[Air-L] CfP - "Digital Religiosities: (Re)Configuring Religion(s) on Web 2.0" - AAA Annual Conference

[Hasan Azad]

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Hasan



*Call for Papers*


American Anthropological Association Annual Conference,

Washington DC, Nov 29-Dec 3, 2017



*Digital Religiosities:*

*(Re)Configuring Religion(s) on Web 2.0*

In her 2011 lecture “Theorizing the Web,” sociologist Saskia Sassen[1]
<#_ftn1> points out how knowledge within the digital realm is reconstituted
and reassembled as another kind of knowledge:  “[T]he body of knowledge
gets distributed and spliced-up in different ways so that you lose the
packaging, and in losing that packaging all sorts of possibilities open
up.”



This panel explores the way(s) in which “traditional” modes of religious
authority (where authority and power are co-constitutive of the
power/knowledge dyad) are reconfigured, dissected, and re-appropriated such
that religious actors – online preachers, activists, scholars, discussants,
trollers – redefine religion(s) and religiosity in surprising ways.



Possible paper topics include (but are not limited to):



-       Digital Islamic authority – how the digital sphere re-configures
traditional modes of Islamic knowledge and transmission

-       Digital bodies of Christ – how the digital sphere re-imagines the
church

-       Digital fundamentalism(s) – Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian,
Islamic

-       Religious knowledge(s) in the digital age

-       Online preachers and YouTube faith(ers)


-       Facebook Fanatics – how social media creates siloes of religious
(in)tolerance



Please send a 250-word abstract and bio to ha2248 at columbia.edu by April 3
for consideration.

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[1] <#_ftnref1> http://vimeo.com/23044503

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Hasan Azad, PhD
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Columbia University
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