religion

NeMLA 51th Annual Convention

5-8 March 2020,

Boston, MA

Material Religion and the Market

“The familiar observation that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time obscures a more startling fact: the Bible is the best-selling book of the year, every year. Calculating how many Bibles are sold in the United States is a virtually impossible task” says “The Good Book Business” article published in The New Yorker in 2006, underlines the billion dollar industry of Bible-publishing in the U.S.

Date of Conference: March 13-15, 2020

Location: Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

Looking for panelists for the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference in Boston, March 19-22, 2020. Below is the panel description:

This panel seeks to explore the intersections between religion and technology in Asian cultures and societies. Taking a broad view of religion, as lived and performative, the aim of this panel is to show how the theological, the technological and the anthropological intermingle to the point of indistinguishability in Asian cultures. The goal is to go beyond an instrumentalist approach wherein technology is enlisted into the service of religion and religious belief. I seek papers related (but not limited) to the following:

1) de/post colonial approach to religion, technology, secularism

Generative Anthropology, Religions, and Sciences

14th Annual Generative Anthropology Summer Conference

Bar-Ilan University, Israel

June 8-10, 2020

The website of the conference: https://sites.google.com/view/gasc-2020/home  

International Pearl-Poet Society

Call for Papers — ICMS 2020 

“In aventure þer mervayles meven”: The Mystical Tradition in the Pearl-poet and Analogues