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RISA Panels at the 2015 AAR Annual Meeting
1. Religion in South Asia Section
Theme: New Directions in the
Study of Religion in South Asia Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Harshita
Mruthinti Kamath,
Middlebury College, Presiding Ilanit
Loewy Shacham, University of Chicago Geography,
History, and Myth in Krsnadevaraya’s Narration of Srivaisnavism Michael Allen, Hampden-Sydney
College New Directions in the Study of Vedanta: Lessons from The Ocean of
Inquiry Anand Taneja, Vanderbilt University Strangerness
and the Role of Islam in the Ethical Life of Hindus: Some Reflections on the Dargah of Firoz Shah Kotla Purvi
Parikh, University of Pennsylvania Constructing Moral Selves in Contemporary
Hinduism: The SelfEthics of Swadhyaya
Responding: John Hawley, Barnard
College, Columbia University 2. Religion in South Asia Section
Theme: Transnational Dimensions
of Religions in Contemporary India Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Chad Bauman, Butler University,
Presiding Afsar
Mohammad, University of Texas So Far, So Near: Local Sufism, Trans-Local Sufi
Poetics, and Urban Islam Claire Robison, University of
California, Santa Barbara Inscribing a Global Vaisnava
Culture on the Indian Nation-State Drew Thomases,
Columbia University Camel Fair Kaleidoscopic: Religion and Color in Pushkar Jon Keune,
Michigan State University Dhamma, Dalitness, and Diversity: Transnational Buddhist
Collaborations in Nagpur Responding: Andrea Marion Pinkney, McGill University 3. Religion in South Asia Section
and Space, Place, and Religion Group Theme: Tomb and Mortuary Relic
Worship in South Asia Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Valerie Stoker, Wright State
University, Presiding Tillo Detige, Ghent University Absence, Agency, and Immanence:
The Ritual Veneration of Deceased Ascetics as a Technology of the Self in Digambara Jainism Carl W. Ernst, University of
North Carolina Islamic Norms and Local Identity in the South Asian Sufi
Shrine Mark McLaughlin, College of
William and Mary Pre-Dargah Roots of Hindu Samadhi
Burial Practice Dean Accardi,
Connecticut College Politics Enshrined: Governing the Sacred Landscape
through the Tombs of Sufi Saints Responding: Carla Bellamy, City
University of New York 4. Religion in South Asia Section
Theme: Theorizing Spirit
Possession in South Asia Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM John E. Cort,
Denison University, Presiding Jeremy Saul, College of Religious
Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand When a
Celibate Male God Occupies a Female Body: A Native Theory of Spirit
Possession Anne Vallely,
University of Ottawa, and Kamini Gogri, University of Mumbai Negotiating with Worldliness:
A Jain Spirit Medium and the Healing Power of the Goddess Nirmal Selvamony, Central University of Tamil Nadu Possession
and Community Kristin Bloomer, Carleton College
When a Macho Hindu God Occupies a Female Christian Body: Spirit Possession as
Assisted Reproductive Technology in South India Responding: Michael Slouber, Western Washington University Business Meeting: Valerie Stoker,
Wright State University, and Carla Bellamy, City University of New York,
Presiding 5. Religion in South Asia Section
Theme: The Religious in Sanskrit
Drama: A City, a Story, a Lesson Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern
Arizona University, Presiding Seth Ligo,
Duke University Stories of Kāśī: Narrative and the
Realization of Sacred Space Nell Hawley, University of
Chicago “Behave like Rāma, Not like Rāvaṇa: Theorizing Conflict between Epic Stories and
Moral Lessons Aleksandra Gordeeva,
Yale University Religion and Literary Theory in Jain and Hindu Dramas Responding: Laurie Louise Patton,
Middlebury College 6. Religion in South Asia Section
and Hinduism Group Theme: Proclaiming Power: The
Ritual Uses of Flags in South Asia Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM David Brick, Yale University,
Presiding Marko Geslani,
Emory University An Omen Made to Please: Military and Astrological Sources of
Indra’s Banner Ellen Gough, Emory University
Even the Gods Worship the Jina: The History of the
Jain Festival of Indra Gudrun Bühnemann,
University of Wisconsin Royal Flags, Standards, and Pillars (Dhvaja) in the Late Malla
Period of Nepal Michael C. Baltutis,
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh The Public Life of a Royal Scribe:
Displaying Indra’s Flag in Eighteenth Century
Kathmandu Responding: Richard H. Davis,
Bard College 7. Religion in South Asia
Section, Study of Islam Section, North American Hinduism Group, Sikh Studies
Group Theme: Teaching the “Asian
Religions” Survey: Challenges and Opportunities Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Richard H. Davis, Bard College,
Presiding Panelists: Michael Altman, University of
Alabama Pashaura
Singh, University of California, Riverside Christian Haskett,
Centre College Judson Murray, Wright State
University Carole Barnsley,
Transylvania University Jonathan H. X. Lee, San Francisco
State University Annabella
Pitkin, Barnard College, Columbia University
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