WESTERN REGION

PROGRAM OF THE 2014

ANNUAL MEETING

LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY LOS ANGLES, CA MARCH 7-9, 2014

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

AAR/WR would like to express its thanks to the groups and persons who came together to make this year’s meeting possible. We begin with Loyola Marymount University,

which has shown such great generosity, not only through sharing its campus, but also by making other appreciated contributions.

Loyola Marymount University Michael O’Sullivan, Interim Dean, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts Michael Horan, Associate Dean, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Jonathan Rothchild, Chair of Theological Studies Jennifer Iacuaniello, Events Specialist, Conference Services

Ashley Wilson, Events Specialist, Conference Services The Staff of Loyola Marymount University

And all the folks in Campus Safety, Sodexo, Facilities, and Housekeeping for providing support during spring break!

American Academy of Religion, Western Region Officers

Dirk von der Horst, Regional Coordinator Philip Boo Riley, President

Souad T. Ali, Past-President Emily Silverman, Vice-President and Program Chair

AAR

Special thanks to Deborah Minor and Susan Snider at the national office of the American Academy of Religion. Without their skills and assistance, AAR/WR’s 2014

conference would not have been possible.

We also thank all our presenters, unit chairs and attendees for supporting AAR/WR, each other, and the advancement of scholarship on religion.

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Conference Information ABOUT LMU: Founded in 1911, Loyola Marymount University is a premier Catholic university rooted in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions. Our enrollment includes 6,087 undergraduate, 2,220 graduate and 1,236 law school students. Our 142-acre bluff-top campus is located in West Los Angeles and is among the nation's most beautiful and green campuses. LMU offers rigorous undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs to academically ambitious students committed to lives of meaning and purpose. We benefit from our location in Los Angeles, a dynamic city that brings into sharp focus the issues of our time and provides an ideal context for study, research, creative work, and active engagement. By intention and philosophy, we invite men and women diverse in talents, interests, and cultural backgrounds to enrich our educational community and advance our mission: the encouragement of learning; the education of the whole person; and the service of faith and the promotion of justice. REGISTRATION: Registration and most AAR/WR events will be held at University Hall, conveniently located near the main entrance to the college. Conference attendees may park in the garage directly below University Hall on floors P2 and P3. Elevator access to University Hall is available in the garage. Parking over the weekend is free. However, parking on Friday will involve a time-based fee of up to $10.00. CAMPUS MAP AND ACCOMMODATIONS: For a printable map of the LMU campus, please visit: http://www.lmu.edu/resources/campus_maps.htm For more information about travel, accommodations, directions and visiting the Los Angeles area, please visit our website at: http://www.aarwr.com/2014-annual-meeting.html GREENING OUR CONFERENCE: Greening our conference is a continuing goal for AAR/WR. As a first step, we see the program you are now reading as primarily digital. We encourage all participants to download it and keep it electronic. We understand this may be impossible for you, so we have made it printer-friendly and will have copies available at the registration desk for your perusal. Additionally, there will be a limited supply of printed copies you may purchase and keep for an additional $5.00 charge. But, again, we encourage you to download the program to your computer or smart phone to keep with you and not print. To further reduce paper waste, we encourage participants to bring their own mugs/cups for water and for the coffee and tea that AAR/WR will provide in the mornings.

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2014 AAR/WR PROGRAM

Friday 7 March 2014

PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS

8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Registration opens; UNH Foyer

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Women’s Caucus Continental Breakfast; UNH 1222

8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Women’s Caucus Workshop; UNH 1222 “Inheriting Our Mother’s Gardens:” Trans/lating, Trans/planting and Trans/forming Life Moderator: Cristina Rose Smith, California Institute of Integral Studies Robin Owens, Mount Saint Mary’s College Sakena Young-Scaggs, Arizona State University April Frykenberg, Claremont Graduate University Jung Ja (Joy) Yu, Claremont School of Theology Ann Hidalgo, Claremont School of Theology

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12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

AAR/WR Board Meeting; Executive Conference Center 1857

3:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Queer Caucus Pre-Conference Event; West Hollywood City Council Chambers, West Hollywood Park – 625 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069

A Night of Queery: GLBTQ Film Festival & Panel Discussion 3:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.: Meet N’ Greet, Film Shorts, Panel Discussion and Reception “24 Hitchhikers” directed by Paul Dewiler “Chained!” directed by Betsy Kalin 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.: Film Premier and Interactive Director and Audience Q&A Session "Homofiles," directed by Kimberly Esslinger Moderator: Marie Cartier, California State University, Northridge

Saturday 8 March 2014 7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Registration open; UNH Foyer

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Session 1: 8:00 - 9:30 a.m. A 1 Islamic Studies 1; UNH 1218

Islam, Gender, and the Body Moderator: Abdullahi Gallab, Arizona State University Nayawiyya Mohammad, California State University, Long Beach “Body Situations Mirroring Belief Attitudes: Adam and Eve, Female Bodies and Hajj” Bethany Elias Jenner, Arizona State University “‘A Place Just for Us:’ Marginalization and Liberation in Women only Mosques” Christina Benson, University of California, Los Angeles “Agency and Authority in U.S. Islamic Law: Muslim Women and the Production of Religious Knowledge” Jessica Lee Rehman, University of California, Riverside “Inter-generational Mentalities of Violence: the Legacy of Genocide and Mass Rape within the Pakistani Diaspora”

A 2 History of Christianity 1; UNH 1222

Christianity Encounters Asia Moderator: Dyron Daughrity, Pepperdine University Jonathan Homrighausen, Santa Clara University “Issa of the East: ‘Jesus in Tibet’ Myths and Orientalism” Jin-Keon Moon, California Institute of Integral Studies “The Christian Influence on the Buddhist Society in Colonial Korea” Lisa Woicik, Fuller Theological Seminary “Pursuing Theological Authenticity and Relevance: Zhao Zichen’s (T.C. Chao’s) Distinctively Chinese Ecclesiology”

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Shane J. Barter, Soka University of America “The Best Ye Breed: Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic and Protestant Colonizers”

A 3 Ethics; UNH 1226

Laws, Rights, and the Protection of the Religiously Marginalized in the Public Sphere Robert Overy-Brown, Claremont Graduate University “Political Theology as Counterbalance to Civil Religion” Chad Bogosian, Grand Canyon University “How Natural Laws Ground Natural Rights and Give the Marginalized A Voice” Ron Sanders, Fuller Theological Seminary “The Problems and Possibilities of Exile for Christian Social Ethics: Misplaced Analogies and Freedom from the Constantinian Compromise”

A 4 Buddhist Studies; UNH 1401

Buddhism and the Environment Alberto Diaz, California State University, Long Beach "Buddhism and Ecology: The Perception of Buddhism in the United States and Its Influence on Ecological Causes" Rachel Carpurso, California State University, Northridge "Across the Universe: Indra's Net" Kenneth Lee, California State University, Northridge "Buddha and Nature: Eco-mindfulness via Tantra" Respondent: Kenneth Lee, California State University, Northridge

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A 5 Graduate Student and Professional Development 1; UNH 1402

I’m a Doctor, Now What?: A Panel Discussion on the Job Market and Post-PhD Life Jonathan H. X. Lee, San Francisco State University Rico Monge, University of San Diego Dirk von der Horst, Graduate Theological Union

A 6 Psychology, Culture and Religion 1; UNH 1403

New Age Answers for Marginalized Peoples and Psyches Moderator: Tim Helton, Drew University Erika Wilson, California State University, Los Angeles “Energy Medicine and Spiritual Healing Patric Farr, University of Arizona “Essentialism, Intersectionality and Assemblage in the Study of Domestic and Sexual violence against LGBTQH People” Hester Oberman, University of Arizona “The Postmodern Question: Mental Health, Spirituality and Religion”

Session 2 9:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. AAR/WR Plenary Address; Ahmanson Auditorium

Value-Free Education and the Teaching of Religion: A Contradiction? By Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether, Claremont Graduate University

Session 3 11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

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A 7 Religion and the Arts 1; UNH1218

Contesting Genre, Race, and Religion in Popular Music Moderator: Roy Whitaker, Claremont Graduate University Michael A. L. Broyles, Arizona State University “Finding Rupture and Reparation ‘Down by the Riverside’: Memphis Minnie, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and the Blues-Gospel Challenges to Binary Classification” James Lopez, California State University, Northridge “Distant Voices Heard Underground” Matthew Tinken, Fuller Theological Seminary “Death, Time, and Jesus in a Balaclava: Religion and Multiculturalism in the Songs of Vampire Weekend”

A 8 Ecology and Religion 1; UNH 1222

Diverse Christian Roots for Ecological Thinking Moderator: Joel Stoker, Arizona State University Ron S. Sanders and Nicholas T. Bott, Fuller Theological Seminary, Stanford University Medical Center, and Palo Alto University “Muir Christianity: An Accidental Prophet in Christian Ecological Ethics” Laura Schmidt Roberts, Fresno Pacific University “Watershed Discipleship as Anabaptist Eco-Theological Paradigm” Michael Haycock, Claremont Graduate University “The Righteous Man Regardeth the Life of His Beast: The History and Decline of Mormon Animal Consciousness”

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Ryan Smith, University of California, Riverside “The Second Coming of Christ and Climate Change Denial” Respondent: Rosemary Radford Ruether, Claremont Graduate University

A 9 Religion, Literature, and Film 1; UNH 1226 The Lion, the Witch(blade), and the Wādorōbu Moderator: Jon R. Stone, California State University, Long Beach Emmanuelle Patrice, Pacifica Graduate Institute “Coercion of the Warrior-Goddess Anima in the Series Witchblade” Andrew Matson, California State University, Long Beach “The Zone: The Transcendent Other in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sci-Fi Film Stalker (1979)” Jon R. Stone, California State University, Long Beach “‘You Talkin’ to Me?’: Sin and Atonement in the Films of Martin Scorsese”

A 10 Pagan Studies; UNH 1401

Subjugated Voices Lasara Allen, Independent Scholar “Initiation and Transformation: The Living Mysteries of Eleusis” Marie Cartier, California State University, Northridge “Exploring the Use of Catholic Saints within Vodou, and Liberation Theology especially in terms of Mary and Guadalupe” Jeffrey Albaugh, Cherry Hill University “Hidden Voices: Experiences of the Numinous within Contemporary American Paganisms”

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Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University "Plenipotentiaries: Animals, Powers, Polytheism and Monism"

A 11 Asian American Religions 1; UNH 1402

Subjectivities, Sites, and Voices among Asian Americans and Religions Moderator: Jonathan H. X. Lee Jung Ja (Joy) Yu, Claremont School of Theology/ Fuller Theological Seminary “Breaking the Glass Box: Korean Women’s Experiences of Conscientization and Spiritual Formation” Dean Ryuta Adachi, Claremont Graduate University “Growing Japanese American Christianity: From San Francisco to Honolulu and Beyond” Lalruatkima, Claremont Graduate University “Hyphenated Narratives: Between the Chin Hills and Los Angeles”

A 12 Women in Religion; UNH 1403

Women’s Power, Transformation, and Liberation Moderator: Alka Arora, California Institute of Integral Studies Kathryn Julyan, Eastern Washington University “Women and the Vision of Advaita Vedanta: An Inquiry into Empowerment and Equality” Michaela Haas, Independent Scholar “Queens, Nuns, and Yoginis – How Tibetan Buddhist Women Are Shaping the Transmission of Buddhism in the West”

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A 13 Philosophy of Religion; UNH 1775

Culture and Life in Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard James Rogers “Wittgenstein's Critique of Culture” Paul Rodriguez “Decolonizing the East-West Dialogue: A Wittgensteinian Approach” Stephen R. Munzer “Kierkegaard on Commitment and Purity of Heart” Respondent: Joshua Kira, The Master’s College

Lunch 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Queer Caucus Business Meeting/ Luncheon; UNH 1218 AAR Section Chairs Luncheon; UNH 1222

Session 4 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. A 14 Religion in America 1; UNH 1218

Hybrid Spaces Donald Westbrook, Claremont Graduate University “Scientology and the Study of Post-War American Religion” Tad DeLay, Claremont Graduate University "Schism and Heterosexism: the Anglican Realignment and the Future of American Christianity" Michelle Hayes, California State University, Long Beach "Women in Alternative and Mainstream Religious Tradition"

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A 15 Womanist/ Pan African 1; UNH 1222

Womanism and Her Sisters Moderator: Sakena Young-Scaggs, Arizona State University Ann Hidalgo, Claremont Lincoln University “Gioconda Belli and Shirley Campbell Barr: Redefining Latin American Womanhood in Verse” Hyoju Lee, Claremont School of Theology "Feminist Critique of Wesleyan Quadrilateral" Angela Sells, Pacifica Graduate Institute “Demonizing Blackness: American Vodou and the Roots of Fear”

A 16 Queer Studies in Religion 1; UNH 1226

Retrieving Sacred Voices: The Act of Reading and Reclaiming Moderator/Respondent: John Erickson, Claremont Graduate University Anjeanette LeBoeuf, Claremont Graduate Univerity “Reclaiming Queer Hinduism” Leigh Ann Hildebrand, Harvard Divinity School “‘A Silver Cup Where Sun Meets Shade:’ Genderqueering Queer Readings of Rabbi Yohanan” Michelle Mueller, Graduate Theological Union “Gender and the Gods in Contemporary Paganism”

A 17 Latino/Latina Religion(s) 1; UNH 1401

U.S. Latino Religiosity: Land, Labor, and Language

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Lloyd Barba, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor "Fields Brown unto Harvest: Mexican Migration and Religion in California Valleys" Daisy Vargas, University of California, Riverside "'I don’t complicate my life' -- Negotiating Racial and Cultural Boundaries in a Botanica" Daniel A. Rodriguez, Pepperdine University "Between Two Worlds: Multigenerational and Multilingual Hispanic Youth Ministry in the USA" Theresa Yugar, Claremont Graduate University "The Past, Present, and Future State of the Academic Study of Latino Religion"

A 18 Education and Workshops 1; UNH 1402

Teaching Food Justice: Innovative approaches to engaging students at the intersection of food justice and religious studies Elizabeth Russell, Untied for Economic Justice (CLUE), Los Angles "Best Practices for Engaging Students with Community-Based Food Justice Movements" Sam Thomas, Ph.D., California Lutheran University "Engaging Students Through Campus Sustainable Edible Education (SEEd) programs" Melissa James, Farm to Faith, San Diego "Farm to Classroom Approaches to Teaching Food Justice in Religious Studies"

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A 19 Special Session; UNH 1403

Voices of Feminist Liberation: Writings in Celebration of Rosemary Radford Ruether Emily Leah Silverman, Graduate Theological Union Dirk von der Horst, Graduate Theological Union Jennifer Hughes, University of California, Riverside Sarah E. Robinson, Claremont Graduate University Repondent: Rosemary Radford Ruether, Claremont Graduate University

A 20 Catholic Studies 1; UNH 1775

Catholic Saints and Subjugated Voices

Moderator: Rico G. Monge, University of San Diego Kolby Knight, University of California, Santa Barbara “Sanctioned Objects, Unsanctioned Rituals: Material Catholicism and the Power of Popular Symbolic Representation” Joel Stoker, Arizona State University “The Renegade’s Saint: St. Expédit and the Peripheral Believer ” Thomas Davis, California State University, San Bernardino “Saint Louise de Marillac and Helen Gates Starr: Restoring Subjugated Voices of the Dead in American Social Work”

Session 5 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. A 21 Indigenous Religion; UNH 1218

Brian Clearwater, University of California, Santa Barbara “Retrieving Native Voices in the Urban Diaspora”

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Roy Whitaker, Claremont Graduate University “Indigenous Religions in the Age of Pluralism: Caleb Oladipo’s Centering of Subjugated Voices in the Study of the History of Religion” Kevin Whitesides, University of California, Santa Barbara “The Pizza Effect: Hermeneutical Feedback Loops and Representations of Indigeneity”

A 22 Religions of Asia 1; UNH 1222

Re-presentations of Yoga, Tantra, and Sikh Women Moderator: Charles M. Townsend, University of California, Riverside Rebecca Polack, California Institute of Integral Studies “The Politics of Modern Yoga: Swami Kuvalayananda and the Indian Nationalist Movement” Sean K. MacCracken, California Institute of Integral Studies “Pratibhopāya: The Heuristics of Liberation in Gilles Deleuze and Abhinavagupta” Jackson Stephenson, Humboldt State University “'Devoid of Dharma': Tantric Occultism in the Music of a Bangladeshi Death Metal Band” Cori Knight, University of California, Riverside “Seeking Balance: Gender, Doctrine, & Culture in the Faith and Fiction of Baldwin and Atwood”

Respondent: Christopher K. Chapple, Loyola Marymount University

A 23 Religion and Social Science; UNH 1226

Religion as a Resource: Engaging Liminal Spaces and the Development of Identity Moderator: Krista Wuertz, Claremont School of Theology

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Jaime Wright, Graduate Theological Union “Giving it to God: Religion as a Resource for Strength and Stability During the Unsettling Time of Breast Cancer” Thomas J Joseph, Grand Canyon University “Inviting Hispanics and Perhaps other Ethnic Minorities Mainstream” Sara Kamali, University of California, Santa Barbara “Understanding the Enemy: Sociotheology and the Study of Religious Activism in the United States.”

A 24 Nineteenth Century; UNH 1401

Subjugated Voices in the Nineteenth Century Moderator: Christina Littlefield, Pepperdine University Chase Kirkham, Claremont Graduate University “From Cyclical Security to Faithful Assurance: The Temporal Conversion of William Miller” Adam Morrison, University of California, Santa Barbara “Muhammad the Pretender: Muhammad and Muslims in Hannah Adams’s Alphabetical Compendium (1784) and Dictionary of All Religions (1817)”

A 25 Islamic Studies 2; UNH 1402

Islam, Modernity and the State Moderator: Sophia Pandya, University of California, Long Beach Souad T. Ali, Arizona State University “Sufism and Democracy: Deep Roots of Modern Practices in Senegal”

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Kyle Pasha, Arizona State University “Post-mortem Pieties: Investigating the Life of Muslim Graveyard” Hatice Yildiz, Graduate Theological Union “The Changing Attitude of Turkish Political/Religious Authority Toward Alevi-Bektashi Texts” Joseph Thomason, Arizona State University “Islam, Ethnicity, and Nation-state: Ethnic Conservatism and Soviet Legacy in the Republic of Tajikistan” Sarah Risha, Arizona State University “Education and Curricular Perspectives in the Quran”

A 26 Catholic Studies 2; UNH 1403

Hagiography as Historiography Moderator: Lauren Horn Griffin, University of California, Santa Barbara Tom Evans, Claremont Graduate University “Lord, Deliver Us From The Border Patrol: The Rise and Significance of Santo Toribio Romo” Nicholas Denysenko, Loyola Marymount University “A Global Intercessor: Triumphalism and Reconciliation in the Services of St. John Maximovich” Todd French, Rollins College “Origen's Impact on the Early Byzantine Hagiographies of Cyril of Scythopolis and John of Ephesus”

Session 6 5:45 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.

AAR/WR Reception; UNH Third Floor Skyway

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Session 7 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

AAR/WR Presidential Address; MachIntosh, UNH 3999

Sunday 9 March 2014

7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Registration open; UNH Foyer

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Women’s Caucus Breakfast and Business Meeting; UNH 1218

Session 8 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. A 27 Queer Studies in Religion 2; UNH 1218

Liberation, Schism, and Conflict: Futurity, Identity, and Religious Communities Moderator/Respondent: Marie Cartier, California State University, Northridge Suzette Zazueta, California State University, Long Beach “LGBTIQ Identity as a Transcendent Force Amidst the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict” Tim Murphy, Claremont Lincoln University “Marcella Althaus-Reid’s Radically Indecent Church”

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Tim Delay, Claremont Graduate University “Schism and Heterosexism: the Anglican Realignment and the Future of American Christianity”

A 28 Religion in America 2; UNH 1222

Theorizing Beverly Lucas, Arizona State University “Blogging My Religion: Reconsidering ‘Religious Literacy’ in a Digital Age” Jeremy Guida, University of California, Riverside "Metaphysical Entanglement: Ritual Practice in Making and Viewing Midnight Movies"

A 29 Womanist/ Pan African 2; UNH 1226

Womanist and Pan African Voices of the African Diaspora Paula L. McGee, Ph.D., University of Southern California “Preachers of LA: The Wal-Martization of African American Religion" Sakena Young-Scaggs, Arizona State University "Womanist Intergenerational Wisdom: AME Women in Mission and Ministry" Moses Moore, Arizona State University "Blyden and the Black Atlantic"

A 30 Jewish Studies 1; UNH 1401

Surviving Salvation Moderator: Roberta Sabbath, University of Las Vegas

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Miri Hunter Haruach, St. Mary's College “Ethiopian Jewry: Surviving Salvation 30 Years Later “

A 31 Religion and the Arts 2; UNH 1402

Cosmological, Theological and Philosophical Themes in (Visual) Art Moderator: Dirk von der Horst, Graduate Theological Union Jacob King, Claremont Graduate University “The Cosmological Significance of the Jonah Motif in an Early Christian Catacomb Fresco” Jessica Knippel, Fuller Theological Seminary “And It Was Very Good: Imago Dei and Mediated Standards of Beauty” Matt Crabb, Graduate Theological Union “The Transfiguration of Suffering in Hegel’s Aesthetics”

A 32 Graduate Student and Professional Development 2; UNH 1403

A Guided Discussion Rose T. Caraway, Northern Arizona University “Navigating Which Field? The Future of Religious Studies and its Impact on Graduate Training”

A 33 Latino/Latina Religion(s) 2; UNH 1404

Latino Religion, Latino Art Vincent D. Cervantes, University of Southern California "La Malinche’s Jotería Are Speaking: Queer Interventions of the 'Put@' Subject in the Study of Latin@ Theology" Maria Ruiz, Loyola Marymount "Chicana Feminist Perspective: You Must First Invent The Universe"

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Lauren F. Guerra, Graduate Theological Union "The Cuy of Christ: Visual Culture and the Articulation of Andean-Christian Religious Identity in the New World"

Session 9 10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

AAR/WR Plenary Address; Ahmanson Auditorium “Trends in the Study of Religion, Scholarly Publishing, and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion” by Dr. Amir Hussain Dr. Amir Hussain is a Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University and editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

Lunch 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. AAR/WR Business Meeting/ Lunch; McIntosh, UNH 3999 Session 10 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. A 34 Joint Session: Queer Studies in Religion and Religions in America; UNH 1218

Mormons and Queers and Buddhists, Oh My! Moderator: John Erickson, Claremont Graduate University Alexandria Griffin, Claremont Graduate University “Queer Mormons and the Politics of Usable Pasts” Melanie Camero, California State University, Northridge “The Gay Buddhist Fellowship”

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Respondent(s): Doe Daughtrey, Arizona State University and John Erickson, Claremont Graduate University

A 35 Psychology, Culture and Religion 2; UNH 1222

Ministering to the Marginalized: Immigrants, Elderly, and Veterans Moderator: Tim Helton, Drew University John Leech, Independent Scholar “Elderhood in Religious Congregations: the elder among the generations” Jeney Park-Hearn, Claremont School of Theology “Disenfranchised Grief and Racial Subjectivity: Korean American Christians and Loss” Elizabeth Kerr, University of California, Santa Barbara “A Community of Forgiveness: Moral Injury and Treatment in Veterans”

A 36 Religions of Asia 2; UNH 1226

Categorization, Art and Ideology, and 'Othering' in the context of Chinese Religions Moderator: Shou Jen Kuo, University of California, Riverside Harrison B. Carter, University of California, San Diego “Belief, Practice and Religious ‘Othering’: Narratives of Non-Religious Chinese College Students” Anna M. Hennessey, California State University, East Bay “Alchemical Representation and the Externalization of Internal Alchemy in Song Daoism Jayne Bittner, University of California, Riverside “Religion and the 'Othering' of Chinese-Americans in Los Angeles’

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Old Chinatown” Respondent: Mayumi Kodani, University of California, Santa Barbara

A 37 Ecology and Religion 2; UNH 1401

Religion and Ecology from Marginal Locations Moderator: Joel Stoker, Arizona State University Elizabeth McDuffie, Claremont School of Theology “Cattle or Criminal?: The Subjugated Bodies of the Farming and Prison Industries” Rose T. Caraway, Northern Arizona University “We are the Solution: Religion and Environmental Ethics in Cuba” Amanda Baugh, California State University, Northridge “When People Talk About Terrorism, Change the Subject to Water” Respondent: Sarah Robinson, Claremont Graduate University

A 38 History of Christianity 2; UNH 1402

Christianity Encounters the Marginalized Moderator: Marianne Delaporte, Notre Dame de Namur University Brooke Nelson, Claremont Graduate University “Birth and Bondage: Slave Mothers in Early Christian Narratives” Dan Salyers, Fuller Theological Seminary “Chrysostom’s Instruction on Women: How Oppressive Rhetoric Served His Pastoral Purposes” Jason S. Sexton, University of Southern California “Remember Those in Prison’: Toward a Theology of the Incarcerated Church”

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Melisa Ortiz Williamson, Claremont Graduate University “Choosing Second Place: The Self- Subjugation of Evangelical Women”

A 39 Islamic Studies 3; UNH 1403

Inter and Intra-religious Relations Moderator: Abdullahi Gallab, Arizona State University Brian Thomas Lee, Fuller Theological Seminary “Al-Gahazali's Syntheses of Sufi Epistemology and Sunni Piety” Farooq Hassan, Georgetown University "Islam in Dialogue with Pluralism: A Brief Study of this Reflection in the Writings of Esposito” Mustafa Rutzgar, California State University, Northridge “Subjugated Theologies: Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Doctrine of Creation Out of Nothing” Hafsa Oubou, University of Arizona “Moroccan Shi'tes, Social Media, and Virtual Asylum” Nathan Schick, Arizona State University “Schlock and Awe: Aleister Crowley and Appropriation of Islam”

A 40 Religion, Literature, and Film 2; UNH 1404

Moderator: Jon R. Stone, California State University, Long Beach Kathleen Hanson, California State University, Long Beach “The Doctor and the Doctor: Steven Moffat's Doctor Who and the Freudian Hermeneutics of Suspicion” Veronica Wilson, California State University, Bakersfield “Catholic Nuns in 18th Century Literature: The Historical Context for the use of Nuns in the Works of Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood”

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Rebecca Moore, San Diego State University “Literature as Funerary Rite: Re-membering the Dead in Two Vietnam War Novels”

Session 11 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. A 41 Joint Session: Queer Studies in Religion and Pan African Studies; UNH 1218

“The New Black” – A Conversation about the Black Church and LGBTQ Identity This panel session will show the documentary film, “The New Black,” and be a space for constructive and open discussion about issues pertaining to the black church, LGBTQ identity, and their nationwide. The panel will conclude with a conversation with the Chairs of each caucus. Moderators: Sakena Young-Scaggs, Arizona State University John Erickson, Claremont Graduate University Marie Cartier, California State University, Northridge

A 42 Wildcard Session; UNH 1222

The Other Other’s Other Moderator: Eunice Villaneda, California State University, Long Beach Yi Shen Ma, Claremont Lincoln University “The Political Suspension of Identity and the Possibility of Universalism”

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Kimberly Carfore, California Institute of Integral Studies “Of Strange Strangers: Interconnected Others in Religion and Ecology” Jay Atkinson, Star King School of Ministry "Poland as an Early Humanist Crucible for East-West Encounter”

A 43 Joint Session: Psychology, Culture and Religion & Philosophy; UNH 1226

Passions and Evils in Modern Thought Joshua Kulmac Butler, Loyola Marymount University “Passion and Polemics: Religious Dialogue in an Age of Partisanship” Nelson J. Smith, University of Arizona “Defining Evil” Respondent: Hester Oberman, University of Arizona

A 44 Islamic Studies 4; UNH 1401

Islam and Diaspora: Negotiating New Centers Moderator: Souad T. Ali, Arizona State University Daniel Azim Pschaida, University of California, Riverside “The Bounds of Transcendence: Establishing Normativities of Trans-cultural Islam among Muslim Students in American Universities” Brenda Oliden, California State University, Long Beach “The Syrian Refugees: Recreating Sacred Spaces in Diaspora” Youssef Chouhound, University of Southern California “Salivation and Civil Liberties: Political Tolerance in American Muslim Community” Keri Hughes, California Sate University, Long Beach “Conversations with Arabs: The Experiences of Muslims from the Gulf

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Region in the United States” A 45 Asian American Religions 2; UNH 1403

Dis-Placements and Re-Placements: Asian American Religiosities and Subjectivities Moderator, Dean Ryuta Adachi Kim Ngoc Nguyen, San Francisco State University “Vietnamese Americans and Mental Health: Buddhist Approaches to Healing and Wellness” Marimas Hosan Mostiller, San Francisco State University “Cham Muslim American Identities: Ethnicity, Religiosity, and Subjectivity” Jonathan H. X. Lee, San Francisco State University “Thai American Buddhists Encounters with White Privilege and Christian Supremacy”

A 46 Jewish Studies 2; UNH 1403

Women, Mysticism and Rabbinic Authority Moderator: Miri Hunter Haruach, St Mary's College Roberta Sabbath, University of Nevada, Las Vegas “A Study of Talmudic Scholar Tal Ilan on the Jewish Woman in Greco-Roman Palestine and the Second Temple Period: A story of Exclusionary Legislation, Practice and Censorship” Sophia Avants, Claremont Lincoln University “Heaven On Earth: Jewish Configurations of the Holy in Late Antiquity”

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