CFP: Analytic Disability Theology (Special issue of the Journal of Analytic Theology)

The Journal of Analytic Theology announces a special issue on ‘analytic disability theology’, to be edited by Kevin Timpe (Calvin University) and Aaron Brian Davis (University of St. Andrews).

Call for Papers

Though disability theology is a relatively young discipline, work within it has grown significantly in recent years. However, as Michelle Panchuk and Michael Rea note in their Voices from the Edge (OUP, 2020), “analytic theology has a reputation for being inhospitable to careful and experientially informed exploration of the various philosophical-theological issues connected with culturally and theologically marginalized social identities” (p. 1), including disability. In addition to this inhospitality, disability remains a relatively understudied topic among analytic theologians

This special issue of the Journal of Analytic Theology seeks to help remedy this problem by inviting submissions on topics in analytic disability theology. These could include, but are not limited to, questions like the following:

• How should we understand the relationship between disability and personal identity?
• What place might disability have in the eschatologies of various religions (e.g., Islam or Hinduism)?
• Is it appropriate to describe God as ‘disabled’ in some sense?
• Is credobaptism inherently exclusive of profoundly cognitively disabled persons?
• Do polytheistic traditions have any conceptual resources beyond those available  monotheistic traditions when it comes to theological reflection on disability?
• How can substance dualisms account for a ‘mere difference”’ understanding of disability?
• Is the retention of psychiatric conditions (e.g., major depressive disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder) possible in the resurrection of the body?
• What resources does political theology have for thinking about disability?
• How might disability theology critique common views of the doctrine of creation found in analytic theology?

Scholars from underrepresented groups and religious traditions are especially encouraged to submit an article. We also welcome submissions from those whose primary area of research is not analytic theology (e.g., moral theologians, philosophers of disability, practical theologians, and so on).

Submissions

Submissions should be no longer than 9,000 words in length, including footnotes (but not the bibliography). Authors must ensure that their papers are prepared for double-anonymous review. Further details can be found in the author guidelines provided by the Journal of Analytic Theology.

Submissions should be emailed to [email protected].

Inquiries

For any questions, please contact Kevin Timpe and Aaron Davis at [email protected].