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Wednesday Weekly 24 June 2020

Dear friends and colleagues,

This week we would like to draw your attention to a recent publication and an upcoming workshop organised by our Research Fellow Mascha Schulz. In addition, Florian Zemmin has initiated a new Reading Group and Johannes invites you to the ritual destruction of old vinyl records this weekend.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Mascha Schulz on Secularism in Bangladesh

We are happy to announce Mascha Schulz' recent article ‘That was a good move’—Some remarks on the (ir)relevance of ‘narratives of secularism’ in everyday politics in Bangladesh.

Drawing on ethnographic research she discusses the perception of the Lady Justice controversy in 2017 Bangladesh, bringing into question the seemingly self-evident relevance of the dichotomy between “Secularism” and “Islam” for the matter.

Schulz, Mascha. “‘That Was a Good Move’—Some Remarks on the (Ir)Relevance of ‘Narratives of Secularism’ in Everyday Politics in Bangladesh.” Contributions to Indian Sociology 54, no. 2 (2020): 236–58. doi:10.1177/0069966720914056 .

Full article

CfP: Workshop and Special Issue on Religion’s Other

Furthermore, Mascha will co-organise a workshop on Committed to Religion's Other: The Anthropology of Secularism, Atheism and Non-Religion in December. Based on an ethnographic approach that includes non-Eurocentric perspectives and categories, the workshop aims to contribute aspects to debates on secularism, secularity, and non-religiosity that have been neglected so far. It is planned to publish a special issue on the topic afterwards.

14-16 December, University of Zurich, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
Deadline: 1 July

Call

New Reading Group

Florian Zemmin has kindly taken the initiative to launch a new Reading Group within the KFG.

People sharing an interest in a certain book or also an article are meeting there to discuss it (not necessarily the whole book, but one or two chapters at a time), also occasional participation is possible.

All members of the KFG are welcome to suggest works to read and discuss. The person suggesting a work will provide a digital copy to the others. We’ll be reading that work which most people expressed interest in.

The group will start with the discussion of Casanova, José. Global Religious and Secular Dynamics: The Modern System of Classification. Leiden: Brill, 2019 in July.

For more information on the format please get in touch with Florian.

CfP: Special Issues on Religion and Pandemic

The journal religions as well as the journal Entangled Religions seek for contributions for special issues on religion and pandemic. Whilst Entangled Religions is setting a focus on shifts in interpretations, populare lore, and practices, the publication from religions specifically sheds a light on spheres of religion and non-religion during the pandemic.

Entangled Religions
Deadline: 31 July
Call

religions
Deadline: 31 March 2021
Call

By the way, we are taking this opportunity to again refer to Christoph Kleine's Bulletin article on this topic.

Sun, music, films and collective destruction

Johannes Duschka invites you to the Blue Beat BBQ Vol. II on Saturday at hinZundkunZ, which he co-organises:

"From 3 p.m. on we will spin some vintage Ska, Reggae, Rocksteady, Rhythm and Blues and Soul records in the backyard. There will be a BBQ of vegan Burgers and a possibility to get cold drinks. Later in the afternoon there will be an auction of more or less trashy vinyl records, the winners get to decide wether they want to keep or publicly destroy the record.
Starting 9 p.m. we will show 2 movies ("Black Music in America" and "Der Dritte Mann") from original 16mm reels."

Saturday, 27 June, starting from 3 p.m.
huk, Georg-Schwarz-Straße 9

Besides, whoever is interested in some ethnological background on the ritual destruction of auctioned items in preparation for the auction, may find it here: Hertz, Robert. “Saint Besse, Étude D'un Culte Alpestre.” Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, no. 67 (1913): 115–80. Enjoy!

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.

Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities"
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Mail: multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de

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