CALL FOR PAPER: International Participants are invited to this conference.
Philippine Association for the Study of Culture, History and Religion A National Association of IAHR (International Association of History of Religions) under the auspices of the CIPSH , affiliated to the UNESCO
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT The nation-states’ narratives and social histories have always been monopolized by the epical tales of great men and heroes usually in records of combats among the powerful and in accounts of conquests of the weak by the strong. Meanwhile nation building and state formations are recounted as stories of industrial movements and of civilizations progressing towards modernity such that the national narratives and social histories are silent on alternatives streams of histories. Societies in the margins, the conquered peoples and communities who have remained traditional have no accounts of these histories, where memories of their own histories remain undocumented narratives. To reconstruct their histories, one has to excavate them from the side essays of colonial journals and travelogues and exhume from footnotes of world almanacs and atlases. The oral accounts and peoples’ anecdotal testimonies are however rich resources that are little explored. Oral traditions and histories from the ground are important resources complementing that of accounts of oft-sidelined accounts by intellectual movements and religious and cultural reformisms that are off-stream processes in societal progress through time. OBJECTIVES: There is need to capture the multiple-narratives and reconstruct myriad diversities of experiences in political and state formations by reclaiming the voices of the margins. This conference will highlight the following: 1. Accounts of inter-religious and cultural processes in social change by accessing historical resources from the alternative vantage of intellectual and religious movements; 2. Intellectual dialogue and active adherence to cross-cultural linking-back and in opening new modalities of cultural exchanges SUBTHEMES: - Political Reformism and Counter-Hegemony in Philippines - Local Histories and/of the Indigenous People - Religion, Histories of Religions and Religious Movements - Rituals, Symbolism and Indigenous Material Culture - Cross-borders, cross-cultural exchanges and Globalization Other papers are also welcomed covering the study of culture and religion in the region. Note: PASCHR is officially recognized as the National Association of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) .It operates under the policies and principles of the parent body International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), which seeks to promote the activities of all scholars and affiliates that contribute to the historical, social, and comparative study of religion. As such, the IAHR is the preeminent international forum for the critical, analytical and crosscultural study of religion, past and present. The IAHR is not a forum for confessional, apologetical, or other similar concerns.ʺ