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SUMMARY:Formative Exchanges in the Islamicate World: Zoroastrianism\, Mani
 chaeism\, and Islam in Contact
DTSTART:20190605T080000Z
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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/
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