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Meeting Program Units

2009 Annual Meeting

New Orleans, LA

Meeting Begins11/21/2009
Meeting Ends11/24/2009

Call for Papers Opens: 12/15/2008
Call for Papers Closes: 2/28/2009

Requirements for Participation

Religious World of Late Antiquity


Program Unit Type: Group
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: We are planning two sessions for 2009 for which we invite papers involving Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Manichaean, or any other religions' materials. The FIRST session revolves around the "materiality of the holy and of authority" in late antique religions, covering slippages and symbolic elisions between text and image, image and relic, relic and text, body and image, etc. The SECOND session, organized jointly with the Social History of Formative Christianity and Judaism and the History & Literature of Early Rabbinic Judaism Groups as part of a three-session joint program, will address the theme: "Beyond the Borders: Jews, Christians, and Others in Sassanian West Asia." Paper proposals are invited that address issues of interaction and differentiation between distinct religious traditions, as well as processes of hybridity and creolization that challenge familiar ideas of community boundaries. We are particularly interested in proposals that engage literary, ritual, and material expressions of culture at the crossroads of western, southern, and central Asia in late antiquity both within and neighboring the Sasanian empire.

Program Unit Chairs

David Frankfurter
Charlotte Fonrobert

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