Practical Matters, a journal of religious practices and practical theology published by Emory University, has issued a call for submissions for their upcoming issue titled "Violence and Peace." We are especially interested in receiving submissions from those in the field Anthropology of Religion. Will you please forward the following to all affiliated faculty and staff? Any direct questions can be sent to James McCarty ([log in to unmask]) or Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon ([log in to unmask]). Thank you.
Call for Submissions for Fifth Issue
Violence and Peace, Spring 2012
Practical Matters is now seeking submissions on the theme of Violence and Peace. Practical Matters is an online, multimedia, transdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal designed to ask and provoke questions about religious practice and practical theology. Practical Matters is funded by a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and published out of the Emory University Graduate Division of Religion.
The fifth issue of Practical Matters will explore the intersections of violence and peace, which have emerged as valuable and exciting places for interdisciplinary research and dialogue. The submission deadline is September 1, 2011.
We are interested in featuring work on topics including but not limited to...
Ethnographic, historical, theological, or philosophical studies of the role of religion in causing and responding to conflict, violence, and peacebuilding;
Explorations of the various resources available to religious communities of the past and present that contribute to both violence and peace, such as ritual, theology, and spiritual practices;
Explorations, both normative and descriptive, of the ways modern globalization and dynamics of interreligious contact contribute to both conflict and peacebuilding;
Pedagogical reflections on teaching subjects such as conflict transformation, peacebuilding, interreligious dialogue, reconciliation, and religious violence;
"On the ground" reflections of practitioners engaged in practices of religious peacebuilding and conflict transformation;
The ways in which classic questions of religion and violence, religion and peacebuilding, and just war and pacifism are being addressed and reformulated today.
We especially encourage multimedia and interdisciplinary pieces of original scholarship. The submission deadline is September 1, 2011.
You can find the submission guidelines and some clarification on the different types of pieces published in the journal here: http://www.practicalmattersjournal.org/submissions.
|