Class, Religion, and Theology Unit

Proposals in response to the calls below should clearly indicate how consideration of class inequalities and dynamics shapes the paper's analysis or conclusions and/or how the paper foregrounds issues of class, labor, or workers (while recognizing their intersections with other dimensions of inequality).

General Call: We invite paper or panel proposals that explore the role of class, labor, and/or worker issues in religious communities and traditions or the significance of class, labor, and worker issues in the study of religion and theology or address major questions in the study of class, labor, or workers.

Special Emphases This Year: While open to any proposals relevant to the general call, this year we especially welcome paper or panel proposals addressing the following:

• Relationships between structures violence & capital/profit;
• Forces that obstruct or undermine class solidarity, solidarity among workers, solidarity between working-class and middle-class people;
• Impact of new technologies on workers, class inequality, and/or capitalism;
• Capitalism as a religion;
• Class and labor within global structures of capitalism;
• Cooperative economy or cooperative movements (both religiously and non-religiously affiliated);
• How capitalism/worker exploitation and White supremacy/anti-Blackness reinforce and sustain each other.