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“Shamanism and Healing Rituals in Contemporary Islam and Sufism”
| Location: | Switzerland |
| Conference Date: | 2008-11-26 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-08-23 |
| Announcement ID: |
163627 |
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Conference:
“Shamanism and Healing Rituals in Contemporary Islam and Sufism”
Centro Incontri Umani, Ascona – Switzerland
21-23 November 2008
Organized by Prof Dr Thierry Zarcone (CNRS, Paris)
This conference wants to question the association of Islam (Sufism) and Shamanism in the contemporary Muslim world and particularly to discuss the healing rituals used by the shamans. Two kinds of healers will be investigated in this meeting: first, the shaman healers of Central Asia (bakhshi, emchi, achikgöz, parikhwân, darger) which doesn’t belong to a homogenous movement but to several trends. However these trends have a common origin that is the mixing of Islam and especially of Sufism with the old religion of the region, i.e.
Shamanism. This « Islamized Shamanism » (Islamizirovannoe shamansto), as it was labelled by the late Profesor W. Basilov, exists in a geographic area which covers today the Republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirghizistan, the Northern Province of Afghanistan (Afghan Turkistan), the Turkoman province of Iran, and the Uygur autonomous District of Xinjiang. Second, the conference will examine also the case of the healers located in other areas of the Muslim world which have no links with Central Asia, i.e. the Arab lands, India, Indonesia, etc. These healers are depicted as “Shamans” by many scholars since they use healing rituals which are more or less close to those performed in Central Asian Islamized Shamanism.
List of participants:
Kagan Arik - University of Chicago
Title: TBA
Aurélie Biard - Institut of Political Studies, Paris
Title: Interrelation To the Invisible: Köz achïk (“open eye”)’s Healing Practices and Representations of Misfortunes in Kyrgyzstan.
Patrick Garrone - Indipendent scholar, Avignon
Title: Healing by Transfer: A Comparative Approach
Roberte Hamayon - EPHE, Paris
Title: Are There Strong and Weak Points Inherent in Shamanism that Can Account for Both Its Persistence and Marginalisation in Contact Situation With an Institutionalised Religion?
Angela Hobart USI, Università Svizzera Italiana, Lugano / London University /Goldsmith College and UCL / director of the Centro Incontri Umani
Title: Spirit Healing in a Hindu-Muslim Area: Performances in Java and Bali
Pedram Khosronejad - St. Andrews University, Scotland
Title: Zar Ritual in South of Iran: Some Ceremonial and Visual Aspects.
Liliane Kuczynski - CNRS, Paris
Title: Several Aspects of Dreaming in the Practice of African Marabouts in Paris
Maghsudi Manijeh - Tehran University, Iran
Title: Comparison between Shamanism and Poorkhani of Turkmen Sahara
François Ruegg - University of Fribourg
Title: Muslim Gypsies and Shamanic Practices in South-East Europe
Mohammad Sadegh Degati Najd, Miras-e-farda Institute, Tehran
Title: “Turkmen Porkhans”, Ethnological Film on Shamanism Ceremony Amongst
Iranian Turkmen.
Faiza Seddik-Arkam - University of Franche-Comté
Title: L’Epouse du Génie: Transmission Utérine et Symbolique du Pouvoir de
Guérison et Maladie Initiatique Chez les Tradipraticiens du Hoggar (Sahara Algérien)
Anne-Marie Vuillemenot - University of Louvain, Belgium
Title: Kyat and Khaiat: Two Examples of Contemporary Kazakh Bakhsis (shamans)
Thierry Zarcone - CNRS, Paris
The Muslim Shaman in Chinese Turkestan and in Xinjiang: Seers, healers and shrine keepers
Dance Performance
“The dance of the Cranes” by the Turkish Alevi Group
For academic inquiries, please contact:
Prof Dr T Zarcone -thzarcone@wanadoo.fr-
For programme details, participating and registration, please contact:
Mrs L . Simona -secretary@ciu-ascona.org-
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