Care as Theory and Method in the Study of Religion

This panel will consider questions such as: how can care ethics serve as a method for religious studies scholars, in their fieldwork, in their textual analyses, or in the archive? How do religious and spiritual sensibilities inform notions of “collective care” that operate outside of or beyond explicitly religious communities? What kind of care do we owe the people about or for whom we write? How do the people, texts, and archives we study care for us as scholars? How might our relationships with people, texts, and places change if care is at the center of our engagement with them? And in this time of crisis, what role does care play in the classroom?