Please Distribute: Call for Papers on Prayer, AAA 2009

[Anna I. Corwin]

*** Apologies for cross-posting ***

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Project of Prayer: The personal, social, and spiritual role of prayer.
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
Philadelphia Marriott, Philadelphia, December 2-6, 2009

Organizer: Anna I. Corwin (UCLA)
Inviting abstracts for a panel presentation on the topic of prayer  
including, but not limited to the following themes:

Language Ideologies surrounding Prayer (e.g. what does prayer do in  
different contexts?)
Prayer in the Medical Context (or Prayer and Healing)
Prayer as Performance / Ritual / Verbal Art
The Experiential and Psychological Aspects of Prayer
Prayer as Embodied Communication

Please send abstracts to aicorwin at ucla.edu by March 2, 2009

Anna I. Corwin
Linguistic Anthropology
UCLA
aicorwin at ucla.edu