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CULTURAL STUDIES WORKSHOP 2010
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Venue Name: Santiniketan
Country: India
City: West Bengal
Number of Attendees: Unknown
Webinar or Virtual Event: No
Start Date of Conference:: 01-30-2010
End Date of Conference: 02-04-2010
Description of Conference: Far from “phenomena born of religious conceptions” being everywhere in decline,
fulfilling the prediction of its retreat from the spheres of art, education, or politics, the
realm of the sacred has been historically reconstituted within contemporary life in a
number of unanticipated ways. Instances of such reconstitution include: the renewed
enchantment with, rather than repression of, the magical, even within industry and
science; an increasing political focus on the consecration or desecration of icons,
heroes, or histories; a secularism of the state matched by the supplemental sacrality
of modern institutional spaces and processes; the adaptation of new technologies to
the service of the sacred; modern states and their use of political theology. Indeed,
we might say that the sacred and the secular have forged a new dependence in
contemporary cultures, calling for a fresh assessment of the status of the sacred in
contemporary life.
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