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Volume VI (2014)Symposia is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who identify religion as an important consideration in their research. We invite submissions of original research papers on any topic that critically engages the study of religion.SPECIAL TOPIC CALL FOR PAPERS: MEDIATIONFollowing the success of “Media Fever!,” the 2013 Graduate Student Conference at the University of Toronto’s Department for the Study of Religion, this year’s issue of Symposia invites papers on the theme of religion and mediation.Religions are mediated through people such as shamans, pastors, neighbours, and devotees; through material objects such as amulets, scripture, paintings, and architecture; and through ideas such as theology, popular culture and superstition. Each of these mediators changes, adds layers, and affects our perception and understanding of religions. This issue of Symposia is interested in the material that filters the religious through itself and the interplay between the mediator and the mediated: the in-betweens.We welcome articles that address the mediation of religion broadly conceived, in contexts of anthropology, area studies, classical studies, cultural studies, diaspora and transnational studies, gender and diversity studies, geography, history, philology, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology, as well as those that extend the subject across historical and geographical boundaries.SUGGESTED TOPICSThe following sub-fields allow for a flexible interpretation of this volume’s theme, as well as encourage submissions reflecting a broad spectrum of interests and disciplines:Critical reflections on the turn to mediation and different notions of mediationAnalyses of the absorption and transformation of practices through new mediaThe social processes that shape religious mediationConflict and struggles over practices of mediationThe role of intermediary objects, figures, and institutions that stand between an audience and deities, the divine, or religious ideasThe uses of concepts, ideas, and language that mediate “religion,” “religions,” and the “religious”How medial bodies raise the question of religious experienceHybridity, in-betweenness, liminality and religionHow media technologies are incorporated and reconfigured by religious practiceMediation beyond the turn to material cultureArticles written in clear, grammatical, and fluent English or French will be considered. Articles should not exceed 25 pages in length. The deadline for submissions is Friday, March 28, 2014.Articles (.doc or .docx; and .pdf) should be submitted by email to symposiajournal@gmail.com.