**Reminder-deadline approaching**
Dear colleagues and friends,
We warmly encourage you to send a paper proposal for our panel: "Religious horizons, security and violence: Anthropological approaches to ambiguity, transformation and morality" for the 16th EASA conference “New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe”, Lisbon-Portugal, 21-24 July 2020.
The panel:
At the margins of the state, religion creates new subject positions and a particular knowledge of the world, producing unexpected ethical regimes in the face of legal-illegal orders. New religio-political assemblages unveil dilemmas with regard to modern categories and post-colonial perspectives. We welcome ethnographic case studies from all over the world, addressing contemporary religious practices, (il)legality and morality "at the margins of the state" (Das and Poole 2004). We are particularly interested to understand how religion is mobilized to produce new subject positions and a particular knowledge of the world, and how it may offer a system and a practice of ordering within ambiguous circumstances. How can such mobilizations help us to think beyond the (secular) state?
Submit paper proposal:
If you are interested in participating in the panel P124: Religious horizons, security and violence, please submit your abstract to: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8705
The deadline for proposing papers is 20 January.
We are looking forward to your contributions!
Best regards,
Francesca Cerbini, University of Minho- ICS-CRIA
Martijn Oosterbaan, Utrecht University
Long abstract:
In The Magic of the State, Taussig (1997) describes God and the State as "species of things awesome with life-force of their own, transcendent over mere mortals". Nevertheless, as they are embedded in everyday life, their performative nature frequently produces social formations in which religion, the state and alternative (criminal) orders operate in competition and in hybrid fashion. This becomes particularly evident in conditions of insecurity, structural violence and social upheaval. In such conditions, power relations and legitimization processes are constantly redefined and negotiated, and politico-religious action opens up and closes spaces of ambiguity regarding social actors and categories, turning the question who judges whom and who harms whom into a complex affair. Beyond structures of "redemption and rehabilitation" (keywords that are usually employed to connect religion and crime), urban peripheries, shanty towns, ghettos and confinement facilities, display unexpected assemblages (Collier and Ong 2004) of religion, violence and morality and unveil new dilemmas with regard to modern categories and post-colonial perspectives. This panel welcomes ethnographic case studies from all over the world, addressing contemporary religious practices, (il)legality and morality "at the margins of the state" (Das and Poole 2004). We are particularly interested to understand how religion is mobilized to produce new subject positions and a particular knowledge of the world, and how it may offer a system and a practice of ordering within ambiguous circumstances. How can such mobilizations help us to think beyond the (secular) state?
Martijn Oosterbaan<http://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/MOosterbaan> | Associate Professor |Cultural Anthropology Department |Faculty of Social Sciences |Utrecht University |Padualaan 14, 3584 CH Utrecht|Sjoerd Groenmangebouw, room A1.28 |(030) 253 2495 | Utrecht Anthropology Research<https://www.uu.nl/en/research/sovereignty-and-social-contestation>
Author of: Transmitting the Spirit: Religious Conversion, Media, and Urban Violence in Brazil<http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-07843-4.html>, Penn State University Press, 2017.
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