CFP: Victorian Spiritualities
July 12, 2011 at 11:30 am (Call for Papers, Conferences) (Iconography, Religion, Spiritualism, Theosophy, Victorian Spirituality)
Call for Papers: Victorian Spiritualities
Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies
One Day Colloquium on 17 March 2012
Proposals Due: 12 September 2011
Keynote Speakers: Elisabeth Jay and Michaela Giebelhausen
We welcome offers of papers on any of the following themes, or indeed any other aspects of Victorian spiritualities:
- exploration of spiritual themes in poetry, drama, fiction, hymn-writing and sermons
- art and iconography on spiritual themes
- spiritual writings from different Christian denominational perspectives and other world faiths
- Theosophy, Swedenborgianism, Transcendentalism, Spiritualism and other radical approaches
- the spiritual views of agnostics and religious sceptics
- pedagogical approaches to Victorian spirituality
- the experience of teaching the history, culture, and literature of Victorian sprituality within the HE sector
Please send a brief abstract of 250-300 words to Jane de Gay at j.degay@leedstrinity.ac.uk by 12 September 2011. Ideally, all papers will be published in a Leeds Working Papers volume in advance of the colloquium, and will need to be submitted by 19 December 2011.
Colloquium convenor: Revd Dr Jane de Gay
