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CALL FOR PAPERS 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Society, Chicago, November 20-24, 2013.
Navigating religious worlds
The ways in which children acquire and relate to religious beliefs and practices speak to central questions in anthropological debates on religion, learning, and intergenerationality: what is religion as an object of teaching and learning, and what role do generational ideas and practices play in religious inculcation? Although there is a growing body of work on children and religion (Gade, Bales, Stafford, Toren, Hardman), most anthropologists explore these questions, if at all, from an adult perspective, focusing on how children are conceived and treated as religious beings, what they should learn, and how they should be taught. Less attention has been given to how children themselves give meaning to and apply a received or chosen set of religious ideas and practices.
To explore how children navigate various religious worlds, this panel will address the following questions: Which dimensions of religion are important to children, and how do they negotiate religious beliefs and practices with parents, siblings,peers, teachers, religious authorities, and other significant persons in their lives? Where and when does their religious identity play a role and how do they maneuver between social spaces differently marked with regard to religion? Drawing on fieldwork in different places and within different religious traditions, papers will share an interest in developing new approaches to studying the topic of children and religion.
Organizers: Sally Anderson (University of Aarhus) and Marianne Holm Pedersen (The Royal Library, Denmark). If you are interested in participating, please send an abstract of up to 250 words to [log in to unmask] by April 8, 2013.
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