2009 Call for Papers
Religion and Ecology Group
American Academy of Religion (AAR)
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
November 7-10, 2009
The Religion and Ecology Group invites proposals exploring sustainable human-Earth relations involving religion, culture, biodiversity, and environment. We encourage thematically coherent panels and individual papers. One session, co-sponsored with the Bioethics group, will focus on global justice through the lenses of Ecology and Bioethics. Other topics include: 1) ecological Hinduism, Yoga, and Jainism in North America (potentially co-sponsored with North American Hinduism); 2) religion, ecology, and globalization (colonialism, imperialism, population, pronatalism, political holism, food); 3) sustainability (problems, tensions, and uncertainties; green buildings, green burials); 4) religion, ecology, and science (including Darwin); 5) environmental values and practice (including scholarship and activism, reformation or radical change); 6) human dimensions (mourning, guilt, affectivity, spiritual affinity, satiation and sufficiency, ecological ruin and triage, ethnobiology [Inuit], listening to Earth, communication with animals); and 7) religion, ecology, and popular culture (e.g., science fiction).
For more information, visit the Religion and Ecology Group’s AAR website:
http://www.aarweb.org/Meetings/Annual_Meeting/Program_Units/PUCS/Website/main.asp?PUNum=AARPU051
The submission deadline for paper proposals is March 2, 2009.
PLEASE NOTE: Our group is up for review this year, and there is a chance that we might be moved to Section status, with 5 regular panels rather than 2. So we strongly encourage you to submit proposals: individual papers, pre-formed panels, and pre-arranged paper sessions. The quantity as well as quality of proposals will help the cause. Spread the word.