Religion and Cities Unit
The Religion and Cities Unit welcomes paper and panel proposals for the 2025 AAR June online meeting. We welcome submissions that explore the practice of religion in the city, including papers that cover urban design, architecture, religious approaches to issues of justice in the city, interfaith encounters and collaborations in the city, and the practice of religion in public space.
We especially invite submissions that problematize and expand notions of infrastructure; examine case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America; or explore the 2025 AAR Presidential Theme on Freedom.
This unit engages in critical analysis of ecological relationships between religion and cities. We are interested in exploring the cooperative and conflicting relationships between cities across the globe and their religious communities in the struggle for social justice. Our work is interdisciplinary and includes scholars from Religious Studies, History, Anthropology, Social Ethics & Urban Sociology, Architecture & Urban Planning, and Gender Studies.
| Chair | Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Dunar, Albertus Magnus College | Edunar@albertus.edu | - | View |
| Fatimah Fanusie | fanusie@icjs.org | - | View |