A conference co-organized by Professor Greg Johnson

Professor Johnson is co-organizing and speaking at a Confernce entitled "Irreverence and the Sacred" November 4-6 at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

"Irreverence and the Sacred" will be a three-day symposium to celebrate the work of Bruce Lincoln and to critically interrogate the current and future directions of  the academic study of religion. This will include papers from a wide range of leading scholars in the U.S. and Europe, followed by a series of reflections, responses, and rejoinders from Professor Lincoln. The symposium will take Lincoln's work as a point of departure from which to consider the  possibilities for a genuinely critical interrogation of the complex  phenomenon known as 'religion,' the forms it has taken and the roles it  has played in various historic, social, and cultural contexts.

See the full schedule for the conference here.