CRR at SAR in New Orleans

 
From: "Warren S. Goldstein goldstein@PROTECTED [Center for Critical Research on Religion Listserve]" <ccrr_listserve@PROTECTED>
Subject: CRR at SAR in New Orleans
Date: May 1st 2017

"Critique as Horizon, Critique as Specter: 
Reflections from the Anthropology of Religion"

sponsored by Critical Research on Religion

Society for the Anthropology of Religion
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana
May 15-17, 2017

Tuesday, May 16, 1:30-3:15pm
101 Dinwiddie Hall, Room 102

Organizers: James S. Bielo (Miami University), Rebekka King (Middle Tennessee State University)

Participants: James S. Bielo (Miami University), Saliha Chattoo (University of Toronto), Nofit Itzhak (University of California, San Diego), Rebekka King (Middle Tennessee State University), Jon Bialecki (University of Edinburgh, discussant)

Abstract:
Critical Research on Religion launched in 2013 and has become a premier inter-disciplinary venue for advancing critical theorizations of religion. “Critical” indexes an approach in which the positive and negative impacts of religion are identified and interrogated, with the hope of fostering human flourishing. In collaboration with the journal, this panel asks how anthropological ethnographers engage with the horizons of critique and the specter of critique in their fieldwork and writing on Christianity. What are the ambitions and challenges of a critical ethnography of religion? How does the critical theory of religion work alongside other paradigms? What methodological designs and techniques emerge from the critical orientation? Why are there differential imperatives to critique when researching “fundamentalist” or “progressive” religious communities and movements? Presenters take these questions up in a diverse set of ethnographic contexts: creationist imagineers who designed a recently opened biblical theme park; Pentecostal congregations who organize annual Hell Houses; Catholic charismatic humanitarian missions in France and Rwanda; and Jewish Affinity Christians.

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