Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit
Open Call: The Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit welcomes paper, panel, and roundtable proposals on any topic relevant to the Unit’s interests. We particularly ask that proposals pay attention to the diversity of presiders, presenters, respondents, and topics.
The future of scholarship on Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions and Precarious Future/s: For AAR’s June Online Meeting, our Unit especially welcomes work from junior scholars and doctoral students who wish to share their scholarly work in areas covered by the Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit. We also welcome proposals from scholars who may not find travelling to the Annual Meeting in Denver possible at this point in time.
While such proposals may cover any relevant theme included in the Unit’s remit, we are particularly interested in proposals that engage the question of the precariousness of our times. What is the future of scholarship for MLGLT Unit members in the midst of the risks of our contemporary political moment? In the midst of shifting religious demographics? In the midst of changes to the landscapes of seminary and higher education? What precariousness must we pay attention to and how? How do we pay attention to vulnerability, resilience, and justice? What is needed for the future of theological education to weather the precarious future(s) that lay ahead? What is the future--lost, possible, or impossible--of ‘global’ Lutheran theology, lived and thought?
The Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit provides an avenue for comprehensive attention to Lutheran history, theology, and praxis in contemporary global contexts. We welcome themes emergent in Martin Luther’s own life and writing (e.g., recent topics including baptism, freedom, theology of the cross, and the Peasants’ War). And we welcome scholarship wrestling with the contemporary legacies of those themes.
Hosting systematic and constructive theological voices, historians, ethicists, and more, this Unit is able to engage rich and perspectives that go far beyond Lutheran parochial interests. As such, we produce scholarship reflecting with intersectional, theoretical, political, social, and ethical analysis. Recent topics of importance have included ecology, histories of settler colonialism, gender and sexuality justice, and interfaith and interreligious theologies.
| Chair | Dates | ||
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| Jacob Erickson | jacobjerickson@gmail.com | - | View |
| Marit Trelstad | trelstma@plu.edu | - | View |