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NCRSA 2002:
UNC - Wilmington |
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The annual meeting of the North Carolina
Religious Studies Association (NCRSA) was held Friday, October 25, on the campus of UNC-Wilmington.
All sessions were held in King Hall, Room 101.
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Program
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Registration |
| 9:30-12:00 |
Session A: "The Concept of God Revisited:
An East-West Dialogue"
- Chair: R. Datta (Fayetteville State Univ.)
- R. Datta, It's True Name We Do Not Know: Revisiting
the Concept of the Absolute"
- K. Johnson (Fayetteville State Univ.) & T. Oyinade
(Claflin Univ.) "The Concept of God: the Yoruba of Nigeria"
- J. Brooks (Fayetteville State Univ.) "Deity, Totem,
and Clan in Ancient Egypt: the Durkheimian Egytology of Alexander
Moret (1868-1938)"
- Discussants: K. Sarpong & B. Curry (Fayetteville
State Univ.)
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Session B:
Panel: "Myth, Magic and Mystery in Caribbean Religions"
- Chair: S. Murrells (UNC-W)
- Panelists:
- L. Strickland (UNC-W)
- E. White (UNC-W)
- J. Hanes (UNC-W)
- B. Johnson (UNC-W)
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| 12:00-1:00 |
Luncheon |
| 1:00-1:30 |
NCRSA Business Meeting |
| 1:45-3:15 |
Session C |
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- J. Young (Fayetteville State University), "Order, Chance, and
Happiness in 13 CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING"
- G. Weir (UNC-Charlotte), "Mary Douglas Meets Artemis"
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Session D |
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- J. Jones III (Barton College), "Feeling Reverent Toward Being"
- M. Shaffer (UNC-W), "Why Religious Belief Is Not a Private Matter:
Hard Lessons About Moral and Epistemological Irresponsibility from a
Pragmatist's Perspective"
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| 3:15-5:00 |
Session E |
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- P. Wilson (Shaw Univ.), "God's Infinite Personality"
- M. Stanley (UNC-W), "E.M. Adams: Rethinking God"
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Session F |
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- B. Reynolds (UNC-Chapel Hill), "Ambiguous Antecedents and
Conceptions of YHWH"
- E. Rauth (Independent Scholar), "Time and Deity"
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Many thanks to Richard Hall, Program Chair <richardh@methodist.edu>,
and Samuel Murrells, Local Arrangements Chair <murrells@uncw.edu>, for
their hard work in organizing this conference. |
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