Call for Papers
Spiritual Identities
Lancaster University, UK
5-6 November 2004
Keynote speakers: Zygmunt Bauman, Sara Maitland, John Schad
Deadline for abstracts: June 30th 2004
Spiritual Identities is designed to bring together academics and writers from across the disciplines to address the place of religion in the formation of identity (personal, national, cultural).
Recently, John D. Caputo has argued that 'religion was reported missing mostly by the intellectuals; no one outside the academy thought that it had gone anywhere at all'. This conference will tackle the pervasive influence of religious discourse on identity construction both historically and in the present day. We therefore invite papers from across the chronological range.
In the same piece Caputo claims that ' "Religion", in the singular, as just one thing, is nowhere to be found; it is too maddeningly polyvalent and too uncontainably diverse for us to fit it all under one roof.' This approach resonates with our desire to explore the complexities of religious identity and experience in our various disciplines.
The conference will reflect the fact that apparently 'secular' projects such as Derridean deconstruction, French Feminist thought, postmodern fiction and studies of sexuality have increasingly confronted and/or re-interpreted theological frameworks.
Areas for discussion might include:
spiritual autobiography and conversion narrative;
national identity and religion;
rituals, festivals and ceremony;
gender and religion;
post-secularity: modernity, postmodernity and belief
world religions in political discourse
science and religion debates;
fictions of faith in recent literature and cinema;
sexuality and divinity.
Please send 200-250 word proposal to j.carruthers@lancaster.ac.uk by 30 June 2004.
Proposals should be sent as part of the body of an email, not as attachments.
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