AAR WR TENTATIVE PROGRAM

WECSOR 2009

MARCH 21-23, 2009

 

Saturday March 21

 

 

PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

 

 

11AM – 1PM              Women's Caucus Lunch Roundtable (O'Connor 103)                      

Issues: Share what you see as the compelling issues of the past year and how they have affected you as a woman in the field of religion.

Needs: Share your needs as a woman in the field of religion and the ways in which Women's Caucus can help you meet them.

Insights: Share your insights into the state of the field.

 

 

12:30 – 4:30PM         AAR/WR Board of Directors Meeting (Benson CTR Mission Room)                            

 

 

4:00 – 6: 00 PM         Queer Parenting and Life in the Academy (O'Connor 104)                       

This roundtable discussion focuses on the challenges, opportunities, and intersecting identities of queer parents in the academy. It also explores issues that arise in the academy for queer parents.

Michelle Mueller, Independent Scholar, Moorestown, NJ

     Issues of Queer Parenting

Trina Armstrong, Claremont School of Theology
     Raising a Teen Daughter while Pursuing a PhD

Polly Pagenhart, Independent Scholar, San Francisco, CA, Award-winning website author
     Lesbian Dad 

 

 

 

Sunday, March 22

 

 

8:00- 9:30 AM     SESSION 1

 

1)  HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY I: THE IDEOLOGY OF PEACE AND THE REALITY OF WAR IN CHRISTIANITY (O'Connor 103)

 Moderator, Kenneth Lee, California State University at Northridge

Russell Maddox, Claremont Graduate University
     21st Century Christian Assimilation: A Shift From the 20th Century.

Randal Cummings, California State University at Northridge
     If My Kingdom Were of This World.

Hyung Shin Park, Santa Clara University
     Japanese Protestant Colonizers in Korea: Their Ethnicity,
Faith, and Power.

Facilitator: Rick Talbott

 

2)  ETHICS I (O'Connor 104)

Chair: Kelly Fitzsimmons, Arizona State University

Patrick Emmett, University of California Riverside
Ethical Self-examination as a Response to  Globalization      

Sarah Schwartzman, University of California, Riverside
     False Progress, Dogmatic Secularism, and  Ethical Possibilities

 

3)  BUDDHIST STUDIES I: THERAVADA PANEL (O'Connor 105)

Anne Teich, California Institute of Integral Studies
Wandering Alone Like the Rhinoceros:  The Contribution of the Eremites to Social Welfare

Jordan Johnson,  Arizona State University
     Theravada Buddhism and the Idea of the 'Just War.'

Kelly Meister, University of California, Riverside
     Enemies and Experts: Mixed Perceptions of the Burmese in Thailand as Exemplified by the Abhidhamma-Jotika College.

Danna Cook, Arizona State University
     Dhammakaya: A Modern Buddhist Movement.

Respondents:

Brooke Schedneck, Graduate Associate, Arizona State University, Co-Chair, Buddhist Studies,

Kenneth Lee, California State University, Northridge, Co-Chair, Buddhist Studies

 

4)  QUEER STUDIES I: QUEER PARENTING (O'Connor 106)

Moderator: Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State

Michelle Mueller, Independent Scholar
     Bisexuals and Choice

Raedorah Stewart, Independent Scholar
     Womanist Approaches to Lesbian Parenting  

Susan Bevins, ITP, Palo Alto CA

Lesbian Mothering: In or Out of the Closet - Does Internal Homophobia Increase, Decrease, or Neutralize Once You Have Children?

 

5) RELIGION AND ECOLOGY (O'Connor 107)

Elizabeth Kerr, Program Chair, University of California at Santa Barbara

Sam Mickey, California Institute of Integral Studies

Respecting Companion Species in Technoculture: From Tricks to Mundane Grace

Jingjing Zhu, University of the West

The Evolution of Buddhist Reincarnation

 


9:45 – 11 AM       SESSION TWO

 

AAR/WR WELCOME/PLENARY ADDRESSS (Benson CTR Williman)

Mark Juergensmeyer, Professor of Sociology and Global Studies; Affiliate Professor of Religious Studies; Director, Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara    

 Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State

 

11:15 – 12:45 PM SESSION THREE

 

6)  JEWISH STUDIES I: CLAIMING JEWISH IDENTITIES (O'Connor 109)

Emily Leah Silverman, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding

Deborah Grenn, PhD, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
     Who Is A Jew?  Shared and Contested Identities Among South African Lemba and European-American Women 

Saba Soomekh, Loyola University, Los Angeles
     Najeeb: The Significance of Female Sexual Modesty in Establishing Iranian Jewish Identity      

David Roseberg-Wohl, Graduate Theological Union and University of California, Berkeley
      Jewish Identity in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Azariah dei Rossi's Transformation of the Legends of Greece and Rome

 

7)  EDUCATION AND WORKSHOPS: PEDAGOGICAL TENSIONS IN TEACHING FOR JUSTICE (O'Connor 110)

Chair:  Karen Crozier, Fresno Pacific University

Elizabeth McAnally, California Institute of Integral Studies
     Embodied Pedagogy:  Examples from Teaching Asian Religious Traditions

Bret Lewis, Arizona State University
     When the Instructor Doesn't Know Everything:  Teaching Strategies in the World Religious Classroom

 

8)  WOMEN AND RELIGION I: BORDERS OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY (Alumni Sci 120)

Moderator: Sarah Robinson, Claremont Graduate University

Ayat Agah, Claremont Graduate University
     Reclaiming Muslim Women's Sexuality

Melissa James, Graduate Theological Union
     Feminization and the Diaconate: Changing Notions of 'Women's Work' in the Church

Beverly Lucas, Arizona State University
     Rescuing My Fair Feminist: Secular Liberalism and the 2008 FLDS Raid in Texas 

 

9)  LATINO/A AND LATIN AMERICAN RELIGIONS: GENDER, POLITICS AND THE DIGITAL PUBLIC SQUARE: CATHOLIC AND PENTECOSTAL CASE STUDIES (Arts Sci 129)

Theresa A. Yugar, Claremont Graduate University
     Scripting Hispanic Women's History

Christy M. Newton, Graduate Theological Union
     Bolivarian Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization: The Evangelical Pentecostal Union of Venezuela and 21st Century Socialism

Harold Morales, University of California Riverside
     Digitally Performed Latino/a Identity in the Public Sphere: The National Hispanic Leadership Conference (NHCLC)

Respondent: Daniel Ramrez, Arizona State University

 

10). INDIGENOUS RELIGIOUS STUDIES I (Arts Sci 133)

Moderator: Bob Hurteau, Loyola Marymount University

Cecilia Tolley, University of California, Davis
     Cherokee Agency in the Christian Encounter

David Walsh, Doctoral Student, Arizona State University

Babylon Inna Hopiland: Articulations of Social Injustice by the Hopi Reggae Musician Casper Loma-da-wa

Seth Schermerhorn, Arizona State University

Secularization by the 'Sacred': Discourses of 'Religion' and the San Francisco Peaks

Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha, California State University, Northridge
     Bwino Epistemology and Post-Colonial Scholarship: Toward a New Approach in the Study and Teaching of Indigenous Religions

 

 

12:45 – 2:15 PM      LUNCH: 

 

AAR Section Chairs (Benson CTR Parlor B)

Queer Studies in Religion (Benson CTR Parlor A)

Women's Caucus (Benson CTR Conf 21)

 

           

2:15-3:45 PM       SESSION FOUR

 

11)  JEWISH STUDIES/QUEER STUDIES JOINT SESSION (Arts Sci 134)

Marie Cartier, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding

Emily Leah Silverman, Graduate Theological Union
     Queer Theory as a Method for Examining Deviant Religious Desires

Respondents:

Saba Soomekh, Loyola University, Los Angeles

Dirk von der Horst, Claremont Graduate University

 

12) PHILOSPHY OF RELIGION I: RELIGIOUS TRUTH-CLAIMS AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE (Arts Sci 135)

Moderator: Hester Oberman

Raj Sampath, Graduate Theological Union
     Beyond and Between the Dialectic and Analogy: On Barth's Theological Method

Stephen G. Shaw, California State University, Long Beach
     Rorty's Religion: Private Faith and Public Consequence

Erin Brigham, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
     Translating Truth claims: Jurgen Habermas and David Tracy in Conversation

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

13)  ISLAMIC STUDIES SECTION I: MUSLIM ISSUES: IDENTITY AND ECSTASY (Daly Sci 201)

Moderator: Scott Lucas, University of Arizona

Souad T. Ali, Arizona State University
     Sufism, the Shatahat, and the Legacy of al-Ghazali

Diana Coleman, Arizona State University
     Rues et Places: Muslim Identity Asserted in the Parisian Public Space

Jillian Schedneck, Independent Scholar
     The Effects of Modernity on Islamic Identity in Dubai Youth

Sarah Robinson, Claremont Graduate University
     Islam, Ecology, and Environmental Justice

 

14)  WOMANIST/PAN AFRICAN: COUNTER-NARRATIVES AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY, RACE AND GENDER (O'Connor 201)

Moderator:   Paula L. McGee, Claremont Graduate University

Helen E. Williams, Azusa Pacific University
     Howard Thurman's Spirituality of Resistance of a Sister Warrior:  A Narrative of Hope

Karen D. Crozier, Fresno Pacific University
     Critical Race Spirituality: Constructing a New, Redemptive Narrative

Respondent: Richard Rose, University of La Verne

 

 

 

4:00-5:45 PM SESSION FIVE

 

15)  RELIGION IN AMERICA I:  MORMONISM AT THE CROSSROADS: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CHALLENGES (2 HOUR SESSION) (Daly Sci 201)

Moderator: Jon R. Stone

Roy Whitaker, Claremont Graduate University
     Is the Mormon Church Still Racist?

Deidre Green, Claremont Graduate University
     Mormonism, Gender, and Sin-Talk

Chuck Schofield, Claremont Graduate University
     Toward a Greener and More Peaceful Mormon Environmental Ethic

Richard Livingston, Claremont Graduate University
     The Paradox and Possibility of LDS Theological Discourse

Loyd Ericson, Claremont Graduate University
     A Mormon Theology of Peace for the Twenty-first Century

 

16)  RELIGION AND THE ARTS I: IDENTITY AND ACTION IN RELIGION AND ART (Daly Sci 310)

John Handley, Graduate Theological Union, presiding

Charles Townsend, University of California, Riverside
     'Christian Hardcore' Music, Material Culture, and Identity/ies in Southern California

Elise Edwards, Claremont Graduate University
     A Christian Theological Basis for Civic Engagement through the Arts

Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University
     Social Change, Biblical Exegesis and Rock and Roll: PJ Harvey and U2 in the Classroom

 

17)  RELIGIONS OF ASIA I: INTERSECTIONS AND ENCOUNTERS: WHAT GURUS AND YOGA HAVE TO DO WITH ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT (O'Connor 204)

Chair: Deepak Shimkhada, Claremont McKenna College

Paul Jackson, Arizona State University
      The Daoist Complete Perfection Sect's Response to Ecological and Environmental Crisis in the Modern World

Laura Cornell, California Institute of Integral Studies
      Environmental Ethics in American Yoga: Ancient Values Meet Twenty-First Century Challenge

Toby B. Johnson, UC-Riverside
     Contemporary Janamsakhis: Interpretation and Application of the Gurus' Tradition for the Modern World

David Gray, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Santa Clara University, Discussant

 

18)  PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION I: RELIGION AND THE MARGINALIZED:SPIRITUAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCES (O'Connor 205)

Siroj Sorajjakool, Loma Linda University, Presiding

Jeffrey Thomas, Claremont School of Theology
     God is Homeless: Psycho-theological Reflection in Skid Row

Jill Snodgrass, Claremont School of Theology
      Too Blessed to be Stressed: The Intersection of Spiritual Resilience, Magical Thinking and Agency in Homeless Individuals      

Siroj Sorajjakool, Loma Linda University
     Sex Workers in Thailand, Self-Identity, and the Role of Religion  

 

19)      WOMEN AND RELIGION II: VENERATION OF WOMEN,  VENERABLE WOMEN (O'Connor 206)

Moderator, Ann Wertman, Arizona State University

Mary E. McGann, Graduate Theological Union
Intersections and Encounters: Quan Am, Mary of LaVang, and the Cult of the Mother Goddesses in Vietnam

Suat Yan Lai, Claremont Graduate University
      Female Gender as Non-Attachment and Field-of-Merit: Venerable Dhammananda's Ordination as Bhikkhuni in the Thai Context

Colleen E. Windham, University of California, Santa Barbara
     Natality: Hannah Arendt's Faith in Second Birth 

Ana Perez-Chisti, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
     Three Women's Intuitive Process: An Examination of Ethical and Religious Challenges Resulting in Social Justice
 

 

 

5:45-7:15 PM       SESSION SIX

 

WECSOR RECEPTION (ARTS SCI Foyer)

 

 

7:30 – 8:30 PM    SESSION SEVEN           

 

AAR/WR PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS (Benson CTR Williman)

 

Norris W. Palmer, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Saint Mary's College of California  

Articulating Hindu Identity for Translocal Deployment

 

8:30 – 9: 45 PM    SESSION EIGHT

  

20) JOINT SESSION: WOMANIST/PAN AFRICAN AND WOMEN AND RELIGION (Daly Sci 206)

Moderators: Arisika Razak, California Institute of Integral Studies and Sarah Robinson, Claremont Graduate University
Katrina Browne, Producer/Director, explores the history of her New England forebears and their role as owners of the largest family-run slave-trading enterprise in the U.S.A..

     Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North

One hour film with discussion to follow

 

 

 

Monday, March 23

 

 

7:00–8:00 AM      SESSION NINE

 

WECSOR BOARD MEETING (ARTS SCI 135)

 

 

8:00 AM – 9:45 AM      SESSION TEN

 

21) NINETEENTH CENTURY SECTION: A CENTURY OF CROSSROADS: EXPLORING DYNAMICS OF THEOLOGY, GENDER, PERFORMANCE AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY (O'Connor 103)

Jennifer Veninga, Chair
 Jenny Patten Gargiulo, Graduate Theological Union
     The Foreign Artists' Colony in Nineteenth Century Rome: A Crossroads of Muses, Privilege, Faith and Gender

Kristy Slominski, University of California, Santa Barbara
      Do Everything but Prostitute: The History of Frances Willard and Fallen Women

Junghyung Kim, Graduate Theological Union
     Johannes Weiss' Discovery of Jesus' Eschatology and Its Implication for Globalization

Sheila Taylor, Graduate Theological Union
     Newman's Model of Doctrinal Development and the Question of New Revelation

 

22)  PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION II: HUMAN AND DIVINE KNOWLEDGE (O'Connor 104)

Moderator: Emily Bennett, Claremont Graduate University

Eric Hall, Claremont Graduate University
     Piety: Schleiermacher's Response to Kant's First Critique      

Matthew S. Haar Farris, Graduate Theological Union
      A Spiritual Grammatology for the Study of the Sacred: A Derridean Methodological Proposal for Religious Studies

Jae-Yun Park, Claremont Graduate University
      Rethinking Middle Knowledge: An Over-Simplification of Human Situation and Alternative

 

23) INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS II (O'Connor 105)

Mutombo Nkulu-N-Sengha, California State University Northridge, Moderater
Claudine Michel, University of California, Santa Barbara
      Vodou at the Crossroads

Roberto Strongman, University of California, Santa Barbara
     The Hermeneutics of Gede: Vodou in 'La Revue Indigne'

Kyrah Malika Daniels, Stanford University
     Engaging Crossroads: Vodou Cosmologies and Paket Congos

 

24)  PSYCHOLOGY, CULTURE AND RELIGION I: "MULTIPLICITY WITHIN/OUT: A SPOKEN WORD PANEL PRESENTATION (O'Connor 106)

Spoken Work Presenters: Ayat Agah, Claremont Graduate University; Tracy Hawkins, Claremont Graduate University; Jeremy Fackenthal, Claremont Graduate University; Kirsten Gerdes, Claremont Graduate University, Deidre Green, Claremont Graduate University

     A Post Modern Framework Addressing Islam, Ethics, Philosphy, Body/Sesuality, And Trauma Studies 

 

10:00 – 11:45 AM         SESSION ELEVEN

 

25)  GODDESS STUDIES I: DRAWING A BIG PICTURE IN GODDESS RESEARCH – INTERDISCIPLINARY AND/OR CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACHES (O'Connor 107)
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, UCLA, Presiding

Marguerite Rigoglioso, California Institute of Integral Studies
      The African, Matriarchal, Amazonian Roots of Athena: Scholarly, Spiritual, and Social Implications

Marion Dumont, California Institute of Integral Studies
      Mari, Principal Goddess in Basque Mythology – Reclaiming Indigenous Histories Empowers Our Struggle for Environmental and Social Justice

Dianne E. Jenett, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
      Bhadrakali: The dark goddess in a matrilineal Context

Chandra Alexandre, Institute for Transpersonal Psychology
     Voices of the Goddess: Women Clergy in East-West Perspective

 

26)  BUDDHIST STUDIES II:  MAHAYANA PANEL (O'Connor 109)

Benjamin Chicka, Claremont Graduate University
The Indeterminate Ground of Impermanent Symbols:

A Constructive Comparison of Buddhist and Christian Mysticism."

Seth Clippard, Arizona State University "The Conversation Between Deep Ecology and Buddhism"

Jingjing Zhu, University of the West
The Evolution in Buddhist Reincarnation."

Peter M. Romaskiewicz, Independent Scholar
MEDITATE AND DESTROY!  The Rebellion of Punk Buddhism"

Respondents: Kenneth Lee, California State University, Northridge, Chair, Buddhist Studies, Mahayana Panel

 

27)  QUEER STUDIES II: SKIRTING TO LISPING: QUANDARY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN FAITH (O'Connor 110)

Moderator: Marie Cartier, Claremont Graduate University

Trina Armstrong, Claremont School of Theology
     In God's Image? Masculine and Feminine Genderings in Queer Identified Black Lesbians

Goldman Jacobs, San Diego State University 
     African-American Gay Christian Men and New Progressive Black Masculinities

 

28)  RELIGION IN AMERICA II: 21st  CENTURY CHALLENGES TO CONVENTIONAL RELIGIONS (Alumni Sci 120)

Moderator: Rebecca Moore

Ann Wertman, Arizona State University
     Standing at the Crossroads of Religion and Sexuality: Mormon Gays and Lesbians

David Walsh, Arizona State University
     Articulations of Social Injustice by the Hopi Reggae Musician Casper Loma-da-wa

Patricia A. Power, Arizona State University
      Blurring the Boundaries: The American Messianic Jew

Philip Boo Riley, Santa Clara University
     Interfaith Organizations in a Religiously Diverse America

 

29) JOINT PSYCHOLOGY, CULTURE AND RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: USING PHILOSOPHY TO TRANSCEND CULTURE (Arts Sci 129)

Moderator, Hester, Oberman

Kristy Coleman, San Jose State University
     Irigaray's Elsewhere in Dianic Wiccan Ritual: The Feminine Imaginary in Theory and in Practice

Michelle Kate Weber, Graduate Theological Union
      Wittgenstein and Worship: Looking at the Language-Games of Liturgical Theology

 

 

 

NOON – 1:00 PM          LUNCH BREAK

 

AAR-WR BUSINESS MEETING (Benson CTR Parlor A)

 

CSU Religious Studies Curriculum Project
Facilitator: Richard E. Keady, San Jose State University
(Benson CTR Conf 11)

 

1:00 – 2:45 PM    SESSION TWELVE

 

30)  PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION II: DOMINATION & VIOLENCE: CONTEXTUAL AND THEORETICAL ANALYSIS (Arts Sci 133)

Siroj Sorajjakool, Loma Linda University, Presiding

George Dzimiri, Loma Linda University
      Mugabe, Oppression, and Power: Zimbabweans' Perspective

Hester Oberman, Independent Scholar, Arizona
      The Psychological Analysis of Violence and the Problem of Scandal

 

31)  ETHICS: SESSION II (Arts Sci 134)

Chair: Kelly Fitzsimmons, Arizona State University

Brandon M. Crowe, Arizona State University
      Modern Mission in America: Dinesh D'Souza and the Conservative Apologetic

Eli S. McCarthy, Graduate Theological Union
A Virtue Ethic Approach to Contemporary Just War Theory"

Nicholas Hankins, Claremont Graduate University
Natural Law and Human Rights: The Road to Universal Human Rights"

A. Elizabeth Lee, Graduate Theological Union
Exploring Trinitarian Virtues"

 

32)  PAN AFRICAN/ WOMANIST II:  NEW METHODS/NEW VISIONS: LIBERATION THEOLOGY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (Arts Sci 135)

Moderator:  Arisika Razak, California Institute of Integral Studies

Ralph Watkins: Fuller Theological Seminary
     The Re-Radicalization of Black Theology: Introducing and Africana Ethnographic Black Studies Method for Doing Black Theology

Paula L. McGee, Claremont Graduate University
     Liberation Theology, Identity, and Discourse: A Closer Look at the Coming Out of Sheryl Swoopes

 

33)  HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY II: POWER RELATIONS IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY: ISSUES OF RACE AND GENDER (Daly Sci 201)

Moderator: Dr. Marianne M. Delaporte, Notre Dame De Namur University

Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Church Divinity School of the Pacific
     Postcolonialism and Pre-Modern Jewish-Christian Relations

Gary Macy, Santa Clara University
     Recovering the Ordained Ministry of Women in Christianity

Elissa McCormack, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, 
     Angelique's Reform: Gender and Power in the Example of Port-Royal

Respondent - Christopher Ocker. San Francisco Theological Seminary

 

 

34)  RELIGIONS OF ASIA II:  RELIGIONS OF ASIA FILM SCREENING (O'Connor 201)

Moderator—Toby B. Johnson (UC-Riverside) 

Jonathan H X Lee, UC-Santa Barbara
      Happy Birthday Mazu: Empress of Heaven, Goddess of the Sea

35 minute film to be shown with discussion to follow 

 

3:00 – 5:00 PM    SESSION THIRTEEN

 

35)  GODDESS STUDIES II:  DELVING INTO THE VAST REALM OF GODDESS RESEARCH RECONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION (Daly Sci 201)

Laura Truxler, California Institute of Integral Studies, Presiding

Judy Grahn, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
     Helen, Goddess of the Aeons

Constance Chapman, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
     Empowering the Me in Women's Leadership

Lucia Birnbaum, California Institute of Integral Studies
     Goddess – Feminist Cultural Historical View

Dorothea Kahena Viale, Claremont Graduate University
     The Need for a Strong Goddess Vision in an Apocalyptic Society: What Kali, Demeter and Isis Can Teach Us to Survive

 

36)  ISLAMIC STUDIES II: MUSLIM STUDENTS IN AMERICA (Daly Sci 310)

Moderator: Souad T. Ali (Arizona State University)

Elliot Bazzano, UC Santa Barbara
     (De)constructing Barriers: Gender Segregation and Muslim College Students in America

Keith Atwater, American River College
     To Be Young, Gifted, and Muslim-American:
'post Islamic Fascism Week': Politics and Religion of California College Muslim Student Association Youth

Discussants: Muslim Students from Northern California:

Naveen Habib, UC Berkeley, Kamran Islam, UC Berkeley,  Sabba Siddiqui, UC Berkeley, Mohamed Ali, American River College, Ibrahim Fatouh, American River College

 

37) PSYCHOLOGY, CULTURE AND RELIGION II: INTEGRATING ACTION, ART AND FAITH (O'Connor 204)

Franz Metcalf, The Forge Institute, Presiding

Mark Banas, Mesa Community College
     Art and Play as Illustration of the Dialectical Experience of Religious Faith in Gadamer

Stanford J. Searl, Jr., Union Institute and University
     At the Crossroads of Deep Spiritual Worship and Social Action

 

38)  RELIGION AND THE ARTS II: ANXIETIES AND TRAUMAS (O'Connor 205)

Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University, Presiding

Andrea Sheaffer, Graduate Theological Union
      'By the Hand of a Woman?' Changing Gender Conventions in Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes

Hollis Anne Mitchem, Graduate Theological Union
     La Mano Poderosa in the Art of Enrique Chagoya
John Handley, Graduate Theological Union
     Un Chien andalou: The Eye of the Beholder in an Age of Anxiety