Call for Papers on Religion and Disability
Posted February 26th, 2006 by Christopher Phillips
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The Religion and Disability Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion has issued a call for papers for their annual meeting in Washington DC in November of this year. If you have an idea, you better get it ready fast, the deadline is March 1st. What they are looking for:
We invite papers that examine relationships between religion, disability, and concepts of the other, particularly emphasizing ways in which this otherness relates to understandings of community. Topics may include hospitality, borderlands, images of the wayfarer or traveler, construction of community, distinctions between guest/host/stranger, new vantage points, communal versus individual journeys, values of creativity or beauty, the role of invitation or love, the importance of struggle, and eschatological images. We also invite proposals that focus on deaf churches and deaf culture, particularly those that highlight the significance of the Washington, D.C., area.
