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Wednesday Weekly 9 February 2022

 

Dear friends and colleagues,

This time, we would like to announce our colloquium next Wednesday with our Senior Research Fellow Tom White. We also have a new publication for you by one of our KFG members. Besides that, we would like to draw your attention to several calls. We also have a recommendation for an online book launch for you and, last but not least, there are some news regarding upcoming maintenance work at our office building.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Anja & Lucy

 
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Next Week’s Colloquium: Tom White on “Pacific secularities: Religion, race and Fiji’s secular state”, 16 February

Next Wednesday our Senior Research Fellow Tom White will give a presentation on his research project “Pacific secularities: Religion, race and Fiji’s secular state”.

You find the relevant readings in our Member Area as well as information on the zoom connection data as the colloquium will take place as an online event.

16 January | 9.15–11.45 a.m. (CET)

Online via zoom

 
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Maintenance Work on Air Conditioning Units in the KFG-Offices at Strohsack, 14–18 February

Next week, between 14 and 18 February, there will be some maintenance work on the air conditioning units in our office building. For this, the maintenance company will have access to our rooms for a certain period of time.

We would like to point out – without wanting to imply anything – that it might be better not to leave any valuables lying around in the open during this time. There is a lockable cabinet in each office that you can use. If you don't come to the office during this period and still have valuables lying around that you would like to be put away, please let us know (multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de) so that we can then lock them up.

 
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New Publication: Marian Burchardt on “Geographies of Encounter. The Making and Unmaking of Multi-Religious Spaces”

We would like to draw your attention to the latest publication by our Associate Member Marian Burchardt. In his edited collection “Geographies of Encounter. The Making and Unmaking of Multi-Religious Spaces” he and his co-author Maria Chiara Giorda from the University of Rome explore forms of multi-religious cohabitation as well as the spatial arrangements that underpin and shape them through sixteen chapters that range across disciplines, historical periods, and global geographies. Focusing on interactions between different religious groups and traditions, the authors conceptualize three types of spatial arrangements and explore how they operate ad geographies of encounter; i.e., multi-religious places, multi-religious cities, and multi-religious landscapes.

Beside his editoral work, Marian also contributes with a chapter on “Multi-Religious Places by Design: Space, Materiality, and Media in Berlin’s House of One”.


Burchardt, Marian, and Maria Chiara Giorda, eds. Geographies of Encounter: The Making and Unmaking of Multi-Religious Spaces. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 

    More KFG Publications    
 
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Online Book Launch: “Radical Transformations in Minority Religions” by Beth Singler and Eileen Barker (eds.), 10 February

All religions undergo continuous change, but minority religions tend to be less anchored in their ways than mainstream, traditional religions. We would like to point out a volume, edited by Beth Singler and Eileen Barker, which examines radical transformations undergone by a variety of minority religions, including the Children of God/Family International; Gnosticism; Jediism; various manifestations of Paganism; LGBT Muslim groups; the Plymouth Brethren; Santa Muerte; and Satanism. The contributors approach the subject from a wide range of perspectives: professional scholars include legal experts and sociologists specialising in new religious movements, but there are also chapters from those who have experienced a personal involvement. The volume is divided into four thematic parts that focus on different impetuses for radical change: interactions with society, technology and institutions, efforts at legitimation, and new revelations.

To register, you can make a donation via Paypal. A link to the event will be sent to your e-mail subsequently. If you cannot make a donation at this time, please e-mail to register.

10 February | 6.30-8.30 p.m. (CET)

Online

    More Information on the book    
 
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Call for Papers: International congress of the European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies, “Sacred Protest – Religion, Power, and Resistance in an Era of Upheaval” , 23–26 March

Religion and protest converge and diverge and in pursuit of various ends, making careful analysis of religion and protest, as a prototypical manifestation of transcultural pressures, necessary. This bi-annual international congress of the European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies addresses central questions such as: Which religious actors protest, when, why and how? Which traditional resources are called upon in the service of or resistance to protest? Where do conditions for inter- and trans-religious cooperation or horizontal solidarity appear and why? And how are protest and religion to be studied, with which methods, and at what level of involvement? What are the values, emotions and possibilities for renewal in religiously motivated or censored protest?

Submission of paper proposal: 20 February

Conference date: 23–26 March | University of Bonn



    Call for Papers    
 
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Call for Proposals to GIF Young Scientists' Meeting: “Sovereignty, Entitlement, and Belonging: Jewish Legal Responses to Transition and Crisis in the 20th Century”, 30 May–2 June

This workshop, organised by the German-Israeli Foundation (GIF), invites experienced PhD students and postdocs up to 5 years after obtaining their PhD affiliated with German or Israeli academic institutions in the humanities, social sciences, or law to explore questions relating to different (mostly Jewish) legal responses to transition and crisis in the age of extremes, as well as larger topics about the nature of the nation state in relation to minorities in the course of the 20th century.

Participants will be able to discuss their projects with a group of senior and advanced scholars. In addition, keynote lectures will be given by senior investigators. Participants will be expected to give a presentation of about 20 minutes. Young scientists interested in participating in the meeting are asked to complete a registration form, including a short description of the proposed presentation (up to 500 words) and a CV by 28 February. For questions, please contact Mina Horesh or Stephanie Weberring.

Deadline: 28 February

Date: 30 May–2 June

Venue: Yearim Hotel, Kibbutz Ma’ale Hahamisha, Israel



    Call for Proposals    
 
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Call for Participants: International Conference on “The Good Life – Transcultural and interdisciplinary dialogues”, 13–16 June

Most likely one of the oldest queries of humanity is the question “What constitutes a good life?” Only in recent years, academia has begun to discuss the topic extensively along different disciplines and in different parts of the world and elaborated theories and even government projects inspired by ideas of the good life. The Sumak Kawsay or Suma Qamaña (“living a good life” in Quechua respectively Aymara language) of indigenous peoples from the Andes and the Resonance Theory (also called "a sociology of the good life") by Hartmut Rosa are the two currents discussing the good life that at this day enjoy most academic attention worldwide.

The conference “The Good Life – Transcultural and interdisciplinary dialogues”, organized by the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt in cooperation with the Centre PROEIB Andes at the University Mayor of San Simón in Cochabamba in Bolivia, aims to initiate a dialogue between these two approaches with the purpose of enriching both and the work of those who use them separately. Therefore, it welcomes researchers from all academic disciplines to submit abstracts on a possible contribution of theirs related in some way to the question of the good life. Examples of areas of interest include Good life philosophies, Self world relations, Indigenous ontologies and/or epistemologies or Anthropology and ethnographies of religion and cosmovision.

Deadline: 15 March

Date: 13–16 June

Online (with English and Spanish as conference languages) 



    Call for Participants    
 

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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