Colloque « Ritual Transformations of Consciousness », Yale Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, 15-17 mai 2023.

« This conference seeks to bring together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and (medico)-religious perspectives to foster dialogue on the aesthetic dimensions of these rituals. From the healing dance of the San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, to the Vodu and Orisha orders of the Black Atlantic; from the drums of affliction found throughout Bantu-speaking Africa, to being slain in the spirit in an African American church, ritual transformations of consciousness animate the Black sacred arts. Far from being ancillary to ritual practice, as the arts have so often been depicted, they are central to technologies of ritual transformation. How can a focus on the sensory domains of music, art, ritual and expressive culture more generally open up new perspectives in the study of African and African diasporic religion? »

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