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FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2007
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Registration ( 7:30—9:00, Mezzanine Lobby )
Coffee and Book Exhibit ( 7:30— 2:00, Woodland )
COMBINED AAR & SBL WOMEN’S CAUCUS
( Friday, 8:00—8:50, Crossroads Private Dining Room )
SESSION VI:
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( AAR 6.1 ) PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION A: ( Friday, 9:00–11:00, Knight )
Presiding: Robert Sutton, Cape Fear Community College.
“Dostoevsky and Theodicy.”
Steven James Lee, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary.
“Toward philosophia crucis —Derrida and Marion’s Post-metaphysics on the via crucis.”
Andrew Yenru Lin, Drew University
“Aspects of George Santayana’s Legacy To Religious Studies In The Third Millennium.”
Edward W. Lovely, Drew University.
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( AAR 6.2 ) HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY B: ( Friday, 9:00–11:00, Mather )
Presiding: Patricia Way, Temple University.
“Seripando on Justification and Original Sin at Trent: Augustinian or Lutheran?”
Dennis Di Mauro, The Catholic University of America
“Imperialism, Modernization, and Postcolonial Christianity—a Methodological Discourse of the Indigenization of American Methodist China Missions in the Early Twentieth Century.” Jane Weijen Liang, Drew University.
“De Miseria et Misericordia: The Politics of Augustinian Subjectivity.”
Mina Suk, The Johns Hopkins University.
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( AAR 6.3 ) ISLAMIC STUDIES: ( Friday, 9:00–11:00, Talbot )
Presiding: Habibeh Rahim, St. John’s University, NY.
“Cartoon Crisis: Islam Confronts Danish Liberalism.”
Robert Carle, The Kings College.
“Waraqah b. Nawfal’s Assurances of Muhammad’s Prophethood to Khadijah: An Examination of Historical and Contemporary Biographies.”
Phillip Hoefs, Temple University.
“Frei’s Typology of Christian Theology: A Comparative Look at the Islamic Tradition.”
Yasir S. Ibrahim, Montclair State University.
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( AAR 6.4 ) WOMEN AND RELIGION B: ( Friday, 9:00–11:00, White Oak A )
Panel = Negotiating New Terrains: American Women Missionaries and Preachers, 1836-1969.
Presiding: Karen Seat, The University of Arizona.
“The Gospel of Women and Wagons: Domesticating the American West.”
Shannon L. C. Cate, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
“One Woman’s Christian Village: Missionary Work, Conversion and Literacy in Post World War II Angola.” Liz Rohan, University of Michigan–Dearborn.
“The Rev. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw in Context: Gender Politics and the Rise of Liberal Protestantism in the United States.” Karen K. Seat, The University of Arizona.
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( AAR 6.5 ) THEOLOGY B: ( Friday, 9:00–11:00, White Oak B )
Presiding: Michael Kogan, Montclair State University.
“The Politics of Providence in the Economy of Salvation.”
Michael T. Dempsey, St. John’s University, NY.
“Election and Baptism in Karl Barth’s Theology.”
W. Travis McMaken, Princeton Theological Seminary.
“Can the Electing God be God Without Us? Some Implications of Bruce McCormack’s Understanding of Barth’s Doctrine of Election for the Doctrine of the Trinity.”
Paul D. Molnar, St. John’s University, NY.
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( SBL 6.1 ) THE LATTER PROPHETS: ( Friday, 9:00–11:00, Birch )
Presiding: Alice Ogden Bellis, Howard University School of Divinity.
“Form Criticism and the Rib in Isaiah 41:21—42:4.”
Timothy Milinovich, The Catholic University of America.
“Outstretched Hands, Repeated Refrains, Lost Endings: Poetic Closure and the Problem of Isaiah 9:7–20 + 5:25–30.” J. Blake Couey, Princeton Theological Seminary.
“In Perilous Times: Josiah’s Cult Reform in Late Pre-Exilic Jerusalem. Zephaniah 1:4–6.”
Susan E. Bond, The Catholic University of America.
“Jeremiah, Immoral Prophet in Moral Society.”
Dong-Young Yoon, Drew University.
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( SBL 6.2 ) WISDOM LITERATURE: ( Friday, 9:00–11:40, Dogwood )
Presiding: Tod Linafelt, Georgetown University.
“The Impossible Possibility of Dating the Book of Job."
Jin Hee Han, New York Theological Seminary.
“Hiding the Father, Fooling the Son."
Davis Hankins, Emory University, and David Knauert, Duke University.
“Wisdom 10:15—11:1: Personified Wisdom and Israel’s Exodus from Egypt."
Andrew T. Glicksman, The Catholic University of America.
“The Satan in Job: ‘Casting Out’ Modern Conceptions in Exchange for an Obedient ‘Son of God.’ ” Justin P. Farrell, Princeton Theological Seminary.
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( SBL 6.3 ) PAULINE EPISTLES: ( Friday, 9:00–11:40, Suite 353 )
Presiding: Michael J. Gorman, St. Mary’s Seminary & University.
“Naming, Shaming, and Claiming: Paul’s Practice of Public Agitation.”
Paul Bellan-Boyer, Jubilee Interfaith Organization.
“ ‘All Will Know Me’: Ministry Under the New Covenant.”
Scott Haile, Boston College.
“Reconciled and Reconciling: Practical Ecclesiology in the Letters of Paul.”
Lisa Kenkeremath, Falls Church, Virginia.
“The Gifts of the Divine Warrior: Ephesians 4:8ff.”
Daniel C. Claire, The Catholic University of America.
SESSION VII:
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( AAR 7.1 ) AFRICAN-AMERICAN RELIGION: ( Friday, 11:10–12:30, Knight )
Presiding: E. Obiri Addo, Drew University.
“Where Two or More Gather Together: Decoding the Ecclesiology of Two Black Mega Church Ministries.” Mary Hinton. College Misericordia.
“Spittin’ Fire: Feeling the Spirit in Heidegger and Hip-Hop.”
Brandee Mimitzraiem, Drew University.
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( AAR 7.2 ) RELIGIONS OF ASIA A: ( Friday, 11:00–12:30, Mather )
Presiding: Lise Vail, Montclair State University.
“The Four-Seven Debate in Korean Neo-Confucianism and Contemporary Discussions of Emotions.” Suck Choi, Towson University.
“Empty Words, Turning Words & Word Magic: Irony, Instrumentality, & Identity in a Postmetaphysical Buddhist Critique of Language.”
James Mark Shields, Bucknell University.
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( AAR 7.3 ) INTERFAITH PANEL: The Women of Abraham
( Friday, 11:10–12:30, Talbot )
Presiding: Michael Kogan, Montclair State University.
Participants:
Catherine Martin, The College of Saint Elizabeth.
Habibeh Rahim, St. John’s University, NY.
Michael Kogan, Montclair State University.
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( AAR 7.4 ) RELIGION AND THE ARTS A: ( Friday, 11:10–12:30, White Oak A )
Presiding: Mikhail Sergeev, The University of the Arts.
“A Pre-Appearance of the Truth: Toward a Christological Aesthetics.”
D. W. Congdon, Princeton Theological Seminary.
“To Act or Be Acted Upon: Nicholas Wolterstorff and Hans Urs von Balthasar on Shaftesburean Disinterestedness.” Daniel Wade McClain, Independent Scholar.
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( AAR 7.5 ) AAR BUSINESS MEETING ( Friday, 12:45—1:15, White Oak B )
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( SBL 7.1 ) MAR-SBL PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: ( SBL 7.1, Friday, 11:45–12:45, Dogwood )
Presiding: Stephen L. Cook, Virginia Theological Seminary
“The Bard and the Bible: Shakespeare and the Interpretation of Scripture.”
A. Katherine Grieb, Virginia Theological Seminary.
SESSION VIII:
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( AAR 8.1 ) PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION B: ( Friday, 2:00–4:00, Knight )
Panel=Semiotic Rhythms and Ecstatic Naturalism.
Presiding: Robert Sutton, Cape Fear Community College.
“The Ecstatic and the Ecosophic Difference: Arne Naess and Robert Corrington in Dialog.” Sigridur Gudmarsdottir, Drew University, NJ.
“Semiotics and the Tension Between Finitude and Transcendence in Robert Corrington and George Santayana.” Edward Lovely, Independent Scholar, Kinnelon, NJ
“Chora and Ecstatic Naturalism: Restlessness and Stillness at the Heart of Nature.”
Martin Yalcin, Drew University.
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( AAR 8.2 ) RELIGIONS OF ASIA B: ( Friday, 2:00–4:00, Mather )
Presiding: Lise Vail, Montclair State University.
“Monks and Medicine: Healing in Early Medieval Chinese Buddhist Hagiography.”
C. Pierce Salguero, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
“The “Eco-Theology” of Bishnoi and Bhil Communities.”
Jain, Pankaj, Middlesex County College, NJ.
“Religious Trends and Counter-Currents in Korea.”
Michael Ralston, Department of Defense.
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( AAR 8.3 ) HISTORY OF RELIGION: ( Friday, 2:00–4:00, Talbot )
Presiding: Jacqueline Pastis, La Salle University.
“The Name of Demeter Thesmophoros.”
Allaire B. Stallsmith, Towson University.
“Ancient Medicine and Oral Malodor in Post-Biblical Judaism.”
Jin Hee Han, New York Theological Seminary.
“Indigenous Religious Imagination of West Africa: Then and Now.”
E. Obiri Addo, Drew University.
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( AAR 8.4 ) RELIGION AND THE ARTS B: ( Friday, 2:00–4:00, White Oak A )
Presiding: Mikhail Sergeev, The University of the Arts.
“The Great Divide: The Apocalypse in the 19th and 20th Century.”
Johanna Monighan-Schaefer, PhD., Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.
“The Shadow of the Nineteenth Century across the First: The Primitive Church in Victorian Fiction.” Maria Poggi Johnson, University of Scranton.
“Smile from Heaven: Religious Anecdotes as a Form of Folk Art.”
Mikhail Sergeev, The University of the Arts.
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( AAR 8.5 ) COMPARATIVE & HISTORICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION B:
( Friday, 2:00–4:00, White Oak B )
Presiding: Charles Selengut, Drew University.
“Revisiting Latin American Religious Ferment: A Multi-Pronged Approach.”
Janel Kragt Bakker, The Catholic University of America.
“Two Figures of a Religious Left (and a Third).”
Timothy A. Brown, Pace University.
“God’s Infantry: Messianic Radicalism and Zionist Nationalism.”
Charles Selengut, Drew University.
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( SBL 8.1 ) DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY / FORMER PROPHETS B:
( Friday, 2:00–4:00, Birch )
Presiding: Robert D. Miller, Mount St. Mary’s Seminary
“Characterizations of Moabite Kings in the Hebrew Bible.”
Mark Stewart Leson, The Catholic University of America.
“David, the Bandit.”
Jennifer L. Koosed, Albright College.
“The Treatment of Josiah by Egyptologists.”
Garrett Galvin, The Catholic University of America.
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( SBL 8.2 ) GOSPELS C: ( Friday, 2:00–4:00, Dogwood )
Presiding: John Yieh, Virginia Theological Seminary
“Biblical Studies, Postmodernism, and Love for the Other.”
Carlos R. Bovell, Burlington, NJ.
“The Canaanite Woman as Pivot Point: Making Matthew’s Community the Community of the Great Commission.” Natalie K. Houghtby-Haddon, George Washington University.
“ ‘The Least of My Brethren’: A History-of-Effects Investigation of the Last Judgment.”
Heidi Christensen, Virginia Theological Seminary.
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( SBL 8.3 ) PRESENTING CHRIST=NEW TESTAMENT AND RELATED IMAGES:
( Friday, 2:00–4:00, Suite 353 )
Presiding: Paul Bellan-Boyer, Jubilee Interfaith Organization.
“Ruling the Nations with a Rod of Iron: Masculinity and Christology in Revelation.”
Colleen M. Conway, Seton Hall University.
“The Standing Christ-Figures of Revelation.”
D. Jill Kirby, The Catholic University of America.
“ ‘All Things Through Him’: Christ as God’s Agent in Creation.”
Matthew E. Gordley, Regent University.
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