2014 San Diego ETS/AAR

TECC Project panels on Moral Theology: The California Body, Imaged

For the upcoming meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society (Nov. 19-21) and the American Academy of Religion (Nov. 22-24), the TECC Project wil be hosting two panels on California Moral Theology. Particularly, in interdisciplinary theological perspective, we will be exploring ways that the body has been portrayed in California life. These will approach the topic by integrating the theological perspective with the social-scientific, historical, ethnographic, and/or other qualitative or quantitative approaches, addressing issues of critical importance for understanding particular expressions of the body (individual, corporate, ecclesial, environmental, etc.) in the Californian experience.

ETS meeting:

Thursday, Nov. 20, 3:00 PM - 6:10 PM
Town and Country Resort & Convention Center in San Diego, CA
500 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, CA
(Sunset Room)

3:00 PM-3:10 PM
Fred Sanders, Biola University, Torrey Honors Institute
Introducing the TECC Project, Theology and California, and the California Body

3:10 PM-4:00 PM
Jason S. Sexton, California State University, Fullerton
Punishing and Healing the California Body: The California Dept. of Corrections, Anthropology, and the Church

4:00 PM-4:50 PM
Craig Detweiler, Pepperdine University
Extreme Makeover: Human Edition: How Nor Cal and So Cal Problematize the Body (in remarkably different ways)

5:00 PM-5:50 PM
Richard J. Mouw, Fuller Theological Seminary
People of our Common Clay': Thinking Theologically about Humanness in California

5:50 PM-6:10 PM
Dialogue and Q&A

AAR meeting:

Saturday, Nov. 22, 4:00 - 6:30 PM
San Diego Convention Center
111 W Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101
Convention Center-23A

A22-325
Evangelical Studies Group and Christian Theological Research Fellowship

Jason S. Sexton, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding

Matthew Lee Anderson, University of Oxford
A Spectacularly Transgressive Permanence: Augustinian Reflections on Ed Hardy’s California Tattooing Ethos

Steven Smith, Fuller Theological Seminary
The Tortured Body: Solitary Confinement in California and Community Organizing as Theological Response

Bill Such, Jesus Center, Chico, CA
Imaging the Homeless Body in California

Joy J. Moore, Fuller Theological Seminary
Shades of Brown: Hollywood and the Mediating of Racial Identity