{"id":4508,"date":"2012-07-27T12:49:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4508"},"modified":"2012-07-27T12:51:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T18:51:49","slug":"call-for-submissions-preternature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4508","title":{"rendered":"Call for Submissions: Preternature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 3:2. Old Gods and Ancient Ones<\/p>\n

Call them pagan or ancient, earth-based or demonic, or by names like Hekate, Isis, Poseidon, Ereshkigal, Loki, and Anath, the Old Gods have\u00a0 been topics of energetic scholarly discussion, literary recreation, and artistic depiction for decades. As supplanted as they might seem to historians, the Old Gods live on and capture our imagination.<\/p>\n

Contextualized in archaeological study, sensationalized by filmmakers,\u00a0\u00a0 and rendered in new costumes and flesh by artists, Old Gods continue,\u00a0\u00a0 components of the flexible mythologies that make up shared cultural references. They are used across literature, graphic novels, television series, cinema, and MMORPGs to tell and enact narratives.\u00a0 As they had in ancient landscapes, the Old Gods now make up part of a dynamic belief systems and figure in new forms of ritual invocations.<\/p>\n

This issue of Preternature<\/em><\/a> especially welcomes scholars whose work focuses on the new uses of ancient Asian, Babylonian, Canaanite, Egyptian, Greek, Mesoamerican, Norse, and Slavic Gods. It also welcomes contributions, from any discipline, that highlight the cultural, literary, dramatic, religious, magical, or historical\u00a0 significance of any of the ancient gods in their own contexts, as a\u00a0 part of “paganisms,” and as a part of contemporary popular cultures.<\/p>\n

We welcome synthetic overviews of Sarapis veneration in Ephesus or the cult of Mithras as much as feminist critiques of\u00a0 representations of goddesses in graphic novels. Analyses of new\u00a0 ritualizations of Old Gods in specific neopaganism groups are welcome as well. Ultimately, we are interested in how the ancient gods are\u00a0 maintained, in various media and inscholarly discussion, in this modern era.<\/p>\n

Contributions should be roughly 8,000 – 12,000 words, including all documentation and critical apparatus, and adhere to the Chicago Manual\u00a0 of Style, 15th edition (style 1, employing endnotes)<\/a>. Contributions mustbe submitted through the Preternature CMS. Final submissions are due March 31, 2013.<\/p>\n

Queries about journal scope and submissions can be made to the editor, Dr. Kirsten C. Uszkalo. Queries concerning books to be reviewed can be\u00a0 made to the book reviews editor, Dr. Richard Raiswell.<\/p>\n

Preternature<\/em><\/a> is a bi-annual publication, published through Penn State Press<\/a>, and available in print or electronically through JSTOR, Project Muse, and as a Kindle e- book.<\/p>\n

As always, I recommend reading an issue or two of the journal before submitting anything to it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural Volume 3:2. Old Gods and Ancient Ones Call them pagan or ancient, earth-based or demonic, or by names like Hekate, Isis, Poseidon, Ereshkigal, Loki, and Anath, the Old Gods have\u00a0 been topics of energetic scholarly discussion, literary recreation, and artistic depiction for decades. 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