Welcome and Introductions

Senior Scholars Panel

Richard Wentz (ASU Emeritus), moderator

Rudy Busto (UC Santa Barbara)

Dennis Dickerson (Vanderbilt University)

Laurie Maffly-Kipp (UNC Chapel Hill)

Inez Talamantez (UC Santa Barbara)

Ferenc Szasz (University of New Mexico)

Duncan R. Williams (UC Irvine, Berkeley), "American West or Pacific East: Re-examining the "Anglo-Christian" Model for Pre-WW2 Japanese-American Buddhists."

Kristy Nabhan-Warren, (Augustana College), "The Stories They tell: Mexican American Catholics Living Cursillo and Rewriting American Catholic History."

James Bennett (Santa Clara University), "African Americans, Mormons, and the Construction of Racial and Religious Identity."

Daniel Ramirez (Arizona State University), "Mas Alla de Azusa: The Construction of Transnational Pentecostalism."

Lunch

Kenneth Mello (University of Vermont), "/Hula/Haoles/, and the Formulations of 'Hawaiian' identity."

Derek Chang (Cornell University), "Home Missions, Domestic Boundaries: Chinese Immigrants, Christian Missions, and Race."

Darnise Martin (Loyola Marymount University), "California Dreaming: The Shape of African American Spaces and Religious Sensibilities in Northern California."

Cynthia Carsten (Arizona State University), "Oral Tradition as a Site of Resistance: Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller."

Session 2B

Ronald Coleman (University of Utah), "African American Slavery Among the Saints in Utah."

Quincy Newell (University of Wyoming), "Limited Transcendence: Race and Religious Experience in the Life of Jane Elizabeth Manning James."

Leslie Callahan (University of Pennsylvania), "Racial Difference in the Founding of American Pentecostalism: the Case of Charles Parham."

Kathryn Gin (Yale University), "'Dead Christian' and 'Heathen Converts': Anti-Chinese Hostility and Protestant Missionary Efforts in Gold Rush California ."

Reception (MU 208F)

Continental breakfast

Ellen Eisenberg (Williamette University), “Fellow Whites or Fellow Minorities? Ethnic Identity and Responses to Prejudice among Jewish Oregonians.”

Kathleen Holscher (Princeton University), “‘Tillers of the Soil’ and German Nuns: Locating Ethnicity in the Religious History of Twentieth Century New Mexico"

William Issel (San Francisco State University; Mills College), “The Deportation of Sylvester Andriano: Religion, Ethnicity, and Un-American Activities, a San Francisco Story from WWII.”

John Baumann (UW Oshkosh), “An Evolving Landscape: Environmental Resistance Among Natives and non-Natives.”

Session 3B

Tom Bremer (Rhodes College), “Building Identities: The Aesthetics of Race and Ethnicity in Restorations of Religious Architecture.”

Brett Hendrickson (Arizona State University), “Organizing for Dignity: Catholic Social Policy and Challenges to the Bracero Program.”

Randi Walker (Pacific School of Religion), “The Seattle Christian Friends for Racial Equality: A Mid-Twentieth Century Effort to Deconstruct a Segregated Society.”

Joel Geffen (University of Montana), “Blurring the Lines: Native American Biologists, Religion and Science, and Habitat Restoration Efforts.”

Lunch

Task Groups

Plenary Session