Conference: Religion in Urban Spaces
Religion in Urban Spaces
April 09. - 11.2014 in Göttingen
Urban spaces have always functioned as cradles and laboratories for religious movements and spiritualities. The conference Religion in Urban Spaces will therefore explore the intense and complex interplay between the (post)modern city and religion, bringing the city to the fore in religious research. Both renowned and young scholars from all over the world will present their latest research and bring into discussion the ways the experience of the urban - the cityscape with its pluralist culture - inscribes itself in religious practices, and vice versa: how religions appropriate and transform (the meanings of) the urban.
Funded by
The Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony
Kurt Hacker, M.Eng.
http://www.sciencestarter.de/urban-religions
Program
| Wednesday 9 April | At the Holbornsche Haus, Rote Str. 34 |
| 17.00 -17.15 | Welcome Regina Bendix (Dept. Chair), Victoria Hegner, Peter Jan Margry |
17.15 -18.00 | Keynote Rik Pinxten God and the City: contemporary perspectives and challenges |
| 18:00 -19:00 | Reception at the Holbornsche Haus |
| 19:00 -20:00 | Guided tour to "sacred" spaces and places in Göttingen |
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| Thursday 10 April | At the Historische Sternwarte (Historical Observatory), Geismar Landstr.11 |
| Negotiating new religious spaces in the city Chair: Peter Jan Margry | |
| 9:00 -9:30 | Dorothea Nold Moving churches, changing cities - Spatial and iconic strategies of new congregations in Berlin and Istanbul |
| 9:30 -10:00 | Gertrud Hüwelmeier Religious place-making and the production of urban localities - new migrants in Berlin |
| 10:00 -10:30 | Jill Sudbury Buddhism in the British urban landscape: negotiation of new religious spaces |
| 10:30 -11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 -11.30 | Marie Stephanie N. Gilles and José Edgardo A. Gomez, Jr. Accommodating God in the Temples of Mammon: The phenomenon of building chapels within the shopping malls of Metro Manila |
| 11.30 -12.00 | Mary McCampbell Loving the City (Not the World?): Three Contemporary Approaches to Urban Christianity |
| 12:00 -14:00 | Lunch |
| Migration and religious practice in the (sub)urban realm Chair: Karin Klenke | |
| 14.00 -14.30 | Eleni Tseligka and Georgios Trantas Home is where the Church is: Greek migrant communities and their spatial reestablishment in the German urban environment within the context of Greek Orthodoxy. |
| 14.30 -15.00 | Thorsten Wettich Yezidi funerals in Lower Saxonian cities as an expression of urban religiosity |
| 15.00 -15.30 | Claire Dwyer Encountering the divine in W7 and off Highway 88: suburban miracles and stories of the 'everyday enchantment' of suburbia |
| 15:30 -16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16.00 -17.00 | Keynote Sabina Magliocco Animal Spirits and the Urban Landscape |
| 17.00 -17.15 | Coffee Break |
| Creating religious coherence and identity in the city I Chair: Victoria Hegner |
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| 17.15 -17.45 | Eva Dick and Alexander Kenneth Nagel
Urban diversity governance: The interplay of religious and state representatives in local interfaith networks |
| 17.45 -18.15 | Anna Strhan Aliens and strangers? The struggle for coherence in the everyday urban lives of Evangelicals |
| 18.15 -18.45 | Tricia C. Bruce Building space, place, and collective identity through personal parishes |
| 20.00 | Dinner At the Sambesi Restaurant, Wendenstr. 8 |
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| Friday 11 April | At the Historische Sternwarte (Historical Observatory), Geismar Landstr.11 |
| Creating religious coherence and identity in the city II Chair: Victoria Hegner | |
| 9.00 -9.30 | Jamelyn B. Palattao and Marjorie Joy S. Almario
Contemporary responses of urban Protestants to the challenge of secularism in Iligan City, Philippines |
| 9.30 -10.00 | Riem Spielhaus
Urban representation, visibility and institutionalization of Islam in three German cities |
| 10:30 -11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Chair: Sabina Magliocco | |
| 10.30 -11.00 | Anna Niedzwiedz
Pope and "his city": transformation of urban space of Kraków to a "lived shrine" of John Paul II |
| 11.00 -11.30 | Shamin Golrokh
Contribution of urban space and religious event to make collective meanings |
| 11:30 -13:30 | Lunch |
| Transforming religious norms of gender and social authority Chair: Radhika Gupta and Victoria Hegner | |
| 13.30 -14.00 | Julia Schwartzmann The rise of female preaching and urban integration of Orthodox Jewish women in Israel |
| 14.00 -14.30 | Shruti Mukherjee Moving beyond religious boundaries: A case study of Sai Adhyatmik Samiti (Spiritual Centres) in India |
| 14.30 -15.00 | Coffee Break |
| Body, music, soul and the making of urban religious spaces Chair: Friedlind Riedel | |
| 15.00 -15.30 | Sarah M. Pike The dance floor as urban altar: How bodies transform the lived experience of cities in a New Age Dance Church |
| 15.30 -16.00 | Raphaela von Weichs Music is prayer two times?. A transnational perspective on cultural performance and urban religiosity in Cameroon and Switzerland |
| 16.00 -16.30 | Peter Jan Margry and Daniel Wojcik A Saxophone Divine: The transformative power of Jazz and the Saint John Coltrane Church in San Francisco |
| 16.30 -16.45 | Coffee Break |
| 16.45 -17.15 | Final discussion, concluding remarks Final Discussants: Jayeel Serrano Cornelio (MPI, Göttingen) and Victoria Hegner (Göttingen) |
Registration Fee: 30 Euro
For students, people on social welfare, unemployment relief, parenting time: 10 Euro Payment is made directly and in cash!