2019 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Contents Deadline 7 Meeting Location 7 Questions about the Call 7 Guidelines for Submitting Proposals 7 Participation Requirements at the Annual Meeting 9 Wildcard Sessions 9 Guidelines for Wildcard sessions: 9 Exploratory Sessions 9 New Schedule for 2018-2019 10 Audiovisual Requests 10 Questions about the Annual Meeting 11 African Association for the Study of Religions 12 African Diaspora Religions Unit 14 African Religions Unit 16 Afro-American Religious History Unit 19 Animals and Religion Unit 21 Anthropology of Religion Unit 23 Artificial Intelligence and Religion Seminar 26 Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit 27 Arts Series 29 Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit 30 Augustine and Augustinianisms Unit 32 Baha’i Studies Unit 34 Bioethics and Religion Unit 36 1 Black Theology Unit 37 Body and Religion Unit 40 Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit 42 Buddhism in the West Unit 44 Buddhism Unit 46 Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Unit 50 Buddhist Pedagogy Seminar 51 Buddhist Philosophy Unit 53 Childhood Studies and Religion Unit 55 Chinese Christianities Seminar 57 Chinese Religions Unit 59 Christian Spirituality Unit 60 Christian Systematic Theology Unit 61 Class, Religion, and Theology Unit 62 Cognitive Science of Religion Unit 65 Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit 67 Comparative Religious Ethics Unit 70 Comparative Studies in Religion Unit 73 Comparative Theology Unit 75 Confucian Traditions Unit 77 Contemplative Studies Unit 78 Contemporary Islam Unit 80 Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit 82 Contextualizing the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis Seminar 84 Critical Approaches to Hip-Hop and Religion Unit 86 Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit 88 Cultural History of the Study of Religion Unit 90 Daoist Studies Unit 92 Death, Dying, and Beyond Unit 94 Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit 95 Ecclesial Practices Unit 98 Ecclesiological Investigations Unit 100 Economics and Capitalism in the Study of Buddhism Seminar 103 2 Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion Seminar 104 Employment Workshops 106 Ethics Unit 108 Evangelical Studies Unit 110 Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit 112 Films 114 Folklore and Religion Seminar 115 Gay Men and Religion Unit 116 Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Seminar 118 Graduate Student Committee 119 Hinduism Unit 120 History of Christianity Unit 122 Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Unit 124 Indian and Chinese Religions Compared Unit 126 Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit 128 Innovations in Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Unit 130 International Development and Religion Unit 132 Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit 134 Intersectional Hindu Studies: Feminist and Critical Race Approaches to Research and Teaching Seminar 137 Islam, Gender, Women Unit 139 Islamic Mysticism Unit 141 Jain Studies Unit 143 Japanese Religions Unit 144 Karl Barth Society of North America 146 Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit 147 Korean Religions Unit 149 Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit 151 Law, Religion, and Culture Unit 154 Lesbian-Feminisms and Religion Unit 156 Liberal Theologies Unit 158 Liberation Theologies Unit 160 Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit 162 3 Men, Masculinities, and Religions Unit 165 Middle Eastern Christianity Unit 167 Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and Culture Unit 169 Mormon Studies Unit 171 Music and Religion Unit 172 Mysticism Unit 174 Native Traditions in the Americas Unit 176 Navarātri Seminar 178 New Directions in the Study of Religion, Monsters, and the Monstrous Seminar 179 New Materialism, Religion, and Planetary Thinking Seminar 181 New Perspectives on Religion in the Philippines Seminar 182 New Religious Movements Unit 184 Nineteenth Century Theology Unit 186 North American Hinduism Unit 187 North American Religions Unit 190 Open and Relational Theologies Unit 193 Origen and Origen Reception Seminar 195 Pentecostal–Charismatic Movements Unit 196 Philosophy of Religion Unit 197 Platonism and Neoplatonism Unit 199 Political Theology Unit 200 Practical Theology Unit 202 Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Unit 204 Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit 206 Quaker Studies Unit 208 Queer Studies in Religion Unit 210 Qur'an Unit 212 Reformed Theology and History Unit 214 Religion and Cities Unit 216 Religion and Disability Studies Unit 218 Religion and Ecology Unit 220 Religion and Economy Unit 222 Religion and Families in North America Seminar 224 4 Religion and Food Unit 226 Religion and Humanism Unit 229 Religion and Migration Unit 230 Religion and Politics Unit 232 Religion and Popular Culture Unit 234 Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives Unit 236 Religion and Science Fiction Unit 237 Religion and Sexuality Unit 239 Religion and the Social Sciences Unit 241 Religion in Europe Unit 242 Religion in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean Unit 244 Religion in South Asia Unit 246 Religion in Southeast Asia Unit 249 Religion in the American West Unit 251 Religion, Affect, and Emotion Unit 253 Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America Seminar 255 Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Unit 256 Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit 258 Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit 261 Religion, Media, and Culture Unit 263 Religion, Memory, History Unit 266 Religion, Sport, and Play Unit 269 Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit 270 Religions, Borders, and Immigration Seminar 274 Religions, Medicines, and Healing Unit 275 Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Unit 278 Religious Conversions Unit 280 Ricoeur Unit 283 Ritual Studies Unit 285 Roman Catholic Studies Unit 287 Sacred Texts and Ethics Unit 289 Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit 290 Schleiermacher Unit 292 5 Science, Technology, and Religion Unit 293 Scriptural Reasoning Unit 295 Secularism and Secularity Unit 297 Sikh Studies Unit 299 Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies 301 Sociology of Religion Unit 302 Space, Place, and Religion Unit 304 Student Lounge Roundtable 306 Study of Islam Unit 308 Study of Judaism Unit 311 Tantric Studies Unit 313 Teaching Religion Unit 316 Theology and Continental Philosophy Unit 319 Theology and Religious Reflection Unit 321 Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. Unit 322 Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit 324 Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Unit 326 Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit 327 Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit 328 Transnational Religious Expression: Between Asia and North America Seminar 329 Vatican II Studies Unit 331 Video Gaming and Religion Seminar 333 Wesleyan and Methodist Studies Unit 335 Western Esotericism Unit 337 Wildcard Sessions 339 Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit 340 Women and Religion Unit 343 Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism Unit 346 World Christianity Unit 349 Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit 351 Yogācāra Studies Unit 353 6 General Call Instructions Deadline The deadline for the Call for Proposals is Monday, March 4, 2019, 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. Meeting Location The 2019 AAR and SBL Annual Meetings will be held November 23-26 in San Diego, California. Registration and the Exhibit Hall will be located in the San Diego Convention Center. Academic sessions will be held in the Convention Center, Hilton Bayfront, Marriott Marquis and Marina, Grand Hyatt, and Omni hotels. Registration and housing for the Annual Meeting will open in early April. Questions about the Call The work of the Program Unit is coordinated by the Chair(s) and a Steering Committee who design the sessions and make the decisions about which proposals will eventually be on the program. Each proposal is carefully refereed, usually in an anonymous procedure (i.e., without the name of the proposer being provided to the referees). All proposals, abstracts, and completed participant information (as well as any questions you may have) should be sent to the individual(s) named in the Call; this occurs automatically in the Program Administration Proposal, Evaluation, Review, and Submission (PAPERS) System. The deadline for proposal submission is 5:00 PM EST, Monday, March 4. Please inquire with the appropriate Program Unit Chair(s) about the amount of time granted for your presentation and by what date the respondent (if any) must receive your completed paper. Guidelines for Submitting Proposals ● Step 1: Find a topic in the general Call for Proposals or Call of a specific Program Unit that interests you. ● Step 2: Determine which type of proposal you wish to submit. ○ Paper proposal — A paper written by you (and possibly a co-author) that you will present in response to a theme within a Program Unit‘s Call. ○ Papers session proposal — A proposal of a complete session of different papers on a theme, complete with its own description, abstract, a presider, paper presentations, and (optionally) a respondent. Presenters in a papers session must submit their proposals to the papers session organizer, who in turn is 7 responsible for inputting them into the Program Administration Proposal, Evaluation, Review, and Submission (PAPERS) System. ○ Roundtable session proposal — A proposal of a complete session, including a presider, list of panelists, and (optionally) a respondent; all of whom will speak (ex tempore) on a common theme. ● Step 3: Write your 1,000 word proposal and 150-word abstract. Paper sessions require a separate 1,000-word proposal and 150-word abstract for each paper in the session. The abstracts