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.

The Senses

The Senses: Conceptual Anxieties in Religious Studies
Friday, May 13, 2011
4:15 ~ 5:45pm 


Mujadad Zaman 
University of Cambridge
"Light, Rainbows and a Broomstick: The Homo Sensoria and appropriation of 'Nature' in Normative Religious Experience "

Maria Dasios 
University of Toronto
"Sensible "Forms for the Formless": Corporeal Media in Greek Patristics"

Discussant: Professor Steve Weitzman 
Department of Religious Studies
Stanford University
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