It is a pleasure to invite you to Passions and the Mystical: between Affecting and Being Affected before March 18 2022. The conference is jointly organized by the Mystical Theology Network (MTN) and the Titus Brandsma Institute of the Radboud University (TBI) and will take place in Nijmegen on 1-2 December, 2022.

The aim of this conference is to bring together theologians, religious studies scholars, philosophers, literary scholars, historians and scholars working in related fields to discuss and map out the wider semantic field of the ‘passion(s)’ across mystical traditions.

The conference aims to address questions such as:
- How do the mystics across different traditions view their own passions and emotions?
- What role do the passions of others play in accounts of the mystical?
- How is gender factored into the mystical use of passions?
- How do mystics understand their passions in relation to key events within their tradition (e.g. the Passion of Christ within the Christian tradition)?
- How is erotic language ‘translated’ into passionate mystic literature?
- To what extent can mystical experiences be considered passions in their own right?
- How do mystical passions relate to emotions and what can they contribute to the history of emotions?
- Can mystical passions contribute to social engagement and political resistance (e.g. D. Sölle, M. de Certeau), including issue of race and gender?
- How does modern artistic engagement deal with this passionate mystical heritage?