AAR ? SBL ? ASOR Rocky Mountain - Creighton University

Saturday, continued
D. Panel: Religion, Art, and Literature Rm. Bartlett
Joshua Pederson (Boston University), “The Writer as Dervish: Sufism and Poetry in Orhan
Pamuk’s Snow.”
Galway Traynor (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Imagining Gods: Interconnections Between
Popular Literature and Popular Religion in the Song Dynasty.”
Sharon Adams (University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology), “Coming to Know the Mormon
Jesus Through Artistic Representation.”
E. Panel: Religion and South Asia Rm. BEC-­‐218
Loriliai Biernacki (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Rethinking the Religious Body: Tantric
Models of Embodied Divinity.”
John Kinsey (University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology), “Religious Identity, Social Justice,
and the Indian Constitution: Ambedkar and the Law.”
Ginni Ishimatsu (University of Denver), “The Chidambaram Nataraja Temple v. the State of
Tamil Nadu: An Unholy Row.”
Session V (10:30 – Noon)
A. Panel: Topics in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Rm. I-­‐301
John Fadden (University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology), “What Does Doing Do? Practical
Considerations for the Testament of Isaac.”
April Favara (University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology “Egyptian Solar Imagery in Judges 16.”
Scott Moore (University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology), “Moral Profiling: Locating Job in
Post-­‐Exilic Yehud.”
B. Panel: Textual and Ritual Traditions in Southern Asia Rm. I-­‐201
Lisa Brooks (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Sealing, Healing, and Revealing: Tantra and
Contemporary Western Āyurvedic Therapeutics”
Chip Horner (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Soteriology, Thaumaturgy, and Subversive
Didacticism in Tantric Siddha Literature: A Literary Analysis of Drukpa Kunley's ‘Ethical’
Geriatricide”
Claire Miller Skriletz (Univerisity of Colorado, Boulder), “Ethical Prescriptions and Gender in the
Mahā-­‐paduma Jātaka and the Bandhanamokkha Jātaka”