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Call for Publications Theme: Globalization and Theories of Religion Publication: Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory Date: Special Issue Deadline: 1.9.2012 __________________________________________________ In the past two decades the phrase “globalization” has been used increasingly and extensively to describe, characterize, or villify the current state of world affairs. The expression early on had primarily an economic, and to a certain extent a “neo-liberal”, set of connotations. But increasingly the word has come to be used to theorize a wide and diverse range of interrelated global trends, tendencies, and phenomena that are not only economic, but social, cultural, and political. The notion that specific religions, or religion as a whole, are becoming qualitatively different in this new “globalized” setting has been advanced by such well-known European philosophers as Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Olivier Roy. Different conclusions have also been drawn by thinkers who represent the emerging world or the so-called “global south.” This special issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory seeks article submissions that address the broader problem of globalization and religion. It also seeks shorter, critical, and reflective essays (2000-4000 words) that deal with one or more of the following questions: - What do we really mean by the expression “globalization”? - How are the varied and complex theories of globalization affecting theories of religion as a whole? - In what ways have different world or indigenous religions become “globalized”? And what has been the short-term or long-term effect on them? - What is the shape of the emerging world order and how does it significantly challenge, or change, our understanding of the idea of “religion”, or the importance of religion, within the various disciplinary, subdisciplinary, and interdisciplinary matrices? - In what measures can and should theories of religion be integrated with current or prevailing theories of globalization (social, cultural, political, economic, social, etc.), and what priority should they be given? - How can the new forms of “political theology” be leveraged to illuminate and perhaps answer more discerningly many of the foregoing questions? - What insights do certain prominent and widely recognized philosophers and religious theorists or theorists – postmodern, postcolonial, “decolonial”, etc. – have to say, either explicitly or implicity, about the question of globalization. Deadline: September 1, 2012 Contact: Carl Raschke Email: [email protected] Web: http://ww.jcrt.org __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
