A CONVERSATION ABOUT FIRST CORINTHIANS Alisha Paddock (Manhattan Christian College) Creating Sacred Places in First Century Corinth. Religion and Spatial Studies 4. London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming. “1 Corinthians 11 in a Post-Honor Culture.” Stone-Campbell Journal 16.1 (2013) Richard Wright (Abilene Christian University) “'It is Good for a Man Not to Touch a Woman': Social Organization as Cultural Critique in Corinth.” Presidential Address, Scholars of Biblical and Related Literature, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies. Irving, TX. March, 2023. Moderator: Heather Gorman (Johnson University) SCJ invites friends and colleagues from all streams who identify with the Stone-Campbell Movement tradition for fellowship, light refreshments, and interesting conversation. For additional information contact William Baker (scjeditor@aol.com)
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We are pleased to invite AAR members to an evening reception hosted by College Board. This event offers an excellent opportunity to relax and network with colleagues, engage in stimulating conversations, and speak with College Board Faculty Ambassador Jakobi Williams. In addition to a hosted bar, attendees will also be served a variety of appetizers. We look forward to welcoming you and fostering connections within the AAR community.
William James was a religious philosopher and psychologist who both inspired and directly influenced prominent intellectuals such as Hans Joas, Wouter Kusters, Charles Taylor, and Miguel de Unamuno, et al. James says that consideration of the value of an experience should be separated from the way that the experience is classified. This leads one to consider that states of madness, melancholia, and mania, for example, should not be dismissed as merely pathological symptoms. In this panel, we consider James and his legacy, and try to answer the question of whether seemingly pathological states are not only possible sources of religious truth, but rather provide more probable evidence of religious truth than non-pathological states do.
The evangelical church can and should renew its ethical vision as an alternate community of reconciliation. Within our congregations, persons with disabilities still encounter challenges to attendance, difficult stereotypes, and problematic theologies. Drawing upon phenomenological and philosophical resources, the panel seeks to understand how disability functions within the life of evangelicalism broadly construed. It will also draw upon social ontology as a way to understand lived experience and concepts of personhood and embodiment that can inform faith communities and the broader public about the challenges and opportunities of disability.
Come celebrate the launch of the New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions, forthcoming from the Nanzan Library for Religion and Culture Series with University of Hawaii Press (December 2024).