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Conference Papers Delivered by DRTS Students (2008-2009)
DRTS Student Publications (2008-2009):
Yoo-Yun Cho-Chang (CPAR):
“Loving Radically,” Progressive Christian, September/October 2008.
Sean Dempsey (Religion & Literature):
Review of Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation, by Peter Melville (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007) in Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVon) 53 (2009):
http://www.erudit.org/revue/ravon/2009/v/n53/029908ar.html?lang=en
Review of The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era, by Colin Jager (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), in Studies in Romanticism [forthcoming].
Scott Girdner (Islamic Studies):
Review of The Story of the Qur?an, by Ingrid Mattson (London: Blackwell, 2008) in The American Journal of Islamic Social Science 25.4 (2008): 137-39.
Kate Holbrook (Religion and Society):
“The Beings I Love Are Creatures” in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 4201 (Spring 2009): 235.
Christine Hutchison-Jones (Religion & Society):
“Center and Periphery: Mormons and American Culture in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America,” in Peculiar Portrayals: Contemporary Depictions of Mormons and Mormonism on the Page, the Stage, and the Screen. Michael Austin and Mark Decker, eds. (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, [forthcoming]).
Joseph Laycock (Religion & Society):
Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampires (Westport: Praeger, 2009).
Review of Not in Kansas Anymore: Dark Arts, Sex Spells, Money Magic, and Other Things Your Neighbors Aren’t Telling You, by Christine Wicker (New York: HarperCollins, 2005) in Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies 10.2 (2008): 279-281.
“Mexico’s War on Saint Death,” in Religion Dispatches on May 6, 2009. http://www.religiondispatches.org/
“Modern Vampires: Your Neighbors and Spouses,” in Religion Dispatches on May 28, 2009. http://www.religiondispatches.org/
“True Blood: When Marketing Goes For the Jugular,” in Religion Dispatches on Jun 10, 2009. http://www.religiondispatches.org/
“Ten Commandments of the Antichrist: The Georgia Guidestones,” in Religion Dispatches on June 30, 2009. http://www.religiondispatches.org/
Richard Peters (Science, Philosophy, and Religion):
“Theodicic Creationism: its Membership and Motivations” in Kolbl-Ebert, M (ed.) Geology and Religion: A History of Harmony and Hostility (London: The Geological Society, 2009): 317-328.
Matthew Pierce (Islamic Studies):
Review of Mark Sedgwick, Islam and Muslims (Boston: Intercultural Press, 2006), in the Journal for Shi’a Islamic Studies [forthcoming].
Conference Papers Delivered by DRTS Students (2008-2009):
Mireille Bishay (Philosophy of Religion):
“Fourth Century Egyptian Theological Debates and Changing Monastic Ideals” at the Fifth Annual Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Student Conference in Patristic Studies, March 2009.
Sean Dempsey (Religion & Literature):
“‘Faultless in spite of all her faults’: Emma’s Comic Economies,” at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), University of Toronto, August 21-24, 2008.
“‘One Little Word’: The Work of Justice in The Cenci,” at the International Conference of Romanticism (ICR) Oakland University, October 16-19, 2008.
“The View from Elsewhere: Literature and the Neighbor” at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), Chicago, Illinois, November 1-3, 2008.
“Secular Investiture: Romanticism and Religion” at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Boston, Massachusetts, February 26-March 1, 2009.
Panel organizer and chair for “Religion, the Secular and Literary Studies,” at Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA). Boston, Massachusetts, February 26-March 1, 2009.
“Valuing the Religious in Wordsworth’s ‘Michael” at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Durham, North Carolina, May 21-March 24, 2009.
Cecile Gunn Desmond (CPAR):
“Clergy and Congregation Similarities and Differences in Dealing with Trauma” Loyola College in Maryland Department of Pastoral Counseling & Division 36 (Psychology of Religion) of the American Psychological Association Meeting, April 3, 2009.
Sara Jaye Hart (Religion & Literature):
“Failed Transubstantiations and Incomplete Icons: The Apotheosis of Marilyn Monroe,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), Chicago, Illinois, November 1-3, 2008.
“The Virgin in Popular Iconography,” at the Humboldt State University Women and Religion Lecture Series, Arcata, CA. April, 2009.
“The Greater Jihad: Some Reflections of Don DeLillo’s Falling Man,” at the American Literature Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, May 2009.
Peter Hasbrouck (History of Christianity):
“Libre Albedrio y Predestinacion en los Escritos de Constantino Ponce de la Fuente, Juan Perez de Pineda y Casiodoro de Reina” at the First International Congress on Protestant Reform and Religious Liberty in Europe in Seville, Spain in March.
Erika K.R. Hirsch (History of Christianity):
“The Foundery Collection: An Examination of the First Distinctively Methodist Tune Book” at the Annual Conference of the Hymn Society at St. Olaf College in July 2009.
“Of Juicy and Succulent Wounds: Body and Blood in Eighteenth Century Moravianism” at a conference at University of Rhode Island in March 2009.
Kate Holbrook (Religion & Society):
“The Women in the Kitchen.” Keynote speech, Exponent II Annual Retreat, September 2008.
“The Moral Valence of Diet: Thinking Through Our Bodies and Their Food.” Workshop, Exponent II Annual Retreat, September 2008.
“Mormonist Feminism: An Apologia” at Harvard Divinity School. Faith and Knowledge: Latter-day Saints in Religious Studies Conference, February 2009.
“Women with a Bishopric.” Mormonism Through the Eyes of Women: Envisioning New Spaces for Theology and Practice. Claremont Graduate University, March 2009.
“Food Safe: Domestic Science, the Word of Wisdom, and Leah Widtsoe’s Campaign to Save Souls Through Proper Nutrition.” Mormon History Association Annual Conference, May 2009.
“Back to Any Land: The Religious Roots of Agrarianism.” Food, Farms, and Community Rural Heritage Institute at Sterling College, June 2009.
Christine Hutchison-Jones (Religion & Society):
“Constructing America’s Religious Identity: Treatments of Mormonism in Scholarly Surveys of Religion in the United States.” ‘Mongrel’ America, American Studies Graduate conference, The University of Texas at Austin, October 3, 2008.
Hee-Kyung Kim (Theology):
“The Oppressed and the Courage to Believe in Self-Love in Order to Love Thy Neighbor,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), Chicago, Illinois, November 1-3, 2008.
Joseph Laycock (Religion & Society):
“Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampires.” “Lunch and Learn” lecture presented at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI on December 22, 2008.
“The Real Vampire Community: Identity and Modernity” presentation for The Social Science and Religion Network, at Boston University, February 9, 2009.
“Nice Little Things Like That: Oom the Omnipotent and the Marketing of Yoga to the American Public,” at conference entitled: Engaging Particularities VII: Exploring New Directions in Comparative Theology, Inter-Religious Dialogue, Theology of Religions, and Missiology in Boston, MA on March 3, 2009.
Panelist, for session entitled: “From Teaching to Practice” at American Academy of Religion Southeastern Regional Meeting, Chapel Hill, NC on March 13, 2009.
“The Gospel According to Biff: Pedagogical Uses of Satire.” at the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion in Chapel Hill, NC on March 14, 2009.
“Myth Sells: Mattel’s Commission of the He-Man Bible,” at the National Popular Culture Conference in New Orleans, LA on April 4, 2009.
Jaclyn Michael (Islamic Studies):
“Defining American Islam Through Humor: Muslim American Comedians Take Center Stage,” at the 6th Annual Duke/UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference in April 2009.
Derek Michaud (Theology):
“Sacrifice, Bodies, and the Image of God” at Bodies in Motion: Graduate Student Conference at the University of Rhode Island in March 2009.
“The Patristic Roots of John Smith’s ‘True Way or Method of Attaining to Divine Knowledge’,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), Chicago, Illinois, November 1-3, 2008.
Richard Peters (Science, Philosophy, & Religion):
“The Power of God and the Role of Evidence in Creationist Thought,” at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Houston, TX, October 2008
Matthew Pierce (Islamic Studies):
“Al-Mufid and the Qadimayn: Will the Real Usuli Please Stand Up?” at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), Chicago, Illinois, November 1-3, 2008.
“Remembering Fatima: Emerging Female Authorities and Enduring Sectarian Identities” will be presented at the conference “Women, Leadership, and Mosques” in October 2009.
Aimee Radom (CPAR):
“Resilience and Thriving in Lay Catholic Parishioners During Parish Reconfiguration” (part of a symposium on Resilience in Spiritual Communities despite Stigma, Abuse, and Restriction) at the National Convention of the American Psychological Association, in August 2008.
Josh Reeves (Science, Philosophy, and Religion):
“Bible and Modern Culture” at American Academy of Religion Southeastern Regional Meeting, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2009.
Eric Severson (Theology):
Panelist and Conference organizer for Wesleyan Philosophical Society, 8th Annual Meeting at Anderson University, Anderson, Indiana, March 5, 2009.
Christopher Stroup (New Testament & Christian Origins):
“How Remarkable is Artapanus? Questions of Authorship and Jewish Identity in Artapnus’ Work on Moses” at Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, November 2008.
“A Reexamination of the Sons of the Dawn in CD 13.14,” at the New England Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Newton MA, April 2008.
Regina Walton (Religion & Literature):
“People of the Book: Book Production as Spiritual Practice at Little Gidding,” at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, February 27, 2009.
“The Impact of the Dissolution of the Virginia Company on George Herbert and the Ferrars of Little Gidding” at the Seventh Biennial Symbiosis Conference at Suffolk University, Boston, June 2009.
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