I have never been to a meeting of the American Academy of Religion. I don’t usually run with the religious studies crowd, but as a historian of American religion and a person of faith I am often interested in what...
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David Krueger From the AAR: "Religion Scholars, Public Voices, and Making a Living"
We are pleased to have David Krueger writing for us from the American Academy of Religion annual meeting (which ended today). Krueger is an independent scholar of history, religion, and American culture. He helps other scholars reach the public as […]
Mary Beth Connolly: "A Historian Walks into a Religion and Theology Conference and…."
Cross-posted from One Solid ComfortIn another post from the floor of the American Academy of Religion annual meeting, Mary Beth Connolly discusses her experience as a historian at a religion conference. This post was originally written for her blog One Solid Comfort. We...
Andrew Henry: Careers Beyond the Academy: Another Plan A
Andrew Henry is back, reporting from the floor of the American Academy of Religion meeting in Atlanta. See his previous post here.–JF Careers Beyond the Academy: Another Plan A Lest I rehearse a tired refrain, I’ll simply say: Tenure-track positions […]
John Wilsey Reflects on Day 1 of the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
John Wilsey of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary offers another dispatch from the American Academy of Religion meeting in Atlanta. Check out his first report here. It was a busy day—after lunch on Saturday, I went back to the book display...
Mary Beth Connolly Checks In With Some Thoughts on the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
Cross-posted from One Solid ComfortMary Beth Connolly teaches history at Purdue University-North Central and was formerly Assistant Director of the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts at Valparaiso University. She is the author of Women of Faith: The...
John Wilsey Checks in From the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
John Wilsey teaches history and philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Houston, Texas. John’s most recent book is American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Ideal. He blogs at To Breathe Your Free Air. We are thrilled...