CFP for Conference on Media and Religion: the Global View

The Center for Media, Religion, and Culture at University of Colorado Boulder has announced an upcoming conference on
Media and Religion: the Global View January 9-12, 2014.

A vibrant international scholarship has developed at the intersection of religion and the media. The new Century
dawned with clear evidence of the resilient validity of religion in contemporary life, evident in national, regional,
and international settings. The so-called ‘return of religion’, or resurgence of religiosity in public life, implies,
however, not the mere return of an invariant essence of religious meaning, but also creative innovations in both the
individual and the collective religious experience. As scholars have increasingly focused on the implications of the
mediation or “mediatization” of religion and on the imposition of religious impulses, meanings, and aspirations on
the range of things we think of today as “the media,” it has become obvious that such inquiries must increasingly
take account of the global context.

This will be the fifth in a series of successful international conferences held by the Center for Media, Religion, and
Culture. The previous meetings have brought together an interdisciplinary community of scholars for focused
conversations on emerging issues in media and religion. Each has proven to be an important landmark in the
development of theory and method in its respective area and has resulted in important collaborations, publications,
and resources for further research and dialogue.

Confirmed speakers include: Pradip Thomas, University of Queensland, Australia; Magali do Nascimento Cunha, Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, Brazil and Brian Larkin, Barnard College.

Please send a 300-word abstract by July 15, 2013 to MediaReligion@Colorado.EDU
Please include in your abstract submission a preferred email address and university and department affiliation.
Media and Religion: The Global View is an event of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture. For more
information, visit our website at: cmrc.colorado.edu

For questions about this conference, please send an email to Stewart M. Hoover, Director: hoover@colorado.edu
or Nabil Echchaibi, Associate Director: nabil.echchaibi@colorado.edu.