts: What Pāli Anthologies Can Tell Us about Buddhist History Or Porath, University of California, Santa Barbara A Cunning Canonization: The Plasticity of Canon in Tendai’s Eshin Adam Krug, University of California, Santa Barbara The Early Indian Mahāmudrā Canon and Practical Canonicity in the Esoteric Buddhism of India and Tibet

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Agents of Aesthetic Encounters with Holiness: Agents of Aesthetic Encounters with Holiness: Trauma in Japanese Religion Trauma in Japanese Wilhelmus Valkenberg, Catholic University of America, Catholic University of America, WilhelmusValkenberg, Presiding Alec Arnold, Saint Louis University Alec Arnold, of Aesthetics Divine Mediators Holy Come and Hear: Come and See, in Early Islamic and Byzantine Christian Hagiographies Harvard University Takacs, Axel The in ChristianityBetween and Friendship and Islam: Sainthood of Play in the Drama Life Hagiographies Role Sacred Heart University June-Ann Greeley, The of Holiness: Optics and Gendered E (in)vocations “Saintly” Mystics of Clare ofWomen Assisi and of St. Traditions Hagiographic Islam Hartford Seminary Lucinda Mosher, Promotion and the Visual Hagiography of the Sublime: Writing Christian-Muslim Understanding and Amsterdam, Universiteit, Vrije Marianne Moyaert, Kristina Buhrman, Florida StateKristina University Buhrman, the Buddhist Institutions, a Landscape: upon Inscribed Disasters in Pre-modern and the State Japan Massed Dead, Tokyo University of Park, Byoungdo Cases of Two From Deaths: Trans-sectarian Commemorating Japan in Early Modern Disasters University of Chicago Stortini, Paride and Buddhism in Memory, Trauma, Home: Way as the The Silk Road Ikuo the Art of Activism and Hirayama University DePaul Miyamoto, Yuki Visitor at and an Ethic of the Tourism, Dark Pilgrimage, Trip: Guilt Site Disaster a Nuclear State North Carolina University Levi McLaughlin, a Genealogy“Trauma” of Toward Victim Care: Care to Pastoral From Religion Japanese in Contemporary Tokyo University of Akira Nishimura, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A19-113 #aarcomptheo A19-113 TheologyComparative Unit Theme: Developments in Hagiography as Lens on Theological-Aesthetic Islam and Christianity AM 9:00 AM–11:30 Sunday, Hynes Center-101 (Plaza Convention Level) Presiding University of Chicago, Hollander, Aaron Business Meeting: A19-112 Religion Approaches to ViolenceComparative and Unit and Japanese Religions Unit Theme: 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, Hynes Center-209 (Second Convention Level) Presiding Lewis College, Jessica and Clark Starling, Responding: and poche’s poche’s papers.aarweb.org/program_book Tradition: Catholic and Protestant Emotion: Buddhism, Neuroscience, and Moral Cultivation Emotion: Buddhism, See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Dartmouth College, Presiding Dartmouth College, Steven Edward Harris, Hamilton, ON Hamilton, Steven Harris, Edward Theology of the an Ecumenical Toward of All: Teacher Christ the One Magisterium University LeTourneau Tallon, Luke and Counter-Proposal A Critical to Response Tradition: Trinitarian Ecumenical Reformulation Ratzinger’s Joseph University of Nottingham Simeon Zahl, RetrievalTheological as Ethical Drama “Use”: and Its Tradition University of Cambridge Pui Ip, Transmission between (Scripture) and Its The Relationship Revelation of the Protestant-Catholic on the Root Webster John (Tradition): Disagreement John Dunne, University of Wisconsin University of John Dunne, A Buddhist Perspective ConstructingWorld: Emotion for Action in the Northeastern University Barrett, Lisa Feldman Classical and Constructed Theories of Emotion: Neuroscientific University Brown Jake Davis, a Cross-Cultural Towards Emotion and the Qualities of Heart: Science Cognitive College of Charleston Christian Coseru, We and How Perceive We What Change Attention Introspective Does Feel? University of New Mexico Emily McRae, Patrul Rin Emotions in of Self-Liberating Contours The Moral Essential Jewel Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University Blackburn, Anne M. Ohnuma, and Reiko Harvard University, James Robson, Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM 9:00 AM–11:30 Sunday, Sheraton Boston-Back (Second Bay D Level) Presiding College, Providence Coolman, Taylor Holly A19-111 ChristianTheology Systematic Unit Theme: Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, Sheraton (Third Boston-Hampton Level) Presiding Tokyo, University of Charles Muller, A. Unit Theme: A19-110 Responding: Business Meeting: Cara Rock-Singer, Columbia University SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Relational Technologies: Performing Queer Ritual Art Lisle Dalton, Hartwick College Railroad Catechisms A19-114 C Contemporary Islam Unit A19-116 Theme: Intersections of Islamophobia: Between Nationalism and Globalization Evangelical Studies Unit Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Theme: Evangelicalism and Questions of Ethnicity Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level) Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Yunus Dogan Telliel, City University of New York, Presiding Marriott Copley Place-St. Botolph (Second Level) Giulia Evolvi, Ruhr University Dan Wells, Florida State University Islamexit: Twitter Islamophobia after the British Referendum “I Just Wish I Could Be Born Again Everyday”: Eldridge Cleaver and the Evangelical Mentality of Displacement Iselin Frydenlund, MF Norwegian School of Theology Islamophobia and Its Buddhist Vicissitudes Shari Madkins, Emory University “Ain’t I an Evangelical, Too?” How Whiteness Erases People of Color Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston from the Multi-cultural Evangelical Church Movement “CIA to Survey World’s Moslems”: Islam and the American Public under Carter and Reagan Kristopher Norris, University of Virginia The White Problem in Evangelicalism: A Costly Model of Mathew J. Guest, Durham University Reconciliation Representing Islam on UK University Campuses: Negotiating Research and Identity within a Securitised Educational Environment Daniel Rodriguez, Pepperdine University Hispanic Evangelicalism in the United States: Critical and Theological Iman AbdoulKarim, Dartmouth College Responses to Trump’s Vision for America and to White Evangelicals Islam is #BlackLivesMatter: Muslim Women on the Frontier of Anti- Who Embrace It Blackness and Islamophobia Keith Johnson, Wheaton College Business Meeting: Evangelicals, Race, and the Perils of the Evaluative Form Danielle Widmann Abraham, Ursinus College, Presiding A19-117 #aarhcs SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, A19-115 History of Christianity Unit Cultural History of the Study of Religion Unit and Science, Theme: Late Ancient Ruminations: Thinking Today by Reading Technology, and Religion Unit the Past Theme: Religious Histories of Technology in the Americas Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Marriott Copley Place-Boylston (First Level) Sheraton Boston-Public Garden (Fifth Level) Peter Anthony Mena, University of San Diego, Presiding Anthony Petro, Boston University, Presiding Nathaniel Morehouse, John Carroll University John Modern, Franklin and Marshall College Nicaea’s Unorthodox Benefactor: The Emperor Julian and the Rise of On Technomasochism Nicaean Dominance David Walker, University of California, Santa Barbara Tola Rodrick, Indiana University Railroading Secularism Technologies of the Cell: Transforming Mud Brick into Virtue in Late Kati Curts, University of the South Ancient Egypt Secular Sublime, Remixed Religion: Categorical Mash-Up in Baldrick-Morrone, Florida State University Christian Marclay’s The Clock “A Familiar Art”: Contemporary Reproductions of Abortion in Lucia Hulsether, Yale University Antiquity Bound to the Company: Technologies of Capitalist Humanitarianism Dan Salyers, Fuller Theological Seminary Angela Tarango, Trinity University Refugee Bishops in the Fourth Century The “New Buffalo”: Indian Gaming and Cultural Identity among the Oklahoma Nations

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a Bridge between Whitehead Whitehead a Bridge between the World: Bernard Loomer as Bernard Loomer World: the Is Does God Need the World? Whitehead and Tillich in Community Formation: Intersections of Congregations, Community Formation: Intersections of Cities Michigan State University, Presiding Michigan State University, Andrea Glass, Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania Glass, Andrea and Politics of the The Practices from “Postcards the Resistance”: Lesbian Community in Lancaster Graduate University Claremont Anjeanette LeBoeuf, and Lesbians Resistance, Location, Space, Duke University Wolff, Michelle Presiding Northridge, California State University, Marie Cartier, Janna Gonwa, Yale University Yale Janna Gonwa, and the Tillich, Be Lost”: Nothing Whitehead, That Care Tender “A LifeEternal of the Ecosystem Saint Leo University Pugliese, Marc or Earnest? Evasive on the DynamicsTillich “Divine Life”: of the McPherson College MacGregor, Kirk God to World of Dispensability the Tillichian The Twin Theological Seminary United of the Wheeler, Demian God Andrew Mall, Northeastern University Andrew Mall, at Christian and Congregation Music Festivals Renewal, Resistance, Pembroke University of North Carolina, Joshua Busman, Passion at the Worshipping “Corporate” and Bodies: Brands, Bands, Conference University of Minnesota Katelyn Medic, Twin Cities Churches in Worship and Voice The University of Montana HaynesMaren Marchesini, Twenty-First Our Not Music and Race Brand”:“It’s in a Mission, Century Calvinist Megachurch New and David Stowe, San Jose State University, Jennifer Rycenga, and Tillich Boston University Neville, Robert C. www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 Responding: Business Meeting: A19-122 Issues in Tillich: Theologies Unit and Open and Relational Theology Culture Unit and Theme: Conversation 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level) Presiding Michigan State University, Devan Stahl, A19-121 A19-121 Music and Religion Unit Theme: Religious Musics, and Popular Culture AM 9:00 AM–11:30 Sunday, Hynes Center-202 (Second Convention Level) Presiding Amherst College, Jeffers Engelhardt, Business Meeting: Responding: and C C Jñāna Omnāma papers.aarweb.org/program_book The Lesbian as a Space for Revolution in Communities, Kierkegaard and the Future of Revelation – Part II: Kierkegaard and the Future of Revelation Sufism and Yoga in Early Modern India Sufism and Yoga in See the full Annual Meetings program online at x University of Kansas, Presiding University Kansas, of Laulie Eckeberger, University of Winchester University of Laulie Eckeberger, How the Lesbian- This!”: Still Protesting We’re Believe “I Can’t Forward Way Our Embodies Feminist Jennifer Veninga, St. Edward’s University Edward’s St. Veninga, Jennifer and Love, for the Present Individuality, Hope Kierkegaard’s Age: Times Uncertain Witness to as Antidotes Baylor University Thomas Millay, CritiqueTheological of Kierkegaard’s Nation(s): Contra Revelation Nationalism Southern Methodist University Marandiuc, Natalia March Women’s at the Kierkegaard is a Revolution: Love of Christ Stamford Church Brandon Pierce, on Attack Kierkegaard’s Honesty”: Want Simply—I “Very Liberal Failure of White and the Theology, Black Christendom, Activism Shankar Nair, University of Virginia University of Shankar Nair, Treatise PersianMughal in a Yoga” “Muslim for Sufis? Yoga Boston University of Massachusetts, Irani, Ayesha of the Teachings The Esoteric Darveś: for the Bengali Yoga Lamp of Knowledge Pradīpa, University of North Carolina Ernst, CarlW. and Hamsa Stainton, McGill University, MarionAndrea Pinkney, Heidi R. M. Pauwels, University of Washington University of Pauwels, M. Heidi R. in the Sufi Romances Yogis Transformations: and Encounters (Premākhyān) University Yale Supriya Gandhi, Reading the and Mystical Nondualism: Breath, Sound, Organizations, and Politics 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, Marriott Copley Place-Brandeis (Third Level) Presiding Old Dominion University, Amy Milligan, A19-120 A19-120 and Religion Unit Lesbian-Feminisms Theme: A19-119 and Culture Unit Religion, Kierkegaard, Theme: Community and the Limits of Democracy AM 9:00 AM–11:30 Sunday, Hynes Center-208 (Second Convention Level) Presiding Drexel University, Stacey Ake, Responding: Business Meeting: Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, (Third Level) Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley Presiding Boston, University of Massachusetts, Shaman Hatley, A19-118 A19-118 Islamic Mysticism Unit and Religion in South Asia Unit Theme: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 A19-125 C Religion and Cities Unit A19-123 C K Theme: Conflict and : The Reimagining of Urban Space Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Practical Theology Unit and Transformative Scholarship and Marriott Copley Place-Dartmouth (Third Level) Pedagogy Unit Elise Edwards, Baylor University, Presiding Theme: Theological Education in Spaces of Social Marginality Juan Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM A Holy War in Harlem: Father Divine, Daddy Grace, and the Battle Hynes Convention Center-310 (Third Level) for the Soul of Black New York Christian A. B. Scharen, Auburn Theological Seminary, Presiding Heather White, University of Puget Sound Clare Radford, University of Glasgow “This Disco Used to Be a Cute Cathedral”: Queer Genealogies of Interpreting Injustice: Narrating Experiences of Marginalisation in Secularism at the Limelight Nightclub Scotland as Constructing Theological Praxis Jung Lee, Northeastern University Sarah Jobe, Duke University The Dharma of the City: A Tibetan Buddhist in Cambridge Programs in Prisons: Transforming the Who, Where, How, and What Responding: of Theological Education Katie Day, United Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia Rachelle Green, Emory University Business Meeting: Pedagogical Justice: Toward a Theologically Responsible Pedagogy for Teaching Religion to Women in Prison Helene Slessarev-Jamir, Claremont School of Theology, Presiding Richard Burgess, University of Roehampton The Pedagogical Challenges of Teaching Theology to First-generation Students from Non-traditional Churches A19-126 #aareco2017 H Responding: Religion and Ecology Unit Daniel Franklin Pilario, Adamson University Theme: Critical Approaches to Racial and Environmental Justice Business Meeting: Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Christian A. B. Scharen, Auburn Theological Seminary, Tone Marriott Copley Place-Simmons (Third Level) Stangeland Kaufman, MF Norwegian School of Theology, and Christopher Carter, University of San Diego, Presiding SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, Darby Ray, Bates College, Presiding Mark S. Cladis, Brown University Racial and Environmental Justice in the Wild A19-124 Karen Crozier, Fresno County Historical Museum H Black Prey, White Predator: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Practical Theology of Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Racial Freedom in the U.S. “Wilderness” Thought Unit Courtney O’Dell-Chaib, Syracuse University Theme: Ecology, Naturalism, and Democratic Faith Making-With Disaster Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Ryne Beddard, University of North Carolina Marriott Copley Place-Berkeley (Third Level) Benjamin Steele-Fisher, University of Denver William David Hart, Macalester College, Presiding Toward a Decolonial Religious Poetics beyond the Human Mary Friedline, Southern Methodist University Roger S. Gottlieb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Is Democratic Faith Secular? Seeking Pluralism in Rorty’s Achieving Hearing Nature’s Voice: The Possibilities of Ecological Democracy Our Country Gary Slater, St. Edward’s University The Ecological Ethics of William James’s A Pluralistic Universe Scot Yoder, Michigan State University Neo-Pragmatism and Religious Naturalism: What Rorty and Rue Might Learn From Each Other

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Chain : Thoreau and the Thoreau Sacrificial Economy of the : Walden American Divines: Interpretations of Authority, Sacrifice, American Divines: Interpretations of Authority, Ritual Aesthetics and the Senses Ritual Aesthetics and Kreinath, Wichita State University, Presiding Wichita State University, Kreinath, Michael Cohen, Temple University Temple Michael Cohen, and America New Israel as John Adams, Duffield, George Villanova University Joshua Nunziato, The of Adam Bursi, University of Tennessee University of Bursi, Adam and the Senses Relics, Pilgrimage, Early Islamic Scents of Pilgrimage: Dame University of Notre Sarah Kathleen Johnson, and Dissonance in Overlapping for Ritual Harmony Listening Systems University of British Columbia Clayton Ashton, Ritualization in the Chinese Aesthetics of the Everyday: The Moral Book of Rites Columbia University Jay Ramesh, in Translation Prescription, and Affect, Language: Transforming Literature South Indian Śaiva Early Modern Hamilton College Plate, Brent S. and Jens Chico, California State University, Pike, Sarah M. Bhagavad-Gita University Princeton Seth Perry, and a Swivel”: Lorenzo Dow’s Hooks, Two Links, “Five Exegesis Populist College Haverford Molly Farneth, Presiding Earlham College, Emily Filler, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A19-131 A19-131 and Ethics Unit Texts Sacred Theme: and Exceptionalism AM 9:00 AM–11:30 Sunday, Marriott Copley Place-New (Fifth Hampshire Level) Presiding Duke University, Cooper, C. 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Harvard University David Carrasco, David Tittensor, Deakin University Tittensor, David Being Muslim in Australia Security: of Hyper the Era Navigating University of Helsinki Kaarina Aitamurto, The Pressure in the for Centralization Russian Governance of Islam as Solidarity within Muslim Minorities to a Challenge in Moscow and Petersburg St. Sapienza University of Rome Angela Bernardo, Islam” Pact for an Italian “National The Religion: Negotiating and Recognition Legitimization, Security Claims, between Agency, Elkarhili, and Nagham Georgia State University, Abbas Barzegar, the to Muslim Responses Paradoxical Violent Extremism: Countering Terrorism Question of Islam and in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Wake Hicks, and Derek University of Rochester, Rubel, L. Nora Cody Musselman, Yale University Yale Cody Musselman, Thought New of Bodies The Imperial with the Intimate: Tune In Belmont University Beth Ritter-Conn, a in and Hospitality Power, Paradox, GuestsTables: at Our Own Southern City College of Charleston Quinn, E Moore Will Go the Generous Never Hell “To Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit Theme: Session 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, Sheraton E (Third Boston-Beacon Level) Riverside, University of California, Jennifer Scheper Hughes, Presiding Panelists: Responding: A19-129 A19-129 Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM 9:00 AM–11:30 Sunday, Level) (Fourth Marriott Copley Place-Vineyard Presiding State Humboldt University, Vincent Biondo, Religion and Politics Unit Religion and Politics Theme: A19-128 Business Meeting: Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, Sheraton A (Third Boston-Beacon Level) Presiding Wooster, College of Rapport, Jeremy A19-127 A19-127 Unit Religion and Food Theme: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 A19-134 C Economics and Capitalism in the Study of Buddhism A19-132 Seminar Theme: Buddhist Practice During Collapse: Economic, Cultural, Study of Judaism Unit Institutional, and Political Theme: Reimagining the Field: Theorizing the “Jewishness” of Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Jewish Thought Sheraton Boston-Fairfax B (Third Level) Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Hynes Convention Center-110 (Plaza Level) Courtney Bruntz, Doane University Annette Yoshiko Reed, , Presiding Buddhism for a Tech-Savvy Chinese Youth Elias Sacks, University of Colorado Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg, University of Copenhagen Critical Theory Out of the Sources of Judaism: Horkheimer, Cohen, and The Centrality of “Youth” in Promoting and Reforming Buddhist Jewish Thought Monasteries in Ladakh Sarah Hammerschlag, University of Chicago Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College The Reluctant Children of Postwar French Judaism: Jean Wahl, Buddhist Economic Realities: Decline Narratives and Vladimir Jankélévitch, and Rabi Coffee Shops in Northern Thailand Samuel Brody, University of Kansas Kevin Buckelew, Columbia University On Building a Jewish Political Economy Canon Buddhist Rhetorics of Productivity and Debt at the End of Medieval Responding: China: “Inner-Worldly Asceticism” and the Chan Tradition Larisa Reznik, University of Chicago Business Meeting: Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Richard K. 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Rice University William Parsons, Arizona State University Vann, Jodie Theme: 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, Sheraton (Second Boston-Constitution Level) Presiding Brandon University, Alison Marshall, the explores this roundtable novel, Gaiman’s Neil by Inspired significancereligion and divinity of in the new television show, American Gods of Mexican Jesus and to cinematic representations and polytheists, adapted how Gaiman’s participants explore in this session beyond, and sacrifice within the order, story enduring probes themes of desire, migrants don’t us, reminds narrative As Gaiman’s study of religion. borders. when they cross their gods relinquish A19-143 #rpc A19-143 Contemporary Studies Unit and Religion Pagan and Culture Unit Migration and Religion Unit and Popular Visual Film, and and Religion, Culture Unit and Religion, and Culture Unit Media, A19-137 Publications Meeting Committee AM 9:00 AM–11:30 Sunday, Hynes Center-301 (Third Convention Level) Presiding Theology, Iliff School of Theodore Vial, denotes those who, on the one hand, are disillusioned with traditional disillusioned with traditional are the one hand, on denotes those who, feel that those same on the other hand, and, institutional religions will This discussion and valuable practices. contain wisdom traditions of the SBNR phenomenon and future(s) present, engage the past, It will offer new on the study of perspectives to various degrees. call to its attention the SBNR that challenge existing assumptions, and offer expectations of and prescriptions for unarticulated features, include Anticipated outcomes the formation of new growth. its future and intellectual trajectories. issues, debates, Panelists: A19-136 A19-136 Exploratory Sessions Theme: Future(s) of Research the Past, Present, and 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, Sheraton Boston-Riverway (Fifth Level) Indianapolis, Indiana University-Purdue University, Jain, Andrea Presiding This exploratory to session is meant formalize ongoing an on the Spiritualconversation Religious (SBNR) with the But Not aim of establishing a Spiritual unit. program Religious Not But surveys what national The discussion will address is a growing agree social phenomenon in the United States what some argue is and to movement. transnational a growing SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 P19-153 Theta Alpha Kappa Board of Directors Meeting P19-148 Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Marriott Copley Place-Vermont (Fifth Level) Society for Comparative Research on Iconographic and Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St. Edward’s University, Presiding Performative Texts Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sheraton Boston-Clarendon (Third Level) A19-138/S19-156a F P K Richard Newton, Elizabethtown College, Presiding Student Lounge Roundtable The Society for Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Theme: Employment and Recruitment from an HR Perspective Texts (SCRIPT) fosters academic discourse about the social functions of books and texts that exceed their semantic meaning and Sunday, 10:00 AM–11:30 AM interpretation, such as their display as cultural artifacts, their ritual use Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level) in religious and political ceremonies, their performance by recitation In this roundtable-workshop session, Jessia Ehinger discusses and theater, and their depiction in art. issues particular to job hunting outside the traditional tenure track, Sonia Hazard, Franklin and Marshall College including how to write an effective resume and cover letter, how How Not to Read: The Trace of Evangelical Readers and the Powers of to identify potential positions, and how non-academic job hunting the Religious Book in the United States, c. 1825–1861 differs from the academic market. In doing so, the session provides graduate students and young investigators with a solid understanding Marianne Schleicher, Aarhus University of what to expect in the job hunting process, so that they can best Sensory Uses of Scriptures in Israelite-Jewish Religion present themselves and their interests in the job market. Alice Mandell, University of Wisconsin Panelists: Texts Unseen: Invisible Writings and Performance in the Ancient Levant Jessica Ehinger, Boston University Joy Palacios, Simon Fraser University A Script in Hand? Small-Format Ecclesiastical Texts and Priestly P19-113 Performance in Early Modern France AAR Mid-Atlantic Region Theme: Religion and Theology in a Crossroads Age SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, P19-149 Sunday, 10:30 AM–11:30 AM Society for Pentecostal Studies Westin Copley Place-Defender (Seventh Level) Theme: A Conversation with Harvey Cox on Pentecostalism, Markets, Scripture, and the Future of Faith Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM P19-114 Sheraton Boston-Liberty A (Second Level) North American Association for the Study of Religion Robby Waddell, Southeastern University, Presiding Theme: Roundtable: The State of the Study of Religion Panelists: Sunday, 11:00 AM–12:50 PM David Daniels, McCormick Theological Seminary Fairmont Copley Place-State Suite A (Lower Lobby Level) Cheryl Bridges Johns, Pentecostal Theological Seminary Rickie Moore, Lee University Frank Macchia, Vanguard University Coffee Break Responding: Sunday, 11:30 AM Harvey Cox, Harvard University Complimentary coffee will be served in the back of Aisle 2100 and Aisle 2600 of the Exhibit Hall.

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Russell a forumreligion/religious This session provides for the chairs of to discuss issues studies departments/programs at public universities in this religion on research about and conducting to teaching related particular context. A19-141 Mentoring Lunch Women’s PM 11:45 AM–12:45 Sunday, Hynes Center-302 (Third Convention Level) and Melissa M. Theological Seminary, Union White, C. Andrea Presiding Riverside, University of California, Wilcox, invited to a graduate students and new scholars are who are Women mid career and LGTIQ feminist, thirtyluncheon with over womanist, the opportunity will have to mentor and Women and senior scholars. The lunch every in a context where be mentored is valued. question 100. is limited to Registration no refunds. sorry, costs $13 per person; Mentors: and G reffettb@ F P K F P papers.aarweb.org/program_book . . Registration deadline is October 1. Walk-ins may also be Walk-ins deadline Registration is October 1. . 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Rebekka King and Cláudio Carvalhaes conducting productive teaching strategies for will present contentious environment. class in today’s discussions Send an email to Beth Reffett is required. Pre-registration Theme: wabash.edu is available. accepted if space information go to more For Open Q&As will follow the workshop. http://bit.ly/2rZBD7C Panelists: P19-119 P19-119 Theology and Learning in and Teaching Center for Wabash Religion Society for the Study of Chinese Religions Roundtable PM 11:30 AM–1:00 Sunday, Hilton Boston Back B (Second Bay-Belvidere Level) P19-115 Sunday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM Sunday, HynesCenter-303 (Third Convention Level) and varied diverse paths for becoming more academicsCareer are even with academia one cannot depend on As such, the day. by alongside few and papers and a chapters in compilations conferences thesis and dissertationa list of your supervisors stand to make you section all about? “Public Engagement” is this for instance, What, out. What to make exactly a way experience? constitutes teaching Is there have what it may versus did, what you like did sound more what you been not have may or may someone who by been titled at some point, involved in the event itself? particularly outside of traditional for those positions Crafting a CV, its academic posts (or even for those posts within) is not difficult, how workshops discusses and roundtable session This merely different. a organize experience and prepare and phrase your format, to frame, CV for every exciting opportunity encounter. you Panelists: A19-139/S19-158 A19-139/S19-158 StudentLounge Roundtable Theme: Harold Morales, Morgan State University SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Beyond Bible—Scripture Among Diverse Latinx Communities Efrain Agosto, New York Theological Seminary Scripture and Liberating Ethics—Honoring Eldin Villafañe A19-142 Responding: Women’s Caucus Eldin Villafañe, Gordon-Conwell Theological Theme: Parliament of World Religions Women’s Task Force – A Business Meeting: Brown Bag Discussion Loida I. Martell, Lexington Theological Seminary, Presiding Sunday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM Hynes Convention Center-305 (Third Level) Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College, Presiding The AAR/SBL Women’s Caucus is pleased to host a co-sponsored brown bag discussion with leadership of the Parliament of World A19-200 P K Religions regarding topics and issues for women’s programming Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee for the 2018 Parliament of World Religions. The discussion will be facilitated by Elizabeth Ursic, Chair of the Parliament’s Women’s Task Theme: The Rapid Erosion of Tenure: 2008-2018 Force, Co-Chair of the AAR/SBL Women’s Caucus, and a board Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM member of the Parliament. Other board members serving on the Hynes Convention Center-208 (Second Level) Women’s Task Force leadership team and Parliament staff will also be Sylvester Johnson, Northwestern University, Presiding in attendance. 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P19-116 C A19-201 La Comunidad of Hispanic Scholars of Religion Public Understanding of Religion Committee Theme: Latinxs Ethical and Theological Readings of Scripture Theme: Back From the Front Lines of Diplomacy: A Religion SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, Sunday, 12:30 PM–3:00 PM Scholar Reflects on the Role of Religion Expertise in US Foreign Westin Copley Place-Defender (Seventh Level) Policy Loida I. Martell, Lexington Theological Seminary, Presiding Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Latinxs scholars have often noted the important role of scripture in Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level) the articulation of their theological and ethical constructions. For Erik Owens, Boston College, Presiding some, it is the foundational authority that gives legitimacy to what they write and say. This session will revisit previous studies carried From July 2013 through January 2017, Shaun Allen out on the role of the Bible for theologians, ethicists, and biblical Casey served the U.S. Secretary of State as the Special scholars, as well as previous interfaith studies on the role of scripture Representative for Religion and Global Affairs and as in Christian and Muslim communities. In this session, a panel of inaugural Director of the Office of Religion and Global scholars will present on the current importance of scripture in the Affairs. The three-fold mission of the office was to advise articulation of theological, ethical, and biblical constructions for the Secretary Kerry on matters related to religion, to increase Latinx community. The session will conclude with a presentation Shaun Casey the capacity of State Department posts, offices, and focusing on how noted Christian social ethicist, Eldin Villafañe, has bureaus to engage religious actors and assess religious contributed to the field of ethics and theology through his use of dynamics, and to serve as the contact point for those seeking to Scripture and particular hermeneutical and pneumatological lens. understand the intersection of U.S. foreign policy and religion. Discussion will follow, and La Comunidad Lifetime Achievement The Office of Religion and Global Affairs incorporated the Special Award in Scholarship will be awarded. Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, the Special Representative to Muslim Communities, and the Special Envoy to the Leticia Guardiola-Saenz, Seattle University Organization of Islamic Cooperation. From the Pulpit to the Academy—Latinx Scriptural Hermeneutics Dr. Casey came to the Department of State after serving as Professor Maria T. Davila, Andover Newton Theological School of Christian Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary and working For a Time Such as This—Scripture, Theological Ethics, and Multi- on President Obama’s 2008 campaign staff as part of its religious faith Reflection outreach effort.

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Negro Digest Negro Beloved Their Eyes Were Watching God Were Their Eyes Teaching Animals and Religion Religious Expression and Sacred Power in African The Black and Red Atlantic The Black and Red Eric D. Mortensen, Guilford College Mortensen, Eric D. Hendrix College Jay McDaniel, University of San Diego Gross, Aaron Wheaton College Darling-Smith, Barbara K. 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Stevenson, University of Kansas Panelists: Paul Groner, University of Virginia Eric Gregory, Princeton University Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University Gregory Lee, Wheaton College Brook Ziporyn, University of Chicago Molly Farneth, Haverford College Responding: Responding: Paul L. Swanson, Nanzan University James K. A. Smith, Calvin College A19-211 A19-209 Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Unit and Body and Religion Unit Yogācāra Studies Unit Theme: Carnal Hermeneutics Theme: Yogācāra in the World: Social and Political Dimensions Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level) Marriott Copley Place-Simmons (Third Level) Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University, Presiding C. John Powers, Deakin University, Presiding Nathan Lyons, University of Cambridge SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, Douglas S. Duckworth, Temple University Sign as Body, Sign as God: A Psychosomatic Analogy of the Trinity Locating a Social Consciousness in Yogācāra Adam Pryor, Bethany College William S. Waldron, Middlebury College Desiring Flesh: Incarnation as a Normative Framework for Carnal Prolegomena for a Yogācāra Critical Theory Hermeneuitcs Jin Y Park, American University Julia Reed, Harvard University Beyond Subjective Idealism: Yogācāra and Creative Engagement with Word As/Made Flesh: Carnal Hermeneutics and an Interdisciplinary the World Approach to Incarnation Eyal Aviv, George Washington University Responding: Transforming the Social Base: ’s Yogācāra Social Richard Kearney, Boston College Philosophy Responding: Sallie B. King, James Madison University

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New Directions in Daoist Studies: Interdisciplinary New Directions in Daoist Studies: Interdisciplinary Magic in the Time of the Tower: Witchcraft, Activism, and Magic in the Time of Louis Komjathy, University of San Diego Louis Komjathy, and Animalistic Daoist Studies a Contemplative Towards Kingston University, Queen’s James Miller, and Sustainability Sinology, Daoist Studies, University of Hong Kong Palmer, David A. in Anthropology Turn” “Ontological Daoist Studies and the College of Charleston Elijah Siegler, and Daoist Studies Spirituality, Secularism, Lehigh University Girardot, J. Norman Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University, Chicago Loyola University, Hermansen, Marcia University of San Francisco Hidayatullah, Aysha New Paltz StateYork, University of New Aloi, Peg a and W.I.T.C.H. of The Re-emergence Mister!”: Weirdos, Are the “We Witches of Media Generation New Northridge California State University, Sabina Magliocco, the 2016 to Magical Responses Resistance: as Political Witchcraft Election Stockholm University Egil Asprem, and the Cult of Kek, Meme Magic, TheoryPolitics: of The Magical an Egregore Topple to How www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A19-216 Daoist Studies Unit Theme: Approaches to Lived Religion PM–2:30 PM 1:00 Sunday, Marriott Copley Place-Dartmouth (Third Level) Presiding Harvard University, Michael Puett, Responding: We will share best practices and engage in small group discussions discussions small group in engage best practices and will share We process, the tenure on topics such senior scholars as publishing, led by and service, and professional institutional discrimination, job searches, the media and generaldiscussing Islam with public. Panelists: A19-215 Contemporary Studies Unit Pagan Theme: Political Resistance PM–2:30 PM 1:00 Sunday, (ThirdSheraton Boston-Gardner Level) Presiding University, Forest Wake Shawn Arthur, and C God’s God’s F K papers.aarweb.org/program_book #aarigw

as Reverse Revenge Fantasy of Whiteness of Fantasy Revenge as Reverse Mentoring Session for Scholars Studying Muslims/Islam Silence and Apophaticism in Theory and Practice: Silence and Apophaticism in Theory and Fantasy, Religion, and Violence Fantasy, Religion, and See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Birmingham, UK Birmingham, Andrew Massena, Boston College Andrew Massena, Reading in Contemplative Lishmah and Lectio Divina: Torah Rabbinic Christianity Judaism and Evangelical Dame University of Notre Lee, Francis Yongho and Union with God The Soul’s into Leap Chinul: and Bonaventure Reality the Mind’s Absolute Awakening to Quaker Study Centre, Woodbrooke Rhiannon Grant, QuakerismSilence as Common Ground? and Space as Hosting Liberal Conversation Theological Boston College James Bretzke, of Use Novel Shusaku Endo’s to Voice Giving Deep Silence: Ascetical Spirituality Christopher Rodkey, Pennsylvania State University, York State University, Pennsylvania Christopher Rodkey, Pry to Have from Christendom Hands: Dead Cold, My You’ll Not Dead Not Arizona State University Michael Broyles, and Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Baldwin, James Become Possessed: We Lest Violence betweenthe Relationship Myth and Huan Jin, City University of Hong Kong in the and Religion Politics ofThe Drama Disseminated: Fantasy Rebellion Taiping Presiding McKenna College, Claremont Velji, Jamel Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Sunday, Hynes Center-302 (Third Convention Level) Presiding University, Fairfield Martin Nguyen, This mentoring an opportunity session will provide for graduate in the study and independent scholars engaged faculty, students, tailored of Islam and Muslims to connect with others and receive advice. mentoring and professional Theme: A19-214 #islamaar A19-214 Unit Women Contemporary Gender, Islam Unit and Islam, and Islamic Mysticism Unit and Qur’an Unit and Study of Islam Unit Comparative TheologyComparative Unit Theme: Comparative Theological Perspectives PM–2:30 PM 1:00 Sunday, Sheraton (Fifth Boston-Public Garden Level) Presiding Boston College, Catherine Cornille, A19-213 #aarcomptheo A19-213 Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Sunday, Marriott Place-Columbus Copley I & II (First Level) Presiding StateUniversity, Youngstown Michael Jerryson, A19-212 A19-212 Religion Approaches to ViolenceComparative and Unit Theme: Business Meeting: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 A19-219 B Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit A19-217 Theme: Staying with the Trouble: Cultivating Selves in Relation with the Most Vulnerable Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit and Middle Eastern Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Christianity Unit Sheraton Boston-Beacon E (Third Level) Theme: Peacemaking and Hospitality in Middle Eastern Carol Wayne White, Bucknell University, Presiding Christianity: Accommodating Difference in the Eastern Christian Traditions Kathryn Moles, Graduate Theological Union A Feminist Theological Framework for Incorporating Child Sexual Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Abuse Prevention in Catholic Schools Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level) Tom Berendt, Temple Univeristy Peter Galadza, Saint Paul University, Presiding Offering Sanctuary to the Most Vulnerable: A Feminist Response to the Nicholas Sooy, Fordham University Horrors of Husbandry Peacemaking in the Lives of St. Maruthas and St. Acacius Mary Keller, University of Wyoming Bishoy Dawood, University of Toronto Staying with Trouble in the Chthulucene: I/indigeneity and the Sixth Coptic Chanting, Pluralistic Voices: Coptic Hymns as a Medium for a Extinction in Art, Image, Sound, and Illusions? Pluralistic Egypt Lana Sloutsky, Boston University Helena Palaiologina: Preserving Byzantine Culture through A19-220 A Philanthropy in Post-1453 Cyprus Japanese Religions Unit and Tantric Studies Unit Responding: Theme: Tantricization of Gods and Deities in Medieval Japan: Mark Swanson, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago Bernard Faure’s Gods of Medieval Japan (University of Hawai’i Press, 2015) Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM A19-218 Marriott Copley Place-Fairfield (Third Level) Ecclesiological Investigations Unit Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Church Perspectives on the Legacy of the Reformation Charles D. Orzech, University of Glasgow SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM What Are the Gods? Faure and the Question of Esoteric Buddhism in Medieval Japan Sheraton Boston-Back Bay D (Second Level) Mark Chapman, Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Presiding Pamela D. Winfield, Elon University Gods and Demons at the Interface of Religious Studies and Art Brian Flanagan, Marymount University History Ecclesial Sin and Holiness in Liturgical Commemoration of the Reformation Aaron Proffitt, State University of New York, Albany Normativity and Heterogeneity: Rethinking Medieval Japanese Pure Wolfgang Vondey, University of Birmingham Land Buddhism Pentecostalism and the Reformation: Toward a Joint Ecumenical Commemoration Kristin Johnston Largen, Gettysburg Seminary Gods and Gender: Women, Sexuality, and Performance in Medieval Shaun Brown, University of Toronto Japan George Lindbeck’s Early Israelology: A “Catholic Protestant” Perspective on the Reformation Responding: Responding: Bernard Faure, Columbia University Gunda Werner, University of Tübingen

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(Fordham White Nostalgia in the North American Religious White Nostalgia in the North American Author Meets Critics: A Discussion of Ashon Crawley’s Mutable Flesh: Mysticism, Bodies, and Boundaries Mutable Flesh: Mysticism, Emmy Corey, Emory University Emmy Corey, Racial Memories: Justice and the ProblemMoral Whiteness of University of Pennsylvania Andrew Hudson, Rethinking Religio- of Appalachia: Pentecostals White Not-White The in the History of Identities Americanracial Pentecostalism Boston College Kimberly Humphrey, Supremacy in a White of Remembering The Challenge Dangerously and Ecclesial Failures Disgust, “Colorblind” Shame, Society: University Boston Lauren Kerby, and the American Christian Nostalgia Right White Saving History: Riverside University of California, Ashon Crawley, Syracuse University Biko Gray, Theological Seminary Princeton Keri Day, Emily Holmes, Christian University Brothers Emily Holmes, of Writings in the and Being Eaten Eating is Hunger”: Table “Her Women Mystics Thirteenth-Century Two Harvard University Mara Block, and Mystical Exercises Negations, Bodily Time, Boundaries Undone: Weil of Simone Notebooks in the Late Rice University Justine Bakker, Watery Gallagher’s Ellen Who Those Drowned: On the Afterlife of and Mysticism in the Flesh Feeling, Oceanic Ecstatic, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 North American Religions Unit and Religion, Memory, North American Religions Memory, Unit and Religion, History Unit Theme: Landscape PM–2:30 PM 1:00 Sunday, Hynes Center-310 (Third Convention Level) Presiding Toronto, University of Klassen, Pamela A19-225 Movements Unit and QueerPentecostal–Charismatic Studies in Religion Unit Theme: BlackPentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility University Press, 2016) 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Sunday, Marriott Copley Place-Boylston (First Level) Presiding Bucknell University, Young, Thelathia Panelists: Responding: A19-223 Mysticism Unit Theme: 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Sunday, Hynes Center-205 (Second Convention Level) Presiding University of Rochester, Margarita Simon Guillory, A19-224 and , and the and the , papers.aarweb.org/program_book Grainger, Hashman Grainger, Speaking of Liberation: Unexpected Sacred Texts in Speaking of Liberation: Unexpected Sacred Trial and Error: Religious Conversions Before the Law Trial and Error: Religious See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Alease Brown, Stellenbosch University Alease Brown, and Hashtags Tattoos, Protests, How Texts: Re-imagining Sacred ArticulationsVibrant of the ChristianConstitute Faith Boston University Kathryn House, Texts of Exploring the Sacred Goodbye: Waiting Who Kissed Those For PurityEvangelical Culture Theological Seminary Union Wyman, Jason Music as Black Popular Contemporary in Public”: God to “I Speak Theology and Liberation Text, Sacred Primary Language, Theological Goucher College Kelly Douglas, Brown Jacob Betz, University of Chicago Jacob Betz, Child Reared in a Protestant Family”: Her Having “She Objects to and Court-Ordered in the Conversions Child Custody, Catholics, 1870–1920 States, United University of Oxford Justin Jones, Marriage, Debating Solution: and its Lawful Threat Apostasy of The in Indian Islam Law and Conversion University of Oslo Karin Neutel, The Conversion? Religious to Male Circumcision as an Obstacle Problematic Origins Criticism of of of the Concept in Legal Religion Circumcision Toronto University of Allison Covey, Authenticity and Secular Conversion: Ontario Human Rights Commission Human Ontario Liberation Theologies Unit and Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theory, Texts, Theologies Unit and Sacred Liberation Theological Construction Unit Theme: A19-222 Contemporary Social Justice Movements PM–2:30 PM 1:00 Sunday, Sheraton Boston-Back (Second Bay B Level) Presiding School of Religion, Pacific Filipe Maia, Responding: Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Sunday, Sheraton (Third Boston-Hampton Level) Presiding SaintLeo University, Pugliese, Marc Theme: A19-221 and Culture Unit and Religious Religion, Conversions Law, Unit SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 A19-229 Roman Catholic Studies Unit A19-226 Theme: Between the Imperial and the Intimate: Practicing Catholicism in a Global Media Environment Philosophy of Religion Unit Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Theme: Gendering Philosophy of Religion: The Influence of Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level) Pamela Sue Anderson Katherine Dugan, Springfield College, Presiding Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Mathew N. Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross Sheraton Boston-Riverway (Fifth Level) “My Ways Are Not Your Ways”: The Discourse of Sin and Success in a Beverley Clack, Oxford Brookes University, Presiding North Indian Catholic Charismatic Television Show Panelists: Eric Hoenes del Pinal, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Kate Kirkpatrick, University of Hertfordshire Negotiating Intimate Relationships with an Uncertain Audience: Q’eqchi’-Maya Catholics’ Use of FM Radio Nancy Frankenberry, Dartmouth College Maryellen Davis Collett, Lewis University Ellen T. Armour, Vanderbilt University Miraculous Mediation(s) and Paradoxes of Peace: Marian William Robert, Syracuse University Apparitions, Genocide, and Global Catholic Media Marc Loustau, College of the Holy Cross A19-227 A Global Becoming among Transylvanian Catholic Media Volunteers Responding: Religion and Economy Unit and Secularism and Secularity Joanne Maguire Robinson, University of North Carolina, Unit Charlotte Theme: Author Meets Critics: A Conversation about Finbarr Curtis’s The Production of American Religious Freedom (New York University Press, 2016) A19-230 B C Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Scriptural Reasoning Unit Marriott Copley Place-Tremont (First Level) Theme: Scriptural Reasonings: Pragmatism, Semiotics, and Dana Logan, Washington University, Saint Louis, Presiding Vulnerability SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, Panelists: Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Tisa Wenger, Yale University Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level) Sonia Hazard, Franklin and Marshall College Deborah Barer, Towson University, Presiding Joseph Winters, Duke University Nechama Juni, Brown University Joseph Blankholm, University of California, Santa Barbara Christian Pragmatism and Halakha: Rethinking the Tension between Responding: Continuity and Change in Religious Traditions Finbarr Curtis, Georgia Southern University H. Peter Kang, Grace Church of West Feliciana Parish, LA Like a Game of Catch: Non-binary Relational Semiotics in Clement of Alexandria A19-228 Matthew Goldstone, New York University The Unstable Dynamics of Extreme Vulnerability Religion and the Social Sciences Unit Business Meeting: Theme: Religion’s Role in Producing Strangers and Neighbors Mark James, Hunter College, Presiding Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Sheraton Boston-Boston Common (Fifth Level) Sara Williams, Emory University, Presiding Mary Puckett, University of Florida The Cosmopolitanization of a Mexican Pentecostal Church Gwendolyn Gillson, University of Iowa Supplementing the “Uchi” through Buddhism: Japanese Women’s New Visions of Stranger and Neighbor Symbol Key:

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Biblical Interpretation “...But What Do You Study?”: A NAASR Workshop on “...But What Do You Celebrating 25 Present and Future of Biblical Studies, II: Lynne St. Clair Darden, Interdenominational Theological Center Interdenominational Clair Darden, St. Lynne University Yale Yii-Jan Lin, University of Kent Sherwood, Yvonne Theological Seminary Chicago Ken Stone, University of Cincinnati Twomey, Jay University of KwaZulu-Natal West, Gerald University of Sheffield Cheryl Exum, J. www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 P19-201 North American for the Study Association of Religion Theme: the Job Market - Session I Theory & Method in 1:00 PM–2:50 PM Sunday, Copley Place-Back (LowerFairmont Bay Room Lobby Level) facing challenges the employment to explore This session proposes earlyin issues of theory interested who are scholars career and method and workshop. both a discussion through in the study of religion, issues importantNAASR members The session will address junior to ABDs now entering or about to enter exclusively, but not (notably, organization can how a professional demonstrating by the job market) a practical and strategic forumprovide advice. for job-market A19-232/S19-239 Unit Communities and Indigenous Ethnic, Bible in Racial, Theological Construction and Unit Theory, Texts, and Sacred Theme: Years of Brill’s Journal, PM–3:30 PM 1:00 Sunday, Hynes Center-311 (Third Convention Level) Presiding Elon University, Huber, Lynn and Asian-American SBL Asian Co-Sponsored by: Hermeneutics Contextual Biblical SBL Bible and Cultural SBL Studies Unit; Unit; Hermeneutics of the Bible Unit; SBL Feminist Interpretation Unit; SBL Ideological Criticism and the Bible Unit; Sexuality, SBL Gender, SBL Minoritized SBL LGBTI/Queer Hermeneutics Unit; Unit; Studies SBL Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Unit; Interpretation and the Bible Theory, SBL Reading, and Biblical Studies Unit; and SBL Slavery, Unit; Testament SBL Rhetoric and the New Unit; Unit and Freedom Resistance, Panelists: Responding: and B papers.aarweb.org/program_book Emerging Scholars: Resilience Amidst Vulnerability in Emerging Scholars: See the full Annual Meetings program online at x freedom and to the expectation that all AAR members will that all and to the expectation freedom manner. conduct themselves in a professional that foster inclusivity, and discrimination and harassment, from and diversity. respect, mutual and other). regional, (national, conduct. Loyola Marymount University Sánchez, David A. Syracuse University Megan Goodwin, Emory University Patterson, B. Barbara A. Riverside University of California, Wilcox, Melissa M. University of North Carolina Randall Styers, University Vanderbilt Townes, Emilie M. American Academy of Religion Jack Fitzmier, Jea Sophia Oh, West Chester University, Pennsylvania Chester University, West Jea Sophia Oh, Empowerment: of EnergyWomen’s and Korean Vulnerability Global Talk An Ecofeminist Theological Seminary Princeton Alicia Panganiban, An of the Book in Ruth: Vulnerability Theology of Resilience Amidst Asian Perspective Graduate University Claremont Yu, JungJa Joy Issue Women’s Former ComfortAsian of Vulnerability The Shenandoah University Minister, Meredith A19-237 Public Forum Force Task Conduct Professional PM–2:30 PM 1:00 Sunday, Marriott Level) Copley Place-Grand A (Fourth Boston and Kecia Ali, Theological Seminary, Union Pak, SuYon Presiding University, Task Conduct Professional The AmericanAcademy of Religion’s Conduct to craft the Board a Professional by has been charged Force Statement that will: • support commitment — to robust Stress of academic the twofold • free that are to build communities desires Clearlystate AAR’s • Sexual on statement Harassment. Update and revise our current • Make clear to AAR gatherings and activities relate how the above • Recommend policies for handling infractions of professional Conduct statement to be Professional draftedForce this Task The This public for its consideration in 2018. to the Board recommended and to solicit feedback a wider conversation session aims to have online platform to will also be an There about the draft statement. solicit feedback AAR members after from the session. Panelists: A19-231 A19-231 Caucus Women’s Theme: International Issues 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Sunday, HynesCenter-305 (Third Convention Level) Claremont and Janice Poss, University of Kent, Julia Berger, Presiding Graduate University, Responding: Bin Song, Boston University SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Confucianism, Gapponshugi and the Spirit of Japanese Capitalism Responding: Xiaojiao Cu, Beijing University A19-233 #aareco2017 H Wenzhi Zhang, Shandong University Religion and Ecology Unit Andrew Fuyarchuk, Yorkville University Theme: Ritual and Community in Religion and Ecology Anna Sun, Kenyon College Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Hynes Convention Center-201 (Second Level) A19-235 Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University, Presiding Barbara Jane Davy, University of Waterloo, and Stephen Quilley, Status of Persons with Disabilities in the Profession University of Waterloo Committee Meeting Ritual Matters: Changing Ontologies, Values, and Ecological Sunday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM Conscience Formation Marriott Copley Place-Massachusetts (Fifth Level) Anne Read, University of Waterloo Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown University, Presiding Land-Based Judaism and Jewish Youth Identity Formation Tallessyn Grenfell-Lee, Boston University Food Gardens as Points of Contact for Awareness and Engagement in A19-236/S19-251a F K Intersectional Eco-justice Ministries Luke Whitmore, University of Wisconsin, Steven’s Point Student Lounge Roundtable Are Local Gods Ecological? Theme: Student-Centered Learning: A Practical Guide Meaghan Weatherdon, University of Toronto Sunday, 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Walking from Whapmagoostui: Understanding the Land as a Resource Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level) for Resilience in Cree Social Movements Paul Myhre, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, and Debbie Gin, Association of Theological Schools, Presiding A19-234 Q Many of us have heard about the wonders of “student-centered Freedom Trail’s Revolutionary Women Walk Tour learning”: higher engagement, better critical thinking skills, student

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, empowerment. But how exactly can we implement these methods in Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM college and university Religious Studies classrooms? This Roundtable Offsite-Meet at the Registration Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD in session will go over simple but effective strategies for both instructors the Convention Center and teaching assistants to create a student-centered learning See page 10 for details. environment. These strategies are derived from both the educational literature and personal experience in both capacities. Attendees will leave with concrete examples of how to implement P19-203 student-centered learning in addition to a resource list to aid in additional investigation into student-centered learning activities and International Society for Chinese Philosophy principles. In order to see student-centered learning in practice, this Theme: New Perspective on Confucianism session will leave time for a discussion and brainstorming session at the end to workshop some ideas and/or problems particular to Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM instituting student-centered learning in the study of religion. Marriott Copley Place-Hyannis (Fourth Level) Panelists: Chenyang Li, Nanyang Technological University, Presiding Gwendolyn Gillson, University of Iowa Bruce Brooks, University of Massachusetts The Personal and the Governmental in Mencius Chenyang Li, Nanyang Technological University Confucian Xiao as Filial Care Jesse Ciccotti, Hong Kong Baptist University A Ruler’s Religiosity: Comparing Marcus Aurelius and Mengzi on the Spiritual Side of Political Life

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(1994), (1994), (2015). Paying the Words Extra: Extra: Words the Paying A Ministry of Presen Prison Faith- Religion: Varieties of Religious Varieties (Oxford University Press, (2014); and the co-editor and the (2014); (2005), (2005), (2011), (2011), (2009), and (2009), is a multidisciplinary of volume The Politics of Religious Freedom ofPolitics Religious The After Secular Law (2013), and (2013), Winnifred Fallers Sullivan of the 2017 Winnifred is the recipient Fallers for the Public Understanding Marty Award Martin E. and Chair of Religious Sullivan is Professor of Religion. at Indiana Professor ofLaw, and Affiliate Studies, University at Bloomington. the phenomenology focuses on work of religion Sullivan’s and she is widely known under the modern rule of law, for her critical studies of American law and jurisprudence Teaching Interreligious Encounters

Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Martin E. Marty Award Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Indiana University Indiana Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers MiddleburyLaurie College Louise Patton, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 2017) 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Sunday, Hynes Center-310 (Third Convention Level) Presiding University of San Francisco, Kimberly Rae Connor, Summer Seminars Developing out of the AAR / Luce Foundation Theologies of ReligiousTheology Pluralism, and on Comparative Interreligious Encounters Teaching original an array of pedagogical essays addressing issues in a variety to teaching that occurs at the encounters of of contexts related encounters.” “interreligious or in traditions’,” ‘religious “different Teaching Religious Studies Series volume in the AAR This latest in and scholars who work of international brings a group together a variety speak from interreligious as loci for teaching of contexts secular and undergraduate and graduate programs, encounters: as divinity schools and seminaries, religiously-affiliated institutions, professions. in non-nonreligious preparation as graduate career well goal of the common teaching these essays share In manifold ways, an intimate encounter transforming ways of being and acting through which continues to be a cause of concern, other,” “religious with the in our age of globalization and migration. and even anxiety, A19-252 A19-252 and Learning Teaching Publications Committee and Committee Theme: A19-251 A19-251 Public Understanding of Religion Committee Theme: Fallers Sullivan Religion Forum: Winnifred 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Sunday, Sheraton & Independence (Second Boston-Grand Level) Presiding Boston College, Erik Owens, Winifred Sullivan Fallers She is the author of four books: about religion. based Reform and the Constitution Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court States of the United Freedom ofThe Impossibility Religious and the Law Spiritual Care, Chaplaincy, ce: volumes: of three Establishment public scholarship on Sullivan’s studies guild, the religious Beyond as an expert an important had and her work witness have religion offices and government military units, prisons, impact in courtrooms, city from State halls to the Department. of President Laurie Patton, Forum, Marty Award In this year’s will join Sullivan for an extended public dialogue Middlebury College, life and work. about Sullivan’s Panelists: and P K papers.aarweb.org/program_book Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Preparing Scholars of Religion for Non-academic Careers: Preparing Scholars of Religion for Non-academic Seminary Teaching and Formation Online Seminary Teaching See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Molly Bassett, Georgia State University Molly Bassett, State North Carolina University Bivins, Jason C. Santa Barbara University of California, Kathleen Moore, Brooke Lester, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Garrett-Evangelical Lester, Brooke Theological LexingtonSeminary Barbara Blodgett, Theme: A19-250 A19-250 Applied Religious Studies Committee What’s a Faculty Member to Do? PM–4:30 PM 3:00 Sunday, Marriott Copley Place-Berkeley (Third Level) Presiding Harvard Law School, Cristine Hutchison-Jones, for tenure-track academic as the job market positions years In recent has tightened and the use of contingent faculty has exploded, intending to pursue seekers are numbers of graduate degree increasing While obvious of study present areas some nonacademic careers. nonacademic in the humanities, for scholars nonacademic options, not be for them may opportunitiescareer and the best preparation exploring studies faculty graduate how are obvious and religious all alumni for multiple can — and should — prepare programs This panel brings faculty together members outcomes. employment a variety from of the problems some to discuss of institutions people turn — as more their students and their programs confronting necessity paths. career choice — to nonacademic by and by Panelists: Sunday, 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Sunday, HynesCenter-107 (Plaza Convention Level) Theology and Learning in Teaching for Center Wabash Myhre, Paul Theological Schools, of Association and Debbie Gin, and Religion, Presiding Theological Schools Association of what the The session will explore the has been learning about formation in online contexts through particularly through project, Educational Models and Practices and challenges, name important questions, phase; the peer-group co- discuss with two and obstacles at a distance; to student formation leader/panelists specific aspects of student formation at a distance. Panelists: Theme: P19-204 Theology and Learning in and Teaching Center for Wabash TheologicalReligion Schoolsand Association of SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 A19-255 Black Theology Unit Panelists: Theme: Afro-pessimism and Black Theology Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Zayn Kassam, Pomona College Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level) Martha Reineke, University of Northern Iowa Andrea C. White, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding John Thatamanil, Union Theological Seminary Calvin Warren, Emory University Responding: Is it Righteous to Be? Afro-pessimism, Black Theology, and the Marc Pugliese, Saint Leo University Problem of Ontology Alexander Y. Hwang, Xavier University Marvin Wickware, Duke University An Inheritance of Endurance: Black Life’s Resources of Melancholic Hope and Prideful Love A19-253 K Joseph Winters, Duke University Special Topics Forum: Using Humanities Commons to The Ecstatic Space between Optimism and Pessimism: Fanon, Spillers, Curate Your Online Presence, Increase the Impact of Your and the Promise of Afro-anguish Scholarship, and Tell the Story of Your Work J. Kameron Carter, Duke University Black Care: An Insurgent Ecstatics of the Sacred Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level) Imagine a humanities network with the sharing power of Academia. A19-256 B edu, the archival quality of an institutional repository, and a commitment to using and contributing to open source software. Now Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit imagine that this network is not-for-profit. It doesn’t want to sell Theme: Responsible Action and Public Theology: Dietrich your data or generate profit from your intellectual property. That’s Bonhoeffer and the Vulnerable Other Humanities Commons. Run by a nonprofit consortium of scholarly Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM societies, Humanities Commons wants to help you curate your online presence, expand the reach of your scholarship—whatever form it may Sheraton Boston-Public Garden (Fifth Level) take—and connect with other scholars who share your interests. Nik Byle, Arizona Western College, Presiding

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, Ryan Tafilowski, University of Edinburgh Particularity in Solidarity: The Ethical Promise of the Doctrine of the A19-254 Orders of Creation Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit Josh de Keijzer, Luther Seminary and Secularism and Secularity Unit Bonhoeffer’s Vulnerable God: From Theologia Crucis to a Public Theology of Vulnerability Theme: Asian American Secularities: Race, Religion, and the Secular in Chinese North American Communities Matthew Jones, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Eschatological Wrestling: Epistemological Ambivalence in Fiction from Tegel Prison Sheraton Boston-Beacon E (Third Level) Dianne Rayson, University of Newcastle, Australia Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University Earthly Christianity for the Vulnerable as a Potential Bonhoefferian Explaining Diasporic Chinese Non-Religiousness: A Liyi Theoretical Eco-ethic Approach Rachel Pang, Davidson College Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors in Li-Young Lee’s The Winged Seed Justin Tse, Northwestern University “This Is About the Property We Bought”: The Secular Dimensions of Cantonese Evangelical Social Conservatism in the San Francisco Bay Area Responding: Jonathan Tan, Case Western Reserve University

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The Interreligious Classroom in Indonesia, Canada, and The Interreligious Classroom in Indonesia, The Ethical Dimensions of Truth and Post-Truth The Ethical Dimensions Calgary, and Syd Erais, University of Calgary and Syd Erais, Calgary, Nicholas Adams, University of Birmingham Adams, Nicholas Indonesian Interreligious Learning University of Verhoef, Paul University of Calgary, Tulissi, Adriana Re-imagining Pedagogy Studies Departments: Religious in Canadian Connecting Theory with Practice University of Chicago Hollander, Aaron Introducing as Religion Fabric: a Weave to Needle Threading a Interreligion California Lutheran University Windham-Hughes, Colleen in the of Persons On the Cooperation the Common Good: Expecting Interfaith Studies Classroom L. Patrick Burrows, Harvard University Burrows, Patrick L. and the Ethics of Parrhesia Truthiness, Post-Truth, University Creighton Christina McRorie, What (and Economics: “Post-Truth” Analysis in an AgeSocial of Ethicists Critique? Should Religious How) Virginia University of Gleason, W. Paul IdolatryTrump and Prophecy in the Age of Dame University of Notre Stewart Clem, Age in a Post-Truth Sins of Speech www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit and Religion in Southeast Asia Unit Theme: the US PM–4:30 PM 3:00 Sunday, Marriott Copley Place-Boylston (First Level) Presiding Theological School, Newton Andover Jennifer Peace, Howe A19-260 Ethics Unit Theme: 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Sunday, Marriott Place-Simmons Copley (Third Level) Presiding Theological Seminary, Chicago Melanie Jones, A19-261 and papers.aarweb.org/program_book with Madhyamaka 3UDPƘΧD Towards Understanding Lateral Leadership: Reflections Mapping Religion in Contemporary China Tibetan Madhyamaka See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Douglas S. Duckworth, Temple University Temple Duckworth, Douglas S. on the Lodrö Tsültrim Plateau: Tibetan on the Culture Buddhist High Mugdha Yeolekar, Loyola Marymount University Yeolekar, Mugdha “Powerful”? Be “Vulnerable” Analyzing DynamicsCan the of Power Text in a Sixteenth-Century Hindu Vulnerability and Loyola Marymount University Gower, Margaret of Christine de Writings in the Bodies as Political Bodies Maternal Pizan Loyola Marymount University Nirinjan Khalsa, as a Feminine Ego-Loss Violence: and Symbolic Power Subversive Scripture and PraxisEthic in Sikh Devotional Loyola Marymount University Enriquez, Karen Fenggang Yang, Purdue University Yang, Fenggang A Comparison Century China: Twentieth in Sites Religious Mapping Techniques of Mapping Purdue University Joey Marshall, the GrowthMapping of Buddhism and Daoism under Repressive China Twentieth-Century Conditions in Purdue University Tong, Yunping and Son Preference: Geography AnalysisReligious A Spatial of in China Sites Religious University of Arizona JiangWu, Michael Ium, University of California: Santa Barbara University of California: Michael Ium, Tibet in Polemics and Sectarian Gorampa, Jetsunpa, Truths: Fake Santa Barbara University of California, Jed Forman, Mixing Pus and Nectar: Comparative Theology Unit and Women and Religion Unit Theology Unit and Comparative Theme: A19-259 #aarcomptheo A19-259 on Medieval Texts in Hinduism, Christianity, and Sikhism 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Sunday, Hynes Center-205 (Second Convention Level) Presiding Loyola Marymount University, Maderey, Ana Laura Funes Responding: Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM 3:00 Sunday, Marriott Level) Copley Place-Grand A (Fourth Presiding Tennessee, University of Megan Bryson, Responding: Chinese Religions Unit Theme: A19-258 #chineserels A19-258 Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Sunday, (Third Level) Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley Presiding Indiana University, Nance, Richard Theme: A19-257 Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist Philosophy Unit and Religions Unit SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 A19-264 Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit and A19-262 #aarigw Pentecostal–Charismatic Movements Unit Theme: Subverting Power: Mission, Politics, and Place within Islam, Gender, Women Unit and Men, Masculinities, and Global Pentecostalism Religion Unit and Religion in Europe Unit Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Theme: Islamophobia, the Body, and the State in Contemporary Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level) Europe Erica Ramirez, Drew University, Presiding Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Jonathan Calvillo, Boston University Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level) The Persistence of Mexican Borderlands Protestantism in Southern Justine Howe, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding California Laurens de Rooij, University of Cape Town Alex Mayfield, Boston University Islamophobia and Gender in Britain: Do Men and Women Respond “A Gloriously Free Work”: Pentecostal POWs and Spirit-Empowered Differently to Media Representations of Muslims? Resistance Elisabeth Becker, Yale University David Luckey, Southern Methodist University The Ethnographic Study of Highly Securitized Populations: Lessons Subverting Political Fallacies: The Voice of a Latin-American from Women in European Mosques Pentecostal Immigrant Community in the U.S. Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Vassar College Of Long and Short Skirts: Mixité, Homosociality, and Racialized Gender Difference in France A19-265 Responding: New Religious Movements Unit Markus Dressler, Leipzig University Theme: Bodies and Practices in American Religious Innovations Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM A19-263 Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level) Lydia Willsky-Ciollo, Fairfield University, Presiding Islamic Mysticism Unit Leah Payne, George Fox University Theme: Contemporary Expressions of Vernacular Sufism “Bobbing the Hair” and Other “Masculinated” Sins: Women, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Pentecostals, and Politics in the United States from 1890-1930 Hynes Convention Center-101 (Plaza Level) Isaac May, University of Virginia Robert Rozehnal, Lehigh University, Presiding A Toxic Red Pill: Contemporary Organized Atheism, Misogyny, and the Concept of Rationality Talia Gangoo, University of Michigan Healing the Body, Repairing the Soul: Disease and Health in Clara Schoonmaker, Syracuse University Naqshbandiyya-Nazimiyya Sufi Thought and Practice “No Skyclad beyond This Point”: Transforming Society through Pagan Rituals of Resistance Melinda Krokus, Marywood University Inspiration (Wahy) at the Margins: A Vulnerable and Vernacular Sufi Responding: Hermeneutics of the Qur’an Lynne Gerber, Harvard University Rose Aslan, California Lutheran University Painting on Water: Islam, Spirituality, and Art in Contemporary Istanbul Responding: Shobhana Xavier, Franklin and Marshall College

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Religion and the Commemoration and the Commemoration Religion Religion and Emerging Peace Practices: Water Protection, Religion and Emerging Peace Practices: Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: The Spiritual in Film Dreams, Doubt, and University Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, University of Illinois Birkenholtz, Vantine Jessica in Womanhood Hindu Discourses on Narrative Pativratā: Folk The Nepal Duke University Leela Prasad, James Waters, Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt James Waters, Framing Access Pipeline and the Protests The Dakota and Oil: Water of the Sacred Theological Seminary Fuller Gacs, Andrea How Peace: Conflicts and for Social Tool Performance Poetry as a and Performance Address Racial, Vulnerability of Methodologies an Create Discrimination to and LGBTQIA Gender, Religious, Community Inclusive Indiana and James Damico, University, Ohio Loren Lybarger, ¡La Será Impunidad No Eterna! the Dictatorship after Years in Argentina Forty of the Disappeared Emory University Ellen Ott Marshall, Joseph Kickasola, Baylor University Joseph Kickasola, International University Trinity Worley, Taylor University Vanderbilt Zachary Settle, University Fordham Kathryn Reklis, Messiah College Crystal Downing, Belmont University David Dark, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 Responding: A19-270 A19-270 Peace Unit and SocialReligions, Conflict, Theme: SLAM Poetry, and Memorializing State Terror PM–4:30 PM 3:00 Sunday, (FifthSheraton Level) Boston-Jamaica Pond Presiding Dame, University Notre of Atalia Omer, Responding: A19-269 Visual Film, and Religion, Culture Unit Theme: 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Sunday, SheratonCommon (Fifth Boston-Boston Level) Presiding ON, Kingston, University, Queen’s Potter, Brett Panelists: and B papers.aarweb.org/program_book Viewed Lens of through the Hermeneutical Gendered Traditions: Intersections of Gender, Genre, and Quakerism and Decolonization/Enculturation in Kenya Quakerism and Decolonization/Enculturation Religion, Psychology, and the Most Vulnerable Religion, Psychology, See the full Annual Meetings program online at x St. Paul’s University Paul’s St. Theological Friends and Oscar Lugusa Malande, Meeting, College Margaret Mills, Ohio State Ohio U Emerita Mills, Margaret and Genre Gender, Traditions, Local Theories, Global Trickster: Bucknell University Coralynn Davis, of Future Past and The Sāmā forTimes: the Ages and Sāmā for Our of Gender and Terrain in the Shifting Storytelling Women’s Maithil Society Rosina Lepareyo, Samburu Friends Mission, and Sammy Letoole, and Sammy Letoole, Samburu Mission, Friends Rosina Lepareyo, in SamburuQuakerism Female and Decolonization/Enculturation Circumcision Yearly Theological College and Bware Friends Benson Ombaha, Quakerism in Kenya Cohesion as a Resource for Social Earlham College Theoneste Sentabire, of the Rwandan Genocide QuakerismWake as a Resource in the County Howard General Hospital Riggs, Ann K. Helen Boursier, College of St. Scholastica College of St. Helen Boursier, for Recovery:Art Herman’s Judith as Spiritual Care fromTrauma and Recovery Trauma Seeking with Immigrants Asylum in Contextual Praxis Therapy Art University Fordham Cataldo, Lisa M. Mass Power of and the Belonging: Identifications Ambivalent and the Ambiguity of Fundamentalism, Religious Incarceration, “Breaking Free” University Vanderbilt Hilary Scarsella, Boston- Historically of in The Role Religion Religion: on A Spotlight Violence Sexual to ofBased Movements Resistance A19-268 Religion in South Asia Unit Theme: Religion in South Asian Storytelling 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Sunday, Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level) Presiding University, Indiana Rebecca Manring, Quaker Studies Unit and African Association for the Study of Religions Theme: and Rwanda PM–4:30 PM 3:00 Sunday, Level) (Fourth Marriott Copley Place-Vineyard Presiding Toronto, University of Esther Acolatse, Responding: A19-267/P19-252 #aarquakers17 A19-267/P19-252 Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Sunday, Sheraton Boston-Back Bay D (Second Level) Presiding Earlham College, Higginbotham, James I. A19-266 A19-266 and Religion Unit Culture, Psychology, Theme: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 A19-273 Study of Judaism Unit A19-271 B Theme: Holding and Beholding: Material and Visual Cultures Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Roman Catholic Studies Unit and Vatican II Studies Unit Marriott Copley Place-Orleans (Fourth Level) Theme: Pope Francis and the “Globalization of Indifference”: Jennifer Caplan, Middletown, CT, Presiding Catholicism and the Most Vulnerable Rebecca Wollenberg, University of Michigan Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM The Unread Bible as Image: When Written Text Becomes Pictograph Hynes Convention Center-208 (Second Level) Emma Brodeur, Syracuse University Massimo Faggioli, Villanova University, Presiding Freud and the Bible: Dream Images and Jewishness Kerry Alys Robinson, National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management, Washington, DC The Creative Tension of Mercy and Reform in Francis’ Pontificate A19-274 C Mark Shriver, Save the Children Pope Francis’ Message of Faith, Love, Humility, and Mercy: Does It Theology and Continental Philosophy Unit Really Matter? Theme: Reframing the Continental Philosophy of Religion? Rafael Luciani, Boston College Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM A Structural Option for the Poor: Geopolitics, Social Movements, and Marriott Copley Place-Fairfield (Third Level) Evangelization Beatrice Marovich, Hanover College, Presiding Responding: Panelists: Richard Gaillardetz, Boston College An Yountae, Lebanon Valley College Amaryah Armstrong, Vanderbilt University A19-272 #aarsor Marika Rose, Durham University Lucas Wright, University of California, Santa Barbara Sociology of Religion Unit and Critical Research on Religion Responding: Theme: Multiple Religious Belongings within and against Identities, Affiliations, and Conflict Steven Shakespeare, Liverpool Hope University SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Business Meeting: Sheraton Boston-Hampton (Third Level) Adam Kotsko, Shimer College, and Beatrice Marovich, Hanover College, Presiding Rebekka King, Middle Tennessee State University, Presiding Joantine Berghuijs, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Drawing from Many Sources: Conceptualizing and Measuring A19-275 Religious Flexibility John Hartley, Yale University Wesleyan Studies Unit The Field of American Evangelicalism: Struggles with Islam and the Theme: Wesleyan Ecclesiologies Competition for Religious Authority Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Marat Shterin, King’s College, London Marriott Copley Place-Dartmouth (Third Level) Conceptualising Religion in Political Conflict: The “Sacred” in the Ted A. Campbell, Southern Methodist University, Presiding Russian-Ukrainian Crisis Panelists: Roger Baumann, Yale University Edgardo Colon-Emeric, Duke University Constructing and Contesting the “Holy Land”: Christian Pilgrimage as a Multifaceted Social Phenomenon Daniel Castelo, Seattle Pacific University Hilde Marie Movafagh, MF Norwegian School of Theology Responding: Kimberly Belcher, University of Notre Dame David Feltmate, Auburn University, Montgomery Kirsten Sonkyo Oh, Azusa Pacific University

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A19-300/S19-336a A19-300/S19-336a StudentLounge Roundtable Theme: of Online Tools Hands-on Exploration 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Sunday, Hynes Center-303 (Third Convention Level) primarily and/or an office suite of applications with paper Working projects research rigorous and Excel for your Word such as Microsoft However, their obvious limitations and ensuing frustrations. have and Scrivener can ease the pain Evernote, online tools such as Zotero, digitally by simplifying organizing and of this cumbersome process master creating the tasks of taking and managing a zillion note, and writing systematically workflows, mind-maps and efficient on the merits will focus session roundtable and This and flawlessly. and writing with the help of managing, challenges of researching, and structural archival–retrieval, such online tools of bibliographical, exploration of these tools to a hands-on It provides management. experience firsthand how they not only and organizeyour store and journal form—stacks of books compiled in almost any research audios, videos, pictures, handwritten notes, digital documents, articles, and writing multiple research across and the like—but also sync your not and most importantly, them instantly share anyone, with devices, laptop! lose your lose them even if you Panelists: and N papers.aarweb.org/program_book “...But What Do You Study?”: A NAASR Workshop on Arguing Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) and Arguing Boycott, Divest, See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Berkeley Hatem Bazian, Zaytuna College and University of California, Zaytuna College and University of California, Hatem Bazian, University Yale Zareena Grewal, Muhlenberg College Pettit, Peter for Peace Voice Jewish Brant Rosen, University of Chicago Laurie Zoloth, University of San Francisco Stephen Zunes, North American Association for the Study of Religion Theme: Theory & Method in the Job Market - Session II 3:00 PM–4:50 PM Sunday, Copley Place-Back (LowerFairmont Bay Room Lobby Level) challenges facing the employment to explore This session proposes early in issues of theory interested scholars who are career and method and workshop. both a discussion through in the study of religion, issues importantNAASR members The session will address to junior ABDs now entering or about to enter but not exclusively, (notably, organization demonstrating can how a professional by the job market) a practical and strategic forumprovide advice. for job-market P19-202 Theme: A19-277 A19-277 Exploratory Sessions Religion 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Sunday, Sheraton Boston-Republic B Presiding University, Vanderbilt Armour, T. Ellen This exploratoryroundtable session invites both supporters and and Sanction Israel Divest, to Boycott, dissenters of the movement Rather those than demonizing conversation. (BDS) to a roundtable this exploratory allow a variety will session either for or against BDS, to be heard. of voices The participants an analytical will consider the issue from safe space What do we scholarly and honest for deep questioning dialogue. in the twenty-first centurylearn about religion understanding the by and community-making aesthetics, rituals, theologies, ethics, religious What these activities? and motivating and motivated by differences commonalities help us analyze and religious actors religious these history does BDS fit into a larger activities? How religions of such as supporting and divestment, supporting and not boycotts the US civil rights the South Asian Independence Movements, and the global student led anti-apartheid of the 1960s, movements in the 1980s? movements Panelists: A19-276 Theological Education Committee Meeting 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Sunday, (Third Sheraton Boston-Boardroom Level) Presiding Theological Union, Catholic Alexander, Scott C. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 A19-304 B Panelists: Plenary Panel Amy Defibaugh, Assistant Director, Academic Affairs, Temple Theme: Recolonizing the Academy Under a Trump Presidency University Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Susan Lawler, Director of Career Services, Harvard Divinity Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level) School Munir Jiwa, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Brooke Noonan, Executive Director, UChicagoGRAD Sponsored by the Status of LGBTIQ Persons, Experience, University of Chicago Persons with Disabilities, Racial and Ethnic Susannah Laramee Kidd, Mellon-ACLS Public Fellow, Los Minorities, and Women in the Profession Angeles County Arts Commission Committees This panel will include substantial time for audience Q&A and This panel will analyze the intensified colonization discussion. Please join us to share your thoughts! of academic spaces—both intellectual and physical— Munir Jiwa under the current presidency. How do we accurately map these changes and negotiate these spaces in an era of A19-302 national “whitelash” from peripheral ideological and embodied spaces? How do we contend with the increasing marginalization Program Committee and targeting of vulnerable populations? What strategies might Theme: How to Propose a New Program Unit scholars use to contribute to the ongoing process of decolonizing Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM the academy? What are the potential ramifications of our non- action or complicity in this academic landscape? Hynes Convention Center-301 (Third Level) Panelists: Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, and Robert N. Puckett, American Academy of Religion, Presiding Hatem Bazian, Zaytuna College and University of California, Berkeley Join the Director of Meetings and the Program Unit Director for an informal chat about upcoming Annual Meeting initiatives as well as Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University the guidelines and policies for proposing a new program unit. Mel Chen, University of California, Berkeley Shanell T. Smith, Hartford Seminary A19-303 K SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, Regions Forum Theme: Marc DiPaolo: Religious Studies and Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Teaching and Scholarship in the Age of Austerity

Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Hatem Bazian Jasmin Zine Mel Chen Shanell Smith Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level) Katherine Downey, Hockaday School, Dallas, TX, Presiding As contract-hour budgeting and the corporatization of the academy make non-vocational teaching rarer, professors dedicated to the A19-305 studies of the different branches of the humanities, arts, sciences, and religious studies should find ways to collaborate with one another Afro-American Religious History Unit instead of merely compete with one another for dwindling fiscal Theme: Black Religious Histories and Herstories of New England resources. Building such bridges between the disciplines is in the best Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM interests of the students, professors, and the profession. It also has the potential to return to higher education the Late Medieval and Marriott Copley Place-Dartmouth (Third Level) Renaissance values of educating the complete person in the interests Alexis S. Wells-Oghoghomeh, Vanderbilt University, Presiding of reforming both the academy and society. An encore presentation of Timothy Rainey, Emory University the AAR-SW Presidential Address given on March 11, 2017 at the I’ve Got A Home: Black Capital, Nationalism, and the Spiritual Politics Southwest Commission on Religious Studies conference. of African Recolonization in the Era of Paul Cuffe, 1808–1816 Panelists: Daniel A. Morris, Augustana College Marc DiPaolo, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Walker’s Appeal and the Black Just War Tradition

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(University of Three Streams: Confucian Three Streams: Confucian The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, (Oxford University Press, 2016) (Oxford University Press, Citizenship and Minorities in Contemporary Islam Citizenship and Minorities in Contemporary Author Meets Critics: Roundtable Session on Ivanhoe’s Roundtable Session Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto University of Mohammad Fadel, University Howard Zainab Alwani, University Yale March, Andrew F. Maqasid Institute Basma Abdelgafar, Toledo University of Ovamir Anjum, State Ohio University Urban, Hugh B. University of North Carolina Schorey, Trosper Shannon Emory University Coleman-Tobias, Meredith University of North Carolina Joanna Smith, Williams College Jason Josephson-Storm, Michael Puett, Harvard University Michael Puett, Boston University Neville, Robert C. Simmons College Shirong Luo, City University of Hong Kong Ivanhoe, Philip J. www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 Contemporary Islam Unit Theme: PM–6:30 PM 5:00 Sunday, Hynes Center-110 (Plaza Convention Level) Thought, International Institute of Islamic Ermin Sinanovic, Presiding Panelists: A19-311 TheoriesCritical and Discourses in Religion and Cultural History of the Study of Religion Unit and Philosophy of Religion Unit Theme: Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences Chicago Press, 2017) 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Sunday, Marriott Copley Place-Boylston (First Level) Presiding Toronto, University of Barton Scott, J. Panelists: Responding: A19-309 A19-309 Unit Confucian Traditions Theme: and the Moral Heart-Mind in China, Korea, Reflections on Learning and Japan 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Sunday, HynesCenter-101 (Plaza Convention Level) Presiding Rutgers University, Jiang, Tao Panelists: Responding: A19-310 and papers.aarweb.org/program_book Traditions of Interpretation Situating Dharma: Examining Power, Privilege, and Situating Dharma: Examining Power, Privilege, Pregnant in the Field See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Corporation Kevin M. Franco, Elgin Community College Franco, Kevin M. and the Battle Abiel Smith School, Prince Rise: Hall, We And Still and Early Nineteenth for Eighteenth Education Equality in Late Century Boston New Birth Thurman Historical Home, Howard Fanusie, Fatimah 1948–1968 Years, The Early #11: Temple Boston’s University Northwestern James Hill, and Boston, Race, of Ella Little-Collins: Legacy Transnational The Thought Islamic Black Decolonial Rebekah Earnshaw, University of St. Andrews University of St. Rebekah Earnshaw, Creation from Come from Not Does Nothing Nothing University of Maine Michaud, Derek of Doctrine and the Development Tradition, Reimagining Revelation, Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida Ann Gleig, Seattle University Suh, Sharon A. Boston Sangha Dharma Rod Owens, Institute of Buddhist Studies Quli, Natalie Nancy Ammerman, Boston University Nancy Ammerman, University York New Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Columbia University Cara Rock-Singer, Duke University Emily Sigalow, University of North Carolina Juliane Hammer, Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Sunday, Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level) Presiding Southern Methodist University, Marandiuc, Natalia Theme: A19-308 ChristianTheology Systematic Unit Buddhism in the West Unit and Buddhist Critical- West Buddhism in the Constructive Reflection Unit Theme: Identity in American Buddhisms PM–6:30 PM 5:00 Sunday, Level) (Fourth Marriott Copley Place-Vineyard Presiding Mercy, University of Detroit, Hsiao-Lan Hu, Panelists: A19-307 A19-306 Anthropology Religion of Unit Theme: PM–6:30 PM 5:00 Sunday, Sheraton (Fifth Boston-Public Garden Level) Presiding University of Cincinnati, Michal Raucher, Panelists: Responding: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 A19-314 A K Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit A19-312 Theme: A Spectrum of Faith: Religions of the World in the Heartland of America (Drake University Press, 2017) Ecclesiological Investigations Unit and World Christianity Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Unit Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level) Theme: Rethinking Theology in Light of World Christianities: The Timothy D. Knepper, Drake University, Presiding Legacy of Robert Schreiter and Stephen Bevans Panelists: Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Anoushe Seiff, Drake University Sheraton Boston-Back Bay D (Second Level) Dustin Eubanks, Drake University Deanna Womack, Emory University, Presiding Carol Spaulding-Kruse, Drake University Henry Kuo, Graduate Theological Union A New Confessional Catholicity: Reformed Ecclesiology and the New Responding: Catholicity Jennifer Howe Peace, Andover Newton Theological School Jaisy Joseph, Boston College Re-imagining Catholicity: Robert Schreiter and the Interruption of Universalizing Tendencies A19-315 Norbert Hintersteiner, University of Münster Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit and The Translational Fabric of Cultures: When Theology is Cross-Cultural Nineteenth Century Theology Unit Translation Theme: Luther’s Nineteenth-Century Heirs and Interpreters Scott Hagley, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Suffering Translation: Faithful Presence as the Means and Hope of Contextual Theology Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level) Matthew L. Becker, Valparaiso University, and Darrell Jodock, Gustavus Adolphus College, Presiding A19-313 Andrew Hamilton, Southern Methodist University Freedom and Necessity United: I.A. Dorner’s Utilization of Luther in Hinduism Unit His Doctrine of Religious Perfection SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, Theme: The Ethics of Bhakti: Exploring Moral and Aesthetic Angela Berlis, University of Bern Dimensions in the Life of Hindu Devotion Ignaz von Döllinger (1799–1890) and Other Liberal Catholic Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM (Church) Historians on Luther and the Reformation in the Nineteenth Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level) Century – From Polemic Apologetics to Critical Appreciation John Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia University, Presiding James Lee, Saint Louis University Alberta Ferrario, Swarthmore College Luther among the Neo-Lutherans Ethics and Devotion According to Abhinavagupta: The Responding: Conceptualization of Bhakti in the *ưWƘUWKDVDՉJUDKD Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen, University of Aarhus Lisa Blake, McGill University The Two Faces of0ƘUL\DPPDϝ : Ethical and Aesthetic Dichotomies in Colonial Era Tamil and English Depictions of a Hindu Village Goddess Patton Burchett, College of William and Mary The Ethics of Early Modern9DLΙΧDYLVP : Humble Sufis, Arrogant Naths, and the Virtues of Love’s Savor Gardner Harris, Bucknell University Disorientation and Distraction: The Ethics of Erotic Imagery in 0ƘΧLNNDYƘFDNDUµV Tiruvācakam Responding: Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida

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The Legacy of the Summer of Love, 1967-2017 Religious Dimensions on “Global Citizenship” Religious Dimensions Jeremy Guida, Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara, Guida, Jeremy Culture Popular of The Summer of and the Pluralization Love University Technological Tennessee Andrew Smith, of Streets of and the Liberation Liturgy, Summers of Love, and Reclaiming the Leftwing Hippy Reliving, Revisiting, Sound: “SubmarineChristianity Church” of the Duke University Scott Muir, and the Music Festivals Fifty Summers of and Counting: Love Tradition Institutionalization of the Psychedelic Michigan State University David Stowe, Courtney T. Goto, Boston University Boston Goto, T. Courtney University of Hamburg Jana Philippa Parenti, the Current - How Relations Rise of Religion-State Testing of Further Development Influences the in Europe Nationalism “Religious Education for All” in Hamburg Texas University of Katharine Batlan, Global Defining Christian Good Citizenship Conferences: World Citizens in the 1910s South Dakota State University Peterson, Greg Virtue of Democratic as a Byproduct Values Citizenship Global Education Boston College Erik Owens, in Made A Match Citizenship: Education and Global Religion Heaven? www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A19-320 #rpc A19-320 Culture Unit Religion and Popular Theme: PM–6:30 PM 5:00 Sunday, Hynes Center-201 (Second Convention Level) Presiding Long Beach, California State University, Jon Gill, Responding: Responding: A19-319 Unit and Religion Public and Religion Schools: and Politics Unit International Perspectives Theme: 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Sunday, (FifthSheraton Level) Boston-Jamaica Pond Presiding University of Northern Iowa, Waggoner, Michael and A papers.aarweb.org/program_book : A Book Panel Based on Taking On Practical Theology

Open-Relational Theologies beyond Christianity Western Utopias: Ghost Dances, Jewish Farming, and Western Utopias: Ghost See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Mary Elizabeth Moore, Boston University Mary Elizabeth Moore, University Vanderbilt Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Toronto University of Esther Acolatse, Regent University Cartledge, Mark Matthew Ingalls, American University, Dubai American University, Matthew Ingalls, Muslim The Ultimate 1210): al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. Fakhr Incompatibilist Elizabethtown College Long, JefferyD. Theology Hindu An Open-Relational Theology School Claremont of John Becker, Perspective Theology: A Buddhist Relational Hendrix College Jay McDaniel, Loma University Nazarene Point Michael Lodahl, Adrienne Krone, Allegheny College Adrienne Krone, Jewish Agricultural in Settlements The Lure of Utopia: a Land-Based Today and Nineteenth-Century Dakota North Michigan State University Morgan Shipley, Communal Spirituality, Entheogenic “Fruits of Life”: the Religious Farm The Down on Living and Compassionate Consciousness, Wyoming University of Heise, Tammy Knee Wounded at Ghost Dancing (Again) Warriors Women University of North Florida Brandi Denison, Practical TheologyPractical Unit Theme: A19-318 A19-318 Courtney Goto’s Challenge to the Field 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Sunday, Hynes Center-208 (Second Convention Level) Theology, MF Norwegian School of Stangeland Kaufman, Tone Presiding Panelists: Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM 5:00 Sunday, Sheraton E (Third Boston-Beacon Level) CA, Claremont, Studies, for Center Process Andrew Schwartz, Wm. Presiding Responding: A19-317 Theologies Unit Open and Relational Theme: Psychedelic Mystics 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Sunday, SheratonCommon (Fifth Boston-Boston Level) Presiding Wooster, College of Rapport, Jeremy Responding: Theme: A19-316 New Religious Movements Unit and Religion in the Unit AmericanWest SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 A19-323 R Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit and Theology and A19-321 Religious Reflection Unit Theme: The Legacy of Virgilio Elizondo Religion and Sexuality Unit Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Theme: Queer Gathering: Engaging the Intersections between Hynes Convention Center-310 (Third Level) Religion, Bodies, and Sexualities Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, University of Miami, Presiding Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Panelists: Hynes Convention Center-202 (Second Level) Benjamin Valentin, Yale University Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Methodist Theological School, Ohio, Presiding Michael E. Lee, Fordham University Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds, and Kwame Edwin Chris Tirres, DePaul University Otu, University of Virginia John Phillip Santos, San Antonio, TX Ancestors, Embodiment, and Sexual Desire: Wild Religion and the Timothy Matovina, University of Notre Dame Body in the Story of a South African Lesbian Sangoma David Carrasco, Harvard University Lai-Shan Yip, Graduate Theological Union A Queer China in the Eyes of Matteo Ricci and Its Relation to the Nancy A. Pineda-Madrid, Boston College Christian-Confucian Synthesis Gilbert Chen, Washington University, St. Louis A19-324 Ordinary Monks, Nuns, and Everyday Sexuality in Early Modern China Ritual Studies Unit Stephanie Budwey, Kirchliche Hochschule, Wuppertal Theme: Rituals and the Subaltern “Nature Loves Variety, Unfortunately, Society Hates It”: German Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Intersex Christians’ Experiences Sheraton Boston-Hampton (Third Level) Curtis Hutt, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Presiding A19-322 K Kolby Knight, University of California, Santa Barbara Ritual Surplus and Sub(Liminality) in Vaudevillian Catholicism

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit and Transformative Baiju Markose, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit Subaltern Ritual Hermeneutics: Pottan Theyyam - A Case Study Theme: Teaching Holocaust and Genocide in This Time: Rose Aslan, California Lutheran University Strategies of Engagement To Pray or Not to Pray: The Trouble with Muslim Public Expressions Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM of Piety in the US Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level) Responding: M. Brandon McCormack, University of Louisville, Presiding Laurel Zwissler, Central Michigan University Richard A. Freund, University of Hartford Teaching about the Holocaust through Geo-science and Archaeology Will Livingston, Florida State University Teaching Genocide in a “Post-truth” Age: Strategies for Activism, Engagement, and Scholarship David Tollerton, University of Exeter Holocaust Education, “British Values”, and Religious Diversity in the United Kingdom

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Sleepwalking into Extinction: Elaine Scarry’s S.O.S. to Sleepwalking into Extinction: Department, Salt Lake City, UT Salt Lake City, Department, Kathryn Common, Boston University Kathryn Common, Boston University Theuring, Ashley Villanova University Stefanie Knauss, R. Marie Griffith, Washington University in Saint Louis Marie Griffith, R. York University of New Jean Halley, of Latter Church Day Saints History Church Kate Holbrook, Dartmouth College Stainova, Yana Harvard University Elaine Scarry, www.forgingvoicefilm.com www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A19-329 A19-329 Caucus Women’s Theme: Premier and Panel Discussion PM–6:30 PM 5:00 Sunday, Hynes Center-305 (Third Convention Level) Presiding Mesa Community College, Elizabeth Ursic, of the project Join us for the panel and film premiere Theologians Womanist and Interviews with Pioneering Feminist VOICE: ( of interviewsarchive theologians discuss their experiences in where and making significant adversity voice in forging their overcoming It also features theology. contributions to feminist and womanist this of creating a short-filmresponse to the process developed in The short-film is meant to be an educational and meditative project. issues as womanist on feminist and deeper reflection tool to prompt they can how viewers continue to forge to consider as prompting well a panel—featuringfilmmaker After the premier, their own voice. Elizabeth and composer Theuring, Ashley producer Kate Common, on their on the film and its effects will discuss working Ursic— Visual and Film, the Religion, Callaway from Kutter scholarship. to the film and panel. will be the respondent group Culture Panelists: Responding: A19-328 A19-328 Wildcard Session Theme: Scholars of Religion 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Sunday, Sheraton (Second Boston-Constitution Level) Presiding Uppsala University, Brian Palmer, This forum brings Elaine Scarry scholars with into conversation our species may be sleepwalking into a to discuss why of religion make sense of human passivity How do we thermonuclear extinction. roundtable will be The imminent extinction? in the face of possible ethnographicallya space in which to think religious about different — and what etc. eschatologies, ethics, — their theologies, groups What shapes them into (not) caring of nuclear about the threat war. How do generations? to potential future if anything owe do we to of the loss if all of human civilization were assess the nature we who assert to those respond that be obliterated? How might we be a would that our extinction humanity deserves to be annihilated, good thing? 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Jonathan Gold, Princeton University Princeton Jonathan Gold, Vasubandhu’s College Yale-NUS Malcolm Keating, Kumārila Kwok Pui Lan , Emory University Pui Lan , Kwok Union TheologicalJohn Thatamanil, Seminary Drew University Catherine Keller, Tromso University of Sigridur Gudmarsdottir, Ray, and Stephen G. Michigan State University, Devan Stahl, Predication Smith College Jay Garfield, 7ULԲğLNƘ Business Meeting: Yogācāra Studies Unit Yogācāra Theme: A19-326 A19-326 Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM 5:00 Sunday, Sheraton (Third Boston-Commonwealth Level) Presiding University, Tel-Aviv Tzohar, Roy A19-325 A19-325 and Culture Unit Religion, Theology, in Issues Tillich: Theme: and Theology of Praxis 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Sunday, Marriott Level) Place-Grand Copley A (Fourth Presiding Theology, Iliff School of Watkins, Michele Panelists: Responding: Business Meeting: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 A19-400 G Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Reception P19-300 Sunday, 6:30 PM–8:00 PM Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level) European Society of Women in Theological Research Theme: Networking and Brainstorming Sunday, 6:00 PM–7:30 PM P19-402 Marriott Copley Place-Massachusetts (Fifth Level) Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion P19-301 Theme: Dinner for New Teachers (Invitation Only Event) G Sunday, 6:30 PM–8:30 PM Theta Alpha Kappa Annual Meeting and Reception Marriott Copley Place-Simmons (Third Level) Sunday, 6:00 PM–7:30 PM By invitation only - new teachers will join together for an elegant Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level) dinner and directed table conversations about the first years of Theta Alpha Kappa, the National Honor Society for Religious Studies teaching. and Theology, invites faculty chapter representatives and members to For more information go to http://bit.ly/2rZBD7C. attend our annual meeting which is preceded by a brief reception. P19-400 A P19-302 C A Religious Education Association American Journal of Theology and Philosophy and the Institute Theme: Teaching In and For Multifaith Contexts: Concepts and for American Religious and Philosophical Thought Annual Practices Lecture and Business Meeting Sunday, 6:45 PM–8:15 PM Sunday, 6:00 PM–8:30 PM Marriott Copley Place-Boston University (Third Level) Marriott Copley Place-MIT (Third Level) How shall we educate our faith communities so that they can practice This year’s annualAJTP lecture will be given by John Kaag, Professor hospitality in the world of many faiths? How are we to prepare religious

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, of Philosophy at University of Massachusetts, author of American leaders who are capable of leading congregations and communities in Philosophy: A Love Story. Anyone with interest in the intersections of the practice of hospitality in a multifaith context? How are we to equip American philosophy and theology are welcome and encouraged to religious leaders in the practice of ministry in interfaith settings? attend. The lecture will be preceded by a brief business meeting. What curriculum design, educational programs, and pedagogies shall Panelists: we pursue to lead and minister effectively in a multifaith setting? These John Kaag, University of Massachusetts are the larger questions that framed a new shared book project, Teaching for a Multifaith World (ed. Eleazar S. Fernandez, Wipf and Stock 2017). This session will be an interactive engagement with several of the authors from the book, focused on sharing both conceptual frames and pragmatic practices for doing this work. This session is an opportunity to connect with the Religious Education Association, a related scholarly organization of the AAR. We value interdisciplinary and intercultural research at the intersections of religion and education (see www.religiouseducation.net). Panelists: Justus Baird, Auburn Theological Seminary Ruben L. F. Habito, Southern Methodist University Mary E. Hess, Luther Seminary Lucinda Mosher, Hartford Seminary Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Claremont School of Theology, Claremont Graduate University Jennifer Howe Peace, Andover Newton Theological School Daniel Schipani, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary Symbol Key:

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Silence (2016) tells the story of seventeenth-century Silence Engagement with Scripture in Philosophy and Analytic Engagement with Scripture in Philosophy Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University Princeton Stone, Jacqueline I. Butler University Chad Bauman, York New College, King’s Dru Johnson, Must Our Conform with Scripture? Philosophy Theological Seminary Fuller Oliver Crisp, Theology and Analytic use in Philosophy Reflections on Scripture’s York New College, King’s Joshua Blander, Thyself in the Light of the Sou Humble Data Philosophical Evangelical Divinity School Trinity Vanhoozer, Kevin J. TheologyReflections and on Scripture in Philosophy www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 Jesuit priests who travel to Japan to spread Catholicism in defiance of Jesuit priests to spread to Japan travel who As these missionaries ban of Christianity. the Japanese government’s they grapple “hidden Christians,” witness the martyrdom of Japan’s with their inability Japanese martyrs to save and they begin to The of sufferingquestion the meaning in face of the silence of God. film also scrutinizes the colonial implications of Japanese encounter with Christianity transformations of Christianity and resultant in supportgenerous of the the by is sponsored The screening Japan. and is supported Japan, Tokyo, Center for Information on Religion in and Film, Christian Spirituality;by Religion, Japanese Religions; Catholic Studies and Roman Religious Conversions; Visual Culture; with a panel discussion by will be followed The screening Units. Christianpanelists from Studies and Japanese Religions. Panelists: P19-401 Evangelical Philosophical Society Theme: Theology PM 7:00 PM–10:00 Sunday, Marriott Copley Place-Orleans Level) (Fourth This panel willfor how philosophers and discuss proposals theologians can and should engage with scripture in their analytic and philosophical thinking. A19-403 A19-403 Film: Martin Scorsese’s 7:00 PM–10:00 PM Sunday, Sheraton (Second Boston-Constitution Level) Presiding Carleton College, Asuka Sango, director by trilogy” “religion some critics in a Described as the third by Martin Scorsese, and M

papers.aarweb.org/program_book , not just as novels, but not just as novels, , Harry the and Potter n-traditional but much beloved beloved n-traditional but much Harry Potter is a weekly podcast Harry reading Sacred Text were sacred texts? What texts? learn? How sacred we would were might they change us? as if it the best-selling series of all time, Potter, Just as Christians the read text. was a sacred the and Muslims read Torah Jews the Bible, this podcast on a has embarked Qur’an, What as if they love we the books read if we Sunday, 7:00 PM and Later Sunday, 7:00 Harry Potter and the Sacred Text Harry Sacred and the Potter Modernists and the Papacy See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Elizabeth Farnsworth, University of Dayton Elizabeth Farnsworth, Leo XIII of Pope on the Liberalism WilfridWard Ghent University Annelies Lannoy, Cumont and Alfred in the CorrespondenceFranz Papacy of The Loisy France Eckholsheim, Luc Brogly, A Survey Popes: and from his Cardinals, Bishops, Pierre Batiffol, Works and Published Private Letters Theological College Catholic Vodola, Max II Vatican and the Journey to Modernism, Roncalli, Houston Thomas, University of St. Talar, T. Charles J. Vanessa Zoltan, Harvard University Zoltan, Vanessa Harvard University Casper ter Kuile, Harvard University Ariana Nedelman, Harvard University Stephanie Paulsell, Société Internationale d’Études sur Alfred Loisy Theme: 7:00 PM–9:30 PM Sunday, Sheraton Boston-Jefferson (Third Level) Presiding Seton Hall University, Morrow, Jeffrey Responding: P19-403 Arts Series: 7:00 PM–8:30 PM Sunday, HynesCenter-310 (Third Convention Level) Presiding Earlham College, Emily Filler, the Contemporary StudiesSponsored and the Sacred by Group Pagan and Ethics Group Texts A19-401 A19-401 199-episode journey (one chapter an episode, released weekly) to released chapter an episode, 199-episode journey (one Rowling’s can J.K. glean what wisdom and meaning we make from reads The podcast novels. beloved as instructive and inspirational lives. texts that teach us about our own which to a central theme through the podcast explores Each week, always itself in the text. grounding and context, the characters explore to unearth reading the hidden It engages in traditional forms of sacred gifts sentences. within even the most mundane and hosts of the popular podcastJoin the producers in a traditional practice with the no reading sacred this informal practice, In addition to the reading series. Harry Potter the podcasterssession will also feature along with Stephanie Paulsell discussing the history practices and the implications reading of sacred and other forms of chaplaincy, for ethical reflection, of their work ministry climate. in the changing religious Panelists: The session will begin with a screening of the finale (courtesy of SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 HBO), followed by a Q&A with Reza Aslan, the religious studies scholar consultant in the show (and one of the consulting producers) about the ways in which The Leftovers has dealt with a variety of religious issues: the role of faith and religion in society, the emergence A19-404 M of new religious movements, the human need for meaning, the Arts Series: Ravishing Far/Near: Sheila Gallagher’s Art and struggle of peaceful coexistence of different religious worldviews, and the Mute Magic of Things the ethical and moral implications of an event like the rapture. The session will also discuss social and political readings of the show such Sunday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM as the rapture as an allegory of September 11, the notion of “the end Hilton Boston Back Bay-Washington (Third Level) of times” as a metaphor for the collapse of our current political order, Daniel Bradley, Gonzaga University, Presiding etc. Sheila Gallagher’s art speaks powerfully to our Panelists: desire for a renewed spiritual life that will pay Reza Aslan, University of California, Riverside careful attention to the sacredness of nature and Damon Lindelof, Screenwriter and Producer to the marginalized and the neglected, that which exists outside the circles of power and privilege. Through her thought provoking use of materials and the engagement with diverse religious traditions,ns, A19-406 L Gallagher’s art is deeply interwoven with both of thesehese Film: Son of Man: a South African Jesus Film themes and their connection to our desire for the didivine.vine. Her works will give the theologians of the AAR a greatt Sunday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM deal to think and talk about, as it moves them by its beauty and Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level) inspires them to see the sacred in the profane. Further, the fruitfulness Sarojini Nadar, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Presiding of this work, as a source of theological discourse, will be enhanced The African Religions unit yet again hosts a film screening as part by the proposed roundtable discussion between the artist, Sheila of the AAR annual meeting. This year we will screen the film Son Gallagher and her academic interlocutors, Richard Kearney and John of Man (2006), directed by Mark Dornford-May. Following the Panteleimon Manoussakis. screening, Prof Sarojini Nadar, who holds the Desmond Tutu Chair of Panelists: Ecumenical Theology and Social Transformation at the University of John Panteleimon Manoussakis, College of the Holy Cross the Western Cape, South Africa) will open a discussion of the film. Sheila Gallagher, Boston College In the state of Judea in southern Africa, violence, poverty and sectarianism are endemic. The neighboring Alliance has invaded Richard Kearney, Boston College SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER SUNDAY, under the pretense of restoring peace. Bloody street battles accompany the dictatorship’s incursion into its weaker satellite. Promises of a transition to open democratic rule are marred by A19-405 L summary executions and brutal massacres. As the civil war reaches Film: Let The Mystery Be: Screening of the Finale of the new heights, a divine child is born to a lowly couple. As he grows and witnesses the inhumanity of the world he lives in, his angelic HBO TV Show The Leftovers and Discussion with Religious guardians offer him an escape to the heavens. He refuses. This is his Scholar Consultant and Producer of the Show, Reza Aslan world and he must try to save it from the work of evil men and from Sunday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM the darkness working through them. As an adult, he travels to the Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level) capital, gathering followers along the way from the armed factions of rebels across the land. He demands that his followers give up their Manuel Lopez, New College, Florida, Presiding arms and confront their corrupt rulers with a vision of non-violent This year, HBO will air the third and final season of The Leftovers, a protest and solidarity. Inevitably, he attracts the attention of the TV show that, like no other in recent times, has had faith and religion Judean tribal leaders who have struck a power-sharing deal with the as its central topic. Based on Tom Perrotta’s 2011 novel of the same aloof Governor Pilate. The Son of Man must be brought down and name, the show examines the effects (social, psychological, spiritual) destroyed. This film is a powerful retelling of the life of Christ set in of a rapture-like event in which 2% of the world’s population simply contemporary South Africa. vanishes without any logical explanation. In the aftermath of this event, an array of new messianic figures and religious movements emerge trying to bring meaning to a world in which traditional religion seems to have no answers. During the three seasons of the show, we follow the main characters struggling with a world in which God seems to have spoken, but no one knows what it meant. The rapture, instead of being the ultimate answer to the existence of God, becomes the ultimate question.

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How to Publish When I Am in a Teaching-Intensive and/ How to Publish When Toilet Justice: Peeing and the Politics of Marginalized Bodies Toilet Justice: Peeing and the Politics of Marginalized Neomi De Anda, University of Dayton De Anda, Neomi Dame University of Notre Leo Guardado, University of Cambridge Parsons, Preston Manhattan College Judith Plaskow, Hofstra University Slabodsky, Santiago H. University of Arizona Max Strassfeld, Drew University Thornton, Max University of Potsdam Tzoref, Shani Christy Cobb, Wingate University Christy Cobb, College Nazareth Corinne Dempsey, Le College Moyne Karmen MacKendrick, Stonehill College Miller, Jordan www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 Status of LGBTIQ Persons in the Profession Committee the Profession in Persons Status of LGBTIQ with Disabilities in the Profession and Status of Persons Committee Theme: 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Monday, Hynes Center-102 (Plaza Convention Level) Presiding Georgetown University, Belser, Watts Julia universally book proclaims, As the title of a popular children’s is that however, What is not universally true, poops.” “everyone on toilets as a site Focusing everyone access. safe bathroom is ensured and activism for many marginalized communities, injustice, of risk, how toilet justice canthis session explores be a site for building Alongside minoritizedcoalitions among multiple communities. contemporarycurrent political trans toilet activism debates over — and the important trans, activist coalitions happening between the session will access, and disabled folks about safe bathroom queer, highlight toilets as a prism to think about the material experience about the physical bodily links between of marginalized bodies, oftenelimination and people who are targeted for elimination. and disability will strategize voices ways immigrant, queer, Trans, reality bodily of for transforming the mundane elimination into opportunities for radical practices of justice. 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Theme: other valuable pedagogicalalso attempt to integrate techniques two critical pedagogy studies: in the context of religious and technology- supplemented pedagogy. focuses primarilyAlthough the roundtable on the value of genre- based pedagogy intervention as an innovative studies in religious will also discuss the importance we of instructors’ pedagogy, cultivation of critical literacy a variety and use of of media and instruction Genre-based a number of helps cultivate methods. by students and discipline-specific and domain-general skills valued instructional institutions. Panelists: A20-100/S20-145a A20-100/S20-145a Student Lounge Roundtable Program Unit Chairs’ Breakfast Program Unit Chairs’ AM–8:45 AM 7:15 Monday, HynesCenter-302 (Third Convention Level) Presiding Kathryn Georgia State University, McClymond, featuring information invited to a breakfast Unit Chairs are Program and celebrating their contributions initiatives on upcoming program to the AAR Annual Meeting. A20-1 A20-1 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 A20-105 B C Bioethics and Religion Unit A20-103 C Theme: Vulnerability in the Manipulation of Life and Death Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM African Religions Unit and Arts, Literature, and Religion Sheraton Boston-Boston Common (Fifth Level) Unit George D. Randels, University of the Pacific, Presiding Theme: Religious Representation and Imagination in Contemporary African Arts and Literature Ashley Moyse, Regent College Hugging Death, Anticipating Suicide: Vulnerability of Despair and Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM the Marcelian Response to Medical Assistance in Dying Hynes Convention Center-313 (Third Level) Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego Mary Nyangweso, East Carolina University, Presiding Crushed Between Walls: Buddhist Perspectives on Neonatal Ethics Danielle Widmann Abraham, Ursinus College Nikki Bailey, University of Oxford Situating Resistance: The Muslim Body in the Films of Ousmane Redeeming Creation? A Barthian Discussion of Human Genetic Sembene Modification as Treatment and/or Prevention Marthinus Johannes Havenga, Stellenbosch University Laurie Zoloth, University of Chicago “Woza Albert!” – A Theological Engagement with a South African May We Make the World? The Ethics and Theologies of Gene Drives Anti-Apartheid Protest Play Business Meeting: Sara Fretheim, Akrofi-Christaller Institute “O My Absurd Ancestry, Down from What Tree?” Jesus, Marcella Norling, Orange Coast College, Presiding Sassabonsam, and Testimonies of Exile: Exploring Themes of African Religion(s) and Culture in the Poetry of Tchicaya U Tam’si, Afua Kuma, and Abena Busia A20-106 C Kara Ellis Skora, College of Wooster Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit Homegoing and the Radiance of Tomorrow: How Recent African Theme: Political Theology, Social Justice, and Privilege: Dietrich Literature Enhances Our Understanding of Historical, Diasporan, Bonhoeffer in the (Evangelical) Age of Trump and Contemporary Religious Experience in Asante and Mende Cultures, Respectively Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level) Business Meeting: Jennifer McBride, McCormick Theological Seminary, Presiding Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds, and Mary Nyangweso, East Carolina University, Presiding Paul Louis Metzger, Multnomah Biblical Seminary Endangered Bonhoeffer, Endangered People Groups, and the Evangelical Theo-political Imagination A20-104 #animalsaar17 C Chris Dodson, University of Aberdeen The Reign of Justice or the Rain of Fire: Hearing the Call of Christ Animals and Religion Unit from Below Theme: Animal Expression, Theological Thought: How Animal Ross Halbach, University of Aberdeen Encounters Ground Theological Construction Jesus’ White Bonhoeffer: Insights for Addressing Race from the Side of Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Privilege

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER MONDAY, Sheraton Boston-Beacon B (Third Level) Myles Werntz, Hardin-Simmons University Matthew Eaton, St. John’s University, Presiding Fugitive Theology: The Confessing Church, Illegality, and Our Panelists: Immigration Question Trevor Bechtel, Conrad Grebel College Business Meeting: Kimberly Carfore, California Institute of Integral Studies Lori Brandt Hale, Augsburg College, and Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes College, Presiding Grace Kao, Claremont School of Theology Timothy Harvie, St. Mary’s University, Alberta, Canada Business Meeting: David Clough, University of Chester, and Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina, Presiding

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Planetary Solidarity: Global Women’s Voices on Christian Planetary Solidarity: Global Women’s Voices Religious Legacies of the Taiping War, 1850-1900 Religious Legacies of University, Presiding University, Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University Saint Paul Heather Eaton, for Planetary Framing Theological Imagining an Earth-centric Solidarity Luther College Deifelt, Wanda to Dei and Its Challenge Was Good—Imago That It SawAnd God Justice Climate Moorhead College, Concordia Hilda Koster, Ecological Evil in the Oil, and Trafficking, Sex Lands: Trafficked Dakotas Pennsylvania Chester University, West Jea Sophia Oh, of Eco- Life from A Postcolonial and a Paradox Death: Cross, Seeds, Theology Christian University Texas Harris, Melanie L. 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Mark MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 A20-113 C Comparative Studies in Religion Unit A20-111 C Theme: The “Unsayable” in Tibetan Religious Literature Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Christian Systematic Theology Unit Marriott Copley Place-Vineyard (Fourth Level) Theme: On the Nature of Tradition Benjamin Bogin, Skidmore College, Presiding Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Eric D. Mortensen, Guilford College Sheraton Boston-Back Bay C (Second Level) What Is Not Told about What Was Once Invisible? Performative Junius Johnson, Baylor University, Presiding Lacunae in the Folklore of Tibetans of Geza Jonathan Ciraulo, University of Notre Dame Dominique Townsend, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY The Eucharistic Reception of Tradition in Blondel and Balthasar Unsayably Clear, Empty, and Divine: Cultivating an Awareness Michelle Sanchez, Harvard University of Life and Death as Illusory through a Tibetan Practice of Lucid Reading Tradition as Pedagogy: The Case of Calvin’s Election Dreaming Brandon Morgan, Baylor University Annabella Pitkin, Lehigh University Wanting to Go On: Desire and Tradition in the Scenes of Instruction What Cannot Be Said Must Be Remembered: Unsayability and of Robert Jenson and Stanley Cavell Tibetan Buddhist Aporias of Absence, Loss, Longing, and Realization Business Meeting: Business Meeting: Holly Taylor Coolman, Providence College, Presiding Eric D. Mortensen, Guilford College, Presiding

A20-112 C A20-114 C Class, Religion, and Theology Unit Contemplative Studies Unit Theme: Class and Religion in the USA: American Dream? Theme: Sharing the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises across Religious American Nightmare? Traditions Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere A (Second Level) Sheraton Boston-Constitution A (Second Level) Ken Estey, Brooklyn College, Presiding Daniel A. Madigan, Georgetown University, Presiding Jung Mo Sung, Methodist University, Sao Paulo Panelists: Neoliberalism’s Denial of Human Rights, Idolatry, and Classes Roger Haight, Union Theological Seminary Struggle Ruben L. F. Habito, Southern Methodist University Lisa Gasson-Gardner, Drew University Erin Cline, Georgetown University When Ethnicity Elides Whiteness: The Eschatological Arc of Recent Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University White Class Narratives and a Queer Alternative Business Meeting: Edith Szanto, American University of Iraq, Sulaimani Harold D. Roth, Brown University, and Judith Simmer-Brown, Peons, Proles, and Fat Cats: Class and the Study of Contemporary Naropa University, Presiding Islam

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER MONDAY, Responding: Joerg Rieger, Vanderbilt University A20-115 Business Meeting: Contemporary Islam Unit Joerg Rieger, Vanderbilt University, and Ken Estey, Brooklyn Theme: Crossing Borders, Transcending Boundaries: The Shifting College, Presiding Contexts of Muslim Politics Monday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level) Kristian Petersen, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Presiding Sam Houston, Florida State University Educating Resistance: ΖDVDQDO%DQQƘ, Tarbiya, and Embodied Ethics

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Modernizing the Language of the Gods: Religious Modernizing the Language of the Gods: Death at the Margins Duke University, Presiding Duke University, Laurie Louise Patton, Middlebury College Laurie Louise Patton, Twentieth-Century Epics of The Sanskrit Development: as Personality Kshama Rao Millsaps College Charles Preston, Imagining Audiences World: the Teaching the Nation, Worshipping Sanskrit in Modern and Identities Poetry University Yale Finnian Gerety, Moore in Sanskrit and Identity Instruction, Innovation, Hour: Amateur ofDramas Kerala Heidelberg University Borayin Larios, Construction Identity and Self-Representation Proud Be Brahmin: to on Facebook Harvard University Anne Monius, Rex Barnes, Columbia University Rex Barnes, Perilous of and Walk-Through A One: Ate but a Glitch I Got 99 Lives Gaming Peril-less Berry College Rowan Fannin, Jordan and Remembrance The Anonymity ofthe Margins: Death at Dying Fields Texas South in the Resolution University Brown Joshua Schnell, ofPolitics Ancient Maya MortuaryThe for the Living: Dead Bodies Practices College Ohalo Shaanan College, Eliezer Sariel, The Attitude of Jewish Modern Law Wall: Moving Behind the Death as Reflected in the Struggle Laws of the over Towards Mourning a Suicide Orange County Community College Strmiska, Michael F. and Exclusion, The Questions ofAmbiguity Inclusion, of Ancestors: Conceptions of the Afterlife Ethnicity Pagan in Modern and Jamie Brummitt, University, Temple Hassan, Mohamed S. www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A20-119 Hinduism Unit and Religion in South Asia Unit Theme: Sanskrit Identity, Instruction, and Innovation in Contemporary 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Monday, (Third Level) Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley Presiding American University, Shubha Pathak, Responding: A20-118 #deathbeyond A20-118 Unit and Beyond Dying, Death, Theme: AM–11:30 AM 9:00 Monday, (FifthSheraton Level) Boston-Jamaica Pond Presiding Temple University, Amy Defibaugh, Business Meeting: and C H papers.aarweb.org/program_book Do I Love My Subjects? A Roundtable about Pleasure, Pagan Intersections with Social and Cultural Systems Pagan Intersections with Social and Cultural See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Garrett Sadler, NASA Ames Research Center Ames Research NASA Sadler, Garrett Chico California State University, Presiding University, Samuel Kigar, Duke University Samuel Kigar, Muslim Berm, Anti-Saharawi Morocco’s Muslim State: Walled The Westphalia of Waning and the Sovereignty, State University of Oxford Justin Jones, “Shari’aInformal Islamic Courts Law as within India’s Governance”: Muslim Minority Syracuse University Rebecca Moody, Morocco’s Parse Visualto Images Using (Re)OrientingVulnerability: Dominant and Quotidian Islams Toronto University of Mahshid Zandi, Pilgrimagesto the Iran-Iraq Economy ofPolitical State-Sponsored The Battlefields Andrew Walker-Cornetta, Princeton University Princeton Walker-Cornetta, Andrew in American Readings Studies Religious Reparative Listen? Care to Saint Louis University, Washington Dana Logan, Thin Line a It’s University of Missouri Callahan, Richard the Marginalized, the Losers, Redeeming the History of the Oppressed, the Erased the Peripheral, University of Iowa Jenna Supp-Montgomerie, Infrastructures of Feeling Kimberly Kirner, California State University, Northridge, and Northridge, California State University, Kimberly Kirner, Challenges Physical Health and Mental and Support: Seeking Healing Communities in Pagan CA Oxnard, Albaugh, Jeffrey in and Metanoia Theophany of Exploration A Phenomenological Paganisms Contemporary Pike, Sarah and M. University of Oslo, Jone Salomonsen, Memorial PresenceWitchcraft and Absence at the Steilneset Forest Wake and Shawn Arthur, GA, Atlanta, Amy Hale, Theme: Paranoia, and Care in American Religious Studies 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Monday, Sheraton (Third Boston-Berkeley Level) Presiding and Marshall College, Franklin Sonia Hazard, A20-117 TheoryCritical on Religion and Discourses Unit and and Emotion Unit Affect, Religion, Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Monday, Marriott Copley Place-Boylston (First Level) Business Meeting: Contemporary Studies Unit Pagan Theme: A20-116 A20-116 Hyun Hui Kim, Drew University MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Remembering the Body of a South Korean Female Sex Worker: Imperialism, Nationalism, and Doing Feminist Theology from Within Responding: A20-120 C Timothy S. Lee, Texas Christian University Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit and Religion, Business Meeting: Holocaust, and Genocide Unit Deberniere Torrey, University of Utah, Presiding Theme: Interreligious Solidarity and Collaboration Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM A20-122 Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick B (Second Level) C A Kate Temoney, Montclair State University, Presiding Law, Religion, and Culture Unit Tazeen Ali, Boston University Theme: Author Meets Critics: Tisa Wenger, Religious Freedom: Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism in America: Comparing The Contested History of an American Ideal (University of North Intersectional and Single-Issue Models of Interfaith Alliances Carolina Press, 2017) Jennifer Hancock, Dallas, TX Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Faith Forward: “Enlightened” Interfaith Solidarities in Contest with Marriott Copley Place-Berkeley (Third Level) White Nationalist “Deceptions” in Dallas Richard Amesbury, University of Zurich, Presiding Larycia Hawkins, University of Virginia Panelists: Embodied Solidarity in Theopolitical Space: Interreligious Solidarity Anna Su, University of Toronto from below Robert A. Yelle, University of Munich Kristi Del Vecchio, Catholic Theological Union Interreligious Environmentalism: Pragmatic Projects and Moral Greg Johnson, University of Colorado Competencies That Address Climate Change Responding: James W. Perkinson, Ecumenical Theological Seminary Tisa Wenger, Yale University Interreligious Collaboration in the Struggle to Protect Water at the Business Meeting: Strait: Indigenous Spirits Schooling Christian Texts in an Age of Richard Amesbury, University of Zurich, Presiding Climate Apocalypse Business Meeting: Jennifer Howe Peace, Andover Newton Theological School, and A20-123 C Homayra Ziad, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, Presiding Liberal Theologies Unit Theme: Liberal Theologies and Post-Truth Politics Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM A20-121 C Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level) Korean Religions Unit Sarah Morice Brubaker, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding Theme: Medicine, Pluralism, and Nation: The Challenges and Joel Harrison, Northwestern University Opportunities for Religion in Modernity Matters of Concern and Ultimate Concern: Negotiating Facts with Monday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM Values in the Post-Truth Era

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER MONDAY, Sheraton Boston-Beacon F (Third Level) David Bruner, Princeton Theological Seminary Eberhard Jüngel, Metaphor, and the Post-Truth Moment Sujung Kim, DePauw University, Presiding David Galston, Westar Institute Shin Kwon Kim, University of Oxford Is It Useless to Revolt? Raising Foucault’s Question in Theology A Religious Pathology or a Pathological Religion in Korea Wouter Slob, University of Groningen John D. Dadosky, University of Toronto, and Jaechan Park, Post-Truth and Normativity University of Toronto In Merton’s Footsteps: Report and Reflection upon an Experiential Business Meeting: Interreligious Encounter in South Korea Sarah Morice Brubaker, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding Ray Kim, Georgetown University Islam in Korea: Past, Present, and Future

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C R Religion and Science as Political Theology: Doing Religion and Science as Political Theology: Grassroots Religion: Ethnography, Resistance, and Sacred Grassroots Religion: Whitney Bauman, FloridaWhitney International University Bauman, Not Does Postmodern and Science as CriticalReligion Discourse: Mean Post-truth Louis University St. Boyd, Craig A. and Magnanimity Humility as Making America Again: Humble World Greatness in a Post-veridical San Jose State University Stenmark, Lisa L. as a Critical Science and Religion Discourse Lying: Political Modern World in a Post-truth University Concordia Allen, Paul Theology Religion of Science and Political Mean in a The Golden Theology School Claremont of Philip Clayton, as Engaged Religion/Science Confessions of a Recovering Objectivist: Theology Strategy and Environmental Theological Seminary Lutheran Pacific Peters, Ted Theology and Public Faith, in Science, Truth Harold Morales, Morgan State University Morales, Harold in “Presence” Theorizing Baltimore: de Guatemalteco El Cristo of Being-in-the-World Ways Transnational Santa Barbara University of California, Busto, V. 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Way, Claremont Graduate University Claremont Way, Chase L. and Douglas Religion, Nostalgia, Theology: White Paleo-Confederate Tradition Revision of the Southern Intellectual Wilson’s Connecticut College Avalos, Natalie of Nostalgia Liberal White The All Immigrants”: Not “We’re LifeImmigrant University of Northern Iowa Michael Graziano, Security National and U.S. Religion, Nostalgia, White Syracuse University Megan Goodwin, ConservativeWhite and #MAGA of Past: Muslims Misremembrance Countermemory Uppsala University Mathias Gardell, Arizona State Tim Langille, and Duke University, Mona Hassan, Theme: in Twentieth-Century America 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Monday, Sheraton A (Third Boston-Beacon Level) Presiding University, Princeton James Dennis LoRusso, Responding: Business Meeting: A20-134 A20-134 Sport, and PlayReligion, Unit A20-133 A20-133 History Unit Memory, Religion, Theme: in the United States Religion and Memory AM–11:00 AM 9:00 Monday, HynesCenter-109 (Plaza Convention Level) Presiding San Diego State University, Whitaker, Roy Responding: Business Meeting: Business Meeting: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Paul Nahme, Brown University, and Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University, Presiding A20-137 #islamaar A20-139 Study of Islam Unit Theme: New Graduate Research in Islamic Studies Theology and Continental Philosophy Unit Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Theme: Islamic Futures in Dialogue with Continental Thought Marriott Copley Place-Simmons (Third Level) Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Frederick Colby, University of Oregon, Presiding Marriott Copley Place-Grand A (Fourth Level) John Zaleski, Harvard University Elizabeth R. Alexandrin, University of Manitoba, Presiding The Transformation of Late Antique Ascetic Culture: Reimagining Ali Altaf Mian, Seattle University Fasting and Celibacy in Early Muslim Ascetic Literature The Concept of Taqlid: A Philosophical Inquiry Ari M. Gordon, University of Pennsylvania Micah Hughes, University of North Carolina Sacred Orientation: The Qibla as Ritual, Metaphor, and Identity The Bergsonian Mysticism of an Anatolian Socialist: Nurettin Topçu Marker in Early Islam (1909–1975) Rebecca Makas, Emory University Basit Iqbal, University of California, Berkeley In Spite of Their Thoughts, Their Words Require Interpretation: Silence Toward a Psychoanalytics of Tribulation and Ineffability in Medieval Islamic Mysticism Mehnaz Afridi, Manhattan College Nicholas Boylston, Georgetown University Mourning, Melancholia, and Nostalgia within Islamic Literature The Kaleidoscope of Reality: Rediscovering the Significance of Responding: Diversity in Twelfth Century Persian Philosophical Literature Richard McGregor, Vanderbilt University Patrick D’Silva, University of North Carolina The Power of the Breath in Persianate India Josef Linnhoff, University of Edinburgh A20-140 C What Does It Mean to “Associate” with God? Muslim Interpretations of Shirk Vatican II Studies Unit Ken Chitwood, University of Florida Theme: The Contributions of John O’Malley, SJ to the Critical Fluid Dynamics, Puerto Rican Muslims, and Global Islam Study of Vatican II Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level) A20-138 C A Gerard Mannion, Georgetown University, Presiding Study of Judaism Unit Catherine E. Clifford, Saint Paul University Style is Substance: John W. O’Malley’s Contribution to the Study and Theme: Book Panel: Robert Erlewine’s Judaism and the West Interpretation of Vatican II (Indiana University Press, 2016) Monday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM David A. Stosur, Cardinal Stritch University A Tale of Two Translations: Rhetorical Style and the Post-conciliar Marriott Copley Place-Falmouth (Fourth Level) English Translations of the Mass Dustin Atlas, Al Quds Bard College for Arts and Sciences, Presiding MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER MONDAY, Brenna Moore, Fordham University Martin Kavka, Florida State University What Happens When We See Them through the Lens of the Council? After Jewish Philosophy as a Normative Science John W. O’Malley, “Parishization”, and Vatican II Larisa Reznik, University of Chicago Ormond Rush, Australian Catholic University Master’s Tools, Master’s Houses, Mastery: Thinking withJudaism and Pope Francis as an Interpreter of Vatican II: On Implementing the the West about “Religion” Council’s Style and Substance Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College Responding: The Prophetic Problem: Robert Erlewine’s Analysis of Abraham John O’Malley, Georgetown University Heschel’s Critique of Biblical Scholarship Business Meeting: Responding: Massimo Faggioli, Villanova University, Presiding Robert Erlewine, Illinois Wesleyan University

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Anniversary of the United States th The Path Ahead for Academic Centers on Religion and The Path Ahead for Academic Centers on Religion and War Matthew Kosuta, Mahidol University Matthew Kosuta, Militarism Religious and Modern Wars to End All War The Technology College of Pennsylvania John Chappo, Land”: Alfred Kilmer Joyce Man’s “No to Trees Shade ofThe the From and Soldier Lecturer, as Poet, University Auburn John Laaman, War to in theof Christ Churches That Is Unfit Editors Great Print: All University of Lisbon Carlos Alves Lopes, War” “Religious Front and The Internal Oklahoma Christian University Kooi, William E. John D. Carlson, Arizona State University Carlson, John D. Georgetown University Michael Kessler, University of Leeds Tomalin, Emma Columbia University Josef Sorett, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 entering the conflict. Papers will interrogate how religion supported, religion supported, how Papers will interrogate entering the conflict. and disrupted state and non-state war between sustained, challenged, 1916–1921. and its aftermath, War polities in the context of the Great Responding: A20-144 A20-144 Exploratory Sessions Theme: Public Life 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Monday, Marriott Copley Place-Columbus I & II (First Level) Washington Marie Griffith, and R. Boston College, Erik Owens, Presiding Louis, St. University, Over decades the past three a small ecosystem of centers for religion and in the U.S. and public life has developed in colleges and universities underlying a shared Beyond mission to enhance the the world. around these centers vary widely in mission, public understanding of religion, and they rarely collaborate with one and institutional setting, size, scope, group working a This session at the Annual Meeting convenes another. best share of leaders of such centers in an effort to find common cause, Among the of our work. and discuss the future practices (and pitfalls), WhatWhich our addressing? are we publics are topics for discussion: and public life? How civic and moral obligations as scholars of religion What’s for political role successful? the proper are know if we do we of this? advocacy? together on any work Can we Panelists: A20-143 A20-143 Exploratory Sessions Theme: AM–11:30 AM 9:00 Monday, Hynes Center-203 (Second Convention Level) Presiding Tennessee, University of Joshua Jeffery, an increasingly has become War” and “Religion The subject of especiallyreligious in the subfields of years, in recent studied area in the output The substantial increase and theology. ethics, history, the ever- coupled with of monographs and articles on this topic, and even global war and the role regional, riskincreasing localized, of of a permanent creation warrants the plays in these conflicts, religion This and war. religion between unit that studies the relationship exploratory“Religion a new to create panel announces our intention between focusing on the relationship by in the AAR, Unit” War and in this I, War World in the context of human phenomena these two which commemorates the 100 year and N C papers.aarweb.org/program_book Religion, Diaspora, and the Homeland: Theorizing the Religion, Diaspora, and the Homeland: Theorizing Womanist Ways of Advocacy: Public Policy and Re- Womanist Ways of Advocacy: See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Duggan, Shaw University, Presiding Shaw University, Duggan, Cristina Rocha, Western Sydney University Western Cristina Rocha, Louis St. University, Washington Elena Kravchenko, University of North Carolina Katherine Merriman, Duke University Hunter Bandy, Carla Jean-McNeil Jackson, North Chesterfield, VA North Chesterfield, Carla Jackson, Jean-McNeil Women Artists ofThe Role Black Representation: and Rhyme, Rhythm, Resistance in Political Theological Seminary Columbia Riggs, Marcia Twenty-first Envisioning and Practicing Community Beloved in the Century Theological Seminary Chicago Melanie Jones, of Reclaim the Legacy Women Should Black on the Line: Bodies of Dahomey? Women Warrior Vanderbilt University Stacey Floyd-Thomas, University Yale Turman, Eboni Marshall Kirk- and Cheryl A. Emory University, Brown, Fry L. Teresa Theme: Religion Religious in Diaspora and the Diasporic in 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Monday, Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level) Presiding Duke University, Asadi, Torang Panelists: A20-142 A20-142 Exploratory Sessions A20-141 #womanists@aar A20-141 to Religion Approaches Society and Unit Womanist Theme: Social Gospel envisioning the Black AM–11:30 AM 9:00 Monday, HynesCenter-310 (Third Convention Level) Presiding Theology, Iliff School of Watkins, Michele Responding: Business Meeting: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 A20-153 B Plenary Panel A20-145 Theme: Forcibly Displaced Syrians and Iraqis: What to Know about the Crisis and What You as a Religion Scholar Can Do Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Meeting Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level) Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University, Presiding Hynes Convention Center-301 (Third Level) The current situation involving forcibly displaced persons Kerry Danner, Georgetown University, and Edwin David Aponte, constitutes the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II. Louisville Institute, Louisville, KY, Presiding There are, for example, more than 6 million Syrian refugees and more than 3 million internally displaced Iraqis. The centerpiece of this session will be a video conversation with Syrian refugees A20-152/S20-137 and/or displaced Iraqis speaking live from an audio-visual studio Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit, SBL at a displaced persons camp in Iraq or from a studio in Jordan or Germany. The AAR’s aim in arranging this conversation is to Pseudepigrapha Unit, and SBL Digital Humanities in provide a platform for them to voice their thoughts and concerns Biblical, Early Jewish, and Christian Studies Unit directly to us so that we are better informed in a way that helps us Theme: Multi-spectral Imaging and the Recovery of “Lost” Texts respond more effectively to the crisis. from Palimpsests From the Boston side, the conversation with them will Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM be facilitated by Amir Hussain and Alice Su. Prior to the Sheraton Boston-Fairfax A (Third Level) conversation, Sarah Tobin and Mark Juergensmeyer will provide background on Syria and Iraq and the religious dimensions of James McGrath, Butler University, Presiding the crisis. After the conversation, Diane Moore will discuss ways Michael Phelps, Early Manuscripts Electronic Library scholars of religion can address the crisis, and the panelists will The Sinai Palimpsests Project: The Recovery of Erased Texts in the take questions from the audience. World’s Oldest Library Sarah Tobin is an anthropologist with expertise on Islam and Keith Knox, Rochester Institute of Technology gender in the Middle East. She spent two years conducting research Scholars and Scientists Working Together to Recover Erased Text with Syrian refugees in Jordanian camps and is the author of the Todd R. Hanneken, Saint Mary’s University, San Antonio forthcoming Privatizing Resilience: Syrian Refugees in Jordan. Mark The Jubilees Palimpsest Project Juergensmeyer is a sociologist who focuses on nationalism and global religious violence. He has interviewed, and blogged about, Ted Erho, University of Munich refugees in several camps in Iraq. Amir Hussain is a professor of Ethiopic Palimpsests and the Curious Case of Petermann II Nachtr. 24 theology who focuses on contemporary Islam in North America Loren Stuckenbruck, University of Munich and is the author of the chapter “Toward a Muslim Theology of The Recoverable Text to 1 Enoch in Petermann II Nachtrag 24 Migration” in Theology of Migration in the Abrahamic Religions. Alice Su is an independent journalist who won the 2014 UN Roger L. Easton, Rochester Institute of Technology Correspondents Association Award and a grant from the Pulitzer Spectral Image Processing Methods for Recovering Damaged Text Center for her newswriting on refugees in Jordan and Tunisia. Diane Moore is Director of the Religious Literacy Project; Lecturer on Religion, Conflict, and Peace; and principal investigator for the Religious Literacy and Humanitarian Action Research Project at MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER MONDAY, Harvard Divinity School. Panelists: Sarah Tobin, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University Alice Su, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Diane L. Moore, Harvard University

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So Aside bother? why be determined beforehand. must considerations the fact that university and from professors to seek external funding to supplement faculty resources and to seek external funding to supplement faculty professors resources the value often tie successful application to merit review promotion, and is that they can conduct important that leads to for researchers work my experience I will draw on as a In this discussion, new knowledge. funding different grants for peer reviewer who has evaluated research agencies and my own success in securing grants to offer tips on how to make successful applications. Panelists: and reffettb@ papers.aarweb.org/program_book . http://bit.ly/2rZBD7C ) to schedule a time to meet with us. Kierkegaard, Crisis, and the Future of Revelation Pentecostal Reflections on Text and Method in the New Pentecostal Reflections on Text and Method Grant Design Conversations See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Deidre Green, St. Olaf College St. Green, Deidre of the Cross The Revelaton Blackened Breast: God’s Lutheran University Texas Carl Hughes, as Model the Bible as Source to the Bible From Darkness: Sinai’s Extending Theological LancasterSeminary Lee Barrett, Survive Hermeneutic Neo-populism? Can Kierkegaard’s Chris Green, Pentecostal Theological Seminary Pentecostal Chris Green, and Sacrament Time, Trinity, Tense of Calvary: The Present Theology London School of Hannah Mather, Research for Avenues Further Spirit Hermeneutics: University Regent Cartledge, Mark (Luke 4.14-30): the Poor Proclaim to News to Anointed Good Theology a Renewal Public Towards Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Monday, Marriott Copley Place-Orleans Level) (Fourth Presiding Luther Seminary, RobertoAndres Albertsen, interdisciplinaryThis session of papers features to approaches writings and in his in Kierkegaard’s the concept of revelation attend to the way The papers to the Bible. hermeneutical approaches existentially functions and religiously in Kierkegaard’s “crisis” that biblical hermeneutic — with applicable insights for today. P20-144 Søren Kierkegaard Society Theme: Theme: Testament 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Monday, Marriott Level) Copley Place-Hyannis (Fourth Presiding Southeastern University, Melissa Archer, wabash.edu info go to more For P20-143 StudiesSociety for Pentecostal Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM 9:00 Monday, HynesCenter-107 (Plaza Convention Level) Have on teaching and learning? a grant idea for a project have Do you Do you Center grant? ever thought about applyingWabash you for a whether and protocols, grant questions about our procedures have be shaped into an ideas might or how your qualify, would project your proposal? Center Wabash appropriate 107 on both Sunday, Center Room Come see us in the Convention AM to 11:30 AM to 9:00 20 from Nov. 19 and Monday, Nov. scheduling We are Center Staff. Wabash meet with one of the Please write Beth Reffett ( appointments ahead of time. Theme: P20-101 Theology and Learning in and Teaching Center for Wabash Religion MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 A20-147 B Plenaries A20-148 Theme: Linda Sarsour Program Committee Meeting Monday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM Monday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level) Offsite Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University, Presiding Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, Presiding Linda Sarsour is a working woman, racial justice and civil rights activist, and mother of three. Ambitious, outspoken and independent, Linda shatters stereotypes of Muslim women while also treasuring her religious A20-149 K G and ethnic heritage. She is a Palestinian Muslim Connecting Conversations Luncheon American and a self-proclaimed “pure New Yorker, born Linda Sarsour and raised in Brooklyn!” She is the Executive Director of Monday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM the Arab American Association of New York and co-founder of the Hynes Convention Center-302 (Third Level) first Muslim online organizing platform, MPOWER Change. Linda Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown University, Presiding has been at the forefront of major civil rights campaigns including The Status of People with Disabilities in the Profession Committee calling for an end to unwarranted surveillance of New York’s Muslim (PWD) will host a luncheon for scholars and students with disabilities, communities and ending police policies like stop and frisk. In wake as well as anyone interested in disability issues in the Academy. The of the police murder of Mike Brown, she co-founded Muslims for lunch will follow our session on Toilet Justice: Peeing and the Politics Ferguson to build solidarity amongst American Muslim communities of Marginalized Bodies. Please join us Monday, November 20, 11:45 and encourage work against police brutality. She is a member of AM–12:45 PM to continue the conversation about the intersection of the Justice League NYC, a leading NYC force of activists, formerly activism and the Academy, as well as to discuss other issues related to incarcerated individuals, and artists working to reform the New York disability and academic life. The luncheon will also offer opportunities Police Department and the criminal justice system. for mentoring and informal connections with colleagues. Registration Linda co-chaired the March2Justice, a 250-mile journey on foot to for the lunch costs $13 and is limited to 60 people. deliver a justice package to end racial profiling, demilitarize police and demand the government invest in young people and communities. Linda Sarsour was instrumental in the Coalition for Muslim School A20-150 Holidays to push to incorporate 2 Muslim high holy C holidays in to the NYC Public school calendar. This year, New York Women’s Caucus Business Meeting City will be the largest school system in the country to officially Monday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM recognize these holidays. This year, Linda joined leading social justice faith leaders as a Senior Fellow at Auburn Seminary. Hynes Convention Center-305 (Third Level) She has received numerous awards and honors including Alicia Panganiban, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Elizabeth “Champion of Change” by the White House, YWCA USA’s Ursic, Mesa Community College, Presiding Women of Distinction Award for Advocacy and Civic Engagement Come join in the Women’s Caucus Business Meeting. We will be and the Hala Maksoud Leadership Award from the American Arab reviewing feedback from this year’s panels, discussing our ongoing Anti-Discrimination Committee. Sarsour was named among 500 projects, establishing the Women’s Caucus leadership team for 2018 of the most influential Muslims in the world. Most recently, Linda and making plans for next year’s conference. All are welcome. was profiled on the front page of theNew York Times Metro Section and dubbed “Brooklyn Homegirl in a Hijab” and introduced MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER MONDAY, Panelists: Julia Berger, University of Kent Linda to their readership as “Mixing street smarts, activism and her Muslim identity, Linda Sarsour has become a political force”. Kathryn Common, Boston University She has written for and has been featured in local, national, and Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Methodist Theological School, Ohio international media discussing impact of domestic policies that Rosemarie Daher Kowalski, Northwest University target Arab and Muslim American communities, criminal justice Colleen D. Hartung, Holy Wisdom Monastery, Middleton, WI issues and Middle East affairs. Linda is well respected amongst diverse communities in both in New York City and nationally. She Anne Hillman, Boston University is most known for her intersectional coalition work and building Meredith Minister, Shenandoah University bridges across issues, racial, ethnic and faith communities. Jea Sophia Oh, West Chester University, Pennsylvania Panelists: Janice Poss, Claremont Graduate University Linda Sarsour, MPower Change Theresa Yugar, California State University, Los Angeles

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Religion and Public Discourse in an Age of Transition Religion and Public Discourse in an Age Religion and Conflict under the Trump Administration Religion and Conflict under the Trump Maneck, Jackson State University, Presiding Jackson State University, Maneck, of Peace, Washington, D.C. Washington, of Peace, Benjamin Schewel, University of Virginia University of Benjamin Schewel, Transition in an Age ofReligion University of Kent Julia Berger, A Study of the Bahá’í Discourse on Gender Equality: a New Towards Nations with the United Engagement Community’s University Washington Western Michael Karlberg, of The Bahá’í Experience Non-ViolentBeyond Opposition: Constructive Resilience Toronto University of Cameron, Geoffrey The Bahá’í Refugee Policy: The Bahá’í Community and Public Resettlement Program (1981–1989) and Susan South Bend, Indiana University, Stockman, Robert H. Reza Aslan, University of California, Riverside University of California, Reza Aslan, Loyola Marymount University Amir Hussain, Universityof Birmingham Candida Moss, Virginia University of Ochs, Vanessa Boston University Stephen Prothero, Santa Barbara University of California, Juergensmeyer, Mark Indiana University Winnifred Sullivan, Harvard University David Carrasco, Georgetown University Johnson, Terrence United States Institute Georgetown University, Susan Hayward, Harvard University Marzouki, Nadia www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A20-202 A20-202 Studies Unit Baha’i Theme: 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Monday, Marriott Copley Place-Columbus I & II (First Level) Presiding South Bend, Indiana University, Stockman, Robert H. Business Meeting: Panelists: #aarigw A20-201 Comparative Theological EducationCommittee, Gender, to ReligionIslam, ViolenceApproaches and Unit, Religion and Culture Unit, and Religion, Law, Unit, Women Unit and Politics Theme: 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Monday, Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level) Presiding University of North Florida, Ingersoll, Julie J. TrumpAdministration in the role of the roundtable examines the This and conflict. 2017 intersections of religion Panelists: and , ) are all ) are F K The Secret Life Religion and , Greatest Mysteries , papers.aarweb.org/program_book God in AmericaGod The Story of God with Morgan The Story with Morgan of God ), Vanessa Ochs ( Vanessa ), Prayer in AmericaPrayer Bible Secrets Revealed ), Amir Hussain ( ), Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM ), and Stephen Prothero ( and Stephen Prothero ), Believer , and , ), Candida Moss ( ), Religion on Television: Production, Positives and Perils/ Religion on Television: Production, Positives Balancing Graduate School with Other Dimensions of Life Balancing Graduate See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Finding Jesus: Faith. Fact. Forgery Fact. Faith. Finding Jesus: Nicholas Werse, Baylor University Werse, Nicholas experts in this area, and will answer questions about their experiences and will answer experts area, in this on guests as being invited as well on being a part programs, of these generate a The goal of this panel is to various news and talk shows. to some during the panelists will respond which discussion, robust each other from but will also take questions preliminary questions, were what to consider: The moderator will ask them and the audience. and what face, what challenges did you and expectations, hopes your these programs of producing in the process learn, lessons did you what was the audience? Further, often non-academic, for a general, and what program, of your both popular and scholarly, reception, had the chance/moving forward? make if you you Do would changes the theoretical discussions and expectations of the academic study or is that of religion, translate to popular representations of religion a false binary? What religious regarding other concerns perhaps, scholarly did you or popular prejudices responsibility representation, production? of program when in the midst you had to address find some insight into the we hope to give this discussion, Through for a wider audience, religion of presenting complicated processes studies scholars during of religious the role but also think through exoticized, often are these times when religions demonized, and misunderstood in the media and misrepresented misappropriated, popular culture. and Ethics Newsweekly of Muslims Freeman Theme: Pitfalls 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Monday, Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level) Presiding Michigan State University, Shreena Gandhi, are religion scholars of approaches This panel is on the different to a wider of religion and the study religion taking in presenting Reza Aslan ( audience on television. A20-200 and Public Committee Program Understanding of Religion Committee A20-151/S20-156 A20-151/S20-156 StudentLounge Roundtable Theme: and Identity PM–1:30 PM 12:00 Monday, HynesCenter-303 (Third Convention Level) to fulfill discusses how Werse Nicholas session, In this rountable (teaching, with graduate school that come academic responsibilities health studying maintaining one’s and publishing) while researching, practical and discusses the tips on He provides and well-being. benefits of incorporating extra-curricular activities into our daily routine. Panelists: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 A20-205 C Cognitive Science of Religion Unit A20-203 Theme: Cognitive Historiography of Religion: What Is It? What’s the Point? And How Do You Do It? Childhood Studies and Religion Unit Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Theme: Representations of Religious Children in Literature Sheraton Boston-The Fens (Fifth Level) Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Ann Taves, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding Sheraton Boston-Boston Common (Fifth Level) Luther H. Martin, University of Vermont Sailaja Krishnamurti, Saint Mary’s University, Presiding Cognitive Historiography (of Religions) Meredith Ross, Florida State University Edward Slingerland, University of British Columbia Cassie or Rachel? Shifting Representations of Teen Faith at Cognitive Historiography Meets Big Data: A Large-Scale Textual Columbine Analysis Approach to Mind-Body Dualism in Early China Jesse Zink, University of Cambridge Travis Chilcott, Iowa State University The Literature of the Lost Boys of Sudan: Depiction of African Modulating Desires through Devotion: Cognitive Historiography, Childhood and Religion in American Christianity Hindu Devotionalism, and the Science of Managing Desire Samira Mehta, Albright College Willoughby Britton, Brown University, and Jared Lindahl, Brown Picture Books and the Raising of Children in Christian-Jewish University Interfaith Families and Fear: A Cognitive Model of Arousal and Russell Dalton, Brite Divinity School Hypersensitivity The Children of the Bible as Taught to American Children Responding: Responding: Daniel L. Smail, Harvard University Wendy Love Anderson, Washington University, Saint Louis Business Meeting: Travis Chilcott, Iowa State University, and Claire White, California State University, Northridge, Presiding A20-204 Christian Systematic Theology Unit A20-206 Theme: Reformed Traditions Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Comparative Religious Ethics Unit Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level) Theme: Solidarity, Resistance, and Freedom in Comparative Perspective Daniel Wade McClain, Loyola University, Maryland, Presiding Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Ross Kane, University of Virginia Reforming “Tradition”: A Protestant Account of Spirited Continuity Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level) Jung Lee, Northeastern University, Presiding Justin Heinzekehr, Goshen College A Punctuated Fecundity: Children and Tradition in the Radical David Decosimo, Boston University Reformation In Defense of Big Comparison: Why the Arguments against Comparing Entire Religious Traditions Don’t Succeed Andrew Forsyth, Yale University

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER MONDAY, New Traditions of Natural Law? The Reformed Confessions of Faith Laura Alexander, University of Nebraska, Omaha (The Image of ) God in All of Us: Putting Sikh and Christian Humanitarian Responses to the Refugee Crisis in Conversation Won Chul Shin, Emory University Must Resist Totalitarian Sickness: Women’s Moral Protest under the Totalitarian Regime in South Korea, 1970-1979 Faraz Sheikh, College of William and Mary Conceptualizing Freedom of Religion in Early Islamic Thought: Al- Muhasibi’s “Mind Your Own Subjectivity” Approach to Others

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and Mortality Buffy the Vampire Vampire Slayer Buffy the Disciplinary Approaches to in Medieval Europe Disciplinary Approaches to Baptism in Medieval Spinning Survival with the Word and Methodolatry: Spinning Survival with Michael Nichols, Saint Joseph’s College Saint Joseph’s Michael Nichols, Dead Again: Baylor University Candi Cann, Fran Altvater, University of Hartford Altvater, Fran Fonts in Context Scandinavian Baptismal North: Not-so-Far The Boston College Twomey, Carolyn Fonts in The Origins of Medieval in the GreatBaptism Rebuilding: England University Fordham Julia Perratore, and Community Baptism in Romanesque IberiaMedieval Boston College Reibe, Nicole Twelfth of in the King Solomon Liturgical Uses Solomon: Baptizing Century University Yale Colish, Marcia Zachary Settle, Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt Zachary Settle, Me Taught What Mary Daly Words: Spinning Survival Witch with TheologicalAbout Language University of Southern California Sheila Briggs, Theory Methodolatry: Mary Daly and Feminist Downtown University of Houston, Katy Guillen, InterventionFeminist as Word The San Jose State University Jennifer Rycenga, CA San Diego, Linda Barufaldi, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 Responding: A20-211 #aarhcs A20-211 History of Christianity Religion Unit and in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean Unit Theme: 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Monday, Level) (Fourth Marriott Copley Place-Vineyard Presiding Boston College, John Baldovin, Responding: A20-210 Theory and Religious Reflection Unit and Feminist of Color Religion and Women Unit and Lesbian-Feminisms Unit and Activism Teaching, Scholarship, Theme: on the Legacy of Mary Daly Reflections and Critiques PM–3:00 PM 1:00 Monday, Sheraton B (Third Boston-Beacon Level) Presiding Northridge, California State University, Marie Cartier, Responding: and and Man of Steel Hellboy papers.aarweb.org/program_book ual and Modernity in Villagesual and Modernity of in Superheroes, Where Is Thy Sting? 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Sarah Peterson, Atlanta, GA Atlanta, Sarah Peterson, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 Responding: Business Meeting: A20-243 Meeting Force Task Conduct Professional 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Monday, Marriott Copley Place-MIT (Third Level) Theological Union Pak, and SuYon Boston University, Kecia Ali, Presiding Seminary, A20-247/S20-219a Applied Religious Employment Studies Committee, Services Advisory Graduate Student Committee, Development Committee, SBL Professional Committee, and SBL Student Advisory Board Theme: Humanities and Social Sciences 1:00 PM-3:30 PM Monday, Marriott Copley Place-Suffolk (Third Level) Launched in fall 2017, exploration and planning tool for humanities and social science by and created Consortium, the Graduate Career by Powered PhDs. than fiftymore development and professional graduate-level career a this platform provides the United Statesleaders across and Canada, and values, interests unique opportunity for PhDs to assess their skills, an individual development and create map those onto career paths, plan that supports completion and professional/personal degree Please join Sarah Peterson, development. to learn how to use this tool and training session for this interactive please make the most of this session, To integrate it into departments. bring a laptop or tablet. Panelist: A20-242 Relations Committee Meeting Academic 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Monday, Hynes Center-301 (Third Convention Level) Presiding University of Alabama, Trost, Theodore and N C N papers.aarweb.org/program_book invites the exploration of sonic orization of monsters as a basis ituals, performances, affective states, states, affective performances, ituals, Conducted as a roundtable in which participantsConducted as a roundtable Monsters, Monster Theory, and Religion Sound As Religion See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Peter McMurray, University of Cambridge McMurray, Peter State Ohio University Weiner, Isaac Vermont University of Vicki Brennan, University Yale Finnian Gerety, Moore University of Münster Wilke, Annette State North Carolina University Bivins, Jason C. Northeastern University Andrew Mall, Harvard University Mariam Goshadze, South Africa Town, Cape Artist, Independent Webb, James Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University of comparison across cultures, and the relationship of monsters to of monsters and the relationship of comparison cultures, across the origins variety of probing of a large with the goal religion of and sociological, to the supernatural, monsters and their connection aspects of religion. psychological Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Monday, Sheraton G (Third Boston-Beacon Level) Presiding Central Michigan University, Laurel Zwissler, “meaning Judith Halberstam famously claimed that monsters are including a variety that can be used to represent of ideas, machines” (to name only and nationalism a few). race, gender, morality, always monsters are part of making of the project Accordingly, When think or talk about we sense of the world in it. and our place application Smith’s J.Z. to employ act as homo faber, monsters we as a tool function to the extent that monsters Therefore, of the term. worlds which human beings create in which to meaningfullythrough Monsters religious studies. they fall entirely within the field of dwell, Theory the focused space to explore will provide and Monster the categ “monster,” definition of Exploratory Sessions Theme: A20-241 A20-241 Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM 1:00 Monday, Marriott Place-Simmons Copley (Third Level) Presiding Tennessee, University of Hackett, J. Rosalind I. While interdisciplinary in the phenomenon of sound has interest ways understanding the diverse in which sound is apace, been growing and spiritual practice implicated experience under- in religious remains This Exploratory Session religious studies. in the field of researched of sound in a and reception transmission, examines the production, methodological conceptual and as broader as well range of contexts, the ways that is, “Sound as Religion,” The session engages questions. and sound comes to constitute religion, instrumental, do vocal, how and auditory on their own terms: cultures r or aural practices generate texts, A20-240 A20-240 Exploratory Sessions Theme: and religious institutions? The session also explores religious studies asreligious The session also explores institutions? and religious suited to capturing as and methods are what techniques religion sound: a sonic phenomenon? this forum provides sound clips through and objects, research share opportunities listening and open discussion. for Panelists: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 A20-244 Q Historical Houses of Worship in Boston’s Back Bay Tour P20-201a C Monday, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM Offsite-Meet at the Registration Desk outside of Exhibit Hall CD in African Association for the Study of Religions the Convention Center Theme: Texts in Context: Molding the Maasai and Prosperity See page 10 for details. Gospel in South Africa Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Marriott Copley Place-Grand D (Fourth Level) A20-245/S20-250 F N K Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University, Presiding Student Lounge Roundtable Knut Holter, VID Specialized University Theme: Publish or Perish for Graduate Students Moulding the Maasai in the Form of the Ancient Israelites: Moritz Merker’s Early Twentieth-Century Ethnographic Study of the Maasai Monday, 1:30 PM–3:00 PM Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level) Kevin G. Smith, South African Theological Seminary, and Genis Pieterse, South African Theological Seminary What makes an effective publication? How can you develop a The Appeal of the Movement competitve record of publishing? In this session, Dr. Miguel De La Torre discusses strategies for effective and competitive publishing Business Meeting: strategies as a means to prepare graduate students for various job Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University, and Corey Williams, opportunities. Leiden University, Presiding Panelists: Miguel De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology P20-223a A Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion A20-246/S20-251 F K Theme: FSRBook Series Session: Congress of Wo/men: Religion, Student Lounge Roundtable Gender and Kyriarchal Power by E. Schüssler Fiorenza and Women, Religion, Revolution edited by X. Alvizo and G. Messina Theme: Tips for Integrating Guest Faith Practitioners in the Classroom Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Monday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM Marriott Copley Place-Vermont (Fifth Level) Hynes Convention Center-303 (Third Level) Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, Drew University, Presiding As graduate student instructors of religion, we might face challenges As the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, the oldest feminist of expertise or authority with our students, or teach students who academic journal in religious studies, so also the new FSRBook Series have never encountered individuals of a particular religious tradition. is interreligious in its subjects, transdisciplinary in its methods, and Bringing faith practitioners to speak in our classes might be a intersectional in its political analyses. In light of these goals, the panel useful strategy to expose students to insider views, hear from more will discuss FSRBook’s first publications:Congress of Wo/men: Religion, authoritative sources, and encounter faith practitioners perhaps Gender, and Kyriarchal Power by E. Schüssler Fiorenza and Women, for the first time. In spite of the potential benefits of inviting faith Religion, Revolution edited by X. Alvizo and G. Messina. practitioners to our classes, there are also potential challenges. How Panelists: do we ensure that these experiences are appropriately bracketed

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER MONDAY, Xochitl Alvizo, California State University, Northridge to maintain academic rigor? Do certain institutional contexts or programs support this more than others? How does our status Maria Pilar Aquino, University of San Diego as graduate students affect these concerns, especially as graduate Namsoon Kang, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University students take on such a large role of undergraduate instruction? Gina Messina, Ursuline College This roundtable session will discuss these issues and discuss ways of effectively bringing guest faith practitioners into the classroom. Fulata Moyo, World Council of Churches and Harvard University Panelists: Nancy A. Pineda-Madrid, Boston College Joshua Patterson, University of Georgia Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard University

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202 x See the full Annual Meetings program online at papers.aarweb.org/program_book and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 203 x Self-Control in Augustine and Rabbinic Literature Self-Control in Augustine and Rabbinic Leading Wisdom: Asian and Asian North American Leading Wisdom: Asian Forum Liza Anderson, Episcopal Divinity School Liza Anderson, Writers Self in and Other Augustine The Im(permeable) Ancient Texas University of Jonathan Schofer, Rabbah 8:4 and Deuteronomy Ethics, Foucault’s Self-Control, University Aviv Tel Orit Malka, Literature Tannaitic Witnesses and Self-Control in Incompetent University York New Matthew Goldstone, (Yet Orientations in the Competing) Parallel and the Self: Humility of Augustine and the Antiquity of Late Work Syracuse UniversityVirginia Burrus, Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University Jung Ha Kim, Theological Seminary Columbia Ward, Haruko Women’s American Asian Pacific National Laura Cheifetz, Theological Seminary Garrett-Evangelical Tran, Mai-Anh L. State University San Francisco Russell Jeung, Christian University Texas Harris, Melanie L. www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A20-303/S20-324 History Unit and SBL and Augustinianisms Augustine and Literature of Rabbinic Judaism Theme: 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Monday, Sheraton Boston-Back (Second Bay B Level) Presiding Boston University, Jonathan Klawans, Responding: A20-302 and SocietyAsian North American Unit Culture, Religion, and Religion Unit Women and Theme: Women Leaders PM–6:00 PM 4:00 Monday, Marriott Level) Place-Grand Copley A (Fourth Presiding Theological Seminary, Union Pak, SuYon Panelists: Responding: and papers.aarweb.org/program_book Monday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Monday, 4:00 PM–6:00 Monday, 3:30 PM Monday, Complimentary coffee will be served in the back 2600 of the Exhibit Hall.of Aisle 2100 and Aisle Coffee Break Coffee Interpreting, Decoding, and Transforming Visual Medicine and Mothering in African Diaspora Religions Medicine and Mothering in African Diaspora See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Anthony Dupont, University of Leuven Anthony Dupont, of Augustine on the Conversion of Hippo Artistic Perspectives Central College Vishnevskaya, Elena A Synergy and Sacred between Images: Contemplating the Cataphatic Prayers Apophatic Theological Union Graduate Junker, Yohana American Native Contemporary Decolonizing Post-Commodity: Visualities Duke University Joelle Hathaway, and Tourism, Cathedrals, Medieval Missional Museums: Art Exhibitions Contemporary Yanique Hume, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Cave Indies, West University of the Hume, Yanique of Madre The Embodied Praxis Performing Feminine: the Divine Monte Nkisis (Mothers of the Medicines) in Palo University of Chicago Jazmin Graves, Mediating the African Ancestor-Saint Mai Veil: Dancing under the India Western in Mishra University of Chicago Emily Crews, from of Ritual among Motherhood Religious Miracles the Margins: Nigerian Immigrants Female Harvard University Kyrah Malika Daniels, and Motherhood, Whiteness, “My Children Come in Many Colors”: Initiation Vodou in Haitian Health Mental Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit Literature, Arts, Theme: Religious Representations 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Monday, Hynes Center-205 (Second Convention Level) Presiding University of Leuven, Anthony Dupont, A20-301 Monday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Monday, Hynes Center-102 (Plaza Convention Level) Wu, Emily Denver, University of Colorado, Harding, Rachel E. Boston Barnes, and Linda L. California, Dominican University, Presiding University School of Medicine, Theme: A20-300 African Diaspora Religions Medicines, Unit and Religions, and Healing Unit Business Meeting: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Kenneth A. Reynhout, United Theolgical Seminary of the Twin Cities, Presiding A20-304 C A20-306 Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Unit C Theme: The Bible and Folklore—Global Perspectives Buddhist Philosophy Unit Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Theme: Literary Forms of Argument in Chinese Buddhist Philosophy Marriott Copley Place-Vineyard (Fourth Level) Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Valerie Bridgeman, St. Mary’s College, Presiding Marriott Copley Place-Arlington (Third Level) Eric Ziolkowski, Lafayette College The Bible in Folklore Worldwide–Prefatory Remarks and Overview Bernard Faure, Columbia University, Presiding Kerry Hull, Brigham Young University Alan Wagner, Collège de France 須陀利經 Incorporation of Biblical Narratives in Mesoamerican Oral Traditions Philosophical Narrative in the Sūtra on Sundarī John T. P. Lai, Chinese University of Hong Kong Rafal Stepien, University of Oxford The Bible in Chinese Folkloric Traditions during the Nineteenth and Enlightening Literature: A Chinese Buddhist Approach to Emptiness Twentieth Centuries of Word and Mind Jerusha Neal, Duke University Ben Van Overmeire, St. Olaf College Biblical Reception in Fijian Verbal Folklore Zen Encounter Dialogues as Utopian Narrative: The Ideal World of the Song Dynasty Record of Linji Herman Tull, Lafayette College The Missionary Position in South Asian Folklore Steven Heine, Florida International University Arguments for and against Chan Buddhist Literature as Philosophy Bishop Makobe, University of Venda Reception of the Bible in Southern African Folklore Business Meeting: Richard Nance, Indiana University, and Sara L. McClintock, Responding: Emory University, PResiding Hugh Rowland Page, University of Notre Dame Business Meeting: A20-307 Valerie Bridgeman, Methodist Theological School, Ohio, and Hugh Rowland Page, University of Notre Dame, Presiding Comparative Studies in Religion Unit Theme: Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion A20-305 B C Monday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit and Ricoeur Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level) Unit Timothy D. Knepper, Drake University, Presiding Theme: Religion, Vulnerability, and Violence: Ricoeur and Panelists: Bonhoeffer in Dialogue Purushottama Bilimoria, Graduate Theological Union; University Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM of California, Berkeley Sheraton Boston-Back Bay C (Second Level) Jin Y. Park, American University MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER MONDAY, Kenneth A. Reynhout, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Laura Weed, College of Saint Rose Cities, Presiding Bin You, Minzu University Gabriel Morgan, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia Religionless Christianity and the Narrative Figuration of Temporality Brian Gregor, California State University, Dominguez Hills Religion, Vulnerability, and l’Homme Capable: Bonhoeffer and Ricoeur in Dialogue Howard Pickett, Washington and Lee University The Prison Gives Rise to Thought: Bonhoeffer and Ricoeur on Incarnation and Incarceration

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Dialectic of Enlightenment American Political Economy and the Politics of Producing Transcending the Human: Theological Ethnography and Transcending the Human: Theological McCloud, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Presiding Charlotte, University of North Carolina, McCloud, Lucas Wright, University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, LucasWright, in the Study and Knowledge Power, ofCriticism Identification and the Whether the On of Religion: Today College Goucher Martin Shuster, and Sean Santa Barbara, University of California, Walker, David Zine Magubane, Boston College Zine Magubane, Dartmouth College Devin Singh, Theology School Claremont of Syeed-Miller, Najeeba College Colby Gilkes, CherylTownsend University Vanderbilt Townes, Emilie M. Michael Grigoni, Duke University Michael Grigoni, New and the Materialism God: and the Actant Affect, Guns, in Ecclesiology Turn Ethnographic Theology MF Norwegian School of Linn Sæbø Rystad, Meaning-Making from Preaching – in Children’s Role Materiality’s A Norwegian Case Study University of Roehampton Andrew Rogers, New A Case Study of Black Majority ofOrdinaryTheologies Place: in London Churches Baylor University Laura Lysen, Theological Lethal Objects, in MemoryNet/work Gray: of Freddie and the Church Materiality, Presiding Toronto, University of Wigg-Stevenson, Natalie www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 Responding: Business Meeting: A20-312 A20-312 Ethics Unit and Religion and the Social Sciences Unit Theme: Vulnerable Populations 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Monday, Sheraton (Third Boston-Berkeley Level) Nichole and Theological Seminary, Chicago Ringer, Christophe D. Presiding Emory University, Phillips, Panelists: Responding: A20-311 A20-311 Ecclesial Unit Practices Theme: Materiality 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Monday, Hynes Center-208 (Second Convention Level) Sweden, Uppsala, Unit, of Sweden Research Church Jonas Ideström, Presiding Business Meeting: and C C A Dialectic of Dialectic of papers.aarweb.org/program_book after 70 Years in Revisionist Historiography: Non-violent Non-violent in Revisionist Historiography: :· Critique and Religious Studies: Assessing the Import of Muslims and Contemporary American Politics A Gentleman Does Not Enter the Kitchen, but ... : A Gentleman Does Not See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Northwestern University, Presiding Northwestern University, Dialectic of Enlightenment Conceptualizations of War in Pre-Qín to Medieval Rú Thought in Pre-Qín Rú Medieval to War Conceptualizations of The Citadel Keith Knapp, Chinese of The Inescapability in Medieval Violence Filial Murderers: of Sonly Revenge Tales State Ohio University Ying Zhang, Confucianism and Imprisoned Officials China (1368–1644) in Ming Benjamin Fong, Arizona State University Benjamin Fong, Theory of Horkheimer’s Adorno and Max Theodor Halbbildung: “Religion” University of Nottingham Agata Bielik-Robson, JewishJudaism Undercover? Cryptotheology in the Enlightenment University of Nottingham Ian Bacher, and the Question of Knowledge Impotence Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, University of North Carolina Juliane Hammer, Rutgers University Sylvia Chan-Malik, University of Michigan Ware, Rudolph Michigan University Western Alisa Perkins, and Sylvester Johnson, Toronto, University of Klassen, Pamela Don Wyatt, Middlebury College Wyatt, Don Three of the Six Arts Confucianism and the Militaristic North University of Carolina Uffe Bergeton, King Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Monday, Marriott Copley Place-Simmons (Third Level) Presiding University of Chicago, Larisa Reznik, Critical TheoryCritical and Discourses on Religion Unit Theme: the A20-310 Theme: 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Monday, Hynes Center-203 (Second Convention Level) Presiding Michigan State University, Mohammad Khalil, Panelists: Business Meeting: A20-309 A20-309 Contemporary Islam Unit and North American Religions Unit Confucian Attitudes Towards Violence Confucian Attitudes PM–6:30 PM 4:00 Monday, Hynes Center-202 (Second Convention Level) Presiding Davis, University of California, Halperin, Mark Theme: A20-308 Social Unit and Religions, Conflict Traditions Confucian Unit and Peace Responding: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Kristin Sands, Sarah Lawrence College Business Meeting: Martin Nguyen, Fairfield University, and Robert Rozehnal, A20-313 #aarhcs Lehigh University, Presiding History of Christianity Unit Theme: Mystical Topographies in Late Medieval Christianity (Thinking with Certeau) A20-315 C Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Japanese Religions Unit Hynes Convention Center-109 (Plaza Level) Theme: Narratives as Strategies: Narrative in Premodern Japanese Trish Beckman, St. Olaf College, Presiding Religions Charlotte Radler, Loyola Marymount University Monday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM On the Road to Nowhere: ’s and Michel de Certeau’s Sheraton Boston-Boston Common (Fifth Level) Topographical Metaphors Ryuichi Abe, Harvard University, Presiding David Albertson, University of Southern California Mikael Bauer, McGill University Mystical and Geometrical Space in Nicholas of Cusa: Measure as Picking up the Sovereign’s Sandals: Fujiwara No Nakamaro and the Negation Creation of Fujiwara Authority Min-Ah Cho, Catholic Theological Union Bryan Lowe, Vanderbilt University “Neither Path Nor Way”: Hadewijch on Wandering and Exile Localizing the Universal: Narrative and Performative Strategies in in Search of Love Ninth-Century Japanese Homilies Leah Buturain Schneider, Fuller Theological Seminary Su Jung Kim, DePauw University Drawing the Curtain to the Virgin’s Cell: Guarding Solitude for Feeling Story: Religious Emotion in Myōe’s Kegon Engi Emaki Beholding Jesse Drian, University of Southern California Douglas Christie, Loyola Marymount University The Networking of Origins: Strategies for Moving beyond the Singular Elsewhere: Ruusbroec’s Itinerary into Darkness in Temple and Shrine Origin Narratives Responding: A20-314 C Chris Callahan, University of Illinois Business Meeting: Islamic Mysticism Unit Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University, and Asuka Theme: Commentarial Complexities and Exegetical Explorations Sango, Carleton College, Presiding in the Sufi Textual Tradition Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Sheraton Boston-Beacon F (Third Level) A20-316 Tehseen Thaver, Bard College, Presiding Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit and Ahmad (Masoud) Ariankhoo, Harvard University Reformed Theology and History Unit Imitation and Verification: ‘Ayn al-Qudat on Knowledge and Theme: Reformation and Reformations Religious Prejudice Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Faris Casewit, Harvard University MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER MONDAY, Idolatrous Muslims: The Transposition of the Qur’ānic Religious Other Sheraton Boston-Grand & Independence (Second Level) in Abū DOΖDVDQDOΖDUUƘOưµV (d. 1241) Kitāb al-Tawfiyah Kirsi Stjerna, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Presiding Axel Takacs, Harvard University This panel examines the meaning of “Reformation” and what Abū DOΖDVDQ Khatamī Lāhūrī’s Commentary on the Love Lyrics of implications the notion of “Reformation” or “reformations” has for us ΖƘ¾Ν Shīrāzī: The Mystico-poetics between the Seen and Unseen today - theologically or ecclesially. 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Presiding Bradley University, Zaborowski, Jason R. Amy Plantinga Pauw, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Louisville Presbyterian Amy PlantingaPauw, Theology School Saint of Paul Kvam, Kristen E. Amsterdam Universiteit, Vrije Cornelis van der Kooi, University Rajkumar, Lenoir-Rhyne Evangeline Anderson Monday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Monday, Marriott Copley Place-Boylston (First Level) Presiding State University, Pennsylvania AnneMarie Mingo, Theme: A20-318 TheologyMusic and Religion Unit and of Martin Luther Unit Jr. King, Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM 4:00 Monday, Hilton Boston Back A (Second Bay-Belvidere Level) Presiding Santa Barbara, University of California, Sokoll, Aaron Responding: Business Meeting: A20-317 A20-317 Middle Eastern Christianity Unit Theme: Panelists: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 A20-323 Queer Studies in Religion Unit A20-321 B C Theme: New Research in Queer Religious Studies Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Open and Relational Theologies Unit Hynes Convention Center-310 (Third Level) Theme: Open Theology, Open Borders? Religion and the Most Jared Vazquez, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Vulnerable Andrea Allen, Western University, Canada Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM “A House of Prayer for All People”: LGBT Evangelicals in Brazil Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level) Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Princeton University Krista E. Hughes, Newberry College, Presiding Sacred Dissent: For Queers’ Sake and on Queer Stakes in Black Donna Bowman, University of Central Arkansas Religious Studies Love Trumps Hate: Images of God’s Love from Pussyhat Makers Jennifer Buck, Azusa Pacific University Timothy Murphy, Claremont School of Theology Bad and Boujee — Towards a Trap Feminist Theology We All Need Somebody to Lean On: Mutual Interest and the Joshua Warfield, Graduate Theological Union Preferential Option Resistance and the Freedom to Live Authentically: Queering Martin Deena Lin, Claremont Graduate University Luther’s View of Vocation Embracing Syrian Life: An Intellectual and Political Call to Action Michelle Mueller, Santa Clara University Robert Overy-Brown, Claremont Graduate University Sisterhood, Patriarchy, and “Bromance”: Gender Norms in Reality TV Towards a Transgressive Political Theology: Open Theology as Polygamy/Polyamory Imperative to Open Borders Responding: Catherine Keller, Drew University A20-324 #aareco2017 C H Joerg Rieger, Vanderbilt University Religion and Ecology Unit Business Meeting: Theme: Constructive Approaches to Religion and Ecology Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Center for Process Studies, Claremont, Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM CA, PResiding Sheraton Boston-The Fens (Fifth Level) Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University, Presiding A20-322 Dorothy Dean, Vanderbilt University C Ethics beyond Exceptionalism? Pentecostal–Charismatic Movements Unit Matthew Eaton, St. John’s University Theme: Gender, Prosperity and Migrations: New Trends in Of Religious Ecologies and Their “Queer Little Gods”: On the Way to Pentecostal-Charismatic Scholarship an Animist Trinitarianism Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Andrew Thompson, University of the South Sheraton Boston-Fairfax B (Third Level) Vulnerability, Resilience, and Agency: Climate Vulnerability as Hybrid Arlene Sanchez-Walsh, Azusa Pacific University, Presiding Concept and as Tactic Panelists: Jacob Erickson, Trinity College, Dublin

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER MONDAY, Promiscuous Vines: On the Queer Emergence of a Theological Botany Leah Payne, George Fox University Business Meeting: Daniel Ramirez, Claremont Graduate University James Miller, Queen’s University, Kingston, Presiding Judith Casselberry, Bowdoin College Business Meeting: Arlene Sanchez-Walsh, Azusa Pacific University, and Leah Payne, George Fox University, Presiding

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on Netflix Than Are on Netflix Religiously: Fierce Community, īn and Female Sexual Agency īn and Female Stranger Things Stranger Things Watching The Other Religious Politics: Making Religion in the The Other Religious Politics: Making Religion Ken Derry, University of Toronto, Presiding Toronto, University of Ken Derry, Sara Omar, American University Sara Omar, of the Zaynab Representations bint Shifting Orthodoxies: Kecia Ali, Boston University Kecia Ali, Affair Harvard University Arafat Razzaque, of Concealing Sins in and the Idea Privacy, Sex, Ethics: Curtain Islam Medieval Williams College Saadia Yacoob, Tamk Gendering Sexual Desire: Katelynn Carver, University of St Andrews Katelynn Carver, “Stranger” and Other Lie” Don’t “Friends Coffee and Contemplation: Commandments of a Spirituality Relationality of Human View Grand University John Lyden, Streaming the Upside Down: Television Dreamt of in Broadcast Theological Seminary Fuller Callaway, Kutter and Fullerton, California State University, Jeanette Reedy Solano, Ananya Dasgupta, Case Western Reserve University Western Case Ananya Dasgupta, Muslim Bengali Secular Imaginations of a Muslim Homeland: Their Antecedents of Activists the 1940s and Cultural College Connecticut Dean Accardi, Visions and Secularist of in Religion Hindutva, , Kashmir University of Pennsylvania Philip Friedrich, and Vicissitudes Religion and Delinking Linking of the Sāsana: Sri in Lanka Politics University James Madison Jaclyn Michael, Visions and Secular India in Premchand’s of Belonging Religious Karbala Elon University Pennington, Brian K. www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 Responding: A20-329 A20-329 Visual Film, and Religion, Culture Unit Theme: Binge-Watching, and the Shifting Landscape of TV Consumption 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Monday, Hynes Center-313 (Third Convention Level) Fullerton, California State University, Jeanette Reedy Solano, Presiding Responding: Business Meeting: A20-328 Religion in South Unit Asia Theme: Service of Secularity 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Monday, Hynes Center-104 (Plaza Convention Level) Responding: and

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER MONDAY, Religions Course Curtis Baxter, American Association for the Advancement of Gregory Robbins, University of Denver, and Andrea Stanton, Science University of Denver Science and the Next Generation of Religious Leaders: The AAAS Teaching Common Figures in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Science for Seminaries Project Scriptures Adam Pryor, Bethany College Esther Boyd, Interfaith Youth Core Religion in Dialogue with Cross-Disciplinary Scientific Inquiry Emerging Frontiers for Interreligious and Interfaith Studies: Ahmed Ragab, Harvard University Interreligious Pedagogy for Pre-professional Education “A Beau Ideal for Whosoever Hopes for God”: Piety, Medicine, and Prophetics in the Medieval and Contemporary Middle East Business Meeting: Greg Cootsona, California State University, Chico, Presiding

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Material Culture and Vernacular Religion Identities in Crisis: Cases of Christianities across Asia Identities in Crisis: Cases Amy Milligan, Old Dominion University Amy Milligan, Creating a Sanctuary Culture and the Jewish Material of the Home: Sabbath in the InterwarYears Wheaton College Brumberg-Kraus, Jonathan D. 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Francis and C papers.aarweb.org/program_book This is MY Body: Women of Color Preaching Activisms, This is MY Body: Women of Color Preaching Ritual Creativity: Old and New, Inside and Out Ritual Creativity: Old See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Earlham College Gina Jungyeon Bae, University of Toronto University of Gina Jungyeon Bae, American as a North Imaging God Korean Feminist Michigan State University Cona Marshall, Women and Rapping Preaching Black These “WhoRules?” Made and Liberation Activism Graduate University Claremont Ashlyn Strozier, and Traditions Faith Livin’”: Ain’t PreachingWe “What You Decisions Reproductive Women’s on Black Communities Impact State Georgia University Monique Moultrie, Justice and of Reproductive Analyzing Debates All Babies Matter: Media Religious University Yale Turman, Eboni Marshall and Grace Ji-Sun Kim, University, Yale Turman, Eboni Marshall Paul Pasquesi, Marquette University Marquette Pasquesi, Paul With Ending the Now With the SpiritYou Are Started “Having and Initiation in Galatians Vision, Circumcision, Flesh?” University Edward’s St. Kelley Coblentz Bautch, An toward Assessment with an Eye and Pseudepigraphy: Historiolae Ritual and Ascent Rice University Cynthia Dawson, in Gnostic Value Preservation Body’s Sophia: Hiding of the Female Mythology University DePauw Matthew Dillon, Psychic Sacrament, the Bridal Chamber: (Re)Inventing and Sacred Sex Androgenization, Buffalo StateYork, University of New Marla Segol, and Devotion Practice, Knowledge, Mystical Embryologies: Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism Unit and Activism Teaching, of Color Scholarship, Women Theme: A20-335 A20-335 Reproductive Justice, and Virtu[e]al Theologies 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Monday, Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick B (Second Level) Presiding Earlham College, Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Responding: Business Meeting: Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM 4:00 Monday, Hynes Center-209 (Second Convention Level) Presiding Rice University, Fanger, Claire Theme: A20-334/S20-331 Esotericism, Esotericism Unit and SBL Mysticism, Western Antiquityand Gnosticism in Unit MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 A20-339A20-339 – Pre-Posted Papers SessionSession S C R ReligionReligion and Families in North America Seminar A20-338 C Theme:Theme: Religions and Families in North AmericaAmerica MonMonday,day, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Interreligious Reflections on Immigration Seminar Hynes Convention Center-200 (Second Level) Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM SSamiraamira Mehta, AlbrightAlbright College, PresidingPresiding Marriott Copley Place-Columbus I & II (First Level) Irene Stroud, Princeton UniversitUniversityy Joseph Mas, Ohio Hispanic Coalition, Columbus, OH, Presiding ““FewerFewer and Better Babies”: Eugenics and the Middle-Class Protestant Waleed El-Ansary, Xavier University MMarriagearriage Al-Azhar University on the Responsibilities of Minority Muslims Brooke Katheen Brassard, University of WaterloWaterlooo Living in Non-Islamic Societies DDomesticomestic and SSacred:acred: Mormon Rituals ofof Healing, Prophecy, andand Hussam S. Timani, Christopher Newport University FamilFamilyy in CCanadiananadian SettlementsSettlements On Being a Muslim in a Non-Islamic Society: Seeing Islam in the Francesco Morriello, Harvard UniversitUniversityy “Other” CCatholicatholic Missionaries and Rituals ofof Marriage and FamilyFamily Zahra Jamal, Rice University RReproductioneproduction in the French Caribbean,Caribbean, c. 1756–1802 Becoming American: Loving One’s Refugee-Migrant Neighbors SSusanusan Ridgely, University of WisconsinWisconsin James McBride, New York University ThThee ReliReligiousgious AAgendagenda behindbehind thethe MommMommyy WarWarss From the American Protective Association to Trump’s America First: Business MeetinMeeting:g: American Xenophobia in Historical Perspective SSusanusan Ridgely,Ridgely, UniversitUniversityy of Wisconsin, and Samira Mehta, Ron Choong, Center for Interdisciplinary Research AAlbrightlbright College, PresidinPresidingg Reflections on Faith, Religion, and Geography: Christianity on the Silk Road Alexander Y. Hwang, Xavier University A20-341 B K Comparative Reflections on the Meanings of My Neighbor’s Faith: Toward a Christian Theology of Immigration Theological Education Committee Helen Boursier, College of St. Scholastica Theme: Faith and Resistance in an Age of Trump The Great Exchange: An Interfaith Theology of Absolute Hospitality Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM for Immigrants Seeking Asylum Sheraton Boston-Republic B (Second Level) Responding: Miguel De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Laura Alexander, University of Nebraska, Omaha The national climate leading up to and resulting in the election of th Allen G. Jorgenson, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary Donald Trump as 45 President of the United States poses many challenges and questions for theological educators. We find ourselves Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego struggling to discern ways in which we can shape our research and Kristine Suna-Koro, Xavier University teaching to offer and model analytical integrity rooted in moral Loye Ashton, Tougaloo College conviction in the context of an increasingly chaotic and incoherent matrix of national discourse in which the very nature and value of Hee-Kyu Heidi Park, Xavier University truth has been radically called into question. As an alternative to Marcus Mescher, Xavier University offering ideological testimonies of understandable outrage, presenters

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER MONDAY, Silas Allard, Emory University in this Forum are committed to sharing their observations regarding Business Meeting: specific research and pedagogical strategies for resistance to injustice which directly address the distinctive circumstances of the current Alexander Y. Hwang, Xavier University, Presiding historical moment. Presenters will pay particular attention to the challenges involved in engaging students in theologically grounded praxes of resistance which are inclusive and designed to unite people around shared stories and common self-interest rather than divide them along religious, partisan, ethnic, or other lines.

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ender, race, religion and politics. religion race, ender, Monday, 8:00 PM and Later Monday, 8:00 The Bahá’ís www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A20-402 A20-402 and Steering Unit Chairs’ Program Committee Members’ Reception 8:00 PM–10:00 PM Monday, Marriott Copley Place-AAR Suite invited and steering Unit Chairs members are committee Program celebrating their contributionsto a reception to the AAR Annual Meeting. A20-401 A20-401 Film: PM–10:00 PM 8:00 Monday, Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level) Presiding South Bend, University, Indiana Stockman, Robert H. Religion is often discourse as having little portrayed in mainstream even divisive, naïve, It is considered to the modern world. relevance to be kept private. something it’s best, At dangerous. on farms and in indigenous in villages and cities, However, of people number a small but growing globe, the populations across not into practice spiritual putting that they believe are teachings are but absolutely are vital if we only of our world, relevant to the future historic divisions of g to overcome They are members of the Bahá’í Faith and each is doing his or her Faith and each of the Bahá’í members They are Their part to serve and their fellow human beings. their community can the essential the belief that religion provide conviction stems from historicallymotivation to overcome and effect intractable antagonisms peaceful and lasting change. This one-hour documentary asks viewers to consider a different than the one portrayed in the mainstream on religion perspective The film follows an intriguing set of individuals as they help to media. communities. just and unified build peaceful, and A F K papers.aarweb.org/program_book : Theistic Responses Robust Ethics Erik Wielenberg’s Dissertation + Baby: How to Do Two of the Hardest Dissertation + Baby: See the full Annual Meetings program online at x University William Lane Craig, Biola University and Houston Baptist William Lane Craig, Georgetown University Murphy, Mark Houston Baptist University McNabb, Tyler Theological SoutheasternSeminary Baptist Johnson, Adam University DePauw Wielenberg, Erik Regina Walton, Harvard University Walton, Regina Susan B. Thistlethwaite, Chicago Theological Seminary Chicago Thistlethwaite, Susan B. Loyola Marymount University Amir Hussain, Chicago Loyola University, Miguel Diaz, University Mercer Gushee, David P. Emory University Pui Lan, Kwok Hofstra University Slabodsky, Santiago H. Theme: 7:00 PM–10:00 PM Monday, Level)Marriott (Fourth Copley Place-Falmouth as an “GodlessWielenberg Realism” ErikNormative offers his several In this session, to theistic accounts of moral realism. alternative view to theistic moral Wielenberg’s and objections theists engage Dr. realism. Panelists: Responding: P20-410 P20-410 Evangelical Philosophical Society StudentLounge Roundtable Theme: A20-340/S20-349 A20-340/S20-349 Little Done in Your Life Simultaneously, with Things You’ve Ever Money or Sleep 4:30 PM–6:00 PM Monday, Hynes Center-303 (Third Convention Level) will guide participantsworkshop This in planning for how to make children. young on their dissertations while parenting good progress about the expectations setting realistic discussed include: Topics putting a support in place; network writing and parenting; process caring physically for yourself and spiritually under stress; while your managing the financial challenges of grad school; addressing scholarly and staying connected to your community. teaching load; dissertation her while wrote The presenter caring children, for her two and has since published a number of scholarly articles and essays and of poetry. a volume Panelists: Panelists: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 A21-102 Christian Spirituality Unit Coffee Break Theme: Embodiment and the Study of Spirituality Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Tuesday, 8:30 AM Sheraton Boston-Liberty C (Second Level) Complimentary coffee will be served in the back Douglas Hardy, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Presiding of Aisle 2100 and Aisle 2600 of the Exhibit Hall. Laura Anellia Soureli, University of Cambridge Embodied Dimensions of the Contemplative Practices in Hesychasm (Eastern Orthodox Asceticism): A New Perspective Marie Pagliarini, Saint Mary’s College A21-100 “Sacramentalizing the Body”: Christian Tattooing in the San African Religions Unit and Childhood Studies and Religion Francisco Bay Area Unit Lexi Eikelboom, Indiana Wesleyan University Theme: Rites of Passage, Rites of Return: Performative Markers of Using Rhythm to Move beyond Text in the Study of Christian Childhood, Youth, and Religious Change in Africa Spirituality Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level) A21-103 Sally Stamper, Capital University, Presiding Comparative Studies in Religion Unit Devaka Premawardhana, Colorado College A Rite of Return: Boys and Mothers in an African Initiation Theme: Recentering Sacred Biography: Hagiography as a Category Ceremony of Analysis for Comparative Sanctities Funlayo Easter Wood, Harvard University Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM By This Time Next Year, I’ll Surely Be Worshiping the White Man’s Sheraton Boston-Clarendon (Third Level) God: Children, Conversion, and Resistance in Yorubaland Jon Keune, Michigan State University, Presiding Abimbola Adelakun, University of Texas Gloria I-Ling Chien, Gonzaga Univeristy Pentecostal Naming as Performative Utterance among the Yoruba, An Example of Tibetan Namtar: Lojong Master Tokmé Zangpo’s Life Nigeria Todd French, Rollins College Texts of Lives and Lives of Texts: A Reconsideration of the Hagiographical Compilations of John of Ephesus and Cyril of A21-101 Scythopolis Afro-American Religious History Unit and Space, Place, Massimo Rondolino, Carroll University and Religion Unit A Case for Hagiography: On Academic Awareness and Saintly Lives as Historiographic Practices Theme: Africa on Abernathy Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Business Meeting: Hynes Convention Center-313 (Third Level) Sara Ritchey, University of Louisiana, Lafayette Zaid Adhami, Williams College, Presiding Panelists: A21-104 #aarhcs Meredith Coleman-Tobias, Emory University History of Christianity Unit Diana Burnett, University of Pennsylvania Theme: Complicating Luther and the Reform: A Quincentenary Amey Victoria Adkins, Duke University Retrospective Ashley Coleman, Emory University Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Responding: Hynes Convention Center-104 (Plaza Level) James Manigault-Bryant, Williams College David Daniels, McCormick Theological Seminary, Presiding Ross Kane, University of Virginia Sola Scriptura or the White Man’s Book? Negotiating Reformation TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 NOVEMBER TUESDAY, Legacies in the Global South

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Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM Encountering God in the Farmyard: Religion in Animal Encountering God in the Farmyard: Religion Islamic History, Art, and Memory Sacred Time in Judaism and Seventh-Day Adventism Sacred Time in Judaism Yehuda, Israel Yehuda, The Cow Saw Jesus, Too: Domestic Animals as Rhetorical Religious Domestic Religious Animals as Rhetorical Too: The Cow Saw Jesus, in Early America Actors Univeristy Temple Berendt, Tom AnBovine Examination of of Benefactories: in Cow the Role Religion Sanctuaries States across the United Allegheny College Adrienne Krone, and Rituals, Relations, Bee-Human Bees: Humble and the Humans Sacred Programs at Shoresh Jewish Spaces Environmental OblateTheology School of Melody Escobar, in the Arena A Becoming and Belonging of Christ; Hooves: Wisdom’s Motif of Exploring Julian of the Motherhood Norwich to Path New University of Chester David Clough, Florida State UniversitySyeda Beena Butool, Florida State University Jesse Miller, Qur’anic of Inscriptions Power as Signposts Texas University of Jamila Davey, Novel Assia Djebar’s Interpretation: Ethical Dimensions of Literary the Islamic Past to Approach Lynn Kaye, Ohio State Ohio University Kaye, Lynn Time? Classical Rabbinic SacredDoes Judaism Have Zefon Elijah Interfaith Institute, Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Temple, Eschatology, Memory, TimeConstructing in Judaism: Sacred and Presence Texas University of Michel Lee, Time in Nineteenth-Century Seventh-Day and Linear Cyclical Adventism www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 A21-108 #animalsaar17 A21-108 Animals and Religion Unit Theme: Spaces 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Tuesday, Sheraton B (Third Boston-Beacon Level) Presiding University of San Diego, Christopher Carter, Responding: A21-109 and Religion Unit Literature, Arts, Theme: 9:00 AM–11:00 AM Tuesday, Sheraton Boston-Liberty B (Second Level) Presiding University of Chicago, Chubb-Confer, Francesca A21-107 Theology and Religious Unit Reflection Theme: 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Tuesday, Sheraton (Fifth Boston-Public Garden Level) Presiding College, Hope Dass, Rakesh Peter and Tafsīr al- Tafsīr papers.aarweb.org/program_book Disability Across Traditions: Islam, Pentecostalism, and Qur’an Commentary and Practice See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Matthew Rosebrock, Concordia University St. Paul University St. Concordia Matthew Rosebrock, and Paintings Gospel Law and Theology: Lucas Cranach’s of Icons Martin Luther Theological Seminary Gordon-Conwell Andrew Martin, Heart of Change and Eschatological Hobbes’s Thomas Jesus or Moses? Theology Kingdoms Two ofthe Diversity Reformed University of Calgary Laura Jurgens, A Discourse on Martin Luther, Death: to Them Bear Children Let and Misogyny Women, Halla Attallah, Georgetown University Halla Attallah, The Icon Physical DisabilityQur’ān and and Disability Studies: in Qur’ānPolemics 21:51–70 Mason University George Matthew Brake, and Overcoming the Ideology of Disability, Cure Feminist Yong, Amos Theology in Pentecostal Daemen College Heike Peckruhn, Theology Christian fromReading Disability Contexts: in Global Thailand James Riggan, Florida State University James Riggan, between The Relationship the Qur’an and the the Book: by Touched Practices Exorcism in Moroccan Body UK London, Ismaili Studies, Institute of Stephen Burge, The Tafsīr: of as a Distinct Genre “Summary Exegeses” Jalālayn University of London SOAS Marianna Klar, of the David and UriahTreatment 774/1373) (d. 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A21-105 Natasha Mikles, University of Virginia TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 The Butcher, the Baker, and the Hell-Being Maker: How the Embodied Experience of Samsara Makes Buddhist Hell Mona Hassan, Duke University Jessica Starling, Lewis and Clark College Poetic Memories of the Prophetic Household at the Helm of Islamic Vulnerability and Friendship at a Japanese Leprosarium: Affective Governance Ethical Practice among Jōdo Shinshū Buddhists Isa Babur, Igdir University (An)iconism in Turkish Islam: A Literary Genre and the Calligraphic Form of Depiction of the Prophet A21-112 A Christian Systematic Theology Unit A21-110 Theme: Panel Discussion on A Kryptic Model of the Incarnation (Routledge, 2014) Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM and North American Religions Unit Hynes Convention Center-207 (Second Level) Theme: Welcoming the Stranger: Ethics of Care and Religious James Arcadi, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding Refugee Resettlement Work in the United States from WWII to the Present Panelists: Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM Richard Cross, University of Notre Dame Hynes Convention Center-108 (Plaza Level) Oliver Crisp, Fuller Theological Seminary Arissa Oh, Boston College, Presiding C. Stephen Evans, Baylor University Melissa Borja, City University of New York Thomas McCall, Trinity International University “I’m Going to Be Your Big Sister, Big Brother”: Notions of Gender and Joshua Farris, Houston Baptist University Family in Faith-Based Refugee Care Responding: Gale Kenny, Barnard College Andrew T. Loke, University of Hong Kong Mothers for the New World Order: Postwar Refugees and Protestant Churchwomen Janet Bauer, Trinity College A21-113 #aareco2017 B H The Role of Faith-Based and Faith-Related Voluntary Organizations in Facilitating Pathways to Refugee Social Inclusion Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit and Native Traditions in the Americas Unit and Religion and Ecology Unit Responding: Theme: Standing Rock and Beyond: Lakota Knowledge, Global Paul Bramadat, University of Victoria Indigenous Sovereignty, and Religious Freedom Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM A21-111 Hynes Convention Center-309 (Third Level) Danoye Oguntola-Laguda, Lagos State University, Presiding Buddhism Unit Stephanie Yuhas, Naropa University Theme: New Work in Buddhist Studies Standing for Sovereignty at Standing Rock Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Siv Ellen Kraft, University of Tromsø¸ and Greg Johnson, Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level) University of Colorado Reiko Ohnuma, Dartmouth College, Presiding Injury, Action, and Protection: Comparing Discourses of Religion, Nathan McGovern, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater Law, and the Environment at Standing Rock (North Dakota), Alta Oral Theory and Protestant Assumptions in the Study of Early (Sápmi), and Mauna Kea (Hawai’i) Buddhist Sutras Nicholas Shrubsole, University of Central Florida Blayne Harcey, Arizona State Univeristy Incommensurability and the Challenge for Indigenous Religious The Search for Buddhist Origins and the Construction of Lineage at Freedom Claims Nepal Kenneth Richards, University of North Carolina Ian MacCormack, Harvard University Savage Ecologies: Religious Freedom, Traditional Indigenous Circling the Square: Rethinking the Lhasa 0DΧΕDOD Knowledge, and U.S. Environmental Policy Responding: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 NOVEMBER TUESDAY, Kathleen J. 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l Spaces of Knowing: A ofl Spaces Knowing: Non-conforming Black Folk in the Black Folk Non-conforming Sartorial Transgressions: Reflections on Fashion, Sartorial Transgressions: Reflections on Capital and the Secular: New Critiques and New Horizons Capital and the Secular: Nolwandle Lembethe, University of the Witersrand University of the Nolwandle Lembethe, Intuitions and Spiritua Gendered Epistemic South African Context Benae Beamon, Boston University Boston Benae Beamon, and an Ethic of Identity, Black Queerness, the Subject: Fashioning Honor University of Central FloridaViau, Jeanine and Fashion, on Form, Notes Closets: In and Out of One Another’s in the Classroom Freedom Theology Iliff Schoolof Vazquez, Jared in the Agency and Resistance Bin: Rummaging through the Bargain Pursuit Style of Personal Theological Seminary Chicago Whitney Bond, for and Resistance Self-Expression, Fashion, That?! 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Andrea of Hermeneutic Revelation Womanist A University Valley Utah Kelli Potter, of Religion and the Philosophy Heterodoxy Leo Guardado, University of Notre Dame University of Notre LeoGuardado, Violence Resisting State Sanctuary Churches: Theological Union Graduate Jennifer Owens, Popular How Practice: as Epistemological la Paz por Las Caminatas Makes Meaning ofCatholicism SufferingHealing and Practices University of Dayton De Anda, Neomi Ethan Bushelle, Western Washington University Washington Western Ethan Bushelle, Genealogy A Buddhological The Aesthetics of of Mantra: Medieval Poetics Waka Harvard University Eric Swanson, of the Power Negotiating Evil: Vanquish to Majestic Methods Commentaries Esoteric Tendai in Subjugation Albany York, State University of New Proffitt, Aaron Pure Japan Land Buddhism in Early-Medieval Exo-esoteric University of Heidelberg Anna Andreeva, “Country for the Enlightenment Buddhism, Esoteric Bumpkins”? Practitioners Japan in Medieval and Non-elite Kami Cults, Santa Barbara University of California, Rambelli, Fabio Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Tuesday, A (ThirdHilton Boston Back Bay-Adams Level) Presiding University of Konstanz, Amber Griffioen, Theme: A21-116 Philosophy of Religion Unit Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit Culture, Latina/o Religion, Theme: A21-115 Resilience in Latinx Communities 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Tuesday, Sheraton Boston-Back (Second Bay B Level) Presiding York, New University, John’s St. Cruz, V. Jeremy Responding: A21-114 Studies Unit Tantric Japanese Religions and Unit Theme: after Kūkai (774–835) 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Tuesday, Sheraton (Third Boston-Berkeley Level) Presiding Harvard University, Ryuichi Abe, Responding: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 A21-121 B Study of Judaism Unit A21-119 Theme: Vulnerability, Resistance, and Mourning Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM Religion in South Asia Unit Hilton Boston Back Bay-Jefferson (Third Level) Theme: Constructing Powerful Selves: Autobiography in South Yonatan Brafman, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Asia Presiding Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sam Shonkoff, University of Chicago Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level) “Corporeality, Not Spirituality”: Martin Buber’s Resistance at Eranos Kristin Bloomer, Carleton College, Presiding in 1934 Alyson Prude, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater William Plevan, Congregation Shaare Zedek, New York, NY Authority and Vulnerability: Tibetan Buddhist Women’s Oral Life The Theoretical Elimination of Resistance: Buber’s Critique of Plato Narratives and Weber Ben Williams, Harvard University Geoffrey Claussen, Elon University Abhinavagupta as a Cosmopolitan Siddha: Religious Sources for Two Approaches to Vulnerability and the Exodus Narrative: The Writing the Self in Medieval Kashmir Stranger in the Writings of Irving Greenberg and Meir Kahane J. Barton Scott, University of Toronto Gila Silverman, University of Arizona A Bourgeois Ethic for Hindu Bombay: Victorian Self-Help and the “We Sat Shiva for Three Days”: Jewish Mourning among Liberal Gujarati Travelogue American Jews Chloe Martinez, Claremont McKenna College “An Eminent Mohammedan Moulvie”: Autobiography and Conversion in Colonial Punjab A21-122 K Responding: Teaching Religion Unit Janet Gyatso, Harvard University Theme: Evidence Based Teaching in Religion Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM A21-120 B H Sheraton Boston-Beacon F (Third Level) David B. Howell, Ferrum College, Presiding Science, Technology, and Religion Unit Kate DeConinck, University of San Diego Theme: Vulnerable Populations, Science, Technology, and Engaging Contentious Issues Using Team-Based Learning Strategies Religion John Lyden, Grand View University Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Teaching Islam and Current Events through Experiential Learning Hynes Convention Center-209 (Second Level) Nathaniel Samuel, St. Thomas University Sarah Fredericks, University of Chicago, Presiding Teaching Introduction to Religious Studies through a Partial Michelle Wolff, Duke University, and Kara Slade, Duke Community Engagement Model University Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Fordham University Sex Robots: Outsourcing Care Labor to Technology History Repeats: The Critical Theorist’s/Theologian’s Study of Religious Stina Busman Jost, Bethel University, and Andrea Hollingsworth, History in Real Time United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities Calvin Mercer, East Carolina University Inherited Vulnerabilities: Epigenetics and Religious Ethics Somatic Learning: An Exercise in “Reading” Religious Texts Jordan Brady Loewen, Syracuse University “Hacking Perception”: Techno-Entheogens, Virtual Reality, and the Vulnerability of Subjectivity TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 NOVEMBER TUESDAY,

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Baopuzi Where Sources Merge and Streams Depart: Ge Hong and Where Sources Merge and Streams Depart: Current Theories and Applications of the Cognitive Current Theories and Southwest Westmont College Westmont Max Benjamin Purzycki, Wellington, Victoria University, and Ara Planck Institute forEvolutionary Anthropology, University of British Columbia Norenzayan, Arizona State University Annette Huizenga, University of Dubuque Annette Huizenga, Theological Seminary Episcopal of the Cynthia Kittredge, University San of Diego Florence Gillman, Harvard UniversityElisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Wayne Kreger, Columbia College Kreger, Wayne Thought The Hong’s Great Beginning with Myriad — Ge Completions Context in Cultural University Vanderbilt Robert Campany, Matthew Wells, University of Kentucky Wells, Matthew Hong’s of Ge Social Context Political and The The Earth Immortal: Writing Religious University of British Columbia Clayton Ashton, The Limits of Propriety: Ritual in the Practice Hillary Lenfesty, Arizona State University, and Jeffrey Schloss, and Jeffrey Schloss, Arizona State University, Hillary Lenfesty, Experiences Promote Religious Ecstatic Cooperation Rita McNamara, University of British Columbia, Baimel, Adam God An Is a Believable Anthropomorphized God Cohen, and Adam ArizonaKathryn State University, Johnson, of God Varieties and the Motives, Social Fundamental, Evolved, Representations Texas University of Willard, Aiyana ofThe Role as Anthropomorphism the Mind of God: Understanding Belief Supernatural Cognition in Explaining Motivated www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 Responding: A21-126 Daoist Studies Unit Theme: the Navigation of Religious Identity 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Tuesday, Hynes Center-313 (Third Convention Level) Presiding University of British Columbia, Willis Munroe, A21-125 Cognitive Science of Religion Unit Theme: Science of Religion 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Tuesday, (ThirdSheraton Boston-Gardner Level) Presiding Iowa State University, Chilcott, Travis and papers.aarweb.org/program_book Anne Joh, Garrett-Evangelical Anne Joh, “Pauline” Landscapes Roundtable on Critical Theology against U.S. Militarism Roundtable on Critical Theology against Politics, Power, and the Rise of Fascism Politics, Power, and See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Scholars Alicia Batten, University of Waterloo University of Alicia Batten, College Thomas More St. Mary Anne Beavis, Michael Sepidoza Campos, Emerging Queer Asian Religion Michael Sepidoza Campos, Denison University Christine Pae, K. 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A21-123 and Culture Unit Religion, Theology, in Issues Tillich: Theme: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 A21-129 Religion and the Social Sciences Unit A21-127 Theme: Religion and Social Activism in a Trump Era Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Ethics Unit Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere A (Second Level) th Theme: Legacies of Revolution in Light of the 500 Anniversary of Kristy Nabhan-Warren, University of Iowa, Presiding the Protestant Reformation Donna Bowman, University of Central Arkansas Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Religious Convictions Among Pussyhat Makers Sheraton Boston-Liberty A (Second Level) David Feltmate, Auburn University, Montgomery, and Kimberly Frederick Simmons, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ, P. Brackett, Auburn University, Montgomery Presiding The Threats to Families Today: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Changing Jonathan Sauder, Brite Divinity School Religio-political Landscape in the United States The Malleable Mennonite Conscience: From Persecuted Prophets to Privileged Pacifists Brian Lee, Princeton University A21-130 #islamaar Is Harper’s Ferry an American Mount Moriah? Ethics at the Limits of Law and Order Study of Islam Unit Marlon Millner, Northwestern University Theme: Exploring the Islamic and the Secular The Light in Darkness — Evening Light Saints, Pentecostal Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Fugitivity, and Faith Alone Sheraton Boston-Public Garden (Fifth Level) R. Ward Holder, Saint Anselm College Elliott Bazzano, Le Moyne College, Presiding The Reformation as Revolution? Questioning the Revolutionary Anna Piela, Leeds Trinity University Character of the Church, Then and Now Identity and Experiences of Women Who Choose to Wear the Niqab in the United Kingdom Shatha Almutawa, Willamette University A21-128 Playing with Gender and Modernity: Tango in Secular Muslim Religion and Politics Unit Contexts Theme: The U.S Supreme Court and the Evolution of Religious David Decosimo, Boston University Liberty What Is an Islamic Value? Are There Any? Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Sheraton Boston-Clarendon (Third Level) A21-131 Jenna Reinbold, Colgate University, Presiding Katrina Myers, Boston University Western Esotericism Unit Little Sister’s Sorrow: Religion and Reproductive Justice in the Era of Theme: Differently Gendered Esotericisms: Modern Esoteric Obamacare Negotiations of Gender Polarity Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary’s College of California Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM The Fourth Disestablishment: Legitimacy and Religious Minorities Sheraton Boston-Liberty C (Second Level) Eric Stephen, Harvard University Cathy N. Gutierrez, New York, NY, Presiding Unpacking the Theological Underpinnings ofHobby Lobby: An Erin Prophet, Rice University Intellectual History of the Idea of “Complicity” in American Religion Syncretism in the Gendered and Nongendered Reproduction of and Law Blavatsky’s Root Races: From Hermaphrodites to Hairy Red Giants Georgia van Raalte, University of Kent Pomegranates and Crescent Honey-Cakes: Divine Femininity and Everyday Womanhood in the Work of Dion Fortune Manon Hedenborg White, Uppsala University Queering the Cup? The Negotiation of Gender Polarity in Contemporary TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 NOVEMBER TUESDAY,

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Schweig, University, Newport Christopher Presiding Level) (Third CopleyPlace-Brandeis Marriott Friday, 4:00PM–6:00PM Theologies Theme: (DANAM) America ofNorth Academy Dharma M17-300 Panelists: direct anyquestionstoRonCole-Turner at ISSR website ( Updated information aboutthissession willbepostedonline atthe Enhancement and Transhumanism Unit. units oftheAAR: BioethicsandReligionUnittheHuman event andtheco-sponsorship this oftwo of Religioninoffering Academy theassistanceof American The ISSRalsoacknowledges Mary at301-589-2509and Mary injustice. Allare welcome, soplease RSVP tohelp usplan. Contact increased sexism, racismandxenophobia, refugees, wars, andsystemic ofdiscourse, destabilization of neo-liberal hope inthecurrent climate studies, ministry, inspire thesepracticesand kindle andactivismcan Creativity”. 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dmckanan@hds. for more information. for more Unitarian Universalism and Today’s Global Crisis: Semper Unitarian Universalism and Today’s Global Forum: Supersessionism Clyde Grubbs, Blue Hills Spiritual Direction Clyde Grubbs, University of South Carolina Mitchem, StephanieY. Drew University Elias Ortega-Aponte, Bowling Green State University Hafidha Saadiqah, Theological School Meadville Lombard Welch, Sharon D. John Kampen, Methodist Theological School, Ohio Theological School, Methodist John Kampen, of MatthewThe Gospel and Antisemitism McMaster University Kennel, Maxwell Taubes’ and Jacob Restitution Anabaptist Emancipatory History: Eschatology Occidental College Goshen Philipp Gollner, and the Sacralization Christian Supersessionisms Tour: on Mennonites the Shoah of Place after Mennonite Biblical Anabaptist Seminary Barrett, LoisY. www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 M17-405 Unitarian Scholars Universalist and Friends Theme: Reformanda? Friday, 6:30 PM–9:30 PM 351 Boylston Street Offsite-Arlington Church, Street Presiding Boston University, Walsh, Michelle A. will explore Friends Conversation UU Scholars and year’s This the evolution the past fifty of Unitarian over Universalism years, Protestant legacy of the both to the five-hundred-year with an eye crisis in institutions of democratic Reformation and to the current Does the Unitarian Association’s Universalist the US and worldwide. multi-cultural, anti-racist, affirmation of an anti-oppressive, current of our and economically“reformation” inclusive a society represent or a recovery ancient principles? Is it possible of more identity, core and the rising intolerance, to resist tide of nativism and religious political of diverse ideologies? congregants simultaneously welcome As new perfect) nationalisms challenge the (far from globalizing should how institutions that Unitarian once supported, Universalists respond? we This will take place in the Chapel at Arlingtonevent Church, Street a fifteen stops on the minute walk down Boylston or two Street It is co-sponsored Center. the Hynes Line from Convention Green Starr Harvard King Schoolby for the Ministry, Divinity School, The Theological Education. on and the Unitarian Panel Universalist from a reception by followed will runconversation pm, 6:30–8:00 8:00–9:30 pm. Unitarian will be an opportunity be also There Boston’s to explore 17. November heritageUniversalist earlier in the day on Friday, persons should contact Dan McKananInterested at harvard.edu Panelists: M17-400 Mennonite Scholars and Friends Theme: 6:30 PM–8:30 PM Friday, Hilton Boston Back A (Second Bay-Belvidere Level) Presiding Toronto, University of Kimberly Penner, Responding: and papers.aarweb.org/program_book dition for fellowship, light dition for fellowship, [email protected]. A Conversation about the Gospel of Luke and Reception A Conversation about the Gospel of Luke Fresh Thinking from CTI Fresh Thinking from Nurturing the Next Generation of Scholars Nurturing the Next See the full Annual Meetings program online at x invites friends and colleagues from all streams who identify who identify invites friends all streams and colleagues from Heather Gorman, Johnson University Heather Gorman, University Pepperdine De Long, Kindalee Pfremmer United Methodist Women of Color Scholars Reception and Women United Methodist Panel 6:00 PM–8:00 PM Friday, Hynes Center-306 (Third Convention Level) M17-308 Friday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Friday, Sheraton (Third Boston-Commonwealth Level) Presiding Abilene Christian University, Hamilton, Mark SCJ with the Stone-Campbell tra Movement additional information For conversation. and interesting refreshments, Williamcontact Baker at Panelists: M17-306 Journal Stone-Campbell Theme: Society for the Study of Native American Sacred Traditions SocietyTraditions for the Study American of Native Sacred Annual Meeting 4:30 PM–6:30 PM Friday, Sheraton (Third Boston-Dalton Level) offering “gift” We do take a The Society to anyone. open meetings are The attendees typically talk to help defray cost of the meeting. the on topics an open discussion and then have about their research Occasionally American local Native leaders are to the Society. related invited to speak. M17-305 Theme: 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Friday, Sheraton (Third Boston-Clarendon Level) M17-304 Theological InquiryCenter of Friday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Friday, Copley Place-Great Republic (Seventh Level) Westin M17-302 Theological Exploration for Forum Theme: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 OTHER EVENTS 368 Hilton Boston Back Bay-Lincoln (Third Level) Bay-Lincoln (Third Hilton BostonBack Friday, 7:30PM–8:30PM Meetings(AARM) Recovery Academy Anonymous M17-402 Responding: Panelists: Presiding Tyler Mayfield, Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, Theological Level) (Fifth Boston-Olmsted Sheraton Friday, 7:00PM–8:30PM Bois andtheBlackSocialGospel Theme: GrawemeyerLouisville Award inReligion M17-408 Level) BayD(Second Boston-Back Sheraton Friday, 7:00PM–8:30PM Culture Friends andMembersMeeting ofReligion, Nature, fortheStudy Society and International M17-407 Level) Boston-Beacon E(Third Sheraton Friday, 7:00PM–8:30PM Perspectives Studies inReligious M17-401 Level) Bay-Belvidere B(Second Hilton BostonBack Friday, 6:30PM–9:30PM Theme: Boston College’s Institute Lonergan M17-406 Gary Dorrien,Gary ColumbiaUniversity, Union Seminary Theological Williams, ofAkronZachery University H.Christopher Evans, BostonUniversity Rima Vesely-Flad, WarrenCollege Wilson CelebratingGaryDorrien’s The FragilityofConsciousness x See the full Annual Meetings program onlineat thefullAnnual Meetingsprogram See FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Editorial Board Meeting Editorial The NewAbolition:W.E.B.Du : BookPanelDiscussion papers.aarweb.org/program_book Spiritus M18-5 Westin Level) (Seventh CopleyPlace-Courier Friday, 9:00PM–10:00PM Reception Friends ofAnimalsandReligion M17-404 Bay-WestminsterHilton BostonBack Level) (Second Friday, 8:30PM–10:00PM andFriends Reception Mennonite Scholars M17-403 Graham M. Schweig, University, Newport Christopher Presiding CopleyPlace-TuftsMarriott Level) (Third Saturday, 8:30AM–10:30AM Theme: (DANAM) America ofNorth Academy Dharma M18-100 Fairmont CopleyPlace-St. Level) JamesRoom (Lobby Saturday, 8:00AM–12:00PM AnnualMeeting inReligion Council onGraduateStudies M18-8 Level) Bay-Belvidere B(Second Hilton BostonBack Saturday, 7:00AM–8:30AM Responding: and Bhakti andAvatāra inthe Adluri, ofNew Vishwa University York City Joydeep Bagchee, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Jñāna—RevisitingRāmānuja’sBhakti astheFruition of Legacy Rangaswami,Sudhakshina Fort Washington, PA Indra as Time: Devotion Reconsidering in Smith,Caley University Harvard $ΙΛƘφJD\RJD Svādhyāya andBhakti: R.Stuart Sarbacker, University State Oregon Bhakti andHenadology Edward Butler, New York, NY www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 ReconsideringtheOriginsof Journal Editorial Board Meeting Editorial Journal SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 6DJXΧD 1ƘUƘ\DΧư\D Devatā and Bhakti ΨJYHGD 1LUJXΧD X.27 Īśvara in x FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 369 x

Love and Desire, Human and Divine Charles S. Peirce and the Study of Religion Charles S. Peirce and on Portable Anglicanism: The Impact of Migration Roehampton S. Mark Heim, Andover Newton Theological School Newton Andover Heim, Mark S. Theological Seminary Union Knitter, Paul Endicott College Oxenberg, Richard University Forest Wake Roberts, Voss Michelle Boston University Wildman, J. Wesley Nicholas Sagovsky, Liverpool Hope University and University of Sagovsky, Nicholas www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 M18-105 WallsTheology Group Without Theme: 9:30 AM–12:00 PM Saturday, Copley Place-Great (Seventh Republic Level) Westin Presiding University of Colorado, Martin, Jerry L. and hence analyses different traditions propose of desire, Different of the reflected in their understanding are These differences of love. and of the divine to the human, of the human to the divine, relation Which most understandings are and of the human to the human. What and the divine reality?adequate to the human condition most illuminating or examples are practices, theories, stories, texts, ideas interact texts and with How do the religious in this regard? psychological, personal, other sources, understandings gained from etc.? scientific, philosophical, literary, Panelists: M18-104 Society Charles Peirce S. Theme: 9:00 AM–12:00 PM Saturday, Copley Place-Commonwealth (Lower Room Fairmont Lobby Level) Society study encourages Peirce the Charles S. in 1946, Founded and its Peirce of Charlesof and communication about the work S. to which endeavor fields of intellectual the many ongoing influence in As the founder of pragmatism and of semiotics, he contributed. thought has deeply theologians and numerous influenced Peirce’s The purpose of this meeting today. working philosophers of religion influenced the contemporary has is to discuss how his work landscape in the work Peirce’s and what might be done to continue promoting study of religion. M18-112 Society for the Study of Anglicanism Theme: Identity 9:00 AM–12:30 PM Saturday, Copley Place-Empire (Seventh Level) Westin a panel a keynote address, This meeting will include breakfast, and comments from and a time for questions discussion in response, attendees. Panelists: and papers.aarweb.org/program_book Syntactic Databases for Biblical and Early Jewish Texts Syntactic Databases See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Emily Wilce, University of Leicester Wilce, Emily Art An and the Army: Perspective Art Historical Theological College Nazarene Dean Smith, Higher Theological The Salvation of Army and the Challenge Education for Millennium a New Booth University College Andrew Eason, Missions on the World of The Impact Spreading Salvation Abroad: ofThought Catherine Booth Life and Rob Holmstedt, University of Toronto University of Rob Holmstedt, of the Hebrew Bible Syntax University Western Trinity Martin Abegg, of Qumran Syntax Theological Asbury Seminary John Cook, Considerations and Other Syntactical Valence Software and Accordance OakTree Brown, Roy on Accordance and Display Searching Syntax Salvation Army Scholars Annual Meeting and Friends 9:00 AM–12:00 PM Saturday, Hilton Boston Back Bay-Jefferson (Third Level) Presiding College, Gordon Green, Roger J. M18-103 National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion Association of Baptist Professors National Annual Meeting 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Saturday, Copley Place-Essex North (Third Level) Westin M18-102 Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Saturday, Level) (Fourth Marriott Place-Yarmouth Copley with examples and discussion, Pleasefor a demonstration, join us Bible syntax databases potential of the Accordance of the research The basic Testament. and New Qumran texts, Bible, on the Hebrew but the be briefly will principles covered, process of the tagging advanced linguistic and the more searches focus will be on example Attendees are such as verbal valency. to the databases, issues relating for discussion. to bringencouraged and sample searches questions M18-101 Software Bible Accordance Theme: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 OTHER EVENTS 370 Responding: salvation. theologizing,Christian alsoregarding andchurch, Christ baptismand fulfillment.Rather, forany creation constitutestheuniversal horizon locustobefollowed bytheological otherloci, and suchasjustification ofcreation isnotjustanother thatthedoctrine holding theview forapost-secularage, reconfiguring model for reformation theology perspective, andfrom embodiedexperiences. Thus, SCToffersa therefore from validtoapproach itisreligiously theworld asecular God-less. isGod-given andimbuedwithadivinepresence;The world theologian N.F.S. Grundtvig. outsidethechurches isnot The world Luther,seminal insightsfrom Martin mediatedthrough theDanish —K.E. Løgstrup, ReginPrenter, andGustaf Wingren—combined (SCT) Scandinavian The three creation theology founding figures of Jakob Wirén, Church ofSweden, Presiding Level) Boston-Beacon E(Third Sheraton Saturday, 10:00AM–12:00PM Theology Theme: & Ruprecht Research Department, ofSweden and VandenhoeckChurch Center, Study Grundtvig University, Aarhus Denmark, M18-113 ofJesus,Community inOrleans, MA. atthe Yale America and inNorth Musicandthe InstituteofSacred in 2017theEuropean citiesofParis, andFlorence Strasbourg Ecumenism—What Creation,” RisksinArtistic Theology heldearlier and Arts highlighttopicscovered and will inthesymposium “The inFlorence, delDuomo Director oftheMuseoDell’Opera Italy), in exchange. inecumenical arts This panelwillcover themespresented forcoffeeanddiscussion on the role ofvisual andSpirituality Art Join Paraclete Press andtheMount Tabor Centre Ecumenical for Westin Level) (Seventh CopleyPlace-Adams Saturday, 10:00AM–11:30AM Commemoration YearoftheReformation The RoleofVisualArtsinEcumenicalExchangeforthe500th Theme: Paraclete Press M18-106 The Ecumenism of Beauty Beauty The Ecumenismof Marit Marit Trelstad, Pacific University Lutheran Keller,Catherine University Drew Wingren Becoming HumanAgain: The Gustaf of Life Theological Uggla,Bengt Kristensson Åbo AkademiUniversity 2017) Creation ofScandinavian Scandinavian Theology Reformation for a Age:Theology Post-Secular The Future of Trygve Wyller, ofOslo University (Cascade, 2017) Passionate Embrace: onLove, Luther Body, Presence andSensual Elisabeth Gerle, University andLund Church ofSweden PassionatelyHuman!TheFutureofScandinavianCreation The EcumenismofBeauty x See the full Annual Meetings program onlineat thefullAnnual Meetingsprogram See (Cascade, 2016) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 (edited by Monsignor Timothy Verdon, -PanelDiscussionandCoffee: papers.aarweb.org/program_book (V&R Academic (V&R Phyllis Herman,Phyllis University, State California Northridge, Presiding CopleyPlace-TuftsMarriott Level) (Third Saturday, 10:30AM–12:30PM Theme: (DANAM) America ofNorth Academy Dharma M18-108 Level) (Fifth CopleyPlace-Maine Marriott Saturday, 11:00AM–1:00PM Wesley Works M18-107 Fairmont Level) Lobby CopleyPlace-Forum Room (Lower Saturday, 11:30AM–1:00 PM Foundation Scholarship Luncheon Christian M18-110 Panelists: Cheatle,Andrew HopeUniversity, Liverpool Presiding Level) (Third University CopleyPlace-Boston Marriott Saturday, 11:00AM–3:00PM Practices andLegacyofanEighteenth-centuryAnglicanSect Theme: ofGreatBritain Methodist Church HopeUniversity,Liverpool ofManchester, University and M18-109 Responding: and Edwin F. Bryant, University Rutgers Yoga Sūtra Pluralism, Religious Devotion, and T. Krishnamacharya: Or, How the Corigliano,Stephanie University HumboldtState Understanding the Greater of Divine Grace intheHighest Samādhi: ABhaktiHermeneutic for Graham M. Schweig, University Newport Christopher Kenneth Newport, HopeUniversity Liverpool Gareth Lloyd, ofManchester University H.Christopher Evans, BostonUniversity David Hart, MethodistChurch ofGreat Britain Anna Lawrence, Fairfield University Tom Greggs, ofAberdeen University 0RNΙD Phyllis Herman,Phyllis University, CaliforniaState Northridge Sampraday The Unionof Yoga, Tapasya,Ramananda andBhaktiinthe Lamb,Ramdas ofHawai’i University Yoga Sūtra www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31

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) gathered leaders across the attendees leaders across ) gathered http://ecociv.org Recognizing the Divine Imprint Across Religious Recognizing the Divine Imprint Across Religious CA Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University Clooney, X. Francis University John’s St. Christopher Denny, Theological Union Graduate Rita Sherma, Union TheologicalJohn Thatamanil, Seminary College Berkeley Weidenbaum, Jonathan Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology School Claremont of Philip Clayton, Claremont, Studies, for Center Process Andrew Schwartz, Wm. Theology School Claremont of Elizabeth Singleton, www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 M18-305 Theological Consortium Initiative Hispanic Mentoring Gathering (Private) 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Saturday, Copley Place-America Level) North (Fourth Westin M18-300 WallsTheology Group Without Theme: Boundaries 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Saturday, Copley Place-Great (Seventh Republic Level) Westin Presiding University of Colorado, Martin, Jerry L. A spiritually traditions alert texts in other religious person who reads or a divine voice surprise, sometimes to the reader’s encounters, imprint — not only— which texts but also practices and persons This has happened to theologically. needs to be taken into account, will be Panelists it happens deservesall of us and how consideration. what texts captured asked to consider how this has happened to them, (if any) distinguished those marks” “divine their attention and what ways situations to their personal there these texts spoke Were texts. or in such texts to be found only canons, Are in religious or searches? or other works? philosophy or literature Panelists: As scholars, activists, and responsible citizens, it is imperative that it is imperative citizens, and responsible activists, As scholars, and of our annual meeting impact recognizeenvironmental the we and practices sustainable policies necessary more explore for an Meetings, At the 2016 SBL & AAR Annual ecological civilization. EcoCiv ( to discuss our responsibility as scholar-activists to transformto discuss our responsibility our in light the climate and local communities institutions, classrooms, our those conversations, on Building electoral politics. crisis and U.S exploratory2017 session will be an specific proposals on workshop our to reduce Meetings & SBL Annual for changes to the AAR with engage will be invited to Participants impact. environmental Our goal is to collaboratively leaders and peers as citizen-stakeholders. AAR and SBL can across plan that constituencies develop an action for formal leadership this to the AAR and SBL and present support, consideration. Panelists: and papers.aarweb.org/program_book The Exodus Annual Meeting: Stakeholder Workshop and nd EcoCiv 2 The History Behind the Story of the Exodus: A Discussion The History Behind the Story of the Exodus: The Future of Secularism in India and the United States The Future of Secularism See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Anant Rambachan, Saint Olaf College Anant Rambachan, Union TheologicalJohn Thatamanil, Seminary Theological Union Graduate Ramakrishnan Parameshwaran, Elizabethtown College Long, JefferyD. Discussion 4:00 PM–5:00 PM Saturday, Hynes Center-302 (Third Convention Level) Presiding Loyola Marymount University, John Becker, Meetings bring the AAR & SBL Annual together roughly Each year, This includes transportation, the world. around 10,000 scholars from our annual meeting has Like any event of this size, etc. housing, meals, a significant environment. impact on the Toward Ecological Civilization Toward Theme: M18-304 M18-201 Commentary Common English Bible Interpreter’s 2:00 PM–4:00 PM Saturday, Marriott Copley Place-Rhode Island (Fifth Level) Theme: M18-200 HarperOne of Richard Elliott Friedman’s New Book Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Saturday, Copley Place-Essex North (Third Level) Westin Join a distinguished panel for a rich of new of the breadth discussion evidence pointing to the historical background behind the biblical the rise this event has had on as the cultural impacts of as well story, neighbor and the alien. monotheism and the ethic of loving both the Saturday, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM Saturday, Marriott Place-Brandeis Copley (Third Level) Presiding Theological Union, Graduate Rita Sherma, Panelists: Responding: M18-202 North American of Dharma Hindu Association Studies Theme: M18-111 Academy Anonymous Recovery Meeting (AARM) 12:00 PM–1:00 PM Saturday, Hilton Boston Back (Third Bay-Lincoln Level) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 OTHER EVENTS 372 Muktabodha Indological Research Institute.Muktabodha Indological Westin Level) (Second CopleyPlace-Huntington Saturday, 7:00PM–9:00PM Reception AlumniandFriends Studies Religious Indiana University M18-402 WestinLevel) Center(Third CopleyPlace-Essex Saturday, 6:30PM–8:30PM andPoliticsJohn C. 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Editorial Meeting Board The Meanings of History: Event and Interpretation in the The Meanings of History: Event and Interpretation Willie J. Jennings, Yale University Yale Jennings, Willie J. Loyola University Maryland Rebekah Eklund, Villanova University Hughes, Kevin L. College Boston Andrew Prevot, University of St Andrews Wright, N.T. www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 M19-301 SeventhTheology Annual Analytic Reception 4:30 PM–6:00 PM Sunday, (Second Level) Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster M19-300 Journal of Religious Ethics 4:30 PM–6:00 PM Sunday, George A-B (Third Copley Place-St. Level) Westin Panelists: Responding: M19-200 Meeting Textbook Baker Academic 1:30 PM–4:30 PM Sunday, Sheraton C (Third Boston-Beacon Level) M19-201 SeventhTheology Annual Analytic Lecture Theme: Bible and Theology PM–4:30 PM 3:00 Sunday, (ThirdHilton Boston Back Bay-Adams Level) has several significantly different “history”, notoriously, word The word The not always tracked in relevant discussions. meanings, “history” itself will vary meaning of to which according “meaning” several interlocking by has been hindered here Discussion choose. we but systematically (1) the over-bright either/or of confusing debates: with its tendency to in modern thought, “supernatural” and “natural” (2) the sterile the other; side and Docetism on one on reductionism “progress” (and itself historically antithesis of pantheistic conditioned!) with its various spin-offs in biblical “apocalyptic”, and an irruptive “historical-critical”, term of the (3) the multivalence interpretation; sometimes used to indicate history of the employment to undermine Christiantraditional claims in a supposedly and sometimes more A fresh “authority”. biblical of (4) the question sense; “neutral” the term as (at least) a seeing is required, “history” appraisal of storytelling tasks, shorthand for various concerning events, narratives and symbol-making both within the biblical traditions themselves and not onlythe church in within their reappropriation as faith-narratives and apologia in the wider world. explanation but also as proclamation, Panelists: and papers.aarweb.org/program_book draws on the insights of liberation Editorial Meeting Board : A Conversation with Andrew Prevot , has already garnered significant attention, significant garnered attention, has already , Thinking Prayer Thinking Prayer Thinking Prayer

Decolonial Theological Encounters: An Invitation to Decolonial Theological See the full Annual Meetings program online at x Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Sunday, Hynes Center-306 (Third Convention Level) Theology Theological in Winner Best Book Society’s of the College Award, Loyola University, Maryland Loyola University, Theme: In an excellent symposiummost recently from in Syndicate. take the spiritualarguing that theologians must life as central both the crisis and the legacies of metaphysics when confronting of colonialism, Christian and diverse spiritual traditions. phenomenology, theology, M19-202 Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Pines School of Graduate Studies Alumni Association Luncheon PM 11:30 AM–1:00 Sunday, Sheraton (Third Boston-Commonwealth Level) M19-106 Biblical Interpretation PM 11:30 AM–1:00 Sunday, George A-B (Third Copley Place-St. Level) Westin M19-101 M19-105 Theology and Decoloniality Group Theme: Further Conversation 10:00 AM–12:00 PM Sunday, Marriott Place-Fairfield Copley (Third Level) continue the scholarly we that began conversations In this meeting, The Annual Meetings in Sanat the 2016 SBL & AAR Antonio. confirmed explorations) (and in subsequent last year scholars gathered that a rich variety underway of experiments are which draw from the Latin American modernity/coloniality a and inspire framework The meeting is of the theological key. in a decolonial task rethinking and Becca Medina, Néstor Lee Cormie, Michel Andraos, by convened fields of expertise find that who in their respective Latin Whitla, with criticalAmerican well thinking resonates discourses decolonial cultural, of social, range a broad addressing groups of many oppressed in particular with epistemological and justice/eco-justice issues, the evolving critical and their indigenous peoples discourses from Its goals include: The session will be highly participatory. movements. “liberation” political contexts, social locations, different dialogue across clarification and practices; of convergence, movements of points and some identification of possible collaboration(s); and divergence; next steps. concrete SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 OTHER EVENTS 376 reception attheAAR&SBLAnnual MeetingsinBoston. colleagues, friends, alumniandprospective graduatestudentstoa Oxford are delightedtoinvite and The Universities ofCambridge Level) BayC(Second Boston-Back Sheraton Sunday, 7:00PM–8:30PM Reception Joint ofCambridge andUniversity ofOxford University M19-431 Westin Center(Fourth Level) CopleyPlace-America Sunday, 7:00PM–8:30PM Yale Reception University M19-402 Fairmont CopleyPlace-St. Level) JamesRoom (Lobby Sunday, 7:00PM–8:30PM Reception Department Boston College Theology M19-401 Level) A(Second Boston-Liberty Sheraton Sunday, 7:00PM–8:00PM Theme: Malbon Festschrift Presentation M19-430 andcareer of and celebratingthelife Turid Seim. 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Anniversary of the Department of th www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 Religious Studies. Sunday, 9:00 PM–10:30 PM Sunday, Copley Place-America Level) North (Fourth Westin M19-418 Brite Divinity School Reception 9:00 PM–10:30 PM Sunday, (First Level) Marriott Copley Place-Tremont Sunday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM 8:00 PM–10:00 Sunday, George B (Third Copley Place-St. Level) Westin M19-433 Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture Reception PM 8:00 PM–10:00 Sunday, Marriott Copley Place-Suffolk (Third Level) M19-416 in the Study Davis Graduate Group University of California, of Religion Reception PM 8:30 PM–10:30 Sunday, Copley Place-Helicon (Seventh Level) Westin in the at the UniversityThe Graduate Group Study of Religion of everyone Davis welcomes in our program who is interested California, fun way to meet people associated like an informal, and would forward look we in our fifthyear, to join us! 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Concordia Seminary, Concordia Theological Seminary, and Theological Seminary, Concordia Seminary, Concordia PublishingConcordia House Reception 7:30 PM–9:30 PM Sunday, George A (Third Copley Place-St. Level) Westin Join us for the celebration of M19-412 Voelz W. ofHonor James University of Notre Dame Theology Dame University Reception of Notre 7:30 PM–9:00 PM Sunday, Copley Place-Newbury/Gloucester (Second Level)Westin M19-411 Sunday, 7:30 PM–9:00 PM 7:30 Sunday, Marriott Copley Place-Arlington (Third Level) faculty students, The JTS Kekst Graduate School alumni, invites Jewish dietary kosher reception. colleagues and their friends to a light, to confirm the location in the AAR and Be sure laws will be observed. SBL mobile app or in the Online M19-410 Theological JewishSeminary Kekst Graduate School Reception Sunday, 7:30 PM–9:00 PM 7:30 Sunday, Hilton Boston Back A (Second Bay-Belvidere Level) to formJoin us to help facilitate the initial meeting a Chinese Theological interested. Association with those who are Evangelical China Consortium Academic Theme: M19-409 Academy Anonymous Recovery Meetings (AARM) PM–8:30 PM 7:30 Sunday, Hilton Boston Back (Third Bay-Lincoln Level) Sunday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM Sunday, Hynes Center-207 (Second Convention Level) Panelists: M19-408 M19-432 Thought (IIIT)International Institute of Islamic Theme: Responding: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 OTHER EVENTS 378 Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick A (Second Level) A (Second Bay-Maverick Hilton BostonBack Sunday, 9:00PM–11:00PM Reception NearJohns Hopkins University Eastern M19-425 WestinLevel) (Third South CopleyPlace-Essex Sunday, 9:00PM–11:00PM Nordic Universities Reception M19-424 Westin (Fourth South Level) CopleyPlace-America Sunday, 9:00PM–11:00PM Reception (GDR) GraduateDivisionofReligion University Emory M19-423 Bay-WestminsterHilton BostonBack Level) (Second Sunday, 9:00PM–11:00PM PhD Reception Seminary Garrett-Evangelical Theological M19-422 Level) Lobby (Lower Suite Fairmont CopleyPlace-State Sunday, 9:00PM–11:00PM Reception Religion University State Florida M19-421 Level) Bay-Adams Hilton BostonBack (Third Sunday, 9:00PM–11:00PM Gathering AnnualAlumni School University Drew Theological M19-420 WestinLevel) (Third North CopleyPlace-Essex Sunday, 9:00PM–11:00PM Reception Department Religion Columbia University M19-419 x See the full Annual Meetings program onlineat thefullAnnual Meetingsprogram See SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 papers.aarweb.org/program_book Park Plaza-Georgian (Mezzanine Level) Park (Mezzanine Plaza-Georgian Sunday, 9:00PM–11:00PM Reception Studies ofCalifornia, Religious University SantaBarbara M19-428 WestinLevel) Center(Third CopleyPlace-Essex Sunday, 9:00PM–11:00PM Universities Reception Scottish M19-427 Fairmont Level) Lobby CopleyPlace-Forum Room (Lower Sunday, 9:00PM–11:00PM Alumni/ae and Reception Friends Theology andPerkins MethodistUniversity of Southern School M19-426 Sheraton Boston-Back Bay B (Second Level) BayB(Second Boston-Back Sheraton Sunday, 9:00PM–11:00PM Reception School andEpiscopalDivinity Union Seminary Theological M19-435 Level) BayA(Second Boston-Back Sheraton Sunday, 9:00PM–11:00PM Reception GraduateProgram inReligion University Duke M19-434 WestinLevel) (Third CopleyPlace-Staffordshire Sunday, 9:00PM–11:00PM Alumni andFriends Reception for School Divinity ofChicago University M19-429 and www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 x MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 379 x

Rising Scholars and the Future of Transreligious Theology Rising Scholars and the Future of Transreligious Certification Cohort Gathering and General Info Certification Cohort Christopher Denny, St. John’s University John’s St. Christopher Denny, Drew Univsersity Rory McEntee, McMaster University Kurt Richardson, Anders Boston University Bin Song, University John’s St. Christopher Denny, Toledo University of Jeanine Diller, McMaster University Kurt Richardson, Anders Union TheologicalJohn Thatamanil, Seminary www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=31 Theology Without WallsTheology Group Without Theme: 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Monday, Copley Place-Empire (Seventh Level) Westin Presiding University of Colorado, Martin, Jerry L. the theological future. Join us for an open meeting to address facultyGraduate students and young members grewa world up in They globalizedmore than that of their teachers. and disaffiliated personal aims, concerns, presuppositions, different have may well or organizational institutional and career patterns, backgrounds, They may theologize wider range of much in terms of a settings. and in service of a wider communitythe than just spiritual data, every participantwill be In this open-ended discussion, “faithful”. an opportunitygiven to speak personally about the changing situation. Panelists: M20-101 Group Walls Planning Meeting Theology Without 11:00 AM–12:00 PM Monday, Copley Place-Empire (Seventh Level) Westin Presiding University of Colorado, Martin, Jerry L. panel topics, Join us for an open meeting to discuss future Walls. 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