Call for Papers: September 11th and Religion--Journal Issue
Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2001
Crossings: A Counter-Disciplinary Journal of Philosophical, Cultural,
Historical, and Literary Studies solicits essay responses to September
11th, 2001. Though Crossings does not wish to align definitively the
attacks on the US with any particular religious faith, we believe the
events of September 11th speak with dire urgency to contemporary
religion as a question of use. We therefore seek essays that respond to
September 11th by raising questions of religious law, social justice,
and the faiths and knowledges informing global economic sovereignty.
Since September 11th the Bush administration has employed a rhetoric of
instrumentality, intentionality, and US exceptionalism bearing important
similarities to the Johnson adminstration's rhetoric during the
undeclared Vietnam war. Because this rhetoric seems to inform official
US language concerning possible strikes on Afghanistan or other
predominantly Muslim states, we consider it our responsibility to
amplify our previous questions addressing "the uses of religion" and to
issue a brief list of topics (below) emphasizing possibilties for
re-thinking religion--whether Muslim jihad or American jeremiad--in the
context of current global power struggles.
--human rights and religious fundamentalist militarism
--religious nationalism and ethnic hatred
--religious intellectualism and presumptions upon authenticity, upon alterity
--bearing witness to violence; representations of trauma
--terrorism and religious subjection
--crusades, jeremiads, missions
--divine rights to history; historical justice
--religion and decolonization
--Taliban law and society; religious extremism
--Israeli--Palestinian violence; boundaries between terror and martyrdom
--Protestant-Catholic terrorism (northern Ireland)
--gender and religious law
--suicidal or heroic sacrifices
--religion and ethnicity; religion and race
--religion and "subaltern" histories
--terrorism and resistance to global capitalist hegemony
--the apocalyptic character of mass destruction
--religious interpretations of historical crises
--religious violence against systems and symbols of the military-industrial
--religion and peace movements
Send manuscript submissions of 2,500 or more words to:
Michael M. Logan
Editor, CROSSINGS
Dept. of English, General Literature, and Rhetoric
State University of New York, Binghamton
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
E-mail submissions may be sent to xings@binghamton.edu.
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