The Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) is pleased to announce its competition for the Talal Asad Graduate Student Paper Prize, which is aimed towards encouraging emerging scholars to write compelling ethnographies on religion. The Asad Prize is intended to foster theoretically significant, ethnographically rich work by students at Read more
Dear SAR Community, Welcome to the June 2026 edition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Newsletter. I hope you all are having a restful summer! If you have announcements or updates you would like included in the next newsletter, please feel free to send them my way. Read more
SAR is pleased to announce that we are piloting a new mentorship program this year. Senior scholars will be put in contact with early career scholars and graduate students in order to build connections within the association across geography and career stage. The primary goal of this program is to establish casual mentoring relationships through Read more
Dear SAR Community, Welcome to the April 2026 edition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Newsletter. If you have announcements or updates you would like included in the next newsletter, please feel free to send them my way. Society for the Anthropology of ReligionSection of the American Anthropological Read more
Dear SAR Community, Welcome to the March 2026 edition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Newsletter. If you have announcements or updates you would like included in the next newsletter, please feel free to send them my way. Society for the Anthropology of ReligionSection of the American Anthropological Read more
The Society for the Anthropology of ReligionA section of the American Anthropological Associationannounces the 2026 juried competition for the CLIFFORD GEERTZ PRIZEIN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION The Geertz Prize seeks to encourage excellence in the anthropology of religion by recognizing an outstanding recent book in the field. The prize is Read more
Dear SAR Community, Happy almost Spring and Ramadan Mubarak to those who observe! Welcome to the February 2026 edition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Newsletter. If you have announcements or updates you would like included in the next newsletter, please feel free to send them my Read more
Dear SAR Community, Welcome to the January 2026 edition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Newsletter. We wish all our members a joyful new year’s, and welcome to the Spring semester! As usual, if you have announcements or updates you would like included in the next newsletter, please Read more
Dear SAR Community, Welcome to the December 2025 edition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Newsletter. As we bring 2025 to a close, we wish all our members a restful, joyful, and restorative holiday season! As we look ahead to the new year, if you have announcements or Read more
On June 23, 2025, the final day of the SAR biennial conference and the first day of a meeting of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, a plenary session inviting scholars from both societies was held to explore intersections of the conferences’ themes of sacred Read more