This special issue in the Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture will feature key papers and works presented at the 11th biennial conference of the International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture (ISMRC), which explored the relationship between media, religion and public scholarship. This call for papers welcomes research work presented at the conference, as well as related articles that explore topics and address in some way the intersections between media, religion and public scholarship.
The papers should in some way follow one of the following themes:
Religion and mediatized public life
Media, ethics and public scholarship
Public scholarship, gender/race and religion
Religion, media and politics/public policy
Media, religion and authority
Religious conflict, media representation and public opinion/public policy
Journalism and public religion
Free speech, religion and public scholarship
Hate speech, religion and public scholarship
Religious audiences and public scholarship
Public religiosity: spirituality in popular culture
Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of religion, media and public
scholarship
Digital religion, global and transnational trends
They invite extended abstracts of 500-750 words to be submitted for consideration. Abstracts
should clearly state the overall argument and/or research question of the article, theoretical ideas
or concepts being engaged, research methods used and a brief summary of findings. Abstracts
should also address how articles will engage with the special issue and conference theme of
media, religion and public scholarship. Articles based on presentations made at the ISMRC
conference will be given preferential treatment.
To be considered, abstracts must be submitted to the editors: Kristin Peterson (petersub@bc.edu)
AND Heidi Campbell (heidic@tamu.edu) by 15 October 2018.
Full research papers articles of up to 7,000 words (including all references and citations), will be
invited in November 2018. Full and final drafts of papers will be due by 15 February 2019.
Authors are asked consult the Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture author guidelines
when formatting your final submission: https://brill.com/view/journals/rmdc/rmdc-overview.xml
Full submissions will undergo a standard blind peer review assessment before being included in
this special issue.
Submissions and questions regarding this special issue can be directed to Kristin Peterson
(petersub@bc.edu) or Heidi Campbell (heidic@tamu.edu).