Gregory D. Alles
Slow Translation and the Study of Religions: Promise and Perils
Religions 360°
Five world-renowned professors come to the Religions360 Congress in Bucharest
Carole M. Cusack
Huizinga and Goffman Walk into a Bar: Play and Performance in the Creation of Religion
Almut-Barbara Renger
A 360° View of Mindfulness: Religious Concepts in Motion
Jens Schlieter
The Carnism School: Animal Sacrifice, Vegetarianism, and the Justification of Violence in the Study of Religion
Michael Stausberg
The values of human lives: Chips from a history of human sacrifice
Five perspectives. One dialogue on the history of religions at the centre of twenty-first-century societies.
By bringing these five researchers together, Religions360 offers a truly “360°” perspective on historical and contemporary religions. From the myths of Antiquity to the invented religions of pop culture, from Indian, Asian and global Buddhism and contemporary ethical questions to sacrifice, violence and modern theories of religion, the congress's themes cross epochs, continents and academic disciplines. Three professors from Europe, joined by one from Australia and another from the United States, attest to the Congress's global character — all five names dominating the contemporary publishing landscape.
Religions360 does not aim merely to present religion in its isolated historical coordinates, but to ask decisive questions about religious transformations, about the generalist and comparative interpretation of religions and the strategies for interpreting them — and about what these tell us about the society we live in.
