Healing Matters. The Anthropology of Hybrid and 'Traditional' Ritual Mediations 3102-FHM
During the webinar, we will discuss contemporary healing practices, in which new forms of ritualization and ritual expertise intersect with technologized mediations and references to imagined tradition. To define the scope of healing, we draw on research concerning the techniques and concepts of the body, the environment, new infrastructures, and power dynamics. We aim to compare phenomena such as healing practices within the New Age movement, neopaganism, as well as new Christian movements like Pentecostalism, and practices that straddle the boundaries of biomedicine and ritualization,, which proliferate in various parts of the globe.
We argue that the shared features of these practices across are neither coincidental nor rooted in their archetypal nature. Instead, they are closely tied to the circulation of meanings, objects, and practices within a postcolonial, globally integrated world and its center-periphery dynamics.
Rodzaj przedmiotu
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Efekty kształcenia
Student is able to use such categories as: New Age and modern Paganisms in his/her analysis of the empirical materials
Student increases his/her reflexivity in the perception of processes taking place in the African and Europe religiosity and their link to the social life of various groups.
Student develops his/her competences to critically look at religion as well as critically discuss various aspects of social life
Kryteria oceniania
- mandatory reading of texts and oral reactions on the readings during the seminar's discussions
- active participation in seminars
- Each meeting will be summarized by a short response paper completed by participants from UW (University of Warsaw), on which the coordinator provides brief feedback
- Participation in the final roundtable: short presentation on critical reflection on the course
Uwagi
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W cyklu 2025:
The class will take place every last Tuesday of the month: 28.10.2025 Introduction for students (offline) 25.11.2025 lecturer: Piotr Cichocki 16.12.2025 lecturer: tba 27.01.2026 lecturer: tba 24.02.2026 lecturer: tba 24.03.2026 lecturer: tba 28.04.2026 lecturer: tba 26.05.2026 lecturer: tba 16.06.2026 lecturer: Viola Teisenhoffer (Universite of Liege) and Agnes Kędzierska Manzon (EPHE Paris) 19.06.2026 Exposés and evaluations of students |
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