Dear collegues and friends,
We would like to draw your attention to our panel (no 42): Creativity and improvisation in contemporary religious experience (EN/PT), V Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association, 9 -11 September 2013, Vila Real, Portugal. The theme of the Congress will be “Anthropology in Counterpoint”. Paper submission deadline: 22 April 2013.
Link to our panel page: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/apa/apa2013/panels.php5?PanelID=2389
For more informantion, please check the conference site: http://www.apantropologia.org/congresso2013/call-for-papers/
Panel details:
Title: Creativity and improvisation in contemporary religious experience.
Co-Cordinators
Eugenia Roussou (CRIA/FCSH-New University of Lisbon)
Clara Saraiva (IICT/CRIA-UNL)
Short Abstract:
Calling for research cases that focus on the creativity of religious experience, this panel will explore the ethnographic and theoretical polyphony of creative transformations, novel challenges, and reflexive transitions that the anthropologists/anthropology of religion have to face at present.
Long Abstract:
Creativity has been defined as an 'activity that produces something new through the recombination and transformation of existing cultural practices or forms' (Liep 2001: 2). This panel proposes to explore the ethnographic and theoretical polyphony of creative transformations, novel challenges, and reflexive transitions that the anthropologists/ anthropology of religion have to face at present. Drawing on the idea that creativity and improvisation constitute an inherent part of social and cultural life (Hallam and Ingold 2007), we call for papers that focus ethnographically on the creativity of religious experience. Our aim is to bring together analyses that, with the concept of religious creativity and improvisation as a starting point, will cast a reflexive gaze at the contrapuntal relationship between anthropology as (ethnographic) practice and anthropology as (academic) discipline, in an attempt to provide an answer to the question whether the anthropology of religion is in counterpoint.
With all good wishes,
Eugenia Roussou
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Eugenia Roussou, PhD
Social Anthropologist
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
CRIA/ FCSH New University of Lisbon
http://eugeniaroussou.blogspot.pt/
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