Jennifer Scheper Hughes - "Tenderness and Affection in Mesoamerican Material Religion"
Jennifer Scheper Hughes, University of California, Riverside; Religious Studies
Marko Geslani - “Enshrining Early Indian Rituals”
Marko Geslani, University of British Columbia, Asian Studies Department
Ronald L. Grimes - "What’s the Sense in Shooting Stuff? Interpreting Ritual Videographically"
Ronald L. Grimes, Ritual Studies International
Angela Zito - "Sensory Reflections on WRITING IN WATER 水书: The Social Life of Calligraphy"
Angela Zito, New York University, Anthropology; Religious Studies
David Walker - “Tourism, Scrapbooking, and Bricolage in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism”
David Walker, Yale University, Religious Studies
Michael Amico - "Sensing Desire: Christianity, Materiality, and the Love between Two Civil War Soldiers"
Michael Amico, Yale University, American Studies
Nicole LaBouff - “The Drama of Religious Experience in Elizabethan England: Bess of Hardwick’s Memory Theater Embroideries"
Nicole LaBouff, University of California Irvine, History
Horace Ballard - "An Intimate Acquaintance: Jerusalem and Mecca in Nineteenth-Century American Art"
Horace Ballard, Brown University, American Civilization
Kati Curts - "Remixing Religion: Representing and Recollecting Secular Time"
Kati Curts, Yale University, Religious Studies
Mira Niculescu - "Water and Pebbles: The Polysemy of Zen Aesthetics in Contemporary Western Societies, from Consumer Culture to Jewish Meditation"
Mira Niculescu, Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; and Columbia University, Religious Studies; Jewish Studies