Postcolonializing Scholarship, Teaching, and Mentoring for All People: Honoring and Celebrating the Contributions of Emmanuel Y. Lartey

The corpus of Emmanuel Y. Lartey’s field-shaping scholarship, transformative teaching, and compassionate mentoring has made groundbreaking contributions to the study of practical theology, pastoral theology and care, African religious traditions, and theological education worldwide. To honor and celebrate Lartey’s contributions, five scholars in practical theology, pastoral theology, and the psychology of religion—all of whom studied under his tutelage and received his close mentoring—will discuss how each has engaged with and been deeply shaped by Lartey’s work. Together with the communities of the Practical Theology Unit and the Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit, this special session will create and provide a postcolonializing space where everyone can come together to recognize and celebrate Lartey’s invaluable contributions and legacy at this year’s AAR annual meeting in Boston.