Bethel University
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Abstracts of 500-700 words should be submitted by
November 1, 2008.
Please include name, affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address, and submit proposals to:
Pietism Conference
ATTN: Christian Collins Winn
Bethel University
3900 Bethel Dr.
St. Paul, MN 55112
Or e-mail as an attachment to Christian Collins Winn or Chris Gehrz.
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The goal of
this conference is to provide scholars from all traditions an
opportunity to explore the many dimensions of the pietist heritage,
with a view to understanding the ongoing relevance of the "pietist
impulse" for contemporary problems and questions across disciplines. We
invite scholars and practitioners to propose papers or panel sessions
on issues such as the following: |
Pietism and the Life of the MindPietism and intellectual history (e.g., the Enlightenment, historicism, anti-intellectualism); Pietist influences on higher education, educational theory, and Christian scholarship; Pietism's contribution to biblical studies and Christian theology (including eschatology and pneumatology) |
Historical and Contemporary Traditions of PietismHistories of classical and radical forms of European Pietism; critical studies of significant Pietists (e.g., Spener, Zinzendorf, Petersen, Wesley); the institutional and denominational heritage of Pietism in America (e.g., Swedish and German Baptists, Lutherans, Wesleyans, Moravians, Anabaptists, Evangelical Covenant); Pietism and American Evangelicalism |
Pietism as Transformational ChristianityThemes in Pietist spirituality and experiential Christianity (e.g., conversion, sanctification, vocation); the relationship between the individual and the community in Pietism; Pietism and religious psychology; Pietism and the "religious other" (e.g., Pietism and Judaism) |
Pietism, Missions, and Social ReformThe missionary impulse in Pietism; Pietism and movements for social and economic justice (e.g., the Social Gospel, charitable enterprises, civil rights, urban ministries); Pietism and conservative and radical politics; Pietism and ecumenical cooperation; Pietism and gender equality |
Pietism, Arts, and LiteraturePietist expressions in poetry and literature, music and hymnody, theater and film, and the visual arts |