[Bilimsel Haber] Fwd: UPDATE: The Half-Life of Religious Thinking (4/15/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

[Nazan Haydari]

--- Douglas Harrison <dharrison@wustl.edu> wrote:

> From: "Douglas Harrison" <dharrison@wustl.edu>
> To: <cfp@english.upenn.edu>
> Subject: UPDATE: The Half-Life of Religious Thinking
> (4/15/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06) 
> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:56:40 -0600
> 
> Deadline for abstracts: April 15, 2006
> 
> Religion and Literature panel: The Half-life of
> Religious Thinking 
> 
> Literary engagements with religious ideas
> consistently reveal a conflict
> between the literary imagination and religious
> orthodoxy. This conflict
> often occurs when texts try to accommodate
> theological absolutes to human
> experience. Moments when psychosocial pressures make
> such accommodations
> necessary usually mark stages in the half-life of
> religious thinking -
> points at which religious ideas must undergo shifts
> and readjustments to
> remain relevant. This panel seeks readings of texts
> that revise, reshape,
> update, or adapt religious orthodoxy and/or
> religious texts in an effort to
> make some aspect of religion (more) responsive to
> human needs. Papers are
> especially welcome that examine textual
> reimaginations (literary or
> cultural) of the sacred in secular forms (e.g. film
> or the novel) or in a
> non-sacred idiom (e.g. Transcendentalism or science
> fiction). 
> 
> Please send 200-word abstract within the body of an
> email to Douglas
> Harrison (dharrison@wustl.edu) by April 15, 2006.
> Information about the
> M/MLA meeting, to be held November 9-12 in Chicago,
> can be found at:
> www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/ 
> 
> Douglas Harrison
> Washington University in St. Louis
> English CB 1122
> 1 Brookings Drive
> St. Louis, MO 63130
> 
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