Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Summer, 1563, oil on panel. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Call for Papers Conference “Spiritualities and Healing in Global and Transhistorical Perspectives”
Call for papers for the conference
“Spiritualities and Healing in Global and Transhistorical Perspectives”
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 10-12 June 2025
This conference aims to explore the intersection of folk, vernacular, complementary, alternative, indigenous, and bio-medicines in critical dialogue with analytical categories in the study of religion, including folk religions, magic, and spiritualities. A transhistorical perspective will be adopted, encompassing both contemporary and pre-modern practices, beliefs, and historicities. A central theme also concerns the relationship between alternative spiritualities and the pandemic, examining how movements rooted in religious and spiritual practices have supported or challenged scientific approaches to pandemic management, with significant political impacts, fueling nationalisms, populisms, and fundamentalisms, and reshaping the debate on health, spirituality, and governance.
The conference is organized jointly by the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities (Cini Foundation), the Center for the Study of World Religions (Harvard Divinity School) the Center for the Study of Lived Religion (Ca’ Foscari University), and the HEAL Network for the Ethnography of Healing.
Download the Call HERE.
Deadline: 28 February 2025
For more information:
Centro Studi di Civiltà e Spiritualità Comparate