Dear colleagues,
Please consider submitting a paper proposal to the panel:
Sacralizing Security: Postsecular Pathways of Religion, Violence and Protection
Panel 21, Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology (PACSA) meeting 28 - 30 August 2017 in Amsterdam. Panel organizer: Martijn Oosterbaan (Utrecht University)
Deadline Sunday 2 April 2017
Panel description:
Studies about religion and security generally focus on religious terrorism and religious fundamentalism and center on the questions if and under what circumstances orthodoxy engenders violent action or can lead to peaceful initiatives and reconciliation. While these are important questions, we encounter a host of other conjunctions between religion and security that remain somewhat underexplored. In many places around the world, state and non-state security organizations and individuals regularly make use of or are identified by religious doctrines, practices and imageries. Vigilante groups, criminalized gangs and militias frequently cultivate relations between their daily practices and transcendental forces that sustain their status, community and power and are thought to protect them from harm. Likewise, state security forces may not be regarded as ‘religious’ by the outside world – for instance in presumed secular contexts – but nevertheless engage in sacralizing activities that seek to enhance divine protection or demonize adversaries. This panel aims to discuss the intersecting pathways between religion, violence and protection with a postsecular perspective in mind, going beyond approaches that picture the relation between religion and security as causal or dichotomous. The panel invites contributions from scholars whose work may explore explicit conjunctions between religion and security – for example focusing on self-identified religious actors that play a role in contemporary conflicts – and it also invites those whose work explores other, unexplored convergences between religion and security in global contexts.
In order to submit a paper proposal, please send your abstract of approximately 250 words to [log in to unmask] and indicate the title and number of the panel: Panel 21, Sacralizing Security: Postsecular Pathways of Religion, Violence and Protection.
See for more information on the conference and the general call for papers: http://www.pacsa-web.eu/pasca-meeting-2017-amsterdam/
Best regards,
Martijn Oosterbaan
https://www.uu.nl/staff/MOosterbaan/0
Martijn Oosterbaan | Associate Professor | Cultural Anthropology Department | Faculty of Social Sciences | Utrecht University | Padualaan 14, 3584 CH Utrecht | Sjoerd Groenmangebouw, room A2.20 |
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