Dear Members,
Please find attached with this email the SAR newsletter for October 2024. We value your involvement and contributions to the Society, and we’re excited to continue fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing within our community.
If you have any questions, suggestions, or contributions for future newsletters, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Thank you for your continued support, and I look forward to connecting with you in our upcoming events and activities.
Best,
Shahana Munazir
PhD Candidate in Anthropology, UW-Madison
Society for the Anthropology of Religion
Section of the American Anthropological Association
17th October 2024
News and Announcements
SAR Business Meeting at the AAA Conference 2024
Join us for the SAR Business Meeting at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference, taking place in Tampa, Florida, from November 20 to November 23, 2024. During the meeting, we will announce the winners of the Geertz Prize and the Student Paper Prize, introduce our new Board members, and share exciting details about our upcoming Biennial Conference, which will be held June 21-23, 2025, at UCSB.
Date: Friday, November 22nd
Time: 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Venue: Tampa Marriott Water Street
Room: Florida Salon 6
Call for Travel Grants for the 2024 AAA Annual Meeting
The Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) is offering up to four travel grants of $500 each to scholars of color and/or underemployed scholars attending the 2024 AAA Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida. Priority will be given to those participating in SAR-sponsored panels. Scholars from underrepresented groups and those without secure employment are encouraged to apply.
To apply, please send the following to SAR President Mayfair Yang (yangm@ucsb.edu) by November 6, 2024:
- Accepted abstract for an SAR-sponsored panel at the AAA meeting.
- Notice of paper acceptance from the AAA.
- Personal statement (max. 250 words) detailing your current status, doctoral degree date (or expected) and institution, and why you qualify for the award.
For more details, visit: SAR Travel Grants.
New Books and Articles
The Service of Faith: An Ethnography of Mennonites and Development
September 2024 (forthcoming)
Phillip Fountain
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo and Fabien Le Bonniec. 2024. “Queering the Spirit of the Law: Mapuche Shamanic Justice in Judge Karen Atala’s LGBT child custody case against the Chilean state.” Journal of Anthropological Research 80(2): 143-176
Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
June 2024
Omer Aijazi
University of Pennsylvania Press
“Problems of Citation,” Special Issue
June 2024
N. Fadeke Castor, Britt Halvorson, Ingie Hovland, Sarah Imhoff, Pamela E. Klassen and Elizabeth Pérez
Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses
Bringing Krishna Back to India: Global and Local Networks in a Hare Krishna Temple in Mumbai
May 2024
Claire C. Robison
Oxford University Press
From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus’ Understanding of Embodied Practices
May 2024
Daniela Bevilacqua
Equinox Publishing
The Protestantism of Neoliberalism
Daromir Rudnyckyj
April 2024
Culture, Theory, and Critique
Please note: This article was delivered as the Presidential Lecture for the 2023 meetings of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion
Call for Proposals and Opportunities
1) The Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) column in Anthropology News invites submissions that convey short stories about religion inspired by fieldwork, popular media, or current events. Accepted submissions will be published in 2024 and 2025.
2) The Department of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill is seeking to fill a tenure-track assistant professor position specializing in Hinduism and South Asian Religions. We encourage applications from anthropologists and would appreciate your help in sharing this opportunity widely.
Application Deadline: 29th October 2024. For more details, please see the job description: Assistant Professor Position – UNC.
3) Equinox Publishing, UK and CrossCurrents (University of North Carolina Press), “Religion and the Work of Art” (Deadline for CrossCurrents: August 31, 2024 | Deadline for Equinox Volume: December 31)