SAR at the AAA
Every year, SAR sponsors several panels on the anthropology of religion at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). In 2012, the meeting will be held in San Francisco.
Recent Sessions
At the 2010 meeting in New Orleans, SAR sponsored 27 sessions.
(Extra)Ordinary Miracles: Explorations In Traditional Christianities
Anthropologies Of The Damned: Disciplinary Practices And Peripheral Suffering
Belief, Participation, Circulation: Challenges In Participant-Observer Fieldwork With Evangelical, Pentecostal, And Charismatic Christianities
Beyond Political And Cultural Networks: The Challenges Of Religious Pluralism For Indigenous People Of The Americas
Bridging Spirituality And Medical Practices In New Ways
Buddhisms In Motion
Can We Talk? Theorizing “religion” And “development” Together In Faith-Based Non-Governmental Organizations
Circulation And Syncretism: Metaphors Of Movement In The Blending Of Belief
Contemporary Haunting: Circulation Of Knowledge And Memories Between The Dead, The Living, The Family And The State In The East Asian Context
Conversion, Evangelism And Ethnicity
Going Global: The Transformative Power Of Pentecostal And Charismatic Christian Networks
Mediating Spirits And The Spirit Of Mediatization In The Afro-Atlantic World
Muslim Circuits, Western Spaces
North American Christianities
Passages Of Pilgrims, Nations And Identities
Pentecostalism In Contemporary Russia: Globalization, Indigenization And Social Context Of Charismatic Christianity
Raced Religion: Neo-Liberal Identities And The Racialization Of Religion
Religious Change And Continuity In Latin America
Researching Spirit Biographies: Locating The Selves And Histories Of Immaterial Entities In Religious Experience And Knowledge
Rethinking Postcoloniality & Postsocialism: Circulations Of Religiosity And Secularization In The Expansion Of Sovereignty
Sacred Powers, Powerful Objects And Political Objections
Short-Term Missions: Religious Circulations In Two Weeks Or Less
The Circulation Of Trance: What Does It Mean To Be Entranced In A Globalized World?
The Other American Jews: Thriving In Double Marginality
The Work Of Maurice Bloch: Transatlantic Currents Of Inspiration, Provocation, And Response
Tracking Circulation Through Ritual Spaces And Religious Fields
Women As Religious Authorities: Circulating Discourses, Embodied Knowledge