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Related Conferences:
Mapping Mysticism: New Cartoraphies of Interiority and Religious Experience
Friday 24th May 2013
University of Kent Canterbury
Cathedral Lodge
This conference aims
to move beyond traditional western definitions of mysticism by
re-mapping the nature of religious experience on a global scale.
Globally, alongside its cultural, communal and political
manifestations, religion has served as an arena for the dedicated
exploration or our inner life and the potential for experiences of
meaning and value. Yet traditional approaches to 'mysticism' have
focused only on a small category of unusual experiences, rather than
exploring the wider 'experiential' manifestations of religion.
This conference seeks to move towards a fresh global understanding of
'mystical' experience by mappying out the different points on the
compass - clarifying the place of emotional, rational, transcendent,
embodied and imaginal experience throughout the world's religious
traditions and in modern life. Gatherting at Canterbury Cathedral Lodge
in the Spring of 2013, international scholars will act as
'cartographers' of the mystical, revealing religion as a vast history
of 'inner explorations' that pervade the public landscape and make us
rethinkg what it meant to be 'religious'.
The conference will incorporate panels of short presentations and discussion focused around key approaches to mysticism:
1. Imagination, Sense and Narrative
2. Emotion, Affect and Value
3. Reason, Structure and Personhood
4. Embodiment and Praxis
5. Transcendence, Encounter and Otherness
Participants include: June McDaniel, Gavin Flood, Jeremy Carrette, and Richard King
For more the full programme and registration contact Jessica Frazier
J.Frazier@kent.ac.uk
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