Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Boston, USA 15-19,
April 2008
Call for papers
Religion, age and everyday lives
Organized by Peter Hopkins (Newcastle) and Elizabeth Olson (Edinburgh)
This session draws upon a conversation emerging from across the social
sciences, addressing the relationships between religion, relationships and
age. As states become increasingly attuned to the politics of religion and
managing the religious body, the religious lives and practices of young
people, adults and elderly are often reduced to their symbolic
accoutrements. Little attention is paid to the differentiated meanings
of ‘religion’ and spirituality across age groups, or how religion is
experienced, generated, shaped, or asserted through relationships and
across space. Our hope is to contribute a geographical perspective to this
conversation by engaging any range of intersections between the lived
practices of religion and spirituality and the conduct (or conscription) of
everyday lives of different generations.
We are interested in a range of different topics related to age, aging and
lived religion, including but are obviously not limited to:
- The influence of age upon the constructions of religious identity
- The meaning of religion for different age groups
- Religion in the everyday lives of children, young people, adults and the
elderly
- Religion, gender and generation
- Sexuality and religion
- The role of religion the construction of public and private spaces among
different age groups
- The marking of religious spaces for children, young people, adults and
older people such as schools, workplaces, communities, etc.
- The global governance of aged religious identities
- Youth embodiment of religious identities through clothing and consumption
- Religion in and among the household, the nursing home, etc.
- Youth (or elderly) transitions and religion
- Radical youth religions
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Elizabeth Olson
([log in to unmask]) by 30 September 2007.
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