This afternoon symposium is curated in partnership with three visiting academics, each of whom is working on a different aspect of religious boundaries.

• Dr Agustina Altman (Universidad de Buenos Aires) is an anthropologist whose research focuses on processes of religious change among the indigenous peoples of the Argentine Chaco.
• Rev Dr Felicity Apaah (University of Ghana) is exploring the traditional authority and spirituality of women chiefs in Ghana, through the case of Nana Kow Ackon V.
• Prof Dr Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha (Institute of Language Studies and Research, Kolkata) is studying pre-modern traditions of cross-cultural dialogue, with reference to Bengali Sufism.

Programme

12:45 Registration

13:15 Introduction—Joanna Page (Professor of Latin American Studies and Director of CRASSH) & Jörg Haustein (Professor of Global Christianity, Faculty of Divinity)

13:30 Documentary screening: Travelling ethnographers. Research chronicles (Chaco – USA); selected and presented by Agustina Altman.

13:50 Indigenous Christianities as ‘border zones’: shaping modernities in the Argentine Chaco—Agustina Altman

14:35 Tradition and modernity in Brahmo new dispensation: vernacular interfaith traditions in pre-colonial Bengal—Anindya Sekhar Purkayastha

15:15 Break

15:45 Harmony in diversity: the spiritual odyssey of a woman king in modern-day Cape Coast, Ghana—Felicity Apaah

16:30 Reading group session on inter-religious encounters, led by the Fellows. Texts will be sent for advance reading to all registrants two weeks before the event.

17:30 Drinks reception

This event is organised in partnership with CRASSH and the Faculty of Divinity as part of World Interfaith Harmony Week.

Please register (free) in advance to attend this event.