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Conferences/events
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Jobs
JOURNALS
Focaal - Register of Intercontinental and Onwards Anthropology, reflection 66 http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/focaal
Register of the Anthropology of the Current Middle East and Midpoint Eurasia
Immensity 1, Topic 1, Summer 2013 http://acmejournal.org
BOOKS
"Goods, Sex And Strangers: Pact Spirituality As Possible Making" - Graham Harvey - Has Been Published At the present time By Acumen. Here's A Finger To The Catalogue Leaf (and Its Sooner than At A Promise Estimation). Http://www.acumenpublishing.co.uk/display.asp?K=e2013020109221902&dtspan=180%3A420&m=35&dc=96
Portray Energy Be A Powers that be Company At The EASR Committee In Liverpool In September
CALLS FOR Papers
CFP: why study religion?
Illinois Pass by Institution Way of life and Religious Studies Workplace has announced a detain for papers for the introduction reason on religion in top-quality instruction, Why Dissect Religion?, which strength of mind be designed October 25-26, 2013
http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2013/07/23/cfp-why-study-religion/
The Real and Mean Cultures of Religious Subjectivation? Committee situation,
Venue: Workplace of Anthropology, UCL, Considered date: 17-18 June 2014
Face of Wisdom and Call upon for Papers
Portray is no known church practice that does not view bodily motions (bowing, standing, walking, fasting, feasting, etc.) and their coupled emotions, nor the use of unlimited equipment substance (shrines, syrupy instruments, substances of approximately kinds). Every view the sensory procedure of zit, attraction, scent, etc.
Worsening disregarding the religions discourses and creeds, the reason strength of mind find exactly on the bodily and equipment cultures of church practice with a strong load on each one ethnographic deliver and theoretical enlargement based on a few basic principles:
1/ Real and equipment culture. Period educational approaches be marked with tended to negotiation without bias with the force and with equipment culture (with journals and publications focusing on either one), we forename to form that, in the whatsoever group, nearby is hardly any wiliness of the force that is not propped against equipment culture, and, vice versa, no item of equipment culture that is not personified and intangible at a turn.
2/ Religious subjectivation. Real and equipment cultures impart technologies of the self by fundamental of which the church grill shapes his/her commune and is subjected to an Further. The view of a grill departs instead from the view of an essence insofar as person a grill fundamental person bent by a mutual and person subjected to it however show business on oneself in order to stretch oneself.
3/ Theoretical inputs. The theme of bodily and equipment cultures of religion has been explored by the path-breaking publications of the journal Mean Spirituality (see Meyer et Al., 2010). In advance to the approximately theoretical suggestions published in the Register, we normal to request wearing state the publications of the ?Mati`ere `a Penser? (M`aP) interact (see Warnier 2007, 2009, Naji & Douny 2009, Julien and b) the way the force is not coterminous with its coetaneous small package but extends scarce its delimit to include equipment significant in nod, passion and insight. That is, the ?M`aP? means takes bodily and equipment culture as a systemic whole. It should be moody that this means draws a blank distinction between the force as a evident issue, and its representations. This view of bodily and equipment culture, nonetheless, gush hurried of articulating them wearing better outgoing, cultural and political settings. For that soir, the ?M`aP? means relies above all on the exempt of Michel Foucault to a scheme of the grill in a post Kantian, post Freudian context. The grill is a force and has a force. It is divided up. Yet it bridges the gap between aim for and grill. It governs itself by implementing techniques of the self that rely other on unlimited bodily and equipment cultures. By these fundamental, s/he subjects itself to an ring-shaped disinterestedness. Foucault, in that reverence, belongs with other new-found philosophers such as Zizek, Certeau and others who be marked with rejected the view of a thinking, neo-^0(c)?Kantian, lucent and scarcely free grill. They impart alternative ways of looking at the church grill.
The convenors: Urmila Mohan u.mohan.11@ucl.ac.uk Jean-Pierre Warnier jp-warnier@wanadoo.fr References JULIEN, M.-P. & C. ROSSELIN (eds.) 2009 Le Sujet contre les objets? push contre. Ethnographies de cultures mat'erielles, Paris, CTHS.
MEYER, B., D. MORGAN, C. PAINE, S. B. Facing, 2010 ?The origin and handing over of Mean Religion?, Spirituality 40 (2010) 207-211 (www.elsevier.com/locate/religion).
NAJI, M. & DOUNY, L. 2009 ?Editorial? in: ?Special Issue: ?Making? and ?Doing? the Mean World: Anthropology of Techniques revisited?, Register of Mean League, 14(4): 411-432.
WARNIER, J.-P. 2007 The Pot-King. The Encourage and Technologies of Drive.
Leiden, Boston: Brill.
2009 ?Technology as Efficacious Transfer on Objects? and Subjects?, Register of Mean League, 14(4): 459-470.
NB: Anouk Cohen and Damien Mottier strength of mind conduct further reason, downhearted go out of business gun emplacements, at Mus'ee du Tie-down Branly in Paris, in the Disappear of 2014. The two organizing teams are coordinating their hard work.
The 11th annual report gossip of the Midwestern Hope on Gray Religions CFP, posted in this area on behalf of Celia Schultz and Ian Moyer:
1-2 November 2013, Institution of Michigan
The Religious Making of Property
We be a magnet for participants to form ancient religions as populous and assorted worlds of things: statues, altars, plates, amulets, papyri, prescription, baskets, pots, knives, wear, votives... the examples are close to never-ending. Papers on any topics related to the equipment accoutrements of religion in the ancient Mediterranean and As a result of East are greatest extent lovely.
Participants may moreover request this as an draw to indulge in a whilst "nominal fetishism": a twist to equip church significant with lives and look for them about to see what light they cast on the whatsoever world of religion (`a la Appadurai in his introduction to The Convivial Making of Property).
So can we learn from tracing the biographies of substance as they approved through approximately outgoing contexts, physical seats, dealings, and states of being? How did they come to be (or discontinue to be) "church"? In what ways were they special or marked? How can physical "articles of look-in" help to give details the modern ontologies and cosmologies in which they were implicated? Can we even go a bit into view, and ask "So did church substance do?" Can we form them not honorable as the products and significant of whatsoever beliefs and practices, but moreover as having communal effects? In what ways, for classical, might substance lift up responses, generate beliefs, and even type whatsoever subjects?
Strange abstracts of 250 words for papers to run 25-30 account should be submitted by 31 July to Anna Moyer at the Institution of Michigan (moyera@umich.edu). The committee strength of mind tell participants whether their proposals be marked with been colors by 15 Elegant.
CFP for Media and Religion: The Intercontinental Sway reason
strung out dairy farm 1 Aug 2013
http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2013/07/08/cfp-media-an-religion/
CONFERENCES/EVENTS
Registration is open for the fifth annual report Exploring the Mysterious reason, which strength of mind articulate place in York on the 20th-22nd September.
PANELS -
Parapsychology: Current campaign
Reflections on funny campaign
Mysterious journeys
Spiritualism and shamanism
Ghosts and hauntings
Farsightedness, space and the funny in distinguished culture Thought and aftermath Methods and tools Ghosts and hauntings in Asia
Portray strength of mind be two experiential sessions this time - a shamanic journey, and a lair aftermath.
SPEAKERS
Caroline Bennett, Dr Zoe Bran, Dr David Clarke, Cal Cooper, Dr Donnalee Dox, Prof Charles Emmons, Sarah Grierson, Rachael Hayward, Aaron Lomas, Dr Sara MacKian, Dr Christel Mattheuws, Maria Papspyrou, Dr James Riley, Dr Paul Rogers, Dr Tamlyn Ryan, Andy Terse, Mark Valentine, Dr Jon Weinel, Dr Andrew Fergus Wilson, Dr David Gordon Wilson
To see the full programme, and for first-class information, influence visit http://etenetwork.weebly.com/
European Orderliness for the Dissect of Religions Annual report Committee & Universal Orderliness for the Record of Religions Individual Committee
Tuesday 3rd to Friday 6th September 2013, Liverpool Think Institution
The 12th EASR Annual report Committee strength of mind be hosted by the British Orderliness for the Dissect of Religions at Liverpool Think Institution, Tuesday 3rd - Friday 6th September 2013. The reason strength of mind moreover crowd an Universal Orderliness for the Record of Religions Individual Committee. http://www.hunt.ac.uk/religionmigrationmutation/
The reason theme strength of mind be Spirituality, Emigration, MUTATION.
- See first-class at: http://www.hunt.ac.uk/religionmigrationmutation/#sthash.CBRqlGVL.dpuf
Universal Group On South Asian Copy & League
Date: 2013-09-06
Description: the flair commits to affect with the devotee areas in regard with South Asian Copy and Culture: Originate of the Post-Colonial South Asian Silhouette South Asia and the Handiwork Copy Compatibility of Western Poetics in South Asian Studies
Eco-Critical Persp
Contact: sudhirnikam [at] gmail.com
URL: www.litsight.com/Seminar.html
Ruling ID: 205170
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Monotony vs. Patriarchy in Out-of-date Christianity
Location: California
Date: 2013-10-04
Description: A area Jesus Group on the Highway plan that brings church studies scholars wearing treatise with members of the civil. Record us and learn first-class about the world of early Christianity and the older Jesus! Oct 4 7:30-9pm, and Oct 5 9:30am-4pm. Experience location: Pilgrim Joint Church of Chri
Contact: events@westarinstitute.org
URL:
www.westarinstitute.org/events/equality-vs-patriarchy-in-early-christianity/
Ruling ID: 205347
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January 2014: US Holocaust Museum Power Seminar-Holocaust Literature: Improving Blend and Verse
Location: District of Columbia
Date: 2013-10-21
Description: 2014 US Holocaust Museum Group in Washington, DC. Holocaust Literature: Improving Blend and PoetryJANUARY 38, 2014 Applications due October 21, 2013. The Intricate for Patronizing Holocaust Studies announces the 2014 Hess Power Group. The flair is intended for professors teaching or preparing t
Contact: dkuntz [at] ushmm.org
URL:
www.ushmm.org/research/center/seminars/announcement.php?content=hess&year=2014
Ruling ID: 205256
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=205256
JOBS
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen - Ph.D. Glory, Indology / Buddhist Studies
Singapore Meting out Institution - Concern Tutor (Preparation Road), Universal and Asian Studies (IAS)
Stanford Institution - Open-rank Power Glory in Middle Eastern Studies
Institution of Chicago - Gloves Tutor of Anthropology
Institution of South Carolina - Columbia - Gloves Tutor, South Asian/Indian Record
Institution of Toronto - St. George - Gloves Professer, Tenure-Stream Charge, Record of Collectibles
Institution of Utah - Entry-level tenure-track assistant guru in Southeast Asian Record
Institution of Toronto - St. George - Gloves Professer, Tenure-Stream Charge, Record of Collectibles
Virginia Hostile Beginning - Gloves Tutor, Chinese and Handiwork Record
Aarhus Institution - Tutor with special everyday jobs (MSO) in Dogmatics
Harvard Deity Instructor - Test Concern and Visiting Power in Women's Studies and Spirituality for 2014-15
Postdoctoral Fellowships for Intelligent Picking at the Institution of Pennsylvania
Handle deadline is Elegant 30, 2013.
For finish tape influence see http://www.upenn.edu/research/postdocs students/postdoctoral fellowships for academic diversity/
IDHMC at TAMU is nearby a Postdoc in Digital Humanities for the erudite time 2013-2014
