I would be very grateful if you could forward this Call for Papers to any
interested parties, members of your department and post-graduates.
Many thanks for your time and help
Best Wishes
Dawn
CALL FOR PAPERS
READING SPIRITUALITIES
Constructing and representing spiritualities through the medium of text:
sacred, literary and visual
20-22nd January 2006
Hosted by the Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University
KEY NOTE SPEAKERS
Michele Roberts, Ursula King & David Jasper
The reading, response, construction and representation of sacred, secular
and cultural ‘texts’ have been always been a vital source in the quest for
the spiritual. This is true of new and emerging spiritualities as well as
traditional religions. While ‘spirituality’ is a fluid notion, sacred
texts and literature, poetry, drama, art, cinema, dance, music are all
forms of text through which ideas and images of the spiritual are manifest
and through which the spiritual can be created. This conference will
explore the interactions and connections between texts old and new, readers
and spiritualities. Further, this event also aims to discover ways in
which texts are informed by the spiritual and how texts inform the
spiritual. How is the creative process a spiritual pursuit? How do texts
represent spiritual themes and identities? How do texts create spiritual
themes and identities? How are texts used to imagine the divine? What is
the role of ‘reading’ texts in the search for religious and spiritual
meaning? What is the relationship between the text, reader and reading in
the context of spirituality?
This event will bring together creative writers, theorists from
contemporary literature and literary theory, feminist and gender studies,
new spiritualities, biblical studies, religious studies, history, and
spiritual practitioners.
Abstracts (300 words) are invited from theoretical, textual, empirical work
and the creative arts from a wide range of disciplines and themes.
Deadline for abstracts: 31st October 2005
Panels and non-traditional formats welcomed.
If you would like any further information please contact:
Dr. Deborah Sawyer [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 (0)1524 592415
Dawn Llewellyn [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 (0)1524 594566
Dawn Llewellyn
Department of Religious Studies
Furness College
Lancaster University
LA1 4YG
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1524 594566
READING SPIRITUALITIES CONFERENCE, Lancaster University, 20-22nd January
2006
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/events/spiritualities
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/events/spiritualities
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