Program Unit
Online June Annual Meeting 2025
Christian Spirituality Unit
Call for Proposals
- Spirituality and Organizational Change. There is a great concern and growing distrust of institutions around the globe. What do Christian spiritual perspectives have to say about this? What role do institutions, both faith-based and secular, have in this time and how might our spiritualities inform our approaches to institutions and organizational change? How does spirituality transform the goals and purposes of our institutions?
- Book Response Panel: Author-meets-critics. Proposals are invited to critique a recently published book relevant to the discipline or an edited volume that covers the work of a scholar or scholars. The AAR norms for the proposal of a "Roundtable Session" or "New Paper Session" that considers a particular book must be followed to be considered for this session of 75 minutes.
Statement of Purpose
This Unit serves as a forum for scholars working in the interdisciplinary field of Christian spirituality. It is committed to the following: • Developing, refining, and demonstrating appropriate methodologies for the academic study of spirituality. • Exploring models for describing and facilitating interdisciplinary conversation on the nature of spirituality among religion scholars of all perspectives and religions. • Initiating discussion in the field of global spirituality, both religious and secular. • Articulating the connections between scholarship and spiritual practice.
| Chair | Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Beringia Zen | beringia.zen@avera.org | - | View |
| David B. Perrin, St. Jerome's University | dperrin@uwaterloo.ca | - | View |
Review Process: Participant names are visible to chairs but anonymous to steering committee members until after final acceptance/rejection