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Wednesday Weekly 16 August 2023

 

Dear friends and colleagues,

this week we would like to draw your attention to a new article by our Senior Research Fellow Neguin Yavari and point you to a study day on Religious Architecture and a call for papers for a conference on Pentecostalism and Gender.  

Take care and have a great week!

Foteine & Lucy

 
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New Publication: Neguin Yavari on “Deciphering Difference in Medieval Islamic Political Thought”

This article from our Senior Research Fellow Neguin Yavari is a re-examination of alterity as a component of the grammar of premodern political thought. The point of departure is a polyvalent anecdote found in several Islamic treatises on political thought with numerous cognates in texts from both the Islamic world and from further afield. The anecdote bears on the concept of rex inutilis, in the first instance, and ethnogenesis as situational construct in the second. The article argues that if properly contextualized, alterity points to the relationship between ethics and politics, and even historicity and fictionality, and the manifold ways in which those respective taxonomies and conceptual lineages are twined in premodern political thought to theorize sovereignty and good rule.

Yavari, Neguin.  “Deciphering Difference in Medieval Islamic Political Thought.” In L’Adab, Toujours Recommencé: “Origins,” Transmission and Metamorphoses of Adab Literature, edited by Catherine Mayeur Jaouen, Francesca Bellino, and Luca Patrizi, 316–33. Leiden: Brill, 2023.

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Study Day: „Churches for new Cities“ – Religious Architecture of the Late Modern Age | 7­­–8 September, Greifswald

While West German church building almost came to a standstill in the late 1970s, a window for new projects opened up once again in East Germany – in exchange for West German money. The transdisciplinary study day is dedicated to late and postmodern church building in East Germany in an all-German and European context. The event series " Experiment Modernity" in Greifswald will be accompanied by two exhibitions and various architectural tours. Young scholars, researchers, and contemporary witnesses from the fields of architecture and art history, church and theology, monument preservation, and urbanism will engage in conversation in lectures, sections, and discussion panels.

The programme is organised by the working group "Church and Cultural Heritage" at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Greifswald in cooperation with the German National Committee for Monument Protection.

7–8 September 2023  
Venues in Greifswald: St. Marien, Annenkapelle, Marienkirchplatz / Brüggstraße & Christuskirche, An der Christuskirche 3
Registration is requested until 25 August



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Call for Papers: Conference on Pentecostalism and Gender | 9–10 February 2024, Heidelberg

For their 14th conference, the European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism (GloPent) is looking for contributions with a focus on Pentecostalism and Gender. Pentecostalism's attitudes to gender are diverse. Historical research on Pentecostalism has acknowledged its attraction to the marginalized, regardless of gender. Political and social scientists frequently document the significant cultural and social influence exerted by Pentecostal churches on gender debates. Moreover, the theological perspectives on gender within the Pentecostal movement demonstrate substantial heterogeneity. Additional academic research is required to understand how Pentecostals navigate gender-related issues in their day-to-day experiences. This involves placing emphasis on a nuanced understanding of their self-perceptions and practices.

Submission deadline: 30 September 2023
Conference date: 9–10 September 2024
Theologisches Seminar, University of Heidelberg



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If you have any content that you think suits the purpose of the weekly, please feel free to send it to us at multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de.
 
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