Negotiating the Sacred: Politics, Practice, and Perceptions of Religion in Africa
Date
Fri October 23rd 2009, 9:00am
Event Sponsor
Event is co-sponsored with Student Forum for African Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Center for African Studies, Department of History, and Department of Anthropology.
Location
Building 200/Bechtel International Center
From piety in Egypt to HIV/AIDS programming in South Africa, religion provides not only a vibrant subject of study in and of itself but also a lens to refract social, economic, and political relations. The conference will bring together researchers from across many fields to discuss emerging approaches, local practice, and transnational movements of religion in Africa and the Diaspora. Keynote Speaker: Saba Mahmood (Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC-Berkeley).