By Brandi Denison and Brett Hendrickson
We’re proposing a new AAR group and we need your help!
As many of you know, this blog grew out of a 5-year long
seminar that met at the annual American Academy of Religion conference. This
seminar is meeting for this last time next month.
Thanks to the hard work of the co-chairs, Quincy Newell and
Jim Bennett and the steering committee, Tisa Wenger, Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Sara Patterson, and Roberto Lint Sagarena, those of us researching and
teaching in this area have a place to meet like-minded scholars. We know that
we are not the only ones who have benefitted immensely from the seminar’s
discussions.
We’re not ready to end the conversation this year and we
hope you aren’t either. That’s why we’re currently working on a proposal for a
new group. Unlike a seminar, a group does not have a limit on the number of
years it can meet.
In order to help us make the case for the new group, we need
letters of support from current AAR members. Please take 5 minutes to compose a
letter, indicting your interest in and support of this group and email it to
either b.denison@unf.edu or hendribr@lafayette.edu.
If you have ideas about the directions that this group could take in future
sessions, please submit those as well.
Let’s keep this conversation going!
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