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Additional Meetings
November 19-22, 2005
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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AM17-50
United Methodist - Women of Color Scholarship Program
Thursday - 1:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM17-100
SDA Religion Chairs
Thursday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM17-102
Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Thursday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
Today through Saturday, the Adventist Society for Religious Studies will address the topic Dynamics of Theology and Violence in Communities of Faith. The presidential address, Jerusalem and Babylon--A Tale of Two Cities: Biblical Theology in Conversation will be presented by Jean Sheldon from Pacific Union College. A business session will follow. For additional information regarding this section, contact Ernest Furness at P.O. Box 8050, Riverside, CA 92515 or 74617.1313@compuserve.com.
AM17-103
United Methodist - Women of Color Scholarship Program
Thursday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM18-1
New Developments in Religious Studies V: Keeping Ourselves Current
Friday - 8:15 am-4:30 pm
An Annual Conference for Secondary School Teachers of Religion, Ethics, History, English, and Social Studies
Friday and Saturday, November 18 and 19, 2005
This annual national conference provides an opportunity for secondary school teachers in independent and public schools to join together to meet colleagues from across the country and to hear about new developments in the fields of ethics and the major religious traditions of the world. Nationally and internationally known scholars will share information about new research and resources, and teachers will talk together about innovative projects they are developing.
Please visit http://www.hds.harvard.edu/prse/ndrs2005.html or call Sarah
Lefebvre at 1-617-384-8047 for updated information (including agenda, presentation descriptions, and registration).
AM18-2
Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Friday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM18-3
Believers Church Bible Commentary Editorial Council
Friday - 9:00 am-3:30 pm
AM18-4
Christians Associated for Relationships with Eastern Europe
Friday - 9:00 am-8:30 pm
Theme: Legacy of a Slavic Pope in Eastern Europe: Prospects for Ecumenism
9:30-11:30 Keith Clements, Council of European Churches
Joseph Loya, O.S.A. Villanova University, "A Catholic View"
Frederica Matthews-Green, Baltimore, "An Orthodox View"
1:00-5:30 Peter Kuzmic, Evangelical Theological School, Osijek, Croatia
Angela Ilic, Belgrade, Serbia, "Relationships Between Traditional Religious
Communities and New Religious Movements In Southeast Europe"
CAREE business meeting - Paul Mojzes, Presiding
7:00-8:30 Miroslav Volf, Yale Divinity School,
A Voice of One’s Own: Public Faith in a Pluralistic World
Call for papers abstract to Paul Mojzes, pmojzes@rosemont.edu by September 15.
Information and pre-registration to James Payton at caree@redeemer.on.ca; 1-905-648-2139 x4287. Registration $30; CAREE members, students, $20.
AM18-6
Lutheran Women in Theological Studies
Friday - 9:00 am-6:30 pm
AM18-8
North American Paul Tillich Society
Friday - 9:00 am-10:45 am
Theme: Tillich on Symbolism
Christopher Rodkey, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, Presiding
Donald Dreisbach, Northern Michigan University
Tillich’s Symbols and Christology: A Failure of Nerve?
Robison James, University of Richmond
Symbol Early and Late: Continuity and Discontinuity between the German and American Tillich
Stephen Murray, Skidmore College
Paul Tillich and the Wrath of God
AM18-9
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies - Board Meeting
Friday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM18-10
United Methodist - Women of Color Scholarship Program
Friday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM18-13
Conference on Contemporary Pagan Studies
Friday - 9:00 am-6:30 pm
9A - 10:30A
"Romancing the Pagan": Folk Music, Politics, and Ideology in Pagan
Intellectual History
Christopher W. Chase, Michigan State University
Religioning Reconstruction: Active Change in Reconstructionist Paganisms
Cat McEarchern, University of Stirling
10:30A - 10:45A
Coffee Break
10:45A - 12:30P
Panel: Writing as an Academic vs. Writing as a Practitioner
Douglas Cowan, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State University
12:30P - 2PM Lunch
2P - 3:45P
Film: I Still Worship Zeus
3:45P - 4:00P
Coffee Break
3:30P - 5:30P Book Session: Researching Paganisms
For more information, visit Paganstudies.org or e-mail Cat McEarchern.
AM18-11
North American Paul Tillich Society
Friday - 11:00 am-1:15 pm
Theme: The Early Tillich
Terry O’Keeffe, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, Presiding
Jean Richard, University of Laval
Philosophy of History in Tillich’s Early Writings
Doris Lax, University of Heidelberg
The Tillich of the Years 1911-1913
Matthew Lon Weaver, University of Pittsburgh
Religion Confronts Nationalism: Tillich’s First World War Chaplaincy Sermons
AM18-65
The Womanist Consultation
Friday - 12:00 pm-4:00 pm
AM18-50
Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Friday - 1:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM18-51
Dharma Association of North America (DANAM)
Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Theme: Asceticism in the Contemporary Dharma Traditions
Ramdas Lamb, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Presiding
Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego
Renunciation in Contemporary Buddhist Monastism
Jeffrey Long, Elizabethtown College
Radical Renunciation: The Aim and Practice of Jain Asceticism
Pravrajika Vrajaprana, Vedanta Society of Southern California
Looking In and Letting Go: Vairagya in the Vedanta Tradition
Veena Howard Rani, University of Oregon, Lane Community College
Asceticism in the Life of Mahatma Gandhi
Kusumita Pedersen, St. Francis College, NYC
Respondent
AM18-52
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Editorial Board
Friday - 1:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM18-53
Institute for Biblical Research Board of Directors Meeting
Friday - 1:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM18-54
North American Association for the Study of Religion
Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Theme: Post-Analytic Philosophy and the Study of Religion
This working group examines the application of post-analytic philosophy (as represented in the work of Donald Davidson, Robert Brandom, and John McDowell) to the study of religion and investigates how Holistic Semantics addresses both cultural diversity and epistemic unity. The group welcomes observers to attend the session.
Jeppe Sinding Jensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Gabriel Levy, University of California, Santa Barbara
Kevin Schilbrack, Wesleyan College
G. Scott Davis, University of Richmond
Terry Godlove, Hofstra University
Nancy Frankenberry, Dartmouth College
AM18-55
North American Association for the Study of Religion
Friday - 1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Theme: Papal Visits and Papal Death in Comparative Perspective
Chair: Mary Alyson Prude, University of California, Santa Barbara
Panelists:
Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University
Scott Kline, St. Jerome’s University-University of Waterloo
Gary Laderman, Emory University
Steven Engler, Mount Royal College
AM18-56
Quaker Theological Discussion Group
Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Theme I: Quaker Contributions to American Democracy
Presider: Paul Anderson
Jane Calvert, Liberty of Conscience and Quaker Constitutionalism
Stephen Angell, E Pluribus Unum, and Quaker Approaches to Plurality and Unity
Response, Emma Lapsanski
“A Friendly Response to the Vatican,” an update by Paul Anderson
AM18-57
Release of the Carnegie Foundation Book Educating Clergy: Teaching Practices and Pastoral Imagination
Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching announces the release of Educating Clergy: Teaching Practices and Pastoral Imagination, based on the Foundation's three-year study of clergy education. Published jointly by Jossey-Bass and Carnegie, this publication addresses the ways in which different types of theological schooling mediate the educational tensions among academic, institutional, and pastoral concerns.
AM18-59
Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship
Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Rev. Dr. Andrew Purves, of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, will speak on: "'I yet not I but Christ:' Galatians 2:20 and the Christian Life in the Theology of T. F. Torrance."
The vicarious humanity of Christ is the gospel on which we rely in practical theology, for in Jesus Christ all human responses "are laid hold of, sanctified and informed by his vicarious life of obedience and response to the Father" (Torrance, The Mediation of Christ, 108).
AM18-60
Theology and Ethics Colloquy
Friday - 1:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM18-131
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies
Friday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Theme: Hear the Cries of the World, part 1
Presentations from the seventh International Conference at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles with selected papers on topics such as the ethics of war, clergy abuse, visual religion, and prison practice.
AM18-61
North American Paul Tillich Society
Friday - 2:00 pm-3:45 pm
Theme: Tillich and Religious Knowledge
John Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Mary Ann Stenger, University of Louisville
Experience’s Role in Religious Knowledge
David H. Nikkel, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
The Mystical Formation of Paul Tillich
Tabea Rösler, Princeton Theological Seminary
“You Never See with the Eyes Only”: Reconfiguring Paul Tillich’s Concept of Personhood
AM18-62
Person, Culture, and Religion
Friday - 2:00 pm-6:30 pm
2:00 Book Panel – Pamela Cooper-White, Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling
Lallene Rector, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Presider
Rodney Hunter, Emory University
Wally Fletcher, Philadelphia
Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt University
Pamela Cooper-White, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA
3:45 Coffee Break
4:00 Visual Experience in the Wondering Brain: Vision in Religion, Art, Sexuality, and Consciousness
Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union
Serinity Young, American Museum of Natural History
Carol Rausch Albright, Chicago
5:30 The Psychology and Spirituality of Martial Arts Practice
Lisa Cataldo, Union Theological Seminary
James Jones, Rutgers University
AM18-63
Anglican Association of Biblical Studies
Friday - 2:30 pm-9:30 pm
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
1625 Locust Street, Philadelphia
This year's focus, Scripture, Homosexuality, and the Windsor Report, will be explored in a workshop at 2:30 and in an after-dinner talk by the Right Reverend N. Thomas Wright, Bishop of Durham (England) at 8:00. The workshop's goal is to prepare members not only to understand the issues more clearly but also to be able to lead others in developing such understanding. The schedule also includes a business meeting (4:00), Holy Eucharist (5:30), reception (6:30), and dinner (7:00, reservations required). For dinner reservations, directions, and additional information, see www.aabs.org. The AABS is an international association of biblical scholars who are affiliated with the churches of the Anglican Communion, including the Episcopal Church in the U.S.—new members welcome.
AM18-64
Theology for the PC (USA)
Friday - 2:30 pm-5:00 pm
Presybterian Church (USA) pastors and scholars and others who are interested are invited to this meeting dedicated to doing theology for the church. Theme: What Ever Happened to the Shema?: The Place of the Law in Reformed Worship and Life. The theme will be discussed by a panel of speakers. Further information: Anita Brown, Office of Theology and Worship, 1-888-728-7228 x5033, abrown@ctr.pcusa.org.
AM18-100
Accordance Training Seminar
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
The seminar will review the latest features and new scholarly modules of Accordance Bible Software. It is suitable for both new and experienced users, as well as anyone interested in Accordance. The demonstration will explain basic interface concepts and show how to use the software's advanced search capabilities. There will also be time for questions.
AM18-101
African Association for the Study of Religions
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM18-102
Dharma Association of North America (DANAM) Session 2
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
4:00 Theme: Who is a Hindu?
Jeffrey Long, Elizabethtown College, Presiding
Ramdas Lamb, University of Hawai at Manoa
Pravrajika Gayatriprana, Vedanta Society
Frank G. Morales, Madison, Wisconsin
Rita D. Sherma, Binghamton University
Arya Samaj Speaker (To be announced)
Jeffrey Long, Elizabethtown College
Respondent
Discussion
AM18-103
Feminist Liberation Theologians' Network
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Mapping the Connections: Feminist Work in Religion and Activism is the celebrative focus of our tenth annual meeting. Colleagues from around the world, including Elaine Wainwright, Wanda Deifelt, and Karma Lekshe Tsomo, will help sketch a picture of our collective work. RSVP to Mary E. Hunt, WATER, 8121 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA; 1-301-589-2509; mhunt@hers.com; Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; 1-617-495-5751; elisabeth_schussler@harvard.edu.
AM18-104
International Bonheoffer Society Reception
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM18-106
Karl Barth Society of North America
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Karl Barth: Scriptural Exegesis as Ecclesial Practice
Mike Michielin, Wycliffe College, Cobourg Campus, Canada
Karl Barth on the Eternal Being of Jesus Christ" (CD II/2)
Edwin Chr. van Driel, Yale University
AM18-107
North American Association for the Study of Religion
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Evaluating Jason Slone’s Theological Incorrectness
William W. McCorkle Jr., Institute of Cognition and Culture
Luther H. Martin, University of Vermont
James A. Van Slyke, Fuller Theological Seminary
Respondent: Jason Slone, Findlay University
AM18-108
North American Paul Tillich Society
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Theme: Paul Tillich and Public Theology
Matthew Lon Weaver, University of Pittsburgh, Presiding
Laura Thelander, Princeton Theological Seminary
Tillich’s Ecclesiology as a Source for Public Theology
Jeffrey Keuss, Pacific School of Theology
Unmoving Movement: Evangelical Worship after the “Emerging Church” and Neo-Correlational Theology
Todd Mei, University of Kent at Canterbury
Paul Tillich and the Ontological Foundation of Freedom and Destiny
Thomas Bandy, Guelph, Ontario
“Is That a Prayer?” The Possibility of Worship in Tillich’s Theology of Culture and the Reality of Worship in Postmodern Mission
AM18-109
NTLP Board of Directors
Friday - 4:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM18-110
Sabbath Experience
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Join us for traditional Jewish Sabbath services and meals Friday night and Saturday morning at Congregation Mikveh Israel, 44 South 4th St., the second oldest Jewish congregation in the United States. Services Friday night at 4:30 PM, Saturday morning at 9 AM. Advance registration and payment is required for meals. Please contact Joseph Weinstein, weinstein@bbn.com, by Nov. 1 for registration and more information.
AM18-111
Social Ethics in the Churches of Christ
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
We will continue last year's conversation on the contribution Churches of Christ scholars can make to the field of Christian ethics. We will resume our inquiry into the insights that a "primitivist" or "restorationist" hermeneutic can provide to ethical inquiry. This year we will attempt to draw more directly on our tradition's strengths in Biblical studies to enhance our discussion of social ethics. For more information contact Duane Barron, barron@virginia.edu, or Vic McCracken, vmccrac@emory.edu.
AM18-112
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality Members' Workshop: The Dark Night
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:00 pm
This session on John of the Cross’s poem “One Dark Night” and its prose commentary (II.5) will include readings of the poem in Spanish and English; brief presentations by Mary Frohlich (John’s life experience as background for his spirituality of the Dark Night), Beverly Lanzetta (deconstructive movement of the Dark Night), and David B. Perrin (theological significance of the Dark Night metaphor); and members’ discussion of “Problems and Opportunities in Teaching the Dark Night.”
AM18-133
Society for the Study of Native American Religious Traditions
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM19-15
Christian Theological Research Fellowship
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Theme: Beyond Origins: The Meaning of Creation
9:00 Opening: D. Stephen Long, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Business meeting: Vincent Bacote (President, CTRF)
Wheaton College
9:15 Panel and Discussion
Beth Felker Jones, Huntington College, Presiding
Steven Bouma-Prediger, Hope College
Holy Creatures Living among Other Holy Creatures in a World That Is Holy
Kimlyn J. Bender, University of Sioux Falls
“The Play’s the Thing...” — Re-reading the Doctrine of Creation under the Second
Article
J. Richard Middleton, Roberts Wesleyan College
A New Heaven and a New Earth: The Case for a Holistic Reading of the Biblical Story of Redemption
Respondent: Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Fuller Theological Seminary
Copies of the paper abstracts are available at the Christian Theological Research Fellowship (CTRF) website: www.ctrf.info. For additional information contact Vincent Bacote, Wheaton College, 1-630-752-5278, vincent.e.bacote@wheaton.edu.
AM19-33
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies
Friday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Theme: Hear the Cries of the World, Part 2
Presentations from the 7th International Conference at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles with selected papers on topics such as textual sources for dialogue, religion and healing, reconciliation in interfaith work, and contemporary women’s issues.
Business Meeting
Ruben Habito, Perkins School of Theology, Presiding
AM18-113
New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible Editorial Board
Friday - 5:00 pm-10:30 pm
AM18-114
Søren Kierkegaard Society Banquet
Friday - 6:00 pm-10:00 pm
Ludwig’s Garten
1315 Samson St.
6:00 Social Hour
7:00 Banquet (contact David Kangas at dkangas@mailer.fsu.edu
8:00 Bruce Kirmse, Connecticut College
The Unpublished Works: Challenges and Rewards
AM18-115
Wabash Center Editorial Board
Friday - 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM18-105
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 20th Anniversary Celebration
Friday - 7:00 pm-10:00 pm
AM18-116
CSSR Board Meeting
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM18-117
Institute for Biblical Research Annual Meeting
Friday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
7:00 Welcome and Devotions
George Guthrie, Union University
7:15 Annual Lecture
Gordon Wenham, University of Gloucestershire
Some Unexploited Resources for Old Testament Ethics
8:15 Formal Response: Chris Wright, International Ministries Director, Langham Partnership International
8:30 Discussion from the floor
8:45 Reception hosted by Baker Book House
For additional information about this session, contact Daniel Block, President, IBR, at 1-630-752-5272 or Daniel.Block@wheaton.edu.
AM18-118
Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace Reception
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Applied Religious Studies: Research Resources for Dialogue And Reconciliation
Thomas Selover and Scott Dunbar, University of Saskatchewan
This session investigates how Religious Studies research can ground and guide the activist wing of inter-religious harmony and reconciliation efforts?
This open conversation will explore an engaged model of religious studies research, informed by applied anthropology and peace studies. What is the contribution of the academy at the intersection of scholarship, and dialogue and reconciliation.
AM18-119
LGBT Caucus
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
The LGBT Caucus is an informal network of LGBT scholars of religion that meets each year during the Annual Meetings to discuss the connections between our scholarship and activist work for social justice, both within the academy and in wider societal settings. For further information, contact: Jay Emerson Johnson at drjay1@earthlink.net.
AM18-120
Mennonite Scholars and Friends Reception
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM18-121
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion Perspectives in Religious Studies Editorial Board Meeting
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM18-122
North American Paul Tillich Annual Banquet
Friday - 7:00 pm-10:00 pm
Upstairs at Sotto Varalli, Booth Room, 231 South Broad Street
Our distinguished guest speaker, Ronald H. Stone of the University of Pittsburgh, will deliver the speech, “Reinie and Paulus: Allied Public Theologians.” The cost of the banquet is $50. Please make reservations with Fred Parrella, Religious Studies, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053-0335; 1-408-554-4714.
AM18-123
Quaker Theological Discussion Group
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Session II: Reviews of Towards Tragedy / Reclaiming Hope and The Liturgies of Quakerism by Ben Pink Dandelion
First Review: Hugh Barbour
Second Review: Ruth Pitman
Response from the author
AM18-124
Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies Reception
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM18-125
The Word Made Fresh
Friday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Theme: Evangelical Theology and the Doctrine of Scripture
Canon: Graveyard and Site of Resurrection of Evangelicalism
William Abraham, Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University
Moderator: John Franke, Assistant Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, Biblical Theological Seminary
Respondents
Cherith Nordling, Director of Christian Formation lbr Campus Life, Calvin College
B.J. Oropeza, Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies, Azusa Pacific University
Telford Work, Assistant Professor of Theology, Westmont College
Tribute to Stanley J. Grenz
Roger Olson, Professor of Theology, George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University
The Word Made Fresh forum seeks to stimulate creative dialogue among evangelical scholars of diverse backgrounds about pressing issues in contemporary theology.
AM18-126
Theology and Philosophy Co-operative
Friday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM18-134
Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins: "Holy Men"
Friday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
AM18-127
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
Friday - 7:30 pm-10:00 pm
Theme: Missions to India -- A Mixed Legacy: Revisiting de Nobili at 400, Ziegenbalg at 300
Corinne Dempsey, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Presiding
Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University
Three Ways of Reading Roberto de Nobili's Interpretation of Caste and Religion
Paul Collins, University College Chichester
De Nobili's Sannyasi Tradition in India Today
Will Sweetman, University of Otago
Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, the Tranquebar Mission, and the "Roman Horror"
Daniel Jeyaraj, Andover-Newton Theological School
Ziegenbalg's Cross-cultural and Inter-religious Approach: An Indian Perspective
Eliza Kent, Colgate University, Respondent
Questions? Contact elizakent66@hotmail.com.
AM18-128
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
Friday - 8:00 pm-10:00 pm
Theme: Encountering Quaker Spirituality in Their Own Home: An Evening at the Historic Arch Street Meetinghouse
320 Arch St. (Arch and 4th; http://www.archstreetfriends.org)
All are welcome to learn the basics of Quaker spirituality and the role Quakers played in the “Pennsylvania Experiment.” The evening includes an historical exhibition, conversation with contemporary Quakers about the historical witness of the Religious Society of Friends and its role in a pluralistic world, and an opportunity for quiet worship “after the manner of Friends.” A light reception will follow. For more information, please contact ahouck@saintmarys.edu.
AM18-129
Adventist Society for Religious Studies, Section 4
Friday - 8:30 pm-9:30 pm
AM18-130
Polanyi Society: Hungarian Roots of Polanys's Heuristic Philosophy of Religion
Friday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
Martin Moleski, Ann Scott, and Phil Mullins will discuss the development of the newly-released biography of Michael Polanyi, co-authored by William Taussig Scott and Martin Moleski.
Information: www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/polanyi
AM18-132
AJCU Conference of Theology / Religious Studies Chairs
Friday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM18-58
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies - Board Meeting
Saturday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM19-1
Dialog: Editorial Council Meeting
Saturday - 7:00 am-11:30 am
AM19-2
Jerusalem University College - Associated Schools
Saturday - 7:00 am-11:30 am
AM19-3
NABPR Executive Committee Meeting
Saturday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM19-4
North American Paul Tillich Society - Board of Directors Meeting
Saturday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM19-5
Religious Studies Review Editors' Meeting
Saturday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM19-9
Schleiermacher Society
Saturday - 8:00 am-12:30 pm
James Brandt and Catherine Kelsey, Presiding
8:00 Gathering
Peter Foley, University of Arizona
Kant’s God Consciousness and Morality: Coleridge’s Enthusiastic Errors and Schleiermacher’s Perceptive Corrections
Anne Kleinkopf, Iliff School of Theology
Communication of God Consciousness in Schleiermacher’s Christian Faith
10:00 Christophe Chalamet, Fordham University
Calvin and Schleiermacher: Against Speculation
Normunds Titans, University of Latvia
The Relation of Speculation and Dogmatics in Schleiermacher’s Glaubenslehre
11:30 Works in Progress
Papers will be available for pre-distribution by October 1 from ckelsey@Iliff.edu.
AM19-11
Institute for Biblical Research Annual Meeting
Saturday - 8:00 am-12:30 pm
8:30 Devotions
Bryan Beyer, Columbia International University
8:45 Old Testament Paper
Richard Averbeck, Trinity International University
Foundations of History, Myth, and Ritual in Old Testament Biblical Theology
9:30 Formal Response: Kenneth Mathews, Beeson Divinity School
9:45 Business Meeting
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 New Testament Paper
Rikki Watts, Regent College
The Word Become Flesh: What Would Biblical Theology Look Like If Truth Were Personal?
11:15 Formal Response: Robert Yarbrough, Trinity International University
11:30 Discussion from the floor
12:00 Adjournment
For additional information about this session, contact Daniel Block, President, IBR, at 1-630-752-5272 or Daniel.Block@wheaton.edu.
AM19-10
Council on Graduate Studies in Religion
Saturday - 8:30 am-1:00 pm
AM19-12
The Pluralism Project Bus Tour
Saturday - 8:30 am-12:00 pm
We anticipate visiting religious sites including the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Mosque and the Chua Bo De Buddhist Temple. Details will be available online at www.pluralism.org. Please contact us at staff@pluralism.org to reserve a seat. A modest fee will be required to cover the bus rental expense.
AM19-13
Adventist Society for Religious Studies, Section 5
Saturday - 9:00 am-12:45 pm
AM19-14
AJCU Conference of Theology/Religious Studies Chairs
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM19-17
Global Ethics and Religion Forum
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM19-18
Graduate Theological Union Alum Luncheon
Saturday - 9:00 am-12:45 pm
AM19-19
International Bonheoffer Society Board of Directors
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM19-20
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion Editorial Board Meeting
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM19-21
Karl Barth Society of North America
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Panel Discussion: On Mike Higton, Christ, Providence And History: Hans W. Frei's Public Theology (T. & T. Clark, 2004)
Chair: George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary
Panel: Mike Higton, University of Exeter; Jason Springs, Princeton University; Katherine Sonderegger, Virginia Theological Seminary; Ronald F. Thiemann, Harvard Divinity School
AM19-22
La Communidad
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM19-23
Liverpool Hope - Manchester Colloquium on Early Methodism: Texts, Traditions, Theologies
Saturday - 9:00 am-12:45 pm
9:00 Introduction:
Kenneth Newport, Liverpool Hope University
9:10- 11:20 Presentations:
Richard Heitzenrater, Duke University
Ted Campbell, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Jeremy Gregory, University of Manchester
Robert Webster, University of Oxford
Joanna Cruickshank, University of Melbourne
Gareth Lloyd, University of Manchester
11:20-11:30 Response:
Paul Chilcote, Duke University
Session Two
Liverpool Hope-Manchester Colloquium on Early Methodism: Texts, Traditions, Theologies
Paul Chilcote, Duke University, Presiding
During this session there will be opportunity for debate and discussion of issues arising out of the earlier presentations on the life and work of Charles Wesley and related issues.
AM19-24
Lutheran Women in Theological Studies
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Lutheran women in theological and religious studies as well as some local Lutheran clergywomen gather annually for scholarship, worship, and friendship. Lutheran women scholars – including graduate students – and other women who teach or study at Lutheran colleges and seminaries are welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. Questions? To register, please contact Sandra Mejia at 1-773-380-2885 or sandra.mejia@elca.org.
AM19-25
Mennonite Scholars and Friends Forum
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM19-26
Mission and Biblical Interpretation: Toward a Missional Hermeneutic
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
What would it mean to read the Bible self-consciously and with an explicit methodological starting point in an ecclesial location that is construed as fundamentally missional in cast and character? For three years, scholars have discussed this question at AAR and SBL. Join the conversation at this session featuring paper presentations and discussion (sponsored by the Gospel and Our Culture Network). For information, visit www.gocn.org or contact Michael Barram, Saint Mary’s College of California, at mbarram@stmarys-ca.edu or 1-925-631-4458.
AM19-27
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM19-28
The Neibuhr Society Annual Meeting
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
This session is in conjunction with the Journal of Political Theology.
Theme: Views of Niebuhr and Women: Three Voices After Decades of Debate
Convener: Max L. Stackhouse, Princeton Theological Seminary
Panel:
Reinhold Niebuhr: Public and Private
Marion Pauck, Independent Scholar; Oxford University Press Editor (ret.)
Pride, Sensuality and ‘han’: Revisiting Sin from the Underside
Susan Nelson, Theology and Culture, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
A Retrospectgive Evaluation of Feminist/Womanist Reflections on R. Niebuhr
Rebekah Miles, Christian Ethics, Perkins School of Theology, SMU
Followed by:
Business Meeting: Suggestions for Next Year; Election of new Convener and
Board Member(s), Comments from Editor(s), Journal of Political Theology, etc.
AM19-29
North American Association for the Study of Religion
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theme: Reconsidering Theories: Yoga, Transcendence, and the Gods
Jeff Ruff, Marshall University
T. J. Wellman, University of Pennsylvania
Roger Beck, University of Toronto
NAASR Business meeting 11:00-11:30 a.m.
AM19-31
Polanyi Society: The Life and Thought of Michael Polanyi
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Panel discussion: Andy Sanders, Richard Gelwick, Lee Congdon, Leslie A. Muray.
Moderator: Martin Moleski
Annual Business Meeting, 11:15-11:30 AM.
Information: www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/polanyi/.
AM19-32
Restoration Theological Research Fellowship
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM19-34
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theme: Loving God in Light of Hindu and Christian Perspectives
Deepak Sarma, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding
Archana Venkatesan, St. Lawrence University
How to Love God Like a Woman: Some Thoughts on Loving God in the Srivaisnava Sampradaya
Martin Robindra Ganeri, University of Edinburgh
Ramanuja on Loving God -- Aquinas on Loving God: A Hindu-Christian Encounter
Tinu Ruparell, University of Calgary
Love of God and Unity of Wisdom in Ramanuja, Plato, and Leibniz
John Carman, Harvard University
Respondent
Business Meeting: 11:00 a.m.
Questions? Contact elizakent66@hotmail.com.
AM19-35
Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies Annual Meeting
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
9:00 Welcome
Wilson Yates, President of the Society
9:10 The Theology of the St. John's Bible
Fr. Michael Patella, OSB, is Associate Professor of Theology at St. John's
University, in Collegeville, Minnesota, where he also serves on The St.
John's Bible Committee on Illumination and Text.
10:30 Break
10:45 Business Session / Small Groups
For additional information regarding this meeting, see our website at
www.ARTSmag.org/society.htm, or contact Kimberly Vrudny at 1-651-962-5337
kjvrudny@stthomas.edu.
AM19-36
The Society for the Study of Anglicanism
Saturday - 9:00 am-12:45 pm
Covenant, Coherence and Communion: Anglicanism after the "Windsor Report"
8:45 Gathering, Coffee
9:00 Main Session
Chair: Very Rev’d Richard Giles, Dean, Philadelphia Cathedral
David Ford, Cambridge, UK:
A Wisdom for Anglican Life
Respondent: Paula Nesbitt, UC-Berkeley
10:45 Break
11:00 Panel Session
Chair: Ian Markham, Hartford Seminary, CT.
Esther Mombo, John Chesworth, St. Paul’s College, Kenya
Ian Douglas, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
Wendy Dackson, NY, Malcolm Brown, Cambridge, UK
12:30 Close
Further inquiries: mpercy@ripon-cuddesdon.ac.uk or thomas.hughson@marquette.edu.
AM19-38
Soren Kierkegaard Society
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theme: Kierkegaard and Psychology
Stacey Ake, Drexel University, Presiding
9:00 Steve Evans, Baylor University
Can Psychology Be Christian and Still Be a Science? Some Kierkegaardian Reflections
Respondent: Noel Adams, Marquette University
10:00 Break
10:15 Vincent McCarthy, St. Joseph’s University
Kierkegaard’s Unacknowledged Debt to Freud
Respondent: Karen Carr, Lawrence University
11:15 Business Meeting
AM19-39
United Methodist - Women of Color Scholarship Program
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM19-46
Colloquium on Violence and Religion
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM19-106
United Methodist - Women of Color Scholarship Program
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM19-40
New Developments in Religious Studies V: Keeping Ourselves Current
Saturday - 9:30 am-12:00 pm
AM19-41
New Developments in Religious Studies V: Keeping Ourselves Current
Saturday - 9:30 am-12:00 pm
AM19-42
Christian Scholarship Foundation
Saturday - 11:30 am-1:00 pm
AM19-43
International Bonheoffer Society Annual Meeting of Members
Saturday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
AM19-44
North American Paul Tillich Society - Annual Business Meeting
Saturday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
AM19-45
Wabash Center Caucus of Scholars of Religiously Affiliated Institutions Luncheon
Saturday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
AM19-16
Dharma Association of North America (DANAM)
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
9:00 Theme: Dying, Death and Afterlife in Dharma Traditions and Western Religions
Adarsh Deepak, DANAM, and Rita Sherma, Binghamton University, Conveners
Graham Schweig, Christopher Newport University, Presiding
Arindam Chakrabarti, University of Hawaii at Manoa
In Hindu Dharma Traditions
Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego
In Buddhist Dharma Traditions
Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University
In Jain Dharma Traditions
Alan Segal, Columbia University
In Western Religions- Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Discussions
AM19-30
Person, Culture, and Religion
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
9:00-10:00 Theme: Works in Progress
John McDargh, Presider
New scholars welcome
10:00 Discussion: Spiritually-Oriented Approaches to Therapy: What Roles Do Religious and Theological Studies Play?
Carrie Doehring, Iliff School of Theology, Presenter
11:00–11:30 Business Meeting
Kathleen Bishop and Pamela Cooper-White, PCR Co-Chairs, Presiders
AM19-37
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality: Presidential Address and Business Meeting
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
1:00 Rereading a Spiritual Classic: Thérèse of Lisieux, Far From Spiritual Childhood
The 2005 Presidential Address by Joann Wolski Conn (Neumann College)
2:30 Business Meeting
David B. Perrin (Université St. Paul), President-elect, presiding
All are welcome. For more information, please contact Anita Houck at ahouck@saintmarys.edu.
AM19-50
The Association for Case Teaching
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Join colleagues from across the disciplines in exploring the use of case teaching in the classroom. Used in a wide variety of academic settings, case teaching has proven to be an effective way of engaging students in the critical thinking and creativity that are crucial to religious studies and theology. For more information, contact the Association for Case Teaching at 1-325-674-3701 or www.caseteaching.org.
AM19-53
Jerusalem University College: Board of Directors Meeting
Saturday - 1:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM19-54
Res Publica - Terrorism and Religion: Democracy and Security in a Pluralistic Society
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
AM20-56
Theta Alpha Kappa Board of Directors Meeting
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
AM19-51
Association of Practical Theology
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM19-52
Dharma Association of North America (DANAM)
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Theme: Samkhya-Yoga after Larson: New Directions in Samkhya-Yoga Research
Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University Chicago, Convener
Judy Saltzman, California Polytechnic State University, Presiding
Panelists:
T. S. Rukmani, Concordia University, Canada
Lloyd W. Pflueger, Truman State University
Pratap Kumar, University of KwaZulu Nata, South Africa
Paul Muller-Ortega, University of Rochester
Knut Axel Jacobsen, University of Bergen, Norway
Ramdas Lamb, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University Chicago
Gerald J. Larson, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, and University of Indiana, Bloomington, Respondent
AM19-100
Abingdon Press Evangelical Theology Series
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM19-101
Art/s of Interpretation Group - Political Commitment and the Study of Religion
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Presiding: Randal Cummings, Cal State University, Northridge
This session/round-table discussion addresses the role of the scholar’s own political commitments in his or her study of religious communities. Must such commitments be “bracketed”? Should they be? How does the study of certain religious communities (e.g., indigenous or minority religious communities that have faced oppression or even genocide) lead scholars to positions of political advocacy? Is this an appropriate or even desired outcome of scholarship?
Being An Expert on An Unknown Religion
-Jorunn J. Buckley, Bowdoin College
Scholars or Activists? Russell McCutcheon and the Historicization of Privacy
Craig Martin, Syracuse University
Thoughts on Being a Scholar of Islam and a Muslim in America Post-9/11
Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount
Mi’kmaq Myth and Aboriginal Claims
Jennifer I. M. Reid, University of Maine, Farmington
Respondents: Eric Bain-Selbo, Lebanon Valley College; Lisa J. Poirier, Miami University;
Rick Talbott, Cal State University, Northridge
AM19-103
College Theology Society Board Meeting
Saturday - 4:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM19-104
Philosophy’s Turn to Religion
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
This year’s Synousia session will explore the reasons motivating philosophy’s engagement with religion in recent years. Through presentations dealing with various aspects of this turn from or within academic philosophy to religion, and a dialogue with Hent de Vries, whose work is central in this regard, we hope to shed some light on the different ways in which this ongoing event has complicated, supplemented, enriched, and challenged the practices of contemporary philosophy.
Participants to include: Hent de Vries (Johns Hopkins University/University of Amsterdam), Jon Bussanich (University of New Mexico), Peter Ochs (University of Virginia), J. Thomas Higgins (California State University, Fresno), Rocco Gangle (Oberlin College), and Jason Smick (California State University, Fresno).
AM19-107
Won Institute of Graduate Studies/ Asian-Based Buddhist Groups Reception
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Please drop in for light refreshments, some information about Won Buddhism in Philadelphia, and an open conversation on “Shifts in the Perception and Reception of Buddhism in USA: Significant or Not?” Members of Asian-Based Buddhist Groups especially urged to attend. Rev. Bokin Kim will present case report on training of Euro-American leaders in Won Buddhism. We hope to have provocative statements by scholars of trends in Buddhism in USA. We aim for conversation rather than academic papers. For more information: cdallery@earthlink.net.
AM19-138
Association of Practical Theology
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Kathleen Cahalan, Saint John's University, Presiding
Reflection on the "Turn to the Practical" and Its Significance for Bible, History, Systematic, and Practical Theology
Michael Brown, Emory University
James Hudnut-Beumler, Vanderbilt University
Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke University
Respondent:
Rodney Hunter, Emory University
Business Meeting
Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
For additional information contact Kathleen Cahalan, kcahalan@csbsju.edu, or Rodney Hunter, rhunt02@emory.edu.
AM19-140
Fund for Theological Education Reception Honoring Current and Former FTE Fellows
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
AM19-108
Westminster Theological Seminary Alumni/ae Dinner at Glenside, PA Campus
Saturday - 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Westminster is hosting an alumni/ae dinner on the Glenside campus Saturday evening, November 19, 2005. A chartered bus will depart from the Marriott Hotel in Center City at 5:00 pm to take you to the campus and return at 10:00 pm. The evening program will include remarks by the newly installed president, tour of the rare book room, and a demonstration in the Hebrew Institute. There is no cost, but we request that you RSVP to Professor Al Groves at agroves@wts.edu or 1-215-572-3845.
AM19-109
ATS Reception
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM19-110
Brigham Young University and Friends Reception
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM19-112
Description Group
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
The Description project’s purpose is to develop a form of Christian theology in which proper attention is paid both to dogmatics and to ethnography. It seeks to find an appropriate balance between (1) identifying the dogmatic commitments that are part of any description of religious life, however factual it may aim to be and (2) requiring proper ethnographic study to confirm or challenge any claims made in systematic theology about the church or other objects. We wish to overcome a dualism between theology whose descriptions of the world proceed ‘like a hot knife through butter’ and those which struggle to formulate generalisations from particulars. There will be five very brief position papers, followed by discussion. The discussions will be introduced by British theologians Nick Adams (Edinburgh), Ben Quash (Cambridge), Tim Jenkins (Cambridge), Mike Higton (Exeter) and Susannah Ticciati (London). All are welcome to this interdisciplinary session. For further information, including abstracts of the short papers, please contact n.adams@ed.ac.uk after 30 August 2005.
AM19-113
European Society of Women in Theological Researsh (ESWTR)
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Theme: Religion and Sexuality in the Public Discourse in Europe and the USA: Panel and Discussion
Susanne Scholz, Merrimack College, Presiding
Panelists:
Bernadette Brooten, Brandeis University
Maaike de Haardt, Radboud University
Ursula King, University of Bristol
Kathleen Sands, University of Massachusetts
Respondent:
Katharina von Kellenbach, St. Mary’s College
For additional information, contact susanne.scholz@merrimack.edu.
AM19-114
Evangelical Philosophical Society
Saturday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
Theme: What Can Christian Theologians Learn from Kant?: A Discussion of Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion
Chris Firestone, Trinity College, and Stephen Palmquist, Hong Kong Baptist University Introducing Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion
John Hare, Yale Divinity School
Kant on Human Depravity
Christopher McCammon, University of Nebraska
Foundations of a Kantian Religious Epistemology
Nathan Jacobs, Calvin Theological Seminary
Kant's Apologia
Christophe Chalamet, Fordham University
Response to the Panel
Audience discussion to follow. For further information regarding this session, contact Scott Smith, scott.smith@truth.biola.edu.
AM19-115
Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael's College, Novalis and Toronto School of Theology Annual Reception for Friends and Graduates
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM19-116
International Bonheoffer Society Annual Dinner
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
The International Bonhoeffer Society/English Language Section will hold its annual dinner for members and friends on Saturday, November 19, 7:00 p.m., at the Independence Brew Pub (1150 Filbert Street), within walking distance of Convention Center and near-by hotels. Per person: $35. For reservations and further information, contact the Rev. Charles Sensel, 3624 Belvoir, Rockford, IL 61107 1-815-399-3511, cssensel@tds.net.
AM19-117
Korean - North American Theology Group
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Two new books will be discussed: Anselm Min's The Solidarity of Others in A Divided World and Hee An Choi's Korean Feminist Theology. If you are interested in having dinner together prior to the meeting, please contact Prof. Sang Hyun Lee at 1-609-799-6133, sang.lee@ptsem.edu, Prof. Grace Kim at 1-610-625-6511, gjskim@moravian.edu, or Prof. Andrew Park 1-937-427-9116, aspark@united.edu.
AM19-118
Louisville Institute Reception
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM19-119
North American Hindu Association of Dharma Studies
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Kusumita P. Pedersen, St. Francis College, NY, presiding
Theme: How to Teach Hinduism to a Western Audience
Panelists:
Linda Hess, Stanford University
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt, Wellesley College
Ramdas Lamb, University of Hawai’I, Manoa
Arvind Sharma, McGill University
AM19-120
Presbyterian Scholars Reception
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Members of the Presbyterian Church (USA.) and faculty at Presbyterian institutions are invited to this reception to meet and connect with each other. In addition to light refreshments, we hope to find ways to link more closely with one another and with the church. Sponsored by the Office of Theology and Worship, the Office of Theological Education and the Presbyterian Association of Musicians. For further information contact Anita Brown, (888) 728-7228 x5033, abrown@ctr.pcusa.org.
AM19-121
Science and Religion Reception Hosted by CTNS, IRAS, and ZCRS
Saturday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-122
Wabash Center Reception
Saturday - 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
AM19-142
Smyth and Helwys Commentary Editorial Board
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-114
Institute for Ancient Near Eastern and AfroAsiatic Cultural Research - Colloquium
Saturday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
This year's session will consist of a discussion of D. B. Redford's From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). For additional information on the session, please visit the Institute's website at www.iaacr.org or contact Dr. Hugh R. Page, Jr. at poet@hrpj.com.
AM19-125
Baker Academic and Brazos Press Reception
Saturday - 8:00 pm-11:00 pm
We will celebrate the premiere of two important projects:
The launch of the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, edited by R. R. Reno, Robert W. Jenson, Robert Louis Wilken, Ephraim Radner, Michael Root, and George Sumner. Brief remarks by Stanley Hauerwas at 8:30 p.m.
The publication of the Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible, edited by Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Craig G. Bartholomew, Daniel J. Treier, and N. T. Wright. Brief remarks by N. T. Wright at 9:30 p.m.
AM19-123
Walter de Gruyter Publisher's Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-124
Wesleyan Theological Society and Society for Pentecostal Studies Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-127
Azusa Pacific University Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-10:30 pm
AM19-128
The Collegeville Reception: The Bible and the Blues
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-129
Continuum Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-130
Fortress Press Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
Please join us! At this year's reception, Fortress Press will again present two annual awards for innovative teaching. For further infomration and nomination form, visit www.fortresspress.com.
AM19-131
Harvard University Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-132
Hispanic Theological Initiative Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-133
New Religious Movements Group Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-134
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
Session One: The Liezi
Chair: Livia Kohn, Boston University
Body and Identity in the Liezi
Livia Kohn, Boston University
Can Mud Daubers Transform Caterpillars? Masters and Their Students in the Zhuangzi & Liezi
Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University
Transforming Xianship: Reading the Zhuangzi in Liezi
Jeffrey Dippmann, Central Washington
AM19-135
Vanderbilt University Alumni/ae and Friends Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-136
W. F. Albright Institute Reception for Alumni/ae and Friends
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-137
WM. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-141
University of California, Santa Barbara Religious Studies Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM19-143
Johns Hopkins University Reception
Saturday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM20-1
Churches of Christ Professors
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM20-2
Conversations Advisory Board Meeting
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM20-3
Disciples of Christ Faculty/Student Breakfast
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM20-4
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Alumni/ae Breakfast
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM20-5
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Alumni/ae Breakfast
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
We welcome Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary alumni/ae to our Annual AAR and SBL Sunday Morning Worship Breakfast. This will be an occasion for us to fellowship and hear from President Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., as well as worship together. Please join us! Please RSVP by November 4, 2005 to 1-978-646-4029.
AM20-6
Liturgy for Catholics and Friends
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM20-7
Lutheran Professors and Graduate Students Breakfast
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
Sponsored by Augsburg Fortress.
Speaker: Wolfhart Pannenberg, University of Munich
World-renowned theologian and author Prof. Pannenberg will speak on The Christian Doctrine of Creation and Natural Science.
Please email your breakfast reservation no later than November 11 to events@augsburgfortress.org.
AM20-20
Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation Board of Directors
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM20-21
Science and Religion Networking Breakfast, Hosted by the Metanexus Institute
Sunday - 7:00 am-8:30 am
AM20-8
University of Birmingham Department of Theology and Religion Breakfast Reception
Sunday - 7:30 am-8:30 am
AM20-9
Free Methodist and Wesleyan Church Breakfast
Sunday - 7:30 am-8:30 am
AM20-10
Worship Service Sponsored by the Institute for Biblical Research
Sunday - 7:30 am-8:30 am
The Institute for Biblical Research is sponsoring a worship service in the protestant evangelical tradition to be held from 7:30-8:30 am. Fellows, Associates, Friends of IBR, and all interested participants at the various annual meetings are invited. The service, led by Wayne Johnson, Dean of the Chapel, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, will include prayer, congregational singing, selected readings, and a meditation by Don A. Carson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL. For additional information about this session, contact Daniel Block, President, IBR, at 1-630-752-5272 or Daniel.Block@wheaton.edu.
AM20-19
The Spirituality of Young People
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
AM20-100
Dharma Association of North America (DANAM)
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theme: Challenges in Teaching "Sensitive" Topics in Hindu Traditions in the Western Diaspora Context
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida, Presiding
Here, the "sensitive" and difficult topics in teaching Hindu Traditions in the Western context include, but are not limited to: Divinity and divinities (The One and the Many), devas and devis (gods and goddesses), lila, imaging the divine, "graven" image, linga, Kali, holy cow, Sanskrit Dharma terms and concepts without western counterparts, worshipful arts, misappropriations of yoga, TM, sacred rivers such as Ganga (not “Ganges”), etc. The panel will consist of 8 invited panelists.
Panelists
Graham Schweig, Christopher Newport University
Lila; The One and the Many
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida
Others TBA
Program updates are available at: http://www.danam-web.org/events.htm
AM20-11
Biblical Interpretation Editorial Board Meeting
Sunday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
AM20-12
Christian Theological Research Fellowship
Sunday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
Theme: Sigurd Bergmann, <9>Creation Set Free: The Holy Spirit as Liberator of Nature (Eerdmans)
Bernie Van De Walle, Alliance University College, Nazarene University College, Presiding
Panelists:
Lois Malcolm, Luther Seminary
Mark Wallace, Swarthmore College
Sam Powell, Point Loma Nazarene University
Responding:
Sigurd Bergmann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
For additional information contact Vincent Bacote (President, CTRF)
Wheaton College, 1-630-752-5278, vincent.e.bacote@wheaton.edu.
AM20-13
Dempster Selection Committee
Sunday - 11:45 am-3:30 pm
AM20-14
HUC-JIR Annual Alumni Luncheon
Sunday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
AM20-15
Journal of Religious Ethics Editorial Board Luncheon
Sunday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
AM20-18
WBC Luncheon
Sunday - 11:45 am-12:45 pm
AM20-50
Society of Christian Philosophers
Sunday - 1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Topic: In Search of the Soul, ed. Joel B. Green
Chair: C. Stephen Evans, Baylor University
Speakers: John Cooper, Calvin Theological Seminary
R. Douglas Geivett, Biola University
Respondent: Joel B. Green, Asbury Theological Seminary
AM20-51
Walter Kaiser Reception
Sunday - 1:30 pm-3:30 pm
AM20-55
Institute for Signifying Scriptures Reception for New Collaboraters and Associates
Sunday - 2:30 pm-3:30 pm
AM19-102
Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
Sunday - 4:00 pm-8:30 pm
Members are invited to attend a reception highlighting the work of various centers and institutes engaged in the study of religion in America.
AM20-101
Foucault Consultation: Discussion of Society Must Be Defended
Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
The Foucault Consultation welcomes all who are interested in participating in an open discussion of Michel Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France 1975-1976 (New York: Picador, 2003), and its significance for religious and theological studies. Light refreshments will be provided. Questions, please contact Tom Beaudoin, Religious Studies Department, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053, USA; tbeaudoin@scu.edu; 408-554-4668.
AM20-102
Korean Biblical Colloquium
Sunday - 4:00 pm-6:00 pm
4:00 Greetings
4:20 Jaewon Lee, McCormick Theological Seminary
Romans and the Politics of Difference
5:00 Rohun Park, Vanderbilt University
Revisiting the Parable of the Prodigal Son for Decolonization:
Luke’s Re-configuration of oikos in 15:11-32
5:40 Business Meeting
Papers will be circulated in advance and discussed at the session. For additional
information, please contact John Ahn (john.ahn@yale.edu) or Paul Kim
(pkim@mtso.edu).
AM20-103
Sites of Paul in Asia Minor - Turkey & the 7 Churches of the Revelation
Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
AM20-153
Jewish Publication Society Authors Reception
Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
AM20-157
Theta Alpha Kappa Annual General Meeting and Reception
Sunday - 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
AM20-54
University of Southern California School of Religion Reception
Sunday - 5:00 pm-8:00 pm
9 AM – 10:30AM
Hellenic and Roman Reconstructionsts and the Making of Sacred Space on the Web
Maria Bittarello
“Romancing the Pagan”: Folk Music, Politics, and Ideology in Pagan Intellectual History
Christopher Chase
TBA
10:45AM - 12:30PM Panel Session
Writing as an Academic or a Practitioner
12:30PM - 2PM Lunch Break
2PM - 3:30PM
“Romuva” Celebrates “Rasa“. Reclaiming Ancient Baltic Traditions through the Modern Celebration of Summer Solstice in Lithuania
Susan Carter
Religioning Reconstruction: Active change in Reconstructionist Paganism
Cat McEarchern
3:30PM - 5:30PM Book Session: Researching Paganisms
AM20-104
Baylor University Press Reception
Sunday - 5:30 pm-7:30 pm
Baylor University Press, along with the Department of Religion and George W. Truett Theological Seminary, invites all Press authors, University graduates, and friends of the university to the reception.
AM20-52
Fascism, Fundamentalism, and Women's Resistance - Mary Daly, Presiding
Sunday - 7:00 pm-9:30 pm
AM20-53
University of Manchester Department of Religion and Theology Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-105
Asbury Theological Seminary Alumni/ae and Friends Gathering
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-106
Carleton College Department of Religion 50th Anniversary Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-107
Center of Theological Inquiry Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-108
Dempster Scholars Banquet
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-109
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and University of Pittsburgh Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-110
Evangelical Philosophical Society
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Theme: Remembering Jesus’ Resurrection: James D. G. Dunn on the Resurrection of Jesus
Chair: William Lane Craig, Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: Stephen T. Davis, Claremont McKenna College
Gary Habermas, Liberty University
Respondent: James D. G. Dunn, University of Durham
For further information regarding this session, contact Scott Smith, scott.smith@truth.biola.edu.
AM20-111
Gay Men's Issues in Religion Group Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-112
Hendrickson Publishers Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-9:30 pm
AM20-113
Iliff School of Theology and University of Denver Joint Ph.D. Program Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-117
New Living Translation Dinner
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-119
Princeton Theological Seminary Alumni/ae Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
AM20-120
Princeton University Department of Religion Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-121
Religion Editorial Board Meeting
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-122
Indiana University Religious Studies Alumni/ae Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-123
Temple University Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
The Temple University Department of Religion is hosting a reception to honor our distinguished alumnus, John Esposito, Professor of Religion and International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University and Founding Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, on the occasion of his receiving the Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. All graduates, current students and faculty of Temple University, and friends of our department and of Dr. Esposito are welcome to attend.
AM20-124
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Religious Studies Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-127
University of Pennsylvania Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Graduates and friends of the Department and Graduate Group of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania are invited to a reception at Penn's Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, 420 Walnut Street. The Center is a short walk south and east of the Convention Center, just on the other side of Independence Hall.
AM20-128
Wabash Center Dinner for New Teachers
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-129
Yale University Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-151
Baha'I Studies Colloquy 2005
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Dr. Robert H. Stockman, DePaul University, presiding
Theme: A Discussion of Leigh E. Schmidt’s Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality
Panelists:
Christopher White, Georgia State University
James Eldin Reed, Harvard University
Robert H. Stockman, DePaul University
Respondent: Leigh E. Schmidt, Princeton University
AM21-125
United Church of Christ Scholars Reception
Sunday - 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
AM20-130
InterVarsity Press Symposium and Reception: The History of Evangelicalism -- A Conversation
Sunday - 7:30 pm-10:00 pm
7:30 pm Welcome
7:45 pm Panel Discussion: The History of Evangelicalism with Mark Noll and David Bebbington
Join historians Noll and Bebbington as they discuss the complex story of one of today's most widely known (and hotly contested) religious movements.
Noll and Bebbington are the initial contributors to IVP's History of Evangelicalism series.
8:30 pm Dessert Reception
AM20-131
University of Iowa Reception
Sunday - 7:30 pm-9:00 pm
AM20-132
Westminister John Knox Press Reception
Sunday - 7:30 pm-9:00 pm
AM20-133
Society for Scriptural Reasoning - Quranic Reasoning
Sunday - 8:00 pm-10:00 pm
Theme: The Reason vs. Revelation Debate in Light of the Qur’anic Narrative on Abraham, Moses and Jesus
This session will be the first in a series that examines a philosophical issue from the perspective of the Qur’anic narratives on Abraham, Moses and Jesus. The presentations in this session will explore the if there is any relationship between reason and revelation given the Qur’an’s description of the lives/ministries of Abraham, Moses and Jesus. Future sessions will examine the issues of faith vs. doubt and free-will vs. predestination in light of the Qur’anic narratives on these seminal figures.
One month prior to the meeting the papers and responses may be found on the SSR/Drew University Website: www.depts.drew.edu/ssr/nationalssr/.
AM20-118
The Pluralism Project Reception
Sunday - 8:30 pm-10:00 pm
Diana Eck and the Pluralism Project will host this gathering of affiliate researchers, allies, advisors, friends and colleagues. Please join us for refreshments, networking, conversation and informal updates on research projects. Your rsvp to staff@pluralism.org is appreciated.
AM20-152
Comparative Monotheism: Studies in Comparative Theology
Sunday - 8:30 pm-11:00 pm
Presiding, Kurt Anders Richardson, McMaster University,
'Multiconfessionalism and Monotheism in Medieval Islam’, Vincent Cornell, University of Arkansas
'Nestorian Monotheism in 8th Century China', Vincent Shen, University of Toronto
"Monotheism and Aniconism in 19th Century Hindu Reform’, Noel Salmond, Carlton University
Response
Francis X. Clooney, S. J., Harvard University
AM19-111
The Catholic University of America Reception - CANCELLED
Sunday - 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
<s>The Dean and Faculty of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at CUA invite all alumni, students, friends and people interested in our School to our annual reception. We look forward to having you with us.
For additional information about this event, contact Donna Jones at 202.319.5701 or j