Event Details

End: July 7, 2017
Contact: ellisonr@marshall.edu
More Info: http://mds.marshall.edu/sermon_conference/

The Center for Sermon Studies at Marshall University, Huntington, WV, announces its inaugural conference, 19-22 October 2017, broadly conceived under the theme "Sermon: Text and Performance." Its goals include:-

• 1. Surveying the emerging field of sermon studies across its various disciplines -- textual criticism, performance, history, theology, religious studies, etc.
• 2. Engaging the local and international community in the study of the sermon as literature, historical document, and a source of social, political, and religious discourse, past and present.
• 3. Convening, for the first time, an international community of interdisciplinary scholars contributing specifically to the emerging field of sermon studies.

The organizers invite proposals for individual papers and complete panels that address the preaching of any religious tradition from specific disciplinary perspectives as well as interdisciplinary standpoints. Additionally, they invite proposals for roundtables and workshops that address the sermon from academic and professional perspectives, serving performance studies scholars, performers, and clergy.

All proposals must be submitted online at mds.marshall.edu/sermon_conference. Please provide the following information:

Individual Papers: title, abstract (150-250 words), contact information, 1-2 sentence biographical sketch

Complete Panels: session abstract (150-250 words), abstracts for each paper (150-250 words), biographical and contact information for each participant

Roundtables/workshops: session abstract (150-250 words), biographical and contact information for each participant.