Practical Theology Unit – AAR – Call for Proposals

Call for Proposals The Work of Our Hands: What does Practical Theology have to say about “decent work”? According to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal #8, “sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all” (https://sdgs.un.org/goals) is a driver for progress worldwide. Last year, the Practical Theology Unit […]

CALL FOR PAPERS 2022: Colonization, Christianity and Commerce: The Afterlives of Slavery in the Trans Atlantic World

Ministerial Complex, Monrovia, Liberia. October 17-19, 2022 An International Conference jointly organized by Princeton Theological Seminary, NJ.; Howard University School of Divinity, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington, D.C. USA; and The University of Liberia, Monrovia.   CALL FOR PAPERS 2022 Colonization, Christianity and Commerce: The Afterlives of Slavery […]

2022 AAR Call for Papers for Practical Theology & Ecclesial Practices

The AAR Call for Papers for the Practical Theology and Ecclesial Practices Units are up and accepting proposals!  See https://papers.aarweb.org/pu/practical-theology-unit for specific topics. The deadline for the Call for Proposals is Tuesday, March 1, 2022, 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. The 2022 AAR and SBL Annual Meetings will be held November 19-22, in Denver, CO.

Practical Theology Unit and the Association for Practical Theology

Learnings from the Pandemic: Implications of Adapting and Inventing Ecclesial Practices for COVID-19 Sabrina Mueller, Zurich University, Presiding Katherine Turpin, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Since the beginning of 2020, a global pandemic has occurred due to COVID-19. Important health measures have curtailed life as normal in many ways. Church practices have also been directly […]

AAR 2021 Call for Papers – Practical Theology Group & APT Joint Session

Learnings from the pandemic: Implications of Adapting and Inventing Ecclesial Practices for COVID  Practical Theology Group Co-sponsor: Association for Practical Theology Since the beginning of 2020, a global pandemic has occurred due to COVID-19. Important health measures have curtailed life as normal in many ways. Church practices have also been directly affected by these measures, […]

Call for Manuscripts – Theology in Practice Series (Brill)

Theology in Practice extends the horizons of the discipline and scholarship of practical theology. It promises to enrich the academic discourse and supply material of interest to scholars and professional graduate students. Books in the series will be in conversation with scholarship in the discipline and reflect engagement with diverse voices in the field (e.g., […]

2020 American Academy of Religion Conference Call of Papers

  Call for Proposals for the APT session at AAR in November 2020 is live, with a deadline of March 2, 2020. Proposals can be submitted through the AAR’s PAPERS portal. https://papers.aarweb.org/content/welcome Here is the call: The Association for Practical Theology seeks proposals sharing critical and constructive approaches to teaching practical theology in online and […]

Call for Papers: Journal of Disability and Religion

Journal of Disability and Religion Call for Papers for focused issue on Jean Vanier. See last line for addressing questions. The Journal of Disability and Religion (Brian Brock and guest editor Benjamin Wall, SITD’s 2017 Jean Vanier Scholar) is inviting contributions to a special issue focusing on “Jean Vanier” (which will appear February 2020). This […]