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Workshop: Uneven Margins: Transcultural Dynamics and Religious Violence in South Asia and the Himalayan Regions (11-12 Dezember 2014)

Der Workshop findet vom 11. bis 12. Dezember 2014 ab 10.00 Uhr im Raum 011 Uhr des Instituts für Medizinische Psychologie, Bergheimerstr. 20, Heidelberg statt.

Poster

Abstract:

Violence appears to be a decisive and pervasive factor in defining religious discourses, practices and identities, while at the same crossing several dimensions ranging from mythical accounts of foundational events to theological speculations on theodicy, from influencing ritual practices to providing specific justifications to religiously driven political violence. Mimetic, structural, symbolic, physical, psychological, visible or invisible, religious violence appears to be always meaningful and with a purpose. Drawing from several disciplines this workshop aims to address, highlight and analyze the multi-faceted issues related to religious violence in order to explore its web of entangled dimensions encompassing myth, praxis and politics.

Sprecher:

Paolo Aranha (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univerität München)

James Caron (SOAS, London)

Ananya Chakravarti (American University, Cairo)

Karin Polit (Universität Heidelberg)

Diana Riboli (Panteio University, Athens)

Paul Rollier (UC London)

Jürgen Schaflechner (Universität Heidelberg)

Nicolas Sihle´ (Centre d'Etudes Himalayennes, CNRS, Paris)

Davide Torri (Universität Heidelberg)


Programm:

Donnerstag 11.12.

Freitag 12.12.

Morgens

10:00-10:20

Willkommen

10:20-11:00

Davide Torri

11:00-11:20

Pause

11:20-12:00

Nicolas Sihle´

12:00-12:40

Diana Riboli

Morgens

10:00-10:40

Karin Polit

10:40-11:20

Ananya Chakravarti

11:20-11:40

Pause

11:40-12:20

Paul Rollier

12:20-13:00

Diskussion


Mittags

14:30-15:10

Paulo Aranha

15:10-15:50

Jürgen Schaflechner

15:50-16:20

Pause

16:20-17:00

James Caron

17:00- 18:00

Diskussion


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