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Program Religion and Pluralities of Knowledge University of Groningen 11–15 May 2014

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Table of Contents Welcome

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Practicalities

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General information on Groningen

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Conference events

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Keynote lectures

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Conference rooms and maps

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Program at a glance

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Program of sessions

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Index of persons

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Welcome Welcome to the Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions! From modest beginnings thirteen years ago, the EASR annual conference has grown into a major event that now attracts several hundred participants. It has turned into an arena that truly reflects the diversity and the creativity of current academic studies of religion across the continent. The credit for this encouraging development goes first of all to you, the participants, who eagerly come here to share your research with colleagues, enthusiastically organise panels and keenly pursue opportunities for networking. These are exactly the purposes for which the conference, and the EASR itself, exist. The programme of this year’s conference testifies once again to the wide range and the vitality of religious studies in Europe as a discipline that remains committed to academic ideals of impartial intellectual inquiry, while being acutely aware of the relevance of its subject matter to the current concerns of society. On behalf of the EASR I also wish to thank our colleagues at the University of Groningen for their committed and hard work in organising the conference, and to congratulate them on a very exciting programme. I wish all participants a successful and inspiring conference! Einar Thomassen President of the EASR

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It is a great honour for the Dutch Association for the Study of Religion (NGG) to host the 2014 Annual Meeting of the EASR. Founded in 1947 on initiative of Gerardus van der Leeuw, professor of Phenomenology of Religions at the University of Groningen, the NGG was instrumental in the foundation of the International Association for the History of Religion (IAHR). In 1950, the Netherlands hosted the international congress in Amsterdam during which the IAHR was institutionally founded, with Gerardus van der Leeuw serving as the first president. This year’s conference is the first major international event for the study of religion in the Netherlands since the famous conference in 1950. The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen is proud to host this exciting event, also because the year th 2014 marks the 400 anniversary of the University of Groningen, as well as of the Faculty itself. I thank the University of Groningen for its generous support that has made this conference possible. I also thank the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences for its substantial financial support of our conference. On behalf of the NGG, I want to thank the organisation committee, the Scientific Advisory Board, the students, and all others who have worked hard to make this conference a success. I wish all delegates a stimulating conference and many good conversations! Kocku von Stuckrad President of the NGG and Conference Director

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Practicalities Tea and coffee breaks As mentioned in the program schedule, tea and coffee will be offered in the morning and afternoon breaks (10:30-11:00 and 15:00-15:30) in the Academia Lounge (see map on page 13).

Lunch During the lunch breaks on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, lunch will be served in the Spiegelzaal and Bruinszaal (see map on page 13).

Internet access The University of Groningen provides WiFi in all the university buildings, which can be accessed through the service of Eduroam. Eduroam is a secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community. This has to be issued in advance at your ‘home’ institution. If your own institution does not make use of Eduroam, we can provide a limited number of guest accounts to use in the university buildings; please see the registration desk for information. Complementary WiFi is also provided by many cafés and bars in the city center. In the main hall of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies you can make use of publicly accessible computers.

Social media and conference app Download our conference app, sponsored by De Gruyter, from the conference website at www.godsdienstwetenschap.nl. The app contains the complete program book, maps and other features. Updated information, as well as the Book of Abstracts (PDF), are provided on the conference website, too. You can also join the conversation on Twitter, using the hash tag #EASR14.

Public transport The Academy Building is located within walking distance from the central train station (10 to 15 minutes). For buses in Groningen, you can consult the website www.9292ov.nl for information about timetables. For trains to go to other cities, the website of the Dutch railway system provides you with timetables and ticket prices: www.ns.nl.

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General information on Groningen For all information: toerisme.groningen.nl/en

Museums Museums in Groningen include: The Groninger Museum The Groninger Museum is one of the best known in the Netherlands. With its versatile collection of art and antiquities and a series of innovative exhibitions in an international style, this museum appeals to a broad audience. Noordelijk Scheepvaartmuseum (Nautical Museum) Two historic fifteenth-century buildings at the Brugstraat, the Gothic house and the Canter house, together form the wonderful décor of the collection of the Northern Nautical Museum. The history of the shipbuilding industry and shipping from the Middle Ages in the northern part of the Netherlands until today are on display here, with various exhibitions on many themes from nautical history. Het Universiteitsmuseum (University Museum) Since 1934, the University Museum has been a scientific museum in the academic heart of the city of Groningen. The modern pavilion on the ground floor houses temporary exhibitions. Upstairs you will find the showcases with medical models, ethnographic objects, physical instruments and anatomical preparations. Het Nederlands Stripmuseum (Dutch Comic Strip Museum) Take the opportunity to meet your favourite comic heroes in the Dutch comic strip museum (Nederlands Stripmuseum Groningen): Eric the Viking, Suske en Wiske, Agent 327, Donald Duck and Ollie B. Bommel.

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Where to eat Flinders Café www.flinderscafe.nl/groningen Kruissingel 1, 9712 XN Groningen, 050 312 35 37 Restaurant Flinders, “Butterfly”, has landed in Groningen in a beautiful setting in the park. The kitchen uses products from local suppliers. At Flinders you eat good, healthy and organic food throughout the day. The classic dishes all come with a little twist. Kruissingel 1, 9712 XN Groningen, (050) 312 35 37 Opening hours: all days of the week: 11.00 – 23.00 h Cuisine: Organic Main course: € 10 - € 20 Land van Kokanje www.landvankokanje.nl Oude Boteringestraat 9, 9712GB Groningen, 059 318 06 22 Land van Kokanje is located on a minute walking distance from the Academy Building, and is a reliable classy place for lunch or dinner. Cuisine: International, with sufficient vegetarian options Main course: € 15 - € 25 Bla Bla www.bla-bla.nl Nieuwe Boteringestraat 9, Groningen, 050 313 20 88 Bla Bla is well known among vegetarians and vegans for offering the best food in town without fish or meat. In a small and cosy setting, dishes with local ingredients and vegetarian specialties are served, on two minutes walking from the city center. Cuisine: Vegetarian, Vegan Main course: € 18 - € 20 Cervantes www.viaromanica.nl/cervantes Gedempte Kattendiep 23, 9711 PL Groningen, 050 311 18 75 Cervantes is a real Spanish tapas-restaurant, offering menus from all Spanish regions. Cuisine: Tapas, Spanish Menu price: from € 22,00

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Osteria Da Vinci Turfsingel 33-1, 9712 KJ Groningen, 050 312 4044 The Italian restaurant Da Vinci is well known in Groningen for serving excellent Italian dishes. Cuisine: Italian Main course: € 10 - € 20 De Kleine Moghul www. moghul.nl Nieuwe Boteringestraat 62, 9712 PP Groningen, 050 31 88 905 De Kleine Moghul serves good Indian food, including an Indian thali, many curries and also many choices for vegetarians. Cuisine: Indian Main course: € 15 - € 25 De Uurwerker www.uurwerker.nl Uurwerkersgang 24/7. 9712EJ Groningen, 050 8200991 This restaurant offers breakfast, lunch, coffee, pizza in a spacious (work)environment. Cuisine: International Main course: € 5 - € 15 Boven Jan www.bovenjan.nl Hoogstraatje 3-5, 9711 LN Groningen, 050 311 0520 Boven Jan, located in a small side street from the main shopping street, is a classy place for quality food. Almost all food is 100% homemade, and ingredients are from local farmers around Groningen. The outside terrace offers good spots for sun catching. Cuisine: French, Dutch Main course: € 15 - € 25

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Conference events Reception by the University and City of Groningen On Sunday from 18:30-19:30, a reception is offered by the University of Groningen, the Municipality of Groningen and the Province of Groningen. This will take place in the Academy Building, with a welcome by the President of the University of Groningen, Prof. Dr. Sibrand Poppema.

Book exhibit The book exhibit is located in the Academy Lounge. The book exhibit will be open during conference hours and will close on Wednesday at 14:00.

Routledge reception On Monday from 18:45-20:15, Routledge welcomes you to join a reception in the Bruinszaal for the journal Religion.

Brill reception On Tuesday from 15:00-15:30, Brill will host a reception in the Bruinszaal.

Meet and eat The conference get-together will take place at the restaurant 't Feithhuis, Martinikerkhof 10, right behind the Martini Church. There will be ample opportunity for good conversation, food, drinks, and music. Please note that you have to register in advance for this event.

Sustainable Society Session The session presents the interdisciplinary research initiative "Diversity, Inclusion and Pluralism," which is part of the University of Groningen's focus area "Sustainable Society." After a brief introduction by the coordinator of the research group, Kocku von Stuckrad, Bron Taylor will give a keynote lecture on the concept of sustainability. Members of the Groningen research group will then briefly present their projects, after which there is time for discussion. The session will take place on Monday from 17:15-18:45 in the Aula.

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Keynote lectures Bruno Latour Professor at Sciences Po Paris, France Bruno Latour was trained first as a philosopher and then as anthropologist. From 1982 to 2006, he had been professor at the Centre de sociologie de l'Innovation at the Ecole nationale supérieure des mines in Paris and, for various periods, visiting professor at UCSD, at the London School of Economics and in the history of science department of Harvard University. He is now professor at Sciences Po Paris. After field studies in Africa and California he specialized in the analysis of scientists and engineers at work. In addition to work in philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology of science, he has worked in science policy and research management. "Beyond Belief: On the Forms of Knowledge Proper to Religious Beings" Because of the limited number of templates used to describe access to beings, adepts of many religions have been cornered in the 'Knowledge' versus 'Belief' predicament. Is it possible to redescribe the complex relation of adepts with their divinities by using a larger number of ontological templates? Does this pluralist interpretation open a public space different from the one invented in the past as a solution to religious wars? Bruno Latour will give a public lecture in the Nieuwe Kerk ("New Church") on Monday from 20:15-21:30. The Nieuwe Kerk is located at the Nieuwe Kerkhof, which is within walking distance from the Academy Building (10 minutes). If you turn left on the Oude Boteringestraat in the direction of the Faculty ThRS, continue straight on. After ten minutes you will find the Nieuwe Kerk at your right hand.

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Jörg Rüpke Professor of Comparative Study of Religion, University of Erfurt, Germany Doctorate and habilitation at the University of Tübingen; 1995-9 professor for Classical Philology (Latin) at the University of Potsdam; 1999-2008 professor of Comparative Religion at the University of Erfurt; 2008 interim president of the university; since Co-director of the Research Group “Religious Individualization in Historical Perspective” and Fellow in Religious Studies at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies. Member of the German Council of Science and Humanities. Books include: Domi militiae 1990; (ed.) A Companion to Roman Religion 2007 (end ed. 2009); The Religions of the Romans 2007; Fasti sacerdotum 2008; The Roman Calendar form Numa to Constantine 2011; Von Jupiter zu Christus 2011; Religion in Republican Rome: Rationalization and Ritual Change 2012; Religiöse Erinnerungskulturen 2012; Ancients and Moderns: Religion 2013. "The Historiographical Construction of Religious Traditions" Communicated memory and historical narrative offer powerful tools for selfreflection and formation of religious groups. By changing the perspective from 'representation' of religious traditions to 'construction,' the lecture inquires into contexts and strategies of the historiography of religion. It claims that even 'modern,' historicist historiography is far less critical with regard to emic narratives than it claims to be. The lecture concentrates on circum-Mediterranean traditions but raises questions and addresses consequences beyond these narrative strands.

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Birgit Meyer Professor of Religious Studies, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands

Birgit Meyer studied religious studies and pedagogy (for disabled children) at Bremen University and cultural anthropology (PhD in 1995) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Since September 2011 she is professor of religious studies at Utrecht University. She has conducted research on and published about colonial missions and local appropriations of Christianity, modernity and conversion, the rise of Pentecostalism in the context of neo-liberal capitalism, popular culture and video-films in Ghana, the relation between religion, media and identity, as well as on material religion and the place and role of religion in the st 21 century. She is vice-chair of the International African Institute (London), a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, and one of the editors of Material Religion. In 2010-2011 she was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg), Berlin; in 2011 she was awarded with an Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation which allows her to develop a project, in collaboration with the ZMO, on “Habitats and Habitus. Politics and Aesthetics of Religious World-Making.” "Visual Culture and the Study of Religion" An understanding of religion as a practice of mediation through which some kind of spiritual or divine presence is effected has great potential for opening up new methods and theories for a critical study of religion. Leading beyond the privileged medium of the text, this understanding approaches religion as a multi-media phenomenon that mobilizes the full sensorium. Particular attention will be drawn to religious images and sensory regimes. What is the role of authorized images in generating religious knowledge for their users? How do images sustain, and bring to life, religious imaginaries? And what are the implications of placing visual culture at the core of scholarly inquiry for the production of knowledge about religion?

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Carlo Ginzburg Professor of History of European Cultures, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy Carlo Ginzburg (1939) has taught at the University of Bologna, at UCLA and at the Scuola Normale of Pisa. His books, translated into more than twenty languages, include The Night Battles; The Cheese and the Worms; Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method; The Enigma of Piero della Francesca; History, Rhetoric, and Proof; The Judge and the Historian; Wooden Eyes; No Island is an Island; Threads and Traces. He received the Aby Warburg Prize (1992), the Humboldt-Forschungs Prize (2007) and the Balzan Prize for the History of Europe, 1400-1700 (2010). "Travelling in Spirit: from Friuli to Siberia" What is the relationship between local evidence and general interpretive categories? The paper will address this question through a self-reflective case study, involving the paper’s author and his work on Inquisition trials in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Friuli (1966). As the author retrospectively realized, his own encounter with the Friulian benandanti had been profoundly oriented by a wellknown work which he read much later: S.M. Shirokogoroff’s Psychomental Complex of the Tungus (1935). To what extent an interpretive category can travel beyond its original context? And to what extent the impact of Shirokogoroff’s work was shaped by one of his most remarkable readers – the Italian anthropologist Ernesto de Martino – who acted as a go-between? Are we allowed to speak of “indirect orientation” – and what does this notion imply? Can an analysis of reading (a complex and largely under-theorized activity) throw some light on larger social phenomena? The paper will try to answer those (and some related) questions.

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Conference rooms and maps The conference is held in the Academy Building, with a few sessions being scheduled at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies. The Faculty ThRS is located within a minute walking distance from the Academy Building, at Oude Boteringestraat 38. In the table below, all rooms are listed. The maps clarify where the rooms can be found in the respective buildings. Room Building Aula

Academy Building

Heymanszaal (abbreviation: A-Hey)

Academy Building

A2

Academy Building

A3

Academy Building

A7

Academy Building

A8

Academy Building

A12

Academy Building

F123

Faculty ThRS first floor

F125

Faculty ThRS first floor

Map Academy Building Stairs up to the Aula

To the Faculty ThRS

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Map Faculty ThRS Ground floor

Entrance

Stairs

First floor

Stairs

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Program at a glance Sunday, 11 May 9:00-12:00

Meeting of the Executive Committee of the EASR (only for EASR officers and delegates of the national associations affiliated to the EASR)

11:00-12:30

Registration (with coffee/tea at 12:00)

12:30-13:00 13:00-14:00

Opening of the conference by Kocku von Stuckrad, Conference Director and President of the NGG, and Einar Thomassen, President of the EASR Keynote lecture 1: Jörg Rüpke Chair: Anne Ingvild S. Gilhus (University of Bergen)

14:00-14:15

Break

Slot 1: 14:15-15:45

Religion, Rationalism and Science I Contested Privates in Public Debate: The Polarization of Homosexuality and Religion in Contemporary Discourses Defining Religion and Spirituality: Common Sense, Academic and Political Approaches I Relational Diversity: ‘Politics’ of Cohesion in Interfaith Activities I

Room A-Hey

Aula Aula

A-Hey A2 A3 A7

Islam and Social Contract I

A8

Nonreligious Worldviews I

A12

15:45-16:30

Coffee/Tea break

Lounge

Slot 2: 16:30-18:00

Frontier Zones and Pluralities of Knowledge (Roundtable)

Aula

Religion, Rationalism and Science II

A-Hey

Global Christianity and Local Dynamics

A2

Relational Diversity: ‘Politics’ of Cohesion in Interfaith Activities II

A7

Islam and Social Contract II

A8

Nonreligious Worldviews II

A12

Reception by the University and City of Groningen

Bruinszaal

18:30-19:30

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Monday, 12 May

Rooms

Slot 3: 9:00-10:30

A-Hey

Nations and Nonreligions I The Good Shepherd: Secularities, Religiosities and Subjectivities I The Matrix of Buddhist Capitalism in East Asia: Religious Agency, Social Dynamics, and Intellectual Practice Parables and Religious Knowledge I Glastonbury in Europe, Europe in Glastonbury: Pluralities of Issues, Methods, Perspectives I Aesthetics of Knowledge: Epistemologies for the Sensory Side of Religion I

A2 A3 A7 A8 A12

Contemporary Spirituality and Popular Culture I

F123

10:30-11:00

Coffee/Tea break

Lounge

Slot 4: 11:00-12:30

Nations and Nonreligions II

A-Hey

The Good Shepherd: Secularities, Religiosities and Subjectivities II Art, Fiction and Science as Basis for Religion: Cognitive Approaches to Religious Appropriation of Non-Religious Knowledge Parables and Religious Knowledge II Glastonbury in Europe, Europe in Glastonbury: Pluralities of Issues, Methods, Perspectives II Aesthetics of Knowledge: Epistemologies for the Sensory Side of Religion II

12:30-14:00 14:00-15:00 15:00-15:30

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A2 A3 A7 A8 A12

Contemporary Spirituality and Popular Culture II

F123

The Plurality of Shūkyō: Negotiating the Category ‘Religion’ in Japan

F125

Lunch

Spiegel

Keynote lecture 2: Birgit Meyer Chair: Anne Koch (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich) Coffee/Tea break

Aula Lounge

Slot 5: 15:30-17:00

Nations and Nonreligions III Re-thinking the Phenomenology of Religion in the Van der Leeuw Tradition for the Twenty-First Century The Good Shepherd: Secularities, Religiosities and Subjectivities III

Aula A-Hey A2

Parables and Religious Knowledge III

A3

Minorities and Politics of Minoritization I

A7

Aesthetics of Knowledge: Epistemologies for the Sensory Side of Religion III

A8

Religion as a Catalyst for Social Change

A12

17:00-17:15

Break

Slot 6: 17:15-18:45

Sustainable Society research unit 'Diversity, Inclusion and Pluralism’ Pluralities of Knowledge in and about New Religious Movements The Good Shepherd: Secularities, Religiosities and Subjectivities IV The Role of Vernacular and Folk Knowledge in Lived Religion

Aula A-Hey A2 A3

Minorities and Politics of Minoritization II

A7

Between Aesthetics and Local Knowledge: Aspects of the Connoisseurship of Theo van Baaren

A8

Religion and Psychology

A12

18:45-20:00

Reception sponsored by Routledge for the journal Religion

Bruinszaal

20:15-21:30

Public Lecture Bruno Latour

Nieuwe Kerk

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Tuesday, 13 May

Rooms

Slot 7: 9:00-10:30

Aula

Religion, Generation and Migration: Transmitting Religious Knowledge in Migrant Communities Articulating Complexity between the Islamic Creed and Muslim Actions I Viewpoints to the World: A New Perspective for the Study of Religions Discursive Study of Religion: Pluralities of Knowledge, Attributions of Meaning, and Social Reality I Connected with God: ‘Spiritual senses’, Knowledge and Christianity I Creating a Muslim Identity in Multi-Religious Societies: Discourses and Practice I

A-Hey A2 A3 A7 A8

Presentation Journal ‘Religion and Society’

A12

Sacralizing Art: Music, Texts and Materiality I

F123

10:30-11:00

Coffee/Tea break

Lounge

Slot 8: 11:00-12:30

Christianity in Africa: Response and Responsibility

Aula

Articulating Complexity between the Islamic Creed and Muslim Actions II Epistemologies and Esoteric Bodies: the Substance of Practice Discursive Study of Religion: Pluralities of Knowledge, Attributions of Meaning, and Social Reality II Connected with God: ‘Spiritual Senses’, Knowledge and Christianity II Creating a Muslim Identity in Multi-Religious Societies: Discourses and Practice II Century th

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A-Hey A2 A3 A7 A8

North-West European Christianity in the 16 -18

A12

Sacralizing Art: Music, Texts and Materiality II

F123

12:30-14:00

Lunch

Bruinszaal

14:00-15:00

Keynote lecture 3: Carlo Ginzburg Chair: Yme B. Kuiper (University of Groningen)

Aula

15:00-15:30

Brill Reception

Bruinszaal

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Slot 9: 15:30-17:00

Violence and Repression in Christianity: Discourses and Practices I Reports on Religious Education Issues from EASR Countries I Discursive Study of Religion: Pluralities of Knowledge, Attributions of Meaning, and Social Reality III Connected with God: ‘Spiritual senses’, Knowledge and Christianity III Pluralities of Knowledge in a Pluralistic Religious Landscape: Ministry, Statecraft and Academia in the Early Dutch Enlightenment

A2 A3 A7 A8

Islam and Modernity: Plurality and Politics I

A12

Historical Research on Rituals and Scriptures I

F123

Mediatized Religion

F125

17:00-17:15

Break

Slot 10: 17:15-18:45

Violence and Repression in Christianity: Discourses and Practices II Reports on Religious Education Issues from EASR Countries II

A-Hey A2

New Approaches to the Study of Religion and Peace

A3

Secularity, Non-Religion and Atheism

A7

Religious Authority and Knowledge Claims

A8

Islam and Modernity: Plurality and Politics II

A12

Historical Research on Rituals and Scriptures II

F123

th

19:00-23:00

A-Hey

Religious Interventions in Politics in the 20 Century

F125

Meet & Eat

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Wednesday, 14 May

Rooms

Slot 11: 9:00-10:30

Transformations of Religion Through Economic Knowledge I

Aula

Historiographies of Esoteric Movements in Europe

A-Hey

Round Table Session on “The Study of Religions and Religion in Secular Education” Transmit Even If You Know Only One Quranic Verse: Dynamics of Religious Knowledge Popularization in Contemporary Muslim Revival Movements I

A2 A3

Shi’ism and Authority: A Plurality of Stances I

A7

The Pre-Modern Educational Foundations of Christians, Muslims, Brahmins and Buddhists

A8

Religion on the Move: New Contexts and Territories I

A12

10:30-11:00

Coffee/Tea break

Lounge

Slot 12: 11:00-12:30

Transformations of Religion Through Economic Knowledge II Methodology and Historical Changes in the Study of Religion Japanese Religions: Academic Discourses and Philosophy Transmit Even If You Know Only One Quranic Verse: Dynamics of Religious Knowledge Popularization in Contemporary Muslim Revival Movements II

Aula A-Hey A2 A3

Shi’ism and Authority: A Plurality of Stances II

A7

Scientification: Institutions, Canons and Genres in the Early Study of Religion

A8

Religion on the Move: New Contexts and Territories II

A12

12:30-14:00

Lunch

Bruinszaal

14:00-15:00

Gerardus van der Leeuw Dissertation Award of the NGG, awarded to Egil Asprem for his thesis "The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900–1939." Respondents: Willem B. Drees, Hans G. Kippenberg, and Ann Taves

Aula

15:00-15:30

Coffee/Tea Break

Lounge

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Slot 13: 15:30-17:00

Researching the Material and Performance Cultures of Pilgrimage Understanding and Assessing the Contribution of Sir E.B. Tylor and Early Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion

Aula A-Hey

Mystical Epistemologies

A2

Pluralities of Islamic Eschatologies

A3

Transmission of Knowledge through Death Ritual

A7

Transformations of Buddhism in Europe

A8

17:00-17:15

Break

17:15-19:00

EASR General Assembly (for all members of the EASR)

Aula

19:00-19:30

Closing of the conference by Kocku von Stuckrad, Conference Director and President of the NGG, and Einar Thomassen, President of the EASR

Aula

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SUNDAY 11 MAY – SLOT 1

Program Sunday 11 May – Slot 1 - 14:15-15:45 A-Hey

Religion, Rationalism and Science I

Chair: Hartley Lachter (Muhlenberg College, USA) Sacralisation of Knowledge and Secularisation of Eschatology in Science Transhumanism Jan Motal (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) H. C. Ørsted’s Naturphilosophie: Scientific Work as Religious worship Tim Rudbøg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) The Scientization and Academization of Jainism Knut Aukland (University of Bergen, Norway) Nonreligion, Rationalism and Romance: Re-enchanting the ‘Scientific Age’ Lois Lee (University College London, UK) Contested Privates in Public Debate: The Polarization of Homosexuality and Religion in Contemporary Discourses Convenors: Ruard Ganzevoort (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands) and AnneMarie Korte (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) Chair: Anne-Marie Korte (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)

A2

'“We, in the Land of Anne Frank”: Sexuality, Secularism, and the Dutch Nation’ David Bos (VU University Amsterdam) “A Cancerous Tumour”: Conservative Religious Interventions in Debates on Homosexuality in Sweden Mariecke van den Berg (University of Twente and VU Amsterdam, Netherlands) The ‘Homophobic’ and the ‘Gay-Friendly’ Pope: Dutch Responses to Statements of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis I on Homosexuality Marco Derks (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)

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A3

Defining Religion and Spirituality: Common Sense, Academic and Political Approaches

Chair: Kim Knibbe (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Plural Knowledges in their Social Context: ‘Religion’ in Brazilian Religions Steven Engler (Mount Royal University, Canada) Managing Ambivalence and Unpredictability: Studying Religious Knowledge as Pragmatic Practice Milan Fujda (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) Beyond Belief: Religious Studies as Profane Pedagogy Jack Laughlin and Kornel Zathureczky (University of Sudbury, Canada) New Religiosity and the Law Essi Mäkelä (University of Helsinki, Finland)

A7

Relational Diversity: ‘Politics’ of Cohesion in Interfaith Activities I

Chair: to be announced Session I: Interfaith Governance: Objectives, Impact, Limits “Making sense of a complex world”: The Role of Interfaith Actors as Knowledge Brokers in the Governance of Religious Diversity Mar Griera (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) “If God had wanted there to be only one religion, he would have created only one”: Dealing with Religious Diversity in Local Urban Space Mehmet Kalender and Anna Ohrt (University of Hamburg, Germany) Interfaith Dialogue and the Resurgence, or otherwise, of Public Religion Mel Prideaux (University of Leeds, UK)

A8

Islam and Social Contract I

Convenor and chair: Ulrika Mårtensson (Norwegian University for Science and Technology)

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SUNDAY 11 MAY – SLOT 1 Session 1: Islamic Sources and Historical Cases Decoding Islam's Earliest Political Precedents: Parameters and Perceptions of a Civil Legacy Haifaa G. Khalafallah (Sinai Centre of Islamic Mediterranean Studies, UK) The Origins of Islam as a Reformed Social Contract Ulrika Mårtensson (NTNU-The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Social Contract and Religious Pluralism in a Juridical Commentary on the Qu’ran: Tafsîr al-Qurtubî (d. 1272) Géraldine Jenvrin (University of Nantes, France) Dar al-Harb as the Motherland? Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Islamic Social Contract Agata S. Nalborczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland) and Egdūnas Račius (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)

A12

Nonreligious worldviews I

Convenors: Carsten Ramsel (University of Bern, Switzerland) and Anja Kirsch (University of Basel, Switzerland) Chair: Anja Kirsch (University of Basel, Switzerland) Atheists/Atheism in an Evangelical Point of View Anja-Maria Bassimir (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany) Narrating “Worldview”: The Case of Socialist Textbooks and the Invention of a Nonreligious Tradition Anja Kirsch (University of Basel, Switzerland) Nonreligious “Worldviews”: Some Remarks on the Qualitative Study “Atheists in Switzerland” Carsten Ramsel (University of Bern, Switzerland)

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Sunday 11 May - Slot 2 - 16:30-18:00 Aula

Frontier Zones and Pluralities of Knowledge (Roundtable)

Session sponsored by the University of Utrecht. Convenor and Chair: Birgit Meyer (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Imperial Mediations: Empire and Productions of Knowledge about Religion David Chidester (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Imagined Frontiers and Knowledge Transfer: Two European Examples for the Epistemological Mobilisation of Colonial Contact Zones Ulrike Brunotte (Maastricht University, Netherlands) Immanent Africa Matthew Engelke (London School of Economics, UK) ‘Ritual’ in a Transcultural Context Axel Michaels (Heidelberg University, Germany)

A-Hey

Religion, Rationalism and Science II

Chair: Tim Rudbøg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) The ‘Feel’ of Reason: English Evangelicals and the Aesthetics of Rationality Anna Strhan (University of Kent, UK) Conspiracy Theories as Religion: Secular Salvations and Scientific Boundary Work Jarom Harambam (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands) Subverting Rational Knowledge: Shem Tov Ibn Shem Tov’s Kabbalistic Defense of Judaism Hartley Lachter (Muhlenberg College, USA)

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Global Christianity and Local Dynamics

Chair: Kim Knibbe (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Knowing How the World Works: Christianities and Cosmological Worldview in a Trinidadian Village Rebecca Lynch (University College London, UK) Religion and Respeto: The Role and Value of Respect in Social Relations in Rural Oaxaca Toomas Gross (University of Helsinki, Finland) Boundless Mission and Indispensable Localisation: Negotiating Places Between Transcendence and Locality – Observations from a Christian Missionary Training Hanna Rettig (University of Hildesheim, Germany)

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Relational Diversity: ‘Politics’ of Cohesion in Interfaith Activities II

Chair: to be announced Session II: Interfaith communication: modes, spaces, contexts Resisting Interfaith Ideology: A Case Study in Interfaith Dialogue on Religious Truth Christian Kästner (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany) Interreligious Dialogue in Times of Crisis Trine Anker and Marie von der Lippe (Bergen University, Norway) Between Enrichment and Dispute: Transreligious Encounter in Religion-Related Web Boards Anna Neumaier (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) Rooms of Quiet, Rooms of Rage? Diversity Governance in Multifaith Spaces Alexander-Kenneth Nagel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)

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Islam and Social Contract II

Convenor: Ulrika Mårtensson (Norwegian University for Science and Technology) Chair: Haifaa Khalafallah (Sinai Centre of Islamic Mediterranean Studies, UK) Session II: Contemporary Applications Offensive War and Social Contract Yahya Sabbaghchi (Sharif University, Iran) Natural Born Social Contractors? Thomas Hoffmann (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Jalâl al-Dîn Rûmî and the Divine Covenant: A Sufi Social Contract Reza Tabandeh (University of Exeter, UK) When the World is Flat: Islamic Universalism and Environmental Contracts Wardah al-Katiri (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

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Nonreligious worldviews II

Convenors: Carsten Ramsel (University of Bern, Switzerland) and Anja Kirsch (University of Basel, Switzerland) Chair: Carsten Ramsel (University of Bern, Switzerland) The Organization of Nonreligion in Germany Stefan Schröder (Bayreuth University, Germany) “To be or not to be, that is the question” - What Makes a Belief Religious? Claus Tirel (University of Bochum, Germany) Against All Gods? Diversity of Nonreligious “Worldviews” in German RE Textbooks Christina Wöstemeyer (University of Hannover, Germany)

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MONDAY 12 MAY – SLOT 3

Monday 12 May - Slot 3 - 9:00-10:30 A-Hey

Nations and Nonreligions – Roundtable discussion

Panel sponsored by the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network, and chaired by NSRN co-director, Lois Lee (University College London, UK) Roundtable discussion: Do categories such as ‘nonreligion’ and ‘secularity’ help or hinder empirical research? Discussants: James Cox, Matthew Engelke, Lois Lee, Anna Strhan and Teemu Taira

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The Good Shepherd: Secularities, Religiosities and Subjectivities I

Convenors: José Mapril (CRIA/FCSH-UNL, Portugal), Ruy Blanes (Bergen University, Norway, ICS-UL, Portugal) and Erin K. Wilson (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Chair: Erin K. Wilson (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Session I-II: Religious Subjectivities, Secularization and the State Nativism and Secularism: The Call to Prayer in the Netherlands Pooyan Arab (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Secular Policies of Heritage Protection and Notions of "Religion": Comparing Catholic Church and Afro Religions in Brazil Emerson Giumbelli (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Languages of Secularism and the Empire of Law: Towards Portuguese PostSecularity? Luís Bernardo (Humboldt-Universität, Germany) 'A Secular Religion Within an Atheist State: Relations of Mutual Encompassment Between Afro-Cuban Religiosity and Cuban Socialist Politics' Anastasios Panagiotopoulos (CRIA-Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Transformations in Argentinean Catholicism, from the Second Half of the XX Century to Pope Francis Gustavo Morello (Boston College, USA)

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MONDAY 12 MAY – SLOT 3 Pedagogical Propositions Beyond the Religious/Secular Divide: Subjectivities Formation in 20th Century Brazil Eduardo Dullo (University of São Paulo and CEBRAP at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Making ‘Sacred’ Space: The Role of ‘Religion’ and Religiously Inspired Actors in Humanitarian Aid Provision in the Context of Forced/Irregular Migration May Ngo (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) The Sacralization of Humanity: Subject Making in Global Humanitarianism Annette Jansen (Amsterdam VU University, Netherlands) Constructing Feminist Secular and Religious Subjectivities: Feminist Positionings vis-àvis ‘Religion’ in Belgium Nella van den Brandt (Ghent University, Belgium)

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The Matrix of Buddhist Capitalism in East Asia: Religious Agency, Social Dynamics, and Intellectual Practice

Convenors and chairs: Fabio Rambelli (University of California Santa Barbara, USA) and Stefania Travagnin (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Japanese Buddhism Confronts Capitalism: Sada Kaiseki’s Buddhist Economics Fabio Rambelli (University of California Santa Barbara, USA) Capitalist Buddhism in the Making of Japanese University Education: Isnoue Enryō and the Foundation of Tōyō University Kiri Paramore (Leiden University, Netherlands) Capitalism and the Merit Economy in the Shanghai Buddhist Books Company, 19291937 Gregory Scott (University of Edinburgh, UK) Chinese (Buddhist) Interpretations of Capitalism: Patterns of Resistance and Modalities of Conversion Stefania Travagnin (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

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Parables and Religious Knowledge I

This panel is part of an Interdisciplinary Research Project on Rabbinic and Christian Parables ‘Parables and the Partings of the Ways.’ The NWO project is located at Utrecht University and the School for Catholic Theology, Tilburg University. Convenors: Eric Ottenheijm (Utrecht University, Netherlands); Annette Merz (Utrecht University/FKT Tilburg University, Netherlands); Marcel Poorthuis (FKT Tilburg University, Netherlands) Chair: Eric Otternheijm (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Session I: Bible and Late Antiquity Which Type(s) of Knowledge do the Parables of Jesus Presuppose? Annette Merz (Universities of Tilburg and Utrecht, Netherlands) Expansive Parabolic Construction from Jesus to John and Luke Paul N. Anderson (George Fox University in Newberg, USA) Pragmatic Dimensions in Parable Research Andries G. van Aarde (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

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Glastonbury in Europe, Europe in Glastonbury: Pluralities of Issues, Methods, Perspectives I

Chair: Marion Bowman (Open University, UK) Invoking the Sacred Land: Indigenous Goddesses and the Politics of Belonging in Glastonbury and Europe Kavita Maya (SOAS, University of London, UK) Mere Stardust: Animism, Totemism, and Substantively Western Concepts in British Druidry Jonathan Woolley (University of Cambridge, UK) Music as a Form of Spiritual Knowledge in Contemporary Neo-Paganism in Glastonbury Isabel Laack (Harvard University, USA; University of Heidelberg, Germany)

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Aesthetics of Knowledge: Epistemologies for the Sensory Side of Religion I

Chair: Alexandra Grieser (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Stone Knowledge Mikael Aktor (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Teaching, Singing, and Visualizing bodyless knowledge in the Chinmaya Mission. Knowledge Production in Modern Advaita Vedanta Annette Wilke (University of Munster, Germany) Spirit Possession as Aesthetic Knowledge: Narrativity, Relationality and Embodiment Katharina Wilkens and Eva Winter (University of Munich, Germany)

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Contemporary Spirituality and Popular Culture I

Chair: Kim Knibbe (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Consumer Attitude toward Religion in Postindustrial Society: A Case of Female Spiritual Practices Grishaeva Ekaterina (Ural Federal University, Russia) Ethnographic Knowledge on Enchanted Moments Terhi Utriainen (University of Helsinki, Finland) How to Discern Religion from Entertainment, Especially in New Spiritualities? Frans Jespers (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

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Monday 12 May - Slot 4 - 11:00-12:30 A-Hey

Nations and Nonreligions – Case Studies from Europe II

Panel sponsored by the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network, and chaired by NSRN co-director, Lois Lee (University College London, UK). Selective Hostility Against ‘Religion’ in France Between Particular Politics and National Identity: The Freedom of or the freedom from ‘religion’ Christiane Königstedt (Leipzig University, Germany) Secular Liberalism in the Netherlands Cora Schuh (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) New Age Atheism in Estonia Atko Remmel (University of Tartu, Estonia)

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The Good Shepherd: Secularities, Religiosities and Subjectivities II

Convenors: José Mapril (CRIA/FCSH-UNL, Portugal), Ruy Blanes (Bergen University, Norway, ICS-UL, Portugal) and Erin K. Wilson (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Chair: Ruy Blanes (Bergen University, Norway, ICS-UL, Portugal) Session I-II: Religious Subjectivities, Secularization and the State Nativism and Secularism: The Call to Prayer in the Netherlands Pooyan Arab (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Secular Policies of Heritage Protection and Notions of "Religion": Comparing Catholic Church and Afro religions in Brazil Emerson Giumbelli (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Languages of Secularism and the Empire of Law: Towards Portuguese PostSecularity? Luís Bernardo (Humboldt-Universität, Germany)

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MONDAY 12 MAY – SLOT 4 Secular Religion Within an Atheist State: Relations of Mutual Encompassment Between Afro-Cuban Religiosity and Cuban Socialist Politics' Anastasios Panagiotopoulos (CRIA-Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Transformations in Argentinean Catholicism, from the Second Half of the XX Century to Pope Francis Gustavo Morello (Boston College, USA) Pedagogical Propositions Beyond the Religious/Secular Divide: Subjectivities Formation in 20th Century Brazil Eduardo Dullo (University of São Paulo and CEBRAP at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Making ‘Sacred’ Space: The Role of ‘Religion’ and Religiously Inspired Actors in Humanitarian Aid Provision in the Context of Forced/Irregular Migration May Ngo (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) The Sacralization of Humanity: Subject Making in Global Humanitarianism Annette Jansen (Amsterdam VU University, Netherlands) Constructing Feminist Secular and Religious Subjectivities: Feminist Positionings vis-àvis ‘Religion’ in Belgium Nella van den Brandt (Ghent University, Belgium)

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Art, Fiction and Science as Basis for Religion: Cognitive Approaches to Religious Appropriation of Non-Religious Knowledge

Convenors: Carole M. Cusack (University of Sydney, Australia), Egil Asprem (Norwegian University of Science and Technology / University of California at Santa Barbara, USA), Markus A. Davidsen (Leiden University, Netherlands) Chair: Ann Taves (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA) Schrödinger’s Cat is a Zombie: How Minimal Counter-Intuitiveness (MCI) Helps Us Explain the Epidemiology of Scientific Concepts in Religious Contexts Egil Asprem (Norwegian University of Science and Technology / University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)

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MONDAY 12 MAY – SLOT 4 Religion-Making and Art-Making: Identifying Convergences Between Cognitive Evolutionary and Social Constructionist Models of Human Evolution Carole M. Cusack (University of Sydney, Australia) How Religious Fiction Persuades: A Cognitive Approach Markus Altena Davidsen (Leiden University, Netherlands)

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Parables and Religious Knowledge II

This panel is part of an Interdisciplinary Research Project on Rabbinic and Christian Parables ‘Parables and the Partings of the Ways.’ The NWO project is located at Utrecht University and the School for Catholic Theology, Tilburg University. Convenors: Eric Ottenheijm (Utrecht University, Netherlands); Annette Merz (Utrecht University/FKT Tilburg University, Netherlands); Marcel Poorthuis (FKT Tilburg University, Netherlands) Chair: Annette Merz (Universities of Utrecht and Tilburg, Netherlands) Session II: Rabbinic literature and New Testament Meshalim in Rabbinic Literature: A Diachronic Approach Lieve Teugels (Amsterdam University, Netherlands) Meshalim in Leviticus Rabbah 4. Parables on an Unintentional Sinner Lorena Miralles Maciá (Universidad de Granada, Spain) The Parable: a Mirror of Contemporary Jewish Society? Marcel Poorthuis (University of Tilburg, Netherlands) Early Jewish Parables between Rhetoric and Exegesis Eric Ottenheijm (Utrecht University, Netherlands)

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Glastonbury in Europe, Europe in Glastonbury: Pluralities of Issues, Methods, Perspectives II

Chair: Marion Bowman (Open University, UK) Glastonbury and the English Catholic Imagination Richard Irvine (University of Cambridge, UK)

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MONDAY 12 MAY – SLOT 4 Pilgrimage and Pilgrim Hierarchies in Vernacular Discourse: Comparative Notes from Glastonbury and the Camino de Santiago Tiina Sepp (University of Tartu, Estonia) Glastonbury, Magical Midpoint Source of Authentication for Dutch Paganisms Hanneke Minkjan (Amsterdam VU University, Netherlands)

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Aesthetics of Knowledge: Epistemologies for the Sensory Side of Religion II

Chair: Sebastian Schüler (University of Leipzig, Germany) Body Knowledge in Between Cognitive Sciences and Cultural Studies Anne Koch (University of Munich, Germany) Aesthetics of Knowledge as a Double Perspective: Beauty as Medium and Message in Scientific Knowledge Alexandra Grieser (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Cultivation of Knowing: An Extrasensory Aesthetics Jay Johnston (University of Sydney, Australia)

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Contemporary Spirituality and Popular Culture II

Chair: Kim Knibbe (University of Groningen, Netherlands) "And not a word about the Goddess": Reflections on the Production of Religious Knowledge and of Processes of Making and Displaying a Pagan Identity, Mirrored by the Participation of Israeli Pagan Women in Israeli Women's Spirituality Festivals and Workshops Shai Feraro (Tel Aviv University, Israel) The Interaction of Narratives about “Vedic Wisdom” in the Space of One Festival, “Child of Nature” Irina Sadovina (University of Toronto, Canada, and University of Tartu, Estonia)

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MONDAY 12 MAY – SLOT 4 From the Secret Knowledge to Political Agenda: Case Study on Theosophy Anita Stasulane (Daugavpils University, Latvia)

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The Plurality of Shūkyō: Negotiating the Category ‘Religion’ in Japan

Chair: to be announced The Plurality of Shūkyō: Negotiating the Category ‘Religion’ in Japan Mark Teeuwen (University of Oslo, Norway) The GHQ Concept of ‘Religion’ and its Transformation among Shintoists in Early Postwar Japan Rosemarie Bernard (Waseda University, Japan) Discarding Religion, Reclaiming Religion: Competing Uses of a Concept Aike P. Rots (University of Oslo, Norway)

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Monday 12 May - Slot 5 - 15:30-17:00 Aula

Nations and Nonreligions – Case Studies from Europe III

Panel sponsored by the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network, and chaired by NSRN co-director, Lois Lee (University College London, UK). Varieties of Secularity: Atheism and Agnosticism in Austria Tatjana Schnell (University of Innsbruck, Austria) What is Religion? Pluralities of Knowledge Among ‘Secular’ Swedes Ann af Burén (Södertorn University, Sweden) Content Analysis of Interviews of Affiliated Non-Religious in Finland Janne Kontala (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) Equally Secular but Unequally Nonreligious: Profiling European and American Religiosity Lois Lee (University College London, UK)

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Re-thinking the Phenomenology of Religion in the van der Leeuw Tradition for the Twenty-First Century

Convenor and chair: James L. Cox (University of Edinburgh, UK) The Cognitive Science of Religion as a Re-expression of van der Leeuw’s Phenomenology of Religion James L. Cox (University of Edinburgh, UK) A Study on the Acceptance of G. van der Leeuw’s Phenomenology of Religion in Korea Shin Ahn (Pai Chai University, South Korea) The Neophenomenology of Jacques Waardenburg Anna Ksiazek (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

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The Good Shepherd: Secularities, religiosities and subjectivities III

Convenors: José Mapril (CRIA/FCSH-UNL, Portugal), Ruy Blanes (Bergen University, Norway, ICS-UL, Portugal) and Erin K. Wilson (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Chair: José Mapril (CRIA/FCSH-UNL, Portugal) Session 3 and 4: Secularisms and Islamic Subjectivities Islam, Subject and Collective Body in the City: The Tablighi Jama’at in Barcelona Guillermo Martín-Sáiz (University of Barcelona, Spain) “Embodying” Muslim Gender in Madrid: Muslim Youth’s Claims of Citizenship Recognition Virtudes Téllez Delgado (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) [Dis]Locating Fundamentalism: Space, Religion and Subjectivity Juan Caraballo (University of Puerto Rico) Religious Subjectivities in Post-secular Academia: The Case of Ismaili Institutions of Higher Education in London Mohammad Magout (University of Leipzig, Germany) The Making of New Muslim Subjectivities in the Gülen Community Science Schools: Religion, Science and Education Berna Zengin Arslan (Ozyegin University, Turkey) Regulation Through Recognition: The Institutionalisation of Islamic Theology at German Universities Anne Schönfeld (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

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Parables and Religious Knowledge III

This panel is part of an Interdisciplinary Research Project on Rabbinic and Christian Parables ‘Parables and the Partings of the Ways.’ The NWO project is located at Utrecht University and the School for Catholic Theology, Tilburg University. Convenors: Eric Ottenheijm (Utrecht University, Netherlands); Annette Merz (Utrecht University/FKT Tilburg University, Netherlands); Marcel Poorthuis (FKT

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MONDAY 12 MAY – SLOT 5 Tilburg University, Netherlands) Chair: Marcel Poorthuis (FKT Tilburg University, Netherlands) Session III: Contemporary Religions The Use of Parables in the Islamic Polemics against Darwinism Martin Riexinger (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark) Pluralities of Knowledge and Multiple Ways of Learning: The Transmission of Religious Knowledge Through Jaina and Buddhist Narratives Tillo Detige (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) The Religious Knowledge of Zambian ex-Satanists Johanneke Kroesbergen (Justo Mwale Theological University College, Zambia)

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Minorities and Politics of Minoritization I

Discussant: Yolande Jansen (Amsterdam University, Netherlands) Chair: to be announced Islam, Law, and the Globalization of the Minority Question Alexandre Caeiro (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar) Nationalism, Secularism, and Minority Politics in Turkey Markus Dressler (Bayreuth University, Germany) Identifying Muslim and Other Minorities in Contemporary France Frank Peter (University of Bern, Switzerland)

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Aesthetics of Knowledge: Epistemologies for the Sensory Side of Religion III

Chair: Anne Koch (University of Munich, Germany) Negotiating Art Historical and Religious Knowledge/Experience Through Home Collections in Chennai Maruška Svašek (Queens University, UK)

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MONDAY 12 MAY – SLOT 5 Fascination and Aesthetics: Considerations of Perception, Knowledge, Emotions and Sacred Design Hubert Mohr (University of Basel, Switzerland) Mysticism and the Senses: Tracing Religious History Marvin Döbler (University of Bremen, Germany) Emerging Evangelicals and the Aestheticization of Religious Know-How Sebastian Schüler, (University of Leipzig, Germany)

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Religion as a Catalyst for Social Change

Chair: Kim Knibbe (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Stories of transformation: Exploring Religious Experience and Social Change in Narratives on Channels of Hope Brenda Bartelink and Erin K. Wilson (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Role of Religion During a Political Regime Change: Religion From the Point of View of Burmese Political Activists Eva Lukášová (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) Ktnak Nawa: A Paradigm For a Culture of Peace Through The Lens of The Blaan Women Joan Christi S. Trocio (University of Santo Tomas, Philippines)

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Monday 12 May - Slot 6 - 17:15 -18:45 Aula

Sustainability in Interdisciplinary Perspective: Diversity, Inclusion and Pluralism

Chair and coordinator: Kocku von Stuckrad (University of Groningen, Netherlands) The session presents the interdisciplinary research initiative "Diversity, Inclusion and Pluralism," which is part of the University of Groningen's focus area "Sustainable Society." After a brief introduction by the coordinator of the research group, Bron Taylor will give a keynote lecture on the concept of sustainability, its ethical charging early on, the notion of 'sustainable development' and how many consider that an oxymoron, as well as on the way it has been entwined with 'religion.' Members of the Groningen research group will then briefly present their projects, after which there is time for discussion. "Diversity, Inclusion and Pluralism": Introduction (5 minutes) Kocku von Stuckrad (University of Groningen, Netherlands) The Concept of Sustainability in Critical Perspective (30 minutes) Bron Taylor (University of Florida, USA) Short presentations (5-8 minutes) of projects hosted at the University of Groningen: Sabine Otten - Integration and Inclusion at the Culturally Diverse Workplace Erin K. Wilson - The Politics of Christianity as Cultural Heritage Stefania Travagnin - Theorizing Religious Diversity in China Bettina van Hoven - The Role of 'Creative' and Participatory Methods in Engaging Marginalized Groups in Contemporary European Societies Open discussion (20 minutes)

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Pluralities of Knowledge in and about New Religious Movements

Convener: Michael Driedger (Brock University, Canada) Chair: Markus A. Davidsen (University of Leiden, Netherlands)

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MONDAY 12 MAY – SLOT 6 From Inquisitors’ Guides to Scholarly Handbooks: On the Connection between Heretic Manuals and Contemporary Research on New Religious Movements Michael Driedger (Brock University, Canada) Script of Conversions in the Literature of a Religious Organization: Jehovah’s Witnesses Tatiana Folieva (Volgograd State University, Russia) The Masters of the Ancient Wisdom: A Religious Studies Analysis of Knowledge about the Masters inside and outside the Theosophical Tradition Christian Uhrig (Universität Bayreuth, Germany) Re-emerging Religiosity: The Mainstreaming of New Spirituality in Estonia Marko Uibu (University of Tartu, Estonia)

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The Good Shepherd: Secularities, Religiosities and Subjectivities IV

Convenors: José Mapril (CRIA/FCSH-UNL, Portugal), Ruy Blanes (Bergen University, Norway, ICS-UL, Portugal) and Erin K. Wilson (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Chair: Ruy Blanes (Bergen University, Norway, ICS-UL, Portugal) Session 3 and 4: Secularisms and Islamic subjectivities Islam, Subject and Collective Body in the City: The Tablighi Jama’at in Barcelona Guillermo Martín-Sáiz (University of Barcelona, Spain) “Embodying” Muslim Gender in Madrid: Muslim Youth’s Claims of Citizenship Recognition Virtudes Téllez Delgado (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) [Dis]Locating Fundamentalism: Space, Religion and Subjectivity Juan Caraballo (University of Puerto Rico) Religious Subjectivities in Post-secular Academia: The Case of Ismaili Institutions of Higher Education in London Mohammad Magout (University of Leipzig, Germany)

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MONDAY 12 MAY – SLOT 6 The Making of New Muslim Subjectivities in the Gülen Community Science Schools: Religion, Science and Education Berna Zengin Arslan (Ozyegin University, Turkey) Regulation through Recognition: The Institutionalisation of Islamic theology at German Universities Anne Schönfeld (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

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The Role of Vernacular and Folk Knowledge in Lived Religion (Roundtable)

Proposers: Marion Bowman (Open University, UK) and Ulo Valk (University of Tartu, Estonia) Chair: Marion Bowman (Open University, UK) Vedic Wisdom and Self-Help Irina Sadovina (University of Tartu, Estonia) Materiality and Vernacular Religion Amy Whitehead (University of Wales TSD, UK) Feminist Folk, Christian Folk and Black Madonnas Melanie Landman Vernacular Religion and Interreligious Encounters Ruth Illman (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)

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Minorities and Politics of Minoritization II

Chair: Yolande Jansen (Amsterdam University, Netherlands) Ascetic Child Initiations Among the Jains: Defending Religious Freedom and Minority Rights in Western India Andrea Luithle-Hardenberg (Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen, Germany) Minoritization and Scapegoating of Hindus in Bangladesh Habibul Haque Khondker (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates)

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MONDAY 12 MAY – SLOT 6 Export or Glocalization? The Category of Religion and the Minoritisation of the World Joanildo Burity (Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Brasil)

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Between Aesthetics and Local Knowledge: Aspects of the Connoisseurship of Theo van Baaren: Poet, Visual Artist, Historian of Religion, and Collector of Non-Western Art

Convenors: Yme B. Kuiper (University of Groningen, Netherlands), Willem Hofstee (Leiden University, Netherlands) Chair: Alexandra Grieser (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Making Knowledge Public: Theo van Baaren as a Broker of Religious and Artistic Knowledge Wim Hofstee (Leiden University, Netherlands) From Dada to Korwar: The Riddles of Theo van Baaren’s Connoisseurship of ‘Primitive Art’ Yme B. Kuiper (University of Groningen, Netherlands) The Intangible Significance of the Collection Van Baaren Victorine Arnoldus (former director of the Ethnological Museum Gerardus van der Leeuw, Netherlands) Collecting Korwars and the Problem of Aesthetic Appreciation Karel Weener

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Religion and Psychology

Chair: Marjo Buitelaar (University of Groningen, Netherlands) What’s the Stuff Religious Experiences are made of? L.A. van Gulik (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Open Secrets, Hidden Gnosis: Telepathy, Unconscious Communication and the Sacralization Of Psychoanalysis Marsha Aileen Hewitt (University of Toronto, Canada)

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MONDAY 12 MAY – SLOT 6 Being (in-)different? Theory of Mind and Religious Coping in Autism Ingela Visuri (Gävle University College, Sweden)

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TUESDAY 13 MAY – SLOT 7

Tuesday 13 May - Slot 7 - 9:00 -10:30 Aula

Religion, Generation and Migration: Transmitting Religious Knowledge in Migrant Communities

Convenors: Sandhya Marla, Sabrina Weiss (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) Chair: Transmitting Religious Knowledge in Korean Christian Communities Sabrina Weiss (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) Tamil Hindus in Germany and the Pluralization of Religious Knowledge Sandhya Marla (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) Exploring the Multiple Meanings of ‘Generation’ in the Making of a Kenyan Pentecostal Community in London Leslie Fesenmyer (University of Oxford, UK) Dynamics and Continuities from First to Second Immigrant Generation on a Moral Order Map in Switzerland Martin Baumann (University of Lucerne, Switzerland)

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Articulating Complexity between the Islamic Creed and Muslim Actions I

Convenors: Susanne Olsson (Södertörn University, Sweden), Emin Poljarevic (University of Edinburgh, UK) Chair: Susanne Olsson (Södertörn University, Sweden) Apostasy, Classification and Hierarchies: The Need for a Critical Evaluation of Islamic Studies Göran Larsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Combating Innovation and Infidels: Changing Views on ‘Loyalty and Disavowal’ in Creed and Action Susanne Olsson (Södertörn University, Sweden)

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TUESDAY 13 MAY – SLOT 7 “Islamic Order”: Hasan al-Banna’s Hermeneutics and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Interpretation Ulrika Mårtensson (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

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Viewpoints to the World: A New Perspective for the Study of Religions

Convenors: Peter Nynäs and Mika Lassander (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) Chair: Peter Nynäs (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) Social Movements Theory and the Study of Religions Peter Nynäs (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) Comparing the Values of Conservative Christians and Secularists in Finland Mika Lassander (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) Testing the Transferrability of the Faith Q-Sort to Non-European Cultures Måns Broo (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)

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Discursive Study of Religion: Pluralities of Knowledge, Attributions of Meaning, and Social Reality I

This session is sponsored by the Endowed Chair for the Study of Religion, Department of Comparative Study of Religion, The University of Groningen. Convenors: Kocku von Stuckrad (University of Groningen, Netherlands) and Frans Wijsen (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Chair: Frans Wijsen (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) The Antipodes of Religion: Notes on the Discursive Constitution of “Religion“ and its “Other” Frank Neubert (University of Bern, Switzerland) Two Sides of the Same Coin? The Discursive Constitution of the Ambivalence of Religion Stephanie Garling (GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Germany)

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TUESDAY 13 MAY – SLOT 7 Ideology Critique and Religion: A Critical Approach to the Discursive Study of Religion Titus Hjelm (University College London, UK)

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Connected with God: ’Spiritual Senses’, Knowledge and Christianity I

Convenors: Minna Opas and Anna Haapalainen (University of Turku, Finland) Chair: Anna Haapalainen God is Me, not Me, and in Me: Indigenous Evangelical Views on Faith, Knowledge and Materiality Minna Opas (University of Turku, Finland) Connecting with Each Other to Connect with God: the Interplay of Emotional and Physical Intimacy in Evangelical Fighting Ministries Jessica Rivers (Indiana University, USA) Religious Knowledge Obtained by Corporal and Mental Training in Late Antique Syriac Christianity Alexandra Stellmacher (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

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Creating a Muslim Identity in Multi-Religious Societies: Discourses and Practice I

Chair: Marjo Buitelaar (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Modern Articulations of Pilgrimage to Mecca: Intergenerational Continuities & Differences Marjo Buitelaar (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Religious Identity within Pakistani Muslim Intermarriages in England Audrey C. Allas (University of Durham, UK) Certainty and Finality in Classical and Contemporary Muslim Discourses Angus Slater (Lancaster University, UK)

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Sacralizing Art: Music, Texts and Materiality I

Chair: Alexandra Grieser (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

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TUESDAY 13 MAY – SLOT 7 Religious Views on Life, Death and Afterlife Expressed in Music Martin J.M. Hoondert (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Individual Submission: Related to Objective on Poetic Forms of Knowledge Sharon Fish Mooney (Regis University and Indiana Wesleyan University, USA) The Plurality of Sacred Music Lieke Wijnia (Tilburg University, Netherlands)

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Tuesday 13 May - Slot 8 - 11:00 -12:30 Aula

Christianity in Africa: Response and Responsibility

Convenors and chairs: Ramon Sarró (University of Oxford, UK) and Rijk van Dijk (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) The Prophet, the Hero and the Responsibility of the Future Ramon Sarró (University of Oxford, UK) Religious Responsibilisation in Botswana Rijk van Dijk (Africa Study Centre and University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Dynamism Of Aladura Movement On The Development Of Christianity In South Western Nigeria Fabunmi Samuel Kehinde (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)

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Articulating Complexity between the Islamic Creed and Muslim Actions II

Convenors: Susanne Olsson (Södertörn University, Sweden), Emin Poljarevic (University of Edinburgh, UK) Chair: Emin Poljarevic (University of Edinburgh, UK) It there a Future for Islamic Politics? Exploring the Nexus of Theology and Political Practices Emin Poljarevic (University of Edinburgh, UK) The Double Scripture: Explaining Diversity and Conflict in Muslim Perceptions and Practices in Relation to the Qur’an Jonas Svensson (Linneaus University, Sweden)

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Epistemologies and Esoteric Bodies: the Substance of Practice

Convenors: Jay Johnston (University of Sydney, Australia) and Damon Zacharias Lycourinos (University of Edinburgh, UK) Chair: Jay Johnston (University of Sydney) The Self Invented: Religious Dreams and Embodied Subjectivity Elisabeth Kirtsoglou (Durham University, UK) ‘Vibrant Sacralities’: Religion, Esotericism, and New Materialist Onto-Epistemologies George Ioannides (University of Sydney, Australia) Conjured Bodies and Angels of the Moon: A Study of Grimoiric Magic and the Ritual Body Damon Zacharias Lycourinos (University of Edinburgh, UK)

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Discursive Study of Religion: Pluralities of Knowledge, Attributions of Meaning, and Social Reality II

This session is sponsored by the Endowed Chair for the Study of Religion, Department of Comparative Study of Religion, The University of Groningen. Convenors: Kocku von Stuckrad (University of Groningen, Netherlands) and Frans Wijsen (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Chair: Kocku von Stuckrad (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Doing Things with “Religion”: Discursive Approach for Studying the Category of “Religion” in the Organization of Social Practices Teemu Taira (University of Turku, Finland) Indonesian Mirrors: The Construction of Religion in the Dutch Integration Discourse Frans Wijsen (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) The Discursive Construction of Religion on the Field of Development Brenda Bartelink (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

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Connected with God: ’Spiritual Senses’, Knowledge and Christianity II

Convenors: Minna Opas and Anna Haapalainen (University of Turku, Finland) Chair: Teemu Mantsinen (University of Turku, Finland) ”It was like a spear of light that penetrated my heart, and then I knew Him”: ’Spiritual Senses’ and Knowledge in Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church Anna Haapalainen (University of Turku, Finland) ’Men as Trees Walking’: Jesus, the ‘Second Touch’, and Seeing People Clearly Jamie Barnes (University of Sussex, UK) The Taste of God: the Construction of Taste in Religious Food Prohibitions in Nineteenth-Century America Benjamin Lindquist (University of Chicago, USA)

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Creating a Muslim identity in multi-religious societies: discourses and practice II

Chair: Markus Dressler (Bayreuth University, Germany) Religious Pluralism in the Ismaili Muslim Religious Education Programme Laila Kadiwal (University of Sussex, UK) Muslim Feminist Engagements with Islamic Tradition: Some Reflections Mulki Al-Sharmani (University of Helsinki, Finland)

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North-West European Christianity in the 16 -18 Century

Chair: Mirjam de Baar (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Re-Educating the Sense of Hearing in Post-Reformation Geneva Anna Kvíčalová (Free University Berlin, Germany) Politics of Knowledge and Non-Knowledge: Radical Pietists Contesting Orthodoxy Elisa Heinämäki (University of Helsinki, Finland)

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Sacralizing Art: Music, Texts and Materiality II

Chair: Alexandra Grieser (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) A Case of Sacralization of Local Oral History Jaana Kouri (University of Turku, Finland) The Materiality of Religious Knowledge William Arfman (Tilburg University, Netherlands)

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Tuesday 13 May - Slot 9 - 15:30 -17:00 A-Hey

Violence and Repression in Christianity: Discourses and Practices I

Convenor: David Zbíral (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) Chair: Marco Pasi (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Theorizing the Repression of Religious Dissent in Medieval Europe: The State of Research and Its Prospects David Zbíral (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) The Legitimization of Violence in Christian discourses: The Case of Cistercian AntiHeretical Writing in the Period Before the Inquisition Stamatia Noutsou (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) Ritual Murder, Violence and Jewish Defence Cristiana Facchini (University of Bologna, Italy)

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Reports on Religious Education Issues from EASR Countries I

Chairs: Tim Jensen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) and Wanda Alberts (University of Hannover, Germany) New School Textbooks on Religious Cultures in Russia Marianna Shakhnovich (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) The Study of Religions in Bulgarian Universities Georgeta Nazarska (The State University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Bulgaria) Emerging Adults’ Views and Expectations on Religious Education in Pluralistic Latvia Anu Heinonen (Helsinki University, Finland)

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Discursive Study of Religion: Pluralities of Knowledge, Attributions of Meaning, and Social Reality III

This session is sponsored by the Endowed Chair for the Study of Religion, Department of Comparative Study of Religion, The University of Groningen. Conveners: Kocku von Stuckrad (University of Groningen, Netherlands) and Frans Wijsen (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Chair: Frans Wijsen (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Folk Church and Marketization in the Nordic Countries: Official Discourse and Practical Implementation Marcus Moberg (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) Academics as Religious Pioneers: The Impact of Academic Discourse on the Meaning and Practice of Religion and Spirituality in Twentieth-Century Europe Kocku von Stuckrad (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Open Discussion: Discursive Study of Religion—Perspectives for the Future

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Connected with God: ’Spiritual Senses’, Knowledge and Christianity III

Convenors: Minna Opas and Anna Haapalainen (University of Turku, Finland) Chair: Minna Opas (University of Turku, Finland) Managing One’s Spiritual Senses in Public: Traditional and Postmodern Experience in the Finnish Pentecostal Movement Teemu Mantsinen (University of Turku, Finland) The Knowledge of Departed Souls: A Chapter in the Eschatological Doctrine of Later Sixteenth-Century German Lutheran Theology Gábor Ittzés (Semmelweis University, Hungary) Knowledge as Restoration and the Inner Senses Tomas Mansikka (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)

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Pluralities of Knowledge in a Pluralistic Religious Landscape: Ministry, Statecraft and Academia in the Early Dutch Enlightenment

Convenor and chair: Jetze Touber (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) A Many-headed Monster? Knowledge and Perception of Islam in the Dutch Republic Wiep van Bunge (Erasmus University, Netherlands) Religious Plurality and Philosophies Around 1700 Henri Krop (Erasmus University, Netherlands) No Need to Choose: The Possibility of Endorsing Opposite Notions of True Religion in Romeyn de Hooghe’s Hieroglyphica (1735) Trudelien van ’t Hof (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Public Harmony, Individual Convictions: Historical and Political Theoretical Approaches of Religion in Dutch Chorographies Around 1700 Frank Daudeij (Erasmus University, Netherlands)

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Islam and Modernity: Plurality and Politics I

Chair: Frans Jespers (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Wiggling the Religion: The Combat with Non-traditional Religions and Religious Pluralism Petra Tlcimukova (Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic) Political Narrative of the Latvian Muslim Youth Janis Priede (University of Latvia, Latvia)

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Historical Research on Rituals and Scriptures I

Chair: Albertina Nugteren (Tilburg University, Netherlands) The Nameless Ones - Tacit Imaginative Knowledge and the Cult of the Matrons Heike Peter (Halmstad University, Sweden)

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TUESDAY 13 MAY – SLOT 9 The Activities in the Old Babylonian School: Inculcation of Ideology Through Ritual Behavior Therese Rodin (Uppsala University, Sweden) Zoroastrianism in Polemical Context: Prolegomena Mihaela Timus (Romanian Academy, Romania) Knowledge to Render a Man Impotent Jacqueline Borsje (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and University of Ulster, UK)

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Mediatized Religion

Chair: William Arfman (Tilburg University, Netherlands) New Forms of Knowledge Diffusion: The Use of Audiovisual Media in Mission Strategies of the Mormon Church Marie-Therese Mäder (University of Zurich, Switzerland) The Role, Effects, and Impact of Religious Symbolism in Successful Marketing Strategies Michael Ulrich (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Art Controversies in Finnish Media in the 2000s–2010s: Post-Durkheimian Approaches Jere Kyyrö (University of Turku, Finland)

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Tuesday 13 May - Slot 10 - 17:15 -18:45 A-Hey

Violence and Repression in Christianity: Discourses and Practices II

Convenor and chair: David Zbíral (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) The Craze for Martyrdom During the European Wars of Religion, Viewed Through Some Flemish Catholic Triptychs Produced from 1585 and Onwards Ellénita de Mol (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Contested Claims of Knowledge in 16th-century Witchcraft Discourse Ulrich Berner (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Viri Loquentes Perversa: Esoteric Assumptions in the Repression of Catholic Modernism Marco Pasi (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

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Reports on Religious Education Issues from EASR Countries II

Chairs: Tim Jensen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) and Wanda Alberts (University of Hannover, Germany) “Behind the Other Doors”: Conceptions of “Religion” in Primary Schools in Switzerland Petra Bleisch (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) Religion in Ethics Textbooks: Different Sources of Knowledge, Different Values? Zrinka Stimac (The Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany) Polemics of knowledge and representation of religion(s) in Religion Education in Denmark – Recent Developments Karna Kjeldsen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

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New Approaches to the Study of Religion and Peace

Convenor: Sandra Rios (University of Aberdeen, UK) Chair: Julianne Funk (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Saami Voices, Sorry Churches: Dimensions of the Reconciliation Process Between the Indigenous Sámi People and the Swedish and Norwegian Folk Churches Mardoeke Boekraad (University of Umeå, Sweden) Grassroots Religious Peacebuilding: Proposing a Framework of Analysis Julianne Funk (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Passivity, ‘Contro la Pace’: On Buddhist-Based Efforts Towards Reconciliation and Peace in Sri Lanka Anupama Ranawana (University of Aberdeen, UK) Religious Peacebuilding as Emancipatory Peacebuilding: The Recovery of Social Memory by the Diocese of Quibdó (Colombia) Sandra Rios (University of Aberdeen, UK)

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Secularity, Non-religion and Atheism

Chair: Markus Davidsen (Leiden University, Netherlands) ‘Becoming who you really are’: Sexuality, Religion, and the Academic Construction of Emancipation in the Netherlands Laurens Buijs (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) The Growing Freethought Movement in the United States Nickolas Conrad (University of California, USA)

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Religious Authority and Knowledge Claims

Convenors: Laura Feldt (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark), Catharina Raudvere (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Chair: Göran Larsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

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TUESDAY 13 MAY – SLOT 10 Authority and Knowledge Claims in Ascetic Texts: Books and Bodies in Egypt in late Antiquity Anne Ingvild S. Gilhus (University of Bergen, Norway) Between Transmit and Transform: Performative and Interpretive Repertoires among Bosnian Muslim Women Catharina Raudvere (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Authoritative Materiality: Figurine Use and Knowledge Production in 1st Millennium Mesopotamia Laura Feldt (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

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Islam and Modernity: Plurality and Politics II

Chair: Frans Jespers (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Islamic Reform in the Context of Secular Modernity: Reevaluating Ziya Gökalp Markus Dressler (University of Bayreuth, Germany) The Influence of Sufism on the Gulen Movement in Turkey Deniz Cosan Eke (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany)

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Historical Research on Rituals and Scriptures II

Chair: Albertina Nugteren (Tilburg University, Netherlands) The Religious and Historical Discourse of the Original Arabic Texts of the Sacromonte th th Lead Books (Granada, 16 -17 centuries) P.S. van Koningsveld (Leiden University, Netherlands) and Gerard Wiegers (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Of Speaking and Silence: Adaption to Revealed Knowledge Marije Coster (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Being Self: Knowing, Acting and Bodily Existence in the Soteriological Discourse of the Vaisesika Commentarial Tradition Anna-Pya Sjödin (Mid University, Sweden)

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Chair: Erin K. Wilson (University of Groningen, Netherlands) “Personae Non Gratae”: The Successful Intervening of a Catholic State in the Papal Elections of 1903 Alice Reininger (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria) Constitutional hereticization of the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan: Doxa, discourse and supplementarity Ali Qadir (University of Tampere, Finland) Drawing Lines? The Role of Practical Knowledge in the Discussion about Circumcision in Germany Susanne Lemke (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany)

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Wednesday 14 May - Slot 11 - 9:00 -10:30 Aula

Transformations of Religion Through Economic Knowledge I

Convenor and chair: Anne Koch (University of Munich, Germany) Session I: Commodification of Religion Spiritually Shopping Around in Glastonbury Marion Bowman (Open University, UK) Commodification of Islamic Sacrifice Paula Schrode (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Neither Good Nor Evil, Consumerism Is: An Anthropological Approach to Commoditization Francois Gauthier (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

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Historiographies of Esoteric Movements in Europe

Chair: Kocku von Stuckrad (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Trading Prestige for Popularity: Western Esotericism from the Medici Court to Tabloid Newspapers Francisco Santos Silva (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) The Teachers of Humanity: the Role of Divine Knowledge in the Spiritist Movement in Wisła (Poland) Between 1918-1939 Małgorzata Alicja Dulska (Jagiellonian University, Poland) The History of Yoga in Finland Tm Matti Rautaniemi (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)

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Round Table Session' on "The Study of Religions and Religion in Secular Education"

Convenors and chairs: Wanda Alberts and Tim Jensen (Universities of Hanover and Odense, Germany and Denmark) Teaching Religion in a Changing World: Negotiating Religious Literacy, Knowledge, Sustainability and Didactics Bodil Liljefors Persson (Malmö University, Sweden) Future Perspectives for the EASR Working Group on RE Jenny Berglund (Södertörn University, Sweden) The Need for an International Companion of a Study-of-Religions based RE Bengt-Ove Andreassen (University of Tromsø, Norway)

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Transmit Even If You Know Only One Quranic Verse: Dynamics of Religious Knowledge Popularization in Contemporary Muslim Revival Movements I

Convenors: Britta Frede (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) and Halkano Abdi Wario, (Egerton University & Research Fellow at St. Paul’s University, Kenya) Chair: Britta Frede (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Discussant: Halkano Abdi Wario (Egerton University & Research Fellow at St. Paul’s University, Kenya) Fiqh al-da`wa or the Juridification of Islamic Mission in the Context of Globalization Jamal Malik (University of Erfurt, Germany) Be Productive, be Muslim: Islamic Self-Help and Religious Knowledge as Popular Lifestyle Science Katharina Mühlbeyer (Free University of Berlin, Germany) Achieve (Islamic) Knowledge and Put it to Practice! Welfare Activists in Nouakchott Britta Frede, (Free University of Berlin, Germany)

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WEDNESDAY 14 MAY – SLOT 11 Sufis and the Transmission of Islamic Esoteric and Exoteric Knowledge in Sontemporary India Mauro Valdinoci (Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)

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Shi’ism and Authority: a Plurality of Stances I

Chair: David Thurfjell (Södertörn University, Sweden) The Changing Landscape of Shiite Authority David Thurfjell (Södertörn University, Sweden) Gendering the Marja‘iyya in Europe: Memory, Discourse and Practice of Iraqi Shii Women in Dublin and London Yafa Shanneik (University College Cork, Ireland) Debating Wilayat al-Faqih in Europe: Shiis in Ireland and the Legacy of Khomeinism Oliver Scharbrodt (University College Cork, Ireland)

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The Pre-Modern Educational Foundations of Christians, Muslims, Brahmins and Buddhists

Chair: Michael Borgolte (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) The Support of Brahmanical Priests and Colleges in India Annette Schmiedchen (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) Religious Endowments as Educational Networks in Medieval Islam Ignacio Sánchez (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) The Educational Role of Byzantine Foundations Zachary Chitwood (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) Educational Foundations in the Medieval Occident Tillmann Lohse (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)

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Religion on the Move: New Contexts and Territories I

Chair: Kim Knibbe (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

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WEDNESDAY 14 MAY – SLOT 11 Spatial Shift and Religious Balancing of Kashmiri Pundits: New forms of a Displaced Community Devinder Singh (University of Jammu, India) The Urban Infrastructures of Religious Knowledge: Transnational Lusophone Evangelical Media Martijn Oosterbaan (Utrecht University, Netherlands) and Linda van de Kamp (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Territorial Transformations and Religious Rites: The Case of Saint Rosalia Marianna Salerno Rossana (University Kore of Enna, Italy)

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Wednesday 14 May - Slot 12 - 11:00 -12:30 Aula

Transformations of Religion Through Economic Knowledge II

Convenor: Anne Koch (University of Munich, Germany) Chair: Francois Gauthier (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) Session II: Market Forces and Religion (Inter)national Public-Private Cooperation in the Regulation of Moral Food Standards: Fair Trade and Halal Compared Frans van Waarden (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) Religion, Science, and Production of "Sacred" Domains: Considering Their Permeability to Politico-Economic Interests Fabíola Rohden (University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

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Methodology and Historical Changes in the Study of Religion

Chair: to be announced Alien Knowledge in the Modern Research University: Pluralities of Knowledge About Religion Donald Wiebe (University of Toronto, Canada) Cross-Confessional Model for Studying Religiosity: Elaboration and Implementation in Belarus Svetlana Karassyova (Belarusian State University, Belarus)

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Japanese Religions: Academic Discourses and Philosophy

Chair: Shin Ahn (Pai Chai University, South Korea) Reflecting Religions of Japan in the Czech Lands: The Image of Japanese Religious Traditions in the Czech Scholarly Environment Jakub Havlicek (Palacky University, Czech Republic)

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WEDNESDAY 14 MAY – SLOT 12 The Inter-Religious Dialogue as a Ventriloquism? Seung Chul Kim (Nanzan University, Japan) Ten Names for One God: The Idea of God in Tenrikyo Thought Midori Horiuchi (Tenri University, Japan)

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Transmit Even If You Know Only One Quranic Verse: Dynamics of Religious Knowledge Popularization in Contemporary Muslim Revival Movements II

Convenors: Britta Frede (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) and Halkano Abdi Wario, (Egerton University & Research Fellow at St. Paul’s University, Kenya) Chair: Halkano Abdi Wario (Egerton University & Research Fellow at St. Paul’s University, Kenya) Discussant: Britta Frede (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Islamic Reformation and Transmission through Broadcasting Media: Fatimatu Bint Habib and her Resourcefulness Musa Ibrahim (Cape Town University, South Africa) Shaping a Scholarly and Spiritual Authority: The Case of Traditionally-Trained Ulama in Northern Cameroon Khaled Ayong (Universität Bayreuth, Germany) To be a Malam is not an Easy Thing: Three man of Islamic Learning in a Zongo in Asante, Ghana Benedikt Pontzen (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Puzzling Knowledge for the Young? Youth in Muslim Print Media in Kenya Halkano Abdi Wario (Egerton University & Research Fellow at St. Paul’s University, Kenya)

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Shi’ism and Authority: a Plurality of Stances II

Chair: David Thurfjell (Södertörn University, Sweden)

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WEDNESDAY 14 MAY – SLOT 12 “If I disagree with my marja´, I change him”: The Authority of the Marja´iya Among Shias in Norway Ingvild Flaskerud (University of Oslo, Norway) Religious Authority and Shi’i Networks and Practices in the UK Kathryn Spellman-Poots (Aga Khan University, UK)

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Scientification: Institutions, Canons and Genres in the Early Study of Religion

Chair: Stephanie Gripentrog (University of Basel, Switzerland) Religion as a Matter of Politics: The Implementation of Epistemic Virtues through Institutions and Canons David Atwood (University of Basel, Switzerland) Religion as a Matter of Health: Psychological Case Histories and the Scientification of Religion Stephanie Gripentrog (University of Basel, Switzerland) Religion as a Matter of Style: Literary Reconfigurations of the Concept of Religion in the Modern Breakthrough Dirk Johannsen (University of Oslo, Norway)

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Religion on the Move: New Contexts and Territories II

Chair: Ramon Sarró (University of Oxford, UK) Transnational Lay Movements and the Cross-Fertilization of Catholic Knowns and Knowings Birgit Huber (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Preparing Vegetal: the Insertion of a Brazilian Religious Movement into the Australian Ayahuasca scene Alexandre Spengler (University of Western Sydney, Australia)

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Wednesday 14 May - Slot 13 - 15:30-17:00 Aula

Researching the Material and Performance Cultures of Pilgrimage

Convenor and chair: Graham Harvey (Open University, UK) Alternative Pilgrimages in Britain Amy Whitehead (University of Wales TSD, UK) Experiments with Ritual / Entertainment Boundaries as Motivations for Indigenous Journeys to Cultural Festivals Graham Harvey (Open University, UK) Protestant Pilgrimage Marion Bowman (Open University, UK) Japanese circulating pilgrimages Michael Pye (University of Marburg, Germany)

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Understanding and Assessing the Contribution of Sir E.B. Tylor and Early Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion

Chair: to be announced Telling Tylorian Tales: Questions of Language, Religion and Contemporary Myths Martin Stringer (University of Birmingham, UK) Explaining the Cosmos: A Neo-Tylorian Theory of Religion, Science and Knowledge Liam Sutherland (University of Edinburgh, UK) Contesting the Evolutionary Assumptions of Baldwin Spencer, E.B. Tylor and J.G. Frazer: A Re-evaluation of the Contribution of Carl Strehlow to the Study of Indigenous Religions James L. Cox (University of Edinburgh, UK) Translations of Nahua Culture: The Imprints of Sahagún in the Contemporary Apprehension of Pre-Columbian Nahua “Gods” (teteo) Lujza Kotryová (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

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Mystical Epistemologies

Convenor and chair: Mathilde van Dijk (University of Groningen, Netherlands) 'Recollection' in Iberian Science of Mysticism Joana Serrado (University of Oxford, UK) Visions of Knowledge in the Devotio Moderna Mathilde van Dijk (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

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Pluralities of Islamic Eschatologies

Convenors and chairs: Jamel Velji (Haverford College, USA) and Christian Lange (Utrecht University, Netherlands) No Where in Particular: Islamic Ritual De-Construction of Time and Place A. Kevin Reinhart (Dartmouth College, USA) The "Grammar" of the House? An Architectural Reading of Q 2:127 Simon O’Meara (Utrecht University, Netherlands and SOAS, UK) Hermeneutics of Eschatological (Re)interpretation: the Case of the Early Fatimids Jamel Velji (Haverford College, USA) Beards of Paradise: Hair in the Muslim Eschaton Christian Lange (Utrecht University, Netherlands)

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Transmission of Knowledge through Death Ritual

Convenors: Anne Kjærsgaard Markussen, Brenda Mathijssen and Claudia Venhorst (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Chair: Peter Nissen (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) The Death of Childhood Beliefs in Denmark? Anne Kjærsgaard Markussen (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

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WEDNESDAY 14 MAY – SLOT 13 Transmission of Religiosity in Dutch ‘Secular’ and Christian Funerals Brenda Mathijssen (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Motivation and Authority in Ritual Roles Transmission of Expert Knowledge in Muslims Death Practices in the Netherlands Claudia Venhorst (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

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Transformations of Buddhism in Europe

Chair: Stefania Travagnin (University of Groningen) Faces of Buddhism in the Czech Republic: The Non-Traditional Religious Authorities in the Global Networks Petra Tlcimukova (Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic) Zen as an Embodied Knowledge for Everyday Life Zuzana Bártová (University of Strasbourg, France) Social and Political Activities of Buddhist Groups in Latvia Marika Laudere (Daugavpils University, Latvia)

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Otten, Sabine Ottenheijm, Eric Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios Paramore, Kiri Pasi, Marco Persson, Bodil Liljefors Peter, Frank Peter, Heike Poljarevic, Emin Pontzen, Benedikt Poorthuis, Marcel Prideaux, Mel Priede, Janis Pye, Michael Qadir, Ali Račius, Egdûnas Rambelli, Fabio Ramsel, Carsten Ranawana, Anupama Raudvere, Catharina Rautaniemie, Tm Matti Reinhart, A. Kevin Reininger, Alice Remmel, Atko Rettig, Hanna Riexinger, Martin Rios, Sandra Rivers, Jessica Rodin, Therese Rohden, Fabíola Rossana, Marianna Salerno Rots, Aike P. Rudbøg, Tim Rüpke, Jörg Sabbaghchi, Yahya Sadovina, Irina Sánchez, Ignacio Sarró, Ramon Scharbrodt, Oliver Schmiedchen, Annette Schnell, Tatjana

40 29, 33, 37 27, 32 28 53, 57 62 38 55 45, 49 66 29, 33, 37, 38 22 55 68 60 23 28 23, 26 58 58, 59 61 69 60 31 25 38 58 47 56 65 64 35 21, 24 10 26 3, 42 63 49, 67 63 63 36

Schönfeld, Anne Schrode, Paula Schröder, Stefan Schuh, Cora Schüler, Sebastian Scott, Gregory Sepp, Tiina Serrado, Joana Shakhnovich, Marianna Shanneik, Yafa Silva, Francisco Santos Singh, Devinder Sjödin, Anna-Pya Slater, Angus Spellman-Poots, Kathryn Spengler, Alexandre Stasulane, Anita Stellmacher, Alexandra Stimac, Zrinka Strhan, Anna Stringer, Martin Stuckrad, Kocku von

Sutcliffe, Steven J. Sutherland, Liam Svašek, Maruška Svensson, Jonas Tabandeh, Reza Taira, Teemu Taves, Ann Taylor, Bron Teeuwen, Mark Teugels, Lieve Thurfjell, David Timus, Mihaela Tirel, Claus Tlcimukova, Petra Touber, Jetze Travagnin, Stefania Trocio, Joan Christi S. Uhrig, Christian Uibu, Marko Ulrich, Michael

37, 42 61 26 31 34, 39 28 34 70 53 63 61 63 59 47 67 67 35 47 57 24, 27 68 2, 7, 14, 20, 40, 46, 50, 54, 61 65 68 38 49 26 27, 50 19, 32 7, 40 35 33 63, 66 56 26 55, 70 55 28, 40, 70 39 41 41 56

Utriainen, Terhi Valdinoci, Mauro Valk, Ulo Velji, James Venhorst, Claudia Visuri, Ingela Waarden, Frans van Wario, Halkano Abdi Weener, Karel Weiss, Sabrina Whitehead, Amy Wiebe, Donald Wiegers, Gerard Wijnia, Lieke Wijsen, Frans Wilke, Annette Wilkens, Katharina Wilson, Erin K.

Winter, Eva Woolley, Jonathan Wöstemeyer, Christina Zathureczky, Kornel Zbíral, David

30 62 42 69 69, 70 44 65 62, 66 43 45 42, 68 65 59 48 46, 50, 54 30 30 27, 31, 37, 39, 40, 41, 60 30 29 26 22 53, 57

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