The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 21.0413  Monday, 1 November 2010

From:         Hardy M. Cook <
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Date:         Monday, November 1, 2010        
Subject:      CFP: The Hospitable Text 

Call for Papers: The Hospitable Text: New Approaches to Religion and Literature, 14 
- 16 July 2011, London Notre Dame Centre, UK.
 
Plenary lecturers will include: Rowan Williams (The Archbishop of Canterbury), Julia 
Reinhard Lupton (UC Irvine), and John Schad (Lancaster University).

Other participants include: Jo Carruthers (Bristol University), Paul Contino  
(Pepperdine University), John Cox (Hope College), Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway, 
University of London), Mark Eaton (Azusa Pacific University), Peter Hawkins (Yale 
University), and Emma Mason (Warwick University). 
 
(With sponsorship from the Conference on Christianity and Literature, Literature and 
Theology, Religion and Literature, the University of Notre Dame, and the Calvin 
Center for Christian Scholarship.)
 
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the relationship between religion 
and literature, with the broader critical turn to religion in the arts and 
humanities helping invigorate an interdisciplinary field that has been well served 
through the work of journals such as Christianity and Literature, Religion and 
Literature and Literature and Theology. Recognizing the importance of talking 
further about our different approaches to the field, this conference will bring 
together wide variety of scholars in order to enable and enrich contemporary 
explorations of religion and literature.

Call for Papers

The theme of our conference is The Hospitable Text. Contemporary theorists and 
theologians have paid considerable attention recently to the idea of hospitality, 
recognizing, among other things, the value of actively hosting viewpoints different 
from our own rather than merely tolerating their presence. With this in mind, papers 
are invited that address any of the following topics:

* Religious/literary/theological explorations of hospitality
* The relationship between religion and literature
* Literature and religious pluralism/difference
* Dialogism in the novel
* Controversy and literature
* Strangers, guests, and visitors in literary texts
* Literary reflections on the Eucharist
* The relationship between the religious and the secular
* Related themes, such as friendship, tolerance, charity, and peace.
* Literature and the Bible
* Fundamentalism
* Religious violence
* Hermeneutical conversations
* Communal reading

Papers are not restricted to a particular faith or religious tradition, or to a 
particular historical period.

The deadline to submit proposals has passed. Further details about registration 
costs, accommodation details, and travel arrangements will be available by November 
30.

A PDF version of the Call for Papers may be downloaded here.
<CFP_TheHospitableText.pdf>

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