Call for Submissions to Practical Matters
Call for Submissions to Practical Matters
Issue 11: Migrations
Deadline: October 1, 2017
Practical Matters is now accepting submissions on religious practices and practical theology for Issue 11. The journal will feature articles on the theme of “Migrations.” You can follow this link for the Call for Papers. Founded in 2007, Practical Matters is a cutting edge project in digital publishing funded by the Lilly Endowment and sponsored by the Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology at Emory University.
In the last thirty years, theoretical frameworks across disciplines have emphasized mobility over more static conceptions of place. New metaphors of displacement, border crossings, nomads, transculturalism, diaspora, and migration reflect a world in motion. People are moving across distances both great and small as immigrants, political or economic refugees, and seasonal or temporary laborers. These individuals migrate with objects, practices, beliefs, theories, and cultures. In the midst of this motion, religion shapes and is shaped by these migrants, the places they have left behind, and the ones they enter into.
Potential topics may include but are not limited to: religious practices created or used by migrating individuals and communities, the movement of religious practices themselves, the role of religion in local as well as global migrations, religious practices across local, national, and religious borders, and the work of religious institutions in the refugee crisis religion as a source of agency for migrants.
Practical Matters continues to seek submissions that promote the dialogue between religious studies and practical theology through scholarship on religious traditions as embodied in religious practices, methods for engaging research questions that emerge in and about religious communities, theories of practice and praxis, and structures of scholarship that allow for more robust interactions between academic institutions and religious practitioners. We invite contributions on or from any religious or spiritual tradition as well as from any theoretical position or discipline. The journal includes both peer-reviewed articles (Features and Analyzing Matters) as well as non-peer reviewed content that presents the thoughtful reflections of teachers and practitioners (Practicing Matters and Teaching Matters). Practical Matters accepts submissions that incorporate a variety of media and genres.
For any additional information, please contact with the Issue Editor Eunil David Cho at pm.issue.editor@emory.edu.
Practical Matters Journal Website: http://practicalmattersjournal.org/