Call for Proposals

This Group invites paper and panel proposals on any theme related to religion, culture, and society in Latin America, including among Latinos in the United States. Additionally, we also seek paper and panel proposals on these specific themes:

• In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of the Second Vatican Council, we invite submissions treating the impact and legacy of Vatican II in Latin America
• For a possible cosponsored session with the Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Group — critical and/or comparative analyses of religion and revolutionary politics in Chiapas, México, during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This call to analyze faith-based politics in Chiapas was inspired by the passing of Samuel Ruiz García, the longtime archbishop of Chiapas, México, in January of 2011
• The fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Comisión Episcopal (now “Para el Estudio”) de la Historia de la Iglesia en Latinoamérica (CEHILA) — for a possible cosponsored session with the History of Christianity Section

Mission

This Group explores the richness and diversity of religious traditions in Latin America, the complex and often explosive relations between religion and politics in the region, the centrality of religion in Latin American culture since pre-Conquest times, and the global significance of religious events and lived religion in Latin America. We provide a forum for scholars to address religion in Latin America and the Caribbean with special attention to their larger sociopolitical and cultural contexts. Diverse disciplinary and methodological perspectives are highlighted in presentation of this scholarship.

Anonymity of Review Process

Proposals are anonymous to Chairs and steering committee members during review, but visible to Chairs prior to final acceptance or rejection.

Questions?

Jennifer Scheper Hughes
University of California, Riverside
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Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado
University of Miami
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Method of Submission

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