Call for papers: This year, the EI Group will have four sessions. Full details follow below and further details can be found here.
This year the EI Group seeks proposals for the following themes:
- The power and authority of women in the Church from diverse confessional, theological, social-scientific, and geographical perspectives. Proposals are encouraged that explore various forms of women’s agency and influence in churches by ordained or nonordained, and the limitations that are placed upon them. Consideration may be given to demographic and cross-generational shifts of women between churches (and religions) and the exodus of women from churches. Reflection on the witness of women from the global South would be welcomed, including from women in base communities and members of Pentecostal and Evangelical traditions. Constructive proposals in ecclesiology and practical theology would be given serious consideration
- The managerial turn and the thinning of denominational identity — consider and assess the fate of denominational and confessional identity of churches at the present moment. There are manifestations of an increasing denominational awareness in some churches, but also a managerial turn, a new form of bureaucratization, in certain churches that are having an adverse “thinning” effect on the identity and mission of the church. Paper proposals are invited that will offer an analysis and evaluation of this managerial turn and the weakening and transformations of traditional denominational identities; these may include assessments on the effects of these changes on the church’s ministry and public mission in the civic arena
- For a cosponsored session with the Vatican II Studies Group, the ecclesiological paradigm shift of Vatican II and its ecumenical implications, with particular attention to the relationship between the local and universal dimensions of the Church. Topics on other relevant issues related to Vatican II studies are also welcomed
The AAR submission system will open January 22, 2013. The deadline for submissions is March 1. Submissions can only be accepted via the methods instructed on the EI AAR Call page.
