SOCIETY FOR REFORMATION RESEARCH - CFP

CALL FOR PAPERS : SOCIETY FOR REFORMATION RESEARCH SPONSORED SESSIONS
Kalamazoo: 4nd International Medieval Congress
May 10-13, 2007 , Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan

We are offering three themed Sessions:

1. Reformation I: The Power of the Book

A session about how print and the press expedited the progress of the Reformation. Could be influential books ("The Bondage of the Will"), or THE book (Scripture), or polemical contests. Individuals (Luther or Knox) or groups (Puritans). Social change... censorship issues ... influence of specific books on the progress of the Reformation.

2. Reformation II: The Power of the Sword

A session on force and compulsion, issues of conscience, military history, Peasants Rebellion, armed resistance, church and state. Does the church have the power of the sword? Issues of obedience and resistance, and authority.

3. Reformation III: The Power of the Word

A session on belles lettres, rhetoric, the style of individual authors (reform-minded or anti-reformation), the scriptural 'Word', the influence of texts on religious and spiritual thought.

Send 200 Word Abstracts by email to Maureen Thum, Program Secretary, SRR at Kalamazoo mthum@umflint.edu
Please use subject heading: SRR proposal

****DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: May 14, 2006***
(We need to send in the
program proposal May 15)
We may accept some abstracts after this date if the sessions are not yet full

FORMAT OF ABSTRACTS
The following information should be provided at the beginning of the
abstract
1) name of presenter
2) affiliation (university, emeritus, independent scholar)
3) status (faculty, graduate, undergraduate)
4) complete address, either home or institution where we can best
reach you at all times
5) office phone and home phone
6) e-mail address
8) title of paper
9) Session Theme: >
****TEXT OF ABSTRACT****

****MEMBERSHIP IN THE SOCIETY FOR REFORMATION RESEARCH ****
Membership is required to present a paper. $20 regular, $10 student and emeritus
****Useful contact information****
Maureen Thum, Program Secretary, Society for Reformation Research at Kalamazoo. Department of English, 326 French Hall, University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, MI 48502
810. 235 2016 (home)