-
Presider: Ann Pellegrini,
Barnard College
-
Robert J. Baird, The National
Faculty
Paper Money and Religion as a System of Symbols: The Creation of the
Spiritual
-
Joseph W. H. Lough, University
of Chicago
Religionswert and the Wertform of Money: Displacement or Realization?
-
Elizabeth A. Pritchard, Harvard
University
A Rhetoric of Failure? Theodor Adorno and Negative Theology
-
Christopher R. Jocks, Dartmouth
College
Behind the Green Frog-Skin Curtain: Medicine Shows and American Indian
Religions
-
Respondents: William
Pietz, Los Angeles, CA; Marc Shell, Harvard University
Session 2. Theme: Religious Exchange
/ Monetary Exchange: Capitalizing Religious Histories
-
Presider: Miriam Peskowitz,
University of Florida
-
Steven Engler, Concordia University
"All Men's Money": Almsgiving and Social Boundaries in Early
Modern England
-
Angela Zito, Barnard College
Filial Finance: Purchasing Parents in Seventeenth-Century China
-
Brian D. Ruppert, Princeton
University
Coins for the Buddha, a Jewel for the Emperor: Ritual Exchange and State-Temple
Relations in Early Medieval Japan
-
Bradford Vetter, Princeton University
Magical Capital: Popular and Elite Discourses on the Occult in England,
1875-1947
-
Respondent: Blake Leyerle,
University of Notre Dame
Session 3. Theme: Of Colonial
Genealogies and Postcolonial Projects: Reconceiving Curators of the Buddha
(Joint panel session - cosponsoring unit: Buddhism)
-
Presider: Stephen F.
Teiser, Princeton University
-
Catherine M. Bell, Santa Clara
University
-
Gustavo Benavides, Villanova
University
-
Janet Gyatso, Amherst College
-
Charles Hallisey, Harvard University
-
William David Hart, Duke University
-
Donald S. Lopez, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor
-
John S. Strong, Bates College
-
Angela Zito, Barnard College
San Francisco,
1997
Session 1. Theme: The (R)uses
of "Judeo-Christian"
-
Presider: Jay Geller,
Vanderbilt University
-
Stephanie Green, Yale University
Medieval Struggles for Exegetical Legitimacy in Chrétien de Troyes's
Story of the Grail
-
Jesse T. Todd, Colgate University
Producing the Judeo-Christian Tradition at the New York World's Fair,
1939-1940
-
Steven D. Kepnes, Colgate University
From the End/s of the Judeo-Christian Tradition to the End/s of the Jewish
Tradition
-
Respondents: Mark Silk,
Trinity College, Hartford; Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley
Session 2. Theme: Concealing
the Religious: The Secrecy of Scholarship and the Scholarship of Secrecy
-
Presider: Angela Zito,
Barnard College
-
Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Scholar in the Field as Malleable Symbol: With Mandaeans and Muslims
in Iran
-
Paul C. Johnson, University
of Missouri, Columbia
The Secret and the Scholar's Whisper in Brazilian Candomblé
-
Janet L. Jacobs, University
of Colorado, Boulder
Gender and Persistence of Culture: Ritual and Secrecy in the Crypto-Jewish
Household
-
Respondent: Hans G. Kippenberg,
University of Bremen, Germany
Session 3. Theme: The Emergence
of "Religion" in the Enlightenment and Post-Enlightenment: The Creation
of a New Discourse and Forms of Practice (Joint session - cosponsoring
unit: History of the Study of Religion Group) [now sadly defunct; cf.
Russell T. McCutcheon. 2003. The Discipline of Religion: Structure, Meaning,
Rhetoric. London & New York: Routledge. 96]
-
Presider: Sarah Coakley,
Harvard University
-
Jane A. Shaw, Oxford University
The Creation of "Religious Experience": Enlightenment Strategies
and Stories
-
Robert J. Baird, The National
Faculty, Atlanta
The Christian Roots of Religionswissenschaft
-
Michel Despland, Concordia University,
Montreal
Volney's Construction of Religion in General and of Islam in Particular
-
Grace M. Jantzen, University
of Manchester, U.K.
Disciplining Religion
-
Respondents: Phyllis
Mack, Rutgers University; Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University
Orlando, 1998
Session 1. Theme: The Politics
of Religious Illegitimacy
-
Presider: David S. Chidester,
University of Cape Town, South Africa
-
Ann Taves, Claremont School
of Theology
Enthusiasm and True Religion in the Transatlantic Awakening
-
Michael R. Bathgate, University
of Chicago
Misguided Beliefs: "Superstition" and "Religion"
in Meiji Japan
-
Thomas Pearson, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Representing Animism: Converts' Appropriation of Missionary and Anthropological
Constructions of Religion and Culture
-
Respondent: Randall G.
Styers, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Session 2. Theme: The Politics
of Religious Identity
-
Presider: Gregory D.
Alles, Western Maryland College
-
Steven Wasserstrom, Reed College
Conversations with the Pagan–An Esoteric Device in Twelfth Century
Comparative Religion
-
Karen L. King, Harvard University
The Politics of Syncretism and the Identity of Gnosticism
-
Gustavo Benavides, Villanova
University
Power, Intelligibility and the Boundaries of Religions
-
Respondent: Kurt Rudolph,
University of Marburg, Germany
Boston, 1999
Session 1. Theme: Practice and
Politics in the Study of Religion
-
Presider: Angela Zito,
Barnard College
-
Joseph W. H. Lough, University
of Chicago
Marx's "Praxis" and/or Adorno's "Standpoint of Redemption"
-
Charles T. Vehse, West Virginia
University
Religion and Social Practice: A Contribution to Theoretical Discourse
in the History of Religions
Nancy Levene, Harvard University
Echoes from the Peanut Gallery: Theory and/or Practice for the Public
Intellectual
-
Mark Wood, Virginia Commonwealth
University
Religious Studies as Critical Organic Intellectual Practice
-
Respondent: William Pietz,
Los Angeles, CA
Session 2. Theme: Center Crossings,
Crossing Borders and Other Crosscultural Translations
-
Presider: Jay Geller,
Vanderbilt University
-
Roger Friedland and Richard
Hecht, University of California, Santa Barbara
Central Powers: Theorizing the Sacred Center
-
Philip Chmielewski, Loyola University,
Chicago
Power at the Border: Silence and Veiling
-
Daniel Madera, Emory University
The Limits of Intelligibility: Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and the Virgin
of Baños
-
Respondent: Catherine
M. Bell, Santa Clara University
Session 3. Theme: A Discussion
of Steven Wasserstrom, Religion after Religion: Gershom Scholem, Mircea
Eliade and Henry Corbin at Eranos (Joint panel session - cosponsoring
unit: Comparative
Studies in Religion)
-
Presider: Carol Zaleski,
Smith College
-
Hugh Urban, Ohio State University
-
Gil Anidjar, Williams College
-
Tomoko Masuzawa, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor
-
Carl Ernst, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill
-
Gustavo Benavides, Villanova
University
-
Respondent: Steven Wasserstrom,
Reed College
Nashville, 2000
Session 1. Theme: Habitus as
a Religious Category?
-
Presider: Derek N. Duncan,
Vanderbilt University
-
Robert J. Baird, The National
Faculty
Bourdieu's Habitus: A New Critical Vocabulary for Religion or More Nostalgia
-
Steven Engler, Mount Royal College
"Modern Times": Habitus, Consecration, and Religion in Late-Modernity
-
Gregory Kaplan, Stanford University
"Everyday Religiosity": How Does Ritual Transfigure Habitus?
-
Philip Harrold, University of
Chicago
"Devotion to a Larger Whole": Translations of Religious Habitus
in Early Protestant Modernism
-
Respondent: Ann Taves,
Claremont School of Theology
Session 2. Theme: The Body of
Tradition
-
Presider: Gustavo Benavides,
Villanova University
-
Lisa Maurizio, Bates College
The Feminization of Ancient Athens during the Anthesteria: Running outside
the Boundaries of Civic Space and Identity
-
C. Neal Keye, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Bodily Inscriptions: Religion and the Myth of Women as "Tradition"
in Colonial Social Formations
-
Richard Weiss, University of
Chicago
Scientific Selves and Superstitious Others: Medical Authority and Nationalism
in India
-
Respondent: Nancy Caciola,
University of California, San Diego
Session 3. Theme: On Bruce Lincoln,
Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology and Scholarship (Joint panel
session - cosponsoring unit: Ritual
Studies)
-
Presider: Madeline Duntley,
The College of Wooster
-
Russell McCutcheon, Southwest
Missouri State University
-
Jay Geller, Vanderbilt University
-
Page duBois, University of California,
San Diego
-
Robert Segal, Lancaster University,
U.K.
-
Respondent: Bruce Lincoln,
University of Chicago
Denver, 2001
Session 1. Theme: Religion and/as
Construction I: Is Construction itself a Construct?
-
Presider: Mary Keller,
University of Stirling, Scotland
-
Kathleen M. Sands, University
of Massachusetts, Boston
Tracking Religion: Critical Studies, Cultural Studies, and the Study
of Religion
-
Karen de Vries, University of
California, Santa Cruz
Constructing the Mind-Brain: Cognition, Conversation, and Conversion
in the Scientific Study of Religion
-
Roland Boer, Monash University
Marxism and Constructionism
-
Steven Engler, Mount Royal College
Social Constructionism vs. What?
-
Respondent: Gustavo Benavides,
Villanova University
Session 2. Theme: Religion and/as
Construction II: Frauds, Constructions, Institutions, Identities
-
Presider: Sean McCloud,
The College of Charleston
-
A. J. Droge, University of California,
San Diego
Il/legitimate
-
Jeff Kenney, DePauw University
Constructing an Anti-Model of (Political) Violence: The Kharijites In
Medieval Islamic Thought
-
David Shefferman, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Instituting Santería: Afro-Cuban Studies and the Politics of Enchantment
(1939)
-
David Shorter, University of
California, Santa Cruz
Yoeme Indian Place-Making and Religious Identity in Northwest Mexico
-
Respondent: Frank Korom,
Boston University
-
Presider: Steven Engler,
Mount Royal College
-
Hans G. Kippenberg, University
of Bremen / Max-Weber-Kolleg Erfurt.
Religious History and the Construction of Modernity
-
Kocku von Stuckrad, University
of Bremen
Relative, Contingent, Determined: The Category 'History' and its Methodological
Dilemma
-
Gustavo Benavides, Villanova
University
Religion, Modernity and the Dilemmas of Reflexivity
-
Ann Taves, Claremont School
of Theology and Claremont Graduate University
The Power of Pre-Animistic Religion: Narrative and Explanation in The
History of the Study of Religion
-
Steven Wasserstrom, Reed College
The Idea of Europe and the Origins of Religionsgeschichte: Some Thoughts
after Kippenberg
-
Respondent: Hans G. Kippenberg
Toronto, 2002
Session 1a. Theme: Material Economies
of Religion
-
Presider: Gustavo Benavides,
Villanova University
-
Maria Heim, California State
University, Long Beach
Commodification, Classification and Contestation in the South Asian Gift
-
Steven Engler, Mount Royal College,
Calgary
Michel Despland on Modernity and (Material) Economies of Religion
-
Respondent: Michel Despland,
Concordia University, Montreal
Session 1b. Theme: Other Views
of the Other
-
Finbarr Curtis, University of
California, Santa Barbara
The Certainty of Scientific Creationism
-
Richard S.Weiss, University
of Chicago
The Other and the Possibility of Utopia
-
Respondent: Martin Baumann,
University of Hannover
Session 2. Theme: Violence As
Constitutive of Religion
-
Presider: Frank Korom,
Boston University
-
Jacob Kinnard, College of William
and Mary
Communitas and Conflict: Rethinking and Reapplying Turner's Analysis
of the Pilgrimage Process
-
William A. Barbieri, Catholic
University of America
Discourses of Militancy in Islam: A Heterological View (unable to
attend)
-
Robert A. Segal, Lancaster University
The Frazerian Roots of the Theories of Girard and Burkert on Religion
and Violence
-
Jay Geller, Vanderbilt University
The Hermeneutics of Violence and the Violence of Hermeneutics: From Walter
Benjamin to Jacques Derrida to Sam D. Gill, with Sidetracks to Michael Taussig
and Michael Bernstein
-
Respondent: Gustavo Benavides,
Villanova University
Session 3. Theme: Postcolonial
Theory and the Philosophy of Religion(s) (Joint session - cosponsoring
unit: Philosophy
of Religion)
-
Presider: Warren G. Frisina,
Hofstra University
-
Paulo Goncalves, SOAS, University
of London
The Impropriety of Philosophy of Religion and the Possibility of Transformation
-
Arvind Mandair, Hofstra University
The Auto-Immunity of the Philosophy of Religion: Onto-theology, Historical
Difference and the Construction of Indic Religions
-
Grace M. Jantzen, University
of Manchester
Uneasy Intersections: Postcolonialsim, Feminism, and the Study of Religion
-
Richard King, University of
Derby
Postcolonial Theory and the Philosophy of Religion: Reflections on Philosophy
‘After the Age of Europe’
-
Respondent: Tomoko Masuzawa,
University of Michigan
Atlanta, 2003
Session 1. Theme: Communication,
Public Arenas, Secularity, and the Quest of Modern Culture
-
Presider: Robert A. Segal,
University of Lancaster, United Kingdom
-
Norichika Horie, University
of the Sacred Heart, Japan
Construction of Religion as Culture
-
Robert J. Baird, Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation
Thinking at the Boundaries of Religion and the Secular: Talal Asad's
Formations of the Secular
-
Kocku von Stuckrad, University
of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Religion as Communication: Do We Need a New Paradigm?
-
Respondent: Gustavo Benavides,
Villanova University
Session 2. Theme: Critical Views
of Neurotheology & Cognitive Science of Religion
-
Presider: Jay Geller,
Vanderbilt University
-
Michael T. Bradley Jr., Georgia
State University
'We Shall Take No Account of the Soul': An Assessment of the Cognitive
Basis of Religion
-
Matthew C. Day, Florida State
University
Religion, Off-Line Cognition and the Virtues of Embeddedness
-
Jonathan Feit, Boston University
Neuropsychology and Its Critics
-
Respondent: Robert N.
McCauley, Emory University
-
Presider: Greg Grieve,
UNC-Greensboro
-
Susanna Morrill, University
of Chicago
The Interpretation of Tradition within Mormon Women's Literature
-
Gregory Johnson, Franklin &
Marshall College
Traditional Visions and Seeing Like a State
-
Jason Carbine, University of
Chicago
Simas and Monastic Purification: The Kalyani Inscriptions in 15th century
Burma
-
Frederick S. Colby, Miami University
Innovative Tradition in the Celebration of Two Muslim Festivals
-
Respondents: Richard
S. Weiss, Victoria University, New Zealand; Steven Engler, Mount Royal College,
Canada
San Antonio, 2004
Session 1. Critical Perspectives
on Dubuisson's The Western Construction of Religion
-
Presider: Mary Keller,
University of Wyoming
-
Robert A. Segal, Lancaster
University
Daniel Dubuisson's The Western Construction of Religion
-
Aaron W. Hughes, University
of Calgary
Haven't We Been Here Before?: Rehabilitating "Religion" in
Light of Dubuisson's Critique
-
Gustavo Benavides, Villanova
University
Is Religion a Western Invention?
-
Steven Engler, Mount Royal
College
Agency, Order, and Time in the Human Science of Religion
-
Respondent: Ann Taves
Session 2. Monotheism(s) and
Polytheism(s): Rhetorics and Legacies
-
Presider: Paul Christopher
Johnson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
-
Greg Grieve, University of
North Carolina, Greensboro
Symbol, Idol, and Murti: Monotheism's Spiritual Legacy and the Rhetoric
of Scripturalism
-
Michael Hawley, Mount Royal
College
Encounters with Monotheisms: Radhakrishnan on Christian, Hindu, and
Islamic Monotheism
-
Wouter J. Hanegraaff, University
of Amsterdam
Mysteries of Incarnation: The Hermetic Animation of Statues in Christian
Monotheism
-
Kocku von Stuckrad, University
of Amsterdam
European Polytheism Revisited: From "Pagan Dreams" to Visual
Culture in Renaissance Studies
-
Respondent: Steve Wasserstrom,
Reed College
Session 1. Religion, Science,
and Political Discourse: Transfers and Interactions
-
Presider: Allison P.
Coudert, University of California, Davis
-
Caleb Elfenbein, University
of California, Santa Barbara
Discourses on Religion, Islam, and the Remaking of Iraq
-
Jenna Tiitsman, Union Theological
Seminary
Looking for What You Cannot See: Fascination
with Forensic Drama and the Blind Faith of Bush
-
Kocku von Stuckrad, University
of Amsterdam
On the Interface of Cultures: Astrology, Chymistry, and Kabbalah between
Science and Religion
-
Titus Hjelm, University of
Helsinki
Meaning and Implications of Medicalization for the Study of Religion
Session 2. A Critical Evaluation
of Tomoko Masuzawa's The Invention of World Religions (Joint panel
session - cosponsoring unit: Theology and Religious Reflection Section)
-
Presider: Robert A. Segal,
University of Lancaster
-
Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University
-
Catherine Bell, Santa Clara
University
-
Ivan Strenski, University of
California, Riverside
-
Richard King, Vanderbilt University
-
Respondent: Tomoko Masuzawa,
University of Michigan
Session 3. (World-)Religionization:
The Politics of Religion-Making (Joint session - cosponsoring unit: Comparative
Studies in Religion Section)
-
Presider: Warren
G. Frisina, Hofstra University
-
Arvind Mandair, Hofstra
University
Constructing Sikhism as a "World-Religion": Transcendence,
Historicism, and the Comparative Imaginary of the West
-
Markus Dressler, Hofstra
University
Religionizing Turkish Alevism: The Compelling
Power of Institutionalized Religion
-
Timothy Daniels, Hofstra
University
Javanism, Tourist Culture, and Religious Rationalization
-
Greg Grieve, University
of North Carolina, Greensboro
"That's Not the Way We Operate": The Political Implications
of the Globalatinized Mandala
-
Respondent: Angela
Zito, New York University
-
Presider: Francis X.
Clooney, Harvard University
-
Gustavo Benavides, Villanova
University
-
Vasudha Narayanan, University
of Florida
-
Frederick M. Denny, University
of Colorado, Boulder
-
Chris Jocks, Arizona State University
-
Amy M. Hollywood, University
of Chicago
-
Respondent: Lindsay Jones,
Ohio State University, Columbus
Session
1. Religion
Through the Senses
-
Presider:
Donald S. Lopez, University of Michigan
-
Kerry Martin
Skora, Hiram College
Embraced by Being: Abhinavagupta's Recovery of the Sense of Touch
-
Holly Gayley,
Harvard University
Soteriology of the Senses in Tibetan Buddhism
-
Susan Ashbrook
Harvey, Brown University
Why the Smells Matter: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination
-
Respondent:
Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto
Session 2.
Gift, Class, Agency: Rethinking Concepts and Cases
-
Presider:
Hans G. Kippenberg, Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt (Germany)
-
Arlene Macdonald,
University of Toronto
'It felt like a gift': Attending to Religion in Organ Exchange
-
Richard
J. Callahan, University of Missouri-Columbia
Religion as Street Fight: Religion, Performance, and the Industrial
Workers of the World
-
John Seitz,
Harvard University
Resistance and Belonging in Parish Vigils in the Boston Archdiocese
Session 3.
Disciplinary Traditions Reconsidered: Comparative Approaches to the Study
of Western Esotericism and Religion (Joint
session - cosponsoring unit:
Western
Esotericism Group)
-
Presider: Jeffrey
J. Kripal, Rice University
-
Olav Hammer, University of
Southern Denmark
Utopian Thinking and Esoteric Discourse: Esotericism as a Comparative
Category
-
Kocku von Stuckrad, University
of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Esotericism and Mysticism: What Is the Difference?
-
Theodore Vial, Iliff School
of Theology
Chips from another German Workshop: Schleiermacher among the Theorists
of Religion
-
Christopher Lehrich, Boston
University
Discipline and Interdiscipline: On Magical Comparisons
