Every year, SAR sponsors several panels on the anthropology of religion at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). In 2023, the meeting will be held in Toronto, Ontario. The following list includes the panels and events the SAR is sponsoring during the meeting. Please consult the AAA conference schedule for more details about registration and room locations.
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Transitions in the Anthropology of Global Christianity: The Next Generation?
Session Time: 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM
Organizer: Alana Sá Leitão
Parcipants: Alana Sá Leitão, Simon Coleman, Alana Sá Leitão, Devaka Premawardhana, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Sophia Omokanye, Valerio Di Fonzo
Living with Ghosts in Transitional Times
Session Time: 2:15 PM to 4:00 PM
Organizer: Rosanna Dent
Participants: Emma Kowal, Jennifer Brown, Jenny Davis, Trevor Engel, Rosanna Dent, Eden Medina, Vivete Garcia- Deister, Emma Kowal
Neopagan Aesthetics
Session Time: 2:15 PM to 4:00 PM
Organizer: Logan Elson
Participants: Roger Lohmann, Logan Elson, Roger Lohmann, Barbara Jane Davy, Sabina Magliocco
Activism Through Submission? On the Question of Foregrounding Piety in Political Work
Session Time: 2:15 PM to 4:00 PM
Organizer: Connie Gagliardi
Participants: Hannah Mayne, Usmon Boron, Amira Mitermaier, Seth Palmer, Connie Gagliardi, Hannah Mayne, Fama Siwaju, Victoria Sheldon, Meaghan Weatherdon
Transcending Earth: ethnographies of religion and spirituality in space exploration
Session Time: 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Organizer: Jenia Gorbanenko
Participants: Jenia Gorbanenko, Makar Tereshin, , Deana Weibel, Jenia Gorbanenko, Hae-Seo Kim, Lauren Reid, Adryon Kozel, Makar Tereshin
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Moving Between Worlds: Women, Matrilineal Societies, and Shamanism
Session Time: 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM
Organizer: Angela Sumegi
Participants: Angela Sumegi, Marie-Francoise Guedon, Idoia Arana-Beobide, Taana Frederickson, Pi-chen Liu, Judith Ramos
Temporalities of Conversion: Pace, Directions, and Contexts
Session Time: 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM
Organizer: Abdul Majeed Otakandathil
Participants: Géraldine Mossière, Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar, Abdul Majeed Otakandathil, Charles A. McDonald, Jose Abraham, Mara Leichtman
Formations of the Secular, 20 years on
Session Time: 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM
Organizer: Basit Iqbal
Participants: Basit Iqbal, Candace Lukasik, Jean-Michel Landry, Aaron Eldridge, Ashwak Hauter, Brent Eng, Rajbir Judge
Chronotopes of raced secularism
Session Time: 10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Organizer: Elina Harkainen
Participants: Elina Harkainen, Brit Halvorson, Elina Harkainen, Sharmin Sadequee, Nalika Gajaweera, Arsalan Khan, Elayne Oliphant
Situating religious actors in climate change transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Session Time: 10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Organizer: Timo Kallinen
Participants: Timo Kallinen, Andrew Walsh, Dorothea Schulz, Jenni Mölkänen, Tea Virtanen, Timo Kallinen
Re-inventing the Day of the Dead: An exploration of Hispanic catholic migrant life in Denmark
Session Time: 12:15 PM to 1:45 PM
Participants: Maja Balle
Beyond Assumed Antagonism: Emergent Scholarship in Queer and Trans Studies and the
Anthropology of Religion
Session Time: 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM
Organizer: Benjamin Hollenbach
Participants: Seth Palmer, Benjamin Hollenbach, Casey Golomski, Seth Palmer, Benjamin Hollenbach, Febi Ramadhan, Aniruddhan Vasudevan, Megan Robertson, Joe Coyle
Caring for the Gods: Virtuous Development and the Infrastructure of Devotion in South Asia
Session Time: 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM
Organizer: Hanna Kim
Participants: Hanna Kim, Kajri Jain, Ruka Gandhi, Swathi Gorle, David Geary, Sara Shneiderman
Unknowing and the Everyday: Aesthetics, Indeterminacy, and Subjectivity
Session Time: 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM
Organizer: Milad Odabaei
Participants: Milad Odabaei, Seema Golestaneh, Aisha Ghani, Arzoo Osanloo, Amira Mitermaier, Basit Iqbal, Setrag Manoukian
Future by the Numbers: Religious Engagement with Predictive Technologies
Session Time: 4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
Organizer: Naomi Haynes
Participants: Hillary Kaell, Clara Han, Naomi Haynes, Hillary Kaell, Jon Bialecki, Omri Elisha, Jamie Wong, Rebecca Bartel
Religious Practice at the Edge of Institutionalization
Session Time: 4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
Organizer: Tarryl Janik
Parcipants: Tarryl Janik, Toomas Gross, Anastasia Badder, Janaki Phillips
In Conversation with Vodou en Vogue
Session Time: 4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
Organizer: Laurian Bowles
Parcipants: Aisha Beliso-DeJesus, Akissi Briton, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Eziaku Nwokocha, Nicole Fadeke Castor, Elyan Hill
Friday, November 17, 2023
The formation of persecuted subjects
Session Time: 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM
Organizer: Nadia Fadil
Participants: Nadia Fadil, Nadia Fadil, Hamza Esmili, Anja Kublitz, Nadia Fadil, Candace Lukasik, Sultan Doughan
Catholic transitions in a godless place – Polish Catholic migrants in Denmark
Session Time: 10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Participants: Michael Brixtoe Petersen
The Politics of Conversion in Christian Contexts
Session Time: 10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Organizer: Jose Abraham
Participants: Jose Abraham, Catherine Larouche, Anusha Hariharan, Eileen Sleesman Calderon, Soren Pearce
New Directions in the Anthropology of Islam
Session Time: 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM
Organizer: Navid Fozi
Participants: Navid Fozi, Hamza Esmili, Hikmet Kocamaner, Esra Tunc, Erin Atwell, Muhammad Osama Imran
Revising Class in Religious Life: Tool of Oppression, Pathos of the Lumpenproletariat, or
Something Else?
Session Time: 4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
Organizer: Leanne Williams Green
Participants: Jordan Haug, Suma Ikeuchi, Jordan Haug, Clayton Van Woerkom, Leanne Williams Green, Danny Cardoza, Jacob Hickman
Saturday, November 18, 2023
Strange Interfaces: Catholic transformations of cosmos, crisis, and continuity
Session Time: 10:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Organizer: Maya Mayblin
Participants: Valenna Napolitano, Krisn Norget, Camille Lardy, Maya Mayblin, Frank Ngo, Myriam Lamrani, Marc Loustau, Adriano Godoy
Affinity, ambush, and the co-agentive consolation of dancing Kali Ammon in pre-war and post-war Bacaloa, Sri Lanka
Session Time: 12:15 PM to 1:45 PM
Participants: Mark Whitaker
Minority, Conspiracy, and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Northern India
Session Time: 12:15 PM to 1:45 PM
Participants: David Silverberg
Faith through Drugs: Rehab, Recovery, and Religion
Session Time: 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM
Organizer: Joshua Mitchell
Participants: Joshua Mitchell, Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela, Joshua Mitchell, Louis Plotel, Sugandh Gupta, Madalina Alama, Hannah Ali
Muslim Death: Mourning, Ethics, Modernity
Session Time: 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM
Organizer: Sadaf Ahmed
Participants: Usmon Boron Alireza Doostdar, Alaa Aah, Sadaf Ahmed, Joud Alkorani, Usmon Boron
Repurposing Relief: Islamic Networks of Care and Everyday Aid
Session Time: 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM
Organizer: Ruslan Yusupov
Parcipants: Michael Kaplan Amira Mitermaier, Begum Ergun, Ruslan Yusupov, Annika Schmeding, Salwa Tareen, Caitlyn Bolton, Michael Kaplan
Space-Making as Religious Practice
Session Time: 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM
Organizer: Eben Yonne
Participants: Eben Yonne, Paul Melas, Yuanyuan Yu, Jacob Tischer
State of the Field: African Diasporic Religious Feminisms for Emergent Justice Transitions
Session Time: 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM
Organizer: Nessete Falu
Participants: Nessete Falu, Risa Cromer, Aisha Beliso-DeJesus, Akissi Briton, Andrea Allen, Donna Auston, Nicole Fadeke Castor, Andrea Richardson, Pablo Herrera Veia
Spiritual Power and Its Intimate Subjects: Bodies, Healing, and Intimacy in US Christian
Communities
Session Time: 4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
Organizer: Katryn Davis
Participants: Erin Sles, Katryn Davis , Erin Sles, Brian Howell, David Knowlton, Zara Browne, Katryn Davis, Liz Thomas
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Pilgrimage and Community: Spaces in Transition
Session Time: 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM
Organizer: Augusta Thomson
Participants: Simon Coleman, George Bayuga, Nicole Nathan, Krista Van Vleet, Harini Kumar, Arif Hayat Nairang, Lena Gemzöe
On Demand Content
Faithful Giving in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study Among Liberal Mennonites
in VA, USA
Participants: Tomomi Naka
PreacHER: Examining the impact of sermonic discourse on congregation attitudes regarding
Black clergywomen within the Black Church
Participants: Crystal Carter
The Tacit Landscape: Palimpsests of Religious Meaning Along the Pilgrimage Trail in Central
Mexico
Participants: Jonathan Extract