Theology and Religious Reflection Unit

The Theology and Religious Reflection unit seeks paper and panel proposals on the following topics, as well as on topics related to the unit’s general remit.

• Proposals and panels that renew, transform, or expand academic approaches to spirituality and esotericism
• Proposals for a possible panel on Patrick Anderson’s The Lamentations: A Requiem for Queer Suicide (Fordham, 2024)
• Proposals that examine the decay of digital archives and questions of preservation in relation to physical books and papers, especially in relation to archival materials that fall beyond or outside the protection offered by dominant institutions
• We are especially enthusiastic about proposals that, in connection with this year’s presidential theme, look at connections between freedom and writing: how might writing foster freedom? What would alternate spaces for producing knowledge look like? How might writing and learning as a practice foster freedoms of many kinds, and what infrastructures, practices, or relationships would be needed?
• Craft: papers and panels approaching writing and the production of knowledge as a craft, or that examine how practices of craft make knowledge(s)
• Where is theological and/or religious knowledge (however understood) being made? Where and how does religious and theological reflection happen outside the academy, or beyond institutional religious spaces?