Description

The bi-annual 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.

This conference, as in the past, will be organized around a series of public talks, combined with working seminars on books/articles written by authors invited to participate in those seminars.

E-mail: CT@sscf.ucsb.edu