When the world’s largest gathering of scholars interested in the study of religion assembles November 19-22 in Denver, members of the Perkins and SMU communities will be well-represented.
The 2022 Annual Meetings, hosted by the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature, will feature more than 1,000 academic sessions, workshops, meetings, receptions, tours and other events. Some 10,000 attendees are expected; the Annual Meetings offer a wide range of opportunities to engage with leading scholars and scholarship within the field of religion.
Friends of Perkins School of Theology – Southern Methodist University are invited to a reception on November 20, 9 p.m. to 11 p.m., at Embassy Suites Denver Downtown — Leadville (Third Level), 1420 Stout Street, Denver CO 80202.
Perkins and SMU faculty, staff and students will speak, preside or serve as panelists at more than a dozen events during the gathering. They include:
S19-136 SBL Minoritized Criticism and Biblical Interpretation Section / Contextual Biblical Interpretation Section
Theme: Bible and Nationalism
Saturday, November 19, 2022 – 9:00–11:30 AM
Convention Center – Mile High 2B (Lower Level)
Sze-kar Wan, Perkins School of Theology, SMU
Paul the Anti-imperial Nationalist: The Past and Present of Christian Nationalism (20 min.)
S19-205 Bible in America Section
Theme: The Bible and Social Change
Saturday, November 19, 2022 – 1:00–3:30 PM
Hyatt Regency – Centennial G (Third Level)
Mark Chancey, Southern Methodist University
Colorado and the Invention of Public School Bible Courses (20 min.)
P19-260 Institute for Biblical Research
Theme: Crosscurrents in Majority World and Minority Theology
Saturday, November 19, 2022 – 3:30–5:30 PM
Sheraton Downtown – Plaza Court 6 (Plaza Tower-Concourse Level)
Ruben L.F. Habito, Perkins School of Theology, SMU
“No Self” and “In Christ”—Buddhist Light on Christian Identity (10 min.)
S19-306 Biblical Hebrew Poetry Section
Theme: Reading Biblical Hebrew Poetry and the World in Front of the Text
Saturday, November 19, 2022 – 4:00–6:30 PM
Hyatt Regency – Centennial F (Third Level)
Susanne Scholz, Perkins School of Theology, SMU
Unvaxxed Equals Uncircumcised? On a Medical Metaphor of Philistine Othering in 1 Samuel (25 min.)
A20-130 Religion and Economy Unit
Theme: Beyond Capitalism: Four Constructive Proposals toward Ecological, Equitable, Democratic Economic Life
Sunday, November 20, 2022 – 9:00–11:30 AM
Hyatt Regency – Granite B (Third Level)
Karen Baker-Fletcher, Perkins School of Theology, SMU, Responding
S20-144 Recovering Female Interpreters of the Bible Section
Theme: “Voices Long Silenced: Women Biblical Interpreters through the Centuries” – Review Panel
Sunday, November 20, 2022 – 9:00–11:30 AM
Embassy Suites (ES) – Crystal A (Third Level)
Jaime Clark-Soles, Perkins School of Theology, SMU, Panelist (20 min.)
S20-149 The Historical Paul Section
Theme: Review Panel for Ryan Schellenberg, Abject Joy: Paul, Prison, and the Art of Making Do (Oxford, 2021)
Sunday, November 20, 2022 – 9:00–11:30 AM
Embassy Suites (ES) – Silverton 1 (Second Level)
Abraham Smith, Perkins School of Theology, SMU, Panelist
A20-225 Religion and Economy Unit
Theme: Gendering Religious Labor in Asian Communities
Sunday, November 20, 2022 – 12:30–2:30 PM
Hyatt Regency – Summit 25 (Fourth Level)
Karen Baker-Fletcher, Perkins School of Theology, SMU, Responding
S20-215 Comparative Method in Biblical Studies Consultation
Theme: Approaches and Their Case Studies
Sunday, November 20, 2022 – 12:30–2:30 PM
Convention Center – 406 (Street Level)
Kelsey Spinnato, Southern Methodist University
A20-230 Schleiermacher Unit, Theology and Religious Reflection Unit, and Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Unit
Theme: Exploring Theological Genres
Sunday, November 20, 2022 – 12:30–2:30 PM
Convention Center – 504 (Street Level)
Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner, Perkins School of Theology, SMU
The Discarded Image in Schleiermacher’s Theological System-Building
A20-233 Teaching Religion Unit and Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit
Theme: Teaching Critical Religious Studies
Sunday, November 20, 2022 – 12:30–2:30 PM
Convention Center – Mile High 4F (Lower Level)
Jill DeTemple, Southern Methodist University, Panelist
M20-301 Manchester Wesley Research Centre
Theme: John Wesley and Early Methodism: Reflections on Celibacy, Smallpox, and Enlightenment Language
Sunday, November 20, 2022 – 3:00–4:30 PM
Sheraton Downtown-Plaza Court 1 (Plaza Tower – Concourse Level – 1 level below Lobby)
Ted A. Campbell, Perkins School of Theology, SMU
“The Evolution of John Wesley’s Commitments to Celibacy”
S20-317 SBL Fellowships: The Why, The When, The How
Sponsored by the Students in the Profession Committee
Sunday, November 20, 2022 – 12:30–2:30 PM
Embassy Suites – Crystal B (Third Level)
Kelsey Spinnato, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
A21-213 Class, Religion, and Theology Unit and Religion and Economy Unit
Theme: Religion at Work: New Directions for Studying Religion in the Waged Workplace
Monday, November 21, 2022 – 12:30–2:30 PM
Hyatt Regency – Granite C (Third Level)
Karen Baker-Fletcher, Perkins School of Theology, SMU, Panelist
A21-230 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit
Theme: Affective Apocalypse
Monday, November 21, 2022 – 12:30–2:30 PM
Convention Center – 506 (Street Level)
Meghan Beddingfield, Southern Methodist University
‘Maybe the World Is Finally Coming to an End’:
How the Global Boom of Kdramas Introduced Han to the Apocalyptic Genre
A21-311 International Development and Religion Unit
Theme: Decolonization, Development & Faith: A Dialogue wih Local Practitioners
Monday, November 21, 2022 – 3:00–4:30 PM
Hyatt Regency – Capital 2 (Fourth Level)
Jill DeTemple, Southern Methodist University, Panelist
A21-318 Religion and Human Rights
Theme: Author-Meets-Critics: Jonathan Malesic, The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives (University of California Press, 2022)
Monday, November 21, 2022 – 3:00–4:30 PM
Hyatt Regency – Mineral C (Third Level)
Jonathan Malesic, Southern Methodist University, Responding
A21-408 Chinese Christianities Unit
Theme: Sinophone as Method: Pushing the Boundaries of the Field of Chinese Christianities
Monday, November 21, 2022 – 5:00–6:30 PM
Convention Center – 504 (Street Level)
Sze-kar Wan, Perkins School of Theology, SMU, Responding
A21-415 Ethics Unit
Theme: Guilt, Blame, and Justification: Social Ethics in the Context of Resistance
Monday, November 21, 2022 – 5:00–6:30 PM
Embassy Suites – Aspen A (Third Level)
Dallas Gingles, Perkins School of Theology, SMU
Christ, Intrinsic Laws, and Guilt in Bonhoeffer’s “History and the Good 2”
A22-113 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit and Religion and Economy Unit and Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Unit
Theme: Catastrophe and the Constellations of Racial Capitalism, Neocolonialism, and Religious Forms
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 – 9:00–11:00 AM
Convention Center – 303 (Street Level)
Karen Baker-Fletcher, Perkins School of Theology, SMU, Business Meeting: Presiding