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Religion and American Culture Caucus
Advisory Board: Kelly Baker (chair), Rebecca Barrett-Fox (co-chair), Matt Hedstrom, Tracy Fessenden, Mark Hulsether, Greg Jackson, Kip Kosek, Kathryn Lofton, Sally Promey
We are pleased to welcome you to the Religion and American Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association. We invite and encourage all ASA members who are interested in exploring the place of religion in American life, and promoting the study and teaching of religion within American Studies, to join.
In recent years scholarship in American religion has taken a decidedly American Studies turn, as older paradigms emphasizing institutional histories and dominant groups have given way to newer approaches that focus less on official religion and more on religion as it is lived and practiced. These newer approaches are multidisciplinary, encompassing, for example, popular culture, visual and media studies, material culture, and cultural geography, and often emphasizing themes of sexuality, gender, race, region, class, and transnationalism.
We hope the caucus will serve as a forum for scholars in American Studies—and those looking for an institutional home—to meet, generate future ASA panels, and discuss research and teaching in this rapidly changing field.
As a caucus we hope to not only address the needs of current ASA members, but to also encourage new members to join by providing them a home within the association. In addition to serving members whose work is primarily in the field of American religion, we also hope to serve as a resource for members whose primary focus lies elsewhere, but who find themselves addressing some aspect of religion in their work.
Please explore this site to learn more about what we do, including sponsoring panels, a best paper prize, and on-going collaborative projects related to research and teaching.
Contacts: Kelly Baker, kbaker27@utk.edu
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Business Meeting Agenda
Below is the agenda for our business meeting on Friday, October 12. Come ready, in particular, to discuss nominations for the new Caucus Advisory Board, and a theme for our 2008 sponsored panel.
—Matt Hedstrom
I. Introductions
II. Discussion: Current issue of American Quarterly
III. Nominations for Caucus Advisory Board
IV. Sponsored panel for 2008
a. Theme: pre-select? wait for submissions?
i. Proposal submission process
ii. Call for Papers deadline
b. Final selection process
V. New business
a. Events at ASA 2008?
b. Bibliography project
c. Other new business
VI. Best Paper Prize Presentation: David Harrington Watt, selection committee
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Business Meeting and the new issue of AQ
First, I’d like to remind everyone that the caucus business meeting will take place on Friday, October 12, at 5pm, in the Philadelphia Marriott, room 501. Please come with any ideas you want to bring to the caucus.
Also, I’d like to recommend that everyone take a look at the new issue of American Quarterly, which is now available online and which should arrive in the mail very shortly. I’d like to take some time at the meeting to discuss the Introduction in particular, which lays out in some very useful ways the points of engagement between American studies and religious studies. Take a look:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/toc/aq59.3.html
See you all on Friday the 12th.
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4th Annual Best Paper Prize
The Religion and American Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association is pleased to announce its fourth annual best paper prize. Any paper that examines religion in the United States, broadly understood, and is on the program of the national American Studies Association meeting in Philadelphia is eligible for the award.
Papers should be submitted electronically to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by September 21. Papers should be double-spaced, in a 12pt font and contain full citations.
The winner will be selected by a jury of three scholars in the field and will be announced at the caucus meeting on Friday, October 12, at 5pm. The meeting will take place at the Philadelphia Marriott, Room 501.
The prize, a two-year subscription to _Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation_, has been generously provided by the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IUPUI.
If you have any questions, please contact Matt Hedstrom (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) or Danielle Sigler (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
New Blog: Religion in American History
Check out this new blog in our field: http://usreligion.blogspot.com/
Welcome
Welcome to the caucus. Please feel free to make use of this blog space to make announcements of interest to this community of scholars.
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