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SBL 2004 Annual Meeting sessions or papers dealing with visual art--including film

American Academy of Religion 2004 Annual Meeting sessions or papers dealing with aspects of visual art--inclucing film and non-biblical traditions

Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (SARTS) 2004 Meeting

Of Related Interest, November 2003

SBL 2004 Annual Meeting sessions or papers dealing with visual art--including film:

S20-59 Israelite Religion in its West Asian Environment
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #217B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Exploring Women's Religion
1:00, Carol Meyers, Duke University
"Interrogating Terracottas: Women's Religious Praxis" (25 min)
2:45, Susan Ackerman, Dartmouth College
"Women and the Weaving of Cultic Textiles in Ancient Israel" (25 min)

S20-64 Paul and Politics
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #217C - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Reports from Working Groups on 'Peoples History' in Galatia/Galatians and Corinth/Corinthians
Using projections of relevant images, a panel of respondents will report on highlights of the discussion from the pre-meeting. Anticipated topics will include interpretation of the images with special attention to power relations presented, the images of the "barbarian" and the female, and potential implications of these images for our reading of Paul's letter to the Galatians.
Susan Elliott, Plymouth Congregational Church, Presiding
Theme I: Galatians and Images of Empire
Brigitte Kahl, Union Theological Seminary, New York
"Reading Galatians in front of the Great Altar of Pergamon" (15 min)
Davina C. Lopez, Union Theological Seminary, New York
"Reading Galatians in Light of Images of Roman Imperial Gender Constructs" (15 min)
David Lull, Wartburg Theological Seminary, Respondent
Mark Nanos, Rockhurst University, Respondent
Steven Friesen, University of Missouri, Columbia, Respondent
Discussion (30 min)
Theme II: Negotiating Identity and Boundaries
Ray Pickett, Lutheran Seminary Program of the Southwest
"Negotiating Community Identity in the Corinthian Assembly" (15 min)
James C. Walters, Boston University
"Paul and Community Formation: What Went Wrong" (15 min)
John Lanci, Stonehill College, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (30 min)

S20-70 The Use, Influence and Impact of the Bible
11/20/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #216B - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: The Bible in Art, Music and Literature
Eric Christianson, Chester College, Presiding
Judith L. Kovacs, University of Virginia and Christopher Rowland, University of Oxford
"Seeing Anew: Interpretation of John's Apocalypse in the Visual Arts" (30 min)
John E. Stanley, Messiah College
"The Apocalypse in Contemporary Music and Music Videos" (30 min)
Katie Edwards, University of Sheffield
"All About Adam: The Cultural Influence of Biblical Characters in Western Society" (30 min)
David M. Gunn, Texas Christian University
"Women and Subjectivity in Judges: From Abelard to Harriet Beecher Stowe" (30 min)
Mark Roncace, Wingate University
"Children’s Bibles: Wri(gh)ting the Story for Kids" (30 min)

S20-114 Manuscript as Icon
11/20/2004
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Room: Room #204B - San Antonio Convention Center
David Armstrong, University of Texas, Austin, Presiding
Hieromonk Justin Sinaites, St. Catharine's Monastery, The Sinai
"The Sinai Codex Theodosianus: Manuscript as Icon" (45 min)
Discussion (15 min)

S21-5 Archaeological Excavations and Discoveries: Illuminating the Biblical World
11/21/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #005 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Archaeological Resources for Teaching Bible
John Spencer, John Carroll University, Presiding
J. P. Dessel, University of Tennessee
"In Search of the Good Book: Teaching Texts for Biblical Archaeology" (30 min)
Peter Richardson, University of Toronto
"Using Archaeological Site-related Information in Religion Courses" (30 min)
Milton Moreland, Rhodes College
"Teaching Texts and Artifacts: Material Culture in the Biblical Studies Classroom" (30 min)
Deborah A. Green, University of Oregon
"Subjective Objectivity: Picking and Choosing from Material Culture" (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)

S21-66 National Association of Professors of Hebrew
11/21/2004
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Room #004 - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Satan
2:25?, Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College
"Devil is in the Details: Mel Gibson's Suffering Christ" (20 min)

S21-106 Bible in Ancient and Modern Media
11/21/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #005 - San Antonio Convention Center
This session will be devoted to two recent Jesus films, "The Gospel of John" (Visual Bible International) and "The Passion of the Christ" (Newmarket Films/Icon Distribution). After papers critiquing both films, there will be a panel discussion of the role of scholars in the production of commercial films based on the Bible, with particular attention to the problem of anti-Semitism in the Gospels.
Arthur J. Dewey, Xavier University, Presiding
Bernard Brandon Scott, Phillips Theological Seminary
"Review of the Film, 'The Gospel of John'" (25 min)
Jo-Ann A. Brant, Goshen College
"Camera as Character in Philip Saville’s 'The Gospel of John'" (25 min)
Seth Sanders, University of Chicago
"The Word's Self-Portrait in Blood: The Language Ideology of Mel Gibson's Passion and the Languages of First-Century C.E. Palestine" (25 min)
William Sanger Campbell, Columbia Theological Seminary
"The Gospel According to Mel: Reading Gibson Reading 'The Passion of the Christ'" (25 min)
Panel on "John" and "The Passion"
Other (50 min)
Charles Hedrick, Southwest Missouri State University, Panelist
Carolyn Osiek, Texas Christian University, Panelist
Alan Segal, Barnard College, Columbia University, Panelist
Mary Boys, Union Theological Seminary, Panelist
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, Panelist
Paula Fredriksen, Boston University, Panelist

S22-4 Bible in Ancient and Modern Media
11/22/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #210A - San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Bible and Film
Robert M. Fowler, Baldwin-Wallace College, Presiding
Jan W. Van Henten, University of Amsterdam
"Playing God in the Movies" (30 min)
Caroline Vander Stichele, University of Amsterdam
"Re-animating Creation" (30 min)
Dan W. Clanton, Jr., University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
"Delilah and DeMille: Textual Ambiguity and Cinematic Explicitness" (30 min)
George Aichele, Adrian College
"Artificial Bodies: Blade Runner, Metanoia, and the Death of Man" (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)

S22-20 Pauline Epistles
11/22/2004
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Room #213B - San Antonio Convention Center
10:15?, James R. Harrison, Wesley Institute
"Paul and the Athletic Ideal: Wrestling with Word and Image" (25 min)

S22-104 Bible in Ancient and Modern Media
11/22/2004
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Room #203A - San Antonio Convention Center
Thomas E. Boomershine, Lumicon Institute, Presiding
Terry Giles, Gannon University
"Performance Analysis of the Amos Oracles" (30 min)
Richard G. Walsh, Methodist College
"The Gospel according to Judas: Jesus Films as Judas Stories" (30 min)
David Shepherd, Briercrest Seminary
"Prolonging the ‘Life of Moses:’ From Spectacle to Story in the Early Cinema" (30 min)
Ronald W. Roschke, Grace Lutheran Church
"Seeing, Knowing, Believing: A Hypertext Rendering and Matrix Analysis of John 20" (30 min)
Discussion (30 min)



American Academy of Religion 2004 Annual Meeting sessions or papers dealing with aspects of visual art--including film and non-biblical traditions:

A20-103 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Darlene Fozard Weaver, Villanova University, Presiding
Theme: Tillich, Literature, and the Arts
Steven Fink, University of Iowa
"A Journey behind the Canvas: Bringing Tillich into an Interpretation of the Paintings of Kandinsky"
Russell R. Manning, University of Cambridge
"Towards a Critical Reconstruction and Defense of Tillich’s Theology of Art"
Jessica De Cou, University of Chicago
"Drinking to the Dregs: An Exploration of Plath, Hesse, and Tillich toward an Ontology of Suicide"
Responding: Jonathan Rothchild, University of Chicago

A20-121 Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Theme: The Frankfurt School in Dialogue with Christian Thought
Time?, John Hughes, University of Cambridge
"Unspeakable Utopia: Art and the Return to the Theological in the Marxism of Adorno and Horkheimer"

A21-70 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
Sunday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
William L. Blizek, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Presiding
Theme: "Power in the Blood": Images of Evil and Violence
Meredith Hammons, Vanderbilt University
"More Than the Word: Images of Jews in Films about Jesus"
Beringia Zen, Pacific School of Religion
"Rebirthing Technology and Orbital Strikes: PlanetSide and the Creation of an Ideology of Non-Consequential Violence"
Mark W. Graham, College of Wooster
"Talk about The Passion: Articulating Christian Aesthetic and Religious Experience"
Susan L. Schwartz, Muhlenberg College
"The Mysterious Powers of a Woman's Blood: The Case of The Red Violin"
Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Goucher College
"A Bloodthirsty Salvation: Behind the Polarized Popular Reaction to a Violent Atonement in Gibson's The Passion"

A21-103 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and Theology and Continental Philosophy Group
Sunday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Deborah J. Haynes, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding
Theme: Visual Aesthetics
Gerard Loughlin, University of Newcastle
"Rain, Fire, Water, Snow, Dew: Seeing the Unshowable in Tarkovsky’s Films"
James K. A. Smith, Calvin College
"Picturing Revelation: Idolatry and the Aesthetic and Rosenzweig and Marion"
Eric Boynton, Allegheny College
"Evil and the Problem of Commemoration"
Susan L. Nelson, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
"The Use of Religious Symbols in the Context of Auschwitz: A Theological Analysis of the Artwork of Marian Kolodziej"

A21-115 Mysticism Group
Sunday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Theme: Mystical Triggers, Mystical Experience
Time?, Kelly Baker, Florida State University
"Henry Ossawa Tanner and Visual Mysticism"

A22-7 Arts, Literature, and Religion Section
Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Jennifer L. Geddes, University of Virginia, Presiding
Theme: Monuments, Memories, and the Memorializing Process
Lorena E. Cuevas, New York, NY
"'All My Love Is Here and Has Remained'": Monuments as Tributes to Memory of September 11, 1973 in Chile"
Jeffrey F. Meyer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
"Changing Meanings of Memorials and Monuments: Tiananmen and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C."
Mark W. Graham, College of Wooster
"Memorializing May 4, 1970 at Kent State University: The Transformations of Public Art, from Representation to Abstraction and Religious Criticism to Spiritual Reflection"
C. Hannah Schell, Monmouth College and Martin Holland, Rosborough Partners
"'On These Grounds': American Sublime and the Process of Memorializing Tragedy"

A22-8 Buddhism Section
Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Stephen F. Teiser, Princeton University, Presiding
Theme: Buddhism in the Dark: What Monks and Nuns, Lay People, Artists, Patrons, and Others Did in Buddhist Cave-Temples in India, Central Asia, Tibet, and China
Panelists:
Sarah E. Fraser, Northwestern University
Chunwen Hao, Capital Normal University
Angela F. Howard, Rutgers University
Christian Luczanits, University of Vienna
Keiji Sadakane, Kyoto City University of Arts
Robert Sharf, University of California, Berkeley
Walter Spink, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Hung Wu, Methodist Graduate School of Theology, Taiwan
Fuxue Yang, Dunhuang Research Institute
Wei Yang, Northwestern University

A22-10 History of Christianity Section and Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Nathan Baruch Rein, Ursinus College, Presiding
Theme: But Is It True? Representations of Christian History in Fiction and Film
Joseph Pearson, Fordham University
"'The Wonder of the Ages'": Mark Twain's Joan of Arc as History and Anti-Religious Fiction"
Jonathan Seitz, Princeton Theological Seminary
“'But Is It True?'”: Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible on American Imperialism, Foreign Missions, and African Christianity"
Hans J. Hillerbrand, Duke University
"Will the Real Martin Luther Please Stand Up: Reflections on Film and History"
Susan Karant-Nunn, University of Arizona
"Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ': Early Modern Models"
Jason A. Mahn, Emory University
"A Lutheran Luther and a Christian Christ: The Function of Religious Imagery in Twenty-First-Century Film"

A22-55North American Religions Section
Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Theme: Finding Islam in New York City
Time?, Munir Jiwa, Columbia University
"Muslim Visual Artists and the Boundaries of Muslim Identity"

A22-62 Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Group
Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Theme: Monotheism(s) and Polytheism(s): Rhetorics and Legacies
Time?, Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Amsterdam
"European Polytheism Revisited: From 'Pagan Dreams' to Visual Culture in Renaissance Studies"

A22-63 Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group
Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford University, Presiding
Theme: "Outside the Canon": Oral, Visual, and Other Extra-Textual Cultures in Late Antiquity
Shira L. Lander, St. Mary's Seminary and University
"'The Word Made Flesh': Case Studies of Confluence and Conflict in the Shrines of the Terebinths of Mamre and the Maccabean Martyrs in Daphne, Syria"
Georgia Frank, Colgate University
"Hell Overheard: Romanos the Melodist on the Death of Christ"
Caroline T. Schroeder, Stanford University
"Playing the Harlot in an Egyptian Monastery: The Rhetorics of Sexuality and Prophecy in Shenoute’s Letters"
Responding: Patricia Cox Miller, Syracuse University

A22-76 Bus Tour of San Antonio Religious Sites
Monday - 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
Thomas Bremer, Rhodes College, Timothy M. Matovina, University of Notre Dame, Steve Whitesell, National Park Service, and Peter W. Williams, Miami University, Presiding
San Antonio is a noteworthy center of Latino/a Catholicism, civil religion, and increasing religious diversity. Popularly known as "the Alamo City" in honor of the shrine that memorializes the famous 1836 battle, it is also home to Spanish colonial missions, the recently-renovated San Fernando Cathedral, and the private shrine of La Capilla de Nuestro Senor de los Milagros, all of which predate the Alamo battle by as much as a century. This year's tour will feature all these sites, along with St. Joseph's Catholic Church, a nineteenth-century structure known both for its role in the large community of Germans who migrated to San Antonio as well as its parishioners' staunch resistance to relocation during the development of the city's Riverwalk and Rivercenter Mall.
Please meet at the signposted area outside the convention center, Alamo Street entrance at 12:45 pm. Bus tour is by reservation only; please have your ticket ready. Tour tickets will be mailed with the name badge materials in September.

A22-104 Comparative Studies in Religion Section
Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Theme: Methods of Metaphor and Metonymy in New Comparative Studies of Religions: Turning from West to East and Back
Time?, Julie Gifford, Miami University of Ohio
"The Art of Seeing the Invisible: An Interpretation of the Terraces atop Barabudur"

A22-120 Person, Culture, and Religion Group
Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Theme: Spirituality: Psychology? Religion? Both? Neither? Part II: Issues of Philosophy and History
Time?, Hans Alma, Leiden University
"Spirituality: A Secular View -- Transcendence and Spirituality in Philosophy and Psychology of Art"

A22-124 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group
Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
John Lyden, Dana College, Presiding
Theme: "Our Lives Teach Us Who We Are": Issues of Identity
Clive Marsh, Methodist Church in Great Britain
"Love, Actually?: Sentimentality as Problem and Opportunity in the Use of Film for Teaching Theology and Religion"
Brannon Hancock, University of Glasgow
"A Community of Characters: The Narrative Self in the Films of Wes Anderson"
Christine Kraemer, Boston University
"Self and (M)other: Apocalypse as Return to the Womb in Neon Genesis Evangelion"
David Rogers, Biscoe, AR
"The Post-Modern Scooby Doo: Paradigm Surrender in an Age of Media Bombardment"
J. Heath Atchley, South Hadley, MA
"The Silences of Secularity: Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation"

A23-1 Buddhism Section
Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theme: Buddhist Saints and Sainthood
Time?, Ryan Bongseok Joo, Princeton University
"The Study of Early Sixteen Arhat Images in Medieval China"

Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (SARTS) 2004 Meeting

An invitation from Kimberly J. Vrundy on behalf of the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies:

Join us for the second annual meeting of the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, Nov. 19-20, 2004, in San Antonio, Texas.

RECEPTION
A reception honoring Jane Daggett Dillenberger and John Dillenberger's many contributions to theology and the arts will be held on Friday evening:
Friday, November 19, 2004
7:00-8:30 p.m.
San Antonio Marriott Riverwalk, Conference Room 1

MEETING
Members of the Society will meet on Saturday morning, November 20, 2004, to discuss the restoration of the San Fernando Cathedral. Participants are encouraged to tour the Cathedral prior to the meeting.
Saturday, November 20, 2004
9:00 - 11:30 a.m.
San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter, Conference Room 18

9:00 Welcome to Participants
Wilson Yates, Society President
9:10 "The Restoration of San Fernando Cathedral"
Very Rev. David H. Garcia, Rector, San Fernando Cathedral, San Antonio, Texas
"A Theological Reflection on the Aesthetics of the Cathedral Restoration"
Dr. Alejandro Garcia-Rivera, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California
10:30 Break
10:45 Business Session / Small Groups

Please check our website for updates: http://www.artsmag.org/society.htm.

The Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies had its charter meeting at the 2002 joint meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society for Biblical Literature. The Society was organized to provide a forum for scholars of theology and religion, as well as artists interested in the intersections between theology, religion, and the arts to share thoughts, challenge ideas, strategize approaches in the classroom, and to advance the discipline in theological and religious studies curricula. The goal of the Society is to attract consistent participation of a core group of artists and scholars of theology and religion in order to have dialogue about the theological and religious meaning of the arts, and the artistic/aesthetic dimension of theological and religious inquiry.