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AAR/SBL 1998 Annual Meeting
November 21-24, Orlando, Florida

The 1998 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting will be held in the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotels, Orlando, Florida, from Saturday through Tuesday, November 21-24.  For Information regarding hotels, etc., visit the AAR web site, e-mail ,or call 404/727-2343. For tapes of RISA and other AAR Annual Meeting sessions, contact: ACTS Inc.


Program of the Religion in South Asia Section,
1998 Annual Meeting


Sat. 3:45-6:15 p.m. (A41)

Image, Emblem, Actor: Ways of Understanding the Religious Activities of Women in Medieval Tamil Nadu

Sun. 9:00-11:30 a.m. (A75)

Concord and Discord in South Asian Pilgrimage

Sun 1:00-3:30 p.m. (A99)

Celebrating Six Hundred Years of Kabir: From the Earliest Manuscripts to the Globalization of Oral Tradition

Sun 3:45-6:15 p.m. (A133)

Blunders, Plunders, and the Wonders of Fieldwork: Ethnographic Integrity and the Study of South Asian Religions

Mon 9-11:30 a.m. (A157)

Dealing with the Deity: Religious Vows in South Asian Hindu, Muslim, and Christian Places of Worship

Mon 3:45-6:15 p.m. (A209)

The Upanishads: Literary Analysis and Compositional History

Tue. 9-11:30 a.m. (A241)

Textual Harassment: Intra-traditional Debates about Text and Experience in South Asia

(Participants and locations to be announced)


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