Academic conferences on religion in today's world
Colloques et séminaires sur les religions dans le monde contemporain
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08-10.05.2008
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| Königswinter bei Bonn |
| Dschihadismus als nationale und internationale Herausforderung zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhundert |
Der Begriff Dschihad ist ideologisch zu einer individuellen globalen Pflicht geworden, der sich zunehmend von seinen territorialen und kulturellen Ursprüngen entfernt hat. Er richtet sich auch gegen die Muslime, die diese Weltanschauung ablehnen und ihren Glauben friedlich leben möchten.
Worin liegen die Ursachen für die Entstehung und Ausprägungen des Dschihadismus und seiner religiösen Fundamente? Welche Bedeutung spielt dabei Al-Qaida? Welche Zielgruppen sind gefährdet? Wie anfällig ist die Jugend für dieses Phänomen? Welche Rolle spielen weltpolitische Rahmenbedingungen und Konfliktkonstellationen in der Welt, welche Gefahr geht in Deutschland von ethnisch segregierten Räumen (Parallelgesellschaften) aus und wie reagiert der Staat auf diese Herausforderungen? |
Jacob-Kaiser-Stiftung
http://www.jakob-kaiser.de
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09-11.05.2008
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| Denton Hall, Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
| 31st Conference on Implicit Religion and Contemporary Spirituality |
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According to tradition, the aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from various disciplines interested in the role and manifestations of religion outside the realm of established religious institutions. |
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http://www.implicitreligion.org/denton.htm |
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28-30.05.2008
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| Aarhus, Denmark |
| Religious Ritual, Cognition and Culture - Conference |
A little over 40 years ago, the Royal Society of London hosted a conference on ritualization and behaviour in animals and man [Phil.Trans.Roy.Soc.Lon. 251 (772) 1966]. It was a signal event that influenced the following decades of ritual research. One of the strengths of the conference was the wide variety of disciplines represented by the participants. The meeting brought sociologists, anthropologists, ethnologist, biologists, ethologists, psychologists and art historians together in order to explore human ritual behavior in its biological, social and cultural contexts. Since then, the rise of the neural and cognitive sciences has moved the intricate dynamics between biology and culture center stage. And with it we witnessed the exciting rise of cooperative research clusters and teams which consist of scholars and scientists from a wide variety of natural, human and social sciences.
During the past two decades, the cultural sciences have drawn inspiration, theories and models from the cognitive and (during the past decade) neural sciences. An astounding variety of research results has given us insight into human abilities and domains such as consciousness, categorization, memory, perception, social cognition, morality, language, etc. which have significantly changed our understanding of human culture and cognition. With the pioneering work of Lawson, McCauley, Boyer and Whitehouse, we are now in the position to address fundamental issues which the cognitive study of rituals and ritualization raise for comparative religion, anthropology and psychology. The possibilities of fruitful interdisciplinary research have only just begun in the field of ritual studies. This conference hopes to provide a context for further intensive cooperation and discussion. Where the pioneers of the cognitive science of religion with good reason were inspired by cognitive linguistics, the current increase of knowledge in the experimental and neurological sciences encourages us to explore further new avenues.
The study of religious rituals and ritualization can gain from the insights, methodologies and theories of experimental and neurological sciences. But this ‘bottom-up' approach is not the only path of inspiration. Just as important is research which focusses on the ‘top-down' approach, i.e. from culture and social relations to cognition and neural patterns. Studies of ritualized behavior in different cultural, social and historical contexts clearly expand the database of behaviors that can be studied experimentally and neurologically. In order to understand further human action and cognitive representation, cultural and social scientists can contribute insights on how certain types of behavior latch on to various cultural patterns. An obvious example is why do we find a universal tendency in all human cultures to assume or explain ritual behavior religiously, i.e. with reference to gods, ancestors and spirits? It would seem that ritual behavior is universal among most animals. Why are certain types of rituals thought to be religious in the human species? Answers to this and similar questions can enrich historical, sociological and anthropological studies of religious behavior, but also cognitive and neurological scientists can gain subsequent insight into how cultural traditions influence universal mental dispositions. |
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Secretary Marlene Jessen (maj@teo.au.dk) |
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29-30.05.2008
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| Paris |
Innovations religieuses et dynamiques du changement culturel en Océanie contemporaine
Journées d'études internationales |
Atelier 1. Transformations, innovations et tensions au sein des «traditions chrétiennes» d’Océanie.
Atelier 2. Mormons et pentecôtistes face aux cultures océaniennes: globalisation
ou nouvelles traditions?
Atelier 3. Reconfigurations régionales du christianisme océanien.
Atelier 4. Table ronde : Un objet presque «ordinaire»? Les enjeux d’une
anthropologie du christianisme en Océanie contemporaine.
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Programme complet, horaires et lieu (format PDF):
http://www.gsrl.cnrs.fr/Journeetudes/2008/29_30mai08FER.pdf
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29.05-01.06.2008
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| Charleston, South Carolina |
Esotericism, Religion and Nature
Third International Conference of the Association for the Study of Esotericism
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The program will consist of paper presentations on the conference theme, plus a variety of additional topics such as magic, alchemy, astrology, esotericism and mysticism, spiritualism, occultism, hermetic thought, contemporary esoteric movements and teachers, and Asian influences on Western traditions. Dr. Barbara Newman (Northwestern University) and Dr. Wouter Hanegraaff (University of Amsterdam) are the invited keynote speakers |
Conference webpage:
http://www.cofc.edu/ase/index.html
Additional information:
http://www.aseweb.org/
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31.05-01.06.2008
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| Aarhus, Denmark |
| Religion and Cognition in Context - Workshop |
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This workshop will immediately follow the conference "Religious Ritual, Cognition and Culture" (see above). |
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Secretary Marlene Jessen (maj@teo.au.dk) |
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04-07.06.2008
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| University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Media, Spiritualities and Social Change |
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This interdisciplinary conference will explore the ways in which media culture, civic engagement and spiritualities intersect to form practices, discourses and the material expressions of social change. In an era of globalization, the media age has introduced a new set of conditions and opportunities for the nature, practice and integration of spirituality and civic engagement. Increasingly, the concept of spirituality has become recontextualized, reinserted and reimagined within discourses about social and environmental change. Integral to this project are the media, which provide salient values and symbols to a synthesis of public and private identities, practices and beliefs. New spiritual sensibilities articulate with new imaginaries of the civic sphere through media culture. The key questions here are how and where values, practices and beliefs are articulated as spiritual and socially transformational. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/journalism/CMRC/MSSCconference.html |
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05-07.06.2008
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| Frankfurt-am-Main |
Geistiges Erbe des Islam II:
Koranwissenschaften heute – Genese, Exegese, Hermeneutik, Ästhetik |
30 Wissenschaftler - darunter international renommierte muslimische und christliche Theologen, Islam- und Religionswissenschaftler - werden sich im Laufe des Symposions aus vielfältigen Perspektiven den Umgang mit der Koranforschung beschäftigen: So sollen aktuelle Problemstellungen wie die Diskussion um die Luxenbergs Koranbetrachtung oder das Berliner-Projekt "Corpus Coranicum" ebenso zur Sprache kommen wie die zeitgenössische Koranexegese in der Türkei.
V e r a n s t a l t e r
GEFIS - Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Islamstudien e.V.
Stiftungsprofessur Islamische Religion, FB Ev. Theologie, Universität Frankfurt
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http://www.gefis-online.de/ |
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11-13.06.2008
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| Turku/Abo, Finland |
| Postmodern Spirituality |
Postmodern spirituality is here, in contrast to traditional spirituality, understood as a form of spirituality that appears as an alternative to conventional religion. It refers to the way people outside of the established religions and religious movements handle existential and spiritual issues. They do not choose ‘ready-made’ solutions, but in true eclectic spirit themselves decide what they want to believe in and create their own combinations and sets of answers to existential questions.
Postmodern spirituality includes spiritual practices originating in both existing religions and religious movements, and, to an equal extent, in sources outside of these. Those who practice this modern spirituality hold an active interest in the continued existence of the planet Earth and in the whole universe. Postmodern spirituality has an individualistic image. It is spiritual in the sense of being the opposite of materialistic, and it is intramundane in contrast to extramundane religiosity; it is essentially about what the world is like and how one should live in it. The notion fits within the concept of world view in that it is less of a group phenomenon and more of an individual phenomenon. Postmodern spirituality is flexible and personal. In the same ways as people have sought authenticity and a meaning in life through, for example, the theosophy of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, they do within modern spirituality – but here without the supremacy of a religion or religious movement in issues of faith. There is even distrust within modern spirituality towards the definite perceptions and dogmas of religions and religious movements.
Post-modern spirituality can be expressed in many new and unconventional forms, such as art, music, sports.
Mainly however, postmodern spirituality is found in more conventional spiritual contexts, as in the one offered by the New Age movement. An example of this is the increasing interest in various forms of Buddhist meditation, particularly in the one called mindfulness. |
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http://web.abo.fi/instut/di/congress2008/English.htm |
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