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Wednesday Weekly 13 October 2021

 

Dear friends and colleagues,

Next week in the colloquium on Wednesday, our Senior Research Fellow Silke Steets will present her research project. The reading group “Materiality of the Religious/Secular Divide” will also meet again next week.

We would like to draw your attention to a new entry in our Bulletin and a recent publication by one of our members. Finally, we have two recommendations for a hybrid conference and a webinar for you.

Enjoy and have a great week!

Anja & Lucy

 
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Next week’s colloquium: Silke Steets on “Conversions: Transitioning from/to Evangelical Christianity in Leipzig and Dallas”

Next Wednesday our new Senior Research Fellow Silke Steets will give a presentation on her research project “Conversions: Transitioning from/to Evangelical Christianity in Leipzig and Dallas”. In this project she compares two opposing conversion processes – one towards and one away from evangelical Christianity – and examines how religious and non-religious definitions of reality are distinguished and (re)composed in these processes. The project is empirically based on two interview samples from Leipzig and Dallas.

In the member area, you find the relevant readings: an outline of the research proposal as well as an excerpt from Silkes research article (in German) that presents two empirical cases.
The colloquium will take place as a hybrid event.

If you would like to attend in person, please register via e-mail. The number of physically present participants again is limited to 10 people. In the member area, you will also find the zoom connection data in case you plan to join the colloquium digitally.


20 October | 9.15–11.45 a.m. (CET)

Hybrid format | Strohsack, 4.55 and via zoom

 
 
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New Publication: Anindita Chakrabarti on “Religious Freedom, Legal Activism, and Muslim Personal Law in Contemporary India: A Sociological Exploration of Secularism”

Our Senior Research Fellow Anindita Chakrabarti recently published a paper on “Religious Freedom, Legal Activism, and Muslim Personal Law in Contemporary India: A Sociological Exploration of Secularism”. The idea for the article took shape during her stay with us in 2017. The article focuses on the recent judicial activism in reforming Muslim Personal Law (mpl) in India questioning the relationship between religious freedom, citizenship rights, and secularism. India follows a regime of religion-specific personal law in matters of marriage, divorce, maintenance, adoption, custody of children, succession, and inheritance of property. In recent years, a unique jurisdiction of the Indian appellate judiciary known as the Public Interest Litigation (pil) has been often evoked to question and reform religious practices, including personal laws and especially the mpl. In this paper, two landmark pil cases – the Vishwa Lochan Madan case and the Muslim Women’s Quest for Equality (popularly known as the Triple Talaq case) – that subjected mpl to judicial scrutiny, are analyzed.

Chakrabarti, Anindita. “Religious Freedom, Legal Activism, and Muslim Personal Law in Contemporary India: A Sociological Exploration of Secularism.” In Religious Freedom: Social-Scientific Approaches. Edited by Olga Breskaya, Roger Finke, und Giuseppe Giordan, 35-58. Leiden: Brill, 2021.

    More KFG Publications    
 
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Reading Group: Affective Sounds of Religion

The KFG reading group on “Materiality of the Religious/Secular Divide” continues: Next week, with the recommendations of our Associate Member Sana Chavoshian, we will have a closer look at the discussions on music, vocal performances and other sounds of religion with two texts: “Sound as Affect? Encorporation and Movement in Vocal Performance” by Patrick Eisenlohr and “The ‘right’ kind of hal: Feeling and foregrounding atmospheric identity in an Algerian music ritual” by Tamara Turner. You find both texts in the member area.

Again, please feel free to circulate this invitation and please address all your queries regarding participation in the reading group to Magnus and Yasemin. The reading group will take place online.

20 October | 2.00–3.30 p.m. (CET)

Online via zoom

 
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New Bulletin Entry: Katja Triplett curates Exhibition on “Translated Religion: In a Forest of True Words” at Leipzig University Library Bibliotheca Albertina

We would like to draw your attention to the latest entry in our KFG Bulletin: Our Associate Member Katja Triplett is the curator of the current exhibition on “Translated Religion: In a Forest of True Words” at Leipzig University Library Bibliotheca Albertina. Manuscripts and books – some rare and rarely exhibited – from the Leipzig University Library provide information about translators’ efforts to translate religious texts and images. The exhibition is open daily, and guided tours will take place on 24 October, 21 November, 12 December and 23 January at 3 p.m. (CET). An English-language catalogue edited by Katja Triplett will be available open access soon.

For more information on the exhibition, catalogue and accompanying programme visit this website (in German; English version coming soon).


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. If you wish to make short, journalistic style contributions to the Bulletin, please contact Johannes Duschka.



    Bulletin Entry    
 
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Meet the Author Series with Nathan Alexander and his book on “Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914”

Our Research Coordination Counsellor Judith Zimmermann recommends an upcoming event in the Meet the Author webinar series of the Nonreligion in a Complex Future (NCF) Project: On 14 October, Nathan Alexander will discuss his book “Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914”. If you wish to attend, please send an e-mail and a Zoom link will be sent to you before the event.

The NCF project is an international, comparative, interdisciplinary research project which identifies the social impact of the rapid and dramatic increase of nonreligion in Canada, Australia, the Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland), the United States, the United Kingdom, and Latin America (Brazil and Argentina).

14 October | 7.00 p.m. (CET)

Online via zoom

    More Information    
 
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International Hybrid Conference “Entangled Sufism in (Post-)Ottoman Europe. Cross-Disciplinary Approaches”

We would also like to draw your attention to the upcoming international conference “Entangled Sufism in (Post-)Ottoman Europe. Cross-Disciplinary Approaches”. The conference will take place as a hybrid event from 21 to 23 October at the Institute for Islamic Theological Studies at the University of Vienna .

For the online participation, you can register by 15 October via e-mail.

21–23 October  

University of Vienna and online

    Conference Website    
 

If you have any content that you think suits the purpose of the weekly, please feel free to send it to us at multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de.

 
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