Learning Religion: Anthropological Approaches
International symposium at the Institute of Social Sciences
organized by Ramon Sarró (Institute of Social Sciences, University
of Lisbon) and David Berliner (Harvard University and Université
Libre de Bruxelles).
Dates: 8-10 September 2005.
Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation
Free Admission
PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2005
9:00
Reception
9:30
Inaugural speeches
10:30
Coffee break
SESSION I:
Chair: David Berliner (Harvard University and Université Libre de
Bruxelles)
11:00
Jean Lave (University of California at Berkeley): On learning
religion.
11:20
Carlo Sévéri (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales):
Learning through icons: a shamanistic case-study.
11:40
Discussion
SESSION II
Chair: Antónia Pedroso de Lima (CEAS/ISCTE – Social Anthropology
Research Center)
12:00
Charles Stafford (London School of Economics and Political
Science): What is interesting about Chinese religion.
12:20
Tanya Luhrmann (University of Chicago): How do you learn to know
that it is God who speaks?
12:40
Discussion
13:00
Lunch
SESSION III
Chair: Susana Matos Viegas (Institute of Social Sciences, University
of Lisbon)
14:30
Marcio Goldman (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro): How to learn
in an Afro-Brazilian spirit possession religion.
14:50
Anna Fedele (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales):
Discovering new ways to deal with body and landscape: pilgrims on
the path of Mary Magdalene.
15:10
Discussion
15:30
Coffee break
SESSION IV
Chair: Steffen Dix (Institute of Social Sciences, University of
Lisbon)
16:00
Michael Houseman (École Pratique des Hautes Études and CNRS):
Transmitting relationships: the
participatory basis of religious learning.
16:20
Rita Astuti (London School of Economics and Political Science):
Learning about death and the ancestors in Madagascar.
16:40
Discussion
17:00
General discussion
FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER
SESSION V
Chair: Gonçalo Duro Dos Santos (Institute of Social Sciences,
University of Lisbon)
9:30
Laurence Hérault (Université de Provence): The good use of God and
bread: young Christians and the learning of the communion.
9:50
Christina Toren (Brunel University): Ritual and meaning: an
examination of Sunday school in a Fijian village.
10:10
Discussion
10:30
Coffee break
SESSION VI
Chair: Nina Clara Tiesler (Institute of Social Sciences, University
of Lisbon)
11:00
Benjamin Soares (African Studies Centre, Leiden): Saint and Sufi in
Neo-Liberal Mali.
11:20
Adeline Masquelier (Tulane University, New Orleans). `The fart does
not light the fire': bad women and the reconfiguration of moral
domesticity in Awaliya sermon.
11:40
Discussion
12:00
Lunch
SESSION VII
Chair: Catarina Alves Costa (New University of Lisbon)
13:40
Carlos Fausto (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) DVD
Projection: Nguné elü: The Day when the Moon Menstruated
14:20
Ruy Blanes (Institute of Social Sciences, University of
Lisbon): `Musical traditions' and the construction of discrepancies:
reflections on musical practice and transmission in a Gypsy
Pentecostal movement.
14:40
Discussion
15:00
Coffee break
SESSION VIII
Chair: Cristiana Bastos (Institute of Social Sciences, University of
Lisbon)
15:30
Ramon Sarró (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)
and Marina P. Temudo (Institute of Tropical Scientific Research,
Lisbon): Learning to live in a new world: an analysis of a prophetic
movement in West Africa.
15:50
Aurora Donzelli (Institute of Social Sciences, University of
Lisbon): Copyright and authorship: ritual speech and the new market
of words in Toraja.
16:10
Mike Rowlands (University College London): Noise as mediation in
religious learning.
16:30
Discussion
17:00
General discussion
20:30
Dinner
SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER
SESSION IX
Chair: João de Pina-Cabral (Institute of Social Sciences, University
of Lisbon)
9:30
Peter Gow (University of St Andrews): Rapids seen from above: the
dynamics of fear in the Piro lived world.
9:50
Arnauld Halloy (Université Libre de Bruxelles): Body, emotion and
transmission in a Xango cult in Brazil.
10:10
Discussion
10:30
Coffee break
SESSION X
Chair: Nuno Porto (University of Coimbra)
11:00
David Parkin (University of Oxford): Serendipity and accident in
religious instruction: notes from the East African coast.
11:20
David Berliner (Harvard University and Université Libre de
Bruxelles): Transmitting fear and fascination: an interactive
approach to religious transmission among the Bulongic (Guinea-
Conakry).
11:40
Discussion
12:00
Lunch
SESSION XI
Chair: Joan Bestard (University of Barcelona)
14:00
Charles Hirschkind (University of California at Berkeley): The
ethics of death and the Islamic revival.
14:20
João Vasconcelos (Institute of Social Sciences, University of
Lisbon): Learning to be a proper medium: middle class womanhood and
spirit mediumship at Christian Rationalist séances in Cape Verde.
14:40
Discussion
15:00
Coffee break
SESSION XI
Chair: Ramon Sarró (Institute of Social Sciences, University of
Lisbon)
15:30
Michael Lambek (University of Toronto): Learning to live with
possession.
15:50
Sónia Silva (Smithsonian Institution): Sangombe: an Angolan expert
in divinatory ontology.
16:10
José Mapril (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon):
Migration as learning: auto-poiesis and religious identity among
Bangladeshi in Lisbon.
16:30
Discussion
16:50
João de Pina-Cabral (Institute of Social Sciences, University of
Lisbon): Conclusive remarks.
LOCALIZAÇÃO DO ICS
O Instituto de Ciências Sociais situa-se em Lisboa, em pleno campus
universitário, no centro de um triângulo formado pelo Hospital de
Santa Maria, a Biblioteca Nacional e a Faculdade de Farmácia.
TRANSPORTES RECOMENDADOS
Para aqui chegar evite a utilização de viatura própria pois é muito
difícil o parqueamento na zona. Em alternativa dispõe de 3 tipos de
transportes públicos:
· O Caminho de Ferro. Deve sair na estação de "ENTRE CAMPOS"
que se situa na AVENIDA DA REPÚBLICA, deve caminhar cerca de 250m em
direcção à Rotunda de Entrecampos. Da rotunda, caminhe cerca de 150m
em direcção ao Campo Grande, onde encontrará uma rua à sua esquerda
(Avenida Professor Aníbal de Bettencourt). Sobe cerca de 100m e
encontra o Edifício do ICS à sua esquerda
· Os autocarros da Carris. Pode apanhar os autocarros número
32, 54 e 55. Deve sair na paragem que fica ao cimo da AVENIDA DAS
FORÇAS ARMADAS, frente ao "castelinho" da Faculdade de Farmácia.
Percorra cerca de 50m e desça a avenida que encontra à sua direita.
O edifício do ICS está localizado cerca de 100m à sua direita.
· De Metro. Se sair na estação de "ENTRE CAMPOS" deve
caminhar cerca de 150m em direcção ao Campo Grande, onde encontrará
uma rua à sua esquerda (Avenida Professor Aníbal de Bettencourt).
Sobe cerca de 100m e encontra o Edifício do ICS à sua esquerda.
Se optar por sair na estação de "CIDADE UNIVERSITÁRIA" deve seguir
ao longo da AVENIDA PROF. GAMA PINTO até ao cruzamento com a AVENIDA
DAS FORÇAS ARMADAS. Depois é só começar a descer esta avenida cerca
de 200 metros até encontrar do seu lado esquerdo a entrada de acesso
para o "castelinho" da Faculdade de Farmácia. Percorra cerca de 50m
e desça a avenida que encontra à sua direita. O edifício do ICS está
localizado cerca de 100m à sua direita.
Morada
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