North American Association for the Study of Religion

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

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NAASR Annual Meeting, 2008

NAASR Panel at SBL 2008

North American Undergraduate Conference in Religion and Philosophy

NASSR Annual Meeting
October 31-November 1, 2008
Chicago, IL

Call for Papers (PDF)

M31-102
Friday, October 31, 2008
9:00-11:30 a.m.
Hilton Chicago, Pullman Boardroom

NAASR Executive Council Meeting

M31-200
Friday, October 31, 2008
1:00-3:30 p.m.
Hilton Chicago, Boulevard C

Academic Session 1: "The Case(s) of Turkey: From Secularization to De-Secularization?"

Presiding: Tim Jensen, University of Southern Denmark

Michael Brett Wilson, Duke University
"Secularism and the Qur'an: Dealing with an Arabic Qur'an in the Context of Turkish Nationalism"

Ivan Strenski, University of California, Riverside
"Is the Secular Study of Religion in Turkey a Western 'Imposition?'"

Refika Sarionder, University of Bielefeld
"Alevis and Turkish Secularism"

Jens Kreinath, Wichita State University
"Body Symbols and Media Events: How Islamicist Politics and Women's Veiling Became a Major Constitutional Challenge of Turkish Secularism"

M31-304
Friday, October 31, 2008
4:00-6:30 p.m.
Hilton Chicago, Boulevard C

Academic Session 2: The Testability of Cognitive Theories of Religion

Presiding: Luther H. Martin, The University of Vermont

Justin L. Barrett, Oxford University
"So Counterintuitiveness Helps Explain Religion: What's the Evidence?"

Emma Cohen, Oxford University
"Do Spirits Have Bodies? Or, Are Ghost Concepts Really Minimally Counterintuitive?"

Robert N. McCauley, Emory University
"The Importance of Being 'Ernest'"

Responding: Brian McCorkle, Boston University

M1-106
Saturday, November 1, 2008
9:00-11:30 a.m.
Palmer House Hilton, LaSalle 5

Academic Session 3: Religious Institutions in the Context of Finance Market Capitalism

Presiding: Bryan Rennie, Westminster College

Terry Rey and Suzanne Parlier, Temple University
"What Is Religious Capital? Looking for Answers from Bourdieu to Stark"

Anne Koch, University of Munich
"Neo-Institutionalist Theses on a German Regional Yoga-Market"

Jeremy Carrette, University of Kent
"Global Institutions, Religious NGOs, and the United Nations: A Study of Quaker (Religious Society of Friends) Economic and Political Influence"

Rachel McCleary, Harvard University
"Religion and Economic Development: A Two-Way Causation"

M1-120
Saturday, November 1, 2008
11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Palmer House Hilton, Red Lacquer Room

NAASR Business Meeting

Annual NAASR Reception

The venue for the annual members’ reception will be announced closer to the date.

NAASR Panel at SBL 2008

NAASR is sponsoring a panel at the 2008 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (Boston, MA).

22-68
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Location to be announced

"A Quarter Century of Interrogating Religion: From Imagining Religion (1982) to Religion: Beyond a Concept (2008)"

Presiding

Tomoko Masuzawa, University of Michigan

Panelists

Jonathan Z. Smith, University of Chicago
Hent de Vries, Johns Hopkins University
Russell McCutcheon, University of Alabama
Elizabeth Clark, Duke University
Yvonne Sherwood, University of Glasgow
Winnifred Sullivan, SUNY Buffalo

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