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Dear colleagues,
Apologies for cross posting. The call for papers for our panel on "The
Importance of Uncertainty in Vernacular Religion" for the conference of
the European Association of Social Anthropologists 2012 to be held in Paris
10/07/2012 – 13/07/2012 is now open. We would really appreciate if you
could circulate this information among those who could be interested.
Please note that you do NOT need to be a member of EASA to submit a paper.
If you want to submit a paper please follow this link:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1166
The call for papers closes on *November 26*
The panel’s main language is English, but we also accept papers in French.
If you have further questions please write to:
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Looking forward to seeing you in Paris
All the Best
Anna Fedele and Élisabeth Claverie
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*Call for papers:*
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*Dealing with doubts, putting to test: the importance of uncertainty in
vernacular religion*
*Convenors*
Anna Fedele (CRIA - Lisbon University Institute)
Elisabeth Claverie (Centre National de la Récherche Scientifique, Paris)
*Short Abstract*
This panel explores the ways in which dogmas and rituals are transformed in
vernacular religion. We call for ethnographically grounded papers that
analyze the role of uncertainty in religious practices focusing on the way
in which people put to test the efficacy of rituals, sacred sites and
figures.
*Long Abstract*
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In the last decades social scientists and religious historians have
emphasized the need to pay more attention to religion as lived and
practiced. Vernacular religion also identified as "popular" religion is
finally being recognized in its own value especially thanks to the work of
scholars focusing on Christianity such as William Christian, Meredith
McGuire, Robert Orsi and others. Contrary to the assumption that religion
works as a sort of magical remedy against uncertainty, providing people
with a set of answers and solutions they totally embrace and rely upon,
what emerges from ethnographical accounts is that uncertainty and doubt are
inherent in lived religion.
In this panel we want to explore the ways in which the dogmas and rituals
created by religious institutions are creatively used and transformed in
the everyday lived religion of people. We call for ethnographically
grounded papers that explore the role of uncertainty and doubt in religious
practices focusing on the way in which people put to test the efficacy of
rituals as well as the healing power of sacred figures and sites. How do
people establish that a certain religion works for them in a historical
period in which they are increasingly aware of the existence of religious
traditions that are different from the one they grew up with? How do they
criticize with their own religious creativity the dogmas and rules of the
religious tradition they belong to?
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Anna Fedele Ph.D
Research Fellow
CRIA - Lisbon University Institute
New book:
ENCOUNTERS OF BODY AND SOUL IN CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS PRACTICES
Anthropological Reflections
<http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=FedeleEncounters>
Edited by Anna Fedele and Ruy Llera Blanes
<http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=FedeleEncounters>
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