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The American Academy of Religion (AAR) is the world's largest association of scholars in the field of religious studies and related topics. It is a nonprofit member association, serving as a professional and learned society for scholars involved in the academic study of religion.
The JAAR was established in 1966, and like the AAR itself, emphasizes a more inclusive religious studies approach to religion (that may encompass history, philosophy, and theology) rather than a narrower approach emphasizing only social science.
Sullivan received the AAR Book Award for Excellence in the analytical-descriptive studies category in 2015. [4] In 2017, she was nominated for the 2018 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. [4] She won The Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion in 2017, which was awarded by the American Academy of Religion. [4]
WikiProject 1000 Women in Religion is a major initiative of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature (AAR/SBL) Women's Caucus. The project aims to address the under-recognized work of cis and transgender women in the world's religious, spiritual and wisdom traditions by adding 1,000+ women in religion onto Wikipedia.
Townes served as the president of the American Academy of Religion in 2008, and the president of the Society for the Study of Black Religion from 2012–2016. [2] In 2022, Townes was elected as the 2025 president of the Society of Christian Ethics. She will become the society's first Black woman president. [3]
Marty served as president of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church History, and the American Catholic Historical Association. He was the founding president and later the George B. Caldwell Scholar-in-Residence at the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics.
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She attended her first American Academy of Religion (AAR) conference in 1970 and was dismayed by the lack of women present. She didn't attend the conference in 1971, but Carol P. Christ , Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza , and other women created a women's caucus, a working group on women and religion, and elected the first woman president of the ...