Call for Papers
The Society of Gospel Haymanot (SGH) exists to provide a context for the proliferation and development of academic theology rooted in the Black Church tradition. The SGH offers a collegial environment for the interchange of biblical and theological scholarship with a special emphasis on Black scholars committed to biblical orthodoxy and Black liberation.
The Annual Meeting of the SGH will take place on Friday, October 18 and Saturday, October 19, 2024. The Annual Meeting will be held at UMI at 1551 Regency Ct. Calumet City, IL 60409. This event serves primarily to provide an academic context for Black faculty and graduate students of religion and theology to build relationships and form a Gospelist theological voice rooted in biblical orthodoxy and Black liberation.
Guidelines
The deadline to submit abstracts is Friday, April 19, 2024. While faculty and students of theological institutions are typically the primary participants, submissions are considered from applicants outside of academic institutions. Similarly, the leadership of SGH subscribes to the SGH Testimony, as do the majority of participants. However, participants of alternative religious and/or theological communities are more than welcome to attend and present at the annual meeting. Such participants are asked to place their research paper in substantial dialogue with the theological perspective of SGH. Please submit an abstract that is no more than 150 words in length. Your paper should be 3,500-4,500 words in length with a twenty minute presentation and 5 minutes for questions. With your abstract submission, please identify which session your paper best fits in:
General Panels
- Dersat (Old & New Testament Studies)
- Sankofa (Church History)
- Haymanot (Systematic Theology)
- Ujamaa (Practical Theology)
Specialized Panels
- Berhāna ʾAḥzāb: Circulation, Transmission and Migration of Christianity across Pre-Modern Africa This panel will take place during the Annual Meeting of the Society of Gospel Haymanot and invites papers focused on the spread of Christianity on the continent of Africa prior to European colonization. Christianity was a significant aspect of ancient African civilizations, being the dominant religion of Roman North Africa, Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia by the sixth century. Soon after this time, other civilizations in Central, West and Southern Africa began to produce architectural and literary evidence that survive to this day. Christian communities in northeastern Africa also developed in the Dotowan period through ecumenical, commercial and political contact with one another. This panel invites interdisciplinary papers investigating the transmission and adaptation of Christianity across various African contexts through the disciplines of sankofa (history), haymanot (theology), archaeology, art history and philology.
- Jesus Christ, Atonement, and Holistic Discipleship for Women of the African Diaspora
This panel will occur during the Annual Meeting of the Society of Gospel Haymanot and invites papers on the significance of sacrificial atonement and holistic Christian discipleship. What do Gospelist theories offer to challenges presented by other women-centered, Womanist, and Feminist atonement theories? How do Gospelist theories guide discipleship formation? The panel invites interdisciplinary papers investigating the impact of a holistic theology of atonement on the spiritual formation and discipleship process of women of the African diaspora. Potential panelists are encouraged to engage in this discussion through their discipline of expertise and scholarly engagement. Panel participants should be prepared to make a twenty-minute presentation and respond to questions for an additional five minutes. Abstract submissions should be 150 words and submitted through the SGH portal on the Meachum School of Haymanot page, indicating submission for this panel.
Guidelines cont.
While various theological disciplines are identified in the conference schedule, interdisciplinarity is strongly invited and encouraged for each session and paper. After your 150-word abstract, please indicate if you subscribe to the SGH Testimony or if you do not. After this, please indicate if you would like your paper to be considered for publication in the Haymanot Journal. Accepted papers will be scheduled into timed paper sessions; unfortunately, special accommodations or requests for presenting at specific times are not possible. Therefore, applicants should prepare for their presentation to take place at any point during the conference. Please indicate if any of the following are needed:
-A/V
-Projector
-White Board
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The SGH Annual Meeting will be open for attendance to any interested participants. The admission fees for the annual meeting are $50 for presenters, $75 for full-time faculty, non-student and general attendees, $30 for undergraduate students, graduate students and adjunct faculty. We look forward to seeing you at the Society of Gospel Haymanot Annual Meeting on October 18th – 19th, 2024!
Sincerely,
Society of Gospel Haymanot
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