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CFP: “Mutual Conditionings of Gender and Love” Aarhus, 16-19 October 2017

Given the increasing discontent in gender studies with constructivism’s (in)ability to account for material protests against cultural constructions, especially in studies of aging, disability, queer identities, and the environment, we ask if there are new insights from across disciplines to be gained by testing constructivist understandings up against posthuman and new materialist approaches to gender …

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Power of the Word International Conference V – The Prophetic Word

Power of the Word International Conference V – The Prophetic Word (Regent’s Park College, Oxford, 13-16 September 2017). Organized by the Heythrop Institute for Religion and Society (Heythrop College, University of London) and the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford). For more information visit: http://www.heythrop.ac.uk/events/prophetic-word-poetry-philosophy-and-theology-conversation or https://www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/call-for-papers-prophetic-word-conference-2017/ The fifth …

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Call for Contributions

The editors of The Encyclopedia of the Bible & Its Reception seek articles on the following headings relating to “Literature”. Please contact anthony.swindell@cantab.net to express interest in contributing. SLs Needed by 30th November 2016 (Some leeway negotiable) Kyrios La Fontaine, Charles de Labor (childbirth) Ladino Culture Laity Lame, Lameness Lamech Lament, Lamentation Lamentation of Jesus …

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Post-Glasgow Update

Dear Members, Our 18th biennial ISRCL conference, this year in Glasgow, Scotland, is now behind us. For yet another year, participants were privileged to a variegated and enriching feast of stimulating discussion and debate, of intense intellectual engagement, and of local cultural exposure, this time around the theme of Lines in the Sand: Borders, Conflicts …

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CFP: Glasgow 2016 (archive)

The 18th Biennial Conference for the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture Lines in Sand Borders, Conflicts and Transitions in Religion, Literature and Culture University of Glasgow 9-11 September, 2016 www.linesinsand2016.wordpress.com Keynote Speakers Catherine Keller, Drew University. Author of On The Mystery: Discerning God in Process, Cloud of the Impossible and Face of the …

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Glasgow 2016 (archive)

The 18th Biennial Conference for the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture Lines in Sand Borders, Conflicts and Transitions in Religion, Literature and Culture University of Glasgow 9-11 September, 2016 www.linesinsand2016.wordpress.com Keynote Speakers Catherine Keller, Drew University. Author of On The Mystery: Discerning God in Process, Cloud of the Impossible and Face of the …

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2016 Conference (archive)

The 18th Biennial Conference for the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture Lines in Sand Borders, Conflicts and Transitions in Religion, Literature and Culture University of Glasgow 9-11 September, 2016 www.linesinsand2016.wordpress.com Keynote Speakers Catherine Keller, Drew University. Author of On The Mystery: Discerning God in Process, Cloud of the Impossible and Face of the …

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Conference Announcement

Lines in Sand Borders, Conflicts and Transitions in Religion, Literature and Culture The 18th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture University of Glasgow, 9-11th September 2016. Keynote Speakers:   Catherine Keller, Drew University. Author of: On The Mystery – Discerning God in Process, Cloud of the Impossible and Face of the …

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Grounding the Sacred through Literature and the Arts Conference

Grounding the Sacred through Literature and the Arts Conference 23 to 26 July 2015, Australian Catholic University, 25A Barker Road, Strathfield, NSW 2135 The conference will bring writers, artists, musicians, academics, researchers, religious and members of the public together to discuss where creativity sits in relation to religion and the search for meaning. Are the …

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Books for Review

The following books are available for review in <i>Literature & Theology</i>. If you are interested in reviewing, please contact <A HREF=”mailto: fiona.darroch@stir.ac.uk”>Fiona Darroch</A>.   Carter, James.  Ricoeur on Moral Religion: A Hermeneutics of Ethical Life. OUP, 2014. Nayar, Sheila J.  Dante’s Sacred Poem: Flesh and the Centrality of the Eucharist to the Divine Comedy. Bloomsbury, …

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