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Dear friends and colleagues,

The continuing decreasing Corona infection figures allow us to offer next week’s colloquium as a hybrid format again and we are very happy about that! Especially because we will welcome François Gauthier as a guest speaker here in Leipzig.

Besides that, we would like to remind you of the call for papers for our workshop on “Enshrining the Past: Religion and Heritage-Making in a Secular Age” and we have recommendations for a new publication and an online lecture for you.

And don't forget our Screening Religion: Tonight at 7 p.m. we will show „Pfarrer” (“Priests”) by directors Chris Wright and Stefan Kolbe as online livestream in cooperation with Cinémathèque Leipzig. The film will be shown in German (with English subtitles), followed by a discussion with our Senior Research Fellow Jens Herzer. Registration is not required.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Anja & Lucy

Next week’s Colloquium: François Gauthier on “Nation-State to Global-Market: An Alternative for the Sociology of Religion”

At next week’s colloquium we have the pleasure to welcome François Gauthier who will give a presentation on “Nation-State to Global-Market: An Alternative for the Sociology of Religion”. François Gauthier is a Professor of the Study of Religions at the Department of Social Sciences at the Université de Fribourg in Switzerland. In his presentation he sketches the lineaments of a Mauss and Polanyi-based alternative for the sociology of religion.

In the member area, you find the outline of his presentation as well as the chapter on “The marketisation of religion” from his book “Religion, Modernity, Globalisation. Nation-State to Market”.

In view of steadily declining infection figures, we are again able to offer the colloquium as a hybrid event, and those who wish can meet François Gauthier in real life at our offices. Please register via e-mail if you want to attend in person. The number of participants is limited to 10 people – first come, first served. In the member area, you also find the zoom connection data in case you want to join the colloquium online.

16 June | 9.15–11.45 a.m. (CET)

Hybrid format | Strohsack, room 4.55 and via zoom

Reminder: Call for Papers for KFG Workshop on “Enshrining the Past: Religion and Heritage-Making in a Secular Age”, 27–29 October

We would like to remind you of the workshop on “Enshrining the Past: Religion and Heritage-Making in a Secular Age”, organised by our Associate Member Marian Burchardt and our Senior Researcher Nur Yasemin Ural. Paper abstracts for the workshop can still be submitted until the end of this week. The workshop will take place 27–29 October. It seeks to explore the contours of the politics around cultural heritage and the ways it is enmeshed with the religious-secular dynamics in societies past and present. The convenors invite contributors from various disciplines including sociology, anthropology, history, heritage studies, geography, and religious studies.

Depending on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop will be held in a hybrid format.

Deadline for abstracts: 13 June

Workshop date: 27–29 October

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.