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Published by the American Academy of Religion October 2003 Vol. 18, No. 4 www.aarweb.org ❒ IT’S TIME TO RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP Annual Meeting News See page 11 for a membership form What’s On in Atlanta . 6 Eat, Drink, and Be Entertained Reel Religion . 6 Eight Exciting Movies To Be Shown AAR Announces New Strategic Plan......................3 Performances and Exhibitions . 6 Centennial Strategic Plan 2004–2009 Spirituality, Sacred Places, and Gospel Singing Atlanta Tours . 7 Election 2004 ..........................................................4–5 Five Important Sites Candidates for Vice President and Student Director Results of Surveys . 8 Special Topics Forum Three New Program Units . 8 Pew Awards AAR $560,000 to continue Animals and Religion; Childhood Studies and Religion; and Relics and Religionsource ..........................................................11 Sacred Territory (Space) Providing Journalists with Referrals to Scholars FBI on Panel at Annual Meeting . .8 FBI, Scholars, and a Journalist Look American Academy of Religion Awards ......12–13 at Religion’s Role in Crises Excellence in Teaching, Book Awards, Best In-Depth Reporting, Chairs Workshop . 9 Scholarship, Service, and Stress: and the Martin E. Marty Award The Tensions of Being a Chair Annual Meeting Focus . 10 Japanese Scholars and Scholarship AAR Surveys of Religion & Theology Marty Award Forum . 12 Programs in the U.S. ..............................................14 A forum with 2003 winner Robert Wuthnow The Study of Religion and Theology at the Undergraduate and Graduate Levels FEATURES Regional Meetings and Calls for Papers ............15 Beyond the Annual Meeting . .10 Regional Groups Meet in Spring 2004 An Interview with Manabu Watanabe Member-At-Large . .17 National Endowment for the Humanities ..........17 An Interview with the Templeton Laureate 2003 An Interview with Chairman Cole Passages . .18 An Interview with Eugene Bianchi, Emeritus, Emory University Academy Fund ..................................................22–23 In the Public Interest . .19 Over Eight Hundred Contribute to the Work of the Academy Supreme Court Membership Could Affect Church-State Relations Department Meeting . .20 An Interview with Wade Clark Roof, Chair of the UCSB Department of Religion Spotlight on Teaching Research Briefing . .20 Medieval Women and Their Holy Objects Teaching about From the Student Desk . .21 Religion and Violence From Clash to Creativity Religious Studies News, AAR Edition 2003 2003 Member Calendar AAR Staff Directory Dates are subject to change. Check www.aarweb.org for the latest information. Kyle Cole, Ph.D. Associate Director of Religionsource October November 15. AAR officer election votes due. December 31. Membership renewal for 2004 E-MAIL: [email protected] due. Renew online at www.aarweb.org/dues/ TEL: 404-727-4725 Religious Studies News, AAR Edition November 21. Fall Board of Directors page01.asp. Barbara DeConcini, Ph.D. October issue. meeting, Atlanta, GA. Executive Director and Treasurer Spotlight on Teaching Fall 2003 issue. November 21. Chairs Workshop at the E-MAIL: [email protected] Annual Meeting, Atlanta. Free for depart- And keep in mind TEL: 404-727-3049 October 1–November 15. AAR officer elec- ments enrolled in the Academic Relations throughout the year . Joe DeRose tion period. Candidate profiles published in Program. For more information, see Director of Membership and Technology Services RSN. www.aarweb.org/department/acadrel.asp. Regional organizations have various deadlines E-MAIL: [email protected] throughout the fall for their Calls for Papers. TEL: 404-727-7972 October 15. January 2004 RSN submission November 22–25. Annual Meeting, Atlanta, See www.aarweb.org/regions/default.asp. Ina Ferrell deadline. GA. Held concurrently with the Society of Accountant Biblical Literature each November, comprising In the Field. News of events and opportu- E-MAIL: [email protected] October 16. Third tier (“Regular”) Annual some 8,500 registrants, 200 publishers, and nities for scholars of religion. In the Field TEL: 404-727-2331 Meeting registration rates go into effect. 100 hiring departments. is a members-only online publication that Carey J. Gifford, Ph.D. accepts brief announcements, including Director of Academic Relations October 21. EIS preregistration closes. calls for papers, grant news, conference E-MAIL: [email protected] Deadline for receipt of Candidate Resume TEL: 404-727-2270 Forms. announcements, and other opportunities December appropriate for scholars of religion. John Harrison Submit text online at www.aarweb.org/ Director of Finance and Operations/ Journal of the American Academy of Religion publications/inthefield/submit.asp. Deputy Executive Director November December 2003 issue. E-MAIL: [email protected] TEL: 404-727-7954 October 1–November 15. AAR officer December 4. New program unit proposals due. Openings: Employment Opportunities for Scholars of Religion. Openings is a mem- Steve Herrick election period. Candidate profiles December 12–13. Program Committee bers-only online publication listing job Director of External Relations published in RSN. meeting, Atlanta, GA. E-MAIL: [email protected] announcements in areas of interest to TEL: 404-727-7948 November 1. Research grant awards December 15. Submissions for the March members; issues are viewable online from the first through the last day of each Myesha D. Jenkins announced. 2004 issue of Religious Studies News due. For month. Submit announcements online, Administrative Supervisor more information, see E-MAIL: [email protected] November 12. Executive Committee and review policies and pricing, at www.aarweb.org/publications/rsn/default.asp. TEL: 404-727-3026 meeting, Atlanta, GA. www.aarweb.org/openings/submit.asp. Aislinn Jones Annual Meeting Program Director E-MAIL: [email protected] TEL: 404-727-8132 Allya Macdonald Administrative Assistant E-MAIL: [email protected] TEL: 404-727-7920 Shannon Planck Director of Development E-MAIL: [email protected] TEL: 404-727-7928 Shelly C. Roberts Projects Assistant E-MAIL: [email protected] TEL: 404-727-4707 Susan Snider Administrative Assistant, Media Referral E-MAIL: [email protected] TEL: 404-727-4711 Religious Studies News, AAR Edition is published quarterly by the American Academy of Religion in January, March, May, and October. Letters to the editor and features examining professional issues in the field are welcome from all readers. Please send editorial pieces in electronic uncompressed file format only (MS Word is preferred) to: [email protected]. Subscriptions to individuals and institutions are available. See www.aarweb.org/ publications/rsn for more information. Deadlines for submissions: January: October 15 March: December 15 May: February 15 October: July 15 Advertising For information on advertising, please see www.aarweb.org/publications/rsn Publisher: American Academy of Religion 825 Houston Mill Road, NE Suite 300 Atlanta, GA 30329 Editor-in-Chief: Carey J. 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These pro- strengthen and enlarge the study of reli- we have heard from over four hundred of INCE AT LEAST THE EARLY grams continue to offer vital support to gion in your classrooms and campuses, you — about 4 percent of our members. 1990s, the AAR has set its course our mission of advancing scholarship and your lectures and publications, and your Among the responses to this impending by means of a formal strategic plan- S teaching in religion and theology. public outreach. Especially, we are indebt- change (effective in 2008), the salient dif- ning process. Through the discipline of ed to the hundreds and hundreds of our ferential in opinion is the subfield within periodically scanning the impinging envi- During the past several years, the AAR has members who serve on committees, the field of religion in which one works. ronmental factors, assessing our accom- been about the work of imagining our organize and plan the Annual Meeting, Members whose scholarly work most plishments and challenges, and thinking new future and recollecting our