We're excited to announce that the call for papers is now open for the upcoming 2024 conference "Divine Disasters: Exploring Distressed Landscapes in Literature and Theology". 

This conference proposes “divine disasters” as a new lens for examining the interrelationship between theology, ecology, and literature. We invite papers that consider how ideas of faith, religion, the divine or the sacred are challenged during ecological crises. Focusing on the Spaces/Places of such disasters, we invite enquries into these distressed landscapes containing multitudinous emotions, including fear, sadness, anxiety, hope and anger, foregrounding theological queries of evil, doubt and suffering. “Divine disasters” becomes a framework to question human vulnerability and theology’s big questions within narratives of distressed landscapes.

The conference welcomes explorations of “divine disasters” in various forms, from imagined apocalyptic landscapes in literature to the religious implications of real-life post-disaster recovery. Potential topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

• Disasters as sites of divine retribution/reward
• Disasters as sites of emotional crisis
• Disasters as sites of changing/questioning theologies
• Divine disasters in world literature and theologies
• Divine disasters as oppressive/resistive landscapes
• Divine disasters, ethical questions and social dimensions
• Divine disasters in popular fiction/film/media/art/graphic narratives
• Future of religious and non-religious worldviews in distressed landscapes

You can read and download the full CFP from our website: https://bit.ly/DivineDisasters

We welcome you to submit to the conference and share the CFP with fellow scholars/students interested in contributing. We invite abstracts of 250-300 words, with a short biographical note of 50 words, to be sent to divinedisastersconf@gmail.com by 27th October 2023. 

Please feel free to get in touch with any questions, and we look forward to reading your submissions!

All the best, 

The Divine Disaster Team

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