REA 2015 Annual Meeting: Full Schedule

This is the schedule for REA2015. Don’t forget to visit our REA2015 website for all the other details! In particular, please make sure you register for meeting. Once you have registered and received your Sched credentials, please log in here and add the sessions you plan to attend to your personal schedule so that we can assign rooms appropriately.

1:00pm EST

Conference Opening

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Friday November 6, 2015 1:00pm - 1:30pm EST
Buckhead B (Conference Center)

Plenary

1:30pm EST

Plenary 1: Reflecting on Teaching and Imagination

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Emilie Townes will present. Thomas Groome and Deborah Court will respond. Padraic O’Hare will moderate.

Moderators & Responders

Deborah Court

Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University

Deborah Court is a retired associate professor in the School of Education at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Her research centers on school culture, religious education, interfaith and intercultural education, the nature of teachers' knowledge, and qualitative research methodologies... Read More →

Thomas Groome

Director, Boston College

Padraic O'hare

Professor, Merrimack College

Speakers

Emilie Townes

Vanderbilt University

Friday November 6, 2015 1:30pm - 3:00pm EST
Buckhead B (Conference Center)

Plenary

5:15pm EST

Plenary 2: The Power of Imagination Within and Beyond Communities of Faith

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Fred Edie will present "Imagining the Untapped Depths in Liturgy and Ritual" and Nick Stuart will present "People of Faith Imaginatively Engaging the World to Nurture Compassion, Justice, and Hope." Kathy Winings will moderate.

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Kathy Winings

Unification Theological Seminary

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Fred Edie

Teacher, Duke Divinity School

Nick Stuart

Odyssey Networks

Friday November 6, 2015 5:15pm - 6:45pm EST
Buckhead B (Conference Center)

Plenary

9:00am EST

Plenary 3: Media and Imagination

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Graham Rossiter will present Decoding the Contemporary Religious Imagination: A Critical Appraisal of Media Orchestrated Imaginations and the Rise of "Consumerist" Religion. Marisa Crawford and Katherine Turpin will respond. Leah Gunning Francis will moderate. [Handout]

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