23/08/2022
Call for Papers for the inaugural issue of a new journal, Indigenous Religious Traditions (IRT), published by Equinox. Btw, the photo of the volume Religious Traditions in Five Minutes is an awesome work that should be out in October, but not to be confused with IRT. That is just Equinox promoting their books. But hey, you should buy it! Top religious scholars have edited and contributed to RT in 5.
But . . . back to IRT. Read on, good folks . . .
For the journal’s inaugural Call for Papers, we especially encourage contributions that take stock and set agendas for where we today in the study of Indigenous religious traditions, including the following:
1. There are a great number of Indigenous groups in the world (370–500 million individuals belonging to around 5,000 distinct groups in more than 90 countries according to the United Nations, Amnesty International, and UNESCO). Why is this important to recognize?
2. What exactly do we mean by “indigenous”; why do we use it; and why should we acknowledge the terms used in other areas of the world (First Peoples, Aboriginal, etc.). The United Nations famously refuses to define “indigenous peoples” because as per the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, “self-identification as indigenous is considered a fundamental criterion. The Declaration refers to their right to determine their own identity or membership in accordance with their customs and traditions.” Be that as it may, we can draw attention to the ways that different groups determine this point. Why is this important to recognize? How might the forms of recognition overlap or differ? How are they changing? What are the variables that shape recognition (tourism, heritage, the arts, education, the media, jurisprudence, censuses, INGOs such as UNESCO, etc.)?
3. Why “religious traditions” and not “Indigenous religions?”
4. What term(s), if any, do Indigenous peoples have in their respective languages for the set of beliefs and practices that might be termed “religion” in English? What could an analysis of such terms contribute to our general understanding of religion, or to the ongoing debate on how to best define it, given the considerable diversity of this human activity? The Kanaka ʻŌiwi (i.e., “Hawaiians”) provide a striking example of how an Indigenous people’s rationale for, or understanding of “religion”, can differ markedly from Christian understandings of the same. The Hawaiian word for Kanaka ʻŌiwi “religion” is “Hoʻomana” (noun) and hoʻomana (verb)—to generate, bestow, increase mana.
5. The religion vs. spirituality debate. Why is it important to recognize what Indigenous peoples do as religion? What is at stake?
6. The role and impact of scholars and academia in what we recognize now as coloniality within academia.
The editor of IRT seeks papers that engage with these issues. We also invite the submission of book reviews on related titles published within the past 3 years. Completed articles (approximately 6,000-9,000 words, written in English) are due by September 1, 2022. Publication of the inaugural issue is planned for July 2023. Submitted articles must include an abstract, keywords, a short biography, the author’s affiliation and use Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition. Questions regarding this issue and any other aspect of IRT may be directed to Seth Schermerhorn ([email protected]).
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/IRT/announcement/view/274.
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