Spring 2001 Published by the American Academy of Religion Vol. 16, No.2 INSIDE ANNUAL MEETING REGISTRATION THIS ISSUE PACKET see inside Annual Meeting News Registration News . .2 www.aarweb.org/annualmeet Important Dates . .2 What’s on in Denver . .9 A look back at Nashville . .9 Second Chairs Annual Meeting A look at membership surveys about the Workshop Announced 3 Annual Meeting . .25 Evaluating Teaching chosen as theme Around the Quadrangle . .6 Census Enters Analysis Stage 3 In Memoriam . .10 Field data to become “information” NEW In the Field Teaching Award Recipient Announced 5 Now online . .10 Eugene Gallagher, Connecticut College Features Member Committees Meet and Act 11 Department Meeting . .23 Spring meetings advance the work of the Academy A conversation with Steve Dunning, Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania Religion Scholars Receive National Member-at-Large . .12 Arts and Humanities Medal 5 Claude Welch on the first census of religion Robert Bellah and Edmund Morgan honored and theology programs The Public Interest . .19 Courtney S. Campbell on cloning Find Religion @ _________ 4 From the Student Desk . .12 New resource mounted on www.aarweb.org Suzanne E. Schier, Vanderbilt University, on AAR gatherings Regional Development Grant Research Briefing . .17 A conversation with Linda Barnes of the Opportunities Sought 4 Boston Healing Landscape Project “Blame Canada:” Defending the Humanities . .6 Rebecca S. Chopp: . .15 Special Supplement Scholar, administrator, and volunteer and... AAR series from Oxford University Press . .7 Spotlight on Teaching Religion and Music Journalist as Scholar . .16 Joyce Smith talks to Kenneth Woodward, Newsweek magazine Ninian Smart, 1927-2001 . .13 A special remembrance 2001 ANNUAL MEETING DENVER 2001 AAR Staff Directory Shaun Cox Administrative Assistant E-MAIL:[email protected] TEL: 404-727-3049 Go West! Barbara DeConcini Executive Director and Treasurer Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion E-MAIL:[email protected] TEL: 404-727-3049 November 17-20, 2001 Denver, CO Joe DeRose Director of Membership and Technology t one mile high, Denver really is the tops! We’re thrilled to Additional Meetings Services be heading out west, and we think you will be, too. The Conferon, our meeting planning partner, is now accepting requests E-MAIL: [email protected] A central downtown location of the Colorado Convention for Additional Meeting space. All requests are handled on a space and TEL: 404-727-3049 Center and Adam’s Mark Hotel are ideal for Annual Meetings of time-slot available basis. The Additional Meetings program held in the AAR and SBL. conjunction with the AAR Annual Meeting is an important service to Ina Ferrell AAR members. All Additional Meeting participants are expected to Accountant Denver is a ‘walking city’ with only one-way streets and a pedestri- register for the Annual Meeting. Be sure to read the instructions E-MAIL: [email protected] an mall along Sixteenth Street. Every block has restaurants, delis, carefully before completing and submitting your space request. TEL: 404-727-2331 bistros and shops! Mark your calendars now for the opening of housing and registration, Tuesday, May 15, 2001, for fax, phone, For more information about the Additional Meetings or to obtain a Edward R. Gray and online. Monday, May 14, 2001, for online registration only. request form, please see www.aarweb.org/annualmeet. Questions Director of Academic Relations should be directed to Erin Vonderbruggee or Gina Golde, E-MAIL: [email protected] Tel: 314-997-1500; E-MAIL: [email protected]. TEL: 404-727-2270 Annual Meeting registration —- Opens on May 15, 2001 John Harrison Employment Information Services Director of Finance and The 2001 Employment Information Services Center will be located in Operations/Deputy Executive Director Telephone: 888-447-2321 (US & Canada) 972-349-7434 (outside US & Canada) the Adam’s Mark Hotel. Candidates and employers who wish to E-MAIL: [email protected] participate should visit the AAR website, www.aarweb.org/eis. TEL: 404-727-7954 Fax: 972-349-5443 Registration opens on June 18, 2001. See page 26 for more information. Steve Herrick Online: www.aarweb.org/annualmeet Director of External Relations Mail: AAR Annual Meeting Pre-registration & Housing AAR Annual Meeting Online Services E-MAIL: [email protected] c/o Wyndham Jade www.aarweb.org/annualmeet TEL: 404-727-7948 6400 International Parkway, Suite 2500 •Register for the Annual Meeting Anne Kentch Plano, TX 75093 Office Manager •Reserve your Hotel Room E-MAIL: [email protected] New for 2001 •Make your Airline Reservations TEL: 404-727-3026 Annual Meeting registration rates are moving from a two-tiered •Retrieve your Additional Meeting requests/forms structure to a three-tiered structure for 2001. From the time Emily Noonan •Register for EIS Project Assistant registration opens on May 14, registration rates will be in the •Download EIS Center forms ‘Super-Saver’ category (the same as last year’s pre-registration rates). E-MAIL: [email protected] •Search the Online Program Book TEL: 404-727-4707 In the Super-Saver period, all registrants will receive their registration packets (with name badge, tote-bag ticket, etc…) beginning in Shannon Planck mid-September. Annual Meeting Program Director Annual Meeting 2001 From September 16 through October 15, the rates will move to the E-MAIL: [email protected] second tier. There is no guarantee that those who register during this TEL: 404-727-7928 Important Dates time period will receive their packets before they arrive in Denver. May 15 Phone, Fax, Mail From October 16 through the Annual Meeting, the rates will move Registration and Housing open for the 2001 Annual Meeting. to the third and final tier. Anyone who registers during this period You must be registered to secure housing! Religious Studies News, AAR Edition is may retrieve his or her packets onsite at the Colorado Convention published by the American Academy June 18 Center, Lobby C. As always, a program book will be sent as a member of Religion in print and, in a modified EIS Center registration opens benefit to all 2001 members (as of July 31, 2001); receipt of a format, online in Winter, Spring, and Fall. program book is NOT an indication of Annual Meeting registration. August 1 Letters to the editor and features Membership dues for 2001 must be paid and address changes examining professional issues in the In other Annual Meeting news, we plan to reinstate both a printed must be noted with AAR Member Services in order to receive an field are welcome from all readers. version of the abstracts produced in cooperation with SBL, and an advance copy of the Annual Meeting Program. AAR members’ reception, complete with dancing and music. We Please send editorial pieces in electronic Early September will continue to provide a tote bag on a first come, first served basis. uncompressed file format only (Word Annual Meeting Program mailed to all current AAR members. is preferred) to: [email protected] Finally, One Day Registrations will only be available on-site this year. Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery. Deadlines for submissions: September 16 Winter: December 15 Membership Second tier Pre-meeting registration rates go into effect. Don’t forget to renew your membership dues prior to registering so Spring: March 15 that you can take advantage of the lower member registration rates. Mid-September Fall: July 15 If you are not certain about your current 2001 membership status, Pre-registration packets mailed for those who registered from Advertising please see www.aarweb.org/membership or call 1-404-727-3049. May through September 15. For more information on advertising, October 15 please see EIS Center registration deadline. www.aarweb.org/publications/rsn. Getting Around Free shuttle service will be provided to the Adam’s Mark Hotel and October 16 Publisher: Colorado Convention Center from all Annual Meeting hotels that Third and final tier registration rates go into effect. American Academy of Religion are not within walking distance of the sessions. Shuttles will run 825 Houston Mill Road, NE October 24 every 15 minutes between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. and between Special housing rates end. (Continue to contact Wyndham Jade Suite 300 6:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. for housing throughout the meeting.) EIS Candidate Resume Atlanta, GA 30329 shuttles will run every 20-25 minutes. Forms due. Editor: Edward R. Gray, Ph.D. November 5 Getting to Denver Pre-meeting registration refund request deadline. Contact Wyndham Production Manager: Stellar Access is the official travel agency of the AAR Annual Jade for refunds (see Pre-meeting Registration Form for details). Anne Kentch Meeting. Stellar Access can provide all AAR members with discount November 8 Layout: fares for air travel to Denver and car rental in Denver. Contact Pre-meeting registration ends. All registrations must take place Mary Vachon, Atlanta, GA Stellar Access and refer to AAR Annual Meeting group code #494. on-site in Denver at the Colorado Convention Center, Lobby C. © AAR, 2001 Tel: 800-929-4242 (US & Canada) November 17-20 619-232-4298 (outside US & Canada) Annual Meetings of AAR and SBL, Denver, Colorado. Online: www.stellaraccess.com (Please note, first time users must register at StellarAccess.com and refer to Group #494) More on the Annual Meeting inside on page 9 2 • Spring 2001 AAR RSN NEWS Chairs’ Day-long Workshop to focus on evaluating teaching Dr. Peter Seldin is Distinguished Academic Relations Task Force announces preliminary program Professor at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York. A behavioral scientist, educator, for a specially designed workshop for department chairs author, and specialist in the evaluation and development of faculty and Pressing theme identified for Denver event administrative performance, he has been a consultant to more that 250 colleges and arren Frisina, Chair of the Academic Relations Task Force, announced plans for a universities throughout the United States second daylong workshop for department chairs convening before the Annual and in 30 countries around the world.