‘ Reading Spiritualities’ Constructing and Representing Spiritualities Through the Medium of Text: Literary, Visual and Sacred The Conference Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster 20-22 January 2006 PRESENTATIONS ARE 20 MINUTES, PLUS 10 MINUTES FOR QUESTIONS Day One: Friday January 20th 2006

8.45 – 9.30am Registration and Morning Coffee The Conference Centre

9.30 – 9.45am Welcome, Meeting Room 2

9.45 – 11.15am PANEL ONE

Meeting Room 1 Meeting Room 4 Meeting Room 5 Meeting Room 6 Representations of Christ Convent Spaces Loss and Healing Reconstructing and Chair: Chris Deacy, Chair: Giselle Vincett, Chair: Arthur Bradley, Interpreting University of Kent Lancaster University Lancaster University Buddhist Texts Chair: Koko Kawanami, Lancaster University Graham Holderness Alisa Tigchelaar Andrew Tate PLEASE NOTE: THIS (University of Hertfordshire) (Calvin College, Michigan) (Lancaster University) PANEL WILL BEGIN AT ‘Ecce Homo’: Jesus in A Tale of Two Sisters: The The Believing Touch: Faith 10.15am Fiction and Film Dramatic Recasting of Healers in Fiction Female Identity in the 17th Century Spanish Convent Dianne Shober Katharine Moody Bridget Bennett Lionel Obadia (University of Fort Hare) (Lancaster University) (University of Leeds) (University of Lyon) The Lion Symbolism in C.S. Life as Text, Body as Envisaging the Spirit in the Reading, Feeling, Sharing Lewis Canvas: Reading A Nun ‘Of World of Alice Sebold’s The the Power of Dharma: The Ill Repute’ Lovely Bones and Role of Texts in the Elisabeth Stuart Phelp’s Reception and the Adoption The Gates Ajar of Tibetan Buddhism in France

Inge Wierda M.K. Trzebiatowska Abir Hamdar Anne Mette Fisker-Nielson (University of Leeds) (University of Exeter) (SOAS) (SOAS) Images of Christ by the ‘Is your Mother Superior As Under the Heat of the Interpreting Religious Artists of Abramtsevo Evil As the One in the Scorching Sun: A Short Texts: Soka Gakkai on the Film’? Story Meaning of the Spiritual Representations of Catholic Nuns in Popular Culture

11.15 -11.30am Coffee 1/9 Friday 20th January 2006

11.30am -1.30 pm PANEL TWO

Meeting Room 1 Meeting Room 4 Meeting Room 5 Meeting Room 6 Visual and Architectural Reading Philosophy and Readers/Writers/Texts Writing as A Representation of the Literature Chair: Andy Tate, Lancaster Metaphysical and Sacred Chair: Paul Fletcher University Spiritual Quest Chair: Paul Heelas Lancaster University Chair: Giselle Vincett Lancaster University Lancaster University

David Smith Steve Earnshaw John Dudley Máire Aine Ní Mhainnín (Lancaster University) (Sheffield Hallam University) (University of Wisconsin) University of Galway Reading Sex on Temples: The Anguish of Abraham: “Journey(s) Without Maps”: Jean Sullivan – Writing Hindu Sexuality and Spirituality in Existential Navigating the Spiritual as A Metaphysical Quest Spirituality in the Context of Thought Response to Graham Greene’s Modernity The End of the Affair

Angela Voss Arthur Bradley Andrew Atkinson Thafer Yusef Assarairah (University of Kent) (Lancaster University) (Wilfred Laurier University) (Qatar University) The Secret Life of Statues Derrida’s God: Theology, "Imagining the Spirit in the Existential Heroes’ Materiality, Technology Rock: Wayne Johnston's Spiritual Satisfaction in Baltimore's Mansion and the the Novels of Camus and Analogia Entis Faulkner

Ozayr Saloojee Ronnie Mather Anna Smith-Spark Harumi Osaki (University of (Empire State College) (Birkbeck College) (University of Edinburgh) Minnesota) Hegel, Dostoyevsky and Carl ‘It’s The Oldest Book in the The Experiment of Solomon’s Narrative: Text, Rogers: Between Humanism World and I Wrote It: Authority, Immanence: The ‘New Architecture and the Sacred and Spirit Sacred Scripture and the Christ’ in Deleuze’s Problems of Authorship in Reading of Melville’s Madame Blavatsky’s The Bartleby The Scrivener Secret Doctrine Chi-Keung Yam Patrick Carr Noel Heather (University of Edinburgh) (Lancaster University) (Royal Holloway) The Cinematic Quest for Spirituality, Deconstruction Critical Postliberalism: The Redemption – A Recent and Narcissism: Exploring Transformations of Late Case from Hong Kong the Pschyo-Dynamics of Modernity, and the Complex A/Theologies System of the Believing Community’s Sacred Architext

1.30-2.30pm Lunch The Conference Centre

2/9 Friday 20th January 2006

2.30-4.00pm PANEL THREE

Meeting Room 1 Meeting Room 4 Meeting Room 5 Meeting Room 6 Re-Reading Scriptures Theological Themes: Reading Spiritualities in Children’s Literature Chair: Linda Woodhead Reconstructing Women in Modernity and Children’s Lancaster University Contemporary Fiction Chair: Alison Easton, Spiritualities Chair: Deborah Sawyer Lancaster University Chair: David Waines Lancaster University Lancaster University Stephen J Hunt Brutus Green Michaela Giebelhausen Ruth Wills (University of the West of (University of Exeter) (University of Essex) (Scripture Union) England) In Between Sex and the Performing Spirituality: How is the Musical The Alpha Course: State of Sacred: Theological Artistic Identity and Creative Process a the Art Presentation of the Subversion in Jeanette Religious Painting in Mid- Spiritual Pursuit? A Case Contemporary Gospel Winterson’s The Passion Victorian Culture Study of Children’s Spiritual Development Kirsteen Kim Ingrid Bertrand Alison Milbank Catherine Posey (University of Birmingham) (Catholic University of (University of (Shasta College) Ethereal Christianity: Louvian, Belgium) Nottingham) Spiritual Knowing in Reading Korean Church And They Gave to the ‘This Way Up is the Way Green Knowe: Websites as Texts Silenced a Voice: Down’: Decadence and Representations of Contemporary Women the Eruption of Spirituality in Children’s Writers Re-Imagining the Transcendence Fantasy Divine Dorothy Grosvenor Jennifer Stark Elisabeth Eldridge (Napier University) (University of York) (University of Reading) Feminist Perspectives on Apocalyptic Woman: The Subtle Wordsmith: Reading Texts as Sacred Vision, Text, Image and Reading Readings of The as Demonstrated in the Reader in the Chronicles of Narnia and Experiences of Nursing Representational His Dark Materials Care as Spiritual Paradigm of the Book of Revelation

3/9 Friday 20th January 2006

4.00-4.30pm Afternoon Tea and Coffee

4.30-6.30pm PANEL FOUR

Meeting Room 1 Meeting Room 4 Meeting Room 5 Meeting Room 6 Accessing the Spiritual Reading Spiritual Identities Representing Spiritual Reading the Sacred and Chair: Darlene Bird and Cultural Texts Spaces and Places the Profane University of Leeds Chair: David Waines Chair: Jo Carruthers Chair: Andy Tate, Lancaster University Bristol University Lancaster University Sue Yore Raana Bokhari Richard Van Leeuwen Aakanksha Virkar (York St. John) (University of Cambridge) (University of Amsterdam) (University of Sussex) Finding Our Wings: Bihishti Zewar: Heavenly Spirituality and Travel in Islam: Gerard Manley Hopkins Reading as a Mystical Task Ornaments for Respectable The Life Journey of a Moroccan and The Song of Songs Women: A Study of a Scholar and Sufi in the 16th/17th Contemporary British Century Gujarati Community’s use of 19th Century Reformist Indian Text Jane Thomas Michael Jagessar Kristina K Groover Hilary Elder (University of Hull) (Queen’s Theological (Appalachian State University) (University of Durham) “Moments of Grace": Love Foundation, Birmingham) Taking the Doors off the Hinge: The Song of Songs and and Spirituality in the Poetry Negotiating the Sacred in Secular Religion and Sacred John Donne’s Elegie to of Carol Ann Duffy Caribbean Literature: A Space in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs His Mistress Going to Conversation Dalloway Bed: A Religion of the Body? Andrew Rudd Abasi Kiyimba Richard Roberts Kathleen O’Leary (Manchester Metropolitan (Makerer University) (University of Stirling/University (Lancaster University) University) Culture and Faith in the of Lancaster) Representations of the ‘What is it We’re Holding?’: Mythical Narrative of the The Devil's Disciple: James Soul in Renaissance Constructions of Spirituality Baganda Hogg’s The Memoirs and Literature in Mark Doty’s Poetry Confessions of a Justified Sinner and the interior psychodrama of spiritual violence

Christophe Fricker Sharmina Mawani Alison E. Jasper (St. John’s College, Oxford) (SOAS) (University of Stirling) The Perception of the Words of Wisdom: The The Writings of Maude Divine in Stefan George’s Ginaimic Traditions of the Royden Late Works Nizari Ismali Muslims

6.30pm Wine Reception, The Conference Centre (Provided by The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies)

7.00-8.00pm Meeting Room 1 Chair: Linda Woodhead, Lancaster University PLENARY - PROF. DAVID JASPER (University of Glasgow) “Do Not Hide Your Face From Me” (Psalm 27): The Sacred and Profane Body in Art and Modern Literature

8.15 pm Dinner Langdales Restaurant, Lancaster University 4/9 Day Two: Saturday 21 January 2006

8.30-9.00am Morning Coffee

9.00-10.30am PANEL ONE

Meeting Room 1 Meeting Room 3 Meeting Room 4 Reading Hindu Texts Representing Spirituality and Experiencing Chair: Katharine Moody, Contemporary and Modern Spiritualities: Lancaster University Literatures Empirical Perspectives Chair: Patrick Carr Chair: Marta K. Lancaster University Trzebiatowska, University of Exeter Jonathan B. Edelmann Youssef Yacoubi Giovanna Bacchiddu (Harris Manchester (Hofstra University,New York) (St. Andrews University) College, The Prophet, The Poet: Negotiating with the Oxford University) Constructing Spiritual Events Saint: What is This Thing Called Miracles and Exchange in Knowledge?The Apiao, Chiloe, Chile Bhagavata-Purana and the Study of Religion

Darren Borg Claudia May Dawn Llewellyn (Ventura College) (United College of the (Lancaster University) The Symbolic As Prakritti: Ascension, Birmingham) Women, Reading and Western Subjectivity The Genesis of an Eden Made Spirituality: Recreating Through Eastern Tradition of Words: Scriptural the Canon (re)Translations and the (un)- Making of a Vesper Service. Reading Ideological Constructs as Sacred Text in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man Anna Bonisoli Alquati Natalia Theodoridou Janet Eccles (Universita Degli Studi di Aristotle University of (Lancaster University) Torino/Philipps Universit, Thessaloniki, Greece Women Accessing the Marburg) Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Spiritual Outside a Indian Religion in Amartya Virginia Woolf: Thoughts on the Church Context Sen’s Philosophy: a New Religious Element Perspective on Indian Spirituality

10.30-11.00am Morning Coffee 5/9 Saturday 21 January 2006

11.00-1.00pm PANEL TWO Meeting Room 1 Meeting Room 3 Meeting Room 4 Spirituality and the Cinematic Reading Contemporary Visual Jewish Women: Expressions Chair: Paul Fletcher, Lancaster Texts Through Poetry and Art University Chair: Deborah Sawyer, Lancaster Chair: Alison Easton, University Lancaster University Gerard Loughlin Steve Earnshaw Aviva Dautch (University of Durham) (Sheffield Hallam University) (Roehampton University) ‘Rain, Fire, Water, Snow, Dew’: Sarah’s Voice The Agnostic’s Prayer: Seeing the Unseeable in the Conflicted Identity in Anglo- Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky Jewish Women’s Poetry

Christina Welch Jill Fernie Clark Thalia Gur Klein (University of Winchester) (Blackpool and The Flyde College) (University of Amsterdam) Images and Identity: Representing The Last Faint Spark: Painting and & Judith Gor (Artist) and Constructing Spirituality the Contemporary Contemplation of Women in Search of God and Through the Visual Faith Humanity in Times of Atrocity. Presentation 1. Chris Deacy Shamsad Mortuza In Search of God and Humanity; (University of Kent) (Birkbeck College) Two Holocaust Poetesses Holy Other or Wholly Inadequate?: Reading Brian Catlings’s Cyclops: Lamenting and Protesting the The Uncritical Appropriation of Shaminism and Alternative Destruction of their Community in Cinematic Christ-Figures Spirituality Poetry and Songs of Spirituality Jose Gabriel Ferreras Rodriguez Kathy Pitt and Belief: Hanna Szenes 1921- (University of Murcia) (Lancaster University) 1944 and Lea Rudniska 1916- Sacred and Profane: The Secular ‘Tapping into this Consciousness – 1943 and Religious in the Cinema of This Bigger Consciousness That’s Presentation 2 Martin Scorsese Out There’: Discourses of Creativity Art of Atrocity – Himmel Strasse, and Spirituality vicarious suffering in the aftermath. Discussion by Thalia Gur Klein on the paintings in memoriam of Women in the Holocaust, by the Israeli Dutch Artist Judith Gor, an established artist. Presentation of the paintings by the artist herself.

1.00-2.00 Lunch 2.00-3.30pm PANEL 3 Meeting Room 1 Meeting Room 3 Meeting Room 4 Meeting Room 5 Women, Literature and Hebrew Traditions and HEA Teaching and Poets and the Spiritual Spirituality Spiritualities Learning Panel Quest Chair: Dawn Llewellyn Chair: Deborah Sawyer Chair: Richard Roberts Chair: Patrick Carr Lancaster University Lancaster University University of Lancaster University Stirling/Lancaster University

Michelle Denby Pauline Kollantai Darlene L Bird Una Agnew (Doncaster University (York St. John’s) (Leeds University) (Milltown Institute, Centre, University of Hull) The Musical Bridge Between ‘Reading Spiritualities’ Dublin) ‘Art is my Rod and Staff’: Messianic and Traditional with (the Former Reading the Poet Patrick Invocations of the Spiritual Judaism Education Minister) Kavanagh in Winterson’s ‘Prophetic Charles Clarke Writing’ Miriam Wallraven Jo Carruthers Alexander Dolin James Deboo (University of Tuebingen) (Bristol University) (Akita International (Lancaster University) ‘The Reassurance of Narrating the Enemy at the University, Japan) Wordsworth and Liberal Something More’?: Jewish Festival of Purim The Sacred Writings of Theology Scepticism, Ambivalences East-Asian Religions in and Critical Reflections on the Context of Female Spirituality in Comparative Cultural 1970s Fiction Studies Jessica Tinklenberg de Vega Peter Admirand Victor Vargas (Florida State University) (Trinity College, Dublin) (Claremont Graduate ‘A Man Who Fears God’: The The Pedagogy of University) First Century Tale of Joseph Prayer and Texts of In the (Literary) Postures and Aseneth and Trauma and Genocide of Yeats’ ‘Yoga Studio’. Constructions of Hellenistic Jewish Masculinity 6/9 Saturday 21 January 2006

3.30-4.00pm Afternoon Tea and Coffee

Meeting Room 1 Chair: Alison Easton, Lancaster University 4.00-5.00pm PLENARY MICHELE ROBERTS getting a/cross god

Meeting Room 2 5.00-6.00pm Michele Roberts Book Signing

5.30-7.00pm

MR 1 Workshop MR 3 Workshop Chair: Patrick Carr, Lancaster University Chair: Dawn Llewellyn, Lancaster University Dermot Tredget J O Kim (Douai Abbey) (Sheffield University) The Rule Of Benedict and the Spiritual Qualities of Dual Cosmic Energies and Five elements of the Leadership Universe: The Interpretation of ‘Saju’

7.30pm Dinner Langdales Restaurant, Lancaster University

Day Three: Sunday 22 January 2006

Sunday 22 January 2006

8.30-9.00am Morning Coffee

9.00-10.30am PANEL ONE

Meeting Room 1 Meeting Room 3 Meeting Room 4 Meeting Room 5 Reading Spiritualities: ‘Feast’: Theory and Material Texts Spiritual Spaces and Poetry Workshop Practice of Chair: Patrick Carr Communities Chair: Dawn Llewellyn Renovating the Lancaster University Chair: Alison E Jasper Archive University of Stirling Chair: Deborah Sawyer

Rebecca Irving Christy Johnson Michael Mullett (Manchester Cathedral (University College (Lancaster University) Alison Findlay Inter-Faith Poet of the for the Creative Reading English (Lancaster University) Year & Arts), Artist’s Catholic Spiritualities ‘Where Noble Lancaster University) Project 1680-1830 Virgins Still Shall & Catherine Clinger Mee’t: Spaces of (University College Sisterhood in Early London), Baudrillard and Women’s Drama the Communicants Chang-Won Park Hester Jones (Durham University) (University of Liverpool) Copying the Bible: An ‘Words Indeed No More Embodiment of Korean Can Show’: Friendship Confucian-Christian and the Limits of the Spiritualities Text in Spiritual Writings by Women

R A Eliott Lockhart (Trinity College, Maria Beatrice Bittarello Cambridge University) (University of Stirling) Reading as a Spiritual Reading Texts, Watching Pursuit in Hugh of St. Texts: Examples of Victor’s Didascalicon Different Mythopoeic Modalities in Neopagan Texts on the Web

10.30-11.00am Morning Coffee

11.00-12.00pm Meeting Room 1 Chair: Deborah Sawyer, Lancaster University PLENARY PROF. URSULA KING 'Gendering the Spirit' Reading Women's Spiritualities with a Comparative Mirror

8/9 Sunday 22 January 2006

12.00 – 1.30pm PANEL TWO MR 1 MR 3 MR 4 Spiritual Metaphors Representing Representing Black and Chair: Richard Roberts Motherhood Hindu Spiritualities University of Chair: Dawn Llewellyn Chair: Patrick Carr Stirling/Lancaster University Lancaster University Lancaster University

Rob Warner Deborah F Sawyer Anthony Reddie (Kings College, London) (Lancaster University) (Queen’s Theological Broken Metaphors and Mary of Nazareth: Reading Foundation) Evocative Religious Her Body as Text A Dialectic Spirituality of Discourse – Spiritualities of Improvisation: The Ambiguity of Atonement in the Black Engagements with Imprecision’s of the Apostle Sacred Texts Paul Ingie Hovland Maria Luisa Coelho Jonathan Prasad (SOAS) (University of Warwick & (Lancaster University) From Thickest Darkness to Universade de Minho) The Thread which Binds: The Clearest Light: On the Maternity and the Sacred in Social, Cultural and Political Surprising Stability and the Work of Michele Roberts uses of the Rāmcaritmānas Subtlety of Mission and Helen Chadwick: A amongst the Hindu community Metaphors 1850-2000 Comparative Approach in Fiji.

Maria Antonia Alvarez (Distance Teaching University, Madrid) Spiritual Themes and Identities in Chicana Texts: Virgem de Guadalupe as a Role Model for Womanhood.

1.30- 2.30. Close and Lunch 9/9