VIII MSSR CONFERENCE "RELIGION & MEDIA"
MAY 12-15, 2010
"Whether we like or not, then, as teachers working in publicly funded institutions, we are public intellectuals already."
Russell T. McCutcheon
"Religious life, knowledge about religion, the one or the other, our own or the others, takes place and is produced and acquired in and by the media."
Tim Jensen
Keynote address by
Prof. KAREL DOBBELAERE
(Catholic University Louvain, Belgium)
Nowadays at the beginning of the XXI century we keep observing an explosion of new media that caused profound changes in human categories of communication, on the one hand. And on the other hand, the role of religion has been increasing on a global scale.
The 8th Annual MSSR Conference on "Religion & Media" solicits research papers on the multiple problems raised by an interdisciplinary approach to these multifaceted phenomena. The conference brings together scholars of religion, anthropologists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists and all interested in academic Study of Religions as well as specialists
from the Media for joint discussion.
The Moscow Society for the Study of Religions (MSSR) takes a broad view of the conceptual, analytical, and empirical problems involved in addressing the complex relationship between religion and media. We especially encourage submissions that highlight different approaches to the historical and systematic background for the study of religion and media, ranging from the religious prohibitions of images to its modern interpretations.
Also we seek papers covering a broad range of difficulties dealing with role or 'status' of scholar as 'specialist' and the Study of Religions as science in the Media and in modern and post-modern societies.
Suggested panels of the conference:
1. Definitions of Religion in the Media
2. Communicative functions of Religion
3. Religious mass-media & professional mass-media on Religion
4. Religion in the Popular Culture (movies, music, literature, etc.)
5. Popular Culture in Religion (e.g. TV shows of priests and preachers)
6. Religion as Mass Culture (Fan-Clubs, The Health Wealth Cult, etc.)
7. Religion and Social Networks (LiveJournal, Facebook, VKontakte, Twitter, etc.)
8. Role of the Media in creation and transformation of religious identity
9. Religion and Gender in the Media
10. Online religions & Religions online
11. Role of the Media in generation of religious traditions (e.g. cargo cults, etc.)
12. The Media & Religious Education
13. Ways of using the Media in the Study of Religions (web-sites, online-conferences, etc.)
If topic of your paper does not fit to any of the panels above, it might be submitted as a "single paper". Such papers will be collected into special panels.
Each participant could make a panel proposal. In this case he/she should submit title and abstract of the panel (up to 100 words) as well as paper proposals to this panel from no less than three participants (including himself).
Languages of the Conference: Russian and English
REGISTRATION FORM should be submitted to the MSSR Conference Officer,
Anna B. Yudkina [conf2010.mro@gmail.com] by February 28, 2010.
KEY DATES
Panel Proposal till February 28, 2010
Paper Registration & Abstract
Notification of Paper Acceptance March 14, 2010
Conference (Moscow, Russia) May 12-15, 2010
Publication of proceedings Fall 2010
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