If the newsletter does not display properly, please click here.

Welcome and Farewell

The KFG welcomes a new Senior Research Fellow: Kyuhoon Cho (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) will be staying with us until the end of February. His research focuses on "Secularity and the Formation of Religion in South and North Korea".

We would also like to announce that Elisabeth Marx, who supported us as a student assistant from the beginning, is now a Junior Researcher of the KFG under the supervision of Christoph Kleine, she works on a dissertation project on "Notions of the Secular in Intellectual Discourse on Japan." Our former Junior Researcher Katrin Killinger has left the KFG by the end of 2018, we wish you all the best for your personal and professional future!

CfP: East-West Encounters and Religious Change in Modernizing East Asia

On 27 and 28July, the East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion will hold its 2^nd annual conference at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan with a focus on “East-West Encounters and Religious Change in Modernizing East Asia”. Deadline for abstracts (200-500 words) is 31 January. Please submit them here. For questions regarding the submission, please contact Lily C. Szeto (lszeto@purdue.edu).

CfP: Religionization and Citizenship

The Journal Citizenship Studies and Professor Yoav Peled call for papers for a special issue on Religionization and Citizenship. The issue wants to explore how religionization may affect, and has affected, the various qualities encompassed by the concept of citizenship in different social spheres. Deadline is 15 January. Please send your abstract to Prof. Yoav Peled (poli1@post.tau.ac.il).

CfP: Politics and Religion

Our prospective fellow Gert Pickel organises a conference on "The Ambivalent Relationship of Politics and Religion" together with Thomas Kern and Inga Pruisken (25-26 April, Bamberg). Please send abstracts (max. 5000 characters) to thomas.kern@uni-bamberg.de, insa.pruisken@uni-bamberg.de and pickel@rz.uni-leipzig.de. The conference will be held in German.