[AIW List] CFP: Canadian Religions: Utopia and Prophecy - Bordeaux/France, Dec. 16-17, 2010

[Bartl, Renate]

Congrès religions canadiennes
16-17 décembre 2010
Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3

Bernadette Rigal-Cellard
CECIB (Centre d’Études Canadiennes Interuniversitaire de Bordeaux),
PPF (plan pluri-formations) & Master Religions et Sociétés

Le Canada en devenir: utopie, prophétie, prospective
Canada in the making: Utopia prophecy, prospective

Languages of the conference: French and English

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CALL FOR PAPERS

CANADIAN RELIGIONS: UTOPIA AND PROPHECY

We are trying to understand how Canada has been seen as a land where  
one could build a new utopia, and how this was linked to the prophetic  
spirit. We have analyzed historical texts and endeavors; literary  
texts, old and contemporary. The final conference of our program will  
examine the religious undergirding of “Canada in the making”.

The vision of Canada as a country built by prophetic minds intent on  
realizing unheard of utopias across the ocean will become more  
understandable once we have looked at the religious components of the  
national project.

Furthermore, this conference is meant to bring light to an aspect of  
Canadian culture that is usually little known outside the country, and  
in particular in Europe and in France: its religions. We indeed forget  
the fact that religious pluralism is not simply an American  
characteristic and that Canada offers an incredibly rich historical  
and contemporary diversity that needs to be studied as well.

Some possible topics (but they are not exclusive):

- Canadian religions as working utopias:
Doukhobors, Mennonites, Hutterites, Mormons, conservative Catholic  
communities


- Missionary utopias and their counter models:
Historical missionary projects; the Catholic Church imperium; contemporary
Indigenous Christian communities: Catholic, Anglican, Moravian  
Indigenous/Inuit communities


- Indigenous/Native prophecies shared with the USA:
Handsome Lake Iroquois cult, Slocum’s Shakers (N. W. Coast), Ghost Dance


- Christian nationalist prophecies:
Prophetism of Louis Riel; various nationalist messianisms, such as  
that of the Apostle of Infinite Love; or the transfers between the  
Catholicism of French Canada and independentist ideology..

- Canada harboring the expansionist prophetic religions of the USA:
in particular the Evangelical movements in the Prairie, or also the  
old Evangelical communities in the Maritimes


- Canada as utopian refuge for groups fleeing judicial problems abroad:
French groups, Polygamist Mormon communities arriving at the end of  
the 19th century


- Prophetic religions introduced from the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa


Bernadette Rigal-Cellard may have funding to help cover some traveling  
and lodging expenses, but there will not be results until September  
2010.

Deadline for submission: June 30, 2010.
Submit an abstract with a short biography to Bernadette Rigal-Cellard:
bcellard at numericable.fr
brigal at u-bordeaux3.fr

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Full text CFP in French and English on AIW Webpage:
http://www.american-indian-workshop.org/events.html




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