I have uploaded the titles and the abstracts for the 2007 Travel and Religion Seminar, which are accessible on the seminar’s website.

The papers are:

“To Encounter a Hero: Localization and Travel in Hellenistic Hero Cults”
Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, McGill University

“Pilgrimage, Place and Meaning-Making by Jews in Greco-Roman Egypt”
Wayne O. McCready, University of Calgary

“‘Danger in the Wilderness, Danger at Sea’ (2 Cor 11:26): Paul and the Perils of Travel”
Ryan Schellenberg, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology

“Christians on the Move: Travel and Social-Networking in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus”
Lincoln H. Blumell, University of Toronto