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Dear Colleagues:
I hope this email finds you well. I am writing because I recently received a contract to edit The Philosophy of Nimi Wariboko: Social Ethics, Economy and Religion, a multi-disciplinary volume to be published by Carolina Academic Press in 2018/2019. I am writing to ask if you might be willing to write an essay relating to Wariboko's scholarship in the area of your interest along five tracks:
Social Ethics
Economic Ethics
African Social Traditions
Pentecostal Studies
Philosophical Theology
I have even taken the liberty, based on my own understanding of your scholarship, to slot you into a cluster.
You have been recommended as someone with the background and expertise to contribute in this area of his scholarship.
Do please free to:
a) contribute to another cluster of your choice; and
b) bring my attention to other possible contributors.
I am still looking for contributors who can write on his language, and the overall underpinning worldview.
This edited book, encompassing close to 30 chapters, is organized into broad themes covering social ethics, economic ethics, Pentecostal Studies, African social traditions, and philosophical theology. Once all the essays have been assembled I am most likely to call a conference at the University of Texas at Austin to discuss the papers before sending them to the publishers. I can commit $20,000 to the conference and hopefully, others will make additional contributions to make it work.
The chapter would run about 6,000 words in length, including references—say between 25 and 30 pages The first draft would be due in May 2018, six months from now. Planning for a peer review process that takes no longer than 90 days, your revised chapter would then be due in early fall 2018.
This is not a festschrift! It is not a book written in his honor, but one to move him into the canon of a major philosopher. His work must be in context as it drives the contents; and how the contents represent philosophical markers.
Professor Wariboko is a globally renown transdisciplinary scholar, whose scholarship has been very influential in the academy and outside it. He is an excellent theorist, theologian, ethicist, and philosopher. He is also a fine economist whose studies have impacted the understanding of African economic history and corporate management. He has been an economic and strategy consultant to Federal Government of Nigeria and the Central Bank of Nigeria even as he continues to work as a theologian and social ethicist. Wariboko is a very prolific scholar, having published 12 monographs and co-edited 4 volumes in the last nine years alone, two other book-length manuscripts under review with different university presses, and co-editing 3 volumes. All these in addition to multiple published papers and chapters in edited volumes, and global academic lecture schedule that is grueling as it is extraordinary. Wariboko is one of the finest thinkers of our generation. This proposed volume will provide a rigorous analysis of his ideas and lively engagement with his thought in the areas of philosophy, ethics, theology, Pentecostal studies and African studies.
If you agree to contribute an essay to this volume and you need any of his books or essay, I will arrange to send them to you. (See list in the attachment)
Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Best wishes,
TF
Toyin Falola
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
104 Inner Campus Drive
Austin, TX 78712-0220
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512 475 7222 (fax)
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