May 2012: In This Issue
From the Editor
The Beginning of Summer
AAR Membership Services
Enrich Your Professional Life
Annual Meeting News
Future Annual Meeting Sites and Dates
2012 Annual Meeting News
Welcome to the Annual Meetings!
Getting Around Chicago
Where to Stay in Chicago
Things to Do in Chicago
Drinking
Eating — In alphabetical order
Eating — Listed by restaurant type
Shopping
Thinking
Viewing
Important 2012 Annual Meeting Dates
Annual Meetings Fact Sheet
Plenary Speakers in Chicago
Special Invited Guests
Annual Meetings Employment Center 2012
Workshop Information
Workshop on "The Study of Religion as an Analytic Discipline"
Leadership Workshop on "More Time, Less Budget: The Role of the Department Chair in a New Economic Context"
Religion and Media Workshop on "Feeling Political: Religion, Media, and the Politics of Emotion"
Rethinking Islamic Studies Workshop on "Performance and Practice in Muslim Experience"
Sustainability Workshop on "Global Perspectives on (In)equity and Ethics in Ecological Issues"
Tour Information
Help to Green Our Annual Meeting
Features
Research Briefing and Regional Development Grants:
The Sacred Drink of the Forest: An Exploration of the Santo Daime Tradition in Brazil
From the Student Desk:
The Tensions of Discrete Terms
News
Upcoming AAR Officer Elections
New AAR Staff Members
AAR/Luce Summer Seminar Cohort III Fellows
Religion Newswriters Identify Year’s Top Ten Religion Stories
AAR Awards and Grants
Research Grant Awards 2011–2012
AAR Seeks Religion, Culture, and History Series Book Editor
Regional Meetings Sites and Dates
Briefs
In Memoriam: Charles Stinson, 1931–2012
2012 Templeton Prize Winner
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Inducts Three AAR Members into Its 232nd Class of Members
Association of Theological Schools and Luce Foundation Name Six Faculty Members as 2011–2012 Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology
2012–2013 Lilly Theological Research Grant Recipients
Christianity Today
Book Awards
Spotlight on Teaching
Distinctive, Not Disposable: Religious Studies in American Public Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century
From Traditions to Topics to Themes, within an Era of Technological Change
Religious Studies in the Context of Liberal Education
Teaching Religion, Teaching Disruption: Inculcating Independent Critical Thinking through the Study of Religion
The Examined Life: Religious Studies and the Cultivation of Self-Reflection
The Lively Classroom: A Fusion of Gen Ed and Religious Studies
Hybrid Vigor in Religious Studies Courses
Religious Studies in American Public Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century: Suggested Resources