Religion, Culture, and Social Movements Research Cluster

The Religion, Culture, and Social Movements Research Cluster presents:

Keith E. McNeal: “Religion and the Alter-Nationalist Politics of Diaspora in an Era of Postcolonial Multiculturalism: Case Studies from Trinidad and Tobago”

Monday, April 5 / 12:15 PM / Humanities 210

Workshop:
Monday, April 5 / 3 PM / Humanities 210

Please download the following readings for the seminar and the workshop:
Readings Part 1
Readings Part 2
Readings Part 3

Keith E. McNeal’s research concerns the cultural history and moral politics of race, religion, and diaspora in Trinidad and Tobago. It traces interrelationships between contrasting racial ideologies of subordination and African and Hindu popular religions in the colonial period and their transformations in the independence period and beyond, developing an analytical distinction between Christianity as “visible” and “invisible” interlocutor. Professor McNeal will lead us in a discussion of his forthcoming book, Ecstasy in Exile: Spirits and Transculturation in the Southern Caribbean. He is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC San Diego.

For more information, contact Josh Brahinsky at jbrahins@ucsc.edu.

The Religion, Culture, and Social Movements Research Cluster presents:

Charles Hirschkind: A Workshop on Ethics & Politics

Charles Hirschkind focuses on religious practice, media technologies, and emergent forms of political community in the urban Middle East and Europe. In The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics (Columbia, 2006), he explores how a popular Islamic media form—the cassette sermon—has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades.

Reading 1
Reading 2
Reading 3
Reading 4

Professor Hirschkind is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley.

For information, contact Josh Brahinsky at jbrahins@ucsc.edu.