Charges of Blasphemy in Religious Discourse

Co-Sponsored with the SBL Violence and Representations of Violence Unit

Saturday, 1:00PM – 3:30PM

Sheraton Boston-Hampton (Third Level)

Chair: Simon Zeldin

Respondent: Jennifer Bryson

1. Kimberly Stratton, “The Ultimate Sacrilege—Deicide and the Paschal Lamb: Appropriating Exodus to Authorize Violence against Jews.”
2. James Betitfils, “Apparently Other: Appearance and Blasphemy in the Ancient Christian Martyr Acts.”
3. Benjamin Lappenga, “‘Formerly a Blasphemer and a Man of Violence’: First Timothy and the Othering of Jews.”

Trauma in Japanese Religion

Co-Sponsored with the Japanese Religions Unit

Sunday, 9:00AM – 11:30AM

Hynes Convention Center – 209 (Second Level)

Chair: Jessica Starling

Respondent: Akira Nishimura

1. Kristina Buhrman, “Disasters Inscribed upon a Landscape: Buddhist Institutions, the Massed Dead, and the State in Pre-modern Japan.”
2. Byoungdo Park, “Commemorating Trans-Sectarian Deaths: From Two Cases of Disasters in Early Modern Japan.”
3. Paride Stortini, “The Silk Road ass the Way Home: Trauma, Memory, and Buddhism in the Art and Activism of Hirayama Ikuo.”
4. Yuki Miyamoto, “Guilt Trip: Pilgrimage, Dark Tourism, and an Ethic of the Visitor at a Nuclear Disaster Site.”
5. Levi McLaughlin, “From Pastoral Care to Victim Care: Toward a Genealogy of ‘Trauma’ in Contemporary Japanese Religion.”

Fantasy, Religion, and Violence

Panel and CARV Business Meeting

Sunday, 1:00PM – 2:30AM

Marriott Copley Place- Columbus I & II (First Level)

Chair: Michael Jerryson

Business Session Chair: Jamel Velji

1. Christopher Rodkey, “You’ll Have to Pry Christendom from My Cold, Dead Hands: God’s Not Dead as Reverse Revenge Fantasy of Whiteness.”
2. Michael Broyles, “Lest We Become Possessed: James Baldwin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and the Relationship between Myth and Violence.”
3. Huan Jin, “Fantasy Disseminated: the Drama of Politics and Religion in the Taiping Rebellion.”

Religion and Conflict under the Trump Administration

Co-sponsored Roundtable

Monday, 1:00PM – 3:30PM

Sheraton Boston- Republic B (Second Level)

Chair: Julie J. Ingersoll

Participants:

• Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California- Santa Barbara
• Winnifred Sullivan, Indiana University
• David Carrasco, Harvard University
• Terrence Johnson, Georgetown University
• Susan Hayward, Georgetown University
• Nadia Marzouki, Harvard University