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Meeting Program Units

2012 Annual Meeting

Chicago, IL

Meeting Begins11/16/2012
Meeting Ends11/20/2012

Call for Papers Opens: 2/8/2012
Call for Papers Closes: 3/7/2012

Requirements for Participation

Religious Experience in Antiquity


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: We are organizing two sessions this year. The first is co-sponsored with the Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity section. For this session we invite papers analyzing themes of formation or transformation in Wisdom or Apocalyptic texts as experiences, not simply as teaching or ideas. The experiences of trans/formation may be individual or corporate and relevant texts might be reports of such experiences or have been used to generate them. Appropriate areas of focus could be the stimulation of emotions and sensations or the use of ritual practices. Proposals should show how the paper will explore the human aspects of such experiences rather than probing their confessional character. For our second session we invite papers that address the phenomenology of spatiality and embodied experiences in biblical and related literature. Topics could include consideration of journey experiences, bodily techniques (positioning and movement), and the use and effects of physical environments. Papers that use interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome.

Program Unit Chairs

Angela Kim Harkins
Colleen Shantz

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