Call for Proposals

This Group seeks papers and/or panels on the following themes:

• In honor of San Francisco — Latino/a religions in the global city, including new ways of constituting Latin American religions in diaspora, the intersection of sexual identities and transnational religious identities as expressed in LGBTQ migrant communities, etc.
• Material religion — materiality and the religious object in theory and practice
• The religious marketplace in Latino/a America, including critical approaches to the metaphor of the “market”
• Religion and the traffic in drugs, including narco-religion, narco-saints, gang violence, and the role of churches in the drug wars and models for “recovery”

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

Proposer names are visible to Chairs but anonymous to Steering Committee Members.

Questions?

Jorge A. Aquino
University of San Francisco
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Jennifer Scheper Hughes
University of California, Riverside
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Method of Submission

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