Preliminary Programme

Showing: Religion (all days)
Wed 11 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 12 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.00 - 18.30

Fri 13 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 14 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 11 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
C-1 CUL18 Sacred Borders, Times and Spaces. Popular Religion and Magic in Early Modern Northern Europe
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre C
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Rune Blix Hagen
Organizers: Miia Kuha (Kuronen), Emmi Lahti Discussants: -
Jari Eilola : The Significance of Borders and Control of Space in Early Modern Witchcraft and Magic
Esther-Beate Körber : Media and the Organization of Time in Early Modernity
Miia Kuha (Kuronen) : The Role of the Lutheran Church in the Religious Life of the Peasantry in 17th Century Eastern Finland
Emmi Lahti : Using Sacred Spaces as a Part of Magic Rituals - Popular Beliefs Towards Cemeteries and Churchyards in 18th Century Finland
Göran Malmstedt : In Defence of Holy Days; The Peasantry's Opposition to the Reduction of Holy Days in Sweden between 1500-1800


F-1 REL01 Civil Religion in Postwar America: A Source of Conflict or Appeasement
Main Building: Randolph Hall
Network: Religion Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizers: - Discussant: Patrick Pasture
Anja-Maria Bassimir : When God and Country Collide: Civil Religion as a Source of Conflict for US-American Evangelicals
Heike Bungert : Civil Religion as a Source of Appeasement in U.S. National Anniversaries, 1957-1970
Richard Salter : A Virtue of Ambivalence: American Civil Religion and the Peace Corps
Jana Weiss : Civil Religion as a Rhetorical Instrument of Conflict or Appeasement? The Memorial Day Celebrations in the United States



Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
A-2 CUL04 Cultures of Modernity 2: Managing Modernity
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Ed Jonker
Organizers: Ed Jonker, Joris van Eijnatten Discussant: Joris van Eijnatten
Maria Heidegger : “Modern” Psychiatry and Pastoral Caring of Religious Madness. A Tyrolean Example
Kate Hill : Modernity and Materiality: Identities, Museums and the Affect of Objects around 1900
Svein Ivar Langhelle : Religion between Tradition and Modernity. A Norwegian Case


J-2 REL02 Living Spaces, Families and Communities (16th - 18th Centuries)
Main Building: G466
Network: Religion Chair: Silvia Evangelisti
Organizers: - Discussant: Silvia Evangelisti
Leila M. Algranti : Daily Diet and Festivals’ Food in Portugal during the Eighteenth Century: The Nuns of the Convento dos Remédios (Braga)
Paula Bessa : From the Kingdom and from the Wide World into the House of God: Aspects of Material Culture in the Eastern Algarve «comendas» of the Military Order of Santiago during the First Half of the Sixteenth Century
Maria Cristina Osswald : Everyday Life in India Missions from the 16th to the 18th Centuries: Between Hell and Heaven
Lisbeth Rodrigues : "Making Heaven on Earth": Space, Gender and Material Culture in a Portuguese Thermal Hospital. The Case of Nossa Senhora do Pópulo (1485-1580)


M-2 WOR01 Natives as Missionaries
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Religion , World History Chair: David Lindenfeld
Organizer: David Lindenfeld Discussant: David Lindenfeld
Jin-heon Jung : Korean Protestant Aspirations: Korean Mega-church Founders' Conversion Narratives
Ulrike Kirchberger : The Pupils of Eleazar Wheelock's "Indian Charity School" as Native Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Xiaojing Wang : “For the Salvation of Our Fellow Men”: A Study of the Chinese Home Missionary Society (1918-1948)
Emma Wild-Wood : Powerful Words: Revd Apolo Kivebulaya, a Broker of Social and Intellectual Change (1895-1933)



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
A-3 CUL05 Cultures of Modernity 3: Theorising Modernity
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Joris van Eijnatten
Organizers: Ed Jonker, Joes Segal, Joris van Eijnatten Discussant: Ed Jonker
Jukka Kortti : Media, Elite and Modernity. Defining Modern among Finnish Cultural Intelligentsia in the 20th Century
Alanna Lockward : “We are all black”. Modernity, Global Citizenship and the Limits of Humanity from the Enlightenment of the Haitian Revolution
Joes Segal : In Search of Socialist Modernism: How East Bloc Culture fell Victim to Western Teleology
Michael Spiller : Past the Post: Modernism and Modernity


B-3 ELI16 Elites and Religion
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre B
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Religion Chair: Lavinia Pinzarrone
Organizers: - Discussant: Kim Bergqvist
Stefanie Beghein : Sacred Music between Confessionalization and Secularization (Antwerp, 17th-18th Centuries)
Fabrizio D'Avenia : Making Bishops in the Malta of the Knights (1530-1798). An International Game of Parties, Patronage and Diplomacy
Shalin Jain : ‘Religiosity', ‘Piety’ and the Jain Elites in Medieval India
Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson : Thy Will Be Done. The Path to the Office of Bishop in the Church of Sweden during the 20th Century
Maria Ana Travassos Valdez : Religious Elites Dreaming of Divine Empires in the Early Modern Portuguese World



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
J-4 REL08 Religious Modernisation and Gender
Main Building: G466
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Tine Van Osselaer
Organizers: - Discussant: Tine Van Osselaer
Francisco Crespo : Wife and Mother: The Vision of Women in Catholic Spanish Press (XIX-XX)
Andrea Meissner : “Esto Vir! – Be a Man!” Efforts to Masculinize German Catholicism in the Interwar Period
Natasha Roegiers : Recatholicizing Belgium One Nun at a Time through Devotional Imagery in 19th Century Religious Biographies



Thursday 12 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
J-5 REL09 Alternative Modernities: Mysticism and Magic
Main Building: G466
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Paula Kane
Organizers: - Discussant: Paula Kane
Eugene Avrutin : Religion, Magic, and Murder in a Russian Border Town
Mary Heimann : Victorian Mysticism as an Historical Problem
Tine Van Osselaer : 'Curious Crucifixes. The Rise and Fall of an Aspiring Mystic.


V-5 ETH25 Religion, identity and modernity
Maths Building: 416
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Religion Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Martina Ambrosini : Popes, Islam and the Media: the Relationship between Islam and Christianity in Italian Newspapers
Zafer Cirhinlioglu, Uzeyir Ok & Fatma Gul Cirhinlioglu : The Revival of Religious Life and Insufficient Modernity
Alexandros Sakellariou : Globalization, Cultural Dilemmas and Identity Conflicts in Greek Orthodox Church’s Public Discourse
Krzysztof Marcin Zalewski : Identity Re-formation without Migration? Muslims, Bosniaks, Serbs and Montenegrins in Sanjak of Novi Pazar 20 Years after the Dissolution of Yugoslavia



Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
J-6 REL03 Migration, Religion and the Re-forming of Identities
Main Building: G466
Network: Religion Chair: Alexandros Sakellariou
Organizers: - Discussant: Alexandros Sakellariou
Seija Jalagin : Social Institutions in Christian Mission as Sites of Cultural Transfer: Finnish Kindergartens in Japan and in Jerusalem, 1947–1955
Susanne Leuenberger : Performing Islam: Conversion to Islam as a Gendered Technology of the Self
Valeria Sorostineanu : Interfaith Marriage in the Romanian Village of Transylvania (1850-1918)


V-6 ETH18 Religion and Ethnicity
Maths Building: 416
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Religion Chair: Marlou Schrover
Organizers: - Discussant: Jeffrey H. Cohen
Joana Bahia : Performing Afrobrazilian Religion in Berlin
Arkady Levin : Religion and Ethnicity in Russian Identity Papers and in Social Realities, 1719 ‑ 1997.
Thien-Huong Ninh : Ethnic Lineage and Religious Transmission: The Trajectories of Ethnic Boundary-Making Among Vietnamese Catholics in Cambodia



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
M-7 ASI02 Religion and Globalization in Asia in Comparative Perspective
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Asia , Religion Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizer: Nandini Gooptu Discussants: -
Rahilya Geybullayeva : History, National Identity, and Criteria of "Nationality" of Literature
Nandini Gooptu : Religion in the Globalised Post-colony: New Spirituality, Religious Identity and Nationalism in India
Wang Huayan : The Return of the Tradition and the Religious Revival in North China: the Case of the Cui Fujun Cult
Lucia Michelutti : Postsecular Political Experimentations. Comparisons across India and Latin America



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
J-9 REL12 The Forbidden and Discriminated: Presentation and self-presentation of Religions under Pressure
Main Building: G466
Network: Religion Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizer: Elena Glavatskaya Discussants: -
Toko Fujimoto : Religious Landscape and Presentation of Muslimness: A case study of Kazakhstan during Soviet and post-Soviet periods
Elena Glavatskaya : The Forbidden and Discriminated: Presentation and Self-presentation of the West Siberian Shamans in the early 20th Century
Oleg Gorbachev, Liudmila Mazur : Everyday Religious Practice in the Soviet Art Cinema
Antonio Irigoyen : Spiritual Exercises and Ecclesiastical Training in Eighteenth Century Spain
Olle Sundström : Capturing the Shaman – Indigenous Images of the Struggle against Shamanism



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
J-11 LAB16 Working Hours in Catholic World: A Long Term Perspective, 16th-19th Centuries
Main Building: G466
Networks: Labour , Religion Chair: Manuela Martini
Organizer: Corine Maitte Discussant: Luca Mocarelli
Corine Maitte : Working Times in the Italian Glassblowing Industry, XVe-XVIIth Centuries
Didier Terrier : Working Times in Textile and Mine Industries, Liège (Belgium), Mid-XIXe Century
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto : What's Children Labour? Some Educational and Professional Patterns in 18th Century Turin



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
J-14 REL05 Material Culture and Religion
Main Building: G466
Network: Religion Chair: Maria Cristina Osswald
Organizers: - Discussant: Maria Cristina Osswald
Elisabeth Lobenwein : Socio-economic Aspects of the Austrian Sanctuary Maria Luggau (Carinthia) in the Early Modern Times
Javier Marín : The Power of the Word: The Church and the Theoretical Principles for Building a Castilian House in the Spanish Golden Age
Ian Mitchell : Tyrian Silks and Persian Carpets’: Aspects of Christian Thought and Material Culture in Britain from the 17th to 19th Centuries
Hugo Silva : The Role of Social Capital and Patronage in the Access to the Cathedral Chapters. The Portuguese Case (1564-1640)
Nadine Tauchner, Thomas Wallnig : Re-inventing Hildegard - Sustainable Economy and Monastic Reform in Benedictine Monasteries


R-14 SPA08 Re-imagining Religion
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Religion , Spatial and Digital History Chair: Andreas Kunz
Organizer: David Bodenhamer Discussant: Andreas Kunz
David Bodenhamer : One Place, Many Beliefs: Visualizing the Complexity of American Religion
John Corrigan : Space and the Interpretation of American Religious History
Trevor Harris : Objectively Mapping the Subjective or Subjectively Mapping the Objective: Conundrums in the Mapping of Religion
Gethin Rees : The Byzantine Economy and Jewish Communities: a Geographical Information Systems Approach



Saturday 14 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
J-15 REL10 Reshaping the "Religious Mind": Christian Reactions to Secular Human Sciences, 1900-1950
Main Building: G466
Networks: Culture , Religion Chair: Mary Heimann
Organizer: Agnes Desmazieres Discussant: Mary Heimann
Agnes Desmazieres : Genesis of the “Homo Progressivus”: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Scientific Humanism
Paula Kane : Reception of the Freudian School among American Catholics
Felix Westrup : Psychotherapy and Protestant Practical Theology in early 20th Century Germany


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