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Call for Publications Theme: Religion, Conflict and Peace Publication: Practical Matters List-Post: [email protected] Date: Issue 5 Deadline: 1.9.2011 __________________________________________________ "Practical Matters" is now seeking submissions on the theme of Religion, Violence and Peace. As part of this next issue, we are eager to accept submissions from scholars and practitioners outside of the United States, as well as scholars looking at issues of nationalism in regards to religion, violence and peacemaking. For more information, please see: http://www.practicalmattersjournal.org/submissions "Practical Matters" is an online, multimedia, transdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal designed to ask and provoke questions about religious practice and practical theology. "Practical Matters" is funded by a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and published out of the Emory University Graduate Division of Religion. The fifth issue of "Practical Matters" will explore the intersections of violence and peace, which have emerged as valuable and exciting places for interdisciplinary research and dialogue. The submission deadline is September 1, 2011. We are interested in featuring work on topics including but not limited to... - Ethnographic, historical, theological, sociological, political scientific or philosophical studies of the role of religion in causing and responding to conflict, violence, and peacebuilding, as well as studies looking at the role of nationalism and the nationstate - Explorations of the various resources available to religious communities of the past and present that contribute to both violence and peace, such as ritual, theology, and spiritual practices - Explorations, both normative and descriptive, of the ways modern globalization and dynamics of interreligious contact contribute to both conflict and peacebuilding - Pedagogical reflections on teaching subjects such as conflict transformation, peacebuilding, interreligious dialogue, reconciliation, and religious violence - "On the ground" reflections of practitioners engaged in practices of religious peacebuilding and conflict transformation - The ways in which classic questions of religion and violence, religion and peacebuilding, and just war and pacifism are being addressed and reformulated today. We especially encourage multimedia and interdisciplinary pieces of original scholarship. The submission deadline is September 1, 2011. You can find the submission guidelines and some clarification on the different types of pieces published in the journal here: http://www.practicalmattersjournal.org/submissions __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
