anamnesiac

some of my favorite session titles from the AAR conference:

gnostic mythology in disney’s pinocchio (“this paper details the parallels between the creation myth of the apocryphon of john and the blue fairy’s animation of the puppet pinocchio“)
tarantino’s incarnational theology: reservoir dogs, crucifixions, and spectacular violence (“this paper reads quentin tarantino’s film reservior dogs alongside julian of norwich’s revelations of love“)
hagiography as fagiography (a session of the gay men’s issues in religion group)
interspirituality and unsaying: apophatic strategies for departicularizing christ and the church in current roman catholic mystical movements (say that five times fast. i actually heard this paper, which provoked me to speak for the first time during the conference – but this would be a topic for another post)
spirituality as spirit and spirituality toward spirit (“for many today, the question of spirit is just the question of human spirituality… but is the human spiritual dimension enough?” wha…?)