This year, the Contemplative Studies Unit especially invites proposals addressing the role of different epistemologies relative to Contemplative Studies, comparative or otherwise. Particularly we are looking for panels and papers on: Chairs Steering Committee Members Deadline for submissions is Friday, March 8th at 5pm EST. For more information on submissions, visit the AAR website.
Announcing a new film in Contemplative Studies: Light Upon Light (2022), Directed by Christian Suhr From the Director For several years, I studied the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. I carried out research on radicalization, integration problems, jinn possession, and psychosis, and at a certain point I got exhausted. A friend in Cairo…
We invite reviews of films in Contemplative Studies. Rigorous and insightful reviews are an integral part of JCS’s mission to inform and connect scholars and practitioners in the field of Contemplative Studies. Proposals are invited to review new films, as well as foundational works of filmmaking released in the last few years. A few possible…
The Varieties of Contemplative Experience series from the University of Virginia Press is devoted to wide-ranging humanistic scholarship exploring the world’s rich legacy of contemplative traditions across cultures, religions, and historical periods. The ambit of this series ranges from ancient times to the near past and the contemporary, from religions to the spiritual but not…
We invite reviews of books in Contemplative Studies. Rigorous and insightful reviews are an integral part of JCS’s mission to inform and connect scholars and practitioners in the field of Contemplative Studies. Proposals are invited to review new publications, as well as foundational works of scholarship published in the last few years. A few possible…
The Journal of Contemplative Studies (JCS) is looking for new scholarship in Contemplative Studies. In particular, we invite submissions from individuals or panels from the recent AAR conference in San Antonio. The journal publishes original research and scholarship on topics related to contemplation with a focus on humanities-based studies, in the most capacious sense, and…
The International Society for Contemplative Research is holding their 2nd annual conference in Padova, Italy from June 19 – 23, 2024. The deadline to submit abstracts is January 31, 2024. Please visit www.iscrconference.org or email admin@contemplativeresearch.org for more details.
The JCS Editors are delighted to announce a call for papers for a Special Issue devoted to Philosophy and Contemplation in Tantric Buddhism with guest editor Yaroslav Komarovski (University of Nebraska – Lincoln). This JCS Special Issue gives attention to intersections and relationships between philosophical and contemplative dimensions of Buddhist tantric traditions. While Buddhist philosophy and tantric…
We invite reviews of books in Contemplative Studies. Rigorous and insightful reviews are integral to JCS’s mission to inform and connect scholars and practitioners in Contemplative Studies. Proposals are invited to review new publications as well as foundational works of scholarship published in the last few years. A few possible titles for which we are…
The JCS Editors are delighted to announce a call for papers for a Special Issue devoted to Contemplative Ecology with guest editors Douglas Christie (Loyola Marymount University), Simone Kotva (Cambridge University), Ariel Evan Mayse (Stanford University), and Devin Zuckerman (University of Virginia). The guest editors of this Special Issue recognize that the world is in…
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