Six Days of Global Dialogue

FACULTY OF HISTORY, Amphitheatre N. Iorga, 1st Floor

Executive Committee

IAHR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Faculty of History

Committee Lunch

Lunch for EASR & IAHR Executive Committees Members

FACULTY OF HISTORY, Amphitheatre N. Iorga, 1st Floor

Executive Committee

EASR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

FACULTY OF LAW MAIN ENTRANCE

Registration

REGISTRATION DESK

Romanian Athenaeum

Inaugural Session / Keynote / Concert

INAUGURAL SESSION | KEYNOTE LECTURE I | CONCERT SONOTHEISM: RELIGION IN ENESCU

Gregory D. Alles

McDaniel College, Maryland Shri Govind Guru University

Slow Translation and the Study of Religions: Promise and Perils

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 7)

Jonathan Sheehan, On the Altar

Jonathan Sheehan

University of California, Berkeley

On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular (Princeton University Press, 2026)

Amphitheatre Two

Closed Panel (CP 1)

Religion & Literature. Building a European Network

Stefanie Burkhardt

University of Hamburg

On World Habitation and Real-Making in Religion and Literature: Imagination, Narrative, and Realism

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 45)

The Social Worlds of Magic in Antiquity: Authorship, Production, and Economic Entanglements, conv. Sofia Bianchi Mancini, University of Erfurt & Charlotte Spence, University of Oxford

Sofia Bianchi Mancini

University of Erfurt

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 32)

Pagan Studies: (Re)Enchanting the Old Ways, conv. Kerem Görkem Arslan, Stian Sundell Torjussen, Helge Årsheim

Agnieszka Kedzierska Manzon

École Pratique des Hautes Études-PSL

Ethnic Paganism(s) in the Global South? Kemitism or Pan-African Religion in Making

Amphitheatre Three

Individual Paper

Anne Beutter

University of Bremen

“Spiritual Abuse” as Institutionalized Violence of a Religious Community.

Amphitheatre Five

Open Panel (OP 24)

Religious Literacy in Action, conv. Titus Hjelm, Zeinab Karimi, Tuomas Äystö, University of Helsinki

Titus Hjelm

University of Helsinki

The Impact of Secularisation on Religious Literacy and Attitudes towards Religious Diversity

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 16)

The war in Ukraine as a catalyst for global religious transformations: a 360° shift in religion, conv. Hanna Kulahina-Stadnichenko,H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Tetiana Havryliuk

Department of Philosophy, Law and Social Sciences, National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Auditing, Kyiv

From Institutional Religion to Lived Ethics: Anthropological Dimensions of Christianity in Wartime Ukraine

Room 1.05

Individual Paper (IP 220)

Eslam Alaa ElBahlawan

University of Bayreuth

Between Tradition and Transformation: Sufi Mawlid Celebrations and the Dynamics of Devotion, Identity, and Society in Egypt

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 6)

Secular-Religious and Globalized Reconfigurations in 21st-Century Western Spirituality, conv. Katarina Plank, Karlstad University & Dave Vliegenthart, Maastricht University

Katarina Plank

Karlstad University

Ex Oriente lux: Harry Holst and spiritual cosmopolitanism in early 20th-century Sweden

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 234)

Jenna Kuronen

University of Helsinki

Holy Milk: Constructing the Sacred and Justifying Nonhuman Animal Exploitation

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 190)

Will O’Brien

University of Notre Dame

Mystic & Militant: The anti-colonial militancy of Ahmed as-Sharif as-Sanūsī

Room 1.14

Individual Paper (IP 251)

Veronika Eufinger

Institute for Social Research of the Protestant Church in Germany, Hannover

The Protestant Church in Germany: Reconstructing a Socially Selective Opportunity Structure for Voluntary Engagement

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 7)

Jonathan Sheehan, On the Altar

Philippe Borgeaud; Cristiana Facchini; Robert Yelle; Jonathan Sheehan

University of Geneva; University of Bologna; LMU Munich; University of California, Berkeley

Amphitheatre Two

Closed Panel (CP 1)

Religion & Literature. Building a European Network

Kristina Göthling-Zimpel

University of Hamburg

Do Cursed Objects Have Agency? Exploring New Materialism Through Literature

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 45)

The Social Worlds of Magic in Antiquity: Authorship, Production, and Economic Entanglements, conv. Sofia Bianchi Mancini, University of Erfurt & Charlotte Spence, University of Oxford

Charlotte Spence

University of Oxford

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 32)

Pagan Studies: (Re)Enchanting the Old Ways, conv. Kerem Görkem Arslan, Stian Sundell Torjussen, Helge Årsheim

Michal Puchovský*

Institute for the Sociology of Slovak Academy of Sciences

They Criticised My Conversion to Paganism at a Catholic Mass: A Short Introduction to Relations Between Modern Pagans in Slovakia and Majoritarian Society

Amphitheatre Three

Individual Paper (IP 52)

Caroline Klintborg

Stockholm University

Children’s Religious Agency in Secular Sweden: Between Self-Defined Faith and Conditional Salvation

Amphitheatre Five

Open Panel (OP 24)

Religious Literacy in Action, conv. Titus Hjelm, Zeinab Karimi, Tuomas Äystö, University of Helsinki

Zeinab Karimi

University of Helsinki

Religious Literacy and Attitudes Toward Religious Diversity in Pluralistic Societies: Results from a Quasi-experimental Survey

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 16)

The war in Ukraine as a catalyst for global religious transformations: a 360° shift in religion, conv. Hanna Kulahina-Stadnichenko,H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Hanna Kulahina-Stadnichenko

H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

The War in Ukraine as a Turning Point for Global Orthodoxy

Room 1.05

Individual Paper (IP 176-177)

Iman Lechkar & Elias Woodbridge

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Repentance Behind Bars: Lived Islam, Tawba and Moral Transformation among Muslim Men in Prison

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 6)

Secular-Religious and Globalized Reconfigurations in 21st-Century Western Spirituality, conv. Katarina Plank, Karlstad University & Dave Vliegenthart, Maastricht University

Dave Vliegenthart

Maastricht University

Shifting Spirituality From Modern to Postmodern to Metamodern Secular-Religious Entanglements

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 235)

Terhi Hannola

University of Helsinki

How to study (non)religious multispecies relations within the study of religion?

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 236)

Irene Dietzel

University of Potsdam

The Pedagogy of Undisciplining: on Teaching Religions in a 'schoolish' Environment

Room 1.14

Individual Paper (IP 236)

Irene Dietzel

University of Potsdam

The Pedagogy of Undisciplining: on Teaching Religions in a 'schoolish' Environment

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 7)

Jonathan Sheehan, On the Altar

Philippe Borgeaud; Cristiana Facchini; Robert Yelle; Jonathan Sheehan

University of Geneva; University of Bologna; LMU Munich; University of California, Berkeley

Amphitheatre Two

Closed Panel (CP 1)

Religion & Literature. Building a European Network

Sarah Ntondele

University of Hamburg

Beyond the Questions We Already Ask: What Literature Reveals about Religion

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 45)

The Social Worlds of Magic in Antiquity: Authorship, Production, and Economic Entanglements, conv. Sofia Bianchi Mancini, University of Erfurt & Charlotte Spence, University of Oxford

Hallie G. Meredith

Washington State University

Writing Meaningful 'Nonsense': Producers, Scribal Literacy and fourth- to seventh-century CE Pseudo-Medallions

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 32)

Pagan Studies: (Re)Enchanting the Old Ways, conv. Kerem Görkem Arslan, Stian Sundell Torjussen, Helge Årsheim

Néphélie Skarlatos

École Pratique des Hautes Études-PSL & École française d’Athènes

Not Folklore, Not New Age: Competing Claims of Legitimacy in Contemporary Greek and Roman Polytheism

Amphitheatre Five

Open Panel (OP 24)

Religious Literacy in Action, conv. Titus Hjelm, Zeinab Karimi, Tuomas Äystö, University of Helsinki

Tuomas Äystö

University of Helsinki

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 16)

The war in Ukraine as a catalyst for global religious transformations: a 360° shift in religion, conv. Hanna Kulahina-Stadnichenko,H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Igor Gudyma; Olena Nykytchenko

Mariupol State University, Mariupol/Kyiv; Odesa Polytechnic National University

The Attitude of the International Religious Community Toward Religious Life in Ukraine

Room 1.05

Individual Paper (IP 025)

Kareem P. A. McDonald

University of Copenhagen

Algorithmic Theology in Court: AI Islam and the Danish Quran Law

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 6)

Secular-Religious and Globalized Reconfigurations in 21st-Century Western Spirituality, conv. Katarina Plank, Karlstad University & Dave Vliegenthart, Maastricht University

Kai Shmushko

University of Amsterdam/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Diasporic TeaEscapes: Chinese Tea Houses in European Cities as Post-secular Ritualism

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 233)

Guido Nerger

University of Bern

Feeding on Immortality: Are the Gods the Ideal Vegetarians?

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 237)

Jacek Skup

Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Buddhism in Modi's Political Strategy: Soft Power, Hindutva, and the Limits of Religious Diplomacy

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Coffee Break

Aula Magna

Keynote Lecture II

Keynote Lecture II

Jens Schlieter

University of Bern

The Carnism School: Animal Sacrifice, Vegetarianism, and the Justification of Violence in the Study of Religion

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Lunch

Aula Magna

Open Panel (OP 29)

Metaphor and Materiality: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges in the Study of Religion

Jessie Pons

CERES, Bochum

Material Metaphors in Practice: Conceptual Challenges and a Case Study

Amphitheatre Two

Closed Panel (CP 1)

Religion & Literature. Building a European Network

Claudia Jahnel

University of Hamburg

“Where there are no gods, ghosts reign” (Novalis): Literature’s Role in Enriching Religious Ambiguity and Challenging Fixed Boundaries

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 45)

The Social Worlds of Magic in Antiquity: Authorship, Production, and Economic Entanglements, conv. Sofia Bianchi Mancini, University of Erfurt & Charlotte Spence, University of Oxford

Sydney Urbaniak

The Ohio State University

If at First You Don’t Succeed: Multiple Avenues for Success in the GEMF

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 32)

Pagan Studies: (Re)Enchanting the Old Ways, conv. Kerem Görkem Arslan, Stian Sundell Torjussen, Helge Årsheim, Interdisciplinary Network of Pagan Studies

Emiliano Russo

Sapienza University of Rome

The Witch’s Toolkit: An Ethnography of Domestic Altars and Ritual Materiality - The case study of the Temple of Ara in Italy

Amphitheatre Three

Open Panel (OP 1)

Spiritual, nonordinary, transformative - New interpretations of religious experiences, conv. Sára E. Heidl, University of Szeged

Zsuzsanna Szugyiczki

University of Szeged

The Weight of Tradition: Deconstructing Scholarly Bias in the Study of Contemporary Mysticism

Amphitheatre Five

Open Panel (OP 24)

Religious Literacy in Action, conv. Titus Hjelm, Zeinab Karimi, Tuomas Äystö, University of Helsinki

Giovanni Lapis

Sapienza University of Rome/Juniversity of Tokyo

"Religious Literacy" or "Religious-studies literacy?". An interdisciplinary discussion of an organizing framework

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 13)

Competing Orthodoxies: Struggles for Authority, Recognition, and Legitimacy in Eastern European Orthodoxy, conv. Iuliana Cândrea-Nagy, New Europe College. Institute of Advanced Study, Bucharest

Iuliana Cindrea-Nagy

New Europe College, Bucharest

Who Speaks for Orthodoxy? Authority and Dissent within the Romanian Orthodox Church

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 28)

Religion and Nature Relations in the (Post-)Secular North, conv. Henrik Ohlsson, Södertörn University

Henrik Ohlsson

Södertörn University

Holy Circularity: Ethical and Eco-Theological Perspectives on Food-Waste in the Church of Sweden

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 6)

Secular-Religious and Globalized Reconfigurations in 21st-Century Western Spirituality, conv. Katarina Plank, Karlstad University & Dave Vliegenthart, Maastricht University

Sissel Undheim

University of Bergen

Bring in the lights! The Scandinavian cult of saint Lucy as selectively non-/religious

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 231)

Martin Riexinger

Aarhus University

Descolasian perspectives on Islam. Said Nursi’s ‘fractured analogism’ as depicted in the ‘hagiopic’ Hür Adam

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 010)

Nargiz Mammadli

Stockholm University

Studying Indigenous Cosmologies in the Post-Truth Era: The Case of Tengrism

Aula Magna

Open Panel (OP 29)

Metaphor and Materiality: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges in the Study of Religion

Julia Stenzel

Leibniz University Hannover

Embodiment and Evocation: Non-linguistic Metaphors in Passion Plays and Taʿziyeh

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 10)

Religion and Literature

Darja Šterbenc Erker

Humboldt University Berlin/ University of Ljubljana

Literature and religions in ancient Rome

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 45)

The Social Worlds of Magic in Antiquity: Authorship, Production, and Economic Entanglements, conv. Sofia Bianchi Mancini, University of Erfurt & Charlotte Spence, University of Oxford

Liudmila Rusinova

University of Erfurt

Doubly Transgressive: Female Agency and Same-Sex Erotic Magic in Roman Egypt

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 32)

Pagan Studies: (Re)Enchanting the Old Ways, conv. Kerem Görkem Arslan, Stian Sundell Torjussen, Helge Årsheim

Efstathios Kessareas

University of Erfurt

Researching Contemporary Hellenic Polytheism: Fieldwork Challenges and Methodological Strategies

Amphitheatre Three

Open Panel (OP 1)

Spiritual, nonordinary, transformative - New interpretations of religious experiences, conv. Sára E. Heidl, University of Szeged

Courtney Applewhite

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Studying After Death Experiences: Methodological Bridges and Challenges

Amphitheatre Five

Open Panel (OP 24)

Religious Literacy in Action, conv. Titus Hjelm, Zeinab Karimi, Tuomas Äystö, University of Helsinki

Roosa Haimila, Tuomas Äystö, Jenna Kuronen, Zeinab Karimi, Titus Hjelm

University of Helsinki

Religious literacy in action? Exploring religious literacy as a perceived solution to social problems in transnational organisations

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 13)

Competing Orthodoxies: Struggles for Authority, Recognition, and Legitimacy in Eastern European Orthodoxy, conv. Iuliana Cindrea-Nagy, New Europe College. Institute of Advanced Study, Bucharest

Iuliia Korniichuk

New Europe College, Bucharest

One Faith, Two Borders: Competing Legal and Ecclesial Logics in Ukrainian–Romanian Orthodoxy

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 28)

Religion and Nature Relations in the (Post-)Secular North, conv. Henrik Ohlsson, Södertörn University

Siv Ellen Kraft

The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø

Eco-spiritual Artivism in Sápmi

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 83)

Ingela Visuri

Dalarna University

The Third Man Factor: Sensed Presence at the Boundaries of Religion

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 232)

Laura Wickström

The Polin Institute, Åbo Akademi University

Ecology, Ontology, and Stewardship: A Dialogue Between Descola and Islamic Eco-Theology

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 100)

Douglas Mattsson

Malmö University

Imagining Tengri: conceptualizing and contesting the pre-Islamic past in contemporary Turkey

Aula Magna

Open Panel (OP 29)

Metaphor and Materiality: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges in the Study of Religion

Gerrit Lange

CERES Bochum

Getting in Touch with the Snake Goddess: A visual metaphor process as cognition, imagination, and feeling

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 10)

Religion and Literature

István Keul

University of Bergen

Religion and Literature: Exploring Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature and Religion

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 45)

The Social Worlds of Magic in Antiquity: Authorship, Production, and Economic Entanglements, conv. Sofia Bianchi Mancini, University of Erfurt & Charlotte Spence, University of Oxford

Marinella Ceravolo

Sapienza University of Rome

Constructing the kaššāptu: Counter-Magical Discourse and the Struggle Over Ritual Expertise in Ancient Mesopotamia

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 32)

Pagan Studies: (Re)Enchanting the Old Ways, conv. Kerem Görkem Arslan, Stian Sundell Torjussen, Helge Årsheim

Agita Misāne

University of Latvia

The Guardians of Latvianness – the Dievturi Movement and National Identity

Amphitheatre Three

Open Panel (OP 1)

Spiritual, nonordinary, transformative - New interpretations of religious experiences, conv. Sára E. Heidl, University of Szeged

Hongfei Yu

University of Amsterdam

A (micro)phenomenological approach towards studying altered states: Understanding Bailado dance in Santo Daime through the lens of 4E cognition

Amphitheatre Five

Individual Paper (IP 60)

Aini Linjakumpu

University of Lapland, Rovaniemi

Religious Literacy as Professional Competence in Healthcare

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 13)

Competing Orthodoxies: Struggles for Authority, Recognition, and Legitimacy in Eastern European Orthodoxy, conv. Iuliana Cindrea-Nagy, New Europe College. Institute of Advanced Study, Bucharest

Dumitru Lisnic

Ioan Petru Culianu Institute for Religious Studies, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș

State, Bureaucracy, and Religious Authority: Lay Resistance and the Failure of the Living Church in 1920s Ukraine

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 28)

Religion and Nature Relations in the (Post-)Secular North, conv. Henrik Ohlsson, Södertörn University

David Thurfjell

Södertörn University

The Ecological Turn of Swedish Mainland Christianity

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 129)

Edith Szanto

University of Alabama

Power and Authority in Iraqi Kurdistan: The Kasnazani Order and Political Change

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 117)

Tadeáš Vala

Charles University, Prague

Revisiting the Reconquista: Post-Truth Historiography and the Resurgence of a Medieval Narrative in Conservative Academia and Contemporary Islamophobic Discourse

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Coffee Break

Aula Magna

Open Panel (OP 29)

Metaphor and Materiality: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges in the Study of Religion

Licia Di Giacinto

CERES Bochum

Metaphors and the “godly” in Eastern Han (25-220) figurative sources

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 10)

Religion and Literature

Graţiela Benga

„Titu Maiorescu” Institute, Romanian Academy, Timișoara Branch

Church and Religious (Dis)belief: Beyond a Spatial Figure and Relational Phenomena in Contemporary Romanian Poetry

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 45)

The Social Worlds of Magic in Antiquity: Authorship, Production, and Economic Entanglements, conv. Sofia Bianchi Mancini, University of Erfurt & Charlotte Spence, University of Oxford

Christa Müller-Kessler

Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Mesopotamian Magical Texts of Late Antiquity and Their Religious Environment

Amphitheatre Three

Open Panel (OP 1)

Spiritual, nonordinary, transformative - New interpretations of religious experiences, conv. Sára E. Heidl, University of Szeged

Sára E. Heidl

University of Szeged

Resonance and Ecstasy: the Experience of Festivals

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 19)

Religious Transformations and Pluralism reflected in the Religion Class: the Romanian Case, conv. Alina Pătru, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Alina Pătru

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Legislative Frameworks and Students’ Perspectives on Religious Education in Romania: Navigating Between Confessional Commitment and Interreligious Openness

Amphitheatre Six

Roundtable (RT 17)

New Books on Motherhood and Religions, conv. Florence Pasche Guignard, Université Laval, Québec

Florence Pasche Guignard; Joanna Krotofil; Giulia Pedrucci; Steven Geusens; Ionuț Daniel Băncilă

Université Laval, Québec; Jagiellonian University, Kraków; Comenius University, Bratislava; Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Institute for the History of Religions, Bucharest

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 28)

Religion and Nature Relations in the (Post-)Secular North, conv. Henrik Ohlsson, Södertörn University

Tõnno Jonuks; Atko Remmel

Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu; University of Tartu

Pagan and Lutheran Environmentalism: Estonian Maausk, the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, and Nature Protection

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 36)

Embodied Lived Religion: Faith, Practice, and Everyday Life in Roma Communities, conv. Kinga Povedák, University of Szeged

Kinga Povedák

University of Szeged

Embodied Sonic Agency in Roma Religious Musicking

Room 1.11

Roundtable (RT 10)

EASR Working Group on Theorizing Religion\s (in formation): Women Pioneers in the Study of Religion: A Roundtable Discussion, conv. Göran Larsson, University of Gothenburg

Jessica Albrecht; Siv Ellen Kraft; Susanne Olsson; Amy Allocco

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg; The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø; Stockholm University; Elon University

Room 1.13

Roundtable (RT 13)

25 Years of Lithuanian Society for the Study of Religions: Story, Challenges, and Contributions, conv. Rasa Pranskevičiūtė-Amoson, Vilnius University

Milda Ališauskienė; Audrius Beinorius; Gražina Bielousova

Vytautas Magnus University; Vilnius University; Vytautas Magnus University/Vilnius University

Room 1.14

Open Panel (OP 5)

Religious Identities by Degrees? Critical Insights into Conversion, Continuity and Fluidity in the History of Religions, conv. Benjamin M.J. De Vos, Ghent University

Alexander van der Haven

University of Bergen

Fluid Jewish identities: Varieties of becoming Jewish in the Dutch Republic

Aula Magna

Open Panel (OP 29)

Metaphor and Materiality: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges in the Study of Religion

Nikita Artemov

CERES Bochum

God as a lion. The interplay of visual and linguistic imagery and the Hebrew prophecy of doom

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 10)

Religion and Literature

Doris Günther-Kriegel

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Of Princesses, Promises, and Pleasures: How Religion is Addressed in Literature About Female Genital Mutilation

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 45)

The Social Worlds of Magic in Antiquity: Authorship, Production, and Economic Entanglements, conv. Sofia Bianchi Mancini, University of Erfurt & Charlotte Spence, University of Oxford

Lucy Parr

The Ohio State University

From Potsherds to Power: Materiality and the Making of Magic in Olbia

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 32)

Pagan Studies: (Re)Enchanting the Old Ways, conv. Kerem Görkem Arslan, Stian Sundell Torjussen, Helge Årsheim

Konsta Kaikkonen

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Modern Paganism and Indigeneity – Some Critical Remarks from Terminological and Bureaucratic Points of view

Amphitheatre Three

Open Panel (OP 1)

Spiritual, nonordinary, transformative - New interpretations of religious experiences, conv. Sára E. Heidl, University of Szeged

Flore Muguet

EPHE-PSL

From “Religious Experience” to Conditions of Self-Transformation: Towards a Relational Approach

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 19)

Religious Transformations and Pluralism reflected in the Religion Class: the Romanian Case, conv. Alina Pătru, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Vlad Anton Ștefănoaia

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu/University of Erfurt

Confessional Identity, Religious Pluralism, and the Classroom: Perspectives and Approaches of Religious Education Teachers in Romania

Amphitheatre Six

Roundtable (RT 17)

New Books on Motherhood and Religions, conv. Florence Pasche Guignard, Université Laval, Québec

Florence Pasche Guignard; Joanna Krotofil; Giulia Pedrucci; Steven Geusens; Ionuț Daniel Băncilă

Université Laval, Québec; Jagiellonian University, Kraków; Comenius University, Bratislava; Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Institute for the History of Religions, Bucharest

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 12)

The Construction of Sacred Places in Contemporary Time, conv. Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger, Aarhus University

Abdurrahman Gad Elrab

University of Milano

Praying Without Mosques? Islamic Worship Spaces in Italy Between Religious Freedom and Spatial Constraints

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 36)

Embodied Lived Religion: Faith, Practice, and Everyday Life in Roma Communities, conv. Kinga Povedák, University of Szeged

László Fosztó

Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca

My church is inside my house: Embodied religion among Transylvanian Roma under COVID Pandemics

Room 1.11

Roundtable (RT 10)

EASR Working Group on Theorizing Religion\s (in formation): Women Pioneers in the Study of Religion: A Roundtable Discussion, conv. Göran Larsson, University of Gothenburg

Jessica Albrecht; Siv Ellen Kraft; Susanne Olsson; Amy Allocco

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg; The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø; Stockholm University; Elon University

Room 1.13

Roundtable (RT 13)

25 Years of Lithuanian Society for the Study of Religions: Story, Challenges, and Contributions, conv. Rasa Pranskevičiūtė-Amoson, Vilnius University

Milda Ališauskienė; Audrius Beinorius; Gražina Bielousova

Vytautas Magnus University; Vilnius University; Vytautas Magnus University/Vilnius University

Room 1.14

Open Panel (OP 5)

Religious Identities by Degrees? Critical Insights into Conversion, Continuity and Fluidity in the History of Religions, conv. Benjamin M.J. De Vos, Ghent University

Erki Lind

University of Tartu

Interreligious contact, conversion, and ritual community in 18th-century South India

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 10)

Religion and Literature

Mattias Brand

University of Fribourg

Remembering the Future: Obituaries of Erich von Däniken

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 45)

The Social Worlds of Magic in Antiquity: Authorship, Production, and Economic Entanglements, conv. Sofia Bianchi Mancini, University of Erfurt & Charlotte Spence, University of Oxford

Clara Locke

University of Cyprus, Nicosia

Ritual Practice as Social Practice - Religious Syncretism and Boundary Fluidity in Amulets from Egypt's First Millennium

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 32)

Pagan Studies: (Re)Enchanting the Old Ways, conv. Kerem Görkem Arslan, Stian Sundell Torjussen, Helge Årsheim

Evgenia Fotiou

University of Crete

Becoming an Ethnic Hellene: Identity and Meaning Making among Native Faith Devotees in Contemporary Greece

Amphitheatre Three

Open Panel (OP 1)

Spiritual, nonordinary, transformative - New interpretations of religious experiences, conv. Sára E. Heidl, University of Szeged

Tomilola Fadipe & Ali Qadir

Tampere University

"Logics of Mediation: Joseph Ayo Babalola and the Social Embeddedness of Mystical Authenticity in Modern Nigerian Christianity

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 19)

Religious Transformations and Pluralism reflected in the Religion Class: the Romanian Case, conv. Alina Pătru, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Constantin Ioan Necula

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Bridging Beliefs: A Comparative Pedagogical Model for Teaching the History of Religions in a Multi-Religious Classroom (Prep to 9th Grade)

Amphitheatre Six

Roundtable (RT 17)

New Books on Motherhood and Religions, conv. Florence Pasche Guignard, Université Laval, Québec

Florence Pasche Guignard; Joanna Krotofil; Giulia Pedrucci; Steven Geusens; Ionuț Daniel Băncilă

Université Laval, Québec; Jagiellonian University, Kraków; Comenius University, Bratislava; Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Institute for the History of Religions, Bucharest

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 12)

The Construction of Sacred Places in Contemporary Time, conv. Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger, Aarhus University

Maximilian Dinu-Gavrilciuc

“Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest

Liminality in New Sacred Sites: The Bruder Klaus Field Chapel

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 36)

Embodied Lived Religion: Faith, Practice, and Everyday Life in Roma Communities, conv. Kinga Povedák, University of Szeged

István Povedák

MOME, Budapest

Seeing Auras, Wearing Faith: Kalapos Zoli’s Embodied Vernacular Theology

Room 1.11

Roundtable (RT 10)

EASR Working Group on Theorizing Religion\s (in formation): Women Pioneers in the Study of Religion: A Roundtable Discussion, conv. Göran Larsson, University of Gothenburg

Jessica Albrecht; Siv Ellen Kraft; Susanne Olsson; Amy Allocco

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg; The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø; Stockholm University; Elon University

Room 1.13

Roundtable (RT 13)

25 Years of Lithuanian Society for the Study of Religions: Story, Challenges, and Contributions, conv. Rasa Pranskevičiūtė-Amoson, Vilnius University

Milda Ališauskienė; Audrius Beinorius; Gražina Bielousova

Vytautas Magnus University; Vilnius University; Vytautas Magnus University/Vilnius University

Room 1.14

Open Panel (OP 5)

Religious Identities by Degrees? Critical Insights into Conversion, Continuity and Fluidity in the History of Religions, conv. Benjamin M.J. De Vos, Ghent University

Daan F. Oostveen 亶法荷

University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht

Multiple religious belonging, rhizomatic belonging, and conversion

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Coffee Break

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 6)

Traditionalist Perennialism and Eastern Orthodoxy

Mark Sedgwick

Aarhus University

Amphitheatre Two

Individual Paper (IP 109)

Olof Sundqvist

Stockholm University

Popular Religious Practice and the Sacred Landscape in Medieval Scandinavia: Indigenous Legacy or Christian Innovation?

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 45)

The Social Worlds of Magic in Antiquity: Authorship, Production, and Economic Entanglements, conv. Sofia Bianchi Mancini, University of Erfurt & Charlotte Spence, University of Oxford

Miriam Blanco Cesteros

University Complutense, Madrid

Writing as Ritual Practice in Greco-Egyptian Magic

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 32)

Pagan Studies: (Re)Enchanting the Old Ways, conv. Kerem Görkem Arslan, Stian Sundell Torjussen, Helge Årsheim

Kerem Görkem Arslan

University of Strasbourg

Navigating Invisibility: Methodological Reflections on the Study of Contemporary Pagan Movements in Turkey within a Transnational Framework

Amphitheatre Three

Roundtable (RT 15)

Infrastructure matters! Or: how can the study of religion navigate the digital turn? conv. Mareike Heinritz and Louise Neubronner, University of Tübingen

Mareike Heinritz; Louise Neubronner; Natalia Zawiejska; Karen Nikiforov; Ruslan Khalikov; Alessandra Vitullo; Tomáš Hampejs; Adrian Hermann

University of Tübingen; University of Tübingen; Jagiellonian University, Kraków; Kyiv School of Economics/Religion on Fire project; Religion on Fire project/Workshop for Academic Study of Religion, Kyiv; Sapienza University of Rome; Masaryk University, Brno; University of Bonn

Amphitheatre Five

Open Panel (OP 33)

AI, Robots, and Religion in the Asia-Pacific: Rethinking Agency, Presence, and the Other-than-Human, conv. Kristina Eiviler, University of Zurich, Katja Valaskivi, University of Helsinki, Beth Singler, University of Zurich

Kristina Eiviler

University of Zurich

“The Temple where Drone Buddhas Fly:” Technology-Mediated Buddhism at the Ryuganji Temple

Amphitheatre Six

Open Panel (OP 26)

Beyond Religious Diplomacy: Transnational Spaces and Local Renegotiations of Religion, conv. Ibrahim Bachir Abdoulaye & Paula Schrode, University of Bayreuth

Evelyn Reuter

University of Graz

Engineering the Religious Diversity in Albania: Actors, Inclusion, and Exclusion in the Interreligious Council

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 12)

The Construction of Sacred Places in Contemporary Time, conv. Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger, Aarhus University

Elza Kuyk

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Church Buildings as Territory of Both Conflicts and Peacebuilding

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 36)

Embodied Lived Religion: Faith, Practice, and Everyday Life in Roma Communities, conv. Kinga Povedák, University of Szeged

Bernadette Fraioli

Sapienza University of Rome

The Romani people at the Shrine of “Madonna del Divino Amore” in Rome: exceptional practices embodied in the “Open-air Church of the ‘Gypsies’” during the Jubilee of the Roma and the Sinti 2025

Room 1.11

Open Panel (OP 8)

Sense of Safety in Religious Communities: Embodiment, Emotions, and Existential Perspectives, conv. Anne Birgitta Pessi, University of Helsinki

Anne Birgitta Pessi

University of Helsinki

Diverse Dimensions of Sense of Safety: The role of religion, and how to study it

Room 1.13

Roundtable (RT 18)

Liminality 360 – ‘States of in Between’ in Contemporary Religion through discussion of Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China (Leiden University Press, 2025), conv. Kai Shmushko, University of Amsterdam/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Carolina Ivanescu; Jacob F. Tischer; Martin Lavička; Ernst van den Hemel

University of Amsterdam; (田雅各), Charles University Prague; Palacký University Olomouc; Utrecht University/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 6)

Traditionalist Perennialism and Eastern Orthodoxy

Mark Sedgwick; Ayesha Adamo

Rice University

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 45)

The Social Worlds of Magic in Antiquity: Authorship, Production, and Economic Entanglements, conv. Sofia Bianchi Mancini, University of Erfurt & Charlotte Spence, University of Oxford

Marsha McCoy

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

Thelyphron and Magic in Apuleius' Metamorphoses yy

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 32)

Pagan Studies: (Re)Enchanting the Old Ways, conv. Kerem Görkem Arslan, Stian Sundell Torjussen, Helge Årsheim

Stian Sundell Torjussen

University of Inland Norway

Three approaches to the question of ethnicity among contemporary Hellenic polytheists in North America

Amphitheatre Three

Roundtable (RT 15)

Infrastructure matters! Or: how can the study of religion navigate the digital turn? conv. Mareike Heinritz and Louise Neubronner, University of Tübingen

Mareike Heinritz; Louise Neubronner; Natalia Zawiejska; Karen Nikiforov; Ruslan Khalikov; Alessandra Vitullo; Tomáš Hampejs; Adrian Hermann

University of Tübingen; University of Tübingen; Jagiellonian University, Kraków; Kyiv School of Economics/Religion on Fire project; Religion on Fire project/Workshop for Academic Study of Religion, Kyiv; Sapienza University of Rome; Masaryk University, Brno; University of Bonn

Amphitheatre Five

Open Panel (OP 33)

AI, Robots, and Religion in the Asia-Pacific: Rethinking Agency, Presence, and the Other-than-Human, conv. Kristina Eiviler, University of Zurich, Katja Valaskivi, University of Helsinki, Beth Singler, University of Zurich

Kristina Eiviler; Katja Valaskivi

University of Zurich; University of Helsinki

Amphitheatre Six

Open Panel (OP 26)

Beyond Religious Diplomacy: Transnational Spaces and Local Renegotiations of Religion, conv. Ibrahim Bachir Abdoulaye & Paula Schrode, University of Bayreuth

Adriana Cupcea

Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca/ New Europe College, Bucharest

Religious Soft Power in Turkey's Kin-State Policy in the Balkans: The Role of the Diyanet and TIKA in Muslim Communities in Kosovo and the Dobruja Region in Romania

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 12)

The Construction of Sacred Places in Contemporary Time, conv. Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger, Aarhus University

Butai Kang

Minzu University of China, Beijing

Transnational Diaspora and the Reconstruction of Sacred Space: Materiality and Healing at the Atherton Hou Wang Temple yy

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 36)

Embodied Lived Religion: Faith, Practice, and Everyday Life in Roma Communities, conv. Kinga Povedák, University of Szeged

Ryoko Sachi-Noro

Toyo University, Tokyo

Embodied Lived Religion: Faith, Practice, and Everyday Life in Roma Communities

Room 1.11

Open Panel (OP 8)

Sense of Safety in Religious Communities: Embodiment, Emotions, and Existential Perspectives, conv. Anne Birgitta Pessi, University of Helsinki

Teemu Pauha

University of Helsinki

Speaking the Unspeakable: Mysticism as a Heuristic Model for Affect Research

Room 1.13

Roundtable (RT 18)

Liminality 360 – ‘States of in Between’ in Contemporary Religion through discussion of Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China (Leiden University Press, 2025), conv. Kai Shmushko, University of Amsterdam/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Carolina Ivanescu; Jacob F. Tischer; Martin Lavička; Ernst van den Hemel

University of Amsterdam; (田雅各), Charles University Prague; Palacký University Olomouc; Utrecht University/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 6)

Traditionalist Perennialism and Eastern Orthodoxy

Mark Sedgwick; Ionuț Daniel Băncilă; Eugen Ciurtin

Institute for the History of Religions, Bucharest; Institute for the History of Religions, Bucharest

Amphitheatre Four

Individual Paper (IP 102)

Amelia Robertson Brown

Macquarie University

Make Love AND War: The Cult of Armed Aphrodite of Acrocorinth in Context as a Civic Protector Goddess of Corinth over 700 Years

Amphitheatre One

Individual Paper (IP 84)

Pavel Horák

University of Viena

Primordial Borders of Occult Nationalism: A Theoretical Framework for Mapping the Relations between Occultism and Nationalism

Amphitheatre Three

Roundtable (RT 15)

Infrastructure matters! Or: how can the study of religion navigate the digital turn? conv. Mareike Heinritz and Louise Neubronner, University of Tübingen

Mareike Heinritz; Louise Neubronner; Natalia Zawiejska; Karen Nikiforov; Ruslan Khalikov; Alessandra Vitullo; Tomáš Hampejs; Adrian Hermann

University of Tübingen; University of Tübingen; Jagiellonian University, Kraków; Kyiv School of Economics/Religion on Fire project; Religion on Fire project/Workshop for Academic Study of Religion, Kyiv; Sapienza University of Rome; Masaryk University, Brno; University of Bonn

Amphitheatre Five

Open Panel (OP 33)

AI, Robots, and Religion in the Asia-Pacific: Rethinking Agency, Presence, and the Other-than-Human, conv. Kristina Eiviler, University of Zurich, Katja Valaskivi, University of Helsinki, Beth Singler, University of Zurich

Beth Singler

University of Zurich

Amphitheatre Six

Open Panel (OP 26)

Beyond Religious Diplomacy: Transnational Spaces and Local Renegotiations of Religion, conv. Ibrahim Bachir Abdoulaye & Paula Schrode, University of Bayreuth

Abdoulaye Ibrahim Bachir

University of Bayreuth

Muslim Aid Brokerage and the Reshaping of Turkish Religious Engagement in Niger

Room 1.05

Individual Paper (IP 109)

Olof Sundqvist

Stockholm University

Popular Religious Practice and the Sacred Landscape in Medieval Scandinavia: Indigenous Legacy or Christian Innovation?

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 36)

Embodied Lived Religion: Faith, Practice, and Everyday Life in Roma Communities, conv. Kinga Povedák, University of Szeged

Natanael Alexandru Bitis

SCOSAAR, Romanian Academy

Sacred Sound, Disciplined Bodies: Music and Embodied Conversion among Roma Pentecostals

Room 1.11

Open Panel (OP 8)

Sense of Safety in Religious Communities: Embodiment, Emotions, and Existential Perspectives, conv. Anne Birgitta Pessi, University of Helsinki

Liri Sofi Tourgeman

EHESS, Paris

Between Halakha and Egalitarianism: safety and discontent in Orthodox Jewish Communities in Contemporary Europe

Room 1.13

Roundtable (RT 18)

Liminality 360 – ‘States of in Between’ in Contemporary Religion through discussion of Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China (Leiden University Press, 2025), conv. Kai Shmushko, University of Amsterdam/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Carolina Ivanescu; Jacob F. Tischer; Martin Lavička; Ernst van den Hemel

University of Amsterdam; (田雅各), Charles University Prague; Palacký University Olomouc; Utrecht University/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Aula Magna

Film (FILM 1)

Pilgrimage of the Gitans in France | Ryoko Sachi-Noro Professor, Department of Global Diversity Studies, Faculty of Sociology, Toyo University, Tokyo

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 11)

Narrating the Anthropocene: Religious Responses to Planetary Crisis

Knut A. Jacobsen; Almut–Barbara Renger

University of Bergen; University of Basel

Amphitheatre Two

Closed Panel (CP 24)

The Legacy of Hermes: Texts, Transmissions, and Transformations from Late Antiquity to Modernity, conv. Chiara O. Tommasi, University of Pisa

Christian Bull

University of Bergen

Hermes at the Crossroads: The Authority of Ancient Egyptian Wisdom in the 5th and 6th centuries CE

Amphitheatre Four

Roundtable (RT 14)

Critical Religion: Exploring the Revolution

Naomi Goldenberg; Alex Henley; Aaron Hughes; Peggy Schmeiser; Teemu Taira; David O'Reilly

University of Ottawa; Institute of Ismaili Studies, London; University of Rochester, NY & University of Stockholm; University of Saskatchewan; University of Helsinki; University of Waterloo/ Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 29)

“I Have Chosen My Religion”: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Issues of Religious Conversion, Tara-Lou Iftene, Kerem Görkem Arslan

Samir Abdelli

EHESS, Paris

Becoming a Muslim While Remaining a Christian? Reflections on the Conversion of Eva Meyerovitch (1909–1999)

Amphitheatre Three

Open Panel (OP 18)

Vampirism 360°: Genealogies, Practices, and Heritage of Vampiric Phenomena, conv. Giuseppe Maiello, University of Finance and Administration, Prague

Giuseppe Maiello

University of Finance and Administration, Prague

Vampirism: A Senile Disorder of Shamanism

Amphitheatre Five

Open Panel (OP 7)

Reframing Digital Religion Studies: Classical Theories and New Perspectives on the Post-Secular Sacred | Emiliano Russo & Alessandra Vitullo, Sapienza University of Rome

Emanuele Palumbo

University of Padova

Digital Time as Sacred Time. Revisiting Classical Models of Religious Temporality in Digital Environments

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 15)

Social Ontology and Beyond, conv. Niels Reeh, University of Southern Denmark, Odense & Andrea Rota, University of Oslo

Niels Reeh

University of Southern Denmark, Odense

Religious groups as relational and collective entities

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 32)

Christian Theatre in Early Modern Europe. Cultural Transformations, Pedagogical Strategies, Theological Renewal | Maria Fallica, Sapienza University of Rome

Niccolò Brandodoro

Sapienza University of Rome

“Peregrino en su patria”. Saint Alexius between Hagiographic Traditions and Jesuit Theatre

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 44)

When Religion Becomes Political and Politics Religious: Contesting Secular Governance and Power Structures in Contemporary Society, conv. Milda Ališauskienė & Evelina Juchnevičiūtė, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas

Milda Ališauskienė & Evelina Juchnevičiūtė

Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas

Religionisation in Lithuanian Politics: Minority Religions and the Struggle for State Recognition

Room 1.11

Closed Panel (CP 8)

Saint Cyprian in Context, conv. José Leitão, University of Coimbra

José Leitão

University of Coimbra

Understanding and condemnation of Cyprianic magic literature in Portugal

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 241)

Albin Jose

Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus

Trade Winds and Sacred Stones: Mobility, Translation, and the Syncretic. Architectures of Kochi’s Mercantile Networks

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 11)

Narrating the Anthropocene: Religious Responses to Planetary Crisis

Knut A. Jacobsen; Almut–Barbara Renger

University of Bergen; University of Basel

Amphitheatre Two

Closed Panel (CP 24)

The Legacy of Hermes: Texts, Transmissions, and Transformations from Late Antiquity to Modernity, conv. Chiara O. Tommasi

Claudio Moreschini

University of Pisa

A Christian Reading of Hermetism: François de Foix Candale bishop of Aire

Amphitheatre Four

Roundtable (RT 14)

Critical Religion: Exploring the Revolution

Naomi Goldenberg; Alex Henley; Aaron Hughes; Peggy Schmeiser; Teemu Taira; David O'Reilly

University of Ottawa; Institute of Ismaili Studies, London; University of Rochester, NY & University of Stockholm; University of Saskatchewan; University of Helsinki; University of Waterloo/ Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 29)

“I Have Chosen My Religion”: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Issues of Religious Conversion, Tara-Lou Iftene, Kerem Görkem Arslan

Marie Antunes Serra

University of Strasbourg

Religious Conversion in Music: the Example of Arvo Pärt and John Tavener

Amphitheatre Three

Individual Paper (IP 160-161)

Jenny Butler & Iryna Stavynska

University College Cork

“‘Her Eyes Blazed With Unholy Light”: Exploring Themes of Religion, Disease and Place in Vampire Narratives’

Amphitheatre Five

Open Panel (OP 7)

Reframing Digital Religion Studies: Classical Theories and New Perspectives on the Post-Secular Sacred | Emiliano Russo & Alessandra Vitullo, Sapienza University of Rome

Rebekka Rieser

University of Zurich

Reframing Religious Visibility: A Multidimensional Model of Decodability and Visibility in Digital Public Spheres

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 15)

Social Ontology and Beyond, conv. Niels Reeh, University of Southern Denmark, Odense & Andrea Rota, University of Oslo

Andrea Rota

University of Oslo

Boundary Construction, Disaffiliation, and the Social Ontology of Religious Groups

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 32)

Christian Theatre in Early Modern Europe. Cultural Transformations, Pedagogical Strategies, Theological Renewal

Cora Presezzi

Sapienza University of Rome

To Repent, or Not to Repent? A Faustian Question on the Early Modern Stage

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 44)

When Religion Becomes Political and Politics Religious: Contesting Secular Governance and Power Structures in Contemporary Society, conv. Milda Ališauskienė & Evelina Juchnevičiūtė, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas | Milda Ališauskienė & Evelina Juchnevičiūtė, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas

Gražina Bielousova

Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas

Governing Morality: Catholic Media and the Making of Political Legitimacy in Post-Accession Lithuania

Room 1.11

Closed Panel (CP 8)

Saint Cyprian in Context, conv. José Leitão, University of Coimbra

Bernadett Smid

Institute of Ethnography and Folklore, Eötvös Loránd University

Saint Cyprian’s Prayer in Practice: Counter-Witchcraft Rituals in Seventeenth-Century Catalonia

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 243)

Ullrich R. Kleinhempel

University of the Free State, Bloemfontein/University of Münster

Orthodox mysticism of Hesychasm in horizons of Modernity and Postmodernity: ‘The Island (Остров) (2006), directed by Pavel Lungin and written by Dmitry Sobolev, as retrieval and re-presentation in the medium of film and aesthetics

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 11)

Narrating the Anthropocene: Religious Responses to Planetary Crisis

Knut A. Jacobsen; Almut–Barbara Renger

University of Bergen; University of Basel

Amphitheatre Two

Closed Panel (CP 24)

The Legacy of Hermes: Texts, Transmissions, and Transformations from Late Antiquity to Modernity, conv. Chiara O. Tommasi

Piero Latino

Salento University

The Myth of Hermes Trismegistus in Literature

Amphitheatre Four

Roundtable (RT 14)

Critical Religion: Exploring the Revolution

Naomi Goldenberg; Alex Henley; Aaron Hughes; Peggy Schmeiser; Teemu Taira; David O'Reilly

University of Ottawa; Institute of Ismaili Studies, London; University of Rochester, NY & University of Stockholm; University of Saskatchewan; University of Helsinki; University of Waterloo/ Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 29)

“I Have Chosen My Religion”: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Issues of Religious Conversion, Tara-Lou Iftene, Kerem Görkem Arslan

Kerem Görkem Arslan

University of Strasbourg

Exiting Islam: Conversion to New Religiosities as a Process of Negotiation

Amphitheatre Three

Open Panel (OP 18)

Vampirism 360°: Genealogies, Practices, and Heritage of Vampiric Phenomena, conv. Giuseppe Maiello, University of Finance and Administration, Prague

Christian Moe

independent researcher, Ljubljana

Crying Wolf in Indo-European Religion

Amphitheatre Five

Open Panel (OP 7)

Reframing Digital Religion Studies: Classical Theories and New Perspectives on the Post-Secular Sacred | Emiliano Russo & Alessandra Vitullo, Sapienza University of Rome

Giulia Evolvi

University of Bologna

Space, body, materiality: rethinking digital religion through the case study of Catholic women’s ordination activism

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 15)

Social Ontology and Beyond, conv. Niels Reeh, University of Southern Denmark, Odense & Andrea Rota, University of Oslo

Gabriel Levy

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim

The Role of the Shared Sense of Agency in Ritual

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 32)

Christian Theatre in Early Modern Europe. Cultural Transformations, Pedagogical Strategies, Theological Renewal

Mirella Saulini

Sapienza University of Rome

St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Spirituality on the Stage of Jesuit Colleges: Christus Nascens, Christus Patiens, Christus Iudex Tragoediae by Stefano Tucci

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 44)

When Religion Becomes Political and Politics Religious: Contesting Secular Governance and Power Structures in Contemporary Society, conv. Milda Ališauskienė & Evelina Juchnevičiūtė, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas | Milda Ališauskienė & Evelina Juchnevičiūtė, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas

Rosita Garškaitė-Antonowicz

Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas

Catholic Nationalism in Lithuania: using ‘common good’ to undermine pluralism

Room 1.11

Closed Panel (CP 8)

Saint Cyprian in Context, conv. José Leitão, University of Coimbra

Inês Teixeira Barreto

Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo

‘The Basis of All Their Knowledge’: The Book of Saint Cyprian in Brazilian Imaginary and Printed Culture in the 20th Century

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 103)

Muhammad Adiz Wasisto

University of Vienna / Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta

Performing the “Just Ruler”: Jokowi’s Javanese Political Theatrics, Blusukan, and the Re-Enchantment of Presidential Authority

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Coffee Break

Aula Magna

Keynote Lecture III

Keynote Lecture III

Michael Stausberg

University of Bergen

The Values of Human Lives: Chips from a History of Human Sacrifice

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Lunch

Aula Magna

Closed Panel (CP 6)

Classical Philology, Mythology and History of Religions

Philippe Borgeaud

University of Geneva

Karl Otfried Müller’s Mythology: From Then to Now

Amphitheatre Two

Closed Panel (CP 24)

The Legacy of Hermes: Texts, Transmissions, and Transformations from Late Antiquity to Modernity, conv. Chiara O. Tommasi

Chiara O. Tommasi

University of Pisa

The Playful Hermes: Irony and Hermetic Thought in Thomas Mann

Amphitheatre Four

Closed Panel (CP 11)

Occult Tibet: Euro-American Esoteric Readings

Lukas K. Pokorny

University of Vienna

“The Reputed Fountain-head of Esoteric Lore”: Tibet and Its Masters

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 29)

“I Have Chosen My Religion”: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Issues of Religious Conversion, Tara-Lou Iftene, Kerem Görkem Arslan

Tara-Lou Iftene

EHESS, Paris

Maisons de conversions, maisons de correction (From Conversion to Correction): The Refuges in France, 17th–18th centuries

Amphitheatre Three

Open Panel (OP 18)

Vampirism 360°: Genealogies, Practices, and Heritage of Vampiric Phenomena, conv. Giuseppe Maiello, University of Finance and Administration, Prague

Augusto Cosentino

University of Trieste

From Lamia to Narada: Continuity and Transformations of Vampire Women in the Greek-Byzantine Mediterranean

Amphitheatre Five

Open Panel (OP 7)

Reframing Digital Religion Studies: Classical Theories and New Perspectives on the Post-Secular Sacred | Emiliano Russo & Alessandra Vitullo, Sapienza University of Rome

Marta Kołodziejska

University of Warsaw

Why mediatization should change how we see religious institutions. Reflections on the intersections between sociology of religion and digital sociology

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 25)

Cultural Apocalypse and the Reordering of Mourning: (New) Religious and Social Practices, conv. Pasqualina Eckerström, University of Helsinki/ University of Turku

Pasqualina Eckerström

University of Helsinki/ University of Turku

Digital Rituals of Mourning: How Social Media Frames Death and Justice in the Iranian Protests

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 4)

The Eventification of Religion: New Insights, Theories, and Problems, conv. Alessandro Testa, Charles University, Prague

Alessandro Testa

Charles University, Prague

Examples of Event Religionification in Europe

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 44)

When Religion Becomes Political and Politics Religious: Contesting Secular Governance and Power Structures in Contemporary Society, conv. Milda Ališauskienė & Evelina Juchnevičiūtė, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas | Milda Ališauskienė & Evelina Juchnevičiūtė, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas

Giulio dalla Grana

Södertörn University

From the Political to the Religious and vice versa: Perspectives in the Study of Secular Religions

Room 1.11

Open Panel (OP 15)

Orthodox Christian Presence in Italy (16th-21st Centuries), conv. Mariachiara Giorda & Giuseppe Tateo, Roma Tre University

Mariachiara Giorda

Roma Tre University

Spatial Strategies and Shared Sacred Spaces: The Romanian Orthodox Church in Italy (Late 20th Century–Present)

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 160)

Ann-Kathrin Bretfeld-Wolf

Queen Maud University College of Early Childhood Education, Trondheim

Pāli History Beyond the Master-Narrative The Dhātuvaṃsa’s Version of ‘Buddha Visits’ and the Power of Adaptations

Aula Magna

Closed Panel (CP 6)

Classical Philology, Mythology and History of Religions

Steven Geusens

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Hugo Windischmann at the Intersection of Classical Philology, Oriental Studies, and History of Religions

Amphitheatre Two

Closed Panel (CP 24)

The Legacy of Hermes: Texts, Transmissions, and Transformations from Late Antiquity to Modernity, conv. Chiara O. Tommasi

Wouter Hanegraaff

University of Amsterdam

Hermetism and Translation

Amphitheatre Four

Closed Panel (CP 11)

Occult Tibet: Euro-American Esoteric Readings

Franz Winter

University of Graz

Going Underground in the Himalaya: The Writings of Theodore Illion (1898–1984) and the Ambivalent Image of Tibet

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 29)

“I Have Chosen My Religion”: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Issues of Religious Conversion, Tara-Lou Iftene, Kerem Görkem Arslan

Maïann Stachnik

Sorbonne Université – Faculté des Lettres, Paris

Puritan Conversion among Indigenous Youth in present-day New England, 17th-18th centuries

Amphitheatre Three

Individual Paper (IP 252)

Jussi Pietinalho

University of Turku

Western Christian Traditions and Egalitarianism: A Conceptual Analysis of Doctrines with Indicative Evidence from Party Programmes and Electoral Behaviour

Amphitheatre Five

Open Panel (OP 7)

Reframing Digital Religion Studies: Classical Theories and New Perspectives on the Post-Secular Sacred

Emiliano Russo & Alessandra Vitullo

Sapienza University of Rome

Emiliano Russo & Alessandra Vitullo

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 25)

Cultural Apocalypse and the Reordering of Mourning: (New) Religious and Social Practices, Pasqualina Eckerström, University of Helsinki/ University of Turku

Andrea Di Lenardo

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Law, Mourning, and Apocalypse in the Letter of James

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 4)

The Eventification of Religion: New Insights, Theories, and Problems, conv. Alessandro Testa, Charles University, Prague

Martin Pehal

Charles University, Prague

Ritual Infrastructure and the Limits of Eventification: From Civic Carnival to Crisis Commemoration in Prague

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 014)

Satoko Fujiwara

University of Tokyo

What Is Meant by “Indigenous Epistemologies”?: Epistemic Pluralism, Writing Styles, and the Study of Religion

Room 1.11

Open Panel (OP 15)

Orthodox Christian Presence in Italy (16th-21st Centuries), conv. Mariachiara Giorda & Giuseppe Tateo, Roma Tre University

Caterina Pignotti

Sapienza University of Rome

Spatializing Dialogue: The Romanian Orthodox Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Turin

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 89)

Alessandro Giudice

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Beyond Judicium Dei: Hindu Ordeal Between Judicial Authority and Ritual Efficacy

Aula Magna

Closed Panel (CP 6)

Classical Philology, Mythology and History of Religions

Annelies Lannoy

University of Gent

Beyond Philology. Hermann Usener on Myth, Ritual, and Comparison

Amphitheatre Two

Individual Paper (IP 141)

Victor Andrei Lambert

Trinity College, University of Cambridge

Salvation vs. Creativity: Christian Humanism and Theodoret of Cyrus

Amphitheatre Four

Closed Panel (CP 11)

Occult Tibet: Euro-American Esoteric Readings

Roberto Corso

University of Naples “Federico II”

Tibet and Traditionalism between Religious Universalism and Political Radicalism

Amphitheatre One

Individual Paper (IP 85)

Cornelia Niggli

University of Bern

Making sense of Covid-19 and dealing with ambiguity in times of crisis

Amphitheatre Three

Individual Paper (IP 253)

Mustafa Kamal

Linnaeus University

From Poetic Metaphor to Polemic Insult: Shifting Vocabularies of (Non)Religion in the Pakistani Context

Amphitheatre Five

Individual Paper (IP 78)

Fatemeh Moslehzadeh

Lund University

Motherhood in a Modern Conservative Shiʿi Context

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 25)

Cultural Apocalypse and the Reordering of Mourning: (New) Religious and Social Practices, conv. Pasqualina Eckerström, University of Helsinki/ University of Turku

Terhi Utriainen

University of Helsinki

The 'Long Corridors of Death' as the Dark Side of Modernity

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 4)

The Eventification of Religion: New Insights, Theories, and Problems, conv. Alessandro Testa, Charles University, Prague

Katri Ratia

University of Fribourg

Evental Outcomes: how is the ‘transformational potential’ of events understood?

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 139)

Tuomas Äystö

University of Helsinki

The construction of religion and technology in the 2020s US media coverage of religion-associated AI

Room 1.11

Open Panel (OP 15)

Orthodox Christian Presence in Italy (16th-21st Centuries), conv. Mariachiara Giorda & Giuseppe Tateo, Roma Tre University

Giuseppe Tateo

Roma Tre University

The Romanian Orthodox Church as a Migrant Church

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 013)

Jose Ramón Rodríguez Lago

University of Vigo

Working for Peace. The transnational networks of Pax Romana (1921-1948)

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Coffee Break

Aula Magna

Closed Panel (CP 6)

Classical Philology, Mythology and History of Religions

Danny Praet

University of Gent

Franz Cumont. Classical Philologist and Historian of Religions

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 4)

Alternative Religiosity in Communist and Post-Communist region: Orientalist Religious Movements and their Features, Manifestations and Transformations, conv. Rasa Pranskevičiūtė-Amoson, Vilnius University

Rasa Pranskevičiūtė-Amoson

Vilnius University

With Orientalist Flow and in the Light of the Teachings of Vydūnas and Roerich: Ideas, Individuals and Networks in Lithuania

Amphitheatre Four

Closed Panel (CP 11)

Occult Tibet: Euro-American Esoteric Readings

Samuel Thévoz

University of Vienna

Is There a Secret Doctrine?” Occult Tibet Revealed, the Initiate Concealed

Amphitheatre One

Open Panel (OP 13)

EASR Working Group on Theorizing Religion\s (in formation): Steps in Theorizing Religion, conv. Mattias Brand, University of Fribourg/University of Basel & Markus Altena Davidsen, Leiden University

Steven J. Sutcliffe

The Open University

Invitations to a Reflexive Study of Religion/s

Amphitheatre Three

Individual Paper (IP 254)

Zahra Naghshband

Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt

Between Two Bodies: The Quality of Bodily Mediation in the Experience of Ritual Time in Iranian Shiite Practice

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 17)

Negotiations of Religious Authority and Authenticity on Social Media Platforms, conv. Ariane Kovac, Ruhr-University Bochum & Gabriela de la Vega, Erasmus University Rotterdam & Jasmin Eder, University of Erfurt & Leoni Wohlfart, Goethe University Frankfurt

Ariane Kovac

Ruhr-University Bochum

‘You need a minimum of intelligence to not take that too seriously.’ Christian Social Media Users’ Strategies of Discerning and Claiming Authority

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 26)

Notes to Religion: The Interdisciplinary Significance of Occasional Recordings, with Japanese Pure Land Buddhism as an Example, conv. Markus Rüsch, University of Münster

Yōko Itō

University of Hamburg

The Unintended Archive: Eshinni's Letters as a Primary Source for Female Religious Agency

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 4)

The Eventification of Religion: New Insights, Theories, and Problems, conv. Alessandro Testa, Charles University, Prague

Linda Gustavsson

University of Oslo

From Household Ritual to Public Festival

Room 1.11

Open Panel (OP 15)

Orthodox Christian Presence in Italy (16th-21st Centuries), conv. Mariachiara Giorda & Giuseppe Tateo, Roma Tre University

Angela Bernardo

Sapienza University of Rome

Reshaping Community: Coptic Orthodox Diaspora in Italy between Continuity and Transformation

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 86)

Audrius Beinorius

Vilnius University

Rajiv Malhotra and His War Against Western “Hinduphobia”: Civilizational Apologetics and the Contestation of Religious Knowledge

Aula Magna

Closed Panel (CP 6)

Classical Philology, Mythology and History of Religions

Christian Hoekema

University of Gent

Philological and Confessional Stakes in Late Antiquity: Sulpicius Severus between classical scholarship and ecclesiastical historiography (1861–1914)

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 4)

Alternative Religiosity in Communist and Post-Communist region: Orientalist Religious Movements and their Features, Manifestations and Transformations, conv. Rasa Pranskevičiūtė-Amoson, Vilnius University

Kristina Garalytė

Vilnius University

Imagining Tibet in Lithuania: spiritual, cultural or political?

Amphitheatre Four

Closed Panel (CP 20)

Religion, Myth, and Occultism in Nazi Germany

Ansgar Martins

University of Bern

Martin Buber's Mythology of National Socialism

Amphitheatre One

Open Panel (OP 13)

EASR Working Group on Theorizing Religion\s (in formation): Steps in Theorizing Religion, conv. Mattias Brand, University of Fribourg/University of Basel & Markus Altena Davidsen, Leiden University

Isis Mrugalla-Kalmbacher

Tübingen University

Which Turn Next? Toward a Relational Study of Worlds in the Study of Religions

Amphitheatre Three

Individual Paper (IP 76)

Göran Larsson

University of Gothenburg

A Nexus between Police Studies and the Psychology of Religion: The Pioneering Work of Hjalmar Sundén

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 17)

Negotiations of Religious Authority and Authenticity on Social Media Platforms, conv. Ariane Kovac, Ruhr-University Bochum & Gabriela de la Vega, Erasmus University Rotterdam & Jasmin Eder, University of Erfurt & Leoni Wohlfart, Goethe University Frankfurt

Gabriela de la Vega

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Godfluencers: The Disappearing Medium and the Making of Digital Religious Authority

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 26)

Notes to Religion: The Interdisciplinary Significance of Occasional Recordings, with Japanese Pure Land Buddhism as an Example, conv. Markus Rüsch, University of Münster

Yoshiya Nishimura

Ryukoku University, Kyoto

“Verbatim records” (kikigaki) in Shin Buddhist Literature

Room 1.05

Individual Paper (IP 239)

Peter Nynäs

Åbo Akademi University

Challenges and Dissonance in Research with Vulnerable and Hard-to-Reach Populations

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 9)

Art-Related Methodologies in the Study of Religion: Intersections and Collaborations, conv. Roosa Haimila, University of Helsinki

Paride Stortini

Ghent University

Consecrating Art, Evaluating Religion: Theoretical Intersections between Contemporary Art and the Study of Japanese Buddhism

Room 1.11

Open Panel (OP 47)

Towards Orthodox Christianity 360o: History of Religions and Orthodox Christianities, conv. Ionuț Daniel Băncilă, Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Ionuț Daniel Băncilă

Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

The Hermeneutics of Distrust in contemporary Orthodox Conspirituality

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 106)

Marie Glasø Glein

Volda University College

Yoga in Schools

Aula Magna

Closed Panel (CP 6)

Classical Philology, Mythology and History of Religions

Daniel Barbu

CNRS, Paris

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 4)

Alternative Religiosity in Communist and Post-Communist region: Orientalist Religious Movements and their Features, Manifestations and Transformations, conv. Rasa Pranskevičiūtė-Amoson, Vilnius University

Deimantas Valančiūnas

Vilnius University

Negotiating the Public Sphere: Asia-Inspired New Religious Movements in Late Soviet Lithuania

Amphitheatre Four

Closed Panel (CP 20)

Religion, Myth, and Occultism in Nazi Germany

Moritz Maurer

University of Vienna

Racial Religion or Third Confession? New Insights into the Nordische Glaubensgemeinschaft

Amphitheatre One

Open Panel (OP 13)

EASR Working Group on Theorizing Religion\s (in formation): Steps in Theorizing Religion, conv. Mattias Brand, University of Fribourg/University of Basel & Markus Altena Davidsen, Leiden University

Markus Altena Davidsen

Leiden University

Image Schemas in Theories of Religion: Towards a Typology of Conceptual Models

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 17)

Negotiations of Religious Authority and Authenticity on Social Media Platforms, conv. Ariane Kovac, Ruhr-University Bochum & Gabriela de la Vega, Erasmus University Rotterdam & Jasmin Eder, University of Erfurt & Leoni Wohlfart, Goethe University Frankfurt

Jasmin Eder

University of Erfurt

Followers of Ahmadiyya: Audiovisual mediation of religious knowledge among Ahmadi-Muslims in Germany

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 26)

Notes to Religion: The Interdisciplinary Significance of Occasional Recordings, with Japanese Pure Land Buddhism as an Example, conv. Markus Rüsch, University of Münster

Markus Rüsch

University of Münster

Structuring the Almost Unstructured Genre of Diary: Perspectives on Material Religion

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 9)

Art-Related Methodologies in the Study of Religion: Intersections and Collaborations, conv. Roosa Haimila, University of Helsinki

Carolina Ivanescu

University of Amsterdam

‘You must experience it’: Art, Embodiment, and Knowledge Production in Shamanic Research

Room 1.11

Open Panel (OP 47)

Towards Orthodox Christianity 360o: History of Religions and Orthodox Christianities, conv. Ionuț Daniel Băncilă, Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Madli Sepper

University of Tartu

Christ Epitaphioi in Estonian Orthodox Churches their age and practices

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 004)

Jongmyung Kim

Geumgang University

The Dawn Buddhist Ritual in Contemporary Korea: An Exploration of Its Ideological Foundations and Implications

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Coffee Break

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 1)

Teaching from Within: How Religious Study Shapes Pedagogical Practice, conv. Gaston Bacquet Quiroga, University of Glasgow, respondent Tim Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense/Leibniz University, Hannover & Vicepresident of International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences

Gaston Bacquet Quiroga

University of Glasgow

Teaching From Within: A Buddhist Foundation For a Relational Pedagogy

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 4)

Alternative Religiosity in Communist and Post-Communist region: Orientalist Religious Movements and their Features, Manifestations and Transformations, conv. Rasa Pranskevičiūtė-Amoson, Vilnius University

Agata Świerzowska

Jagiellonian University, Kraków

From Cultural Diplomacy to Spiritual Experimentation: Institutional Pathways of Indian Spiritual Traditions in Socialist Poland

Amphitheatre Four

Closed Panel (CP 20)

Religion, Myth, and Occultism in Nazi Germany

Dirk Schuster

University of Vienna

Russian Orthodox Churches in the Third Reich and in the Austrian Fascist Corporative State – a Comparison

Amphitheatre One

Open Panel (OP 13)

EASR Working Group on Theorizing Religion\s (in formation): Steps in Theorizing Religion, conv. Mattias Brand, University of Fribourg/University of Basel & Markus Altena Davidsen, Leiden University

Daan F. Oostveen 亶法荷

University of Utrecht

Before Theory: deconstruction and critical religion as a necessary first step for concept development and modeling

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 17)

Negotiations of Religious Authority and Authenticity on Social Media Platforms, conv. Ariane Kovac, Ruhr-University Bochum & Gabriela de la Vega, Erasmus University Rotterdam & Jasmin Eder, University of Erfurt & Leoni Wohlfart, Goethe University Frankfurt

Leoni Wohlfart

Goethe University Frankfurt

Manufacturing displays of God-written lives for social media platforms

Amphitheatre Six

Open Panel (OP 15)

Orthodox Christian Presence in Italy (16th-21st Centuries), conv. Mariachiara Giorda & Giuseppe Tateo, Roma Tre University

Mariachiara Giorda

Roma Tre University

Spatial Strategies and Shared Sacred Spaces: The Romanian Orthodox Church in Italy (Late 20th Century–Present)

Room 1.05

Roundtable (RT 3)

Roundtable on The Magical Diaries of Leah Hirsig, 1923–1925, conv. Henrik Bogdan, University of Gothenburg

Manon Hedenborg White; Massimo Introvigne; Marco Pasi

Malmö University; CESNUR, Turin; EPHE-PSL, Paris

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 9)

Art-Related Methodologies in the Study of Religion: Intersections and Collaborations, conv. Roosa Haimila, University of Helsinki

Alexandra Bergholm & Terhi Utriainen

University of Helsinki

Exploring Vernacular Cultural Imagination: Religious, Spiritual and Secular Perspectives in the Reception of Angel-Themed Art

Room 1.11

Open Panel (OP 47)

Towards Orthodox Christianity 360o: History of Religions and Orthodox Christianities, conv. Ionuț Daniel Băncilă, Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Elias Södergren

Stockholm University

Modern Selves in Search of an Authentic Faith: Swedish Converts to Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Room 1.13

Open Panel (OP 2)

What makes a religious persecution and how to research it?, conv. Igor Mikeshin, University of Helsinki

Igor Mikeshin

University of Helsinki

American spies? Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 1)

Teaching from Within: How Religious Study Shapes Pedagogical Practice, conv. Gaston Bacquet Quiroga, University of Glasgow, respondent Tim Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense/Leibniz University, Hannover & Vicepresident of International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences

Paul Eaton

University of Alabama

Deep Reading and Study in Educational Practice

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 4)

Alternative Religiosity in Communist and Post-Communist region: Orientalist Religious Movements and their Features, Manifestations and Transformations, conv. Rasa Pranskevičiūtė-Amoson, Vilnius University

Mare Kõiva; Rahel Laura Vesik

Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu

Teaching of the Guru

Amphitheatre Four

Closed Panel (CP 20)

Religion, Myth, and Occultism in Nazi Germany

Maggie Kastlund

University of Gothenburg

“Protective Prisoner No. 303”: The Persecution of Occultism in Nazi Germany

Amphitheatre One

Open Panel (OP 13)

EASR Working Group on Theorizing Religion\s (in formation): Steps in Theorizing Religion, conv. Mattias Brand, University of Fribourg/University of Basel & Markus Altena Davidsen, Leiden University

Elena Schaa

National Hellenic Research Foundation/University of Basel

Theorizing Gender and Gendering Theories? What Masculinity Studies can offer to the Study of Religion

Amphitheatre Five

Individual Paper (IP 32)

Johan Brun Mendes Cederfeldt

Aarhus University

Prospects for a theory of physiolatry: An argument for a new category of ritual action

Amphitheatre Six

Open Panel (OP 15)

Orthodox Christian Presence in Italy (16th-21st Centuries), conv. Mariachiara Giorda & Giuseppe Tateo, Roma Tre University

Caterina Pignotti

Sapienza University of Rome

Room 1.05

Roundtable (RT 3)

Roundtable on The Magical Diaries of Leah Hirsig, 1923–1925, conv. Henrik Bogdan, University of Gothenburg

Manon Hedenborg White; Massimo Introvigne; Marco Pasi

Malmö University; CESNUR, Turin; EPHE-PSL, Paris

Room 1.09

Open Panel (OP 9)

Art-Related Methodologies in the Study of Religion: Intersections and Collaborations, conv. Roosa Haimila, University of Helsinki

Pasqualina Eckerström

University of Helsinki

ProfanArt: Blasphemy and art as High-Risk Artivism in Contemporary Iran

Room 1.11

Open Panel (OP 47)

Towards Orthodox Christianity 360o: History of Religions and Orthodox Christianities, conv. Ionuț Daniel Băncilă, Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Massimo Mammarella

Sapiemza University of Rome

Ambiguous Sanctity: Lived Religion and Shared Devotion at Zočište Monastery in Post-Conflict Kosovo

Room 1.13

Open Panel (OP 2)

What makes a religious persecution and how to research it?, conv. Igor Mikeshin, University of Helsinki

Olli-Matti Peltonen

European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses, Helsinki

Establishing Facts, Not Feelings: Formulating Challenges to Religious Freedoms in Light of the Recent Case Law in Europe

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 1)

Teaching from Within: How Religious Study Shapes Pedagogical Practice, conv. Gaston Bacquet Quiroga, University of Glasgow, respondent Tim Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense/Leibniz University, Hannover & Vicepresident of International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences

Ricardo Montelongo

Sam Houston State University, Huntsville

Creating a Spiritual Pedagogy from The Rule of St. Benedict

Amphitheatre Two

Individual Paper (IP 009)

Maria Rogińska

University of the National Education Commission (UKEN), Kraków

Memory, Materiality, and Religious Imagination in Anglican Parishes

Amphitheatre Four

Individual Paper (IP 110)

Martin Lavička

Palacký University Olomouc

In the Name of Patriotism: Regulating Religions under the Xi Jinping Regime

Amphitheatre One

Individual Paper (IP 167-168)

Mareike Heinritz & Louise Neubronner

University of Tübingen, University Library

Enhancing Visibility, Fostering Engagement: RelBib as a Participatory Platform for the Study of Religion

Amphitheatre Five

Individual Paper (IP 115)

Evelyn Reuter

University of Graz

Engineering the Religious Diversity in Albania: Actors, Inclusion, and Exclusion in the Interreligious Council

Amphitheatre Six

Open Panel (OP 15)

Orthodox Christian Presence in Italy (16th-21st Centuries), conv. Mariachiara Giorda & Giuseppe Tateo, Roma Tre University

Room 1.05

Roundtable (RT 3)

Roundtable on The Magical Diaries of Leah Hirsig, 1923–1925, conv. Henrik Bogdan, University of Gothenburg

Manon Hedenborg White; Massimo Introvigne; Marco Pasi

Malmö University; CESNUR, Turin; EPHE-PSL, Paris

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 108)

Giovanni Franceschini

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Franciscanism and Fascist Civil Religion: Catholic Symbolic Power and the Early Sacralization of Politics in Italy (Umbria, 1926)

Room 1.13

Open Panel (OP 2)

What makes a religious persecution and how to research it?, conv. Igor Mikeshin, University of Helsinki

Sławomir Mandes

University of Warsaw

Dominant Churches, Minority Congregations, and the Grammar of Non-Compliance: Institutional Position, Historical Memory, and Adaptive Strategies during COVID-19 in Poland, Germany, and Ireland

Aula Magna

Film

Tarantism Revisited An essayistic documentary film, by Anja Dreschke, University of Siegen & Michaela Schäuble, University of Bern

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 8)

Buddhism in Europe

Jørn Borup; Knut A. Jacobsen; Marzenna Jakubczak-Borge; Samuel Thévoz; Anita Stasulane; Katarina Plank; Almut-Barbara Renger; Martin Rötting; Lyudmila Klasanova

Aarhus University; University of Bergen; Jagiellonian University, Kraków; University of Vienna; Daugavpils University; Karlstad University; University of Basel; University of Salzburg; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 20)

Exploring Immanentist Religious Worlds, Past and Present, conv. Anders Norge Lauridsen, Uppsala University & Alan Strathern, University of Oxford

Alan Strathern

University of Oxford

Some Recent Thoughts on Immanentism, Comparativism and Secularism

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 22)

Ecumenism & History of Religions, conv. Renata Salvarani, European University, Rome & Daniela Dumbravă, Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Renata Salvarani

European University, Rome

Christian ecumene: definitions and critical implications for a problematic glossary

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 12)

Esotericism, Politics, and Social Imaginaries, conv. Milan Reith, University of Göttingen & Contemporary Esotericism Research Network

David Dijkman

University of Amsterdam

Thermal Scheme of the Imponderable Embodiment: The Politicisation of the Subtle Body in the West German Alternative Milieu

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 9)

Experiencing Transcendence through the Arts. A Comparative Study on Mysticism and the Arts in Contemporary Islam, Buddhism, and Bāul, conv. Francesco Piraino, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice

Francesco Piraino

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Contemporary Sufi Arts: mediating Islam and negotiating blackness between universality and particularity

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 10)

Political Theology and Political Mythology: Historical and Contemporary Intersections between Religion and Politics, conv. Robert Yelle, LMU Munich

Sergio Glăjar

University of Texas at Austin

Fascist Divine Kingship in Interwar Romania

Amphitheatre Six

Open Panel (OP 25)

Ritual Innovation in Global Religion, conv. Amy L. Allocco, Elon University, NC

Gita V. Pai

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Innovative devotees: Tradition and change in contemporary Hindu religiosity

Room 1.05

Closed Panel (CP 2)

Islamic Prophetic Relics in Transformation, conv. Susanne Olsson, Stockholm University

Jonas Svensson

Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar

Large Language Models as Research Infrastructure: Computational Methods in Humanities Workflows

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 38)

Peggy Schmeiser

University of Saskatchewan

When Two Rights Make a Wrong: Freedom of Religion vs. Legal Equality

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 39)

Naomi Fujiwara

University of Tokyo

Sites of Religious Contact: Fictitious Kirishitan Materials and Non-Christian Engagements with Christianity in Japan

Room 1.13

Open Panel (OP 42)

From South Asia to Latin America: The Veneration of Mother Earth as Eco-Cosmology and Political Dynamic, conv. Lidia Guzy, University College Cork, Stefano Beggiora, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Uwe Skoda, Aarhus University

Uwe Skoda

Aarhus University

The King and Mother Earth. Royal Investiture Rituals in Western Odisha / India

Room 1.14

Individual Paper (IP 34)

Ioannis E. Kastanas

School of Law, University of Nicosia

The Theologically Inspired Methods of the Administrative Judge

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 20)

Exploring Immanentist Religious Worlds, Past and Present, conv. Anders Norge Lauridsen, Uppsala University & Alan Strathern, University of Oxford

Anders Norge

Uppsala University

Immanentist Onto-Praxis in Annual Rites of Fertility among the Sihanaka of Madagascar

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 22)

Ecumenism & History of Religions, conv. Renata Salvarani, European University, Rome & Daniela Dumbravă, Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Daniela Dumbravă

Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

The Paradoxes and Secrets in Nicolae Milescu's Informal Interaction with the Jesuits in Peking (1676-1682)

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 12)

Esotericism, Politics, and Social Imaginaries, conv. Milan Reith, University of Göttingen & Contemporary Esotericism Research Network

Gregg Harmston

Independent scholar

Non-linear Summonings: Political and Esoteric Rhizomes of the CCRU

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 9)

Experiencing Transcendence through the Arts. A Comparative Study on Mysticism and the Arts in Contemporary Islam, Buddhism, and Bāul, conv. Francesco Piraino, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice

Keith Cantú

Harvard Divinity School Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Listening for Deeper Meaning: Mysticism in the Songs of Bengali Bāuls and Fakirs

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 10)

Political Theology and Political Mythology: Historical and Contemporary Intersections between Religion and Politics, conv. Robert Yelle, LMU Munich

Robert Yelle

LMU Munich

Long Live the King: The Political Significance of Several Ancient Myths

Amphitheatre Six

Open Panel (OP 25)

Ritual Innovation in Global Religion, conv. Amy L. Allocco, Elon University, NC

Chad M. Bauman

Butler University Indianapolis, IN

Ritual Innovation and Co-Creation in the First Church of Cannabis

Room 1.05

Closed Panel (CP 2)

Islamic Prophetic Relics in Transformation, conv. Susanne Olsson, Stockholm University

Susanne Olsson

Stockholm University

Between Veneration and Innovation: Al-Maqqarī and the Making of “Orthodox Innovation” through the Prophet’s Sandal

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 82)

Alexander Fedorov

Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong Schooling and the Governance of Religious Difference: Freedom of Conscience in East & Southeast Asian Perspective

Room 1.13

Open Panel (OP 42)

From South Asia to Latin America: The Veneration of Mother Earth as Eco-Cosmology and Political Dynamic, conv. Lidia Guzy, University College Cork, Stefano Beggiora, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Uwe Skoda, Aarhus University

Jyotirmaya Tripathy

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

The Menstruating Earth: Odisha's Raja Parba and its Eco-Cosmology

Room 1.14

Individual Paper (IP 155)

Alan Clark

Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem-Malta

Theology of War and Sacrifice: Hospitaller Orders in the Crusades and the Second Spiritual Inversion of Battle

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 20)

Exploring Immanentist Religious Worlds, Past and Present, conv. Anders Norge Lauridsen, Uppsala University & Alan Strathern, University of Oxford

Kaj Århem

Uppsala University

Shamanism as an immanentist religious tradition: a native Amazonian case and its implications

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 22)

Ecumenism & History of Religions, conv. Renata Salvarani, European University, Rome & Daniela Dumbravă, Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Jan Nicolae

University 1 December, Alba Iulia

Kenotic Ecumenism within the Context of Communist Prisons. Father Ioan Iovan and the Easter Liturgy at Văcărești (1956)

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 12)

Esotericism, Politics, and Social Imaginaries, conv. Milan Reith, University of Göttingen & Contemporary Esotericism Research Network

Matouš Mokrý

University of Pardubice

Esotericising Toynbee in the Order of Nine Angles

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 9)

Experiencing Transcendence through the Arts. A Comparative Study on Mysticism and the Arts in Contemporary Islam, Buddhism, and Bāul, conv. Francesco Piraino, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice

Hajar Masbah

EHESS, Paris

Ecstasy and Liminality in the Contemporary Artification of Whirling Sufi Dance

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 10)

Political Theology and Political Mythology: Historical and Contemporary Intersections between Religion and Politics, conv. Robert Yelle, LMU Munich

Cristiana Facchini

University of Bologna

On the Notion of ‘Political Religion’: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Amphitheatre Six

Open Panel (OP 25)

Ritual Innovation in Global Religion, conv. Amy L. Allocco, Elon University, NC

Weronika Zaczek

AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków

Waldorf Pedagogy as an Initiatory Educational Strategy: An Analysis of School Rituals

Room 1.05

Closed Panel (CP 2)

Islamic Prophetic Relics in Transformation, conv. Susanne Olsson, Stockholm University

Luca Patrizi

University of Turin

The relics of the kiswa of the Kaʿba and the sitāra of the tomb of the Prophet: devotion and circulation of sacred Islamic textiles

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 59)

Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps

University of Pretoria/University of Amsterdam

Growing polarisation between religious and secular actors in the Netherlands: The case of Tom de Wal

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 42)

Nabila Tasneem Anonnya

Arizona State University

Women's Bodies as Contested Terrain of the Nation: Islam, Secularism, and the Unresolved Politics of Nation-Building in Bangladesh

Room 1.13

Open Panel (OP 42)

From South Asia to Latin America: The Veneration of Mother Earth as Eco-Cosmology and Political Dynamic, conv. Lidia Guzy, University College Cork, Stefano Beggiora, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Uwe Skoda, Aarhus University

Sudarsan Padmanabhan

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

Subramanya Bharathi’s Shakthi: The Acosmic Divine, Cosmic Goddess and the Modern Indian Woman

Room 1.14

Individual Paper (IP 244)

Elena Romashko

University of Göttingen / University of Marburg

Impossible Research? Rethinking Empirical Research in Hard-to-Access and Precarious Contexts

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Coffee Break

Aula Magna

Keynote Lecture IIII

Keynote Lecture IIII

Almut-Barbara Renger

University of Basel & Free University Berlin

A 360° View of Mindfulness: Religious Concepts in Motion

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Lunch

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 8)

Buddhism in Europe

Jørn Borup; Knut A. Jacobsen; Marzenna Jakubczak-Borge; Samuel Thévoz; Anita Stasulane; Katarina Plank; Almut-Barbara Renger; Martin Rötting; Lyudmila Klasanova

Aarhus University; University of Bergen; Jagiellonian University, Kraków; University of Vienna; Daugavpils University; Karlstad University; University of Basel; University of Salzburg; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 20)

Exploring Immanentist Religious Worlds, Past and Present, conv. Anders Norge Lauridsen, Uppsala University & Alan Strathern, University of Oxford

Marco Ferrario

University College London

When Kings Win: Paradoxes of Immanentism in Achaemenid Persia

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 22)

Ecumenism & History of Religions, conv. Renata Salvarani, European University, Rome & Daniela Dumbravă, Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Alessia Brombin

Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University, Tbilisi/Pontifical University of St. Bonaventure ‘Seraphicum’, Rome

Thomas Merton’s Dialogical Vision: Interreligious Encounter in Twentieth-Century Monasticism

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 12)

Esotericism, Politics, and Social Imaginaries, conv. Milan Reith, University of Göttingen & Contemporary Esotericism Research Network

Max Lokin

Maynooth University

Esoteric Anti-Communism: Olavo de Carvalho and the Politics of Reaction in Brazil

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 9)

Experiencing Transcendence through the Arts. A Comparative Study on Mysticism and the Arts in Contemporary Islam, Buddhism, and Bāul, conv. Francesco Piraino, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice

Francesca Tarocco & Manuela Lietti

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

"Nothing!": Buddhism-Inspired Contemporary Art Practices in East Asia

Amphitheatre Five

Individual Paper (IP 65)

Chae Young Kim

Sogang University, Seoul

Carl Gustav Jung on I Ching (周易) in his Letters

Amphitheatre Six

Open Panel (OP 25)

Ritual Innovation in Global Religion, conv. Amy L. Allocco, Elon University, NC

Anya Fredsell

Emory University, Atlanta

“If the kula deivam is happy, the family will be happy”: Ritual Innovation at a Lineage Deity Temple in South India

Room 1.05

Closed Panel (CP 2)

Islamic Prophetic Relics in Transformation, conv. Susanne Olsson, Stockholm University

Jenny Berglund

University of Stockholm

Constructing a Muslim Sacred Geography: The Sahabi Tree as Living Relic in Hashemite Jordan

Room 1.09

Closed Panel (CP 14)

Gurdjieff Studies: New Research Papers and a Critical Assessment of the Field | Carole Cusack, University of Sydney & Steven Sutcliffe, The Open University, UK

Carole Cusack

University of Sydney

Gurdjieff Studies: New Research Papers and a Critical Assessment of the Field

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 90)

Helen Traupe

Georg-August-University Göttingen

Purity Culture beyond its Origins: Explorations and Notes on Current Developments

Room 1.13

Open Panel (OP 42)

From South Asia to Latin America: The Veneration of Mother Earth as Eco-Cosmology and Political Dynamic, conv. Lidia Guzy, University College Cork, Stefano Beggiora, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Uwe Skoda, Aarhus University

Lidia Guzy

University College Cork

Mother Earth and her Children – indigenous Eco-cosmology in India and Latin America

Room 1.14

Individual Paper (IP 245)

Joanna Gruszewska

Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Ancient Arguments Entering Modern Debate: Reuse of Buddhist Arguments on Caste in Modern Discourses

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 20)

Exploring Immanentist Religious Worlds, Past and Present, conv. Anders Norge Lauridsen, Uppsala University & Alan Strathern, University of Oxford

Frederik von Lillienskjold Hjortshøj

Aarhus University

Immanentism among the Sama-Bajau of Wakatobi,Eastern Indonesia

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 22)

Ecumenism & History of Religions, conv. Renata Salvarani, European University, Rome & Daniela Dumbravă, Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Athanasios Koutoupas

Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC), The Cyprus Institute

From Urban Transformation to Religious Alterity: Alexandria as a Cross-Disciplinary Laboratory for the Study of Late Antique Christianity

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 23)

Esotericism, Science, and Knowledge Claims in the Twenty-first Century, conv. Grace Conway, Contemporary Esotericism Research Network

Adas Diržys

Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas

Normativity in the Study of Esotericism Reconsidered: A Knowledge-Generating Practice

Amphitheatre Three

Individual Paper (IP 217)

Gintarė Sereikaitė-Motiejūnė

Vilnius University

Polygamy, Piety, and Emotional Endurance: A Virtual Ethnographic Study of an Online Muslim Women’s Group

Amphitheatre Five

Individual Paper (IP 95)

Caterina Luzi

University of Milano Bicocca

Reconfiguring the Sacred: Contemporary Art, Religion and Spiritual Experience in Museums

Amphitheatre Six

Open Panel (OP 25)

Ritual Innovation in Global Religion, conv. Amy L. Allocco, Elon University, NC

Amy L. Allocco

Elon University, NC

Hindu Drummer-Priests as Ritual Change Agents

Room 1.05

Individual Paper (IP 228)

Bharat Jhunjhunwala

Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

The Necessity of Rebirth in the Quranic Narrative

Room 1.09

Closed Panel (CP 14)

Gurdjieff Studies: New Research Papers and a Critical Assessment of the Field | Carole Cusack, University of Sydney & Steven Sutcliffe, The Open University, UK

Steven Sutcliffe

The Open University, UK

Neil Gunn and G.I. Gurdjieff: Reception of “The Work” in Scottish Literary Modernism

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 92)

Maria Niță

The Open University, London

Ritual in the secular and religious networks of the British Climate Movement

Room 1.13

Open Panel (OP 42)

From South Asia to Latin America: The Veneration of Mother Earth as Eco-Cosmology and Political Dynamic, conv. Lidia Guzy, University College Cork, Stefano Beggiora, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Uwe Skoda, Aarhus University

Paolo E. Rosati

independent scholar

The Sacralization of the Landscape: Mother Earth at the “Margins” of South Asia

Room 1.14

Individual Paper (IP 237)

Jacek Skup

Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Buddhism in Modi's Political Strategy: Soft Power, Hindutva, and the Limits of Religious Diplomacy

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 20)

Exploring Immanentist Religious Worlds, Past and Present, conv. Anders Norge Lauridsen, Uppsala University & Alan Strathern, University of Oxford

Nikolas Århem

Uppsala University

Immanentist Religio-Worlds in Comparison: Katuic Animism, Ancient Israel, and Mesopotamia

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 22)

Ecumenism & History of Religions, conv. Renata Salvarani, European University, Rome & Daniela Dumbravă, Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Natale Spineto

University of Turin

Julien Ries and Interreligious Dialogue, between History and Theology

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 22)

Ecumenism & History of Religions, conv. Renata Salvarani, European University, Rome & Daniela Dumbravă, Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Jose Ramón Rodríguez Lago

University of Vigo

Working for Peace. The Transnational Networks of Pax Romana (1921-1948)

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 23)

Esotericism, Science, and Knowledge Claims in the Twenty-first Century, conv. Grace Conway, Contemporary Esotericism Research Network

Aaron French

University of Copenhagen

Strategies of Legitimation: Stigmatized Knowledge in the Discourse of UAP Esotericism

Amphitheatre Three

Individual Paper (IP 96)

Tara Monet Falce

University of Latvia, Riga

Punishment and Paradise: Exploring the Influence of Supernatural Punishment Theory in Islam: The Case Study of Adultery

Amphitheatre Five

Individual Paper (IP 174-175)

Karl Henrik Johnsén & Staffan Nilsson

Södertörn University

The emergence of a new kind of religious education teacher in Sweden

Amphitheatre Six

Open Panel (OP 25)

Ritual Innovation in Global Religion, conv. Amy L. Allocco, Elon University, NC

Brian K. Pennington

Elon University

Reviving a Buddhist Past in the Indian Himalayas

Room 1.05

Individual Paper (IP 130)

Teemu Pauha

University of Helsinki

What is the knowledge base of Islamic studies? Citation patterns in flagship journals, 1990–2026

Room 1.09

Closed Panel (CP 14)

Gurdjieff Studies: New Research Papers and a Critical Assessment of the Field | Carole Cusack, University of Sydney & Steven Sutcliffe, The Open University, UK

Carole Cusack; Steven Sutcliffe

University of Sydney; The Open University, UK

‘Gurdjieff Studies’ since the 1980s: between New Religions, Western Esotericism and the Study of Religions - a Critical Assessment’

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 94)

Eva Lindhardt

Aarhus University/University College Copenhagen

Controversies in the classroom: Strengthening students’ religious literacy by teaching controversial issues in religious education

Room 1.13

Open Panel (OP 42)

From South Asia to Latin America: The Veneration of Mother Earth as Eco-Cosmology and Political Dynamic, conv. Lidia Guzy, University College Cork, Stefano Beggiora, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Uwe Skoda, Aarhus University

Stefano Beggiora

Ca’Foscari University, Venice

The Fury of Mother Earth: Colonial Rupture and Indigenous Cosmologies in Odisha

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Coffee Break

Aula Magna

Special Session (SonoRE)

Sonotheism: Religion in Enescu

Gabriel Bebeșelea & Eugen Ciurtin

SHR/IHR Bucharest

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 20)

Exploring Immanentist Religious Worlds, Past and Present, conv. Anders Norge Lauridsen, Uppsala University & Alan Strathern, University of Oxford

Neil Price

Uppsala University

Immanentist Imaginaries in the Viking Age

Amphitheatre Four

Roundtable (RT 16)

Imagineering Religion in 360° A Practice-Oriented Roundtable on Immersive Media, Heritage, and Public Imagination, conv. Ernst van den Hemel, Utrecht University/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Rachel Blokhuis-Koopman; Ayșenur Korkmaz; Welmoed Wagenaar; Kai Shmushko

Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam; Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam; Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 23)

Esotericism, Science, and Knowledge Claims in the Twenty-first Century, conv. Grace Conway, Contemporary Esotericism Research Network

Grace Conway

Contemporary Esotericism Research Network

Inventing the Ancient Past: Two Histories of Pseudoarchaeology

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 28)

Are There Limits to Religious Freedom When It Comes to National Security Interests? International Norms and Local Cases, conv. Liudmyla Fylypovych, Philosophy Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, President of the Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion

Liudmyla Fylypovych

Philosophy Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 34)

Myth, materiality, and power, conv. Cecilie Endresen, University of Oslo

Jane Haug Skjoldli

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen

Christianist Power: Materializing Myth in (Post)national(ist) Contexts

Amphitheatre Six

Open Panel (OP 25)

Ritual Innovation in Global Religion, conv. Amy L. Allocco, Elon University, NC

Carl Johan Gurt

University of Stockholm

Nuu-chah-nulth Rituals in the 21st Century: Tradition and Innovation

Room 1.05

Closed Panel (CP 4)

Charisma Re-examined: Paradoxes of Plagiarism, Prestige, and Proximity, conv. Manon Hedenborg White, Malmö University & Esther-Maria Guggenmos, Lund University

Jonas Svensson

Professor, Linnæus University

Prestige-Based Authority and Charisma: A Cognitive-Evolutionary Framework

Room 1.09

Closed Panel (CP 7)

Contemporary Muslim Materialities, conv. Maria Lindebæk Schmidt Lyngsøe, University of Copenhagen

Maria Lindebæk Schmidt Lyngsøe; Ingvild Flaskerud

University of Copenhagen; Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo

Scandinavian Islamic Decorative Items | Unpacking material configurations: The hejlah Qasim as a devotional object

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 19)

Anita Stasulane

Daugavpils University

The current problems with the legal status of (neo)pagans in the Baltics

Room 1.13

Open Panel (OP 42)

From South Asia to Latin America: The Veneration of Mother Earth as Eco-Cosmology and Political Dynamic, conv. Lidia Guzy, University College Cork, Stefano Beggiora, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Uwe Skoda, Aarhus University

Pamela Rita Flynn

University College Cork

Sezhankwa: The Great Mother

Room 1.14

Individual Paper (IP 74)

Danial Ghasempour

Stockholm University

Mapping the Use of Educational Films on Islam. Insights from Swedish Religious Education Teachers

Aula Magna

Special Session (SonoRE)

Sonotheism: Religion in Enescu

Gabriel Bebeșelea & Eugen Ciurtin; Ioana Bentoiu; Mihai Valentin Cojocaru

SHR/IHR Bucharest; HEMU, Lausanne; George Enescu Philharmonic, Bucharest

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 20)

Exploring Immanentist Religious Worlds, Past and Present, conv. Anders Norge Lauridsen, Uppsala University & Alan Strathern, University of Oxford

Liu Yisu

EPHE-PSL, Paris & Sichuan University, Chengdu

From Stars to Elixir: The Iconographic Logic of Tang–Song Eight Trigram Mirrors and the Shifting Landscape of Neidan Cultivation

Amphitheatre Four

Roundtable (RT 16)

Imagineering Religion in 360° A Practice-Oriented Roundtable on Immersive Media, Heritage, and Public Imagination, conv. Ernst van den Hemel, Utrecht University/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Rachel Blokhuis-Koopman; Ayșenur Korkmaz; Welmoed Wagenaar; Kai Shmushko

Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam; Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam; Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Amphitheatre One

Individual Paper (IP 147)

Per Faxneld

Södertörn University

Subtle Energy and Unity with the Cosmos: Aikido, Esalen, and Holistic Spirituality

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 28)

Are There Limits to Religious Freedom When It Comes to National Security Interests? International Norms and Local Cases, conv. Liudmyla Fylypovych, Philosophy Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, President of the Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion

Milda Ališauskienė

Vytautas Magnus University

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 34)

Myth, materiality, and power, conv. Cecilie Endresen, University of Oslo

Deva Nandan Harikrishna

University of Oslo

Srividya, sanskritisation, and ritual hierarchy at the Kodungallur Bharani festival

Amphitheatre Six

Open Panel (OP 25)

Ritual Innovation in Global Religion, conv. Amy L. Allocco, Elon University, NC

Room 1.05

Closed Panel (CP 4)

Charisma Re-examined: Paradoxes of Plagiarism, Prestige, and Proximity, conv. Manon Hedenborg White, Malmö University & Esther-Maria Guggenmos, Lund University

Philip Deslippe

University of California Santa Barbara

Saturn Teacher: The Para-Charisma of Yogi Bhajan

Room 1.09

Closed Panel (CP 7)

Contemporary Muslim Materialities, conv. Maria Lindebæk Schmidt Lyngsøe, University of Copenhagen

Petek Onur

University of Copenhagen

Modest Aesthetics in Wedding Celebrations among Immigrant Communities from Turkey in Denmark

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 122)

Adela Toplean

University of Bucharest

Rewiring Spiritual Power: What We Study When We Study Digital Religion among Orthodox Romanians

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 241)

Davide Torri

Sapienza University of Rome

Female Deities and Spirits of the Hindu Kush Himalaya as Ecological Stewards

Room 1.14

Individual Paper (IP 202)

Helge Årsheim

Faculty of Inland Norway

Yes, minister? - Exploring state-run offices of religion around the world

Aula Magna

Special Session (SonoRE)

Sonotheism: Religion in Enescu

Gabriel Bebeșelea & Eugen Ciurtin; Almut–Barbara Renger

SHR/IHR Bucharest; University of Basel

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 20)

Exploring Immanentist Religious Worlds, Past and Present, conv. Anders Norge Lauridsen, Uppsala University & Alan Strathern, University of Oxford

Glen Michalski

University of Adelaide

Immanence, Power and Paradox: Tantra and Kingship in Nepal

Amphitheatre Four

Roundtable (RT 16)

Imagineering Religion in 360° A Practice-Oriented Roundtable on Immersive Media, Heritage, and Public Imagination, conv. Ernst van den Hemel, Utrecht University/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Rachel Blokhuis-Koopman; Ayșenur Korkmaz; Welmoed Wagenaar; Kai Shmushko

Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam; Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam; Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Amphitheatre One

Individual Paper (IP 166)

Aleš Črnič

University of Ljubljana

Lost in Translation: Religion, Faith, and Belief in Slavic (Linguistic) Contexts

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 28)

Are There Limits to Religious Freedom When It Comes to National Security Interests? International Norms and Local Cases, conv. Liudmyla Fylypovych, Philosophy Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, President of the Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion

Vita Tytarenko

Senior Officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Advisor to the Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 34)

Myth, materiality, and power, conv. Cecilie Endresen, University of Oslo

Linda Gustavsson

University of Oslo

(Re)claiming a Sacred Pond through Myth in Sikkim, India

Amphitheatre Six

Individual Paper (IP 221)

Ondřej Váňa

Charles University, Prague

Divination as Symbolic Worldview in 1st Millenium BC Mesopotamia

Room 1.05

Closed Panel (CP 4)

Charisma Re-examined: Paradoxes of Plagiarism, Prestige, and Proximity, conv. Manon Hedenborg White, Malmö University & Esther-Maria Guggenmos, Lund University

Manon Hedenborg White

Malmö University

Towards a Theory of the Charismatic Aristocracy

Room 1.09

Closed Panel (CP 7)

Contemporary Muslim Materialities, conv. Maria Lindebæk Schmidt Lyngsøe, University of Copenhagen

Zenia Henriksen

University of Southern Denmark

Materializing Green Scripture: Islamic Environmental Ethics in the Qur’anic Botanic Garden

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 219)

Kristina Švábová

Charles University Prague

Post-Secular Death Practices in Low-Religiosity Regions of Czechia

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 204)

Igor Jurekovič

University of Ljubljana

Worship Music Between Empowerment and Constraint of Charismatic Christianity: Preliminary Findings from Slovenia

Room 1.14

Individual Paper (IP 216)

Göran Viktor Ståhle

Södertörn University

Learning to be Hindu: Bala Vihar as Religious Education in the Diaspora

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Coffee Break

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 9)

Roundtable on German-speaking Religionswissenschaft in International Perspective, conv. Michael Stausberg, University of Bergen & Katharina Wilkens, University of Tübingen

Roberto Alciati; Markus A. Davidsen; Lidia Guzy; Chiara Tommasi; Lech Trzcionkowski

University of Florence; University of Leiden; University College Cork; University of Pisa; Jagiellonian University Kraków yy

Amphitheatre Two

Roundtable (RT 12)

Generative AI and Religious Education: Challenges, Blind Spots, and New Directions, conv. Jenny Berglund, University of Stockholm / EASR Working group on Religion in Public Education

Göran Larsson; Jonas Svensson; Respondent: Karna Kjeldsen

University of Gothenburg; Linnaeus University; University College Absalon, Roskilde

Amphitheatre Four

Individual Paper (IP 138)

Shunichi Miyajima

Hokkaido University

Comparison of the “Irrational” in 20th-century German and Japanese Religious Studies

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 21)

Pedagogy, Technique, and Transmission in Esoteric Currents: An Esotericism and Didactics (EsoDid) Network Panel, conv. Olivia Cejvan, Malmö University

Olivia Cejvan; Simone Kotva

Malmö University; PhD, Senior Lecturer, University of Gothenburg

Learning to Taste a God: Apprenticeship and the Education of Attention in Swedish Initiatory Wicca
After Abramelin: An Interview Study with Esoteric Practitioners’ Experiences of Working with their Holy Guardian Angel

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 28)

Are There Limits to Religious Freedom When It Comes to National Security Interests? International Norms and Local Cases, conv. Liudmyla Fylypovych, Philosophy Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, President of the Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion

Yaroslav Yuvsechko

Department of International Communication and Political Science, Khmelnytskyi National University

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 34)

Myth, materiality, and power, conv. Cecilie Endresen, University of Oslo

Cecilie Endresen

University of Oslo

Demon trees and Illuminati mountains. Modern prophets, spiritual mapping and territorial exorcism: New Apostolic Reformation and spiritual warfare in the Philippines

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 3)

The Light and Shadow of Artificial Intelligence: Soka Gakkai’s Buddhist Perspective, CESNUR panel, conv. Massimo Introvigne, Center for Studies on New Religions, Turin

Márk Nemes

Center for Studies on New Religions, Turin | Hungarian Academy of Arts, Research Institute of Art Theory and Methodology, Budapest

AI-Assisted Lethal Weaponry in the Contemporary Age – Approaching a Crucial Moral Problem from the Perspective of Soka Gakkai

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 19)

Deal with the Devil: Religion, Spirituality, and Crime, conv. Tancredi Marrone, Masaryk University, Brno

Tancredi Marrone

Masaryk University, Brno

Hell on Earth: Black Magic and Dark Forces as a means to Elevation

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 121)

Joanna Malita-Król

Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Many layers of making the motanka doll. Heritage, magic, and womanhood in the context of material religion

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 126)

Susana González-Martínez

University of Helsinki

Mapping Creativity, Weaving Knowledge: Unlocking Women’s Spirituality in Music through Citizen Science

Room 1.13

Closed Panel (CP 3)

Re-Reading the Margins: Gender, Esoteric Archives, and Living Traditions, conv. Jessica Albrecht, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

Torsten Janson

Lund University

Queering Mythology as Artistic/Devotional Third Space

Room 1.14

Individual Paper (IP 165)

Marco Giardini

Marie Skłodowsa-Curie Fellow at Ruhr-Universität Bochum

John of Rupescissa’s millennial kingdom: a medieval precedent of early modern “philosemitism”?

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 9)

Roundtable on German-speaking Religionswissenschaft in International Perspective, conv. Michael Stausberg, University of Bergen & Katharina Wilkens, University of Tübingen

Roberto Alciati; Markus A. Davidsen; Lidia Guzy; Chiara Tommasi; Lech Trzcionkowski

University of Florence; University of Leiden; University College Cork; University of Pisa; Jagiellonian University Kraków yy

Amphitheatre Two

Roundtable (RT 12)

Generative AI and Religious Education: Challenges, Blind Spots, and New Directions, conv. Jenny Berglund, University of Stockholm / EASR Working group on Religion in Public Education

Göran Larsson; Jonas Svensson; Respondent: Karna Kjeldsen

University of Gothenburg; Linnaeus University; University College Absalon, Roskilde

Amphitheatre Four

Individual Paper (IP 132)

Ossi Korpi

University of Turku

Narratives of Historical Necessity of New Religion in the Finnish OSE during the First World War

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 21)

Pedagogy, Technique, and Transmission in Esoteric Currents: An Esotericism and Didactics (EsoDid) Network Panel, conv. Olivia Cejvan, Malmö University

Tim Rudbøg

University of Copenhagen

Cultivating experience: H. P. Blavatsky's texts as esoteric didactics

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 28)

Are There Limits to Religious Freedom When It Comes to National Security Interests? International Norms and Local Cases, conv. Liudmyla Fylypovych, Philosophy Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, President of the Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion

Mykhailo Brytsyn

Mission Eurasia, Director of the Department of Religious Freedom

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 3)

The Light and Shadow of Artificial Intelligence: Soka Gakkai’s Buddhist Perspective, CESNUR panel, conv. Massimo Introvigne, Center for Studies on New Religions, Turin

Massimo Introvigne

CESNUR

Intuition and Thought: Why Tsunesaburō Makiguchi’s Teachings Are Relevant for AI

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 19)

Deal with the Devil: Religion, Spirituality, and Crime, conv. Tancredi Marrone, Masaryk University, Brno

Davide S. Amore

Istituto Comprensivo Statale "G. D'Annunzio", Sant’Anastasia

The Concept of Violence in Islam: From Futuwwah to Terrorism

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 171)

Alisha Saikia

University of Vienna

Haunted Dolls: Intermediate Beings and Anchors of Spiritual Expression

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 127)

Jacob F. Tischer

Charles University Prague

Technologies of Capture: Dynamics of Immersion and Documentation in Taiwanese Popular Religion

Room 1.13

Closed Panel (CP 3)

Re-Reading the Margins: Gender, Esoteric Archives, and Living Traditions, conv. Jessica Albrecht, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

Shai Feraro

University of Haifa and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

Female Esoteric Authorship Between the 1890s and 1990s – Reflections from a Study of the British Occult Bookshop Scene

Room 1.14

Individual Paper (IP 183-186)

Tomáš Hampejs, Robert L. J. Shaw, Katalin Suba & David Zbíral

Masaryk University, Brno

Conflict in the Archive: Religious Belief Occurence and Interrogative Density in Medieval Heresy Trial Depositions

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 9)

Roundtable on German-speaking Religionswissenschaft in International Perspective, conv. Michael Stausberg, University of Bergen & Katharina Wilkens, University of Tübingen

Roberto Alciati; Markus A. Davidsen; Lidia Guzy; Chiara Tommasi; Lech Trzcionkowski

University of Florence; University of Leiden; University College Cork; University of Pisa; Jagiellonian University Kraków yy

Amphitheatre Two

Roundtable (RT 12)

Generative AI and Religious Education: Challenges, Blind Spots, and New Directions, conv. Jenny Berglund, University of Stockholm / EASR Working group on Religion in Public Education

Göran Larsson; Jonas Svensson; Respondent: Karna Kjeldsen

University of Gothenburg; Linnaeus University; University College Absalon, Roskilde

Amphitheatre Four

Individual Paper (IP 144)

Cristian Ducu

Centre for Advanced Research in Management and Applied Ethics, Bucharest

Techno-Religious Revival or a Hijack of Religion? The Push for a Radical Christian Agenda within the U.S. Tech Industry

Amphitheatre One

Closed Panel (CP 21)

Pedagogy, Technique, and Transmission in Esoteric Currents: An Esotericism and Didactics (EsoDid) Network Panel, conv. Olivia Cejvan, Malmö University

Ethan Doyle White

University of Copenhagen

The Otherworldly Witches' Sabbath: Dream Journeying and Oneiric Instruction in Modern British Esotericism

Amphitheatre Three

Individual Paper (IP 36)

Dumitru Lisnic

Ioan Petru Culianu Institute for Religious Studies, "George Emil Palade" University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology, Târgu Mureș

Making Religion Legible: NKVD’s Liquidation Commissions and Religious Communities in Soviet Ukraine, 1920–1929

Amphitheatre Five

Individual Paper (IP 215)

Pekka Pitkälä

University of Turku

The Artistic and Esoteric Agency of Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa (1870–1946)

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 3)

The Light and Shadow of Artificial Intelligence: Soka Gakkai’s Buddhist Perspective, CESNUR panel, conv. Massimo Introvigne, Center for Studies on New Religions, Turin

François Brémond

Research Director, Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA), University Sophia Antipolis

Buddhist Teachings and Chatbots: Can They Mislead Users?

Room 1.05

Open Panel (OP 19)

Deal with the Devil: Religion, Spirituality, and Crime, conv. Tancredi Marrone, Masaryk University, Brno

Andrej Kapcar

Masaryk University, Brno

Forbidden Play: Cursed Video Games, Digital Transgression, and the Logic of Contemporary Magick

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 104)

Frederik Wallenstein

Stockholm University

“Trolls” in Early Modern Sweden: an elusive sphere of belief and practice

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 212)

Daan F. Oostveen

亶法荷, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht

Lanyu island’s multiple Christianities: rethinking Taiwan and Tao indigenous culture

Room 1.13

Closed Panel (CP 3)

Re-Reading the Margins: Gender, Esoteric Archives, and Living Traditions, conv. Jessica Albrecht, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

Manon Hedenborg White

Malmö University

Respondent yy

Room 1.14

Individual Paper (IP 192)

Matei Dan Epure

Vanderbilt University

You Have Rome in Your Town: Locality, Abstract Communities, and the Indulgence Controversy

Aula Magna

Film (FILM 3)

Transmission: Revisited, by Kristina Eiviler Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo & URPP Digital Religion(s), Postdoctoral fellow, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Amphitheatre Two

Film (FILM 4)

Ex Utero by Ileana Bîrsan | Center of Excellence in Image Studies (CESI), University of Bucharest/ The Faculty of Roman-Catholic Theology, University of Bucharest

Amphitheatre Four

Film (Film 5)

Marie, Heart of Romania, produced by John M. Florescu. Film presentation by John Florescu, Dan Drăghicescu and Wargha Enayati.

Aula Magna

Closed Panel (CP 27)

Twenty Years in the Study of Esotericism 360 | conv. Marco Pasi, École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL, Paris

Marco Pasi

École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL, Paris

The Study of Esotericism in the Past Twenty Years: Two Major Shifts

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 11)

Decolonisation and the Study of Religion

Aaron W. Hughes

University of Rochester, NY & University of Stockholm

Whose Decolonialization?

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 27)

Doing Theology in Antiquity: Practices, Genres and Contexts

Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler

University of Göttingen

Theology with/through Oracles: the example of Porphyry

Amphitheatre One

Roundtable (RT 20)

Ir|Religion in Radu Jude’s Filmography, conv. Veronica Lazăr, University of Bucharest & Victor Morozov, Trinity College Dublin/Films in Frame, Bucharest. Respondent: Radu Jude, Bucharest

Andrei Gorzo; Andrei Rus; Simion Pop

The I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film, Bucharest; The I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film, Bucharest; Cultural Centre G. Coșbuc, Bistrița

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 30)

Queen Marie of Romania and the Bahá’í Faith: A Message of Love and Faith (1926-2026), conv. Oana Ursache, Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava

Oana Ursache

Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava

Queen Marie of Romania and the Bahá’í Progressive Revelation: Unity Instead of Strike, Hope Instead of Condemnation, Love Instead of Hate (1926-2026)

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 5)

Governing Orthodoxy in Times of War: Authority, Discourse, and State Power in the Baltic States, conv. Anita Stasulane, Daugavpils University

Alar Kilp

University of Tartu

Wartime Securitization of Orthodoxy and Nation-Building in the Baltic States: A Comparative Political Analysis

Amphitheatre Six

Individual Paper (IP 247)

Dániel Vékony

Corvinus University of Budapest

Religious Governance in Central Europe: On a Road of Symphonization?

Room 1.05

Closed Panel (CP 31)

Materialities of Religion in the Classroom: Tools, Methods, Perspectives, conv. Lina Aschenbrenner, Robert Langer & Sophie Moser, Universität der Bundeswehr München

Sophie Moser

Universität der Bundeswehr München

Teaching Islam through Objects: Material Approaches to Teaching Foundational Topics

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 26)

Lena Roos

Södertörn University

Jewish Thought between Jewish and Thought

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 35)

Isabella Schilcher

Stockholm University

Political Myth and Cultural Memory in Early Japan: Sword Narratives in the Kojiki and Their Religio-Political Implications

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 22)

Julia Folkesson Norberg

Södertörn University

The Scandinavian Mission in print: Swedish Mormonism and mass media technology 1851-1877

Aula Magna

Closed Panel (CP 27)

Twenty Years in the Study of Esotericism 360 | conv. Marco Pasi, École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL, Paris

Henrik Bogdan; Manon Hedenborg White

University of Gothenburg; Malmö University

Twenty Years in the Study of (Western) Esotericism: A Scoping Review

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 11)

Decolonisation and the Study of Religion

Jørn Borup

Aarhus University

Rethinking decolonisation: critical reflections on a critical turn

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 27)

Doing Theology in Antiquity: Practices, Genres and Contexts | Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler, University of Göttingen

Jörg von Alvensleben

University of Göttingen

Worship of the Gods, Theological Discourse, and Literary Aesthetics in Late Antique Philosophical Hymns

Amphitheatre One

Roundtable (RT 20)

Ir|Religion in Radu Jude’s Filmography, conv. Veronica Lazăr, University of Bucharest & Victor Morozov, Trinity College Dublin/Films in Frame, Bucharest. Respondent: Radu Jude, Bucharest

Andrei Gorzo; Andrei Rus; Simion Pop

The I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film, Bucharest; The I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film, Bucharest; Cultural Centre G. Coșbuc, Bistrița

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 30)

Queen Marie of Romania and the Bahá’í Faith: A Message of Love and Faith (1926-2026), conv. Oana Ursache, Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava

Wargha Enayati

Enayati Medical City, Bucharest

Community in Evolution. The Romanian Bahá’í Journey from Early Encounters to National Consolidation

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 5)

Governing Orthodoxy in Times of War: Authority, Discourse, and State Power in the Baltic States, conv. Anita Stasulane, Daugavpils University

Milda Ališauskienė; Gražina Bielousova

Vytautas Magnus University; Vytautas Magnus University / Vilnius University

Amphitheatre Six

Individual Paper (IP 249)

Tóth Judit Lenke

University of Pécs

What is religious data? Belief as data in digital society: knowability, inference, and profiling

Room 1.05

Closed Panel (CP 31)

Materialities of Religion in the Classroom: Tools, Methods, Perspectives, conv. Lina Aschenbrenner, Robert Langer & Sophie Moser, Universität der Bundeswehr München

Katja Rakow

University of Utrecht

Practicing Texts: Object-Based Learning and the Materialities of Religious Texts

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 154)

Teodora Dumitru

The “G. Călinescu” Institute for Literary History and Theory, Romanian, Academy, Bucharest

Fighting Fascism with Fascism: Rhetorics of Vicious Exoneration in Romanian Post-Communism

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 173)

Petra Oh-Lorinczi

University of Debrecen

The Yoido Full Gospel Church and the Question of Religious Syncretism

Aula Magna

Closed Panel (CP 27)

Twenty Years in the Study of Esotericism 360 | conv. Marco Pasi, École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL, Paris

Wouter J. Hanegraaff

University of Amsterdam

Esotericism in a changing world between 2016 and the present

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 11)

Decolonisation and the Study of Religion | Aaron W. Hughes, University of Rochester, NY & University of Stockholm

Fatima Dhanani

SOAS University of London

Decolonising the Lebanese Sectarian Framework through Epistemic Negotiation

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 27)

Doing Theology in Antiquity: Practices, Genres and Contexts

Gabriela Ryser

Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften/LMU Munich

Verbum carmen factum est: Practicing Theology in Late Latin Biblical Epic

Amphitheatre One

Roundtable (RT 20)

Ir|Religion in Radu Jude’s Filmography, conv. Veronica Lazăr, University of Bucharest & Victor Morozov, Trinity College Dublin/Films in Frame, Bucharest. Respondent: Radu Jude, Bucharest

Andrei Gorzo; Andrei Rus; Simion Pop

The I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film, Bucharest; The I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film, Bucharest; Cultural Centre G. Coșbuc, Bistrița

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 30)

Queen Marie of Romania and the Bahá’í Faith: A Message of Love and Faith (1926-2026), conv. Oana Ursache, Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava

Simona Melnic

MedicHub, Bucharest

World Peace in a Time of Global Turmoil: A Bahá’í Vision

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 5)

Governing Orthodoxy in Times of War: Authority, Discourse, and State Power in the Baltic States, conv. Anita Stasulane, Daugavpils University

Gražina Bielousova; Deividas Zaicevas

Vytautas Magnus University / Vilnius University; Vytautas Magnus University

Orthodoxy, Interrupted: Discursive Rupture and Orthodox Authority in Lithuania, 2014-2022

Room 1.05

Closed Panel (CP 31)

Materialities of Religion in the Classroom: Tools, Methods, Perspectives, conv. Lina Aschenbrenner, Robert Langer & Sophie Moser, Universität der Bundeswehr München

Rafaela Eulberg

University of Bonn

Excursion-Based Teaching as Epistemic Practice: Materiality, Positionality, and Knowledge Production in the Study of Religion

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 137)

Pasqualina Eckerström

University of Helsinki/, University of Turku

Religion, Agency, and the Formation of Fairness and Patience: Experiences of Iraqi Women in Finland

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 158)

Eglė Aleknaitė

Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas

Constructing Christian Persecution: the Case of Lithuanian Catholic Church

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Coffee Break

Aula Magna

Keynote Lecture V

Keynote Lecture V

Carole Cusack

University of Sydney

Huizinga and Goffman Walk into a Bar: Play and Performance in the Creation of Religion

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Lunch

Aula Magna

Closed Panel (CP 27)

Twenty Years in the Study of Esotericism 360 | conv. Marco Pasi, École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL, Paris

Francesco Piraino

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Beyond the ‘Esoteric-Mystical Nebula’: Reclaiming a Sociological Approach to the Longue Durée

Amphitheatre Two

Open Panel (OP 11)

Decolonisation and the Study of Religion

Martin Riexinger

Aarhus University

Why ‘Decolonial’ explanations of Sunni-Shia sectarianism are questionable

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 27)

Doing Theology in Antiquity: Practices, Genres and Contexts

Charles Guittard

University Paris Nanterre

Is there a specific Latin word for the Greek concept of theology?

Amphitheatre One

Individual Paper (IP 73)

Simon Sorgenfrei

Södertörn University

"Mysticism’s Native Language”. Mysticism as Genre and Collective Practice

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 30)

Queen Marie of Romania and the Bahá’í Faith: A Message of Love and Faith (1926-2026), conv. Oana Ursache, Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava

Marius Opriș

Ascendis, Bucharest

Faith Under Siege: Persecution of the Bahá’ís in Iran

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 22)

Baby Conception and Religious Rules in Romania. Comparing Eastern Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Populations through Very Long Daily Time Series (1905-2001) Analysis, conv. Claudiu Herțeliu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Claudiu Herțeliu

Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 33)

ESIND panel | Imagining India: Young Scholars on European Understandings of Indian Religions, conv. Vilém Skopal, University of Liberec

Vilém Skopal

University of Liberec

A Religion Without God? Conceptual History of the Early Czech Discourse on Buddhism

Room 1.05

Closed Panel (CP 31)

Materialities of Religion in the Classroom: Tools, Methods, Perspectives, conv. Lina Aschenbrenner, Robert Langer & Sophie Moser, Universität der Bundeswehr München

Lina Aschenbrenner

Universität der Bundeswehr München

What to Teach when Teaching ‘Materiality and Culture’? Discussing an Exemplary Course Syllabus

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 23)

Karin Yngvesdotter Lind

Independent researcher

Tzniut and Frumkeit: Modesty expressed in Mid-19th Century Swedish Jewish Dress

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 229)

Bharat Jhunjhunwala

Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

The Infinite God and Peace between Abrahamic Religions

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 62)

Marleen Thaler

University of Graz

Re-Imagining the Dragon: The Link between East Asian Geomancy and Traditionalism

Aula Magna

Closed Panel (CP 27)

Twenty Years in the Study of Esotericism 360 | conv. Marco Pasi, École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL, Paris

Mark Sedgwick

Aarhus University

Islam and the Study of Esotericism

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 27)

Doing Theology in Antiquity: Practices, Genres and Contexts

Nickolas P. Roubekas

University of Vienna

Theologians, Philosophers, or Theoreticians? Early Greek thinkers on Religion

Amphitheatre One

Individual Paper (IP 80)

Fabian Haefke

Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut der EKD, Hannover

The Construction and Mobilization of ‘the Religious’ in Lay-Professional Interaction: A Qualitative Analysis of Changes in Religious Communication in the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 30)

Queen Marie of Romania and the Bahá’í Faith: A Message of Love and Faith (1926-2026), conv. Oana Ursache, Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava

Edith Vulturar

Haifa-Bucharest

Teaching Spirituality to a Global Community: New Perspectives of the Bahá’í Principles on Education

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 22)

Baby Conception and Religious Rules in Romania. Comparing Eastern Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Populations through Very Long Daily Time Series (1905-2001) Analysis, conv. Claudiu Herțeliu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Bogdan Vasile Ileanu

Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 33)

ESIND panel | Imagining India: Young Scholars on European Understandings of Indian Religions, conv. Vilém Skopal, University of Liberec

Yana Stefanova

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia

Changing Clothes, Changing Caste: Strategic Identity in the Madurai Mission

Room 1.05

Closed Panel (CP 31)

Materialities of Religion in the Classroom: Tools, Methods, Perspectives, conv. Lina Aschenbrenner, Robert Langer & Sophie Moser, Universität der Bundeswehr München

Evelyn Reuter

University of Graz

Designing Materialities: Reflective and Creative Approaches to Teaching Religious Objects

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 41)

Hedda Lindstedt Grahn

Södertörn University

Spirituality and Corporeality in Netivot Shalom and Slonim Hasidism

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 206)

Saile Johanna Langsepp

University of Tartu

Body Turning the Mind to Divine: Theory and practice of circle element in sacred dances

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 182)

Francisco Santos Silva

NOVA University Lisbon

Economics of Storytelling: Similarities between the Religions of Oral Traditions and Role-Playing Games

Aula Magna

Closed Panel (CP 27)

Twenty Years in the Study of Esotericism 360 | conv. Marco Pasi, École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL, Paris

Amphitheatre Four

Open Panel (OP 27)

Doing Theology in Antiquity: Practices, Genres and Contexts

Alain Blomart

University Ramon Llull, Barcelona

Roman Prayers: A Synthesis of Law and Magic?

Amphitheatre One

Individual Paper (IP 125)

Ine Bratsvedal

Queen Maud University College of Early Childhood Education and University of Inland, Trondheim

Neutrality and Normativity: Studying Religion in Educational Contexts

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 30)

Queen Marie of Romania and the Bahá’í Faith: A Message of Love and Faith (1926-2026), conv. Oana Ursache, Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava

Sânziana Covaliu

Bucharest

Unification of Symbols: Bahá'í Faith through artistic reinterpretation of the religious symbols

Amphitheatre Five

Closed Panel (CP 22)

Baby Conception and Religious Rules in Romania. Comparing Eastern Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Populations through Very Long Daily Time Series (1905-2001) Analysis, conv. Claudiu Herțeliu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Tudorel Andrei

Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 33)

ESIND panel | Imagining India: Young Scholars on European Understandings of Indian Religions, conv. Vilém Skopal, University of Liberec

Anna Vrkoslavová

University of Liberec

Magical Revelation, False Penitence or Means to Gain Superpowers? An Analysis of Yoga, Yogis and Fakirs in Czech Literature at the Turn of 19th and 20th Century

Room 1.05

Closed Panel (CP 31)

Materialities of Religion in the Classroom: Tools, Methods, Perspectives, conv. Lina Aschenbrenner, Robert Langer & Sophie Moser, Universität der Bundeswehr München

Robert Langer

Universität der Bundeswehr München

Multi-Methods Approach Towards Devotional Space: (Why) Should Details Matter?

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 20)

Jonathan Cahana-Blum

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

David Koresh’s Pilgrimages to Israel: Messianic and Political Perspectives

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 209)

Willy Pfändtner

Stockholm University

Religion and philosophical idealism in India and Europe

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 207)

Sofia Anna Kjellberg

Södertörn University

UFOs and an ethical spirituality

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Coffee Break

Aula Magna

Special Session (IAHR WSN)

Women Scholar Network of the International Association for the History of Religions, conv. Jessica Albrecht, CAS-E Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Amphitheatre Two

Special Session (IAHR WSN)

Women Scholar Network of the International Association for the History of Religions, conv. Jessica Albrecht, CAS-E Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Amphitheatre Four

Individual Paper (IP 123)

Andreas Nordberg

Stockholm University

"He stood beneath the battle-standard". A reinterpretation of some stanzas from the Old Norse poem Hákonarmál

Amphitheatre One

Individual Paper (IP 142)

Giulia Marotta

University of Münster

Challenging Continuity A Multidimensional Analysis of Clergy Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

Amphitheatre Three

Individual Paper (IP 162)

Viktoras Bachmetjevas

Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas

The Unshareable Truth: Kierkegaard’s Indirect Communication and the Limits of Religious Knowledge in a 360° Epistemic Landscape

Amphitheatre Five

Individual Paper (IP 208)

Sebastian Elsässer

CAU Kiel

Sect, secret society or social movement? What is the Muslim Brotherhood from a sociological perspective?

Amphitheatre Six

Closed Panel (CP 33)

ESIND panel | Imagining India: Young Scholars on European Understandings of Indian Religions, conv. Vilém Skopal, University of Liberec

Maja Sevenant

Ghent University

Myths about Indian Goddesses: A Comparative Study of Conceptual Frameworks for Research on Indian Stories

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Special Session (IAHR WSN)

Women Scholar Network of the International Association for the History of Religions, conv. Jessica Albrecht, CAS-E Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Aula Magna

General Assembly

General Assembly of the European Association for the Study of Religions

Aula Magna

General Assembly

General Assembly of the European Association for the Study of Religions

Aula Magna

General Assembly

General Assembly of the European Association for the Study of Religions

Aula Magna

General Assembly

General Assembly of the European Association for the Study of Religions

Aula Magna

General Assembly

General Assembly of the European Association for the Study of Religions

Aula Magna

General Assembly

General Assembly of the European Association for the Study of Religions

Restaurant ARIA, rooftop National Theatre

Closing Ceremony

Closing ceremony & Banquet of the Congress

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 4)

Independent Investigative Journalism, Media Integrity, and Religion in the Public Sphere, conv. Filip Standavid, Recorder, Bucharest & Paula Erizanu, Veridica, Chișinău-Bucharest

Victor Ilie; Adina Marincea; Diana Oncioiu; Vlad Stoicescu; Emilia Șercan; Ovidiu Vanghele; Luiza Vasiliu

Drepturi și strâmbe, Bucharest; The “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest; Dela0.ro/Să fie lumină, Bucharest; Dela0.ro/Să fie lumină, Bucharest; PressOne, Bucharest; Să fie lumină, Bucharest; Drepturi și strâmbe, Bucharest

Amphitheatre Two

Individual Paper (IP 51)

Anastasia Victoria Servan-Schreiber

CREE – INaLCO, Paris/Tartu

Ritual as World-Making: Embodiment, Social Imagination, and Contemporary Maausk in Estonia

Amphitheatre Four

Individual Paper (IP 75)

Stefano Gandini

Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin

On the Need for Pluriversal Knowledge: Andean Perspectives and Religious Studies

Amphitheatre One

Open Panel (OP 17)

(Non)Religion and Language, conv. Atko Remmel, University of Tartu

Rie Wada

University of Tokyo

Secularized Intercession: "Prayer" as a Post-Secular Linguistic Infrastructure in Contemporary Japanese Culture

Amphitheatre Three

Roundtable (RT 21)

Book discussion: The Rise of Charismatic Heathenism. Power and Popular Culture in Contemporary Norse-oriented Religion

Jane Haug Skjoldli

Professor in the Study of Religion, Department of Pedagogy, Religion and Social Studies, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen

Amphitheatre Five

Individual Paper (IP 81)

Wojciech Białecki

Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin

Critique of religion and critical religion: Heraclitan perspective on Greek Orthopraxy

Amphitheatre Six

Individual Paper (IP 98)

Maja Román

Stockholm University

Formative but Not Uniform? Missionary Service and Narrative Trajectories Among Swedish Latter-day Saints

Room 1.05

Individual Paper (IP 015)

Itzchak Weismann

University of Haifa

Peaceful Islam: Shaykh Abdallah ibn Bayyah and the Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 227)

Daniela Jivi

West University, Timișoara

Church and Imperial Authority in Byzantium: Ecclesiastical Policy and the Legitimation of Power during the Reign of Basil I the Macedonian (867–886)

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 222)

Alfons H. Teipen

Furman University, Greenville, SC

A synoptic reading of the Battle of Badr: early biographies of Muhòammad and their authors

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 77)

Mehmet Kalkan

Marmara University, Istanbul

Constructing the “Other” in Christian Visual Culture: Representations of Muslims from a History of Religions Perspective (12th–17th Centuries)

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 4)

Independent Investigative Journalism, Media Integrity, and Religion in the Public Sphere, conv. Filip Standavid, Recorder, Buucharest & Paula Erizanu, Veridica, Chișinău-Bucharest

Victor Ilie; Adina Marincea; Diana Oncioiu; Vlad Stoicescu; Emilia Șercan; Ovidiu Vanghele; Luiza Vasiliu

Drepturi și strâmbe, Bucharest; The “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest; Dela0.ro/Să fie lumină, Bucharest; Dela0.ro/Să fie lumină, Bucharest; PressOne, Bucharest; Să fie lumină, Bucharest; Drepturi și strâmbe, Bucharest

Amphitheatre Two

Individual Paper (IP 53)

Dan Hansén

Södertörn University

Autoethnography: A way to bridge and reframe the constructivist and non-constructivist debate about experiences of “pure consciousness events” to advance the study of mysticism

Amphitheatre Four

Individual Paper (IP 172)

Andrea Maria Nencini

University of Florence

Habit and Religious Beliefs: A Jamesian and 4E Cognition Perspective

Amphitheatre One

Open Panel (OP 17)

(Non)Religion and Language, conv. Atko Remmel, University of Tartu

Niels De Nutte

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Identifiers, Path Dependencies, and the Historical Vocabulary of Modern Humanism

Amphitheatre Three

Individual Paper (IP 97)

Lars Nilsson

Stockholm University

Sacralization of the Ordinary: An Ethnographic Study of Tarot Reading in Secular Public Spaces in Stockholm, Sweden

Amphitheatre Five

Individual Paper (IP 43)

Sonia Voinea

UC Louvain

Latin Birthday Poetry and the Study of Roman Religion

Amphitheatre Six

Individual Paper (IP 145)

Ionel Boamfă

“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași

Arguments in Favor of the Latin and Oriental Character of Romanian Christianity

Room 1.05

Individual Paper (IP 21)

Margrethe Løøv

NLA University College, Bergen

Networking Spirituality: Entrepreneurship and Power in the New Age Movement

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 226)

Leonid Sevastianov

KU Leuven

Three Epochs of Old Believer Antichristology: From Active Resistance to Eschatological Flight and the Return of Institutional Activism (1666–Present)

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 72)

Alexandre Foucher

independent scholar

Matérialisme actuel et croyances religieuses

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 55)

Adriana Cupcea

Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca/ New Europe College, Bucharest

Practicing Islam in the Millet community in Dobruja (Romania)

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 4)

Independent Investigative Journalism, Media Integrity, and Religion in the Public Sphere, conv. Filip Standavid, Recorder, Buucharest & Paula Erizanu, Veridica, Chișinău-Bucharest

Victor Ilie; Adina Marincea; Diana Oncioiu; Vlad Stoicescu; Emilia Șercan; Ovidiu Vanghele; Luiza Vasiliu

Drepturi și strâmbe, Bucharest; The “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest; Dela0.ro/Să fie lumină, Bucharest; Dela0.ro/Să fie lumină, Bucharest; PressOne, Bucharest; Să fie lumină, Bucharest; Drepturi și strâmbe, Bucharest

Amphitheatre Two

Individual Paper (IP 57)

Maria Ericson

Dalarna University, Falun and Borlänge

Challenges and opportunities for the Church of Sweden regarding transformative reconciliation with the Roma and Sami national minorities

Amphitheatre Four

Individual Paper (IP 101)

Eileen Groth Lyon

The State University of New York at Fredonia

The ambiguous role of Wehrmacht chaplains serving in Nazi prisons

Amphitheatre One

Open Panel (OP 17)

(Non)Religion and Language, conv. Atko Remmel, University of Tartu

Atko Remmel

University of Tartu

How ‘True Nones’ Discuss (Non)religious and Existential Matters

Amphitheatre Three

Individual Paper (IP 99)

Enrique Santos Marinas

University Complutense of Madrid

Reflection of Slavic Myths in Social Networks and Mass Media on the Verge of a Resurgence of Slavic Neopagan Religion”.

Amphitheatre Five

Individual Paper (IP 70)

Hanna Morkowska

University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin

Epicurean piety – from the fear of gods to divine happiness

Amphitheatre Six

Individual Paper (IP 45)

Orhan Jašić

University of Sarajevo

The Study of the History of Religions at the Theological Faculties of the University of Sarajevo

Room 1.05

Individual Paper (IP 111)

Robin Timothy Funck

Stockholm University

Continuity of Gnosis

Room 1.09

Individual Paper (IP 54)

Juris Jefuni

Daugavpils University, European Christian Academy

The problem of autocephaly in the contemporary practice of the Orthodox Church. The case of the 1923 Statute of the Latvian Orthodox Church

Room 1.11

Individual Paper (IP 71)

Alireza Rezwani

Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran

A Philosophical Inquiry into the Suicide Crisis: The Role of Religion in the Transition from Nihilism to a Purposeful Life

Room 1.13

Individual Paper (IP 87)

Gintarė Lukoševičiūtė

Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius

From Mosque to Home: Communal and Individual Lifestyle Negotiations in the Lithuanian Muslim Community

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Coffee Break

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 4)

Independent Investigative Journalism, Media Integrity, and Religion in the Public Sphere, conv. Filip Standavid, Recorder, Buucharest & Paula Erizanu, Veridica, Chișinău-Bucharest

Victor Ilie; Adina Marincea; Diana Oncioiu; Vlad Stoicescu; Emilia Șercan; Ovidiu Vanghele; Luiza Vasiliu

Drepturi și strâmbe, Bucharest; The “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest; Dela0.ro/Să fie lumină, Bucharest; Dela0.ro/Să fie lumină, Bucharest; PressOne, Bucharest; Să fie lumină, Bucharest; Drepturi și strâmbe, Bucharest

Amphitheatre Two

Roundtable (RT 2)

Roundtable Session: Transnational Anti-Cult Activism and Esoteric Spiritual Movements, conv. Márk Nemes, CESNUR, Turin/ Research Institute of Art Theory and Methodology, Hungarian Academy of Arts, Budapest

Massimo Introvigne

Who Is Afraid of Esoteric Schools? Anti-Cult Activism and Esoteric Movements

Amphitheatre Four

Individual Paper (IP 149)

Alain F.G. Blomart

University Ramon Llull, Barcelona

Prophetic cults and peripheral location: comparative approach

Amphitheatre One

Open Panel (OP 17)

(Non)Religion and Language, conv. Atko Remmel, University of Tartu

Sofia Nikitaki

KU Leuven

Talking About ‘Spirituality’: Linguistic Ambiguity in Research with Nonreligious Individuals

Amphitheatre Three

Individual Paper (IP 002)

Elsa Correia Pereira

University of Porto

Epistemologies in Contact: Feminist Theory, Lived Religion, and Theological Knowledge in Researching Evangelical Women in Europe

Aula Magna

Roundtable (RT 4)

Independent Investigative Journalism, Media Integrity, and Religion in the Public Sphere, conv. Filip Standavid, Recorder, Buucharest & Paula Erizanu, Veridica, Chișinău-Bucharest

Victor Ilie; Adina Marincea; Diana Oncioiu; Vlad Stoicescu; Emilia Șercan; Ovidiu Vanghele; Luiza Vasiliu

Drepturi și strâmbe, Bucharest; The “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest; Dela0.ro/Să fie lumină, Bucharest; Dela0.ro/Să fie lumină, Bucharest; PressOne, Bucharest; Să fie lumină, Bucharest; Drepturi și strâmbe, Bucharest

Amphitheatre Two

Roundtable (RT 2)

Roundtable Session: Transnational Anti-Cult Activism and Esoteric Spiritual Movements, conv. Márk Nemes, CESNUR, Turin/ Research Institute of Art Theory and Methodology, Hungarian Academy of Arts, Budapest

Rosita Soryte

European Federation for Freedom of Belief, Rome

Esoterics Group and Sensational Media Narratives

Amphitheatre Four

Individual Paper (IP 230)

Eugen Ciurtin

RSHR & Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

A Vortex Not for Everyone: the History of Religions in Bucharest, 1996-(2018-)2026-?

Amphitheatre Three

Closed Panel (CP 32)

Pagan Studies: (Re)Enchanting the Old Ways, conv. Kerem Görkem Arslan, Stian Sundell Torjussen, Helge Årsheim

Karina Oliveira Bezerra

University of Oxford

Magism | Pagan Reality in Brazil

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Lunch

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Coffee Break

Faculty of Law · All conference rooms

Coffee Break