American Academy of Religion

06/01/2026

Are you or someone you know working at the intersection of faith, research, and ministry?

The Louisville Institute offers grants and fellowships designed to support scholars and church leaders as they explore ideas that strengthen the church and broader society.

📅 Applications open June 1

✔️ Grants: Up to $55,000 for research, writing, and ministry projects
https://louisville-institute.org/programs-grants-and-fellowships/grants/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=2026-June-AAR-Sponsorship

✔️ Fellowships: One to two-year programs offering up to $150,000 in support for early-career scholars
https://louisville-institute.org/programs-grants-and-fellowships/fellowships/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=2026-June-AAR-Sponsorship

✔️ See past awardees:
https://louisville-institute.org/our-impact/awards/

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05/29/2026

Registration is open for both the Online June and In-Person November Annual Meetings!

The Online June Sessions of the Annual Meeting (June 23-25, 2026)

November Annual Meeting in Denver, CO (November 21 - 24, 2026)

https://aarweb.org/events/annual-meetings/

05/28/2026

Read an advance article by John Lardas Modern, part of a roundtable on Donovan Schaefer’s "Wild Experiment: Feeling, Science, and Secularism after Darwin":

The emotions involved in our collective and sustained dalliance with our own annihilation are messy. At the time of this writing—indeed, in the very act of

05/28/2026

Join us for this session at the 2026 AAR Online June Sessions ( ), which invites four graduate students to do something religious studies rarely makes institutional space for: speculate concretely about what the field could become:

Jacob Barrett, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presiding This session (during the 2026 AAR Online June Sessions) invites four graduate students to do something religious studies rarely makes institutional space for: speculate concretely about what the field could become. Rather than reh...

05/27/2026

Join us for this presidential plenary at the 2026 Online June Annual Meeting ( ), which will bring together college/university presidents and provosts to reflect on the future of our fields:

Laurel Schneider, Boston University, presiding This session brings together scholars of religion who are college or university presidents and provosts to reflect on the future of our fields as the academy in general undergoes huge shifts in the structures, resources, and politics. They have been ask...

05/26/2026

Join us at the Online June Annual Meeting ( ) to celebrate the 2026 Religion and the Arts Award winner, the Church of Stop Shopping. Find out more about the session:

George Gonzalez, presiding Join us to celebrate the 2026 Religion and the Arts Award winner, the Church of Stop Shopping. The Church will share their work and scholars of religion discuss the importance of their public work and how to use the tools of religion and art to expand our…

05/22/2026

| Read our interview with Emily Bailey, 2026 AAR Katie Geneva Cannon Excellence in Teaching Award winner, on her strategies for teaching students to become better informed, more empathetic members of society:

Dr. Emily J. Bailey is the 2026 Katie Geneva Cannon Excellence in Teaching Award Winner. Join us for a pedagogical webinAAR with Dr. Bailey on June 2nd at 2:00pm ET on “Teaching Religion in an Era of AI.” Emily Bailey is associate professor in the department of philosophy and religious studies a...

05/21/2026

The AAR Annual Business Meeting will be held during the Online June Annual Meeting ( ). AAR members are invited to discuss proposed changes to the AAR bylaws, along with a proposed resolution in solidarity with Gaza:

Claudia Schippert, American Academy of Religion, presiding Amy Defibaugh, American Academy of Religion, presiding Join the President of AAR, Laurel Schneider, and other members of the AAR for the society's annual business meeting. During the meeting, proposed changes to the AAR bylaws will be discus...

05/21/2026

Did you know the program for the 2026 Online June Annual Meeting ( ) is out? We'll have nearly 60 sessions, presidential plenaries, workshops, committee events, and more! https://aarweb.org/event/annual-meeting-online-june-sessions/

05/13/2026

| A donation of $10 per week ($40 per month) allows AAR to award a travel grant to a scholar who lacks te financial ability to attend the November Annual Meeting: https://aarweb.org/about-aar/support-aar/