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CALL FOR PAPERS<\/strong><\/div>\n
Fifth Annual Religions in Conversation Conference<\/div>\n
Claremont Graduate University<\/div>\n
School of Religion<\/div>\n
Conference Date: Friday, February 24, 2012<\/div>\n
Location: Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA<\/div>\n

The School of Religion at Claremont Graduate University invites papers on the relationship between religion and popular culture. We encourage submissions based on our theme:<\/p>\n

\u201cNavigating the Sacred and Profane in American Popular Culture<\/strong>\u201d<\/div>\n

In recent years academics have paid increasing attention to the dynamic between religion and popular culture. This development is not surprising given the salience of religion in public consciousness and discourse, especially in the United States: from the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon and commercialized forms of Kabbalah to the Left Behind book series and Bill Maher\u2019s Religulous, the topic is clearly relevant, not to mention marketable. The relationship between religion and popular culture engenders basic but important questions for scholars of religion: what are the demarcations and boundaries between religion and popular culture, between the sacred and profane? Do \u201creligion,\u201d \u201cpopular culture,\u201d and \u201cpopular religiosity\u201d name
\nseparate categories? Or are they somehow related, intertwined, and at times even synonymous?<\/p>\n

We invite proposals for papers on religion and American popular culture and are particularly interested in transdisciplinary research related to traditions represented by Claremont Graduate University\u2019s religious
\ncouncils: Catholicism, Coptic Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Mormonism<\/a>, Protestantism, and Zoroastrianism. The following are suggested research areas:<\/p>\n

Print, Social Media, Radio, Television, and Film<\/div>\n
Popular Culture and the Apocalyptic<\/div>\n
New Religious Movements<\/div>\n
\u201cMaterial Religion\u201d and \u201cLived Religion\u201d<\/div>\n

Send abstracts of no more than 200 words\u2014along with a brief biography\u2014to the conference chair, Donald Westbrook, at religion.events@cgu.edu<\/a>. The subject line of your email should read \u201cProposal: 2012 Religions in Conversation Conference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Submission Deadline is October 15, 2011.<\/p>\n

Presenters will be notified of acceptance by November 1, 2011.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact Donald Westbrook at religion.events@cgu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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