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dr Anna Maćkowiak

dr Anna Maćkowiak

e-mail: anna.mackowiak@uj.edu.pl

Anna M. Maćkowiak is from Gdańsk and lives mostly in Kraków where she graduated from the study of religions. She completed her doctoral field research project concerning social actors of two Indonesian rituals. Earlier, she studied the Indonesian language at the University of Mataram, she was visiting the University of Vienna, and she was a beneficiary of the Jagiellonian Interdisciplinary PhD Programme. The internship at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University brought her to studying the relation between urbanity and religions. She is currently examining this topic in Polish cities within the research project led by Natalia Zawiejska (https://sway.office.com/PTFsykyNCFyiXeQb?ref=Link).

Main interest: Anthropology of religions, religious (in)tolerance, religious pluralism, religion and urbanity, spirituality and tourism, indigenous religion paradigm.

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A. M. Maćkowiak, N. Zawiejska (2022 in press). Religion and Biopolitics in the Time of Corona: The Catholic Feast of Corpus Christi in a Polish City. The Journal of Religion, Nature and Culture, 16(1).

A. M. Maćkowiak (2022). Conceptual Dilemmas from a Fieldwork in Indonesia: ‘Religious’ ‘Unity in Diversity’ at the Lingsar Temple Festival. Religion 52(1):86–101. doi: 10.1080/0048721X.2021.2011083.

A. M. Maćkowiak (2020). Gdzie się podziali to mebalunowie? Przewodnicy kultu pogrzebowego w indonezyjskiej Toradży (Where have all the to mebalun gone? Leaders of funeral services in Toraja, Indonesia). In: Czarownice, czarownicy, czary. Obrazy kulturowe, literackie, artystyczne, A. Anczyk (ed.). Kraków: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie.

A. M. Maćkowiak (2017). Religion and Spirituality in the Travel and Tourism Sector: A Study of Lonely Planet’s Indonesia and Thailand Guidebooks. Studia Religiologica, 50(4).

H. Grzymała-Moszczyńska, A. Anczyk, & A. M. Maćkowiak (2017). The Sacred Texts Experiment: Images of religious Others and their role in forming attitudes towards accepting Muslim refugees in Poland. Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny, 3(165).

 

2021–2023
Investigator of the National Science Centre’s OPUS 19 project (2020/37/B/HS1/02363), Religion and urbanity: Mapping and relating religious fields in contemporary Polish cities, PI Natalia Zawiejska, PhD.

2017–2021
Principal investigator of the National Science Centre’s PRELUDIUM 11 project (2016/21/N/HS3/00869), Constructing Meanings of Indonesian Religious Rituals: Funeral Ceremonies of Toraja and the Lingsar Temple Festival According to Tourists, Travellers, Hosts, and Tour Operators.