Research Prof. Laurel Schneider quoted in Publishers Weekly article about 2025 AAR/ABL Annual Meeting
The following is an excerpt from Publishers Weekly article “At AAR/SBL, Religion Scholars Address Issues Ancient and Modern“, featuring Research Professor Laurel Schneider, published on November 26, 2025.
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Next year, the AARSBL joint meeting will be in November in Denver. The incoming president of AAR is Laurel Schneider, a research professor at Boston University School of Theology and author or coauthor of a dozen books including Queer Soul, Queer Theology: Ethics and Redemption in Real Life, with Thelathia Nikki Young (Routledge, 2021). Schneider announced her theme for the Denver meeting —”The Future“—on the AAR website.
“Scholars of religion are uniquely positioned to reflect critically on the modes and capacities of religious and spiritual stories and practices, ancient and new, local and global, to imagine futures beyond despair on the one hand, or superficial hope on the other,” Schneider wrote. “We know how to take seriously the narratives, traditions, and practices that have opened up or delimited our horizons of possibility.”