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It might of interest to some of you*Sorry for crossposting
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*CFP / PANEL 36: Religion, tourism and aesthetics in the contemporary world
- deadline 7th of December
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ASA CONFERENCE - Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 3rd-6th
April 2012
*to propose follow the link:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1310*
Convenors
Clara Saraiva (Institute for Scientific Tropical Research/CRIA-UNL-FCSH
Lisbon) email
Maria Cardeira da Silva (FCHS-UNL) email
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Short Abstract
Although religion and tourism are often associated as a trope of reflection
in anthropology, very few approaches focused on its aesthetic dimensions,
special on the more vernacular ones. In this panel we propose a
cross-cultural perspective more centred in these triple connections.
Long Abstract
Many anthropologists have reflected on how tourism and heritage often
relate to religion and ritual and especially to pilgrimage. But, although
this became a main trope of reflexion in this field, very few of them have
focused on the aesthetic dimensions of these gatherings, special on the
more vernacular ones.
Pilgrimages and other religious feasts and rituals— directly connected with
the wide range of religions present in the contemporary world, from
Catholicism to Islamism, neopentecostalism, Buddhism, Hinduism,
afro-Brazilian religions, just to mention a few—are extreme aesthetic
moments, where one can say that faith is revealed and stimulated through
the splendour of the saint ´s representations, the glamour of the offers to
the gods, the details of the clothing of religious officers, the emotion of
gathering and the collective performances. Aesthetics is here also directly
connected to the body and the self—the individual body, but also the
collective body (or bodies).
This panel wants to promote discussion from a cross-cultural perspective on
how tourism—and especially, religious tourism—brings out the connection
between religion, ritual and aesthetics. We therefore call upon scholars
and students who would like to present papers, based on ethnographic data,
addressing the issues of the connection between these themes and bringing
about examples from new religions, religious transnationalism and new
touristic performances.
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