HYBRID Book Presentation “Religion That Matters: Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala”by Fouad Gehad Marei (Lund University), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 6 June 2024, 5:00 pm CEST
The book engages with conceptual debates in the fields of Religious Studies, Material Religion, Anthropology of Religion, Media Studies, and Cultural and Heritage Studies. By examining how material things make the praesentia of the Sacred tangible, how they cultivate intimate relations between human and more-than-human beings, the book makes several propositions that push the frontiers of the social and anthropological
study of religion.

Register at:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrcuqgrDsuHtJwD9CbctpsgRI6YACpf5Xf#/registration

PRACTICES OF DEVOTION TO THE AHL-E BAIT
AT HOME AND IN DIASPORA:
MATERIALITY, RITUAL, AND THE DIGITAL SENSES
Tuesday, May 23 2023
9:00 am – 7:00 pm
A one-day workshop co-organized by
Michel Boivin (CNRS-CESAH) and Karen Ruffle (University of Toronto)
Campus Condorcet – Bâtiment de Recherche Sud
Room 0.015 – 5 cours des Humanités – 93300 Aubervilliers
https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2023/05/Ahl-e-bait.pdf

The Bektashi Shi’as of Michigan: Pluralism and Orthodoxy within Twelver Shi’ism

Project Associate Mohammad Sagha writes on the Bektashi Shi’a community based in Michigan, USA for the Visions Blog. He explores debates on orthodoxy and heterodoxy within Islam and the need to examine the diversity and pluralism within modern Shi’ism which is often overlooked in larger debates of Islam and the Muslim world.