Volume 5 / Issue 02, August 2012, pp 221 – 500
Online on 30th July 2012
Author Archives: Ricardo M. Barrera
Call for Proposals from Paul A. Djupe – SPSA
Dear APSA Section Members,
I am the Religion and Politics program chair for the Southern Political Science Association this year and I'd like to invite you to submit a proposal and join me in Orlando, Florida from January. 3-5, 2013. I have no particular agenda for this meeting other than to assemble high quality panels for you to deliver your work, have engaging conversations, and gain valuable feedback.
As usual, the SPSA is open to a wide variety of formats beyond traditional panels, including author meets critics, topical roundtables, or anything else you can dream up. One innovation is the conference within a conference, in which participants gather at a variety of panels and have conversations around specific themes. I'm open to just about anything.
The online submission system is now open through **August 9**.
The conference is January 3-5, 2013 in Orlando, Florida.
The swank conference hotel is the Peabody Orlando (it has a duck on the outside):
Please consider submitting a proposal for a paper or panel.
Regards,
Paul A. Djupe
Journal Co-editor, Politics & Religion
Department of Political Science
Denison University
Granville, OH 43023
Western Political Science Association Invites Participants for 2013 Meeting
The WPSA is planning its 2013 Annual Meeting scheduled for March 28-30, 2013, at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood, California.
Information regarding the program and additional WPSA news is found here. Please note that the deadline for submission of participation forms is September 17, 2012. The forms will be available in early June for submission.
Of possible interest to Religion & Politics Section members:
Section 15: Politics and History
Section Chairs:
Daniel HoSang
University of Oregon
dhosang@uoregon.edu
and
Joe Lowndes
University of Oregon
jlowndes@uoregon.edu
The section welcomes proposals for papers or panels covering the broad scope of the study of politics, policy and institutions using historical perspectives to address issue areas of contemporary concern. In particular, the section encourages submissions from scholars whose work focuses on developmental themes related to major political processes including institutional reform and policy change and concepts, such as democratization, citizenship, political representation, and political parties. We especially encourage research that locates American political development in comparative and historical frameworks and that addresses the intersection of major group identities, such as race, class, gender, and religion.
Letter from Paul Djupe, Co-editor, Politics & Religion (Section Journal)
Dear APSA Religion & Politics section members,
This is a brief update with some great news about our section’s journal, Politics & Religion.
First, we are excited to announce that beginning Friday, April 6th, Politics & Religion will be run through Editorial Manager which is used by the other leading APSA journals. All submissions, reviews, and other journal correspondence will be conducted through this online system. This will make the publication process more transparent for all those involved and enable a more efficient review process. We, as co-editors, will have access to contact information of APSA members and their corresponding research interests which will facilitate the location of appropriate reviewers. If you are not registered with the editorial manager system already or you wish to submit a manuscript, please do so by following this link:
Second, we can report that the journal is healthy:
Submissions are up from this period last year (24 through March, compared to 16 in 2011) and response times on new submissions reflect the standards set by leading political science journals.
As you may be aware, the journal is now published three times per year (with 7 articles per issue), but in 2013 this will increase to four times per year (with 8 articles per issue). Moving to a quarterly publication will expedite publication of articles and ensure that the journal reflects the most current research.
In addition, from July 2012, articles accepted for publication will appear online at the Politics & Religion Cambridge website. This early online access before publication should encourage authors to place work with the journal. Moreover, Cambridge generously granted us 4 additional articles across the last two issues of volume 5 this year to help publish accepted articles faster.
We are very excited about the new developments for Politics & Religion and hope you are too. Please continue to evangelize about Politics & Religion as an outlet for research and send us your best work on religion and politics.
Sincerely,
Angelia Wilson and Paul Djupe, coeditors
Politics & Religion
Article: How does religion matter? Pathways to religion in International Relations
Review of International Studies, April 2012, Vol. 38, Issue 02
by MONA KANWAL SHEIKH
Abstract
This article contributes to the growing subfield of research on religion and International Relations (IR) by discussing ways to take substantial and sui generis aspects of religion into account. It is argued that IR scholars need more critical methodological and conceptual reflection on how to integrate religion in order to navigate between two typical analytical positions: either focusing on the instrumental relevance of religion only or treating religion as an unchangeable meta-category and delinking it from its practitioners or context. The article first discusses why there is a need to be attentive to distinctive aspects of religion and then moves on to scrutinise three IR-relevant pathways to include these aspects of religion in analysis, namely religion as belief community, religion as power, and religion as speech act. It appears that future research along these lines can contribute significantly to the way IR scholars habitually think about key issues such as parameters of behaviour, standards of legitimacy, and the dynamics of conflicts.