Fwd: Call for Papers, Columbia University: Re-stating religion

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HinduThought, Srinivasan Kalyanaraman

<kalyan97@g...> wrote:

 

The Religion Graduate Students' Association of Columbia University is

now

accepting papers for inclusion in their Second Annual

Interdisciplinary

Graduate Student Conference:

 

"Re-Stating Religion: A Conference Reconsidering the Rules"

Thursday-Friday, March 23-24, 2006

Columbia University, New York

 

**Please note the change of date and extended submission deadline**

 

Featured Speakers:

 

*Talal Asad, Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center author of

_Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity_ (2004)and

_Genealogies of Religion: Disciplines and Reasons of Power in

Christianity

and Islam_ (1993)

 

*Janet Jakobsen, Professor of Women's Studies, Barnard College, and

of the Barnard Center for Research on Women co-author of _Love the

Sin:

Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance_ (2003); co-

editor

of "World Secularisms at the

 

Millennium," a special edition of _Social Texts_ (2000); and author of

_Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and

Feminist

Ethics_ (1998)

 

*Charles Hirschkind, Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley author of

_Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors

(2005) and

_Technologies of Islamic Piety: Cassette Sermons and the Ethics of

Listening_ (1999)

 

*David Watt, Professor of Religion, Temple University author of

Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power

(2002)

and a work in progress investigating the

application of "fundamentalism" to American Judaism

 

Description:

 

This conference is designed to investigate the use of particular

narratives

increasingly deployed across historical and geographical contexts to

describe religio-political situations, such as "secularization,"

"tolerance," and "fundamentalism." Also under consideration are the

ways

these tropes are utilized to discuss particular specific national or

international practices and shape discussions of free exercise,

democracy,

and human rights. Proposals for papers will be accepted for

consideration

under (but not limited to) the following panels:

-Genealogies of Fundamentalism (exploring how the notion

of "fundamentalism"

has been constructed and utilized in various contexts)

-Genealogies of Secularism (a similar project and related theme

investigating how this notion has developed as a prescriptive

orprohibited

political position)

 

-Religion and Government/Governance (questioning the ways particular

practices are described as "religious" and officially or implicitly

prescribed or prohibited)

-"Tolerating" Difference (examining the history and efficacy of

tolerance as

a model for negotiating conflicts)

 

-Religions of Human Rights (looking into the possible connections

between

developing discourses of human rights and indices of religious ethics)

-Original Accounts (discussing narratives of origins various political

parties or constituencies hold to as foundational, and their

associated

prescriptions for religious-governmental relations)

 

Proposals will also be considered for full panels dealing with related

themes.

 

Abstracts for 20-25 min presentations should be two pages in length

and

include a short bio or CV

 

Please direct all submissions to Rosemary Hicks rrh2103@c...

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 December, 2005

 

 

 

 

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