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.

Projecting the Body

Projecting the Body: Performing Space
May 14, 2011 
2:00pm - 3:45pm

Ariel Schwartz 
Northwestern University
"Swami Vivekananda and the Double Horizon: Experiencing the 1893 Parliament of World Religions"

Kathryn Dickason 
Stanford University
"Labyrinthine Liturgy: Ritualizing the Dance of Space at Auxerre Cathedral"
Youshaa Patel
Duke University
"'Whoever Imitates a People is One of Them': Aesthetics, Difference, and the Early Muslim Social Imagination "

Discussant: Professor Vincent Barletta
Department of Iberian and Latin America Cultures
Stanford University
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