GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL SESSION I
INTERCULTURAL CENTER
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
THEOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO RELIGIOUS PLURALISM I
Kari Aanestad, Luther Seminary
“Mutual Conversation: Religious Pluralism and the Ethics of Lutheran
Missiology”
George Archer, Georgetown University
“ ‘At Once a Little City and a Metropolis of the World’: Religious Pluralism and
a Toolbox of Saints”
Richard Coble, Vanderbilt University
“From Berlin to Philadelphia and Back: The Problem of CPE in Christian
Theological Education”
PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACHES & DISCOURSE ANALYSIS I
Lucas Carmichael
“Diversity, Pluralism, and Monism in Paul Carus' 1897 Translation of the
Daode jing”
Vebjørn Horsfjord, University of Oslo, Norway
“Dialogue as Speech Act and Discourse: Methods to Understand What
Interreligious Dialogue Does”
PJ Johnston, University of Iowa
“Prolegomenon to a Constructive Buddhist Philosophy of Religious Diversity”
Fuad Naeem, Georgetown University
“The Qur’ān and Religious Pluralism: Literalism, Polyvalence, and Strategies
of
Circumscription in Qur’ānic Hermeneutics”
RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND CIVIL SOCIETY
Makito Nagasawa, Union Theological Seminary
“The Separate of Morality from Religion as a Precondition for Modern
Religious Pluralism: An Inquiry into the Rise of Absolutism vis-à-vis Civil
Society”
John ‘Segun Odeyemi, Duquesne University
“Pluralism and Religious Freedom from a Justice Perspective: John Rawls
and John Courtney Murray in Tension”
Jamie Anne Read, University of Waterloo
“Uniting a Nation: Religious and Secular Objections to Compulsory Religious
Diversity Courses in Québec Public Education”
Ryan Stelzer, University of Chicago
“Historical Heterodoxy: The Alevis and Their Perennial Struggle Against
Ottoman and Turkish Authority”
MULTIPLE RELIGIOUS BELONGING
Bennett D. Comerford, Boston College
“Rethinking Religious Identity: Hybridity and Multiple Religious Belonging in
the Muslim and Christian Sadhanas of Ramakrishna”
Peter Herman, Georgetown University
“Multiple Religious Belonging: A Foucauldian Approach”
Stephanie Petersen-Corigliano, Boston College
“Reconsidering the Post-Secular: Pluralism and the Spiritual Hybrid”
Wendy Webber, Yale Divinity Schol
“Do Christian-Muslims or Muslim-Christians Exist?”
COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY
Nicholas Boylston, Georgetown University
“Comparative Theology, Self Transformation and the Ethics of Reading”
Rahel Fischbach, Georgetown University
Rachel Friedman, University of California, Berkeley
“Making Religious Pluralism More Uncomfortable”
Taraneh Wilkinson, Georgetown University
“Drawing and Being Drawn: On Applying Friendship to Comparative
Theology”
Glenn Willis, Boston College
“Pluralism, Renunciation, and the Aims of Interreligious Inquiry”
GRADUATE STUDENT PANEL SESSION II
INTERCULTURAL CENTER
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
THEOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO RELIGIOUS PLURALISM II
Joel Daniels, Boston University
“Rowan Williams on Sharia, Secularism and Suffering”
Todd Johanson, Duquesne University
“Karl Rahner’s ‘Anonymous Christianity’ in Light of Pluralism and
Contemporary
Theology of Religions in Asia”
Nicolas Mumejian, Hartford Seminary and the University of Exeter
“Perfectionism in Islam and Christianity: A juxtaposition between Ruhollah
Khomeini and John Wesley”
PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES & DISCOURSE ANALYSIS II
Anil Mundra, University of Chicago
“From Plurality to Pluralism: A Philosophical Defense of Religious
Relationship Against Relativism”
Tasi Perkins, Georgetown University
“Beyond Jacques Derrida and George Lindbeck: Toward a Particularity-Based
Approach to Inter-Religious Communication”
Tiffany Puett, University of Waterloo
“Orchestrating Social Harmony: Religious Pluralism, Civic Identities, and
Governmentality”
Finney Premkumar, Azusa Pacific University
“Problem of Religious Pluralism: Conceptual Necessity and Ontological
Reality”
INTERRELIGIOUS ENCOUNTERS
Martin Ahiaba, Duquesne University
“Islam, Christianity, and Igala Traditional Religion in Northern Nigeria:
Paradigms
for Peaceful Co-Existence Across Strict and Loose Religious Boundaries”
Ira Helderman, Vanderbilt University
“ ‘Prescribing the Dharma’: The Buddhist/Psychotherapist Relationship as
Interreligious Encounter”
Michael Sims, Georgetown University
“Yezidism and Religious Syncretism”
Saw Thant Zin, Assumption University of Thailand
“The Necessity of Interreligious Dialogue between Buddhists and Christians
in Myanmar”
CATHOLIC APPROACHES TO RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
Jon Douglas Anderson, Catholic University of America
“Liturgical ‘Inculturation’ as a Response to Religious Pluralism: Fr. D.S.
Amalorpavadass and the Implementation of Sacrosanctum Concilium in the
Post-Conciliar Indian Latin Church”
Joyce Konigsburg, Duquesne University
“Religious Pluralism: A Sacramental Theology of (Interfaith) Marriage”
Emma O’Donnell, Boston College
“Embodying Tradition: Liturgical Performance as a Site for Interreligious
Learning”
Jason Welle, Georgetown University
“The Evolution of the Assisi Gathering: To Humanism and Beyond?”
CONCURRENT PANEL SESSION I
INTERCULTURAL CENTER
THURSDAY, MAY 24
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
ASIAN TRADITIONS AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
Erin Cline, Georgetown University
“Early Confucianism and Religious Pluralism”
John Makransky, Boston College
“A Buddhist Approach to Comparative Theology”
Abraham Vélez de Cea, Eastern Kentucky University
“The Buddha and the Dalai Lama on Religious Pluralism”
JUDAISM AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
Charles Bernsen, Vanderbilt University
“Lashon ha-Ra (the Evil Tongue) and the Problem of Jewish Unity”
Robert Eisen, George Washington University
“Reflections on the Noahide Code As A Source for Jewish Pluralism”
Danny Greene, The Newberry Library
“American Jews and the Origins of Cultural Pluralism”
PLURALISM & SOCIETY: CASE STUDIES
Joseph Murphy, Georgetown University
“Botánicas: Sacred Sites of Plural Religious Encounter”
Vincent F. Biondo, III, California State University, Fresno
“Religious Pluralism, Family Conversations and Outreach Encounters in
Wales and California”
Erika B. Seamon, Georgetown University
“Interfaith Marriage and its Implications for the Study of Religious Pluralism”
Isaac Weiner, Georgia State University
“Muting Religious Differences: Pluralism and the Adhān in Hamtramck,
Michigan”
INTERRELIGIOUS ENCOUNTERS IN THE JESUIT TRADITION
Thomas M. Cohen, Catholic University of America
“Early Modern Jesuit Encounters with Jews and New Chrsitians”
Emanuele Colombo, DePaul University
“A Jesuit Approach to Islam in Seventeenth-Century Europe Baldassarre
Loyola (1631-1667), Prince of Fez and Jesuit”
Charles B. Jones, Catholic University of America
“The Prospects for Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding: the Jesuit
Case and its Theoretical Implications”
CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIES OF RELIGIONS
Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Moravian Theological Seminary
“A Global Spirit”
Kris Klotz, Pennsylvania State University
“Is There Salvation Outside the Church?: Implications of a Cosmological
Religious Pluralism”
Elaine Padilla, New York Theological Seminary
“Sacredly Hospitable: Pluralism in the Imperative of Opening of Space”
Wilhelmus G.B.M. (Pim) Valkenberg, Catholic University of America
“One Faith – Different Rites Nicholas of Cusa’s New Awareness of Religious
Pluralism”
CONCURRENT PANEL SESSION II
INTERCULTURAL CENTER
THURSDAY, MAY 24
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
ISLAM AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
Syafaatun Almirzanah, Georgetown University
“Islam, A Mosaic Not a Monolith”
Jerusha Tanner Lamptey, Georgetown University
“Thinking Differently about Difference: Muslima Theology of Religious
Pluralism”
Myriam Wissa, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
“Copt, Sufi ‘Gnostic’ and Karaite ‘Mu’tazila’: Re-considering Documentary
Evidence of Pluralistic Boundaries in ‘Abbasid Egypt”
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND INTERRELIGIOUS ENCOUNTER
John Borelli, Georgetown University
“ ‘Religion’ at Vatican II”
Gerard Mannion, University of San Diego
“Pathways for Dialogue in the 21st Century: What We Learned at Assisi
2012”
Marinus C. Iwuchukwu, Duquesne University
“Outside de jure Religious Pluralism No Dialogue: A Critical Socio-Theological
Assessment of Christian-Muslim Dialogue in Post-Colonial Sub-Saharan
Africa”
COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY
Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
“Dialogues of Power, or What are we Comparing when we do Comparative
Theology?”
Dale Irvin, New York Theological Seminary
“The Ritual of the Limping Dance: Kosuke Koyama’s Positive Assessment of
Pluralism for Christian Theology”
John N. Sheveland, Gonzaga University
“Renaissance Polyphony as a Model for Comparative Theology”
CHRISTIAN-JEWISH RELATIONS
Alan Mitchell, Georgetown University
“Hebrews and Anti-Judaism”
Brian P. Flanagan, Marymount University
“Christian Ecclesiology in the Presence of Jewish Fidelity”
Matthew W. Maguire, DePaul University
“The Mysticisms of the Dreyfus Affair: Charles Péguy on Christianity and
Judaism"
PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACHES TO RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
Stephen Kaplan, Manhattan College
“Catching up with Contemporary Physics: Holography as a Model for
Religious Pluralism”
Carmelo Santos, Georgetown University
“The Embodied Mind/Brain as Locus for Inter-religious Dialogue”
Young-chan Ro, George Mason University
“Relativism, Universalism, and Pluralism in the Age of Globalization”
Michael Slater, Georgetown University
“William James on Religious Pluralism”
RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND PRACTICAL ISSUES
Jonathan D. Lawrence, Canisius College
“Interfaith Interaction, Dialogue, and Action – Buffalo, NY as a Case Study”
James T. Bretzke, SJ, Boston College, School of Theology & Ministry
“Cross-Cultural Ethics in the Context of Religious Pluralism”
Julie V. Burkey, Seton Hall University
“Theology of Work: Advancing Pluralism in the Workplace”
Rosalind I.J. Hackett, “Religion(s) in the Workplace: Accommodating Diversity,
Resisting Coercion”