Profs. Cooper Harriss and Sarah Imhoff, co-editors of the journal American Religion, hosted a gathering in Mexico City where invited scholars workshopped papers for an upcoming special issue on Latin American materiality, to be guest edited by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (Buffalo) and Carlos Manrique (Universidad de los Andes). Participants hailed from Argentina, Chile, and Colombia—as well as Canada and the US.
Published semiannually, American Religion offers a forum for intellectual and creative engagement with religion in the Americas. As the journal explores the boundaries of both “America” and “religion,” and ways in which the two intersect, the journal’s broader intervention in the publishing landscape takes exception to more standard historical conceptions of “American religion” as related to denominational history, surveys of religious pluralism, or “church history” that derive from and contribute to US exceptionalism and its adjunct cultural productions.
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