Call for papers AAG conference Seattle, April 2011:
Religion and Transnationalism/ Travelling faith: exploring the
intersections of religion and migration
Session organizers: Betsy Olson (University of Edinburgh), Claire Dwyer
(UCL) and Justin Tse (University of British Columbia)
This session provides an opportunity to explore the diverse
intersections between religion and migration, and the geographies that
are produced from this intersection. Within this session we hope to
explore the ways in which religious practices and faith identities,
practices, and organizations travel with migrants and shape their
experiences of transnational lives, or how new religious engagements may
be produced through the migration experience. We are also interested in
how faith travels and the ways in which religious organisations and
institutions are incorporated into or shape migration trajectories and
flows.
The session seeks to build upon an ongoing conversation about the new
geographies of religion in everyday and exceptional experiences of
mobility. Papers might address intersections of religion with other
social and cultural processes in migrant lives; purposeful faith-based
migration for proselytization or religious freedom; the technologies and
networks of travelling faith; or the role of religion in leaving and
arriving ‘home’. Please email abstracts of 150-200 words to Betsy Olson
([log in to unmask]) by 13 October.
Further information about the conference can be found on the AAG website:
http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers
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