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The
Religious Visual Cultures: Cross-Cultural and Inter-religious
Perspectives
The Challenge of Pluralism –
the Power of Interpretation
12th Conference of the International Society for Religion,
Literature and Culture
Uppsala, Sweden, 22-24 October 2004
Introduction
The growing impact of pluralism on
modern societies raises issues of stability and adaptability,
freedom and discipline, conviction and tolerance, relativism and
standards of judgment and scholarship. The absence of dominant
monolithic systems of thought highlights the role of social
institutions and processes of interpretation in defining
acceptable practices and useful modes of perception.
The conference includes papers on the theory and methodology of
interpretation (hermeneutics in a wide sense); comparisons
between religions, literatures, and philosophies of life; the
significance of class, ethnicity, and gender; and the
institutions of interpretation.
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Strand Co-ordinators
Dr S. Brent Plate
(Texas Christian University)
Prof. John Harvey (CSVCR, University of Wales, Aberystwyth) |
Programme
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John Harvey |
'Crossing
Over: Mainstream Protestant Migration to Spiritualism since the
Mid Nineteenth Century, and Its Relevance to Psychic Visual
Culture'.
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S. Brent Plate |
'Religious Visual Culture: Some
Preliminary Considerations'
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Ulrike Vollmer |
'Struck by a New Vision? Religious
Mystical Seeing Contra Objectifying Looks'
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Fredrick Ruf |
'The Translated Self in Lost in
Translation'
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Gregory L. Sushan |
'Conceptions of Afterlife
Experience in Ancient Egypt and Vedic India: A Comparative
Study' |
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