Dear Colleagues,
Please find attached the details of an upcoming conference in Cambridge, on the theme 'The Sacred in a Global Age', hosted by CRASSH on 4-5 September.
The aim of this two-day conference is to engage with selected manifestations of the sacred in the contemporary world. The focus will be on victimhood and sacrifice. Its interpretive line is, therefore, not whether the sacred has ‘returned’ or always been there. Rather, it is to understand the conditions of political fluidity that make quests for sacrality emerge. What are the collective social conditions for the rise of new forms of the sacred? Can an age of transparency and intense communication tolerate sacrifice? Why have the religious and the political come to be so rigidly opposed to each other? Can the rights of humanity transcend political rights of citizens? Under what condition can the care for victims turn into a ‘cult of victims’, which would justify terror, violence, and sacrifice?
Registration closes on 2nd September.
Dr. Joseph Webster
Lecturer in Anthropology
13 University Square,
Queen’s University Belfast,
BT7 1NN
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