[ecrea] Teaching Media Quarterly - Religion and Media issue - Call for Proposals

    Call for Proposals: Deadline – March 13, 2015
    “Religion and Media” Teaching Media Quarterly 3(3): Summer 2015

    In one form or another, religion has always had a place in American 
media. Since September 11, however, religion has become intensified as a 
topic of discussion, exacerbated by the advent of social media like 
Facebook and Twitter. Various and polarized debates about Islam, the 
advent and popularity of the so-called New Atheists (e.g. Richard 
Dawkins and Sam Harris), increasingly publicized disputes over the 
status of LGBTQIA persons within faith communities, not to mention the 
ongoing presence of religious themes and practices in popular film and 
television (e.g. The Tree of Life, Gravity, The Theory of Everything, 
Battlestar Galactica, Big Love, Sister Wives, Supernatural)—all of these 
are examples of religion in media and invite pedagogical reflection and 
methods for helping students to recognize and think through these and 
related phenomena.


    Teaching Media Quarterly seeks materials to be used in the 
classroom that critically investigate the diverse nexus of religion and 
media. “Religion” is understood to refer to both historical traditions 
(Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.) and the 
philosophical issues commonly associated with them (the question of God, 
the supernatural, life after death, other faiths, the efficacy of 
prayer, etc.). In keeping with the critical interests of this journal, 
the intersection of religion with myriad forms of exclusion is 
paramount, so proposals that attend to religion and media in the context 
of class, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and ability are desired. 
Particularly, we are interested in lessons that address the following:

        * How do questions of class, race, gender, sexuality, 
nationality, and ability emerge in media narratives and rhetoric about 
religion?
        * How do representations of religious persons, traditions, and 
themes in media articulate struggles over competing cultural values and 
political and economic imperatives?
        * How have convergence culture and social media helped to 
reinvigorate religious discourse?
        * How do political economy, environmentalist concerns, and/or 
media labor inform the various points of intersection between religion 
and media?
        * How do media about religion become sites at which good 
citizenship is constructed and cultivated?


    Teaching Media Quarterly Submission Guidelines & Review Policy All 
submissions must include: 1) a title, 2) an overview and comprehensive 
rationale (using accessible language explain the purpose of the 
assignment(s), define key terms, and situate in relevant literature) 
(250-500 words), 3) a general timeline, 4) a detailed lesson plan and 
assignment instructions, 5) teaching materials (handouts, rubrics, 
discussion prompts, viewing guides, etc.), 6) a full bibliography of 
readings, links, and/or media examples, and 7) a short biography 
(100-150 words).

    Please email all submissions using the TMQ.Submission.Template (1) 
(.docx) in ONE Microsoft Word document (toteachingmedia.contact /at/ gmail.com).

    Review Policy
    Submissions will be reviewed by each member of the editorial board. 
Editors will make acceptance decisions based on their vision for the 
issue and an assessment of contributions. It is the goal of Teaching 
Media Quarterly to notify submitters of the editors’ decisions within 
two weeks of submission receipt.Teaching Media Quarterly is dedicated to 
circulating practical and timely approaches to media concepts and topics 
from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Our goal 
is to promote collaborative exchange of undergraduate teaching resources 
between media educators at higher education institutions. As we hope for 
continuing discussions and exchange as well as contributions to Teaching 
Media Quarterly we encourage you to visit our website at 
http://www.teachingmedia.org/

    SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 3/13/2015



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