The audio feed of American Academy of Religion (AAR), the world's largest scholarly and professional association of academics, teachers, and research scholars dedicated to furthering knowledge of religions and religious institutions in all their forms and manifestations. Featuring interviews with award-winning scholars and sessions recorded during the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion.
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The Role of Western Universities in Modern Islamic Thought with Megan Brankley Abbas
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The Role of Western Universities in Modern Islamic Thought with Megan Brankley Abbas by American Academy of ReligionOleh American Academy of Religion
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A Comparative Study of the Cántico Espiritual and the Rāsa Līlā with Gloria Maité Hernández
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A Comparative Study of the Cántico Espiritual and the Rāsa Līlā with Gloria Maité Hernández by American Academy of ReligionOleh American Academy of Religion
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Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South with Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
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Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South with Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh by American Academy of ReligionOleh American Academy of Religion
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Metamodernism and the Future of Theory with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm
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Metamodernism and the Future of Theory with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm by American Academy of ReligionOleh American Academy of Religion
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Art as Embodied Experience with Kathryn R. Barush
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2023 AAR Presidential Address - Amir Hussain
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Buddhist Chaplaincy in Japan with Adam Lyons
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Adam Lyons joins Kristian Petersen to discuss his award-winning book "Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan" (Harvard University Press).Oleh American Academy of Religion
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Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible with Rhiannon Graybill
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Rhiannon Graybill joins Kristian Petersen to discuss her award-winning book, Texts after Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press, 2021).Oleh American Academy of Religion
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AAR 2022 Presidential Address - Mayra Rivera
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AAR Presidents Address - Mayra Rivera
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Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran with Niloofar Haeri
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Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran with Niloofar Haeri by American Academy of ReligionOleh American Academy of Religion
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Building on Jonathan Z. Smith's Study of Religion with Sam Gill
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Sam Gill joins Kristian Petersen to discuss his award-winning 2021 book, The Proper Study of Religion: Building on Jonathan Z. Smith (OUP, 2020).Oleh American Academy of Religion
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Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China
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Yuhang Li joins Kristian Petersen to discuss her award-winning book, Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press, 2021).Oleh American Academy of Religion
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The Death of Children in Late Antiquity with Maria E. Doerfler
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Maria E. Doerfler joins Kristian Petersen to discuss her award-winning book, "Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son: The Death of Children in Late Antiquity"(University of California Press, 2020). Through the book, Doerfler plumbs the fragmentary historical record for evidence of how members of Christian communities in Late Antiquity responded to the de…
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Aztec Religion and Art of Writing with Isabel Laack
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Aztec Religion and Art of Writing with Isabel Laack by American Academy of ReligionOleh American Academy of Religion
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Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism with Kathryn Tanner
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Kathryn Tanner joins Kristian Petersen to discuss her award-winning 2020 book, "Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism." Through the book, Tanner suggests Christianity can challenge the culture of finance capitalism that permeates our lives by guiding us to reflect on social inequalities and identity-building—concepts which she argues are at…
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AAR 2021 Presidential Address - Marla Frederick
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2021 AAR President Marla Frederick delivers her presidential address to a crowd at the 2021 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX.Oleh American Academy of Religion
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Competing Constructions of Religious Freedom in Allied-Occupied Japan
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Despite the Japanese constitution guaranteeing religious freedom since 1889, after World War II, the United States-occupiers deemed that guarantee flawed. In this conversation with, Jolyon Thomas, author of "Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan" shares how the US imposed a new framework of religious freedom onto the Japane…
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State and Religious Rituals of Religion and State among the Buryat People
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The fall of the Soviet Union provides the cultural space for a revival of the religious practices of the Buryat, an indigenous people of southern Siberia who live on the eastern shore of Lake Baikal, just north of the Mongolian border. Justine Buck Quijada, author of "Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets: Rituals of History in Post-Soviet Buryatia" (Oxf…
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The Little Ice Age and Devotional Practices in the Transforming Landscape of Northern India
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Sugata Ray's 2019 book "Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850" won AAR's Religion and the Arts Book Award in 2020, the award's inaugural year. In this interview with Kristian Petersen, Ray talks about his book and explains how a landscape transformed by the Little Ice Age became part of evolving con…
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A Counternarrative of Buddhism in Modern History with Matthew W. King
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Through a case study of Zava Damdin, a monk living on the frontier of Mongolia at the end of the Qing empire (early 20th century), Matthew King invites scholars to consider non-Eurocentric ways of studying religion in modern history.King is associate professor in transnational Buddhism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cal…
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Caretaking and Childrearing in Modern Jewish Theology with Mara Benjamin
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Mara Benjamin, Irene Kaplan Leiwant Professor of Jewish Studies at Mount Holyoke College, experimented with genre in her 2018 book "The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought," blending an academic approach to analyzing the concept of childrearing in Jewish intellectual history and offering her own intervention, informed by person…
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The Flying House of Loreto and the Growth of Catholicism with Karin Vélez
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Karin Vélez explains how the 12th century myth of the flying house of Loreto, which tells the story of the home of the Virgin Mary flew away from the Holy Land and settled on the coastal town of Loreto, Italy, served as narrative grounding for the expansion of Catholicism through varied, voluntary, independent devotional movements across the world.…
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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages with Geraldine Heng
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Geraldine Heng discusses the obstacles in conceptualizing race in premodernity and the evidence for racialized thinking in the European medieval period. Heng is professor of English and comparative literature, with a joint appointment in Middle Eastern studies and women’s studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the founder and dir…
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"The Fetish Revisited" with J. Lorand Matory
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The construction and use of the fetish framework in European social theory is the focus of J. Lorand Matory's book, "The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make." In this conversation, Matory explains how social theorists based in Enlightenment principles deployed simplistic interpretations of Afro-Atlantic religious tradition…
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Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz on the Nepalese Hindu Goddess Svasthani
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Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz talks about the textual and limited iconographic history of the mysterious Nepalese Hindu goddess Svasthani. Birkenholtz's book documenting her research into the goddess and the puranic texts that develop around her, "Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal" (Oxford University Press,…
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Religious Studies and the 2020 Election: Tips for Sharing Scholarship with the Public
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Webinar recording from June 9, 2020.The discussion focused on how scholars of religion can share work related to the study of religion and this election season. Co-presenters were David Campbell, professor at the University of Notre Dame; Iva E. Carruthers, general secretary of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference; Robert P. Jones, CEO and founder …
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AAR 2019 - Making a Match: Finding the Right Publisher for Your Work
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This session brings together editors from scholarly and trade presses, both large and small, to share their perspectives on the acquisition and editorial processes that bring a book from its research stage to market. Editors will share how scholarly authors can find their best publishing fit, what acquisition editors are looking for, strategies for…
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AAR 2019 - The Art of Writing AAR Proposals
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Have you been struggling to get proposals accepted to the AAR Annual Meeting? Come to this session to get some tips and ideas about how to better frame your research to increase your chances of acceptance. The presenter, Elissa Cutter, has been reviewing proposals as part of the Religion in Europe Unit since 2012. As a current chair of that unit, s…
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2019 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion Forum: Wade Clark Roof
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Wade Clark Roof is the 2019 winner of the Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. Having passed away suddenly on August 24, 2019, he will receive the award posthumously at this year's Marty Award Forum.Roof was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he foun…
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AAR 2019 - The 50th Anniversary of Black Theology and Black Power: Looking Back, Moving Forward
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This session celebrates the 50th Anniversary of James Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power, published March 1, 1969. This panel features prominent thinkers who address the significance of Cone’s first book, the relevance of black theology and the legacy of the James Cone.Adam Clark , Xavier University, PresidingPanelists:- Eddie S. Glaude, Princet…
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AAR 2019 - Conversation with Kate Bowler & Laurie Patton on Becoming a Public Intellectual
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After Kate Bowler’s 2013 book, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, became an unexpected public hit, she was diagnosed with stage IV cancer at the age of 35.Kate was faced with the ironic situation of “being an expert on “health wealth and happiness while being ill.” Her 2018 memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason, is a memoir exp…
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2019 AAR Presidential Address by Laurie Patton - “And Are We Not of Interest to Each Other?”
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A Blueprint for the Public Study of Religion. In addition to its traditional goal of fostering excellence in the academic study of religion, the AAR’s recently revised mission statement includes a new goal of enhancing the public study of religion. But what is the public study of religion? How might we collectively (and inevitably imperfectly) defi…
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AAR 2019 - Women and Publishing
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Submissions by women to journals and books series, including JAAR, are lower by percentage than the percentage of women in the field of religious studies. This panel brings together women successful as editors and authors to discuss the reasons for this and offer advice and support to women in the field for their publishing agendas.Andrea Jain, Ind…
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AAR 2019 - Book Panel: "Who Owns Religion?" by Laurie Louise Patton
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Laurie L. Patton is 2019 President of the American Academy of Religion, President of Middlebury College, and a scholar of South Asian history and culture. Her forthcoming book, "Who Owns Religion? Scholars and Their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century" (University of Chicago, December 2019), examines the cultural work of the study of religion thr…
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AAR 2019 - Death to the Term Paper! Building Better Assignments and Assessments
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The Teaching and Learning Committee facilitates an engaging, hands on workshop, helping participants build assignments that are creative, more plagiarism resistant, and, importantly, that also assess course outcomes. In this recorded workshop, participants identify the key components of a successful assignment; explore strategies for designing crea…
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2019 AAR Award-Winning Religion Journalists: What We Covered in 2018 and What's Next
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The American Academy of Religion presents its annual Journalism Award to recognize outstanding contributions to religion reporting in the previous year. This session celebrates journalistic excellence as it relates to the public understanding of religion, drawing insights from previous awardees, members of the award jury, and partners from the Puli…
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AAR 2019 - How to Get Published in Religious Studies Journals
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This panel brings together five editors of religious studies journals to discuss the nuts and bolts of journal editing, with the aim of making the process more transparent. The panel will be of particular interest to graduate students and junior faculty who are new to the activities of scholarly publishing.Andrea Jain, Indiana University-Purdue Uni…
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AAR 2019 - Aurora, a New E-Learning Platform: An Information Session with Co-Creator, Maren Wood
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AAR 2019 - Career Services for Non-Academic Careers
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When humanities scholars talk about exploring and pursuing “alt-ac” and “post-ac” careers, two concerns often dominate the conversation: 1) Graduate studies in the humanities don’t prepare us for or aren’t relevant to non-academic career paths, and 2) We don’t know where to look for or how to apply for non-academic jobs. Whether you are a scholar t…
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AAR 2019 - Considering Careers and Success outside of Academy: A Book Discussion with Kelly J. Baker
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AAR 2019 - Presenting at the AAR/SBL Annual Conference Made Easy
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AAR 2019 - Housing, Health, and Equity: Government as a Site for Intersectional Justice
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AAR 2019 - Preparing Scholars of Religion for Non-Academic Careers: What’s a Faculty Member to Do?
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The Aural Experience of the Hagia Sophia with AAR Book Award Winner Bissera Pentcheva
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Bissera V. Pentcheva, winner of AAR's 2018 Award for Excellence in Historical Studies for her book "Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium" talks about how digital technology, as applied to the ancient and medieval aural experience of the Hagia Sophia, makes it possible for historians to see, feel, and hear primary textual and liturgic…
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Religion in the Life and Work of Langston Hughes: A Conversation with Wallace Best
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Countering the narrative that Langston Hughes was uninterested in religion, scholar and author Wallace Best describes the poet as an "avid and eclectic churchgoer" who returned time and again to the question, construction, and meaning of salvation in American religious history. Wallace Best's book "Langston's Salvation: American Religion and the Ba…
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Modernity's Commitment to Reality with Nancy Levene, 2018 AAR Book Award Winner
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Nancy Levene, professor of religious studies at Yale University, joins Kristian Petersen in a conversation about her book, Powers of Distinction: On Religion and Modernity, which won AAR's 2018 Award for Excellence in Constructive-Reflective Studies.Oleh American Academy of Religion
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Conversion in America: A conversation with Lincoln Mullen
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Lincoln Mullen, author of "The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America," joins Kristian Petersen in a conversation about the spectrum of religious identity in American history and how the phenomena of conversion is an opening which allows scholars to study a variety of religious groups—and their relationships to each other. Mullen i…
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Career Services for Nonacademic Careers (2019)
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When humanities scholars talk about exploring and pursuing “alt-ac” and “post-ac” careers, two concerns often dominate the conversation: 1) Graduate studies in the humanities don’t prepare us for or aren’t relevant to non-academic career paths, and 2) We don’t know where to look for or how to apply for non-academic jobs. Whether you are a scholar t…
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Contingency Possibilities: Career Options within and beyond the Academy
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This joint panel explores ways in which contingency may be constructive (and the ways contingent faculty work can be made more humane and viable) as part of a larger discussion about non-tenure-track and “alt-ac” paths.Lynne Gerber, Harvard University, PresdingPanelists:- Simran Jeet Singh, New York University- Megan Goodwin, Northeastern Universit…
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