Thursday, December 10, 2020

AAR

Whew! I atttended part or all of fourteen sessions. All over the place!

•Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Unit:  

Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time 

•Queer Studies in Religion Unit:  

Queer Secularities 

•Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit:  

Rising the Feathered Serpent: A First Flight Over Indigenous Contemplative Traditions 

•Practical Theology Unit:  

Vulnerability, Dignity and the Ecological Crisis

•Comparative Religious Ethics Unit:  

Postcolonialism, Race, and Critical Theory in the Study of CRE

•SBL Bible and Practical Theology and AAR Evangelical Studies Unit:  

The Intersection of Bible and the United States 2020 Politics

•Indian and Chinese Religions Compared Unit:  

Why Humanities Should Go Global

•Plenary Panel: The Changing Field of Religious Studies:  

A Short History of the American Academy of Religion’s Annual Meeting

•Exploratory Session:  

Critical Whiteness Studies and Global Religion

•Religion and Popular Culture Unit and Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit:  

The Power of Context, Identity, and Capital: Three 2020 Books Interrogating Spirituality and Yoga

•Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit and Religion and Ecology Unit: 

Indigenous Ecologies: Trees, Temples, Texts, and Sacred Territory in an Era of Climate Change

•Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit:  

Celebrating 30 Years of Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society

•Comparative Studies in Religion Unit: 

Implicit and Explicit Comparison in Religious Studies Scholarship: A Collaborative Experiment in the Use of Buddhist Categories

•History of Christianity Unit:  

The 1619 Project