19.01.2016

International Symposium “Secular Bodies, Affects, and Emotions”

11.-13.02.2016 | Registration Deadline: 31.01.2016

In studies of secularity, there has been little investigation of lived experience, embodied practices, and emotional attachments, perhaps because the secular is usually conceived of as a kind of non-articulation. Bringing the unmarked, self-evident quality of a ‘secular’ public sphere in conversation with institutions and practices that are explicitly identified as non-religious may help materialize the secular. Another approach is to examine the affective contours of social practices and controversies in order to identify and locate the operations of the secular in multireligious societies.


The symposium argues that secularity is not simply a “disenchantment” of society, a falling away of religious beliefs and practices, but instead can be understood as a grammar accompanied by a distinct set of material and embodied practices. The contributions to this symposium examine these from historical and anthropological perspectives.


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