New Religious Movements Unit
The New Religious Movements Program Unit invites proposals dealing with the theme of futures, including papers on millennialism, utopianism, and science fiction futures and NRMs. We also invite proposals dealing with communication technology and media, broadly conceived, and NRMS, including topics such as public scholarship on NRMs, NRMs in the news, NRMs and the arts, and NRMs and new media technologies. We also invite proposals addressing NRMs in Denver and Colorado, and papers on any aspect of the study of NRMs.
The Sociology of Religion and New Religious Movements Program Units invite proposals dealing with new religions and sociological theory and methods. We encourage proposals that examine how sociological theory and methods have shaped the study of new religions, studies of new religions informed by sociological theory and methods, and proposals for new approaches to the study of new religions informed by sociological theory and methods.
This Unit supports and encourages research on all aspects of the study of New Religious Movements. Presenters in our sessions study new, and alternative religions, past and present, from a variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives. Our sessions and additional meetings are intended to create opportunities for dialogue among academics who share a passion for understanding NRMs, and to make known to a broader audience the importance of such movements for understanding issues of religious difference, community building and maintenance, ritual and doctrinal innovation, and other aspects of religious life. As scholars of minority, alternative, and new religions, we are deeply aware of the challenges facing those on America’s religious margins. We know the immense human toll such intolerance causes. Our scholarship also demonstrates the violence and tragedy than can result when federal and state agencies fail to recognize the humanity of marginalized religious groups. We are resolved to make space for difference both within the academy and beyond.
| Chair | Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Erin Prophet, East Carolina University | erin@eprophet.info | - | View |
| Jeremy Rapport | jrapport@wooster.edu | - | View |