CFP for the 2008 meeting that may be of interest (see below).
All the best,
Chad
Chad Bauman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Religion
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Butler University
4600 Sunset Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46208
cbauman@butler.edu<mailto:cbauman@butler.edu>
Ph: 317 940 8705
A Call for Papers--North American Hinduisms Group of AAR
Representing (and Misrepresenting) Hinduism in North America
Over the past fifteen years, scholarship on South Asia, colonialism
and Hinduism
has been deeply concerned with questions of representation. Who defines and
imagines a given community or tradition? Which metaphors, narratives, and
historical perspectives are considered authentic, offensive, or
liberating, and
by whom? How are debates over religious, community, and political articulation
arbitrated? These long standing questions about who speaks for Hindus and
Hinduism/s take on additional characteristics when such debates happen
in North
America. Questions of representation are coupled with conceptions of freedom,
multiculturalism, civic duty, separation of church and state, free market
capitalism, and spirituality among others that are unique to the North
American
landscape. This panel seeks papers that explore the whole range of
representations and misrepresentations of Hinduism in North America in the
spheres of popular cullture, education, politics, ritual and practice.
Please contact and send proposals by Feb. 20th :
Shana Sippy: shanasippy@cox.net<mailto:shanasippy@cox.net> &
Tanisha Ramachandran: ramacht@wfu.edu<mailto:ramacht@wfu.edu>
