Religion in the Mirror of Law. Research on Early Modern Poland-Lithuania and Its Successor States in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

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Religion in the Mirror of Law. Research on Early Modern Poland-Lithuania and Its Successor States in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Veranstalter
Emmy Noether-Forschungsgruppe "Pathways of Law in Ethno-Religiously Miixed Societies. Resources of Experience in Poland-Lithuania and Its Successor States", Institute for Slavic Studies, Leipzig University Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, L'viv German Historical Institute, Warsaw Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt/Main
Veranstaltungsort
Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe, ul. Akademika Bohomolca 6, L'viv
Ort
L'viv
Land
Ukraine
Vom - Bis
15.04.2010 - 17.04.2010
Website
http://www.religion-and-law-in-east-central-europe.de
Von
Kleinmann, Yvonne

The history of the various religious and confessional communities in East Central and Eastern Europe has been increasingly studied during the past two decades and remains an intense field of research. The motivations are rooted in the liberated scientific discourse and in improved access to archival sources in the post communist era. Furthermore present European policies are engaged in the mechanisms and (dys-)function of ethno-religiously mixed societies. Not accidently historians so far have focused on ideological differences and interreligious conflict, whereas consensus and unspectacular periods of relative social peace have not attracted significant attention. In particular, legal culture as a crucial dimension of interreligious communication has been neglected. Today's methodologically broadened legal research holds the promise of enhancing perspectives on longterm conventions and cultural practices among different religious communities.
The projected conference is devoted to early modern Poland-Lithuania and its successor states in the 19th and early 20th centuries – a territory that was continuously populated by various religious and confessional communities, mainly Roman Catholics, Greek-Orthodox, Uniates, Protestants, Armenian Christians, Jews and Muslims. At the same time, repeated shifts in governing powers resulted in different strategies of addressing religious heterogeneity. Therefore, the conference will focus both on legal institutions and practices in early modern Poland-Lithuania, and on periods of transition to Russian, Austrian and Prussian rule, and later to the establishment of the Second Polish Republic after the First World War.
Guiding questions are: What religious values and laws provided the basis for legal thought and practice during each period? What legal agreements and institutions did the various religious communities develop to ensure social accord? Can the demarcation of symbolical and spatial borders prevent ideological conflict? How was the interdependence of law and religion perceived by state institutions and rulers, as well as by other agents, especially in the peripheries? To what extent did dealing with religious pluralism and dissent vary in normative law, in common law, and in legal practice? What efforts were undertaken to dissolve the interdependence of religion and law, and on the other hand, what efforts to perpetuate religious conditioning of law can be identified? Are Secularization and Confessionalization respectively the adequate concepts to describe these partly simultaneous developments? How did the modern, religiously to a large extent neutral constitutional state generate its own dogma concerning the status of religious communities?

Programm

Conference Program

April 15th 2010

2 p.m. – 5 p.m
Yaroslav Hrytsak/Liliana Hentosh,
Religions and Laws in L‘viv – A Guided Tour
Meeting Place: Center for Urban History

6 p.m.
Harald Binder/Tarik C. Amar,
Introduction

Yaroslav Hrytsak,
Keynote Paper – Religion in the Mirror of Law: Examples in L‘viv

7 p.m. RECEPTION

April 16th

9 a.m.
Yvonne Kleinmann,
Introduction: Conceptional Considerations

9.15 – 10.15 a.m.
Methodology and Legal Terminology
Chair: Tarik C. Amar

Tracie L. Wilson,
Traditions of Naming and Describing: Reflections on Historical Ethnography and Legal Pluralism

Stefan Ruppert,
Between Religious Constitutional Law and „Staatskirchenrecht“ – A Survey of the Legal Relationship between State and Religious Communities in the 18th and 19th Centuries

10.15 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

10.30 a.m. – 12.45
Religion in Constitutional Texts and other Legal Sources
Chair: Stefan Ruppert

Jürgen Heyde,
Polemics and Participation – Anti-Jewish Legislation in the Polish Sejm in the 16th Century and Its Political Contexts

Yvonne Kleinmann,
Religious Communities in Early Modern Constitutional Thinking: Perspectives of the Noble Estate, Urban Dwellers and Deputies of the Four-Years Sejm

Jana Osterkamp,
Imagined Federalisation and “Imagined Communities” in the Polish Partition of the Habsburg Empire

Sebastian Rimestad,
From Empire to Nation State: The Consolidation of the Relationship between the Orthodox Church and Independent Lithuania and Latvia after Word War I

12.45 – 2.00 p.m. LUNCH BREAK

2.00 – 3.30 p.m,
Religious Communities and the State Power: Loyalty to One‘s Religion – Loyalty to One‘s State
Chair: Yvonne Kleinmann

Maria Cieśla,
The Other Townsmen – The Legal and Social Position of the Jews in Cities of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 17th and 18th Centuries

James A. Lenaghan,
The ‘Prawa i Wolności’ Texts: Ruthenian Religion, Religious Law and the National Conversation in Poland-Lithuania, 1605–1845

Oksana Leskiv,
Relations of Galician Ruthenian Priests and Peasants between Trust and Conflict: The Case of Josyf Lewitski, a Priest of Nahujevychi Parish (1801–1860)

3.30 p.m. COFFEE BREAK

4.00 – 5.30 p.m.
Religious Communities and the State Power: Loyalty to One‘s Religion – Loyalty to One‘s State (continued)
Chair: Tracie L. Wilson

Dror Segev,
Between Tradition and Science, Orthodoxy and Enlightenment: Premature Burial in the Jewish Pale of Settlement Reflected in the Hebrew Press of the 1880s

Anna Juraschek,
Shylock as a Symbol of the Disenfranchised Jews – A Comparative Study of Discourse in Literature and Legal Theory in 19th Century Galicia

Stephan Stach,
From Science to Practice? The Warsaw Institute for Nationalities Research (1921–1939) as a ,Think Tank‘ in Minority Politics

April 17th

9.00 – 11.15 a.m.
Interaction of Religious/Confessional Communities: Competing and Overlapping Values
Chair: Vladimir Levin

Anat Vaturi,
Voivodes as Agents of Law in Interreligious Dialogue. Officium Palatinum and the Jews in Early Modern Cracow

Urszula Pawluczuk,
18th Century Wilno – Wilna – Wilne –Vilnius: A City of Many Religions and Laws

Eugene M. Avrutin,
Economic Entanglements and Neighbor-Disputations in the Northwest Provinces of the Russian Empire

Ruth Leiserowitz,
Tatars in Lithuania. Changes and Challenges in the Northwest Provinces of the Russian Empire during the 19th Century

11.15 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

11.30 – 1.00 p.m.
Secularization – Separation and/or Unification of Law and Religion?
Chair: Eugene Avrutin

Hanna Kozińska-Witt,
Shtadlanut in Krakow. A Contribution of Secular Law to the Development of a “Neutral Society”?

Vladimir Levin,
Russian Imperial Law versus Jewish Halakhah in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Reut Y. Paz,
The importance of Being L’vivian: Hersch Zvi Lauterpacht‘s Commitment to Jewish Communal Life, Zionism, Political Activism and International Law

1.00 – 2.30 p.m. LUNCH BREAK

2.30 – 4.30 p.m.
Shifts in Political Rule and its Consequences for Individual Religious Communities
Chair: Ruth Leiserowitz

Angela Rustemeyer,
Blasphemy’s Long Shadow: Penal Law and Confessional Conflict After the First Partition of Poland

Oleksandr Svyetlov,
Eastern Galicia Before and After 1918: Politics, Religion and Ethnicity

Antoni Mironowicz,
The Destruction and Transfer of Orthodox Church Property in Poland, 1919–1939

Liliana Hentosh,
The Greek-Catholic Church Facing the Polish and Ukrainian States After WW I. The Perspective of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi

7 p.m. CONCLUDING DINNER

Kontakt

Yvonne Kleinmann

Institut für Slavistik, Universität Leipzig
Beethovenstr. 15, 04107 Leipzig
+49-341-9737381
+49-341-9737499
kleinm@rz.uni-leipzig.de

http://www.religion-and-law-in-east-central-europe.de
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