Call for Submissions
The Journal of Africana Religions
This peer-reviewed journal offers critical analysis of the
religious traditions of African and African Diasporic peoples as well as
religious traditions influenced by the diverse cultural heritage of
Africa. An interdisciplinary journal encompassing history, anthropology, Africana studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, religious studies, and other allied disciplines-and covering the religious traditions of people of African descent throughout the world-the Journal of Africana Religions embraces a variety of humanistic and social scientific methodologies for understanding the social, political, and cultural meanings and functions of Africana religions. We invite authors to examine African traditional religions, Islam, Christianity, new religious movements, and other African and African Diasporic religious expressions and experiences.
For more information on submissions, our prestigious 33-member editorial board, and our purpose and goals, please visit our website:
http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/religious_studies/index.php/joar
The 13th Assembly of the International Association for Mission Studies
August 15–20, 2012 Toronto, Canada
Migration, Human Dislocation, and the Good News:
Margins as the Center in Christian Mission
The IAMS 2012 Toronto Assembly will explore the profound missiological dimensions of human migration and dislocation, past, present, and future. We will attend especially to the many repercussions of widespread contemporary human movement for the theory and practice of Christian mission.
The Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, reflecting the lives of God’s people who were uprooted, exiled, and scattered, feature epic experiences of human mobility like the call to a new land, exodus and resettlement, and the scattering of the early Christians. The last half-millennium has seen the Gospel span the globe, often accompanied by the disenfranchisement and sometimes obliteration of other peoples. Dislocation, compelled and voluntary, continues to characterize our contemporary human story as people cross state boundaries or move within their own countries in search of safety or well-being. Christian mission, often a feature of large-scale movements of peoples, must continue to attend responsibly to these historic global realities.
We welcome papers on mission and diverse aspects of human mobility from across the disciplines. These can touch upon a range of themes including ethnicity, race, gender, HIV-Aids, human rights, violence, poverty, nationalism, other religions, and ecclesiastical tradition. In addition, we urge IAMS Study Group members to prepare papers and share research, especially as these relate to the Assembly’s migration theme.
Study Groups:
Previous study groups have organized around: *Healing and Pneumatology; *Biblical Studies in Mission; *Women in Mission; History; *Interreligious Relations; *Globalization and Mission; *Ethnic Minorities and Mission; Documentation, Archives, Bibliography and Oral History; and Environment and Mission. IAMS welcomes suggestions for other thematic groups, and volunteers for facilitating, organizing and chairing study groups that have been inactive (indicated by an asterisk*) since 2008.
Timeline:
(1) Proposed topic, with 150–200-word abstract, is due by January 31, 2012.
(2) Draft paper is due by June 1, 2012.
Guidelines for writing paper: Papers are not to exceed 4,000 words, including notes. Writers will be expected to strictly adhere to the Style Guide for Mission Studies
http://missionstudies.org/index.php/journal/style-guide-for-mission-studies/
Process governing acceptance of paper: All proposals with abstracts will be carefully reviewed by the IAMS Executive Committee, who will finalize the Toronto program at its 2012 February meeting. Writers will be notified of the committee’s decision before April 1, 2012.
Address all correspondence to:
The Secretariat
International Association for Mission Studies
c/o Church Mission Society
Watlington Road, Oxford OX4 6BZ, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1865 787400
Fax: +44 1865 776375
“Globalization and Global Trends in Christian Higher Education”
The editors of the Christian Scholar's Review invite submissions for a theme issue, “Globalization and Global Trends in Christian Higher Education,” which is scheduled for publication in Summer 2012. Janel M. Curry and Joel Carpenter of Calvin College are guest editors.
Christian higher education has a rich heritage in the United States. Often, this experience is not understood easily by Christian communities outside North America, who assume that Christian higher education is synonymous with Bible colleges or seminaries. Likewise, many parts of the world are experiencing great growth in new, private institutions of higher education grounded in strong faith commitments, yet those of us in North America have little knowledge of the context and shape that these institutions are taking. This issue proposes to broaden our understanding of the contexts, forms, and challenges to faith-based higher education around the world.
Proposed manuscripts are encouraged to address one or more of the following themes:
- Echoes of the past: How is early missions work in higher education reflected in institutions of higher education today in particular regions of the world?
- New Movements: What are the characteristics and trends in terms of new movements in faith-based higher education?
- Governmental oversight: What are the various structures and challenges related to government oversight of higher education and the development of faith-based institutions?
- Visions: What are the differing visions for faith-based higher education? Is it primarily vocational training? Market-driven? Or does it incorporate visions of creating a stronger civil society?
- Changing models: How do larger trends in higher education, such as the University of Phoenix model and on-line strategies, impact the development of faith-based higher education?
- Context: How does context shape all of the above?
- Mutuality: How does the rise of Christianity and now Christian higher education outside of North America affect teaching, scholarship, and campus-wide priorities in North American Christian higher education?
- Finally, we are open to accounts of best practice, examples of reorientations, and personal encounters cross culturally.
Discussion on the appropriateness of manuscript topics with the guest editors is recommended and encouraged through e-mail: jcurry@calvin.edu or jcarpent@calvin.edu. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2011.
