In 2023, the AAR Black Theology Group called for papers on the topics of:

• Mulatto Theologizing: Exploring Hybridity at the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity and Religion


• Black Theology in the Hold: Social Death and the Faith of Anti-Human Existence

In 2022, the AAR Black Theology Group called for papers on the topics of:

• Pneumatology and Eschatology in Black Theology: Spirit/s and Black Flourishing in the World to Come


• Method and Sources in Black Theology: A Tribute to the 50th Anniversary of James H. Cone’s The Spirituals and the Blues (University of Michigan Press, 1972)

In 2021, the AAR Black Theology Group called for papers on the topics of:

• Confronting Black Death: Black Theology and the Politics of Social, Ecclesial, and Ecological Demise


• What Must We Say to These Things? Anti-Blackness in the Age of COVID-19


• Moved by the Spirit: Religion and the Movement for Black Lives


• The Black Social Gospel Tradition and the “Spiritual Left”

In 2020, the AAR Black Theology Group called for papers on the topics of:

• Undying Love: Black Theology and Anti-Colonial Movements


• The Prophetic Black Theology of Martin Luther King, Jr


• Black Theology Post-Cone: Interrogating Value, MisReligion, and the Theological Legacies of Settler Colonialism

In 2019, the AAR Black Theology Group called for papers on the topics of:

• James Cone and the Black Radical Tradition: Black Theology, Solidarity, and Violence


• New Cartographies of Black Theology: 400 Years after Jamestown
  
  

In 2018, the AAR Black Theology Unit put out a Call for Papers to honor the legacy of black and womanist theology forerunners and to advance emerging scholarship.

• Delores Williams’ Sisters in the Wilderness (Orbis, 1993): Celebrating 25 Years 


• Black Theology, American Civil Religion, and Public Theology


• Racial Liminality and Cruciform Bodies in Cone and King


• Panel: Still Getting By: Margin and Boundary in Black Theology and Hip Hop Culture


• James Cone's The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Orbis, 2011): A Roundtable Celebrating the Grawemeyer Award in Religion

In 2017, the AAR Black Theology Group called for papers on the topics of:

• Author Meets Critics: Josef Sorett's Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 2016)


• Michelle Alexander and Walter Fluker: The Mystical-Prophetic in Black—A Special Look at Mass Incarceration and the Black Lives Matter Movement


• Afro-pessimism and Black Theology

In 2016, the AAR Black Theology Group called for papers on the topics of:

• Albert Cleage, Jr. and the Black Madonna and Child: Fifty Years Later


• History of the Black Social Gospel 


• Black Theology and Revolutionary Love 

In 2015, the AAR Black Theology Group called for papers on the topics of:

• Author Meets Critic: Reggie Williams’ Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance (Baylor University Press, 2014)


• Black Theology, The Arts, and Popular Culture


• Beyond Ontological Blackness (Continuum, 1995): A Twenty Year Retrospective


• Black Theology and Sacred Texts