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FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2007

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Registration ( 7:30�9:00, Mezzanine Lobby )

Coffee and Book Exhibit ( 7:30� 2:00, Woodland )

COMBINED AAR & SBL WOMEN�S CAUCUS
( Friday, 8:00�8:50, Crossroads Private Dining Room )

SESSION VI:

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( AAR 6.1 ) PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION A: ( Friday, 9:00�11:00, Knight )
Presiding: Robert Sutton, Cape Fear Community College.

�Dostoevsky and Theodicy.� Steven James Lee, St. Vladimir�s Orthodox Theological Seminary.

�Toward philosophia crucis �Derrida and Marion�s Post-metaphysics on the via crucis.� Andrew Yenru Lin, Drew University

�Aspects of George Santayana�s Legacy To Religious Studies In The Third Millennium.� Edward W. Lovely, Drew University.

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( AAR 6.2 ) HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY B: ( Friday, 9:00�11:00, Mather )
Presiding: Patricia Way, Temple University.

�Seripando on Justification and Original Sin at Trent: Augustinian or Lutheran?� Dennis Di Mauro, The Catholic University of America

�Imperialism, Modernization, and Postcolonial Christianity�a Methodological Discourse of the Indigenization of American Methodist China Missions in the Early Twentieth Century.� Jane Weijen Liang, Drew University.

�De Miseria et Misericordia: The Politics of Augustinian Subjectivity.� Mina Suk, The Johns Hopkins University.

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( AAR 6.3 ) ISLAMIC STUDIES: ( Friday, 9:00�11:00, Talbot )
Presiding: Habibeh Rahim, St. John�s University, NY.

�Cartoon Crisis: Islam Confronts Danish Liberalism.� Robert Carle, The Kings College.

�Waraqah b. Nawfal�s Assurances of Muhammad�s Prophethood to Khadijah: An Examination of Historical and Contemporary Biographies.� Phillip Hoefs, Temple University.

�Frei�s Typology of Christian Theology: A Comparative Look at the Islamic Tradition.� Yasir S. Ibrahim, Montclair State University.

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( AAR 6.4 ) WOMEN AND RELIGION B: ( Friday, 9:00�11:00, White Oak A )
Panel = Negotiating New Terrains: American Women Missionaries and Preachers, 1836-1969.
Presiding: Karen Seat, The University of Arizona.

�The Gospel of Women and Wagons: Domesticating the American West.� Shannon L. C. Cate, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

�One Woman�s Christian Village: Missionary Work, Conversion and Literacy in Post World War II Angola.� Liz Rohan, University of Michigan�Dearborn.

�The Rev. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw in Context: Gender Politics and the Rise of Liberal Protestantism in the United States.� Karen K. Seat, The University of Arizona.

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( AAR 6.5 ) THEOLOGY B: ( Friday, 9:00�11:00, White Oak B )
Presiding: Michael Kogan, Montclair State University.

�The Politics of Providence in the Economy of Salvation.� Michael T. Dempsey, St. John�s University, NY.

�Election and Baptism in Karl Barth�s Theology.� W. Travis McMaken, Princeton Theological Seminary.

�Can the Electing God be God Without Us? Some Implications of Bruce McCormack�s Understanding of Barth�s Doctrine of Election for the Doctrine of the Trinity.� Paul D. Molnar, St. John�s University, NY.

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( SBL 6.1 ) THE LATTER PROPHETS: ( Friday, 9:00�11:00, Birch )
Presiding: Alice Ogden Bellis, Howard University School of Divinity.

�Form Criticism and the Rib in Isaiah 41:21�42:4.� Timothy Milinovich, The Catholic University of America.

�Outstretched Hands, Repeated Refrains, Lost Endings: Poetic Closure and the Problem of Isaiah 9:7�20 + 5:25�30.� J. Blake Couey, Princeton Theological Seminary.

�In Perilous Times: Josiah�s Cult Reform in Late Pre-Exilic Jerusalem. Zephaniah 1:4�6.� Susan E. Bond, The Catholic University of America.

�Jeremiah, Immoral Prophet in Moral Society.� Dong-Young Yoon, Drew University.

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( SBL 6.2 ) WISDOM LITERATURE: ( Friday, 9:00�11:40, Dogwood )
Presiding: Tod Linafelt, Georgetown University.

�The Impossible Possibility of Dating the Book of Job." Jin Hee Han, New York Theological Seminary.

�Hiding the Father, Fooling the Son." Davis Hankins, Emory University, and David Knauert, Duke University.

�Wisdom 10:15�11:1: Personified Wisdom and Israel�s Exodus from Egypt." Andrew T. Glicksman, The Catholic University of America.

�The Satan in Job: �Casting Out� Modern Conceptions in Exchange for an Obedient �Son of God.� � Justin P. Farrell, Princeton Theological Seminary.

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( SBL 6.3 ) PAULINE EPISTLES: ( Friday, 9:00�11:40, Suite 353 )
Presiding: Michael J. Gorman, St. Mary�s Seminary & University.

�Naming, Shaming, and Claiming: Paul�s Practice of Public Agitation.� Paul Bellan-Boyer, Jubilee Interfaith Organization.

� �All Will Know Me�: Ministry Under the New Covenant.� Scott Haile, Boston College.

�Reconciled and Reconciling: Practical Ecclesiology in the Letters of Paul.� Lisa Kenkeremath, Falls Church, Virginia.

�The Gifts of the Divine Warrior: Ephesians 4:8ff.� Daniel C. Claire, The Catholic University of America.

SESSION VII:

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( AAR 7.1 ) AFRICAN-AMERICAN RELIGION: ( Friday, 11:10�12:30, Knight )
Presiding: E. Obiri Addo, Drew University.

�Where Two or More Gather Together: Decoding the Ecclesiology of Two Black Mega Church Ministries.� Mary Hinton. College Misericordia.

�Spittin� Fire: Feeling the Spirit in Heidegger and Hip-Hop.� Brandee Mimitzraiem, Drew University.

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( AAR 7.2 ) RELIGIONS OF ASIA A: ( Friday, 11:00�12:30, Mather )
Presiding: Lise Vail, Montclair State University.

�The Four-Seven Debate in Korean Neo-Confucianism and Contemporary Discussions of Emotions.� Suck Choi, Towson University.

�Empty Words, Turning Words & Word Magic: Irony, Instrumentality, & Identity in a Postmetaphysical Buddhist Critique of Language.� James Mark Shields, Bucknell University.

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( AAR 7.3 ) INTERFAITH PANEL: The Women of Abraham
( Friday, 11:10�12:30, Talbot )
Presiding: Michael Kogan, Montclair State University.

Participants:
Catherine Martin, The College of Saint Elizabeth.
Habibeh Rahim, St. John�s University, NY.
Michael Kogan, Montclair State University.

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( AAR 7.4 ) RELIGION AND THE ARTS A: ( Friday, 11:10�12:30, White Oak A )
Presiding: Mikhail Sergeev, The University of the Arts.

�A Pre-Appearance of the Truth: Toward a Christological Aesthetics.� D. W. Congdon, Princeton Theological Seminary.

�To Act or Be Acted Upon: Nicholas Wolterstorff and Hans Urs von Balthasar on Shaftesburean Disinterestedness.� Daniel Wade McClain, Independent Scholar.

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( AAR 7.5 ) AAR BUSINESS MEETING ( Friday, 12:45�1:15, White Oak B )

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( SBL 7.1 ) MAR-SBL PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: ( SBL 7.1, Friday, 11:45�12:45, Dogwood )
Presiding: Stephen L. Cook, Virginia Theological Seminary
�The Bard and the Bible: Shakespeare and the Interpretation of Scripture.� A. Katherine Grieb, Virginia Theological Seminary.

SESSION VIII:

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( AAR 8.1 ) PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION B: ( Friday, 2:00�4:00, Knight )
Panel=Semiotic Rhythms and Ecstatic Naturalism.
Presiding: Robert Sutton, Cape Fear Community College.

�The Ecstatic and the Ecosophic Difference: Arne Naess and Robert Corrington in Dialog.� Sigridur Gudmarsdottir, Drew University, NJ.

�Semiotics and the Tension Between Finitude and Transcendence in Robert Corrington and George Santayana.� Edward Lovely, Independent Scholar, Kinnelon, NJ

�Chora and Ecstatic Naturalism: Restlessness and Stillness at the Heart of Nature.� Martin Yalcin, Drew University.

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( AAR 8.2 ) RELIGIONS OF ASIA B: ( Friday, 2:00�4:00, Mather )
Presiding: Lise Vail, Montclair State University.

�Monks and Medicine: Healing in Early Medieval Chinese Buddhist Hagiography.� C. Pierce Salguero, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

�The �Eco-Theology� of Bishnoi and Bhil Communities.� Jain, Pankaj, Middlesex County College, NJ.

�Religious Trends and Counter-Currents in Korea.� Michael Ralston, Department of Defense.

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( AAR 8.3 ) HISTORY OF RELIGION: ( Friday, 2:00�4:00, Talbot )
Presiding: Jacqueline Pastis, La Salle University.

�The Name of Demeter Thesmophoros.� Allaire B. Stallsmith, Towson University.

�Ancient Medicine and Oral Malodor in Post-Biblical Judaism.� Jin Hee Han, New York Theological Seminary.

�Indigenous Religious Imagination of West Africa: Then and Now.� E. Obiri Addo, Drew University.

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( AAR 8.4 ) RELIGION AND THE ARTS B: ( Friday, 2:00�4:00, White Oak A )
Presiding: Mikhail Sergeev, The University of the Arts.

�The Great Divide: The Apocalypse in the 19th and 20th Century.� Johanna Monighan-Schaefer, PhD., Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.

�The Shadow of the Nineteenth Century across the First: The Primitive Church in Victorian Fiction.� Maria Poggi Johnson, University of Scranton.

�Smile from Heaven: Religious Anecdotes as a Form of Folk Art.� Mikhail Sergeev, The University of the Arts.

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( AAR 8.5 ) COMPARATIVE & HISTORICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION B: ( Friday, 2:00�4:00, White Oak B )
Presiding: Charles Selengut, Drew University.

�Revisiting Latin American Religious Ferment: A Multi-Pronged Approach.� Janel Kragt Bakker, The Catholic University of America.

�Two Figures of a Religious Left (and a Third).� Timothy A. Brown, Pace University.

�God�s Infantry: Messianic Radicalism and Zionist Nationalism.� Charles Selengut, Drew University.

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( SBL 8.1 ) DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY / FORMER PROPHETS B: ( Friday, 2:00�4:00, Birch )
Presiding: Robert D. Miller, Mount St. Mary�s Seminary

�Characterizations of Moabite Kings in the Hebrew Bible.� Mark Stewart Leson, The Catholic University of America.

�David, the Bandit.� Jennifer L. Koosed, Albright College.

�The Treatment of Josiah by Egyptologists.� Garrett Galvin, The Catholic University of America.

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( SBL 8.2 ) GOSPELS C: ( Friday, 2:00�4:00, Dogwood )
Presiding: John Yieh, Virginia Theological Seminary

�Biblical Studies, Postmodernism, and Love for the Other.� Carlos R. Bovell, Burlington, NJ.

�The Canaanite Woman as Pivot Point: Making Matthew�s Community the Community of the Great Commission.� Natalie K. Houghtby-Haddon, George Washington University.

� �The Least of My Brethren�: A History-of-Effects Investigation of the Last Judgment.� Heidi Christensen, Virginia Theological Seminary.

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( SBL 8.3 ) PRESENTING CHRIST=NEW TESTAMENT AND RELATED IMAGES: ( Friday, 2:00�4:00, Suite 353 )
Presiding: Paul Bellan-Boyer, Jubilee Interfaith Organization.

�Ruling the Nations with a Rod of Iron: Masculinity and Christology in Revelation.� Colleen M. Conway, Seton Hall University.

�The Standing Christ-Figures of Revelation.� D. Jill Kirby, The Catholic University of America.

� �All Things Through Him�: Christ as God�s Agent in Creation.� Matthew E. Gordley, Regent University.

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