2003 Program
March 13th, 2003
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American Academy of Religion/Western Region
2003 Program
SATURDAY, March 22nd
1-4:00 pm: AAR/WR Board of Directors Meeting 126 Voorhies
4-6 pm: Women’s Caucus Pre-Conference Workshop 126 Voorhies
5-6 pm: AAR/WR Exec C. 126 Voorhies
6 pm AAR/WR Board of Directors’ Dinner 126 Voorhies
SUNDAY, March 23rd: Session 1
8 :30 to 10:00am
A1 BUDDHISM DeCarli
Zhiru Ng, Pomona College, Presiding
THEME: Buddhism and Art
The Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, and Spiritual Meanings of the Buddhist
Wheel of Life Mandala
Michele Radford, Graduate Theological Union
Recent Findings on the Origin of Borobodur
Hudaya Kandahjaya, Graduate Theological Union
A2 WOMEN AND RELIGION II Smith
Fran Grace, University of Redlands, Presiding
THEME: Spirituality: Images of Women’s Experience
The Soul of Woman and the Dark Night of the Feminine
Beverly J. Lanzetta, Prescott College
Numinous Subjects
Lucy Tatman, University of California, San Diego
The Embodiment of God and the Particularity of Women’s Experience
Rebekah Knight-Baughman, Fuller Theological Seminary
A3 ETHICS I Fielder
Sheilah Jones, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding
Theme: Relationality and Reality: Ethical Reflections
Friendship as the Relational Context for Sexual Intimacy
Jean Ponder Soto, Graduate Theological Union
Feminist Ethics in “The Deep End”
Ellen Ott Marshall, Claremont School of Theology
Sheilah M. Jones, Loyola Marymount University, Respondent
The Implicit Ethics of Hwa-yen’s and Spinoza’s Ontological Theories
of Reality as Compared to Their Explicit Lack in Quantum Theory
Paige S.E. McAdoo, University of Wales, Lampeter
John Casey, Loyola Marymount University, Respondent
SUNDAY, March 23rd: Session 2
10:15 to 11:45am
A4 THEOLOGY / PHILOSOPHY OF RELIG I DeCarli
THEME: Issues in Philosophy of Theology
Serguei Dolgopolski, University of California at Berkeley & Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Kierkegaard’s Religious Understanding of the Concept of Dread
Jakob E. Van Vleet, Graduate Theological Union
The Fateful Destiny of Da-sein: Being and Time and Heidegger's Monstrous Error
Diane Bowers, Graduate Theological Union
Identity and Difference: Subjectivity of Différance
Heecheon Jeon, Claremont Graduate University
A5 WOMEN AND RELIGION I Smith
Delores Rashford, Holy Names College, Presiding
THEME: Feminist Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Religious Communities
Enemy or Ally: Feminist Theological Reflections on the Anti-Judaism in John’s
Gospel
Rita Nakashima Brock, Starr King School for Ministry
Anita M. Caspary and the Immaculate Heart Community
Susan M. Maloney, University of Redlands
The Myth of “Sisterhood”: Are Women’s Communities Defined
by Nurturance or by Envy?
Kristy S. Coleman, Claremont Graduate University
A6 INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS (Special Session) Fielder
Bridget Blomfield, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
People Speaking Silently to Themselves: Keith Bassos' Philosophical Speculations
on Western Apache "Sense of Place”
Martin Ball, University of California at Santa Barbara
I've Never Seen a Woman of Color with a Halo: Shifting Images of American Indians
in Reservation Catholic Churches
Kathleen Martin, University of California at Santa Barbara
A7 LATINA/O RELIGIONS I Garrison
Rudy Busto, Presiding
Theme: Teaching Latina/o Religion and Theology: Issues, Topics and Resources
Participants:
Roberto Lint-Sagarena, University of Southern California
Michelle A. Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University
Rudy V. Busto, University of California at Santa Barbara
SUNDAY, March 23rd: Lunch
12:00 to 1:30pm
A8 WOMEN’S CAUCUS LUNCH East Conf 1st Fl
A9 AAR/WR SECTION CHAIRS LUNCH MU II 2nd Fl
S1 SBL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Moss Rm 3rd Fl
SUNDAY, March 23rd: Session 3
1 :30 to 3:00 pm
A10 NINETEENTH CENTURY East Conf 1st Fl
Brad Starr, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding
THEME: Religion in the Nineteenth Century
Schleiermacher on Religion and the Religions
John Crossley, University of Southern California
The Idea of the Church in Liberal Theology
Sam Powell, Point Loma Nazarene College
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Montaignian Moment in America
B. Remington Myers, University of Southern California
A11 RELIGION AND THE ARTS I Smith
Marguerite Rigoglioso, Presiding
THEME: Embodied Movement and Sacred Transformation
Shaktiput: Women's Spirituality Practices of "Getting Religion" Through
Art
Margaret Kruszewska, New College of California
Make Way for the Changing: Intrinsic Movement as Transformative Spiritual Practice
and Expression of Women's Spirituality
Louise Paré, California Institute of Integral Studies
Sacred Body, Sacred Art: A Dianic Witch's Altar Room
Kerry Noonan, University of California at Los Angeles
A12 RELIGION IN AMERICA II Fielder
Jon R. Stone, California State University-Bakersfield, Presiding
THEME: American Religious Transformations: Three Historical Studies
The Gurdjieff Movement in the United States
Erika Wilson, California State University-Los Angeles
Abolitionists, Spirituality, and Exodusters: The Mythic Aura of Kansas in the
Late Nineteenth-Century
Jennifer Rycenga, San José State University
When Two or More are Gathered: Jefferson Boulevard and the Storefront Church
Mary Jane O’Donnell, Claremont Graduate University
A13 QUEER (LGBTQ) TBA 126 Voorhies
SUNDAY, March 23rd: Session 4
3:15 to 5:15pm
A14 PSYCHOLOGY AND
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DeCarli
Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
THEME: Religious Realities and Cultural Contexts
Understanding Faith from Emotion’s Perspective: Empirical Study of Breast
Cancer Patients
Johnny Ramirez-Johnson, Loma Linda University, and Theodora Stratis, Loma Linda
University
Nothingness and the Journey of a Thousand Li: Chuang Tzu’s Perspectives
on Reality and the Human Psyche
Siroj Sorajjakool, Loma Linda University
The Zar Ritual
Bridget Blomfield, Claremont Graduate University
The Sacred Capacities of the Imagination: A Comparison of Jungian Psychology
and Medieval Greek, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions
Sarah Pessin, California State University, Fresno
A15 ECOLOGY AND RELIGION I Smith
John Baumann, Warren Wilson College, Presiding
Presider: Suzanne Crawford, University of California, Santa Barbara
Christianity and the Environment: The Historical Alternatives of Dominion and
Stewardship
Glen G. Scorgie, Bethel Seminary San Diego
Hildegard of Bingen: Spirituality and Ecology
Maria Jaoudi, California State University, Sacramento
The Gathering of Traditions: The Reciprocal Alliance of History, Ecology,
Health, and Community among the Contemporary Chumash
Julie Cordero, University of California, Santa Barbara
Daoist Agency and Ecological Activity: A Critical Analysis of Daoism and Ecology
Evan Berry, University of California, Santa Barbara
A16 EDUCATION AND WORKSHOPS Fielder
Heather Ackley, Azusa Pacific University, Presiding
Paul Levesque, CSU Fullerton, Presiding
THEME: Embodying Diversity in Education: Teaching Diversely, Learning Diversely
Teaching the Dance of Religion
Cia Sautter, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
Panel: Learning from Each Other: Growing in a Pluralistic Environment
Mistie Shaw, Franciscan School of Theology, Moderator
Arthur Holder, Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Graduate Theological
Union, Panelist
Judy Yates Siker, American Baptist Seminary of the West and Graduate Theological
Union, Panelist
Elizabeth Drescher, Graduate Theological Union, Graduate Student Panelist
A17 PAN-AFRICAN/WOMANIST Garrison
Monica A. Coleman, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
THEME: Roots and Resources for Womanist Theology: Images of the Black Mother
Signs and images of the African Dark Mother in Spain: A Clue to the Central
Belief of Harmonious Medieval Cultures of Jews, Christians, and African Muslims
before 1492
Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, California Institute of Integral Studies
Respondent: Salim Faraji, Claremont Graduate University
The Black Mother as Moses-Christ: A Reading of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's
Iola Leroy
Marcia C. Robinson, Syracuse University
Respondent: Patricia-Anne Johnson, California State University, Long Beach
SUNDAY, March 23rd: Evening Activities
5:30 AAR/WR SBL/PCR Reception East Conference
6:30 AAR/WR SBL/PCR Banquet MU II
8:00 A18 AAR/WR Plenary, What do we want the AAR Look Like in 2009, Barbara
DeConcini , Executive Secretary AAR MU II
9:00 Queer (LGBTQ) Reception 126 Voorhies
MONDAY, March 24th: Session 5
8 :30 to 10:00am
A19 RELIGIONS OF ASIA I DeCarli
James Bretzke, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, Presiding
THEME: New Scholarship in Asian Religions
Towards a Typology of the Tao
Chanch C. Phan, San Jose State University
The Long Reign of Amaterasu-o-mi-kami, The Japanese Sun Goddess
Susan Carter, California Institute of Integral Studies
Inventing Yuura: A Divination Tradition Created by the Reconfiguration of Man'yoshu
Poetry
Kaoru N. Villa, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Respondent: Phyllis Herman, California State University, Northridge
A20 THEOLOGY / PHILOSOPHY
OF RELIGION III Smith
THEME: Issues in Epistemology of Religion
Harriet Baber, University of San Diego, presiding
Historical Relativity in Science and Religion: the Barbour-Smith-Gilkey Paradox
Andrew P. Porter, Graduate Theological Union
The Sociology of Knowledge: What Does It Entail for Evangelical Theology?
Steven Bertrand Sherman, Fuller Theological Seminary
'Hardcore Commonsense' and the Philosophy of Religion
David Brown, Claremont Graduate University
A21 RELIGION AND LITERATURE Fielder
John Lardas, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Theme: Vision and the Dirty Work of Redemption
Tragic Masks: Nietzsche and the Specular Drama of Redemption
Wendy Wiseman, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Intention of the Eye: Vision and God in Henry David Thoreau’s Journal
Malcolm C. Young, Harvard University
The Sanitary Virtues of Dirt: Sensual Regeneration, Spiritual Redemption, and
the Ritual of Gardening in Louisa May Alcott’s Work
Finbarr Curtis, University of California, Santa Barbara
Respondents: William Robert, University of California, Santa Barbara
John Lardas, University of California, Santa Barbara
MONDAY, March 24th: Session 6
10:15 to 11:45am
A22 RELIGION AND THE ARTS II DeCarli
Jennifer Rycenga, San José State University, Presiding
THEME: Re-Visioning Ancient Sacred Art
Shamanism and Sympathetic Magic at Çatalhöyük
Adrienne Momi, Independent Scholar
Disc Base - Cylindrical Body - Concave Neck - Trumpet Mouth: Humble Attic Oil
Pots Render Greek Ritual Lament in Artful Form
Gay Lynch, Graduate Theological Union
The Sacralizing Aesthetic: Encountering God, Encountering Beauty
Sarah Pessin, California State University at Fresno
A23 RELIGION IN AMERICA I Smith
Rebecca Moore, San Diego State University, Presiding
THEME: Religion and Eth[n]ics: Acceptance vs. Assimilation
Of Cows, Castes, Cartoons and Classrooms: The Misconception of Hinduism in
the American Popular Imagination
Norris W. Palmer, St. Mary’s College of California
An Ethno-religiographic Study of the Basque Community in Bakersfield, California
Philippe Duhart, California State University, Bakersfield and Jon Stone, California
State University, Bakersfield
New Age Mormons: Reconciliation and Assimilation
Doe Daughtrey, Arizona State University
A24 THEOLOGY / PHILOSOPHY
OF RELIGION II Fielder
THEME: Limits of Culture and Theology
Andrew P. Porter, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Feminist Metaformic Theology
Deborah Grenn-Scott, California Institute of Integral Studies
The Peace Corps: a Secular Mission?
Anne Christine Seiler, Arizona State University
Holy Lady Wisdom: Missing Link between Ancient and Modern Cultures
Miri Hunter Haruach (New College of California), Angeleen Campra,
Mara Lynn Keller (California Institute of Integral Studies)
A25 THEATRE AS
RELIGIOUS STUDIES PEDAGOGY Garrison
Victoria Rue, St. Lawrence University, Presenter
A26 QUEER (LGBTQ) II Mee Room 3rd Fl.
Doing Justice: The personal is still the Political: A Panel Presentation
Kat Reuter, Claremont Graduate University, facilitator (other panelists TBA)
MONDAY, March 24th: LUNCH, 12-1:30 pm
A27 WECSOR BOARD LUNCH Moss Room 3rd Fl.
MONDAY, March 24th: Session 7
1:20 to 3:20pm
A28 GRADUATE STUDENT SESSION DE CARLI
Jeffrey Williams, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
THEME: Workshop on preparing CVs and constructing cover letters
Participants:
Linda Moody, Dean, Antioch College, Los Angeles
Maura O’Neill, Chaffey College
BUSINESS MEETING: Jeffrey Williams, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
A29 PERSON, CULTURE,
AND RELIGION I SMITH
Kirk A. Bingaman, San Francisco Theological Seminary and Soo-Young Kwon, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Theme: Embodied Perspectives on Gender, Religion, and Culture
Atonement and Surrogacy: A Reply to Delores Williams
Robert Kevin Bolger, Claremont Graduate University
Bhagavathi's Ananku: Sacred Power in Menstruation in Kerala, India
Dianne E. Jenett, New College of California
Theme: The Impact of Culture, Ethics, and Theology on Views of Self and Other
Levinas, Ethics, and Psychotherapy
Alvin C. Dueck, Fuller Theological Seminary
Latin American Liberation Theology and the Turn to Culture
Andrea Giovannoni, Graduate Theological Union
A30 HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY I Fiedler
Laura Ammon, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
Christ and Culture in the Late Second and Early Third Century: Apologies, Apocryphal
Acts of the Apostles and Martyr Acts
Helen Rhee, Fuller Theological Seminary
Thou Shalt Not Play
Patrick Kelly, Claremont Graduate University
Pain, Punishment and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Katherine Hough, Graduate Theological Union
Evangelicalism and the Postmodern Spirit: Emerging Evangelical Understandings
of the Church
Glen G. Scorgie, Bethel Seminary San Diego
A31 SPECIAL PANEL SESSION Garrison
Theme: Teaching Religious Studies across the Disciplines
Naomi Janowitz, University of California at Davis
A32 RELIGION AND THE ARTS III Mee ROOM 3rd Fl.
Louise Paré, California Institute of Integral Studies, Presiding
THEME: Religious Art and Social Change
Re-Envisioning Sacred Art: Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue 1 as Devotional
Image
Tara Zdzienicki, Graduate Theological Union
Producing the Sacred Through the Secular: Christian Contemporary Rock Music
Paul Yunsik Chang, Stanford University
Ammachi's Birthday Songs: Call to End Caste Injustice
Aikya Param, Independent Scholar
Feminism, Art and Social Transformation
Beatriz Meija Krumbein, La Sierra University and Ginger Hanks Harwood, La Sierra
University
MONDAY, March 24th: Session 8
3 :30 to 5:15pm
A33 AAR/WR (3:30-4:15 pm) Presidential Address,
About Diversity: What’s a Religious Studies Professor to do?
Marilyn Gottschall, Whittier College
East Conference 1st Fl
A34 AAR/WR (4:15–5:15 pm) AAR/WR Business Meeting
East Conference 1st Fl
MONDAY, March 24th: evening
5:15 - 6:45 pm Wine and hors d’oeu’vres ($5/person)
Mee Room 3rd Fl.
7:00 pm No Host Dinner At a Local Restaurant, TBA
SBL/PCR Program
SUNDAY, March 23rd: early meetings
11:00- 12:00 Noon SBL Executive Committee
Moss Room 3rd Fl.
12:00 – 1:30 PM Section Chairs
SUNDAY, March 23rd: SBL Session 1
1 :15 to 3:00 pm
S2 New Testament Texts and Traditions I Mee Room 3rd Fl.
Rebecca Skaggs, Patten College, presiding
Unmasking the Enemy: De-Constructing the ‘Other’ in Matthew
Judy Yates Siker, ABSW and the Graduate Theological Union
The Canonical ‘Editing’ Process of the Greek New Testament
Duane Christensen, William Carey International University
The Ironic Use of Hoi Ioudaioi in the Fourth Gospel
Jeff Cate, California Baptist University
Matthew 27:52-53 as Apocalyptic Apostrophe: Temporal-Spatial Collapse in the
Gospel of Matthew
Kenneth Waters, Sr., Azusa Pacific University
S3 Hebrew Bible I: Grappling with Genesis De Carli
Joel Hunt, Fuller Theological Seminary, presiding
Rethinking the Covenant between Yahweh and Abraham (Gen 4:3-5:32)
Don C. Benjamin, Arizona State University
As though We Ourselves Experience the Exodus from Egypt: A Look at the Pesah/Matzot
Festival Complex in Exodus 12-13
Russell C.D. Arnold, University of Judaism/UCLA
When Bad Laws Happen to Good Kings: An Examination of Debt Manumission in Deuteronomy
15:1-11
Roger S. Nam, Fuller Theological Seminary
2 Samuel 12:1-14: In the Service of Deuteronomistic Ideology
Francisco V. Muonz, Claremont Graduate University
SUNDAY, March 23rd: SBL Session 2
3 :15 to 5:15 pm
S4 Judaism in the Greco-Roman Era I Mee Room 3rd Fl.
J. Edward Wright, University of Arizona, presiding
Unofficial Importance: False Prophets and the History of the Qumran Community
Robert Duke, UCLA
Women’s Prayers in Second Temple Judaism
Markus H. McDowell, Pepperdine University
Moses, Samuel, Elijah, and Jesus: Uninterpreting Messianic Expectations in
Pseudo-Philo 51:6
Todd R. Hanneken, Bellarmine College Prepatory
S5 Pentateuch MU II
Risa Levitt Kohn, San Diego State University, presiding
Genesis 42 Reflects Jacob’s Obedience of Deut 24:16
Gershon Hepner, Los Angeles, CA
Jacob’s Bargain with God
Jeff Geoghegan, Boston College
Magic in the Torah
Shawna Dolansky Overton, University of California, San Diego
What Happened to the Line of Cain?
Risa Levitt Kohn, San Diego State University
MONDAY, March 24th: SBL Session 3
8 :30 to 10:20 Am
S6 Bible and Archaeology Garrison
William H. Krieger, The Claremont Graduate University, presiding
Round Curls, Bug Eyes, and Bird Noses: What Are We Really Examining on the
Judean Pillar Figurines?
Dana Newlove, Claremont Graduate University
Sex, Food and the Naughty Hey Vav
Alice Wydro, Fuller Theological Seminary
Gendered Infanticide: A Test Case for the Archaeology of Gender
Beth Alpert Nakhai, University of Arizona
S7 New Testament Texts and Traditions II Mee Room 3rd Fl.
Rebecca Skaggs, Patten College, presiding
The Keys of Knowledge: The Syrian Jewish Heritage of the Gospel of Thomas
Lisa Karnan, Claremont Graduate University
Moral Accounting and Judgment in 1 Peter: Conceptual Metaphor in the Reading
and Interpretive Process
Bonnie Howe, Graduate Theological Union
Reading Matthew 6:16-34 for Liberation
Sean Burke, Graduate Theological Union
How Do You Read? The Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) in Light
of Its Old Testament Allusions
Nancy Duff, Fuller Theological Seminary
S8 Hebrew Bible II: Translations and Tendencies East Conference 1st
Floor
Joel H. Hunt, Fuller Theological Seminary, presiding
The Peshitta’s Translation of Amos 1;3-2:16. Its Setting and Translation
Technique
Petra Verwijs, Claremont Graduate University
Particle Power: The Meaning and Function of “na’” in the
Hebrew Bible
(EDITOR’S NOTE the “a” in “na’” has a horizontal
line over it and the notation after the “a” is like an apostrophe,
for the letter aleph)
Emily A. Champagne, Claremont Graduate University
Elephantine and Post-Exilic Jerusalem: Reconstituting Religious Community in
New Circumstances
Jared Ludlow, Brigham Young University-Hawaii
The Problem of Men in Feminist Biblical Criticism: The Case of the Hebrew Bible
Esther Fuchs, University of Arizona
MONDAY, March 24th: SBL Session 4 - Plenary
10:30 to 11:45 Am
S9 Canaanites, Egyptians, Philistines and Israelites: Archaeology,
Social
Boundaries, and Ethnicity in the Biblical World.
Ann E. Killebrew, The Pennsylvania State University MU II
MONDAY, March 24th: SBL Session 5
1 :20 to 3:00 pm
S10 New Testament Epistles and Apocalypse East Conference 1st Floor
Ron Hock, University of Southern California, Presiding
The Rhetoric of Persona in Romans: Re-Reading Rom. 1:1-12
James Hester, University of Redlands
1 Corinthians and Dialogism
Cronelia Cyss0Wittenstein, Graduate Theological Union
Jews and/or Gentiles: The Ethnic Identity of the Recipients of Hebrews
Michael Morrison, Fuller Theological Seminary
S11 Bible and Archaeology II MU II
Beth Alpert Nakhai, University of Arizona, Presiding
Once Bitten, Twice Shy?: Why Archaeologists Should Come Back to the Table With
Philosophers of Science
William H. Krieger, Claremont Graduate University
Who Wrote the Tel Dan Inscription?
David Miano, University of California, San Diego
2 Chronicles 11:5-12 and the Archaeological Site of Lachish
Francisco V. Munoz, Claremont Graduate University
MONDAY, March 24th: SBL Session 6
3:15 to 4:30 pm
S12 The James Ossuary MU II
Tammi Schneider, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
Burials Bones and Boxes in Jewish Antiquity
Gary Gilbert, Claremont Mckenna College
Excavating Jesus: Archaeology and the New Testament
Jonathan Reed, University of LaVerne
MONDAY, March 24th: SBL Presidential Address
4:45 to 5:45 pm
S13 SBL Presidential Address and Business Meeting MU II
The Role of Purity in the Qumran Era
Hannah K. Harrington, Patten College
5:15 - 6:45 pm Wine and hors d’oeu’vres ($5/person)
Mee Room 3rd Fl.
7:00 pm No Host Dinner At a Local Restaurant, TBA
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