The Power of the Word Poetry and Prayer: Continuities and Discontinuities 29-30 June 2012 Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence—is denied them – Emily Dickinson An international conference organized jointly by the Institute of English Studies and Heythrop College, University of London. Venue: Senate House, University of London The second [...]
Call for Articles, Reviews and Interviews from TEXT MATTERS: A JOURNAL OF LITERATURE, THEORY AND CULTURE Published by the University of Łodź in Poland editor-in-chief: Dorota Filipczak No. 4 Special Themed Issue: Revisioning Paul Ricoeur and Julia Kristeva edited by Pamela Sue Anderson and Dorota Filipczak At first glance Paul Ricoeur and Julia Kristeva seem [...]
SAMLA, 9-11 November Religious travel is found in many of the world’s greatest literary works, from the pilgrims going to Canterbury to Tripitaka collecting the sacred scrolls in India to Las Casas traveling around the New World to Dante ascending from Hell into Paradise–just to name a few well-known examples. Presentations on any topic related [...]
Feminism in Academia: An Age of Austerity? Current Issues and Future Challenges 28 September 2012, The University of Nottingham Dear Colleagues, The Feminist and Women’s Studies Assocation (FWSA) and the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association (CWWA) are pleased to announce details of their collaborative event, ‘Feminism in Academia: An Age of Austerity? Current Issues and Future [...]
This collection brings together a diversity of scholars working at the historical and thematic intersections of Christianity and critical theory. In spite of the long historical interrelationship of biblical hermeneutics and literary criticism, much 20th century critical theory has underestimated the potential contributions of theology to theory. In the past two decades, however, several scholars [...]
Two new publications (in German only) from ISRLC member Georg Langenhorst: Georg Langenhorst: Literarische Texte im Religionsunterricht. Ein Handbuch für die Praxis: (Herder: Freiburg 2011) Buy on Amazon.de Buy direct from publisher Georg Langenhorst (ed.): Gestatten Gott! Religion in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur der Gegenwart (Sankt Michaslsbund: München 2011) Buy on Amazon.de Buy direct from [...]
Religion and Popular Culture Network: 2012 Meeting Sex, Friends and Emotional Highs: Religion and Theology Encounter Popular Music Thursday 13th September 2012 (4pm) to Saturday 15th September 2012 (12 noon) Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, near Chester Beautiful quiet, location; en-suite bedrooms Residential rate (all inclusive): £140 Non-residential rate (including dinner on Thursday, lunch and dinner on [...]
An afternoon workshop devoted to critical pedagogy, the well-being agenda and the contributions the disciplines of philosophy and religious studies can make to these issues. We will be exploring how philosophy, philosophy of religion, practical theology and religious studies can enrich contemporary discourse about education in general and the pedagogy of happiness in particular. This [...]
8th Annual Religion, Literature, and the Arts Conference at the University of Iowa Futures and Illusions: Hope and the Longing for Utopia 24-26 August 2012 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Marilynne Robinson Thomas A. Carlson Having explored the question of presence and presents, contextualized around the space of home and the movement of homecoming, the 2012 conference [...]
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Literature and Theology: Cognitive Science, Literature and Religion We invite essays that bring together the fields of cognitive science, literature and religion. Such topics might include the cognitive nature of prayer, ritual, faith, mysticism, myth-making, and belief as represented in the literature of a particular culture and historical period; [...]
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