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
Ahead of the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, the Society for the Anthropology of Religion awarded four travel grants to scholars from groups underrepresented in the academy and those who do not have secure employment. The following presenters received funding to deliver papers at the conference in Read more
At this month’s annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, the 2023 SAR Student Paper Prize winner and runner-up were announced as follows: The winner was Irene Promodh (University of Michigan) for “(Un)Holy Gold: Arabi Ponnu and a Transregional Politics of Caste Among Kerala Christians.” The runner-up was Ray Qu Read more
The list of SAR panels at next month’s AAA meetings in Toronto is now available for viewing and download. We hope to see many of you at the meetings, and please be sure to attend the SAR business meeting and reception on Friday, November 17 at 8 pm at the Metro Read more
The SAR awarded travel grants of $500 to support the attendance and participation of three scholars in the 2022 AAA annual meeting in Seattle. Awards went to:
The list of SAR panels at next month’s AAA meetings in Seattle is now available for viewing and download. A huge thank you to SAR secretary Arsalan Khan for compiling this information for our members. We hope to see many of you at the meetings, and please be sure to Read more
The Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) will make five (5) awards of $400 each to scholars of color and underemployed scholars who will be attending the 2022 Annual Meeting in Seattle and will participating in SAR-sponsored panels. Scholars from groups underrepresented in the academy and those who do Read more
Society for the Anthropology of Religion Spring Virtual Conference May 14-16, 2021 THEME: From Ethics to Politics Abstracts due February 15, 2021 Rappaport Lecturer: Amira Mittermaier, University of Toronto Download the SAR CFP Poster For the last 20 years, many of the most influential and dominant conversations in the anthropology of Read more
The Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) is pleased to announce its graduate student paper prize competition, which is aimed at 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 career. Read more