Download Daryll Forde Seminar Room, UCL Anthropology – 6 pm

Tuesday 18th September 2012, 2 – 6 pm
Daryll Forde Seminar Room, UCL Anthropology
14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW
Confirmed speakers: Juliet du Boulay, Tom Boylston, Alexandra Antohin,
Andreas Bandak
This workshop will discuss current research goals and methodologies in the study of
everyday Christian life. How does the researcher’s own religious background affect
research? How much emphasis should be placed on theology and how can this be
balanced with ethnography? These questions have been given new vitality by recent
work in the broad area of the anthropology of Christianity, and particularly, for Eastern
Christianities, by the volume Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective (Hann
and Golz, eds). Perhaps the fullest, recent ethnographic account is Juliet du Boulay’s,
Cosmos, Life and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village (2009).
The workshop will be fortunate enough to host Juliet du Boulay, who will make a rare
appearance (she has been constrained for decades by health issues) to give a
presentation characterizing her approach. There will be comments by diverse
specialists and a further session to hear about current research in Syria and Ethiopia.
There will be ample time for open discussion throughout the afternoon.
The goal of the workshop will be to foster interchange amongst ethnographers of
Eastern Christianities, ethnographers of other Christianities, and specialists from other
fields such as Theology and History.
Programme to be finalized in early September.
For further details contact Dr Charles Stewart ([email protected])
Sponsored by
British School at Athens
UCL Anthropology