<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<o:p> </o:p></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Please note
the following call for papers for a <b>roundtable</b> on the language of church
communities in times of digitalization at this year's American
Anthropological<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Association’s (AAA)
meeting. The roundtable will be organized by myself and can/should
include academics, pastors, church clergy and laymen, church practitioners and
more. <o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><b>The
language of Theological Anthropology in a Digital World<o:p> </o:p></b></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Abstract<o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia; color: black; background: white;">In the wake of the Durham initiatives in ecclesiology and ethnography
(e.g. Van Scharen 2015); what can a theological anthropology, in which God and
the human perception of God is central, contribute to unraveling the thorough
and consistent focus of many churches on administration and efficiency (Ellul
1954) hereby putting in a second place the 'language' of the church community:
speeches, cries, sermons and the like. What do we 'loose', in Ellul's
'technological society' in terms of God's centrality in church practice? How
does the language of praising, elevating and worshipping God becomes obsolete
and replaced by theological technocratic jargon? This roundtable wants to
address the ‘unsettling landscapes’ of digitalization, church practice and the
'language loss' and 'shift' that goes hand in hand with it. Invited speakers
will be asked to contribute to the ongoing discussion by a position statement
and involvement in the roundtable debate. The aim is to look for a new
vocabulary of describing these specific, church-related language phenomena.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Ellul, J. (1964). <i>The technological Society</i>. New York: Vintage
Books.<o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Van Scharen, C. (2015), Ed. <i>Explorations in Ecclesiology and
Ethnography</i>. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">More info
concerning the format can be found here:<o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="https://annualmeeting.americananthro.org/submissions/general-call-for-participation/#roundtable_town_hall"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">https://annualmeeting.americananthro.org/submissions/general-call-for-participation/#roundtable_town_hall</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Please send
a brief statement of interest (250 words max.) <b>before March 22</b> to </span><a href="mailto:j.vanderaa@yahoo.com"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">j.vanderaa@yahoo.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">. I also wish to establish a wider community around these debates, so if
you can’t make it to the AAAs but wish to engage in further cooperation, let me
know. <o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">All best
wishes for now,<o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Jenny-Louise
VAN DER AA (Theological University of Kampen)<o:p> </o:p></span></p><br></div>
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