In the last decades, the body’s role and its agency have gained new centrality in the analysis of the religious experience. Through its connection with materiality, the religious expression surpasses the spiritual to be understood as a chain of relationships and encounters between bodies, objects and sensory stimuli. Accordingly, under the premise of “routes, transfers and intermediality”, this event seeks innovative readings on subjects that discuss, question and rethink dynamics of circulation, transmission and alterity, through an exchange of ideas and objects of study, which crosses borders and disciplines.

Argument

The International Colloquium Gesture and Belief, organized under the framework of the group Religious Practices and Sociabilities (CITCEM), intends to be an international and interdisciplinary platform of discussion for young researchers who carry out their investigation within the Religious Studies. In order to explore and disseminate new and wide-ranging perspectives about the different understandings of the religious phenomenon, this meeting invites contributions from the various fields of Social and Human Sciences, so as to cultivate plural and comparative interpretations.  In the last decades, the body’s role and its agency have gained new centrality in the analysis of the religious experience. Through its connection with materiality, the religious expression surpasses the spiritual to be understood as a chain of relationships and encounters between bodies, objects and sensory stimuli. Accordingly, under the premise of “routes, transfers and intermediality”, this event seeks innovative readings on subjects that discuss, question and rethink dynamics of circulation, transmission and alterity, through an exchange of ideas and objects of study, which crosses borders and disciplines.

Proposals that address any of these topics are particularly welcome: 

• Sensory stimuli and religious experience
• Pilgrimages, "romarias" and processions
• Images and practices
• The book and the spiritual reading inside and outside the monastic scope
• Religious syncretism and the new cults of a globalized world

Travel and accommodation costs will not be covered.

More information available here www.gestureandbelief.weebly.com

Keynote speakers

• Pierre-Olivier Dittmar - École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
• Rafael Mauricio Pérez García - Universidad de Sevilla
• Juan Antonio Sánchez López - Universidad de Málaga
• Pedro Pereira – Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo
• Rafael Mauricio Pérez García - Universidad de Sevilla

Submission guidelines

Proposals for 20 minute presentations will be accepted in Portuguese, Castilian, French and English.

These should be sent by December 31, 2018

in PDF format to: coloquiogesto2019@gmail.com and include the following data:

• full name of the researcher and institutional affiliation;
• title of the presentation;
• abstract (between 150 and 200 words);
• short biography (no more than 8 lines);
• email address and phone number.

The results will be announced from January 20, 2019.

The program will be announced on February 1, 2019.

The colloquium will be held at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Portugal), March 20 - 21, 2019.

Scientific Committee

• Celso dos Santos, FLUP
• Helena Oswald, FLUP, CITCEM/UP
• Helena Vilaça, FLUP, Institute of Sociology/UP
• Luís Fardilha, FLUP, CITCEM/UP
• Nuno Resende, FLUP, CITCEM/UP
• Zulmira Santos, FLUP, CITCEM/UP

Executive Committee

• Diana Pereira, PhD candidate in Art History (FLUP/FCT),
• CITCEM/UP; Inês Afonso Lopes, PhD in Art History and History and Civilizations (FLUP/EHESS/FCT), CITCEM/UP;
• Rosa María Sánchez, PhD candidate in Literary, Cultural and Interartistic Studies (FLUP/FCT), CITCEM/UP
• Image and Communication: Álvaro Dias,
• FBAUP Secretariat: Marlene Cruz, Vanessa Sousa