(6-0160) Space, time, values, culture: religions on the mirror

11/18/2018

8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Presenter(s)

Cecilia Bastos

Post-doc researcher
National Museum - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Dmitry Bondarenko

Vice-Director for Research
Institute for African Studies Russian Academy of Sciences

Dmitry Bondarenko

Vice-Director for Research
Institute for African Studies Russian Academy of Sciences
Saliha Chattoo

University of Toronto
Cora Gaebel

University of Cologne
Julian Murchison

Associate Professor, Department Head [Coordinator]
Eastern Michigan University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology
Devaka Premawardhana

Emory University
Teruyuki Tsuji

National Museum of Ethnology

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM
The Divine as a Resource: The Commodification of Religious Values in Puri (East India)
Cora Gaebel – University of Cologne
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM
Resisting and Adapting to the Challenges of Globalization through Faith in Africa: Ugandan Orthodox Christian Old Believers’ “Conservative” Response
Dmitry M. Bondarenko – Institute for African Studies Russian Academy of Sciences
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Rupture and Return in Mozambique: A Pentecostal Counter-Narrative
Devaka Premawardhana – Emory University
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
A Hindu spirituality in the West: the influence of Vedanta in the context of the New Age
Cecilia Bastos – National Museum - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
The Power of Mary: Inspiration and Seduction for the Colonial Construction of Religions
Teruyuki Tsuji – National Museum of Ethnology
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
“The Church is Hemorrhaging Artists”: Negotiating Boundaries Between “Secular” and “Sacred” Performance Art in the American Pentecostal Context
Saliha Chattoo – University of Toronto
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Technoreligious Practice on Social Media: Constructing the Prosperity Gospel of Freemasonry in Tanzania
Julian M. Murchison – Eastern Michigan University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology