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Dear friends and colleagues, With this newsletter we would like to kick off the new semester and from now on regularly provide you with news from our KFG. We want to share with you what is new at our Centre, what is currently happening, and what we are working on. Accordingly we would like to provide you with information about our upcoming events and keep you up to date with the latest publications by our members. From October onwards, our workshops will again take place as on-site events. Our KFG was, is, and will remain a place of lively exchange and we would like to initiate discussions and engage in conversation with you in our workshops. During the pandemic, the KFG has also stepped up in terms of digital event formats, which is why we are able to offer our workshops in a hybrid format. We are looking forward to resume face-to-face encounters with colleagues and at the same time are excited about the great opportunity to use new digital ways of coming together. Let's stay in touch, we look forward to the next opportunity to exchange with you and wish you a good start into the new semester. Monika Wohlrab-Sahr and Christoph Kleine |
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KFG Workshop: “Enshrining the Past: Religion and Heritage-Making in a Secular Age” | 27–29 October 2021Convenors: Marian Burchardt and Nur Yasemin Ural As the intensity of the politics around cultural identity is growing across the world, the notion of heritage-making, or “heritagization”, has acquired new political urgency. At the same time, these politics have animated far-flung controversies over the religious and secular sources of belonging along with the values of ethnic, religious and racial majorities, minorities and the states that are supposed to represent them. This raises an intriguing set of questions: Under what conditions and with what consequences are certain religious artefacts, rituals and worldviews framed as heritage? Whose religious heritage is considered worthy to be selected, canonized and ennobled as elementary for nations’ collective memory? Who is systematically excluded and left to oblivion in the politics of religious and secular heritage? Which social groups are central to these processes? Date: 27–29 October 2021 Hybrid event format: on-site event at Leipzig University and online via Zoom.
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KFG Workshop: “Religion as an Object of Historical and Social Scientific Study: Global Perspectives” | 3–5 November 2021Convenor: Florian Zemmin The workshop will bring together case studies and theoretical reflections on the study of religion as an object of historical and social scientific inquiry in different academic contexts in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. We are especially interested in the global presence and characteristics of religion as an object of study in the most pertinent academic disciplines: History of Religion; Comparative Religious Studies; Sociology; Anthropology and Political Science (excluding Theology and Philosophy). Central questions concern the place, status and history of research on religion in these disciplines. Date: 3–5 November 2021 Hybrid event format: on-site event at Leipzig University and online via Zoom.
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Workshop: "The Relationship between State and Religion in the Arab and Islamicate Contexts: Civil State, Secular State, Religious/Islamic State" | 9–10 December 2021Conveners: Housamedden Darwish and Markus Dreßler The workshop aims at understanding the concepts of ‘civil state’, ‘secular state’ and ‘religious/Islamic state’ and their relation to (the concept/ideal of) democracy in Arab and Islamicate contexts. It starts from a political and philosophical perspective and addresses from there normative and descriptive questions concerning the actual and/or potential forms of the relationship between (democratic) state and/or politics and religion. Date: 9–10 December 2021 Hybrid event format: on-site event at Leipzig University and online via Zoom.
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If you wish to attend the workshop, please send a short inquiry to multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de. |
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Screening ReligionIn September, we concluded the summer programme of our Screening Religion film series with the film "The Judge". We very much enjoyed being able to show the last two films on site at the Cinémathèque Leipzig again and to discuss them with the audience afterwards. We will continue the series from November onwards. Every two months we will screen documentaries and movies rarely seen in German cinemas. Religion features in every film, be it as a catalyst for negotiation processes or a source of conflict, a marker of identity or a constitutive element of social background. Thus, we seek to screen films on religion whilst simultaneously screening for “religion” as a cinematic object. Some of the films are presented by their directors, others are introduced by KFG scholars. The programme planning for the winter semester is in its final stages and will soon be published on our homepage. Stay tuned! For now, we can already reveal this much: On 24 November we will be screening the documentary film “Dealing with Death” (NL, 2020, doc, 74 min, directed by Paul Sin Nam Rigter). Check out the trailer here.
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The work of the research group finds expression in various publication formats. In addition to monographs, edited volumes, and articles by individual members of the research group, we also make (preliminary) research results available for academic discourse in the form of working papers. |
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Other recent KFG publications:Working Paper Series of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (KFG) “Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities”
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Our Bulletin gives the opportunity to comment on current political, social or cultural events and developments from the perspective of Multiple Secularities, to place them in a broader context through our expertise or to present alternative perspectives. We would like to point to the latest entry in our Bulletin: “Zoroastrianism and Secularity in Sinjar” by our colleague Benjamin Raßbach. In his account of recent developments in Sinjar, northern Iraq, Benjamin Raßbach analyses the (re-)construction of sacral architecture after the defeat of ISIS in the region with regard to the varying conceptions of religious, ethnic, and political identity of the involved groups and their agendas.
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