The annual meeting of the North Carolina Religious Studies Association (NCRSA) will be held Friday, October 24, on the campus of UNC-Charlotte. The Department of Religious Studies at UNC-Charlotte has graciously agreed to host the event, including a luncheon. Please take a moment to register so our hosts will know how many to expect.

Program (click on a title for the abstract, or click here for the full program with abstracts) All events will be held on the third floor of the Barnhardt Student Activities Center on the UNC-Charlotte campus (directions). 8:30-9:00 Registration Salon A 9:00-9:15 Welcome Dr. Schley Lyons, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (UNC-Charlotte) Salon A 9:15-10:30 Session 1: Ethics and Existence Salon A The Use and Misuse of Transcendental Phenomena: Ethics and Existentialism, Dr. Joe Frank Jones, III (Barton College) Lev Shestov and Emmanuel Levinas: Reading Kierkegaard, Dr. James McLachlan (Western Carolina University) An examination of the "telos" within Nietzsche's concept of asceticism, Mr. Blake H. Taylor (Wingate University) Chair, Dr. John I. Brooks III (Fayetteville State University) 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45-12:00 Session 2A: Popular and Traditional Religion in Multicultural Perspective Salon A The Significance of Gihli, the Dog, in Cherokee Thought, Ms. Carrie McLachlan (Western Carolina University) Towards Understanding Traditional African Religion, Dr. Kofi Johnson (Fayetteville State University) and Dr. Raphael T. Oyinade (Claftin University) How Sacred Are They? Revisiting the Theoretical Models for the Study of Religion in Popular Culture, Dr. Rama Datta (Fayetteville State University) Chair, Dr. Sean McCloud (UNC-Charlotte)   Session 2B: The Theory and Practice of Religious Studies Salon B   Open Theism: A MacIntyre-esque Critique, Dr. Robert Prevost (Wingate University) Keeping God Guessing, Ms. Amy Lambert (Wingate University) Religious Studies and Service Learning: Uses and Abuses; Pitfalls and Possibilities, Dr. Bennett Ramsey (UNC-Greensboro) Chair, Dr. Herman Thomas (UNC-Charlotte) 12:00-1:30 Luncheon Salons D and E Introduction of Speaker, Dr. James McLachlan (Western Carolina University) Keynote Address: Monotheism and Monism--The Unity of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Dr. Richard Cohen, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies (UNC-Charlotte) 1:30-2:00 NCRSA Business Meeting Salon A 2:00-3:15 Session 3: Cosmology, Chaos, and Consciousness Salon A A Terrible Sublimity: Kant and the Big Bang, Dr. Maurice F. Stanley (UNC-Wilmington) In Praise of Chaos: A 21st Century Reincarnation of Erasmus as an Archetype of Hybrid Scholarship, Dr. John Collins (Wake Forest University) Is Seamless Post-mortem Existence Necessary for Survival?, Dr. P. Eddy Wilson (Shaw University) Chair, Dr. Greg Rich (Fayetteville State University) 3:15-3:30 Break 3:30-4:45 Session 4: Arguments on the Attributes of God Salon A   Boethius on Foreknowledge and Freedom, Dr. Greg Rich (Fayetteville State University) Berkeley's Critique of Theological Representationalism, Dr. Theodore M. Cooke (Belmont Abbey College) The Ecological Ethics of Albert Schweitzer & Jonathan Edwards, Dr. Richard Hall (Fayetteville State University) Added Oct. 12. Chair, Dr. Joe Frank Jones, III (Barton College) Program Chair John I. Brooks III, Ph.D. Program Chair, NCRSA 2003 Department of Government and History Fayetteville State University Fayetteville, NC 28301   Phone: (910) 672-1761 Fax: (910) 672-1090 E-mail: john.brooks@uncfsu.edu Local Arrangements Prof. Edward St. Clair Department of Religious Studies University of North Carolina at Charlotte 9201 University City Boulevard Charlotte, NC 28223   Phone: (704) 687-4604 E-Mail: estclair@email.uncc.edu NCRSA Home Page http://organizations.uncfsu.edu/ncrsa visitors since Oct. 3, 2003.

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