Hello HD friends,
Here's the CFP for the HD special issue "H.D. and the Archaeology of Religion." It has already been posted it to the MSA listserv. We tried to make the description broad to include many angles of inquiry/research and if you're in doubt, Colbey Emmerson Reid (the editor of this issue) asks that I encourage you to contact her.
The Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory is seeking 20-30 page articles for a Special Issue on H.D. and religion in the context of material culture. We're looking for papers that illustrate H.D.'s role in shaping modernist religious thinking.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, H.D.'s interests in various religious practices ancient and modern, her involvement in spiritualists' discourses, her use of museum artifacts and ancient texts as evidence of broader religious thinking, her use of science within the religious discourse and religion within the scientific discourse, as well as articles that consider other religious/spiritualist associations--Quaker meditations, Moravianism, the RAF seances, popular culture, and the modernist occult.
JCRT welcomes studies with a broad approach to what constitutes "religious thought," but all contributions should gesture beyond the single author in order to discuss the artist's larger contribution to modernist conceptions of religious practices, themes, or cultural contexts.
Send full article or a 1-page proposal to creid@ycp.edu by Aug 1, 2008; full articles will be due December 1, 2008 with the published issue scheduled for April 2009. Potential contributors are encouraged to read about the JCRT and its submissions policies at http://www.jcrt.org/about.html
best,
Lisa Simon
lisainmt@gmail.com