Religion CFPOne Hundred Years of Gabriel García Márquez #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL https://relcfp.com/cfp/literature/latin-american-literature/2026/02/18/garcia-marquez-100/
Afrofuturism in African Literature #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL https://relcfp.com/cfp/african-literature/afrofuturism/2026/02/18/afrofuturism-african-lit/
(In-)Visible Wounds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discrimination and Violence #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL https://relcfp.com/cfp/violence/discrimination/interdisciplinary/2026/02/18/invisible-wounds/
Digging Wells While Houses Burn: Academic Responsibility and the Study of Religion #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL https://relcfp.com/cfp/religion/academia/ethics/2026/02/18/digging-wells-burning-houses/
Digging Wells While Houses Burn: Academic Responsibility and the Study of Religion
In a provocative article titled Digging Wells While Houses Burn (2006), David Gordon White argues that certain studies of religion actively stoke supremacist ideologies and politics. The only way to avoid this unsavoury collaboration is to rethink the way we do our work — the stories we choose to tell, and the methods we use to tell them. According to White, academics of religion who fail to engage with this responsibility are “digging wells while houses burn”, ignoring devastating realities that urgently demand their attention. In this context, we invite scholars of all religions, across all disciplines, to reflect on the relationship between their academic work, on the one hand, and violence and supremacy, on the other.
Christian-Muslim Encounters and Dialogues over the Centuries: The Christian-Muslim Relationship for Bringing Peace and Harmony #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL https://relcfp.com/cfp/religion/interfaith/dialogue/2026/02/18/christian-muslim-encounters/
Christian-Muslim Encounters and Dialogues over the Centuries: The Christian-Muslim Relationship for Bringing Peace and Harmony
The historical relationship between Muslims and Christians dates back to the seventh century C.E., when Islam began to spread throughout the Middle East, Africa, and the Indian subcontinent; by the early eighth century, parts of Europe were under Muslim control. Consequently, this Special Issue seeks to understand Christian–Muslim interactions over the centuries. Recent studies of Syriac texts reveal early interactions between Christians and Muslims, the beginning of centuries of Christian–Muslim dialogues, debates, and perspectives that continue into the present day.
Entangled Encounters: Material and Social Transformations of Religious Communities in Europe #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL https://relcfp.com/cfp/religion/europe/migration/2026/02/18/entangled-encounters/
Entangled Encounters: Material and Social Transformations of Religious Communities in Europe
Since the turn of the millennium, migration to Europe has significantly increased. Individuals have come to this continent often fleeing conflict and political instability as well as seeking improved social and economic wellbeing. For migrants, engagement in religious practice is a key resource in the post-migration period. Religious activities and infrastructure offer practical and spiritual support, as well as being a source of social belonging for newly arriving migrants. These factors often help individuals navigate structural inequalities, for example, facilitating access to social services.
City of Angels: Migration, Encounter, and New Forms of Faith #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL https://relcfp.com/cfp/literature/migration/spirituality/2026/02/18/city-of-angels-mla/
City of Angels: Migration, Encounter, and New Forms of Faith
For this guaranteed session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention, we invite papers focusing on literatures of migration and spirituality. Given the convention’s location in Los Angeles, we especially welcome proposals that consider authors and texts with connections to LA and the city as a site of contact, dialogue, and religious syncretism.
Narratives of Resistance and African Literature: Articulating Dissent, Disobedience and Pluriversal Futures #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL https://relcfp.com/cfp/african-literature/resistance/2026/02/18/african-literature-resistance/
The Handbook of Ecofeminism #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL https://relcfp.com/cfp/feminism/ecology/environment/2026/02/18/handbook-ecofeminism/
The Handbook of Ecofeminism
Chapters for The Handbook of Ecofeminism deadline for submissions: March 1, 2026 full name / name of organization: Nicole C. Dittmer, PhD contact email: [email protected]
Hierarchy and Egality in South Asian Traditions #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL https://relcfp.com/cfp/religion/south-asia/2026/02/18/hierarchy-egality-south-asia/
Hierarchy and Egality in South Asian Traditions
What roles do ‘hierarchy’ and ‘egality’, as values and practices, play in the everyday lives of South Asian traditions? Hierarchy as a value in the social life of Hinduism has been much discussed. Scholarship has tended to contrast a transhistorical Hindu hierarchy with egalitarian elements of Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and Sikh thought in South Asia, framing ubiquitous caste-like social forms among the latter traditions as anomalous. Yet careful studies of everyday life in the religious traditions of South Asia suggest that a far more heterogeneous set of social imaginaries and a far more complex entanglement of hierarchy and egality are, in fact, shaping the trajectory of both inter-caste and inter-religious relations and practices.