P & religion - call for papers American Comparative Literature

[Doug Millison]

http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/archive/Religion/0014.html

A panel for the American Comparative Literature 
Association's 2001 conference in Boulder, 
Colorado(April 20-22), seeks papers on any and all 
aspects of what John McClure has termed a 
"post-modern/post-secular." Are concerns of faith and 
religion seeping back into a long-secular academy? Is 
"post-modernism " inherently invested in this return? 
Is there any actual return, or have such themes been 
lurking, occasionally surfacing and resurfacing, ever 
since the supposedly secularizing nineteenth century? 
Or is the apparent engagement with religiosity in 
contemporary literature and film being blown way out 
of proportion? How does the breaching of a new 
millenium change the discussion? Just to give a few 
examples: magic realism; Thomas Pynchon; Walter Kirn; 
Toni Morrison; J. M. Coetzee; Michel Houellebecq; 
Salman Rushdie; Roman Polanski; films like "Dogma," 
"Dead Man Walking," "The Sixth Sense" and "Contact"; 
the rise of Christian rock and rap music; and thinkers 
like Jean-Luc Marion, William Bennett, Linda Kintz, 
Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida are all fair 
game.