Religion and Disability Studies Unit
In alignment with the presidential theme of future/s, we welcome proposals that discuss:
- Crip ancestries and their implications for future/s, including religious and theological engagements with the work of Alice Wong and/or Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- The role of technology in furthering and/or complicating a realization of disability-inclusive future/s, including creative presentations in the virtual context that appeal to religious scholarship.
The Religion and Disability Studies Unit is committed to maintaining the visibility, viability, and value of the experience and politics of disability as they relate to the study and practice of religion. We promote engagement between disability studies theory and the study of religion, examine the role of disability in lived religious experience and theology, and consider the historical and contemporary role of disability in diverse religious traditions, texts, and cultures. As intersectionality becomes an increasingly critical hermeneutic in the academy, we encourage robust dialogue and collaboration with other program units involved with disciplined reflection on religion.
| Chair | Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Audrey Seah | aseah@holycross.edu | - | View |
| Sarah Jean Barton | sarah.j.barton@duke.edu | - | View |