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ANNUAL MEETING 2005

MODERN CONSTRUCTIONS OF

THE MIRACULOUS AND THE MYSTERIOUS

June 9 to June 12, 2005
 

Albion College

Albion, MI 49224 
 

PROGRAM
[Unless otherwise indicated, all sessions will be held at the International House]
 

Thursday June 9, 2005

2:00-5:00 p.m.  Registration (International House)

5:00-6:00         Dinner 

6: 30-7:00       Inaugural Session: Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Introductions
                       Selva J. Raj, Albion College

8:00-                Leisure time

Friday June 10, 2005

7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast

9:00-9:15         Greetings from Albion College

Dr. Royal Ward, Vice-President for Academic Affairs & Dean of Faculty, Albion College

SESSION II    RITUAL EFFICACY AND CONCEPTUALIZING THE MIRACULOUS

                        Chair:  Fred Clothey, University of Pittsburgh

9:15-10:00       Mysterium Minimum: The Predictable World in Vrat Kathas
Robert Menzies, University of Winnipeg

10:00-10:15     Coffee Break 

10:15- 11:00    Constructing the Miraculous at an Upstate New York    Hindu Temple
                        Corinne G. Dempsey, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

11:00-11:45     “How I Became a Holy Mother:” The “Real” Story
                        Kathleen M. Erndl, Florida State University

12:00- 1:00 p.m.       Lunch

SESSION III             MIRACLES AND AUTHORITY- 1

Chair: Nancy Falk, Western Michigan University

1:00-1:45        Media of Miracles, Miracles of Media: Clairvoyants and Commercials in South Asian Media in the Diaspora
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt, Wellesley College           

1:45-2:30         Those Magical Flying Ladies: Yakshinis, Dakinis, and the Supernatural Power of Flight in Tantric Buddhism
Miranda Shaw, University of Richmond

2:30-3:00         Coffee Break

                                    MIRACLES AND AUTHORITY- 2

                        Chair: Carol Anderson, Kalamazoo College

3:00-3:45         Modern Rhetoric and the Miraculous Origins of Siddha     Medicine
                        Rick Weiss, Victoria University, New Zealand  

3:45-4:30         Allopathic “Miracles” and Medical Itineration among Satnamis and Christians in Late Colonial Chhattisgarh
Chad Mullet Bauman, Butler University

5:30-6:30         Dinner 

PLENARY SESSION (in Wendell Will Room)

7:00-8:30         Celebrating a Milestone: A Tribute to Paul B. Courtright 

                        Selva J. Raj, Albion College, Presiding 

Fred Clothey, University of Pittsburgh
            Paul Younger, McMaster University
            Joanne Waghorne, Syracuse University
            Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University in Chicago

                        Keynote Address: I

The Globalization of India's Religions: Webs, Classrooms, Generations, and Discourses

Paul B. Courtright, Emory University

8:30-10:00       Reception in honor of Paul B. Courtright   
                       

Saturday June 11, 2005

7:30-8:30 a.m. Breakfast

MIRACLES AND AUTHORITY- 3

Chair: Jason Fuller, DePauw University

9:00-9:45         Indian Ideas about the Miraculous and Mysterious: A Christian Missionary Interpretation
Daniel Jeyaraj, Andover Newton Theological School 

SESSION IV              MIRACULOUS SITES AND THE FORMATION OF COMMUNITY

                        Chair: Liz Wilson, Miami University of Ohio 

9:45-10:30       A Miracle in a Tirunelvelli Suburb
                        William Harman, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga 

10:30-11:00     Coffee Break

11:00-11:45     Ethnographic Encounter with the Wondrous in a South Indian Catholic Shrine
Selva J. Raj, Albion College

12:00-1:00       Lunch 

1:00-1:45pm    Kataragama and the Tsunami: The Adbhuta, Ascarya   and Pratiharya
                        Sunil Goonasekera, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. 

SESSSION V             CONSTRUCTING AND DECONSTRUCTING MIRACLES IN VEDANTIC, MADHVA, AND REFORM TRADITIONS

                        Chair: Brian Pennington, Maryville College

1:45-2:30         Reconstructing Vedanta after Rammohan: Miracle and Memory in the Early Tattvabodhini Sabha
Brian A. Hatcher, Illinois Wesleyan University

2:30-3:00         Coffee Break

3:00- 3:45        'Reasonable, Rational, and Natural': The Neo-Vedanta    Miracle
                        Robin Rinehart, Lafayette College

3:45-4:30         Madhva Mysteries and Miracles
Deepak Sarma, Case Western University

4:30-5:00         CSRI Business Meeting

5:00-6:00         Indian Dinner

PLENARY SESSION

6:30-8:00         Karen Pechilis, Drew University, Presiding

                        Keynote Address: II

Who Got the Bhakti Movement Moving?

Jack Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia University

8:00-9:00         Get-together

Sunday June 12, 2005

7:30-8:30 a.m.   Breakfast

SESSION VI              MIRACULOUS LIVES OF CHARISMATIC    INDIVIDUALS

Chair: Eliza Kent, Colgate University

9:00- 9:45        The Concept of ‘Guru’: Traditional and Modern Constructions
Boban J. Vettikkattil, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

9:45-10:30       Charisma, Magic and the Material in the Transnational Sathya Sai Movement
Tulasi Srinivas, Boston University

10:30-11:00     Coffee Break

11:00-11:45     Death of Negi Lama in Lahul (H.P.), India, in 1977: The Story of the Lama’s After-Death Meditation Posture, Dramatic Weather, and the Spontaneous Splitting of the Lama’s Bones, as Told by Two Kinnauri Nuns in the Lama’s Retinue
Linda LaMacchia, University of Wisconsin-Madison

12:00               Lunch and Departure
 

For additional information, contact:

Selva J. Raj
Department of Religious Studies
Albion College
Albion, MI 49224
(517) 629-0400
sraj@albion.edu

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