SIEF2019 14th Congress: Santiago de Compostela, Spain
14-17 April 2019
(Reli01) Ethnography of Ordinary Worship Routines. Materiality, Spaces and
Changes across Europe [Round-table of the Ethnology of Religion Working
Group]

Convenors

   - Cyril Isnart (Institut d'Ethnologie Méditerranéenne, Européenne et
   Comparative) email
   - Clara Saraiva (FLUL-University of Lisbon) email


Short abstract

Anthropology today mainly focuses on uncommon religious sites, but
ordinary, classical worship routines also survive, or change due to social
and migration dynamics. What happens nowadays with worship routines and
what are the tools we can use to understand such discrete religious changes?


Long abstract

Anthropology, ethnology, and folklore have been focused on religious
activities and places, which were unusual, marginal, singular, or simply
out of the line with common and daily religious life. Ethnographies of
popular religion, ways of pilgrimage, international shrines, shared sites,
contested places, displaced religiosity, etc. give access to social,
symbolic, or cultural dynamics, functions, and structures in very
different, rich, and composite contexts.

However, ordinary worship routines follow their own path and also react to
social and historical events and transformations. Secularisation of
European societies, heritage politics, tourism flows, migration, religious
co-existence in urban regions, or new religious movements expressions
challenge daily religious practices and ordinary worship routines.

What are the ethnographic tools we can use to catch these discrete and
banal evolutions? What can we learn from the extensive literature on
extraordinary places of worship and alternative religions? What is the
legacy of classical folklore studies on popular religion?

Grounded on a series of European cases studies in a comparative
perspective, this round-table comes back on the power of ethnography to
describe and understand, the practices, places and material contexts of
daily religious activities.



More information: https://nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2019/
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