Friday, Apr 14, 2023

Stories of Faith - CFP

Stories of Faith: Religion, Spirituality, and Narration in the Global Era

Editor: Vihra Baeva

 Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture / Literatura Ludowa would like to invite contributions of academic articles reflecting on the multiple dimensions of contemporary religiosity and spirituality with a focus on narrative expressions. Researchers in the field of folklore, culture studies, ethnology, and cultural anthropology are invited to contribute. We welcome papers based on case studies from Central and Eastern Europe that outline the present day state of conventional religious systems such as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Catholicism, and Protestantism. Analyses of newly emerging forms of spirituality relating to the vast field of New Age movements, modern paganism and others are also of interest.

The main idea of this issue is to view contemporary religious and/or spiritual trends through the lens of narration and narratives as a key element of the culture and personal experiences of believers. We hope to initiate an in-depth discussion on the specificities of different types of narratives in the present (legends, folktales and local religious narratives, personal accounts and biographical narratives) and delineate their role in verification and promotion of spiritual values. Objects of interest could also consist in interactions between oral, written and online discourses, and the influence of media, social networks, and other phenomena of the global world on religious life and experience. Therefore, we hope that the articles in the issue will draw a multifaceted picture of the spirituality of contemporary Europeans, and look into the dynamics between tradition and innovation in the field of narration.

Articles and reviews of academic books dedicated to the subject area described above can be submitted in English and Polish by May 15th, 2024.

All texts submitted to Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture must meet the requirements specified in our Author Guidelines: https://apcz.umk.pl/LL/about/submissions#authorGuidelines