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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

Greco-Roman Religions


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Greco-Roman Religions Section invites papers for two sessions. The first panel focuses on “Healing Cults in the Mediterranean World from the Late Hellenistic to Early Imperial Period.” Papers are invited that explore a broad range of practices in context pertaining to a range of ancient healing cults. Proposals are especially welcome that describe, explain, and theorise healing practices, institutionalised cults, healing cult personnel, and related cult spaces as these occurred across the Mediterranean world, both in continuity as well as in contextually wrought innovations. Papers should ideally seek to understand different healing cults and sets of healing practices in relation to each other but also in relation to the wider encompassing social, cultural and religious discourses. The second session is devoted to the new book project: “Redescribing Cult Formation in the Early Imperial Era. Discourse, Invention, Material Religion.” The aim of the project is a redescriptive conceptualization of ancient religious formations in a material or naturalistic understanding of how religions originate. The project is conceptualized to be comprehensively redescriptive, which implies extensive comparative study, and the application of a broad range of culture studies, discourse studies, social science and spatiality theories, and ethnomethodologies (incl. human geography and cultural geography). The planned first session for 2015 will be devoted to conceptualizing theoretical frameworks for such a redescriptive conceptualization of ancient religious formations. Papers are invited that reflect on comparative and redescriptive frameworks for theorizing ancient religious formations with reference to case studies as illustrative instantiations of theory-informed explanations of cult formations. Contributors should reflect on how theories mutually relate in order to avoid silos of conceptualization, so as to enable comprehensive interpretation and “deep understanding.”

Program Unit Chairs

Gerhard van den Heever

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