LECTURE- Maria Elizabeth Louw, SRC, AUCA, April 25, 2007
Posted by: Social Research Center <src@mail.auca.kg>
LECTURE: "When the Divine Takes Place: Experiences of the Divine in
Bukhara and Bishkek", Maria Elizabeth Louw, SRC, AUCA, Bishkek, April 25, 2007
Social Research Center at AUCA (www.src.auca.kg) presents:
LECTURE: "When the Divine Takes Place: Experiences of the Divine in
Bukhara and Bishkek"
Presenter: Maria Elisabeth Louw, PhD in Anthropology and Ethnography,
Aarhus University, Denmark, SRC Visiting Research Fellow, AUCA
Date and time: 17:00-18:00, Wed., April 25, 2007
Venue: Room 232, Main Building, AUCA
Language: English. If requested, translation will be provided
Synopsis: The veneration of sacred places has often been identified as
the most important aspect of popular Islam in Central Asia. Even more
importantly, however, may be those points in time and space where the
Divine breaks through in people's life worlds. In other words, where
the Divine takes place. People frequently experience glimpses of the
Divine in what might appear to the spectator as insignificant
phenomena and occurrences and strive to make them socially significant.
Maria Louw will talk about her research on sacred places and
experiences of the Divine in Central Asia, drawing in particular on
her former research in Bukhara, while also including reflections on
her current fieldwork in Bishkek.
Bio: Maria Elisabeth Louw holds a PhD from the Department of
Anthropology and Ethnography, Aarhus University, Denmark, and is
currently postdoctoral fellow in the same University. She is also a
Visiting Research Fellow at Social Research Center, AUCA. Maria Louw
has done extensive fieldwork in Central Asia, focusing in particular
on everyday religion, morality and politics in the context of
post-Soviet social change. Her current project, which is based on
anthropological fieldwork in Bishkek, focuses on the relationship
between the religious, the secular and the esoteric in everyday life
in modern Kyrgyzstan. This project is being supported by the Danish
Research Council for the Humanities, the Danish Council for Strategic
Research and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik's Foundation.
This lecture is arranged by Social Research Center at AUCA through
funding provided by the US Embassy in the Kyrgyz Republic.
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