Religious Studies and Theology

transmortale IX – A Workshop on Death, Dying, Grief, and Mourning

Veranstalter/Convener: Universität Hamburg, Institut für Volkskunde/Kulturanthropologie; Museum und Institut für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel; Moritz Buchner / Gerold Eppler / Norbert Fischer / Anna-Maria Götz / Stephan Hadraschek / Dagmar Kuhle / Jan Möllers

The main workshop language is German, but it is also possible to contribute in English

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Dear Colleagues,

The special issue "Reframing Islam in Southeast Asia" (guest editor: Dr. Chiara Formichi, Cornell University) in /Religions/ is open for submission.

The history of Islam in Southeast Asia has been traditionally narrated as one derivative of the Middle Eastern experience and, oftentimes, as a reality that largely belongs to the majority areas of the Indo-Malay sphere. 

Session Abstract

The occult – the hidden – has been prevalent in various art forms for centuries. Christopher Partridge coined the term ‘occulture’ in 2004 in an effort to recognise the occult in the everyday, theorising the processes involved when popular culture disseminates occult ideas and beliefs to a wider audience. These occult and esoteric traditions are no longer hidden; instead the culture in which they are embedded has become familiar – they are ordinary and everyday.

Date:Thursday, October 11, 2018
Time:7:30 - 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.) 
Venue:Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall, 1F Parliament
(access: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo.html)
Speaker:Richard Lloyd Parry, author and foreign correspondent of The Times
Moderator:Kyle Cleveland, Associate Director of ICAS
Admission:Free. Open to the public.
Language:English
Registration:icas@tuj.temple.edu

The Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum (ACSF) announces its 20

The Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning has organ

The editors wish to put together an interdisciplinary collection of essays that utilize reflexive scholarly inquiry to interrogate cultural responses to death by gathering essays that analyze various aspects of death while at the same time acknowledging that death affects us all. Any study on the topic cannot be decontextualized. We must all necessarily grapple with loss and mortality as we examine cultural responses to death.

The leading interdisciplinary journal Literature and Theology (Oxford University Press) is publishing a special issue on theopoetics.

Spirituality And....Culture
2nd Global Conference

Saturday 13th April to Sunday 14th April 2019
Bruges, Belgium