EVENT: Pop Goes Religion
The Religion Graduate Students Association of Columbia University is accepting registration now through March 23, 2007 for:
“Pop Goes Religion: Exploring the Relationship between Religion and Popular/Consumer Culture”
Thursday March 29, 2007
Columbia University, New York
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/religion-gsa/
Featured Guests:
Keynote Speaker: Ronald Inden, Professor Emeritus of History and of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Closing Discussant:
Laurel Kendall, Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History and Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.
Description:
This conference will investigate the impact of popular and consumer culture on religious practice, worship, and experience, including how they are shaping and reforming the understanding and self-understanding of different religious traditions and religious practitioners. Also under consideration are the ways popular and consumer cultural practices have influenced scholarship on and the actual teaching methods of religion, particularly in the field of religious studies. Finally, we will likewise explore the impact of religion and religious themes and ideas on popular and consumer culture.
Columbia University Sponsors:
Department of Religion, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Student Advisory Council (GSAC)
For schedules, panel information, abstracts, and bios, please go to: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/religion-gsa/
