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Call for Papers
Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing
A Conference at Newcastle University
16-18 July, 2008
Keynote speaker: Robert A. Hill
Conference organizers: Diana Paton and Maarit Forde
This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars who are interested in the connections between religion and power in the Caribbean: the power of colonial and postcolonial states, of ruling elites, of subaltern communities, of nationalism, of ritual specialists, and of the spirits, lwas, orishas, and ancestors. We situate Caribbean religions within their broad historical and social contexts and are particularly interested in work relating to those communities, practices and belief systems that have been stigmatized or even outlawed, most of which have been symbolically connected to Africa. These include obeah, quimbois, santerķa/ regla de ocha, vodou, Rastafari, kali mai puri, the Spiritual Baptist religion / the Converted, brujerķa, palo monte, Orisha, pocomania/ pukkumina, winti, and Revival Zion.
For more information on the conference themes, schedule and submitting of abstracts please see
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/historical/history/Obeahconference
Maarit Forde, Ph.D. (Anthropology)
Researcher
School of Historical Studies
Newcastle University
Research fellow
Institute for the Study of the Americas
University of London
tel 079 123 480 21
www.valt.helsinki.fi/blogs/kmlaitin
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