“On the Edge” is a bi-annual symposium at Elon University that brings together scholars working at the theoretical and methodological boundaries of those fields that have a stake in the critical analysis of religion—law, history, psychology, anthropology, literature/textual studies, philosophy, art history, political science, classics, and gender studies. “On the Edge” aims to exercise a self-conscious attention to methodological advances that can be made through interdisciplinarity. Its proceedings contribute to a richly contextualized and multi-layered understanding of the role of religion in societies past, present, and future.

 

The CSRCS aims to bring the research presented at its symposia to publication in an efficient and timely manner. Select papers from the 2017 symposium were published in the June 2018 issue of CrossCurrents, and the 2019 symposia papers are undergoing revisions to meet publication deadlines for The Body and Religion journal and for an anthology under contract with Equinox.

For information about past and future symposia, click on the menu to the left.