6-0370 THE SACRED IN THE SECULAR: INVENTED TRADITIONS, INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES, SECULAR RITUALS AND SACRED HEALING

Sunday, November 20, 2011: 10:15-13:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Chair: John K Nelson (Univ. of San Francisco)

10:15

Medical Anthropology, the Anthropology of Christianity, and the Myth of the Secular Hospital

Willard Wilson Will III (Rice University)

10:30

‘I Have to Wake Them up’: Religious Imagery and Sentiment In Civic Participation Discourse In Porto Alegre, Brazil

Benjamin Junge (State University of New York-New Paltz)

10:45

“Experimental Religion”: a New Paradigm for the Ethnography of Religion

John K Nelson (Univ. of San Francisco)

11:00

discussion

11:15

Break

11:30

Religious Experience Is Either Co-Opted or Irrelevant: Ignored Insight At a Zen Buddhist Farm

Daniel S Souleles (Teachers College, Columbia University)

11:45

Metropolitan Microcosm: Exploring the Dynamic Spaces of Urban Sufi Shrines

Rachana R Umashankar (UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL)

12:00

Ufological Millenarianism: Rationality, Religion, and the Extraterrestrial in the End Times

Ian P Lowrie (Rice University)

12:15

discussion

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