First Workshop

Contemporary ‘Spiritual’ Practices,
EASA Network

April, 7-8, 2022
 

EHESS, Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers)

This network aims to foster international exchanges and collaborations around the anthropology of contemporary ‘spiritual’ practices. 

A wide variety of spiritual practices overlap and typically belong to various realms between therapy, science, wellbeing, and politics: from New Age to Neopaganism, from ecospirituality to neo-traditionalist movements among numerous categories, this network is open to ‘spiritual’ practices regardless of their cultural contexts.

 

Programme

Thursday, April 7

5:00pm : Introduction : Sara Le Menestrel (CNRS) & Thomas Witzeling (Unil Lausanne)
5:30-7:00 : Brief individual introductions

Friday, April 8s

9:30am : Ongoing research groups:

- Emily Pierini (Sapienza Università di Roma): « THETRANCE – Transnational healing: Therapeutic trajectories in spiritual trance » and « HEAL – Network for the ethnography of healing »

- Marta Contijoch Torres (Universitat de Barcelona): « Research Group on Religious Mystics and Heterodoxies - GREMHER »

- Carine Plancke (Ghent University): « Cultural (re)appropriation and (de)gendered becoming: Ethnographies of contemporary tantric spirituality »

- Emma Gobin (LAVUE, EPHE): « Comparative approaches to the New Age »

- Michael Houseman (EPHE) : « New forms of relational mediation Workshop »

10:30 : Coffee break

10:45 : Roundtable 1: Contested categories vs. analytical concepts (convenor: Laure Rakez)

12:15pm : Lunch break

1:30 : Round table 2: Negotiation of fieldwork/positionality/long-term ethnography (convenor : Nicolas Boissière)

3:00 : Coffee break

3:15 : Round table 3: Transnational circuits
(convenors: Emily Pierini & Denise Lombardi)

4:45–6:00 : Perspectives (2022 Belfast EASA conference, publication opportunities, website…)


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