Civilizations of the Supernatural: Witchcraft, Ritual, and Religious Experience in Late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance Traditions Edited by Fabrizio Conti, PhD (John Cabot University, Rome, Italy) CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS We are seeking essay proposals for the inaugural volume of the Advances in the History of Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion Series (http://trivent-publishing.eu/historyofmagic.html) published by Trivent Publishing. Editorial Board: Fabrizio Conti, John Cabot University (series editor) Michael Bailey, Iowa State University Matthew Champion, Birkbeck, University of London Georg Modestin , University of Fribourg Marina Montesano, Università degli Studi di Messina Teofilo Ruiz, University of California, Los Angeles The goal is to publish original research exploring possible connections, contrasts, or overlaps of different forms of religious experience with ritual, magic, and witchcraft. We are interested in analyzing the relationships between witchcraft-related beliefs - traditions, accusations, prosecutions, intellectual developments - and magic or religious rituals. Furthermore, we aim to explore the role of this dual relationship in the context of or in relation to religious experiences, a broad category which includes devotion, orthodoxy, religious feelings and emotions, etc. The timeframe is flexible, starting with the Late Antiquity and going to the Renaissance with no geographical limitations. The volume aims to redefine the role of magic, witchcraft, ritual, and religious experience by mirroring - or contributing to the creation of - specific approaches to the supernatural. A secondary goal is to measure the importance of these approaches within the civilizations they were part of: specific civilizations of the supernatural or multifaceted dimensions blending together social, individual, psychological, political, and intellectual elements and giving shape to historically-determined forms of beliefs, behaviours, practices, institutions, and mythologies. SUBMiSSion inforMation & DeaDLineS Expressions of interest (short abstracts) via email: March 1st, 2019 Please send your expressions of interest to faconti@johncabot.edu and teodora.artimon@triventpublishing.eu. Please also include your email and affiliation in the expression of interest. Full paper submission: May 20th, 2019 After your expression of interest is accepted, please submit your full paper via http://reviewslot.eu/ Trivent Publishing serves the academic community by publishing peer-reviewed volumes dedicated to academic research. It prides on its three imprints (Trivent Medieval, Trivent Violence & Conflict, and Trivent Ethics in Science & Technology) dedicated to diverse and innovative aspects of medieval history, criminology, and bioethics. Trivent Publishing was created by people in the Academia for the people in the Academia with the purpose of facilitating knowledge dissemination in the benefit of academics. More inforMation: faconti@johncabot.edu and teodora.artimon@trivent-publishing.eu http://trivent-publishing.eu/historyofmagic.html http://trivent-publishing.eu/