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The American Academy of Religion is hosting two meetings in 2024: the Online June Sessions (AAR only) and the in-person November Annual Meetings (hosted with SBL). Not all program units and seminars are participating in the online meeting. Please review the CFPs carefully. If a program unit or seminar is participating in the online sessions, the CFP will be listed on their Program Unit page.

Use the TYPE filter to view Program Units, Co-Sponsorships, Seminars, and Related Scholarly Organizations (RSO) calls. Use the MEETING filter to sort for program units participating in the Online June Sessions. Please note this is a new filter and we are continuing to update it.

To submit a proposal, click on the unit to which you would like to submit. For more instruction, consult our CFP and Submission Instructions above. If you still have questions about submitting a proposal, contact papers_support@aarweb.org. For questions about the Annual Meetings, contact annualmeeting@aarweb.org.

AAR Status Committees
AAR's Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit and SBL's Biblical Exegesis from Eastern Orthodox Perspectives Unit
AAR's Platonism and Neoplatonism Unit & SBL's Mysticism, Esotericism and Gnosticism in Antiquity Unit
AAR's Religion in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean Unit and SBL's Art and Religions of Antiquity Unit
Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee
Academic Relations Committee
African Association for the Study of Religion
African Diaspora Religions Unit
African Religions Unit
Afro-American Religious History Unit
Afro-American Religious History Unit and Buddhism in the West Unit
Afro-American Religious History Unit and Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit
Afro-American Religious History Unit and Sociology of Religion Unit
American Academy of Religion
American Friends of Tyndale House
American Lectures in the History of Religions Committee
Anglican Studies Seminar
Animals and Religion Unit
Animals and Religion Unit and Religion and Food Unit
Annual Meeting
Anthropology of Religion Unit
Anthropology of Religion Unit and Jain Studies Unit
Applied Religious Studies Committee
Applied Religious Studies Committee and Graduate Student Committee
Artificial Intelligence and Religion Exploratory Session
Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit
Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit and Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit
Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit, Chinese Religions Unit, Confucian Traditions Unit, and Daoist Studies Unit
Asbury Theological Seminary and Wesley Biblical Seminary
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit and Religion in Southeast Asia Unit
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit and Secularism and Secularity Unit
Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life
Association of Practical Theology
Auburn Theological Seminary
Augustine and Augustinianisms Unit
Baha’i Studies Unit
Biblical Language Center
Bioethics and Religion Unit
Bioethics and Religion Unit and Science, Technology and Religion Unit
Black Theology Unit
Body and Religion Unit
Body and Religion Unit, Class, Religion, and Theology Unit, and Women and Religion Unit
Body and Religion Unit, Cognitive Science of Religion Unit, and Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit
Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit
Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit and Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit
Buddhism in the West Unit
Buddhism Unit
Buddhism Unit and Anthropology of Religion Unit
Buddhism Unit and Japanese Religions Unit
Buddhism Unit and Space, Place, and Religion Unit
Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Unit
Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Unit and Buddhist Philosophy Unit
Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Unit and Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Unit
Buddhist Pedagogy Seminar
Buddhist Philosophy Unit
Buddhist Philosophy Unit and Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Unit
Buddhist Philosophy Unit, Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Unit, Philosophy of Religion Unit, and Yogācāra Studies Unit
Buddhist Philosophy Unit, Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Unit, Hindu Philosophy Unit, Jain Studies Unit, Philosophy of Religion Unit, and Yogācāra Studies Unit
Catholic Studies Unit
Catholic Studies Unit and Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
Catholic Studies Unit and Native Traditions in the Americas Unit
Catholic Studies Unit and Vatican II Studies Unit
Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions
Childhood Studies and Religion Unit
Chinese Christianities Unit
Chinese Religions Unit
Chinese Religions Unit and Indian and Chinese Religions in Dialogue Unit
Christian Spirituality Unit
Christian Spirituality Unit and Religion and Disability Studies Unit
Christian Systematic Theology Unit
Christian Systematic Theology Unit and Religion and Disability Studies Unit
Class, Religion, and Theology Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: African Diaspora Religions Unit, Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit, Religion and Ecology Unit, and Space, Place, and Religion Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit and Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Buddhism in the West Unit and Space, Place, and Religion Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Buddhism Unit and Confucian Traditions Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Buddhism Unit and Contemplative Studies Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Class, Religion, and Theology Unit and Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Class, Religion, and Theology Unit and Religion and Ecology Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Cognitive Science of Religion Unit, Contemplative Studies Unit, and Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Comparative Religious Ethics Unit and Queer Studies Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Comparative Studies in Religion Unit and Korean Religions Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit and Teaching Religion Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Cultural History of the Study of Religion Unit and Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit and Religion and Food Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Hindu Philosophy Unit and Jain Studies Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Hindu Philosophy Unit and Yogācāra Studies Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Hinduism Unit and South Asian Religions Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Jain Studies Unit and Sikh Studies Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit and Liberation Theologies Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Law, Religion, and Culture Unit and Religion in Europe Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Native Traditions in the Americas Unit and Religion and Popular Culture Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: New Religious Movements Unit and Religion, Media, and Culture Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit and Queer Studies in Religion Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Queer Studies in Religion Unit and Religion and Sexuality Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Religion and Disability Studies Unit and Religion and Economy Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Religion and Ecology Unit and Religion and Food Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Religion and Economy Unit and Study of Judaism Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Religion and Migration Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Religion and Popular Culture Unit and Religion, Media, and Culture Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit and Religion, Media, and Culture Unit
CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Women and Religion Unit
Cognitive Science of Religion Unit
Collective Karma and Karmic Collectives: Conversations without Borders Seminar
College Theology Society
Colloquium on Violence and Religion
Committee on Teaching and Learning
Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion
Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit
Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit, Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit, and Religion and Popular Culture Unit
Comparative Religious Ethics Unit
Comparative Religious Ethics Unit and Schleiermacher Unit
Comparative Studies in Religion Unit
Comparative Studies in Religion Unit and Comparative Theology Unit
Comparative Studies in Religion Unit and World Christianity Unit
Comparative Theology Unit
Confucian Traditions Unit
Constructive Muslim Thought and Engaged Scholarship Seminar
Contemplative Studies Unit
Contemplative Studies Unit and Confucian Traditions Unit
Contemplative Studies Unit and Religions, Medicines, and Healing Unit
Contemporary Islam Unit
Contemporary Islam Unit and Sacred Texts and Ethics Unit
Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit
Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit and Music and Religion Unit
Contemporary Pagan Studies, Feminist Theory and Religious Experience, Religion, Film, and Visual Culture, Religion, Media, and Culture, and Women and Religion Units
Contextualizing the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis Seminar
Critical Approaches to Hip-Hop and Religion Unit
Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit
Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit and Space, Place, and Religion Unit
Cultural History of the Study of Religion Unit
Daoist Studies Unit
Death, Dying, and Beyond Unit
Drugs and Religion Unit
Drugs and Religion Unit and Religion and Food Unit
Drugs and Religion Unit and Ritual Studies Unit
Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit
Ecclesial Practices Unit
Ecclesial Practices Unit and Practical Theology Unit
Ecclesiological Investigations Unit
Employment Workshops
Energy, Extraction, and Religion Seminar
Esotericism Unit
Esotericism Unit and Mysticism Unit
Esotericism Unit and Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit
Ethics Unit
Ethics Unit and Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit
European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism
Evangelical Studies Unit
Exhibit Hall
Exploratory Session
Feminist Studies in Religion
Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit
Films
Foucault and the Study of Religion Seminar
Gay Men and Religion Unit
Gay Men and Religion Unit and Quaker Studies Unit
Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Unit
Graduate Student Committee
Hagiography Society
Hagiology Seminar
Hindu Philosophy Unit
Hindu Philosophy Unit and Tantric Studies Unit
Hinduism Unit
Hinduism Unit and North American Hinduism Unit
Hinduism Unit and Religion and Popular Culture Unit
Hinduism Unit, North American Hinduism Unit, and South Asian Religions Unit
Hinduism Unit, South Asian Religions Unit, and Religion and Migration Unit
History of Christianity Unit
History of Christianity Unit and North American Religions Unit
History of Christianity Unit and Pentecostal–Charismatic Movements Unit
History of Christianity Unit and Religion in Europe Unit
Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Unit
Indian and Chinese Religions in Dialogue Unit
Indian and Chinese Religions in Dialogue Unit and Yogācāra Studies Unit
Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit
Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit, Native Traditions in the Americas Unit and Religion and Ecology Unit
Innovations in Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Unit
Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought
Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS)
International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion
International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies
International Bonhoeffer Society
International Connections Committee
International Development and Religion Unit
International Society for Chinese Philosophy
International Society for Science and Religion
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture
Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit
Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit and Religion in Europe Unit
Intersectional Hindu Studies: Feminist and Critical Race Approaches to Research and Teaching Seminar
Islam, Gender, Women Unit
Islam, Gender, Women Unit and Study of Islam Unit
Islamic Mysticism Unit
Islamic Mysticism Unit and Platonism and Neoplatonism Unit
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
Jain Studies Unit
Japanese Religions Unit
Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR)
Karl Barth Society of North America
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit and Men, Masculinities, and Religions Unit
Korean Religions Unit
La Comunidad of Hispanic Scholars of Religion
Language, Poiesis, and Buddhist Experiments with the Possible Seminar
Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
Law, Religion, and Culture Unit
Law, Religion, and Culture Unit and Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit
Lesbian-Feminisms and Religion Unit
Lesbian-Feminisms and Religion Unit and Religious Conversions Unit
Lesbian-Feminisms and Religion Unit and Study of Judaism Unit
Liberation Theologies Unit
Liberation Theologies Unit and Middle Eastern Christianity Unit
Liberation Theologies Unit and Religion and Disability Studies Unit
Mahabharata and Classical Hinduism Seminar
Manchester Wesley Research Centre
Manchester Wesley Research Centre and Pentecostal Theological Seminary
Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit
Men, Masculinities, and Religions Unit
Men, Masculinities, and Religions Unit and Mormon Studies Unit
Middle Eastern Christianity Unit
Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and Culture Unit
Mormon Studies Unit
Music and Religion Unit
Mysticism Unit
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Native Traditions in the Americas Unit
Native Traditions in the Americas Unit and Religion and Cities Unit
New Directions in the Study of Religion, Monsters, and the Monstrous Seminar
New Religious Movements Unit
Niebuhr Society
Nineteenth Century Theology Unit
Nineteenth Century Theology Unit and Schleiermacher Unit
North American Association for the Study of Religion
North American Hinduism Unit
North American Paul Tillich Society
North American Religions Unit
Open and Relational Theologies Unit
Open and Relational Theologies Unit and Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Unit
Open and Relational Theologies Unit and Ritual Studies Unit
Pentecostal–Charismatic Movements Unit
Philosophy of Religion Unit
Philosophy of Religion Unit and Political Theology Unit
Philosophy of Religion Unit and Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Unit
Platonism and Neoplatonism Unit
Plenaries
Polanyi Society
Political Theology Network and Auburn Theological Seminary
Political Theology Unit
Political Theology Unit and Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Unit
Political Theology Unit and Religious Conversions Unit
Practical Theology Unit
Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Unit
Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Unit and Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit
Pre-Conference Workshops (November)
Presidential Address
Program Committee
Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit
Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit, and Religions, Medicines, and Healing Unit
Public Religion Research Institute
Publications Committee
Publicly Engaged Scholarship in the Study of Religion Seminar
Quaker Studies Unit
Quaker Studies Unit, Religion and Human Rights Unit, and Religion and Politics Unit
Queer Studies in Religion Unit
Queer Studies in Religion Unit and Reformed Theology and History Unit
Queer Studies in Religion Unit and Religion and Memory Unit
Qur'an Unit
Reading Religion
Reformed Theology and History Unit
Regions Committee
Religion & American Culture
Religion and Cities Unit
Religion and Disability Studies Unit
Religion and Disability Studies Unit and Status of People with Disabilities in the Profession Committee
Religion and Ecology Unit
Religion and Economy Unit
Religion and Economy Unit and Religion and Memory Unit
Religion and Economy Unit and Religion and Popular Culture Unit
Religion and Economy Unit and Ritual Studies Unit
Religion and Food Unit
Religion and Human Rights Unit
Religion and Human Rights Unit and Religion and Migration Unit
Religion and Memory Unit
Religion and Migration Unit
Religion and Politics Unit
Religion and Popular Culture Unit
Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives Unit
Religion and Science Fiction Unit
Religion and Science Fiction Unit and Teaching Religion Unit
Religion and Sexuality Unit
Religion and the Arts Award Jury
Religion and the Social Sciences Unit
Religion and the Social Sciences Unit and Sociology of Religion Unit
Religion in Europe Unit
Religion in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean Unit
Religion in Southeast Asia Unit
Religion, Affect, and Emotion Unit
Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Unit
Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit
Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit
Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit and Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Unit
Religion, Media, and Culture Unit
Religion, Sport, and Play Unit
Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit
Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit and Secularism and Secularity Unit
Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit and Sociology of Religion Unit
Religions, Borders, and Immigration Seminar
Religions, Medicines, and Healing Unit
Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Unit
Religious Conversions Unit
Religious Reflections on Friendship Seminar
Ritual Studies Unit
Sacred Texts and Ethics Unit
Sacred Texts and Ethics Unit and Study of Judaism Unit
Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit
Sacred Writes
Schleiermacher Unit
Science, Technology, and Religion Unit
Scriptural Reasoning Unit
Secularism and Secularity Unit
Sikh Studies Unit
Sikh Studies Unit and South Asian Religions Unit
Société Internationale d'Études sur Alfred Loisy
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies
Society for Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
Society for Pentecostal Studies
Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies
Society for the Study of Chinese Religions
Society for the Study of Japanese Religions
Society of Christian Philosophers
Sociology of Religion Unit
South Asian Religions Unit
South Asian Religions Unit and Theology and Continental Philosophy Unit
Space, Place, and Religion Unit
Space, Place, and Religion Unit and Teaching Religion Unit
Space, Place, and Religion Unit and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit
Special Session
Status of LGBTIQ Persons in the Profession Committee
Status of People with Disabilities in the Profession Committee
Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee
Status of Women in the Profession Committee
Study of Islam Unit
Study of Judaism Unit
Søren Kierkegaard Society
Tantric Studies Unit
Teaching against Islamophobia Seminar
Teaching Religion Unit
Teaching Religion Unit and Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit
Test Program Unit
Theological, Pedagogical, and Ethical Approaches to Israel/Palestine Seminar
Theology and Continental Philosophy Unit
Theology and Religious Reflection Unit
Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. Unit
Theta Alpha Kappa
Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship
Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit
Tours
Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit
Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit and Qur'an Unit
Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit
Vatican II Studies Unit
Vernacular Landscapes and Global Dialogues: Understanding Buddhist Monasticism Seminar
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
Wesleyan and Methodist Studies Unit
William James Society
Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit
Women and Religion Unit
Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism Unit
Women's Caucus
World Christianity Unit
Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit
Yogācāra Studies Unit