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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.
Within the American Academy of Religion (AAR), he is co-chair of the Buddhist Theological Reflection Group and a faculty instructor for the AAR's Summer Seminars on Religious Pluralism and Comparative Theology.
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. [1]: 791 It is generally considered the flagship journal for the field of religious studies.
In 2013, Peace co-founded the Interfaith and Interreligious Studies Unit of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) with Homayra Ziad. [9] [13] The organization has grown and has fostered the development of Interreligious Studies as a field of research in the Academy. Following on the success of the AAR unit, Peace established the Association of ...
1 Wikipedia:Meetup, Women in Religion Edit-a-thon hosted by American Academy of Religion_Western Division March 18, 2022 at 9:30 - 11:30 Pacific Time 2 Welcome! 3 Contents
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 ...
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]
The journal came out of the American Academy of Religion (AAR)'s NRM program unit. [5] The name was chosen to include both historical "new religions" and modern ones, given the controversial nature of naming in the field itself. [2]