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disciplinaopcional2crditos Asformasmateriaisdosagrado:evocaesestticasdodivino MinistradaporCarlosSteileMattijsvandePort Semestre2014105a09/05das18hs21h Imprimir Smula: Anlise das formas materiais do sagrado. A esttica e o divino. O transcendente e as prticas materiaisdosagrado.Modalidadesdoreligiosonofazerehabitaromundo. Objetivos: Thecourseintroducesstudentstoaphenomenologicalapproachtoreligion.Itaskshownotionsof the transcendental are produced in material practices and how experiences provoked by these practicesarewovenintoreligiousmodesofworldmaking.Thecourseinvolveslectures,discussions oftheliterature.Excursionswillprovideuswiththeempiricaldatatobringtoourdiscussions. Bibliografia: Literaturemarkedwith*iscompulsoryreading. 2afeira,05052014 Lecture:TheRestofWhatIs *MattijsvandePort,2011 EcstaticEncounters.BahianCandomblandtheQuestfortheReallyReal.Amsterdam:Amsterdam UniversityPress.Pp.1 *BirgitMeyer,2009 AestheticFormations.Media,ReligionandtheSenses.NewYork:PalgraveMacMillan.Pp.131 WilliamJames,1902 LectureIII:TheRealityoftheUnseen.In:TheVarietiesofReligiousExperience:AStudyinHuman Nature.Harmondsworth,Middlesex,EnglandNewYork,N.Y.:PenguinBooks. 3afeira,06052014 Lecture:EvokingtheDivinethroughArchitecturalSpace Excursion:ReligiousSpace *OskarVerkaaik,2013 ReligiousArchitecture.AnthropologicalPerspectives.Amsterdam:AmsterdamUniversityPress.Pp. 724.
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*MattijsvandePort,2013 Golden Storm. The Ecstasy of the Igreja de So Francisco, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. In: Oskar Verkaaik, Religious Architecture. Anthropological Perspectives. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.Pp.6383. *RichardD.G.Irvine,2013 Stability, Continuity, Place. An English Benedictine Monastery as a Case Study in Counterfactual Architecture.In:OskarVerkaaik,ReligiousArchitecture.AnthropologicalPerspectives.Amsterdam: AmsterdamUniversityPress.Pp.2547. 4afeira,07052014 Lecture:SacredObjects Workshop:interview *RogerSansiRoca,2005 The Hidden Life of Stones: Historicity, Materiality and the Value of Candomble Objects in Bahia. JournalofMaterialCulture10(2):139. *DanielWojcik,1996 PolaroidsfromHeaven:Photography,FolkReligion,andtheMiraculousImageTraditionataMarian ApparitionSite.JournalofAmericanFolklore109(432):129148. IgorKopytoff,1986 TheCulturalBiographyofThings:CommoditizationasProcess. 5afeira,08052014 Lecture:ThePowerofWords Film:JesusCamp. *MichaelLambek,1990 CertainKnowledge,ContestableAuthority:PowerandPracticeontheIslamicPeriphery.American Ethnologistvol.17(1):2340 *Harding,SusanFriend,2000 Convicted by the Holy Spirit: the Rhetoric of Fundamental Baptist Conversion, American Ethnologist14(1):16781. 6afeira,09052014 Lecture:TheReligiousBody Excursion:workshoponthebody *Luhrmann,TanyaM.,2004 "Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary U.S. Christianity". American Anthropologist106(3):518528. *ThomasCsordas,1992 EmbodimentasaParadigmforAnthropology.Ethos18,1:547. Mahmood,Saba2001
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Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival.CulturalAnthropology,Vol.16,No.2,pp.202236 Contedoprogramtico: Starting point for this course is the thoroughly anthropological thought that an investigation of religion should begin with the concrete forms in which religion presents itself to us in a research settingthentocometoanideaastowhatkindofquestionscanbeaskedaboutthisphenomenon. Fourphenomenologicaldimensionsofreligionwillbeaddressed:spaces,words,objectsandbodies. We will discuss how these phenomena are inscribed in religious practices, and how religious practices are grounded in these phenomena. From the understanding of these very concrete manifestationsofreligionwewillworktowardsthelargerissuesanddebatesintheanthropologyof religion:howtoconceptualizereligionanditsroleandmeaninginthelifeofpeople? Avaliao: Compulsorypresenceatthelectures.Handinginaminiessaysof9001000words,followingoneof theassignments.Activeparticipationinclassandworkinggroups. Mtododetrabalho: Assignment 1: This is an exercise to stimulate your anthropological imagination. We will visit a religiousspacetoinvestigatehowthisparticularspaceworksthebelieverswhofrequentthisplace of worship. Discuss in your essay (1.) your own subjective experience of the place and (2.) the spatial,materialandsensorialcharacteristicsoftheplacethatinducethisexperience.Trytorelate thisdiscussion(3.)totheparticularreligionthatisbeingpracticedinthishouse. Assignment2:Thinkofanobjectthatyoudeemspecialandirreplaceable,maybeevensacred. Thisobjectcanbeanythingfromaphotographtoaclothingitemtoasouvenirtoaheirloomtoa religious object. Use the texts by SansiRoca and Wojcik to explain the extraordinariness of the object: examine stories about the object, the way you treat and store it (practices), histories (its biography),etc.andlinkupyourfindingswithpointsmadebythesewriters. Assignment3:WriteareviewonthefilmJesusCamp,usingtheliteratureonthepowerofwords.

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