Program Unit Online Meeting 2024

Religion, Media, and Culture Unit

Call for Proposals

Cyberhenge Revisited: We welcome paper submissions that discuss the academic impact of Douglas Cowan’s book Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet (2004). We use its anniversary as an occasion to reevaluate the culture and digital religious practices of paganism over the last 20 years. This session would occur virtually during the June 2024 Online AAR Conference, with Cowan in attendance as a special honoree/respondent.

Statement of Purpose

This Unit provides a multidisciplinary forum for exploring the intersections between media and religion. Areas of interest include the participation of religion in digital culture, mediation of religion, the interplay between religious and media communities and between religious and media practices, and the significance of both media and religion in the transformation of religious structures and practices.

Chair	Mail	Dates
Kathryn Reklis	kathryn.reklis@aya.yale…	2019/01/01 - 2024/12/31	View
William Chavez, Stetson University	wchavez@stetson.edu	2024/01/01 - 2029/12/31	View

Steering Member	Mail	Dates
Gloria I-Ling Chien, Gonzaga University	chien@gonzaga.edu	2024/01/01 - 2029/12/31	View
Caroline Matas, Princeton University	cmatas@princeton.edu	2023/01/01 - 2028/12/31	View
Daigengna Duoer	daigengna@ucsb.edu	2024/01/01 - 2029/12/31	View
Jordan Loewen-Colón, Syracuse University	jbloewen@syr.edu	2023/01/01 - 2028/12/31	View
Margarita Simon Guillory, Boston University	mlsg@bu.edu	2020/01/01 - 2025/12/31	View
Sana Patel, University of Ottawa	spate161@uottawa.ca	2023/01/01 - 2028/12/31	View
Laurel Zwissler, Central Michigan University	Zwiss1l@cmich.edu	2024/01/01 - 2029/12/31	View

Review Process: Participant names are visible to chairs but anonymous to steering committee members until after final acceptance/rejection