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North American Association for the Study of Religion Categories Archives NAASR CFP 2025 Interlocutions II The ExtraOrdinary There is nothing more difficult to convey than reality in all its ordinariness. Pierre Bourdieu On Television 1998 Crisis is not exceptional to history or consciousness but a process embedded in the ordinary that unfolds in stories about navigating whats overwhelming. Lauren Berlant Cruel Optimism 2011 Last years NAASR program brought discourses in other academic fields to bear on the study of religion examining new directions for our field moving forward. The 2025 meeting will advance this interdisciplinary endeavor more specifically by hosting discussions aimed at exploring how in our scholarly methodologies and vocabularieswhether in our field or in otherswe draw distinctions between the ordinary and the extraordinary.