Mid-term conference ?Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia - SEAS

Mid-term conference ?Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia?

Conference dates & venue: June 26 to 29, 2013 at the University of Goettingen, Germany

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: November 30, 2012

Organized by: BMBF competence network ?Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia? (DORISEA)

In global comparison, Southeast Asia stands out as a region marked by a particularly diverse religious landscape. Various ?ethnic religions? interact with so-called ?world religions?, all of the latter ? with the exception of Judaism ? being represented in the region. While religion has oftentimes been viewed as an antithesis to modernity, scholarship has shown that religion shapes (or: is intertwined with?) modernization processes in crucial ways and that its role in contemporary Southeast Asian societies is intensifying. The mid-term conference ?Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia? will explore this link between ?religion? and ?modernity? by focusing on three dimensions of religious dynamics, namely mediality, politics and mobility. In the spirit of Southeast Asian studies as a holistic, i.e. trans-disciplinary approach, we invite papers from fields as diverse as history, anthropology, sociology, political science, media studies, geography or linguistic studies that investigate the peculiar dynamics of religion in times of globalization, and the ways in which these dynamics mediate change and continuity in Southeast Asia.

Panel 1: materializing Religion: on Media, Mediation, Immediacy

Panel 2: Secularization of Religion, Sacralization of Politics? The State of Religion in Southeast Asia

Panel 3: Spatial Dynamics of Religion between Modulation and Conversion

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Source: http://www.seas.at/?p=5197

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