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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

Mysticism, Esotericism, and Gnosticism in Antiquity


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: (1) MEGA welcomes papers on any topic related to the study of knowledge (gnosticism), secrecy (esotericism), and their revelation through religious praxis (mysticism) from a wide variety of critical methodologies and theoretical perspectives. (2) In addition, we welcome papers in conjunction with AAR’s Platonism and Neoplatonism group on "Theosis and the Bounds of Being": theosis, as a consummate expression of transcendence from antiquity to the present, challenges the delimitations of knowledge, cosmos, and contemplation and strains at the very boundaries of experience. Theosis challenges epistemological limitations, bending and breaking ways of knowing, and complicates the boundaries between orthodoxy and heterodoxy. This joint panel encourages submissions exploring the boundaries that characterize theosis, where they are, whether they exist, what they may be, how they function, and how they constrain, restrict, enable, and inspire. (3) Finally, we welcome papers in conjunction with the LGBTIQ/ueer Hermeneutics Group on "Queer and Trans Mystical." This joint panel welcomes papers that will bring queer and trans approaches into dialogue with ancient practices of secrecy, revelation, embodied transformations, and different ways of knowing.

Program Unit Chairs

Jaeda Calaway
Paul Robertson

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