The editorial board invites to submit articles for publication in the issue 23.1 (2025) Theology of Memory in the Context of Experiencing Trauma and Collective Violence

2024-07-24

Memory plays a key role in forming and preserving personal, social, and cultural identity. It is no coincidence that the Book of Revelation chastises those who have forgotten their first love. There are different ways of reconstructing the past, but they all involve a complex interweaving of the past with the present and the future. The fragility and fragmentation of memory link the concept of the past to two other concepts: remembering and forgetting.  This issue of the journal aims to explore the intersections of remembering and forgetting from different theological perspectives, as well as the relation between other complex processes of memory, such as disregard, denial, alienation, and imagination, the recovery of memories, and the individual and collective reconstruction of relations with the past. Given the interdisciplinary nature of memory studies, we will accept for publication in this issue not only theological studies but also articles that consider philosophy, anthropology, sociology, neurophysiology, cognitive science, literary studies, and other disciplines.

For a theological reflection on these issues, the Editorial Board invites authors to submit articles that address the following topics:

  • Memory, tradition, and text: social memory theory and its impact on biblical studies
  • God, remembering and forgetting in the Old Testament
  • Biblical understanding of the experience of war and collective violence
  • Collective memory and identity in early Christianity
  • St. Augustine on inner memory (memoria interior) as the foundation of inner experience and knowledge of God
  • The Lord's Supper: theological and liturgical meanings of the Commemoration of Christ's death
  • The end of memory? Miroslav Wolf on the peacemaking role of remembering and forgetting 
  • In the shadow of trauma: remembering the reality of traumatic experience
  • Wrestling with the past: theology and politics of memory 
  • Johann Baptist Metz and the “dangerous memory” of the victims of history as a space for creative thinking and seeds of change
  • Places of memory, their material, symbolic, and functional meanings
  • Dementia as a theological and ethical issue
  • The future of memory in the age of artificial intelligence
  • Recollection and memory of victims in the theology of William T. Kavanaugh

We accept original and overview articles, as well as reviews, covering this complex topic. The article's length should not exceed 5,000 words. 

The deadline for submitting materials is February 15, 2025. The date of publication of the issue is May 15, 2025. 

To submit an article, please upload it on the journal's website: http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/about/submissions

Guidelines for authors are available here: http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/guidelines 

For additional questions and suggestions, please contact reflections@eeit-edu.info.