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Religions and Social Innovation
An International Conference at the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, Canada
27-29 October 2013 

We are seeking proposals for papers and poster sessions that highlight the various ways that religious traditions and religiously-inspired movements have served and continue to serve as forces for social innovation. We are seeking proposals from scholars, practitioners, activists and leaders of Non-Governmental Organizations and other social initiatives. We welcome any proposal exploring the contribution of religiously-affiliated or religiously-inspired organizations, movements or initiatives in any area of social innovation.

The full CFP, including specifications for proposals, is available here: http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/doc/callForPapers_w_logo.pdf

*To be considered in the final round of adjudication, proposals must be submitted no later than 3 May 2013.

For more information, please download the full CFP (http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/doc/callForPapers_w_logo.pdf) or contact Monica Phonsavatdy, m.phonsavatdy@utoronto.ca, phone: 416.926.7256, or 416.926.1300x3306.

The Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington is hosting a conference entitled “Religious Studies 50 Years after Schempp: History, Institutions, Theory” the weekend of September 27-29, 2013.

Fifty years ago the Supreme Court of the United States announced its decision in Abington v Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963). While the case before the Court concerned the constitutionality of mandatory Bible reading in Pennsylvania public schools, the opinions in the case have come to be understood as the authorizing texts for the academic study of religion in public colleges and universities across the U.S. and beyond. 

The years following the Schempp decision witnessed a flourishing of departments of religion in public colleges and universities and an intense conversation about the appropriate approach to the academic study of religion in the U.S. context. Now, fifty years later, the anniversary of the decision provides an occasion for an appraisal of Schempp’s role and for a broader assessment of the past, present, and future of the field of religious studies. 

We invite proposals for papers across the disciplines of religious studies. While Schempp provides a focal point for the conference, we invite conferees to propose 20-minute paper presentations that consider the broader history and phenomenology of the study of religion in the multiple locations in which such study takes place, private and public.

Applicants are invited to send a proposal with a title, a 300-word abstract, and a two-page CV to the following address by May 15, 2013. Applicants may submit their materials as Word attachments. Send to: Professor David Haberman,  dhaberma@indiana.edu with a cc copy to kfrancoe@indiana.edu.

Submissions are being accepted on an ongoing basis for upcoming issues of Catholic Library World.

Catholic Library World is the official journal of the Catholic Library Association. Established in 1929, CLW is an international refereed quarterly journal. CLW publishes articles that focus on all aspects of librarianship, especially as it relates to Catholicism and Catholic Studies. CLW articles are intended for an audience that is interested in the broad role and impact of various types of libraries, including, but not limited to academic, public, theological, parish and church libraries, and school libraries. CLW respects diverse Christian traditions as well as non-Christian and welcomes relevant articles from a variety of religious traditions.

The preferred method for submitting manuscripts is as a word-processed attachment in e-mail. Author’s full name, affiliation, and e-mail address must accompany any manuscript submission.

Articles should provide something new to the existing literature. The word count should be 3500- 5000 words and should adhere to The Chicago Manual of Style (humanities is preferred). The style should be accessible and well-documented.

Submission deadline: Submissions are ongoing. 
For more information, please visit this website: http://www.cathla.org/catholic-library-world-clw

Send submissions and queries to: 
Sigrid Kelsey, General Editor, skelsey@lsu.edu

Sigrid Kelsey

Electronic Reference Services and Web Development Coordinator

LSU Libraries, LSU

Baton Rouge, LA 70803

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/faculty/kelsey

(225) 578-2720

skelsey@lsu.edu

Editor, Catholic Library World

http://www.cathla.org/catholic-library-world-clw

Religions and Social Innovation
An International Conference at the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, Canada
27-29 October 2013 

We are seeking proposals for papers and poster sessions that highlight the various ways that religious traditions and religiously-inspired movements have served and continue to serve as forces for social innovation. We are seeking proposals from scholars, practitioners, activists and leaders of Non-Governmental Organizations and other social initiatives. We welcome any proposal exploring the contribution of religiously-affiliated or religiously-inspired organizations, movements or initiatives in any area of social innovation.

The full CFP, including specifications for proposals, is available here: http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/doc/callForPapers_w_logo.pdf

*To be considered in the final round of adjudication, proposals must be submitted no later than 3 May 2013.

For more information, please download the full CFP (http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/doc/callForPapers_w_logo.pdf) or contact Monica Phonsavatdy, m.phonsavatdy@utoronto.ca, phone: 416.926.7256, or 416.926.1300x3306.

The Other Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, reviews, creative writing, and visual or performance art that encounter life through the lens of theology and culture; we seek pieces that consider the interaction of faith with contemporary life, art, politics, sexuality, technology, economics, and social justice. We are particularly interested in works which present creative, alternative views that may otherwise fall outside the margins of mainstream narratives. And although we primarily focus on perspectives within the Christian tradition, we invite dialogue with all who are interested in exploring the ongoing role of faith and spirituality in the world.

Our twenty-second issue will consider Marxism and other critical theories. In a world increasingly shaped by the forces of global capital and philosophical postmodernity, this issue will examine the possibilities for thought and action emerging at the nexus of theology and contemporary Marxisms and critical theories in the twenty-first century.

In this issue, we invite essays, articles, artwork, and creative writing that bring the broad discourse of Marxisms into conversation with contemporary theology, politics, economics, and social theory. We’re particularly interested in pieces that are suspicious of contemporary cultural metanarratives like capitalism, technology, or Western expansion. Some questions one might consider include the following: How might Marxists and critical theorists speak to our contemporary theological disciplines? Can Marxism bring justice and flourishing to those places where our politics and economics systematically marginalize the powerless? What can Christians learn from Marxism? How might our political theologies be enhanced by making use of certain Marxist ideas and philosophies, and what are the benefits and drawbacks of a theologically informed Marxism in our lives together?

Read our Style & Format Guidelines here.

Email submissions to submissions@theotherjournal.com

Journal of Mormon History

Call for Articles

Special Issue on Mormonism and Race

To be published in the summer issue of 2014

Finished papers due July 31, 2013

Special Editors:

Max Perry Mueller: mpmuell@fas.harvard.edu

Prof. Gina Colvin: gina.colvin@canterbury.ac.nz

Goals of the Journal’s special issue on Mormonism and race:

This special issue of the Journal of Mormon History aims to broaden and deepen the conversation on Mormonism and race beyond the historical focus on the ban on black men from the Mormon priesthood, and its emphasis on the U.S. experience. In particular we aim to understand “race” beyond the black-white (European-African) binary. We welcome articles ranging in historical focus from the Mormon movement’s founding to the present day. Articles exploring international encounters, race and gender, and race and politics, and race and class are of particular interest.

Requirements:

Papers should be original work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Submissions will be judged on originality, technical strength, primary sources, significance, and interest to our readers. Papers should range from 6,000 to 8,000 words. Please submit manuscripts simultaneously to both of the Special Editors listed above. Include separately a brief CV or biography.

Religion & Desire

Graduate Student Conference

February 22-23, 2013

Indiana University, Bloomington

Department of Religious Studies

Call for Proposals

Extended Deadline: December 10

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

-Goetz, in The Devil & The Good Lord,

Jean-Paul Sartre

Ah, Love! Could you and I with Him conspire

To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire

Would we not shatter it to bits - and then

Re-mould it to nearer to the Heart’s Desire!

-Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

This conference aims to foster a discussion of ways in which desire operates within religious contexts, with specific emphasis on the ways in which individuals mediate their various desires within religious realms. In addition to discussions of desire and sexuality, we aim to broaden the conversation about religion and desire to other bodily wants and esoteric needs and cravings. How have people used religion to negotiate between and pursue their desires, wants, and needs, from the visceral—the need for food, sleep, sex— and the aesthetic—the desire to experience art and music—to the metaphysical—the desire to achieve ultimate religious goals? How have religions viewed desire alternately as embodied, incorporeal, or simultaneously both? How do religious ideas about desire challenge the mind/body dualism and how do they reinforce it? Does the divine desire and, if so, what and how? How does religion mediate urge and impulse? How do religious texts assess differences between bodily and esoteric needs and wants? Where do different bodily functions fall on this spectrum? How have religious and societal leaders sought to govern individual desires?

We seek diverse theoretical frameworks and interdisciplinary approaches, studies of particular communities from around the world or comparative studies, perspectives on historical and contemporary subjects, and presentations utilizing multimedia. Presentations will be a maximum of 20 minutes long. Submissions on the following topics are encouraged but not required:

·       Religion and sexuality

·       Mind/body/spirit

·       Asceticism and the repression of desire

·       Religious longing

·       Theologies of desire and repression

·       Ethics of desire and its management

·       Desire and sin

·       Religion in queer time, space and place

·       Affect studies, emotion, and religion

·       Religious perspectives on art & aesthetics

·       Colonization and colonialism as desire

·       Religious subjectivity and self-making

·       Cognitive and psychological approaches to religious sense and experience

·       The perverse

·       Legislation of religion & desire

·       Gender and desire

·       Food, hunger and eating in religious textual motif/practice

·       Theological perspectives on popular culture

Please submit proposals as .docx attachments to iugradconf@gmail.com by December 10, 2012. Proposals must include the presenter’s name, departmental and institutional affiliation; paper title; a 250-300 word abstract; a description of audio/visual needs; and a 1-2 page CV. Panel proposals are welcome; please include a 250-300 word panel description in addition to requested information for each presenter. Notification will be sent in early January and final paper drafts will be due in early February. A faculty member will respond to each panel.

Deadline: January 7, 2013

ALL FOR PAPERS

Philologoi:
The Belmont University Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy

Philologoi: The Belmont University Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy
is a student-run scholarly journal deeply rooted in the history of
philosophy. We provide an engaging and reflective forum for showcasing
exceptional undergraduate work, particularly that which explores
philosophy as a way of life. W e will accept original work on all
topics of philosophical interest from students nationwide, to be
published in the summer of 2013.

Submissions:

Papers should not exceed 16 pages.

Please use one-inch margins, 12 pt. Times New Roman font, footnotes
rather than endnotes, numbered pages, and the Chicago style for citations.

Papers should be prepared for blind review. Your name, affiliation,
and contact information as well as a brief abstract should appear on a
cover sheet only .

“philologoi.journal@gmail.com” as a .doc or .docx attachment.

Deadline: March 4, 2013

Duquesne University Graduate Conference

October 19, 2012

Call for Papers

7th Annual Duquesne University Graduate Conference in Philosophy

Philosophy and Nature

February 23, 2013

Keynote Speaker:

Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico & Emory Psychoanalytic Institute

The relation between nomos and physis has occupied a central place in the history of philosophy, from Aristotelian Physics to contemporary analytic debates on the philosophy of mind. Moreover, nature, as both an object of knowledge and a public resource, has taken on increasingly urgent social and political import: the distribution of resources and the impact of climate change have become central issues in public policy; and, as in the cases of race, sexual difference, and sexual orientation, legal and social status is often determined in accordance with an appeal to their supposedly biological bases, or, that is, to a commonplace conception of “the natural.” Thus the very identity of the human itself is intimately connected to the ways in which nature operates either on or for us. This conference invites submissions from all areas of philosophy that are concerned to investigate the ontological, ethical, political, and epistemological status of nature.

To help facilitate this discussion, possible topics include, but are not limited to: nomos & physis in Ancient philosophy; the relation between God & nature; human freedom & natural determinism; consciousness & cognitive science; the social construction of nature; chaos & vitalism; the necessity or impossibility of causation; the constitutive relationship between humans and nature (realist, idealist, materialist, and/or hybrid positions); phenomenology of/and nature; social constructivist vs. essentialist figurations of identity; politics & the state of nature; the ethical status of animals & the environment; and the biological or social origins of race, sexual difference, and/or sexual orientation.

Submissions: Please prepare submissions for blind review and send to duquesnegradconference@gmail.com by Saturday, December 1, 2012. Submissions should not exceed 3000 words. Cover sheets should include name, submission title, email address, and institutional affiliation

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Practical Matters

a transdisciplinary multimedia journal of religious practices and

practical theology

www.practicalmattersjournal.org

Call for Submissions: Engaging Religious Experience: A Return to Ethnography and Theology

Practical Matters is now seeking submissions on the theme of Engaging Religious Experience: A Return to Ethnography and Theology.  Practical Matters is an online, multimedia, transdisciplinary journal designed to ask and provoke questions about religious practice and practical theology. Practical Matters is funded by a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and published out of the Emory University Graduate Division of Religion.  The journal contains both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed content.

The sixth issue of Practical Matters will return to themes that emerged in our Spring 2010 issue, which explored why theologians are turning to ethnographic methods and how an interdisciplinary conversation among anthropologists, scholars of religion, and theologians contributes new insights into the doing and creating of both ethnography and theology.  This new issue will focus on the description of religious experience as a theologically relevant and persistently elusive phenomenon. It will reflect on the possibilities and limitations of ethnography for translating communal embodied experience into different communities and contexts.  Finally, this issue will continue to explore intersections and interferences of descriptive and normative modes of scholarship on religious experience.  We welcome submissions from theologians, anthropologists, scholars and practitioners of religion broadly defined.

We are interested in featuring work that engages a broad spectrum of questions and themes, such as…

• How does attention to human embodiment inform our understandings of religious experience?  Can ethnographic methods provide access to certain kinds of experience that other methods sometimes overlook or obscure, such as bodily experience, interiority, and experiences of suffering? In what ways do these experiences escape the ethnographic interpreter? How does ethnography provide attentiveness to practices and experiences of exclusion?
• How can scholars and practitioners move between the descriptive work of ethnography and theological or normative claims?  Why are these moves sometimes experienced as problematic?  Do moral, theological, scholarly, or activist commitments obscure the ethnographer’s ability to represent religious experience? Does the ethnographer need to be an “insider” to make theological claims or norm religious practice?
• How does incorporating ethnography into a theological or ethical project affect the epistemological assumptions of that project? Does ethnography bring more ambiguity? More clarity? Or does using ethnography in theological projects limit the theologian’s ability to make general or normative claims? How does ethnographic study redefine the role of a theologian or ethicist?
• How can teaching the ethnographic method in the undergraduate or seminary classrooms enrich or disrupt the study of religion and theology?  How do “experiential learning” and “engaged learning” pedagogies shift students’ perspectives on religious experience? How might the use of digital media facilitate or hinder the study of religious experience in the classroom setting?
•  Can the work of ethnography itself constitute a kind of “religious experience”?  Should it?  And for whom?
• We welcome “notes from the field” (in multiple forms including audio, video, and photos) in which those doing ethnography describe unexpected challenges in their work as well as explorations into the craft of ethnographic writing and the steps between field notes and manuscript.  What is required to practice ethnography as an interpretive art and what is the role of religious or theological imagination in ethnographic practice?  

Specifically, we are looking for submissions intended for peer review in Analyzing Matters, as well as for the non-peer reviewed categories of Practicing and Teaching Matters:

1. Submissions for Analyzing Matters on the theme of Engaging Religious Experience: A Return to Ethnography and Theology will be submitted for peer review;

2. Submissions for Practicing and Teaching Matters on the theme of Engaging Religious Experience: A Return to Ethnography and Theology will be reviewed by the editors.  We welcome reflections of practitioners, essays, pedagogical reflections, or field notes concerning religious practices, rituals, or other issues of concern for scholars, theologians, teachers and practitioners;

Practical Matters is an academic journal with a diverse audience. We encourage those considering submission to think broadly, creatively, and experimentally about form and content. Submissions in any form (i.e., film, text, audio, images) may be eligible for peer review; however, the peer review process is not mandatory for all submissions.  We especially encourage non-U.S. submissions as well as multimedia and interdisciplinary pieces of original scholarship. 

The submission deadline is November 1, 2012. Submissions should be sent to submissions@practicalmattersjournal.org.  For more specific instructions on possible forms of submissions, more information on our peer review process, or to read current and past issues of Practical Matters, visitour web site: http://www.practicalmattersjournal.org/