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Taking up the AAR's 2016 plenary theme of "Revolutionary Love," participants in this session join a conversation addressing concerns with Christian privilege in a scholarly organization dedicated to “critical approaches to the study of religion.” This panel brings together a diverse group of scholars to consider the concept of love as a public or political force. Whose conception of love prevails (or is allowed to prevail) in public discourse? Is there something exclusively Christian about the discourse of love? Are there analogues in other traditions? Is love a universal human value? What’s at stake among scholars of religion? Panelists: Amy M. Hollywood Russell T. McCutcheon Sarah Eltantawi David P. Gushee Arvind Sharma Mara Willard, Presiding This audio was recorded during the on November 21, 2016 during the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Antonio, Texas.