2010 Preliminary Program

Friday Afternoon, May 7, 2010

First Session (2:00-5:30 p.m.)

Asian and Comparative Studies

New Frontiers: Cognitive Science and Early Chinese Religion
Presider:	, University of British Columbia
2:00-2:45	, University of British Columbia From Confucius to Cognition: Two Views on Culture
2:45-3:30	, University of British Columbia The Empirical Limits of Holism
3:30-4:00	BREAK
4:00-4:45	, University of British Columbia Rebuilding the Yin-Yang Metaphor using Cognitive Science
4:45-5:30	Respondent: , University of British Columbia

Hebrew Scriptures

Presider:	, Wolfson College, Oxford
2:00-2:30	, Ghent University Behold Twins in Her Womb. On Gemini and Geminate Clusters
2:30-3:00	, Independent Scholar The Name 'Chavah' in Gen 3:20: Expecting the Unexpected
3:00-3:30	, Columbia Bible College To Fleece or Not to Fleece? Perspective Criticism Provides an Answer
3:30-4:00	BREAK
4:00-4:30	Prof. , George Fox University Scribal Practice Regarding Line Length in Ethiopic Psalters
4:30-5:00	Prof. , University of Oregon Material aspects of prayer at Qumran
5:00-5:30	, Pacific Lutheran University The 'other in Early Postexilic Period: The Argument According to Haggai and Zechariah 1-8

History of Christianity/North American Religions

Panel Discussion: Religion and Healing in Native America: Pathways for Renewal, edited by Suzanne Crawford O'Brien (Praeger, 2008)
Presider:	, Pacific Lutheran University
2:00-3:30	Panelist: , Pacific Lutheran University Panelist: , University of British Columbia Panelist: , Graduate Theological Union
3:30-4:00	BREAK
4:00-5:30	Panelist: , University of Missouri-Columbia Panelist: , Kwantlen Polytechnic University Panelist: , University of British Columbia

New Testament and Hellenistic Religions Section

Presider:	, George Fox Evangelical Seminary
2:00-2:45	, Villanova University In Search of a Pauline Spirituality
2:45-3:30	, University of British Columbia Ethnomedical Anthropology and Paul's 'Thorn' (2 Cor 12.7)
3:30-4:00	BREAK
4:00-4:45	, Agape Church of Christ Agape as a Topos for Spiritual Development (telos) in Paul's First Published Letter to the Community at Corinth
4:45-5:30	, Trinity Lutheran College Junia: Outstanding among the Apostles or to the Apostles?

Theology & Philosophy of Religion

Presider:	, Emory University
2:00-2:30	, University of the Fraser Valley Post-Modern Meanings of Sacred Texts
2:30-3:00	, Vancouver School of Theology John Calvin and Paul Ricoeur: Hermeneutics and Imagination
3:00-3:30	, Saint Paul University Liturgical Hermeneutics: A Ricoeurian Approach to Byzantine Liturgy
3:30-4:00	, George Fox Evangelical Seminary John Wyclif and the Logic of Reformation
4:00-4:30	, University of Calgary Anti-Semitism in African American Spirituals: Imitating Protestant Hymnody and Supersessionist Ecclesiology or Initiating Liberationist Theology and Black Power?
4:30-5:00	, Yale University Scripture, Ritual, and Cult in the Conversions of Gregory the Great
5:00-5:30	, Hebrew Union College Leviticus: A Theology of the Priestly World View
5:30-6:00	, Trinity Western A 'Mormon' Approach to Scriptural Interpretation: Background and Case Study

Women and Religion

Confronting Oppression: Gender and Ecojustice
Presider:	, DePauw University
2:00-2:45	, Agape Church of Christ Freeing the Oppressed: A Male Response to Confronting Oppression of Women
2:45-3:30	, Pacific Lutheran University "'Witches,' 'Devil Worshipers' and the Power of Colonized People: Disrupting the 'Closer to Nature' Ecofeminist Debate"
3:30-4:00	BREAK

Friday Evening

5:30-7:30	Dinner at area restaurants of your choice!
8:00-9:00	Presidential Plenary Address: Linda Schearing, Gonzaga University "The Greening of Biblical Studies"
9:00-10:00	Reception

Saturday Morning

7:00-8:00

Program Unit Chairs and Region Executive Committee Breakfast Location: TBA

Second Session (8:30-10:30 am)

Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

Presider:	, Independent Scholar - Seattle, WA.
8:30-8:55	, Independent Scholar - Mukilteo, WA. The Economic Base of Early Bronze Age Tell el-Hesi
8:55-9:25	, University of Alberta Interpreting Judean Pillar Figurines: What More Can They Tell Us about Ancient Judah?
9:25-9:55	, University of British Columbia Be Green and Come: Economic Memory, Historiography and the Palermo Stone
9:55-10:25	, University of Victoria A preliminary synthesis Ottoman religious architecture in southern Greece
10:25-10:55	, University of Victoria Out of Sight and out of Mind? Preliminary Thoughts on the Manufacture and Use of Ceramic Drainpipes in the Islamic Middle East)

Asian and Comparative Studies

Chinese Cosmology, Medieval Chinese Religion, and Korean-Confucian Christianity
Presider:	, University of Idaho
8:30-9:10	, University of Toronto Examining the Relationship between Humans, Environment, and the Cosmos and Rethinking the Idea of Social and Cultural Change in Chinese Culture: A Study of Tang Thinker Liu Zongyuan's Thought
9:10-9:50	, National University of Singapore "Discursive Resources and Contested Claims in Medieval Chinese Religion"
9:50-10:30	, Alphacrucis College - Australia 1 Cor. 10:23-11:1: The Corinthian Practice of Greco-Roman Domestic Cults and Paul's Response to it and its Evaluation from a Korean-Confucian Christian Context
10:30-11:00	BREAK

Hebrew Scriptures

Presider:
8:30-10:00	Panel Discussion on Two Sides of a Coin: Juxtaposing Views on Interpreting the Book of the Twelve/the Twelve Prophetic Books, by Ehud ben Zvi, James Nogalski with introduction by Thomas Romer , University of Alberta , Baylor University , University of Alberta ** (waiting for responses)
10:00-10:30	, University of Lethbridge Mythiography, Memory, and the Prophetic Past
10:30-11:00	BREAK

History of Christianity/North American Religions

Selected Topics: History of Christianity: From the Ancient World to the Pacific Northwest
Presider:	, Fuller Theological Seminary
8:30-9:10	, University of Washington Desire and Power in American Megachurches
9:10-9:50	, University of Washington Performed Theology in the Apocryphon of John
9:50-10:30	, Whitworth University 'A Need that has been Well Met': The History of the Pacific Northwest Region of the AAR/SBL
10:30-11:00	BREAK

New Testament and Hellenistic Religions Section

Book Panel: John R. Levison's Filled with the Spirit (Eerdmans, 2009)
Presider:	, University of Notre Dame
8:30-8:40	Introduction and Book Summary
8:40-9:00	Panelist: , Northwest University
9:00-9:20	Panelist: , George Fox Evangelical Seminary
9:20-9:40	Panelist: , Regent University
9:40-10:30	Interaction with panelists and , Seattle Pacific University
10:30-11:00	BREAK

Religion & Society

Presider:	, Drew University
8:30-8:45	, Drew University Shaping the Field: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Religion and Memory
8:45-9:15	, University of the Fraser Valley Memory, Meaning and Action for Religious Groups
9:15-9:45	, Centre For Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria Race and Religion in a Post-Colonial Community
9:45-10:15	, University of California - Davis Christian Attitudes Toward the State of Israel
10:15-10:30	Discussion
10:30-11:00	BREAK

Theology & Philosophy of Religion

Presider:	, Emory University
8:30-9:00	, Fuller Theological Seminary NW 'Crowd' and 'Community': Authentic Christianity in Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer
9:00-9:30	, Independent Scholar Political Theology After the Death of God
9:30-10:00	, Faith Evangelical Seminary Evil as Evidence for the Existence of God
10:00-10:30	, Seattle Central Community College Theology and the Politics of Deception
10:30-11:00	, Idaho State University Platonic Recollection and the Career of Alcibiades

Women and Religion

Gender and Cross Cultural Monastic Life
Presider:	, DePauw University
9:00-9:45	, University of Edinburgh 'Bending the Rules a Little Bit': The Women at Samye Ling
9:45-10:30	, University of Victoria 'Silence is the Cult of Justice': The Filles Marie Notre Dame and Strict Active Enclosure in the Age of Vincent de Paul
10:30-11:00	BREAK

SPECIAL TOPIC SESSION
Arts and Religion I

Presider:	, Center for Women's Spirituality - Education and Empowerment
8:30-9:00	, Independent Scholar Representations of Ritual Symbols on Roman Imperial Coinage: The Lituus
9:00-9:30	, Newbury College Symbolism in Asian Statues of the Buddha
9:30-10:00	, Church of the Holy City Robert Frost's Critical Appropriation of Swedenborg's Correspondences
10:10-10:30	, Marylhurst University (and California Institute of Integral Studies) Impermanence in the Enduring Arts of Japan
10:00-11:00	BREAK

SPECIAL TOPIC SESSION
Study of Islam I

Institutions and Hierarchies
Presider:	, University of Victoria
8:30-8:50	, Emory University The 'Shaykh al-Shuyukh' and the Sufi Community of Ayyubid Egypt
8:50-9:10	, University of Oregon Examining 'Abd al-Rahman Bistami's Work on Muhammad's Ascension as a Prayer Manual
9:10-9:30	, Yale University Who Were the Neo-Ikhwan al-Safa? Sa'in al-Din Ibn Turka's Intellectual Hierarchy and Shi'i Hurufism in Early 15th Century Iran and Anatolia
9:30-9:50	, McGill University Dhimmi Allegiance or Subjugation? The Concept and Application of Jizya in Three Early Islamic Legal Works on Taxation: The Kitab al-Kharaj of Abu Yusuf (731-798), Yahya b. Adam (757-818), and Qudama b. Ja'far (864-c. 932)
9:50-10:30	Discussion
10:30-11:00	BREAK

Saturday Noon

(Lunch and Region Business Meeting)

12:00	Boxed Lunch
12:30-1:45	Pacific Northwest AAR, SBL and ASOR Business Meeting

Saturday Afternoon

Third Session (2:00-5:30 pm)

Asian and Comparative Studies

Gandhi, the Feminine, Tantricism, Ritual, and Hindu Love
Presider:	, University of Idaho
2:00-2:40	, University of Oregon Gandhi's Construction the Feminine: Negotiating the Traditional Values for Modern Goals
2:40-3:20	, University of Lethbridge The Interpretation of Menstruation in Tantric and Orthodox Hinduism
3:20-3:50	BREAK
3:50-4:30	, University of California - Santa Barbara Burning Demons and Sprinkling Mantras: Fire and Water in Three Ritual Universes
4:30-5:10	, University of Lethbridge The Many Forms of Love within the Hindu Tradition

Hebrew Scriptures

Presider:	, Pacific Lutheran University
2:00-2:25	, University of Alberta Remembering Assyria: A Case Study on Isaiah 7-11
2:25-2:50	, University of Manchester We Made This Pledge Before the Priests
2:50-3:20	Ehud ben Zvi, University of Alberta Chronicles and its reshaping of Memories of Monarchic period Prophets
3:20-3:50	BREAK
3:50-4:15	, University of Alberta "Remembering Death in the Book of Qohelet"
4:15-4:40	, University of Alberta The Speaking Voice(s) in the Book of Lamentations
4:40-5:05	- , Seattle University - , Mars Hill Graduate School Reading for Lament
5:05-5:30	, Seattle Pacific University 'I want to argue with God' - the appropriateness of Job's litigiousness
	Business Meeting and/or Discussion of future directions

History of Christianity/North American Religions

Selected Topics in British and American Christianity
Presider:	, Pacific Lutheran University
2:00-2:40	, Whitworth University Wounded by the Arrow of Conviction: Experimental Religion and Calvinist Conversion in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
2:40-3:20	, University of Birmingham (U.K.) 'A Good Degree of Resignation': 'Natural Inclination,' 'the World' and Spirituality in John Woolman's (1720-1772) Ethics
3:20-3:50	BREAK
3:50-4:30	, Southern Methodist University Alexander Campbell on Rationality and the Problem of Evil: Letters to a Skeptic (1826 to 1856)
4:30-5:10	, University of Birmingham No Peace among Friends
5:10-5:30	Business Meeting and/or Discussion of future directions

New Testament and Hellenistic Religions

Presider:	, Columbia Bible College
2:00-2:40	, Azusa Pacific University Jesus and the Ideal Greco-Roman Benefactor: Reconsidering the Significance of Mark 10:42-45 in Light of a Roman Imperial Context
2:40-3:20	, Toronto School of Theology The Power and Powerlessness of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark
3:20-3:50	BREAK
3:50-4:30	, University of Sydney The Better Righteousness of the Four Named Outsiders of the Matthean Genealogy
4:30-5:10	, George Fox University The Fourth Gospel and Critical Theory
5:10-5:30	Business Meeting and/or Discussion of future directions

Religion & Society

Presider:	, Pacific Lutheran University
2:00-2:30	, University of Lethbridge Life After God: An Exploration of the Correlates of the Abandonment of Religion in Canada
2:30-3:00	, Independent Scholar Reasonable Accommodation and Interculturalism Outside of Quebec: Applications in Alberta and British Columbia
3:00-3:30	, University of Victoria Religious Understandings of a "Good Death" in Hospice Palliative Care
3:30-3:50	BREAK
4:00-4:30	, Duke University The impossibility of sociology in John Milbank,
4:30-5:00	, University of Victoria Two types of questions about a sacred cow,
5:00-5:15	Religion and Society Section Business Meeting and Discussion

Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Presider:	, Pacific Lutheran University
2:00-3:30	Religion Matters: Religion as Pedagogy Panelists: , Hebrew Union College , Yale University , Idaho State University , University of Washington
3:30-4:00	BREAK
4:00-4:30	, University Presbyterian Church The Provocation of Grace: Gift and Icon
4:30-5:00	, University of Victoria Thinking Religious Experience: The Possibility of a Critical Phenomenology of Religion
5:00-5:30	, Willamette University Kant's Theological Context: A Sampling
5:30-6:00	Business Meeting and/or Discussion of future directions

Women and Religion

Eve and Her Daughters: Women Initiate Biblical History
Presider:	, Gonzaga University
2:00-2:40	, DePauw University Dinosaurs of Eden: Who Rules Over Whom in Creation Accounts for Young Readers?
2:40-3:20	, St. Edward's University She Started It: How Women Initiated Biblical History
3:20-3:50	BREAK
3:50-4:30	Business Meeting and/or Discussion of future directions

SPECIAL TOPIC SESSION
Arts and Religion II

Presider:	, Marylhurst University (and California Institute of Integral Studies)
2:00-2:40	, University of Victoria The Image of the Word
2:40-3:20	, School of Oriental and African Studies In God's Image? Re-negotiating identity in the art of second- and third-generation post-diasporic religious minority communities
3:20-3:50	BREAK
3:50-4:30	, Center for Women's Spirituality Education and Empowerment Women's Moving Stories: The Art of Intrinsic Movement as Integrative Spiritual Practice
4:30-5:10	, California Institute of Integral Studies Women Weaving the World: Spirituality in the Andes
5:10-5:30	, California Institute of Integral Studies Submerged Spirituality and Mountain Mothers: A visual exploration of female divinity and women's spiritual roles in art and artifact in the Italian Alps from ancient to present times

SPECIAL TOPIC SESSION
Study of Islam II

Roundtable on Teaching the Qur'an
Presider:	, Whitman College
Discussion featuring:	, University of Victoria , University of British Columbia , Whitman College , Whitman College , Lewis & Clark , Reed College , SUNY New Paltz , Macalester College , Luther College
2:00-3:20	Initial Comments
3:20-3:50	BREAK
3:50-5:15	Open Discussion
5:15-5:30	Discussion of Future Directions

Saturday Evening

6:30-8:00	Banquet
8:00	Plenary Address Ted Peters, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary "Science, Religion and the Mystery of Truth"
9:00-10:00	Reception

Sunday Morning

Fourth Session (8:30-12:00 pm)

Asian and Comparative Studies

Buddhism in Thailand, Tibet, and Bhutan
Presider:	, University of Oregon
8:30-9:15	, Simon Frazer University Purity Within Syncretism: Lan Na Buddhism, the Khruba Monk Movement, and Palaung Ethnic Identity in Contemporary Northern Thailand
9:15-10:00	, University of Idaho Church-State Relations and Violence in Tibet and Bhutan
10:00-10:30	BREAK
10:30-11:15	, University of Victoria The Sekha: A Model for the Bodhisattva
11:15-12:00	, University of Washington Zen and the Question of Nature

Hebrew Scriptures

Presider:	, Pacific Lutheran University
8:30-9:00	Prof. , Trinity Lutheran College Daniel 3:52-90's (LXX) echoes of Psalm 136 (MT): An indirect reference to liberation from oppression
9:00-9:30	, Fuller Northwest 'Abraham' in Micah 7:20: A Signal of Pardon For All, Not Just One
9:30-10:00	, Trinity Western University Word Order of Verbal Clauses in the War Scroll (1QM)
10:00-10:30	BREAK
10:30-11:00	, Marylhurst University The Clean Animals of Leviticus 11 and the Three Domains of the Ancient House of Israel
11:00-11:30	, Independent Scholar Impurity Versus Holiness

New Testament and Hellenistic Religions Section

Presider	, Saint Martin's University
8:30-9:15	, Highland Theological College To Colossae and Beyond? The Question of Audience in Colossians and Its Implications for the Reconstruction of the Opponents
9:15-10:00	, Columbia Bible College On the Side of a Villain: Perspective Criticism and Saul's Damascus Road Experience (Acts 9:1-9)
10:00-10:30	BREAK
10:30-11:15	, University of Notre Dame Variant Readings and Variant Meanings: What We Can Learn from Patristic Textual Criticism on the New Testament

Religion and Society

Presider	, Centre For Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria
8:30-9:00	, , and , Pacific Lutheran University Natural Disasters as Moral Lessons: Gregory of Nazianzus and New Orleans.
9:00-9:30	, Vanderbilt University Faith and the Environment: Advancing an Ecologically Pragmatic Theory of Religion
9:30-10:00	, University of Edinburgh Re-sacralizing Scottish Lands: Kagyu Samye Ling and the Holy Isle project
10:00-10:30	BREAK

Theology & Philosophy of Religion

Presider	TBA
8:30-9:00	, Fuller Theological Seminary NW The Baptism of Jesus in Thomas F. Torrance's Stratified Theory of Knowledge
9:00-9:30	, Fuller Theological Seminary Concerning Dogmatics: Barth and Schleiermacher Revisited
9:30-10:00	, University of Calgary Counter-Cultural Religious Experiences
10:00-10:30	, University of Victoria Should They Be Separated? Can They Be Separated?: Politics, Religion, and the Troubled Separation Thesis
10:30-11:00	, Hokusei Gakuen University The Four Faces of Self-love in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards
11:00-11:30	, Columbia Chicago College Embodied and Experiential Religion and Spirituality
11:30-12:00	, Ambrose University College Religion Beyond the Church: The Impact of Cyberspace on Human Spirituality

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