The International Society for Media, Religion and Culture is soliciting academic papers for its 2014 conference, to be held at the University of Kent.
The conference will explore how we can understand societies in which much public encounter with religion takes place through media and in which religious life takes place through a multiplicity of mediated practices and networks. It will explore questions such as what difference do media content, aesthetics, technologies and networks make to the ways in which religion is understood and practiced? And how do we understand the nature of power in relation to these mediated networks and practices?
For more details of the conference, please see the page here:
www.kent.ac.uk/secl/thrs/events/event2014-08-06.html
The Society is accepting paper proposals of up to 350 words; panel proposals (which must include paper titles, 150 word abstracts for each paper, and names and titles of four participants plus a moderator/respondent); and proposals for exhibitions and/or workshops of up to 350 words. Sessions will be 90 minutes in length.
Some of the questions that may be addressed in paper, panel, workshop, or exhibition proposals include:
- The role of media in shaping religious and cultural understandings
- Emergent networks of meaning, religion, and power
- Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of religion and media
- The role of religious and humanitarian organizations in cross-national justice and media initiatives
- Media and human rights
- Media, religion, and authority
- Religious conflict and media representation
- Religion and film
- Growing up multi-cultural and multi-religious in a mediated world
- Religion, globalisation and cosmopolitanism
- The role of media in the emergence of global religious and cultural movements
- Diasporic media and transnational religious communities
- Media, religion and global politics
- The mediatization of religion
- Religion, media, and the global marketplace
Proposals should be sent to Professor. Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Denver (Lynn.Clark@du.edu).
The deadline for submission is 15 December 2013. Notification of acceptances will be sent out from 15th January 2014.