About the Event
An AAR Fall Fridays WebinAAR
Hosted by AAR’s Religion and Human Rights Program Unit
As part of the Fall Fridays Scholarship WebinAAR Series, this scholarly engagement will explore the future of scholarship regarding the intersection of human rights and religion. In our complex world where human rights are constantly being violated by religion and particular religious ideologies but some of the most staunch supporters of human rights are also religious practitioners and professionals, our panelists will discuss what the field will look like in the future. This webinar aims to examine what scholars of religion can do to support the promotion of human rights.
AAR Fall Fridays is a webinAAR series that will highlight the scholarship coming from our varied AAR program units. This series — part of our larger year-round programming initiative — aims to bring the scholarship of our program units to the wider AAR membership and make it accessible outside of the Annual Meeting. These webinAARs will take place at 12:00 noon ET on Fridays and run from late September up until the in-person Annual Meeting in November.
Event Guidelines
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Panelists
Jenna Reinbold is Associate Professor of Religion and Director of the Native American Studies Program at Colgate University. Reinbold studies the interaction of religion and law in the contemporary world. Her areas of emphasis include controversies over the separation of church and state in the U.S., and the role of religion in the propagation of human rights. Her publications include numerous articles and her book, Seeing the Myth in Human Rights (UPenn Press, 2017),
Christophe Ringer is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics and Society at Chicago Theology Seminary. Ringer’s research interests include African American religion, public theology, religion and social sciences, religion and politics, critical theory and African American religion, and cultural studies. He is particularly interested in African American religion as a site for understanding the relationship of self, society and the sacred as it concerns human flourishing. Ringer’s research currently focuses on the religious and cultural meanings that sustain and rationalize mass incarceration and other forms of social death in American public life.
Vincent Lloyd is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University. Lloyd is an authoritative voice on current issues and trends related to religion in politics as well as religion and race. He can comment on how religion influences these two areas to affect social change. Lloyd’s research focuses on religion and mass incarceration from various perspectives including religious thought regarding crime and punishment and religious movements in prisons.
M. Christian Green is a scholar, teacher, researcher, writer, and editor working in the fields of law, religion, ethics, human rights, and global affairs. She holds degrees from Georgetown University in history and government, Emory University in law and theology, and the University of Chicago in religious ethics. Her research interests include law and religion, human rights, religious freedom, religion and world affairs, and global ethics.
Moderator
Laura Alexander is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Executive Director of the Goldstein Center for Human Rights at UNO. She is a scholar of religious ethics, with research expertise in religion and human rights; immigration and migration studies; the tradition of just war thought; national borders and the state; and religious freedom and humanitarian aid.
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