2015
CfP: African Lived Christianity: Faith Ritual and Power, Lund, Sweden, 16-18 March 2016
The thematic focus of this conference at Lund University, 16-18 Martch 2016, is on the lived experiences of African Christianity, on how religion and religious experience are part of the understanding and explanation of social reality in Africa. By taking this thematic focus, we wish to overcome the dividing lines in the study of African Christianity between theology and the social sciences. We seek to engage with an emerging literature that combines the analysis of religious experience and faith with an analysis of how African Christianity feeds into constellations of power hierarchies and social relationships of dependency, reciprocity and mutuality. One of the aims is to build interpretative bridges between African enchanted worldviews and Western academic interpretations and to add to an emerging dialogue between anthropology and theology.
We welcome paper proposals within the following themes, but are not limited to these:
* Enchantment as resistance
* Writing and orality as religious experience
* Wealth, reciprocity and well-being in African Christianity
* Gender and healing
* Ritual and the search of good life
* Christianity in Africa or African Christianity?
* Theology, African cosmologies and church life
* Popular culture and rituals of performance
* Transnationalism, migration and mission in African Christianities
* Faith in African public life
Paper abstracts (of maximum 250 words) should be uploaded on the conference webpage by the 15th February 2016 at the latest. By 25 February 2016 information on paper acceptance will be send out. Full written papers (of maximum 8,000 words) are expected to be circulated at the conference.
The conference is free of charge but the participants must cover for their travel, accommodation and meals.
2015
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.
2015
CfP, 3rd British Association for Islamic Studies Conference
Third Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS), London, 11–12 April 2016, Senate House, University of London: Call for panels and papers
2015
Two Visiting Research Fellowship 2016-17 at Cambridge, UK
The Centre of African Studies at Cambridge University invites applications for two Visiting Research Fellowships.
Closing data: 15 January 2016
2015
Proposals Requested for New Book Series on Africana Religions
Pennsylvania State University Press invites proposals for its new book series on Africana Religions.
“The book series will emphasize the translocal nature of Africana religions across national, regional, and hemispheric boundaries,” according to series co-editor Sylvester A. Johnson of Northwestern University,
“We want to publish academic monographs in addition to books designed for classroom use about Africana religious experiences, identities, beliefs, aesthetics, ethics, and institutions,” said Edward E. Curtis IV, co-editor from the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts in Indianapolis. “And we welcome a variety of methods, including archival, theoretical, literary, sociological, and ethnographic approaches.”
The series’ prestigious editorial board includes Afe Adogame of Princeton Theological Seminary, Sylviane Diouf of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Paul Christopher Johnson of the University of Michigan, Elizabeth Pérez of Dartmouth College, Elisha P. Renne of the University of Michigan, and Judith Weisenfeld of Princeton University.
Potential authors should send 3-5 page proposals outlining the intent of the project, its scope, its relation to other work on the topic, and potential audience. Please include one or two sample chapters if available. The proposal and current CV can be sent to the editors at series@africanareligions.org.
Book Series Flyer: Africana_Religion_Series
