In-person November Annual Meeting 2025 Program Book
All time are listed in Eastern Time Zone.
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.
Join us for a celebratory book launch of The Oxford Handbook of Lived Buddhism. Authors from this volume will speak on the case studies they provide in the handbook, plus ways their work can be utilized in the classroom. Meant for students at all levels, the Handbook of Lived Buddhism provides instructors and students diverse circumstances of Buddhism lived and practiced across cultural contexts, to deepen the engagement and study of Buddhism as a lived religion. This roundtable discussion will highlight many of the chapters within the volume, to offer a preview of the work for scholars, educators, and students.
Annual DANAM Rajinder and Jyoti Gandhi Book Award, Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story, Francis X. Clooney, T&T Clark, 2024. This autobiography traces Francis X. Clooney’s intellectual and spiritual journey from middle-class American Catholicism to a lifelong study of Hinduism. It explains how he became interested in learning from Hinduism more than 50 years ago, and how professionally he came to fashion comparative theology as a way of learning interreligiously that is boldly intellectual and deep personal and practical. His strong commitment to Hindu-Catholic learning is lived out in intersections of his roles as theologian and scholar of Hinduism, as a professor and practicing Catholic priest, and even now in his role as Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard University.
This is a joint meeting for all unit advisory and editorial boards of Feminist Studies in Religion (FSR), including board members of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (JFSR), eFSR/Blog, and the LAB (CoLaboratory). We will gather to meet each other, share ideas and concerns, and plan for the future. This is a closed meeting for FSR unit board members.
This session will feature an overview of the sixty newly published essays in the central SBL series the John, Jesus, and History Project (ECL): JJH 4--Jesus Remembered in the Johannine Situation: --Early, Middle, Late, Post A and B JJH 5--Jesus Remembered Among the Gospels: John and Mark, John and Matthew, John and Luke, John and Q/double tradition Brief discussion will follow each of the volume overviews.
Friday, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM | Westin Copley Place, America North and…Session ID: M21-501
Mennonite Scholars and Friends welcome Drew Hart (Messiah University) to reflect on the Anabaptist theological tradition's past, present, and future in its 500th anniversary year. Hart will draw on themes from his new book, Making It Plain: Why We Need Anabaptism and the Black Church (Herald Press 2025), to outline possibilities for an antiracist and decolonial form of Christian faith. Janna Hunter Bowman (Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary), Dennis Edwards (North Park Theological Seminary), and Laura Schmidt Roberts (Fresno Pacific University) will offer responses. A reception will follow.
