Scott Atran: Studying Religion in NYC Revisited

When

February 19, 2014    
12:30 pm

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Committee for the Study of Religion
365 5th Ave. Room 5307, New York, NY

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Scott Atran, chair, Studying Religion in NYC Revisited

Last October the Committee for the Study of Religion hosted an event to explore interdisciplinary questions in the contemporary study of religion, and also to encourage more collaboration in the New York area. As preparation we read Christian Smith et al: Roundtable on the Sociology of Religion: Twenty-Three Theses on the Status of Religion in American Sociology—A Mellon Working-Group Reflection (available at above link). To widen the scope of the discussion, we have invited guest chair Scott Atran, an anthropologist, to reflect on the implication of these theses for other disciplines. We welcome all scholars of religion to come and contribute, and ask for help in publicising the event.

Scott Atran, an anthropologist, is Director of Research, ARTIS Research and Risk Modeling; Research Director in Anthropology at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France; Visiting Professor of Psychology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan; and Presidential Scholar in Sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York City. His include Talking to the Enemy; the Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science; In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion; and The Native Mind: Cognition and Culture in Human Knowledge of Nature (co-authored with Douglas Medin and forthcoming from Oxford University Press). In addition to his work on the roots of terrorism, Atran conducts on-going research in Guatemala, Mexico, and the U.S. on universal and culture-specific aspects of biological categorization and environmental reasoning and decision making funded by France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and by the U.S. National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.

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