CALL FOR PAPERS
The Donner institute will arrange a
Symposium
16-18 June 2010 in Аbo / Turku, Finland
Place:
Linnasmаki Congress Centre Hotell
Ringbrynjegatan 7 / Lustokatu 7
Tel.: +358 2 412 3500
FIN-20380 Аbo / Turku
Finland
Religion and the Body
The theme we have chosen for the Donner Institute 21th Symposium is
Religion and the Body.
One of the places where religion and culture intersect is the
body. The body can be manipulated using various methods;
methods that are also used in a non-religious context.
Examples of such are asceticism, fasting and other dietary
restrictions, and various psycho-techniques such as yoga.
The body is also mutilated for religious reasons, as in the
case of circumcision.
Examples of phenomena within this theme include:
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Bodily rites and symbolic gestures
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The body after death
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The body as a creation of divine life
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Body trance
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Circumcision of boys and girls at initiation rites
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Gender and the human body in religion
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Head-coverings, face-veiling, bowing, kneeling,
genuflecting, and other signs of spiritual modesty
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Healing
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Instrumental music, choral singing, psalm
recitation, and hand-clapping
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Intense sensory experiences, including hunger,
sexual abstinence, sleep deprivation, and skin
laceration
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The odour of incense and the sight of iconography
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The ‘purification’ or ‘churching’ of women's bodies
after childbirth
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Religious aspects of tattooing
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Soul and the flesh
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Therapy as religion
The theme of the body has been topical for quite some time
– for example, within gender studies. Thus, we probably do
not need to give any detailed account of what we refer to by
our theme
Religion and the Body. We should, however, point
out that we are thinking of the concrete body, not of body in
a metaphorical sense.
Application:
Please send your application to give a paper, with a short
abstract included, to the Donner Institute no later than
February 15 2010.
20 minutes will be reserved for your lecture followed by 10
minutes for discussion.
Finally, we would like to inform you that the lectures will be
published, in English, French or German, in volume 23 of the
Donner Institute series
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis.
The published version of your lecture may be longer than
the one you present at the symposium. We will be happy to
receive a digital and publishable version of your lecture
already at the symposium but no later than
October 31
2010
Registration:
The registration fee is 150 ?, 100 ? for doctoral students
The fee should be paid by the end of
April 2010.
Account number: Nordea FI 12 20571800020055
NDEAFIHH
(In Finland: Nordea 205718-20055 Stiftelsen f&覮r &襽bo
Akademi)
The registration fee includes a Get together party, an
excursion and a banquet organised in connection with the
symposium.
Please indicate in your registration whether you wish to
participate in the excursion and the banquet.
Accommodation:
Linnasmаki Congress Centre Hotell
Ringbrynjegatan 7 / Lustokatu 7
Tel.: +358 2 412 3500
FIN-20380 Аbo / Turku
Finland
Address:
Donner institute
PB 70
FIN-20501 Аbo / Turku
Finland
E-mail:
Tel.: +358 20 786 1450
Fax: +358 20 786 1459
WELCOME
Tore Ahlbоck, Bjоrn Dahla and Anna Nyman
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