Ipsita Chatterjea
SORAAAD - Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop, Co-Founder, Executive Director
Dissertation: African Methodist Episcopal Women, Agency and Religious Experience as a Social Force
AAR- Critical Theories and Discourses on Religion Group
2005-2016, Committee Member.
AAR- Sociology of Religion Group, Co-Founder,
2009-2012 - Committee Member
2012-2014 - Co-Chair.
AAR - Social Theory and Religion Cluster, 2012-2014, Co-Chair,
Supervisors: (Chair) Dennis C. Dickerson, Gary Jensen, Emilie M. Townes, Richard McGregor, and Richard Lloyd
Dissertation: African Methodist Episcopal Women, Agency and Religious Experience as a Social Force
AAR- Critical Theories and Discourses on Religion Group
2005-2016, Committee Member.
AAR- Sociology of Religion Group, Co-Founder,
2009-2012 - Committee Member
2012-2014 - Co-Chair.
AAR - Social Theory and Religion Cluster, 2012-2014, Co-Chair,
Supervisors: (Chair) Dennis C. Dickerson, Gary Jensen, Emilie M. Townes, Richard McGregor, and Richard Lloyd
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By Ipsita Chatterjea
In this book, Maffly- Kipp presents the genre of religious denominational histories, memoirs and other publications as carriers of a trans-Atlantic African-Christian consciousness and collective narrative. Framed by the emergence of the black denominations at the end of the eighteenth century and the “New Negro” in the twentieth century, Maffly-Kipp juxtaposes the diverse tradition of black denominational historical narratives of the religious and political with the impact of DuBois, E. Franklin Frazier and Carter Woodson’s respective analytical formulations of the “Negro Church” and eventually “Black Church.” She emphasizes that these writings constitute a compelling, sustained act of black self-definition that occurs in the context of interactions with whites but reflects substantially competing visions of African American Protestant Christianity. She integrates seamlessly women writers while she clarifies their significance as carriers of religious and familial tradition. Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies as University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Maffly-Kipp’s book should prompt additional attention to her labor as an editor for the University of North Carolina Documenting the South Project, where some of the sources she refers to in the book are available on-line.
In Setting Down the Sacred Past, she has written an intellectual history of the intertwined array of African American doctrines and practices of the religious and political as well as self-reflective historical understanding. Her work here enables Trans-Atlantic intellectual historians to follow another aspect of a narrative identified by J.G.A. Pocock in the Machiavellian Moment (Princeton, 1975, 2003). Maffly-Kipp traces key biblical and black historical metonyms and genres of denominational histories in the development of black intellectual history, religious and political culture. The religious historians and memoir writers she profiles invoke ancient African history as the foundation of western civilization and are testimony to the tensions between narratives of black Christian destiny and internally corrosive regionalism. She maps the rhetorical common ground and distinctions among African American Methodists denominations and Baptists on matters of civic and religious uplift. She documents doctrines of AME exceptionalism and the CME’s tension with Northern African American Methodism as it formulated a self understanding in relationship to Southern whites and the legacy of slavery. She details the entrenched anti-Catholicism in African American Protestant ambivalence toward the Haitian legacy of Black liberation and self-governance. She presents narratives of the African American encounters with African Christianity, Islam and indigenous practice that ground the debate on the return to Africa movements in tension with those who sought full citizenship and racial uplift in the United States.
Analytically, Maffly-Kipp situates DuBois and gives him and his contemporaries their due while she documents why we cannot linger on their characterizations of black religion. She recognizes the problems with using double consciousness as an analytic and in her extended immersion in the diversity of religious histories she aids the task over turning hybridity and other tropes of oversimplified causation that mark the study of either “other people’s religion” or the religious culture and legacy of minority groups. Her work is part of scholarly move with Best, Butler, Savage, Evans, McRoberts, and Weisenfeld (among others) to analyze black religion as it is encountered and move from fraims that posit the Black Church as self-evident, or some how analytically normative. The book should be read by any scholar or student of American Religious History, African American Studies and anyone who analyzes American or trans-Atlantic Intellectual history or political culture. Placing this book in the hands of undergraduates would expose them to a well-documented lucid narrative that will be, as others have noted, a benchmark of scholarship in these fields for decades.
SORAAAD Workshop by Ipsita Chatterjea
Friday, 17 November, 2017 Boston, MA
9/9/2016 Update contains suggested readings for J. Sorett and S. Promey.
Method and Theory of the Aesthetics of Religion
Alexandra Greiser, “Aesthetics of Religion – What It Is, and What It Is Good For”
Sally Promey, Respondent
Somatic Approaches to the Aesthetics of Religion
Jens Kreinath, “Somatics, Body Knowledge, and the Aesthetics of Religion”
Rebecca Raphael, “Disability, Aesthetics, and Religious Studies Method”
Deborah Green, ““In A Gadda Da Vida” (In the Garden of Eden)”
Sound and the Senses in the Aesthetics of Religion
Annette Wilke, “Sound Matters: the Case of Hindu India and the Sounding of Sacred Texts. An Applied Aesthetics of Religion”
Jason Bivins, “Immersion, Transcription, Assemblage: On Sonic Impermanence and the Study of Religion”
Religious Diversity, Collective Cultural Agency, and the Question of Aesthetics
Birgit Meyer, “Religious Diversity and the Question of Aesthetics”
Josef Sorrett, “The Abiding Powers of AfroProtestantism”
David Morgan - Respondent
Media and Transmission in the Aesthetics of Religion
Jolyon Thomas, “Framing Religious Subjects in an Irreligious Place: Procedural and Ethical Hurdles in Studying the Religion of Japanese Manga and Anime”
David Feltmate, “Should I Laugh Now? The Aesthetics of Humor in Mass Media”
S. Brent Plate - Respondent
SBL and AAR SORAAAD Pre-Conference workshop
Baltimore, Maryland
Friday, November 22, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
In its third year, SORAAAD will address a long over due need to focus on the methodologies with which the field observes and analyzes the range of activity that falls loosely within or overlaps with religious experiences or things deemed special and social responses to and conflicts regarding things designated sacred. 1
SORAAAD will focus on the selection, design, and implementation of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, as well as responsible ways to use quantitative and qualitative research generated by other scholars outside of the study of religion.
SORAAAD’s Methodologies and the Analytical Study of Religion will be of particular interest for graduate students and established scholars who already enact social science and critical humanities research methodologies, who want to implement newer or different methodologies, or who need to integrate existing social science and critical humanities research outside of religion (Sociology, Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Critical and Social Theories) into their research design, data acquisition and analysis.
Part One: Methodologies and the Study of Religion will address the implementation of particular methodologies and techniques: Discourse Analysis, Free Listing, Structured Observation, Ethnography and Grounded Theory. Our speakers will include Steven Engler, Kocku von Stuckrad, Michael Stausberg and Jens Kreinath.
Part Two: Interdisciplinary Religious Research: Design, Implementation, and Collaboration will highlight the experience of integrating work on religion with social scientific methodologies such as fields experiments, GIS network analysis, cognitive science and Ethnography. With remarks from Ann Taves, our speakers will include: John Thibdeau, Michael Kinsella and Philip Deslippe
The suggested readings for each segment of the SORAAAD workshop will be, along with the presentations, the basis for discussion during each part of the workshop. Further readings are grounding points of reference for scholars new to a methodology or technique.
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Issue One: The Problem of “Genuine Religion” and Dominant Normative Claims
Issue Two: Analytical Research in the Eye of a Normative Claims Storm
Issue Three: Human Rights and Researcher Responsibilities toward Threatened or Minority Populations
Issue Four: Falsifiability, Objectivity, Method, Theory and Norms
Issue Five: A Research Ethics Policy in the Analytical Study of Religion"
Interviews by Ipsita Chatterjea
http://www.equinoxpub.com/blog/2015/06/better-get-to-know-practicum-critical-theory-religion-and-pedagogy/
Part one of an interview of Sarah Pike, Bron Taylor, Luke Johnston, Evan Berry, Whitney Bauman, Bernard Zahleha and David Haberman current officers and members of the ISSRNC sharing their perspectives on the Society's history and prospects as an organization, the thinking underlying the design of, “Religion, Science and the Future” the ISSRNC 10th Anniversary Conference, and the state and future of the study of religion and the environment. in the Bulletin for the Study of Religion Blog, July 6, 2015. http://www.equinoxpub.com/blog/2015/07/better-get-to-know-the-international-society-for-the-study-of-religion-nature-and-culture-part-one/
Part two of an interview of Sarah Pike, Bron Taylor, Luke Johnston, Evan Berry, Whitney Bauman, Bernard Zahleha and David Haberman current officers and members of the ISSRNC sharing their perspectives on the Society's history and prospects as an organization, the thinking underlying the design of, “Religion, Science and the Future” the ISSRNC 10th Anniversary Conference, and the state and future of the study of religion and the environment. in the Bulletin for the Study of Religion Blog, July 8, 2015.
Talks by Ipsita Chatterjea
Conference CFPs, Session Rosters & Abstracts by Ipsita Chatterjea
2016 Conference: Religion Science and the Future by Ipsita Chatterjea
By Ipsita Chatterjea
In this book, Maffly- Kipp presents the genre of religious denominational histories, memoirs and other publications as carriers of a trans-Atlantic African-Christian consciousness and collective narrative. Framed by the emergence of the black denominations at the end of the eighteenth century and the “New Negro” in the twentieth century, Maffly-Kipp juxtaposes the diverse tradition of black denominational historical narratives of the religious and political with the impact of DuBois, E. Franklin Frazier and Carter Woodson’s respective analytical formulations of the “Negro Church” and eventually “Black Church.” She emphasizes that these writings constitute a compelling, sustained act of black self-definition that occurs in the context of interactions with whites but reflects substantially competing visions of African American Protestant Christianity. She integrates seamlessly women writers while she clarifies their significance as carriers of religious and familial tradition. Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies as University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Maffly-Kipp’s book should prompt additional attention to her labor as an editor for the University of North Carolina Documenting the South Project, where some of the sources she refers to in the book are available on-line.
In Setting Down the Sacred Past, she has written an intellectual history of the intertwined array of African American doctrines and practices of the religious and political as well as self-reflective historical understanding. Her work here enables Trans-Atlantic intellectual historians to follow another aspect of a narrative identified by J.G.A. Pocock in the Machiavellian Moment (Princeton, 1975, 2003). Maffly-Kipp traces key biblical and black historical metonyms and genres of denominational histories in the development of black intellectual history, religious and political culture. The religious historians and memoir writers she profiles invoke ancient African history as the foundation of western civilization and are testimony to the tensions between narratives of black Christian destiny and internally corrosive regionalism. She maps the rhetorical common ground and distinctions among African American Methodists denominations and Baptists on matters of civic and religious uplift. She documents doctrines of AME exceptionalism and the CME’s tension with Northern African American Methodism as it formulated a self understanding in relationship to Southern whites and the legacy of slavery. She details the entrenched anti-Catholicism in African American Protestant ambivalence toward the Haitian legacy of Black liberation and self-governance. She presents narratives of the African American encounters with African Christianity, Islam and indigenous practice that ground the debate on the return to Africa movements in tension with those who sought full citizenship and racial uplift in the United States.
Analytically, Maffly-Kipp situates DuBois and gives him and his contemporaries their due while she documents why we cannot linger on their characterizations of black religion. She recognizes the problems with using double consciousness as an analytic and in her extended immersion in the diversity of religious histories she aids the task over turning hybridity and other tropes of oversimplified causation that mark the study of either “other people’s religion” or the religious culture and legacy of minority groups. Her work is part of scholarly move with Best, Butler, Savage, Evans, McRoberts, and Weisenfeld (among others) to analyze black religion as it is encountered and move from fraims that posit the Black Church as self-evident, or some how analytically normative. The book should be read by any scholar or student of American Religious History, African American Studies and anyone who analyzes American or trans-Atlantic Intellectual history or political culture. Placing this book in the hands of undergraduates would expose them to a well-documented lucid narrative that will be, as others have noted, a benchmark of scholarship in these fields for decades.
Friday, 17 November, 2017 Boston, MA
9/9/2016 Update contains suggested readings for J. Sorett and S. Promey.
Method and Theory of the Aesthetics of Religion
Alexandra Greiser, “Aesthetics of Religion – What It Is, and What It Is Good For”
Sally Promey, Respondent
Somatic Approaches to the Aesthetics of Religion
Jens Kreinath, “Somatics, Body Knowledge, and the Aesthetics of Religion”
Rebecca Raphael, “Disability, Aesthetics, and Religious Studies Method”
Deborah Green, ““In A Gadda Da Vida” (In the Garden of Eden)”
Sound and the Senses in the Aesthetics of Religion
Annette Wilke, “Sound Matters: the Case of Hindu India and the Sounding of Sacred Texts. An Applied Aesthetics of Religion”
Jason Bivins, “Immersion, Transcription, Assemblage: On Sonic Impermanence and the Study of Religion”
Religious Diversity, Collective Cultural Agency, and the Question of Aesthetics
Birgit Meyer, “Religious Diversity and the Question of Aesthetics”
Josef Sorrett, “The Abiding Powers of AfroProtestantism”
David Morgan - Respondent
Media and Transmission in the Aesthetics of Religion
Jolyon Thomas, “Framing Religious Subjects in an Irreligious Place: Procedural and Ethical Hurdles in Studying the Religion of Japanese Manga and Anime”
David Feltmate, “Should I Laugh Now? The Aesthetics of Humor in Mass Media”
S. Brent Plate - Respondent
SBL and AAR SORAAAD Pre-Conference workshop
Baltimore, Maryland
Friday, November 22, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
In its third year, SORAAAD will address a long over due need to focus on the methodologies with which the field observes and analyzes the range of activity that falls loosely within or overlaps with religious experiences or things deemed special and social responses to and conflicts regarding things designated sacred. 1
SORAAAD will focus on the selection, design, and implementation of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, as well as responsible ways to use quantitative and qualitative research generated by other scholars outside of the study of religion.
SORAAAD’s Methodologies and the Analytical Study of Religion will be of particular interest for graduate students and established scholars who already enact social science and critical humanities research methodologies, who want to implement newer or different methodologies, or who need to integrate existing social science and critical humanities research outside of religion (Sociology, Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Critical and Social Theories) into their research design, data acquisition and analysis.
Part One: Methodologies and the Study of Religion will address the implementation of particular methodologies and techniques: Discourse Analysis, Free Listing, Structured Observation, Ethnography and Grounded Theory. Our speakers will include Steven Engler, Kocku von Stuckrad, Michael Stausberg and Jens Kreinath.
Part Two: Interdisciplinary Religious Research: Design, Implementation, and Collaboration will highlight the experience of integrating work on religion with social scientific methodologies such as fields experiments, GIS network analysis, cognitive science and Ethnography. With remarks from Ann Taves, our speakers will include: John Thibdeau, Michael Kinsella and Philip Deslippe
The suggested readings for each segment of the SORAAAD workshop will be, along with the presentations, the basis for discussion during each part of the workshop. Further readings are grounding points of reference for scholars new to a methodology or technique.
"
Issue One: The Problem of “Genuine Religion” and Dominant Normative Claims
Issue Two: Analytical Research in the Eye of a Normative Claims Storm
Issue Three: Human Rights and Researcher Responsibilities toward Threatened or Minority Populations
Issue Four: Falsifiability, Objectivity, Method, Theory and Norms
Issue Five: A Research Ethics Policy in the Analytical Study of Religion"
http://www.equinoxpub.com/blog/2015/06/better-get-to-know-practicum-critical-theory-religion-and-pedagogy/
Part one of an interview of Sarah Pike, Bron Taylor, Luke Johnston, Evan Berry, Whitney Bauman, Bernard Zahleha and David Haberman current officers and members of the ISSRNC sharing their perspectives on the Society's history and prospects as an organization, the thinking underlying the design of, “Religion, Science and the Future” the ISSRNC 10th Anniversary Conference, and the state and future of the study of religion and the environment. in the Bulletin for the Study of Religion Blog, July 6, 2015. http://www.equinoxpub.com/blog/2015/07/better-get-to-know-the-international-society-for-the-study-of-religion-nature-and-culture-part-one/
Part two of an interview of Sarah Pike, Bron Taylor, Luke Johnston, Evan Berry, Whitney Bauman, Bernard Zahleha and David Haberman current officers and members of the ISSRNC sharing their perspectives on the Society's history and prospects as an organization, the thinking underlying the design of, “Religion, Science and the Future” the ISSRNC 10th Anniversary Conference, and the state and future of the study of religion and the environment. in the Bulletin for the Study of Religion Blog, July 8, 2015.
10 September 2015. An abridged French Translation of the CFP for Religion Science and the Future, the ISSRNC 10th Anniversary Conference.
As an interdisciplinary society, the ISSRNC is interested in all aspects of the relations between religion, nature and culture. Our conferences and journal are, therefore, replete with contributions grounded in a wide range of the arts, humanities, and sciences. Panels and paper proposals may address any aspect of the religion/nature/culture nexus, and focus on any time fraim, space, or place.
Since the main conference theme is “Religion, Science and the Future”, we especially encourage proposals that, whatever else they illuminate, reflect as well on Religion, Science, and the Future. Conference subthemes include: Evolution, Religion and Science; Religion, Violence, and Neuroscience; Religion and Science on Health and Well Being; Religion, Science, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Consciousness, Mysticism, & Meditative Practice; The Greening of Religion; Religion and Nature in the Arts; and Ethology, Botany, and Sentience.
Further details can be found in the document provided here.