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Midwest Region
Call for Papers
Midwest Regional Meeting
April 4–5, 2008
Dominican Priory Conference Center
River Forest, IL
Our 2008 theme, “Religion and the State,” is intended to solicit papers and panels exploring such topics as: legislation on religion; religious rights and freedoms; religion and national identity; challenges of globalization; religious justifications for state-sponsored violence; theocracies in historical and sociological perspective; reexamining Civil Religion; disestablishment and the New Christian Right; spirituality, politics, and the New Religious Left; religion in campaigns and elections more generally; and the role of religion in Presidential Decision 2008.
Papers/panels on other topics are of course also invited. Submissions should be made as early as possible, but before December 15, 2007. Younger scholars and students are especially encouraged to submit proposals and participate in the conference; senior scholars are encouraged to serve as session chairs and respondents. For further information, contact Vice President and Program Chair Tom Pearson at pearsont@wabash.edu.
Online submissions only, please. Submit your response to the call for papers here: