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Dear friends and colleagues,

Today, once more, we have much to offer to you: We would like to draw your attention to a variety of online talks, a recent publication and a call for paper for a conference. 

We also wanted to remind you that you can order required research literature through the KFG. And with a current finding we will let you go into the rest of the week.

Enjoy and have a great week!

Publication “The Scope and restriction of the religion freedom as part of non-derogable rights under Indonesian legal system” by Ali Safa’at et al.

We would like to point to the latest publication by our senior research fellow Muchamad Ali Safa'at: In his article on the freedom of religion and the legal system in Indonesia, he and his co-authors present a normative and qualitative research showing that the constitution and laws in Indonesia use the religious rights phrase which does not include protection against atheism and people that do not adhere to any religion or belief.

Online Conversation: “Religion and the 2020 Election”. With James Kloppenberg and E.J. Dionne

Our senior research fellow Haraldur Hreinsson mentioned a highly topical online conversation to us: Join James Kloppenberg, Charles Warren Professor of American History at Havard University, and E.J. Dionne, Visiting Professor in Religion and Political Culture at Havard Divinity School, for a conversation on religion and the 2020 election in the U.S.!

Date: 22 October 2020, 10:30 p.m. | via Zoom

Call for Papers for Conference “Religious Identity and the Media. Methods, concepts, and new research avenues”

This conference – organized by the DFG, the University of Bremen and the National Science Center Poland – focuses on the manifold relationships between creating, negotiating, maintaining and challenging religious and religion-related identities, and various types of media and forms of media use.

All papers are welcome that investigate methodological and theoretical approaches to the topic, and present the results of empirical research. Particular interest lies in works giving justice to specific geopolitical contexts and respective media environments in Europe and beyond.

25–27 March 2021, Warsaw, Poland

Deadline: 1 November 2020

Online Presentation by Paul S. Landau

Since 1 October 2020 Paul S. Landau is part of the KFG research fellow team and we would like to draw your attention to his next online talk presented by The University of Florida Center for African Studies: On 30 October 2020 Paul will speak about “Operation Mayibuye and the Limits of the Political Imagination”.

You can attend via Zoom webinar, registration is required.

30 October 2020, 9:30 pm | via Zoom

Acquisition of new books related to KFG topics

A little reminder to all our fellows and staff members: If you need specific literature for your research within the KFG that is not available in our library nor in the library of the University of Leipzig, please contact our Research Coordinator Judith Zimmermann via e-mail.

We will be happy to order the books for you!

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.