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Dear friends and colleagues, With our first newsletter in 2023 we would like to bring you the latest KFG updates. 2023 will be a significant year for our group since we are closing in on the official end of the 2nd funding period in early 2024. Preparations have begun for our final conference, which will be held from 11-13 October 2023. We are looking forward to sharing more information about it with you soon. We said goodbye to a number of Fellows at the end of last year and will welcome the next group of Fellows in the spring. Until then, we would like to share upcoming events and, as always, our latest publications and bulletin entries with you. Enjoy! Monika Wohlrab-Sahr and Christoph Kleine |
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Screening ReligionOn 25 January we will be showing the award-winning documentary “Midwives” as part of our Screening Religion film series at Cinémathèque Leipzig at naTo: Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of an improvised clinic in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya - a Muslim minority - are persecuted and denied basic rights. Nyo Nyo is a Muslim woman and trained midwife who works as an assistant and translator at the clinic. Although her family has lived in the region for generations, they are still seen as invaders. Over several years, the documentary follows the two women as they face their daily challenges, but also how they pursue their hopes and dreams in the midst of an environment where chaos and violence are constantly growing. Check out the trailer here. The film will be followed by a discussion. Date: 25 January | 7 p.m. (CET) Screening Religion: Every two months we screen documentaries and movies rarely seen in German cinemas. Religion features in every film, be it as a catalyst for negotiation processes, a source of conflict, a marker of identity, or a constitutive element of social background. Thus, we seek to screen films on religion whilst simultaneously screening for “religion” as a cinematic object. Some of the films are presented by their directors, others are introduced by KFG scholars.
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Workshop on “Religion and its History in Turkey: New Approaches, Alternative Perspectives” | 27–28 January 2023Conveners: Gökçen Beyinli (Hamburg University), Markus Dressler (Leipzig University) This two-day workshop on “Religion and its History in Turkey: New Approaches, Alternative Perspectives” aims to revisit Turkish modernity experiences on the centenary of the republic by considering the diverse forms of religiosity and the complexity of religious life in Turkey. With contributions of critical and theoretical religious studies research, it would like to question the binary conceptualisations of religion as well as the strict dichotomy between religion and the secular. The workshop also aims to elaborate on everyday material and spatial aspects of religion to challenge normative assumptions about religiosity and “true religion” as defined by religious institutions. If you wish to attend the workshop, please send a short inquiry to multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de. Date: 27–28 January 2023
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Workshop “Who is ‘Us’: Our Culture, our Values, our Heritage and the Reconfiguration of Religion” | 9–10 March 2023Conveners: Lori Beaman (University of Ottawa), Christoph Kleine (KFG “Multiple Secularities”), Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (KFG “Multiple Secularities”) Building on previous discussions of culturalization by the Multiple Secularities research group, this workshop focuses on the transubstantiation of religion to culture in countries characterized by a historical Christian majority (in some cases a consequence of colonialism) and a contemporary decline in religious affiliation. If we take secularity to be a concern with the social construction of boundaries, then the religion-to-culture reconfiguration falls squarely within the research purview of the Multiple Secularities programme. Of particular interest is the shape of power in these processes of boundary construction, and the impact of the global circulation of ideas and bodies. Thus, while the decline in Christianity is a major driver in this turn to culture, we also see reference to the ‘religious other’, especially Muslims, in public debates about ‘our culture and heritage’ as well as narratives of an ‘us’ under threat. The workshop is hosted by Leibniz Professor Lori Beaman in cooperation between the KFG “Multiple Secularities” and the Nonreligion in a Complex Future Project. If you wish to attend the workshop, please send a short inquiry to multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de. Date: 9–10 March 2023
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The work of our research group finds expression in various publication formats. In addition to monographs, edited volumes, and articles by individual members of the research group, we also make (preliminary) research results available for academic discourse in the form of working papers. Recent KFG publications: Working Papers
Books
Articles
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BulletinOur Bulletin gives the opportunity to publish event reports and to comment on current political, social, or cultural events and developments from the perspective of Multiple Secularities to place them in a broader context through our expertise or to present alternative perspectives. After presenting it at our book launch in September here in Leipzig, our Senior Research Fellow Sushmita Nath was recently invited to present her first book “The Secular Imaginary: Gandhi, Nehru and the Idea(s) of India” in a talk with host Tiatemsu Longkumer for the New Books Network Podcast. In roughly 60 Minutes Sushmita and her host take the audience through the main theses of the book, its academic, political and personal context and Sushmita's current research interests.
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