I just found this offer for academic support, and now have a friend who's interested in assembling a team. She's an anthropologist who has worked in the U.S. & Britain, currently lives in the States, and is interested in, well, lots of Temple-y stuff.
Her focus: the intersection of views of the body/healthcare in spiritual/religious contexts in immigrant populations. Voodoo healing would fall under this category, but so might things as far afield as the transformative power of Santo Daime and traditional folk remedies/rituals from Northern Europe.
Here's the pitch:
http://www.researchresearch.com/jump.cfm/fop/EN/_/173451
Edit: there's a better link here, directly to the offer.
The Leverhulme Trust invites applications from teams of established researchers for its research programme grants.
Programmes should explore significant issues in the social sciences, in the humanities and, to a lesser extent, in the sciences. For the 2007 awards, research in the following areas is being invited: ceremony and ritual; the uses of higher education.
Proposals may be submitted by groups of senior researchers, or by existing research centres or teams with an established record of publication and scholarly achievement in relevant fields.
Requests for funding may range between £500,000 and £1.25 million for a maximum programme duration of five years.
Deadline: 4pm, 12 January 2007
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The kind of person who would be most useful to fill out the research team my friend's looking at would (1) have some kind of advanced degree/publication record in a pertinent field (religion, sociology, anthropology) and (2) be based in Britain, since it's a British foundation handing out the money.
Know anyone who'd be up for it? |
