Events

2020 Annual Meeting

Your AAR staff continues to work toward holding the Annual Meeting in Boston, Nov. 21-24, 2020. We are aware of the uncertainty and contradictory projections related to the COVID-19 pandemic and with health and safety as a priority, we will continue monitoring the guidance of governments and health experts as we plan and make decisions. Should any changes need to be made related to the 2020 Annual Meeting, we will promptly notify you.

2020 Regional Meetings

Open Registration:

All remaining regional meetings for 2020 have been canceled

AAR Book Awards Announced

August 27, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Stephanie Gray
Associate Director, Publications
404-727-3059; sgray@aarweb.org

The American Academy of Religion (AAR) has selected the 2012 recipients of the Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion and the Best First Book in the History of the Religions:

Award for Excellence in Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Studies
Pamela E. Klassen, University of Toronto
Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity.
University of California Press, 2011.

Award for Excellence in Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies
Elliot R. Wolfson, New York University
A Dream Interpreted within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism
of Imagination.
Zone Books, 2011.

Award for Excellence in Religion: Historical Studies
Thomas A. Tweed, University of Texas, Austin
America’s Church: The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation’s Capital.
Oxford University Press, 2011.

Award for Excellence in Religion: Textual Studies
David M. Freidenreich, Colby College
Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law.
University of California Press, 2011.

Best First Book in the History of Religions
Ronit Ricci, Australian National University
Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia.
Chicago University Press, 2011.

The Awards for Excellence and Best First Book in the History of Religions recognize new scholarly publications that make significant contributions to the study of religion. The awards honor books of distinctive originality, intelligence, creativity and importance, books that affect decisively how religion is examined, understood, and interpreted. For more information, please see here. Awards will be presented at the AAR’s 2012 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, Sunday, November 18, 2012, 7:00–8:30 PM.

As a learned society and professional association of teachers and research scholars, the American Academy of Religion has over 10,000 members who teach in some 1,500 colleges, universities, seminaries, and schools in North America and abroad. The Academy is dedicated to furthering knowledge of religion and religious institutions in all their forms and manifestations. This is accomplished through Academy-wide and regional conferences and meetings, publications, programs, and membership services.

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