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2024 Annual Meeting

San Diego, California

Meeting Begins11/23/2024
Meeting Ends11/26/2024

Call for Papers Opens: 1/24/2024
Call for Papers Closes: 3/20/2024

Requirements for Participation

Redescribing Christian Origins


Program Unit Type: Seminar
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Redescribing Christian Origins Seminar invites a broad range of submissions that consider the relationship between supremacist ideologies and Christian origins. Potential submissions might interrogate the supremacist rhetoric and ideologies that appear in the texts and traditions of formative Christianity as well as Christians’ reception and redeployment of such rhetoric and ideologies. We welcome papers that center questions of gender and/or sexuality, race and/or ethnicity, supersessionism, empire, dis/ability and all other forms of supremacist discourse. The second seminar, jointly organized with the North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR), will feature a retrospective on the legacy of Jonathan Z. Smith and specifically, the influence of Drudgery Divine on the study of early Christianity. First published in 1994, this year marks the 30th anniversary of Drudgery Divine. Invited panelists will offer short reflections on various aspects of Smith’s work and intellectual legacy. This set of reflections will be followed by a larger discussion, in which we warmly encourage audience participation. Our third panel is an open call. We encourage all submissions related to the scholarly redescription of Christian origins. Papers from early career scholars are especially welcome.

Program Unit Chairs

Jennifer Eyl
Christopher B. Zeichmann

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