May 13, 2011 2:30pm - 5:30pm, & May 14, 2011 9:30am-5:30pm

Examples across all religious traditions demonstrate that people have often imagined, understood and described their religious experiences in terms of physical sensation. However, our modern scholarly categories of analysis seem better equipped to handle conceptual, rather than corporeal discourses. As a result, the "tastes," "smells," "sounds," and "sights" of religious discussion and practice seem to be lost in the translation that constitutes the main work of scholarship in religious studies.

This conference aims to foster innovative approaches to the corporeal dimensions of religious discourse and practice.

All events will be held in the Stanford Humanities Center on May 13, 2011 from 2:30-5:30pm, and May 14, 2011 from 9:30am-5:30pm.

Betwix the Image, the Imagined, and the Imaginer

Betwix the Image, the Imagined, and the Imaginer
May 14, 2011
4:00pm - 5:30pm 

Joshua Gentzke 
Stanford University
"Corporeal envisioning/embodying vision: mapping sight & space in the theosophy of Jacob Böhme"

Sonia Hazard 
Duke University
"Deep Inside the Little Side!": Desiring Bodies in Moravian Visual Culture

Discussant: Professor Bissera Pentcheva 
Department of Art History
Stanford University
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