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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP "Performing Religion: Actors, contexts, an dtexts"
November 16-18 2011 Orient-Institut Beirut
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> June 6, 2011
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> Call for papers: "Performing Religion: Actors, contexts, an dtexts"
> November 16-18 2011 Orient-Institut Beirut
>
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> "Performing Religion: Actors, contexts, and texts", November 16-18 20
> 11Orient-Institut Beirut
>
> Location: Lebanon
> Call for Papers Date: 2011-06-28 (in 21 days)
> Date Submitted: 2011-06-06
> Announcement ID: 185717
>
> Following a recent shift of focus from "ritual thinking" to "ritual
> action" in contemporary studies of religion, the Orient-Institut Beirut
> plans a conference which focuses on the relationship between textual
> traditions and ritual practice in Islam. One of the main questions
> concerns how theological concepts are transformed into religious practice
> – and vice versa. The conference aims at bridging disciplinary barriers
> between philologically grounded and fieldwork-based studies on Islam.
> Religion is not only constituted by texts but by experiences which involve
> multi-layered perceptions: visual, acoustic, kinaesthetic, olfactory, and
> others. Nevertheless, texts play an important role in religion, especially
> in Islam which has a long and highly esteemed textual tradition: a
> revealed script, commentaries, theological treatises, handbooks for law
> and ritual, texts in praise for God and the prophet, elegies, and prayers,
> to name a few. What is the relationship between texts and their believers?
> How are they delivered, performed, staged? Who takes part in this process?
> How do texts shape daily religious life? How are borders, if any,
> perceived between piety and entertainment?
>
> Particular topics of interest include:
>
> • The performance of texts (e.g. liturgy, sermons, popular preaching,
> mada'ih) Questions may include the musical sound, formal characteristics,
> the relationship between reciters and listeners, and the function of the
> performance.
>
> • Changing contexts Changing contexts may include migration and cultural
> transformations, but the question of context touches also questions of the
> public/private, profane/sacred dichotomies.
>
> • Definitions and classifications Does a stronger focus on ritual action
> make it necessary to re-evaluate our definitions and categories?
>
> Papers on historical as well as contemporary research are welcome.
> Abstracts of about 200-300 words should be sent to Ines Weinrich
> (weinrich@oidmg.org) before June, 28.
> Papers are accepted in English, Arabic, and French.
>
>
> Ines Weinrich
> Orient-Institut Beirut
> Zokak al-Blat |Rue Hussein Beyhum
> P.O. Box 11-2988 | Beirut-Lebanon
> Tel. +961 (0)1 359 237 Fax +961 (0)1 359 176
>
> Email: weinrich@oidmg.org
> Visit the website at http://www.orient-institut.org
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