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Meeting Program Units

2024 Annual Meeting

San Diego, California

Meeting Begins11/23/2024
Meeting Ends11/26/2024

Call for Papers Opens: 1/24/2024
Call for Papers Closes: 3/20/2024

Requirements for Participation

Religious Experience in Antiquity


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Religious Experience in Antiquity unit will hold three sessions, one with an open call for papers. (1) We welcome paper proposals for an open session on any topic that investigates the experiential elements of religions from the ancient near east to late antiquity. We have a particular interest in papers that examine the relationship between texts and experience, religious practices (in the context of ritual, prayer, ecstasy, dreams and visions), and the role of embodied experiences (cognitive, neurological, and sensory) in the generation of religious ideas and commitment. In your proposal, we ask that you specify the texts or other material artifacts under discussion and include a clear methodological perspective. (2) Together with the Israelite Prophetic Literature program unit, we are holding a book review session of invited panelists on Anathea E. Portier-Young, The Prophetic Body: Embodiment and Mediation in Biblical Prophetic Literature (Oxford, 2024). (3) Our third session will be made up of invited papers from a forthcoming collected volume on religious experience in antiquity, edited by Reed Carlson, Brigidda E. Bell, and Frederick S. Tappenden, entitled Ominous Times: Anticipating Cataclysm in Early Judaism and Christianity (De Gruyter, 2025).

Program Unit Chairs

Reed Carlson

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