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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 22:49:28 +0100 (BST)
From: "J. Bergeron Law.staff" <BERGERON-AT-ollamh.ucd.ie>
Subject: CFP: Sacred Fragments in the Texts of Law - CLC97



                       IN THE WAKE OF THE LAW...
                     CRITICAL LEGAL CONFERENCE 97

                          4-7 SEPTEMBER 1997
                       UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

                        SECTION CALL FOR PAPERS

Sacred Fragments in the Texts of Law: Playing with Riddles

Papers in this section will deal with issues raised by the 
relationship between the sacred and law both inside and outside the 
Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions.  It will explore how the 
rhetoric of law and religion (separately and together) addresses 
certain key questions in contemporary historical and social contexts.

The Post Modern worlds appears to be teeming with concepts of the 
sacred.  In the West, Classical Hellenistic and Roman mystery 
religions, originally the religions of the intellectual elites, are 
re-emerging with a more popularist appeal.  They have been joined by 
Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, Neo-Paganism and a range of "Old" and 
"New" religious movements, a growing awareness of African Traditional 
Religions and a variety of sacred beliefs, often collectively 
referred to as The New Age.  In North America there is also a growing 
awareness of Native American Religious Tradition. In all of these, 
relations with law are implicated.   The emergence of Islam as a 
political force in the East has also led to the need to consider the 
relationship between religion and law.

The presencing of the sacred in contemporary texts of the law is 
repeatedly discernible.  Is this mere survival, or does it indicate 
that in certain circumstances the sacred remains a motivational force?

Papers could draw on a variety of local cultural situations and would 
be welcome in the following areas or dealing with the following 
questions/issues

* How are Traditions of the Sacred interwoven with Traditions of the 
  Law in the twentieth century?
* Is there collusion between male oriented symbols of the sacred and 
  male oriented law to the exclusion of the female?
* Is law in the "wake" of the sacred, or vice versa?
* The disciplinary rules of religion
* The ecclesiastical roots of legal forms
* The maintenance of Authority
* Religion and the Diaspora: with reference to globalisation, 
  postcolonialism, nature and function, community and identity  
* Western Law and non-Christian religions or religious movements
* Minority religions in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the 
  Middle East
* Legal and Sacred spaces
* Law and Scripture
* Law, religion and ritual
* Power, the Sacred and legal utterances
* Blasphemy
* Heresy
* Pilgrimage

This list is not intended to be exhaustive, if you have an interest in 
this 'stream' send us your abstract.

Section Organisers:

Sharon Hanson                       Kathleen Moore
Department of Law                   Department of Political Science
Birkbeck College                    University of Connecticut
University of London                Box U-24
Malet Street                        341 Mansfield Road,
London WC1E 7HX                     Storrs, CT 06269-1024
United Kingdom                      United States of America
Phone: 44-171-631-6619              Phone: 1-860-486-3747
Fax:   44-171-631-6688              Fax:   1-860-486-3347
email  s.hanson-AT-cems.bbk.ac.uk      email  kmoore-AT-uconnvm.uconn.edu


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