UPDATE: The Secular and the Sacred: Western and Nonwestern Contexts (11/10; 12/8)

From: eric aronoff (aronoff@eden.rutgers.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 05 2000 - 14:00:09 EST

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    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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