May 13, 2011 2:30pm - 5:30pm, & May 14, 2011 9:30am-5:30pm

Examples across all religious traditions demonstrate that people have often imagined, understood and described their religious experiences in terms of physical sensation. However, our modern scholarly categories of analysis seem better equipped to handle conceptual, rather than corporeal discourses. As a result, the "tastes," "smells," "sounds," and "sights" of religious discussion and practice seem to be lost in the translation that constitutes the main work of scholarship in religious studies.

This conference aims to foster innovative approaches to the corporeal dimensions of religious discourse and practice.

All events will be held in the Stanford Humanities Center on May 13, 2011 from 2:30-5:30pm, and May 14, 2011 from 9:30am-5:30pm.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Conference Schedule

Sensual Faiths: Religion and the Senses
A Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies and the Stanford Humanities Center

13-14 May
All events to be held at the Stanford Humanities Center
Please send all inquiries to religionsenses@gmail.com
Friday, 13 May

2:30 Gathering

2:45 Introduction and Greetings

3:00 - 4:00 Keynote Address by Patricia Cox Miller 
Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion, Syracuse University
"Sensing Religion: A View from Late Antiquity"

4:15 - 5:45 Panel 1 "The Senses": Conceptual Anxieties in Religious Studies
Please click on the The Senses tab for more information.


Saturday, 14 May

9:00-9:30 Breakfast

9:30-11:15 Panel 2: Defining the Body: Performing Boundaries
Please click on the Defining the Body tab for more information.

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 Keynote Address by Jeffrey Kripal  
J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University
"The Traumatic Secret: Bataille and the Comparative Erotics of Mystical Literature"

Lunch

2:00 - 3:45 Panel 3: Projecting the Body: Performing Space
Please click on the Projecting the Body tab for more information.

Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:30 Panel 4: Betwix the Image, the Imagined, and the Imaginer
Please click on the Betwix the Image tab for more information.
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