Every year, SAR sponsors several panels on the anthropology of religion at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). In 2022, the meeting was held in Seattle, Washington. The following list includes the panels and events the SAR sponsored during the meeting.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
1-001: Conflict, Authority, and Change
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 12:00 PM to 01:45 PM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Kelzang Tashi
Participants: Mohamed Rafiq, Jacob Hickman, David Troolin
1-002: Beyond Self-Fashioning: Relational Selves and Islamic Ethics
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 12:00 PM to 01:45 PM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Claire-Marie Hefner
Participants: Feyza Burak-Adli, Christopher Taylor, Daniel Birchok, Ronald Lukens-Bull
1-250: The Anthropology of Mormonism, or, the Familiar Strange
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 02:15 PM to 04:00 PM
Session Type: Roundtable / Town Hall
Organizer: Adam Dunstan
Participants: Erin Stiles, Erica Hawvermale, Jon Bialecki, Katryn Davis, Liz Thomas, Fenella Cannell
1-310: Democracy, Conservatism and the Religious Right in Brazil
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 04:30 PM to 06:15 PM
Session Type: Conversation or Debate
Organizer: Henrique Antunes
Participants: Paula Bortolin
1-360: Natives, Foreigners, and Imagined Others in South Asian Religious Homelands
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 04:30 PM to 06:15 PM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Nick Tackes
Participants: Gaurika Mehta, Zehra Mehdi, Quinn Clark
1-380: Roots, Rites, and Routes: Navigating the Category of Ritual
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: Virtual
Session Time: 04:30 PM to 06:15 PM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Alice Yeh
Participants: Christine Lee, Jianbo Huang, Naomi Haynes, Sonja Dobroski, Alice Nagle, Mengyin Hu, Andre Joseph Theng
Thursday, November 10, 2022
2-007: Christian Possibilities and Asian Futures
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 08:00 AM to 09:45 AM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: George Bayuga
Participants: Bernardo Brown, Kristina Nielsen, Michel Chambon, Toru Yamada, Elayne Oliphant
2-164: An Ethnographic and Historical Study of the Jewish Communities of Central Pennsylvania
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Session Type: Poster
Organizer: Casey Sennett
2-321: Afterlife, Otherlife: The Work of Mourning across Borders
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: Virtual
Session Time: 02:00 PM to 03:45 PM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Basit Iqbal
Participants: Sadaf Ahmed, China Sajadian, Edward Escalon Jr, Brent Eng, Carlota McAllister
2-325: Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas: Unsettling Religious Landscapes (Cosponsored Session)
Cosponsored by: Association for Africanist Anthropology and Society for the Anthropology of Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 02:00 PM to 03:45 PM
Session Type: Roundtable / Town Hall
Organizer: Yolanda Covington-Ward
Participants: Jeanette Jouili, Bertin Louis, Camee Maddox-Wingfield, Youssef Carter, Elyan Hill, Casey Golomski, N. Fadeke Castor
2-570: Ruin as Trace: Ethnographic Reckoning in the Aftermath of Destruction
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 04:15 PM to 06:00 PM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Candace Lukasik
Participants: Aaron Eldridge, Valentina Napolitano, Kabir Tambar, Jean-Michel Landry
2-635: Unsettling Whiteness: Race and Religion in the United States (Cosponsored Session)
Cosponsored by: Society for the Anthropology Religion and Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 04:15 PM to 06:00 PM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Nalika Gajaweera
Participants: Sophie Bjork-James, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus, Rachel Schneider, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Sherene H. Razack
2-755: Thinking about Religion and the Far Right in Global Perspective
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 06:30 PM to 08:15 PM
Session Type: Roundtable / Town Hall
Organizer: Candace Lukasik
Participants: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Rachelle Jereza, Agnieszka Pasieka, Melody Devries, Zareena Grewal, Pinky Hota, Susan Harding
Friday, November 11, 2022
3-090: Sacred Space, Landscapes, and Built Environments
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 08:00 AM to 09:45 AM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Jaimie Luria
Participants: Christian Vannier, Kristina Jonutytė, Kevin Pittle, Lauren Smyth
3-255: Toward an Anthropology of Religious Infrastructures
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Hikmet Kocamaner
Participants: Gerda Heck, Heather Mellquist Lehto, Clinton Westman, Elayne Oliphant, Matteo Benussi, Charles Hirschkind,
3-283: Underground, But in the Light: The Polygamist Community of Centennial Park
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Session Type: Flash Presentation
Organizer: Jennifer Basquiat
3-310: Engagement, Impact, and Reciprocity
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 02:00 PM to 03:45 PM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Elliot Montpellier
Participants: Amanda Napior, Timothy Hartshorn, Sara Hamed, Esra Tunc
3-360: Sect and Secularism
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: Virtual
Session Time: 02:00 PM to 03:45 PM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Muneeza Rizvi
Participants: Emma Varley, Raja Abillama, Rajbir Judge, Anila Daulatzai, Noah Salomon
3-810: SAR Business Meeting
Section Affiliation: Society for the Anthropology of Religion
Modality: In-Person
Event Type: Business Meeting
Event Time: 8:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Saturday, November 12, 2022
4-110: Theological Politics
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 08:00 AM to 09:45 AM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Matt Tomlinson
Participants: Yasmin Moll, Thorgeir Kolshus, Michael Scott, Priscilla Garcia, Naomi Haynes
4-170: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Method
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Kate Kingsbury
Participants: Eziaku Nwokocha, Amin El Yousfi, Jada Moss
4-345: New Vistas and Oases: Conflict, Connections, and Cooperation Between Muslims and Christians
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 02:00 PM to 03:45 PM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Erik Aasland
Participants: Yosam Manafa, John Schaefer, Michal Meulenberg, Kevin Pittle, William Clark
4-445: Embodied Encounters of Violence and Faith: Feminist & Decolonial Perspectives on Gender and Religion
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 04:15 PM to 06:00 PM
Session Type: Roundtable / Town Hall
Organizer: Krista Van Vleet
Participants: Charlene Makley, Kalyani Devaki Menon, Joyce Bennett, Oren Kosansky, María Célleri, Juliane Hammer, Tyler Zoanni, Xiaobo Yuan, Lucia Stavig, Hafsa Arain, Alvaro Jarrín
4-640: A Conversation at the Intersection of Anthropology and Theology
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: Virtual
Session Time: 02:00 PM to 03:45 PM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Atreyee Majumder
Participants: Vishnupad Mishra, Sarover Zaidi, Kanato Chophy, Bhrigupati Singh, Raag Yadava
Sunday, November 13, 2022
5-020: Humans and Nonhumans
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: In-Person
Session Time: 08:00 AM to 09:45 AM
Session Type: Oral Presentation Session
Organizer: Andrew Chesnut
Participants: Frederick (Fritz) Lampe, Stephen Amorino, Eileen Sleesman Calderon
5-210: Cultural Heritage in Unsettled Landscapes
Reviewed by: Society for the Anthropology Religion
Modality: Virtual
Session Time: 12:15 PM to 01:45 PM
Session Type: Conversation or Debate
Organizer: E. Moore Quinn
Participants: Shirley Du Plooy, Ian Mcintosh, Dominique Santos, Motsaathebe Serekoane, Kevin Griffin, Irena Weber