{"id":318,"date":"2004-12-04T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-04T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2011-08-22T12:14:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T18:14:19","slug":"318","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Pagan Studies in the Academy (AAR musings, part 2)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Right now more than 50 scholars who work at least some of the time in Pagan Studies are anxiously awaiting an announcement from the American Academy of Religion’s<\/a> program committee. <\/p>\n

Steered by Cat McEarchern<\/a>, organizer of the last two Conferences on Contemporary Pagan Studies<\/a>, we have put together a proposal for a “consultation” on Pagan Studies as part of the AAR’s regular annual meeting, as opposed to an “additional meeting,” our current status.<\/p>\n

The AAR has four levels of program units: consultations, seminars, groups, and sections, each one longer-lived and with more time slots during the meeting. Consultations are for “nascent discourses seeking to establish a constituency and create a framework for thinking about a specific set of problems,” in AAR-speak.<\/p>\n

This whole process began during the 1995 annual meeting, when Selena Fox and Dennis Carpenter of Circle Sanctuary<\/a> organized an informal meeting of scholars in Paganism and nature religion. In 1996 the baton was passed to me. We had another brief meeting and agreed to start a listserv for researchers in the field.<\/p>\n

In 1997 a group of us met and wrote up a consultation proposal, which was rejected on the grounds that we had not adequately proven that our intellectual concerns could not fit into an existing unit, such as New Religious Movements.<\/p>\n

From 1999-2002 we met for one 2.5-hour session before each AAR-SBL annual meeting, which I organized, and presented papers just like a real program unit. Then Cat stepped forward and, beginning in 2003, organized a day-long session.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I found an academic publisher to take over The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies<\/em><\/a>, and other publishers began showing interest in publishing Pagan Studies books, most notably AltaMira Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Plus the AAR is now actively soliciting new program units, which it was not in 1997. So we’re hopeful. Watch this space for more news. (AAR Musings Part 1 here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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