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SUMMARY:The Saved and the Damned: Soteriology and Religious Encounter
DTSTART:20130418T080000Z
DTEND:20130419T143000Z
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UID:de-20130418-workshop-saved-and-damned-421@ceres.rub.de
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DESCRIPTION:Flyer\n‘Salvation’ is a fundamental concept across religio
 us traditions and contexts. Various salvation schemes could be applicable 
 to individuals\, communities or even entire nations. Often a religious enc
 ounter\, whether in the form of conflict or transfer\, could centre on the
  discourse about salvation. Adherents of different religions who come into
  contact for a variety of reasons elaborate various ideas on who is saved 
 and who is not\; they may use soteriology to underline or justify various 
 individual or collective actions\, such as mission\, conversion or militar
 y conquest in the name of a new religion\; eventually new salvation models
  can develop out of religious contact. The purpose of this two-day worksho
 p is to explore these and other aspects of soteriology in inter and intra-
 religious and spatial contexts. The set of questions to be explored will f
 ocus on elaborating on such issues as the soteriology of ‘the other’ c
 ompared to the soteriology of one’s own religious community\; what can t
 his tell us about inter-religious contact\; can we detect borrowings and/o
 r cross-fertilisation of ideas on soteriology from one religion to the oth
 er and if so\, can the process be described\; what modifications ‘borrow
 ed’ ideas on soteriology undergo in different cultural and religious con
 texts\; can adherents of ‘rival’ religious groups be saved and if so\,
  how\; is there a religious polemic couched in a soteriological discourse\
 , and so forth. Another set of questions will focus on the spatial aspect 
 of the ‘salvation’ discourse\, This could refer to specific physical s
 pace\, certain locations such as shared sites\, which were/are significant
  from a soteriological point of view. The latter may refer to both natural
  (e.g. holy mountains\, springs\, etc.) or man-made sites (a commonly vene
 rated shrine\, saint’s grave\, etc.). But meta-physical space where (usu
 ally after-life) salvation takes place will also be considered. In this re
 spect\, again the inter-religious aspects of such spaces will be considere
 d: what happens there to one’s own religious community’s members and h
 ow are the others treated\; how accessibly such meta-physical spaces could
  be to the members of the other groups\, and what kind of actual informati
 on one could gain from such analysis about real interactions between peopl
 es of different religions. Religions to be taken into consideration will i
 nclude Zoroastrianism\, Buddhism\, Daoism\, Judaism\, Christianity\, Islam
  and Manichaeism\, including variations of those when appropriate.
URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/de/veranstaltungen/de-20130418-workshop-saved
 -and-damned/
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