CFP: The ARC Center for Excellence for the History of Emotions

The Australian Research Council Center for Excellence for the History of Emotions is calling for papers concerning the ways that rituals and emotions have changed over time, and the ways that rituals, emotions, and power have been implicated in the processes of change and continuity.

While the call does not mention new media and religious ritual specifically, there may be overlap for new media, religion, and digital culture researchers who study religious ritual in new media environments.

Deadline for 500 word abstracts is August 31, 2013.

Within the bigger conference theme, papers may wish to explore, but are not limited to:
• the relationship between rituals and routines and where these cross over;
• where rituals happen – the household, the street, sacred spaces, institutions – and its implications;
• the emotional resonances of objects and texts (including visual culture and architecture) in rituals;
• types of rituals – rites of passage, religious ceremonies, state-sponsored spectacles – and their emotional contexts;
• individual emotions v. collective emotions, and participant v. audience emotions;
• rituals that inform different types of power, including personal, familial, community, institutional and national;
• the interplay of facets of identity, such as gender, class and ethnicity in ritual;
• the dynamics and performance of ritual and how it is informed by emotion or in turn creates emotion;
• rituals and change over time v. rituals as static/traditional;
• and boredom as emotion in ritual contexts.

For the complete call announcement, click the link below.

http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/emotion,-ritual-and-power-in-...