[Discussion] CFP: Criticism and the Divine (9/15/05; NEMLA, 3/2/06-3/5/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Scott DeShong <spdes@conncoll.edu>

Criticism and the Divine: a Society for Critical Exchange session at the
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia, March 2-5,
2006.

Twenty-minute presentations concerning the notion (or concept, image,
invocation, etc.) of the divine or the sacred as it emerges for recent
criticism/theory of literature and/or culture. How is the notion 
explicitly or
implicitly defined, engaged, critiqued, avoided, superseded, deflected, 
etc.?

The topic might involve various lines of inquiry. How might one assess the
(putative) resurgence of interest in religion reflected in academic, 
popular,
and political discourse? What about concerns with faith, sublimity,
absoluteness, incorruptibility, and so on in areas besides religion, such as
aesthetics? Conversely, how might one respond to Talal Asad's question, 
"What
would an anthropology of secularism look like?"

Abstracts due 9/15/05 to Scott DeShong, spdes@conncoll.edu or
alternatively Quinebaug Valley Community College, 742 Upper Maple St.,
Danielson CT 06239, USA.

For more information on NEMLA and its annual convention see
http://www.nemla.org.


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