International Conference on Literature, Languages & Religious Studies LLRS on March 15-17, 2027 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

All Abstracts, Reviews, short articles, Full articles, Posters are welcomed related with any of the following research fields:

1. Literature

Literature explores the written and oral word as an art form, reflecting human culture, psychology, and history.

Literary Genres and Forms

Poetry (Epic, Lyric, Dramatic, Sonnets, Haiku)

Prose Fiction (Novels, Novellas, Short Stories, Flash Fiction)

Drama and Playwriting (Tragedy, Comedy, Melodrama, Absurdist Theatre)

Non-Fiction (Biographies, Memoirs, Essays, Literary Journalism)

Oral Traditions (Folklore, Mythologies, Epics passed down orally)

Literary Theory and Criticism

Formalism and New Criticism (Focus on the text itself)

Structuralism and Post-Structuralism/Deconstruction

Marxist and Socio-Economic Literary Theory

Feminist and Queer Literary Theory

Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature

Psychoanalytic Criticism (Freudian and Jungian approaches to text)

Eco-criticism (Literature and the environment)

Comparative Literature

Cross-cultural literary influences

Translation studies and the adaptation of texts across languages

Transnational and global literatures

Intertextuality (How texts reference and build upon one another)

History of Literature

Ancient and Classical Literature (e.g., Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, Sanskrit)

Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Enlightenment and Romanticism

Realism and Naturalism

Modernism and Postmodernism

Contemporary 21st-Century Literature

2. Languages & Linguistics

This domain covers both the structural, scientific study of language (Linguistics) and the practical, cultural acquisition of languages.

Theoretical and Structural Linguistics

Phonetics (The physical sounds of speech)

Phonology (The cognitive organization of sounds)

Morphology (The structure and formation of words)

Syntax (The rules governing sentence structure)

Semantics (The literal meaning of words and sentences)

Pragmatics (Language meaning in context and social usage)

Applied and Socio-Linguistics

Sociolinguistics (Language in relation to social factors like class, gender, and ethnicity)

Dialectology and Accentology (Regional variations of language)

Psycholinguistics (Language acquisition and the brain)

Computational Linguistics (Natural Language Processing, AI, and speech recognition)

Historical Linguistics (Etymology, language evolution, and language families)

Language Acquisition and Pedagogy

First Language Acquisition (Child language development)

Second Language Acquisition (SLA theories and methodologies)

Bilingualism and Multilingualism

Translation and Interpretation (Simultaneous, consecutive, and literary translation)

Phylogeny and Language Families

Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Niger-Congo, etc.

Endangered languages and language revitalization efforts

Constructed languages (Conlangs like Esperanto, Elvish, or Klingon)

3. Religious Studies

Religious Studies examines the beliefs, behaviors, institutions, and histories of world religions from an objective, academic standpoint.

World Religions (Major Traditions)

Abrahamic Religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Bahá'í Faith)

Dharmic Religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism)

East Asian Religions (Taoism, Confucianism, Shinto)

Indigenous, Tribal, and Shamanic Traditions

New Religious Movements (NRMs) and Esotericism

Philosophy of Religion and Theology

Theodicy (The problem of evil and suffering)

Epistemology of Faith (Reason vs. Revelation)

Ontological, Cosmological, and Teleological arguments for the divine

Comparative Theology

Atheism, Agnosticism, Secularism, and Non-religion

Sociology and Anthropology of Religion

Rituals, Rites of Passage, and Sacraments

Sacred Spaces, Pilgrimages, and Architecture

Religious Institutions, Hierarchy, and Authority

Fundamentalism, Extremism, and Orthodoxy vs. Heterodoxy

Secularization thesis and the modern revival of spirituality

Sacred Texts and Hermeneutics

Textual Criticism (Exegesis and Eisegesis)

The Torah, Tanakh, and Talmud

The Holy Bible (Old and New Testaments, Apocrypha)

The Quran and Hadith

The Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita

The Buddhist Tipitaka (Pali Canon) and Mahayana Sutras

4. Interrelated and Interdisciplinary Subtopics

The true richness of these fields emerges where they overlap. Below are the key intersections where Literature, Language, and Religion fuse.

Sacred Philology and Etymology

The study of dead or liturgical languages (Classical Arabic, Biblical Hebrew, Sanskrit, Ecclesiastical Latin, Pali, Ge'ez) used exclusively or primarily to preserve religious texts.

How linguistic translation alters theological interpretations (e.g., translating Hebrew or Greek biblical concepts into modern English).

Religious and Mythological Literature

The Bible, Quran, and Mahabharata analyzed purely as literary masterpieces (exploring narrative arcs, characterization, and poetic structure).

Hagiography (The biographies and literary accounts of saints and holy figures).

The Epic Tradition (How religious myths form national identities through literature, like Homer’s Iliad or Valmiki's Ramayana).

Hermeneutics and Semiotics

How literary decoding methods (like structuralism) are applied to interpret religious scriptures.

The study of religious signs, symbols, and metaphors within prose and poetry.

Secularization of Literary Themes

How modern, secular literature adapts religious allegories (e.g., C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, or Salman Rushdie using religious mythos in modern fiction).

The Concept of the "Sublime" in Romantic literature as a substitute for religious transcendence.

Sociolinguistics and Religious Identity

How specific dialects or linguistic registers are used to signify religious devotion or belonging (e.g., the use of specific greetings or vocabulary in Islamic, Jewish, or Christian communities).

Language politics in religion (e.g., the historical pushback against translating the Latin Mass into vernacular languages).

Mystical and Devotional Poetry

Literature written specifically as an act of religious ecstasy or meditation (e.g., the Sufi poetry of Rumi and Hafiz, the Bhakti movement poets like Kabir and Mirabai, or Christian mystics like St. John of the Cross).

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