Split Between Two Academic Organizations Has Religion Scholars Fretting

As more than 10,000 religion scholars gathered here this past weekend for the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, they had schism on their minds.

Not the split between the Catholic and Protestant churches, mind you, but between the two scholarly organizations holding the event. Starting next year, the groups will begin to hold separate annual meetings, in separate cities, on different dates in November. In 2008 the

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