Where the Adventist Society for Religious Studies and the Adventist Theological Society Most Differ and What We Should Do About It
More than seven thousand religion scholars of all faiths and no faith at all convene each year at some city in the United States the weekend before the nation's Thanksgiving holiday for the joint annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). They begin at noon on Saturday and continue through noon on Tuesday. The meetings of the AAR and SBL are usually integrated.They meet in the same hotels and convention centers. Scholars may belong to either society or both. They have the same schedules. They print the sequence of their hundreds of sessions in the same thick 81/2 x 11 catalogue that also features many advertisements for new books and other things. When the catalogue is open, the times and places of the AAR sessions are often presented on the left page and those of the SBL are often presented on the right page. Both societies host large plenary sessions in the evenings. Even if they the...
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