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Wednesday Weekly 17 July 2019
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Working Paper #9In our Working Paper #9: How (Not) to Take ‘Secularity’ Beyond the Modern West: Reflections from Islamic Sociology Florian Zemmin aspires to shed light on two basic questions, namely, how to take ‘secularity’ beyond the modern West, and, as a logical prior, why take ‘secularity’ beyond the modern West in the first place? He argues that the basic approach of Multiple Secularities is indeed the commendable way forward, but could be refined and improved, also by learning from the valid points of its critical alternatives.
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Persianate Islam and the Secularity of Kingship
Saïd Arjomand has added an entry on Persianate Islam and the Secularity of Kingship to our Companion to the Study of Secularity. Starting from the 9th century, this entry illuminates the specific role that the New Persian played in establishing a specific Persianate culture and in the spread of Sufism as well as the idea of Persianate kingship. On the one hand, this conception of kingship clearly distinguished between religious/spiritual and political/worldly domains, but on the other hand saw kingship itself and prophecy as ordained by God.
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CfP: Society and Morality in Eurasia. From Prehistory to the Present Day
The International Max Planck Research School for the Anthropology, Archaeology and History of Eurasia (IMPRS ANARCHIE) calls for papers for its final conference on 2-5 December 2020. The conference will address the normative dimensions of social life, reaching behind religious ideals of transcendence and secular notions of sympathy (Rousseau, Smith etc.) to explore concrete institutions such as those of cooperation, punishment, charity and philanthropy. Proposals (circa 250 words) should be sent by email to Chris Hann before 1 November 2019. Scholars whose proposals are accepted will have all reasonable costs reimbursed.
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CfP: Religion, Mobility and Co-spatiality in CitiesThe European Association for Urban History will hold its conference on Citites on Motion from 2-5 September 2020 at the University of Antwerp. The conference targets movements of all kinds, mobility and migration as constituting elements of urban society. Especially, we want to highlight a panel on “Religion, Mobility and Co-spatiality in Cities” organized by Michel Lussault (Lyon), Susanne Rau (Erfurt) and Jörg Rüpke (Erfurt). Deadline for all proposals is 1 October 2019. Please submit here.
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