[Buddha-l] Please Post--AAR Tantric Studies Group Call for Papers

[Charles D. Orzech CDORZECH]

This may be of interest to members of the Buddha-l list. Please note that the deadline is March 2. Applications can be submitted online at the AAR site.

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

Tantric Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion--Call for Papers

This Group invites papers and preformed panels dealing with recent research in tantric studies, including but not limited to the following topics: 1) "Overlapping" tantras - Hindu and Buddhist traditions; 2) Translating and transforming tantras; 3) Militaristic imagery and metaphors in Hindu and Buddhist tantra; 4) "Tantra" and "tantrika" as imagined "other" within Hinduism; 5) Who speaks for tantra? Insiders and outsiders; 6) Cognitive science and the study of tantra (with the Cognitive Science of Religion Consultation); 7) Sacred space and the body in tantra (with the Sacred Space in Asia Group); 8) Mysticism and possession trance in tantra (with the Mysticism Group); 9) Reading tantric images/tantra as visual culture. The 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