A19–121 Women, Theological Education, and Pastoral Formation in World Christianity
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM InterContinental–InterContinental Ballroom C*
Sponsored by the World Christianity Group
Jayachitra Lalitha, Tamilnadu Theological Seminary, Presiding
Adelaide Boadi, Drew University Beyond the "Rocking of Cradles" — Christianity's Unsung Heroines: The Case of Ghana/West Africa William Yoo, Emory University Battle Hymn of a Korean Tiger Mother: Theological Education and Christian Formation in the Life and Writings of Kim Hwal-lan (Activist, Educator, Liberationist, and Methodist) Katie Schubert, Claremont Graduate University Cambodian Women Pastor Training: Empowerment or Colonization? Sathianathan Clarke, Wesley Theological Seminary Dalit Theological Education: Feminist, Postcolonial, and Inner-colonial Perspectives
Elaine Padilla, New York Theological Seminary, Responding
A19–123 From "Double Consciousness" to the "Black Atlantic": Theorizing the African Diaspora and African Diaspora Subjectivities
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Marriott Marquis–Nob Hill A*
Sponsored by the African Diaspora Religions Group
Maha Marouan, University of Alabama, Presiding
Torin Alexander, Saint Olaf College African Diaspora Subjectivities and Religious Experience: The Pursuit of Wholeness Karyna Do Monte, Boston University Brazilian Candomble Meets Ecology: A Samba Plot in the Rio de Janeiro Carnival Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, University of Miami Translator of the Afro-Cuban Religious World: Lydia Cabrera Mary Diggin, Pacifica Graduate Institute Damballah and Maman Brigitte: The Irish Influence on Vodou Lwas
Charles H. Long, Chapel Hill, NC, Responding
A19–131 Southeast Asian Religion in Two Perspectives: Women and Colonialism
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM InterContinental–Cathedral Hill*
Sponsored by the Religion in Southeast Asia Group
Jason Carbine, Whittier College, Presiding
Samphoas Huy, Rutgers University Rebirth and the Golden Lotus: Midwives and the Reconciliation of Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge Genocide Kunthy Seng, Documentation Center of Cambodia Copresenting with Samphors Huy and Douglas Irvin Douglas Irvin, Rutgers University Copresenting with Samphors Huy and Kunthy Seng Cuong Mai, University of Vermont Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva (Quan Âm) in Medieval Vietnam: Rhetorical and Ritual Contestation in the Realm of Women's Religions Muhamad Ali, University of California, Riverside "Verandahs of Mecca and Medina": Colonialism and Islamic Knowledge in South Sulawesi and Kelantan Erik Braun, University of Oklahoma The Science of Buddhism and the Buddhism in Science: Shwe Zan Aung's Representation of Buddhist Thought and Practice
John Clifford Holt, Bowdoin College, Responding
A19–138 Plenaries: Walking with the Unmourned
Saturday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM Marriott Marquis–Yerba Buena 9*
Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School, Presiding
"What is it that makes both talks and silences stained with shame? Sometimes the mind freezes and the heart goes on fasting: name, nation, identity, citizenship disappear. With every step, the world comes to the walker, and all around, on the immense screen of life, every event speaks." In the dense jungle of events, doings, and happenings, history comes in interrelated fragments to be sniffed out, tracked, swallowed, held on, or vomited while walking for survival. The spirit of the walk has led the writer to a whole tradition of independent walkers in ancient Asia, at the same time as it provides her with a link to struggles around the world, more specifically to the transnational struggles of women in the United States, Argentina, Mexico, China, and Tibet.
Panelist: Trinh T. Minh-Ha, University of California, Berkeley
A19–216 The Politics of Religious Freedom: Historical Perspectives from Egypt and South Asia
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Moscone Center West–Room 2004*
Sponsored by the Law, Religion, and Culture Group
Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
This panel rethinks conventional understandings of secular liberalism by examining the unique historical trajectories of the politics of religious freedom in Egypt, India, and Pakistan. Where many have seen conflict between secular politics and religion, we ask how the techniques of secular-liberal government have regulated religion and produced religious identities. Challenging conventional understandings of religious freedom as a self-evident good, we consider how the politics of religious freedom opens the way to some forms of political demand while foreclosing others. This sheds light on the possible costs of the politics of religious freedom that conventional narratives do not predict. These include the expansion of state power into the private sphere of family life, the production of religious minorities, and the silencing of forms of political demand that are not easily captured in the language of religion.
Hussein Agrama, University of Chicago The Shape of Religious Freedom: France and Egypt Cassie Adcock, Washington University, Saint Louis Indian Secularism as "Tolerance": Religious Freedom Debates of the 1920s Asad Ahmed, Harvard University Colonial Governmentality and Religiopolitics: The Case of the Ahmadiyya Inclusion and Exclusion from Islam in South Asia Saba Mahmood, University of California, Berkeley Politics of Religious Freedom and the Minority Question: A Geopolitical Problem?
Winnifred Sullivan, State University of New York, Buffalo, Responding
A19–231 Defining Religion in Imperial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Contexts
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM InterContinental–Grand Ballroom C*
Sponsored by the Religion and Colonialism Group
Caleb Elfenbein, Grinnell College, Presiding
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Religion" and Intellectual Empires: Precolonial, South Asian Definitions, and the Study of Religion Mitch Numark, California State University, Sacramento Hebrew School in Nineteenth Century Bombay: Protestant Missionaries, Cochin Jews, and the Hebraization of India's Bene Israel Community Adrian Hermann, University of Basel Differentiating "Buddhism": The Proliferation of Semantics and Organizations of "Religion" in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Buddhist Asia Syed Adnan Hussain, University of Toronto Three Transformations: The Evolution of Pakistan's Blasphemy Law
A19–302 Gender Theory, Intersectionality, and Justice
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Moscone Center West–Room 2004*
Sponsored by the Gender Theory, Intersectionality, and Justice Cluster (Women and Religion Section; Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group; Gay Men and Religion Group; Men, Masculinities, and Religions Group; Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group; and Queer Studies in Religion Consultation)
Christine E. Gudorf, Florida International University, Presiding
A complex array of social structures of inequality and oppression, both overt and internalized, sustain persistent patterns of injustice and, conversely, hegemony. We will discuss four papers that expose the intricacy, convolution, and density at the intersections of gender theory and other postmodern discourses as they seek to articulate persuasive and powerful understandings of justice.
Katherine K. Bain, Davenport, IA The Role of Socioeconomic Analysis in Theorizing Gender and Religious Status Rosemary Blackburn-Smith Kellison, Florida State University Feminism and Imperialism as Just Causes for War?: Assessing the Justice of the War in Afghanistan Wesley Barker, Emory University Sexual Difference and the Crisis of Representation in Postcolonial Discourse: Reading Justice, Dispossession, and Resistance in Spivak’s "Echo" Jared Vazquez, Phillips Theological Seminary I am ___: Queer/Ethnic Identity in Contemporary Western Contexts
Pamela Lightsey, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Responding
A19–310 Trinh T. Minh-ha's When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 1991) and Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Indiana University Press, 1989)
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Moscone Center West–Room 2009*
Sponsored by the Theology and Religious Reflection Section
Anne Joh, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Presiding
Panelists: Susan Abraham, Harvard University Sigridur Gudmarsdottir, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland Nami Kim, Spelman College Wong Wai-Ching Angela, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Trinh T. Minh-Ha, University of California, Berkeley, Responding
A19–311 Contemporary Transformations of Indigenous Religious Culture in West Africa
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Marriott Marquis–Walnut*
Sponsored by the African Religions Group
Danoye Oguntola-Laguda, Lagos State University, Presiding
Joseph Hellweg, Florida State University Words as Icons: Lived Religion, Ideology, and Visual Culture in the N’ko Alphabet and Movement of West Africa Albert K. Wuaku, Florida International University "Sakawa": Transforming the Internet into Ritual Space in Ghana and Expanding the African Indigenous Religious Landscape Globally Seth Tweneboah, Florida International University Pentecostalism, Witchcraft Accusation, and Symbolic Violence in Ghana: An Analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's Concept of Habitus
Sodiq Yushau, Texas Christian University, Responding
A19–404 Plenaries: Presidential Address — Empire and the Study of Religion
Saturday, 8:00 PM–9:00 PM Marriott Marquis–Yerba Buena 9*
Otto A. Maduro, Drew University, Presiding
The academic study of religion that emerged in the nineteenth century was shaped by the cultural imaginary of empire. How has this legacy impacted the field in today's postmodern and postcolonial world? With the rise of China and other emerging markets and the shift of geopolitics, what will religious studies look like in the future? Kwok Pui Lan, author of the critically acclaimed volume Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology (Westminster John Knox Press, 2005) and editor of the award-winning book Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women's Theology (Orbis Books, 2010), will offer her reflections, drawing examples from the study of Christianity and Asian religious traditions.
Panelists: Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School
A20–136 Plenaries: Envisioning the Study of Religion in the Twenty-first Century
Sunday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM Marriott Marquis–Yerba Buena 9*
Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School, Presiding
The panelists will offer, from different perspectives, their reflections on how the field of religious studies has changed during their career, some of the issues the field needs to address, the turns and twists in their own scholarship, the challenges and changing roles of the American Academy of Religion, and the visions and constraints for change in the study of religion in the United States and Europe.
Panelists: Laura E. Donaldson, Cornell University Richard King, University of Glasgow Donald S. Lopez, University of Michigan
A20–209 Religious Encounters in Colonial South Asia
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM InterContinental–Union Square*
Sponsored by the Religion in South Asia Section
Chad Bauman, Butler University, Presiding
Religious encounters between Europeans and South Asians in colonial India were often characterized by attempts to dominate, control, and even efface rival traditions. They were also occasions for innovation and creativity, involving religious leaders who, through these encounters, transformed their traditions in profound ways. Thus these instances of engagement are important for analyses of religious change in South Asia and in imperial contexts more generally. The papers in this panel will examine how such encounters shaped participants' understandings of their own traditions and of the traditions of others. We will argue that although these encounters must be understood in terms of disparities of power, we also need to recognize that none emerged from them unchanged. We will examine the ways that these encounters transformed a variety of traditions in colonial South Asia, both Hindu and Christian, and the ways that they shaped emerging conceptions of "religion" and "religions."
Will Sweetman, University of Otago Empire and Mission in an Early Nineteenth Century "Pamphlet War" Ulrike Schroeder, University of Heidelberg Mapping the Fields of Harvest: Missionary Theories of Religion and Ritual in Colonial South India Richard S. Weiss, Victoria University Conflicts of Authority in Colonial South Asia
Eliza Kent, Colgate University, Responding
A20–211 Exploring Desire and Religion
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM InterContinental–Twin Peaks*
Theology and Religious Reflection Section
Krista Hughes, Hanover College, Presiding
An Yountae, Drew University "O Love, You Ever Burn and Are Never Extinguished": Decolonial Love and the Lustful Resurrection of Displaced Desires/Bodies Kevin Minister, Southern Methodist University Christian Desire and Economic Power: On the Production of Desire in Economics and Religion Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Moravian College Detranscendentalizing War, Decentering Sacrifice Alan Van Wyk, Claremont Graduate University Rupturing Desire: The Theopolitical Possibilities of Judith Butler
A20–212 African Traditions and Peacemaking in Situations of Political Conflict
Sunday, 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Marriott Marquis–Sierra C*
Sponsored by the African Religions Group
Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh, Presiding
Mari Pontinen, Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission Botho and Modernization Danoye Oguntola-Laguda, Lagos State University African Traditions and Peacemaking in Situations of Political Conflict: Nigeria as a Case Study Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin, Rice University Copresenting with Danoye Oguntola-Laguda Jude Aguwa, Mercy College Boko Haram: The "Nigerian Taliban" and Its National and Global Consequences
Isabel Apawo Phiri, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Responding
A20–274 Land, Sovereignty, and Religion in Native North America
Sunday, 3:00 PM–4:30 PM InterContinental–Sutter*
Sponsored by the Law, Religion, and Culture Group and Native Traditions in the Americas Group
Michael Zogry, University of Kansas, Presiding
Lisa Dellinger, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary The Christian Doctrine of Discovery: Illusions of Grandeur Kathleen M. Sands, University of Hawai'i, Manoa Territory, Wilderness, Property, and Reservation: Land and Religion in Native American Supreme Court Cases Nicholas Shrubsole, University of Waterloo Property, Religion, and the Legal Relationship between Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State: Historical Roots and Contemporary Issues
Steve Newcomb, Indigenous Law Institute, Responding
A20–314 Marion Grau's Rethinking Mission on the Postcolony: Salvation, Society and Subversion (T & T Clark International, 2011)
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Moscone Center West–Room 3000*
Sponsored by the Theology and Religious Reflection Section
Paul Lim, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Panelists: Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Fordham University Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University Willie J. Jennings, Duke University Gerald West, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Marion S. Grau, Graduate Theological Union, Responding
A20–320 Behind Enemy Lines
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Marriott Marquis–Yerba Buena 3*
Sponsored by the Indigenous Religious Traditions Group
Jace Weaver, University of Georgia, Presiding
The question of where indigenous religious traditions fit in within the academic study of religion has been longstanding, contentious, and fraught. Should they even be considered "religions" at all? Thus both scholars of such traditions and practioners often find themselves "behind enemy lines." How does one explain these traditions to the academy? How do practitioners cope with often being demonized by "mainstream" religions? In particular, what have interactions with Christianity been like?
Lee Gilmore, California State University, Northridge Pagans at the Parliament: Interfaith Dialogue between Pagan and Indigenous Communities Sabina Magliocco, California State University, Northridge Copresenting with Lee Gilmore Carmen Lansdowne, Graduate Theological Union "Dances with Dependency": An Indigenous Theological Exploration of Dependency and Development Theories and Their Influence on Liberation Theology for the Twenty-first Century Comfort Max-Wirth, Florida International University The Occult and Politics in Ghana: Tapping into the Pentecostal Discourse of Demonizing African Traditional Religion as a Political Strategy
A20–402 Plenaries: New Thoughts on Solidarity
Sunday, 8:00 PM–9:00 PM Marriott Marquis–Yerba Buena 9*
Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School, Presiding
This lecture will consider the relationship between sexual and religious minorities in the context of the right to appear in public. Additionally, the lecture will address the affiliative meanings of queer in light of new efforts to separate queer politics from antiracist and anticolonial struggles.
Panelist: Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley
A21–111 Bible and Colonization in the Mediterranean
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM InterContinental–Nob Hill*
Sponsored by the Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Group
Francisco Lozada, Brite Divinity School, Presiding
Panelists: Adriana Destro, University of Bologna Safwat Marzouk, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary Panagiotis Kousoulis, University of the Aegean Marinos Pourgouris, University of Cyprus Yael Munk, Open University of Israel Michel Andraos, Catholic Theological Union
A21–117 The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Conversations with the Vatican
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM InterContinental–Union Square*
Sponsored by the Indigenous Religious Traditions Group and Roman Catholic Studies Group
Mary N. MacDonald, Le Moyne College, Presiding
Indigenous leaders such as Oren Lyons and the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers have been attempting to discuss the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (DoCD) with the Vatican for many years now. The DoCD originated with the Papal Bulls in the fifteenth century — that which sanctioned Christopher Columbus's conquest of the Americas. It found full expression with the Johnson v. M'Intosh United States Supreme Court decision. Conversations with the Vatican's Permanent Observer at the United Nations — at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) — have played a central role in Indigenous Peoples/Vatican conversations and promise to be even more crucial as the 2011 United Nations focuses on the global environment. This panel will explore the far-reaching effects of the DoCD and explore the recent efforts of various groups — religious and secular; Indigenous and non-Indigenous — to repudiate the DoCD by adopting, without qualification, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (September 2007).
Panelists: Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University Steve Newcomb, Indigenous Law Institute Chris Peters, Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development Theresa Reeder, Syracuse University
A21–137 Plenaries: Lifetime of Learning
Monday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM Marriott Marquis–Yerba Buena 9*
Kwok Pui Lan, Episcopal Divinity School, Presiding
In this plenary, Katie Geneva Cannon, a trailblazer in womanist thought and ethics and Judith Plaskow, a pioneer in Jewish feminist theology and religious thought, will discuss lessons gleaned from their learning of a lifetime. Cannon's books include Black Womanist Ethics (Scholars Press, 1988), Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community (Continuum, 1995), and Teaching Preaching: Isaac Rufus and Black Sacred Rhetoric (Continuum, 2002). Plaskow is the author of Sex, Sin, and Grace: Women’s Experience and the Theologies of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich (University Press of America, 1979), Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective (HarperCollins, 1990), and The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics 1972–2003 (Beacon Press, 2005).
Panelists: Katie G. Cannon, Union Presbyterian Seminary Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College
A21–209 Law, Legislation, and Religious Formations in South Asian Nation-States
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Marriott Marquis–Yerba Buena 7*
Sponsored by the Religion in South Asia Section
Peter Gottschalk, Wesleyan University, Presiding
This session focuses on the influence of the law on religious practice in South Asian secular democracies. The constitutions of India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bhutan guarantee the freedom of religion, but differ in the politics behind the drafting of constitutional laws; assumed definitions of religion; limits on religious freedom; and varying attitudes toward minority religions. Such differences inform the writing of new laws and court judgments, which in turn challenge, affirm and change religious practices. Moreover, citizens may affirm or contest their understanding of religious freedom through ritual enactment; or they may directly challenge government regulations and attempted reforms of religion through legal appeals. The papers in this session thus highlight the politics of crafting constitutional laws governing religion; the penetration of law into religious life; religious practice as a site of affirmation or contestation of constitutional ideals; and the difficulty of creating effective legal reforms of religious practice.
Benjamin Schonthal, University of Chicago Religious Rights at the End of Empire: Debates on Law and Religion in Late Colonial Sri Lanka Ginni Ishimatsu, University of Denver The Judicialization of Hindu Temples in Tamil Nadu James Ponniah Kulandai Raj, Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth Dreaming India and Being Indian Kay K. Jordan, Radford University Contemporary Sati Legislation: Changing the Hindu Ideal of Womanhood
Robert A. Yelle, University of Memphis, Responding
A21–212 Postcolonialism and Poststructuralism in the United States
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Moscone Center West–Room 3010*
Sponsored by the Theology and Religious Reflection Section
Susan Abraham, Harvard University, Presiding
Panelists: John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University Nancy Bedford, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton University
A21–223 Resilience and Revitalization in Indigenous California
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Moscone Center West–Room 2006*
Sponsored by the Native Traditions in the Americas Group
Natalie Avalos Cisneros, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Once home to communities speaking approximately eighty languages, over the past several decades California has witnessed a remarkable public resurgence of Native traditions and languages, built on resilient cultural elements. These papers explore how Native traditions in the "digital age" are being transmitted to future generations through the modes of music and dream.
Cutcha Risling Baldy, University of California, Davis Xoc-itch’iswhalte (They Will Beat Time with Sticks Over Her): The Hupa Flower Dance Ceremony and Elements of Spirituality in Song Melissa Leal, University of California, Davis Asumpa (To Flow): Native American Language and Cultural Revitalization through Hip-Hop Dennis Kelley, University of Missouri Religion, American Indians, and Ecocriticism: Conceptualizing Indigenous Spirituality through Environmental Activism
Chris Peters, Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, and Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara, Responding
A21–234 Theory and Politics of Religion Education in Public Schools
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Moscone Center West–Room 2004*
Sponsored by the Religion Education in Public Schools: International Perspectives Group
Bruce Grelle, California State University, Chico, Presiding
A discussion of civic versus academic rationales for the inclusion of religion education in public schools and the relation of religion education to politics in Denmark, Lebanon, South Africa, Tunisia, and the United States.
Bronwyn Roantree, Harvard University Religion and Public Education in Postcolonial Tunisia: Histories and Opportunities Daniel Cervan Gil, Saint Paul University Religion in Education: A Contributing Factor to Polarization or Dialogue in the Socialization Process of Lebanese Youth? Insights from the Northern Irish Experience Mark Sedgwick, University of Aarhus The Construction of Islam in Danish Public Schools Kaira Schachter, University of Colorado, Boulder Towards a More Democratic Pedagogy: A Pragmatic Approach to Religious Studies in American Public Education
A22-103 Maps: Orientations and Disorientations
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Marriott Marquis–Yerba Buena 2*
Sponsored by the Comparative Studies in Religion Section
Stephen Prothero, Boston University, Presiding
This session will explore maps as authoritative depictions of topographic, political, social, and sacred space. These depictions wield authority and on the surface they claim to represent objective reality to the viewer. However, when one begins to examine and compare maps one realizes that they present strongly biased orientations to geographic space — orientations that suppress alternative objectives. Maps, by their very nature, construct a specific orientation and impose that orientation, attempting to control how individuals and groups see space, its defining elements, its boundaries, etc. In addition, maps in effect "erase" elements of topography when those elements do not serve the map-makers' purposes, and they erase people who orient themselves differently to the depicted space. Finally, maps construct distorted notions of relative size and scale, and they visually silence entire populations of marginalized or oppressed inhabitants.
Laura Elena Hinojosa, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia Traces of the Past: Spanish and Indigenous Perception of Space in Colonial Maps Martha Finch, Missouri State University The Whole Earth is the Lord's Garden: Mapping Early New England Peter Gottschalk, Wesleyan University Mapping Boundaries: The Science of Knowing Communal Identity in British India
Molly Bassett, Georgia State University, Responding
A22–109 The Impact of Print Technology in the Nineteenth Century
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Moscone Center West–Room 2018*
Sponsored by the Religion in South Asia Section
Rebecca Manring, Indiana University, Bloomington, Presiding
This session explores the impact of print technology in the nineteenth century on religious texts, authorities, and representations in the crossfire of nationalist and colonialist concerns in India. The complex tradition of manuscript production was transformed by the introduction of print and the first two papers explore this transition, the first detailing the religious event of producing a manuscript and the second the introduction of lithography which enabled mass distribution but mimicked manuscripts in many ways and then the gradual transformation to book formats. This process occurs, however, in the context of interweaving colonialist and nationalist discourses. The third paper explores vernacular translations of classic works in print and an emerging new venue for commentary and challenge to dominant Sanskrit readings and Indological methods. The final two papers delve more deeply into the colonial and nationalist nexus of debate in the presentation of Hinduism and gender via satire and sainthood.
James McHugh, University of Southern California Ink, Leaves, and Time: The Material and Social Networks of Religious Manuscripts in Premodern Hindu South Asia James P. Hare, Columbia University Indian Publishers and Nabhadas's Bhaktamal Peter Valdina, Emory University The Mother of Yoga?: Print, Patanjali, and Colonial Calcutta Paul B. Courtright, Emory University Satirizing the "Baboo" in Early Nineteenth Century Calcutta Nancy M. Martin, Chapman University From Bhakti Saint to National Heroine: Print and the Canonization of Mirabai
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