In-person November Annual Meeting 2025 Program Book

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Please note that this schedule is subject to change and is currently being updated. Please excuse our appearance as we finalize the schedule. If you have any questions, please contact annualmeeting@aarweb.org.
Saturday, 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM | Westin Copley Place, Staffordshire… Session ID: M22-515
Other Event
Receptions/Breakfasts/Luncheons
Hosted by: Fortress Press

Join us at our annual reception to honor our brilliant authors, unveil our newest publications, and explore the promising horizons of academic publishing!

Sunday, 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Marriott Copley Place, Grand Ballroom… Session ID: M23-100
Roundtable Session
Receptions/Breakfasts/Luncheons

CTI members, friends, guests, and anyone interested in learning more about our international research program are cordially invited to attend our annual breakfast reception.

Sunday, 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Hilton Back Bay, Belvidere B (Second… Session ID: M23-110
Other Event

Join us for breakfast to learn more about programs and publishing opportunities at the USHMM, as well as the activities of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations and its affiliated academic journal, Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations. The breakfast will be hosted by representatives of both organizations and the journal. Presentations begin at 8:00 am. RSVP to Thornton Muncher, tmuncher@ushmm.org by Nov. 1.

Sunday, 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Westin Copley Place, St. George CD … Session ID: P23-100
Other Event

This is a breakfast meeting for scholars of Chinese religions who would like to receive or offer mentorship in the field, especially around the topics of the job search, publishing, and dealing with discrimination. We especially welcome junior scholars, scholars of color, women scholars, and scholars from underrepresented groups.

Sunday, 7:45 AM - 9:00 AM | Hynes Convention Center, 310 (Third… Session ID: M23-104
Other Event

This is an annual event that celebrates Temple University's Department of Religion ("TUDOR"}, our alumni, current
graduate students, former students and our faculty. Friends of the program are all welcome!

Sunday, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Marriott Copley Place, Provincetown … Session ID: P23-103
Papers Session

This panel undertakes a comparative study of ethics, morality and power in Hindu and Christian traditions.  It examines the ways ethics in these traditions have been understood and practiced in both historical and contemporary contexts.  By centering Hindu-Christian perspectives on morality, this panel aims to illustrate the ways that such an analysis enhances the study of ethics in religion and philosophy more broadly.

Papers

Hindu kings in native states of Rajputana, and British missionaries working in those states, adapted their ideas of righteous kingly rule due to their interactions with each other over the course of the British imperial era.

The paper is a proposal to draw on those strands of Hindu and Christian theologies which see the divine permeating all of creation.  Through such an emphasis on perceiving divinity in all, it seeks to overcome deep human divisions which threaten to destroy life. 

This paper looks beyond the "great traditions" of Hinduism and Christianity, to adivasi life and ethics.  It seeks to infuse the discussions in Hindu and Christian traditions with ethical insights and wisdom from adivasi communities.

This paper investigates the way that yogic ethics can guide the statecraft of rulers through self-mastery.

This paper examines the ways that ethics play out in both devotion and social commitments in contemporary Hindu traditions. 

Sunday, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Roundtable Session

This panel undertakes a comparative study of ethics, morality and power in Hindu and Christian traditions.  It examines the ways ethics in these traditions have been understood and practiced in both historical and contemporary contexts.  By centering Hindu-Christian perspectives on morality, this panel aims to illustrate the ways that such an analysis enhances the study of ethics in religion and philosophy more broadly.