PROGRAM SESSIONS

Saturday, 1:00 pm–3:30 pm

A30-207 C
History of Christianity Section
A30-205
Hyatt Regency, Hanover E
Comparative Studies in Religion Section and African Daniel Ramírez, University of Michigan, Presiding
Religions Group Theme: Author Meets Critics: Thomas A. Tweed’s Crossing and
Marriott Marquis, A602 Dwelling (Harvard University Press, 2008)
Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton, University of Virginia, Presiding Panelists:
Theme: Just Between Us? Ritual Syncretism across Religion, Society, and Richard Callahan, University of Missouri
Politics in Contemporary Africa Marie Marquardt, Agnes Scott College
Peter Hoesing, Florida State University Ivan Strenski, University of California, Riverside
“Obulamu Bulungi”: Spirit Possession and Social Harmony in Southern
Uganda Grant Wacker, Duke University
Responding:
Dianna Bell, Florida State University
Understanding Muslim Participation in Christian Services in Mali, Thomas A. Tweed, University of Texas
West Africa, through Communitas
Joseph Hellweg, Florida State University
Homologous Sacrifice: “Dozo” Hunting, Islam, and the Failure of A30-208 C
Religious and Political Pluralism in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa North American Religions Section and Native Traditions in
Isabel Mukonyora, Western Kentucky University the Americas Group
Oral Tradition and Ritual Meaning among Masowe Apostles Hyatt Regency, Hanover FG
Responding: Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30

Rosalind Hackett, University of Tennessee Presiding

A30-206
Ethics Section
Marriott Marquis, A707
On-cho Ng, Pennsylvania State University, Presiding
Theme: Ethics of the Other(s): Levinas in Dialogue with Buddhism
(Indian and Chinese), Confucianism, Daoism, and Islam
Dan Lusthaus, Harvard University
Acting Toward the Other With/out Violence in Buddhism
Tsingsong Vincent Shen, University of Toronto
Ethics of Generosity to the Other in the Awakening of Faith and
Huiyuan’s Concept of Huixiang
Fei Lan, University of Toronto
Selfhood and Otherness: A Comparative Look at the Father–Son
Relationship in Light of Levinas and Dai Zhen’s Philosophy
Yong Huang, Kutztown University
Daoist Ethics of the Other: Patient Relativism in the Zhuangzi
Mohammad Ashraf Adeel, Kutztown University
The Dialectics of the Unseen: An Ethics of the Other in the Qur’an
Symbol Key:
Theme: Defining Religious Freedom: Reading Tisa Wenger’s We Have a
Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American
Religious Freedom (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
Panelists:
Quincy Newell, University of Wyoming
Greg Johnson, University of Colorado
Kenneth Mello, Southwestern University
Responding:
Tisa Wenger, Yale University
A30-209
Religion and Politics Section and Religion, Memory, History
Consultation
Marriott Marquis, A601
David Reinhart, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Presiding
Theme: Political Memory: Possibilities in Religious Remembering
Alain Epp Weaver, University of Chicago
Remembering the Nakba in Hebrew: Sacramental Memory
Performance at the Sites of Destroyed Palestinian Villages
Luke Blair, University of Pennsylvania, and John Stevenson,
University of Chicago
What Do the Dead Say? “Let the Saviors Rule”
Christopher J. Dowdy, Southern Methodist University
Exchanging Absences: Memory Work, Unilateral Repentance, and
Commemorative Silence at Sites of Racial Violence

AAR Award Winners
AAR Centennial Sessions
Arts Series
Books Under Discussion
Especially for Students Focus on Religion and Science Receptions and Breakfasts
Films Business Meeting Sustainability and Religion
New Program Unit
Focus on Australia/Oceania Tours
Professional Practices and Institutional
Focus on Atlanta, GA Location Sessions Wildcard Sessions

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