COV&R at the American Academy of Religion

Call for Proposals is now available. Proposals are due on March 1.

The Colloquium on Violence & Religion welcomes both individual paper proposals and panel proposals around the following topics:

mimetic readings of populism and political conflict
mimetic analysis of “inauthentic victimhood”; what might this mean, and how might one discern it?
the relationship between the thought of René Girard and contemporary theology and religious studies, for example, concerning the theology of mercy and black theologies of liberation
responses to recent books (preferably with author or editor commitment), including but not limited to: Violence, the Sacred, and Things Hidden: A Discussion with Girard at Esprit (1973), Chris Haw’s Monotheism, Intolerance, and the Path to Pluralistic Politics, and Wolfgang Palaver’s Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness: Reflecting on Violence and Religion with René Girard