Religion and Cities Unit
Emergent Scholarly Practice in Local and Urban Religion (Online Session)
We seek papers that utilize innovative scholarly approaches to local and urban religion. Papers may employ cutting-edge methods that are in-person (eg. ethnography, oral history, archival research); digital (archiving, mapping, and spatial analysis); or publicly-engaged (eg. public humanities, theology, etc). Papers may focus on the city capaciously by interpreting built and social contexts as city space beyond conventional usage, including the local, urban, or public. We encourage approaches that disrupt, problematize, or reimagine the distinctions between research, pedagogy, and activism. For example, papers might explore collaborative knowledge production, community-based research practices, and scholar-practitioner conversations, responsibilities, and ethics.
This unit engages in critical analysis of ecological relationships between religion and cities. We are interested in exploring the cooperative and conflicting relationships between cities across the globe and their religious communities in the struggle for social justice, especially in response to racial capitalism and settler colonialism. Our work is interdisciplinary and includes scholars from Religious Studies, History, Anthropology, Social Ethics & Urban Sociology, Architecture & Urban Planning, and Gender Studies.
| Chair | Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Dunar, Albertus Magnus College | Edunar@albertus.edu | - | View |
| Fatimah Fanusie | fanusie@icjs.org | - | View |