religion

UPDATE: Resisting the Goddess: Disguising the Sacred Feminine (04/01/06;
SAMLA, 11/10/06-11/12/06)

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DEADLINE CHANGED TO 04/01/06

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Proposals are sought on the topic of the sacred feminine, a consistent th=
eme
in literary history, but also one which has received renewed attention in=

religious studies and which was recently popularized by the novel The Da
Vinci Code and its attendant controversies. Especially welcome are propos=
als
which discuss the textual and academic resistance to representing the sac=
red
feminine. Possible authors would include Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Hemingway,=

Women Prophets, Revolutionary Politics

Papers on new directions for traditional topics, neglected beliefs and
practices, as well as contact among religious communities (Native,
European, African). Send 1-page proposals by March 15 to: Lisa Gordis
(lgordis_at_barnard.edu) and Kristina Bross (kbross_at_cla.purdue.edu)

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Kristina Bross

Associate Professor

English and American Studies

Purdue University

500 Oval Drive

West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038

765/494-3745

XI CONGRESO LATINOAMERICANO SOBRE RELIGI=C3=93N Y ETNICIDAD
XI LATIN AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON RELIGION AND ETHNICITY

CALL FOR PAPERS

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: March 25th

INTERTEXTUALIDAD Y RELIGI=C3=93N: TEXTOS, DEVOCIONES E IDEOLOG=C3=8DAS.=20=

Coordinador: Francisco Pe=C3=B1a Fern=C3=A1ndez

INTERTEXTUALITY AND RELIGION: TEXTS, FORMS OF DEVOTION, AND IDEOLOGIES.=20=

Coordinator: Francisco Pe=C3=B1a Fern=C3=A1ndez

RELIGIOUS WORLDS: Identities and Convergences
July 3-8, 2006, Sao Paulo, Brazil

CALL FOR PAPERS

BELIEF
Faith, Knowledge, and Credulity in the Eighteenth Century

Transatlantic Eighteenth-Century Group
Department of English
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
30 September 2006

Second Annual University of Ottawa English Graduate
Conference
Propaganda and its Discontents

Session Title: Literature and Religion

RMMLA Convention

October 12 - October 14, 2006

DoubleTree Resort Hotel at Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona

Deadline: March 15, 2006

 
  I would like to invite submissions for the session on Literature and Religion. Papers can address a wide range of perspectives by focusing on specific writers and works that explore religious identity, its place in secular societies, and the way it impacts the national collective.
   
  A range of topics may include:
  - Religious identity
  - Religion and nation
  - Secularism
  - Fundamentalism
  - Religion and revolution
  -Institutionalized Religion

The Queensland Society for the Study of Religion (QSSR)
in conjunction with the
School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of=20
Queensland
and the
Straight Out of Brisbane Festival (SOOB)

presents the inaugural QSSR conference

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***Alternative Expressions of the Numinous***
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**Date: Friday 18 - Sunday 20 August 2006

**Venue: School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, =
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of Queensland, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane, Australia

**Conference Chairs:

Helen Farley
Danielle Kirby, and
Julie Washington

**Confirmed Speakers:

Modern Jewish Popular Literatures: Beyond the U.S.

Recent investigations into American Jewish popular literature and culture
have highlighted both the ³inside² interest of American Jews to subvert or
recontextualize Jewish identity, and the ³outside² interest of the culture
industries in exploiting yet another profitable brand of urban youth
culture.

But less explored are the Jewish popular literatures that developed in
Eastern and Western Europe, in Israel and the Middle East, and among
Orthodox as well as secular Jews upon their entrance into modernity. Their
extensive history offers a much-needed transnational context for the
contemporary American Jewish scene.

Junior Researcher Symposium "On the Outlook: Figures of the Messianic"

Call For Papers

In conjunction with the international conference "Messianism and the
Law" which will take place on 11 and 12 May 2006, the Institute of
Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp is also planning a Junior
Researcher Symposium "On the Outlook: Figures of the Messianic" which
will be conducted on 10 and 11 May 2006.

Contributions for this Junior Researcher Symposium, which is expected
to focus on the modes and functions of Messianic thinking in
twentieth-century philosophy, may be submitted to the organizers as
listed below.

The Society for Reformation Research (SRR: website at
http://www.reformationresearch.org/ ), a North American scholarly
organization and partner group to the Verein für Reformationgeschichte,
is concerned with furthering scholarly research on the Protestant and
Catholic Reformations and all other aspects of religious life in the
early modern era. Following our mandate, we will sponsor a variety of
sessions at the 2006 annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Studies
Conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA), from October 26-29.

Call for Papers

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CHRISTIANITY AND CULTURE CONFERENCE

Through the Wardrobe: Engaging Fantasy in the Arts and Popular Culture=20

Key Note Speaker: Stanley Mattson, President of the C. S. Lewis
Foundation

California Baptist University, 11 March 2006 calbaptist.edu/narnia
<http://www.book-conference.com/>=20

Call for Paper Details

I am currently working on an edited volume of papers provisionally
titled 'Shopping for Jesus!: Religion as Commodity'. The aim of this is
to explore the connections between belief, its presentation, and the
processes by which it is sold and consumed. I want to think about the
way in which religion operates in a market culture and the degree to
which one can use the notions of branding, advertising and marketing to
understand missionary and revival activities. Conversely, one might ask
whether religious methods of self-promotion underlay the development of
some of the techniques of private enterprise. I am interested in papers
that explore such themes from a range of locations in time, space and

    Call for Book Reviewers
   
   If there is a book on Buddhism that you are interested in reviewing contact the Journal of Buddhist Ethics (JBE). The Journal of Buddhist Ethics is an academic journal dedicated entirely to Buddhist ethics, and is innovative in adopting a totally electronic mode of publication. We welcome writers from diverse backgrounds that can and are willing to provide fresh insight into recently published books.