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SUMMARY:2017 Conference of the International Society for Intellectual History: "The Rethinking of Religious Belief in the Making of Modernity"
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LOCATION:Blagoevgrad\, Bulgaria
DESCRIPTION:The 2017 Conference of the International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH) \;will take place at the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) \;in Blagoevgrad\, Bulgaria\, from May 30 to June 1\, 2017.
\nThe conference theme is: "The Rethinking of Religious Belief in the Making of Modernity".
\nKeynote speakers: Wayne Hudson (University of Tasmania)\, Michael Hunter (Birkbeck\, University of London)\, Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton)\, and \;Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford)
\nConference committee: Michael Hunter (Birkbeck\, University of London)\, James A.T. Lancaster (University of Queensland)\, and \;Diego Lucci (American University in Bulgaria)
\nDeadline for submission of paper and panel proposals: December 31\, 2016
\nProposals for 20-minute individual papers are welcome. Proposals for panels\, consisting of three 20-minute papers\, are also welcome. Paper and panel proposals are welcome both from ISIH members and scholars who are not members of the Society.
\nTo submit paper and panel proposals by the deadline of December 31\, 2016\, and to find more information about the conference\, please visit the conference webpage: http://isih.history.ox.ac.uk/?page_id=5093
\nPapers and panels may concentrate on any period\, region\, tradition or discipline relevant to the conference theme. The range of potential subjects of investigation is extremely broad\, and may include\, but is not limited to:
\n\n- the contribution of the rediscovery and rethinking of ancient religious beliefs and traditions to the making of modernity\;
\n- innovations in religious belief and theological doctrine since the High Middle Ages\, with a focus on their role in shaping the modern world\;
\n- the religious dimensions of Renaissance thought\, culture and art\;
\n- the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation in intellectual history\;
\n- the religious dimensions of the Scientific Revolution\;
\n- modern biblical hermeneutics and its impact on the modern mind\;
\n- the relationship between the Enlightenment and religion\;
\n- reason and revelation in natural religion\, rational theology\, physico-theology\, skepticism\, fideism\, etc.\;
\n- discussing and rethinking traditional religious beliefs (e.g. belief in providence\, miracles\, prophecy\, Messianism\, millenarianism\, the devil\, the hell\, exorcism\, magic\, mystical experience\, etc.)\;
\n- atheism\, deism\, skepticism and irreligion\;
\n- the role of religious belief in the Age of Revolution\;
\n- the impact of religious concerns and concepts on legal and political theory\;
\n- religious toleration and religious freedom\;
\n- rethinking the rights\, position and role of religious minorities in the making of modernity\;
\n- the consideration of Judaism and Islam in modern western culture\;
\n- interactions between western civilization and Eastern cultures\, with a focus on religious matters\;
\n- and religion in philosophical\, sociological and historiographical discourses on modernity and post-modernity.
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\n\nFor inquiries\, please contact the convenor\, Diego Lucci\, via email at: dlucci@aubg.edu
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ORGANIZER;CN=Michael Hunter;CN=James A.T. Lancaster;CN=Diego Lucci:
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