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MATTER OF CONTENTION:
RELICS & OTHER SACRED OBJECTS AT THE
CROSSROADS OF RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
AN INTER-DISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
APRIL 23–24, 2012
STUDENT ACTIVITY CENTER
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY ROOM (SAC 2.302)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC This colloquium explores contention and competition over relics or other mobile repositories
of religious power among the communities that venerate or value them. Our goal is to push the study of relics and other sacred objects beyond their
location and function within seemingly discrete religious traditions to consider the material and social factors that conditioned their ongoing relevance
across multiple—and often rival—religious communities. Religious rivalry over objects takes a variety of forms, ranging from physical conflicts for
the possession of material remains to discursive arguments about such objects’ meanings and narratives. While participants will examine particular
examples according to their areas of specialization, the colloquium as a whole will consider broader patterns across space, time, and cultural context.
Ra‘anan Boustan UCLA, UT Austin “The Temple Vessels among Jews, Christians, and Muslims”
Donald Cosentino UCLA “Skull Wars in Modern Naples”
Benjamin Fleming University of Pennsylvania “Reading the Liga as ‘Relic’”
Cynthia Hahn Hunter College | CUNY “Making the Crown of Thorns”
James Robson Harvard University “Buddhist Relic Veneration and Contestation in East Asia”
Jalane Schmidt University of Virginia “Monuments, Memory, and Religious Devotion in Cuba”
Gregory Schopen UCLA “Arguing against Relics in the Indian Buddhist Tradition”
Chad Seales UT Austin “American Protestants and the Sacred Play of Cultural Objects”
Patricia Spyer Leiden University “Dwelling and Contamination in Ambon’s War”
Rolf Strootman University of Utrecht “The Serpent Column in the Hippodrome of Constantinople”
Annabel Wharton Duke University “Protestants, Relics, Things”
Adam Becker New York University Respondent
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Primary Sponsors: Harrington Fellowship Program, Department of Religious Studies
Co-sponsored by: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Schusterman Center for Jewish
Studies, South Asia Institute, Department of Asian Studies, Department of History
For more information:
email Ra‘anan Boustan at boustan@history.ucla.edu
www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/rs/events/Matter-of-Contention/About.php