Dear SAR Community, Welcome to the October 2025 edition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Newsletter! If you have any announcements or updates, you’d like included in the upcoming newsletter, feel free to send them my way. Society for the Anthropology of ReligionSection of the American Anthropological Association Read more
The Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) will make up to four (4) awards of US $550 each to scholars of financial need, under-representation, or underemployment who will be attending the 2025 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans and will be participating in SAR-sponsored panels. Scholars from Read more
Dear SAR Community, Welcome to the September 2025 edition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Newsletter! If you have any announcements or updates, you’d like included in the upcoming newsletter, feel free to send them my way. Society for the Anthropology of ReligionSection of the American Anthropological Association Read more
Dear SAR Community, Welcome to the August 2025 edition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Newsletter! Happy start to the fall semester! If you have any announcements or updates, you’d like included in the upcoming newsletter, feel free to send them my way. Society for the Anthropology of Read more
We are delighted to announce the new editorial team of the Contemporary Anthropology of Religion book series, published by Palgrave Macmillan: Sowparnika Balaswaminathan and David Kloos are joining Hillary Kaell as co-editors. Contemporary Anthropology of Religion is the official book series of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion, a section Read more
Dear SAR Community, Welcome to the July 2025 edition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Newsletter! As we ease into the latter half of summer, we wish you a restful, productive, and fulfilling remainder of the season. If you have any announcements or updates, you’d like included in Read more
Dear SAR Community, Happy conference month! Welcome to the latest edition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Newsletter! I am sending out an edited version with some minor additions. Apologies for the confusion! Looking ahead to the 2025 SAR Biennial Conference—taking place June 21–23 at U.C. Santa Read more
Dear SAR Community, Welcome to the latest edition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Newsletter! With just a month to go until the 2025 SAR Biennial Conference taking place June 21–23 at U.C. Santa Barbara, we are excited to share some key updates and announcements. We can’t Read more
For individuals whose papers have already been accepted at the 2025 SAR Biennial Meeting yet who can no longer attend in-person in Santa Barbara, we are offering the opportunity to join their panels virtually via Zoom. Note that this option is only for individual papers that are part of already-accepted panels Read more
The Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) is pleased to announce its graduate student paper prize competition, which is aimed towards encouraging emerging scholars to write compelling ethnographies on religion. This prize is intended to foster theoretically significant, ethnographically rich work by students at an early stage of their Read more