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2015 Annual Meeting

Atlanta, GA

Meeting Begins11/21/2015
Meeting Ends11/24/2015

Call for Papers Opens: 12/17/2014
Call for Papers Closes: 3/4/2015

Requirements for Participation

Religious Experience in Antiquity


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Religious Experience in Antiquity section will be sponsoring three sessions this year. (1) The first is a quad-sponsored session with the Science, Technology, and Religion Group (AAR), the Religion, Affect, and Emotion Group (AAR), and the Cognitive Science of Religion Group (AAR) on the topic of "Religion, Emotion, and Belief?" How can recent approaches from the natural and social sciences help scholars of religion to better understand the religious experience of belief? Is belief a natural product of affective and cognitive processes? What role does emotion play in belief? Does the role of emotion and belief function differently in “science” and “religion”? How do religions use emotion in the cultivation of the believing religious-subject? Is there room for a model of self and subjectivity that goes beyond self-cultivation, in which a subject is being acted upon (ethics of passion)? How does work on emotions complicate or challenge the links between belief and religiosity? What are the distinct benefits and limitations to conceptualizing religious belief in these ways? (2)The second session on Shamanism will be jointly sponsored with the Mysticism, Esotericism, and Gnosticism in Antiquity Section. Papers that revisit the usefulness of shamanism for the study of religion and religious experience are encouraged. (3) The third session is an open call for papers on any topic related to religious experience in antiquity. Those interested are strongly urged to highlight the methodological approach that will be taken. Innovative approaches are especially welcome.

Program Unit Chairs

Angela Kim Harkins

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