CFP: Interpreting Experience - Experiencing Interpretation: Im/Possibilities of a Hermeneutics of Religious Experience

This international and interdisciplinary conference explores the connections/disconnections between religious experience and their expressions.

We invite presentations from different disciplines including theology, philosophy, history, sociology, and psychology, as well as cultural, biblical, and literary studies, investigating questions such as: What is a religious experience? What parts do articulation and interpretation play in a religious experience? Does the experience determine the expression or does the expression determine the experience? Do experience and expression condition each other? How does the contested contradistinction between the public and the private affect religious experience and expressions of religious experience? And what is the significance of religious experiences in contemporary cultures which are characterised by processes such as secularisation, sacralisation, pluralisation, individualisation, and globalisation?

Please submit your abstract (500 words maximum) and a brief biographical note to [email protected] by 1 November 2013.