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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Alyson Adrianne Rozells <BR><B>Sent:</B>
Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:41 PM<BR><B>To:</B> NUS BTC Staff; ARI PhD
Scholars; ARI Visitors; FAS Teaching Staff; FAS Research
Staff<BR><B>Subject:</B> Call for Submissions: Edited Volume on New Directions
in the Study of Material Religion (14 - 16 August 2008)<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">CALL
FOR SUBMISSIONS:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Verdana color=red size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Edited
Volume on New Directions in the Study of Material
Religion<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Co-hosted
by the Religion Cluster of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The
Religion and Globalisation in Asian Contexts Cluster of the Asia Research
Institute (ARI), <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">National</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Date:
14 - 16 August 2008<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Venue:
University Hall Auditorium, Level 2, Lee Kong Chian Wing, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">National</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Singapore</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">@</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Kent</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Ridge</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Website:
<A
href="http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=764">http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=764</A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Verdana color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">With
strong interest from an internationally regarded publisher, we seek to put
together an edited volume on the topic of material religion. This project,
in brief, seeks to (1) trace the different ways in which the divine, in many
religious traditions, is manifested in physical, tangible form and (2) to
determine the ways in which scholars can effectively appreciate the wider
political, social and cultural meanings that are brought to light through the
study of material forms of religion. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Verdana color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Verdana color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">All
sorts of religious objects – from statues, to objects of offering, to
architecture, to relics -- manifest the piousness of the faithful, as well as
the historical, political or cultural issues of the communities which revere
them. The Emerald Buddha in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Thailand</st1:country-region>, the Virgin of Guadalupe in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
and many Hindu icons are just some examples of how the regard for sacred objects
is more than just a matter of aesthetics or museological appreciation.
This observation can also be made in faiths where there are proscriptions
against the representation of religious personages, for which religiosity is
manifested in aniconic form. There is a need for a mode of analysis of
material religion that goes beyond the mere identification of their style,
provenance and production. What discursive, ethnographic or historical
frameworks can we utilise so that we can understand their continued relevance,
if not their prohibition, in both global and local
contexts?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">We call for
submissions from scholars from the social sciences and humanities who are
concerned with material religion in general. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">This may include the
study of: <BR><BR>• Religious icons and images<BR>• Amulets and
talismans<BR>• Offertory objects<BR>• Sacred relics<BR>• Ritual
objects and symbols<BR>• Sacred spaces and
architecture<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Verdana color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Verdana color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The
project is not restricted to any particular religion, area or disciplinary
inclination. International contributors to the volume will be invited to
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region></st1:place> in August 2008 for an
International Conference entitled “New Directions in the Study of Material
Religion”. This event will be co-hosted by the Religion Cluster of the
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and the Religion and Globalisation in Asian
Contexts Cluster of the Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of
Singapore. Conference travel and accommodation funding may be available
for international contributors to the volume.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT face=Verdana color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Please
send a title, abstract and short biography to <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Dr Julius Bautista</SPAN></B> at <A
href="mailto:seabj@nus.edu.sg"><FONT color=navy><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy">seabj@nus.edu.sg</SPAN></FONT></A> by <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">29 February
2008.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=2><SPAN
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Please
click here for the <A
href="http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/showfile.asp?eventfileid=364">PAPER PROPOSAL
FORM</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Convenor<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Dr
Julius BAUTISTA <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Southeast Asian
Studies Programme & Asia Research Institute, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">National</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Email: <A
href="mailto:seabj@nus.edu.sg">seabj</A><A
href="mailto:seabj@nus.edu.sg">@nus.edu.sg</A><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><BR><BR><BR>Secretariat<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Ms Alyson
ROZELLS<BR>Asia Research Institute, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">National</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Singapore</st1:place></st1:country-region><BR>#10-01 Tower Block,469A
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bukit</st1:City> Timah Road,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region></st1:place>
259770<BR>Email: <A
href="mailto:alysonrozells@nus.edu.sg">alysonrozells@nus.edu.sg</A> <BR>Tel:
(65) 6516 8787<BR>Fax: (65) 6779 1428<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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