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Jarandilla de la Vera

XVIII International ARYS Conference

This conference aims to deconstruct the ideas of rural religion as mechanically reproducing urban rituals and religious hierarchies and of the rural world as a space of cultural and religious resilience against urbanity. Rural areas represented an arena for very situational processes of negotiation between, on the one hand, administrative patterns and related social configurations, and, on the other hand, processes of social conformance to the very characteristics of a local specific rural environment, of adaptation to its peculiar habitus and religious customs, possibly involving gods whose competences directly mirrored a geophysical environment made of mountains, rivers, woods, etc.

Málaga

Call for papers - Religion

Calling upon Gods, Offering Bodies

Strategies of Human-Divine Communication in the Roman Empire from Individual Experience to Social Reproduction

The Department of Historical Science at the University of Málaga and the Institute of Historiography “Julio Caro Baroja” at the University of Carlos III of Madrid are organizing an international conference titled “Calling upon gods, offering bodies. Strategies of human-divine communication in the Roman Empire from individual experience to social reproduction”. Researchers of Ancient History, History of Religion, Archaeology, Anthropology, Classics, and other related fields are invited to present their research on this topic. The conference aims at analysing how self-experience of religious communication becomes a reflexive phenomenon reproduced in time and space to constitute a collectively shared narrative.

Mexico City

Study days - Ethnology, anthropology

Ex-voto: international perspectives

Des experts internationaux se réunissent pour commenter la particularité de l'objet votif. L'ex-voto peut être défini comme un remerciement que les croyants font à une divinité, mais les pratiques dévotionnelles révèlent une complexité dans l'usage du votif. Des chercheurs travaillant en France, au Japon, au Moyen Orient et au Mexique proposent d'interroger et d'expliquer cette matérialité qu'impose l'ex-voto. Durant ce symposium, seront analysés l'amplitude votive, les modalités de l'écriture du voeu, les créations actuelles qui perpétuent et subvertissent la tradition iconographique et thématique, ainsi que les diverses perspectives pour la conservation et la valorisation de l'ex-voto.

Paris

Call for papers - Religion

Maternal Sacrifice in Jewish Culture

Rethinking Sacrifice from a Maternal Perspective in Religion, Art, and Culture

The phrase “maternal sacrifice” combines two complex terms entangled in an even more complex dynamic. First of all, “sacrifice”, a word whose definitions have been considered inadequate to describe the multiformity of practices and meanings it evokes as a ritual, as a narrative, and as a metaphor. James Watts distinguishes between “narrative traditions about killing people”, oriented towards an evaluation of killing and murder, and “the ritual killing of animals”, focused on the social functions of ritual and religion (Watts 2011, 8). To those categories a third level can be added that is related to the metaphorical use of the notion of sacrifice as the act of giving up something in order to attain a higher goal.

Call for papers - Thought

To what do our beliefs commit us today? New ethical perspectives in belief

Nouvelles perspectives éthiques sur la croyance

Cet appel à contribution est dédié au dossier de la Revue française d'éthique appliquée, consacré à la question de la croyance. Les disciplines qui peuvent être convoquées pour aborder ces questions sont issues des champs politistes, philosophiques, psychologiques et psychopathologiques, cognitivistes, de la théorie médiatique et religieuse, ainsi que les nouveaux domaines de création / manipulation de l'image et des médias.

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

Games and religion

Déjà évoqué chez des auteurs fondateurs des sciences sociales françaises, puis repris dans des études classiques sur le jeu, l’étude des rapports entre jeux et faits religieux connaît un renouveau d’intérêt depuis quelques années dans le monde anglo-saxon, et plus spécifiquement dans le domaine des jeux vidéo. Le Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet a consacré plusieurs numéros à cette thématique, et une nouvelle revue, Gamevironments, lui est entièrement consacrée. Cet appel à contribution invite les chercheurs francophones à investir ce champ de recherche et à l’élargir à tout type de jeux afin d’éclairer la diversité des manières d’aborder ces questions. Les différents axes proposés ici ne sont pas exhaustifs et toute proposition consacrée aux rapports entre jeux et faits religieux est la bienvenue et sera évaluée.

Call for papers - Religion

Conception, birth and childhood

“New Comparative Mythology” Journal, 5

New Comparative Mythology, a peer-reviewed journal of comparative mythology with an international editorial board, issues, for its fifth volume, a call for papers on the topic “conception, birth and childhood”. In many mythologies, these three initial phases of the existence of divine, heroic, monstrous and other figures have given rise to many traditions. In addition, various beliefs and practices, which are lent legendary or mythical precedents, also rhythm this period which goes from the fertilization to the edge of the initiatory phase of the individuals. It is on the comparative study of this vast field of research that the articles submitted to our review will have to relate.

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