medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Although it deals with a period somewhat later than that normally
discussed on the list, members (especially those in the SE US)
might be interested in the following:
Saints and Pilgrimage Around the Atlantic: A conference organized by the Carolina Low Country and Atlantic World Program and the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the College of Charleston, SC.
Date: Feb. 20-22, 2004. Location: Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Center
Organizers: Simon Lewis, Dept. of English, Program on Low Country and Atlantic Studies
Margaret Cormack, Religious Studies Program [log in to unmask]
Rosemary Brana-Shute, Dept. of History
See Website at http://www.cofc.edu/atlanticworld/saintsconference.html
Papers will be made available on a conference website. The conference fee of $10 will entitle participants to obtain a code number enabling them to access the papers. There will be a plenary speaker, but otherwise the conference will consist of a series of panel discussions of the papers, which participants are assumed to have read. Panel and audience will discuss the papers, having read them in advance. There will be no multiple sessions.
Speakers and Topics include:
Nicholas Beasley, graduate student, Vanderbilt University
"English Iconoclasm in the Iberian Atlantic World, 1570-1660"
LeGrace Benson, Arts of Haiti Research Project
"Holy Thursday Pilgrimage to the Citadel of King Henry Christophe; a Study in the Complexities of Haitian Religious and Political Sensibilities"
Matt D. Childs, History Department, Florida State University
"The Virgin of Charity will Guide them in Battle: The Role of Catholic and African Religious
Traditions in the Cuban Slave Rebellion of 1812"
John Corrigan, Edwin Scott Gaustad Professor of Religion and Professor of History; Director, Center for the Study of Emotion, Florida State University
"Mapping the Atlantic World: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative and the Visual Display of Cultural Data."
Margaret Cormack, Assoc. Prof. Religious Studies, College of Charleston
"Technology and the Cult of Saints: An Icelandic Example"
Lisa Edwards, Visiting Asst. Professor of History, Valparaiso University
"Latin American Pilgrimages to Europe: Transatlantic Religious Practices"
Giovanna Fiume, Professor of Modern History, University of Palermo.
"Saint Benedict the Moor From the Mediterranean to South America"
Tessa Garton, Art History, College of Charleston
"The influence of pilgrimage on artistic traditions in medieval Ireland"
Patrick Hayes, Department of Theology, Quincy University
"Massachusetts Miracles: In Search of the Holy in Catholic Boston"
Susan Kerr, independent scholar
"New World Pilgrim: the Holy Child of Atocha"
Katie MacLean Asst. Prof., Department of Romance Languages, Kalamazoo College
"The Venerable Mary of Agreda: Folklore, Literature and the Legacy of Spiritual Conquest"
Alison MacLetchie, MA, University of South Carolina
"Incidents of Douglazation: The Worship of la Divina Pastora in Trinidad"
Michael Pasquier, graduate student, Department of Religion, Florida State University
"Our Lady of Prompt Succor: The Search for an American Marian Cult in a Trans-Atlantic World." New Orleans"
Rodger M. Payne, Associate Professor & Assistant Chair for Religious Studies
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 "Image and Imagination in the Cult of Saint Amico"
Juan Javier Pescador. Assistant Professor, History, Michigan State University
"After the Virgin and the Holy Child of Atocha: A Transatlantic/Borderlands devotion, 14th-20th centuries"
Hassan Rahmouni, Professor, School of Law & Economics, Hassan II University, Mohammedia
A Case Study from the Moroccan South (Sheikh Mohamed Lahbib )
Lisa Randle, Director of Multicultural and Educational Programming, Historic Columbia, Columbia, South Carolina,
"St. Peter Claver. Slave of the Slaves Forever"
Michelle Rein, Ph.D. candidate in Islamic Art and Architecture University of Pennsylvania,
"Reinventing a Blessed Past: Saints' Shrines and The Shifting of Collective Memory in Morocco"
Kevin Roberts, Asst. Professor of History, New Mexico State University
"St. John the Baptist worship in the context of Afro-Catholicism and voodoo in New Orleans."
Robert Scully, S.J., Assoc. Professor, LeMoyne College
"St. Winefride's Well: The Significance and Survival of a Welsh Catholic Shrine from the Middle Ages to the Present Day"
Ryan Smith, Archivist, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
"The Fountain of Youth: History of an Errant Shrine"
Robert Westerfelhaus Department of Communication College of Charleston
"Prayers in Plaster and Plastic: Catholic Kitsch as Ritual Communication" (Our Lady of Guadalupe)
Joseph Weyers, Associate Prof. of Spanish, College of Charleston
"The Dark Virgins of Guadalupe: Common Bonds of Conquest and Community"
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