Secular and Sacred: Extended deadline (11/10;12/8)
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS
The Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers
University calls for papers and creative projects to be presented at its
11th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate Scholarship,
entitled "The Secular and the Sacred: Western and Nonwestern Contexts,"
to be held on Friday, December 8, 2000 at Rutgers University. This
conference will explore issues of secularism and secularity in a
diversity of contexts, western and nonwestern. Possible topics to be
pursued might include the following:
what is secularism? * the politics of secularism * temporal and
historical conflicts and contexts * secularism as protecting or as
antithetical to religion * secularism and morals * the west as a secular
culture * nontheological religion * toleration * spiritualized
secularism * religious freedom * culture as secular religion *
creationism * secularity and multiculturalism * ethical education *
science and the secular * fundamentalism and secularism * religion and
the U.S. presidential campaign * cross-cultural comparisons of politics,
secularism and religion * architectural space as secular heaven *
industrialization and transcendence * religion and the academy *
multinationalism and post-secularism * privatization of belief
Talks will be 15-20 minutes long. Please send 4 copies of your abstract
and a cover page that includes your address, telephone number, and a
departmental affiliation, to:
CCACC/ICGS
8 Bishop Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
(732)932-8426
Panel proposals will also be considered.
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: Friday, November 10, 2000.
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