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> >Subject: CFP: Reading Spiritualites (UK) (10/31/05; 1/20/06-1/22/06) > >From: "Llewellyn, Dawn \(llewelld\)" <[log in to unmask]> > >Reading Spiritualities >Constructing and representing spiritualities through the medium of text: >sacred, literary and visual > >20-22nd January 2006 >Hosted by the Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University > >KEY NOTE SPEAKERS >Michele Roberts (title tbc) >Ursula King (title tbc) >David Jasper: "Do not hide your face from me" (Psalm 27): The Sacred and >the Profane Body in Art and Modern Literature=20 > >The reading, response, construction and representation of sacred, >secular and cultural 'texts' have always been a vital source in the >quest for the spiritual. This is true of new and emerging >spiritualities as well as traditional religions. While 'spirituality' >is a fluid notion, sacred texts and literature, poetry, drama, art, >cinema, dance, music are all forms of text through which ideas and >images of the spiritual are manifest and through which the spiritual can >be created. This conference will explore the interactions and >connections between texts old and new, readers and spiritualities. >Further, this event also aims to discover ways in which texts are >informed by the spiritual and how texts inform the spiritual. How is >the creative process a spiritual pursuit? How do texts represent >spiritual themes and identities? How do texts create spiritual themes >and identities? How are texts used to imagine the divine? What is the >role of 'reading' texts in the search for religious and spiritual >meaning? What is the relationship between the text, reader and reading >in the context of spirituality?=20 > >This event will bring together creative writers, theorists from >contemporary literature and literary theory, feminist and gender >studies, new spiritualities, biblical studies, religious studies, >history, and spiritual practitioners. Abstracts (300 words) are invited >from theoretical, textual, empirical work and the creative arts, from a >wide range of disciplines and themes. > >Deadline for abstracts: 31st October 2005. > >Panels and non-traditional formats welcomed.=20 > >If you would like any further information please contact: > >Conference Organisers: >Dr. Deborah Sawyer [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 (0)1524 592415 >Dawn Llewellyn [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 >(0)1524 594566 > >Website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/events/spiritualities > >Department of Religious Studies >Furness College >Lancaster University >Lancaster >LA1 4YG >Tel: + 44 (0)1524 592425 =20 >Fax: + 44 (0)1524 847039 =20 > > >Dawn Llewellyn >Department of Religious Studies >Furness College >Lancaster University=20 >LA1 4YG >United Kingdom >+44 (0)1524 594566 >READING SPIRITUALITIES CONFERENCE, Lancaster University, 20-22nd January >2006 >http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/events/spiritualities > > ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Meghan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html