[ecrea] CFP: Making Sacrifices: Visions of Sacrifice in Contemporary Culture (03/01/13; 05/01/13)

CALL FOR PAPERS: for an edited volume Making Sacrifices: Visions of 
Sacrifice in Contemporary Culture to be published by New Academic Press 
in 2013. (www.newacademicpress.at)



Send abstracts for papers in English or German to 
(salzburg.symposium /at/ gordon.edu) by March 1st, 2013.



As Italian premier Mario Monti recently did, politicians are 
increasingly calling on citizens to make sacrifices for the future of 
their countries. Such public invocations of sacrifice place politicians 
and their constituents in a state of tension not least because of the 
difficult and often contradictory connotations of sacrifice. Sacrifice, 
a concept of religious provenance deeply embedded in contemporary 
culture, can mean to offer for destruction and to make amends, to hurt 
and to heal, make whole, or sacred. The many meanings and even 
oppositions at the heart of sacrifice make it a dangerous and 
much-fraught concept, as well as a fruitful and powerful one in numerous 
spheres of contemporary culture.



Papers may approach the concept of sacrifice in contemporary European 
and American culture (or from the perspective of the origins of these 
contemporary cultures) from any number of angles. Among others, 
submissions may consider any of the following questions: In what ways 
does sacrifice form a key theme in European and/or American literature, 
art, and thought? How have concepts of sacrifice taken shape in those 
historical and contemporary situations where sacrifice has become a 
particularly important, urgent, or contested matter? How have the 
meanings of sacrifice shifted (and how may they yet shift) as a result 
of circulating between different spheres of activity? (For example, what 
meaning is gained, lost, or otherwise changed when a religious notion of 
sacrifice is transposed into philosophical conceptuality, a political 
principle, or a key idea of fiscal reform? As for the inverse, what do 
avowedly religious understandings of sacrifice owe to ancient and modern 
legal, political, and philosophical invocations of sacrifice?)  Finally, 
how has sacrifice been envisioned within various Christian, Jewish, and 
Muslim traditions and how might the notions of sacrifice belonging to 
these traditions be profitably compared?



The editors invite abstracts for papers that consider sacrifice as a 
theme important to contemporary European and/or American culture. This 
volume is an inter-disciplinary effort and we welcome abstracts from 
scholars working in the fields of literature, philosophy, history, 
sociology, political science, religious studies, and theology, among others.



Please send abstracts for papers in English or German to 
(salzburg.symposium /at/ gordon.edu) by March 1st, 2013. If your abstract is 
accepted, the deadline for submitting completed papers (5000-7000 words) 
for consideration will be May 1st, 2013. Decisions on abstracts 
submitted on or before March 1st, 2013 will be made by March 10, 2013 at 
which point authors whose abstracts have been accepted will be given the 
formatting guidelines.





Dr. Gregor Thuswaldner

Co-Director, Salzburg Institute of Gordon College

Associate Professor of German and Linguistics

Gordon College

255 Grapevine Road

Wenham, MA 01984

USA



Tel: (978) 867 4350

Fax: (978) 867 3300



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