[Buddha-l] Call for papers AAR Tantric Studies Group

[Charles D. Orzech CDORZECH]

Hi Colleagues,

Pasted in below is the call for papers for the Tantric Studies Group of the American Academy of Religions.

regards,

Charlie Orzech

Charles D. Orzech
Professor
Department of Religious Studies
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC  27402-6170
336 334-4927



>2008 Call for Papers     Tantric Studies Group

>Please note that the 
AAR
 deadline for submission of proposals is
Monday, 

>February 25th this year.

>

The Tantric Studies Group invites papers and preformed panels dealing with 

>recent research in Tantric studies, including but not limited to the 

>following topics: 1) Reading Tantric imagery; 2) The categories of
"Yoga" 

>and "Tantra"; 3) Tantra and magical powers: Siddhis as metaphors
and 

>actualities; (2 and 3 possibly co-sponsored with the Yoga in Theory and 

>Practice Consultation); 4) Tantra and law: legal proscription and 

>transgression; 5) Tantric ethics; 6) Initiation and authorization in 

>Tantra; 7) Public faces of Tantra; 8) Tantra in (and as) virtual worlds; 9)


>Reading Tantric texts in contemporary contexts; 10) Tantra and popular 

>science; and 11) "Real" Tantrikas: ethnography, history. The
Tantric 

>Studies Group supports the collaboration of scholars in Tantric studies 

>across the traditional boundaries

>of research based on geographic regions, specific traditions, and academic 

>disciplines.

>

>

>

>Chairs Glen Alexander Hayes (
Bloomfield College
) Glen_Hayes at bloomfield.edu

>

>Paul E. Muller-Ortega (
University of Rochester
)

>

>plml at mail.rochester.edu

>

>Submissions should be made through the OP3 system, which can be found at 

>the following link:

>

>http://www.aarweb.org/Meetings/Annual_Meeting/Current_Meeting/OP3/menumain.asp.

>

>