Childhood Studies and Religion Print

Call for Proposals

This Group encourages proposals from scholars of diverse religious traditions and locations who engage in historical, social scientific, humanistic, conceptual, and other methods of research related to children and childhood. We invite proposals for papers and panels in all areas. In addition, we especially welcome proposals on the following topics:

  • Children, religion, and politics, including children’s political participation, activism, and civic engagement
  • Methods in the study of children and childhoods (contact Susan Ridgely, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , for details)
  • Children, religion, and cyberspace
  • Cosponsored with the Buddhism Section — a roundtable on children and Buddhism (contact Vanessa Rebecca Sasson, Marianopolis College and McGill University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , for details)
  • The queerness of children and childhood as subjects and objects in religion — cosponsored with the Queer Studies in Religion Group

Mission

This Group’s overall aim is to investigate the complex and multifaceted relation between religion and childhood. The specific goals of the Group are as follows:

  • Provide a forum for focused interdisciplinary and interreligious dialogue about the diverse relations of children and religion
  • Heighten academic interest in this topic in all fields represented in the AAR
  • Prepare scholars in religious studies to contribute to wider academic discussions about children and childhoods
  • Lend the voice of the academy to current questions of public policy and child advocacy

The focus of the Group is both timely and significant given the present concern for children across the globe and the rising interdisciplinary academic interest in childhood studies. The Group functions as a forum at the AAR for advancing childhood studies as a new line of scholarly inquiry.

Anonymity of Review Process

Proposer names are visible to Chairs and steering committee members at all times.

Questions?

John Wall
Rutgers University
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Method of Submission