Conference Programme - European Association of Social ...

W064 Interpreting Religious Diversity:
Conversion, Syncretism and Religious
Practice
28 August
29 August
14:00-15:30
9:00-10:30
11:00-12:30
14:00-15:30
Room 232
Room 232
Room 232
Room 232
Convenors:
Erik de Maaker, Leiden University
Vibha Joshi, Oxford University
28 August, 14:00-15:30 Room 232
“Black Madonna” versus “White Madonna”: Spiritual
Feminist Pilgrimages in France and the Changing
Significances Attributed to Dark Madonna Statues
Anna Fedele, EHESS, Paris
Food of the Gods: Boundary Makers and
Religious Pluralism amongst the Zeme Nagas
Arkotong Longkumer
Gorovodu in Bénin and Togo: Between
“Syncretism” and “Traditional Religion”
Alessandra Brivio, Università Milano-Bicocca
29 August, 9:00-10:30 Room 232
Kitui “Culture” as the Other of the Modern
Monoliths: Development, Religion and the
Obscure Material Culture of Andu Manthi
Maarten Onneweer, Research School CNWS
Multi-Faith Contact and the Production of
Difference through Place and Ritual in a
Pilgrimage Site in Nepal
Jessamine Dana, Oxford University
On Conceptual Analogy: A New Analytical Approach
to Religious Syncretism - A Case Study from Alaska
Medeia Csoba DeHass, University of Alaska
29 August, 11:00-12:30 Room 232
Polish Lutherans between the “Catholic” State
and Evangelical Movements
Grażyna Kubica, Jagiellonian University
Religious Diversity in the Western Himalayas and
in Western Tibet: Tibetan Buddhism, Bon Religion
and “Local” Religious Traditions and the Function
of Spirit Possession/Trance-Mediums
Christian Jahoda, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Soka Gakkai in Brazil: Syncretism or Strategies of
Negotiation?
Suzana Bornholdt, Lancaster University
29 August, 14:00-15:30 Room 232
The “Church of Sakalava”: Towards the Construction
of Religion by a Malagasy Social Setting
Peter Kneitz, Martin-Luther University, Halle
The Blurring of Religious Boundaries: Sekrenyi and
Christmas among the Christian Angami
Vibha Joshi, Oxford University
The syncretism of Christian Orthodoxy and black
magic in Macedonia: everyday ritual practice and
ritual avoidance of the contamination of the body
Violeta Schubert, University of Melbourne
HW065 Routing Knowledge through
Persons (Marilyn Strathern’s Honourary
Workshop)
2nd 9:00-10:30 Room 102
28 August 11:00-12:30 Room 102
Floor 14:00-15:30 Room 102
Convenors:
Jeanette Edwards, Manchester University
Maja Petrović-Steger, Cambridge University
1 st
Floor
28 August, 9:00-10:30 Room 102
Inspiring Knowledge
Adam Reed, St. Andrews University
Describing Knowledge Roads in Vanuatu
Lissant Bolton, British Museum
Gaps in Knowledge? Ethnographic Practice,
Addition and Collaborative Endeavour
James Leach, Aberdeen University
28 August, 11:00-12:30 Room 102
Invisible Families: Imagining Relations in Families
Based on Same-Sex Partnerships
Aivita Putnina, University of Latvia
Knowledge, Kinship and Anthropology
Monica Bonaccorso, Durham University
Visions of Modernity: Re-routing Knowledge
through People and Things in a Large Scale
Resettlement Project
Thomas Yarrow, Manchester University
28 August, 14:00-15:30 Room 102
Crime and Custom in Cosmopolitan Society
Sari Wastell, Goldsmiths College, University of
London
Digital Afterlives: Human Remains in Interactive
Formats
Maja Petrović-Steger, Cambridge University
The Eleventh Hour: Climate Crisis, Obviation and
Retirement
Tony Crook, St. Andrews University
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