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P06a


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Religion, materiality and (im)mobilities 
Convenors:
Kathleen Openshaw (Western Sydney University)
Cristina Rocha (Western Sydney University)
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Chair:
Kathleen Openshaw (Western Sydney University)
Format:
Panel
Sessions:
Wednesday 1 December, -
Time zone: Australia/Sydney

Short Abstract:

This panel focuses on the entanglements between religion, materiality and (im)mobility, and calls contributors to more closely consider this nexus, both from an ethnographic and/or theoretical perspective, as it is lived-locally and negotiated globally.

Long Abstract:

In recent years scholars have moved beyond a Westerncentric framework of false binaries that understands religion as immaterial - as private belief in an invisible, omnipresent and transcendent God. Rather, they have sought to understand how religious mediation makes real the presence of immaterial entities in the world through material forms (Houtman and Meyer 2012, p. 6). Certainly, religiosity is manifested in complex and often contradictory relationships involving the material and immaterial, animate and inanimate, human and non-human actors, earthly and supernatural realms and local and global relationships. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, when populations are mostly immobile, this panel focuses on the entanglements between religion, materiality, digital media and (im)mobility. It calls contributors to consider these connections, both from an ethnographic and/or theoretical perspective, as they are lived locally and negotiated globally.

We hope to address some of these questions:

o How can religious materiality help us understand locally-lived experiences?

o How are Gods and spirits made tangible through the material culture, bodily sensations, texts, media, buildings and other infrastructures?

o How are transnational religions mediated across time and space?

o How does religious mobility fare in a COVID-19 world of lockdowns and closed borders?

o How can Indigenous knowledge help us understand the relationship between human religiosity, more-than-human engagements and (im)mobility?

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Wednesday 1 December, 2021, -
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