Dear all,
Please forward to anyone who might be interested.
Best,
Hasan
*Call for Papers*
American Anthropological Association Annual Conference,
Washington DC, Nov 29-Dec 3, 2017
*Digital Religiosities:*
*(Re)Configuring Religion(s) on Web 2.0*
In her 2011 lecture “Theorizing the Web,” sociologist Saskia Sassen[1]
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1296500229608523692__ftn1> points out
how knowledge within the digital realm is reconstituted and reassembled as
another kind of knowledge: “[T]he body of knowledge gets distributed and
spliced-up in different ways so that you lose the packaging, and in losing
that packaging all sorts of possibilities open up.”
This panel explores the way(s) in which “traditional” modes of religious
authority (where authority and power are co-constitutive of the
power/knowledge dyad) are reconfigured, dissected, and re-appropriated such
that religious actors – online preachers, activists, scholars, discussants,
trollers – redefine religion(s) and religiosity in surprising ways.
Possible paper topics include (but are not limited to):
- Digital Islamic authority – how the digital sphere re-configures
traditional modes of Islamic knowledge and transmission
- Digital bodies of Christ – how the digital sphere re-imagines the
church
- Digital fundamentalism(s) – Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian,
Islamic
- Religious knowledge(s) in the digital age
- Online preachers and YouTube faith(ers)
- Facebook Fanatics – how social media creates siloes of religious
(in)tolerance
Please send a 250-word abstract and bio to [log in to unmask] by April 3
for consideration.
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[1] <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1296500229608523692__ftnref1>
http://vimeo.com/23044503
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Hasan Azad, PhD
Dept. of Religion
Columbia University
NY, 10027
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