Deadline: undisclosed
Geographical coverage: Israel
Reading Fee: n/a
Accepts (genre): essay
Prize/Payment: n/a
Contact: gogo@elijah.org.il
On Dec. 28-29, 2011 the Elijah Intefaith Institute, with the Lassalle Haus will hold, in Jerusalem, a conference titled “Pilgrims of Peace to Jerusalem”. The conference will follow a six month pilgrimage by foot from Lasalle Haus in Switzerland to Jerusalem. It will provide an opportunity for participants and for those who dwell in Jerusalem and seek her wellbeing to reflect on the spiritual meaning of peace in Jerusalem and on what a pilgrimage of peace to a city that still has no earthly peace might mean.
We invite thinkers and scholars of different religions to take part in this conference. The conference seeks to develop a robust notion of peace as pilgrimage. The importance of pilgrimage is that it is a process that has value in and of itself. While it seeks to arrive somewhere, every step of the way is informed by the goal of the pilgrimage and has value, even if the pilgrimage is not fully realized and even if one does not arrive at the physical destination of the pilgrimage, as intended. What does it mean to be a pilgrim of peace? If Jerusalem is a city of peace and if pilgrimage to Jerusalem is a recognized virtue, in the different Abrahamic traditions, what does it mean to be a pilgrim to Jerusalem as a city of Peace? To meet these goals, we seek to develop a series of inspiring reflections, preferably based upon Scriptural resources, that might allow us to add depth to existing pilgrimages and to gain an important dimension of reflection on the quest for peace, as a spiritual process, rather than a concrete social and political outcome. The contributions of such a discussion will not be a political pact, nor even a motivating call for peace in the region. Rather, the contribution will be a way of enriching religious language and reflection by developing an idea not commonly stated in religious reflection, and doing so from an interreligious perspective and in the concrete historical setting of Jerusalem.
If you wish to propose a presentation for this confernce, kindly send a proposal to Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein, gogo@elijah.org.il
We hope that pilgrims from afar will join the inhabitants of Jerusalem in reflecting on Jerusalem as a city of peace.
More information here.
Geographical coverage: Israel
Reading Fee: n/a
Accepts (genre): essay
Prize/Payment: n/a
Contact: gogo@elijah.org.il
On Dec. 28-29, 2011 the Elijah Intefaith Institute, with the Lassalle Haus will hold, in Jerusalem, a conference titled “Pilgrims of Peace to Jerusalem”. The conference will follow a six month pilgrimage by foot from Lasalle Haus in Switzerland to Jerusalem. It will provide an opportunity for participants and for those who dwell in Jerusalem and seek her wellbeing to reflect on the spiritual meaning of peace in Jerusalem and on what a pilgrimage of peace to a city that still has no earthly peace might mean.
We invite thinkers and scholars of different religions to take part in this conference. The conference seeks to develop a robust notion of peace as pilgrimage. The importance of pilgrimage is that it is a process that has value in and of itself. While it seeks to arrive somewhere, every step of the way is informed by the goal of the pilgrimage and has value, even if the pilgrimage is not fully realized and even if one does not arrive at the physical destination of the pilgrimage, as intended. What does it mean to be a pilgrim of peace? If Jerusalem is a city of peace and if pilgrimage to Jerusalem is a recognized virtue, in the different Abrahamic traditions, what does it mean to be a pilgrim to Jerusalem as a city of Peace? To meet these goals, we seek to develop a series of inspiring reflections, preferably based upon Scriptural resources, that might allow us to add depth to existing pilgrimages and to gain an important dimension of reflection on the quest for peace, as a spiritual process, rather than a concrete social and political outcome. The contributions of such a discussion will not be a political pact, nor even a motivating call for peace in the region. Rather, the contribution will be a way of enriching religious language and reflection by developing an idea not commonly stated in religious reflection, and doing so from an interreligious perspective and in the concrete historical setting of Jerusalem.
If you wish to propose a presentation for this confernce, kindly send a proposal to Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein, gogo@elijah.org.il
We hope that pilgrims from afar will join the inhabitants of Jerusalem in reflecting on Jerusalem as a city of peace.
More information here.
