Westar's Fall 2016 National Meeting from ProgressiveChristianity.org in Gig Harbor, Washington, United States "Join Westar at the largest religious studies event of the year!" for Wednesday, 14 September 2016

 Westar's Fall 2016 National Meeting from ProgressiveChristianity.org in Gig Harbor, Washington, United States "Join Westar at the largest religious studies event of the year!" for Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Join the Largest Religious Studies Event of the Year
Westar’s Fall 2016 National Meeting will take place November 18th - 22nd in San Antonio, Texas, in conjunction with the annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). This is the largest event of the year in the fields of biblical studies and theology, with over 1,200 sessions and workshops and one of the world’s largest exhibits of books and digital resources for religious studies. A full Westar registration grants full access to all three meetings—a practically inexhaustible smorgasbord of topics related to the study of religion.

Westar Public LecturesWestar national meetings are open to anyone interested in scholarship about religion and religious literacy. Participants come from all walks of life, professions, and religious backgrounds. To support greater understanding of religion, Westar hosts public lectures conducted by leading scholars in the field of religion. This year’s presenters are Jeffrey Robbins, author of Radical Theology, forthcoming from Indiana University Press, and Heidi Wendt, author of At the Temple Gates forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

The Future of Theology
Is theological thinking still viable in a secular culture where individuals define themselves as “spiritual but not religious”? Jeffrey Robbinsseeks a way forward by exploring the legacy of the radical theology that grew out of the pathbreaking work of theologians like Bonhoeffer, Bultmann, Tillich, and the “death of God” movement.

Christian Origins and Freelance Experts
The early Roman Empire was populated by numerous self-authorized or “freelance” experts—magi, astrologers, prophets, diviners, philosophers, and so forth. All faced common challenges of constructing and defending their legitimacy. By situating Paul and others like him among this wider variety of freelance experts, Heidi Wendt suggests, we open up a richer understanding of early Christianity.

Westar Academic SeminarsWestar Institute conducts collaborative, cumulative research in the academic study of religion, addressing issues, questions, and controversies that are important both to the academic community and to the general public. Two seminars are currently in progress:

The Christianity Seminar
Daniel Boyarin (Ph.D., Jewish Theological Seminary of America) is Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture at the University of California in Berkeley. Boyarin is the author of many books, including Border Lines(2004) and The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ (2012), both of which examine the partition of Judaism and Christianity into two separate and distinct religions.

The Seminar on God and the Human Future
J. Kameron Carter (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School. Carter, whose several books include Race: A Theological Account (2008).

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