Next Meeting: March 9-11, 2012

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Confirmed Exhibitors
Abingdon Press
Augsburg Press
American Academy of Religion
Baker Publishing Group
Baylor University Press
Eisenbrauns
HaShem Artworks
Hendrickson Publishers
IVP Academic
Society of Biblical Literature Press
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Zondervan

 

Joerg Rieger Presents AAR Plenary 

 
Due to unavoidable personal circumstances, scheduled presenter Otto Maduro has had to cancel his planned address.  The AAR is fortunate that Joerg Rieger has generously agreed to present the plenary address.  Rieger's presentation is titled "Beyond Bind Faith: Religious Identities under the Conditions of Late Capitalism."Rieger is the Wendland-Cook Professor of Constructive Theology at Perkins School of Theology, SMU.  A prolific author and public scholar, Rieger specializes in theology and cultural studies with particular attention to liberation theologies and postcolonialism.  About Rieger, AAR Regional Coordinator Donna Bowman notes, "In this election year, with immigration and income inequality highlighted both as campaign issues and the focus of grassroots movements, Dr. Rieger's work on reinvigorating church and theology through visions of Christianity 'from below' could not be more timely."  

Peter Machinist Headlines SBL Program

Highly respected scholar of ancient Israelite cultural history, Peter Machinist is the featured plenary speaker for the Society of Biblical Literature at the upcoming SWCRS meeting.  Machinist, the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, will present a lecture entitled “World Imperium and the Biblical Prophets: A Literary and Historical Challenge.”  His research and teaching are especially concerned with the comparative study of cultures, including the ideology of imperialism and other forms of group identification. Machinist serves on the Faculties of Divinity and Arts and Sciences at Harvard.  The SWCRS proudly welcomes Professor Machinist to Texas. 

Harry Hale, Jr., 1933-2011
E. Earle Ellis, 1926-2010
Edith Wyshogrod, 1930-2009

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