Preliminary Programme

Showing: Religion (all days)
Tue 26 February
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 27 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 28 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 29 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 1 March
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
S-2 REL02 Confessional Identities
Instituto de Arte
Network: Religion Chair: Bruno Boute
Organizers: - Discussant: Bruno Boute
Geoff Baker : Reading the Confessional Divide in Early Modern England.
Larry Harwood : Motivation for the Military and Money in the cause of Religion: English Soldiers in the Netherlands and America, 1585-1640
Jewel Spangler : The Richmond Theatre Fire of 1811: A Case Study of American Disaster as Evangelical Opportunity



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
I-3 REL03 European Islam as a Civic Religion
Room 2.1
Network: Religion Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Marco Bresciani : Past and Future of a Multicultural Europe: A struggle between Democracy and Cultural Identities
Andrew C. Gould : The Catholic Paradigm for State and Church Relations and the Integration of Islam



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
C-5 REL09 Worship, Workplace and Welfare: Organized Religion's Search for Meaniing in a Post Christian World
Cave C
Network: Religion Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ronald Johnston, Elaine Mcfarland : Faith in the Factory: The Origins, Developments and Impact of the Church of Scotland’s Industrial Chaplains Movement, 1944-1980s.
John Stewart : Religion and the Welfare State in Western Europe, 1945-1973
Peter Van Dam : The Transformation of Religious Traditions in Dutch and West-German Trade Union Movements



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
O-7 REL06 Portraying the religious body: the representation of Eastern European Religious Groups in 19th and 20th century photography
Room 7.1
Network: Religion Chair: Silvia Evangelisti
Organizers: - Discussant: Silvia Evangelisti
Ekaterina Emeliantseva : Icons, Portraits, or Ethnographic Types? Photographic images of the Skoptsy in Late Imperial Russia and the Early Soviet Union (1880-1930)
Anke Hilbrenner : Invention of a Vanished World: Photographies of Traditional Jewish Life in the Russian Pale of Settlement
Stefan Rohdewald : Orthodox Hierarchs and Ordinary Religious People in the Soviet Union: Images of Powerless Power?
Bettina Weichert : Capturing contemporary history: the photographic portrayal of Russian Orthodoxy in post-Soviet mass media



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
Y-8 REL01 Competing Identities: Gender and Religion
Room 2.14
Networks: Religion , Women and Gender Chair: Ariadne Schmidt
Organizers: Karin Hofmeester, Ariadne Schmidt Discussant: Karin Hofmeester
Bojan Aleksov : Women in Religious Movements in Yugoslavia
Silvia Evangelisti : Failed Jesuitesses: Gender, Religion, and Politics in Early Modern Europe
Ji Li : Letters from Manchuria: Gender, Writing and Confession in Nineteenth-century Rural China
Cecilia Winterhalter : St. Thérèse of Lisieux and the 19th. Century



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
O-10 NMREL Network meeting: Religion
Room 7.1
Network: Religion Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
M-11 CUL15 Devising Order. Socio-Religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice I: The Performativity of Practice
Room 5.2
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Wim François
Organizers: Bruno Boute, Thomas Småberg Discussants: -
Bruno Boute : Engineering the Sacred. The Performativity of Sacramental Practices in the Low Countries (17th Century)
Paolo Quattrone : Organizations, organizing, and the spread of rationalizing practices: The Jesuit Order as continuous ordering
Joris van Eijnatten : Gratifying audiences: towards a cultural history of the sermon in eighteenth-century Europe



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
J-12 CUL16 Devising Order, Socio-Religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice II: Arranged Performativity: Spaces, Objects, Signifiers and Situations
Room 3.1
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Thomas Småberg
Organizers: Bruno Boute, Thomas Småberg Discussants: -
Karel Arnaut : Making space for performativity: a multi-layered public ritual in the town of Bondoukou (Côte d’Ivoire)
Martin Kjellgren : Rituals of the Printing-House: Power, Profit and Piety in Swedish Almanacs 1580-1620
Anna Stark : The Unequal Rites of Death
Irene Stengs : Giving Public Space a Face: the Agency of Monuments and Portraits. Three cases from Thailand and the Netherlands


N-12 ASI07 Connecting Asia and the West: Knowledge and Identities
Room 6.1
Networks: Asia , Religion Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Marine Carrin : Cultural Growth as a Distributed Process:Coherence, Change and Agency in two Religious Medical Traditions of India
Leila Moein : Health and medicine in ancient Iran specially Zartosht religions
Arabinda Samanta : Colonial Construction of Smallpox in Nineteenth Century India



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
J-13 CUL17 Devising Order. Socio-Religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice III: Transition, Adaptation, and Appropration of Pefomative Practices
Room 3.1
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Bruno Boute
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Bodil Liljefors Persson : Place, Power and Prophecy: Ritual Space and Speech among the Yucatec Maya from Colonial Time to Present Time.
Eugenio Menegon : Believing or Performing? Textual Authority and Ritual Performance in the Jesuit-Dominican Debate about the “Chinese Rites” (1630-1740)
Els Rose : Re-inventing the Apostolic Tradition: Moments of Transition and Appropriation in the Cult of Apostles through the Middle Ages
Thomas Småberg : The joust, the wedding and the knight. Rituals and symbols in medieval Sweden ca 1250-1320
Julia Zunckel : Symbolical communication in the Early Modern Period: Papal Ceremonies and Universalism



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
U-15 WOR08 Religious Globalization? The role of Proselytizers and Indigenous Peoples
Room10.2
Networks: Religion , World History Chair: David Maxwell
Organizers: - Discussant: David Maxwell
Elena Glavatskaya : Christian Mission beyond the Polar Circle
Joseph Levi : Islam in Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
David Lindenfeld : The Sioux and the Maori: Contrasting Adaptions of Christianity as Strategies for Ethnic Survival
Michelle Molina : Evangelization and Individualization:Jesuit Itinerant Missions in Seventeenth-Century New Spain



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
C-16 REL05 New Historiographical Approaches
Cave C
Network: Religion Chair: Leen Van Molle
Organizers: - Discussant: Árpád Klimó
Patrick Pasture : Transatlantic History of Christianity. Socio-Historical Perspectives.
Yvonne Maria Werner : Gender and Confessionalisation in Europe
Benjamin Ziemann : Faithful Decisions? Churches as Formal Organisations and 20th Century Religious History



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
C-17 REL10 Religious Transformations since the 1960s
Cave C
Network: Religion Chair: Benjamin Ziemann
Organizers: - Discussant: Benjamin Ziemann
Árpád Klimó : Being Catholic in Hungary and Italy after 1945 - patterns of transformation during the Cold War
Edwin Koster : Religious Transformations and Methodological Ludism
Bart Latré : The movement of progressive christians in Flanders 1960-1990
Esther Peperkamp : Jesus behind the Iron Curtain - Religious Transformations in Poland in the 1970s and 1980s
Julia Riediger : Raised to Leave? Church Disaffiliation in Western Germany from the Vantage Point of Socialisation (approx. 1965 to 1980)



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
F-18 REL04 Myths & Men. Historical and fictional Christian Heroes
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Religion Chair: Henk de Smaele
Organizers: - Discussant: Henk de Smaele
Josephine Hoegaerts : Intersections of Gender, Age and Sexuality
Andrew King : Johann Dietz: Honor and Ideal Masculine Identities in Eighteenth-Century Prussia
Alexander Maurits : Myths & men. Historical and fictional Christian Heroes in the Swedish Context
Tine Van Osselaer : ‘Heroes of the heart’. Ideals of masculinity in the Sacred Heart devotion.


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