Call for Papers: AAR Practical Theology Group
Many APT members and friends are affiliated with the American Academy of Religion. The Call for Papers for the AAR’s Annual Meeting has now been posted, and the AAR’s Practical Theology Group has the following call (pasted below). You can find the Call, and submission information, online here. * 2015 Practical Theology Group Call for […]
"Getting Started" in Practical Theology?
From time to time, colleagues or students ask me for a reference to a good, readable, basic introduction to practical theology. In my view, the recent compendium edited by Bonnie Miller-McLemore, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), is the best single-volume book in English that shows the scope and complexity of varieties of […]
Practical Matters: Call for Submissions on "Sacred Places, Sacred Journeys"
The journal Practical Matters has issued this call: Practical Matters: A Journal of Religious Practices & Practical Theology Home Call for Submissions: Sacred Places, Sacred Journeys Practical Matters is now accepting submissions on religious practices and practical theology for 2015-2016. The journal will features articles on the theme of religious place-making, sacred spaces, and displacement […]
"Journey Through NYC Religions"
As practical theology in the USA continues to deepen its engagement with religious diversity, in other words, as practical theology complicates, enriches, and refigures its Christian heritage, toward a more robust emplacement in religio-secular diversity in the present, I’ve found that it helps to have a ready resource for keeping up with religion in one’s […]
Botanicas, Religion, and Healing in the Bronx
Over the next year, this blog will have a lot of information about the next Biennial Meeting of the Association of Practical Theology. That conference will be held at Fordham University in New York City from 8-10 April of 2016. (Mark your calendars!) As a way of whetting our collective appetites for the conference, I […]