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Dear friends and colleagues,

This week, we are pleased to announce that our Senior Research Fellow Jason Josephson Storm will give a presentation on “Dark Gods in the Age of Light: The Lightbulb, the Japanese Deification of Thomas Edison, and Other Religions of Science” at our colloquium next Wednesday. Further, we would like to draw your attention to a workshop by Permanent Senior Research Fellow Wolfgang Höpken and a conference co-organised by Senior Research Fellow Marian Burchardt.

Take care and have a good week!
Your KFG Team

Next week’s Colloquium: Jason Josephson Storm on “Dark Gods in the Age of Light: The Lightbulb, the Japanese Deification of Thomas Edison, and Other Religions of Science” | 1 November

Next Wednesday, our Senior Research Fellow Jason Josephson Storm will give a presentation on “Dark Gods in the Age of Light: The Lightbulb, the Japanese Deification of Thomas Edison, and Other Religions of Science.”

The colloquium will take place in a hybrid format (on-site and online). In the Member Area you will find the relevant readings as well as information on the zoom connection data.

1 November | 9.15–11.45 am (CET)
Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via zoom  

KFG Workshop: Religion and Secularity in the Balkans – Past and Contemporary Case-Studies and Trends | 8–10 November

This international workshop, organised by our Permanent Senior Research Fellow Wolfgang Höpken, wants to debate the question on how the borderlines between the religious and the secular have been drawn – both in the past and during the more recent decades – by picking up individual case studies from various Balkan countries and bringing together representatives from different disciplines and approaches.

The workshop will take place on-site and online. More information on registration will be announced next week.

8–10 November
Leipzig

Conference: Religion and Space | 30–31 October, Bremen

Religious practices, rituals, affiliations and forms of communication always have a spatial dimension from which a number of important questions arise: How do spatial configurations and conditions constitute religious experiences, practices, rituals and orientations? Which spatial arrangements have a productive or obstructive effect on religious mobilisation processes? How does the religious change through changing spatial logics? These and other topics as well as methodological aspects will be the themes of this conference of the Sociology of Religion Section of the German Sociological Association (Sektion Religionssoziologie in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie). The organisers are Insa Pruisken and our Senior Research Fellow Marian Burchardt.

30–31 October
University of Bremen 

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