religion

The International Journal of Religion and Sport is a forthcoming refereed publication examining and analyzing the interchanges between world religions, religious practice, spirituality, wellness and global sport. The editors of the journal seek submissions which take seriously the study of religion and sport as well as scholarship investigating notions of sport as religious or spiritual practice. The journal seeks contributions using diverse methodological approaches to religion and sport from a variety of disciplines such as myth and ritual studies, historical studies, popular culture studies, wellness studies, and liturgical studies.

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Call for Papers: Renaissance Society of America 2008 Conference

                          Chicago, Illinois 3-5 April, 2008

East and West in the Holy Land. 1517-1713.

This session will take a comparative look at travel to the Levant, but
more specifically to the Holy Land. How differently do people from
various regions reflect on the experience? Given the Jewish, Christian,
and Muslim veneration for the land, what role does religious belief play
in the making of the geographical narratives? What social, theological,
and/or political views do the narratives express? How might church or
state governments utilize these views and to what purpose?

This panel seeks to interrogate the ways in which Protestant authors
depict Catholicism during the Elizabethan and Jacobean era in
non-propagandistic literature. Papers should reflect on issues that
reveal the complex ways in which the divide between Protestantism and
Catholicism is articulated in drama, prose, or poetry. Were Protestant
authors always critical of their Catholic peers? How do potentially
crypto-Catholic authors like Shakespeare express their Catholic
sympathies to a Protestant audience? What is the significance of nuns
and friars in plays like "Measure for Measure," "Romeo and Juliet," "The
Jew of Malta," and "'Tis Pity She's a Whore"? How do political fears

*MOSES AND MODERNISM*
-Call for Papers for Proposed Panel-

Modernist Studies Association
Annual Meeting, November 1-4, 2007 (Long Beach, CA)
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/conferences/msa9/CFP/

Dear Colleagues,

Publishing a conference paper in a refereed journal is rarely the immediate
outcome of a conference presentation; however, this call for papers is also
a call for such scholarly articles.

Please read the email below, visit the website listed below, and if you
still have questions, feel free to contact me directly.

Do pass this call on by word of mouth and via your other list-serves.

Finally, encourage your Ph.D students to submit abstracts -- the Zora forum
is an excellent source of both intellectual support and constructive
criticism.

Deidre Crumbley

            deidre_crumbley_at_ncsu.edu

919 787 8153

Institutional grant funding has been secured to custom publish an anthology
of new essays dealing with the depiction of religious faith or spirituality
in world cinema. The editors seek proposals for critically informed,
previously unpublished essays that explore the representation of faith and
spirituality in canonical works of film. Although all proposals are
welcome, essays dealing with one or more of the following directors are
especially solicited:

CFP: Resurrecting the =93First Five Hundred=94: The Fathers and Early =20=

Modern English Culture, 1500-1660

In his =93Challenge Sermon=94 delivered at St. Paul=92s Cross on =
November =20
26, 1559, Bishop John Jewel argued that the English divines would =20
assert as foundational the underlying belief that the ancient Fathers =20=

Dulia et Latria (roughly translated as service to man and service to
God) is an online journal dedicated to exploring dulia and latria
within the Christian faith. In his late 14th century Tractatus de
Mandatis Divinis, John Wycliffe, writing against iconic idolatry within
the Catholic church, defined dulia as the reverence men and women owe
to each other and latria as the reverence a man or woman owes only to
God. He was interested in developing a taxonomy for and an analysis of
duties involved in the horizontal relationship between created beings
themselves and the vertical relationship between the created and the
creator, and so are we. With our journal we wish to showcase current and

Performance and Spirituality:

The Journal of the Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality

CFP: "Delineating the Field": Submission Deadline, May 15, 2007.

(The Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality is an emerging
research center that operates in association with the Martin E. Segal Theatre
Center of The Graduate Center, of the City University of New York.)

CFP: Jewish Memorial Books (June 11, 2007; collection)

Proposed Panel
American Anthropological Association (AAA): Nov. 28 – Dec. 2 2007
Washington, DC

Please send paper abstracts (250 words) and direct inquiries to: Lydia
Boyd (lydia.boyd_at_nyu.edu) by March 12th.

Hookin' up (with Jesus): Kinship, Desire, and Love among born-again
young adults in the Global South

  Call for Papers
   
  Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Event and Academic Conference
  July 6-8, 2007
  Kansas City, MO
   
  Submission deadline: March 31, 2007
   
  We invite abstracts for papers, roundtable discussions, and presentation/lectures on any topic related to the representation of theological and religious matters in the works of novelist and futurist Robert A. Heinlein.
   
  Heinlein achieved fame (or perhaps infamy) with his controversial depictions of various religions, real and imaginary. Was he an atheist, an agnostic, or a true believer whose "impatience with human institutions" forced him to mock the institution while still honoring what it stood for?
   

Papers invited in all genres that treat any aspect of anti-Semitism.
250-word abstracts by 10 March.

In order to present at the MLA Convention, individuals must be
registered members by 31 March.

Contact Evelyn Avery (eavery_at_towson.edu) for more information.

CFP: workshop on "American Judaism" at the DGfA (Germany) 07 (3/15/07;
5/31/07-06/03/07)

This workshop on "American Judaism" will take place within the Annual
Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (DGFA) whose
topic this year is "Religion." The conference will take place in
Dortmund/Bochum, Germany, from May 31st to June 3, 2007.