4-0860 RELIGION IN THE MARKETPLACE; SACRED TRACES AND COMMERCIAL LEGACIES

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Friday, November 18, 2011: 13:45-15:30

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Organizers: David M Geary (Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford) and Pauline McKenzie Aucoin (Simone de Beauvoir Institute and Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University)

Chairs: Pauline McKenzie Aucoin (Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University)

Discussants: Simon M Coleman (University of Toronto)

13:45

In Search of Sambodhi: Religious and Commercial Entanglements In the Land of Enlightenment

David M Geary (Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford)

14:00

Sacred Mission and Commercial Enterprise: Ananda At the Interface of Community, Nation, and Globe

Susan Love Brown (Florida Atlantic University)

14:15

In the House of the "Tower of Shari'a": Heritage Conservation, Neoliberalism and Religious Nationalism In Ahmedabad, India

Yogesh R Chandrani (Columbia University)

14:30

On the Magical Properties of Transformative Commodities

Pauline McKenzie Aucoin (Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University)

14:45

"Big Enough to Serve You, Small Enough to Know You": Transnational Ties Between Gospel of the Kingdom Megachurch In Java, Indonesia and Christian Institutions In the United States

Pamela K. Sari (Purdue University)

15:00

Monumental Revisions: Reading Architecture for Traces of the Middle

Hanna H Kim (Adelphi University)

15:15

Discussant

Simon M Coleman (University of Toronto)

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