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One more paper is sought for a panel on Youth and young adult immigration, Americanization, and Christian faith proposed for the American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting in Baltimore, on November 24, 2013. Also, a chair of this panel is sought.
Wide publicity and discussion arose late last year over the apparent rise of the "nones" in the U.S. population, documented most recently by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. One might wonder to what degree youth and young adults who are children of immigrants, or who are immigrants themselves, retain, redefine, or reject Christian faith and practice carried to the U.S. by their parents if not by themselves. Secured already are two papers to examine this course of transmission and exchange in historical perspective. One will examine the experience of Greek Orthodox in America in the twentieth century but especially over the past fifty years. The other will examine changes that took place among some Lutherans, particularly from Sweden and Norway, one to two generations earlier than the Orthodox who emigrated. Needed now is a paper that could examine the topic from any discipline(s), perhaps utilizing cross-disciplinary approaches particularly to explore tensions felt by youth and young adult Christians who live in or between their American homeland and their countries of origin or recent ancestry. As the two papers mentioned concern Europe, a paper concerning Asia, Africa, or Latin American especially is encouraged.
This panel will be proposed as a "Wildcard Session" that is scheduled for a ninety minute time slot on the Sunday afternoon of the AAR meeting. Each paper should not exceed twenty minutes. Each presenter will have opportunity to reply to each others' papers, to be followed by audience comment and discussion. Again, a chair of this panel also is sought.
If you would, please e-mail a short abstract and your c.v. to ray.kibler.iii@ecunet.org as soon as possible. Should you wish further information, please contact the organizer, Ray Kibler III. For expediency in conversation, telephone calls are welcomed and will be returned promptly. Your reply is anticipated!
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Ray F. Kibler III, Ph.D., D.Min. + ray.kibler.iii@ecunet.org + phone: 909.596.5086
Ecumenical (Faith and Order movement) Contributor
Independent Scholar in Church History and Ecumenical Studies
Lutheran Intentional Interim Pastor, on disability leave + Claremont, California
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