Dear all,
Please consider submitting a panel or paper proposal to the Dutch
Association for the Study of Religion's annual conference, to be held at
the University of Groningen, October 30th-November 1st 2019.
This year's theme is Religion and the Production of Difference, and the
opening keynote will be given by Dr Charles Hirschkind (UC Berkeley).
We welcome papers from anthropologists, sociologists, historians,
philosophers, and other scholars of religion.
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*RELIGION AND THE PRODUCTION OF DIFFERENCE*
It is well established within the field of religious studies that what is
studied as “religion” today may not have been labeled as such in the past.
Additionally, phenomena that contemporary scholars of religion study may
not self-identify as religious. Despite these contested categories,
“religion” has become an accepted category in societies around the world.
It is a label to be claimed or rejected, or otherwise related to (for
example, by those who call themselves ‘spiritual but not religious’); a
phenomenon to be fought against or fought for; a societal actor that can
claim rights within particular legal frameworks, regulated by various forms
and levels of governance, or a superstitious holdover that should be argued
out of existence.
Reflecting these tensions in the identification of religion, this
conference calls for panels that examine religion in relation to the
production of difference at various levels of society (e.g.
religious-non-religious, but also in relation to ethnicity and gender,
national identity etc.). In highlighting the role of religion in the
production of difference, we aim also to draw attention to the ways that
religious practices, identifications, and alliances establish 'same-ness'
through the fixing of meaning (e.g. “normative” practices or textual
interpretations) and the delineation and legitimation of authority. Towards
this end, we are interested in the lexicon of “religion” in various
traditions, times and places (e.g. “Islam” as dīn but also umma). But also
those practices, identifications and forms of authority that selectively
use the category of “religion” (such as evangelical and Pentecostal
Christians, who reject the term for themselves but apply it to others), and
those which have been defined in an oppositional or other relationship to
"religion” (such as secularist or spiritual actors).
We aim to have a representation of scholarship on different historical
periods, regions in the world and theoretical perspectives. Through the
invited plenary sessions and keynotes, we will bring different strands of
scholarship in conversation with each other around the conference theme.
Please see the attached for further details.
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With best wishes,
Méadhbh
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Dr Méadhbh McIvor
Assistant Professor in Religion, Law and Human Rights
Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Groningen
https://rug.academia.edu/MéadhbhMcIvor
Deputy Director
Centre for Religion, Conflict and Globalisation
University of Groningen
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With best wishes,
Méadhbh
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Dr Méadhbh McIvor
Assistant Professor in Religion, Law and Human Rights
Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Groningen
https://rug.academia.edu/MéadhbhMcIvor
Deputy Director
Centre for Religion, Conflict and Globalisation
University of Groningen
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