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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

Inventing Christianity: Apostolic Fathers, Apologists, and Martyrs


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: For the 2024 Annual Meeting, Inventing Christianity invites submissions for four panels: 1.Food Rituals and the Invention of Early Christianity: For our first session, we invite submissions related to food and the invention of Christianity in the second and third centuries. We are especially interested in studies of food and foodways that examine the development of Christian eating practices. Areas of examination might include environmental, cultural, doctrinal, or institutional influences. The session is open to any aspect of food ritual as sites of Christian self-definition and differentiation. 2. Beyond Orthodoxy/Heresy (Joint Session with Development of Early Christian Theology): For our second session, organized by the joint efforts of the Inventing Christianity and Development of Early Christian Theology Sections, we invite papers on the theme of “Beyond Orthodoxy/Heresy,” with a focus on the second and third centuries. For this session, we welcome papers that propose alternative paradigms for reconstructing early Christian culture and theology, and which trouble, nuance, or reconsider current scholarly models of “orthodoxy”, “heresy,” and the orthodoxy/heresy binary. 3. Jerusalem: For our third session, we invite papers on Inventing Christianity in Jerusalem. Papers may engage with the theme of Jerusalem as a site of controversy or pilgrimage, as a real or idealized space, as an element of early Christian ritual and liturgical practice, or as a theoretical or theological concept in early Christian writings. 4.Open Call. Our fourth session is an open call session, and welcomes proposals on any topic related to the theme of “Inventing Christianity” in the second or third centuries. We especially welcome proposals that feature the Apostolic Fathers, early Christian apologists, and/or early Christian martyrdom accounts.

Program Unit Chairs

Travis Proctor
Shaily Shashikant Patel

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