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Holy Crap!
Intersections of the Popular and the Sacred in Youth Cultures
28–29 August 2014, Helsinki, Finland
Call for Papers and Sessions
Holy Crap! is an international conference organised by the Finnish
Youth Research Society and Network, focusing on the interrelations
between popular culture, youth and the sacred. The conference aims at
interrogating understandings of popular and youth cultures in relation
to the contested phenomena of (post)secularisation, re-enchantment and
the emergence of alternative spiritualities.
Seeking to analyse the social and cultural changes accompanying these
phenomena, the conference will facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue
between youth studies, cultural studies, religious studies and the
broader social sciences.
Recent years have seen a growing interest in ”re-scripting the sacred”
through popular culture. Although ”youth” as an age-based category has
lost its privileged status within such studies of popular culture,
young people remain vital (sub)cultural agents. There has also been
renewed interest in the ubiquitous contestations and ambiguities
around the notion of the ”popular” in light of the increasing
commodification and standardisation of culture, the opposition this
engender, and the cultural drift into virtual worlds.
Holy Crap! locates itself at the intersection of these three contested
concepts, seeking to re-examine and re-evaluate the dynamics within
and between cultural phenomena prefixed with ”popular”, ”sacred” and
”youth”.
The conference organisers invite proposals for either complete 90
minute sessions or individual 30 minute presentations. The general
theme of the conference may be approached from within any discipline
or methodology. Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
• Discourses: the mythologies of popular and youth cultures, histories
and invented traditions, freedom of speech and expression, contesting
authenticity, transcendence and transgression, consolation and affect;
• Identities: the intersections of the popular/sacred/youth dynamics
with class, (dis)ability, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, subcultural
belonging and community, nationalism and the sanctification of race;
• Ideologies: questioning religious tenets, political doctrines,
consumerism and economies of pleasure, value and moral judgments, the
(post)modern and the (post)secular;
• Institutions: families, congregations, denominations, corporations,
educational institutions, gangs, (neo)tribes, subcultures,
municipalities and the state;
• Materials and technologies: ecologies, media, art, symbols, shrines,
memorials, actions, practices, rituals, pilgrimage, stardom, fandom
and authorship, web 2.0 and 3.0, virtual religions and virtual worlds;
• Theories and methodologies: evidence and authority,
interdisciplinary methodologies, theology and secular scholarship,
critical theories of religion, reconceptualising key concepts.
The proposals should be submitted via email, preferably as an
attachment in doc/pdf/rtf format, to Research Coordinator Antti-Ville
Kärjä ([log in to unmask]) no later than 15 January
2014. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by Friday 31 January
2014.
Proposals should include the following information:
• name(s) and affiliation(s) of the presenter(s);
• the title of the presentation/session;
• an abstract of no more than 200 words for a 30 minute
presentation or 500 words for a 90 minute session.
For further information, please visit
http://www.nuorisotutkimusseura.fi/en/holy-crap or contact Antti-Ville
Kärjä ([log in to unmask]).
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