International Conference

Religion, Spirituality, and Everyday Practice

Italian Sociological Association – Section on the Sociology of Religion
Association for the Sociology of Religion
Workshop on Religion - Department of Sociology  - University of Padua

Palazzo dei Priori - Sala Conciliazione
Assisi (Italy) 11-13 December 2009
 
Call for Papers

 The current generation of young adults, at least in the Western world, has shown a marked tendency toward a preference for describing themselves as “spiritual” as contrasted to “religious.”  The present conference seeks to examine the possible meanings and consequences associated with this contrast in terms of the similarities and differences that affect those who employ these terms with respect to the everyday practices that they themselves employ or believe should follow from being self-defined as “religious” or “spiritual.” We seek papers that take up the religion-spiritual contrast through investigations into practice: In what ways do people who claim to be “religious” or “spiritual” define these self-images as manifest in their own lives or how do people who make this contrast believe people who see themselves in these ways implement their convictions in practice (or should implement them)? We also wish to explore whether there are institutions of spiritual practice to which those who term themselves “spiritual” turn or whether the difference implied by the terms may be between institutionalized and de-institutionalized expressions of practice, including but not limited to self-spiritualities. How on a daily basis does one who considers him/herself religious or spiritual live out that self-image in specific ways that she or he can describe to others, even if not share with others? Are there ways that being spiritual can involve religion or ways that being religious can involve spirituality, and if so, how do these differ from concepts in prior eras (e.g., Ignatian spirituality, Orthodox spirituality, Anglican spirituality, etc.)?

Submission deadline: September 15, 2009
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2009

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