Religious Change and Immigration: The Indian Experience
11:00 Zacheryadam Collins, Stephen F. Austin State University
Leaders of New Religious Movements
11:30 J.B. Watson, Jr. and Walt Scalen, Stephen F. Austin State University
Jesus at Disneyland or Spiritual Innovation: The Enmeshment of Consumer Culture & U.S. Evangelical Religious Practices
AAR: Arts, Literature, and Religon
Theme: Religion & Film Roundtable: New Directions in the Field of Religion and Film
Presiding: Allen H. Redmon, Texas A&M University, Central Texas, and
John S. Vassar, Louisiana State University in Shreveport
10:30 Allen H. Redmon, Texas A&M University, Central Texas
A Few Words: From the Humanities
10:45 John S. Vassar, Louisiana State University in Shreveport
A Few Words: From Religious Studies
11:00 Roundtable Discussion
AAR: Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion
Theme: Islam
Presiding: Mark Dennis, Texas Christian University
10:30 Dann J. May, Wimberly School of Religion
Service-Learning Projects at Buddhist Temples and an Islamic Masjid: Best Practices and Cross-Sectional Analysis of Faculty and Student Surveys from an Introduction to World Religions Course
11:00 Yushau Sodiq, Texas Christian University
Can the Spring Revolution in Egypt Succeed without the Participation of the MuslimBrothers (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun)?
11:30 Discussion
Non-specialists Who Wish to Teach the Arab Spring in a World Religions Course
AAR: Ethics, Society, and Cultural Analysis
Theme: Teaching Ethics: Pedagogical Conversations on Teaching and Learning
Presiding: Andrew Dunning, Southern Methodist University
Jack Hill, Texas Christian University, Moderator
Panel Discussion: Reflections on Two Year Wabash Center Grant to the Graduate Program in Religious Studies at SMU
AAR: History of Christianity
Theme: Explorations of Faith Through Literature
Presiding: Elizabeth Flowers, Texas Christian University
10:30 William Pitts, Baylor University
Faith and Doubt in Mary Ward’s Robert Elsemere
11:00 Mitchell G. Klingenberg, Texas Christian University
Rendering Eden: The Religious Idea of the American West in the Literature of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Willa Cather
11:30 C.J.T. Talar, University of Saint Thomas
The Novelist and Social Catholicism: George Fonsegrive’s Le Fils de l’Esprit
AAR: Philosophy of Religion and Theology
Theme: Christology, Theology, and Atheism
Presiding: Donna Bowman, University of Central Arkansas
10:30 Doug Kennard, Houston Graduate School of Theology
A Biblical and Philosophical Critique of Anselm’s Argument for the Chalcedonian Formula for Christ’s Hypostatic Union as Presented in Cur Deus Homo, with Extended Critique for Melancthon’s Penal Substitutionary Atonement and Milgrom’s Second Temple Atonement
10:50 Julia Fracker, St. Mary’s University
Complementarity at Work: An Analysis of John Paul II’s Theology of the Body in the Hiring Process
11:10 Steve Rodenborn, St. Edward’s University
Revisiting the Origins of Modern Atheism
11:30 Discussion
Saturday, March 11, 12:00-1:30
Lunch (On Your Own); Specials available in hotel restaurant
Please visit our supporting exhibitors in the ballroom.
Saturday Afternoon, March 11 (1:30-3:30)
SBL: Hebrew Bible
Theme: The Prophets
Presiding: Jo Ann Hackett, University of Texas
1:30 Jonathan Huddleston, Abilene Christian University
Myth from the Margins: Examining the Function of Mythic Discourse in Amos
1:54 Anna Sieges, Baylor University
Zephaniah and the Deuteronomistic History: A Response to Skeptics
2:18 Chuck Pitts, Houston Graduate School of Theology
שָׁלוֹםorרָעָה? Jer. 29:11 in Its Canonical and Contemporary Context
2:42 Max Rogland, Erskine Theological Seminary
The Language of Haggai: Diachronic Profile and Literary Register
3:06 Robert Kashow, Dallas Theological Seminary
The Messianic Prophecies of Hag 2:20-23, Zech 3:7-10, and 6:9-15a in Their Canonical Context
SBL: New Testament I
Theme: Studies in Luke and Acts
Presider: Peter Davids, Houston Baptist University
1:30 Sharon Betsworth, Oklahoma City University
The Boy Jesus in the Temple: Reading Luke 2:41-52 in the Context of the Role of Children in Roman Religion
2:00 Renate Viveen Hood, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
From Lake to Shining Sea: A Narrative Analysis of Progressive Parallelism in Luke-Acts
2:30 Mikeal Parsons and Peter Reynolds, Baylor University
Early Pentecostals on Pentecost (Acts 2)
3:00 Discussion
SBL: New Testament II
Theme: The Book of Hebrews and The Gospel of Mark
Presiding: Warren Carter, Brite Divinity School
1:30 Brian Gamel, Baylor University
Salvation in a Sentence: Mark 15:39 as Markan Soteriology
1:55 Michael Whitenton, Baylor University
The “Trial” of the Topical Jesus: The Topos of Testimony in Mark’s Passion Narrative
2:20 Daniel Streett, Criswell College
Heavenly Holidays: Angelic Festival Observance in Second Temple Judaism and the Letter to the Hebrews
2:45 Scott Ryan, Baylor University
Joshua, Jesus, and the ἀρχηγός: The Rhetorical Use of the Narrative Pattern of Exodus and Conquest in the Epistle to the Hebrews
3:10 Discussion
ASOR
Theme: New Testament Archaeology
Presiding: James Moyer, Missouri State University
1:30 Trey Thames, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Emmaus in Light of Recent Experimental Archaeology
2:00 Lourdes Rincon, Xavier University of Louisiana
What Does Archaeology Tell Us About Paul's Travel Statements?
2:30 Chad Spigel, Trinity University
The Kyrios Leontis Synagogue: An Argument about House Synagogues
3:00 Heather Reichstadt,The Tandy Archaeological Museum
Dead Sea Scroll Archaeology as Represented in the 2012 DSS Exhibit
ASSR
Theme: Memorials, Heroes, Heaven, and Postmodern Gods
Presiding: Eddy F. Carder, Prairie View A&M University
1:30 Nathan Carlin, University of Texas Medical School at Houston and
Heba Khan, Rice University
Memorials and Mourning: Some Reflections on American Civil Religion
2:00 Karol A. Chandler-Ezell, Stephen F. Austin State University
Everquesting the Hero’s Journey: Playing on Archetypal Elements in Role-Playing Games
2:30 Todd Jay Leonard, Fukuoka University of Education
Messages from Heaven: A Research Study on Spiritualist Ministers and Their "Calling" to Serve Spirit
3:00 Jon K. Loessin, Wharton County Junior College
Baudrillard, Cioran, and the Postmodern Gods
AAR: Arts, Literature, and Religion
Theme: Open Studio: Artists Talk Back
Presiding: Katherine Brown Downey, The Hockaday School, and
Allen H. Redmon, Texas A&M University, Central Texas
1:30 Painting Ezekiel 16: The Bounds of Sexual Objectification
2:30 Poetspeak: Redemption
AAR: Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion
Theme: Individual Papers
Presiding: Claire Villarreal, Rice University
1:30 Clement Tong, University of British Columbia
The Christian Apocalypse and the Chinese Imagination
2:00 Richard Kent Evans, Texas Tech University
Confession of Defeat: Mormon Apologetics versus Academic Consensus (1879-1922)
2:30 C. Mackenzie Brown, Trinity University
Global Darwinism: Asian Religious Responses to Natural Selection and Survival of the Fittest
3:00 Andy Fort, Texas Christian University
Visiting Braj, Krishna's Homeland
AAR: Ethics, Society, and Cultural Analysis
Theme: Womanist Ethics and Liberation Theo-Ethical Perspectives
Presiding: Jack Hill, Texas Christian University
1:30 Darrius D. Hills, Rice University
Face to Face Theo-Ethics: A Conversation between Alice Walker and Emmanuel Levinas
2:00 Courtney A. Lyons, Baylor University
The Liberation of a Suffering Sister
2:30 Jared Vazquez, Phillips Theological Seminary
Defining Our Community, Defining Ourselves: Queer Puerto Ricans, Transnationalism, and the Search for Identity
AAR: History of Christianity
Theme: Contested Realities in Twentieth Century American Religious Experiences
Presiding: Angela Tarángo, Trinity University
1:30 Chad Seales, University of Texas at Austin
We Are Easter People: Anglo-American Reactions to Latino Catholic Good Friday Processions in Siler City, North Carolina
2:00 James Gorman, Baylor University
The Method of Twenty-First Century Creationism: Answers in Genesis’s Creation Museum
2:30 Jesse A. Hoover, Baylor University
“Thy Daughters Shall Prophesy:” The Assemblies of God, Inerrancy, and the Question of Clergywomen
3:00 Santiago Piñón, Texas Christian University
Citizens, Immigrants, Aliens and Neighbors: A New Communal Reality
AAR: Philosophy of Religion and Theology
Panel Discussion: Visions of the Ideal
Panelists:
Donna Bowman, University of Central Arkansas
Sage Elwell, Texas Christian University
Rebecca Huskey, University of Oklahoma
Dan Stiver, Hardin-Simmons University
Saturday Afternoon, March 10(4:00-5:30)
Coffee Break, Book Exhibit Hall
Complimentary coffee and tea
Saturday Afternoon, March 11 (4:00-5:30)
AAR: Plenary Address
Presiding: John Starkey, Oklahoma City University
President, AAR-SW
Otto Madura, Drew University
President, AAR
Pierre Bourdieu's Work as a Toolkit for Religious Studies
SBL: Hebrew Bible I
Theme: Psalms
Presider: Stephen Reid, Truett Seminary
4:00 Libby Ballard, Baylor University
Remembering Israel’s Past in Worship: An Analysis of Psalms 105 and 106 According to the Religious Economies Sociological Theory of Religion
4:25 Sung Ho Moon, Baylor University
Pre-Battle Ritual: A Cult-Functional Origin of Psalm 7
4:50 Andrew D. Street, University of Wales
Eschatological Interpretation of Psalm 80 in the LXX
5:15 Discussion
SBL: Hebrew Bible II
Theme: Politics and Rhetorics
Presider: Kelley Coblentz Bautsch, St. Edward’s University
4:00 Ginny Brewer-Boydston, Baylor University
The First Lady of the Kingdom: Reexamining the Uses of Bevirah for the Queen Mother of the Divided Monarchy
4:25 B.J. Parker, Baylor University
The Metamorphosis of the King in Psalm 72
4:50 Meredith J. Stone, Brite Divinity School
Turning From Choice to Acceptance: A Rhetorical Analysis of Qoheleth 3:1-8
5:15 Discussion
SBL: New Testament I
Theme: Studies in 1 Corinthians
Presider: Mikeal Parsons, Baylor University
4:00 Tim Brookins, Houston Baptist University
Interpreting the “Wisdom” of the Corinthians: A Methodological Proposal
4:25 Howard McMurry, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
1 Corinthians 14:20-25: An Exegetical Puzzle
4:50 Jay E. Smith, Dallas Theological Seminary
The Slogan-Retort Pattern of 1 Corinthians 6:13–14: Correcting Translations, Rethinking Sōma
5:15 Discussion
SBL: New Testament II
Theme: The Roman World and the New Testament
Presider: David Capes, Houston Baptist University
4:00 Alan Streett, Criswell College
The Lord’s Supper as an Anti-Imperial Praxis
4:20 Warren Carter, Brite Divinity School
Master/s of the Sea? Ephesian Fishermen, John 6:16-21, and John 21
4:40 Wendell Willis, Abilene Christian University
Roman Citizenship and Paul
5:00 Renate Viveen Hood, Evan Duncan, and Hannah Eaton,
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
The Papyri Will Cry Out: A Physical Analysis of a Recently Discovered Papyrus Fragment of Hebrews 9
5:10 Discussion
ASOR and SBL: Joint Session
Theme: Paul: Current Issues in the Field of Pauline Studies
Presiding: Michael Homan, Xavier University of Louisiana, and
James Thompson, Abilene Christian University
4:00 Tom Davis, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Paul on Cyprus: The Transformation of an Apostle
4:30 Sze-kar Wan, Southern Methodist University
Current Issues in Pauline Studies
ASSR
Theme: Church Paradigms and Church Culture
Presiding: Ben D. Craver, Wayland Baptist University
4:00 Chuck Pitts, Houston Graduate School of Theology
Jeremiah 29:11 as a 21st Century Church Paradigm
4:30 Michael D. Royster, Prairie View A&M University
Habits of the Contra-Evangelistic Church Culture: An Analysis of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of Conspicuous Waste in the Ecclesiastical Context
5:00 Business Meeting
Saturday Evening, March 10 (5:30-6:30)
Reception
Registrants will receive a ticket for the reception.
Complimentary food and beverage will be served.
Announcement of 2012 Awards
Presiding: Warren Carter, Brite Divinity School
President, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
Saturday Evening, March 10 (6:30-8:30)
SBL: Plenary Address
Presiding: Jan Jaynes Quesada, Texas Christian University
President, SBL-SW
Peter Machinist, Harvard University
World Imperium and the Biblical Prophets:
A Literary and Historical Challenge
ASSR
Theme: Abstract Objects, the Nature of Belief, Existential Anthropology, and the Monastery
Presiding: Todd Jay Leonard, Fukuoka University of Education
6:30 Eddy F. Carder, Prairie View A&M University
The Platonic Notion of Abstract Objects and the Theistic Metaphysical Vision: A Question of Compatibility
7:00 Celucien L. Joseph, Tarrant County College
Jean Price-Mars’s Philosophy of Religion and His Discourse on the Nature of Belief
7:30 Patrick Scott Smith, Independent Scholar, Republic, Missouri
Existential Anthropology and the Advent of and Similarities in Sports, War, and Religion
8:00 Scott Stripling, Wharton County Junior College
Money in the Maqatir Monastery
AAR: Arts, Literature, and Religion
Theme: Cross-Sections of the Arts, Literature & Religion: Black Religion(s) and the Harlem Renaissance
Presiding: Keri Day and Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University
6:30 Keri Day and Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University
The Importance of Black Religion(s) during the Era of the New Negro
6:45 Rodney A. Thomas, Jr., Independent Scholar
Dystopia & Dehumanization: A Comparative Study of the Theological Ethics in the Science Fiction of C.S. Lewis and Samuel I. Brooks (George Schuyler) in the 1930s
7:15 Celucien L. Joseph, Tarrant County College
Langston Hughes’s Perspective on Religion and the Failure of American Christianity
7:45 Phillip Luke Sinitiere, Sam Houston State University
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Crosses the Color Line
8:15 Conversation: The Role of Religion in the Harlem Renaissance
AAR: History of Christianity
Theme: Fifty Years After Vatican II
Presiding: Craig Clarkson, Baylor University
6:30 Bryan C. Maine, Baylor University
A Theology of Hope: Henry de Lubac and the International Theological Commission’s Publication of “The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die Without Being Baptized”
7:00 Nicole Driscoll, St. Edward’s University
Thomas Aquinas, Vatican II and the Reception of the Eucharist
7:30 Jason Surmiller, University of Texas at Dallas
Vatican II and the Implementation of the Permanent Diaconate
8:00 Nadia M. Lahutsky, Texas Christian University
From “Heretics and Schismatics” to “Separated Brethren” and Back Again?
Saturday Evening, March 10 (8:00-9:30)
Institute for Biblical Research, Southwest Region
Presiding: Rodney Reeves, Southwest Baptist University
8:00 Doug Kennard, Houston Graduate School of Theology
Devotional
8:15 Rusty Osborne, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Arbor and Arrogance: Personification and Pride in Ezekiel and the Prophets
8:45 David Ritsema, B. H. Carroll Theological Institute
The Divine Messiah: A Portrait of Jesus in the Johannine Literature
Sunday Morning, March 11 (7:30-8:30)
7:30 Business Meetings (AAR, ASOR, and SBL)
Sunday Morning, March 11 (8:30-10:30)
SBL: Hebrew Bible
Theme: Divine Beings and Immortality
Presider: Mark Hamilton, Abilene Christian University
8:30 Spencer L. Allen, University of Pennsylvania
An Examination of Northwestern Semitic Divine Names and the bet-locative
8:54 John C. Peckham, Southwest Adventist University
A Suggested Approach to “Anthropopathic” Imagery of God in the Hebrew Bible
9:18 Ryan Stokes, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
The Meaning of שטן in the Hebrew Scriptures
9:42 Stuart Lasine, Wichita State University
Touching Elisha’s Bones: Death and the Reader’s Options for Immortality in 2 Kings 2-13
10:06 Robert Williamson, Jr., Hendrix College
In the Way of the Righteousness There is No Death: A Terror Management Approach to Immortality in the Book of Proverbs
SBL: Joint Session – Hebrew Bible and New Testament
Theme: Emerging Scholars
Presider: John Ahn, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
8:30 Morgan Philpott, Abilene Christian University
Woman in the World Upside-Down: Gendered Symptoms of Social and Cosmological Inversion in Isaiah
8:45 Christina Bryant, Southern Methodist University
Pornography, Patriarchy, and the Prophetic Tradition: A Deconstructive Feminist Reading of Hosea 1-3
9:00 Nick Werse, Truett Seminary
The Development of the Metaphorical Use of “Egypt” and “Assyria” as a Word Pair in a Neo-Babylonian Context and Its Application to Lamentations 5:6
9:15 Andrew Harvey, St. Edward’s University
Abomination of Domination: Antiochus IV’s Use of Foreign Deities
9:30 David Tamez, St. Edward’s University
From Loyalists to Assimilationists: The Political Spectrum in 2 Maccabees
9:45 David Skelton, Abilene Christian University
Creating a Pious Scribe: The Authorial Prayers as Scribal Formation in the Book of Sirach
10:00 ChessleyCavitt, Abilene Christian University
Paul’s Displacement of the Law in Romans 5:12-21
10:15 Discussion
SBL: New Testament
Theme: Studies in Romans
Presider: Renate Viveen Hood, University of Mary Hardin Baylor
8:30 Brandon L. Fredenburg, Lubbock Christian University
Is That Paul’s Voice We Are Hearing? Douglas Campbell’s Teacher in Romans
8:55 Doug Kennard, Houston Graduate School of Theology
Romans 5 and Pauline Imputation: Hittite Covenantal Roots and the New Covenant’s Internal Realization
9:20 Mark Goodwin, University of Dallas
“Her That Was Not Beloved I Will Call My Beloved”: Romans 9:25, Divine Love, and the Election of Israel
9:45 G. Anthony Keddie, University of Texas at Austin
Paul and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity: Ioudaios as Etic and Israel as Emic in Romans
10:10 Discussion
ASOR
Theme: Ancient States and Foreign Policy
Presiding: Chad Spigel, Trinity University
8:30 Aaron Ott, College of Biblical Studies
Iron Age II Evidence for Egyptian Foreign Policy in the Levant
9:00 Greg Snyder, Hebrew Union College
The Lachish Reliefs as a Source for Realia? The Case of Furnishings
9:30 Marcella Barbosa, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
ASSR
Theme: Holy War, Discrimination, Lazarus, and Life
Presiding: J. B. Watson, Jr., Stephen F. Austin State University
8:30 Jerry Hopkins, East Texas Baptist University
The Grand Errand and the Holy War: An Essay on Religion and the American Revolution
9:00 David Holcomb, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
How Free to Discriminate?: Church-Related Institutions and the Status of the "Ministerial Exemption" from Federal Anti-Discrimination Laws
9:30 Ben D. Craver, Wayland Baptist University
No Help from Lazarus: The Obscurity of the Biblical Text and Its (Lack of?) Significance for the Intermediate State
10:00 Joel Clarke Gibbons, Independent Scholar, Saint Joseph, Michigan
On the Organization of Life
AAR: Theta Alpha Kappa
Theme: Student Papers from Theta Alpha Kappa Chapters in the Region
Presiding: Derek Dodson, Baylor University
8:30 Joanna Chenoweth, Oklahoma City University
“Yada, Yada, Yada”: Ecclesiastes 8:16-9:10 and the “This, That, and the Other” of Seinfeld
8:55 Elizabeth Narvaez, St. Edward’s University
The Golem of Prague: An Extension of Talmudic and Mystical Legends
9:20 Caroline Kurtz, St. Edward’s University
Medieval Mindsets and Made Meaning: Gothic Architecture in the Post-Enlightenment
9:45 Ben Taylor, Texas Christian University
The Spirituality of Rap Music
AAR: Arts, Literature, and Religion
Theme: New Directions in the Field of Religion and Literature
Presiding: Darren J.N. Middleton, Texas Christian University
8:30 Darren J.N. Middleton, Texas Christian University
A Few Words: From Religion, Literature & Theology
8:45 Marc DiPaolo, Oklahoma City State University
A Few Words: Editing Controversial Theology in Fiction
9:00 Roundtable Discussion
AAR: Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion
Theme: Buddhism and Bön
Presiding: Sage Elwell, Texas Christian University
8:30 Claire Villarreal, Rice University
To Know a Buddha: Incorporating the Contemplative as a Source of Innovation Within a Discourse
9:00 William M. Gorvine, Hendrix College
Envisioning a Tibetan Pilgrimage: Reports of Contemplative Encounters in a Bön Religious Biography
9:30 Linda Ceriello, Rice University
Surrender as a Creative Performativity: The Psychophysicality of Prostration Practices
10:00 Mark Dennis, Texas Christian University
Teaching Socially-engaged Buddhism to Undergraduates at Christian-affiliated Institutions of Higher Learning in the United States
AAR: Ethics, Society, and Cultural Analysis
Theme: Ecclesiology and Ethics
Presiding: Jack Hill, Texas Christian University
8:30 Aaron Douglas Weaver, Baylor University
Evangelical Protestants vs. Mainline Protestants: An Analysis of the Environmentalisms of Southern Baptist and American Baptist
9:00 Jordan Rowan Fannin, Baylor University
“We Need to Talk” Constructing an Ecclesial Ethics of the Body of Christ in Response to Urban Poverty and Decline
9:30 David C. Cramer, Baylor University
The Sociopolitical Shape of Paul: What Does “Participation in Christ” Mean Ethically?
AAR: History of Christianity
Theme: Latin American Religions and Socio-Political Engagement in the Twentieth Century
Presiding: Santiago Piñón, Texas Christian University
8:30 Candi K. Cann, Baylor University
Carlos Mugica: A Dirty War Martyr and Symbol of Contradiction
9:00 Michael Clawson, Baylor University
“Misión Integral” and the “Evangelical Left:” The Latin American Influence on Socially Progressive Evangelicals in the United States
9:30 Katie Miles, Baylor University
Protestantism in Latin American Dictatorships of the Twentieth Century: Chile, Guatemala and Nicaragua
Sunday Morning, March 11 (10:30-11:00)
Coffee Break, Book Exhibit Hall
Complimentary coffee and tea
Sunday Morning, March 11 (11:00-12:30)
SBL: Presidential Address
Presiding: Stephen Reid, Truett Seminary
Jan Jaynes Quesada, Texas Christian University
Consider the Levite: An Intertextual Exploration of Judges 17-18
ASOR
Theme: Excavation Reports
Presiding: Greg Snyder, Hebrew Union College
11:00 Jared Chatfield, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
The Zoomorphic Figurine at Gezer: Child’s Toy or Cultic Object?
11:30 Seung Ho Bang, Baylor University
Limestone Incense Altars at Tell Halif, Field V
12:00 Rannfrid Thelle, Wichita State University
The Early Impact of the Babylon Excavations on Mesopotamian Historiography
ASSR
Theme: Religion and Racism
Presiding: Jon K. Loessin, Wharton County Junior College
11:00 Dianne Dentice, Stephen F. Austin State University and
Jerry Hopkins, East Texas Baptist University
Meta-racism: Religion and the Racist Right
AAR: Arts, Literature, and Religion
Theme: Art, Religion, Teaching, and Scholarship
Facilitating: Katherine Brown Downey, The Hockaday School
11:00 Rebecca Huskey, University of Oklahoma
Can Professors Walk on Water? Using Madeleine L’Engle’s Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art as a Tool for Developing One’s Academic Artistry
11:30 William D. Burhman, St. Mary’s University
Simulating the Middle Ages: Playing Cards as an Exploration of History, Art, and Religion
12:00 Jeremy Biles, Religious Studies Review
Editing Religious Studies Review
AAR: Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion
Theme: Changing Literacies: Teaching and Learning in a Digital Culture
Presiding: Yushau Sodiq, Texas Christian University
Sage Elwell and Mark Dennis, Texas Christian University
11:00 Teaching and Learning in a Digital Culture
11:30 Syllabi, Rubrics, and Grading New Media Projects
12:00 Samples of New Media Projects from the Classroom
AAR: Ethics, Society, and Cultural Analysis
Theme: Theology and Ethics
11:00 K.C. Flynn, Baylor University
Acknowledgment and the Ordinary: Theological Anthropology in Karl Barth and Stanley Cavell
11:30 Nathaniel Jung-Chul Lee, Baylor University
Body, Language, and Religion: A Humanistic Approach to Interreligious Dialogue
12:00 Discussion
AAR: Philosophy of Religion and Theology
Theme: Karl Barth and Post-Modernity
Presiding: Dan Stiver, Hardin-Simmons University
11:00 Michael L. Avery, St. Michael’s Catholic Academy
Karl Barth’s Possible Gift to Post-Modernity: Dependency on God and Authority with Christ
11:20 Jason Blakeburn, Oklahoma City University
The Argument to the Self from the Other in Levinas’ Totality and Infinity and Barth’s Epistle to the Romans
11:40 Celucien L. Joseph, Tarrant County College
Jean Price-Mars’s Philosophy of Religion and His Discourse on the Nature of Belief
12:00 K.C. Flynn, Baylor University
Acknowledgment and the Ordinary: (Theological) Anthropology in Karl Barth and Stanley Cavell
12:20 Discussion
