Buddhism Section
Saturday, November 18, 2000
1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Sara L. McClintock, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Buddhism and Violence
Geoffrey B. Samuel, University of Newcastle, Callaghan
Vajrayaana Spells for Destroying Enemy Armies and their Context in Indic Religious Life
Stephen Jenkins, Humboldt State University
Compassionate Violence in Indian Buddhist Literature
John D. Dunne, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Licensed to Kill: Ethics, Authority, and the Bodhisattva Assassin in Tibet
Tara Nancy Doyle, Emory University
"Educate! Agitate! Organize!": Dalit Buddhists' Call to Battle
Respondent:
Christopher Queen, Harvard University
A24
History of Christianity Section
Saturday, November 18, 2000
1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University, Presiding
Theme: Feast, Famine, and Food: Marking Christian Identity
Kevin M. Godfrey, Alvernia College
Ashes in the Porridge, Grapes for the Fast, Meat on the Walls: An Investigation of the Spiritual Significance of Eating and Fasting in the Primitive Franciscan Legends
Cynthia Hess and Gilbert Bond, Yale University
Anabaptist Love Feast: Toward an Ontological Oneness with Christ
Ford Stanley, Oxford University
Love Feasts and Abstinence: A Look at the Kail Kirk
Martha L. Finch, Colby College
Pinched with Hunger, Partaking of Plenty: Fasting and Thanksgiving in Early Puritan New England
Eric Reinders, Emory University
Blessed Are the Meat-Eaters: Christian Anti-Vegetarianism and the Missionary Encounter with Chinese Buddhism
Daniel Sack, Naperville, IL
Lifestyle: Mainline Protestants and the Politics of Food
A33
Korean Religions Group
Saturday, November 18, 2000
1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Robert E. Buswell, University of California, Los Angeles, Presiding
Theme: Dialogue with the Traditions
Sang Jin Ahn, University of Toronto
Minjung Buddhism and Minjung Theology in Korea: A Comparative Study
Chang-Sool Choi, Dongguk University
The Characteristics and Present Condition of Laity Education in Chogye Order
Sophia Eunhee Shin, University of Toronto
A Feminist Interpretation of the Korean Founding Myth
Sung D. Oak, Boston University
The Korean Church's Understanding of Tan'gun and Kija, 1880-1945
Respondents:
Bockja Kim, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Jin Young Park, Vassar College
A44
Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section
Saturday, November 18, 2000
3:45 pm-6:15 pm
Barbara A. B. Patterson, Emory University, Presiding
Theme I: Awakening the Learner and the Teacher: Pedagogical Processes As Critique and Diversity
Melissa A. Burns, Northridge, CA
Contract to Learn: Student Construction of Syllabi
Ron Gilmer, Florida State University
A Celestial Syllabus: Short Fiction on Faith and the Religious Studies Classroom
Eve L. Mullen, University of Nevada, Reno
Buddhism and Western Pop Culture in the Classroom: Exposing Orientalism
Theme II: Interactive Interpretation: An Initiative in the Comparative Study of Sacred Texts
Panelists:
Gordon D. Newby, Emory University
Laurie L. Patton, Emory University
Vernon K. Robbins, Emory University
A46
Buddhism Section and Japanese Religions Group
Saturday, November 18, 2000
3:45 pm-6:15 pm
Hank Glassman, Stanford University, Presiding
Theme: Funerals, Death Rituals and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
Sarah Horton, University of Colorado, Boulder
Mukaekou: Practice for the Deathbed
Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University
With the Help of "Good Friends": Deathbed Ritual Practices in Early Medieval Japan
Brian D. Ruppert, University of Illinois, Urbana
Death and the Damned Emperor: The Tale of Nichizou's Journey to the Afterlife As Mimetic Representation of Medieval Japanese Society
Duncan Williams, Trinity College
Sudden Salvation and Gradual Care of the Dead: Soutou Zen and the Blood Pool Hell Sutra
Mariko Namba Walter, University of New England
The Structure of the Japanese Buddhist Funeral
Respondent:
Mark L. Blum, State University of New York, Albany
A79
Buddhism Section
Sunday, November 19, 2000
9:00 am-11:30 am
John C. Maraldo, University of North Florida, Presiding
Theme: The Doctrine of Bodhicitta and the Buddhist Path
Francis Brassard, Berry College
The Concept of Bodhicitta in `Saantideva's Bodhicaryaavataara
Susanne Mrozik, Harvard University
Bodies Good to Eat: The Material Effects of Bodhisattva Vows
Dale S. Wright, Occidental College
Hua-yen Bodhicitta: The "Dependent Arising" of Enlightenment in Fa-tsang
Robert Rhodes, Otani University
T'ien-t'ai Chih'i's Interpretation of Bodhicitta
Mark L. Blum, State University of New York, Albany
The Sudden Pure Land: Bodhicitta in the Nirvaana Suutra
Respondent:
Alexander T. Naughton, Mississippi State University
A104
Buddhism Section and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group
Sunday, November 19, 2000
1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Janet Gyatso, Amherst College, Presiding
Theme: Buddhism between Tibet and Pre-Republican China
Matthew Kapstein, University of Chicago
Mulian in the Land of Snows: Chinese Traditions of the Arhat Maudgalyayana and Their Legacy in Tibet
Rob Linrothe, Skidmore College
The Commissioner's Commissions: Late Thirteenth-Century Tibetan and Chinese Buddhist Art in Hangzhou under the Mongols
Karl Debreczeny, University of Chicago
Sino-Tibetan Wallpainting at Dabaojigong
Paul Nietupski, John Carroll University
rGya nag pa tshang at Labrang Monastery
Business Meeting
Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University, and John S. Strong, Bates College, Presiding
A148
Studies in Yogaacaara Buddhism Seminar
Sunday, November 19, 2000
3:45 pm-6:15 pm
A. Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University, and Joe Wilson, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Presiding
Theme: The Concept of the Three Natures (trisvabhaava) in Yogaacaara Buddhism
John D. Dunne, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Dharmakiirti on Ultimate Knowledge and the Three Natures
Mario D'Amato, University of Chicago
The trisvabhaava in the Mahaayaanasuutra la.mkaara
Business Meeting
Joe Wilson, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and A. Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University, Presiding
These papers, responses to them, and further contributions on the trisvabhaava doctrine may be found at the seminar's web site, www.uncwil.edu/p&r/yogacara/trisvabhava/.
A181
Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group
Monday, November 20, 2000
9:00 am-11:30 am
Matthew Kapstein, University of Chicago, and Janet Gyatso, Amherst College, Presiding
Theme: Buddhism between Tibet and Republican China
Gray Tuttle, Harvard University
Chinese Support for Modern Education in the Borderlands of Tibet: Shes rab rgya mtshois School in Rdo sbis, Qinghai
Zhihua Yao, Boston University
Tibetan Learning in the Contemporary Chinese Yogaacaara School
Respondent:
Robert M. Gimello, Harvard University
Business Meeting
Janet Gyatso, Amherst College
A184
Buddhism Section
Monday, November 20, 2000
1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Kevin M. Trainor, University of Vermont, Presiding
Theme: Buddhist Visual Culture in South and Southeast Asia
Andy Rotman, Smith College
Seeing, Prasada, and Giving: Issues of Practice and Agency
Jacob Kinnard, Northwestern University
The Dialectics of Tara Representation
Julie Gifford, University of Chicago
The Art of the Path: Visuality and Practice at Barabudur
Gary Michael Tartakov, Iowa State University
Navayana Buddhist Iconography
Respondent:
Richard Davis, Bard College
A210
Buddhism Section and Chinese Religions Group
Monday, November 20, 2000
3:45 pm-6:15 pm
Steven Heine, Florida International University, Presiding
Theme: Lineage, Transmission, and Legitimacy in Sung Dynasty Buddhism
Mark Halperin, Ohio State University
What Makes a Monk Eminent?: The View of the Laity
Ding-hwa Evelyn Hsieh, Truman State University
Yüan-wu K'o-ch'in's (1063-1135) Redefinition of Ch'an Dharma Transmission
Miriam Levering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The Social Realities of Lineage, Yin-k'o and Transmission in the Northern Sung As Reflected in the Self-narratives of Ta-hui Tsung-kao
Morten Schlütter, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Inheritance Certificates, Dharma Transmission, and the Power of the Abbot
Albert F. Welter, University of Winnipeg
Lineage and Context in the Patriarch's Hall Collection and the Transmission of the Lamp
A211
Ethics Section
Monday, November 20, 2000
3:45 pm-6:15 pm
Christine E. Gudorf, Florida International University, Presiding
Theme: Theological Ethics in Context and Dialogue
Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Union Theological Seminary, NY
The Immanent Divine As Source of Subversive Moral Agency in the Context of Globalization
Aaron L. Mackler, Duquesne University
Jewish and Roman Catholic Approaches to Access to Health Care and Rationing
Nicholas F. Gier, University of Idaho
Whitehead, Confucius, and the Aesthetics of Virtue
Derek S. Jeffreys, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Why Does Buddhism Need Human Rights? Phra Prayudh Payutto and the Poverty of a Human Rights Ethics
A212
Philosophy of Religion Section
Monday, November 20, 2000
3:45 pm-6:15 pm
Barbra R. Clayton, McGill University, Presiding
Theme: Buddhist Philosophies of Language
John Y. Cha, Gustavus Adolphus College
Language, Conceptualization and Awakening: On the Paradox of Discourse in Classical Indian Yogaacaara
Jin Young Park, Vassar College
Ch'an and Ch'an Philosophy of Language
Youru Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Underlying Structure of "Never Tell Too Plainly": Indirect Communication in Chinese Chan Buddhism
Gereon Kopf, Luther College
On Koans and Painted Rice Cakes: Dogen's Philosophy of Language
Respondent:
Dale S. Wright, Occidental College
A233
Buddhism Section
Tuesday, November 21, 2000
9:00 am-11:30 am
Grace G. Burford, Prescott College, Presiding
Theme: Reinterpreting Texts and Traditions
Sid Brown, University of the South
Nunneries for Nuns and Other Monastic Moves of the Institute of Thai Nuns
Jeffrey Samuels, University of Virginia
Samanera Training Centers: A New Form of Monastic Training in Sri Lanka
David McMahan, Franklin & Marshall College
Tantric Saadhana As Ritualization of Encounter Narratives in Mahayana Sutras
Stuart Chandler, Cambridge, MA
"Vanguard of Humanistic Buddhism": An Analysis of the Fo-kuang-shan Monastic Corps
Daniel Marc Veidlinger, University of Chicago
Overlooked or Looked Over?: The Role of Buddhist Manuscripts in Sixteenth-Century Northern Thailand
A19
Special Topics Forum
Saturday, November 18, 2000
1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Sponsored by the AAR's Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion
Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding
Theme: Framing the Other: American Print Media and Asian Religions
Panelists:
Sean McCloud, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Stephen Prothero, Boston University
Diane Winston, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Angela Zito, New York University
A27
Religion in South Asia Section
Saturday, November 18, 2000
1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Linda Hess, Stanford University, Presiding
Theme: Satire and the Rhetoric of Reform
Donald R. Davis, Jr., Bucknell University
Satire As Apology: the Purusarthakutta of Kerala
Andrea Pinkney, Columbia University
Impropriety Duly Exposed: Religious Polemic and Reform in the Narmamala of Kshemendra
Joseph Schaller, Nazareth College of Rochester
The Legends of Raidas in Word and Song
Elizabeth L. Wilson, Miami University
Voluptuary As Vulture: The Didactic Use of Satire by Indian Buddhist Authors
Respondent:
Nancy M. Martin, Chapman University
A36
Person, Culture, and Religion Group
Saturday, November 18, 2000
1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Franz Aubrey Metcalf, The Forge Institute, Presiding
Theme: The Varieties of Self Experience
Rebecca Sachs Norris, Boston University
Belief and Practice: Toward Embodied Perspectives on the Self
Daniel Capper, Hartwick College
The Self of No-Self
Mark Berkson, Hamline University
Models of the Self and Attitudes toward Death: Confucian and Taoist Perspectives
Susan T. Bruno, Watertown, MA
Schizophrenia and Godspeak: Self World and Almighty Power
The business meeting of the Person, Culture, and Religion Group will follow the first pre-session of Person, Culture, and Religion. Please see the Additional Meetings.
A44
Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section
Saturday, November 18, 2000
3:45 pm-6:15 pm
Barbara A. B. Patterson, Emory University, Presiding
Theme I: Awakening the Learner and the Teacher: Pedagogical Processes As Critique and Diversity
Melissa A. Burns, Northridge, CA
Contract to Learn: Student Construction of Syllabi
Ron Gilmer, Florida State University
A Celestial Syllabus: Short Fiction on Faith and the Religious Studies Classroom
Eve L. Mullen, University of Nevada, Reno
Buddhism and Western Pop Culture in the Classroom: Exposing Orientalism
Theme II: Interactive Interpretation: An Initiative in the Comparative Study of Sacred Texts
Panelists:
Gordon D. Newby, Emory University
Laurie L. Patton, Emory University
Vernon K. Robbins, Emory University
A51
Philosophy of Religion Section
Saturday, November 18, 2000
3:45 pm-6:15 pm
Thomas J. Dean, Temple University, Presiding
Theme: The Philosophy of Religion Today: Trends and Directions
Panelists:
Thomas P. Kasulis, Ohio State University
Gerald J. Larson, Indiana University, Bloomington
Philip L. Quinn, University of Notre Dame
William J. Wainwright, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University
Business Meeting
Thomas P. Kasulis, Ohio State University, Presiding
A60
Hinduism Group
Saturday, November 18, 2000
3:45 pm-6:15 pm
Andrew O. Fort, Texas Christian University, Presiding
Theme: Coming Out As a Hindu or Buddhist in Academia
Panelists:
Tamal Krishna Goswami, Cambridge University
Dipak Sarma, Connecticut College
Ramdas Lamb, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Lisa Lassell Hallstrom, Mount Holyoke College
Jose I. Cabezon, Iliff School of Theology
Anne C. Klein, Rice University
Paula Arai, Vanderbilt University
Respondent:
Rita M. Gross, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Business Meeting
Cynthia Ann Humes, Claremont McKenna College, Presiding
A89
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group
Sunday, November 19, 2000
9:00 am-11:30 am
Young Lee Hertig, United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Presiding
Theme: Dynamic Encounters: Asian Pacific American Communities in Flux
Carolyn Chen, University of California, Berkeley
The Ethnic Consequences of Religion: A Comparison between Taiwanese Immigrant Buddhists and Christian Converts in the United States
Karen J. Chai, City University of New York
Chinatown or Uptown? Second-Generation Chinese American Protestants in New York City
Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara
Race, Religion and Colonialism in the Mormon Pacific
Respondent:
Russell Jeung, University of California, Berkeley
Business Meeting
David Kyuman Kim, Harvard University, Presiding
A101
Tokugawa Religion Seminar
Sunday, November 19, 2000
9:00 am-11:30 am
Christopher Ives, University of Puget Sound, Presiding
Theme: Moving Away from "Religious" Texts: Art and Popular Culture in Tokugawa Religion
Paul B. Watt, DePauw University
Thought, Ethics, and "Art" in the Life of the Tokugawa Buddhist Master Jiun
Elizabeth G. Harrison, University of Arizona, and Dennis E. Lishka, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Ghosts and Demons in Tokugawa Popular Culture: Variations on the "Hundred Demons" Motif
Business Meeting
Dennis E. Lishka, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and Elizabeth G. Harrison, University of Arizona, Presiding
Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Religion in South Asia Section
Sunday, November 19, 2000
1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Jeffrey J. Kripal, Westminster College, Presiding
Theme: The Contributions of Wendy Doniger: A Critical Appraisal
Panelists:
Linda Hess, Stanford University
Daniel R. Gold, Cornell University
John Earl Llewellyn, Southwest Missouri State University
Carl Olson, Allegheny College
Laurie L. Patton, Emory University
Sarah Caldwell, California State University, Chico
Respondent:
Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago