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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

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

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

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.

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.