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Dear friends and colleagues,
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Screening Religion: Thrust into Heaven | 20 SeptemberNavigating around stereotypes of Islam and non-Muslim belonging in Pakistan, “Thrust into Heaven” showcases instances of so-called forced conversion of Hindu girls to Islam. The incidents often follow a sequence: a young Hindu woman disappears and resurfaces again as a married and newly converted Muslim. Some of these conversions are utilized to conceal criminal acts including kidnapping, human trafficking, and rape. Others are examples of ways in which young women navigate through Pakistan’s rigid patriarchal society. The film aims to give room to the various interpretations and ambiguities that emerge around the alleged forced conversion of Hindu women to Islam in Pakistan.
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Next Week’s Colloquium: Menachem Klein on “New Judaism” | 20 SeptemberNext Wednesday, Menachem Klein from Bar-Ilan University will give a presentation on his research on "New Judaism" in our colloquium.
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Panel Discussion on “Contested Secularities – a Global Scenario” at final KFG Conference | 14 OctoberWe are pleased to announce that the closing session of our final conference “Eight Years CASHSS Multiple Secularities: Outcome and Prospects through the Eyes of our Interlocutors” will be a panel discussion on “Contested Secularities – a Global Scenario”. The interest in distinctions and differentiations between religion and the secular – which we call secularity – is not merely academic. It touches deeply on societal struggles and sometimes even goes along with culture wars. This often concerns the relationship between the state and religion. However, everyday life, the family, education, science, and a variety of cultural spheres can also become battlegrounds. This panel will bring different cases, e.g. from Turkey, India, Iran, Russia and Israel, together to discuss them in comparison and relate them to the academic debate.
You can register for this panel and the conference in general via e-mail until 20 September.
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Call for Papers: Inaugural Workshop on "Secular Worldviews" | 8–9 December, LeipzigFor the kick-off of the working group "Secular Worldviews" (Säkulare Weltanschauungen, AKsäk), which was recently founded in the DGS section Sociology of Religion, all researchers working on this topic are cordially invited to the first workshop in Leipzig. The aim of the working group is to connect scholars working on the multiple forms of secularity and non-religion (worldviews, practices, communities, artifacts, etc.). It encompasses the German-speaking world, different disciplinary approaches, is theoretically diverse and methodologically open to qualitative as well as quantitative research. The AKsäk scholars work with different conceptualizations of secularity and non-religion, which is seen as an opportunity for productive discussion. Founders of the working group are among others our Junior Research Fellow Mascha Schulz and Associate Member Lena Dreier.
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Call for Applications: 2 PostDoc Positions on “Culture Wars and Modern Worldviews: A Transnational Conceptual History” | University of GroningenOur Senior Research Fellow Todd Weir recently received funding for a research project on “Culture Wars and Modern Worldviews: A Transnational Conceptual History” and is looking for two PostDocs to conduct the research with him at the University of Groningen. |
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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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Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities" Nikolaistraße 8-10, 04109 Leipzig Mail: multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de |