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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.