{"id":8434,"date":"2017-01-23T16:46:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T23:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8434"},"modified":"2017-01-23T16:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T23:46:21","slug":"cfp-2017-aar-contemporary-pagan-studies-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8434","title":{"rendered":"CFP: 2017 AAR Contemporary Pagan Studies Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

All the calls for the 2017 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion are now online. The meeting itself will be held 18\u201321 November in Boston.<\/p>\n

The Pagan studies theme is “Witch Hunts: Rhetorical, Historical and Contemporary<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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The term \u201cwitch hunt\u201d is used as a rhetorical strategy in contemporary political discourses, and yet there have been and are actual hunts for witches past and present. The Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit invites papers on a variety of topics, using various methodologies, exploring rhetorical, historical, and contemporary \u201cwitch hunts.\u201d The following suggested topics are not exclusive:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The historical persecution of people as \u201cwitches,\u201d both in Salem, Massachusetts, other places in the United States, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Contemporary persecution of people as \u201cwitches\u201d in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sites of representation or memorialization of witch hunts, for example, Salem, Massachusetts, and Vardo, Norway.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The mythologizing of witch hunts, witchcraft persecution, and\/or negative images of the \u201cwitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 The hunt for \u201cwitches\u201d as antagonists to the \u201ctrue’\u201d faith or as disruptors of good social order.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tensions and contrasts between witchcraft-as-malefic and witchcraft-as-Paganism.<\/p>\n

The Pagan-Esoteric Complex: Mapping Intersecting Milieus.
\nDespite the considerable overlaps that exist between contemporary Paganism and Western esotericism, there have been no conscious efforts to bring scholars in these two fields together around intersecting research interests. To amend this situation, the Western Esotericism Unit and the Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit invite papers that deal with one of the following three intersections:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Intersecting milieus of practitioners (e.g., shared spaces and material cultures, shared practices, overlapping group memberships).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Intersecting identity discourses (e.g., the formation of identities around tropes such as \u201cmagic vs. religion\u201d, \u201cPagan vs. Christian\u201d, or \u201ctradition vs. modern\u201d).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Intersecting histories and genealogies (e.g., the roots of esotericism in the mnemohistory of Paganism, and the roots of contemporary Pagan practice in nineteenth-century esotericism).<\/p>\n

We are particularly interested in papers that focus on mapping contemporary milieus, but historical and conceptual papers are also welcome.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pagan and \u201cpagan\u201d Musics.
\nThe Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit and the Music and Religion Unit are co-sponsoring a session that would document, compare, and theorize the different uses of the term \u201cPagan,\u201d to either describe music associated with a set of religious or spiritual cultures and practices or the ways in which \u201cpagan\u201d was used as a term of exoticization of art and popular musics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We welcome a variety of approaches and methodologies. Some suggestions for topics might include: Contemporary Pagan musical traditions and chants, use of music in ritual, Pagan musicians and festivals, or \u201cpagan\u201d as signifier or marketing term for exotic or non-Western musics. We also welcome submissions on any topic in contemporary Pagan studies outside of these suggested session themes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For complete information, visit the Contemporary Pagan Studies Group’s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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