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PHOTOS FROM RECENT NAASR EVENTS


Lleft to right: Michael Pye (past IAHR General Secretary and, at the time, the President of the IAHR) speaks with Anita Leopold and Jeppe Sinding Jensen of Aarhus, Denmark, at the NAASR reception during the IAHR Congress in Durban, South Africa, 2000



L eft to right: William Paden (University of Vermont) speaks with Kimberly Patton (Emory University); in background: Peter Antes (University of Hannover and current IAHR President) at the NAASR reception in Durban.



Away form the conference hotel for a seaside "braai" ("barbeque" to North American scholars) with scholars from the University of South Africa. Left to right foreground: Gerhard van den Heever, Johannes Vorster, Luther Martin (University of Vermont), and Pieter Botha; back row: Danie Veldsman, Celia Kourie, Willi Braun (University of Alberta), and standing, Henk Versnel (University of Leiden)



Two of the many impediments that block a truly scientific study of religion.



Left to right: Russell McCutcheon (University of Alabama) and Rosalind I. J. Hackett (University of Tennessee and current Vice-President of the IAHR) at the IAHR Congress in Mexico City, 1995.



Left to right: Luther Martin and Michael Pye arguing over the restaurant bill at a special IAHR regional meeting at the University of Aarhus, 1996.




Jacques Waardenburg (seated on the left), author of Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion (Mouton 1973, reissued by Walter de Gruyter 1999) joins Luther Martin, Gloria Wiebe, and Don Wiebe (seated on the right), for a brief moment of summer warmth in Burlington, Vermont.




Luther Martin, University of Vermont (left), and Jeppe Sinding Jensen, of Aarhus University, Denmark, engage in participant observation analysis of the local flora and fauna. Note: the obviously academic context is indicated by the presence of a book in the photograph.