Call for papers
“Emerson, Religious Belief, and the City of God: New Directions for Research”
“City of God, City of Destruction,”
PAMLA Conference, November 11-14, Las Vegas, Nevada
The Emerson Society panel seeks to present new directions in research on the theme of Emerson and religion. Topics may include, for example, Emerson’s conception of worship, his views of organized religion, theology, philosophy of religion, psychology of religious belief, theo-poetics, and the relation between religion and art or religion and nature.
Also welcome are approaches that place Emerson’s attitude toward religion within the context of the Emerson family tradition or within broader historical or more recent philosophical and theological perspectives—e.g., Emersonian Impersonality as representative of a nineteenth-century “modern cosmic imaginary” (Charles Taylor) or of “ecstatic naturalism” (Robert Corrington). Proposals that explore Emerson’s religious thought from a comparative perspective are also encouraged. Proposals by younger scholars and Ph.D candidates are particularly welcome.
Please send a 250-word abstract, as well as a brief CV by July 25, to Joseph Urbas, Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Program Director, Joseph.Urbas@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr