Psychology, Culture & Religion Group
American Academy of Religion
Annual Meeting 2009

PRE-SESSIONS:

PCR Pre-Sessions

PANEL:
Schisms: Exploring the Psycho-Social Dynamics
of Intra-Religious Conflicts in Three Communities

A. Gregory Schneider, Pacific Union College, Presiding

Panel:

• John McDargh, Boston College
• David Bell, Georgia State University
• Eileen Campbell-Reed, Luther Seminary
• Jay Emerson Johnson, Pacific School of Religion

Coffee Break

Book Panel: Vampires, Desire, Girls, and God:
Twilight and the Spiritualities of Adolescent Girls

Lisa Cataldo, Fordham University, Presiding

Presenter:

Joyce Mercer, Virginia Theological Seminary

Respondents:

• Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union
• Donna Freitas, Boston University

Praxis Reflection:

Psychological and Religious Reflections
on the Twilight Book Series and Film

PCR Friday Dinner

It is our annual custom to go out to dinner together on Friday evening. We'll be at the Rubis Rouge Restaurant, 1008 rue Clark (corner Viger), 514-390-8828.

Graduate students are especially invited to join us; we'll even pay half your cost for dinner!

PCR Pre-Sessions

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.: Works in Progress

Come and share what you're thinking about/ working on these days. Open to all, including new scholars.

10:30 – 11:30 a.m.: PCR business meeting/elections

MAIN SESSIONS:

A7-221

100 Years of Psychoanalysis in North America

Hetty Zock, University of Groningen, Presiding

• Philip Browning Helsel, Princeton University
  Beyond Perversion: The Religious Implications
  of Freud's Deconstruction of Homosexuality
• Felicity Brock Kelcourse, Christian Theological Seminary
  Dangerous Dreams: Freud, Jung, and the Problem of God the Father (pdf only)
• Pamela Cooper-White, Colombia Theological Seminary
  Freud, Jung, and Pastoral Psychotherapy: Uneasy Bedfellows
  (Or, "What's a Nice Freudian Like You Doing in a Counseling Modality
  Like This?")
• Michael D. Oppenheim, Concordia University
  Of Meaning and Meetings in Psychoanalysis and Religion
• Ann Gleig, Rice University
  The Return of the Repressed: Psychoanalysis as Spirituality

A9-222

French Psychoanalytic Reflections on Religion and Culture

Kirk A. Bingaman, Fordham University, Presiding

• Bonnie de Bruijn, University of Toronto
  Kristeva, Religion, and Revolt Culture (pdf only)
• Elizabeth Welsh, Fuller Theological Seminary
  Confronting Abjection in Religion: Kristeva Speaks
• Sharon Adams, University of Denver
  Return of the Divine Mother: Kristeva, Cixous, and Irigaray on the Recovery of the Lost Feminine (updated)
• David Goodman, Azusa, CA
  From Individual Subject to Subjected Individual: Levinas and Egological Psychologies
• Aron Dunlap, Temple University
  Lacan and Theology: Getting Past the Deadlocks of Post-Modernism (pdf only)