The Cultural Turn 3:
 PROFANE AND SACRED

Organized by Roger Friedland, John Mohr and Richard Hecht

 

                                                                                                                      

University of California,                                                    

Santa Barbara                                                                                        

February 23-24, 2001                                                                                                                                                               

With Featured Guest Speakers:

Karen McCarthy Brown (Drew University)
"The sacred/profane split and the politics of culture"

Jonathan Z. Smith (University of Chicago) “The Topography of the Sacred”

David Chidester (Cape Town University)
"Blood and Money: Elementary Forms of the Political Economy of the Sacred"

Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Politics as Sacred: The College de Sociologie"

Thomas Carlson (University of California,Santa Barbara)
"Techno-science and the Mystical"

Ed Lilenthal (University of Wisconson, Oshkosh)
"Violence and the American Landscape"

We will also have the following SEMINARS:

Mark Juergensmeyer (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Introduction to his book Terror in the Mind of God

Karen McCarthy Brown (Drew University) "The Sacred and Profane: A Dance of Power and Resistance"

Ed Lilenthal (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh)
selection from his forthcoming book: The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory

W. Clark Roof (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Chapter Three of "Spiritual Marketplace"

J.Z. Smith (University of Chicago) "To Take Place"

Catherine Albanese (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Reconsidering Nature Religion: The Turn to Politics and Ethics."

Jeffrey Alexander (University of California, Los Angeles)
"The Engorgement of Evil: The Holocaust War Crime to Trauma Drama"

Tom Carlson (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Locating the Mystical Subject" and the introduction in And Maker Mates with Made: World and Self-creation in Eriugena and Joyce

David Chidester (Cape Town University)
"Mapping the Sacred in the Mother City: Religion and Urban Space in
Cape Town, South Africa"

Roger Friedland (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Money, Sex and God: The Critical Logic of Religious Nationalism."

Richard Hecht and Linda Ekstrom (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Unveiling the Sacred in Contemporary Art: Interpreting Christian
Boltanski, Wolfgang Laib, and Anselm Kiefer"

 

 

The biennial Cultural Turn conferences are designed as venues where social scientists and humanists can discuss the cultural constitution of social life and the social construction of culture, can explore, in short, the common and contested zone that they now must share. Cultural Turn III will explore the theme of profane and sacred, a binary that has become increasingly important in cultural sociology on the one side, and whose phenomenological and symbolist treatment in the history of religions has increasingly been challenged on the other.

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