CFP: Spirituality in the 21st Century

The contemporary study of spirituality encompasses a wide range of interests. These have come not only from the more traditional areas of religious scholarship—Theology, Philosophy of Religion, History of Religion, Comparative Religion, Mysticism—but also more recently from such diverse fields as Management, Medicine, Business, Counseling, Ecology, Communication, Performance Studies and Education – among many others.

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference invites a broad range of scholars and practitioners who seek to challenge disciplinary silos by exploring the spiritual foundations upon which their fields of inquiry stand. Papers and/or presentations are welcomed from any academic, professional and/or vocational area in which Spirituality plays a part.

Papers, performances, presentations, reports, works-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:

Conceptualisations of Spirituality
Interpreting Elements and Examples of Spirituality
Cultural Expressions of Spirituality via Art, Dance, Film, The Internet, Literature, Music, Radio, Television and/or Theatre
Spirituality and Communication
The Liminal Elements and Facets of Spirituality
Spirituality and Cultural Identity
Research and/or Pedagogical Approaches to Spiritual Work
Childhood Spirituality
Teaching Spirituality
Spirituality and Healing
Spirituality Compassion and Reconciliation
Spirituality and Addiction, Health Care, Medicine, and/or Nursing
Spirituality in Counseling, Hospice Care, Psychology, Psychiatry, Social Work, Therapy and/or Wellbeing
Spiritual Pilgrimages
Spiritual and Ecological Maintenance of Health and Life of Human Beings
Development of Personality as a Process of Spirit Creation
Spirituality and the Environment
Spirituality and Gaia
Spirituality in Business and/or Management
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Presentations, Papers and performances will be considered on any related theme.

300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 11th October 2013. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 17th January 2014. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract f) up to 10 key words
E-mails should be entitled: S21-4 Abstract Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

To see the full call, click the link below.

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/spirituality-in-...