Faculty members in the Department of Religious Studies will be presenting and participating in panel discussions on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics at the 2022 American Academy of Religion annual meeting. Here is a sampling of topics:
Dr. Brian Clites is the organizer and will preside over a panel on “Clergy Sexual Abuse: Catastrophe, Trauma, and Trust.”
Dr. Timothy Beal will preside over the Publications Committee Reception: Networking with AAR Publication Editors
Dr. Joy R. Bostic will be the respondent for the “Relational Cosmologies and Mystical Practices for Ecological Repair”; and chairing the “Queerness and the Mystical Body”.
Dr. Deepak Sarma will be a panelist on two sessions: Bioethics and Religion: Vaccine Religious Exemptions and Pandemic Ethics; and Drugs & Religion roundtable.
Dr. Jonathan Tan will be on the Society of Biblical Literature panel discussion Revelation panel Vernacular: A Discussion with Jean-Pierre Ruiz about His Work and Future of the Study of Revelation and Scriptures