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Religious Change

Speakers, 1986-1987

Fall 1986

September 18, 1986: Frank Salomon, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Paper Titles: "The Assault on the Andean Ancestors"

October 16, 1986: Ivan Karp, Smithsonian Institution
Paper Title: "Power and Capacity in Rituals of Possession"

November 13, 1986: Fred Donner, Oriental Institute, Chicago
Paper Title: "Early Islam"

December 11, 1986: David Gilmartin, North Carolina State University
Paper Title: "Religious Change and Islamic Politics"

Spring 1987

January 29, 1987: Judith Shapiro, Bryn Mawr College
Paper Title: "From Tupa' to The Land Without Evil: The Christianization of Tupi-guarani Cosmology"

February 26, 1987: Deborah Valenze
Paper Title: "Female Preaching, Popular Religion and the Rise of Liberalism in 19th Century Britain"

March 26, 1987: Ramon Gutierrez, University of California
Paper Title: "The Christianization of the Pueblo Indians"

April 23, 1987: Michele Gilbert, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: "Religious Change in Ghana"

May 15, 1987: Burton Stein, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Paper Title: "The Legacy of Thomas Munro: Colonialism and Biography in India"