Our 2012 Annual Meeting Program
Chicago, Illinois, November 16-18
Friday, November 16
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Williford B, Hilton Chicago Hotel
AAR Program: P16-400
Theme: Discussion of Rajiv Malhotra’s Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism (Harper Collins, 2011)
Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University, Presiding
Brian Pennington, Maryville College
Jonathan B. Edelmann, Mississippi State University
Anantanand Rambachan, St. Olaf College
Respondent:
Rajiv Malhotra, Infinity Foundation
Sunday, November 18
7:30 – 8:30 a.m.
South Building Room S106a, McCormick Place Convention Center
AAR Program: P18-2
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies Board Meeting
Michael McLaughlin, St. Leo University, Presiding
Sunday, November 18
9:00 – 11:30 a.m.
South Building Room S106a, McCormick Place Convention Center
AAR Program: P18-104
Theme: Interreligious Ritual Participation: Reverence, Flippancy, or Betrayal?
Chad M. Bauman, Butler University, Presiding
Jon Paul Sydnor, Emmanuel College
Doctrinal Approach-Ritual as the Expression of Theological Commitments
Joris Geldhof and Marianne Moyaert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Phenomenological Approach-Ritual as Irreducible Symbolic Action
Christopher Conway, Boston College
Sociopolitical Approach-Fear and Loathing on the Kentucky Campaign Trail: Practice, Politics, and Pluralism
Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College
Pluralist Approach-In the Footsteps of Ramakrishna: Interreligious Ritual Participation from a Vedanta Society Perspective
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Announcement: Best Book Award Dualities: A Theology of Difference by Michelle Voss Roberts (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010) wins the Society’s Best Book Book in Hindu-Christian Studies 2008-11 (Philosophy/Theology) Award* Tracy Tiemeier, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding *A panel discussion recognizing this book and its author had already been held at our 2010 Annual Meeting; hence the lack of a panel celebrating the award this year. |
Business Meeting
Michael McLaughlin, St. Leo University, Presiding