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RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTER AND EXCHANGE IN ABORIGINAL CANADA
| Location: | Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Workshop Date: | 2010-09-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-06-20 |
| Announcement ID: |
177023 |
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RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTER AND EXCHANGE IN ABORIGINAL CANADA
Call for Papers:
Workshop and Special Edition of Native Studies Review
Abstracts due:
September 15, 2010
Workshop:
May 2011
This call for papers aims to encourage and assess innovative approaches to the history of Aboriginal religious encounter and exchange in Canada. Accepted papers will be presented at a workshop in Spring 2011 in Saskatoon (subject to funding). Subsequently, a selection of papers from the workshop will be published in a special edition of Native Studies Review. We invite papers that engage religious histories across all time periods and geographic regions of Aboriginal Canada. We especially encourage contributions that position Aboriginal people as central actors and agents of religious interpretation and action. Potential contributors should consider spiritual, social, cultural, material, and/or political practices and perspectives that were produced through religious encounter and exchange. How does placing religion at the centre of our analysis contribute to and complicate our understanding of Canadian Aboriginal history more generally? We also welcome transnational and comparative approaches that further our understanding of histories forged at the intersection of the local and the global.
Possible themes and questions include, but are not limited to:
•What sources and methodologies can be used to analyze and explain the historical meaning(s) of “religion”? How can Indigenous methodologies and epistemologies, in particular, challenge and enrich the scholarly discourse?
•What theoretical tools and perspectives can be used to interrogate religious encounter and exchange effectively and ethically?
•What does it mean to take religious experience and spiritual agency seriously in historical context?
•How did religion historically intersect with other categories of analysis like gender, race, and class?
•How did evangelical Christian or other modern religious movements (e.g. Pentecostal, Baha’i, Mormon) shape Aboriginal identities, communities, and lives? How did these historical experiences differ from those produced by engagement with the projects of traditional missionary denominations (e.g. Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian)?
•What roles did Aboriginal missionaries play, in their own communities and in intercultural arenas?
•How did religious encounters shape the historical construction of sacred space?
•What are the legacies of religious exchange in contemporary Aboriginal communities?
•What are the popular memories of historical religious encounters?
Please send a maximum 700-word abstract, prospective title, and a 1-page c.v. to religiousexchange@gmail.com no later than 15 September 2010.
Organizers/Editors:
Dr. Susan Neylan
Associate Professor
Department of History
Wilfrid Laurier University
Chelsea Horton
PhD candidate
Department of History
University of British
Dr. Tolly Bradford
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of History
University of Saskatchewan
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Dr. Tolly Bradford
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of History
University of Saskatchewan
Email: tolly.bradford@usask.ca
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