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jaar-scholarly-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR) article in the scholarly conversation so it reads as a contribution to the study of religion broadly, not a footnote to one subfield. Stakes the intervention across traditions and methods; it does not write the literature review.
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# Scholarly Positioning (jaar-scholarly-positioning)
A JAAR article must locate itself in a conversation that scholars of **different** traditions and
methods recognize. Positioning is where you convert "interesting to specialists" into "important to the
field." It pairs with `jaar-topic-selection` (the reframing) and feeds `jaar-argument-development`.
## When to trigger
- Drafting or revising the introduction and the stakes
- A reviewer said you engage only your subfield's literature
- You must show why the problem matters across the study of religion
- Distinguishing your intervention from the closest prior scholarship
## How JAAR wants the conversation engaged