À propos de la conférence
Over the last few decades, Nepal’s Christian population has grown at an extraordinary rate, flourishing even in quite remote contexts such as the Sinja Valley, in the northwestern district of Jumla. The reasons why people are drawn towards Christianity are, foremost, existential, and are intimately related to the problematic situations they are confronted with in their lives. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in 2014-16 and 2019, in this presentation I explore the structural reasons that are leading a number of people in Sinja to seek a better life in Christianity, and, crucially, how conversion reorients their experience of personhood.
Zoom: https://uqam.zoom.us/j/82851455261 - ID de réunion : 828 5145 5261
À propos du conférencier : Samuele Poletti
Samuele Poletti, postdoctoral fellow, Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (LESC), Université Paris-Nanterre.
"In the Shadow of Death: an Existential Approach to Mortality in the Sinja Valley of Western Nepal" (2019)
