BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ceres.rub.de//events// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Rückkehr nach Aschkenas DTSTART:20220529T080000Z DTEND:20220530T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:ruckkehr-nach-aschkenas-7934@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Mit der Einwanderung jüdischer Kontingentflüchtlinge nach De utschland schließt sich ein Kreis. Sie kamen zurück in die deutschen Lan de\, aus denen ihre Vorfahren vor langer Zeit während und nach den Pogrom en der mittelalterlichen Kreuzzüge und der großen Pest geflohen waren. " Aschkenas" steht bei jüdischen Gelehrten des Hochmittelalters für die de utschen Lande\, das erste Siedlungsgebiet von Jüdinnen und Juden in Nordw esteuropa\, vor allem an den Ufern des Rheins. Das Jubiläum über mehr al s 1700 Jahre jüdisches Leben in Deutschland muss diesen Ausgangspunkt jü disch-aschkenasischer Kultur in das historische Gedächtnis zurückrufen.\ n\nAuch die Zeit mit ihrer wechselvollen Geschichte im Aufnahmegebiet von Polen-Litauen und den späteren Ansiedlungsrayons des Zarenreiches gehöre n wie das Schicksal der sowjetischen Juden in der Shoah und nach dem Krieg heute zur Geschichte jüdischen Lebens in Deutschland. Deutschland hat se it 1990 ungefähr 2\,5 Mill. Menschen aus den Staaten der ehemaligen Sowje tunion aufgenommen. Neben den russlanddeutschen Spätaussiedler:innen kame n - aufgrund einer ursprünglich am Runden Tisch der DDR geborenen Idee - auch ungefähr 200.000 Jüdinnen und Juden als Kontingentflüchtlinge in d ie Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Neben dem Anspruch "der Verantwortung unser er eigenen deutschen Geschichte" gerecht zu werden\, gehörte auch die "Re vitalisierung des jüdischen Elements im deutschen Kultur- und Geisteslebe n" zu den Wünschen\, die die deutsche Politik mit der Aufnahme verband.\n \nBei den damaligen politischen Entscheider:innen wie auch in der Öffentl ichkeit war neben der Shoah im Übrigen über die Geschichte und Herkunft des aschkenasischen Judentums aus der Sowjetunion\, ihre mittelalterliche Flucht- und Wanderungsgeschichte so wenig bekannt\, wie über die antijüd ischen Verfolgungen unter Stalin\, die sowjetische Tabuisierung des Gedenk ens an die Opfer der Shoah und die aufgeheizte antisemitische Stimmung zum Ende der Sowjetunion. Russlanddeutsche und aschkenasische Jüdinnen und J uden sind zwei verschiedene soziale Gruppen und keinesfalls identisch. Abe r betrachtet man die kulturelle und geografische Herkunft beider Gruppen\, ihre Schicksale nach Weltkrieg und Shoah rechtfertigt dies eine Schlechte rstellung jüdischer Kontingentflüchtlinge nicht.\n\nDie Fachtagung wird vom Tikvah Institut gUG mit der Heinrich Böll Stiftung organisiert. Das K äte Hamburger Kolleg des CERES (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)\, das Centrum J udaicum und die Amadeu Antonio Stiftung sind Kooperationspartner.\n\nMehr Informationen zur Veranstaltung plus Anmeldeformular gibt es ab März 2022 hier. LOCATION:Heinrich Böll Stiftung\, Schumannstr. 8\, Berlin URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ruckkehr-nach-aschkenas/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:How Did the Ancient Iranians Coordinate Space? On the Old Iranian Absolute Frame of Reference DTSTART:20220223T190000Z DTEND:20220223T203000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:how-did-ancient-iranians-coordinate-space-old-iran-7939@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Pourdavoud Center Lecture by Prof. Dr. Kianoosh Rezania (CERES /RUB\, Bochum)\n\nThe lecture is organised by the Pourdavoud Center for th e Study of the Iranian World\, UCLA. For more information click here.\n\nF or verbal expression and nonverbal cognitive processing of spatial relatio ns between two objects\, the speakers of a language use different frames o f reference. (Psycho)linguistics classifies these into three main groups: intrinsic\, relative\, and absolute.This lecture aims to identify the old Iranian absolute frame of reference. After a short explanation of differen t frames of reference\, the presentation will examine four sorts of eviden ce to this end: Avestan and Old Persian textual testimonies\, the directio n of Zoroastrian ritual in the Old Iranian period\, and the direction of s ome significant Achaemenid architectural constructions. The lecture will s how that the ancient Iranians did not use the four geocentric cardinal poi nts of east\, west\, south and north as the cardinal directions of their a bsolute frame of reference\, as research has implicitly taken for granted so far. The evidence\, conversely\, suggests that the old Iranian absolute frame of reference was constituted by the sunrise and sunset points of th e winter and summer solstices.\n\nRegister for online lecture here LOCATION:Online Event URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/how-did-ancient-iranians-coordinate -space-old-iran/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Far from Wellness: Tantric Buddhist Rituals on the Silk Road DTSTART:20220214T170000Z DTEND:20220214T181500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:far-wellness-tantric-buddhist-rituals-silk-road-7926@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Prof. Dr. Carmen Meinert (Central Asian Religions) as part of the lecture series "Eine Religion kommt selten allein: Streifz üge durch die Religionsgeschichte". The online lecture will be presented in German. After the lecture English questions\, however\, are welcomed in the CERES YouTube channel.\n\nThe misconceptions about what lies behind t he term Tantra are very numerous in contemporary Western societies. With o ffers such as ritual massages and introductions to spiritual sexual practi ces\, certainly  one can earn a lot of money\, but one does not necessari ly accomplishes salvation\, the attainment of Buddhahood. What did Tantric Buddhist ritual practice look like in the 12th century\, as it was practi sed in the caves of Dunhuang and in other remote places\, perceived as sac red spaces\, along the so-called Silk Road in Central Asia? I would like t o take you on a journey through time and give you an impression of Buddhis t reality of life and religious experience by applying the concept of tran scendence-immanence distinction developed in the KHK to historical visual and textual materials from Central Asia.\n\n\nCarmen Meinert is Professor for Central Asian Religions and PI of the ERC project BuddhistRoad at CERE S\, Ruhr-Universität Bochum\, Germany. Trained in Buddhist Studies\, Tibe tan Studies\, and Sinology\, she aims to develop the field of Central Asia n religions more systematically and to integrate Central Asian and Tibetan Studies in the larger framework of Comparative Religious Studies. Her rec ent publications include:\nMeinert\, Carmen and Henrik H.\, ed.\, Buddhism in Central Asia I\, Patronage\, Legitimation\, Sacred Space\, and Pilgrim age (Leiden: Brill\, 2020)\; Heirman\, Ann\, Carmen Meinert\, and Christop h Anderl\, ed.\, Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia (Leid en: Brill\, 2018) and Meinert\, Carmen\, ed.\, Transfer of Buddhism across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries) (Leiden: Brill\, 2016).\n\ n\nClick here to CERES' YoutTube channel. \n\nCERES live website here. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/far-wellness-tantric-buddhist-ritua ls-silk-road/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Weitere Details unbekannt: Geheimnis im Religionskontakt DTSTART:20220131T170000Z DTEND:20220131T181500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:geheimnis-im-religionskontakt-7924@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Vortrag von PD Dr. Knut Martin Stünkel im Rahmen der Online-R ingvorlesung "Eine Religion kommt selten allein: Streifzüge durch die Rel igionsgeschichte"\n\nGeheimnisse sind spannend und attraktiv. Sie bewirken Neugier und motivieren so\, sich mit Ihnen näher zu beschäftigen. Zwar sind sie soziale Errungenschaften\, doch schotten sie Individuen von einan der ab. Ein Geheimnis zu teilen ist ein großer Vertrauensbeweis. In relig iösen Traditionen sind die eigenen Geheimnisse Gegenstand besonderer Sorg falt. Geheimnisse werden besonders behütet. Wie können Geheimnisse dann aber eine besondere Rolle im Religionskontakt spielen? Im Vortrag soll die ser Frage nachgegangen werden. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/geheimnis-im-religionskontakt/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Von der Kommunikation zur Religion: Die Entstehung des Daoismus im frühen China DTSTART:20220124T170000Z DTEND:20220124T181500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:kontakt-im-fruhen-china-die-entstehung-des-daoismu-7920@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Vortrag von Licia DiGiacinto im Rahmen der Online-Ringvorlesun g "Eine Religion kommt selten allein: Streifzüge durch die Religionsgesch ichte"\n\nDaoismus — die Lehre des Weges oder daojiao 道教 — ist heu te eine der fünf offiziell anerkannten Religionen der Volksrepublik China s und bildet eine starke religiöse Gemeinde in Taiwan. Auch im Westen (vo r allem in den USA) findet man Zentren und Hallen\, die dieser Religion ge widmet sind.\n\nDer Daoismus blickt auf eine lange Geschichte zurück\, ei ne Geschichte die\, die chinesische Kultur massiv geprägt hat und die Ima gination des Westens fasziniert hat. Die Rekonstruktion dieser Geschichte stellt auf mehreren Ebenen eine Herausforderung dar: Bereits im 19. Jahrhu ndert\, als Friederich Max Müller (1823-1900) sein Projekt Sacred Books o f the East startete begann und James Legge (1815-1897) die Übersetzungen von den Grundtexten des Daoismus — vor allem das Laozi — anfertigte\, wurde die frühe Geschichte des Daoismus als eine Umwandlung von Philosoph ie zu Religion gelesen. Dieser Ansatz ist allerdings in der letzten Zeit i mmer wieder problematisiert worden.\n\nIn der Auseinandersetzung mit Theme n wie Mystik oder frühe religiöse Praktiken des Daoismus wird deutlich\, dass es mehr Kontinuitäten zwischen der postulierten Zeit der "Philosoph ie" (die letzten Jahrhunderte v. u. Z.) und der Epoche der Religion (ab de m 2. Jh.) gab. Die zentrale Frage\, wie der Daoismus enstanden ist\, kann mit Hilfe der Religionssoziologie und einem Blick auf Kommunikation als Le itkategorie neu beantwortet werden. Wenn Religion religionssoziologisch ge dacht als Sphäre der Gesellschaft\, die durch Kommunikation entsteht und operiert\, zu verstehen ist\, dann ist die Entstehung des Daoismus auch al s Bildung und Entwicklung von religiösen Inhalten (als Kommunikationsbaus teine) nachvollziehbar. Und wenn die religiösen Inhalte als grundlegend g elten\, dann ist die Geschichte des Daoismus eine äußerst verflochtene G eschichte\, eine Geschichte die nicht ohne den Blick auf interreligiöse K ontakte zwischen Daoismus\, Konfuzianismus und Buddhismus  rekonstruierba r ist.\n\nDer Vortrag versucht anhand dieses religionssoziologischen Ansat zes die Entstehung des Daoismus neu zu bewerten und zwischen jenen\, die e ine Zäsur zwischen der philosophischen Frühphase und der Religion sehen\ , und jenen\, die allein die Kontinuitätslinie unterstreichen\, zu vermit teln. \n\n  LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/kontakt-im-fruhen-china-die-entsteh ung-des-daoismu/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Was passiert mit der Seele nach dem Tod? Eine unsterbliche Idee au s dem alten Iran DTSTART:20220117T170000Z DTEND:20220117T181500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:was-passiert-mit-der-seele-nach-dem-tod-eine-reise-7919@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Vortrag von Kianoosh Rezania (Westasiatishe Religionsgeschicht e) im Rahmen der Online-Ringvorlesung "Eine Religion kommt selten allein: Streifzüge durch die Religionsgeschichte"\n\nEs gibt Vorstellungen\, die scheinen einfach unsterblich. Dieser Vortrag widmet sich einer solchen rel igiösen Vorstellung vom Tode\, in der die Seele der Verstorbenen ihren tu gendhaften Taten in Gestalt einer wunderbaren Jungfrau\, der sogenannten S chauseele Daēnā\, begegnet. Entstanden ist diese Vorstellung in der zoro astrischen Individualeschatologie des antiken Persiens und sie nahm ihren Weg ab der Spätantike in andere Religionen wie den Manichäismus und dem Islam. Diese Vorstellung überlebte - freilich mit Veränderungen - mehrer e tausend Jahre.\n\nDer Iranist Kianoosh Rezania führt zunächst in die r ituelle Konzeption des Zoroastrismus ein\, die dieser Vorstellung von dem was nach dem Tode passiert\, zugrundeliegt. Er zeigt dann auf\, wie sich d araus eine zoroastrische Individualeschatologie in der Antile entwickelte. Chronologisch zeigt der Vortrag anhand des sasanidischen textlichen und i konographischen Materials die Verbreitung und die Beliebtheit der postmort alen Begegnung der Seele mit der Daēnā in der Spätantike - einer Zeit\, in der diese Vorstellung auch Eingang in die religiösen Traditionen des  Manichäismus und wenig später in den frühen Islam fand\, wo sie bis h eute im schiitischen Volksglauben und darüber hinaus zu finden ist.\n\nLi nk zum YouTube-Kanal des CERES\n\nCERES live Website\n\n  LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/was-passiert-mit-der-seele-nach-dem -tod-eine-reise/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religiöse Vielfalt im Ruhrgebiet: Chancen und Herausforderungen DTSTART:20220110T170000Z DTEND:20220110T181500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:religiose-vielfalt-im-ruhrgebiet-chancen-und-herau-7928@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Vortrag im Rahmen der Online-Ringvorlesung "Eine Religion komm t selten allein: Streifzüge durch die Religionsgeschichte" LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/religiose-vielfalt-im-ruhrgebiet-ch ancen-und-herau/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gute Schlange - böse Schlange: Altorientalische Religionsgeschich te im Wandel DTSTART:20211220T170000Z DTEND:20211220T181500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:gute-schlange-bose-schlange-altorientalische-relig-7921@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Vortrag der Altorientalistin Rosel Pientka-Hinz im Rahmen der Online-Ringvorlesung "Eine Religion kommt selten allein: Streifzüge durch die Religionsgeschichte". Der Vortrag wird hier via YouTube-Livestream ge zeigt.\n\nDie Tiersymbolik der altorientalischen Welt entwickelt sich durc h drei Jahrtausende Religionsgeschichte auf vielfältige Weise. Dabei weis en sich manche der Bilder wie etwa der Löwe als Ausdruck königlicher Her rschaft durch eine beharrliche Beständigkeit aus\, andere wiederum sind e her flüchtig und wechselhaft in ihren Erscheinungsformen.\n\nDas Zusammen spiel unterschiedlicher Traditionslinien spielt dabei eine entscheidende R olle. Im Vortrag soll dem ambivalenten Charakter der Schlange nachgespürt werden\, so wie sich dieser im Religionskontakt zwischen dem alten Mesopo tamien und seinen angrenzenden Kulturen zeigt. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/gute-schlange-bose-schlange-altorie ntalische-relig/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Why did the Uyghurs become Buddhist? DTSTART:20211110T150000Z DTEND:20211110T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:lecture-johan-elverskog-7905@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Johan Elverskog (Dallas\, TX).\n\nIn 762 CE\, the ruler of East Uyghur Khanate (ca. 744–840\, also known as Uyghur St eppe Empire)\, Bügü Khan (759–779)\, converted to Manichaeism. The Uyg hur elite continued to embrace this tradition even when their empire on th e Mongolian Plateau collapsed and they fled to present-day northwest China . But around the year 1000\, the Uyghurs converted to Buddhism\, the domin ant religion among their subject peoples—the Chinese\, Sogdians\, and To charians—and would remain Buddhist until their conversion to Islam centu ries later.\n\n\nJohan Elverskog explores the Uyghurs’ conversion in the larger context of Eurasian geopolitics and the contemporary messianic bel ief that the end of the dharma was nigh. Johan Elverskog is a historian. H e is Dedman Family Distinguished Professor at Southern Methodist Universit y and specialises in inter-Asian cross-cultural exchange and interaction. His recent and forthcoming publications include: Johan Elverskog\, "The Bu ddha’s Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia" (Philadelphia: Unive rsity of Pennsylvania Press\, 2020) and "The Precious Summary: A History o f the Mongols" (New York: Columbia University Press\, forthcoming). Elvers kog was 2013 Visiting Research Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Dynam iken der Religionsgeschichte" in Bochum\n\n\nDue to the rules to minimize the pandemic only limited seats can be offered. Please pre-register at bud dhistroad@rub.de by 5th of November 2021. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/lecture-johan-elverskog/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Material Dimension of Cultural and Religious Contact Studied o n the Basis of Selected Missionary Collections in Germany and Poland DTSTART:20211027T070000Z DTEND:20211029T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:the-material-dimension-of-cultural-and-religi-en-1-7863@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/the-material-dimension-of-cultural- and-religi-en-1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Wie deutsch ist Jiddisch? DTSTART:20211024T080000Z DTEND:20211025T123000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:wie-deutsch-ist-jiddisch-7647@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Welche Beziehung haben das Deutsche und das Jiddische? Wie beu rteilen die Sprachwissenschaft das Verhältnis von jüdischer Minderheiten - und Umgebungssprache in den verschiedenen Sprachräumen? Welche Sprachst ruktur und welches Vokabular haben Jiddisch und Deutsch gemeinsam? Welche Gemeinsamkeiten gibt es mit Hebräisch und mit den nicht-deutschen Umgebun gssprachen? Was folgt aus Gemeinsamkeiten und Trennendem für die Definiti on des sprachwissenschaftlichen Verhältnisses? Ziel der Tagung ist es\, e inem breiteren Publikum die Nähe des Jiddischen zum Deutschen deutlich zu machen. Dabei wird auch einen Blick auf das Jiddische als Gegenstand von Sprachpolitik in Deutschland\, in der Sowjetunion oder Israel geworfen.\n\ nDie Fachtagung wird vom Tikvah Institut gUG mit der Konrad-Adenauer-Stift ung organisiert. Das Käte Hamburger Kolleg des CERES (Ruhr-Universität B ochum)\, das Centrum Judaicum und die Amadeu Antonio Stiftung sind Koopera tionspartner.\n\nMehr Informationen zur Veranstaltung plus Anmeldeformular gibt es hier. LOCATION:Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung\, Tiergartenstr. 35\, Großer Saal\, Ber lin URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/wie-deutsch-ist-jiddisch/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Twelve Years of Studying Religious Contacts at the KHK: Stepping B ack and Looking Ahead DTSTART:20210616T070000Z DTEND:20210618T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-final-conference-2021-7553@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:After twelve fruitful years of exploring\, discussing\, and cl assifying religious contact phenomena\, the research program of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Eur ope came to its natural end in March 2020.\n\nThe KHKʼs final conference “Step Back and Look Beyond: Studying Religion after 2020” has two aims : First\, it provides a platform on which to reflect on the KHKʼs achieve ments\, the benefits of its contact-centered approach as well as related c hallenges. Second\, the conference brings together an international group of renowned scholars who will take a step back from their current research and reflect upon the theoretical paradigms and methodological approaches that enrich their own research. The conference thus gives a place to ponde r about the ways in which these approaches fit into the general study of r eligion and its rich history. Will these ways continue to shape the field in the future? What other promising ways to do research on religion are on the horizon? How do such new approaches fit into the field as a whole?\n\ nPresentations will either focus on one particular approach or paradigm (a nd its empirical usage) or reflect on the overall state of the field and i ts possible future.\n\nLatest version of the conference program here (as o f 25 May 2021)\n\nDownload the RUB-CERES-KHK Zoom background picture here. \n\nIf you would like to join the conference as part of the audience\, pl ease contact Maren Freudenberg. LOCATION:Online Event URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-final-conference-2021/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Missionssammlungen als Wissensspeicher für Kultur- und Religionsk ontakt zwischen Asien und Europa DTSTART:20201203T090000Z DTEND:20201203T153000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:missionssammlungen-als-wissensspeicher-fur-kultur-7599@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Online-Workshop auf Einladung LOCATION:Online Event URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/missionssammlungen-als-wissensspeic her-fur-kultur/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Step Back and look Beyond: Studying Religion after 2020 DTSTART:20200311T090000Z DTEND:20200313T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:step-back-and-look-beyond-6824@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This conference will be postponed to a later date. \n\nAfter t welve fruitful years of exploring\, discussing\, and classifying religious contact phenomena\, the research programme of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe will come to its natural end in March 2020.\n\nThe final conference has two aims: First \, it wishes to provide a platform on which to reflect on the KHK's achiev ements\, the benefits of its contact-centered approach as well as related challenges. Second\, the conference brings together an international group of renowned scholars who will take a step back from their current researc h and reflect upon the theoretical paradigms and methodological approaches that enrich their own research. The converence thus gives a place to pond er about the ways in which these approaches fit into the general study of religion and its rich history. Will these ways continue to shape the field beyond 2020? What other promising ways to do research on religion are on the horizon? How do these approaches fit into the field as a whole? Will t hey continue to shape the field beyond 2020?\n\nPresentations will either focus on one particular approach or paradigm (and its empirical usage)\, o r reflect on the overall state of the field and its possible future.\n\n  LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/step-back-and-look-beyond/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Beiratssitzung 2020 DTSTART:20200310T090000Z DTEND:20200310T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-beiratssitzung-2020-7352@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Die Beiratssitzung 2020 wird verschoben LOCATION:Beckmanns Hof\, RUB-Campus URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-beiratssitzung-2020/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle on Habermas' "Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie" DTSTART:20200309T150000Z DTEND:20200309T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:reading-circle-habermas-auch-eine-geschichte-der-0-7138@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Bagdad" (2.10) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-habermas-auch-eine-g eschichte-der-0/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle on Habermas' "Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie" DTSTART:20200302T150000Z DTEND:20200303T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:reading-circle-habermas-auch-eine-geschichte-der-5-7137@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Bagdad" (2.10) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-habermas-auch-eine-g eschichte-der-5/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: Confucian Mysticism? The Case of Shao Yong (1012 -1077) DTSTART:20200227T100000Z DTEND:20200227T113000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:lunchbox-lecture-confucian-mysticism-case-shao-yon-7501@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lunchbox Lecture by Sophia Katz (Tel Hai) LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/lunchbox-lecture-confucian-mysticis m-case-shao-yon/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle on Habermas' "Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie" DTSTART:20200210T150000Z DTEND:20200210T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:reading-circle-habermas-auch-eine-geschichte-der-3-7135@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Bagdad" (2.10) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-habermas-auch-eine-g eschichte-der-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Exkursion: Jainismus-Ausstellung Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Köln DTSTART:20200205T083000Z DTEND:20200205T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:exkursion-jainismus-ausstellung-7341@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fachexkursion zur Ausstellung "Heilige & Asketen. Miniaturmale rei der Jaina in Indien".\n\nDie Ausstellung wurd mit wissenschaftlicher B eratung von CERES-Forscher Patrick F. Krüger realisiert. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/exkursion-jainismus-ausstellung/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle on Habermas' "Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie" DTSTART:20200204T130000Z DTEND:20200204T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:reading-circle-habermas-auch-eine-geschichte-der-4-7136@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Bagdad" (2.10) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-habermas-auch-eine-g eschichte-der-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: Liberty University. Evangelical Spirit\, White M en\, and Knowledge Politics in Contemporary US History DTSTART:20200128T111500Z DTEND:20200128T124500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:lunchbox-lecture-liberty-university-evangelical-sp-6353@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lunchbox Lecture by Felix Krämer (Erfurt)\n\n“I know that e ach of you will be a warrior for the truth\, will be a warrior for our cou ntry\, and for your family”\, Donald Trump proclaimed at the commencemen t speech at Liberty University in 2017. The talk addresses the question wh ich role the media form of an evangelical university space might have play ed within the intermingling of religion and politics\, masculinity and lea dership in the United States since the early 1970s when TV-preacher Jerry Falwell founded Lynchburg Baptist College in Virginia that should become L iberty University in the 1980s. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/lunchbox-lecture-liberty-university -evangelical-sp/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Magnus Schlette DTSTART:20200127T171500Z DTEND:20200127T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20200127-6886@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20200127/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting DTSTART:20200127T151500Z DTEND:20200127T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20200127-6885@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20200127/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle on Habermas' "Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie" DTSTART:20200121T130000Z DTEND:20200121T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:reading-circle-habermas-auch-eine-geschichte-der-2-7129@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Bagdad" (2.10) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-habermas-auch-eine-g eschichte-der-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Jewish Encounters in the Persianate World from the Sassanians to t he Qajjars DTSTART:20200121T093000Z DTEND:20200122T143000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:jewish-encounters-persianate-world-sassanians-qajj-6262@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The Sasanian Empire and the territories both controlled or inf luenced by later\, various Iranian dynasties\, were host to numerous relig ious groups\, who interacted on multiple levels within the religious field : in magical practices\, concerns for purity\, prayers for rain and other rituals\, often in their efforts to create clear boundaries between one co mmunity and another.\n\nThis workshop examines the relationship of Jews in west and central Asia from late antiquity to the nineteenth century in or der better understand the patterns of encounter between various denominati ons of Jews (Rabbanite\, Karaite\, and Isawiyya)\, and Jews with Zoroastri ans\, Manichaeans\, and various types of Christians and Muslims. The role of religious affiliation and competition in trading partnerships\, ritual practice\, popular literature\, magic\, among other topoi\, are all potent ial foci\, however\, of particular interest is the cross-fertilization bet ween Jewish ideas and movements and those of other religious affiliations. \n\nWorkshop's programme LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/jewish-encounters-persianate-world- sassanians-qajj/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Media and Religion in Russia: The Challenges of Dig italization DTSTART:20200120T171500Z DTEND:20200120T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-gastvortrag-20200120-6884@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture by Victor Khroul (Moscow/Bochum)\n\nExamining th e 'digital' as a challenge to one of the most traditional sphere of privat e and public life of Russians\, the lecture is focused on institutional as pects of the religion digitalization in the theoretical frame of mediatiza tion. Normatively\, digitalization as such does not contradict the dogmati c teaching of any traditional for Russia religion\, in Christianity\, Juda ism\, Islam and Buddhism theologically it is being considered as a neutral process with good or bad consequences depending on human will. Therefore functionally digital technologies are seen by religious institutions as a shaping force\, one more facility (channel\, tool\, space\, network) for e ffective preaching. The distinction between 'religion online' and 'online religion' evidently shows the domination – in terms of quantity and qual ity – of ‘religion online’ with packaging old content into new forma ts and adjusting it up to new channels and platforms while the core of rel igious practices still remains based on non-mediated interpersonal communi cation. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-gastvortrag-2020 0120/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting DTSTART:20200120T151500Z DTEND:20200120T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20200120-6883@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20200120/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Interreligious Relations in Early Southeast Asia: Encountering Bud dhists\, Brahmins and Indigenous Religions DTSTART:20200116T080000Z DTEND:20200117T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:interreligious-relations-early-southeast-asia-enco-6046@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Over the last two or three decades\, scholarship on Southeast Asia has largely contributed to the reappraisal of the process of ‘India nisation’ of the region. Though not standardized and having changing mea ning according to Indian and Western academic cultures\, this paradigm can be broadly understood as the diffusion and adoption of Indian cultural va lues to Southeast Asia from the first few centuries following the turn of the Common Era onwards. Critical of this India-centric model\, scholars ha ve proposed alternative approaches to the study of interactions between So uth and Southeast Asia which have oscillated between two poles: that of ex ternalist influence on the one hand and that of the local or autonomous sp ecificity on the other hand.\n\nThese reflections are fed by archaeologica l discoveries and advances in the knowledge of textual and art historical sources which have highlighted a continuum in exchanges between South and Southeast Asia since at least the 5th century BCE. Furthermore\, archaeolo gical findings bear witness to the importance of Southeast Asian agency in the diffusion of local models across Asia. In consequence\, in the last d ecade\, approaches have encouraged to focus on the circulatory dynamics of transfer of cultural\, religious\, diplomatic and economic values through maritime trade routes across Asia. Some have even posited a new “Monson Asia” or “Maritime Asia” paradigm which conceives South and Southea st Asia as part of an integral cultural oikumene with a shared background of human\, intellectual\, and environmental history.\n\nAgainst the framew ork of these second-order reflections\, the workshop will investigate diff erent levels of relationship between Hindu\, Buddhist and non-Indic religi ons during ancient and early medieval times. It will examine issues relate d to the multi-directional transfer of mythologies\, belief-systems\, prac tices and material culture between the Indian sub-continent and what is co mmonly referred to as Southeast Asia. In this respect\, it aims at sheddin g further light on the agencies in the spread of religious concepts and ma terial objects\, the dialectics between their received and assigned or rei nterpreted meaning\, and the modifications brought about by their adoption and/or adaptations.\n\nWorkshop programme LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/interreligious-relations-early-sout heast-asia-enco/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20200113T171500Z DTEND:20200113T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20200113-6882@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20200113/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting DTSTART:20200113T151500Z DTEND:20200113T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20200113-6881@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20200113/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Jahresabschlussfeier DTSTART:20191216T150000Z DTEND:20191216T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-jahresabschlussfeier-2019-6880@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-jahresabschlussf eier-2019/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle "New Research in the Study of Religion" DTSTART:20191212T151500Z DTEND:20191212T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:reading-circle-new-research-study-religion-dec2019-7139@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The reading circle continues the 2016/2017 meetings of the one dedicated to "Religious Experience in Contemporary Settings." The meeting s of the Spring/Summer 2018 will focus on analyses of new research in the study of religion. The discussions will take place in English\; all CERES researchers\, KHK visiting members\, and staff members are welcome to join . For more information\, please contact the two organizers of the reading group.\n\nToday's literature: \nThe Oxford Handbook of the Study of Relig ion (OUP\, 2017) LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Lalibela" (3.11) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-new-research-study-r eligion-dec2019/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation 2: Boudewijn Walraven DTSTART:20191209T171500Z DTEND:20191209T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-walraven-6879@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-walraven/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation 1: Hossein Najari DTSTART:20191209T151500Z DTEND:20191209T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20191209-6878@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20191209/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Muslim Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations DTSTART:20191205T130000Z DTEND:20191206T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:muslim-perspectives-jewish-christian-relations-6052@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This workshop focuses on a virtually unstudied topic: how did Muslim thinkers perceive and imagine Jewish-Christian interaction? Whereas studies on Muslim views of Christianity and Muslim views on Judaism aboun d\, there are no studies dealing with the questions of whether and how Mus lims authors (historians\, exegetes\, legal scholars\, littérateurs etc) reflected on the historical and imagined relations between Jews and Christ ians.\n\nRecent research suggests that the Qur’an alludes to and critici zes Jewish-Christian polemical exchanges\, which would not be surprising c onsidering the vehemence of Jewish-Christian confrontation in the 6th-7th century Near East. In later centuries the relation between Judaism and Chr istianity was discussed by Muslims in the context of discussions about the corruption of scripture\, the Qur’an’s denial of Christ’s crucifixi on and the possibility of naskh\, abrogation of religious laws\, while in modern times Muslim thinkers have explored links between Western Christian s and Zionism.\n\nThe workshop will bring together scholars of different a reas within Islamic and Arabic studies\, who will discuss relevant writing s\, in the hope of furthering our understanding of interreligious interact ion in the Islamic world and of the development of Islam’s self-image in relation to competing religious communities.\n\nWorkshop program LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/muslim-perspectives-jewish-christia n-relations/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Ruth Ebach DTSTART:20191202T171500Z DTEND:20191202T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-ruth-ebach-6877@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-ruth-ebach/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting DTSTART:20191202T151500Z DTEND:20191202T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20191202-6875@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Introduction to KHK research by Christian Frevel (Bochum) LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20191202/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Hossein Najari DTSTART:20191125T151500Z DTEND:20191125T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-najari-6876@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Due to a cancellation\, this Monday Meeting features only one session. Hossein Najari has kindly agreed to move his fellow presentation to the first half of the Monday Meeting\, starting at 16:15 h slot. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-najari/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Retelling Tales and Recreating Cosmologies as Strategies of Global Encounter and Expansion 600-1800 DTSTART:20191120T080000Z DTEND:20191123T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:retelling-tales-and-recreating-cosmologies-strateg-6116@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The workshop will explore the ways in which tales\, whether ex pressed in written\, oral\, theatrical or other visual form\, were transfo rmed as they crossed from one cultural realm to another\, and then were us ed as a way of explaining\, incorporating or resisting other cultures. In particular we wish to examine ways in which dominant\, often invading cult ures attempted to insert themselves into the cosmologies of those they wis hed to conquer\, and how in turn\, these cultures transformed their own co smological understandings to account for and often resist the rhetoric of the others\, designed to push for changes in religion\, rituals\, and mora l behaviors.\n\nWorkshop program LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/retelling-tales-and-recreating-cosm ologies-strateg/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Jesper Frøkjær Sørensen DTSTART:20191118T171500Z DTEND:20191118T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-gastvortrag-jsoerensen-6873@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Discussions and disputes about the reality\, role and importan ce of analytic constructs such as ‘world-view’\, ‘religious traditio n’\, or ‘culture’ seem endemic to the academic study of religion. De spite decades of often harsh critique\, such concepts seem to be idealizat ions hard to do without\, functioning as they do\, as means to capture and direct attention towards apparent conceptual and behavioral continuities. But how do we model these local stabilities without falling into the trap of reification and cultural determinism? Taking its point of departure in the so-called “epidemiology of representations” proposed by Dan Sperb er\, this lecture will investigate an understanding of religion as an exam ple of an (emerging) “culturo-immunological” system\, that regulates t he boundaries of human cooperative and communicative units. Inspired by di scussions in theoretical biology of what constitutes and organism and by n eurocognitive models of ‘Predictive Processing\,” I shall tentatively present a model of how cultural systems\, such as religions\, stabilize an d how specific cognitive and social processes immunize these systems again st both internal semantic decay and external destructive forces. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-gastvortrag-jsoe rensen/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Theoretical Frameworks DTSTART:20191118T151500Z DTEND:20191118T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20191118-6872@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:KHK Post-Doc Eduard Iricinschi talks about "Reorganizing Hist ory of Religion as System: Ioan Petru Culianu\, Mircea Eliade\, and Claude Lévi-Strauss" LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20191118/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Digitalization and Religious Contact DTSTART:20191114T080000Z DTEND:20191115T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:digitalization-and-religious-contact-6107@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The workshop addresses these questions from an interdisciplina ry perspective. Resulting from the joint organizational effort of CERES (C enter for Religious Studies) and CAIS (Center for Advanced Internet Studie s) of Ruhr Universität Bochum\, it will put in conversation scholars in t he field of religion and in the field of media studies\, offering opportun ities to bring together and confront different methodological and theoreti cal approaches:\n\nReligion in contemporary Europe is undergoing dynamic a nd compelling changes: for example\, migrations are changing the religious landscape\, creating the need for minorities to enter in public debates\; discrimination and racism compel scholars to reflect on the role of media and free speech\; the risk of radicalization of certain minorities is an urgent social and political issue. These changes often regard contacts bet ween religious groups\, involving minorities that have to confront mainstr eam religiosity and different religious traditions that coexist in the sam e environment.\n\nDigitalization has a central impact on these religious c hanges. As digital media became increasingly pervasive in the European pub lic sphere\, interpersonal relations and cultural actions are inevitably c onditioned by the presence of the Internet. Religious groups address each other and frame their identities through digital spaces\, which are often intertwined with physical spaces.\n\nHowever\, scholars still need to find compelling methods and theories to address the ethical and social consequ ences of digitalization on religious groups and religious contact. While\, in certain circumstances\, existing methods and theories in media and rel igious studies can prove useful\, there are some questions to be explored: How can scholars collect data about digital religion and analyse them? Wh ich framework can better capture the role of the Internet in relation to r eligious contact? What kind of impact does digitalization have on religion \, and how can it be analyzed?\n\nWorkshop Program LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/digitalization-and-religious-contac t/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sinology and Beyond: Discussing the Work of Edward G. Slingerland DTSTART:20191111T151500Z DTEND:20191111T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:beyond-sinology-6808@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The workshop will be opened by Edward G. Slingerlands talk on "Body and Mind in Early China: Embodied Cognition\, Digital Humanities\, a nd the Project of Comparative Philosophy". It is commonly claimed that min d-body dualism is entirely foreign to China—or “the East” more gener ally. This talk will explore how engaging with the cognitive sciences and digital humanities undermines claims such as this\, and more broadly can h elp us to do our work as scholars of comparative philosophy. Embracing an embodied view of human cognition gets us beyond strong social constructivi sm and its accompanying cultural essentialism. In addition\, new tools fro m the science and digital humanities can\, in combination with traditional archaeological and textual evidence\, allow us to more accurately and rig orously assess claims about the philosophical and religious historical rec ord. Specifically\, Prof Slingerland will focus on novel large-scale textu al analysis techniques\, online databases for sharing scholarly knowledge\ , and work in contemporary evolutionary anthropology and cognitive science relevant to the mind-body issue. Prof slingerland will conclude by consid ering how early Chinese views of mind-body relations do\, in fact\, differ from some modern Western conceptions\, and how taking a more reasonable v iew of cultural differences can allow us to genuinely learn from other cul tures.\n\nWorkshop programme LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/beyond-sinology/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Invoking a Strange God: Rituals of Power and Religious Contacts in the Late Antique Mediterranean World and Medieval Europe DTSTART:20191107T080000Z DTEND:20191108T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:invoking-strange-god-5729@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This workshop brings together scholars in the fields of late a ntique and medieval magic and Kabbalah in the Mediterranean world and West ern Asia to study the role of religious contacts in their historical conte xts. The conference advances a three-fold programmatic approach:\n\n\n Fir st\, its participants are invited to consider the composite nature of prim ary sources of ancient\, late-antique\, and medieval of “magic” and Ka bbalah as texts documenting the accumulations of practices and ideologies underlying rituals of power. As a result\, the first approach aims to unco ver paths of circulation and patches of accumulation of these documents.\n Second\, the scholars are invited to discuss historical instances of late -antique and medieval magic and Kabbalah as instances of mutual influence\ , exchanges\, and appropriations among various historical religious tradit ions. As such\, this approach encourages the participants to explore the m alleable role of “tradition” and “change” in the discourses associ ated with practices of ritual power and invocations of divine names.\n Thi rd\, the scholars are invited to undertake analyses of the materiality ass ociated with rituals of power in various ancient and medieval Jewish and C hristian traditions. In doing this\, the third programmatic approach seeks to highlight the role of materiality in the transmission of occult religi ous traditions\, such as magic and Kabbalah.\n\n\nThe outcome of this work shop will be a special issue dedicated to the above approaches\, to be pub lished in the Journal Entangled Religions in 2020.\n\nWorkshop Program LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/invoking-strange-god/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Margherita Mantovani DTSTART:20191104T171500Z DTEND:20191104T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-mantovani-6871@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-mantovani/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Divination as a Case of Religious Contact? DTSTART:20191104T151500Z DTEND:20191104T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-divination-case-religious-conta-6870@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Jan-Ulrich Sobisch "Divination as a Case of Religio us Contact?" LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-divination-case- religious-conta/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Threads of Tradition – Textile Metaphors DTSTART:20191029T090000Z DTEND:20191029T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:textile-metaphern-6356@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The word text derives – as it is commonly known – from lat . texere\, to weave. Letters often consist of or are arranged in lines\, a nd the Latin word linea\, we learn from anthropologist Tim Ingold\, origin ally appears to have meant a thread made from flax\, linum. „If line“\ , Ingold assumes\, „began as a thread rather than a trace\, so did text begin as a meshwork of interwoven threads.“ (Ingold 2007:61). In differe nt parts of the world\, religious tradition is called a „thread“: in C hinese\, for example\, the word for „canon“ is related to the vertical threads of a cloth.\n\nIn German\, we speak of the „red thread“ witho ut which any narration or argument would fall apart. Red threads\, on the other hand\, are distributed to Jewish visitors of the Western Wall in Jer usalem and brought along to all parts of the world. In Islamic theology\, the foundations of creed are called ʿaqīdah\, a word derived from the ve rb ʿqd meaning „to make knots“. Knots (ʿuqad) are also mentioned in the penultimate Surah of the Qur’an\, where refuge is sought from the wo men who perform magic by ‚blowing on the knots‘. From Eastern Europe t o Central Asia one can find the tradition of binding pieces of cloth or th read into trees\, and in the hills of Istanbul\, there is a saint called T elli Baba\, father with the threads\, from whose grave pilgrims cut pieces of silver thread to come back later\, when a prayer has been accepted\, i n order to leave a piece of thread on the grave themselves.\n\nMany more e xamples for the importance of threads and textiles in religious practices and for weaving\, knotting\, spinning\, binding and untying as recurrent m etaphors in religious texts could be mentioned. While networks\, fabric an d other textile metaphors are prominent in the metalanguage of the social sciences (think e.g. of Clifford Geertz’ definition of man as an „anim al suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun“)\, the wide ra nge of textile metaphors in religious communication is only rarely dealt w ith in its own right. The aim of this workshop is therefore to shed light on textile aspects of religion (from textile to text and back) by focusing both on threads and textiles as vital elements in religious practices and on textile terminologies in religious texts. The workshop will start with the guest lecture by Prof. Tim Ingold (Chair of Social Anthropology\, Uni versity of Aberdeen\, author of Making: Archaeology\, Anthropology\, Art a nd Architecture\, 2013 and Lines: A Brief History\, 2007). Prof. Ingold wi ll also be present during the sessions of the following day. All CERES res earchers are most welcome to contribute by presenting a part from their ow n work related to textile.\n\nWorkshop programme LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/textile-metaphern/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Guest Lecture: Gathering Leaves. The Tree and t he Book DTSTART:20191028T171500Z DTEND:20191028T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-textile-metaphern-6357@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Gastvortrag in Englisch von Tim Ingold (Aberdeen) LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-textile-metapher n/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Moving towards a Typology of Religious Contact s 1 DTSTART:20191028T151500Z DTEND:20191028T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-typology-6869@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:KHK postdoctoral researcher Knut Martin Stünkel introduces in to the typology of religious contacts with special focus on "texture". LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-typology/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Susanne Stadlbauer DTSTART:20191021T161500Z DTEND:20191021T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-stadlbauer-6868@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-stadlbauer/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Introduction DTSTART:20191021T141500Z DTEND:20191021T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-introduction-2019-6867@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Introduction to the concepts and theories of the KHK research by funding director Prof. Dr. Krech. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-introduction-201 9/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERES Computer Café: Semester start DTSTART:20191018T081500Z DTEND:20191018T094500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:ceres-computer-cafe-semester-start-6973@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The first meeting in the winter semester 2019/2020 will provid e an opportunity to explore common interests and identify topics for furth er meetings. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Lalibela" (3.11) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ceres-computer-cafe-semester-start/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Decolonising National and Religious Culture: New Perspectives on R ussia’s Imperial History and Heritage DTSTART:20191017T070000Z DTEND:20191018T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:decolonising-national-and-religious-culture-new-pe-6131@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:At the present moment\, Russian national identity seems to sol idify around the celebration of Slavic civilisation\, Orthodox Christianit y\, conservative values and a new imperial consciousness. In this emerging image of the nation\, little recognition is given to the ethnic and relig ious minorities with their respective histories and traditions. Although n ewer studies exist that take a critical view of the colonial past and the (post-)colonial present\, certain pre-conditions are taken for granted\, t hus rarely causing scholars to engage with questions about the political r esponsibility for the ethnic minorities\, their rights and possibilities o r the imagination and (re-)making of the land and its peoples. In the fram ework of this conference\, we wish to focus on instances of contact betwee n different ethnic and religious groups and particularly between Orthodox Christianity on the one hand and Islam\, but also Buddhism and animistic t raditions on the other\, as these situations capture the clash of contrary outlooks\, the negotiation of culture and history and the struggle for th e right to define specific territories. The papers to be presented reflect upon constellations of ethnic and religious contact both in contemporary times and the Soviet period\; yet in some instances they also conjure the Tsarist imperial past.\n\nWorkshop programme LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/decolonising-national-and-religious -culture-new-pe/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Get-together DTSTART:20191014T160000Z DTEND:20191014T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-get-together-2019-6866@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-get-together-201 9/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Opening of the Winter Term 2019/20 DTSTART:20191014T141500Z DTEND:20191014T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-opening-winter-term-201920-6865@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:\n Introduction to the KHK and CERES\n Introduction to the lec ture series and workshops\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-opening-winter-t erm-201920/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Images in Religious Persuasion: A Cross-Cultural Perspective DTSTART:20191001T070000Z DTEND:20191002T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:Images-in-Religious-Persuasion-5718@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The workshop gathers a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural g roup of scholars to discuss about the role of images in the persuasive dis course of religions across the epochs. Focusing on examples and case studi es related to different religious cultures at different stages of their hi story\, the group of scholars will seek to single out lines of continuity and discontinuity in the religious usage of images for persuasive or dissu asive purposes\, with the intent of detecting relations of hegemony\, area s of conflict\, and opportunities for dialogue.\n\nPreliminary workshop pr ogramme LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Images-in-Religious-Persuasion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religious Contact in the Early Modern Baltic Region DTSTART:20190926T070000Z DTEND:20190927T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:religious-contact-early-modern-baltic-region-eston-5738@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:In early modern times the Baltic region was a contested territ ory. Situated between the Lutheran kingdoms of Sweden and Denmark\, Cathol ic Poland-Lithuania\, and the Orthodox Russian empire\, the region itself did not belong to any single domain entirely. The only constant factor was the local Baltic German Lutheran nobility\, which retained its privileges in the administrative\, judicial\, and religious sphere.\n\nAs elsewhere\ , there have been numerous studies focusing the various religious minoriti es that existed in the region. However\, rather little research has scruti nized inter- and intra-religious contacts\, most of which included the pri vileged Lutheran Church of the Baltic Germans. The workshop aims at reeval uating the early modern Baltic region as an eminent place for the study of religious contact\, including case-studies covering regions from Königsb erg to Ingria during the time period between 1500 and 1780.\n\nWorkshop pr ogramme LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/religious-contact-early-modern-balt ic-region-eston/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Western Learned Magic as an Entangled Tradition DTSTART:20190914T070000Z DTEND:20190915T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:magic-6045@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The workshop explores the textual-ritual tradition of 'Western learned magic' from an interdisciplinary\, longue-durée and cross-cultur al perspective. As the study of 'Western learned magic' has hitherto been scattered across different fields of research\, the workshop assembles eig ht acclaimed scholars in the field who have worked on relevant source mate rial from antiquity to the 21st century.\n\nAll contributions strive for i nterpreting the material from a comparative perspective and with a particu lar focus on ritual dynamics\, thus highlighting intercultural and religio us routes of transmission as well as fascinating types of 'entangled ritua ls'. The contributions will be published in a special issue of Entangled R eligions\, guest-edited by Bernd-Christian Otto.\n\nWorkshop programme LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/magic/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Constructing Religious Otherness in Russia DTSTART:20190806T070000Z DTEND:20190807T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:constructing-religious-otherness-russia-6130@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Russia\, a vast continental state\, has been the crossroads fo r many religious groups: Christians\, Jews\, Muslims\, "Pagans"\, Buddhist s and others. This workshop endeavors to take a snapshot view of typologie s of religious encounter in Russia\, examining multiple types of "othering ".\n\nHow has Orthodoxy influenced the other religions of the Russian Empi re? Has Orthodoxy been influenced? What did communist rule do to alter dai ly Muslim practice? The time-period to be covered would be from the Kievan Rus to the contemporary age\, scholars united by their work on religious pluralism. The longue durée allows us to see changes over time\, and how earlier practices have come to influence modern praxis.\n\nWorkshop's prog ram LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/constructing-religious-otherness-ru ssia/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mathurā: The Archaeology of Inter-Religious Encounters in Ancient India DTSTART:20190725T070000Z DTEND:20190726T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:mathura-archaeology-inter-religious-encounters-anc-6044@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The aim of this workshop is to examine the interaction between Buddhism\, Jainism\, Hinduism and cults associated to nāgas (snake deiti es) and yaksas (nature spirits) at Mathurā (Uttar Pradesh\, India) during Antiquity and Late Antiquity (ca. 2nd century BCE-6th century CE). Althou gh various sites across the Indian subcontinent have yielded what are cons idered the first anthropomorphic depictions of Buddhist\, Jain and Hindu g ods\, evidence for the use of the human form to represent and/or embody th e main divinities among the three religious traditions at the turn of the Common Era is only combined at Mathurā. This workshop offers to systemati cally explore issues related to the interaction between these traditions o n the one hand and to the formation of their respective imageries on the o ther. In this respect\, the workshop will concentrate on four thematic foc i.\n\n\n The Practical Settings and Modalities of Encounters\n Visual and Textual Descriptions of the Main Gods\n Pilgrimage\n Social Dimension of t he Artistic Production\n  \n\n\nProgramme of the Workshop LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/mathura-archaeology-inter-religious -encounters-anc/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Desert Origins of God: Yahweh's Emergence and the Materiality of Desert Cult in the Southern Levant and Northern Arabia DTSTART:20190715T140000Z DTEND:20190717T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:desert-origins-god-5719@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This conference seeks to explore and contextualize the configu ration of the varied desert cultic practices from the southern Levant and northern Arabia during the Late Bronze/Iron Ages that may have contributed to the emergence of the Yahwis-tic cult. Recent archaeological excavation s in the Negev\, southern Transjordan and Hejaz and new interpretations of old epigraphic and iconographic evidence are ra-pidly changing the biblic al-based paradigm of the interactions between the desert cults and the Iro n Age Levantine religions.\n\nThe conference adopts an interdisciplinary a pproach\, assessing textual\, archaeolo-gical\, as well as epigraphic data . The papers presented here contribute in a unique way to big historical q uestions of the LBA/IA desert religions: Was there something unique in the desert cults? How were the religious experiences shaped by the interactio ns between the local rituals and the sanctuary cults that penetrated from the agricultural lands? The conference also touches the much wider debate of the role played by trade–in copper\, incense\, pastoral products–an d cultural intercon-nections in the diffusion of religious ideas. It parti cularly explores how these data relate to those religious practices attest ed in Judah and Israel of the later Iron Age and beyond\, thereby providin g new insights into the prehistory of the Yahweh cult.\n\nProgramm LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/desert-origins-god/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: KHK Delegation in Iran. Impressions and Future P erspectives DTSTART:20190709T101500Z DTEND:20190709T124500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:lunchbox-lecture-khk-delegation-iran-impressions-a-6684@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/lunchbox-lecture-khk-delegation-ira n-impressions-a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Terry Kleeman DTSTART:20190708T161500Z DTEND:20190708T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-terry-kleem-6311@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-terry-kleem/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Mareile Haase DTSTART:20190708T141500Z DTEND:20190708T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk_monday_meeting_20190708a-6303@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk_monday_meeting_20190708a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Luchbox Lecture: The Silk Road in Post-WWII Japanese Religious Ima gery: Hirayama Ikuo’s Art and Activism and the Yakushiji Temple DTSTART:20190704T101500Z DTEND:20190704T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:luchbox-lecture-the-silk-road-in-post-wwii-japanes-6273@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lunchbox lecture by Paride Stortini (Chicago)\n\nThe concept o f the Silk Road suggests a chronotope of cultural contact\, flows of ideas and religions\, trade and economic interests at the interstices of empire s\, from the ancient Roman and Chinese\, to the modern “Great Game” be tween Russia and the British empire.\n\nIn post-WWII Japan\, the idea of t he Silk Road was associated in the media\, art\, and literature with freed om of travel\, contact with exotic cultures\, and spiritual encounters. Th e image of Japan as the end point of the route and the repository of the r ich entanglement of cultures that flowed through the Eurasian continent ma de it possible to conceive a new role for the country after the war: Japan as a model of cultural heritage preservation and a promoter of peace and international collaboration. Religion and spirituality play an essential r ole in such image\, especially in the case of Buddhism\, whose spread from India to East Asia followed the maritime and land routes of the Silk Road . In this lecture\, the lecture will particularly analyze how such images of the Silk Road and of Buddhism intersected in the art and cultural herit age activism of Hirayama Ikuo\, one of the major post-war nihonga painters in Japan and a survivor of the Hiroshima nuclear bombing\, and how they b ecame part of religious practice and imagery at the Yakushiji temple\, in Nara. The lecture will take into consideration material and economic aspec ts of this imaginaire\, and what is left unsaid in the discourse around it \, such as Buddhist involvement in Japanese wartime militarism. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/luchbox-lecture-the-silk-road-in-po st-wwii-japanes/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Midsummer Get-Together 2019 DTSTART:20190701T153000Z DTEND:20190701T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-midsummer-get-together-2019-6312@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-midsummer-get-to gether-2019/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Artistic Production in Lusignan Cyprus (1192-1489). Encounters and Resistances within a Society in Motion DTSTART:20190701T121500Z DTEND:20190701T134500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:gastvortrag-von-marina-toumpouri-6051@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture in English presented by Marina Toumpouri (Athens )\n\nIn 1191\, during the third Crusade Richard I the Lionheart conquered Cyprus. This event marked the end of a period of more than three centuries of Byzantine rule. The island was offered in 1192 to his vassal\, Guy de Lusignan\, who became the founder of the Lusignan dynasty that would rule the island for almost three centuries (1192-1489). With the arrival of the new sovereigns\, the local population experienced rapid and successive ch anges in political structures\, social organization\, accessibility to cul tural references\, artistic practices and norms\, since the Lusignans rema ined faithful to their cultural and religious identity. Despite the absenc e of violent conflicts between the two main religious group throughout the three centuries of Frankish rule\, day-to-day contacts did not result in large scale fusion. Between the end of the thirteenth and the fourteenth c entury Cyprus was enjoying an extensive period of political stability and economic prosperity. Within this frame the two dominant cultures on the is land came to achieve finally a rapprochement that was not previously obser ved\, reflected in the realm of the arts. However\, this new eclectic styl e was promoted by the elites\, both Latin and Greek\, while the largest pa rt of the Greek-Cypriot population was constantly resisting the alien infl uences and novelties\, preferring to remain strongly attached to its Byzan tine Orthodox heritage.\n\nIn this presentation I will make an attempt to contextualize the above through presenting and discussing a number of monu ments and artefacts (panel and monumental paintings\, manuscripts\, archit ecture) produced in Cyprus\, or\, commissioned by members of the Cypriot n obility (Latin or Greek) during the time of Lusignan rule. What will be di scussed will be therefore the impact of the social changes on the artistic production of the island\, including how the concerns of the two religiou s groups were expressed throughout the period considered.\n\n  LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/gastvortrag-von-marina-toumpouri/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Jens-Uwe Hartmann DTSTART:20190624T161500Z DTEND:20190624T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20190624-6310@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20190624/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Moving towards a Typology of Religious Contact s 6 DTSTART:20190624T141500Z DTEND:20190624T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-session-6-20190624-6308@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-session-6-201906 24/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Formative Exchanges in the Islamicate World: Zoroastrianism\, Mani chaeism\, and Islam in Contact DTSTART:20190605T080000Z DTEND:20190606T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:formative-exchanges-5728@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The two-day workshop on Formative Exchanges in the Islamicate World: Zoroastrianism\, Manichaeism\, and Islam in Contact invites scholar s to discuss issues of religious interactions and mutual influence between Zoroastrianism\, Manichaeism\, and Islam on the Iranian plateau\, and in Western and Central Asia to the middle of the second millennium CE. At the same time\, it urges scholars to analyze religious discourses and practic es shared by Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism in the Islamicate world\, few centuries after Mani’s own lifetime.\n\nThe 2019 “Formative Exchanges ” workshop continues the approach initiated by the two previous similar meetings held at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg in Bochum (2017 and 2018)\, wh ich invited scholars to identify and analyze major building blocks of reli gious encounters. These common platforms of religious interactions include : highlighting geography and landscape as key features in shaping religiou s encounters\; negotiating expressions of materiality in religious setting s\; underlying shared associations between mythological vocabularies and s ocial or ritual practices across various religions\; shared ritual skills and ritual specialists\; reli-gious expressions of survival and accommodat ion techniques\, such as commercial exchanges\, medical care\, and ritual meals\; and cosmologies as texts informing ethics\, rituals\, and politics .\n\nThe conveners of the 2019 “Formative Exchanges” Workshop ask thei r guests to analyze the ways in which Islamicate literacy provided the mea ns of adapting\, translating\, and adopting Zoroastrian and Manichaean tex ts. At the same time\, they invite the scholars to extend their investigat ion to the literary contexts in which these texts were produced (the liter ature of religious disputations) and also to their Sitz im Leben (polemica l encounters). In analyzing the ways in which religious identities were sh aped by the above description of series of literary codifications and rede scriptions\, the 2019 workshop encourages scholars to treat transformation \, hybridization\, and adaptation as various outcomes of religious encount ers. To discuss these formative interactions of religions on the move\, th e organizers invite scholars to investigate primary sources in Middle Pers ian\, Parthian\, Greek\, Latin\, Coptic\, Syriac\, and Arabic\, which desc ribe religious contacts in the Mediterranean world and Western Asia until the middle of the second millennium CE.\n\nWorkshop's program LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/formative-exchanges/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Sahar Amer DTSTART:20190603T161500Z DTEND:20190603T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20190603-6307@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20190603/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Moving towards a Typology of Religious Contact s 5 DTSTART:20190603T141500Z DTEND:20190603T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-session-5-20190603-6306@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Session 5: Empirical Cases LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-session-5-201906 03/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Magnus Schlette DTSTART:20190527T161500Z DTEND:20190527T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20190527-6305@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20190527/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Moving towards a Typology of Religious Contact s 4 DTSTART:20190527T141500Z DTEND:20190527T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-session-4-20190527-6304@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Session 4 by Eduard Iricinschi "Ten Good Reasons to Become a M anichaean: 'Formative Religion' as a Typological Concept for the History o f Late Antique Manichaeism in Contact” LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-session-4-201905 27/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Moving towards a Typology of Religious Contact s 3 DTSTART:20190520T161500Z DTEND:20190520T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-session-3-20190520-6302@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Session 3: Empirical Cases LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-session-3-201905 20/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Moving towards a Typology of Religious Contact s 2 DTSTART:20190520T141500Z DTEND:20190520T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-moving-session-2-20190513-6300@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Session 2 LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-moving-session-2 -20190513/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle "New Research in the Study of Religion" DTSTART:20190515T141500Z DTEND:20190515T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:reading-circle-new-research-study-religion-may19-6347@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The meetings of the Spring/Summer 2019 will focus on analyses of new research in the study of religion. The discussions will take place in English\; all CERES researchers\, KHK visiting members\, and staff memb ers are welcome to join. For more information\, please contact the two org anizers of the reading group.\n\nToday's literature: Richard King\, Religi on\, Theory\, Critique: Classic and Contemporary Approaches and Methodolog ies (Columbia University Press\, 2017) LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Bagdad" (2.10) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-new-research-study-r eligion-may19/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Majastina Kahlos DTSTART:20190513T161500Z DTEND:20190513T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20190513-6301@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20190513/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Moving towards a Typology of Religious Contact s 1 DTSTART:20190513T141500Z DTEND:20190513T151500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-session-20190506-6298@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Session 1: Introduction LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-session-20190506 / END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ritual\, Normativity\, and Representation: New Methods and Theorie s in the Study of Religious Contacts DTSTART:20190509T080000Z DTEND:20190511T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:ritual-normativity-and-representation-5701@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The workshop on “Ritual\, Normativity\, and Representation ” brings together young and established scholars from the Käte Hamburge r Kolleg of the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) and the Department of Storia\, Antropologia\, Religioni\, Arte\, Spettacolo (SARAS) at Sapienza University of Rome.\n\nFor two days the two teams of researchers will dis cuss how they explored and developed new methods and theories in the study of religious contacts. The exploration of “ritual\,” “normativity\, ” and “representation\,” as major themes in the study of religious c ontact\, will provide avenues of interpretation common to the two European schools in the study of religion. The participants will investigate not o nly how religious contacts are experienced and documented\, but also the w ays in which they also become subject to embodiment and stigmatization thr ough representation and norms\, on one hand\, and through ritual practices and discourses about rituals\, on the other hand.\n\nThe KHK team will pr esent the work of its four Focus Groups (“Knowledge\,” “Experience\, ” “Media\,” and “Action”) in establishing and testing methodolog y of religious contact. Each presentation is expected to entail both a the oretical part and a case study illustrating its chosen methodological pers pective. The team from Sapienza University will present its own exploratio ns in the study of religion as representation\, ritual\, and means of nego tiation between politics and practices\, as they are documented in the las t years’ issues of the journal Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religio ni: “religion as a colonial concept\,” “the gods of the others\, the gods and the others\,” “art and history in the religious traditions o f India\,” “religions in movement\,” and “defining religious minor ities.” The participants from both schools choose historical and contemp orary case studies of religious contacts documented in Asia and/or Europe and the Mediterranean.\n\nWorkshop's program\n\n  LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ritual-normativity-and-representati on/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Marianna Ferrara DTSTART:20190506T161500Z DTEND:20190506T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20190506-6299@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20190506/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Welcome to Summer Term 2019 DTSTART:20190506T141500Z DTEND:20190506T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-welcome-summer-term-en-1-6326@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-welcome-summer-t erm-en-1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Artefakte als Metaphern des Religiösen DTSTART:20190502T070000Z DTEND:20190503T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:artefakte-als-metaphern-des-religiosen-5727@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Der Workshop befasst sich mit der metaphorischen Funktion von Artefakten in inter-religiösen Kontaktsituationen der christlichen Missio n in Süd-\, Südost- und Ostasien. Der Artefak-begriff reicht dabei von B ildern über Plastiken und Statuen bis hin zu Gebäuden und baulichen Arra ngements.\n\nGesellschaften sprechen zu ihren Göttern und über ihre Göt ter nicht nur mit Worten und Texten\, sondern auch durch materielle Ausdru cksformen. Wie religiöse Kommunikation im Allgemeinen\, so ist auch dieje nige religiöse Kommunikation\, die sich nicht-sprachlicher Medien bedient \, damit befasst\, die Differenz von Immanenz und Transzendenz mit dem Zie l letzt-instanzlicher Kontingenzbewältigung zu bearbeiten. In diesem Proz ess spielen Metaphern eine zentrale Rolle. Sie sind ein Mittel\, um das Un verfügbare verfügbar\, das Abwesende anwesend\, das Unsagbare sagbar zu machen. Metaphorische Kommunikation vollzieht sich aber nicht nur im Modus der gesprochenen oder geschriebenen Sprache\, sondern auch im Modus des M ateriellen. Artefakte leisten – genau wie andere Modi der Kommunikation – eine Bearbeitung und Überbrückung der Immanenz-Transzendenz-Differen z.\n\nWorkshop-Programm LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/artefakte-als-metaphern-des-religio sen/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: How to be a Good Muslim: Religious Practices amo ng the Ingiloy in Azerbaijan DTSTART:20190430T101500Z DTEND:20190430T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:lunchbox-lecture-von-nino-aivazishvili-gehne-6027@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lunchbox Lecture\, Nino Aivazishvili-Gehne (Bochum)\n\nThe In giloer are a Georgian-speaking minority in Azerbaijan. One part of this mi nority is Christian and the other part is Muslim. Ingiloer from Mosul are Sunni Muslims and proud of their own mosque erected in the village centre in the 18th century and of having their own ziarəts in the village. In ta lks about religiosity villagers often claim that they are more faithful th an anyone else in the district. But then what does it mean to be a Muslim in the Ingiloy context? LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/lunchbox-lecture-von-nino-aivazishv ili-gehne/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Presentation DTSTART:20190429T141500Z DTEND:20190429T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-presentation-20190429-6297@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Licia Di Giacinto: "When a Tradition Serves to Break Another T radition: Daoism between Italian Fascism and Christianity" LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-presentation-201 90429/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERES Computer Café: Start of Semester DTSTART:20190425T081500Z DTEND:20190425T094500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:ceres-computer-cafe-start-semester-6318@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The CERES Computer Café offers an open space for the exchange of ideas about the application of computer-aided methods and tools in rel igious studies and other humanities.\n\nThis first meeting serves to find topics for the semester. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Gandhara" (1.11) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ceres-computer-cafe-start-semester/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Presentation DTSTART:20190415T141500Z DTEND:20190415T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-presentation-20190415-6296@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Knut Martin Stünkel: "Attraction as a Key Concept of the Stud y of Religion" LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Turfan" (0.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-presentation-201 90415/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: The Church of Confucius. Kang Youwei (1858-192 7) and the Conceptual Debate on “Religion” DTSTART:20190408T161500Z DTEND:20190408T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233503Z UID:khk-lecture-federico-brusadelli-5739@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Federico Brusadelli (Erlangen/Nürnberg)\n\nAfter being limite d for decades to his role in the failed reforms of 1898\, interest in Kang Youwei (1858-1927) has recently reached to other aspects of his intellect ual and political platform. His understanding of Confucianism as the “tr ue religion” of China and the consequent proposal for the establishment of a Confucian Church\, in particular\, have been observed and commented w ith growing attention\, especially after the reconsecration of Master Kong as a cultural symbol - if not a spiritual guide - of post-revolutionary C hina.\n\nThis talk will try to trace Kang’s contribution to the redefini tion and the reshaping of Confucianism within the framework of the concept ual debate on  “religion” (zongjiao 宗教). What was Kang’s interp retation of this “modern” concept? How did he apply it to the Chinese context? How did he position Confucianism\, in the confrontation between “religion” and “superstition”? And what socio-political role could it perform in the State-building process? Finally\, why is Kang’s “re ligious Confucianism” still relevant to 21st - century China?\n\nTo answ er these questions\, the analysis will be based on two texts from the post -1898 production: the Italian Journal (Yidali youji 意大利游记) of 19 05 - that includes Kang’s comparative observations on the role of Cathol icism and Christianity in Western history - and some significant excerpts from his posthumous masterpiece\, the Book of Great Concord (Datongshu 大 同书).\n\nPicture by 风之清扬 - Own work\, CC BY-SA 3.0\n\n  LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Turfan" (0.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-lecture-federico-brusadelli/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Introduction & Semester Planning DTSTART:20190408T151500Z DTEND:20190408T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20190408-6295@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Turfan" (0.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20190408/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dynamics\, Stability & Tradition: The Role of the Religions of Ira nian Speakers in Central and Eastern Asia DTSTART:20190314T080000Z DTEND:20190315T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:dynamics-stability-tradition-role-religions-i-en-1-5635@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Iranian speakers—especially Sogdians\, Bactrians\, and Khota nese—had their homeland in Central Asia. Especially the former two are k nown as the traders on the Silk Roads and dominated the trade route up to China. They had contact with various religions\, Zoroastrianism\, Manichae ism\, Christianity (especially the Church of the East\, so-called Nestoria nism)\, Buddhism and Islam through their trade activities.\n\nBecause of t heir religious diversity\, the Iranian speakers often played a major role as the cultural intermediaries in Central and Eastern Asia. Thus\, the con tact with them triggered the dynamic change for several ethnic groups. On the other hand\, the Iranian speakers were also impacted by others in thei r religious orientation. The above-mentioned introduction of Buddhism amon g some Sogdians can be counted as one of those examples\, because it proba bly happened through the contact with Chinese. In addition\, a certain con tact with Tocharians\, Indo-European speakers in Central Asia\, can also b e indicated.\n\nThe workshop offers an ideal platform for a fruitful discu ssion between scholars from Europa and Asia from various fields.\n\nProgra mme of the workshop LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/dynamics-stability-tradition-role-r eligions-i-en-1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Materialwerkstatt Wissenstransfer Spezial DTSTART:20190226T150000Z DTEND:20190226T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:materialwerkstatt-wissenstransfer-spezial-6110@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:„Was glaubst du?“ – Wissenstransfer im Gesellschaftsspie l\n\nIn dieser Materialwerkstatt probieren wir das Gesellschaftsspiel "Was glaubst du?" der Kommunikationsdesignerin Linda Knott.\n\nDiese Materialw erkstatt ist für Studierende geöffnet. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/materialwerkstatt-wissenstransfer-s pezial/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Direktorien- und Geschäftsführertreffen der Käte Hamburger Koll egs DTSTART:20190221T170000Z DTEND:20190222T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:direktorien-und-geschaftsfuhrertreffen-6026@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Jahrestreffen der Direktorien und Geschäftsführer/innen der Käte Hamburger Kollegs für geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung. Die Kolle gs sind auf Zeit angelegte\, geisteswissenschaftliche Forschungseinrichtun gen\, die sich jeweils einer konkreten\, übergeordneten Forschungsfrage o der -thematik nachgehen. Im Falle des gastgebenden Bochumer Kollegs sind d ies die religionshistorischen Dynamiken zwischen Asien und Europa. Im Rahm en der Kollegs werden international renommierte Wissenschaftler/innen (Fel lows) eingeladen\, einen längeren Zeitraum in Deutschland frei von Verpfl ichtungen zu forschen. Die Kollegs tragen den Namen der Literaturkritikeri n Käte Hamburger und sind Teil der BMBF-Inititative "Freiraum für die Ge isteswissenschaften". LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/direktorien-und-geschaftsfuhrertref fen/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Rethinking Chinese Landscape Painting: New Perspectives from Art H istory and Religious Studies DTSTART:20190220T090000Z DTEND:20190221T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:rethinking-chinese-landscape-painting-new-perspect-5125@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:In cooperation with the museum Situation Kunst on the occassio n of the exhibition "scheinbar: nichts - Bildwelten von Qiu Shihua im Dial og".\n\nThe workshop aims to approach and discuss Chinese landscape painti ngs which are traditionally\, a subject of art history from the rather unc ommon perspective of the history of religion. Accordingly\, the workshop s hall bring together art historians\, scholars of religious studies\, and s inologists to discuss religious references in Chinese landscape painting\, issues related to religion in the context of landscape and art in Eastern Asian cultures\, and issues concerning inter- and intrareligious contact. In the long term\, this fresh view should stimulate a closer cooperation between the disciplines mentioned.\n\nThe workshop shall take place on the occasion of the current exhibition on contemporary and classic Chinese la ndscape painting at Bochum’s Situation Kunst/Museum unter Tage (Oct. 201 8-April 2019). The exhibition is a cooperation project between CERES and t he museum. It is hoped that the concomitance of workshop and exhibition\, will further stimulate future cooperation between the CERES/KHK and the Si tuation Kunst/Museum unter Tage.\n\nThe workshop will be held in German.\n \nProgramme of the Workshop LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/rethinking-chinese-landscape-painti ng-new-perspect/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Internet\, Authority\, and Religious Contact DTSTART:20190211T090000Z DTEND:20190212T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:internet-authority-and-religious-contact-5693@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The current proliferation of media\, especially digital media\ , has an impact on how religion is perceived\, experienced\, and negotiate d. Scholars in the field of religion and media are increasingly interested in exploring aspects that are relevant to understand digital religion\, s uch as religious authority. Some questions are central to understand vario us facets of contemporary religion: how does the Internet affect religious authority? Do digital media reproduce existing structures of authority\, or do they challenge traditional authority?\n\nIn discussing religious aut hority and the Internet\, this workshop aims at reflecting upon instances of religious contact. Existing academic works on media and authority\, ind eed\, seldom explore how authority can kindle –or hinder –religious co ntact. The workshop will gather experts in religion and digital media from Europe and the U.S.\, who will explore the topic with case studies about Judaism\, Islam\, and Christianity. In particular\, the presentations will analyze how digital media facilitate endorsement or rejection of religiou s authority in a given religious tradition\, and how online-mediated negot iations of religious authority mutually influence different religious grou ps. By so doing\, the workshop aims at adding complexity to the current un derstanding of authority and digital media\, and discussing new methodolog ical and theoretical perspective in the field of religion and media.\n\nPr ogramme of the workshop LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/internet-authority-and-religious-co ntact/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle "New Research in the Study of Religion" DTSTART:20190207T150000Z DTEND:20190207T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:reading-circle-new-research-study-religion-jan19-5689@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The reading circle continues the 2016/2017 meetings of the one dedicated to "Religious Experience in Contemporary Settings." The meeting s of the Spring/Summer 2018 will focus on analyses of new research in the study of religion. The discussions will take place in English\; all CERES researchers\, KHK visiting members\, and staff members are welcome to join . For more information\, please contact the two organizers of the reading group.\n\nToday's literature: Rachel McBride Lindsey\, A Communion of Shad ows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America\; Durham\, NC: University of North Carolina Press\, 2017 LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Bagdad" (2.10) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-new-research-study-r eligion-jan19/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK/CERES Computer Café: Mixed Methods Approaches to Metaphor Ana lysis DTSTART:20190207T111500Z DTEND:20190207T124500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:ceres-computer-cafe-mixed-methods-metaphor-5696@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Metaphors as a form of figurative speech play a special role i n religious language: where language lacks the means to talk about the tra nscendent\, metaphors offer the possibility of not remaining speechless. F or interreligious contact situations\, the metaphor has a double function\ , since it not only deals with the border to transcendence\, but also with the border to the religious other.\n\nIn this session of the KHK/CERES Co mputer Café\, interested scholars of religion can inform themselves about current methodological approaches in metaphor research. As guest speakers \, Berenike Herrmann (Basel) and Nils Reiter (Stuttgart) will speak on the topic of “Mixed Methods Approaches to Metaphor Analysis: Qualitative an d Quantitative Methods for Metaphor Annotation”.\n\n \n\ni'm a metaphor flickr photo by jontintinjordan shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA ) license LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ceres-computer-cafe-mixed-methods-m etaphor/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Angelika Malinar DTSTART:20190128T171500Z DTEND:20190128T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20190128-5587@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Visiting Research Fellow Angelika Malinar talks about her rese arch project Debating Authorities. Gender and the Interpretation of Religi on(s) in Colonial India URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20190128/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action" DTSTART:20190128T151500Z DTEND:20190128T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-20190128-5569@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-2019 0128/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Beiratssitzung 2019 DTSTART:20190128T120000Z DTEND:20190129T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-beiratssitzung-2019-5151@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-beiratssitzung-2019/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: Medieval Eghegis (Armenia): The Cosmopolitan Pas t of a Village DTSTART:20190122T111500Z DTEND:20190122T124500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:lunchbox-lecture-medieval-eghegis-armenia-5705@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lunchbox Lecture by Zara Pogossian (Bochum)\n\nIn August 2018 the presenter organised a week-long research field trip to the village of Yeghegis in the Region of Vayots' Dzor\, Armenia\, co-sponsored by the ERC project JewsEast and her Innovators fund from RUB Research School. Archae ologists from the University of Florence\, University of Chieti (Italy)\, Erevan State University and Armenian Academy of Sciences came together for a collaborative effort. The purpose was to conduct a deep impact archaeol ogical survey of the village of Yeghegis and explore the material context of its Jewish Cemetery. The Cemetery constitutes unique evidence on a medi eval Jewish community in Armenia for whom there is tantalisingly little wr itten evidence. The team's explorations of medieval cultural monuments wit hin and outside the village indicated that it was once home to a multi-rel igious community and economically thrived due to its close distance from a t least two way stations of the system of Silk Roads. The presentation aim s to transmit this cultural vibrancy\, share the images of impressive land scapes and load the hard work of archaeologist colleagues\, as well as exp lain the importance of further research in this fascinating area LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/lunchbox-lecture-medieval-eghegis-a rmenia/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Bettina Dennerlein DTSTART:20190121T171500Z DTEND:20190121T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20190121-5586@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Visiting Research Fellow Bettina Dennerlein talks about her re search projekt Gender\, Islamic Normativity and Cultural Critique in the A rab Region LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20190121/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience" DTSTART:20190121T151500Z DTEND:20190121T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-20190121-5573@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-2019 0121/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Bernd-Christian Otto DTSTART:20190114T171500Z DTEND:20190114T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20190114-5585@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Visiting Research Fellow Bernd-Christian Otto talks about his research project Mapping Modern Magic(k) LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20190114/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality" DTSTART:20190114T151500Z DTEND:20190114T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-20190114-5572@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-2019 0114/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Power of Writing: The Nexus of Script and Religion in South As ia DTSTART:20190114T151500Z DTEND:20190114T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:power-writing-nexus-script-and-religion-south-asia-5697@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture in English presented by Carmen Brandt (Bonn)\n\n Besides its linguistic diversity\, South Asia also hosts a large number of writing systems. While the emergence of ethnic groups based on linguistic factors is well studied\, research on the influence of scripts on identit y formation among ethnolinguistic and religious communities is still at th e beginning. This presentation will give a preliminary systematic overview on the importance of writing systems in contemporary South Asia as well a s focus on the nexus of script and religion in past and present. By presen ting some significant examples\, it will make apparent that the growing im portance of script is often also connected to the formation and spread of religions as well as to the evolution of media technologies\, for instance to the introduction of the printing press and computer technology\, and a ccess to social media in South Asia. First conclusions in this presentatio n draw on an extensive comparative study based\, among others\, on long-te rm field studies in India\, Pakistan\, and Bangladesh. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/power-writing-nexus-script-and-reli gion-south-asia/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle "Charisma" DTSTART:20190110T083000Z DTEND:20190110T110000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:reading-circle-charisma-201811-5737@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This reading circle examines and compares the different concep ts of "charisma" as of Max Weber\, Pierre Bordieu and other thinkers of so ciology\, religious studies and athropology. It is open for all CERES rese archers\, visiting fellows and staff members. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Gandhara" (1.11) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-charisma-201811/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Knowledge" DTSTART:20190107T151500Z DTEND:20190107T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-20190107-5571@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-2019 0107/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Seasonal Celebration DTSTART:20181210T151500Z DTEND:20181210T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-seasonal-celebration-2018-5588@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-seasonal-celebra tion-2018/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Ying Rao Show DTSTART:20181203T171500Z DTEND:20181203T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20181203-5581@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Visiting Research Fellow Ying Rao Show talks about her researc h project Buddhist Diversity and Inter-regional Connectivity in Southeast Asia. The Intervention of Chinese Religious Syncretism LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20181203/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action" DTSTART:20181203T151500Z DTEND:20181203T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-20181203-5568@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-2018 1203/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture by Maximiliane Buchner DTSTART:20181127T111500Z DTEND:20181127T124500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:lunchbox-lecture-maximiliane-buchner-5150@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/lunchbox-lecture-maximiliane-buchne r/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Anna Sehnalova DTSTART:20181126T171500Z DTEND:20181126T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20181126-5580@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Visiting Research Fellow Anna Sehnalova talks about her resear ch project Evolution and Present Dynamics of Conflicting Religious Cosmolo gies in East Tibet LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20181126/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality" DTSTART:20181126T151500Z DTEND:20181126T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-20181126-5567@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-2018 1126/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Sebastian Rimestad DTSTART:20181119T171500Z DTEND:20181119T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20181119-5579@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Visiting Research Fellow Sebastian Rimestad talks about his re search project Inter-Religious Contact in Early Modern Polish Livonia LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20181119/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Knowledge" DTSTART:20181119T151500Z DTEND:20181119T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-20181119-5566@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-2018 1119/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Irina R. Katkova DTSTART:20181112T171500Z DTEND:20181112T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20181112-5578@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Visiting Research Fellow Irina R. Katkova talks about her rese arch project Sufi Tariqah in Contemporary Muslim World / Naqshbandiayh She ikhs and Ideas in Western Sumatra LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20181112/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience" DTSTART:20181112T151500Z DTEND:20181112T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-20181112-5565@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-2018 1112/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Zur Ambivalenz der Bilder in Kunst und Religion DTSTART:20181107T170000Z DTEND:20181109T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:fachtagung-ikonoklasmus-4437@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fachtagung im Rahmen der Ausstellung "BILD MACHT RELIGION" im Kunstmuseum Bochum\n\nDer Kontakt zwischen verschiedenen religiösen Tradi tionen oder unterschiedlichen Traditionssträngen einer Religion geht oft mit der Diskussion über die Legitimität von Glaubensinhalten und -prakti ken einher. Wenn religiöse Traditionen aufeinandertreffen oder sich im La ufe der Zeit wandeln\, wird das bis dato Selbstverständliche in unterschi edlichem Ausmaß neu reflektiert und diskutiert. Dies betrifft auch die „Bilderfrage“ nach dem erlaubten oder richtigen Einsatz von bildlichen Darstellungen im religiösen Kontext.\n\nAuch wenn in der europäischen K unstgeschichte der byzantinische Ikonoklasmus zentral erscheint\, die Bild erfrage ist nicht nur ein Thema der jüdisch-christlichen Traditionen. In allen religiösen Traditionen zwischen Asien und Europa – und darüber h inaus – ist die Rolle von Medien äußerst umstritten und der Umgang mit Bildern\, Statuen und anderen visuellen Darstellungsformen ambivalent: Zu m einen ermöglichen Bilder\, etwas zu sehen\, was anders nicht zu sehen i st. Sie machen das Abwesende anwesend und bearbeiten damit ein zentrales G rundproblem religiöser Kommunikation. Zum anderen zeigen Bilder etwas\, w as vielleicht nicht gezeigt werden und besser im Unsichtbaren bleiben mög e\; z. B. weil das Gezeigte mit dem Bild identifiziert werden könnte.\n\n Auf diese Ambivalenz reagieren Kunst und Religion: Während einige religi öse Positionen besonders bilderfreundlich sind und im Dargestellten die P räsenz des Göttlichen sehen\, reagieren andere religiöse Strömungen au f die Identifikation von Darstellendem und Dargestelltem mit Bilderverbote n oder der Zerstörung von Bildern – die vor jenen anderer Religionsgeme inschaften nicht Halt macht und manchmal in gewalttätigen Auseinandersetz ungen mündet. Die zeitgenössische Kunst nimmt diesen Spannungsbogen auf und bearbeitet ihn in je eigener Weise.\n\nProgramm der Tagung LOCATION:Kunstmuseum Bochum URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/fachtagung-ikonoklasmus/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Public Podium: On Images\, on Power\, on Religions DTSTART:20181107T170000Z DTEND:20181107T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:public-podium-images-power-religions-5703@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The public podiums discussion with former MP Volker Beck on fr eedom of arts and freedom of religions commences the conference "Zur Ambiv alenz der Bilder in Kunst und Religion". The discussion is held in German. LOCATION:Kunstmuseum Bochum URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/public-podium-images-power-religion s/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Jesko Schmoller DTSTART:20181105T171500Z DTEND:20181105T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20181105-5577@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Visiting Research Fellow Jesko Schmoller talks about his resea rch project A Place of One's Own. Redefining Territory Through Pilgrimage in Russia's Ural Region LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20181105/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action" DTSTART:20181105T151500Z DTEND:20181105T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-20181105-5564@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-2018 1105/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle "Charisma" DTSTART:20181102T123000Z DTEND:20181102T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:reading-circle-charisma-201811-5179@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This reading circle examines and compares the different concep ts of "charisma" as of Max Weber\, Pierre Bordieu and other thinkers of so ciology\, religious studies and athropology. It is open for all CERES rese archers\, visiting fellows and staff members. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Cordoba" (3.06) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-charisma-201811/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality" DTSTART:20181029T151500Z DTEND:20181029T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-20181029-5563@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-2018 1029/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Markéta Kabůrková DTSTART:20181022T161500Z DTEND:20181022T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20181022-5575@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Visiting Research Fellow Markéta Kabůrková talks about her research project Religious Encounters between Jews and Reformed Christians : The Case of Hizzuk Emunah LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20181022/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience" DTSTART:20181022T141500Z DTEND:20181022T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-20181022-5562@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-2018 1022/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Massimo Leone DTSTART:20181015T161500Z DTEND:20181015T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20181015-5574@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Visiting Research Fellow Massimo Leone talks about his researc h project Early Modern Visual Systems of Religious Encounter. A Comparativ e Study LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20181015/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Knowledge" DTSTART:20181015T141500Z DTEND:20181015T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-20181015-5561@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-2018 1015/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening BILD MACHT RELIGION DTSTART:20181013T150000Z DTEND:20181013T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:exhibition-opening-bild-macht-religion-5683@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/exhibition-opening-bild-macht-relig ion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religious Contacts in Early Modern Scandinavia 1500-1750 DTSTART:20181010T070000Z DTEND:20181011T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:religious-contacts-early-modern-scandinavia-4840@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:When it comes to religious contact and transfer\, early modern Scandinavia has not been considered to be the first address for examinati on. One reason for this may be that at first sight\, from this era onwards this region seems to be dominated only by one stout and monolithic state religion\, i.e. Lutheranism. But giving the geographical frame a second th ought\, however\, one may discern many regions and situations of religious contact within or at the shores and borders of the Scandinavian peninsula \, such as the interreligious encounter between the different forms of Chr istianity and the indigenous Sámi religion in the very North. Only rarely discussed are intra-religious encounters between Protestant and Orthodox Christianity in the eastern parts of the Scandinavian pensinsula or at the shores of the Baltic coast lines. Furthermore\, due to colonial and imper ial ambitions of the two Scandinavian realms\, Denmark-Norway and Sweden-F inland\, there are even first contacts to regions such as India\, Africa\, Central Asia\, and not to forget the Arctic Greenland.\n\nThis workshop a ims at re-evaluating early modern Scandinavia as a prime place for the stu dy of religious contact and transfer\, including case-studies covering reg ions from Greenland to Siberia and India during the time period between 15 00 and 1750.\n\nWorkshop programme LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/religious-contacts-early-modern-sca ndinavia/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle "Iconoclasm" DTSTART:20181009T120000Z DTEND:20181009T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:reading-circle-iconoclasm-201810-5686@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This reading circle is no such circle in the classical sense\, but rather a study group that discusses iconoclasm and its meaning for th e research of religions. It focuses still on - but not first and foremost - the special research literature on this topic. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Gandhara" (1.11) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-iconoclasm-201810/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Get-together DTSTART:20181008T160000Z DTEND:20181008T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-get-together-201810-5560@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-get-together-201 810/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Opening of the Winter Term 2018/19 DTSTART:20181008T141500Z DTEND:20181008T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-opening-winter-term-201819-5559@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:\n Introduction to the KHK and CERES\n Introduction to the lec ture series\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-opening-winter-t erm-201819/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religious Contacts and Interactions in Poland-Lithuania in Early M odern Times DTSTART:20180928T070000Z DTEND:20180928T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:religious_contacts_in_poland-lithuania-5161@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was the biggest Catholic co untry in early modern Europe. Extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea a nd inhab-ited not only by Catholic\, but also Orthodox\, Protestant\, Arme nian\, Jewish\, Muslim and not at least diverece heterodox denominations o f the main-stream religious traditions\, it provided a unique setting for religious con-tacts and interactions. Signed in 1573\, the Confederation o f Warsaw aimed to guarantee confessional tolerance in this huge multi-ethn ic and multi-confessional country and made it a place of refuge for differ ent dissidentes in religione. The pax dissidentum from 1573 made the Commo nwealth a much safer and tolerant place than most of contemporary Europe\, but did not prevent religious conflicts. The Counter-Reformation movement of the Catholic Church in Poland as well as the growing necessity to stre ngthen and re-establish own positions of other religious denominations res ulted in vivid polemics\, conflicts and contacts.\n\nThis workshop is inte nded to explore the manifold contact situations of religious traditions an d the rise and decline of religious tolerance in the huge Polish-Lithuania n Commonwealth in the course of the Early Modern Period (1500-1772).\n\nWo rkshop Programme LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/religious_contacts_in_poland-lithua nia/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Double KHK Lunchbox Lecture for Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20180924T100000Z DTEND:20180924T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-fellow-presentations-5589@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow presentations of two short-term KHK Visiting Research F ellows\n\nAssoc. Prof. Ana María Echevarría Arsuaga: Dhimma: The Status of Protection in a Mediterranean and Asian Context\n\nDr. Luiz Fernando F erreira da Rosa Ribeiro: The Tree of Gnosis/Jñana: Plants\, Magic & Relig ion in the Konkan & Malabar Coasts of the Indian Ocean\n\n  LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-fellow-presentations/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle "Religion and Media" DTSTART:20180724T120000Z DTEND:20180724T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:reading-circle-religion-and-media-201807-5136@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This reading circle is no such circle in the classical sense\, but rather a study group or working group that brings together people tha t are interested in religion and media. It explores the mediation of relig ion in historical as well as contemporary perspectives\, discussing new th eories and methodologies. It is open for all CERES researchers\, visiting fellows and staff members. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Cordoba" (3.06) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-religion-and-media-2 01807/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle "New Research in the Study of Religion" DTSTART:20180717T140000Z DTEND:20180717T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:reading-circle-new-research-july-5105@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The reading circle continues the 2016/2017 meetings of the one dedicated to "Religious Experience in Contemporary Settings." The meeting s of the Spring/Summer 2018 will focus on analyses of new research in the study of religion. The discussions will take place in English\; all CERES researchers\, KHK visiting members\, and staff members are welcome to join . For more information\, please contact the two organizers of the reading group.\n\nToday's literature: Robert Orsi\, History and Presence (Harvard University Press\, 2016)\n\nThe reading circle takes place in room 2.07 to day.\n URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-new-research-july/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Midsummer Get-Together 2018 DTSTART:20180716T140000Z DTEND:20180716T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-midsummer-get-together-2018-4924@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-midsummer-get-to gether-2018/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Mustafa Sen DTSTART:20180709T161500Z DTEND:20180709T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20180709-4923@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20180709/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality" DTSTART:20180709T141500Z DTEND:20180709T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-materiality-2018070-4922@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-mate riality-2018070/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Linda Zampol D'Ortia DTSTART:20180702T161500Z DTEND:20180702T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20180702-4921@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20180702/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action" DTSTART:20180702T141500Z DTEND:20180702T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-action-20180702-4920@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-acti on-20180702/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Formative Exchanges in Western and Central Asia: Zoroastrianism\, Manichaeism\, and Buddhism in Contact DTSTART:20180627T070000Z DTEND:20180628T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:formative-exchanges-western-and-central-asia-zoroa-5054@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The two-day workshop on “Formative Exchanges in Central Asia : Zoroastrianism\, Manichaeism\, and Buddhism in Contact” invites schola rs to discuss issues of religious interactions between Zoroastrianism\, Ma nichaeism\, and Buddhism in the Iranian plateau\, the Indian subcontinent\ , and Central Asia to the end of the first millennium CE. The proposed 201 8 workshop will build on the research presented at the similar 2017 worksh op on “Formative Exchanges between the Sasanian Empire and Late Antique Rome.” The 2017 meeting explored the cognitive\, ritual\, and material s cope of religions represented as “minorities” within larger ethnic and ideological landscapes\, such as Christians and Manichaeans in the Persia n Empire\, or Manichaeans in the Roman Empire. The 2018 workshop will shif t its focus eastward.\n\nThe invited scholars will investigate formative d ynamics of contacts\, interactions\, and exchanges that took place between Zoroastrianism\, Manichaeism\, and Buddhism at multiple levels: knowledge \, ritual\, material\, and experiential. The 2018 meeting will still consi der the literary and social negotiations Manichaeism and\, to a limited de gree\, Christianity\, carried with Zoroastrianism\, as an imperially-manda ted religion\, in the Sasanian Empire\, between the third and the seventh centuries. To this\, the 2018 meeting will add the perspective of religiou s interactions across central Asia and into China\, to the end of the firs t millennium CE as the new inquiry focus.\n\nProgramm of the workshop LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/formative-exchanges-western-and-cen tral-asia-zoroa/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Jennifer Griggs DTSTART:20180625T161500Z DTEND:20180625T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20180625-4919@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20180625/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience" DTSTART:20180625T141500Z DTEND:20180625T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-experience-20180625-4918@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-expe rience-20180625/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Mohsen Zakeri DTSTART:20180618T161500Z DTEND:20180618T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20180618-4917@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20180618/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Knowledge" DTSTART:20180618T141500Z DTEND:20180618T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-knowledge-20180618-4916@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-know ledge-20180618/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Luchbox Lecture: Martial Arts\, Media\, and (Material) Religion DTSTART:20180612T101500Z DTEND:20180612T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:luchbox-lecture-martial-arts-media-and-material-re-5122@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture by Esther Berg-Chan (Frankfurt a.M.)\n\nIn the l ast couple of years we have witnessed the rise of ‘martial arts studies ’ as a new and distinct field of academic inquiry. From the already exis ting research on ‘martial arts’ produced within different disciplinary contexts\, an interdisciplinary conversation on martial arts has emerged. In this talk\, I seek to unpack martial arts\, religion\, and their relat ion to each other from a religious studies perspective. Claiming martial a rts as an object of religious studies\, and in turn claiming that religiou s studies has the potential to produce valuable insights for the field of martial arts studies\, might raise some eyebrows. The relation between and (maybe not coincidentally) the definition of both martial arts and religi on is an issue of debate among both outside observers and practitioners. C onsequently\, it is this very relation that is under investigation in this talk drawing on both a discourse theoretical approach and on the perspect ive of material religion. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/luchbox-lecture-martial-arts-media- and-material-re/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality" DTSTART:20180611T141500Z DTEND:20180611T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-materiality-2018061-4914@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-mate riality-2018061/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Safavid and Mughal Empires in Contact: Intellectual and Religious Exchanges between Iran and India in Early Modern Period DTSTART:20180607T070000Z DTEND:20180608T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:kianoosh-khk-workshop-jun2018-4427@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The workshop will investigate intellectual and religious conta cts in and between Safavid Iran and Mughal India in the 16th and 17th cent uries. In the early modern period\, Iran and North India witnessed fundame ntal cultural changes which profoundly formed their new identity. The rule rs of Iran at the time\, the Safavids (1501-1722)\, proclaimed Shīʿī Is lam as the state religion\; The Mughal emperors (1526-1858) fostered an en vironment in India\, where Islam\, Hindu-religions\, Christianity and Zoro astrianism came more intensively in dialogue. Not only numerous syncretist ic trends arose from these entangled situation\, but the contacts impacted the respective religions as well. Moderated Indian rulers invited for exa mple the representatives of different religions to the court to dispute. T hey moreover supported translations of the Sanskrit religious texts into P ersian which were received in Safavid Iran as well. One might mention the Persian translation of Upanishads in this period which found its way to Eu rope and resulted in the acquaintance of the Europeans with this philosoph ical work. The open religious environment of Mughal India was for Iranian intellectuals so attractive that many of them traveled or even migrated to India. It was due to these migrations that scholastic teachings of Islami c theology started in major cities of India. These interactions between Sa favid Iran and Mughal India enhanced the religious and intellectual though ts between the two lands and in-between. It is in-between of these two rel igious zones where some new syncretistic philosophical and religious movem ents as Āẓar Keywānīs should be located. Moreover\, the religious act ivities at one of these courts seem to have been animated by the other. Sc rutinizing these topics are the goals of this proposed workshop.\n\nProgra mme LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/kianoosh-khk-workshop-jun2018/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle "Religion and Media" DTSTART:20180605T120000Z DTEND:20180605T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:reading-circle-religion-and-media-june2018-5107@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This reading circle is no such circle in the classical sense\, but rather a study group or working group that brings together people tha t are interested in religion and media. It explores the mediation of relig ion in historical as well as contemporary perspectives\, discussing new th eories and methodologies. It is open for all CERES researchers\, visiting fellows and staff members.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Bagdad" (2.10) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-religion-and-media-j une2018/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture by Imke Rath DTSTART:20180605T101500Z DTEND:20180605T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:lunchbox-lecture-imke-rath-4948@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lunchbox Lecture presented by KHK Visiting Research Fellow Imk e Rath\n\nThe presentation will relate the presenter's research on an anci ent Philippine religion to the KHK concept of the transcendence/immanence- distinction (TID). It is led by the question on how to deal with descripti ons of transcendent phenomena of this Philippine religion produced by obse rvers who had a clearly different (Early Modern Catholic) idea of the TID. Based on three examples\, it will be shown how this distinct TID influenc ed not only the descriptions in the sources\, but in some cases even the c urrent understanding of certain phenomena of this Philippine religion. In the first example\, it will be discussed how the classification of various religious figures and beings as witches equalized Philippine priests with transcendent mythological beings and anthropomorphized Philippine ghosts. The second example focuses on the liminal moment of transition from imman ence to transcendence by analyzing descriptions of rituals. This leads to the third example on the understanding of death and the concept of soul. I n this regard\, it will be demonstrated how a comparative study of Oceanic ideas of the essence of mankind and life after death inspires to a new in terpretation of sources\, providing an alternative view to the Christian u nderstanding of the soul presented by the Early Modern observers. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/lunchbox-lecture-imke-rath/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Juan Manuel Tebes DTSTART:20180604T161500Z DTEND:20180604T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20180604-4913@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20180604/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Knowledge" DTSTART:20180604T141500Z DTEND:20180604T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-knowledge-20180528-4910@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-know ledge-20180528/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: Temples and Teahouses: Changing Dimensions of Bu ddhist Sociality in Xi Jinping's China DTSTART:20180601T080000Z DTEND:20180601T100000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:lunchbox-lecture-von-gareth-fisher-4952@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lunchbox Lecture in englischer Sprache präsentiert von Gareth Fisher (Syracuse\, NY)\n\nLay Buddhism is the fastest growing religious m ovement in China today. As such\, it is embroiled in a complicated dance w ith the communist\, atheist state which\, on the one hand\, seeks to promo te it as a source of China's cultural heritage\, but\, on the other\, is c oncerned about losing control of the religion's spread and influence. Base d on long term ethnographic research on lay Buddhist practice and social o rganization\, this presentation will explore how urban lay Buddhists in 20 10s China are taking advantage of the state's openness to the spread of Bu ddhism as a form of cultural heritage to create spaces for the practice an d discussion of Buddhism in semi-public settings such as teahouses. In thi s way\, lay Buddhism is spreading even as the state exerts greater control over traditionally Buddhist religious spaces such as temples. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/lunchbox-lecture-von-gareth-fisher/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religion und was sonst noch zählt. DTSTART:20180529T161500Z DTEND:20180529T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:religion-und-was-sonst-noch-zahlt-5074@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Psychologische Studien zu moralischen Imaginationen und religi ösen Pluralismen bei jungen Erwachsenen in den Niederlanden\n\nÖffentlic her Abendvortrag von Ulrike Popp-Baier (Amsterdam)\n\nPeter Berger\, der s eine letzten Publikationen einer Theorie des religiösen Pluralismus widme te\, unterscheidet zwei Pluralismen: Die Koexistenz mehrerer Religionen un d die Koexistenz des Religiösen und des Säkularen sowohl in der modernen Gesellschaft als auch im Bewusstsein von Individuen. Linda Woodhead fügt dieser These noch das Konzept der „kulturellen Superdiversität" und ei nes damit verbundenen dritten Pluralimus der Dedifferenzierung hinzu\, um die Formen religiöser Praxis im heutigen Großbritannien (insbesondere da s Anwachsen der sogenannten nones) angemessen zu analysieren. Sowohl Ber gers als auch Woodheads Thesen passen zu den Ergebnissen verschiedener qua ntitativer Studien zur  religiösen Situation in den Niederlanden (vgl. z.B. Bernts & Berghuis 2016). In diesem Vortrag wird ein weiteres Konzept\ , das Konzept der Transdifferenzierung\, diskutiert\, um damit noch eine v ierte Art des Pluralismus zu unterscheiden. Die empirische Basis für dies e Unterscheidung bildet eine qualitative komparative Analyse von 31 narrat iven Interviews mit jugendlichen Erwachsenen in den Niederlanden\, die ein e auffallende Übereinstimmung im Hinblick auf Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen verbunden mit pluralen religiösen Orientierungen zeigt.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/religion-und-was-sonst-noch-zahlt/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: The Idea of (Re)constructing Tradition for a New Nation. Architecture and Decoration of Birla Mandirs DTSTART:20180529T101500Z DTEND:20180529T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:lunchbox-lecture-agnieszka-staszczyk-4959@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture presented by Agnieszka Staszczyk (Krakow)\n\nThe presentation focuses on the main architectural forms and decoration theme s chosen by creators of Birla Mandirs\, constructed between 1930s and 1990 s. The research is based on fieldwork studies from the past four years. Th e project team and the presenter of the lecture visited 19 temples altoget her\, classified into two main groups:\n\n\n the older one founded in orde r to support the idea of building the Hindu national temple (Hindu Rashtra Mandir)\n the younger one designed using traditional architectural langua ges.\n\n\nIn the first group the main architect responsible for the form w as Sris Chandra Chatterjee\, one of the most important designers of the pr e-independence period\, founder of Modern Indian Architectural Movement an d one of the main theoreticians discussing the shape of new Indian art\, a s well as possible sources of the revival. In the second group\, the famou s Sompura master builders were mostly employed as the main constructors\, therefore the character of temples changes. Their forms are often inspired by ancient monuments designed in regional styles of North and Central Ind ia. So changes the message and function of temples. This may be mainly obs erved in the diverse decoration consisting of inscribed panels\, paintings \, reliefs\, sculptures and stained-glass windows. In the first group they are concentrated on conveying the message of the inclusive Hindu primordi al tradition to which belong also Buddhists\, Jains and Sikhs. It shall be emphasized that: the selection of illustrated figures and themes is inspi red by teachings of important gurus and reformers\, among them Vivekananda \, Swami Shraddhananda or Malaviya\; its main aim is to present key symbol s of the common Indian nation - future citizens of the new independent sta te\, and to build the national identity\; authors of the iconographic prog rammes deliberately change elements of the Aryan heritage to fit them to t he modern picture.\n\nThus\, although they claim that the main idea behind the project is to restore old tradition\, in fact we may assume it being the idea of constructing it. The other group to some extent continues this message\, but also quotes some flagship motives of the Hindu temple tradi tion (used mainly as the outside wall decoration)\, and last but not least opens to the non-Indian traditions introducing the eminent figures of Chr istianity\, Judaism and Confucianism.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/lunchbox-lecture-agnieszka-staszczy k/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Ascetic Topographies of Ancient Gandhara: Buddhist Rebirth Narratives of Śyāma and Ekaśṛṅga DTSTART:20180528T161500Z DTEND:20180528T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:guest-lecture-20180528-4911@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture in English given by Jason Neelis (Waterloo/Vienn a)\n\nThis lecture will focus on two jātaka stories with ascetic characte rs (Śyāma and Ekaśṛṅga) which are widely distributed in Buddhist li terary and visual cultures.  Images of these stories are included among t he visual repertoire of at least 15 jātakas identified in a comprehensive global survey conducted between 2015-2017 as part of an interdisciplinary collaborative research project on ovelapping genres of Gandhāran rebirth narratives.  Localization of some of these stories reported by Chinese v isitors to Gandhara and neighbouring regions between the fifth and seventh centuries CE reflects how these narratives of the Buddha’s previous bir ths became embedded in regional landscapes. An examination of the textual versions and visual imagery of the stories of Śyāma and Ekaśṛṅga\, which were emplaced near mountain passes connecting the Peshawar Basin wit h the Swat Valley\, suggests that topographical patterns may have played a role in the selective emphasis on ascetic themes as rebirth narratives pr eserved in visual and literary media were domesticated in the northwestern borderlands.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-20180528/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience" DTSTART:20180528T141500Z DTEND:20180528T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-experience-20180604-4912@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-expe rience-20180604/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Olga Kozubska DTSTART:20180514T161500Z DTEND:20180514T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation_20180514-4909@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion_20180514/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action" DTSTART:20180514T141500Z DTEND:20180514T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-action-20180514-4908@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-acti on-20180514/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Rabia Harmansah DTSTART:20180507T161500Z DTEND:20180507T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20180507-4907@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20180507/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality" DTSTART:20180507T141500Z DTEND:20180507T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-materiality-2018050-4906@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-mate riality-2018050/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle "New Research in the Study of Religion" DTSTART:20180502T140000Z DTEND:20180502T153000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:reading-circle-newresearchinthestudymay-4895@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Reading Group "New Research in the Study of Religion" continue s the 2016/2017 meetings of the circle dedicated to "Religious Experience in Contemporary Settings." The meetings of the spring/summer 2018 will foc us on analyses of American religious experience. The discussions will take place in English\; all CERES researchers\, KHK visiting members\, and sta ff members are welcome to join. For more information\, please contact the two organizers of the reading group.\n\nToday's literature: Brad Christers on and Richard Flory\, The Rise of Network Christianity: How Independent L eaders Are Changing the Religious Landscape (Oxford University Press\, 201 8)\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Gandhara" (1.11) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-newresearchinthestud ymay/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle "Religion and Media" DTSTART:20180427T120000Z DTEND:20180427T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:reading-circle-religion-and-media-5088@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This reading circle is no such circle in the classical sense\, but rather a study group or working group that brings together people tha t are interested in religion and media. It explores the mediation of relig ion in historical as well as contemporary perspectives\, discussing new th eories and methodologies. It is open for all CERES researchers\, visiting fellows and staff members.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Gandhara" (1.11) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-religion-and-media/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Stephen Rapp DTSTART:20180423T161500Z DTEND:20180423T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20180423-4905@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20180423/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience" DTSTART:20180423T141500Z DTEND:20180423T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-experience-20180423-4904@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-expe rience-20180423/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle "Iconoclasm" DTSTART:20180423T113000Z DTEND:20180423T133000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:reading-circle-iconoclasm-201804-4934@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This reading circle is no such circle in the classical sense\, but rather a study group that discusses iconoclasm and its meaning for th e research of religions. It focuses still on - but not first and foremost - the special research literature on this topic.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Bagdad" (2.10) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-iconoclasm-201804/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle "Charisma" DTSTART:20180420T073000Z DTEND:20180420T090000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:reading-circle-charisma-201804-5071@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This reading circle examines and compares the different concep ts of "charisma" as of Max Weber\, Pierre Bordieu and other thinkers of so ciology\, religious studies and athropology. It is open for all CERES rese archers\, visiting fellows and staff members.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Bagdad" (2.10) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-charisma-201804/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Archäologie und Religionswissenschaft: Themen\, Fragen\, Horizont e DTSTART:20180419T070000Z DTEND:20180419T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:archaologie-und-religionswissenschaft-4449@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Nicht nur im Zusammenhang mit der religionswissenschaftlichen Diskussion um die „agency“ der Dinge und den „material turn“ wird es zunehmend relevant\, das interdisziplinäre Gespräch zwischen Archäol og/innen und Religionswissenschaftler/innen zu suchen. Auch wenn es um Fra gen der Emergenz des religiösen Feldes in frühen Epochen der Geschichte geht\, sind die Erkenntnisse der Archäologie zentral für die Religionsfo rschung: sowohl in komparativer als auch theoretischer Hinsicht.\n\nFast 9 9\,9 % der Menschheitsgeschichte spielen sich vor der Entdeckung der Schri ft ab. Die Erkenntnisse der Ur- und Frühgeschichte bieten somit einen eno rmen Fundus – verbunden mit methodologischen Herausforderungen – für religions- und kulturhistorische Fragestellungen. Nicht zuletzt stellt die Präsentation archäologischer Funde und Befunde in Museen einen wesentli chen Weg des Transfers von Wissen aus der universitären Forschung in eine breitere Öffentlichkeit dar\, der durch die Religionsforschung bereicher t werden kann. Thematisch wird dabei insbesondere der Religions- und Kultu rkontakt zwischen Europa und Asien in frühgeschichtlicher Zeit im Vorderg rund stehen.\n\nDer geplante eintägige Workshop soll Archäolog/innen und Religionswissenschaftler/innen zusammenbringen\, die am interdisziplinär en Austausch interessiert sind. Dabei geht es auch um die engere Vernetzun g LWL-Museum für Archäologie in Herne mit dem Centrum für Religionswiss enschaftliche Studien (CERES) der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Die Teilnehmer /innen werden Schnittmengen in Bezug auf die genannten Themenbereiche iden tifizieren und durch die Vorstellung von Forschungsgebieten und Fragestell ungen eine Gesprächsbasis für weitere Gespräche und (Forschungs-)Kooper ationen schaffen. Außerdem wird der Workshop direkt Bezug nehmen auf die ab März 2018 im Archäologiemuseum gezeigt Ausstellung „Irrtümer und F älschungen“\, in der u. a. die methodischen Herausforderungen einer auf Artefakten basierenden Kultur- und Gesellschaftsanalyse thematisiert werd en.\n\nDie Teilnahme am Workshop ist auf Einladung. Im Anschluss an den Wo rkshop findet ein öffentlicher Abendvortrag statt.\n\nVeranstaltungsort: LWL-Museum für Archäologie\, Europapl. 1\, 44623 Herne\n URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/archaologie-und-religionswissenscha ft/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting Fellow Presentation: Elena Narinskaya DTSTART:20180416T161500Z DTEND:20180416T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentation-20180416-4903@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fellow-presentat ion-20180416/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action" DTSTART:20180416T141500Z DTEND:20180416T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-action-20180416-4902@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-acti on-20180416/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Get-together DTSTART:20180409T160000Z DTEND:20180409T194500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-get-together_20180409-5051@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-get-together_201 80409/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Welcome to Summer Term 2018 DTSTART:20180409T141500Z DTEND:20180409T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:monday-meeting-welcome-summer-term-2018-4900@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-welcome-summer-term- 2018/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: The Analysis of Metaphor in Religious and Mundane T exts: Theory and Practice DTSTART:20180326T141500Z DTEND:20180326T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:guest-lecture-camilla-di-biase-dyson-4960@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture (in German) presented by Prof. Dr. Camilla Di Bi ase-Dyson (Göttingen) as part of the CERES research colloquium\n\nThis pr esentation will concern itself with the analysis of metaphorical language for scholars of religious studies. Metaphors and other similar tropes will be firstly be defined\, after which some methods of analysis will be outl ined. We will look at ways of annotating metaphor in a large historical co rpus and consider the way in which the language alters according to genre. The problematic of analysing metaphor in religious literature in particul ar will then be addressed (with some practical examples)\, after which par ticipants will be invited to share their own material for discussion.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-camilla-di-biase-dyso n/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holy Affections and Religious Entanglements in Early Modern Europe : Contacts\, Polemics\, and Representations DTSTART:20180312T130000Z DTEND:20180313T153000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:holy_affections-4887@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Exploring the role of emotion in religious and intellectual li fe\, Peter Goldie has argued that not all emotional feelings are bodily fe elings\, and that feelings may also concern things in the world that reach beyond the body\; such feelings\, "bound up with thought"\, are what he h as called feelings towards. "Many of these emotions – such as delight\, wonder\, awe\, courage\, doubt\, tenacity\, and hope – will be common be tween the intellectual and the religious sphere\; others – reverence and contrition perhaps – will be particular to religious experience" (Goldi e 2011. "Intellectual Emotions and Religious Emotions." Faith and Philosop hy 28.1: 93-101).\n\nEarly modern religious writers considered "holy affec tions" to be morally superior to all other emotions. Appealing to the emot ions became pervasive across confessional lines in the conversion and pros elytizing strategies employed by theologians\, preachers and missionaries in the early modern age. There are significant differences\, however\, in the emotions that the Catholic\, Lutheran and Calvinist clergy tried to in stil in their flocks. From around the mid-eighteenth century\, as Enlighte nment ideas permeated elites across Europe\, the established churches went on the defensive – intellectually\, culturally\, politically\, emotiona lly. This symposium explores the role of individual and collective emotion s in the religious life and sensibility of seventeenth- and eighteenth-cen tury Europe\, as expressed in devotional practices\, preaching styles\, in terpretations of catastrophic events or conversion processes. It particula rly engages with questions of inclusion and exclusion strategies\, anticle rical polemics and the perception and representation of heterodoxy and rel igious alterity.\n\nWorkshop programme\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/holy_affections/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Circle "Charisma" DTSTART:20180312T083000Z DTEND:20180312T103000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:reading-circle-charisma-201803-4930@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This reading circle examines and compares the different concep ts of "charisma" as of Max Weber\, Pierre Bordieu and other thinkers of so ciology\, religious studies and athropology. It is open for all CERES rese archers\, visiting fellows and staff members.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Gandhara" (1.11) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reading-circle-charisma-201803/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Traditional Religions\, Secularisms\, and Revivals: Buddhism and S hamanism in Northern Eurasia DTSTART:20180309T080000Z DTEND:20180310T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:traditional-religions-secularisms-and-revivals-3700@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Focusing on Buddhism and Shamanism in Russia\, Mongolia\, Cent ral Asia\, Tibet\, and the Himalayas\, the workshop will trace the introdu ction of Eurocentric secular projects of defining and limiting religion to cultural contexts in which religions\, philosophies\, and worldviews fund amentally challenge these secular definitions. The categories of “religi on” and “secularism” are both products of European modern intellectu al history\, but they developed out of European perceptions of Christianit y and its contrast to non-European “others” and their religions.\n\nSc holarship on secularism and its effects\, however\, has focused overwhelmi ngly on monotheistic contexts\, largely ignoring the role of secularism an d the category of religion in socialist secular projects and non-monotheis tic religious traditions. The concept of “religion” was not merely imp osed from above. It was appropriated and redefined by Buddhists and Shaman ists in the twentieth and twenty-first century creating new hierarchies an d stimulating new asymmetrical power relations.\n\nSince the early twentie th century Buddhism was increasingly used in the processes of nation-build ing\, while Shamanism was continuously marginalized. The socialist secular project in Siberia\, Mongolia\, and Central Asia demonstrated attempts to integrate religion into building new states (1920s)\, rigid anti-religiou s campaigns (1930s)\, and the moderate recognition and even support of org anized religion (1950s–1980s). In contemporary Mongolia and Siberia\, Bu ddhism has once again been elevated to the status of “national” or “ traditional” religion\, while in Nepal it\nbecame a marker of one’s su bnational ethnic belonging. In view of the expectations about what nationa l or traditional religion is supposed to be\, Shamanism remained contested in all four regional contexts\, yet became increasingly popular in hetero geneous revival movements defying\nboth state and religious authority.\n\n Examining the ways in which secular projects intersected with Buddhist and Shamanist religious projects promises to open new perspectives on secular ism\, socialism\, and colonialism. Nikolay Tsyrempilov (Nazarbayev Univers ity) will give a keynote lecture.\n\nWorkshop programme\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/traditional-religions-secularisms-a nd-revivals/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation: Ian Rutherford DTSTART:20180129T171500Z DTEND:20180129T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-fellow-presentation-ian-rutherford-4063@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-fellow-presentation-ian-rutherf ord/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience" DTSTART:20180129T151500Z DTEND:20180129T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fg-experience_20180129-4062@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fg-experience_20 180129/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Beiratssitzung 2018 DTSTART:20180129T120000Z DTEND:20180130T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:khk-beiratssitzung-2018-3778@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-beiratssitzung-2018/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Traditional and New Alevi Institutions DTSTART:20180125T130000Z DTEND:20180126T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:traditional_and_new_alevi_institutions-4019@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Alevi populations have undergone many radical socio-political transformations after the 1950s which have posed substantial challenges re garding the maintenance of the Alevi tradition. Until recent decades the A levi tradition was mainly rooted in rural structures. Rapid urbanization l ed by internal migration\, the state-led assimilation campaigns and the ri sing threat of Islamism in Turkey since the 1980s\, and increased contacts with other religious traditions (mainly Christianity) via the Alevi diasp ora in Europe have brought about and increased the importance of new actor s in Alevi socio-cultural politics\, most importantly Alevi civil associat ions.\n\nThese modern Alevi associations also face some serious problems a s to how to re-build the Alevi tradition under new conditions and how to r egulate and institutionalize their relations with the traditional religiou s authority of Alevi saintly lineages\, the ocaks and their members\, the dedes. Thus\, the main aim of this workshop is to discuss the process of A levi tradition building with a specific focus on new Alevi institutions\, their roles in the conduct of lives of Alevis as well as their contacts wi th other religious traditions.\n\nWorkshop's programme\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/traditional_and_new_alevi_instituti ons/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: Post-Religion? Bhagwan's Neo-Sannyas Movement in Germany 1972-1989 DTSTART:20180123T111500Z DTEND:20180123T124500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:lunchbox-lecture-papenheim-4448@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Prof. Dr. Martin Papenheim (CERES)\n\nBhagwan's Neo -Sannyas movement entered Germany in 1972. Even though Hippies\, dropouts and artists were its first members\, by the end of the 1970s the movement had become the biggest "cult" in Germany with a large middle class members hip. Depending on the source\, the numbers vary from 20\,000 to 50\,000 me mbers. This discrepancy reflects the complex and fluid character of the mo vement with both well-organized communes as well highly informal membershi p.\n\nThe public discourse in the late 1970s and 1980s focused on the conc epts of "sect" and "gross endangerment of minors". Thus\, the contemporary debate highly underestimated this west-eastern hybrid group's capacity to destabilize German/Christian religious sub-system. The Neo-Sannyas moveme nt was a post-religion. In that it had inherited the questions religions t ypically ask. But instead of answering them\, Bhagwan's teachings  demand ed a constant query of the Self. The movement  combined traditional eleme nts of institution and cult with new forms of organization and practice. M ost importantly it re-organized the societal differentiation of the religi ous by (re-)implementing religious elements into other sub-systems especia lly health and economy\, but also into media and art.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/lunchbox-lecture-papenheim/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Hittite Visible Religion. Towards an Interdisciplin ary Study of the Visual and Material Culture in the Religious Traditions o f Ancient Anatolia DTSTART:20180122T171500Z DTEND:20180122T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233504Z UID:guest-lecture-hittite-visible-religion-4453@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture presented by Michele Cammarosano and Daniel Schw emer (Würzburg University)\n\nReligious ideas and practices are part of t he visual and material culture of societies\, ancient and modern. Landscap es\, architecture\, images\, objects and implements as well as materials a nd substances serve as signifiers of concepts\, narratives and norms\; the y express a shared interpretation of the world. The religious traditions o f 2nd and early 1st millennium Anatolia are documented in thousands of cun eiform texts\, mainly from the state archives of the Hittite capital Hattu sa (Boğazköy\, Central Turkey)\; these cuneiform texts are supplemented by a great number of Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions. The textual record contains a vast amount of information on the visual and material aspects o f Hittite religious traditions\, but a comprehensive collection of these d ata has never been undertaken nor have these data been systematically inte rpreted in the context of the visual and material culture as it is preserv ed in the archaeological record. The talk will discuss plans to address th is desideratum in a collaborative approach\, involving philologists\, arch aeologists and historians of religion.\n\n\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-hittite-visible-relig ion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action" DTSTART:20180122T151500Z DTEND:20180122T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fg-action-20180122-4060@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fg-action-201801 22/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religion\, Media\, and Materiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religious Authority DTSTART:20180117T080000Z DTEND:20180119T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:religion-media-and-materiality-3304@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Religious practice necessarily involves the use of media to br idge the gap between immanence and transcendence. Scholarship has been inc reasingly interested in the relationship between religion and media and ho w material and immaterial objects become entangled in religious belief-sys tems and practices. In this respect\, the issue of authority emerges as pa ramount.\n\nThe workshop aims at exploring the interplay of authority\, re ligion\, and media. It will include scholars from different disciplines –religious studies\, media studies\, art history\, philology – present ing a wide range of case studies from different geographical and historica l contexts\, focusing both on authority as discussed within specific relig ious communities and as negotiated between different religious groups. In particular\, the workshop assumes a material approach to investigate the f ollowing topics: Religion authorizing media\, Media authorizing religion\, Mediated representations of religion.\n\nWorkshop's programme\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/religion-media-and-materiality/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation: Vasco La Salvia DTSTART:20180115T171500Z DTEND:20180115T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-fellow-presentation-vasco-la-salvia-4059@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-fellow-presentation-vasco-la-sa lvia/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality" DTSTART:20180115T151500Z DTEND:20180115T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fg-materiality_20180115-4058@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fg-materiality_2 0180115/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation: Davide Torri DTSTART:20180108T171500Z DTEND:20180108T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-fellow-presentation-davide-torri-4057@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-fellow-presentation-davide-torr i/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Knowledge" DTSTART:20180108T151500Z DTEND:20180108T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fg-knowledge_20180108-4056@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fg-knowledge_201 80108/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Antrittsvorlesung von Dr. Knut-Martin Stünkel DTSTART:20171213T170000Z DTEND:20171213T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:antrittsvorlesung-von-dr-knut-martin-stunkel-4451@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Antrittsvorlesung zur Erlangung der Habilitation von Dr. Knut- Martin Stünkel (Post-Doc am Käte Hamburger Kolleg des CERES)\n\nDer Tite l der Vorlesung lautet „Natur und Frau sollten in gleicher Weise wirken\ , uns zu adeligen\, allverstehenden\, sanftmütigen Weltgeschöpfen zu tra nsformieren.“ Peter Altenbergs Spinoza-Rezeption\n\nVeranstaltungsort: F akultät für Philologie\, Hörsaal HGB 20\, RUB-Campus\n\n \n\n\n URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/antrittsvorlesung-von-dr-knut-marti n-stunkel/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality" DTSTART:20171211T151500Z DTEND:20171211T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fg-materiality_20171211-4052@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fg-materiality_2 0171211/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Seasonal Celebration DTSTART:20171204T171500Z DTEND:20171204T194500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-seasonal-celebration_2017-4055@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-seasonal-celebra tion_2017/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action" DTSTART:20171204T151500Z DTEND:20171204T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fg-action_20171204-4054@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fg-action_201712 04/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation: Ivan Sablin DTSTART:20171127T171500Z DTEND:20171127T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-fellow-presentation-ivan-sablin-4051@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-fellow-presentation-ivan-sablin / END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience" DTSTART:20171127T151500Z DTEND:20171127T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fg-experience_20171127-4050@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fg-experience_20 171127/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERES Computer Café - Auftaktveranstaltung DTSTART:20171123T123000Z DTEND:20171123T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:ceres-computer-cafe-4421@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ceres-computer-cafe/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: Visiting the Sacred Valleys of the Beta Israel. A Hike through the Semien Mountians DTSTART:20171123T100000Z DTEND:20171123T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:ethopia_field_trip-4428@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The "Ethiopian sub-group"\, together with a tag-along Ethio-Ar menian affiliate\, of the JewsEast project set out for a three week field trip to search for the monastic remains of the Beta Israel\, the Jews of E thiopia\, as well as some tangible traces of medieval Ethiopian-Armenian r elations. In order to reach the sacred valleys of the Beta Israel we climb ed from the highest mountains of Ethiopia\, down into low and hot valleys\ , hiked for hours through the burning sun\, and camped out under the full moon. The Ethio-Armenian portion had some surprising revelations about Arm enians in Ethiopian and their role in Ethiopian society.\n\nIn this inform al talk we want to show some impressions from our trip\, with a focus on t he adventures we had\, the people we met\, the food we ate and the impress ive landscape we crossed. The presentation is based on findings of the Jew sEast team.\n\n\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ethopia_field_trip/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: Anabaptist Faith and Capitalist Ventures: Mennon ites\, Amish and Hutterites in the Modern Economy\, 1865-1970 DTSTART:20171121T111500Z DTEND:20171121T124500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:nchbox-lecture-anabaptist-faith-and-capitalist-4067@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Martin Lutz (Berlin)\n\nThe lecture gives an overview of an ongoing research project that tackles the question of how M ennonites\, Amish and Hutterites were able to remain competitive in the ca pitalist economy of the United States. The project looks at processes of a daption to and rejection of capitalist modernity in Anabaptist communities in a long-term historical perspective from the end of the Civil War throu gh the 1970s.\n\nOn the one hand\, Anabaptist communities remained anchore d in traditional path-dependencies\, for example pre-modern techniques of production. On the other hand\, they embraced certain aspects of industria l modernity and increasingly participated in local\, regional\, and nation al markets.\n\nThe project is based on the hypotheses that religious value s as well as communal traditions influenced Anabaptist economic strategies . It aims to contribute to the current debates on secularization and the p ersistence of religion in modern societies\, the diversity of modernizatio n processes\, as well as the cultural embeddedness of economic action.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/nchbox-lecture-anabaptist-faith-and -capitalist/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation: Yukiyo Kasai DTSTART:20171120T171500Z DTEND:20171120T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-fellow-presentation-yukiyo-kasai-4049@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-fellow-presentation-yukiyo-kasa i/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Knowledge" DTSTART:20171120T151500Z DTEND:20171120T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fg-knowledge_20171120-4048@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fg-knowledge_201 71120/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Holy War: Comparative Perspectives DTSTART:20171115T080000Z DTEND:20171116T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:holy-war-3782@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The notion of a Holy War\, that is a war declared to be undert aken for reli-gious reasons\, is a concept dating\, in Christendom at leas t\, to Late Anti-quity. Islam holds an inherent notion of holy war\, jihad \, as a component of its beliefs and practices. Likewise\, Judaism\, Buddh ism and Hinduism all have histories which demonstrate a tradition of holy war and resistance to holy war\, which in turn generated their own "counte r-traditions."\n\nThis workshop is intended to explore the uses and transf ormations of holy war traditions in a variety of religious milieus\, from crusading in the West\, to religious anti-colonial warfare in modern South east Asia and to explore how some of these traditions\, anyway\, played up on one another to become part of the political-religious discourse between regions and communities. Bringing together experts from different religio us traditions and histories\, we hope to compare and contrast the concept of holy war over the longue duree.\n\nWorkshop's programme\n\n\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/holy-war/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Translation\, Mysterious Others and Transference: R eligious Subjectifitications from the Experience of Northeast Japan Disast er DTSTART:20171113T171500Z DTEND:20171113T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:guest-lecture-junichi-isomae-4047@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture presented by Isomae Jun'ichi (Kyoto\, Japan)\n\n Six years have past since Northeast Japan was hit by the triple disaster. But people in Northeast Japan have been aching in their hearts\, with sadn ess over the loss of their families and properties and the sense of guilt for their own survival. Their indescribable experiences force us to rethin k the theory of religious subjectifications. The process of reglious subje ctifications sheds light on the act of translation and transference when w e think of our relationship with the dead. The dead becomes the roles of m ysterious others in Lacanian sense in order to construct our subjectivity. This talk explains how the experience of the Triple Disaster’s survivor s make it possible for us to construct new ways of subjectivity and to the orize unique the characteristics of ‘religious’ subjectification.\n\n\ n LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, room "Dunhuang" (0.12) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-junichi-isomae/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action" DTSTART:20171113T151500Z DTEND:20171113T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fg-action_20171113-4046@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fg-action_201711 13/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation: Susanne Stadlbauer DTSTART:20171106T171500Z DTEND:20171106T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-fellow-presentation-susanne-stadlbauer-4045@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-fellow-presentation-susanne-sta dlbauer/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality" DTSTART:20171106T151500Z DTEND:20171106T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fg-materiality_20171106-4044@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fg-materiality_2 0171106/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:“Atmospheres”: Sacred Spaces between Immanence and Transcenden ce The Potential of a Concept for the Study of Religions DTSTART:20171026T070000Z DTEND:20171028T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:atmospheres-sacred-spaces-between-immanence-and-tr-3161@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:It is well established in research on religious traditions tha t sacred architecture has the function to make available the transcendent with immanent means (Witt­mann-Englert 2006\, 7\; Krech 2012\, 20–21). Built places\, however\, do not do so ‘on their own’ but only through atmospheres – this is the basic hypothesis of our workshop.\n\nAtmospher es\, in a preliminary definition\, are the realized semantic potential of socio-spatial arrangements which includes the meaning\, agency\, and sensa tion of physical space and which enables and restricts communication and s ociality.\n\nThe connections between spatial semantics\, atmospheres\, and transcendence/immanence have not been studied systematically from a relig ious studies perspective. In neighbouring disciplines however\, the concep t of atmospheres has been discussed (e.g. Schmitz 1969\; Böhme 2013). In addition\, the recent turns in the social studies and humanities (spatial\ , somatic\, material turn) have addressed aspects of what constitutes atmo spheres. This is where the workshop takes off: In interdisciplinary discus sion\, we will debate how the concept of atmospheres might be useful for t he study of religions.\n\nFinally\, sacred spaces are “contact zones” (Pratt 2008)\, places where representatives of different cultural and reli gious traditions meet – particularly in culturally and religiously plura l societies. It is not just the “spatial iconicity” (Engelbart/Krech 2 016\, 199) of sacred architecture which permits interreligious encounter ( see also Knott et al. 2016). The atmosphere of these places can – in the emic perspective – be “inviting” or “excluding.” The dynamics o f inter- and intra-religious contact\, therefore\, are decisively but usua lly implicitly influenced by atmospheres. To understand these processes be tter\, the workshop takes a step towards a theoretically precise and metho dically operational concept of atmospheres.\n\nWorkshop's programme (in Ge rman only)\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/atmospheres-sacred-spaces-between-i mmanence-and-tr/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: Fleeing the Resonance Machine: Music and Sound i n 'Emerging Church' Communities DTSTART:20171024T101500Z DTEND:20171024T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:lunchbox-lecture-mark-porter-4068@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture presented by Mark Porter (Erfurt)\n\nCongregatio nal singing has often become somewhat problematised within the contemporar y so-called "emerging church" movement. Emerging church groups\, through t heir self-consciously post-modern re-imaginings of Christianity bring into question not only ideas of group singing but of the congregation itself\, intentionally deconstructing the boundaries\, patterns and norms which ha ve typically served to define the congregational group. Rather than accept ing unquestioned the normative value of traditional authority sources\, em erging church participants de-construct and re-imagine Christian life and worship within a range of traditional and non-traditional spaces.\n\nNever theless\, music and sound remain important\, if contested\, components of emerging church practices.Patterns of sonic\, social and spiritual resonan ce established within evangelical or charismatic settings are deconstructe d\, modified and reconstructed in a broad variety of ways.\n\nThis talk wi ll explore musical dynamics within contemporary emerging church communitie s in the UK\, examining how new patterns of resonant interaction are const ructed when previous patterns are brought into question.\n\n\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/lunchbox-lecture-mark-porter/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20171023T161500Z DTEND:20171023T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-fellow-presentation-4043@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-fellow-presentation/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience" DTSTART:20171023T141500Z DTEND:20171023T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-experience_20171023-4042@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-expe rience_20171023/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Traveling Texts and Inter-Religious Exchanges and Encounters DTSTART:20171017T130000Z DTEND:20171019T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:transcendent-boundaries-immanent-texts-3224@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The workshop will explore tradition transfer between different cultures and religions by focusing on so-called “traveling texts” or “traveling motifs”\, especially those that transcend boundaries of rel igion/language. We look at such issues as the appearance of certain texts and motifs in different languages and religious traditions\, the process o f this transmission\, the kind of texts that seem to be more likely to tra nscend such (imagined or real) boundaries\, and the kind of changes that o ccur in the process. Individual papers will focus on specific cases and te xts\, some noteworthy motifs that received a wide diffusion\, or explore t heoretical perspectives behind this tradition-transfer.\n\nThe workshop wi ll raise such questions as: why texts travel\, in what context\, what kind of texts travel and if we can detect any general patterns with respect to the content/genre of traveling texts and the religious traditions through or across which they travel.\n\nWorkshop's programme\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/transcendent-boundaries-immanent-te xts/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation: Stephen Berkwitz DTSTART:20171016T161500Z DTEND:20171016T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-fellow-presentation-stephen-berkwitz-4041@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Divine Kingship in Medieval Sri Lanka: Dynamics in Traditions of Power and Virtue in South Asia\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-fellow-presentation-stephen-ber kwitz/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Knowledge" DTSTART:20171016T141500Z DTEND:20171016T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-fg-knowledge_20171016-4040@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-fg-knowledge_201 71016/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Get-together DTSTART:20171009T161500Z DTEND:20171009T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-get-together-2017-4039@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-get-together-201 7/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Opening of the Academic Year 2017-2018 DTSTART:20171009T141500Z DTEND:20171009T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-opening-academic-year-2017-2018-4038@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:\n Introduction to the KHK and CERES\n Introduction to the lec ture series\n Introduction to the CERES Computer Café\n\n\n\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-opening-academic -year-2017-2018/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sleep in Classical\, Late and Eastern Antiquity. A Comparative Inq uiry DTSTART:20170926T070000Z DTEND:20170928T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:sleep-classical-late-and-eastern-antiquity-compara-3213@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The workshop presents a comparative inquiry on the significanc e of sleep\, its cultural coding and its connection to religion in the cul tures of antiquity. It focuses primarily on the main Eastern and Western c ivilizations up to the fall of the Western Roman Empire. \nIts primary ai m is to complement the wide scale research done on the topic of sleep in t he past decade by raising questions beyond the issue of dream narratives: about the complementary\, dynamic states of sleep and wake\, about the bor der mediating between the two. How do western and eastern ancient cultures of antiquity evaluate sleep and wakefulness? What kinds of social\, ethic al values and religious ideas are linked to them\, what kind of sleepers - humans or gods – are represented in the sleeping state? Is there a divi nity responsible for falling into a faint\, a granter\, a depository – l ike the Greek Hypnos? Besides the imaginations of the deities of sleeping\ , the realm of sleep and night remains a phenomenon that is closely connec ted to religious beliefs. \n\nIt has been regarded as a border crossing e xperience\, a crossing between life and death\, human and divine\, and in this state of “in-between” many extraordinary things could happen\, su ch as healing\, divination or – through dreams – even journey into a t ranscendent world. We can raise the question: What do our texts and images tell us about the nature of sleep\, about its connection with the complem entary ideas of immanence and transcendence? What significant narratives c an be found about sleepers in the researched cultures? How do metaphors\, analogies and counterpoints define the space of sleep? In what ways are th e various cultural codings of sleep linked to religious experiences\, to h eroization\, to death\, or immortality?\n\nWorkshop's programme\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/sleep-classical-late-and-eastern-an tiquity-compara/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religion at Sea DTSTART:20170922T070000Z DTEND:20170922T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:religion-sea-4074@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:While maritime and littoral cultures form specific constraints for the everyday beliefs and practices of religion\, also specific elemen ts of religions influence the everyday life of the people on and near the sea. In terms of high seas travel\, many encounters between different cult ures took and take place on the sea shores. \n\nThis workshop brings toge ther researchers of maritime culture who are dealing with its religion\\s from various perspectives and fields of research in order to discuss relig ion\\s at sea from a theoretical as well as historical (i.e. based on empi rical data) perspective.\n\nIt aims at two focal points: \n\n\n a history -oriented focus includes a broad geographical and temporal range to inform each other about the breadth of empirical data\; \n a theory-oriented fo cus aims at identifying different religious elements in those various mari time cultures in order to discuss what makes them distinct from profane el ements.\n\n\nThe discussions will also cover methodological questions abou t data of a rather vernacular culture and comparison between cul-tures and religions.\n\nWith this workshop initiates a continuative conversation be tween the research fields of cultural anthropology\, maritime history and religious studies.\n\nWorkshop's programme\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/religion-sea/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Transcendence/Immanence-Distinction (TID) in the Study of Reli gious Contacts between Asia and Europe DTSTART:20170906T140000Z DTEND:20170908T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:immanence-transcendence-distinction-3759@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Käte Hamburger Kolleg Dynamics in the History of Reli gions between Asia and Europe devoted the academic year 2016-2017 to the s crutiny of the role of the trans-cendence/immanence distinction (hencefort h\, TID) in cases of interreligious\, intrareligious\, and intersocietal c ontacts.\n\nAt the basic level the TID indicates a spatial relation\, i.e. a transgression of borders\, thus establishing a threefold structure of ‘thereʼ and ‘hereʼ and the ‘borderʼ media-ting between the two (t he process of interrelation) as a dynamic process. The TID is associated w ith (1) spatial metaphors\, and with (2) ideas of movement (transgressing) . The dichotomous structure of the TID enables its basic function as media tion. It does so via contrast\, enabling the transformation of unspecific (absolute) complexity into specific complexity. As such\, the distinction indicates the (processing) unity of contraries or even contradictions. The concept consists of a binary (dichotomous)\, but interrelating\, distinct ion that introduces the idea of interplay as well as of process. This inte rnally processing basic unity\, seen as interplay\, leads to asser-tions g uided by a religiously meaningful TID.\n\nThe main purpose of this confere nce is to summarize the results of the research carried out in Bochum duri ng the last twelve months. It will do this\, during September 6-8\, 2017\, through presentations given by invited keynote speakers as well as by cur rent and former KHK fellows. \nThe conference will include both specific case analyses of the relevance of the TID for particular examples of relig ious contacts\, and also theoretical reflections on the role of this theme within religions East and West. The participants to the confer-ence will reflect on the thematic complexity and analytical challenges\, encountered during the year-long research on the theme of “TID in Religious Contact s\,” along the lines of four analytical fields: (a) Knowledge\; (b) Expe rience\; (c) Ritual\; and (d) Materiality. \n\nWorkshop's programme\n\n\n  \n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/immanence-transcendence-distinction / END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Convivence and Encounter in Southern Palestine. The Literary Growt h of the Abraham-Cycle DTSTART:20170803T070000Z DTEND:20170804T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:convivence-and-encounter-southern-palestine-3212@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Not only the reception of the figure of Abraham in Judaism\, C hristianity and Judaism is contested\, all the more the literary foundatio ns in the Hebrew Bible. The source-critical model is no longer valuable\, but the challenge of explaining and dating the priestly and non-priestly p arts of the Abraham cycle and its reworking diachronically remains crucial for the understanding of the figure of Abraham and for Genesis as text. T he workshop brings together a group of textual specialists to continue a d iscussion on the literary growth of the Abraham cycle (Gen 12-25) against background of recent Pentateuchal theory. The workshop is a follow up on t he growth of the Issac-tradition which was discussed in workshops before. Papers and discussions will be in German language.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/convivence-and-encounter-southern-p alestine/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ERiC Summer School 2017 DTSTART:20170725T070000Z DTEND:20170801T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:eric-summer-school-2017-3306@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Programme of the ERiC Summer School 2017\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/eric-summer-school-2017/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: "Formations of the Secular. Christianity\, Islam \, Modernity" - On Talal Asad's Critique on the Secular Modernity DTSTART:20170718T101500Z DTEND:20170718T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:lunchbox-lecture-formations-secular-christianity-i-4037@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The lecture will be presented in German only.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/lunchbox-lecture-formations-secular -christianity-i/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Summerly Get-together DTSTART:20170717T163000Z DTEND:20170717T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-summerly-get-together-2680@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-summerly-get-together/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality" DTSTART:20170717T141500Z DTEND:20170717T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting_20170717a-3444@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting_20170717a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: Are Prosocial Religions Cultural Adaptations? A Critical Appraisal of the "Big Gods Hypothesis" DTSTART:20170711T101500Z DTEND:20170711T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:lunchbox-lecture-are-prosocial-religions-4024@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture presented by Karolina Prochownik (Kraków/Bochum )\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Turfan" (0.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/lunchbox-lecture-are-prosocial-reli gions/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action" DTSTART:20170710T161500Z DTEND:20170710T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting_20170710b-3443@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting_20170710b/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience" DTSTART:20170710T141500Z DTEND:20170710T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting_20170710a-3442@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting_20170710a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat as a Paradigm for Cultural and Religious East-West Entanglement DTSTART:20170705T070000Z DTEND:20170707T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:legend-barlaam-and-josaphat-paradigm-cultural-and--3209@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The story of Barlaam and Josaphat\, known in the West from a v ery early time in the form of Christian hagiography\, has fascinated schol ars since the discovery in the middle of the 19th century of the fact that one of its protagonists\, Josaphat\, has his origin in the figure of the Bodhisattva\, and that it contains narrative elements from the Buddha biog raphy. The oldest version of the story is preserved in Arabic\, and the st ory was adopted in different hagiographic traditions and different Europpe an languages like Greek\, Latin\, Georgian\, Ethiopic\, Hebrew\, Slavonic\ , Armenian has been represented in art. The conference will address and di scuss a wide range of aspects of the legend and its transmission.\n\nWorks hop's programme\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/legend-barlaam-and-josaphat-paradig m-cultural-and-/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: The Interaction of Economic and Religious Instituti ons in Late Imperial China DTSTART:20170703T161500Z DTEND:20170703T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:guest-lecture-moll-murata-3441@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Christine Moll-Murata (Bochum)\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-moll-murata/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Knowledge" DTSTART:20170703T141500Z DTEND:20170703T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting_20170703a-3440@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting_20170703a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The „Inner Self“ and Transcendence – Emergence\, Relation\, and Religious Impact DTSTART:20170629T070000Z DTEND:20170630T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:inner-self-and-transcendence-emergence-relation-an-3528@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:In elaborating on the idea of an axial-age Karl Jaspers has pu t the self and the emergence of transcendence nicely together: “What is new about this age\, in all three areas of the world\, is that man becomes conscious of Being as a whole\, of himself and his limitations. He experi ences the terror of the world and his own powerlessness. He asks radical q uestions. Face to face with the void he strives for liberation and redempt ion. By consciously recognising his limits he sets himself the highest goa ls. He experiences absoluteness in the depths of selfhood and in the lucid ity of transcendence. All this took place in reflection. Consciousness bec ame once more conscious of itself\, thinking became its own object.” (Or igin and Goal of History\, New Haven\, CT: Yale University Press\, 1953\, 2) \n\nIt is commonly accepted that both topics\, the so-called inner sel f\, which means reflexivity and rational constitution as the base of self- and world-understanding\, and the transcendence\, which means the capacit y of thinking beyond\, are quite crucial for the emergence of modernity.  While the epochal shift became a myth of origin\, it was more or less li nked with Plato and Augustin\, and thus detached from the broader horizon Jaspers originally evoked. The conference will ask for the development\, i ts sources\, and the link between various approaches in Early China\, Anci ent Iran\, Ancient Greece\, and the Hebrew Bible. \n\nWorkshop's programm e\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/inner-self-and-transcendence-emerge nce-relation-an/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: How the Sociology and History of Religion can meet the Cognitive and Psychological Sciences: What we need from them and they need from us DTSTART:20170626T161500Z DTEND:20170626T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:guest-lecture-armin-geertz-3439@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture presented by Prof Armin Geertz (Aarhus Universit y)\n\nThis talk will address a wide variety of issues in introductory form and\, hopefully\, give at least an indication of the possible avenues of interaction and cooperation between the human\, social\, and natural scien ces. There are at least three obvious meeting places or intersections:\n\n \n evolution\, deep history\, and social evolution (biological\, neurologi cal\, and social theory)\,\n the minds in\, behind\, and beyond texts\, mo numents\, material objects and images (history and archaeology)\, and\n th e minds and bodies of living religious people (anthropology and sociology) .\n\n\nOf course\, there are obvious problems in any multimodal\, multidis ciplinary attempt. Each science has its own concepts\, theories\, methods\ , narrative and procedural styles\, all of which create mutually incompreh ensible worlds of their own. Thus\, there is a great need for translation between the sciences and disciplines.\n\nWhy should we\, one might ask\, u se so much effort when there is so much else to do? Why should we brush up on our knowledge of chemistry\, the brain\, genetics\, zoology\, and evol utionary theory? We have challenges enough in learning languages\, trying to decipher highly exotic texts\, or keeping track of informants in the fi eld. The answer to these questions is that there have been considerable br eakthroughs in the sciences (and archaeology) concerning human evolution\, physiology\, neuropsychology\, and social behavior. These breakthroughs d emand explanation. On the one hand\, no explanation will be adequate witho ut the knowledge and competencies of the humanities and social sciences. O n the other hand\, explanations by scholars in the humanities and social s ciences will not be adequate without the knowledge and competencies of the natural and psychological sciences. Human beings evolve\, live\, and die\ , leaving their mark in genes\, culture\, society\, and the environment. A ll of the sciences and disciplines have important contributions to make in understanding and explaining who we are\, where we came from\, and where we are going. Surely\, these are issues of central importance to the scien tific study of religion!\n\n\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-armin-geertz/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience" DTSTART:20170626T141500Z DTEND:20170626T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting_20170626a-3438@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting_20170626a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Written\, Built\, Performed. Thresholds of Transcendence between W estern Christianity and the “Wisdom of the East” DTSTART:20170623T070000Z DTEND:20170623T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:written-built-performed-thresholds-transcendence-b-3211@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The architecture of Christian churches was historically unders tood to provide a threshold between immanence and transcendence\, with lit urgy as the gatekeeper. Today a large section of the population seems to b e ignorant regarding the role of liturgical performance. In contrast\, the buildings themselves became perceived as enabling the grasp of transcende nce\, thus pointing towards a shift in understanding the relationship betw een build space and religious practice.\n\nThe workshop aims to come to a basic understanding regarding potential roles of architecture as a means t o experience or divine transcendence. Researchers with backgrounds in vari ous religious studies on one hand and neighbouring fields with interest in 'civil religions' inform about the traditional and modern practices (writ ten\, performed and built) to mark the threshold between immanence and tra nscendence\, both in Asia and Europe.\n\nWorkshop's programme\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/written-built-performed-thresholds- transcendence-b/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: Martyrdom Mythologies: How IS gives Meaning to d eath DTSTART:20170620T101500Z DTEND:20170620T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:lunchbox-lecture-pieter-nanninga-3777@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Pieter Nanninga (Groningen)\n\nThe Islamic St ate (IS) has lost tens of thousands of fighters in battles and through air strikes over the last few years. Besides\, hundreds of fighters have kille d themselves by carrying out suicide attacks\, around 1100 of which were p erformed in 2016 alone. IS gives meaning to these deaths through the conce pt of martyrdom\, framing the killed fighters and suicide bombers as role models who have sacrificed themselves ‘in the way of God’ and thus gai ned the ‘ultimate triumph.’ In this talk\, I will examine how IS propa gandises its ‘martyrs’ by exploring a number of martyr biographies pub lished in its magazines. I will demonstrate that IS appropriates early-Isl amic genres and themes to construct these biographies\, but meanwhile adap ts them to its own (thoroughly modern) purposes. As a result\, the ‘mart yrs’ are presented as genuinely Islamic role models\, who nevertheless e asily connect with the modern\, globalised and individualised lives of IS ’s target audience.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/lunchbox-lecture-pieter-nanninga/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: The Intersection of Media with Religion in Kashmir: An Overview DTSTART:20170619T161500Z DTEND:20170619T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:guest-lecture-religion-and-media-india-3764@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Raoof Mir (Göttingen/New Delhi)\n\nThe gues t lecture presents a study that looks at the ways in which media and relig ion intersect in the spaces of social\, political and cultural practices i n the Muslim majority region of Kashmir Valley. By interpreting the existi ng literature on the history of Islam in Kashmir Valley through a communic ation perspective\, the study argues that that each form of media has cont ributed to the shaping of Islamic traditions in Kashmir Valley in distinct ive ways. The initial purpose of the study therefore is therefore to look at the communication forms such as orality and literacy and their interpla y with Islamic traditions in Kashmir Valley. Later\, in order to explain h ow new media technologies such as print\, television\, cassettes and compu ter mediated technologies have contributed to articulation of new forms of religiosities\, this study takes an ethnographic turn by looking at the w ays in which Muslims individuals or Muslims groups in Kashmir use these me dia technologies to construct religious meanings.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-religion-and-media-in dia/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality" DTSTART:20170619T141500Z DTEND:20170619T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting_20170619a-3436@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting_20170619a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mining for New Topics and Resources. The Future of Comparative Rel igion in Transatlantic Perspective DTSTART:20170613T080000Z DTEND:20170614T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:mining-new-topics-and-resources-4016@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Joint workshop of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg\, CERES and the D epartment of Religion\, Syracuse University (NY)\n\nWorkshop's programme\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/mining-new-topics-and-resources/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation: Beate Löffler DTSTART:20170612T161500Z DTEND:20170612T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-fellow-presentation-beate-loffler-3435@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-fellow-presentation-beate-loffl er/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action" DTSTART:20170612T141500Z DTEND:20170612T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting_20170612a-3434@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting_20170612a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mining for New Topics and Resources. The Future of Comparative Rel igion in Transatlantic Perspective DTSTART:20170612T120000Z DTEND:20170612T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:mining-new-topics-and-resources-4015@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Joint workshop of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg\, CERES and the D epartment of Religion\, Syracuse University (NY)\n\nWorkshop's programme\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/mining-new-topics-and-resources/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Subtle Subversions: Resisting Colonialism through Religion. The Im pact of the Colonialization Period on the Development on a Religious Langu age DTSTART:20170608T070000Z DTEND:20170608T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:colonialism-3221@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The conference is twofold into two parts:\n\nThe first day of the conference (6 June 2017) will focus on the impact of colonialization o n the development of religious language.\n\nThe early period of colonialis m confronted a militant Roman Catholicism seeking to convert indigenous pe oples to the Latin Church with new linguistic challenges. Since failures o f mission could no longer be overseen\, problems of translating religious language became paramount in theoretical considerations. Reflections on la nguage and theory of mission were closely connected.\n\nThe brutal exploit ation of the colonized lands also triggered processes of reflection and al ternative methods of mission\, based on considerations on communication an d translation. As it was not possible to refer to commonly shared conceptu al and historical contexts\, the reference to the senses as a medium of th e recognition of God became more important.\n\nIn its first part the joint workshop intends to examine the influence of colonial encounters on the f ormation and development of religious language in both Europe and the colo nies. It attempts to scrutinize if knowledge of non-European languages cha llenged and changed religious concepts and notions in the European languag e.\n\nAs the considerations on language evolved from European discussions in the wake of Humanism\, Hebraism and the Reformation we intend to apply and further develop the more general results of our former workshops on 'R eligious Language' (May 2012\, June 2013\, February 2014). \n\nThe second and third days of the conference (7-8 June 2017) will focus on the ways t hat colonized people "subtly subverted" their colonial overlords using rel igious expression (e.g.s ritual\, text\, music\, etc.).\n\nThe "Subtle Sub versions" workshop will focus on the interactions between colonized people s and their colonizers in which religion and religious expression were sit es through which resistance could be enacted. In contrast to some movement s that directly confronted their colonial oppressors (i.e. through warfare )\, we are interested in the subtle ways that colonized peoples used relig ious rhetoric\, performance\, and artistic productions to articulate the w orld around them that inherently resisted foreign military or administrati ve control. Particularly\, we will explore how these subtle subversions sh aped the colonial worlds for both the colonized and the colonizers and the lasting legacy that these strategies have had in our understanding of the Religious Studies' taxonomies of "World Religions" and "Indigenous Religi ons." \n\nProgramme of the conference\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/colonialism/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Subtle Subversions: Resisting Colonialism through Religion. The Im pact of the Colonialization Period on the Development on a Religious Langu age DTSTART:20170607T070000Z DTEND:20170607T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:colonialism-3220@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The conference is twofold into two parts:\n\nThe first day of the conference (6 June 2017) will focus on the impact of colonialization o n the development of religious language.\n\nThe early period of colonialis m confronted a militant Roman Catholicism seeking to convert indigenous pe oples to the Latin Church with new linguistic challenges. Since failures o f mission could no longer be overseen\, problems of translating religious language became paramount in theoretical considerations. Reflections on la nguage and theory of mission were closely connected.\n\nThe brutal exploit ation of the colonized lands also triggered processes of reflection and al ternative methods of mission\, based on considerations on communication an d translation. As it was not possible to refer to commonly shared conceptu al and historical contexts\, the reference to the senses as a medium of th e recognition of God became more important.\n\nIn its first part the joint workshop intends to examine the influence of colonial encounters on the f ormation and development of religious language in both Europe and the colo nies. It attempts to scrutinize if knowledge of non-European languages cha llenged and changed religious concepts and notions in the European languag e.\n\nAs the considerations on language evolved from European discussions in the wake of Humanism\, Hebraism and the Reformation we intend to apply and further develop the more general results of our former workshops on 'R eligious Language' (May 2012\, June 2013\, February 2014). \n\nThe second and third days of the conference (7-8 June 2017) will focus on the ways t hat colonized people "subtly subverted" their colonial overlords using rel igious expression (e.g.s ritual\, text\, music\, etc.).\n\nThe "Subtle Sub versions" workshop will focus on the interactions between colonized people s and their colonizers in which religion and religious expression were sit es through which resistance could be enacted. In contrast to some movement s that directly confronted their colonial oppressors (i.e. through warfare )\, we are interested in the subtle ways that colonized peoples used relig ious rhetoric\, performance\, and artistic productions to articulate the w orld around them that inherently resisted foreign military or administrati ve control. Particularly\, we will explore how these subtle subversions sh aped the colonial worlds for both the colonized and the colonizers and the lasting legacy that these strategies have had in our understanding of the Religious Studies' taxonomies of "World Religions" and "Indigenous Religi ons." \n\nProgramme of the conference\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/colonialism/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Subtle Subversions: Resisting Colonialism through Religion. The Im pact of the Colonialization Period on the Development on a Religious Langu age DTSTART:20170606T070000Z DTEND:20170606T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:colonialism-3530@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The conference is twofold into two parts:\n\nThe first day of the conference (6 June 2017) will focus on the impact of colonialization o n the development of religious language.\n\nThe early period of colonialis m confronted a militant Roman Catholicism seeking to convert indigenous pe oples to the Latin Church with new linguistic challenges. Since failures o f mission could no longer be overseen\, problems of translating religious language became paramount in theoretical considerations. Reflections on la nguage and theory of mission were closely connected.\n\nThe brutal exploit ation of the colonized lands also triggered processes of reflection and al ternative methods of mission\, based on considerations on communication an d translation. As it was not possible to refer to commonly shared conceptu al and historical contexts\, the reference to the senses as a medium of th e recognition of God became more important.\n\nIn its first part the joint workshop intends to examine the influence of colonial encounters on the f ormation and development of religious language in both Europe and the colo nies. It attempts to scrutinize if knowledge of non-European languages cha llenged and changed religious concepts and notions in the European languag e.\n\nAs the considerations on language evolved from European discussions in the wake of Humanism\, Hebraism and the Reformation we intend to apply and further develop the more general results of our former workshops on 'R eligious Language' (May 2012\, June 2013\, February 2014). \n\nThe second and third days of the conference (7-8 June 2017) will focus on the ways t hat colonized people "subtly subverted" their colonial overlords using rel igious expression (e.g.s ritual\, text\, music\, etc.).\n\nThe "Subtle Sub versions" workshop will focus on the interactions between colonized people s and their colonizers in which religion and religious expression were sit es through which resistance could be enacted. In contrast to some movement s that directly confronted their colonial oppressors (i.e. through warfare )\, we are interested in the subtle ways that colonized peoples used relig ious rhetoric\, performance\, and artistic productions to articulate the w orld around them that inherently resisted foreign military or administrati ve control. Particularly\, we will explore how these subtle subversions sh aped the colonial worlds for both the colonized and the colonizers and the lasting legacy that these strategies have had in our understanding of the Religious Studies' taxonomies of "World Religions" and "Indigenous Religi ons." \n\nProgramme of the conference\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/colonialism/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Formative Exchanges between Late Antique Rome and the Sasanid Empi re: Zoroastrians\, Manichaeans\, and Christians in Contact DTSTART:20170601T070000Z DTEND:20170602T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:formative-exchanges-late-antique-3210@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This workshop will explore formative dynamics of contacts\, in teractions\, and exchanges that took place in the Sasanian and Roman Empir es between Zoroastrianism\, Manichaeism\, and Christianity at multiple lev els. The participants will investigate the cognitive\, ritual\, and materi al scope of religions represented as “minorities” within larger ethnic and ideological landscapes\, such as Christians and Manichaeans in the Pe rsian Empire\, or Manichaeans in the Roman Empire.\n\nAlso\, they will enq uire into how the subsequent reactions from the political\, ethnic\, and r eligious “majority” of the Persian and Roman Empires led not only to v arious manners of accommodation or rejection of religious minorities by th e religious establishment\, but also to the transformation of these majori ties themselves as a result of religious contacts\, influences\, and borro wings.\n \n\nWorkshop's programme\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/formative-exchanges-late-antique/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ashes level Everything? Individuality and Identity in the Heteroge neous Tombs of the City of Rome in the 1st and 2nd Century AD DTSTART:20170529T161500Z DTEND:20170529T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:guest-lecture-blume-jung-3433@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Clarissa Blume-Jung (Bochum)\n\nAshes level e verything. We are born unequal\, we die equal.“ This is a dictum by Sene ca\, written in the 1st century AD. Dealing\, however\, with archaeologica l remains of Roman cemeteries of exactly that time\, we have to realise th at the tombs of that time do not reflect the idea of equality in death at all. Instead\, their locations\, measures\, types\, decoration and overall effect are extremely heterogeneous. It is the aim of the paper to give an insight into the great variety of the tombs of the city of Rome in the 1s t and 2nd century AD and to discuss this heterogeneous appearance with reg ard to what it says about how the society of that time dealt with death\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-blume-jung/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Knowledge" DTSTART:20170529T141500Z DTEND:20170529T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting_20170529a-3432@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting_20170529a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Arabic and Islam on the Move: Cross-Cultural Encounters between Ar abia and Malabar 900s-1500s DTSTART:20170523T070000Z DTEND:20170524T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:arabic-and-islam-move-cross-cultural-encounters-3222@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:\n\nMalabar on the west coast of South India was an important node in the medieval Indian Ocean maritime trade networks at the juncture of cross-cultural encounters between Southwest and Southeast Asia. The wor kshop will focus on the role of Arabic and Islam in engendering the transr egional networks that operated across the long-distance trade routes. Espe cially Madayi\, in north Malabar\, is a promising ground for interdiciplin ary research combining ar-chaeological excavations\, textual studies in Ar abic and Arabic-Malayalam and ethnoarchaeology to uncover the hidden histo ry of Islam in Malabar. Archaeologists\, historians\, ethnologists and exp erts on language and culture in the Arab world and in South Asia will gath er for combining their respective methodological approaches and analytical perspectives in studying the social and cultural history of the region.  \n\nThe Workshop Arabic and Islam on the Move: Cross-cultural Encounters between Arabia and Malabar 900s-1500s is jointly organized by CERES and t he Department of History\, Government Brennen College in Kerala\, South In dia\, following a bilateral workshop that took place at Madayi in April 20 -22.\n\nThe workshop's programme.\n\n\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/arabic-and-islam-move-cross-cultura l-encounters/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:REMIO Guest Lecture: Material Culture and the Religious Heritage o f Armenians and Greeks in Kayseri: Hrant Dink Foundation's Cultural Herita ge Mapping Project DTSTART:20170522T161500Z DTEND:20170522T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:remio-guest-lecture-material-culture-and-religious-3091@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:REMIO Guest Lecture by Zeynep Oguz (Harvard University\, Cambr idge/MA\, USA)\n\n\n\n\nHrant Dink Foundation has been implementing an inv entory project of Armenian\, Greek\, Jewish\, and Syriac cultural heritage in Turkey in order to contribute to the visibility of multiple and dynami c cultures of the diverse communities there.\n\nThe Cultural Heritage Map of Turkey has information on schools\, hospitals\, and cemeteries\, as wel l as churches\, monasteries\, and synagogues. This presentation will focus on the first and most extensive field work that the foundation has yet un dertaken as part of their mapping project\, namely on their work in Kayser i. Of the 387 Armenian and Greek public buildings in Kayseri that could be listed by way of historical sources\, 181 have been visited in situ.\n\nB ased on the findings\, the lecturer will talk specifically about the mater ial culture of the Greek and Armenian populations of Kayseri that can be g leaned from the remaining buildings\, the majority of which consists of ro ck-cut Early Christian sanctuaries and nineteenth century churches.\n\n\nT he lecture series is sponsored by the RUB Research School and CERES.\n\n\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/remio-guest-lecture-material-cultur e-and-religious/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action" DTSTART:20170522T141500Z DTEND:20170522T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting_20170522a-3431@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting_20170522a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Self-Reflective Traditions DTSTART:20170518T070000Z DTEND:20170519T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:self-reflective-traditions-3206@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:\n\nTradition is a central concept with respect to religion. A t the same time\, it occupies a uniquely vague space between the life of r eligion as it is experienced from within (the “emic”)\, on the one han d\, and the more objectively-inclined scholarly study of religion from wit hout (the “etic”). From within\, ‘tradition’ is a concept that hel ps express historical continuity and to explain practices that do not seem to be commanded by the religion’s main structures of authority (“it ’s a tradition”). From without\, ‘tradition’ is a term we use to r eplace the perplexing and elusive ‘religion.’\n\nBeing at the intersec tion of diverse points of view\, ‘Tradition’ is therefore a valuable c oncept in order to bridge the gap between the real life of religion and th e theoretical account we hope to provide of it\, and it leads us toward th e questions of religious identity that we intend to be at the heart of our discussion. Traditions\, or religions\, somehow know who they are\, in sp ite of the drastic historical changes they go through.\n\nReligions have m any ways in which they look at and reflect upon themselves\, and the proce ss of self-reflection forms an important aspect of their identity and of t he process behind their development. We thus ask how traditions know who t hey are? How do they define themselves? How do they speak of continuity in face of change\, acknowledging their identity along the way?\n\nThe works hop's programme\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/self-reflective-traditions/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Neighborhood for Beginners: Islam\, Islamism DTSTART:20170515T161500Z DTEND:20170515T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:guest-lecture-neighborhood-beginners-islam-islamis-3763@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture prestented by Rachid Boutayeb (RUB). The lecture will be held in German only.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-neighborhood-beginner s-islam-islamis/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality" DTSTART:20170515T141500Z DTEND:20170515T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting_20170515a-3429@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting_20170515a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Knowledge" DTSTART:20170508T144500Z DTEND:20170508T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting_20170508a-3427@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting_20170508a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:REMIO Guest Lecture: Architecture of the Armenian Highlands and Ea stern Anatolia in the 12th-13th centuries: Correlations between Armenian a nd Seljuq Traditions DTSTART:20170424T161500Z DTEND:20170424T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:remio-guest-lecture-armen-kazaryan-2679@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:REMIO Guest Lecture by Armen Kazaryan (Deputy Director\, State Institute for Art Studies\, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation \, Moscow\, Russia)\n \n\nThe beginning of Seljuq architecture and of a n ew revival of Armenian architecture took place on the territory of the Arm enian Highlands and Anatolia starting with late 12th century. This marks a n entirely new and intense period of interactions between Christian and Is lamic traditions of art on these territories.\n\nThe lecture will focus on this artistic exchange\, presenting the typology of constructions of Arme nians and Seljuqs\, their architectural details and ornamental motives\, a s well as the artistic tastes of these two peoples who co-existed on these lands\, indicating various intriguing similarities and differences. Havin g rather different sources of inspiration\, as well as distinct trajectori es of development\, the architecture of Armenians and Seljuqs of the 13th century became akin to each other in several features.\n\nIt is impossible to explain this kind of visual entanglement only by the work of common\, in this case Armenian\, masters. More complex cultural processes must have been at play. Moreover\, while such interactions are undeniable\, the arc hitectural production of Armenians and Seljuqs also preserved specific ima gery proper to each traditions. This trend is reflected not only in religi ous and memorial architecture\, but also in the caravan-sarais\, that serv ed as way-stations on international trade routes. All these issues\, to be discussed in the lecture\, have been barely touched in scholarly literatu re\, even if they seem to be of prime importance in today's world.\n\nThe lecture series is sponsored by the RUB Research School and CERES.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/remio-guest-lecture-armen-kazaryan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience" DTSTART:20170424T141500Z DTEND:20170424T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting_20170414a-3215@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting_20170414a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Ten Lost Tribes DTSTART:20170327T070000Z DTEND:20170328T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:ten-lost-tribes-2645@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The workshop is part of the joint research project The Ten Los t Tribes: Cross-Cultural Perspective\, sponsored by the German-Israel Foun dation (GIF). \n\nIt brings together scholars from Germany\, the U.S. and Israel to uncover the ways in which Jewish\, Christian\, and Muslim belie fs about the so-called Ten lost Tribes of Jews were related\, continued to evolve in dialogue with one another\, and were used by various Jewish\, C hristian\, and Muslim communities as a tool in their dealings with one ano ther from antiquity to the present.\n\nWorkshop's programme\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ten-lost-tribes/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Advisory Board Meeting DTSTART:20170216T080000Z DTEND:20170217T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-advisory-board-meeting-2678@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-advisory-board-meeting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation: Jan Bremmer DTSTART:20170206T171500Z DTEND:20170206T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-fellow-presentation-jan-bremmer-2951@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-fellow-presentation-jan-bremmer / END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience" DTSTART:20170206T151500Z DTEND:20170206T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20170123a-2674@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20170123a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Zar: A Comparative View. Historical\, Ethnographic and Social Aspe cts DTSTART:20170202T130000Z DTEND:20170203T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:zar-en-2143@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The workshop proposes to examine Zâr and other spirit possess ion rituals\, in religiously and geographically comparative contexts\, in both its present and historical manifestations. The performance of possess ion rituals\, and specifically Zâr\, is not restricted to a specific reli gious tradition since\, for example\, it has been performed by Jews in Mag hreb as well as by Muslim in Iran. Geographically\, the phenomenon\, or a series of related phenomena which fall under the broad designation of “Z âr”\, is widespread throughout a variety of regions of Africa\, parts o f Asia\, and later in Europe\, and the Americas. Moreover\, it has been at tested in different historical periods.\n\nAlthough Zâr has been studied closely in different geographical domains by ethnographers\, it has been r arely been the subject of systematic\, comparative studies. The workshop a ims to fulfill this desideratum. For this workshop\, we bring together the specialists of Zâr and similar forms of spirit possession\, who have stu died these rituals in different chronological\, religious\, and geographic al regions in order to explore their historical connections and social asp ects.\n\nProgramme of the workshop\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/zar-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:REMIO Guest Lecture: The Image of Jews in Medieval Syriac Hagiogra phy DTSTART:20170130T171500Z DTEND:20170130T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:remio-guest-lecture-alexei-muraviev-2677@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:REMIO Guest Lecture by Alexei Muraviev (Higher School of Econo mics\, Moscow\, Russia)\n \n\nChristian missionaries who carried out the task of bringing the Gospel to the distant lands of the Roman (and beyond- Roman) countries were on many occasions not the first to come there. Quite often they headed to places where Jewish emigrees lived already. There ar e three specific cases where it was clearly so.\n\nThe first was a story r ecorded in the hagiographic dossier of St Nino of Georgia\, whose Inventio n of the Holy Vivifying Column was based on some Judeo-Christian memories of local Jewry. The second one is the story of the Indian journey of St Th omas who turned to out to find the would-be Cochin Jewish community while preaching on the Malabar Coast. The third occasion is of some later date b ut quite an eloquent one. Some local Jewish community on\nboth sides of th e Red Sea played an important role in the construction of the Ethiopic ide ntity. Some Jewish missionaries converted the king Du-Nuwas in Yemenite Hi myar to Judaism.\n\nAt the same time Jewish communities were strongly repu ted in Aksum for bringing there the Arc of the Covenant connected with the Solomonic legend of the Ethiopian kingship (reflected in the Kebra Negest ). There is a similarity in all these stories pointing to some stream of e migrees prior to the Destruction of the Temple and making up the diasporal Jewish community.\n\nThe lecture series is sponsored by the RUB Research School and CERES.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/remio-guest-lecture-alexei-muraviev / END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality" DTSTART:20170130T151500Z DTEND:20170130T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20170130-2676@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20170130/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation: Maryam Palizban DTSTART:20170123T171500Z DTEND:20170123T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20170123b-2675@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20170123b/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action" DTSTART:20170123T151500Z DTEND:20170123T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-action-3-2948@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-focus-group-acti on-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation: Max Deeg DTSTART:20170116T171500Z DTEND:20170116T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20170116b-2673@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20170116b/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Notions" DTSTART:20170116T151500Z DTEND:20170116T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting_20170116a-2672@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting_20170116a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERES E DTSTART:20170111T110000Z DTEND:20170111T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:ceres-e-20170111-3188@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ceres-e-20170111/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:REMIO Guest Lecture: Medieval Afghanistan and the Religious Divers ity in the Dar al-Islam DTSTART:20170109T171500Z DTEND:20170109T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:remio-guest-lecture-arezoud-azad-2671@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:REMIO Guest Lecture by Arezou Azad (University of Birmingham\, UK)\n\nThe lands in present-day Afghanistan\, before the arrival of Islam \, enjoyed a distinct religious mix of Buddhists\, Zoroastrians\, Christia ns\, Jews\, and adherents to local cults who cohabited single spaces. Thes e societies flourished in large urban centres\, as well as rural metropoli ses and small towns. Diversity was\, no doubt\, a function of being situa ted at a crossroads of the so-called "silk road" trade networks\, which do ubled as pilgrimage routes.\n\nReligious diversity\, together with the lin guistic and ethnic mix in the region during the transition to Islamic rule in the eastern Islamic caliphate and its Muslim successor dynasties\, may account for a particular conversion pattern in new Islamic Afghanistan. T he lecture will discuss some new approaches to studying the religious hist ory of medieval Afghanistan and introduce a fascinating corpus of local hi stories and documentary records that will be used to ascertain the pattern s of conversion after the Islamic conquests and how conversion to Islam ha s been remembered in Afghanistan and the Persianate world.\n\nThe lecture series is sponsored by the RUB Research School and CERES.\n\n\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/remio-guest-lecture-arezoud-azad/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality" DTSTART:20170109T151500Z DTEND:20170109T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20170109-2670@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20170109/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Seasonal Celebration DTSTART:20161219T171500Z DTEND:20161219T194500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-seasonal-celebration-2669@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-seasonal-celebra tion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action" DTSTART:20161219T151500Z DTEND:20161219T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20161219-2668@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20161219/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation: Eva Kocziszky DTSTART:20161212T171500Z DTEND:20161212T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-fellow-presentation-eva-kocziszky-2667@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-fellow-presentation-eva-koczisz ky/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience" DTSTART:20161212T151500Z DTEND:20161212T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20161212a-2666@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20161212a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERES E DTSTART:20161209T103000Z DTEND:20161209T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:ceres-e-2016121209-3187@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ceres-e-2016121209/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:REMIO Guest Lecture: Jews in the Eastern Christian Narratives abou t Conversions: Myth or Reality? DTSTART:20161205T171500Z DTEND:20161205T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233505Z UID:remio-guest-lecture-irma-karaulashvili-2665@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:REMIO Guest Lecture by Irma Karaulashvili (Ilia State Universi ty\, Tbilisi\, Georgia & Georgian Programme Fellow\, School of Interdiscip linary Area Studies\, Oxford University)\n\nThe lecture intends to give a brief overview of the major (Byzantine and Syriac) and minor (Georgian\, A rmenian\, and information preserved about Albanian) Eastern Christian narr ative sources related to the first conversion of the kings to Christianity . The main characteristics of the Byzantine- and Syriac-oriented hagiorgap hical discourses about the image of the ‘ruler\, chosen by God’\, as w ell as the role of the ecclesiastical figures and Jews/Judaeo-Christians i n the process of the formation of Christian ethno-religious identity will be discussed\; an attempt at explaining the leading role of the Jews in wh at can be call the Syriac-based narratives about Christianization would be provided as well.\n\nThe lecture series is sponsored by the RUB Research School and CERES.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/remio-guest-lecture-irma-karaulashv ili/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Notions" DTSTART:20161205T151500Z DTEND:20161205T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20161205-2664@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20161205/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation: Tim Weitzel DTSTART:20161128T171500Z DTEND:20161128T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20161128b-2663@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20161128b/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Materiality" DTSTART:20161128T151500Z DTEND:20161128T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20161128a-2662@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20161128a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERES E DTSTART:20161122T170000Z DTEND:20161122T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:ceres-e-20161122-3186@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ceres-e-20161122/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Religious Charisma\, Civility and Sovereignty in th e Sociology of Islam DTSTART:20161121T171500Z DTEND:20161121T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:guest-lecture-armando-salvatore-2661@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture presented by Prof. Dr. Armando Salvatore (McGill University\, Montreal)\n\nThe lecture will delineate some key trajectorie s in the history of the Islamic ecumene through which saintly charisma was appropriated by various rulers for the sake of political legitimacy. The presentation will also focus on the shifting role of religious knowledge p roduction in the process. The analysis will show the emergence of original forms of precolonial political modernity that can be contrasted with the European Leviathan-model of sacral sanctioning of sovereignty. Examples ar e mainly drawn from the evolution of Ottoman rule and court culture in the larger context of early modern Islamicate empires and their changing reli gio-political cultures.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-armando-salvatore/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Action" DTSTART:20161121T151500Z DTEND:20161121T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20161121-2660@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20161121/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation: Anne-Konstanze Schröder DTSTART:20161114T171500Z DTEND:20161114T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20161114b-2659@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20161114b/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Notions" DTSTART:20161114T151500Z DTEND:20161114T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20161114a-2658@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20161114a/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Information Meeting on CERES Knowledge Transfer DTSTART:20161114T140000Z DTEND:20161114T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:information-meeting-ceres-knowledge-transfer-2633@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/information-meeting-ceres-knowledge -transfer/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Fellow Presentation: Caleb Simmons DTSTART:20161107T171500Z DTEND:20161107T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:khk-fellow-presentation-caleb-simmons2-2950@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-fellow-presentation-caleb-simmo ns2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Focus Group "Experience" DTSTART:20161107T151500Z DTEND:20161107T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-20161107-2656@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-20161107/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: The Clash of Ontologies - From Human Beings and Jin n. Moroccon Experienences DTSTART:20161031T171500Z DTEND:20161031T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:guest-lecture-dieter-haller-2655@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Jinn - invisible creatures - are especially present within the folk Islam of the Moroccans. They a far away from being held as only ment al projections but understand to influence - by their acting and as ontolo gically existing beings - the human everyday life in many ways. The divers e forms of how Moroccans handle with Jinn mirror not only societal and glo bal grand developments but also competing ontological orders. The lecture focusses on the sufi group of the Hmadcha in Tangier\, which has been anal ysed by Prof. Dr. Dieter Haller (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) in field work f or many years.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-dieter-haller/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Introduction to the Overarching Topic Immanenc e/Transcendence DTSTART:20161031T151500Z DTEND:20161031T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-intro-2654@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-intro/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Board Meeting DTSTART:20161024T141500Z DTEND:20161024T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:khk-board-meeting-2653@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-board-meeting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Get-together DTSTART:20161017T161500Z DTEND:20161017T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:khk-monday-meeting-get-together-2651@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-monday-meeting-get-together/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting: Opening of the KHK academic year 2016-2017 DTSTART:20161017T141500Z DTEND:20161017T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:opening-khk-academic-year-2016-2017-2650@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:\n Introduction to the KHK and CERES\n Introduction to the lec ture series REMIO\n Introduction to the CERES Computer Café\n\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/opening-khk-academic-year-2016-2017 / END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: “He Who Knows Does Not Speak”? Speech\, Silence \, and Ultimate Knowledge in Advaita Vedanta and Confucianism DTSTART:20161013T141500Z DTEND:20161013T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:guest-lecture-sophia-katz-2016-3102@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture presented by Dr. Sophia Katz (Tel-Hai College\,  Qiryat Shemona)\n\nThe presentation assesses the philosophical approache s to the process of attaining ultimate knowledge found in the writings of the Advaitic philosopher\, Adi Sankara (788-820)\, and the Ming dynasty Co nfucian scholar\, Zhan Ruoshui 湛若水 (1466-1560). Despite the fact tha t Advaita Vedanta and Confucianism differ in their perceptions of selfhood and in their premises regarding the nature of reality\, scrutiny of textu al examples shows that the two thinkers promote a path of intellectual/spi ritual realization characterized by both ineffability and rationality.\n\n On the one hand\, both Sankara and Zhan claim that ultimate knowledge is u nreachable through intellectual speculation: it implies mystical directnes s and must be accompanied by silence. On the other hand\, the intellectual preparation of the aspirants by means of reading Hindu and Confucian scri ptures is considered necessary by both scholars. The importance of scriptu res in the process of attaining ultimate knowledge makes Sankara’s intel lectual/spiritual vision closer to the Confucian approach of Zhan Ruoshui than to the vision depicted in the Daoist sources\, the Daodejing and the Zhuangzi\, notable for their anti-intellectual claims. In addition\, the a ssessment of Sankara’s and Zhan Ruoshui’s perceptions of selfhood and their understanding of the mystical oneness enables evaluation of the spec ific forms of philosophical mysticism accepted in Advaita Vedanta and Conf ucianism\, suggesting the existence of surprising parallels between them.\ n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-sophia-katz-2016/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Tibetan Buddhism in Xixia and the Tangut Kumārajī va legend DTSTART:20161005T160000Z DTEND:20161005T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:guest-lecture-kirill-solonin-2955@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture presented by Kirill Solonin (Renmin University\, Beijing)\n\nThe presentation probes into a specific version of Kumārajī va lore discovered in one Tangut commentary to the Diamond sūtra. The com mentary itself is apparently a composition based on the Northern Song reco nstructed version of the Jingang jing 金刚经纂 originally composed dur ing the late Tang by the famous Huayan master Guifeng Zongmi. The text was later reconstructed by the Northern Song Huayan master Jinshui Jingyuan 晋水净源 and eventually found its way into the Tangut state. Although the commentary generally adheres to the Huayan manner of interpretation\, the preface to the text contains specific Tangut version of the legend of Kumārajīva\, who is identified with several important figures of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. This probably represents the specifically Tangut int erpretation of the Buddhist history in India and China.\n\nPersonal inform ation:\nKirill Solonin\, PhD\, St. Petersburg University\, 2011 member IAS \, currently Department of Central Asian Studies\, Institute of Chinese Cl assics\, Renmin University of China.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-kirill-solonin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Der Widerschein der Erleuchtung - Rezeptionen fernöstlicher neuer religiöser Bewegungen in der Bundesrepublik seit den 70er Jahren DTSTART:20160915T070000Z DTEND:20160915T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:erleuchtung-en-2449@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:In the 1960s\, the religious landscape of Western Germany chan ged dramatically as result of what has been described as religious crisis (Hugh McLeod). Both\, the massive increase of organized denominational Chr istianity (Protestant Church and Roman-Catholic Church) as well as the cha nging position of the Churches within society are only two bold illustrati ons for this. But whether this Church decline led to the arrival and expan sion of new forms of religions is still matter of vivid academic discussio n.\n\nThe workshop "Widerschein der Erleuchtung - Rezeptionen fernöstlich er neuer religiöser Bewegungen in der Bundesrepublik seit den 1970er Jahr en" (Reflex of Enlightenment – The Reception of the Asian New Religious Movement in West Germany of the 1970s) is based on the assumption that new forms of religion were massively generated by the reception of imported r eligious traditions\, which themselves were conceived as ‘disruption’ of the existing religious field and had to be somehow dealt with. The focu s is on Zen Buddhism\, the Hare Krishna movement the Transcendental Medita tion and the Bhagwan movement. These movements were partly scandalized and party banalised within the public sphere. The reactions of the Churches o scillated between offering an ‘interreligious dialogue’ and (even fier ce) activities of defense. Though politicians especially favored a strong defence against the ‘secret seducers’.\n\nHowever\, it were especially the youth and the pop culture that adpoted these new religious forms. Asi an inspired religious movements found not only their links to the subject orientation and inwardness proclaimed by the ‘alternative lifestyle’\, but also left traces in the pop music\, the arts\, and fashion of that ti me. The questions of how and which elements came to the cultural mainstrea m by influencing language and symbolic practices is yet to be unanswered. Given that\, the workshop is designed to analyze and describe the density and impact of these religious phenomena.\n\nProgramme of the workshop (in German only)\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/erleuchtung-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religion and the Senses DTSTART:20160907T150000Z DTEND:20160909T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:religion-senses-en-2450@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:After having been disregarded in favour of doctrines and dogma s for a long time\, the sensory dimension of religions has recently attrac ted a large scholarly attention in religious studies. \n\nIn tune with th e surrounding academic landscape\, the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe (funded by the German Min istry of Education and Research) has devoted the academic year 2015-2016 t o the scrutiny of the role of the theme “senses” from the perspective of interreligious\, intrareligious and intersocietal contact. \n\nThe con ference on "Religion and the Senses" shall summarize the main results of t his work. Through keynote talks\, inputs and short statement given by gues ts\, current and former fellows\, the conference shall\, on the one hand\, look at the theme “senses” in moments of contact and\, an the other h and\, reflect on the role of this theme within religions East and West. Gi ven the thematic complexity and analytical challenges hidden behind the ke y-word “senses”\, talks\, inputs and statements will focalize on four fields: the role of senses in\n\n    (a) notions\,\n    (b) doctrine s\, \n    (c) ritual\n    (d) media of religions.\n\nConference pro gramme\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/religion-senses-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Get Together DTSTART:20160711T160000Z DTEND:20160711T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-get-together-sose16-en-2462@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-get-together-sose16- en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20160711T141500Z DTEND:20160711T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-fellow-p-josephson-2-en-2461@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Jason Josephson LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-fellow-p-josephson-2 -en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest lecture: Marcus Hurttig DTSTART:20160704T160000Z DTEND:20160704T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:hurttig-en-2442@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/hurttig-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Doctrines III DTSTART:20160704T141500Z DTEND:20160704T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-doctrines-3-sose16-en-2460@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-doctrines-3-sose16-e n/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting (Special) DTSTART:20160627T161500Z DTEND:20160627T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-special-2-en-2459@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Special Meeting: On the Way to the KHK Handbook LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-special-2-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Media III DTSTART:20160627T141500Z DTEND:20160627T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-media-3-sose16-en-2458@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-media-3-sose16-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Notions III DTSTART:20160620T141500Z DTEND:20160620T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-notions-3-sose2016-en-2456@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-notions-3-sose2016-e n/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Prof. Dr. Eli Franco DTSTART:20160616T160000Z DTEND:20160616T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:eli-franco-en-2154@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/eli-franco-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Media II DTSTART:20160613T161500Z DTEND:20160613T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-media-2-sose16-en-2455@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-media-2-sose16-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Ritual III DTSTART:20160613T141500Z DTEND:20160613T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-ritual-3-sose-16-en-2454@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-ritual-3-sose-16-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Islamic Performance Traditions across Regions between West and Sou theast Asia DTSTART:20160609T070000Z DTEND:20160610T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:islamic-performance-en-2134@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Islamic Performance Traditions across Regions between West and Southeast Asia is a workshop on the traditions of performing religious te xts and their variation across languages and regions. It aims to link sch olars working on Islamic traditions from West to Southeast Asia\, who are otherwise scattered along various academic disciplines. Performance is t aken in the broad sense of reciting\, transmitting and representing textu al traditions. The workshop seeks to explore the variety of sensations th at accompany recitals like sound (tunes\, rhythms\, refrains\, musical i nstruments)\, smell (perfumes\, flowers\, incense) and taste (sweets\, be verages\, fruits) and their functions as channels for the transmission an d reception of devotion and merit. The presentations deal with the implic ations of the varieties of performance traditions on the dynamics between the canon of ritual obligations and local practices\, the written and the audible and between the verbal/semantic and the emotional/sensual. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/islamic-performance-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20160606T161500Z DTEND:20160606T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-fellow-p-krueger-en-2463@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Patrick Krüger LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-fellow-p-krueger-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Doctrines II DTSTART:20160606T141500Z DTEND:20160606T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-doctrines-2-sose16-en-2453@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-doctrines-2-sose16-e n/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religious Change in Central- and South-East Anatolia DTSTART:20160603T070000Z DTEND:20160604T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:anatolien-en-2441@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The workshop “Religious Change in Central- and South-East An atolia” is held in preparation of the establishment of an International Research Centre in Istanbul on “Circulation\, Adaption\, and Invention: Religious Change in Anatolia at the Intersection of Continents and Culture s”. \nIt aims to provide a synopsis of the evolution of religion within these two regions as well as their most prominent sacred sites. Furthermo re\, the envisioned key questions underlying the research framework pertai ning to the topics of 'Environment and Religion'\, 'Sovereignty and Religi on'\, and 'Connections and Interactions' are also to be dealt with in orde r to offer perspectives for future research on the religious history of An atolia and for possible ways of dealing with contemporary social and relig ious conflicts.\nCompulsory registration to ceres-coordination-office@rub. de by 22nd of May 2016. The workshop is free of charge. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/anatolien-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Prof. Dr. Mark Ruff DTSTART:20160530T160000Z DTEND:20160530T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:mark-ruff-3005-en-2147@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/mark-ruff-3005-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Ritual II DTSTART:20160530T141500Z DTEND:20160530T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-ritual-2-sose-16-en-2452@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-ritual-2-sose-16-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guestlecture: Dr. Chen Bram DTSTART:20160523T160000Z DTEND:20160523T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:chen_bram_en-2170@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Cultural Intimacy\, Boundaries and Sensations: Jewish-Muslim r elations in Central Asia\nChen Bram's research combines anthropological an d historical study to explore connections between intergroup relations\, r eligiosity and collective identities. It examines Jewish-Muslim relations in Ferghana Valley\, Uzbekistan\, in late Soviet Period and in post-Soviet era. This research proposes a theoretical framework that focuses on inter group cultural intimacy as a contribution to the better understanding of J ewish-Muslim relations and intergroup relations. Informal practices\, in w hich sensations are playing important role\, are central to the developmen t of cultural intimacy that allows the maintenance of social networks beyo nd religious and ethnic boundaries. Moreover\, it also allows overcoming a ttempts to create tensions and to stress differences between these groups. \nThis study is part of wider research that aims to explore the meaning of past experiences to current intergroup relations between Jewish immigrant s from Central Eurasia and their Muslim neighbors in Israel and other new locations (such as New York City). This guest lecture will focus on the an thropological- historical part of the research. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/chen_bram_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Notions II DTSTART:20160523T141500Z DTEND:20160523T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-notions-2-sose2016-en-2451@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-notions-2-sose2016-e n/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Digital Scholarly Editing. An Introduction DTSTART:20160511T161500Z DTEND:20160511T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:en-20160511-en-20160511-digital-scholarly-editing-2568@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:\n\nApl. Prof. Dr. Patrick Sahle\, Cologne Center for eHumanit ies\, gives an introduction to and overview of the field of digital schola rly editions in the humanities.\n\nThe talk is part of the CERES Computer Café. It will be held in English. Anyone who is interested is cordially i nvited.\n LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20160511-en-20160511-digital-sch olarly-editing/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting (Special) DTSTART:20160509T141500Z DTEND:20160509T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-special-en-2448@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Special Meeting: Research Funding Options (date to be confirme d) LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-special-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Doctrines I DTSTART:20160502T141500Z DTEND:20160502T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-doctrines-1-Sose16-en-2447@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:During the first half of the session\, G. Espesset will briefl y introduce the terminology of sensory organs and perceptions in pre-moder n China\, outline how Taoist and Buddhist doctrines used this terminology\ , then lead us through a reading of translated excerpts from texts in the Taoist and Buddhist canons." LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-doctrines-1-Sose16-e n/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Dr. Michael Shenkar DTSTART:20160425T160000Z DTEND:20160425T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:shenkar-en-2157@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Is there a 'Sogdian Pantheon'? Regionalism and Local Variation s in the Religion of the Sogdians (5th-8th centuries CE)\nThe religion of the Sogdians in the Late Antique period is usually referred tо as a singl e phenomenon assuming the existence of a common 'Sogdian Pantheon'. Sogdia na is a geographical and not a political term. There was never a unified ' Sogdian state' but a collection of independent or semi-independent princip alities sharing common culture\, language and background\, but also demons trating important regional differences. It is about time that we approach also the Sogdian religion in terms of temporal development and regional va riations.\nThe paper will discuss the primary sources for the study of the Sogdian religion\, which is mainly the iconography. It will emphasize the neglected\, but significant fact that 80 % of the material on the Sogdian religious iconography comes from Panjikent\, which was not even among the five largest Sogdian cities and it is also chronologically limited to the 740s. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/shenkar-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Media I DTSTART:20160425T141500Z DTEND:20160425T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-media-1-SoSe16-en-2446@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-media-1-SoSe16-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting DTSTART:20160418T161500Z DTEND:20160418T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-fellow-p-josephson-1-en-2445@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow-Presentation: Jason Ananda Josephson (I) LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-fellow-p-josephson-1 -en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Ritual I DTSTART:20160418T141500Z DTEND:20160418T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-ritual-1-SoSe-16-en-2444@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-ritual-1-SoSe-16-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Notions I DTSTART:20160411T141500Z DTEND:20160411T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-notions-1-SoSe16-en-2443@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-notions-1-SoSe16-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seeing\, Touching\, Holding\, and Tasting Sacred Texts DTSTART:20160407T070000Z DTEND:20160408T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:Seeing_Touching_Holding_and_Tasting_Sacred_Texts_e-2098@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Workshop's Programme LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Seeing_Touching_Holding_and_Tasting _Sacred_Texts_e/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Drawing Relations among Religious Groups DTSTART:20160222T143000Z DTEND:20160223T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:minorities-in-contact-en-2136@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/minorities-in-contact-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20160208T171500Z DTEND:20160208T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-presentation-9-en-2083@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow-Presentation: Thomas Großbölting LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-presentation-9-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Preparation of the advisory board meeting with the fellows DTSTART:20160208T151500Z DTEND:20160208T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-preparation-board-en-2082@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-preparation-board-en / END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Guest Lecture DTSTART:20160201T171500Z DTEND:20160201T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-guest-lecture-3-en-2081@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture: Ulisse Cecini LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-guest-lecture-3-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Meeting of the RUB-colleagues DTSTART:20160201T151500Z DTEND:20160201T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-rub-colleagues-en-2080@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Meeting of the RUB-colleagues without fellows LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-rub-colleagues-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Guest Lecture DTSTART:20160125T171500Z DTEND:20160125T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-guest-lecture-2-en-2078@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:OLFACTION AND XIANGGuest Lecture by Paolo Santangelo\nA short presentation of researches and methods will introduce Paolo Santangelo's theoretical premises and hypotheses on cultural "contruction" of emotion s and sensations\, and their important social role. A synthesis on anthro pological meanings of olfaction and odours will follow. Some reflections will focus on the analysis of the use of the term xiang 香\, "incense" \, "fragrance"\, "beauty" on the basis of about 300 selected examples. Th e occurrences of the main terms and their meanings will be commented. Th e most common meaning is incense\, which\, disclosing the way of communi cation between the human being and the supernatural world\, is used for r eligious purposes and ritual ceremonies\, the worship of divinities and s upernatural powers\, or the funerary ceremonies for the defunct\, an ance stors\, a revered saint. Incense has also an important role in the ritual s for solemnise a pledge\, a pact of brotherhood\, friendship\, marriage\ , any oath of alliance. Thus incense is mainly the manifestation of a rel igious attitude\, and can also be indicative for the charisma of a monk o r a magician\, as well as the volume of affairs of a monastery: the effic acy in answering to the requests of the devotees and the miraculous power (ling靈) demonstrated by the divinity or the saint are proportional to the fame and wealth of the sacred place.  As for the second main meaning \, perfume\, it refers to a relatively large amount of fragrances\, some of them of vegetal or floral origin\, some of supernatural character (fr om immortals\, spirits and gods). In case of fragrance coming from female s' bodies\, it is evident that at the same time their aroma reflects thei r charm. In the "Peony Pavilion"\, the sanctification of love-passion l et the loved Liniang's body take the place of a saint's relics\, and thus she dies and then resurrects with her whole integer and fragrant body\, and the mixture of sacred and eroticism is expressed by "heavenly fragran ce"\, tianxiang. Analogously several female immortals in Liaozhai have a rare fragrance which derives from their supernatural condition\, while it is evident that their fragrance reflects the desire and admiration th at they provoke in their lovers or in men who deal with them. The materia l is not very rich of information on the kind of religiosity and the char acters of the worship. However\, a few elements are very interesting for understanding the religious phenomenon. Although the religious phenomenon in China has characters different from other areas\, and the ritual aspe cts are often dominant\, we can notice both inner fervour and a kind of p ersonal relationship with gods and spirits. We can understand how the rel igious attitude is expressed in its consolatory function\, devotion for b egging favours\, worshipping the supernatural entity\, concentrating in a n act that is the manifestation of an inner state. The metaphor of the in cense burning in heart (心香奉佛) expresses the deep attitude of the devotee. The ceremony centered in burning and offering incense is often a ccompanied by other acts\, like purification\, sacrifices\, prayers\, and opens a special dimension in the inner experience of the devotee. LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-guest-lecture-2-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Media DTSTART:20160125T151500Z DTEND:20160125T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-media-3-en-2076@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-media-3-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20160118T171500Z DTEND:20160118T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-presentation-8-en-2075@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-presentation-8-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Ritual DTSTART:20160118T151500Z DTEND:20160118T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-ritual-3-en-2074@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-ritual-3-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Media: Preparatory Meeting DTSTART:20160112T130000Z DTEND:20160112T143000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:20160112-FGMediaPrep-2079@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Preparatory Meeting for the Monday Meeting on 25.01.2016. All colleagues and fellows are highly welcome! LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Lalibela" (3.11) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20160112-FGMediaPrep/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20160111T171500Z DTEND:20160111T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-presentation-7-en-2073@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-presentation-7-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Doctrines DTSTART:20160111T151500Z DTEND:20160111T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-doctrines-3-en-2072@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-doctrines-3-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Year-End & Get-Together DTSTART:20151214T173000Z DTEND:20151214T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-enofyear-en-2071@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-enofyear-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Notions DTSTART:20151214T151500Z DTEND:20151214T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-notions-3-en-2070@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-notions-3-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Media of Scripture - Scripture as Media DTSTART:20151210T130000Z DTEND:20151211T151500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:media-of-scripture-en-2101@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Programm des Workshops LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/media-of-scripture-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20151207T171500Z DTEND:20151207T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-presentation-6-en-2069@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow-Presentation: Daniel Stein-Kokin LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-presentation-6-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Ritual DTSTART:20151207T151500Z DTEND:20151207T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-ritual-2-en-2068@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-ritual-2-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20151130T170000Z DTEND:20151130T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-presentation-4-en-2066@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow Presentation: Ines Weinrich LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-presentation-4-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Doctrines DTSTART:20151130T151500Z DTEND:20151130T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-doctrines-2-en-2065@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-doctrines-2-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20151123T171500Z DTEND:20151123T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-presentation-3-en-2064@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow Presentation: James Watts LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-presentation-3-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Media DTSTART:20151123T151500Z DTEND:20151123T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-media-2-en-2063@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-media-2-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20151116T171500Z DTEND:20151116T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-presentation-2-en-2061@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Monday Meeting:\nFellow-Presentation: Walter Edward Young LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-presentation-2-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Notions DTSTART:20151116T151500Z DTEND:20151116T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-notions-2-en-2060@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-notions-2-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Media: Preparatory Meeting DTSTART:20151110T130000Z DTEND:20151110T143000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:20151110-FGMediaPrep-2077@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Preparatory Meeting for the Monday Meeting on 23.11.2015. All colleagues and fellows are highly welcome! LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Lalibela" (3.11) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20151110-FGMediaPrep/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Marc Ruff DTSTART:20151109T171500Z DTEND:20151109T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-guest-lecture-ruff-en-2058@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-guest-lecture-ruff-e n/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Ritual DTSTART:20151109T151500Z DTEND:20151109T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-ritual-1-en-2057@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-ritual-1-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20151102T171500Z DTEND:20151102T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-presentation-1-en-2056@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow-Presentation: Monika Zin LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-presentation-1-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Notions DTSTART:20151102T151500Z DTEND:20151102T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-notions-1-en-2055@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-notions-1-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Media DTSTART:20151026T171500Z DTEND:20151026T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-media-1-en-2054@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-media-1-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Focus Group Doctrines DTSTART:20151026T151500Z DTEND:20151026T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-doctrines-1-en-2053@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-doctrines-1-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Get Together DTSTART:20151019T161500Z DTEND:20151019T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-get-together-en-2052@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-get-together-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Introduction of the KHK to the Fellows DTSTART:20151019T141500Z DTEND:20151019T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:monday-meeting-intro-en-2059@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/monday-meeting-intro-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IAHR congress ||| Workshop DTSTART:20150828T113000Z DTEND:20150828T133000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:iahrworkshop2807_11-1590@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:THATcamp (2)\nOrganizer: Frederik Elwert (KHK postdoc & CERES) \nThe THATcamp at the IAHR Congress will allow participants to discuss and engage with current developments that are often framed as the “digital humanities.” Because of its open and participatory nature\, it will allo w to focus on topics and methods that the participants themselves regards as relevant\, and not impose a rigid schedule. A website is be set up befo rehand in order to collect session proposals. For the same reason\, THATca mp spans across multiple Open Sessions in order to allow to discuss a broa der range of topics. The event is moderated by Frederik Elwert\, but becau se of the purposely open nature a detailed program cannot at this point be provided\, but will develop during the congress.\n(panel 28-223 | 134) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/iahrworkshop2807_11/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IAHR congress ||| Panel DTSTART:20150828T113000Z DTEND:20150828T133000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:iahrpanel2807_21-1589@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Researching Religions & Politics – Young German Perspectives \nPanel Chair: Ulf Plessentin\nPolitical conditions often had and still ha ve a profound influence on religious groups. Likewise\, religious groups e ndeavour to impact politics\, policy-making\, and politicians\, both in pa st and present times. Topics in the nexus of religion and politics are the refore an integral part of any scientific study of religions. Novel and in teresting research has been conducted by sociologists\, political scientis ts and scholars of religious studies over the last decade. Due to their cr oss-cultural and historical perspectives\, religious studies can contribut e fruitfully to ongoing academic discussions. In order to provide a platfo rm that unites different approaches\, a working group on religions and pol itics was founded within the DVRW\, the German section of IAHR. In this pa nel\, young scholars present their research\, especially on processes of a daptation to and transformation of political structures. Additionally\, th e mechanisms by which political conditions foster innovative or traditiona l religious structures and practices shall be discussed.\nWith:\n\nThomas Jurczyk (CERES\, PhD student): Religious and Political Semantics in the fi rst two Books of the Maccabees\nKatharina Neef: Churches\, Chapels\, Clubs : Legal Dimensions of and their Implications on Religions in 20th-century Germany\nUlf Plessentin (CERES\, KHK): Syriac-Orthodox Christians in Swede n and Germany: Adaptation to and Application of Democratic Principles\n\n( panel 28-218 | HS 6) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/iahrpanel2807_21/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IAHR congress ||| Paper DTSTART:20150828T113000Z DTEND:20150828T133000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:iahrpaper2807_21-1587@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Change we need. Dynamics in the History of Religions between s emantics and Social forms\nVolkhard Krech (CERES\, KHK)\nSocial change in general is usually conceptualized as an ongoing process (e.g.\, as “mode rnization”). However\, there could be no innovation if there was no cont inuity (e.g.\, “tradition”). The same holds true for the history of re ligions. It will be argued that the history of religions can be conceptual ized best by considering the dialectics between process and structure\, co ndensation and diffusion as well as dynamics and stability. The history of religions proceeds between these (and other) poles. The oscillation is ba sed on the interplay between semantics and social forms. Free floating sem antics are canalized inspecial social forms (groups\, currents\, organizat ions)\, and social forms are legitimized by certain semantics.\nThis paper will be presented in panel Theorizing and Analyzing Religious Change (28- 201 | 216) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/iahrpaper2807_21/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IAHR congress ||| Paper DTSTART:20150827T133000Z DTEND:20150827T153000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:IAHRpaper2708_21-1585@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Gnosis\, Hairesis\, and Mani: Fourth-century Religious Vocabul ary and Its Modern Adjustments\nEduard Iricinschi (KHK fellow)\n“Gnostic ism\,” Heresiology\,” and “Manichaeism” are modern concepts in con stant need of theoretical fine-tuning. Over the past decades\, scholars ad justed the Nag Hammadi codices and the Manichaean texts to the more genera l contexts of “heresy\,” “gnosis\,” and “dualism.” This paper explores the ways in which scholars adapted gnosis\, knowledge religiously codified in rituals and teachings\, and often presented as revelations ab out invisible realities\, into “Gnosticism\,” a seventeenth-century\, Protestant linguistic invention\, to describe the Catholic Church. It will also sketch the trajectories through which philosophical hairesis\, used by second- and third-century Christian writers as a rhetorical tool to des cribe religious diversity and\, simultaneously\, to reduce it to a caricat ure of itself\, later became “heresies\,” as depicting full-blown reli gious\, social\, and political aberrations. Finally\, it will suggest that modern scholars follow ancient Christian writers’ use of the same rheto ric of difference\, to impose artificial boundaries between the followers of Mani and “real” Christians.\nThis paper will be presented in panel Taxonomies of Religion in the Ancient and Modern Worlds (27-319 | 216). URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/IAHRpaper2708_21/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IAHR congress ||| Panel DTSTART:20150827T113000Z DTEND:20150827T133000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:iahrpanel2708_31-1583@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Religions and Media: Performances (1)\nPanel chair: Licia di G iacinto (KHK postdoc)\nIn this panel three papers will be presented: The f irst paper invesitgates religious broadcasting in South Africa\, the secon d introduces to a study on the responses of Jewish ultra-orthodox Israelis on new Media\, and the third discusses the a case study on televised popu lar Hinduism.\nDr. Licia di Giacinto of the KHK will chair this panel.\n(p anel 27-213 | 131)\n URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/iahrpanel2708_31/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IAHR congress ||| Paper DTSTART:20150827T070000Z DTEND:20150827T090000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:iahrpaper2708_11-1582@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Does tolerance increase through migration? A Case study on Pak istani Muslim migrants in Germany\nSajida Fazal (CERES\, PhD student)\nThi s paper is going to examine to what extent intra-religious boundaries and differences as perceived in Pakistan transform in the Diaspora. It will ex plore how far Sunni and Shia relations are altered and which perspectives and constraints are discernible in the new environment. For this purpose t he affiliation to the denomination and organisational structure will be ex amined by asking whether religious rituals and rules are maintained\, aban doned\, or substituted by others from different sub-denominations by the m igrants. In this respect\, the transnational networking of migrants will b e considered in order to explore the impact of religious authorities in th e homeland and in the Diaspora. In the scope of this qualitative research 20 narrative interviews have been conducted in Germany in 2014 with Pakist ani Muslim migrants and analysed based on a grounded theory approach. This paper argues that the interactions of diverse Pakistani Muslim migrants c ontribute to foster tolerance among them in the Diaspora situation.\nThis paper will be presented in panel Religious Identity and Practice in Migrat ion (27-130 | 215) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/iahrpaper2708_11/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IAHR congress ||| Paper DTSTART:20150827T070000Z DTEND:20150827T090000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:iahrpaper2708_61-1593@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:From Content and Structure to Structure of Content: Text Netwo rk Analysis in the Study of Religions\nFrederik Elwert (KHK postdoc & CERE S)\nResearch in the study of religions moves between the poles of social s tructure (e.g.\, religious institutions\, social settings) and religious c ontent (e.g.\, scriptures\, teachings). The sociology of religion often ha s to defend against the claim that she favours the study of social structu res over the analysis of religious content or\, as Weber put it\, interest s over ideas. Philological approaches in contrast have been accused of ove remphasising scriptures at the expense of social context and lived religio n. Recent approaches in text-based network analysis promise to bridge this divide\, at least partially. They allow to visualise and study structures internal and external to texts\, in conjunction with their content. On th e methodological level\, they can be discussed with regard to their implic ations and limitations. The paper will present findings from the completed project SeNeReKo as well as an outlook for future directions in this fiel d of study.\nThis paper will be presented in panel Challenging Traditional Sociology of Religions (panel 27-135 | 223) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/iahrpaper2708_61/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IAHR congress ||| Response DTSTART:20150825T070000Z DTEND:20150825T090000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:iahrresponse2508_21-1594@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Response and commentary\nby Oliver Freiberger (KHK fellow) to the panelists of panel Faking Asceticism: East and West\nPanel Chairs: Alm ut Barbara Renger\, Tudor Sala\nThe ancient world was a culture of suspici on. The individual\, whether stranger\, neighbor\, or kin\, was under cons tant scrutiny in a face-to-face society in which rivalry\, competition\, a nd misgivings nagged at the surface of the self. The circumstance of being world-renouncers would not have placed ascetics in the blind spot of publ ic mistrust. The performative\, elitist\, and counter-cultural aspects of ancient asceticism actually exposed it to a heightened scrutiny from outsi ders\, critics\, and rivals alike. The papers of the panel thematize pract ices and polemics that constructed ‘ascetic deceit’ in Mediterranean a nd Asian cultures\, with a special focus on the processes of institutional ization\, innovation\, and change that initiated or framed the various nor mative dichotomies of ‘genuine’ versus ‘fake’.\n(panel 25-118 | 11 5) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/iahrresponse2508_21/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IAHR congress ||| Paper DTSTART:20150824T133000Z DTEND:20150824T153000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:iahrpaper2408_31-1576@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Secular voices on air? Western debates on religion\, secularis m and Public Service Broadcasting\nTim Karis (KHK post-doc)\nRegulatory fr ameworks of public service broadcasters (PSBs) across Europe are full of r eferences to religions. In Germany\, for example\, the Catholic and Protes tant Churches as well as the Jewish communities are legally provided with air time on PSB television and radio. In times of increasing religious div ersity as well as growing secularization\, criticisms of such regulation i s spreading as many consider it to run counter to the principle of separat ion of state and religion. Others argue that existing privileges for relig ions should be extended to secular groups who have hitherto often been exc luded from direct access to PSBs either by law or by common practice. In t his paper\, recent examples of such debates from the German\, British and Dutch contexts are presented. As it is argued\, an analysis of such debate s reveals how different and often ambiguous notions of religion\, seculari ty and the public space are competing in Western discourse.\nThis paper wi ll be presented in panel Journalism and Religion: Critical Terms in Public Discourse (24-322 | 114) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/iahrpaper2408_31/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IAHR congress ||| Paper DTSTART:20150824T133000Z DTEND:20150824T153000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:iahrpaper2408_21-1575@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The Economic Study of Ritual-Oriented Religions: The Neglect o f Priesthood\nKianoosh Rezania (KHK fellow)\nThe focus on belief-oriented religions\, specifically Christianity\, in the current economic study of r eligion\, together with the abundance of sources from North-America in thi s field\, leads scholars to pay less attention to ritual-oriented religion s in non-Western cultures. This paper will discuss the above methodologica l limitations in current economic theories of religion\, by illustrating i t with a case-study on Zorostrian rituals. The paper will point out the im portance of Zoroastrian priesthood for modelling economic theories of reli gion\, taking into account that Zoroastrian priests were considered to be the real supplier of religious content in rituals. This paper will show th at\, for the economic modeling of these religions\, it is necessary to dis tinguish three types of households: lay-households\, priest-households and ritual institutions (e. g. temples). Finally\, the paper will consider th e economic connections between these three types of households.\nThis pape r will be presented in panel Method and Theory in Religious Studies: Compl exities and Blind Spots (24-302 | 113). URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/iahrpaper2408_21/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IAHR congress ||| Workshop DTSTART:20150824T113000Z DTEND:20150824T133000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:iahrworkshop2408_11-1574@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:THATcamp (1) \nOrganizer: Frederik Elwert (KHK-postdoc & CERES )\nThe THATcamp at the IAHR Congress will allow participants to discuss an d engage with current developments that are often framed as the “digital humanities.” Because of its open and participatory nature\, it will all ow to focus on topics and methods that the participants themselves regards as relevant\, and not impose a rigid schedule. A website is be set up bef orehand in order to collect session proposals. For the same reason\, THATc amp spans across multiple Open Sessions in order to allow to discuss a bro ader range of topics. The event is moderated by Frederik Elwert\, but beca use of the purposely open nature a detailed program cannot at this point b e provided\, but will develop during the Congress.\n(panel 24-220 | 134) - The second part of THATcamp will be held on Friday\, 28th August 2015\, s ame time. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/iahrworkshop2408_11/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IAHR congress ||| Paper DTSTART:20150824T070000Z DTEND:20150824T090000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:IAHRpaper2408_11-1572@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Exploring the Methodical in 'the Comparative Method'\nOliver F reiberger (KHK fellow)\nComparison\, in the narrower sense\, has been a co mmon and fundamental activity in the academic study of religion from the v ery beginning of the discipline. It has also been fundamentally criticized primarily for its potential to decontextualize and essentialize and for b eing used by scholars with theological\, phenomenological\, colonial\, or other agendas. Yet comparative studies keep being produced—with varying degrees of reflexivity about the comparative process. If comparison is a s ubject of reflection at all\, the discussed points are most often theoreti cal\, sometimes methodological\, but almost never methodical. Rarely have scholars suggested concrete and applicable frameworks and techniques for c arrying out a comparative study. Summarizing a larger and more complex arg ument\, this paper outlines such a concrete procedure of comparing. After briefly addressing various options for the research design (goals\, scopes \, scales\, and modes of comparison)\, it lays out a research process that expands a model suggested by Jonathan Z. Smith and includes six steps: se lection\, description\, comparison\, redescription\, rectification\, and t heory building. The paper briefly introduces each of these and discusses t he potential benefits of the method. Finally it argues that a developed co mparative method may once again become\, if understood as a second-order m ethod\, a distinctive disciplinary feature of the study of religion. Consi dering the discipline’s long experience with comparison—albeit often e mployed intuitively and also problematically—a comparative method that i s both based on critical reflexivity and practically applicable may even b e considered interesting by other disciplines\, and thus exportable.\nThis paper will be presented in panel The Work of Data: Methods in the Study o f Religions (24-105 | 132). URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/IAHRpaper2408_11/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IAHR congress ||| Panel DTSTART:20150824T070000Z DTEND:20150824T090000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:iahr_panel_24_08_11-1573@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Embedding Religions: Converting Figures and Conversion Stories \nChair: Carmen Meinert (CERES)\nThe panel presents the ongoing work of t he interdisciplinary group “Buddhism in Motion” on conversion narrati ves. Stories about the conversion of communities are understood as analyt ical instruments to investigate ways of ‘making sense’ of the introdu ction of a religion in a specific region. The objective of the papers pre sented at this panel is twofold: an investigation of the object-language level and one of the meta-language level. Firstly\, papers aim at charact erising the dialectics of conversion accounts with respect to:\n\nagent(s ) of conversion and the strategies implemented\, \njustification of the propagation of the religious faith\, \ndescription of the converted other and \nrepercussions of the conversion. \n\nAs narrated reconstructions of the past\, conversion stories are not merely an expression of the agenda of a religious community but also of dynamics which go beyond the religiou s field. It is these underlying strings that the group seeks to unravel as a second step.\nWith: Stephen Eskildsen (former KHK fellow)\, Lisa Wevels iep (CERES)\, Robert Mayer (former KHK fellow) & Licia di Giaconti (KHK).\ n(panel 24-126 | 126) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/iahr_panel_24_08_11/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERES booth on IAHR congress DTSTART:20150823T080000Z DTEND:20150829T100000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:IAHR_ceres_booth-1571@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The Center for Religious Studies (CERES) will be present at th e XXIst world congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) in Erfurt.\nCongress participants are intvited to visit the CERES's booth (A1) in order to learn more about\n\nthe Käte Hamburger Kolleg Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe\,\nth e on-going research project Iconic Religions\,\nthe novel research project JEWSEAST\,\nthe international online journal Entangled Religions\,\nthe r esearch fields of CERES as Relational Religions and within the digital hum anities\,\nand the conditions of learning and researching at the Center fo r Religious Studies (CERES) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.\n\nLearn more abo ut the IAHR Congress in Erfurt here. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/IAHR_ceres_booth/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:'TRADITIONS OF "MAGIC": RITUALS OF POWER IN CONTACT FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES' DTSTART:20150720T113000Z DTEND:20150721T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:workshop_magic1-1567@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Further information: Programme LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/workshop_magic1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Film screening: “The Three Peaks” DTSTART:20150714T140000Z DTEND:20150714T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:the-three-peaks1-1569@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:“The Three Peaks” (56 min). Documentary by Ksenia Pimenova . CNRS-Images\, 2016. \nLanguages: Russian\, Tuvan. Subtitles: French.  \ nIn a village of the Republic of Tuva (Russian Federation) three women man age the religious organization of shamans « The Three Peaks » and deal with the local clients’ requests for healing\, solving family problems\ , ritual purifications\, and divinations. The film is centered on Vera\, R ussian woman from Moscow. She learnt shamanic rituals from her Tuvan shama n master\, deceased in 1997\, inherited his helping spirits and became rec ognized by her clients and her pairs. Through Vera’s character\, the fil m addresses the main questions of the post-Soviet revival of Tuvan shamani sm: the knowledge transmission\, the role of the elders\, the hierarchical construction of the religious field\, and the ritual communication.\nThe film-maker will be present and give an introduction to the topic. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/the-three-peaks1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Come-Together DTSTART:20150713T173000Z DTEND:20150713T193000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:come_together_1-1551@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This event is to resume the discussions after the conference. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/come_together_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Summary of the Fellow Year 2014/15 and the Overarching Topic "Trad ition" DTSTART:20150713T131000Z DTEND:20150713T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:summary_tradition_2-en-1550@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This event is designed for reviewing the fellowship season 201 4/15 and its research outcome. All KHK colleagues\, associates and fellows are invited to share their experience of the last season. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/summary_tradition_2-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:"Textual and Visual Dialogues between Religions in South Asia" DTSTART:20150709T070000Z DTEND:20150710T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:textual_and_visual_dialogues1-1487@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Programme LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/textual_and_visual_dialogues1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20150706T161500Z DTEND:20150706T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:fellow_presentations_july_1-1549@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Plenary Session\, Fellow Presentations: Eszter Spät\, Ksenia Pimenova URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/fellow_presentations_july_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20150629T161500Z DTEND:20150629T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:fellow_pressentations_june_5-1547@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Plenary Session\, Fellow Presentations: Grégoire Espesset\, V ladimir Glomb LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/fellow_pressentations_june_5/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 3: Tradition DTSTART:20150629T141500Z DTEND:20150629T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:rf3_tradition_june_1-1546@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:For Rub-Colleagues & Fellows LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/rf3_tradition_june_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Axel Klein DTSTART:20150622T161500Z DTEND:20150622T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:klein_1-1545@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:"Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan" LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/klein_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4: Tradition DTSTART:20150622T141500Z DTEND:20150622T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:rf4_tradition_june_1-1544@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:For Rub-Colleagues & Fellows LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/rf4_tradition_june_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:"Woman and Gender in Ancient Mediterranean Religions" DTSTART:20150618T070000Z DTEND:20150619T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:womanandgender-1486@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nThis workshop is funded by:\n\n--- LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/womanandgender/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Jan N. Bremmer (Groningen) DTSTART:20150615T161500Z DTEND:20150615T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:bremmer_2_en-1543@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Descents to the Underworld from Gilgamesh to Christian Late An tiquity\nThe lecture will trace the development of the idea of a descent i nto the underworld. It will argue that Assyria had an important influence both on Greece and Israel\; witness figures like Odysseus\, Heracles\, O rpheus\, but also Ezekiel and Enoch. The two traditions of Greece and Isr ael\, originally separate\, come together in early Christianity\, where t he genre of the descent to Hell developed through Late Antiquity\, before gradually disintegrating during the earlier and High Middle Ages. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/bremmer_2_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2: Tradition / Plus: Next Overreaching Topic: Relig ion and the Senses DTSTART:20150615T141500Z DTEND:20150615T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:rf2_tradition_june_3-1542@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Rub-Colleagues & Fellows LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/rf2_tradition_june_3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20150608T161500Z DTEND:20150608T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:fellow_presentations_june_3-1541@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Plenary Session\, Fellow-Presentations: Mareile Haase\, Kianoo sh Rezania\, Oliver Freiberger LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/fellow_presentations_june_3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK-discussion on the overaching topic "transcendence/immanence" DTSTART:20150608T141500Z DTEND:20150608T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:transcendence_june_1-1540@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:For Rub-Colleagues & Fellows LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/transcendence_june_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20150601T161500Z DTEND:20150601T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:fellow_presentations_june_1-1538@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Plenary Session\, Fellow Presentations: Bérénice Lagarce-Oth man LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/fellow_presentations_june_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 1: Tradition DTSTART:20150601T141500Z DTEND:20150601T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:tradition_june_1-1537@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:For Rub-Colleagues & Fellows LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/tradition_june_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:"Books as Material and Symbolic Artifacts in Religious Book Cultur es" DTSTART:20150528T070000Z DTEND:20150529T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:Books_as_Material1-1509@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Books_as_Material1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Anya Bernstein DTSTART:20150521T121500Z DTEND:20150521T134500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:bernstein_1-1524@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:More Alive Than All the Living: Sovereign Bodies and Cosmic Po litics in Buddhist Siberia LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/bernstein_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERES D DTSTART:20150520T130000Z DTEND:20150520T143000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:en-20150520-ceres-d-1560@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The meeting will take place in room 1/111\, Universitätstrass e 90A.\nThe meeting will be dedicated to the discussion of the article by Stewart Hoover "Evolving Religion in the Digital Media" (in Lundby\, K. 20 13. Religion across Media. New York: Peter Lang). URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20150520-ceres-d/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Fu Youde DTSTART:20150518T161500Z DTEND:20150518T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:youde_1-1536@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Hebrew Prophets and Confucian Sages: A Comparative Study LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/youde_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Eviatar Shulman DTSTART:20150518T141500Z DTEND:20150518T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:shulman_1-1535@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Narrative Strategies in Oral Buddhist Literature LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/shulman_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest lecture: Victor Shnirelman DTSTART:20150511T160000Z DTEND:20150511T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:victor_shnirelman1-1485@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The End of Time or the Beginning of the New Cycle? Views of th e End of Time in Christianity and Esotericism LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/victor_shnirelman1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4: Tradition DTSTART:20150511T141500Z DTEND:20150511T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233506Z UID:tradition_may_rf4_1-1534@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:For Rub-Colleagues & Fellows LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/tradition_may_rf4_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERES D DTSTART:20150506T123000Z DTEND:20150506T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:ceres-d-en-1558@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ceres-d-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20150504T161500Z DTEND:20150504T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en_plenary_session_fellow_presentations-1556@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Plenary Session: Rebecca Lesses\, Eduard Iricinschi\, Meghan D iLuzio LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en_plenary_session_fellow_presentat ions/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 3: Tradition DTSTART:20150504T141500Z DTEND:20150504T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:tradition_may_1-1533@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/tradition_may_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2: Tradition DTSTART:20150427T161500Z DTEND:20150427T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:tradition_april_27_1-1529@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/tradition_april_27_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 1: Tradition DTSTART:20150420T141500Z DTEND:20150420T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:tradition_april_1-1527@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/tradition_april_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:"Comparison in the Study of Religion: Method and Methodology" DTSTART:20150416T080000Z DTEND:20150417T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:MethodandMethodology1-1481@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Please find here the workshop's programme.\nNB: CHANGE OF VENU E BECAUSE OF BLACKOUT\nLSI Landes Sprachen Institut Bochum\, Laerholzstra ße 84\, 44801 Bochum\nRoom 5 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/MethodandMethodology1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Jedrzej Morawiecki DTSTART:20150413T161500Z DTEND:20150413T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:morawiecki_1-1526@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Jedrzej Morawiecki\, Wroclaw University\nVertical Management o f Religious Identity. The example of Siberian Urban Case Studies (Krasnoya rsk\, Tomsk\, Ulan Ude)\nThe guest lecture given is part of research field 4 Globalization. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/morawiecki_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK-team meeting (RUB-Colleagues) DTSTART:20150413T141500Z DTEND:20150413T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:KHK-team-meeting_1-1525@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/KHK-team-meeting_1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Network Workshop DTSTART:20150410T080000Z DTEND:20150412T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20150410-network-workshop-1405@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:HNR Workshop 2015To mine and to tie: Text mining and network a nalysis for historiansApril 10th-12th 2015The 9th event in the series „ Historical Network Research“ – a workshop for semantical-social netwo rks – takes place at Ruhr University Bochum in April 2015. The workshop series offers first insights into the methodology as well as a platform for exchanging the latest techniques in network analysis to all intereste d researchers of all fields of study. With this aim\, the workshop in Boc hum is going to deal with the text mining method which enables an increas ed automation of creation of networks. Additionally\, the question concer ning the dimension of texts represented this way is taken into considerat ion. Here\, with semantical-social networks you can deal with terminologi cal and conceptual contexts on one hand\, and\, on the other hand\, with the relationships between entities.\nMore information LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20150410-network-workshop/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop "Netzwerkanalyse" DTSTART:20150326T080000Z DTEND:20150326T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20150326-workshop-netzwerkanalyse-1519@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 73-75 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20150326-workshop-netzwerkanalys e/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop: Iran and Islam: Early Encounters. Formation of Islam 
 and Transformation of Iranian Religious Traditions DTSTART:20150312T080000Z DTEND:20150313T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:Iranandislam_en-1506@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:There is no doubt that the contact of Islam with other religio ns in the very homeland of Islam as well as in the conquered lands played a significant role in its formation. In contrast\, the evolving Islam mu st have challenged the existing religions\, transformed them or stimulate d them to do so. A great dynamic of renovation and repositioning of reli gious traditions can be expected in the first centuries of Islam. Therefo re\, a more in-depth study of this vibrant dynamic of mutual exchange bet ween Islamic and especially Iranian religious traditions is a desideratum which our symposium intends to address.\nThis workshop will be held in En glish.\nWorkshop schedule LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Iranandislam_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Feierliche Auftaktveranstaltung zur zweiten Förderphase des KHK DTSTART:20150223T163000Z DTEND:20150223T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:auftakt_khk-1501@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Dem Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Dynamiken der Religionsgeschichte zwischen Asien und Europa" am Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Stud ien wurde als eines der ersten beiden Kollegs eine zweite Förderphase gew ährt.\nUm diese zweite Förderphase zu feiern lädt das KHK zu einer feie rlichen Auftaktveranstaltung ein.\nAls Keynote-Speaker konnte Prof. em. Dr . Hans-Georg Soeffner gewonnen werden. Er wird sein Konzept des Fragilen P luralismus vorstellen. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/auftakt_khk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Buddhism in Motion DTSTART:20150211T133000Z DTEND:20150211T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20150211-buddhism-in-motion-1498@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 73-75 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20150211-buddhism-in-motion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERES B meeting DTSTART:20150204T170000Z DTEND:20150204T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20150204-ceres-b-meeting-1477@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20150204-ceres-b-meeting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERES D DTSTART:20150204T133000Z DTEND:20150204T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20150204-ceres-d-1491@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Input by Adam Knobler on the representation (or lack of) of th e divine in films. Please see the intranet for further information on the group (pdf "CERES D: "Embodying the (un)holy). LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20150204-ceres-d/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Next Overarching Topic "Senses" in Discussion DTSTART:20150202T151500Z DTEND:20150202T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20150202_mm_plenary_en-1398@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:For RUB-colleagues and KHK-fellows. Today's meeting includes a guest lecture given by Dr. Cathy Cantwell (Oxford University) on Engaging the Senses in the Tibetan tantric 'Major Practice Session' (sgrub chen) LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20150202_mm_plenary_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Buddhism in Motion DTSTART:20150128T133000Z DTEND:20150128T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20150128-buddhism-in-motion-1490@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20150128-buddhism-in-motion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Plenary Session Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20150126T171500Z DTEND:20150126T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:2015-01-26-mm-fellow-presentations-en-1456@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow Presentation\, Mareile Haase: "Osiris in the religious field in the later  Roman Empire".Fellow Presentation\, Vladimir glomb on his research project: "Borders of Orthodoxy and the Charm of False Learni ng". LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/2015-01-26-mm-fellow-presentations- en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Plenary Session "Summary Tradition" (Research Fiel d 1\, 2\, 3\, 4) DTSTART:20150126T151500Z DTEND:20150126T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20150126_mm_plenary_en-1397@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20150126_mm_plenary_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting Plenary Session "Fellow Presentation" DTSTART:20150119T171500Z DTEND:20150119T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20150119_mm_plenary_en-1396@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:KHK research fellow Berénice Lagarce-Othman will present on t his fellow year focus topic "tradition". Additionally Florian Lippke (Bibe l & Orient Museum Fribourg\, Switzerland) will present a paper on "An 'In scribed Table' and three riddles. Cultural encounter in the Mediterranean against the background if recent Phoenician epigraphy". LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20150119_mm_plenary_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Vorstandssitzung DTSTART:20150115T111500Z DTEND:20150115T124500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20150115_vorstandssitzung_en-1401@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20150115_vorstandssitzung_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Buddhism in Motion DTSTART:20150114T140000Z DTEND:20150114T153000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20150114-buddhism-in-motion-1474@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20150114-buddhism-in-motion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting Plenary Session: Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20150112T171500Z DTEND:20150112T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:2015-01-12-mm-plenary-fp-en-1458@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow Presentation: Erika Forte on her research project “Le gendary Accounts and Buddhist Monasteries. An Archaeological and Art-Histo rical Reassessment of Ancient Religious Establishments in the Khotan Oasis (Xinjiang\, China)”.Fellow Presentation: Eszter Spät on her Research P roject "Re-creating Religious Tradition in Northern Iraq: The Scripturaliz ation of Yezidi Religion". LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/2015-01-12-mm-plenary-fp-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Research Field 4 (Globalisation) DTSTART:20150112T151500Z DTEND:20150112T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:2015-01-12-mm-globalisation-en-1457@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:For Rub-colleagues and fellows. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/2015-01-12-mm-globalisation-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERES D DTSTART:20141217T133000Z DTEND:20141217T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20141217-ceres-d-1471@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20141217-ceres-d/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:AK Religion & Kunst (Krech) DTSTART:20141217T110000Z DTEND:20141217T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20141217-ak-religion-and-kunst-krech-1469@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 43 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20141217-ak-religion-and-kunst-k rech/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Year-End and Come-Together DTSTART:20141215T173000Z DTEND:20141215T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141215_mm_endofyear_en-1393@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141215_mm_endofyear_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Overarching Topic “Transcendence/Immanence” in Discussion DTSTART:20141215T151500Z DTEND:20141215T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141215_mm_transimman_en-1392@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:For RUB-colleagues. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141215_mm_transimman_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Vorstandssitzung DTSTART:20141211T111500Z DTEND:20141211T124500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141211_vorstandssitzung_en-1400@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141211_vorstandssitzung_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Buddhism in Motion DTSTART:20141210T133000Z DTEND:20141210T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20141210-buddhism-in-motion-1468@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20141210-buddhism-in-motion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Plenary Session DTSTART:20141208T171500Z DTEND:20141208T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141208_mm_plenary_en-1391@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow-Presentations:Rebecca Lesses on her KHK-research projec t "Angels’ Tongues and Witches’ Curses: Jewish Women and Ritual Power in Late Antiquity".Oliver Freiberger on his KHK-research project "Discours e Comparison: Revisiting the Comparative Method in the Study of Religion". LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141208_mm_plenary_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Research Field 1 (Formation) DTSTART:20141208T151500Z DTEND:20141208T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141208_mm_formation_en-1390@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:For RUB-colleagues and fellows. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141208_mm_formation_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Besprechung DTSTART:20141203T130000Z DTEND:20141203T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20141203-besprechung-1470@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 43 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20141203-besprechung/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Plenary Session DTSTART:20141201T171500Z DTEND:20141201T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141201_mm_plenary_en-1389@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow-Presentations:Ksenia Pimenova on her KHK-research proje ct "Transformation of Traditional Indigenous Religions of Siberia under Bu ddhist and Esoteric Influence".Grégoire Espesset on his KHK-research proj ect "The Scripture Within the Scripture: Chinese Strategies for the Phagoc ytosis of Foreignness in “Buddho-Taoist” Texts (Fourth–Ninth Centuri es)".  LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141201_mm_plenary_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Research Field 2 (Expansion) DTSTART:20141201T151500Z DTEND:20141201T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141201_mm_expansion_en-1388@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:For RUB-colleagues and fellows. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141201_mm_expansion_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Buddhism in Motion DTSTART:20141126T133000Z DTEND:20141126T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20141126-buddhism-in-motion-1463@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20141126-buddhism-in-motion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Research Field 4 (Globalisation) DTSTART:20141124T171500Z DTEND:20141124T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141117_mm_globalisation_en-1432@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:For RUB-colleagues and fellows. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141117_mm_globalisation_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Research Field 3 (Notions) DTSTART:20141124T151500Z DTEND:20141124T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141124_mm_notions_en-1387@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:For RUB-colleagues and fellows. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141124_mm_notions_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Plenary Session DTSTART:20141117T171500Z DTEND:20141117T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141117_mm_plenary_en-1386@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow-Presentations: Eduard Iricinschi on "Books\, Letters\, and Churches: Three Models of “Tradition” in Late-Antique Western Mani chaeism". LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141117_mm_plenary_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Buddhism in Motion DTSTART:20141112T133000Z DTEND:20141112T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20141112-buddhism-in-motion-1433@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 73-75 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20141112-buddhism-in-motion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Plenary Session DTSTART:20141110T171500Z DTEND:20141110T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141110_mm_plenary_en-1385@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow-Presentations: Kianoosh Rezania on his KHK-research pro ject "The Pahlavi-Literature in its Context. The Interreligious Contacts o f Islamic and Zoroastrian Scholars in the 9th and 10th Centuries and the Genesis of the Pahlavi-Literature". LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141110_mm_plenary_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Research Field 1 (Formation) DTSTART:20141110T151500Z DTEND:20141110T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141110_mm_formation_en-1384@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:For RUB-colleagues and fellows. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141110_mm_formation_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Plenary Session DTSTART:20141103T171500Z DTEND:20141103T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141103_mm_plenary_en-1383@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow-Presentations: Levent Tezcan on his KHK-research proje ct "Institutionalization of Islam in Germany". LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141103_mm_plenary_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Research Field 2 (Expansion) DTSTART:20141103T151500Z DTEND:20141103T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141103_mm_expansion_en-1382@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:For RUB-colleagues and fellows. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141103_mm_expansion_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ARBEITSKREIS "RELIGION" DTSTART:20141030T120000Z DTEND:20141101T133000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:arbeitskreis_religion_en-1431@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Annual meeting of the Arbeitskreis "Religion" (by invitation a nd in German only). Programme LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/arbeitskreis_religion_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Buddhism in Motion DTSTART:20141029T133000Z DTEND:20141029T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20141029-buddhism-in-motion-1429@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20141029-buddhism-in-motion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Research Field 3 (Notions) DTSTART:20141027T151500Z DTEND:20141027T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141027_mm_notions_en-1381@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:For RUB-colleagues and fellows. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141027_mm_notions_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Vorstandssitzung DTSTART:20141023T101500Z DTEND:20141023T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141023_mm_vorstandssitzung_en-1399@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141023_mm_vorstandssitzung_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting: Overaching Topic "Tradition" DTSTART:20141020T161500Z DTEND:20141020T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141020_mm_II_en-1380@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Overarching Topic “tradition”: Christian Frevel (for fello ws only) LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141020_mm_II_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting DTSTART:20141020T141500Z DTEND:20141020T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141020_mm_I_en-1379@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:To get to know each other/short introductions: for RUB-colleag ues and fellows. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141020_mm_I_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Buddhism in Motion DTSTART:20141015T130000Z DTEND:20141015T143000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20141015-buddhism-in-motion-1406@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20141015-buddhism-in-motion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Monday Meeting DTSTART:20141013T141500Z DTEND:20141013T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20141013_mm_introductory_en-1378@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Introductory Session: for fellows only (Volkhard Krech & staff ) LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20141013_mm_introductory_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Bochum-Austin Cooperation Conference DTSTART:20141001T140000Z DTEND:20141003T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20141001-bochum-austin-cooperation-conference-1079@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20141001-bochum-austin-cooperati on-conference/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Eurasian Religions in Contact DTSTART:20140722T070000Z DTEND:20140730T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:summschool_EuraRelCon2014_eng-1073@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:With global developments and the growing significance of relig ion in public debates\, academic interest in religions too has grown\, esp ecially in religious contacts. While there is a long tradition of studying specific interactions\, in particular among the so-called Abrahamic relig ions\, this orientation usually betrays a Western perspective. Recent scho larship has developed a more global perspective paying increasing attentio n to other religious contacts such as between Muslims and Buddhists. Along side research on the ground\, scholars are developing theoretical framewor ks for studying these contacts. How do we theorize religion? How can we as sess the significance of religious identity when members of different comm unities meet? What defines a contact between individuals\, communities\, t raditions\, as a contact of religions? What are the effects of contact for the development and expansion of religious traditions?\nflyer LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/summschool_EuraRelCon2014_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Buddhism in Motion DTSTART:20140716T101500Z DTEND:20140716T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140716-en20140716bimpons-1149@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 73-75 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140716-en20140716bimpons/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Refreshment DTSTART:20140714T180000Z DTEND:20140714T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:20140714_refreshment_en-1137@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/20140714_refreshment_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Plenary Session | Research Field 4 DTSTART:20140714T140000Z DTEND:20140714T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140714-plenary-session-rf4-1060@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140714-plenary-session-rf4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Arbeitstreffen Horizon 2020 DTSTART:20140714T120000Z DTEND:20140714T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140714-arbeitstreffen-horizon-2020-1113@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140714-arbeitstreffen-horizon- 2020/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop: Traveling Texts and Transformative Encounters: interreli gious Networks between Medieval and Early Modern Asia\, Africa and Europe DTSTART:20140714T070000Z DTEND:20140715T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-traveling-texts-1130@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:flyer\nIn this workshop we will examine instances of the circu lation of written\, oral\, and visual media and material culture\, between Western Europe\, Central Asia\, the Caucasus\, the Eastern Mediterranean\ , Ethiopia\, and South Asia as indicators of religious contact between the se regions. More significantly\, we seek to examine the transformation of meanings and religious identities which resulted from the circulation of “texts” and peoples over these geographic expanses. We will focus spec ifically on cosmological and polemical exchanges between different Christi an communities\, and between Jews\, Hindus\, and Muslims\, and as facilita ted by international trade\, crusading and missionizing aspirations.  For example\, Ethiopian  and Indian Christians drew from Western and Middle Eastern anti-Jewish polemical texts\, and reshaped  them to suit their ow n needs in a new inter-religious environment\, which in the Indian case\, included Hindus as well.  Jewish sources from the Cairo Geniza testify to the conversion of both Western and Eastern Christians (and possibly Hindu s)  to Judaism\, a situation that should be understood in the light of Je wish polemic against Christians in the region and to Jewish trade and sett lement in India.  Muslims\, Western Christians\, and Ethiopians alike use d tales of Ethiopian control of the Nile in an effort to manipulate one an other\, even as Ethiopians were importing European artisans and religious iconography\, Byzantine polemic\, and  Armenian hagiographies dealing wit h non-Christians.  Such clear indications of contact and exchange of reli gious meaningful material points to the need to study the inter-relation o f these regions and the impact of such exchanges in greater detail.  This workshop takes a first step in this direction. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-traveling-texts/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Sino-Tibetan Exchange in the Tangut Religion (11th to 13th c.) (Prof. Dr. Soloni)n DTSTART:20140711T080000Z DTEND:20140711T100000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en_guest-lecture-from-prof-dr-solonin-1147@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en_guest-lecture-from-prof-dr-solon in/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Buddhism in Motion DTSTART:20140709T101500Z DTEND:20140709T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140709-en20140709bimpons-1148@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140709-en20140709bimpons/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Meeting: Art & Religion DTSTART:20140709T100000Z DTEND:20140709T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-art-and-religion-1152@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 43 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-art-and-religion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Plenary Session | Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20140707T160000Z DTEND:20140707T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140707-fellow-presentation-forte-1059@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Paper by Erika Forte LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140707-fellow-presentation-for te/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK-Vorstandssitzung DTSTART:20140703T100000Z DTEND:20140703T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:khk-vorstandssitzung-3-en-1098@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/khk-vorstandssitzung-3-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop: Entangled Arguments: Christian Polemics against Jews and Muslims DTSTART:20140701T070000Z DTEND:20140701T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-entangled-arguments-1128@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Während sich die christliche Apologetik in der Rechtfertigung z.B. der Trinität oder der Christologie gegenüber Juden und Muslimen na turgemäß derselben\, ggf. nur geringfügig variierten Argumente bedient\ , ist die Polemik gegen Juden und Muslime weitaus adressatenspezifischer. Dennoch lassen sich u.U. gewisse Topoi finden\, die in der Polemik gegen b eide Gruppen zum Einsatz kommen\, mithin austauschbar sind. Besondere Aufs chlüsse verspricht ein Vergleich von Contra Iudaeos- und Contra Saracenos -Schriften derselben Autoren\, aber auch die Untersuchung von Crossover-Ph änomenen\, d.h. die Implementierung anti-jüdischer Argumente in anti-isl amische Kontexte und umgekehrt. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-entangled-arguments/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Mission Group DTSTART:20140630T160000Z DTEND:20140630T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140428-monday-meeting-mission-1047@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140428-monday-meeting-mission/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop: Entangled Arguments: Christian Polemics against Jews and Muslims DTSTART:20140630T070000Z DTEND:20140630T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-entangled_arguments-tag1-1129@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Während sich die christliche Apologetik in der Rechtfertigung z.B. der Trinität oder der Christologie gegenüber Juden und Muslimen na turgemäß derselben\, ggf. nur geringfügig variierten Argumente bedient\ , ist die Polemik gegen Juden und Muslime weitaus adressatenspezifischer. Dennoch lassen sich u.U. gewisse Topoi finden\, die in der Polemik gegen b eide Gruppen zum Einsatz kommen\, mithin austauschbar sind. Besondere Aufs chlüsse verspricht ein Vergleich von Contra Iudaeos- und Contra Saracenos -Schriften derselben Autoren\, aber auch die Untersuchung von Crossover-Ph änomenen\, d.h. die Implementierung anti-jüdischer Argumente in anti-isl amische Kontexte und umgekehrt. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-entangled_arguments-tag1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop: Ancient Central Asian Networks. Rethinking the interplay of Religions\, Art and Politics across the Tarim Basin (5th-10th c.) DTSTART:20140624T130000Z DTEND:20140626T100000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-Asian-Networks-1127@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The goal of the workshop is to explore the dynamics of cultura l transmission and communication in Eastern Central Asia during the second half of the 1st millennium CE. This will be done following an interdiscip linary approach\, based on recent data acquired from archeological excavat ions and the analysis of visual and textual resources. “Central Asian ne tworks” here denotes\, both in their physical context (historical and ge ographical) and in a conceptual sense\, as connections established by mean s of religious ideas\, political alliances (often sanctioned through famil ial relations) and economic interests. A special focus of the workshop wil l be on the interdynamics of the macro and micro level of these networks a s exemplified by two major hubs\, Khotan and Dunhuang\, and the impact tha t their privileged channel of communication had in the exchanges across th e Tarim basin. \nflyer LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-Asian-Networks/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Plenary Session | Research Field 3 DTSTART:20140623T140000Z DTEND:20140623T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140623-plenary-session-rf3-1058@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140623-plenary-session-rf3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Best Snack Ever: On the Jester's Performance in Koodiyattam DTSTART:20140623T120000Z DTEND:20140623T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-best-snack-1126@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture by Dr. Ophira Gamliel (Hebrew University)\nKoodi yattam\, a South Indian temple theater\, presents Classical Sanskrit drama since the tenth century. On the Koodiyattam stage\, the jester (vidūṣa ka) is the only character who speaks in Malayalam\, blending languages\, d ialects and registers\, mingling the divine with the mundane. We will watc h the jester swiftly altering the Sanskrit plot into performance in Malaya lam\, dismissing the ancient story of the captive king Udayana in favor of describing a stolen snack (ada) and elaborating on its excellence\, prepa ration\, auspicious reception and disappearance. By making the snack his f ocal point\, the jester subverts the boundaries between stage and audience \, tradition and innovation relentlessly turning the sublime into grotesqu e. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-best-snack/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Tradition Group DTSTART:20140616T140000Z DTEND:20140616T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140616-monday-meeting-tradition-1056@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140616-monday-meeting-traditio n/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Plenary Session | Research Field 1 DTSTART:20140602T140000Z DTEND:20140602T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140602-plenary-session-rf1-1055@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Schedule LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140602-plenary-session-rf1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Plenary Session | Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20140526T160000Z DTEND:20140526T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140526-fellow-presentation-roux-1054@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Paper by Pierre-Emmanuel Roux LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140526-fellow-presentation-rou x/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Senses Group DTSTART:20140526T140000Z DTEND:20140526T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140526-monday-meeting-senses-1053@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140526-monday-meeting-senses/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK-Vorstandssitzung DTSTART:20140522T100000Z DTEND:20140522T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-khk-vorstandssitzung2-1097@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-khk-vorstandssitzung2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Plenary Session | Research Field 2 DTSTART:20140519T140000Z DTEND:20140519T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140519-plenary-session-rf2-1052@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140519-plenary-session-rf2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Transcendence/Immanence Group DTSTART:20140512T140000Z DTEND:20140512T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140512-monday-meeting-transcendence-immanence-1051@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140512-monday-meeting-transcen dence-immanence/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SeNeReKo Workshop DTSTART:20140507T070000Z DTEND:20140509T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140507-senereko-workshop-1096@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Internal workshop of the SeNeReKo project. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140507-senereko-workshop/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERES Fundraising Forum DTSTART:20140505T160000Z DTEND:20140505T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140505-drittmittel-forum-1050@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140505-drittmittel-forum/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Diversity Group DTSTART:20140505T140000Z DTEND:20140505T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140505-monday-meeting-diversity-1049@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Abstract LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140505-monday-meeting-diversit y/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Plenary Session | Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20140428T160000Z DTEND:20140428T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140428-fellow-presentation-1048@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Talk by Stephen Eskildsen:\n\nTaoist Immortals and Buddhas are the Same: Innovative Buddhology and Polemics in Late Imperial Dragon Gate Internal Alchemy. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140428-fellow-presentation/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK-Vorstandssitzung DTSTART:20140424T100000Z DTEND:20140424T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-khk-vorstandssitzung-1095@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-khk-vorstandssitzung/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Horizon 2020 | Ideas for future projects DTSTART:20140415T140000Z DTEND:20140415T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en_20140415_horizon_krech-1091@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en_20140415_horizon_krech/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Team briefing for the speakers of the research fields and post-doc s DTSTART:20140414T141500Z DTEND:20140414T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en_20140414_teambriefing_hofmann-1090@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en_20140414_teambriefing_hofmann/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference | Body Trouble: The Ambivalence of Sex\, Gender\, and D esire in Religious Discourse DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140310 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140315 DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140310-conference-body-trouble-754@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Leaflet\nThis conference will address the inherent ambiguity o f religious approaches concerning the body in its multiform expressions th at render them as 'myriad bodies\,' which constitute the domain of religio us subjects\, instruments or mediums for doctrinal exegesis\, interpretive and regulatory practices\, disciplinary measures\, and constructions in t erms of sexuality and gender\, while equally serving as markers of differe ntiation between different religious traditions\, within the same traditio n and between the religious and non-religious spheres.\nThe body as a site of religious colonization has been constructed and deconstructed from wit hin a binary frame that invents and reinforces divisions and hierarchies b etween the 'male and female\,' 'natural and unnatural\,' 'eternal' and 'te mporal\,' 'physical and spiritual\,' 'outer and inner\,' 'pure and impure\ ,' etc.\; while as Foucault has pointed out\, systems of power\, like reli gions\, define and reproduce the subjects they subsequently came to repres ent.\nThe stability and instability between these binary terms give rise t o a number of challenges that may take the form of exploration\, question and problematic: when and how does the body becomes a topic of doctrinal d iscourse\, scriptural exegesis and institutional regimentation (i.e. monas ticism\, clerical hierarchies\, public rituals\, taboos\, dressing codes\, food abstention\, and consumption\, etc)? Can there be salvation\, or eve n religion\, with and without the body? How does religious language constr uct the categories of the body and its conflation in terms of sexual appet ites\, its gender (dis)continuities and the alleged relations between thes e? How does the differentiation between body and soul operate in the forma tion of religious discourse and institutional practice? Is there a recurri ng tension between Eastern and Western conceptions of body and religion ev en during a recent acceptance of Eastern prayer and concentration techniqu es? What is the agency of sexuality and gender in spiritual transformatio n? On the other hand\, how is religion embodied and why do we feel the nee d to situate intellectual and gender excellence in the body?\nIf a stable notion of 'body' no longer proves to be a foundational premise of religiou s discourse\, perhaps a new sort of religious exegesis is desirable to con test the very reification of gender and desire\, one that would take the v ariable construction of corporeal identity as a normative prerequisite and an embodied soteriological goal. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140310-conference-body-trouble / END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference | Texture III (Text) DTSTART:20140305T131500Z DTEND:20140306T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140305-conference-texture3-text-652@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Leaflet\nTogether with the previous workshops on 'Signs' and ' Scripture' the present conference aims at scrutinizing the notion of 'tex ture' as a guiding metaphor for the examination of religious phenomena. T extures might be described as contextualizations of scriptural processes that allow communication between diverse levels of life\, connecting for example the material with the mental and the cultural sphere and vice ve rsa. One might also describe the interaction of religious traditions as t extural contextualizations which allow\, form and execute contact phenome na of transfer and translation.\nTextures are internal formative principl es to be found within the material examined allowing its interpretation t hus introducing a recursive formation which might be described in scienti fic meta-language. As such they generate the emergence of sense and trigg er sensible behavior. Textures thus comprise manifest texts but cannot be reduced to them. One focus of the workshop is the material side of textu re as to be found in the religious context. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140305-conference-texture3-tex t/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK & CERES-Future DTSTART:20140227T130000Z DTEND:20140227T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140227-khk-and-ceres-zukunft-794@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 73-75 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140227-khk-and-ceres-zukunft/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | Cultural Influences and Borrowing in Contexts of Religi ous Hostility between Christians and Muslims DTSTART:20140225T080000Z DTEND:20140226T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140225-workshop-cultural-borrowing-788@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Programme leaflet\nMedieval and early modern population groups adhering to different belief-systems interacted in seemingly self-contra dictory ways. Hostility and warfare justified by references to religion\, as well as influences and cultural borrowing characterized their coexist ence. This workshop will bring together these two themes in order to inve stigate more closely how groups could influence each other\, when these g roups were envisaged in terms of religious hostility\, and how mechanisms of cultural borrowing were able to function during periods of explicitly formulated religious warfare. It is easier to conceptualize religious w ar on the one hand and cultural influences and borrowing on the other as two temporally or geographically distinct spheres of activity. Yet when C hristians and Muslims were fighting wars that were defined on both sides as fighting for the true faith\, at the same time they exerted influence on and borrowed from each other. This is especially true of areas where w arfare continued for very long periods\, between populations that also li ved in close proximity to each other. How and why was such borrowing poss ible between enemies? What were the channels of cultural influence and bo rrowing? What new forms of interaction emerged as a result? The papers wi ll focus on zones where interreligious warfare continued for centuries: t he Iberian Peninsula\, crusader territories in the East\, and areas of Ot toman expansion. Analyzing examples from the terminology of polemics to a rchitecture\, from food to everyday objects\, the workshop will explore t he seemingly self-contradictory stance of openness to cultural influences from one's enemies.\nProgramme\n25 February 2014\n9:00 Kick-Off wit h Coffee\n9:15 WelcomeNora Berend (University of Cambridge\, current ly KHK Visiting Research Fellow)\nMorning SessionChair: Alexandra Cuffel ( Ruhr University Bochum)\n9:30–10:15 When Christian Polemic "Bor rows" from Islamic ḥadīths: The Use of the Word 'alkaufeit' in Albarus of Cordoba's Indiculus luminosus (9th c.)Ulisse Cecini (Ruhr University Bochum)\n10:15–11:00 Social and Cultural Identity on the Menu in t he Kingdom of JerusalemJudith Bronstein (University of Haifa and Oranim Co llege)\n11:00–11:30 Coffee Break\n11:30–12:15 Misfits and Saviours in the East: Holy and Unholy Means and Men of War after the Fall of ConstantinopleAlexandru Simon (Romanian Academy’s Center for Transylv anian Studies\, Cluj-Napoca)\n12:15–13:00 Borrowing Djem\, King Ma tthias Explains his Strategy to Papal LegatesAntonín Kalous (Palacký Uni versity\, Olomouc)\n13:00–14:30 Lunch\nAfternoon sessionChair: Nor a Berend (University of Cambridge\, currently Ruhr University Bochum)\n14: 30–15:15 Preparing the Crusade: Juan de Torquemada's Polemics agai nst IslamReinhold Glei (Ruhr University Bochum)\n15:15–16:00 The M edici and the Druze: a curious anti-Ottoman allianceAdam Knobler (Ruhr Uni versity Bochum)\n16:00–16:30 Coffee Break\n16:30–17:15 Soc ial Interactions and Material Culture During the Ottoman Period in Early M odern Hungary (16-17th Centuries)József Laszlovszky (Central European Uni versity Budapest)\n17:15–18:00 Current Developments in the Histori ography of Ottoman-'European' RelationsMarkus Koller (Ruhr University Boch um)\n18:00 Debate\n26 February 2014\nChair: Alexandra Cuffel (Ruhr Uni versity Bochum)\n9:30–10:15 L'absorption silencieuse des indig ènes andalous et de leur culture dans le Portugal de la ReconquêteStéph ane Boissellier (Université de Poitiers)\n10:15–11:00 New Mosques in Borrowed Christian Houses: Negotiation of Space in the Context of Musl im Subject PopulationsAna Echevarría (UNED\, Madrid)\n11:00–11:30 coffe e break\n11:30–12:15 Iberia Entwined: Christians\, Muslims and the Politics of Sex in the Middle AgesSimon Barton (University of Exeter)\n12 :15–13:00 Creating Islands of Interfaith Trust in a Sea at WarAmy Remensnyder (Brown University)\n13:00–14:30 Lunch LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140225-workshop-cultural-borro wing/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | The Text of the Priests - The Text of the Laity DTSTART:20140220T090000Z DTEND:20140221T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140220-worshop-text-priests-laity-797@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Leaflet\nOver the past few years\, it has become evident in th e studies of the Avesta that some of its once sharply distinguished textu al and text-sociological categories have to be regarded as more fluid one s. Thus\, the legitimacy of the formerly postulated rigid split of the A vestan texts into texts of the priests and texts of the laity is question able to a certain extent. In a historical perspective\, the texts of the so-called Avesta of the laity (the Xorde Avesta) are in themselves\, at l east in large parts\, the remains of priestly liturgies. Therefore\, the task that remains today is to describe of transmission of the Avesta as a concrete textual history. This history is based on the priests and the l aity and on the interplay of both groups\, but it also depends on the rad ical political and religious changes in the first millennium BC and AD.\n It is the purpose of this workshop to examine the historical and systemat ic relation between the texts of the priests and those of the laity in Zo roastrianism. Furthermore\, the workshop should also give an impetus for (more or less neglected) sociological research of the Zoroastrian religio n. Last but not least\, circumstances underlying the Zoroastrian textual materials should be compared with those of the other important religion i n (late) antique Iran\, Manichaeism. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140220-worshop-text-priests-la ity/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Meeting of the KHK's Advisory Board DTSTART:20140210T130000Z DTEND:20140211T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140210-advisory-board-meeting-654@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140210-advisory-board-meeting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture | Oswald Bayer (Tübingen): "Reliable Word: Luther's Understanding of God\, Humanity\, and the World" DTSTART:20140206T170000Z DTEND:20140206T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140206-guestlecture-bayer-806@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Poster\nThis public guest lecture is part of the KHK workshop "The Impact of the Reformation on the Establishment of Religious Language" and will be held in German. An English version of the paper will be hande d out to the participants. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140206-guestlecture-bayer/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | The Impact of the Reformation on the Establishment of R eligious Language DTSTART:20140206T130000Z DTEND:20140207T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140206-workshop-religious-language-653@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Leaflet\nIn the 16th century a change within the forming of re ligious language took place. Not only the Reformation was responsible for that change\, but also developments that paved the way to it (e.g. Humanis m\, Hebraism). The changes within religious language thereby not only conc ern Protestantism\, but also Catholicism\, which was forced to redefine it s dogmatics.\nThe workshop analyses different models of that kind of formi ng of language in concrete contact situations. We intend to apply the more general results of our former workshops on 'Religious Language' (May 2012\ , June 2013). LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140206-workshop-religious-lang uage/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Board Meeting DTSTART:20140206T111500Z DTEND:20140206T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140206-khk-board-meeting-762@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 43 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140206-khk-board-meeting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Refreshment DTSTART:20140203T190000Z DTEND:20140203T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140203-refreshment-649@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140203-refreshment/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Research Field 2 DTSTART:20140203T171500Z DTEND:20140203T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140203-monday-meeting-rf2-648@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140203-monday-meeting-rf2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Preparatory Session for the Advisory Board Meeting DTSTART:20140203T151500Z DTEND:20140203T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140203-peparation-advisory-board-meeting-647@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140203-peparation-advisory-boa rd-meeting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | Pictures as Transcultural Spaces of Negotiating Religio n: A Conversation between Religious Studies\, Art History\, and Area Studi es DTSTART:20140128T140000Z DTEND:20140129T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140128-workshop-lanwerd-724@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Leaflet [German]\n[The workshop is currently planned to be in German only.]\nDer Workshop befasst sich in epochenübergreifender Perspek tive mit dem Fluss der Bilder zwischen Europa und Asien sowie der Bedeutu ng der Bilder als Verhandlungsräume von Religion bzw. religiöser Kultur . Ein Fokus liegt hierbei auf der Scharnierfunktion des  islamischen Or ients\, der sowohl vermittelnd wie kreativ wirksam wird. Konzeptuelle Aus gangspunkte sind die Vorstellung des Bildes als Third Space (Homi Bhabha) \, in dem kulturelle Konzepte aufeinandertreffen und miteinander reagiere n\, sowie das methodische Instru­men­tarium der Area Studies\, das – a usgehend von der Fachge­schichte religions-\, kunst- und literaturwissen schaft­liche An­sätze mit­einander verbindet und an aktuelle theoreti sche Dis­kurse bin­det. Der Workshop richtet sich auf die Dynamik von B ildern\, die im Blick auf ihre mediale Struktur der Übersetzung und Neua neignung von lokalen Pro­zes­sen sowie deren Transformation im globalen Prozess untersucht werden. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140128-workshop-lanwerd/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Meeting of the KHK's RUB Fellows DTSTART:20140127T171500Z DTEND:20140127T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140127-meeting-rub-fellows-646@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:i. e. without the Visiting Fellows! LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140127-meeting-rub-fellows/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Research Field 3 DTSTART:20140127T151500Z DTEND:20140127T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140127-monday-meeting-rf3-645@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140127-monday-meeting-rf3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture | John Torpey (New York): "Points of Departure: Reli gious Breakthroughs and their Significance" DTSTART:20140120T171500Z DTEND:20140120T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140120-guest-lecture-torpey-644@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This paper explores religious breakthroughs and the challenges they must meet if they are to endure. I explore the origins of Buddhism\ , Christianity\, Islam\, the Protestant Reformation\, and the French Revol ution\, and discuss four such challenges:\n1) While there may be no strong desire to police boundaries or exclude outsiders\, there must be some dis tinction between who is "in" and who is "out" of the movement that comes i nto being on the basis of the founders' original ideas. There thus arise ways to distinguish among adherents and non-adherents. The ways in which this binary is constructed has far-reaching consequences for the character of the religion that is emerging.\n2) If the message is to endure\, the p urveyors of the original teachings must consolidate and standardize them i n some fashion. The message must be stabilized at least to some degree su ch that it has sufficient coherence to be received and absorbed by new ini tiates. Yet the stabilization of the main message need not preclude varia nt readings of the canon – which typically come to predominate in differ ent regions as a result of routine historical processes.\n3) Then there is the matter of the messengers – who will carry on the message? The main question to be addressed here is that of who will enjoy the authority of the initiator(s) of the breakthrough. There is always\, in other words\, a problem of succession. The way in which that problem is resolved may ha ve quite profound consequences for the nature of the message and for the l ong-term consequences of the breakthrough.\n4) Next is the question of the relationship between "virtuosi" and laity. The former are understood to have privileged access to the sacred lore\, whereas the latter may be rega rded by the virtuosi as religiously disqualified -- adherents\, perhaps\, but "second-class citizens" of the faith. Variations in the relations be tween virtuosi and laypeople have profound ramifications for the character of a religion. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140120-guest-lecture-torpey/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Research Field 1 DTSTART:20140120T151500Z DTEND:20140120T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140120-monday-meeting-rf1-643@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Paper presented by Prof. em. Karl-Friedrich Pohlmann (Münster ): "Conversion and the Formation of Qur'an." LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140120-monday-meeting-rf1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Board Meeting DTSTART:20140116T111500Z DTEND:20140116T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140116-khk-board-meeting-761@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140116-khk-board-meeting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Plenary Session | Research Field 4 DTSTART:20140113T171500Z DTEND:20140113T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140114-plenary-session-rf4-642@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140114-plenary-session-rf4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Research Field 2 DTSTART:20140113T151500Z DTEND:20140113T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140113-monday-meeting-rf2-641@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140113-monday-meeting-rf2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Meeting of the directors of the Käte Hamburger Collegia DTSTART:20140109T130000Z DTEND:20140109T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140109-direktorentreffen-743@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140109-direktorentreffen/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Plenary Session | Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20140106T171500Z DTEND:20140106T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140106-plenary-session-fellows5-640@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow-Presentation\, Pierre-Emmanuell Roux:The Proscription o f Catholicism in Late Imperial China: Local Realities and Regional Perspec tives (1724-1860)\nThe proscription of Catholicism in Qing China has long been considered as the result of the well-known rites controversy – a sy mbol of the supposed incompatibility between Confucian and Christian value s – and held responsible for the failure of Catholic missions on the Chi nese soil. A detailed analysis of Chinese and Western sources however demo nstrates that the proscription policy launched in 1724 was doomed to failu re\, due to partial and ineffective measures. Within a few decades Europea n missionaries were reduced to secondary targets while Chinese converts an d\, soon\, sectarians supposedly converted to Christianity were establishi ng themselves as the principal targets of the government in the early nine teenth century. This presentation is thus intended to rethink the idea tha t Catholicism may have been considered by the Chinese authorities just as an imported religion spread by Western missionaries. In doing so\, I will also insist on the Japanese and Korean influences on the Chinese anti-Chri stian measures.  LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140106-plenary-session-fellows 5/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Transcendence Group DTSTART:20140106T151500Z DTEND:20140106T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20140106-monday-meeting-transcendence-748@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140106-monday-meeting-transcen dence/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Board Meeting DTSTART:20131219T111500Z DTEND:20131219T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20131219-khk-board-meeting-760@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 43 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131219-khk-board-meeting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference | Network and Identity: Exchange Relations between Chin a and the World DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131218 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131221 DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20131218-conference-network-and-identity-786@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:conference website\nThis international conference is a joint v enture of Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies and Käte Hamburger Kolleg's B uddhism in Motion Group. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131218-conference-network-and- identity/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | Texture II (Scripture) DTSTART:20131218T124500Z DTEND:20131219T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20131218-workshop-texture2-scripture-650@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Leaflet\nWith this workshop\, second in the KHK’s series on ‘Texture’\, we intend to scrutinize the concept of scripture with rega rd to its material and metaphorical topicality in religious studies. The p roject in general intends to overcome the shortcomings of current approach es trying to illuminate the phenomenon of ‘text’. Script or scripture as a religious phenomenon has to be regarded in a twofold manner. On the o ne hand scripture consists of materialized signs\, on the other hand it ob jectifies the act of writing. In both capacities scripture plays an import ant part in religious praxis.\nThe concept of scripture is underestimated if it is considered to be a mere medium of storing information. Holy scrip tures do not only transport information but claim a religious dignity in t hemselves and display a religious activity of their own in determining a t exture of human behavior. So the concept of scripture with regard to relig ion also contains processes of description (cosmologies)\, of prescription (command-ments)\, of transcription (transformation/conversion processes) and of inscription (for example to carve something into something – not at last in the human body thus providing a good example of scriptural embo diment). As such\, scripture denotes a fundamental human praxis which comb ines the cognitive and the material sphere. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131218-workshop-texture2-scrip ture/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CERES End-of-the-Year Celebration DTSTART:20131217T170000Z DTEND:20131217T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20131217-end-of-the-year-celebration-744@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131217-end-of-the-year-celebra tion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Plenary Session | Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20131216T171500Z DTEND:20131216T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20131216-plenary-session-fellows4-639@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow-Presentation: Johan ElverskogFellow-Presentation: Gö tz König LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131216-plenary-session-fellows 4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reading Group "Mission" DTSTART:20131216T151500Z DTEND:20131216T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:eng-2013-12-16_mission-757@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/eng-2013-12-16_mission/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture | Barbara Hendrischke: "Prohibition of Infanticide i n the Scripture on Great Peace" DTSTART:20131212T170000Z DTEND:20131212T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20131212-guest-lecture-hendrischke-781@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Poster\nThe Scripture on Great Peace (Taiping jing 太平經) goes back to the second century C.E. and has been transmitted in the Daois t canon of texts. The Scripture documents ideas on social and cultural cha nge that were propagated in popular regional movements and local communiti es at a time when the centralised Han dynasty state began to fall apart. T he authors of the text saw the widespread practice of infanticide as a maj or obstacle for the arrival of the era of “great peace” that they pred icted. Therefore\, arguments against the practice provide a good introduct ion to the world view and argumentative methods of the authors of the Scri pture. The authors start with strong religious convictions on the value of life and the need to obey the laws of heaven. However\, their approach is integrative and pragmatic. While they propose that for religious and mora l reasons parents must be prepared to raise all children\, they acknowledg e that parents cannot be expected to do so unless they derive some practic al benefit from raising their daughters. The talk will outline this argume nt in some detail. It will be concluded that despite their novelty the aut hors’ suggestions were well geared to late Han dynasty social and econom ic reality and were in part accepted into the ritual of early Daoist congr egations. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131212-guest-lecture-hendrisch ke/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | Juda'ism and Shi'ism/Isma'ilism: Commonalities and Inte rtextuality DTSTART:20131212T090000Z DTEND:20131212T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20131212-workshop-judaism-shiism-782@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Leaflet LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131212-workshop-judaism-shiism / END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Plenary Session | Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20131209T171500Z DTEND:20131209T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233507Z UID:en-20131209-plenary-session-fellows3-638@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow-Presentation\, Christoph Anderl:Bridging Time and Space : Tang Dynasty Historiographical Projections Concerning the Transmission o f Buddhism to the East\nFellow-Presentation\, Nora Berend:Defenders of Chr istendom: religious interaction in Hungary and Spain LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131209-plenary-session-fellows 3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Transcendence Group DTSTART:20131209T151500Z DTEND:20131209T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131209-monday-meeting-transcendence-747@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Gerard Wiegers introduces to Hajari (cf. texts in the document s) LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131209-monday-meeting-transcen dence/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture | Michael Puett (Boston): Ritual Disjunctions: Theor ies of Ritual from Classical China DTSTART:20131209T130000Z DTEND:20131209T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131209-guest-lecture-puett-785@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Poster\nSchedule:\n\nIntroduction to KHK and CERES and Welcome by Professor Volkhard Krech\, Director\, KHK\nIntroduction to the Speaker by Professor Heiner Roetz\, department of Sinology\, Ruhr-Universität\, Bochum\n Talk by Professor Michael Puett\, Walter C Klein Professor of Chi nese History\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Har vard University.\n LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131209-guest-lecture-puett/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Research Field 1 DTSTART:20131202T171500Z DTEND:20131202T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131202-monday-meeting-rf1-637@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Paper presented by KHK Visiting Fellow Jessie Pons: "The Diffu sion of the Buddhist Faith through Images: Gandhara and Beyond." LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131202-monday-meeting-rf1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Research Field 4 DTSTART:20131202T151500Z DTEND:20131202T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131202-monday-meeting-rf4-636@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131202-monday-meeting-rf4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture | Uday Balakrishnan (Bangalore): "Religion and the S ecular State: The Indian Experience" DTSTART:20131128T170000Z DTEND:20131128T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131128-guestlecture-balakrishnan-635@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nWithin three years of achieving independence in 1947\, India had adopted a secular democratic constitution subtly based on State supported caste and religious accommodations. India owes its continued sur vival as a multi-religious\, multi-caste State to an interpretation of sec ularism based on such accommodations. The accommodations that made India ’s version of secularism work far are now seriously challenged by alteri ng caste and religious equations as well as assertive regionalism none of which was anticipated sixty-six years back when India became free. How Ind ia copes with these challenges will determine if India stays secular while holding itself together.\nDr.Uday Balakrishnan’s talk expands on the ab ove\, drawing on his work-in-progress on India’s first three years of in dependence. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131128-guestlecture-balakrishn an/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture | Uday Balakrishnan (Bangalore): "Accomodating Islam - Indian Lessons" DTSTART:20131125T170000Z DTEND:20131125T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131125-guestlecture-balakrishnan-634@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nFor much of its course India’s freedom struggle spear headed by Gandhi and Nehru had only the conditional support of the Muslim community. The community had several insecurities centered on its social a nd economic backwardness\, historical internal differences\, as well as th e prospect of being rendered powerless in a Hindu dominated independent In dia. While Gandhi and Nehru\, both strongly secular\, realized that India would not have an easy freedom without Muslim support\, neither was sensit ive to the community to calibrate responses that would have effectively ad dressed its several concerns.\nNotwithstanding his strong pro Muslim leani ngs\, Gandhi was always an easy target for his seemingly Hindu ways\, whil e many Muslims viewed Nehru’s adherence to democratic secularism as an e ffort to ensure Hindu domination of the sub continent. Jinnah successfully exploited his community’s fears while managing to quell its several int ernal differences\, leading to the creation of Pakistan.\nDr.Uday Balakris hnan’s talk dwells on India’s failure to emerge into freedom as a sing le country\, and its accommodation of Muslims in post independence India w ithin the ambit of a secular democratic state.\nWhile engaging with a powe rful force like Islam India’s experience in religious accommodations\, D r. Balakrishnan argues\, hold important lessons for the rest of the world\ , especially the West. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131125-guestlecture-balakrishn an/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Research Field 3 DTSTART:20131125T151500Z DTEND:20131125T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131125-monday-meeting-rf3-633@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Introduction and discussion of ideas for the work of research field 3 in the second phase of the KHK\, i.e. from late 2014 onwards. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131125-monday-meeting-rf3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | Entangled Hagiographies of the Religious Other DTSTART:20131121T084500Z DTEND:20131122T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131121-workshop-entangled-hagiographies-434@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Programme leaflet\nStudying or noting the fact that stories ab out saints or holy objects traveled from one region or religious community to another\, for example how the Jataka tales\, the Pantachantra\, Balaam and Josephat\, or the Prince and the Sage traveled from India through Cen tral Asia or into parts of Africa\, the Middle East and finally even to No rthern Europe\, is fascinating for it includes not only transfer of motifs \, but resistance\, demarcation\, adoption\, transformation\, even expansi on. Alone\, however\, such explorations tell us little about inter- or int ra-religious relations.\nIn this workshop we  propose to focus on hagiogr aphical accounts of encounter with the religious other that traveled from one cultural/geographical area to another\, and how these narratives chang ed as the result of cultural\, religious\, geographic\, or chronological d isplacement. Specifically stories about saints and the religious other\, p rovide important indications about cultures dealt with religious minoritie s\, and how religious minorities imagined their relationships with the rel igious communities around them. Such narratives also indicate\, perhaps\, what forces cause tension and persecution - why are some stories in certai n cultures relatively more “friendly” toward the religious other than others\, and very condemnatory in other cultures though the story at its c ore is the same? How and why are certain hagiographies of encounter taken over by more than one religious community and either used as a form of res istance or simply co-opted and claimed by the new group?\nThose who are in terested in participating in the workshop\, please submit a title and an a bstract to either Alexandra Cuffel (alexandra.cuffel@rub.de) or Nikolas Ja spert (nikolas.jaspert@rub.de) by 15 August 2013. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131121-workshop-entangled-hagi ographies/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Plenary Session | Research Field 1 DTSTART:20131118T171500Z DTEND:20131118T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131118-plenary-session-rf1-632@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Paper presented by KHK Visiting Fellow Stephen Eskildsen: "The Nestorian Christian Mission in China." LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131118-plenary-session-rf1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Transcendence Group DTSTART:20131118T151500Z DTEND:20131118T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131104-plenary-session-rf3-629@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Markus Schlette introduces a text of Oevermann on transcendenc e (cf. texts in the documents) LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131104-plenary-session-rf3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture | Anne-Julie Etter (Paris): "Surveying Religion thro ugh Material Remains in Early Colonial India" DTSTART:20131114T170000Z DTEND:20131114T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131114-guestlecture-etter-752@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nMaterial remains are usually not dealt with by the abun dant literature on the construction of Hinduism pondering on the respectiv e roles of Europeans and Brahmins. Yet\, they have played an important rol e in the delineation of Indian religions. Europeans have used monuments an d statues as sources in order to understand and study Indian religious pra ctices and concepts and to outline India’s religious history\, notably f or examining the respective antiquity of and relationships between Brahman ism\, Jainism and Buddhism.\nIn order to be used as sources\, these materi al remains had to be deciphered. This raises the problem of concepts and m ethods through which they were described and analysed. This presentation a ims at highlighting the existence of a religious bias in the reading of ar chitecture and iconography on the one hand and at examining the impact of such bias on the study of Indian religions on the other.\nThis bias is its elf twofold. Firstly\, it pertains to the influence of Christian concepts and ideas on the interpretation of remains belonging to what came to be ca lled the religion of the Gentiles\, idolatry or the religion of the Hindus . Secondly\, it relates to the influence of Brahmanical concepts through t he resort to Brahmin informants\, who tended to absorb Jain and Buddhist r emains within the realm of Brahmanism. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131114-guestlecture-etter/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Buddhism in Motion DTSTART:20131112T151500Z DTEND:20131112T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:eng-20131112-BIM-758@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/eng-20131112-BIM/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Plenary Session | Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20131111T171500Z DTEND:20131111T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131111-plenary-session-fellows2-631@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow-Presentation: Gerard WiegersFellow-Presentation: Robert Mayer LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131111-plenary-session-fellows 2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Research Field 2 DTSTART:20131111T151500Z DTEND:20131111T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131111-monday-meeting-rf2-630@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131111-monday-meeting-rf2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Board Meeting DTSTART:20131107T111500Z DTEND:20131107T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131107-khk-board-meeting-759@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131107-khk-board-meeting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | Religion in The Iberian Colonial World 1500-1700 DTSTART:20131105T080000Z DTEND:20131106T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WS_RelintheIberianColWorld_eng-407@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Folder\nThe voyages of exploration and expansion that were lau nched from Spain and Portugal in the early modern era\, brought with them a militant Roman Catholicism\, which sought to convert indigenous peoples to the Latin Church. What the Iberians discovered in the Americas\, Afric a and Asia were multiple\, complex polities with their own religious tradi tions\, which strongly resisted conversion. This conference will examine Ibero-Indigenous religious contact through the lens of indigenous peoples' responses to Spanish and Portuguese religious imperialism. Taking exampl es from Mexico\, South America\, Africa and Asia we hope to find some comm on links in seeing how religious resistance to the Iberians manifested its elf in the sixteenth\, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_RelintheIberianColWorld_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Transcendence Group DTSTART:20131104T171500Z DTEND:20131104T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131104-monday-meeting-transcendence-746@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131104-monday-meeting-transcen dence/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Research Field 4 DTSTART:20131104T151500Z DTEND:20131104T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131104-monday-meeting-rf4-628@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131104-monday-meeting-rf4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Plenary Session | Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20131028T171500Z DTEND:20131028T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131028-plenary-session-fellows1-627@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Fellow-Presentation: Magnus Schlette LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131028-plenary-session-fellows 1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Research Field 1 DTSTART:20131028T151500Z DTEND:20131028T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131028-monday-meeting-rf1-626@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Input by KHK Visiting Fellow Johann Elverskog: "The Early Form ation of Buddhism: An Overview of the Topic and its Current Debates." LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131028-monday-meeting-rf1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | Dynamics of Signs DTSTART:20131024T073000Z DTEND:20131024T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WS_dynamicsofsigns_eng-406@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Folder\nThe main subject of the workshop is the ‘dynamic obj ect’ as developed in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and its po ssible application to the consortium’s studies on the ‘Dynamics in the History of Religions’. The workshop is based on and further develops re search results of the Focus Group ‘Dynamics and Stability’.\nRoughly s peaking\, in order to develop a suitable notion of dynamics respectively s tability for Religious Studies\, the workshop intends to link sociological system theory with its idea of the chain of production\, generating self- referential meaning via the production from products and thus performing w hat Luhmann calls a ‘dynamic stability’ to concepts that have been sub ject of previous discussions in the Focus Group ‘Dynamics and Stability ’ and the Focus Group ‘Attraction’. By doing so\, we might come to a fusion of Peircean semiotics and system theory with regard to a descripti ve language of religious phenomena. One might argue that the religious att ractor (as a main subject of the Focus Group ‘Attraction’) is a (what Peirce calls) dynamic object generating a chain of signs (of immediate obj ects)\, that – while reaching for a full understanding of the object tho ugh never reaching ‘it’ – describes the process of attraction. The c oncept of secret is the best illustration for this process. This dynamic o bject might be fictional (it was introduced to grasp literary fictions lik e Hamlet)\, but it ‘acts’ by generating interpretation.  This is the stability of the chain of interpretation – not the object nor the interp retations are stable\, but their interrelation\, the chain as such\, which relates one interpretational product to one another. It integrates the re flexive moment Luhmann points at into a form of stability that bases and r eacts on the instability of the flux of time. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_dynamicsofsigns_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Plenary Session | Research Field 2 DTSTART:20131021T161500Z DTEND:20131021T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131021-plenary-session-rf2-625@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 73-75 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131021-plenary-session-rf2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference | Rethinking Religion and Globalization DTSTART:20131021T100000Z DTEND:20131022T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131021-conference-srinivas-727@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Conference folder\nFull conference programme including abstrac ts\nTwenty years since the first formulations about the complex links betw een religion and globalization\, what is our understanding today? This con ference aims to take a moment to rethink religion and globalization and th e forces and concerns that this intersection raises for us today. Historia ns\, religious studies scholars\, philosophers\, anthropologists and socio logists all participate in this meditation not only to review the ground b ut in an attempt to move the scholarship forward.\n\nMost of  the talks o f the conference are available as videos: Rethinking Religion and Globaliz ation at Echo360 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131021-conference-srinivas/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International Indology Research Symposium - 5th Edition (IIGRS5) DTSTART:20131017T070000Z DTEND:20131018T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:IIGRS5_20131017_eng-439@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The purpose of the conference is to bring together graduate st udents working with primary sources in Indology so that they can build con tacts and present\, discuss and publish their research. Since such opportu nities are largely lacking for fledging studies of Indology\, the first sy mposium organized in 2009 was inspired by a wish to provide a public platf orm for graduate and post-graduate students in a co-operative and encourag ing atmosphere. Since 2009\, IIGRS has become an annual event with increas ing participation and scholarly recognition held in universities across Eu rope: Cambridge\, Paris and Edinburgh. Organizing the fifth venue of IIGRS at the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany will not only strengthen and bro aden the international network of graduates in Indology\, but also make th e Ruhr University Bochum a significant actor of this international network .The subject matter of the papers presented may be any Classical Indologic al topic\, provided they are based on primary sources studied in the origi nal language. The programs of previous editions have counted papers on top ics concerning classical Indian civilization such as its literature\, ritu als\, religion\, philosophy\, grammar\, science and social history or arch aeology and art history on the basis of texts in the original language. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/IIGRS5_20131017_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:KHK Monday Meeting | Research Field 3 DTSTART:20131014T161500Z DTEND:20131014T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20131014-monday-meeting-rf3-624@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20131014-monday-meeting-rf3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | Constructions of Devotion across Islamic Lands DTSTART:20131009T123000Z DTEND:20131011T110000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WS_ConsOfDev_eng-376@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Workshop folder\nStudies on devotion and religious life in the Islamic world have traditionally been based on the oposition between scho lars ('ulama') and Sufis\, or mystics\, especially at historical moments w hen these latter were able to monopolize the religious popular sphere\, wr esting it from the hands of scholars whose primary concerns were the estab lishment of orthodoxy and orthopraxis. Indeed\, Islamic juridical texts cl early show how the ulama' tried to forbid certain sufi practices because t hey were divergent from the norms they themselves sanctioned as "orthodox devotion." The study of this opposition has been very fruitful for interna tional discussions on law and Sufism and on ascetism and its control by ru lers in Islamic societies. The operation of all of these various entities\ , however\, in the history of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (1232-1492)\, in the Iberian Peninsula\, has yet to awaken the serious interest of schol arship: Granada is always marginal to these discussions\, whether they inv olve the Maghreb or the larger Islamic world. Recent studies have shown th at\, during the 12th and 13th centuries\, the Almohads promoted a true rev olution in terms of religious life in Western Islam\, but the influence th at this revolution might have had on later periods is still unknown. It se ems that there was a new upturn of sufism in Nasrid Granada and a strong r enewal of the Maliki school of law. Placing these phenomena in a wider\, M editerranean context\, may help scholars to understand whether they were p roduced as a reaction against the Almohad movement or\, on the contrary\, as the result of an organic and gradual evolution based on their doctrines .\nWe are interested not only in the essential facts of religious behaviou r\, but also\, and more specifically\, in how political and dynastic power s\, scholars and Sufis endeavoured to contruct an ideal of religiosity and devotion through images\, both poetic and otherwise. Therefore\, in addit ion to legal and doctrinal treatises\, works on asceticism and prayer manu als\, we will study the representation of religion in artistic works and a rchitecture. In fact\, we believe that both types of evidence will help in achieving a better understanding of the religious phenomenon in Medieval Islam. Even if artistic representations in religious contexts in Islam do not habitually produce icons and images of living beings\, we contend that concepts such as purity\, closeness to God\, heaven\, destiny\, love\, et c.\, are produced and represented both in texts and artifacts. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_ConsOfDev_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | Texture I (Signs) DTSTART:20130918T080000Z DTEND:20130918T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20130918-workshop-texture1-signs-651@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nThe workshop is the first part of series which examines the notion of texture with regard to its topicality for the research on the dynamics in the history of religions.\nSigns\, scriptures and texts p rovide both the material for Religious Studies as well as guiding metapho rs which are used to describe general religious contexts. Therefore\, the theme ‚signs\, scriptures and texts‘ is not restricted to the so-cal led Religions of the Book. For analytical reasons we differentiate betwee n three major elements that are in fact always closely connected in real ity. Signs\, scriptures and texts differ with regard to the degree of com plexity respectively communicativity\, scripture providing a texture of s igns\, texts providing a texture of scripts. The texture used as a guidin g metaphor as well indicates the contact dimension within religions tradi tions.\nA sign may be described analytically as the basic element (‚the letter‘) of a texture comprising linguistic and non-linguistic signs. It does not only include the symbol or the indication of something but al so the praxis of indicating and assigning. Therefore\, a sign cannot be u nderstood as a representation or a mere carrier of information only\, but has to be interpretated with regard to possible action: as a texture of information and praxis. In the workshop we take our pragmatic point of de parture from a significant sign\, i.e. the character (Schriftzeichen).\nT he main emphasis of the workshop lies on the common work on the concrete material which aims at the elaboration of a theoretical framework that mi ght be used in the forecoming workshops on scripture and texts. There wil l be two inputs by Beate Hofmann (Bochum) on Egyptian hieroglyphs and Knu t Martin Stünkel (Bochum) on the phenomenology of signs. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20130918-workshop-texture1-signs / END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Meeting | Buddhism in Motion DTSTART:20130910T100000Z DTEND:20130910T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20140910-buddhism-in-motion-725@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20140910-buddhism-in-motion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference | Sambatyon: The Mythical Border in Time and Space DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130804 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130806 DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20130804-conference-sambatyon-440@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20130804-conference-sambatyon/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference | The Mediterranean: A Pluriverse Universe DTSTART:20130716T150000Z DTEND:20130719T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:conf-130716-pluriverse-universe-409@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nChanges in the schedule\nWednesday\n\nInstead of Michae l Sommer\, Michaela Ott will give a talk.\nThe talk by Frank Starke has be en cancelled.\n\nThursday\n\nConference starts at 9:15 as the Crüsemann p aper has been cancelled.\nThe talk of Stegemann and Stegemann is replaced by a guided tour at Ruhr University's art collection\nThe general discussi on has been preponed to 17:45. Almut Renger has resigned his participation .\n\nWer „Mittelmeerraum“ sagt\, konnotiert notwendig Fernand Braudel und legt die Analogisierungsfähigkeit bis -notwendigkeit seines Grundkon zepts für die antike Welt nahe. Zusätzlich ist beim „Pluriversen Unive rsum Mittelmeer“ von einer longue durée auszugehen\, weshalb zunächst die bleibende Bedeutung der vorantiken „Hochkulturen“ für unseren Ges amtraum zu plausibilisieren ist. Zu akzentuieren ist\, auf die „hellenis tischen“ Jahrhunderte gesehen\, dass Orientalen und Ägypter die griechi sche Welt genau so veränderten wie diese sie: eine Aufgabe\, die nur ange gangen werden kann\, wenn zuvor die Spezifik des „klassischen“ Grieche nland profiliert und Athens bleibende Bedeutung herausgearbeitet worden is t.\nDie analoge Aufgabe besteht für Jerusalem. Schon was das hellenistisc he\, erst recht aber römisch-imperiale Zeitalter angeht\, ist sein Stelle nwert so groß wie spezifisch. „Jerusalems“ Eigenwert ist zu profilier en\, jedoch nicht zu isolieren. Schon aufgrund des Hellenismus beginnen si ch griechisch-jüdisch-römische Austauschprozesse zu entwickeln: wird ni cht zufällig Alexandria zu einer auch jüdischen Stadt\, die zugleich ihr Diaspora-Judentum hellenisiert – mit überregionaler Auswirkung.\nUnbes chadet dessen steht außer Frage\, dass noch ein multikulturelles Hybrid wie Paulus – nicht nur die Zeloten à la lettre – in einer antirömisc hen Abwehr- und Angriffsfront stand. Konflikte geradezu tödlicher Art inn erhalb der hellenistischen koiné/des Imperium Romanum können nicht geleu gnet werden\, wenn dies innerhalb einer helleno- und romanozentrischen Ges chichtssicht auch nicht unüblich gewesen ist. Das Projekt „Pluriverses  Universum“ versteht sich dezidiert polyzentrisch\, obgleich innerhalb eines Kulturraumes – für den der Erinnerungsort Alexandria überrepr äsentativ gewesen sein dürfte.\nBis heute bestehende Frontstellungen kei nen Augenblick verdrängend\, soll der oft nur verrufene „Alexandrinism us“ bewusst stark gemacht werden – er selbst war alles andere als span nungsfrei\, gar irenisch. Eine Gestalt wie der zeitweise im auch antisemit ischen Alexandria lebende und ungemein vielgesichtige Flavius Josephus\, d ie zugleich eine sehr kaiserzeitliche war\, kann das besonders gut verdeut lichen. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/conf-130716-pluriverse-universe/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Refreshment DTSTART:20130715T180000Z DTEND:20130715T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:refreshment_15072013_en-402@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Directions URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/refreshment_15072013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20130715T161500Z DTEND:20130715T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_15072013_en-401@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Paul Fenton: The Visualization of the Saint in Jewish and Isl amic Mysticism\nStephen Eskildsen: Serene Meditation and the Mahayana Taoi st Saint in the Scripture of Empty Nothingness URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_15072013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 1 DTSTART:20130715T141500Z DTEND:20130715T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_1_15072013_en-400@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Dr. Volker Rabens: "Inclusion of and Demarcation from “Outsi ders”: Mission and Ethics in Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians". URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_1_15072013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20130708T161500Z DTEND:20130708T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_08072013_en-399@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Susanne Lanwerd: How to exhibit religion? Inspirations from t hree contemporary approaches\nRonnie Po-chia Hsia: A Theory of Conversion in the Early Modern Catholic Missions URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_08072013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2 DTSTART:20130708T141500Z DTEND:20130708T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_2_08072013_en-398@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_2_08072013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | 'Religio licita'? The Romans and the Jews\, 1st century BCE - 3rd century CE DTSTART:20130704T120000Z DTEND:20130705T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20130704-workshop-religio-licita-420@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Folder\nUsually Judaism is regarded as 'religio licita' of the Roman Empire. Nonetheless it is always regarded with suspicion as can be detected from Menahem Stern's collection of ancient anti-Jewish texts (\, id.\, Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism). In addition\, Karl Leo Noethlichs has pointed to the importance of legal sources for the percept ion of Jews. These texts normally do not limit the status of Jews\, but sh ow significant exceptions. If we\, in addition\, take into account that Ke lsos at the end of the 2nd century polemized against Jews and Christians a like\, we have to ask in two directions: First\, what was the Roman view o n Jews and\, second\, which changes within Judaism under the Roman influen ce might be detected? Already at the end of the first century BCE we see a ltercations between Jews and Romans\, as can be seen in Pompeius' ambivale nt attitude towards the Jews. On the one hand there are his brutal actions against Jews\; on the other hand he tried to establish a Roman order with in Judaic territories (and be it to keep them "calm"). That continues in t he times of the emperors.\nIn our workshop we are mainly interested in the reasons for the conflicts which arose after the Jews were given a number of privileges although the Jews themselves showed little or no interest in territorial-expansive efforts and did not threaten Rome in this regard.\n [available in German only]\nTagungsbericht Religio licita? Rom und die Jud en vom Pompeius bis Konstantin. 04.07.2013-05.07.2013\, Bochum\, in: H-Soz -u-Kult\, 26.09.2013\, LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20130704-workshop-religio-licita / END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Eurasian Religions in Contact: From Antiquity to Modernity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130702 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130713 DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:summschool_EuraRelCon_eng-408@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:flyer\nWith global developments and the growing significance o f religion in public debates\, academic interest in religions too has gro wn\, especially in religious contacts. While there is a long tradition of studying specific interactions\, in particular among the so-called Abraha mic religions\, this orientation usually betrays a Western perspective. R ecent scholarship has developed a more global perspective paying increasi ng attention to other religious contacts such as between Muslims and Buddh ists. Alongside research on the ground\, scholars are developing theoreti cal frameworks for studying these contacts. How do we theorize religion? How can we assess the significance of religious identity when members of different communities meet? What defines a contact between individuals\, c ommunities\, traditions\, as a contact of religions? What are the effects of contact for the development and expansion of religious traditions?\nC all for Applications URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/summschool_EuraRelCon_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Research Field 1 DTSTART:20130701T161500Z DTEND:20130701T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_RF1_01072013_en-397@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:With a paper presented by KHK visiting fellow Dr. Götz Köni g: "On the question of a cult of fire in the Old Avestan Gathas" URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_RF1_01072013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Dynamics and Stability DTSTART:20130701T141500Z DTEND:20130701T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_DS_01072013_en-396@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:CANCELED! URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_DS_01072013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | Epiphanies DTSTART:20130625T070000Z DTEND:20130626T110000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20130625-workshop-epiphanien-432@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Folder\nDie „Erscheinung“ der Gottheit\, ihre visuelle und auditive Manifestation in der menschlichen Sphäre\, gehört in vielen Ku lturräumen zum Kernbereich religiöser Tradition und Ritualpraxis. Aufsch lussreich ist die ambivalente Dynamik ihrer individuellen und kollektiven Wahrnehmung\, die sich in Faszination\, Flucht\, Umkehr\, Bekehrung\, Unte rwerfung\, Hingabe\, (Selbst-) Zerstörung kristallisiert und dabei Kultor te - häufig in Konkurrenz zu anderen Gottheiten - markiert und legitimier t. Die unterschiedlichen Formen der göttlichen Selbstinszenierung\, die s pezifischen ritualästhetischen Momente\, welche die Erscheinung begleiten und vermitteln\, womöglich sogar hervorrufen\, sowie die spezifischen so zialen und politischen Funktionen der Epiphanien profilieren zugleich die kult- und religionsspezifischen Differenzen.\nDie Veranstaltung will anhan d von konkreten Fallbeispielen die medialen Techniken vergleichen\, welche die unterschiedlichen Epiphanien bedingen\, ihre jeweilige Bedeutung komm unizieren\, somit das Rezeptionsverhalten bestimmen und in diesem Kontext religiöse Erscheinungsräume definieren. Besonderes Interesse gilt den vo n Epiphanien stimulierten Anziehungs- und Abgrenzungsprozessen von der Ant ike über die Genese des Christentums bis zur säkularen Neuzeit\; kulturg eographisch wird der Mittelmeerraum als interreligiöse Kontaktzone par e xcellence im Zentrum der Diskussion stehen.\nProgramm\nSektion I: Visione n und Events. Epiphanien im HellenismusDienstag\, den 25. Juni 2013\, 9.00 bis 13.00 Uhr\n\nAngelos Chaniotis (Alte Geschichte\, Princeton Universit y): Epiphanien als Massen-Spektakel\nLinda-Marie Günther (Alte Geschichte \, Ruhr Universität Bochum): Epiphanie und Traumerscheinung im Umfeld Ale xanders des Großen\n\nSektion II: Narration und Inszenierung. Literarisch e und musikalische Epiphanien in der Antike und in der AntikenrezeptionDie nstag\, den 25. Juni 2013\, 14.00 bis 18.00 Uhr\n\nManuel Baumbach (Klassi sche Philologie\, Ruhr Universität Bochum): Präsenzsuggestion und Unmitt elbarkeitserfahrung als poetisches Programm im Apollonhymnos des Kallimach os\nMarion Steinicke (Religionswissenschaft\, Ruhr Universität Bochum): E piphanien in der Oper\n\nSektion III: Göttliche Selbstoffenbarung und ihr e Repräsentation. Christliche Epiphanien und ihr Nachleben in der abendl ändischen KunstMittwoch\, den 26. Juni 2013\, 9.00 bis 13.00 Uhr\n\nReinh ard von Bendemann (Neues Testament und Judentum\, Ruhr Universität Bochum ): Die Ostererscheinungen und die Genese des frühchristlichen Auferweckun gsglaubens\nHeinz Georg Held (Kunstgeschichte\, Università degli Studi di Pavia): Erscheinungstechniken in der christlichen Kunst\n LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20130625-workshop-epiphanien/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 3 DTSTART:20130624T161500Z DTEND:20130624T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_3_24062013_en-395@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Paper presented by Dr. Judith Becker (Mainz): "The Varieties o f Conversion Narratives. Basel Missionaries and India\, 1834–1860" URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_3_24062013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20130624T141500Z DTEND:20130624T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_TR_24062013_en-392@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Diagrams play an important role in processes of religious inte rchange.\nTheir uses range from the demarcatory construction of traditions to seamless blending of knowledge and practices from diverse contexts.\nB ased on a few material examples from the East Asian sphere\, we will enter a discussion on the common features underlying these different modes of u se. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_TR_24062013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture | Dulce Maria Viana Mindlin (Ouro Preto): "José de Anchieta\, a perfect Jesuit" DTSTART:20130620T160000Z DTEND:20130620T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20130620-guest-lecture-mindlin-436@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nJosé de Anchieta\, a perfect Jesuit\nHis biographers u sed to say that he was as contemplative as Mary and as diligent as Martha. \nIn her presentation Dulce Mindlin will be dealing with the fascinating c haracter of José de Anchieta\, a 16th century Jesuit who was born in Spai n but has lived mostly in Brazil. She will begin with some "must know" fac ts about his personal life and his literary work which can be read within a number of "frames": the lyric\, the narrative and the scenic one\, besid es his oratory and his epistolography. On a second moment\, she will try t o explore some of the reasons for which José de Anchieta is not a canoni c author\, nevertheless the fact that his literary work is doubtless an ou tstanding one\, regarding quality. She will finish her presentation by exa mining the concept of allegory as used by José de Anchieta in his scenic works\, mainly catechetical plays\, to further the main purpose of the Soc iety of Jesus: to christianizing\, to increasing the number of Catholic pe ople in a recently "Reformed" and "Counter-Reformed" Western religious wor ld.\nDulce Mindlin is Professor emeriti of History at the Universidade Fe deral de Ouro Preto\, Brazil\, and currently visiting scholar at the Unive rsity of Salamanca\, Spain. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20130620-guest-lecture-mindlin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Research Field 3 DTSTART:20130617T161500Z DTEND:20130617T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_RF3_17062013_en-388@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nWith guest lecture by Jeremy Carrette (Canterbury): "Th e Mystic Hypothesis\, Gender and Truth: Rethinking William James and Myst icism."\nVideo\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_RF3_17062013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Inclusion and Demarcation DTSTART:20130617T141500Z DTEND:20130617T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_ID_17062013_en-394@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_ID_17062013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lecture | Paul Fenton: "Relations between Muslims and Jews in Moro cco: a 17th century fatwa by the Qadi of Marrakesh" DTSTART:20130611T140000Z DTEND:20130611T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20130611-lecture-fenton-430@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Poster\nPaper presented at the research colloquium of the Inst itute of Oriental and Islamic Studies. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20130611-lecture-fenton/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | Christianity Translated: Knowledge Circulation and Epis temic Transformation through Missionary Enterprise (16th-19th Century) DTSTART:20130611T080000Z DTEND:20130613T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:Conf_ChrisTrans_eng-375@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nStarting from the hypothesis that the religious and cul tural encounters facilitated by Christian missions had a profound impact o n both sides in the interaction\, this conference asks how epistemic chang es were inaugurated by missionary activities in Asia\, both in the mission field and on home ground. „Christianity Translated“ therefore is unde rstood in a double sense: On the one hand\, we look at how Christianity is translated in both literal and metaphorical sense into the linguistic and cultural idioms of the receptor societies. On the other hand\, since prol onged engagement with Asian languages\, religions and cultures affected th e missionary epistemic frames\, we will also address the way in which the concept of religion\, and therefore of Christianity as well\, underwent mo dification. In a word\, the object of translation was transformed but so w as the mind and the purpose of the translators.\nAmong the four dimensions that we take to be constitutive of religion\, namely cognition\, percepti on\, actions/behaviour\, and materiality\, we will focus in particular on the cognitive and the material dimensions (without\, of course\, categoric ally excluding the others). The two axes of cognition/knowledge/science an d objects/materiality are therefore at the centre of our current inquiry r egarding the transformative powers of the missionary enterprise. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Conf_ChrisTrans_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 1 DTSTART:20130610T141500Z DTEND:20130610T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_1_10062013_en-391@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Papers presented by \n1.) Jan Schäfer (Bochum): "Libations a s a Part of Meals in the Greco-Roman World and the so called 'Words of Ins titutions' in the New Testament - A Phenomenon of Contact?" \n2.) Athanas ios Despotis (Bonn): "Conversion and freedom of choice in the Johannine L iterature and its early patristic interpretation." \nArticle for discussi on: \nFinn\, Thomas M. "Conversion in Paganism." In From Death to Rebirt h: Ritual and Conversion in Antiquity\, 68-89. New York: Paulist Press\, 1 997. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_1_10062013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | Religion Outside Text DTSTART:20130606T074500Z DTEND:20130607T133000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WS_ReligionoutsideText_en-403@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nRecently researchers in religious studies have been inc reasingly critical of earlier generations of scholars’ tendency to study only those religions that had a strong textual tradition\, and then to tr eat these “textual” religions as monolithic in nature. Spiritual pract ices and beliefs that fell outside such textually defined creeds and ritua ls\, or which were related to these traditions but differed considerably f rom expected practices as set forth by “accepted” texts have often bee n dubbed as “deviant”\, “popular\,” “heretical”\, or “magica l”\, sometimes by practitioners’ contemporaries and sometimes by schol ars of religion themselves.\nThis workshop seeks to focus specifically on religious customs or beliefs that are or were outside conventional definit ions of “religion.” Specifically\, participants will explore the pract ices of co-opting\, transfer\, resistance\, or transformation within these various forms of “religions outside religions” and\, where relevant\, the reactions to them. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_ReligionoutsideText_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop | Convivencia and Religious Language: Dialogue of Religio ns on the Iberian Peninsula DTSTART:20130604T120000Z DTEND:20130605T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WS_Conviv_eng-374@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nThe Iberian Peninsula of the Middle Ages is quite often described as an ideal place of religious encounters. Terms like "golden c entury" are sometimes employed to describe that time. Although description s like that are in more than one respect difficult they point to an import ant aspect. Time and place in focus made it possible that members of three major religions – Christians\, Muslims\, and Jews – met and exchanged knowledge and religious ideas. Translations of Arabic-written scientific and religious works into Hebrew or Latin were numerous\, but also translat ions of Latin works into Hebrew or even into Arabic took place. These tran slations as well as personal encounters enabled religious thinkers to thei r own religious beliefs and to develop new religious insights.\nThus\, the Iberian Peninsula forms the ideal place to show how the contact between m embers of the three monotheistic religions had an impact on their respecti ve religious language.\nWith papers presented by:\n\nAnna Akasoy (New York )\nAyse Icoz (Birmingham)\nMonica Colominas Aparicio (Amsterdam)\nGerard W iegers (Amsterdam/Bochum)\nNikolas Jaspert (Bochum)\nKnut Martin Stünkel (Bochum)\nUlli Roth (Freiburg) \nPiero Capelli (Venedig)\nUrsula Ragacs ( Wien)\n LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_Conviv_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2 DTSTART:20130603T161500Z DTEND:20130603T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_2_03062013_en-390@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_2_03062013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4 DTSTART:20130603T141500Z DTEND:20130603T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_4_03062013_en-389@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_4_03062013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Research Field 2 DTSTART:20130527T161500Z DTEND:20130527T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_RF2_27052013_en-393@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Papers presented by\n\nJenny Oesterle: 'Dynamics of Protection . Asylum in Periods of Islamization'\nLeah Giamalva: 'Medieval Latin manus cripts concerning Islam'\n URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_RF2_27052013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Dynamics and Stability DTSTART:20130527T141500Z DTEND:20130527T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_DS_27052013_en-387@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Paper presented by Knut Martin Stünkel (Bochum): 'Stability in the Dynamics in the History of Religions' URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_DS_27052013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On-Site Assessment of the KHK DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130525 DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20130524-on-site-evaluation-424@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20130524-on-site-evaluation/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Final rehearsal for the on-site inspection of the KHK DTSTART:20130521T120000Z DTEND:20130521T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20130521-final-rehearsal-423@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20130521-final-rehearsal/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Preparatory Meeting Evaluation of KHK on 23-24 May 2013 DTSTART:20130513T161500Z DTEND:20130513T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:Prep_13052013_en-386@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Prep_13052013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2 DTSTART:20130513T141500Z DTEND:20130513T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_2_13052013_en-385@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Paper presented by Ana Echevarría (Madrid): The Islamic "arti cles of faith" as a tool for conversion and indoctrination LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_2_13052013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Research Field 4 DTSTART:20130506T161500Z DTEND:20130506T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_RF4_06052013_en-384@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Papers for discussion:\nKrech\, Volkhard. "Where are the Bound aries of Religion?" Paper presented at the CUNY Graduate Center\, March 20 13. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_RF4_06052013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Inclusion and Demarcation DTSTART:20130506T141500Z DTEND:20130506T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_ID_06052013_en-383@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_ID_06052013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Indroduction to the KHK research programme for the visiting fellow s DTSTART:20130506T121500Z DTEND:20130506T134500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20130506-introdution-research-programme-422@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20130506-introdution-research-pr ogramme/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20130429T161500Z DTEND:20130429T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_29042013_en-382@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Poster: Hartung & Poster: Srinivas\n1. Jan-Peter Hartung: Int ertextuality in the Transmission of Rational Traditions in the Religious S ciences of Islam from Safavid Iran to Northern India in Early Modernity\n2 . Tulasi Srinivas: Forging Faith: Ambivalent Globalization\, Neo-ness and Innovative Religion in the Temple Publics of Bangalore City\nAbstract: Tra cing change in urban India through Hindu temple publics\, this embedded et hnography seeks to interrogate the complex relationship between tradition and new-ness in space and time\, circuits of mobility and ways of being in the wake of the changes that neo-liberal economics and globalization has brought to Bangalore city.\nThrough rituals and performed affect — 'rasa and bhava' — that is deployed among priests\, devotees and others durin g the festival of Kanu Pandigai\, Srinivas explores the nature of moral su bjectivity in a South Asian neo-liberal urban context. She builds towards a theoretical scaffolding for cultural durability by focusing on the subju nctive.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSrinivas\, Tulasi. "Forging Faith: Ambivalent G lobalization\, Neo-ness and Innovative Religion in the Temple Publics of B angalore City." Paper presented at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg 'Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe'\, Bochum\, 29 April 201 3. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_29042013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20130429T141500Z DTEND:20130429T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_TR_29042013_en-381@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Discussion of the research results of the recently completed P roject "Dynamics of Text Corpora and Image Programs: Representations of Bu ddhist Narratives along the Silk Route" and their relevance for the focus group. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_TR_29042013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference | Globality in the Space of Reflection of the Käte Ham burger Kollegs DTSTART:20130425T071500Z DTEND:20130426T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20130425-conference-globality-khk-427@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer & Poster\nJoint Conference of the Käte Hamburger Cent res\, hosted by the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study “Law as Cu lture” in Bonn\nGlobality seems to permeate all cultures and social sphe res today. It is both widely accepted and individually adapted in numerous disciplines - largely without regard to theoretical preferences -\, by po litical actors and in various regions of the world. Globalization offers n ew perspectives of research and interpretation to many academic discipline s\, but it also confronts them with enormous conceptual\, theoretical and methodological challenges. The pressure on our own familiar research routi nes and knowledge systems appears to be mounting. The consequence is an un precedented agitation within the humanities and cultural sciences.\nYet wh ich new insights can be gained by orienting our units of analysis and rese arch designs "globally" or opening them up to "global" challenges? What mo re do we see if we extend our cultural scientific gaze transnationally in our theory and methodology? What consequences does this entail for our own semantic habits and concepts\, familiar to us from our own disciplines? O r is it true\, as sometimes demanded\, that\, with a view to global develo pmental dynamics\, we should remove the fixation on "methodological nation alism" from our basic concepts and methodological approaches and learn to conceive them anew in the framework of "methodological cosmopolitanism"? T he first joint conference of all Käte Hamburger Kollegs seeks to address these questions.\nReport by Dr. Jan Christoph Suntrup (German only)\nVide os\nKrech & Kallscheuer: Globality and the Dynamics of Religion\n\nAll tal ks: KHK Law as Culture URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20130425-conference-globality-kh k/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 3 DTSTART:20130422T141500Z DTEND:20130422T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_3_22042013_en-380@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_3_22042013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Saved and the Damned: Soteriology and Religious Encounter DTSTART:20130418T080000Z DTEND:20130419T143000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20130418-workshop-saved-and-damned-421@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: 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/en/events/en-20130418-workshop-saved-and-damn ed/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Empires of Faith: South Asia as Field of Global Religious Interact ion-Hinduism\, Buddhism\, Jainism and Islam from Late Antiquity to the Ear ly Middle Ages DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130415 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130417 DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WS_empiresoffaith_eng-366@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:flyer\nFrom the global perspective\, South Asia is seen as a s ource of Buddhism and\, at a slightly later date\, of Hinduism. Of Jainism little is known outside specialist circles despite its considerable influ ence on India proper. The approach to all these religions has been essenti alist and inward looking: defined a priori as unchanging\, South Asia matt ers historically only to the degree that religions have come from there or \, inversely\, that Christianity and Islam have managed to take root there . Interactions between traditions\, fundamental to the development of dist inct identities\, are a subject being in its infancy\, most especially bet ween the first century BCE and the eleventh century CE.Although Hinduism\, Buddhism and Jainism are certainly distinct\, they developed in synchrony and shared doctrinal features such as the doctrine of karma. The coeval c odification of canonical literature and the simultaneous emergence of temp les\, endowments and image worship across traditions in the fourth and fif th centuries CE are also noteworthy. Despite these commonalities\, religio us interaction is not well understood\, mainly because the practice of rhe toric in early India normally precluded direct polemic attack. Moreover\, the fragmentary nature of the evidence often means that the views of those involved in religious debates are only partly known. While many historica l difficulties are bound to remain\, problems can be addressed through a c ontextual study of literature and inter-textuality\, the use of archaeolog ical and epigraphic data\, and the application of landscape archaeology to understand how religious dispensations defined and occupied sacred space. This workshop is dedicated to an exploration of some of these issues. LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_empiresoffaith_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture Attila Jakab: "Shadows and Lights. The Involvement o f the Hungarian Catholic Clergymen in Anti-Semitism and Holocaust in the H orthy Era (1920–1944)" DTSTART:20130411T160000Z DTEND:20130411T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:guest_lecture_110413_jakab_eng-370@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:poster LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest_lecture_110413_jakab_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Refreshment DTSTART:20130408T180000Z DTEND:20130408T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:refreshment_08042013_en-379@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/refreshment_08042013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20130408T161500Z DTEND:20130408T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_08042013_en-378@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Ya-pei\, Kuo: The Protestant Missionary's Writing in Chinese\ , 1812 - 1900. A History of the Texts as Cultural Objects. \nJessie Pons : Tracking the Circulation of Divinities in South Asia: Classical Figure s in Gandharan Art. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_08042013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4 DTSTART:20130408T141500Z DTEND:20130408T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_4_08042013_en-377@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_4_08042013_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religion in Motion: Boundary Work in the Emerging Global Religious Field DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130321 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130324 DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:ReligionInMotion_eng-373@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:flyerPlease note that Vincent Gossaert had to cancel his parti cipation on short notice. We are sorry for the inconvenience.\nAssembling case studies from all over Eurasia\, this conference aims at testing the a ssumption that in the context of the massive expansion in the traffic of p eople\, goods and information\, which acquired a new spectacular dimension from the early modern period onwards\, a global religious field started t o emerge. We propose to look especially at boundary work as it appears in the situations of exceptionally dynamic and transformative religious const ellations such as missions or migration. We are interested in the double p rocess of convergence and differentiation: the way in which boundaries\, a lways porous and fluid\, are being set up and re-negotiated between religi ous communities\, as well as between religious and non-religious forms of social communication. What are the patterns and mechanisms of dealing with religious diversity? How appropriate are the universality claims implied in the notion of a global religious field? In how far do unexpected outcom es of dynamic interactions in and beyond the religious field challenge the idea of religious convergence? URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ReligionInMotion_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:12th and 13thCentury Attempts to Translate Muslim and Jewish Texts into Latin DTSTART:20130319T130000Z DTEND:20130320T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WS_muslim-jewish-latin_eng-372@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:flyer URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_muslim-jewish-latin_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Jenseits des Polis-Kults: 'Gottesdienst' von religiösen Vereinen und Individuen in der griechischen Antike DTSTART:20130221T140000Z DTEND:20130222T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WS_jenseitsdespolis-kults_eng-371@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:flyer URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_jenseitsdespolis-kults_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Eurasian Visions and Entanglements: Geopolitics and Religions\, Pa st and Present DTSTART:20130129T130000Z DTEND:20130130T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WS_EurasionVisions_eng-364@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:flyer URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_EurasionVisions_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20130129T091500Z DTEND:20130129T104500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WG_FG_TR_290113_en-346@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_FG_TR_290113_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20130128T171500Z DTEND:20130128T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_280113_en-340@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Vasilios Makrides / Otto Kallscheuer URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_280113_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Preparation of advisory board meeting (Fellows\, KHK steering comm ittee) DTSTART:20130128T151500Z DTEND:20130128T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:ABM_280113_en-339@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ABM_280113_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 3 DTSTART:20130121T151500Z DTEND:20130121T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_3_210113_en-338@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:16:00-18:00 Lecture: Prof. Dr. Gregor Paul (Karlsruhe\, Philos ophy): "China and deligious diversity. Or how to choose and use concepts o f religion and religiousness"\; \n18:00-20:00 Lecture: Prof. Dr. Hans-Jü rgen Schrader (Genf\, German Language and Literature) "Das Deutsch der Chr isten - das Deutsch der Pietisten" URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_3_210113_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Research Field 1 DTSTART:20130114T171500Z DTEND:20130114T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_RF1_140113_en-337@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lectures by (1) Dr. Claudia Losekam (RUB): "'On the Origin of the world' – a gnostic treatise of different religious thoughts"\; and (2) PD Dr. Istvan Czachesz (KHK): "Semantic Network Analysis of Religious Texts: Mark 6:32-44 as a Test Case" URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_RF1_140113_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20130114T151500Z DTEND:20130114T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_Transfer_140113_en-336@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Ch'an Buddhism is often considered a synthesis of Indian Buddh ism and Chinese Taoism. A survey of the pertaining literature and an exemp lary look into a few translations of source texts will serve as a starting point for the discussion of an exemplary case of interactions between dif ferent strands of traditions\, and the usefulness of the notion of schemat a in analyzing the underlying processes. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_Transfer_140113_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20130108T091500Z DTEND:20130108T104500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WG_FG_TR_080113_en-345@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:!Postponed to 15th of January 2013! URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_FG_TR_080113_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4 DTSTART:20130107T171500Z DTEND:20130107T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_4_070113_en-335@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_4_070113_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 1 DTSTART:20130107T151500Z DTEND:20130107T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_1_070113_en-334@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The session will be devoted to the role of scripture\, scriptu rality and orality in formation processes in late antiquity. Based on an a rticle by Guy Stroumsa ("Early Christianity – A Religion of the Book?")* we suggest to discuss some of the following questions in more detail.\n1. How important are orality and oral material in the formation of religion\ , judged from your particular expertise?\n2. To what extent is a particula r mediality or a "media revolution"\, as Stroumsa puts it with Doron Mende ls\, a crucial factor of formation and spread of a religion?\n3. Do you ag ree with Stroumsa's hypothesis of the permeability of oral and written tra dition in general? Or do we have a certain degree of "scripturality" and t extual stabilization within the first phases of the formation processes?\n 4. To what extent does the relation of text and commentary influence the f ormation of a particular religion?\n5. Do you know about any examples wher e text or scripture are an object of material exchange?\n6. And do you kno w about contact based receptions of texts in interreligious contexts?\n7. Are there cases where translations were used in the formation or formative period of a particular religion?\n8. Do "interreligious" translations exi st\, and if they do\, where?\n9. Do you have examples of the emphasis of t he role of language in religious formation processes?\n10. Is there any in dication of exchange phenomena in handling sacred scriptures or in perform ance of scripture?\nWe would invite you all to contribute to the discussio n with specific examples from your particular material. If you have any id ea and are willing to present a very short input of 5-10 minutes\, based o n your material\, you are very welcome. Please send a short e-mail to chri stian.frevel@rub.de.\n*Stroumsa\, Guy G. "Early Christianity - A Religion of the Book?" In Homer\, the Bible and Beyond: Literary and Religious Cano ns in the Ancient World. Edited by Margalit Finkelberg and Guy G. Stroumsa \, 153–73. Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 2. Leiden: Brill\, 2003. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_1_070113_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Research Field 3 DTSTART:20121217T171500Z DTEND:20121217T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_RF3_171212_en-333@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_RF3_171212_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Dynamics and Stability DTSTART:20121217T151500Z DTEND:20121217T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_DS_171212_en-332@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Peter Bräunlein (Universität Göttin gen/DORISEA): "Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia" URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_DS_171212_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Inclusion and Demarcation DTSTART:20121212T151500Z DTEND:20121212T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WG_FG_ID_121212_eng-367@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_FG_ID_121212_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture Shen Shunfu: "From Secular Confucianism to Sacred Co nfucianism: In the Light of Education" DTSTART:20121211T170000Z DTEND:20121211T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:guest_lecture_111212_shen_eng-368@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:poster URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest_lecture_111212_shen_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20121211T091500Z DTEND:20121211T104500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WG_FG_TR_111212_en-344@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_FG_TR_111212_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2 DTSTART:20121210T151500Z DTEND:20121210T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_2_101212_en-331@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_2_101212_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20121203T171500Z DTEND:20121203T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_031212_en-330@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Ines Zupanov / Istvan Perzcel URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_031212_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Meeting of the RUB Colleagues (professors\, research assistants of the KHK\, in German language) DTSTART:20121203T151500Z DTEND:20121203T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RUBColleagues_031212_en-329@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RUBColleagues_031212_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture Tempei Kurata: "Nestorian Christianity and Japan" DTSTART:20121129T170000Z DTEND:20121129T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:NIJ_29112012_eng-347@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:poster\nAbout 600 years before the Roman Catholic Church began missionary work in China\, Nestorian missionaries had already arrived at Chang'an\, the Chinese capital at that time. Nestorians left behind cultur al goods like books\, especially translations of the Bible\, and instituti ons such as hospitals along their way from Mesopotamia\, the birthplace of Nestorian Christianity\, to China. Even today one can find traces of a Ne storian heritage in the culture\, religions\, ethics\, and science of the countries along the Silk Road.\nThe lecture will address the question if t he Nestorian Christianity reached Japan. This question has been asked by m any historians since the beginning of the 20th century\, and yet even toda y there is no clear answer. It is generally accepted that Nestorian Christ ianity did not come to Japan\, because no records or archeological traces of any Nestorian missions to Japan exist. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/NIJ_29112012_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4 DTSTART:20121126T171500Z DTEND:20121126T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_4_261112_en-328@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:In his presentation Jun'ichi Isomae will look at concepts like post-secularism (Talal Asad)\, plurality and exclusion (Hannah Arendt)\, agonistic democracy (Chantal Mouffle)\, and critical regionalism (Gayatri Spivak) through the lens of the suffering at Fukushima and its handling in Japanese society.\nPresentation by Jun'ichi Isomae: “Visions of Post-S ecular Society after Fukushima: Plurality and Exclusion” URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_4_261112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Inclusion and Demarcation DTSTART:20121126T151500Z DTEND:20121126T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_ID_261112_en-327@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_ID_261112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20121120T091500Z DTEND:20121120T104500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WG_FG_TR_201112_en-343@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_FG_TR_201112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Research Field 2 DTSTART:20121119T171500Z DTEND:20121119T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_RF2_191112_en-326@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture: \nDr. Sita Steckel (Münster): "Diversitas religion um and religious diversity. Entangling the history of religious and monas tic diversity in thirteenth-century Latin sources." URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_RF2_191112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Dynamics and Stability DTSTART:20121119T151500Z DTEND:20121119T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_DS_191112_en-325@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Paper given by Knut Martin Stünkel: "A conceptualization of D ynamics and Stability. Some theoretical perspectives" URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_DS_191112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 1 DTSTART:20121112T151500Z DTEND:20121112T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_1_121112_en-324@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:abstract Ms Toral-Niehoff\nabstract Mr Durkin-Meisterernst\nab stract Mr Rist\nLecture: Dr. Isabel Toral-Niehoff (Aga Khan University Ins titute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations\, London)/Prof. Dr. Desmond D urkin-Meisterernst (FU Berlin) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_1_121112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture Osmund Bopearachchi DTSTART:20121108T170000Z DTEND:20121108T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:OB_081112_eng-348@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:poster URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/OB_081112_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Presentation of the Study Group "Buddhism in Moti on" Part II DTSTART:20121105T171500Z DTEND:20121105T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_BiM_02_051112_en-323@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_BiM_02_051112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Presentation of the Study Group "Buddhism in Moti on" Part I DTSTART:20121105T151500Z DTEND:20121105T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_BiM_01_051112_en-322@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Peking report URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_BiM_01_051112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20121030T091500Z DTEND:20121030T104500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WG_FG_TR_301012_en-342@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_FG_TR_301012_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 3 DTSTART:20121029T171500Z DTEND:20121029T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_3_291012_en-321@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Transcendence and Dissent\nUnder this title Heiner Roetz will present his recent studies on dissent in China and its connection to the i dea of transcendence. Lucian Hölscher will give a short comment to his pa per by discussing comparable relations between dissent and transcendance i n Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_3_291012_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20121029T151500Z DTEND:20121029T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_Transfer_291012_en-320@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_Transfer_291012_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Debate between Jews and Christians until the Age of Theodosius -The process of differentiation from the 2nd to the 4th Centuries CE Recon sidered DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121024 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121026 DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WS_theodosius_eng-313@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_theodosius_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Doron Mendels 'The Split Jewish Diaspora and its Co nsequences' DTSTART:20121024T161500Z DTEND:20121024T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-2012-10-24-guest-lecture-doron-mendels-362@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Announcement poster URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-2012-10-24-guest-lecture-doron-m endels/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Research Field 4 DTSTART:20121022T161500Z DTEND:20121022T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_RF4_221012_en-319@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_RF4_221012_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Inclusion and Demarcation DTSTART:20121022T141500Z DTEND:20121022T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_ID_221012_en-318@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz (Universit ät Bern\, CH):\n"Between scripture and performance - towards a new unders tanding of "canon"" URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_ID_221012_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Buddhist Images in Motion—Contexts of Encounter\, Codification a nd Transformation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121025 DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en-20121021-panel-beijing-429@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Report\n‘Buddhist Images in Motion—Contexts of Encounter\, Codification and Transformation’\nPanel presented at the Fifth Internat ional Conference on Tibetan Archaeology and Art\, Beijing\, 21-24 October 2012\nPanel chair: Carmen Meinert\nParticipants: Christoph Anderl\, Carmen Meinert\, Henrik Sørensen\nThree members of the Buddhist Studies Group o f the Käte Hamburger Kolleg ‘Dynamics in the History of Religions betwe en Asia and Europe\,’ namely Christoph Anderl\, Carmen Meinert\, and Hen rik Sørensen\, participated at the Fifth International Conference on Tibe tan Archaeology and Art in Beijing on 21-24 October 2012 with the panel ‘Buddhist Images in Motion—Contexts of Encounter\, Codification and Tr ansformation.’ The conference was a joint Sino-Austrian cooperation\, wi th the Institute for Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Art at Capital Normal Universit y in Beijing as the hosting institution. The conference focused on art his tory in Central Asia\, Tibet and Mongolia\, on recent archaeological findi ngs\, and on the Tibetan and Chinese interchange in Buddhist art and histo ry.\nWith the panel ‘Buddhist Images in Motion’ the members of the Bud dhist Studies Group continued to present the on-going research activities of the KHK group on one of the most extensive networks in early Asian hist ory that was established and sustained by the spread of Buddhism. Followin g a relational approach to religion\, their panel investigated how Buddhis t art was localised\, codified and transformed at various Buddhist sites i n Central Asia and China. The investigated sites were regarded as constant ly changing nodes within networks of religious cooperation\, contest and e xchange of various ethnic groups. The phrase ‘Buddhist Images in Motion ’ did not refer to the mobility of an (imagined) religious unity-in-dive rsity on its way across Asia\, but expressed the perspective on Buddhism a s ‘something’ relational and heterogeneous from the very start\, a pan -Asian phenomenon constituting itself as localized densifications of trans local processes.\nThe three papers explored aspects of Buddhist art at dif ferent localities important for the history of Buddhism and characterized by Chinese\, Tibetan\, Tangut and Mongolian contacts and interchanges. The y analysed processes of resistance and adaptation of Tibetan and Chinese i nfluences as manifested in Buddhist images from the 6th to the 14th centur ies with particular emphasis on the respective socio-political contexts.\n Christoph Anderl investigated the narratives of so-called ruixiang 瑞像 or ‘Auspicious Statues’ connected to the iconic representation of part icular Buddhas or bodhisattvas as they appeared in the Central Asian oasis of Khotan and in Chinese Dunhuang manuscripts from the 6th to the 11th ce nturies\; he thereby showed the flexibility of narratives which allowed an adaptation to “local” socio-politically determined values. The develo pment of this type of narratives in the context of Dunhuang is also an ind ication of on-going processes of localization\, sinization\, and the produ ction of historiographies. Looking back at the “origins” of Buddhism a nd its transfer to China\, both real and imagined movements were traced or created\, and projected on iconic representations. Whereas some of the na rratives were based on canonical literature\, the development showed speci fic features in China and subsequently other regions the narratives spread to\, including Tibet and Japan.\nCarmen Meinert explored another local ex pression of Buddhist art in Dunhuang connecting it with manuscript evidenc es from the Tangut Empire in the 11th and 12th centuries\; her contributio n contextualized artistic expressions through a micro-historical analysis. \nHenrik Sørensen distinguished in his presentation between what constitu tes Sino-Tibetan Buddhist art\, i.e. a form of Buddhist art made in Tibet in which clear-cut Chinese stylistic and iconic features are discernible\, and what constitutes one which can more correctly be defined as ‘Tibeto -Chinese\,’ i.e. forms of Buddhist art produced in China under varying d egrees of Tibetan influence\; through numerous examples from Tangut influe nces in the 12th century to Mongolian and Chinese examples from the 13th t o 14th centuries\, he demonstrated the Tibetan heritage in Ming Chinese Bu ddhist art (14th c.)\, a so far neglected view. The whole panel stimulated vivid discussions among the more than 80 Chinese and Western experts part icipating in the conference. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en-20121021-panel-beijing/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4 DTSTART:20121015T141500Z DTEND:20121015T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_4_151012_en-317@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_4_151012_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20121009T081500Z DTEND:20121009T094500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WG_FG_TR_091012_en-341@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:!This date was cancelled! URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_FG_TR_091012_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Refreshment DTSTART:20121008T180000Z DTEND:20121008T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:refreshment_081012_en-316@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/refreshment_081012_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow Presentation DTSTART:20121008T161500Z DTEND:20121008T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:PS_081012_en-315@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Alexander Henn / Sung-deuk Oak\nDr. Oak's talk introduces the main ideas and issues of his forthcoming book\,"The Making of the Korean C hristianity: Protestant Encounters with Korean Religions\, 1876-1915."\nPr of. Dr. Alexander Henn: "Syncretism Reconsidered: Hindu-Catholic Encounter s in Goa / India."\nSyncretistic expressions and practices between Hindus and Catholics are widely spread in Goa. I will discuss the phenomena in li ght of the reappraisal of the concept of 'syncretism' in recent anthropolo gical scholarship. How do the ethnographic data relate to  modern paradig ms of the politics of religious synthesis? Are they still connected to the initiation of the Hindu-Catholic encounter in early-modernity? How adequa te can a modern concept of religion deal with the subject? URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_081012_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2 DTSTART:20121008T141500Z DTEND:20121008T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF_2_081012-314@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_2_081012/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Between Empires-Transfer of Buddhisms between Hubs in Eastern Cent ral Asia (9th to 13th century) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120920 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120922 DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WS_between_empires_eng-312@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:flyer\nDr. Henrik Sorensen changed his title into: "ESOTERIC B UDDHISM AT THE CROSS-ROADS: RELIGIOUS DYNAMICS AT DUNHUANG\, 9–10TH CENT URIES".\nSince the research consortium in Bochum is concerned to untangle also building blocks that constitute religious transfer processes\, this w orkshop aims to explore the case study of the formation of Buddhisms\, par ticularly Tantric Buddhism\, in Eastern Central Asia. It seeks to investig ate local contributions to Buddhism as the tradition spread through a netw ork of Buddhist hubs along the Eastern Central Asia between the 9th and th e 13th centuries – a period that was a time of creative upheaval between the demise of the great empires of the Uighurs (840)\, the Tibetans (848) and the Chinese (fall of Tang in 906) and the Mongolian conquest of large parts of Eurasia (ca. 1227-1241). During these centuries of local rule at various oases (e.g. Dunhuang\, Guazhou\, Liangzhou\, etc.) different ethn ic groups such as the Tibetans\, Chinese\, Uighurs and Tanguts contributed to the development of Buddhisms. The workshop will examine the relations and power relations between these ethnic groups and various oases in the f ormation of local expressions of Buddhism that later partly turned into ma instream in Tibet and China. In other words: the workshop would test the h ypothesis if the particular space and time of interest were prerequisites to allow for a creative development of Buddhisms. To narrow the perspectiv es\, an emphasis should be on textual and visual transfer processes of Bud dhist traditions and on the different ethnic cultural agents. The workshop is thus organised in four sections: (1) an introductory part “circumsta nces for transfer processes along the Silk Road” to give an overview of the how political\, economy and cultural factors shaped Central Asian oase s as Buddhist hubs\; (2) a section on “textual transfer” to elaborate on textual transmission – also between the different ethnic groups and o ases\; (3) a section on “visual transfer” to explore the making of Bud dhist art at various sites\; and (4) a section on “transfer agents” th at would illustrate how Chinese\, Tibetans\, Uighurs and Tanguts contribut ed to particular local textual and/or visual forms of Buddhism. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_between_empires_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Drawing the Boundary: Interreligious Demarcation and Resistance in East Asia DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120712 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120714 DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WS_DB_120712_eng-282@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nIf seen from the long-term perspective\, the history of East Asian religions definitively lacks the conflicts of Western and Midd le East traditions. The Chinese “Three Teachings” (san jiao 三教) fr amework supported coexistence rather than struggle and competition and\, t herefore\, terms such as “hybridism\,” “syncretism\,” or “eclect icism” have always played a major role in the field of East Asia areas s tudies. Yet\, the importance of eclecticism and thematic/social overlappin g notwithstanding\, it is questionable whether East Asian religions could have survived through the centuries without a consistent synchronic and di achronic effort to construct the own religious luggage and to distinguish themselves from more or less contiguous religious realms. To replace the f ocus on demarcation with a one-sided emphasis on the absorption of themes\ , practices\, beliefs on the part of given religious and cultural spheres appears to be a fairly illogical approach\, at least if one looks at histo rical evidence or the scholarly debates about the concept of alterity. Acc ordingly\, the workshop aims to collect case studies from the East Asian r ealm that might help (a) to describe the features of the interreligious di fferentiation processes at a given point in time and (b) to map constants and changes of these processes through history. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_DB_120712_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Bernd Bastert: „Solt ich durh Mahmeten Krist … verki esen unt mînen touf verliesen?“ – Interreligiöse Dialoge und deren l iterarische Inszenierung in der weltlichen Großepik des deutschen Sprachr aums zwischen dem 12. und 15. Jahrhundert DTSTART:20120712T100000Z DTEND:20120712T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:QUID20120712en-294@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture series: „Non armis\, sed verbis“ – Ancient and M edieval Religious Disputes URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/QUID20120712en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Refreshment DTSTART:20120709T180000Z DTEND:20120709T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:refreshment_090712_eng-267@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/refreshment_090712_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20120709T161500Z DTEND:20120709T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FP_090712_eng-268@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Abstract: István Czachesz\nIt has been argued that religion p lays an important role in the creation and maintenance of identities and s ocial boundaries (e.g.\, Esler\, Krämer et al\, Lévinas\, Lieu\, Schreme r). However\, it remains unclear how this exactly happens and what roles d ifferent social\, psychological\, and ecological factors play in the proce ss. This paper addresses some of the relevant theoretical issues from evol utionary psychology\, social psychology\, and dual inheritance theory. In particular\, I will make a distinction between “emergent identity\,” o n the one hand\, which is the result of bottom-up socio-cognitive process\ , and “manufactured identity\,” on the other hand\, which results from a top-down process\, appropriating discourses and categories invented by religious experts and literate elites. It remains to be understood how the se two processes interact and how far the resulting identities represent m ergers of the respective cognitive schemata. The goal of these considerati ons is to explain the involvement of non-elite and elite (as well as “la y” and “expert”) roles in religious identity formation\, with specia l attention to Near Eastern and Mediterranean Antiquity.\nPresentation:\n\ nMichael Willis: From Relics to Rice: Early Buddhism and the Buddhist Land scape of Central India.\nIstván Czachesz: Religious Beliefs As Symbolic Identity Markers: Some Theoretical Considerations.\n URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FP_090712_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 3 DTSTART:20120709T141500Z DTEND:20120709T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF3_250612_eng-263@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF3_250612_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture Klaus-Dieter Mathes Zum Intrareligiösen Dialog zwis chen gZhan stong und Madhyamika in Tibet DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120705 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120706 DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:guest_lecture_mathes_eng-281@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:poster URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest_lecture_mathes_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PD Dr. Horst Schneider: Interreligiöser Dialog in Byzanz DTSTART:20120705T100000Z DTEND:20120705T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:QUID20120705en-293@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture series: „Non armis\, sed verbis“ – Ancient and M edieval Religious Disputes URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/QUID20120705en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20120703T080000Z DTEND:20120703T100000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WG_FG_TR_030712_eng-308@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_FG_TR_030712_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 3 (Plenary Session) DTSTART:20120702T161500Z DTEND:20120702T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF3_020712_eng-265@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This summer term RF 3 (notions) concentrates on aspects of mis sion history in modern times. For the plenary session on July 2nd Anne-Cha rlotte Trepp will present a paper on "After 30 years\, a gardener must sti ll be told each day what to do and how to do it." URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF3_020712_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2 DTSTART:20120702T141500Z DTEND:20120702T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF2_020712_eng-264@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF2_020712_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:In the footsteps of the Buddha DTSTART:20120630T090000Z DTEND:20120630T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en_footsteps_buddha-303@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:workshop program URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en_footsteps_buddha/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A guided tour: From Thangka to Manga - Narrative Images of Asia DTSTART:20120629T150000Z DTEND:20120629T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:guided_tour_thangka_manga-309@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:A guided exhibition tour for members of the KHK/CERES. This ex hibition displays narrative images of Tibet (Thangkas)\, India (Krishna mi niatures) and Japan (Mangas). The objects are (mainly) of religious conten t and form part of religious ritual\, education\, aesthetics and entertain ment. The exhibition was conceptualized in cooperation with members of the KHK and CERES. The guides will introduce to the religious context and use of the objects (in English). Registration is not necessary. We will meet in the entrance hall of the Situation Kunst. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guided_tour_thangka_manga/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Roger Friedlein: Ramon Llull (1232-1316) - Die Religions disputation in der Theorie und der Fiktion DTSTART:20120628T100000Z DTEND:20120628T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:QUID20120628en-292@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture series: „Non armis\, sed verbis“ – Ancient and M edieval Religious Disputes URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/QUID20120628en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4 DTSTART:20120625T161500Z DTEND:20120625T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF4_090712_eng-266@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF4_090712_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Dynamics & Stability" DTSTART:20120625T141500Z DTEND:20120625T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_DS_250612_eng-262@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_DS_250612_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On the Exchange of Beliefs and Practices between Esoteric Buddhism and Daoism in Medieval China DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120621 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120623 DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WS_BD_210612_eng-280@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nIt has become increasingly acknowledged by the scholarl y community that Chinese Buddhism and Daoism developed as separate yet clo sely related traditions in medieval and early pre-modern China through a p rolonged interaction spanning many centuries. This inter-relationship cont ributed much to the formation and further developments of both two religio ns and impacted their respective belief systems and practices in a number of significant ways. It goes without saying that simplistic notions such a s ‘sinification\,’ used to explain the impact of Chinese culture on in -coming Buddhism or that of a ‘Buddhist transformation of China’ fall short of elucidating the issues at stake in this inter-religious transform ation\, which we for want of a better term shall refer to as ‘Buddho-Dao ism.’ This workshop will address a number of issues relating to this dev elopment\, including doctrinal concepts\, ritual practices\, religious ico ns\, pantheons\, literature etc. As such it features elements of both reli gious systems\, not only in dialogue\, but also manifesting simultaneously in the same material. The Buddho-Daoist exchange will be further highligh ted through two presentations on developments outside China proper. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_BD_210612_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Yvonne Schütze: Auf der Suche nach Identität - junge r ussisch-jüdische Migranten in Berlin DTSTART:20120621T140000Z DTEND:20120621T153000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:schuetze-eng-298@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Ankündigung\n \nIn der  Langzeituntersuchung „Junge russi sche Juden in Berlin“\, haben wir 1995/96 35 russisch – jüdische Zuw anderer (22 Männer und 13 Frauen) fünf bis sechs Jahre nach ihrer Ankun ft das erste Mal interviewt. Das zweite Interview fand 1998/99 statt\, da s dritte 2003/2004. Die Befragten\, bei denen es sich mehrheitlich um Stu dierende und einige Schüler und Auszubildende handelte\, hatten in ihren Herkunftsländern zumeist keine oder nur eine vage Bindung an das Judent um. Daher ist es nicht verwunderlich\, dass sich in den Selbstbeschreibun gen und Deutungen dessen\, was es heißt\, ein Jude zu sein\, unterschied liche Entwicklungsverläufe zeigen. Gleichwohl lassen sich in grober Ver einfachung drei unterschiedliche Typen konstruieren\, die ich „Kontinui tät einer jüdischen Identität“\, „Jüdische Identität als Orienti erungshilfe“ und “Jüdische Identität als ein Element verschiedener Identitäten“ nenne. In meinem Vortrag werde ich auf der Basis von Fall geschichten diese drei Typen beschreiben. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/schuetze-eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dr. Görge Hasselhoff: Religionen auf dem Weg: Antike Juden und Ch risten im Dialog mit sich und anderen DTSTART:20120621T100000Z DTEND:20120621T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:QUID20120621en-291@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture series: „Non armis\, sed verbis“ – Ancient and M edieval Religious Disputes URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/QUID20120621en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20120619T080000Z DTEND:20120619T100000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WG_FG_TR_190612_eng-307@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:!Cancelled! URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_FG_TR_190612_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4 (Plenary Session) DTSTART:20120618T161500Z DTEND:20120618T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF4_180612_eng-261@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture:\nRebekka Habermas (Universität Göttingen): "R eligion beyond Secularism: Heathens\, Missionaries and World Religion in19 th Century"\n  URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF4_180612_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Inclusion & Demarcation" DTSTART:20120618T141500Z DTEND:20120618T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_ID_180612_eng-260@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_ID_180612_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture Uriel Simonsohn: The Sacred Realms of Interfaith Rel ations in the Early Islamic Period DTSTART:20120615T161500Z DTEND:20120615T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:guest_lecture_simonsohn_eng-283@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:poster\nUriel Simonsohn (Hebrew University\, Jerusalem) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest_lecture_simonsohn_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dr. Stefan Köck: Gab es Religionsdisputationen im mittelalterlich en Japan? DTSTART:20120614T100000Z DTEND:20120614T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:QUID20120614en-290@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture series: „Non armis\, sed verbis“ – Ancient and M edieval Religious Disputes URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/QUID20120614en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 1 DTSTART:20120611T141500Z DTEND:20120611T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF1_110612_eng-259@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Chase Robinson: Muhammad Biography /\nFrancois de Blois: Early Islam and its place in the history of religions of the Near East URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF1_110612_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Manga and Comic - The fascination of graphic novelles DTSTART:20120609T090000Z DTEND:20120609T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en_manga_comic-304@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:workshop program URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en_manga_comic/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Between Imagination and Encounter: Religious Cultures in Contact i n Pre-Modern Central Asia and its Borders DTSTART:20120605T070000Z DTEND:20120606T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:Between_Imagination_eng-244@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nWhile increasing attention has been given in recent yea rs to the role of long-distance trade in the cross-pollination of cultures and ideas in Central Asia\, little work has been done in identifying cont act zones and transfer processes between the multifarious religious cultur es and practices in Central Asia.  This lacuna is in part due to difficul ties in the historiography of Central Asia stemming from the diversity of the languages\, polities\, and cultures connected by the transcontinental trading routes. This workshop is focuses on contact\, appropriation\, exch ange and opposition within Central Asian religious and cultural traditions . URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Between_Imagination_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20120604T161500Z DTEND:20120604T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FP_040612_eng-258@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Presentation:\nThomas Hauschild: "Origins and Functions: Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus as Gods of old Chinese and Mongolian Culture"\nA nna Akasoy: "Iskandar the Prophet"Alexander the Great appears in a number of contexts in the cultures of the medieval Islamic world\, including the Qur’an and its exegesis\, historiography\, literary traditions (notably the Alexander Romance) and philosophy. In my presentation I will begin wit h a survey of Alexander’s contested role as a prophet in medieval Islam and then focus on political notions of prophecy in that context. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FP_040612_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Transfer & Resistance" DTSTART:20120604T141500Z DTEND:20120604T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_TR_040612_eng-257@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Presentation by István Czachesz: "Stability and Change in Rel igious Cognition: Insights from Network Theory". URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_TR_040612_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Martin Baumann: Von Gegenorten zu neuen Brückenorten: M oscheen\, Tempel und Pagoden in Deutschland und der Schweiz DTSTART:20120531T160000Z DTEND:20120531T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:baumann-eng-297@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Ankündigung PDF\n \nIn Deutschland und der Schweiz gründete n Immigranten in den vergangenen 30 Jahren zahlreiche islamische Zentren und Moscheen\, buddhistische Pagoden und hinduistische Tempel. Fungierten die Orte zuerst als «Gegenorte» zur Aufnahmegesellschaft\, um emotiona len Rückhalt und Unterstützung in der teilweise abwehrenden neuen Umwel t zu erhalten\, so wandelten sie sich mehr und mehr zu multifunktionalen Brückenorten\, die Schritte der Integration ermöglichen und erleichter n. Der Vortrag stellt anhand von Bildern und neuen Forschungsresultaten diese vielfach unsichtbaren und unbekannten Welten und ihrer Aktivitäten vor. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/baumann-eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religious Language DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120524 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120526 DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WS_RL_240512_eng-279@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_RL_240512_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Luuk Houwen: Liturgical and Sacramental Imagery in the M iddle English Disputation Between a Christian and a Jew DTSTART:20120524T100000Z DTEND:20120524T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:QUID20120524en-289@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture series: „Non armis\, sed verbis“ – Ancient and M edieval Religious Disputes URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/QUID20120524en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 3 DTSTART:20120521T141500Z DTEND:20120521T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF3_210512_eng-256@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF3_210512_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 1 (Plenary Session) DTSTART:20120514T161500Z DTEND:20120514T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF1_140512_eng-255@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Chris Beckwith: Early Buddhism and Islam - (when) are there Tr aces of Influence? URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF1_140512_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Transfer & Resistance" DTSTART:20120514T141500Z DTEND:20120514T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_TR_140512_eng-254@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:After a brief review of the state of our discussions\, we will present four 'nano case studies' in order to stimulate an exchange of vie ws on the potential of "schemata" for a model of religious transfer. - Lit erature discussed in the group so far may be found in the group folder wit hin the KHK intranet.\n  URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_TR_140512_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Krishna between art and cult DTSTART:20120512T090000Z DTEND:20120512T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:en_Krishna-305@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:workshop program URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/en_Krishna/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture Alexandra Curvelo and Angelo Cattaneo DTSTART:20120510T160000Z DTEND:20120510T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:guest_lecture_curvelo_cattaneo_eng-277@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Poster\nThe century of the Portuguese presence in Japan (c.154 3-c.1539)\, which coincides with the country’s unification\, defines a f ield in which intercultural rivalry\, discussion and exchange can be studi ed in detail. The project we present aims at promoting a comprehensive res earch on the way Southern Europeans and Japanese confronted each other\, i nteracted and mutually experienced religious “otherness” through the s tudy of the composite cultural heritage\, mostly created in Japan\, by bot h European and Japanese. Through the analysis of sources almost never asso ciated – manuscript and printed texts written in both European languages and Japanese\, paintings\, engravings\, maps\, ceramics – a new insight will be given to this important moment in global cultural history. The ar rival of European traders\, mercenaries and well-trained members of religi ous orders in East Asia prompted a wave of debate\, studies and controvers ies between Buddhist monks and their Western counterparts. At this regard\ , Jesuits played a major role in this global enterprise and\, contrary to their policies in China\, in Japan started to interact with the composite Buddhist clergies and the political elite. Relations between religions\, s trategies of interpretation and accommodation are the main fields in which intercultural contacts can be observed.\nEuropean and Asian Interactions: The Buddhist Sects in Japan and the Jesuit Mission circa 1600. Angelo Cat taneo\, Alexandra Curvelo Centro de Historia de Alem-Mar Faculdade de Cien cias Sociais e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest_lecture_curvelo_cattaneo_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Annette Wilke: Der Hamm-Uentroper Tempel als neue kultur elle Kontaktzone: Beobachtungen zur integrativen Rolle von Parallelgesell schaften DTSTART:20120510T140000Z DTEND:20120510T153000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:wilke-eng-296@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Ankündigung PDF\n \nIm Vortrag argumentiere ich für die Wic htigkeit einer interaktionalen Perspektive im Blick auf Migrantenreligione n und stelle die These auf\, dass Sakralbauten zur wechselseitigen Integra tion beitragen können und Parallelgesellschaften keineswegs als gesellsch aftsdesintegrativ interpretiert werden müssen. Diese\, zu Islamdebatten k onträre These\, wird illustriert anhand der lokalen und nationalen Dynami ken und Veränderungen\, die sich seit der Errichtung des hindu-tamilische n Sakralbaus in Hamm-Uentrop ereignet haben. Hierzu gehört\, dass Tempel und Feste zunehmend von deutschen Einheimischen besucht werden\, sich am T ag der Prozession das Verhältnis von Migrantengruppe und Aufnahmegesellsc haft geradezu umkehrt und sich eine ehemalige Konfliktgeschichte so sehr i n Wohlwollen aufgelöst hat\, dass die Stadt öffentlich für den hinduist ischen Pilgerort in Hamm wirbt. Am neuen Kontaktzonenprofil dieses Tempels zeigt sich\, dass Parallelgesellschaften eine integrative Rolle haben\, w enn sie nicht mit angstbesetzten Imaginationen verbunden werden.  URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/wilke-eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Jörg Plassen: Religiöse Disputationen zwischen Buddhis ten und Taoisten in China bis zur T'ang-Zeit DTSTART:20120510T100000Z DTEND:20120510T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:QUID20120510en-288@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture series: „Non armis\, sed verbis“ – Ancient and M edieval Religious Disputes URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/QUID20120510en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Apocalypticism-Eschatology-Messianism in a Comparative Perspective DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120508 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120510 DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:WS_Apo_8-90512_eng-278@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nThe title of Istvan Perczel was changed: "The Revelatio ns of the Seraphic Gregory (of Edessa) - a Syriac apocalyptic text from In dia"\nThe purpose of the workshop is to explore the religious phenomena/sp eculations dubbed as apocalypticism\, eschatology and messianism in differ ent religions. While the three themes can be inter-related\, they may also represent three very different types of speculation about quite diverse s ets of issues. Thus\, papers will focus on subjects that may deal with the 'apocalypse' in the original Greek sense of the term\, i.e. a 'revelation '\, be those revelations of heavenly mysteries\, secrets of nature or cosm os\, or revelations of the future course of human history\, sometimes couc hed in terms of a political/religious propaganda.  Eschatology\, then\, u sually refers to ideas/texts that predict the 'Last things' before the End of the world. These can be (usually disastrous) natural phenomena that pr ecede the End of the world\, again historical events\, a succession of kin gs and/or priests etc.\, and more often than not such texts include also e xpectations of a so-called Messiah and/or Anti- Messiah (for example\, Arm ilos\, the Antichrist\, or the Dajjal in Jewish\, Christian\, and Muslim t raditions respectively).\n  URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_Apo_8-90512_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4 DTSTART:20120507T141500Z DTEND:20120507T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF4_070512_eng-253@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The session will consist of two parts. During the first part ( 4-6 pm)\, Alexander Henn\, Sung-Deuk Oak\, Vasilios Makrides and Hüseyin Aguicenoglu  will give a short introduction into their respective researc h projects\, including some statements on how they can relate to the resea rch field's self-defined task to "test" the hypothesis of the emergence of a global religious field in modernity. Some documents relevant to these f ormer discussions of the research field (documentation of RF4\, chapters b y Peter Beyer) have been uploaded to the CERES web-site and tagged for RF4 .\nDuring the second part of our meeting\, we will have a general discussi on following up on the points brought up during the first part\, with the aim of finding common grounds of interest and possibly working out a suita ble framework for the cooperation in the year to come.\n  URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF4_070512_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Waltraud Kokot: Diaspora als Ressource – Urbanität un d soziale Organisation als Faktoren für Diaspora- Erfolg DTSTART:20120503T140000Z DTEND:20120503T153000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:kokot-eng-295@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Ankündigung\nIm Zuge der globalen Umbrüche am Ende der 1980e r Jahre hat der Begriff „Diaspora“ eine erweiterte – wenn auch umst rittene – Bedeutung erlangt. Immer mehr Gruppen\, die sich vorher selbs t als ethnische oder religiös-kulturelle „Minderheiten” im Kontext u nterschiedlicher Nationalstaaten lokalisiert hatten\, definieren sich heu te als Bestandteile weltweiter Diaspora-Netzwerke. Gleichzeitig rückten Untersuchungen zu Diasporen in den Fokus des sozial- und kulturwissensch aftlichen Forschungsinteresses. Der Schwerpunkt dieser Forschungen lag zu nächst vorwiegend auf Fragen der Genese und Persistenz von Diaspora- Ide ntitäten\, sowie auf Fragen der Identitätspolitik. Diese Themen bilden seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre einen wichtigen Schwerpunkt der Forschung (un d Lehre) am Hamburger Institut für Ethnologie. Mit zahlreichen Abschluss arbeiten\, Publikationen und Konferenzen zu Identität und Identitätspol itik in der Diaspora kann diese Forschungsphase inzwischen als erfolgreic h beendet angesehen werden.\n \nUnter dem Titel „Diaspora as a Resourc e“ besteht seit 2006 ein neuer Schwerpunkt unserer Diasporaforschungen. Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung\, dass bestimmte Diasporen in Geschich te und Gegenwart signifikante Beiträge im ökonomischen\, kulturellen un d politischen Bereich geleistet haben (und leisten)\, und damit eine Ress ource für ihre Herkunfts- und für ihre Residenzländer darstellen. Insb esondere in  Zeiten ökonomischer oder soziokultureller Transformation s pielen Diasporen in vielen Fällen die Rolle einer gesellschaftlichen Av antgarde. Durch vergleichende ethnologische Fallstudien sollen Fragen der sozialen und ökonomischen Organisation von Diasporen\, sowie die Beding ungen für deren Erfolg systematisch ermittelt werden. Durch die Gegenüb erstellung von „alten“ und „neuen“ Diasporen und den deutlichen S chwerpunkt auf Faktoren des Erfolgs\, ist dieses Projekt auch als Kritik an einem einseitigen Verständnis von „Diaspora“ als „Opfer“ gewal tsamer Zerstreuung zu verstehen.\n \nNach einem allgemeinen Überblick über den Stand der Forschungen und über die theoretischen Konzeptionen unserer Projekte stellt dieser Vortrag (ca 45 min.) Faktoren des Diaspora -Erfolgs an ausgewählten ethnographischen Beispielen vor. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf dem Faktor „Urbanität“ und der historis chen und gegenwärtigen Bedeutung von „Diaspora-Städten“. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/kokot-eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Nikolas Jaspert: Dialoge und Disputationen auf der Iberi schen Halbinsel: Räume und Modi interreligiöser Kommunikation im Mittela lter DTSTART:20120503T100000Z DTEND:20120503T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:QUID20120503en-287@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture series: „Non armis\, sed verbis“ – Ancient and M edieval Religious Disputes URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/QUID20120503en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2 (Plenary Session) DTSTART:20120430T161500Z DTEND:20120430T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF2_300412_eng-252@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Vortrag von Lucia Raspe: "The Making and Unmaking of a Jewish Saint: Urban Space\, Liturgical Time and the Medieval Past in Early Moder n Ashkenaz" URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF2_300412_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Inclusion & Demarcation" DTSTART:20120430T141500Z DTEND:20120430T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:FG_ID_3000412_eng-251@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Carmen Meinert: "Religious and Ethnic Demarcation a nd Inclusion in South China since the 11th Century." URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_ID_3000412_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Reinhold Glei: 1404 Fragen an den Propheten Muhammad DTSTART:20120426T100000Z DTEND:20120426T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:QUID20120426en-286@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture series: „Non armis\, sed verbis“ – Ancient and M edieval Religious Disputes URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/QUID20120426en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Influence of Central Eurasian Religious Beliefs on the Culture s of the Periphery DTSTART:20120424T070000Z DTEND:20120425T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:Eurasianbeliefs2425042012_eng-236@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nThe Central Eurasian Culture Complex\, the set of cultu ral features typical of peoples in Central Eurasia well into the Middle Ag es\, is focused around the God of ‘Heaven\, the sky’ (in Proto-Indo-Eu ropean ‘Sky-Father’\, or ‘Heavenly Father’)\; a shared ‘national ’ foundation myth in which the founder-hero prince is the son of this ‘Heavenly God’\; belief in the prince’s heavenly or ‘divine’ blo od\; a hierarchical ‘feudal’ social structure binding everyone ultimat ely to the God of Heaven\, including the ruler\; and the belief that the r uler went to Heaven after his life on earth\, and that the ruler’s oaths worn comitatus warriors\, his ‘friends’\, went to Heaven with him. It is hypothesized that when migrating Central Eurasians introduced their cul ture\, including their socioreligious belief system\, into the homelands o f peripheral peoples\, they contributed to the formation or development of some of the most dominant and widespread philosophical-religious systems of Eurasia. Besides Confucianism and Zoroastrianism\, which are to some ex tent accepted cases\, the systems in question include Buddhism\, Taoism\, Brahmanism\, Judaism\, Christianity\, and Islam. Traditional approaches to the origins of these belief systems rest on the assumption that they have arisen locally and independently without significant influence from elsew here\, the main exceptions being Judaism\, Christianity\, and Islam. This forces anyone studying one system either to deny the existence of ‘influ ences’ proposed by the adventurous few or to argue that the systems are similar because of some universal teleology\, e.g. the idea that Central E urasian-type monotheism (a system with one overwhelmingly dominant God in Heaven) is more ‘advanced’ than other belief systems\, and therefore i t is natural for humans to adopt monotheism as they become more ‘advance d’. In addition\, it is a normal academic approach to argue that identif iable similarities\, no matter how unusual\, are merely universals\, but i n these cases it must be asked if the impression of universality is not ac tually an unexamined assumption arising out of the domination of the devel oped world by the very same ‘world religions’. In order to look into t hese and other questions\, it will be necessary to ‘think outside the bo x’ and call into question many received views. While doing so\, we hope to discover unexpected things both about the ‘world religions’ and abo ut Early Central Eurasians’ beliefs.The core socio-religious features of the Central Eurasian Culture Complex include belief in the God of ‘Heav en\, the sky’\; in a national foundation myth in which the founder-hero is the son of the God of Heaven\; and in the ruler going to Heaven after d eath accompanied by his oathsworn warrior ‘friends’. It is hypothesize d that migrating Central Eurasians introduced these beliefs to peripheral peoples\, contributing to the formation or modification of the dominant so cio-religious traditions of Eurasia. Among other issues\, the papers will consider whether these traditions are local variations of a single system introduced by Central Eurasians over time\; whether there was a difference of kind between this monotheism and the ancient religious systems they re placed\; and whether the identifiable similarities are merely universal id eas\, or the impression of universality has arisen from the domination of the modern world by the very same ‘world religions’. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Eurasianbeliefs2425042012_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2 DTSTART:20120423T141500Z DTEND:20120423T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:RF2_230412_eng-250@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF2_230412_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Sven Bretfeld: Wie lange dauert die Erleuchtung? Eine in disch-chinesische Debatte und ihre Nachwirkungen in Tibet DTSTART:20120419T100000Z DTEND:20120419T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:QUID20120419en-285@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture series: „Non armis\, sed verbis“ – Ancient and M edieval Religious Disputes URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/QUID20120419en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Refreshment DTSTART:20120416T180000Z DTEND:20120416T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233508Z UID:refreshment_160412_eng-249@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/refreshment_160412_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fellow Presentations DTSTART:20120416T161500Z DTEND:20120416T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FP_160412_eng-248@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Abstract Carmen Meinert:\nAs certain trends of Buddhism were t ransmitted from the Central Asian Oasis of Dunhuang to Tibet in the 8th/9t h centuries and to Song China at the turn of the first millennium differen t political interventions are discernible in both cultural contexts which favoured or inhibited the transmission of the teachings. On the basis of a specific case study\, the analysis of both transfer processes allow to de tect cultural factors and historical circumstances that shaped the formati on of a Buddhist (main)stream in cultural comparison.  \nPresentation:\n\ nCarmen Meinert: Transfer of Buddhism between Religion and Politics in Cen tral Asia\, Tibet and China.\nCornelius Vollmer: About the interpretation of empty thrones in Roman and early-Christian iconography. An example of a n un-iconic cult?\n URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FP_160412_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 1 DTSTART:20120416T141500Z DTEND:20120416T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF1_160412_eng-247@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Anna Akasoy: Different Tendencies in the Exploration of Early Islam /\nAlexandra Cuffel: Early Conversions URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF1_160412_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann: Vom literarischen Dialog zu r Religionsdisputation: Hochmittelalterliche Dialoge im Kontext DTSTART:20120412T100000Z DTEND:20120412T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:QUID20120412en-284@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture series: „Non armis\, sed verbis“ – Ancient and M edieval Religious Disputes URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/QUID20120412en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mantra and Dhāraṇī in the Religious Traditions of Buddhism\, J ainism and Hinduism DTSTART:20120412T073000Z DTEND:20120413T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:mantra_en-165@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:flyer\nabstracts\nThe purpose of the workshop\, as indicated b y the title\, is to explore the traditions of mantra and dhāraṇī in Bu ddhism\, Jainism and Hinduism. The use of these often cryptic texts is ubi quitous in the religions of Asia and the geographical scope of the worksho p is accordingly broad -- from Sri Lanka and India to Tibet\, China\, Kore a and Japan. The thematic focus of papers is open and can range from speci fic texts to more general questions about the nature of these materials in religious belief and practice. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/mantra_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20120221T090000Z DTEND:20120221T110000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:WG_FG_TR_210212_eng-276@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_FG_TR_210212_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Feasting and Fasting: Religious food practices in interaction DTSTART:20120217T101100Z DTEND:20120217T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:WS_FF_170212_eng-273@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Venue: International Guest House\, Auf der Papenburg 14\, 4480 1 Bochum\nflyer\nA pdf-file of the reader for the workshop can be obtained before and during the conference from Dorothea Weltecke.\nIn all religiou s cultures food plays an important role. Food practices integrate communit ies\, and they exclude others or even polemicize against them. In this sen se\, food is always an element of religious interaction. Strategies of pur ity and penance are both connected with eating and fasting. Persecuting in stitutions\, like the inquisition in the Latin Church\, were keen on ident ifying food practices as a sign of religious deviance. Eating and fasting habits are constantly changing\, and they do not necessarily agree with th e norms. On the contrary\, historical and cultural conditions\, interrelig ious contacts and other factors contribute to the transformation of ritual s and customs.The purpose of the workshop is a comparative debate on the p rimary sources provided by the active participants\, which should foster t he interdiscipliniary understanding of different religions and their food. The workshop will develop comparative and systematic categories for furth er research. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_FF_170212_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Buddhism in Motion DTSTART:20120214T110000Z DTEND:20120214T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:WG_BM_140212_eng-275@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_BM_140212_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20120214T090000Z DTEND:20120214T110000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:WG_FG_TR_140212_eng-274@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_FG_TR_140212_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Locating Religions - Contact\, Diversity and Translocality DTSTART:20120208T180000Z DTEND:20120210T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:LocatingRel_eng-242@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nThe aim of this conference is to analyse the relationsh ip between spatial settings or constructions on the one hand and the ways past societies organised religious diversity on the other. Religions are a lways located in a certain cultural and spatial environment\, but often te nd to locate (or translocate) themselves beyond that original setting. Fur thermore\, many religious traditions show the common trait that they are n ot only tied to or associated with the one area its respective adherent li ve in\, but are in fact bilocal or even “multilocal”\, as they closely relate to various spatial centres or plains at once. Religious diversity or plurality on the other hand not only refers to the different beliefs of people\, but also to the environments they are located in. The diversity of religions in the same space – be it at religious centres\, at contact zones between religions or at imagined spaces – and the exchanges or ot her forms of contact it generated will be analysed in a series of settings within and between Asia and Europe. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/LocatingRel_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Refreshment DTSTART:20120130T190000Z DTEND:20120130T225900Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Refreshment_300112_en-213@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Refreshment_300112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Short report of the fellows DTSTART:20120130T171500Z DTEND:20120130T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:PS_300112_en-212@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_300112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Preparation of advisory board meeting (Fellows\, KHK steering comm ittee) DTSTART:20120130T151500Z DTEND:20120130T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:ABM_300112_en-211@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ABM_300112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Space of Secrecy-Secret in Contact. Perspectives from the East and the West DTSTART:20120126T130000Z DTEND:20120127T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Secret_en-178@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nThis workshop aims to evaluate the concept of secret in a religious framework. Two main dimensions are in the focus of our “Boc humer Approach”: Contact and blank space. Secrets construct blank spaces that can be filled by unveiling the content (secret) on the one hand. On the other hand they refer to something unspeakable (e. g. mystery\, antino my). In this sense the unspeakable is determined by a frame hinting to the undefinable content. Such blank spaces have their own contact dimensions. E.g.: Sociologically they generate “insiders” and “outsiders” or furthermore they connect different groups by postulating to share the same “unspeakable” truths. This workshop will evaluate the functions and a ttractiveness of secrets as blank spaces and its special character as a ty pe of contact. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Secret_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Buddhism in Motion DTSTART:20120124T130000Z DTEND:20120117T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:WG_BM_170112_eng-243@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_BM_170112_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20120124T090000Z DTEND:20120124T110000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:WG_FG_TR_240112_eng-233@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_FG_TR_240112_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Meeting of the RUB Colleagues (professors\, research assistants of the KHK\, in German language) DTSTART:20120123T171500Z DTEND:20120123T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RUBColleagues_230112_en-210@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RUBColleagues_230112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4 Workshop: Migration and Religious Convergence DTSTART:20120123T130000Z DTEND:20120123T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF4_230112_en-209@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:agenda URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF4_230112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Own Festivities with Alien Guests: Inclusion of Outsiders in Culti c Communities DTSTART:20120119T130000Z DTEND:20120120T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FesteGaeste_1920012012_eng-237@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:flyer\nprogramm\nIn Greek and Roman Antiquity every political community\, including the Hellenistic polis\, is considered a residential\ , legal\, and ritual community as well. Therefore non-citizens were only i n exceptional cases allowed to participate in religious festivities\, and this privilege was granted mostly to ‘foreigners’ being permanent resi dents in the specific community with scope and nature of their participati on varying broadly. On the other hand citizens not participating in the co mmunal rituals were considered a threat to the polis\, as the risked the c ontinued benevolence of the gods.In those circumstances Jews and Christian s were struggling to take part in the sacrificial rites for the communally worshiped gods\, e.g. a deified ruler. In return Jewish and Christian cul tic communities opened their own social meetings and festivities to potent ial new members. This hospitality was critical for the successful developm ent of the respective religious communities\, especially for the early Chr istian cults.Our workshop is going to compare the attitudes of Pagan\, Jew ish\, and Christian communities towards the inclusion of ‚guests’ in t heir religious festivities and will specifically tackle the question of th e possible motivators for this opening of communal rituals for ‚alien’ participants\, e.g. the idea of universality of the worshipped god(s). Ho w the persons invited to such privileges reacted will also be a topic of d iscussion. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FesteGaeste_1920012012_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture Alexander von Rospatt: Forms of Interaction between the Buddhist and Hindu Traditions of the Kathmandu Valley DTSTART:20120118T171500Z DTEND:20120118T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:vonRospatt_eng-241@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Poster\nAlexander von Rospatt is Professor for Buddhist and So uth Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. He specializes in the doctrinal history of Indian Buddhism\, and in Newar Buddhism\, the only Indic Mahayana tradi tion that continues to persist in its original South Asian setting (in the Kathmandu Valley) right to the present. His new\, forthcoming book "The S vayambhu Caitya and its Renovations" deals with the historical renovations of the Svayambhu Stupa of Kathmandu. Based on Newar manuscripts and sever al years of fieldwork in Nepal\, he reconstructs the ritual history of the se renovations and their social contexts.  His current research focuses o n Newar Buddhist narrative literature and on life-cycle rituals of old age among the Newars. Prof. von Rospatt was trained in Germany and England\, and taught at the universities of Leipzig\, Vienna and Oxford before joini ng UC Berkeley in January 2004 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/vonRospatt_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20120117T090000Z DTEND:20120117T110000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:WG_FG_TR_170112_eng-232@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_FG_TR_170112_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2 DTSTART:20120116T171500Z DTEND:20120116T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF2_160112_en-208@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Vasquez2008\nIn this meeting the internal papers for the fello w-conference in February and the article by Vazquez shall be discussed.\n   URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF2_160112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20120116T151500Z DTEND:20120116T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_Transfer_160112_en-207@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:In the upcoming meeting we will briefly discuss the introducto ry chapter of Bradd Shore's /Culture in mind: Cognition\, culture and the problem of meaning/\, New York/Oxford\, 1998 [1996]. (Please be so kind as to drop a line to christian.mularzyk@rub.de or joerg.plassen@rub.de if yo u want us to make the chapter available to you).In order to probe into the usability of Shore's notion of schemata Jessie Pons will present an initi al attempt to apply the concept to her material\, once more raising the co mplicated issue of the development of Vajrarapāṇi. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_Transfer_160112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Meeting of members DTSTART:20120112T170000Z DTEND:20120112T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:MM_eng-234@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/MM_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Working Group\, Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20120110T090000Z DTEND:20120110T110000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:WG_FG_TR_100112_eng-231@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/WG_FG_TR_100112_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow lecture DTSTART:20120109T171500Z DTEND:20120109T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:PS_090112_en-206@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Georgios Halkias: Muslim Princesses in Buddhist Courts\nThe pr actice of princess-exchange (giving and/or receiving them as brides) is a prevalent feature of ancient diplomacy that was widely practiced in the north-western Himalayas. Drawing from Ladakhi and Baltī folk-literatures and histories\, I will survey folksongs composed during the times of the Ladakhi royal dynasty (rgyal-dus) and examine the narratives of the life of Muslim princesses who were sent as brides at the courts of Ladakh and became Khatuns (Muslim Queens) in Buddhist kingdoms. The Muslim Queens o f the Himalayas stand witness to a rich cultural fusion\, an old blend of Arab\, Persian\, Mongol\, Indian and Tibetan elements. Ever since the co nversion of the Baltīs to Islam in the 14th century the Muslim princess- brides stood as promises of unity and peace and as means of alleviating c onflict between the warring houses of Baltistān and the Buddhist kingdom s of Ladakh.\nLecture:\nGeorgios Halkias: Muslim Princesses in Buddhist Co urts\; Alexandra Cuffel: Creating Hope and Threat: Eldad ha-Dani and the T en Lost Tribes as response to medieval Muslim and Christian anti-Jewish p olemic\n\n URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_090112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Resaerch Field 3 DTSTART:20120109T151500Z DTEND:20120109T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF3_090112_en-205@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF3_090112_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Transversal Group of Focus Group Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20111220T090000Z DTEND:20111220T090000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:TG_FG_TR_201211_eng-230@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/TG_FG_TR_201211_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Refreshment DTSTART:20111219T190000Z DTEND:20111219T225900Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Refreshment_191211_en-204@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Refreshment_191211_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session Research Field 4 DTSTART:20111219T171500Z DTEND:20111219T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:PS_RF4_191211_en-203@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Modeling Religious Convergence\nDuring the first half of the s ession\, we wish to discuss the attached concept paper ('Modeling Religiou s Convergence') which attempts to provide some structure to our future wor k within the research field. We will be very grateful for critical input f rom the plenum.\nThe remainder of the session will be devoted to globalize d Christmas\, with inputs by:\nThomas Hauschild (Santa Claus and other Chr istmas spirits)\nAlexandra Cuffel (Judaism and Christmas)\nStefan Reichmut h (Islamic responses to intrusive Christmas folklore)\nAlexander Nagel ("I t´s just for the children: Christmas celebrations of Muslim migrants in G ermany") URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_RF4_191211_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Inclusion and Demarcation DTSTART:20111219T151500Z DTEND:20111219T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_Inclusion_191211_en-202@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Gordon\nRuepke \nHaving assessed the term "heresy"\, the discu ssion at the Focus Group shall now shift to the topic of "superstition". T he ideas and terms are linked together\, as the texts of R. Gordon and J. Rüpke (see below) may show. As well\, the two positions are the basis of discussion at this meeting. (Few) Case Studies regarding "superstition" sh all follow during summer term 2012. Yet\, papers are welcome as soon as th e 19th. Anyone interested in presenting something please refer to Christia n Frevel. In the end\, we hope to limit the period of time in history when "heresy" and "superstition" finally became the opposite of "religion" - o r\, alternatively\, to proof that this has never been the case. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_Inclusion_191211_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religious Expatriation DTSTART:20111216T080000Z DTEND:20111216T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:relig_expatriation_en-224@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nWhen significant groups of people are moved to exile du e to their religious beliefs\, consequences affect all parties and areas i nvolved. This workshop aims at providing a comparative understanding of th e conditions and developments of such movements. We will address several q uestions concerning the effects on the community that receives the emigran ts\, the void created in the places of origin\, and the representations cr eated by the members of the diasporic community of their own spiritual and physical journey. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/relig_expatriation_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture Ken-ichi Takashima: Aspects of Shang Religion: The M ovement of the Ancestral tablets within the Pantheon of Spirits DTSTART:20111215T170000Z DTEND:20111215T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:takashima_en-240@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:biography\npublication\nflyer\nAlthough such terms as peisi 配祀 literally meaning “matching ritual”\, peixiang 配享 “matchi ng offerings”\, peiji 配祭 “matching sacrifice”\, and peiji 配食 “matching food offering” to express “jointly offering sacrifices to the deceased or conducting certain ritual activities are terms not in the contemporary to the late Shang language (ca. 13th c. – 11th c. B.C.E.)\ , their actual practices seem to have been carried out as early as in Shan g times. Through an analysis of the oracle-bone inscriptions (OBI) in whic h the words bin 賓 ‘to entertain\; to treat … as a guest’ and zuo 坐 ‘to sit\; to seat’ are used\, coupled with the use of the so-calle d “handle-shaped jade objects” discovered in a Shang tomb in Anyang Ho ugang 安陽后崗 in 1991 that bear such ancestral names as Zu Geng 祖 庚 ‘Ancestor Geng’\, Zu Jia 祖甲 ‘Ancestor Jia’\, Fu Xin 父辛 ‘Father Xin’\, and Fu Gui 父癸 ‘Father Gui’\, the paper attempt s to show how concretely such joint sacrifices and rituals might actually have been carried out.\nKen-ichi Takashima\, University of British Columb ia\, Canada\n URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/takashima_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Social and Hermeneutic Constraints for and Related Strategies of I nterreligious Reception and Adaption DTSTART:20111213T090000Z DTEND:20111213T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Reception-Adaption-en-53@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:flyer\nThis workshop is considered as a sequel to the workshop “Between Borrowing and Taking over: The Problem of “Sinification” a nd its Implications for a Theory of Religious Contact”. During this work shop we would like to expand our preliminary set of these processing modes \, taking into account case studies from other regions and religions. More importantly\, we will extend our perspective towards the social and herme neutic frameworks in which given models of processing thrive.\nFlyer in Vo rbereitung! URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Reception-Adaption-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 1 DTSTART:20111212T171500Z DTEND:20111212T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF1_121211_en-201@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture: Prof. Dr. Marco Frenschkowski\, Leipzig "Early Christianity in Iran" URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF1_121211_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Dynamics and Stability DTSTART:20111212T151500Z DTEND:20111212T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_Dynamics_121211_en-200@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_Dynamics_121211_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Excursion: Mettmann DTSTART:20111209T090000Z DTEND:20111209T183000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:excursion-mettmann-2011-238@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Preliminary program:\n\nGuided tour at the Neanderthal-Museum\ nVisit of Mettmann's historical city center and the "Weihnachtsmarkt"\n\n \n\nPlease register until December 5\, 2011! URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/excursion-mettmann-2011/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Transversal Group of Focus Group Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20111206T090000Z DTEND:20111206T110000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:TG_FG_TR_061211_eng-229@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED! URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/TG_FG_TR_061211_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow lecture DTSTART:20111205T171500Z DTEND:20111205T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:PS_051211_en-199@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:\nLectures:\n\nAlexandra Cuffel:"Creating Hope and Threat: Eld ad ha-Dani and the Ten Lost Tribes as response to medieval Muslim and Chri stian anti-Jewish polemic"\nAndreas Bendlin:"Religion and Pluralism in a M editerranean Metropolis: Ancient Rome"\n\n URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_051211_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Secret DTSTART:20111205T151500Z DTEND:20111205T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_Secret_051211_en-198@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Kant_Mystery\nKant_Geheimnis\nDear all\, we kindly invite you to our meeting of the FG Secret. Lucian Hölscher will read with us Imman uel Kant´s thoughts about "the holy mystery of faith". The material serv ing as basis for discussion is attached. With best regards\, Peter Wick\, Jan Schäfer URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_Secret_051211_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Transversal Group of Focus Group Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20111129T090000Z DTEND:20111129T110000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:TG_FG_TR_291111_eng-228@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/TG_FG_TR_291111_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session Research Field 3 DTSTART:20111128T171500Z DTEND:20111128T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:PS_RF3_281111_en-197@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Our colleagues Prof. Glei and Prof. Reichmuth will present the results of their study on Religion between Last Judgement\, Law\, and Fa ith: Koranic dīn and its rendering in Latin translations of the Koran. T he paper is attached to this announcement. You are invited to discuss the paper on the basis of your own research.\npaper URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_RF3_281111_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20111128T151500Z DTEND:20111128T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_Transfer_281111_en-196@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Report on the present state of our work on building blocks for the descriptipn of intra- and interreligious transfer processes in semiot ic perspective\, presentation of three related case studies\, and discussi on. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_Transfer_281111_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:"Buddhist Text Corpora and Iconography along the Silk Road: Dynami cs of Transfer and Interaction" DTSTART:20111123T080000Z DTEND:20111125T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:text_and_icon_en-225@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nAbstracts\nExtant in manuscripts\, paintings and sculpt ures\, Buddhist narratives have played an essential role in the disseminat ion of Buddhism along the Silk Road\, from India to East Asia. Based on ca se studies from India\, Central Asia and China\, the workshop aims to unra vel the dynamic interplay of Buddhist textual and visual narratives.\nPlea se note that on the 23rd and the 24th of November\, lectures will take pla ce at the Veranstaltungszentrum\, Room 3. On the 25th of November\, they w ill take place in SH\, Room 187. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/text_and_icon_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Transversal Group of Focus Group Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20111122T090000Z DTEND:20111122T110000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:TG_FG_TR_221111_eng-227@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/TG_FG_TR_221111_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 3 DTSTART:20111121T151500Z DTEND:20111121T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF3_211111_en-195@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lexicographical Appraches to the Definition of Religious Langu ages.\nHow did past societies define what we today may call a religious la nguage? What kind of basic distinctions were made for defining a religious field? Which kind of concepts were used for defining religion? In modern Western societies concepts like "transcendence"\, "god"\, "heaven"\, "chur ch" play an important role for defining the religious field\, often in con trast to concepts such as "immanence"\, "man"\, "earth" and "secular socie ty. Are there different or corresponding concepts in other cultures\, regi ons and periods of time? I should like to invite you to a summary of aspec ts and an exchange of semantic and conceptional approaches to define the r eligious field in each of your fields of research. It would be most welcom e\, if you could prepare a statement of about one page for this discussion .\nSecond Part:\nIn his lecture our colleague Prof. Michael Weinrich will present the most prominent results of his recently published study on "Rel igion und Religionskritik". We should use the chance to discuss them with him in the view of our  interest in the comparative history of religion in early modern Europe. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF3_211111_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Transversal Group of Focus Group Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20111115T090000Z DTEND:20111115T110000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:TG_FG_TR_151111_eng-226@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:! Please notice that from now on\, the meetings for this group will take place on TUESDAYS on every first\, third and fourth week of the month!    URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/TG_FG_TR_151111_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session Research Field 1 DTSTART:20111114T171500Z DTEND:20111114T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:PS_RF1_141111_en-194@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Report on selected activities of RF1      further study o f the RF1 topic of this semester:\nThe Impact of “Hellenization” on Re ligious Identity Formation (with a contribution of Andreas Bendlin) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_RF1_141111_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Inclusion and Demarcation DTSTART:20111114T151500Z DTEND:20111114T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_Inclusion_141111_en-193@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Topic: Heresy and Heresiology.\nBesides passing in review the last small conference on heresy in the KHK the focus will be on a talk by Prof. Dr. Sven Bretfeld.\nThe title is „Buddha in the Mud: Intrareligiou s Demarcation in Theravada and Tibetan Buddhism“ URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_Inclusion_141111_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4 DTSTART:20111107T151500Z DTEND:20111107T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF4_071111_en-192@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This session will be used to discuss a proposal for a somewhat systematized approach to our future work in the research field\, centerin g on Peter Beyer's hypothesis of the emergence of a global religious field and fuelled by interreligious convergence. For a first outline of this pr oposal see the attached file "Making Sense of Convergence" (author: Alexan der-Kenneth Nagel). The first part of the session will be devoted to expla ining and discussing this paper. The second part of the session will be ba sed on the chapter on religion of C.A. Bayley's book "The Birth of the Mod ern World". In discussing this text\, which takes convergence (not only of religion) as a given of the modern world\, we will not only find material to discuss this assumption but also be able to test the distinctions and attempts at systematization offered in our proposal.\nPapers:\nNagel\, 'Re ligious Convergence'\nBayly\, 'Empires of Religion' URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF4_071111_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session Research Field 2 DTSTART:20111031T171500Z DTEND:20111031T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:PS_RF2_311011_en-191@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_RF2_311011_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Dynamics and Stability DTSTART:20111031T151500Z DTEND:20111031T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_Dynamics_311011_en-190@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:material\nIn this session we intend to discuss in detail Volkh ard Krech’s introductory paper given at the annual conference of the con sortium. In addition there will be a short input by Knut Martin Stünkel c oncerning the results of the conference under the perspective of ‘Dynami cs’. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_Dynamics_311011_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 1 DTSTART:20111024T141500Z DTEND:20111024T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF1_241011_en-189@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The impact of »Hellenization« on religious identity formatio n\nWith  contributions of Achim Lichtenberger\, Georgios Halkias and Chri stopher Beckwith\nSince the invention of the term »Hellenism« as designa tion of an epoch by J.G. Droysen\, the impact of Greek culture and the so called »hellenic religions« on the religions in Central Asia and the Med iterranean has been under discussion. Have they been a trigger or push fac tor in processes of integration\, adoption\, amalgamization\, hierarchizat ion\, demarcation etc.? Have theses processes on the other hand led to inn er processes of stabilization (and destabilization)\, which have fostered the sustainability of religious networks (densification) at the end? How f ar does the influence of Greek elements on religions in Central and Easter n Asia extend? How far is Hellenism itself enriched by religious tradition s from Asia? We want to discuss the impact of Hellenic conceptions on part icular religions in a comparative perspective. Thereby we want to focus es pecially on aspects of formation of religions which have been in the broad est sense in contact with the Hellenic culture. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF1_241011_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Transversal Group of Focus Group Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20111024T100000Z DTEND:20111024T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:TG_FG_TR_241011_eng-222@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/TG_FG_TR_241011_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest lecture: Dr. Robert Mayer DTSTART:20111020T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111021 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:guest_lecture_mayer_eng-216@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nTitle: "Neither the same nor different: the Bon Ka ba n ag po in relation to rNying ma Phur pa texts. Literary and doctrinal strat egies in Bon and rNying ma tantrism." \nThis paper looks at some of the l iterary strategies brought to light in our study of the earliest Bon phur pa tantra\, the 11th century Ka ba nag po\, in relation to Buddhist phurp a tantras of a similar period. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest_lecture_mayer_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2 DTSTART:20111017T141500Z DTEND:20111017T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF2_171011_en-188@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:On our opening meeting we would like to deal with (at least) f ive points: Presentation of new fellows\; reports from recent workshops\; report on fellow conference on February 8-10\, 2012\; input on “handling religious diversity”\; discussion of an article on religious diversity. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF2_171011_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Transversal Group of Focus Group Transfer and Resistance DTSTART:20111017T100000Z DTEND:20111017T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:TG_FG_TR_171011_eng-221@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/TG_FG_TR_171011_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sites and Rites of Death: Spacing the Corpse in and across Religio us Contexts DTSTART:20111012T070000Z DTEND:20111013T153000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Sites_en-183@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nThere is a variety of conceptions\, regulations and rit ual practices centered on the ways of disposing the dead across religious communities. Hegel once remarked that history is the record of “what man does with death” and he may be right. Arguably\, religion is a testimon y of how humans have dealt with death and without death there might have b een no religion. Though this may be open to debate\, undeniably there are enduring discourses concerning the proper and improper ways of disposing t he body (the vessel)–i.e.\, entombing\, mummifying\, embalming\, cremati ng\, burying (soil/water)\, dismembering\, consuming (cannibalism)\, feedi ng it to the beasts (sky-burials\, ‘towers of silence’)\, and so forth –which is believed in many cases to have an effect on the afterlife of i ts ‘contents’ (i.e.\, soul\, spirit\, mind-stream). While there are sy mbolic links between the physical after-life of the corpse and the locatio n of its disposal (i.e.\, cemeteries\, mausoleums\, catacombs\, rivers\, e tc)\, these ‘places of death’ (burial sites) may serve to unite and at tract people of the same faith and exclude people of other faiths. There a re many stories of persons who were unable\, for a variety of reasons (inc luding suicide)\, to cross to the other side and roam as ghosts and malevo lent spirits haunting places and people. Ethnographically\, cemeteries are generally seen as dangerous places avoided by those living. Fahlander & O estigaard (2008:12) follow with the remark that in such cases there is a c ommon belief that “the dead are not dead\, but they are alive\, although not as a fully fledged human being\, but nevertheless real and present. ” The dead body conjures up a host of attending discourses and legends c oncerning the physical and metaphysical spaces it ‘occupies’ before it gets disposed and after. It is closely linked with the creation of border s and with their transcendence (i.e.\, ‘life and death\;’ ‘dead and the living\;’ ‘purity and impurity\;’ ‘partisans of religion x vs. y’).\nGenerally speaking the dead body calls upon two ritual processes\ ; first\, is the initial preparation of the corpse (i.e.\, washing or anoi nting the body with oils or other substances) and second\, the actual mann er of its disposal. Burial evidence may be instructive for understanding t he formation and expansion of religious structures and traditions. Funeral rites are after all about a set of rituals by which those living are forc ed to deal with death and its materiality. As such they are not consistent \, coherent and unchanging. They are not performed in the same way among e quals (i.e.\, varying according to the rank of the deceased) and social an d legislative variations are often observed within the same religious cont exts. It would appear that death rites are vital to the definition and red efinition of religious ideas. New burial patterns emerged\, for instance\, when Islam spread from the cities of Arabia to Mesopotamia\, the eastern Mediterranean\, and North Africa\, while religious scholars were often at odds to distinguish Islamic rites from Christian\, Jewish\, and Zoroastria n practices. The participation of members of different religious communiti es in funerary practices and commemorations was at times\, but not always encouraged\, while instances of desecration may be the byproduct of cross- religious dynamics. Hybridized death rituals and shared burial sites speak of periods of conversion and transference of ideas from one religion to a nother\, while mixed artistic traditions in slabs and funerary monuments m ight reveal compelling traces of religious acculturation and adaptation. T here are instances where codes of funerary law or funerary rituals have tr ansformed and were transformed by commonly held practices in accordance wi th changing political\, economic and urban settings. In this workshop we w ill be looking at case studies addressing this topic that illuminate insta nces of contact among compatible and/or competing religious traditions. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Sites_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Refreshment DTSTART:20111010T180000Z DTEND:20111010T215900Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Refreshment_101011_en-187@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Refreshment_101011_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Plenary Session: Fellow lecture DTSTART:20111010T161500Z DTEND:20111010T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:PS_101011_en-186@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: \n \n \n \nLecture:\nStephen Berkwitz: "The Ambiguity of Hyb ridity among Buddhists and the Portuguese in 17th-Century Asia"\nHenrik So rensen:  “ Looting the Pantheon: On the Daoist Appropriation of Buddh ist Divinities and Saints.” URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/PS_101011_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Secret" DTSTART:20111010T141500Z DTEND:20111010T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_Secret_101011-185@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: \n \nMeret Strothmann:\nPublic secrets. The initiation of t he emperor in the mystery cults.\nThis paper is a contribution to the thes is of the definition of "secrecy as a zone of contact". The roman emperor was initiated as a new member of the mystery cults by secret rituals\, whi ch play a central role ind the these ancient cults. This paper will give s ome ideas how to connect secret with the general meaning of religion. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_Secret_101011/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Latin and Vernacular Translations of Hebrew Texts in the 12th and 13th Century DTSTART:20110920T120000Z DTEND:20110921T140000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Rashi_en-156@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nBeginning in the twelfth century\, translations of Jewi sh texts begin to appear in Christian Europe.  These translations were u sually of texts concerned with the Bible (“correctoria”) or its exege sis.. Among the texts translated are Bible commentaries (especially Rashi )\, liturgical poems (piyyutim)\, but also halakhic (Talmud) and philosop hical texts (Maimonides).\nThe workshop planned focuses especially on tra nslations of texts by Ashkenazic Jews and their influence on Christian sc holars. To mention only two areas: In the 19th century Arsène Darmestete r discovered a medieval French translation of a Hebrew-written piyyut. Th e question occurs\, as to why it was translated and who the possible rea ders were. A second area is formed by the works of Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaqi (“Rashi”\, ca. 1040-1105). He became famous within Judaism for his co mmentary on all books of the Jewish Bible and of the complete Babylonian Talmud (only very few Biblical Books and Talmudic treatises had been fini shed by his disciples). Some of these commentaries were translated into L atin (at least one manuscript which contains a translation of the comment ary on the Song of Songs is still extant) and Rashi was one of the two Je wish authors who were read and quoted in Latin literature of the 12th to 14th century.\nThe workshop aims at giving an overview over the state of s cholarly work on Christian translation activities of Hebrew texts and of the transformation of Jewish knowledge into the Christian scholarly work of the high middle ages.\nThe invited speakers shall have enough time to develop their argument (ca. 45 minutes each) and it is planned to give ti me for extended discussions.\nA volume with the proceedings might also re sult of the conference. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Rashi_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Between Borrowing and Taking over: The Problem of Sinification and its Implication for a Theory of Religious Contacts DTSTART:20110805T070000Z DTEND:20110806T151500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Borrowing-Taking-over-en-52@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Borrowing-Taking-over-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Modes and Models of Religious Attraction. Part II: Knowledge and A ction DTSTART:20110725T150000Z DTEND:20110728T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Attraction_II_en-75@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Attraction_II_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Heresy in Cross-Cultural Contact DTSTART:20110715T070000Z DTEND:20110715T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Heresy_en-180@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nThis workshop aims to address a mode of negotiating cul tural difference we propose to call “exclusive similarity.” Discussio ns of alterity have often focused on exclusions marked by difference or t hat have described the other as fundamentally alien. But less frequently discussed are those acts of othering that work by excluding on the basis of reputed similarity\, not difference. For these forms of othering we w ill use the shorthand “heresy\,” a term that is open to deconstructio n over the course of the workshop.\n“Heresy” was often used to describ e a kind of internal diversity. In this sense\, the language of heresiogr aphy tends to presuppose a perennial truth\, which must be guarded from d eviation. Charges of heresy therefore work to construct orthodoxies throu gh a process of alienation and repeated self-definition of orthodoxic (or orthopraxic) systems.\nBut there is an additional sense of “heresy” t hat interests us: the way that this kind of exclusion functioned in cross -cultural interaction. It is this cross-cultural function that will be th e focus of the workshop. In the history of global encounters the other gr oup’s religions were often branded as defective imitations or heresies. For example\, some European Christian texts such as the Leggenda di Maom etto described Muhammad as a heretic who had intentionally perverted Chri stian doctrine for his own gain. Similarly\, one might think of the Chine se Laozi Huahu Jing\, which claimed that Laozi had gone to India\, transf ormed into the Buddha\, and there taught Buddhism as an intentionally def ective form of Daoism. In these cases\, heresy works to domesticate the o ther with a familiar kind of alienation.\nThere is a final use of heresy in cross-cultural contact that interests us. This is when “heresy” is used to render an internal diversity alien through reputed association w ith a foreign group. For example\, one might think of Martin Luther’s a ccusation that the “Papists” were “Turks.” Similarly\, one might think of Hayashi Razan’s charge that his rival Japanese Neo-Confucians were “Christians.” In these cases\, the heresiographical language wor ks to assert the equivalence of foreign and domesticheretics. It therefor e renders the familiar foreign and alien by juxtaposition with another th at is simultaneously being domesticated.\nSubmissions from different geog raphical areas\, religious contexts\, and periods are encouraged. Any pap er addressing “exclusive similarity” in a cross-cultural dimension wi ll be considered. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Heresy_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Refreshment DTSTART:20110711T174500Z DTEND:20110711T215900Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Refresh_110711_en-109@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Refresh_110711_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2 DTSTART:20110711T161500Z DTEND:20110711T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_2_110711-108@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:We will present and discuss our plans for the coming year\, wh ich thematic field 2 will centre on the relationship between space and rel igion (while maintaining work on QUID and other projects). URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_2_110711/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Dynamics and Stability" DTSTART:20110711T141500Z DTEND:20110711T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_3_110711-107@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Preparation for the Annual Conference "Modes and Models of Rel igious Attraction. Knowledge and Action"\, Discussion of Guiding Questions URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_3_110711/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Immanent Transcendence as a Transcultural Problem DTSTART:20110708T070000Z DTEND:20110708T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Transzendenz_en-155@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Transzendenz_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Meeting of the RUB Colleagues DTSTART:20110704T161500Z DTEND:20110704T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Meeting-RUB-Colleagues_040711-106@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Meeting-RUB-Colleagues_040711/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 1 DTSTART:20110704T141500Z DTEND:20110704T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_1_040711-105@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Presentation by\nReinhard von Bendemann “Insularity: About t he Significance of the Islands of the Mediterranean for Conceptions of Exp ansion in Early Christianity”\nAndreas Bendlin "How (not) to say 'Roman religion' in Latin: Semantic fields and expansion as a process of demarcat ion" URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_1_040711/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2 (Space and Religion) DTSTART:20110704T121500Z DTEND:20110704T134500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_2_040711-182@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Discussion of Papers by Georgios Halkias and Aziz Al-Azmeh URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_2_040711/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Transfer and Resistance" / Conzeptualizing Group DTSTART:20110704T101500Z DTEND:20110704T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_TransferCG_040711-175@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_TransferCG_040711/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Colloquium: Fellow III DTSTART:20110627T161500Z DTEND:20110627T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Coll_FellowIII_270611-104@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lectures by:\nJason Ananda Josephson\nChristopher Beckwith URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Coll_FellowIII_270611/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4 DTSTART:20110627T141500Z DTEND:20110627T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_4_270611-103@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_4_270611/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Transfer and Resistance" / Reading Group DTSTART:20110627T101500Z DTEND:20110627T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_TransferRG_270611-174@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_TransferRG_270611/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 3 DTSTART:20110620T161500Z DTEND:20110620T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_3_200611-102@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The topic of Research Field 3 meeting will be the Chinese not ion of "jiao" (Jap. kyo\, Kor. gyo)\, "teaching"\, which was used in the rendering of "religion" as "zongjiao" into the East Asian languages. We w ould like to shed some light on the implications of using the indigenous word with its established meanings for the translation of the new term.\n We will among other things give a report on some Chinese texts on "jiao"  from the 17th\, 18th and early 19th century that have been translated b y Wolfgang Ommerborn and Pan Ruiming (translations only available in Germ an at the moment). URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_3_200611/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Inclusion and Demarcation" DTSTART:20110620T141500Z DTEND:20110620T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_2_200611-101@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Conzeptualization of Heresy\n\nInput by Jason Josephson\nDiscu ssion of the paper "Towards a Sociology of Heresy\, Orthodoxy\, and Doxa" by Jacques Berlinerblau\n URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_2_200611/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Transfer and Resistance" / Conzeptualizing Group DTSTART:20110620T101500Z DTEND:20110620T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_TransferCG_200611-173@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_TransferCG_200611/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Deadline for Application: Non-European Journeys 2. Half 2011 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110606 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110607 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:deadline_062011-166@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/deadline_062011/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Colloquium: Fellow II DTSTART:20110606T161500Z DTEND:20110606T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Coll_FellowII_060611-100@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture:\nAziz Al-Azmeh: Arabic Freethinking in the Muslim Era \nAna Echevarría: Arabicized Christians in Iberia re-defining religious i dentity across the Mediterranean – abstract URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Coll_FellowII_060611/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Transfer and Resistance" DTSTART:20110606T141500Z DTEND:20110606T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_1_060611-99@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Readings (Lotman)\nTexts will be distributed. Those who want t o join the group are kindly requested to drop a line to joerg.plassen@rub. de URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_1_060611/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2 (Space and Religion) DTSTART:20110606T121500Z DTEND:20110606T134500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_2_060611-181@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Discussion of the papers by Corrigan\, Halkias and Hervieu-Lé ger already distributed\, and also of a paper by Aziz al-Azmeh. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_2_060611/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Transfer and Resistance" / Conzeptualizing Group DTSTART:20110606T101500Z DTEND:20110606T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_TransferCG_060611-172@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_TransferCG_060611/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture Prof. Vesna Wallace: Buddhism's Encounter with Relig ious Pluralism in Contemporary Mongolia DTSTART:20110603T131500Z DTEND:20110603T144500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Wallace_030611_en-176@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Wallace_030611_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Guest Lecture Anna Akasoy: Alexander the Great: Prophet\, King\, C onqueror from the Atlantic to China DTSTART:20110531T141500Z DTEND:20110531T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Alexander_en-177@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Alexander_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4 DTSTART:20110530T141500Z DTEND:20110530T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_4_300511-98@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This meeting will start with a short wrap-up of the plenary di scussion on the topic of mission. After that\, it will be devoted to the t opic of migration. During the first session\, three doctoral students will give brief overviews of their work related to religion and migration\; du ring the second session\, we will discuss texts by Paul Bramadat\, Mark Ju ergensmeyer and Peggy Levitt. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_4_300511/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Demarkationsprozesse im ältesten Christentum DTSTART:20110527T063000Z DTEND:20110527T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Demarkationsprozesse_en-113@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Program\nSowohl Prozesse\, die zur Konstruktion von Alterität und zur Abgrenzung führen\, sowie solche\, die die Konstruktion von Iden tität und die Intensivierung von Kontakten stimulieren\, werden im ältes ten Christentum durch Religionskontakte ausgelöst. Im Unterschied zum Jud entum und zu nicht-jüdischen Gestalten wird dabei Rekurs auf umstrittene Traditionselemente genommen\, die als christlich bestimmt und interpretier t werden.\nDie Frage nach „Demarkationsprozessen“ dient als heuristisc hes Instrument zur Interpretation der Aushandlungsprozesse von Zugehörigk eit\, Alterität und Nichtzugehörigkeit sowie zu ihrer wissenschaftlichen Beschreibung in diachroner und synchroner Hinsicht. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Demarkationsprozesse_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Colloquium: Fellow I DTSTART:20110523T161500Z DTEND:20110523T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Coll_FellowI_230511-97@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lecture Adam Knobler\nLecture Dorothea Weltecke URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Coll_FellowI_230511/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 1 DTSTART:20110523T141500Z DTEND:20110523T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_1_230511-96@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Volker Rabens: “Neither Inclusion Nor Demarc ation? A Study of the Assumed Influence of Stoic Pneumatology on Early Chr istian Views of the Spirit” URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_1_230511/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Transfer and Resistance" / Reading Group DTSTART:20110523T101500Z DTEND:20110523T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_TransferRG_230511-171@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_TransferRG_230511/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4 DTSTART:20110516T161500Z DTEND:20110516T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_4_160511-95@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:This meeting will be devoted to a discussion of the potentials of and possible perspectives on  mission\, a theme relevant to both RF 4 and RF 2. Discussion will be based on two readings and short input stat ements by members of RF 4 who deal with mission in their projects (Anne- Charlott Trepp\, Hans Martin Krämer\, Marion Eggert/Andreas Müller-Lee) .\nReadings:\nPorter\, Andrew: Religion versus Empire? British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion 1700-1914\, Manchester UP 2005: "Int roduction"\nWhaling\, Frank: "A Comparative Religious Study of Missionary Transplantation on Buddhism\, Christianity and Islam"\, International Re view of Mission\, Vol LXX\, 1981\, 314-333. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_4_160511/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Secret" DTSTART:20110516T141500Z DTEND:20110516T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_4_160511-94@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Exemplification of a model for the intended conference (Secret in Contact\, Secret as a Blanket Space) in January 2012 by Philipp Reichl ing\, Knut Stünkel and Licia DiGiacinto URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_4_160511/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Transfer and Resistance" / Conzeptualizing Group DTSTART:20110516T101500Z DTEND:20110516T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_TransferCG_160511-170@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_TransferCG_160511/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reserch Field 2 DTSTART:20110509T161500Z DTEND:20110509T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_2_090511-93@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:\nBrainstorming about future activities dedicated to the “re ligion and space”\; \nDiscussion of articles / papers on “soteriologic al geographies” and “spatiality and religion”.\n URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_2_090511/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Dynamics and Stability" DTSTART:20110509T141500Z DTEND:20110509T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_3_090511-92@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_3_090511/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 3 DTSTART:20110502T161500Z DTEND:20110502T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_3_020511-91@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:RESEARCH FOCUS "RELIGIOUS LANGUAGES"\nAll members and fellows of the consortium are invited to the meeting:\n1. Introduction to the rese arch focus (see below)\n2. Lecture of Nadia Al-Bagdadi: The scandal of tr anslation: a case study  in the politics of religious language (see below )\n \n1. Religious Language – an introduction\nby Lucian Hölscher\nIn Research Field 3 one of the main discussions concerning the emergence\, change and transfer of religious concepts is about the character of reli gious languages: Can „religion“ be described by certain concepts\, i dioms or ways of communication\, which may be called exclusively religio us? Is religious language something distinct from secular language? When and how did it emerge and disappear in certain societies? Is there a tr ansfer of religious concepts or languages between different societies an d how was this described by contemporary observers?\nThe discussion of s uch questions has covered much of the last two years. In a basic contrib ution of December 2010 the Frankfurt philosopher Gesche Linde has discus sed several approaches to the definition of religious languages: by defi ning words\, texts and other sets of linguistic units\, situations of co mmunication and the speech of religious groups as being “religious”\ , looking from the side of the speaker and of the hearer to the understa nding of religion. Summing up she observed that what we call “religiou s” in such activities depends very much on those who participate in su ch speech acts. The act of defining them as being religious is part of t he game and hence part of the object which we as scientific observers in vestigate.\nIn an earlier paper Lucian Hölscher analysed the dictionary o f the German lexicographer Johann Christoph Adelung (Wörterbuch der h ochdeutschen Mundart\, 1st ed. 1777\, 2nd ed. 1793) looking for religiou s identifiers in the semantic description of words. As he found out\, on ly very few words (such as God\, devil\, church) were characterised as b eing religious exclusively\; most entries combine religious with secular meanings. What may be described as a religious vocabulary seems either to represent an earlier\, already by the end of the 18th century old-fas hioned state of language (as it was used in the Lutheran translation of the Bible)\; or it becomes religious in a given discourse only by referr ing to exclusively religious key-words.\nIn the research year 2011/12 th e debate will go on with contributions on Bible translations (Nadia Al B agdadi) and to the definition of religious vocabularies in the Near and Far East. A first step in this direction was made by Stefan Reichmuth in a paper on “Religion und Sprache im islamischen religiösen Feld zwis chen Deutschland und Nahost” (2010) and a presentation on the definiti on of religious concepts in an English dictionary of the 19th century. W e look forward to further contributions to this field of research.\nBochum \, April 21st\, 2011\n \n2. Against the background of Arab modernity and of the nahda\, I shall discuss the two competing\, first modern transla tions of the Bible into modern Arabic. Faris al-Shidyaq’s translation \, produced in Cambridge\, England (around 1850)\,and Butrus al-Bustani ’s\, produced in Beirut\, Lebanon (1860) demarcate a defining moment of modern confessionalization processes and an illustrious example of t he uses and abuses of religious language. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_3_020511/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Inclusion and Demarcation" DTSTART:20110502T141500Z DTEND:20110502T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_2_020511-90@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:\nReaching an understanding regarding the topic and the object ives of the new implemented focus group.\nDiscussion of literature:\n \n\n Aaron W. Hughes\, “Boundary Maintance: Religions as Organic-Cultural Flo ws. On Thomas Tweed\, Crossing and Dwelling (2006)”\, in: Contemporary T heories of Religion. A Critical Companion (ed. by Michael Stausberg)\, Lon don / New York: Routledge 2009\, 209–223.\nThomas A. Tweed\, Crossing an d Dwelling. A Theory of Religion\, Cambridge (Mass.) / London: Havard Univ ersity Press 2006\, Chap. 2: 29–53\; Conclusion: 164–183.\nGerd Bauman n\, “Grammars of Identity / Alterity. A Structural Approach”\, in: Gra mmars of Identity / Alterity. A Structural Approach (ed. by Gerd Baumann a nd Andre Gingrich)\, New York / Oxford: Berghahn Books 2004\, Chap. 2: 18 –50.\n\nYou can get the text as copies in the coordination office (SH 1/ 185) or as files\, send by email. Please contact Silke Köster. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_2_020511/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Transfer and Resistance" / Conzeptualizing Group DTSTART:20110502T101500Z DTEND:20110502T114500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_TransferCG_020511-169@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_TransferCG_020511/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 1 DTSTART:20110418T161500Z DTEND:20110418T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Coll_RF1_180411-89@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:“Factors of Stabilization and Destabilization in Religious C ontacts” (Peter Wick) and “Dynamic as a Helpful Metaphor?” (Prof. Dr . Daniel Hägele\, Physics)\nPaper URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Coll_RF1_180411/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group "Transfer and Resistance" DTSTART:20110418T141500Z DTEND:20110418T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_1_180411-88@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Introduction to the Focus Group URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_1_180411/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Between Dialogue\, Polemic and Apologetic: Modes of Inter-Religiou s Contact in Pre-Modern Korea seen in the Regional Context of Far East Asi a DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110414 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110416 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Dialog-Polemik-Apologeti-en-51@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer Poster\nInter-religious contacts between Buddhists and C onfucians during the Chosŏn period shouldn’t be reduced to Buddhism in an environment dominated by Neo-Confucian thought\, but also research in a wide range of interaction modes – revealed through religious\, historic al and literary sources.\nCase studies contrast theses interaction modes a nd identify trends in their historical development\, in order to develop b uilding blocks of a more abstract typology of religious contacts.\nWorksho p: "Between Dialogue\, Polemic and Apologetic: Modes of Inter-Religious Co ntact in Pre-Modern Korea Seen in the Regional Context of Far East Asia"\n From: 16:00h Thursday\, April 14th To: 16:00h Friday\, April 15th 2011\nTh e presentations dealt\, according to the topic of the conference\, with di fferent aspects of interreligious contact on the Korean peninsula. Through the introduction of a wide range of sources\, different modes of contact were examined.\nHenrik Hjort Sørensen (Copenhagen/Bochum) took up the nar rative of a Buddhist decline in Koryŏ times (918-1392)\, which has been w idely spread in modern research. He discussed previously assumed reasons f or and symptoms of such a decline\, eventually to refute the very idea of such a decline. The sources\, in the form of petitions to the throne or po lemics\, rather speak for a strengthening of Neo Confucian thought in the political sphere\, whose spokespersons discredit Buddhism for political re asons\, often under the circumstances of factional strife. Due to politica l conflicts the conduct in contact situations turns rougher also on the le vel of religious discourse\, where sympathetic tendencies decline in signi ficance and polemical attacks increase. Notably in official history record s\, the demarcation along the lines of religious allegiance becomes all th e more important.\nChristian Mularzyk (Bochum) analyzed cognitive patterns that underlie a special case of doctrinarian hybridity in the Buddhist wr itings of Kim Sisŭp (金時習\, 1435-1493). To explain the soteriologica l scheme of the five positions of the Caodong school (Caodong wuwei 曹洞 五位)\, Kim employs the Diagram on the Supreme Ultimate (Taiji tu 太極 圖) authored by the Neo Confucian thinker Zhou Dunyi (周敦頤\, 1017-10 73)\, together with the commentary by Zhu Xi (朱熹\, 1130-1200). The pre sentation aimed for an explication of reasons for which the combination of these texts could seem plausible to Kim Sisûp. The main basis for this p lausibility was located in numerical symmetries in the architecture of bot h thought systems as they were perceived by the author.\nBased on predatin g models of heterodoxy in China\, Vladimir Glomb (Prague) spoke on concept s of heterodoxy in the context of an emerging Neo Confucian tradition in K orea. The central figures in his presentation were T'oegye Yi Hwang (退 溪李滉\, 1501-1570) and Yulgok Yi I (栗谷李珥\, 1536-1584). Startin g point for the enquiry was a passage from the Lunyu 論語\, i.e. the ana lects of Confucius\, which figured to become a focal reference point for d iscussions on heterodox teachings (yi duan / I tan 異端) in Confucianism and Neo Confucianism. Although according to the standard understanding of the passage it is recommended to keep distance to heterodox teachings as a precautionary measure to avoid their attractive traits\, Confucian orth odoxy once and again refers to marked heterodox teachings in processes of self-positioning: In antiquity\, this is the case vis-à-vis the schools o f Yang Zhu (楊朱\, 4th century b.c.E) and Mo Di (墨翟\, 5th century b. c.E.)\, in the era of the Tang (唐\, 618-907) vis-à-vis Buddhism\, and i n the Song (宋\, 960-1279) this attitude is directed against Chan 禪. In the special case of Korea\, the marginalized role of Buddhism and the eme rgence of the teachings of Wang Yangming (王陽明\, 1472-1529) and Sŏ K yŏngdŏk (徐敬德\, 1489-1546) leads to the application of the concept of heterodoxy to inner-Confucian discourse: In this rigid discourse\, Conf ucian teachings are evaluated as being either orthodox or heterodox.\nIsab elle Sancho (Paris) examined the inner-denominational discourse on heterod oxy through the biography of Yulgok Yi I. Although later to be remembered one of the most important figures in the history of Korean Confucianism\, Yulgok in his youth enters a Buddhist monastery – out of grief and after after finishing his mourning period for his deceased mother. In this epis ode\, however\, falls his Confucian awakening experience\, leading him to return to the worldly sphere\, where he would eventually succeed masterful ly in Confucian state examinations and hold a strong Confucian viewpoint w henever it came to religious politics. Nonetheless the Buddhist interlude in his youth becomes an issue much discussed in his lifetime and posthumou sly. Comparing his biography to those of model thinkers of Neo Confucianis m in China (esp. Zhu Xi)\, common traits in them could hint at an idea sim ilar to that of a Bildungsroman: Pioneering figures of a tradition need to fall into the clutches of heterodox doctrine before they eventually can b ecome exemplary thinkers of orthodoxy.\nKim Daeyeol (Paris) also focused h is research on the life of a particular person\, in this case that of Tasa n Chŏng Yagyong (茶山丁若鏞\, 1762-1836)\, a state official and Conf ucian thinker of the late Chosŏn era. Although he is generally portrayed as a devout Confucian\, Tasan shows intellectual openness to ideas of diff erent schools of thought or religions. In examining his writings\, the que stion was posed\, at what stages of his life concrete influences of Buddhi st thought could be observed\, and how this inspiration could take place. The focus was placed on poetic works\, which were ordered in sequence foll owing his biography. During active duty as an official (1790-1800) documen ts written by Tasan reveal a strong repulsion of Buddhism\, while he at th e same time often pays visit to Buddhist monasteries. In the phase of exil e (1801-1818) a re-orientation of his attitude towards Buddhism takes plac e: Thus\, Tasan perceives the calmness of Buddhist monasteries to be enjoy able as a contrast to the busy everyday life of a clerk in an office. In t his time\, he develops friendly relationships with monks\, only social obl igations hindering him in becoming a fully ordained monk. The key to under stand this change of perception lie in Chŏng's new understanding of the r elationship between Buddhism and Confucianism: Initially having viewed bot h teachings as quite distinct from each other\, he perceives them now to b e close to each other. Secondly\, one can observe a spiritual re-orientati on after his being exiled a civil servant. In this scenario\, the medium o f poems serves to create an aesthetic space for the discussion of Buddhist ideas.\nYannick Bruneton (Paris) dedicated his presentation to an inquiry into the Tongmun sŏn 東文選\, a late 15th c. normative compilation pr oviding a counterpart to the Chinese Wenxuan 文選 by assembling exemplar y lyrics and prose literature from the Korean peninsula. After examining t he structure of the TMS\, Bruneton scrutinized monastery records and biogr aphies of monks contained in the work for Confucian influences. Generally composed by Confucian literati\, the texts often describe Buddhist monks a s virtuous in a Confucian sense\, e.g. as loyal (ch'ung 忠). This re-eval uation of the virtue of monks\, however\, also has another ring to it: By explicitly praising a small number of monks in this way\, it is implicitly said that most monks do not adhere to stately ideals and therefore cannot be seen as virtuous. At the same time\, the speaker remarked that many ea rly Confucian thinkers had a rather ambivalent position towards Buddhism: Despite all radical polemics\, to entertain friendly interactions with mon ks was an everyday affair.\nThe presentations of the workshop exemplified in astonishing manner the complexity of Buddho-Confucian contact during th e Koryŏ and the Chosŏn eras. Thus\, a broad range of interactions may be observed\, depending both on media and genres as well as the biographies of individual authors\, or even phases thereof. Correspondingly\, the orga nizers plan to unite the contributions in a volume honoring the multi-pers pective approach of the workshop and the multi-faceted picture emerging fr om the contributions. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Dialog-Polemik-Apologeti-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2 DTSTART:20110411T141500Z DTEND:20110411T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_2_11042011-85@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Introduction to the Research Field 2 and thoughts for further discussion\nWelcome adress URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_2_11042011/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Early Translations of the Qur’ān Part II DTSTART:20110408T070000Z DTEND:20110408T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Koranuebersetzungen-2-en-50@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer  Poster\nOn Friday\, 8th of April 2011\, there was a wo rkshop organized by Concetta Finiello and myself\, on “Early translatio ns of the Qur’ān\, Part II”. The first part took place one year ago\ , on 19th of March 2010. Both parts had the purpose to review and to inten sify research on translations of the Qur’ān for the following reasons: An important requirement for the expansion of religions in an intellectu al sense (were are not concerned here with military or political expansio n\, but with its sequels) is the production of translations of the holy texts into the languages of the newly acquired territories. To translate these texts seems not only useful but rather inevitable even in case of a n untranslatebility of the original text due to its uniqueness that is as sumed not only regarding the aspect of revelation but also of language. W e all know of the Koranic concept of Idjāz\, the unimitability and untra nslatebility of the Qur’ān. Nevertheless\, the Qur’ān has actually been translated into foreign languages since the expansion of Muslim empi re. On the other hand\, also non-Muslim people often have a great interes t in translations of the enemies’ scripture in order to take up the int ellectual struggle against Islam.\nIn the workshops\, we were interested e specially in translations into – so to speak – non-Islamic languages\ , that means languages that belong to countries which are not ore not ent irely Islamic. To make it concrete\, we were concerned firstly with the t hree holy languages of Judaism and Christianity\, namely Hebrew\, Greek a nd Latin\; secondly with European vernacular languages\; and thirdly with East or Southeast Asian languages. Our interest lies on the earliest att empts to translate the Qur’ān into these languages\, and subsequently in the later history of translation\, too.\nIn the first part of the work shop\, after an overview to the problem of ‘untranslatebility’ (idjā z al-qur’ān) given by Hartmut Bobzin\, the languages we were concerned with were Byzantine Greek\, medieval Latin\, 17th century German\, and ( perhaps most surprisingly) modern\, i.e. 20th century Japanese (for detail s\, see IKGF Workshop I Report). In the second part of the workshop\, we concentrated on further vernacular European languages both Western and Ea stern ones\, namely Aljamiado (i.e. Spanish written in the Arabic alphabe t) and French in the West\, Polish and Russian in the East. Furthermore\, we discussed a different Latin translation and\, to be not too christian ocentristic\, translations into Hebrew. It was planned to have also a tal k by our former fellow Svevo d’Onofrio on translations into Sanskrit\, but unfortunately it was not possible to find any existing copy of a Sans krit Qur’ān neither in Europe nor in India. Perhaps some of us remembe r Svevo’s last talk here in our consortium when he showed that the famo us Indian Om sign is a distortion of the word Allah written in Arabic let ters – just to make the relationship evident.\nNotwithstanding this bli nd spot on our map\, we had a wide range of space as well as of time: Fro m Southwestern to Northeastern Europe and to the Near East\, from the be ginning of the 13th up to the 20th centuries. And we had also a wide range of cultural transfer phenomena: One the one hand\, there are translation s that resulted from direct encounters between Muslims and Christians or Jews\, respectively\, in a at least partly Islamic environment\; one the other hand\, the French and Slavonic translations were made in a complete ly different cultural context far from the genuine Muslim countries.\nThe first paper was given by Dr. Ulisse Cecini from Erlangen\, who is with us as an Assitant Researches since the 1st of April now. Cecini was concerne d with the Latin translation of the Qur’ān by Marc of Toledo\, finishe d about 1209 or 1210. His translation was far less known and far less inf luential than the famous translation by Robert of Ketton from 1143\, but Cecini convincingly showed that Marc’s translation is much more oriente d at the Arabic original that Robert’s was. By means of comparison of s everal surahs\, one could easily recognize the differences. The purpose o f that very close translation that sometimes is not easy to understand ob viously was to present a scholarly instrument for a bilingual reading of the Qur’ān to learned Christians who were not familiar enough with Ara bic to read it only in the original language. Consequently\, Marc’s tra nslation was used by later missionaries like Riccoldo da Monte di Croce.\ nThe second paper was a real highlight: Professor López-Morillas from Bl oomington/Indiana (USA) is the leading worldwide expert in Aljamiado\, es pecially Spanish translation of the Qur’ān keeping Arabic letters. So we were very happy that she had come to Bochum to present us the results of her long time research on that topic. The first translation of the Qur ’ān into a European vernacular at all was the translation into Spanish made by the Alfaqui of Segovia\, ‘Isa ibn Djabir\, on behalf of a famo us Christian theologian\, Juan de Segovia\, who made a interlinear Latin translation from the Spanish. Unfortunately\, this trilingual Qur’ān i s lost. Professor López gave an overview over the surviving 26 manuscrip ts containing Spanish Qur’āns\, most of them bilingual in Arabic and A ljamiado (in Castile or Aragonese dialect). Of particularly interest was her presentation of “The Mystery of Ms. Toledo 235”\, the only comple te Spanish translation. It is in Latin characters and transcripted from a bilingual manuscript in Aljamiado\, finished as late as 1606. Professor López’ edition of that text with a detailed study of its paleographica l and linguistic features is under press and will come out in the next fe w weeks.\nThe third paper given by Dr. Aleida Paudice\, former Assistant Researcher at Halle-Wittenberg\, dealt with Hebrew translations and trans literations of the Qur’ān. She gave a report of her so-far studies in that topic\, concentrating mainly on manuscripts with Arabic Qur’āns i n Hebrew characters\, obviously written for and used by people who unders tood spoken Arabic but could only read Hebrew script – just the opposit e to the aforementioned Mudéjars and Moriscos whose spoken language was Spanish\, but who could read only Arabic letters. There were\, as far as we know\, no medieval translations of the Qur’ān into Hebrew. The firs t one was made by Jakob Levi b. Israel in 1636 Venice\, not directly from the Arabic\, but from the Italian translation of Andrea Arrivabene 1547. The first direct translation is from Hermann Reckendorf\, Leipzig 1857.\ nIn the afternoon\, we had two further papers by Bochum scholars\, one by Dr. Annette Gerstenberg from the Romanistic Department\, the other one b y Prof. Mirja Lecke from the Department of Slavic languanges. Dr. Gersten berg talked about French translations\, the first being that of André Du Ryer1647\, followed by that of Claude-Étienne Savary 1783 and Albert Ka simirski 1840. It was highly interesting to see how Dr. Gerstenberg showe d by means of a synopsis of several Qur’ānic passages and the three Fr ench translations that the method and purpose of the translations changed over the centuries: While Du Ryer made a Christianizising translation fo r polemical purposes (to demonstrate the absurdities of the Qur’ān)\, Savary’s intention was to create a literary work of art congenial to th e Qur’ān\; finally\, Kasimirski’s translation is philological one to serve interests of historical scholarship. So the trias may be called in terms of absolutism\, enlightenment\, and historicism.\nThe last\, but n ot the least presentation was by Prof. Lecke on the first Polish and Russ ian translations\, respectively. They are not comparable at all\, because of their completely different origin\, purpose and linguistic features. The first Polish translation called “The Lithuanian Tefsir” was made about 1600 by Muslims for a Muslim minority living in Poland (including p arts of the Balticum at that time). It is preserved in some bilingual Ara bic-Polish manuscripts written entirely in Arabic letters\, a kind of Pol ish Aljamiado\, so to speak. Since the Muslim community was later complet ely Polonized\, that means also Catholizised\, these translations had no future impact and have of course never been printed. In the Russian empir e\, on the other hand\, there are many peoples of Muslim faith until toda y who have their own languages and translations. The first Russian transl ation by Petr Posnikov is a Christian orthodox one and was made for polem ical and missionary purposes. It was published 1716 in St. Petersburg and is a somewhere grotesquely distorted translation from the French of Du R yer. The second Surah\, for example (al-baqara\, revealed at Medina)\, wh ich in Du Ryer is titled “La vache\, à Medina”\, in Posnikov sounds like that: “From Lavache to Medina”.\nIn sum\, the workshop gave fasc inating insights not only into different kinds of philological aspects of the translations\, but also into religious transfer phenomena that are c rucial for Research Field 2. The idea came up to wide and deapen these in sights by holding a third part of this workshop on translations in langua ges not yet concerned\, namely East and Southeast Asian languages like Ch inese and Indonesian\, or at least to include these languages in the fort hcoming publication. And perhaps we’ll discover a Sanskrit Qur’ān\, too. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Koranuebersetzungen-2-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Refreshment DTSTART:20110404T174500Z DTEND:20110404T215900Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Refresh_04042011_en-84@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Refresh_04042011_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Colloquium: Research Field 3 DTSTART:20110404T161500Z DTEND:20110404T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_3_04042011-83@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_3_04042011/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Introduction for the Fellows DTSTART:20110404T141500Z DTEND:20110404T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Intro_en-82@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Intro_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Reception of the Religious Other in Intercultural Exchange (16 th–18th Centuries) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110310 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110312 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Reception-Religous-Other-en-65@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nThe historical theme at the core of this conference is the early modern perception\, stereotyping and understanding of the religi ous Other in both Western and Eastern cultures (16th–18th centuries).\nT he symposium will be articulated in two sessions: \n\nEnlightenment views of Judaism\, Islam and Far Eastern Religions \nEarly modern represen tations of the religious Other in Judaism\, Islam and ‘Oriental’ Religions\n\nEach session will focus on core concepts\, such as religion\, morality\, and tolerance\, and ‘radical’ representations of the relig ious Other.\n Key questions to be ideally addressed include :\n\nHow did religious groups view other religious groups in early modern (actual\ , fictional or scholarly) situations of contact\, and how did they gr asp them conceptually? \n Religious tolerance\, it has been sai d\, involves a complex blend of rejection and acceptance. Along with philosophically ‘radical’ and secularising claims for ‘universal toleration of all opinions\, true and false\,’ can we identify\, both in early modern Europe and Asia\, specific faith-based ‘orthodox’ conceptualizations of (communal and/or individual) religious toleran ce? \nHow was heterodoxy (with its long associations with deviancy\, heresy\, error\, and dissent) determined in the case of each religiou s group? What was the effect (if any) of religious heterodoxy\, anti- dogmatism and rationalism on the mainstream perception and representa tion of the religious Other? \nHow did the encounter with the religio us and cultural Other\, with the distant Other\, prompt a re-examinat ion\, or a re-interpretation\, of one’s own convictions\, as well a s a legitimisation of the nearby Other? \n\nReport URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Reception-Religous-Other-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Democracy – Pluralism – Science. The Contribution of Classical American Thought to a Modern Concept of Religion DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110221 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110223 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Democracy_en-79@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Democracy_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Making of Religion in Modern Societies DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110209 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110212 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Maing-religion-en-64@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: Veranstaltungszentrum room 3\nFlyer\nDialectics Betw een Language and Institutionalization \n \nConference of the Käte-Hambu rger-Kolleg\,\nto be held in February 2011 at Bochum-University\n \nThe e mergence of the modern notion of religion is part of the transformation of religions in modern societies. Due to the claim of the modern state – s ince the French Revolution – to be sovereign over the whole of society a nd all its citizens\, religions had to reinvent themselves as institutions within society. Some religious groups did this by resisting and rejecting the state’s claims\, while others presented themselves as the avant-gar de of this evolution\, and as models of moral communities.\nToday\, people \, especially those familiar with religious studies\, find ‘religion’ and ‘religions’ all over the world and everywhere in history. Even tho se who would reject such an identification\, such as Confucianists or Soci alists\, are included into the big family of religions by others. The same mechanism works for ‘religious’ concepts: despite their multivalent s emantics they are usually subsumed within a religious vocabulary\, which i s supposed to be coherent and conceptually independent. Take for instance the concepts of ‘piety’ and ‘fate’\, which have – despite of the ir “secular” usage – been incorporated in religious discourses\, as referring to ‘religious’ practices\, rituals and conceptions.\nActuall y\, the concept of religion in this general\, globally and historically wi de-extended sense\, is pretty young and regionally limited: it is\, basica lly\, an offspring of certain strands within the West-European Enlightenme nt of the 18th century. It was – and is – not a neutral analytical cat egory\, but also a linguistic instrument for classifying\, subsuming\, com paring and regulating various social\, political and intellectual phenomen a. Looked at from a pragmatic understanding of language the concept may be taken as an argument or weapon in cultural dialogues\, social conflicts\, or political struggles. This is how we take it in this conference.\nHowev er\, if religions cannot be simply identified\, are not simply ‘out ther e’\, but have to be perceived and identified by contemporary agents\, th e question arises how this was done in the first place: how where phenomen a perceived and labelled as being ‘religious’? A second question immed iately follows: what consequences did this labelling have for the institut ionalisation of religion within societies? Labelling directs the perceptio n of people\, gives coherence to social actions\, prepares the ground for rules and laws\, opens up fields of action and makes possible new practice s. In short\, it redefines the social practice of religion.\nFollowing the scope and program of our research group we study the linguistic formation and institutionalisation of religions in modern societies. Our efforts co ncentrate on European and Asian societies from the 18th to the 20th centur ies\, the diffusion of religious concepts within and between them\, with a special focus on the concept religion itself. Under the conditions of the discursive and legal separation of political and religious power religiou s communities in modern societies were increasingly obliged to legitimize their own traditions\, practices and conceptions in terms that non-believe rs could understand and accept.\nWe have chosen four fields of study:\n-           Religious Membership and Statistics: What did membership mean to different religious groups? How were membership and other forms of belonging defined\, both from within the group and from without? Which ef forts were undertaken by state authorities to count religious membership a nd bring the results together in national statistics? Who started to count religious groups and for what purposes? How was the concept of ‘religio n’ used and made applicable in these statistics? What consequences did t his counting and the resulting numerical self-awareness have for the self- understanding\, practices and policies of the various religious groups?\n-           Teaching Religion at School: Modern states made an enor mous effort to educate their subjects and turn them into moral citizens. H ow was this instruction conceptualized\, and how was ‘religion’ distin guished from\, or integrated within\, this project of moral transformation ? Did the state use\, co-opt\, regulate or exclude particular religious gr oups or concepts in building up this moral economy of public education? Di d religious groups oppose or support this attempt to turn ‘religious’ subjects into loyal\, committed and disciplined citizens?\n-           The Scientification of Religious Language and Religious Concepts:  H ow were religious concepts/religious languages defined in relation to non- religious languages and concepts? The new or re-defined ‘religious’ co ncepts transcended traditional specific religious discourses\, and could t hus be used by secular people as well. This could lead religious groups to a critical self-reflection by means of discussions with the sciences (Wes tern religion in the 19th century is the prime example). Is this the gener al trend? Or are there other ways in which religious groups could either a ppropriate or radically reject the new discourse on ‘religion’?\n-           Religious Freedom: The establishment of modern states goes together with a constitutional definition of the place - rights and restri ctions - of religion within society. By this means traditional ‘religiou s’ beliefs\, holidays\, associations\, institutions\, properties and man y other things were either regulated and protected\, or forbidden\, suppre ssed or destroyed. A new configuration of possible fields of action for re ligious groups emerged. Has the spread of constitutions and legal systems of a Western type\, defining religion as a separate sphere\, transferred t he Western definition of religion all over the world as well? URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Maing-religion-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:"Beiratssitzung" DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110210 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:beiratssitzung_en-54@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/beiratssitzung_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Formation of the Discipline of Religious Studies in Asia DTSTART:20110204T080000Z DTEND:20110204T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RW-Gesellschafen-en-49@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\nBackground and Aims\nReligious semantics are shaped not just by the actors of the religious field themselves\, but also to a cons iderable degree by non-religious instances. In this regard\, the disciplin e of religious studies has been particularly influential\, shaping both th e concept of religion itself as well as other religious concepts. While th is fact may sound self-evident\, it has not been generally acknowledged fo r religious studies outside of Europe\, as the assumption has long been th at they are merely more or less successful adaptations of the European mod el\, just as is sometimes assumed that the concept of religion was simply taken over from the European example. Yet\, both specific cultural dynamic s (makeup of the religious field itself\; conceptual configuration of the religious field prior to contact with Western ideas\, differences in value attributed to the religious field in both society and academia) and polit ical factors (colonial or semi-colonial status\, role of the Christian mis sion within this colonial permeation) have to be taken into consideration when attempting to account for the role of religious studies in different non-European countries\, as it took shape roughly between the 1870s and 19 30s. Transnational factors do\, however\, obviously loom large and will th us have to be taken into account\, albeit not as a one-way street: Even in the early phase of its formation in Europe\, knowledge of Asian religions was instrumental for some of the central notions structuring the academic field. The workshop therefore included one paper by Arie Molendijk on nin eteenth-century conceptions of Asian religions within the budding discipli ne of religious studies in Europe.\nProgram\n9.00–9.30    Welcome & I ntroduction\n9.30–10.30    Arie Molendijk (Groningen/Bochum): The Lig ht of Asia – Buddhism as a “World Religion”\n10.30–11.00    Cof fee Break\n11.00–12.00    Isomae Jun’ichi (Kyoto/Bochum): The Proce ss of the Development of Religious Studies in Japan – The Experience of “Religion”\n12.00–13.30    Lunch Break\n13.30–14.30    Şina si Gündüz (Istanbul): The Basic Trends in the Studies of History of Reli gion in Turkey (1850–2010)\n14.30–15.00    Coffee Break\n15.00–16 .00    Christian Meyer (Leipzig): The Emergence of Religious Studies in Republican China\n16.00–16.30    Coffee Break\n16.30–17.30    J ang Sukman (Seoul/Bochum): Religion\, Science and Colonialism: Religious S tudies in Colonial Korea\n17.30–18.00    Concluding Discussion\nResul ts\nWhile the early history of the discipline of religious studies (or “ science of religion”) in Europe is one of “gradual emancipation from t he patronizing power of theology”\, the situation in East Asia was very different. To be sure\, there had been a tradition of the scientific study of religions in East Asia conducted within religious organizations\, but we find in the modern age less a process of emancipation from an older heg emonic field of study (as theology in Europe)\, but rather a  parallel pr ocess of adoption of modern\, Western notions of what is appropriate or ev en necessary in academia. Crucially\, the early religious studies scholars both in Europe and in East Asia\, just like theologians\, held a basic be lief in the necessity of religion for humankind\; other than theologians\, however\, they saw this as a universal property of human beings that coul d be realized in many forms and shapes. In this sense\, religious studies in China or Japan played a similar role to that in Europe in that it serve d to defend the cause of religion in the face of modernity. Religious stud ies thus served quite a similar cause as theology\, but with different\, n amely modern\, means.\nIn the light of this insight\, it is little surpris ing that most of the early exponents of religious studies in East Asia saw in Christianity and Buddhism the two prime examples of religion in a valu e-laden sense. Yet\, research on religious groups or phenomena that were l ess adept at articulating themselves was also conducted\, such as shamanis m\, folk religions\, new religious movements\, folk beliefs\, and what was then called “superstitions”. Not infrequently\, however\, this kind o f research was tied to political agendas: Ethnographic field work on popul ar religions in China contributed to the anti-superstition campaign in the 1920s\; research results of Japanese anthropologists on Korean new religi ons was used by the colonial government to suppress groups\; and in Japan as well\, mainstream religious studies scholars supported government crack downs on groups viewed as pseudo-religions and detrimental to the nation ’s efforts of modernization.\nIn terms of the historical semantics of re ligion\, religious research and the new disciplinary consciousness contrib uted to a process in which many religious phenomena were subsumed under th e relatively new term “religion”. These phenomena were\, however\, oft en marked by clear hierarchical value assignments such as those following theories of developmental stages. In this sense\, religious studies were c learly complicit in the strongly statist actual treatment of religious gro ups in China\, Korea\, and Japan up to 1945\, where positive value was acc orded only to large established religions\, while all others were viewed w ith suspicion. At the very least religious studies reinforced the (new) ca tegories of religion vs. superstition\, which then became the fundament of discriminatory religious policies. Thus\, perhaps even more so than in ni neteenth-century Europe\, religious studies in early twentieth-century Eas t Asia contributed to defining the still young concept of religion\, a con tribution that had a crucial impact because of the way it fed into the mak ing of religious policy of the modernizing nation states in East Asia. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RW-Gesellschafen-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Colloquium: Short reports of the Fellows / Refreshment DTSTART:20110131T171500Z DTEND:20110131T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Coll_report_310111-47@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: GA 8/34 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Coll_report_310111/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Preparation of "Beiratssitzung" (08./09.02.11) DTSTART:20110131T151500Z DTEND:20110131T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Prep_310111-46@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: SH 1/187\nDetails: Fellows\, KHK-steering committee\ , KHK research assistants URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Prep_310111/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Roberto Hofmeister Pich: John Duns Scotus on the Credibi lity of Christian Doctrines DTSTART:20110126T091500Z DTEND:20110126T104500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Duns-Scotus_en-86@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: HMA 40 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DTSTART:20101206T151500Z DTEND:20101206T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_1_061210-35@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: SH 1/187 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_1_061210/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religious Secrets in Contact DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101202 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Religious-Secrets-Contact-en-48@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Religious-Secrets-Contact-en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 2 DTSTART:20101129T151500Z DTEND:20101129T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_2_291110-34@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: SH 1/187 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_2_291110/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Meeting of the KHK-Board DTSTART:20101125T110000Z DTEND:20101125T130000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:board_251110-57@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: SH 1/189 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/board_251110/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 1 DTSTART:20101122T151500Z DTEND:20101122T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_1_221110-33@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: SH 1/187 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_1_221110/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Modes and Models of Religious Attraction DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101119 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:modes-4@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: Musisches Zentrum\, RUB / „Situation Kunst“\, Bo chum-Weitmar\nFlyer\, Poster\nProceedings of the annual conference on “M odes and Models of Religious Attraction” of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg R esearch Consortium on the “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe”\, 15 – 18 November 2010\nAt the heart of the annual c onference 2010 of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg on “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe” was the term “attraction” or “attractor” and its derivatives – a term which boasts a rich traditi on and has been put to the test in physics\, sociology and media theory. V arious aspects of religious “attraction” were discussed under the head ing “Modes and Models of Religious Attraction” from the perspective of the dimensions “materiality” and “experience”. The aim in this co ntext was not to expose “attraction” as a psychological category or as a factor in identity within a subject-object dialectic\, but rather as a specific dynamic factor in the context of religious densification\, delimi tation and repulsion. Our interest therefore did not focus so much on indi vidually identifiable charismatic figures or on a diffuse agency as the st arting point\, nor on their followers as identifiable recipients of attrac tive messages\, but instead on the religious intrinsic dynamics of these c ontinued processes of exchange\, which significantly determine the formati on and dissolution of religious networks of tradition. Particular topics o f discussion were the interplays which lead to the creation of religiously efficient material and thus to the formation of attractors\, and furtherm ore religious interactions from which various auratisations of bodies or o bjects emerge. These include religiously encoded elements which gain or lo se attractiveness due to shifts in power within the religious field\, and which can transfer their charisma synchronically onto other elements (for instance\, holy oil onto a religious symbol anointed with it) or diachroni cally restore it (for instance through the reinterpretation and incorporat ion of former places of worship). What was particularly instructive here w as the way in which the media work which not only accompany religious burs ts of attraction but also codetermine their direction and efficiency and w hich can act as transformers or generators within the inter and intra-reli gious communication processes. Beyond this\, the specific conditions and p ossibilities of religious attraction\, which  is perceived and conveyed a s individual experiences of transcendence\, were discussed in greater deta il\, for instance the suggestive power of alternative offers of salvation in situations of religious competition or the forces of attraction which c an manifest themselves in the various forms of mysticism or mystical exper iences. It became clear that the various effects of linguistic\, visual\, audio and performative media and their respective religious encoding play a key role in the dynamics of the religious field.\n \nThe first section entitled The Conceptualisation of Aura\, Charisma and Transcendence\, chai red by Gesche Linde (Frankfurt a.M.\, Germany)\, explored the terminologic al and conceptional environment of religious attraction and repulsion\, in particular in terms of its material and media context. At the heart of th e debate was the question of to what degree definitions of aura\, charisma and transcendence can contribute to  theoretical clarification\, above a ll of the relational aspects of intra and inter-religious dynamics.\nAt th e start of the section\, in a contribution entitled Sacrifice\, Martyrdom and the 'Nachleben’ of Religion\, Martin Treml (Berlin\, Germany) highli ghted the aesthetic dimension\, which anticipates and refers back to relig ious practice\, and which also and especially becomes apparent in the “N achleben” of religious aura in the secular aura of works of art. The cul tural techniques described by Aby Warburg as “pathos formula”\, which condense religious experience\, process it by forming and shaping it\, thu s enabling its transmission and possibly re-use in other religious or secu lar contexts\, seem to be of particular significance for religious dynamic s. Explicit reference was made to the significance of the – as yet insuf ficiently incorporated –  approaches from the early phase of the Warbur g school for religious research in general and specifically for the concep t of a relational form of research on religion.\nAs is well known\, the te rm “Nachleben” has proven extremely productive in the diachronic obser vation of ancient art history\, and indeed not just in terms of its many C hristian and later secular “renaissances”\, but also – as illustrate d in the lecture by Ioannis Mylonopoulos (New York\, USA) on The Beauty of Simple Things: Simplicity and the Visual Construction of the Divine in An cient Greece – for the Greek cult tradition itself. Starting from the st riking thesis - “In the beginning there was the image” – aniconic sc ulptures of early times\, colossal statues\, “classical” humanisations of idols and experimental and historicising tendencies of Hellenism were used to describe different strategies of religious attraction through visu al constructions of the divine. The dichotomy developed by Mylonopoulos be tween two differently oriented charismatic interactions appeared to be par ticularly revealing in this context : between a communicative dynamic\, wh ich formed out of directly sensuous factors of attraction (through shaping the human body into beautiful forms) or out of decidedly simple\, archais ing forms (which thus suggest dignity).\nKnut Martin Stünkel (Bochum\, Ge rmany) then undertook the promising attempt in his lecture on Aura as Prop ensity. Towards a Non-Intentionalistic Description of Attraction to render the concept of religious attraction more concrete by converging Benjamin ’s theory of the aura and Popper’s “propensity” concept\, to then go on to link both approaches to Bruno Latour’s blueprint of hybrid netw orks. The advantage of this initially surprising constellation is above al l that it can grasp phenomena of attraction in their specific dynamic betw een convergence and distance. Religious attraction would therefore not be defined as a state or trait of an auratic cult object\, but rather as a co ntinued “unfolding”\, whose condensations appear neither predictable n or controllable\, and so cannot be explained by the intentions of the subj ects or collectives involved either.  Aura\, charismatics and religious m aterial thus are not in a causal but in a relational relationship which re sults from a sequence of processes of attraction and repulsion.\nThe gener al discussion highlighted once again that with regard to the communicative dynamism between statues of the gods and the community worshipping them\, especially from relational points of view\, it is virtually impossible to imagine a clear separation between cult and art objects. Furthermore the point was made that it is necessary to take into account the relevance of description or textualisation or even visualisation\, and consequently the translation into another medium as a factor of self-reflection and self-r eassurance of religious aura.\nPicking up on the initial deliberations on terminological clarification\, the second section\, chaired by Arie L. Mol endijk (Groningen\, Netherlands) on Creating Typologies for Charisma and T ranscendental Experience aimed to differentiate more precisely between the different fields of forces in which aura\, charisma\, transcendence and t ranscendental experience can take on concrete form. Here the question was also what significance the translation and communication of religious expe rience through media would have in a typology of religious and non-religio us attractors. Dimitri Drettas (Erlangen\, Germany) demonstrated in his co ntribution on Dream Divination and Dream Exorcism in Chinese Household Enc yclopedias the significance of soothsaying using the example of predictive techniques in China\, whilst showing how the interpretation of dreams and apotropaic means\, which have a long tradition in Daoism in warding off e vil spirits\, can converge. Dreams are understood in this context as a mul tifaceted interaction between various spirit beings\, ancestors\, diviniti es and demons which temporarily enter into an exciting dialogue with the d reamer\, which later is continued in the process of interpretation of drea ms. The experience of transcendence and the reflection of transcendence\, as they manifest themselves in the corresponding books of dreams\, appear in all of this as complementary factors of attraction which can both cance l out as well as intensify the dynamics of charisma and transcendental exp erience.\nNaomi-Feuchtwanger-Sarig’s contribution (Tel Aviv\, Israel) en titled Between Mundane\, Sanctified and Holy: Re-Defining Jewish Ritual an d Ceremonial Objects continued the discussion on a differentiation and pos sible typologisation of aura and charismatics with a series of specific ex amples from the Jewish tradition\, which – ranging from Dura Europos up to the present – highlighted different ways of dealing with auratic obje cts or different purity rules and procedures to secure ritual status. Whil st on the one hand the speaker showed how the rules handed down from gener ation to generation\, for example on the production and inscription of Tor ah scrolls\, continue to be observed in the minutest of detail\, on the ot her hand she noted that from a Jewish point of view\, ceremonial objects\, cannot actually be rendered profane at all as their status is after all d efined by God’s word and thus their material aspects as well as their po ssibly being endangered are of secondary importance. With regard to inter- religious spheres of contact and conflict\, several notable cases of the c onversion of Jewish cult objects merited particular attention\, which – in what circumstances it is unfortunately unclear – had been used in Chr istian liturgy.\nReal or virtual inter-religious conversions were also dis cussed in the next contribution by Sven Bretfeld (Bochum\, Germany). Under the heading of Materiality of Religion and the Aesthetic Dimensions of Or ientalism\, the speaker concentrated on two prominent examples of religiou sly loaded Orientalism from the 19th century. Starting with a precise des cription of Arthur Schopenhauer's study and the significant positioning of a Buddha statue\, first the oscillating powers of attraction and repulsio n of the then little-known Eastern religions on the atheist philosopher an d his theological opponents were discussed and then contrasted with the es oterically influenced convergence with Buddhism by the American attorney\, journalist and first president of the of the “Theosophical Society”\, Henry Steel Olcott\, half a century later\, who after his conversion wrot e an - in terms of intra-religious reception - rather controversial Buddhi st catechism according to Western criteria. In both cases\, the complement ary - and in itself certainly contradictory – relationship between exper ience of transcendence and transcendental reflection is a constitutive fac tor in inter-religious attraction.\nIn the general discussion on the secti on’s contributions there was an emphasis on the need to start less with auratised objects or the people affected by them when creating a typologic al distinction and instead to focus on the processes of attribution\, the forms of communication and the media involved in these.\n \nThe third sec tion Re-Constructing Auratic Material\, chaired by Marion Steinicke (Bochu m\, Germany)\, dealt with processes of loading with religious meaning\, re interpretation\, re-evaluation as well as the reclaiming of cult objects a nd sites\; at the fore was the search for specific processes which lead to the distinction between religious and secular material as well as the spe cial factors of attraction of religiously loaded material. The section ope ned with a lecture by Carmen Meinert (Essen/ Bochum\, Germany) Striving fo r Perfection in Central Asian Buddhism: Non-Conceptionality in Medieval Da oism on Dunhuang on the Silk Road\, once a prominent place of worship for Buddhism and its intra-religious confrontations\, whose significance manif ests itself in its architectural and visual art design - particularly inte resting in terms of the media aspects of religious attraction – as well as in extremely rich text production. The speaker concentrated on the idea of “non-conceptionality” which is constantly a central theme in the w ritings as a soteriologically decisive experience concept in Buddhism\, wh ich on the one hand (in the direction of Tibet) exerted a remarkable pull\ , and on the other was received with remarkable indifference (in the direc tion of China). Especially against this – and not least also politically explosive – backdrop\, Dunhuang is a significant example of the interac tion of different attractors which condition the genesis\, condensation an d dissolution of a religious centre of gravity\, without – regardless of the various secondary modes of reception (interventions\, restrictions or attempts to control) – identifying primary intentional steering or orde ring structures.\nFollowing on from this\, in her contribution on Embodied Transcendence: Energetic and Physical Cultivation in Medieval Daoism Livi a Kohn (Boston\, USA) used an in-depth discussion of the Daoist concept of physicality to highlight that the “occidental concepts” of spirituali ty and materiality\, of immanence and transcendence (irrespective of their many differentiations\, especially in the context of religious and philos ophical debate) have always been the subject of controversial discussion w ith regard to Daoism. Although the terminology appears to be problematic\, in the Chinese context\, too\, there are traces of “notions of Western- style transcendence” to be found\, notably in the form of Dao as an othe rworldly god and creator. In “medieval Daoist culture” these different dimensions are activated through the medium of the body. The human body a s a mirror of the cosmos can thus be understood as a sacred topography wit hin which immanence and transcendence complete one another as part of a pr ocess and thus transform the human physis itself into a primary field of f orces of different religious factors of attraction and repulsion.\nIn the following contribution on Recreating an Ancient Attraction: The Buddha’s Cave and the Sixteen Pilgrimage Sites in Sri Lanka\, Kevin Trainor (Burli ngton\, USA) used a specific case study to describe the restoration of los t\, forgotten or forsaken Buddhist holy relics in Sri Lanka and the attemp ts to revive past pilgrimage sites connected with this. The speaker analys ed a series of legitimisation strategies which intended to both legitimise and increase the concrete topography of the restored pilgrimage network a nd its religious attractiveness. This includes the supernatural manifestat ions transmitted in various ways and communicated through media which char acterise a specific cult site\, the corresponding legend literature which tells of this and also the non man-made religious images belonging to a pa rticular cult site. Exhibitions of reproductions of such archaic or even o nly archaising visual works made it possible to authorise the respective l ocation of a restored holy site.\nIn contrast to this\, in Making Attracti ve what is Already Attractive: Roman Catholicism in Early Modern South Ind ia\, Between Missionary Accommodation and Grassroot Syncretism\, Paolo Ara nha (Florence\, Italy) investigated various Christian mission strategies i n the area of the Indian subcontinent\, notably in Goa. The missionary act ivities carried out by the Roman Church with significant involvement of th e Inquisition are characterised by three diverging\, and because of this v ery fact\, efficient trends\, which the speaker subsumed under the terms “repression” (of existing ritual acts and destruction of places of wor ship)\, “adaption” (absorption of non-Christian religious customs\, fo rms of worship or festivals into Christian cult practices) and “attracti on” (specific coordination of Christian cult practices with indigenous t raditions). Of particular relevance in this context is the principle of “accommodation”\, which proves to be a key attraction factor in the In dia mission – thus differing from the missionary endeavours in other par ts of the world. Here\, within the new Christian communities\, common ethi cal and social concepts – such as the caste system – are tolerated as is the continuation of archaic ritual acts or their discrete integration i nto the Christian mass through inter-religious reinterpretation or convers ion. Furthermore\, the participation of non-Christians in Christian proces sions is allowed and membership of a community of worship is not determine d by a rigid inclusion and exclusion procedure.\nWith her paper on Creatin g Transcendental Feelings: Fantasies of the Milky Way in the Contemporary Japanese Organization World Mate\, Inken Prohl then drew attention in the final part of the section to the different conditions\, prerequisites and specificities of “World Mate”\, a version of new religiosity in contem porary Japanese society\, whose “transcultural events”could raise impo rtant questions on the margins and interfaces of religious and secular att raction. The paper concentrated on the two-fold question of  “How peopl e are bound?“\, and “How people react?” In answer to this question\, numerous examples of cult objects were presented which\, according to cer tain concepts in the history of art\, would have come under the category c ommodity aesthetics and that the speaker herself dubbed “Walt-Disney-Sty le”. The “customer-orientation” of this community of worship was con sequently underlined\, which in an attempt to attract new members evidentl y makes use of tried and tested marketing strategies.\nThe lecture offered opportunity for terminological self-reflection in several respects. In th e section’s closing discussion\, on the one hand\, the difficulty of def ining “religious feelings” or religious experience without social or c ultural contextualisation was broached\, whilst\, on the other hand\, the need to distinguish between the terms transcendent and transcendental espe cially from relational points of view was underlined.\n \nThe subjects of the fourth and final section Inter- and Intra-Religious Dynamics of Trans cendental Experience\, chaired by Heinz Georg Held (Pavia\, Italy)\, were the processes of attraction and repulsion\, which\, on the one hand\, dete rmine the fascination of transcendence and\, on the other\, motivate the d iscursive reflection and media propagation of transcendental experience. U p for discussion first and foremost were the questions of the specific rol e of individual media as well as of the intrinsic dynamics of religiously determined communication or its significance for the turbulences and emerg ences of the religious field. To start\, Christophe Nihan's contribution  (Lausanne\, Switzerland)\, entitled Qumran and the Dynamics of Religious Attraction in the 2nd Temple Period\, described the intra-religious differ entiation process between “Tora” and “Temple” –  which - appare ntly paradoxically – contributed in reciprocally and also socially encod ed delimitation and exclusion towards an increasing auratisation of both i nstitutions and beyond that towards the establishment of a host of also po litically significant in-group practices. It is in specifically this field of conflict that the speaker sees the source of Jewish mysticism\, which breaks through the clerical privilege of interpretation of the Torah and o ffers what is historically\, too\, a long-term “alternative attraction ” with the complementary phenomena of the individualisation of religious practice and the textualisation of religious experience characteristic of the Qumran. Nihan underlined the significance\, not just for the intra-re ligious development of Judaism\, but also from a comparative perspective\, of ritual and liturgy as key factors of attraction and also potentially o f repulsion.\nThe contribution by Ada Rapoport-Albert (London\, UK) 'Dropp ing out’ into Hasidism extended the line of tradition dealt with in time and space to the Hasidim movement\, which evidently in the present day in particular\, seems to be exerting special appeal. In this special manifes tation of Jewish mysticism\, which\, on the one hand\, unmistakably has me ssianic traits\, but\, on the other\, also shows inter-religious influence s\, for example\, from Sufism\, the omnipresence of God in nature or in th e material world is presupposed and thus themselves are given their own au ra and perceived as a spiritually fulfilled reality. The characteristics o f this movement\, which the speaker was able to illustrate through several striking examples\, include the mutual (and not\, as in comparable conste llations\, one-sided) attraction which must exist between a charismatic le adership figure and his or her pupils and followers. The relationships wit hin this intra-religious network therefore are determined through active a s well as reactive processes of convergence and also possibly of distancin g between individuals. In terms of cult practices\, too\, individualisatio n plays a key role as a factor of attraction.\nOn the basis of a concrete case study - Connecting Transcendent Attraction and Attractive Objects: Th e Case of Elisabeth of Schönau - Anne Clark (Burlington\, USA) then moved on to the tradition of Christian mysticism\, which she above all discusse d from the point of view of its liturgical inclusion\, and thus in the med ia context. The visions of the Benedictine nun in the 12th century\, accor ding to her thesis\, cannot be understood without the direct link to ritua l practice\, in equal measure as material as well as a motive of mystic at traction. In addition to visualisation and textualisation\, the speaker po inted to the central role played by music in the meditation and ecstasy te chniques of mysticism. Overall\, according to the speaker\, in the Christi an tradition mystical experience was the highest and most extensive articu lation of religiosity and would thus represent a decisive factor of attrac tion within monastery life as the condition for making this transcendence and transcendental experience possible.\nUnder the heading Enchanted by In tra’s Net: Some Random Reflections on Textual Images of Transcendence an d their Role in Religious Contacts Jörg Plassen (Bochum\, Germany) used t he example of the Avatamsaka sutra and its reception within various Buddhi st currents as well as the interpretation by Western philologists to inves tigate structural influences of visual language forms which relate to tran scendent spheres and which due to their special suggestiveness\, their aes thetic qualities or their illustrative power of persuasion exert a lasting attraction in intra and inter-religious contact. The speaker\, citing int er alia the work of Lakoff/ Johnson\, Blumenberg and Taureck \, explicitly emphasized the ambivalence of metaphors\, which in part can trigger very different\, certainly opposite\, and thus even contradictory reception pro cesses by transferring religious ideas to other religious or secular areas or connecting with other religious or secular contents. With his fundamen tal deliberations on the status and meaning of rhetorical figures\, metaph orical language and metaphors\, Plassen drew our attention once again to s ignificant shortcomings in the differentiation of terms and the heuristic evaluation of intra and inter-religious translation processes.\nThen\, fin ally\, the contribution by Christoph Auffarth (Bremen\, Germany) on Innerw ordly Transcendence as the Attractiveness of the – Material – World to Come: The Third Reich brought together some of the most important questio ns of the conference once again\, highlighting their complexity as well as their reach in terms of cultural history. At the same time\, the speaker extended the largely historical thrust of the discussion into the 20th ce ntury\, not just to underline the current pertinence of the debate on “r eligious attraction” beyond the limits of the specifically religious fie ld\, but also to thereby explicitly take into account the decisive relatio nal aspect of the observer perspective. Using the example of the millenari an concept of the “Third Reich” and its terminological history\,  Auf farth demonstrated the intrinsic media dynamic of religious terminology\, which due to its manifold semantic links has been subject to new or re-int erpretations. Evidently we are looking here at something more and differen t than intra-religious reception behaviour (as is shown for instance in th e adoption and interpretation of the concept by puritans\, radical pietist s\, adventists etc.). Auffarth focussed his talk on the multifaceted topic of the role and status of religious prophecies and their expected fulfilm ent within secularised societies\, such as in the “Sattelzeit” between 1750 and 1850\, which transformed the religious concept of the thousand y ear kingdom of peace into a revolutionary utopia of the human race\, or in the first half of the 20th century that seized its for totally unholy pu rposes and ends\, and finally in the present\, which was able to integrate it into its political and military logic of confrontation.\nThe explanati on of this strange persistence of religiously loaded notions\, which– in particular through their intra and inter-religious migration potential – become largely autonomous attractors and can gain new dynamism time an d again by being associated with current ideas\, is one of the key tasks i n a relational form of research on religion\, the specific objective of wh ich was made clear once again by Volkhard Krech (Bochum\, Germany) in his closing summary and thematic situating of the different conference contrib utions. Krech underlined the consortium's research interest in the energet ic conditions of an inter and intra-religious power play\, which\, on the one hand\, auratises ritual sites and objects\, attributes them religious impact and increases their charismatics through discursive\, figurative an d performative forms of attraction\, and which\, on the other hand\, allow s individual and collective experiences of transcendence  to emerge befor e a religiously charged horizon of expectation and forms new religious net works through their media interdependence. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/modes/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Memory and Roman Culture DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101115 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:memory-and-roman-culture-9@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Max-Planck Award Project Memoria Romana URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/memory-and-roman-culture/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:interpretatio punica – interpretatio graeca – interpretatio ro mana DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101113 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:interpretatio-25@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Die Tagung stand in direktem Zusammenhang mit dem Forschungspr ojekt von L.-M. Günther im Rahmen des Themenfeldes I („Veränderungen i m westphönizischen ‚Pantheon’ unter dem Einfluss der Kulturkontakte m it Griechen und Etruskern  sowie der Vorherrschaft Karthagos )“ und war bereits im entsprechenden Antrag 2007 vorgesehen.\nDie gewü nschten internationalen Beiträge ließen sich zum verfügbaren Termin (No vember 2010) leider nicht realisieren\, da die angefragten Spezialisten in Italien (S. Ribichini)\, Frankreich (C. Bonnet)\, Spanien () und Israel ( I.Malkin) nicht verfügbar waren und mit großem Bedauern ein Kommen abgel ehnen mussten\; P. Bartoloni (Sassari) musste kurzfristig seine Teilnahme absagen.\nDennoch ist es – nicht zuletzt auch mithilfe von Jun.-Prof. Dr . Bärbel Morstadt (Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften der RUB) – gelungen\, eine fachlich hochqualifizierte und interessante Tagungsgru ppe zusammenzustellen\, die entsprechend dem interdisziplinären Charakter der Thematik (vier) Althistoriker und (fünf) Archäologen umfasste.\nVom Mittwoch 10.11. 16 Uhr bis Freitag 12.11. 14 Uhr kamen vier Referentinnen (Grüner\, Günther\, Lee\, Morstadt) und fünf Referenten (Eingartner\, Hülsken\, Lichtenberger\, Matthäus\, Zimmermann) zusammen\, von denen vi er aus dem Bundesgebiet anreisten (aus Augsburg\, Erlangen\, Heidelberg/M ünchen\, Münster). Von den neun Referenten sind jeweils drei ‚etablier te’ ältere Wissenschaftler (Eingartner\, Günther\, Matthäus)\, jünge re Hochschullehrer (Lichtenberger\, Morstadt\, Zimmermann) und Nachwuchswi ssenschaftler (Dr. des. Grüner\, cand. phil. Hülsken\, Lee B.A.). Erfreu licherweise konnte an der Tagung auch der frühere KHK-Fellow Dr. Paolo Fi ligheddu (Sassari/Tempio Pausania) teilnehmen und die Diskussionen mit sei nen stupenden philologisch-semitistischen Kenntnissen bereichern.\nFür Di skussionen standen nach jedem ca. 30-minütigem Vortrag 15 Minuten zur Ver fügung\, außerdem wurde die Tagung mit einer rund einstündigen Abschlus sdiskussion beendet.\nAn den Diskussionen beteiligte sich auch Personen au s dem Publikum\, die zumeist die Tagung durchgängig besucht haben\; einig e Kolleginnen und Kollegen konnten wegen ihrer parallelen Lehrverpflichtun gen nur teilweise beiwohnen\, u.a. der Mitveranstalter B. Linke.\nZwei Vor träge (Zimmermann am 10.11.\, Matthäus am 11.11.) fanden als deutlich l ängere ‚public lectures’ vor einem breiteren\, aber ebenfalls diskuss ionsfreudigen Publikum statt\, nämlich im Rahmen des zusammengelegten alt historischen Forschungskolloquium der beiden Veranstalter/Leiter bzw. im R ahmen des Forschungskolloquiums des Instituts für Archäologische Wissens chaften.\n \nIn ihrer kurzen Einführung thematisierte L.-M. Günther zun ächst das Spektrum der Auffassungen von ‚interpretationes’ in der For schung und verwies auf eine Tagung an der Universität Osnarbrück (7.-9. September 2010)\, die sich der interpretatio romana bzw. indigena in den P rovinzen der römischen Kaiserzeit gewidmet hatte. Die dortigen Kollegen f assten den Begriff als „Mechanismus zur Über­windung kultureller Unter schiede in der Antike“ auf bzw. als „einen Prozess der Assoziation von indigenen (= nicht griechisch-römischen) Gottheiten mit solchen der grie chisch-römischen Kultur. Der dabei erhobene Vorwurf\, die bisherige Forsc hung habe sich vornehmlich darin erschöpft\, Listen der ‚indigenen’ u nd der entsprechenden griechisch-römischen Götternamen zusammenzustellen \, es aber versäumt\, die „tiefergreifenden Prozesse des Phänomens zu thematisieren“\, kann so nicht akzeptiert werden: Die Archäologie\, Alt e Geschichte und Religionswissenschaft haben schon längst für den zeitli chen und geographischen Raum der altorientalisch/levantinischen und der gr iechischen Kulturkontakte erkannt\, dass es nicht um ein einfaches vokabel artiges Übersetzen religiöser Vorstellungen gegangen ist\, sondern um An verwandlungen\, modifizierende Übernahmen und Reinterpretationen! Im Verl auf unserer Tagung wurde dann mehrfach angesprochen und vertieft\, dass es evidenterweise einen wesentlichen Unterschied machte\, ob eine Hochkultur wie die römische auf indigene Kulte in den von Rom beherrschten und noch nicht hellenisierten bzw. erst rudimentär romanisierten ‚Provinzen’ traf. Eine andere Facette von interpretatio ist dort zu beobachten wo\, wi e im Fall der Kultur- und Religionskontakte in der Levante vornehmlich in der ersten Hälfte des 1. Jahrtausends\, eine physisch und geistig mobile Gesellschaft sehr bereitwillig den sakralen wie profanen Phänomenen der v orderasiatischen Kulturen begegnete und sie zu adaptieren suchte. Das frü here Bild von einer grundsätzlichen Überlegenheit der Hellenen über die ‚Orientalen’ ist inzwischen in der Geschichtswissenschaft und der Arc häologie überwunden\; auch ist weitgehend akzeptiert\, dass weder ‚die Hellenen’ noch ‚die Orientalen’ bzw. ‚die Phönizier’ etc. jewe ils geschlossene und homogene ‚Blöcke’ bildeten\, die zudem auch noch grundsätzlich konfrontativ gewesen wären.\nBereits im ersten Vortrag de r Tagung zeigte Achim Lichtenberger (Archäologische Wisschenschaften der RUB: „Interpretationes graecae-romanae im Vorderen Orient“)  anhand s einer Forschungen zur syrischen Dekapolis am Beispiel zweier Städte\, das s die Übernahme hellenistisch-römischer Bildsprache auf Münzen selbst i n der Kaiserzeit noch siegelt\, dass man um die Unzulänglichkeit wusste\, eine einheimische Gottheit (wie Ba’al) mit nur einer griechisch-römisc hen Gottheit (Dionysos/ Herakles) zu identifizieren. In einem zweiten Schr itt wies er anhand seiner aktuellen Forschungen exemplarisch nach\, dass i m nordafrikanischen Leptis Magna die vormals punischen Gottheiten und ihre ‚Übersetzungen’ in griechisch-römische nicht zwingend vermeintlich ‚kanonischen’ Vorgaben folgen mussten\, sondern sich nichtkompatibler Funktionen der jeweiligen Götter bewusst waren\, etwa indem eine Apollons tatue für den zu ehrenden ‚dionysischen’ Antinoos verwendet wurde.\nD urch den geographischen Bogen von Syrien nach Libyen hatte Lichtenberger d en folgenden Ausführungen von Johannes Eingartner (Archäologisches Insti tut der Universität Augsburg: „Römische Heiligtümer im vormals punisc hen Nordafrika)“ schon den Boden bereitet\, denn es war bereits die Frag e gestellt worden\, inwieweit im Zuge einer interpretatio der Gottheiten e benfalls die jeweiligen Rituale anverwandelt worden sein könnten. Eingart ner\, der auf eine rege Ausgrabungstätigkeit gerade in Tunesien und Libye n zurückblickt\, stellte vor\, wie Auskünfte über Kultvorgänge anhand vornehmlich zweier architektonischer ‚Modelle’ von Heiligtümern im r ömischen Nordafrika gewonnen werden können\, nämlich zum einen anhand d es Podiumstempel in einem symmetrisch gestalteten Bezirk und zum anderen a nhand des sog. temple à cour. Dabei hat die bisherige Forschung die evide nterweise aus Italien übernommenen Podiumstempel für ebenso genuin römi sch gehalten wie die in ihnen verehrten Gottheiten\, während man für die andere architektonische Grundform des Heiligtums eine punische Tradition postuliert hatte. Diese ‚Gewissheiten’ stellte Eingartner anhand zahlr eicher Beispiele in Frage und machte auf Wasserbecken im Kontext von ‚Po diumstempeln’ aufmerksam\, die auf nichtitalische Rituale verweisen kön nten. Zugleich lässt sich für Tempel des Saturn/Baal Hammon\, die vermei ntlich eine Kulttradition beweisen\, nur selten eine tatsächliche sakrale Kontinuität nachweisen\, vielfach ist der ‚Kulturbruch’ unzweifelhaf t.\nDer Abendvortrag  von Nikolaus Zimmermann (Seminar für Alte Geschich te der Universität Münster: „Hannibals Religion“) widmete sich erstm als einem historischen Thema und damit auch einer andersartigen Quellenpro blematik. Dabei wurde betont\, dass auch religiöse ‚Übersetzungen’ u nd Vereinnahmungen politisch\, propagandistisch und sogar militärtaktisch instrumentalisiert wurden. Livius\, der das Feindbild der Römer von Hann ibal als einem frevelhaften Menschen überliefert\, gibt indessen an zahlr eichen Stellen erkennen\, dass der karthagische Feldherr genauso wie alle anderen Zeitgenossen die Götter ehrte\, Eide einhielt und um die emotiona len religiösen Bedürfnisse auch seiner Truppen wusste. Zimmermann ließ aber offen\, inwieweit jüngere Thesen über eine gleichsam ‚moderne’ Aufgeklärtheit Hannibals und seine Distanzierung von den orthodoxen Prakt iken der karthagisch-punischen Götterverehrung\, insbesondere der Mensche nopfer für Baal Hammon\, methodisch hinreichend begründet sind.                                                                                                        \nIm ersten Vortrag am folge nden Donnerstag (11.11.) beschäftigte sich Cathrin Grüner (Staatliche Mu seen München: „Die Göttin auf dem Berg Eryx\, Astarte - Aphrodite - Ve nus“) mit einem ‚Klassiker’ der Interpretations-Thematik\, dem berü hmten westsizilischen Heiligtum\, in dessen Ruinen inzwischen eine Kapelle der ‚Madonna della Neve’ die Kulttradition ins Christliche fortsetzt. Hier wurde schon zu Beginn des 1. Jahrtausends eine indigene Gottheit (de r Elymer bzw. Sikaner) verehrt\, bevor die Phönizier bzw. Karthager seit dem ca. 6. Jh. an der gleichen Stelle ihrer Astarte huldigten\, sodann die in der Region ebenfalls als Ansässige bezeugten Griechen der Göttin Aph rodite. Mit der römischen Eroberung der vormals karthagischen Provinz auf der Insel wurde das Heiligtum\, nunmehr unter römischer Verwaltung\, als dasjenige der Venus\, der Stammmutter des Gründungsheros Aineas\, verehr t. Alle genannten Götternamen (Astarte\, Aphrodite\, Venus) sind durch Sc hriftzeugnisse bestens bezeugt\, nur die indigene Gottheit bleibt namenlos .\nAuf den Vortrag folgte ein Besuch in den Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Unive rsität\, die in ihren diversen Exponaten der antiken Kunst von der zustä ndigen Kustodin Frau Dr. Cornelia Weber-Lehmann den Teilnehmer der Tagung mit einer äußerst präsenten und intensiven Führung vorgestellt wurden.                                                             \nNach der Mittagspause fokuss ierten zwei Vorträge auf den wohl bekanntesten Fall einer interpretatio z wischen Levante bzw. Phönizien und der griechischen Welt: Melqart-Herakle s. Das Referat von Bärbel Morstadt (Archäologische Wissenschaften der RU B: „Melqart-Herakles-Kulte im phönikisierten Zypern“) stellte in eine r materialreichen Präsentation die Kultkontakte zwischen der Levanteküst e und der Insel Zypern in den Mittelpunkt. Dabei wurde deutlich\, dass ent gegen der landläufigen Erwartung in Kition\, der wohl ältesten ‚Koloni e’ von Tyros\, ein Melqart-Kult zwar existent\, aber nicht dominant war. Die anderen Städte der Insel\, die stets eine ‚Drehscheibe’ des Güt er- und Ideenaustausches zwischen dem Vorderen Orient und der Ägäis gewe sen war\, kennen gleichfalls beide Gottheiten\, jedenfalls finden sich üb erall entsprechende bildliche Darstellungen\, zumal in der preziosen Klein kunst. Daniel Hülsken (Historisches Institut der RUB/ KHK): „Von Melqar t bis Hercules Gaditanus: Reinterpretation eines westphönikischen Kultes in Südiberien“) führte an das westliche Ende des Mittelmeerbeckens\, g leichsam über die ‚Säulen des Herakles’ hinaus. Dabei ging es um zwe ierlei: erstens um den Schritt der Phönizier\, die eine anikonische Vereh rung des Melqart (und dafür eine solche in Gestalt von ‚Stelen’ = Bai tyloi) kannten\, hin zu einer anthropomorphen Darstellung in griechischer Bildsprache\, also mit Löwenfell und Keule bzw. Bogen\; zweitens um die D iskussion einer Adaption phönizischer Gottheiten bei den Indigenen\, die der Referent sehr deutlich in Frage stellte. Ähnlich wie schon die Götti n von Eryx machte auch der einstmals ‚punische’ Gott von Gades unter d er römischen Herrschaft über ‚sein’ Gebiet Karriere\, was Hülsken g leichfalls noch kursorisch thematisierte.               \nD er Abendvortrag von Hartmut Matthäus (Archäologisches Institut der Unive rsität Erlangen: „Mythische Paradigmata und Identitätsstiftung – Wir kungen des Orientalisierungsprozesses“)\, mit dem zugleich der neue Hör saal des Instituts für Archäologische Wissenschaften eingeweiht wurde\, spannte einen imposanten weiten Bogen von den mesopotamisch-assyrischen Ar tefakten zu solchen der mediterranen archaischen Kultur der hellenischen S taatenwelt. Der als Spezialist für die phönizische und vorderasiatische Archäologie renommierte Referent verfolgte am Beispiel der Darstellungen dreier ‚Leitikonographien’ – nämlich der ‚nackten Göttin’\, de s Kampfes eines Heroen mit dem Löwen\, der Überwindung eines schlangenar tigen Ungeheuers mit einem Kopf oder mehreren Köpfen – die allmähliche Ausbreitung der Sujets samt deren zu beobachtenden ikonographischen Varia nten. Dabei wurde augenfällig\, dass nicht jedes einer interpretatio unte rworfene Motiv denselbe Verbreitungsweg nahm\, wenngleich die Levante und Zypern stets herausragten\; auffälligerweise blieb zumeist die westkleina siatische Küstenzone außerhalb der entscheidenden Vermittlungszonen.                 \nIn der letzten ‚Sektion’ der Konferenz a m Freitag (12.11.) gab es zwei althistorische Referate\, bei denen dezidie rter als zuvor die einstige Großmacht Karthago die entscheidende Rolle sp ielte\, wenngleich es nicht um politische Geschichte ging\, sondern vor al lem um Methodisches. Im ersten Vortrag des Morgens wandte sich Linda-Marie Günther (Historisches Institut der RUB: „Pferd und Quadriga auf sikulo punischen Münzen - griechische oder punische Symbolik?“) der Münzpräg ung als einem relevanten\, da zeitgenössischen Quellenmaterial zu und int erpretierte das in der sikulopunischen Ikonographie von den Griechen Sizil iens übernommene Motiv der siegreichen bzw. von Nike bekränzten Quadriga als Symbol für den Himmelsgott Ba’al respektive Zeus Olympios. Dies st ellt einen Bezug zum nachgerade typischen karthagisch-sikulopunischen Mün zbildmotiv\, dem einzelnen Pferd (oder Pferdekopf) her\, das in der Forsch ung längst als Symbol des Ba’al gelesen wird. Diskutiert wurde daraufhi n\, inwieweit Münzikonographie generell offen für ‚interpretationes’ ist oder inwieweit gerade in Sizilien als einem charakteristischen ‚Mid dle-ground’ diese Offenheit der Verständnisangleichung besonders günst ige Rahmenbedingungen findet.\nDen Abschluss bildete Yu-Jin Lee (Historisc hes Institut der RUB: „Die Götter im Vertrag zwischen Hannibal und Phil ipp V.“) mit einem Referat\, das wieder an den Anfang der Tagung\, näml ich die methodischen Ausführungen Lichtenbergers über die Problematik vo n interpretatio führte. Die Referentin stellte die Forschungsdiskussion d ar\, die seit mehreren Generation der bei Polybios (9\,7) überlieferte Ve rtragstext des Jahres 216/5 v. Chr. generiert hat. Da der Geschichtsschrei ber des 2. Jh.v. Chr. explizit den Wortlaut wiederzugeben behauptet und au ch der philologische Nachweis geführt worden\, dass dem griechischen Text eine punische Version zugrunde gelegen haben muss\, wurden die in der ein leitenden Schwurformel namentlich aufgeführten neun Gottheiten (u.a. Zeus \, Hera\, Herakles\, Ares\, Triton\, Poseidon) stets als die griechischen Pendants zu den punisch-karthagischer Götter und Göttinnen aufgefasst\, die es nun zu eruieren gelte. Die zahlreichen Vorschläge für ein gleichs am religiöses ‚Vokabular’\, also die Benennung jener neun phönizisch -karthagischer Gottheiten\, sind bis auf die Gleichung Herakles = Melqart widersprüchlich\, weil\, wie die Referentin eindrücklich zeigte\, die Ar gumente nicht nur aus den sehr problematischen Prämissen über die fortge setzte Existenz alt-levantinischer Gottheiten im hellenistischen Karthago gewonnen werden\, sondern auch aus den in sich unklaren und voraussetzungs reichen phönizischen Schriftquellen\, oftmals bilinguen Inschriften mit o nomastischen Indizien. Somit ist kaum eine Argumentation für die ‚inter pretatio’ dieser ‚Schwurgottheiten’ zwingend\, hier liegt tatsächli ch eine noch zu überwindende ‚Auflistungsmentalität’ in der einschl ägigen Forschung vor.                \nDie Abschlussdisku ssion konnte sich somit gleichsam nahtlos anschließen\; in ihr wurden noc hmals grundlegende Positionen gesammelt und mit der eingangs zitierten Def inition der Osnarbrücker Tagung zu einer sehr ähnlichen Thematik verglic hen. Es ließ sich ein gewisser Konsens darüber herstellen\, dass interpr etatio nicht dezidiert empfundene kulturelle Unterschiede überwindet\, so ndern sich eher mühelos vor allem dort vollzieht\, wo ein großer gemeins amer Nenner bei den Gottheiten der jeweiligen Seiten wahrgenommen wird\, a llem Anschein nach hinsichtlich der Funktionen dieser Gottheiten und auf d em Hintergrund sehr konkreter religiöser Bedürfnisse derjenigen Personen \, die in fremdem Gebiet den Gottheiten mit einem ihnen zunächst fremden Namen begegnen. Diskutiert wurde\, inwieweit die Träger dieser Kommunikat ion ‚zwischen Asien und Europa’ Händler\, Migranten oder wandernde Sp ezialisten (bis hin zum Kriegshandwerker) waren bzw. inwieweit die Grieche n die neue Kultur zu sich holten oder sie zu ihnen gebracht wurde\, doch g ab es dazu kein abschließendes Ergebnis. Einigkeit bestand aber darüber\ , dass sich das Phänomen der interpretatio romana in einem etwas anderen\ , letztlich leichter zu identifizierenden Rahmen abgespielt haben dürfte und hier die ‚Selbstromanisierung’ einen höheren Stellenwert gehabt h aben dürfte als eine ‚Selbsthellenisierung’ etwa der Phönizier/Punie r oder als eine ‚Selbstpunisierung’ von Hellenen in der Levante oder i m westlichen Mittelmeerraum.           \nEine Drucklegung der T agungsbeiträge* wird erwogen\, wobei die einzelnen Referenten gebeten wor den sind\, in ihrer Verschriftlichung dezidiert zum jeweiligen Verständni s von ‚interpretatio’ explizite Aussagen zu treffen.\n*Herausgeberinne n: B. Morstadt\, L.-M. Günther\, in der Reihe „Contextualizing the Sacr ed“ im Verlag Brepols (2012) URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/interpretatio/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Colloquium: Research Field 4 DTSTART:20101108T171500Z DTEND:20101108T184500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Coll_RF4_081110-32@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: GA 8/34 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Coll_RF4_081110/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Focus Group Attraction DTSTART:20101108T151500Z DTEND:20101108T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:FG_Att_081110_eng-31@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: SH 1/187 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/FG_Att_081110_eng/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cultural Brokers between Religions: Border-Crossers and Experts at Mediterranean Courts DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101028 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101031 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:cultural-brokers-3@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: Veranstaltungszentrum\, Room 82\nIn cooperation with "Zentrum für Mittelmeerstudien" URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/cultural-brokers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 3 DTSTART:20101025T141500Z DTEND:20101025T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_3_251010-30@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: SH 1/187 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_3_251010/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:“The Emperor – Priest and God?” DTSTART:20101021T160000Z DTEND:20101021T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:emperor_priest-24@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: John ScheidGuest Lecture of the Workshop:  Emperor b etween Men and God – Constitution of Sacral Presence in the Roman Empire URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/emperor_priest/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Meeting of the KHK-Board DTSTART:20101021T100000Z DTEND:20101021T120000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:board_211010-56@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: SH 1/189 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/board_211010/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Field 4 DTSTART:20101018T141500Z DTEND:20101018T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:RF_4_181010-29@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: SH 1/187 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/RF_4_181010/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Colloquium: Fellow-Lecture: Aziz Al-Azmeh DTSTART:20101011T161500Z DTEND:20101011T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Coll_Fellow_111010_en-28@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: GA 8/34 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Coll_Fellow_111010_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Study Group: Translation DTSTART:20101011T141500Z DTEND:20101011T154500Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:SG_transcoding_111010-27@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Location: SH 1/187 URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/SG_transcoding_111010/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Emperor between Man and Deity – Configuration of the Sacral Pres ence in the Roman Empire DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100923 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100925 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:emperor_men-23@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Flyer\n URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/emperor_men/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Icon and the Idol\, Aniconism and Iconoclasm: The Problem of D ivine Anthropomorphic Images DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100616 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100618 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:the-icon-and-the-idol-2@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/the-icon-and-the-idol/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religion for the Senses III: Religious Meanings of Taste\, Smell a nd Touch in Ancient and medieval Asia and Europe DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100421 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100423 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:SinneIII_en-146@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Report URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/SinneIII_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Medien in der Ritualforschung DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100321 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100328 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Medien_en-145@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Die religions- und kulturwissenschaftliche Diskussion widmet schon seit längerem dem Bereich der Ästhetik besondere Aufmerksamkeit. I n der Ritualforschung werden einerseits die verschiedenen Wort- Bild- und Klangmedien\, die in rituellen Handlungen zur Aufführung kommen\, auf i hre spezifischen Bedeutungsfunktionen untersucht. Andererseits dienen Abb ildungen oder Beschreibungen häufig als wichtiges Quellenmaterial zur Re konstruktion ritueller Praxis ebenso wie zur Bewertung von Rezeptions- un d Übertragungsvorgängen. Darüber hinaus wird gerade in der Ritualforsc hung\, namentlich in der Ethnologie\, der Einsatz von Aufzeichnungs- und Reproduktionsmedien nicht zuletzt deshalb methodologisch kontrovers disku tiert\, da ihnen unterstellt wird\, Phänomene religiös-ästhetischer Er fahrung zu nivellieren. Auch über den engeren Kontext der Ritualforschun g hinaus hat die grundsätzliche Bewertung der medialen Eigendynamik sowo hl innerhalb einer Kulturgemeinschaft als auch im interkulturellen und in terreligiösen Transfer maßgebliche Bedeutung gewonnen. Umstritten und d aher von primärem Interesse ist die heuristische Gewichtung von einersei ts ästhetischer (akustischer\, visueller und performativer) Gestaltung u nd den traditionell zumeist höher bewerteten Textkorpora andererseits. In der springschool sollen methodische Ansätze unterschiedlicher Disziplin en\, namentlich der Religions-\, Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften\, vo rgestellt\, verglichen und mögliche Anwendungen auch in anderen Forschun gskontexten diskutiert werden. \nDie diesjährige springschool wird die Diskussion ihrer Vorgängerin „Geschichte der Ritualforschung“ aufgre ifen und fortsetzen. Neben den von Dozenten geleiteten Seminaren sind Kur zreferate vorgesehen\, in denen die Teilnehmer eigene Arbeitsprojekte vor stellen können. Thematische Schwerpunkte sind die Geschichte der Medienw issenschaft und der Ästhetik im Kontext der Ritualwissenschaft sowie die Erforschung ritueller Performanz und ritualästhetischer Transfers\; auc h grundsätzliche methodologische Fragen sollen dabei zur Sprache kommen. Wie im Vorjahr werden wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Reflexionen mit der Ve rmittlung und Analyse aktueller Forschungsergebnisse verknüpft. Es ist g eplant\, die Beiträge dieser und der vorangegangenen springschool in ein em Sammelband 2010 zu publizieren.\nDie Veranstaltung richtet sich an Grad uierte und Studierende der Masterphase. Die Kosten für Übernachtung und Vollpension betragen € 480\,-\; Kursgebühren werden nicht erhoben. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Medien_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Frühe Koranübersetzungen in Europa und Asien I DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100319 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:KoranuebersetzungenI_en-144@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Zu den Grundvoraussetzungen der Expansion von Religionen gehö rt die Produktion von Übersetzungen der Heiligen Schriften in die Sprache (n) der neu gewonnenen Gebiete\, was sich selbst dann als unvermeidbar erw eist\, wenn sich eine Übersetzung aufgrund der (auch sprachlichen) Einmal igkeit der religiösen Offenbarungsschrift – wie beim Koran – eigentli ch verbietet\; andererseits haben auch Angehörige anderer Religionen ihre rseits oft ein Interesse an Übersetzungen\, um eine intellektuelle Ausein andersetzung führen zu können.\nIn dem Workshop geht es um Übersetzunge n\, die nicht primär von islamischer Seite initiiert wurden (etwa ins Per sische\, Türkische oder Urdu)\, sondern um solche\, die von nichtmuslimis chen Gelehrten verfasst oder angeregt wurden\, um eine interreligiöse Dis kussion zu ermöglichen: Neben Übersetzungen ins Lateinische und Griechis che spielen hier die ersten Übersetzungen in die europäischen Volkssprac hen (Italienisch 1547\, Spanisch 1606\, Deutsch 1616\, Niederländisch 164 1\, Französisch 1647\, Englisch 1648 etc.) eine wichtige Rolle. Komplemen tär bzw. kontrastiv sind Koranübersetzungen in ost- und südostasiatisch e Sprachen interessant\, die freilich erstmals im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert gedruckt wurden.\nDer 1. Teil des Workshops umfasste fünf Vorträge: Hart mut Bobzin (Erlangen) ging in seinem Einführungsreferat der Frage nach „Was heißt es\, den Koran zu übersetzen?“ und gab einen Überblick über die Geschichte der Koranübersetzung und –erklärung\, in dem sowo hl grundsätzliche Fragen der Übersetzbarkeit als auch praktische Beispie le aus der Übersetzungsarbeit angeführt wurden (Bobzins eigene neue Kora nübersetzung ins Deutsche war wenige Tage zuvor erschienen). – Reinhold Glei (Bochum) behandelte in seinem Vortrag „Der Mistkäfer und andere M issverständnisse“ die frühbyzantinische Koranübersetzung (zwischen 75 0 und 850 n.Chr.) als die älteste in eine westliche Sprache überhaupt. I hre Existenz kann mittlerweile als gesichert gelten\, leider sind aber ver gleichsweise wenig Fragmente\, dazu noch häufig in entstellter Form\, erh alten. An zahlreichen Beispielen wurde gezeigt\, welche Rolle gerade sprac hliche Missverständnisse in der Entstehung der byzantinischen Islampolemi k gespielt haben. – Matthias Tischler (Dresden) sprach über „Die ält este lateinische Koranübersetzung als (inter)religiöser Begegnungsraum “ und ordnete die Übersetzung des Robert von Ketton (1142/43) in ihren zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext ein\; anschließend zeichnete er die Rezeption sgeschichte dieser Übersetzung nach\, die zunächst fast in Vergessenheit geriet und erst im späten 13. Jahrhundert im Kontext der Dominikanermiss ionen (Ricoldo) wieder auftauchte. – Die volkssprachliche Rezeption beha ndelte Benedikt Jeßing (Bochum) anhand der (ihrerseits aus dem Italienisc hen angefertigten) deutschen Übersetzung des Salomon Schweigger (1551-162 2) unter dem Thema „Orientwahrnehmung\, Interkulturalität und Koranübe rsetzung“\, vor allem auf dem Hintergrund von Schweiggers ausführlicher Beschreibung seiner Gesandtschaftsreise nach Konstantinopel und Jerusalem (gedruckt Nürnberg 1608). – Die ostasiatische Seite vertrat Hans Martin Krämer (Bochum) mit seinem Vortrag über „Rezeption des Islam und Übe rsetzungen des Korans in Japan im 20. Jahrhundert“\, in dem er die sechs \, von 1920-1973 entstandenen japanischen Koranübersetzungen vorstellte u nd eingehend charakterisierte. Am Beispiel der Übersetzung religiöser Be griffe wurde deutlich\, wie stark die Übersetzer entweder auf eine Interp retatio Christiana oder auf eine Interpretatio Buddhistica islamischer Vor stellungen zurückgriffen.\nDer Workshop wird mit Referaten zu weiteren Ko ranübersetzungen (ins Lateinische\, Aljamiado bzw. Altspanische\, Hebräi sche\, Französische und slavische Sprachen) fortgesetzt (Termin: 8. April 2011). Die Ergebnisse sollen als Sammelband in der Reihe „Bochumer Alte rtumswissenschaftliches Colloquium“ publiziert werden. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/KoranuebersetzungenI_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Between Contact and Contrast: Jews and Christians in the Sasanian Empire DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100317 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100319 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Contact_en-143@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Contact_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Analogy in the Abrahamic Religions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100206 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Analogy_en-142@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Analogy_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Trading Religions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100125 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100128 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:trading-religions-10@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Program\, Poster\n\nThis conference investigates the process of formation and transformation of eastern and western religions during t he time of their emergence. In the dynamics of this process\, trade plays an important role. Different cultures and religions are brought into con tact along regional and transregional trade routes. In this context\, var ious ideas and religious “commodities” are exchanged – “offered”\, “negotiated” and “bought†. This leads to expansion and densification as well as amalgamation of religions. "'Trading Religions' aims at opening new pathways for approachi ng religious dynamics by focusing on four elements or “commodities ” of religious interchange: Topology of Religious Space\, Religious Symbol Systems\, Religious Knowledge\, and Religious-Ethical Ways of Lif e.\n\nReport\, Report II URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/trading-religions/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Jewish "Material" Otherness DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100115 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Otherness_en-141@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Ethnic\, Religious\, and Cultural Boundaries in Late Persian a nd Early Hellenistic Times in the Southern Levant URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Otherness_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Labeling Self and Others in Historical Contacts between Religious Groups DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100110 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Labeling_en-140@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:The basic idea behind this workshop is that the collective nou n "religion" (or other words which permit speaking of religions abstrac tly and in the plural) came into existence first through the contact of religious groups and through mutual recognition by such religious groups of the respective other as belonging to the same class or category as t hey themselves did\, namely that of "religion" (or some other abstract c oncept which might have given rise to speculating about the shared chara cteristics of the entities grouped together here lexically). In order to attain a broad comparative perspective based on a number of cases of mu tual perception\, we have included contributions from both Europe and Eas t Asia and from a variety of religious traditions such as Judaism\, Isla m\, Christianity\, Buddhism\, and Confucianism (for details\, please see the program).\nReport URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Labeling_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Tryphe und Kultritual im archaischen Kleinasien DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091210 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091212 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Tryphe_en-139@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Die Konzeption dieser Tagung hat sich aus der Anregung der IKG F=KHK-Veranstaltungen zum Themenbereich ‚Attraktivität’ entwickelt\, und zwar in gemeinsamen Überlegungen mit Dr. Christoph Michels\, dem dama ligen postdoc-Mitarbeiter im IKGF (inzwischen Aachen). Es sollte – ander s als bei den anderen workshops zur ‚Attractivity’ – dezidiert der F okus ganz auf einen einzigen geographischen und zugleich chronologischen R aum gerichtet werden\, nämlich auf das archaische Kleinasien als eine zen trale kulturelle Kontaktzone. Ein interdisziplinärer Zugriff ist auch hie r unerlässlich\, es wurde durch die Beteiligung von Sprachwissenschaftler n (Semitistik\, Anatolistik)\, Klassischen Archäologen und (Alt)historike rn eine glückliche Mischung erreicht.\nDas Programm war in drei Abteilung en gegliedert\, in denen zunächst „Paian und Prozession“\, dann „Fe ste und Gelage“ und schließlich „Heiligtum und Opfergaben“ thematis iert und diskutiert wurden. Die beiden ersten Abschnitte fanden am Donners tag\, 10.12.09 statt\, die Sektion  „Heiligtum und Opfergaben“ füllt e den Vormittag des folgendenTages (Freitag\, 11.12.09).\nDer für ein Ref erat über „Hymnen\, Paiane\, Prosodien. Anmerkungen zu einer Typologie von Kultliedern im Kult des Apollon und verwandter Götter“ vorgesehene Referent\, Prof. Dr. Lutz Käppel aus Kiel\, musste bedauerlicherweise kur zfristig absagen\, so dass sich die beiden ersten Vorträge des workshops vornehmlich mit Prozessionen beschäftigten: Frau Privatdozentin Dr. Eftyc hia Stavrianopoulou aus Heidelberg\, Forscherin im dortigen Exzellenzclust er zu Ritualen\, spannte in ihrem Referat „Zur rituellen Funktion von Pr ozessionen“ einen weiten Bogen über die archaische bis zur hellenistisc hen Zeit\, in welcher die Quellenzeugnisse\, insbesondere die epigraphisch en\, reichlicher sprudeln als für die Frühzeit\; auch griff die Referent in Beispiele aus dem griechischen Mutterland zum Vergleich mit den kleinas iatischen Gegebenheiten auf.\nDagegen bot Linda-Marie Günther (RUB) mit d em „‚Stadtfest’ des Thrasybulos“ ein einziges Fallbeispiel aus dem ionischen Milet\, für das es nur einen kurzen und zum Teil unklaren lite rarischen Bericht bei Herodot gibt\; sie zeigte indessen auf\, dass das ge schilderte Gelage auf dem Marktplatz bei Milet\, das der Tyrann um 600 v. Chr. zur Beeindruckung lydischer  Gesandter veranstaltete\, von zwei Proz essionen umrahmt wurde und dass es sich um ein übliches Jahresfest gehand elt haben muss.\nDie folgende Sektion zu „Feste und Gelage“ wurde mit drei Referaten ausgestaltet\, beginnend mit einer kulturgeschichtliche spa nnenden Darstellung der „Gelagekultur und ihre orientalisierende Element e“ bei den Lydern von Prof. Dr. Erich Kistler\, damaliger Lehrstuhl-inha ber für Klassische Archäologie in Bochum. Er skizzierte die spezifischen Formen des lydischen Gastmähler und die typische Bekleidung der vornehme n ‚Trinker’\, aufgrund derer in der griechischen Nachbarschaft\, auch noch in späterer Zeit\, die Lyder für sprichwörtlich dem Luxus ergeben und total verweichlicht bewertet wurden.\nWie um 700 die einheimischen Kar er feierten\, konnte der Bochumer Archäologe Prof. Dr. Hans Lohmann anhan d seiner neuesten Grabungsfunde in Melie im Mykalegebirge zeigen:\n„Der Festraum im Kultbau von Melie“ bietet ein frühes und instruktives Beisp iel für Bankettarchitektur respektive Tempelarchitektur. Mit Gefäßen\, wie sie bei Banketten benötigt wurden\, beschäftigte sich Frau cand.phil Katja Burgemeister (Bochum) aus dem Kontext ihres Dissertationsprojekts über Weinproduktion und Weinhandel: Unter dem Titel „Chiische Chalikes: Wein und Ritual“ behandelte sie einen charakteristisches Trinkgefäß a us Chios\, der vor der kleinasiatischen Küste liegenden ionischen Insel\, die für ihren exzellenten Wein seit archaischer Zeit weithin bekannt war . Chalikes wie auch sonst Trinkgefäße gehörten stets zu Weihgaben in He iligtümern\, so dass dieses Referat bereits zum Thema der umfangreichen S ektion am Folgetag überleitete.\nAm Freitag früh präsentierte zunächst der KHK-Fellow Dr. Paolo Filigheddu (Sassari) ein Referat\, das mit seine r aktuellen Forschungsarbeit zu Astarte bekannt machte: „Tempel-prostitu tion in Heiligtümern der Astarte“. Ausgangspunkt war die Überlegung\, inwiefern die ‚Hierodulen’ mit ihren Liebesdiensten der Göttin eine O pfergabe darbrachten bzw. inwiefern die Besucher solcher Heiligtümer als ‚Kunden’ der sog. Tempelprostituierten mit ihrer Bezahlung die Opferbr inger waren. Anhand einer minutiösen philologischen Darlegung zeigte der renommierte Semitist\, dass die bisherigen Quellenzeugnisse und unser Vers tändnis der einschlägigen Texte insbesondere für das Astarte/Aphrodite- Heiligtum in Paphos nicht hinreichen\, eine ‚Tempelprostitution’ zu re konstruieren.\nNoch tiefer in den Bereich der orientalischen Götter und i hrer Verehrung führte anschließend Dr. Francis Breyer (Basel/Berlin) ein \, indem er „Hethitisch-agäische Götter und Kultur-kontakte“ skizzie rte und damit Kleinasien über Nordostanatolien hinaus als Kontakt- und Tr ansferzone analysierte.\nMit den Beziehungen nichtgriechischer Dedikanten in archaischen Heiligtümern in Ionien schäftigten sich die beiden abschl ießenden Vorträge\, wobei Frau Prof. Dr. Helga Bumke (Bonn\, inzwischen Bochum) als Beispiel ihrer detaillierten Vorstellung „Fremde(r) Votive o der fremde(r) Dedikanten in Ionischen Heiligtümern“ vornehmlich das Her aheiligtum auf der Insel Samos wählte\, Dr. Christoph Michels (Aachen) be schäftigte sich dagegen in erster Linie mit dem Apollonheiligtum zu Didym a\, das von den Lyderkönigen\, namentlich Kroisos\, reich bedacht worden war. Hierzu berichten die antiken Quellen eindeutig\, wer Geber und was di e Gaben waren\, während Frau Bumke ihren Beitrag sehr zu Recht mit einem Fragezeichen versehen hatte\, denn es bleibt anhand der ‚exotischen’ V otive in jedem Einzelfall neu zu überlegen\, ob die Dedikanten Fremde ode r Griechen waren\, die wertvolle Gaben aus dem fernen Ägypten der Hera zu Samos weihten.\nEine lebhafte Abschlussdiskussion beendet die Tagung\, ei ne Publikation der meisten Beiträge (außer denjenigen von Herrn Käppel und Frau Stavrianopoulou) ist im Verlag Harrassowitz (Wiesbaden) in Vorber eitung und soll noch im Laufe des Jahres 2011 realisiert werden. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Tryphe_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reconfigurations of the Religious Field: Secularization\, Re-Sacra lization and Related Processes in Historical and Intercultural Perspective DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091204 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:reconfigurations-of-the-religious-field-11@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Secularization\, re-sacralization and related processes in his torical and intercultural perspective.\nProgram. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/reconfigurations-of-the-religious-f ield/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religion für die Sinne II DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091125 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091127 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:SinneII_en-138@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Report URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/SinneII_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Soteriological Geographies in the Formation of Religious Tradition s DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091119 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091121 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Soteriological_en-137@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Soteriological_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religious Purity in Asia DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091113 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:religious-purity-in-asia-12@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Program\nReport URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/religious-purity-in-asia/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Entstehung und Funktion früher religiöser Schrift- und Textkanon es DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091106 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Textkanones_en-136@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Textkanones_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Geheimnis in der Neuzeit DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090927 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Geheimnis_en-135@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Geheimnis_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:DVRW Conference: Dynamiken der Religionsgeschichte: Historische un d gegenwärtige Perspektiven DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090920 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090925 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:dvrw-conference-13@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Dynamiken der Religionsgeschichte: Historische und gegenwärti ge Perspektiven.\nReport URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/dvrw-conference/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Concept of Fate and Destiny in Intercultural Perspectives DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090910 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Concept_en-133@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Concept_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Epistemic Change in Late Choson as Contex for Western Learning DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090821 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090824 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Epistemic-Change_en-132@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Program URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Epistemic-Change_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Josephus\, the Essenses and Qumran DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090813 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090821 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:summer-school-14@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:JOSEPHUS\, THE ESSENES AND QUMRAN.\nProgram\nReport URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/summer-school/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Origins and Develpoments of the Concept of Religion in Europe and Asia DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090717 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Origins_en-131@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Program URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Origins_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Die drei ungleichen Schwestern "Christentum\, Judentum und Islam" im Mit- und Gegeneinander DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090708 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Schwestern080711_en-130@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Schwestern080711_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Maria in Christentum\, Judentum und Islam: Abgrenzung “ Expansio n “ Transfer DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090703 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090705 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:maria-in-christentum-judentum-16@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Program. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/maria-in-christentum-judentum/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Die drei ungleichen Schwestern "Christentum\, Judentum und Islam" im Mit- und Gegeneinander DTSTART:20090701T160000Z DTEND:20090701T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Schwestern010711_en-129@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Schwestern010711_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religion für die Sinne I DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090624 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090626 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:religion-fur-die-sinne-i-17@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Program\, Poster\nReport URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/religion-fur-die-sinne-i/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop - Focus Group "Secret": Secrecy in Asian Religions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090619 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090620 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:workshop-focus-group-secret-secrecy-18@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Program. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/workshop-focus-group-secret-secrecy / END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Die drei ungleichen Schwestern "Christentum\, Judentum und Islam" im Mit- und Gegeneinander DTSTART:20090617T160000Z DTEND:20090617T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Schwestern170611_en-128@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Schwestern170611_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Religiöse Traditionen und Innovationen zwischen Indus und Adria DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090528 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090530 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:religiose-traditionen-und-innovationen-19@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Program.\nDer Workshop fand unter dem Rahmenthema „Religiös e Traditionen und Innovationen zwischen Indus und Adria“ statt und zugle ich in Fortsetzung einer Tagung\, die sich im Dezember 2008 mit dem hellen istischen Einfluss bei den Parthern im Osten des vormaligen Alexanderreich es bzw. des Seleukidenreiches beschäftigte.\nDiesmal ging es gleichsam zu rück ad fontes\, nämlich zu den hellenistischen Entwicklungen in ‚Kern ländern’ des Hellenismus\, und zwar unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Herrscherkultes. Diese göttliche Verehrung für einen Sterblichen bzw . eine politische Führerpersönlichkeit wurde seit Alexander d. Gr. zu ei nem Charakteristikum der neuen Epoche\; sie ist in den verschiedenen Reich en und Großregionen unterschiedliche Formen zu beobachten\, da offenbar i n unterschiedlichem Ausmaß und varianten Qualitäten Traditionen und Inno vation miteinander verflochten werden.\nFreilich konnte Robert Rollinger ( Innsbruck) als Spezialist für das Perserreich zeigen\, dass eine göttlic he Verehrung bei der medischen Dynastie der Teispiden und ihrer Nachfolger \, der persischen Achämeniden\, eine Fiktion ist. Auch für die Zeit nach dem Tod Alexanders\, des ‚neuen’ Perserkönigs\, stellte Sonja Plisch ke (Kiel) am Beispiel des Lysimachos heraus\, dass der ‚Herrscherkult’ dieses Machthabers in Kleinasien wohl eher ein spezifischer Alexanderkult war. Mit unzweifelhaften Herrscherkulten und einem veritablen Dynastiekul t hatte es dann Gregor Weber (Augsburg) zu tun\, der dieses Phänomen als ein typisch ptolemäisches und von den vorhellenistisch-pharaonischen Kont exten ägytischer Götterverehrung nicht zu trennendes charakterisierte. D ie schwierige und komplexe Materie vermittelte der Referent anhand sowohl literarischer als auch numismatischer Quellen.\nÄhnliches gilt auch für ein weiteres und wiederum ‚eigenartiges’ Fallbeispiel aus dem breiten Spektrum der Genese des hellenistischen Herrscherkults\, das Christoph Mic hels (Aachen) überzeugend behandelte: die Dynastie der Attaliden mit ihre m doppelten Bemühen\, sowohl den Gott Dionysos als auch den Stammheros de r Dynastie als ‚Vehikel’ der Herrscherverehrung zu instrumentalisieren .\nEine ‚ost-westliche’ Herrscherdynastie regierte in Kommagene und ve rschmolz im 1. Jh. v. Chr. in ihrem gleichsam synchretistischem Kult der A hnen und der lebenden Könige die Traditionen\, die im Seleukidenreich her ausgebildet worden waren\, die aber zugleich in der nordmesopotamischen Re gion aus der Achämenidenzeit noch latent bestanden. Dieses spannende Phä nomen führte Peter Franz Mittag (Köln) vor.\nDie für den Workshop Veran twortliche stellte an ein breiteres numismatisches Quellenmaterial die Fra ge\, ob Herrscher- und Götterbildnisse immer so genau zu trennen seien\, oder ob nicht eher eine intentionale Ambivalenz in Göttern die Herrscher und umgekehrt in den Herrschern die ihnen besonders affinen Götter zeigte .\nAllen Vorträgen folgten lebhafte und teilweise auch kritische Diskussi onen\, die den Ertrag des workshops unterstrichen.\nEs gibt Bestrebungen\, die Beiträge der Tagung zu publizieren. URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/religiose-traditionen-und-innovatio nen/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Die drei ungleichen Schwestern "Christentum\, Judentum und Islam" im Mit- und Gegeneinander DTSTART:20090513T160000Z DTEND:20090513T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Schwestern130511_en-127@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Schwestern130511_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Die drei ungleichen Schwestern "Christentum\, Judentum und Islam" im Mit- und Gegeneinander DTSTART:20090506T160000Z DTEND:20090506T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Schwestern060511_en-126@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Schwestern060511_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Die drei ungleichen Schwestern "Christentum\, Judentum und Islam" im Mit- und Gegeneinander DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090422 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Schwestern_en-125@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Schwestern_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Defining Religion\,Defining Heresy in Meiji period Japan DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090410 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090412 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Defining_en-124@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Defining_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gibt es im antiken und mittelalterlichen Judentum und verwandten R eligionen Religionsdialoge? DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090401 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Religionsdialoge_en-123@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Religionsdialoge_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Springschool - History of Ritual Studies DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090329 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090405 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:springschool-history-of-rituals-studies-20@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Program\nReport (The report is published on the homepage of th e "Arbeitsgemeinschaft historischer Forschungseinrichtungen der Bundesre publik Deutschland"). URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/springschool-history-of-rituals-stu dies/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Semiotik DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090219 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090220 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Semiotik_en-122@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Semiotik_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reinheit als kulturelle und religiöse Leitdifferenz III DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090131 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Reinheit30012009_en-121@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Reinheit30012009_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop Mystery DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090124 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:workshop-mystery-21@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Program\nReport URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/workshop-mystery/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reinheit als kulturelle und religiöse Leitdifferenz II DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090110 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Reinheit09012009_en-120@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Reinheit09012009_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Die Entstehung des allgemeinen Religionsbegriffs in Ostasien und W esteuropa DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081219 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081220 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Entstehung_en-119@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Entstehung_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Die Entdeckung des Christentums in der Wissenschaft des Judentums DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081210 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081211 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Entdeckung_en-118@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Entdeckung_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reinheit als kulturelle und religiöse Leitdifferenz I DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081205 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081206 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Reinheit051208_en-117@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Reinheit051208_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Das Partherreich als Teil des vorderasiatischen religiösen Tradit ionsgeflechts DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081203 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081205 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Partherreich_en-116@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Partherreich_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop Purity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081115 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Pur_en-115@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Pur_en/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe. Enco unters\, Notions\, and Comparative Perspectives DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081018 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:dynamics-in-the-history-of-religions-between-asia-22@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Ruhr-Universität Bochum\, Veranstaltungszentrum.\nProgram\nRe port URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/dynamics-in-the-history-of-religion s-between-asia/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Wasser und Höhlen in der altiranischen Religion: Archäologische\ , kulturgeschichtliche und religionswissenschaftliche Aspekte DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080704 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080705 DTSTAMP:20260425T233509Z UID:Wasser_en-114@ceres.rub.de CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION: URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/Wasser_en/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR