Symposia: The Graduate Student Journal of the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto

Symposia is an online, peer reviewed journal for graduate students in the study of religion and related fields.

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Call for Papers and reviews for volume 4 (2011-2012)
The new call for papers and book reviews for our next issue, due out in April 2012.
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In the last twenty years, many fields of study in the social sciences and humanities have undergone a ‘spatial turn’, and the study of religion is no exception. Not only does everything occur in space, but where things happen has become recognised as key to understanding how and why they happen. On the one hand, certain long-established categories within the study of religion itself, such as ‘sacred space’ and ‘pilgrimage’, involve an obvious spatial dimension. On the other hand, the sociopolitical realities of transnational communities, diasporic religions, and economic globalisation suggest further considerations relevant to religions in the modern world. Finally, the influence from social theorists like Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey, as well as the work of modern geographers, suggests ways in which religion specifically, and culture in general, might play a role in the deployment of social relations across space.

This volume is interested in the intersection of religion and space/place, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.