2018 Preliminary Program Book PDF

AAR 2018 Preliminary Program Book (as of June 5)
Friday - 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

A16-100
Teaching and Learning Committee Meeting
Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College, Presiding

A16-101
Public Understanding of Religion Committee Meeting
Erik Owens, Boston College, Presiding
A16-102
Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer Persons in the Profession Committee
Meeting
Thelathia Young, Bucknell University, Presiding
A16-103
Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee Meeting
Nargis Virani, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding

A16-104
International Connections Committee Meeting
Amy L. Allocco, Elon University, Presiding

A16-105
Class, Labor, and Religion Workshop: Engaging Class and Labor in the Study of Religion: Intersections,
Methodologies, Collaborations
Joerg Rieger, Vanderbilt University, Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger, Southeast Center for Cooperative Development,
Santiago H. Slabodsky, Hofstra University, and Jeremy Posadas, Austin College, Presiding
A16-106
Public Scholarship and Practical Impacts Workshop: Media Training and Work outside the Academy

Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Harvard Law School, Andrew Henry, Boston University, and Hussein Rashid, Islamicate,
LLC, Presiding
Panelists:
Kelly J. Baker, Women in Higher Education

Diane L. Moore, Harvard University
Simran Jeet Singh, New York University

A16-107
THATCamp - The Humanities and Technology Camp AAR/SBL 2018
Candace Mixon, University of North Carolina, Younus Mirza, Allegheny College, Constance Kassor, Lawrence
University, and Adam Porter, Illinois College, Presiding
Friday - 10:00 AM-12:30 PM

A16-108
American Lectures in the History of Religions Committee Meeting
Rumee Ahmed, University of British Columbia, Presiding
Friday - 10:00 AM-12:30 PM

A16-109
Religion and Media Workshop: Theorizing the Public in Public Scholarship
Panelists:
Anthea Butler, University of Pennsylvania

Nabil Echchaibi, University of Colorado
Nathan Schneider, University of Colorado
Jenna Supp-Montgomerie, University of Iowa
Friday - 12:00 PM-3:00 PM

A16-110
Religions, Medicines, and Healing Unit
Emily Wu, Dominican University, California, and Linda L. Barnes, Boston University School of Medicine, Presiding
Theme: Religions, Medicines, and Healing Resources Website Workshop

A16-111
Regional Coordinators Meeting
Katherine Downey, Presiding
A16-112
Status of Women in the Profession Committee Meeting
Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University, Presiding

A16-200
Graduate Student Committee Meeting
Rachel Toombs, Yellowstone Theological Institute, Presiding

A16-201
Academic Relations Committee Meeting
Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding
A16-202
Comparative Hagiology Workshop: Issues in Theory and Method
Massimo Rondolino, Carroll University, Presiding
Panelists:
Gloria I-Ling Chien, Gonzaga Univeristy


David DiValerio, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Todd French, Rollins College
Jon Keune, Michigan State University
Sara Ritchey, University of Tennessee
A16-203
Ethnography and Theology Workshop: Methodologies, Approaches, and Recurring Themes
Tone Stangeland Kaufman, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Presiding
Panelists:
Angela Cowser, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Jonas Ideström, Church of Sweden Research Unit, Uppsala, Sweden
Mary Clark Moschella, Yale University
Nancy J. Ramsay, Brite Divinity School
Hendrik Pieter de Roest, Protestant Theological University
Nicola Slee, Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education
Peter Ward, Durham University
Natalie Wigg-Stevenson, University of Toronto
A16-204
Integrating Religious and Disability Studies Workshop: Creating, Shaping, and Implementing Curriculum
Nicholas Shrubsole, University of Central Florida, Presiding
Panelists:
Benjamin Conner, Western Theological Seminary

Deborah Creamer, Association of Theological Schools
Raedorah Stewart, Wesley Theological Seminary
Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown University
A16-205
Ritual Studies Workshop: Methodological Experiments with Ritual Studies
Panelists:
Lee Gilmore, San José State University

Ronald L. Grimes, Wilfrid Laurier University
Michael Houseman, École Pratique des Hautes Études
Martin Pehal, Charles University
Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico
A16-206
Denver City Tour

A16-208
Anti-Islamophobia 2018 Summer Workshop Participant Meeting

A16-207
Women's Caucus
Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College, Presiding
Theme: Response-Ability of Feminist Scholars of Religion in the Public Sphere
Panelists:
Alicia Panganiban, Princeton Theological Seminary

A16-209
Centers on Religion and Public Life Workshop: Best Practices and Possible Collaborations
Andrew Davies, University of Birmingham, Presiding
A16-210
Public Scholars Project Workshop: Practical Skills for the Public Scholar
Mara Willard, University of Oklahoma, Presiding

A16-211
Religion and Ecology Workshop: New Developments in Resources and Strategies for Teaching Religion and
Ecology
Panelists:

Evan Berry, American University
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University
Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University
Rebecca Kneale Gould, Middlebury College
Kevin O'Brien, Pacific Lutheran University
Catherine Wright, Wingate University
Barbara A. B. Patterson, Emory University
Forrest Clingerman, Ohio Northern University
Lucas Johnston, Wake Forest University
Isabel Mukonyora, Western Kentucky University

A16-300
Buddhist Studies Workshop: Buddhism for the Liberally Educated: Today’s Buddhist Studies Classroom
Panelists:
Kristin Scheible, Reed College

Jonathan Young, California State University, Bakersfield
Amy P. Langenberg, Eckerd College
C. Pierce Salguero, Pennsylvania State University, Abington
Natalie Gummer, Beloit College

A16-400
Promoting Religious Literacy College-Wide Project Planning Meeting

A16-500
Film: Father’s Kingdom
Marie W. Dallam, University of Oklahoma, Presiding
Panelists:
Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University

Lenny Feinberg, MAJ Productions

Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini University
A16-501
Film: Ragad
Rebecca Moody, Syracuse University, Presiding
Saturday - 7:00 AM-8:00 AM

A17-1
Yoga Class

A17-3
Department Chairs' and Program Coordinators' Breakfast
Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding
A17-4
New Members' Breakfast and Annual Meeting Orientation
Alice Hunt, American Academy of Religion, and David P. Gushee, Mercer University, Presiding
A17-5
Regional Officers’ Breakfast

A17-100
Student Lounge Roundtable
Theme: Controversial Comparisons: The Promise and Peril of Foregrounding Identity Categories in Religions and
Other Worldviews

Panelists:
Nathan Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara

A17-101
Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty, Applied Religious Studies, Graduate Student, and Status of LGBTIQ
Persons, Persons with Disabilities, Racial and Ethnic Minorities, and Women in the Profession Committees
Peter Anthony Mena, University of San Diego, and Kerry Danner, Georgetown University, Presiding
Theme: #metoo: Discrimination, Harassment, and Abuse in the Academy
Panelists:
Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, University of North Carolina

Valerie Bridgeman, Methodist Theological School, Ohio
Carolyn Davis, Public Religion Research Institute
Kelly J. Baker, Tallahassee, FL
Laurie Louise Patton, Middlebury College
A17-102
Academic Relations Committee and Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives Unit and Promoting
Religious Literacy College-Wide Seminar
Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University, Presiding
Theme: Religious Studies and the K-12 Classroom: How Religious Studies Departments Might Help Prepare Future
Educators
Panelists:
Michael Graziano, University of Northern Iowa

Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico
Benjamin Marcus, Religious Freedom Center
Joanne Maguire Robinson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Diane L. Moore, Harvard University
A17-103
Afro-American Religious History Unit
Leslie Ribovich, Princeton University, Presiding
Theme: The Challenge of Langston’s Salvation (NYU Press, 2017): Redirections in African American Religious
History through Literature and the Arts
Panelists:
Benae Beamon, Boston University

Vaughn Booker, Dartmouth College
Alisha L. Jones, Indiana University
Brenton Miles Brock, Princeton Theological Seminary
Responding:
Wallace Best, Princeton University
Business Meeting:
Lerone Martin, Washington University, Saint Louis

LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant, Williams College
A17-104
Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit
Rachel Lindsey, Saint Louis University, Presiding
Theme: Reflections on Arts, Literature, and Religion Pedagogy
Jennifer Awes Freeman, University of St. Thomas

Engaging Art to Teach Theology
Kristine Whaley, University of Glasgow

Creating Emotional Literacy in Theological Classrooms: The Use of Story to Teach the Doctrine of Humanity
Christopher Patrick Parr, Webster University

Teaching Art and Literature from Diverse Religions via "Maps of Reality": A Demonstration of Concept
Amy Gray, Wesley Theological Seminary

Rethinking the Pedagogy of the Arts in Theological Education
Brett Speakman, University of St Andrews

The View from within: An Affective Approach to Interdisciplinary Studies
Business Meeting:
Zhange Ni, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Pamela D. Winfield, Elon University
A17-105
Bioethics and Religion Unit
Marcella Norling, Orange Coast College, Presiding
Theme: Religious Bioethics and Public Engagement
Christopher Jones, Barry University

Participatory Public Bioethics and the Problem of Wellbeing
Dallas Gingles, Southern Methodist University

Bonhoeffer, Bioethics, and Public Moral Reason
Hajung Lee, University of Puget Sound

Optimal End-Of-Life Care for Buddhist Immigrant Patients in the U.S.: Understanding Buddhist Perspectives on
Brain Death and Adopting Cultural Humility in Healthcare
Wylin Dassie Wilson, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

An Integrative Approach to Bioethics, Gender, and Religion: Public Engagement and Vulnerable Populations
Business Meeting:
Swasti Bhattacharyya, Buena Vista University
A17-106
Buddhism Unit
Geoffrey Barstow, Oregon State University, Presiding
Theme: Animal Consumption in Context: Comparing Localized Constructions of a Mahāyāna Buddhist Animal
Ethics
Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina

Partaking of Life: Eating Animals in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
Alan Wagner, Collège de France

Layman Ruru on Karma, Animal Sacrifice, and the Unity of the Three Teachings
Anna Johnson, University of Michigan

Meat for Monks: A Tibetan Polemicist Refutes Arguments for Vegetarianism on Scriptural Grounds
Stuart Young, Bucknell University

A Silkworm Theodicy: Buddhist Discourses on Sericulture, Entomic Deities, and Sentient Consumables in Medieval
China
Hyoung Seok Ham


Bhāviveka’s Involuntary Contradiction with the Pro-Vegetarian Mahāyāna Sūtras
Business Meeting:
James Robson, Harvard University

Reiko Ohnuma, Dartmouth College
A17-107
Christian Systematic Theology Unit
Joy McDougall, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Spirits of Capital, Ancient and Modern
Panelists:
John E. Thiel, Fairfield University

Pui Lan Kwok, Emory University
Nichole Flores, University of Virginia
Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University
Responding:
Devin Singh, Dartmouth College

Kathryn Tanner, Yale University
Business Meeting:
Junius Johnson, Baylor University
A17-108
Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit and SBL Violence and Representations of Violence in
Late Antiquity Unit
Jamel Velji, Claremont McKenna College, Presiding
Theme: Religious Violence, Trauma, and Humanity’s Search for Security
Carolyn Alsen , University of Divinity

Surveillance and Lot-Sodom: A Hermeneutic of Watching
Chase L. Way, Claremont Graduate University

Flooded: Deluge Mythology in Declassified American Intelligence Analyses of Iran, 1946-1953
Siti Sarah Muwahidah, Emory University

Conservatism, Identity Boundaries, and National (In)security

Megan McBride, U.S. Naval War College
Trauma, Insecurity, and the Practice of Killing
A17-109
Comparative Studies in Religion Unit
Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, Presiding
Theme: Remembering Jonathan Z. Smith: Shaping Our Field and Our Work in the Comparative Study of Religion
Panelists:
Kurtis Schaeffer, University of Virginia

Oliver Freiberger, University of Texas
Hugh B. Urban, Ohio State University
Eric D. Mortensen, Guilford College
Kimberley Patton, Harvard University
A17-110
Comparative Theology Unit and Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit
Brandon Gallaher, University of Exeter, Presiding
Theme: Eastern Orthodoxy and the Comparative Theological Enterprise
Panelists:
Kerry San Chirico, Villanova University

Rico Gabriel Monge, University of San Diego
Joel Gruber, University of San Diego
Zachary Ugolnik, Columbia University
Responding:
Michelle Voss Roberts, Wake Forest University School of Divinity
A17-111
Confucian Traditions Unit and Daoist Studies Unit
Pauline Lee, Saint Louis University, Presiding
Theme: Scathing Screeds: Polemics as a Means of Defining One's Religion in Imperial China
Keith Knapp, The Citadel


Why Buddhism Stinks: Defining Confucianism through Polemical Attacks
Thomas Jülch, Ghent University

Comparative Perspectives on Anti-Daoist Writing in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Apologetic Literature
Albert Welter, University of Arizona

A Buddhist Ru at Song Emperor Taizong’s Court: Zanning’s Arguments for the Inclusion of Buddhism in Chinese
Wen (Literary Culture)
Mark Halperin, University of California, Davis

Parting of the Ways: A Twelfth-Century Confucian Looks at the Taoists
David Bratt, University of California, Berkeley

That Practice of Theirs, This Way of Ours: Polemic as Self-Definition in The Scripture of Great Peace
Business Meeting:
Pauline Lee, Saint Louis University

Aaron Stalnaker, Indiana University
A17-112
Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit
Vivianne Crowley, Nottingham Trent University, Presiding
Theme: Pagan Space, Place, and Community
Francesca Ciancimino Howell

Materiality, Food, and Power of Place: Animic Explorations from Italy
Giovanna Parmigiani, Harvard University

"Tarantarsi" Today: Ethnographic Reflections on Pizzica as a Spiritual Practice among a Neo-Pagan Community in
Contemporary Salento, Italy
Holli S. Emore, Cherry Hill Seminary

Group or Solitary: Choices and Spiritual Care Needs in Contemporary Pagan Practice
Kimberly Kirner, California State University, Northridge

Is Paganism the “Church of the Back Yard”? Perceiving and Crafting Sacred Place among Contemporary Pagans
Business Meeting:
Amy Hale, Atlanta, GA

Shawn Arthur, Wake Forest University
A17-113
Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit
Marko Geslani, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: The Legacy of Orientalism (Pantheon, 1978)
Panelists:
Erik Braun, University of Virginia

Juan E. Campo, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mayanthi Fernando, University of California, Santa Cruz
Peter Gottschalk, Wesleyan University
Jason Josephson-Storm, Williams College
Nancy Levene, Yale University
Travis Zadeh, Yale University
Business Meeting:
David Walker, University of California, Santa Barbara

Sean McCloud, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
A17-114
Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit
Tom Berendt, Temple Univeristy, Presiding
Theme: Becoming and Unbecoming Energy: Agriculture, American Energy Policy, Ecosexuality, and the Church of
Stop Shopping
Kristin Ritzau, California Lutheran University

Surviving and Reclaiming the Margins: Women Transforming Agriculture in the US
Terra Rowe, Drew University

Energizing Feminist Discourse in an America First Era: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Energy Policy and Practice
Todd LeVasseur, College of Charleston

Erotic Energy Flows of Feminist Materialist Religious Becoming
Business Meeting:
Carol Wayne White, Bucknell University

Mary Keller, University of Wyoming
A17-115
Hinduism Unit
Deepak Sarma, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding
Theme: Hindu Humor: Mining the Best Bits of a Rich Religious Tradition from the Outside In and the Inside Out

Shubha Pathak, American University

Creating a Sectarian Satire in a Secondary Epic: Kālidāsa’s Śaiva Recastings of the Rising and Setting Solar Dynasty
Gregory Clines, Harvard University

Drunk Parrots in the Pleasure Forest: Humor in the Jain Author Hastimalla’s Añjanāpavanañjaya
Joel Bordeaux, Stony Brook University

Gopal Save the King: Hagiographic Humor and the "Bengali Birbal"
Charles Preston, Millsaps College

Mockery and Modernity: Contemporary Sanskrit Satire and Questions of Orthodoxy
Responding:
Rebecca Manring, Indiana University
Business Meeting:
Patton Burchett, College of William and Mary

Shubha Pathak, American University
A17-116
Indian and Chinese Religions Compared Unit
Michael Allen, University of Virginia, Presiding
Theme: Commentaries: Transmission and Innovation
Maria Heim, Amherst College

An Apprenticeship in Pali Commentary
Dan Lusthaus, Harvard University

How Commentaries Elucidate or Alter a Text's Meaning
Sangyop Lee, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University

The Immanence of Enlightenment in Indian and Chinese Buddhism: The Metaphor of the Ocean and Waves
Revisited
Xiaoming Hou, École Pratique des Hautes Études

From Meditation Teachings to Exegetical Tools : Development of the “Six Gates” Meditation Teachings in the
Works of Zhiyi (538-597)
Ronald S. Green, Coastal Carolina University

The Relation of Early Japanese Hossō to Woncheuk and “Old Yogācāra”
Business Meeting:

Dan Lusthaus, Harvard University
A17-117
Islamic Mysticism Unit
Racha el Omari, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Theme: Ways of Knowing in Islam
Elizabeth Sartell, University of Chicago

Prime Matter and the Elements as Mystical Concepts in Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Cosmogony
Noah Gardiner, University of South Carolina

Diagrams, Visions, and Cosmological Exegesis in Aḥmad al-Būnī’s Laṭāʾif al-ishārāt fī al-ḥurūf al-ʿulwīyat
Yasir Qadhi, Rhodes College

Ibn Taymiyya’s Supra-Rational Epistemology: The Fiṭra and Its Role in Correcting Human Intellect (ʿaql)
Sayed Hassan Hussaini Akhlaq, Boston University

Nasafī’s Idea of Theological, Philosophical and Mystical Schools of Islam in Examining Sharīʿa, Ṭarīqa, and Ḥaqīqa
Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed, The University of Chicago Divinity School

Knowledge and Eternal Felicity in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s al-Maṭālib al-ʿālīya
Responding:
Michael Rapoport, Yale University
A17-118
Jain Studies Unit
Hamsa Stainton, McGill University, Presiding
Theme: The Multiple Facets of Jain Stotras: Hymns at the Nexus of Devotion, Ritual, and Culture
Ellen Gough, Emory University

The Jain Bhaktāmara Stotra and the Domestication of Tantric Mantras
Finnian Moore Gerety, Yale University

OM, Jain Stotras, and Sound as Revelation in Early South Asia
Lynna Dhanani, Yale University

Prasasti as Stotra: Examining Hemacandra’s Royal Paneygric in Light of Contempary Hymn-Making Practices
Sarah Pierce Taylor, Oberlin College

Making a Jain by Praising a King: Encomiums from Rastrakuta king Amoghavarsa’s Court

Responding:
John E. Cort, Denison University
Business Meeting:
Mary Whitney Kelting, Northeastern University

Steven Vose, Florida International University
A17-119
Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit
Anthony M. Bateza, St. Olaf College, Presiding
Theme: Contexts for Identity and Freedom: Challenges for Luther and Lutheranism
Robert Overy-Brown, Claremont Graduate University

Qualified Freedom, Qualifying Freedom: Luther’s On Christian Liberty and Questions of Political Autonomy
Mary Elise Lowe, Augsburg College

Re-Forming Freedom and Conscience: Luther, Neighbor, Embodiment, and Discourse
Marit Trelstad, Pacific Lutheran University

A Non-Universal Lutheran Theology: Contextual Theological Process in Namibia
Caryn D. Riswold, Illinois College

Already Freed, Christians Should Serve (Cake): Christian Privilege & Religious Freedom Claims
Business Meeting:
Allen G. Jorgenson, Wilfrid Laurier University

Kristen E. Kvam, Saint Paul School of Theology
A17-120
Platonism and Neoplatonism Unit
Kevin Corrigan, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: From Plotinus, Gregory of Nyssa and Dionysius to Bonaventure, and Dante
Brendan Case, Duke Divinity School

Center and Circumference: Bonaventure’s Trinitarian Revisions of a Plotinian Trope
Nathan Tilley, Duke University

Erotic Pedagogy in Gregory of Nyssa's First Homily on the Lord's Prayer
Rebecca A. Coughlin, McGill University


Divine Darkness Becomes the Brilliance of Divine Love: Ficino’s Renaissance Retrieval of Dionysian Mysticism
Daniel Heide, McGill University

Divine Eros: The Providential and Perfective Ecstasy of God in Dionysius’ Divine Names IV
Rachel Teubner, University of Virginia

Eros and Community: An Alternative Genealogy of Christian Ascent in Dante's Commedia
Daniel Tolan, Cambridge University

Ὁ Θεὸς ἔρως ἐστί: Origen and the Predication of God as ἔρως
A17-121
Practical Theology Unit
Tone Stangeland Kaufman, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Presiding
Theme: The Future of Practical Theology: Emerging Scholars and Themes
Panelists:
Kyle Brooks, Columbia Theological Seminary

Sarah Dunlop, University of Cambridge
Christopher James, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary
Kirstine Helboe Johansen, Aarhus University
Sabrina Müller, University of Zurich
Patrick Reyes, Forum For Theological Education
Christine Hong, Columbia Theological Seminary
Almeda Wright, Yale University
Responding:
Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt University

Heather Walton, University of Glasgow
Business Meeting:
Christian A. B. Scharen, Auburn Theological Seminary
A17-122
Qur'an Unit
Jessica Mutter, University of Chicago, Presiding
Theme: Emotion and Affect in and around the Qur’an
Karen A. Bauer, Institute of Ismaili Studies


God’s Emotions and Human Emotions in the Qur’an
Mahdi Tourage, King's University College--University of Western Ontario

Affective Entanglements with the Sexual Imagery of Paradise in the Qur'an
Kathryn M. Kueny, Fordham University

Tasting Fire: Affective Turn in Qur’anic Depictions of Divine Punishment
Joseph Vignone, Harvard University

“To Have Knowledge is to Dread God”: Fear and Learning in Medieval Islam
Lauren Osborne, Whitman College

Affective Reading in Sayyid Qutb’s Al-Taṣwīr al-fannī fī al-Qurʾān
Business Meeting:
Gordon D. Newby, Emory University

Walid Saleh, University of Toronto
A17-123
Religion and Cities Unit
Katie Day, United Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia, Presiding
Theme: Religious Responses to Urban Contexts and Crisis
Markha Valenta, Radboud University Nijmegen

Architectonics of Revolutionary Devotion: Building Ambedkar in Mumbai
Jason McKinney, Trinity College, University of Toronto

The Spiritual Practice of Commoning: Faith Communities and the Urban Commons
Harold Morales, Morgan State University

Engaging Religion in the City of Baltimore with Community Partners
Responding:
Helene Slessarev-Jamir, Claremont School of Theology
Business Meeting:
Elise Edwards, Baylor University
A17-124
Religion and Ecology Unit
Evan Berry, American University, Presiding
Theme: Re-Wilding and Wilderness
Michael Putnam, Harvard University

The Language of the Flowers: Reading Thoreau's Scientific Archive
Michael Northcott, University of Heidelberg

Religious Influences on the Pioneers of Nature Conservation, Open Access, and Environmental Protest in Britain
Lynn Hofstad
Two Understandings of Wilderness: How Conceptions of Wilderness Affect the Re-Wilding Movement
A17-125
Religion and Sexuality Unit and SBL LGBTI/Queer Interpretation Unit
David T. Stewart, California State University, Long Beach, Presiding
Theme: Sacred Texts in Sexuality Education
J.D. R. Mechelke
Providing a Disorienting Dilemma: Possibilities for Genesis 34 in Church Comprehensive Sexuality Education with
Youth
Barbara Thiede, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Bromance in Bible: How Male-Male Friendships in Biblical Literature Can Teach Students about the Use and
Misuse of Women and Women’s Bodies
Laurel Koepf Taylor, Eden Theological Seminary

There Aren’t Any Owls in OWL But There Aren’t Any Eunuchs Either: The Bible in Comprehensive Sexuality
Education with Young Children
Kathryn House, Boston University

To Choose Rightly: How Sacred Texts and Faith Traditions Inform Sexual Behavior Decisions
A17-126
Religion in Southeast Asia Unit
Etin Anwar, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Presiding
Theme: Religion and Ethnicity across Southeast Asia
Niklas Foxeus, Stockholm University


Buddhist Nationalism and Boundary-Making in Myanmar: Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Theories, a Nationalist
Discipline, and Nationalist Rituals
Oona Paredes, National University of Singapore

An Unbroken Whole: Law as Religion among the Higaûnons of Mindanao (Philippines)
Nathan McGovern, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

The Brahmans of Nakhon Si Thammarat
Responding:
James Hoesterey, Emory University
Business Meeting:
Alexandra Kaloyanides, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Richard Fox, Heidelberg University
A17-127
Religion in the American West Unit
Brett Hendrickson, Lafayette College, Presiding
Theme: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity in the Memorialization of the American West
Barry Joyce, University of Delaware

Beneath the Altar at Awatovi: The Memorialization of Sacred Space in the American Southwest
Michele Ferris, University of Chicago

The Bishop Hill Community: Commemorating Religious Innovation and the Banal Life on the Prairie
Sarah Koenig, Kalamazoo College

“The Benefactor of His Race”: Race and Religion in Pioneer History
Arlene Sanchez-Walsh, Azusa Pacific University

Shoot-Out in Miracle Valley: Race, Violence, and Contesting Pentecostal Memory
Responding:
Roberto R. Lint Sagarena, Middlebury College
Business Meeting:
John-Charles Duffy, Miami University
A17-128
Religion, Sport, and Play Unit
Annie Blazer, College of William and Mary, Presiding
Theme: Embodied Performance and Performative Bodies: Sports at the Nexus of Race, Gender, and Politics
James Hill, Northwestern University

Colin Kaepernick and the Resignification of the Black (Athletic) Body
Jeremy Sabella, Kalamazoo College

Postures of Piety and Protest: The Politics of Kneeling in NFL Stadiums
Tracy J. Trothen, Queen's University, Kingston

Cyborgs, Bots, and Heavenly Bodies? Sports, Spirituality and Human Enhancement
Stanley Talbert, Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York

Toward a Theoethic of Play: Eboni Marshall Turman and Serena Williams at the Net
Janice McRandal, Charles Sturt University

Worthless: Bodies Watching Bodies, Eschatology, and the Subversive Possibilities of Test Match Cricket
Business Meeting:
Carmen Marie Nanko-Fernandez, Catholic Theological Union

Arthur Remillard, Saint Francis University
A17-129
Religions, Medicines and Healing; African Diaspora Religions; Indigenous Religious Traditions; Latina/o Religion,
Culture, and Society; Native Traditions in the Americas; and Religions in the Latina/o Americas Units
Suzanne J. Crawford O'Brien, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding
Theme: Decolonization as Healing Part I: Navajo, Native/Chicanx, and Afro-Caribbean Religions
Natalie Avalos, Connecticut College

Widening the Sacred Hoop: Decolonial Healing in a Native/Chicanx Community
JK Melton, Fordham University

Seeking Hózhó in the Prayerbook: Inculturation as Decolonial Healing Process among Diné Episcopalians
Israel Dominguez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Existence as Resistance: Curanderismo as a Framework for Decolonization
Marcus Harvey, University of North Carolina, Asheville

“It Is a Real Person Who Takes Bitter Medicine”: Charting Components of a Trans-Diasporic Restorative Theory of
Knowledge
Sonya Maria Johnson, Beloit College

In the Spirit of Liberation: Palo Monte/Mayombe within Oriente, Cuba

Responding:
Gabriel Estrada, California State University, Long Beach
A17-130
Ricoeur Unit
Jeffrey F. Keuss, Seattle Pacific University, Presiding
Theme: The Social Relevancy of Ricoeur’s Philosophy
David Roldan, FIET Theological Institute

Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics and Liberation Theology: A Way to Overcome the Post-Structuralist Challenge?
Brian A. Butcher, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, Toronto
Freedom within Limits (?): “Uniate” Theology between Catholic West and Orthodox East
Rose Ellen Dunn, Princeton Theological Seminary

Toward Remembrance: The Forgotten Mothers and Children of Ireland
Howard Pickett, Washington and Lee University

Troubling Reciprocity: Asymmetries of Power and Recognition in Paul Ricoeur, Delores Williams, and Iris Marion
Young
Business Meeting:
Jeffrey F. Keuss, Seattle Pacific University
A17-131
Theology and Continental Philosophy Unit
Marika Rose, University of Winchester, Presiding
Theme: Talal Asad and Continental Philosophy: The Problem of History
Selim Karlitekin, Columbia University

The Pleasure Principle According to Talal Asad: Conscripts and Desire-Machines
Aaron Eldridge, University of California, Berkeley

The Vicissitudes of Liturgy: Agamben and Asad on the Spatialization of Time
Basit Iqbal, University of California, Berkeley

Hiatus of Translation (Anthropology’s Unavowable Community)
Rajbir Singh Judge, University of California, Davis

The Asadian Sublime: On History and Tradition

Responding:
Anthony Paul Smith, La Salle University
A17-132
Theology and Religious Reflection Unit
Tamsin Jones, Trinity College, Hartford, Presiding
Theme: The Intelligibility of Transcendence
Andrew Stone Porter, Vanderbilt University

Ethical Interdisciplinarity as Political Solidarity: Emmanuel Levinas and Laurel Schneider on the Intelligibility of
Transcendence
Thomas A. James
God, Amid the Transcendence of Things
Sara Evans, University of Otago

Maritain and Polanyi: Indwelling the Transcendent through Aesthetic Vision
Monica Sanford, Claremont School of Theology / Rochester Institute of Technology

Theological Reflection without “Theo": Transcendent Connections for Buddhist Chaplains in Inter-Religious Settings
Business Meeting:
Tamsin Jones, Trinity College, Hartford

Rakesh Peter Dass, Hope College
A17-133
Transnational Religious Expression: Between Asia and North America Seminar
Lucas Carmichael, University of Colorado at Boulder, Presiding
Theme: Border Crossings: Mutability and Multidirectionality
Marcus Evans, McMaster University

The Man with the Iron Fists: Anti-Racism and Afro-Asian Solidarity in Film.
Alexander Rocklin, Willamette University

Hindu Cosmopolitanism of the Afro-Atlantic: Popular Healing and the Complexity of Racial Religious Identifications
in Colonial Trinidad
Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College

Translating and Missionizing Buddhism to North American Tourists in Thailand
Amanda Lucia, University of California, Riverside


Yogic Spiritual Tourism: A Modern Asceticism?
Responding:
Courtney Bruntz, Doane University
Business Meeting:
Lucas Carmichael, University of Colorado at Boulder

Holly Gayley, University of Colorado
A17-134
Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism Unit
Carol Marie Webster, Presiding
Theme: Power, Pedagogy, and Women of Color Practices of Resistance
Reamogetje Ngoepe, Union Theological Seminary

Glossolalia as a Form of Black Women's Resistance
Patricia Haggler, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York

The Exact Synonym for “Missionary” is Negro Teacher: Black Feminism in the Sunday School
JungJa Joy Yu, Claremont Graduate University

Surprising Parallels: Feminine Divine Power in Afrocentric Tradition and in Hindu Epics
Deborah Rogers
Thinking out Loud: Womanist Pedagogical Resources for the Classroom as a Site for Healing
Responding:
Sailaja Krishnamurti, Saint Mary's University
Business Meeting:
Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University
A17-135
World Christianity Unit
Corey Williams, Leiden University, Presiding
Theme: Method and Theory in World Christianity: Reassessing Our Scholarly Toolbox
Douglas Jacobsen, Messiah College


Scientific Methodologies for World Christianity: Fuzzy Sets and Multi-Scale Frames of Reference
Thomas Seat, Princeton Theological Seminary

Facing Methodological Quandaries in Defining World Christianity’s Object: Resolving Essentialist/Anti-Essentialist
Tension with Wittgenstein
Allison Norton, Hartford Seminary

Exploring New Horizons: Intergenerational Approaches to Studying Transnational Religion
Gina Zurlo, Boston University

Hashtags and Jesus: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Megachurch Social Media Use
Responding:
Janice McLean-Farrell, City Seminary of New York
Business Meeting:
Jonathan Tan, Case Western Reserve University

Corey Williams, Leiden University
A17-136
Folklore and Religion Seminar
Stephen Wehmeyer, Champlain College, Presiding
Debasree Palit, Ramsaday College, The University of Calcutta

Baul Song of Bengal: An Interpenetrative Relation between Islamic and Non-Islamic Cult
Mary Beth Moser

The Everyday Spirituality of Women in the Italian Alps: A Trentino American Woman’s Search for Spiritual Agency,
Folk Wisdom, and Ancestral Values
Ben Danner, Indiana University

That “Tingly Feeling” Named ASMR: Internet-Stimulated Relaxation as Vernacular Ritual Practice
Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini University

The Upper Room: Domestic Space, Vernacular Religion, and the Observant Collegiate Catholic
Responding:
Sabina Magliocco, University of British Columbia
Business Meeting:
Stephen Wehmeyer, Champlain College
A17-137
Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Seminar

Timothy D. Knepper, Drake University, Presiding
Theme: Philosophies of the Cosmos
Nathan Eric Dickman, Young Harris College

Where, Not When, Did the Cosmos “Begin”?
Marie-Helene Gorisse, Ghent University

Cosmology and the Path to Liberation in Jainism
Jeremy Hustwit, Methodist University

Nontheistic Options in Cosmomereology
Business Meeting:
Gereon Kopf, Luther College
A17-138
Interreligious Reflections on Immigration Seminar
Laura Alexander, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Presiding
Jason Welle, The Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies
Theology of Migration and Holiness of Place : Reflections on Shrines in Two Traditions
Justin Ashworth, Azusa Pacific University

Creation, Christ, Church: Three Approaches to Christian Ethics of Borders
Zeyneb Sayilgan, Virginia Theological Seminary

Germany in the Construction of Turkish Migrant Poems: A Muslim Theological Response
Colleen Cross, University of Notre Dame

Liturgies of Contestation: The Role of Religious Ritual in Responding to the U.S. Migration Crisis
Responding:
Kristine Suna-Koro, Xavier University

Michael Canaris, Loyola University, Chicago
Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego
Hussam S. Timani, Christopher Newport University
Joseph Mas, Ohio Hispanic Coalition, Columbus, OH
Business Meeting:
Alexander Y. Hwang, Xavier University
A17-139

Religion and US Empire Seminar
Tisa Wenger, Yale University, Presiding
Theme: Empire of Capital, Empire of Humanity
Panelists:
Heather D. Curtis, Tufts University

Kathryn Gin Lum, Stanford University
Lucia Hulsether, Yale University
Jill DeTemple, Southern Methodist University
Moshe Kornfeld
Daniel Vaca, Brown University
Chad Seales, University of Texas
A17-140
Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America Seminar
Nora L. Rubel, University of Rochester, Presiding
Theme: Diverse Approaches to the Study of Religion and Dress
Christa Shusko, York College of Pennsylvania

From Healthy to Holy: 19th Century American Dress Reform and New Religious Movements
Elizabeth Dolfi, Columbia University

Adorned in Grace: Gender, Consumer Humanitarianism, and Evangelical Material Culture
Marie Pagliarini, Saint Mary's College

Images in the Flesh: Religious Tattooing in Oakland, CA
Kathryn Davis, Claremont Graduate University

A Style of Their Own: Clothing as a Visual Signifier of Piety for Mormon Women in America
Madeline Duntley, Bowling Green State University

Ritualized Garments and Color-Vibrational Esotericism in Angel Pageantry
Business Meeting:
Marie W. Dallam, University of Oklahoma
A17-141
Nominations Committee Meeting
A17-142

Women's Caucus
Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Methodist Theological School, Ohio, Presiding
Theme: Response-Ability: Rethinking Economics in the Feminist Theological Discourse
Elonda Clay, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

Informationalization and the Algorithmic, Automated, Underconnected, Surveilled, Misogynistic Nature of
Women's Disempowerment in the 21st Century: Cyberfeminist and Cyberwomanist Theological Responses
Janice Poss, Claremont Graduate University

Religion’s Response to World Economic Forum’s Ability: Working Hand in Hand to End Sexual Harassment and
Violence
Jea Sophia Oh, West Chester University, Pennsylvania

Salim, Women, and Oikos: A Planetary Expansion of Family
Responding:
Mary E. Hunt, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual, Silver Spring, MD
P17-100
Karl Barth Society of North America
George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Karl Barth's The Epistle to the Romans
Robert David Nelson, Baker Academic & Brazos Press

The Voice of History: Barth on the Religion and Faith of Abraham in Romans 4
Greg Cootsona, California State University, Chico

The World of Barth's Second Edition of The Epistle to the Romans
Sarah Keough, Boston University

Human Subjectivity, Karl Barth, and the Women's Mosque Movement of Egypt
Timo Helenius, University of New Brunswick Saint John

Night Creatures: Barth’s Phenomenology of Sünder Mensch
Responding:
Keith Johnson, Wheaton College

Saturday - 10:45 AM-12:15 PM

A17-143
Theme: Diapers and Dissertations: Reconfiguring What Matters to a Single Parent Ph.D. Student
Panelists:
Darcy Metcalfe, University of Iowa

A17-144
Religion and the Arts Award Jury Meeting
Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University, and Karen Gonzalez Rice, Connecticut College, Presiding

A17-145
Plenary Panel: Religion Journalism and Religion Scholars: To 2020 and beyond
David P. Gushee, Mercer University, Presiding
Panelists:
Elizabeth Dias, TIME Magazine

Laurie Goodstein, New York Times
Emma Green, The Atlantic
Jerome Socolovsky
Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press
Jeremy Weber, Christianity Today
A17-146
Contingent Faculty Luncheon: What Should AAR’s New Executive Director Know about Working off the Tenure-
Track?
Kerry Danner, Georgetown University, and Edwin David Aponte, Louisville Institute, Presiding
A17-147
LGBTIQ Mentoring Lunch
A17-148
Women's Caucus
Julia Berger, University of Kent, Presiding
Theme: Response-Ability to Develop and Connect Women's Caucuses across Regions
Panelists:
Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, Montclair State University

Saturday - 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

A17-149
Theme: Economies of Sharing: The Ethics of Appropriating Pedagogical Resources and the Motives of Distribution
Panelists:
Jon Kara Shields, University of Notre Dame

A17-200
Applied Religious Studies Committee
Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Harvard Law School, Presiding
Theme: Another Plan A: Religious Studies Education and Careers beyond the Academy
Panelists:
Stephanie Brehm, Northwestern University

David Krueger, The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program
Benjamin Marcus, Religious Freedom Center
Emily McFarland Miller, Religion News Service

Simran Jeet Singh, Trinity University
A17-201
Public Understanding of Religion Committee and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting
Theme: AAR Journalism Award Session: The Complexities of Religion in Journalism
Panelists:
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
A17-202
Anthropology of Religion Unit
Eric Hoenes del Pinal, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Presiding
Theme: Skin in the Game: Ethnographies of Religious Embodiment
Jennifer Ortegren, Middlebury College

Embodying Middle Class Morality in Urban India
Lisa Brooks, University of California, Berkeley

Loving a Leech: Touch and Emergent Selves in Ayurvedic Leech Therapy
Jonathan Burrow-Branine, University of Kansas

Genres of Religious Activism: Affect and Vulnerability in LGBTQ Christian Organizing
Michael Grigoni, Duke University

The Gun and the Flesh of the World: Toward a Phenomenology of Christian Handgun Ownership
Responding:
Melissa M. Wilcox, University of California, Riverside
Business Meeting:
Laurel Zwissler, Central Michigan University

James Bielo, Miami University
A17-203
Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Unit
Stacy Davis, Saint Mary's College, Presiding
Theme: Conversations on Scripturalization and Sacred Texts in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities

Hugh Rowland Page, University of Notre Dame

Elijah Abel as "Shadow Book" – Looking "Elsewhere" for an Africana Mormon Pillar
Mariska Lauterboom, Graduate Theological Union

Dialogical Imagination between the Bible and the People in Postcolonial Indonesia
Leslie R. James, DePauw University

Blacks in the Mormon Imagination: An Affective Analysis in the Wake of the 1978 "Declaration 2"
Business Meeting:
Valerie Bridgeman, Methodist Theological School, Ohio
A17-204
Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit
Mark S. Brocker, St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Presiding
Theme: Celebrating and Interrogating Bonhoeffer's Life Together (Christian Kaiser Verlag, 1938)
Derek Taylor, Hope College

What’s This Book Actually about? Life Together and the Possibility of Theological Knowledge
Dustin Benac, Duke University

Life Together as Communio, Relation, and Possibility: A Bonhoefferian Via Media to the Hauerwasian and
Bourdieusian Approaches to Social Analysis
Joseph McGarry, St John's College

Formed Together: Bonhoeffer’s Finkenwalde Experiment and Its Theological Import for the Anglican Diocese of
Wellington
Jacob Putich, University of Aberdeen

Apocalyptic Convivence: Life Together in the Liminality of the World
A17-205
Buddhism Unit and Religion and Sexuality Unit
Sarah Jacoby, Northwestern University, Presiding
Theme: Book Panel on José Cabezón’s Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism (Wisdom Publications, 2017)
Panelists:
C. John Powers, Deakin University


Responding:
José I. Cabezón, University of California, Santa Barbara
A17-206
Chinese Religions Unit
Jessey J. C. Choo, Rutgers University, Presiding
Theme: Death, (Re-)Birth, and Time: Transformative Bodies in Chinese Religious Traditions
Jingyu Liu, Harvard University

Physical Sublimation and Universal Salvation: Bodily Transformation in the Daoist Yellow Register Retreat
(Huanglu zhai黃籙齋)
Hsin Yi Lin, Fo Guang University

Transformed Bodies of Duḥkha: Suffering Fetuses and Mothers in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Transformation Texts
and Images
Hsiao-wen Cheng, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Meanings of Sexual Transformation and the Temporality of Norms in Early and Medieval China
Business Meeting:
Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee

Anna Sun, Kenyon College
A17-207
Devon Abts, King's College London, Presiding
Theme: Liberating Exegesis with Visual Art: A Roundtable Discussion
Panelists:
Charles Gillespie, University of Virginia

Natalie Carnes, Baylor University
Junius Johnson, Baylor University
Aaron Rosen, Rocky Mountain College
Responding:
Ben Quash, King's College London


A17-208
Class, Religion, and Theology Unit
Edith Szanto, American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, Presiding
Theme: Class, Solidarity, and Religion
Ben DeSpain, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

The Hope of Deep Solidarity: Overcoming Despair and Presumption in Class Inequality
Michael Royster, Prairie View A&M University

The Veil That Hinders Solidarity
Scott Prather, Memphis Theological Seminary

“Deep Solidarity” and Peripheral Labor: Does the Spirit’s Work Decolonize as It Unifies?
Responding:
Joerg Rieger, Vanderbilt University
Business Meeting:

Ken Estey, Brooklyn College
A17-209
Cognitive Science of Religion Unit and International Association of the Cognitive Science of Religion
Wesley J. Wildman, Boston University, Presiding
Theme: Computational Modeling at the Interface of Traditional Religious Studies and Cognitive Science of Religion
Panelists:
Robert N. McCauley, Emory University

Colleen Shantz, University of Toronto
F. LeRon Shults, University of Agder
Ann Taves, University of California, Santa Barbara
Wensi You, Boston University
A17-210
Contemporary Islam Unit and Islam, Gender, Women Unit and Islamic Mysticism Unit and Qur'an Unit and
Study of Islam Unit
Robert Rozehnal, Lehigh University, Presiding
Theme: Mentoring Session for Scholars Studying Muslims/Islam


A17-211
Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit
Jennifer Newsome Martin, University of Notre Dame, Presiding
Theme: Maximus the Confessor: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Times
Panelists:
Demetrios Bathrellos, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge and Hellenic Open University, Athens
Paul M. Blowers
Thomas Cattoi, Graduate Theological Union
Katya Tolstaya, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Responding:
Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University
A17-212
Ecclesiological Investigations Unit
Miriam Perkins, Emmanuel Christian Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Ecclesial Courage in Contemporary Practice
Travis LaCouter, University of Oxford

Bold Speech or Idle Chatter? Institutional Parrhesia and the Church's Many Voices
Erin Michele Brigham, University of San Francisco

Expressions of Sanctuary in the San Francisco Bay Area: An Ecclesiological Analysis
Jeremy M. Bergen, Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo

The Ecumenism of Martyrdom and the Mission of the Church
Herbie Miller, University of Dayton

"There's Room at the Table": One Church's Story of Welcoming Refugees
Business Meeting:
Brian Flanagan, Marymount University

Vladimir Latinovic, University of Tübingen
A17-213
Ethics Unit and Liberal Theologies Unit and Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. Unit
AnneMarie Mingo, Pennsylvania State University, Presiding
Theme: Breaking White Supremacy (Yale University Press, 2018): The Black Social Gospel Revisited
Panelists:
Angela Sims, Saint Paul School of Theology

Adam Bond, Samuel D. Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University
Walter Earl Fluker, Boston University
Responding:
Gary Dorrien, Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary
A17-214
Evangelical Studies Unit
Vincent Bacote, Wheaton College, Presiding
Theme: Who Gets to Define Evangelicalism?
Panelists:
Ronald Potter, Hinds Community College

Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute
Oscar Garcia-Johnson, Fuller Theological Seminary
Jessica Wong, Azusa Pacific University
Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Earlham College
A17-215
Gay Men and Religion Unit
Brian Blackmore, Temple University/Westtown School, Presiding
Theme: Baldwin and Milk by Moonlight: Sanctification, Redemption, and Disidentification of Gay Male Characters
Jeremy Posadas, Austin College

Same-Sex Reproductive Redemption in Moonlight and God’s Own Country
Christopher Hunt, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Holy Sex, Queer Love, and the Ecstatic Encounter with the Transcendent in James Baldwin’s Just Above My Head
William Gilders, Emory University

“Harvey Milk Lives!” Religious Cultural Forms and the Memorialization of a Gay Martyr

Responding:
Roger A. Sneed, Furman University
Business Meeting:
Marco Derks, Utrecht University
A17-216
Hinduism Unit
Barbara A. Holdrege, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Theme: Hindu or Non-Hindu? New Archival Perspectives on the Liṅgāyat/Vīraśaiva Religion
Gil Ben-Herut, University of South Florida

Beyond Lexical Meticulousness: What Can We Learn from “Vīraśaiva” and “Liṅgāyat” as Hapax Legomena in Early
Kannada Śivabhakti Literature?
Elaine Fisher, Stanford University

Beyond Origins: The Vīramāheśvaras of Srisailam
Caleb Simmons, University of Arizona

Positioning Vīraśaivism: Inclusion and Exclusion and the Construction of Religious Identity in Early Modern Mysore
Eric Steinschneider, University of Arizona

The Religion of Tomorrow: ‘Neo-Vīraśaivism’, Grace-Bodies, and the Genealogies of Modern Hinduism
Responding:
John Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia University
A17-217
Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit
Danoye Oguntola-Laguda, Lagos State University, Presiding
Theme: Movement and Indigenous Religions
Paul Gareau, University of Alberta

Métis Pilgrimage Affirming Métis Peoplehood: Researching Métis Kinscapes at Lac Ste. Anne, AB
David Walsh, Gettysburg College

Movement and Continuity in a Northern Indigenous Community
Sarah King, Grand Valley State University


“Remember That a Recipe Is a Story”: (re)Mobilizing Indigenous Food
Meaghan Weatherdon, University of Toronto

Crossing Legal Landscapes throughout the Journey of Nishiiyuu
Bjorn Ola Tafjord, University of Tromsø

Patas Calientes and Multiple Other Talamancan Mobilities
Seth Schermerhorn, Hamilton College

The Politics and Poetics of O’odham Categories of Movement
Greg Johnson, University of Colorado

Animating Circuits of Indigeneity
Graham Harvey, The Open University

Belonging to (Not “in”) Land as Performed at Indigenous Cultural Events
Natalie Avalos, Connecticut College

Planting Yourself in the Land: Urban Indian Peoplehood and Reindigenizing Places
Business Meeting:
Gregory D. Alles, McDaniel College

A17-218
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit
Jennifer Veninga, St. Edward's University, Presiding
Theme: Kierkegaard and Cinema
Joseph Westfall, University of Houston-Downtown

Film Authorship and Kierkegaardian Pseudonymity (With Continual Reference to Charlie Kaufman)
Troy Wellington Smith, University of California, Berkeley

"Truth is Subjectivity" and the Theory of Relativity: The Kierkegaard and Einstein of Carl Th. Dreyer’s Ordet
Taylor Worley, Trinity International University

The Gift of Grief? A Kierkegaardian Inversion in the Films of Alejandro González Iñárritu
Jeffrey Hanson, Harvard University

“In 2046 Nothing Ever Changes:” Kierkegaardian Repetition and Resignation in the Films of Wong Kar-Wai
Responding:
Avron Kulak, York University
A17-219

Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
Lauren Frances Guerra, University of California, Los Angeles, Presiding
Theme: Latinx Religion and Institutional Violence
Edward Escalon, Jr., University of Toronto

Left Behind: The Eschatology of Police Brutality
Grace Vargas, Southern Methodist University

A Labor of Love? Cuban Views on Early 20th Century U.S. Protestant Missions to the Island
Marlene Ferreras, Claremont School of Theology

From Milpa to Maquila, Mamá to Machine: Mayan Women, Theology, and Transnational Corporations
Responding:
Néstor Medina, University of Toronto
Business Meeting:
Jeremy V. Cruz, St. John's University, New York
A17-220
Law, Religion, and Culture Unit and Secularism and Secularity Unit
Kathleen Holscher, University of New Mexico, Presiding
Theme: Schooling the Courts: Education as Site and Source for Religion and Law beyond the Courts
Jolyon Thomas, University of Pennsylvania

Inculcating Corporate Morality in Public Schools: A Comparative Look at Japan and the U.S.
Leslie Ribovich, Princeton University

Is Racism the Real Religion of America? Parochial School Aid and Desegregation at the 1967 New York State
Constitutional Convention
Sher Tareen, Florida State University

Learning Islam, Learning Professionalism: Al-Fatih Academy and Muslim Piety in Reston, Virginia
Sultan Doughan, University of California, Berkeley

Protestant Atonement as a Practice of Citizenship: How Muslim Belonging in Germany is Dependent on the Figure
of the Jew
Responding:
Winnifred Sullivan, Indiana University

Business Meeting:
Richard Amesbury, Clemson University

Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand, Middle Tennessee State University
A17-221
New Religious Movements Unit
Megan Goodwin, Syracuse University, Presiding
Theme: Minority and Emerging Religious Communities
Abel Gomez, Syracuse University

Becoming Brujas: Rise of Women and Queer of Color Witchcraft in the U.S.
Nicole Karapanagiotis, Rutgers University, Camden

Krishna West and the Reinvention of ISKCON
Leonard McKinnis, Saint Louis University

“Hail to the Queens of Ethiopia”: Religion and the Shaping of Identity in the Black Coptic Church
Markus Davidsen, Leiden University

Rise of the Real Jedi: How a Religious Identity Movement Emerged from the Star Wars Fan Culture
Responding:
Torang Asadi, Duke University
Business Meeting:
Jeremy Rapport, College of Wooster
A17-222
North American Religions Unit
Rubina Ramji, Cape Breton University, Presiding
Theme: Producing Islam(s) in Canada: On the Politics of Knowledge Production
Meena Sharify-Funk, Wilfrid Laurier University

Jason Sparkes, Wilfrid Laurier University
Expressions of Sufism in Canada
Sadaf Ahmed, University of Toronto

A Case for a "Hijab-Ban" in North American Scholarship

Jennifer A. Selby, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Amelie Barras, York University
The Interview Schedule as Site of Knowledge Production and Politics on Islam(s) in Canada
Melanie Adrian, Carleton University

Do Scholars Sway the Public Imaginary? Radio, Slander, and a Canadian Private Islamic School
Responding:
Aaron W. Hughes, University of Rochester

Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
A17-223
Platonism and Neoplatonism Unit
Theme: Eros and Ascent: Jewish, Islamic, and Christian
Sarah Pessin, University of Denver

Tripartite Desire in Plotinus and Ibn Gabirol
Syed Zaidi, Emory University

Essence and Existence in Ibn Sīnā’s Conception of Love and Ascent
Matthew Hotham, Ball State University

For Love of the Prophet’s Body: Embodied Ascension in Three Medieval Persian Poems
James Bryson, Cambridge University

Platonic Love in Henry More's Ethics
Business Meeting:
Kevin Corrigan, Emory University
A17-224
Quaker Studies Unit and Women and Religion Unit
Stephen Angell, Earlham School of Religion, Presiding
Theme: Book Review Panel for New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650-1800 (Oxford University Press,
2018)
Panelists:
David Harrington Watt, Haverford College

Nikki Coffey Tousley, University of Dayton

Carole Dale Spencer, George Fox University
Robynne Rogers Healey, Trinity Western University
Responding:
Michele Lise Tarter, College of New Jersey

Catie Gill, Loughborough University
A17-225
Religion and Disability Studies Unit
Jesse Perillo, DePaul University, Presiding
Theme: Authors and Conversation Partners: Monica A. Coleman's Bipolar Faith (Fortress Press, 2016) and Michelle
M. Lelwica's Shameful Bodies (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Heike Peckruhn, Daemen College

Crip Salvation: Theologies beyond Desirability
Janice Thompson, King's College

Multivalent Narratives: Bipolar Faith, Shameful Bodies, and My Story as a Theologian, Mother, and Disabled
Person
Responding:
Monica A. Coleman, Claremont School of Theology

Michelle M. Lelwica, Concordia College, Moorhead
Judith Plaskow, retired
A17-226
Abby Mohaupt, Drew University, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Amanda Baugh's God and the Green Divide: Religious Environmentalism in Black and
White (University of California Press, 2017)
Panelists:
Rebecca Kneale Gould, Middlebury College

Richard L. Wood, University of New Mexico
Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University
Responding:
Amanda Baugh, California State University, Northridge

A17-227
Religion and Popular Culture Unit
James Thrall, Knox College, Presiding
Theme: Faking It: Guns, Apocalypse, Family Values, and the Original Fake News in the Post-Truth Era
Rachel Wagner, Ithaca College

Manufacturing Belief: Doomsday Preppers and New Apocalypticism
Myev Rees, Northwestern University

Counting on the Duggars: The Innocuous Wholesome Faith and Family Facade of the IBLP’s Darker Agenda
Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University

The Religious Politics of Predictive Saccades: Fan Confabulations of Heartland as “Pure Flix” Paragon
Deborah Whitehead, University of Colorado

When Religion Becomes “Fake News”: Atheist and Post-Evangelical Critiques of “Religion as the Original Fake
News”
Business Meeting:
Elijah Siegler, College of Charleston

Rabia Gregory, University of Missouri
A17-228
Religion in South Asia Unit
Andrea Marion Pinkney, McGill University, Presiding
Theme: Religious Encounters in Early Modern South Asia
Rahul Parson, University of Colorado

Encounters and Reconciliations: "Tolerance" and (Im)partiality in Two Jain Intellectual Lineages
Julie Vig, University of British Columbia

Expressing Vīr Rasa: Religious and Literary Encounters between Khalsa Sikhs and Dadupanthi Nagas
Mark McLaughlin, William and Mary

Dargāhs and Samādhis: Reflections on the Emergence of a Maharashtrian Hindu Tomb-Shrine Tradition
Bhakti Mamtora, University of Florida

Religious Others and Inter-faith Relations in Western India
A17-229
Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Unit

Atalia Omer, University of Notre Dame, Presiding
Theme: Moral Obligations, Prophetic Actions, and Search for Solidarity from Historical, Transnational, and Global
Perspectives: The Cases of South Africa, Palestine, and Israel
Panelists:
Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley

Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College
Farid Esack, University of Johannesburg
Brant Rosen, Jewish Voice for Peace
A17-230
Roman Catholic Studies Unit
Brenna Moore, Fordham University, Presiding
Theme: Memory, History, and Accountability: Catholic Universities' Struggle to Come to Terms with Painful Pasts
Panelists:
John Seitz, Fordham University

Terrence Johnson, Georgetown University
Tia Noelle Pratt, St. Joseph's University
Andrew Mach, University of Notre Dame
A17-231
Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit
Filipe Maia, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding
Theme: Un/Familiar Theology (T&T Clark, 2017), Un/Familiar Texts: A Panel Response to Susannah Cornwall
Panelists:
Brandy Daniels, University of Virginia

Joseph A. Marchal, Ball State University
Cameron Partridge, St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, San Francisco
Rhiannon Graybill, Rhodes College
Responding:
Susannah Cornwall, University of Exeter


A17-232
Science, Technology, and Religion Unit
Willem B. Drees, Tilburg University, Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Presiding
Theme: Do We Need Science for Wonder and Responsibility? A Zygon Panel Engaging Lisa Sideris’s Consecrating
Science: Wonder, Knowledge and the Natural World (University of California Press, 2017)
Holmes Rolston, Colorado State University

Lame Science? Blind Religion?
Sarah Fredericks, University of Chicago

Reacting to Consecrating Science: What Might Amateurs Do?
Donovan Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania

Mere Science: Mapping the Land Bridge between Emotion, Politics, and Ethics
Courtney O'Dell-Chaib, Syracuse University

The Shape of this Wonder? Consecrated Science and New Cosmology Affects
Responding:
Lisa Sideris, Indiana University
A17-233
Sociology of Religion Unit and Critical Research on Religion
Afe Adogame, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Currents in Sociology of Religion in Africa and the African Diaspora
Nicolette Manglos-Weber, Kansas State University

African Evangelical Giving Practices as Rituals of Recognition
Amidu Elabo, Princeton Theological Seminary

Fading Boundaries: Religion, Violence, and Spatial Mapping of Nigeria’s Jos North Urban Center
Ofula Kenneth, Princeton Theological Seminary

“Politics of Canaan”: Raila Odinga and Religious Rhetoricization of Kenyan 2017 Presidential Elections
Jualynne E. Dodson, Michigan State University

The African Diaspora: Context for the Sociology of Religion
Responding:
James Spickard, University of Redlands

Business Meeting:
Rebekka King, Middle Tennessee State University

Warren S. Goldstein, Center for Critical Research on Religion, Newton, MA
A17-234
Wesleyan Studies Unit
Ashley Dreff, Hood Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Health and Healing in Wesleyan and Methodist Traditions
Sarah Sours, Huntingdon College

Disabling Hope: Healing Imagery in the Holiness Hymn Tradition
Sangwoo Kim
Chun Jin’s Charismata of the Spirit: Women Healers of the Twentieth-Century Charismatic Movement in Korea
Alex Parrish, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

“Houses of Mercy”: The Health Care Initiatives of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society in Alaska
Michael Nausner, Church of Sweden

Together Whole. A Participatory Understanding of Health from a Wesleyan Perspective
Responding:
Natalya Cherry, Southern Methodist University
A17-235
Western Esotericism Unit
Brigid Burke, Montclair State University, Presiding
Theme: Esoteric Traditions of Revelatory Dreaming
Claire Fanger, Rice University

The Natural Philosophy of Prophecy: Dreams, Magic, and Prayer in the Later Middle Ages
Kelly Bulkeley, The Sleep and Dream Database

Dangerous Dreaming: The Spanish Inquisition's Trial of a Prophetic Dreamer
Glenn McCullough, University of Toronto

Jacob Boehme’s Dream Psychology and the Origins of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Marla Segol, State University of New York, Buffalo


Dreams of the Womb: Kabbalistic Dream Interpretation Medieval and Modern
A17-236
Chinese Christianities Seminar
Francis Ching-Wah Yip, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Presiding
Theme: Crossing Ecclesial Boundaries

Justin Tse, Northwestern University
Orthodoxy in Solidarity with the Umbrella Movement: The Backdrop of Chinese Politics for Evangelical and Eastern
Catholic Cooperation in Vancouver
Wai-Yin Christina Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong

A Christian Women’s Community in Canton, South China: Women’s Work in Transnational Cooperation (1872-
1938)
Jin Lu, Purdue University Northwest

From Protestantism to Catholicism: The Spiritual Paths of Lu Zhengxiang (Lou Tseng-Tsiang) and Wu Jingxiong
(John C. H. Wu) before Vatican II
Responding:
Jonathan Tan, Case Western Reserve University
Business Meeting:
Alexander Chow, University of Edinburgh
A17-237
Political Theology Seminar
Inese Radzins, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding
Theme: Political Theology and Justice Part I
Ezra Tzfadya, University of Bamberg/ University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Cosmological Justice and the Political Theology of the Modern State: Rav Kook and Khomeini between Sin and the
Liminality of Divine Law
Julia Berger, University of Kent

Divine Polity: International Religious NGOs and the Pursuit of Global Justice
Eric Gregory, Princeton University

Who Are the Nations for Us Today? Global Justice and Political Theology
Beatrice Marovich, Hanover College


Political Theology and the Earth
A17-238
Wildcard Session
Kermit Moss, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Wakanda Is the Space for Black Refuge: Black Ontological Space, Death, and Racing Religion in the Era of
White Radicalization within Black Panther
Panelists:
Jonathan Calvillo, Boston University

Travis Harris, College of William and Mary
Najeeba Syeed-Miller, Claremont School of Theology
Jon Gill, California State University, Long Beach
Responding:
Daniel White Hodge, North Park University

A17-239
Theme: Finding the Job You Want after Graduation: Strategic Planning and Resources for Navigating a PhD
Program
Panelists:
Tyler Feezell, Arizona State University

A17-300
Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee
Kerry Danner, Georgetown University, Presiding
Theme: Challenges and Strategies in Interacting with Students: A Roundtable for Contingent Faculty
Panelists:
Elizabeth Lemons, Tufts University

Gabe Veas, Ashland Theological Seminary
Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa
A17-301
American Lectures in the History of Religions
Rumee Ahmed, University of British Columbia, Presiding
Theme: Complicit Scholarship: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Religious Studies
Panelists:
Sailaja Krishnamurti, Saint Mary's University

Andrea C. White, Union Theological Seminary
Farid Esack, University of Johannesburg
Valerie C. Cooper, Duke University
Ayesha S. Chaudhry, University of British Columbia
A17-302

Jana Riess, Religion News Service, Presiding
Theme: Before You Write That Dissertation: Choosing a Marketable Topic That Will Enhance Your Career
Panelists:
Melissa Borja, University of Michigan

Theo Calderara, Oxford University Press
Bridgett A. Green, Westminster John Knox Press
Elaine Maisner, University of North Carolina Press
Max Mueller, University of Nebraska
A17-303
Program Committee
Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, and Robert N. Puckett, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
Theme: How to Propose a New Program Unit
A17-304
African Diaspora Religions Unit and African Religions Unit and Anthropology of Religions Unit
Scott Alves Barton, New York University, Presiding
Theme: Charisma, Personality, and Power in African Religions
Kayla Kauffman, University of Virginia

Captivating Charisma: Power as Performance and Patronage in Togolese Charismatic Christianity
R. Daren Erisman, Graduate Theological Union

Charisma and Martyrdom in the Church of Uganda: Learning from the Life and Death of Archbishop Emeritus Dr.
Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo.
Sara Fretheim
Seeking First the Kingdom: Kwame Nkrumah, Charisma, and the Study of Religion in Africa
Michael Amoruso, Oberlin College

Magic Words: Leonard P. Howell, Rastafari, and the Occult Art of Sedition
A17-305
George Pati, Valparaiso University, Presiding
Theme: Religion, Landscape, and Art
Ann M. Pederson, Augustana University

Seeing Dakota: Collisions and Confluences
Timothy Parker, Norwich University

Cultural Landscapes of Religious Pluralism: Mapping the Material-Cultural Assemblages of Interreligious
Encounter
Rebecca Berru Davis, Montana State University-Billings

Vulnerability, Resilience and the Sacred: Probing the World of Artist/Ranchers in the Rocky Mountain West for
Their Environmental Vision
A17-306
Augustine and Augustinianisms Unit
Matthew Drever, University of Tulsa, Presiding
Theme: Augustine on the Self
AnnMarie Micikas Bridges, Harvard University

The Augustinian Self as Spectator
Petra Turner, University of Virginia

Purifying the Heart by Displacing the "Inner Man": An Augustinian Phenomenology of the Moral Self
Stewart Clem, University of Notre Dame

Questioning the Centrality of "the Self" for Augustine: The Art of Lying as Case Study
Responding:
Willemien Otten, University of Chicago
A17-307
Buddhism in the West Unit
Wakoh Shannon Hickey, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Presiding
Theme: Transnational Ethnographies of Buddhism: Gender, Monasticism, and Inter-Religious Meditation
Di Di, Rice University

Navigating Gender Norms: Gender Agency in Buddhist Temples in Mainland China and the US
Ori Mautner, University of Cambridge

The Buddha Settles in the West Bank: Religious-Nationalist Israeli Jews Re-Enchant Vipassanā Meditation
Ching-ning Wang, Harvard Divinity School

Living Vinaya in United States: Emerging Female Monastic Sanghas in the West
A17-308
Christian Spirituality Unit
Michael O'Sullivan, Spirituality Institute for Research and Education, Presiding
Theme: Christian Spiritual Classics and Trauma, Evil, and Illness
Tara Soughers, Plainville, MA

Wounded Bodies: Teresa of Avila's Spirituality of Suffering
Aline Gram Lewis, Graduate Theological Union


The Power of the Symbol in Julian of Norwich’s Parable of the Lord and the Servant
Francis X. McAloon, Fordham University, Graduate School of Religion

Disability Studies, Ignatian Spirituality, and Gerard Manley Hopkins: “Spiritual Affiliation” as Both Spiritual Practice
and Goal for Those Living with Chronic Illness
Business Meeting:
Margaret Benefiel, Shalem Institute For Spiritual Formation

Glenn Young, Rockhurst University
A17-309
Oliver Crisp, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Freedom and the Foundations of Theology
Martin Breul, University of Cologne

Aaron Langenfeld, Universität Paderborn
Freedom as a Core Concept in Contemporary Theology
Shin Young Park

Freedom in Beauty: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Aesthetic Inquiry into Freedom and a Response to Karl Barth’s
Theology of Freedom
Kristin Graff-Kallevåg, MF - Norwegian School of Thelogy

The Relationship between Divine Freedom and Relationality: Robert W. Jenson on the Concept of Divine Freedom
A17-310
Cognitive Science of Religion Unit
Kelly Bulkeley, The Sleep and Dream Database, Presiding
Theme: Overview of the State of the Field of the Cognitive Science of Religion
John Balch, Boston University

Research Factions or Invisible Clubs? Using Bibliometrics to Understand 25 Years of CSR
John Teehan, Hofstra University

The Pragmatic Roots of CSR: Implications for the Future of the Field
Flavio Geisshuesler, University of Virginia

The 8E Model of Cognition: Towards an Integrated Approach to Religion and Contemplation
A17-311

Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit
Antonio Terrone, ATLA, Presiding
Theme: Religion and Violence in Tibet and the Himalayas
Natasha Mikles, Texas State University

Sharing in King Gesar’s Battle-Cry: The Abundant Event of Religious Violence in Tibet
Teresa Yao, ManChing, National ChengChi University

Violence and Myth in Vajrakilaya Ritual: A Giradian Perspective
Christopher Bell, Stetson University

Dorje Shugden’s Holy War of Words
Nicholas Trautz, University of Virginia

Unleashing the Demonic Divine: The bka’ brgyad bde gshegs ‘dus pa in the Articulation of rnying ma Identity
Responding:
Jacob Dalton, University of California, Berkeley
A17-312
Daoist Studies Unit
Gil Raz, Dartmouth College, Presiding
Theme: Stones along the Path: Explorations in Daoist Epigraphy
Jonathan Pettit, University of Hawaii

Carving Out a Dao: Epigraphy and Temple Construction in Medieval Daoism
Jennifer Bussio
What Makes a Patriarch? An Examination of the Hagiography of the Twelfth Zhen Dadao Patriarch, Zhang Qingzhi
張清志 (d.1327/28)
Beverley Zhang, Arizona State University

Beyond Death: The Daoist Epitaph of Xue Yuanqing 薛遠卿 (d. 646)
Huaiyu Chen, Arizona State University

Buddhist and Daoist Stone Lanterns in Tang China: A Comparative Perspective
A17-313
Death, Dying, and Beyond Unit
Mohamed S. Hassan, Temple University, Presiding
Theme: The Material Culture of Death, Monuments, and Memory Making
Rory Lindsay, Harvard University

Material Actors in a Sakyapa Death Ritual
Jordan Rowan Fannin, Berry College

Lawn Jockeys, Martyrs, and Confederate Generals: Flannery O'Connor and the Transformation of Monuments
Unto Death
Giulia Giubergia, University of Gothenburg

Martyrs, Angels, and Corpses: Representations of Death in Graffiti in the 2011 Egyptian Uprising
A17-314
Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit
Vera Shevzov, Smith College, Presiding
Theme: The Icon
Roberto De La Noval, University of Notre Dame

Kenotic Iconology in Theodore the Studite
Evan Freeman, Yale University

Incarnate Images: Rethinking Twentieth Century Theologies of the Icon
Aaron Hollander, University of Chicago

Visual Rhetoric and Hagiographical Resistance in Representations of St. George as a Liberator
Elena Kravchenko, Washington University, St. Louis

Protestants and Iconography in the United States: Of Commodities and Social Reform
Responding:
Mariamni Plested, Marquette University
Business Meeting:
Vera Shevzov, Smith College

Brandon Gallaher, University of Exeter
A17-315
Seth Schermerhorn, Hamilton College, Presiding
Theme: Unsettling Colonialscapes, Indigenous Translations, and Migratory Religions
Marisa Karyl Franz, University of Toronto

Devils, Cults, and Idols: Siberian Shamanism in Translation
Matt Sheedy, University of Manitoba

Decolonizing Representations of North American Indigeneity in Germany

Healing Teslin Tlingit Migration and Language: Aucoin’s Residential School Film My Own Private Lower Post
Stacie Swain, University of Victoria

Disrupting the Colonialscape through Ceremony: Remembering a National Capital as an Indigenous Landscape
Responding:
Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Tufts University
A17-316
Japanese Religions Unit and Law, Religion and Culture Unit
Jessica Starling, Lewis and Clark College, Presiding
Theme: Religion and the Constitution in Contemporary Japan
Mitsutoshi Horii, Shumei University

The Allied Occupation of Japan 1945-1952 and the Constitutional Category of "Religion"
Jolyon Thomas, University of Pennsylvania

Religion and the Controversial Subject of Constitutional Law
Ernils Larsson, Uppsala University

Shrine Shinto, "Religion", and the Politics Constitutional Reform
A17-317
Korean Religions Unit and Women and Religion Unit
Deberniere Torrey, University of Utah, Presiding
Theme: Hypermasculinity, Homophobia, Islamophobia, and the Protestant Right in South Korea
Panelists:

Timothy S. Lee, Texas Christian University
Boyung Lee, Iliff School of Theology
K. Christine Pae, Denison University
Responding:
Nami Kim, Spelman College
A17-318
Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit, and Religion, Sport, and Play Unit
Jean-Pierre Ruiz, St. John's University, New York, Presiding
Theme: Contested Rings, Greens, and Diamonds: Performing Resistance Latinamente

Taming the Savage Trade: Resistance and Religious Conversion among Latino/a Boxers
David A. Sánchez, Loyola Marymount University

Uneven Fairways II: Latinx Golf as Site of Resistance and Liberation
Carmen Marie Nanko-Fernandez, Catholic Theological Union

¡Dios Bendiga América! Béisbol, Resistance, and the Ritual Theologizing of Nation
A17-319
Liberal Theologies Unit and Schleiermacher Unit
Sarah Morice Brubaker, Phillips Theological Seminary, and Shelli Poe, Millsaps College, Presiding
Theme: On Affect, Gut Feeling, and the Sin of Anti-Blackness
Erin Kidd, St. John's University

A Gut Feeling: Schleiermacher's Gefühl and White Supremacy
Wendy Mallette, Yale University

Schleiermacher and the Sin of Racism: Antiblackness, the Heretical, and Original Sin
Thandeka Thandeka, Andover Newton Theological School

Can Cognitive and Affective Neuroscientific Perspectives on Emotional Experience Help Us Update
Schleiermacher’s Analysis of Affect’s Role in the Cultivation of Virtues Promoting Community?
A17-320
New Religious Movements Unit and Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit
Marion S. Grau, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Presiding
Theme: Smiling Gods, Angels Named Erika, and Glow Clouds: Welcome to Night Vale and the Podcast as a Sacred
Text
Robert Paul Seesengood, Albright College

The Revelation of Cecil Baldwin: Fink and Cranor's Night Vale as Podcast Apocalypse
Sarah "Moxy" Moczygemba, University of Florida

Citizens and Interlopers, Secret Police and Angels: Night Vale as a Community Text
Jacob Erickson, Trinity College, Dublin

Whispering Forests, Sacred Groves: Welcome to Night Vale’s Abominable New Animism
Megan Goodwin, Syracuse University

The Smiling God as Mysterium Tremendum: Monstrous Introductions to Religious Studies
Responding:
Charles Schmidt, Rice University
A17-321
Nineteenth Century Theology Unit and Société Internationale d'Études sur Alfred Loisy
Emily Dumler-Winckler, University of Notre Dame, Presiding
Theme: Book Panel on Thomas Albert Howard’s The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the
Quandary of the Modern Age (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Panelists:
Grant Kaplan, Saint Louis University

Kenneth Parker, Duquesne University
Mark Chapman, Ripon College, Cuddesdon
Responding:
Thomas (Tal) Howard, Valparaiso University
A17-322
Philosophy of Religion Unit
Thomas A. Lewis, Brown University, Presiding
Theme: Critical Responses to Noreen Khawaja's Religion of Existence: Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard
to Sartre (University of Chicago Press, 2016)

Michael Thate, Princeton University / École normale supérieure

Œuvres incomplètes: Pascal's Faith and the Philosophy of Religion
Jason Cabitac, Boston University

Reimagining the Secular: Religion as Praxis and Existential Engagement
Jill Hernandez, University of Texas, San Antonio

Existential Authenticity and Asceticism: 3 Challenges for Khawaja
Responding:
Noreen Khawaja, Yale University
A17-323
Practical Theology Unit
Christian A. B. Scharen, Auburn Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Experiencing and Engaging Gregory Ellison II's Fearless Dialogues: A New Movement for Justice
(Westminster John Knox, 2017)
Panelists:
Gregory Ellison, Emory University

Georgette Ledgister, Emory University
A17-324
Quaker Studies Unit
Jon Kershner, University of Lancaster, Presiding
Theme: Quaker Historical Engagements in Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Race
Ann-Catherine Wilkening
“We Shall Doe to All Men Licke as We Will Be Done Ourselves”: Francis Daniel Pastorius and the Early Quaker Anti-
Slavery Discourse
H. Kendall Rogers, Bethany Theological Seminary

Was the Brethren Movement Launched by a Quaker?
Mark Frankel, University of Birmingham

T. Edmund Harvey and an "Education Eirenicon": The Quaker-Led Ecumenical Initiative to Settle the Status of
Religion within State Education, 1908-10
Brian Blackmore, Temple University/Westtown School


Friendly Sex Education and the Liturgical Technologies of Unprogrammed Meeting for Worship
Business Meeting:
Jon Kershner, University of Lancaster

Carole Dale Spencer, George Fox University
A17-325
Qur'an Unit
Samuel Ross, Texas Christian University, Presiding
Theme: Aspects of Qur'an Usage and Interpretation
Syed Zaidi, Emory University

The Use of the Qur’ān in the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’s Treatise on Love
Tehseen Thaver, Princeton University

Ambiguity and Metaphor as Modes of Knowledge in Qur’anic Exegesis
James Riggan, Florida State University

Islamic Exorcism and the Somatic Modality of the Qur'an
Salih Sayilgan, Georgetown University

The Qur’an in the Literature of Muslim Slaves in America
A17-326
Nicholas Junkerman, Skidmore College, Presiding
Theme: Disabled Bodies, Hagiography, and Life-Writing: Faith and Being Black or Deaf or Different
Gregory Carrier, University of Alberta

Mute Conversations: Hearing Writers and Imagining Deaf Lives in Medieval Christianity
Mary Corley Dunn, Saint Louis University

Hagiographic Prosthetics: Disability in Paul Ragueneau’s Vie de la Mère Catherine de Saint-Augustin
Marlana Portolano, Towson University

Milwaukee’s Deaf Catholic Community: A Multigenerational Story of Reconciliation
Jonathan Langston Chism, University of Houston

Vida Robertson, University of Houston-Downtown
Harriet Tubman’s Faith and Disability: Recovering and Theologically Reflecting on Influential Disabled Black Bodies

A17-327
James Miller, Queen's University, Kingston, Presiding
Theme: Philosophical and Theological Approaches to Religion and Ecology
Aminah Al-Attas Bradford, Duke Divinity

Deep Exchange: How Jesus' Baptism Sanctifies the Cosmos to become a Priest of Humanity
Christopher Fici, Union Theological Seminary

The Anticipatory Community: Radical, Sacred Communal Imagination for the Age of Climate Crisis
Colin McGuigan, University of Dayton

Wonder Opens the Heart: Pope Francis, Wonder, and Encountering the Other
Timothy Harvie, St. Mary's University, Alberta, Canada

A Politics of Connected Flesh: Ecology, Merleau-Ponty, and Public Theology
Business Meeting:
Christopher Carter, University of San Diego
A17-328
Religion and Economy Unit
Rebecca Bartel, San Diego State University, Presiding
Theme: Property, Place, and Politics of Race and Gender
Isaac Arten, Saint Louis University

"Sober Industry the Only Remedy": Property, Race, and Religion in English Colonial Theological Anthropology
Gregory Chatterley, The University of Chicago

"White" Evangelicalism: Suburbanization and the Transformation of Religious Racial Ideology in Postwar
Chicagoland
Responding:
Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto
A17-329
Religion and Politics Unit
Elias Ortega-Aponte, Drew University, Presiding
Theme: African-American Religion, Race, and Social Justice


Ennis B. Edmonds, Kenyon College

It's Getting Funky in Here: Black Panther and the Afrofuturist Project
Christophe D. Ringer, Chicago Theological Seminary

Beyond the God That Failed: Black Religion and the Possibilities of Human Rights
Jermaine McDonald, Emory University

Bernie Sanders, MLK, and the Intersection of Race and Economic Policy: Missed Opportunities in the 2016 Sanders
Campaign for the Democratic Presidential Nomination
A17-330
Religion and Popular Culture Unit and Religion in Southeast Asia Unit
James Edmonds, Arizona State University, Presiding
Theme: Pop Culture as Argument: Contesting Religion, Gender, and Romance in Contemporary Indonesia
Andrea Decker, University of California, Riverside

Hidden for their Protection: Gendered Power, Provocation, and Representation in Dangdut Competition Television
Rosalia Engchuan, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

There Is No Place for Us Here: Arguments about, against, for, and from within Queer Film in Contemporary
Indonesia
Richard Fox, Heidelberg University

Screening Piety, Class, and Romance in Indonesia: Scenes from an Argument Already Well Underway
A17-331
Religion and Science Fiction Unit
Laura Ammon, Appalachian State University, Presiding
Theme: Science Fiction, Race, and Embodiment
David L. Simmons, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

From Revenants to Replicants: Frankenstein and the Prometheus Myth in Horror and Sci-Fi
Leah Schade, Lexington Theological Seminary

Emily Askew, Lexington Theological Seminary
Skin Jobs and Snow Jobs: Blade Runner, Race Erasure, and the Construction of “Illegality”
Meghan Johnston Aelabouni, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver

White Womanhood and/as American Empire in Arrival and Annihilation

Jasmine Yarish, University of California, Santa Barbara
Outta “The Sunken Place” and Straight into “Wakanda”: Afrofuturism in Contemporary Black Film as Critique of
American Gun Religiosity
A17-332
Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit
Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding
Theme: Public Intellectuals in Religion, Film, and Television: 21st Century Industry Interlocutors and Creatives
Craig Detweiler, The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology

Creative Interfaith Collaborations and Marketing
Lina Verchery, Harvard University

The Creative and Intellectual Challenges of Filmmaking
Kutter Callaway, Fuller Theological Seminary

Navigating Television as a Religious Scholar and Bridge Building in Hollywood
A17-333
Yunus Dogan Telliel, UC Berkeley, Presiding
Theme: Religion, Scientists, and the Public
Simranjit Khalsa, Rice University

Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University
Indian Scientists’ Understanding Religion and Spirituality

Bringing Mainstream Science to Church
Jennifer Baldwin, Grounding Flight Wellness, Marietta, GA

Knowledge, Power, and Fear: The Role of Religion and Science in Populism and Our Shared Public Life
A17-334
Sociology of Religion Unit and Critical Research on Religion
Warren S. Goldstein, Center for Critical Research on Religion, Presiding
Theme: Reflections on Social Theory and Religion


Marsha Hewitt, Trinity College
The Haunted Legacy of Christian Anti-Judaism in Critical Theory's Turn to Psychoanalytic Object Relations Theory
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College

Deep Roots and Broken Branches: Towards a Grounded Theory and Redefinition of the Whole Black Church
Johan Strijdom, University of South Africa (Unisa)

Economy: Assessing a Key Category in David Chidester's Sociological Analysis of Religion

Seeing the Field: The Promise of Organizational Theory for the Study of Religion and Religious Organizations
A17-335
Space, Place, and Religion Unit
Brian J. Nichols, Mount Royal University, Presiding
Theme: Buddhist Material Heritage: Unexplored Questions
David Geary, University of British Columbia

Romancing the Stone: Archaeological Intimacies and Mobile Mediations of India’s Buddhist Heritage in Sarnath
Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan, Austin College

Naresh Shakya, Lotus Academic College
Newar Buddhist Mural Paintings: Marking and the Loss of Religious Space and Identity
Edward Arnold, Columbia University

Reconfiguring Spatiotemporal Realities: Tsong Khapa's Buddhist Vision of Tibet
A17-336
Study of Islam Unit
Travis Zadeh, Yale University, Presiding
Theme: The Heart of the Matter: Centers, Peripheries, Borders, and Contestations in Islamic Studies
Zahra Ayubi, Dartmouth College

Decentering the Center: How the Study of Gender in Islam Diversifies the Genres, Languages, and Geographies of
Islamic Studies
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, University of Vermont

Made by Committee: How Academic Job Ads Reify and Shape Islamic Studies
Chiara Formichi, Cornell University

Is This Islamic?
A17-337
Teaching Religion Unit
Molly Bassett, Georgia State University, Presiding
Theme: Supporting SoTL (Scholarship on Teaching and Learning)
Joshua Patterson, University of Georgia

Does Religious Studies Have a Core? A National Comparison Study
Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College

The Promise and Limits of Using Case Studies to Assess Student Ability to Evaluate Moral Conduct and Make
Decisions
Christopher Richmann, Baylor University

Developing Empathy through Study of Christian Heresies
Drew Baker, Claremont School of Theology

Ann Hidalgo, Claremont School of Theology
Learning to Describe the Elephant: Metadata as a Pedagogical Exercise in the Religious Studies Classroom
Kathryn Moles, Graduate Theological Union

Pedagogical Strategies for Fostering Inclusivity and Constructive Conflict in Religious Studies Classrooms
A17-338
Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. Unit
Hak Joon Lee, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Challenging the Political through Prayer and Potential Shame
Dallas Gingles, Southern Methodist University

Prayer, Politics, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Russell Powell, Princeton Theological Seminary

“Somehow This Madness Must Cease”: The Power and Potential of Shame in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “A Time to
Break Silence”
Business Meeting:
AnneMarie Mingo, Fuller Theological Seminary

AnneMarie Mingo, Pennsylvania State University
A17-339
Vatican II Studies Unit
Paul Crowley, Santa Clara University, Presiding
Theme: 1968: A Turning Point in the Reception of Vatican II?
Daniel Rober, Sacred Heart University

The Communio School’s Failure of Nerve and the Legacy of 1968
Katherine Dugan, Springfield College

Catholics in the Long Wake of Humanae Vitae: NFP, "Life Issues", and Polarized American Catholicism
Dries Bosschaert, University of Leuven

Comrades in the Attainment of the Universal Common Good: The Genesis and Reception of Vatican II’s Views of
Workers’ Rights in Light of the Events of 1968
Business Meeting:
Catherine E. Clifford, Saint Paul University

Kristin Colberg, University of Notre Dame
A17-340
Yogācāra Studies Unit
A. Charles Muller, University of Tokyo, Presiding
Theme: Exploring Yogācāra in the Laṅkāvatārasūtra
Panelists:
John Dunne, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Florin Deleanu, International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies, Tokyo
Paul G. Hackett, Columbia University
Ligeia Lugli, Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages, Berkeley, CA
Daniel McNamara, Emory University
Business Meeting:
Roy Tzohar, Tel-Aviv University

Joy Brennan, Kenyon College
A17-341
Political Theology Seminar
Inese Radzins, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding
Theme: Political Theology and Justice Part II


Marjorie Corbman, Fordham University
"God's Judgment on White America": Divine Anger and Justice in Political Theology
Amaryah Armstrong, Vanderbilt University

Race and the Refusal of Reproduction: Blackness, Justice, and Obligation
Robert O. Smith
Supersessionism, Political Theology, and Settler Coloniality
John D. Carlson, Arizona State University

Before and beyond Rights: Re-Visioning Political Order through Symbols of Justice
Business Meeting:
David Newheiser, Australian Catholic University

Inese Radzins, Pacific School of Religion
A17-342
Wildcard Session
Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University, Presiding
Theme: Teaching Local Religion with Digital Humanities: Objects, Methods, Pedagogies
Shana Sippy, Centre College

Michael McNally, Carleton College
Religious Diversity in Minnesota Initiative
Emily Suzanne Clark, Gonzaga University

Jesuit Missions on the Columbia Plateau
Gale Kenny, Barnard College

Religion in the Archive
Rachel Lindsey, Saint Louis University

Arch City Religion
Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University

Isaac Weiner, Ohio State University
The American Religious Sounds Project
Christopher Cantwell, Uni of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Gathering Places: Religion and Community in Milwaukee
Cara Burnidge, University of Northern Iowa

American Religion and Refugees in the Heartland
Rachel Kranson, University of Pittsburgh


The Pittsburgh Torah Scrolls Project
Jennifer S. Leath, Iliff School of Theology

Black Religious Denver
A17-343
Women's Caucus
Jea Sophia Oh, West Chester University, Pennsylvania, Presiding
Theme: Developing Civic Engagement and Planetary Response-Ability: A Postcolonial Ecofeminist Theological
Perspective
Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, Nassau Community College

Decolonizing Reality: An East/West Perspective on the Gnostic Mother Principle
Sarah Robinson-Bertoni, Santa Clara University

Thinking like an Ecofeminist
Patricia Friel, Methodist Theological School in Ohio

Domestic Violence against Women and Animals: A Ecofeminist Liberation Theological Perspective
Responding:
Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Methodist Theological School, Ohio

A17-344
Theme: Finishing the Dissertation On-Time and with Your Sanity In-Tact
Panelists:
Gwendolyn Gillson, University of Iowa

A17-400

Rachel Lindsey, Saint Louis University, Presiding
Theme: New Chapters, Blank Spaces: Reflections on the Academy from Those Who Have Left and Those Who
Remain
Panelists:
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, University of Iowa

Elizabeth Young Barstow, Wofford College
Ariel Schwartz, Northwestern University
Abigail Kluchin, Ursinus College
Kristy Slominski, University of Mississippi
Kyle Schenkewitz, Wartburg College
Ruben Rosario Rodriguez, Saint Louis University
Philip K. Goff, Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis
A17-401
Academic Relations Committee
Glenn Whitehouse, Florida Gulf Coast University, Presiding
Theme: What Are You Going to Do with That? Lessons from a New Humanities Career Program
Panelists:
Sean Kelly, University of Texas, San Antonio

Catherine Gorman, Florida SouthWestern State College
Thomas Stefaniuk, Florida Gulf Coast University
Ashleigh Halter, Florida Gulf Coast University
A17-402
Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee
Andrea C. White, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Knowledge Production and the New Nativism
Panelists:
Kelly Brown Douglas, Episcopal Divinity School@Union

Miguel De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology
Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University
Gil Anidjar, Columbia University
Edward E. Curtis, IU School of Liberal Arts
Business Meeting:
Nargis Virani, Graduate Theological Union
A17-403
African Religions Unit
David Amponsah, University of Missouri, Presiding
Theme: The Public Role of the Scholar of Religion in Africa
Panelists:
Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University

Rosalind I. J. Hackett, University of Tennessee
Funlayo Easter Wood, Harvard University
Eric Lewis Williams, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
A17-404
Afro-American Religious History Unit
Lerone Martin, Washington University, Saint Louis, and Tobin Shearer, University of Montana, Presiding
Theme: Seeing the Unseen, Unfamiliar, and Understudied in African American Religious Historiography
Julius Bailey, University of Redlands

Rocky Mountain Female Pioneers: The Growth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Colorado
Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Princeton University

Shots of Deliverance: Mother Estella Boyd's Healing Hands and the Midwestern Black Pentecostal Holiness
Tradition, 1946-2003
Elena Kravchenko, Washington University, St. Louis

To be Black and Orthodox: African Saints and Reconfiguration of Religion and Race
Alexia Williams, Yale University

Autobiography, Hagiography, and the Illegible Lives of African American Catholics
A17-405
Bioethics and Religion Unit and International Development and Religion Unit
Christopher Duncanson-Hales, University of Sudbury, Presiding
Theme: Revolutionary Bioethics: Bioethics, Religion, and International Development

Timothy Carey, Boston College

Justice and Islamic Bioethics: Imām al-Shāṭibī and the Common Good
Jennifer McCurdy, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver

Reconsidering Eurochristian Bioethics through Indigenous Anti-Colonialism
Willie Young, Endicott College

The Revolutionary Principles of Partners in Health
A17-406
Buddhism Unit
Justin R. Ritzinger, University of Miami, Presiding
Theme: Seeing through the Secular Paradigm: Buddhism and the Chinese Revolution
Nicole Willock, Old Dominion University

Translating “Religion” and the “People": Tibetan Buddhist Scholars in 1950's China
Lei Ying , Harvard University

Reading for Enlightenment: Liang Qichao and the Buddhist Origin of the Literary Revolution
Jessica Zu, Princeton University

Aesthetic Revolution for a New Moral Ecology, 1918-1923
Rongdao Lai, University of Southern California

A Buddhicized Revolution: The Buddhist New Youth Movement in Republican China
Responding:
Hung-yok Ip, Oregon State University
A17-407
Daniel Wade McClain, Loyola University, Maryland, Presiding
Theme: Freedom in the Polis
Joseph Drexler-Dreis, Saint Mary's College of California

The Ambivalences of Freedom within Racial Capitalism
Nathaniel Wood, Fordham University

Theosis and Freedom in Orthodox Political Theology
Justin Hawkins, Yale University


Religious Humility as the Grounds for Religious Liberty: Reinhold Niebuhr’s Contribution to a Theology of
Democratic Religious Freedom
A17-408
Class, Religion, and Theology Unit
Rosetta E. Ross, Spelman College, Presiding
Theme: Labor, Worker Cooperatives, and Religon
Anthony Mansueto, University of the District of Columbia

For a Return to Labor
Nathan Schneider, University of Colorado Boulder

Social Worship: How Catholic Social Thought Helped Build the Modern Cooperative Movement
Zachary Settle, Vanderbilt University

Organizing the End: An Eschatological Analysis of Worker Self-Directed Enterprises
Christina McRorie, Creighton University

The Quasi-Religious Cult of “FIRE”: An Analysis of One Attempt to Transcend Work and Class
A17-409
Contemporary Islam Unit
Danielle Widmann Abraham, Ursinus College, Presiding
Theme: Islamic Peripheries and Historical Imagination: Narrative, Genealogy, and Ritual
Eric Schluessel, University of Montana

Emperor of China, Son of Japheth: Expressions of Imperial Legitimacy and Historical Trauma through Genealogy in
the Eastern Turkestani Stories of the Prophets
Tristan Brown, Stanford University

Genealogies of Place: Islam in the Landscape of Popular Religion in the Late Imperial and Modern China
Ashish Koul, Yale University

Making a Muslim Caste in South Asia: Arab Genealogy and Arain Identity, 1910s-1980s
Daniel Birchok, University of Michigan-Flint

Tawassul as Genealogy: A Non-Authenticating Genealogical Mode in Twenty-First Century Aceh
Responding:
Devin DeWeese, Indiana University, Bloomington


A17-410
Cultural History of the Study of Religion Unit

SherAli Tareen, Franklin and Marshall College, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Irfan Ahmad's Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the
Marketplace (University of North Carolina Press, 2017)
Panelists:

Peter Gottschalk, Wesleyan University
Ebrahim E. I. Moosa, University of Notre Dame
Teena Purohit, Boston University
Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University, Chicago
Responding:
Irfan Ahmad, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Business Meeting:
Elizabeth Ann Pritchard, Bowdoin College

J. Barton Scott, University of Toronto
A17-411
Daoist Studies Unit, Indian and Chinese Religions Compared Unit, Tantric Studies Unit, Yoga in Theory and
Practice Unit, and Yogācāra Studies Unit
Dan Lusthaus, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Yoga in India and China
Gerald J. Larson, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Unique "Dualism" of Classical Yoga Theory and Its Equally Unique Notion of the Pluralizing (or Quantizing) of
Consciousness
Karen O'Brien-Kop, SOAS University of London

The "Other" Yogaśāstra: Reconfiguring the Category of Classical Yoga
Dominic Steavu-Balint, University of California, Santa Barbara

Brahmano-Daoist European Yoga? Tracing the Peculiarly Global History of a Medieval Chinese Bodily Discipline
A17-412
Ecclesial Practices Unit and Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit

Darby Ray, Bates College, Presiding
Theme: The Use of Ethnography for Transformative Theological Education
Panelists:
Boyung Lee, Iliff School of Theology

David Mellott, Lancaster Theological Seminary
A17-413
Miriam Haar, Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Presiding
Theme: Ecclesial Courage in Historical Perspectives
Nicholas Krause, Baylor University

Henri de Lubac, Ecclesial Courage, and Christian Resistance to Fascism
Mary Kate Holman

“Don’t Be Afraid!”: Marie-Dominique Chenu and the Courage for an Engaged Church
Mark DeMott, Fordham University

Taking Charge of the Weight of Reality: The Thought of Ignacio Ellacuría as Impetus and Resource for a Church of
the Poor
A17-414
Jason Sexton, UC Berkeley, Presiding
Theme: Who Defined Evangelicalism?
Ken Estey, Brooklyn College

Labor DNA in the NAE: The National Association of Evangelicals and Class
Allie Blosser, High Point University

Doing Diversity in a Conservative Christian School: Implications for the Future of Evangelicalism
Christina Copland, University of Southern California

"Conservative and Thoughtful Investors"? The Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Business-Minded Fundamentalists
and the Perils of Financial Failure,1923-1929

Daniel Silliman, Valparaiso University
An Evangelical Is Someone Who Likes Billy Graham: Defining Evangelicalism with Carl Henry and Communication
Networks
A17-415
History of Christianity Unit
Horace E. Means, Presiding
Theme: Presence and Absence in Material Devotion
Margaret Slaughter, Indiana University

Threads of Woven Presence: Late Medieval English Ecclesiastical Textiles
Ulrich Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Concrete Forms of the Numinous”: Rudolf Otto’s Collection of Religious Artefacts in the Context of His Writings
Lauren Horn Griffin, University of Oklahoma

Representations of Afromexican Saintly Devotion
A17-416
Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit
Hans Gustafson, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, Presiding
Theme: Leaving Room for Holy Envy: Applications of Stendahl’s Rule for Interreligious Understanding
Benjamin Sax, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, Baltimore, MD
Nietzsche and the Jewish Jesus: A Reflection on Holy Envy
Meena Sharify-Funk, Wilfrid Laurier University

Ibn al-‘Arabi and the Virtues of “Holy Envy” in Islam
Tracy Tiemeier, Loyola Marymount University

The Ritual of Everyday Life: Hindu Women’s Rituals, Mujerista Theology, and the Catholic Theology of Gender
Kristin Johnston Largen, United Lutheran Seminary

The Nembutsu of Jōdo Shinshū
Taunalyn Rutherford, Claremont Graduate University

A Mormon Pilgrimage to Sikh Sacred Practice, Text, and Temple
A17-417
Japanese Religions Unit
Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Theme: Gods in the Making: Divine Subjectivity in Medieval Japanese Local and Translocal Cults
Jesse Drian, University of Southern California

Navigating from the Human to the Divine: Deification in Itsukushima Shrine Origin Narratives
Gaetan Rappo, Nagoya University

Ritualizing Mount Kōya: The Daijingū Honji and the Triad of Kōbō Daishi, Kōya, and Niu Myōjin
Emily Simpson, University of California at Santa Barbara

All in the Family: Divinity and Diversity in the Hachiman Cult
Or Porath, University of California, Santa Barbara

Gods amongst Us: The Development of Divine Subjectivity in the Buddhist Cult of the Mountain King
Responding:
Bernard Faure, Columbia University
A17-418
Law, Religion, and Culture Unit
Richard Amesbury, Clemson University, Presiding
Theme: Personality, Persons, and Peoples: Legal and Religious Understandings
Christopher Fleming, University of Oxford

The Legal Personality of Hindu Deities: Classical Indian Jurisprudence in a Global Context
Paul Christopher Johnson, University of Michigan

Legal Nearhumans: How the Dead Speak in Court
Rachel Scott, Virginia Tech

Religious Exemptions, Gender Equality, and Inheritance: Egypt’s Coptic Community
A17-419
Lesbian-Feminisms and Religion Unit
John Erickson, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
Theme: The Digital and Lived Lesbian Feminist: Erasure, Solidarity, and the Sacred
Karen Keen, Marquette University


Ignatian Contemplative Activism: Perspectives from a Decade of Internet Engagement on Sexuality and Christian
Faith
Whitney Bond, Chicago Theological Seminary

Indhira Udofia
“That’s Bae": What Hashtags, Relationship Goals, and Social Media Means for Lesbian and Queer Women of Color
Carolyn Bratnober, Columbia University

Feminists on Facebook: An Ontology of Assemblages for Digital Platforms of Resistance
Laulie Eckeberger, University of Winchester

"Gay Bashing" in Sacred Space: Lesbian-Feminism and the Rise of Digital Violence
Business Meeting:
Michelle Wolff, Duke University

Amy Milligan, Old Dominion University
A17-420
Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and Culture Unit
Zachary Moon, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Moral Injury and Prophetic Activism
Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon, University of Pardubice

Social Ethics as Therapy: Socially Engage Repair and Moral Injury
Michelle A. Walsh, Boston University

Moral Injury, Trauma, Race, and the Body: An Unfinished Dialogue with Dale P. Andrews
Mary Nickel, Princeton University

The Confessing Prophet: Righting Wrongs and Facilitating Moral Repair in Prophetic Confession
Responding:
Joanne Braxton, Library of Congress
Business Meeting:
Gabriella Lettini, Starr King School for the Ministry-GTU
A17-421
Mormon Studies Unit
Brian D. Birch, Utah Valley University, Presiding
Theme: Approaching Mormon Studies: Problems and Solutions


Panelists:
Colleen McDannell, University of Utah

Jonathan Stapley, Bellevue, WA
Jana Riess, Religion News Service
A17-422
Brandi Denison, University of North Florida, Presiding
Theme: Material Mediations of Religion and Empire
Matthew Dougherty, University of Toronto, Mississauga

“Coals Scatter’d from Jewish Altars": The Production of American Indian Religion and Comparative Imperialisms in
the Early Americas
Roxanne Korpan, University of Toronto

Colonial Bibles and Indigenous Mediations of North American Christianity: The Publishing History of Ojibwe
Missionary Peter Jones, 1802-1856
Brennan Keegan, Duke University

Inventing American Nationalism in the Rocky Mountain West
Responding:
Richard Callahan, University of Missouri
A17-423
Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Unit
Karen Rucks, Quinsigamond Community College, Presiding
Theme: Du Bois, Pragmatism, and the Religious Imaginary
Logan Narikawa, University of Hawaiʻi

A Cautious Linking: Du Bois, Anti-Blackness, Settler Colonialism, and Heteropatriarchy
Tyrone C. Ross, Temple University

The Prophetic Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois: An American Original
Nicholas Andersen, Brown University

Du Bois on the Religion of Whiteness

A17-424
Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit
Kirsten Sonkyo Oh, Azusa Pacific University, Presiding
Theme: Works in Progress
Panelists:
Danjuma Gibson, Calvin Theological Seminary

James I. Higginbotham, Earlham College
Business Meeting:
Kelly Bulkeley, The Sleep and Dream Database

Eileen Campbell-Reed, Central Baptist Theological Seminary
A17-425
Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University, Presiding
Theme: Scholars, Activists, Communities
Chara Armon, Villanova University

Recovering Consultation with Nature: Putting the New Animism into Practice through Conversations with
Members of the Life Community
Mark Clatterbuck, Montclair State University

Catholic Sisters vs. Pipeline: Spirited Eco-Activism after Standing Rock
David Goodin, McGill University

Christology and Eco-Theology: The Centrality of Cyril of Alexandria in Safeguarding Ethiopian Tewahedo Church
Forests
Aldea Mulhern, Grand Valley State University

Is an Indoor Islamic Environmentalism Possible? Some Notes on Racialized Women and Religion from the Central
Canadian Field
A17-426
Religion and Migration Unit
Rubina Ramji, Cape Breton University, Presiding
Theme: Framing the Migrant through Visual Imagery

Tobias Tan, University of Cambridge

Ulrich Schmiedel, University of Munich
The Body Politics of Religion: Reading Embodied Religious Practices with Judith Butler
Rachel Lara van der Merwe, University of Colorado Boulder

Outsiders in Italy: The Presence of the Post-Colonial Gaze in the Great Beauty
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, University of Munich

Vulnerability in Representing Migration. Negotiations of Values and Identities in Film
Business Meeting:
Rubina Ramji, Cape Breton University
A17-427
Julie Vig, University of British Columbia, Presiding
Theme: Caste beyond Hinduism
Elsa Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School

Adivasi Christians and Contextual Theology
David Geary, University of British Columbia

“Awakened” Villages: Indian Buddhism and the Metaphysics of Poverty at the Place of Enlightenment
Mark Balmforth, Columbia University

Nāki's Death: Breaking Caste and Negotiating Accommodation in the American Ceylon Mission
Responding:
Nathaniel Roberts, University of Göttingen
A17-428
Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Unit and Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit
Syed Adnan Hussain, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Presiding
Theme: Crossing Borders: Afrofuturism, Migration to Europe, and Representations of Siberian Shamanism
Matthew Harris, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Last Angel of History: Afrofuturism, Diaspora, and the Force of Black Disbelief
Rebecca Moody, Syracuse University


Singed Landscapes: Representations of Migration in Yasmine Kassari’s Ragad and ’Endama Yabki Arrijal…
Marisa Karyl Franz, University of Toronto

Photographing Shamanism in Siberia
A17-429
Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit
Matthew Peter Casey, University of California, Davis, Presiding
Theme: Theologies of Connection and Identity across the Latino/a/x Americas
Joel Cruz, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago

"¡Mira, pa ya en el cielo!" Postcolonial Theology and Theological Aesthetics in Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez’s La
Borinqueña
Kristian Diaz, university of denver

On the Walls of the Cathedral: The Decline of Catholicism amongst Salvadoran Millennials
Ann Hidalgo, Claremont School of Theology

Rockin’ the Habit: Colliding Cultural Identities and a Peruvian Nuns’ Rock Band
Chris Tirres, DePaul University

"Relatedness" in the Work of Ivone Gebara
Responding:
Teresa Delgado, Iona College
A17-430
Susan Hayward, Georgetown University, United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C., Presiding
Theme: Mapping the Religious Field of Conflict Zones: The View from below in Libya, Iraq, and South Sudan
Palwasha Kakar, United States Institute of Peace

Libya’s Religious Sector and Peacebuilding Efforts
Alexander Thurston, Georgetown University

Ann Wainscott, Miami University
Methodologies for Mapping Religious Fields: The State of the Literature in Islamic Studies

Engaging the Post-ISIS Iraqi Religious Field for Peace and Reconciliation
Jacqueline Wilson, United States Institute of Peace


Analyzing the Role of Religious Actors and Institutions in Conflict and Peacebuilding in South Sudan
A17-431
Schleiermacher Unit
Ed Waggoner, Brite Divinity School, Presiding
Theme: Thinking with Schleiermacher about Persons in Transition and Relation
Kristine Suna-Koro, Xavier University

On the “Sense and Taste for the Infinite” in Light of the Sacrament of the Stranger: A Brief Conversation with
Schleiermacher in the Age of Global Migration Crisis
Taraneh Wilkinson, Georgetown University

Infinitary Insights on the Question of Religious Pluralism
Calli Micale, Yale University

Continuous Creation and the Problem of Continuous Identity in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher
A17-432
Secularism and Secularity Unit
Joseph Blankholm, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Theme: Nineteenth-Century Secular Formations: Empiricism, Naturalism, Secularism
Eric Stephen, Harvard University

Secularist Women, Agency, and the Fight for Gender Equality: Examining Katie Kehm Smith's Campaign for
Women's Rights in the Late Nineteenth Century American Secularist Movement
Christine Hedlin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Empirical Faiths, Religious Fictions: A Study in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Secularity
Neil George, York University

Invented Empiricism in the Secularization of Science: Constructing an Identity for the Scientific Naturalists
A17-433
Sikh Studies Unit
Michael Hawley, Mount Royal University, Presiding
Theme: Situating Sikhs and Sikh Tradition: Devotional, Ethnographic, and Sociological Explorations
Puninder Singh, University of Michigan


Bhai Nand Lal Goya and the Sikh Devotional Tradition
Tavleen Kaur, University of California, Irvine

“Give me your tired, your poor”: Sikh Gurdwaras as “Total Institutions”
Randeep Hothi, University of Michigan

Shared Questions Addressed by Sikh Studies and Sikh Communities
Jasleen Singh, University of Michigan

Sikh-American Queers and The Subversion of Liberal North American Queer Politics
A17-434
Study of Islam Unit
Kristian Petersen, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Presiding
Theme: New Graduate Research in Islamic Studies
Hadi Qazwini, University of Southern California

Accessing God's Mind: The Islamic Debate on Fallibilism and Infallibilism
Ali Olomi, University of California Irvine

Re-Imagining Muslims: Identity and History in the Perso-Islamic World
Rebecca Faulkner, Princeton University

Graduate Student Research on Muhammad Iqbal
Joshua Mugler, Georgetown University

A Martyr with Too Many Causes: Christopher of Antioch (d. 967) and Local Collective Memory
Reyhan Durmaz, Brown University

Stories, Saints, and Sanctity between Christianity and Islam
A17-435
Jeremy Posadas, Austin College, Presiding
Theme: Irredeemable Positions: Political Economies of Redemption in Historical, Theoretical, and Social Justice
Perspectives
Panelists:
Karen Bray, Wesleyan College

Eleanor Craig, Harvard University
An Yountae, California State University, Northridge

Kevin Minister, Shenandoah University
Keri Day, Princeton Theological Seminary
A17-436
Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. Unit
AnneMarie Mingo, Pennsylvania State University, Presiding
Theme: Exploring the Global Legacies of King
Alease Brown, Stellenbosch University

MLK, South African Activism, and the Tradition of Radical Blackness: Interrogating the Claim of Divergent “Violent”
and “Nonviolent” Resistance Ethics
Seth Gaiters, Ohio State University

Political Theology, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Frantz Fanon: Can the "Apostle of Nonviolence” and the "Apostle of
Violence” Meet?
Tsz Him Lai, Boston University

Letter from Birmingham City Jail to the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement: the Emergence of Beloved Community to
the Virtue of Hope
A17-437
Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Unit
Russell Re Manning, Bath Spa University, Presiding
Theme: Tillich and the Arts
Duane Olson, McKendree University

A Theonomous Gospel: John Adams' "The Gospel According to the Other Mary"
Clive Marsh, University of Leicester

The "Gehalt" of Culture Re-Visited: Further Explorations in Correctives to Tillich’s Reservations about Popular
Culture
André Daughtry
Tillich, Judson Church, and the Avant-Garde
Business Meeting:
Devan Stahl, Michigan State University

Stephen G. Ray, Chicago Theological Seminary
A17-438

Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit
Jason Mokhtarian, Indiana University, Presiding
Theme: Polemic in Eastern Late Antiquity
Laura Locke Estes, Saint Louis University

"Babes Who Need Milk": Portraying Muslims as "Jews" in Eastern Christian Polemic
Yoseob Song, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

Sinai Arabic MS 151 and Its Apologetic-Polemic Characteristcs
Charles Haberl, Rutgers University

James McGrath, Butler University
The Wise and Deceitful Messiah
Responding:
Tina Shepardson, University of Tennessee
Business Meeting:
Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College
A17-439
Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion Seminar
Rachel Schneider, Rice University, Presiding
Theme: Gender and Sexuality In The Emerging Church/Millennials
Laine Walters Young, Vanderbilt University

Gender, Religious Values, and Intimacy: Millennial Improvisational Style as a "Mixed Bag"
Xochitl Alvizo, California State University, Northridge

Polity for a Radically Inclusive (and Emerging) Church
Art Bamford, University of Colorado-Boulder

LGBTQ Inclusion and Christianity in the United States
Jon Paul Sydnor, Emmanuel College, Boston

Emergent and Progressive: Liberating Praxis in an Experimental Christian Community
A17-440
AAR/SBL Graduate Student Happy Hour
A17-441
Friends of the Academy Reception

A17-500
International Members Reception
A17-501
Racial and Ethnic Minorities Reception

A17-502
Paranormal and Historical Ghost Walk

A17-503
Presidential Address
Laurie Louise Patton, Middlebury College, Presiding
Theme: In the Ruins of White Evangelicalism
Panelist:
David P. Gushee, Mercer University

A17-504

Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) Editorial Board Meeting
Andrea Jain, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Presiding

A17-505
Film: The Rape of Recy Taylor
Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University, Presiding
Panelists:

Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University
A17-506
Film: Goldstone
Ken Derry, University of Toronto, Presiding
A17-507
Film: Daughters of the Dust

A17-508
Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) Reception for Authors and Board Meeting

A17-509
LGBTIQ Scholars/Scholars of LGBTIQ Studies Reception
Sunday - 7:30 AM-8:45 AM

A18-1
AAR Annual Business Meeting
A18-2
Applied Religious Studies Breakfast

A18-100
Graduate Student Committee Business Meeting
Rachel Toombs, Yellowstone Theological Institute, Presiding

A18-101
Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee and Applied Religious Studies Committee
Lynne Gerber, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Contingency Possibilities: Career Options within and beyond the Academy
Panelists:

Megan Goodwin, Syracuse University
Hussein Rashid, Islamicate, LLC
Matthew Bingley, Perimeter College
A18-102
Public Understanding of Religion Committee and Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit
Eric Lewis Williams, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Presiding
Theme: Policy and Poetry: The African American Religious Imagination and Social Transformation
Panelists:

Monica R. Miller, Lehigh University
Vincent Stringer, Morgan State University
Brad Braxton, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
A18-103
Status of Women in the Profession Committee
Cassie Trentaz, Warner Pacific College, Presiding
Theme: Risk, Rage, and Social Change
Panelists:
Rebecca Alpert, Temple University

Monica A. Coleman, Claremont School of Theology
Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina
Andrea Smith, University of California, Riverside
A18-104
Animals and Religion Unit and SBL Animal Studies and the Bible Consultation
Arthur Walker-Jones, University of Winnipeg, Presiding
Theme: Reading Animals in Biblical and Rabbinic Literature through the Works of Aaron Gross and Donovan
Schaefer
Joshua Paul Smith, University of Denver

From the Altar to the Abattoir: The Evolving Figure of the Bovine in Jewish Text and Art
Geoffrey Claussen, Elon University

Moses and the Kid, Judah and the Calf, and the Disavowal of Compassion
Alex Weisberg, New York University

Rabbinic Animal Affects: Deleuzian Critiques, Disruptive Politics, and the Technology of Animals
Responding:
Aaron Gross, University of San Diego
A18-105
Buddhism in the West Unit and Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Unit
Sharon A. Suh, Seattle University, Presiding
Theme: From Rape Texts to Bro Buddhism: Critical Canonical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Sexual Abuse
Scandals in Western Buddhism

Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida

From Sweeping Zen to Open Buddhism: Sex Scandals, Social Media, and Transparency in Western Buddhism

Pleasure is Consent: A Study of Rape Texts in the Vinaya
Wakoh Shannon Hickey, Notre Dame of Maryland University

Teacher Misconduct in American Zen: A Cross-Cultural and Inter-Religious Analysis
Emily Cohen, Faith Trust Institute

Sexual Abuse by Zen Teachers in the United States: Naming the Patterns
R.M. Hogendoorn
The Making of a Lama: Interrogating Sogyal Rinpoche’s Pose as a (Re)incarnate Master
Responding:
Sarah Jacoby, Northwestern University
Business Meeting:
David McMahan, Franklin and Marshall College

Scott Mitchell, Institute of Buddhist Studies
A18-106
Chinese Religions Unit and Daoist Studies Unit
James A. Benn, McMaster University, Presiding
Theme: Vision and Visualization in Art, Alchemy, and Ritual: Exploring Daoist Modes of Perception
Noelle Giuffrida, Case Western Reserve University

Performing Zhenwu: Material and Immaterial Dimensions of Daoist Experience in an Early Ming Album
Anna Hennessey, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley

Alchemical Representation and the Externalization of Internal Alchemy in Song Daoism
Mark Meulenbeld, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The Interiority of Landscape: Images towards Transcendence in 17th Century Chinese Painting
Aaron Reich, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Summoning the Troupes of Generals: The Interwoven Worlds of Late Imperial Thunder Ritual
Responding:
Natasha Heller, University of Virginia

Business Meeting:
Jessey J. C. Choo, Rutgers University

Elena Valussi, Loyola University, Chicago
A18-107
Comparative Religious Ethics Unit
Jonathan K. Crane, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Political Discourse and Moral Subjectivity in Comparative Perspective
Faraz Sheikh, College of William and Mary

Discourse as Performing Relationality: What and How We Might Learn from Accounts of Pre-Modern Subjectivity
Omer Awass, American Islamic College

Fatwa and the Art of Ethical Embedding
Mary Nickel, Princeton University

The Confessing Prophet: Recuperating Jeremiadic Confession in American Political Discourse
Devin O'Rourke, University of Chicago

Religions in the Public Sphere: Habermas and the Transformative Power of Public Argument
Business Meeting:
Jung Lee, Northeastern University
A18-108
Massimo Rondolino, Carroll University, Presiding
Theme: Hagiography and Patronage
Scott Harrower, Ridley College

Virtue, Power, and Divine Patronage
R. Brian Siebeking, Gonzaga University

The Problem of Patronage in the Islamic Tale of Jirjīs: A Study in Cross-Tradition Textual Reception
Aaron Hollander, University of Chicago

“Even They Love Him”: Muslim Devotion to St. George in Orthodox Christian Imagination
Gil Ben-Herut, University of South Florida


Writing Saints’ Lives as an Act of Political Dissent in Premodern South India
Responding:
A18-109
Contemplative Studies Unit
Michael Sheehy, Mind & Life Institute and University of Virginia, Presiding
Theme: Critical First-Person Methodologies in Contemplative Studies
Niki Clements, Rice University

Genealogically Engaging the Concepts of Critical Subjectivity
Harold D. Roth, Brown University

Critical First-Person Perspectives in Contemplative Studies
Judith Simmer-Brown, Naropa University

Integrating First-Person Inquiry in the Religious Studies Classroom
Daniel Hirshberg, University of Mary Washington

Teaching Critical Subjectivity on an Inclusive Campus
Responding:
John Dunne, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Business Meeting:
Harold D. Roth, Brown University

Judith Simmer-Brown, Naropa University
A18-110
Ecclesial Practices Unit
Jonas Ideström, Church of Sweden Research Unit, Uppsala, Sweden, Presiding
Theme: Mediated Faith: Digital Media, Christian Life, and Theology
Kyle Schiefelbein, Graduate Theological Union

Neighbor-Care in the Social Network: Rethinking Pastoral Care for the Digital Age
Hyemin Na, Emory University

Digital Productions of the Sacred: A Korean Megachurch and Its Racialized Visual Culture

Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University
The Virtual Body of Christ and Embrace of the Seriously Ill
Christopher C. Brittain, Trinity College, Toronto

Ready. Aim. BLOG! The Impact of Digital Media on Christian Identity in the Diocese(s) of Pittsburgh
Responding:
Teresa Berger, Yale Divinity School / Institute of Sacred Music
Business Meeting:
A18-111
Ethics Unit and SBL Ethics and Biblical Interpretation Unit
Amy Merrill Willis, Lynchburg College, Presiding
Theme: Review of Bible and Ethics in Christian Life: A New Conversation (Fortress Press, 2018)
Panelists:
William P. Brown, Columbia Theological Seminary

Peter J. Paris, Princeton Theological Seminary
M. Daniel Carroll R., Wheaton College
Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College
Responding:
Bruce Birch, Wesley Theological Seminary

Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Graduate Theological Union
Jacqueline E. Lapsley, Princeton Theological Seminary
A18-112
Gay Men and Religion Unit and Queer Studies in Religion Unit
Elyse Ambrose, Drew University, Presiding
Theme: Queer/ish (Religio-)Sexual Subjectivities
Méadhbh McIvor, University of Groningen

"They Claim I Don't Exist": Minority Rights and Ex-Gay Subjectivity in Contemporary England
Marco Derks, Utrecht University

Reparative Therapy and Christian Identity Politics in the Netherlands

Daniel Chen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
The Queerish Discourse of the Post-Ex-Gay Spiritual Friendship Movement
Garrett Fugate, Boston University

Shame and Intimacy on the Lips of Queer Muslim Piety
Nathan Kennedy, Brite Divinity School

The Unexamined Sexuality Is Not Worth Fucking: Sexual Theo-Ethical Reflection in the Age of Homonationalism
A18-113
Andrew Cain, University of Colorado Boulder, Presiding
Theme: "Semper Ciceronianus?" Jerome Entangled in the Classical World
Panelists:
Sarah Bühler, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Silvia Georgieva, South-West University "Neofit Rilski"
Christa Gray, University of Reading
Michael Graves, Wheaton College, IL
Matthew Kraus, University of Cincinnati
Amy Oh, Skidmore College
Jessica van t Westeinde, University of Bern
Business Meeting:
Trish Beckman, St. Olaf College
A18-114
Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Unit
Amy Michelle DeBaets, Oakland University, Presiding
Theme: Dreams for the Future: Spirit Tech, Chip Implants, and Imagined Worlds
Wesley J. Wildman, Boston University

Kate Stockly, Boston University
Spirit Tech: Topics for Public Scholarship in the Age of Brain-Based Technologies for Spiritual Enhancement
Noreen Herzfeld, St. John's University

Cybernetic Enhancement and the Problem of the Self
Randy Reed, Appalachian State University


Breaking the Dominant Paradigm: Apocalyptic A.I. and Her
Joseph Fisher, Columbia University

Human Nature and the Ethics of Human Enhancement
Karen O'Donnell, Durham University

The Theologian as Dreamer: On Theological Imagination and Human Enhancement
Business Meeting:
Ronald S. Cole-Turner, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
A18-115
International Development and Religion Unit
Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds, Presiding
Theme: Religion and International Development: The Who, What, and Why in Local and Global Context

What Is "Religious" about "Religious NGOs": Exploring Organizational Rationale in the Work of the Baha'i
International Community Engagement with the United Nations
Atalia Omer, University of Notre Dame

Interreligious Dialogue of Action and the Reduction of Child Marriage in the Coastal Regions of Kenya: Moving
beyond the “Soft Power” Approach?
Olivia Wilkinson
Religion between Global and Local Humanitarianism: Investigating the Place of Faith in the International
Humanitarian "Localization" Policy Agenda
David Tittensor, Deakin University

Matthew Clarke, Deakin University
Tezcan Gümüş, Deakin University
Muslim Aid: Exploring the Ethics of Giving in Islam
A18-116
Islam, Gender, Women Unit
Justine Howe, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding
Theme: Islam and Gender: The State of the Field
Sylvia Chan-Malik, Rutgers University

Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam
Zareena Grewal, Yale University, Facilitator

Kecia Ali, Boston University
Gender, Authority, and Inclusion: Citational Politics in Islamic Studies
Jonathan E. Brockopp, Pennsylvania State University, Facilitator
Elizabeth Bucar, Northeastern University

Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress
Sophia Arjana, Western Kentucky University, Facilitator
Younus Mirza, Allegheny College

“The Slave Girl Gives Birth to Her Master": Female Slavery from the Mamluk Era to the Islamic State
Aisha Geissinger, Carleton University, Facilitator
Responding:
Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University, Chicago
Business Meeting:
Aysha Hidayatullah, University of San Francisco

Justine Howe, Case Western Reserve University
A18-117
Karen L. Carr, Lawrence University, Presiding
Theme: Where is God? Kierkegaard and the Denigration of Public Discourse
Curtis L. Thompson, Thiel College

Fake News, Eroded Civility, and Christ, Inc.: Why It Is "as if God did not exist"
Russell Johnson, University of Chicago

Beyond Either/Or: Cornel West’s Kierkegaardian Style
Matthew Brake, George Mason University

Finding God in the Laughter: Søren Kierkegaard, Talal Asad, and Alfred Stepan on Humor and Difference in the
Public Square
Eric Ziolkowski, Lafayette College

Kierkegaard, James Baldwin, and the Theater as a Forum for Public Discourse
Business Meeting:
Marcia C. Robinson, Syracuse University

Avron Kulak, York University
A18-118
Liberation Theologies Unit

Nikia Robert, Claremont School of Theology, Presiding
Theme: Extra, Extra! The End is Here: Apocalypsis 2018
Yara Gonzalez-Justiniano, Boston University School of Theology

Should It End? Hope in the Apocalypse
Bryson White, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos: The Prison Industrial Complex as Realized White Supremacist Eschatology
Andrew Stone Porter, Vanderbilt University

White Colonial Neoliberalism in Crisis: Three Apocalyptic Visions
Norah Elmagraby, Emory University

Apocalypse and Climate Change in Islam: A Study of the Virtual Climate Change Discourse
Filipe Maia, Pacific School of Religion

Toward a Theology of Liberation (Again)
Business Meeting:
Maria T. Davila, Andover Newton Theological School

Robert Jay Rivera, St. John's University
A18-119
Middle Eastern Christianity Unit
Michel Andraos, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding
Theme: Religious Conversions and Middle Eastern Christianity
Jessica Mutter, University of Chicago

By the Book: Religious Conversion in Early Islamic Syria and Iraq
Mourad Takawi, University of Notre Dame

The Specter of Conversion in Muslim and Christian Arabic Apologetic Tracts in the Early ʿAbbāsid World
Ashoor Yousif, University of Toronto

Caliph al-Mahdi and the Tribe of Tanukh: A Case of Religious Forced Conversion of Christians in the Islamic
Caliphate
Henry Clements, Yale University

Protestant Foxes and Catholic Wolves in the Late-Ottoman Syriac Heartland
Bilal Bas

From Benjamin David to Abdulahad Davud: the Story of a Chaldean Christian’s Conversion to Islam in the Early
20th Century
Business Meeting:
Jason R. Zaborowski, Bradley University
A18-120
Elizabeth Dolfi, Columbia University, Presiding
Theme: God’s Kingdom and American Empire: A Roundtable Discussion of Holy Humanitarians (Harvard University
Press, 2018) and The Kingdom of God Has No Borders (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Panelists:
Andrew Jungclaus, Columbia University

Helen Jin Kim, Harvard University
David King, Indiana University-Purdue University
Marla Frederick, Harvard University
Responding:
Melani McAlister, George Washington University

Business Meeting:
Kathleen Holscher, University of New Mexico

A18-121
Samantha Kang, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Theme: Religion and Postmodernism: Then and Now
Panelists:
Mark C. Taylor, Columbia University

Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Amy M. Hollywood, Harvard University
Jeffrey Kosky, Washington & Lee University
Abigail Kluchin, Ursinus College

Bradley Onishi, Skidmore College
Business Meeting:
Thomas A. Lewis, Brown University

Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University
A18-122
Thurman Willison, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Healthy Conflict in an Era of Trump
Panelists:
Melvin Rogers, Brown University

Rosemary Kellison, University of West Georgia
Martin Kavka, Florida State University
Ebrahim E. I. Moosa, University of Notre Dame
Responding:
Jason Springs, University of Notre Dame
Business Meeting:
Joseph Winters, Duke University
A18-123
Maria Carson, Syracuse University, Presiding
Theme: Popular Pedagogy: Enhancing Student Learning through Popular Culture
Daniel Heifetz, Bucknell University

Rāma as Global Citizen: Teaching Rāmāyaṇ 3392 AD and Sita Sings the Blues
Rebecca Moody, Syracuse University

“But That’s a Biological Impossibility!”: Nuancing Women and Islam through Film
Adam D. J. Brett, Syracuse University

Reaver's Ain't Human, or They Forgot How to Be: Teaching Religion in Science Fiction
Jennifer Caplan, Towson University


Black Milk and Serials: Teaching Holocaust Graphic Novels
Laura Ammon, Appalachian State University

On the Road with Odin and Eliade: Teaching Myth and Ritual with Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
Steven Benko, Meredith College

Ethics without Religion: How Teaching the Good Place Taught Me What Ethics Is and Is Not
A18-124
Religion and the Social Sciences Unit and Roman Catholic Studies Unit and Sociology of Religion Unit
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, University of Iowa, Presiding
Nichole Phillips, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Special Tribute Session In Honor of Dr. Mary Ellen Konieczny, 1959-2018
Panelists:
Christian Smith, University of Notre Dame

Tricia Bruce, Maryville College
Jeffrey Guhin, University of California, Los Angeles
Megan Rogers, University of Notre Dame
Meredith Whitnah, Westmont College
Business Meeting:
Nichole Phillips, Emory University

A18-125
Religion in South Asia Unit and Tantric Studies Unit
Tony Stewart, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Theme: Bengali and Assamese Tantra in Colonial and Contemporary Contexts
Keith Cantú, University of California, Santa Barbara

From Basu to Vasu and Back Again: Śrīśacandra Basu’s Tantric Legacy
Rachel Fell McDermott, Barnard College

The Legacy of Tantra in the Troubled Life of a National Poet
Sravana Borkataky-Varma, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Clash of Om Hari and Om Kring! Satra and Tantra Politics in Assam
Carola E. Lorea, IIAS Leiden


Apasampradāẏ: The Invention of Heterodoxy and Its Repercussions among Low-Caste Religious Movements of
Bengal
Responding:
Glen Hayes, Bloomfield College
Business Meeting:
Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin

John Nemec, University of Virginia
A18-126
Religions, Medicines, and Healing; Afro-American Religious History; African Religions; Body and Religion;
Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism; and World Christianity Units
Linda L. Barnes, Boston University School of Medicine, Presiding
Theme: Decolonization as Healing Part II: African, Black, and Indigenous Religions
Jakub Urbaniak, St Augustine College of South Africa

Decolonization as Unlearning Christianity and Learning It Anew: Reclaiming the Past, Re-Imagining the Future
Judith Gruber, KU Leuven

“I pray instead to be haunted … bypassing the arrogance of the cure": Post/colonial Trauma and the Discourse of
Healing
Nathanael Homewood, Rice University

Sexual Healing: The Decolonial Possibilities of Sexual Expressivity and Creativity in Ghanaian Deliverance Ministries
Rode Molla, Iliff School of Theology and Denver University Joint Ph. D Program
Decolonizing White Painted, Tamed, and Traumatized Ethiopian Bodies
Nathan Wood-House, Boston College

Re-Membering: Liberation Theology, Colonization, and the American Politics of Memory
A18-127
Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit
Jason Wyman, Manhattan College, Presiding
Theme: On Being Multidisciplinary: Histories, Stakes, and Failures of Intellectual Boundaries
Panelists:
Jacqueline Hidalgo, Williams College


Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University
Maia Kotrosits, Denison University
Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Faith Matters Network, Nashville, TN
Business Meeting:

Marion S. Grau, MF Norwegian School of Theology
A18-128
Study of Judaism Unit
Elliot Ratzman, Lawrence University, Presiding
Theme: All the Jews are White, All the Blacks are Christian: An Afro-Jewish Studies Intervention
Walter Isaac, Marquette University

On the Understanding of Jewishness as a Sociotelic Phenomenon
Andre Key, Claflin University

Situating Afro-Jewish Narratives in African American Historiography
Remy Ilona, Florida International University

A Critical Review of Igbo Jewish Deportation Practices in Israel
Marva Shalev Marom

From Jewishness to Blackness: Jewish Ethiopian Girls Learning to Be Jewish in Israel
Juan Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University

A Destiny Spoken of In Prophecy: Harlem’s Black Jews and Competing Discourses on Ethiopian Hebrew Identities in
an Anxious Era, 1929-1939
A18-129
Molly Bassett, Georgia State University, Presiding
Theme: A Conversation about Pedagogy: Reading Of Education, Fishbowls, and Rabbit Holes: Rethinking Teaching
and Liberal Education for an Interconnected World (Stylus Publishing, 2016)
Panelists:
Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University

Richard Newton, University of Alabama
Responding:
Kathleen Fisher
Business Meeting:
David B. Howell, Ferrum College

Molly Bassett, Georgia State University
A18-130
Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit and SBL Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish, and Christian
Studies Unit
Jason Mokhtarian, Indiana University, Presiding
Theme: Online Resources and Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity
Bradley C. Erickson, University of North Carolina

Digital Clay: Making Cuneiform Tablet Collections Accessible with 3D Modeling
James McGrath, Butler University

Charles Haberl, Rutgers University
The Mandaean Book of John Critical Edition and Translation as Digital Humanities Project
Jennifer Hart, Elon University

Mandaeans Online: How an Ancient Religion Has Embraced Modern Media
James Walters, Rochester College

The Oxford-BYU Syriac Corpus: A New Digital Resource for the Study of Syriac Literature
Stephen Delamarter, George Fox University

The Digital Humanities Applied to the Study of the Ethiopic Old Testament
A18-131
Women and Religion Unit
Rosemary P. Carbine, Whittier College, Presiding
Theme: Global Women, Religion, and Political Engagement
Laura McTighe, Dartmouth College

Front Porch Strategy: Sacred Space and Demonic Grounds
Haruka Umetsu Cho, Harvard University


Engaging the World as “Onna” and Religious Minority: Second Wave Feminism and Christian Social Activism in
Japan during the 1970s
Karen V. Guth, College of the Holy Cross

Feminist and Womanist Theologies in Public: Contributions to the Tainted Legacies Debates
Susan F. Rakoczy, St Joseph's Theological Institute

Wangari Maathai Responds to Laudato Si': An Ecofeminist Dialogue with Pope Francis
Sherry Jordon, University of Saint Thomas

“Women in Solidarity with Women”: Re-Imagining and the World Council of Churches
Business Meeting:

Stephanie May, First Parish, Wayland, MA
A18-132
Navarātri Seminar
Jennifer Ortegren, Middlebury College, Presiding
Theme: Ritual Construction and Contestation: Navarātri Rituals and their Critiques
Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee University

Vedic Ritual Back-Formations of a Classical Goddess
Sarah Pierce Taylor, Oberlin College

Non-Violent Counter Programming: Guarding against Dasara in the Kannada-Speaking Jain Community
Saran Suebsantiwongse, Cambridge University

Reconstructing Vijayanagara’s Navarātri through the Sāmrājyalakṣmīpīṭhikā
Nawaraj Chaulagain, Illinois Wesleyan University

The Royal Nepalese Navarātri: Responses and Reactions to Animal Sacrifices
Responding:
Ute Huesken, Heidelberg University
Business Meeting:

Ute Huesken, Heidelberg University
A18-133
New Materialism, Religion, and Planetary Thinking Seminar
Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University, Presiding
Theme: The Implications of Planetary Thinking
Whitney Bauman, Florida International University

Developing a Non-reductive Materialism for a Planetary Community
Sam Mickey, University of San Francisco

Solidarity with Nonhumans: Being Ecological with Object-Oriented Ontology

Which Materialism, Whose Planetary Thinking?
Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Groningen

Nonhuman Agency, Human Vulnerability, and the Fragility of Scientific Knowledge
Kevin Minister, Shenandoah University

Interreligious Approaches to Sustainability Without a Future
Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas

Energy, New Materialism, and Religion
Lisa Sideris, Indiana University

Planetary Perspectives and the Ethics of Inevitability

Rewilding Religion for a Primeval Future

Religious Naturalism's Plea for A New Materialism
Business Meeting:
Karen Bray, Wesleyan College
A18-134
Exploratory Session
Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rhodes College, Presiding
Theme: Critical Studies in Asceticism
Blossom Stefaniw, Martin Luther University Halle

Ascetic Textualities in Fourth-Century Egypt: Grammar, Noetic Exegesis, and Curating the Ethical Patrimony
Rachel Wheeler, University of Portland

Ecospiritual Practices: Asceticism in Response to Social and Ecological Injustice

Peter Anthony Mena, University of San Diego
Constructing Ascetic Identity through Hagiography: Insights from Gloria Anzaldúa
Laura Dunn, Graduate Theological Union

Yoginī-s in the Flesh: Power, Praxis, and the Embodied Feminine Divine
Zachary Smith, Creighton University

Blinding Words: Legal Tests as a Potential Framework for Ascetic Scholarship
A18-135
Exploratory Session
Sailaja Krishnamurti, Saint Mary's University, Presiding
Theme: Deities with Many Arms, Hegemonies with Many Aspects: An Exploratory Roundtable on Feminist and
Critical Race Theory Approaches in Hindu Studies
Panelists:
Arun Chaudhuri, York University

Shreena Gandhi, Michigan State University
Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tanisha Ramachandran, Wake Forest University
Shana Sippy, Centre College
A18-136
Exploratory Session
Isaac Weiner, Ohio State University, Presiding
Theme: Sound As Religion
Panelists:
Mark Porter, Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt

Marian Caulfield, University College Cork
Anandi Silva Knuppel, Emory University
Michel Sunhae Lee, University of Texas
Francis Stewart, University of Stirling
Timothy Gallati, Harvard Divinity School
Tyler Zoanni, New York University
Kythe Heller, Harvard University
Rosalind I. J. Hackett, University of Tennessee
A18-137
Publications Committee Meeting

Theodore Vial, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding
A18-138
Women's Caucus
Kim Martinez, Northwest University, Presiding
Alicia Panganiban, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Janice Poss, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
Theme: Publishing Panel: New Visions of Response-Ability: Assessing Opportunities and Risks
Claire Bischoff, St. Catherine University

Annie Hardison-Moody, North Carolina State University
Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology: Mothering Matters
Grace Kao, Claremont School of Theology

Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University
Encountering the Sacred: Feminist Reflections on Women’s Lives
Nicola Slee, The Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education

Researching Female Faith: Qualitative Research Methods
Paula Dail, Emerita

We Rise to Resist: Voices from a New Era in Women’s Political Action
Marianne Delaporte, Notre Dame de Namur University

Sacred Inception: Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth in the Modern World
Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, Montclair State University

Christopher Fici, Union Theological Seminary
Gerald S. Vigna, Alvernia University
Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals
Michelle A. Walsh, Boston University

Violent Trauma, Culture, and Power: An Interdisciplinary Exploration in Lived Religion

A18-139
Larimer Square Historical Walking Tour

A18-140
Theme: Graduate Student Publishing: Pros, Cons, and Pressures
Panelists:
Nicholas Werse, Baylor University
Sunday - 11:30 AM-1:00 PM

A18-141
Theme: Hacking Accessibility: Tools for Students with Special Learning and Mental Health Needs
Sunday - 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Panelists:
Kerri Blumenthal, University of Florida
Sunday - 11:45 AM-12:45 PM

A18-142
Plenary Address: Jim Wallis
Theme: A Theology of Public Discipleship
Sunday - 11:45 AM-12:45 PM
Panelist:
Jim Wallis, Sojourners
A18-143
Women’s Mentoring Lunch
Nargis Virani, Graduate Theological Union, and Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University, Presiding
Sunday - 11:45 AM-12:45 PM
Sunday - 11:45 AM-12:45 PM

A18-144
Public University Department Chairs Meeting
Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama, Presiding
Sunday - 11:45 AM-12:45 PM
A18-145
Women's Caucus
Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College, Presiding
Theme: Response-Ability and Parliament of World Religion Women's Task Force: A Brown Bag Discussion
Sunday - 11:45 AM-12:45 PM
Panelists:
Colleen D. Hartung, Holy Wisdom Monastery, Middleton, WI

Anne Hillman, Boston University
Sunday - 12:00 PM-5:00 PM

A18-146
Foothills of the Rockies Tour

A18-200
Academic Relations Committee
Joshua Patterson, University of Georgia, Presiding
Theme: Religious Studies in Light of Its Ecosystems: The Status of Liberal Arts Colleges, General Education, and the
Humanities
Panelists:
Robert Townsend, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

William Zumeta, University of Washington
A18-201

Amy Defibaugh, Temple University, Presiding
Theme: Career Services for Non-Academic Careers
Panelists:
Sarah Peterson, ImaginePhD

Emily Swafford, American Historical Association
Karen Kelsky, The Professor Is In
A18-202
Regional Coordinators
Theme: Regions Forum
Panelist:
Brian Clearwater, Occidental College
A18-203
Religion and the Arts Award Jury
Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University, Presiding
Theme: Conversation with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, 2018 Religion and the Arts Award Winner
Panelists:
Karen Gonzalez Rice, Connecticut College

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith
A18-204
Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer Persons in the Profession Committee
Kathleen T. Talvacchia, Presiding
Theme: Critical Theological Reflections on Gender, Sexuality, and Lived Religious Experience
Panelists:
Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown University

A18-205
Afro-American Religious History Unit and North American Religions Unit and Roman Catholic Studies Unit
Alexia Williams, Yale University, Presiding
Theme: Thinking with Billie Holiday
Panelists:
Brenna Moore, Fordham University

J. Kameron Carter, Duke University
Thomas Ferraro, Duke University
Vaughn Booker, Dartmouth College
Responding:
Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University
A18-206
Anthropology of Religion Unit and Comparative Religious Ethics Unit
Letitia M. Campbell, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Ethical Self-Making in Social Justice and Humanitarianism: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue in the
Anthropology of Ethics
Kari Henquinet, Michigan Technological University

Time, Ethical Self-Formation, and Making Meaning of Suffering in Early World Vision Humanitarianism
Sarah Tobin, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway

Sectarianism and the Vernacular Among Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Sara Williams, Emory University

Moral Commodities and the Practice of Freedom: Meaning-Making and Ethical Formation on Come and See Tours
to Israel and Palestine
Rachel Schneider, Rice University

An Ethics of Care: Faith-Based Development, Urban Engagement, and Slum Tourism in South Africa
Responding:
Don Seeman, Emory University
A18-207
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit

Amos Yong, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Asian American Theologies and Ecclesial Futures
Grace Kao, Claremont School of Theology

Beyond Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Constructing an Asian American Theology of Reparations
Christine Hong, Columbia Theological Seminary

Tracing Anti-Racist Activism among Asian American Christians: A Discussion on Histories, Theological
Commitments, and Visible and Hidden Forms of Solidarity
SueJeanne Koh
Part of Our Spiritual Heritage, Too? The Model Minority Revisited
Daniel Lee, Fuller Theological Seminary

Covenantal Basis of Theological Contextuality: I-Thou Dynamic for Asian American Theology and Ministry
Gabriel Catanus, Loyola University, Chicago

Is Filipino American Theology Asian American Theology?
A18-208
Body and Religion Unit, Ritual Studies Unit, and Teaching Religion Unit
Katherine C. Zubko, University of North Carolina, Asheville, Presiding
Theme: Embodied Pedagogy: Teaching Tactics
Rosemary P. Carbine, Whittier College

Embodied Religion: Experiential Pedagogy for Teaching Religion and the Body in an Undergraduate Liberal Arts
Setting
Christopher Johnson, University of Wisconsin Colleges

Using Virtual Reality and 360-Degree Video in the Religious Studies Classroom
Marian Broida, Gustavus Adolphus College

Teaching Religious Practices in Religious Studies and Interfaith Engagement: Lessons and Methodologies from a
Model Approach to Teaching about Judaism
Matthew Hotham, Ball State University

Ritual in Practice Project: Creating Epistemic Friction and Overcoming Ideological Imperviousness in an
Introductory Religious Studies Class
Rose Caraway, Iowa State University

Mindfulness as a Pedagogical Teaching Tactic in Large Introductory Courses

Responding:
Victoria Rue, San Jose State University
A18-209
Buddhism Unit and Religion in Southeast Asia Unit
Erik Braun, University of Virginia, Presiding
Theme: Theravada Buddhist Experiences of Secularism in South and Southeast Asia
Lauren Leve, University of North Carolina

Pure Dhamma That Is Not Buddhism: Religion, Secularism, and Truth in S.N. Goenka’s Meditation Tradition
Erick White, University of Michigan

Formations of Secularism in Contemporary Thai Buddhist Modernity
Benjamin Schonthal, University of Otago

Benjamin Schonthal, University of Otago
The Great Secularization of Buddhism in Sri Lanka/Ceylon
Thomas Borchert, University of Vermont

Secularism, Legal Regimes, and the Politics of Buddhism in Thailand
Responding:
Alicia Turner, York University
A18-210
Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Unit and Buddhist Philosophy Unit
Jay Garfield, Smith College, Presiding
Theme: Connections between Buddhaghosa’s Visuddhimagga and Śāntideva’s Bodhicāryāvatāra
Amber Carpenter, Yale-NUS College

Buddhaghosa and Śāntideva on Anger
Stephen Harris, Leiden University

Compassion (Karuṇā) and Well-Being in the Path of Purification and the Introduction to the Practice of Awakening.
Emily McRae, University of New Mexico

Envy, Resentment, and Contempt in Visuddhimagga and Bodhicrayāvatāra
Guy M. Newland, Central Michigan University

Making to Ourselves the Case for Caring: Parallels in Śāntideva and Buddhaghosa

Sonam Thakchoe, University of Tasmania
Śāntideva and Buddhaghosa on the Two Truths
Maria Heim, Amherst College

Buddhaghosa on Emptiness
Business Meeting:
Richard Nance, Indiana University

Sara L. McClintock, Emory University
A18-211
Childhood Studies and Religion Unit
Wendy Love Anderson, Washington University in Saint Louis, Presiding
Theme: Broadening Perspectives on Children's Religious Experience
Eunbee Ham, Emory University

Decolonization as Healing in Christian Education with Asian American Children
Rode Molla, Iliff School of Theology and Denver University Joint Ph. D Program
The Affective Power of Child Baptism and Vocation: Children’s Religiosity beyond Sunday School Class
Laura Rector, Fuller Theological Seminary

A Jesus-Centered Perspective of Child Participation after the Parkland Shooting
Michael Hanegan, Columbia University

The Children Are Punished for the Sins [Done to] the Parents, to the Third and Fourth Generation: A Call for a
Theology of Prevention
Melva L. Sampson, Wake Forest University School of Divinity

The Lord Stepped in Right on Time: African Diasporan Girls Fetching Spiritual Power
Responding:
Sally Stamper, Capital University
A18-212
Comparative Theology Unit
Laura Alexander, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Presiding
Theme: Comparative/Interreligious Liberation Theology
John M. Thompson, Christopher Newport University


Envisioning a Dharmic Society: Re-Telling a Traditional Buddhist Tale
Hussam S. Timani, Christopher Newport University

Confessing Tawhid and the Trinity in a Globalized World: Towards a Christian-Muslim Liberation Theology
Marc Pugliese, Saint Leo University

"Looking Upon All Beings As One’s Self": Insights from Advaita Hinduism for Racial Justice within Christian
Theology and Liberative Praxis
Shadaab Rahemtulla, University of Jordan

The Exodus as Liberative Paradigm: An Interfaith Critique
Responding:
Loye Ashton, Tougaloo College
Business Meeting:
Wilhelmus Valkenberg, Catholic University of America

Marianne Moyaert, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
A18-213
Confucian Traditions Unit
Anna Sun, Kenyon College, Presiding
Theme: Inspired by the Other: Rhetorical Reinventions of Tradition in Ming-Qing Religious Literature
Jennifer Eichman, SOAS University of London

Refreshingly Experimental: Crafting Confucian Arguments with a Buddhist Lexicon
Daniel Burton-Rose, North Carolina State University

Polemics Explicit and Implicit: Combinatory Discourse and Ritual Praxis in Eighteenth Century Suzhou
Katherine Alexander, University of Colorado

A Confucian Great Commission: Yu Zhi’s Call to Evangelize the Chinese Masses
A18-214
Kayla Renée Wheeler, Boston University, Presiding
Theme: American Muslims between Lived Experience and Textual Authority
Freeha Riaz, Rutgers, Harvard


Jummah at the Women’s Mosque of America: Righteous Discontent Takbeer! Takbeer!
Tazeen Ali, Boston University

Beyond Vulnerable Bodies: Re-Conceptualizing Sexual Violence in the American Muslim Context
Zaid Adhami, Williams College

“I can’t get rid of my experience”: Autonomy and Authority in American Muslim Doctrinal Belief
Shehnaz Haqqani, Ithaca College

Lived Experience as a Motivator of Change: Determining the Negotiables and Non-Negotiables in American Islam
Katherine Merriman, University of North Carolina

Dinner, Speeches, and Shaping Sensibilities: The Ramadan Charity Fundraiser as a Space for the Creation of Legal
Norms in American Islam
Responding:
Business Meeting:
Danielle Widmann Abraham, Ursinus College

Noah Salomon, Carleton College
A18-215
Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit
Amy Hale, Atlanta, GA, Presiding
Theme: Problematizing Whiteness and the West in Contemporary Paganism and Witchcraft
Eriko Kawanishi, Kyoto University

Western Witchcraft in Contemporary Japan
Dale Wallace, Universtity of KwaZulu Natal

The Complexity of Context: Issues Impacting the Interactions of Pagans with Traditional African Religions in South
Africa
Russell Burk, Harvard University

Pagan Whiteness: Pagan Appropriation of African and African Inspired Religion
Responding:
Shawn Arthur, Wake Forest University
A18-216
Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit and Religion, Affect, and Emotion Unit
Sean McCloud, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Jessica Johnson's Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll's Evangelical
Empire (Duke University Press, 2018)
Panelists:

John Modern, Franklin and Marshall College
Responding:
Jessica Johnson, University of Washington
A18-217
Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit
Mary Keller, University of Wyoming, Presiding
Theme: Re-Thinking the Teaching of Theories and Methods: A Discussion of Cultural Approaches to the Study of
Religion (Bloomsbury, 2018) and The Bloomsbury Reader for Cultural Approaches to the Study of Religion (2018)
Panelists:
Meredith Minister, Shenandoah University

Kathryn Lofton, Yale University
Richard Newton, Elizabethtown College
Sarah Bloesch, Elon University
A18-218
Men, Masculinities, and Religions Unit
Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Princeton University, Presiding
Theme: Book Panel Roundtable on Sarah Imhoff's Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism (Indiana
University Press: 2017)
Panelists:
Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University

Lynne Gerber, Harvard University
Alana Vincent, University of Chester
Brendan Jamal Thornton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Amy Koehlinger, Oregon State University
Business Meeting:
Linda G. Jones, University of Pompeu Fabra

Amanullah De Sondy, University College, Cork
A18-219
Mysticism Unit and Theology and Continental Philosophy Unit
Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Theme: Mystical Materialisms: Mysticism as Concrete & Critical Praxis
Lucas Wright, University of California, Santa Barbara

Das Unfassbare und Symbole: On the Mutual Construction of Finitude and Infinitude in Christian Kabbalah, Franz
Rosenzweig’s Der Stern der Erlösung and Contemporary Thought
W. Ezekiel Goggin, University of Chicago

Kenotic Misapprehension: Self-Emptying and Religious Imagination in Post-Hegelian Materialisms
Miriam Bilsker, University of Chicago

What Kind of Nothingness? Gershom Scholem’s Reading of Kafka as Contemporary Secular Kabbalist
Sean Hannan, MacEwan University

Social Grace: Marx, Tauler, and Catherine of Siena on the Violence of Alienated Labour
Responding:
Andrea Dara Cooper, University of North Carolina
A18-220
Native Traditions in the Americas Unit and Religion in the American West Unit and Religion, Colonialism and
Postcolonialism Unit
Adrian Hermann, University of Bonn, Presiding
Theme: Authors Meet Critics: Jennifer Graber's The Gods of Indian Country (Oxford University Press, 2018) and
Pamela Klassen's The Story of Radio Mind (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
Panelists:
Kathleen J. Martin, California Polytechnic State University

Sylvester Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Tiffany Hale, Yale University
Greg Johnson, University of Colorado
Responding:
Jennifer Graber, University of Texas

A18-221
North American Hinduism Unit
Arun Brahmbhatt, University of Toronto, Presiding
Theme: Contesting Identity and Authority in Caribbean Hinduism
Priyanka Ramlakhan, University of Florida

The Woman Question: The Role of Panditas and Naaws in Contemporary Trinidad
Prea Persaud, University of Florida

Healing Waters: The Performance of Memory and the Creation of Sacred Space in Trinidad
Drew Thomases, San Diego State University

James Reich, Pace University
"Out-Of-The-Box" Hinduism: Double Diaspora and the Guyanese Hindus of New York
Alexander Rocklin, Willamette University

Draupadi through the Fire: The Performativity of Religion, Normative Hinduism, and the Decline of Old Style
Firewalking in Colonial Trinidad
Responding:
Business Meeting:
Anya P. Foxen, California Polytechnic State University

Michael Altman, University of Alabama
A18-222
Open and Relational Theologies Unit
Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Center for Process Studies, Presiding
Theme: Christ and the Cosmos (Cambridge University Press, 2015): Keith Ward's Trinity and Open-Relational
Theologies
Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University


Affirming and Extending Keith Ward's Trinitarian Proposal: Why God Naturally and Necessarily Relates with
Creation
Paul Greene, St. Catherine University

Trinity and Unity in Threefold Love Communion and Fourfold Love
Responding:
Keith Ward, Roehampton University
Business Meeting:
Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Center for Process Studies
A18-223
Pentecostal–Charismatic Movements Unit
Dara Delgado, University of Dayton, Presiding
Theme: Politics in Pentecostal-Charismatic Communities
Gabriel Raeburn, University of Pennsylvania

"I Urge You to Cast Your Vote for Jesus Christ!": The Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International and the
Early Roots of Pentecostal Political Action
Jonathan Langston Chism, University of Houston

“[God] Wants All of Us to Be Martin Luther Kings”: The Church of God in Christ, the Community on the Move for
Equality, and the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike, 1968
Erica Ramirez, Drew University

Leah Payne, George Fox University
The Anointing of Donald J. Trump
Business Meeting:

Leah Payne, George Fox University
A18-224
Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit and Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit
Stephanie Crumpton, McCormick Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: MeToo: Sexual Trauma and Sexual Shaming in the Era of #45
Ally Kern, Azusa Pacific University


MeToo and Sexual Trauma in Women of Color: Towards a Feminist Pastoral Theology and Praxis of Recovery for
Survivors
Jaime Konerman-Sease, Saint Louis University

Rejecting Systems of Violence: A Response to Child Sexual Abuse Employing Womanist Methodology
Elizabeth Antus, Boston College

The Enduring Legacy of Sexual Racism: #MeToo’s Complicity in the Silencing of Black Women’s Sexual Traumas
Kimberly Humphrey, Boston College

Shame and Its Subjects: Sexual Violence and Christian Praxis in the #MeToo Era
A18-225
Marcia Pally, New York University, Presiding
Theme: Populism and Religion outside the US: Research and Reflections
Torsten Meireis, Humboldt University

Neo-Nationalism and Populism in Western Europe
Luke Bretherton, Duke University

A Political Theology of Populism
Michael Minkenberg, European University, Viadrina

The Radical Right in Post-1989 Eastern Europe: Between Fascism and Religious Ultra-Nationalism, between Parties
and Movements
Dion Forster, Stellenbosch University

State Theology and Political Populism? A Consideration of Religious Populism in South African Politics
A18-226
Elaine Fisher, Stanford University, Presiding
Theme: New Directions in the Study of South Asian Religions
Nick Tackes, Columbia University

Mangalmaya's Medicine: Protap Chunder Mozoomdar as Patient-Multiple
Rodney Sebastian, University of Florida

Constructing the Manipuri Rāsalīlas: Agency, Power, and Consensus
Catherine Hartmann, Harvard University


Faith and Figuration in Tibetan Pilgrimage Guides
A18-227
Daniel White Hodge, North Park University, Presiding
Theme: Subversive Filmmaking and Race
Ken Derry, University of Toronto

Making Jesus Fry Bread: The Subversive Apocalypses of Indigenous Films
M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University

Surviving Racial and Sexual Violence: Film Form and Affective Economies in Daughters of the Dust and Moonlight
Marvin Wickware, Duke University

Black Reality as Subversive Fantasy: White Supremacy and Black Brilliance in Get Out and Black Panther
Business Meeting:
Ken Derry, University of Toronto

Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton
A18-228
Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit
Benjamin Sax, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, Baltimore, MD, Presiding
Theme: Genocide, Memory, and Pilgrimage
Alison Fitchett Climenhaga, University of Notre Dame

Audrey Seah, University of Notre Dame
Post-Genocide Devotion, Memory, and Reconciliation: Divine Mercy for Peacebuilding at a Rwandan Catholic
Shrine
Helen Orr, University of North Carolina

War Child/War Guide: Postmemory and Commodity on a Bosnian War Tour
David Shneer, University of Colorado

Jewish Anti-Fascist Pilgrimages: Touring Sites of the Holocaust before March of the Living
Business Meeting:
Kate Temoney, Montclair State University
A18-229

Religion, Media, and Culture Unit
Art Bamford, University of Colorado, Presiding
Theme: Brand Protestant™: Negotiating Protestant Publicity in a Globalized, Hypermediated World
Panelists:
Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado

Katja Valaskivi, University of Tampere, Finland
Susanne Stadlbauer, University of Wyoming
Hyemin Na, Emory University
A18-230
Susan L. Graham, Saint Peter's University, Presiding
Theme: Soundscapes, Place, and Religion

Mallory Hennigar, Syracuse University
If Buddhists Speak in India, Do They Make a Sound? Finding a Place within Local and Global Soundscapes for
Ambedkarite Buddhist Youth in Nagpur, India
Jeremy Saul, Mahidol University

Sonically Producing Devotional Publics at the Temple of Balaji, Rajasthan
Sara Evans, University of Otago

Polanyian Insight into Liturgical Space and Aesthetic Experience
Charles Gillespie, University of Virginia

Against Sonic Neutrality: Ringing Bells, Minaret Bans, and the Religious Territorialization of Sound
Business Meeting:
Brian J. Nichols, Mount Royal University
A18-231
Tantric Studies Unit
Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin, Presiding
Theme: Bodies within Bodies: Intertextuality and the Re-Inscriptive, Re-Incarnational Power of the Goddess in Her
Great and Little Instantiations
Ramhari Timalsina, Tubingen University


Evolution of the Tradition of Tripurasundarī in Nepal
David P. Lawrence, University of North Dakota

Upaniṣadic, Early Vedāntin and Nondual Kashmiri Śaiva Themes in Bhāskararāya’s Guptavatī
Sthaneshwar Timalsina, San Diego State University

Śakti and Power: Reframing Abhinavagupta’s Philosophy of Power
Jeffrey Stephen Lidke, Berry College

Transforming Demons into Light: A Ravenous Goddess at the Heart of Nepalese Kingship
Responding:
Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado
A18-232
World Christianity Unit
Jonathan Tan, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding
Theme: Perspectives on World Christianity: Case Studies from across the Globe
Eleonora Hof, Boston University

Independent Network Christianity in the Netherlands: A Case Study of Transnational Belongings
David Kirkpatrick, Florida State University

Violence and New Religious Movements: Disaggregating Hemispheric Boundaries in American Fundamentalism
David Howlett, Skidmore College

Why Denominations Can Climb Hills: RLDS Conversions in Highland India and Midwestern America, 1964-2010
Su-Chi Lin, Taiwan Graduate School of Theology

Material Devotions: Evangelical Images in Everyday Lives of Asian Christians
Responding:
Briana Wong, Princeton Theological Seminary
A18-233
Exploratory Session
Andrea Jain, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Presiding
Theme: Locating the Spiritual but Not Religious
Panelists:

Joseph Blankholm, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jeffrey Brackett, Ball State University
Ann Duncan, Goucher College
Melissa M. Wilcox, University of California, Riverside
A18-234
Wildcard Session
Tyler Tully, University of Oxford, Presiding
Theme: Incarnate Materialisms: Critically Engaging Non-Dualist Anthropologies in Theological Discourse
Panelists:
Axel Takacs, Harvard University

Matthew Eaton, Fordham University
P18-200
African Association for the Study of Religions
Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Tufts University, Presiding
Theme: Power and Subversion African Religious Spaces
Bernard Boyo, Daystar University

Damaris S. Parsitau, Egerton University
African Christianity and the Intersection between Faith, Traditional, and Biomedical Healing
Susie Paulik-Babka, University of San Diego

“Dying and Rising as the Moon Does”: The Keiskamma Art Project, the Persistence of the Xhosa People, and the
Possibility of Impossibility
Bolaji Bateye, Obafemi Awolowo University, and Funke Oyekan, Bowen University, Nigeria
"The Church as Family, Things Are No Longer What They Used to Be": Individualism, Genderization, and
Scripturalization of Spirituality, the Nigerian Experience

A18-235
Status of Persons with Disabilities in the Profession Committee Meeting

Darla Schumm, Hollins University, Presiding

A18-236
Theme: Love Thy Neighbour and Thyself: Recognizing and Cultivating Mental and Emotional Health for Students
and Self
Panelists:
Katelynn Carver, University of St Andrews

A18-300
Theme: Mastering Online Education: Effective and Engaging Teaching in a Digital Classroom
Panelists:
Andrew Klumpp, Southern Methodist University

A18-301
Edwin David Aponte, Louisville Institute, Presiding
Theme: Open Place to Talk

Panelists:
Kerry Danner, Georgetown University
A18-302
Employment Workshop: Preparing for the Non-Academic Career
Panelists:
Karen Kelsky, The Professor Is In
A18-303
Program Committee
Theme: The Art of Writing Conference Proposals
Panelists:
Elissa Cutter, Loyola Marymount University
A18-304
Public Understanding of Religion Committee
Erik Owens, Boston College, Presiding
Theme: Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion Forum: Jacob Olupona
Panelists:
Jacob K. Olupona, Harvard University

John Campbell, Council on Foreign Relations
A18-305
Mary Cheng, United Methodist Women, Presiding
Theme: Hymns
Leyla Ozgur Alhassen, UC Berkeley

The Performance of the Qur’an: Recitation and Interpretation

Ashley Purpura, Purdue University
Liturgical Name-Calling and the Hymnographic Construction of Orthodox Christian Identities
Lisa M. Allen, Interdenominational Theological Center

Side by Side: How Hymnody Grew Up in Rural American Communities
Lisa Radakovich Holsberg, Fordham University

Just a Closer Walk: Medieval Latin Hymns and the Contemporary Imagination
A18-306
Black Theology Unit and Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit and Women of Color, Scholarship,
Teaching, and Activism Unit
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College, Presiding
Theme: Delores Williams’ Sisters in the Wilderness (Orbis, 1993): Celebrating 25 Years
Kimi Bryson, Yale University

A Womanist’s Poetic, Theo-Ethical Response to Sexual Trauma: Ethics, Theology, and Black Women’s Poetry
Oluwatomisin Oredein, Memphis Theological Seminary

The One Who Sees Me: Finding Hagar through Literary Hermeneutics and Religious Interpretive Agency

Eboni Marshall Turman Reads Delores Williams' Sisters in the Wilderness
Emilie M. Townes, Vanderbilt University

Outcast in the Deserts of Hopelessness
A18-307
Body and Religion Unit
Yudit K. Greenberg, Rollins College, Presiding
Theme: Mediating Bodies in Religious Contexts
Adam Newman, University of Virginia

Dismembering Demons: Spatial and Bodily Representations in the Fifteenth-Century Ekaliṅgamāhātmya
George Pati, Valparaiso University

Mediating Bodies in Kṛṣṇanāṭṭam Performance of Kerala, South India
Thomas Breedlove, Baylor University

Created Bodies and the Recreation of Suffering: Spectacle and Woundedness in Gregory of Nyssa’s Famine
Sermons
A18-308
Beringia Zen, Avila University, Presiding
Theme: Christian Spirituality and Suffering
Paul Blankenship, graduate theological union

Wounds of Love: Christian Spirituality, Suffering, and Homelessness
Travis Pickell, University of Virginia

Re-Thinking Agency and Identity at the End-Of-Life: Baptism, Eucharist, and the "Spirituality of Martyrdom"
William B. Whitney, Azusa Pacific University

Karen Kim, Azusa Pacific University
Suffering and Mental Illness: The Work of the Spirit and Psychological Perspectives on Social Suffering
A18-309
Holly Taylor Coolman, Providence College, Presiding
Theme: Liberation in Perspective
Justin Ashworth, Azusa Pacific University

In What Sense the Liberator? The Threefold Office in Liberationist Perspective
Jacob Torbeck, Loyola University Chicago

“I Exist Because You See Me”: Attention and Liberative Theological Method
Dylan Belton, University of Notre Dame

Gratuity and Guilt: Gutiérrez and Metz on the Roots of Christian Freedom and Liberatory Praxis
A18-310
Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan, Austin College, Presiding
Theme: Ethics of Comparison
Panelists:


Massimo Rondolino, Carroll University
Hugh B. Urban, Ohio State University
Mark Dennis, Texas Christian University
Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University
Responding:
Thomas A. Tweed, University of Notre Dame
Business Meeting:
Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan, Austin College

A18-311
Sarah Eltantawi, Evergreen State College, Presiding
Theme: Muslim Minorities and the Transformation of Affect and Representation
Samah Choudhury, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“It’s in the Bones”: Muslim Pathologies and the Problem of Representation in Disgraced
Kristin Peterson, University of Colorado, Boulder

Creating Feelings of Resonance for #OurThreeWinners: The Circulation of Affects in the Creative Projects to Honor
the Legacy of the Chapel Hill Victims
Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Vassar College

“Muslimness is a Relationship of Power”: The Racialization of Islam in European Anti-Islamophobia Activism
Sajida Jalalzai, Trinity University

"Uncovering What Allah Has Concealed": Secrecy and Transparency in Muslim Spiritual Care Relationships
Responding:
Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University
A18-312
Death, Dying, and Beyond Unit and Psychology, Culture and Religion Unit
Storm Swain, United Lutheran Seminary, Presiding
Theme: On Death and Dying (Routledge, 1969): The Legacy of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Fifty Years Later
Lucy Bregman, Temple University


Kubler-Ross and the Re-Visioning of Death as Loss: Religious Appropriation and Responses
Michelle Marvin, University of Notre Dame

Can Hope Persist in the Face of Dementia Diagnoses? An Examination of Hope in the Work of E. Kübler-Ross and
Implications for Future Study
Richard Coble, Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church

Coerced Acceptance: Spiritual Care Fifty Years after On Death and Dying
Aaron Klink, Duke University

Beyond the Psychiatric Paradigm: Religion, Dying, and Hospice Chaplaincy after Kubler-Ross
A18-313
Hinduism Unit and History of Christianity Unit and Hagiography Society
Rachel Fell McDermott, Barnard College, Presiding
Theme: Saints and Their Miracles: Comparing Miracle Stories in Christian and Hindu Hagiography
Jon Keune, Michigan State University

Grammars of Wonder: What Do Miracle Stories Do for Those Who Retell Them?
Sara Ritchey, University of Tennessee

Miracle Making and Wonder Faking: Reflections from the Life of Lutgard of Aywières
Patton Burchett, College of William and Mary

The Moral Miraculous: Sacred Power, Ethics, and Religious Competition in Miracle Stories of Early Modern India
Todd French, Rollins College

Literarily Speaking: How Christian Miracles Are Affirmed through Literature and Commentary
A18-314
Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit and Wesleyan Studies Unit
Ted A. Campbell, Southern Methodist University, and Kristen E. Kvam, Saint Paul School of Theology, Presiding
Theme: Exploring Holiness and Unity in Methodist and Lutheran Faith Traditions
Miriam Haar, Lutheran World Federation (LWF)

Rising Nationalist Populism: A Challenge for Lutheran and Methodist Churches in Their Pursuit of Unity and
Holiness
Jenny Wiley Legath, Princeton University

Do Women Have a Special Gift for Service? Conflicting Ideas of Gender and Ministry in the Methodist and Lutheran
Deaconess Offices

Whitney Cox, University of Houston
"As We Struggle to Love": Two Congregations Respond to AIDS
Elsa Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School

Queer Christian Discourse in India: Starting with the T in LGBT Activism
A18-315
Mysticism Unit
June McDaniel, College of Charleston, Presiding
Theme: Mystic Biographies and Autobiographies
Thomas Cattoi, Graduate Theological Union

Chögyam Trungpa and the Pussy Riots: Reinventing Crazy Wisdom in the Tibetan Diaspora and Post-Soviet Russia
Ben Van Overmeire, St. Olaf College

Writing the Life of No One: Two Modern Zen Autobiographies
Jennifer Newsome Martin, University of Notre Dame

Fable and Fiction: Writing the Self/Body in St. Teresa of Avila
Business Meeting:
Jason N. Blum, Davidson College

A18-316
Nineteenth Century Theology Unit
Sheila Briggs, University of Southern California, Presiding
Theme: Catholic Responses to the Rise of Historical Consciousness
Jeffrey Morrow, Seton Hall University

Contending against Rationalists: Pope Leo XIII’s Response to the Rise of Historical Consciousness in Biblical Studies
Nomi Pritz-Bennett, University of Edinburgh

"Attaining Christ": Revisiting the Blondel-Loisy Debate on the Role and Use of the Historical Critical Method
Stephen Lawson, Saint Louis University

“No Gaping Abyss”: Erik Peterson’s Attempt to Overcome Historicism from within
Responding:
Charles J. T. Talar, University of St. Thomas, Houston

A18-317
Peter Wright, Colorado College, Presiding
Theme: Surveillance and the Intelligence State at 100
Sylvester Johnson, Virginia Tech

Communist Allegations and the Militarization of the FBI's Engagement with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the SCLC
Edward E. Curtis, IU School of Liberal Arts

Constructing the Nation of Islam in the Intelligence Imaginary
Pamela Pennock, University of Michigan, Dearborn

The U.S. National Security State vs. Palestine: Surveillance of Arab Americans, 1960s-1970s
Rosemary R. Corbett, Bard College

Hidden Government Attempts to Monitor American Muslims
Michael Pasquier, Louisiana State University

Military Intelligence, Ideas About Muslims, and the Creation of Counter-Insurgency Doctrine
A18-318
Reformed Theology and History Unit
Christina Larsen, Grand Canyon University, Presiding
Theme: Eschatologies of Reformed Traditions
Hans Boersma, Regent College

Neo-Calvinism and the Beatific Vision: Eschatology in the Reformed Tradition
Steven Edward Harris, Redeemer University College

“We Keep Our Eyes Fixed upon Christ”: An Anti-Speculative Doctrine of Final Resurrection in Bullinger and Turretin
Michael Baysa, Princeton University

Calvinism Perfected: Charles Chauncy's Universalism and the Formation of an American Ethos
A18-319
Religion and Disability Studies Unit and Teaching Religion Unit
Mary Jo Iozzio, Boston College, Presiding
Theme: Site Visits, the Theological Classroom, and Universal Design Learning Principles

Emily Gravett, James Madison University

Re-Visiting Site Visits through the Lens of Disability Studies
Sarah Barton, Duke Divinity School

Rethinking the Theological Classroom: Engaging People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities as
Scholars
Alicia Brienza, Boston College

What Does Your Brain Look Like? Relational Ethics of Universal Design for Learning Principles for Catholic
Educators
Business Meeting:
A18-320
Edwin Bagley, Wingate University, Presiding
Theme: Doing Religion and Ecology in the Bible Belt: How the Cross Pollination of Religion and Ecology in a
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged, Rural Town in North Carolina is Bearing Much Fruit
Panelists:
Catherine Wright, Wingate University

Christy Cobb, Drew University
Responding:
David Evans, Eastern Mennonite University
A18-321
Religion and Economy Unit
Elayne Oliphant, New York University, Presiding
Theme: Race, Colonialism, and Religious Consumption
Kevin Rose, University of Virginia

Fair Trade Religion: Consuming Racial Difference and Lifting the Encumbrance of Whiteness at SERRV
International and Ten Thousand Villages
Timothy Rainey, Emory University


Beyond the Shadow of Destiny: Sierra Leone and the African American Economic Agenda in 19th Century West
Africa

Slavery, Consumption, and Resistance in North America: Free Produce to Fair Trade
Responding:
Marla Frederick, Harvard University
Business Meeting:
Daniel Vaca, Brown University
A18-322
Religion and Food Unit
Adrienne Krone, Allegheny College, Presiding
Theme: Bypassing the Flesh in Approaching the Sacred
Tyson-Lord Gray, NYU

Food Justice and Faith in African American Religious Institutions
Philip Deslippe, University of California, Santa Barbara

Food and the Yoga Body in Early Twentieth Century America
Catherine Newell, University of Miami

Ancestral Knowledge and Culinary Roots: Finding the Sacred in Dietary Practice
Julia Reed, Harvard University

Catholic Cooking: Intersections of Theology and Nutrition in 18th Century French Dietetics
A18-323
Ann Duncan, Goucher College, Presiding
Theme: Religion and Religious Freedom in the Trump Era
Chiara Maddalena Migliori, Free University of Berlin

The Exploitation of the Concept of Religious Freedom, and Its Role in the Social Imaginary That Led to the Victory
of Donald Trump
Jenna Reinbold, Colgate University


“Honorable Religious Premises” and Other Affronts: Disputing Free Exercise in the Era of Trump
Lindsey Maxwell, Florida International University

Separation of School and State: Evangelical Politics and the Home School Legal Defense Association
A18-324
Religion and Science Fiction Unit
Emanuelle Burton, University of Illinois at Chicago, Presiding
Theme: Mythos, Morality, and Made-Up Worlds
Brett Esaki, Georgia State University

Ted Chiang’s Comedic, Moral Universe
Timothy Harvie, St. Mary's University, Alberta, Canada

Critique and Creativity: Canonicity and Mythos in Science Fiction and Religion
Nathan Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara

How SF Takes (Religion’s) Place: Trans-Position and Sovereignty in the Secularizing Effects of SF Worldbuilding
Business Meeting:
Laura Ammon, Appalachian State University
A18-325
Religion in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean Unit
Brian Catlos, University of Colorado, Presiding
Theme: Jerusalem's Sacred Sites in Medieval Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Rhetoric
Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College

When Did the Foundation Stone of Jerusalem Become the Navel of the Earth?
Fadi Ragheb, University of Toronto

The Holy Land through Medieval Muslim Eyes: Sanctification, Holy Sites, and Religious Debates in Islamic
Pilgrimage Texts, Chronicles, and Travelogue Literature on Jerusalem
David Freidenreich, Colby College

The Dome of the Rock as the Biblical Temple in Premodern Christian Thought and Art
Responding:
Matthias Henze, Rice University

Business Meeting:
Brian Catlos, University of Colorado
A18-326
Luis Leon, University of Denver, Presiding
Theme: Authors Meet Readers
Panelists:
Socorro Castañeda-Liles, Santa Clara University

Laura Perez, University of California, Berkeley
Responding:
Jessica Delgado, Princeton University

Elaine Padilla, University of La Verne
A18-327
Sacred Texts and Ethics Unit and Study of Judaism Unit
Andrea Dara Cooper, University of North Carolina, Presiding
Theme: Interrogating Imperfection: Risky Ventures in Jewish Text, Thought, and Action
Joshua Schwartz, New York University

Anti-Perfectionism in Hasidic Theology
Dustin Atlas, University of Dayton

Imperfection: An Erotics and Ethics of Modern Jewish Thought
Rebecca J.E. Levi, Washington University in St. Louis

Torah Edgeplay: Risk, Power, and Polymorphous Community
Marla Segol, State University of New York, Buffalo

Forgetting God’s Body
A18-328
Greg Cootsona, California State University, Chico, Presiding
Theme: Reflections on the Work of Christopher Southgate
Paul Allen, Concordia University

An Augustinian Dimension to Christopher Southgate’s Evolutionary Theodicy
Bethany Sollereder, University of Oxford

From an Adventure in the Theology of Creation to Compassionate Theodicy
Responding:
Christopher Southgate, University of Exeter
A18-329
Scriptural Reasoning Unit
C. Rebecca Rine, Grove City College, Presiding
Theme: Words That Wound: Abrahamic Approaches to Scriptural Violence
Nathan Hershberger, Duke University

Healing Wounds: Origen on Suffering, Violence, and the Body of Scripture
Adam T. Strater, Emory University

Violent Biblical Motifs and Jewish Extremist Violence: The Legacy of Amalek and Esau
Syed Moulvi, University of Virginia

Do Particular Juridical Structures Encourage Violent Interpretations of the Quran: The Case of Pakistan’s Federal
Shariat Court
A18-330
Sikh Studies Unit
Pashaura Singh, University of California, Riverside, Presiding
Theme: The Publics of Sikh Studies: Discussing Limits and Possibilities of Responsible Engagement in Sikh
Scholarship
Panelists:
Arvind Mandair, University of Michigan

Nirinjan Khalsa, Loyola Marymount University
Jasleen Singh, University of Michigan

Harjeet Grewal, University of Calgary
A18-331
Sociology of Religion Unit
David Feltmate, Auburn University, Montgomery, Presiding
Theme: Hello from the Other Side: Sociology of Religious Minorities in the US and England
Loren Lybarger, Ohio University

Secular-Religious Confluences in the Formation of Palestinian Immigrant Identities in Chicago
Isaac Kim, Princeton Theological Seminary

Sociologists of Religion in Dialogue with Aristotle: Korean-American Christianity as a Test Case
Simranjit Khalsa, Rice University

Being an "Other": Experiences of Marginalization among Sikhs in the US and England
Allison Ralph
Purity and Danger: Islam, the Body Politic, and Public Policy
A18-332
Study of Islam Unit
Tehseen Thaver, Princeton University, Presiding
Theme: Beyond Binaries: Law, History, and Hermeneutics
Saadia Yacoob, Williams College

Male Desire and Female Desirability: The Male as Knowing Subject of Islamic Law
Raha Rafii, University of Pennsylvania

“Not Every Mujtahid is Correct”: Ibn Idrīs al-Ijilī and the Genre of "The Judge's Protocol"
Hunter Bandy, Duke University

Recovering the Marghūb al-qulūb of Ṣadr Jahān Ṭabasī: Iranian Sufism, Deccan Shīʿism, and the Destiny of a
Deccan Sultanate
Responding:
Matthew Pierce, Centre College
A18-333
Adam Kotsko, North Central College, Presiding
Theme: Seek and Ye Shall Find: Crypto-Theology in Philosophy of Religion Today
Sean Capener, University of Toronto

The Christian Economy: On the Genealogy of Oikonomia and the Question of a Theological Remainder
Joel Harrison, Northwestern University

“Where Myth Means a True Story”: A Brief Genealogy of the Crypto-Theological
Timothy Snediker, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Crypto and the Undercommons: Toward a Democracy of Thought in Religious Studies
Kirsten Gerdes, Claremont Graduate University

Unveiling the Crypto-Theological in Social-Scientific Approaches to Religious Studies
Business Meeting:
Adam Kotsko, North Central College

A18-334
David Newheiser, Australian Catholic University, Presiding
Theme: Secularity and Religious Reflection: A Panel on Bradley Onishi’s The Sacrality of the Secular (Columbia
University Press, 2018)
Panelists:
Liane Carlson, Princeton University

Tamsin Jones, Trinity College, Hartford
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University
Responding:
Bradley Onishi, Skidmore College
A18-335
Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit
Benjamin Bogin, Skidmore College, Presiding
Theme: Mountains in Himalayan Religions

Frances Garrett, University of Toronto

Imagining Mountains and Therapeutic Travel
Catherine Hartmann, Harvard University

How to Identify a Mountain: Uncovering the Epistemological Logics at Work in a Debate about the Authenticity of
a Tibetan Mountain
Eben Yonnetti, University of Colorado Boulder

When the Snowy Mountains Turn Black: Climate Change, Local Deities, and Buddhism in Ladakh
Ian MacCormack, Harvard University

Marpori and Potala: Symbolic Knowledge of a Lhasa Mountain
A18-336
Yogācāra Studies Unit
Karin Meyers, Kathmandu University, Presiding
Theme: Roundtable Discussion of The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist
Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness (Touchstone, 2017)
Panelists:
David Carpenter, St Josephs University

Tadeusz Zawidzki, George Washington University
Bryce Huebner, Georgetown University
Eyal Aviv, George Washington University
Jonathan Gold, Princeton University
A18-337
Chinese Christianities Seminar
Alexander Chow, University of Edinburgh, Presiding
Theme: Asserting Ecclesial Boundaries
Sheng-Ping Guo, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto

Chinese and Sinophone Practice in Identity Negotiating: The Case of Bread of Life Christian Church, 1942-2017
Christie Chui-Shan Chow, City Seminary of New York

Drawing Denominational Boundaries in China’s “Post-Denominational” Christianity: The Case of Chinese Seventh-
Day Adventism
Michel Chambon, Boston University

Chinese Christians in Nanping City: Five Denominations, One Ecumenism

Responding:
Jonathan A. Seitz, Taiwan Theological Seminary

A18-338
RiNo Craft Brewery Tour

A18-339
Theme: Other Duties as Assigned: The Craft of Fundraising for Research and Higher Education
Panelists:

A18-400
Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee and Graduate Student Committee
Gabe Veas, Ashland Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Faculty and Student Debt, Structural Inequality in the Academy, Precarity, and Contingency
Panelists:
Jennifer Scheper Hughes, University of California, Riverside

Whitney Cox, University of Houston
Susan B. Thistlethwaite, Chicago Theological Seminary
A18-401
Applied Religious Studies Committee and Public Understanding of Religion Committee

Theme: Beyond the Ivory Tower: Putting Religion Expertise to Work outside the Academy
Panelists:
Asher Orkaby, Harvard University

Sousan Abadian, US Department of State
Margaret/Maren Milligan, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Responding:
Randall Miller, Oaktown Consulting
A18-402
Employment Workshop: Building Your Professional Toolkit
Panelists:
Jessica Ehinger, Boston University
A18-403
Publications Committee
Theodore Vial, Iliff School of Theology, and Cynthia Read, Oxford University Press, Presiding
Theme: How to Get Published
Panelists:
Cynthia Eller, Claremont Graduate University

Andrea Jain, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Margaret D. Kamitsuka, Oberlin College
Kristian Petersen, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Karen Jackson-Weaver, Oxford University
Robert A. Yelle, University of Munich
A18-404
Teaching and Learning Committee
Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College, Presiding
Theme: Reflective Structured Dialogue in Religious Studies Classrooms: A Conversation with 2018 Excellence in
Teaching Award Winner Jill DeTemple
Panelists:
Jill DeTemple, Southern Methodist University
A18-405
African Diaspora Religions Unit
Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Tufts University, Presiding
Theme: The Encounter of Digital Media and Ritual in African Diaspora Religions
Afe Adogame, Princeton Theological Seminary

Doing Things with iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad: Digital Divination, New Ways of Knowing, and the Glocalization of
African-Derived Spiritualities
Funlayo Easter Wood, Harvard University

Digital Divination, Internet Initiation: On the Limitations of Distance in Africana Religions
Margarita Simon Guillory, University of Rochester

The Internet, Selfie, and Ritual: The Purple People's Use of Digital Technology in Past Life Regression Rituals
N. Fadeke Castor
Offerings in the Digital Commons: African Diasporic Religions, Social Media, and Social Justice
Melva L. Sampson, Wake Forest University School of Divinity

Pink Robes, Libations, and Red Hot Critical Times: Ritualized Digital Space and Afrikan Interested Cyber Assemblies
A18-406
Anthropology of Religion Unit and Contemporary Islam Unit and Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit
and Secularism and Secularity Unit
Jonathan VanAntwerpen, Henry Luce Foundation, New York, NY, Presiding
Theme: Special Session in Honor of Saba Mahmood
Panelists:
Noah Salomon, Carleton College

Amy M. Hollywood, Harvard University
Webb Keane, University of Michigan

Hussein Agrama, University of Chicago
Michael Lambek, University of Toronto
A18-407
S. Brent Plate, Hamilton College, Presiding
Theme: Interreligious Aesthetics: From Dialogue to the Senses
Panelists:
Lucinda Mosher, Hartford Seminary

Aaron Rosen, Rocky Mountain College
Scott Holland, Earlham College
Susan Katz Miller, Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington
A18-408
Black Theology Unit and Critical Approaches to Hip-Hop and Religion Unit
Christopher Driscoll, Lehigh University, Presiding
Theme: Still Getting By: Margin and Boundary in Black Theology and Hip Hop Culture
Brett Esaki, Georgia State University

Flow, Marginalization, and Asian American Epistemological Exploration
Shakira Hall Louimarre, Union Theological Seminary

An Ecowomanist Reimagining of the Theological Themes Found in Baduizm
Juan Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University

"I Am a Sinner Who's Probably Gonna Sin Again": Kendrick Lamar’s Meditations on Sin, Salvation, and Moral
Agency in the Post-Gangsta Era
James Hill, Northwestern University

Michael Jackson’s Apocalypticism, Trumpian Dystopia, and the Hip-Hop Afterlives of They Don’t Care About Us
A18-409
Lori Brandt Hale, Augsburg College, Presiding
Theme: Bonhoeffer Moment(s)


David Robinson, Regent College
Public Confession for a Nation of Refugees: Recovering the Challenge of the 1939 “Bonhoeffer Moment”
Robert O. Smith
Bonhoeffer Moment(s)? Learning to See “From Below” in Indian Country
Jodi Belcher, Duke University

The Rejected Body: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of the Limits of Bonhoeffer’s Theology for America’s
“Bonhoeffer Moment”
A18-410
Buddhism Unit and Contemplative Studies Unit
Jin Y Park, American University, Presiding
Theme: Buddhist Cultures of Meditation

Yanggönpa's Mountain Dharma: An Enchanted, Tantric, Renunciatory Technology of the Selfless Self
Erik Hammerstrom, Pacific Lutheran University

Huayan Meditation in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Buddhism
Tony Scott, University of Toronto

The Milindapañha-aṭṭhakathā: Vipassanā Meditation, Psychic Powers, and Pali Commentary in Mid-Twentieth-
Century Burma
Julia Stenzel, McGill University

The Transformation of Compassion Meditations
A18-411
Chinese Religions Unit and Study of Islam Unit
Natasha Heller, University of Virginia, Presiding
Theme: Hui Muslims in the Qing Dynasty: Identity, Religion, and Culture
Shaodan Zhang, University of Illinois

Chinese Muslims in the Qing Empire: Islamic Law, Imperial State, and Muslim Identity, 1644-1911
Cuma Ozkan, University of Iowa

Contesting Sinicization: Jin Tianzhu’s (1736-1795) Qingzhen Shiyi (Dispelling the Doubts about Islam)
Elvida Ünal, Peking University

The Sufi Orders of Naqshabandiyya in Northwestern China: Khafiyya and Jahriyya

Responding:
Kelly Hammond, University of Arkasnas
A18-412
Christian Systematic Theology Unit and Reformed Theology and History Unit
Cynthia Rigby, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Freedom in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards and Karl Barth
Andrew McFarlane, University of Edinburgh

Barth and Kant on "Independence" as a Condition of Human Freedom
Phillip Hussey, Saint Louis University

An Edwardsian Proposal on the End of Creation: The Fullness of the Son Diffused
Angela Carpenter, Hope College

Jonathan Edwards and a Theocentric Liberation
A18-413
Travis Chilcott, Iowa State University, Presiding
Theme: What is Innateness? Evolution and Variation in the Psychology of Religion
Ross Moret, Florida State University

Innateness and Moral Foundations Theory
Connor Wood, Center for Mind and Culture

Religion, Institutions, and Counterfactuals: A Cognitive Approach to Social Construction
Business Meeting:
Travis Chilcott, Iowa State University
A18-414
Comparative Religious Ethics Unit and Religion and Cities Unit
Jung Lee, Northeastern University, Presiding
Theme: Urban Migration and Religious Ethics
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, University of Munich


Places of Religious Diversity: Normative Challenges in Shaping Urban Space
Kaia D. S. Rønsdal, University of Oslo

Urban Belonging and Everyday Marginalisation
David Kupp, University of Toronto

Behaviours of Belonging (And Abandonment): Faith and the Urban Compromise of Place and Land
Responding:
Katie Day, United Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia
A18-415
Comparative Theology Unit and Scriptural Reasoning Unit
Wilhelmus Valkenberg, Catholic University of America, Presiding
Theme: Comparative Theology and Scriptural Reasoning: Methods in Dialogue
Gary Slater, St. Edward's University

Peter Ochs, Robert C. Neville, and the Repair/Compare Continuum: A Link between Scriptural Reasoning and
Comparative Theology
Andrew Massena, Boston College

Scriptural Reasoning and Christian-Jewish Comparative Theology: A Symbiotic Relationship
Responding:
Deborah Barer, Towson University

Marianne Moyaert, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
A18-416
Death, Dying, and Beyond Unit
Jamie Brummitt, Duke University, Presiding
Theme: Digital Technologies of Death, Commemoration, and Mourning
John Borchert, Syracuse University

A Place, An Interface: Ritualizing Techno-Eco Burial through the BiosIncube
Natalie Polzer, University of Louisville

The Translation of Rosalia Lombardo: Commemoralizing Sicilian Regional Identity in the 21st Century
Brooke Katheen Brassard, University of Waterloo

Living Eternally Online: Monuments and Memorials in a Digital World

Beverley Foulks McGuire, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Gaming and Grieving: Digital Games as Means of Confronting and Coping with Death
Business Meeting:
Candi Cann, Baylor University
A18-417
Dennis Doyle, University of Dayton, Presiding
Theme: Gender and Ecclesiology
Kirsten L Guidero, Marquette University

Developing a Shared Ecumenical Method: Women's Ordination in the Anglican-Orthodox Dialogue
Jakob Rinderknecht, University of the Incarnate Word

Imaging the "Voraus" of Christ: Gender, Deacons, and the Church
Janna Hunter-Bowman, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

Gender as Trump: Unity at the Price of Peace
A18-418
Anna Robbins, Acadia Divinity College, Presiding
Theme: Who Defines Evangelicalism?
William Boyce, University of Virginia

Queering Evangelicalism, or “An Essential Departure from Christian Faithfulness”
Kit Kirkland
Past Now Present: Trump’s Nativism and the Redefinition of Evangelical Faith
Paul Louis Metzger, Multnomah Biblical Seminary

A Nobler Evangelical Vision: Beyond Billy and Franklin Graham to John M. Perkins
Gregory Chatterley, The University of Chicago

From Norway to Carol Stream: Ethnic Protestants and the Production of White Evangelicalism in the 20th Century
A18-419
Mary Churchill, Sonoma State University, Presiding
Theme: The Transformative Values of Memory: The Interface of Religion and Healing
Felicia Lopez, University of California, Santa Barbara

Mayahuel and Maguey: Remembering Our Mother with 400 Breasts
Neftaley Arceo, UC Santa Barbara

Reading the Codex Borgia: The Natural Fluidity of Nahua Divination
Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara

Enconium for Hermana Sarita Macias: Espiritualismo in Mexico City and Barrio Logan in San Diego, California
Delores Mondragon, University of California, Santa Barbara

Military Trauma and Knowing: Memory, Ceremony, and Healing
Responding:
Robert Perez, UC Riverside
A18-420
Korean Religions Unit and Yogācāra Studies Unit
Richard D. McBride, Brigham Young University, Hawaii, Presiding
Theme: Silla Contributions to Yogācāra Studies
Innsuk Park, Dongguk University

The Yugaron-gi and Silla Yogācāra Buddhism
Shigeki Moro, Hanazono University

Sthiramati, Paramārtha, and Wonhyo: On the Sources of Wonhyo’s Jungbyeon bunbyeollon
Jiyeon Kim, Geumgang University

Yogācāra Elements in the Shi moheyan lun 釋摩訶衍論
Sumi Lee, Dongguk University, South Korea

On the Ālayavijñāna of the Awakening of Faith: Wŏnhyo and Fazang’s Views on Tathāgatagarbha and
Ālayavijñāna of the Awakening of Faith
Responding:
A. Charles Muller, University of Tokyo
A18-421
Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit and Liberation Theologies Unit and Practical Theology Unit
Xochitl Alvizo, California State University, Northridge, Presiding
Theme: Community Organizing: Theologies, Practices, Liberation

August 12th and Activism as Religious Praxis: On Difficulties and (of?) De-Formation
John Senior, Wake Forest University School of Divinity

Liberating Circulatory Power: Two Case Studies from Food Justice Movements
Jennifer Owens-Jofré, Graduate Theological Union

Faith-Rooted Community Organizing at a Latinx Catholic Parish in East Los Angeles: A Case Study
Responding:
A18-422
Constance A. Jones, California Institute of Integral Studies, Presiding
Theme: John Gordon Melton and the Study of New Religions: Assessing a Legacy and Charting Future Directions
David Gartrell, UC Santa Barbara

Building on Strength: Developing the J. Gordon Melton American Religions Collection
Holly Folk, Western Washington University

Cult Controversies in China: A Report on Two Conferences on the Church of Almighty God
Joshua Daniels, Western Washington University

Counting Churches in Communities: A Report on Melton’s “Congregation Count” in Whatcom County, Washington
Massimo Introvigne, Center for Studies on New Religions

Even Scientology Can Be Studied: Gordon Melton and the Wisdom of Diversity
Responding:
Benjamin Zeller, Lake Forest College
A18-423
Bethany Sollereder, University of Oxford, Presiding
Theme: God as Poet of the World: Art, Beauty, and Creativity

Michael Reading, Claremont School of Theology

An African Ancestral Theopoesis: The Concrescence of Divine Intercession
Shawn Fawson, Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver

More Than Metaphoric: Beauty in the Interstices of God-Language
Cody Strecker, Baylor University

Poetic God, Poetic Theology
Janna Gonwa, Yale University

7.6 Billion Characters in Search of an Author: Theopoetics and the Question of Artistic Intent
A18-424
Qur'an Unit and Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit
Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College, Presiding
Theme: Parody, Polemics, and Wordplay through Scriptural Interpretation
Devin J. Stewart, Emory University

Ironic Inversion and Humor in the Qur’an
Nathan Hershberger, Duke University

Patient Apocalypticism and the Syriac Tradition: Political Theology in Ephrem the Syrian, Mar Qardagh, and
Giwargis Warda
Shuaib Ally, University of Toronto

Mockery in the Qurʾān: The Role of Zamakhsharī and the Later Ḥāshiya Tradition
A18-425
Religion and Ecology Unit and Space, Place, and Religion Unit
James Miller, Queen's University, Kingston, Presiding
Theme: Issues in Religiously-Based Eco-Activism
Russell Powell, Princeton Theological Seminary

Place, Shame, and the Place of Shame: The Political, Moral, and Religious Effects of Shame in Place Studies
Ryan Juskus, Duke University

The Visible and the Invisible in Coal Country: Subterranean Possibilities for Concerted Action across Racialized,
Religious, and Regional Borders
Madeline Duntley, Bowling Green State University


Crystal Geyser, Water Activists, and Mount Shasta's Eco-Esotericism
A18-426
John D. Carlson, Arizona State University, Presiding
Theme: Rethinking Religion in the Public Square
Garrett FitzGerald, University of Notre Dame

Engagement and Encounter beyond Locativity: Reimagining Religion in Pluralistic Politics
David Decosimo, Boston University

The New Genealogy of Religious Freedom
Dimitry Okropiridze, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Jordan B. Peterson’s Use of Jungian Psychology as the Foundation for an Emerging Conservative Spirituality
A18-427
Supriya Gandhi, Yale University, Presiding
Theme: Religion and Aesthetics in Indo-Persian Literature
Peter Dziedzic, Harvard University

Shamas Faqir and His Symbolic Universe(s): Sufi and Shaiva Syntheses in Kashmiri Poetry
Shankar Nair, University of Virginia

Muslim Dreams in Sanskrit and Greek: Encountering the Pre-Modern Other through Islamic Notions of the
Imagination
Ryan Brizendine, Yale University

Rasa and Rapture: The Influence of Indian Literary Aesthetics on Sufi Practice in South Asia
A18-428
Religion, Affect, and Emotion Unit
Abigail Kluchin, Ursinus College, Presiding
Theme: Lightning Talks Session: Emotion in the Religious Studies Classroom
Anita Houck, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame


Welcoming First Responses
Joseph Harroff, Temple University

Qing 情 as Relational Affect in the Religious Studies Classroom
Biko Gray, Syracuse University Department of Religion

On Crying in Class: Emotion as the Catalyst for Change in the Classroom
Tam K. Parker, University of the South

Teaching the Anthropocene in and through Affect
Maia Kotrosits, Denison University

Incomplete Disavowals: A Story of Embarrassment
Julie Miller, University of the Incarnate Word

From Abstraction to Abjection: The Use of Disgust in the Classroom
Business Meeting:

A18-429
Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Unit
Syed Adnan Hussain, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Presiding
Theme: Postcolonial Futures: Afrofuturist Utopias and the Buddhist Decolonization of the Mind
Juli Gittinger, Georgia College

Counter-Colonialism and the Afrofuturist Utopia in Black Panther
Victor Thasiah, California Lutheran University

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh on Decolonizing Your Mind
Business Meeting:
Adrian Hermann, University of Bonn
A18-430
Sarah K. Pinnock, Trinity University, Presiding
Theme: Public Rhetoric and the Promotion of Healing
Tamar Wasoian, Independent Scholar


Religious and Secular Rhetoric in Armenian Genocide Remembrance: From Justice to Healing
Wendy Wiseman, UC SANTA BARBARA

Turkish Intelligentsia and the Armenian Question: Costs of Witnessing and Truth-Telling
Hyebin Hong, Boston University School of Theology

Misogyny, Femicide, and Moral Damage in Postcolonial South Korea: 2016 Gangnam Station Public Restroom
Murder Case
A18-431
Religion, Memory, History Unit
Tim Langille, Arizona State University, Presiding
Theme: Memory and Social Trauma
Fizza Joffrey, University of Toronto

Lament through Time: Urdu Shiʿi Mourning Poetry and the Power of Memory
Gregg Drinkwater, University of Colorado

Larry Kramer’s Holocaust: AIDS, Hannah Arendt, and the Moral Imperative of Political Action
Kate DeConinck, University of San Diego

Memorials That Migrate: Material Religion and Trans-Situational Bonding in the Wake of Contemporary Mass
Tragedies
Responding:
Laura S. Levitt, Temple University
Business Meeting:
Mona Hassan, Duke University

Tim Langille, Arizona State University
A18-432
Ellen Ott Marshall, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Identity and Place: Three Contextual Studies of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Roger Baumann, Yale University

African American Christians and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: How Should the "Black Church" Respond to BDS?
Luke Kreider, University of Virginia


Arteries of the Nation: Religious Nationalism and Environmental Imaginaries in the Jordan-Yarmuk River Valley
Andrew Marin, University of St. Andrews

Religious Peacebuilding in Post-ISIS Iraq from the Perspective of Iraqi-Christian Internally Displaced Persons
Responding:
Heather DuBois, University of Notre Dame
Business Meeting:
Atalia Omer, University of Notre Dame
A18-433
Sacred Texts and Ethics Unit and Hagiography Society
Tyler Atkinson, Bethany College, Presiding
Theme: The Ethics of the Saints: Re-Reading and Re-Writing Hagiographical Texts
Min-Ah Cho, Catholic Theological Union

Writing with the Dead: Women’s Practice of Rewriting the Stories of the Saints
Stephanie Yep, Emory University

Breaking the Fourth Wall: Teaching Ethico-Emotional Comportment in Qāḍī ‘Iyāḍ Ibn Mūsā’s Biography of
Muhammad
Responding:
Emily Filler, Earlham College
Business Meeting:
Emily Filler, Earlham College
A18-434
Lucas Wright, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Theme: Blood, Soil, and Supersession: Reading White Supremacy between Blackness and Jewishness
Tapji Garba, University of Winnipeg

The Miracle of History: Supersessionism, Temporality, and the Invention of Racial Blackness
Amaryah Armstrong, Vanderbilt University


Disinheriting the Flesh: Jewishness, Blackness, and Belonging
Chance McMahon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Crucifix Question: James Cone and Yiddish Modernists on the (Re)Enfleshment of Jesus contra Christian
Supersessionism
Responding:
Alana Vincent, University of Chester
A18-435
Adam Kotsko, North Central College, Presiding
Theme: Political Theology of the Wretched

In the Smoke of Burning Witches: On the Art of Immanent Attention
Marika Rose, University of Winchester

Anthony Paul Smith, La Salle University
Hexing the Discipline: Against the Reproduction of Continental Philosophy of Religion
Jay Martin, University of Notre Dame

The Uniformity of the Wretched: The Homogeneity of Bodies in the Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben
Stephen Keating, Chicago Theological Seminary

Benito Cereno: Carl Schmitt’s Apocalyptic Self-Image as a Slaver
A18-436
Theology and Religious Reflection Unit and Critical Research on Religion
David Newheiser, Australian Catholic University, Presiding
Theme: Sacred Exchanges: Religion, Economy, and Politics in Divine Currency (Stanford University Press, 2018)
Panelists:
Erin Runions, Pomona College

J. Kameron Carter, Duke University
Marion S. Grau, MF Norwegian School of Theology
Gil Anidjar, Columbia University
Responding:

A18-437
Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Unit
Stephen G. Ray, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Book Panel: The Religion of White Supremacy in the United States (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) by Eric
Weed
Panelists:
Jennifer Harvey, Drake University

Angela Sims, Saint Paul School of Theology
Michele Watkins, Iliff School of Theology
Responding:
Eric Weed, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
A18-438
Egil Asprem, Stockholm University, Presiding
Theme: Beyond Humanity: Esotericism, Transhumanism, and the Cultivation of Special Powers
Learned Foote, Rice University

Between Science and Scripture: Defending Visions of Fairies in 17th Century Scotland
Vadim Putzu, Missouri State University

Transhuman Esotericism in the Ozarks: Preliminary Notes on Thomas Moore Johnson’s “Platonism”
Benjamin Mayo, Rice University

No One Here Gets Out Alive: Intersections of Cyberpunk Occultism, Transhumanism, and Academic Philosophy in
the Works of Nick Land and the Ccru
A18-439
Cari Jackson, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Presiding
Theme: Trust Women (Beacon Press, 2018): From a Justification Paradigm to Reproductive Justice

Panelists:
Karen Lebacqz, Pacific School of Religion

Teresa Delgado, Iona College
Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University
Michal Raucher, University of Cincinnati
Kate Ott, Drew University
Responding:
Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University
A18-440
Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion Seminar
Randy Reed, Appalachian State University, Presiding
Theme: Authors Meet Critics: Millennials, The Emerging Church and Religion, Vol. 1: Problems and Prospects (Wipf
and Stock, 2018)
Panelists:
Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology

Terry Shoemaker, Arizona State University
Michael Zbaraschuk, Pacific Lutheran University
Responding:
Tripp Fuller, Claremont Graduate University
A18-441
Religion and US Empire Seminar
Tracy Leavelle, Creighton University, Presiding
Theme: Accounting for Religion in US Empire
Carleigh Beriont, Harvard University

The “Children’s Mission Ship”: American Children and the Campaign to Fund the Nineteenth-Century American
Protestant Mission to Micronesia
Michael Graziano, University of Northern Iowa

The Spiritual Financing of Empire: U.S. Military Chaplains in the Vietnam War
Julie Chamberlain, George Washington University


Desmond Tutu, South African Apartheid, and the Failure of American Democracy
Business Meeting:

A18-500
Reading Religion Editorial Board Meeting
Cynthia Eller, Claremont Graduate University, and Lisa Haygood, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding

A18-504
Film: Mama Kiota: The Floodgate of African Muslim Female Leadership and Authority
Kecia Ali, Boston University, Presiding
Panelists:
Maryam Sharrieff
Responding:
Pearl Robinson, Tufts University
A18-505
Film: The Willow Tree (Beed-e Majnoon)
Monday - 7:15 AM-8:45 AM

A19-1
Program Unit Chairs’ Breakfast

A19-100
Graduate Student Committee
Priyanka Ramlakhan, University of Florida, and Andrew Klumpp, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
Theme: The World Needs Us: Serving the Public Sphere through the Study of Religion
Katelynn Carver, University of St Andrews

How We Serve: Shaping Religious Studies Instruction as Intentional Public Service
D. Ashley Campbell, University of Colorado

Platforms, Publics, and Production: Rethinking Religion Public Scholarship in a New Media Age
Nicholas Krause, Baylor University

Can Universities Be Christian? Reflections on Baylor University’s Sanctuary Campus Campaign
Maria Carson, Syracuse University

The Memory of Abraham Joshua Heschel at Selma: The Whiteness and/or Non-Whiteness of Contemporary
Ashkenazi Jews in America
Responding:
Richard Newton, Elizabethtown College
A19-101
Status of Persons with Disabilities in the Profession Committee
Theme: Whose Crisis? Opioids, Chronic Pain, and Religious Responses
Panelists:
Preston Parsons, University of Cambridge

Deborah Creamer, Association of Theological Schools
Lizette Larson-Miller, Huron University College
Brett McCarty, Duke University
Devan Stahl, Michigan State University
A19-102
Animals and Religion Unit
David Clough, University of Chester, Presiding
Theme: Race, Gender, Animals, and Theology: Trouble at the Intersection

Panelists:
Willie J. Jennings, Yale University

Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Earlham College
Jeania Ree Moore, General Board of Church and Society
Responding:
Business Meeting:
Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina

David Clough, University of Chester
A19-103
Melissa Borja, University of Michigan, Presiding
Theme: State of the Field in Asian American Religious Studies: Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Panelists:
Rita Brock, Volunteers of America

Rudy V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara
Anne Joh, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Helen Jin Kim, Harvard University
Carolyn Chen, University of California, Berkeley
Business Meeting:
Melissa Borja, University of Michigan

A19-104
Baha’i Studies Unit
Christopher Glen White, Vassar College, Presiding
Theme: Constructive Resilience as Faith-Based Nonviolent Activism in the Face of Repression
Susan Maneck, Jackson State University


The Baha'i Concept of "Islah-i-Alam" or "Betterment of the World"
Robert H. Stockman, Indiana University, South Bend

Social Engagement and Constructive Resilience as a Response to Persecution of the Iranian Baha'i Community
Loni Bramson, American Public University System

Ethnicities and Possible Strategies of Constructive Activism in Washington County, Oregon through the Use of the
Baha'i Training Institute Process
Sohail Gupta, Ambedkar University Delhi

Building a "Non-Violent" Violent Constructive Resilience: Notes from an Action-Research in a Gond Adivasi Village
in Chhattisgarh, India
Business Meeting:
Robert H. Stockman, Indiana University, South Bend

Susan Maneck, Jackson State University
A19-105
Buddhist Philosophy Unit
Richard Nance, Indiana University, Presiding
Theme: Philosophical Tantras and Tantric Philosophies: The Intersection of Tantra and Doxography in Indian and
Tibetan Buddhism
Manuel Lopez, New College of Florida

Continuities and Discontinuities in Buddhist Meditation: Definition, Classification, and the Role of Doxographies in
the Construction of Buddhist Tradition in Tenth Century Tibet
Daniel McNamara, Emory University

Nihilists and Noble Ones: Ratnākaraśānti's Engagements with Madhyamaka in a Tantric Contexts
Rae Erin Dachille, University of Arizona- Tucson

Clarity and Co-Emergence: Disambiguating the Rhetoric of "Naturalness" in Sūtra and Tantra
Responding:
Douglas S. Duckworth, Temple University
A19-106
Childhood Studies and Religion Unit
Katarina Westerlund, Uppsala University, Presiding
Theme: Children's Spirituality: Beyond Institutional Structures
Kristin Graff-Kallevåg, MF - Norwegian School of Thelogy


Tone Stangeland Kaufman, MF Norwegian School of Theology
Bricolage and Building Blocks: Children’s Spirituality at the Intersection of Institutional Religion and the Private
Sphere
Jason King, St. Vincent College

Mr. Rogers' Apocalyptic Environmentalism for Children
Valerie Michaelson, Queen's University, Kingston, ON

Like a Bicycle Tire: Lived Experiences of the Spiritual Worlds of Canadian Adolescents
Daniel Wade McClain, Loyola University, Maryland

Spiritual Free-Play in the Adaptation of Parables in Harry Potter and Godly Play
Responding:
Jodi Eichler-Levine, Lehigh University
Business Meeting:
Sally Stamper, Capital University
A19-107
Chinese Religions Unit and Confucian Traditions Unit
Michael Puett, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Marginalizing Confucius: Ritual and Religion in Early China beyond the Canon
Tobias Zuern, Washington University, St. Louis

The Huainanzi as a Ritualistic, Wuwei-Performing Embodiment of the Way
Filippo Marsili, Saint Louis University

Restraining Huangdi: Confucians, Fangshi, and Economic Metaphors
Rebecca Robinson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Rain, Ritual, and Cosmology in Early China
A19-108
Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit and Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and
Culture Unit
Joseph McDonald, Texas Christian University, Presiding
Theme: Moral Injury and Sacred Texts: An Interdisciplinary Conversation

Panelists:
Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University

Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Moravian College
Brad Kelle, Point Loma Nazarene University
Warren Carter, Brite Divinity School
Responding:
Zachary Moon, Chicago Theological Seminary

Rita Sherma, Graduate Theological Union
Business Meeting:
Michael Jerryson, Youngstown State University

Jamel Velji, Claremont McKenna College
A19-109
Christopher Patrick Parr, Webster University, Presiding
Theme: Holy Madness in Comparative Perspective
Christopher Johnson, University of Wisconsin Colleges

Fictional Folly: Foolishness-For-Christ in Eugene Vodolazkin’s Laurus
Amy Hyne-Sutherland, University of Texas at Austin

Modes of Madness in Classical South Asian Asceticism: A Comparative Analysis of Jaḍabharata and Durvāsas
Jay Michaelson, Chicago Theological Seminary

“The More Precious the Stone, the Meaner the Rock”: Holy Madness in Jacob Frank’s Words of the Lord
Peter Doebler, The Dayton Art Institute

Performing for Change: Holy Madness, Art, and Kenotic Spirituality
James R. Newell, Central Michigan University

God-Intoxication and the Aesthetics of Religious Symbolism
Responding:
June McDaniel, College of Charleston
A19-110
Comparative Theology Unit and Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit
Nicolas Mumejian, Hartford Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Making Meaning of Mary: Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Images (Actual and Virtual) of the
Mother of Jesus
Rita George-Tvrtkovic, Benedictine University

Early Modern Images of Mary: Our Lady of Victory, Defeat, or Mission?
Asma Afsaruddin, Indiana University

“Above All Other Women of the Worlds”: Mary and the Construction of Feminine Moral Excellence in the Islamic
Milieu

Was Mary an Islamic Prophet?
Maria Massi Dakake, George Mason University

Maryam as Paradigmatic Saint in Sufi Thought
Responding:
Lucinda Mosher, Hartford Seminary

Brian A. Butcher, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, Toronto
A19-111
Ethics Unit and Religion and Politics Unit
Michael LeChevallier, University of Chicago, Presiding
Theme: Roundtable Discussion on Jean Bethke Elshtain: Politics, Ethics, and Society (University of Notre Dame
Press, 2018)
Panelists:
Victor Anderson, Vanderbilt University

James T. Johnson, Rutgers University
Robin W. Lovin, Southern Methodist University
Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia
Responding:
Debra Erickson, Bloomsburg University
Business Meeting:

Christophe D. Ringer, Chicago Theological Seminary
Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute

Rachel Scott, Virginia Tech
A19-112
Lesbian-Feminisms and Religion Unit and Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit
Georgette Ledgister, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Womanist Theory, African Forms of Knowing, and Epistemology: A Transatlantic Conversation
Oluwatomisin Oredein, Memphis Theological Seminary

Black Modifications and Womanist Conversations: African Identity in Womanist Theological Discourse
Sheila Otieno, Boston University

(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman? Deconstructing the Feminine/Masculine Imaginary in African/a
Epistemology
Venise Adjibodou
A Womanist Conversation on Vodun Affect: Integrating Womanist Theory and Indigenous African Forms of
Knowing
Business Meeting:
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Shaw University

Teresa L. Fry Brown, Emory University
A19-113
North American Religions Unit and Secularism and Secularity Unit
Courtney Bender, Columbia University, Presiding
Theme: Governing Health: Race, Religion, Secularism, and the Healing State
Sarah Dees, Northwestern University

Medico-secularism: The Recognition and Reconditioning of Native American Healing Practices in the Assimilation
Era
Jamil Drake, Florida State University

To Get Rid of “Superstitious Grannies:” The Health State and the Moral Engineering of Black Midwives
Laura McTighe, Dartmouth College

Moral Medicine: Treatment and Punishment in the Race to Criminalize Women
Anthony Petro, Boston University

Feeling “Friends”: Race, Disability, and Evangelical Affect in the Work of Joni Eareckson Tada and C. Everett Koop
Responding:

Terence Keel, University of California, Santa Barbara
Business Meeting:
Jonathan VanAntwerpen, Henry Luce Foundation, New York, NY

Joseph Blankholm, University of California, Santa Barbara
A19-114
Philosophy of Religion Unit and Religion, Media, and Culture Unit
Kathryn Reklis, Fordham University, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Martin Shuster's New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre (University of
Chicago Press, 2017)
Panelists:
Travis Ables, Regis University

Sarah Beckwith, Duke University
Robert Davis, Fordham University
Ada Jaarsma, Mount Royal University
Kathryn Lofton, Yale University
Michael Morgan, Indiana University, Bloomington
S. Brent Plate, Hamilton College
Larisa Reznik, Northwestern University
Responding:
Martin Shuster, Goucher College
Business Meeting:
Andrew Aghapour, University of North Carolina

Deborah Whitehead, University of Colorado
A19-115
Platonism and Neoplatonism Unit and SBL Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Unit
Theme: Eros and Ascent
Adrian Mihai, University of Cambridge

Erotical Ascent in Eriugena's Periphyseon
Jyoti Raghu, University of Oxford


I'm Mad about You, God, You're Mad about Me: The Erotic to Agapic Transfiguration of Our "Bootylicious" Body
John Turner, University of Nebraska

Ritual and Contemplative Techniques of Ascension and Mystical Union with the Divine in Gnostic and Related
Literature
Dylan M. Burns, Free University, Berlin

Astrological Determinism, Free Will, and Eros According to Thecla in Methodius of Olympus’s Symposium
A19-116
Queer Studies in Religion Unit
Benae Beamon, Boston University, Presiding
Theme: Trans Studies in Religion
Mariecke van den Berg, Utrecht University

Trajectories of Transformation: Religious and Gender Transitions in Jewish Autobiography
Kelli Potter, Utah Valley University

Trans* Testimonies and Epistemic Injustice in Mormonism
Jane D. Nichols, Candler School of Theology

The Priest at the Mass, the Person of Christ, and the Transgender Body
Heather Harris, University of Louisville

When the Spirit Says Dance: A Queer of Color Critique of Black Justice Discourse in Anti-Transgender Policy
Rhetoric
Responding:
Max Strassfeld, University of Arizona

Business Meeting:
Thelathia Young, Bucknell University

Heather White, University of Puget Sound
A19-117
Religion and Humanism Unit

J. Sage Elwell, Texas Christian University, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Anthony Pinn's When Colorblindness Isn’t the Answer: Humanism and the Challenge
of Race (Pinchstone, 2017)

Panelists:
Valerie C. Cooper, Duke University

Jason Springs, University of Notre Dame
William David Hart, Macalester College
Responding:
Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University
Business Meeting:
Slavica Jakelic, Valparaiso University
A19-118
Religion and Migration Unit and Religion in Europe Unit
Zayn Kassam, Pomona College, Presiding
Theme: Migrant Integration and Religious Identity in Europe
Joshua Ralston, University of Edinburgh

Muslim Migration and the Borders of (Christian) European Identity
Robert Dowd, Universsity of Notre Dame

Religion, National Identity, and the Integration of Migrants in Europe
Susanne Stadlbauer, University of Wyoming

Between Secrecy and Disclosure: The Mediation of Mass Conversions to Protestantism among Refugees in
Germany
Heena Jiwani, Aga Khan Council for USA

Ahmed Chagani, Aga Khan Council for USA
Exploration of the Intersectionality of Migration, Religious Identity, and Education in a Minority Muslim
Community in Essen, Germany
Business Meeting:

Markus Dressler, Leipzig University
A19-119
John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State University, Presiding
Theme: Masculinity and the Clash of Civilizations in Religion and Popular Culture
Jennifer Hancock, Dallas, TX

Jesus in War, Jesus for Peace: How Jesus in World War I Popular Culture Helped Shape Modern Progressive,
Radical, and Reactionary Movements
Christopher Driscoll, Lehigh University

Secular Sahib: White Identity Formation in Himalayan Big Mountain Climbing
Marc Loustau, College of the Holy Cross

Modernizers in Knights’ Robes: The Political Theology of Hungarian Far-Right Knighthood Orders
Finbarr Curtis, Georgia Southern University

The Honey Badger's Holy War: Steve Bannon and the Clash of Civilizations
Caroline Matas, Princeton University

Against "The Church of Feminism": Formations of Masculinity in the Overlapping Memberships of New Atheist and
Red Pill Online Communities
Meredith Ross, Florida State University

Always Bring a Religion to a Religious War: The Online Manosphere, Religion, and Classification
A19-120
Religion and the Social Sciences Unit
Nichole Phillips, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Community-Based Research: The Church, Environment, and Ecclesial Base Communities (EBC)
Jordan E. DeSanto, Yale University

The Wages of Sin: Counting the Spiritual, Emotional, and Sexual Cost Homophobic Theology upon Black Men Who
Have Sex with Men
Laurel Marshall, Central American University

Utility of Decolonial Theory for Theological Liberation Methodology: A Case Study
Richard Pitt, Vanderbilt University

Differences between Founder-Led and Non-Founder-Led Congregations
Amanda Baugh, California State University, Northridge

Religion and Environmentalism in a Secular Age: Varieties of American Catholic Engagement
A19-121

Marko Geslani, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Mantras in South Asian Religions: Sound, Silence, and Script
Finnian Moore Gerety, Yale University

Praṇava: Histories of the Sacred Syllable
Ellen Gough, Emory University

Picturing Oṃ in Jainism
Ronald M. Davidson, Fairfield University

Glossolalia and the Many Voices in Buddhist Mantras
Supriya Gandhi, Yale University

Om/Allah: Mantras and Translation in Early Modern India
Responding:
Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin
Business Meeting:
Andrea Marion Pinkney, McGill University
A19-122
Religious Conversions Unit
Shari Rabin, College of Charleston, Presiding
Theme: Converting Citizens: Religious Nationalism and Religious Globalism in Missionary Projects
Alexandra Kaloyanides, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Golden Buddhas and Christian Maps: Materiality, Empire, and Conversion in Nineteenth-Century Burma
Matthew Sutton, Washington State University

God’s Spooks: Missionary-Spies during World War II
Sarah Koenig, Kalamazoo College

The Conversion of Capital: Philanthropic Missions and Racial Progress at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
William Sherman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Romance, Religion, and Race: Novel Questions for the Missionary Encounter of 19th Century Peshawar
Edith Szanto, American University of Iraq, Sulaimani

“Zoroaster was a Kurd!”: Neo-Zoroastrianism in Contemporary Iraqi Kurdistan

Responding:
Christine Heyrman, University of Delaware
Business Meeting:
Marc Pugliese, Saint Leo University
A19-123
Ritual Studies Unit
Jens Kreinath, Wichita State University, Presiding
Theme: Performance and Materiality
S.J. Crasnow, Rockhurst University

Transgender Jewish Ritual Objects
Aaron Ellis, Florida State University

The Mysticism and Theatricality of the Total Work of the Open Program: A Liberationist Model for Transgressing
Cultural, Institutional, and Epistemological Boundaries
Isobel-Marie Johnston, Arizona State University

Niddah and Marriage as Conscious Mind
Responding:
Michael Houseman, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL
Business Meeting:
A19-124
Angela Tarango, Trinity University, Presiding
Theme: Critical Issues in the Study of Catholicism and Colonialism
Panelists:
Brandon Bayne, University of North Carolina

Emily Suzanne Clark, Gonzaga University
Kathleen Holscher, University of New Mexico
Anne M. Martínez, University of Groningen
Matthew Smith, Northwestern University

Responding:
Tisa Wenger, Yale University
Business Meeting:
Michael Pasquier, Louisiana State University

Karen Enriquez, Loyola Marymount University
A19-125
Study of Islam Unit
Zareena Grewal, Yale University, Presiding
Theme: Making and Breaking Boundaries of the Muslim American Family
Kathleen Moore, University of California, Santa Barbara

Is Adoption an Option? Muslim Foster and Adoptive Families in Southern California
Nermeen Mouftah, Butler University

Debating Orphan Care across the Oceans: Global Muslim Contentions
Justine Howe, Case Western Reserve University

Da’wa, the Nuclear Family, and the Neighborhood: Women’s Writings in Muslim Students’ Association
Publications, 1963-1980

The Family is Political (and Religious): American Muslims on Same-Sex Marriage and Queer Love
Nadia Khan, University of Chicago

From Wet-Nurse to Artificial Nipple: Infant Feeding Choices and the State of the American Muslim Nursery
Business Meeting:

A19-126
Study of Judaism Unit and SBL Jewish Christianity/Christian Judaism Unit
Cynthia M. Baker, Bates College, Presiding
Theme: Review Forum on Daniel Boyarin's Judaism (Rutgers University Press, 2018)

Panelists:
Adele Reinhartz, University of Ottawa

Simcha Gross, University of California, Irvine
Shaul Magid, Indiana University
Shlomo Fischer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Seth Schwartz, Columbia University
Responding:
Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley
A19-127
Wesleyan Studies Unit
Simangaliso R. Kumalo, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Presiding
Theme: Ecology and Creation in Wesleyan and Methodist Perspectives
James Waters, Florida State University

What Can Wesley Offer Eco-Feminism? Reconnecting Ethics and Ecology through Wesley's Theology of Creature
and Creation
Christopher Vena, Toccoa Falls College

Christ in You, the Sanctifier of Creation: A Wesleyan Contribution to Ecotheology
Frederick Simmons, Center of Theological Inquiry

What Ecology May Mean for Wesleyan Theology
Greg Van Buskirk, Boston University

Iconic Dignity and Non-Human Nature: Wesley and Aquinas in Constructive Eco-Theological Dialogue
Responding:
Sharon Delgado, Earth Justice Ministries, Nevada City, CA
Business Meeting:
Edgardo Colon-Emeric, Duke University

Ted A. Campbell, Southern Methodist University
A19-128
Henrik Bogdan, University of Gothenburg, Presiding
Theme: Out of This World: Extraterrestrial Esotericisms
Christa Shusko, York College of Pennsylvania

A Martian God: Eleanor Kirk’s Extraterrestrial Epiphany in The Christ of the Red Planet
Erik Östling, Stockholm University

Yonah Fortner and the Historical Doctrine of Extraterrestrialism
Timothy Grieve-Carlson, Rice University

An Unknown Country: Ecology and Esotericism in the Work of Whitley Strieber
Responding:
Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University
Business Meeting:
Egil Asprem, Stockholm University

A19-129
Mugdha Yeolekar, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding
Theme: Feminist Responses to Wellness and Critical Reflection on Religious Leadership

Ageless Goddesses, Slender Saints, and Stress-Free Souls: The Wellness Industry's Fantasy of Women's Wellbeing
and of the Religious Narratives Supporting It
Michal Raucher, University of Cincinnati

Rebbetzin: Rabbi’s Wife or Female Rabbi?
Kira Ganga Kieffer, Boston University

Mindfulness, Meditation, and Making Millions: Spiritual Entrepreneurship and Gendered Capitalism
Tazeen Ali, Boston University

Muslim Women’s Religious Authority and the Women’s Mosque of America: Beyond Islamic Legal Debates on
Ritual Leadership
Eugene Harold Breitenberg, Randolph-Macon College

A. Maude Royden: Public Theologian

Responding:
Tamara Lewis, Southern Methodist University

Stephanie May, First Parish in Wayland (UU)
A19-130
Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit
Sravana Borkataky-Varma, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Presiding
Theme: New Directions in Yoga Studies
Seth Powell, Harvard University

A Lesser-Known Lamp on Yoga: The Nexus of Śaiva Ritual and Yoga in the Fifteenth-Century Śivayogapradīpikā
Keith Cantú, University of California, Santa Barbara

The “Vedāntic Rājayoga” of Śrī Sabhāpati Swāmī
Daniela Bevilacqua, SOAS University of London

The Ethnographic Side of the Haṭha Yoga Project: Learning from the Practice and Knowledge of Traditional Indian
Ascetic Practitioners
Anya P. Foxen, California Polytechnic State University

Whence Transnational Yoga? An Initial Exploration of Modern Yoga’s Western Roots
Responding:
Stuart R. Sarbacker, Oregon State University
Business Meeting:
Andrea Jain, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
A19-131
Economics and Capitalism in the Study of Buddhism Seminar
Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Theme: Buddhist Responses to Capitalist Situations, Wealth and Excess, and Institutional Changes
James Mark Shields, Bucknell University

Buddhism between Ideology and Utopia: A Preliminary Investigation
Kin Cheung, Moravian College

Buddhist Institutions, Initial Public Offering Plans, and Tourism Company Listings in China’s Stock Market
Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg, University of Copenhagen


Connectionwork: Analyzing the Spread and Expansion of Buddhism in the Global Market Economy
Matthew Milligan, Georgia College & State University

Economic Prosperity as Reputation Management in Early South Asian Buddhism
Responding:
Charles D. Orzech, Colby College
Business Meeting:
Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union

Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara
A19-132
Holmes Welch and the Study of Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China Seminar
Rongdao Lai, University of Southern California, Presiding
Erik Hammerstrom, Pacific Lutheran University

Did the Recovery of Lost Scriptures Matter in 20th c. Chinese Buddhism? Huayan as Case Study
Justin R. Ritzinger, University of Miami

"When Drinking Water, Ponder the Source": The Life and Work of Holmes Welch
Antonio Terrone, ATLA

Reflections on Holmes Welch’s Contribution to Understanding Modern Buddhism in Tibet: A Case Study of the
Tenth Panchen Lama Chokyi Gyeltsen
Gilbert Chen, Washington University, St. Louis

Leaving the Family without Severing the Bond: Family Matters in Late Imperial Chinese Buddhism
Responding:
Wei Wu, Emory University
Business Meeting:
Gregory Adam Scott, University of Manchester
A19-133
Material Islam Seminar
Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University, Presiding
Theme: Islam and the Human Body
Kathryn M. Kueny, Fordham University


"Taking on Glitter": Contested Uses of False Hair and Gold Noses in Medieval Muslim Contexts
Patrick D'Silva, University of North Carolina

Bodies in Translation: Esoteric Conceptions of the Muslim Body in Early-Modern South Asia
Alan Godlas, University of Georgia

Trembling, Weeping, and Wajd (Ecstasy): Varieties of Involuntary Affective-Bodily Expressions from the Qur’an,
Hadith, and Early Sufi Literature.
Manuela Ceballos, University of Tennessee

Transmission and Ritual Purity in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean
Responding:
Thomas Csordas, University of California, San Diego
A19-134
New Perspectives on Religion in the Philippines Seminar
Adrian Hermann, University of Bonn, Presiding
Theme: New Perspectives on Conversion, Islam, Noninstitutional Churches, and Leadership in the Philippines
Brady Kal Cox, University of Texas at Austin

An American Import: Noninstitutional Churches of Christ in the Philippines
David Gowey, Arizona State Uninversity

Beyond Humabon's Moor: An Exploration of Islamic Presence in the Visayas
Aliza Racelis, University of the Philippines

Testing the Transcendental Leadership Theoretical Model: Reflecting on Religious Motives and Service Orientation
among Survey Respondents
Ariel Siagan, Iglesia Evangelica Metodista En Las Islas Filipinas/National Council of Churches in the Philippines
The Murdered Victim in the Narrative of Conversion to Social Movement
Business Meeting:
Deirdre de la Cruz, University of Michigan
A19-135
Origen and the Roots of "Human Freedom" and "Human Dignity" in the West Seminar
Anders-Christian Jacobsen, Aarhus University, Presiding
Theme: Origen of Alexandria's Understanding of Human Freedom


Mark James, Hunter College
Origen, Parrhesia, and the Deification of Discourse
Katarina Pålsson, Lund University

Freedom to Rise and Fall: Jerome's Reception of Origen's Theology of Baptism in the Context of the Jovinianist
Controversy
Daniel Tolan, Cambridge University

Between Monism and Tripartition Origen and the Theological Anthropology of Freedom
Alexander Pierce, University of Notre Dame

Configuring Origen’s Doctrine of Apokatastasis and Anti-Valentinian Polemics: A Case for Human Freedom,
Equality, and Experience
Responding:
Peter Martens, Saint Louis University

Ellen Muehlberger, University of Michigan
A19-136
Religion and Families in North America Seminar
Susan Ridgely, University of Wisconsin, Presiding
Katherine Dugan, Springfield College

Big Catholic Families: Religious Norms, Idealized Families, and the Secular in Contemporary Catholic Families

Families, Work, and Faith in the Heartland: What Can We Learn from Today’s American Midwest?
Seth Dowland, Pacific Lutheran University

Feminism and Evangelical Family Men
Business Meeting:
Samira Mehta, Albright College

Susan Ridgely, University of Wisconsin
A19-137
Video Gaming and Religion Seminar
John Borchert, Syracuse University, Presiding
Theme: Video Game Development in Asia: Cultural Heritage, Religion, and National Identity
Gregory Grieve, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Nepal: Video Game Development
Christopher Helland, Dalhousie University


Japan: Video Game Development
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, University of Bremen

The Philippines: Video Game Development
Xenia Zeiler, University of Helsinki

India: Video Game Development
Business Meeting:
A19-138
Exploratory Session
Sophia Arjana, Western Kentucky University, Presiding
Theme: Monsters, Monster Theory, and Religion: Lords of the Underworld
Natasha Mikles, Texas State University

Returning Terror to Buddhist Hell: King Yama as a “Deified Monster”
Gabriel P. McKee, New York University

“Reality – Is it a Horror?”: Richard Shaver’s Subterranean World and the Problem of Evil
Justin Doran, Middlebury College

Beware the Babalorixá! Race and the Demonization of Afro-Brazilian Religion
Joseph Laycock, Texas State University

The Secret History of the “Earling Exorcism”
Business Meeting:
Kelly Murphy, Central Michigan University
A19-139
Exploratory Session
Ronit Stahl, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding
Theme: Chaplaincy Innovation Lab: A Proposal for an Exploratory Unit
Irene Stroud, Princeton University

Theological Education for Chaplaincy?
Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary's College of California


RFRA, RLUIPA and Ideological Change in Courts, Correctional Institutions, and Society
Brad Stoddard, McDaniel College

Prison Chaplains: Regulating Participation in Faith-Based Correctional Facilities
Michael Skaggs, Brandeis University

Serving Seafarers at the Water’s Edge: Code-Switching in the Daily Work of Port Chaplains
James Dennis LoRusso, Princeton University

Is it the Ministry or the Presence? A Garbage Can Model of Corporate Chaplaincy
Harvey Stark, California State University, Sacramento

American Muslim Chaplains and New Forms of Religious Identity in America
Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University

Shelly Rambo, Boston University
Spiritual Care in Transition: A White Paper
Cyrus O'Brien, University of Michigan

Security, Conspiracy, and Love: Spiritual Care in an Era of Mass Incarceration
Responding:
Winnifred Sullivan, Indiana University
A19-140
Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee Meeting
Kerry Danner, Georgetown University, and Edwin David Aponte, Louisville Institute, Presiding
A19-141
Theological Education Committee Meeting
Scott C. Alexander, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding
P19-100
African Association for the Study of Religions
Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University, Presiding
Theme: Empire, Religion, Health, and Human Capital in Africa
Timothy Carey, Boston College

“Who do the crowds say that I am?”: Colonialism, Traditional African Religion, and the Catholic Church in Kenya
Jesse Miller, Florida State University

Muhammad, Capitalist Ethics, and Muslim Reform in Burkina Faso
Kimberly Hill, University of Texas, Dallas


Humanizing Rituals in the American Presbyterian Congo Mission
Monday - 9:15 AM-12:00 PM

A19-142
Denver Art Museum Tour
Monday - 9:15 AM-12:00 PM
Monday - 11:45 AM-12:45 PM

A19-143
Plenary Panel: The Public Religion Scholar in a Social Media Age: Risks, Rewards, Reverberations
Monday - 11:45 AM-12:45 PM
Panelists:
Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University

Larycia Hawkins, University of Virginia
Candida Moss, University of Birmingham
A19-144
Program Committee Meeting
Monday - 11:45 AM-12:45 PM
A19-145
Status of Persons with Disabilities in the Profession Committee Connecting Conversations Luncheon
Monday - 11:45 AM-12:45 PM
A19-146
Women's Caucus Business Meeting
Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College, and Alicia Panganiban, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Monday - 11:45 AM-12:45 PM
Panelists:

Kathryn Common, Boston University
Monday - 11:45 AM-12:45 PM

Julia Enxing, Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Theology and Philosophy
Colleen D. Hartung, Holy Wisdom Monastery, Middleton, WI
Anne Hillman, Boston University
Rosalind F. Hinton, LAOUTLOUD
Rosemarie Daher Kowalski, Northwest University
Kim Martinez, Northwest University
Meredith Minister, Shenandoah University
Jea Sophia Oh, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
Theresa A. Yugar, California State University, Los Angeles
Monday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM

A19-200
Theme: Save $: Learn How to Edit and Proofread Your Work like a Pro
Panelist:
Stephanie Mojica

A19-201
Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee and Academic Relations Committee
Edwin David Aponte, Louisville Institute, Presiding
Theme: Department Chairs: How We Can Best Support Contingent Faculty
Panelists:

Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty, Bellarmine University
Sylvester Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Elizabeth A. Say, California State University, Northridge
Linda A. Moody, Mount St. Mary's College
A19-202

Theme: Preparing Scholars of Religion for Non-Academic Careers: What’s a Faculty Member to Do?
Panelists:

Paul W. Harvey, University of Colorado
Patrick Mason, Claremont Graduate University
Nathan Schneider, University of Colorado Boulder
Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University
A19-203
Devaka Premawardhana, Colorado College, Presiding
Theme: Spatial, Material, and Political-Economy Approaches to African Religions
Kyrah Malika Daniels, Boston College

Healing the Afflicted Mind: The Material Culture of Mental Illness in Congolese Religions
Amidu Elabo, Princeton Theological Seminary

Take My House, Not the House of God: Broken Religious Sites and Unbroken Spatial Attachments in Jos North
Urban Center, Nigeria
Justice Anquandah Arthur, University of Bayreuth (BIGSAS)

Religion or Mere Noise? The Contestations over Sacred Sound and Urban Space in Accra, Ghana
Elizabeth Sperber, University of Denver

Deus ex Machina? How Religious Actors Influence Political Economy in Zambia, and How Governments Attempt to
Influence Religious Actors in Return
Business Meeting:
David Amponsah, University of Missouri

Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds
A19-204
Animals and Religion Unit
Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina, Presiding
Theme: Practicing Animals and Religion in Shelters, Classrooms, and around the Dinner Table

Heather McDermott-Perez, Claremont School of Theology

Death: It’s Killing Us
David Aftandilian, Texas Christian University

Learning to Listen to Animals: Theological and Pedagogical Reflections
Matthew Halteman, Calvin College

The Vegan Imagination and Religious Ethics
Sarra Tlili, University of Florida

A Case for Vegetarianism in Islam?
Responding:
David Clough, University of Chester
A19-205
M. Cooper Harriss, Indiana University, Presiding
Theme: Reconnecting with Nature: Literary Landscapes as Texts of Divine Revelation
Mark S. Cladis, Brown University

Rousseau’s Spiritual Alpine Landscape as a New World in Which to Live
Daniel Bradley, Gonzaga University

Divine Immanence and Human Creation: Renewed Relations between Politics and Nature in Zora Neale Hurston
and Willa Cather
Josh Hasler, Boston University

Hollow Ground: Negative Landscapes in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
Chris DiBona, Brown University

Religion and Reconnecting with Nature: A Deweyian Reading of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
A19-206
Black Theology Unit and Grawemeyer Award in Religion
Tyler Mayfield, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: James Cone's The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Orbis, 2011): A Roundtable Celebrating the Grawemeyer
Award in Religion

Panelists:
Dianne Stewart, Emory University

Adam Clark, Xavier University
Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago
Business Meeting:

Adam Clark, Xavier University
A19-207
Sophia Park, Holy Names University, Presiding
Theme: Judith Butler, Religion, and the Body
Marie Purcell, Southern Methodist University

Bodies That Matter to God: Religious Performativity as Theoretical Bridge between Feminists and
Complementarians
Timothy Dwight Davis, Vanderbilt University

Resisting Docility: Judith Butler and the Liturgical Construction of Bodies
Sarah Dove, Ohio State University

I’ll Fly Away: Interstitial Performativity in Pentecostal Worship Practice
Margaret D. Kamitsuka, Oberlin College

Is Fetal Life Grievable?
Business Meeting:
Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University

Katherine C. Zubko, University of North Carolina, Asheville
A19-208
Buddhism Unit
Natalie Gummer, Beloit College, Presiding
Theme: Repetition with a Difference: Arts of Citation and Textual Bodies of Buddhism
Pamela D. Winfield, Elon University

Dōgen’s Rhetorical and Material Citation of the Lotus Sūtra

Rae Erin Dachille, University of Arizona- Tucson
The Exegetical Body: Interpretation and Agency in a Fifteenth-Century Tibetan Text
Justin Fifield, Trinity College

The Composition of the Mahāvastu: Repetition and Readership in a Vinaya Text
Kevin Buckelew, Columbia University

Exemplifying Heroism: Inspiration, Imitation, and the "Great Man" in Song-Dynasty Chan Buddhism
Responding:
Charles Hallisey, Harvard University
A19-209
Christian Spirituality Unit and Religion and Ecology Unit
Timothy Robinson, Brite Divinity School, Presiding
Theme: Eco-Reformation (Cascade Books, 2016): Toward the Next 500 Years
Panelists:
Leah Schade, Lexington Theological Seminary

Mark S. Brocker, St. Andrew Lutheran Church
Jacob Sherman, California Institute of Integral Studies
Responding:
Lisa E. Dahill, California Lutheran University

James Martin-Schramm, Luther College
A19-210
Class, Religion, and Theology Unit and Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit and Religion and Economy Unit
and Religion and Humanism Unit and Religion and the Social Sciences Unit
Cody Musselman, Yale University, Presiding
Judith Ellen Brunton, University of Toronto, Presiding
Theme: The Good Life in the Study of Religion
Panelists:
Rebecca Bartel, San Diego State University

George Gonzalez, Monmouth University
Miroslav Volf, Yale University

Nimi Wariboko, Boston University
A19-211
Eric D. Mortensen, Guilford College, Presiding
Theme: Miracles: Signs, Wonders, and Challenges
Richard H. Davis, Bard College

Fear, Loathing, and Miracles among the Cowherders: Krishna’s Childhood Prodigies
David Fiordalis, Linfield College

Jesus, Superman, Henry Sugar, or? An Integrative Approach to Buddhist Miracles
Umeyye Yazicioglu, St. Joseph's College

Quranic Miracle Stories beyond Literal vs. Metaphorical: An Islamic Perspective from Jalal al-din Rumi & Said Nursi
Karen Zwier, Drake University

On the Evidentiary Role of Miracles
Responding:
David L. Weddle, Colorado College
A19-212
Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit
Elijah Siegler, College of Charleston, Presiding
Theme: High Theory
Rudy V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara

(First) Contact High (Theory)
Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University

Three Moments of an Explosion: Conjure, Communism, Time
Mayanthi Fernando, University of California, Santa Cruz

Sensing, Secularity, and the Supernatural: Toward a Theory of SuperNatureCulture
John Modern, Franklin and Marshall College

Notes from the Cognitive Underground
Julie Byrne, Hofstra University

A Communion Stand
Hillary Kaell, Concordia University, Montreal


Scale Making: Christian Globalism from above and within
A19-213
Hinduism Unit and North American Hinduism Unit and Religion and Migration Unit
Ute Huesken, Heidelberg University, Presiding
Theme: Migration and Materiality: The Stuff of the Hindu Diaspora
Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University, Chicago

A Rājagopuram for the New Millennium: Channeling Divine Power at an American Hindu Goddess Temple
Prea Persaud, University of Florida

From the Himalayas to Blanchisseuse: The Gangadhara Festival in Trinidad
Priyanka Ramlakhan, University of Florida

Between Matter and Spirit: Hindu Cremation and Death Rituals in Trinidad
Urmila Mohan, University College London

Deity Clothing as Negotiation in ISKCON
Responding:
Amy L. Allocco, Elon University
A19-214
Ana Maria Bidegain, Florida International University, Presiding
Theme: The Medellin Conference and Latin American Christianity
Philip Wingeier-Rayo, Austin Theological Seminary

Medellin between Two Revolutions: The Impact of CELAM II on Cuba and Nicaragua
Raimundo Barreto, Princeton Theological Seminary

Medellin (1968) from a Latin American Protestant Perspective
Ernesto Fiocchetto, Florida International University

Catholic Tensions in the Argentinian Society Exposed by the Lives and Deaths of Three Bishops of Medellin
Sandra Londono-Ardila, Florida International University

The Socio-Religious Mobilization of the Latin American Laity in the Period 1960-1973 and the Theological Renewal
of Medellin
A19-215

Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core, Chicago, IL, Presiding
Theme: Interreligious/Interfaith Studies: Defining a New Field (Beacon Press, 2018)
Panelists:
Homayra Ziad, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies

Jennifer Howe Peace, Andover Newton Theological School
Hans Gustafson, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota
Responding:
Business Meeting:
John Sheveland, Gonzaga University

Rachel Mikva, Chicago Theological Seminary
A19-216
Islamic Mysticism Unit
Robert Rozehnal, Lehigh University, Presiding
Theme: Challenging Gendered Constructions of Authority and Piety in Sufism
John Zaleski, Harvard University

Muslim Women as Teachers and Practitioners of Asceticism in the Kutub al-Zuhd (Third/Ninth Century)
Sa'diyya Shaikh, University of Cape Town

Muhammad, Masculinities, and Mysticism
Rebecca Makas, Emory University

Virile Knowledge and the Impotence of Ignorance: Masculinity, Embodiment, and Authority in Ishrāqī Philosophy
Brittany Landorf, Harvard Divinity School

“Sitting between the Hands of a Shaykh”: Adab al-Ziyārah and the Constitution of Pious Masculinities in Moroccan
Sufism in the 19th Century
Responding:

Business Meeting:

Robert Rozehnal, Lehigh University
A19-217
Jessica Starling, Lewis and Clark College, Presiding
Theme: Japanese Religion and the Meiji Restoration
Takashi Miura, University of Arizona

"Ee ja nai ka" and the Meiji Restoration: Re-Examining the Discourse of World Renewal in Nineteenth-Century
Japan
Eiko Namiki, International Christian University

Honda Chikaatsu’s Spiritual Learning as a Means of Guiding and Bringing Blessings to the Nation
Adam Lyons, Harvard University

The Origins of Prison Religion in Meiji Japan
Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Ohio State University

Spiritual but Not Religious: The Spirit of Rationality and Kiyozawa Manshi’s Investigation of the Soul
Responding:
James Mark Shields, Bucknell University
Business Meeting:
Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University

Asuka Sango, Carleton College
A19-218
Law, Religion, and Culture Unit and Native Traditions in the Americas Unit
Greg Johnson, University of Colorado, Presiding
Theme: American Indian Religious Freedom
Panelists:
Dana Lloyd, Syracuse University

Michael McNally, Carleton College
Kristen Carpenter, University of Colorado Law School

Steven C. Moore, Native American Rights Fund
Jennifer Graber, University of Texas
A19-219
Zachary Purvis, University of Edinburgh, Presiding
Theme: F. C. Baur and the Historical Turn in Nineteenth Century Theology
David Lincicum, University of Notre Dame

Ferdinand Christian Baur, the Bible, and T. H. Green
Benjamin Petroelje, University of Edinburgh

A Return to Tradition...and History: Reading Paul's Letter Collection in F. C. Baur's Wake
Johannes Zachhuber, University of Oxford

Historicism and Speculative Thought: Schelling, Creuzer, Marheineke, Baur
Responding:
Peter C. Hodgson, Vanderbilt University
Business Meeting:
Todd Gooch, Eastern Kentucky University

Hans Schwarz, University of Regensburg
A19-220
Zachary Braiterman, Syracuse University, Presiding
Theme: In the Wake of Afro-Pessimism: Black Flesh, Wake Work, the Hold, and the Question of Sexual Difference
Joseph Winters, Duke University

The Hole/Hold between Optimism and Pessimism: Spillers, Sharpe, and the Wake of Black Flesh
Anne Joh, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

The Breath of “Impenitential Ancestors” in the Wake Work of Aspiration

The Sunken Place: Thinking Hold in Sharpe and Rankine and alongside Get Out (Peele, 2107)
Wesley Barker, Mercer University

Ethics, Politics, and Afro-Pessimism: Race, Sexual Difference, and the Promise of Non-Being
A19-221
Reformed Theology and History Unit
William Yoo, Columbia Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Reformed Responses to Racism and Colonialism
Derek Alan Woodard-Lehman, University of Otago

Confessing Freedom: Racism and Resistance in Reformed Political Theology
Timothy McGee, Illinois College

Karl Barth and the Colonial Project of Modern "Absolute Man"
Douglas Clark, Vanderbilt University

Reformed Theology, Revolution, and Reaction: Presbyterians, Black Power, and White Backlash in the Late 1960s
Wietske de Jong-Kumru, University of Flensburg

Reformed Responses to Racism: The Case of Dutch Reformed Tradition and Apartheid South Africa
Business Meeting:
Cynthia Rigby, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Paul Nimmo, University of Aberdeen
A19-222
Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives Unit
Jenny Berglund, Stockholm University, and Michael Waggoner, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding
Theme: Teaching Non-Religious/Secular Worldviews in Public Schools
Peder Thalén, University of Gavle

Teaching Secular World Views in a Post-Secular Age
Justine Ellis, University of Oxford

Religious Literacy and Secular Subjectivity: Re-Materializing Religion Education in Schools
Karin Sporre, Umeå University

Ethical competence and Religion Education – a comparison of five international cases
Kate Soules, Boston College

Religion through the Eyes of a Real Person with Feelings: The Impacts of Experiential Learning in Professional
Development about Religion
Responding:

Tim Jensen, University of Southern Denmark
Business Meeting:
Jenny Berglund, Stockholm university

Michael Waggoner, University of Northern Iowa
A19-223
Religion and Sexuality Unit
Nina Hoel, University of Oslo, Presiding
Theme: Engaging Sexual Ethics: Muslim Feminist Blogs, Cyberlove, Feminist Revenge Fantasy, and Sex Positive
Imagery
Krista Riley, Vanier College

“God is Greater Than Our Limited Understanding”: Uncertainty and Creativity on Muslim Feminist Blogs
Kathleen Mroz, Boston College

A Just Love in Cyberspace: Rethinking Christian Sexual Ethics in the Context of Online Dating and Computer
Mediated Relationships
Kelly Stewart, Vanderbilt

Volcanic Virtues and Feminist Revenge: Thelma and Louise as Ethical Resource in the Era of #MeToo
Justin Tanis, Graduate Theological Union

Seeing is Believing: Using Sacred Image and Text in Sexuality Education
Business Meeting:
Nina Hoel, University of Oslo

A19-224
Daisy Vargas, University of California, Riverside, Presiding
Theme: Indigenous Cosmologies, Past and Present
Josefrayn Sanchez-Perry, University of Texas

Intersecting Religions: Mesoamerican Christianity in the Codex Mexicanus

Contagion and the Sacred in Mexico: Indigenous Responses to Epidemic Cataclysm in the Sixteenth Century
Cecilia Titizano, Graduate Theological Union


Subversive Spirituality: Ancestral Cosmologies and Indigenous Feminism
Responding:
Daniel Rivers, Ohio State University
Business Meeting:
Chris Tirres, DePaul University

A19-225
Religions, Medicines, and Healing Unit
C. Pierce Salguero, Pennsylvania State University, Abington, Presiding
Theme: Healings with and within the Unexpected
Nicole Bauer, University of Innsbruck

Kabbalah Goes Therapeutic: A Case Study into the Therapeutisation of Contemporary Kabbalistic Movements
Jaakko Takkinen, UC Santa Barbara

Healing as a Path to Enlightenment: Tibetan Medicine and the Yutog Nyingtig Cycle of Buddhist Practices
J. Sean Callahan, Georgia Highlands College

Hip Hop as a Healing Practice
Jaewoong Jung, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Baptism as a Healing Ritual in the Early Church, Focusing on Ambrose's Catechetical Documents
Business Meeting:
Emily Wu, Dominican University, California

Linda L. Barnes, Boston University School of Medicine
A19-226
Study of Islam Unit
Matthew Kuiper, Missouri State University, Presiding
Theme: On Religion and Its Translatability
Abiya Ahmed, Stanford University

The "Islamic" at an Islamic School: How Religion and Schooling Interact
Brannon Ingram, Northwestern University


Making Sense of Din in Early Modern Europe: Islam between "Religion" and "Law"
Amanda Propst, Florida State University

The Role of Scholarship in Religious Identity and Land Privatization in North Africa
Yunus Dogan Telliel, UC Berkeley

Does Islam Have a Sacred Language? Thinking about Religion, Secularism, and Untranslatability
Responding:
Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston
A19-227
Paul Nahme, Brown University, Presiding
Theme: Representation and Materiality
Samuel Brody, University of Kansas

Should There Be A “Return of Religion” to Economic-Materialist Accounts of Antisemitism?
Matt Williams, Stanford University

Sacrificed upon the Altar of Memory: An Analysis of Holocaust Survivor Poverty and Memorial Development
Rebecca Kamholz, Yale University

"A Phantom of No Flesh": Virginity, Identity, and Uncertainty in the Talmud
David Gottlieb, University of Chicago

Love Upsets the Order: The Binding of Isaac and the Devaluation of the Feminine
A19-228
Amy M. Hollywood, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Mysticism and Race
Panelists:
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones, Boston College

Eleanor Craig, Harvard University
Ashon Crawley, University of Virginia
Andrew Prevot, Boston College
Kris Trujillo, University of California, Berkeley

A19-229
Baimacuo Baimacuo, Southwest Nationalities University, Presiding
Theme: A Woman’s Place in Buddhist Dialogues: Querying the Margins of Tibetan Literature for the In/Visibility of
Nuns and Yoginīs
Jue Liang, University of Virginia

Questioning Women: Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Female Disciples in Zhus Lan Literature
Alison Melnick, Bates College

Admonitions and Advice: Mingyur Peldron's Instructions to Men and Women

Dudjom Lingpa’s Songs of Advice to Nuns and Yoginīs
Andrew Taylor, University of Virginia

Revaluing the Inferior Body: Subversive Complementarianism in Modern Khams
Kati Fitzgerald, The Ohio State University

No Pure Lands: The Violences of Tibetan Buddhism as Conceived of by Lay Women in Kham
Responding:
Jann Ronis, University of California, Berkeley
Business Meeting:
Nicole Willock, Old Dominion University

Benjamin Bogin, Skidmore College
A19-230
Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit
Michael R. Fisher, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Theme: Teaching for Inclusion and Social Justice: An Interactive Workshop
Panelists:
Business Meeting:
Darby Ray, Bates College


A19-231
Wildcard Session
Shannon Trosper Schorey, University of North Carolina, Presiding
Theme: The Heaven’s Gate Podcast: A Conversation with the Podcasters
Panelists:
Ann Heppermann, Pineapple Street Media and Sarah Lawrence College

Sawyer Ody, Heaven’s Gate Ex-Member
Benjamin Zeller, Lake Forest College
A19-232
Wildcard Session
Kermit Moss, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Religion Scholars and the Public Good: Reshaping Knowledge Paradigms through Community Engagement
Panelists:
Biko Gray, Syracuse University Department of Religion

Jessica B. Davenport, Rice University
Secunda Joseph, projectCURATE
Brandi Holmes, projectCURATE
Rachel Schneider, Rice University
Cleve V. Tinsley, Rice University
Matthew Russell, projectCURATE
A19-233
Women's Caucus
Meredith Minister, Shenandoah University, Presiding
Alicia Panganiban, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theresa A. Yugar, California State University, Los Angeles, Presiding
Theme: Response-Ability and Emerging Scholars' Reflections on Keri Day's Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism:
Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives (Palgrave, 2016)
Panelists:
Linda Claros, Claremont Graduate University

LaChelle Schilling, Claremont Graduate University
Jonathan Jodamus, University of Western Cape
Responding:

A19-234
Historical Houses of Worship Tour
David Bains, Samford University, and Daniel Sack, National Endowment for the Humanities, Presiding

A19-235
Theme: The Benefits of Mind-Mapping (Software) for Research, Planning, and Visually Overcoming Writer's Block:
A Demonstration Using MindMaple Classic
Panelists:
Madison Tarleton, University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology

A19-300
Academic Relations Committee and Cultural History of the Study of Religion Unit
Ralph Keen, University of Illinois, Chicago, Presiding
Theme: Private Interests and Public Institutions: Notes from the Field
Responding:
Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama
A19-301

Public Understanding of Religion Committee
Michael Waggoner, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding
Nathan Walker, 1791 Delegates LLC, Presiding
Theme: Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Education (2018)
Panelists:
Jonathon Kahn, Vassar College

Steven Green, Willamette University
Mark A. Chancey, Southern Methodist University
Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, Messiah College
A19-302
Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds, Presiding
Theme: Roundtable on Laura Grillo's Book: An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in
West Africa (Duke University Press, 2018)
Panelists:
Joseph Hellweg, Florida State University

Dianne Stewart, Emory University
Sian Hawthorne, SOAS, University of London
Jacob K. Olupona, Harvard University
Responding:
Laura Grillo, Georgetown University
A19-303
Anthropology of Religion Unit
Jennifer A. Selby, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Presiding
Theme: Lived Religion? Power and Presence in Community Life
Eric Hoenes del Pinal, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Reading Laudato Si' in the Verapaz: Q'eqchi'-Maya Catholicism and Climate Change
Paul Christopher Johnson, University of Michigan

Moods and Modes of Saints: Slave Anastácia of Brazil

Daniel Heifetz, Bucknell University
Spirituality, Dharm, or Religion? The Case of the Gayatri Pariwar
Responding:
Sarah King, Grand Valley State University
A19-304
Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit and Childhood Studies and Religion Unit
Sally Stamper, Capital University, Presiding
Theme: Religion and Children's Literature
Jeffrey F. Keuss, Seattle Pacific University

Dr. Seuss and Theological Poetics of Rhyme after Paul Tillich and Ferdinand de Saussure
Karin Rubenson, Uppsala University

The Meaning-Making Truths in Philip Pullman’s Books about Lyra
Kira Moolman, University of Toronto - Toronto School of Theology

The Stories We Tell Our Children: Containing Death in a Secular Age
A19-305
Augustine and Augustinianisms Unit
Paul R. Kolbet, Yale University, Presiding
Theme: Teaching Augustine and Augustine the Teacher
Michael Lamb, Wake Forest University

Pedagogies of Hope: Augustine and the Art of Rhetoric
Erik Estrada, Wake Forest University School of Divinity

From Teacher of Roman Rhetoric to Catholic Convert: Augustine’s Construction of Marius Victorinus’ Life,
Conversion and Persecution as a Witness to Manicheans and Other Non-Catholics
Robert Porwoll, University of Chicago

Augustine in the Schools: Abelard, Hugh of Saint-Victor, and Peter Lombard Inventing Augustinian Pedagogies
Business Meeting:
Matthew Drever, University of Tulsa
A19-306
Black Theology Unit

JoAnne Marie Terrell, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Racial Liminality and Cruciform Bodies in Cone and King
Thurman Willison, Union Theological Seminary

The Personalist King: Why a Forgotten Theology Still Matters for Black Lives Movements
Taido Chino, University of Tuebingen

A Wooden Metaphor? The Cross and the Lynching Tree from a Liminal Perspective
Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Fordham University

The Christology of the Lynching Tree: Barth’s Crimson Thread, Mamie till Bradley, and the Indictment of White
Supremacy
A19-307
Buddhism Unit and Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit and Contemporary Islam Unit
Amarnath Amarasingam, Dalhousie University, Presiding
Theme: Investigations into Buddhist-Muslim Conflicts
Alexander McKinley, Duke University

Merchants, Maidens, and Muhammadans: A History of Muslim Stereotypes in Sinhala Literature of Sri Lanka
D. Mitra Barua, Rice University

Governance vs. Government: Comparative Analysis of the Buddhist-Muslim Violence in the Chittagong-Rakhine
Region
Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College

Decentering Buddhist-Muslim Conflicts in Thailand: A View from the North
Nyi Nyi Kyaw, National University of Singapore

A Three-Wheel Theory of Buddhist Politics: The Role of the Laity in Present-Day Theravada Buddhist Republican
Polities
Michael Jerryson, Youngstown State University

Buddhist Constructions of the Muslim “Other”
A19-308
Buddhist Philosophy Unit and Philosophy of Religion Unit
Sara L. McClintock, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Neither One nor Many: Buddhist Philosophy of Religion at Vikramaśīla

Parimal G. Patil, Harvard University

Existence, Consciousness, and Bodies of the Buddha Jñānaśrīmitra vs. Ratnākraśānti, Round 1
Allison Aitken, Harvard University

No Thing Isn’t Nothing: Śrīgupta’s Neither One nor Many Argument as Metaphysical Infinitism
Davey Tomlinson, University of Chicago

Ratnākaraśānti’s Metaphysics of Difference: Limiting the Scope of the Neither-One-Nor-Many Argument
Responding:
Greg Seton, Dartmouth
A19-309
Thomas J. McElligott, Saint Mary's College of California, Presiding
Theme: The Spirituality of the Psalms
Stefan Andre Waligur, Graduate Theological Union

“How Can We Sing the Lord’s Song in a Foreign Land?”: Psalm 137 and the Recovery of Lament in the Life and
Liturgy of the Christian Church
Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University

Trauma, Lament, and a Spirituality of Illness in the Psalms
Marian Maskulak, St. John's University, Queens, NY

The Psalms: A Spirituality of Candid Encounter
A19-310
Class, Religion, and Theology Unit and Critical Approaches to Hip-Hop and Religion Unit
Ken Estey, Brooklyn College, Presiding
Theme: C.R.E.A.M.: Intersectional Explorations on Class and Hip-Hop
Jennifer Buck, Azusa Pacific University

Trap Feminist Theology and Working Class Resistance
Verena Grüter, University of Goettingen

Women in Hip-Hop: An Intersectional Approach to Performative Resistance
Benjamin Taylor, Brite Divinity School

Never Had Shit? Hip Hop Communities as Sites for Class Consciousness and Critique
A19-311
Valentina Napolitano, University of Toronto, Presiding
Theme: Roundtable Discussion on Just Debt
Panelists:
Nimi Wariboko, Boston University

Mohammad Khalil, Michigan State University
Moses Pava, Yeshiva University
Responding:
Ilsup Ahn, North Park University
A19-312
Comparative Theology Unit
Bede Bidlack, Saint Anselm College, Presiding
Theme: Eschatology and the Liminal State
Nathan O'Halloran, University of Notre Dame

Purgatory and Barzakh: A Comparative Appropriation
Yujia Zhai, Boston College

The Interreligious Eschatology of "serve him shoulder to shoulder" in Nostra Aetate: A Comparative Investigation
Jakob Wirén, Church of Sweden

Eschatological Hospitality: Comparative Insights beyond Soteriology
Responding:

Wilhelmus Valkenberg, Catholic University of America
A19-313
Daoist Studies Unit
Tobias Zuern, Washington University, St. Louis, Presiding
Theme: Excavated Manuscripts and Religious Thought in Ancient China


Jinhua Jia, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
The Ultimate Source and Principle of the Cosmos in Warring-States Cosmology
Roy Porat, Harvard University

Traces of Darkness in the Daoist Tradition: The Case of the Guodian Laozi
Adrien Stoloff, Brown University

The Roots of Negative Terminology in Classical Daoism: The Prioritization of Wu 無 in the Hengxian and the
Guodian Laozi
Samuel Goldstein, Brown University

Yin Gao Zong Wen Yu San Shou: A Case Study for the Problem of Classification of Warring States Excavated Texts
Responding:
Kuan-yun Huang, City University of Hong Kong
A19-314
Hinduism Unit
Christian Lee Novetzke, University of Washington, Presiding
Theme: Sanskrit and the Bhakti Movement
Jason Schwartz, University of California, Santa Barbara

"Bhakti Is the Very Life Breath of Śiva's Dharma": Reappraising the History of Devotion and Its Social Implications
in Light of Early Śaiva Sources
Anand Venkatkrishnan, Harvard University

Won't You Say You Love Me Too? Śaiva Devotion for Viṣṇu in Medieval Kerala
Barbara A. Holdrege, University of California, Santa Barbara

Sanskrit Re-Visionings of Bhakti's Footsteps: The Case of the Bhāgavata Māhātmya
Hamsa Stainton, McGill University

Stotras and "The Bhakti Movement"
A19-315
International Development and Religion Unit
Nathan Mallonee, Living Water International, Presiding
Theme: Religion and Water Access, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) in a Changing Landscape: A Conversation
with Christian WASH Practitioners

Panelists:
Jonathan Wiles, Living Water International

Ray Norman, World Vision International
Kristen Check, Water Mission
Spencer Bogle, Southern Methodist University
A19-316
Homayra Ziad, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, Presiding
Theme: Power and Privilege at the Interfaith Table
Amy Lawton, University of Connecticut

Religious Others in Christian Contexts: Multi-Tradition Theological Education and the Limits of "Interfaith"
Lailatul Fitriyah, University of Notre Dame

Two Strangers in the Eternal City: A Study on Individualized Emerging Rituals within the Context of Interreligious
Dialogue
Deirdre DeBruyn Rubio, Harvard University

Beyond Visibility: Representing Islam and Muslims in Interfaith Initiatives in the Boston Area
Mary Jebbia, Stanford University

Questioning Our Grand Narratives: Interfaith Dialogue as Pedagogical Praxis
Sue Park, California Lutheran University

Interfaith Relations: Korean American Christians Charting a New Territory
A19-317
Liberal Theologies Unit
Sarah Morice Brubaker, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Liberalism's Islams and Islam's Liberalisms: Constructing a Contrast in a Paradigmatic Period
Ulrich Schmiedel, University of Munich

Supremacy Smugglers? Interrogating Ernst Troeltsch’s Interpretation of Islam
Hannah Strommen, University of Chichester

Specters of Schleiermacher: Liberalism and the Study of the Bible
Thomas Lynch, University of Chichester

A Constitutive Tension of Liberalism: Hegel, Islam, and the Fear of “the Fanatic”

Fatima Tofighi, University of Religions
The Development of Islamic Liberal Theology in Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s Thought
Business Meeting:
Sarah Morice Brubaker, Phillips Theological Seminary
A19-318
Men, Masculinities and Religion Unit, Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit, and Women and Religion Unit
Amanullah De Sondy, University College, Cork, Presiding
Theme: Gender, Genocide, and Sexual Violence
David Tombs, University of Otago

Testifying to Unspeakable Violence: Crucifixion, Rape, and Impalement in Aurora Mardiganian's "Ravished
Armenia"
Nevada Drollinger-Smith, Arizona State University

Pitiful Girls, Pretty Damsels: Representations of Buddhist Women in Burmese Nationalist Discourse
Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina

Genocide and Sexual Violence: Secrets of the Holocaust
Kristopher Norris, Wesley Theological Seminary

A Manly Christ, a Fighter Christ: A Study of Masculinity in the German Christian Church
A19-319
Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and Culture Unit
Gabriella Lettini, Starr King School for the Ministry-GTU, Presiding
Theme: Moral Injury and Theological Questions
Joshua Morris, Claremont School of Theology

Narratives of Moral Injury and Reintegration: Ideology, Interpassivity, and Irruption
Millicent Feske, Saint Joseph's University

Moral Wounding: Image, Imagining, and the Imago Dei
Michael Hanegan, Columbia University

The Care of the Morally Wounded: A Trauma-Informed Theological Account of Sin and Moral Injury
Brian Powers, Georgia Gwinnett College

The Bonhoeffer Dilemma: Sanctification as the Increasing Awareness of Moral Chaos

A19-320
Mormon Studies Unit
Sara Patterson, Hanover College, Presiding
Theme: Bodies of Evidence
Max Mueller, University of Nebraska

Wakara’s Horse: Toward a Post-Human History of Early Mormon-Indian Relations
Taylor Petrey, Kalamazoo College

The Unisex Threat: The Convergence of Mormon Politics and Psychotherapy in the 1970s
Sonia Hazard, Franklin and Marshall College

America's Cargo Cult: How Joseph Smith Discovered Printing Plates and Founded Mormonism
Business Meeting:
Spencer Fluhman, Brigham Young University

Colleen McDannell, University of Utah
A19-321
Music and Religion Unit and Theology and Religious Reflection Unit
Jonathan Dueck, Canadian Mennonite University, Presiding
Gerald Liu, Princeton Theological School, Presiding
Theme: Musicological and Theological Approaches to Congregational Music in Conversation
Panelists:
Jonathan Dueck, Canadian Mennonite University

Mark Porter, Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt
Zoe Sherinian, University of Oklahoma
Gerald Liu, Princeton Theological School
Swee Hong Lim, Emmanuel College, U. Toronto
Conner McCain, Catholic University of America
A19-322
Mysticism Unit, Ritual Studies Unit, and Religion, Media, and Culture Unit
Rachel Wagner, Ithaca College, Presiding
Theme: Mysticism, Lineage, and Ritual Transmission
Cody Bahir, Leiden University


Telecommunicative Transmission: Remotely Resurrecting Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg, University of Copenhagen

Buddhist Ritual as "Spectacle": Aesthetics and Technologies of Mediating Religious Connections
Responding:
Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union

A19-323
Native Traditions in the Americas Unit
Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa, Presiding
Theme: Settler Insensibilities and Threats to Indigenous Sacred Lands
Nicholas Shrubsole, University of Central Florida

Canada’s Proposed Impact Assessment Act and Indigenous Religious Freedom
Deanna Zantingh, Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre

The Land is Our Health: Indigenous Youth, Canadian Resource Extraction, and the Pursuit of Reconciliation as
Reconnection to Taashikaywin
Yohana Junker, Graduate Theological Union

Decolonial Visions: Sacred Indigenous Land and the Politics of Land Art in the American Southwest
Responding:
Mary Churchill, Sonoma State University
Business Meeting:
Suzanne J. Crawford O'Brien, Pacific Lutheran University
A19-324
Todd Gooch, Eastern Kentucky University, Presiding
Theme: New Avenues for Scholarship on Religion, Modernity, and the Secular: The Case of the Long Nineteenth
Century
Panelists:
Charles Lockwood, Australian Catholic University

Lorenz Trein, University of Munich

Nancy Levene, Yale University
Lori K. Pearson, Carleton College
A19-325
North American Religions Unit and Sociology of Religion Unit
Rebekka King, Middle Tennessee State University, Presiding
Theme: Spiritual Practices/Spiritual Governance

Tri-Faith America and the Straight State: The Postwar Invention of Heteronormative Religion
Paul Bramadat, University of Victoria

Religion and Society in the Cascadia Bio-Region: Facts, Fictions, and Futures
Ariel Schwartz, Northwestern University

Implicating Islam
Responding:
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College
A19-326
Eileen Campbell-Reed, Central Baptist Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: From Idea to Book: Psychology, Culture, and Religion Goes Public
Panelists:
Pamela Cooper-White, Union Theological Seminary

Duane Bidwell, Claremont School of Theology
Gregory Ellison, Emory University
A19-327
Qur'an Unit
Stephanie Yep, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Women and Gender Issues in Qur'an and Qur'an Interpretation
Halla Attallah, Georgetown University

Surat Yusuf and the #MeToo Movement: A Case for a Broader Methodological Approach to the Qur'an

Soumia Bardhan, Kansas State University
Women in The Sublime Qur’an: Rhetorical Analysis of a “Feminist” Re-Interpretation of the Qur’an
Hadia Mubarak, New York University Abu Dhabi

A New Discourse on Polygyny: Modern Interpretations of Q. 4:3
Shehnaz Haqqani, Ithaca College

“The Qur’an Clearly Forbids It!”: A Feminist Challenge to the Prohibition of Women’s Interfaith Marriage
A19-328
Religion and Food Unit
Rachel Gordan, University of Florida, Presiding
Theme: Materiality, Spirit, and Flesh
Emily Holmes, Christian Brothers University

Power, Gender, and Sacrifice in the Ethics of Eating Animals
Peter M. Romaskiewicz, University of California, Santa Barbara

Food of the Spirits and the Odors of Meat: The Olfactory Logic of Food in Classical Chinese Religions
Responding:
Thomas A. Wilson, Hamilton College
Business Meeting:
Nora L. Rubel, University of Rochester

Derek Hicks, Wake Forest University
A19-329
Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute, Presiding
Theme: Religion and Gun Culture
Michael McLaughlin, Florida State University

“No Greater Personal Individual Freedom”: The Symbiotic Relationship between Conservative White Christianity
and the National Rifle Association
Scott Culpepper, Dordt College

Victims of Tragedy or Martyrs of the Culture Wars? Christian Media and the Politicization of School Shootings
Michael F. Strmiska, Orange County Community College


American Gun Religion: A New Religious Movement?
A19-330
Religion in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean Unit and Western Esotericism Unit
Nicole Archambeau, Colorado State University, Presiding
Theme: Prophetic and Divinatory Dreaming
Jin Han, New York Theological Seminary

Plasticity of Dreams and Plasis of Dream Interpreters in the Oneirocriticon of Daniel
Kevin Jaques, Indiana University-Bloomington

Dreams, Revelation, and Visiting Spirits: An Early Muslim Cosmology of Divine Communication
Minji Lee, Rice University

Adam’s Revelatory Dream Not Necessarily Revealed: Sleeping as Restoration in Hildegard of Bingen’s Causae et
curae
Responding:
A19-331
Religion, Affect, and Emotion Unit
Jill Petersen Adams, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Networks, Affects, and Social Bodies
Sharday Mosurinjohn, Queen's University

Boredom, Information, and Meaning in Networked Life
Emma Rifai, The University of Iowa

Uploading the Body; Embodying the Online: Bodies, Digital Space, and the Pro-Ana Movement
Ting Guo, University of Hong Kong

The Radical and Conservative Agenda of Love in Modern China through the Lens of Political Leaders
A19-332
Stefanie Knauss, Villanova University, Presiding
Theme: Visuality, the Gaze, and Religion: Perspectives across Cultures


Eden Consenstein, Princeton University

"Ghosts of Empire:" Religion in Life Magazine's Special Issues on Asia and Africa
Cyrus Zargar, Augustana College

Form, Meaning, and the Gaze in Majīd Majīdī’s The Willow Tree
Lillia McEnaney, New York University

Through Indigenous Eyes: A Comparison of Two Tohono O'odham Photographic Collections Documenting
Pilgrimages to Magdalena
A19-333
Scriptural Reasoning Unit
Nicholas Adams, University of Birmingham, Presiding
Theme: Where Can Wisdom Be Found: Scripture and Wisdom in the Abrahamic Traditions
Panelists:
Rebecca J.E. Levi, Oberlin College

Ashleigh Elser, Valparaiso University
M M Nauman Faizi, University of Virginia
Business Meeting:
Deborah Barer, Towson University

A19-334
Tantric Studies Unit and Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit
Ben Williams, Naropa University, Presiding
Theme: Mantra Systems and Chakra Systems
Unnata Pragya, SOAS

Investigating Jaina-Conceptualization and De-Conceptualization of Chakras within the Frame of the Projection of
the Soul outside the Body (Samudghāta)
Patricia Sauthoff, University of London

Encoding the Mṛtyuñjaya Mantra: Sound, Script, and Physicality
Michael Slouber, Western Washington University


Exorcism Mantras in the Bhūta Tantras
Annette Wilke, University of Muenster

The Cakra System of the Parasuramakalpasutra
Christa Schwind, University of Denver

The Chakras: Sacred Centers of Self-Growth in the American Context
Responding:
Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado
A19-335

Almeda Wright, Yale University, Presiding
Theme: Self-Disclosure in the Classroom
Julia Marie Robinson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Barbara Thiede, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Black and Jewish, Female and Clergy: Co-Teachers Practice Self-Disclosure in Religious Studies Classroom

Waking Up to White Privilege: Possibilities and Pitfalls of Self-Disclosure in a Social Justice Classroom
Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College

An Ignatian Approach to Self-Disclosure in a Post-Trumpian Religious Studies Classroom
Nicole Goulet, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

It’s All in the DNA: Using Self-Disclosure to Provoke Critical Thinking
A19-336
Annabella Pitkin, Lehigh University, Presiding
Theme: 19 Ways of Looking at Milarepa
Panelists:

Andrew Quintman, Yale University
Gendun Rabsal, Indiana University
Kurtis Schaeffer, University of Virginia

Dominique Townsend, Bard College
A19-337
Vatican II Studies Unit
Peter De Mey, University of Leuven, Presiding
Theme: Latin American Catholicism in the Wake of the Second Vatican Council
Rodrigo Polanco, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

The Formative Role of Theological Education in the Development of Medellin (1968)
Rodrigo Coppe Caldeira, PUC Minas

A Hermeneutics of the Receivers: The Vatican II Reception in Brazilian Theological Journals (1959-1979) and the
Formation of the Conciliar Cultures
Sandra Arenas, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

McGrath-Larrain’s Conciliar Agenda and the Latin American Ecclesiological Arena since the Fifties
A19-338
Wildcard Session
Mark DeYoung, Rice University, Presiding
Theme: Sylvia Wynter and Religion
David Kline, Rice University

Can the Ship Be Steered? On Sylvia Wynter, Religion, and Autopoietic Social Systems
Justine Bakker, Rice University

Between Genres and Countersignifications: Towards a New Humanity with Sylvia Wynter and Charles Long
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones, Boston College

The Maps of Spring: Race, Westworld, and the Overrepresentation of the Imago Dei
Responding:
An Yountae, California State University, Northridge

A19-339
Theme: What Do I Do Now? Job Hunting and Looking beyond the Tenure Track
Panelists:
Jessica Ehinger, Boston University

A19-400
African Diaspora Religions Unit
Rachel E. Harding, University of Colorado, Denver, Presiding
Theme: Resistance and Recursion: Hegemonic Violence and Alternative Orientations in African Diaspora Religions
Andrea Allen, University of Western Ontario

“The Least of These”: Religious Violence and Marginal Identities in Brazil
Meghan Beddingfield, Princeton Theological Seminary

Time Keeps on Slippin, Slippin, Slippin: How African Religions Invite Us to Reimagine the Linear Conception of Time
Devin Leatherman, Eastern Michigan University

From Old Oyo to Oyinbo: An Outsider/Insider Ethnography of Anglo-American Lukumi Priests
Nathaniel S. Murrell, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Vodou and the Haitian Struggle: An African Diaspora Religion in Politics of the Oppressed
Derek Hicks, Wake Forest University

Scraping Faith from Mama’s Porch: Nourishing Debased Flesh in the Ways of “Home”
Business Meeting:
Rachel E. Harding, University of Colorado, Denver
A19-401
Lisa M. Allen, Interdenominational Theological Center, Presiding
Theme: Architecture and the Common Good


S.Kyle Johnson, Boston College
Who Our Highways Have Taught Us to Love: Religious-Aesthetic Anthropology and American Racialization

Some Suspicions and Suggestions: Womanist Reflections on Architecture and the Common Good
Joseph Lenow, Creighton University

Just Sympathy: Lars Spuybroek’s "Digital Gothic" Architecture and the Common Good
A19-402
Min-Ah Cho, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding
Theme: Identity, Belonging, and Power in Asian American Religions
Chanhee Heo, Bethany Christian Church

The House of Me: Displaced LGBTQ Immigrants and the Violence of Home in Alexander Chee’s Edinburgh
Mihee Kim-Kort, Indiana University

Modeling the Minority: Interrogating the Racialized Wedge Constructed by American Exceptionalism and
American Evangelicalism
Logan Narikawa, University of Hawaiʻi

An Ethics of Asian Settler Colonialism in Hawaiʻi and The Ethics of Asian Settler Colonialism on North America
A19-403
Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Unit and Mormon Studies Unit and North American
Religions Unit
Kathryn Gin Lum, Stanford University, Presiding
Theme: Mormonism’s Racial Restrictions
Joseph Stuart, University of Utah

Tainted with Colored Blood: The LDS Temple Restriction and Gendered Discourses of Race
Cristina Rosetti, University of California, Riverside

Polluting the Priesthood: Mormon Fundamentalist Perspectives on "Official Declaration 2"
Elisa Pulido, Brigham Young University

Chosen, Yet Cursed: Margarito Bautista’s Indigenous Hermeneutic of Etiological Narratives about Race in the Book
of Mormon
A19-404

Jennifer McBride, McCormick Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Bonhoeffer and Contemporary Political Challenges
Koert Verhagen, University of St Andrews

Christology Against Self-Negation: Bonhoeffer's Counter Logos and the Death of White Supremacy
Nik Byle, Arizona Western College

Bonhoeffer’s Augenblick, Boundary Events, and the Mandates
Rakesh Peter Dass, Hope College

Bonhoeffer in India: An Embodied Theology of Public Engagement
Business Meeting:
Lori Brandt Hale, Augsburg College

Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes College
A19-405
Buddhism Unit
Reiko Ohnuma, Dartmouth College, Presiding
Theme: Crowning the Dharmarāja: Narrative Figuration, Figurative Representation, Ritual Consecration
Dessislava Vendova, Columbia University

The Pensive Prince: Revisiting the First Meditation Episode from the Life of the Buddha
Natalie Gummer, Beloit College

The King is Dead, Long Live the King: the Dharma as Sovereign Substance in Narrative Strategies of Succession
David Fiordalis, Linfield College

The Buddha as Spiritual Sovereign: Narrative Figurations of Knowledge and Power
A19-406
Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Unit
Abraham Velez de Cea, Eastern Kentucky University, Presiding
Theme: Problematizing Buddhist Identities
Victor J. Forte, Albright College


Buddhist Nationalism and Marginalizing Rhetoric in a Dependently Originated World
Christina A. Kilby, James Madison University

Global Refugee Crisis and the Gift of Fearlessness
André van der Braak, VU University, Amsterdam

Buddhist-Christian Dual Belonging: Three Approaches
Business Meeting:
Sid Brown, University of the South

Hsiaolan Hu, University of Detroit Mercy
A19-407
Buddhist Philosophy Unit
Douglas S. Duckworth, Temple University, Presiding
Theme: Non-Human and Post-Human Worlds and Beings in Cross-Cultural Philosophical Perspective
Karin Meyers, Kathmandu University

Culture, Karma, and the Empowered Imagination: A Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Other
Worlds of Buddhism
Catherine Prueitt, Emory University

Subverting the Monological Ideal by Embracing the Nonhuman World: How Abhinavagupta’s Nondual Ontology
Could Support Charles Taylor’s Dialogical Ethics
Gereon Kopf, Luther College

How to Date a Ghost: A Philosophical Analysis of Posthumous Marriages
Responding:
Leah Kalmanson, Drake University
A19-408
Natalie Carnes, Baylor University, Presiding
Theme: Divine and Human Freedom
Wyatt Harris, Emory University

The "Compatiblism" of Human Freedom and Divine Omnipotence: An Application of Katherine Sonderegger's
Doctrine of God


Freedom to Speak: A Patristic Theology of Parrhesia
David Horstkoetter, Marquette University

No Competition: A Trinitarian Alternative to Liberal and Post-Liberal Positions on Divine Freedom and Human
Freedom
A19-409
Critical Approaches to Hip-Hop and Religion Unit
Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis, Presiding
Theme: When What’s Proper Ain’t Proper No Mo: Staking Claim to Religious Hip-Hop
Travis Harris, College of William and Mary

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Michael McLaughlin, Florida State University

"Muhammad Ali up in His Pedigree": The Racial Politics of a White, Albino Convert in Black, Muslim Hip Hop
Erika Gault, University of Arizona

To Be Black, Millennial, and Christian Online: A Digital Ethnography of The Breakfast Club
Business Meeting:

Daniel White Hodge, North Park University
A19-410
Cultural History of the Study of Religion Unit and Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit
Sarah Dees, Northwestern University, Presiding
Theme: The Indigenous and the World: Categorizing the Local in the Study of Religion
Spencer Dew, Centenary College of Louisiana

The Rights of Indigenous People under International Law: Religious Claims to Indigeneity as Legal Arguments
Eglute Trinkauskaite, Maryland Institute College of Art

Encounters with Authenticity: Visiting the Past through Traditional Bathing
Devaka Premawardhana, Colorado College

Mobile Roots and Circular Routes: Migration and Conversion among the Makhuwa of Southeast Africa
Responding:
Suzanne Owen, Leeds Trinity University

A19-411
Ecclesiological Investigations Unit and African Association for the Study of Religion
Esther Acolatse, University of Toronto, Presiding
Theme: Ecclesial Experiences in African Contexts
Andrew Salzmann, Benedictine College

Agency and Identity in Ethiopian Liturgical Reform
Elochukwu Eugene Uzukwu, Duquesne University

Liberation and the Slave-Template: Catholic Church, Religions and Cultures, and the Transformation of Society
Ross Kane, Virginia Theological Seminary

Enlarging the Cloud of Witnesses: Ancestors and the Church in Kwame Bediako and Jean-Marc Éla
A19-412
Ethics Unit
Melanie Jones, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Religious Ethics, Diverse Publics, and Social Engagement
Florian Hoehne, Berlin Institute for Public Theology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Between "Nasty Talk" and "Fake News": Public Theology and the Digital Transformation of Its Public
Stephanie Thurston, Princeton Theological Seminary

The Ethnographic Turn, Public Anthropology, and the Civic Responsibilities of Scholars
Christopher Medland, University of Edinburgh

"Mum called it Sin City": Faith-Rooted Organizing, Place, and the Sacred in Edinburgh
Chelsea Carskaddon, UNC Charlotte

A Religious Scholar in the Nonprofit World
A19-413
Daniel Ramirez, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
Theme: Traversing Theology: Social Theory and Religious Thought in Community
Racha Kirakosian, Harvard University


“Just Another Crazy Nun” or Original Mystical Theology?
Klaus Yoder, Harvard University

Prison Theology: Reading Boethius and Thomas More in the Age of Mass Incarceration
G. Simon R. Watson
Charles Darwin, Asa Gray, and Aubrey Moore: A Natural History of the Golden Rule and the Possibility of
Discerning Human Purpose from an Evolving Nature
David Kirkpatrick, Florida State University

Crossing Boundaries: Intellectual Exchange in Latin American Social Christianities
Responding:
Constance Furey, Indiana University
A19-414
Islam, Gender, Women Unit and Teaching Religion Unit
David B. Howell, Ferrum College, Presiding
Theme: Teaching About Islam, Gender, and Women
Hadia Mubarak, New York University Abu Dhabi

Women and Gender in Islam: Challenging Preconceived Notions in the Classroom
Andrew Polk, Middle Tennessee State University

"Ain't I an Afghan Girl": Teaching about Muslim Women in American History
Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Vassar College

“Gender and Sexuality in Islamic Spaces”: Teaching Religion and Gender through Space

Lesson Plan for a Class Session on Islam, Gender, and Women
Fatima Seedat, University of Cape Town

Sarojini Nadar, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Between Boundaries: Holding a Space between Quran and Bible in a Feminist Classroom (Fatima Seedat and
Sarojini Nadar)
Responding:
Merin Shobhana Xavier, Ithaca College
A19-415
J. Aaron Simmons, Furman University, Presiding
Theme: Book Session: David Kangas's Errant Affirmations (Bloomsbury, 2018)

Affirmation, Resentment
Noreen Khawaja, Yale University

Affirmation and the Work of Death
Anthony J. Rudd, St. Olaf College

Learning from Lilies and Birds: Some Reflections on Kangas's Kierkegaard
A19-416
Korean Religions Unit
Sung-Deuk Oak, University of California, Los Angeles, Presiding
Theme: Religion and Society in Korea: Impacting Moral Formation, Government, and Public Action
Jaewoong Jung, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Gender-Separated Liturgy and Moral Formation of Women in the Early Korean Church
Yohan Yoo, Seoul National University

Minah Kim, Seoul National University
Korea National Prayer Breakfast and Protestant Leaders’ Prophetic Consciousness: Focusing on the Period of
Military Government (1965-1987)
Liora Sarfati, Tel Aviv University

Channeling Grief and Dissent through Religious Rituals in the Sewŏl Protests
Responding:
Hwansoo Kim, Duke Univesity
Business Meeting:
Deberniere Torrey, University of Utah
A19-417
Men, Masculinities, and Religion Unit and Religion in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean Unit
Amanullah De Sondy, University College, Cork, Presiding
Theme: Masculinity and Femininity in Medieval Islamic Sources

Sara Verskin, Rhode Island College

Who Counts As "Their Women"? Qur’ān 24:31 and Medieval Islamic Debates about Interreligious Intimacy among
Women
Saadia Yacoob, Williams College

Between Freedom and Enslavement: Deconstructing Normative Masculinity in Islamic Law
Linda G. Jones, University of Pompeu Fabra

Sufi “Soft Power”: An Alternative Model of Hegemonic Masculinity in Nasrid Granada
Responding:
Zahra Ayubi, Dartmouth College
A19-418
Middle Eastern Christianity Unit and World Christianity Unit
Mark Swanson, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, Presiding
Theme: Middle Eastern Christians in the 21st Century: Migration, Secularization, and the Future
Simon Wood, University of Nebraska

“Making Themselves like the Franks”: Europeanization and Conversion in Modern Islam
Elizabeth Marteijn, The University of Edinburgh

Diaspora, Blood, and Belonging: The Survival of the Popular Saint George Veneration among Palestinian Christians
Mitri Raheb, Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture

Palestinian Christians: A Century of Emigration, Displacement, and Diaspora
Responding:
Jason R. Zaborowski, Bradley University
A19-419
Music and Religion Unit
Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University, Presiding
Theme: Christian Accents in American Popular Music
Kimberley Anderson, University of St Andrews

"To Be a Rock and Not to Roll": Mountain Symbolism in Led Zeppelin IV and Houses of the Holy
Drake Konow

Dolly Parton and American Religion: Constructing, Commodifying, and Consuming a Country Icon
Mark Hulsether, University of Tennessee

Four Levels of Religious Meaning in Bob Dylan’s Music and Why It Matters to Hear Them All
William Stell, Princeton University

Changing God’s Tunes: A Rhetorical Analysis of Lyrics in the WOW Franchise, 1995-2018
A19-420
Isaiah Ellis, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Presiding
Theme: The Spirituality of Geography/The Geography of Spirituality: Placing Alternative American Religions
Brandi Denison, University of North Florida

Boulder, CO: Spiritual Heartland of Secular, Not Religious, Identities
Elijah Siegler, College of Charleston

Three Ways of Looking at Asheville, NC as Center of Alternative Spirituality
Ben Brazil, Earlham College

The Hippie Trail: Forging Spirituality on the Overland Route across Asia
Responding:
Adrian Ivakhiv, University of Vermont
A19-421
Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University, Presiding
Theme: God, Consciousness, and Panpsychism: Open and Relational Perspectives
Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Center for Process Studies

Panexperientialism and Panentheism: An Open and Relational Perspective
Joanna Leidenhag, University of Edinburgh

Theology and Panpsychism
Robert C. Neville, Boston University

God, Consciousness, and Emergence
Responding:

Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology
A19-422
Andrea Johnson, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Presiding
Theme: Trauma, Transformation, and Peacemaking in Pentecostal-Charismatic Communities

Daniela C. Augustine, Lee University
Toward a Hagiography of a Living Pentecostal Community: Pneumatological Reflections on Pentecostals’

Peacebuilding in East Slavonia during the 1990s Balkan War
Leah Sarat, Arizona State University

The Word is Not Imprisoned: Trauma and Transformation in an Immigrant Detention Facility
Responding:
Néstor Medina, University of Toronto
A19-423
Oludamini Ogunnaike, College of William and Mary, Presiding
Theme: Blackness, Critique, and Visions of Racial Justice
Tal-Hi Bitton, George Washington University

Blutgewalt and Its Analogical Coagulations: On the Christian Historical Preconditions of Secularism and Black
Subordination
Jonathon Kahn, Vassar College

Pragmatism and Messianism in Ted Smith's "Weird John Brown"
Danube Johnson, Harvard University

Compassion's Fragility: Notes on Identity, Feeling, and a Contemporary Voyeurism
A19-424
Joseph Winters, Duke University, Presiding
Theme: Islam and Pragmatism
Basit Bilal Koshul, Lahore University of Management Sciences


Towards Reconstruction, through “Reconstructions”: John Dewey, Muhammad Iqbal, and Charles Peirce
Shifa Noor, University of Virginia

Iqbal, Peirce, and a Pragmatist Phenomenology of Love
Mian Ahmed Shaheer Afaqi, Indiana University Bloomington

Rethinking Al-Ghazali's Conversion: William James’ Interpretation of Islamic Mysticism Revisited
A19-425
Quaker Studies Unit
Carole Dale Spencer, George Fox University, Presiding
Theme: Power Dynamics, Authority, and Leadership in Quaker Institutions, Meetings, and Churches
David St John, University of Texas: Austin

Governmentality in the Modern Exegetical Quaker Tradition: An Exploration of Authority in Text and
Interpretations of Central Authority
Penelope Cummins, University of Birmingham

Meetings for Worship for Business at Britain Yearly Meeting in the C21st: Spirit-Led Discernment or Secularised
Ceremony?
Oscar Lugusa Malande, Friends Theological College

The Concept of Hierarchy and Doing Ministry in the Church: Evaluating the Roles of Leaders and Use of Authority
in Quakerism
Derek Brown, Barclay College

Quaker Pastor, Paradox, or Possibility? The Utilization of Miroslav Volf’s Ecclesiology as a Foundation for a
Programmed Friends Ecclesiology and Pastoral Theology
Responding:
Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham
A19-426
Religion and Economy Unit and Religions, Medicines, and Healing Unit
Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University, Presiding
Theme: Comparative Caregiving at Intersection of Religion and Economy
Mary Corley Dunn, Saint Louis University

Body and Soul in the Early Modern Canadian Hospital
Ahmed Ragab, Harvard University


Piety, Medicine, and Patienthood in Medieval Islam
William McGrath, Coe College

Buddhist Medicine in Tibet: Reconciling Religion and Nation at the Sakya Medical House
Emma Nolan-Thomas, University of Michigan

Emma Nolan-Thomas, University of Michigan
“Islamic Health Houses (Griya Sehat Islami)”: Prophetic Medicine, Chronic Diseases, and Semi-Formal Healthcare
in Indonesia
A19-427
Religion and Politics Unit and Religion and Sexuality Unit
Anthony Petro, Boston University, Presiding
Theme: Roundtable on R. Marie Griffith’s Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured
American Politics (Basic Books, 2017)
Panelists:
Wallace Best, Princeton University

Kristy Slominski, University of Mississippi
Lynne Gerber, Harvard University
Responding:
R. Marie Griffith, Washington University, St. Louis
A19-428
David Feltmate, Auburn University, Montgomery, Presiding
Theme: Fictional Religion and Fan Fiction in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Signe Cohen, University of Missouri

Fan Fiction, Apocrypha, and the Bakhtinian Carnivalesque
Mark DeYoung, Rice University

Butler's Parables: Religion in/as Fiction
Joanna Caroline Toy, The Ohio State University

“Faith in the Legend, Even If It’s Fiction”: Emergences of Religiosity in Doctor Who Fan Commentary

A19-429
Religion in Europe Unit and Religious Conversions Unit
Markus Dressler, Leipzig University, Presiding
Theme: Identity and Conversion in European Religions
Jason Welle, The Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies
"He is very much ours": Current Catalan Attempts to Claim Anselm Turmeda, or the Lack Thereof
Peter Erickson, Colorado State University

Religious Conversion on the Scaffold: A Debate in the German Enlightenment
Anna Piela, Leeds Trinity University

Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Beata Abdallah-Krzepkowska, University of Silesia
Joanna Krotofil, University College London
Managing Spoiled Identity: The Case of Polish Female Converts to Islam
A19-430
Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Unit and Sikh Studies Unit
Michael Hawley, Mount Royal University, Presiding
Theme: Resistance and Acculturation: Sikh and Muslim Responses to Colonialism in 20th Century Northern South
Asia
Amrit Deol, University of California, Merced

Secular Formations in Punjab: Responses to Revolution and Post-Hindu-German Conspiracy Trial Ghadar Politics
Fuad Naeem, Gustavus Adolphus College

Islam for Victorians: Syed Ameer Ali, Apologetics, and the Construction of a Modern Islam
Francesca Cassio, Hofstra University

Audible Violence: A Postcolonial Approach to the Study of Sikh Kirtan between Nationalism, Acculturation, and
Migration
A19-431
Kate Temoney, Montclair State University, Presiding
Theme: Genocide in the American Context
Kaitlyn Martin Fox, Boston University


"We Charge Genocide": Religio-Racial Strategies at the Margins of Representability
Tom Berendt, Temple Univeristy

Buffalo Genocide and the Systematic Elimination of Indigenous Traditions in the United States

The Ghost of Red-Hunting: Sexualized and Racialized Genocide and Anti-Communist Christianity in the Korean War
A19-432
Religion, Media, and Culture Unit
Justin Henry, University of Chicago, Presiding
Theme: Translating Counterknowledge: Alternative Media, Revelation, and Technologism in Modern South Asian
Religions
Justin Henry, University of Chicago

Lost Continents and Found Spacecraft: Reading Religious Artifacts through the Technologist Lens
Niharika Yadav, Princeton University

Secret Machines: Vedic Science, Ancient Aliens, and the Vaimanika Shastra
Justin Smolin, University of Chicago

The New World Order, the Prophet, and the One-Eyed Man: The Dajjal and Alex Jones
Responding:
Carter Higgins, Cornell University
A19-433
Religion, Memory, History Unit
Nathaniel Morehouse, John Carroll University, Presiding
Theme: Memorialization and the Making of Religious Community
Devin Manzullo-Thomas, Messiah College

"Not...a Monument to Billy Graham": Commemoration and Christian Nostalgia at the Billy Graham Library
Jawad Qureshi, University of Chicago

Reform, Print, and Memory: Forgetting and Remembering Najm al-Din al-Tufi (d. 1316) in 20th century Islamic
Legal Reform
Yaniv Feller, Wesleyan University

Negotiating Jewish Memory between Synagogue and Museum
Colleen Carpenter, St. Catherine University


Confronting the Legacy of Lynching: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama
A19-434
Schleiermacher Unit
Shelli Poe, Millsaps College, Presiding
Theme: Christology, Biography, and History in Schleiermacher's Thought
Casey Stanley, Yale Divinity School

Schleiermacher and the Displacement of the Phenomenological in the Human Constitution of the Redeemer
Marsaura Shukla, St. John's College

(En)countering the Historical Jesus: Schleiermacher among the Historians
Business Meeting:
Ed Waggoner, Brite Divinity School

Shelli Poe, Millsaps College
A19-435
W. David Buschart, Denver Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Murray A. Rae's Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place (Baylor University Press,
2017)
Panelists:
Gretchen Bruggeln, Valparaiso University

William R. McAlpine, Ambrose University
Mark A. Torgerson, Judson University
Responding:
Murray Rae, University of Otago
A19-436
Study of Islam Unit
Elliott Bazzano, Le Moyne College, Presiding
Theme: Geographies of Piety


Zaidi Noor, University of Maryland Baltimore County
“Our Vanished Lady”: Memory, Ritual, and Shi’a-Sunni Relations at Bibi Pak Daman
Ari M. Gordon, University of Pennsylvania

Place and Performance in Early Islamic Ritual and Architecture: The Qibla as Identity Marker
Alex Matthews, University of Chicago

Paradise Is in the Sky: Astrology as Religious Practice in Rasā'il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā'
Responding:
Sadaf Jaffer, Princeton University
A19-437
Sarah Hammerschlag, University of Chicago, Presiding
Theme: Empire and Modern Judaism
Larisa Reznik, Northwestern University

Decolonizing Scripture or Reenergizing Empire?
Shaul Magid, Indiana University

Jewish and Other Zionisms: Reflections on Ethnocentrism and Empire
Elias Sacks, University of Colorado

Imperialism, Liberalism, and Jewish Studies: Jacob Taubes and the Jewish Paul
Responding:
Theodore Vial, Iliff School of Theology

Business Meeting:

Paul Nahme, Brown University
A19-438
Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University, Presiding
Theme: Religion as Environmentalism? Conceptual, Topological, and Phenomenological Interventions
Frederick Simmons, Center of Theological Inquiry


Is Philosophy of Religion Relevant to Redressing Our Ecological Predicament?
Lea Schweitz, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago

A Hermeneutical Phenomenology of Urban Ecology

Phenomenology of Violence and Ecological Indifference to Suffering
Responding:
Catherine Keller, Drew University

A19-500
Film: The Departure
Justin Stein, University of Toronto, Presiding
Panelists:
Kanae Kawamoto, Ryukoku University

Tim Graf, Heidelberg University
A19-501
Film: Bukharan Jews: Memories of a Disappearing Past
Rahimjon Abdugafurov, Emory University, Presiding
A19-502
Program Unit Chairs' and Steering Committee Members' Reception
Tuesday - 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

A20-100
Eric Ziolkowski, Lafayette College, Presiding
Theme: Religion, Lyric, and Poetry
Caleb Murray, Brown University


"I, Chanter of Adamic Songs": Gender, Ecology, and the Creation of Sacred Bodies in Leaves of Grass
Joelle Hathaway, Duke University

The Intersection of Poetry and Imagination in Spiritual Practice: Wendell Barry's Sabbath Poetry
Zhange Ni, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Lyric Uprising: Religion and the Folk Songs in The Hunger Games Trilogy
A20-101
Black Theology Unit
Michele Watkins, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding
Theme: Black Theology, American Civil Religion, and Public Theology
Anthony J. Ross, Union Theological Seminary

A Gift from Death: Necropolitics and Handing over in James Cameron’s A Time of Terror
Bryson White, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Evangelist of Incarceration? Billy Graham as Symbol for the Religious Problem of Mass Incarceration
Isaac Sharp, Union Theological Seminary

Diagnosing an "Unholy Alliance": The Radical Black Evangelical Critique of White Evangelical Nationalism
Almeda Wright, Yale University

Black Theology as Public Theology: Expanding Definitions Shaped by the Public Theological Witness of Black
Activists
A20-102
Katherine C. Zubko, University of North Carolina, Asheville, Presiding
Theme: Resistant Bodies, Resilient Communities
Mie Inouye, Yale University

Spontaneity and Structure: Ritual Participation in Movement Politics
Sidra Ali, Harvard Divinity School

Democracy and Demonstrations: A Performative Theory of Dissent
Stefanie Knauss, Villanova University

BPM (Beats Per Minute): Body, Resistance, and Solidarity
A20-103

Buddhism Unit
James Robson, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: New Work in Chinese Buddhist Studies
Max Brandstadt, University of California, Berkeley

“Seek Alms and Despise Oneself”: Tang China’s Three Levels Movement in the Context of Buddhist Austerities
(Dhutas)
Daniel Tuzzeo, Stanford University

The Cosmos in a Single Scroll: The Practice of Textual Compilation and Religious Education in Medieval China
Nan Ouyang, The University of Arizona

The Cult of the Mummified Body on Mt. Jiuhua: An “Invented” Tradition in Late Imperial China
Patricia Giles, Syracuse University

Tibetan Buddhism and the Body in the Works of Zhang Huan
A20-104
Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit and Western Esotericism Unit
Shawn Arthur, Wake Forest University, Presiding
Theme: The Increasing Impact of Traditionalism
Panelists:
Amy Hale, Atlanta, GA

Egil Asprem, Stockholm University
Mark Sedgwick, University of Aarhus
Ionut Bancila, University of Erfurt
Jean-Pierre Brach, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris)
Ulrich van Loyen, University of Siegen
A20-105
Hinduism Unit and Religion in South Asia Unit
John Nemec, University of Virginia, Presiding
Theme: Translating Texts, Transmitting Tradition: Continuity and Change in Hindu Traditions
tamara cohen, University of Toronto

Arjunopākhyāna: A Functional, Non-Authoritative Translation of the Bhagavadgītā

Manasicha Akepiyapornchai, Cornell University
Translation in a Multilingual Context: The Mixture of Sanskrit and Tamil Languages in Medieval South Indian
Śrīvaiṣṇava Religious Tradition
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, University of Illinois

Hinduizing Nepal’s Hindus: Making Modern Hinduism in Premodern Nepal
Nika Kuchuk, University of Toronto

The Limits of Text and Tradition: Theosophy, Translation, and Transnational Vedanta in the Fin-de-siècle
Responding:
Christoph Emmrich, University of Toronto
A20-106
Trish Beckman, St. Olaf College, Presiding
Theme: Chinese and Chinese Diasporic Christianities
Ken Morrow, The University of Texas at Dallas

Navigating Religious and Ethnic Prejudice to Advance a Cause: The Muzhiming of a Late Tang Couple
Yu Fu, Zhejiang University City College

Religious Rivalry in Seventeenth Century China: A Case Study of Buddhist-Christian Confrontation
Alexander Chow, University of Edinburgh

British Chinese Christianity and the Post-War British Appetite
A20-107
Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
Lloyd Barba, Amherst College, Presiding
Theme: Latinx Identity, Indigeneity, and Homeland
Jonathan Calvillo, Boston University

“Somos Indios”: Latinx Spaces of Spirituality as Conduits of Indigenous Consciousness
Lauren Frances Guerra, University of California, Los Angeles

Reclaiming the Wisdom of the Ancestors: Decolonizing Chicanx and Latinx Spirituality
Harold Morales, Morgan State University

Latino and Muslim in America: Race, Religion, and the Possibilities of Solidarity

A20-108
Mysticism Unit and Teaching Religion Unit
Jason N. Blum, Davidson College, Presiding
Theme: Mysticism and Pedagogy
Aaron Ghiloni, University of Queensland

Teaching Mysticism Critically and Appreciatively: Field Notes from Two Fields
Jason James Kelly, Queen's University, Kingston

Why Mystics Matter: Teaching Mysticism in the Face of an Uncertain Future
Andrew Lee, Graduate Theological Union

Can Mysticism Be Taught Online?
A20-109
Samira Mehta, Albright College, Presiding
Theme: Marking Land and Making Nations
Andrew Hudson, University of Pennsylvania

Airplanes That Preach and Monuments That Cry out: Material Pentecostalism and the Form of American Religion
Brett Hendrickson, Lafayette College

Church and State in the Texas Revolution
Danae Jacobson, University of Notre Dame

A Catholic “West”: Religious Sisters and Colonization in North America
Responding:
A20-110
Marlon Millner, Northwestern University, Presiding
Theme: A Queer Baptism of Fire: Black Lives Matter, The Spirit of Resistance, and Pentecostal-Type Clergy
Solidarity during Ferguson

Panelists:
Traci Blackmon, Christ The King UCC

Michael McBride, Live Free National
Osagyefo Sekou, Independent Scholar/Activist
Responding:
Seth Gaiters, Ohio State University
A20-111
Courtney Wilder, Midland University, Presiding
Theme: Embodied Eschatology, Axiology, Disability Justice, and Communion
Michael A. Walker, Knox College, University of Toronto

Persistent Pain and Promised Perfection: The Significance of an Embodied Eschatology of Disability
Emily Bennett
Dietary Restrictions and Theological Meaning in the Lord’s Supper
Shane Clifton, Alphacrucis College

Can Faith, Hope, and Love Be Redeemed for Disability Justice?
Olivia Bustion, University of Chicago

Axiology without Ableism (Or, on Using Theology in Disability Studies)
A20-112
Christopher Ives, Stonehill College, Presiding
Theme: Rivers and Waters
Kristen Daley Mosier, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Sacramental Tensions in the Columbia River Watershed: Toward a Bioregional Ethic
Jay Ramesh, Columbia University

“The River that Protects the World”: Eco-religion in Early Modern Tamil Poetry from the City of Five Rivers
Nadia Marais, Stellenbosch University

Saving Water? A Theological Exploration of "Water as Gift"
A20-113
Rachel Scott, Virginia Tech, Presiding
Theme: War, Surveillance, and Empire
Jason von Ehrenkrook, University of Massachusetts Boston

Plowshares to Swords: FDR, Scripture, and the Politics of War
Judah Isseroff, Princeton University

Jews "Unchosen": The Theological Price of Empire
Aram Sarkisian, Northwestern University

As Christ Had Judas: Federal Surveillance of Russian Orthodox Christians in Red Scare Baltimore, 1919-1920
Nathaniel Grimes, Villanova University

Church at the Wall: A Political and Liturgical Analysis of Border Masses
A20-114
Eden Consenstein, Princeton University, Presiding
Theme: Race, Religion, and Representation in American Popular Culture
Melanie Trexler, Roanoke College

Challenging Intra-Racism in the American Ummah: Marvel's Jersey City Muslims
William Chavez, UCSB

Exorcising the N-Word
Brandon Dean, University of Iowa

How Mama Lola Got to Tori Spelling's House: A Vodou Priestess in Popular Culture
Responding:
Matthew Cressler, College of Charleston
A20-115
Karen Enriquez, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding
Theme: Migration, Immigration, and Diversity in the Catholic Church


Gary Slater, St. Edward's University

Catholic Social Teaching and Migration: Developing an Ethics of Sanctuary Cities
Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Princeton University

Constructing Catholic Propriety on North 8th Street
Gabriela Perez, Harvard Divinity School

Patrick Flores: The Intersectionality of a Mexican-American Bishop within the PADRES Movement
Responding:
Brett Hoover, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
A20-116
Josh Reeves, Samford University, Presiding
Theme: Religious Responses to Astrobiology
Joanna Leidenhag, University of Edinburgh

"The Lord the Giver of Life" and Life on Other Planets
David Zvi Kalman, University of Pennsylvania

Extraterrestrial Life in Early Modern Jewish Writings
Business Meeting:
A20-117
Study of Islam Unit
Jawad Qureshi, University of Chicago, Presiding
Theme: Muhammad Iqbal: Beyond Tradition and Modernity
Francesca Chubb-Confer, University of Chicago

Remnants of Eternal Possibility: Iqbal's Persian Lyrics of the Payam-i Mashriq
M M Nauman Faizi, University of Virginia

Religion as Modernity's Other: Muhammad Iqbal's Critique of Religion after Modernity
Shifa Noor, University of Virginia


Iqbal, Arendt, and the Agency of Khudī
Responding:
Basit Bilal Koshul, Lahore University of Management Sciences
A20-118
Linn Tonstad, Yale University, Presiding
Theme: The Discipline of Academic Theology

Academic Theology and the Jansenist Controversy in France: Voices of Men and Women in the History of the
Discipline of Theology

The Boundaries of Academic Theology
Jamie Howard, Durham University

Explorations of Hope: An Ethnographic Window into Definitions and Experiences of Hope in Indian Christian and
Hindu Diaspora Populations in Chicago
Tuesday - 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

A20-119
Chinese Religions Unit
Jean DeBernardi, University of Alberta, Presiding
Theme: What Is a Temple?
Yang Shen, Boston University

Serving the Temples Afar Logistically: Cultivation Lodgers in Buddhist Residential Temples
Jacob Tischer, Boston University

Assembling the Faithful: The Place of Temples in Ritual Actor-Networks
Kuei-Min Chang, University of Alberta

Property Rights and Wrongs: Regulating Temple Assets in Contemporary China and Taiwan
Daniel Murray, McGill University


Individual, Community, Territory: Changing Forms of Obligation to Territorial Temples in Urban China
Responding:
Gareth Fisher, Syracuse University
A20-120
Junius Johnson, Baylor University, Presiding
Theme: The Poetics of Modernity: Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets
Panelists:
Micheal O'Siadhail, Union Theological Seminary

David Mahan, Yale University
Joseph Heininger, Dominican University
A20-121
Hillary Lenfesty, Arizona State University, Presiding
Theme: Current Theories and Applications of the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR)
Stewart Guthrie, Fordham University

Why Anthropomorphize? A Cognitive, Evolutionary Theory of Religion
Connor Wood, Center for Mind and Culture

Norms, Ideology, and Life History: An Empirical Investigation into Religiosity and Self-Regulation
Paul Robertson, University of New Hampshire

Teaching Cognitive Approaches to Religion in a Humanities Lab: Methods, Strategies, Successes, Failures
A20-122
Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit
Julie J. Ingersoll, University of North Florida, Presiding
Theme: From Love to Hate to Violence: How Churches Do (And Deny) Their Roles in Homophobia, White
Supremacy, and Xenophobia
Shannon Quigley, University of Haifa


Nazified Faith: How a Deconstructed Christianity Undergirded Mass Murder
Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Arkansas State University

How Christian Nationalism Lays the Groundwork for White Nationalism
Damon Berry, St. Lawrence University

"Our Race is Our Religion": Religious Tolerance in American White Nationalism
John M. Thompson, Christopher Newport University

There Will Be Blood: White Nationalism’s Not-So-Hidden Religious Dimensions
Sara Kamali, University of Oxford

For Jesus or Odin? Comparing the Influence of Christian Identity and Odinism on America’s Alt-Right Movement
Sophie Bjork-James, Vanderbilt University

LGBT Bias, Evangelicalism, and the Limits of Hate as an Analytic Tool
A20-123
Comparative Studies in Religion Unit and Philosophy of Religion Unit
Emilia Bachrach, High Point University, Presiding
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Steven G. Smith's Scriptures and the Guidance in Language (Cambridge University
Press, 2018)
Purushottama Bilimoria, Graduate Theological Union and University of California, Berkeley

Response by Purushottama Bilimoria to Steven G. Smith, Scriptures and the Guidance in Language

Response by Kevin Schilbrack to Steven G. Smith, Scriptures and the Guidance in Language
Robert C. Neville, Boston University

Response by Robert Cummings Neville to Steven G. Smith, Scriptures and the Guidance in Language
Responding:
Steven G. Smith, Millsaps College
A20-124
Hussein Rashid, Islamicate, LLC, Presiding
Theme: Wither Islam and Popular Culture?
Panelists:

Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan
Kristian Petersen, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Kayla Renée Wheeler, Boston University
Responding:
A20-125
Cultural History of the Study of Religion Unit
Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University, Presiding
Theme: Reimagining the Archive
Panelists:
M. Cooper Harriss, Indiana University

Ari Y. Kelman, Stanford University
Elizabeth Pérez, University of California, Santa Barbara
Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University
Responding:
David Harrington Watt, Haverford College
A20-126
Ethics Unit
Christophe D. Ringer, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding
Theme: Ecological Ethics within Diverse Religious Traditions
Caleb Murray, Brown University

Beyond Deep Ecology: Simone Weil on Idolatry and the Theological Roots of Environmental Racism

Three Approaches to Sustainability: An Ecowomanist Value, a Christian Norm, and a Design Principle
Candace M. Laughinghouse, Chicago Theological Seminary

Ecowomanism: A Counterhistory and Solution for Addressing Our Anthropocene Era
Etin Anwar, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Caring for Planet Earth: Ecological Education in Indonesia’s Islamic Boarding Schools

A20-127
Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Theme: Buddhist Social Networks in Pre-Modern Japan
Luke Thompson, Lake Forest College

The Emergence and Spread of One Particular Idea in a Twelfth Century Kōfukuji Network, or How Thoughts Travel
from One Monk's Head to That of Another
Anna Andreeva, University of Heidelberg

Temple Networks and the Emergence of Buddhist Knowledge on Women's Health in Medieval Japan
Bryan Lowe, Vanderbilt University

Even a Half Pint of Rice: Donation Networks of Preachers, Provincial Patrons, and the Impoverished in Ancient
Japan
Brian Ruppert, Bates College

Monastic Networks and the Construction of Esoteric Ritual-Texts: Ritual Assemblages in Kakuzen's Notes, Related
Works, and the Geographical Spread of Dharma Lineages in Early Medieval Japan
Responding:
Heather Blair, Indiana University
A20-128
Music and Religion Unit
David Stowe, Michigan State University, Presiding
Theme: From Cultural Appropriation to Spiritual Incorporation: Transformative Encounters with African American
Sacred Music
Blenda Bo kyung Im, University of Pennsylvania

“Gospel Worship”: Negotiating Evangelical Belonging and the Modern Racial Order
Marissa Moore, Yale University

Singing Black Sacred Music in San Francisco: Negotiating the Proximity of Race
Alisha L. Jones, Indiana University

“Be Grateful, We Celebrate Black History Month”: Issues in African Americans' Practitioning Gospel Music among
European Americans
Monique Ingalls, Baylor University

One in the Spirit? The British Gospel Choir as Lens for Understanding Racial Formation and Religious Imagination
in the Contemporary United Kingdom

Business Meeting:
Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University

David Stowe, Michigan State University
A20-129
Lisa M. Cataldo, Fordham University, Presiding
Theme: Hooked: Contemporary Study, Treatment, and Religious Responses to Addiction
Katie Givens Kime, Universität Bern

Entheogens: The Paradoxes and Opportunities of Pill-Triggered Mystical Experience as a Treatment Strategy for
Recovery from Addiction
Joyce Ann Mercer, Yale University

This Is Your Brain on Heroin and/or Love: The Opioid Crisis and Attachment Theories of Opioid Addiction and
Treatment
Isaac Horwedel, Emory University

Doing What We Hate and Hating What We Do: Addiction and Drug Use as Crises of Capitalism
A20-130
Religion and the Social Sciences Unit
Kristen Tobey, John Carroll University, Presiding
Theme: Women-Centered Community-Based Research: Muslim Women in Society, Mothers, and Equine Therapy
for Children with Differing Abilities
Melody Escobar, Oblate School of Theology

Closing Wounds through Open Pastures: Mothers’ “Extraordinary” Experiences in Equine Therapy
Deborah L. Wheeler, United States Naval Academy

Women Driving Change? Gender, Islam, and Public Life in Saudi Arabia
A20-131
Daisy Vargas, University of California, Riverside, Presiding
Theme: Colonial Hauntings and Revisions: Contemporary Ritual Practices in the Latino/a/x Americas


Jalane D. Schmidt, University of Virginia
Slavery, Trauma, and Necropolitics in Afro-Cuban Possession Trance Rituals
Roger Green, Metropolitan State University of Denver

The Religious Poetics of Ayahuasca, Entheogens, and Neo-Colonization of "Experience"
Mary Diggin
Pure Blood and Old Christians: The Retention of Penitential Traditions in New Mexico
Eric Breault, Arizona State University

Death as Lived Religion in Mexico
Responding:
A20-132
Paul Nahme, Brown University, Presiding
Theme: Jewish Studies Gets Religion
Shari Rabin, College of Charleston

Beyond Chrismukkah
Samira Mehta, Albright College

Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism

Jews on the Frontier
Responding:
Julie Byrne, Hofstra University
A20-133
Richard McGregor, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Theme: Anand Taneja’s Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi (Stanford
University Press, 2016)
Panelists:
Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston


Anna M. Gade, University of Wisconsin
A. Azfar Moin, University of Texas
SherAli Tareen, Franklin and Marshall College
Responding:
Anand Taneja, Vanderbilt University
A20-134
Theme: An Outrage against Any Decent People: A Critical Analysis of Human Trafficking, Sex Work, and Christian
Intervention
Panelists:
Nichole Flores, University of Virginia

Letitia M. Campbell, Emory University
Yvonne Zimmerman, Methodist Theological School in Ohio
Lauren McGrow, Charles Sturt University

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AAR 2018 Preliminary Program Book (as of June 5)

Friday - 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

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Friday - 9:00 AM-3:00 PM

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Friday - 9:00 AM-4:00 PM

Kelly J. Baker, Women in Higher Education

Friday - 9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Friday - 9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Friday - 10:00 AM-12:30 PM

Friday - 11:00 AM-6:00 PM

Anthea Butler, University of Pennsylvania

Friday - 12:00 PM-3:00 PM

Theme: Religions, Medicines, and Healing Resources Website Workshop

Friday - 12:00 PM-3:00 PM

Friday - 12:00 PM-4:00 PM

Friday - 1:00 PM-4:00 PM

Friday - 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Gloria I-Ling Chien, Gonzaga Univeristy

Friday - 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

Angela Cowser, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Benjamin Conner, Western Theological Seminary

Lee Gilmore, San José State University

Friday - 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Friday - 2:00 PM-3:45 PM

Theme: Response-Ability of Feminist Scholars of Religion in the Public Sphere

Friday - 2:00 PM-3:45 PM

Alicia Panganiban, Princeton Theological Seminary

Friday - 2:00 PM-5:00 PM

Friday - 2:30 PM-5:30 PM

Friday - 2:30 PM-5:30 PM

Friday - 3:00 PM-6:00 PM

Kristin Scheible, Reed College

Friday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Friday - 8:00 PM-10:00 PM

Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University

Friday - 8:00 PM-10:00 PM

Saturday - 7:00 AM-8:00 AM

Saturday - 7:30 AM-8:45 AM

Saturday - 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Saturday - 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Saturday - 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Nathan Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara

Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM

Theme: #metoo: Discrimination, Harassment, and Abuse in the Academy

Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM

Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, University of North Carolina

Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM

Michael Graziano, University of Northern Iowa

Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM

Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM

Benae Beamon, Boston University

Wallace Best, Princeton University

Lerone Martin, Washington University, Saint Louis

Theme: Reflections on Arts, Literature, and Religion Pedagogy

Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM

Jennifer Awes Freeman, University of St. Thomas

Kristine Whaley, University of Glasgow