Religion and Time: Call for Papers, SAR Biennial Conference, May 15-17, 2017, New Orleans

 

The Society for the Anthropology of Religion (a section of the American Anthropological Association) will hold its next meeting at New Orleans, Louisiana from May 15 to May 17, 2017. The theme of the meeting will be “Religion and Time”.

Conference: Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (10-11 November 2016)

The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSOR) will be hosting an international conference on 10-11 November 2016. The theme is:

Compassion, Social Engagement, and Discontent: Believing and the Politics of Belonging in Europe Today

This LUCSoR conference aims to investigate forms and elements of religion in public settings and technologies of belonging in Europe today by taking compassion as a locus. We approach compassion not primarily as an emotion but as a social relation. Compassion may lead to social engagement, but also to the desire not to connect, to refuse engagement, or to turn away.

The conference is intended for scholars of religion of various disciplinary backgrounds interested in exploring new ways of studying religion in public settings.

The conference is free and open to all. Please register before 1 November 2016. For a tentative programme, see the conference website.

The papers start from small stories or vignettes of:

1. Compassion and social engagement of religious community groups and individuals

These may vary from local-based initiatives of informal care and volunteer aid, to more institutionalized forms of aid provided by religious community groups, such as faith-based refugee work and social service agencies caring for the poor and homeless. The vignettes provide a window into forms and elements of religion today and the politics of belonging: who deserves compassion, who is excluded or undeserving, and what does the response toward suffering entail?

2. Discontent and anxiety about multiculturalism in everyday life

This category of papers engages with a relatively under-researched topic: the discontent of the “angry” citizen, who feels ignored by politicians, who, unlike the elites in their ivory tower, experiences daily what it means to live in a multicultural society, and who may express her- or himself in riotous protests against the resettlement of refugees. What values underlie their discontent? What makes them reject certain forms of compassionate action and choose others?

The focus of the conference is Europe today, but other times and other places also receive attention.

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Religion, Gender and Sexualities One-Day Conference

 

Religion, Gender and Sexualities One-Day Conference, Friday 1st July 2016, 10.00-16.30, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

Deadline for abstracts: May 27th 2016. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Dr Sarah-Jane Page (s.page1@aston.ac.uk) and Dr Katy Pilcher (k.pilcher@aston.ac.uk).

Christianity in Diaspora: CfP EASR 2016 Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 28 June-1 July

 

There is an the opportunity to present ethnographic research on Christianity in diaspora at the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) 2016 Conference ‘Relocating Religion’, 28 June – 1 July 2016, Helsinki, Finland, in the Open Session on:

CHRISTIANITY IN DIASPORA: ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE STUDIES OF RELIGIOUS PRACTICE AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION

The session will use the concept of diaspora – broadly defined both in relation to the transnational and in-country movement of groups of people – in order to explore the practice and experience of Christianity in different socio-cultural settings as communities of people relocate to areas outside their ‘homelands’. The session invites ethnographic papers discussing, but not exclusively, questions such as: What role does Christianity and its institutions play in community-building, community empowerment and community welfare in diaspora settings? How are churches constituted and organised in diaspora? How do churches mediate relations and negotiate cultural differences with (non-Christian) host populations? To what extent are Christian churches involved in facilitating integration with/separation from host societies? What relations do diasporic Christians maintain with their ‘homelands’? How does Christianity shape diasporic identities? How is Christian practice/theology (re)shaped by the diasporic experience? By exploring diasporic forms of Christianity across the world, the session will open up understanding of the diversity of Christian identities, practices, theologies and ways of engaging with and explaining the world among diasporic communities, and the theoretical potentiality inherent in this.

In order to submit an abstract for this open session, please follow the link https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/65198/lomake.html and the submission instructions.
Submission deadline: 31 December 2015

Session conveners:
Iliyana Angelova (University of Oxford; iliyana.angelova@anthro.ox.ac.uk)
Ksenia Medvedeva (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia)

International Conference: Religious Transformation in Asian History

The conference ‘Religious Transformation in Asian History’ will take place from 7-9 April 2016 at the Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Abstract Deadline: 9 February 2016

For more information, see the following Call for Papers.

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