Anthropological Perspectives on Diaspora and Religious Identities
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 9347
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue invites papers that juxtapose three fields: anthropology, diasporas, and religious identities. This juxtaposition can shed light on the intriguing tensions between movement and sedentarism and accompanying concepts such as “strangeness” and “commonsense”.
Anthropology’s trademark, fieldwork, involves distancing anthropologists from their commonsense world, allowing for insights to be gained from the discomfort and challenges of strangeness.
In the same vein, the anthropological study of diasporas—that is, of those socio-cultural groups that are “out of place”, and whose very being is built upon an existential sense of strangeness—can provide a critical perspective on the common sense of their “hosting” societies.
As against these two unsettling fields, we position religious identity that supposedly “establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations…” (Geertz 1965) in individuals and socio-cultural groups.
By bringing these three fields into a conversation, we hope to offer rich and refined understandings concerning the complex and dynamic relationships between movement and sedentarism, strangeness, and common sensuality. We expect that these new understandings will relate to both the observing anthropologist as well as the observed socio-cultural groups. In addition, we strive to collect articles that are both ethnographically varied and theoretically provoking, so that ethnographies from different parts of the world will question the very concepts that are at the heart of this Special Issue.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Andre Levy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- religious identity
- diasporas
- anthropology
- commonsense
- strangeness
- movement
- sedentarism
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