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
The Society for the Anthropology of Religion biennial conference will be held May 12-14, 2023 at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia. Please mark your calendars now and watch for the call for papers, which will be forthcoming this fall. It will be our first in person conference Read more
At the 2021 SAR business meeting, two winners of the annual Student Paper Prize and one honorable mention were announced. This prize is intended to foster theoretically significant, ethnographically rich work by students at an early stage of their career. The prize includes a cash award of $250 for the winning Read more
Geertz Prize Winners for 2021: In late 2021, the SAR announced the winner and two honorable mentions for the annual Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion. Congratulations to all the recognized authors. Click here to learn more about past years’ winners. Winner: Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking Read more
During the annual business meeting of the SAR held in November 2021, a newly elected board was announced, as listed below. The current list of board officers, members-at-large, and ex-officio members can be found here. Terms for officers and members-at-large of the Executive Committee begin from the annual meeting of Read more
The Society for the Anthropology of Religion was proud to award the following prize at the 116th AAA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.: The Clifford Geertz Prize Awardin 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. Read more
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 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
The Society for the Anthropology of ReligionA section of the American Anthropological Associationannounces 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 Read more