AAG 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS
Chicago 7th-11th March 2006
GEOGRAPHIES OF RELIGIOUS NONCONFORMITY
Sponsored by the Geography of Religions and Belief Systems Specialty Group of
the AAG.
In the last ten to fifteen years religion has attracted some attention from
geographers interested in the politics of identity, space as a social product
and the interplay of secular and sacred meanings in place. It has been
acknowledged that geographers can make a distinct contribution to our
understanding of religions, because of the manifold articulations between
religion and conceptualizations of landscapes and place, and the contribution
of religion in sustaining distinctive material cultures. Indeed, most
geographers would acknowledge that aspects of religion - of faith, sacredness
and spirituality - intersect with geography at every turn, from understanding
the construction of identity or the meaning of bodily practices at a personal
level, to unpicking the complex relationships and politics of institutional
space and place at a regional or national level. Despite these encouraging
developments, the multiple geographies of Nonconformity remain
under-researched. In this session we wish to explore geographies of
nonconformity from a variety of perspectives. We welcome papers on
geographies of particular denominations such as Methodism and Baptists as well
as contributions which consider the geographies of religious Nonconformity
more generally.
We hope that this session will bring together scholars from North America, the
UK and beyond to consider:
Ø historical and contemporary geographies of Nonconformity
Ø community and institutional formation
Ø materiality and religious belief
Ø the micro-geographies of Nonconformist belief and practice
Ø embodied and performative geographies of Nonconformity
Ø politics and poetics of Nonconformity
Ø sites and scales of religious practice
Ø the sacred and the secular
This session is being organised by Dr Catherine Brace, Dr David Harvey and Dr
Adrian Bailey from the Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK. For
further information or to submit an abstract of no more than 250 words, please
contact Dr Bailey (address given below). Please include your full contact
details including your institutional affiliation, an email address and
telephone number.
CLOSING DATE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: 2ND SEPTEMBER 2005.
Dr Adrian Bailey
University of Exeter
Lafrowda House
St German’s Road
Exeter
Devon
EX4 6TL
UK
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+44 (0)1392 263901
Dr. Adrian R. Bailey
School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources
Department of Geography
The University of Exeter
Amory Building
Rennes Drive
Exeter
Devon
EX4 4RJ
Tel: 0121 263901
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