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SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture: Post-Religion? Bhagwan's Neo-Sannyas Movement in
  Germany 1972-1989
DTSTART:20180123T111500Z
DTEND:20180123T124500Z
DTSTAMP:20260525T060934Z
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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/
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