With apologies for cross posting
Call for Papers: AAG 2012, New York, 24th - 28th February:
RELIGION, SOCIETY, AND SPACE: AN INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Session Organizers: Lily Kong (National University of Singapore) and Karen
M. Morin (Bucknell University, USA)
The purpose of the proposed session is to consider new directions in the
geography of religion by focusing on the scale of the civic institution in
understanding relationships and connections between people and their
religious beliefs and practices. State and civic organizations such as
schools, hospitals, the courts, prisons, businesses, government agencies,
NGOs, museums, and the military, among others, are sites through which
religious norms and practices are mediated, regulated, represented,
facilitated, and contested. This session builds upon a substantial body of
scholarly work on religion, identity, and space, going beyond it by
offering new insights into the important role that state, civic, and
social institutions and organizations play in contemporary religious life,
in various regional locations. Papers exploring different types of
institutional spaces and the various ways in which they facilitate,
control and otherwise mediate religious belief and practice are welcome.
Abstracts of 250 words (maximum) should be submitted to Lily Kong
([log in to unmask]) and Karen Morin ([log in to unmask]) by September
14th 2011.
Professor Lily Kong
National University of Singapore
>
|