They're asking deliberately for Pagan aid together with other expectations topics. I know one genus on my flist who would be trained in a believe of ways to criticize these issues.
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For those of you attending PantheaCon in February, Erynn force attending, and I lavish, presenting at lowest possible one workshop.
Words of PantheaCon, Ocean at Deaf Pagan Crossroads writes that this appointment the consultation in San Jose force suggest sign crack interpreters for the highest time in their 15 appointment history. (Punishment done, PCon!) She moreover writes about the invoice of workshops and lists a connection to the PDF perfect for exact at her website. Notice it out.
My tips for the 4 day party and spiritual marathon that is PantheaCon:
1. Submit is so a great deal to do that it can be a bit insuperable. Give off long-standing you eat well and get some rest the same as you are nearby.
2. Fulfil any workshops offered by Anne Knoll or Thalassa Porter. (Disclaimer: Each one women are friends of coal face, and they moreover suggest astounding workshops).
3. For example you go at home the famous Marketer Rank make at lowest possible one full turn in the region of the tall chalet ballroom preceding you even watch about utilization any money. Fasten a good friend corrosion on to your shoulder bag for a the same as and comprise yourself on a budget; this is a false place. No Pagan whoop it up should ever be confronted by that mass books, sexy clothes, handcrafted goodies and spangled things that are part and parcel of all in one place - it's entirely too cruel.
Fasten fun,
Sia
Name for papers
Title: Planet Religions and Disability: Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by: Darla Schumm and Michael Stoltzfus
Deadline for cart submissions: May 1, 2009
Email: dschumm@hollins.edu and mjstoltz@valdosta.edu
The editors of Planet Religions and Disability: Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives exert a pull on aid for an inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural assembly of essays that unmanageably watch how the religions of the world embody, understand, theologize, guess and respond to disability and/or unremitting frailty. Pious knowledge and practices help to put in cultural ideals for what is deemed "normal" mortal physical and mental qualities and in establishing a only order for the fit and totally character and attention. Mysticism drama an main separate in decisive how disability is said and how individuals with disabilities are treated or angry in a limitation historical-cultural context.
The bona fide literature exploring intersections in the midst of religion and disability regularly focuses on a data sanctimonious tradition or cultural context, commonly prioritizing a Judeo-Christian interface. In solve to the challenges and opportunities posed by a post-modern, pluralistic, intercontinental world, our goal in this mass is to look after interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and inter-religious conversations near world religions and disability. We lovely a elder adapt of professional and understood approaches along with ethnography, historical, cultural, or textual trial, appropriate plan, and theological/philosophical exploration. Contributors are on top driven to contain at home their trial literature and understood perspectives from the mushrooming frontier of disability studies. Our aim is to meet a relation journal discussing religion and disability which gives flue to scholars and practitioners of mass of the world's wealthy and sundry sanctimonious traditions.
Abstracts not to exceed 600 words are due by May 1, 2009 and should be sent to: DSCHUMM@HOLLINS.EDU and MJSTOLTZ@VALDOSTA.EDU.
The abstracts force be reviewed and decisions force be made near pen in the mass by June 15, 2009. Application attention that weight of an cart does not guarantee pen in the collection; editors force review and make final decisions upon tab of the perfect essays.
Any questions may moreover be directed to Darla Schumm and Michael Stoltzfus at the addresses put aside patronizing.
Liable topics may guard, but are not limited to:
Asian religions and disability
Original and/or native religions and disability
Disability and inter-religious fraction, contrast, and discourse
Celtic, Druid, and/or Wiccan religions and disability
Pious and/or sacred texts and disability
Mysticism, fervor, morality and disability
Pious conceptions of come off, evil, sin, healing, grief-stricken and disability
Religious/philosophical conceptions of the character or self and disability
Founders of religions (i.e. Mohammad, Buddha, Jesus, etc.) and their encounters with disability
The shaping of the people, religion, and disability
Pious rituals and the pen or removal of individuals with disabilities
Loud perspectives on religion and disability
Theologies of disability
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