Religious Studies: News and Events: Graduate Student Achievements

GRADUATE STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENTS, PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES

PRESENTATIONS:

Ali Amin -
“Defining Religion in Indonesian Movies 2000-2006” 2007 Annual Meeting American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA, November 17-20 2007.

"Framing Religion in Raam Punjabi's Soap Opera", Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Annual conference, April 13-16, 2007, Phoenix Arizona.

"The Representation of Islam and Muslim in The Arizona Republic Newspaper 2005-2006", The 2006 Middle East and Central Asia Politics, Economics, and Society Conference. September 7-9 2006, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Seth Clippard -
"Arguing for Survival: Rhetorical Uses of the Platform Sutra in Late Eighth-Century China" Taiwan Association of Religious Studies Annual Conference, July 1-2, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan

Brandon Crowe -
"American Evangelicalism, the Ethics of Belief, and the Challenge of Fideism" annual meeting AAR/WECSOR, March 2007.

Kelly Fitzsimmons -

“The Ethics of Critical Engagement and the Practice of Teaching Religion”, annual meeting AAR/ WECSOR, March 2007.

Brett Hendrickson -
"Sites of Healing: Mexican-American Folk Saints and Modernity" Society of Church History winter meeting, Washington, DC, January 3-5, 2008.

Jeffrey Halverson –
"The Islamic State in Egyptian Islamist Discourse: 1928-1966," annual meeting AAR/WECSOR, March 13, 2005.

Joon Sik Hwang -
"Four Points of View on The Partition of Indian Subcontinent" Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies and the Southwest Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, September, 21, 2007.

"The Tale of Two Cities: The Comparison of Two Images of Ayodhya" The 2nd South and Southeast Asian Association for The Study of Culture and Religion, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, May 24 2007.

Bret Lewis -
"Effects of World Religions Courses: A Pilot Study of Tolerance and Contextualization" March 2008 American Academy of Religion Western Regional Meeting, Pasadena, CA

Beverly Lucas -
“What of the Wo/Man’s Place?: An Analysis of Gender in the Historiography, Study, and Culture of U.S. Evangelicalism” March 30, 2008 American Academy of Religion Western Regional Meeting, Pasadena, CA

"Conjured Realities: Depicting Wiccan Women in Film" American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 19, 2007, San Diego, California.

Samsul Maarif -
"Indonesian Muslim Community of Arizona: Negotiating Religious Understanding" March 29-31, 2008
AAR Western Region, Pasadena, CA

"Rethinking the Religion of Ammatoa, Sulawesi, Indonesia" November 11-December 2, 2007
106th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC

Syncretism or Dissimulation? Strategies for Religious and Cultural Survival among the Ammatoa of Sulawesi, Indonesia. " 2007 Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR), April 13-16, 2007, Phoenix , Arizona.

Shawn McAvoy -
“We have forgotten that nation”: Jiaozhou, China between the United States and Japan, August November 1914” June 27, 2008 Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Pat Power -
“Blurred Boundaries: Apostasy, Counter-Assimilation, and the American Messianic Jew” Western Jewish Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA, April 6, 2008

“Jealousy in the Hebrew Bible” Meeting of the Western Conference for the Study of Religion, Pasadena, CA, March 30, 2008

"The Holy, the Hypocrites, and the Ecclesia: Uncovering Identity in the Didache," Meeting of the Western Conference for the Study of Religion, March 25, 2007.

Evelyn Sanchez -
"Theological Messages and the Sacred Vessels of Cleanness" February 29-March 1, 2008, 14th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

"Determining the Importance of Saint Veneration Practices for the Growth and Maintenance of Early Christianity through the Use of a Theological/Historical Perspective,” annual meeting AAR/WECSOR, March 2007

Brooke Schedneck -
“Center and Periphery in the Construction of Western Buddhism” March 31, 2008 Western American Academy of Religion Regional Meeting

Beau Seegmiller -
“‘People of Faith’: Defining Religion in American Public Life” 2007 Society for the Anthropology of Religion Meeting, April 13-16, 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona.

“Ethos of Engagement: An Internationalist Ethic” 13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium, The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations, February 15-17, 2007 at Arizona State University.

“Radicalized Margins: Eric Rudolph and Religious Violence” First North American Conference on Radicalism, January 25-27, 2007 at Michigan State University.

“The FBI’s Project Megiddo: Secularism, Secularization, and the Category of Religious Violence” Religion, Politics, and Law Graduate Symposium, March 31-April 1, 2006 at Florida State University.

“Are Mormons Polytheists?” 2006 Arizona Sunstone Symposium, January 14, 2006 at Arizona State University.

Konden Smith -
"Nineteenth-Century Mormonism or 'An Unloved Child': National Culture and the Contested Notions of Americanness and the American Kingdom of God" March 2007 Annual Meeting for the American Academy of Religion, Nineteenth Century I Section, Western Region, Berkeley, CA

“'Elements of Perfection': Imaginations of Race and Gender, Mormonism, and the Kingdom of God in Nineteenth-Century New England" March 30, 2008 American Academy of Religion Western Regional Meeting, Pasadena, CA

"The Reed Smoot Hearings and the Theology of Politics: Perceiving an 'American' Mormon Identity" April 2008 Biennial Conference of the Claremont Mormon Studies Student Association, Claremont, CA

"Nineteenth-Century Mormonism or 'An Unloved Child': National Culture and the Contested Notions of Americanness and the American Kingdom of God" May 2007 Annual Meeting for the Mormon History Association, Salt Lake, UT

"Appropriating the Secular: Mormonism and the World Columbian Exposition of 1893" May 2008 Annual Meeting of the Mormon History Association, Sacramento, CA

Abdoulaye Sounaye -
Remembering the Past, Inspiring the Present: Reappropriating Sheick Usman Dan Fodio’s Jihad in Niger’s Islamic Sphere, AAR/WECSOR.

Religion and Colonialism in Niger: The Case of Babule, Arizona State University, Religious Encounters and Modernity.

ImaginingIndigenous Religions in Colonial Niger: The Case of the Babule Religious Movement, 2007 Society for the Anthropology Meeting, Phoenix.

Mugdha Yeolekar -
"The Social Functions of Historical Narratives in Non-Brahman Movement in Western India" Western Conference of American Association of Asian studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City September, 2007.

"The Malibu Hindu temple: ‘replication’ or ‘recreation’? On redefining ‘Indian culture’ in the context of transnational Hinduism" The conference was on 'Syncrestism in South and South east Asia' and was organized by the South and South east Asia Regional Association of the International Association of History of Religions, conference in Bangkok.

PUBLICATIONS:

Jeffrey Halverson
Book Review for The Qur'an and the West, by Kenneth Cragg (Georgetown University Press, 2005) in Reviews in Religion and Theology, Vol. 14, Issue 1 (Oxford: BlackwellPublishing, 2007), 13-15.

Book Review for Muslims in the United States: Identity, Influence, Innovation, ed. Philippa Strum (Washington: The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005) in Reviews in Religion and Theology, Vol. 13, Issue 4 (Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, 2006): 519-522.

Book Review for Islam and the West Post 9/11, ed. Ron Geaves (Ashgate, 2004) in Reviews in Religion and Theology, Vol. 13, Issue 1 (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006): 113-115.

Book Review for Martyrdom in Islam, by David Cook (Cambridge University Press, 2007) in Reviews in Religion and Theology (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007), forthcoming.

"The Muslim Brotherhood," in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Violence, ed. Jeffrey Ian Ross (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2008), forthcoming.

"Feminist Thought in Islam," in The Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, ed. Yudit Kornberg Greenberg (Oxford, UK: ABC-CLIO, 2007), forthcoming.

"No Longer a Novelty: Caucasian American Muslims" in Islamic Horizons, ed.Omer
Bin Abdullah (January/February 2005): 36-45.

Brett Hendricksen
"Religious Studies Engaged in Refugee Studies: Potential Contributions," co-authored with Beau Seegmiller in Refuge and Rejection: The Humanities in the Study of Forced Migration 3, May 2007, http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/proj/refugee/articles/h_s_intro.htm

"Catholic Church" and "Urrea, Teresa" articles in the Encyclopedia of Borderlands History and Culture, Greenwood Publishing, Westport, CT, 2008.

Book review of Horizons of the Sacred: Mexican Traditions in U.S. Catholicism, eds. Timothy Matovina and Gary Riebe-Estrella, SVD, in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 31:1, spring 2006.

Shawn McAvoy
"Mummy 61074: a Strange Case of Mistaken Identity." Antiguo Oriente 5 (2007):183-194.

Patricia Power
"Seppuku" in Encyclopedia of Religion and Violence, Jeffrey Ian Ross, ed., M.E. Sharpe (forthcoming).

Brooke Schedneck
“Buddhist Life Stories” Contemporary Buddhism, vol. 8, issue 1, May 2007.

Beau Seegmiller
“Peoples Temple.” In Encyclopedia of Religion and Violence, ed. By Jeffrey Ian Ross. M.E. Sharpe, (forthcoming).

Co-authored with Brett Hendrickson. “Religious Studies Engaged in Refugee Studies: Potential Contributions.” Refuge and Rejection: The Humanities in the Study of Forced Migration (a peer reviewed online journal). Department of History, Arizona State University, (forthcoming).

“Radicalized Margins: Eric Rudolph and Religious Violence.” Terrorism and Political Violence (forthcoming).

Konden Smith
"Appropriating the Secular: Mormonism and the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893," Journal of Mormon History, Fall 2008

Abdoulaye Sounaye
'Les Politiques de l'Islam au Niger dans l'ère de la démocratisation: de 1991 à 2002', in Muriel Perez-Gomez, Islam politique au sud du Sahara: Identités, discours et enjeux, ed. Paris: Karthala, 2005.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Doe Daughtrey - new women's caucus representative for the Western Region of AAR (WECSOR) and past co-chair of "Women and Religion"