Dear All,
Please see the below CfP for Panel 81 at the RAI 2018 Conference. We invite 250 abstracts to be submitted via http://bit.ly/2gSq52w before 8th Jan 2018.
CALL FOR PAPERS : Comparing Notes: Realising the Sacred and the Self in Art (Panel P081)
Royal Anthropological Institute Conference - Art, Materiality and Representation - British Museum, 1-3 June 2018
What is the relationship between personal belief and the production and experience of art?
What/who does sacred art, in its most extended form, represent? In the relation between the spiritual individual and the entity to which he/she seeks to relate, art, in its sensorial and material forms, mediates, generates sacred presence (Meyer 2014), constructs and is constructed by (spiritual) selves (see Miller 2005). Indeed, to what extent can art mediate, alter or even realise our personal beliefs and spiritual experience of the lived world? This panel explores the relationship between spiritual disposition and the production and experience of art.
The convenors will contribute to this panel through comparative ethnographic and auto-ethnographic perspectives on sacred choral music in England. We invite papers to contribute to this discussion through further explorations of the relationship between art and religious/spiritual experience. We also welcome paired anthropologist/informant discussions of the same artistic context.
Some suggested themes for contributions:
· Paired/comparative discussions between ethnographer and informant on any aspect of art and personal belief
· Religious/’spiritual’ experience through ‘secular’ sound and music
· Aesthetic experiences through ‘religious’ music
· Voice and musical instruments in contemporary religious practice
· Art in contemporary Christian worship
Convenors: Alina Apostu (SOAS) [log in to unmask]
Anita Datta (University of Durham) [log in to unmask]
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