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Wednesday Weekly 28 February 2024

 

Dear friends and colleagues,

Today we have the information for next week's colloquium with our guest Daniel Weidner for you, as well as new KFG publications.

Enjoy and have a good week!

Your KFG Team

 
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Next week’s colloquium: Daniel Weidner on his book "The Rhetoric of Secularization", 6 March

Next Wednesday, our guest Daniel Weidner will introduce his book on The Rhetoric of Secularization at our colloquium.

The colloquium will take place in a hybrid format (on-site and online). In the Member Area you will find more information including preparatory readings and the zoom connection data.

6 March | 9.15–11.45 am (CET)
Strohsack, Room 4.55 and online via zoom

 
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New KFG Publications

We are pleased to share several new KFG publications with you.

Our Directors Christoph Kleine and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr recently published their article "A Secularity Sui Generis? On the Historical Development of Conceptual Distinctions and Institutional Differentiations in Japan", with which they contributed to the edited volume Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Johann P. Árnason's Macro-Social Theory, edited by Ľubomír Dunaj, Jeremy C. A. Smith and Kurt C. Mertel.

Christoph Kleine has also recently published two additional articles:

  • Kleine, Christoph. “When Christianity Became a Shūshi 宗旨: Cultural Encounters and Comparisons Between Europe and Japan and the Origins of a Global History of Religion” Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (JRAT) 10, 2 (special issue) (2023): 1–25.
  • Kleine, Christoph. "From the History of Religions in Asia to a Global History of Religion." In Towards a Global History of Religion: Reflections on Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz's 'Lamas and Shamans', edited by Anja Kirsch and Andrea Rota, 56-63. Fribourg: AЯGOS, 2024.
    More KFG Publications    
 

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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Mail: multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de

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