[csaa-forum] Update: Cfp Belief and Unbelief in a Post-secular Age

[Em McAvan]

Apologies for cross-posting.

I posted a call for papers awhile back, however we have a new deadline for abstracts: May 30th.  

Em.  


Call For Papers:  “Belief and Unbelief in a Post-secular Age”     The
question of belief – its role, meaning, and, indeed, its very
possibility – is an important one for the present age. “We are
constantly trying to think the interconnectedness,” writes Derrida, “of
knowledge and faith, technoscience and religious belief, calculation and the sacrosanct.”  As
Derrida suggests, belief today seems polarized between two very
different forms of experience or knowledge. This situation alone places
a demand on us to rethink both the nature of belief and its role in
contemporary life.     We invite papers addressing this topic for a one-day interdisciplinary seminar at Murdoch University on July 14.  Perspectives from a range of disciplines such as literature, philosophy, theology, media and cultural studies are welcome.  Possible topics include, but are not limited to:     ·     “Fundamentalist” forms of religious belief.  ·         Unbelief as a species of belief.  ·         The Dawkins debate and the rise of atheism.  ·         The waning of conventional belief systems: New Age spiritualities, weak thought, weak theology.   ·         The legacy of Enlightenment rationalism.   ·         Epistemological perspectives on belief.  ·         Postmodernism as a crisis of belief; postmodernism as its resurgence.   ·         Politics, nationalism and religion (for instance, the messianicism of Barack Obama).   ·         Belief in texts—novels, films, television, online.         Please send your 300 word abstracts to Matthew Jamieson at matthewrjamieson at yahoo.com and Em McAvan at estrangedcognition at hotmail.com by May 30.     This seminar proudly presented by the Krishna Somers Foundation. 
      


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