Category: Geertz

Call for Submissions: 2024 Geertz Prize

The Society for the Anthropology of Religion
A section of the American Anthropological Association

announces the 2024 juried competition for the

CLIFFORD GEERTZ PRIZE
IN 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 named in honor of the late Professor Clifford Geertz, in recognition of his many distinguished contributions to the anthropological study of religion. In awarding the Prize, the Society hopes to foster innovative scholarship, the integration of theory with ethnography, and the connection of the anthropology of religion to the larger world.

Eligibility

Any single-authored or co-authored book focusing on the anthropology of religion, broadly defined, is eligible for the Prize. Edited volumes, textbooks, and reference works are not eligible, nor are works in which religion is a secondary subject. The book’s author need not be an anthropologist by profession, but the work should draw on and respond to research and theory within the anthropology of religion. Books must have a publication date of 2022 or 2023. Books that have already been reviewed for the Prize will not be reconsidered.

The prize will be awarded at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in November 2024.

Submission guidelines

If you would like your book to be considered, please fill in the new online form.  After you have completed the form, please arrange for copies of the book to be sent to all members of the Geertz Prize Committee. Please contact Naomi Haynes (Naomi.Haynes@ed.ac.uk) to request addresses. Books must be submitted in hard copy to be considered. The committee will not accept electronic submissions.

Please direct all questions to the chair. Deadline for submission of books is:

April 1, 2024

Naomi Haynes
Chair, 2024 Geertz Prize Committee
Naomi.Haynes@ed.ac.uk

Geertz Prize 2023 Winner and Honorable Mentions

At this month’s annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, the 2023 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, as well as two honorable mentions, were awarded to the following recipients:

Winner: The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China (Columbia University Press) by Guangtian Ha.

Honorable Mention: Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion (Bloomsbury Academic) by Henni Alava.

Honorable Mention: Guarded by Two Jaguars: A Catholic Parish Divided by Language and Faith (The University of Arizona Press) by Eric Hoenes del Pinal.

Eric Hoenes del Pinal receives an honorable mention award in the 2023 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion competition from prize committee chair Naomi Haynes.

Call for Submissions: 2023 Geertz Prize

The Society for the Anthropology of Religion
A section of the American Anthropological Association
announces the 2023 juried competition for the

CLIFFORD GEERTZ PRIZE
IN 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 named in honor of the late Professor Clifford Geertz, in recognition of his many distinguished contributions to the anthropological study of religion.  In awarding the Prize, the Society hopes to foster innovative scholarship, the integration of theory with ethnography, and the connection of the anthropology of religion to the larger world.

Eligibility

Any single-authored or co-authored book focusing on the anthropology of religion, broadly defined, is eligible for the Prize. Edited volumes, textbooks, and reference works are not eligible, nor are works in which religion is a secondary subject. The book’s author need not be an anthropologist by profession, but the work should draw on and respond to research and theory within the anthropology of religion. Books must have a publication date of 2021 or 2022. Books that have already been reviewed for the Prize will not be reconsidered.

The prize will be awarded at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in November 2023.

Submission guidelines

If you would like your book to be considered, please ask your publisher to contact me at Naomi.Haynes@ed.ac.uk. To receive additional information on how to submit a book for consideration, please contact me via email. Deadline for submission of books is:

April 1, 2023

Naomi Haynes
Chair, 2023 Geertz Prize Committee

2021 Clifford Geertz Prize In The Anthropology of Religion

The Society for the Anthropology of Religion A section of the American Anthropological Association announces the 2021 juried competition for the:

CLIFFORD GEERTZ PRIZE IN 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 named in honor of the late Professor Clifford Geertz, in recognition of his many distinguished contributions to the anthropological study of religion.  In awarding the Prize, the Society hopes to foster innovative scholarship, the integration of theory with
ethnography, and the connection of the anthropology of religion to the larger world.

Eligibility

Any single-authored or co-authored book focusing on the anthropology of religion, broadly defined, is eligible for the Prize. Edited volumes, textbooks, and reference works are not eligible, nor are works in which religion is a secondary subject. The book’s author need not be an anthropologist by profession, but the work should draw on and respond to research and theory within the anthropology of religion. Books must have a publication date of 2018 or later. Books that have already been reviewed for the Prize will not be reconsidered.

The prize will be awarded at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in November 2021.

Submission guidelines

To receive additional information on how to submit a book for consideration, please contact me at timothy.landry@trincoll.edu. Deadline for submission of books is: April 30, 2021

Timothy R. Landry
Chair, 2021 Geertz Prize Committee

2020 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion

The Society for the Anthropology of Religion
A section of the American Anthropological Association
announces the 2020 juried competition for the:

2020 Clifford Geertz Prize in 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 named in honor of the late Professor Clifford Geertz, in recognition of his many distinguished contributions to the anthropological study of religion. In awarding the Prize, the Society hopes to foster innovative scholarship, the integration of theory with ethnography, and the connection of the anthropology of religion to the larger world.

Eligibility

Any single-authored or co-authored book focusing on the anthropology of religion, broadly defined, is eligible for the Prize. Edited volumes, textbooks, and reference works are not eligible, nor are works in which religion is a secondary subject. The book’s author need not be an anthropologist by profession, but the work should draw on and respond to research and theory within the anthropology of religion. Books must have a publication date of 2018 or later. Books that have already been reviewed for the Prize will not be reconsidered.

The prize will be awarded at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in November 2020.

Submission guidelines

To receive additional information on how to submit a book for consideration, please contact jon.bialecki@gmail.com.

Deadline for submission of books: May 9, 2020

Jon Bialecki
Chair, 2020 Geertz Prize Committee