2025 AAR Academy Report
What We've Accomplished Together
Amidst escalating threats to religion departments and institutions of higher learning, the American Academy of Religion defended our disciplines and our colleagues. Take a look back at 2025 to see what we accomplished together.
News & Publications
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Benefits of Membership
When you become an AAR member, you join the largest society dedicated to the academic study of religion. You also gain a wide range of benefits that will enable you to elevate your career and grow your community.
Present at Our Annual Meetings
Present at Our Annual Meetings
Develop Your Skills and Career
Develop Your Skills and Career
Grow Your Network and Community
Grow Your Network and Community
Access Professional Resources, Discounts, and More
Access Professional Resources, Discounts, and More
Upcoming Events & Opportunities
Sankofa Gathering: A Roundtable for African-Born Faculty
This Wabash Center roundtable will gather an intergenerational and interdisciplinary group of African-born scholars to share experiences of teaching and learning across continents, cultures, and contexts.
Submission Status
Now Accepting Applicants
Submission Deadline
March 24, 2026 11:59 pm ET
APARRI 2026 Call for Proposals
As we gather in this year of unprecedented social and political challenge, we invite participants to reflect on sources of hope and struggle for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander religious communities. How have Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander scholars and religious communities grounded themselves in hope?
Submission Status
Now Accepting Applicants
Submission Deadline
March 9, 2026 11:59 pm ET
Wabash Center Pedagogy of Play Roundtable
This interactive play-shop from Wabash Center will be one that is inherently experimental and will require a level of openness, vulnerability, and risktaking. Participants will play, create, imagine, wonder and engage in movement that is open to all levels of ability and capability.
Submission Status
Now Accepting Applicants
Submission Deadline
March 10, 2026 11:59 pm ET
WebinAAR Recordings
AAR produces and sponsors webinAARs every month on topics related to the academic study and teaching of religion. Recordings typically require an AAR membership to view.
WebinAAR
February 20, 2026
Religion & Gender Studies – A Strategy Session
Gender and religious studies are under attack in U.S. universities and colleges. This webinAAR features panelists discussing the current situation with all of the complex intersections of gender, religion, race, ethnicity, language, and institutional policies.
WebinAAR
January 30, 2026
Navigating the 2026 AAR Call for Proposals
In this webinAAR, the AAR Director of Programs and Publications walks through an informational session on navigating the 2026 CFP for the AAR Online June Sessions and In-person November Annual Meetings.
WebinAAR
February 4, 2026
An American Christian Nation? Religion and America at 250 #1
The webinar presents information about the meaning and limits of religious freedom in the colonial period and for the framers, offering data and insights from researchers in the field.
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Why AAR
Religious Studies Matters
Religion influences most aspects of our world and the study of religion has never been more important. AAR is committed to advocating for the academic study of religion. We support religion scholars working in many fields, and we provide resources and engagement opportunities to improve the public understanding of religion.
