AAR 2011: Religion in America Round Up

Kelly Baker

For those of you headed to San Francisco later in the week, here's a guide to AAR sessions (and NAASR sessions) about religion(s) in American history, life, and culture. My list is likely not exhaustive, though I tried to be. So, please panels that I might have missed in the comments section. Additionally, Mike Altman (@MichaelJAltman), Ben Brazil (@bbrazil), and I (@kelly_j_baker)will be live-tweeting the conference (under the hashtag #sblaar) as well as posting a discussion after the conference similar to the ASA discussion. AAR has a mobile app this year that might come to good use for those of you (like me!) who don't want to lug around a program book.

(Editor update 11/17: Also, for the owners of the brand new Kindle Fire, my tech savvy spouse made the AAR mobile app downloadable for you too. There's a quick note about installation in the comments section.)

We welcome any guest blog posts about AAR. Please feel free to send them to Paul or me, and we'll post them. As you can tell from the list, any help to cover AAR this year would be more than helpful.

Happy conferencing!

Saturday, November 19, 9:00-11:30 am

A19-109, Religion and the Social Sciences Section

Marie Marquardt, Agnes Scott College, Presiding

Theme: Rematerializing Religion: Critical Applications of Manuel A. Vásquez’s More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Chad Seales, University of Texas

Keep Clean, and Sweet, and Pure: From Material Religion to Material Morality

Sean McCloud, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Toward a Materialist Theory of Metanoia: Reconsidering an "Impoverished Theory of Religious Change"

Elaine Peña, George Washington University

The Materiality of Guadalupan Devotion: Micropractices, Embodied Action, and Space Production

Responding: Manuel A. Vasquez, University of Florida

A19-123, African Diaspora Religions Group

Maha Marouan, University of Alabama, Presiding

Theme: From "Double Consciousness" to the "Black Atlantic": Theorizing the African Diaspora and African Diaspora Subjectivities

Torin Alexander, Saint Olaf College

African Diaspora Subjectivities and Religious Experience: The Pursuit of Wholeness

Karyna Do Monte, Boston University

Brazilian Candomble Meets Ecology: A Samba Plot in the Rio de Janeiro Carnival

Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, University of Miami

Translator of the Afro-Cuban Religious World: Lydia Cabrera

Mary Diggin, Pacifica Graduate Institute

Damballah and Maman Brigitte: The Irish Influence on Vodou Lwas

Responding: Charles H. Long, Chapel Hill, NC

A19-129 Latina/o Critical and Comparative Studies Group

Lara Medina, California State University, Northridge, Presiding

Theme: Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana: Politics, Identity, and Faith in New Migrant Communities (Duke University Press, 2009), Authors Meet Critics

Panelists: Carolyn Chen, Northwestern University

Rudy V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara

Responding: Lois Ann Lorentzen, University of San Francisco

Kevin Chun, University of San Francisco

Jay Gonzalez, University of San Francisco

Luis Leon, University of Denver

A19-130 Mormon Studies Group

Colleen McDannell, University of Utah, Presiding

Theme: Mormon Women and Modernity

Ann Duncan, Goucher College

The Mommy Wars, Mormonism, and the "Choices" of American Motherhood

Jennifer Meredith, University of Utah

Western Pioneer Mythos in the Negotiation of Mormon Feminism and Faith

Jill Peterfeso, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Scripting, Performing, Testifying: Giving Faithful "Seximony" through The Mormon Vagina Monologues

Doe Daughtrey, Arizona State University

"Further Light and Knowledge": Ways of Knowing in Mormonism and the New Spirituality

Responding: R. Marie Griffith, Washington University, St. Louis

NAASR Panel 3

Saturday, November 19, 9-11:30 a.m. Room: Hilton Union Square-Yosemite A

Thomas Tweed, University of Texas at Austin, Presiding

Theme: The ‘Evidence’ of Religion in North America: A Round Table

Kelly J. Baker, University of Tennessee, Knoxville: “The Good, the Bad, the (Un)Dead: The Klan, Zombies and the Problem of Legitimate Evidence”

Lauren F. Winner, Duke Divinity School: “Reading Recipes for Religion: Cookbooks and the Sensory History of American Religion”

Jennifer Hughes, University of California, Riverside: “The Object as Evidence in American Religion”

Laura Levitt, Temple University: “Juridical Evidence and the Question of History, Or Justice and Empiricism”

Saturday, November 19, 11:30 am–1:00 pm

M19-110 Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology

HI-Sutter B

Theme: Mormonism and Peace

James McLachlan, Western Carolina University, Presiding

Patrick Mason, Claremont Graduate University

"Religion, Violence, and the State: A Mormon Argument"

Responding: Robert Rees, Graduate Theological Union

Saturday, November 19, 1:00-3:30pm

A19-205 North American Religions Section

Jon Butler, Yale University, Presiding

Theme: Narrativity in the Study of North American Religions

Panelists: Thomas Tweed, University of Texas, Austin

Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard College

R. Marie Griffith, Harvard University

Mark Hulsether, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

A19-236 Religion, Food, and Eating in North America Seminar

Reid L. Neilson, Latter-Day Saints Church, Presiding

Theme: Religion, Food, and Eating in North America

Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini College

"The Abundance of the Fullness": Mother Divine's Theology of Food

Todd LeVasseur, University of Florida

Koinonia Partners: A "Demonstration Plot" for Food, Fellowship, and Sustainability

Nora L. Rubel, University of Rochester

The Feast at the End of the Fast: The Emergence of a New American Jewish Practice

Benjamin Zeller, Brevard College

Quasireligious American Foodways: The Cases of Vegetarianism and Locavorism

Sarah Robinson, Claremont Graduate University

Refreshing the Concept of Halal Meat in Muslim American Context in Taqwa Ecofood Cooperative

Derek Hicks, Lancaster Theological Seminary

An Unusual Feast: Gumbo and the Complex Brew of Black Religion

Saturday, November 19, 4:00-6:30 pm

A19-305 North American Religions Section

Jeff Wilson, University of Waterloo, Presiding

Theme: Rethinking Key Paradigms in American Religion: "Black Church," "Queering Religion," "Nature Religion," and "Material Culture"

Josef Sorett, Columbia University

The Problem of the "Black Church": Church and Spirit(s) in the American Religious Imaginary, 1923–1940

Megan Goodwin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Captive Bodies, Queer Religions: Scripting North American Religious Difference

Bron Taylor, University of Florida

Gaian Earth Religion: Vanishing Divine Being(s) and the Mod-God of Nature

Jennifer Scheper Hughes, University of California, Riverside

Material Religion: On the Agency of Objects

Responding: Linda L. Barnes, Boston University

A19-307 Religion and the Social Sciences Section Ann B. McClenahan, Washington, D.C., Presiding Theme: Neoliberal Religiosities: Globalization and New Modes of Religious Practice Panelists: Kevin O'Neill, University of Toronto Kathryn Lofton, Yale University Tanya Erzen, Ohio State University Daromir Rudnyckyj, University of Victoria

A19-309 Teaching Religion Section and Native Traditions in the Americas Group

Michael Zogry, University of Kansas, Presiding

Theme: Teaching about Native Traditions: Pedagogical Insights for Specialists and Nonspecialists Alike

Panelists: Michelene Pesantubbee, University of Iowa

Michael McNally, Carleton College

Ines Hernandez-Avila, University of California, Davis

Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University

Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara

A19-321 Roman Catholic Studies Group

Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University, Presiding

Theme: Finding a Place for Spatial Theory in American Catholic Studies

Panelists: Katie Oxx, St Joseph's University

Catherine Osborne, Fordham University

Arthur Remillard, Saint Francis University

Michael Pasquier, Louisiana State University

James Deutsch, Smithsonian Institution

Responding: Vincent J. Miller, University of Dayton

Saturday, November 19, 6:00-8:00 pm

A19-337, Special Topics Forum

Steven Barrie-Anthony, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding

Theme: Religion Beyond the Boundaries — American Religious and Spiritual Innovation: Marketing, the Law, and Marriage

Donald Westbrook, Claremont Graduate University

“I am a Mormon” and “I am a Scientologist”: Recent Marketing Efforts in Mormonism and Scientology

Andrew Ventimiglia, University of California, Davis

Circulating Religion, Owning Belief: Intellectual Property in the American Spiritual Marketplace

Erika Seamon, Georgetown University

Redefining Religion through the Lens of Interfaith Marriage

Sunday, November 20, 9:00-11:30

A20-104 North American Religions Section and Body and Religion Group

Ann M. Burlein, Hofstra University, Presiding

Theme: The Past, Present, and Future of Body Studies

Adam Park, Florida State University

Body Studies: A Nature/Culture Problem

Adam Ware, Florida State University

In the Air There’s a Feeling of Christmas: On the Discursive Deafness of Body Studies

Joshua Fleer, Florida State University

Spectator versus Participant: The Gaze of the Historian in the Field of Sports and Religion

Lauren Gray, Florida State University

On Embodiment and Lived Religion

Responding: Martha Finch, Missouri State University

A20-110 Afro-American Religious History Group

Rosemary R. Hicks, Tufts University, Presiding

Theme: New Research in African American Islam

Spencer Dew, Iowa State University

“This Nationalistic Topic”: Internal Debates about the Nationality and Citizenship in the Moorish Science Temple of America, 1925–1935

Andrew Polk, Florida State University

The Best Knower: Mythmaking, Fard Muhammad, and the Lost-Found Nation of Islam

Emily S. Clark, Florida State University

Noble Drew Ali’s “Clean and Pure Nation”: The Moorish Manufacturing Corporation and Identity

Responding: Edward E. Curtis, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

A20-118 Native Traditions in the Americas Group

Gabrielle Tayac, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Presiding

Theme: Landscapes of Identity: Native Traditions of the Pacific

Suzanne J. Crawford O'Brien, Pacific Lutheran University

"Salmon is Our Sacrament": The Revival of First Salmon Ceremonies in the Pacific Northwest

Regina Pfeiffer, Chaminade University, Honolulu

More than Language: The Similarity of Hawai'ian and Maori Indigenous Religions

Mary Louise Stone, California Institute of Integral Studies

Sacred Female Authority Among the Inkas: Hurin Moiety

Matthew Casey, University of California, Davis

Indigenismo and the "Reindianization" of Cusco, Peru

Responding: Fritz Detwiler, Adrian College

A20-121 Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group

Jill DeTemple, Southern Methodist University, Presiding

Theme: Saints, Stones, and Bones: Material Religion in Latin America

Todd Ramón Ochoa, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

A Materiality for Sorcery in Central Cuban Bembé

Karin Velez, Macalester College

“Casas a la Santissima Virgen": The Multiplying and Refracting Seventeenth Century Holy Houses of Loreto Conchó (Baja California) and Loreto Moxos (Bolivia)

Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, University of Miami

The Quinceañera and the Traje Tipico: Religion, Ritual, and the Mercado

Jalane D. Schmidt, University of Virginia

The Effigy's Emotion: Cuban Interpretations of the Virgin of Charity

Jennifer Scheper Hughes, University of California, Riverside

Cradling and Presentation: Affection and Tenderness for the Object in Meso-American Religion

Responding: Colleen McDannell, University of Utah

A20-125 Religion in the American West Seminar

James B. Bennett, Santa Clara University, Presiding

Seminar attendees are asked to read the four papers in advance; they will be posted on the Seminar’s website (http://www.yale.edu/relwest/) a month before the session convenes.

Theme: Land, Identity, and Transnational Wests

Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University

City Jew, Country Jew: Immigration, Masculinity, and American Zionism

Konden Smith, Arizona State University

Civilizing the American Frontier: Utah, Kansas, Nicaragua, and American Millenarianism 1856–1858

Brandi Denison, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"Playing Indian": Defining American Religion through Ute Land Religion, 1910–1940

Katherine Moran, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

Faith, Place, and Power: Catholicism and the Making of the United States Pacific

Responding: Greg Johnson, University of Colorado, Boulder

Sunday, November 20, 1:00-2:30

A20-206 History of Christianity Section

Karen Bruhn, Arizona State University, Presiding

Theme: Negotiating Identities in the Early Modern Christian Americas

Adrian Weimer, Providence College

The “Worke of Cain's Offspring": Elizabeth Hooten and Provocation of Identity in Early New England

Brandon Bayne, Harvard University

“The Chalice of His Suffering”: Martyred Identity, Nostalgia, and the Jesuit Expulsion from New Spain

Veronica Gutiérrez, University of California, Los Angeles

“Que me Entierren con el Hábito del Bienaventurado San Francisco": A Nahua Woman Negotiates a Medieval Spanish Death Ritual

Mary Corley Dunn, Saint Louis University

"But an Echo"?: Claude Martin, Marie de l'Incarnation, and Female Religious Identity in Seventeenth Century New France

Responding: Constance Furey, Indiana University

A20-208 Religion and the Social Sciences Section and Afro-American Religious History Group

Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of Southern California, Presiding

Theme: Theory and Method in the Study of Race and Religion in Twentieth Century America

Panelists:Andre Key, Temple University

John L. Jackson, University of Pennsylvania

Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University

Responding:Rebecca Alpert, Temple University

Sunday, November 20 3:00 pm-4:30 pm

A20-25 Wildcard Session

Lerone Martin, Eden Theological Seminary, Presiding

Theme: Race, Religion, and the Military

Robert Green, College of the Holy Cross

Black United States Army Chaplains in the Pacific: Race and Religion during the Philippine–American War, 1898–1902

Chih-Yin Chen, Saint Louis University

Soldier–Monks: Vincent Lebbe and His Little Brothers of Saint John the Baptist

Niccole L. Coggins, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Onward Christian Soldiers!”: The United States Military's Religious Identity in the Territory of Hawai’i, 1898–1959

A20-266 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group

Courtney T. Goto, Boston University, Presiding

Theme: Evangelism, Education, and Leadership: Transnational Strategies and Local Adaptations in Asian North American Religious Communities

Justin Tse, University of British Columbia

Evangelism, Eternity, and the Everyday: Ambivalent Reconciliation in a Chinese Canadian Christian Church in Metro Vancouver, BC

Michele Verma, Rice University

How Transnational Education Shapes Indo-Caribbean Hindu Traditions in the United States

Sharon A. Suh, Seattle University

New Euro-American Dharma Protectors: Jodoshinshu in Transition

Responding: Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University

A20-280 Roman Catholic Studies Group

James McCartin, Seton Hall University, Presiding

Theme: American Catholic Women: Engagement, Resistance, Transformation

Karen Park, Saint Norbert College

"Gather the Children in this Wild Country": Boundaries and Borders at a Frontier Marian Apparition Site

Rebecca Davis, Graduate Theological Union

"More than a Hyphen": The Contributions of E. Charlton Fortune, California Liturgical Artist of the Early Twentieth Century Liturgical Movement

Jennifer Naccarelli, Claremont Graduate University

Crossing Borders: The Triumphs and Trials of Two Catholic Suffragists

Responding: Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University

Sunday, November 20, 5:00 pm-6:30 pm

A20-306 North American Religions Section

S. Brent Plate, Hamilton College, Presiding

Theme: Artifacts of Crisis: Religion and the Material Culture of Cataclysm

Jennifer Graber, College of Wooster

Between Two Worlds: Kiowa Ledger Art and the Narration of Cultural Calamity

Heather D. Curtis, Tufts University

"Famine Horrors": North American Missionary Photographs and the Visual Culture of Cataclysmic Suffering

Jonathan Ebel, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Monumental Failures: Visual Culture, War Memories, and the Limits of American Civil Religion

Responding: Sally M. Promey, Yale University

A20-331 North American Hinduism Group

Shreena Gandhi, Kalamazoo College, Presiding

Theme: Constructions of Hindu Selves and Hindu Others in North America

Michele Verma, Rice University

Indo-Caribbeans in the United States: Cracking the Conflation of “Hindu” and “Indian”

Anya Pokazanyeva, University of California, Santa Barbara

Faith on the Mat: Hindus, Protestants, and the Construction of Yoga

Michael Altman, Emory University

Sightings and Blind Spots: The "Protestant Lens" and the Construction of Hinduism

Responding: Steven W. Ramey, University of Alabama

NAASR Panel 4

Rosalind I. J. Hackett, University of Tennessee, presiding

Theme: Editors Meet Critics: After Secular Law by Winnifred Sullivan, Robert Yelle, and Mateo Taussig-Rubbo” (Stanford U.P. 2011)

Room: Moscone Center 2024.

Panelists: Jason Bivins, North Carolina State University

Elizabeth Castelli, Barnard College

Janet Jakobsen, Barnard College

Randall Styers, University of North Carolina

Response: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, University at Buffalo Law School, and Robert A. Yelle, University of Memphis

Monday, November 21, 9:00 am-11:30 am

A21-107 Religion and the Social Sciences Section

D. Michael Lindsay, Rice University, Presiding

Theme: Responses to Robert D. Putnam's and David E. Campbell's American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (Simon and Schuster, 2010)

Panelists:Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago

Michael Hout, University of California, Berkeley

Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia

Responding:Robert Putnam, Harvard University

David Campbell, University of Notre Dame

A21-109 Study of Judaism Section

Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University, Presiding

Theme: American Judaisms

Robert Erlewine, Illinois Wesleyan University

From Exclusivity to Partnership: Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Legacy of Liberal Judaism

Rachel Gordan, Harvard University

The Judeo-Christian Tradition In the Post-World War II Years: A Spur to Jewish Distinctiveness

Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

What's in a City?: San Francisco as a Hub of New Jewish Religious Movements

Kristen Tobey, University of Pittsburgh

An Identity Project in Flux: Rhetorical Negotiation of Gentile Involvement in the Nineteenth Century Jewish Agrarian Movement

A21-104 History of Christianity Section

Matthew A. Sutton, Washington State University, Presiding

Theme: State of the Field: Fundamentalism

Panelists: David Harrington Watt, Temple University

Randall Stephens, Eastern Nazarene College

Mary Beth Mathews, University of Mary Washington

Tona Hangen, Worcester State University

Monday, November 21 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

A21-207 History of Christianity Section

Virginia Burrus, Drew University, Presiding

Theme: The Invention of Early Church History in Nineteenth Century America: Elizabeth Clark's Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth Century America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)

Panelists: Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Susanna K. Elm, University of California, Berkeley

Sheila Briggs, University of Southern California

Kathryn Lofton, Yale University

Leigh E. Schmidt, Harvard University

Responding: Elizabeth A. Clark, Duke University

A21-208 North American Religions Section

Aaron Hahn Tapper, University of San Francisco, Presiding

Theme: Muslims and Jews in America: Commonalities, Contentions, and Complexities

Panelists: Aysha Hidayatullah, University of San Francisco

Ebrahim Patel, Interfaith Youth Core

Michael Lerner, Beyt Tikkun Synagogue and Tikkun Magazine

Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College

Responding: Reza Aslan, University of California, Riverside

A21-221 Evangelical Theology Group and Religion and Sexuality Group

Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University, Presiding

Theme: Contemporary Evangelical Sexualities

Erin E. Dufault-Hunter, Fuller Theological Seminary

“Porn Again”: What Pornography Can Teach Christians about Good Sex

Sara Moslener, Augustana College

Saving Civilization: Sexual Purity and American Apocalypse

Emily Linthicum, University of California, Santa Barbara

AIDS and American Evangelicalism: Franklin Graham and the Reshaping of Evangelical Discourse on HIV/AIDS

Elizabeth Young Barstow, Harvard University

“You, Your Friend, and God”: Dating as a Means of Developing Spiritual Maturity for Evangelical Young Adults

Responding: R. Marie Griffith, Washington University, Saint Louis

A21-223 Native Traditions in the Americas Group

Natalie Avalos Cisneros, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding

Theme: Resilience and Revitalization in Indigenous California

Cutcha Risling Baldy, University of California, Davis

Xoc-itch’iswhalte (They Will Beat Time with Sticks Over Her): The Hupa Flower Dance Ceremony and Elements of Spirituality in Song

Melissa Leal, University of California, Davis

Asumpa (To Flow): Native American Language and Cultural Revitalization through Hip Hop

Dennis Kelley, University of Missouri

Religion, American Indians, and Ecocriticism: Conceptualizing Indigenous Spirituality through Environmental Activism

Responding: Chris Peters, Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development

Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara

A21-232 North American Hinduism Group and Yoga in Theory and Practice Group

Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College, Presiding

Theme: Mother India Meets the Golden State: California Gurus and West Coast Yoga

Panelists:F. X. Charet, Goddard College

Philip Goldberg, Spiritual Wellness and Healing Associates

Donnalee Dox, Texas A & M University

Ann Gleig, Millsaps College

Lola L. Williamson, Millsaps College

Responding: Stefanie Syman, Brooklyn, NY

A21-203 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section

Kelly J. Baker, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Presiding

Theme: Explorations of the Religious in Contemporary Art

Ronald Bernier, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Screening God: Video, Viola, and the Theological Sublime

Leonora Onarheim, University of Oslo

Sites of Memory and Transcendence: Reflections on the Sculptures of Ruins by Anselm Kiefer

Emily S. Clark, Florida State University

New World, New Jerusalem, New Orleans: The Apocalyptic Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan

Brett Potter, Toronto School of Theology

Mystical Embrace: Barnett Newman, Primal Desire, and Apophasis

Monday, November 21, 4:00 pm-6:30 pm

A21-300 Special Topics Forum Religion, Media, and Culture Group

Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico, Presiding

Theme: Who Speaks for Us?: Responses to Representations of Islam and Christianity in America

Panelists: Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder

Jeffrey H. Mahan, Iliff School of Theology

Nabil Echchaibi, University of Colorado, Boulder

John Blake, CNN.com

A21-303 American Religion in the Age of AIDS Cluster

Randall Miller, Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund and Pacific School of Religion, Presiding

Theme: American Religion in the Age of AIDS

Lynne Gerber, University of California, Berkeley

“Is Everyone Healed but Me?”: AIDS at Thirty in a Queer San Francisco Church

Ezer Kang, Wheaton College

Ethnic Churches, Chinese Immigrants, and HIV in New York City: Inconvenient but Necessary Bedfellows

Debra Levine, New York University

The Four Questions and the Disintegrating Glue of Community

Amy Koehlinger, Florida State University

Passionate Play: Catholicism and Damien Ministries

Anthony Petro, New York University

After the Wrath of God: American Christians and the Biopolitics of AIDS

Responding: Mark Jordan, Harvard University

Tuesday, November 22, 9:00 am-11:30 am

A22-106 North American Religions Section

Randall Styers, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Presiding

Theme: Industrial Effervescence: Manufacturing Economic Selves and Producing Religious Collectivity in American History

Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama

Colonizing Religion: Faith as Market Force in the American South

Lisle Dalton, Hartwick College

Gilded Age Railroad Brotherhoods as Industrial Religion

Chad Seales, University of Texas, Austin

Mechanics of Communication: Corporate Chaplaincy and the Discursive Formation of Industrial Religion

Evan Berry, American University

Parts of a Whole: Ecological Consumerism in a Global Age

Responding: Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University

A22-115 Afro-American Religious History Group

Curtis Evans, University of Chicago, Presiding

Theme: Out of Place: African American Religious Lives in Catholic, Mormon, and Orthodox Spaces

Matthew John Cressler, Northwestern University

Black Priest for a Black Church: Race and Catholicism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Max Mueller, Harvard University

Jane Manning James: Reenacting and Reclaiming the "Black" and "Mormon" Past

Tshepo Morongwa Chéry, University of Pennsylvania

Racial (Un)Belonging and the Ethereal Homeland: South African Coloured Identity, Travel, and the Practices of Black Nationalism in the African Orthodox Church in America

Responding: Marla Frederick, Harvard University

A22-123 North American Hinduism Group

Vijaya Nagarajan, University of San Francisco, Presiding

Theme: California Dreaming: South Asian Religions Encounter the Counterculture

Smriti Srinivas, University of California, Davis

Utopian Settlements, Californian Vedanta, Huxley, Isherwood, and Friends

Michael Stoeber, University of Toronto

The Reception of Kundalini Yoga in California and Its Relation to Sikh Dharma/3H0

Eliza Kent, Colgate University

California Hinduism: The Shiva Lingam of Golden Gate Park, 1989–1994

Responding: Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University

Shana Sippy, Carleton College